skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I could see using this, when I typically go somewhere the first thing I do is find a book store and buy a tourist book about the place I'm now at.

I don't really see the point in taking a picture of a boarding pass to tell you where I'm going. Id find it much easier to just type in the location. Maybe have a feature where I can enter in my flight number so when I land and turn on my phone I'm welcomed with a "Welcome to San Francisco" email from you.
Ditto. "But you wouldn't _have_ to have a separate language for UI markup if your base language was sufficiently powerful!" Mind you, in many cases the solution could be either Ruby or Lisp :-)
On the whole, simply measuring calories is a pretty poor metric for health. I'd say the health benefits are probably much greater and broader than the 300 calories this thing is telling me I'd save.
Thanks for the input - It's funny, but contacting their competition for a competitive quote is so obvious that I didn't even consider it, as we we're approached, versus visa versa. Great insight.
This is sorta related but since I concluded the test today and this post is here, I thought I'd share.

I ran a 5 way split test for 9 days on my newsletter's signup page (JavaScript Weekly). My original page was the 2nd best performing but an identical page just without the subscriber count got a 8% higher conversion (or about 20% more signups in all) with a 90% confidence at the end of testing.

The worst performer? A signup page with no screenshot preview of the newsletter. Sent conversions from about 37% down to a mere 3% (!!) Lesson learned? Always have visuals or screenshots on pages where you're trying to get people to sign up for things they aren't sure about.
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Note that D can call C directly too; all you have to do is add the function's prototype to an extern(C) block in your D code. You can cheat on the prototype too, for example, using void* rather than spell out a struct pointer type, if you're in a rush.

There's also pragmas for adding the needed library to the compile command line.

It's actually pretty easy to use.

D's C++ binding support, on the other hand, leaves quite a bit to be desired... I always do extern C functions to bind them together.
The most amusing change with ipv6 for me is that google now tries to crawl the webserver on my laptop whenever my ipv6 tunnel is up. I suppose I should add a robots.txt. (I have no clue what link led it to my laptop, although its AAAA is in the dns.)
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> I think the quote you refer to speaks for itself.

With all due respect, you're missing my point. My point is that the quote doesn't speak for itself. It leaves all the really hard questions unanswered.

Here are some of the hard questions that I have in mind:

1) Are any statements concerning history not perspectival? (If so, why and what kind or kinds? If not, wow: not even (putatively) factual statements like 'World War I broke out in the year 1914'?)

2) If historical statements are so deeply perspectival, how do we rank or otherwise evaluate competing statements about history? If we don't rank or evaluate them at all, how do we form coherent sets of beliefs about the past (which many people appear to do)? How do people manage to choose between conflicting claims? How should they choose?

3) Are all statements about history equally valid? If so, does this run the risk of meaning that all statements about history are equally 'invalid'? If not, why not?

4) Are historical statements especially perspectival or are all statements of belief (period) perspectival? If historical statements are especially perspectival, why? If not - if everything anyone states is completely perspectival - wow. Again, that's a big claim.

Yes, my argument used a reductio ad absurdum, but I wan't trying to make your claim absurd. That is, I truly meant to take it seriously: seriously enough to dispute, to ask questions about and to discuss. Saying that all historical claims are perspectival is a big claim. I was genuinely asking you to clarify what you meant.
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I was asking about the "non-linear" part.
Compare the performance of almost anything to PHP and you're going to be delighted.

Yes, the V8 engine is fast. That's what it's designed for. But that's only remarkable because it's a JavaScript engine. You can get the same performance from Go (with better memory utilization to boot) or even Java.
You're right. It was third parties self publishing through Amazon, not Amazon themselves. Amazon itself was simply the mechanism.
Just a sampling of the many comment threads talking about working standing up, or in one case walking on a treadmill:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=176704

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1835634

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2438140

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=569574
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I think that you can be interesting enough to be worth an article even though you may have some other weak trait. All of us have some.

In this specific case I can assure you that smoking is seen differently in various countries. For example when I visited the US I was astonished to see that smoking was prohibited near most buildings, etc, which is totally a good thing, it's just not like that everywhere else.
It gets better:

"To get started, you will need to begin reading one or more of the Lojban Books"

Seriously. A Book.
Are there any good examples of the critiques of Wittgenstein and Wiener of Principia Mathematica?

The Wikipedia article for PM only mentions Wittgenstein and separately a 'shortcut' from Wiener. I would like to know if there are longer writings somewhere.
It did increase automatically - the adaptiveness is a major part of the novelty - and it worked basically promoting you when you scored high (like >=80%) and likewise demoting you an N level. If you're curious, Brain Workshop has a Jaeggi mode where it uses the same scoring and promotion criteria.
or enable a firewall?
Agreed.

font-size:100.01% is useful, too. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4541421/is-using-font-siz...
Cost is a very complex thing, are you considering externalities?

In other words, we're paying a pretty damn high price for "gas" right now (including externalities like pollution, wars, and oil spills). Alternatives have not taken off due to chicken/egg problem of adoption<->economies of scale.

Also gas is not safe. It's highly combustible and toxic to humans: http://medicmagic.net/living-near-a-gas-station-increase-can...
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Yes, that's one of the main criticisms - that the n-back task is too similar to the Ravens/BOMAT used to measure _Gf_.

See http://www.gwern.net/N-back%20FAQ#criticism and this paper I haven't incorporated yet which reviews & criticizes a lot of the pro-WM training literature: http://psychology.gatech.edu/renglelab/publications/2010/shi...
if you get into the start-up scene, it really is like that. A lot of those people are just talking shit, however. lots of hype, less execution.
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Is it a boolean though? "refuel or recharge"? Can flow-batteries be recharged AND also have the fluid exchanged?

This would be very promising if it could match an electric car's battery AND be refueled. It may also lead to longer-lasting batteries overall.

That would change the conversation. Charge the flow-battery in your garage at night, or if you're out and about or on a long trip, just "fill-er-up!"

Better Place advocates having "battery swapping stations," but with the rapid change of innovation, battery requirements for different-sized cars, etc., that may be difficult to set up the infrastructure.
Wired Article on Better Place: http://m.wired.com/autopia/2009/05/better-place/
I disagree so hard. Computer programs should be written primarily for humans to read, and only incidentally to be executed by computers.

The funny this is that the same is also true for
mathematics.

Mathematicians writing proofs and theorems are communicating with other people, not (usually) with machines.

Mathematical notation is s means of human-to-human communication. Yet anything but the most trivial math soon becomes inscrutable to the untrained. As far as I can tell, mathematicians are mostly happy with this. The language used allows for precise, compact expression of complex (i.e structured) ideas. That understanding requires training and rigor is not considered inherently bad.

For whatever reasons the same terseness and concision is derided by many programmers who seem to believe that ease of understanding by the moderately skilled is highly important.
Hi,

Dan Arkind from JobScore here. We have spent some time on this. Check out our stuff at www.jobscore.com or holler if you have more specific questions - dan@jobscore.com

The crux of what we do is a parse and clean pattern with a relatively straightforward resume fit scoring (or matching if you prefer, tomato, tomatoe).

You can enter weighted keyword terms (useful), but we also FILTER based on location, experience level (employers, job titles) and education level (schools, degrees). We've found this does a decent job of "wheat from the chaff" separation when you receive a lot of job applications.

The reality when you are hiring is that you definitely want to actually read and review ~ top 25% of inbound applications.

Finding matches in larger data sets (100M+ LinkedIn profiles) is obviously harder... but filtering one level down in structured data (degrees in education, job titles in employment) makes matches relatively precise.

There's a non-trivial challenge in normalizing job title information (javascript ninja vs. front end software engineer vs. awesome developer!) and degrees that could make matching more precise, but we aren't aware of anyone who has really taken this on (bueler?)

Variables that aren't typically captured (like salary) are really strong indicators of a match as well...

LinkedIn's (interesting) secret sauce here is relationship metadata (who you know) as a filter. LinkedIn also captures reputation metadata and the folks over at www.honestly.com are doubling down on this. We have an (undisclosed) secret sauce angle to matching at scale... but we'll need a heck of a lot more data for that to really matter...

In general though, you don't want or need an exact match (who you are going to hire), you just want what's close (who should I call).

Give jobscore a whirl & see if you have any additional input!
Have you read Ben Goertzel's Loglish idea to combine the Lojban grammar with the English vocabulary? This could address the issue of adoption.
http://www.goertzel.org/new_research/Loglish.htm
http://www.goertzel.org/papers/lojbanplusplus.pdf
Klingon flourished? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klingon_language#cite_ref-0 indicates an estimated 12 speakers.
I think the rational motivation behind the common wisdom that coke and prostitutes = bad stems from the effects on regular people as an effective person hones his craft and becomes really good at pursuing c&p. Namely, he will be looking for more women to have sex with, better prostitutes, and possibly enticing women you care about into his lifestyle.

On the other hand, the humble, successful businessman simply becomes a better neighbor to all of us, and probably creates an environment where our loved ones stand to benefit.
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Fair enough. But my point is that it's premature to say that being logical doesn't matter (much), or especially that it's a point against Lojban's adoption, as the comment implied. Surely there are other reasons.
i take the "every game" argument as bogus.

none of my games (including the Black Ops, launched way after) uses motion plus.

Then there's the "other device" argument.

My GBA cost me some $149 at launch day! the Wii U will cost $250! More than what i paid for my Wii, $150. But yes, the cable was a problem with nintendo. always hated them for that. $25 bucks but took me months to find it! for a damn cable.

In the end, i don't think nintendo got any better at execution at all! it's just doing now as much marketing in the US as it always did in Japan.
Yet, it did not stop them from trying _really hard_, for example, with the Clipper chip and export restrictions on software that used crypto. Even now, foreigners who come to the US to work or study face extra scrutiny (whatever that means) if they work in crypto.
I'm a failed startup entrepreneur fighting my way back out of depression, spiritless-ness, and massive debt.

My entire family suffers from social anxiety disorder

There is no ecosystem to help drive and create new things. Local city and business "leaders" I talk to about doing something politely nod their head in agreement but it never leads to anything.

You know, you are probably very much like us, a functional manic depressive. We are dreamers - bugs who want to change the world. And it drives us crazy. When we work for someone we disparage it and call it a J.O.B.. Yet, getting paid is the key marker of value being created. Another word about manic depressives, that is how we get into debt because we are too optimistic when we are manic.

I had a failed startup once, and you know what? Working for people isn't at all bad. I don't watch TV, and I spend a lot of time tinkering around with ideas. Hopefully one of them works, but if it doesn't, my family will still be fed and clothed.

I'm not going to offer any concrete actions, but to reassure you that you are doing the right thing in putting your parents ahead of yourself. Just as the blind can't drive, the cripple can't walk, if you are crippled by massive debt, you can't take business risks.

Instead, I'd like you to reframe what your definition of success is. Success is not a million dollar house, or a changed world.

Success is when you have become a role model and become a source of inspiration. Tackle your problems with dignity and that is success in its own.

One thing I might suggest is meditation. It is free, and you will hopefully learn to better pierce through your current anxiety, and see that it is a your parent's social anxiety manifested in another form.
> The story is definitely false because Knuth is a very polite and modest person who has never been the sort of person that says "you're full of shit" to anyone.

Absolutely. It's just a special case of the (likely) fact that Knuth never told anyone that they were full of shit.
Standing up in from of the computer is a major paradigm change ...

I've found that standing up and writing something on whiteboard engages my brain in different ways than typing it out at my laptop while sitting, or even drawing it out on a Wacom tablet while sitting.

It's the problem I have with most computer music tools; the typical nerdy mouse/keyboard UI encourages the wrong kind of mental mode. Touch screens are somewhat better but still don't embrace a rich, physical, spatial environment.
The author told a story-like version of this in a This American Life episode:
http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/385/p...
(the first section after the prologue)
_A Brief History of Time_ by Stephen Hawking

_The Way to Wealth_ by Benjamin Franklin

_The Book of Job_ by Job, from The Bible

_Meditations_ by Marcus Aurelius

_The Prince_ by Niccolo Machiavelli

_The Bill of Rights_ by James Madison

_The Gospel According to John_ by John, from The Bible

_The Gospel According to Luke_ by Luke, from The Bible

_The Acts of the Apostles_ by Luke, from The Bible

_The Song of Solomon_ by Solomon, from The Bible

_Heimskringla_ transcribed by Snorri Sturluson

These books have combined to make me the free-thinking, reactionary stoic that I am today. Most of them are old, but they contain much wisdom about life, work, politics, gender relations, spirtuality, and history. Please let me know if you have questions. :)
There's a line between perspective and propaganda. The pablum we feed high schoolers is the latter.
When did these "several years" take place, ColinWright? Was the Web already around? Was it before social media came of age? It's only been a few years since social networking really came on the scene. Maybe nowadays it'd be easier to find or form a community that would support the dreams and meet the desires you had when learning Lojban.

YouTube is particularly significant. Being able to hear and see speakers of a foreign language has got to be a tremendous boon for those interested in learning that language. (Yes, such resources were likely available before YouTube, but only professionally-produced resources, only for popular languages, and not free.)

I started learning Esperanto in 1998, but stopped studying after a few months, since college kept me very busy at the time. (I still remember many words, surprisingly.) Were I to pick up nowadays, though, I'm sure I'd be able find an astounding wealth of resources and people who'd spur me on. I'd expect a similar situation with Lojban (though on a smaller scale, since it's less popular.)
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Keep in mind that the 1% margin of error applies to the measurements of the conversion rates. The 29% has a significantly higher margin of error.
I just got back from McDonalds since $1 McChicken is all I can afford to eat.

This is the taste of liberation. Mmm.
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Appreciated the pun in the title.
Joy is a purely functional language and the archetype of the concatenated style. The original Joy page is down but here is a mirror http://www.kevinalbrecht.com/code/joy-mirror/index.html If I remember correctly there used to be link in the original called "Joy of Programming". If you love this kind of stuff checkout http://archive.vector.org.uk/art10000360 very entertaining. Amusingly enough Joy's stack based semantics was not something that was explicitly strived for, but emerged as a consequence of its quest for purity and syntactic simplicity.

The post made me check up on CVML. I am delighted that the development on the virtual machine for Cat language has picked up a lot of steam http://code.google.com/p/cvml/ though with mildly altered name. I was keeping an eye on that last year but I guess the author was occupied with the development on another language he was collaborating on called Heron. Cat I think is the only statically typed language of this family.

A good resource to check up on such languages is http://concatenative.org/wiki/view/Front%20Page
Postscript probably should have been there as well.
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The D programming language has strong support for RAII, and of course has Andrei's range based algorithms library, which in my not-so-humble opinion is superior to the STL.
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Ask HN: Your use of Linux for Server Infrastructure?
My organization runs and manages a mature Web property that has standardized on CentOS 5.x for all our infrastructure. We host most of our servers on EC2 but also use 1000Tb.com and ServerBeach.

My question to the community is this: what Linux distributions are you running on and why did you chose that distribution? Is it ability to maintain? skills? bugs? performance? other?

For us, the critical applications we run on CentOS include:

* haproxy

* Apache bundled with CentOS

* MySQL bundled with CentOS

* MongoDB (via their yum repositories)

* PHP 5.3 via http://www.webtatic.com/packages/php53

* Icecast (mp3 broadcast streaming server)

The reason why I ask this is, well, I'd love to hear some lessons learned from folks in the HN community that have had to make this decision. We settled on CentOS about 7 years ago due to my background in the enterprise space (IBM).

Anyways, I would love to hear what distribution your organization is running for your Linux infrastructure, and why.

Thanks!
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Bill Joy spoke of this at the Institute for Advanced Study, circa 1999. I don't know if anyone took a video of his talk, but he did it (and I was there.)
I would have liked to see more explained samples and less philosophy. The draft version of the book digs right in and starts explaining how it works.

http://www.lojban.org/publications/reference_grammar/chapter...
Could you elaborate or provide some linkage? I'm curious what the perceived issues were back then.
At around 50:10, someone asks him sarcastically to use his cloud to make sure than when TV commercials are made, they're good ones. Steve Jobs smiles, nods and thanks him.
No pr0n on Netflix.
I don't see the rationality aspect in your explanation.

You're selfish and want me to be a good neighbor who doesn't steal your women.

I'm selfish and want coke and prostitutes and your women.

Those are, at least in your point of view, mutually exclusive (I can imagine people who would appreciate a neighbor who's into coke and prostitutes).

I just don't see how one person's selfishness is better (in a rational way) than other person's selfishness.
What about standing versus sitting on a ball? Also how do they figure out how many calories you burn while doing something? I've always wondered that.
What other companies have built beautiful office spaces like this? I count IBM and Epic systems. I hear sas has a great campus as well.
I saw what you did there ;-)
I don't remember reading anything specific by Wiener, so that might have been from one of his talks or /Cybernetics/ or something, as for Wittgenstein, I'd look in the blue book. If it's important I can try and track down the references later.
The point was, inscrutability of Principia is largely a myth. Sure, it is both nigh-unreadable and nobody actually uses the logical language developed therein, but it can be understood, it's simply not useful enough to compensate for verbosity. For a modern-day example, look at Coq. It is painfully verbose even after many iterations of refactoring.
(presuming you are in the US) : If you are under crushing debt, go see a bankruptcy attorney. There are some kinds of debt that can help (like credit cards, judgments, contracts) but some it can't (like student loans, child support and maintenance). As an attorney I have seen plenty of people in bad situations that were just made unbearable by a debt load, and have seen them thrive once that monkey was off their backs.
It's no fun, but it's a rational solution to that part of your problems. You can't start your next chapter if you're paralyzed by debt. If you are in the kind of straits you say you are, your credit rating is crap anyway, so what's to lose? Get a fresh start.
1. You can see those once you "Generate List".
2. Trying to keep it simple ATM :)
3. Ok. Will fix.

Thanks and appreciate for your feedback, Pete.
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One relatively easy solution for your email accounts problem: buy a domain, set up Google Apps, create a user and make that email address catch-all.

Now you can have as many email addresses as you want without needing to create them one by one. And if you work it a little more you can even answer as any of them and apply filters.
Not to mention the new apricot trees.