skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think there is. From their FAQ:

> We store your file on our secure storage server for a brief period (2 weeks at the moment)
Academics are more ambitious. They want the entire power of relational dbs at the hadoop scale. With consistency/transactions/complex joins etc..
Could this be done in reverse by software? Instead of story-generating engine, automated identification of the plot line, character profile. Basically automatically building the database you mentioned by feeding already written fiction. I think a larger business may be in building such a repository. Story generating engine will commoditize fiction creation.
>>Could Facebook could have started in Timbuktu?

That's a terrible opening line
This is a terrible submission.

The original source says 78% of fifty ex-burglars asked say that they think current burglars might be using Facebook, Twitter and Foursquare to get you.

Flagged for being clickbait.
I suspect they'll repeat in a few years with a capsule in orbit. If you're in orbit for 520 days, something's almost guaranteed to go wrong, so it'll be a good bit more realistic.

(I'm actually pretty sure I read about plans to do this around 2018 in orbit, but I can't find the article now. Anyone?)
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This needs a citation.

The writer is probably leaning on his own extended circle of acquaintances which is likely to be, like him, young and male. This group is fairly cocky and entrepreneurs from this group could be expected, at a minimum, to be as cocky. Secondly, cocky jerks stick out more in our minds, we are less likely to remember entrepreneurs who were pleasant people.

While this doesn't run counter the title, the implication is that cocked jerkiness is a virtue for entrepreneurship. I somewhat doubt this and suspect that your average entrepreneur is less a cocky jerk than their reference group. (Unless, I guess, the RG's unusually deferent.)
Relevant: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QIWpbfZHHzc
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Those submarines would have 50-150 men on them. This petri dish had 6. There are major psychological differences - in the former, you might not even know everybody; in the latter, you'll know them too well after about a month.
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Didn't work for me, but http://jsfiddle.net/acFJL/ does though it's not really interesting.
Serious question: Why would you want to highlight or annotate a small sample of a book?
Previous submission/discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3190307
Very cool. Is it possible to add operators to Stream? I commonly run into the problem of batch resizing a lot of images. If there was an easy way to integrate imagemagick as an operator into a system which can push this task to different cores, that would be a big big win.
>Wave distortion is the most effective The swirly, almost-melding-into-each-other effect that Google uses in its captchas is very hard to segment and recognize.

I'd argue that it is nearly as effective at preventing human readers from correctly interpreting the CAPTCHA as well. I am not proud of my success rate on Google's CAPTCHAs. It would seem the better route for CAPTCHA makers would be to figure out what makes recaptcha work so well, without having to resort to such levels of swirly distortion.
My first Desktop was Gnome, it was ok, but I've always wanted a better performance and customization.. so I've been trying xfce, lxde, e17, and now I'm stick with Awesome! My advice it's to focus on performance and simplicity.
Ask HN: Buying a cheap laptop without an OS?
So, I'm a developer looking to purchase a new laptop. The catch is, I'm short on budget--surprise, surprise. I really only need a minimum mobile rig (low end dual core, 2 or 3 GB of RAM, 250GB HD) enough to be more than a netbook and have a 15" screen, and I do not need an OS, I develop on Linux. I see these laptops like this go on sale on newegg for about $350, but I know I'm wasting near $100 dollars of this money on Windows, which I neither want nor need, I'd much rather pay $250 and install Ubuntu myself. The only places I see laptops without an OS are gaming websites, which sell at a minimum of $700 for laptops. Where can I find low end laptops with blank hard drives? I know I could get what I need for about $250 if only someone sold it! Does anyone know a website that sells laptops like this? Or one that supports incredibly vertical customization, down to this price range? Thanks!

P.S. As far as building, I've built three desktops, but never a laptop. If anyone here as experience with that, I'm open to suggestions, but I don't know if it's realistic. All help appreciated, thanks!
Very true.

Not to mention that the inhibition to purchase drops significantly. Before activating Prime I knew there was an invisible $25 Super Saver free shipping barrier that I had to break before I would complete an order on Amazon. Now with Prime, I activated One-Click Buy and haven't looked back. It's addicting having a new package arrive at your door every day or two.

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Even if it's true that geography tends to filter out low-quality immigrants from Asia, those high-quality ones would still be discriminated against by the white guys.

They probably are. How many Asians do you know that are CEOs of Fortune 500 tech companies? There's a well documented theme in the American Asian community that if an Asian and White guy are up for a promotion, the White will get it despite the quality of work by the Asian.

Asians do fine on the front-line of professional positions, but they're horribly underrepresented in management (versus their numbers in the front-line).
Valeri Vladimirovich Polyakov spent 437 days in the Mir space station in a similar experiment.
Yes, I meant to mention this. Streams is software that IBM sells. But there is a free academic license.
I'm not sure I would call Star Fox 64 a flight simulator. I would recommend that you play it though :-)
I went for a master's degree (actually two) and don't regret a day or dollar spent. The upper division CS courses are wonderful for a mathematical mind. It brought together everything learned in undergraduate CS and Math courses into practical, real world, mathematical applications such as machine learning, natural language processing, data mining and others.

Today I'm a software engineer at a company that requires MS degrees for all their developers and it's a good environment - although I'm still looking for a place where I can leverage both my master's degrees.
Doesn't Dropbox solve the same problem?
That's why you need to do a CPS transform to transform every call into a tail call, and wrap the continuation up on the heap, so you don't blow out the stack.
I recently launched a B2B platform that required a VPN connection to each of my customers back end server running a proprietary software package on top of MSSQL. In order for my app server to have access to the client MSSQL server which was on a different computer than the VPN server itself I needed the advanced routing on AWS VPC ...

EC2 was enough for me to prototype my system to get 2 clients on board, but I needed VPC to accomplish the multiple VPN connections that I use ...

Also, my storage servers have no need to be addressable by my clients and/or the Internet at large. So while I could have done that with security groups, having them in a private subnet made things much easier ... and now I know that from an IP level the file storage cannot be found from outside of my VPC.

I'm sure if I sat down and thought about it I would come up with more ...
I think that depends on the value of the service that they're blocking.

I have a trivially breakable CAPTCHA on my web blog, but it cut automated contact form/reply spam down from dozens per day to zero.

They definitely have a place, just not for anything super high value.
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So, they where watching STG at Apple.
Definitely interested in the answers you get, however I do not have one to offer myself.
I noticed this too as I needed the mnemonic "I'm the guy, I'm the guy..."
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Yes, user-defined operators are a big part of the design of the system. But, as noted below, this is software that IBM sells, and right now we're targeting large companies.
I doubt the actual price of a Windows license is accounted for in the price of a cheap laptop. Odds are they get it for much less than $100 a license...
Absolutely - great example.
I wonder if there's enough demand for someone to start a service that provides those visual-style captchas "Click the two puppies in this 3x3 grid of kitten pictures", but with a large enough sample size / solid enough presentation to make it useful.

Granted, that approach takes up more screen real estate by definition, but is very hard to break, and can be made to look more professional than kitties and puppies.
It's happened already, with bookmarks and search replacing URLs. Googling for Sony is faster than typing in sony.com, so why not?

The address bar would have faded into near-obsolescence if browsers hadn't smartened it up a bit, making it search your history and commonly used sites.
The cost of the laptop might actually be more expensive if you went without the OS. Sounds crazy doesn't it?

If you're on such a tight budget, deals can be had on http://craigslist.org depending on where you live. Here in the San Francisco Bay Area, there are quite a few such laptops advertised for your price range.
That was a great user experience after signing up. I was hooked on earning the extra 550MB. I rarely share when apps ask me to, but I couldn't help myself. I especially liked the 5 minute time limit.

I didn't want to lose out on 550MB...

Update: although now that I use the desktop app, I find it really creepy that I can search through all the users that have signed up for it.

Does anyone know how "private" the files are that I upload?
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It may suck to Australia but Australia is a tiny market in the grand scale of things which is why I don't see a full ec2 data centre going in. CDN node sure but I don't see anyone launching EC2 instances in Sydney anytime soon.
Is anyone else actually able to add any items yet? It just asks me to sign up/connect with a social service and tells me that I'll get an email when I'm "allowed" to access the actual features of the app.
But if I hit back to get out of an app, I don't want to return to the previous one. I want to return to a default/home setting. And I'll usually want to use a different app after that, so I'll use the homescreen or the multitasking view anyway.
I've never heard of modern Opera as being considered not to support HTML5. The concept is pretty nebulous though.
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That’s mostly true for iCal and Address Book on OS X, not any iOS app. Those are generally well thought out and they usually at least don’t deceive. Yeah, iBooks for the iPad shows pages left and right that never change, no matter how little or much of the book you have read (which is monumentally stupid) but that’s a little thing.
I concur. My (younger-than-13) children have Gmail accounts (which they don't have the passwords for), partly for use with Khan Academy. With the OS X parental filters, my kids know that mom gets a copy of every email sent to them.

When they're 13, we'll relax those restrictions.

As for Facebook? Not happening until they have a better grasp of the consequences of publicly sharing information ... which may not occur until well after 13.

The Internet doesn't forget. I'd like to not allow my kids to learn that the hard way too early in their lives.
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That's not a smart integration in my view. Out of nowhere you place a youtube icon on a random location on the screen. And the pop up that follows that. You're basically switching the user's context when in fact your goal is to let her stick. There is something wrong going on with the UI design folks at google it seems.
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Would love to use Ghostery or something similar for Chrome. Any suggestions?
Okay, weird, possibly unrelated story I guess. I've been thinking about this problem a lot. Especially in the context of travelling and exploring new places. I was originally thinking along the lines of businesses offering experiences but after a little research online, I ran into Skyara. Like you said, it seemed to be the fun / hip thing to do and the original idea sounded boring after that. It somehow fell off my mind after a while and haven't thought about it till today.

Amazon for activities is such a good analogy. Great going and good luck!
You're ignoring the primary (marketed) purpose of these extensions - social sharing. The main value-add is that users can easily +1 (share, tweet, whatever) from whatever page they're on. A secondary feature of some (including this one) is to show how many other people +1'd (etc) it. There are other extensions that exist with just the first part and not the second (though they're usually not 'official') and I imagine those wouldn't be "tracking" your activity (except what you're sharing). But, tracking isn't really the main point anyway. Facebook and Google can do enough tracking without browser extensions simply through market saturation. As far as I see it, this extension just provides features that some users want.

Additionally, these extensions take up minimal space in Chrome. The screen real estate each one gets is the same size as the settings (wrench) icon. Sure, you could fill up your browser UI space with them, but it's much more difficult than it is with IE and there are more hoops to jump through in order to get them there. IE users were (are?) plagued by toolbars because they can be installed externally from the application. As far as I know, Chrome extensions can only be installed from within the application after several prompts and confirmations.
... and also from the consequences of early stupid decisions. We're entering an era when all of our actions will be stored on the Internet. Give kids some time to screw things up in a more risk-free way before setting them loose in a world of cloud servers that record everything.
I wish my HTC HD7 running Windows Phone had hardware buttons. 90% of the time I've hit the capacitive search button, it was an accident.
You, you just put my thoughts and frustrations into words, thank you. I'm also usually very open to change and what have you, but I despise the new reader. Exactly because I like to be in reader, and see what my friends posted from reader. I don't want it mixed with the rest of my social life, I don't want it mixed with FB like status updates, I just want to see what people are sharing in Reader. It's like I had my own "community" in reader, a small but special subset of people really in the "know". Yeahyeah, that's a circle, I know, but I went to reader to read what they shared, then I read my own, and shared. The 'dialog' was more circular, if that makes any sense. That, and my Reader slants heavily on the 'images' and artsy side of things, it was almost like a micro tumblr that only friends saw, but unlike tumblr, it's not recycled stuff, we are all pulling from different places, I followed a guy from finance, a dude that loved astronomy, and chick in advertising, a guy in tech, a girl into silly comics, and it was all right there, im my reader. It was perfect.
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ftfy.
> I'm guessing that Google has the data to back that up, but it seems presumptuous.

It's interesting that you find the idea of a freshness signal presumptuous, but the hundreds or thousands of existing signals seem to be completely ok. The whole point of search is to try to guess from hilariously little signal (a couple of words) exactly which parts of a huge corpus (tens of billions of pages) you want to see. Making arbitrary decisions on what you meant is the main functionality of the site, not some annoying extra feature.
It looks like jQuery versions get updated occasionally in that repo, but you'll have to check and see when 1.7 gets put in.

My recommendation would be to maintain dependency versions yourself, i.e. download the version of jQuery you want to use and //= require jquery in application.js - then grab a new version of jQuery whenever you want it updated
I don't understand the Sri Lanka entry. It's data was from 1991 while all others are within the last 10 years. Why include such an outlier?
I never really saw the utility of the plugins. The functionality you described in your post, for example, is already implemented by C-6.
I was thinking it through more and I think it's the stopping procedures that might not halt that are the problem. You can have a data dependent stopping procedure if it's guaranteed to halt which makes sure all data does get counted.

For example of one that might seem bad, but does halt, and turns out to be OK:

Flip a coin until you have more heads than tails OR reach 500 flips.

This procedure will produce a majority of trials with more heads than tails, but I think the average over many trials will be 50/50. The conceptual reason is that stopping early sometimes prevents just as many heads as tails that would have come up after stopping. I haven't formally proved this but I did a simulation with a million trials with that stopping procedure and got a ratio of 1.0004 heads per tails which seems fine (and after some reruns, I saw a result under 1, so that is possible). Code here:

http://pastebin.com/H42qHYbA

With a guaranteed halt, a sequence of 500 tails and 0 heads can be counted. With no guaranteed halt, it's impossible to count a tails heavy sequence, which is not OK because it's basically ignoring data people don't like.

Does that make sense? I think it may satisfy the stuff you/Bayesians/Eliezer are concerned with. It means it's OK to stop collecting data early if you want, but you do need some rules to make sure your all your results are reported with no selectivity there.

There's also a further issue that these kinds of stopping procedures are not a very good idea. The reason is that while they are OK with unlimited data, they can be misleading with small data sets. It's like the guy who bets a dollar, and if he loses he bets two dollars, and if he loses again he bets 4 dollars (repeated up to a maximum bet of 1024 dollars). His expectation value in the long run is not changed by his behavior but he does affect his short term odds: he's creating an above 50% chance of a small win and an under 50% chance of a larger loss. If you only do 10 trials of this betting system, they might all come out wins, and you've raised the odds of getting that result despite leaving the long term expectation value alone. Doing essentially the same thing with scientific data is unwise.

BTW/FYI I believe I have no objections to the Bayesian approach to probability but I do think the attempt to make it into an epistemology is mistaken (e.g. because it cannot address purely philosophical issues where there's no data to use, so it fails to solve the general problem in epistemology of how knowledge (of all types) is created.)
Try letting people hangout with popular folks (from tech, media, science and other fields). Announce those hangouts. Let there be participants and viewers. Sell hangout guys!
They already give you tools all the way to an exact date range search! How much more control do you want.
Chrome already does all that for bookmark syncing.

The list of +1'ed websites will never grow _very_ large, because it is created one manual click at a time by a single user. 10,000 urls is only about a megabyte, and if you send diffs you'd rarely have to download more than a small fraction of them.
RFID isn't as much of an issue, as the tags are generally passive, and not always on and looking for a signal.

As far as more mature: 'more efficient' is really a better wording. There seems to be a culture of excess at the moment, where the amount and frequency of data our devices send is not much of a design consideration. This is part of what MQTT addresses - more devices but smaller data payload sizes. Where we can be more efficient without sacrificing too much conveinience we should be. Ex: Just because my TV's DVR can work over WiFi doesn't mean it should by default. That sort of thing.
Love the delegate event performance improvements!
Then they get kicked out of the program.
Prime changes how you shop. I used to put things in my shopping cart, figuring I'd buy them later if I had something else I wanted and could drive the price over $25. Now I just buy it right away if I figure I need it - there's no hassle, no shipping fee, and I know that if it turns out I don't want/need it, it's trivially easy to return it and I won't be charged.

It also means Amazon is the first place I check for just about anything I buy online: over time I've found that it's highly unlikely that the difference in price (esp. with shipping) is going to be enough to cover the potential hassle of ordering somewhere else.

Prime is a huge win for Amazon. They take loyal customers, increase order volume and push the customers into ordering from a wider range of categories. More dollars from those customers end up going to Amazon, and the customers become less price sensitive as well.
(Obligatory disclaimer: I'm an engineer at Nextdoor.)

GoGoVerde didn't do anything wrong, per se, but shutdown as a matter of funding. A few key folk from GGV are now working with us at Nextdoor, however, lending the experience gained from GoGoVerde.

A bit more info here: http://redwoodcity.patch.com/articles/city-moves-virtual-nei...
It's mentioned in virtually every single post about incorporating in America.

It even has it's own mention on Delaware's wiki page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delaware#Incorporation_in_Delaw...
Correct. You could also manually download the latest jQuery and include it.

The gem is a very thin wrapper around jQuery, jQuery UI and jquery_ujs, which basically makes the files available for inclusion in your manifests, and adds a jQuery specific helper method for your tests.
Yes, most likely. And hopefully the version number is incremented semantically so `bundle update` doesn't break anyone that really needs 1.6.

If you haven't tried rails-behaviors[1], I recommend it. It's a modular, drop-in replacement for jquery_ujs, and I think @josh will update it shortly for 1.7

[1] https://github.com/josh/rails-behaviors
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I've just been poring over the Lenovo site, and they sell Thinkpads without an OS: http://shop.lenovo.com/us/thinkpad-laptops-with-dos.shtml but the prices are still rather high. Keep looking, though, as they're constantly running promotions, like free RAM and hard drive upgrades.

They also have an outlet with refurbished and overstock items: http://outlet.lenovo.com/