skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Overall, the experience was positive and I would seriously consider using Go for writing server side of web applications as it provides a right balance between speed and memory efficiency of the running code (much closer to C than to e.g. Python) and speed of development (much closer to Python than to C)."

It seems these days that there is a confusion between the web server (often a reverse-proxy), the web application and the thing in the middle (gateway/pipe/container/app server). While I would certainly consider Go for the implementation of a reverse-proxy or an app server, it isn't clear that Go is a good choice for the web application itself, especially when you consider that most of the time is spent in the DB and in the cache...

Anway, the article mostly talked about Go and not about Python...
"...from a few hundred accounts to over 9000."

I see what you did there.
That's great, congratulations. I took a look at your pricing page and you may want to consider putting the annual price in like terms, i.e. say $12/year instead of $0.99/month. When I read annual, I expect the price to be stated in that unit. Maybe you can tack on a "Pay for 6 months, get a year's worth of service if you get the annual plan" line somewhere.
I've read those articles when they were written, and have even read the book Death March. Those situation are obviously not how things should be.

Patio11 responded to Abrash saying near the end of the project there were rough patches and that eventually they all were tired of working on it. No matter how well run a project might be there will always be rough patches and you'll likely be sick of working on it at the end. Quake is a great game, but imagine running the same level or even worse, same portion of a level all day long looking for obscure bugs. Even if you planned for this time, doing this for weeks is going to suck at some point. It's just the nature of working on a long term project and taking it from working to shippable.
I couldn't disagree more. Doing the grungy work of getting a big project ship-ready doesn't automatically mean there's a death march underway. It means you're a team that's disciplined enough, grown-up enough, to focus on the good of the project, as opposed to what's fun.

There's no reason that kind of work can't also be rewarding. Running a marathon is hard work, not pure fun, yet people find the endeavor rewarding.
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Benchmarks? Code? Anything remotely empirical?
Read Count Zero and you will learn all about Joseph Cornell. Not facts, mind you, but you will learn what Cornell's work feels like.

The Cornell exhibition I went to see is, alas, closed now:

http://www.amazon.com/Joseph-Cornell-Lynda-Roscoe-Hartigan/d...

...and all the boxes are back in the hands of various collectors. But modern art museums have them in smaller numbers. I saw a few of them at the Art Institute of Chicago, for example.
He had something in the same spirit: (though this one outputs a decidedly non-random number)

http://www.brendangregg.com/Specials/notrandom.c
The difference is that in the movie, it is a single bad guy (well, a small team of bad guys anyway). The story is different when it is a country orchestrating the attacks. Do we launch nukes in retaliation? Do they follow up their cyper attack with a nuclear attack? Or even just a coup? I'm a lot less worried about loosing all my money to some crook than I am to the US being overthrown (even if the government is just full of crooks)
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Ask HN: How does Google Voice search get input w/o flash?
In Google search now you can use your audio input to search. My question is how are they technically doing that in HTML/Javascript?

I've been told that HTML5 doesn't have an audio input object, but that's what it seems they are doing here. Any tips of how I'd implement similar?
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Oh yes, I don't deny that it's horribly done. I use my own classes "Dict" and "Li" instead of arrays whenever I need them to be specific, generally.
Any language which uses concepts which you haven't used before (Like Functional Programming or in the other direction OOP etc.) will need more than 2 days. You will need the time to learn the new concepts and not the language. So the language per se isn't difficult but the new concepts...
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The article presents the view that, due to social inertia, artificial intelligence research will stop before it realizes its goal for ethical reasons. To my knowledge this has never happened before.
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Actually, getting to strong AI through math (rather than through mimicking humans) sounds more probable to me. We already have formalisms that can compute the most accurate possible prediction and the most efficient possible way to optimize a a utility function (inferring the right physical laws in the process) if given tons of computing power, for example look up Solomonoff induction or Marcus Hutter's AIXI. These count as superintelligences, or at least superweapons that can destroy the world. Stross's argument does not demonstrate the unlikelihood of someone implementing a fast approximation to AIXI tomorrow.

While that'd be a nice thing to have, it doesn't seem anything like an AI in the usual sense... i.e. the sense in which AIs have personhood and their own thoughts and feelings and goals and so forth.
「車載卡」外形及大小與電子手帳相若，以雙面膠紙牢牢黏在車廂內的車頭玻璃上，儀器背部螺絲位更蓋上保護貼，防止有人私下拆開儀器。

Something like "The 'car card' is about the same size and appearance as a PDA (?), it's tightly stuck to the inside of the front car window with double-sided tape, the screw holes in the back of the device are covered with protective stickers to prevent people secretly opening it.". Doesn't address the power issue at all as far as I can tell.
This looks good. I scored a free Google TV (from Google) last year and have been enjoying it as a consumer item, but customer work has soaked up all of my time since then and I have not been able to do much (at all) as far as customizing web apps for the platform, experiment more with Android development, etc.

Also: re: keyboard: I like having a keyboard. It is unobtrusive and generally nice to use.
What's a condition system and why do you want one?
They may be your enemy in the sense of an employer / worker bargaining situation, but they may also be right.

Even in a well-run project, there are many factors that are outside the control or reasonable knowledge of the project workers (the unknown unknowns).
I'm sure there are plenty of corner cases that will lead to absurd results, but let me know if this is overall worth improving or not. Thanks!
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Are VCs really *that* busy?
Some of them take 1-2 weeks to respond to an email even after a warm intro, but they tweet all day. Others you have to schedule meetings 2 weeks in advance. I know of 1 very high profile VC that is on a non-finance related forum I frequent and I see him posting and browsing all the time.

Do they just like to be busy to seem important or are they truly insanely busy?
Go Alain Go !
I agree with bakhlawa on this one. Don't make your poor customers do math, they will hate you.
This seems like a crazy 180 degree turn in comparison to Steve's previous 2 posts - which talked about the reasons we are in a tech bubble.

This third article starts out by saying "tech companies are expensive again" and then goes and talks in-depth about network and communication based warfare.

Is it me or is this not addressing the topic at all? Very interesting read, but seemingly random when compared to the rest of the series.
Ask HN: Any large arc applications out there?
We're all aware that Hacker News is written in arc and I'm using arc for UseTheSource. Is anyone else hacking large-ish application in arc?
Religion is a fine art of emotional manipulation, but it has a weak spot: it requires an intact emotional (limbic) system. What if our artificial counterparts forgo that?
Learnboost (http://learnboost.com/) is using Node.js and is an active contributor to node projects on Github (https://github.com/learnboost).
Dunno, I think the raw frequencies work fine in your case, because there aren't really any themes that all (or many) authors across your selections keep returning to.

But, thanks :-)
The anti-human-equivalent AI argument was really strange. When you cut out the irrelevant evolutionary stuff and avoid the segue into ethics, he is arguing that we won't have human-level AI in machines because humans don't want to design machines that behave like humans. But in fact that is exactly what many people want to do. Very incoherent argument.
http://www.facebook.com/sorry.php?msg=account

Is the link to the "facebook is currently down" page, it will always show that exact message.
Nice, thanks Alain!
If Clojure is too concise, you can always write a library to apply a more cumbersome syntax if you'd like.
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You might like RakNet: http://www.jenkinssoftware.com/

Whenever I think "I should roll my own semi-reliable protocol..." I look there first.
Yeah, probably. I'd have to do a hybrid weighted frequency/f-score thing, otherwise I'd lose some information, but yes, great idea with the F-score overall.
CS is an interesting personality. On one hand, he writes fiction about the singularity, AI and interstellar travel, and is clearly enthusiastic about them. On the other hand, in his essays he states that humanity will probably never leave the solar system, and that a singularity will likely never happen.

Also interesting is that most of his arguments seem to be economic ones. In short, "it doesn't seem useful so the required investments to develop it will never be made". Not so much that it is impossible physically.

He might be right, he might be wrong, only time will tell. Personally I don't think it is very useful to make predictions about this (which is kind of the same stance that he takes "it's unwise to live on the assumption that they're coming down the pipeline within my lifetime...").
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Such things may not have personhood but they do have internal reasoning, can be built to have real-world goals, can solve any "intelligence-bound" problem (like math or physics) better than any human, and can cause something like the Singularity to occur (which the essay was arguing against in the first place).

It seems that conceptualizing AIs as human-like is the #1 top mistake that leads people to think AIs are impossible (or, alternatively, safe once they're built). It's more enlightening to think of an AI as a cold mathematical machine that uses computational power to achieve whatever goal the original programmer specified, possibly increasing its own power in the process. It will happily eat your babies if it needs more atoms. Its lack of personhood won't save you.
That comment tells me nothing about what the boxes are, though :(
They have this feature implemented inside of Google Chrome (or maybe it is Webkit, I am unsure) and I take it that you're using Chrome to test this feature. As far as I know, it's an experimental API that they have added to the HTML5 specs. In the video in that blog post they say that you need to have the latest version of Chrome to use it : http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/06/knocking-down-barrier...
Imagine K12 has 10 companies in the current cohort: http://techcrunch.com/2011/06/16/education-incubator-imagine...
A much better URL is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Happy_Birthday_to_You#Copyright... . (I'm assuming 'better' without looking at the original URL because it looks like it has a tracking id in the URL.)

Short version: "In European Union (EU) countries the copyright will expire December 31, 2016,[7] while in the United States, the song is currently set to pass in to the public domain in 2030."
Steve Blank is the ultimate tech orator, telling the story from all angles no matter the topic. If you read the book Super Sad True Love Story it does not discuss a hacker war, but it does discuss a world where nothing is accomplished offline. I don't see any country building a security infrastructure that can protect it's citizens from such attacks.
How old's his daughter these days? He used to start his Doctor Dobb's Journal (DDJ) articles with anecdotes about his (toddler) daughter.

I'm guessing she's now older than I was when I was reading those articles.
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Down votes for referencing a movie?? My point was, if even Hollywood has already covered this then it is a long long way from a new idea and not exactly 'news'...
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The word 'irony' is very much overused. No, it would not apply here. Nor would tragedy, although I'd like to use that one here.

I'd suggest the word pathetic. Although a bit extreme, I do find our progress to be pathetic at times. We are still barbarians.
They used PPP for the GDP per person comparison (but not for the GDP)

They are not trying to say Qatar is generally comparable to Uttar Pradesh, just pointing out that it has the same nominal GDP. This can be interpreted in any number of ways but that is all that the chart claims to show.

And of course they did a similar thing with United States and China:

http://www.economist.com/blogs/dailychart/2011/01/comparing_...

http://www.economist.com/content/chinese_equivalents
At the very least, the BBC has avoided the BitCoin hype.

Lots of other websites mention it every other day, yet this crash was probably the first major event for the technology.
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What can we expect when we are the largest debtor in the history of the world.
Couldn't find a link in the story, so here ya' go...

http://www.phenona.com/
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The Wampler & Payne book "Programming Scala" works an example which is absolutely painful.

They're able to make a language that sorta-kinda looks like plain English, except that it's based on structurally unstable idioms that would require the user to be familiar with all of the corner cases of Scala syntax if they actually want to use it.
As a replacement for Java, Scala is a failure. It is a language too complex that doesn't provide enough benefits for people that just want something better than Java.

The perfect Java replacement would have - local type inference, less verbosity (e.g. public by default), full closures, anonymous blocks, no generics, special syntax for arrays and hashes, operator overloading and the ability of a variable to behave as if dynamic (e.g. leveraging the future InvokeDynamic). I would also completely purge checked exceptions and also get rid of the general syntax for anonymous classes - basically get rid of anything not useful.

People actually liked earlier versions of Java. It was a simple language, while still a lot more productive than C++. They fucked up its evolution and IMHO it's pretty sad that people like Scala so much; it just shows how low are the standards.
If you're looking for something useful, I am afraid that you are looking in the wrong place. Similarly to the last post by the same author, this is just an anecdote.
> Standards have pretty much caught up, we just need to wait for people to upgrade to browsers that support these standards.

If we live today and today only, Moore's law wouldn't apply and we could all say for certain that HTML5 and it's successors will be the lead indefinitely. I don't see that happening. If Flash didn't exist today, given the rate that standards are drafted and implemented, would we even be here today talking about audio API or reliable video streaming? Who knows.

Flash is the necessary evil, you see. Standards are driven by demand. But how can demand exist for something that a user cannot experience? Flash. It is the petri dish of web innovation. Perhaps not the best petri dish but a petri dish nonetheless.
Now automate the entire thing.

20 years from now. You are befriended on Facebook++ by a person who looks somewhat like all the previous girlfriends you have had. Initiating a 3-D video chat, she seems very friendly and has a lot of the same interests as you do. Every now and then -- so infrequently that you do not notice -- she mentions a particular brand or commercial product, always providing a link. Other than that, she's just a great friend. Always there to provide advice, always willing to cheer you up, always enjoying your jokes and stories. Heck, maybe she's even willing to help you out with your startup, providing introductions to her friends and helping you with your marketing. Maybe she helps locate your next big client. Great stuff, eh?

Except she doesn't exist.
The "propellers" more or less look like the cylindrical drum in a standard push lawn mower with blades on it[1], but instead of blades it has fins. The drums counter-rotated against each other, generating lift.

Highlights of the engine design (from the article):

* It is near silent
* Low/Easy maintenance because of simple design.
* Can carry a heavy load
* Extremely agile (hover/fly/land/maneuver)
* No expensive engine to produce

Seems like all thumbs up stuff here, very interesting read. I think the biggest indicator to me that this would work is how simple the design is.

Another cool highlight from the article:

The forces on the blade pivots are understandably huge,
and in initial testing it was found that all available
bearings failed, so inventor Meinhard Schwaiger, who
already has more than 150 patents to his name, knuckled
down and invented (and patented) his own, near-
frictionless swivel-bearing to cope with the stresses.

[1] http://images.gizmag.com/gallery_lrg/d-dalus-revolutionary-u...
There is no rule for rolling back transaction in real world too

If you're real world is drug sales in a shady corner somewhere, that might be true.

Elsewhere, we have this thing called the "legal system" which actually exists primarily to enforce something called a "contract", which is essentially a transaction.
http://transloadit.com/ uses node.js
Your rebuttal can be used as is to argue that an oracle to the Halting Problem is a superintelligence, and that Stross's argument doesn't demonstrate the unlikelihood of someone implementing a fast approximation to it tomorrow.
Eliezer Yudkowsky has a very good synonym for "AI" that doesn't trigger anthropomorphism: "Optimization Process". An example is Darwinian Evolution. And it is quite obvious that Evolution isn't alive, sentient, let alone human-like.
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It seems the threat is more subtle, though. China wouldn't bring down America informational infrastucture because no one wants to exchange nukes. But what if it's a kid from Peru? It's important to remember, within all the promise of technology: The key to the gates of heaven, is also the key to the gates of hell.

Think of it. We are blessed with technology that would be indescribable to our forefathers. We have the wherewithal, the know-it-all to feed everybody, clothe everybody, give every human on earth a chance. We know now what we could never have known before – that we now have an option for all humanity to “make it” successfully on this planet in this lifetime. Whether it will be Utopia or Oblivion will be a touch-and-go relay race right up to the final moment.

--Buckminster Fuller, 1980
Maybe I'm not getting it, but how is this different from putting a button/link on my site that just points to a "Coming Soon" page and using Google Analytics to track clickthroughs? And wait, all this for $9.99/month? I like the pricing table categories: starter, side dish, etc. cute.
Fascinating view from the other side.

Though 8 yaun sounds like too low a profit margin. That said, for small operations like this you must wonder if they actually know their cost per device.
I'm sort of torn on using these magic operators in Ruby, and i've used ruby since the 1.4 days.

For example this:

some_var &&= replace_var()
some_var ||= initialize_var()

versus a more conventional/idiomatic if:

some_var = (some_var) ? replace_var() : initialize_var()

||= turns out to be rather useful as a general assign once operator, but i'm having a hard time justifying use of &&=. That and I find myself after learning Erlang to try to assign only once when possible to make debugging easier.

While ||= isn't strictly needed, it makes assigning to class/module variables in a single line easier in general. I'm not sure I agree with the Python "always expand to an if statement" methodology though, it just seems like a bit of unneeded yak shaving. (note: i don't use rails so your post may be specific to web frameworks and I'm off my rocker, if so disregard. >.<)
I think you might have better luck asking on the arc forum.

http://arclanguage.org/forum
Seeing DOOM for the first time in my buddy's residence room had that effect on me.

The thing is I knew the math for 3D CG, but more from an academic angle. I'd also been playing some true 3D games like LHX. I "knew" that what I was seeing was just impossible -- there was no way it could be that fast on that hardware.

So, simplifying the problem from 6DOF 3D to 2.5D made a world of difference.

I love the idea that I might be able to turn an impossible problem into something solvable if I just constrain myself to solving a subset.

Something to keep in mind when stakeholders want everything all at once, with no compromises. Compromise / prioritization is what makes cutting-edge technology possible.
yep, but keep getting that message each time surf to http://www.facebook.com/ this AM?
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I think the patent includes a specialized chip. The OS may be unable to control it, if it communicates directly with the camera.
http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/htmlspeech/2010/10/google-a...

I, for one, can't wait till Android and iOS implement this.
> The perfect Java replacement would have - local type inference, less verbosity (e.g. public by default), full closures, anonymous blocks, no generics, special syntax for arrays and hashes, operator overloading and the ability of a variable to behave as if dynamic (e.g. leveraging the future InvokeDynamic). I would also completely purge checked exceptions and also get rid of the general syntax for anonymous classes - basically get rid of anything not useful.

Ahem. http://groovy.codehaus.org/

The #1 feature of Groovy in my mind is that there is almost no learning curve whatsoever. All Java code is already Groovy code - you can learn all the dynamic tricks as you go.
I liked the article, but I'm confused: RoR hasn't taken over the world?
Sorry HTML 5, mobile apps are used more than the web
So Jython, got it.
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Your point has been debated here numerous times, but the basic answer is "yes" --hence the reason such an old thread is still open for new posts and votes.
Anyone who reads the credits at the ends of movies will already be aware of this.
As someone who is curious about Scala, what's the current "state of the art" in terms of a web framework? Can you point to some example code?
Ah, I'm sorry :)
They're just people after all... they engage whatever way of communication they like the most. I wouldn't be surprised if they'd procrastinate their mails.

Email isn't really the most loved form of communication and they get tons of pitches on daily basis.

I don't know if this is "ethical" in VC business but try to engage them where they're active (PM, DM, Reply, etc).