skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Presumably the data format is based on their light field viewer:
http://lightfield.stanford.edu/aperture.swf?lightfield=data/...

(note this downloads 12 Mb of data)

You can look at the source:
http://lightfield.stanford.edu/aperture.html
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And they deploy the 1Gb binaries via BitTorrent!
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Congrats guys, heard lots about this. I will hopefully be able too attend the next HN London event.
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Another approach is to use Privoxy http://www.privoxy.org/ and add these lines to user.action:

{ +hide-referrer{http://news.google.com/news/} }
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Generally most people agree that there is a point at which copying too closely is literally "too close" legally. Some people dispute this, they are not in the majority.

Generally people would agree that Apple is entitled to these same protections.

Generally people would agree that every other non-kirf vendor differentiates their product quite a bit moreso then Samsung has, at least on certain products.

This does not mean Samsung has crossed the line of going too close. It just means they are a lot closer to that line then others.
Respectful of his hosts? Don't think so. They kind of twisted his arm. It would have not happen the other way around by the way (if the Israelis were paying for his trip).
Far and away, most of my pageviews are on recent threads. However, the oldest threads are the ones that give me the most value: if I happen upon an old thread, it's because it contains advice on a topic that I searched.

In other words, when I use HN on a daily basis for the community, I'm browsing the latest articles in high-volume fashion. When I use it as a technical resource, I'm probably only hitting a few old articles. But pageview-for-pageview, the old articles that pop up when I'm doing a search offer me much more value than the ones I browse daily.

While you must certainly be right re: the degree to which traffic goes to old vs new articles, I think you might be underestimating the value of old HN threads. The traffic going to old articles probably has different purpose and those pageviews are probably not isomorphic to typical pageviews coming from the front page.
Awesome job guys, congrats!
Have people not learnt anything from Crush Notifier and others being shutdown by fb?

If this catches of fb will shut it down.

fb's business model is around advertising. They cannot have people diverted from their site. Find a way to push people to fb (zynga) and then you are in business.
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News reports elsewhere say that the PINs were captured by keyloggers, so their strength (as in difficulty in guessing) was irrelevant.

So, either RSA wasn't thinking about keyloggers as a component of a combined attack --- even though replay attacks using captured interaction streams are the main threat that SecurID was designed to counter --- or they were being disingenuous.
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???

I'm an old NewtonScript coder -- I wrote a JVM for the Newton, for example. NewtonScript is a fairly pure proto-OO language, and it was great to work in. I was thinking of getting into JavaScript, but after reading this article I am shocked, SHOCKED, at how bad JS appears to be.

Class-style OO has really one major advantage: speed. You can do object slot lookups in O(1). Otherwise it's mostly disadvantages: it's very wasteful of memory, it's not dynamic, it mates poorly with functional programming styles, and its unnecessarily complex.

Let me get this straight. JavaScript is proto underneath (and thus is slow), but strives so hard to feel like a Class-style OO that it has deprecated developer access to ITS OWN PROTO OPERATOR. Thus it loses most of the advantages of proto languages except memory consumption, and still has all of their disadvantages.

And this nightmarish condition was all done in order to shield the coming-from-C++ developer from having to "learn" the trivial concept of proto-style OO? And ten years later it's STILL the case?
The question isn't whether samsung decided to build iphone-like phones. Everyone can see that they did, the galaxy devices look way too similar. The question is whether they directly copied it, and apple has legal protection. I don't think they do. I don't think you can claim that samsung directly copied the iphone, either in general or in specifics.

First, in general. Did apple invent the "all touch" category? No. The earliest all-touch smartphone with on-screen keyboard is IBM's Simon, from 1992: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Simon . Did Apple then invent finger-friendly glossy UI's with capacitive touch screens? No. See for example the LG KE850 (prada phone), which was first demoed a year before the iphone: http://www.oopshi.nl/images/ke850-prada-oopshi-nl.jpg . Note that LG threatened to sue Apple for copying the prada phone's design: http://www.applematters.com/article/the-iphone-lawsuits/

The iphone's grid layout that launches apps is merely an evolution in a long history, starting at the newton, through palm, back to apple: http://www.applegazette.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/06/inter... . I used to have a palmpilot pro, and you can clearly tell that the iphone's designers learned a lot from that UI. So, when talking about the general design, there's nothing in there that originated in the iphone. So, if there's nothing that apple can claim ownership on in the general case, let's look at specifics.

Apple isn't suing for the general UI design, because they learned early on that it isn't protected when they tried the same thing to protect the mac interface (which they themselves copied from Xerox): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Computer,_Inc._v._Microso... . Instead they're suing for the distinctive design of the icons on the iphone. And, well, I don't think they're copied. Inspired by, yes, but direct copies they are not: http://static2.businessinsider.com/image/4dadf745ccd1d5aa3f1... .

If anything can be learned from all of this it's that history is written by the winners, and that everyone stands on the shoulders of giants. If it were me, I'd do away with patents entirely. No point to them really, not if you look at how preciously little there is that's actually original in any innovative product.
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So you're arguing that obesity, neck pain, loneliness, divorce, stress, and insomnia cause long commutes? Or that some factor causes both? What might that be?

I'm suspicious of this sort of research for lots of reasons, but concerns about the direction of causality is pretty low on my list in this case.
We could add a "+0" vote in addition of +1 and -1 votes to solve this problem.
Why can't I use my karma points to buy 'sneak peaks' of comment scores?

Maybe 5 points to display comment scores for a particular story?
Take away the interesting technical aspects, and BitCoin, to me, looks like a pyramid scheme.

The BitCoin economy is like a small country with a novel monetary system. Now, a big country, say the USA, wants to join because it sees benefits in that system. Normally, such a transition would have the USA print new money. In this case, the answer to "OK, sounds useful, how do we introduce this kind of money into our economy?" is not "together, we pick an exchange rate, then you can 'print' a BitCoin for every X dollars you destroy", but "you buy it from us, who got there earlier".

There also are huge problems integrating this "nobody can check where money flows" scheme into current economies. Income tax? Forget it. Indirect government control over inflation and interet rates?. Forget it.

In the end, I think some of the ideas of BitCoin may live on, but I do not see it live for more than a couple of years. Meanwhile, it will make quite a few people rich.
Couldn't you do something like this with Kinect? Depth information is all one needs to get a plausible "software focus" effect. Not sure how effective it would be outdoors though.
I believe that Ericsson and Nokia own a few patents on ringtones. A phone that plays music, like an MP3 player may not be all that patentable, but what counts as a novel idea now is really different than a decade ago.
I've seen http://demogirl.com do #3 (demo videos for apps) and #2 http://interviewstreet.com

For #1, I can upvote you only once. I've been having this idea for a while now. Customized accounting app for a niche audience. That's going to be my next app once I finish my current one.
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One reason for not having return, has to do with symmetry, which Scala is full of.

For example, val x = if(foo) { a } else { b }

This is a lot nicer than the alternatives, and I suppose you could force people to write:

val x = if (foo) { return a } else { return b }

...why, why? It doesn't really add much. Once you get into the functional mindset, it becomes natural how this works, and the occasional place where you are forced to add a return statement becomes a place where there is almost certainly code smell. No returns is basically one of those constraints that helps guide you towards more functional code with fewer side effects.
Agreed.

"Building up the image you want others to see"

Rather than trying to project an "image", try instead to just be yourself. People can smell fake a mile off.
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how do you know? have you asked him?
This violates two simple, and obvious, tenets of investing:

1. Don't put all your eggs in one basket.

2. If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is.
there are some social structural causes at work..however the same cannot be said for Indian students from Indian as well..even though the social pressure form parents/family is the same.
The obvious way to counter that would be for the interested Israeli parties offer to pay for his trip with no strings attached as whether he gave or not he gave speeches for the Palestinian group that's paying the current plan.

Can't be that hard to cough up funds for that. I doubt Stallman demands to fly first class or private jet.

Another, perhaps better approach would be to contact the Palestinian group who's paying for RMS's trip and offer to foot part of the bill, perhaps making his stay longer and more productive. Such dialogue is important and appears to be absent from this affair.
Why not introduce more types of labelling of comments? up/down doesn't often give me enough of a spectrum, and usually there's not enough time to write something substantive in a reply. I may just be repeating someone else's comment (do I 'upvote' that one instead)?

Being able to tag/label a comments as well as vote - with the size/scope/quality of people here - would create a much richer opportunity to be able to sift/sort/filter the comments as desired.
I recently saw a study that broke down the academic performances (maybe it was PISA scores?) of each racial group in the US and other countries. It turns out that each racial group in the US did better than in their home countries, but because of the diversity of America, the overall score was lower. In other words, asians in America did better than asians in asia. Etc.Sorry I can't find the specific study, maybe someone can follow me up on this?
Yep, you've got that all about right.

There are a couple of fine points: In JS, using regular constructors, object slot lookups still tend to be O(1)-ish -- engines like V8 optimize the "hidden class" of the object by assuming that all instances share the same rough shape, with guard checks if you start to change your properties dynamically later.

Also, regular constructors in JS are much more memory-efficient than the popular alternative "module pattern", which looks like this:

var makePoint = function() {
var x, y;
return {
getX: function(){ ... },
getY: function(){ ... },
distance: function(){ ... }
};
};

var point = makePoint();

Because functions in JS are mutable objects with their own identity, guess what happens each time you create a point? You've just duplicated every function that the point uses as a method, including their closure. It gobbles up memory to the point where you can't make more than a few thousand instances of any object, no matter how small.

With "new Point", in JS, there's only ever one copy of the point's functions in use -- living on Point.prototype -- and all this is avoided.

Finally, class-based OO can be fully dynamic these days, it just depends on how you want to implement it: see Ruby, where any object can have a "metaclass" with its own complement of methods.
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I recommend reading up on the MMM company.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MMM_%28Ponzi_scheme_company%29

there is also a Russian movie called PiraMMMida that came out a few months ago, which is the fictionized version of history. Now that movie, is pretty much exactly how bitcoin tends to be covered by the fanboys.

And as the movie points out, it comes down to pure greed, people give up real money in order to buy worthless paper, which they are hoping to unload before it depreciates...but they never do, because they keep seeing big returns...until the point when the whole "economy" crashes and you are left with nothing. An important point, is that these people knew that the currency was worthless, but because of their greed they continued buying it up and promoting it to others.
Not if you have dozens of Mixergy interview preloaded on your iPod.
For the Kinect to work you need a surface where the infrared spot pattern is imaged. For most of the things we look at the Kinect will be sufficient.

However one captures a lot more information with the light field camera. For example transparent things like smoke, fog, glass and things with weird optical properties like polished steel or the Tiger eye mineral with Chatoyance will be captured by this camera.

This gives the photographer tremendously more artistic space. Just imagine photographing a close up of an eye with the Kinect technology.

One can argue that the light field camera will maintain a quality in the image one could never achieve with Kinect based systems (without a lot of photoshopping).
How about macro photography. When you get really close to something your depth of field shrinks. This lead to the invention of focus stacking. If instead of having to take 4 pictures, you can now take only 1, you can capture incredible things.

https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Focus_stackin...
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> (who doesn't have a terminal open?)

Really?

1. Every non programmer / IT guy in the world.
2. Some of the programmers (me included) who do not work with Linux environments or who abstracted the terminals using some other tool.
A few points:

1. There is a difference between "This is useful, I will use it," "This is useful, many people will use it, I think it is going to succeed," and "This is useful, I will invest in it." I have recently started using a text editor called Byword. I quite like it. But I am not rushing out to invest in it.

2. There is also a difference between "I will invest some of my money in it," I will invest all of my money in it," and "I will invest all of my money and all of the money I can borrow in it."

If we take a thousand people and instruct each of them to invest their life savings and everything they can borrow into a single, randomly chosen investment, some will get very rich, richer than anybody who avoids borrowing money for speculative investments, and much richer than people who take a balanced portfolio approach to investing.

But that doesn't mean it's a good strategy.
OK, I wouldn't mind separating that poor mentally handicapped person from their large amount of clearly mismanaged money. But that's not commuting, that's immense overpayment for an automotive relocation service.
Why does what I could have done with the money justify how I chose to spend the time? I see this meme occasionally nowadays, implying that it is my sad duty to become rich because of all the philanthropy I could engage in, and I don't trust it.

No offense meant; I'm sure you mean it sincerely.
He argues that allowing people to move their money freely undermines democracy because the movement of money without the permission of the government restricts the ability of the government to set policy. He says that the people moving the money can "de-fund a country". This is the "two wolves and a sheep deciding what's for dinner" theory of democracy.
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I think you are conflating static typing with class-based OO. Python for example is class-based but still fully dynamic. You can mutate classes at runtime, and even replace the class of an instance at runtime, OTOH Python cannot do the slot lookup optimization you speak of, due to its dynamical nature. Python shows that class-based inheritance is very useful (and easy to use) in a dynamic language.
Wow, that is sad. My knowledge of literature and poetry is spotty at best but I certainly picked up on the reference without a moment's thought. The ability to make literary references in a few words is a basic aspect of literacy. I suppose their brains are probably crowded with internet memes and celebrity facts and have no space for this sort of more beautiful trivia. Something I love about geeks is that their big brains tend to retain more references like this, so when they talk and listen they can use the whole language, including classic literature.
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I think there should be an "either" option, or at least I hope there's one in the final product. I have some skills to offer (sysadmin) but lack other skills (Rails)
> Take away the interesting technical aspects

BitCoin consists only of technical aspects. The rest is just noise that people do around them.
I meant it's an exception because it does not throw a warning, even though you are treating a string as a number. (This is contrary to $foo = $foo + 1). The DWIM string auto-increment doesn't even kick in unless the variable matches /^[a-z]/i.
This is cool! Perhaps in 20 years time or so, Germany will have a service similar to Netflix... (and then, 10 years later, even something like Netflix instant).

Good for you, sad smiley for us :-(
I would have liked the option to select mentor and student, e.g. student of, say, Common Lisp or ANTLR but proficient enough to mentor in many other areas :)
This is indeed an interesting topic.
Especially in high numerical aperture objectives incredible things are possible.

One can put a diffractive optical element infront of the sensor and obtain 25 instantaneous images, each at a different depth.

http://waf.eps.hw.ac.uk/research/live_cell_imaging.html

Couple this with high resolution techniques and your at the current research front and could possibly solve the question:

What happens in a synapse?

It is theoretically possible to image at 40nm resolution with 100fps and therefore see the transport of vesicles.

One can expect important discoveries on how the brain works using these techniques.
bitcoin is somewhat interesting, I've been experimenting with it recently. One thing to note is that transfers aren't instant until your client catches up with the network -- when you first connect you currently have about 127k blocks to download before you are current.

At first I had some trouble understanding why you couldn't just had a client and create easier coins. The thing is, you can, but the network won't recognize them. The key to the system's security is that as long as 50% of the bitcoin nodes agree on that the current difficulty level is you can't inject 'fake' money into the system.

Right now moving money into and out of the system is a bit difficult. Mining is not worth the electricity it costs you, unless you have a GPU and join a mining pool. The 'value' of a bitcoin is very volatile, as tracked on the http://bitcoincharts.com site.
Bitcoin is not a company. It is a currency. It doesn't promise anything.

The fact that it is an ingenuous social engineering hack is merely an effect of the money supply.
This event will be used as an example of why the US needs an internet kill switch and to impose more restriction on the use of the internet by US citizens. Much like the PROTECT IP act, you'll see more Laws coming out soon.
Some may say this is a "false flag" event. It could even be that there are some subcontractors that worked within Lockheed that may have caused this breech. Regardless, there are going to be more restrictions coming for US citizens and companies that use the internet (in homes, schools, libraries, etc.).
"There is currently about USD 50 million in the bitcoin system, and just over six million coins in circulation, valued at $8 each. Up until now, demand has largely been driven by enthusiasts.
The value of a bitcoin can’t be held constant — if 12 more million dollars is exchanged into bitcoin, the value of a coin will rise to $10. The more people who want to use the system, the more people will need to exchange a portion of national currency for bitcoin, and the more money will go into the system. The more money there is in the system, the more a particular bitcoin will be worth."

This statement lacks economic sense. The total market capitalization of bitcoin ecosystem is $50m doesn't mean that $50m has been transacted. If I accept your offer of $800 per bitcoin, the market cap based on this transaction will become $5 billion instead.

Therefore, the author has severely over-estimated how much money that people have put in to the market. He is probably thinking "So there are $50 million investment here, my savings are so insignificant that I don't have to count the risk."
They are only heuristics, not iron law of investment. Even so, don't put all your eggs in one basket pretty much apply to all situations.
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I registered these domains with the intent of making 1) a HN directory and 2) a weekly blog featuring one hacker from HN.

And now they're just sitting in my namecheap account.

Does anyone want either of these names (for free)? They expire in about a month.

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