skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have a slightly more complex scheme that eliminates some of the drawbacks of humanhash, while adding some of its own. Given a word-hash, and the number of bits per word that were used to generate it, it gives back the original numeric hash in the obvious way (by hashing each word and truncating the hash, then concatenating the bits); in the other direction, given a numeric hash, a wordlist to draw from, and a desired number of bits per word, it finds all the words in the dictionary that truncate to the appropriate hash bits, and offers the user a choice of them, then concatenates the chosen words.

This has the nice property that a given set of words uniquely translates back to a specific hash, and that the user can use their favorite wordlist as long as it's large enough. If you were to use it for recognition rather than memorization (and wanted fewer words to remember) you would have to manually decide where to truncate the hash before converting it. If you wanted to pick a specific wordlist, you could do that.

I originally came up with this as a system for helping to memorize IPv6 addresses; it also works as a system for passphrase generation (first generate a random number with the desired number of bits of entropy, then convert to words.)
And this is why I stopped reading Mashable. They should have done research ( like the NYTimes did) before publishing their story. Pete, publishing first doesn't make you guys a news organization- unbiased writing, research, and accuracy do.
That's an excellent question. I hope you get some answers soon, because if there are companies who wouldn't hire someone on the basis of her belief that people in her industry shouldn't be treated as commodities, I want to avoid them.
The "People's Mic" isn't about repetition or credos at all. It's about emulating the effects of a wired PA system where none exists, with the added benefit that it has the force of dozens or hundreds of people joining in and adding their weight behind the speaker's sentiment. If a single speaker were talking to an Occupy gathering and had a speaker system behind him, it would be just as representative of their goals.

It's a low-tech solution, and the linked article is also a relatively low-tech solution. Pretty cool.
As a father and co-founder of a startup, I can tell you that what fathers are in attendance feel negligent. It's a real problem with the industry.
300-400 keybindings? Even the flashcard utility only has ~250 in total.

Do you mean 30-40?
I wrote the websockets implementation for mongrel2, and just as an FYI, it only supports the more recent websockets standard (they made some incompatible changes around draft version 7). The good news is that the only browser that ever had the old version on by default was chrome (firefox and opera defaulted it off for security reasons), so there aren't too many browsers out in the wild using the old version.
AHHHH - that makes more sense.

I toggle nerdtree on and off often, so it's there when I need it, and gone when I don't, so I don't notice it getting in the way of my split windows all that much.
I'm not an expert, but knowing the actual value of the Higgs boson mass has implications for other parts of the model. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3343321
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With more people posting about themselves online, and search technology advancing, no one is private online anymore.
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To risk sending them some publicity. DotNetNuke is making some pretty hefty claims as to why they are a better solution than Wordpress.
The shield law "do[es] not apply with respect to the content or source of allegedly defamatory information, in civil action for defamation wherein the defendant asserts a defense based on the content or source of such information."
Good article, the most important being, their is not a talent shortage, their is just a shortage of talent that is willing to give up themselves to join your organization, letting people be themselves attracts talented people to your organization.

It also shows why the whole H1B thing is crap. Companies hiring is completely one sided, and on their terms. The H1B program is more of their terms. Locking labor into regional markets and therefore ably to constrain that labor and that labors compensation. Contrast that will a company that allows remote work, and they have no need for the H1B argument, they can literately access that talent on that talents terms. They have happier employees and those employees don't feel like they are a slave to the machine.

I actually used to be an opponent of remote work when it was in it's infancy, I thought it would isolate individuals and disconnect the vision of the company. My view on the subject over time has turned around as I now see that it created happier individuals that are willing to contribute more effort than is required of them. Technologies such as Skype have done a lot to prevent the disconnectedness that I thought remote work would create.
If someone puts up a 600mb file called 'Thor (2011)', what do you think it's going to be. Do you need to open and watch it? 10s or 100s of times on 10s or 100s of sites?

On the one hand many sites are making no attempt to stop the flood, pointing at the DMCA, on the other the film and music industry want to legitimately stop these files being shared.

I guess what I'm saying is are they supposed to download and watch every single file?

As that's precisely what the website owners have claimed is something they can't do, but the music/film industry suddenly has to do that on 100s of sites?

It's a rock/hard place scenario.
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1. Google Apps for Business
- No onsite hardware
- Calendars with sharing
- Webmail / imap access
- Can be a central point of administering users, if the other apps integrate to Google Apps (e.g. the Apps from Apps Marketplace)
- Supports Windows, OS X and Linux
- All machines are fully usable outside the office

Now you are almost there. Forget that MS stack. It's costly, vendor-lockin, and feels like a thing from a past.

2. Central Management of Users with Single Sign-on capabilities.
- Look at http://www.okta.com/ and http://www.symplified.com/

3. Network File Sharing
- Google Docs (and there is a change that Google finally introduces Google Drive / Google Files)

If that is not enough, then look at:

- Egnyte: http://www.egnyte.com/ (Hybrid solution, Dropbox-like sync-client, Client Backup, Local office sync server / NAS, FTP (includes secure connection) access, WebDAV access with Drive mapping capability, browser access etc.)
- Box: http://box.com/
- Dropbox for Teams: http://www.dropbox.com/teams

If you are interested in backups, look at:
- Backblaze: http://www.backblaze.com/

Remember that with Google Apps, you already get very nice features, like:
- Single sign-on on every Google's service (for example: Google+, Google Voice, and you get services like Postini, Mobile synchronization with support for Active Sync, etc.)

If you are going to MS stack, you are going to tie your hands. It's easy to implement MS stack, but it's damn hard to exit their system.
Yes! I noticed that too when looking at a Van Gogh in person. He had built it up using a lot of paint - almost like what you see when a small child uses way too much finger-paint. The physical texture of it was striking.
That would be terrible for the internet.
If the system works as you describe, then it's fantastic - state provided standards ensure a minimum level of education, while still allowing some students to receive a superior level of education.

Perhaps the rest of the country can learn something from Kentucky.
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Nice to see that Ron Paul voted against conducting these proceedings in secret.

You know, I heard somebody on NPR saying about him, essentially, "he may come off as a bit kooky, but he's been very consistent with his principles." I'm starting to think I'm willing to "throw away" a vote in favor of that.
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It's in the keyboard preference pane under "modifier keys".
These two are much better:

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/microsoft-to-allow-open-...

http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Windows-Store-agreeme...
Social networking (e.g. Facebook) is not the same as actually being social.
I don't know how friendly they are now, given Chrome and Google apparently declining to renew its payments to Mozilla that were a big chunk of Mozilla's budget.
Yes certainly there is much room to find new and exciting stuff - but "not" finding the Higgs was the lowest hanging fruit. If the LHC were not able to find the Higgs at any energy level, the Standard model wold be rendered incomplete and a lot of "new" new Physics would follow. They would have had to explian how Mass is introduced into the model without relying on the Higgs Field.

Now (if this is confirmed to the 5 sigma needed) the experimenters have to actually go looking for new stuff - a harder proposition, fraught with interpretations and Agendas.
Many (not all) open source licenses require attribution and limit to what extent you can change the license. Many apps in the app store violate these requirements. The problem is not forking, but taking open source code and trying to pass it off as your own closed source creation.
There are still some fairly hard problems in parsing. For example, doing minimal work to convert a series of text deltas into abstract syntax tree deltas, using caching to avoid throwing away too much. This is highly relevant to IDEs for providing code completion and other analysis, but it's usually solved with a mix of brute force - restarting the whole parse from the top - and trickery, such as skipping uninteresting function bodies, or parsing a much simplified version of the language that ignores many productions.
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Squares are rectangles. However, you will note that they changed the button format which suggests that they are they where treading a little close to Apple's design / long standing trend of having a single button. I still hate the fact that they use a single physical button to simulate more than one button based on how long you hold it down so IMO it's not really a benefit just an aesthetic choice.
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I don't think I like this. It is missing a lot of the subtlety of the real thing, in ways that I think are important:

1) In real life, anyone can use the people's mic. If you implement it with a centralized conference call, only the "leader" can use it. This is supposed to be a leaderless movement.

2) In real life, GAs don't vote, they operate with complex consensus processes, and there are several different kinds out there. You can't summarize them all with a simple yes/no.

I like the general idea of this app, but I truly hope the authors spend some time with a GA and adapt it to the people's real needs, rather than pushing their own model.
I also recently purchased an Android phone and have been very impressed by the accuracy of Swype. However, I notice that in landscape mode, because of having to move through a larger region, input entry slows down significantly. I find myself always switching to portrait mode for text entry (with a 4.3'' screen phone).

I wonder what the experience is on tablets where non-swype entry becomes easier as the keyboard size increases (unlike, in my experience, what happens with swype).
If you enjoy stories about early video games, Pong-story.com, a site focused on the Magnavox Odyssey (the first home video game console) is fascinating: http://pong-story.com/intro.htm
Prefs -> Keyboard -> Modifier keys.
I'm not sure I'd necessarily agree with your assessment of parsing as a field in 2011. There are still a lot of unsolved problems going forward --- see Laurence Tratt's excellent article on the subject for a few details: http://tratt.net/laurie/tech_articles/articles/parsing_the_s...
The missing left hand nav kindof stinks.
Airvite giving out invites - what's your take on the web app?
Hey, our startup just released its web app (http://www.airvite.com) and we are looking for a lot of feedback on looks, usability, flow, etc.
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But don't the labels give seed money to invest in a band in exchange for equity which is similar to that for a tech company startup
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Great points. Thanks.
Agree about swype.

But the difference between banging out text messages to friends and a full fledged serious writing environment are huge.

Text navigation (say you notice a mistyped or mis guessed word ) is terrible. My droid bionic does not have a physical optical joystick. Compared to my Droid Incredible, its a very painful process to fix up text.

Now imagine trying to write production code/copy on such a device.
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This criticism holds for Android devices also (including the Kindle Fire)

At least my old HTC Incredible had an optical joystick that made text navigation much easier.

Please device designers take note: FINGERS ARE NOT PRECISE ENOUGH FOR TEXT SELECTION!!!

at least adult male fingers...
That's dumb. My advice is to wait a month and buy $version + 1.
a minor rant but it would've been nice to see blog.nodejs.org powered by nodejs
Thanks a lot!
For a vimrc also supporting other version than 7.3:

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You've failed to understand the fundamental differences between Android and WebOS. The proof is that you said that multiple app stores will cause troubles to WebOS.

If WebOS will be 100% open, HP won't be giving unfair advantage to some vendors like Google does with Android, then all will be much better.

Yes, there's fragmentation in the Linux world, but it's not like you can't get started as a novice. I've helped people who switched to Linux and said "fuck windows". They were persons who don't have any kind of formal IT training.

This really looks like one huge rant along the same lines as the article itself.
This is my general impression too, though I doubt it's limited to the industry.

I am a single father who takes full responsibility for my son every other week. I have since he was born. I don't receive any benefits (formal or not) that are not otherwise offered to mothers. The system as we have designed it is not family-friendly - no matter whether you're a mother or father.
In that sense, record labels are like VCs that also provide PR. For the amount of the investment that both labels and tech VCs make, its quite normal in our society to take an equity cut rather than a flat rate. Making the analogy to VCs also relates a lot better to the odds of failure, given that labels lose money on most of the bands they sign. And similarly to founders that don't know how to negotiate for good terms on their funding, many bands are also poor negotiators.
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Well, the most comparable economy in the world to Australia's in structure is Canada in terms of the mix of activities. Australia, for as long as OECD has been collecting data, has always had a lower unemployment rate than Canada (and Canada has liberalized trade at roughly the same pace, starting in the 80's).

You can look that up here:
http://stats.oecd.org/index.aspx?queryid=251

I would define a high unemployment rate as one higher than a comparable peer nation, so I do not think Australia can be considered to have had high unemployment by that measure.
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> Many apps in the app store violate these requirements.

Ah. So the problem is that someone may act illegally? That's always been the case, since the dawn of time. If you're going to develop some open source software, of course there is a risk to you that someone may copy it and not follow the license. But there's significantly greater risk to the person copying, correct? If it's a crime (is it?) they risk having a criminal record and all that.

So, there's nothing new here, no new risks that open source developers haven't been facing since always, and nothing at all unique about this situation. In fact, it's probably a lot better now since you have a single source to contact (the app store owner) to let them know there is a TOS violation and illegal content on their site. In previous times, there may have been no recourse (say, the copier has hosted the content on a Russian domain; you've got nowhere to turn).

All in all, it seems the situation for open source developers is significantly better than it ever has been regarding illegal copying of their software.
He's right about positioning the cursor. It currently sucks, really really badly.
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> Irish and UK citizens can vote in one another's national parliaments

That's not true in general. People in Northern Ireland are entitled to one or both citizenships which makes it true in that limited case.
This looks like a fun list too of math movies: http://www.qedcat.com/moviemath/index.html
It's nice, because Ron Paul you can legitimately vote for based on whether you agree with his politics or not, and you know he won't change his mind arbitrarily/deceptively. I disagree with his pro-life stance and his isolationist policies. But I appreciate his stance on removing ourselves from the wars on (Drugs|Afghanistan|Christmas). Thus I can weigh the pros and cons.

So many other political campaigns, I can only judge on apparent moral character and personality, since it simply doesn't seem like a priority for anyone to base their campaign on a rigid, consistent political ideology.
How do we get the UN to free up its data as well?
are digital music companies compelled to keep secret the amount of plays/downloads that a specific song gets? why not report these play counts directly to the artists and let them calculate the difference between the average asking price and what they are making in revenue?

once they see how much is being skimmed off the top, they can easily not renew contracts with major labels and go to straight online distribution directly, bypassing the labels.
Like Unique Error Phrases http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2991764
I have never suggested natural differences don't exist.

I'm suggesting that a) using the idea of them without evidence to justify apparently unfair outcomes is bullshit, b) historically people making those arguments have often been spectacularly wrong, and c) people who make that argument when it's personally convenient are perhaps fooling themselves.

You're also rampantly committing the naturalistic fallacy. What's natural tells us nothing about what's right. Even if we have made a perfectly fair society (which we certainly haven't) and discover that there is some difference in outcomes that is explainable by genetic differences, that doesn't mean we should accept the result.

If some people are genetically likely to be less good at math, should we cancel their math classes? Or should we give them better ones? I say the latter: as a society we want people to understand and appreciate math.

If some group of people is more prone to a disease, do we go with what's natural? Or do we work against it? Consider heart disease for African Americans, or skin cancer for white people. As one of the naturally pale, I appreciate having sunblock available, and cultural reminders to put it on or cover up. And if I do get skin cancer, I'd rather be treated instead of being told it's "natural" for me to die of it.

I've also heard it argued that psychopaths make "natural" CEOs, and that we should therefore accept their various depredations. That ignores that CEO isn't some sort of ecological niche; it's an artificial, societally-constructed position. We may have reason to want CEOs to be more responsible than average rather than less, no matter what's "natural" in this context. And we may have reason to want startups being created by a broader collection of people than those who might "naturally" most incline (after a lifetime of unnatural conditioning) to play the entirely artificial game we've set up for them.
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I developed the app, working closely with the movement at Zuccotti Park. I am very aware of technology that tries to "fix" something that is deemed wrong, but I was intent on simply augmenting systems already in place. I just noticed a problem when these systems scaled up, during larger rallies, so I felt that some minimal technology could help.

As far as the voting, it's really not about hard number voting as much as it is a general "temperature check" like the hand signals that work well in smaller occupy rallies do – this is just giving a rough estimate of the consensus of the crowd...nobody is counting each hand wriggling in the air, but in large rallies the speaker can't see all those hands to get that general perspective.

I imagined that speakers could pass the phone onto others, but a new mic can be easily created by calling the number and starting as a new speaker.
> Going to the emergency room when you're on the brink of death doesn't count as "free healthcare,"

So?

You're ignoring medicaid and the free clinics that are in many areas. Medicaid is especially interesting because the vast majority of the "poor uninsured" are eligible and get signed up as soon as they actually need care.

Both programs are fairly well publicized, so it's interesting that you mentioned emergency care as if it's the only option.

And there's a third option which is less well known. With the possible exception of much of Alaska (due to population density), every county has a public hospital that provides free healthcare.