skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The granularity doesn't necessarily need to get down to the stroke level. In fact, if you start playing the video at around the 6 minute mark, you'll see that many of the characters are composed of the same elements, known as radicals (see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radical_(Chinese_character) ).

Unicode does have the concept of "combining characters" in which a string of characters is used to compose one glyph (see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Combining_character ), but currently they generally are only used for adding diacritics. All Chinese characters in the current Unicode standard are precomposed, but it's potentially not out of the question to encode them as a composite of two or more sub-characters. The downside to this is that each character would end up taking several more bytes to encode, but one advantage is that novel characters could be created by combining two or more existing characters, which currently cannot be done without explicitly adding the novel character to the Unicode standard (see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Precomposed_character#Chinese_c... ).

The input methods that fedd mentions are just input methods, which translate what the user inputs into encodings of precomposed characters. This is different than having the encoding themselves represent the composition of the characters.
Original Profile of Steve Jobs (at age 27)
What are is the OP talking about with regard to corporate stewardship of public resources? They are providing the resource and asking for help building it. There is no public resource of mapping data in Africa. (That's why Google is building it)

If OSM wants to have the data they should start initiatives in Africa to do this.

As far as 'copying' OSM, isn't OSM 'open source'? If Google is violating their license that's one thing, but it sounds like they are copying ideas not protected by law, or within the framework of the licensing agreement.
I don't have a service at the moment, I was just wondering what you thought from the retail perspective as well.
if you don't mind, what exactly did your service do?
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It may be true that my parents didn't have all that much to say about who I was going to be as an adult, but the made a huge difference by providing me with an endless stream of (what to them at the time must have been ridiculously expensive) computer gear, books and electronics kits.
They might not have changed my final destination, but they certainly helped me get started faster.
Handoff and Pastebot app love
Not at all. I can see many instances where an "upvote" is a stamp of approval--almost like applause. Discussion is not always necessary.
that is sick
Well I'm just annoyed because many people still say that the current 3D TVs dont bring anything, or that the technology with glasses will disappear soon. They think that someone will find a magic software trick to make it 3D without glasses, maybe by tracking eyes. But it is impossible, it is a misunderstanding on how stereoscopic 3D actually works. Current 3D technology is actually really good, though the glasses will surely get much lighter.
That's exactly what happened to me as well. There's no easy solution to this. I think one of the best I've seen is how Slashdot does it, but it's probably too much work for pg
In one sentence, IMO of course, passing something through should be much cheaper than actually building something or adding value unless you're bilking people. In another sentence, insurance companies don't administer care, they just move money around.

Compare to the overhead as a % of revenue for the social security administration, for example. They're a simpler passthru so it's not a completely fair comparison but insurance is closer to SS than it is to manufacturing.
You're presuming you can actually find the right people to begin with.
Use cases:

1) Games -- both for toddlers and adults

2) Viewing 3D Pictures. These probably require photosynth pictures rather than pictures with current 3D cameras.

3) 3D model exploration.

4) 3D UI
I'm not sure how to reconcile the idea with reality, though. Is it possible that part of the reason that the twins turn out so identical is that despite all the other differences, two middle-class upbringings are pretty much indistinguishable in the ways that actually matter, whatever they may be? What if we take triplets, put one in the worst inner city, one in middle-class, and one in a very rich household. Will they still turn out nearly identical?

If yes, then doesn't that ultimately imply that being in the worst inner city has nearly no effect on how you turn out? But that seems to contradict reality, unless being in the inner city is genetic, which seems fairly unlikely at this point.

I mean these as thought-provoking questions. I don't have answers. I don't question the results of the studies, which are very well grounded and as I understand it well-repeated, but on the other hand it does not seem as obvious to me as the author here how to map them back to reality.
I don't believe Ruby and Rails are prescribed for most projects. Just the ones where they makes sense.

That said, I have taken over development of a few legacy rails applications and never had a problem adapting to the idiosyncrasies of the old developer or team.
Yahoo search uses Bing? I must've missed the memo... that could help explain the 30% value - Bing's site usage is still a percent and a half below Yahoo's.

A question, if anyone out there has an answer / speculation:

>Yahoo! Search and Bing achieved the highest success rates in March 2011. This means that for both search engines, more than 80 percent of searches executed resulted in a visit to a Website. Google achieved a success rate of 66 percent.

How much of that is impacted by the ridiculous number of queries Instant generates?
> Measured by their profits, the six largest financial institutions in the US now account for 55 percent of all banking assets.

And here the author has lost a generous slice of credibility. It's like saying "Measured by their clockspeed, the six largest CPUs in the US now account for 55 percent of all hard drive space".
While I undersand that 3D is a lot easier to say than "stereoscopic", I don't think any 3D movies warrant being called any more three dimensional than this sort of thing. IMHO, it's not 3D until I can move around and see different things (in each eye), i.e. until the medium understands itself in 3D space and reflects accordingly on my eyes.
As pg says, those are usually very good articles. I'd say the first impetus to comment is to correct, the second to add relevant detail. When the article doesn't need either, it's good.
Next they'll have news.ycreject.com!
If you don't already have a job offer, this is kind of moot. It would probably be easier just to go to school and then do some internships.
When did you do the comparison? In the summer of '09 when Bing launched I gave it a shot, but just did not like it as much as Google. A few months ago I went back and tried it again, and have not gone back to Google since.
It seems that killing two birds with one stone has worked well for the founder in the past. ReCAPTCHA does it itself, so it will be interesting to follow this project and see where it ends up.
1) I want to see my own points really badly!

2) I want to see how many points a comment has after I cast my vote.

This is how Perlmonks does it.
A very inspiring story. It gives me a little more faith in the Valley.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Shepard ?
Just the mention of Scheme, my favorite programming language, makes me get irritated when I think about the thousand or fifteen hundred lines of JavaScript I've written in the last couple weeks. I'm basically writing Scheme using C syntax, and the anonymous functions as arguments to functions which are called by anonymous functions that are themselves arguments to functions really start to get confusing, in large part because the mixing of parentheses and curly brackets and the semicolons and all the things that are supposed to be the sane alternative to all those sets of parantheses. Oh, and let's not even mention the way JavaScript doesn't do block scoping the way C++ does, and let's not even think about how closures interact with mutation—which almost guarantees that code with for loops and closures will have bugs in it.

And the sad thing is, I don't mind writing JavaScript. Relatively speaking, I love JavaScript. Now, if a framework-platform like Node.js existed for Clojure, now, that would be a different story. Except that I'd then constantly have to do mental context switches whenever I jumped from client to server code.

There is no rest for the wicked, I suppose.
Good find. Ironically, I've never seen that before. Unfortunately not the first idea i've had that was already created :)
Are graphical calculators pointless?
More like, remember to scrub the entire hard drive before you travel.
Agreed. Build for the problems you face now - not the problems you may theoretically have in the future.

If a business grows that rapidly - it is most likely that the original systems will have evolved dramatically from day one anyway - in ways you wouldn't have imagined.
I think we can fix hellbanning without too much tinkering. Perhaps a simple notice if someone's first posts are downvoted advising them to check the submissions and comments guidelines, perhaps with some common first time mistakes and their more preferable counterparts added. That should help the noobs while still allowing trolls to be banned.
Have you contacted any startups about jobs? If nobody shows any interests in your level of experience, then you don't have a dilemma, just go to school

[Edit]

This isn't to say that if you don't have an offer firmly in hand, go to school, but if nobody has even said 'gosh, we wish we had the money to hire you', then you might be much better off going to school and working on some impressive side projects.
It makes it more difficult for me to quickly scan the most "insightful" comments when determining whether or not to read the article.
Google Translate is nigh-unusable for anything besides French, Spanish, and sometimes German. Russian is bad enough -- Chinese, Japanese, and Korean are incomprehensible.
You don't.

I totally disagree that passion follows 'impressive accomplishment'. I've never met anyone that said 'Yeah, I won a spelling bee in the 3rd grade, so I decided to be a language teacher.'

It doesn't work like that. They won the spelling bee because they cared enough to be the best.

Sure, you can start a whiz-bang new project that everyone will notice. But if you don't -care- about it, you won't get it to the point that it's worth using in a real live scenario. And let's be honest: It's not really impressive if it's not usable.
Your first paragraph suggests you look down on the idea - do you?

How far did you get and what happened to it? I wasn't suggesting a VM based idea, more of a daemon/windows service.

Having said that, there's no real need for it to be a filesystem per-se, it could be any kind of store with a central interface (web based, for instance) and then it wouldn't have to deal with parts of a filesystem vanishing arbitrarily. As long as the data didn't need to be live all the time, that is. It could even hook into Wake-On-LAN, and also benefit from any power savings if machines are switched off overnight.
What about no.de? ;)
Not necessarily. There are still rules in sports. And there are teams that play dirty. However, I am not willing to play dirty to win. And I do not believe it is necessary to step on everyone or do anything but the right thing to be successful.
3x faster for the pain of Java? I'll stick with Rails until I have enough money to pay people to migrate for me.

edit:

>That along with the news that Twitter has hired 25 more employees kinda tells that Java's code base is practically more maintainable than equivalent Ruby code - at least when the code base is huge and the team size is large.

What? How does hiring more employees imply something is easier?
Legal techniques the rich use to avoid paying taxes
I'm sorry you feel this way. I wrote about certain things that I believed and readily recognize that both I have no statistics and that I mean virtually nothing to the universe as of now. Just thoughts that I were in my head.
There's no law that says they have to give the defendant notice and opportunity to stop infringing before filing suit.

Not technically, but as the article says, if the plaintiff takes no steps to mitigate the damages he's supposedly suffering, but goes straight for the defendant's wallet without asking for so much as a preliminary injunction, it's reasonable to suspect his motives.
>Aside, I like not showing the points on articles.

I'm actually surprised at how much I like not showing points at all. I generally pride myself on carefully considering people's arguments and voting accordingly (if at all), but I've found myself reading comments much more carefully. It's too soon to tell what the effect will be in aggregate, but I my initial reaction is to hope the change is permanent.
Additionally it makes sense to me to try building something as experimental as twitter was back a few years ago in a language and framework that allows quick iterating and rapid prototyping, such as Ruby on Rails. Now that the design has largely been solved (shall we say), the application can be migrated to a different architecture and programming environment. One that is more suited to the large scale, low latency requirements, and minimal functional changes that twitter finds themselves in now.

It's also funny to think but Java used to be the slow language on the block for building websites and services in. Then a lot of people ended up using it, and a lot of effort was put into the JVM, especially the hotspot compiler, the garbage collector, etc, and now it's one of the best technologies out there for doing large scale websites with.

I think if more people use Ruby and Rails, that we'll get more investment in the platform and it will end up being significantly faster in the future.
Yes, good points all. It's also one of the hardest things to do when it's your business. I've been running my company for over 15 years. It's STILL hard to let go sometimes.

The best you can do is try, and ask your employee's forgiveness when you slide back into micromanaging.

One good way to move the process along: Never let an employee come to you with a problem unless they have 2 possible solutions. The solutions can be ridiculous, but they need to have 'em.

It gets them involved in the decision-making process from the get-go, and tends to prompt discussions among team members before you, the manager, has to get involved.
There are two types of articles that belong here on HN. The first type includes articles that speak for themselves. Everyone learns from them, but fell little need to comment unless they have something small to chime in. This type should have a low ratio of comments to upvotes.

However, the other type includes articles that provoke people and cause discussion. It doesn't just include contributing comments, but rather it contains debates and opposing opinions. These types of articles need a balance between a low and high ratio. However, the religious arguments you speak of are usually easy to find. These arguments are usually found in a deeply nested comment thread. Once you discard of fourth level comments and all the noise below, you should find that the ratio of comments is a pretty good signifier of the quality of the article.
It may not be, though. We have good reason to believe that most IE6 users are using IE6 because it is the browser installed by IT on locked-down work computers. It doesn't seem unreasonable (to me) that a significant portion, though probably not a majority, of users of other versions of IE are similarly in work environments.

The point being, maybe IE users don't actually make up more than 10% of traffic. Maybe the situations in which people use IE are such that they use the web less. He did say 10% of traffic, not 10% of unique users.

Not that I have evidence to back this up; however, the kind of analysis that gets done on market share in computing doesn't seem to be able to accurately reflect how much something is actually used.
I think the acquisition of mysql by Oracle was the end of LAMP.

Technical people seem to be fleeing it in droves to postgres, et al
I think there would need to be a little more to associate the action with the punishment. Since the point deduction would be pretty delayed from the voting, voters might not recognize which votes were poorly placed, and wouldn't learn to place better votes.
I'm probably in the minority, but I actually like the concept of the slashdot-vectors as a way to give non-verbal feedback a bit more specific than "up" or "down".

The crux is of course in the choice of adjectives. I wonder what would happen if one would let the users choose free-form tags...
"That along with the news that Twitter has hired 25 more employees kinda tells that Java's code base is practically more maintainable than equivalent Ruby code"

Uhh if you need 25 more people that tells me that your code is less maintainable and you're writing much more of it. No one has ever debated that in raw execution speed Java is faster, the problem is that most startups have plenty of CPU and few devs.

Twitter really did things ideally, start on a rapid dev platform and then port to a faster platform after acquiring the userbase and capital infrastructure that makes such a decision make sense. I'm not sure that if I was working on the JVM that Java would be my language choice, I'd probably use Mirah/Clojure/Scala.

The extra 25 devs are probably to ensure T2EE (Twitter 2 Enterprise Edition) compliance and refactor their POROs (Plain old ruby objects) to work with their ETB middleware. /snark
I'm curious how they settled. Once the details are shared, then the case's importance will be truly established. For now, we can't really assume which way it went: Geohot asked for a settlement instead of dealing with further litigation, or if SECA was the one that pulled the plug. I believe it will probably end up being the former, since SECA practically prints money and could have pursued this for years, but we'll just have to wait and see.

As for the result, the "permanent injunction" that the spokesman mentioned is what makes me think the settlement went in SECA's favor. But until somebody publishes what happened, I don't know. It could mean that jailbreaking other devices is legal, or it could mean that only mobile devices are legally allowed to be cracked open.

I hope it all ended up in the favor of the consumer, but from the wording of the article and its quoted statements, I don't think it did.
I have been playing this game for over 15 years now. I am very close to shutting down a very nice Gallery that I have nursed along for about 10 years. But... I feel it is only an intermission. Feel free to give me a yell, I will fill you in on the gory details.
Apple's already patented it. I don't want to get sued into oblivion. :-)

http://www.addictivetips.com/mobile/iphone-control-through-c...
Google is loosing market share: This is wonderful news, I only hope the data is correct.

For clarification I love Google. I use 20% of all products they ever made (which is a lot). I wish them nothing but success. BUT as much as I like Google, I fear monopolis much more.

I must credit Google for being able to keep their product at such a high quality level, for such a long time, without any real competition forcing them to. I don't think there are many other companies in the world who could do the same.

I just rather don't relay on the goodwill and effectiveness of one single company for an essential commodity. (Yes I consider online search a commodity).

I truly hope the article about the impending fail of Bing is an inaccurate description. Source: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2423054
I haven't contacted any startups. I really only seriously started considering it when I got into college, which was the beginning of April. However, now that I've thought about it, I really would like to do it.
According to Wikipedia:

"With the accession of Russia to the Berne Convention, Soviet and Russian works that were copyrighted in Russia in 1995 became copyrighted outside of Russia.[147] By virtue of the retroactivity of the Russian copyright law of 1993, this also included many pre-1973 Soviet works.[173] In the United States, these works became copyrighted on January 1, 1996, the effective date of the U.S. Uruguay Round Agreements Act, if they were still copyrighted in Russia on that date.[174][175] In the countries that had bilateral treaties with the USSR, pre-1973 Soviet works (from any of the fifteen SSRs) were copyrighted even before.[126]"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_in_Russia

As members of the Berne Convention, copyright term in Russia had to be at least 50 years. Russia's 1993 copyright law

"...specified a copyright term of fifty years, applicable to all kinds of works. Works of known authors were copyrighted until 50 years after the author's death (50 years p.m.a.).[83] Anonymous or pseudonymous works were copyrighted until fifty years after the first publication, unless the identity of the author became known during that time and the term of 50 years p.m.a. thus applied."

In 2004, Russia passed an extension, similar to the 1998 Copyright Extension Act in the US, lengthening the term of Russian copyright, for works still in copyright at the time, from 50 to 70 years.

For the most part, just given a quick look and using only the summary on the Wiki page, it looks like they are still under copyright.
It's interesting that the article looks at click-through rates for Google and Bing, and then concludes that Google's lower click-through rate means that people aren't finding what they're looking for.

Except that for many searches, Google just tells you the result right there (so you don't even need to click on anything to find it), while Bing does not. As a quick example, googling "10 meters to feet" tells you, above the results, that 10 meters = 32.8 feet, while Bing just returns a bunch of sites with conversion tables.

Which query will have better click-through rates? Which query better helps you find what you're interested in?
But is this another sign of a bubble, particularly on the investing side? Why would angels invest in companies that are not vetted by Y Combinator?

There's a very valid reason to invest in companies that aren't YC companies. The $150K burden that most of the YC W11 companies took is one reason. If a company has $150K to play with out the door, it's not exactly bootstrapping it. If a company isn't bootstrapping things, it can have deluded visions of grandeur and won't always build an efficient or sustainable product. Money can buy hype in the short-term but hype doesn't build value in the long term.

In other words, YC isn't about scrappy underdogs any more. And if there is one thing the valley can always make room for, it's the scrappy underdog.
it is widely accepted that 3D in context of movies and games is "stereoscopic", meaning you have a perception of depth. I believe the perception of depth gives a very different experience, personally I was stunned when I saw 3D movies for first time, since you really feel like you are present in the scene. Looking around and seeing different things is already implemented in 99% of games, since the camera is controlled by the player.
Thanks, I appreciate all the links and information. Flight404 looks really neat.
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