skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On the one hand, I agree with that observation. On the other hand, it makes me think of the old (half a century or so) argument "but that is not AI, it is just X. It would have to do Y to be real AI", where this year's Y will, in 5 years time, be solved by a new X.

Yes, those surgeons in some sense are just mechanics/craftsmen, but what they do was research five years ago and they know they must stay up to date, so that they can do that Y by the time that new X has sufficiently developed. Also, many of them work on getting those new Xs to market, if only by helping in trials.
1200g = 1.2kg = 2.2 lbs/kg * 1.2kg = 2.6 lbs

[edit: HERP! I need to read the article more closely. Near the end of it, it does say that the larger values are presumably a laptop.]
Care to elaborate on your obviously educated opinion of Riak?
I think there is some bug here? Clicking on the above link about booleans leads to code about how to draw ellipses.
when u do this and post a link like that you turn you legit site into a scam
I think this will be a very valuable service for small biotechs. It would improve the value of their patents and increase chances of getting further funding.

As an experienced scientist myself, I can say there is plenty of scope for misunderstanding and misinterpretation, no matter how careful the original authors were. So I only hope that there will be some (maybe blinded) mechanism for communication between the original researchers and those replicating the published findings, in the event of the "usual" complications.

Also, who would do this replication? Would some of it be outsourced to academic labs with the requisite experience? Advanced findings often depend on advanced techniques. Outsourcing could be problematic, politically, since Big Shot No.1 might not be too interested in shooting down his pal, Alpha-MD-PhD.
We also do already have some more theoretical material.

For instance, I just published a Turing Machine simulation (http://www.khanacademy.org/cs/turing-machine/938201372) and we have a random walk simulator (http://www.khanacademy.org/cs/random-walk/803118438).
But if the "Uber way of doing business" effectively drives regulated cabs out of business, that's a problem.

It's not a "problem," it's "a sign that the State should get out of the business of regulating cabs."
Is it going to become a new standard for incubator/investor backed startups to turn to Kickstarter?

Or is this specific to the gaming community?
it's not so unusual in the uk / europe. maybe she prefers it to mrs.

and the guardian isn't the kind of paper that will go out of its way to force a woman's marital status down her throat...
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It's really sad. They were never really concerned with being truly free & open. They just were "open" in the wishy-washy way that when you do anything online for free, you can call it open and get lots of support.
> in the litany of First World Problems...

This is what we might call a "Fourth-World Problem." :)
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Both of you really need to add emphasis to "Presumably the 1200g/15mm form factor is a laptop" part. It's the most important part of that blurb and completely miss-able/indistinguishable from the rest of the less important, already read details.
Why html5 is not getting much traction in the email industry?
If you don't read the article, at least read my comment ;)
> Who says anyone changed their opinion?

I don't know what happened but I know the "awesome new guy" seems to be actually ok and very reasonable. He just fails to see the real point of the project and I think my cofounder is swayed too easily by unfounded opinions of people of a seemingly high status.

I actually don't think my cofounder is that much evil but he is out of touch with reality and refuses to engage in any communication that points it out. And yes, he's protecting his contacts quite hard and quite explicitly at times. Also tries to conceal the real state of things - I found out he got hired by the VC company only indirectly and after asking him a lot.
RIP Adobe Flash on Android
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This doesn't sound good, but it got me thinking.. How do you verify someone is who they say they are in situations like this?

As we've seen with recent breaches, the last 4 digits of your CC # aren't incredibly hard to find out. "Secret" questions and answers are generally quite poor, in that very few of them don't suffer from laughably small keyspaces or rely on semi-public information. Passwords almost seem like the least bad option.

I get that giving a password to a human isn't a very comfortable feeling, but if you don't trust the CSR to not misuse the password, do you also not trust the developers to not have put in something to grab your password one of the various times you enter it into a web application that they control?
Interesting.. so I guess if you're not a student, you don't qualify as an 'upstart'?
Apple has EOL'd its Java and told people to switch to Oracle's version. That's a pretty good reason IMO.
I have to agree with you.

The original Ubercab model (allow anybody to sign up as a driver without any vetting of anything) was absolutely atrocious. The new one is better, but uber drivers benefit from customers who feel like the product is as safe as the regulated product without actually doing things like ensuring that the cars are inspected.

That said, I pretty much lost respect for Uber when they pretended that expressing high-demand rates as a multiple was clear. Nobody with any UX experience would've agreed with them that it was clear... but they all would've agreed that it's a great way to camoflague massively inflated rates.
When you can manage DNS with them you can verify your Google Apps domain with TXT records. Oh wait, they don't allow you to configure TXT records either.
Awesome work! But I have to agree with cantankerous. This is more about programming than computer science. If the premise is that a student should learn programming before computer science that's fine, but the curriculum should be labeled as such. The drawing tutorial video highlights this point for me when it makes a false assertion about coordinate systems in "computer science". More than just arguing semantics, this could create false expectations among students of what they are learning compared to university computer science programs.
Marijuana shouldn't be regulated as it is.

Should startups be allowed to sell Marijuana? Of course not, either everyone should, or nobody should. Level playing fields and all that.
Still, don't you think it's a bit disingenuous to pick on the upper part of the range and totally ignore the lower end of the range? One could easily write a comment on the same lines, "Wow, just 520g, and you thought the iPad was light".
That specific solution doesn't work. If they have access with just characters x and y of your password, then they (as good as) have your password, and access to your account.
I'm sorry, I don't understand. How is this different from geographically distributed reverse proxies?
InfoQ is actually a pretty good place. Just scroll through their backlog and you're sure to find something.
I'm not sure this statement says anything; it's a rhetorical NOP. You'd want to accompany it with the reason why municipalities could be assured that visitors would have a reliable way to get a ride from point A to point B in the absence of regulation.
YC will back anything these days. Paul Graham talks about "Frighteningly Ambitious Startup Ideas" and tackling the real hard problems, and then we get a little controller for an iPhone. Yawn.
Or, you know, rather than deal with the risk of getting caught through the money trail that creates, they could just use existing free services like they already do.
That's a pretty good worst case scenario. I wouldn't change how it works at all.
Thanks for sharing your experience with Perl. +1

I've never been biased towards one language or another. I always recommend using the right tool for the job. With that said, I built Crowdtilt using Perl and the main reason was because we needed to move fast. Now, that I am here I don't even want to use another language, but I will if I have to :).
You change the policies by applying economic pressure and moving your accounts to other providers. Seriously it's not worth your time to change other people's behavior. Better to give them incentives or (as in this case) take them away to sway their actions.
You say that in a light hearted and amusing manner, but if real, honest-to-god libraries, lending books at no cost to anyone, didn't already exist, and someone tried to start one today, they'd never be allowed to get off the ground. Same applies to radio stations, playing music for free. Thank God they all got started decades ago, cause they wouldn't have a prayer today.
Not sure it matters really, since programming will "speak" to some people and not to others regardless of the language.

But in terms of JavaScript specifically, I think first timers could do without being exposed to lexical scoping and truthiness.

I like that Javascript gives you encapsulation without necessarily object orientation, which is probably a good place for beginning programmers to start.
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Had to look up "rent seeking", I'm sure I'm not the only one

In economics, rent-seeking is an attempt to obtain economic rent by manipulating the social or political environment in which economic activities occur, rather than by creating new wealth, for example, spending money on political lobbying in order to be given a share of wealth that has already been created. A famous example of rent-seeking is the limiting of access to lucrative occupations, as by medieval guilds or modern state certifications and licensures. People accused of rent seeking typically argue that they are indeed creating new wealth (or preventing the reduction of old wealth) by improving quality controls, guaranteeing that charlatans do not prey on a gullible public, and preventing bubbles.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rent-seeking
These are two good reasons for the law to be reformed, but not for why Uber is above the law.

I see no reason for Uber to be exempt from the same regulations other services must abide by.
Apple's already removed their own JRE from default OS X installs, demand-loading it only with explicit user authorization.

Furthermore they've sent out recent security updates partially disabling applet loading in web browsers and disabling the JVM entirely if it hasn't been used in a long while.

I think that the next step of completely shuttering Apple's JRE demand-loader will be a straight-up security win for most end-users, ensuring that only those who require Java have it.
Worked just fine clicking the link to the DMG.
Why is it limited to only recent grads? A lot of people have that "some day" thing they want to do but chose a "safe job" instead. As a backer, I'd be much more likely to fund a console veteran who wants to make indie games (i.e. reasonable chance of success) than a recent CS grad who has a job offer at BigCorp.

The thing that sets this apart from Kickstarter is that you're backing a person and not a project. If their "go for it" project fails, though, it'll feel a little bit like indentured servitude.
Looks like he's changed his mind. http://www.digitalmediamachine.com/2012/08/lendink-starts-cr... Faith can be restored for the low, low price of $10000. :)
What would I gain over Java6? I don't use java for anything, except, I have a couple of apps on my machine that make use of it.
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This is a great solution for anyone who wants to learn.
Login security : PHP
Unless the compromise is a long-term one.

Part of what PCI attempts to address is limiting legitimate access to servers, as well as preventative measures against compromise.

I personally think that Stripe may be within the letter of the law, but not necessarily the spirit.
Very cool... the app is very responsive and easy to use. Great look too!
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Can you live stream it this year?
I submitted my name, email and university only to receive an email that said that I wasn't qualified because I wasn't part of the five schools in their pilot program. I wish that there was transparency from the get go instead of baiting me into entering in my personal information.

wasd,

Thanks for your interest in Upstart! Upstart is currently only available on a limited number of campuses, and unfortunately University of California-Berkeley is not a part of the program at this time. We are running a limited pilot at Arizona State University, Dartmouth, Rhode Island School of Design, University of Michigan and University of Washington. Your interest will be crucial in helping us decide where we should go next!

We will let you know as soon as we open the Upstart network up to more campuses, including yours.

Jeff,
Team Upstart

EDIT:

I vaguely remembered this being posted before. Its been up a few times in the last 6 days without much discussion and here is a larger discussion from 4 months ago:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3718771
No. If you were operating a gas station with pumps lacking those calibration stickers, you'd get a cease-and-desist. That's the very mechanism implementing regulation of companies.
That's the nicest looking LaunchRock-y page I've ever seen.
one doesn't need to be wrong to be downvoted on HN:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4381761
How do you manage the keepalive connection pool? Are you managing this in nginx (via HTTP 1.1 backend support?) or using a different service?

We ran a test of this approach using a similar stack in 2010. We had Ireland, Singapore, Sydney backhauling to Dallas, TX for a reasonably large population of users. Managing the backend pool was a bit of a challenge without custom code. nginx didn't yet support HTTP 1.1 backend connections. The two best options I could find at that time were Apache TrafficServer and perlbal. perlbal won and was pretty easy to set up with a stable warm connection pool.

Despite good performance gains we didn't put the system into production. The monitoring and maintenance burden was high and we lacked at that time a homogeneous network -- I tested Singapore and Australia using VPS providers as Amazon and SoftLayer (our vendors of choice) weren't there yet.

As a side-effect of using the VPS vendors we did and trying to keep costs in control, we had to ratchet the TTL for this service down uncomfortably low to allow for cross-region failover. In Australia the additional DNS hit nearly wiped out the gains in SSL negotiation.

With today's increased geographical coverage and rich set of services from Amazon, this is a much less daunting project if you can stomach the operational overhead.

Note that the lack of sanely-priced bandwidth and hosting providers in Australia is a huge problem. When Amazon lands EC2 there, it's going to really shake up that market.
Crockford's book was a direct inspiration for my Modern Perl:

http://onyxneon.com/books/modern_perl/index.html
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"Don't be discouraged if what you produce initially is something other people dismiss as a toy. In fact, that's a good sign. That's probably why everyone else has been overlooking the idea. The first microcomputers were dismissed as toys. And the first planes, and the first cars. At this point, when someone comes to us with something that users like but that we could envision forum trolls dismissing as a toy, it makes us especially likely to invest."
Thinking Like a Designer: my Hyperink eBook
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excited to see the start of a great company solving a critical problem in the job economy. we need more crazy ideas like this!
Nothing like an unbiased product testimonial.

Oh wait.. this is NOT that. SPAM.
Sure, but Akamai is the "big iron" of CDNs - you can run your own custom code in a JVM at their edge locations. So I kinda think anyone in the market for Akamai isn't getting SSL termination advice on HN :)
How Someone Outside the USA Could Start a Kickstarter Campaign
Downvote and vaccinate away guys. It doesn't bother me.
Great talk, and without having any experience with FP, it really makes sense on many levels. I love data, and how transparent it is, and how objects seem to get in the way a lot of the time. I like queues, and shipping data from one process to another rather than sharing objects. RESTful interfaces, etc. Those concepts and tools are powerful.

The only thing I'm not too comfortable with is that space isn't really infinite. Yes, it's much cheaper, but still not infinite. If we stored all our logs in an ever growing database, and expect to be able to access it all the time, this is really very expensive. This is why we rotate logs, archive them and trash them eventually. Sure, we can afford this expense for source control, because this data (source code) is amazingly small in comparison. I'm not sure how it translates to real data on our systems, which is immensely bigger.

Also thinking about it in context of technologies like
redis. redis manifets a lot of the advancement in technology in how memory is used. It's so vastly bigger and cheaper than before that we can afford to store our whole database in it, instead of on much slower disks. But then this super-fast in-memory database definitely faces storage size constraints that needs to be considered...

Just a few random thoughts. Wish I could have a chat to Rich Hickey one day. Even if I could, I have a lot more to learn until then, so I'd make the most of this chat.
Elastic, Highly Available Backend for Delayed Job: IronMQ
Arch Linux to migrate to Systemd
but this is a toy...
Jython 2.5.3 final released
I don't use 1and1, so I don't know if this is possible, but why not:

1) change current password to some stupid password

2) give password

3) reset password back to my normal password

4) move on with life
Umm, I think it's all still open-sourced. It's just hosted at Github, which probably integrates it better into the open source community:

https://github.com/khan

They even make their ec2 instances open source!
Java 7 is faster in some cases. Also, some Java apps will require Java 7 — but obviously that doesn't apply to you if you aren't planning on using any new Java apps and those don't force an upgrade.
It segfaulted here (11). Since the shell was available, ls -l revealed that only directories had +x on them, and none of the scripts. Not sure whether that makes any sense (or simply was not compiled for the right arm architecture).

It does not work from both Nexus 7 Tablet, and Google Nexus phone (latest)
Assuming that all you need to verify is that the person on the phone knows that account name and password, one way that would not be too difficult to implement would be to have a way for support to mark the account with a random 8 digit number. The support person does this, and then tells the customer to log in to their account management page. There should be a link there that shows the random 8 digit number. The customer then reads this to the support person over the phone.
So, if my understanding is correct, are they are trading SSL handshake latency (which occurs once per connection), for the potential latency incurred by having traffic redirected from multiple servers around the world to a single set of application servers?

It seems like in the diagram, the West Coast Client, instead of making a direct connection to the APP servers on the right, is instead making a connection to the ELB on the left, which then forwards the traffic to the nginx server, which forwards it to another ELB, which forwards it to the App servers.

If the client connected directly to the ELB in front of the App Servers, they would incur the SSL handshake latency, but would avoid the four extra hops (two per send and two per receive) on the ELB and nginx.

Over the lifetime of the connection, is it possible that this latency could be longer than 200 ms?
So why are these remarks getting downvoted? BTW, could someone provide links with more details, i.e. what was closed, this still appears pretty open: https://github.com/khan/khan-exercises
The KFC looks very delicious, haven't had a meal there in a long time. Yums.
That's (a bit far from intuitive but) gorgeous.
Most states have weights and measures departments that certify all of the tools used in commerce (scales, gas pumps, taxi meters, etc). These tools are very highly regulated -- often the internals are inspected by state officials, the devices are sealed, and operators are required to bring them back in for periodic re-testing. This may seem obstructionist, but it's based on a long history of dishonest merchants tampering with this type of equipment to defraud customers.
Don't hate the old people. They have a lot to teach.
Looks like they used the Neet template from WrapBootstrap

https://wrapbootstrap.com/theme/neet-minimalistic-template-W...
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4383001
I didn't know the definition of "hack" included "buy some of-the-shelf parts from Ikea and stick them on your desk".
I will do - my only concern is that my economic pressure alone won't be enough.

This post seeks to address information failure, if you will.
You'd want to accompany it with the reason why municipalities could be assured that visitors would have a reliable way to get a ride from point A to point B in the absence of regulation.

How is it a proper role of municipal government to "(assure) that visitors would have a reliable way to get a ride from point A to point B"??? I reject the fundamental premise this is based on.

I mean, you have to consider the unintended consequences of (nominally well meaning) government regulation, like artificially limiting the supply of cabs, while simultaneously interfering with the ability of cab drivers to earn a decent wage. And one should ponder the possibility that there are other ways to protect consumers, outside of government regulation. Why can't there be a voluntary certification system for cabs, which a given cab company could choose to accept or reject... and, correspondingly, consumers could choose to either only take rides with "certified" cabs, or they could go all "caveat emptor" and take rides with non-sanctioned cabs.

The fact that people are already going outside "the system" is evidence that "the system" is not fulfilling the needs of the consumers.
Well, yes, but it's expected and somewhat necessary that administrators (that is, people with some kind of administrative responsibility) of online services have access to your account.
I don't get it. At all. The only purpose of the password is to authenticate you against your account. Why would you refuse to use it for this? It's the point of a password that you submit it.¹ Oh yeah. Because you don't trust the guy on the telephone. He could easily hijack you account and do nasty stuff. 1) He could do if he wanted if you didn't tell him 2) You're not trusting him/her? Why are you doing any business with a company you don't trust?

Or is the point that somebody could wiretap you? Get off your tin foil hat and think about keyloggers.

¹) Or do a challenge response. It does not matter. It's a shared secret.
The native camera is the active application when someone is using it, but for Kamcord's recording, the game is trying to render at 60FPS and Kamcord running in the background, how is it the same?

I'm just curious to know more about the "technology" that you are talking about since I'm pretty familiar with iOS's SDK.