skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hiding behind "nobody has suggested a title I like so I'll leave the one everyone agrees is egregiously misleading" is, bluntly, a dick move.
It's a very exciting time. I'm incredibly excited to see what goes on here. I previously explored an online education start-up idea and I'm really looking forward to seeing Ng and Koller change the world. I'm also very exciting to see machine learning on the radar. For me one of the biggest challenges is often making AI intuitive. As machine learning becomes more mainstream it will be on people's design radar and that will make it less hard to turn great algorithms into great products.
Trade-off coding for quantum communication provides benefits
Motorola Employee's Photo Possibly Confirms Existence Of Droid Razr HD
If Google went around telling everyone about their Pagerank idea, writing about it online, etc, do you think this would be inconsequential to their success?
Selling experiences rather than products
the House votes on the bill on April 23, which is a week away. any opposition which happens needs to happen fast. (I think that's probably deliberate.)
If we're relying on censorship being too expensive then we've already lost.
While the NFL's actions with the Super Bowl are silly, they don't apparently have a overly strong legal standing to bar people from even using those words[1]. After all, trademarks exist to avoid consumer confusion, not to bar all other entities from even mentioning the mark (although, it seems that lately trademarks are being abused and the law being twisted into expanding the purpose of trademarks).

In London, extra powers been granted via parliamentary act[2], and even private security contractors may be able to enter homes to enforce these rules[3]. This is a pretty large difference.

1: http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120202/04205917638/hey-ad...

2: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Olympic_Games_and_Paraly...

3: http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2009/jul/21/olympics2012-civil-...
How do you know it was Redditors?

I subscribe to quite a few programming related subreddits and while the comments there are more informal (people can make a joke without getting downvoted, for instance) the level of the discussion you're referring to is not very representative of programming subreddits either.
Incoming anecdote..

My uncle, Peter Dussmann, started out cleaning offices, then started an office cleaning company, than bought an office building...now he owns one of the largest service companies in the world (50k+ employees).

http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dussmann

When you make money it opens up other opportunities. How you leverage them is what matters.

That said, I'm 1000% Uncle B.
I think this is pretty accurate. Here is an example from my own thesis research: I'm using machine learning to tune an (underwater) communication link, i.e. decide what modulation / error coding algorithms/parameters will yield good data rates in a dynamic channel.

At first i tried using an off-the-self classifier to figure out which parameters will work well. That failed because by the time i had sampled a decent proportion of the possible parameter values, the channel would change (the number of possible combinations is of the order of a few millions).

Turned out that the real problem is not learning the performance of the available parameters, rather it lies in "learning how to learn": i.e. my ML system needs to adaptively search the space, by responding to the history of previous explorations and their outcomes. This kind of exploration would be effective only with an understanding of how the underlying modulation/coding algorithms work and interact with each other.
Yes, but with an extremely high threshold.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Article_Five_of_the_United_Stat...

It essentially requires 2/3 of both the House and Senate to agree on it, and then 3/4 of the States have to ratify it.

These days, meeting such a threshold is probably effectively impossible.
In the US, everyone has pretty much standardized on "the Big Game" as a euphemism to refer to the Super Bowl. This article proposed a euphemism for the London Olympics (although satirically). Seems like a good idea to me.
First study of piracy in emerging economies
And large servers, fast networks and storage systems are also bad, because it allows bad entities to collect and store data on folks, too?

Turn your statement around: The easier networking gear can implement features, the easier to offer high speed, transparent encryption.
I'm not sure I have a problem with companies under attack sharing IDS logs. This whole EFF post seems like a stretch. I think "threat information" is pretty clearly not my mom's personal e-mail, unless my mom is some kind of Tibetan supporter and China has been dropping her 0days daily, in which case it might be nice to have the government send my e-mail provider a heads up or for my e-mail provider to warn other people who might be affected.

Can we save the grandstanding for actual privacy issues?
I am having a really hard time comparing all the available traffic analyzers; I had my eyes set on Gauges (http://get.gaug.es) because of its pristine look compared to the unholy mess of Google Analytics, but maybe there are better or equally-good alternatives out there.

How do you compare the tools available out there, as long as one of your main parameters are design/UX?

It feels like there are as many traffic analyzers as there are to-do apps for iOS.
They must have quite the PR firm to get a piece that positive in Wired (or Wired has blurred the line of where its advertisements end).
Cached:

http://eli.thegreenplace.net.nyud.net/2012/04/16/python-obje...
I've only just made the switch. Like most people I was stuck with SVN due to my employer using it, and refusing to update.

Now I'm freelance I've had the time to put into learning Git and I'm glad I did, but the point is there are still a lot of people using SVN, some of whom will switch to Git in the future, and posts like this can be very useful to them.
And I noticed that "demo" means "without" in Swedish.

Source? I've never heard "demo" used to mean "without", and apparently neither has www.svenskaakademien.se/ordlista
A New Focus for Camera Makers
If you have any content at all (code, graphics, story) you should maybe make this available. Github would be possible or at least a simple website where people can get as much information as possible about the actual state of the project.

As others pointed out already, gaming sites and forums get many requests of this kind, without some proof that you are serious about the project they won't care about it (though will most likely give some general advice that's helpful.) A less specialized site to post would be reddit in some of the gaming oriented subreddits like http://www.reddit.com/r/gamedev/
Reminds me of the 2010 World Cup "ambush-marketing" fiasco involving 36 ladies who were detained by South African police for "advertising" a non-FIFA sanctioned beer at the world cup, by daring to wear their countries colour at a game.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/competitions/world...

Wearing (just) your underwear at a game = OK.

Wearing clothing with a non-sanctioned beer label = not ok.

Insane.
~100 million is not a lot compared to other government program, but it is still public funds. (Postal Service Fund)
Click: http://signup.resumati.ca/

That landing page shows nothing about how you plan to solve this problem. If I were going to be interested, I'd want to see something specific about how you are approaching this problem.

This could be mockup screenshots, or a list of features, but I want to know how you are approaching this problem in a unique manner.
Nice tip - solved one of my annoyances with the GMail interface :)
I bet we interviewed at the same "conservative defense contractor". I won't name names but there is one in particular that is known for requiring ties. I showed up for an interview in a suit sans tie and it was pointed out to me as well. The only interview I've ever had where I didn't get the job.
Tracking Twitter buttons in KISSmetrics
From the Birthplace of Big Brother
According to Paul Levy, everyone calling the Superbowl the "Big Game" is stupid; they should just call it the Superbowl: http://pubcit.typepad.com/clpblog/2012/02/brand-name-weenies...
He's an outsider, but being right in the middle of the favorites he's well positioned to crown the king, his importance is way over his actual voter share.
I don't have a proper business per se, but I do make a living from a puzzles (flash and javascript games) site with adsense.

I use the API to see what games are trending right now, and use that to order the games on various "listings". That way, new and cool stuff are always on top.

I can also see exactly what times most people get on the website, and I use that information to send newsletters(and posts social media) on what I think is the best time.

I see what games are more engaging and I can focus on them, writing more features or simply promoting them better.
Since you bring up Programming; yes, it is a good example.
It is a good example of the need not to ignore any errors.
Double-guessing how some incorrect maths or code may have worked, given a lot of imagination and goodwill, is the start of the slippery slope. It is not something computers can do, as we all know.

The 'procedural' approach to maths is a good thing, though the right initial description is not to be underestimated. It boils down to good teaching.

There are many similarities between maths and computing and often the keen game-players are quite good at maths too, so perhaps the problem is how to motivate those who are not in this category?

I agree that reducing the effort does matter. Especially in maths, where it often leads to a better method. I was trying to argue against giving credit for increasing the effort leading to the wrong answer.
We are doing that at Amazon. I made the switch a couple months ago but it's up to each team when they'd like to switch. My team is lucky in that we have a couple people who really know Git well.
Transparency is a great idea. May I suggest starting off by releasing your intended feature list for the product? That way, with each release, you can cross things off the feature list, and people can see that you're making progress.
It seems that what you want is deckjs2pdf, get it from CPAN [1] or GitHub [2]

[1] http://search.cpan.org/perldoc?deckjs2pdf

[2] https://github.com/potyl/perl-App-deckjs2pdf
What would you suggest in lieu of the layouts/partials for visual elements?

The Django community has issues with this from time to time, where packages sometimes don't include any templating, leaving people to guess at what needs to be there.

I don't know of an obvious solution though, except maybe a kitchen sink example of some sort. Thoughts?
Try hnmobile: http://cheeaun.github.com/hnmobile/
Yes, git is that much better. Branching is only part of that. Another part is speed—and especially network speed.
Git makes operations, during which in SVN I could go, make some coffee and come back just to find them still running, instananeous.
Then there is rebasing. Then there is differntiation between author and commiter. Etc., etc.
This. It's a classic risk-reward tradeoff. We can make most things much safer than they are, but we generally accept a lower level of safety for practical reasons.

Formula 1 racing was once one of the most dangerous activities on earth. Before the 1980s, a driver had a greater than 1 in 20 chance of dying in any given year. Since the death of Ayrton Senna in 1994, there has not been a single death in the sport.

We could achieve a similar change in the number of automobile-related deaths on public roads, but we consider the costs to be prohibitive. The public just aren't prepared to buy cars with roll-cages and bucket seats and multipoint harnesses. Not unreasonably, most people won't wear a helmet and a HANS device on their commute.

No-compromise engineering is often surprisingly straightforward. The hard bit tends to be working out the best compromise between your various design goals.
Partially, although in my experience over the past 4 years doing this stuff 1 hour cleaning the input data gets you thrice the output of 1 hour tuning the algos. Some algorithms are more sensitive than others, but in general, garbage in, garbage out.
But back to the topic of OCR... How does these document scanners and OCR's plan to deduce this kind of source written in the margins?

I have no idea; probably they don't, yet. Everything I've worked on uses students' eyeballs to do the actual character recognition, so I'm not deeply familiar with the state of the art. I do know that OCR is mainly used for documents that have a well-defined structure where you can make an image map identifying different semantic fields, and the contextual field information allows for much more intelligent OCR; it's not so good for big blocks of paragraph text.

When you get to figuring out stuff scrawled in the margins, there are image pre-processing techniques that can identify regions of handwriting and then normalize it by rotation and scaling, but I'm pretty sure a complete solution is still in the realm of stuff considered AI (because, of course, once you know how to do it reliably, it becomes machine learning or pattern matching or something like that and no one calls it AI anymore).
Give http://getclicky.com/ a shot.
The US regulations are terribly vague, depend heavily on facts-on-the-ground, and can turn on minutiea like who gets cake on their birthday (so not making that up). That said, even for a law which has more edge cases than a course on graph theory, this case is not a close call.
Yes, git is THAT MUCH BETTER.

I wish I had time to get in all the details about why git is better but I will leave you with two questions to ask your existing version control system:

1. How fast is your version control system?

Unless you have tried git, you will not realize how painfully slow SVN (or any other VCS which has to talk to server) is. 90% of my git operations take less than a second.

Now, you may say that 'speed' is not an issue. Trust me, it is. Once you have a super fast VCS, you will embrace it as your friend in everyday coding instead of using it at the end of the day. It's something similar to what Google thinks that making website/webapp faster brings in more users.

2. Can your version control handle renames?

There are very few version control systems out there which can handle renames. If you dread renaming files because of SVN, you ought to look at git. BTW, not only can git handle renames without a hitch, it can show you code history across file renames.

Again, you may think that 'renaming' is not an issue. But if you believe that 'naming' is very important for your code and you do re-factoring all the time, you don't want your version control system to dictate how you work.

I can imagine why one may think that git is fad. But after using it for 2 years now, I can not use any other version control system. [And for a background, I have used following version control systems for real proejcts: CVS, VSS, Perforce, Surround SCM, SVN, TFS.]
Benford's Law seems pretty obvious once you think about it. Though I love its application to "forensic accounting".

Do you think it could be used to judge the "truthiness" of media websites online? I don't think it works with rounded numbers that are more likely to be found in the news.
Ask HN: How does having dogs affect SF housing rental?
I'm doing the initial ground work to relocate from Australia to the states for my startup.

In Melbourne having dogs makes it incredibly difficult to rent a house in most innerish areas.

What is it like in SF (Castro/SOMA etc)?

If it is troublesome in the city, does it get easier down towards Sunnyvale/Mountain View?

Cheers :)
req.get / res.set are obvious in use so it's not bad (res.set('Content-Type', 'application/json')). I'll likely keep the old .header() methods for BC. "res.render(404, 'not here')" never worked, maybe you mean res.send(404, 'sorry')?
what you're really complaining about is the voting mechanism around here.

apparently there was enough interest to bump it to the front page.
Government spending IS spent in the DC area. Every government contractor has major offices if not outright headquartered in DC area. For example: Northrop Grumman, CSC, Lockheed Martin, and General Dynamics are all headquartered there. Any new bureaucracy finds offices in the region - TSA's 4000+ headquarters employees are in Northern VA.

I know I am going off on a tangent but since 2008 the US government has been spending $1,300 billion more than it collects each year! Instead of spending that in the DC area why not just send a check for $10,000 to each and every household in the US. Of course these numbers do not include the TARP cash that is deluging Wall St.
It's not too complex for mobile, as proven by apps that aren't from Yahoo. (Yahoo's Flickr app is egregiously slow, almost as slow as FB's "HTML5" app.)

Yahoo should have purchased both FlickIt Pro and FlickStacker, perhaps changed them to white with a designer feel, and marketed them as Flickr Social and Flickr Pro. (Seems to me the two markets of users Flickr serves are people there for the photo community, and there for dealing with publishing high volumes of photos.)

FlickIt Pro opens to a "People" tab, with incredibly easy UI. This focus on people sets it apart.

FlickStacker is an incredibly full featured uploader and Flickr photo manager. I was able to post and manage ongoing full quality photo sets during a recent trip to Corsica using just my iPad and this app.

Flickr also should have worked with Apple to build a Flickr uploader built-in, as Apple did with Twitter. Twitter or Facebook is great for snapshots, while Flickr is for photography.

In addition to your analogy, I'd suggest that Flickr is to TwitPic as Photography is to Snapshots. The photography market gets overlooked (though 500px is moving in) but both pro and amateur creators appeal to Apple. Instagram and Facebook are not about photography, so Flickr could still own that term.

Today, I'd no longer argue for a button to "upload" to Flickr. I'd argue for pushing the Apple iCloud Photostream to a Flickr Photostream mirror set that users can rename, then letting Apple's native Camera or Photos app built-in share interface toggle the pre-uploaded photos' visibility to Family, Friends, and Public. This lets the sync happen in the cloud, decreases friction, and encourages more Pro accounts since users could run out of 200 free photos quickly.
Some of the best things of MIB -

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Organizing

We can organize your closet (in whatever way you would like), and thoroughly clean and organize the items in your kitchen, or even spend time restoring your china to their full glory.

Refrigerator / Freezer Cleaning
We’ll dispose of expired items, & remove racks and compartments to deep clean them as well as the walls of the fridge.

Errand Services

Need a personal assistant for the day or just need someone to drop your car to the mechanic or to run to the mall for you? Name it and we’re there to take care of any errands you may have. $60 for first two hours ($35 per hour after).

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Clean is something people like. To people like me it gives peace of mind and freedom to think and work on other things. But cleaning is something a great many of these people don't like to deal with. A cleaning service has to be a moneymaker.
I suppose all I can say is that my experience has not matched yours. I've rewritten some articles almost from scratch, and the only feedback I've received so far is someone pointing out a bug in my Python implementation of an algorithm. Here's hoping my good luck continues?
I'm writing this largely in response to "jasonlotito", who appears to have a personal investment in this story being a lie. That's not the case, I'm afraid.

I've been harassed for close to ten years myself by this person, who's sent numerous emails to my employers — including Apple and Palm — claiming that I was a pedophile, a Satanist, a drug dealer, a serial killer and a variety of other things. He's sent pornography to members of my family and attempted to impersonate me on Facebook as well.

I had a criminal complaint against him, filed in Merced County, in March 2010. While there are "protocols" for dealing with these sorts of situations, in practice, the police rarely act on them if the situation presents any sort of an actual challenge, in my experience. They're under-staffed and ill-equipped to deal with this sort of thing.

The situation is complicated by the fact that the stalker is a transient who changes his location several times a year, and who's changed his name twice in the past eight years. He uses TOR, public WiFi access, a raft of Hushmail accounts, and other means to make himself more difficult to track down.

I have first-hand knowledge of no fewer than twenty other people who've also been harassed by this person. He's been doing this sort of thing back into the 90s, originally on USENET. He's since moved on to Facebook and Google+, and now Kickstarter.

I maintained a web site at extinct-marsupial.org for a number of years documenting this stalker's activities. I finally took it down last year after my ISP became unwilling to deal with the multiple bogus DMCA complaints that this person supplied them with on a monthly basis.

I'm on Facebook, Google+, Twitter and other places; my personal web site is at shugendo.org. I've been a professional technologist for three decades, and I can confirm that the person harassing Rachel exists, has been harassing her for a number of years, and that law enforcement has proven completely incapable of doing anything about it, for her, for me, or for the other people that this stalker has victimized and continues to victimize.
> github, seem to indicate everyone ultimately wants/needs a central repository

Of course you still need some centralization in order to share work with other people. But the more compelling thing about Github is forking, not centralization. With Git you can easily synchronize commits between multiple remote repositories.
oh I see maybe you meant res.render(view, {status: n }), the problem with that is that people were passing non-numeric values there, causing bugs because they were not aware of "status" being special-cased
nice website of nicira. http://nicira.com/
From a theoretical point of view - all text editors offer nearly the same feature set, so all features should be available through a different set of keybindings.

In reality, of course, this can be difficult if the editor doesn't offer reasonable support for accessing all of the keybindings through the API.

Still, CodeMirror does seem to offer better support than most.
Surely what he is really complaining about is the people who voted it up. We cannot blame everything on the system.
In defense of iTunes
Tupac's hologram performance at Coachella