skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes! Mind blown (again). :)

While it's really enjoyable to talk/think about these topics from a purely scientific point of view, there's another side to all this, which is the sheer beauty of such a thing.

There's a great show on Discovery called How the Universe Works. Season 1 had an episode called Galaxies that sorta touches on some of this. The graphics for the show, first off, are awesome. When they show the super zoomed out view of all the galaxy clusters and how everything is connected, immediately I thought, "wow, those look like neurons".

And that's where the beauty of nature comes in. You can start to see how systems arrange and the patterns used from the micro to the macro. The distances on either level are incomprehensible (strings, atoms, molecules, galaxies, universe), but the patterns are visible.

And this is why I love science. While I'm not a physicist, I always appreciated Feynman because you could see he had that same love for the extremely complex and the simple observations - and he had a great way of describing it. I think the same goes for Sagan, although, in a totally different field. But Sagan too just had that love for the beauty of nature, on top of his accomplishments of the Mariner missions and other planetary science.

I have a 6mo son right now and I hope to instill that love of the beauty of nature through science. We're each an insignificant speck on an insignificant blue speck in an unfathomable universe. But, our connections to each other and our appreciation for the beauty of it all are a privilege. And posts like this, shows like How the Universe Works will be my way of conveying to him his place in it all. I hope he'll appreciate it someday like I do.

I hope, some day all people will.
> Deletionists are capricious and arbitrary, reversals are beauracratic, complex and lengthy (if even possible)

The article was clearly talking about repairing bot edits; since bots are almost* universally restricted to editor capabilities, all their actions are undoable. I have myself occasionally reverted bot edits - but very rarely, since generally bots are very good at what they do, and as the article says, they have made a huge difference in vandalism fighting.

(On the other hand, the article omits one of the major instances of bot abuse: the use of scripts/bots by a few editors to ram through removal of all the {{spoiler}} templates despite the absence of consensus to deprecate their use.)

* I remember a few proposals for admin-bots, but I don't remember whether they passed the Bot people or whether they were to do irreversible actions like deletion.
http://blog.regehr.org/archives/767
I imagine that for $20, the way you know the bike is ready to throw out is that you've been riding it for more than a week on vacation.
$3.56 coke must be mighty special.
Really enjoyed looking at the data—nice compilation!

One quick question, what do these badges mean:

http://cl.ly/image/1X0T2E1a0T2m
Research project offers 'immortality' by transplanting brains into robot bodies
FYI, Django/Flask would be the better Python analog; Flask is more similar to Sinatra in its structure (not just syntax), and it was in fact modeled after Sinatra.

But as for your main point, I agree - I don't see the appeal of writing an entire application in Javascript. You pick the best tools for the job, rather than picking one and shoehorning it into every use case. Server-side and client-side needs are different, so I don't see any problem in using a different language on each side.

To preempt the responses of 'But it's so much easier to use one common language for an entire stack', I'll have to say that, at least for me, passing data between client and server feels no easier (syntactically or conceptually) in Node.js than in Python/Ruby. YMMV.
I have to agree - I love all the technical details in these articles so much that I used to read them in detail long before I switched to the Mac... It was probably the biggest thing that convinced me to change (that, and I wanted a laptop that didn't look and feel like cheap plasticy rubbish, which apart from Apple products were few and far between then).
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The Olympics may be the single most overly commercialized event in human history. It is far and above more about brand exposure, corporate profit, and sex in the Olympic village than about athletics, sportsmanship or nations putting aside their differences.

I for one will not be watching, and 2 months after when everybody forgets everything that happened other than Michael Phelps rippin' a bong, not a soul will care.
No issues here, on a 2010 MacBook Air.
You can look in your city for local computer salvages. Contact them and let them know what you're doing.

I scrape up awesome computers here in the sub $80 range. Recently picked up one with a nice video card. This is a good place because they get paid to come get the stuff which usually works fine. I ran the Electronic Recycle Program at the National Aquarium in Baltimore.
No, Londinium MMXII: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/apr/17/london-2...
I often feel bad for computer science researchers in the 50s and 60s. It isn't that they were any less smart than today, it's just that where they had kilo-X, we have giga-X, if not tera-X or even peta-X.

One of my evolutionary computation professors said that he had a deck of cards that he carried from job to job, university to university, running bits of his evolutionary computation experiment on spare cycles, an experiment that runs in fractions of a second on hardware at the time he told the story in 2001. Presumably now it would run in even more fractional fractions of a second.
Yes.

I don't want to give up my life and income to raise children and I freely admit that I look down on those how do -- how can you possibly give up your future and salary for something as trivial, mundane and boring as a baby?
His point about long scrolling web pages isn't actually valid. The way to do it is to have a table of contents, and fragment identifiers for each section.
£2.30 a bottle??? What the fuck are Coke thinking? Paying all that money to sponsor the games and then absolutely shafting anyone who actually buys your drink. Everyone will be walking away saying "Fuck me, that coke was expensive." - I can't believe that's the message they're wanting to leave behind.

I have a flat in London, but I'm staying away for the whole of the Olympics. I'm ashamed of the whole thing. "At this unprecedented time of War, Crisis and Recession. Your Dear Government offer you to enjoy the International Games. But you must Be Cautious at all times. Our Security Services and Army will try to ensure that you are not killed while watching the shot-put."
> Trying to bully the competition with purchased patents and lawyers will only turn people off their products

Actually, I doubt it will, as very few people care about the rivalry between large corporations. Apple even started suing mom & pop cafes that had the apple logo or just the word "Apple" in their name, and even that didn't hurt their image much.
The OSX Business Model
It's really a judgement call, but trying to remove every API dependency before you launch is most likely over-optimization. I'd suggest focusing on launching and refactoring later on, for two reasons:

1. If the app doesn't generate revenue, the time spent refactoring now will be wasted.

2. Your users won't care about whether or not you're using APIs when it's time to sign up.

Just make sure you have a plan in mind for what to do if the APIs do become unavailable, make sure the dependent code fails gracefully, and until then, just keep on truckin'.
Start with laws rewriting copyright to make it a CRIMINAL offence to use: the name of the country's capital city together with either the numeric value of this year, or the name of the season between spring and autumn.

Spending $Bn of taxpayers money on 'infrastructure' that is going to be used for 2weeks and then given away for next to nothing to friends/supporters afterwards. And at the same time cutting funding to schools and community sports.

Using the army as cheap labour when the company given the contract for security decided it was going to be profitable enough and walked away

All this so a bizarrely coiffured lunatic and his oily friends in Westminster can appear on global TV
This seems cool and fun, and potentially a great engineering exercise. That is, you have to build around the properties of your material. But from an environmental and economic perspective I am deeply unconvinced. A simple but well made and well maintained bicycle can be quite cheap and perform extremely efficiently for decades.

I used to fix bikes and old Raliegh three speeds were just the most amazing machines I've ever dealt with. Replace the rubber parts, true the wheels, and tighten the brakes and they are good to go again... thirty or forty years after they rolled off the assembly line. That is efficient.
Greatness in this sense means you're able to provide value beyond the bounds of your job description. Some people, especially engineers, tend to be heads-down and focused on the specific tasks and responsibilities assigned to them, and everything else is "not my job" ... in other words "good followers"

But the people who end up leading the team are the ones who not only do what was assigned to them, but can also bring forward completely new ideas, volunteer to lead that effort, and reach out to other teams to provide guidance on how this new thing involves them ... other words "good leaders"
I find it slightly amusing that nginx+unicorn is called a "traditional" setup because Phusion Passenger predates Unicorn. :)

It is true that Phusion Passenger Enterprise addresses rolling restart, but its Unicorn counterpart is not preload_app. Phusion Passenger's "smart spawning" works by first loading the app into a master process, then forking off multiple worker processes from that. Sounds familiar? That's because it's exactly the same as Unicorn's "preload_app true". Our implementation predates Unicorn.

Preloading/smart spawning in itself does not prevent app deployments from blocking clients. Rolling restarts do.

We also do rolling restarts in a different way than Unicorn does it: Unicorn works by starting a set of workers in the background, then replacing the existing ones. This means that during a rolling restart, Unicorn may require twice the memory usage. Phusion Passenger Enterprise will restart processes one-by-one and will impact memory less.

There are no _technical_ security differences between nginx+unicorn and Phusion Passenger. Both of them rely on a frontend web server to shield them from slow clients and maliciously formed requests, and neither of them run application processes as root. There are no known exploits in either tools. However Phusion Passenger makes it easy to run different apps as different users through the builtin "user switching" security feature. With Unicorn you have to do this manually by running the processes as the right user.

But when it comes to reliability, we will be announcing a feature called "deployment error resistance" in the next Roadmap Preview.

Please sign up to the Roadmap Preview mailing list, and we'll keep you up to date with the latest release progress: http://eepurl.com/nXXrL
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The Apache STIG from DISA is a decent starting point for Apache. It takes some translation for modern versions of Apache, as well as newer technologies, but there is some sound information available. http://iase.disa.mil/stigs/a-z.html
Linked article is basically just an edited copy of linked WSJ article: http://blogs.wsj.com/law/2012/07/24/the-apple-samsung-trial-...
Global Neural Network Cloud Service for Breast Cancer
Did one of you check if airplay works in clamshell mode? I.e. when you have a keyboard/touchpad connected and wake up the mac with closed lid, does the screen content show up on the tv wirelessly?

This would be very convenient for a clutterless desk and reduce the number of cables I have to plug/unplug to the power cord when arriving/leaving.
Can't use the phrase London 2012? Introducing Londinium MMXII
Yep, BT is providing Openzone hotspots, which you can purchase access to: http://www.broadbandchoices.co.uk/news/bt-deploys-public-wi-...
Daeken's Blackhat paper on the security flaws in Onity locks
Agreed. I love the idea of the Olympics, but the majority of these athletes seem to have to rely on sponsorships to make a living despite their rigorous, continued training. Sometimes sponsorships by companies whose products are more harmful than healthy. Sometimes this only amounts to a few thousand a year.

After banning employees from promoting the event through status updates, Instagram posts and effectively killing all other advertising with the "it's again the TOS to link to us unless you're spinning us in a positive light" thing they just pulled a few weeks ago, I'm over the entire thing before it even began.
whoa, this totally breaks the space-time continuum!
It doesn't matter who is master-minding it, the fact people who are there ostensibly to represent the population are going along with it is the problem.
Key Elements for a Successful Mobile User Experience
Why writers should not fear scientific jargon
OK, let me start with two facts, one objective, one personal: (i) Noam Chomsky is a genius with many contributions to linguistics and computer science (ii) I think his overall influence had been damaging to linguistics.

Here's a summary of Chomsky's career in layman's terms: As everyone knows, Chomsky first came to prominence with his critique of Skinner (who, as everyone also knows, was a total psycho). He pretty much created linguistics as we know it (at least in the US, there were some numbskulls in Europe who still doubted the new order), starting from the main thesis of linguistic universals, which can be summarized as the fact that all humans possess the same language faculty, i.e. the wide range of linguistics differences between, say, English and Mandarin are just on the surface. This was a welcome relief against the Sapir-Whorf mumbo-jumbo which held that Eskimos had hundreds of words of snow and language constrained how we think. Chomsky has also been very active in politics (he's actually much better known to the general world by his political books), pointing out the evils especially of the American brand of capitalism (is there any other kind?) and its corrosive influence on the world, e.g. Iraq, Afghanistan, etc. He also points out errors in certain approaches in Economics, e.g. see http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Noam_Chomsky#Capitalism, without holding a degree in the field, but everybody does that.

Chomsky's greatly damaging influence to linguistics is due to the fact that his speculative and simplistic (at least originally) views on how the brain processes and learns language has stifled research in promising fields by decades. The main problem I have with him is that the cause of the shortcomings of his theory seems to be not lack of knowledge (very little was known about cognition in the 60s), which, of course handicaps all pioneers of science, but politics (I detest politically motivated scientific theories). AFAIK, his universalist views were motivated from his political beliefs.

Luckily, starting in the 90s, Chomsky's chokehold on linguistics has slipped somehow. Researchers, such as Leda Cosmides, have ventured into research on linguistic relativity (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistic_relativity). Skinner's theories are making a comeback in academic circles (http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2012/06/the-perf...).

So, what does all this mean for the current debate? I think it's time to retire and the "old guard"! Let us acknowledge their breakthroughs, their contributions, but also their limitations and move on.
I really wonder the idea of putting $11M to a javascript framework.
What sort of pricepoints are you looking at?
I have the same outlook, however time and time again I see posts in various communities that state they felt the same way until they had them. I will wait until my 30s and see how I feel.
If that's true, I don't think a lot of people know about it.
Apparently someone needs to do a 25-page review of the W3C HTML spec and link to the section on the Anchor tag for him.
Wow, thank you SO MUCH for mentioning Colllor. Can't wait to use it in my next project :-)
Some people like writing JavaScript.
My take on skeuomorphism has always been ambivalent. Unless the interface really takes away from your productivity, and having to click one or two extra buttons doesn't count, then it's alright by me. Anyone complaining about the visual aspect of it is really complaining to complain.
I wonder if Apple is stepping into some really muddy territory with their legal brouhaha.

While Apple's patents center around their HW and SW design, from what I understand, Samsung, Motorola, et. al's patents include some fundamental WiFi and communication patents that could be a huge counterpunch towards Apple.
EpicEditor : An embeddable JavaScript Markdown editor
EpicEditor is an embeddable JavaScript Markdown editor with split fullscreen editing, live previewing, automatic draft saving, offline support, and more. For developers, it offers a robust API, can be easily themed, and allows you to swap out the bundled Markdown parser with anything you throw at it.
I run http://seedtable.com which similarly provides analytics built on-top of Crunchbase and what I found from looking at the financial numbers is that Crunchbase just isn't reliable enough to do analytics on.

Rounds are frequently incorrect (typos in numbers, orders of magnitude wrong, foreign currencies treated as if they were USD, etc.) or missing.

It's definitely better than nothing, but should be treated with caution.
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Love the data and the site. Would be fantastic if you'd open up an API to this data to make it easy to ingest and analyze in external tools (R, Excel, whatever).

It would be easy enough to scrape it, but formal support for data export is such a huge win for sites like this.
It's my confidence level in the exit values. Only a few have been public or widely reported. The rest are purely my guesses. I wanted to put a High / Medium / Low confidence against each value.

Looks like I should make this more clear in the interface!
More than numbers
It's also self-parody of Marco's exhaustively researched reviews - which are often focused on relatively mundane things like LED light bulbs, thermostats, and coffee gadgets.
I'm OK with that, I like writing old, insecure code in C :P
If the universe is flat, and therefore infinite, yes it means that most probably there are an infinite number of identical duplicates of you. It does not mean, however, that there are any duplicates of you that make a particular typo. I should think that there are an infinite number of such duplicates for any given typo, BUT it may also be the case that such worlds are impossible. E.g., physics is deterministic enough and chaotic enough that there is no slight nudge to the initial conditions of a world that will result in such a minor eventual difference to occur.

I.e., just because there are an infinite number of parallel worlds, doesn't mean that every imaginable thing occurs in them. What occurs in a parallel world, must be possible.
I wonder if the kindle price falls into dan ariely relative price tactics.
Short term yes. Though I think we all remember Microsoft walking down the same path and basically paving the way for Apple to become 'the underdog' in the 90s and it sure hasn't helped their public image.
You missed the truly abysmal logos and mascots.
Anyone tried to install it in a non RedHat/Debian Linux distro ? I'm running Arch Linux and found Meteorjs in AUR, but it's outdated and I can't update it.
Marco made a review of John Siracusa review ;) http://www.marco.org/2012/07/25/siracusa-mountain-lion-revie...
That's a little bit longer term for me, but would like to do it. (For context, this is the first webapp I've ever built.)
I'll give you some ideas why it's an absolute fucking disgrace:

* Rapier missile launchers installed on residential flats.

* Dispersal Zone around Olympics which has kerfew, 42,000 strong mostly private police force and all legal rights suspended for residents and visitors.

* Armed drones patrolling the air around the site.

* Armed troops on site and the surrounding area.

* They built on Leyton Marshes which is common land.

* Warships have been stationed on the Thames.

* Transport disruption due to Olympic traffic lanes added and service alterations over the entire transport network (resulting in a 3 mile walk to take my disabled daughter to her physiotherapist - fun eh?)

* The fact that we have bankrupt hospital trusts which could have been bailed out several times over for that amount of money.

* The fact that NHS maternity and surgical services are turning people away and warning of serious disruption during the event.

* The fact that the Olympic village was promised for social housing. Out of 11,000 residences, 675 are going to it.

* There are branding police and official products which must be purchsed on site. You can't even take a flask of water with you incase they can't make money out of you.

* The fact that the political elite asked for the event despite polls taken at the time suggesting that the general opinion is that we didn't want it.

* The fact that "we're going to benefit from it", but there are no tangible benefits which are provable and every Olympic city has gone down the pan after the Olympics.

Ultimately, everything we expect and pay huge amounts for in tax is suspended for our political and corporate overlords. It's a militarisation exercise.

Pretty picture: http://www.terratag.com/Files/52189/Img/06/APOCOLYMPICS_DETA...

(product link for it: http://www.terratag.com/PBSCProduct.asp?ItmID=8759948)
Yes, the codes for the GM should automatically be translated into codes for the release version. If you have the GM build installed then you should get the first update to 10.8.1 the same way that the rest of us do.
Clearly, or else these products wouldn't exist. I'm just saying that, from my experience, I don't see the appeal.
What I found odd is that even though an iPhone or a Galaxy phone is using so much more important technologies in them, they get to banned for stuff like slide to unlock or pulling results from multiple databases. Even if you argue that it was an "innovative idea", in the end it's still just an idea, and the execution of it is not that hard to warrant a full ban of the whole product from the market for "copying their technology".
Aluguer de Carros Baratos
Compare preços de aluguer de automóveis de mais de 17 000 destinos em mais de 130 países, todos os preços incluem a cobertura de seguro necessária e quilometragem ilimitada. http://www.aluguercarros.com.pt
I personally believe that it will be possible to simulate a working brain in sufficient detail that it is able to "think" like a human does before humans understand said brain.

In fact I doubt that the cognitive capacity of a human brain is enough to truly understand an operating human brain.
I was there last month, still predominantly RubyMine, but I did see some vim.
There's a really slick answer to this question, but it's not on master yet.

https://github.com/meteor/meteor/tree/auth
The big difference is Rails was already powering 37 Signals' success. Meteor is a framework without a major success story. APIs that are not direct extractions tend to be problematic.
It dissapoints me to think about how much legitimate human knowledge has been wiped from WP

Then it must absolutely enthrall you to think about how much human knowledge is made available by wikipedia. You can be just as persistent as a "delitionist", theres nothing stopping you. It doesn't mean the system is broken just because some people are passionate about it.
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