skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it does compete with REST. I want my framework as simple as possible (and real-time as possible, of course), and I know that to reach 100% of the audience plus have a good SEO, I will certainly have to have 2 versions of my website: One low-tech, no-javascript, pure HTML 4. The other, thanks to the first one, can shoot very high. So I will get rid of REST, and have all my data being synchronized via WebSocket. Function calls will be RPC over WebSocket. The much-less-than 1% users without WebSocket or Flash support (which implements a fallback WebSocket client), or with a Flash or WebSocket behind a Proxy that won't let these through, will be defaulted to the low-level website, which has to be there anyway, because dynamic content is very badly indexable by search engines. I think I will be working on a Node.js micro-framework to accomplish this very soon. This of course will have to be backed by a fast in-memory database with pub-sub, like Redis.
The other fallback transports for WebSocket, like JSONP or other hacks, aren't in my opinion worth it at all, given the proliferation of Flash and WebSocket-supporting browsers.

Time for a plug too: my https://github.com/ypocat/ws-rpc and https://github.com/ypocat/ws-flash-client extensions for the mean and lean "ws" Node.js WebSocket server. (Reason for creating both of these was very simple - socket.io did not work out for me.)
> Why is Python more readable? [...] Second is the use of short words instead of symbols. Perhaps the Haskell is trying a little to hard to feel like algebra? [...] Python goes further than most to use short concise words; COBOL used long words

To make words even shorter than in Python without resorting to Haskell-like symbols, try ChinesePython (http://www.chinesepython.org/english/english.html). Here's some examples from their site:

寫 ..(print)
刪除 ..(del)
定義/函數 (def)
忽略 (pass)
中斷 (break)
下一個 (continue)
傳回 (return)
示警 (raise)
載入 ... 名 ... (import ... as ...)
從 ... 載入 ...
共用 (global)
執行 (exec)
斷言 (assert)
如 .. 不然 .. 否則 .. (if .. elif .. else ..)
只要 .. 否則 .. (while .. else ..)
取 .. 自 .. 然後 .. (for .. in .. else ..)
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是/不是 (is / is not)
或 or
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不是 not
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This doesn't seem as dramatic to me as others are finding it.

The 1950's seem to me like they would be a high point for newspapers (every book and movie set in those years has newspapers quite prominently, and wikipedia says that papers per person peaked in 1950). The years after that look like outliers actually, and now things are simply returning to normal.

But to make a true examination I would really like to see a graph going further back (to 1900, and even better to 1850), and I would like to see a graph adjusted per capita (per household, not person).
One thing which is missing from this implementation is the use of lemmas. Rather than treating words like "house", "houses", "housing" all as separate terms, they all get reduced to the stem "house". http://lemmatise.ijs.si/ is a good resource for this.
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I was surprised that desktop PCs still use at least 38W DC in idle, which is 54W AC due to the inefficiencies of PSUs at this relatively low load. How much do laptops draw in idle? Even half of that would still be pretty bad.
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I agree that there's not any way to know for sure. I guess I saw the "mind" thing a different way; that it has to be a sentient being thinking about it, but obviously we can't know without one to test on :)
You listed potential tools but haven't explained what you're trying to do.
7728 x 5368 pixels on a 1/1.2" sensor

http://europe.nokia.com/PRODUCT_METADATA_0/Products/Phones/8....

I hope they will release it also with a non-dead phone OS
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The thing is, though I'm not saying that's true in your case, that many people's perceptions of Assange are entirely due to the picture the media has painted rather than things he has himself said or done.

Check out the disinformation campaign that's been going on in Sweden for example, propagated by tabloid press in releases oddly synchronous with statements by the prime minister concerning an upcoming 'smear campaign against Sweden'.
He covers this in some detail, under the term stemming (which I've heard more often in this context). He even makes a library recommendation.
What software do you use for this?
A few months ago I tried to apply what is basically the same code (written in C#) to Twitter to see if I could filter the spam messages I receive. It's a great exercise for those interested in playing with the algorithm.
Off topic - but I got to ask - what's up with Microsoft pushing C++ ? They were pushing .NET then all the sudden it's back to C++ (and JavaScript ?). Check out http://channel9.msdn.com/, 5 out of ~9 videos about C++ on the front page. Meanwhile .NET projects like RX seem to be loosing steam, Silverlight is officially dead.

I switched to JVM/Clojure so I haven't been following .NET/MS developments for the last year in detail, when did this push to native happen ? Even better question - why ? .NET finally got to a point where using C++/legacy was justified in niche areas, now they are pushing it to everything (desktop development with C++/WinRT ?)

They could have picked up Mono after Novell, fund it separately (to avoid legal risks) and establish .NET as a truly cross-platform solution.
"There is the factor that a lot of the code scientists write is hacky, one-off, and fragile"

Oh, absolutely. But the same goes for expensive, commercial software, too. In all walks of life, not just scientific software.
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Only that this wasn't a DMCA request. It was a request from Rumblefish to Google, using a Google channel. I'm not trying to defend DMCA, but it wasn't used here.
Facebook Phone App Spy on User’s Personal Images....
The issues regarding the right to privacy of the users just does not seem to rest.
with so much noise per pixel that they are forced to bin 7 pixels together to produce a final 5MP image....
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So, does this graph show that companies spend the same amount of inflation-adjusted dollars on newspaper advertising as they did in 1950? Were things good back then? What happened before the 50s?
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What's your idea of the future of news?
The linked article says "Nokia showed me poster-sized samples captured with the 808 PureView (printed entirely unprocessed) that basically had zero noise in them."
I'm the author of the article ...

Yes you are right, it's better to convert the whole thing to a sum of logs, otherwise you end up with floating-point underflow.

The article was getting already too long however, but I'll add a note about it because it is an important optimization that affects both speed and even correctness (because of the underlying limitations of floating point).

UPDATE: note added.
I predict the MP race will end up the same as the GHz race, and allow people to finally understand that large a Megapixel value does not equate to better picture quality. Unless of course you're going to make a huge billboard print using an image from current gen cell phone lens.
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Hasn't Microsoft been switching technology completely all the time? They do seem incredibly fickle. Does anyone remember Avalon/WPF?
The 3%→15% is what you, the investor (source of capital) get. Micro lending gives that to local lenders who charge high rates.
If I had a windows phone I'd totally check it out.
The screens looks nice and concise tho, very mango style; how much of that layout/flow do you get 'for free' when developing for WP?
And... how did you get Nokia to hand you a Lumia?
I work in the social sciences, and I have to say: no one cares about reproducibility or replication.

I write all my papers in LaTeX and R, using Sweave to ensure that my code matches my analysis. Typically, when I send PDF's or tex files to anyone else, they ask me for word files. No one ever cares about the code (even though I send it every time).

In fact, I (and other colleagues) have been asked to replicate our analyses done in R in SPSS as (apparently) R is open source, so it can't possibly be right. The sad part is that i started using R because many of the most useful psychometric models are not available in SPSS (and probably never will be).

To the second point, no one cares about replications. They aren't sexy enough, so they don't get published. If you find something strange, you'll get published in a good journal. The ten failed replications won't be published anywhere nearly as good, so scientists don't bother to replicate.
> But that's not the world we inhabit. Nation-states are perpetually insecure about the intentions of others. Hence, espionage will exist with states as the actors.

I can see that it pretty point-of-view, but I don't agree with this. I think we live in the world that we make, nothing is 'perpetual', and that in Western countries especially we will gain in the long-run from ensuring our own ethical standards are high. This, from my point-of-view, is practical.
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so, while Nikon and Canon are still not there at 41MP with full frame sensors, Nokia did it with a tiny phone sensor? if true, they should drop making phones immediately.

I still remember the hype around the (5MP?) camera on the N95 back then. Even the Nokia published samples were horrible, but the press made it sound like that was the best camera phone ever...
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Isn't that cooked vegetarians?
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The WebOS concept has been tried a number of times, and failed every time. Most spectacularly with HP blowing about $3 billion in the process. There's really nothing stopping HP's WebOS to used as a desktop OS, and it'll be open sourced later this year.
Both would be interesting. The FQA is mostly criticizing C++ as compared to Java or C#, while Linus prefers C.
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Weird that he mentions JavaScript, because it seems to me the simplest language of all. Except for a few quirks that you can usually ignore, what other language is so small and logical (everything builds on hashes and closures, basically)?

If I think of Ruby, I think "ok, I can get things done, but don't get me started with the metaprogramming". It can get seriously metaphysical... Not so in JavaScript.
Yes, but that is probably after the 7:1 sampling, since that is apparently what the phone outputs.

It is probably a very good camera, but together with Symbian I fail to see the point of it, the market for Symbian high-end camera phones must be minimal at best.

Unless possibly if it is a 'prototype' that they decided to sell to try and convince MS that they need to be able to do similar stuff but with Windows Phone.
webOS didn't fail because of the technology choices, but simply because of mismanagement.

Have you tried the TouchPad? It was miles ahead of the Android user experience of the time (and in some cases also ahead of iOS). Shame that the hardware sucked.

I hope that Mozilla will be able to reuse some of the ideas (and code) from there now that webOS is becoming Open Source.
Maybe it's me who missed the point - but I think the author isn't saying "hard things aren't worth it" (as all of the comments here seem to suggest), but he's saying that truly mastering the warts of a technology that is full of warts is a waste of time.

I think the faulty logic there is that _every_ technology over a certain age is going to seem full of warts... so the alternative it keep moving on to trying to master the latest and greatest buzzwords.
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Corrupt as in actually police informants? Er, yeah I bet they do actually.
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Well cannibalism is a pretty strong taboo and probably we have evolved disgust reactions to it, but rationally if it hasn't killed anybody and doesn't cause any health issues (like BSE analogues) what's wrong with it?
Just as an anti-point to the above...

I'm doing some in depth analysis to see if it's a suitable replacement for C#/.Net framework in our current application stack (message oriented CQRS architecture, web front end). We're doing this by rewriting a chunk of the stack in it and seeing where we get to.

At the moment, it's a very good fit. The time to market is an order of magnitude less than .Net framework. The tooling and mindset is cheaper and easier to maintain and we're not having to invent many solutions to problems - they are already apparent (or just not required).

The only trouble so far has been availabiliy of quality persistence libraries for database engines.

I'm not going to write anything up though until v1 is out and I've ported everything to that and tidied it up.

I don't know if it scales up linearly as the codebase grows yet. This is my only real worry.
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I've read that sci-fi story. Can't quite remember what it was called though.
And you're in the minority, which is why marketing campaigns are not aimed at people like you.
Nokia's camera phones have been pretty good in picture quality. My favorite was the N900 with its Carl Zeiss lens and the FCamera drivers from Stanford's Camera 2.0 project (http://graphics.stanford.edu/projects/camera-2.0/).

Processing the pictures took forever, but the results were quite nice. Look at this one I shot for example: http://www.flickr.com/photos/bergie/5293597184/in/set-721576...
There are some sample images here, though sadly not at full size:

http://europe.nokia.com/find-products/devices/nokia-808-pure...
This often makes me wonder if there is a place in a dying market for a small newspaper that prides itself on world-class journalism and thought-provoking articles.

I know it's not exactly comparing apples to apples, but Private Eye in the UK still sells pretty well. I'm sure that if a newspaper marketed itself as high-brow, intellectual and most of all critical of itself and its own standards a lot of people would flock to it, as well as advertisers.
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It is actually a very interesting approach. The traditional way to fight noise is to have sensor elements as large as possible within the limits of sensor size and resolution.

Basically having larger sensor elements is like having a bunch of smaller elements that cover the same area and averaging them.

But if you can read these smaller sensor elements probably you can do better than just averaging in software, if you have good noise model and image model.

I am really curious to see what algorithms they use for demosaicing/downsampling, and what kind of lowpass filter is in front of the sensor.
I'm not sure that them pushing C++ equates to a switch away from .NET and managed code. What I take from it is that they're keen to foster a rich development eco-system on their platforms and they think that programming language diversity is an important part of this.

As I write this, I realise there is a compelling counter-argument in Apple and Objective-C. So maybe not, I don't know.
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To people not in the know, the actual physical sensor size (in mm^2) is many many times larger than say the iPhone 4S and at least twice as large as many standalone compact cameras . The biggest sensor before this in any cameraphone has been in the N8 (to my knowledge) and this one has an even bigger sensor.

So its not just the megapixels, it is backed up an actually physically large sensor. Add in the great Xenon flash (which gives out much larger amount of light than say the tiny LED flash on the 4S) and you get a great cameraphone.
You are right about log probabilities ... I added a note about it (I'm the author of the article).

Also on spam filtering, there's a note there about stemming not being optimal for spam, but the spam classifier was just an example, otherwise stemming is still useful when bootstrapping with a small dataset.
Actually it allows user to take either 5MP, 8MP or 38MP images so the forcing to 5MP is only optional though gives much less noise to the image. I am hoping to see this live and play around with it!
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Hm. If you look at the problems C++ is out to solve, they're complex. Why shouldn't C++ be complex too then?

A tool shouldn't hide complexity - look at VB and the monsters it created.
I didn't eat meat for about 5 years. One day I just bought a quarter pounder with cheese from McDonalds for no particular reason other than I felt crappy after being sick for two weeks.

That was the tastiest thing I'd ever eaten!

At the same time, I don't know why I do eat meat now but I seem to crave/need it and just can't shift that. I don't usually actually like it either ironically (apart from that one quarter pounder above).
Sure, your original example with single-letter type variables makes sense to me, since those variables could represent anything. I never meant to object to those. I just wanted to point out the fact that your example also included multi-letter names, while mathematics generally does not.

So if you really don't care what a variable represents, then I'd agree that a single-letter name is fine. Given that math is almost universally done with single-letter variable names, are you suggesting that in math you almost never care what a variable represents? This wikipedia article makes me think otherwise; clearly, variables often have a fairly specific meaning.

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Confirms 1/1.2'' sensor size. Approximately 2.5 times larger sensor than the one in the Nokia N8.
WebSockets don't have much startup time at all really. If you're using Socket.io or another Flash-based abstraction you can expect long lead/start up times due to the Flash policy file, but plain old WebSockets should be as fast as any other TCP connection.
If the chart had been adjusted for population, the decline would been even more dramatic. 1950's $20B (2011) USD was in a country slightly less than half the size of the US today.

In fact, if you look at the curve from 1950-2000 you see it seems to approximately track the population growth from 1950, with a weird peak in ~1990 and trough a few years later. My hunch is that the previous state of the industry was that it reliably took in ~$130/yr/US resident (again, in current dollars) year after year. Now it takes in less than half that, and it's plummeting.
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I really do wish there were courses available in discrete math at high school level.

Probability, graph theory, statistics, number theory, game theory, groups, sets, logic , these are topics which can be interesting and basics of them can be taught before college. Similarly, linear algebra is not that scary.

I completed Calculus BC test in my Junior year in HS and went to nearby University for Calculus 3(forget what it was called exactly), got a bad professor with worse English than mine and burned out of math for a long time. I was under the mistaken impression that Calculus was end of all math.
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> programmable devices will become so cheap that we will embed them in the cardboard boxes into which we put other things for storage or shipping. These passive "computers" will be activated as they pass sensors and will be able to both emit and absorb information <- RFID

But some of it's so accurate I wonder if they're being a bit cheeky and describing what was bleeding edge at time of publication in slightly vague terms, then if it catches on they seem visionary further down the line?

Like if I was to have predicted when I first saw eInk at a science museum that one day we'll be instantly buying and reading books on low powered wireless devices. Well yeah, I've just seen eInk! It's only visionary if I predict it before I see the early prototypes.

For example, RFID has been around since at least the 1980s, so it doesn't seem that impressive that Vint predicted its rise in 2000.
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> How does Google profit from return revenues to advertisers?

"By keeping on their good side" would be my stab at that one. If the advertisers trust Google to take their side, they're more likely to spend money. Nothing particularly 'evil' about that or anything, just how it works.