skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
i wonder if this could be used for lie detection
This line of questioning looks promising, but the post leaves a question unanswered:

* Did the questioner notice the article was referring not to the S&P 500, but the Fortune 500?
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I don't think the distinction between art and design is imagined. That's the point of the analogy. Art is an individual's expression to the world. Design is solving a problem with a unique point of view - at least in Hara's words.

I am pointing out the parallel in art and design is identical to the one of "making something only you want" vs making "something other people want." The difference is understanding and eventually empathy.

In my view, that's the key to a successful startup.
Nowhere does it mention stalking or spamming.

However, that being said, it still seems easier and more practical for me to pick some random person from my social networks myself if I really wanted to do this.
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I am looking to buy a domain name that's set to expire next week. I am scared to use a backordering service only to see them steal the domain name under my nose.

Has anyone ever successfully back ordered a name? Which service should I use or avoid? Or maybe there's a better way to do it? Thanks.
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I agree that startups are businesses. But the idea of the product, the kernel of insight, is design.

I'm not sure I understand the difference between solving a problem in an industry and filling a need in a market place. Could you clarify?
That's not true in Australia. There's a 'plague' of poisoned trees to shore up property prices, especially at vantage points (water/city/etc). However, it only goes as far as to clear the view. This forces the council to begrudgingly overlook tree protection laws to take down 'public risk' trees.

Then there's councils maintaining power lines. Who are trimming costs by cutting trees down to half height. So, there would be those grotesque thick trunks with small branches coming out sides. They appear so ugly that residents are having them cut down and removed.

Edit: Here's a well-grown American example: http://bullcityrising.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/2007/...
Of course, as the supply of oil dwindles and demand grows, their volume will go down but their profit margin will go up.
I love wordpress and using it for a CMS. I never thought it needed to be simpler, I always thought that was one thing they did really well... But maybe thats just because I've been using it for many years now.
Except wompt.com - we had over 150 in one room at one point last year.
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Isn't the real answer to these questions "don't do that, you fool"?
My point is that this parallel doesn't exist, because the person you quoted is mistaken. The relationship between art and design is complicated, but they are closer to orthogonal than opposites.
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Firstly: I really hope they find her aircraft. I would love to be on the expedition that finds it.

I'm also surprised it took so long to perform (or at least, publicly announce) an RF path/propagation analysis on the distress signals. It is likely that hard information on the received signals was/is low, but it seems crazy that no-one tried. As an ICT/RF Engineer myself, I'd be interested in seeing the raw data they used to triangulate her approximate position.

I can't imagine there being a ton of transmitters on the frequencies she could broadcast to in 1937 (the article states 120 possible signals; which is very low compared to today!).
To the extent that it does, it will increase the rate of software eating the world.
Relevant architectural project proposed for São Paulo:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/12588351@N02/sets/7215762319266...

Too bad that it will take a long time before the rich in SP realize the value of trees in the city.
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I don't know of any city that could or should be judged based on the freeway from its airport.

Having said that, there are nice suburbs around Mountain View and Palo Alto but they still lacks the feeling that richer suburbs in other places have. Atherton and Hillsborough are a bit closer but they are insanely expensive.
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Hi there!

I'm trying to launch a reddit-like website for french, since we don't have that here. I'm struggling a lot to bring a community there, any articles out there on how reddit or even HN did it?

here's the deal : www.100hp.fr
I think a common theory is that Microsoft is losing consumer mindshare faster than they can earn it back with Windows 9, given that even Windows 8 is still a year away. And consumer mindshare will slowly eat into Microsoft's business sector. Both because enterprisy people want to use iPads, but also because future decision makers will never understand the Microsoft world.
But unlike Intel (which uses a completely different tick-tock process), Microsoft's tick-tock process isn't good for them.

Every time they release a bad OS there are at least a few obvious problems (and probably others):

1. Microsoft misses out on plenty of upgrade revenue they might have gotten if the bad OS had been worth upgrading to.

2. The previous good OS lives longer than intended, support headaches and other complexity.

3. Some people decide not to deal with the hassle and switch from Windows to another platform (primarily Mac OS X, but there are more options this time around).
I like how this kind of turns the "main idea" of computer vision on its head. Namely, instead of trying to emulate and catch up to human abilities, it augments them the way only a computer can; it plays to computers' strengths instead of their weaknesses.

Also, who would have thought you can determine someone's pulse just by looking at the color change of the face due to blood rushing in and out? If asked beforehand, I wouldn't have even said it was theoretically (physically) possible.
This is a terrible way to choose passwords, and in no way equivalent to the XKCD method. It's not equivalent because additional length in your password is very predictable rather than random.

To brute force your password, all somebody has to do is choose a starting word in Wikipedia and some number of consecutive words. This is log2(size of Wikipedia) + log2(entropy of your "5 or 6" distribution). This is less than 32 bits of entropy, or about a six character password in a 64 character alphabet, i.e. it's trivial to brute force this password if you have the hash.
I'd imagine that it would be some serious work to see whether just turning off compositing would be enough and what effects that has on running non-game apps that are in the middle of using compositing.
they need constant care and monitoring - especially after heavy storms or bad weather of any sort, really.

The tree lined boulevards in my city routinely disrupt traffic after monsoon rains - most are close to 40 years old, and every so often will shed a branch or three onto the road.
In the consumer OS space, the predecessor to Windows XP wasn't Windows 2000, it was Windows ME (which was a disaster).
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If people find this compelling, they may also like this earlier work from the same group:

http://people.csail.mit.edu/celiu/motionmag/motionmag.html

This other algorithm amplifies only motion, and the algorithm is less elegantly simple, however its results are very interesting and fun to watch as well. Make sure to watch the video at the bottom of the page

http://people.csail.mit.edu/celiu/motionmag/VIDEO_siggraph_2...
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The researchers have discovered some ancient changes in the hydrologic regime of rivers in north-west India. There's a big step from here to actually explaining civilizational collapse. Particularly, two factors argue against such a narrow explanation. First, the region was still agriculturally quite fertile after these changes in the monsoon pattern; the later Mahajanapadas did quite well in this area. Second, the contemporary Sumerian civilization was not destroyed, despite being affected with even more serious ecological problems (its heartland is now a mixture of marsh and desert). Its center simply shifted north, and it gradually transformed into the Babylonian civilization. With no shortage of fertile areas in the Indian subcontinent, the reasons why the Indus Valley civilization failed to either adapt or shift its center of gravity and instead completely disappeared from history are still, I believe, an open problem.
4mnow works great for me, provides more control.
One possible reason: it makes little sense for 1 << 33 to be less than 1 << 31 but not zero (assuming 32-bit ints -- replace 31 and 33 with 63 and 65 for 64-bit ints). In other words, if you keep shifting a number to the left, it should keep growing, until all the bits are gone.

Another possible reason: CPUs have instructions for implementing << as it now stands.
>Yes, it probably will become redundant eventually, but as cancer's a genetic thing, it'll be on a patient by patient basis, that means even if a patient's cancer start to develop an immunity to the drug, it'll take a very long time for that immunity to be spread by reproduction...

Eh? I guess "never" is a very long time. Prostate cancer isn't communicable, and while you may pass a propensity to get cancer to your offspring that's irrelevant to the treatment.
Unless it becomes considerably more expensive to obtain, and/or affordable alternatives arise.
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Wow, reading someone's heart rate from a video.

Imagine that plugged into Google Glass. Overlay someone's heart rate next to their face while you're talking to them!
I also found it very surprising that cameras could pick these things up, there's actually an iPhone app from Philips that claims to be able to be able to read heart-rate, I assumed it was snake-oil at first :

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/vital-signs-camera-philips/id...
Ditto. Just wait for a Great Depression, and you'll see what're more expendable
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Definitely a good point. I think the thing I'm trying to get at is that those concerns apply to processed foods in general, as you point out; you take the same risk every time you eat a hot dog, or frankly any commercial meat which comes off an assembly line.

I'm not saying that's not worthy of concern-- of course, it is. It's just the hysteria surrounding this processed food in particular, especially the "ammonia bath" meme which even made its way to HN, that really irritated me (as has probably been obvious :)
Because the order of magnitude is insane.

It's a) not a common problem, and b) is obviously non trivial with current technology.

The bandwidth necessary for 100k users would saturate many a pipe, and would immediately require more than one commoditized machine.

It's like saying "That's a cute little Prius you got there. How many semi trailers can it pull?"
The first sentence of that Wikipedia page clarifies that animals are sentient? "Sentience is the ability to feel, perceive or be conscious, or to have subjective experiences."

The 'Consider the Lobster' article simply investigates the philosophical idea that the ability to suffer is the test for sentience and applies it to lobsters, noting how furiously they attempt to escape pain.

Sentience does not imply that living creatures must have the same biological structures to 'feel, perceive, or be conscious' so your point that they are absent brain structures we have seems irrelevant when considering the definition of the word.
I used to go through a period where I felt I had to squeeze every minute of the day, and not waste any time. After a month, I got mentally exhausted, burnt out, and hated working.
Having lived in a very poor area of Chicago for a while and moving to a fairly affluent area I observed that the affluent neighborhoods get certain services because they demand them from the city. The poorer neighborhoods tend to have somewhat of a "leave us alone" attitude which unfortunately the city is all too happy to oblige. I know there are financial aspects at play as well, but at least from what I observed there definitely was a "squeaky wheel" aspect to receiving city services.
I had this problem with Windows 8 and creating a Microsoft Account. When creating the account, they had a hard limit of something like 15 characters. (My passwords are pretty long.) Which got automatically truncated. So when I rebooted my computer running Windows 8 Preview, I couldn't log in with the password I had used, until I figured out that I should only type the first 15 characters of it. Terrible web form design.
What about a page with their credits, and a link to their blog if they got one?
The basis of a product is design. But design is not art. Design is engineering. Even UI design, a process commonly thought of as artistic. That is where I disagree with your point. I don't reason anything in a startup is about art.

The difference about solving a problem and filling a need is pretty simple. You don't profit by solving a problem. You profit by filling a need.

Problems inside industries may not have profits hidden inside. But needs, everyone always has money to solve their needs. Your job is to find those needs and engineer a product that fills it.

Edit

--Added this part from my workstation. The text above was from my phone (makes it harder to type in detail).--

Everyone will always have problems. You solve one, two more pop up. The very nature of problems make people be wary of any solution that aims to solve them. And to be frank, a lot of people dont even want to solve their problems. Businesses also share this.

Now needs. Well needs are something entirely different. Needs are wants. What people want, they pay to get. Your job in a business is to find those needs, and give the need what it wants. In software, a need may be to save them money on their accounting. Why is this a need? Maybe the business owner wants to buy a new car, and he/she needs the money to get that new car. There is no problem to solve. Their accounting might not need to be solved. But the owner has a need for money to buy the car.

Find those needs. They are the key to profits.

Note: You posted below before I edited the post.
Did OP wrote his own title ? Currently the article is titled "Windows 8 – Who moved my desktop?" which is an exception to Betteridge's Law.
Cool idea. Reminds me of using Wikipedia as a word list for brute forcing:

http://blog.sebastien.raveau.name/2009/03/cracking-passwords...

(Although, obviously, using the Twitter search method is more targeted and will likely give you results this century when you're looking for something specific.)
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People do sometimes get their comments downvoted so I'm not sure what you are saying?
Could my roomba be said to have sentience if programmed to respond to undesirable stimuli in a sufficiently 'furious' manner?
"To no longer worry about something requires worrying about it a lot first."
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Sounds like a good attempt at getting around the curse of natural resources.
I don't know of any city that could or should be judged based on the freeway from its airport.

Vancouver doesn't have a freeway from its airport, but it does have a train. If you were going to make judgments, this leads itself to a rather accurate one.

But yes, my impression of lacking trees was more from the Google campus than the freeway.
I would love to know why he spelled Afghanistan as Afganastan initially.
i wonder if this could be used for lie detection

I was tempted to downvote, but this is a legitimate question, and I guess you haven't had opportunity to learn about how bogus "lie detection" in general is. I happened to attend university where some of the earliest rigorous researchers on lie detection were active,

http://www.fas.org/blog/secrecy/2006/09/david_lykken_and_the...

http://images.salon.com/april97/news/news970410.html

http://antipolygraph.org/articles/article-018.shtml

http://www.psychologicalscience.org/observer/getArticle.cfm?...

so people in my town have known for a long time that purported lie detection tests don't work, and indeed our state has long banned the use of polygraphs or other purported lie detection devices for any courtroom purpose. Law enforcement investigators in our state use actual interviews of witnesses and suspects, and by state law all police interrogations must be videotaped. That helps immensely in reducing mistaken conclusions from improperly conducted interrogations.
Microsoft seems to be the king of schizophrenic software and this one tops them all with its straight up multiple personalities.

Regardless, it looks like ass and iOS is smooth like butter. I'm really not sure tablet is someplace Microsoft can actually compete.

What's sad though is that Windows 7 is a rock solid OS and people absolutely love it. Why throw all of that away for something hideous and grotesque. I just don't get it.
It isn't particularly surprising that a designer would see the essence of a startup as a metaphor for design. The artist, the scientist and the business executive probably think the same thing except substituting their own discipline. We all tend to evaluate the world as it revolves around our own perspective.
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This is pretty darn amazing! I'm so going to try to implement this set of algorithms later this week! :)
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How about amplifying micro-motor motions in the eyes or something like that?
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I have a friend working as a student liason in a Doha university, they have a very good representation of women and it was well-attended by foreigners but by those of other wealthy countries. The campus seemed to be devoid of any religious artifacts, though I'm sure there are plenty of mosques available. Considering Doha is built by workers from India and other countries where the poor come for money, I don't believe they extended their wealth to these people. We can only hope for gradual change as their children grow up in a multi-national world. The campus they are building is massive and has university branches from some of the best in the world, so I can't imagine there is any open prejudice tolerated.
I've been to the Windows 8 developer conferences and worked on getting an app off the ground for launch... and I have to say the skitzo strategy of half tablet half desktop environment is so much of a headache I decided to abandon the platform. Designing a metro and desktop version of the app, then compiling it for ARM and Intel. On top of that having to rebuild it for a phone.

I wasn't willing to risk my teams precious development time on a store that is unproven and a product that looks confused and misguided. Several other developers agreed at the conference.

I really don't know what Microsoft was thinking blending the tablet/desktop and separating out the phone. It seems they think this will allow them to claim a larger install base for 'apps' as their phone has dismal sales performance. The evangelists kept repeating over and over that I'll have 500 million user audience as soon as it rolls out.

But the experience is a mess. Everyone in my office from seasoned techs to low level non-techy interns has made a terrible face at windows 8, constantly clicking around wondering what is going on.

For the record, I thought Vista was alright and Windows 7 was nice. But 8's bifurcated touch/desktop strategy is good at neither and heading in a worse and worse direction with each successive release.
Could you elaborate at all on what it means to put an object in a vector/why you would want to do that?
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That's not how it works. The way crackpottery thrives is exactly because the people most qualified to debunk it refuse to do so because it is boring and beneath them. So it never gets debunked, and those who are less critical spread the bullshit around. This is how global warming skepticism gets spread around- Climate scientists just declare it so stupid they never bother to take the time to analyse point for point the bogus claims of skeptics and point out evidence for why the skepticism is wrong. I mean- it happens, just not often enough.
The Qatari government is a bit more progressive on those issues than the Qatari population. I'd say the same thing about most of the UAE (especially Dubai).
Besides what other commenters said -- street trees have to be pruned. If ey're not maintained and cause damage, the ci can be sued. And their roots can destroy sidewalks, sewers, and nearby roads (depending on species, placement, etc.).

Not saying I like the reasoning, but that's what the city says.

Based on observing my neighbors, I have come to believe that as one gets older, one tends to cut down trees and put concrete in, as a way to reduce maintenance and general loose ends and possibility for trouble. The city is that tendency writ large.
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Why did he run any of those commands as root?
I was looking at this earlier as a little nethack player
I find that instead of working on how to accomplish what I should be working on, just working on it "gets things done"
Ah, I see... 'Shift' doesn't mean what I thought it meant. Somehow I thought that a left shift was supposed to rotate the number. E.g. shifting by 1 would shift the 31st bit into the 0th bit.
Answer: Because Qatar is more forward thinking than the US.
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Dreamweaver is still a great IDE for web developing. It's not only a WYSIWYG, and I think that it's only the tip of the iceberg.

What I really like that I didn't quite find in the alternatives:

You can split your window in half with 2 different codes.
You have a color picker
You have auto completion
Built in SFTP-Uploader
Great Project manager
Great searcher with regex

etc...

I have to admit I switched to Sublime Text 2 since last year and I haven't really looked back, but I miss the auto completion and the color picker a lot.
> I had the impression that, with recent budget cuts and the like

What budget cuts? I'm not seeing any in http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/BUDGET-2011-APP/pdf/BUDGET-2011... - do you have a source that shows cuts?