skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Its moving in the opposite direction though so that doesn't make sense. It already was a Google+ integrated app and now its standalone.
This is nonsense. If you correct for Socio-economic status, you'll find the best predictor is IQ. You can give a kid an IQ test at age 10 and know whether or not he'll graduate college.

Since IQ is heritable, kids from more successful homes will be more successful.
Most of the other teams involved that I've seen at places are usually other development teams who are consulted not because they have any specific reason but because as you go up the chain they want to make sure that nobody is already planning to use that same name/pretty url for something to avoid conflicts where one team all the sudden has two days notice to change their branding/url.
>heck now some businesses make all their browsers block ads

As one such business (a school) which blocks ads on company computers, I can say it has drastically reduced our malware-related incidents from teachers/staff. My gut feeling is that search result ads and false download buttons were the source of many of our infections. Users do not think before they click, and it seems like most of them that expect to be able to find useful software behind an advertisement often pay a price.
Chicago might have a bit of a unique problem with traffic to and from warehouses as well. Real estate is very expensive in city limits and the infrastructure here doesn't support the model all that well. I bet they could manage, but it's got to be a significantly higher start cost here vs. other metros. This would be a city to invest in AFTER vetting out the model in cheaper cities.
ATM-Killer SPARE Begins Beta Testing (For Real This Time)
This is some ridiculous pedantry. Theft is a synonym for stealing. Merriam Webster even defines it as the "act of stealing." So if you're going to use "theft of service" as an acceptable phrase, then "stealing a service" must also work conceptually. To complain that is unacceptable to shorten that to just stealing in a conversation is utterly ludicrous.
The most frustrating part about this is when you want to access router/etc machines via https and an ip address it is just no longer even possible if they dont support this particular certificate extension.

Firefox doesn't even give you a way to bypass the erorr, even the error itself gives absolutely zero indication of what the issue actually IS. It's extraordinarily obnoxious.
Actually approachable math - senior undergrad math major or first year grad can easily understand what's going on. ADMM is actually very old primal dual setup solved via Lagrangian, goes back to 1980s I think.
Good reference - https://web.stanford.edu/~boyd/papers/pdf/admm_slides.pdf

The article itself refers to Boyd's Convex Optimization textbook, which is sort of a rite of passage for anybody doing anything math-related at Stanford these days - even their MS in Management course requires a semester of convex optimization.
It varies by state to make it more complicated.

You can do searches for "personally identifiable information " or PII in statename to learn more
Lets not forget that economics is a social science like psychology or history. Also lets not forget that there is no such thing as "fake" and "real" money and that the economy is a social construct. The concept of fake dollars pesos or reales its a valid one but fake money is just nonsense.
He's hetero and women are the object of his intimate love. It's natural for him to attach female gender to the focal points of his love. In other words, if you respect LGBT rights, you also have to respect hetero rights. Not making a political stance here. Just stating the obvious IMO.
Have your employees purchase their own insurance and reimburse them. The federal (healthcare.gov) and state marketplaces have made comparison shopping and enrolling little harder than buying something on Amazon.
>Couldn't the other solution be less greed on the part of business owners?

Greed has very little to do with the problem. If one business pays their employees slightly less, and gains an edge over the competition by doing so, it forces their competitors to either adopt the same lowered pay rates, or slowly be defeated in the market. Only one "bad" actor has to be 'greedy' to force the entire market to chase lower wages. Often this can become a self-perpetuating system, driving down wages.

It is probably impossible to prevent this sort of behavior. The incentives to avoid chasing lower wages do not exist, or are very weak. Also consider that higher wages increases incentives for businesses to automate labor. Even if you create a higher minimum wage, the pace of automation will increase.

The fact of the matter is that the supply of jobs now no longer matches the number of employable people, and the supply will continue to shrink, indefinitely.
HTTPS Everywhere is the bane of my crap-configured-ssl-server existence :(.
I think the reason VR is better with games and demos is because it's hard to properly record in the real world. That's what Google is trying to solve here and I expect the results are far ahead of current solutions. It's both using a lot of hardware and a lot of software, I'm very excited to check out the results!
No shit! I'm buying my ticket to Gophercon immediately
From the reviews in Glassdoor, it looks like the employees are not treated well in Avago and Avago's CEO has a very low approval rating. So this not a good thing for employees of Broadcom also.
Gopro's are what $400?
That'd be $6400, which yeah may be out of the price range of your average consumer but my brother who does film work will routinely spend more than $2000 on a lens. If there is a market for these kind of videos, then it's a drop in the bucket.
https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-LCRPmN9Lx_E/VWc6aVDdMkI/AAAAAAAAB...

That image... Seriously, when will Google stop doing things like these? Will they ever learn to be attentive?
Looks great, though as other commenters have pointed out, 16 GoPros makes for an expensive rig.

I've been watching this space for a while and pretty much all of the consumer varieties (usually Kickstarter-backed) have pretty terrible video quality, so it looks like I'll be sitting this one out for a while yet.
The pace of development is impressive. Now if they could get OEMs to keep up.
Got my start on a Model III. Upgraded it to 48k and floppies running LDOS.
> gopro's cost is about the same I guess

The GoPro Hero4 costs $400.
The actual paper is about realization of an algorithmically-designed optical device rather than optical switching. The device is "just" a computer-designed multiplexer.
Congrats for making it through the valley of death unscathed. When I finish a massive project I descend into depression for months. I can't move. Then, I come out and am ready to give birth to the next great idea.

Frankly, you landed that plane so gracefully that I'm in awe. You're an inspiration to me.
http://i.imgur.com/OnlKapS.png

Sure looks like it was improvised and not thoughtfully designed.
Or http://handmadehero.org!
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ProgrammableWeb Takes Photos of Google's 1959 Code the Road Bus
This is just a preview not the release. It will probably be supported when it is actually released
If you correct for Socio-economic status

...which is the entire point
As others have pointed out, it's competition.

This is why when you choose technology for a long term project you should consider whether it's still going to be around in 5 years, if not you might inadvertently become the maintainer.
Huh? You can't put an IP into a DNS entry but you can put them into an IP entry.
Well, I guess my point is that this is a bit overkill. A professional content producer may want higher quality than consumer gopro cameras.

Whereas a home user (who may also want to create such immersive content) is left out in the lurch.
I do not believe that there is an argument for continuity without starting with Calculus. Certainly starting from ruler and compass constructions it is not obvious.

That said, if you have enough Calculus to define how to measure the arclength of a segment of the circle, you can quickly prove that sin and cos in radians exist, have a nice power series, and so on.

It is like x^y with x positive. We can manually define it every rational y. But the easiest way to get a rigorous and straightforward definition is to prove the algebraic properties of the integral of 1/x, use that to define the logarithm, define its inverse function to be the exponential, prove its algebraic properties, then define x^y as e^(y*log(x)). And it all just works.
> The retention at this point is much more than a year.

How do you know?
There's that, and also the fact that Xfinity is a triple-play brand, and people have a very strong association between "Comcast" and "Pay TV", which makes it more difficult for that brand to also sell telecom service.
Ask HN: Cloud based consumer Network drive?
Does anybody know about a service that provides cloud storage but acts as a simple network drive you can mount?
Is there a point to this other than telling us how amazing you are because you know some facts? As a self taught programmer there's probably just as many things that I can do that you can't. And how would you rectify your lack of knowledge in those areas? That's right, go and find out for yourself. The amount of hours you list are meaningless also (there are only 168 hours in a week by the way); self taught programmers have spent more time on the areas they're interested in. Not everyone who's self taught started by bashing out web-apps in Ruby and you do us all a disservice by tarring.

At the end of the day you learned some facts in a structured setting. It is entirely possible in a non-structured setting. The beauty of self-tuition is you take it as you need it, and you dig deeper when you find an interest. It is true that self-tuition as part of your job doesn't always allow one to delve as deep into a subject as one would like, however the best self-taught programmers are self-taught in their own time.

To answer the original question: No, you don't need a CS credential to be successful in the tech sector. I'm a CTO of a successful medical software house, I've developed my own databases, distributed systems, languages, frameworks etc. I'm a polyglot, knowing high and low level languages (as well as many assembly languages). Before that I worked in the games industry where I developed high-performance 3D graphics engines, animation systems and physics engines. And yes, I can read The Art of Computer Programming[1] and understand it. All without a math or CS degree. I have never had a problem finding work, and often when I have looked for work in the past I've been inundated with offers.

As a CTO when I receive CVs the education section is almost irrelevant to me. It's a useful guide, but it has very little bearing on whether I bring someone in for an interview.

I have worked with many graduates over the years, and they're mostly useless when they join the world of work (unless they'd spent their childhood self-tutoring). There's clearly benefits to the academic knowledge, but mostly you won't even need it. It's only when you start to dig a bit more that missing knowledge pops up. Then you just go and learn it.

However, if you've not learned how to learn then a formal education may be the best choice. When I had the opportunity to go to university I turned it down because I was sick of the stifling educational environment up until that point, but by that point I'd already been teaching myself to code and everything about computers from the age of 10.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Art_of_Computer_Programming
There are a couple of consumer ready 360 camera options available to purchase today ($300-$400), albeit not 3d steroscopic. I have personally played with the ricoh theta and the kodak pixpro and think they are good products. Here are some links if you want to check them out, I don't work for any of these companies but am a VR enthusiast...

Good for stills and video
https://theta360.com/en/about/theta/

Action camera similar to GoPro
http://kodakpixpro.com/Americas/cameras/activeCam/sp360.php

http://www.vsnmobil.com/products/v360
Mounted on a tripod like any other camera system. Most people will view the content, few will record (16 cameras is a lot of money/hassle/data).
Scolling is smooth in IE on a Surface Pro 3, but not in Firefox. That's pretty typical.

What's unusual is that it's visibly janky in Firefox on this desktop with an i7 and a Quadro FX 580. Sure, it's not a brand new workstation, but it should be able to scroll a webpage...
> "Statically-typed Ruby" that isn't actually Ruby

Yes, "statically-typed Ruby" != "Ruby".

> but a subset of Ruby

Necessarily (because "statically-typed"). You can see the supported methods here: http://infraruby.com/reference
People who have retina screens tend to forget that most of the world still doesn't have retina screens.
talking about cost here, not price. gopro is way over-priced.
Renewable Minigrids Should Be the End Goal for Rural Poor
I think that's a slightly pessimistic view. This experimentation is what will eventually enable the bridging of the uncanny valley. And I think that day will be here sooner than we think.
> I don't think anyone anywhere regards it as fact.

nikendo says:

> It makes me think of consciousness like training AI neural networks. Consciousness is akin to training a neural net by testing the result and triggering the reward function accordingly, whereas the subconscious is when you don't bother checking the result, you just "execute" the neural net from the control signal and take whatever result.

nikendo goes on to admit that the analogy might break down, but then reasserts that it works as a simplification (even as a simplification it is only speculation):

> I'm sure the analogy breaks down quite heavily, but it works pretty well as a simplification:

laserdinosaur says:

> So here's my takeaway from the article: concious thought is the evolutionary advantage of being able to modify our own subconscious thoughts.

Both of these are highly-rated comments on this article, currently more highly-rated than my comment which you're responding to.

To take this one step further, there was an Ask HN thread a few weeks back where many people on Hacker News said that they valued the comments on Hacker News better than the articles, and often didn't even read the articles. Maybe you can argue that nikendo and laserdinosaur just forgot to qualify their statements as speculation and don't actually believe what they said. But how is an HN reader who only reads the comments to know that this is the case? Reading those comments they could only conclude that bicameralism is an accepted scientific theory.
my hero 3 drains its battery super fast when on wifi
I'm become convinced, thanks a book by Radney Balko and articles such as this one, that the drug war and the militarization of police departments (including the proliferation of SWAT teams) has done the most amount of harm to the Fourth Amendment and community policing. Without no-knock warrants and military-style training, the rotten 15% mentioned in the article could only get away with so much. http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB100014241278873238488045786080...
You are arguing against argument by analogy with an analogy.

In any case none of those analogies are entirely wrong, they are just increasingly more accurate. An eighteenth century person couldn't have understood computers, so clockwork is the closest analogy.
Looks like the monospace font on that page is "Roboto Mono", which seems to be new.
As someone starting a fabless semiconductor startup on less than $2 million, I completely agree with you when it comes to starting a fab (Intel's, GF's, and TSMC's new 14-16nm fabs are in the $10 to $15 billion range), but a fabless semiconductor company can be done for the same range as a software startup. While it is not fair to use my startup as an example (as we don't have silicon in hand just yet), you can look here:

http://www.adapteva.com/andreas-blog/semiconductor-economics...

http://www.adapteva.com/white-papers/a-lean-fabless-semicond...
Excited about Weave. Not sure about Brillo. It is unnecessary. Most IoT things are low power Cortex-M devices that need to do very little and are very low power consumption. You don't have SDRAM, or a fancy OS and don't need it. There are plenty free and non-free RTOS available for those chips for whoever needs them.
Lack of pathogens. For example in 2013 ~198 million people had Malaria and ~500k died from it, mostly in Africa.

It's hard to die from cancer when you already died from something else.
I've noticed that on their last few announcements. Their landing pages for announcements have been top notch.
See also: Concurrency is not Parallelism http://blog.golang.org/concurrency-is-not-parallelism

You can still benefit from the "claims of the language", even if code isn't running in parallel.
There are several different frequencies of infrared. Unless your chip is getting too hot (in the 400°C or more), the best frequencies do not mix with thermal radiation.
I find myself liking the Roboto typeface more and more... It's got a lot of, dare I say, character?

And I love that it's 100% free for any use.
You can segfault with arbitrary undefined behavior [1], but I've never heard of it happening in practice.

[1]: http://research.swtch.com/gorace
> Only one "bad" actor has to be 'greedy' to force the entire market to chase lower wages. Often this can become a self-perpetuating system, driving down wages.

> It is probably impossible to prevent this sort of behavior.

> The fact of the matter is that the supply of jobs now no longer matches the number of employable people, and the supply will continue to shrink, indefinitely.

Hence why you tax productivity, and provide a strong social safety net with it (we will eventually need to go so far as a basic income, I'm sure of it). This graph from the BLS illustrates where those gains we're taxing come from (hint: software/automation productivity gains).

Regulation is the only solution to enable a fair playing field for all, citizens and corporations alike.

https://i.imgur.com/E2xd96M.jpg
So we agree to disagree. The PT (workers party) government changed Brazil forever by:

- creating thousands of politically-appointed public servant jobs and other money-sinks.
- corroding the power of one of the best legacies from the former Cardozo president: Lei de Responsabilidade Fiscal (fical responsability act), that was meant to prevent the executive from overspending.

Their ideas are close to the "Chavismo" that destroyed Venezuela, and they are doing a pretty good job trashing Brazil.
Well I'm sure you'll be able to one day have a rig of 16 RED Epic cameras and crunch through all the 6K videos, but plenty of neat scenes can be recorded with the current version. 16 GoPros aren't cheap (though this could be quite a nice package for a rental shop), but all-in will still be quite a bit cheaper than just one RED Epic body (without lens!).
Works fine on iOS. Fast and flawless in fact.
Please the FAQ regarding job posts. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html
Does this sound like something out of Dirk Gently to anyone else?

> Now the Stanford engineers believe they've broken that bottleneck by inventing what they call an inverse design algorithm.

> It works as the name suggests: the engineers specify what they want the optical circuit to do, and the software provides the details of how to fabricate a silicon structure to perform the task.

I'm quite sure the first novel, Holistic Detective Agency described a computer program that could do that. (In the novel it was of course sold to a governmental body, maybe military.)
Intel wants to turn your laptop into a wireless charger
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Why Build, Measure, Learn – isn’t just throwing things against the wall
Good catch! The addition is for the new .google TLD.

Looks like the Chromium source code had some "protection" against this, at least at one point in time:
http://security.stackexchange.com/questions/6873/can-a-wildc...

It appears that the specification (RFC 2818?) doesn't specify what is acceptable with regards to allowed wildcard certificates - leaving the various implementations to decide what is "too risky" for themselves.
"Unlimited free storage" for photos is not exactly a new thing. It was already unlimited before with Google+ Photos, the catch was that it will automatically resize your photos to be smaller than 2048x2048 (about 4MP). Now they're just bumping the limit to 16MP.
One interesting thing that happened in 1971 (right when the income divergence occurred, which I view as the major problem) was that Nixon closed the gold window:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nixon_Shock

Association of course does not prove causation, as a graph of murders and IE usage will demonstrate. But it is suggestive. I wonder if the unlimited leverage that the financial system had access to after the gold window closed allowed them to suck out more and more of the productivity gains.

This graph suggests that this might be so:

http://www.yesmagazine.org/blogs/david-korten/images/financi...
A use case for annotating cron jobs
Organic Electrochemical Transistors for Reading Brain Waves
Yet it worked fine for 20 years beforehand and is how a lot of management interfaces are connected to and used. Now a minor bit of certificate paper work is wrong by fiat, anything relying on it is no longer allowed to work, peroid, even with a manual override.

Great. I guess I'll just fork out $10k to satisfy some stupid technicality.
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Wouldn't being friendly and great for business be providing customer support? Something that Google rarely, if ever, does?

Google is a product lab that happens to fund itself from its most successful experiment, ads.
Zappos is a great example, a lot of retailers have good return policies too. However, usually the brands themselves don't have great return policies. Unlike Amazon/Zappos the return policies for each brand are different and the shopper has to keep track of them/figure out individually which is a big pain.
Laser Links Give Aging Supercomputers a Second Wind
Amazon is opening warehouses on Goose Island in Chicago and in Joliet in the near future: http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/ct-amazon-goose-islan...
Hmm. Material design is clicking twice on the play button to launch a Youtube video.
Even if there were news, it's certainly off topic for this post.
Thanks for this, the "Lei de Responsabilidade Fiscal" (fical responsability act) was truly the best legacy from former president Cardozo.