skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>In some sense, isn't this algorithm "inventing" detail? If you're lucky the detail corresponds closely to what should be there, but sometimes it doesn't and thus it can't be relied upon.

Statistics is not "luck", it's possibilities.

So, it might can't be "relied upon" _totally_, but, as it is automated, it can be relied upon _MORE_ than mere guessing at the fuzzy picture.
I wonder about the motives behind Facebook's (apparent) decision to continue investing in PHP.

If I understand it correctly, most of their backend services are implemented in some other language, and their PHP code is mostly used as a more flexible templating language. If that's the case, it shouldn't be all too hard to migrate away from PHP, if the chose to do so.

It seems like they spend a lot of engineering effort in optimizing PHP, and probably also a lot of CPU cycles in executing it. I assume there is a tipping point somewhere, when the investment in PHP stops making sense, even given effort to port legacy code.

There are a lot of arguably nicer alternatives to PHP, and I bet they are not benefiting from the one really superior feature of PHP (easy deployment on shared hosting).
I see arguments for and against allowing Middleton's dress to be covered. For: it meets the criteria of being a widely covered and notable event, documented by numerous major media entities, and associated with a historical event of the ruling royal party of England. Against: yes it's just ephemeral celebrity gossip chit-chat that gives certain people (most likely, mostly women or perhaps some gay men) a feeling of warm fuzzies when thinking about it or fantasizing about it. So yes that feels wrong for Wikipedia because there are plenty of other websites and mediums for that sort of thing.

In other words, the problem is that it both belongs, and doesn't belong. And they need to resolve that paradox, maybe setting a new precedent or revising their official criteria.

I think the "not enough women" thing is just a side issue. And one that has an easy and blatantly obvious solution: if you're a woman and you want to become a Wikipedia contributor or moderator, then go do it. If enough of you do it, then the gender balance will shift notably. If enough of you are not interested, then it won't. There's nothing inherently wrong with either state of affairs, it would be just the way it is. For example, I don't think it's "wrong" that the overwhelming majority (99.8%+) of hair cut folks at Great Clips over the years, in my direct experience, have been women, because that probably just reflects the natural level of interest of men and women in working in that role. I don't feel oppressed or excluded. If I wanted to work there cutting hair, or have a man cut my hair, I'd make it happen, end of story, and if not, or either way, I'd live with it and move on.
> People using Digg killed it. The same people are now killing Reddit, making it little more than a place to regurgitate memes, nerd pop culture, and rage comics.

Are you basing theory on anything except your personal dislike of regurgitated memes, nerd pop culture and rage comics?

As far as I can tell all evidence points to the fact that Digg was in fact killed by their version 4 release, it was widely disliked by their users and you can find articles about sharp drops of pageviews (never recovered) after that specific release and, IIRC, also articles about reddit gaining pageviews at the same time.
This is taking dieting completely out of context. It's akin to saying that 1 gallon of fuel will result in the same amount of distance driven no matter how you drive.

There are advantages to cutting out high GI carbs, since they lead to a spike in insulin which results in food cravings, tiredness and hunger. Switch the sugary cereal for the oats in the morning and you'll experience this first hand.
I have added them (and the ones you and Alex added) to the article. Feel free to send me more.
Friends & Family; Among Most Important Assets in a Startup
In a startup, when times are tough the friends can keep working without instant rewards, and when times are ok, they celebrate too. In a culture like this, team members are wiling to take whatever step or sacrifice is necessary, to make the business go on.
We should eat well balanced diets that are tailored to each of us as individuals. I tried high fat high protein before and it didn't work very well with my metabolism, to spare you some details.

Listen to your body, and give it what it needs. Experiment a bit. That's what I learned after trying fad diets. The realization is we are individuals each with our own metabolism that is slightly different.

What I found is that low carb diets are a big sham. The key is not to avoid carbs, but to avoid SUGAR and HFCS. Lots of "carbs" we eat come from absolute garbage, like white bread.

Trust me, a diet of mostly high fiber green vegetables is NOT going to effect your health adversely. It will do only the opposite, no matter how many damn carbs are in it.
I agree with that, although I believe that prediction (I can't seem to dig up where it was) was more about how many new articles need to be created entirely, i.e. how many subjects Wikipedia should cover don't even have a 1-sentence stub yet. I think there are probably still several million of those, but new-article growth is inevitably slowing as low-hanging fruit has been quite well harvested.

I agree that there are a ton of the current 4 million articles that are nowhere near complete, in many cases not even 10% complete. That's an area that could use considerably more work than new-article creation imo.
I should add, I also tried "juicing" which was popularized by
films such as fat, sick, and nearly dead. What they don't tell you in that movie is that juicing the vegetables removes most of the fiber and results in you drinking what is essentially a somewhat fibrous cup of sugar and nutrients. After just a couple juices you will be bouncing off the walls....
That’s not how this technique works. There’s no magic here, just some algorithms.

It doesn’t use time and space travel to reach back into the original scene and pull data that wasn’t captured by the camera. Instead, it guesses at what the blown up image should look like based on an examination of other features already in the image, with some expectation that shapes and textures will be similar in different parts of the image and at different scales – will have a sort of fractal nature – and by aiming to make shapes with edges instead of fuzzy boundaries.

Using these algorithms can’t reveal the precise content of a license plate that was too small in the original image to see the letters of.
I really have almost no spelling mistakes with my iPhone and I generally touch the wrong key, I have found the auto-correct feature awesome! Am I alone here? I actually had much more typos on a BB since it was "trusting" all my inputs (though this could be solved, haven't seen it yet - not that it doesn't exist).

I do admit that on a hurry I have left behind a few wrong auto-corrections but it's not like I never made a typo on a computer keyboard. I definitely would not call it a "gigantic backwards step" but I may be wrong...
I tried to upvote you but accidentally hit downvote. Sorry.
Weird. Did it include any references? I haven't had these problems people are mentioning in the past few years, and I create articles now and then. They're usually not even really long ones: 1-2 paragraphs, 1-2 sources cited. Usually on historical stuff, e.g. ancient Greek archaeological sites, or minor 18th/19th-century government officials, scientists, or inventors.

The most common outcome is that I never hear from anybody. The articles don't get nominated for deletion, and neither do they get improved by anyone else.
You are contradicting yourself by stating that diets should be tailored to our needs but at the same time you slag off a diet that might fit someone else.
It would be interesting to know the injury/fatality stats for the kind of roads you're describing. If the rates are high (relatively speaking) then I would argue that yes a total conversion to computer controlled driving (when available) is the only socially acceptable thing to do. Public safety would trump your personal enjoyment of the act of riding.

Realistically speaking though truly autonomous driving in tricky (even for humans) conditions like you describe is probably a long way off, although within our lifetimes I would think. The other option is a total rethink of the city/suburb nightmare that we now live in. But that's a debate for another time :)
G4S is just the latest in a long line of outsourcing disasters
Great article, but one minor nitpick; I have a hard time believing that Apple's policy of only allowing personal email addresses isn't just to maximize profits. I imagine they require a personal email address so that everyone in an organization has to pay the $100 developer fee.
Because all women love dresses, just like all geeks love linux.
I have always wondered why the Adkins diet seems to work. The article basically says it is both more successful and yet has no physiological reason for being more successful. So why?

My first guess would be: carbs/bread is cheap and usually comes in large quantities, like unlimited bread baskets. Meat is expensive and comes in smaller quantities. So eating mostly meat just makes it easier to consume fewer calories by default. But again that's just a guess.
He says that he can explain away the difference in calorie burning as an effect of the measuring method later in the article.
"Ergo, the diet is a good thing" is what the proposers of that diet say. On the contrary, Dr. Hirsch says that "when carbohydrate levels are low in a diet and fat content is high, people lose water. That can confuse attempts to measure energy output" ergo, the measurements were mistaken and there is not advantage from a low-carbs diet (as proved from Dr. Hirschs's experiments in a controlled environment).
They've gone and deleted the page on Atomic Dielectric Resonance Scanning as well, seemingly on the basis that the page was made by the son of the guy who invented the technology.
What these ridiculous study cherry picking groups overlook is the satiating effects of high protein consumption. An attempt at a high protein body building diet ended with me losing 10kg of fat.

Eat lot's of protein and your appetite just dies, fat/carbs a lot of the time make no difference. It's just easy on the high fat diet to avoid high glycemic response carbs and fructose.

Plus palatability, sugar makes you over eat. Plain and simple, High levels of protein cause one to undereat. Take your pick.
I've found SQLAlchemy to be very nice, actually. It first provides very basic abstractions on top of SQL, things like defining tables/columns and querying without having to mess around with strings.

That alone is most of the usefulness of SQLAlchemy, as it lets you write subqueries and joins extremely easily.

On top of that, the (optional) ORM is built as models on top of SQLAlchemy's table/relationship API. These models can be queried almost exactly like the raw tables.
The full PDF explaining their method is linked at the top of the page. http://www.wisdom.weizmann.ac.il/~vision/single_image_SR/fil...

[...] there is plenty of patch redundancy within a single image L. Let p be a pixel in L, and P be its surrounding patch (e.g., 5 × 5), then there exist multiple similar patches P1,...Pk in L (inevitably, at sub-pixel shifts). These patches can be treated as if taken from k different low-resolution images of the same high resolution “scene”, thus inducing k times more linear constraints (Eq. (1)) on the high-resolution intensities of pixels within the neighborhood of q ∈ H (see Fig. 3b). For increased numerical stability, each equation induced by a patch Pi is globally scaled by the degree of similarity of Pi to its source patch P. [...]

[...] Assuming sufficient neighbors are found, this process results in a determined set of linear equations on the unknown pixel values in H. Globally scale each equation by its reliability (determined by its patch similarity score), and solve the linear set of equations to obtain H.

Then they also add patches at different scale by making a few more versions of the image which have been scaled down by various amounts, and doing comparisons between the target patch and patches in those images too. If good matches are found, they can then use the original higher-resolution original patch that yielded the match when it was shrunk.
While I don't agree with the extent of deletion taht wikipedia sees, I do see a point in avoiding pollution of the search space. There are a lot of celebrity weddings. And frankly, 'affect on fashion industry' really isn't going to be large in the grand scheme of things, just like having an article just for the linux kernel 2.6.29 isn't going to be huge.

Make a page called 'notable wedding dresses' and stick it in there. Would any geek but the most insanely hardcore really want a separate page for each minor version of Perl? No, of course not. And that's what the effect of celebrity wedding dresses is like in the world of fashion: a minor dot-point revision of one tool.
In vim, you can execute shell commands straight from the main command mode (the default mode starts in). For a C project, compiling might be as simple as typing:

:!make

Then run with:

:!./myprog

In both cases, the output will be viewable in a temporary window. You can also pipe the output of a shell command into a vim buffer (aka file) by prefixing you command with "r":

:r !./myprog

This takes all the output from ./myprog and lets you view/edit it in vim.

If your language has a more involved build process, chances are someone has written a plugin to help you and posted it on the vim scripts page: http://www.vim.org/scripts/script_search_results.php.

Enjoy :)
A ban on self promotion, if overzealous, has the problem that it can be used to remove articles by the people who have the most expertise in a given subject.
Dual SIM AirTyme Picasso DG50 Smartphone Launched in India 
AirTyme Communications has launches its new unique and innovative smartphone AirTyme Picasso DG50 for Indian consumers. It is a affordable price phone with host of customization features that enables its owners to truly make their phone an extension of their personality. This GSM/GPRS/EDGE 3G Quad Band phone runs on Android 2.3.5 operating system. It sports a 3.5" (8.89 cm) capacitive touch screen and artistic motifs and high-end dual cameras - 5.0 MP camera with auto focus allows instant high-quality capture of a scene and secondary front-facing camera permits video calling and video chat over Wi-Fi or 3G networks.
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I have not seen Wikipedia "moving in this directon." I had some editors delete a 5 year old page with multiple published sources and 10+ inbound wikipedia links on it. I am getting it reviewed now. There are some bad apple editors on Wikipedia who are high up on their horses.
Correction: it only interferes if it thinks you're going to crash. This is an important distinction. The question is, are the number of false alarms (and there will be false alarms) going to cause more crashes than the system prevents?
> The fundamental issue here seems to be that there's a select group of "Wikipedians" who are the primary editors.

It's actually not clear that's true when it comes to primary writers. There are a group of active editors (about 3000 at any given time) who do much of the maintenance work, e.g. putting articles into categories, formatting references, editing for style, moving stuff around, adding infoboxes, etc. But at least one study (I'll see if I can dig it up) found that a surprising percentage of the total content on Wikipedia is written by random anonymous IP addresses that show up to write a few paragraphs on a subject and are then never seen again.
That kind of info in the linked article really should be in an aggregated article, not it's own page. It barely qualifies as a stub article.
Unfortunately they seemed to start with the question "how can we use Chrome and Google products" rather than how can we best present the story. Understandable based on Google's funding of the project. E.g. Do you really need linking in separate windows when you could have used divs? Beautiful illustrations though.
It doesn't seem to work with fullscreen. Hope that helps.
Try RC4YL9.

It really is super impressive.
Link title should add "in Slovenia". It's more accurate, and it will save HNers time by giving a clue as to probable major contributor to the issues experienced.
I haven't had a phone for something like 3 or 4 years. (I did briefly have a Nokia brick that I used maybe once or twice to make calls, but mostly as an alarm clock without a sim card.)

I spend a lot of time working at my laptop all day, and I don't want another full-blown computer in my pocket to suck my attention when I'm away from my laptop. Typically when I'm away from my laptop I'm busy with something--taking a walk in the park, drinking with frinds--that I don't want interrupted.

I also find that I can live perfectly fine without calls. I schedule things in advance with my girlfriend/friends, and email is enough for that. Maybe there's been one or two times in the past few years where I've really truly needed a phone (and I can't remember a specific case, but I assume there must have been such a time!).
I've worked in an Emergency Room. Literally every single person who worked there drove a car. Both trauma surgeons were motorcycle enthusiasts. I'm friends with pulmonologists who smoke, psychiatrists who drink, endocrinologists who are fat.

Having seen the possible consequences of a bad decision first-hand does not, in fact, stop people from making bad decisions.
Yeah, it's configurable between "Demand my password again if 15 minutes has passed" and "Demand my password again immediately." You can tell you're going in the wrong direction when you first have to "enable restrictions" hoping to relax the restriction. I take it you've never actually tried to configure this option.
> Have you ever looked at the Mediawiki code base? Last time I skimmed a bit, a few years ago, it was an utterly horrible mess of spaghetti PHP.

That's basically the problem. They are devoting considerable resources to a GUI editor, and I believe have several paid staff, both programmers and UI/UX experts, dedicated to the project. But as step #1 it needed a rewrite of the horrible-mess-of-regexes parser into some kind of actual semantic parser, which due to the feature-creep of wikitext syntax (which looks nothing at all like a well-behaved programming language syntax) turned out not to be easy going.

They commissioned a full usability study in 2010: http://usability.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_Usability_Init...

Here is some information on the parser-rewrite project: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Parsoid

And on the visual-editor project: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/VisualEditor
The patent does sound very bad indeed, but I think politicians will get a lot more worked up over a patent that can affect the US financial industry, than one that affects the tech industry.
Higgs Boson: What is it?
The US' 4 July celebrations this year won't be just about Americans celebrating Independence Day and unofficially kicking off their summer holiday season. It could also bring news of some significance from physicists in Europe, who've been in hot pursuit of a mysterious subatomic particle known as the Higgs boson — and a better glimpse at the nature of the universe.
But theoretical physics is very complicated science. As for the significant discovery was made? What is the "Higgs boson" ? "Standard Model" ? And what significance the boson discovery will have on humanity and science in general?
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.planemo.higgsBoson
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I am honestly asking, is there a simple reason why, lets say python, can't be easily deployed on shared hosting. Let's take Heroku, probably the easiest way. It will take some persistance: https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/quickstart + https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/python and that's just the hello world. So my question is why is like that, can it be solved? What are the technical limitations for it? I know complicated things are complicated and if there would be some simple other way around it, it would already be like that, but then again what is the reason?
Don't buy in to the fear mentality that's strangling American discourse. People were dealing with emergencies just fine without cell phones... just 15 years ago.
While I think a lot of people would get used to it (as proven by the amount of people who have all their lives and conversations in public on Facebook), there definitely will still be some who are aware of the consequences.

The whole "overshare your whole life publicly on the internet" situation is starting to get out of hand. I don't need to tell HN'ers, but once something is put online, it's there forever, available to any of the 7 billion people alive right now, and it will be available to anybody else that ever lives in the future. Yet still people continue to post content that is immature, embarrassing, risqué, illegal/incriminating, etc. using their full names and identities for the world to see.

But a full Wikipedia article for every person? Do you really want anybody on the planet to have your full DOB, birthplace, educational history, employment history, place of residence, pictures, etc. AND then have all of that information for your spouses, parents, children?

This is getting too crazy.
Not really. Facebook is geared towards logging your whole life (with more or less detail), not having a small profile page.

See Rob Pike's[1] Wiki page, for example; it's just a couple of paragraphs describing where he was born and what he did and does professionally. From his personal life, there's only 8 words.

I'm someone who likes to remain pseudo-anonymous, but I'd be OK with a page like that.
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I was seriously trolling, also known as taking an idea to its logical extreme to make a point.

You're presenting a false choice here. There's lots of other ways to attack the drunk driving problem without taking everyone's drivers licenses away and banning normal driving, as the OP was advocating.
Thanks for posting that. (Though I really only learned how super not OK with a tiling window manager that was.)
One big problem with Wikipedia, and the big cause of the ongoing deletionism controversy, is the divergent purposes of outside content creators and wikipedian editors.

Most of the outside creators contribute out of direct interest in the subject matter. Too much editing is done for ego-boos and a sense of enpowerment. This isn't always true, of course, but it is true often enough to generate the problem and keep it going.
Atlassian recently stripped the wikisyntax editor from their wiki, forcing the editor to be a newbie-friendly WYSIWYG GUI that's not really WYSIWYG (it uses a lot of incorrect size placeholders). Thing is, it is easier for newbie users... but the data structures are insanely more generic and it's much harder to make the data on your page fit in a way that's consumable for the reader. Worst of all, it doesn't handle old wikisyntax pages at all well, so if you need to update an old table, it can cause problems.

A good GUI editor is one that produces good output - and that is really hard to do, particularly in the constrained space of a webpage.
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