skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think almost everyone carries a laptop in a bag, and most don't have ventilation. The problem was that even though my linux configs were set (correctly) to sleep when closing the lid, it would often get prevented from sleeping by a program or driver that didn't respond properly to the sleep request. I did mention the case where Windows had a similar issue.

I was only trying to show that the OS and Software can play a big role in the health of the hardware. Software bugs can cause hardware failure, and a notebook not going to sleep when the lid is closed is usually a bug unless it is specifically configured to do that.
This is why the master of orion 1 AI fascinates me, especially considering how old it is. Usually, it doesn't even care to declare war. it might just expand straight through you. It might declare war for exactly 3 systems and stop. It might go on a total war. It might just start shooting your ships without even being in an actual war. It's just weird how different it feels from many modern AIs.
It was 20 days when I was a kid.

Inflation, I suppose.
I see psychological parallels between this policy and Microsoft's recent attempts to crack down on class-action lawsuits.
Are they actually higher though? I found the same thing you did, except when I tried checking out of the other places I found they would place fees on top of things. Turns out Hipmonk just adds those fees in from the start. In my experience they end up coming out the same.
Playing an F requires neither 4 fingers or a barre; a chord only requires 3 notes. Playing an F with 4 fingers is playing the root note twice, you can drop the high F (the hard one) and you're still playing a full F chord. The full barre has the root note in the chord 3 times, only one is necessary.
Validate User Input, Not Developer Input
We are not ready for MacBook Pro with Retina Display
Eh, if I wanted a most popular opinion site, I wold be on the main page of reddit. I am glad the HN mods are being "mean".
It does mean something. Specifically it means you learn differently than other people, because you store and process information differently. It is neither accurate to be expected to function the same as other people nor to expect other people to function the same way you do if you are a significant outlier.

Particularly during schooling it can be lonely, isolating and incredibly boring. It is easy, under those circumstances, to either build yourself up as better than people around you or come to hate and hide your intelligence so you can pass as one of them. Both are a loss to society.

It is not an accomplishment, any more than having diabetes is an accomplishment, but it is a fact of life and trying to pretend it doesn't matter is futile.
Evolution-data-server : Remove a bunch of juvenile comments
From Ryan Dahl : https://twitter.com/ryah/status/212664505434521600
I didn't say in all cases. Specialized, very high-value, and vertical tools particularly.

But generally the trend is that, starting with OS, development and management tools, and commodity software, Free Software is taking the financial value out of software sales.

For your example, OpenKM and LogicalDoc turn up for searches on "document management open source", though I couldn't say how they compete on functionality, scale, ease-of-use, stability, and/or management.

To shift spaces slightly: there's a pretty small market for proprietary Wiki software. Atlassian and Microsoft Sharepoint would be two that I'm aware of, though alternatives, especially MediaWiki, are very widely used (internal to the CIA even).

What's becoming more common is a service model based on free wiki software. Jimmy Wales has a startup based on offering MediaWiki pages, there's a similar offering based on TWiki that I'm aware of. I'm sure there are others. Similarly, blogging engines as-a-service. The software's free, but the service offering drives revenue.

Could be a way into the docs management market as well.
Why does this remind me of crunching wintergreen lifesavers?

http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/119/why-do-wintergr...
I would love 5 seconds to get further away from a chimney or what have you.
I see psychological parallels between your comment and Godwin's Law.
Burger King betting on bacon sundae
His point was that there is still complex music being composed in the "classical" tradition, outside of pop, regardless of its actual merits or popularity.
Spaced Repetiton learning techniques: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spaced_repetition
Eliezer Yudkowsky's younger brother died in 2004 and it inspired a lengthy email thread about the subject.[0]

I expect it is not so much about wishing not to die, which even a transhumanist must admit is at least no worse than living, but wishing not to have loved ones die. Truly tragic.

[0] http://yudkowsky.net/other/yehuda
I think HN should take a page from SO, and introduce meta.news.ycombinator.com and chat.news.ycombinator.com. Then again, there are lots of things I'd change about HN, but it's not my site and it's free.
This is far from the first time something like this has happened. It may be that moderators killed it (and that the rules state they should), but numerous debates have been 'flagged to death' by users that disagree with them, and killed without moderators even being involved. I forget the exact context, but a few months ago there was a post about sexism in the tech industry that got over 100 votes and made it's way to third place, only to be flagged to death within half an hour.

It happens. But it concerns me more that someone arriving after the flagging has no idea that anything even happened- it's been erased from history. Rather than deleting all trace of these threads, perhaps we should put [dead] next to them and close them off for future comments? Seems it would achieve both goals.
Tyranny of the crowd, eh?
So change the 48 to 15 or whatever, it makes absolutely no difference. Come on.
Analyzing the XKCD Passphrase Comic
Its incredibly repetitive pop drivel. I wonder if teens have a higher tolerance for repetition than adults. They seem the only demographic with any affinity for this type of stuff.
LOL ARE YOU STILL USING EMAIL? THAT IS OUTDATED, THAT SYSTEM IS BRAINDEAD, IS EMAIL STILL USEFUL FOR ANYONE? LOL SEE I FOUNDED A STARTUP THAT ADDS LABELS TO MAIL TO MAKE IT USEFUL FOR EVERYONE LOL DERP I'M GONNA SUBMIT IT TO HN SO PEOPLE SAY HOW I REVOLUTIONIZED THEIR WORLD WITH MY INVENTION THOUGH THEY WILL STOP USING MY SHITTY WEB APPLICATION IN TWO DAYS

OH SORRY, IT'S NOT APPLICATION BUT APP

LOL
You can choose to show dead. It is a personal setting in your profile.
The conclusion that "Smart People are Stupid" is wholly inaccurate. My point was that there is no test that can accurately measure intelligence. As we know, intelligence is often intangible and abstract.

Wikipedia's Definition of intelligence:

Intelligence has been defined in many different ways, including the abilities, but not limited to, abstract thought, understanding, self-awareness, communication, reasoning, learning, having emotional knowledge, retaining, planning, and problem solving.

Sure, many people that scored well on the SAT are intelligent, but that doesn't mean that those that didn't score well are not just as intelligent or capable.

The findings more accurately reflect the conclusion that: "Those With High Scores on the SAT Are Stupid"
Looks like the Mac Pro is alive indeed.

http://www.macworld.com/article/1167247/cook_apple_planning_...

Quoting email from Tim Cook:

Franz,

Thanks for your email. Our Pro customers like you are really important to us. Although we didn’t have a chance to talk about a new Mac Pro at today’s event, don’t worry as we’re working on something really great for later next year. We also updated the current model today.

We’ve been continuing to update Final Cut Pro X with revolutionary pro features like industry leading multi-cam support and we just updated Aperture with incredible new image adjustment features.

We also announced a MacBook Pro with a Retina Display that is a great solution for many pros.

Tim
Really we wrote it a year ago, but it sat around with a horrible performance bug until I had time to look at it earlier this week.

One of those amusing "oh, there's a node pool but we're never putting nodes back into it..." moments.
not sure about LLVM/Clang, but they based webkit on KHTML, leaving them no choice but to open source it. Apple does good for open source (CUPS being another example), but make no mistake: they're not doing it to be charitable
You're just redefining the meaning of trolling. It's nothing else than being a prick, hidden behind an online pseudonym.

It's not some secret handshake, nor a well meaning fun poking.
It comes as an Adobe Air app which launches full screen from Steam & plays the movie. UI is "meh", but not unpleasant.

But you also get a DRM free Mp4 in the "%Steam%/Common/Indie Game the Movie" folder :)
Wait, you can switch between IPv4 & IPv6 APNs? Do you get NAT-ted IPv4 in the IPv6 one at all?
Dial 1-323-419-0002 to create rain drops with your voice.
Steam makes it so you don't have to plan ahead and make backups.
http://lwn.net/Articles/300202/

Can't find the followup that explains the actual bug, but it had to do with the kernel unmapping some unneeded memory and ...blah... and whacking random garbage into the eeprom of the network card. All you had to do was boot linux once and your network card would never work again, at least until you went to the trouble of flashing it.
Well, I wasn't sure before, but you've removed all doubt.
Please forgive me for bringing up something not directly related to this particular series, but economics professor Dave Berri ran some linear regressions on the box score stats of basketball games, and claims he can accurately measure how much wins per season each player is responsible for. (e.g. Team A won 40 games last season, player 1 produced 15 wins, player 2 produced another 10, player 3 produced another 8, and the remaining wins divide among the other players).
He has a (sort of official) blog: http://wagesofwins.com/
I'm bringing this up because I think this may be of interest to the HN community. I, for one, was fascinated with his claims and their implications, hope this will interest some of you :-)
You may well enjoy this lecture at google from one of the civ5 devs talking about the AI design, and game AI design in general.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJcuQQ1eWWI
I'm not crazy about this analysis, but the basic tool (http://www.hooktheory.com/) is pretty awesome. Props for including MIDI and sheet music exports.

Edit: signup gave me an error 500, though.
Something else they often do is say something like "I'm thinking it's B, but I'm not sure so I'll ask the audience". Well guess what the audience guesses after hearing that?
Direct link to form: http://bogotaconf.co/callforproposals.html
You need a meta outlet. Deleting threads about moderation won't wash: a site won't allow itself to be secretly moderated, especially in ways it doesn't agree with. Every single online community learns this; every one benefits from the meta outlet they create.
Agreed. IQ is a terrible method of evaluation also. For instance, if you practice taking IQ tests, I guarantee you will get better at answering those questions. Even if you gauge only the first attempt, how do you know their daily job wasn't very similar to those exercises. In fact, IQ tests are very much like building software to only work in one architecture and then hoping it applies to others. It really only judges speed and word/number pattern recognition. This encourages short cuts and is hardly applicable to any practical situation.
We don't pay sales tax on steam purchases. I assume the Euro price has the 20% or-thereabouts VAT factored in?
For Seattle fans, it's not merely that the team left, it's how they left. Some of Clay Bennett's e-mails got leaked, and they make it clear that while he was publicly promising to try to keep the team in Seattle (which was a condition of the original sale) he was privately saying he'd move the team to OKC ASAP. As long as Clay Bennett is involved with the Thunder, the majority of Sonics fans are going to be against them.

Also remember that of current Thunder players, only Nick Collison was on the team before Clay Bennett arrived. Kevin Durant played one year in Seattle but it was already common knowledge that the team was going to leave, so fans didn't really take to him much. All of the other rotation players were added after the move. So there aren't any beloved players left on the team to mitigate the anger coming out of Seattle.

It's similar to LeBron being thought of as a villain. It's not that he left Cleveland, it's how he left Cleveland. To a lot of fans in both cities, it felt like their guy/team lied about wanting to stay, left under dubious circumstances, and disrespected the fans and the city on the way out.
He transposed them all to C for exactly that reason. Doing what you suggest yields no additional data.
Your natural work increment and your fee structure are not the same thing. When you freelance, you aren't being compensated solely for your effort; you are providing much more value than that. Factors that go into freelancers getting paid more include:

* Access to talent on predefined schedule

* Minimal commitment to that talent, instead of a year of salary

* Allocation of that talent to your projects as opposed to some other company's projects

* Ramp-up

* Ramp-down

* Travel and/or logistics & communications overhead

* Invoicing and receivables overhead

It is a really pernicious meme that developers should consider billing hourly because they work hourly. When you switch from salaried work to freelancing, you need to start thinking of your work product as a product, not simply the output of your brain connected to a keyboard for fixed periods of time. You don't price a product based on its raw cost structure; you price it according to the value it provides to customers.
My Dell Mini for one.
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Are We Living in Sensory Overload or Sensory Poverty?
It might be pretentious. But it serves as (1) sales-speak and (2) provides a frame of metaphor that may well assist the engineers internally.
Technically, yes, but a) that generally sounds weak, and b) it increases the difficulty of playing the chord because it means you have to either mute or pass over the first string.
Yes, but then you see all the spam entries as well. Of course, that's because there is only one "flag" option.
Architect Creates Intelligent “Breathing” Building Panel
Okay, so the pluses and minuses of this work.

So a fair bit of this paper goes into detail about the technical details and infrastructure. This is commendable, because these details are important in applied work.

The authors devise a method for large-scale supervised classification. Essentially, the data is partitioned between nodes, and each node trains a l2-regularized logistic model on its data using SGD. The individual models are then aggregated into an ensemble. This approach is obvious but non-standard (I'll describe why later).

I believe this methodology is of limited applicability. The experiments are supervised training of sentiment analysis on 100M tweets. But it is simple and fast to do supervised learning over 1B instances on a single box. And there are very few tasks that have >>1B labeled training examples.

In most "large-scale" real-world tasks, there are 10-1M labeled training examples, and 100M to jillions unlabelled training examples. So what we really care about is unsupervised learning (over unlabelled examples) followed by supervised learning (over labelled examples) or semi-supervised learning (over unlabelled and labelled examples). Distributed unsupervised learning is challenging. It is an active research area with only a few results, and a lot of untapped potential.

One claim in the paper is surprising: "As is often the case for many machine learning problems, and confirmed in our experiments (see Section 6), an ensemble of classifiers trained on partitions of a large dataset outperforms a single classifier trained on the entire dataset (more precisely, lowers the variance component in error)." First of all, I'm surprised by the claim "an ensemble of classifiers trained on partitions of a large dataset outperforms a single classifier trained on the entire dataset". It is true that an ensemble (forest) of decision trees is better than a single decision tree. This is like adding another layer in a neural network, and allows more powerful models to be expressed more compactly. But, crucially, an ensemble of linear models is just a linear model. So in fact, there should be no variance reduction in the authors' approach. It should be better to train a single linear model on ALL the data, rather than an ensemble of linear models on subsets of the data. I am surprised that the ensemble of linear models outperforms the single model. Further investigation is needed to understand why. My gut feeling is that there is a problem in his experiment.

tl;dr The machine learning models will have limited impact, because they are purely supervised. But check out the technical details and infrastructure portion of the paper.
great customer service starts with a near perfect product. In a perfect world you would need customer service at all.
The awesome thing about an app like this is that when you have a lot of people use it you can then use the logged password checks as dictionary attacks against hashed passwords that you steal.
Very clever social engineering attack.
weird. they had a problem caused by a series of bugs, yet the word "test" doesn't appear anywhere in that page.
"Hey, thanks for asking. Here's the deal: we work on a daily rate, because most of our projects demand our full attention for at least the majority of a day. In order to be fair to all our customers and to keep things manageable for us, we bill in one-day increments."

I don't really see why I'd say more than that. If a client kept pushing after that, I'd start saying things like "I understand; let's figure out how we can get your work bundled up efficiently into a day" (or, in my case, more likely: I'd bill a day for the time-consuming stuff and just let the single hours go).
Powerful App Features to Get Things Done Naturally
We pro­pose a sys­tem that takes an organic view of pro­duc­tiv­ity to more truly reflect how we get things done in life. This sys­tem takes into account all the real-life ele­ments of get­ting things done — things beyond notes and lists of tasks. For exam­ple, with some­thing as com­plex as plan­ning an event (like a birth­day party or wed­ding), going on a fam­ily vaca­tion, or embark­ing on a large house­hold project (major land­scap­ing improve­ments), tasks and notes with sim­ple reminders only take you so far. Many more ele­ments are involved, such as ser­vices uti­lized, man­ag­ing the providers for those ser­vices, shop­ping, book­marks, shar­ing with and man­ag­ing event co-hosts, travel com­pan­ions, or project team-mates, in addi­tion to a com­pre­hen­sive cal­en­dar view of every­thing with proper reminders.
The fact that this even has to exist saddens me.

However, I'm glad there is a distinction between not available and not there.
Yes and no. It was easy for Bach and Beethoven to be innovative, less had been done back then. The story of classical music from 1800 to 1952, though, is a story of composers forever looking for new ways to innovate. First they did away with all the old rules of structure, and we didn't miss them too much. There's some great music from this period.

Then, they started doing away with all the rules of harmony. The prelude of Wagner's Tristan und Isolde has a dissonant chord which resolves to another dissonant chord, and it totally blew everybody's mind. By 1913 you've got The Rite Of Spring which avoids almost all traditional harmonies, and it's causing riots in Paris but a few years later that kind of thing is old hat. In the 1920s you've got Schoenberg going "Y'know what? Screw tonality. Let's just play all the notes one by one; at this point you've got music which very, very few people out there can actually enjoy. I mean, I have a CD of Schoenberg's violin concerto, and even the blurb on the back of the CD doesn't seem to like it very much.

Then you've got a few decades of increasingly obscure music until my chosen endpoint of 1952, which is the year when Johnny Cage wins a flawless victory in the "look how unmusical I can make my music" championship by publishing 4'33", the piece consisting entirely of silence. This was the signal that the old musical tradition had finally disappeared up its own butthole. (1952 is also the year when Rock Around The Clock was first written.)

Anyway, John Williams is basically an acknowledgement that if you're going to make big orchestral music which people actually like, then all the good ideas were taken by 150 years ago, and any additional innovation away from that point pretty much just makes it worse [or, at least, less enjoyable by the majority of people].
Due to the complexity and breadth of the iOS APIs, I have my doubts that this is a reimplementation, especially one completed by one developer.

If that's not the case, this would be technically feasible, but of dubious legality.
Challenges for App Developers Implementing iCloud Sync
iCloud became avail­able fairly recently with iOS 5.0. Kudos to Apple for bring­ing forth a great new tech­nol­ogy with so much poten­tial for users and app devel­op­ers alike. How­ever, as I men­tioned, there were also many chal­lenges for devel­op­ers. Feel free to con­tact me if you wish to learn more about how we over­came them to make sure our app remains rock solid. I can­not reveal any infor­ma­tion that is con­fi­den­tial under the iOS devel­op­ment pro­gram, but share the gen­eral approach we took. It is truly a pow­er­ful and excit­ing tech­nol­ogy that does so much of the heavy lift­ing for the developers. I’ve listed some of those chal­lenges here.
Basically I just tell them the truth - that the project doesn't seem to be a good fit for my business right now. If they insist on knowing why, you can tell them the risk vs profit factor is too high for you at this stage. If they want to know what that means, you can just say that you don't think you can give a good estimate of the total project time/cost so you don't feel comfortable bidding on it.

If they're reasonable, they may agree to just go hourly then upon hearing a reasonable explanation. Sometimes they'll try to negotiate on the price. I tend to be very wary of clients that try to negotiate rates though because even if you get your rate you'll find yourself later arguing about hours, features, etc. Your rate can effectively be lowered if they pressure you into feeling that you are not working fast enough and bill 1 hour for 2 hours of actual work. People who like to haggle tend to haggle over every detail to get a bargain - not just price.
Easy Password Hash Enhancement
My takeaway is that smart people are in fact fairly dumb, in other words even fairly bright specimens of homo sapiens make stupid mistakes and irrational decisions quite often because of this shortcutting.

I also think that on the other hand those types of shortcuts are actually probably very useful aspects of our human intelligence.

I think that within 50 years or so we will see new species/upgraded humans or AIs that actually don't have those problems, because they will have built-in checks and alternative types of intelligence that rely on those shortcuts less.
Why I’m enjoying Google’s newest ChromeBook
.. and proprietary and closed as humanly possible.. and sold and supported by a company who actively campaigns against your interests

(sort of kidding)
One could also imply that by your definition smartness should be measured by how good someone is able to following rules and structure.