skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We went for the "own half-baked media handling layer". liboggplay is no longer used in Firefox trunk btw.
Sometimes it's good to pick people who are experts in related fields but with no direct knowledge of the issue -- it's a source of unbiased ideas that can be valuable. My impression is that that's the whole idea behind this JASON team, to bring together people from various fields of science who all bring their particular viewpoint to a problem. It's the whole idea behind the word "interdisciplinary"...
Sounds like you need to hire more web designers/developers. Contact me at mediarosh@gmail.com
Will Webfonts open up new design opportunities?
Traditionally fonts on websites, especially for headings and article text, have been strictly limited to options like Arial, Verdana and Times New Roman. Overnight, Google announced its new Webfonts toolkit, which makes it easier than ever to include a whole variety of fonts within websites, in a way that is compatible with browsers as old as Internet Explorer 6.
"It’s a sad reality but sometimes you can’t pick the best technical solutions."

But you can always pick a better employer.
You hardwire a specific URL query string into your browser search bar. Here are the params: http://duckduckgo.com/params.html
So when can I d/l a GPL music generator so I can generate billions of hours of music in the background.
hey nice website with very good collection!
If you're developing with .NET, you are best off using the whole Microsoft stack. The vertical consolidation and tight integration is the benefit you get for the high costs.

If you mix .NET code with significant OSS components (i.e. databases), you will incur a lot of extra setup work and hassle. There is less of a community and therefore you'll have to figure more stuff out on your own. If you're a .NET programmer for life, then this is great experience for you.

One of the traits of a good CTO is to access the community around a mix of technologies (i.e. C#/Sql Server, C#/MongoDb, or Ruby/MongoDb). If there's a good community around your technology stack, that'll streamline development a lot more. Things will just work. Many people will have already solved the problems you're bound to have.
I certainly don't have any good answers (does anyone? This is probably an intensely difficult area to quantify/qualify) but here is a decent article discussing women (edit) in IT, put forth by the National Center for Women and Information Technology:

http://anitaborg.org/files/abi_wherearethewomen.pdf

Section 8 addresses some of the issues of why the declining numbers of women in computer science may matter.
Turn Off The Premature Optimization
Excellent - authenticjobs is new to me and I'll give all three a try - thanks for the info -
Poll: Are you applying to SIAI fellowship?
http://lesswrong.com/lw/29c/be_a_visiting_fellow_at_the_singularity_institute/

This was recently featured in another post. On a whim, I've decided to apply. A similar whim brought me to apply to startup school, which changed my whole way of thinking.
No, but it's interesting
No, they're insane
Nice - landing page is a bit vague though - but will give it a try, thanks for the info -
That embeds the IP in the process and could theoretically be reverse-engineered.
Actually, I let two guys go at my current company exactly because they picked Microsoft technologies. And I've repeatedly begged the CEO to bring the old CTO back so I can fire him as well.
Football Match Fixing
I guess that's some proof that you have to die first before you are appreciated fully.

I'm sure grateful for all the works that 'mediocre' composer left for us to enjoy.
clicky http://lesswrong.com/lw/29c/be_a_visiting_fellow_at_the_sing...
How is this different from Site-Specific Browsers like Fluid?
http://www.fluidapp.com/
Since the parent's post has gotten a few downvotes, I think he meant "you're so good you may want to think about breaking out of our small pond", not "we don't want you in our small pond."
Offtopic: Why was kjhgfghjk's joke (this comment's sibling) killed?

It's funny, since the scan of the article is very 'noisy' and a Kalman filter is a possible solution to help clean it up (probably not the best, but still ...)
There is something very wrong with your setup. It should boot within +- 20% of the time taken by Linux on the same hardware.
Maybe. In some ways, I'm very proud to have as done as well as I have without school... in other ways I feel like a dumb hick around my co-workers. Hell, even half the people who work for me now went to school. So yeah, there is maybe some, ah, feelings of social inadequacy there, but I don't think that entirely invalidates my point.

Oh man, speaking of coming off like a hick, yesterday I took my new intern out to the co-lo (the last few days have been a flurry of hardware work) As usual, I stopped off at the local, excellent BBQ place (Sams BBQ; pretty close to my co-lo in San Jose) It was bluegrass night (I hadn't remembered this)

He commented "Wow, this is.... authentic" - I don't know if he thought I was going to tell him he had a 'purdy mouth' or what, but he was obviously pretty uncomfortable. He ended up getting his chicken sandwich 'to go'

The whole day probably wasn't going well for him. he wants to do software stuff, but circumstances dictated that hardware was the order of the day, so he got to follow me around in noisy environments while I tracked down obscure parts.
I couldn't agree more. I thought this article read like a horoscope.
The core problems with singularity hypothesis makes the whole issue moot.

A) An infinitely intelligent machine is not capable of breaking the laws of physics so they don't get god like powers.

B) Intelligence and creativity are always bound by insanity. (You can always over fit any data set.)

C) Sensors limit the acquisition of new information. (You can deduce the existence of quarks from looking at a web cam pointed at a brick.)

D) While processing power has grown exponentially the cost of fabricating that technology has continued to increase faster than world GDP.
You appear to have misunderstood a part of the article. A free-electron laser forces electrons into a sinusoidal path in order to generate laser light, but the generated light is no more sinusoidal than any other laser light.
It's not a limitation of the format -- you can make a MIDI of a live performance and get those imperfections.

It just doesn't make sense, as you mention, because it's not producing a performance, it's producing the underlying composition.
"Investors in 99designs include the founders of the successful online media and publishing company SitePoint, namely Mark Harbottle and Matt Mickiewicz, along with internet pioneer and entrepreneur Leni Mayo, and MelbourneIT Non-Executive Director and previous CEO of Hitwise, Andrew Walsh."
"But look when it was filed. November 27, 1995."

15 years is far too long a life for a software patent.
Dan Simon's 2001 article is just as good, if not better IMO.
http://web.cecs.pdx.edu/~greenwd/kalman_overview.pdf
I wish I could find a good source. Basically I heard it from people like these (http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?threadid=198241), but I don't know for sure they're not just echoing what they heard (like I just did). There was one guy I remember reading, who seemed pretty authoritative, who echoed it, but I can't find a link to him.
Not enough details available on how it works. Would rather build my own at this point. Plus the way this is billed oversimplifies the whole model design process.

Sorry to sound so negative, but I just earned a PhD in Machine Learning. How would you feel if you were replaced by an API? :-(
Tip: highlight the nasty text: the PDF was done with OCR, so the text is magically cleaned up using "select".
> There are any number of threats to our species far more urgent and reality-based than xenocide by a weakly godlike post-singularity AI.

Is this belief based on your familiarity with and assessment of the best(1) arguments(2) for and against Singularity/AI risk? If not, then what? Do you think the idea is absurd enough to confidently dismiss without engaging, and if so, why?

(1) http://lesswrong.com/lw/lw/reversed_stupidity_is_not_intelli...

(2) e.g. http://singinst.org/AIRisk.pdf, http://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/The_Hanson-Yudkowsky_AI-Foom_...
Will it also support "HTML"? Maybe even "CSS"?
I was on the fence about getting an iPad. Now that zombocom works, I'm all set.
A portal? More like spam to me.
If you're going to convert a completely pointless website to work on a specific device for absolutely no reason, you might as well go all out.
"... Unlike men, women pay attention to detail and tend to get the job done ..."

If you consider the operations of Bletchley Park, UK in WW2 as important with half the staff women [0] I would say your question has been answered. Effectiveness in wartime is measured by competence, not perception. Jean Valentine a "bombe operator" at Bletchley had this to say about the type of work and importantly the effectiveness:

Q:Was it unusual to have women working on the machine? I'm thinking that, when telephone switching systems were first invented, men were found to be inferior to women at organising the system. Was the same true with the bombes?

To which Valentine answered:

"On the first bombe there were men working on the machine, but later more women were brought in to do the job, which I don't think some people liked. You must remember that there were 210 bombes, with three shifts of workers so they could run constantly. The shifts were 8am to 4pm, 4pm to midnight and then midnight to 8am. That's a lot of people doing the job." [1]

Effective in the constrained role they had? Yes. There was a demarcation in tasks between the boffins - which included women - and the operators - mostly women - but that in no way diminishes the role played.

[0] http://skirtsandladders.com/?p=504

[1] http://www.v3.co.uk/v3/analysis/2260231/q-jean-valentine-ble...
This is pretty sweet, and a natural progression of Google's entry into both the handset and browser markets.

Of course, if the Android market is any indicator, nobody's going to be making a lot of money on this thing any time soon. Still a great idea, though
http://yudkowsky.net/singularity/power

http://lesswrong.com/lw/qk/that_alien_message/

http://som.csudh.edu/fac/lpress/netapps/hout/techprogress/ku...
My motivation was thus: I'm not a video transcoding guy. I just wanted to know a 10,000 ft overview. My summary is what I got out of a very detailed technical article (and it took me a minute to find the comparison pictures in the article, so hopefully re-posting the highlights saved others time).

Another way of looking at it: People hyper-summarizing articles are like HFT for news aggregators. It makes the aggregator more efficient by cutting to what many people only want to know thereby increasing their capacity to consume even more knowledge irrelevant to their lives.
I just tried some uh...questionable stuff...and yes, all possible at zombocom
I worry it will open up new design opportunities in the same way that the blink tag did...
PG is wrong, search is a very useful feature. Even more so for a site like reddit where submissions can be in different subreddits.

If search weren't useful, why is there searchyc? And every few weeks a topic about why there is no search function?
I generate crazy ideas on my own, and before I execute on any, I bounce it off more logical-minded friends.
Ogg creator Monty Montgomery: "I, for one, welcome our new WebM overlords"
Funny Photo of PG after VC Panel at 2010 Google I/O
As a side-note -- have you considered sending this sort of reply to VentureBeat, TechCrunch, et al and seeing if they'd guest post? It's the most clarity I've seen brought to the situation yet, and I'm sure more than a couple folks here could put you in touch with the appropriate editors.
Ah. My cynicism was insufficiently deep. Thanks for helping me correct that.
Sometimes in litigation you get dizzy trying to figure who among scheming adversaries is the biggest snake. That said, on this point, I think it was planned but not originally in any sinister way - from the FB standpoint, at the time it assumed this would simply be settled based on the mediation agreement, it would be natural to remove the attorneys from representing the company that you had just acquired (they would then either keep ConnectU as a wholly-owned subsidiary or they would dissolve it).

Of course, once the fight was on, this firing was a pretty nasty move. Since I assume FB was surprised by the fact that this did not settle, I don't think it was planned from inception from that particular angle, however.
> While processing power has grown exponentially the cost of fabricating that technology has continued to increase faster than world GDP.

Note that "Singularity" doesn't always refer to exponential growth (http://yudkowsky.net/singularity/schools); SIAI in particular focuses on the "intelligence explosion" definition.
A) But it could discover new laws of physics. i.e., A nuclear bomb would have looked like 'god like powers' before Einstein/Relativity.

B) This is nonsensical ...

C) You can deduce a ludicrous amount of information from relatively little sensor input. Humans don't extract a fraction of a percent of the maximum (in the information theoretic sense) information from our environment. See http://lesswrong.com/lw/qk/that_alien_message/

D) This is trivially, factually incorrect. A 3GHz P4 is cheaper today (in absolute or relative terms) than it was when it was brand new. A new Core 2 Duo will give you better performance/dollar than a P4 when it was new (which was better than a P3, which was better than a PII, etc).
I know. It's worse than being outsourced.
The Visualization Zoo with protovis examples
More choice doesn't mean more typefaces on a single page.

Even if you use only 3 typefaces on a page, it doesn't mean you don't want access a library of a thousand fonts so you can use the perfect 3-5 typefaces.
I will miss it if it goes. It is one of those concepts I love internet for. Everything is leveled, and all websites are equal in some sense of identification.
Has anyone taken a look at Tinderbox?
http://www.eastgate.com/Tinderbox/
"In normal privacy settings you can specific that either everyone can add you as a friend or only friends of friends."

There was a big privacy setting change last October that you could opt out of. So it is theoretically possible that he did. (I wish I had. I didn't understand the ramifications at the time.)

Obviously, if this is in fact the case, it is still a case of Zuckerberg not playing by the rules he is setting for everyone else.
> D) This is trivially, factually incorrect. A 3GHz P4 is cheaper today (in absolute or relative terms) than it was when it was brand new. A Core 2 Duo will give you better performance/dollar than a P4 (which was better than a P3, which was better than a PII, etc).

The parent mentioned the cost of "fabricating that technology", not of processors themselves; this is vague, but AFAIK, fabs are getting more expensive quickly.
Thank you for doing this. Magnificent.
Haha, I actually think the spinner looks better in HTML5, so thats a plus.
TeleHash: Distributed JSON Peering Protocol
No. I'm making the argument that 100 developers can replace another. Because that's essentially what you have. You're right, there will be a few things here or there that aren't done as well. But overall? There will be plenty of people to step in.
By using the link in your site you will give googles servers a nice log of as many pages on your internal server as your users go to :)
Easy clean up with plasticware
Recipe: Ajax search and filtering
Using jQuery, Rails, and Searchlogic.
Business Analysts: Don’t Forget Your ROI
The "video" at https://chrome.google.com/webstore is just a picture for me. Failed HTML5 video attempt? Anyone else had this problem?

Obs: I'm using Chrome.
It is unlikely. A program like the New Deal requires increasing debt drastically. It is a system based on spending large loans on investments unlikely to return in a financially accountable manner. Take the Hoover Dam as an example, the government spent loans on building it, and it took fifty years of operation before the dam paid for itself. Incurring such a large long term debt, even for altruistic reasons and even if it might pay for itself, is unlikely in the current political climate.
These are justifications for giving in to a disease. Sure, there are plenty of reasons why you might be forced by the giant, short-sighted enterprise you work at to rely on less sensible software stack. There are also plenty of reasons not to try to stop a guy from being stabbed at the bus-stop you're waiting at.

That doesn't make it right.
Open it in 12 tabs. It gets freaky.
Maybe it effects his ability to work with them, and they should be removed.

I don't like homophobia, though I do agree with him on diversity (based on what the article showed): that we should focus on people's merits, and not their race, for college admissions and jobs.

However, it's my understanding that he only wrote this stuff on his blog; that he wasn't preaching about it at work, or in this scientist group.

If some scientist is too effected by the personal writings of this guy on his blog that they are unable to work with him, then that scientist should leave the group. Moreover, for someone to be removed from a government position based on his personal beliefs, expressed on his personal web site, is very clearly a violation of freedom of speech.

To put it another way, suppose someone on the team believed that women should have the right to vote, and this offended the sensibilities of other members of the group. Should that person have been removed?

Just because his ideas are wrong, doesn't make them any of our business, or the government's, or that groups'.
Traditional Software vs. Cloud Solutions
How many mixed platform server shops do you know of? If you're going to go linux/OSS for your DB you might as well go all the way.
probably support staff
05-19-2010 Lakers vs Suns Playoffs West Finals Replay Game 2
The question is, who still uses DMOZ to find sites?
It's important to recognize that once you've reached the backlash stage of the hype cycle, the negative rumors and assumptions of bad faith will begin. It's not important to participate in that process personally, and it's rather below the level of discourse I'm interested in seeing on Hacker News.
This is hilarious. Can someone remind me how the original version was implemented?
37Signals uses OAuth 2
Dress Up Games and Girl Games,mini games - Funny Cook
American Idol 2010 Top 3's Top Songs, American Idol 2010 PPT
Look up the meaning of "innovation." It's not the same as "invention." Innovation is when you take an invention and make it practical. That is, bring it to market in a product that has a significant impact. Apple has surely done this many times.
Doesn't this increase the time it takes to boot up a new instance, though?

Boot, update and apply patches, copy over source & data, start running services...everytime you start a new instance
Did M.I.A. ‘eff up’ by giving her album an un-google-able name?
jeez, I have probably worked with a lot of people who have divisive controversial views diametrically opposed to my own.

who cares!

The immature, overly political people on the team, that's who!

I don't agree, though, that this is a violation of his free speech rights. He can still speak. Its more a violation of his employment agreement, if anything at all.
I think the last thing I want to start seeing on here is a FUNNY tag.
Front running is at most a grey area, and what is front running to you, the trader, is different than what the legally malicious definition is.

Don't get me wrong: These firms do provide liquidity, which is great for anyone trading in the markets, but if you are going to try to play these firms' game of running liquidity providing strategies or even stat-arb style strategies, on their home court you just aren't going to be very effective. That is unless you are running something totally new. (Side note: I knew a guy trading MBS based off of an obscure NY state housing law. The strategy was totally unique, and ran like clock work. If you have something like that, than you could be marginally successful. He was making like 300k a year off of 60k in capital).
I can do anything at Zombo.com!
I'm trying to do the same, and I too found that you have to keep a list of some things.

My boss, for example, only gives me feedback on my work once a week. And when he does, it's a three page report on what is going to change. (yes, I know...)

You can't do all in one sitting. You can't remember everything that is in that report. So it passively sits in my inbox for a couple of days until I finished the last item.

I think it all boils down to: keep a list of what you really have to, check off items as soon as you can, ignore what is too far away.
Are there session ids? I assume that HMAC(secret + sessionID + ip + search terms) would be fine.
or did she make a brilliant move by choosing an un-torrentable name?
node.js needs UDP.
Welch and Bishop also have an excellent introduction: http://www.cs.unc.edu/~welch/media/pdf/kalman_intro.pdf
It's an App Engine API, so unless you're running your application on App Engine you're out of luck. Of course, you could write a wrapper around it to make it accessible over a RESTful API, but what's the point now that Google Storage has been announced?
I have to disagree with "I don't agree, though, that this is a violation of his free speech rights. He can still speak."

Freedom of speech doesn't mean that you have vocal cords. It means you are free from reprisal for your speech. This was a government appointment, and the story says that the DOE confirmed that the reason for his removal was because of his writings. So, the DOE punished him, by removing him from this appointment, based on his writings.
(vist zombo.com, Inspect Element)

Flash.
Ada Lovelace?
Open Source: A license, a community or more?
The cost of the fab is reflected in the cost of the chip, since it's necessarily amortized over the production of the fab (for a profitable company/fab).
Industrial food production is quite fragile, and the world basically has yet to experience that production in any sort of "failure mode," e.g. global blight due to excessive monocultures.

The probability of such a global failure occurring within the next 100 years strikes me as near 1.0, and thus possibly more pressing than any of the events listed above.
I also write down the ideas I have, because crazy ideas are easily forgotten. I think they're generated by temporary surprise connections made by the brain.
I think people are slowly realizing that social networks are going to be open and WILL use your data for whatever their business model needs in order to make money. Its still going to take some time though for that to fully sink in.

I think the vocal people who feel burned fit into the early adopter category. I was on Facebook when it was only in a handful of schools and it was an amazing tool. At that time, it was well understood that your info was locked down to people outside your network.

Now these Facebook dinosaurs (who overlap a lot with the tech crowd) feel lied to because things changed. That beautiful network where you could share personal moments with friends is gone. Expectations were set and then dashed. This pissed me off, and, while even though it is only a vocal minority now, a lot of other people too.

Even though it sucks, I'm only on Linkedin now. I knew when I joined it was an open platform and anything I put up there would be viewed by current and future employers, which I'm okay with because that was my expectation. Facebook is trying to share people's data in an open way, akin to Linkedin, its just that the data people put up there was meant only to be shared with people that they knew, not for instance, the HR department of the company you are interviewing with.
Feels like JXTA with JSON in the place of XML.
Sorry if you felt the title is misleading -- it certainly wasn't my intention.

It's just hard to fit all the info into 80 characters.