skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hmmm, downvotes. Hey Fred! Get in here, and bring the spare sensor filaments. I think we have some sarcasm detectors on the fritz.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poes_law
Argentina is applying the same model every time! Just when the country is growing it is not about the model but about International conditions (commodities prices increasing 2x)
So, this is really just an allegory about Minimum Viable Products, right?
It's small, it's a server, it's cheap, but it's also terribly underpowered. Any desktop i3 CPU is three times as fast. It doesn't support more than 8GB of RAM or more than 4 thin (LFF) HDDs, so you cannot use it as a storage device or RAM database.
Ravish, we are based out of Bangalore and so far we never had 12 hours a day power outage. Max we have faced 4-5 hours of power outage for couple of occasions in summer.
In general power outage is not more than an hour or two in a week, which is manageable with UPS & Generator combo.

From Hertzer pricing page, add 1Gbit port cost of 50$ a month, data transfer charges etc would make it much more expensive. Considering our usage, we felt private infra would be a better choice.
Short and consistent feedback latency is crucial for movement coordination. Think adapting to wind conditions and landing/liftoff in rough conditions.
The only thing that separates us from other animals is a persistent desire to separate ourselves from other animals.
Thanks for your reply. I remember the ordeal on the internals list .. but what does that have to do with maintainability?
Once science shows how they evolved, they will be more than welcome.
An acquisition would only make sense if they had relevant patents to purchase, which they do not.
That's unfortunate. Properly using prototypes and "this" is the only way to do high-performance JavaScript with objects.

Get cozy with them -- they're useful.
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> You often won't have a name other than the id, and the id won't normally be in wikipedia

I wonder how long before this stops being the case. (e.g., http://i.imgur.com/Eiq5h.png)
Thanks Peter.
We are getting good pointers. Will try to figure out some way to fix.
What good would it have done for him to think of it? He couldn't fix the problem; only Apple could.
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Absolutely. My friend was living in a studio on Hamilton Street in downtown Palo Alto for $1000/mo earlier this year. Additionally there are places in Sunnyvale that you can rent for a good deal which will let you shell out the $100/mo for access to Hacker Dojo which would only be a 15 minute drive away.

Having lived in SV all my life, these "Hacker Hostels" just seem like a way for the operators to exploit those who flock to their services, who just don't know any better.
The first glitch? You're kidding, right?
The work that Max Ogden has done in terms of making ETL something to easily do in browser is amazing. His earlier work (as you can guess from the name) was all layered on Couch but this can do so much more. Some of it is just the basic usefulness of writing costco style transformations in simple JS.

JS really is a fine language for data.
Facebook invests in 55-terabit intra-Asia submarine cable system
Gigaom estimates sales at $10m for 2011, based on their annual report claim of distributing 100,000 frames.

http://gigaom.com/2012/03/26/at-warby-parker-the-power-of-br...

http://www.warbyparker.com/annual-report-2011
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See issue 104487 for one recent example. An issue was flagged up where HTML5 videos weren't playing properly when given a poster image but no controls attribute.

The issue was closed almost immediately, with some obviously hastily written comments, apparently because no-one could reproduce it in a different version of Chrome on Linux or Mac. As far as I can see, no-one even tried to reproduce the other reported failing case on Windows, and there was no attempt at all to investigate the original bug and determine how it happened and why it was no longer observable on the platforms tested.

The issue was simply marked "fixed", despite no actual fix having been identified, rather than giving it a more specific "no longer reproducible" status.

There are still serious problems with that combination of attributes today.
As someone who travels a lot, I've been hoping to get more out of this app, but it's been almost 2 years now, and I can only choose Spanish or French. (according to this page Italian is also available, but I don't have that option on my phone yet)

Since they're only translating each individual word (and not phrases or sentences), I wonder why it takes them so long to put out new languages.
I think the article was a great introduction. This is coming from someone who knows nothing about it but we run similar programs in Atlanta (tasteless plug - www.juniorengineer.us). These things are not well understood by the mainstream. The culture needed to create stellar developers and awesome startupx and products is a conundrum to some and is only recently being analyzed because of the success of accelerators like Y-combinator and Tech stars. People who are unfamiliar with these concepts need points of reference so don't beat them up too bad

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Not always. While it is highly likely that Google could hire (or already has) the talent to build the same thing, acquiring a finished product and the talent that built it can be cheaper and faster than DIY. But yes, having a patent would make a deal even sweeter.
It's not the rule in the U.S. that deposits must be in dollars. (Most banks will let you open up foreign-currency accounts...they just charge more. A lot more.)

However, foreign currency-denominated accounts are subject to yearly gain/loss recognition as the value of the foreign currency changes compared to the dollar. This could potentially trigger income taxes on the unrealized gain, effectively (and usually) reducing or eliminating any interest earned. It's also a PITA for banks to deal with the compliance paperwork.
I remember seeing Amazon's recommendations as I hit the homepage and thinking "wow, those are all exactly the sort of thing I'd want. Their recommendation system is nailing it!" On further inspection, the secret turned out to be... that all of those items had been lifted from my wishlist.
Just for correctness, Oracle made 7 patent infringement claims against Google, and was left with only 2 by the time of the trial because of the reexaminations.

And Google didn't argue invalidity because they agreed (to streamline the trial).
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Something Awful on particular subforums are good for this. It has its nonsense areas just like 4chan and Reddit, but it's worth a look. Catchphrases, trolling, low-content and the like are heavily policed.
I'm not using jquery and I had a lot of problems getting the position and offset of click and elements. I guess it still need more work.
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One really impressive thing to me about 4chan's infrastructure: All traffic is served via 4 machines. Two webservers, a database and an admin/cron box. 22M uniques on 4 machines is insane. Hopefully Chris will write more about his setup some day. (Note: these boxes were directly serving all traffic up until ~6 months ago when Cloudflare was introduced)
The title reminds me of this quote (which entrepreneurs will appreciate) from Christopher Morley's Where the Blue Begins:

"There is only one success ... to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it."

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/1402/1402.txt
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I agree with this as well. When Google+ came out I was thinking "Why are they afraid of Facebook?" Generally, the utility of Google will always far surpass the utility of Facebook. They may "compete", but only in the sense that both of their users spend time on the internet, and they both make money from online advertising.

It is a huge strategic mistake for Google to look at Facebook think that Facebook makes money due to how long people spend on their site.

Facebook makes their money in volume of page views. Google makes its money in quality of page views. Trying to be social and dragging people out of Facebook is going to be impossible. Conversely, Facebook trying to do search and dragging people out of Google is futile given their core business.

The Google guys are smart. I can't imagine how they are afraid of Facebook. Social data requires context, which is hard to get. Facebook screws it up all the time. Data-data (not social drivel) requires discovery, which is much easier to execute on and Google has done that really well.

My advice to Google: stop sweating Facebook. Like your momma always told you, "Just be yourself and everyone will like you."
Thank for the feedback. Ill add a welcome page or something.
And I wasnt too sure what to call it. But basically it allows you to search youtube and add songs to the playlist all from the dropdown. You can also add entire albums instantly.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immature_ovum#Size

Even bigger:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valonia_ventricosa
It may be splitting hairs, but I don't see anyone able to step up and address the mods necessary to ZE2 to support any new features, ever. We're basically stuck with ZE2, and we (as a community) make the best of it. ZE isn't 'maintained' actively, it just exists, and I haven't heard of any plans for an overhaul or new version. Compare that progress to the JVM and .NET CLR over the last 12 years.
It's a virtual environment; presumably, one could set the "wall clock" rate of the sim to account for inter-room, or even inter-continental comms latencies.
However, I'm confused by the blog post implying that the solution to unbricking the apps was somehow novel or praiseworthy.

In the 4 years of the App Store we've never seen a distribution problem of this magnitude (it would be an absolute nightmare for any devs affected) and we really have no idea how Apple would respond to such a problem.

We've also never seen Apple unilaterally update a specific group of apps like this. Many App Store devs likely didn't think Apple would or could take such action, and those of us familiar with what it takes for a device to accept and install new bits are now wondering just how this is being done.

Are they manually bumping each affected app's version string? Is there there some hidden field that forces a device to reinstall the same version of an app? It's curious.
Indeed, and it already seemed like this was definitely on their to-do list from the Glass keynote. I don't know how you could build a product like Glass and /not/ do that (other than it perhaps being an extremely difficult problem ;P).

More than that, microphone + reasonable speech recognition = everybody you talk to is instantly subtitled. Also an extremely difficult problem, but one I'll bet will be commonplace in 15 years.
IANAL, but I would think the wholesale scraping and republishing of entire copyrighted research papers would be a pretty dark shade of grey, no?
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Ask HN: Role of whitespaces in coding standards / style guide.
Just wanted to gauge how many people think whether being particular about spaces, line breaks and tabbing is a valuable addition in a coding style guide? (The opposite being leave it open for developers to make a sane decision). For people who want specifics: This question is in reference to C++. I would post my own opinion but I do not want to add bias to the discussion. Thanks.
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ok thanks, didn't realize that had changed, will revisit
Are you new to the Internet? Detect/ban... against 4chan users. facepalm
Related: this bookmarklet turns the page into a game of Asteroids. http://kickassapp.com/
Don't underestimate the amount of work, expertise and experience required to arrive at word lens, to date I've to yet to see this technology duplicated elsewhere. Google has acquire hire before recently with milk inc, I don't see why they can't with this team.
This is a great description of R usage (import, clean, fit models), but I think a slightly erroneous explanation of R history.

John Chambers created "S" at Bell Labs. S was a programming language designed for interactive statistical analysis. Much like gcc and icc are implementations of C compilers, R and S-PLUS are implementations of S. S-PLUS was/is the primary proprietary implementation of the S language, whereas R is the primary free one (also, sometimes called GNU S). (SAS and SPSS are completely different languages/systems as far as I know.) I think that statisticians at some point made a conscious effort to publish their work in R, rather than S-PLUS (or any other statistical system like SAS) because it was more widely available. That in turn led R to be a viable competitor to S-PLUS (and other systems) because it had vast amounts of recent statistical libraries, often implemented by the people who developed the techniques. That said, SAS and SPSS seem to pretty much still have social science students locked up --- the market for R is probably statisticians who are also excellent functional programmers.

This history is in really marked contrast to MATLAB and its corresponding free version Octave, where computer scientists pretty much refuse to use Octave, despite MATLAB's massive price tag to pretty much everyone involved (even with 90% discounts).

(That said, if anyone lived through the change over from S-PLUS to R, I'd love to hear if this history is wrong!)
No, an ostrich cell really is a single cell.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egg_yolk
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I've been using Zenni Optical, which I guess is disrupting the broken system of Warby Parker by undercutting their prices by yet another factor of 5, just like Warby Parker did to brick and mortar stores.
If you had wind and enough control of the building, you could funnel wind over water to cool, no power required. That was a method to make ice, a thousand years ago.

I love what you've done for so little cost.
What about creating a system of income-based drug pricing? If done correctly, this wouldn't even hurt profits... it would maximize them. And, everyone gets treated. Win/win.

Note that pharma companies already try to do this (because price discrimination does maximize profits), but they break pricing down by country. Countries with low per-capita income are charged less. But this neglects low-income people living in high per-capita income countries like the US; just because you live in the US does not mean you can afford the highest price. A pricing system based on individual incomes would solve this.

Furthermore, individualized pricing would help to limit the offshoring of jobs. Consider that an auto worker in the US has to pay the full US price for medication, but an auto worker in China only has to pay the price in China, which is undoubtedly lower. Therefore, the current system of nation-based pricing distorts economic incentives and unnecessarily encourages the offshoring of jobs. But a system of individual income-based pricing would correct this, and make US auto workers more competitive with their foreign competition.
Not a bad post for those who haven't done this before. I could have used this guide a few years ago.
Anyone know any UK based equivalents ?
IIFE argument madness
It's not clear they learned the simplest and most import ant fact: You have to be able to migrate your production traffic away from whole regions.
Wait wait, this Turkish bug is just under TEN YEARS OLD?
Mind blown! Having everyone subtitled would be way cool for traveling abroad. But even more so for the hearing impaired.
Do you have 1 Gbit leased line in Bangalore? How much is the data transfer cap and who is your ISP?
I've often wished for something like this when helping someone learn remotely. For example, let's say I'm hanging out in #ruby-lang (IRC) and someone posts a Gist they need help with. Forking and editing their Gist works great, but there is real power in watching someone make changes to code piece-by-piece.

I voted for OpenSource, but only because I think this is the kind of tool that can thrive in an OSS environment. I wouldn't let that stop you from setting up a service as well.
I like the family computer in a shared space, I think that encourages responsible use, it's the only thing I could come up with that did not over censor.
Not compatible with the n1 either which is pretty rare. I wonder why...
The perils of excessive testing...
Does anyone have any information about their database and the rest of the software that runs the site? Caching methods, if any? 4chan's stats vs their hardware and cost structure is mind blowing to me.
Thats interesting. And 4chan had only one guy (moot) managing all of this makes it even more impressive.

By the way, some of the posters commenting on 4chan degrading morality. This is an anon forum and its just a reflection of our society! The Guardian summarized 4chan as "lunatic, juvenile... brilliant, ridiculous and alarming". Perhaps the best description for 4chan.

And remember 4chan gave us LolCats, Memes, Rage faces etc.
The American dream is (or was?) to own a mansion in the suburbs, living in isolation. I wonder whether the people living in this environment change their American-dream target to something more communal. Maybe some hope to find it at work, but that is tough given all of the constraints at work (e.g., worrying about ranking and rating with your peers). But if you don't get access to social and human capital in real life, you can at least find it here or on reddit.
Didn't watch the movie, but I think the functionality is awesome :)

Would love to see a gallery of what people have come up with.

Is it possible to see source code?
Reads a bit too much like ad copy for my tastes. Or rather I read it with the intent to understand more about the content in the parentheses, not Warby Parker. :)

That being said they are situated in a vertical that has efficiency players (Zenni Optical, Coastal Contacts) but haven't mastered the design/marketing/CS game yet. Going Zappos-style is their entrenchment mechanism, as well as the in-house designers.
So, I'm guessing that the e-mail blacklist comment that BitSnoop e-mailed is a lie, since we have the response?
If FB figures out social searching (combining intent-based, search driven advertising with social qualification), Google will be in trouble if they don't have a matching strategy.

That if is a really big one. In the meantime, Google has lost its way. I'm using it less and less as it tries to be more and more.

The other big problem is I've lost faith in them to be good with all my data they hold. Once upon a time, "Don't be evil" seemed to be interpreted as "Be good"; now, they may not be outright evil, but I think they have moved away from "Be good". Because my email and search history contains more sensitive information than the stuff I allow on FB, that is concerning.

So, while social may be important for Google, the bigger issue I see is that they've lost their identity. I no longer really understand who Google is and what it is trying to accomplish. Maybe that is inevitable at a company their size (Apple, an obvious counter to that, is anomalous in many ways).

In the end, I miss the simple search interface.
Why? A blog seems like one of the last things one would want to build with websockets, what advantages do they provide in this context? Also, the js on your page isn't working and an image is 403ing.
Super simplified summary: because the probabilities can interfere with each other in controlled ways.

Bits vs Qubits

Suppose you have 3 bits, but you don't know what state they are in. Could be 000, 001, 010, 011, 100, 101, 110, or 111. There is a probability of the state being each of those possibilities. However, the bits are actually in one of these states. Any operation you perform, like 'increment', will take one fixed input and give one fixed output.

Now suppose you have 3 qubits, but you don't know what state they are in. Could be 000, 001, 010, 011, 100, 101, 110, or 111. There is a probability of the state being each of those possibilities. However, the probability is derived from a "magnitude" or "amplitude" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Probability_amplitude) which sortof actually physically exists. The bits are not in exactly one of the states. They "really" have an amplitude/probability.

Ok, whatever, so the probabilities are "magnitudes" and "actually exist". How does that help? Well ... you can perform operations that 'rotate' the magnitudes in ways that make them interfere with each other in ways that give the right answer more and more magnitude as you iterate. Keep in mind these rotations are over a huge number of magnitudes (2^n) but their running times are polynomial in the number of qubits (n). This allows you to do things like Grover's algorithm (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grover%27s_algorithm), searching N unordered items in O(Sqrt(N)) time:

// http://tph.tuwien.ac.at/~oemer/doc/quprog/node17.html#SECTION00513300000000000000
procedure grover(int n) {
int l=floor(log(n,2))+1; // no. of qubits
int m=ceil(pi/8*sqrt(2^l)); // no. of iterations
int x;
int i;
qureg q[l];
qureg f[1];

{
reset;
Mix(q); // prepare superposition
for i= 1 to m { // main loop
query(q,f,n); // calculate C(q)
CPhase(pi,f); // negate |n>
!query(q,f,n); // undo C(q)
diffuse(q); // diffusion operator
}
measure q,x; // measurement
print "measured",x;
} until x==n;
}
The Crockford book is 4 years old now, is it still considered to be a good book to pickup? I've done JS off and on for a while, but mostly haphazardly (with an emphasis on the hazard). I'm looking to start doing some backbone.js and jquery and a book to help start off with it.
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Branding is where so many companies miss the mark. Nice to see someone explain it properly. Brand = customer engagement and experience.

When you do it right, you get evangelism, customers who will spread your message, and growing network effects.

I can't help but suspect that Ryan's strong branding expertise comes from a history in hospitality.
It is also supported in SAP's HANA (in-memory database).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SAP_HANA#R_integration
I was totally impress by the speed of IE 9 running in a virtualbox instance on my macbook pro. Times they are changing!
The headline is a bit misleading, though. Amoebas seem to be just used as a reference point, where I kept expecting more salience - some adaptation of the wasp to deal specifically with the fact that it was smaller than an amoeba in particular, rather than just with the fact that it was small. Nevertheless, confusion aside, it's fascinating stuff!
They have known and been doing things about bad Perl advice for a lot longer than a year. There have been idiots who have made reputations based on some of the worst possible code you can imagine and it has taken a lot of time to convince newcomers that they should read and ask questions else where. The good news is that the communities like PerlMonks do an excellent job of good advice (occasionally with really good flame wars :) ), the trouble being that it may take a little bit of luck for the beginner to stumble across the resource.
Even so, it's just flame-bait.
Thats interesting. And 4chan had only one guy (moot) managing all of this makes it even more impressive.

By the way, some of the posters commenting on 4chan degrading morality. This is an anon forum and its just a reflection of our society! The Guardian summarized 4chan as "lunatic, juvenile... brilliant, ridiculous and alarming". Perhaps the best description for 4chan.

And remember 4chan gave us LolCats, Memes, Rage faces etc.

P.S. By the way, why did mods kill the other thread?
If more fat americans is a success, I guess that makes sense.
I literally could not agree more with the sentiment expressed in this article. Good stuff.
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