skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting, thanks for setting me straight, it's good to know that the world is saner than it appeared. I recall some images being corrupted with the copy task in ant and that was the explanation that I received.
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I hate to ask this, but I'm going to do it anyway.

Can someone explain this to the rest of us (maybe just me) what the heck this article is about?

This article started right out of the gate assuming the reader was well informed of the context.
Decreased readability is a subtle byproduct of the increasing number of monitors, as well.

I have three monitors, and because of how they're arranged, the distance from my chair to the monitors is 3-4" back from where my single monitor used to be. 3-4" makes a noticeable difference.

Before that, I had a huge CRT monitor, which sat closer to me by necessity because of the tube size. Without the tubes, we push monitors back to free up desk space. This also increases the distance from your eyes to the monitor.

Lastly, there's the issue of laptops versus desktops. What is comfortable for me to read on a laptop sometimes looks microscopic on a desktop. If you design web sites on a laptop, make sure you check the look on a desktop.
You should ask wheels about how much of a pain it was to write all the language bindings ;-)

Agree that it is a great idea to release language bindings for an API.

The big question in my mind is what else can you do to increase API adoption? One of the biggest advantages that twitter had was their massive developer and API support and I haven't seen anything that talks to how would you go about increasing developer adoption? Make something people want for sure, but make something developers want is perhaps a smaller subset of that axiom?
Awesome news! Congrats Scott!
Similarly, being treated like a child must be incredibly stifling and frustrating for smart, creative children.
It's a parody.

I thought that too at first, but he is also taking money from people. If the whole thing really is a joke, I would think one of those people would inevitably sue him (or at the very least issue a chargeback and tell the world).
Congrats guys! Very cool!

I'd like to sign up for a trial, but I have to provide my credit card information first. That's awfully annoying. Is there any chance of removing that requirement?
This is a nice problem that Google Voice could solve today, since it lets you route calls; not to mention it has extra logic too involving days and time of day
I can see wanting 3-D for gaming more than home movie watching, although it's still a bit of a stretch.

In any regard, if I'm going to wear "active" glasses with batteries and flashing shutters and the like, I think perhaps glasses with 2 lcd lens (and possibly a camera to mix in live images of your living space) might be a more cost effective approach, albeit it won't sell more tvs.
These towers are not very land-efficient compared to solar farms, but they are very cheap to build. So it seems strange to build them in the US instead of a large third-world nation.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_updraft_tower#History
So you say existing XML-based programming languages were 'written' by non-serious people?

Whether or not the people who wrote (sorry, I guess "designed" is the more appropriate word) these languages were serious, I do believe they are a dead-end.
This reminds me of a trademark suit out of the 1980s, when the Lexis-Nexis people sued Toyota when it introduced its "Lexus" luxury car to the U.S. market.

From a Wikipedia article summarizing this dispute: "When Toyota launched the Lexus line of luxury vehicles in 1987, Mead Data Central sued for trademark infringement on the grounds that consumers of upscale products (such as lawyers) would confuse "Lexus" with "Lexis". A market-research survey undertaken at the time asked consumers to identify the spoken word "Lexis"; the survey showed that a minuscule quantity of people thought of the computerized legal search system, a similarly minuscule number thought of Toyota's luxury car division, and an overwhelming plurality thought of a soap opera character. Mead lost on appeal in 1989 when the Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit held that there was little chance of consumer confusion. Today, the two companies have an amiable business relationship, and in 2002 implemented a joint promotion called 'Win A Lexus On Lexis!'" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LexisNexis)

If a survey were taken today asking people to identify the spoken word "Nexus," I would suspect that responses would be all over the board, with only a very few associating it with the Nexus-6 androids (ironically, a good number might even associate it with the Nexis search service - maybe the Lexis-Nexis people ought to litigate the other half of their name, just for completeness!).

Of course, the word "nexus" itself is of ancient origin, deriving from the Latin fourth declension noun ("nexus," meaning a "bond," "binding," or "fastening").

On a final trademark footnote, if a fictional character acquires a "secondary meaning" (meaning that the public strongly associates it with a particular source, e.g., "Mickey Mouse" = Disney), this can be an independent basis for infringement. Can't even begin to imagine this to have happened here, however.
> pinch to zoom is one of the things that makes web browsing on the iPhone usable, IMO.

I have a Windows Mobile phone with Opera and, as the other commenter also said about Andriod, it has the double-tap to zoom and reflow the page. There is a dedicated zoom area on my phone (I just have a swirl around the center hardware button like an older iPod) but I never have the need to use it. I find I really only the two levels of zoom -- the full page zoomed out and the reformatted in-zoom.
sigh... small pedantic point?
This is such a silly lawsuit. Nexus is a generic word, long used by geeks to describe anything vaguely cool with a centralized component.

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

There are 4 magazines, 2 video games and at least 5 different pieces of software (the very first version of WWW, written by Tim Berners-Lee, was called Nexus). There are also 5 bands and another 5 albums called Nexus.
This is my explanation as an armchair observant of the science of prediction. Nice high-level overview of the Netflix Prize: the problem, the competitors, the evolving science of CF - http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/23/magazine/23Netflix-t.html?...

CF = Collaborative Filtering (e.g. "Customers who liked X also liked Y")

KNN = k-Nearest Neighbor and a very popular CF algorithm (the winners of the Netflix Prize used KNN in part of their program)

Pearson correlation = There were 17,770 movies in the Netflix Prize dataset. Necessary input to KNN model. Which movies might be considered neighbors (e.g. similar) to each other.
Just for clarification, we've of course been open to developers in the past, what's new here is that we've created a free developer's plan:

http://www.directededge.com/signup-developer.html

And of course all of the stuff about Shopify integration, which we're really excited about:

http://apps.shopify.com/shopify_applications/e7d74dd9b5d86c9...

More on that here (which I just posted separately, since that's mostly a separate story):

http://blog.directededge.com/2010/01/06/directed-edge-shopif...
Because of your comments I didn't even click on the link. Thanks for that!
best depends on you...do you want someone who can get you into Goldman Sachs? Or someone who has inside connections to a bunch of smaller banks? Or someone who can get you into some tech companies?

All of those are different people, so you need to be more specific about what you are looking for.
They have no case.

You can't copyright a name (especially not one which is also an english word), and trademarks only apply within their specific commercial category, and books (even SiFi books) and phones (or computers) are not in the same category.
Heck, who will speak for Henry Miller?
Short interview with biogerontologist Aubrey de Grey
You nailed it.
What I'd like to see is sites like HN using tools like this. So that rather than see some kind of popular consensus about what makes a "good" posting, I see (or have the option of seeing) the kind of thing that I want to see.

EDIT: And if done right, it could render questions like this one irrelevant: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1035206
also check out Jinja2 (http://jinja.pocoo.org/2/)
It isn't a lawsuit. Just a non-lawyer shooting her mouth off.

One doubts that it will ever become a lawsuit, since there's little sense in throwing away legal fees. There isn't even a first approximation to a case here.
My guess is that the $1,000 leak is just conditioning the marketplace. They'll get a better reaction when they announce it at $799, for example ("Wow, cheaper than I thought.") than they might have previously ("I could get a couple of netbooks for that.")
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Just a quick, unrelated question wheels...

How many of you are there at DirectedEdge? I read that the article said 'cofounder' so I assume there is at least one other?

Great work btw!
Ask HN: Feedback and beta test my startup, SocialBlaze
Hi Guys,

I’ve been working on a new product for the past couple of months. It’s a web app that allows companies to fully manage their social media presence, marketing campaigns, and market research. Basically, I thought there was a pain in doing social media marketing for companies and I tried to solve it.

It's a "swiss army knife" for social media marketing.

The app is called: SocialBlaze ( http://www.socialblazeapp.com - not a lot of info there yet cause we're in private beta). We’ve have a couple of small businesses beta testing it; but I'd like to get some more beta testers and feedback on the idea.

A quick summary of the main features you’ll see (so you can get a sense of what it does, and if you'd like to beta test)
- Unified dashboard to manage all your social media

- You can do brand/keyword monitoring on all the major social media sites (blogs, twitter, flickr, youtube) (with sentiment analysis and change-over-time charts)

- Run promotions, polls on facebook and twitter

- Twitter client for business (assign tweets for followup, schedule tweets, and other little things that make it easier to use twitter for business purposes.)

- Manage facebook pages

- Manage, make blog posts

- There's analytics for everything and a dashboard showing you what's the most popular (e.g. what tweet has the most clicks, retweets, what blog post has the most views)

- Multiple workspaces/projects and users (with user permissions)

- We're also working on a scheduler where you can plan out various stages of your social media campaign and schedule things in advance

I'm wondering what you guys think of the idea and if it would be useful for your startup/company? If you're interested I'd also like to get some beta testers (free during beta, significant discount when we launch). If you’re interested please fill out this form: http://8it.us/n5m

Do you guys have any suggestions/advice/feedback on the service as I’ve described it? I'm interested to hear what industries you think this app will be the most useful for?

Thanks! And Happy New Year!
This company apparently wants to be associated with an oppressive government.

It's like if Apple ran the 1984 ad, and Apple was the dictator on the giant screen, instead of the young woman smashing it.
You can notice a single frame of light at faster than 200FPS, but it's a lot harder to notice a frame of darkness at 100FPS. That has more to do with signal response and nerves taking longer to drop down after a lot of stimulus than vice-versa. Appearance of fluidity has to do with a succession of similar frames, not the interjection of a vastly dissimilar one.
Really awesome stuff and I can't wait to start playing with it.
Minor tiny bug report for that second link. Maybe it's just my Safari but where it says:

"Price
$9.00 USD per month*
Website
Directed Edge ExpressRex"

-- the link is broken, it starts with http:// 3x before the domain name.
Grml, yeah, that's a Shopify bug that I already mentioned to them. Every time you edit the template it adds another http:// in front of the URL, so they pile up if you forget to remove them with every edit. Just edited it again to remove that.
Heating Up Clojure & Swing
There is no such thing as 'bad publicity', even when they're not 100% on the ball it's great that they are writing about you.
I largely agree that it is a silly lawsuit but, to play devil's advocate for a second, there are a few factors that make it slightly less cut and dried.

Firstly, Google's phone is the Nexus One while the androids' model in "Bladerunner"/"Do Androids Dream..." was Nexus Six - presumably the last in a series beginning with something like Nexus One.

Secondly, how come the "Droid" has to mention George Lucas's claim to the term but the "Nexus One" does not need to refer to PKD?

Taking off my devil's advocate hat, I think that the name "Nexus One" was clearly inspired by Bladerunner (engineers/nerds working on a platform called "Android" was always going to lead to lots of robotic cultural references) but that does not mean the estate of PKD should be able to make a buck from it. The use of "Nexus One" in this way should be a sign that "Bladerunner" has become an important cultural touchstone, at least in tech circles.
Here you go:
http://www.marksdailyapple.com/definitive-guide-to-the-prima...
Clickable - http://www.socialblazeapp.com
No, it didn't.

It sent 8 million data points in response to an unknown number of surveillance requests.

I agree with the EFF's larger point that this is a power that is likely being abused, but this headline is way over the top.
Getting the power to the US from a large third world nation is probably not as cheap as easy as building them in the US. There is also lots of land in Arizona that isn't useful for very many things.
I think 'successful act' should be changed to 'profitable act'.
Without looking into the code, it's not clear that the article explains the mechanism very well, or even enough to say something interesting. What's a ContextDecision? What's an OpcodeDecision? And ModRMDecision? Are they enums, bitflags, indexes, objects?

The most obvious way to write a disassembler (to my mind) specifically for such an idiosyncratic architecture as x86 is a 256-way lookup table mapping the first byte to hand-crafted instruction decoder functions, carefully placed to take advantage of commonalities among certain classes of opcodes. Add some flags into the table and you can extract more commonality. Addressing modes from Mod R/M and SIB can be factored out into separate routines. It adds up to a bunch of grunt work, but ought to be very fast.
Unless there is an atomic spaceship war in a hundred years which scars the earth with canyons that size every few hundred miles. Then our grand children will not find "the Grand Canyon" awesome, they will find it "just another of those huge canyons that are everywhere and really boring".

Redwoods are awesome trees because of their size. If all other trees died out and Redwoods were the only tree, they wouldn't be awesome, they would be "normal tree size".

Unless you are high you don't go around being awe inspired by everyday things. Awesome is implicitly comparing with "everything else". Different things aren't awesome, but awesome things are different - but only while they are different.

> a Porsche from 1970 is still awesome

Not to me. A Veyron, now that's awesome. Spitfires are awesome, but only anachronistically - for their time and their reputation at the time - they don't hold a candle to a modern fighter.
I've been pretty good friends with one of the band members of VW since college, and I don't think the comments stem from a "too-cool-for-school" mindset.

I remember one of my nerd friends and I talked about our approach for a poker bot to this member of VW, and he was extremely interested in the idea, even though he didn't have a technical background.

The thing that really bothers him, though, is "inauthenticity", and having a mainstream music band member play a web entrepreneur would probably elicit jeers.
More than a million per day? I doubt it.
> Perhaps by 2059, we'll have languages with macros and regular syntax.

Boo has macros ... http://boo.codehaus.org/Language+Guide (at the end, under 'advanced features'.
If they did, the problem could be solved by installing your own free Linux distribution.

This is not the case with Windows, which was the point.
am i the only one that didn't immediately know PKD was Philip K Dick and now feel a bit sheepish (no pun intended)...
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I think the basic gist of the article is that originally he was comparing movie X to every other movie, one at a time, and in any single such comparison he had to fetch all the users who had rated both movies to calculate the Pearson correlation. But later he realized it's much more efficient to just cycle through the users themselves who have rated movie X and check what other movies they have rated and to calculate the Pearson correlations from that data.
Very clear thinking in this article. It almost makes me want to stop learning Haskell and focus on Clojure.
Really, are you talking about the B2 version, something wrong with the cache? Because I bought my 9750 a year ago August (it had the lowest power consumption at an acceptable speed) and it was a B3 even then. So, if that's what you're referring to, I doubt those are still in the channel.

Come to think of it I think they renamed the fixed ones (the ..50) so that there was no risk of confusion.
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Not sure this is a fair reading of the suit.

The company filing the suit (Cybersitter) promotes its software as a "family friendly parental controls" product that keeps kids "safe on the Internet." The company tagline is "Protecting Kids and Families for 14 Years."(http://www.cybersitter.com/)

Now, I am not saying that this is not an opportunistic suit and I don't pretend to know the technology. The way I read the facts, however, is that Chinese software developers are alleged to have stolen some of the code from Cybersitter's product and incorporated it into their software product which is in turn used by various computer manufacturers to comply with the Chinese government's dictate that all sorts of web information be blocked from the view of Chinese citizens.

If I understand this correctly, the U.S. company has no connection with the Green Dam product (i.e., the offending product containing the allegedly stolen code) other than claiming that a key portion of its code was ripped off in order to develop it illegally. This would not make them culpable in the censorship or the oppression. It is as if someone broke into my home, stole my knife, and (using my property) killed someone with it.

Of course, the chances of recovering anything from the Chinese government or from the Chinese developers are nil.

The key to the lawsuit, and the obviously opportunistic part of it, comes in trying to get money from hardware vendors as alleged conspirators in the infringement alleged to have occurred. This is pretty aggressive and may even be sleazy, but it does appear to be the strategy.
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It's a well known and solved problem, most areas are not willing to pay extra to have it installed when it's only a problem for a few days a year or even decade.
When I search I scan through the search page and pickup interesting links and get them opened in tabs. Then I read opened tabs and if they don't have stuff I need, I refine my search query. I think my search style would feed lots of false positives to the research the writer is doing, if I participate :).
Most style guidelines strongly recommend against using underlines in print. Underlining used is for emphasis in handwritten material, because it's difficult to hand-write italics, much less bold. In a printed context, it just looks... unprofessional.

Of course, this is a stylistic preference and not a normative linguistic imperative, because I detest such things. But it's a very common one.
Well, Andy Grove thinks that won't work unless the third world country is in your continent: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07...
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=3893767&id=1388630...
it's also a WoW instance
To the first point, "FPS" is a different unit than "Hz". A significant number of games run their physics, logic, rendering, networking, and other processes at different update rates. Forza 3, for example, renders at 60 frames per second, but updates physics at a much higher frequency (360 hertz, IIRC)
One difference is that Starwars franchise is very heavily into merchandising. PKD is certainly not.
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Finally... we can find Bin Ladin AND kidnapped children
And to add:

7. Switched to Bing and/or Yahoo to compare results.
my neural networks, I train them....... depending on how much time I had with it, I'd work on additional networks maybe something on stock data
Since when is it theft to make a literary reference?
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You go to business school because you need that MBA for your job or to switch jobs. It is not about learning. It is about networking (and partying) for two years.

If you want to be an entrepreneur, sitting in a lecture about entrepreneurship does nothing towards achieving your goal. The problem with business school and business theory is precisely what this guy thinks is a virtue: addressing the "why". In real business, and especially entrepreneurship, figuring out the answer to the why is the easy part (although consulting firms would have you believe otherwise until they collect their fees and leave behind a book of trite observations and obvious suggestions). Executing on that why is what matters. Execution is everything in business, and especially in entrepreneurship.
You don't think 3D TV is worthwhile or something?
C has macros.
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Except Iran isn't a sovereign nation, it's just a patch of soil run, in practice, by a bunch of unelected mullah-thugs. The doctrine of sovereign rights should be restricted to democracies. The mullahs have no more sovereign right to the territory they happen to control than the Crips or Bloods.
damn right. Totally stupid idea - perhaps they should revise their expectations to something more realistic?
Fossil tracks record 'oldest land-walkers'
This seems a stretch, as there, so far as i know, no merchandising based on stuff in PKD's work. Give that science fiction is an imagination-rich medium, many things that are realized were first mentioned in science fiction. Would the Frank Herbert estate clamp down on manufacturers of Crysknife? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crysknife. Or any of the concepts in Larry Niven's Ringworld, like the Sunflowers, or the cziltang brone? And who would own the IP rights there--Larry Niven, or the Ringworld Engineers?
An interesting tour of the facility, with some wonderful observations.

It’s one of the most awesome scientific enterprises of all time, even though it looks like a monumental folly. Or else, it's a monumental folly, even though it looks like one of the most awesome scientific enterprises of all time.

On "dark energy" and "dark matter" - those names are really just black-box placeholders (like "God")

And taking the journalist’s ability to fake fluency in all kinds of subjects to a Stephen Hawking lecture, only to realise that all week everyone else had been radically dumbing down their explanations so that I...might achieve some tiny glimmer of understanding.