skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure I'm 100% in agreement with the arguments that our phones are best used for all of these cases.. I can imagine some interesting cases with smarts... Text me when the surf is really good before 9am, or wake me up early if the traffic is particularly bad.. ring me if one of the stocks in my portfolio starts taking a dive. I dunno.. I think there could be some neat applications for an intelligent alarm service.
While an alarm clock should be annoying to a certain extent, the rooster sound is just a bit much. I like it otherwise, though.
If Deep Blue had tied Kasparov, it would still have been a tremendous achievement. I'd say the victory was only minimally more impressive.
Its a car accident situation, you don't really want to look but you look anyway...
I have a theory that the increasing number of these kinds of events ("let's get together and hack!" or "The Foo Contest!") are basically just thinly veiled efforts to attract, identify and hire talent. A next-generation replacement for the traditional "post job descript, sift through tons of resumes, figure out who to call, setup interview, devise lame questions, hyper-over-analyze every nuance (on both sides), make decision based on proxies for what we want rather than actually what we want" paradigm of employee recruiting.

And if so, I think it's a great thing! Let's see more of it. It's progress. Folks using their brain.
Since there's huge potential for abuse, I'd like to see there be some sort of confirmation system in place.

When you set an alarm, it calls the number entered and asks you to enter in a code displayed on screen or something. That way you can confirm the person on the computer at least has access to the phone. If the same IP address tries to set alarms for X numbers and they all fail, black list that IP or something.

Somebody could potentially go in and create alarms to call people all night and there's nothing the victim could do except turn their phone off.

Otherwise pretty neat :)
"Traction isn't everything, it's the only thing."
"Getting customers ... you think you know, but you have no idea."
I had the same thought. I think Watson would make a fabulous resource for medical diagnoses. It also shouldn't just give the "answer", but the top 10 or so matches along with their probabilities.
The script makes 175760 permutations. For me the script takes around around 1.5 seconds to query the page each time. 175760 * 1.5 / 60 = 4394 minutes / 60 = 73.23 hours of constantly hitting the site. I'm not sure how the parallel connections it uses will impact the speed, but 3 days seems feasible. Not to say that this should ever be tried.
Yeah, that's correct. The video has almost absolutely nothing to do with the actual content.
GTK+ was my first foray into GUI programming when I was a kid, and I still think it's pretty slick. I really liked the concept of boxes and nesting stuff, and how it would figure out how to lay it out. And that it could all be done in code and be understandable! Not some wonky OLE2 / Swing "Form Designer" that I was doomed to never understand.
An obvious workaround: Multiple accounts can be created. It's that easy. Otherwise if you add hurdles, single account people would be put off from signing up.
Thanks. I look forward to the response.
Hi guys, TotalFinder creator here :-) And yes, I did not create that script.

First, big thanks to some HN guys to ping me so early. I had to shut down my coupon-based links for the time being.

Anyways I should thank those hackers, it looks someone did a promo action to my software here on HN ;-)
Well... If you look at the source code of a Smalltalk program, you'll tons of small functions.

You'll probably enjoy that.

Problem is, grasping what they means turn to be difficult, it's like wherever you look you just have to look elsewhere and feel like the real job is done... no where. You basically struggle to get the "big picture".

Well... it's probably better than Forth.

There is more than one way to do it. I don't split a big function in two until the other function is called from at least two places. What's the point of having a function when all calls to it come from a single place?

But let the code speak, have a look at mine if you wish, this nice javascript loader for example http://simpliwiki.com/loadfire.js.html -- extracted automatically from my one big file of course. :)
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yes I meant processes as in the generic term you might say executions as erlang process are different to Java threads. I meant a comparison of concurrent 'activities' as comparing a Java thread model to an erlang process model is somewhat pointless. I am interested in any Java program you might have that can run thousands of threads without grinding to a halt. please show me I didn't think it possible!
See, I get jaded about this place and then this happens.

<3 I'll never leave you HN <3
Yes! That would make an awesome visual as well.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andre_the_Giant_Has_a_Posse
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Have half of this coded already, will show up in the future.
Passing the Turing Test is a bit (a lot!) harder than fooling someone that isn't paying attention. The computer has to respond reasonably to any conversational gambit offered by someone actively seeking to probe the computer. Can the computer correctly identify a pun? Does it have enough "common sense" to identify nonsense phrases such as "the waterfall ran up the aide of the mountain"? Does it understand the difference between a running stream, a running man and a running engine?

If your chatscript can negotiate this type of test, then it would satisfy me that it was thinking.
I'd argue that brainpower is not their only asset. It's an important input, but not their most important "asset". True assets can't walk out the door one day and not come back. People can do that, at any time. I'd say that Google's best assets are their vast technology infrastructure that's been "proven" and optimized for performance, reliability, etc., plus their brand and their existing userbase inertia. Employees can come and go. They are very useful and valuable. But Google's codebase and hardware isn't going to simply disappear one day on a whim. Folks like Guido and Vint Cerf and Thompson and Kernigan, etc., just might. Plus humans have egos and ambitions and dreams, and get old and tire or lazy or want lifestyle changes. Code and machines do not. A true asset can be sold off like a commodity. An employee cannot be sold off like this, not directly and explicitly anyway.
Crate is to sharing files, what Dropbox is to storing them.
I couldn't stand the fact that it was free for google and apple employees :)
I agree. Navigating a source tree with fulltext search is obviously much simpler. I wonder why it's not "obvious" to most developers, habits maybe.
It seems like there may be no way to make dating easier, due to evolutionary reasons. If some men find a way (resource) to get access to higher quality females, there will immediately be as much competition for this resource as possible. The only way to get access to it will inevitably be through costly (as costly as possible) displays of fitness.

For instance, paying large amounts of money for access, spending a lot of time working out to improve your pics, etc.
Do it on time, do it on budget, or get the hell out of Dodge. (early 2000s)
With [...] you are doing the same as list(...), so your example would return a list:

>>> evens_only([1,2,3,4,5])
[1, 2]

If you want a generator instead:

evens_only = lambda nums: (n/2 for n in nums if n%2==0)

So you'll get:

>>> evens_only([1,2,3,4,5])
<generator object <genexpr> at 0x7f2ef79eaa00>

I don't know which one would be more Pythonic, clean and simple lambda one-liner or two-lined simple function.
Thanks for posting this here! I just applied :)
1) The phrase that _I_ used? When did I use it?

2) Okay, fine, we'll use YOUR reference instead of MINE, even though they basically say the same thing. What they say is that there are multiple meanings, and some of those meanings are the opposite of one another. In situations like that, the reader gets to work it out. It's not a case of having simply used the word wrong, as you claimed. In fact, both dictionaries (wikt, dictionary.com) specifically mention this in their usage notes. So why are you citing a source that agrees with me?

Scroll down in the link YOU chose, to where Collins Dictionary senses 2 and 3 are consistent with the OP's intent.

Scroll down in the link YOU chose, to where the Online Etymology Dictionary says that for 50 years now it is coming back into fashion to use it in the original sense of "abundant".

If you're a descriptivist, then the fact is that people use it this way. And if you're a prescriptivist who prefers original meanings, then use the original (15c) meaning. Prescriptivists who only know about 100 years of history are only fooling themselves.

Don't get me wrong, I'm all for pedantic corrections, it's a bad habit of mine too. But only when they're correct. You said "ekidd, you're using this word wrong", but actually, ekidd's usage was perfectly valid, as even your source of choice admits.
last time I looked hotkeys was tied to and old (<1.3) release of jquery too.

EDIT: I was wrong. Rewritten in Jan this year to work with 1.4.2, which is really good news. https://github.com/jeresig/jquery.hotkeys
You could cut out the middle-man, and just try to get us the phone numbers of the ladies in your stock art.

There's already a category for businesses which offer rich men the chance to specify things like 'chest size' in the women they'd like to 'date', and 'dating site' isn't it.
I use Vi because it decreases the learning curve for new languages. No new IDE; no new set of emacs key-chords and mode-tricks. I can edit very efficiently in Vi, and all of my editing tricks/habbits apply to all languages.

Technically I use Vim, but a lot of Vim features violate my "no language specific features" rule. So I usually restrict myself to Vi features.
quick question: how do you plan to improvize the free coupon system and make it more secure against these type of "weak" attacks?
Git needs a new interface
This is pretty cool. Are there answers for the exercises?
I'm sad they didn't use HAL's voice for it.
Frothy Valuations
I want know how the exploit works. The Flash app has to write a custom header. How does it know the value to put in the header, unless it's always the same for all sessions across all users.

P.S. You cache POST/PUT/DELETES?
I was hoping there will be a lot of behavior analysis of the dating game, and ways to utilize that knowledge in some innovative way to make online dating work.

Without understanding the mechanisms of the game, a more successful dating site just means a better conversion technique.
Dude. You're worse than me! ;)
It could also make a decent living in tech support too.
I got funded by a fucking pirate. My pitch made me his bitch.
And yet it generated 200+ Valid License within 15 minutes. What about running it on EC2 instances ?
Does this have anything to do with Ubuntu release schedules? It's either two months after this, or after X.org which came out on 20th Dec.
This, but combined with ookblah's comment -- you only really need to treat the men this way.
I'd be interested in what this kind of array could do if it could be used to take cinema-quality video with your examples level of post-processing.
Like Qwiki? ($7m, I believe)
"looking for a technical co-founder"

"fund this"
100K/yr?!? More like YoungMiddleClassAndProbably UnderwaterOnTheirHome.com
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I am reminded a site that helps girls to find wealthy sugar daddies. They require your tax return slip before identifying as a real millionaire.
Around here, students generally major in what they want to do for a career. It's not that a person isn't capable of doing things they didn't study -- they just aren't likely to be all that interested.
you can use their facebook profile for some validation (although they can still get around that).

one thing i thought would be cool was kind of like a closed invite/referral ecosystem. that way you can't get on unless someone you know vouches for you, and if you misbehave then the referrer also is punished.
The "Try me!" textbox won't even let me put in the whole number, when trying to use +47(Norway) as country code... Does this only work in the US?
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"What's your fucking problem?"
(no really, tell me, cause I don't know shit)
So you're basically saying that information follows inverse square law according to time? Very interesting idea.
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The equally big flaw is that it focuses on the _average_ employee rather than the _marginal_ employee. If you want to decide to hire another employee, your concern is not how productive your average employee is. Your concern is whether the next employee will be a net positive or a net negative.

I'll bet that Wal-mart's marginal employee profit is almost exactly $0. In other words, Wal-mart has hired so many people that there is no benefit to hiring one more, and has been so efficient in getting lean that there is nothing to be gained from firing somebody. (Of course, that ignores individual performance, but on average.)

The same analysis might be true for Goldman. Even though the average Goldman employee is raking in hundreds of thousands for the company, it's not clear that Goldman would profit an extra $200,000 just by hiring the next average employee. It's very likely that Goldman has a limited number of opportunities to invest and that the current staff is enough to handle those and no more.
Show HN: Peek'n'Poke
Peek'n'Poke is a simple way to ask for feedback on unpublished text content (blog posts, essays, etc).

I made it over the weekend as a way to make it easy to improve with my writing/grammar.

All modifications that people make on texts are aggregated in the interface visible in a simple diff like interface.

http://www.peeknpoke.com
Is github going to be textmate 2?
This is one thing that William Bernstein (I recommend his books) points out. You need to be able to calmly watch your portfolio halve in value and sit it out if you're going to be a buy and hold investor (or any investor, really). I have several friends who took their money out near the bottom of the latest crash and put it it cash or cash equivalents. It's the absolute wrong choice investment-wise, but it's understandable.

Selling before the bottom and buying before the climb is the right thing to do, but if you can do that, you're not spending time reading HN, you're either working hard as a trader or relaxing on your desert island.
'It would take some serious guts to say "Your presence in our community is a net negative. We wish you the best, as long as the best is found elsewhere."'

Didn't OKCupid do that with their "If you have any STDs, please go here [link to match.com]"?
tl;dr - We pivoted
Clickity: http://www.peeknpoke.com
well 100 k because its a concept that can work nationally not just in california or new york or miami
Can't you also share files with a url through Dropbox? And get 50GB for $9.99/month?
The CIA can't even sniff out a double agent who kills a station chief and a hand full of others in AFG...doubtful they have robots smaller then this : http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/42/Raven_UAV...

full article here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miniature_UAV

you guys watch too much movies
They need to make this easy as possible. As someone who has developed for iPhone, BB, Android and Palm, they need to make it as easy as installing one program, as you do for the iPhone. All you need to do with the iPhone is install xcode, and you can start making iOs apps straight away, and get them running on the simulator.

BB and Android are a huge pain in the ass, and turn of people just wanting to get started, not fool around with setting up annoying tools.
Sorry to hear that, as a founder I would love to learn how we can do better. Feel free to contact me anytime and chat.
What's the consensus on the best PDF reader for iPad? Is goodreader 'it'?
Yes if you are taking about the general populace, I absolutely agree good people skills are far more common. However we're talking about BA/PMs in a technical company (at least that is my assumption given the original question) in which case there is already a pre-filtered environment of basic technical familiarity/knowledge. In this environment, good people skills and more specifically 'attitude' is a lot rarer than technical skills.
I don't think we're in a bubble for one very simple reason: people keep insisting we are in one. There's more to bubbles than overvaluation. There's a psychological component to it that blinds people to that overvaluation. To me, the only way to effectively determine a bubble's existence is in hindsight.

For instance, how many times did you hear anyone talking of a housing market bubble before it popped? Little to none. Right now, there's just too much talk of a tech bubble for there to actually be one. And it's not just on sites like HN. You see it in the MSM too:

http://money.cnn.com/2010/12/20/technology/tech_startups_bub...

http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/02/10/twitter-tech-bubbl...

http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2011/01/14/in-groupon-i-p-o-anot...

http://www.cnbc.com/id/37636070/Kaminsky_s_Call_Tech_Bubble_...

Sorry, but I just don't see it happening just this moment. A year or two later might be a different story. But I don't see it happening now.
I've been called on a few occasions to recover the gmail accounts of family and friends and it hasn't worked once, even when supplying reasonably accurate data.

I really don't trust it.
I call sampling error. Bing users are easily pleased with results, take anything they're shown. Google users look harder, and often refine a search.
Could see this being chalked up in the "bloatware" category on new Windows machines.
It sounds like we agree except on the semantics. My point is:

people skills = easy to find

technology skills = more difficult to find

technology skills + people skills = incredibly tough to find
Correction, it was [link to random competitor]. Needless to say, match.com is no longer on that list.
If you're trying to keep costs low you can attempt to split up the job and do parts using http://fiverr.com . You wont get amazing animations for $5, but you can actually get decent voiceover work. I've had a video made which was solid, and for $5 you basically choose the "voice" that you want, give them a script (and copy of your animation), and you're set.
> The best data is just hard to collect online. Photos of person in their social group to deduce personality type would probably fail since there are so many variables.

The fact that there's so many variables isn't the reason such an analysis would fail. The reason is that there's just not enough input to predict personality type with any statistical significance.

There's just so much that could be measured, but whether any of these metrics have any correlation with whether two people can, as the author describes, "just get through dinner" is a very tough question to answer.
Here's a fascinating overview of how Watson (DeepQA) works:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3G2H3DZ8rNc

The video goes into some detail, and looks at how Watson analyzes particular questions.

It feels like AI is starting to become what people once thought it could be.
I agree. I do not like this idea that lots of zany shit = fun and comfort. Having worked in a number of different office cultures, the people with all the crazy junk all over their desks are almost always the sad ones -- people who go home alone after work and cry in their apartments, surrounded by cats with various illnesses. It's actually a red flag for me whenever I interview. It says, "I'm doing my best to cope."
Nevermind >_>, now there are 12 :D. The program runs 3 months with an option to extend another 3 months (if your demo fails). I think the acceptance process is rolling.
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It's fascinating to me that they're profitable already. I can't imagine it being easy to get users to pay for file sharing.
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Why does Amazon care? Does Texas not, like other states, charge a use tax which would cause Amazon's Texas customers to pay the same amount as if sales tax were applied?
NYTimes has selective access to a lot of the front page stories, visiting nytimes.com not logged in won't normally allow you to advance past the little blurbs to see full articles (connection, location, time of day, visitor amount dependent). You'll notice however Google searching the article title and then choosing the first result will take you to the full article.

Could anyone else shed some light on this?
Honestly, I think that meetup.com ends up being a better "dating site" than most sites that actually position themselves as such. As the article says, it's better to just focus on helping people find other people they might be friends with. From there, the relationships just sort of happen. Also, the social distance problem is largely taken care of because of the focus on group activities, and also because group organizers get visibility into the behavior of the members and can, for example, boot the creeps who message every single woman in the group.
Oh, awesome! I can't wait to hear more.
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"‘success rate’ .. a measurement of how often a user executes a search, and then goes to a webpage from the set of links"

One simple example where this fails:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&source=hp&q=circu...

The answer is shown three times in the results. There is no need to click on anything. Did the testers compare these results for Google and Bing?
The color scheme is really good, and design layout is very fluid and clean. Simple to use and simple to understand.

I would suggest allowing people to send invites through Facebook or twitter so friends and followers can review work as well.

Good job though!
Trivia questions are quite guessable.

I think you overestimate human interaction. :-)

Look at how many people will have full on conversations with bots. And these aren't even good bots.

An IRC based Turing test will be passed in the next 15 years. The corpus that we have with Google/Bing/Wikipedia add to that emails from GMail/Yahoo/Hotmail, IMs and text message, Facebook messages and statuses.

The computer will not only be able to have conversation, but it will be able to go from talking to you in the Queen's English to ebonics. And will be the most knowledgeable person you've ever met.
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