skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Oh, neat, I found where the Asian characters begin!"

And then they never ended.
Box CEO says Silicon Valley's impatience is good
The book expands upon his thesis, and has Haskell source code in an appendix. I'm more familiar with the book than that PDF (and definitely recommend it), but comparing their tables of contents would probably help.
If that's the only metric, then why was Microsoft censured for bundling IE with Windows?
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Tulip 3.5.0 is out
Strangely beautiful.
There are many approaches to the connectome. One way to differentiate the groups is by the imaging resolution at which they work. The Nature paper uses light microscopy and patch clamping a sample of neurons (caveat -- haven't had a chance to read the paper yet) while Seung's group works on methods to trace electron microscopy, which is significantly higher res than light microscopy. You can see individual synapses (e.g., the T-bars and post-synaptic densities) in EM images while the light microscopy guys need another method to establish true connectivity versus physical proximity, hence the patch clamping. Ideally, you'd be able to tell whether two neurons are connected to each other by looking at high-res images -- see the T-bar, lots of vesicles with neurotransmitters, the post-synaptic densities on neighboring neurons. The gold standard, though, is to be able to electrically establish connectivity. You just can't do that gold standard for the vast number of neurons in the brains.
Seems ok to me.

Love your interviews by the way. Your voice, mannerisms and speech patterns are inviting and easy to listen to.
Actually, I'm a professional photographer, and Flickr absolutely blows.

Tell me how to view the highest rated photos for today, current week, current month.

Compare

http://www.flickr.com/explore/interesting/7days/

with, for instance,

http://photo.net/gallery/photocritique/filter (set the filter to "last week")

and you will see how shitty Flickr is. And keep in mind that Flickr gets thousands times more traffic and number of photos uploaded.
"Enterprises do not develop software at breakneck speed Google, it's just not worth it."

so why are you running the dev channel? :)
Chrome clearly isn't made for the enterprise. IE has historically been a poor browser, but it gives sys admins quite a bit of control over how and when updates are applied.
I agree, it's a little obscure. But to be fair, the page is so simple, and there's so few things to explore, it's hard to not get curious about what's in the corners. On the other hand, a poorly calibrated monitor could potentially make the lightish-gray-on-not-quite-as-lightish-gray stuff nigh invisible.
> to me, it means "aware of a couple explanations and intentionally picking one that makes a little less sense,"

If a person is aware of a couple of explanations for something and has judgments about how much sense they make, those judgments represent their degree of belief in those explanations. If they claim to believe the one they actually believe in less, then they are being dishonest.
What about a grammar checker using a human computation in the style of the ESP Game?

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1398
When I started my doctorate years ago, one of the college dons told the first-years that everybody is afraid we'll be "found out", and that somehow our previous track record was merely a fluke. He said these feelings were normal and that we should just let them go. I haven't worried about it since.
While I agree it's not the greatest landing page ever, I don't think it's THAT bad. I spent more time typing this then it took me to read the page and give them my email for an invite.
Point taken, jed smith. I do apologize for being so abrasive. I hope this doesn't turn you off from hacker news, as your patience is something I could afford to learn more about.
Litigation ending only when justice is served is an impossible standard. The losing party (whichever side it is in that round) will obviously feel justice has not been served and appeal endlessly. If the two sides agreed on what constituted justice, there wouldn't be a court case.
Adobe did the work to enable sandboxing Flash. Apple hasn't done the work (yet?) to enable sandboxing Quicktime. That's all it is.
Perfectly possible. But, without proper studies this could be as possible as global warming caused by lack of pirates.
There's a standard that appears in the surveillance debate.

"X is OK because no would be dumb/provocative/bold enough to do Y".

But that arguments doesn't take into account that make X standard means that Y is no longer the stretch it would otherwise be.

And in practical terms, the state indeed would have a hard time if they had to stop each individual using SSL for various logins. But it would be simple matter to either prohibit SSL for various things or to demand the right/ability to snoop on every SSL connection (in fact, it sound like this is more or less what's being planned now - but of course, "no one would be so dumb as to do it" so we have nothing to worry about).
See also: http://www.youtube.com/user/ffoitl#p/a/u/1/gGiENL4XrjE
Monetary vs Social Currency
Github: Goodbye Priorities
The reason is race: http://www.kff.org/healthreform/upload/7871.pdf and many others. Search for "Truman health care reform". As in many other democracies, America's right wing party is a coalition of the military, established business, the religiously observant, and what you might call resentful rural folks (who unlike the other factions exist in enough numbers to make an electoral difference). But uniquely among rich democracies, apartheid is a living memory here and still a core political differentiator. That means that anytime established business opposing something, they can get traction by implying that it's a plot to help "them". Those who mocked the grandfather who demanded that his Congressman "keep your government hands off my Medicare" for ignorance miss the point. He meant "keep Obama's black hands off my Medicare."
If you can't wait for Duolingo, you can start learning French, Spanish, German, Italian or Dutch vocabulary at http://inglua.com/en (a YC reject from before it became fashionable).
Buddy Repperton Gold: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/buddy-repperton-gold/id419250...

Absolutely junky looking app. I wonder what the hell it even does, other than suck.
Can you back that up with anything other than your personal certainty.
Since Standard ML doesn't directly support OO, I imagine the language is simpler. Some high-level comparisons on the MLton website: http://mlton.org/OCaml

EDIT: Matt Might's summary on SML and OCaml is also quite good http://matt.might.net/articles/best-programming-languages/
Fantastic!

What is the sound and how was it generated? It sounds like it might be narrow samples of some voice.
They say characters are the most important element of a story.
So here's to hoping there is no QE3, ya?
According to the page, from green to red does not subtract any point but running twice the tests with errors subtract 5 points? Kind of arbitrary rules that have nothing to do with TDD if you ask me.
>This is how most open source software companies make money. This usually includes some horrendous subscription fee and guaranteed SLAs.
I never quite understood, why this works. My only explanation is, that many customers are comfortable with this, because this is what they are used to from buying proprietary software.

I think Jonathan Schwartz had a decent answer to this question. It was basically that there are two types of customers, the kind with more time than money, and the kind with more money than time. If your company stands to lose thousands of dollars for an hour of downtime, minutes, isn't paying a subscription fee with 24 hour support worth it, even if it's almost never utilized?

Another way to make money is to backport bug fixes to previous versions that customers are on. With companies who have more time than money, this won't bother them, they can compile their own versions and do their own merges of bug fixes. For companies making boatloads of cash, why waste developer effort doing this for a negligible fee?
Blog micro-transactions: a viable business model?
This is one of the best idea/project timelines I've seen.

Please keep updating as you go. Hopefully this actually gets made since it's a great idea.
Even if Facebook buys back the shares to pay the taxes, the net result is the same: The settlement is substantially smaller.
What does that orange dot signify?
Perhaps you can adapt this little fella to do your bidding: http://vigor.sourceforge.net/screenshots/
Actually folks like it when second parties tell third parties not to do stuff that the aforementioned folks weren't planning on doing and find annoying when they are done by said third parties.
I had all but forgotten that AlltheWeb (and by extension Fast) had its origins at my university.
It's unfortunate that it was not more successful. Norway needs more innovative web technology companies; when Fast will completely cease to exist in a few years (it was acquired by Microsoft 3 or so years ago), Opera will be the only notable web technology company remaining.
I recently started asking my clients if I could interview them - so I could learn about the sales process (they are sales reps - i provide a one off service for them now). Sales people love to talk, so I spent on average 2 hrs per interview x 10 interviews last month. Almost every person I spoke with TOLD ME a product or service they need. They also described their sales process from lead gen to close and support. If you have hacking chops, talk to people.
Adobe confirms flash 0-day, issues security bulletin
Good Idea Thanks for the feedback. Finding A specific scenario would be a good way to try it out.
Notice: Experimenting with HN
Over the next few weeks I'm going to be experimenting with some of the ideas discussed here

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2403696

so don't freak out of the site changes in some way. It will probably change back.
The reality of being a new developer on Facebook
Apparently Buddy Repperton sells sports picks, and this app is an extension of that. Not really a game...
I've been waiting for this day (when 23andme costs about $100 again) for a year. Woohoo!
Just came out with a new one as well for $199.99
Buddy Repperton's Baseball 2011: http://itunes.apple.com/ca/app/buddy-reppertons-baseball/id4...
Agreed. I think its something more than having an abysmal product like Quicktime. I like VLC a lot. But, I hate how its plugin takes over firefox if I allow it to. Most of these media player plugins for web browsers are extremely annoying.
I like the no comment scores, orange dot idea (which has made a comeback).

I hope it leads to less of the mob voting mentality which seems to take hold every so often in some of the more popular threads and less of the "Sorry I downvoted you" comments that appear every so often.

On the other hand, comment scores are a very quick and easy way to see what's popular, which is still normally an informative comment. Having to wade through a lot of highly voted comments may take a bit more effort but will expose people to a greater variety of opinions.
It is, isn't it? I found myself thinking, "I'll just watch for a minute to see what this is", then getting lulled in until a distraction broke my reverie.
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I was just about to ask you just that. I've noticed in this thread (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2433424) that some comments don't show their points and that a few comments have an orange dot.

Intriguing. But I'm glad you're working on keeping the quality of HN up.

Also, clickable link for the discussion you mention: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2403696

edit: some comments still have points. Is that just a transition period?
I think at some point we have to say "enough is enough" and stop letting people game the system as a business model. The legal system is there for people to seek actual reparation for actual damages incurred. I think it should be taken on a case-by-case basis but clearly Righthaven haven't even gone through with due process by first sending cease-and-desist letters as noted by the judge. They're just passing Go and attempting to collect $200.
it is interesting that Apple approved it as a game in the app store
Looks like there's a DDoS attack on CloudFlare, which I use to speed up my site.

If you're having trouble, could you use my IP instead:
http://72.47.197.92/nori-yoshida-curebit-interviews/
Really interesting title, to bad the site has gone down?
>Killing Two Birds With One Stone

I thought it's "killing two pigs with one bird" now. Language start-up should be more aware about these things.
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You're right, and I feel this is a step in the right direction.
And if you are doing it in collaboration with others, you'll be creating a network that will support you throughout your life.
I'm the co-founder of a startup called Minno (https://www.minno.co), which is a new take on micropayments. We were inspired by Sahil's work on Gumroad last weekend (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2406614), so this weekend, we decided to whip together a little link/file sharing service of our own.

You can check out the finished (alpha) version of the product here: http://hawtcakes.com/

My co-founder and I worked on it from 10am to 3am on Saturday, 1pm to 3am on Sunday, and a little more this morning. It doesn't look quite as nice as Gumroad, but we can pretty it up later :)

Here's an example of a file you can buy/download with Hawt Cakes: http://hawtcakes.com/rfPFsN4q9

What do you thinks think? We're particularly interested in your thoughts on the payment experience :)
Well, consider me happy (though weirded out a little) with the lack of points on comments - in retrospect, I think a lot of my downvoting behavior has to do with what I think a post should have earned, not what I personally think about it, and that's probably bad.

OTOH, I'm in the habit of scanning for double-digit comments when I want to save a little time, so I miss that.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2434333
If you have non-programming skills like SEO, sales, PR (or eager to learn them), than it's certainly true, that you can get a lot more, than your current wage.

The problem for me with working on my own is laziness - sometimes i can work for whole days without interruption, sometimes i skip months without any work.
However, upvoting appears to be broken just at the moment.
I suspect that it is intentionally hard to find.
Reading Students Like an Open (Face)book
What the author doesn't seem to realise is that warrants can be issued with gag orders preventing the served from telling anyone about the tap.
In Canada judges aren't elected so technically I wouldn't call them politicians.
The optimal usage scenario would be you are out and you are trying to find where people are "happiest" so you open up the map view and you see where things are happening. I guess the idea is to see where people are having a good time in a generic sense. Anohter usage is you are at a concert and you want to see in real time what people think of it. The underlying concept of the app is real time ratings. We have added tagging and commenting to the app now so you can tag the event type and the venue you are in. So perhaps that adds further depth and the ability for more metrics.

The concept all boils down to see as close to real time as possible people's feelings about event's, news, music, food etc... and display it in a way that is tied to geography.
That is a great idea. How long have they been out? I'm surprised it hasn't caught on yet. Seems like a win/win proposition.
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Chicago School Bans Homemade Lunches
Ask HN: What do you guys think of Kiip?
Kiip just launched and I don't think it's that scalable (due to the difficulty of app integration and advertiser acquisition). Anyone else have an opinion?
Agreed, just take your customers' pricing advice with a grain of salt!

$10 to install on unlimited domains and unlimited updates? If you want to offer quality support you'll need to be charging more for the product...
Although the same might be true for solving Sudoku-puzzles. Or taking pleasure in solving challenging problems that have already been solved.

I think the key ingredient is inspiration. I find it not always clear where to look for it. On Hacker News? When traveling? What makes one think "This is something I want to work on." and makes one stick with it long enough? It seems like there's a certain ingredient to personalities that some people have more of while some have less.
Yellowstone volcanic plume much larger than expected
There's no evidence that Hotz had to pay Sony anything as part of this settlement.
It seems that you can still see how many points a comment has when it's nonpositive.

Edit:

And there are other comments with negative points where the number doesn't show. And still other comments with positive score that are showing up. Consider me confused.
I'm curious how the audio was generated. It seems to be somewhat dependent on the character being displayed, as evidenced by jumping between different types of characters (basic letters vs japanese characters)
HMAC interferes with my design goal of being simple and easily reproducing SHA1_Pass generated passwords on multiple platforms when needed. SHA1 was a design decision to meet that goal. To carry out your attack, you would have to:

1. Somehow know the user used SHA1_Pass with full encodings and a consistent "sentence followed by salt" scheme.

2. Somehow trick the user to log onto your malicious site using a SHA1_Pass password (or gain access to the password in some other way).

3. Somehow produce a different hash that worked on a different site the user visits.

All of that is possible in theory, but not likely to occur. SHA1_Pass generated passwords are not perfect, but they are not "wrong" either (or improper) as you seem to imply. The source is ISC licensed and available to you and others to edit. Feel free to do so.

BTW: I think I know you from @misc.
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Ah, but by the time the tech-savvy law students become judges, they may not be tech-savvy anymore.

This is only from my own experience at law school. There were relatively few truly tech-savvy folks out there. Almost everyone I knew still used Microsoft Word to type their lecture notes and outlines. (MS Word is terrible for this purpose - its internal formatting gets weird after a certain amount of bullet points.) I used special software for my lecture notes from a startup, and other students viewed me as "weird". I was also the first law student to use Dropbox to back up my work - seriously. (There were some other law students who were programmers before, but they are a different class of lawyers.)

I'm not entirely sure that a legion of new lawyers who know how to use MS Word, computers and the internet are "technologically-savvy". More tech-savvy than old lawyers? absolutely. Compared to the rest of society? Eh.
Rubbish.

America is the only country in the Western World paying these astronomical prices. The only reason health care is so expensive in the US is because "for-profit" health care costs twice as much as single payer heath care.
that isn't correct. try out e.g.
http://msnvidweb.vo.msecnd.net/o3/IE9%20Demo/ToyStory_HTML5....

works fine in chrome, won't load in firefox. as expected.
You can see points on your own posts (which is a good idea!) but not others, it appears.
Does it do Hunningtons Disease?
Police find missing toddler with license plate-recognition (LPR) technology
What's the threshold for the dot? I guess that takes the place of my double-digit filter.
Even simpler:

1. Open dropbox app

2. Upload picture from camera roll.

3. There's no step 3.
They've been going at now for at least two or three years now, finally claim to be in the black. Some deals pending with pretty big publishers, should be announced soon.
I see that your post here currently has 1 point.
No such trust exists in an adversarial context where it is presumed that, in negotiating deals, it is every man for himself.

This is what I was looking for. In these situations, misrepresenting the value is not considered fraud. Thank you for the warning. I was unaware of this.
It's a bit like selling your house to a guy who fixes it up, then flips it for even more money, only to have you sue a year later to "correct" the price you received. In a word, absurd.

I like that analogy. Probably a little rough- a better one would be if a guy built a house on your property and wouldn't leave, but gave you a sum negotiated based on what he said it was worth. But you weren't allowed to look inside. Then he flipped it.
True. Hadn't noticed this was a different group. I assumed it was connected with Seung's group (other than by the subject itself, of course).
A fascinating subject though, and one that might bring yet more insight into the recently reborn field of consciousness and subjective experience.
I'm seeing green usernames for submissions and comments by new users (not sure exactly what the threshold for "newness" is, the person I saw created their account in the past hour)
What precludes bundled libraries from having support for hardware acceleration? Firefox 4 accelerates full-screen WebM videos on Windows and Mac, for instance.
Before even reading the paper, I lazily wonder if any of the techniques used have implications for clojure's persistent vector implementation
Maybe it's just switching around randomly for now? Because now I can see the points of both of your comments.
Yeah, this is true. However - it is important to not confuse this with the idea of destiny or faith. The dots would probably connect just as well with completely different choices(dots). This could have resulted in a completely different life, but not necessarily any less true/right than where the dots have taken you so far.

I'm just 20 years old and still have a lot of dots to "do" - connecting them will come later in life when I can see where my choices/dots have brought me. This is both exhilarating and frustrating.

I've not made big enough choices to steer me down a certain path yet so I can spend my life doing anything imaginable (from chopping trees in Alaska to founding a F500 company to living on the street). However, not matter what I want to do/archive in life, I can't see the perfect path there. I can't predict the future, I can only look back at the past and connect the dots from there. No matter how correct I do things I'll probably end up in a different situation that what I imagined when I started the journey.

I'm beginning to understand that the planned destination in my life is not the important thing, the journey is. As long as I do my best and work hard on something I enjoy, I'll probably end up in a good situation. It might be completely different from what I dream about now, but I'm confident that it will be a good destination nevertheless.
Like pg said:

"so don't freak out of the site changes in some way. It will probably change back."

The orange dots / hidden points change has probably been temporarily reverted, that's all.
I didn't spot it at all.