skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This seems like a really interesting area of research. As far as I can tell from my (limited) background on chess/go/etc algorithms, they seem to include lots of hard-coded scenarios (like a bunch of chess openings) and brute force searching.

Are there any teams working on more, I don't know, human-seeming algorithms? Everyone seems to agree that humans are good at these games from pattern recognition on a large corpus of game experiences.

I'm out of my element here and realize I'm approaching "Even though I don't understand what you do, I'm going to assume it's easy for you to implement my suggestion" territory, but what if you encoded positions as general shapes rather than stone-by-stone? What if you played through lots and lots of games and built up Bayesian probability models of how likely certain combinations of shapes lead to victories? I mean, when a human go player looks at a board position and sizes it up what are they doing?

I guess if we aren't particularly good at computer vision and understanding how the human mind works yet, then there are hard problems here, but it seems like a neat sort of interdisciplinary approach.

edit: It looks like NeuroGo[1] linked to from an article in a different comment is more akin to what I'm thinking. It's just not very good.... ha.

[1] http://webdocs.cs.ualberta.ca/~emarkus/neurogo/neurogo1996.h...
That's only .1 cents per view.
Direct link: http://www.nasa.gov/pdf/586023main_8-3-11_NAFCOM.pdf
I understand what you're saying, but PUD has a lot of experience building startups and I think he has the right mix of know-how and resources to launch any of the ideas listed in the article as part of Fandalism.

My first thought after reading PUD's original post was the "band generator" idea too. It seems in line with the idea of exposing and building on musical talent in a community-building atmosphere, which I think(?) is in-line with his core goals for the site...
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They could still battle their maoist rebels in the woods (if they are still there, last time i checked they were).
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'not qualified for very much'? My father studied physics and never worked 1 day in that field; he became developer and then director. I'm not sure how it is there, but here (in EU) they look at 'you have a beta uni degree, you are qualified'.
I want to sell a PVS-Studio license to the Intel company
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Interestingly, the Python code I've seen from Google uses 2-space indents rather than 4 as the style guide recommends. And that includes code written by Guido himself (AppStats and NDB, tools used in App Engine). I prefer 2 spaces as well, and I was hoping that the official style guide would match what's being used most commonly.
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You'd have to be able to manage it like a git repo, though I think.

You could fork a track, make pull requests to add you own stuff and so forth. I'd love to see if that'd work out!
> Never use catch-all except: statements, or catch Exception or StandardError, unless you are re-raising the exception or in the outermost block in your thread (and printing an error message). Python is very tolerant in this regard and except: will really catch everything including Python syntax errors. It is easy to hide real bugs using except:.

What kind of SyntaxErrors are cought by the except: handler? Not all, I presume:

try:
a b
except:
pass

This fails with SyntaxError on Python 2.7.2 on my machine.
Regarding this one:

http://google-styleguide.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/pyguide.ht...

I commented about this on another post. There's a nice explanation here as to why using mutable objects as default values in function/method definitions is bad:

http://effbot.org/zone/default-values.htm

In short, it can be bad to set default arguments to mutable objects because the function keeps using the same object in each call.
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While some Ideas are good (I love the collaborative online recording studio) this doesn't address the main point of the other post.

The main idea of this blog is that the answer to "I have lot of users, how can I generate money ?" is "Get more users and more content !"

It's not. More users and more content means more servers, more bandwidth and more money you have to spend.

It seem that in this "business" is only about generating users and user-generated content and don't worry about the money because some "Angel" investor will save you if you have enough users/content. Let them worry about how to get money out of it.

Why not start something monetizing it from the beggining. Why not add the monetizing problem and possible solution (advertising, premium content,...) at the beginning of the process so that when you grow you will see how it scales.

The main problem is not "How I will I monetize this whitout changing too much of my site" , the problem is "Why didn't you think about it before starting this process."
Its happening already with tools like Reaper, which have integrated cloud-based network recording features.

It would be a short step for the owners of Fandalism to get integrated with the authors of Reaper, build in some sort of centralized notification/artist-meetup service, and take it to the next step.

IMHO, this sort of strategic alignment of web/cloud-based services and traditional native application (DAW software) is the logical next step.
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In the words of a fictional genius, 'bazinga'

Goodluck
If NASA were spending $5 billion a year on developing its own automobiles when they could just buy cars from Toyota or Ford the decision would be a no brainer.

True, if Toyota exists to supply those automobiles. Not, if NASA is the first one to make a automobile.

Remember NASA was the first to make many things which are not available off the shelf.
It sounds like your spending a lot of effort on estimating. I'd guess (I'm not there so probably incorrectly :-) that you've got some combination of:

a) stories being too big

b) stories having to much variation in size

c) doing time based estimation rather that relative estimates or story counting.
I think you've got it in the last part. Basically, where someone throws themselves into creating something, rarely coming up for air. People often pay lip service to passion without ever explaining what they mean, but I think that's what it is - feeling driven to commit yourself wholly to working on something for periods of time, all else be damned, followed by rest periods where you're not creating much.

As for the patrons, that's what a general release is for - to unveil it into the world and have the public shower patronage on you if they like it.

I would say I tend to work on the artist schedule - fool around with things and do more communications-intensive tasks during the day, and at night after everyone's gone to sleep, 2-4 hour chunks of intense concentration in which I get more done than entire other days.

I've never found a company that really let me do this, except one that let me come in late and get really productive after everyone's left. I've found it a much better fit.
That code is never executed because it fails to parse. I think you can catch SyntaxError if you import a file with broken syntax.
> Why not start something monetizing it from the beggining. Why not add the monetizing problem and possible solution (advertising, premium content,...) at the beginning of the process so that when you grow you will see how it scales.

Because that's not how you sell your 2 year old company to facebook for a billion dollars :)
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On an average two large ships sink every week? Really? That's way too high than what I had expected. Can anyone cite a source for this info?
One easy way to break your brain is to work at Google... on an open source Python project. Two, four... two, four...

It could be far worse.
Who among here is now planning to sell their app on AWS Marketplace? Do you think adoption would grow?
The designer has also released the designs for a headphone amplifier, and has manufacturers making it:

http://nwavguy.blogspot.co.nz/2011/08/o2-details.html#resour...

Would prefer a 1/4" headphone jack though. ;-)
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Exactly. And when you're pumping out half a dozen titles, each with wildly different performance charactistics and no idea which will bomb and which will be a huge hit, it's not really worthwhile to be overly thorough with any single title until the shit hits the fan...

However, I do think the case could be made that trying to roll your own infrastructure in this kind of scenario is perhaps not the best use of your time, when solutions to scalabilty problems already exist and are so well tested.

(Edit: what I mean by that is, if you use something like App Engine, you really don't need to be concerned with scalability all that much -- as long as you're working sensibly and within the constraints of the platform)
I think they serve the images from a CDN now, so load time should be fine (at least in my experience it is)
This typically raises the growth versus revenue debate. Do you continue as is, adding users or try and monetise, risking alienating users.

There have been some smart sponsorship/advertising concepts that have worked well on free sites.

Kaggle comes to mind. They hold competitions for members. Usually sponsors throw in cash prizes and job offers.

So an American Idol YouTube competition with a prize to headline a big concert may work. Drives traffic and maybe some revenue from companies rather than users.
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Nothing beats Org (http://orgmode.org) for me. But sadly outside of Emacs (and Vim) it's virtually unknown to the rest of the world.
Just wanted to add that I've been craving something akin to this system for a fair few years now, the amount of reasonable little bits and bobs I've come up with that I just can't think of what to do with frustrates me.

As for monetisation, tip jars seems the obvious short term solution to me.
Does anyone know which font they use to generate text?
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Yeah, sitting at around 7% for me on a 2011 MBP i7, can't remember what it was before I upgraded. I've not noticed worse battery life though.
If you're working with a Git repository, there's always `git blame` (http://schacon.github.com/git/git-blame.html).
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Sorry, but I fail to see where the "env" command spawns a shell:

http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/coreutils.git/tree/src/env....

Could you please explain what am I missing?
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Edit: Apparently parts of their server have sunk as well.
You have a point, but App Engine has the following issues:
- lock-in (migrating your apps to another platform will be extremely hard)
- Less control over your backend

IMO these two issues are enough to keep most of the app developers away from App Engine.
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Hi Guys,

after researching how to continuously aggregate and mine our tracking data (200GB and growing fast) for almost a week, I'm still stuck. Is it just me or didn't I just find the right product yet? I must admit that I'm a generalist developer, no DBA - but to me it looks like all the products I've looked into just don't "feel" right. JasperReports, InfiniDB, Pentaho, just to name a few... it's all - how can I say - crusty, unintuitive, 1999. All the products look very corporate, there are basically no howto's, no prices, no shiny, bold Open Source products that fit my bill. I wouldn't even mind using a good commercial product that does what I want, but even the advertisements are "from DBA to DBA". Lots of termdropping like ETLs, M/ROLAP, BI, Case-Based-Reasoning - but nothing that looks reasonably simple and straightforward. Maybe I'm spoiled by the DX (Developer Experience) that Backbone and Rails give me, but is there really nobody that has done something simpler and more straightforward? Like "these are my dimensions, these are my facts - now generate my Cube here so I can go datamining"? Now I know this is a huge field and I might sound naive but I'd like to know if there are others sharing my pain or having something closer to a solution.

Some more data: I'm lead architect for a Berlin startup - currently we're storing our data in MySQL but moving to Cassandra soon. I'm open to any technologies that could simplify our lives here.

Thanks in advance,
Dom
since they might call him crazy

Trust me, success in these kind of projects is impossible unless you are crazy.

In fact you have to be crazy to work on anything which others think is impossible.
I don't mean to start yet another tabs vs spaces debate, but I've always felt spaces dictate how others see the code while tabs allowed others to see code however they like (2/4/8 spaces).

One exception is some projects are strict about lining up code properly in multi-line statements, and spaces are more consistent in that respect.

I prefer tabs, but most Python code I've seen has been 4 space indents.
I would love this if this had big Japanese solid caps on it, and can do both native 44.1 and native 192khz output.
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Don't they still use IE6 in these companies anyway? :)
I don't think I should need to login/register before creating a doc. I want to see what I can do first.
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I found my RSI got exponentially worse when I lean on my elbows.
That's not only the case for media files but for everything you try to download via the included download manager. And that sucks pretty much.
I'm pretty sure Google would have bought Facebook if they could have. Facebook was not for sale.
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And ActiveX controls!
This would catch a SyntaxError raised by eval().

For example,

try:
eval(".")
except:
pass
This is indeed a very sad reflection of our priorities at this time.

We don't act unless we absolutely have to. I mean problems like disease cure, poverty and hunger eradication, space colonization can be solved with that kind of money on hand.

This is also what I think of Aliens too! We talk of super intelligent aliens who would have colonized space.That would have never happened, because just like us, they might have wasted their money, energy and resources on photo sharing apps and putting birds in pigs instead of doing some real stuff that actually matters.
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Summary of ocean surface topography measurement using satellite altimetry:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ocean_surface_topography
> Its a rocket.

It's not just a rocket, it's a rocket capable of reaching orbit and returning [1]. But the things that NASA (along with russian space agency and others) did was things like figuring out, e.g., reliable ground-orbit radio communication, deployment and use of satellites, and a hell of procedures regarding pretty much everything from setting up a spacecraft, to lauching it, to orbiting, deorbiting and landing it, not to mention occasional orbital transfers to other planets. And let's not even get started about ground-side logistics.

There is LOT more to a space mission than just building a rocket. NASA and others did a fine job of doing that, and building neccessary experience in the process.

[1] - yeah, I know, ICBMs can do that too.
Fascinating--we might see this as the adoption of the pause/resume states of most mobile devices. This makes sense, and I'm wondering how long it will be before we see diagrams like these for the lifecycle of a webapp:

http://developer.android.com/images/activity_lifecycle.png
The same thing applies in fuzzing (throwing bad data at applications in search of vulnerabilities). The dumbest fuzzers -- consisting of random bit flips, duplicating blocks of data, etc -- will often find several orders of magnitude more bugs than complicated, purpose-built fuzzers. Embracing stupidity is one of the hardest things about becoming a good fuzzer developer, oddly enough.
No. Let me quote myself:

... I'm just confirming your observation
that the energy requirement is huge, but
you're understating the problem, ...

With regards energy use you are underselling your position by a factor of 10 when you talk about getting things 200 miles in the air. The kinetic energy required is 10 times as much. By saying what you did ...

The huge amount of energy required to
lift mass out of Earth's gravity well.

... you are:

1) understating your case, and

b) propagating a misconception (that getting out of the gravity well is the hard bit).
Huh?

1. Build website
2. Acquire users
3. ...
4. Profit!

I don't see where this post fills the #3 at all. The last thing he needs is to build out an unproven set of new features.
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It's hard to get to the data but have a look at the latest vessel casualties in the right hand column:

http://www.lloydslistintelligence.com/

Also, the project site leeds to http://coast.gkss.de/projects/maxwave/workp/wp4/wp4.html where you can find a map of ship casualties for a 4 year period http://coast.gkss.de/projects/maxwave/workp/wp4/casualties.j...

I am surprised myself, but 2 a week actually seems low!
That's cool. However, people must still understand the software they are using. For instance, someone is selling Nginx 0.8. The latest version is 1.0.15.
I wonder why pyChecker and not pyLint or pep8. Anyone got an insight?
30 days, and if you lose it, break it or otherwise they charge FULL price + restocking fee.. I think I'll stick to my 100% free Nokia Lumia 800 courtesy of Nokia Developer Program :)
it's fine to mock, but for serious s3 users you need to emulate the exact behavior or you are setting up your users for failure.
Wow, is there anything Amazon doesn't sell?

Really great platform. What's next?
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Quicken?

I have no direct experience with it, but according to wikipedia article it's very very horrible. For example:

"Quicken contains a sunset provision that stops online features and any QFX formatted files from working after a certain amount of time,[8][9] requiring users to first buy a new Quicken license, and then to learn a new, often confusing interface to the more recent Quicken version."
or
"To migrate to Lion, users are required to pay for an updated version of Quicken 2007. It has no new features."
While GnuCash isn't perfect, and probably wouldn't work too well for business, Quicken would have to have really great features for someone to put up with this. And QuickBooks seems to be pretty much the same.
Non flame-bait question. I am mostly a VIM user. Are there people who do plug-ins on top of vim to get "similar" experience to PyCharm?
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This is foolishness. Your biggest risk is that your product will fail in the marketplace, not that for mysterious-and-unnamed-reasons you will suddenly have to migrate off the platform. As far as "control" goes - there is nothing about appengine that prevents you from running specialized application code in other parts of the cloud. But it's a pretty exotic need.
Too bad it's currently US only if you want to sell something :(

"AWS Marketplace currently only supports Sellers with a US Subsidiary that can submit a W-9 tax form.
"
I wonder if they will allow multiple apps sold from the marketplace to run on the same instance? I haven't gone through the process yet of setting up an instance via the marketplace, but I think that it's essential that I can a.) install multiple copies of the same software on an instance and run them via virtual hosting (for example running multiple Wordpress instances on a single node and b.) allow different kinds of software to run on a single instance (let's say an instance with a bug tracker and a log analysis tool, just as a made-up example).

The other thing that I find interesting is that there doesn't seem to be an API yet. I would love to be able to provision apps on nodes via an API to the marketplace.

I'm definitely going to play around with it a bit and see what's possible though.
I checked out timeforzen.com. I don't want to unblock flash so that audio can play. The message suggesting I do that sounds a bit snarky too.
>These are endeavors normally left to nation states. There's something buried in here that I find fascinating.

Its called Fascism, and its no nugget.

SpaceX + Xe (Blackwater) == DOOM. We will turn back to government to save us from these crazies, I'm pretty sure of it ..
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