skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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How does using the translate API help Google? They already have the largest source of natural language text in existence (the web) -- why would they need your translation queries?
Believe it or not I do something similar in Los Angeles. First I don't usually go into work, I work from home. When I do go, I take the metro and catch up on my podcasts, though I may work when necessary.

Also, there are plenty of sunny days, great restaurants in walking distance, and the beach and Griffith park are not too far away when I need a break.
Podcasts have really made my commute a lot of fun.
What if someone else uses the same URL I did?

For example: i.tap2tab.com
The purple sorbet in cut glass he was serving tumbled onto the expensive white gown of an obviously rich and important woman... Thirty years have passed, but Odland can’t get the stain out of his mind, nor the woman’s kind reaction. She was startled, regained composure and, in a reassuring voice, told the teenage Odland, “It’s OK. It wasn’t your fault.”

That woman had admirable self-control. It's difficult to retain your composure when you're inconvenienced by the incompetence of your social inferiors, but it's usually worthwhile.

The trick, I find as I get older, is to make the move from asserting status to assuming it. Instead of the mindset "I'm so fucking awesome, why won't these goddamn idiots stop inconveniencing me", you move to the mindset "I'm so fucking awesome, which means I have a responsibility to set a good example for these people". As soon as you start seeing your role at the top of the pyramid as being all about setting a good example for those below you, rather than being served by those below you, dealing with them gets a whole lot easier.

(Then again, maybe that's just me, and I've just over-shared enough to mark myself out as a supremely arrogant prat.)

Another story I like of noblesse oblige is about casino magnate Steve Wynn, who shortly after purchasing a $139 million Picasso accidentally ripped a hole in it at a cocktail party. "Oh shit", he said, "Thank goodness it was me". If anyone else had ripped Steve Wynn's $139 million Picasso it would have ruined their life, but if Steve Wynn accidentally rips Steve Wynn's Picasso then the painting is just as ripped but nobody's life is ruined.
You mean clones of existing business models? If this path wasn't profitable, Burger King/McDonalds/Jack-in-the-Box couldn't co-exist. I've been really confused by this pervasive idea that seems to be going around that the only way to make money, is to think of something no one has thought of before. If that was true, Google/Starbucks/KrispyKreme/Facebook wouldn't exist. People that create new markets tend to make far less, than people that expand/perfect existing ones.
Any thoughts on helping shape the product?
that's a dangerous example, because linksys never put much effort in this model. signaling that the early adopters or hardcore users are not a desired market.
That's one way to train a translation system, but that's not related to the Translate API -- I'm asking, what benefit does Google receive from usage of the API? They already have the entire Internet in their index -- it's not like they need a better source of what phrases exist. The parent implied that Google was using the API to train their MT systems, which I find hard to believe.
Let's own up to at least one basic fact: at least some portion of what we do is algorithmic -- computational -- in nature. Why? As we have this discussion, we're absorbing 1s and 0s. And we're spitting them back out in response on the other side... (what happens in the middle is left as an exercise to the reader. ;-)
Just a small nitpick. While the state of the art in x86 land might be 3GHz, the IBM Power chips and I think the Z mainframes too, not sure on that, have gone far beyond that speed.

POWER6 chips reached 5.0GHz in 2008: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/POWER6

POWER7 chips however have been clocked down to 4.25GHz: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/POWER7
It's kinda sad that we need the waiter rule...is it too much to ask for people to treat others nicely?
I use this Python library to build a plug-in for gEdit which shows you the git branch of the file being edited.

https://github.com/dfuenzalida/gedit-git-branch-statusbar
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The author was using a play on words using IT terms in the title. This has nothing to do with actual brain simulation.
Again, that's all 'really neat', but the headline of the story is stating that people need what they're doing, which is b.s., so long as I can't ask how many people are using Linux and get something like an answer. I don't need to know how many cephids are visible from Modesto, CA. If you do, Wolfram Alpha is 'really neat'.

The beautiful thing about Google is that most questions along the lines of 'what is the distance between Mars and Jupiter", or "how many mililitres are in a gallon?" have already been answered, somewhere, and Google will point you to the answer. If it aint broke, don't fix it. Now, I don't doubt there are applications for Wolfram Alpha (I've heard their API is what really gets people excited), but do 'people need what they're doing'? Not particularly. It's a lot of hype.
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http://www.almstba.com/vb/showthread.php?t=22836
Yes, the NYC subway in the summer is lovely. Extra points if the train air-conditioning is broken.
Just for fun, I'll throw in my own stats: I make $650/mo from 4,000,000 pageviews. However, the low rate is easily understood because I run a forum.
> find as I get older, is to make the move from asserting status to assuming it.

When I took Improv classes, I always struggled with Status Games. I eventually got better. Improv is/was hard for me because you have to accept the situation, even if it is patently absurd.

> A construct of great importance to improv and of considerable value to therapists is "status." Status here does not mean "social standing" or "occupational prestige." As used by Johnstone (1979), status refers to what people do, or play, akin to dominance and submission. Thus, a waitress may play high status (condescension) while her customer, a physician, may play low status (awkwardness) despite their opposite social standing.

Seen in this way, human interaction is never "status-neutral"; we are all constantly adjusting status in relation to our surroundings and to others. Further, status transactions are territorial, involving the use of space, gesture, posture, vocal inflection as well as verbal content. In our experience, shifts in status regularly accompany significant changes in interaction and that such shifts are always noticed, even when not being acknowledged.

[1] Status game training:

http://www.rehearsalsforgrowth.com/improv1.html

http://improv.ca/training/exercises/status-ab-walk/

And one of the most interesting things about power is that if you let someone play the expert and you the pupil, you will become the powerful one...
Here's the alpha:

(defparameter *phrases*
'("Who needs it?"
"Who uses it?"
"Who *really* needs it?"
"What problem does this solve?"
"Does that problem *really* need to be solved?"
"What is the worst problem in your life?"
"In any given day, how many people use it? Do they return?"
"What do you do for them once they get to your site?"
"Why do they need you? What's special about you?"
"Beat a chicken and egg problem with a tiny subset of the market that's small but *driven*."
"No, who *needs* it?"))

(defun random-elt (seq)
(elt seq (random (length seq))))

(defun answer (prompt)
(declare (ignorable prompt))
(random-elt *phrases*))
I tend to wolfram it when googling it fails. E.g. when considering buying a new place in Tokyo:

http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=historical+interest+rat...

Compare those awesome results to the crap google offers:

http://www.google.com/search?safari&rls=en&q=histori...

Google is more generally useful, and has changed all of our lives for the better. Nevertheless, Wolfram Alpha is far more useful in certain contexts, in my experience, and not necessarily just for mathy stuff.
A typical spike is of the order of 2msec, so required time step should be of that order. In detailed neuronal simulations, one usually uses a time step of 0.1msec
Rather ironic that it's the CEO of a weapon manufacturing company that's moralizing about how to treat others.
Yes. Yes you have marked yourself.
Status is illusory.
huh. funny, 'cause my understanding that the basic ideas organized labor fights for (e.g. pay based on seniority rather than perceived merit, no firings without a well-documented good reason that involves the employee not following the rules and protectionism on the international front) Are largely incompatible with what most Entrepreneurs need.

I mean, this is my perception, and it may be incorrect, but I think it's a pretty common perception among business owners.

And really, when you get down to it, small businesses and entrepreneurs, generally speaking, treat employees much worse than even union-free large businesses. Larger companies do a lot of the things unions want simply because there are hoards of lawyers willing to jump on them if it even looks like they might have a case. I mean, sure, you could bring a wrongful termination case against, say, me... but you'd have a difficult time finding a lawyer to take it on a percentage of the winnings; you can't get blood from a stone, and my company just isn't worth that much.
"If this attack involves "simply sniffing TCP 445" why not just MITM the whole session?"

Because it doesn't. The attack involves using a bug in IE (an iframe will render cookie data from the local computer) with clickjacking to steal cookie information. Sniffing on port 445 is only mentioned in the context of figuring out the username of your target (by causing the target to connect to your SMB server, running on port 445).

I'd suggest you go back and re-read the whole page before making sweeping generalizations.
Stephen Wolfram is sort of famous for his ego. That explains the title.
The assumption is that in the process we will have discovered new insights in the high-level functions of the brain that are not apparent in our current-level AI. We should then be able to figure out how to make it "better" at math or motor skills.
As a "deletionist" (at least in theory if not in practice) I welcome this project.

I'm glad that somebody is finally doing this, instead of just sitting around complaining that wikipedia isn't what they want it to be. Complaining that wikipedia isn't an indiscriminate collection of information is like complaining that Target isn't a fine lobster restaurant -- it was never intended to be and it's fine the way it is. There's enough "inclusionists" out there that I'm sure they can build a parallel encyclopaedia with a slightly different philosophy, and if (as I suspect is true) it turns out to be swamped with useless and unverifiable information (not to mention a huge number of vanity pages) then at least we'll know.

However:

[it] will discard ‘notability’ and other ‘encyclopedic’ standards in favor of ‘true and useful’

I'm not sure how "useful" differs from "notable" and I suspect they're just going to wind up having the same arguments about different words. For instance, is a ten thousand word biography of my cat both true and useful? It's certainly true, and it might be useful to someone at some point, so why delete it?
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Ask HN: Best solution to use for a remote dev environment?
Lately I find myself working from about three different machines, all in different locations. I'm doing mainly RoR work and as such, setting up development environments on each of these three machines and keeping them relatively in sync is quite a pain.

I've been tossing around the idea of running an EC2 instance with Ubuntu on it, getting it set up to use as a development desktop and remoting in with NXWindows. As far as practicality goes, this (in theory) should work rather well, but I'm open to other ideas for doing the same sort of thing.

Has anyone done something similar before? Any tips, recommendations, etc? Thanks!
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Id imagine the excellent weather that this author enjoys only happens few months out the year in Brighton Beach. Because my memory of the area was that of gloomy weather and gloomy people :)

Whereas in California its in reverse, bad weather if it happens, it happens only few times year. Where I live(San Mateo -- 20 minutes south of San Francisco), the weather varies between spring and summer and a mild one at that

P.S. The thing I like about San Mateo is that its right smack in the middle between san francisco(Zynga) and Mountain View(Google). Its 20 minutes either way by CalTrain or car.
NYC Subway >>>>>>>> TTC (Toronto Subway)

Any YYZ folks know exactly how brutal our transit is!
OMG thanks for the tip, it's really useful!!!
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Not exactly for a photo that has any motion... it combines 6 50 megapixel shots into a single image by moving the sensor slightly for each shot.
organized labor IS a monopoly, a monopoly on a company's labor. And having a monopoly on the supply of monopoly's labor supply is the most profitable monopoly of all.

so, no, I don't think unions will want an end to monopolies.
Given this, it seems much more reasonable to suggest that the problem in the US is that the culture doesn't value learning.

Asians in the US don't seem to have this problem. As a result, they perform as well as Asians in Singapore, Japan and Shanghai. This strongly suggests that schools are not responsible for the difference. After all, if American schools sucked and school quality mattered significantly, shouldn't Asian Americans be dragged down as well?

You can debate whether it is cultural factors or intrinsic intellectual superiority. It's irrelevant for this conversation. The fact is the study seems to be measuring student quality but attributes the differences to school quality.
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It doesn't "suck" at all, but I wish Freshbooks did a whole lot more. I've sent in at least 5 feature requests that seem relatively simple, but are dismissed (as far as I know).

I'm happy with the service and pay the $30 bucks without cringing, but it could be much better.
Perhaps, but its effects are most certainly not. There are only three ways to change the world in a major way; violence, technology, and mass persuasion. Understanding status is a key part of the third...
Unfortunately, yes. Some people don’t see the point of treating others nicely, especially when there are no consequences to mistreating others.
Oh, OK. I'll try it then: its value proposition that differentiates from other solutions is its realtime and really focused output. The main interface is not graphs that sum what happened in a day, but more of what is happening right now. And of course its easiness to setup. My idea is you can know that people are doing something wrong on your website by looking at the stream. For example if you have an image that is understood as a link to the checkout, but doesn't have a link, this app should be able to tell it to you.
Get a hold of Dragson Den... the Canadian versions (CBC) is the best in my opinion (I'm biased) but the UK (BBC) version is solid as well.

It blows shark tank out of the water, much more business stuff then sappy stories.

It also features Kevin & Robert from shark tank (who were/are originally dragons before sharks)
It seems to me the other companies are coming out with native ports (sega, atari, capcom, square, etc.).

OTOH how can it be surprising that Nintendo is not cutting the legs off it's own platforms? 25+ years I can't recall their first party titles on anything but Nintendo consoles.
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Which is why I replaced my Linksys with a Buffalo http://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/Buffalo_WZR-HP-G300NH and recommended it to my friends, some of whom have bought their own.

Linksys had really good viral marketing going with DD-WRT. Rather than exploiting it in a mutually beneficial way, they chose to spit in their customer's eye by making successive incompatible versions and charging extra for the "L" model that was nothing more than the original hackable model. I imagine they made more money short term. Today, I don't recommend Linksys to my friends, I don't see them as a stand-out brand (which they were with the WRT54G), and I don't see them as being particularly competitive in a crowded market.

Hopefully more enlightened manufacturers take heed to the Linksys saga and don't make the same mistake. This seems to be the case with Buffalo and now HTC.
Living in Los Angeles adjusts your perception of bad weather. Here, we consider 60 degrees Fahrenheit unusually cold. Rain makes headlines.

I think it is worth it. Commutes don't have to be bad if you move closer to where you work.
If you leave after ~9:30 am, you can get to or from San Francisco in about 45 minutes from San Jose.

Of course, if you leave before that, it's almost twice as long.

I lived on the Menlo Park/EPA border and commuted to SLAC and it took me about 30-35 before 10am, and about 25 minutes otherwise (unless it's the middle of the night, then only about 20). The inner city traffic in all of those cities is abysmal, especially if you have to cross the tracks for Caltrain.

Moving to SF, I can commute to SLAC on the 280 from Noe Valley and get there in 35 minutes, as long as I leave after 9:15, same thing leaving after 6:30. My commute is almost the same amount of time and I'm traveling 27 more miles. It's nuts.

So, I think 30-35 minutes is reasonable, sometimes it creeps up to 40 or 45 if there's a wreck, but I don't mind the commute, especially because the 280 is beautiful.
I commuted from near Berkeley to San Francisco for 5 days recently using their BART train. It was a lot like the experience described in this article, even though it was on the other coast.

I never had trouble getting a seat, both at the stations and at the train, so it was easy to take out my laptop. Large portions are above ground, so tethering worked for internet.

It does feel really good to get stuff done on your commute! I guess situations where it is possible pop up in many places.
> My reading is that you couldn't brute force it, you'd have one chance to set up the iframe with the cookie file in it which needs the username, or at least just one chance per clickjacked drag action that the user executes for you.

But if you made some sort of Javascript "game" (which used drag and drop) and required the users to register their name first, then you should have a fairly high chance of guessing their username without CIFS.
Except qmail, of course (http://cr.yp.to/qmail/guarantee.html )

:-)
The main differentiating factor that turns humans to thinkers is language. There are very few other species who have some form of communications and none have the capacity to express complex abstract syntactic structures like we do. It has obvious evolutionary benefits, and as a side effect it gives us the ability to reflect on the world. There are other faculties that we miss, that might also have interesting side effects (e.g. magnetoreception), but based on the size of the achievements of the human race, language is more important.
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Agreed, and I love the fact that we've got all kinds of knowledge on this forum. I want to thank brian and niels again for their input.
how about telecommuting instead?
None of the companies you have mentioned have reached any sort of critical mass. Clones in those environments probably have some sort of edge that allows them to gain traction in market segments the biggest companies can't touch.

Take Groupon. For relatively low-margin services, the vig is too high to use it (an OPEN forum discussion suggested that in some circumstances you may end up receiving 10% of retail, so you should either have 90+% margin or hope that yo get repeat customers), and that leaves an opening for companies with a smaller vig (e.g. LivingSocial)
I'm always amazed at how nice people are when they want something from you. If you want to see their true colors, you have to watch how they treat people they don't want something from.
The author has a unique perspective, but for the majority of new yorkers this is simply not the case. Internet and cell phone access is not available underground, and most of the NYC subway line is underground. it's not safe to use or show your expensive anything on most of the subway lines. Majority of the stations are very dirty, cars are just tolerable. During rush hours NYC subway riders are packed like sardines in the subway cars .... Here is a blog that gives a different side of the story : http://gybria.blogspot.com/2007/10/packed-like-sardines-in-p...
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That's 1 to 1.5 wasted hours, every single day. That's not what I would call a reasonable (or productive) use of time. I'd rather spend that time somewhere more pleasant than the freeway, doing something more pleasant than driving a car.

I used to do a similar commute from SF to Cupertino, before I moved to NYC. I felt an awful numbness of mind and spirit every time I got into my car to commute to work.

Now, my commute takes 15 minutes door-to-door; I use the brief time on the train to read a book. I actually look forward to it.
This sounds terrible! Would you like to share a bit more about your story or buisnes? I doubt I can help but maybe more experienced people here on HN might have good advice.

The first thing that pops into my mind is personal bankruptcy. Also, I don't know who those people are who would loos their job and anything about the overall situation. Are you responsible for them or do you just feel responsible. Ask yourself how sustainable your current approach is. If you brake down in a few months will anyone be really better off?

And yes its true, if you follow all the advise above but don't see enough purpose in your life it will still suck.
Though, I wonder if one would actually find purpose if one would follow those rules for a few months. The problem would probably be, that you won't keep up with following the 'rules' because you lack motivation. Thats why I replied this to the medication idea. If you are motivated enough to take medication you should be motivated enough for sport, too. Not getting enough sleep is hardly a longterm solution. Especially when you have to take responsibility for others.

Don't fool yourself. If you keep fighting an impossible fight your body or mind will break down eventually. Its called burnout. I just read an article in German news today [1], where a nurse who pushed herself over the limit for years ended up in a wheelchair. I can hardly believe it, but the doctors really claim that her legs and right arm got paralyzed because of mental burnout.

[1]
git has a specific poster child: the linux kernel

for a while, google used hg.

what high profile project uses bzr and advertises it?

I know the response sounds like a chicken-egg problem, and it is. To gain traction, a prolific company or project needs to use bzr.
> If this attack involves "simply sniffing TCP 445" why not just MITM the whole session?

Hmm, because port 445 is not port 443?