skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Many of the computing and math courses are enough in my comfort zone that I can readily pick them up on my own. That, coupled with my belief in the future of quantative biology has made me sign up and take a number of chemistry, anatomy, medicine, drug, neuro and genetics courses. About 13 in all but only 2, no more than 3 per block of time which is good. The only outliers are the quantum computing and finance ones.

I've programm(ed|ing) a spaced repitition native app that uses ideas from online sequential learning to challenge me (hah online learning for online learning). I can look at performance graphs per topic area over time. For now it just scores roughly based on text similarity but I've built a parser I can use for the more mathematical ones. By the end of a couple of courses it should be a very interesting project. It currently additionally allows for searching and note taking but I noticed when I go over my notes I tend to go back and forth on certain concepts so I will implement a history concept and automatic topic map building (using both cookie trails and measures of similarity). An unintentional side effect due to Markdown support and html generation is that it generates something like a wiki but far easier.
Ahem yes we can..

And in fact twice in our USA-Mexico history we have invaded Mexico to do exactly that..

Call a spade a spade..its a Mexico civial war that was been ongoing for 50 years..its time to edn it for the good of the Mexican people
Shackleton and Scott's Antarctic huts are put online by Google
Recently I have found https://jitsi.org/ which seems to be a possible alternative for Skype.
There are many idiots who would write that without joking though. Absent the /s sarcasm tag, we don't know.
Yes, I blurted out. I was just pondering on the idea of frontending IRC channels somehow to provide similar service.
Mobile Rewards Network Kiip Raises an $11M Series B.
EBay on Cassandra Data Modeling Best Practices
I think there is a big difference between "impossible to not make money in that situation" and growing revenues by 100B under your leadership. A lot of companies in that era did not grow revenues by 100 billion dollars.
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Egnyte Raises $16 Million From Google Ventures For Cloud File Storage Service
Calm down, everybody.
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If someone came up with a good spaced repition app for retaining the learning from all these online classes, I'd be happy to pay $20 - 30 for something like that (market survey of 1)
Well done guys, great to see this going big after seeing you working on it for months.
And that is very obvious in the UI, unfortunately.
I'm a US person, and on a recent trip in the US South took photos inside a (public) bathroom on more than one occasion, when I saw something entertaining. Not photos of people, of course, but there were other people in the bathroom on both occasions, and no one seemed shocked or worried.

I'm confused about how this aversion to cameras can possibly hold when nearly everyone is carrying one or more cameras at all times. Does everyone in Europe avoid using their smartphone except in the privacy of their own home? As cameras shrink and are built into pretty much everything, is this culture changing, or are products simply going to be built without cameras for the European market?
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Facebook don't allow to put this link in a comment, it's strange
Ask HN: Why Airtime looks like ghost town nowadays?
There's literally nobody on the server. I run it on 3-5 windows and nobody gets matched. Average matching time is ~5 mins and all I get is Arabic and Indian people. Why is that happening?
Write me at dasch@zendesk.com - we're always interested in meeting talented people.
"But they do show the influence that the UK is having on international debates." Considering that the UK proposal was unveiled yesterday, perhaps this wasn't an influence - but an independent will?
You were taking the wrong course, I would argue. You should do the one on AcademicEarth (CS 229). The online course was CS229A Applications of ML.
That's an exaggeration. I'm Belgian and recently went to France and took pictures of us enjoying our dishes. I didn't notice the personnel having an issue with that. So it is not a general rule.

But the spirit of bambax' and others' messages is true: in Europe, customer is not king and should behave in a way that pleases the shopkeepers or restaurant owners. This is more true the closer you are to the capital or the city's hot spot.

And more generally, one has to develop a sense of what is right in a particular place, not assuming that the same customs apply as in your home country. Americans don't have a good record at that, I'm afraid. As someone pointed out, you're bound to inadvertently offend people, but rushing into a place with a camera is a good way to start learning from your mistakes.

That being said, the violence displayed by this particular personnel is completely over the top and should not be tolerated, not by customers and not by law.
merging two good products does not make a great one.
Congress meddling with government open source
>"I think Mayer is better qualified than anyone else that is available because she is an expert on the space. When she joined Google, the mainstream Internet was less than 5 years old. "

You do know there's a world of business outside the Valley, right? I'm not implying that she wouldn't be a good fit and very capable at many jobs or positions. But Yahoo!'s days are becoming numbered. When I think about what she could have possibly experienced at Google versus what Yahoo! needs as a company (which is a corporate and strategic overhaul), I can't understand where she'd have obtained anything remotely like "turn-around" expertise. Yahoo! is going to require some outside-the-box thinking, and this hiring is about as inside-the-box as it could be (along with every other name you mentioned would have been).

But this is just one man's opinion. I hope she can pull it off; it'd be a great story.

>"You can't just stick a "turnaround expert" in the shoes of Yahoo CEO and expect a great result. You need someone that understands the space"

Why can't you? What exactly is Yahoo!'s "space"? Of all the poor decisions made by Yahoo! of late, why do you trust that this was suddenly a stroke of genius?
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PresentationTimetable.js - Sync SpeakerDeck Presentations with YouTube Videos
Why to worry: here's random free test data generator
In fact, it is simpler than a hash. The provided code is not complete (the limit to 1 hour is missing). Here is a full functional solution to its problem:

perl -MDigest::MD5 -nle '($id,@data)=split;$t=time;$j=unpack("L", Digest::MD5::md5($id))%100;print join(" ",$id,@data) if $t-$h{$j}>3600 or $hi{$j} ne $id;$h{$j}=$t;$hi{$j}=$id' input
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AskHN: Is lack of status updates for plans announced by firms a common problem?
Recently (July 2012), I encountered a problem while researching web services providing POI data sets. I came across some companies which had announced plans to provide access to their data. In one instance, there was a two year old announcement. However, there was no further update regarding the status of these plans. As a result, I had to correspond with the company to seek updates regarding their announcements. Obviously, this led to a series of email's being exchanged, along with expected delays in communication. I found this process to be quite redundant & unpredictable.

Now, imagine others in this situation having to follow a similar protracted process to find the same information. Is there a way to optimize this process, thereby saving time & effort for both the company & the prospective customer? After analyzing the situation, a collaborative solution seemed to be the best option.

I'm not sure how many people face this situation. While I have set up a wiki (http://statusnow.wikispot.org), its utility is completely dependent upon updates about specific organizations based on similar personal experiences of other people. Do you think this is a problem worth solving?
Or their mobile device roams from WiFi to cell data.

I suspect anyone suggesting that an IP be part of the session security has never actually tried it on a large scale.
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> In France you're not allowed to take pictures or movies of people without their consent.

"Droit à l'image" covers use, duplication and distribution of pictures of people, and only if said people can be identified on the picture. I don't know about any french law that forbids actually taking pictures of people in a public place. In a private area, there's Code Pénal, Art. 226-1, and even then, the law says that unless they explicitly disagree, their consent is assumed. Once the shot is taken, you don't have the right to publish the image without their explicit consent, and if no consent of publication is given, you can publish the image as long as people cannot be identified.

(FWIW one can take and publish pictures of goods to one's heart's content, provided it causes no harm)

> If you try to take pictures of strangers in the subway you will be heckled and possibly assaulted, and the police will do nothing to stop it.

There is no legitimate reason for a nearby police member not to try to stop someone physically assaulting someone else, whatever the reason of the assault may be. Their duty is to at least inquire into the situation.
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Report: Apple iPhone 5 Will Be Last Smartphone Hurrah As Market Nears Peak
Weeeeellll, IIRC, this site launched as a part of IE 8 promo. That's been a while - a whole new version of IE launched in the meantime. Pushing for IE7 eradication would be more appropriate nowadays.
The author is from the UK. If you read a bit more, you discover that the EU has already been doing a pilot on the FP7 research framework for 20% of the publications and has already built the infrastructure to support the open access. A lot of universities all over Europe are also putting their research results in open access databases. So, take it as a bit of biased reporting in the middle of some really encouraging developments.
Do their engineers managed to convince the company that Windows is ill-suited to the task?

They acquired skype. So the question would be, Is it worth rewriting a ton of working code just so we can say it runs on our platform.

I'm pretty sure Hotmail ran Linux or BSD for quite a while after Microsoft bought them (though probably not any more)
Um, sir, I have more than a layman's understanding of randomness, thank you very much. This is Hacker News; all kinds of people post here.

I'm not even sure what you mean by "random" in this case; we're talking about one event. I didn't say anything about the distribution of violent assholes in McDonalds or France in general. It certainly wasn't "random" when the first violent guy brings over other employees who happened to also be violent. I don't know about France, but in the US, there are strict laws on what a commercial establishment can do to get someone off the premises. Now, mafia-run operations aside, most places would just ask you to leave and threaten to call the cops if you remain.
As a bona fide cyborg I can vouch for the work by the Cyborg Institute. They have allowed me to break in to the field of systems administration and escape working as an assembly line worker.
While it's cool, I don't think it's particularly mysterious. When playing around with graphical algorithms you step on these kinds of patterns all the time.
> the beauty about the internet is that you don't have to be there to make a good living.

I do hope you're not mistaking the incredible location-agnostic quality of the internet with the incredible location-dependent quality of human relationships.

Don't take real people for granted. IMHO you hugely multiply your chances if you surround yourself with people in the same physical space and can talk, work, play, and drink together. In my experience, the great ideas come when you are away from your computers.

There are a lot of places this can happen—SF, Boston, New York, and more. But I highly encourage you to make physical connections as well as digital ones.
An angry rent-a-cop in the face of the person wielding the camera would not know this.
No. There is a risk.
Coursera adds first international university partners, raises additional $6M
> So combining the two will not give you something that
will make up for each of the ones weaknesses and always
give a definite answer

True, although the probability of a false answer given that
we combine them can be smaller from the probability of the same false answer in the case when we use each of them separately. This may be important in cases when the aversion
to false answers is extremely high.
That's what I was thinking about ;)
The other thing that I would be concerned about is her PR appeal. I have no idea who Google employee 19 or 21 is, and I have no idea what she actually did at Google, except that it sounded important. Yet I've heard of her, would probably recognize her in a news picture, and remember her name.

I've had the opportunity to work with people who were very good at personal public relations, and based on that experience, I'm skeptical. Constantly selling your public image means that you can't be wrong, which always results in revisionist history and oddball situations.

Hopefully I'm wrong -- Yahoo needs help, and she does have a good story.
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Some of the patterns that get generated are really cool. Would be glad to know how it works, so if someone does drop you a line on Twitter, please do update all of us.
How about the fact that Windows 8 will make it impossible for your favorite browsers to be installed?

Microsoft’s deal with EU regulators says specifically that the browser choice screen must be available in future versions of Windows. It is set to expire in 2014, which means that it still applies to Windows 8.
I've become too cynical I think. My first thought was I was basically letting a potential robber (actually, my first thought was serial killer) in to my parents home with this service.
I can't stand Flickr, the moment I see the two loading animation of a Flickr page I reach for the back button.
It doesn't mean eating, it's about talking. http://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/put+money+where+mouth+is
From the author:

>This is a strange flood-fill algorithm I stumbled upon a while back and I have no idea why it does its thing like it does.

>...take a look, and if you know what's going on, let me know.
A "tweak" is basically their way of saying a half an hour's worth of work (http://www.tweaky.com/faq). All those home page examples would be much more than a tweak besides maybe "remove white space". I think it's misleading. It would be WAY more than $150 to make all the adjustments to that example.
Though the UK has been mulling the policy for quite a while too (as you can see from the links in the story). At least a year. (The UK also enlisted Jimmy Wales to work out its policy in May.)
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You don't go to the author of Varnish for political advice, you go to the author of Varnish for technical advice. I'd be disappointed if he took advantage of his good name to push political advice when he got his reputation for being good at technical matters.

After all, is any of his technical advice invalid due to political concerns that are not wild speculation on your part?

----

Not to say that politics doesn't enter into it, just that it should be brought to the table and discussed by other actors. And those actors should probably be all ears about the technical issues.
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The T220s were very nice monitors, but they just tipped over the 200dpi mark, not the 220+ one.
Data storage is stupidly cheap. You might as well save all the data your users provide to you.
Well, you need a 3rd machine to route traffic between two machines if both are behind NAT^. It was my understanding that supernodes were (also) used for this.

^Unless you can predict the translated source port
I've taken two courses from Coursera. This spring I took Design and Anaysis of Algorithms part 1, and last fall I took Introduction to Databases.

Both were great experiences, and I learnt a lot. However, each course was many hours of work per week for me. There are easily 10 courses I would like to take from the current offering, but for me (have a family, working full time), the biggest constraint is time. Nice though to have the choice once you decide to take one.

I have written in more detail about my experience with Coursera: http://henrikwarne.com/2012/05/08/coursera-algorithms-course... and http://henrikwarne.com/2011/12/18/introduction-to-databases-...
It's very important to me that I retain the information so I'm testing this on myself. My motivation is not monetary though.

My approach is inspired by http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Craig_(Jeopardy!_contesta...
In France, taking a picture of a stranger can be compared to entering his home, unannounced, and helping yourself with the content of his fridge.

The reaction can be mild "Hey, WTF??" to aggressive (being punched in the face).

In the US, if you go to the police saying "I entered this guy's home and took a Coke from his fridge, and next thing you know he punched me!! For a can of Coke!?! Can you believe that! Please arrest him!" the police will likely tell you "you're lucky you didn't get shot".

In France the photographer is considered the perpetrator. The police will not help him (and maybe worse if he insists...)

Also, "assault" is very different here than in the US; grabbing someone by the arm or pushing him around isn't considered assault (more like a disagreement).

That said, you can get very far with asking first: many people, if asked, won't mind being photographed (but you have to ask every person, and respect every decision, which would make the whole process pretty complex).
Oh and to my knowledge no other nation has gone further on open access than the UK to date (not even the US where the NIH mandated submission to open access repository after 12 months).
Browsers are frequently updated only since Google moved the game on with Chrome auto-update.
Canistro: An open source professional personal e-commerce for individuals.
http://www.postgresql.org/about/ even quotes 1.6TB/row. Guessing it's under the two maximums of 1600 max columns, 1GB max/field (though they may not actually be compatible)
Even if the sensational headline is accurate, it's not worth the conspiracy theories:

(1) Microsoft is a US Corporation

(2) With the Skype acquisition, Microsoft (arguably) becomes a telecommunications carrier.

(3) CALEA passed in 1994, "requiring telecommunications carriers and manufacturers of telecommunications equipment modify and design their equipment, facilities, and services to ensure they have built-in surveillance capabilities, allowing federal agencies to monitor all telephone, broadband internet, and VoIP traffic in real-time." [a]

My (unfounded, optimistic) speculation is the skype acquisition was strategic positioning in the mobile market: seamless cutover to skype when your phone has WiFi.

a - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communications_Assistance_for_L...
+1 to that. I remember computer graphics classes in college where we'd basically start off with a fixed algorithm and then play around with random variables and steps and end up with stuff that looked amazing (even though noone really knew why!) :P
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Previously: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3898037
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I'm glad for both the UK and the EU; this doesn't need to be a competition. I just found that remark amusing, like the famous headline "Fog in Channel; Continent Cut Off" :D
I can imagine the head scratching over this design decision 500 years in the future when everyone is an AI that has bajillions of files. Or one really unlucky guy tomorrow.
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Don't be melodramatic. Damning in the sense that open source, the idea, is not what they are interested in but are riding it's coattails in order to encourage developers who are interested.

This thread is a little overblown and it's too early to point fingers and thump chests - lets see what they put on offer first.
UK govt spy centre losing crucial cybersecurity skills to private sector
Shaw does not seriously intend to say that e.g. Churchill
was not a reasonable man.

Who says that Churchill represents progress? The mainstream?
Looks like the "???" in http://fallingsandgame.com/sand/hell1.html
yeah, I read about that in http://www.amazon.com/Final-Jeopardy-Machine-Quest-Everythin...

I'm not enough of a hacker yet to actually do that myself
Facebook is blocking posts to the Eyetap Mcdonalds incident story
Any attempt to post the link to the Eyetap McDonalds incident (http://eyetap.blogspot.ca) on your Facebooks, results in an alert stating:

"The content you're trying to share includes a link that's been blocked for being spammy or unsafe"
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Creating an English Dictionary Metaphone Lookup Database using PHP and MySQL
This is awesome! Signed up for Computational Investing and Dan Ariely's class on Behavioral Economics.
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Looks like he read Wolfram's book http://www.wolframscience.com/nksonline/toc.html
How to Design a REST API and Why You Should
Give a person an limit and he will try to overcome it no matter how silly it is.
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This is a bit of a follow up on my recent domain listings. It's a demonstration of how to make use of the English dictionary to find similar available domains. I stop short on explaining how to do so, but it's essentially taking `metaphone('exampledomain')` and querying the value against the metaphone column of the database to check for any matches, implying similarity or sameness.
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Of course, you can send it to any address. This address could belong to wikileaks, me or yourself or anybody.
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