skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is true, but I think it's a bit more complex than that. I can hardly imagine anyone proudly telling me in person, "I'm the 'mayor' of Joe's cafe!," yet they seem to revel in it online. There's something more interesting than just my feelings here.

Also: Suppose I don't feel that playing into everyone's inner narcissist for my profit is something I'd be proud of. Does that matter at all?
_Prenatal exposure to testosterone_, which is not exactly an obvious correlation.
If modifying OSX == installing software, then yes. There's a well-written FOSS bootloader for OSX, Psystar just forked it and preinstalled it.

It's not like they patched the bytes on the disk (but even if they had, that's really a right you should have, having bought the software).
[Ask HN]: Clojure - why the optimism?
What is the reason for Clojure creating this optimism within the lisp community?

Has it succeeded where other lisps have failed?

Or is it just the JVM that all the sudden makes it cool?

If other lisps never made it into mainstream, why would Clojure all the sudden nail it?
Shameless bit of self-promotion in the hope that it brings value to iPhone-wielding Hacker News readers like me.

Every Web browser has a find in page feature, both desktop and mobile, except for Safari on the iPhone. Not any more.
The question persists, and deserves serious attention. But I am confident that we won't end up killing ourselves.

If humans weren't at the cusp of intelligence, and still possessed all this technology, then I would be worried. However, we are on the verge of real intelligence. If evolution can be called a form of intelligence, then we are meta-intelligence.

It feels as natural as the path of a meandering stream that we've taken up the responsibilities of evolution. We will spawn a new intelligence. The singularity is near (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Singularity_Is_Near).

Granted, a scenario where a lot of humans humans die off is a real threat. A Malthusian catastrophe brings us down to one billion, perhaps.

Right now it feels like we're in high school, cramming for the final exam in an all-out one-nighter. I just don't think it is possible to fail the exam.
How does this help with trouble sleeping? It helps with trouble waking up.
This is a very interesting area. You're really lucky to have worked for a company busy in this field, that's golden knowledge and experience.

I think that there are a few factors that will eventually drive asynchronous designs to become the way forward.
Same here, I think their quick reaction will keep their earliest customers (and soon to be earliest critics) much happier.
Yes, some of them did screw up, the same way that early physicists screwed up. Quantitative finance, as we know it, is still a very young field. There are going to be hiccups along the way. Knowledge is not developed in a vacuum.

We had Archimedes looking at physics over 2000 years ago. It took until the late 17th century for Newton to develop the calculus, a tool that allowed us to really start advancing physics. Whether you want to start "quantitative finance" with Black and Scholes, Markowitz, or even Bachelier, we have had at most a little over 100 years of trying to pin this beast down. I think people fail to realize that.
You may find that talent much in demand in the years to come.
"He wants people calling a non-Google Voice number to get to his Google Voice voicemail. This is a feature that has to be provided by the network, because it needs to work when your phone is off."

There isn't a telephone "star" (*) code for setting this?
Make something and sell it
Well, the alternative view is that it's split by the Chesapeake Bay. It's a bit tough to tell whether it got Annapolis and the Bay Bridge, though.
Yes, I think it's unethical. First, the data belongs to me, and I'm allowing a specific site to use it -- not you. Even for sites that claim they own my data, it still doesn't give you any rights to it.

Further, it is likely a violation of the ToS of a site if you're doing that.
Most of Willamette is not very dense.
Here's a more ambitious vision of this idea published in 2000:

http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/lsz/papers/slpz-cacm00.pd...
Does it strike anyone else as petulant, childish, or vaguely illegal that he's prodding people to short their stock?

I can never take this guy seriously, even when I want to.
You're right - that's the one.
There's something called Smart Alarm Clock for Android (if you have a supported phone). I tried it as a way to judge if the idea had any merit, and it worked really well. Obviously it doesn't help with sleeping, just waking you up. But for the last week or so, I've woken up fresh every time, even when sleeping around 5 hours or so. Obviously, this works best if you get into a good sleep/wake cycle. There's something similar for the iPhone too, might be a good idea to do a trial run with a cheap app.
God I hope this doesn't end up like the Shadowrun Renraku D:
It won't be put in charge of any large buildings, don't worry.
But the MIT version using more state-of-art methods (MSER/SIFT hybrid local descriptor, ruby-like syntax etc.).
Very cool, but would have major limitations outside of the just making a "personal script" or, at best, a script for a heavily locked-down enterprise/academic setup.

Because it uses literal images, it seems like any change in OS theme, OS version, app version, localization (e.g. text or control shape), or colors (e.g. high contrast mode) would break the scripts.

It'd be neat to use for GUI automation during software development except for the fact that the GUI changes, the button wordings are tweaked, etc.

In all of these cases, back-end or OS GUI automation is probably better, but if you have an unchanging environment or want a quick on-the-fly test, the screenshot approach is novel and probably a bit cooler.
Beyond Passion: The Science of Loving What You Do
Perhaps, but then after spending two minutes Googling and finding out the network he chose didn't support a feature he wants, he could have just called and gotten an RMA. Lesson learned and only a little time/money wasted.

I fail to see how this is the fault of his phone being unlocked, Google, Android or even T-Mobile. No phone in the world would have done what he wanted with the plan he got. It's like saying buying a Google Nexus One unlocked is a terrible experience because there's no free weekend calling.
They're kind of rare, but I've seen very confident people on the dance floor who were simply awful. I mean really, really, embarrassingly bad. Trainwreck bad.

They were definitely in no way attractive. And you kind of wished they'd had no confidence at all. But there they were, like an atomic bomb going off in the middle of the dance floor, making Austin Powers look timid.
Keep all children far away!
Upvoted, but what the hackers and hobbyists was threatening was the entire viability of the calculators. Here's why.

TI's generally pretty friendly towards people tinkering with the calculators. But what they were doing was breaking the signing keys of the operating system, so a teacher has no idea what the hell's running on a student's calculator at test time. No one wants that, so that calculator becomes forbidden. (The TI92 had a keyboard, and when people realized how easy it was to copy questions off, it became forbidden the next year. Result: any high schooler had a $200 calculator useless for tests.) Enough calculators become forbidden, people lose trust in the brand, and then they stop buying the calculators, which brings the whole system down.

For $100, why tinker with a Z80 processor when you can get a SheevaPlug?
This is reasonable advice, but the most important thing is left unsaid: there is no such thing as privacy on the internet. Even if only your friends can see your photos and updates, there's nothing to stop them from taking them and making them public.

The only sound advice is this: if you're worried that what you're about to say might embarrass you if it were made public, leave it unsaid. If you are worried that the picture you're about to post would be problematic if a potential employer saw it, don't post it.

Articles like this give people a false sense of security.
Thx alot for turning that into link. I tried but it seems like I couldn't edit my post.
I noticed that response to an article varies predictably over time. The best time to submit an article to HN seems to be weekday mornings PST.
Any business relationship can be voided with a proportional amount of effort as it took to enter it.

If you don't want to be cut off so easily, you'll need to use a payment medium that's more difficult to acquire access to and involves fewer middlemen. There are only a handful of levels:

eCash Account (PayPal, Google Checkout, Amazon Payments)
Payment Gateway + Merchant Account (Authorize.net + Bank)
Be a big fish that can negotiate + interface directly with Visa, etc.
Be Visa / Mastercard (since their IPOs), PayPal, AmEx, etc.
Be a bank
how much will it cost to buy a solar-scale matrioshka brain?
will it improve one's sex life and\or social status?
My bad for missing that. Thx for the head up. Survey is updated.
This also comes from MIT, but from the media lab.

I think it's a more ambitious vision because it talks about programming by example systems, which automatically generalize from examples.

But Sikuli is very cool even if it's generalization is limited to ignoring minor differences in images.
Survey updated. Thx for pointing that out.

Are you happy with existing solutions on picture sharing with grandparents?
I feel like you should hand select your first 25-50 users, a user base that size will give you plenty of feedback.

Once you've done that, I suppose it's time to get more serious about acquiring users.
I think it is more like programming. The more you program,
the better you find what works and what doesn't, the better
your programming becomes.
More of a bug report than a feature request. When logging in with OpenID, it doesn't seem to like HTTPS urls. I tail my Apache access logs and see no requests...
There are a lot of interesting papers out there but, from what I've seen, HN voters tend to appreciate actual products and services a lot more than theory (and certainly don't appreciate PDFs). There's undoubtedly room for a more compsci/theoretically HN equivalent - unless such a thing exists (Reddit/compsci?)

Nonetheless, that's a cool paper and it's a shame it didn't make the front page first time round :-)
Yep, feedback would be the key for me.
Agreed. Especially when timings errors happen between different clocks in a deployed chip at different temperatures.
c.f. http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2005/03/the_failure_of...
The Magic of Time - The Last One Standing
The article doesn't cite a paper, so I can't check these criticisms out in detail, but:

- If the people rating the dancers were watching silhouettes, then they were evaluating the attractiveness of the dancers' body-shapes, too.

- If Lovatt is "entering uncharted territory", that might mean nobody is checking his work.

- I can't find any publications on Google Scholar authored by this guy for "Peter Lovatt", "Peter Lovatt Dance", or "Lovatt Dance". Bad sign.

Take this article with a grain of salt, it has several markers of pseudoscience.
The secret of learning how to partner dance:

http://www.unlikelysalsero.com/2007/08/magic-of-time-last-on...
My god, is that a real commercial or a parody? The look of sheer contempt on her face, as if she's about to throttle her soft, spineless husband...I'm speechless. Why would anyone want to be like either of those people?
Newspapers can be a very unreliable source of news. I haven't read one every day since January 1980 when 10,000 of us motorcyclists rode to Canberra to protest against the latest round of "four wheels good, two wheels bad" road rules. That trip got two paragraphs on page 3 in The Age. The following week, two busloads of pensioners went to Canberra and were front page news.
His designs are pretty neat, and his ideas pretty cool too. I'll have to look into it more! Thanks for the link :)
Johnny's Algorithms Homework
HTML 5 Beta Goes Live for Youtube
The JVM is actually what is keeping me from Clojure. A crazy reason, for sure, but Java has pretty much burnt all my fingers.
Yeah we've been 9 months in development and ~6 months in private beta, got a few dozen users who've really helped shape the direction of the system and turned it into something amazing.

It's really the "what happens next" bit that I'm not sure about.
do what you did here, but provide a link;)

Ideas:

1. put beta in your logo and make submit feedback forms as prominent as possible without being annoying

2. maybe include a countdown in days until official launch on the site. reinforce in peoples minds that they will want to come back later or keep an eye on the site.

3. Since you want it to be a 'beta launch', just launch it now. Start pulling users in, they will be able to help you make a bigger media bomb for when you decide to 'launch launch'. hit up all the aggregators and even if you dont get a big impact you can hit them all up again when you decide its no longer beta with a 'launch' story
Slime mold grows network just like Tokyo rail system
For mine I just asked on the relevant subreddits to come check it out and give feedback. Got my first 100 users that way. + they helped me design the site: http://styleguidance.com

As far as bloggers, unless you invented Google(or worked there) or have millions in funding, it's probably not worth bothering since you won't get much coverage(from the bigger sites). And the type you'll get will most likely get you a few hundred visitors. i.e. a 50,000/mo blog, sent me 5 people.

And the traffic you get from doing a "launch" is usually garbage anyways. And will evaporate within a few days. Unless of course your core users are entrepeneurs who read tech blogs. Then you might have some luck.

Basically a launch doesn't really get you anywhere, you should see "launch" days, as a way for you to declare for yourself that you are open for business. So that you can get serious about marketing.

i.e. for my launch date, we got 5 stories, and a total of 668 visits. That was November 18th, and last month we had 35K visits, Page Rank 5, Sub 100K Alexa Rank, Sub 20K U.S. Alexa Rank, 2K questions(content), 1550 twitter followers, 960 Facebook Fans.

So don't worry about planning for a spectacular launch, just do it, and then get to work.
Is there an organization who is carrying out the necessary task of establishing off-world colonies for humanity?

If so, what is the website and how can individuals help?

It is one thing to posit a need, but quite another to do it.
http://www.ted.com/ has some great lectures
http://academicearth.org/ has videos of university courses
This. It's different enough that it could have been successful as an entirely separate venture.
They're definitely getting nastier. Last week we had our first client system that required a format-and-reinstall. Fortunately, this was a relatively new machine and the client didn't care about any of the data on it. (We have a strict "format-and-reinstall as a last resort only" policy on our flat-rate infected machine cleanups.)

If you can still get the machine to boot, I've had very good luck with ComboFix. (Make sure you get it from bleepingcomputer.com [1], not combofix.org, which is an unauthorized re-distribution.)

Most of the rootkits I'm seeing still aren't working directly on existing system files, a la the computer viruses of old. Instead, they're modifying ini files and then installing some cleverly hidden files in system directories. So, you can use tools like RootKit Revealer [2] to sniff them out. Actually removing any hidden files or hidden registry keys may require some expertise and serious effort -- we have a dedicated diagnostic system set up that we use to handle some of these things, with the drive removed from the client computer.

[1]: http://download.bleepingcomputer.com/sUBs/ComboFix.exe

[2]: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb897445.asp...
Some decent points, but if you require authentication for all transactions the man in the middle attack / trojan won't work. For every transfer have a SMS or phone call triggered to the customer--"We have received a request to transfer $x to Y, to authenticate please press 1." It may get annoying for every transaction, so it could only come into play for transactions to parties that you haven't dealt with in the last X days.
I think you should ask yourself if you really need funding in the first place.
Rani Mukherjee on Good HouseKeeping Magazine
Rani Mukherjee graces the coverpage of Good housekeeping Magazine for the month of January 2010 issue and she looks lovely in the making of the coverpage. Rani Mukheerjee has seems to be disappeared from the Bollywood and we have no idea where is she now and what is she planning for and also she has no upcoming release. What going on in her mind ?
Clearly Sikuli has flaws, but for a research project, their presentation and execution is impressive. Their efforts should be commended. Hopefully they'll continue enhancing their scripting environment so that the scripts are robust to significant variation in the GUI.
Cool, there are a few things I've been wondering about for a while now.

Is it possible to make practical async logic on ordinary FPGAs? I've seen some very conservatively-designed async stuff that ran on an Altera FPGA, but I remember hearing that it was kind of flaky. (It was a Java-to-hardware synthesis program -- there's a remarkably direct mapping between the usual program structures like loops, if statements, etc., and hardware if you're willing to use a naive design.)

What are the prospects for putting asynchronous IP cores into a system-on-chip with mostly clocked parts?

What kind of async logic style do you usually use in practice? Dual-rail quasi-delay-insensitive, or bundled data with matched delays, or something so exotic that I've yet to hear of it?

I've heard some people speculating about how async circuits can be used to make fault-tolerant logic. For example, if you're using dual-rail coding, then a single bit flip is going to be detectable as a fault, and you can trigger some self-checking-and-repair logic without breaking your timing assumptions. How important/plausible would you say this is?
>In general, I mean. Not everyone seems to have this impulse to boss people around, but it does seem to be very common, and it seems like a majority of people have it to some degree, some more than others.

Then the problem appears to be related to the problem of carseats:
http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/steven_levitt_on_child_car...

What else can we unify with this?
one thing i really like about lisp/lua presumably erlang and many others. is how trivial it is to send a function down a socket e.g. how functions/bytecode is just a datatype. makes distributed/parallel/async processing so much easier to build.

guessing you cant do this with a compile to C style implementation.
Here are two more ways of accessing the interview:

http://usesthis.com/feed/ (then scroll down)

http://viewsourcecode.org/why/#7 (_why's Estate mirror)
Physical objects that are handmade or manufactured have the advantage of not being easily reproducible. Rights management is easy in the physical world; I own an object if I posses it. The object can only be in one place at a time, because it is unique.

Digital goods are inherently more difficult to sell because it is so cheap to copy and distribute them. "Information wants to be free" has a kernel of truth in it; "free" is the most natural state for information. It can be copied easy, quickly, and cheaply.

DRM technologies feel draconian, but probably only because they restrict legitimate fair-use in addition to protecting information from unauthorized distribution. Ultimately, I think more DRM is going to be necessary to protect IP. Fairly soon, all IP is probably going to be distributed online (books, music, movies, etc). If piracy isn't kept to a minimum, it will eventually cannibalize the IP market.
This feels like a lot of my class projects: fascinating idea, some good work on it, and then "we ran out of time, here's a pretty web page and a report". Ah, memories. :-)

I've really enjoyed asynchronous design. Did you know that it's possible to make an async n-bit adder that works in O(lg lg n) average time? Or that you can make a low-power CPU that does all its operations one bit at a time, and just stops sending bits when it comes to the leading zeros? It's fun stuff.

(My only contribution to the world of async design was a smaller dual-rail completion detector. It was pretty sweet, and I'm eternally proud of it.)
I don't know if I agree with every point in the author's list
but it's a good start at listing attributes that differentiates between one site and the next.
Google: There is Potential to Make the Mobile Web Better than the PC Web
I'm a little amused by this exchange, since ideologically I'm probably somewhere between the two of you. There was indeed a wholesale slaughter and mistreatment of the native populations in America during the 1800s, and by today's standards, much of it would be considered unconscionable.

But mostly, I'm interested in the facts of history, so I should point out that the "illegal" Mexicans are "discovering" land which used to be theirs in the first place. The current United States western and southwestern were already occupied by Mexico, up until the Mexican-American War, which ended with the United States forcibly buying the land from Mexico for a rather cheap sum.

It's also worth pointing out that the United States government probably already had an inkling of the natural value of California; the great California gold rush began less than a year later, and had that territory still been occupied by Mexico, it would have dramatically changed the balance of power in the Americas.
There is (and in fact that's exactly the mechanism Google Voice is using), but it's not supported on the per-month accounts, apparently. You can only make it work if you have a standard account, which requires a two-year contract.
The brotherhood of humankind is more than just a metaphor--it's a reality.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Most_recent_common_ancestor
Call me a conspiracy theorist if you like, but one of the most efficient ways to "behead the beast" (so to speak) when an organization is doing uncool things, is to cut off their ability to make money.

Wikileaks is set up to expose stuff that makes other organizations uncomfortable. Make Wikileaks disappear and those organizations feel comfortable again.

It's not hard to file a bunch of complaints with PayPal and have someone's account suspended.
Running one site is hard enough, you would lose a lot of focus running two.
The people have their information online for people to contact them. If you want to scrape the data and contact some of them then that's fine, as long as the email you send to each individual is personal and relevant.

Doing anything else with the data is unethical, because that's not what they've signed up for.
Those men who made big moves but who were less coordinated came across as dominant alpha males -- and were unlikely to win women's hearts.

...

He wasn't even able to read until he was 23

This should be in the WTF subreddit.
That is a crazy statement! I can understand not liking Java (same boat here), but the JVM and Java are two completely distinct things!

Languages like JRuby and Clojure, which are fantastic languages, have near zero to do with Java. In fact, you can do most everything you want to do and NEVER touch java code. You can, however, access the Java libraries if you so choose (hence the power of working within the JVM).

Not liking Java should never be thought of as not liking the JVM.
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