skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Don't you think your efforts will just be co-opted though?

I've got a number of friends on social networks who don't hesitate to share their political views now. The problem is that they're doing so by whatever divide-and-conquer meme the political masters are spinning this week. It's the same as it ever was, only faster and 10x as annoying. I've actually hidden a couple of people on my FB timeline because of it.

What do you think will make it possible for your efforts to avoid being co-opted into more of the same old trap?
But we're not talking about the democracy problem. We're talking about the capitalism problem.
I think that blog post was a bit hasty. Sure, I can see how LinkedIn might have poor signal-to-noise for a well-connected venture capitalist type whose job consists largely of making connections. It doesn't work for HIM, and that's OK.

However, for many people it is an excellent way to keep in touch with colleagues. It lowers the difficulty threshold for maintaining vital professional contacts. For example, when I change jobs now, I don't have to think about manually digging up all my former colleagues' contact info and worry about pestering them with an awkward email about what I am doing. I just update my status, and voila, the news gets out and I hear from folks if there is anything interesting to them to say. LinkedIn is an awesome tool for job hunting and a nice place to log your resume bullet points.

That said, it really sucks at the open-ended social functions. Discussion groups are filled with incredibly stilted Q/A where everyone is fronting their best "professional" face. It is enough to give me a headache just reading it.
I found it interesting that they went the root of going for office space at 500$ a month rather then working from home. Since they weren't making any revenue, had they not gotten funding, I am pretty sure they would have stuck to telecommuting/virtual office instead
I like it a lot. I thought I would wear it more when I was out and about but due to the short battery life my primary use of the inPulse is at home. Usually when my phone is plugged in and charging in the other room. My inPulse allows me to see anything important on my phone without having my phone in my pocket.

I think the reduced profile of the Pebble along with the increased battery life will be an absolute game changer. I hope to wear my pebble all the time.
Dutch scientists find new particle
RepRap Blog: More Printed Circuits
> AM worked by generating and modifying short Lisp programs which were then interpreted as defining various mathematical concepts; for example, a program that tested equality between the length of two lists was considered to represent the concept of numerical equality, while a program that produced a list whose length was the product of the lengths of two other lists was interpreted as representing the concept of multiplication.

This is the old representation of numbers in raw Lisp, which uses lists of length n to represent the number n. Incrementing and decrementing are easy, you simply cons or cdr. Subtraction and addition are slower, though, and multiplication, division, left- and right-shifting are really slow.

Beyond that, I'm talking about creating natural numbers for internal use; no outside interpretation happens, as it does in Automated Mathematician. At no point does the computer output these natural numbers; it just uses them to navigate a data structure so it can run a REPL.
Agreed. This seems to be part of a troll feud between ideologically opposed subreddits. I find it tedious.
Could you explain why is that?
This. The best way to fight these types spammers and scrapers is through economics - provide the content at-cost and it no longer becomes cost-effective for pray-and-spray models.

Imagine what the world would be like if there was a cost-per-unit to sending email - our inboxes would be a much saner, friendlier place. Fewer marketing emails, virtually no spam (no longer economical).
Lunch is no longer required in California
Also, what happens in Gainesville will have no effect on what happens at UCF, FSU etc. Each of those schools are 2 hours drive from each other.

People in Silicon Valley don't worry about what happens in LA.
The costs of living have been going down for the past 50 years at an incredible pace.

No it has not: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akVL7QY0S8A
"Our family has decided to take legal action not only against his ex-wife, but those who urged him on to take his own life. Next week, our lawyer will be filing a wrongful death suit in Washington State against nine individuals. Our lawyer hired a private investigator and three of the individuals have been identified from those who urged Jerry to kill himself. Subpoenas will be issued to find the identity of the other three, though it is possible that they were the same people. We don’t know yet. We were told by our lawyer not to give any other information out such as our full names or the people to be named in the lawsuit"

I am bad at math , but.........?
Source code here: https://github.com/Compilify/Compilify
inDinero, the Fridge, AnyBot and the iconic (every time I fly Virgin) HipMunk video were all done by GrumoMedia[1].

http://grumomedia.com/
GitHub for Mac: Easier Updates
N - The Easiest Way to Install Node (any version you please)
What market has the higher number of startups investing in online marketing?
I need to understand what is the market (fashion, food, wherever, etc) with more startups that are investing in online marketing, and possibly in social media marketing. Thanks
Is the code online? If not, any chance you would consider it? I'm into NLP (I wrote http://bookshrink.com) and would love to see how you did this!
Interesting discussion. I love that he replied in the comments. They both make great points. If you have the budget you should re-code your front end to be mobile friendly, for example switching hover effects and sliders to different controls. In real life, no one can afford to do this, so they might make a responsive design that re-uses most of the original design and may replace web-only elements with mobile-friendly versions.
Davy implemented Datomic as a TinkerPop Blueprints graph (https://github.com/tinkerpop/blueprints/wiki/) so you can query it with Gremlin (https://github.com/tinkerpop/gremlin/wiki) too...

"The use of Datoms and Datalog allows you to express simple, yet powerful queries. This article introduces only a fraction of the features offered by Datomic. To get myself better acquainted with the various Datomic gotchas, I implemented the Tinkerpop Blueprints API on top of Datomic. By doing so, you basically get a distributed, temporal graph database, which is, as far as I know, unique within the Graph database ecosystem. The source code of this Blueprints implementation can currently be found on the Datablend public GitHub repository and will soon be merged within the Tinkerpop project."
Beautiful design. Clean. To the point. Love the fossil at the end. Congrats!
Did you mean to include this link? http://folklore.org/StoryView.py?story=Price_Fight.txt
Thanks for the clarification. I suppose we're in a time of inflated usage numbers. Sigh...
There are always more unmet human needs and wants that can absorb all that new productive capacity.

When the largest unmet need, the limiting factor for everything else, is income, how do you make a profit selling it to people?
Fixed by removing the generate button, it was totally useless anyway as the update happens directly when you change the number of colors to generate.
I suggest the "Request invite" just asks for an email address and then asks for future information when you actually launch. Also, I think most people will have the question whether roommate options are limited to Roomd users or not. Good idea though, one of my colleagues was talking about this idea a while ago and went nowhere with it.
Sci-fi-like rant below:

I agree in that I also don't need a watch, much less a watch that needs a phone. But I imagine I will wear a watch-like device again in the future. Have you ever heard about the expression "the internet of things"? Well, it is going to happen, but we're not quite there yet [1]. And when it happens, I bet we're going to navigate trough it using watch-like devices at first [2]. It's more natural because the watch in one's wrist is much more accessible and therefore has a much lower latency then the phone in one's pocket.

Today, the precursor of the internet of things is the internet of smartphones. So Pebble uses a watch to navigate the internet of smartphones. When the internet of things finally comes, they'll be in a very nice position with experience and brand recognition.

[1] The signs are here though: arduino, raspberry pi... How long until we have a low power 5 dollars board that we can put anywhere? How about a 1 dollar board?

[2] then we'll use augmented reality glasses and finally we'll just implant chips and be ourselves part of this internet of things.
Just out of curiosity. Are you aware that all your data is fully editable through the admin panel? Or is it just a toy project and it doesn't really matter?
Unix and Node: Syslog
Why jwz uses Safari instead of Firefox
Taxonomy humor
If you are running a social network, then you publish how many people are actively doing stuff inside of it. Clearly, they are not doing this.

If you are running an identity service which provides more information for the targeting of advertisements, then you publish how many "enhanced" profiles you now have. What you are trying to do is reach the people who would like to do that kind of advertising. Every time that number grows, it's even more inviting to them.

G+ can succeed on their own terms even if nobody ever posts a single thing to it. If you've populated your profile with information, they have already succeeded.
Do they realize how hard it is to find talent in tech these days?

It's not that hard if you look somewhere other than Silicon Valley.
That's a really easy problem to overcome... just get a charging station. I have this one: http://amzn.to/IzPAiz

Some others:
http://amzn.to/I6TP3w
http://amzn.to/I6TSw8
http://amzn.to/I6TT3c
It's an MVP, I'm sure future versions will compensate.
Anyway, flip-phone batteries can last weeks but I'm sure you still use a smartphone.
If you do not threaten people with slavery and death, your average human will not work a day in their lives.

I never knew there was someone as unspeakably, impossibly evil as you. You would enslave everyone simply to keep them from having free time!

Go visit a government projects area with a high rise of people on welfare, none of them work, it is a cesspool of drugs, guns, and destruction.

According to your hypothesis, the idle rich should be a cesspool of drugs, guns, and destruction.
Tiki Drinks, Distributed Databases, No Assholes. How a startup hires.
Microsoft is leaning toward Sharepoint as it is one of their billion dollars business product.

... and we all know that SP is made up of the traditional ASP.NET WebForms instead of ASP.NET MVC.

I'm not too familiar with the Windows web-development ecosystem but I suspect ASP.NET MVC is the minority.
I wonder how it compares to Sony's smartwatch:

http://youtu.be/d7C-XuSEBPA
May be.... but most of the money in Instagram went to the VCs; here, all of it is going to the company.
10 Things I Learned from the jQuery Source
I applaud them for making sure their own ownership of the company is not diluted, which is something I wish more founders were able to demand when they seek financing.

On the other hand, to me it seems like the main goal is to be able to provide RSUs and stock grants to employees without the right to vote, which I think is not right.
Using Reverse Proxies To Secure Databases
1) Create social network. Pitch to TC and tech blogs.
2) Spend loads of time hyping it.
3) ???
4) Wait until Facebook or Google acquires you.
I can't deny that the department being cut back is a good one. But sometimes there isn't room for all the good departments.

I plant 4 tomato plants every spring. In a few weeks I pull up 2 of them, even if they are thriving. There is only so much soil, water and sunlight to go around.
Great execution, but I'm uncertain of the idea.
My personal perspective: I read wikipedia for information -- I read HN for critical insight. Not always present, but a higher signal/noise ratio than other websites. I don't want a summary of information - I want critical thought.
UIActionSheet, UIStatusBar, UIToolBar and UITabBar I think. What are you looking for?
Well yes. The ultimate goal can and should be to work less. But then we have to get our culture and our socioeconomic system on board with the idea of reducing work instead of venerating it as we currently do.
The new shares will be non-voting and trade under a new symbol. Sergey and Larry will be required to sell voting shares when then sell.
Just subscribed - some very nice summaries in there. Do you have any links you could share related to how you worked out what's relevant? I've an extended project which I want to do on basic NLP and this seems very relevant. Thanks!
yes, side project. my real focus is http://segment.io
Google Q1 Earnings Results
What licence is it released under?
Facebook is also tiny next to Facebook.

Pundits have confused social networking with Facebook to the point where playing games or up voting articles is social networking because that's something that Facebook does. Nobody considers XBox live a social networking site, but people do the same things on Facebook and that counts.
Interesting that the MacBook Airs have Bluetooth 4.0, but the new MacBook Pro's still only have 2.1+EDR.
A Turing Machine Wrapped in a Train Set Inside WireWorld
Meet Microsoft Open Technologies Inc., the new open-source subsidiary for MS
Apple is Finally Allowed to Intervene in Lodsys Lawsuit Against iOS Developers
Your comment makes me very happy, please enjoy!
Bear in mind that comments here are self selecting for people who like HN's comments section ;-) But I know plenty of people and speak to people on Twitter who deliberately avoid these comments pages due to a perception (fair or not) of "drama" and what not. For those folks, an email like this could be just the ticket. For me though, I'm staying here ;-)
Hi peter_l_downs - the summarizer is based on Open Text Summarizer (http://libots.sourceforge.net/) which works very similarly to your page at bookshrink (TF-IDF sentence scoring). I made some minor edits that accommodate article structure.

Bookshrink has some pretty amusing summaries... it reminded me of this meme a while back where people would paste books into Microsoft Word and AutoSummarize it down to 6 words :)
> Going so far as analyzing a string to determine whether it consists entirely of numbers

I was about to give an outraged reply that, if PHP is like Perl, then it doesn't scan the string afresh, just keeps a flag indicating whether or not it thinks a string is numeric. However, it turns out that's not true at all. `Perl_looks_like_number`, defined in `sv.c`, calls `Perl_grok_number`, defined beginning on l. 577 (as of v5.14.2) in `numeric.c`, which (after some book-keeping) does this:

if (s == send) {
return 0;
} else if (*s == '-') {
s++;
numtype = IS_NUMBER_NEG;
}
else if (*s == '+')
s++;

if (s == send)
return 0;

if (isDIGIT(*s)) {
UV value = *s - '0';
if (++s < send) {
int digit = *s - '0';
if (digit >= 0 && digit <= 9) {
value = value * 10 + digit;
if (++s < send) {
digit = *s - '0';
if (digit >= 0 && digit <= 9) {
value = value * 10 + digit;
if (++s < send) {
digit = *s - '0';
if (digit >= 0 && digit <= 9) {
value = value * 10 + digit;

and goes on and on and on and on in the same vein. Sheesh! (I didn't forget to close that last brace; the next line is de-dented, but that seems to be a mistake.)
One more way MS will engage with the open source and standards communities
We have the two best designers in the whole world who did all the illustration and UI. It's mainly a mix of rails and coffee.
Open source resin 3D printers in development « Ponoko – Blog
In my experience with the Bing API in the last several months, I've found that you get what you pay for. Its performance has been inconsistent at best, to the point which I created the site http://isthebingapiworking.heroku.com/. The web search api frequently orders of magnitude fewer results than the actual website, a problem making a frequent theme in their developer forums http://www.bing.com/community/developer/f/12254.aspx.

By charging for their search API, I would just say that Microsoft is beginning to take their API seriously. It seems pretty clear that minimal resources, if any, were dedicated to the free version.

I'm bummed, because I've found relative success using their news search api (particularly for the article aggregation component of http://www.congressionalprimaries.org/), and now we'll have to look into alternatives, but if this means actually providing a decent product, I think this is a good move for Microsoft.
TwitchTV up for Webby against EA, Gamespot. Vote
'[epub]' appended to submission title would be nice.
>So, the fact that you think those jobs are "unskilled" reflects a lot of how, as a society, we have come to trivialize a whole economic activity that was rendered obsolete by technology.

Not really. By "unskilled" labor, I mean the entry level positions that traditionally didn't require much schooling, and could learn and become proficient at their jobs rather quickly. In other words, the traditional low-level secretary or clerk positions that a lot of people had as their first jobs out of college or high school.

Now, if you were competent, they would promote you, which is what happened with your mother, I'm sure. Unfortunately, the loss of those entry level positions also means that career path, which defined a LOT of people's lives, is removed. Honestly, I think that's the bigger issue here, because it was possible for an entry-level employee with an unskilled position to learn the craft and get promoted to a position that would now only be given to a skilled employee with an education. That simply isn't the case anymore, and that's what really is hurting certain segments of the job market.
I haven't used Votizen but in other voting records databases, they record "Yes" or "No" as to whether they voted (and sometimes other information depending on the state).
I use N and it's great
Trello available in the Chrome Web Store
Their other watch (inPulse) uses an OLED display that looks similar.
Kickstarter specifically excludes businesses, leaning towards projects only. I don't think they specifically preclude offering equity, however.
Facebook now lets you download more of your data
I'd love to be able to have a web view for the "content" of my app, but native navigation at the top, and native everything else basically.
The more I look into capital structures, and the shenanigans that corporations can get away with, the more I like gold and private ownership. If you are a minority shareholder, as the vast majority of shareholders are, you are quite literally at the mercy of the controlling shareholders: they can dilute you at will, never cut you a dime of profits, and you are first loss if the company goes tits up. No cash flow, no control, no recourse. You are basically hoping that the controlling majority is nice to you, and that a financial instrument that doesn't produce any reasonably predictable cash flow (or, in many cases, any at all!) goes up in value in the eyes of your also-screwed peers.

It's crazy.

To me, anyway.
I wouldn't say it's ludicrous but you're right. Apple would have to screw up really, really badly in order to go the same way as RIM.
Thanks for the explanation. You should publish this.
Okay, I hate to be that guy, but I can't hold it in. These Kickstarter campaigns for iPhone accessories bother the shit out of me. See the following:

> iPhone dock: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/hop/elevation-dock-the-b...

> iPod watch: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1104350651/tiktok-lunati...

> iPod speaker: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2107726947/hidden-radio-...

> iPhone tripod: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/jj1/cineskates-camera-sl...

All of these projects have received hundreds of thousands or millions of dollars. Notice a trend here? iProduct + Kickstarter + Aluminum(optional) = $$$. A formula for successful/massive funding. I probably have a naive view of what Kickstarter is supposed to be, but I envision it as a platform for launching innovative ideas. Sure, you can argue that these products are a few steps ahead of the incumbents, but let's be honest - they are virtually useless. They products don't leave the world in a better place. They aren't pushing any bounds. They aren't amazing. And the crazy thing is that I have never seen any of them in the wild, ever, despite being surrounded by tech savvy people, Apple fanboys, and iOS fanatics. What's up with that?

I fear that Kickstarter will become a platform to launch new iPhone accessories. But I guess that's what the world craves.
Oh, and see the most funded projects in the 'design' category:

http://www.kickstarter.com/discover/categories/design/most-f...
What? There isn't fraud in the stock market today?

Free Jon Corzine! Oh, nevermind...

BTW, Univac (I believe) got their start issuing stock in exactly this fashion. You could buy a share for either $1 or $5.
wow, you just made my day. thanks!
heh, well it was a prototype. nothing in production.

the crypto scheme was randomized between 3 algos to reduce the statistical data size for each. one was AES, one was alphacrypt, another one was something else. the json protocol exchanged an algo_id which was stored with each message.

as for home-brew, i used the encrypt/decrypt code i found at the provided location. i'm no crypto expert and the guy claims to have a mathematics PhD with "Eleven years of publishing scientific and technical papers (computer science and higher-level mathematics)", so hopefully his security assertions are not entirely without merit.

the key is not stored anywhere. it must be exchanged by other secure means, just like any symmetric encryption/AES.

if you encrypt "a" using a key "foo" and the lib selects a random seed char to tack onto every word, there can (from what i understand) be 255 variations to encode the same plaintext word...and this set varies for each key.

storing the seed, like storing a salt doesn't seem like it would help much. so it's not immediately obvious that having access to many messages encrypted using the same key would allow you to do any kind of trivial statistical analysis other than on word length alone.

if it is in fact trivially breakable, i would love to see it implemented by simply having access to the encryption code and ciphertext of 5 different messages of several words in length encoded using the same key 100 times each.

it'd be awesome to learn more about crypto....and about 100 other topics, too :)
Best of luck Denny, et al. This looks great! I'm glad you guys have research experience since that's integral for understanding this space.

I hope you motivate a lot of new interest and exchange of knowledge. Also, try to get some disease-related projects in the future; I think people will go crazy over those.
Connecting Facebook and Loneliness
Not necessarily most… The two founders owned 50% of the company so at most half.