skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Huh? So they have to store the inverted index for my files on disk, rather than in RAM and so it takes 1s to return a search result, rather than 0.2. With all the cold data they are storing, I imagine their servers have io ops to spare.
Upon purchasing the Artwork, Collector may establish a new value for the Artwork. The new value may not exceed current market expectations for the Artwork based on the current value of work by the Artist. This value may be reassessed quarterly.
What happened to Martin Eberhard at Tesla could be a case study for this post.
I lent money on prosper, and was paid back.

However, I think the article is mostly on the mark. I only bid on loans where the person was buying a computer or web design services, and I used it as an opportunity to tell the borrower about my freelance business. I don't think I got any business from it, but the $50 that I lent out every few months came back.

I think the volume of investment that prosper can currently handle is low. There are just a few out of the hundreds of loans that are on there at any one point in time that are "real" loans. The rest are floating other debt, fraud, loonies, business people inflating themselves and claiming to borrow to "re-invest" in other prosper loans.

It is a good idea at it's heart. I can see a community of people like the ones ont his board funding low-capital startups that way.
It's not a mistake. It's what kids call "accidentally-on-purpose". They knowingly used false data because it supported their position.
No need to do that, their linux client is open source IIRC.
Why incentives are irresistable, effective, and likely to backfire
Nice site. Have you considered incorporating any interaction with the site, such as a way to rate the cheat sheets or give comments? Also, it (might) be cool if there was the ability to create user/community driven cheat sheets that could be modified wiki-style or something.
Would it be possible for sites to impose a persona onto visitors, like http://www.getpersonas.com/ does when you mouseover certain areas?
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I'm involved in the creation of our eventual overlords.
Google is not going to de-censor search results in China

They already did.

http://images.google.cn/images?hl=zh-CN&resnum=0&q=t...
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uTorrent for OS X seems quite crippled, in terms of features, or at least it did when I last used it. I do get that it is still a work in progress. For now, I'm still using Azureus on my MBP.
sigh.. I know python is cool and all (and I know Jeff (progrium) somewhat), but being able to do development in the front-end and backend with the same language (javascript) makes things so much easier sometimes. I am by no means a python expert (I'm still learning), but the two languages just feel different, and I really really enjoy the prototypical/functional nature of javascript. Maybe python has this as well, and I'm just missing it? Anyway, node.js deserves all the hype it is getting.
It's not any different. It is hypocritical however, given that academia is premised upon 'academic freedom.' It's defense of tenure and the controversial statements of professors is based on the notion of academic freedom. Yet the same academic institutions turn around and severely restrict the means of their students to engage in free academic inquiry.

And, like the author of the article notes at the end, it is a civic-moral issue. Freedom is not an abstract concept, nor is it simply the absence of coercion. Freedom is a practice—a way of thinking about freedom that goes back to Tocqueville at the very least. Habituation is a very important part of the learning process, and if students are habituated into practices that are antithetical to a free society, we will be profoundly injuring the sustainability of our republic.

Simply because private institutions can restrict speech does not mean that they should.
The big deal being it kind of cements it up there in the household name bracket of the IT world.
Ask HN: Where to go to find free images/icons to use on my project?
Trying to improve my site and having a hard time with good and free images to use (icons for multiple actions, etc).

Where do you guys go when you need images?

*I would pay a designer, but at this stage, I need to save money..
Minors don't necessarily have the full array of rights that people of majority age have. Schools for a very long time operated in loco parentis -- essentially possessing the same ability to restrict a minor's actions as a parent would have. The doctrine of in loco parentis has been mostly dismantled since the 1960s, but not wholly.
The program that talks to their daemon is open source. The daemon itself is not.
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Thanks, well spotted.

I wonder how this is achieved? Perhaps there is an eBay account username and password that goes with the sale.
That's why I said their "client".
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Do news aggregation sites point to "safe" websites?
Referring to those with whom one should be having a discussion as opposition is one of the foremost reasons that we need karma to effect visibility in the first place.

"Freedom of speech" is not a guarantee that you can post some a comment on some web forum and have it be seen, its a guarantee that if you do, and it is, that your government won't punish you for it.
search for "graduate.asu.edu" in your database and public_html directory.

cd dir_my_website_installed
grep -R "graduate.asu.edu" *.*
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Most of the schools mentioned in the article are government schools: Purdue, Wisconsin, Cincinnatti, UConn, Texas A&M, Murray, Idaho, Delaware (probably more).

Also, most private schools get lots of money from the federal and state government.
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I don't understand... why does the turtle need to move at all?
really? it doesn't scale and is not amenable to online updates. unless... wait... are YOU being facetious?
What are you looking for? Just icons for actions? Check out http://webdesignledger.com/freebies/the-best-icon-sets-for-m.... I just pulled it off delicious, used some icons from it 10 minutes ago. If you're looking for images, try http://sxc.hu. Something else? What type of thing are you looking for?
Impossible.

It says the solution is to simply find VC's that are different... great they all say they're different.

Ok, let's assume we find 4 VC's that _are_ different, you go through the exact same process as always: first make a list of who you want as a VC and do a targeted campaign, then widen the list, then widen it again, then say screw it and just do a scatter-shot strategy where you... gasp... where you have to lie to them for all the reasons in the article.
My line is "I do Artificial Intelligence". To most people it sounds like rocket science. It also has some The Matrix/Terminator/I Robot flavor.
sounds a lot like the 'minimap', which I think was first used in the Sublime editor. There's an emacs version at http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/MiniMap that I haven't gotten around to trying yet, but keep meaning to.
I'm a little disappointed that the article suggests that the IO monad makes Haskell impure. While it is certainly true that unsafePerformIO violates purity(and type safety, as well), without it, IO is perfectly pure. It's just that if an IO a value happens to end up in main or something referenced from main, input and output happen. From the language's perspective, the IO monad functions could all be perfectly pure and have no relation to input or output(putStrLn could be a no-op, input functions could always return the same thing). It would be utterly useless for its intended purpose, but there would be no difference in terms of its purity.
I'm considering New Zealand.
Yes, apparently with wads of cash instead of something like, oh I don't know, rationale or expertise.
The conflict between what's good for individual businesses and the national economy sounds like the prisoner's dilemma.
If you have the tortoise and hare start at 1, but there is a loop going 2 -> 3 -> 2 -> ... then, without moving the tortoise, the hare will never find the tortoise or the end of the list.
http://lesswrong.com/lw/yv/markets_are_antiinductive/
The cycle might not include the head of the list. You need to keep moving the turtle until it is in the cycle. Otherwise the rabbit will enter the circle and keep running around and never see the turtle again.

Crude ASCII art version:

TURTLE-->--+--->--+
/ \
| RABBIT
\ /
+---<--+
I believe this a a duplicate of this post:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1068029
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My boss has a miniature scanner designed for business cards. It only accepts fairly small (business-card sized!) stock, but can scan both sides simultaneously and has some combined OCR/Management software which will try and extract the information and automatically populate the contact fields. It'll keep reasonably hi-res scans of the card around as well, in case you later find the OCR wasn't quite right.

I'm pretty sure it can integrate with other contact databases, or at least export to CSV or something similar.

I'm not sure if it's exactly the same company, but
http://www.cardscan.com/products/core_contact_mgmt/personal/... looks quite similar, but more recent hardware.

[No personal involvement/astroturfing, I was just impressed by how well it worked]
Well if you accept the physics of increasing CO2 in the air. Then you need to look at the chemistry of burning the gigantic quantities of mostly solid carbon in Coal C + O2 in the air => an even larger quantity of CO2 by volume in the air. Some basic math on the mass of Carbon released from Coal + Hydrocarbons (which mostly end up as CO2 and H20 after complete combustion) you find that tracks with the increase of CO2 in the air.

Like most complex scientific theories there are several steps of logic involved. And while a few groups agree on which specific steps break the chain a slightly larger but still small group of people can agree that it's broken.
Someone should make a widget you can attach to any existing piece of artwork that does this same thing. It could be a new model for artists to make money in general. iTunes for physical art.
Unfortunately many other ice sheets are not.
cf. tragedy of the commons.
You are not your iPhone. You are not your tweets. You are not your checkins. Quitting a service is not suicide in any meaningful respect.

Relatedly, the construction of identity around relationship to technology is one of the dangers of spending your time with the tech crowd. If you hang around the Valley all day and TechCrunch is your only source of news, you might get the impression that this stuff matters. At the end of the day, its still bits.
"I don't like being an ego broadcaster!" he shouted loudly from the nearest rooftop. A dozen people below looked up in bewilderment, shrugged, then continued about their day.

Also, you people (yes, I said "you people"), use the word "suicide" too lightly. I wonder what is prompting people to use extreme/heavy words to describe everyday casual situations. Is it pure ego and attention driven?
Bringing the matter to the public's attention is sufficient
in my opinion.
Google pulling out would only leave a vacant spaced filled
probably with another company more willing to be controlled.
So I would rather Google stay and keep taking it's lumps all
the while providing us with the feedback.
YouTube Music Discovery Project
Wasn't that posted earlier this month?
Would you rather own Yelp.com or Milo.com?
Prawn is pretty neat, but what I'd really like to see is HTML to PDF in pure Ruby. I had to use a Java library wrapped in a Ruby module to do this. Complicates my server configuration (needs the JVM) more than I'd like.
No they don't.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hazelwood_v._Kuhlmeier
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morse_v._Frederick

I consider these decisions disgusting, wrong, and anathema to the Constitution, but there you are.
There's also -require 'spreadsheet'- for generating .xls files on the fly:

http://spreadsheet.rubyforge.org/Spreadsheet.html
Newsflash: School Administrations Hotbeds of Misguided Authoritarianism
Fox News was very adroit at discovering an untapped niche media market: half the country.

There's a lesson there, politics aside. (cough Y chromosomes are not a pre-requisite for using software. cough)
The daemon is also a client. It talks to their server.
While I think the author was a bit heavy handed in his reaction (why not ask for better privacy tools or checkin a little more selectively?), the privacy + location services conversation is a pretty interesting one.

Understanding this sort of backlash is probably a pretty big deal to folks trying to build location into their applications.
There are many webservices out there (paid and free) that do this for you. You might want to consider that instead.
It's funny because all westerners are trying to unit test google.cn censorship using a keyword Chinese never use :)

I don't want to start a offtopic thread on HN, but just FYI:

1. Tian an men is with a lot of other meanings

2. The 'tianamnen massacre' known to the west has different names or referrals in China, the most common phrase is '1989 student movement'

3. The actual massacre didn't happen in Tiananmen, but in the city outer borders when the army are try to enter the city and encounters the road blocks setup by citizens and students.
Just because mainstream news sources won't function as a communication organ of your ideology doesn't mean they have a liberal bias.

How does the "Mainstream Media" tilt left when

1) Fox News is a member of the MSM. It's not an underdog either: it's an industry leader. The highest rated cable news network, by far, is Fox News, often beating MSNBC+CNN combined- unless there's a rare event like the recent earthquake, at which point CNN only slightly trails Fox.

2) The allegedly liberal New York Times and NPR refuse to use words like "torture" because, according to their editors, "torture" is too political of a word, and instead use the newspeakesque "Enhanced Interrogation Techniques".

3) The media's wholesale embrace of the Iraq war in 2002/2003/2004, before it became unquestionably a quagmire 2005. This was true for even the New York Times, which basically gave the Iraq War the Grey Lady's stamp of approval.

4) Most newspaper Op-Eds are conservative, even in local papers that have no national coverage.

5) The largest Newspaper in circulation ATM is the Wall Street Journal, another conservative paper owned by News Corp.

6) Advancement of the "Real American" narrative which states that those who do not appreciate people like Sarah Palin aren't "Real Americans". Coincidentally women and minorities don't like Sarah Palin, but I'm sure this was in no way a slight against those people but instead the invisible "elites" who apparently ruin everything for everyone ever in the realm of politics.

The fact of the matter is, most of this so-called "liberal" media are really just star-fuckers, who enjoy bootlicking those in power. Today, it's the Democrats, yesterday it was the Republicans.

Here's a good example of what I'm talking about:
"...everybody sort of likes the president, except for the real whack-jobs..." -- Chris Mathews, on Hardball, November 28th 2005.

From the same guy who gets tingly about Barack Obama.
Any details you can share? I may have a need of something similar.
I think you give Scala a disservice by saying there is no innovation in it. I have programmed in Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, C/C++, Java, C#, and even a tiny bit of Scheme and Clojure, but Scala is the first language I have seen to so successfully merge the ideas of OOP and functional programming. For instance, someone at EFPL did their PHD thesis on how to combine the features of functional pattern matching with the OOP concepts of encapsulation and information hiding, which you can read at http://biblion.epfl.ch/EPFL/theses/2007/3899/EPFL_TH3899.pdf.

Another example is their rich collections library, which contains mutable and persistent immutable versions of the standard data structures, and exposes them all through very clean OO abstractions. None of the above languages except maybe clojure even has such a rich collections library built into its standard library, and clojure's dynamic typing allows it to ignore some of the issues that come with designing a clean collections interface.

Of all the languages I have used extensively, Scala has the most functional features by far, and it is in this sense that Scala can claim to be a leader in helping functional features become more mainstream and make up new terms like "post-functional" :).
I've tried that one before and--no joke--the person got very excited, and started going on and on about aliens and life on Mars. I couldn't figure out why until I realized that he had mistaken AI for ET.
We use Prawn to generate GitHub's PDF receipts and FI invoices, it's a great library.
Why not? It might make you worth a little more as a human being, all other things kept equal. Wouldn't the perfect human have good skin?

Seriously though, the reason describing people as being "high quality" or "low quality" sounds jarring is because on a very fundamental level, it sounds like we're judging people, and judging people is taboo.
This page hasn't officially launched yet, but we're working on exposing trending repos: http://github.com/explore

edit: naturally, 5 minutes after I wrote this we decided to go live with it http://news.ycombinator.com/edit?id=1069047
By that same reasoning, China has a guarantee that it won't punish you for badmouthing their government...as long as it's done in the privacy of your own home.

I realize that freedom of speech in the US doesn't apply to private establishments, but I would expect HN to hold a higher standard than say a conservative Christian forum.

And keep in mind that one of PG's goals is to reduce the herd mentality.
You realize they were a sea-faring, international trading people for the last 800 years right? Forget the camel, and think dhow.

For every Westerner that gets this shitty treatment there are ten that go the Gulf, run up debt, abuse people's hospitality, and flee like cowards.
So did Batali with Po, Lupa, Esca, etc. Italian!

So did Colicchio with Craft.
Buy on rumor; sell on news.
Ask HN: Any help with ideas for the college science fair?
I've been reading HN for 2 years now and finally decided to hit the login button. I have one month to prepare for the science fair. I'm a bioinformatics major. Though, I'm not quite sure how to present a comp sci project in a science fair. (re: science fair project > dissertation)

Any links or ideas to get the creative juices flowing would be excellent. Most of the resources I found online were middle school or high school based.
Without Prawn I probably wouldn't have been able to do the web version of my software in an acceptable amount of time. It is amazing software -- far superior to every other way I have found to render PDFs, and I come from Enterprise Java where that is practically a religious calling.

Incidentally, although this use is quite off-label: Prawn exposes a very nice API for drawing arbitrary geometrical objects. ImageMagick/GraphicsMagick can convert PDF files to image files in your favorite format. This means you can use prawn to draw, e.g., an org chart for about a fiftieth of the pain it would take to draw it using graphics primitives in ImageMagick or what have you.

That reminds me -- I tried to throw money at the developers and they requested I send it to Heifer International. Somebody is getting a cow because I didn't have one writing my print jobs.
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I'm a little disappointed that the article suggests that the IO monad makes Haskell impure. While it is certainly true that unsafePerformIO violates purity..."

I think that above sentence could be translated to "I don't like that article X makes point Y. While the article is right and point Y is in fact true....".

I'm not a Haskell expert, by the way, but reading the article I felt it didn't demean the language in any way. Pure functional languages are really boring. They can't even print anything to the console!
It's disappointing that Firefox 3.6 only supports Ogg for their <video> tag, especially since Youtube and Vimeo have started beta testing their html5 players.
Criminal usage of sharing services is potentially an enormous problem. He got off lightly with realizing his disclosure risks only through stalking.

Using only a few services a criminal could potentially have access to personal information that would aid in guessing common security prompts (Facebook, etc), lists of purchases or photos of your possessions (Blippy, Facebook, Flickr, etc), and your physical location and/or travel plans (Twitter and numerous others).

I think the anonymity we perceive from the fact that our disclosure is not person to person is a cognitive misconception. Realistically, we are walking around and publicly saying these bits of information. Something about telling them to and receiving them from a computer does not make it seem that way though.
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People on HN and everywhere else are the ones that are spinning things in their own head.

I wrote the same thing you did the day the news broke out on HN. People thought that I was wrong, and that Google was going to withdraw voluntarily. They downvoted me to around -5 before some of the more rational people bounced it back up.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1050881
Their product just wasn't that good; end of story.

I think demographics played against them. A lot of the talk radio listener base is made up of blue collar workers, who tend to be conservative.

And let's not forget about Air America's biggest competitor: NPR.
"Constitutionally bound" is not the only form of "legally required." To give the example of race discrimination in admission, the Supreme Court has HELD certain public university practices to be illegal under the fourteenth amendment, but it has also opined that the same practices are illegal for private universities under the federal statutes related to nondiscrimination by entities that receive federal funding. Just about all universities in the United States receive federal funding through channels that trigger federal statutory regulation. And, as the submitted article itself pointed out, any state legislature can regulate a private university in its territory (and the example of California regulating Stanford, a private university, was prominent in the article).
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also, i should have mentioned it's only for android 2.01 and newer right now.
That's a terrible justification. I've never seen the site before today, but from reading the other comments it sounds like it wasn't just an insignificant interface change, as was generally the case with Facebook, but a dramatic change in the of the site.
For me, scala is too complicated.... now I am reading "programming clojure" and it is more fun so far
I don't think you're writing the same thing as I am now.

The WSJ gives a rather different message than Google originally did. I don't believe that's in the mind of HN.

I would like to know if the WSJ has any concrete information to justify this different message.

I read your original post and I disagree. Google was definitely saying they would take an action (refusing to censor their search results) which would probably result in their withdrawal from China. Whether they meant it or whether they would stick to that position is a different question. But you were wrong then about Google's statement and you're wrong now if you're still defending your previous claim.

The only thing I've read Google saying, all along, is "we don't want to leave but we'll probably be forced to leave". It's a bit subtle but it's the way every large corporation approaches kinds of situations.