skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I went back to this and it is pretty good.
I definately like the look with tilt disabled, but unfortunately you lack a bit of depth when that happens as all of the 'behind' images have the same height.

I think you could do a few things to make this look better.
1) have the height of the images fall away more with 'tilt disabled'
2) have some sort of shadow effect with tilt enabled and disabled to show more depth.

Also, transition from one item to the next is smooth, but when you jump two or more items, it becomes very jerky. Maybe slower animation would help this.

But nice work. I'm sure that is a very challenging project.
Old but good. My boss once pointed to the 'How it was billed' panel and laughed excitedly.

Life in a consulting firm.
Very useful information -- I'll have to look more into it. Thanks!!!
We use it, we like it, we don't customise it much and use it more as a tool for maintaining contact and pipeline management than a full on CRM, which is probably why it works well for us!
The important part: yes. I do disconnect the internet completely. The figurative part: no, I do it by turning off the internet routing, not by actually removing the cable from the wall.
but I don't quite see how "doing it over the network" is going to inherently going to bring costs down

It's a simple matter of the economics of scale.

Let's assume it takes 1 IT person per small business and assume there are 1000 businesses. The cost of upgrading and maintaining all those systems is roughly 1000 salaries.

Now if you take those same 1000 businesses and provide them with SaaS solutions (assuming cost of software will remain consistent between the two platforms) and say that you have a decent sized team of 50 people, then assuming the salaries are consistent you're solution is much cheaper.

This is a very simplified way to put it, but should make it clear.
We've already designed, or grown might be a more accurate description, working (most of the time) systems which defy understanding [in full] by the most gifted humans. See the world financial system, our national electricity grid, Windows, Wikipedia, etc. etc. We may not be able to design AI, but we are going to develop it.
This argument fails in the final stage:

“that it will be a cold night in hell before I sleep with you” and take into account the fact that I still have NOT succeeded in having sexual relations with her, then Option 2 cannot be true

The quoted statement does not imply that the Theresa will sleep with Tim once there is a cold night in hell, simply that this is a prerequisite for their carnal relations, so option two is still possible. The quote would need to read "once there's a cold night in hell, I'll sleep with you" for the analysis to hold up, but I can't imagine any woman actually saying that.
Many families are struggling with rising food costs.

Not really. It seems like he thought...ah, I need a good reason for this besides the only reason, which is the tax dodge. But the tax dodge makes sense, and is the reason why companies like google give expensive lunches as partial compensation.

It's sort of amusing that the author seems to think that the idea of paying people "in kind" is somehow innovative on his part. No, it's definitely been done before. For instance, I owe my soul to the company store.
Well the thing is, the code analogy works really well for things like algorithms, math, and factual knowledge. Really, the things you are talking about that cannot be modularized are things that require large amounts of training. However, the training algorithm may be able to be modularized and encoded thus enabling the AI to learn these things. This is the goal of machine learning.
Heh I'm the same. Most productive on a comfy sofa with a laptop. Or if I'm concentrating, sometimes on the floor :)
People who spread urban legends as fact deserve to find out firsthand if hell is exothermic or endothermic.
My hopes for BearHugCamp 1.0
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I know a few startups that hire from Canada; but, just through telecommuting which then you need nothing. Just someone to do payroll in Canada.
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After a while of mess, I redesigned my working area. The KEY to the redesign is that no matter what I do, it becomes almost impossible to make it into a mess. I also made the default position of things very conducive to not making a mess, so after a little work at the beginning, there is no further work.

Step 1: Empty desk. No cups or paper holders or anything like that

Step 2: Digitalise what can be digitalised, and sort away all papers that are not directly relevant

Step 3: Get 2 baskets, one for unimportant papers, another for papers you have to order. When anything comes in that is not critical, drop them in the basket. Don't keep the basket on your desk, keep it away in your cupboard. We don't push paper that often.

Step 4: Sort the cables out. Tape them, put them away sensibly

Step 6: Get really good lights

Step 7: Get something to play with for when you are thinking. I personally use a 50 cm wooden ruler, and apart from my PC and a pen, that's the only thing on my desk. If I did not have it, I'd have chewed the pen dead by now.

When you work with a clean desk things feel a lot tidier. When you have stuff on the desk, only when they are extremly high priority. Having a neat desk will make you focus even better on the stuff that is important when it does come on your desk.

And if you have a desktop, consider moving it somewhere else. I keep mine in the closet and use it via network - that way I have some quiet.

So, my suggestion is to plan in a way that it gets difficult to get untidy.
The thing I find most interesting about journalistic coverage of Chrome is that they haven't brought up the elephant in the room: Chrome will not and will never have an (official) ad blocker.

Sure, Google also wants to have a stable client side for their javascript-based software, but the reality is that those programs don't make them the kind of money that search advertisement does. With Microsoft controlling the browser, they could conceivably release an ad blocker in IE8 and turn it on by default. Google would be in serious trouble very fast.

I'm not trying to say that this will happen, just that Google's being smart and mitigating risk. Until they start making serious money from their office applications, however, creating their own browser seems to me to be a defensive move, not an offensive one.
Word is a current standard. If other products want to win me over, they can't cite lack of time and expect a good response

I agree, Word is (arguably) Microsoft's premier product that they put out. Many people will say that Windows is, but I think Windows is their flagship product, people use it because they think they have too. People opt in for Word.

Anyway, when was the last time that Word was just a word processor? There are a lot of features in word that can be thought of to be excessive. I'd be curious to see what the actual numbers were on features and usage, as I have a sneaking suspicion that a large number of people who use word use it for simple document editing, saving, opening and printing.

Sites like Zoho currently do this, quite well actually, so I think it's a case of Zoho has to break through 25 years of branding more than anything else.
>A 100 years ago we couldn't propose an idea to land a man on the moon - yet we could be done 50 years ago.

What!?! That is not true. How about the book From the earth to the Moon, written in 1865? And the ideas there were correct! They couldn't do, but they could imagine it.

Even 2000 years ago you could imagine throwing a rock really really high and getting to the moon. Again, you couldn't do it, but you could imagine it.

No one has any ideas for how to implement AI - none. It's not a matter of not being able to execute the ideas - there aren't any.

And BTW the Flynn Effect has stopped.
"Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson said the moves will increase the availability of credit for home buyers."

Hopefully they mean "increase the availability of credit for qualified home buyers."
Well, I was going to write a comment about this being a dangerous proposition for employees, but an anonymous commenter on the site itself already made the point as eloquently as possible:

Beware the company town.

The workers who rent from the corporation, buy from the corporation, and depend on the corporation for all the niceties of life are at the mercy of the corporation.
You missed the point with your example of anti-bacterial pill.

It's not the execution that is missing with AI, it's the ideas. In 1920 you most certainly can come up with the idea of killing bacteria by eating something - people did it every day! Sure they had no idea if it works, or why it works, or what to eat. But the basic idea: eat something and make the illness go away was there.

There are no ideas in AI. AI reaserchers these days are working on sub-problems, vision recognition, speech, pretending to reply to someone, but none of them have any ideas on how to make AI work.

They just hope that by putting all these things together something will come out - and they will probably be able to make a robot that is a smart as a dog for example.

But they have no ideas for how to program creativity - no one does.
That only works if you have a fitness function. No one does.
"Old LISPer that I am, I also looked at various current dialects of Lisp and Scheme—but, as is historically usual for Lisp, lots of clever design was rendered almost useless by scanty or nonexistent documentation, incomplete access to POSIX/UNIX facilities, and a small but nevertheless deeply fragmented user community."

I find this still a pretty accurate assessment of the world of Lisp, 8 years on. I'm keeping an eye on Clojure, though, as a potential break in this pattern.
I hop around town a bit for different parts of work.

Newsreading is at home, a desk in a very small efficiency.

Writing (academic) is at on or two coffee shops downtown.

Research is at the CS dept, a desk with my sun box, 2 monitors, keyboard, space for the laptop, small bookshelf, two drawers and a hanging file folder.

Different work at different locations. Keeps life a little interesting, and it makes each location force different habits. Helps me context switch easier.
After 4ish years of college (still in college), I finally got my own place. My productivity has shot through the roof now that I don't have roommates looking for a Mario Kart Wii companion.

http://flickr.com/photos/pauls/sets/72157605398490674/

That's when I was moving in, I have a more civilized setup now:

http://paulstamatiou.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/pstam_ap...
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3164/2831665151_83a0df503d.jp...
WOULD YOU PREFER ALL CAPS?

Sorry, that was rude. The periods were just a bit of melodrama :-)
>Also Humans can invent chess algorithms that can beat the best chess player in the world.

Except the machine is extremely stupid! It doesn't have any idea on how to play chess, it just tries every possibility one after the other until it finds a good one.

That's ok for chess - it has well defined rules, and more importantly a fitness function. That's where all the work is - define a function to tell you if your permutation was a good one.

But it doesn't work for AI, because there are no fitness functions there.
i need to get me a timer too..

edit: my phone can do this
Jonathan Drori on what we think we know
Ask YC: Gmail Down For You Too?
Gmail is down for me. What about you?
While I am a bit worried about how scatterbrained AdventNet seems to be - I do think that they have a chance to disrupt a very inefficient and parasitic software eco-system that exists in Business Software. They only need to figure out the integration piece and the fact that they have played with some Microsoft Active Directory tools and embrace outside identity systems may help them get there.

I have found that the biggest draw to "integrated" software is not having a new set of credentials to login into it.

I am finding some success with technologies that can play nice with various directories. I am currently playing with Novell's EDirectory and its Identity Management solutions and it surprises me how few companies focus on what I see as one of the central problems in business IT: the seamless integration between the company's CRM, the team's contacts and the directories that power each business solution.

There is a huge need for a business class 'identity-in-the-cloud' solution that speak to many internal systems using software hooks/drivers that are very transparent, have good auditing and can be controlled by the company/customer.

I bet a large percentage of software projects at companies have overlapping user management sub-systems that could be better addressed by an identity-in-the-cloud system like the ones emerging from Microsoft, Google et al.

And for those who say that your company has too many secrets to possibly use an outside solution for identity - get over it, it is not true. You have many people forwarding things to their Gmail accounts and many mobile devices around the country without even a pin code to secure them. Your sense of security is an illusion, embrace solutions that can provide complete audits of what happens with them, then you will know how insecure you really are and plan around the fact that total security is impossible. And your internal development team will never reach the self-auditing stage of the solution because as soon as it half works they are pulled to something else.
I am from germany. You shouldnt overestimate the warning. Some background information:

1. You have to know the context: The situation is very special in germany at the moment. Here is a big discussion about privacy and data security. There was a big scandal some weeks ago because a call center company sold some data from its customers and other companys abused these informations. Somehow the politicians and goverment agencys have a "bad conscience" now.

2. Im a lawyer and i think if the warning is really an official warning it is rather problematic (for the goverment agency, not for google). But one has to know that in germany some ministries understand themselves somehow as consumer protection agencies. It is a little bit different than in other countries i guess.

3. The warning is more directed to people who dont know much about the internet: mums and dads and aol-users and so on. The goverment agency didnt tell them anything different then that what every reader of this page here already knows.
Works for me. For these issues check twitter :)
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Does Linux boot, or is that GRUB/LILO? Remember loadlin? Does that count? What about Windows XP under VirtualBox?
separation, please....
I am not as sure as giardini that the money is ill-spent --- poking around in a new regime is an interesting gamble, not necessarily an albatross. But the article does seem unusually asinine. "Leadership in the branch of science that delivered just about every major technology of the past hundred years?" Physics, broadly defined, has delivered major technologies, yes. (Just about every major technology! Don't be distracted by minor technologies like antibiotics, restriction enzymes, pesticides, fertilizers, plastics, etc.) But once you define physics so broadly that it includes transistors and lasers and satellites, the US is still doing fairly well under that definition. Massive spending in the subfield of high-energy physics doesn't give you leadership in the entire broad field of physics, and there's no particular reason to expect major technologies will come primarily from from the high energy subfield in the future. Granting for the sake of argument the silly apparent assumption that outspending is outdoing, CERN still doesn't deliver leadership in subfields like condensed matter physics that may still have a few technologies left in them.
"I said, well daddy dont you know that things go in cycles
The way that Bobby Brown is just ampin like Michael" - A Tribe Called Quest

I think that there is indeed a pendulum effect of over-reaction from one mainstream mindset to the other. But one things is for sure, no company in the past was able to predict what the future would bring - if they did they would have switched their ways. I think the sad fact is that these changes in mainstream mindset are very fluid and hard to predict and survival of the fittest company/solution is very much a game of chance.

This might be a reason for the longevity of larger companies like GE that can afford to have many bets on the table.
Quite close to the perfect bachelor pad. Good work.
Come on, it's not as simple as "WRONG".

Chrome acts more like an OS, in part by delegating many tasks to the OS itself. Firefox does more of what an OS needs to do, because it does all the work of handling those tasks in a simplified way itself, rather than delegating.
This is pretty old, but as an avid Python advocate, it's always worth a re-read.
So the solution to procrastination is to present me with 100 more things to read?

I guess that's true, for a given definition of "solution"....
Many families are struggling with rising food costs.
Not really.

Are you sure?

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=families+struggling...
One of the points of the article seemed to have missed you. If the singularity is possible, there is still the question of whether humanity will go extinct first. At some point, AI researchers are going to have trouble breathing Earth's atmosphere -- or do AI researchers not breath air like the rest of us?
i have a timer too
This does not gratify one's intellectual curiosity within the context of hacker's news. You forget that this place is explicitly designed to avoid the denigration that happened at other sites.

By your logic, anything that's upvoted would 'count', though that's been explicitly verboten.

Compare and contrast -this- post with the recent post about car detailing. Neither are "about" hacking. But in one, an individual's using all the tools available to do something sublime. In the other, we have a long-circulated e-mail about non-productive slacking. Gee.
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I wrote a similar tutorial a while back using Python and BeautifulSoup (http://lethain.com/entry/2008/aug/10/an-introduction-to-comp...). BeautifulSoup doesn't learn in any sense of the word, but it plays very nicely with malformed (even extraordinarily malformed) html, and you can usually do things in a way that is resistant to changes (a combination of tag and id|class is usually fairly resistant to non-drastic changes).
1. power management: works now. no excuses there.

2. kenote: don't know about this, but there are so many choices in this space now. c'mon.

3. ubuntu 8.04 and above are ok with this now. i do it all the time.

4. i'ts more of a bsd-flavored unix. i guess that's ok.

5. macports suck and you know it.

6. time machine: well, i guess that's convenient but i don't know in which format time machines store data. that makes me nervous. here, just copy and paste this. use it EVEN if you have time machine.

$source="mysource";
$destination="mydestination"

rsync --archive --delete $source $destination

i'll throw in the cron entry too for every day at 2am (put the above in run-backup.sh)

# m h dom mon dow command

0 2 * * * /sbin/admin/run-backup.sh

now, if you like your macbook because you like how pretty it is (which i'm guessing is the real reason) then enjoy it.
Right now?

Have a three point desk, all have some crap on them, the main one has the monitor and keyboard, also a water bottle and a bottle of ginger ale. The connecting piece has a laptop and empty water bottles(I drink it religiously ever since I passed my first kidney stone). The main piece has mostly crap like empty CDs, digital camera, phone, some documents, a few books, and the speakers and the computer.

To the right of that I have a drawer with a lamp, phone charger, and more documents.

To the right of that I have an unmade bed and a fan aimed downward.

The other half of the room has the FAX/Printer/Copier on the left side. A cabinet with a bunch of books, and to the right side of that a hamper and the closet. Also have an unhooked fridge from my college days which I always put off hooking up.

On the messiness scale, I'd say its a 7...meaning its a mess, but I can clean it up in about 10 minutes if I have to.
And yet most of our feed readers are still pretty dumb. There is a lot of opportunity for improving the feed experience.

I love Google Reader; it is my primary feed reader. However, there are a few things about and every other reader that I have tried which really really bothers me:

It doesn't filter my feeds for me. I have to click through every story on every feed. Otherwise the feed counts go sky high and things get buried. There has got to be a better way.

First of all, I want clustering. If two articles with similar words from two sites about the same topic have a link to the same target, then there is a pretty good chance I don't need to read that story twice. Sort that out for me Google News style :-)

Second, I want to be able to differentiate between "I want to read everything" vs "I like to read these when I have time". Right now, I read EVERYTHING that comes in through Google Reader. When that "inbox" is empty, I hit sites like reddit and HN. I just skim the front page and find some stuff to entertain me. Then, I move on. I do something similar with Facebook feeds, although I sometimes miss feed items from my best friends when I want to see EVERYTHING (or at least all their shares and comments; stuff they want replies to). We need a way for casual-reading style feeds to be integrated with our "must read" feeds.
+1 for Road to Reality.
But there's still a market for expensive one-time downloads of academic PDFs. For instance, I spent $12.95 on a PDF which gave me tons of useful information and is just a business expense that pales in terms of other expenditures.

Also, a lot of webpages exist just to provide information, and aren't bothered about revenue, and you won't find Google ads on, say, Geocities pages.
Very messy. I really should clean it up.
DSLs expand the solution space, GUIs limit it to the creator's vision
Very nice place...

But gotta ask, what's with the all the separate pieces of paper on the table? I assume it's a game of some sort, considering the amount of different beverage glasses... can't figure out what game.

Cheers
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"... the whole point of it as far as Roald was concerned was that it was private, a sanctuary where he could work where no one interrupted him ..."

I've long been interested in Dahl and his work area.

He did his writing in a shed in the back yard of his house, Gypsy House ~ http://www.flickr.com/photos/bootload/2837817746/ The description of the setup is fascinating. The shed contained an old chair. His feet would rest on a his an old suitcase his mother had discarded. On his lap would be a large board that he would sit over his lap. Within his reach would be half a dozen sharpened pencils and some writing pads. This is all he needed to write. You can see some images of the setup here ~ http://www.flickr.com/photos/bootload/2837817764/ here ~ http://www.flickr.com/photos/bootload/2837817762/ As for my work area isn't a patch on Dahls. An overview you can view here ~ http://flickr.com/photos/bootload/sets/1131207/

Programming is much like writing. You need the solitary (confinement) to get into the flow. You can learn a thing or two emulating past masters. Dahl recongnised that to write you need the discipline of regular practice in an environment free from distraction.
oh yeah.. um, we didn't have a deck of cards and my friends were very intent on playing Kings/Circle of Death, so they cut 52 slips of paper and wrote out their own deck of cards.