skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>> So in other words it's as good as a law, but without any safeguards and consequently no value to the public.
> If you'd like to create a society in which every enforceable rule must pass through multiple bodies for approval, feel free to try it.

Actually, yes. You'd have to be crazy to suggest otherwise. Think of it, "Enforceable rule". Not just something in this circumstance, but a rule, and enforceable. That's exactly what oversight is for.

But I was talking about safeguards. Any rule is worthless without knowing when to stop applying it. Who's watching for it to go wrong? Nobody of course because it doesn't really exist.

>> Oh, of course he has no rights - they informed him of it. Well then, who could argue?
> He was informed of the requirement, and of an alternate process which would not require him to present ID. The comment I was responding to apparently meant to imply that this was a law of which the public was unaware, and that violators would only be informed of what they had done after the fact.

It is a requirement the public is (mostly) unaware of. And because it's unspoken policy instead of a law it'll likely stay that way.

> And while I dislike the TSA and "post-9/11" "security" measures as much as the next person, I don't believe that enforcing a simple security measure equates to total loss of rights. But then...

It's not a security measure because it doesn't help security at all. Enforcing useless rules is a loss of your rights.

>> Almost total corruption being used to enforce secret laws. Check.
> Wild hyperbole. Check.

Not at all. Using undisclosed governmental powers to secretly kill someone's business because they won't enact useless and counterproductive policies is a textbook example of systemic corruption.

>> How does age-related restrictions on alcohol relate to ID requirements for flying?
> I cannot purchase alcohol without presenting ID. I cannot fly without either presenting ID or going through a screening process.

Yes, that much is a given. Thanks.

But one is because minors have shown to have (even more) problems with booze and it's been proven to kill, etc. On the other hand showing ID is absolutely worthless for finding weapons, in practice and in theory.

> Interestingly, both involve reasoning based on public safety, and in neither case is there a law passed by Congress which directly enacts the requirement.

But in the case of alcohol there is a law. We aren't a society of just-take-the-hint and why-won't-you-read-between-the-lines, we're a society of laws.

Why are you so dead set on spinning this as business as usual? Who cares? It's broken.
We had a service like that in Finland, called Qaiku. Now quite a lot of the users seem to have migrated to Google+
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That looks really cool. Does this only work with Chrome? BTW - Next time, hide the hookah sitting in the background :)
First off, I really like this blog. Really well written and entertaining. He has good advice to boot. While I live within 10 miles of my workplace, there's no way I could bike it (a 25 minute ride all in parks). Reason being, I live in Arizona and it's about 105 at 9-10am in the summer. There's no way I'm going to peddle my way to work in that heat let alone ride home in it. I'm sure many people who live in cold climates (no idea what that's like) would object too.
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Thanks! That is the best picture of Steve I've seen thus far.
I get the feeling that many of the ideas in Wave have diffused out into products/services like Google Docs and Google+ Hangouts. (Think of the live editing and internal chat features within Google Docs.)
I believe libglib/GObject uses this pattern for implementing inheritance in C as well: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GObject#Class_implementation
Sorry to hear that (I'm French myself, but have worked in US and now in Netherlands). Apart from arrogant bosses, do you have more gripes about french's work culture? I think we are pretty pessimistic in general, especially compared to americans :-) But I think that's more of a european trait (we call it being honest).
I find it sad to think that I cannot email sjobs@apple.com and hope for a reply any longer. What a strength he pushed onto this company...
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I actually didn't enjoy reading this article but posted it mostly to start a discussion.

That is, do people really agree with Alexia's post that Facebook has somehow drawn inspiration from its popular (though ultimately temporary) substitute, MyPad?

Using the left pane for navigation for Facebook's most popular features is not innovative or patentable. Using the top of the main view for a status update button or textarea is common throughout facebook and has been for years. I don't think Facebook is "copying" MyPad for using left-hand navigation and its positioning of the status button or other elements.

In fact, MyPad, being designed specifically for Facebook, obviously drew from Facebook's features and one would expect them to mimic Facebook's UI to ensure a seamless user experience; and MyPad perhaps did the best job in Facebook's long absence.

To claim that Facebook somehow acted unprofessionally by "copying" MyPad-- an application who's inspiration was drawn from Facebook in the first place-- is a complete fallacy.

I think the Facebook IA developers and UI designers deserve more credit. I for one am happy that in spite of the long (and probably mostly bureaucratic) delay, that the team has finally released the app. Kudos.
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Yeah, those aren't types, they're merely annotations.
Well, except for the unsound covariant generics, the lack of an arguments object, and the implicit downcasts, and so on...
Thanks, maybe packing bags is too indulgent. Perhaps hiding under a train carriage, just above the tracks.
I assume this just undoes the effects of an unsteady camera during exposure--all the information is present in the image, just smeared along a predictable path, and can be reversed by something akin to a deconvolution (but more complicated as it involves arbitrary nearby points).

Upscaling an intrinsically low-resolution image is still in the realm of creating information where there was none, I think.
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Honestly, if you could write a web app to allow for scalable online General Assemblies, that would be awesome. I'm thinking IRC with upvotes and all the key GA actions as contextual menu items.
Let's be realistic with ourselves here: is all that overhead ever going to compete with ten lines of "low level" (ha..) JavaScript? No.

The problem here, and what is making us chuckle so much, is that the project as presented to us is not magical. For whatever reason, some of the brightest minds in our industry have not presented us (at this time) with a cross-compiler that is both robust enough to support large apps, and intelligent enough to self-optimize its output.

Were we expecting a JavaScript killer from Google? Some of us were, with cynical apprehension. Did this release of the project live up to that expectation? Nope. Could others have done a better job? Maybe, maybe not. Could this project improve over time? Certainly. Will Dart become a JavaScript killer without more magic in its cross-compiler? Personally, I doubt it. Tooling may matter for developing large web apps, but performance matters in those large web apps too; running this test in my iPhone's browser leaves me feeling meh.
Very interesting. This one is one level up on the tree:

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Was not trying to explain the bulk- I just gave a few points that have been relevant for at least 100 years, especially in the US.

Edit: HN has turned into Reddit. Ghostdownvoters, downvotes without explanation. Oy vey!
OK. I will play the devil's advocate because I want women startups to succeed. I arrived at the site and I don't know what the site is about. Do you want me to do something? or read? It looks like a content site but i'm not sure what the content is about.

I saw that you also have a tag line "connect. communicate. change." I have no clue what that means because it is too general. "connect. communicate. change." isn't this something we all do when we get on the internet? I see this a lot, but a lot of startups try to be "marketing" and we come up with a tag line because we think it resonates with the user.

I honestly think those taglines only work when you're an established company and people already know what you do. instead of a tag line, you should maybe describe something that you want women to do when they're on your site.

because i don't understand it, those quotes with pics don't mean anything to me.

OK, now i try to click on it, and i'm directed to a form to sign up? OK, why should i sign up? what do I get for signing up?

in other words, as an user I don't know what your site does. you have to ask yourself what do you want people to do when they get to your site? that's when you create a whole marketing message that resonates with the user wrt that specific task.

hope that helps!!
As I read somewhere, trying to get funded by itself is a great exercise to validate your idea. Seeking external validation via funding is a great way to force you to come up with a viable business model and innovate. I think it is a win-win situation, in my perspective.

In this case, the very process of applying forces you to really think about your business model viability and that is a good sign.
"On the other hand, the protests are an interesting new phenomenon and some discussion was inevitable. Might as well be this?"

What I would have appreciated was an article that took a step back and offered something more general about human nature, history, social movements, banking, various conflicts of interest, relationships between large corporations and government, small business versus large, etc.

I haven't really been following the protests, mostly because I'm waiting for them to start suggesting concrete actions and plans (which can take a while; I'm not disparaging them for not having a plan on day one). And even with essentially a blank slate, I read that article and learned nothing.

"My favorite comment this morning is geebee's"

While an interesting point, there are two problems: the comment format is not long enough to really flesh out an idea like that; and it's still well off-topic for HN. Regardless, every political discussion will elicit some insightful comments. There are plenty of other places to get something like that.

Anyway, it's pretty obvious that people wanted this discussion to happen here. The downvotes pretty much proved that I was wrong about the scope of HN.
What makes you suppose that? On an abstract level, you can model blur and camera shake with a convolution kernel. You can then invert the kernel and get back the original image. As an analogy, imagine that someone gives you an audio file with an echo. You can subtract the echo with a filter. Camera shake is harder because of the extra dimension. (Of course, you only get back the exact original in the world of mathematics)
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Been hoping for this for a while! The information is there, it’s just distorted. Great to see Adobe keep pushing this kind of photo editing magic forward. I bet the maths are crazy.
Uhmhu - To solve the "last mile problem"
You Help Me Help You (uhmhu) is a smartphone application for real-time collaboration among a group of friendly neighbors to help with pick-up/drop-off tasks. Here are a few examples for last mile deliveries :

* "buy online - pickup at store" items,

* mail & parcel deliveries (as USPS problems aggravate),

* delivery of service (like zaarly.com) and

* carpooling for school and office commute.

A group of friendly neighbors can collaborate to make the afore mentioned mundane tasks interesting while saving time, effort & money for each other. 'Going green' and 'feel good' factors provide further motivation.

Do you think this is a good idea considering our current social etiquette with neighbors?
[ I will add my go-to-market strategy later ]
Defocus (or "aperture blur") cannot be corrected by the methods they mention in the video. However, there are other kinds of blur you can correct.
Increasing density and preventing further sprawl drives up real estate values in general and greatly benefits the existing homeowner. If you can take a plot allocated to a single-family dwelling, and put ten apartments on it, it's worth more yet rents for less.

In my view, the forces behind not allowing more vertical building are really developers who want more sprawl, because they want to buy up unused land at the fringes of a city and build houses on it rather than have to assemble blocks from existing neighborhoods.

The unfortunate answer in all this is that the best way to reduce commuting is to make it harder to commute. Don't build more roads to subsidize long commutes, make work parking more expensive, and favor public transport in allocation of lanes and space. Europe is already doing this, and some cities in the US (like San Francisco) are also doing it to some degree.

I suspect, however, that we won't really get serious about it here in the US until gas hits about $15 a gallon.
It was informative. I didn't know the USA put restrictions on what the Dalai Lama would say. For China. I think the average person would be surprised to hear it.

It's like not recognizing Taiwan as a country. Offensive.
I was simply responding to the argument that Krugman was unfairly singling out the Republican party in a partisan attack, which I do not believe to be the case.

Personally, I don't see any topic as off-limits on HN (with the possible exception of cute cat photos with captions), as I'm always curious to get the community's take on a wide range of subjects. Once a topic has landed on the front page, I consider the argument settled, and the verdict delivered. Beyond that, it's a problem for the editorial staff to deal with somehow. Me, I'll just go with it, and I am rarely disappointed.
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And I wanted Python, but it's not like Google actually considers things that already exist when making new things.

On the bright side, nobody's gonna adopt this. :3
He used the same parameter profile each time.
thanks - will fix. Works with any browser on Mac/PC. Chrome is optimal though
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http://jsperf.com/dart-hello-world-test-with-optimize/5

I moved things around so that what code does is roughly equivalent. As you can see Dart is slower, but the Dart runtime does not differ by a margin that matters for many applications - and note the size of the gap differs significantly between JS engines.
> My first stab at debugging a sort-function would be to write a unit-test.

I applaud your discipline, but I can't help but feel like you're punting at writing code when you say things like this.

And the real problem is that unit tests only reflect your expectations. Unless you're familiar with quicksort, you probably won't know what kind of test to write. You'd have to write a very specific dataset: sort(A) ∃ x: A[x] = A[0]. You're probably not using Quickcheck, and the odds of thinking of writing that specific case are slim.

You have to look at the code to get a sense of where the testable edges should be. And in doing so, you should instantly spot this bug. Anyone who can't see it within 60 seconds would be an instant no hire for any but the most junior positions (if I had any say about it, anyways). Even if they don't know Python, they were told there was a bug.
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Maybe they could apply this technology to Flash, so that video streaming on YouTube isn't so blurry :)
By good, you mean a lot of Chinese that made the Tibetans a discriminated minority in their own country? Look! We built you a railroad! Oh, you don't have money to use it because we have all the jobs? Too bad!

The reason the West likes Tibet is that for the brief moment of clarity that the end of World War 2 brought (that also led to the EU, the UN, welfare, etc.), we saw that Tibet was the one place that had found the right culture to avoid the horrors that were bestowed upon Europe. Then China came in and destroyed that culture and went on to inflict horrors of similar magnitude.
This is definitely the case for us. We started the application process earlier but have not submitted until the last hour. We've been updating answer by answer.
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The State of Jammu and Kashmir is situated between 32.17 degree and 36.58-degree north latitude and 37.26 degree and 80.30-degree east longitude; the total area of the State of Jammu and Kashmir is 22,22,236 square kilometers. The geography of the Kashmir valley, stretches for about 84 miles from the northeast to the southwest and is approximately 20 to 25 miles broad. Its height above the sea level is over 5,000 feet. The topography of the state is such that, low-lying valleys surrounded by mountain ranges characterize it; the most important of them all is the Kashmir valley that lies 1700 metres above the sea level, encompassed by the mighty Himalayas. Some of these valleys are the Tawi valley, Chenab valley, Poonch valley and Sind Valley.
The things you're describing are very different situations. Jews are citizens of certain countries that are discriminated against based on religion/race. As opposed to, for example, Palestinians, who are not citizens of Israel, and whose oppression or lack thereof is about other things.

Note that I'm not saying anything about the morality of this or whether we need to fight it, just that the different things you talked about are objectively very different from anti-semitism.
Here is the PDF: http://static.googleusercontent.com/external_content/untrust...
To be fair, both look like they're "inspired" by the Twitter iPad app.
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"[...] On the other hand, the reason they have these qualities is because they were born with privilege."

How can you say such a thing ?
For centuries Jews were born in misery, living in ghettos and essentially considered as non-citizens and they still managed to make it. If Jews have such an exceptional fate and set of skills, it certainly can't be explained by the fact that they were born with privilege, simply because they were not.
It's not just missing features or bickering over semi-colons - the much bigger issue is the fragmentation highlighted by Brendan Eich and quoted in the article.
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No, the point was that the Jewish culture is perceived as being one full of practical and successful financial wisdom, similar to that of the upper-class Indian families.

Substituting someone from a less financially successful group would ruin their point.
not really, because it's not the same thing

what CSI does it add information that wasn't initially there whereas what this is doing is just unscrambling the information. This is only for photos where the camera has moved during exposure, so should be great for low light shots (indoors etc) where you need a shutter speed a bit slower than optimal, say 1/5 second
I believe the speaker mentioned this algorithm was based on the Point Spread Function[1] but modified to model the movement of the point in time. Dougherty has[2] a static PSF deconvolution implementation that is fun to play with.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Point_spread_function
[2] http://www.optinav.com/Iterative-Deconvolution.htm
+3 for the UK.
The random anti-intellectual comments from the guys in the wheely chairs were extremely annoying and unfunny. This guy is there, showing something truly amazing, and they're all "What's an algorithm? Haha!". And they'll get away with it too.
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Perhaps because there are not that many PowerPoint users or people that need a feature like this? LiveLoop seems like a last resort if sitting together in the same office isn't a possibility. I've never had to collaborate with many people on a presentation, though, but I have used the chat on Google Docs with great success ... once or twice.
Elements are required to be "sequentially allocated":

This is from the draft N1256 document as I don't have access to the official standard. From 6.2.5 - Types:

"A structure type describes a sequentially allocated nonempty set of member objects (and, in certain circumstances, an incomplete array), each of which has an optionally specified name and possibly distinct type"

I can say that a lot of device drivers in the Linux kernel depend on this ...
I'm more impressed with that overhead display - seems impossible?

How does it disappear at the end - or is that a virtual digital overlay?

Wait, is the entire background rear projected, like a borderless movie theater screen? Must be massive resolution ?!
In all fairness, you removed the actual print function from the code. Inspection of the non-compiled source suggests that the entire function execution as shown in /2 is called for every call to Dart's print.

print$getter()(1, $noargs, 'Hello, Dart!');
print$getter()(1, $noargs, 'foo');
print$getter()(1, $noargs, 'bar');
To me it seems the magic is in getting the blur kernel in the first place, how do you get that ?
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So the joke is that a prototype of a whole separate language has to include its runtime in its cross-compiled output? Did people... think this wouldn't be the case? Do they think that Javascript is not thousands of lines of C/C++ lurking in your browser?

Good joke guys, but I don't think you realize which way the punchline is pointing...

It sort of amazes me that people are being so hard on Dart, given that they should be grasping for any chance to leave the warty and dated pile of compromises that is Javascript behind. Even the javascript community seems to tacitly admit that Javascript is a bit of diamond amongst a whole lot of dross; hence CoffeeScript and books like "Javascript: The Good Parts".
Seconding what Ericb said, also personal experience.

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No, he's loading a different parameter file each time.