skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wonder as well; I was really interested in it back when I was in college, but that was like 15 years ago, and it seems that the field has been pretty dead for most of that time. I thought it showed a lot of promise, so I'm pretty disappointed.
I think that would be a square peg in a round hole. If you want open, what's wrong with ODF?
Are u kidding me?
Yeah but if you're a company the price of something is completely different. Maybe that server needs really excellent realtime performance for some really specific business need (finance?) I just don't understand how 500 bucks is a hobbyist price for a piece of software.
For the average iPhone-toting person whose location is the one being plotted, what does their phone have to be set to in order for this to work? Do they have to have a specific app installed? Does Bluetooth merely have to be turned on? What about "Bluetooth turned on, but not visible to unpaired devices"? Might anyone be able to point out the direction to information of the sort?

I see some information here [0], but I am not sure how this relates to common settings like "Bluetooth off", "Bluetooth on and visible", and "Bluetooth on but invisible to unknown devices."

http://blog.estimote.com/post/106913675010/how-do-beacons-wo...
In case you're reading on iOS and see only a static image (webm doesn't play, even in Chrome): http://i.gifly.com//media_gifly/3/S/A/5/b/3SA5.mp4
Agreed that strong contestants would buzz in immediately.

One solution would be to display the text of the question slightly beforehand to the audience, but not the contestants.
You need to look at market size to make that statistic anywhere near interesting.
I think that I understand. Programming is a trap because it is easy to be satisfied with writing code. It is fun and rewarding. But it may not be the most valuable thing you could be doing for your organization or for your career.
The waiting time distribution is actually the geometric distribution (with expectation 1/p = 1/0.021 = 47.6, so about what they got).
I live between NYC and Bangalore, India. I have used Uber and its closest competitors (Lyft and Ola respectively), in both cities.

I have a mental questionnaire I go through with 90% of the drivers and here is what I have learnt:

Uber vs Lyft: Drivers make more money with Uber, but rules of engagement are more relaxed in Lyft.

Uber & Ola (not vs): The drivers in India hone in on these three points:

1. They make 3-4 times the money they would if they were employed as a driver in a upper-middle class household (very common in India).

2. They feel respected and think of themselves as "Business owners" now. It is heartening to see how much the "feeling respected" theme repeats itself.

3. They know the good times won't last.

Unlike US, in India, Uber and Ola are do not take a cut from the ride. In fact it is the opposite - They keep the per kilometre cost to the end consumer lower than Auto Rickshaws and compensate the drivers the difference. In fact Uber has taken a "not-for-profit" model in India (and in Beijing).

Citation for not-for-profit: http://blog.uber.com/the-government-way
This list is great. I think it's funny how many of these folks criticize the list. They are probably the same ones who chose to OS their products for them to go off and die on Git rather than actually sell it.

I would add that doing bundles after payment is huge. Once a customer has paid, adding 15% to their bill is a very easy sale. Whether a soft good or in the form of version insurance/download protection. Conceivably, it could be done on Saas too, perhaps to lock in the rate for life with a one-time charge.

Cheers.
If all competitors "cheat", you have a race to the bottom. (This points out one way to punish defectors: respond in kind.)
Yeah, I was probably over-broad in what I said, in the following sense. Ayn Rand has been the only moral defender of capitalism.

On Mount Pelerin:

> Its founders included Friedrich Hayek, Karl Popper, Ludwig von Mises, George Stigler, and Milton Friedman.

How many of those guys come up on TV and in politics today? None of them.
I feel AirBnb paid for this article. It all feels like a big ad from AirBnb. I also feel it's sponsored by YC by putting it in front page with 37 points in 9 hours (at the moment of writing this comment)
Thanks for the detailed response. Really cool stuff you guys have going on.

What other companies utilize Apple hardware in this way at this kind of scale? While not "out of this world" in comparison to some of the big players who have tackled scaling, it's definitely significant considering Apple hardware.
The Myth of the Totally Enlightened Guru
i'd bet most uber drivers would quit if they hadn't financed vehicles they can't afford without driving for uber
Watch SpaceX’s First Test of Its Astronaut Bailout System
Yes let's make it easier for youngsters to get themselves in the hock for that hit of instant gratification. Get 'em on the never-never instead of teaching them to save.

What I'd like to see is a disruption to banks to encourage people to save properly, by integrating proper budgeting and accounting into the bank account itself. I.e. walling money that is allocated for future expenses such as insurance, utilities, presents etc. On the other hand with no extortionate fees for going overdrawn. I'd love to see something like that.
A third (reboot) is already planned, you mean you want a forth?!
Cody Wilson, Who Posted Gun Instructions Online, Sues State Department
> People are having kernel panics and struggling to keep their machines running with current software.

A guy I work with has been running several heavily used hackintosh servers without issue. They have been very reliable and he's happily converted existing Linux servers to hackintosh. He's been doing this for a while and knows exactly what hardware to use.
Not exactly, hosting, but this has worked for me:
NameCheap forwards mail from my domain email address to a free Yahoo mail account. Yahoo mail allows for sending mail from a custom "from" address, masking my Yahoo address. I'm not an expert on DKIM/DMARC but it seems that the ymail.com domain (different from yahoo.com) has few restrictions on rejecting messages. It's worked pretty reliably and includes iOS Push support, though due to seemingly slow IMAP servers and a web interface that could use some improvements, I think I'll be switching to zoho, fastmail, or rackspace one of these days for better reliability.
Ask HN: Can you help us beta test our HN client?
Hi everyone. For the past couple months, we've been working on an mobile HN client (iOS for now) that we think the HN community deserves, and am putting some final touches on it.

We need your help now. We'd like to fill a limited number of spots (~30) for TestFlight beta testers to get broader test coverage, as well as feedback about what you think of the app.

Drop me a note at allen at snappymob dot com or tweet @alding if you are interested.
You just need bluetooth on. I don't believe the iPhone provides a distinct option for Bluetooth-On Visible vs Invisible.
I'm convinced that not only do we stand on the shoulders of giants, but we live among giants. What Ken Jennings accomplished is remarkable by any interpretation. How he did so probably even he can't explain.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reinforcement_learning

Yes, easily.
Will driverless cars cost us more than they’re worth?
I've previous EE experience, but I study CS. I'm open for project suggestions and would love to do research in self-assembly for mass fabrication and study/develop AI Models.
Ask HN: Which tech specialities will be in greatest demand this coming decade?
Based upon your observations within the industry, which tech specialities do you believe will be in greatest demand this coming decade? (e.g. Machine Learning, Distributed Systems, Embedded Systems / IoT, etc.) Why?
Storing Delicious Passwords
>Do you think that people who are not clinically depressed (or suffering similar symptoms as part of another diagnosable illness; e.g. hypothyroidism, hypogonadism, inborn errors of metabolism, (pre)diabetes, sleep disorders, Parkinson's disease, dementia) compose a substantial portion of people who experience suicidality?

Yes.

>If so, can you identify any empirical evidence supporting that belief?

It's common knowledge to mankind for millenia that most suicides are connected to real-world stressful situations and that there exist people that attempted them that were not suicidal before (and neither after they were resolved).

If you want the scientific version of this, it's called "situational depression", is commonly (1 in 5 sufferers or so) connected with suicidal attempts or obsession, and is described thusly:

An adjustment disorder (AD) (sometimes called exogenous, reactive, or situational depression) occurs when an individual is unable to adjust to or cope with a particular stressor, like a major life event. (...) Unlike major depression the disorder is caused by an outside stressor and generally resolves once the individual is able to adapt to the situation. (...)

That said, unlike most people in here, I'm with the anti-psychiatry school of people like R.D. Laing etc, and blame even "major depression" to irrational and ineffective ways of living and external conditions. I believe that's responsible for far more cases that are casually nowadays ascribed to chemical inbalances and such (mixing correlation and causation). In the same manner, I find that most kids don't need ADD drugs but it's mostly a nice racket to prescribe them.

Note that this doesn't make me unsympathetic to major depression victims (that I believe are not chemically imbalanced). If anything it's the opposite: not only they suffer from sensitivity to external issues and living conditions that are concrete and extremely difficult to avoid (short of changing the whole of society or their whole surroundings and life path), but they're also drugged and numbed to make them blend in and accept them.
Honest question: If you want a regulated form of Uber, why not just take a taxi?

Isn't that effectively what you're looking for?
The role of computers is to get rid of human culpability, which is what 95% of law ultimately comes down to. Seems to be working quite well.
I was trying to de-trivialize "bad karma". It's true that Buddhism doesn't have an eternal hell. It's not accurate to say that there aren't severe, terrifying consequences of living a bad life that are considered possible in the afterlife.

At any rate, I don't think humans are capable of comprehending eternity, so I'm not sure how meaningful Pascal's Wager really is. While there's objectively a huge difference between 10^14 years of torment and an eternity of it, I can't say that I can begin to fathom either one.
Strategic Cyber Defense: DARPA's 2001 vision of cyber attacks
Yes [0]
Shoot me an email. I'm happy to answer questions.

[0] - http://robotrising.org/StratoSphere/collection.html
It's code derived from my portfolio site.
Peter Gutmann's "Engineering Security" book is an excellent treatise on trust and currently free: https://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/book.pdf
First off - don't listen to recruiters. Second, tailor your resume more towards programming/software engineering vs. IT/sys admin. If you want to get out of healthcare domain then consider dropping some of the references to that tech (Pick, SAP) and focus on more general stuff (python/java, SQL server).

Edit: your resume looks great given that you've been working for 3 years. There are some really solid projects listed. My guess is that for some reason you are not making it past resume screen for the "right" companies or you are applying for jobs way beyond your years of experience.
For anyone interested:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resistive_random-access_memory
Why Is Now a Special Moment in Time for Your Startup to Exist?
مقاول – مؤسسة فهد المسيليم للمقاولات العامة للمباني
> the "special experience" is hardware reliability and ease of maintenance, which is why I typically buy either Dell or Lenovo and avoid HP like the plague.

I have the same priorities, but how do you know which vendor's hardware is more reliable? All we have is anecdotal experiences. FWIW my experience is that HP's business product lines are most reliable, and Dell's business lines have relatively many quality issues. The HP Elite laptops have exceptional serviceability (better than any I've seen -- find a video and just look at how the laptop case opens for service) and tech support.

> I'm sure I'm not alone (though probably part of a minority of shoppers).

Consumers buy on price, but the priorities of business IT departments are similar to yours: reliability, serviceability, and support; the costs of downtime and skilled labor for repairs far exceed the savings from buying cheap machines. Each vendor sells consumer (e.g., Dell Inspiron), and business (e.g., Dell Latitude) product lines. Maybe try shopping the products they sell to corporate IT; those match your priorites. They cost more, but you get what you pay for.
Well, the obvious project suggestion is to read about challenges of building a larger crossbar, then work on overcoming those challenges. Literature list is provided in the paper.

This type of work all about mass fabrication, but has nothing to do with AI models. Which direction you want to go?
مقاولات – مؤسسة فهد المسيليم للمقاولات العامة للمباني
You can copy whatever files you want with SCP or SFTP or any number of file transfer protocols.
> How many programmers are out there that are "lame"?

from a few decades of observation in the wild, I'm sad to say that it is a surprisingly large percentage. the market demand for programmers seems to exceed the supply of those of us who truly can.
Ok that is pretty cool, combine it with this work (http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2010-05/tum-ihs051010...) where folks are figuring out how to spin spider silk without the spiders, and you've got an interesting start.
> These will give you a great refresher and are going to be your talking points.

I actually make it a point not to delve too deep into a candidate's own projects. I would rather throw them an unfamiliar or (slightly unfamiliar) idea and have them work a solution with me.
If my personal experience is any judge, knowing (or dating) someone who works for Apple (and I'm sure several other high-drive companies) is half the journey to learning of the existence of "workaholism."
Internet access alternatives to Internet.Org for the Digitally-excluded
Goes to show that us humans aren't the best at making everything. Wish I thought of this when studying nanotechnology in grad school.
We'll let you know.
ES6 in Depth Articles
There's a code that refreshes it every 5 min. https://i.imgur.com/SzFkzdG.png
We use Zoho mail [1] and it has been a really good experience.

[1] https://www.zoho.com/mail/
> The new disruption powers could permit CSIS to thwart travel plans, cancel bank transactions and covertly interfere with radical websites. The bill says CSIS needs "reasonable grounds to believe" a security threat exists before taking measures to disrupt it. It requires CSIS to get a court order whenever its proposed disruption violates the charter of rights or breaches Canadian law in any way.

CSIS can now cancel our flights, freeze our bank accounts, and take down our web sites without any due process whatsoever, but don't worry, they need to get a secret court order against us in order to WAIVE our charter rights!

Encouraging someone to commit a terrorist act is now a crime. I expect this will be a very popular law for authorities use their new powers to exempt themselves from.

I'll be surprised if we make it a whole year before this is abused for some completely unrelated purpose such as harassing the administrations critics.

This will have real consequences for freedom of speech online. CSIS has been operating a huge mass surveillance system for a very long time, and today it just grew legal teeth.
Git-mirror – Sync and serve Git mirrors locally
They say that half the applicants can't even do FizzBuzz, but then we have people like you who can't find jobs. What is the true story?
That's unbelievable, considering how much push back there has been...

Can anything be done to influence the senate?
Why Do We Underestimate the Referral Spam Problem?
“This new reinforcing procedure could also be applied to other animals and plants, leading to a new class of bionic materials,” they say.

Could it be applied to human stem cells or bone marrow? That'd be neat.
A softer, gentler robot controlled by light
There's a big difference between Ekirch's biphasic sleep model and the pseduoscientific polyphasic sleep lifehack popularized on the internet.

If this theory is really so corrosive and wrong, why have no other experts attacked it?
After the GitHub outage yesterday I decided to throw something together to keep Git mirrors up to date and serve them over HTTP. This is also a requirement we've had at work so it scratched a couple of itches for me.

Feedback and criticisms welcomed.
Lyft says goodbye to New Mexico
What I find astonishing is that a satellite can be positioned to the centimeter.
Incredible. I bet the results could be improved even further with artificial selection to get spiders that are even better at incorporating carbon into their silk
If you have sysadmin experience you can apply to (some) DevOps positions as well (you may want to play and get skills with things like AWS, orchestration tools like puppet/chef/ansible/salt, docker etc).

Also for a "generalist" is probably easier to find jobs in smaller companies than in large companies.
read this post by @sama: 'New Hacker News Guideline' ~ http://blog.ycombinator.com/new-hacker-news-guideline

"Avoid gratuitous negativity."

Ask yourself what motivates you post this? Schneier pointing out this post, makes it news worthy. The NYT simply published it.
Spiderman would be envious.
At it's core OS X is Unix. In what way would Linux be a better choice? I am not saying that Linux is a worse choice, but for a company that writes an OS as one of it's core businesses, it only makes sense to run that OS in as many places as possible. For one, by running OS X as a server OS they would necessarily spend more time on development and improvement of the OS core. This would pay off in the long run by further improving stability and reliability of OS X.

I am not arguing that OS X is the perfect solution in most circumstances, but it can be a good solution in many situations, especially if you are Apple, and have the full source and the capability to adopt the OS as necessary.

Microsoft, especially nowadays, tries to be very cross compatible, so it's not surprising that Azure supports Linux apps and guests. But Azure RUNS on Windows Server 2008, not Linux, not Unix.
"It also increases the exchange of federal security information, broadens no-fly list powers and creates a new criminal offence of encouraging someone to carry out a terrorist attack"... Unless you're an agent of the state, in which case its terrorism hunting
Uber is 2-3x the size of the whole taxi industry in SF. Remember, it's not like there is a national taxi regulatory system. It's a bunch of separate municipal systems and Uber is far bigger than any of the other players in all of them.
I've been an AMD guy for years, mostly because I was a poor college student when they were getting their start, and AMD had the best bang for your buck around.

Fast forward and my last purchase was an Intel for the first time in my life for no other reason that AMD just couldn't keep up, not even in the same realm.

Lo and behold if they do this again I'm going to regret not waiting a bit for the upgrade :) I'll always have a soft spot in my heart for AMD and I'm rooting for them. Even if that sounds a bit silly :)
You're in the US, so don't call this type of work IT. In US, IT means support / help desk staff, very low-level :)
Good read, thanks.

Can you comment on further Watson developments since that time?
Was his last role, and he didn't seem to pleased about it.

'
You know what I did this morning? I played the voice of a toy." He elaborated, "I play a planet. I menace somebody called Something-or-other. Then I'm destroyed. My plan to destroy Whoever-it-is is thwarted and I tear myself apart on the screen."
'
The most viral type of pins: Barney’s on Pinterest
You come to realize that the vast majority of what passes for "new technologies" is really just a re-discovery of something that exists (or is easily implemented) in CL

So much this. (From a soon-to-be geezer who's staring down 40 soon.)
I assume that this was what was needed to run a credit report.
some mentally ill guy goes crazy, President of Canada hides in closet, patriot act cloned.
Create an LLC and elect to file as S-corp status for tax purposes. You pay yourself a fair salary (so that IRS will be content) and the rest can be considered pass through income taxed only at your income bracket.

For example, say you earned 300k last year. A fair salary for a developer might be 70k. You pay income tax and self employment tax on the 70k but only income tax on the remaining 230k.

I am not your lawyer or accountant so take the above advice with caution.
These things are really not well respected for what they can do. IBM introduced their TrueNorth tech late last year. Those used a 'neural' design for the chips to overcome the von Newman barriers for computer design. Along the way, the TrueNorth chips also reduced power consumption by a LOT. However, those designs are still digital. With a memristor in the TrueNorth set-up you can have a similar system for input, processing, storage, and output in an analog system.

I feel that I need to emphasize that. The memristor is the component that will easily allow for analog logic to occur at digital speeds and with digital logic type systems (very grossly speaking). What these little guys can do is under-sold.
“Oops, I pushed a commit with something sensitive to a public GitHub project”
Kind of disappointed that the author neglected to discuss how the $9.34/hr she earned as an Uber driver compares to her salary as a "senior staff writer".
For ATRIAS Robot, Walking Like a Human Is a Stroll in the Park (video)
What would a bunch of spiders do with a space elevator?
I wish we would be leveraging more of the public RTK stations out there. at the very least, we would be able to get higher horizontal and vertical accuracy

http://gpsworld.com/finally-a-list-of-public-rtk-base-statio...
It's great that they open sourced the implementation of datastore.

I can't believe they got Guido van Rossum (creator of python) to write javascript though! https://github.com/dropbox/datastore-js/commit/e75e67eccecfd...

Why not open sourced the mobile sdks for sync/datastore also?
The only reason Ayn Rand ever comes up is because she has vague name recognition and the Democrats use her to take easy cheap-shots. They do the same thing with Koch Industries. In reality, Koch Industries' alleged influence is greatly exaggerated. The economists listed above are all academic giants compared to Rand.

In most parts of Latin America, the names Friedman and Hayek are far more likely to be recognized than Rand. And rightfully so. Unlike Rand, they advised governments. Brutal dictatorships mostly.
How is this different than Brython or Skulpt?

Also python implementations that run in the browser.

[1] skulpt.org
[2] brython.info
Full stack web development using Javascript frameworks on the frontend and backend.
France has also just passed measures giving the government broad powers of surveillance. Of course, they are also trying to provide reassurance that these new powers won't be abused. Haven't we heard this story before?

In the cold war days, everyone was racing to get the bomb. Nowadays, it seems everyone is racing to get the powers of mass surveillance.
Laugh it up while the Ur-Quan take over the galaxy.