skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Great points all around guys. Regarding security, all we can really do is be better than the current practices. There's no way to keep everything on lock, and we'll be very upfront with users about that. If you email someone a pic or text it, it's fate is 100% out of your hands. Guaranteed. With Cupcaking, we hope the user is able to revoke the permissions long before a partner with malicious intent is able to view them, screen cap them, and share them wherever. And at least make things difficult for them.

Openness with your partner (sharing/learning/exploring what you're both into), and being informed by analysis of aggregate community data are the other really important value propositions. Security is more about pointing out that current practices suck and we can't be any worse than those, and hopefully we'll be much better.
Redis: new disk storage to replace VM
Dating help from Microsoft: Find your best match with a picture?
http://cupcaking.urbanup.com/921834
How does this negatively effect Googles market share?! If it does ok...damage control how sever is it...yeah it's said I know.
IANAL, but let's not forget that by storing this data with a 3rd party we're giving up our expectation of privacy. Meaning that these files could be subpoenaed and released without a warrant. I'm not wearing a tinfoil hat, but this is a legitimate concern.
Thanks for answering :) Why $750 and not $1000? Is it a negotiation thing to ask for 1.5 times the offered amount?
Motorola Now Officially Two Companies; Stock Prices Rise
Aviemore
Aviemore in the Cairngorms National Park is the perfect all year round outdoor holiday destination. With the Cairngorm Mountains, ski and snowboard slopes and wide river valley setting, busy bars and restaurants, Aviemore is the outdoor enthusiast’s capital of Scotland.
Looks like a pretty straight up ripoff of Coda, except coda is awesome and this is pretty clunky.
What Security Advice Should We Give?
Careful, this is probably against the terms of your contract with your ISP.
Myspace hasn't released revenue information for 2010 yet. It's likely that the ratio will change substantially in facebook's favor as their revenue has grown considerably (assuming facebook's revenue reporting is trustworthy).

Nevertheless, Facebook's valuation is still shockingly inflated. Compared to Apple they have 1/6th the valuation at 1/30th the revenue, 1/4th the valuation at 1/12th the revenue of Google. It seems likely that Facebook is overvalued by at least a factor of 3, perhaps more (since both Google and Apple are bound by stringent revenue reporting rules).

At 1/6th the valuation of Apple (which is widely considered to be a bit overvalued today as well) but with one 30th of the revenue (
Google Picasa Web Photos are not private, even the private ones
I just learned this at the online conversation. I cannot believe but this is true.
I cannot get the "morally broken" thing. What they did, mostly, is to distract their competition and gather information on their targets.

Keep in mind the targets are not passive ones and if they actually engaged in a relationship with those folks, it was because they wanted it. I never went to a second date with a girl I didn't like.
Microsoft Launching Avatar Kinect at the CES 2011 Keynote Tomorrow
On Zynga: You think they're going to justify a $50 billion market capitalization through banner ads?

These games actually do really well, not from banner ads but from virtual currency. Now that FB is pushing devs to use FB credits, they should be in for a healthy cut of the action.
Next week on HN: "When Dumb People are Bad Writers".
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=cup+caking
The following made me smile: Ycombinator.com is particularly highly ranked in the city of San Francisco
I agree trying to make desktop style apps in-browser doesn't work, but I don't think the answer is make desktop apps more like browser apps. I can't think of a browser app that I would tolerate if it was presented as a desktop one... I except a -lot- more on the desktop.
The Founders DID think like him. Which is why they use violence to achieve what they wanted.

Don't forget that they also had to conquer a new continent.
Yes. I have one of the new CR-48 ChromeOS netbooks and if someone had a reasonably priced native VNC client I would pay for it. Sure, I could just install Ubuntu on here and be done with it, but I like having a super simple ChromeOS netbook and I just want a native VNC client.
Very cool, between this and redcar I've found about two new Linux text editors today! Thanks for the tip.
#1: Will people pay for the solution....

(not do they say they will pay, WILL they put their money where their mouth is)
Cameras and computer vision? I think the same rules for public space apply.
They're pretty sure it's at least a possibility when they're doing hand-to-hand drug deals.
This is trivial software to write. Why does someone not quickly whip up a web app that does the picture thing as described in the experiment, then we can personally test if we have ESP senses or not?

Specs: Two buttons - ESP mode or non-ESP mode. In non-ESP mode, 60 random pictures are shown and we are to guess. Then it gives the correct one. In ESP mode, add some porn. If the results are different, then we have ESP. Use Javascript for the randomisation algorithm so that we can be sure there is no server trickery being done.
Mixpanel and Chartbeat start charging for analytics at a relatively low level of usage. Money, smartly applied, can solve a lot of scaling issues.

While I've got no doubt that Google could make their analytics product real-time, they've probably done the cost-benefit analysis and decided it wasn't worthwhile. Real-time analytics are just eye candy for the twitchy unless you're able to make real-time changes based on those analytics, and the vast majority of analytics users aren't nearly so nimble.
UCL's CS dept were in at the start of the internet - they used to manage the old x500 network and the .gb domain and invented a bunch of the domain management stuff.

I would probably trust them to get it right more than whatever nominet are calling themselves today
A valid point. As scientists rely more on the tools created by others, how can they be certain they're measuring the subjects and not the tools themselves. The article repeatedly refers to "a computer" in these experiments as if it's some divine arbiter, I think most programmers here know differently.
Wow... you just explained my experience at Twitter. I went from being a future PhD looking for a fun summer to someone who forgot about grad school and wanted to stay creating "real" stuff in 4th and Folsom for ever.

Suffice it to say, I ended my internship, left grad school (including a fellowship by Google via GEM) and stayed at Twitter.

Get an internship, it can change (or confirm) your vision about a career and your future in general.
I don't know if other bands are doing this, but Phish did live pay-per-view of their New Year's Eve mini tour for $15-$20 per show. That seems like a very interesting model.

I love going to see concerts, but can easily imagine paying $x to see some well videoed live shows in HD.
Will power isn't a real thing because humans simply act based on the greatest impulse in their brains at the moment. The guy who can best resists eating cupcakes is the one who enjoys them the least, or is the least hungry.

Will power is conditioning in advance an impulse which makes you feel worse about letting yourself down and eating the cupcake.

Now, you're following your greatest impulse - to resist. Willpower is that self conditioned impulse.
What would you do? Or turning a website into a business.
A couple months ago I was approached by a good friend (we will call him Sam) who was taking a job with a large company with strict IP rules. Sam owned a free classifieds website that he had been maintaining for years but he needed to get rid of it due to the IP rules at his new company. So I purchased it in full for a very nominal amount of money.

The site is located at http://www.frimp.net and it currently has 5k registered users, 17000 postings and 25-30k hits per month. The current operational costs are about 45.00 per month. It is not stellar but I was thinking it was better than starting from scratch.

Does the community at large have any words of advice or suggestions on how to turn this web site into something valuable?

It is written in Java/Spring and I am about 75% through with a rewrite of the existing functionality in python/django.

Any help will be very much appreciated.
1,000 Core CPU Achieved
The Wiki Game gets Race, Click, Jesus, '6 Degrees' & 'No US' Game Types
Will you quit arguing over such petty differences?! Jesus Christ! People view the world differently, so of course they'll apply different meanings to the same words, and even to the same concepts.

You said he's not wrong, and you're just arguing over semantics. Why argue? Why?

Sorry for not keeping my post cold and logical and HNish, but that's the problem: you're being robotic here and arguing just to argue.
What? Most arrests don't go down that way, and the accused frequently don't have time to:

1. Drop off their car and keys, two phones, laptop ("other electronic records?"), wallet at home or with friends;
2. Stop by the ATM to ensure they have post-jail money
3. Casually dispose of any other incriminating evidence.

If you have the luxury though, I agree with everything you said. Don't bring child pornography or other incriminating evidence to the police station for your arrest.
If the site can provide value to people interested in the 5 launch states, why is it premature for them to release a beta?
Right, but the important part is creating the impression users are paying for a web app rather than an extension.
So don't do that, then.

The OS-packaged Python version is designed to support the OS-packaged Python applications. No more, no less. The whole point of having a software distribution is that it's curated such that it all works together. Your code? Not curated, so no guarantees. Module Y? Maybe curated, maybe not.

Getting "running code on the server" is an edge case, not the primary goal.
For starters, it didn't go missing and for the most part wasn't spent or even actually exist

Correct.

At the same time, I believe the size of the Fed's intervention in the banking system and continuing support of the Fed and treasury for "too big to fail" institutions and loans is an ongoing and problematic trend.

It is disheartening to see this situation analyzed through ignorant grandstanding rather than serious analysis - ie discussing the situation without distinguishing between credit and cash.

Because expanding the credit within the economy in an unlimited fashion is still a very problematic dynamic even without any ostensible increase in the cash.

For more the topic, I'd recommend Doug Noland's Credit Bubble Bulletin at prudentbear.com.
I found it interesting that the chef claimed that frozen food could taste better than restaurant food. I recently bought a few frozen dinners to see what they taste like. The more expensive ones definitely taste better than the $0.88 Banquet dinners. Claim Jumper was the best, IMHO. One area where the dinners consistently fail though, is texture. Things that should be crispy (like a deep-fried steak), are soft and mushy. Can you accomplish the wide-variety of textures in frozen-dinner format without additional preparation?
> Chef Wendy, who works for a Canadian firm that develops private-label products for companies like Whole Foods, Safeway, General Mills, and McDonald's, would prefer not to reveal her last name, but that was the last thing she was reticent about.

So, uh, why did she put her real name on her Chow.com account, then? Once I had that, it only took a Google search to find out where she works.
This was discussed by people on the James Randi forum back in October: http://forums.randi.org/showthread.php?t=188366
Why Having Projects Can Improve Your Life
There are some good replies to this already, but I'd like to add another, essentially of my own. As a professor friend of mine once explained, for some reason people seem to want to accept extraordinary explanations over ordinary ones (just look at many commonly held unfounded beliefs). This might be some innate primordial mechanism of the human brain. I don't know, but if there is any truth to it then we must carefully guard against our own bias to make sure we are not unwittingly seeing the results we want to see, hence the need for extraordinary evidence to back up extraordinary claims.
I felt exactly the same way after my internships. I was dead set on getting either my Masters or my PhD and after two internships at small businesses in my home city work felt like a holiday compared to more university.
As a fellow skeptic, I would advise we avoid outright rejection. After all, part of the mantra is to question our own world view, right?

Disease existed long before we figured out causes and targeted treatments; people possessed it, and people applied treatments with varying degrees of success and failure, including death. One of the more interesting inaccuracies of medical history is that of humors (random site - http://www.gallowglass.org/jadwiga/herbs/WomenMed.html). How we treated disease changed over time and is still changing as we learn new things.

My point? It is important to continue to apply rigid scientific study to all manners of phenomena, not only to validate its existence but also to figure out how to repeat or avoid said phenomena, depending on the need, the positives and the negatives of said phenomena. However, we should not turn a blind eye towards what people think they experience just because we have not yet come up with the right tool for measuring or the right study for identifying. There is always some reason behind the claim (even if the reason is "snake oil salesman").

Whatever is behind precognition (to take your example), people claim to experience it and always have made those claims. There is a certain burden of proof required, sure. How do you convince someone born deaf that there is a thing like sound that is experienced the way the hearing experience it? In the case of precognition, it tends to be self-validating (sometimes self-fulfilling), and yet it is still useful for precogs or those who believe in them, whether it is illusion or real, whether we have proven it concretely or not.

That bears a quick repeat... The information is somehow useful. These people who are shouting "open your mind" find their precognitive information useful; in their minds, challenges to this useful information are silly. In the name of understanding, the real focus should be on figuring out how that information is obtained. Is it psychic phenomena, a ghost whispering in the ear, great subconscious brain processing, or something else?

So if the response to an outright simple rejection is "open your minds", I think it is warranted. If the response is to indicate disagreement, however, I always thought that to be a useless response, as useless as the simple rejection.
Actually the best way would seem to be some device that would instantly disable the iPhone if you were pulled over. I somehow doubt they are going to start confiscating everyone's phones with dead batteries (with no other reason for arrest or search) just to check the contents.

"I'm sorry officer, my phone's battery is dead so I clearly wasn't texting while driving. Am I being detained, or am I free to go?"

But probably the easiest thing to do is to quickly slide your phone into a compartment (not hidden, just closed) in your car when you get pulled over. Then they must get a warrant to search your car. Most cops don't push it to this level unless you actually did do something.
I'll have to read it, I thought I came up with the idea on my own.
Works great, thanks for the tip!
I find GA to lag about 20 minutes - 1 hour. Good enough for me. Analysis is done best when you have the whole picture, not just the first 2 minutes of it.
OP: I did the same thing... running a server for anything is the best way to get started in Linux..

I did a little write up on my "crazy ass email setup" here: http://julian.tosh.us/2010/01/my-crazyass-email-setup/

It's evolved a bit since then and addresses gst's point... I've recently added regular expressions to my postfix maps so an email must match a certain pattern to get through... so it's more like a moderated catchall domain.
Quora: member's club doors open, in come the riff raff, exodus now inevitable
ClickHop.me a Chrome Extension that lets people browse the web together
What's your new years nerd resolution?
Become a GitHub celebrity? ha!
Nice. I've always thought the same, however I put it down to 'focus'. Having focus in life for different goals, really makes you work for it.
Thanks for the correction, you're right A9 is load immediate I was mixing it up with AD xx xx which follows as 8D is the equivalent store.

I wasn't saying that the accumulator was 16 bit though, rather that the load is from an absolute 16 bit address.
iCrayons
Phish and DMB share the same manager
Are these contracts really valid? I thought that a contract needs to be ultra squeaky clean without any typos, crossed out words and so on.
Works with Google App Engine?
Good luck finding great interns!

I do want to point out the flaw in this line: "I wanted to know if hard work paid off so I worked from 10am to 12am. It did: Slide offered me a full-time but I declined."

You might have received an offer doing good work 7 hours a day.
TabCloud syncing tabs across Chrome browsers
This is a secret... but... Here is a very, very rough version of the new UI.
I find getclicky a good alternative. It also has a neat iPhone app - clickytouch.
Yes, the Robert Gallager lectures on Digital Communications I. So nice to see lectures from one of the key people that made the field what it is today.
Yes you are right, the instruction timings were very exact as far as I remember. The only cases where there was an option was in the case of a branch taken or not.
Not directly, but there was some work on animating speech in virtual avatars[1] (constructed from a single image of a face) which uses the cubes to make animated 3d avatars.

What I found especially interesting is that even though the point-etching in the cubes is static (and of a generic head), faces are mostly similar enough (and the animations required for speech small enough) that looking at the animations actually looks very realistic in person.

[1] http://www.cs.columbia.edu/CAVE/projects/avatar/
You can't call it "repurposing" when you're using it for its designed purpose! RSS readers from day one have only ever been one aspect of the larger ecosystem around the format.
If you have Godaddy, they allow you to forward your domain to www for free. I do that with my GAE apps.
Most underrated comment: "I laughed at your Perry Mason moment before the judge." That fantasy never gets old.
It is such a secret that we cant even see it?!
Bernanke -> Goldman -> Facebubble
This counter-paper reads to me like spitefulness couched in scientific terms. Wagenmakers is, of course, on the very comfortable ground of defending the status quo from someone who is in all probability wrong.

But to be fair, we should take things on their merits. Contrasting the two papers, Bem's paper sticks very closely to the standard form and 'rules of engagement' (if you will) of published academic research. This counter paper on the other hand, has only the surface appearance of proper scientific method. For example, in making one if its main points it refers to a hypothetical casino where Bem could've made an 'infinite' amount of money, and to the one million dollar Randi prize, neither of which reach the standard of proper experimentalist scientific evidence. It does this by way of justification to one of their main points which is that because 'extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence' we should be able to set the prior expectation of H1 - in their words 'for illustrative purposes' - to .00000000000000000001, which they then go on to demonstrate, makes the results non-significant.

But where does the 0.00000000000000000001 come from? It could, just as easily, be twice or half that figure. Thus not falsifiable and therefore not justifiable as an extra bit of arithmetic that Bem's paper must qualify.

To put this in terms this audience will understand, that's kind of like saying well no, because you are using Java and 'everybody knows' Java is slow I think we should multiply your benchmark figures by, oh, let's say, one half. And then we see that java throughput is quite poor, as expected. In fact, we should multiply all java benchmarks by some number like a half but I'm not going to be specific about it because actually its pretty much just an arbitrary number I made up. So, reading past the reference to Bayes and some nice formulas that's just arithmetic in my book.

Note, I'm not saying that there are no flaws in the Bem paper. Everybody can see that it's very likely they'll be something wrong with it (and the desk drawer problem to which the above paper also makes extensive evidence is a likely though not conclusive contender) but I think its only reasonable to hold up the criticism's to the same standard as what they are criticizing. Perhaps that way you'll be more likely to find the actual truth of the matter.
Javascript random is only pseudoalleatory. I think you need a true random number generator to truly test this.
I wish I could upvote this 1,000 times.

People occasionally mention p-value calibration and note, sadly, the damage caused by this reckless practice that allows false results to eke through the airtight, 300' tall walls of scientific publication. But there is value in being wrong. It's a part of science.

In a way, it's the MD's White Coat syndrome applied to PhDs. Something that is scientific and written in a journal is necessarily correct in public opinion instead of the rigorously considered opinion it really is. Both paper-reading public and the authors of some of those papers tend to believe this.

And to cover it from a Bayesian point of view, it's pretty vital to keep the culture such that the risk of publishing something incorrect doesn't to strongly dominate the decision to publish. You should be confident talking about your beliefs long before they distribute like deltas.
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence

I agree, but we need to be really clear about what the claims are.

It could be that there is a reproducible 1% "mystery" effect that works from future to past, but only in experiments like this. In which case claim wouldn't be extraordinary, it'd just be something we can't understand.

Remember that he's still in the data gathering stage. If -- and it's a big if -- there is any kind of reproducible pattern that doesn't match known laws, that doesn't mean there is a claim. There is simply data that doesn't fit our current models.

That's why people who push frontiers have to be very, very careful about differentiating the data from the claims.

Lots of guys make lots of money with bogus TV shows and books on stuff like this, and it's a shame: many times there is something unusual in the data, but the claims jump far ahead of any reality. Fear of this effect has probably silenced a lot of little tiny pieces of data that wouldn't make sense -- it's simply too much trouble to have to keep explaining yourself. This might be one of the factors explaining Feynman's story of the Millikan oil drop experiment.
This is very standard for this time of day on Reddit unfortunately.
Anything is technically a contract when signed by both parties... right?
I think I get a similar thing. A weird overwhelming sensation then a rush of fire in the neck and then brain on fire. Always at a chinese restaurant, with specific dishes.
No. Why? If the requirement is large enough, someone will develop it for free, and I'll use that.
for proof of 3. just check out their drummer. He constantly has a huge smile on his face during the shows, and they all seem to be having a blast.

Its too bad they're not touring this summer, I've seen them the past 3 years and their shows never fail to impress