skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But why? What are you worried about? The anti-fraud systems being employed by your bank are damned good. Moreover, All banks (U.S.) provide fraud protection... Looking at my Bank's website for a moment reveals that a potential attacker could, I assume, change my ATM PIN (If they already knew it) do some bill pay, and possibly create an ACH transfer... Which I could reveal as fraudulent to my bank...

Why should I be worried about this? I'm not trolling... I just don't understand what we are all supposed to be afraid of.
>Being critical of others' work while not producing anything of value is just mean-spirited. Put up or shut up.

That's awfully close to "it takes one to know one", which is a fallacy at best. I can tell good tea from bad tea, but I've never grown it. Closer to the programming realm, any theoretical computer scientist will lament the huge delay between theory and practice - does this mean they don't have a valid complaint, simply because they aren't fixing everything?

Specific to the piece:

>Chomsky derided researchers in machine learning who use purely statistical methods to produce behavior that mimics something in the world, but who don't try to understand the meaning of that behavior. Chomsky compared such researchers to scientists who might study the dance made by a bee returning to the hive, and who could produce a statistically based simulation of such a dance without attempting to understand why the bee behaved that way.

A valid complaint from a researcher, I think, and Chomsky has hardly "not produced anything of value". The first round of AI work in the 60s and 70s was a lot of theoretical work getting, as you mentioned, the low-hanging fruit in a new field. And then it turned out to be harder than the initial extreme success implied, and took more computational power. In more recent years, there have been business reasons to use relatively simple AI models to do fairly basic tasks - predicting your tastes in movies, for example. I think they're complaining about that focus, taking a known and just tweaking it until it works without doing any real foundational work, and they're not claiming that everybody in the field today is lazy.

It's a complaint you see in every field that gains attention. The original researchers see a decreased focus on research, and little progress for how many people are in the field, and lament for the good old days when people thought instead of made money. A rose-tinted view, to be sure, but the viewers aren't wholly value-less for doing so.
I am guessing each chrome "tab" (read: process) has it's own db open, that is just a guess though.
Ok, I see that the original pre and pixi don't support WebOS 2.0, that's a real pity. From what I can see the WebOS 2.0/3.0 developer ecosystem looks a lot nicer (although it's probably not practical to drop 1.0 support yet), have you tried out Enyo + Node on 2.0/3.0? Any thoughts?
Over the last few months my answer has turned into "iPad sized", and my two laptops sit on a shelf untouched.
keyboards are nasty for neural interfaces. "text" is a complex symbol based input. really Hard to parse out of electrodes on your skull. I am working on a neural interface for a wearable computer, a brain controlled "mouse" is possible but really clunky. We really need to re-design how we interact with a computer to make a good brain-computer interface. I am not sure what that is going to look like yet, but I am going to in about a year or my thesis is going to be very boring.
That sounds sorta like the neocortex algorithm stuff Numenta is working on, and has been working on for several years. I don't think they've achieved anything beyond what's possible with more conventional approaches yet.
Do you mind telling us what size those all are so we dont have to look them up?
I also recommand the FritzBox 7390, VDSL/ADSL2+ modem with SIP over DECT and fully IPv6 capable with "out of the box" support for 6to4 or sixxs tunnel. Great purchase, runs linux, very hacker friendly
I thought hackers are supposed to be Mac people, what's with all the PCs in here?

edit: not sure why I'm being downvoted, just curious
I too am a Unix guy, but I came from a very Microsoft centric world: Microsoft itself. There, I used PowerShell day in and day out. It's a decent little shell. I much prefer it over cmd! That said, a better description for it would be a REPL. And if you think about it that way, then it's a pretty damn awful shell. It prefers to work with objects, so it tends to be frustrating to work with bytes. Besides, I've already got a great tool for working with objects: Python.

The bottom line is this: If you need a tool for operating on objects, then use a programming language; preferably choose one with a strong REPL. If you need to deal with persistent, serialized, streams of bytes, use a traditional shell.
Doesn't work on this page: http://boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/articles/2011/05/08/seni...

I like it though, keep it up. :-)
Actually I've decided to give LastPass a shot DUE to how well they've handled this, and knowing that they will probably have a sufficiently paranoid response to situations in the future, as well as knowing they have an excellent hash algorithm in place.

Unfortunately you are right for the overwhelming majority of users who will see "LastPass Hacked!" then note "Don't use LastPass".
I don't think getting you to visit their site is the point of the switch. Twitter and FB are in a position where they have enough addicted users that they can get away with messing with standards. RSS is outdated and slow, and FB and Twitter want people to use their data in a more sensible way, via their flexible APIs.

It's trivial to build an APP that generates an RSS stream for an arbitrary twitter account with their API, and I'm sure someone will soon. But the point is that they are setting a new standard for what can be done streams of structured data, and hopefully more sites will move away from RSS into cool APIs.

Of course, for now at least, there's no standard to this kind of API, but I think that people will eventually figure out what works and converge to it (as is the case with OAuth).
I remember seeing questions like this, and not even being able to imagine that amount of data.

0210 Do you use more than 16 megabytes of disk space?

0211 ... 256 megabytes?

0212 ... 1 gigabyte?

0213 ... 16 gigabytes?

0214 ... 256 gigabytes?

0215 ... 1 terabyte?
The leveling here reminds me a bit of how Lucene organizes and compacts its segments files. When you write documents to Lucene they are written to a segments file, usually one for each batch of documents you write. When searching, each of the segments files are searched for terms, so the more segments files you have, the slower the search tends to be. When segments files reach a certain size they are automatically compacted into other segments files. Users can (and should) then "optimize" their index, which compacts all the segments files into a single file. The log files and sorted tables of leveldb appear to work very similarly.
UPDATE: Dave Stevens shared a hack around this in the comments that you can use with the Twitter API.

Using a well-documented feature of the API? That is not a hack.
Forth is a nice language, and seems appropriate where other low level languages are, like C. (My day job involves Haskell though.)
This is likely most useful for remote-controlling windows boxes from some non-windows endpoint. I can see that being handy for a unix-centric admin forced to admin exchange, for example.
Tedious Indian boosterism. HN has seen its share of naked press plants, but this article was really missing the FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE in the header.
Wonder if the 13 & 15" sizes have a higher percentage because of Macbooks
Because they are not licensing a piece of software. They are promising not to sue if you implement your own compatible software. If it were software it would be licensed.
I hear people talk about how "RSS is so slow" all the time, but I still don't understand it. I see no failings or complaints about RSS. I get a headline and then I get an article. Are we talking speed between when content was generated and when it appears in an RSS feed? Honestly, I couldn't care less about that. I'll live if it takes fifteen minutes for an update to reach me. It's not like I'm getting a patient's live EKG readings via RSS.

As for yet another standardized API to replace it. As long as it provides the same functionality to all current services/devices that use RSS, that's fine with me. I would really prefer that it not be driven by Facebook and Twitter, however any more than I want Microsoft Office development teams driving the standardization of ODF.
99.99% of users will not notice or care.

I can see a use case where devs who don’t feel like building for Twitter’s API will want to use RSS to quickly get a user’s recent tweets. But I don’t think this will significantly impact anybody’s anything, and it feels like the author is exaggerating the consequences.
I used 15" laptops for years, but recently switched to 13" and feel like it is a more productive screen size. I love dual monitors, but 15" seems just big enough to have distractions visible without having multiple windows usable. The 13" let's me focus.
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I love designing local multiplayer games. It's only niche because the big publishers/developers won't figure out how to market a non-music, local coop game.

You should try to get in touch with the Co-Optimus guys. Looking forward to downloading this when I get home.
I don't recall any of the girls I played D&D with looking like her...
13" Macbook Air. Fastest notebook I've ever used thanks to the SSD, won't ever go back to a 2.5" hard drive again.
How did you convert it? I tried doing that and it isn't perfect. Can you provide a link to the mobi? Thanks.
Serious question: how is the FSF going to turn its Bitcoins into dollars? The one thing that's been keeping me away from Bitcoin is the fact that I haven't seen any really large Bitcoin -> "real currency" sites pop up.
Hackers can use whatever they feel is the best platform for their hacking. I personally felt sick to my stomach dishing out the cash for a 15" MBP knowing I could get the same hardware for half the price from Dell, however I want to (eventually) do iOS dev so I felt my hands were tied. Otherwise I would have just put Ubuntu on a Dell and VM'd Windows.
The fat lady hasn't sung yet.
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Though there's just something wrong with a "hacker test" that starts counting at 1 instead of 0.
I'm moving more and more towards buying an Air and hooking up an external monitor to do "real" work. Two screens are better than one, and supreme portability and good battery life keep sounding better and better as I use my 15" MBP.

Don't get me wrong, I love the space on-screen. And I no longer have a TV, as it's large enough for my small living room. But all that really matters to me is an external screen port and a full-size keyboard. Being able to move it around and use it more places more often comes in soon after, and size comes much later.
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IPv6 has existed for over 15 years. It's time to have one day of bugs and pain to move deployment forward.

I'm personally looking forward to this: I've had IPv6 connectivity for quite a while. I can resolve names over IPv6. Google works fine.

If I can do it, anyone can do it.
Slashdot's discussion of the Lastpass situation was titled LastPass Password Service Hacked and linked to an article at Kaspersky where their title said LastPass Probably Breached.

sigh
Actually, I think the article makes some interesting points.

Firstly, anyone who has had experience with off-shoring to India is probably convinced that the whole country is just minutes from falling apart through shoddy engineering.

That makes the first part of the article very relevant, because an important part of realising that there is a problem is to realise that Indian Engineering used to be very good.

Then the article hints at what I think are the two main reasons:

(1) Immigration
(2) Cheating in the education system/lack of effort

I actually see this in the west as well, the attitude that the whole point of university is simply to get some piece of paper that is a de facto licence to print money.

Westerners today interacting with the off-shore engineers will usually come away shocked by how lazy the Indian programmers seem. They have no pro-activity, no problem solving ability.

But is that an accurate picture of Indian culture? Could they have modernised their agriculture, fought 3+ major wars, launched satellites into space and developed a nuclear program if they were all like the off-shore programmers? They'd have starved to death and/or been wiped out by their own incompetence if that was the case.

Clearly, the Indian Engineers of 2011 are a 'different breed' than their counter-parts in the 60s and 70s.

Something must have happened.

If you accept that premise, that things have gone downhill in a big way, then it begs the question "why?". Now the author may not have all the answers - but he has some interesting points.

To dismiss him as "plain wrong" is unworthy of hacker news, and disrespectful of the effort it takes to create this kind of big-picture historical overviews that challenge entrenched views.

Do you really want hacker news to become yet another Digg or reddit?

Personally, I find that a brief examination of American history provides some support for the view that brain drain for a country is a bad thing, and immigration of smart and motivated people to your country is a good thing. America got big and strong by two things: (a) enormous mineral wealth, (b) opening its borders to immigrants. Having avoided most of the draining effect of the European wars in the 1800s and 1900s helped, and also served to promote the view of America as a safe haven.

If you forget that immigration isn't just about "dumb people who are browner than me" and also includes "the intellectual elite of countries like Austria fleeing wars and persecution" then you start thinking that immigration is all about "they took aor jaorbs!", and close down your borders, impose quotas... and the stagnation begins.
While that might seem true, it's interesting how the web scene has played out.

When the iPod came out, there was an ecosystem of iPod-related websites that emerged that was distinct from the Apple/Mac web.

When the iPhone came out, another entire ecosystem developed. iPhone-specific sites. The existing iPod sites weren't the ones to gain popularity.

The iPad, however, didn't spawn a significant iPad-specific ecosystem of websites. Instead, it was absorbed within the Apple/iPhone sites, for whatever reason. As a result, I think iPad coverage is harder to come by and is a bit more mixed with everything else.
I have an old Asus EeePC with a 10 inch screen as my ultra-portable
machine. When I travel I can throw it into a carryon bag and still have a
lot of room for other stuff. I don't mind the small screen that much; my
main gripe is the keyboard. It's just too small for easy typing. What I'd
like to upgrade to is a Thinkpad X100e. I think it will still satisfy my need
for exceptional portability, and it has a full size keyboard. I must
confess I also think its 11.6 inch screen will be somewhat nicer than
my current 10 inch screen.
Even better, hooked up to the Internet in order to maximize shenanigans.
If you pay below par you'll get sub par engineers. It's not rocket science.

Good engineers command good salaries.
Can someone provide a link to the emails mentioned in the article.

I don't understand why NyTimes can get away with reporting on the documents and not linking to them. They obviously possess a copy.
Yes, because turning off your phone and Internet access by yourself is MADNESS. It has to be thrust upon you.

Seriously, it is not news that peace and quiet can help you get things completed. The value of 'the zone' has been known for years, why is this now news?
With the increasing importance of web-based applications and the decreasing relevance of the desktop platform, I think interfaces like WebOS (with its "Just type" and smooth task-centered interface) do have a good chance of becoming relevant. If you develop for ChromeOS, chances are a port can be done in hours and will run smoothly on WebOS.
Makes me wish I had a high school photo available so you could say whether or not I "looked like her" back in the day...

:-P

(Former gal RPG'er....married one of the guys I gamed with)
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> Of course, for now at least, there's no standard to this kind of API, but I think that people will eventually figure out what works and converge to it (as is the case with OAuth).

Actually there is but twitter is not interested (for obvious reasons): http://ostatus.org/sites/default/files/ostatus-1.0-draft-2-s...
Readability works just fine
The problem is that because software is this ethereal invisible thing, no one can measure it or it's quality.

We know the off shore code is crap. After all, 9 times out of 10 we're the ones who have to fix it even though it will still be chalked up as a success for offshoring.

If they were offshoring something real, that they could look at and see the faults, that they could get their hands on, that they had to drive their cars over... they'd be screaming blue murder, and price wouldn't come into it.
Is 'open' killing Android?
MtGox allowed ACH bank deposit I think.
Don't know anything about typo, but an alternative to throwing more hardware at it could be to optimize your site.

My story (redis/mongodb) peaked at the same time as yours, and my linode 1024 ($40/m), which also houses about 7 different projects, didn't go past 5% cpu usage.

Going with Disqus lets you outsource the only dynamic part of your blog post. This lets you set a long cache header, or at least to serve it from cached memory. Even if you don't outsource your comments, I bet caching the page for 2-3 minutes in memory would solve most of your problems.

Also, cache headers on your other assets wouldn't hurt. Nor would moving away from Apache. Sounds like a good weekend project :)
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Has photo app instagram got a new rival?
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The biggest threat, by far, to WebOS is some Microsoft exec letting an HP exec know, casually, while they are, say, playing golf, that HP's Windows license could end up costing a bit more than Dell's because they are not really helping Windows Phone 7 become the success it deserves and helping WP7 would entitle a couple large discounts on other licenses.

Microsoft has enormous power on OEMs.
Oh yea Google's server farm has just about the guesstimated computational power of a human brain, 20 petaflops. Supercomputers can simulate a rat or bee brain with a few teraflops.

I was talking about regular personal computers that individual researches can use to experiment. Supercomputer time is expensive and there are lots of annoying technical problems. They also use a lot of poorly optimized software.

I figure another 5 years, a few doublings in GPU speed, new OpenCL/CUDA based neural net software and we'll fit a bee brain in one PC. Memristors are expected by 2015 http://spectrum.ieee.org/robotics/artificial-intelligence/mo... they'll help run such brains in real time.

Also these old charts http://www.transhumanist.com/volume1/moravec.htm comparing brains to computers need to be adjusted because glial cells also participate in signal processing. So we need a few teraflops of padding.
I'm also trying to control my "introvertism" - it's hard but it pays off.

I don't think there's anything that can beat real world networking - I think it's something hard wired into our DNA - we simply relate more to people, remember them and like them better when we've met them in person.
nope, could get a macbook air for that price.
If you read about FriendFeed's Simple Update Protocol (http://blog.friendfeed.com/2008/08/simple-update-protocol-fe...), you'll find some good arguments about why RSS slow. The crux of the problem is that to get any updates on a feed, you have to request and download the entire RSS feed (which is filled with summary text and is of nontrivial size).

Consider the case of a real-time news aggregator. A news source doesn't update very frequently (say once every 5 minutes), but you want to provide updates super fast (say within 30 seconds). That means on average you have to scrape the entire RSS feed 10 times for a single update. On the other hand, FB/Twitter APIs give you the flexibility to do things like "download items after this id," which hog much less bandwidth.
From what I've seen "covenant" is the most common term used for this kind of thing. For example, here's a page I put together once to help me understand the differences between the various patent promises that might affect ODF and OOXML, although half the links to the originals no longer work. It shows two Microsoft documents, a Sun documents, and the terms IBM uses for many standards side by side, with the text colored so that sections in the difference ones that correspond in function are colored the same. It makes it easy to look at one and see how the others word their similar section:

http://www.tzs.net/odfooxmlpatent.html

In essence, a "covenant" not to sue is a fancy way of saying "promise" not to sue.

As far as the difference between a covenant/promise and a license goes, the courts have been unclear in their guidance. Covenants/promises may not survive a sale of the patent--although the cases are mixed. Covenants/promises may not provide the person they are given to the right to sell things that use the patent to third parties (or rather, it may not apply to the third parties and so the patent owner might be able to sue them). The case law here is murky, too, with the latest tending to favor that the covenant/promise does apply downstream.

I've seen cites to at least one appeals court case where the court said all patent licenses are really just promises not to sue. That's because a patent does not give the patent owner permission to practice the patent. It just gives him the power to exclude others from doing so, and so he can't really license you the right to actually make something that is covered by that patent. All he can do is agree not to sue you if you do so.

Most of the cases, though, apply to covenants/promises to a specific party. E.g., company X and company Y are disagreeing over X's patent, and as part of some settlement X grants Y a promise not to sue.

Different considerations might apply when the covenant/promise/license is not to anyone specific but is rather a non-exclusive covenant/promise/license to everyone. When viewed as a license, this kind of license is something called a "bare license". Bare licenses are not good for the recipient, as they can be revoked at any time. What you really want is for the covenant/promise/grant to be viewed as a contract. Fortunately, there is a mechanism in contract law to allow this, called promissory estoppel. The basic idea is that if I make a promise to you (where you can be the whole world), reasonably knowing that you are going to rely on this promise, and you do rely on this promise and act accordingly, then the law will enforce the promise.