skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, it might be cheaper to use a biological brain than to use a computer for many tasks, even a few centuries into the future. We're incredibly good at high level abstraction and problem solving. We're pretty flexible: you can "program" us with a few verbal instructions to do an enormous range of tasks and we fill in the gaps in the instructions. All that for the low price of US$10,000! (average cost of financing a human to adult age?)

I of course agree that human soldering is will hardly remain crucial to manufacturing.

That is, provided we actually needed to compete with robots at all (will depend on the demographic and resource situation of the future). It's likely most humans will stick to the most pleasurable tasks and only a few strategic activities will keep being rewarded for their raw productive value.

In other words, demography and resources equal, we're not really competing with move advanced tools: they should be just free our time and improving quality of life, provided we have some adequate scheme for distribution of resources.

That for me is one of the most interesting aspects to be explored by incoming changes: how will we manage our economy (among humans), and how will we manage our relation with machines as they gradually become more proficient at higher and higher level tasks? Will our definition of 'human' change in the process?
Your phone away from phone
Get a BeagleBone Black. ;-)
When I joined my first (and only) startup, I promised them I would be there for a year. At the end of that year, if I didn't feel my career wasn't headed anywhere (raises, stock options, etc) then I would head back to fintech.

Almost exactly one year, one month later I left the company with no promotions or stock options in sight, although the workload and my duties were significantly larger than we agreed on.

In addition, that year made me realize that I had absolutely no passion for the work I was doing (automotive industry) and while the startup culture looks glamorous, it's far too stressful in the end and negatively affected my emotional and physical health.

I'm back in "big corporate" fintech and happy to say I was able to bring a lot of what I learned in the startup world back with me. I've been advancing my career far faster than I would have done in the land of startups and now own a significant amount of stock in my current company.
It's their wall and their garden. If Facebook says Wikipedia can be included in their walled garden then obviously it is part of their walled garden.

Beside the above obvious point, the real point is not whether there is a benefit to providing access to Wikipedia with strings attached. The real point is this: are we giving up more than we are getting if we consent to Facebook zero rating some content and putting up walls to deny access to everything else?

My personal option is that the bargain is very bad for all parties involved.
Just because there may have been a regression on a particular benchmark doesn't mean that Rust is not generally fast.
The Fjord – Surfer Magazine
multiplier: You're trading adequate compensation for some potential upside.
Start with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cypherpunk

If you aren't aware of their philosophy, the technologies won't really make that much sense to you because it is not strictly something technical. At its core it's a political movement.
I thought the engineering category did a good job separating their blog posts: https://github.com/blog/category/engineering
Cool stuff! I wonder how it compares with existing graph processing systems: Pregel, GraphLab, GraphX, etc.
They are both great platforms. The Pi can in theory do everything an Arduino can while also allowing access to a full Linux based OS (or RISC, but I can't comment on that). If you were limited to just one, I'd say to get the Pi just because you can do more with it. The Pi is also better if you're more interested in the software side of things.

In my opinion the Arduino is a bit more mature overall and has better tutorials for beginners starting out in electronics. You can also use it with Windows or OSX if Linux isn't your thing. Even if your long term goal is to do electronics on the Raspberry Pi, I'd recommend getting an Arduino to learn on because it is simpler and doesn't require Linux knowledge.
One of the best web multimedia presentations I've seen - perhaps as good as 'Snow Fall'.
The name is confusing, the first thing i thought of was an SMTP-server.
Oh man, I was in a group of 'punters' called the seven deadly sins way back, our favorite target was yahoo chat rooms though because they had this voice chat system and if the poor end user left their mic on you could hear them getting hit with a few thousand im's and freak out.
You have just one router, and that's only a config file that maps URLs to routes.

They're dropping controllers and views in a month, with Ember 2.0. They're being replaced by components.

So really you will only work with routes and components - which should make things much easier to understand.
A good way to enforce schema backwards compatibility is to have something like a pre-commit hook or an auto-revert that triggers when the compatibility check fails during the build of your schema class library (assuming Java).

In addition, consistent use of schemas is also essential to operating something like Kafka audit:

http://www.slideshare.net/JonBringhurst/kafka-audit-kafka-me...
tl;dr - Neo4j for the Micrsoft platform:

The following prerequisites are required to follow this manual and develop GE applications:

Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows 8 (or above).

Visual Studio 2012 and 2013.

Windows PowerShell 3.0 (or above).

GE Visual Studio Extension.

An Azure subscription (not required if you do not plan to deploy GE applications on Azure).
How the words manipulate the perception:
"Chinese Men Indicted in Theft of Code from U.S. Tech Companies"
vs
"An American geologist who was imprisoned for more than seven years on a vague charge of “illegally procuring state secrets”
"An American automotive engineer has been detained by the Chinese police for more than a year on charges of violating trade secrets, according to United States officials..."
It would be nice if you could pay x bitcoins and have it seed to y ratio or mb.
We'd be forced to finally use flying cars :)
Not OP, but can answer. At its best, the band tracks relatively well to my chest strap. However, it's not 100% consistent - Some days the band seems to bounce around while my chest monitor is steady in the expected range. With that said, the band is close enough that I roll with it alone for my normal short runs(~5k) and only bother with the strap for longer distances. YMMV.
I wonder if the Chinese government will give any assistance in bringing these people to justice.
Nice design, makes more sense than the quads.
plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose

2009: http://mashable.com/2009/10/21/google-twitter-search-deal/

2011: http://searchengineland.com/as-deal-with-twitter-expires-goo...

2015: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-02-05/twitter-sa...
Silk Road film unintentionally shows what’s wrong with the “Free Ross” crowd
"4. Their MVP doesn't even work"

Well, hold on a second here. This really depends on what stage you're joining in. If you're joining a super-early, pre-product/market fit startup, this is almost to be expected. Rare is the MVP that immediately and conclusively achieves fit in the market. More often than not, there are several iterations, if not major pivots, before a startup achieves any measure of fit. The product itself has to work from a technical perspective——but it may well be janky and unreliable for the first ~6 months of its existence, and that's ok. (So long as people seem to like it, and are willing to put up with its rough edges.)

Now, if you're joining a well-funded and more ostensibly established company that doesn't seem to have fit, but is focused nevertheless on raising even more money...that's a bright red flag. Stay away. Stay far away.

These are two different scenarios. There's also a lot of grey area in between them. There is such a thing as educated risk-taking (early early startup; you know it might not work) and unnecessary risk-taking (company has raised $$$ without fit, and seems hell-bent on "scaling" what it doesn't actually have). Knowing the difference makes all the difference.
The information available on the website and github is pretty sparse. Will it play blu-ray iso's or folders? Support for DTS-MA? TV tuner support documentation just says "most work", which really doesn't answer the question at all. In general the documentation just says it will do anything you want it to, without going into any specifics.

Do I have to go back through the docs on Kodi and assume this will do everything Kodi will?
Those are good indicators the company is going to fail, so those are things to keep in mind. However, those things can change / be turned around and aren't individual deal breakers. A founder that focuses on raising a round instead of getting customers, in isolation, might be acceptable (or even smart) in some instances - discomfort with the founder him/herself is a non-starter in isolation. Get out. Now.

Now "how to quit a startup" - that's important too! Give notice, document your code/BD pipeline/whatever, ask for mutual releases of any potential liability if you can, and leave with a smile and don't say a bad word about it to anyone.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xuQNt45Cjkc
Can anyone savvy here weigh in on how much having a two-axis rather than three-axis gimbal will affect the stability of the video, if at all?
It's been closer to 20 years since I last read a complete program in x86 assembly, so this is quite fun to look at.

I'm somehow disappointed (quite unreasonably, of course) that the code uses plain old zero-terminated C strings instead of something more exotic. One of the fun things about assembly is that you get to reinvent basic language features on the fly -- calling conventions, data layout, strings, everything.
Thanks for very eloquently expressing my reaction to the article!
Scraping Twitter with R
The Telegraph’s Tactical Voting Tool Was Hard Coded to Never Recommend the SNP
This is an open source project and hence lacks the resources to document or be as polished. As mentioned in my comment below it is a OS which runs only one program which is the Kodi Media Center but it will support Apps along with Kodi Media Center.
> You can achieve that behavior in readline

No you can't. What I specifically described was the autocomplete of the line, not the ability to search history (which is manual complete instead of autocomplete).
Try to use with maximised window - it's a bug that happens when trying to draw on a window that's too small
In the next 10 or so years, kids will have some pretty cool toys. My son would love to have this for his bike rides. 2025 these things will be as common as an iPad and will have things like environment-awareness.

This looks pretty cool. I cannot wait to see how this evolves.
It needs to do so to interoperate with the OS, so using those avoids having multiple conventions and converting between them.
Since this is a snake game, and it's python, you really should switch to snake_case rather than camelCase :)
Beautiful Maps
You don't need to evaluate all permutations, at least not in detail as long as you know the main selling point of each. Go for the setup that has the smallest number of components yet is complete enough for your specific case. For me - it's a single CoreOS VM, no etcd or fleet, no higher level abstractions like Kubernetes or Mesosphere. Most people who need to get a bigger system running will need to take advantage of etcd and fleet + multiple VMs but can still decide that Kubernetes/Mesosphere is too much. And then there are the people who need the full package.
Steve Blank's Four Steps to Epiphany will help you on your way to starting a business if that's what you want.

Spend some time to figure out who's going to use your app and reach out to them. Use Google, LinkedIn, Twitter.. go anywhere your customers are going to and connect with them.
They control thepiratebay.org, which redirects to whatever is the most current TLD domain.
"Rather unprecedented that an online outlet @paktea is charged with defamation while it is only presenting reactions on twitter! #bullying"

While I don't agree with the lawsuit, this is not 'bullying'. Especially if you look at the reactions to the lawsuit, THAT is bullying.

I'm really tired of this mentality that to end cyber-bullying, you not only cyber-bully twice as hard, but try to rationalize that it's somehow the morally correct response.

The same thing has happened with the whole Gamergate fiasco.
This aligns with Reed Hoffman's "tour of duty" philosophy:

https://hbr.org/2013/06/tours-of-duty-the-new-employer-emplo...

Basically, a manager and employee agree to work on a particular project for a set period of time. At the end of that period of time, the employee is offered the option of switching to a new kind of project or leaving. If an employee leaves between tour of duties, it is considered a respectable departure and they receive the full support of the company in terms of referrals and positive reference checks.

I wish that more startups treated jobs as tours of duty. Your case highlights how having such an agreement with your employer could have been more mutually beneficial.
Farewell TC, Hello YC
Three out of three. If you don't have passion for the work, don't expect a change of heart anytime soon.
Shoot me an email at tvlevell [at] gmail.com and I'll send you one!
That worked perfectly for me, thanks!
Yeah they keep frittering around with the idea without making it plumbing. It is for this reason they are no longer 'announcements', or news, but a: "Look, we keep our engineers busy solving problems with a short life cycle".
Adding SPRITE to the list of upcoming autonomous camera drones I made for the Lily announcement...

Prices/status for reference:

Status Release Price
----------- --------- ------------
AirDog* Pre-Order Q3 2015 $1,295
HEXO+* Pre-Order Sept 2015 $1,299
IRIS+* Available Now $750
Mind4* Kickstarter Failed $900-$1,489
Solo* Pre-Order May 2015 $1,399
Ares HD Kickstarter Feb 2016 $999
Lily Pre-Order Feb 2016 $519-$1,019
SPRITE Kickstarter Dec 2015 $799

*Note that all but Ares HD, Lily, & SPRITE require a $300 GoPro camera.

Price ranges are for Pre-Order vs. Post-Ship pricing.

EDIT: Added Ares HD & Solo.
So you can't work 16 hours a day for years? SpaceX folks can
Entrepreneurship isn't "We're going to defy ALL odds". You only pick the odds you can take on with your capital, time, effort and talent. If you win, you get to pick the next set of odds and so on.

Right now, it sounds like your team will have to learn entrepreneurship, product management (which is not the same as software development), software marketing, finance, sales, raising capital, alliances etc etc.

That's a LOT OF odds.
> And SpaceX employees do work incredibly hard. One employee, Steve Davis, director of advanced projects, has reportedly been putting in 16-hour days every day for years.
Did they really trademark Sprite™? Doesn't Coca Cola own that?
VIPS should be able to open EPS files via libmagick but at least in my test I found that I ended up with just a black box. Maybe related to the below bug? https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=170649
Maybe it's just me, but I honestly don't know what this is doing near the HN top. It's more or less literal translation from C.
A War Well Lost
NYSE creates a new Bitcoin index
The competition is basically a huge science fair, and there are no direct constrains on the projects you can submit, but there are several things to take into account.
First of all, research has to be conducted entirely in a twelve month period, so already even the best participants can't do work equivalent to a masters degree. During the judging process, the real world impact is given much importance. This contrasts with an emphasis on basic science and theoretocal research - both approaches are fine, but this is a conscious choice. Finally, the judges generally don't actually read a long manuscript but rather rely on a poster and a quick 15 minute interview/pitch where you broadly overview your project - meaning that the competition wants to emphasize scientific speaking (this also is a boon to international participants who wrote their work in another language).

Because the scope of research one can complete in a year is so limited (and has to be balanced with school), and the amount of experience everyone has is small, the scope of the work can't really compete with academia.

Source: participated
Leveling Up: Simple Steps to Optimize the Critical Rendering Path
How Being a Good Writer Can Make or Break Your Startup
That doesn't work for me (in Fish).

> cat foo
echo wat
> ./foo
Failed to execute process './foo'. Reason:
exec: Exec format error
The file './foo' is marked as an executable but could not be run by the operating system.

It does however work in Bash. So this appears to be a bash-ism, rather than an OS feature.
The third axis would just provide the ability to pan the video without rotating the drone itself. With SPRITE's pod-style helicopter design, they may be able to use the counter-rotor to provide the third axis of rotation automatically.
We store the data in Apache Spark using Databricks and Spark Streaming. We are working on a bunch of really cool aggregate analysis that we plan to surface in the app. Things like how does my car perform vs cars in my same class.

https://spark-summit.org/east-2015/talk/spark-plugs-into-you...

We have to be really careful about user's privacy, so we haven't released much yet other than our dashboard: https://dashboard.automatic.com, but I think we'll be able to start pushing insights directly into the app in the next release.

Best Regards,
Rob Ferguson
Director of Engineering
Automatic Labs
https://twitter.com/RobFergusonIII
It does sound like witch hunting with a McCarthyist nationalistic vibe. Overall the brain drain from China to the US has been working to the benefit of the US, for years.

I expect we will more and more such propaganda pieces in the NYT and elsewhere, as China is being increasingly positioned as "the Adversary".
My rule is 15-30 mins max for a pre-interview coding test.

For an onsite interview, I'll also do some with the interview.
TAI currently differs from UTC by 35 seconds, so if you literally switched to it, every clock in the world would jump 35 seconds. If leap seconds are abolished, UTC and TAI will remain 35 seconds apart forever.
It doesn't surprise me. I heard Alex Winter being interviewed on the Joe Rogan podcast a couple of weeks ago and he seemed to have many misunderstandings about the technology behind TOR.
>Blogspam

This is not an accurate characterization and you should be downvoted for it. The article (which links to your source) is great. It's also more approachable than your link, which I wouldn't have read through. (in fact, I did just read through it just now and found it a chore.)

your link also shouts out to our (great) link at the bottom, and calls it "far less circumlocutory". why do we have to read a less approachable source, when we can read a great blog post about it? especially when the link is included for anyone who wants to dive deeper.

secondary sources that explain a subject are good.
An Alternate Reality for Startups
This study was conducted in China, which has a very different government structure compared to much of the West (or pretty much anywhere), so I fail to see how this can be applied to Western democracies (where the article was published).
Tiny TCP/IP stack and webserver in C
> Did they really trademark Sprite™?

Probably.

> Doesn't Coca Cola own that?

Within a particular domain. Trademarks do not cover all possible commercial uses of a mark.
Gaining traction because of the venture capital hype juice I mentioned.

There are lots of open-source and "viable" web frameworks out there.

People want Meteor because it makes a lot of promises regarding productivity, but (as the presence of this article and multiple comments prove) the real interest is in a framework that has money for continued development.

So without the financial backing Meteor is just another open-source web framework. Except if that happens, instead of just replacing it with Angular, Ember, Knockout, etc, you'll also have to replace the entire backend too!

I've already had to do this and while I enjoyed it in some ways and learned a bunch... I really don't think that my company enjoyed paying me to rebuild a platform that they already paid for because the Meteor evangelist they hired before me decided they wanted to be an overpaid consultant instead.
Trademarks are industry-scoped.

http://law.freeadvice.com/intellectual_property/trademark_la...
Meteor's solution will also use containerization: http://info.meteor.com/blog/meteor-and-a-galaxy-of-container...
Well, why don't you do it then? Make it happen. Submit an article, etc. If you CAN do it better you SHOULD!
Pretty much the equivalent of those cardboard holders you get with a cup of Starbucks coffee. Extremely simple idea, some guy just happened to think of it and run with it. Just a reminder that there is plenty of room left in the world for simple inventions and solutions to common problems.
Yes, this is exactly it. It's super easy to integrate and lets anyone build pages. Thanks for checking it out!
>You just announced how you don't feel obligated to pay people money for content.

This is what common core is doing to our children, people.
Yeah me too, more like Apple Garage Band...
Likely not, airlines margins are razor thin and when there are cases of measles on a plane for example, they simply hand over their flight passenger list to public health and they do all the work. By implementing this system, it won't save them any money.

The only time I could see this being beneficial for the airlines is if there were another SARS scare and people were not booking trips out of X city due to fears of catching SARS from someone on the plane. I think recent ebola situation in West Africa has really improved our systems at airports and therefore would likely try to restrict sick passengers from getting on planes, rather than control their illness once onboard.
My one concern with all these new drones that keep popping up is the flight duration. This one is among the worst I've seen: "... flight endurance, which is currently around 12 minutes". Others in the market don't seem to be much better, clocking around 30mins - 1hr per flight.

Are any of these able to fly a preset, waypoint path for two or more hours? I don't want to be thinking about the landing just as soon as it gets up in the air.
Oh! Thanks for pointing this out. I guess it's a popular name.
Pirate Bay moves to gs,la,vg,am,mn and gd
Try it - thepiratebay.se redirects to one of those six new domains.
Why an Apple HDTV Never Made Any Sense
There isn't, but the losers don't get to write the history books.
Tax breaks are just some of the incentives. E.g. Dubuque also renovated a historic building for IBM, which cost money upfront.

That said, I think tax breaks ultimately cost money, especially when the locals hired earn less than projected (thus, contributing less in income tax to city and less in spending to local industries) while company enjoys little to no tax, makes money and uses other municipal resources without adequate contribution.
benchmarks?

:-)
I always get a kick out of academics discovering phenomena that are pretty obvious.

If you have the ability to haggle with a person of authority, you'll eventually wear them down. It works for cops, teachers, bosses, etc.
Lisps let you define the semantics and syntax of a form with macros. I would consider the loop macro in CL to have an internal DSL.

--edited
Also from what I got from the article it was a survey with follow up interviews. This doesn't in anyway sound like a scientific study at all.
Gentoo Linux Security Advisories. See here: https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/
Veteran Trainman Says Amtrak Crash in Philadelphia Was No Accident
Grml-zsh