skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most of your feedback is perfectly fair. My algorithm was not meant for general search, not am I a "young genius" or anything of the sort. Similarly, techniques like tf-idf, latent semantic analysis, document modelling, and even pseudo-relevance feedback expansion are no longer "cutting edge" techniques.

However, your blanket characterization that "there's absolutely nothing new" in my work and that I just talked "about existing research" while "making it look like [my] own" is somewhat offensive. Based on a fairly extensive review of the literature, the algorithm that I developed is novel and seems to outperform a number of these standard techniques on short document like tweets. As for "just looking at co-occurrence," that's essentially a type of pseudo-relevance feedback expansion and is, of course, well known and easy to implement.

Please realize the difference between a news interview published online and the paper I submitted to the fair when assessing the novelty of my work and when suggesting that I made no reference to others' work.

Regarding my "definition for a 'word'", I apologize for appearing pretentious. I was asked to speak on the conference's theme of "redefinition" in relation to my research and did the best I could.

Finally, I think it's kind of strange that you automatically assumed that my parents even worked on my project. Neither of them are even familiar with the details of the project. My work was my own, and your automatic assumption of what is tantamount of broad academic fraud and plagiarism assumed particularly bad faith. In any case, thanks for your honest feedback; I try to be careful about how I come across and I'll be even more mindful in the future.
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"The money speech helped me get over an irrational, subconscious distaste for money but at the same time I recognized it for the capitalist fairytale that it is."

Funny, the best summary of Rand I've read (maybe on Samizdata - I can't find the exact quote though) is that her writing is a really good antidote to certain ideologies, but it shouldn't be mistaken for food.

EDIT: s/Samizata/Samizdata
I suspect most just want to build a product _someone_ finds useful

Don't forget to start by creating something YOU find useful, then.

I'm starting to think the main problems nerds have are mostly social, btw.
Interestingly, Swisher's spouse is a VP at Google.
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The warning itself is dependent on your compiler squawking when it sees "if(x = 5)". The C spec doesn't require this. On the other hand, "if(5 = x)" will be thrown out by any C compiler.
Huh, I use Lion and haven't had any problems.
Yes, a completely open-sourced, royalty free and patent-free WebM is "proprietary".

Patent-laden format for which you have to pay multi-million royalties is "industry standard".
Skeuomorphism was around in a lot of interfaces before Apple "invented" it. It's a very common feature in videogame interfaces. My old ThinkPad had to slide to unlock switch to the laptop screen. So you take the exact same device and make a digital version of it and it's patentable?
My experience says that for real legacy code (deployed and actually used) it is almost always better to slice it up and re-write and deploy sections of it incrementally. Big-bang transitions with a "point of no return" are just so expensive and risky.

Yes, you lose "conceptual integrity" and your UX may be inconsistent in the transitional time, but those are small prices to pay.
Propaganda is always easier if you fail to mention all the facts.

Like the fact that it was Motorola that used their patents to negotiate with Microsoft long before it was acquired by Google. Or the fact that Motorola did it only after Microsoft blackmailed Motorola, using your rhetoric, with their patent portfolio in order to destroy Android not by making better products but by patent bullying.
It is good to fail at things.

When you fail, smile, because you realize that you pushed your boundaries, you grew, and you learned something. And then either try again or try something else.
I rubber duck A LOT. But instead of talking to a rubber duck, I talk to my girlfriend (we both work at home). It's an amazingly useful technique.

This also reminds me of a House M.D. episode where House is on a plane without his team, so he has to get a regular person to talk to, to finally solve the case.
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Very interesting. That Google Group you link to is very busy with responses to almost all threads, but the one you link to, the May 9 offer to add Opus to Chrome, was met by the sound of crickets.

If IE, Firefox, Opera, and Chrome support it, there might be enough leverage on Apple to add it to Safari (Mac, iOS, maybe iPod), too. But without Chrome, Apple has the political cover to claim that "nobody uses it," so they can kill it.
This seems to me a bit like saying we could never have a flat tablet computer because its impossible to have a perfectly flat crt that's thin enough what with the magnetic yoke, the electron beam, shadow mask etc.

"Breakthrough" is used much too often these days. Breakthroughs are breakthroughs because you don't see them coming. It will be laugh-out-loud unexpected when it comes, seem obvious in hindsight, and be one of the few things ever invented that might deserve a patent monopoly to be granted for a small handful of years.
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When speculating on this sort of thing, it's unnecessary to think in terms of biology and the whole two eyes thing.

A cybernetic implant or augment could produce the effect of having another set of eyes that was seeing something else entirely.

Even cybernetic eyes that had a uniformly high-density perception area, instead of what's actually concentrated in a relatively small zone in biological eyes, might have the advantage of situating things "off to the side" but not requiring you to actually look at them to make sense of what's being conveyed.
One of the weakest arguments Ive ever heard intended to as stalking horse for the govt to regulate private property as if it were a standard which it is not.
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The real question is, "How much did he keep?" and "What was announced in advance?" One can look at Lenovo's financial statements to find his compensation plan.

On page 66 of http://www.lenovo.com/ww/lenovo/pdf/report/E_099220120531d.p... it looks like his base pay is just over $1 million. Not shabby. He has up to 300% of his base as an incentive. That would give $3 million. Seems like unless they are paying him separately under the table, he really is giving up his full bonus.

Just this once I won't be a cynic.
Having done multiple native apps on iOS, and a couple of phone gap based apps, the overwhelming flaw is that web apps don't _feel_ like native apps -- it's partially an HTML5, partially a js, partially iOS web view issue. It's the nuances that I as a developer notice, and I feel like my app is always 80% of what it could be, no matter which great 'new' library I try.

PhoneGap reminds me of the anecdote about a carpenter that sands the back of a bookshelf, "why do that" he gets asked, "no one will see it" and his response is "but I will." That's how I feel developing a phonegap app -- most people don't see the partially finished app; but I do.
Just because people keep up with the news a different way than you do doesnt mean they have A.D.D.
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Rebuilding is a lot more stimulating. I had an engineer quit on me when I convinced the team to do incremental updates instead of rolling forward with an over-engineered rebuild that would just trade one set of problems for a different set of problems.
Ask HN: What are the top open source software written in C?
I'm looking for top open source softwares written in C (excluding linux kernel) for learning by code reading. AFAIK, Apache Web Server, Gnome, GIMP and parts of firefox are written in C. Do you know of any other interesting open source projects using C as their development language?
Fair enough. I like using SGI as an example, especially given that G moved into their campus right there. There are still a few reminders of that which came before, like the plaque in the park, and until a few years ago, a list of conference room names: superscalar, pipeline, etc.

I understand that SGI had a whole wing of building 40 set up for customer demos. G turned it into a bunch of interview rooms named after programming languages. Well, that is, until 2011.

Apparently it's been turned into a huge customer demo room again if my mol^H^H^Hsources are to believed. There's a lot of eye rolling any time I ask about it.
Six weeks!? A well designed static website takes longer than that.
It won't be "done" in six weeks, but "done" is a very antiquated idea.
So you're implying that the Americans could fake several entire moon landing missions (to the satisfaction even of their bitter rivals the Soviets), but couldn't make some fake images from lunar orbit?
If I was Mac user I'd be pissed. As a Windows user I'm looking forward to what they can bring to GMail.

Sparrow and Coda are two programs I've always wanted to use regularly.
It's a pity that you can't hire on the basis of general IQ. It almost seems discriminatory that you're being forced to not hire the best.
The time cost of signalling and unit computation is fundamentally physical. Drift and error in inertial and position sensing is fundamentally physical.

You can make very good goggles if the money and time per unit isn't an issue. Registration to the point that there are no detectable flaws is very hard. You have a hard timing constraint from the human visual system on the order of 5 to 50 milliseconds. In that time, you need to sense the visual environment, determine position and its derivative vectors, figure out how your simulation needs to be updated, render the new data, and display it to the user.

Not something you can necessarily solve by throwing money and engineering hours at it until it works. In fact, there may be a few Nobel prizes in physics between here and there, or possibly biological integration well beyond our current horizon.
One from my workplace is "potato" as in "extremely low hanging fruit", features so easy and cheap to implement it's just like picking them up off the ground.
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GPL v1 and v2 are fine, but v3 is not compatible.
I think if you're very picky about having just the right people at the "bottom", and just the right people/person at the "top" (because even in Valve's supposedly flat hierarchy there's still someone on top: Gabe) then it can go up quite aways. But yes, it's probably inevitable that it eventually fails and devolves into department, fiefdoms, politics, etc. You can push it out but can't put if off forever. But you know what? That's not necessarily a bad thing. There are plenty of companies that can be viable and successful with 5-100 employees. Not everything has to be a megacorp.
Are you familiar with Koders.com?
Be prepared to be amazed. I'm pretty skeptical of what's going to result as well.
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On any specific technology, you absolutely can know that no one else has patents on it. That is the responsibility of the patent office: to grant exclusive rights to an 'invention'. you cannot be held liable for infringement of anything you have a license for.

In this case though, Microsoft only has patents on part of the algorithm, so it is theoretically possible that other parts of the algorithm are covered by other patents.
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At least it saw them all as numbers. The guy I saw who couldn't figure out why two floats didn't compare with == also gave me this gem (in Python):

if query_count < 100000:
continue

Trouble is, query_count was a string, and in Python, things like '1000' are not less than 100000.

$ python -c "print '1000' < 100000"
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This appears true. I have a Nexus S and I have seen some times that the touchscreen freezes after I finish the call. It usually happens on a hot day and if there is sweat on the screen. When I press the power button and unlock again, things are back to normal. Have checked with some of my friends who use iPhone and they do not seem to have experienced such issues.
Not really. Opus incorporates the Skype codec, Microsoft has their name on it by virtue of being the new owner of Skype.
There are plenty of conservative-leaning subreddits, and it's easy to create your own.
> I’m sure that one day we’ll all be walking around with AR glasses on (or AR contacts)

All light sources generate heat. Is it not a good idea to have a possibly intense heat source so close to your optic nerves?
It's perfectly feasible to keep software working indefinitely, but our industry is nowhere near mature enough to do it. In just a few years this unmaintained app will become unusable over some gratuitous platform change. But hey, they knew they weren't getting source when they bought it.
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Does it emulate mitosis? Can we artificially emulate mutations?
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I don't like ads (typically). But as ads get more and more targeted (ie., when i haven't gone to the dentist in 2 years and the ad says, "great dentist with promo offer just 2 miles from you", that's kind of enticing). I think it will migrate to where ads need to be helpful (ie., google ads). Search was easier because Google could target on the search term. But it's harder when the user isn't proactively searching for something.

But I think it can be done. The ads just need to be super-targetted and helpful.
You're answering the question with regards to "Wordpress the PHP app the CMS app that runs on a LAMP stack." I'm guessing that "Wordpress to iOS" is really just a native iOS mobile interface to the PHP CMS app. In that case, they probably have written it from scratch.
This is pure, unadulterated FUD. If your advice is to just do a mobile web app, what on earth is wrong with packaging it up into a phonegap app so that you can access a few extra APIs?
Thanks! I will look into the opencourseware I was bummed that I had missed out on the 6.0002x course but this looks almost as good.

I know that EE is a huge field, I think that's part of what makes it so daunting to get started if you have no traditional education in it.

Thanks for your reply!
Does anyone know the author of the article, I can't find their name anywhere?
Hmm we already have the new Digg. It's called "Hacker News".

Good luck, chaps
Definitely going to trade in some old text books to get my hands on this. Thanks for the tip!
It's rare, but I remember reading that USPTO has mistakenly issued conflicting patents. Legally, any publication is enough to bar others' patents, they're just not good at finding anything in the software literature, so having your own patent sort of rubs examiners' noses in it.
You're far exaggerating the scope of my comment, and you somehow boiled it down to a false dichotomy of "Do you want people motivated by points, or people who are experts?"

Discussions over the best solutions happen frequently on SO. Poor solutions are criticized, good solutions are expanded upon.

> The problem there is, where does the motivation for people to provide you with "your answer" come from?

Easy. Some people just love to educate. I love to educate - I write tutorials frequently. Some people use SO to educate, while others use forums.
I think it's Abrash.

http://blogs.valvesoftware.com/uncategorized/
Copyright has nothing at all to do with patents.

Copyright is a generally good force; its current lifespan is too long, but it has demonstrable value, even in software.

Patents have demonstrated no such value.
I wouldn't recommend using a regular text editor and dealing with the iOS APIs. I pretty much despise IDEs, but sadly the objective-c paragraph long method signatures require it. That's actually why I didn't even bother with RubyMotion, it doesn't solve the thing I hate the most about objective-c.

I just use AppCode, with Xcode for interface builder and dealing with things like data models. It's closest enough to something that isn't a total piece of shit so that I can avoid slitting my wrists all day.
So which is better, iSAC or Opus?
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Light sources generate heat primarily as a waste product from elements that radiate in the infra-red spectrum - there is no rule that visible light must carry enough energy to significantly warm the surface it hits. The more efficient the source, the less heat is generated, so it's just a matter of using an efficient light source for AR technology. In addition, the human body is very good at eliminating waste heat, so even something running at slightly above body temperature shouldn't pose a problem - we are able to dissipate the heat of the sun and metabolic heat very well already.
Over where? Seriously, I can't find the frat house.

Is there a sanctioned place for people to post this sort of meta-programmer stuff? You find little scraps of it from time to time, is there a stack exchange site that can be used for fun stuff?
WebM is not proprietary. It's open source. You can find it here:

http://www.webmproject.org/
Why exactly couldn't Apple use the very same lame excuse it used against WebM and pro-h.264?
But the point is that if the USTPO issues conflicting patents, it is them that is liable instead of you. If you have a license, you're golden.
So is Mozilla going to use VP8 combined with Opus in Firefox 15, instead of Vorbis, for "free" videos?
That's the second solecism you've redeemed in this thread alone. You could make a career out of this as a minor superhero :)

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4273080
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So, I have one issue with this: "hard AR" already has to solve all the mentioned problems of video passthrough if it wants to make virtual objects seem lifelike: dynamic range, field of view, lag, all of it. If you somehow solve of them, which of course seems impossibly hard at present, then there's no point in worrying about see-through AR; just use video passthrough.
If I had to bet, I would say that AR glasses of the future will replace your vision entirely with a camera feed (called video-passthrough in the article). Today's glasses have a low field of view and lag, but these are only quantitative problems. They can be solved with gradual improvements. They're not physical limitations. The camera is right next to the display, so there are no fundamental speed-of-light issues. It's easy to imagine that, over the years, the lag will be reduced enough to be imperceptible.

The problem of drawing black with see-through glasses looks like a much harder problem in comparison.
At risk of being banned forever, yes, this has been my experience with the site since its inception. Judgement is one quality of a solid developer and SO fails to impart The additive judgement of its participants.
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Not all apps use native controls. Not all apps should be built on PhoneGap.

At my company, we need to build apps rapidly. By rapid, I mean 1 week for a testable product. I have a app skeleton that implements backbone.js and some "native" css controls ready to go. I can easily turn around an app in that time.

Is it as fast as native? No. Do most people notice that? No. Does it prove the app concept we were trying to test? Yes.

So we basically use it as a prototyping platform and if the app has a lot of users, we'll go native. From my experience, it's much faster to prototype in html5 than it is in obj-c.
Only in the same way you could say Google helped "build" Skype, because Skype uses the VP8 codec.
I disagree. Seeing that someone uses "banana banana banana" as a comment placeholder, or that they refer to clueless programmers as "Jimmy"... is not illuminating my day to day work at all.

Entertaining? Sure.
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Wow, good call actually. SGI were doing amazing things in the early-to-mid 90s and then... linux workstations? I never understood that one.
Lol, using antimatter to destroy incoming photons, to have the color black, would be a seriously comical but cool over engineering.
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The algorithms aren't the critical part of Google's engine- it's the signals which help the system learn what you're interested in.

This is why Bing is desperate to get traffic- as long as it's numbers are low then it has significantly fewer signals which cause its ads to underperform.

This is also the source of the 'Bing is copying our results' kerfuffle last year- http://searchengineland.com/google-bing-is-cheating-copying-.... Bing needed more signals, so used the toolbar to get them, inadvertently copying Google.
Again, the thermal protection system was delicate because of weight issues.

I was not disagreeing with you.

* A person can do reentry in little more than one of those old style space suits and a parachute,*

Are you sure? If one is in orbit, one will re-enter hypersonic. This implies a whole lotta friction as you careen through the atmosphere.
It's misleading.

Users have a higher expectation of quality from native apps than webapps.
There was one. It was Programmers (actually proposed as "Not Programming Related"). It was a mess. It took some straightening out and now it's a decent place. http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/12/introducing-programmer...
You're talking about rows versus columns in the expression problem. You prefer making it easy to add columns, I prefer making it easy to add rows.
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