skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's awesome. Where did you find this algortihm to implement? How do they know if it is biologically accurate?
Will this finally stop family members from using me as this service? I do hope so. Just because I'm "good at all that computer stuff" does not mean I automatically know which TV is best for you.
Human beings expect other human beings to act with a similar moral code. There have been plenty of examples of groups herding other human beings into areas explicitly designed for slaughter. Humans warned each other, but the slaughter still persisted. Even foreign governments did not think the slaughter was extensive as claimed because of the inhumanity of it.

Human beings will put up with a lot of shit, it even says so in the declaration of independence.

"..all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed."
Please don't censor needlessly.
For non-redditers, TIL stands for "Today I Learned".

http://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/
It looks like he no longer sees a bright future, maybe.
You see the right to do whatever you want with any physical object you exchange money to possess.

I see the right to design, build, and offer a product to the market under whatever terms I'd like.

These rights are in conflict, and I see that, but let's not pretend that there's no other side to this.
It's only something you can visualise if you grew up with imperial units; "42 feet per gallon" is not inherently easier than "3.4 meters per liter", nor "125.7 gallons per mile" than "296 liters per km".
thanks. That helps.
Good call. Both Theo De Raadt and Richard Stallman could handle it - but they're both dicks and Linus isn't.

A good lesson - how you treat other people is important.
>The researchers argue that their work shows it is morally unacceptable...

Science just tells you how things work not how they "ought" to work. The "ought" is the province of philosophers, and mystics. Unfortunately, atheists need someone to act as an authority for them on difficult moral questions, and so "Scientists" (with a capital S) are there preachers and prophets.

BTW, I'm an atheist and I find it funny how other atheists want to replace religion with something like a religion that's just dressed up in "Science".
Because external combustion engines (boiler + turbine) are more efficient and cheaper to build at large scale
Its times like these I wish I had cash to spare, haha.
You sir, are a rockstar!

Maybe add a few more algorithms in the future, but you should get decent referral fees with this.
A quick summary and a bit of info:

Yes, Google pulled the plug on the web search AJAX API and replaced it with Custom Search Engine (CSE). The new API does allow you to search the entire web and is near identical to the old which is good, but has the 100 queries/day limitation. This is bad and a show-stopper for a lot of people.

Here's what I've learned:

1. You can request more units but no one has responded to me in any way since Nov. 1.

2. The form to request a higher quota asks you if you're a Google Site Search customer. That makes me think that it may make a difference to be a customer of a paid service they have.
(FYI: Google Site Search is apparently a different name for Enterprise Custom Search which I'm hoping is the same technology as CSE and will allow you to search the web.)

3. If you want to BUY the super high volume Site Search service as we are willing to do, you have to communicate with the Sales team, but no one has responded to us on that request either.

4. Another interesting approach that I'll try soon is this: CSE gives you the API to actually create a custom search engine on the fly. But this requires separate Google logins and some work in implementing the ClientLogin authentication business. At the end, you're still limited to 100 queries/day but at least it is "per client".

I hope someone from Google is reading this and can shed some light on the issue.
Really? Reading that, I hear the Pew Pew sound in my head, and it makes the laser seem totally awesome, even if it doesn't actually make that sound.
> AFAIK Chrome use ffmpeg to decode H.264 and WebM content.

Chromium use ffmpeg, Chrome use a proprietary library avcodec-52.dll
If it were me, and I could choose the group, I would accept and donate to Creative Commons.
As the co-owner of this site, I highly approve of the pew pew and have added it to the description. Now to figure out how to add a cross-browser compatible sound effect...
NLP Challenge: Find semantically related terms over a large vocabulary (1M)?
Long term capital gains tax cuts sunset after 2010, right? My back of the envelope math is that if he waits one nanosecond after midnight on December 31st he gets to pay Uncle Sam an extra $65 million. I can think of things that I'd rather do with the money -- I'm guessing he can, too.

Incentives change behavior.
Thanks! We do think some area of robotics can and should be made a lot easier.

Lego recently released an offical android app for Mindstorms. It's cool and we definitely see it as a sign of where things can be going. We are looking into how it can be taken to the next level. And LMR is excellent for tech-savvy folks.

We think the idea of Kleekbots is really exciting and that Mindstorms and other users will think so too. We have a few business models in mind (eg pay-as-you-go) so as to be able to continue providing the service. We can see it going so very far.

We are definitely seeking community feedback from early stages, to tell us what people think of Kleekbots, what people would like to see, and especially how much people are happy to pay to take their Mindstorms (and smartphones too!) to the next level and beyond.

Thank you for the best wishes!
I cannot remember how many times I try to make the `delete` key to actually trash an email in Mail.app.

Click [Gmail]/Trash. Click the Mailbox menu, go to Use This Mailbox For, choose Trash. You're done.
Using a sewing machine to add zipers to everything.
Absorb this fact - at no point have I suggested that martin was right. The ONLY thing I am trying to assert is that Martin copied the book out of ignorance not malice and that Zed could (and in my opinion should) have been more polite.

Martin's actions after Zed's response are inexcusable. But that doesn't mean Zed wasn't being rude.

I subscribe to the "Don't be a douchebag" philosophy, and I think both Martin and Zed were being douchebags. BUT Martin wasn't being a douchebag when he copied the book, he was just being ignorant (and breaking the law).
Mirage in Penglai.
Another great idea! This is now implemented.
If what you say cannot be proven or disproven, I'm not interested, even if all of it might be true

Although a good starting point, that's a disappointing place to end up. The scientific method was a monumental leap forward in epistemology, but it is not the alpha and omega of knowledge.
Fantastic - I actually just found a name for a project using it!
Ask HN: A bit of career advice, por favor?
I posted this over on Reddit but didn't get any response so...perhaps HN has some input?

I currently have about 6 years of (reasonably) viable experience. I spent three of those years at one company programming in PHP (this was mostly during college) and the next 3 working at .NET companies (one of those years was also during college). I've been out of college for about two years.

I'm looking to move on now. I've spent some time tinkering with Ruby on Rails lately and I really like that platform. It looks like I have a decent chance at a RoR position but I'm wondering what this will do to my "career," jumping around platforms like that. Aren't I expected to reasonably become an "expert" on one platform?

Anyway, any advice you guys can shell out would be most excellent!
My thoughts exactly! Particularly when I saw the bit about a reality TV show.

The family is of course entitled to do what it deems proper, but neuroscientists may have a wonderful opportunity here. Perhaps I'm over-reaching, but there seem to be many topics -- some of them very practical -- upon which the twins may offer insight: brain-computer interfaces, the sense-of-self, seat of consciousness, the semantics/syntax of thought, distinction between language and thought, information processing... etc.
How can 2x low-res low-framerate webcams cost $150 when I can buy as many as I want new, shipped for $6 apiece?
Scientific advocacy isn't the same thing as scientists advocating. Being more rigorous about advocacy would be wonderful; we could sure use that. The issue is scientists veering over from studying to advocacy without making the distinction; that is, blurring the lines. That is unscientific and unethical.
nextspace rocks, but they are in santa cruz and the city.....
This is very cool. Congrats, guys
Before this, there were several efforts and results of those efforts to combine code in common and share more. First, we had an informal set of talks that resulted in a 'pipefitters' type mail list where people sounded ideas around on how to build our stacks on more common components.

Second, there was an effort on a code-branch called 'marco', that was to be a common set of code for a bunch of the underlying configuration setup. It's code was also out there, and ppl poked at it some:
http://bitbucket.org/chrism/marco

It got a little ways, but it kept looking more and more like the existing repoze.bfg... which brought us to a point where pylons-trunk was built on BFG. This entire discussion is on the pylons-dev list here:
http://groups.google.com/group/pylons-devel/browse_thread/th...

Then, in an effort to resolve remaining differences in the code, several of us flew out to meet in person to discuss remaining issues in the code and see if a better collaboration could work out. We decided to try out the idea of a merger, since pylons-trunk for Pylons 2 was doing little more than minor extensions of repoze.bfg anyways, which was collapsed into the pyramid code-base (and is a distinction in that respect from repoze.bfg which doesn't have those bits).

It worked out quite well from some attempts at 'trying it out' and the news of this leaked quite a bit earlier than we anticipated making it hard to try and put together what I think could've been a better process.

Was there a discussion where we asked everyone in both communities for their input on merging? Not really, we talked to primary contributors and developers who had worked on each stack to try and solicit input and ensure they were all in favor of it. But yes, I agree entirely that I should've solicited feedback from the pylons community at large.

For pylons the code-base, there really isn't going to be any difference from what there is right now, and has been. A maintained, stable, mature code-base, that has hit a point where there's little more to be done with it. It's been at a feature-standstill for about 2+ years now. It's not going away, and it will still be maintained.

So I think the way the merger was done definitely could've been announced differently, with more emphasis on what it meant for the pylons code-base (nothing really), vs. the continuing development efforts of myself and other pylons developers.

- Ben
Wearing a mask = being more confident.
" Economists (it's a science!) from advocating economic policy?"

Forbid them, no. But when an economist switches from telling us the facts, and his professional opinion, to advocacy, he has a moral obligation to make it clear when he switches. As an advocate, he's not acting as a scientist (economist), but as an activist citizen.
Introducing S4
B.S. This is the argument used by know-nothings to try to claim moral superiority. Exactly what gives a priest or a politician more right to advocate than a scientist? If those with the most knowledge on a subject aren't allowed to advocate then noone else should be either.
It's hard to see how someone can develop tech that can compare with the level of reliability that comes from 30 years of debugging.

For small shows, sure. But for the massive tours with hojillions of fans all trying to buy tickets at the same time? Hard to see how someone gets across that gap.
The Secret Behind an Unknown Dance of The Bees
Absolutely. Anyone who discovers a moral outrage should speak up. As long as they make a clear distinction between their professional job and their advocating as a concerned citizen. They are wearing two different hats and should show that.
If "might is right" is the ethical/legal regime we're all going to be working under, you realize Microsoft has access to talent of the same caliber as Bunnie Huang, and in significantly larger quantities?

They have access to talent of that caliber, but apparently ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xbox_360_technical_problems ) they aren't willing to pay for it.
You are not a programmer. You create value for companies that employ you, occasionally using computer code to do so.

Your source of competitive strength is not expertise in a particular platform. Expertise in a particular platform can be found in India, for one quarter what you desire to make. Your source of competitive strength is that you consistently deliver measurable success. If you consistently deliver measurable success, no one will care what platforms you know. If you get hired by a Rails shop without knowing it in advance, you'll take a week or two to write your first production code, and ramp up in capabilities very rapidly after that.
> While it is true that some Flash apps have loop (games must have a loop) it's a bit ignorant to compare it to an event-driven architecture.

not sure if you meant it, but that comes off as pretty rude.

loops and EDA's are different things, and there is value in comparing and considering them. also, the Flash API's may have first-class support for the notion of events, but that does not mean that every glorified loop involves events, or vice versa. in a pure EDA, no task is performed unless an event of interest occurs. mindless polling and housekeeping loops are one anti-pattern contributing to unnecessary CPU use.

also, while we're being pedantic, technically not all games require loops. I've built plenty myself that had no loops in the application code.
Open for discussion: PDF as HTML-replacement
While browsing with Chrome and displaying a few random PDFs with its very fast and nice built-in PDF-viewer, I had these thoughts:

* It looks so much cleaner and better than many HTML pages.

* It looks consistent and everywhere the same.

* It loads faster than a similar sized HTML.

* What about having PDF as a replacement for HTML?

* It also has support for hyperlinks.

* It lacks some dynamic elements.

* Not sure if something like HTTP POST is possible.

* Those things could be added though.

* Chromes built-in PDF-viewer may be a good starting point to implement this.

* If Google itself would do this and add such support in Chrome, chances are good that this spreads fast.
The Art of Computer Programming - To read or not to read?
DMCA allows reverse engineering for interoperability or when it is for education.
There are undoubtedly infinite mantras to live by that can help to produce a successful, happy, meaningful life. If this advice worked for the author, fantastic.

Interestingly, most people I personally know who've achieved any amount of "success" have all worked their asses off, tried harder than everyone around them, competed fiercely, marketed better than their competitors, read often, chased their dreams (whether it's money, happiness, adventure, "success," etc.), and were always open to advice (especially at 22).

Regardless of age, status, profession, passions, goals, or anything else - life can be a bitch and failure happens. Though I've never spoken to Picasso, Moore, Hendrix, or Ali, I'm almost positive they had struggles. They probably even had times when they wanted to leave it all and quit. They didn't have beautiful, easy, careers. But they kept fighting, continued their craft, and persevered.

This letter is a cute romanticization of life and work, but it's likely terrible, harmful advice.
Seems to be a nice service, but on the downsize may turn into a sensationalist type of site such as any of those offers of the day sites, which is not bad at all but may require heaps of cash in order to purchase hellofatrafficstream in order to get people to commit and reduce their boune rate.. just watch that and be aware of what the market tells you to do..
Ask HN What Web App Would You Like to See/Need?
I have this hankering to get started on a web app (Not really for YCombinator, but more because I have the time and really want to spend a chunk of time coding).

My problem is I have yet to find a web app that's lacking for my own needs. Tons of news sites, tons of tech sites for questions. This brings up a problem with trying to find a project to dig into.

So, what web app do you want to see happen? What niche, or need do you have that is not currently solved? The bigger the better, and the more interactive the better (I really miss doing heavy JS, so the more interaction needed, the better). Finance is not really my area of expertise, but anything outside that I can consider and think if it's feasible.
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lunch + feedback with PG - how amazing. Right now I'm bootstrapping my business companyline.com so winning this auction isn't likely. However, PG I'd donate 200+ hours of community service for a similar lunch in Mountain View.
Ask HN: Twitter Data Visualization.
I want to make a map info visualization using twitter data. This has been done before, but none that I've seen are at all useful.

I'm stumped.

What data do you think I could visualize that would be useful to watch?
I too love Puppy Linux! It works great on my netbook.. faster than any of even the netbook-optimized distributions. I'm still running 4.3. The hardware support was even perfect with the LuPu on my main laptop, but I'm holding off as a lot of software packages I use are a pain... (openSUSE on this machine).
I'm so close...
GameBoy Emulation in JS Part 8: Interrupts
Thanks for the inputs, I'm finding SICP too enlightening to put down entirely without finishing it.

Is it C itself that is important, or just the concepts? Most of the concepts seem to be contained in what I learned when I took C++ (and have used on some projects). For example, function pointers made one of the projects I was working on very simple.

I have a copy of K&R laying around that I haven't worked through, and thumbing through it seems pretty similar to what I saw in C++.

I tested myself earlier today while on a layover by SSHing into my server and trying to make some simple C++ code to play with pointers, but since I didn't have the reference I couldn't debug a situation where I was dereferencing a pointer... Maybe I'll look into that a bit if I end up needing a similar feature.

I'm torn a bit on exactly what language to hit the ground running with, as far as building actual products. Clojure looks interesting, but I also haven't decided if I want to make something platform-independent and running on the JVM or not, or go all the way with SBCL (and the help of PG's and Peter Seibel's books).

I think I'm letting myself get paralysed by too many options (although certain ideas of mine are MUCH easier to do in a Lisp).
Ask HN/PG: How often does karma average get updated?
Now that the average karma is in the top bar, how often does it get updated? I recently had a comment's score deviate significantly from my current average, but my average did not change (difference was significant enough that I think it should have affected my average by at least 0.01). Thus I'm assuming it is only updated periodically (obviously, I'm also assuming it's an average per post; please correct me if this is wrong).
I question the the steady diet of TechCrunch, mashable, etc. Too some extent that is just startup masturbation. I wonder if better advice is to just not read those things for awhile and focus on your product and your potential customers.
The one I'm making right now [1]! (This is probably the answer in everyone's minds.)

[1] Crate for file-sharing - http://letscrate.com/
Jeff is my hero.
This assumes that "talent" is a magical dust that makes everything better when you sprinkle it on. I have a few counterarguments:

1. No doubt there are incredibly intelligent, motivated people working for Microsoft, but talent requires an appropriate environment to reach its potential.
2. The mistake is often made of assuming that the "good guys" are the only ones with smart people on their side. This mistake is most frequently seen in discussions of national security and nuclear technology.
3. All it takes to defeat a non-service-based DRM scheme is one vulnerability. If the Kinect has to continually stream motion data to Microsoft servers for processing (kind of like Android speech recognition), then Microsoft can keep changing the protocol and encryption. If Microsoft's 100 talented engineers leave just one gap, and one talented hacker finds it, then hackers "win."
4. "Might makes right" should absolutely apply to what talented hackers do with products they own. I value individual property rights above corporate business model preservation. It is the duty of the giant and powerful corporations to ensure their business models aren't vulnerable to the whims of talented hackers, and using the law to make it so is unethical.
I am less concerned with being killed and more concerned with living under a dictatorship. I mean that would be the antithesis of the reasons I would move to Costa Rica in the first place. South America has hand it's share of them, and the disease that causes the symptom still exists.
Not too surprising, considering these past few months insiders have been selling tons of shares.

Insider Selling To Buying Update: 2,019 To 1
http://bit.ly/cTZ9uq
At the very least, they might be fantastic at pair programming! Or even programming multi-core, being dual-core themselves might provide insights impossible for normal people.

It also seems sad that this might be the closest thing we ever get to a truly alien intelligence (depending on how tightly coupled they are). Imagine a creature that not only can't conceive of living a life uncoupled from its binary partner but may be horrified by the thought. And what will we do with this fantastic intelligence, unique in all the world? Reality TV.
Ugh: HP Pavilion DV6-2020SA
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You should always think clearly and separate business form family, being said that, get into a very cold thinking process and define how much of an added value F&F could bring to your biz case, once, I was meeting with Chris Sacca, and I had a big financial player willing to invest $5M into esarly tech ventures, and Chris spoke upfront and said to me, money is not really the issue, the issue is WHO is putting the money in. You need really smart capital and financial partners that will generate the right noise for your project to get from 0 to 60 in the shortest time, F&F first do not know anything about the industry, and second may not be critical enough to tell you when you are doing something wrong, and even if they do tell you, you may end up saying, WHO ARE THEY TO TELL ME WHAT I SHOULD DO!!
Hope this helps
For 1.5$ mil you can get 5 medium-level lawyers to work for you for entire year full-time. There is no indication that this case required this amount of legal power.
Taking this a step further, when it comes to sales, the type of "mask" you use often is the phone. Over the phone, your presentation (your tone, speed, diction) can change depending upon the person on the other end - as it should.
A glitch. I'm also googling from Europe now on US English google.com and I'm seeing 7.72 billion for 6.
Material inspection
Improving math skills with electrical brain stimulation?
Very true. It applies to emails too.

However, often the customer "forgets" that leading to mindless bashing, but I guess that's a compromise. :)