skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hmm. Reading the descriptions of FriendlyRank + MyBestFace, I'm not sure they are in any way the same thing. OKCupid's product uses their own data to evaluate profile pictures. FriendlyRank explicitly asks users (which users? does FriendlyRank have a user base?) to rate photos.

This is a big difference. If the purpose is to rate photos based on their effectiveness in a social networking environment, I'd much rather use implicit social network data rather than deal with low response rate & terribly biased data from explicit surveys.

In short, OKCupid seems to have a much better source of data to achieve the goals common to both FriendlyRank + MyBestFace.
I've seen their diagnostic modes plenty of times, and they don't look like that. I've seen them on iPods and on my laptop, but they don't have a shiny background on them that's totally outside their design aesthetic. That's what doesn't look right.
Again...that's also a generalization. No one ever said you can only learn the above in an MBA program. But given life's vagaries, it gives you a crash course. By the way, everything in the post are the ancillary things learned while learning how to learn.
Sounds eerily familiar.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1337644
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That kind of CPU usage in HTML5/JS games is common, even on higher end systems.
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Funny how we make different associations when watching movies.

I watched this movie and thought about BCI, computer vision and marvel comics.

A lawyer takes a look at it and sees patents, laws and court.
I didn't even pay attention to the part where Peppers was talking on the phone about patents. To me, it was just some business blabla needed for the scene to make her look busy.

However, I did pay close attention to how he manipulated his 3D, his home interface, the jargon used, the software (no comments) etc.

Just interesting.
Unless I'm misunderstanding, we offer private repos at GitHub. http://github.com/plans
Very informative link. Thank you.
Someone should post a similar letter, but swap out OkCupid & FriendlyRank with Microsoft & Apple. Or... gosh... so many examples, so little time to list them all...
Indeed. But what bumper sticker am I gonna have that I don't mind the 3.5 million people in my city's vicinity potentially seeing but I'm worried about somebody on the other side of the world seeing? I'm sure some such items can be hypothesized (though I'd still ask the person why they're putting a bumper sticker on in the first place if there's anybody they don't want seeing it), but my point is that in practice this just doesn't concern most people and it's hard for me to see why it should.

edit: I think there's perhaps a distinction here between things like personal profile information (one might not one's psycho ex to see their phone number or even wall posts, while not minding sharing them with friends) and things like fan page liking. The former certainly needs privacy controls, and they should be clearer than they currently are; the latter is hard for me to get upset about, and I think it dilutes the message of privacy advocates to mention it.
Not for free though -- and bitbucket only has one private repo for free.
Yeah, but unfortunately intelligence doesn't seem to correlate one way or another with happiness. Also conversely some 'religions' (zen buddhism) see logical thinking as a barrier to insight (leading to happiness). I remember reading before about the trouble some westerners have when going on an Ayahuasca 'trip' where the native guy was saying that the root cause is that for a lot of westerners their primary concern is whether they are the smartest guys in the room, so they can't let go and experience something they weren't 'clever' enough to predict etc.
Woe to the author who fails to provide content in the exact format you require.
At the level that the intention is to let you use facebook safely, yes. My feeling is that it would be far easier to convince us scared geeks to install a privacy app that helps our friends and family (with little effort on our part) than to get the unwashed masses to do anything about privacy violations.
Good show mate. I was using cyberduck for something just like this usecase and was getting annoyed at how many clicks it took to upload a couple files many times and thinking to myself I should fork it and add in my usecase to cyberduck. I will be watching this.
I've been thinking about building something like this for years, I have just never had the bandwidth to get around to it. Thank you for doing it for me!
I'm not totally surprised about Ruby becoming less important - more people are moving to iPhone/iPad development and existing infrastructures (i.e. PHP) are staying static.
Blueprin CSS framework does a good job of this.
Not news, nothing to do with hacking.
Jupiter's atmosphere is really complex, probably more so than the Earth's due to its internal heat, high spin rate and lack of surface. I'm not sure we should look there for clues about the changes in the Sun. Probably much easier to just measure the solar output.
since the Linux kernel most definitely is C.

how many people do you know who write kernel (or other low-level OS code)? i think there are now more and more devs writing apps than systems code, which means a rise in the use of higher-level languages (just my wild speculation)
Making your code open source is also a great way to make sure your code is easy to understand.
No, the question is, in a sufficiently complex system, can or should you boil everything down to sentence-sized absolutes?

I'm positing that if you do that, you're going to be wrong. Unregulated markets are the right way to go for 95% of goods and services, like toilet paper, peanut butter and roadside diners. But not for 100%.

You agree with this, unless you're in favor of disbanding the military and hiring personal bodyguards, selling off the highway system to toll roads, allowing your neighbor to build a coal-fired power plant within 6 inches of your property and opposing net neutrality because the market will work things out.

Don't turn your brain off just because it's comfortable -- examine situations with a fresh mind. Follow the incentives -- market failure is a real phenomenon.
Perhaps the paths to resources would change based on a new key you generate and distribute to your remaining 199 friends.
Let me help you out with a 3 step plan.

1. Cry.
2. Learn.
3. Move on.
If you were sold a house, wouldn't you (the owner, after all) have the ability and full freedom to: replace/reconfigure walls, plumbing, electrical, etc. When you own a car, aren't you free to replace parts (i.e. 'soup' or 'pimp' it up)? Why should people see it that only law enforcement or 'evil' people (and of course the holy @ Apple) should have similar, corresponding freedoms with _our_ property??

We see this, and act like we're witnessing a crime. Should be more the same level of guilt as watching "This Old House" on PBS.
I think it would be better still to, when seeking forward, have it examine a couple of records, then start jumping forward in powers of 2 until it has located an interval with the next value in it, which it then does a binary search on to find the right location.

This is at most a factor of 2 less efficient than a binary search, it is fast when the sequential reads are fast, and it doesn't rely on statistics telling the whole story. (For instance the size discrepancy could be explained by a small number of large gaps. This strategy would quickly jump the gaps while still getting fast sequential read behavior elsewhere.)
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If you use the Facebook condom, as it were, and as a part of that it synchronizes your data with some open source format, then you get safety and privacy, you move your data to an open format, and friends get transparency. Good for all, no?
There's just so many times you can direct people to http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html without losing your sanity. I spent several years trying to help people on a specific topic and eventually gave up because the stream of people who haven't put their brain to use before asking was reaching 90%. And that's on a niche topic, I don't even want to know how much more noise common topics get, and I have great respect for people like Heathfield for not giving up.
Very nice app, nrj!

Windows users can use WinSCP for similar functionality:

http://tinyapps.org/blog/windows/200710220700_send_to_sftp.h...
You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink, I guess.
Writing the OS in C doesn't mean that the main apis are in C. That's the point. I can't compile my favorite language on android and easily access the main android apis like I always could in the past.

He specifically mentioned the difficulty with things like erland, couchdb, and firefox.
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If we presume that any algorithmic, procedural, or structural system built by one party can be reverse-engineered and understood by another party, the concept of Optimization by Proxy, and the more general Goodhart's law, form a pretty compelling argument against designing optimized systems as solutions to problems in general.

Maybe in some cases keeping a system convoluted and inconsistent can actually help ensure stability and durability?
Frankly it's an obvious idea. I storyboarded up a dating site concept last year and came up with the same thing.

People already use sites like hotornot for precisely this purpose. I'd be surprised if there aren't already half a dozen sites out there doing exactly this. Googling for "rate my photo" brings up an easy handful, I'm sure more than a few have a rank your photos functionality.
While I can agree that jumping through hoops to meet regulations sucks, the cost of failure and the potential for unintended consequences justifies the high market entry costs. To be fair, the FDA is constantly making decisions (with regards to approval) that ethicists have struggled with for millenia. Furthermore, its not readily apparent what constitutes an effective drug in many cases due to the placebo effect.

For an example of the FDA's good work, if you have the chance, take a look at the FDA's 483 for the McNeil plant that recently got shut down (the children's Tylenol, Benadryl, etc. recall). Its kind of horrifying: http://www.fda.gov/downloads/AboutFDA/CentersOffices/ORA/ORA...

Perhaps a more relevant example would be the case of United States v. Caputo (7th Cir. 2008). Caputo had gotten clearance to sell a small sterilizer of surgical equipment without tubes or hinges. His customers, being satisfied with that equipment, requested a larger sterilizer instrument that could sterilize equipment with tubes or hinges. Caputo, meaning well, and believing that the changes between the two equipments were trivial (as it would seem at first glance) produced what his customers requested and sold and marketed it. Turns out that one of the opthalmic instruments being sterilized had brass joints that reacted to the peracetic acid being used to sterilize. It resulted in numerous people being blinded. Of course, he later failed to report the cases of blindness to the FDA, which resulted in further problems. But I still believe that the point can be made that the possibility for unintended consequences and the high costs of mistakes justifies the high barrier to entry that the FDA imposes.

In the case of the snake antivenin, its a long process to produce antivenin in general. Its made by injecting a sheep or horse (older antivenins used horses, newer ones tend to use sheep) with the venom and then gathering and purifying the antivenin that the sheep or horse produces in response (Animal rights groups have historically protested in locations where antivenin is made). Hopefully the government or some public interest organization will fund further production of the antivenin, its unfortunate that antivenin is not more durable.
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Be sure to "Check for Updates" in the "OneWay" menu. Amazon S3, and SCP will be coming soon.
Not going to happen. That would entirely destroy Apple's profits on it. Not to mention that even if it were unlocked it would only have 3G on AT&T's network, and wouldn't run at all on Verizon, so that's somewhat pointless.
Both could be wrong
Dutch dating site paiq.nl (aka nextlover.nl) has had a similar feature for years. It's not a particularly novel idea.
I'm participating in a socialist enterprise by taking the subway. The cab would be capitalist.

To some people, that is what matters when making the choice. To me, the $2.25 subway beats the $30 cab ride.
FWIW, the idea is obvious, and I actually made a journal post on okcupid about doing this on my own profile (uploading a bunch of pictures to hotornot.com, taking the highest rated couple to post onto okcupid) in January of 2008.
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Where's the fun in what they're building? No one wants a "privacy app." People want stuff that makes their mundane lives a little more enjoyable.
I pasted your script into Eclipse (new JS source file), Source -> Format to make it readable. Then I took the big array that's assigned to _0x82af , pasted it into Firebug, bam, normalized strings. After that it was just plain find/replace. The first few lines came from the part before eval(.
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Yea, I have been thinking about how to do this right. It would be easy to allow a user to optionally add a "Public Base URL" for a bookmark that you upload to, but like you said, that would really only work if you are uploading 1 file.

Definitely open to suggestions on this one.
Sass has plugins that cover most of the CSS "frameworks" but to my knowledge doesn't have a lot of fully developed themes. The advantage to using a preprocessor is that you can apply the built in styles to the classes/ids of your choice instead of having to use the same ones the css framework uses.
Talk about linkbait and stirring up controversy.

How does this explain the existence of stupid atheists then?

I don't think there is much substance to this, the only thing that I've noticed (and I'm atheist, so this could already be biased) is that the people that I know that are religious that are more open minded and willing to discuss stuff are the ones that appear smart.

Closed mindedness, unfortunately is not the sole province of religious people though, and closed mindedness and a lack of intelligence go together fairly frequently but even that is not a hard rules.
Iota, now there's a name!
The main difference between Chrome's model and IE's model is that Chrome enforces restrictions itself, whereas the operating system enforces the restrictions for IE. I think IE's model works pretty well for Vista and later Windows systems. Chrome's model works for Windows XP and it also might be better for other operating systems.
Nice effects! Though the red X icon looked like a delete button to me, making me think: can I delete & remove this form field?
"Astronomers have released photos of a massive star that they say was kicked out of its home about 180,000 miles from Earth."

Surely they mean light-years, but I was reading this while eating my lunch and choked.
whoosh.
Though it means adding a bit more code to each page, YUI has this Base CSS component that is meant to rebuild some of the native formatting Reset CSS removes:
http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/base/
I believe the word they're looking for is called "competing" not stealing.

They had nothing to license. They didn't have rights on any particular technology, and they certainly didn't have rights to all "ways to pick a good profile picture."

Even if this site does file a patent and get it, they likely STILL won't have the resources to then extract a licensing fee from anyone, as it isn't even clearly the same idea.
{
"error": {
"type": "OAuthException",
"message": "Error processing access token."
}
}

Is that what everybody else sees?
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Delphi is #9?!? This does not make sense to me. And Go is #15? Are people actually using Go? This seems a little implausible.
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Nice, I did not think of that perspective! Thanks.
This seems to be quiet common when mainstream media reports astronomy stories.
However, that doesn't mean people won't end up using both. Free software types will gravitate to something like Diaspora and so will their community friends. You may not get every community off of facebook, but you may get a few.

I can see political communities moving to Diaspora, I can see technical communities gravitating/dual use with twitter... No, it will probably never be as big as either, but that doesn't mean it won't fill a niche.
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"99% of all ________" is an idiom. I'm sure your nitpick is factually correct in the small. I doubt we'll ever get infant mortality down that low. However, you do get the "Comic book guy" award for picking apart an argument on a completely inconsequential detail.

However, the point is MOST EVERYONE dies from something that's a result of getting older, and they'll benefit from age related research.

Most cancers even can't actually progress until older ages, as younger peoples' immune systems are so much better they typically fight off the disease.

Here's a pretty good TED talk on it.
http://www.ted.com/talks/aubrey_de_grey_says_we_can_avoid_ag...
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ATTEMPT NO LANDING
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USE THEM TOGETHER
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Please don't bring that politicized stuff into the discussion. That's a different flame war entirely.

If Jupiter is warming/cooling or Mars is warming/cooling, then something has to be responsible for it, and it sure isn't human activity.

If not the sun, then what? Something about planetary environments we're likely interested in learning more about, right?
"In the film, Pepper Potts, played by Gwyneth Paltrow, demands action from "patent attorneys," but Stark Industries obviously hadn't patented the technology, or else the government would already have access to the information needed to reproduce the armor."

When was the last time anyone here read a patent and thought "now I have all I need to implement"?
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I'd argue CSS took hold early: it was in an era where you needed a lot of hard-to-maintain hacks to get it to work in all browsers. Today as in the past, many people get CSS layouts just usable in IE 6, while they look as intended in standards-compliant browsers. If you want a site to look pixel-perfect in all browsers, it's still not pragmatic to use CSS rather than tables (or Flash). What's changed are the constraints: more people started using browsers that weren't IE 6, all the other browsers became more consistent with each other (or use the same rendering engine, Webkit), and clients have become more OK with websites looking different in different browsers as they've become more used to the way the web actually works.

But this will eventually boil down to a difference in opinion, and I agree with your point that it would be better for everyone if more people were quick to adopt technologies that are better in the long-run.
The content produced by Demand Media is still spam, all the more effective as spam to the extent that it approximates thoughtful but obscure content.

The problem is that "indistinguishable" does not mean "identical". The Optimization-by-Proxy concept also applies to the way we recognize useful content and distinguish it from spam: if spam-creators exploit the gap between our perception of content and the actual quality of the content, they will ultimately create spam that fools even savvy users, and we will be influenced by it without even realizing it.

One of the characters in Neal Stephenson's "Anathem" described this phenomenon, occurring on his world's equivalent of the internet: sophisticated AI had led to spam (or "crap" as he called it) which was created by taking perfectly valid, reasonable ideas, combining them with falsehoods or biased information expressed clearly and reasonably, and releasing it in the form of real, substantive communications between users. A great deal of time and energy had to go into sorting "crap" from valid information.
There's a little lock button under the status box that lets you set your privacy settings for each post. They should expand it to put the actual label of your privacy setting on the button, so people would see "Everyone" on the button when talking about their rectal surgery. I honestly think most people don't mind posting their thoughts for everyone to see (cf. Twitter), but there is definitely a minority that is doing so accidentally, and that's easy to fix.
This is ameliorated by commodity nature of os software: Backup to your pc, or to a provider like mozy, or to a friend's node as the other response mentions. Encrypt your backups while you're at it. This system gives you the availability of saas combined with the "this is my f%^king data" feeling you get when you carry everything around a thumbdrive.
That's what I see.
I think the access tokens expire after a while.

EDIT: Apparently the access token isn't necessary, but it can break things if it's there. The URL of this submission should be changed to omit the access token parameter. If that still doesn't work, the instructions below will give you a URL with a Facebook-generated access token that will eventually expire as well.

1) Go here: http://developers.facebook.com/docs/api#search

2) Click on the link to search all public posts for "watermelon".

3) Alter the URL to say "rectal surgery" instead of "watermelon".
His access token has likely temporarily or permanently expired from either [overuse in too short a time period] or [they expire after a set time period]. Before it showed the latest public posts by all people on facebook which included the words "rectal surgery"
Classic 2008.
Xyzzy (& Erik Naggum)
Asked for the woman who wrote about Erik Naggum in a submission yesterday for pictures of Xyzzy, here they are.
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Nobody's complaining about the existence of public status updates - that's all twitter is. People are complaining about the subtlety of it and the general lack of knowledge about it.
A bit offtopic, but... using a Magic: The Gathering game card image for the article? (Kithkin Rabble) (see http://gatherer.wizards.com/pages/card/Details.aspx?multiver... ) (and yes, I do play too much M:TG). I hope it's OK by the image owners (Wizards of the Coast). Some of the guys here sell stock images for a living, and they wouldn't like people using images without permission.
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