skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
it's client-side only. You can just clone the repo and open index.html in your browser
I launched 3 sites recently (Instant.fm, Instant.IO, and EmuSpin)
Erlang deployment (IMHO) has never been easier: see rebar. It's trivial for a layperson to not only deploy/distribute Erlang applications, but also deploy the hot code upgrades. See: https://github.com/basho/rebar
or: robots use pre-programmed algorithm to assign randomly generated tags to emergent regions.

the cool thing here isn't "inventing a language"; it's that the system stabilises with different areas having different, consistent labels. the algorithm used to do that is based on social interactions. and this is cool.

"language" comes into it only in that the randomly-generated labels are encoded using phonemes and communicated via speaker/microphone.

it's sad that, when there is something cool, people still feel the need to introduce a gimmick.

[edit: it just occurred to me that maybe the cool bit has already been done by someone else, and all this work does is add the sound-based communication; i hope not!]
I´m compiling on save and combining that with http://documentcloud.github.com/jammit/ quite successfully.
But to install apps from Google, you have to license the Google Apps from them.

The thing is, I don't understand a scenario where Google would, in good faith, refuse to license those apps. They've been very up front, that if you pass their compatibility tests, they will more or less give you the apps for free.
Android without the Google Experience is a lot less compelling proposition to lots of folks, and for quite a few it would be a showstopper.

Microsoft would welcome Amazon as another partner in its anti-Google alliance, even if they were using Android.
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Very cool, though if I was you, I'd put the "please don't use it for listening" somewhere more prominent and save yourself a lot of money ;)

Streaming is very fast. What are you planning to do next?
But do you think he'd be passed over for promotion until he 'fully mastered machine technology'?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein
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Actually, I'm in the target audience for phone books. I love receiving those (within reason). I wish I had more right now.

Why? Two main reasons. One is for actually looking up local telephone numbers. I prefer this to looking them up on the Web in many cases: the paper book doesn't call home, the business directory is harder to game, and it's all pre-localized. And it doesn't take away the choice of looking things up on the Web if I feel it's necessary, at the cost of some extra traceability &c.

The second reason is that I use extras as structural supports. Monitor too low (for instance)? Wrap phone book in duct tape. Now it's a brick. Construct environmental modifications out of phone bricks. They're relatively light while being solid, and they're already bound together, so you don't have the trouble of trying to make the rectilinear shape ex nihilo. I suppose I could buy stacks of newsprint paper or something, but going out and buying things is awkward, and phone books are often distributed free, so I'm only paying for time and duct tape.
Ultimately it would be better because it would eliminate patent trolling and foster software innovation. Right now a lot of innovation is hamstrung by software patents. I don't think any company should have the right to enforce what software someone makes, at all, ever.

Half of the tech industry with respect to software is finding something someone else is doing, and building on that but making it better.
"Commercial"? That website looks like it's using the same web template as Orbo.
I'm live blogging it there too.
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This looks like a plus :)
I put all my domains on http://www.namecheap.com?aff=18181

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damn it they should take mine and give it to this guy . i just can not believe what my browser can do . what the f k!
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'Approximate that using this limited tool set and tell us when you think you're close' is a nontrivial problem. Without getting into a discussion of what creativity 'is', we can probably agree most everything about human activity begins as imitation.
Indeed, and it should be noted that if MIT judges that you can do the work (survive/thrive the environment and curriculum) your odds of getting in are 1 in 3: 13,000 applicants per year last time I checked with around 3,000 making that cut.

Although if their rejection letter is like CalTech's (roughly "We receive many more qualified applications than we have slots for", Heinlein even commented on the letter's quality in his "what you have to do to get into a good university" book, Have Space Suit, Will Travel), if you don't get in you won't know where they judged you to be.

One last bit of info: MIT really likes evidence that you can projects. Beside geographic diversity it's pretty clear that's what made the difference for me in 1979.
I like how MG somehow turns the biggest online retailer going Android into a negative for Google. Guess what? Google does believe in this "open" nonsense. That is the whole idea. How is Amazon/Android vs. Google/Android any different than the current state of Motorola/Android vs. Samsung/Android vs. Google/Android vs. HTC/Android vs. etc? Google's whole plan is stay above the fray and just being the default operating system. Sure, Amazon have an app store, but Google is in the driver's seat here. They run the platform. If Amazon steps out of line (goes Bing, whatever) Google has plenty of tools to slap them on the wrist. Fork the platform in a new direction that renders Amazon's devices useless, and that is just off the top of my head. They have shown they can do this in the past by forcing with Samsung and Motorola going away from Skyhook. Of course, this will be portrayed in the Apple pundit media as an affront to openness, but Google is smart. They know that there is a way to be open and successful and a way to be open and be used.
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I think the most underutilized resource is undergrad interns.

I don't know exactly how competitive it is in the Valley, etc, but we have interns knocking down our doors to work with us at http://gorankem.com

we're one of the sexy opportunities in town, and the students are eager to boost their resume and get any experience they can.

and possibly the best part: they'd rather work for us for FREE than stuffing cabinets like some of their friends. it's a win-win :)
Grrrr. No, they haven't invented a language - they have invented a vocabulary. The grammar seems to have been predefined for them.
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What is interesting about the potential squareoff is the huge advantage that Amazon has in the slate form factor: ~$120 for a Kindle which is designed for the killer slate app - reading [edit: of which web surfing is often just a part]. Not only has Amazon already stolen a march exactly where Google is most vulnerable with there advertising subsidized models, their current advertising model has much greater potential to extend the content of periodicals than the keyword driven highest bidder (aka frequently both irritating and irrelevant) model upon which Google relies. Finally, the lion's share of Amazon's revenue model in the slate market is based on providing consumers exactly what they ask for (books and slates) rather than primarily providing what third parties (advertisers) are willing to pay for.

There are sound available alternatives to Google's Gmail, Maps, and Search from which Amazon may choose. Google does not have a similar alternative to Amazon's primary asset of reputation for quality and service among consumers.
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Unless he used a proxy...(picky, sorry, couldn't help it)
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Well, OK, that is true. When our first was born, we both started grad school, so DO AS I SAY, NOT AS I DO! I used to laugh at how much we got done in comparison with the childless people we were going to school with, and doing a cognitive science study on my daughter's acquisition of motor skills was also informative.

I still wouldn't want to bet on that...
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It might be useful for CS education.

I have a bit of experience with this as a course helper in the introductory (CS106 series) CS classes at Stanford.

I think it could be a very cool platform for assignments in CS107 (where students are introduced to Unix and C programming) or CS110/CS140 (the core OS classes).

Instead of ssh-ing into a locked-down cluster computer, students could boot a machine in their browser and get root access. No setup, no configuration. Everyone gets an identical setup, which would be really nice for the people making the assignments. The main thing people would need is a way to save files to a persistent disk. Maybe a filesystem driver could be added that uses HTML5 Local Storage, or talks to a web service running on the class website?

Incidentally, students in CS140 are already using Fabrice Bellard's software. You write most of a very simple Unix kernel, testing and running it in QEMU.
Apparently HN gives you great advice and then 1536 users in 4 hours.
Last Monday, I was just finishing up work on Wolfpacktales – an app that lets you break your social network into groups and have instant interactions, share files and bookmark things you find. The idea is simple, you have all these people you are friends with or connected to, you don’t discuss the same things with all of them, so by grouping them, you can say what you want to say to each group. I firmly believe that in the next year or two, rather than paying $0.25 (or whatever you pay) for a text message over phones, you’ll be texting over this app across your social network using people’s usernames.

Anyway, I wrote a post on here and it somehow found its way to the front-page. It only stayed there for 2 hours but it spent another 2 hrs on the 2nd and 3rd pages. I tracked the signups that came in on that day, and in 4 hours, there were 1536 new sign-ups from HN (directly and indirectly). Directly in the sense that they clicked on from here and signed up, and indirectly if the person signed up having been invited by someone who signed up from HN in that time. Of that number, 61% are active have have returned to the site more than 3 times and have created groups and 80% have invited people to their groups.

To any new apps/startups launching, HN is a great place to get that initial traction and the best part about it – for me atleast – is the number of criticisms, advise and feedback I got. That was much more important to me than signups.

App url: http://wolfpacktal.es
| If you allow passage for all, you can't restrict it arbitrarily.

I know more about private property in regards to the 4th Amendment, but in those situations anything that is accessible to the public, like a walkway to your front door, driveway, etc those are all legally permissible areas for a police officer to be, even though they haven't been invited onto your property. I'd imagine they'd make a similar argument that you can't have a part of your property open to the public but then only restrict people passing out phonebooks/flyers/etc.
To illustrate your point, here is a java applet plus source code visually explaining not only the discrete cosine transform but also principal components analysis and Haar wavelets as all being the same exact operation with a different orthogonal basis:

http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~phlosoft/transforms/
I don't understand your biggest concern. How is it a bad thing that you're setting the example of making sure you have quality time at dinner with your family? Especially if you're doing work after you put the kids to bed to make sure that stuff gets done that needs to get done.
Crashed Firefox portable 4.0.1 for me. What's the intended result?
clickable link: http://wolfpacktal.es
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I still think that software patents have turned out to be dangerously unproductive in practice and so would rather see them abolished entirely than in their current form

I absolutely agree with you here. The current state is a horrible mess. Where I differ from most people here is in my belief that software patents aren't inherently a bad idea but that the problems are merely with their current implementation (and thus I'd like to see them fixed rather than abolished).
Because in the video he specifically mentions getting 50-60 FPS when running it without any screen capturing software and at a resolution similar to apple's retina display. RAGE is also supposed to run at 60FPS on the iphone from what I read about it.
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Well, Google does have licensing requirements, which aren't completely public, and the payment arrangements aren't entirely public either. But I have seen reports that the payments don't all go one way --- that, for instance, carriers get some share of Android Market purchases made on their networks.

As to whether Amazon would want to meet Google's requirements, that's a business decision on their part. Barnes and Noble hasn't for the Nook, at least so far --- but that's in part based around a strategy of marketing the Nook entirely as a niche device (a Kindle work-alike with a better web browser). It may depend on how many of the most popular apps show up in the Amazon Appstore when they get close to launch.
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Interesting they would draw a line in the sand and only feature their top quality show. -

http://www.betabeat.com/2011/05/17/with-traffic-booming-blip...
Interesting. Is this also a mobile app?
Amazon, amongst Google's Android partners, strikes me as the greatest threat to direct competition with Google's expanding efforts to become... Well... Amazon.

"Fork the platform in a new direction that renders Amazon's devices useless..."

Large portions of Android are open source. The top layer -- the "Google" layers -- belong to Google, but Amazon has the option to fork Android as well.

Amazon is an online retailer and an infrastructure company. They've got a ton of brilliant engineers that understand software. One could argue that Google has more "product" people, but one could also argue that their product people don't have that much of a lead on Amazon.

I'm not saying this is a walk-on win for Amazon, but I see the next 10 years shaping up to make the old IBM vs MS vs Apple battle look like an undercard fight.
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It's much more than "talk": the end of the Cold War (plus perhaps other things and I would expect the dot.com crash didn't help) resulted in MIT receiving a lot less money and way prior to the Great Recession it's been in what seems to be a nearly eternal retrenchment mode, with frequent administrative downsizing and layoffs (something that was previously unheard of, at least in the post-WWII period). I can remember when they changed the cleaning of most bathrooms from every day to "frequent cleaning" (they said every other day at the time).

Then "At night, the ice weasels come", or the Great Recession wacked a good part of their endowment like most ever other institution like MIT. They didn't get caught out like Harvard but it's caused a lot of problems, e.g. last time I checked freezing the conversion of the old graduate student dorm into a refurbished undergraduate dorm.
I mean, that is pretty much what language is. Learning of meaning through social interactions...
The article, and quite a few posts here, describe the way they understand the Fourier Transform as the way to understand the Fourier Transform. For it to be intuitive depends on who is trying to understand it. Getting that out of the way, this is how I find the Fourier Transform intuitive (using pseudo-code instead of math notation to make it a bit verbose and emphasize the steps):

fourier_trasform(signal sig(t), frequency freq):
let sinu(t) = sinusoid with frequency freq
let mult(t) = sig(t) * sinu(t)
value = integral of mult(t) from -infinity to infinity

If the input signal sig(t) has the same frequency as the sinusoid sinu(t), then integrating mult(t) over infinity will give an infinitely large value, and that case is handled better by the Fourier Series.

If the input signal sig(t) has no relation to the frequency of the sinusoid, then integrating mult(t) over infinity will give zero.

If the signal has a component with the required frequency, it will kind of resonate with the sinusoid and give a non-zero value. The value then depends on the magnitude of the signal and to how much it "resonates" with the sinusoid.

When you do this for a range of different frequencies freq, but using the same signal sig(t), you can plot how much the signal sig(t) resonates with all frequencies, and that plot is the plot of the Fourier Transform.
Finished this Friday 20th. Stay focused? Well, HN didn't help! :P
Because they needed $40B.
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or the INCEPTION for that matter :)
The interest rate was very low. Who wouldn't take nearly free money to play with?
I once got 231 subscribers to my newsletter from HN. But over 3 days. I agree though, HN is a great place to announce and critique your app
Either Facebook has big pull in Oz or the Queensland police are quite proactive. Either way, they rank 22nd on freedom of the press, not exactly a Scandinavian country.
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Interesting observation....this may be Google's last chance to battle Facebook!!
Fine, but the way the thing works today, there's no mechanism for discovering what those terms and conditions are, or indeed, that they even exist.

So I go somewhere, flick on my WiFi, and then get frustrated because various tools (say, my native-code Google Reader app) can't communicate. It can't talk to the network because HTTP is trapped.

The thing is, HTTP is the de facto transport for everything. But these authentication/confirmation pages assume that a human will be reading them.

It seems to me that a mechanism that detects the presence of such a trap, and pops up that response page in a browser window for the user to react to, would solve everyone's problem (if inelegantly).
> A software patent is akin to "we've patented searching for oil". No wait, why stop there, let's patent "Digging a hole in the ground". You wanna plant a tree over there? Yeah, sure, digging a hole to put it in is kinda obvious, but I've got the patent on digging holes.

Actually, it's not, and that's the sort of thing that makes folks who actually know about patents dismiss much of the software patent rants.

Take the RSA patent. It just covers the use of a specific set of algorithms to do a specific task. It does not cover using those algorithms to do other tasks or other algorithms for doing said task.

In that, the RSA patent just like the Viagra patent. If you can figure out how to use the Viagra compound to shine shoes, you can patent that, and the pharma patent doesn't apply.
That's the next thing I plan to do. Presently it's only a web app.
This is explained well in the Technical Notes section of the site.

http://bellard.org/jslinux/tech.html
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Right. Time/space dilation effectively makes the trip shorter for the person traveling near c.

Here's a really mind-blowing thing: If you were able to accelerate at a fairly reasonable rate indefinitely - say - using an interstellar ramjet, you could conceivably circumnavigate the entire universe within a human lifetime (in your own frame of reference, of course)

Of course, interstellar ramjets might not actually work in practice... but still, the concept of time/space dilation holds.
It's probably likely that they make a better return on their cash management than the rate on these bonds?
I don't see vim in there, but there's a minimalistic vi.
Why should a pet food manufacturer build their website in-house? I'd hire a good agency to do it for me, letting me focus on my core business.
This post seems ridiculous. Modernizr is "bad" because it depends on JS, but the alternative solution suggested is to go back to user agent sniffing and just do it on the server side. I'd forgive the author for not knowing why user agent sniffing is a terrible idea, but it was covered in the post itself...
From what I've heard, this thing is designed to solve whatever can be transformed into energy minimization problems - "travelling salesman", routing the wires on printed circuit boards, urban planning, etc etc.
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So Google is operating a hedge fund now?
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I'd really like to know what they mean here by 'external servers' ... I really thought that FB has acres of it's own servers, no ?
I always point to the team's accomplishment and say "We built this", and then point out the part that I worked on specifically.

People apportion credit to the leadership differently, so there is no shame in saying "I lead the team that built this thing" and letting the reader decide how awesome that makes you specifically.
Oh man, I was a solder monkey for the Orlando group at MIT in my sophomore year, and we also used niobium loops for QBits. That box has got to be pretty big, though. Niobium doesn't superconduct until you bring it down to less that 10K, and to get a stable qbit we had to bring things down into the 100mK range - requiring a helium dilution refrigerator.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dilution_refrigerator
Clearly, marking those same women as felons is the solution.