skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It would have been nice with some kind of closed loop feedback system for all positions around the ribbons, but it became a cost problem. What we did instead was to put an IR sensor on the motor controller behind each motor. The fabric ribbons are fitted with a retroreflective strip for homing. This gives us one absolute starting point on each pixel and then each color is just at a fixed ustep offset from zero. But as you pointed out, some of the ribbons are slipping a little bit so they are a color our two out of cal. The ribbons are real fabric ribbons, not timing belts so that's why we do have some slip. We periodically run the strip over the IR sensor to zero out the calibration so bad pixels should re-align at least a little bit over time. If they are really bad, we take them down and swap in a spare 32 pixel module while tightening the belt on the bad ones.
In this case, the __users__ were targets who had the software installed on their devices without their knowledge, right? Maybe they can sue because they didn't get a copy of the source code with their malware infection?
It's been shown in at least one experiment that superficial appearances are correlated with underlying qualities. Specifically, simply by looking at two people one can choose the one better at math 55% of the time!

https://mega.co.nz/#!6UxzVLIA!BVUOujU76VnhZM45QE4N2oFz0yLRTf...

The title and abstract of the study (discussing gender stereotypes) more or less ignores the truly interesting bits of this study. Gender stereotypes reduce profits by 0.1% but discrimination by appearance increases profits by 11.4%!

Obviously actual math tests are better than appearance.
Isn't biology / medical research too expensive to do enough meaningful work on a YC grant?

The sums YC provides work well for a couple of programmers with laptops - can keep 'em going for a while, but you folks need labs and stuff.
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>> Not at any tech company I've ever worked at.

Well, there are grey areas to a lot of these words we're using in this discussion, as the meaning depends heavily on context and the background of the reader (or recipient).

>> Hiring is actually making an offer.

Is it? So when Github says "we're hiring", does that mean they're making an offer to everyone who contacts them? I tend to think most people will interpret that as "we're accepting applications for open positions".

Of course, if Github says "We're hiring Joe Smith", that's a completely different meaning because it's in a different context.
> Bald is representative of my life span

No it's not, unless your saying that outside of any specific disease or condition you lived to puberty. Many people start balding in their late teens, others never do.

That you balded is representative that there is probably someone in your ancestry that was bald. That's pretty much it.
Looks like it was inspired by Devorah Sperber:

http://www.devorahsperber.com/
Don't quit your job with bills to pay and mouths to feed? I totally get the whole desire to do what you read people successfully doing all of the time, but my own personal experience has taught me that it's a fools errand to try to fit other people's roadmap into yours.

It might take you longer than you want, it might not map out how imagined but at the end of the day, you can't sacrifice everything for what amounts of a lottery ticket ESPECIALLY when it involves the quality of life for other people.

There are ways to do what you want incrementally, but think less about the scratch off ticket of startup homeruns and just do something simpler and grow. Build things that have an audience, do stuff that's closer to your current base of work and build a community around your work. That's not even a guarantee of success, but it's a much closer route and would enable you to make time to do what you want.

But yeah, don't jump out with a plane with a parachute because you only get one.
This is a good idea. I wonder if deep-learning will be useful to strongly test it this way:

1. divide a set of documents from the same person , apply stenography to half. represent each word by a number.

2. take half of this data and use it to train your deep-learning algorithm to categorize documents as clear/stegoe'd. Than test how well it can detect stego in the other half.

The inputs to those deep-learning should be as followed: num_of_word_0, synonym_number(num_of_word_0), .., num_of_word_n, synonym_number(num_of_word_n)

Where synonym_number(word) is: if we start with home-house-abode from wordnet as synonyms, home=1, abode=3.

This way we give the deep-learner info about your synonym use stats.

3. run algorithm.

Not too complex, and there's a decent likelihood that if there are statistical patterns, the deep-learner will find them.
I think nowdays you have the next variants:

1. Hire an HR to find you inhouse specialist (it costs a lot)

2. toptal.com - top 3% developers (it costs a lot)

3. odesk.com - really need to be a good manager and HR in one face to find a good one developer.

4. remoteyoda.com - the best variant for small businesses.
I apologize for a bit of a rambling response here - this article struck a chord with me.

I hardly think there is a universal trend away from the suburbs. Its a matter of personal preference. Washington DC is highly unique however in the sense that one can easily commute from the suburbs into most parts of the city with a minimal drive to the Metro station. So you can have it both ways with a house/yard and an urban lifestyle when you need it. Old office parks out in MD are unnecessary, particularly because more of DC is safe than 5-10 years ago. My wife worked on U Street and I worked in Gallery Place, two areas you wouldn't be caught dead in 10-15 years ago.

But... not all cities unfortunately offer this type of luxury. Having grown up and lived in NYC for almost 30 years, I see people wrestling with the following:

1) People want to "escape" the city either because costs are prohibitively high for a reasonable amount of square footage or simply to have the chance to decompress away from the people/activity/etc. As for costs, you only really begin to save when you get further and further away from the city, and your commute becomes soul-sucking. Parents of my friends growing up spent 3 hours in a car each day to be able to provide a good day in a safe community. That is a death sentence literally and psychically. If costs are less of an issue but you don't like the city, the added commute just makes you less productive. NJ Transit/LIRR are not quite at the point where people can be fully productive and extend the workday.

2)People who love the city and never want to leave: to make this possible, you have to prioritize the energy and conveniences of the city over your own personal comfort except in a few rare circumstances.

I hope these unnecessary offices parks are replaced by more modern co-working spaces in smaller cities that provide employees optionality. NYC and SF are bursting at the seams and the sprawl will just continue.
Knockoff feels a bit harsh. Inspired, perhaps?
Ask HN: How to write white papers?
I want to explore if writing white papers have resulted in increased sales from business/enterprise customers. If so, how did you reach out to them after they downloaded your white paper?

More importantly, how did you write your white paper with what tool? Are there any guides on what it should focus on? Is it even worth my time or is this an outdated method of reaching out? Are these white papers more likely to get passed around internally?
that's a serious stretch
In the extreme-overclocking community yeah. (There are tournaments for this sort of thing afaik)
> "And interviewing 10 people for every position leads to them choosing a most qualified out of those 10 and leaving notes for future teams looking to fill a position."

I'd agree with you if the above was true - but it isn't at Google, nor is it true throughout the majority of the industry.

Most companies (Google included) hire based on a fairly simple "first past the post" system. A candidate comes in, interviews, and a hire/no-hire decision is made shortly after. In cases where two candidates are interviewing simultaneously some comparison might be made between the two, but otherwise the candidates are decided upon serially.

I don't know of any companies that practice the "interview N people, choose best" methodology - if they did, then yes, I agree that "failing" 90% of people might be more reasonable.

I don't even know if that strategy is practicable - sourcing candidates generally takes a long time. Getting N people to interview within a short time window for the same position is nearly impossible for any N > 2.
Not shitty comments, they're helpful. Thank you.

When I wrote about these styles not having a western equivalent, I meant just that there is literally not a similar style in western knives. I in no way hoped to infer that these knives are unrivaled by western knives. They're just a totally new style for western chefs. I'll work on that wording though!

Somebody else said something similar about hand-made. I'll write a post today or tomorrow to elaborate the benefits of generational makers or experienced makers. Where would you like to see this information on the site?

Carbon steel knives are largely better than stainless in all ways (other than preventing oxidation). This is not a necessary truth, as some recent modern stainless steels have great capabilities, but there are extremely few makers capable of utilizing stainless steel in a way that rivals the performance of carbon steel. I'll be replying to the other poster but, in short, a lot of what they wrote is misinformed.
Yes they would. But you should never use this in production. Only for the purpose of learning/testing ZFS.
> If you wish people to engage with you, I recommend not starting off like that

And I recommend you give people the benefit of the doubt, though honestly I have to say I frequently fail at that myself. For example, your comment could be perceived as somewhat condescending, but I force myself to categorize it differently. I also know that I can come across way more negative than I intend to, I apologize for that and I'm working on it.

For what it's worth, I do think my original comment was snarky and dismissive, but somewhat counterintuitively that's not usually what gets people downvoted and flagged on HN. People can and do get away with artful personal attacks on HN all the time, at least in my defense I can say I attacked an idea instead of a person.

It may well be the case that my insufferability amplified the reaction, but I posit the root cause was disagreement about the message, not its format.

> although it seems to have turned out okay in this case.

It turned out okay because a decent dialogue emerged from it, one of the very few in this entire thread. But it was sufficiently controversial to get enough downvotes in order for my comments to teeter around 0 points and also receive flags. There have been a few updates to HN's comment ranking and voting algorithms that will make me regret taking this stance for some time, which may or may not provide you with some comfort to know.
Wow, that's awesome! I always love seeing these types of things that are live.
Ask HN: Is Silicon Valley in a Boom Cycle?
I've lived in The Valley for 25 years, arriving just in advance of a recession in 1991. Since then, we've had 2 boom cycles (1996-2000, 2004-2007) and 2 major busts in 2001 and 2008. From my perspective, Silicon Valley is currently in a boom cycle:

A. Traffic is the worst I've seen [0]

B. Multi-story office complexes are going up at an astonishing rate. A drive down 237 and 101 in Mountain View/Sunnyvale/Santa Clara passes more than a dozen major construction sites. And Facebook, Apple and LinkedIn all put up major new HQs in the last couple of years (Facebook just completed, Apple still in progress).

C. House prices are surging again. Santa Clara County median price is +11.1% YOY to US$1,000,000 [1]

D. Apartments in San Francisco are at all-time highs: Average $4,385 for 2 BR in the city [2]

E. The San Francisco Bay Area is now home to 5(?) of the top 20 US companies by
market capitalization, including #1 and #2: AAPL, GOOG(L), WFC, FB, CVX. (ORCL have recently fallen out of top 20)

F. Unemployment in The Valley has dropped from 7.0% in July 2013 to 4.1% this month [3]

If we are in a boom, what are the underlying market factors specific to Silicon Valley, vs. the rest of the US? How sustainable is it?

If we are not in a boom, what are the indicators?

[0] http://www.sigalert.com/Map.asp#lat=37.55783&lon=-122.138&z=2
[1] http://scc.rereport.com/market_reports
[2] https://www.rentjungle.com/average-rent-in-san-francisco-rent-trends
[3] http://www.calmis.ca.gov/file/lfmonth/sjos$pds.pdf
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Regarding the age portion of this. I've visited Google a bunch of times. I'm always amazed how young people are there. It seems more like a college campus than a business. It seems to me, in the Mountain View complex, at busy times like lunch, that 95% of the people I'd see are in the 20-30 range, with a few older people sprinkled in. It's been this way every time I've been there.
It really is a horrible text-book, Chris and/or Marci showed me once. Fortunately my class used Spivak instead.
Web server codebases are typically also way easier to modify, unit test, with better tools and languages.
How can it be a knockoff? It's not like he was the first ever to do it. His non-LCD projects aren't in color. This is much bigger than any of those.
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> if you (and possibly your co-founders, also lying on the beach) are going to receive all or at least a very large chunk of the profits then why do all the hard work?

So... basically the stock market?
Thank you for the tips. You're right, we can't stop anyone from copying it and tell them they are free to try to do so. We are thinking of positioning the product for the initial cooperation as a market research tool rather than a product license. So they get data and insight rather than technology.
I've never been much of a Microsoft fan but I personally pay for a business Office365 Exchange account just for my personal email. I'm sure there's reasons to prefer in either direction but for me I don't have any complaints and it all works great.
Agreed with one of the comments, why do articles like this never share any sorts of details about the hack? Is this not a responsible disclosure / patched?
The only hard bit is parsing the JSON, which I use jq for (http://stedolan.github.io/jq/)

I think the v2 API requires hitting an auth endpoint too.
I think you're taking down a strawman amalgam of misconceptions that few people, if any, actually believe all at once.
And why is "proprietary technology" a good thing? Limited visibility into the code really doesn't improve anything. Ask Chrysler about their Jeeps being hacked, how much that proprietary thing helped.

And "more than three years". Oooh. OpenSSL was in development for what, 16 years, and heartbleed happened anyways.

I have no doubt it's a little bit harder than a few weeks with a USB cable and a traffic sign, but assuming they will not be tampered with at some point is not born out by any facts we know about software.
Again, come back to this when you definition made it to the dictionary.
> You should need to know the meaning of the word to play it

How would you go about determining in a regulated fashion whether someone knows the meaning of a word?

Would you have them offer a definition to be checked against an official dictionary?

Would the definition given have to match the official dictionary definition word for word?

Is so, wouldn't this simply force high-level scrabble players to memorize not only the official words but the official meanings themselves?

And if perfect matching wouldn't be required, how much variation would be allowed and how would such variation be measured?

There's no sense in falling back on the "just use the word in a sentence" proof, either. Because that's no proof at all, since, even if we dispense with all the problems consensus introduces, if the usage is contested, then some official dictionary definition will have to be referenced in the end.

And then you're going to have to deal with the above mentioned issues anyways.

The desire for a more natural, simple and organic Scrabble world in which any word played must be theoretically backended by a player's knowledge of its definition is, well, just asking for trouble.
> Its incredible that even geeks

It's almost like no matter what you label yourself as you're still human, as if these labels are really meaningless.
The comments are unbelievably negative considering the quality and the range of features this offers. This is extremely useful because I won't have to spend time writing out REST api in order to expose the Postgre data. Often a client just wants to access the data with REST api and to write an entire stack just to serve a few doesn't make sense. There's no expectation that this is going to serve a gazillion requests per minute out of the box, and that's totally fine with me since you shouldn't rely on off the shelf solutions anyways if you were building an architecture of that size, but really question if you are going to have that many requests per second. It reminds me of the customer who claims 'I need this done in node.js to support 10,000 concurrent users' and when asked how many users he has now he replies 'none, but I hope I can reach the number', solving problems he doesn't have yet and complaining that 'php is too slow'.

Some of the best ideas and tools on HN are met with so much negativity it reminds me of Reddit, where the small percentage of people who get off on putting others down so they can feel good about themselves dominate the comments.

Good on you cdjk, this is exactly what I was looking for. Thank you!
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Yep. Liquid Nitrogen is the go-to coolant for overclocking records/competition.
Great video - hope to see a longer one / blog post if F21 lets you publish details.

Is there a story behind the PCB that's shown on fire, or was that just for show? ;)
I am user of both Google Apps and Offie365 and my experience so far has been opposite. At least, Google Apps' web based UI is inferior to Office desktop version. SharePoint for team collaboration to me is a much better experience. Could you list few things where Google Apps beats office 365. I occasionally consider the switch and did not find GoogleApps to be better.
Exactly. I want to like these things, but they're just way to painful on the eyes.
Sorry, I deleted my comment about the same time you replied to it. I realized both you and TFA were discusing testing setups, not actual hard drive redundancy setups.
Most of these companies started remote. I'm really curious about how to transition from non-remote to remote. What does a company do with all the hardware and furniture? What about the administrative staff who would serve no purpose in an office-less company? How did employees deal with going from buying a lunch everyday to making one or getting one delivered? etc. etc.
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Regarding the headline, “When Prosecutors Believe the Unbelievable”: Here’s what I wrote, two months ago (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9594806), which applies equally to prosecutors:

“Lawyers actually “think” nothing. Or rather, what they write and what they argue is what they are paid to write and argue. It has no actual connection to what they actually think - they might not even have actually personally considered the issue, and may never do so. However, what they write is in many ways meant to be taken seriously and reacted to, just like troll posts. Therefore, take care not to be trolled by lawyers.”
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With great power comes great injustice. This is a fact of human existence. All the bullshit about "responsibility" is just window-dressing for the arbitrary domination of human beings.

"Control over other people's lives" is the problem. Occasionally those who obtain that control use it only in benign fashion, but such conduct is exceptional.
The problem with teaching this is that is depends highly on the situation. There are not brightline rules that a person can easily understand.

Are you being detained or arrested is not a bright line rule. You can go from one to teh other without anyone saying anything. And the rules for police differ.

I'm a lawyer and I couldn't even begin to tell you the rules for my own state, let a lone some random place in Texas.

Though one bright line rule is that cops can make you get out of your car. That is pretty much their discretion.
"Google favors workers who are under the age 40"
I am thinking about my career path. I don't know if a company will hire me as a software developer when I am 40+ years old. I do understand the companies like young people.
Are you looking for entry level talent or someone with more experience? I've been looking to move into the gaming industry a while now (from web development). I have been teaching myself C++/3D game development in my free time and I have a couple of small freelance gaming projects under my belt (one of them used Unity).

Also, to add to this discussion: There doesn't seem to be many good places for people to connect with the type of talent you're looking for. I've been looking for a while now and have managed to find very few such listings. gamasutra's job board seems to be one of the few places with a fair few jobs.
I've wondered if part of the problem is that pH is logarithmic, so a drop of, say, 0.2 pH doesn't seem like that big of a deal.
I agree, but I don't think it'll happen until their consumers demand it.
As much as startups can "disrupt" by creating new businesses, big tech companies can also create entirely new products or businesses and when they attempt to do so they often succeed. Google has a good shot at eventually being successful with products like glass, self-driving cars, etc. Amazon is already succeeding with AWS and at some point will launch drone delivery. Even if you just own a small feature, it's fulfilling to work on large important products with high impact (legacy products too e.g. gmail). Plus, there is little risk and great payout guaranteed. Contrary to Thiel's comments, I think you're surrounded by brilliant people at a place like Google and will learn constantly and won't stagnate. The key is to not stay on the same team/product forever.
You may want to see http://www.zazler.com/ or https://www.npmjs.com/package/zazler
"Gen-Y places a high value on authenticity. Sarcasm can be seen as 'inauthentic' and diminish the immediately perceived value of a piece. Satire, however, is a goodthing. Sarcasm is cheap; Satire is art. ... Sarcasm is more easily absorbed by the digestive tract of Gen-Y due to the short chains it forms. ... Society, long having moved from prechewed, tasteless meat into pre-prechewed, more tasteless meat substitute, the majority of Gen-Y simply can't process more than 140 characters at a time. ... Somewhere in every great satire post-2000 must be sarcasm, how ever much it cheapens the 'experience'."[1]

You'd think I wouldn't be getting killed here. Everything is falling flat. Bah humbug.

1. "The Truth About Satire" -- Faye Weather, 2001, http://thereisnopunchlinehere.com.us/books/weather,faye%20th...
Where could Docker use more work?
Nitpick: you need a potentially unbounded number of alternations between existential and universal quantifiers to get PSPACE. Otherwise it is just somewhere in the polynomial hierarchy.

Otherwise you are right, "outsmarting" the rest of the world is probably in PSPACE.
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