skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Of interest to those who are down voting you:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_communism
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Purge
Yeah. I treaded water in that class for about three weeks before going under. It's a stretch.
Why WTF! I'm looking for AI type work, which is much much rarer than sql work, which was my point. You wouldn't use lisp for that either (matlab/numpy followed by c optimizations is used there).
The Beauty of Twitter's Unfollow Bug
There is nothing about C or C++ which would make programs written in these languages especially suitable for formal verification.

You could argue the one language which actually does lend itself to formal verification is the one which has been formally specified via operational semantics; namely, Standard ML.
Is a college degree necessary to succeed in the creative world?
So even all the external stylesheets/js are (relatively) preserved? That's pretty slick...was this something that was retroactively applied, or something that's existed since early iterations of the CMS?
Twitter Stands Up For One Of Its Users
I didn't expect much from this article - but the tip about continually thinking "how could that be better" for everything around you is gold.

It might not lead to something most of the time, but when it does it could be a winner. Also its just a great way to train your brain into the right approach.

I'd add to the questions to ask yourself all the time: "How does that work?"
Just wondering if you, unlike me, had the guts and ran the risk. I am curious if you had such an experience. Can you share it?
This is awesome. I wonder if they plan to use this as a vector to go after Google's market, in the long-term. Anyone at Swiftype able to comment on their long-term goals?
Very cool. The only problem I see with this is that if Swiftype is down, or slow, your website search is affected too... Depends on how you and your readers value this functionality of course. Some websites don't rely on search as badly as others do. But for basic stuff this is great.
He probably wanted people to know about the Vampire Scourge and his efforts to eradicate vampires.
When I look at your homepage I'm thinking "So I have to enter in _more_ titles/descriptions of photos I've (probably) already uploaded to other sites like FB/Flickr?" Maybe I'm just lazy, but that doesn't appeal to me, especially if I'd have to do it on my phone. That said, I'm also not an avid photographer, so I wouldn't really be a user of the app anyway.

You could also try services like http://betali.st or http://betabait.com/ to find beta users.
http://tapirgo.com/

For reference, that is what I'm currently using on my website, http://pepijndevos.nl
Yeah, hopefully this will not go down in history as another too little, too late effort. Firefox still has a sizable market share of about 20%-25% (depending on the source) so Mozilla can still flex some muscle to keep the web open. I dread the day when only cooperate players are left to decide about the future of web technologies.

I wonder how the situation would look today if the MemShrink and Snappy projects had been started in 2009 or 2010 at the latest. My gut feeling tells me that the loss of market share and especially mindshare wouldn't have been as dramatic as it is today. Oh well, I'm happy that Mozilla apparently got their act together and taking the competition more seriously. Right now it's fun looking forward to each next Firefox version. :-)
Can you name a practical language in which it's not possible, by default, to perform an unsafe operation with untrusted user input?

I can easily use Haskell's type system to disallow the use of UnsafeUserInput in my database abstraction layer, but that requires me to use my types pervasively and correctly.
But that's the case at any organization of non-trivial (> about 10 people) size. You can't enforce uniformity - if you do, you end up with a sicker system than if you'd just let everyone do the wrong thing.

One of the key signals I use to judge someone's intelligence is their willingness to say "It depends." Because that demonstrates their comfort with ambiguity, their ability to see distinctions in circumstances, and their confidence in being able to make sense of unfamiliar surroundings. All of these are absolutely essential in doing high-level creative work, where there's no roadmap of best practices because nobody's done it before.

It's great that you ask the question, but if you're looking for a specific answer, you're doing it wrong. You should then be able to drill down into "Depends on what?", and then if you can have a sensible conversation based on that, you've probably found someone worth working with.
I've checked out Swiftype, and I have to say that it is awesome. It's basically the "Stripe" of site search, in that it fixes a system that was just broken.

Hosted site search as a market has had basically zero innovation since Google launched its site search product. That was like 6 years ago.

If you've ever tried Google site search, you know how much it sucks. It's basically just a thin wrapper around a site:yourdomain.com Google search. It gives you zero control over the index (it uses the public Google index), and it's completely inappropriate for any large-scale site.

Swiftype is a perfect fit for sites that want a high-quality, customized site-search that feels like it was built from scratch. Even if you're already using Solr on your site, Swiftype can be great for creating a lightweight search engine, like for your help/documentation section.
>He's using the negative association of what douches are for. You seem to be making a "taking it back" argument when he clearly did not intend that meaning.

Modern medicine considers douches to be dangerous to use. Not sure how making a negative of something that is, in fact, negative is a bad thing.
We're looking into this. I'll try to reproduce it and get it fixed shortly. Thanks!
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مشاهدة مباراة ليفربول وتشيلسي
مشاهدة مباراة ليفربول وتشيلسي
مشاهدة مباراة ليفربول وتشيلسي
مشاهدة مباراة ليفربول وتشيلسي
مشاهدة مباراة ليفربول وتشيلسي
http://mushahda.com/ar/2012-05-08/6/.html
Like I said in the post, totally open to change my mind.
Well, that's true with any hosted service. If you're using Amazon Web Services, Heroku, a CDN, etc., you're already in that boat.
Absolutely, but we need a critical mass of votes to figure out what each offense is worth.

We'll start by directly sharing the feedback with the submitter and eventually letting visitors "browse morality" across a bunch of issues.
OT: Anyone know of online resources regarding dual citizenship issues? (Specifically German-American.)

Thanks.
What run4yourlives said.

To put it simply - when all the wealth is equally spread, there is no incentive for anyone to do anything. If everyone is paid equally and has the same benefits, there's no point in working harder or smarter - you just do the bare minimum and be done with it.

Let's take a capitalist factory: workers are paid $5 per assembled iPad. Those who want more money can assemble 100 iPads and make $500 in a day's work. Most are happy with $100 per day, so they'll assemble only 20 iPads (let's say that's the minimum amount required).

Now a communist, state-operated factory: workers are paid $100 per day because everyone is equal. Those who want to make $500... can't, even if they assemble 1000 iPads. So they just assemble the bare minimum of 20 and are done with it, secretly cursing the government for this injustice/inequality (how ironic is that?).

The overall production level drops significantly unless the state raises the minimum amount of iPads made to 100 per day. Obviously, the people who are happy with $100 per day are now pissed off, either because they don't want or simply can't work that hard.

The only ones benefiting from communism are those who make the laws and control the factories/country.
This is a very interesting article - the "don't force it" point is particularly pertinent esp when one is stuck for ideas. When that Eureka moment does strike (it happens to all of us) we need to have a pencil and pad handy otherwise it disappears as fast as it arose!
Video streaming & net neutrality
but then you type nu code in the prompt, not obj-c, right?
The headers suggest ancient, unmaintained systems running outdated, no longer supported software with multiple known vulnerabilities.

I would be surprised if these systems haven't already been p0wned a long time ago.
That's true. But at the same time, there has to be at least 1 user out of 386 signups now that would beta test right? And a lot of them are saying they'd want to use it but just want to wait till it's out in the App Store. Is it the new norm to only start using apps that's already stable and in the app store?

Friends of Friends who've used this app are still using it even now and it's slowly expanding through word of mouth. So we know that there's a market for it, but we're just not sure why our signups are unresponsive when it comes to beta testing.
Not necessarily true. if the US and the country have a tax treaty, you can offset the taxes you paid the host country. This credit is limited to the amount of US tax liability reported on Form 1040. Also the US has generous foreign income exclusion exemption ($92900) if you live outside the country for a whole calendar year or as a bonafide resident and earn that income from US based sources
Don't forget that if you live in a country that has a tax treaty with the US, any taxes paid to your home gov't counts towards any taxes you would pay to the US.

So if you live in a higher tax jurisdiction (i.e. the majority of the countries in the world), your US tax bill ends up being $0. However, you still have the hassle of filing your US tax return each year.
Looks cool, but I'm a bit reluctant to add a product to my website with an unspecified pricing model. Although: "the majority of our crawler-created search engines will remain free."
It may cost the banks nothing, but Dwolla does charge fees.
Minimum $199 per month to brand your user templates? Ouch.
No, but be prepared to walk away if it stops being fun. There are times it will suck (that just happens) but there is an intrinsic fun to working at a startup. But on that day when you can't see the end goal anymore and can't be convinced that it exists, get out. Maybe slightly before then, but that part's tricky.
Cool, +1 This is very useful.
You guys keep making parse even more awesome than it already was.
Except RubyMotion isn't an intermediary framework. It's implemented directly on the Obj-C runtime.
Remove the inconvenient paper dongle and introduce pricing flexibility and things that previously were not profitable now are.

I'm all for this as long as it doesn't cause a descent into poorly made, ripoff, or other junk products flooding the market.
> I sincerely hope that we are not going for true parity

Commercial driverless cars will blow humans out of the water in safety and reliability. That is the goal and should be goal. To achieve the goal multiple sensors can and should be used.

But separately AI researchers will continue to improve and evolve their algorithms. One avenue for improvement is to operate with fewer sensors. A human driver can drive passably well on any road without LIDAR or radar or GPS. In time computers can and should be able to do the same. We will benefit from that capability, even if in general driverless cars make use of other sensors.
Principles for Budding Scientists
It's worth pointing out that Airbus has a large presence in France and Ocaml is from a French research institution (INRIA). I highly doubt that's a coincidence.

Disclosure: Ocaml is my favorite language by far.
I had this issue with an iCloud-based app. A client wanted it to be ready on the iOS5 release. I agree, it's living on the edge, but sometimes it is required to have access to beta stuff and work on that. Not every third party tool allow that.
my blog is straining under load >_<

direct link to video:

https://vimeo.com/41668900

direct link to project:

http://enjalot.com

source code:

https://github.com/enjalot/tributary
If you're setting requirenments on password for yourself then perhaps you've got some problems.
This is matter of security in systems with many users where industrial espionage or social engineering might happen.
How come you're not using matlab/numpy?
wrexsoul? Is that you?
How Does the SalesPortal Lead Exchange Network Work for Advertisers?
I am impressed guys - great job so far.

Site search was a huge distribution strategy Google used to do search. They simply worked up market until they had tons of users going to Google.com itself.
Just moved to the Bay Area from the Netherlands and I feel like I took a few steps back in time when I received _checks_!? from the bank I signed up to here.

People pay each other through bank transfer in the Netherlands and can expect to receive the money on the same day (if sent before noon). On top of that it doesn't cost money to do a transfer.

I've already gone to a bank more often here than I would in the Netherlands in a whole year. Setting up recurring transfers for example, or transferring to someone in another state is just difficult via online.

In other words: there is definitely room for improvement here, America has been held back in banking
Dwolla is a service, not a piece of software. I suspect the barrier to peer-to-peer payements between banks is not the software anyway.
Excellent, thanks for the extra blog links!
We use Swiftype at TwitchTV and it's amazing. Great technology, easy to integrate, simple APIs.

Can't recommend Swiftype enough.
> In other words: decadence.

Lols. Yeah, that's it.

> The rational move would be to hire an admin for $100k (remember we're in alternate reality), tell him to keep the site up, go about his life and not call. And collect the remaining $100k until the product fizzles out.

That's what any prospective buyer could do, and they haven't exactly been coming out of the wood work. Heck, if it's so easy, you could do it.
I'm kind of glad to hear that it isn't free. U.S. taxpayers shouldn't have to subsidize the risks that some take to travel to dangerous areas, even if it's an aid worker (most recently, like [this guy][1]).

[1]: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/08/world/asia/kidnapped-ameri...
Is there no need to tune the number of threads with an approach like this? Or is there a general notion of the appropriate number of threads given the number of CPU cores?
I made this. FF does weird things with non-text bookmarklets so I used the user agent to show a text-based link as the bookmarklet, only for FF users, but it seems it is still finicky. If you want to see the effect, I'd try Safari or Chrome.
I do agree to an extent, I believe that the biggest boost a start-up will see is from a first reaction/visual experience. If you can nail that on day one, I believe it will do more benefit than using a second rate/typical UI with brilliant code.

However it really depends on WHAT your product is, before you decide on how important the designers role will be.

Is this article focused on in-house/high end designer partner VS hiring a designer? Or is the other option sourcing to a design firm/agency?
Can we please stop with this campaign to end all grit in online conversation? We should not get rid of every expression that somebody somewhere finds hurtful.

I don't think it's reasonable to say that people shouldn't use the words "douche bag".
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Go make sure your hosts have this patched up.
Aye, pretty similar. F-Script has some features that Nu does not (like the object explorer), while Nu is the only one that works on iOS.

The big difference is heritage: F-Script is Smalltalk and Nu is Lisp.
There are always time trade-offs. When the overall software design becomes tightly coupled with the type system you simplify the code. You could abstract the way you handle messages, but at some point you need to get the ISDN for some security and no amount of abstraction let's you avoid that.

Now, as you say doing it the right way can take significant amounts of time. But so do the hacks it's just a question of when to spend the time. IMO, front loading the costs is much better because you get a clear understanding of what adding each feature actually costs.
Congrats on launching! When do I get an invite?
is it too busy?
Slightly off-topic, but does anyone have any resources for learning more about these and other design patterns that show up on HN from time to time?
Can you please send me a screenshot of what you see? I ran many test on readability and I did not verify the issue you mention.
I suppose one option would be to also have optional homework for those seeking additional challenge?
The value there, IMO, is more the links than the discussion. It's not so much like HN, where the discussion itself is half (or more) of the value. But, for a quick, concise list of new links in those fields, I find those Reddits all very valuable.

better choices are http://metaoptimize.com/qa http://blog.kaggle.com/category/how-i-did-it/ and following ml topics on quora

Yes, those are excellent sites as well. There are also some good StackExchange sites that can help one get their fill of CS'y topics.
Yeah, to me a disruption is something that incumbent players have no choice but to either adapt to or die, like Borders vs. Amazon. If the incumbents still control the value chain, then it's not disruptive. (I have no idea which is the case in this particular market.)
Hey Paul, thanks for the post. It looks like you are working solo, is that correct?

I would be interested in seeing a more detailed post about your stack and what your backend looks like. Maybe I missed it, but how are you processing the photo filters before you upload to facebook? You made it seem like the facebook images did not really have to touch your server. Are you processing the images on the client side and them uploading them to facebook?

Keep up the work, I look forward to seeing updates on your blog.
The law in this case is unjust. Those who don't like it (practically the majority of people) can open a separate company in Hong Kong and keep their foreign money untaxed. Or they can just not disclose the money they make.

Yes, it's illegal - selling drinks was also illegal during Prohibition - that didn't mean it was right.

The US actually reminds me of the relationship between the British Empire and the East India Company - the organization was so powerful that the actual government didn't have as much control over it as they wanted. It's the same with the US gov and its citizens (including corporations/businesses).

I don't know where the country is going, though. Other countries (especially in the EU) are now very close, equal or better than the US when it comes to business and living conditions, so there's really no reason to "switch sides" now.

With a British and Australian passports, you don't even need to think about a US citizenship - it is indeed useless, however if you're from one of the less developed countries , it's still worth it.
I didn't think it was that complicated at all. I held assets in Canada while working in the US and all I had to do was declare what they were and how much.

i.e. Mutual fund account - $32K
No Means Yes, and Yes Means...
I believe the Java fork/join library handles this tuning automatically... so it's a freebie based on Rich Hickey's design.
AS I said in my post - I could not log into SO, due to problems with OpenID. Will try again later and post this question there.
Does this mean the Winklevoss twins will sue the Lincoln estate as well?
Agreed. To each his own.

The reason why we enforce the description of the photos is because it's usually the meaning behind the photo rather than the photo itself that matters.

If you tell people you like gummy bears, they don't give a crap because millions of other people in the world do. But when you tell them that you eat all the white gummy bears last and you have to eat them headfirst, you've provided a very intimate and personal bond to which someone else can relate to. Anyone can take a photograph, but only you can tell people the story behind it.

Thanks for the links! I'll look into it.
Exactly! So a very broad increase in tax on all (!) investments by all (!) high income individuals becomes a "tax on entrepreneurs", because the specifics don't seem so scary unless you make it sound like it hurts something important.

Here's the snopes page on that very tax: http://www.snopes.com/politics/taxes/realestate.asp Amusingly, the spin it's trying to fight is that it's a tax on "home buyers". Apparently the "entrepreneurs" angle is a new one.

It's a tax. Is it a bad one? Dunno, I think on balance an increase in the capital gains rate (which is sort of what this is) gated on income level isn't a bad way to raise that revenue. You have a different suggestion?
I don't believe this, not for a second.

Too much fluff writing and not enough specifics, details or high res images of the "Springfield Gazette" along with lack of links to the patent application and so on.

Too many red flags. Lincoln is one of the most studied men in history. Everything in Lincoln's life has been pored over meticulously and thousands of books have been written about his life.

If this story were true, you'd have heard of it before. Remember, just finding a signature of his is worth thousands. The Smithsonian would have published this story a long time ago if there were any truth to it.

Seems like it's just an experiment in fiction by a blogger who fancies himself a writer.
One could always contact the Lincoln Museum. Lincoln might have prepared the application but not filed it.
Now, assuming there isn't a local privilege escalation attack to which your kernel is vulnerable

That's an invalid assumption (extremely unlikely).

You must have defence in depth, and not just a hard shell of security

When you can't trust localhost anymore then your defenses have long failed.
The first to use this technology will be long-haul cargo companies, and it will happen when the technology will be cheaper than having truck drivers employed, and when the safety is good enough.

I imagine a scenario where trucks will drive themselves at night, over the long distances, when few people are around, and when they get close to cities, a real truck driver will jump in and navigate to the end destination, in the day, when there's a lot of people around.

And not until people are used to self-driving trucks will the tech be available for personal transportation, even though the technology will be good enough and increase safety before that.

(In the same way self-flying airplanes will come to cargo transports first, and human transport much later)
Yes and no.

I own a tent made in some place like China (i.e. Some place with cheaper labor where English is not the native language) and sold at Walmart. The instructions are full of grammatical and spelling mistakes. I keep buying the same tent anyway because it is the best product for my needs, even though my sons and I crack jokes about it. But I am talented at figuring out how things go together and I have a long history of assembling things without bothering to read the instructions. It is entirely possible these errors are costing Walmart customers, possibly in the form of returns when they can't get it assembled.

You could write them and nicely point out the error(s). If they correct it and thank you, it would concern me a lot less (because typos happen, no matter how good you are). If you are ignored or mistreated, be more concerned, not less.