skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Now (8:00 AM EDT) they are saying capture time is planned for 9:10 AM EDT, so a bit over 1 more hour.
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Really interesting interview and product. Like how you can take various media types and compile them all smartly on a web page.
Yes, because evil investors are not real people like us techies!
They just announced an 8:10 am central time for robotic capture. After the arm makes the capture it's about 3 hours until it is fully docked to the station.
Please note that there is clear distinction between the timeline of the text of an act, its enacting process and its legal content (the legal "meaning").

The text and process timelines (the easiest to create and visualize) are interesting from a journalistic point of view but useless from a legal point of view. You rarely care about the text of an act at a certain point. What you really care about is the state of the law, the sum of all the _effects_ of all _acts_ in a precise moment.

For example it may be interesting to know that on 31st December 2011 an act as been enacted that says that on the 1st of July the new tax code will be amended to read "The taxation level is 10%" instead of the previous "The taxation level is 30%", but what I really want to know is "what is the taxation level today, 25th of May?". Taking only the text into account will not give you the correct answer. What you need is a more complex system that "merges" all the intended actions written in the acts into a (mostly) coherent state of the law.

Versioning the text of the law is not difficult, neither has been difficult since the days of CVS. The hard task is to extract the legal meaning from the text and create time-and-context-bound actions from that.
I think that the GP's statement was made ceteris paribus.

Naturally, if there was some new information available about the company fundamentals that caused FB stock to drop to $14, it would only be a good buy if you could determine that the market overreacted.
I was going to ask, but the early release does come with (free!) upgrades towards the final product: http://shop.oreilly.com/category/early-release.do
No, Unix gave us that awesomeness. including giving us the open web.
I'm coming to hold this view as well. A much as I dislike web development in general, I plan to do more work there to hedge against this. I like for my software to run anywhere I need it and a web browser seems to be the only place it'll run without vendor interference, but I wonder when they may start attacking browsers?
I don't follow. What are they exactly patenting here (i.e. what doesn't one want to do not to get his behind sued)?

Partioning a grid? An algorithm for efficiently partitioning it?

In effect, what? Windows 8 gets sued? http://blog.docstoc.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/windows-8...
Can you expand on what you mean by they (hackers) "got more money"?
Out of the blue (I did not look into the paper) I would have taken a stab at it like so:

I would start from the 12 case then remove one internal edge, which makes for all the 11 cases, then removing two edges (or one more edge if we're building a tree), and so on down to 1. We'll have to evaluate a few constraints on edges so as to ensure to only retain forms when they are rectangles.

After that (or at each step if you don't want the full list) we look for duplicates through rotation and symmetry. A possible implementation of the latter would be to model each case by numbering edges, and absence/presence of edges will set that bit/power of two, thus each case is a bitfield/integer, upon which we could apply a rotation function that tilts the bits, and then merely compare the resulting integers.

I guess this would be very close to a worst case in terms of complexity since it's essentially brute-force. Well, there are 17 edges to consider so that's 217 possibilities.
It's unclear what the app does, or why I'd want it. From reading the text over and over I think all you need to write is:

Find happiness and peace, amidst difficult situations.

At least that's the benefit I saw in the wall of text.

Place the text beside the picture of the app with a button that says something like "Get the app"

See http://piictu.com/ as an example, the "We are the same" app as currently pitched sounds like work, and from the tiny iPhone screenshot it looks like it's a gorgeous app.
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I was referring to SVN because when I started working in this field SVN was the up-and-coming SCM. You can s/SVN/git/g and still get the same result.

Versioning the text of the law is not a problem. It is a solved problem. Every decent legal office has access to a versioned text of the law. The new challenge is the versioning of the legal content (or _meaning_ if you want) and the (semi-) automatic creation of consolidated texts at a certain point in time. The last point is difficult because the consolidated version is not a single document but a set of possible documents.

See also the other answer I gave on the difference between text and content: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4023109
Docking in orbit is harder than it appears. Speed and altitude are linked so you can't just thrust towards the station or you will wind up in a different orbit:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_rendezvous#Methods_of_app...
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Checkout the usual Meetup type sites and google but not sure how big the scene is in a Adelaide. Maybe you need to start your own? Startup or Hackathon Adelaide?
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Some of us (neither students nor fat salary receiving end) are struggling to make ends meet and try their hand at app development as a way out of struggle.
"There is no rule that any company should be required to license their IP"

...unless you're a monopoly. That's the point of anti-trust laws, that they are special cases. When you're using dominance in one market to maintain dominance in another, they change the rules to stop you, unless you stop yourselves as Apple did.
Fun fact: most banks don't enforce case-sensitivity for passwords either
Korea must enjoy fine sunny mornings I presume..
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Was google or Facebook first?

If you're passionate about the concept then push ahead. The fact you have one competitor (or more) just validates you have a market.
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It's a very interesting idea and as a Buddhist, I absolutely commend you for trying to help people learn compassion. I'm curious to know if compassion can actually be built through a digital relationship.

Personally, I feel that words typed out on the computer carry less compassion than words through our mouths. But does this mean that this app is about building more compassion for yourself, helping others, i.e. in the mindset of Kiva? Or is it more about developing better relationships with those around you?

Unfortunately, I tried connecting with Facebook and nothing happened.
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That is a great summation.
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I remembered this story as a fake. Now I researched a bit and found out that this video really was just an advert concept, but later they made it real.

http://www.tescoplc.com/index.asp?pageid=17&newsid=345
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yes, you're right in that versioning is not technically difficult, but getting the establishment to consider doing it (let alone actually doing it) is a major milestone.
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Isn't it just easy to Opt-Out from Online Behavioral Advertising..

http://www.aboutads.info/choices/
Guardian journo says the storm over VS 11 Express is a fuss about nothing
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An article against ego that tries to encourage perspective, written by an author with such a big ego and lack of perspective he writes things like:

"Maybe, you think that because you avoid all the abstractions of higher level languages, you are somehow better and “purer.” Because you do pointer arithmetic and bit shifting, you really understand what is going on in a computer. No, you don’t. You understand C programming"

I'm sure somewhere in there is a heart-felt message though ... somewhere. I think he needs to meet more programmers.
It seems far from final: the outline for Python basics is way more detailed than anything about Pandas.
What's unbelievable about this? If I approach you on the ground we are both moving fast relative to center of the Earth. Or imagine us onboard the airplane.
Cannot attend but are many German meetups held in German/English? Ie could you get by with speaking English only?
> there is no need to wait in to collect them.

Fast, asynchronous delivery is part of the puzzle. Waiting around for amazon deliveries is a pain; but for low-value groceries, the risk of theft isn't as serious. It works OK for newspaper deliveries, and when I was a kid we had milk deliveries left outside the door with no problems (yes, horse-drawn).
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It's been here before:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3626020

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3198572

I'm sure there were older stories too. IIRC I saw it on HN longer than 6 months ago, but I couldn't find that submission in a cursory search.
It always blows my mind how many CS academics have these god-awful mid-90s era webpages.
"The descent of Edward Wilson" (by Richard Dawkins)
BTW, that phrase actually isn't part of the Hippocratic Oath

I know, but it is part of the standard medical code of ethics.

The original Hippocratic oath is a bit crap anyway, as it bans teaching any medical knowledge to ordinary people.
I use Maxima daily, so I get "symbolic". I called BS because they provide no details, no citations, nothing to make me think they have advanced over Maxima, or even GCC in terms of optimization of arbitrary computations.

Perhaps more importantly, just because one can build a model does not mean one will understand the model or the system be modeled. No software will provide us with good interpretations of our models and their output.
I'm starting to wonder if the patronage model would work for modern music.

A band could record a few songs as a sample of their work, maybe sell them on bandcamp or distribute under the donate model, then have a kickstarter for their next album.

If enough people like their music and want to hear more of it, or if a few people _really_ like their music then the band will be paid and they will make their new album.

If they don't gather enough fans then they are either unpopular or can't gather the exposure, both of which would also be problems under any other model, but this time are discovered before any money is spent/lent up front.
> "Apart from the fact that Python can be infinitely faster than rails"

Don't you mean Ruby?
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If you intend "matrix multiplication", there is no "right order": "matrix multiplication" is associative (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matrix_multiplication).

Numpy has a "matrix" type, so you can write:

In [7]: A = numpy.matrix('1 2; 3 4; 5 6')
In [8]: B = numpy.matrix('1 2 3; 4 5 6')
In [9]: C = numpy.matrix('1; 2; 3')

In [10]: A * B * C
Out[10]:
matrix([[ 78],
[170],
[262]])

In [11]: (A * B) * C
Out[11]:
matrix([[ 78],
[170],
[262]])

In [12]: A * (B * C)
Out[12]:
matrix([[ 78],
[170],
[262]])
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To a buyer today it doesn't matter who did what first in Guis.

It's like saying a BMW is unsafe because they copied seatbelts from Volvo.
The author lays out the basics well and anyone building a business on the internet should know at least this much. With these practices in place when you need to hire a professional for SEO optimization you will already be half way there.

I find the hardest thing about outsourcing SEO is that it really does start with the content, and you shouldn't outsource that. It is important to identify your keywords and focus on using them properly when writing this content. Good content, with a fine balance of writing for bots and humans, is very important. Good SEO copy is not the same as how we were taught to write an essay in college (or High School.) It should not be as verbose and takes a little getting used to writing in that style. Use keywords like you would salt, enough but not too much, and in everything.
"Webcast start time now targeting 5:45 AM PT / 8:45 AM ET. Times are subject to change so please check back for updates."

https://spacex.com/updates.php
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Just joined and heard that SpaceX had commanded Dragon to retreat from ISS. Can someone explain why? Also, what is the blinking section on the Dragon spacecraft?
I have been programming python too long to make an objective comparison with R. I have had to use R libraries at times, and I've found rpy to be a workable bridge from R to python for this purpose. Depending on how it works under the hood, it might not be appropriate for big data, though. Also, I had to custom modify some R libraries to work with my data, so it has been useful to know a bit of both, although I mostly picked up the R as I did the mods.
What's the problem with not running a JVM?
That was the first thing that popped into my head upon reading the headline, though I abstracted it a bit:

def print_many(n):
print("hello, world\n" * n)

Though the `exec` option given above certainly is... interesting. :)
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Can anyone tell me, how can the InfoQ presentations be controlled (i.e. next/previous slide)?
I think patio11 give great advice. Pick one that your founding team is comfortable with but I have a few suggestions.

If you are going to bring in off shore guys/gals it will be hard to find them proficient in some of the newer dbs. So the learning curve and cost inefficiencies maybe create a lost of momentum (time) for you. If I were to build my framework from scratch I would probably still use MySQL for certain thing but definitely move to a NoSQL (mongodb/dynamodb).
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Interesting idea, but wouldn't pulling a profile from your pool of Facebook friends limit this in a pretty big way? How often are Facebook users friends with people who are really different from them? This seems like it might allow a user to "practice compassion" for people who are superficially different from them, not people who are more radically different, in culture, political leanings, religious background, etc
Meanwhile, "edisonian" approaches continue to make progress:

http://ecat.com/news/news-update-from-andrea-rossi-and-ecat-...
This service would be even more awesome with self driving vans optimizing logistics. Now to solve the delivery from van to door problem - as usual the last 1% takes as much effort as the previous 99%.
Very creative.

I would expect the biggest win for this campaign to be in the very beginning when the novelty attracts people.

I don't think this would be sustainable, because the QR code sculptures would require continual adjustment throughout the year to account for the procession of the sun. And clouds.
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The US Library of Congress does this for House/Senate bills as well.[1]

It also seems like they're creating a new website for browsing the U.S. code with more features for viewing amendments and source credits.[2]

[1] http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/D?d112:1:./list/bss/d1...

[2] http://uscodebeta.house.gov/browse.xhtml
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Is Firefox winning the browser war?
The recent news that Chrome had overtaken IE had me wondering about the future of Firefox. Surprising the browser has some good news on the marketshare front!
I admit I needed to google your Latin. For anyone else, ceteris paribus: "all other things being equal"
They're probably too busy doing Computer Science to bother keeping with the late trends in web design.
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I haven't worked it out other than clicking on the video timeline; I think the dashes on the timeline on the video show when the slides advance.

In this particular talk, I think the talk is more valuable than skimming the slides. Almost better to listen to than to watch.
Taken at face value, it is blatant evidence that the bill was not properly examined before being pushed to vote.

Shame on legislators everywhere that follow the same pattern.

Of course face value probably does not entail all that may have been orchestraded out of sight.
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Beiber's cover songs on the Internet aren't illegal because of PIPA, they're illegal because of the current broken copyright system.

Unless Bieber got authorization from the rights holders, which is (I'm guessing) both impossible and something no 8 or 9 year old would try properly. (see also: this Wired article on the issue: http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2012/05/opinion-baio-criminal... )

In one way the PIPA protests were a resounding success. In another way, copyright laws in the US - regardless of PIPA - need some serious looking into.

When birthday parties everywhere violates copyright law (by singing the canonical Happy Birthday song), and face potentially large fines because of it, something's broken.
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Software patents are bad, full stop.

This, however, has nothing to do with that: it's about consumer choice: making a better product and tempting people away with it is normal and healthy but abusing a lead in one market to prevent people from being able to make a choice in another is always bad.

This is the strongest criticism of Apple's app store policies: on the Mac if you get Karelia-ed that's not pleasant but it's a business risk you assume along with the possibility of any other large company entering the market. On iOS, Apple will preemptively kill your ability to sell a product before their competitor even ships, preventing your customers from even being able to decide that they prefer the app which ships with the OS.
So if you increase sales during certain hours, does that mean you make some sales that you otherwise would not have made or are you just shifting customers around different time slots?
Positive law codification seems relevant, then:

http://uscodebeta.house.gov/codification/legislation.shtml
Direct link to the PDF: https://www.dropbox.com/s/dnf2bxtsvu37z3v/pdf-thing.pdf
Stupid publishers.

I'm buying the hard copy, because I love books, but they don't allow me to get in on the early release? They need to offer an "all editions" package.
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http : //www.infoq.com/resource/presentations/Lock-free-Algorithms/en/slides/{INSERTSLIDENUMBERHERE}.swf
I have to disagree on the notion that discrete GPU would cause significant increase in noise. A passively cooled, 50W GPU (eg GT430 or HD6670) could provide easily 3-4 times more processing power compared to HD3000, which in gaming can often mean the difference between slideshow and playable:

http://www.techspot.com/review/392-budget-gpu-comparison/pag...

Modern (discrete) GPUs have also very low idle power consumption (couple of watts max afaik), so in desktop ("2D") usage the added thermal load is negliable.
His motivation and will to make his project exist is out of the ordinary and I respect that.

However his behaviour is just shameful. I guess the end, justify the means ...

Still I don't like it, one bit.
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I think this analysis ignores the marketing potential of facebook's user data. No one has even scratched the surface of targeted marketing with such data. An obvious thing to try would be to tailor the presenter of a product based on the personalities the user seems to defer to in facebook conversations. But I haven't bought any FB stock, I just think the analysis is facile and the real picture is much murkier.
http://www.freakonomics.com/2011/11/29/addition-is-useless-m...

http://www.unicog.org/biblio/Year/2008.complete.html#Dehaene...

Abstract from the original paper:

The mapping of numbers onto space is fundamental to measurement and to mathematics. Is this mapping a cultural invention or a universal intuition shared by all humans regardless of culture and education? We probed number-space mappings in the Mundurucu, an Amazonian indigene group with a reduced numerical lexicon and little or no formal education. At all ages, the Mundurucu mapped symbolic and nonsymbolic numbers onto a logarithmic scale, whereas Western adults used linear mapping with small or symbolic numbers and logarithmic mapping when numbers were presented nonsymbolically under conditions that discouraged counting. This indicates that the mapping of numbers onto space is a universal intuition and that this initial intuition of number is logarithmic. The concept of a linear number line appears to be a cultural invention that fails to develop in the absence of formal education
This is one of my favorite points of the writeup, because I've been bitten by it repeatedly over the past year.

Not providing a getter for that data means that if the client wants to use it elsewhere, it needs a second home. So now I'm keeping track of not just a HNCommentsView, but also an object holding the HNText and HNUser it's displaying.

Any time an API doesn't expose that data, there's an implicit assumption of, "The person using this class won't (or shouldn't) need to get at this data this way, so I can leave it out." Which makes it extra irritating to me when it's not there and I need it.
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