skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure if this was directed at my post or other comments in this thread. I'm not advocating a "common" or 9-to-5 life or work style, I'm advocating getting up at 6am, getting mentally organized and physically prepared to meet the day, and then work my ass off from 9am to 11pm. This is very particular to startups and how I work at startups, and I would not recommend it for everyone.

Further, there is a time to ease off from this style - probably worth another future blog post
How can it be "perfect for notetaking" with a keyboard like that?

There are plenty of crappy similar devices running Android for < $100: http://www.ebay.com/sch/Laptops-Netbooks-/175672/i.html?LH_B...

In any case you're probably better off using a cheap Android phone with Swype or a stylus.
So I was curious and replicated the experiment. Here is a summary of the results.

* Twitter word list: ~2,000 passwords guessed
* Just the word "password": 18 passwords guessed
* Ubuntu words file: ~10,000 passwords guessed

I couldn't find an easily-downloaded list of the most common English words, maybe that would work even better.

Note that the words file has over 200,000 words in it, whereas the twitter list had only ~4,500. So there could be merit to this method. Of course a ton of those words are trivial ("A" and "a" are both there, for example), so who knows.

Edit: formatting
Coincidentally so was I! With a person's microgestures amplified, you'd at least notice inherent changes in a person's physical behavior. Now, we need to remember that lying isn't as simple as "he's looking down and to the right" because that can just be a personality trait of the person.

With public figures, however, if you collect enough video of various activities, you could determine a baseline physical demeanor. Then, if the figure in question radically steps out of that baseline, you can send off red flags.

Ideally, this could be used to analyze facial dynamics to help determine focus, expression (for example, the SOEmote video that was recently posted), mood (though we now get back into personality traits), or, as the video showed, subtle changes in the physical body.
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I loved polymer technology classes and labs at university. It's an incredibly fascinating domain. If I have I stayed in mechanical engineering, I would have definitely specialised in polymers.
The two aren't necessarily the same kind of thing. WebSocket-Node is a low-level WebSocket framework. It supports both text and raw binary WebSocket messages. Socket.IO is not a WebSocket library, but sits one level higher on the stack. It's an abstraction layer that supports many different transports and overlays its own messaging semantics. For example, WebSocket-Node could theoretically provide the WebSocket transport for Socket.IO.

If you want WebSocket specifically, and don't care about falling back to long-polling techniques, or you want something that allows you to use true binary messages, look at a WebSocket library rather than an abstracted communications library like Socket.IO.
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Vastly less sensitive because humans have become vastly more skilled at getting what they want and need from the planet and the biosphere.
>>But, I'd say the majority of everyone I ever knew in high school are just doing the 9-5 thing raising their family and I think they wouldn't have it any other way.

Sometimes having it easy in life is bad for you. I can myself relate to this. I knew a lot of a my friends from pretty well off families, who had all the money in the world to get them education and buy them time to do anything they would have wanted. Instead they seem to have ended up doing to small time courses and now working in Call centers and support centers. Its because those people never feel the hunger to win, the thirst to do something big, they never feel the dire needs and desperateness to win. Too much luxury spoils a person.

I see the same now as an Adult. People who get too many opportunities do well only on the shorter run. On other hand, people with fewer opportunities work more hard and are better prepared to win big on the longer run on their own merit than depend on 'luck' or wait for 'somebody else to do it for them'.
Something tells me Casinos aren't going to let you wear Google glass... :)
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The attitude of the author is irritating and all too common in people in love with a self image of being an intellectual.

"In the absence of rigorous experimental evidence, I’m quite skeptical." - This is not logic. This is an arrogant and out of hand rejection of a hypothesis that has not yet been proven or disproven.

" “expert” who “totally believes” you’re a “different person” for having read books even if you don’t retain anything, with some flimsy feel-good reasoning such as the “extraordinary capacity for storage” that our brains have"

This is better reasoning than that put forth by the author by far. I love the quotes around "expert". WTF? Does he mean the PhD in Neuroscience and Prof at Tufts? That "expert"? The one who actually has studied this subject in depth?

As many other poster point out, we don't even remember most of our own lives but it is totally absurd to say our life experiences therefore don't influence us and that we shouldn't try to fill our lives with pleasurable moments.

It is unfortunate he defends working to remember more of what he reads with such a flawed and irritating argument because trying to remember what you read is an awesome and worthwhile pursuit. There is no need however to bash all of literary fiction and the reading 99.9% of people on this earth enjoy.
There is nothing new there.
Spammers were doing the same years ago with digg.
Review19 looks pretty cool! Looking forward to trying it out!
Question 4 is based on completely false premises ("On x86-64, int is shorter than long.") That's as far as I bothered to go, since the author is clearly confused about what features are language-dependent versus compiler-dependent versus architecture-dependent.

To be fair, it's a confusing business, which is why I religiously avoid using unsigned types in C.
I'm not opposed to this at all but I question how exactly enforcement would/can work. We don't know with 100% accuracy who was responsible for Stuxnet, Flame, Operation Aurora, etc and especially with code, it is going to be exceedingly difficult in most cases to get evidence such that blame can be leveled with any certainty.
Amazing for many reasons, but what I really find impressive is that messing with video encoding requires like a PHD in everything because of how complex things like H.264 are. At least that's my perspective after trying to grok the H.264 spec.

There are all kinds of optimizations and algorithms for network latency and video sizes, etc. I don't consider myself a layman but I certainly do not have the knowledge and skill to do anything at all with video.

Do you know what a Inverse sub-macroblock partition scanning process is? I don't, not even after reading the part about it in the spec.
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oh! I wonder if it will be universally disliked as redesigns tend to be.
The intro text explicitly defines those datatype sizes:

In other words, please answer each question in the context of a C compiler whose implementation-defined characteristics include two's complement signed integers, 8-bit chars, 16-bit shorts, and 32-bit ints. The long type is 32 bits on x86, but 64 bits on x86-64 (this is LP64, for those who care about such things).
It's been 4 years since I lived there but I keep in touch with several folks and talked with the CincyTechUSA guys last year. I agree a lot is happening and I think that's awesome.

But the truth is that for every link or event Cincinnati has there's probably 100 in SV. Not an exaggeration. Plus, like I said, the most valuable aspect of SV is the people. The density of technology entrepreneurs isn't matched anywhere else in the world.

It's just good to have insight for both worlds so you can make a decision on whether location plays a big enough role in your success and where you should be. For me I'd stay in SV as long as possible but my wife misses her family so we might end up back in Cincy. Starting up is 100s of micro decisions that play a role in your success - location is one of many.
I said it above, but to carry on with what tokenadult said; Lie detection is a little more complicated than detecting facial expressions. If you have a defensive, introverted person looking downward, they might be lying or that could be how he responds to whatever interrogation they are under. Conversely, a mentally distressed individual (or someone who has done a heavy amount of NLP) could lie straight to your face because they personally believe they are telling the truth.

This type of technology will no doubt be used to attempt lie detection, but it won't work. The only thing we can do is use the context clues of the face to infer what we think is going on.
Cassandra, Riak, et all, are basic distributed systems with the notion of easing horizontal scalability. That said, they do not provide instant (or even close to instant) turnaround on bringing new nodes online. Even more so, you're still limited in how you structure your data.

It may sound like I'm criticizing them, but they're still amazing, and IMO where the future of distributed datastores are going.
Whether you are working or wasting time is decided by the pre frontal cortex, which is responsible for the decision making process in the brain. However the creativity is a whole-brain process, it takes many brain regions to come up with insights and inspirations. So it makes sense not to depend on your pre-frontal cortex to decide activities of the whole brain. It almost like uninformed non-technical manager deciding the technology stack for the programmers.
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My opinions:

CloudFoundry - overblown, complex design. very heavy making it hard to test and contribute

Openshift - too redhat-centric
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When I hear someone say "I don't read fiction" I almost always think to myself, "You don't have any imagination."
The technical term is 'inferior good'. McDonalds, Ramen, and nail polish remover as a beverage, would probably all be inferior goods.
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The problem is the patent system and their apparent working definition of patentability. When Amazon can patent one-click purchasing or whoever can patent in-app purchasing, the government's definition of patentability is severely broken. From what I can tell the patent office just googles the claim's buzzwords for hits prior to the filing date and if nothing is found the patent is granted. They don't even try to get into obviousness / novelty / subject matter.

Ultimately I guess it's an issue that directly affects very few people, and indirectly hits the software consumer in the form of slightly(?) increased prices and less feature availability.
hetzner problem in U.S is latency.
Yeah, but for that price your storage is backed by 7200RPM SATA disks...

If you need speed it will cost you more for 15K SAS disks w/ a sizable battery backed RAID controller, but it will be worth every cent.

You don't want to put too many VMs on them or you'll quickly go through your IO bandwidth.

This is the problem so many devs don't understand. You run out of IOPS for your DB and your app is going nowhere. Managing storage in a reliable, fast and cost effective manner isn't easy.

Consumer SSDs are starting to change that, but you will be still struggling to find many dedicated server offerings backed with SSD storage, and there are still questions about long term reliability (4 years or so) which is typically the period your leaving hardware provisioned for to pay it off.
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You might not remember exactly what was in the books, but say you read about some good business principles. Those might become ingrained in your brain, and later in life, when you have to make certain decisions, you might involuntarily make those decisions to be compatible with those principles, even if you don't realize it.

Why do I think this? Because that's how ideas work. Sometimes we say that "we have an idea" for something, but that idea was formed from bits of pieces of our experiences and the knowledge we've gained over time, that allowed that idea to form. It didn't just pop out of nowhere. Your brain put things together from the bits of knowledge you gained previously.
I use Leksah for larger projects. I use just my favorite text editor (Sublime Text 2) and cabal/ghc/ghci in a shell window for smaller.
I think "acting out of fear" is hyperbole for making a "logical business decision". It's not like these guys are strangers to the patent business (remember 1-Click?). One thing to remember about the little guy is, he doesn't have any money, so he's not worth going after.

My impression is that the scenario where 'big tech company/patent troll' sues 'unprofitable start-up' out of existence is pretty rare.
In 50 years, Exxon Mobile will be #1 while Apple will be nowhere in the top 50.
Meanwhile in LA people think high palms are trees.
I haven't been with my host long enough to give them a reliable review, but they offer SSDs and are definitely budget.

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In another 50 would you expect Apple or Exxon to still be near the top of the list?

Exxon yes, Apple no. There isn't enough advantage to being the incumbent in Apple's weird combination of fashion and consumer electronics.
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I'm pretty sure that's why he mentioned RAM. Performance and cost. Flushing is cheap if it's done once in a while.
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I wouldn't bet either way.

Just because people will be buying x in the future, it doesn't mean that today's top x companies will still be around in 50 years.

The computer market is now much bigger than 50 years ago, but many computer companies of that time went broke. Just like we went from mainframes to personal computers, we'll probably be using much more renewable energy in 50 years, and it's not obvious that any given existing company will adapt to it.

Also, there are mergers. Mobil and Texaco were in the top of the list in 1962, and now neither exists independently (merged into Exxon and Chevron resp.) so arguably they aren't in the list anymore.
I'm not seeing what the big deal is here. Extraction of differential information from video frames has been standard in video editing and compositing software for years. Grab a demo copy of After effects, folks.
so disturbing...
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The artist Reggie Watts gave a great performance at TED where he talks a lot but makes no sense. It's pretty entertaining as a spoof of these kind of fake-intellectual lectures. http://laughingsquid.com/reggie-watts-talk-at-ted/
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Had to share this around the tech office, not much love for it here =(
I'm very surprised that "music" is at the bottom of the list. I would think it would be near the top, being that performance is such a large aspect. How is this explained?
Yes, but security questions are designed to protect against untargeted phishing. There is little than can be done to automatically help protect against targeted spearphishing attacks against a particular person.
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> from what I can tell . . .

This is really not how it works.
I think most logical people understand the benefits of reading, so I'm not going to rehash that.

I went a number of years only reading technical books, but I've been reading a lot of Project Gutenberg ebooks lately - a mixture of autobiographies, fiction, poetry, and essays. I don't read them to memorize them. I read them because they interest me. I don't seem to have any trouble remembering their content, but even if I didn't, so what? I don't envision myself looking clever, quoting Whitman and Emerson at cocktail parties.

The main benefit I've received is that they are sort of a detox from the internet and other forms of media. They have a calming effect and allow me to think more clearly. It's been nice and I never realized how much I indirectly benefited from casual reading (i.e., non-technical) until I started again.
Is there an easier-to-follow explanation of the math that makes this work? The video went too fast for me to quite understand it.
Not that its a bad thing but I would see this as a part of Qatar trying to be a world and regional player. From running Al-Jezeera to funding the rebels in Libya, Qatar has made it clear that it wants to be more in the world than another Oil State.
I'm not trained in these matters, but it seems to me, that attempts to patent general notions like "video over the Internet" were primarily there to cast as wide a net as possible and put there by people who had no real invention but who did have a vague idea that this would be an area of economic interest in the future. A lot of those don't even seem to have any specific mechanisms to bring benefits like better compression, though they might have claims to that effect.

The fact that the general practice is to make claims as broad (and therefore vague) as possible doesn't leave me with good feelings about the system. Neither does the weird legalese that the patents consist of.
And they will continue with any new Network/app we can create. :(
As all backend problems, it is subject to cyclical development.

Actually, mixing all the parts of the top part of the clock could help - constants living in DB or a file, simple rules written in DSL that makes them short and comp[lex rules having access to the hardcoded methods.
Prognostications? From this Kaspersky?

http://macdailynews.com/2011/06/17/kaspersky-cto-apple-shoul...

http://news.cnet.com/8301-10784_3-6173682-7.html

http://www.macworld.com/article/1150904/iphone_prediction.ht...

He (and his company) are good at getting in the news, but I'm kind of tuned him out from actual commentary on computer security.
I find taking notes is best done with a less restricted input system than a keyboard provides. The Thinkpad tablet is great for this. It comes with a stylus and is very accurate and pressure sensitive.
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As somewhat of a neutral observer, I think the 3 pin Italian sockets are actually quite nice: it's easy to put a lot of them in a power strip, and they are a lot less big and clunky than the Schuko ones.
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Does it make sense to do a MS in Computer Science after 7 years of work experience as a Linux System Administrator? What are the chances that someone may lose seniority in the job after MS?
At the risk of being slightly off topic: people rarely discuss the fact that reading a book can have a negative impact on one's life. Books are just a materialization of ideas, and they can be good or bad. They can steer you down a promising path, or an equally unproductive one. And the problem with books is that they can be very persuasive, using rhetoric, 300+ pages can convince you of many things.

I've experienced this, and in the course of my own studies, certain books have taken me down paths that were not the optimal, and I sometimes wonder what would have happened if I hadn't read (and remembered) those books so well.

That said, I've become a much more critical thinker after these episodes. Sometimes it's taken years to unwind the effects, but I guess my point is, books/blog posts/people are in many ways just ideas, and influences on us. Arguing over whether we forget them or not is not the most important thing about them--what is, is developing the critical thought process to wonder if they are in fact worth remembering at all.
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But we also depend on vastly higher yields. [1] IMHO it is not clear, that additional agriculture in currently cold areas could offset all losses in warmer areas. Additionally we are already not very good at the distribution of food on a global scale.

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I don't know about other books mentioned above. But I would recommend "Made to Stick". It is not the usual motivational crap or a regular self-help book. It is one of the most useful books I have ever come across.

Give it a shot, I am sure you will find something of value in it.
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Unless we move to private networks by default.
That sounds awesome.

But from a scientific point of view, you don't really need spatial resolution for the heartbeat example, though, do you? If you just spent the same amount of money on getting high temporal and spectral resolution, surely one could do very cool things with 'just one pixel', so to speak. Especially if you had say 16 different wavelengths, instead of just 3.
Furthermore unlike nukes it is completely impossible to verify that a country dosen't have cyber weapons. Cyber weapons can be hidden in someone's shoe, you can't do that with a nuclear arsenal.
AWS provides this now with VPC.
Right, for example when you introduce a new server into a MongoDB replica set, it won't instantly become active if you have a lot of data, it needs to sync everything before it becomes active. The key with these systems is too scale early, before the load gets out of hand. Also, MongoDB replica sets can only have a maximum of 12 members.
I am intrigued. Would you be willing to mention the names of the books and the paths you believe they took you down?
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No need to mess with the encoding format - just use an existing utility (or library) to grab the raw frame data. e.g. ffmpeg