skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How?

Also, remove google, let's say they collapse, then what? new altavistas? Bings?

And we should now have them pay websites to let them index them?

So that those websites can be found and hence survive?

Isn't google helping those people by letting people find the data in the first place?
My best guess is that it becomes a client-side include, making it easier to change one file and propagate out to all the pages without any server-side processing. Seems a bit silly for so small a thing, though.
I think in many cases you're correct. My point wasn't about the performance of the AI algorithms themselves though. In my experience most of the problems where I want to use AI the algorithm itself performs adequately. Getting the interaction with the algorithm sensible for a non-technical user is hard. If AI becomes prevalent enough that UI/UX people start thinking about it, I suspect it will be much easier to solve that problem, which to me is the bigger business problem with AI.
All that great tech, and the end result is just another game where you shoot people until they're dead, then repeat with more people. Sad, really.
> in the UK we've recently seen the Olympics be backed up by criminal rather than civil penalties for copyright-related offenses.

Copyright infringement as part of trade has always been a criminal, not civil, matter in the UK.
That said: you go to war with the language you have, not the one you might want or wish to have.

That's taking the quote out of context, which is saying a lot because it's a oft-quoted example of Donald Rumsfeld's tap-dancing. I doubt Mr. Rumsfeld was advocating driving around in Humvees as if they had armor. I'm sure he would laud the attempts of soldiers to improvise and mitigate the risks inherent in their equipment as much as possible.

And decades of experience in the "code convention hell" world of enterprise programming has taught us nothing if not that this sort of pedantry helps no one.

Over a decade of experience consulting in that world has shown me that adherence to code conventions has tremendous benefits. In shops where there was strict adherence to code conventions, I could be 10X or 100X more productive when refactoring using automated tools.

If you want to use Javascript, you have to take the whole language -- warts and all.

You need to justify this. This strikes me as a silly and counterproductive notion. Even in a tiny language like Smalltalk, you don't want to use, "the whole language -- warts and all," every chance you get. Hacky tricks have a cost. Just because you can implement an entire parsing system using doesNotUnderstand handlers, doesn't mean you really want to. (And yes, I've seen this happen in real life -- you really Do Not Want!)
Microsoft job post hints at Web-based Skype
Ha, well no. But clearly it's meant to emulate an Apple SKU.

Yet another way it's using all the look and feel of an Apple item purchase to confuse the seller.

I think the problem is that even if the buyer is aware that orders may be fulfilled by a third party (big IF), it's not unreasonable that a buyer may assume there's been some kind of vetting to prove legitimacy.
Violence really happens as well, especially where America is concerned.
Why limit it to Javascript? This would be a fantastic way to learn any framework or language.
This is incorrect. Whether it's the UDK engine or Cry Engine, you can do some amazing things with them if you have the capability. You are only locked into FPS if that's only what you're capable of making.
I'd like to know how you got your name to appear Green.
To work with ML stuff you don't need much. You can just download packages and get experience with how to best pick models, choose features and tweak (hyper)parameters. If you want to work on or understand it then you will need math.

You need a decent understanding of calculus (mid 1800s level, mulitvariate calculus), a more decent understanding of Linear Algebra (1950s ), information theory (1960s), and probability and statistics. With the last having shifted the most from the past due to more recent respect for bayesian methods. Note the years in parenthesis is not to say that nothing new has been used from those areas, more like if you pick up a book on that topic from that year you would be pretty well covered for the purposes of ML.

Worth having a vague idea of are stuff like PAC learning, topology and computational complexity stuff like Valiant's work on evolvability. If you are doing stuff related to genetic programming then category and type theory have riches to be plundered.

Or if you want to be more hardcore and are looking at very higher dimensional data and reductions on them you might look at algebraic geometry (in particular algebraic varieties) and group theory. So basically the answer to your question is as little or as much math as you want and or depending on the problem and your interests in trying different approaches than the typical toolkits of linear algebra and statistics.
This is Hacker News, not Hologram News; we don't have to deliberately avoid a discussion about these relevant issues because it will upset copyright maximalists.
ANN: Exhibitor for ZooKeeper
I think this idea is cool (YC Facelift) but without explaining why you did what you did your designs are just "oooo pretty". Nobody will learn from your work if you can't explain why you did what you did, and if you can't explain why then the criticisms here are probably valid. Design is more than just pretty.
It's helpful if you don't think of them as telling separate stories. It's more like watching different interpretations of Hamlet, or Romeo and Juliet. It's basically the same story over and over, but if it's told well, then it can still be entertaining.
I've seen similar shenanigans at brick and mortar stores where what looked like a "Sharpie" was actually a "Skerple" with a clever font. Lame.
Bash Brace Expansion
Reading this reminded me of this recent post by Chris Dixon, which is also a good read: http://cdixon.org/2012/04/14/there-are-two-ways-to-make-larg...
Yep, we're still on MVC.

I think you're right about WebForms in the sense that I can't think of a single good reason to go with it over MVC. I maintain that it was never really intended for the web we use these days anyway.
Wikimedia Brings The Wikipedia Approach To How It Runs Its Servers
On a much smaller scale, this has already been done. Tupac's posthumous "Loyal to the Game" album produced by Eminem had a number of lyrical phrases constructed out of phonemes.

There was a small amount of outrage at the time of its release, but it mostly focused on the fact that those constructed lyrics were endorsing other rappers (mostly Eminem's protégés also performing on the track), whom some fans felt Tupac would not have endorsed had he been alive.
Where is All Your Data Going? -- GoAnywhereMFT blog
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Why it's OK to leave a tech job at 5 p.m.
Ask HN: What's Up With Green Usernames?
Anyone know why some users have their names appear Green while the rest of us are all grey? Just curious
B.I.G. would have been a better choice.
A huge LEGO barrel organ for Star Wars
As of this writing there are 15 separate Amazon sellers claiming to have new and used copies of my print-on-demand book. Their prices range from $12 to $888.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/1461178185/sr=/qid=/r...

I haven't called their bluff to see whether they are just lazily-evaluating the book (buy it from Amazon and drop-ship) or whether they are printing copies themselves. I suspect the former, but the latter would be exceedingly clever too.

There is no way to report spammers or otherwise find out what the hell is going on, and I gather Amazon is uninterested in fixing the problem. Either way they make money.
It's also worth remembering that Amazon had accumulated something like $1 BILLION in losses by the time it started turning profits. €40M sounds like a huge number, but in that space, it's not all that much.
Those are new users. I forget how new they are, but account names change from green to black (or grey or whatever exact shade it is) after some period of time.
Medical researchers at UPenn mining forums to collect data
Looks pretty good.
Theres only two things that I personally don't like. The text under the CraftEppe logo is kind of hard to read, both on the top and bottom logo. And, the oval that appears when hovering on the navigation looks weird to me.
Don't worry you will still be allowed to lawfully protest about, eg China in Tibet - you will just have to do it from the official Olympic protest site.

I believe this is somewhere in the Orkneys and shows the government's commitment to spreading the Olympics to the regions.
Come up with something more fun then shooting down virtual people and earn a lot of money.
Plenty of Fish runs on .NET. Marcus says it's more scalable than most of it's Open Source counterparts...
How much time will be saved by using a minifier that actually supports the javascript language.

How much time would be saved by widespread use of "The Good Parts" of Javascript? This is likely to be much larger than the time you propose.

How much mental effort is needed to support half a dozen different minifiers that all support a different subset of the language

Who says you have to? If the community as a whole started omitting the hairy parts of the language, they would tend to converge on the same core. A superset of the 5 or 6 most popular subsets is still going to be a lot cleaner than the whole hairball. In practice, this is about the coverage that just about any language gets from tools like compilers and code transformers -- after all, the serious tools pretty much all have bugs. A superset of the 5 or 6 most popular language subsets is all anyone gets in practice.
There have been a lot of anti-amazon articles lately.
GDC, mobile games and changing developer perceptions with RIM's dev team
Agreed. They're a 15-person team, contacting them beforehand is not out of the question (I did so when I first started interviewing at startups).
Good idea. But how about filling potholes with a Newtonian solid, like asphalt? It isn't terribly hard to do. I'm reminded of Peter Thiel's recent comment: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRrLyckg8Nc&#t=58m38s
Plenty of things are wrong with the London startup scene - Silicon Valley has the advantage of being close to great universities where you can recruit great talent (not that these companies don't go to the East Coast to recruit).

London doesn't have that, at least from a technical talent perspective - the area that comes close to matching that description in the UK is Cambridge (or Oxford, to some degree).

Secondly, even if you have people with good talent available, many of them see the London finance machine as their destination of choice (though they may not admit so openly). The finance culture has seeped into the startup culture as well - many of them see the finance companies as their potential clients (so that's not surprising) - but that has led to a gatekeeper culture that is prevalent to a lesser degree in the US (maybe I'm wrong here).

Lastly, the level of risk-aversion is generally higher in the UK than that in the States - the positive energy on the West Coast is _tangible_.

How many APIs have you seen coming out of London - and frameworks people can build upon? That is, raw technical products for the heck of it - not travel websites, shopping portals or phone-apps. Those are the things that form the bedrock that show the underlying passion of the startup community of an area. London (and the UK) sorely lacks that.
Awesome. Never could get ruby-debug19 to work with my client's rails app anyway.
Stop comparing London to Silicon Valley. It's a waste of time. I moved from the UK to New York a few years ago (before the startup scene really got going in the UK) and you can't compare New York to Silicon Valley, either.

However, every place has strengths that Silicon Valley does not. Both New York and London are very well connected to other industries like media, banking and fashion. They're actually great counterparts to each other- London being a gateway to Europe, and New York being a gateway to North America.

I'd love to set up some sort of intercontinental exchange programs for NY+LON startups. Companies offering desk space to their transatlantic cousins for mutual benefit. Let me know (contact details are in my profile) if you'd be interested in something like this- I want to get to know some more startups "back home" in any case!
There are surprisingly few arguments about semicolons in the .Net community.
I agree. I used to do classic ASP, which at the time was a great web dev platform. I really think Microsofts priority with Webforms was to convert all those VB6 programmers over to the new framework, not build a better web framework. I've hated webforms from day 1. I'll dance on it's grave.
The author has been redesigning the landing pages of different YC companies.
"Reality is what makes the past immutable." - Linus
I hate to rain on your cold shower but...

- doesn't scale well

Who said he wanted it to "scale"? If he has already replaced his income he may not need much "scaling". Nice buzzword though.

- is the first thing customers eliminate when times get tough

Times are tough now and he is growing his business (or "scaling" if you prefer buzzwords).

I'm interested to know what kind of business you're running and how well it is performing.
Where's Jonathan Blow when we need him? Seriously though, cross this level of graphics with a storyline centered around exploration of a creatively made-up world, and it'd could be a birth of a game genre - an exploration as a game.
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I don't think that's really a fair characterisation of anything.
Linus Torvalds dissects the ontological fabric of reality just to explain tags.
Some of the video game ratings here used to include a more detailed summary of the content, with meters indicating the level of language, violence, sexual content/nudity, etc. in the game, making it easy to decide if a game had too little or too much of a particular category of offensiveness for one's tastes. These days, though, all I see is the unhelpful letter "M", or maybe the occasional "T".
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It depends on the industry that they're in. If its something like government contracting obviously it makes sense to dress conservatively. For me personally, I go dressed in slacks or jeans and dress/casual shirt. It's what I find comfortable and I think I look better in it.

I've found with smaller teams they'll do due-diligence and double check that you can do what you say you can do. If I know you're good, I don't care how you come in dressed for an interview, so long as you're dressed and take care of personal hygiene like a normal person.YMMV
Researchers uncover new espionage malware preying on Mac users
The video reminds me of demoscene demos.
Because the IOC demanded that their minions be designated a privileged class. The parliament of the day fell over themselves to give in to those demands.

They had to! The games might have gone to Paris. Wouldn't that have been terrible?
Chrome Experiments: Multitrack Mixing
Show HN: I made my son's favorite game: Go Fish
Something not quite but similar to the exchange program for New York City is 'Adopt a Hacker' - http://www.adoptahacker.com

One to check out. I would like to see a similar programme for London.
If you can get past pre-solicitation, solicitation, and procurement hurdles, then you are golden. However, until this highly opaque process is cracked and startups with no "accounts of past performance" are recognized by public institutions, lean innovators in civic tech face considerable challenges. That said, I think CfA's accelerator and the multitude of other incubators are a great place to take your civic focused product ideas. I look forward to seeing how this area of interest shapes up from an entrepreneurial perspective apart from its clearly needed public service role.
Empire under VMS through DECUS. You stopped me dead in my tracks Chuck. Fond memories of a heady time when we kids were tasked with building clusters that ran and ran and ran.

Thank you.
Unless I'm mistaken 'do_something_else()' won't get executed if toggleClass() returns a value that evaluates to true. Because of short-circuit boolean evaluation.
HTML5: A blessing or a curse?
Why is that sad? Should "great tech" only be used to create the kinds of video games you like?
Let Your Process Go
No problem. Search is your friend. :)
Don't Make Raising Angel Funding Your Plan B
That is also incorrect. Making an FPS does not imply that you are incapable of creating another type of game.
This is actually really great. One of the things I hated so far about Rackspace Cloud was that I couldn't scale the resources independently. If I need to upgrade to multiple CPU's or more RAM I don't want to be required to double or triple my disk capacity - that's a giant waste, especially with the availability of Cloud Files.

Now if their Database hosting would include Mongo, I'm sold!
It's an interface problem. In the real world, for example, I prefer ultimate frisbee to laser tag, but in a video game we can't simulate anything more than point and shoot.
It's not expensive. NY is ~350 and that's likely the most expensive in the US (CA or MA might be more).

It takes a lot of reading. I did most of my research on the web, and probably read ~500 pages worth of text before I figured out what I was doing.

That $350 is insurance against all sorts of bad things, and is, in my opinion, totally worth it.
I think what the parent poster meant is that, for most first-world citizens, violence happens to "other people," making it seem less threatening or tempting than something that is an essential element of everyday life.
http://dear-esther.com/ is a good example of using modern game media for story-telling.
If you look at sales, 95% of Cry Engine game boxes sold were first person shooters. I don't expect anything different for the future.
Fair criticisms. However, you're speaking, presumably, from the perspective of a developer – someone who'll be writing apps for and fiddling with their Pebble. I designed this from the perspective of a consumer who intends to purchase the product because of its looks and the apps available for it already. The iDevices are not advertised in a way that directly appeals to tinkerers and developers, but rather to everyday people who want a cool device that does cool things. Of course, I'm assuming who Pebble's target market is, and I could very well be wrong.
Yup W12 I received the email around 6pm PT.

Fingers crossed for S12 and good luck to all the other teams!
How did you decide what to include on the page? One thing that I noticed was that you removed the news mentions from this facelift, but the one you did last week has news mentions.
If I recall previous mentions, 14 days.
Parents are usually wary of exposing their kids to violence when it's emotionally realistic. They may let their preteens play the latest Explode The Bad Guys game, but are less likely to let them watch surveillance footage of somebody being beaten to death.

Most of us want our children to grow up to have a positive, healthy sexuality. That means developing certain attitudes and emotions. Sexual content in media tends to distort or completely lack those emotions and attitudes; the same is true of decontextualized nudity.

Most of us don't want our children to grow up to have the attitudes that come from a life of violence. Adults who train to do violence (soldiers, police, etc.) often need help to deal with the emotional scars. That's not something we want to expose our children to. But "graphic violence" in movies and games tends to distort or completely lack that emotional content.

The unrealistic or disconnected nature of media violence makes it more acceptable, while the unrealistic or disconnected nature of media sexuality makes it less so.
You can absolutely build a startup in any language that has a capable framework for the web.

As mentioned in the article, StackOverflow is one prominent .net startup that comes to mind.

Generally, customers don't care what you code in. It might matter if your customers are developers, but even then, there's API's.

How well you code in your tool of choice may be relevant when you hit a million whatevers you want measure, but by then you'll probably be scaling anything you built.

The most important thing is to have great momentum and see it through to a real result. You'll always do that best with the tools you're most familiar with, with the caveats listed above.

Use decent habits to be friendly to your future self to keep the codebase reasonably something you want to keep working on. Don't strive for perfection, it never happens the first time.

Sometimes as developers becoming entrepreneurs we get a little too focused on making our tooling so great that the attention doesn't always end up on the user experience and getting rid of their pain-points. Instead we can fall prey to solving our own pain points and staying in analysis paralysis.
Another advantage of the minifiers with a correct understanding of JavaScript is that they can do way more advanced minifications like shortening variable names.
That sort of cluelessness from the author of the post and the craptastic generic looking site it was on, really helped determining the importance of the article.
Apple 'wants Valve to partner for home console'
Eclipse is awesome for the record. Especially given that it's free.

Most people use VS.NET with Resharper while Eclipse has a few Resharper features built-in and more.

Eclipse + Maven = great deal.
Steve Sanderson is a pretty amazing speaker - saw his talk at MIX last year about KnockoutJS and now use it in production in a bunch of different projects.
What people like about VS is just how integrated everything is. You can replicate most of the functionality but there is a lot to be said for 'just works' when your in the middle of crunch time.

One of the great things Visual Studio has is the ability to set breakpoints in JavaScript code just like you can for C# code. Not that you can't do that in Eclipse, but it works out of the box vary easily. It's tightly integrated with TFS which let's you check in code resolve bugs in a single step. That way if a similar bug crops up later you can find what the problem was last time and how it was fixed vary quickly. It's also got a vary nice debugger that let's you do things like change values at run time.
Path Finder 6 has arrived
This reminds me of W. V. Quine's commentary on Moses Schönfinkel's landmark 1924 paper "Building Blocks of Logic". Schönfinkel pioneered the reduction to K and S, with parentheses, and further suggested that he could reduce the combinators to just one called J, where S = (J J) and K = (J S).

Then Quine observed that one could use a preponent binary operator "o" to dispense with parentheses, at which point ~"" All Schönfinkel's sentences build of "J" and parentheses go over unambiguously into strings of "J" and "o".""

Therefore all valid forms can be represented as binary numerals as well, though the converse is not true: not all binary numerals represent valid forms -- unlike Iota's bijective mapping.
You bring up a good point. There may be times when technical constraints mean you have to go against the prevailing style -- in your case, interoperability with existing code. (I know that a lot of this works in the other direction when dealing with "foreign" API's in Python.)

However, fat and co. aren't avoiding semicolons because there are technical constraints that require them to avoid them. They just seem to not like semicolons.
I think you mean http://cutycapt.sourceforge.net/ which I only found by switching back to Google; DDG was not able to decipher your type-o. :-)
Even current gaming engines can be used to produce some very amazing visuals, but games still have to be able to run on hardware that is 5 years old.

Its not very cost effective to create content at a quality that only a small number of users are going to be able to see.