skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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Thanks! I figured blue social networks are way over used. I'll have to check out the color scheme on a few other computers because the text is very easy to read on my screens. Thanks for the suggestion!
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More importantly, since when does Apple have governing authority over the use of Myriad type font?

> You may NOT use the Myriad Set font on or in connection with web sites, products, packaging, manuals, or promotional/advertising materials.

What did they patent the use of a font in a specific way or something?
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Yeah, definitely. The site started out as a place where I could organize my (private) command snippets, and kinda went from there. People wanted to make some public.
I love bitcoin stories. I've learned a lot about economics, crypto, and social interactions through the stories. No, I'm not being sarcastic, I'm sincere. One of the most useful things about which HN has alerted me.

Keep them coming. I would rather read that than that Pandora/Groupon filed for an IPO, the latest marketing driven from Joel/Atwood/37 Signals, or Techcrunch's reblogging of WSJ/AP/Reuters.
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That would be a good idea as along as you have a good distance between images (d(image1, image2) small equivalent to image1 and image2 are equivalent). I have little experience in image processing, but this is generally a hard problem with complex signals (as images, music and speech are).

Most of what is described in the article concerns dimension reduction, where the goal overlaps with the above.
I hope they change the CEO at least. He has treated this situation with arrogance ("just a minor glitch") and it's not like he did an amazing job at Sony over the past few years in the business side either.
How would I tie this in with monit? Would I no longer need monit?
Trust me you won't want to miss the bitcoin stories when the Treasury agents start kicking in doors.
Would you think it would be a good idea to extrapolate his homework into a pdf that would omit all of his detail
That is completely brilliant! I want to go out and write a image diff viewer that uses this on blobs in the image to detect pieces moving around!
stick an IR filter on the back of your phone, no?
Yeah. Other identifying features, then - I'm sure that someone has come up with a way to identify images which ignores such basic changes to them, especially considering what TinEye does.
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Is this $25 per year to stream music I already own to myself?
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This is a great analysis of Groupon S-1
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It's amusing to me that the second thing she had him do was sing in front of a crowd. I essentially did the same thing, using karaoke to shed social anxiety. While I certainly wasn't at the level of this guy to begin with, I can guarantee you the first time I ever did karaoke at a bar I was shaking pretty violently, and I had to be extremely drunk to even consider it. Now? I can go up completely sober and really not think twice about it, and the social anxiety I used to feel in most social situations very rarely rears it's head.
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Bitcoin marketers invariably use formal analogies to suggest that Bitcoin isn't a scam. "The early adopters benefit just like in Google, so there can't be anything wrong with that" or "If Bitcoin is a pyramid scheme, then US dollars are as well."

The problem is that these analogies neglect all context and substance. Just because some schemes that benefit early adopters aren't scams doesn't mean that all such schemes aren't scams. Just because not everything called a "currency" isn't dishonest doesn't mean that this one isn't being marketed dishonestly and without regard to the people who will lose money as a result.

What's different between Bitcoin and gold? Bitcoin has very limited history, whereas gold has a much deeper history. Gold doesn't face existential security problems; Bitcoin has faced security compromises (such as an integer overflow in the block chain) even in its short history, and these compromises have had to be corrected using out-of-band mechanisms. The Bitcoin market is tiny, subject to market manipulation, and operates through unregulated and probably illegitimate exchanges. Finally, people buy gold without most people who own it spending a good chunk of their time promoting it dishonestly to others.
The point of the money is to scale fast. So everything that supports that.

From the tech side, enough machines/devs/ops/training to get continuous integration flowing and increase your development speed.
From the looks of it this is actually TinEye's main commercial activity, they merely expose the search interface to demonstrate their technology.
If you like the idea of "Heroku for anything", I encourage you to try the original: dotCloud has been running a similar platform for almost a year now.

We're flattered to see everyone shift gear and try our approach. But we like being one generation ahead - and we have a few announcements up our sleeve, too.
We don’t know but it’s probable (and also in line with what one would pay for Amazon’s service†, depending on how much music you can upload).

†You can get up to 20GB for free from Amazon but I think we all know that Apple doesn’t do free. I expect a much more generous limit for those $25 and maybe a trial period but no free service.
The configs that Foreman generates for upstart or standard init system include the 'respawn' keyword, which makes sure that these processes are restarted if they crash for any reason. In this way, it can replace monit's basic functionality. What's not there at the moment is a way of restarting the processes when they, for example, use too much memory or CPU. Ideally you'd have something check for this as well.
If anyone lives in Sydney and wants to get over their social anxiety, email me. I am extremely open minded.
I'm betting this "just" buys you the ability to sync all your music (and pretty much everything else that can go on your iphone) to every device you have over the air.

I'm already spending that 30 bucks on Pandora One and I'm not sure the added burden of having to maintain and manage a music library is something I'm up for anymore. I'd rather just stream some semi-random music in the background and go see some good live shows.
Just to add to your point about marketing being important to assess something's value, take black pearls. They used to be worthless and producers couldn't sell them at bargain prices. But then one jeweler placed them next to sapphires and other precious gems on display and they became a quite expensive item.

I'll add a link to this story if I can dig one up.
It's worth bearing in mind that Amazon's service has unlimited storage for music you purchase from Amazon. Purchases there don't count against your space allowance.

So for new music purchases Amazon is pretty tempting to me even if I intend to move the files to one of the other services at some point. Lifetime re-downloading is a nice perk.
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Some people were already doing this before, but with other formats. I did a little comparison between this and the one Best Buy currently uses, GoodRelations.

https://gist.github.com/1005688

I like this quite a bit better.
The only time I've heard people talking about high beta has been in the context of leveraged securities that track the indexes.

But what do I know, I only spent a decade on wall street.
*there has to be someone willing to say "I'll give you X USD for Y bitcoins"

Not really. They have to be willing to say "I'll give you X thing that you value in exchange for Y bitcoins." The entire point is that the design of bitcoin makes that scenario likely to always be true precisely because it is nearly impossible to stop. As I said above, the very fact that it represents a system that is very difficult for state actors to attack ensures that it will almost certainly be used for exchanging goods and services that governments would rather not exist. Not a terribly noble future, perhaps, but certainly one that ensures bitcoins have value.
Agreed. Also don't forget that no one really made much noise about the lack of Flash on iPhones. It wasn't until iPads also had no Flash that Adobe could more clearly see the writing on the wall and started making a lot of noise.

What's more, Adobe would never have put this much effort into making Flash suck less on mobile platforms if Apple had decided that shitty Flash was better than no Flash and went ahead and shipped it with iOS.
Actually, they don't say that. They just say it can't be marked free in a PROMINENT manner.
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Currency is a placeholder for value. So long as I can exchange bitcoins for value, they will function as a currency. The design of bitcoin makes it very difficult for governments to make such a scenario impossible (or even difficult). For that reason alone, bitcoins will remain valuable, if for nothing other than goods or services that governments don't like.
As someone running 5 server processes in development for one project, this hugely simplifies all the terminal juggling on my local box, and centralizes the associated commands as part of the codebase. It's a little like a "bundler for processes!"

There appear to be a few kinks to be worked out; for example Foreman fails to kill off Redis (for me) as described in this closed bug report:

https://github.com/ddollar/foreman/issues/15

Not a huge deal though. I'm happy to be using it for development.
Ah, ok, that’s good to know. If that’s the case than I would be disappointed about anything below 50GB for my non-iTMS music and would very much expect no limit on iTMS music and maybe a 20,000 or so limit for non-iTMS music.
this is just shady
"Myriad _Set_" is a proprietary Apple font.
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I would think that those limits would be mandated by government and only implemented by the banks. There are various limits about trasnferring in excess of $10,000 of cash across national boundaries, and also to/from cash.
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It may be implicit, however some tax laws (I'm Australian, not sure of how this works in the states) can look through contracts and treat them as employment arrangments unless the contracts specifically allow for the ability to subcontract out work, the ability to work for other people and for the responsibility regarding rectification of work. I'd be interested to know if the US has similar look through arrangements for contractors.
I'm pretty sure there's a companion to the 3rd "output" example yielding a nice symmetry, i.e. :

When general details cloud knowledge of specifics (I know they live in Australia, which is that place on the South of the world .. oh what city was it again?).
The upper peninsula ("U.P.") of Michigan is the place to get pasties in the United States. It's almost the only region of the United States that includes people who know how to pronounce "pasty."

http://kenanderson.net/pasties/michigan.html

http://www.upper-peninsula-now.com/pasties.html

http://www.exploringthenorth.com/foods/north.html

I've had a pasty in the U.P., and I'd be glad for pasties to become more generally available in the United States. As it is, my wife (who is Taiwanese) makes homemade meat pies, to surprisingly good effect from someone who didn't grow up eating them.
My reaction as well. I find myself in the unfamiliar situation of wishing I could help. And all I can think to do is upvote every comment on this page that mentions the f__ search-replace. That last bit is the most poignant part of the story. The operators of that site should go to hell (even though I don't believe in it).
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Flash is ridiculous on OS X. It leaks memory like a sieve - I once left a few tabs open overnight with Flash ads and your various bits of Flash-based internet detritus, and by the time I woke up my machine was thrashing madly until I manually killed Flash. Its performance is also piss poor even when it isn't leaking your RAM all over the floor.

Not to mention it breaks a lot of fundamental browser interactivity - want something to render on top of your Flash applet? FUCK YOU YOU CAN'T.

Scrolling happily along with your mousewheel on a page, then you hit a Flash applet. While your cursor is over the applet, your scroll wheel stops working. Why? God knows, because Adobe hates us and Flash is the greatest bit of trolling ever.

These aren't new issues - these have been around since the very first days of Flash. Adobe simply has no interest in bringing usability up to the standards of the 21st century.

Nor security for that matter - one of my main objections to Flash is that it conveniently circumvents all of the nice security features your browser has painstakingly built into your experience. Incognito mode? Flash won't respect it. Don't like cookies? Well, screw you, Flash will keep its own equivalent anyways. Nice, sandboxed JavaScript runtime? Well, Flash does its own thing (and has its own bugs and security holes... many, many security holes)...

I trust Google, Mozilla, et al to do a reasonably good job protecting me online. I do not trust Adobe - both due to their lack of regard for basic product quality (both stability and usability), as well as their poor security track record of having more holes than a beehive.

If third parties could actually implement a runtime (one that, say, wouldn't suck) then maybe Flash would be a good idea. At least there would be a way to work around a single vendor's supremely shitty implementation.

I don't deny the need and desire for a highly interactive technology like what Flash wants to be (and sometimes is)... but this is not the answer.
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The article explicitly mentions Hamming distance, which is also what I mean by bit distance.
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The +150 bump to my karma would've been a pretty good giveaway on it's own. The three friends and coworkers who mentioned it to me since I couldn't see it confirmed it.

also, i've periodically been popping in to read the comments in Chrome or on iHackerNews.com
Here is a good overview of existing approaches to approximate sequence matching - http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.96.... . I also wrote in a fair bit of detail about solving the similar problem of searching through LaTeX syntax trees - http://scattered-thoughts.net/one/1291/799313/731344 . Adapting my code to searching by Hamming distance should be trivial should anyone want to play around with image searches.
This reminds me of OpenSSH's fingerprint visualization support ("VisualHostKey yes"):

$ ssh A.B.C.D
Host key fingerprint is b0:c9:c9:96:fb:fd:ac:a4:ff:70:8f:1b:35:f4:f9:2e
+--[ECDSA 256]---+
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me@A.B.C.D's password:

Original article introducing this feature: http://www.undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=200806150... (2008/06/26).
>To become excellent at a contingent skill (e.g. swimming, chess, math) you must surround yourself with excellent, honest people who care about you.

>To become excellent at a trascendental skill (e.g. "strength," "bravery") you must isolate yourself and go very deep.

Isn't this reversed? It feels like it to me. Of course both internal and external methods apply to each.
Perhaps, but some realize that the mind can control the body in unhelpful ways. For me, my mind races at night. Sometimes I indulge, but I always feel like complete shit the next day.

I've learned my mind doesn't actually want to stay up all night. I had to optimize my own process.
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The two main problems with this approach is it is not rotation-invariant and it does not work well if the image is damaged or added to. A more robust system (that, admittedly, will take longer) is to use one of the affine-invariant feature detection algorithms pioneered by SIFT. SURF is a faster, open-sourced version of SIFT that has many implementations. Essentially it scans chunks of the image at different scales and identifies features that peak even as the chunk around it gets bigger. Once these are identified, they are described in a way forcing them to the same size and orientation for lookup. Since these features should presumably be scattered throughout the image, the image can be recognized even if certain features are obscured or modified. It's certainly not as straight-forward as a DCT metric on a downsampled image, but the nature of widespread image capture, creation and manipulation usually requires this robustness.
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Are they going to force an upgrade to the Skype client, in order to enforce a change to the protocol? That would not be a great move. A lot of us are using older clients, due to how much we loathe the newer versions.
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This is pretty much the opposite from what the article is talking about -- the article is trying to get a hash from an image in order to compare that image to another, while you're talking about synthesizing an image from an arbitrary hash...
I'll bet "a lot" here is substantially less than 1% of the people who buy music from Sony.
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It's not a joke. Monster-child rape has become a standard meme in anime, and it really is inexcusable.

If you would replace monster with human, and tentacle with penis in the artwork, it would be classified as child pornography. How is this hilarious?
I want to be able to guess and find out what the lie is in quiz is without connecting with facebook. It seems like it'd be sort of entertaining to go through a bunch of random people's quizes and guess. Then maybe I'd be more willing to connect with facebook and create a quiz.

Requiring users to connect with facebook is a fairly big ask and when you ask for it, you haven't really given users much in return.
I really enjoyed the conversations between Brian Eno and David Byrne supporting the article.
As much as I dislike Apple's walled garden approach in principle, I have to admit that in practice it protects creators, to some extent, from the selfish unwashed masses that think nothing of taking the hard work of others for free. Here at HN we understand the more nuanced philosophical issues of information sharing but its not hard to imagine the net reduced to a wasteland of amateurish trash without some protection for creators. Steve Jobs' vision is an elitist vision but I find myself more sympathetic lately. Only a tiny fraction of the population has the talent, drive and inspiration to create work of quality.

Here in Vietnam you can buy a DVD of any recent Hollywood movie for 50 cents. Is it a coincidence that the domestic film industry is junk? In the physical world the only way to preempt a "tragedy of the commons" is to restrict the commons. I'd like to think the net is different but current trends suggest otherwise.
This series of hackings is everything that's wrong with the software industry in a microcosm. Sony is a multi-billion dollar international company, and yet they can't even hire competent enough software and security professionals to ensure that their public facing websites holding personal data for millions of people don't have noob level security vulnerabilities.

Software is still more alchemy than chemistry today. There are no objective measures or well-trusted authorities which can be used to ensure that any given developer or any given piece of software meets a certain degree of competence or quality. Only the subjective judgment of fellow alchemists can reliably gauge the quality of another alchemist, and then often only with a rather lot of effort. The most fundamental consequence of this is that no organization can easily produce high quality software merely by throwing enough money at it. This is a competitive advantage for small high-talent shops but it has some rather negative consequences for the rest of the world.
I worked as a sales manager at a group buying site which is a competitor of Groupon, and it amazed me how well off they were despite playing a domain you would expect to be monopolized by a goliath like Groupon. Just goes to show how much room for expansion there is in the niche.
I guess you're talking about the "no vote count" change.

Thanks for this. I've been wondering what was used to make HN for some time.
I'm in the same boat. I'm very happy with the unlimited streaming model of rd.io (and Netflix) and not very interested in a service that makes it slightly more convenient for me to move big media files around and pay $9 a pop to "own" a digital copy of an album.
As a followup (and this is rather unrelated to the original post), you can combine a feature detector with a statistical clustering algorithm to automatically identify the generic visual properties of objects in an unsupervised manner. One of the first papers attempting this is http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.72.... but many have followed it. From what I understand these still simply check for the existence of features in an image instead of their spatial relationship ('a picture of a cat has two ears, a tail, and a blob for a body' versus 'a picture of a cat has two ears positioned on the end of a blob with a tail on the other end of the blob'). Nevertheless, they represent the current state-of-the-art in automatic object classification and recognition algorithms.
You might not have out the app in the hands of the right people. If I were you I would be targeting the 12-16 year olds, maybe even younger. Use Facebook ads to find them.
Makes me sad that insiders cashed out instead of focusing on building the business.