skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This isn't really the right place for that question, but all of those have bad resolution screens, as do all of the linux-able ultrabooks. I'm not saying that they should be Retina, but 768 vertical px is unacceptably regressive.
Is there something I am missing? Why would you be checking the weather so often? I agree that this is a novel use of a site icon, but it has limited (minimal) advantages.
You're right. It probably felt shorter because of the game testing parts.
They seem to be hot linking your images. Do something so that the hot linked images they get served up are all about how they are goat raping thieves.
Facebook agrees to allow researchers access to data
No, Really, Some of My Best Friends Are Data Scientists - Cosma Shalizi
OS X Mountain Lion make its way to the Mac App Store for $19.99
Anyone who believes klout scores are legitimately important probably doesn't have much going for them anyway.
They're not using the data as a means to compete with Craigslist, so I doubt CL will care
As far as language modeling, this is a recent paper that models language on the character level rather than word level and can track long term dependencies and even generate plausible sounding non-words from time to time: http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~ilya/pubs/2011/LANG-RNN.pdf

The state of the art is improving a bit, although this method still knows nothing of meaning so it can often generate some strange sentences. Still, I wouldn't write off the whole field yet--just because something didnt work with tools years ago doesn't mean it isn't possible.
North Korean Dictator Marries
Is change the new constant in North Korea? Reports suggest Kim Jong-un has married Ri Sol Ju.
Placing a Dollar Value on Apple’s Mountain Lion Software - State of the Art
Wow!

> In this mode Blosc can copy memory usually faster than a plain memcpy()

I'm surprised to see something like this flying under the radar (this sounds too good to be true!). Has this library or similar ideas become a standard part of mainstream projects?
I have a ZenBook from asus (UX21 with i7) and it is great: slim, fast, neat screen.
After 5 years of bootstrapping & profit, Backblaze take $5m
I saw this note also and wished it indicated some second thoughts by Apple after the Facebook email imbroglio. Realistically it probably just indicates a delay to coincide with the iOS 6 / new iPhone release.

Nevertheless there is still time and I do believe the cultural disconnect between Apple and FaceBook at some point will win out (as it did at least once in the past).

I don't mean to venerate Apple by this comment, but this is truly the marriage of Jack Sprat and his wife and I don't think I'm alone in wishing for its demise.
Article says "In our opinion, the Venture Capital industry has created millions of good paying American jobs". How about quantifying that. Seems a reasonable estimate could be made (but certainly with a modest effort).
Node's changed pretty drastically from the original vision though:
http://four.livejournal.com/943068.html
http://four.livejournal.com/963421.html
100% agreement. When your app behaves like a framework there needs to be examples of applications on top. I had the same dilemma when I was about to release my dashboard framework (https://my.infocaptor.com) . I had all the documentation but to truly demonstrate the framework and various different ways, we had to build various little dashboards. some of the dashboards were plain stupid like the "bug olympics" but they were built to demonstrate certain features which we did not have enough sample data to build upon.

The question is do you build "real valuable applications" or "not so useful but demo like apps". We built the 2nd category apps in first go and now with our customers we are helping them build the first category of applications.
A Strategy For The Dreaded Interview Coding Question
You wouldn't happen to have experience to compare them to the Pixel Qi products, by chance?

Still waiting for my high framerate, low power, color, reflective display, here.
It's not so bad. I quite like the buzz to be honest. I guess you work for a company beginning with a T or a S?

There is a London HN meetup, one of my friends runs it.

Drop me a line: stevie <-AT-> twilio.com
I actually control the music at my office, and I use accuradio and have a station custom made that mixes a tons of styles so everyone is satisfied.
As Jed notes in his post and on the site there is clearly work to be done (this is an MVP) but I think this is a great tool for founders to compare accelerator programs.

They all have the same spiel about mentoring and funding but this gives some real clarity to the murky waters of seed accelerators. Beyond the top-tier (YC, TechStars, Seedcamp [IMHO]) it is hard to know the value of some of these programmes.

Keep up the good work, looking forward to see AngelList and Linkedin data integrated ;)
Is Twitter a Media or Technology Company?
You need to ensure that the memory layout stays exactly the same for all future generations. Thats a very bad omen if you end up needing to break or rearchitect things. This is just being cheap, and in the process completely defeating all security. Of which there was none to begin with, given a 32 bit keyspace and a proprietary crypto.

Executing code has the same memory layout problems and is a complete no-go if your target device happens to use the Harvard architecture.
Ask HN: 150+ new users in 2 hrs, the downside is they never came back
I created a free bug tracking app. I submitted it to HN and it took off. I got some good feedback in the comments, and some users even emailed me personally. After the initial rush traffic slowly ground to a halt.

Am I missing something here? Did I do something wrong? Is the site just ugly and stupid or what? Any advice would be appreciated appreciated.

* URL *
http://buggrapp.com/
The proposed replacement doesn't actually have the same semantics as restrict. I believe that Pascal knows this, as he's a smart guy.

Consider memcpy; its arguments are declared restrict. This not only means that the source and destination pointers cannot be the same (which is what Pascal's "replacement" says), but also means that the buffers cannot overlap at all (i.e. the src pointer cannot be anywhere in the range [dst-(length-1), dst+(length-1)]).

restrict also has the virtue of making this contract apparent to your callers, as it's part of the API. People should know that they can't call memcpy with overlapping buffers, and use memmove instead. If the information is instead encoded in a cryptic line in the implementation, then it isn't obvious to a developer who intends to use the function.
I think "artificial intelligence" is a total misnomer for we're talking about here.

There is a lot more involved than just language. It seems possible to solve language and still not create "strong AI." See: Watson kicking ass at Jeopardy. That is pretty sophisticated language comprehension; it even got clues that involved puns and wordplay.

From that it would seem totally possible to adapt this sort of intelligence to taking an IQ test. Just provide the right corpus to search and give the algorithms time to learn and be tuned. What if Watson tests out at a 150 IQ? Is he "intelligent"? After all it is an "intelligence quotient."

I think most people would say no, the issue is the Turing Test. That involves language, but I think the real point is an artificial personality: a computer that can hold a conversation and evince a discernible will and opinion. It seems to me that to do that, the machine must have emotions. I'm no expert in the field, but from my layman's position I don't see nearly as many stories about studying and replicating emotions as I do about human language.

Which is funny because any dog owner knows that dogs, despite having almost no formal language, are clearly willful, independent, emotional living beings. Can we even simulate a dog's emotional state with a computer? How about a bug's emotional state? I haven't heard much about that. But there is a ton of heat around language.
You're not mad that Apple is suing. You're mad that Apple is winning some arguments.

What they've been winning is off of UI/UX. It's one thing to argue if software patents should even exist but you were not even arguing that. It's hard to tell what you're against other than Apple. You believe that Samsung is right for no apparent reason.

All I can tell you is that I don't care and I'm tired of these stories on HN being ranked so highly since it's about ideology and not how it affects the lives of anyone.

>And btw, your name certainly looks interesting =)

I thought it was appropriate. What is your point?
Preparing for John Siracusa's Review of OS X Mountain Lion
Why Sally Ride waited until her death to tell the world she was gay
I'm sorry, but in the first link, you basically bash a dude's music and then use that as proper grounds for him being sued; demonizing Andy Baio, presumably because you don't particularly like his music. This is not an example of 'behaving decently online'.

I wonder how Baio would feel if I downloaded Kind of Bloop and offered it here, free for the taking? Of course, I would put it through a little bit of filtering, to “transform” it first. Would that be fair?

You're using the rhetoric of a middle schooler.

(That being said, I agree with your point that someone who's unabashedly part of the Apple PR machine isn't a good source for unbiased Apple news/criticism/feedback.)
You are right, these statistical approaches are algorithms. And they themselves are very simple and do not necessarily require a lot of initial state. And you are also right that it is extra hard to reverse-engineer these.

But they amount to learning and search. And because of the politics of Chomsky's movement, it has always fought the concept of learning tooth and nail in favor of innate knowledge or ready-made models. This is why we talk about language "acquisition" and why we read Chomsky saying that contemporaries who studied learning were facilitating totalitarianism.

It's also worth mentioning that Chomsky has stated that he does not think the brain has evolved.

So however many algorithms there are (and however they are employed to get the vast array of intelligent human actions) many things you have said here are totally anathema to Chomsky's school.

It was pushed too hard, it overextended and only now has any challenge come to it - from the quarter of AI. (Up until a few years ago, fighting it in academic Psychology meant you were OK with killing your career, and anyone less respectable than Norvig would get torn apart - look at what they are saying about Norvig now).
I didn't see this in the article, but does anyone know how much the bike actually weights?
Don't Let These 5 Startup Myths Slow You Down
Did you really just compare the industrial revolution to the texture of a calendar app menu bar?
Thanks for clarifying!

I thought that may be the case now that they operate the mini-Seedcamps and Seedcamp week with investment happening year-round.

Look forward to seeing more from Seed-DB.
And for this reason I wrote myself a script to wget the Macbook pro 15" refurb page, and parse it for: Price, manufacture year, and matte screen option. If it matched my criteria 3/3, then it would email me.

One morning I got that email and I no longer had an excuse :D
Just for the record, i consider this a simple model. And it's from norvig. http://norvig.com/spell-correct.html
For me apps like this can fall into habitual use, almost approaching muscle memory, e.g. checking e-mail/Twitter.
Iris dilation is primarily a response to light levels, not focus depth. Focus comes from stretching the lens behind the iris, which is possible to sense externally, but much more difficult.
Why presume that the universe is a surface, instead of a giant volume? After all, the normal way of looking at it is that we're in space, not on it...

This is an especially appalling oversight in an article intended for the intelligent layman.
FWIW: My family's last 7 Macs have all been refurbs. The $ saved go to purchase additional (non-apple) RAM.

The last Mac I had that developed hardware problem (out-of-warranty) was not one of those refurbs.
so, what, you're saving 20 * 15 seconds per year?
Passwordless authentication done right ...or can you break the auth?
San Francisco is odd.
Which is, of course, their perogative.
Recent quote from PG on this:

"Exits are a stupid test for what they're trying to measure here. By that standard, Airbnb and Dropbox are failures.
Exits are a reasonable test for investments made, say, 10 years ago. But none of the incubators are that old yet. So the right way to judge them is by the valuations of the startups they've funded. Unless the venture business as a whole loses money, that will be a lower bound on the eventual exit numbers.
Then you don't need to measure fuzzy stuff like "VC perceptions" either. Each incubator has a single score: average valuation. The last time we calculated ours (for the Forbes incubator rankings: http://www.forbes.com/sites/tomiogeron/2012/04/30/top-tech-i...) it was $45.2m.
You could still screw up e.g. in the case where a company hasn't raised money for a long time and whose last post-money valuation is 1/10 of what they could raise at now. But you won't screw up as badly as if you just measure acquisitions."

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4143062
Get Exec to Volunteer for Charity on your Behalf
Dell re-enters high-end Linux laptop market with Red Hat Enterprise Linux
The 3G coverage is bound to be horrible because there will be so many people forcing people to use their overpriced hotspots.
The BBC is turning off its international Internet radio for the Olympics
Steal != legally licensed (from Qualcomm, et al)

Look, from the 20,000 foot view, I think Apple's (ab)use of the patent system is pretty lame. But, this is just grandstanding on Samsung's part. If they have a legitimate legal complaint, I'm sure they'll bring it up in court. And then we'll see.
Maybe you don't live in a city with a big bike theft problem? Here in DC, where I live, there are kids who wander around with bolt cutters lifting bikes from bike racks, and at least in my experience, they're just as likely to go for a cheap bike as an expensive one, so you pretty much have to have a bolt-cutter-proof lock, regardless of your bike, if you don't want to get it stolen, which means a tempered steel U lock. I've never seen one of those for $10. It's especially frustrating because while the old rule of thumb was that you should spend 10% of the value of the bike on a lock, there's a floor of about $30, at least here, because of how easy it is to defeat cheap locks, which means you end up way over-spending on locks if you ride a cheap bike.

The goal here, as I understand it, is to make the bikes so cheap that there's no resale market for either the bikes or the parts, which might mean a "keeps honest men honest" $10 lock would be good enough.
Some do, some don't.

I picked up a refurbished iPad 2 a month ago and it works great -- except the home button is shoddy. I didn't really pick up on it after two or three days of use.
Ugh... minimal doesn't have to mean useless. In my mind you could display four times as many stats about the weather and still be a far cry from the clutter-fuck that is weather.com. As it is this is useless for anybody who wants to know anything beyond "is it hot or cold right now."
IOS vs. Android Development: Where Are The Jobs?
I noticed Meteor outputs your entire web app to a single JavaScript file, which seems peculiar to me. Is it seo-friendly? Is this something that will scale? Is it mobile-friendly? Are the any drawbacks to this approach? Why would I base a large project on Meteor rather than Backbone.js?
I read they will have the worlds largest McDonalds there.
but most software updates don't require a reboot, I just don't get it, my mac stays up to date and the number of times a year I reboot you can count on one hand. Today being one of them, since ML is being updated.

There are lots of good reasons to be all for SSD's, but reboot time is not one of them, when considered rationally.
Perhaps a naive question, but how does AH envision getting its $11M+ back and in what time frame?
WebFWD has a useful overview video of Open Source startups, licenses to ponder, business model's, and goals.

http://blog.webfwd.org/post/27490054493/getting-your-softwar...
I'd buy that - except I live in a city with 1:4 hills!

Here even the outdoor gear coop charges >$900 for a single speed and says it's ideal for "urban life' - which tells you everything about the market for them.
Ahh neat.

Just as a warning, I've already aired this topic on github, so maybe that might be a good place to discuss it: https://github.com/mozilla/rust/issues/2961

I don't want to cause a fuss. While Rust might not work for my needs/wants/desires, that's ok. I highly respect those who don't attempt to please everyone. :)
But you have to open the page to update its icon, right?

It's not really "auto-update" to me.
I like the framework you layout. It's always good to have a method for walking through problems because it conveys a cogent thought process (reminds me of SAT multiple choice problems or Spelling Bee questions about word origins).
Non-swipe: http://nocamels.com/2012/07/recycled-cardboard-bicycles-for-...
And for this reason I wrote myself a script to wget the Macbook pro 15" refurb page, and parse it for: Price, manufacture year, and matte screen option. If it matched my criteria 3/3, then it would email me.

I like what you did there, great stuff! I do wonder how many personal bots are out there, scraping sites for individuals' own gain like this.

I remember a good few years ago, getting frustrated at having to wait six weeks for a driving test. I wrote a little script that ran every half hour, logged into the DVLA's site (in the UK), entered my details, and looked for recent cancellations. If it found one, it sent me the details, and I'd madly scrabble together to try and book the slot. After I failed my first test, it was even more useful :)
Can I specify a zip code? I went to it on my desktop and my phone, and both show different, wrong temperatures.
I stand corrected. Please replace "revolutionary" with "great feature". :)
Well I will feel very disappointed if we don't see all the athletes eating there every day
There is no valid argument leading FROM your disenchantment with Markov based chat programs, TO a conclusion that machine learning is invalid. Markov chatters are a toy.

Did you produce a better chat bot based on UG? - No? Then on what basis are you junking machine learning?

Machine translation is far from a solved problem. But Chomsky's school claimed they were going to solve it in the 60s or perhaps the 70s. Do you know what is the basis for the most successful current approach to machine translation?

Analysis of text. (But not the kind of simplistic junk one does in a Markov chatter)

All you have done is suggest that some beautiful perfect text model exists natively in every person. (Presumably this evolved somehow - or if you are Chomsky, it just developed like a crystal for no apparent reason). This isn't an explanation of anything unless you actually find that model instantiated in the brain. But this is just not happening. So either our instruments are still too crude to detect it, or it's not really there.

Appealing to an as-yet unknown perfect universal text model does not build a better chat bot or a better explanation of human behavior.

True understanding of intelligence must incorporate an understanding of how learning occurs. Because anyone who watches children sees learning occurring, and only doctrinaire Chomskyists deny that it occurs (because it is not beautiful enough and some abductive argument is claimed to show that it is not sufficient).
Wait, what? Most exchanges and corporations don't even go by a paper certificate, proving my point: shares (and money, for that matter), are defined by a relationship, not a physical instantiation. If you lose a certificate (if they even still issue them), there are still records of how many were issued, and of when they were transfered to you. As long as that history can be reconstructed, you are still given the voting/dividend rights, and if you aren't, it's lawsuit time.

Same thing with contracts: a contract is a relationship. The signed piece of paper is not the contract, but proof that a contract exists.

It's just a case of Procrustean bedding to act like all property (or rights bundles isomorphic thereto) must be physical.
Ugh, sorry to hear that. I can imagine the new interface designs being pretty annoying for Mac Pro users.

I have also thought about making the jump back to Linux, but really enjoy the sturdy unibody build quality of macs. I'm also less inclined to fiddle with OS customization and tweaking than I used to be in college, which I did a lot of when I was in Linux land.
I suppose it's good advice for starters who would otherwise use absolute positioning as a crutch when they get stuck.

Other than that, you are right, there's a time and place for every technique.
The $9 figure is the cost to make the bike, but doesn't cover the cost of moving it around, storing it or selling it. Given it's size and awkwardness to handle, it would be hard to charge much less for it. You have to factor in the opportunity cost that when you sell such a bike you are giving up almost 100 Square Feet of retail space that you could be using to sell products that are smaller and more valuable.
Yes. Having been on both sides of the process a lot recently, I'd agree that restating / asking questions / talking through the problem as you do it is helpful. But beyond that, I think that simply practicing typical whiteboard questions is the best preparation. You can find a lot of these simply by googling, or, by looking at a typical CS algorithms or data structures textbook. Re-familiarize yourself with lists, trees, etc... and basic searching/sorting algorithms. Steve Yegge offers similar advice here: http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2008/03/get-that-job-at-goog...
It would be like getting married just so you can go on a couples cruise... or marriage counseling... or something...

Maybe an incubator would be helpful for your startup--let's assign some probability to that. There's also a probability associated with your startup succeeding without an incubator.

Having the right cofounder will likely increase your odds on both sides. However, having the wrong cofounder will nearly guarantee misery and failure. Just as in marriage, rushing into it will greatly increase your odds of missing something and picking the wrong person. There are always exceptions (love at first sight) but consider the odds rather than the exceptions.

So no, don't do it just because incubators tell you to. The history of enterprise is filled with businesses that did just fine without incubators.
Assuming one of the creators reads this: "A clean and Actionsteps."

I would like better attachment management than I've got now, so I'll probably take a peek. Thanks.
What is it? It took me quite a while (and a few web links) to discover that it's a Mac email client.

Interesting how many new email clients are emerging this summer. I'm taking note due to the likely abandonment of Sparrow. Also due to come out "this summer" is Mail Pilot: http://mail-pilot.com/