skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Defiantly agree with #1. I bought a small VPS about 4 months ago ($15 a month) and have learnt a tonne.
Bethesda Softworks website gets a facelift
As far as I can tell from the specification posts here, it's entirely to make implementation more feasible. Rather than some complicated calculation of precedence, you can just assign each rule a single score. As long as the weird exception essentially never comes up (which is the point of specifying "a number system with a large base"), it's an efficient and sensible way to implement the desired rule.
I'll definitely look into the Brown clustering. I used this one with the hope of being able to eventually run spectral clustering on this (main problem: the KLIC defines a pre-metric, not a proper metric, so the order of operations is crucial).

How does the Brown clustering method guarantee less sensitivity to the seeding words?

Your visualization is interesting, I'd like to able to navigate it in order overcome most of the clutter. Originally I thought of mapping the clusters in 3d "clouds", but I think the dataset is too large for making a dimension-based visualization more than recreational - I mean, I'd probably be happier to read a cluster as a list.
Thanks, I learnt a lot today.
Ask HN: How can a community like HN protect its users from IP trolls?
Just curious, - For example, recently, Fab.com sued a site called touchofmodern.com based on BS copyright and trademark reasons.<p>http://techcrunch.com/2012/08/15/fab-lawsuit-touch-of-modern-whitehawk-ventures/<p>As a developer myself, I am now somewhat skeptical of using a login box with imagery as its background for my app, because that is exactly what fab.com is suing for.<p>Really, this could be the case of you or me or any one of the hackers here on HN someday. How can a community like HN protect/contribute to stop such a nasty trend stiffle innovation and help its users in such scenarios?<p>Disclosure: I DO NOT represent any of the sites above, they are just examples.
Long term, the main point of failure for me is always the outer rubberized cable layer starting to fray near the connector. It happens to my iPhone connectors, and annoyingly even on my more expensive power adapter cord.
Anyone who wants to do that can contact me (contact form and email can be found there) and I'll happily publish the results.
Sometimes visual but more often I imagine the code physically. It has weight, or friction, or rigidity, depending on what aspects of the code I'm trying to think about.
Show HN: Pictocons Web & Ui Icons
Bitcoins up another 42% since August 1st
Xiaomi Mi-Two Android Jelly Bean Smartphone Announced In China
You're probably right. I have a Linode 512 as well and I haven't used it since that $100 credit promo when I purchased it.
Howto: Deploy Clojure on DotCloud
Yeah, it's generally called Quick Boot, or the option to skip POST.
Apple's Spat with Google Will Only Get Worse
Domain Shutdowns, Suspensions, and Seizures... oh my
From Lean Startup To Failed Startup
I think that Toolbox (also from Automattic) is the best minimalist theme that you can use for building a theme from scratch.

http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/toolbox
Webpages are files too...
Not all bike-sharing schemes have the same model.

For example, DC's capital bikeshare comes from Federal grants that covered the setup costs, while Velib in Paris is entirely operated by JCD, an advertising agency that operates the system in exchange for advertising rights.

Take Velib. Last time I checked, JCD had revenue of $54 million, with an operating expense of roughly $35 million on Velib. The theft and vandalism complaints were regrettably exaggerated when the City and JCD were re-negotiating their contract last year. That they need subsidies to exist is patently false.

Financial aspects of US systems are also healthy as pointed out by other commenters.

On a related note, the subsidies to other modes, mainly rail and roads, are several orders of magnitude higher.
IIRC the PowerVR GPU inside all the iOS devices already support hardware VP8 encoding/decoding.

Apple just has no inclination to support it. And why would they ? VP8 is significantly worse than H.264 in every important way (quality, compatibility, popularity). Not to mention that Apple is on a very anti-Google path right now.
Julian Assange Ecuador embassy row - live coverage
Ecuador grants Julian Assange asylum
Early Reviews Of Microsoft's Windows 8 Are Not Good
Google is a few years too late with VP8.

It would have had an opportunity to take off when H.264 was in its infancy. But now there is simply no use for it.
Essentially:

"It's still early for Microsoft. It hasn't released new laptops that were built with Windows 8 in mind. Perhaps when those devices come out the reviews will improve."
The issue isn't in the base case but derived cases to determine which overrides the other. A div with an id that has another div with a class attribute should override anything done on just the div with the id? But when does the specificity of any chain of just classes become more specific than an id. That is why they have weights.
SpringSource Tool Suites 3.0.0 released
That's much nicer for the ones with all the money and power than for the one person looking for work. Or a landlord. Or a client. Or a partnership. Or an acquisition. Etc.
Someone who specializes in HTML and CSS, with a bit of JavaScript (mostly jQuery) and ActionScript thrown in, for the most part.

A senior-ish front-end developer will know at least a few templating languages and possibly a bit more programming in addition to that.
_s is actually a fork of Toolbox. Ref: https://github.com/Automattic/_s/commit/edfeccc2557e899cf0b8...
Building an app does not make you a startup
Strange, until today I was pretty ambivalent towards Assange.
Yes, what he was doing is I think the "natural" course of events - data will become more available, hiding secrets much harder and for shorter amounts of time.

But, for his personal fate, I was, well, ambivalent.

Now, however, I actively want him to not stand trial in Sweden (and certainly not end up rerouted to the USA.) I would prefer a method where he does face his accusations in a properly constituted court (Brussels perhaps?), but right now, I lack all trust in USA's approach to extradition when a War on X is involved.

Bush Jr has a long legacy - the beacon of Truth and Justice in the world, and guess what, I don't trust them.

Strange.
There are some actual numbers here: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/visualstudio/archive/2012/07/16/impr...
Saturday Night Fever: Layer 7 attacks against CloudFlare sites
Exactly.

Which is why the US and EU governments are fighting against Google, Samsung and HTC who are abusing FRAND obligations and undermining the concept of standards.
Secure boot would have prevented the system booting from the unsigned CD. Whatever the problem is here, it's nothing to do with secure boot.
Ecuador grants asylum to WikiLeaks' Assange
Julian Assange granted asylum in Ecuador
Alcatel-Lucent releases API methodology under Creative Commons
Time does not scale
Agreed - we'd probably all be most productive working in a language we'd designed ourselves, irrespective of the merits or demerits of that language for other programmers.
It's CC licensed, so anyone can distribute a copy. It doesn't matter if the author takes it down.
For some perspective, i remember running 'core64' running mario64 full speed on a 200mhz pentium, although IIRC that was all it would run.
Have you seen Dropmyemail.com?
I'd like to see a prediction market now for whether or not Assange makes it to Ecuador...
Font that creates charts
I honestly wish you good luck.

I've had too many occasions where, when evaluating a service that didn't quite do it for me.

You can't expect customers to register and pay you money for a service when a) it doesn't do everything they need, and b) there is no certainty that it will ever do everything they need.

Grhmpft... software is hard. Let's go shopping!
Good advice - after I noticed that I solved most of my tough debugging problems on the walk home from work, I started going outside to take a walk around the building whenever I got stuck. Removing yourself from immediate access to the code lets you think at a higher level how it's organized and what could go wrong.
I am fascinated to see how they will physically transport him from the embassy to a plane. This has the makings of a top quality chase movie.
My essential app on iPad using new retina display is Beesy. Very useful in meeting with I can take note and send minutes at the end of the meeting by mail very quickly and easily. http://www.beesapps.com/beesy-ipad-to-do/
Bitcoins are still great, but until their price starts to stabilize, they'll never become cash replacements. Right now, Bitcoins cannot function as a 'store of value' in the sense of currency because they're so volatile.
i've recently had to deal with similar situation, accept the person that refactored my code didn't make such a big improvement. instead he went on vacation and a lot of things broke when we released the code. even though i've looked at all his check-ins, and they looked harmless, i was not able to foresee the problems we experienced when this code run in prod..

i'm conflicted because on one hand i don't want to be the code police that simply refuses any changes from others, but at the same time its hard to be responsible for a system when so many core updates are done by other team mates w/out proper testing.

i think the happy middle ground is: no such changes in common trunk. Do those in a branch, and only merge them in when benefits are clear, team is on board with all changes, you're ready to release to production, and will be around during the release.
Users might not be even aware of how the data is being shared, or if it's being shared at all.

I signed up to Facebook under a pseudonym recently, but with an old work email address. I only wanted it as a throwaway account. The auto friend suggests were there soon enough and uncanny. It took me a few moments to realise the links had been made through my email address. I had not shared address book data.

It became apparent that the suggestions were a result of other people's address books (not necessarily friends as it was a work address.)

Some suggestions were a bit of an enigma. I'm not sure how Facebook draws up these connections but I guess they'd taken friends of friends of those that had me listed in their address books.

What surprised me was that the address book data shared from the other accounts, was obviously kept with Facebook for later use. For some reason I thought it would be used once then thrown away (how naive of me.) It felt a little inappropriate to say the least. I felt my addressbook had been mysteriously revealed. This could potentially be abused (not sure if the suggestions came up, before I verified the address.)

Soon after, one of those suggested friends tried to friend me. I guess my account came up as a suggestion to them. A little revealing. I should have used a new email address to sign up I guess.
> Another benefit the current dock connector has is the locking mechanism. It's easy to squeeze the sides and unlock it, but when it's in place, it's strong enough to lift the weight of an iPhone or an iPod—something that's useful when your small device falls behind a table, or a desk, or the center console of a car.

The locking mechanism is long-gone on recent Apple cables. It just "clicks" in, but not as strongly as the old style connector with the squeezy sides. I certainly wouldn't try to hold my phone up by it.
Gilt has changed their homepage, but Im pretty sure they were both "inspired" by this page:

https://img.skitch.com/20120816-dhjgxct5wqjq26413w9j654g8q.p...
I decided I'm leaving Gmail at some point in the future, here's why: Yesterday I wanted to comment on a video on Youtube. I clicked the 'reply' button, and a message came up, telling me that I needed to create a YouTube channel (or something) on order to be able to comment. So I quickly filled the mandatory fields and hit save. The next thing I saw was a message from Google telling me that my account had been locked because I am under 13 years of age. My Gmail account! My account where I have all my precious data. Because I had a typo in a field somewhere on YouTube!
I understand that the US law requires these things, but why on earth would a typo on YouTube kill my personal Email account?
Now I uploaded an image of my passport onto their servers to proof that I'm over 13. If that doesn't work out, they'll delete all my data in 29 days.

I can't explain how fed up I am about that.
When I'm entering any date fields on my Gmail account, I'm always cautious. But this was YouTube. Enough rant.

Thanks for this tool! When my account comes back up, I'll use it to keep the data safe (I do have it in imap of course). And then at some point in the future I'll look for an alternative to Google.
First of all, great work and thanks for sharing!

I guess I know less about NLP and clustering than I thought, but what exactly does the visualization indicate?

On Iteration 1/3, when I click "husband" on the sidebar and "first" shows up...what does that mean? That that's the closest cluster by distance?

The visualization looks nice but the accompanying text doesn't shed much light...
Always something to be said for running the code through the compiler in your head. Nowadays you need a virtual distributed environment in your head to emulate the design.
At the current price level and market cap, stability for bitcoin is still not possible, because bitcoin needs to increase the amount of users using it to be more useful. Inevitably, this means the price of bitcoin will rise.

Hopefully, the current growth in price is not a bubble.
While it's true you'd get XML from NIH, as a first pass, just extracting the MEDLINE titles and abstracts into plaintext and then running this over them would be enough. You need to complete a license agreement (annoyingly) to download them. But there's no fee or anything.
I've been using (publicly available) pre-release versions of Visual Studio 2012 since late last year.

The all-capital elements certainly appear to be a stylistic design decision but it's used so sparingly (and less so now) that it's difficult to complain about. If it's not for style then it's a brilliant channeling of focalism in a release with hundreds if not thousands of changes:

"What's wrong?"

"The menu casing - the main menu is all in capital letters!"

"That's all?"

[Pause]

"You mentioned a discount if I buy today, right?"

Not to sound like a shill, but the IDE includes a number of practical improvements over 2010 that are much appreciated. Projects now load in the background, search has been embraced and works extremely well, and for all of the complaints about the UI it's a lot less visually noisy and just feels better to work with over longer coding sessions.
He is not going to make it to Ecuador. Only thing Assange can do now is sit inside the embassy for indefinite period of time, until Ecuador gets bored with assange and figures he is not worth the damage of ties with Uk. another possible outcome is rather extreme -- UK goes on offences and arrests assange from the embassy.

Either way, it would be interesting how the whole story will play-out.
I am wondering how the emulator performs. JS seems not a right language for this kind of tasks.
Could Ecuador have a boat waiting in international waters and take him via Helicopter to the boat?

Otherwise could they hide him in some kind of cargo? I heard that they can't pull over and search a diplomats car but the transition from car to plane is when they could get him.
If "we" are "people who buy Apple products", then "we" want Apple to design their own connectors because their tightly controlled accessory ecosystem has resulted in convenient and dependable third party products. Not unlike the situation with apps from their apps store. Not everyone gets to throw anything they want in there - and that does have its downsides. But it also has its benefits. Benefits that "we" have voted for, with our dollars, time and again.

Now, if "we" are "consumers in general", "we" can simply choose not to buy Apple products if we don't like them. "We" are free to find someone else who adheres to standards and see what an ecosystem of standards-based products looks like. And surely "we" know by now that Apple is going to make its own connectors whenever it likes. So this is no real surprise.
"Mailman [listserv software] never expires an invitation ticket [...]"
The Minister of the Exterior's decision was... highly charged. He seemed to be making a stand for all of South America.
Assange's credibility: shot.

http://www.indexoncensorship.org/tag/Ecuador/

I suppose he's going to live his life like Roman Polanski, on the run from rape charges.
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Who says the guy didn't just make stuff up? Do you honestly think that is beyond someone who walks around asking women to show their breasts?
In other words: he didn't say she didn't experience it he doubts the veracity of the mans account.
As usual that much thought didn't occur to some white knight with his shiny 'sexist' club.
I think he's going to be in defacto prison. He might as well take it on the chin and do his time for rape.
UK asserts it can legally Julian Assange can be arrested in Ecuador embassy
Koka a function oriented language with effect inference
You never know.. He might already be there.
Build, measure, learn.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diplomatic_bag#Unusual_shipment...
What charges? This is mere extradition for questioning is Sweden is to be believed.
Touchnote Lets You Mail cards On Facebook Without Knowing Where They Live
Applicative functors
The problem with that approach is that he expects be extradited to the US as soon as he gets to Sweden. Oh and you might call it nitpicking, but he's not convicted of rape yet, let alone charged with it.
Here's a link to the (incomplete) sample chapter on their website for 'The Practice of Programming' on Debugging.

http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/tpop/debugging.html

I had this in my wishlist for a while. This just made me buy it.

Wonder how different it will be from Code Complete 2.
Eh, 70 miles is still daily commuter distance; there are thousands and thousands of people who commute daily from 70+ miles away in Long Island, Connecticut, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Upstate to Manhattan.

A good science/history museum there would still be in range of the informed tourist (ie, those likely to spend a day at a Tesla museum) and more importantly of elementary school field trips. Personally I would pair it with the Teddy Roosevelt museum on Long Island and do a Turn-of-the-Century Internet Celebrity Day Trip.
Obviously, this bubble-like rate of growth cannot be sustained, yet the bitcoin economy has more participants than the previous price spike in June 2011.
In 2002, a coworker who was late to a meeting and running through the office caught his leg on the non-MagSafe power cable for my iBook resulting in it slamming against a filing cabinet so hard that it both cracked the case, and started breifly, but literally, smoking. That was the end of that laptop.

I firmly believe in MagSafe.
He won't be in jail for rape.

From all evidence it is clear that he will be extradited to the US where he just might face the death penalty.
Helicopter antics in London are pretty unlikely at the best of times, and right now we're tooled up for the Olympics too.

The police have the power to stop the car, but not search it. Do diplomatic vehicles have toilets?
I remember that I saw the news that MS would not continue to develope .Net and would focus on C++ again and shift to html5.
I still don't understand why Sweden is considered more likely to extradite to the US than Britain is...
Yeah, but not everybody designs a language. Right?
[1]The usage of a language directly depends on comfort, productivity and efficiency.
Maybe ''Pike's language'' was a factor, but all the above relations[1] come true in wider light.
How has this hurt his credibility?

Also the type of rape in this case and the Roman Polanski case aren't even remotely similar. In the UK, USA, or most other Western countries what he did isn't even illegal.

It is essentially the sex version of fraud: lying to get ahead.
The UK has asserted[0] that they have a legal basis for arresting Assange even while he is inside the Ecuadorian embassy. They cite the Diplomatic and Consular Premises Act 1987; the counterpoint is the Vienna convention and centuries worth of international law.

[0] http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2012/aug/16/julian-assange-e...
I believe you are entitled to one expedited review per app per year. In my experience though, getting your update reviewed faster , buys you precious little (yes, even if you are fixing a bug)
There's a 'help' button on the top-right corner in case you get lost - but I guess I should curb my minimalism and make it larger.

The visualization is meant to visually explain the 'distance'. If the chosen word (top scope) falls down nicely on the target cluster (if any lit square on the top lights up on the bottom), then the word should be close. Note that it doesn't work the other way around (more about that in the 'The KLIC' section).

In the bottom of the screen there are two text displays - the left one shows the closest cluster with its contents and the right one is any cluster you choose. Note that the scopes change according to the selection.
Racter: a 1980s, oddly (randomly) profound "AI"
Looks interesting, but can we get some background about why it's particularly remarkable? I haven't heard of the author, and though it's an interesting topic, there seem to be a lot of other textbooks in the same field. What's special about this one?
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I would be more concerened about the large number of EU states that have "ID" cards.

And aprently the German police are quite keen on askening "papers please" especialy if one is of a darker hue :-(
The battery and the Android OS version are the best deals. Wished if they could supply outside of China as well :(
Interesting catch-22/chicken-and-egg there. How can Bitcoin increase the number of people using it if it's still a speculative/risky investment?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MyISAM

> MyISAM was the default storage engine for the MySQL relational database management system versions prior to 5.5

This is what the anti-MySQL crowd is talking about - the dark days when MySQL lacked transactions, referential integrity, and concurrency. It was basically the SQLite of its day.

There's nothing wrong with all that if you just want a key-value store, which is what most web apps are.

And it generally doesn't "silently lose data" unless you are touching that data. It tends to just silently do stuff that doesn't quite make sense. Like if you post in a thread, and your "post count" goes up but your post itself fails, it's not a huge problem. Unlike in an accounting app, where you really don't want a transaction to partially work (e.g. money falling through the cracks).

When MySQL broke on a website, I think most people just assumed it was internet gremlins.