skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Also works for french -> japanese translation:

http://translate.google.fr/#fr|ja|JE%22TE%20HAIS
The API is currently not exposed to the public internet. I'll keep your feedback in mind for the future.
Article is really light on details.. But they mention that they are basing their intelligence metric on an organism's Kolmogorov complexity. It sounds to me like they are quantifying randomness, not intelligence.
ybot also put them up on Flickr in case you don't like Posterous's browser:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/tobywaite/sets/7215762579956148...
Warning: this is probably offtopic.

There is an interesting initiative in Spain (http://guifi.net/en/what_is_guifinet) that's trying to build an open (wifi-based, mesh-structured) network. Although the idea always seemed really cool to me, I thought that it was a hopeless effort. On the one hand, the "mainstream" network is much faster and reliable. On the other hand, you need a proxy node to reach the actual Internet.

Nonetheless, this specific news has opened my eyes about the importance of such non-government-controllable networks. For one, it would allow citizens to get in touch with eachother, escaping the government control. Additionally, a single proxy in a neighboring country would be enough so that news could leak.

For these reasons, I'm going to try to join this network asap. Further, I encourage you all to join any similar project going on near you, or try to build one if it doesn't exist.

Let the networking begin!
Autocomplete is awesome. Two ideas:

* Option for it to come up automatically instead of with a key combo.

* Taking colours from the active colour scheme.

Keep up the good work!
For me it's about communication in general. My contacts are a part of that - Apple isn't terrible, but Google does a better job. Google also does a much better job of finding contact info outside my contact list - phone numbers, addresses, maps, directions.

If MS wants to compete as a platform, they need to do a better job than Google (unlikely), or they need to make it open and easy enough for apps to do this (something Apple has actively blocked).

Also the linked article is crap (likely a fishing expedition for some free gear), but I will check back on his blog when he posts the real review.
What are the plans for auto complete? Maybe native ctags support? That would make me change to Sublime 100%!!!
for people having issues, this thing requires Safari
I hate to sound like a paranoid delusional, but this is a time when having even a basic amateur radio license seems like a really great idea. It's not impossible to for the government to shut down the airwaves, but it is a lot harder to do it on a broad scale. Communication is essential to a free society, and it's startling to me that our government wants the same ability. It seems so entirely counter to our core principles as a nation.
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Multiple selections are very cool.
I think you have done a great job with this editor.
A final question: what is the recommended way to move between recently visited files? For instance in Visual Studio there is a file history stack that makes it very easy to visit previous files with Alt + W + n where n represents the distance in the visitation history. I keep doing Alt + W + 2 to alternate back and forth between two files. Is there a way to this in Sublime?

I am thinking about buying it to use under OSX. The XCode editor is not my favourite to put it lightly.

Keep up great work!
Does nobody remember LiveJournal? The site with the community that was willing to look past growing pains and security exploits to communicate on their own terms? The "straight forward blogging platform" that created a need for memcached amongst other scaling tools?
Read the history of LJ's architecture from 1 server to hundreds: http://www.danga.com/words/2007_06_usenix/usenix.pdf
The text uses Mizar, a formal language based on Tarsky-Grothendiek set theory for expressing and checking its proofs: http://mizar.org/system/
The government of Egypt is actively blocking its population from communicating. There is no such thing as hyperbole in this context.
Interesting, are the Syrians afraid that the Egyptians will find ways to communicate or are they afraid that the flames of revolution will spread and spoil their plans for dynasty?

If Mubarak is successfully ousted a lot of people might wake up to the possibility of throwing out their abusive leaders, I'll bet that plenty of middle east despots are not sleeping well tonight, if at all and that one or two of them might check the contents of their 'bug-out-bags'.
thanks matt this is awesome!
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Apologies in advance - I got a little carried away here:

Morrido.com - A dating site for fundamental Mormons, general polygamists, and the poly-curious.

Discussels.com - The premier social community for people who love discussing mussels. Oyster lovers can fuck off.

Nihilised.com - Our website does nothing. Is nothing. Nothing to see here.

Spellante.com - A-N-T-E. Scaling content is our only issue.

Gourmes.com - Recipe sharing for the finest quality breakfasts, lunches, dinners, and suppers - but no teas.

Spillain.com - Home of the Tony Hayward Fan Club.
http://catandgirl.com/?p=1163

"Every once in a while a window appears - and you realize the past is just the present with different technology and funny clothes"
"The entire dataset is in RAM."

How can they guarantee that, when RAM is little more than a disk cache on modern operating systems? Is there a syscall that prevents specified pages of virtual memory from being paged out to disk? Or is Redis implemented as a kernel module?
Ask HN: Any London startups recruiting grads for the summer?
Hi,
I'm a CS student who graduates in July, so I'm wondering if any startups are recruiting for then?
My main skill set is Java, with some experience in Haskell, Ruby, C++ and PHP.
Thanks.
Well, personally my strategy is to try and get things to pay for themselves. I bought the most expensive camera I could in the hope that some day I could sell a few photos. Passive income is, after all, the holy grail. So if I'm taking photos for a hobby anyway, maybe this hobby can start paying for itself. I wouldn't want to engage in an expensive hobby that didn't even have that potential.
Hey, I understand. It's hard to do this sort of stuff, especially inside large companies. However, posting an anonymous "call for participation" of sorts is a serious put-off. At a minimum you need to post a link to the company you represent. Preferably you should post a link to the API itself or some documentation of the API. It doesn't have to be public, private beta's happen all the time and people ask for participation here--but it's done transparently. Personally, I'm a user of the type of data you're talking about. This is what I do. Why should I waste time investigating it more until I know what I'm dealing with? I've talked to all the major data vendors and know what they offer--are you offering something new? I just don't know because you won't tell me, and I'm not going to start emailing around wasting my time until I've atleast vetted that it is something that works for what I do.
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It's nice that you're defending your crony.

But that's all it comes across as.

All the reasons you give for excusing Karp could also be used to excuse the "whiner" who sent the email. Does he not have his business to run? Is he not under pressure?
I would like to point out one interesting thing I noticed today. I was looking for "gcc optimization flags for xeon".

Following query is from google.com and contains no efreedom on the front page.
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=gcc+optimization+fl...

Now, the same query from google.ie (ireland site) contains 2 efreedom on the top page!

http://www.google.ie/search?hl=en&q=gcc+optimization+fla...

Why this strange search behavior to a query which has no relevance to user's location?

P.S. I was logged on to my google account while searching, not sure if that has any effect whatsoever.
So what you're saying is that this entire article is a hit piece that has nothing that remotely resembles objectivity or that has made any effort to actually tell both sides of the story. Fascinating.

Don't you love it when bloggers use their magic publish button to settle petty personal issues? Awesome. Thanks for wasting 15 minutes of my day.
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This is great news, thanks very much.
Its ironic that duality was given as an example of how phillosophy is irrelevant to AI. Logic/Mathematics are both dichotomized ontologies of opposotes. Nothing could be more relevant.

How about oop which is modeled after plato's ontology of forms? Processes/Objects, this line of inquiry nor the language originated from cs.
Is sitting around a TV socializing?
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That's just because in 2000, they were trying to get as much market share as possible. Also they probably didn't need to get more revenue at the time.

It sounds like you're trying to argue that Google has abandoned their core beliefs, or been overrun with profit driven accountants or something.

I'm pretty sure the "get users, then figure out revenue" is a very widely used strategy. Google are just more on the second part than the first...
Redis is single-thread one-process program. Since the execution only happens when EXEC command received, such scenario cannot exist.
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This editor is cross platform and many of us already use it.
This comment made me chuckle. I agree all this should be discussed out in the open, but blogging and then tweeting links to the blog post....what happened to email!? :)
It's a valid point.
Seems like the gist is incomplete. Where are the card template images and the scripts to composite the text onto the cards?
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I guess my point to this was to show how simple it is to tailor a website to mobile webkit users. For example, HN isn't using any media queries and in probably 30 minutes it could be perfectly nice to read and respond to comments on my phone.

I'll volunteer an hour to do it.
While it would have been cool if we had done that, it was easier to just use Photoshop. We can put the PSDs on Dropbox or something.
I'm working on an FAQ/Help page which will show some of those features in more detail.

The algorithm I use is a variation of the code described here: http://denis.papathanasiou.org/?p=343 except the output is html, not text, so that I can take account things like font sizes and paragraph breaks.

If you signup and try it (it's free for the first 3 days), you'll see that the parser renders each pdf page as text, and it's up to you to decide which range of pages you want to use in your book.

Feel free to contact me by the form on that site, and I can reply in more detail.
Your swap should be off, and there is mlockall(2).

The kernel does let userspace have a /little/ fun on its own.
UPDATE: I am even more surprised to see that when I logged out of my account and searched again on google.ie, one of the efreedom disappeared!!

So, does this mean that Google search now takes into account my past search result clicks (or rather mis-clicks)? Or ranks contents in someway that proves efreedom is somehow more relevant to me?
Drop me an email. I can't promise anything at this stage but we may be.
[Edit: Substantially rewritten in light of #2, below.]

Thank you. It looks like Postdesk started a public controversy while leaving out two critical pieces of information:

1) William's actual e-mail, which expresses his disappointment in a reasonably polite fashion. Normally, this sort of e-mail should merit a polite response and a refund.

2) The allegation that William send the email to the entire engineering team (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2152203). This changes the context of Karp's remarks significantly, because it means that Karp had to weigh two things: The feelings of a disappointed customer, and the morale of his already-stressed engineers.

In this case, I actually sympathize a bit with Karp. He needs to take care of his customers, but he also needs to take care of his people. That puts his remark "...we have no interest in customers that will go out of their way to discourage our entire team..." in a rather different light. That's not an easy situation to resolve well.

I wish that Postdesk had provided more facts (and less editorial comment) in the original article.
Is conservative let-suicide-bomb-westerners style Islam a populist movement that might take hold, or is it viewed by he protestors as just as undesirable as the current regime?
I lived in Florida at the time. It was 6 days after my 9th birthday. I was in 4th grade, and because of our proximity to the cape, the teachers always took classes outside to watch the shuttle launch first hand. I remember the teachers first being confused, but then immediately becoming distraut after realizing something went wrong. They tried to hide their reactions from the kids, but everyone young and old knew that the launch wasn't "normal".

It was a big dose of reality for a 9 year old. Watching the shuttle launches was always a highlight for me, being the little geek that I was. That was the day that the fairy tale of infallible science propaganda ended for me and the reality of failure hit me square in the face. Fortunately, it had a positive effect on me, rather than negative. I recognized that I shouldn't take anyone's word at face value. I should aways seek to learn for myself.
There is any way to help people by-pass Internet shut-down in Egypt?
"NET WITHOUT BORDERS"

I was wondering... does somebody know an easy way to stablish within the Egiptian domain a proxy server to restablish connection to the rest of the world... independant from the ISPs.

I'm thinking, this kind of communications shut-down is not new (Iran, North Korea, China, Myanmar), and even in the states some people want to create a "shut-down internet" button.

We have to figure out some way to protect access and neutrality to the net; for this kind of political crisis, and for natural disasters... (just remembering that for Chile's last 8.8 earthquake, the net came down because of some fiber-optics cut, and the only communication working were landlines and SMSs)

EDIT1: Egypt can use this number for dial up: +33172890150 (login 'toto' password 'toto') - thanks to a French ISP (FDN). Via @ioerror
They wouldn't have to do much tracking, there is a public registry.

On another note, during WWII the mere possession of a radio was grounds for execution in plenty of places, let alone a transmitter, but that didn't stop people from having radios concealed in the most ingenious ways.
The two links show the same results for me now (logged in). Perhaps the index/algorithm changes just took a while to be deployed to all servers.
Oh interesting! I attended that University (somewhat briefly, as my lack of funds did not allow me to really finish my degree).

CMPUT172 must have been discontinued shortly after these notes as from 2003 onwards they only offer CMPUT272 - Formal Systems in Logic in Computing Science now.

Certainly a good course, it really provides some great insight about how computers understand and process logical problems. I still have the text and have used it from time to time to show and discuss with others interesting logic problems. The only thing that the course missed was applying the knowledge in a programming environment.
Ctrl+Tab/Ctrl+Shift+Tab cycle forwards/backwards through the stack of recently used files, in the same manner as Alt-Tab (Command+Tab on OS X) cycles through applications.
Sounds interesting, at the same time, mighty sketchy. Are you going to cut us off from the data once we develop something interesting, and run off with the idea and sell if yourself?

No thanks..
The high-order bit for me is that Stack Overflow is #1 for both pages. We can do localization based on TLD: the query [bank] will return different results on google.com vs. google.ie, for example. Without doing a deep dig yet, we might have thought that open-mag.com was more helpful for European searchers, for example. It looks like that site is based in Portugal.
Fantastic though I'd rather see google block sites like efreedom all together.
Wikileaks Starts Publishing US Embassy Cables About Egypt
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Designing custom printed labels absolutely needs you to put into action the rational tools and technologies so as to get done your job efficiently. Realistically speaking, there are more than enough label designing tools and methods but none is greater than Adobe illustrator at all as this is the most vibrant graphic design software.
You know who else won't sleep well tonight? US leaders. Basically, the arab youth is overthrowing the US puppets and overturning US influence in middle east. Joe Biden has voiced open support for Egyptian president today, but Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama has been tactful so far.

As an American, I am glad that the arab youth is escaping the imperialistic shadow that US has casted over the middle east. As an American, I lament that this is the end of the US dominance. As an American, I fear that the revolution around the world will force US into a totalitarian government. As an American, I hope that true democracy will ultimately triumph.
Yeah, having worked on a Wii game I know all too well what their policies on internet multiplayer are. In this context though, I guess I meant that they don't seem to be terribly interested in developing their consoles beyond mere game machines and bringing internet-based services into the living room. Then again, they're practically printing money, so who am I to criticise.
If you're using personalized search, we do look at past clicks to change your ranking. So if you clicked on efreedom in the past, that could affect your ranking. You can add "&pws=0" (or use incognito mode in Chrome without logging in) to turn off personalized search and see whether that's the factor for you.
True, but proving the absence of side-channel attacks is not currently feasible (it's a very active research area, though - feel free to ask if you want to know something).

And tptacek has a point: sadly, most devices break well before side-channel attacks are worth considering.
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Never has it been more clear that blocking free expression is the primary tool of tyrants to prevent change and reform within their society.
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Google has been doing this for some time now.
Kudos for keeping locational variety. Is there a flag/keyword we can enter into the search to ignore location?
Why is it surprising that a country could shut down access to the internet? It's not as if the internet is some sort of magic cloud where packets fly in and out to destinations across the world. It's a system. It has points of failure just like anything else. Granted it was built to survive failure but if you didn't build your internet infrastructure like the designers envisioned it's probably pretty easy to turn it off.

When I lived in NYC I was really surprised to find out that most transatlantic cables terminated in this tall windowless building on Duane and Chambers street. If you basically took that building away you probably could turn off the internet for a good portion of people in the US. Or at the very least make it hard.

My point being - in Egypt there probably is a similar building that houses all of their DNS servers, lines to other countries, etc. So its not hard to believe that someone just decided to walk in and turn off the power.
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Will this change effect sites like filestube.com and freshwap.net? FilesTube ranks for majority of the long tail keywords, even those not related to downloads/torrents/rapidshare.

I see filestube's auto-generated search listing pages ranking on Google all the time. Pages like:
http://www.filestube.com/m/matt+cutts
http://www.filestube.com/g/google+scraper

Same goes for freshwap: http://www.freshwap.net/387/dl/Google+Matt+Cutts

These sites will give out an auto-generated page for every keyword you enter into it. Apparently, Google loves to index them... there are 126 million pages of files tube indexed in Google. I thought indexing search listing pages of other search engine was against Google's policies.
Sure, tables are not inherently evil. But like every other HTML element, they have their correct and incorrect uses. The reason you hear so much crap about them is because of very widespread misuse.

When used correctly (read: where you need to display tabulated data) tables are perfect. In some cases, they may even be warranted in layout design. However, this is not common. Using DIVs and CSS makes for much cleaner code where a table is not explicitly needed.

Hacker News actually uses tables. Not sure why, but maybe there's a good reason.
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>> I'll bet you that I've seen more of 'the real world' than you have,...

No need to get into a pissing match. I've spent more than half of my life abroad too.

Do you really think people can just walk up to Gadhafi and say, "we protest peacefully, so please give us power"? Do you think Saddam could have been deposed peacefully by his people?

Since we geeks love to categorize and form patterns, I'll put this forward: the difference between the erstwhile empires (like the British, French, etc.) and these despots is that those empires weren't cults of personality; there wasn't 1 person brutalizing the public, like you have here (Ben Ali, Mubarak, and Gadhafi (who's shitting bricks right now)). So when the push comes to shove, the employees of the "empire" can walk away and allow for peaceful transition of power; but the servants of these despots are too closely tied to their masters (sometimes it is tribal loyalty), and don't go away quietly.

And finally: even though one may say that Gandhi's "revolution" was peaceful, don't forget the million people killed in the subsequent blood-letting known as the "Partition", where India and Pakistan were split from one.
Continuation...

Philosophy is relevant to CS. The challenge is contextualizing the domain in a relevant way.
Tumblr founder says that users who complain about site issues should “go away”
I can't offer specific help, but I suggest adding details into your HN profile, including your main skill set and email address.
Does it work on a Tumblr with more than a few dozen pages?

No, even writing my own, have encountered errors on selected pages where the service simply "errored out" once it reached a certain page.

What other sites?

I have tried Posterous and it failed to import.

Sorry, there needs to be a one-click solution where you request an export (and even if you have to be emailed when it is completed) and a file is generated with your content to download to your computer, be it XML, JSON, or in static HTML.