skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Heck your wall thermostat is a robot. Its the textbook example of the definition of a robot - an automated machine that makes decisions for you and takes action on your behalf.
Add a series of random names in the middle of Special Thanks. The names are in a list stored somewhere, so are actually (large base) digits of a serial number.
If senior management are sufficiently preoccupied with other things and some Machiavellian schemer is sufficiently preoccupied with increasing their own influence over the organization, it's entirely possible that no level of detailed daily status updates and well-structured regular webconferences can undo the amount of FUD the schemer can spread by having water-cooler chats and asking "quick questions" of exactly the same members of management that don't read the status updates.

And at the risk of stating the obvious, watercooler chats can have non-negative outcomes in other situations too!
I think it's an important signifier for how easily you could read, and hopefully grok, the entire codebase. At 7k lines, I, who have no experience writing a scripting language, might be enticed to take a look. At 100k lines, I'm not sure where to start, and thus likely won't.
>>This is the same argument I heard from people who supported the Iraq war during the worst of its quagmire phase. My response was that there were no good options (other than not having gone there in the first place), but that doesn't mean we shouldn't point out the problem.

>>In this case, there isn't much an individual can do to change a society that has been withered and corrupted by corporate control. We have to live in it. But that doesn't mean we shouldn't also point out that there are better ways to live.

Huh? Comparing a capitalist system that has raised the standard of living to every individual who participates in it to the Iraq War makes no sense at all. Also, you haven't pointed out any better ways to live, you've just complained about the status quo. Again, you've offered no alternatives, just complaining.
A JavaScript Implementation of the Abelian Sandpile Model
I know I factor in the commute time saved, so the actual net balance might be the same for a lot of people (i.e. saved one hour of commute / work an extra hour).
Near-Perfect Einstein Ring – ALMA at Full Stretch Yields Spectacular Images
> While it'd be possible to pull such a con over IM, unless your bosses are complete morons, it's probably too difficult.

That's a pretty good argument to assign as much work as possible to remote workers.
Maybe there's an east-west divide? My experience is with Berlin.
Google Product Manager here.

Not sure why you think most Google Cloud Services are in beta.

The Google Cloud products page [1] lists 17 main products. Two are in alpha (Container Engine, Deployment Manager), one is in beta (Pub/Sub).

The rest are fully supported. There are some beta features here and there...but saying "most" are in beta is certainly not correct.

[1] https://cloud.google.com/products/
As technology improves, the extent of "recoverable" expands.

E.g. shale oil was unrecoverable oil during the industrial revolution and through the mid-20th century.

Further, efficiency of utilization increases with technological advancement. I don't know about coal at this point in time, but I can guarantee you the coal-burning plants of today are getting more electricity per ton(?) of coal than a plant in the early 1900s.
And on top of that, in a bad culture, no good deed goes unpunished. The person who goes out on a limb will be the one hanged from it.
iRobot Is Working on a Robotic Mower That’s Angering Astronomers
What about (recoverable) nuclear power plants?
FWIW, Dems seem to be outsourcing their digital needs more than Republicans. Looks like Bernie Sanders is with Wide Eye Creative and Martin O'Malley is with Blue State Digital. Potentially because there are many, many more successful Dem web firms (including one I work for lol) than there are Republican counter parts... Not sure though, just an interesting data point.
alternative headline:

Apple Apologist's guide to avoiding buyers remorse when purchasing your Apple Watch.
KickstartSDN: simulation and tutorials for simple LAN enabled with SDN
I wasn't trying to be patronizing; I'm in more or less the same boat.

My Google account has a strong-entropy, memorized password. So does my password manager.

That has covered all my usage cases, anyways.
Ah, but the iPod paved the way for the iPhone.

Where Apple succeeds is in creating products that people covet. White earbuds were a status symbol for some time until the knockoffs came. They signaled that you had enough disposable income for an expensive MP3 player.

Now they've made something you wear -- so there's no missing the signal.

And yes, I totally fall for it every time -- but as a developer I have a convenient alibi :)
Anybody here on HN have experience with probabilistic-programming ? This looks quite disruptive if it works.
I got 155yrs w/ a 3% growth rate of consumption
That's literally the first line of the agile manifesto. If that isn't agile, then agile is completely meaningless.
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Of which kind?
Put a lock on the door.
You didn't follow the same formula by distancing yourself from watch ownership?
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I prefer cocos2d-x. I used it for my music game (http://www.adhyet.com).

Check out their Programming Guide (http://www.cocos2d-x.org/programmersguide/1/index.html), that has a decent overview that will tell you why you should give it a go.
Maybe folks that want to memorize PI DONT want random strangers 'asking them' to perform that fact. Your description of the universe/hydrogen atom ration is far more compelling; an actual graphic of that would go much further as a T-Shirt idea.
There was a throwaway line about this in one of Larry Niven's Ringworld novels. The Ringworld was an artificial structure, so had no fossil fuel deposits. The protagonist muses that it must be hard for the inhabitants to bootstrap civilization, because they have to go from alcohol-based biomass fuels straight to nuclear fusion.
It's amazing how often the "we're not a software company" phrase is bandied about. My employer has been around for a while, the IT department has over a 30 year history. Yet, we have the phrase repeated to us whenever we discuss using source control, developing libraries, having a web services strategy, etc. It is like saying, "We're only a youth hockey team, not a professional one, therefore we don't need to use the same equipment and strategies as the pros."

Just because you're not planning to be [put your favorite professional software company here] doesn't mean you should avoid learning their strategies for dealing with everyday problems associated with writing software - unless you don't write software at all.

In the end, the phrase is nothing more than an excuse for avoiding the risk of cultural change.
How does one achieve origin ip unknown?
'Net Neutrality', Save the Internet
Of Syntax Warnings and Symbol Tables
I grew up with Microsoft Encarta, but still enjoyed encyclopedias and such. So I think these are compatible. Talking about kids in the next generation, I've always wondered about whether Kindle / iPad / etc. encourage discovery of books and information. Information is available if you seek it, but how about discovery? As a kid, I picked up many books because they were either lying around at home or caught my curiosity in the library. Same with music! Because I had some casettes and CDs at home, I picked them up and listened to them. But Kindle, etc. are not designed for this kind of accidental discovery or for igniting your curiosity to pick it up and see what it is. Again, if you seek information, it is available, but if the books or music want to seek you out, (pardon the floral language), Kindle / iPad / etc. are suboptimal.
I agree that women would appreciate and especially benefit from a more balanced computing experience, but I also think it would help everyone else too, including techies like myself and many here.

It seems to me that modern computers are already severely polarized and it's limiting our views of what they can do for us.
No experience but looks like they are organizing a summer school on probabilistic programming languages. http://ppaml.galois.com/wiki/wiki/SummerSchools/2015/Announc...
We may not be there yet, but I think a company's ability to efficiently and effectively allow employees to work from home will eventually be predictors of a company's future success.

The company executives may not see the benefits, but my prediction is that as soon as the pendulum has swung and more companies allow working from home than don't (and are successful at it because they've been thinking about it since they have a long-term vision of their company's future), the companies who paid no attention and weren't planning for this inevitable future will quickly become extinct.
Jana Partners Says Qualcomm Can Split Chipset Unit, Accelerate Buyback
Out of curiosity, what's the reasoning behind going with C++? Just for fun or is there some advantage to C++ over other languages for sockets?
Open source ecology's "Global Village Construction Set" has open source blue prints for various machines. The idea being that poor nations, people who dont want DRM on their tractor and post apocalyptic societies can rebuild faster. They do presume a decent amount of parts though, its not straight from caves, it presumes people will be able to access parts or scrounge them from rubble.

http://opensourceecology.org/gvcs/
Lobster wants to be the Google of UGC
I've been using Morphine for Chrome[1] for some time. It sorta gamifies the whole thing.

[1] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/morphine/fbnpehpbo...
How should journalists cover quacks like Dr. Oz or the Food Babe?
Net neutrality rules formally published; first legal challenge filed
Very cool. I'd suggest adding a size feature. Adding something like a Holstee Manifesto would get pretty crowded otherwise:

This is your life.
Do what you want and do it often.
If you don't like something, change it.
If you don't like your job, quit.
If you don't have enough time, stop watching TV.
If you are looking for the love of your life, stop; they will be waiting for you when you start doing things you love.
Stop over-analysing, life is simple.
All emotions are beautiful.
When you eat, appreciate every last bite.
Life is simple.
Open your heart, mind and arms to new things and people, we are united in our differences.
Ask the next person you see what their passion is and share your inspiring dream with them.
Travel often; getting lost will help you find yourself.
Some opportunities only come once, seize them.
Life is about the people you meet and the things you create with them, so go out and start creating.
Life is short, live your dream and wear your passion.
I actually have an office in town that I can go to (I work for a larger company that's in a lot of cities) so I try to go once or twice a week. I just have an open cube in a quiet corner. It does help, but I usually don't talk with anyone because it's both a very small office and the team there works on different web properties. I'm moving in a few months to a really small town so I imagine I'll checkout shared space there, if I can find it.
It's not a very compression-resistant approach and more sophisticated methods are usually used, but a simple one is using the low bits of colour channels. In a red pixel you have bits like so:

RED GREEN BLUE
11111111 00000000 00000000

A change in the most significant bit of any of these colours would be massive. 01111111 is half as bright as 11111111.

But a change in the least significant bit(s) is barely noticeable. You probably wouldn't notice the difference between 11111111 and 11111110, especially as you don't experience individual colour channels, you see a blended colour. And when you're looking at something with thousands of pixels you simply won't spot it.

So, stick your secret message in the low bits:

RED GREEN BLUE
11111XXX 00000XXX 00000XXX

You now get 9 bits of data per pixel. Or less (for a less noisy image) or more (for a more noisy image). For a 640x480 image, you now have 345.6KB of data. And if you use encrypted data, it won't even seem like data if someone looks (plausible deniability). Just noise.

Techniques like this were used on 4chan to hide child porn in high-resolution photographs. This the "mods are asleep, post hi-res" meme.
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Pffft, ignore that advice big companies. Move along, nothing to see here. Open concept offices with butts-in-the-seats is the only way to go. Don't let them undermine your management authority! /s

As a self employed work at home developer with a distraction free environment, having businesses adopt this sort of thing can only decrease my competitive advantage. ;-)
Even with a blurred watermark, the mark itself could be enough to pinpoint a source. At least if the watermark disappears and reappears several times in a video you could use the timestamps of its appearance and disappearance to indicate who was responsible for a leak.
$3/GB => 2G connection
sigh

Can't we stop burning stuff to make things go?
... which is why being multilingual gives you a broader perspective and a wider variety of cognitive tools to solve problems.
Consider an egg. When raw, the white is clear and runny. When cooked, the white is white, firm, and springy. That's an example of how cooking can restructure foods. The egg has not been destroyed (it has just as many calories and protein) but the proteins have denatured (become unfolded).

In the case of starchy foods, cooking changes the starches. It breaks down long complicated starch molecules into smaller molecules, making them easier for your body to digest. This is similar to the pre-digestion roles played by chewing and saliva, both of which break things down into smaller pieces for easier digestion.

You might be interested to read this:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3228431/pdf/pnas...
I believe it's more for client side coding not node.js socket.io implemented in c++...
Well, it costs them virtually nothing to extract, which is why they are able to sustain such low prices for such a long time.

In the long run they are screwed by the Dutch disease. They don't create anything apart from oil, so once demand dries up, their exports shrink 90% and their economy shrinks 55%. This probably means violent revolution as well as impoverishment.
Inspiring Speech from Jack Dorsey at Startup School 2013
The new AWS DevOps Certification: what’s it going to take?
1Q84?
Take an amazing and interesting demonstration given by a brilliant man, and play bad electronic music over it.

I'd have gone to see a screening of the Demo un-modified, but this thing looks rubbish.
HTTP/2 is replacing SPDY http://blog.chromium.org/2015/02/hello-http2-goodbye-spdy-ht...
He did get a management job. At a Denny's. He didn't last very long in there. I will gladly admit to being very happy to see him in there. He must have recognized me because he sort of hid in the kitchen the whole time.
Report-based testing
It happens that "web" is already one of the most decentralized things in our world.
> What is wrong with that sentence?

So, writing code has nothing to do with getting a task (of ANY KIND, mind you) done?

Again, do you want to take a moment and rethink that?
We are trying to follow his advices at http://unimersiv.com
How about legal liability?

You hire a remote guy to fuel the airplane watching the cameras and gauges and signing off personally on delivering certain amounts to certain planes following certain safety procedures and documentation procedures including everything being automatically recorded. And if there is a screw up then you can initiate legal proceedings (well, not if you outsource, but if you teleoperate in the USA it would at least be possible).

With a fully autonomous robot then the first time there's any problem, the deep pockets robot mfgr will be sued out of existence regardless of having anything to do with the problem other than having deep pockets. Only in business until the first airliner crash, and not a day longer, even if it has nothing to do with fuel.

In a way I'm talking myself out of the idea, because non-teleoperated can't be documented for all eternity like remote work can be documented. So the remote fueler is on camera fueling up a jet without commenting on the obvious metal fatigue crack far in the background that a monday morning quarterback knowing what to look for can see if he ignores the fuel dude's job and zooms in on finding the wing crack... this is a legal problem that non-teleoperated doesn't have.
ISIS was actually partially funded from Saudi Arabia.
> Developers (in fact, all of technology) are considered cost centers at ALL businesses. There's not an MBA on the planet that wouldn't jettison the entire technology cost-center of their business in a heart-beat if they could figure out how to do it and still achieve their monetary objectives.

This is pretty funny because in a software company, devs are the only ones creating actual global value (as in, something that a customer could realistically derive value from). Every other instrument in the company is pretty much how to turn value into incoming cash flow or reduce outgoing cash flow.

It'd be like Apple trying to jettison its designers.
A quick google search found a nice article on the first question I had, how does it compare to Lua?

https://computerscomputing.wordpress.com/2013/02/18/lua-and-...

My first thought is "Squirrel doesn't have Mike Pall" but that isn't quite fair to the author or the intentions of the language.
Most YC companies are high growth, putting a premium on close collaboration. We found that WFH works great for engineers, they love it and we just wrote the remote manifesto https://about.gitlab.com/2015/04/08/the-remote-manifesto/ But sales and marketing people prefer the energy of an office, hence the split in https://about.gitlab.com/jobs/
Ahmadinejad never said that, though ironically it was an Iranian news agency that mistranslated him.

He was talking about three previous regimes that had fallen: the Shah of Iran, the Soviet Union and Saddam Hussein, saying that they had "vanished from the page of time", he expressed the hope that the regime that "occupies Jerusalem" would likewise "vanish from the page of time", at no point did he say that Iran would "wipe Israel off the map" The actual speech is relatively innocuous so the warhawks had to spin hard to make it into a direct threat.

Now, Khamenei has apparently threatened Israel directly (via Twitter back in November) but he has also issued fatwas against the use and production of nuclear weapons calling them a crime against humanity and Allah. Consistency, much? The difficulty in judging these comments is telling what are threats and what is theatre.

BTW, Vice-Premier Shimon Peres did threaten Iran just after the Ahmadinejad brouhaha:

"The president of Iran should remember that Iran can also be wiped off the map."
-- The Jerusalem Post (2006-05-09).

Taking stupid comments like those as direct threats is how pointless, tragic wars get started.
I had understood that time is a side effect of entropy.
+1 Some great writing but I was also disappointed with the lack of a conclusion.

It's cool to note that even in the valley things are FUBAR'd. I'm a UK contractor still waiting to wander on to that magical project that functions coherently. Maybe I never will!?
This picture (from the OP) is terrible:

https://d262ilb51hltx0.cloudfront.net/max/1400/1*hTina7sOR2a...

The Apple watch is clearly the ugly duck of the bunch.
Ah, that makes sense. And I think I might have found an answer to my own question:

"By virtue of being written in C++, this client works in several different platforms. The examples folder contains an iPhone, QT and Console example chat client!" - From the github repo
Perhaps, but it is foolhardy to discard and forget such a culturally relevant artifact.
Example: Data Flow is in Alpha & Logging is in Beta.
It's hosted on github pages and I inadvertently deleted the CNAME file when updating the post: https://github.com/brunal/brunal.github.io/commit/89fd81f93d...

It took me ~20 minutes to realize it was gone, you probably tried to hit the page during that time frame.
Funny, but "wingnut" doesn't actually appear in /usr/dict/words
Don't you think this North/South rule is starting to get a little too many exceptions?

In Italy, too, there are big variations, but they aren't really so correlated to latitude (even if many people superficially think that way). Most of Sardinia is south of Naples, but the disrespect for rules/corruption is much lower (eg in Cagliari, which is a lot to the south of Naples). It's just not as simple as that.
Windows XP doesn't support SNI, which means browsers that depend on the OS for SSL/TLS can't handle those sites.
Those still require fuel, no?
The difference between contextual deeplinks and standard deeplinks
The first step is to recognize that this is not a technical issue but a political/diplomatic/military one. The second requirement for anything useful to happen is for Western governments to find some balls and start standing up to China in general. With those two changes in place, the groundwork is laid for a meaningful engagement on this specific issue. The likelihood of either happening is nil, so expect China to continue on its current trajectory. Eventually it will come down to whether Western corporations are willing to allow their governments to disconnect China from the rest of the world. Some will demand it, tired of incessant attacks; others will lobby fiercely against it, greedy for what they see as a profitable place to do business. Like so many issues in the West today, it will come down to one group of corporate lobbyists against another, both pushing for deeply suboptimal outcomes relative to what a sane world would have imposed years earlier.
It's not that hard to imagine, Apple apparently spent $2,678,000,000 and five years on iPhone R&D, in the dark.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/b/f17e5186-51c1-43aa-8c...
That is a great article!

I truly believe that the latest improvements we have seen in machine learning, will change the definitions of software. We are about to see software that can along with humans, decide what is the best path to take to solve a particular problem. Before, software were just made to execute a set of actions we humans set. However, now I have feeling that we will finally be able to work together with our machines, using its power to improve the outcomes of our decisions.

It is just fantastic what Artificial Intelligence can do to improve our lives.