skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Reading some about it can help understand the issues, though. I'm honestly surprised that an online editable general-subject encyclopedia works as well as it does, and I think some of that is due to having pragmatically come up with approaches that sort-of-work over the years. I don't think it's reasonable to have a very strong opinion on it without some knowledge of the problems various policies were intended to solve, and the pros/cons of different approaches.

A curious thing with Wikipedia is that lots of people think they know the obviously right thing it should do, but many of these "obviously right" things are very different from each other. For example, co-founder Larry Sanger split and founded Citizendium because he thought Wikipedia was far too permissive in letting "unencyclopedic" crap into the encyclopedia, which is the exact opposite complaint of the people who are worried about "deletionism". That is also probably the most common complaint about Wikipedia from academics and in the mainstream media. The mainstream media gets particularly inflamed if something incorrect is found in Wikipedia, like the "Seigenthaler incident", and demands that Wikipedia should institute stricter edit controls.

One area of particular interest to me is where to draw the line on science articles. With no policies on inclusion at all, there would by now be thousands of physics articles on concepts that are not recognized by the physics literature, created by the same fringe-science people who post prolifically on Usenet, and cited to their own websites as a source. They tried to do so on Wikipedia in 2003-04, and that was the impetus for some of the policies such as "no original research" and "must be verifiable in reliable sources". (Fringe physics theories that are well-known and where third-party documentation exists, such as Time Cube, can of course still be covered.)

I wrote a bit more on that verifiability/notability history last year, in case anyone is interested: http://www.kmjn.org/notes/wikipedia_notability_verifiability...
The IOC can insist, but it is the UK that is caving in to all the demands, so it is legitimate to put the blame on the UK.
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Interesting that the port provides direct memory access. I imagine that this was a simple way to provide access rather than defining a complete protocol with things like "Download Access Log", "Reprogram Log". Just let the handheld device give you access to memory and you can build whatever functionality you want later.

I actually worked on something like this where I had a program that would send arbitrary code to be executed on a device. That way it could be made to do whatever we wanted.

That isn't a bad thing if there's some way to authenticate, and it looks like the big flaw here is that the unique ID is also readable from the same memory.
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They appear to be doing a marvelous job of failing the turing test then.
Node.js: the next evented Tcl?

Seriously though, given what you have to go through to even use Meteor, i.e. finding libs compatible with Node fibers, they are certainly not putting anything "on Rails"
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I don't get why any sports enthusiast would ever drink a drink that's just corn syrup, even if it were free.
Local and small businesses are definitely an area we want to be in the future. It's on the roadmap!
Alone, ignorance of the law is not a good excuse. However, when ignorance of the law is provably impractical (impossible, in this case, for a single individual) and acting reasonably causes you to violate it, it is absurd for our society to punish you.
I didn't downvote you, but "if you don't like someone else's edit, edit it yourself" comes down to who can afford to spend more of their life babysitting Wikipedia.

I thought that line of reasoning was completed years ago. Yeah, the people who are more willing to waste their life on Wikipedia policy pages will win. Now, what are the bad effects of that?
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Agreed.

I still think there's a lot of room for improvement in modern bikeshare paradigms. The most common time I tell myself 'man, I wish I had a bike' is when I want to get to a convenience store/lunch spot one-three miles away, where walking isn't really feasible but driving seems exorbitant.

I wish there was a system where I could pay fifty cents at a bike station and get the use of a bike for an hour, or something similar. That's my ideal system.
Agree 100%. I don't understand why there isn't (at a minimum) a clip-on thumb-pad and 2-button controller for the iPhone. We don't need it built in like the Xperia Play but I need something to get my giant thumbs out of the field of view.
England has a long history of go ing two fingers to authority, so I don't see this ban being anything more than administrative. A nation of rebels will treat this, any other insane rules with the disdain they deserve. The Olympic games belong to the people, not any authority.
I can't tell if you're being sarcastic or just unaware that Marco is the developer of Instapaper.
Good point. We do use Meteor. Our own site has always run on Meteor, and we build other tools and personal projects with it. Dogfood is good -- we now have an experimental version of server side rendering in Meteor because we had the pressure to get www.meteor.com into Google's index.

It's not a bad strategy to build the framework alongside a product. But shipping real product is a huge commitment. We spent weeks just getting all the pieces in place for the first Meteor release in April: text, design, docs, a screencast, release engineering, community outreach. For now, we think we can move faster and build a better framework if that's our only product focus, instead of trying to ship two great things at the same time.
Is this something I can do on my own or would I need to get a lawyer involved?
I guess the theoretical plus side, security-wise, of pushing everything through one abstraction is the potential for simplifying security. Non-layered approaches like Meteor make me a bit queasy, though. Will be interesting when its auth mechanism undergoes community security review.
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I've done the same. It's more so because he seems very passive -aggressive and often offers no support for his views. It's not that his views are necessarily wrong, but most everything he writes is an assertion with no evidence or something that he has determined intuitively. I care about people who are able to give insights through logic and data. That's why I read Asymco and listen to Hypercritical with John Siracusa. Those are both very logical, very objective people. Marco usually just throws out opinions and rarely offers real insight. There's just no reason for me to respect his writing when he offers nothing but his own thoughts and no support. This is especially true because the things he writes are often pseudo-correct or highly debatable.

But my real problem is how he responds to his criticism. On several occasions I've challenged his arguments or asked him to elaborate via Twitter. His response is usually to get angry, make some kind of sarcastic remark at me, and treat me as if I were antagonizing him. It's an incredibly childish response. It's as if anyone who tries to debate his points is not only wrong, but a dick as well. Frankly, if his is unwilling to accept critiques and entertain a discussion, why does he even blog? More importantly, why should I read him?
So the icon shows what the weather was the previous time you ran it?

Maybe I'm misunderstanding it but it seems like an anti-feature to me.
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The problem is the product can't work without the API. I thought that maybe a data-entry person could do the work if it fails, but I don't think it would work too much time.

Thank you for your answer :)
IANAL, but I believe that's only true if B was using it before A filed. The order described was "A files, B re-invents, A's patent is issued". It may have some weight in arguing that the invention was obvious, but my understanding is that this is harder than invalidating a patent based on prior art.
Hi DMV - we ran the transcoding tests a few times, but transcoding performance is pretty steady across multiple runs (here and elsewhere).

Network obviously isn't; the numbers here include about a dozen test runs. We should make that more clear. Even a dozen isn't enough to be a scientific test, so hopefully we (or someone else) will do more benchmarking in the future.
Where is eyudkowski when we need him?
This might be a newbie question — if I upgrade, will it mess up my rbenv, homebrew, and postgres installs?
minimalweather 2.0: I like to call it "window" :)
On a positive note... this event is the biggest ever evidence for the disruptive, liberating, power of the net, and the profound way new forms of news gathering and dissemination threaten the established players. Their efforts have become so elaborate, they seem like a house of cards. By the next Olympiad we'll hopefully witness a complete collapse of traditional broadcasting rights sale and enforcement.
Every time you enter the app the icon reflects the weather. The idea behind the site itself it's to show how to 'hack' the icon to reflect stuff.
If you're paying to send tweets, I'd think you'd want to maximize their quality.
In addition to these, there's also the CIS benchmarks.

Apache HTTP: https://benchmarks.cisecurity.org/tools2/apache/CIS_Apache_H...

Tomcat: https://benchmarks.cisecurity.org/tools2/apache/CIS_Apache_T...
Additionally, you may run into a problem where your distribution only offers certain versions of python and its packages, when you need newer versions. On systems like CentOS, this becomes a bit more complex as you can wind up in 'dependency hell' trying to compile everything you may need for a complex python program. virtualenv and pip make this very easy to manage and set up.
Not HN in particular, but all the viral news aggregators.
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Try to code something with "the new system", and ask them specific help with that. Although your problem is not real, and none of your bosses asked you to do that, try to code anything with things you didn't learn yet. Then ask them "Hey, I am having a hard time with this, could you help me?"

It is always better if you are in a real example than just learning by theory, and it's better for them to teach you.
Weather app that auto updates its homescreen icon
Why do I get the feeling that Apple wants to turn my laptop into a big ipad with a keyboard? Facebook sharing, Twitter integration... These features make sense for users like my Mom, but I couldn't care less. Are there any compelling features for developers? Why should I hassle with upgrading, especially after a lot of the stability issues people had when upgrading to Lion? I want to keep being productive, not turn my laptop into a gizmo toy.
If you're using Chrome, the Currently extension is a must:

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ojhmphdkpgbibohbnp...

When you open a new tab, it'll show you current time and weather forecast:

http://f.cl.ly/items/1X373t2P143f0j1I3a3R/Screen%20Shot%2020...

Nice typography, choose from 3 color schemes and whatnot.
Yes. But it kills me that he could present such a graph, and then fail to comment on the peak at 10.4. That'll have to be a big issue when the reviews of this piece come out.
Talked with these guys awhile back and was really impressed with their vision and even more with their execution. Better connecting companies that want to sponsor the appropriate events with the right opportunities helps out everyone, and it's currently almost entirely ad-hoc (or managed by in-house tools which are inefficient or wasted effort).

I'm looking forward to using them for some of our open source meetups.
They have them already, but the only people who buy them are hipsters who want to pay $300+ to look cool.
I've been in machine learning/AI for ten years now - from undergraduate research, to graduate school, to industry - and I find debate like this fascinating. My take on it is that our understanding of what we will be able to do in the future is very unclear, and what we will want to do is very open-ended. So the debate is worth having, but it won't really resolve anything.

Statistical models may (in my opinion probably will) end up being an "AI" dead-end, eventually falling into other fields such as algorithms, like game trees and logic-based agents did. That's not to say the current statistical approach is a bad idea; on the contrary, I think these techniques are useful and simple enough that they will become fairly ubiquitous in CS.

On the Chomsky side of the argument, AI researchers have consistently been frustrated in the past 50 years, to the point that studying AI today makes you sound like a joke. But their goal is a noble one. Anyone can understand how great it would be to have a human-level intelligence on a chip - this would fundamentally change the World. The fact that we haven't dented this problem doesn't mean the problem isn't worth solving, it just means our understanding of what it takes to build this kind of AI is in its infancy.

I almost feel like Norvig and Chomsky are arguing in parallel. They are both right, but their arguments are valid on different time scales. Today, the Norvig approach will easily win out; Chomsky has nothing and is largely irrelevant. But Chomsky is, IMO, correctly predicting what will need to happen to move beyond an eventual roadblock in a much grander AI.
Yeah, SSD is completely negated when the file system has to wait for an external drive to spin up before it will be responsive, even if you're only using the local drive.

Because there's no setting for automounting and unmounting a Time Machine drive, I ended up using my old Macbook Pro as a file server and plugging in the external to that, then using a hack to get Time Machine to recognize it as a Time Capsule.

sigh
If you drop the word "business" from "business advice," at least, it's not impossible. Fables (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fable) and parables (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parable) are both types of stories that are built around making a point, and there are examples of both that have been good enough to still be popular thousands of years after they were first written.

I would say that it's harder to write a great fable or parable than it is to write a great example of a general story, though, because the structure of being built around an Important Point makes it easy to slip into preachiness or didacticism. You have to work extra hard to make the rest of the story not sag under the weight of the lesson.
I prefer More Interestingness* - I have a clock on my machine already, and I rarely need to know the weather every time I load a new tab.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ngddmdmkjnnefgggjn...
Interesting topic, but Onswipe sites freaking suck. Do they actually test on the iPad? This Onswipe page crashes Safari on my iPad.
It's actually not that. Spacing a header equally between preceding and following paragraphs can work fine. There's an obvious association with the following paragraph, because headers are expected to come before content, and so you don't need to imply that association visually.

In this case, the header is closer to the preceding paragraph (~15px) than to the following paragraph (~19px). It's visually implying a connection that doesn't exist, which is why it's problematic.
Meteor I believe is not using the asynchronous nature of Node.js it is using it sequentially. Single reason why I am not using it yet.
I have read most of the language instinct. I get why people find it compelling, but that has little to do with being accurate. My point was his style tends to be convincing vs. his actual evidence being compelling.

PS: Think of it like this A -> B, B -> C therefore A -> C is all well in good most of the time. A -> B .... Y -> Z therefore A -> Z only really works with math, build a chain that long and it's unlikely for all those steps to be accurate.
GeForce GTX 680: 20 pages http://www.anandtech.com/show/5699/nvidia-geforce-gtx-680-re...

Ivy Bridge: 21 pages http://www.anandtech.com/show/5771/the-intel-ivy-bridge-core...

I'm sure there are others.

The SSD series were not technically review but went well beyond 20 e.g. http://www.anandtech.com/show/2829/ is 27 pages.
It's not really hacking the icon, even in inverted commas - it's simply using the feature that allows you to specify the icon.
Things that make me reboot my Mac:

1. Software updates.

2. My Bluetooth headset hangs in a way that requires a reboot via power button. Happens probably once every six weeks on average.

3. VM software (mostly VirtualBox) crashes my system. Has probably happened at least twice in the past three months.

4. Booting in to Windows to play games.
Marco is far more negative then Ben Brooks. Whereas I think Ben plays up the negativity because it's his shtick, Marco is just genuinely very sarcastic, passive-aggressive and negative in general.
Technicolor R&D overtly led by patent trolls...
With this patent troll mentality, Technicolor probably won't be part of the companies which pave the way towards the end of the global crisis we're in...
I can't wait until "AR and driving" is like "texting and driving"
By traditional I assume you mean the setup where you have an HTTP server which reverse proxies (either doing it itself) or to HAProxy which in turn proxies to the actual Ruby application server (e.g. Mongrel, Unicorn).

In the above scenario there are just way too many parts.

Having Passenger being an all-in-one solution is pretty great.

I think most people with most apps can be very happy with Passenger.

I have been very pleased with Phusion Passenger and eagerly look forward to 4.0 and the pricing for Enterprise.
Hm? My window provides an experience rather close to reality, except the 'getting soaked by summer rain' part. I wouldn't call that 'minimal'. Maybe your window is broken. Does it run iOS, Android or WP7?
If children wish to draw "one-eyed trouser snakes" or Lisa Simpson performing an intimate act, on their school books that's fine.

I just don't think that consenting adults should be exposed to this sort of thing - especially not splashed over every wall
For some reason I'm really bothered by the fact that it's locked to Fahrenheit if you're in the US. At least give me a query parameter or something.
Anybody had the same problem with the MAS version ?
Amazon starting a conference for AWS
fast or not, this url/link is olddddd
Microsoft announces BUILD Conference 2012
Amazon re: Invent conference
Are The Analysts Wrong About Google's Undervalued Stock?
I'm a programmer, and I care about it. And I agree that it's really frikin hard.

I can look at a design and know if it's good or bad. That's easy. Knowing why and how to fix it is the hard part.
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It has to be one of the most overused request clients say to Web designers. Apparently, they think that it is the appropriate way to ask for more emphasis on a specific Web design element
Which are worse even than they look on first glance. Colourize them right and they look like Simpsons characters. http://media.nowpublic.net/images//00/f/00f893c2ac7430de95e1...
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"Dasani - London tapwater with added toxic levels of Benzene"

Admittedly the tag line needs some work, but with a good enough Logo it will sell.
This is exactly my take on it. They are talking about AI in different contexts, and therefore aren't really arguing with each other as much as past each other. Anyone who has any interesting in building something today would take a Norvig approach, and anyone who pictures AI 100 years from now should hope that the Chomsky approach eventually won out.
One could have a chunk of php code that needs to be run client side (for whatever reason, offline access on a chromebook being one).

PHP.js could come in handy (no need for porting the whole thing to js). Especially if this code will change over time.
That's typical London pricing.

Paris is much worse. The same 500ml bottle will cost you $5.33 at Charles de Gaulle Airport.
Yes. I already have a weather icon on my iPhone that doesn't show the actual weather until I open it. Right now it tells me it's 73 and sunny!
I've never heard the one-eyed trouser snake one before - I nearly spat my (non-Olympic-overlord approved) water in my ThinkPad :-)

They are by far the worst mascots ever.
Interesting idea.

I have questions about the following:

> Database Everywhere. Use the same transparent API to
> access your database from the client or the server.

Is this a good thing? I have been always under impression that separating data management and application logic is a good idea - basically a must.
Meaning lets think about more complex way to look at the database (temporal, stream, event processing, etc.). How this can be then possible?
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"I actually like [pagination] for very long articles because it helps me keep my place across multiple reading sessions. I can remember I was on page 8 instead of remembering my exact position in a very long scrolling web page."

Tell me why 'I can remember I was reading the section "A Cloud In Three Parts"' doesn't work?

There is a reason that sites that actually understand the medium put a mouseover on Section Titles and anchors so that the link is discoverable. If you don't put a link anchor next to it's respective title you really have no option but to think "Gee, pages are better."
I think you make a very important point. Even if the universe was infinitely large, there might be a point where past that the conditions can't exist that would allow something like our planet to function. For infinity to grant you duplicates of yourself the possibility must exist within that "zone of infinity". Gravity for example might be stronger or weaker.