skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I thought recently what makes some people forever poor and some people forever prosperous. Really, it is mentality. The poor will burn principle as soon as they get it. The rich will not. That simple. The rich stay rich by not touching principle, only interest, and then, not even all of the interest. The poor stay poor by burning principle as soon as they have it. It really is quite simple. Change mentality, change results.
The engadget link adds nothing to the original reporting - http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2012/nov/01/apple-samsu...
I'm sure this took a lot of work to do, but it's too buggy, I don't understand why I have to increase the window size, that seems to cause the animations stop of become sluggish. Overall it's not a good demo even though the possibilities of this are nice.
Is he doing extraction or abstraction? I'm doing a research about automatic summarization and also creating an app for it. Summly and my idea has a different approach but I'm curious in some aspects of how summly summarizes articles.

I think last year, Summly was pulled out in the app store. Back in those days, the quality of there summary is not that impressive. I'm still downloading the app and will check its performance.
From the looks of the website, the video and what the apps does, it looks like the idea got too much funding.

Cmo'n they even have a famous person in their clip!

Most news sites already give a summary in an RSS feed. This is most of the time sufficient.

I think that a good idea should sell itself, not with all this fancy pancy.

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Facts: 17 year developer got a $250.000 funding
http://thenextweb.com/apps/2011/12/17/meet-the-16-year-old-w...
Yeah, when I was stuck writing up my thesis, I found it helpful to begin just by something silly. Things like tweaking the layout, or rewording or spot checking parts I'd already written, helped me get in the flow again.
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@corkill - I work on the signup and application process for Braintree, and I would be curious to know why SSN is a deal-killer for you. Do you not have a SSN, or is it just something you would rather not share? Feel free to email me at mboeke@braintreepayments.com if you would like.
Why does it have to be such a blatant steal of the Buffer design?

Being 'inspired' to produce a similar (but open) service is a fairly noble goal, but slavishly imitating the UI is bad form, surely? You should have called it 'Blue Buffer'.
Do I need to resize my browser window to get it to start?

I have tabs, so I had to pull the tab out to a new window (or else risk resizing everything that is already the way I want it).

I don't know how wide my windows are! I had to pull up the javascript console and read "window.innerWidth" and 320 is amazingly small for me.
India is fourth most dangerous place in the world for women. It is only a little better than war-ravaged Afghanistan and Congo.

http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/india-is-fourth-most-dang...
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This is a poorly written title.

100,000 means $100,000.

Without context, it can mean anything. I thought it was 100,000 customers which would be a lot more shocking.
> The moral of the story of Narcissus, told as a warning for the very people who refuse to hear it as such, is that how Narcissus came to be is irrelevant. What was important was what he did, and what he did---- was nothing.

from http://thelastpsychiatrist.com/2012/10/the_story_of_narcissu... and the whole thing is just great.
A commercial or advertisement is defined as something that "poses nothing more than a commercial transaction." E.g. "Buy this iPad it's great!"

There is no way to shoe-horn "Hilary: The Movie" into the "just a commercial" mold. Here are a list of other movies produced by Citizens United: "ACLU: At War with America" (this one is ironic); "Broken Promises: The UN at 60"; "Rediscovering God in America." Now, you might not like the organization's political message, but I don't see a principled way to distinguish them from some of my Sierra Club favorites like "Coal Country" and "Oil on Ice."

What is "paid speech" even supposed to mean? What movies don't cost money to make? Or for that matter books or pamphlets or newspapers? Both Citizens United and the Sierra Club are not-for-profit corporations. They are created for the express purpose of getting out a particular message, and that costs money. Their message should not be taken out of the protection of the First Amendment just because of that fact.

It should be noted that Grand Theft Auto not only cost money, but it was a for-profit product...
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Very interesting. I'm on Android, so I can't actually try out the app, but I'd be interested to see what kind of compression ratio they get, how understandable it is, and if they hit all the major points. I'm also curious if they can create an intelligent summary of a cluster of related articles (say, the explosion of news recently about Disney buying out Lucasfilm), which seems like a problem that would be almost as hard as "general AI".
How many times. Jobs paid for the IP from Xerox. Check your facts. There probably are things Apple have stolen over they years, but this wasn't one of them.
"Xerox was allowed to invest in Apple in exchange for access to PARC.": http://www.quora.com/Retrocomputing/Did-Apple-need-to-licens...
I think you're all missing a key part of the equation here. It was the OEM who configured the OS, the OEM who selected the panel, and the OEM who advertised the feature that presumably went into my buying decision. If my (windows+skype) looks bad and my friend's otherwise identical (windows+skype) laptop from another brand looks fine, I'm blaming the vendor. Who, coincidently enough, is the party that takes the economic hit if I return it. OEM's know this deep in their core - and this is one of the significant reasons you haven't seen them pushing devices that require scaling for normal eyesight.
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It's not perfect, but I wanted to get this out and in front of people sooner than later. Helpful critiques are VERY welcome.
This is exactly the sort of thing reserved instances would be good for (when you know it is going to be in use 24/7).

A three year reserved instance would be significantly less than $60 per month. The upfront reserve price of $300 over 36 months comes out to $8.33/month. Throw in an approximate cost of $14/month for the use of the compute time, EBS, network traffic.

That brings your monthly cost to just under $23/month, for a grand total of nearly $830 over a 36 month period.
I really wouldn't trust those connections without adding solder yourself. What fab house are you using? I've generally stuck with 4pcb (advanced circuits) and there might be enough solder for a 0402 to "sort of" stick, but there is no way I'm going to trust that connection. It could just as easily be sitting in flux from a nearby wire and not actually have any connection at all.

My understanding is that the solder mask is there to only expose copper for the solder to flow, but mask off everything else with a main intention of preventing crowbarring, or shorting out traces -- not to put actual solder on the boards at the fab house.
In this case the UK legal system is pretty much exactly like any other civilized legal system.

The judge in this case is the court, and when he says the original passage doesn't comply with his order, by definition it does not comply with his order. If they choose to continue to fail to comply with this order, the people responsible finds themselves at risk of being found in contempt of court and jailed.
I really like this idea. I use some of my free time to help out charities with development but I'm not much of a designer so this looks like it could be a great help!
Elitism much? What next? Let's target only white people. No, just males! They earn more on average than woman!
Can Windows Phone 8 save Microsoft?
"[Programming] spreads much, much faster than education and formal study spreads."

This is why a Computer Science education is not a sufficient condition to a successful career as a software developer.
They don't seem to indicate the cost without signing up for this, what do they charge you for the times digest? Also, is there an easy way to get it that isn't a pdf?

Sorry to hit you with a barrage of questions, but this is interesting and I didn't get much info from their site. IT seems that this is intended for larger entities to distribute to clients for the most part. They do have an individuals section, but without much info.
It looks like the 17-year-old got enough funding to hire a proper AI/NLP lab to do his algorithm - reading between the lines, it's difficult to say how much input the founder had on the new product: my guess would be concept, maybe design, and possibly interface coding.
I love this idea - I think it helps to explain the existence of rockstar developers who then become arbiters of what is valuable - a bit like musicians who become critics after they've made their name!

Also, new(er) developers seem to like to set themselves against the mainstream as if to say, 'this isn't your parents' language', until they eventually end up liking jazz (lisp?).
There are other examples, but this is a function of our executive's decision to bend over to US demands and rewrite UK law, rather than corruption of the legal system itself.
I'm interested in looking at the new Asus Vivo Tab for this very reason. Though I'm likely not going to jump on the first generation and I'll let the MSFT App store fill up a little. I played with my neighbor's T300 that was recently upgraded to Jelly Bean. It was an impressive experience with the keyboard. Still might hop on that bandwagon.
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No. The Predator as first designed was an unarmed reconnaissance UAV and it did not carry weapons when it entered service in 1995. It was modified to carry and fire Hellfire missiles in 2001 and first flew with them operationally over Afghanistan late that year.

The 'Predator' moniker likely referred to the UAV's role in hunting down targets through surveillance, especially as there was no intention to develop an armed version when it first entered service. That need only arose after the US's experience in the Balkans in the late '90s.
Decent point on not knowing how big your window size is - think I'll update to include a width counter on the start screen.

Reason for the resizing down at the start is simply so only certain parts of the animation show at different times. It means I can control what width the animation is being viewed at, as otherwise I'd have to animate everything across a very large width potentially, which would be pretty time consuming, as this could be huge. Think with the feedback I've had, will release as a non media query animation as well when I get chance.
I don't understand the distinction made here between a craft and a pop culture. Popularity of a technique or tool can definitely matter to a craftsperson, as they directly impact the availability and cost, as well as the marketability of that craftsperson's skills. Crafts are social; craftspeople definitely pay attention to what their colleagues and competitors are thinking and doing, and trends come and go as opinion leaders and trendsetters rise and fall.

The biggest distinction I can think of between a craft and a popular culture is that pop culture is most commonly experienced passively, via consumption, while being a craftsperson by definition involves active creation. So in this sense music is really two cultures: the culture of music creation, which is a craft, and the culture of music appreciation, which is a pop culture.
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That would work. However, it now takes five seconds to do something that previously took half a second. What I'm wondering is, if you can connect a keyboard to a tablet, why not a small mouse or touchpad too?
jb - Thanks! Glad that PTVS has been useful in that regard. & yes, VS Extensibility can be a PITA compared to Eclipse which was built from ground up with that in mind. They're working on improving it.
> Why can't they let their products sell and speak for themselves?

The original iPhone was banned in South Korea for two years. It seems that this was to give South Korean companies a chance to catch up.
Given Tablets and One Person with an Internet Connection, Children Discover Porn... or MMOs. Absence of teacher is no substitute for a teacher.
I can't find a source but I think gradient meshes are only flattened to images to handle old or buggy postscript implementations. Postscript 3 can handle them natively.
This seems like BS to me. They put the judgement on their site, and then they put other things on THEIR site. As long as the put the piece they wanted them to put, they should be able to do anything else they want. If they think the statements made make for good marketing pieces, why shouldn't they be able to put them on their website.

All this is besides the point that the UK is in the minority in their ruling, and the US case did a pretty good job of showing that Samsung did in fact copy Apple, and said so many times in internal communications.
Agreed--
Let's be honest, LucasFilms and Disney are a perfect match from a branding perspective.

There has even been a Star Wars Ride at DisneyWorld for like, what-15 years (?)
It depends on what are your preferences, choose what you like.
I felt like the results should have been ordered in reverse (least successful to most successful), with 'amateur' ranking before 'unknown'. It seemed like it started with the best, and just gave me worse options the further I read.
Micro uses a different CPU provisioning model than all the other instance types. While most instances have a guaranteed CPU allotment, micro instances do not. They can burst up to two ECU, but will eventually be limited to something around 0.1 ECU if you exceed the burst period.

That's not to say they don't have their uses, but they will not handle much traffic unless its heavily cached (but then you only have so much memory).

If you have a blog that is static and uses external js components for things like comments (disqus), you could use it in conjunction with cloudfront to handle quite a bit more traffic. Most traffic would be routed via cloudfront. Admin panel would be handled on a subdomain.
Here's an article in NYT that gives you insight into the Indian Justice System:

http://www.nytimes.com/2000/06/01/world/in-india-the-wheels-...

And here's an example of an organization fighting for justice against state crimes:

http://www.ensaaf.org
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I found the answer to my question. It is still extraction. Doing abstraction is still a difficult problem to solve.

the app's summaries are intelligible sentences, but since they're extracted from articles without providing any other context besides headlines, they often sound disjointed and non-conclusive.
http://www.theverge.com/2012/11/1/3583720/summly-nick-d-aloi...
Amazing quote from the XML rant linked in the article:

"If GML was an infant, SGML is the bright youngster far exceeds expectations and made its parents too proud, but XML is the drug-addicted gang member who had committed his first murder before he had sex, which was rape."
My buddy in the construction business spends way more on his tools than I possibly could as a software engineer, even if I bought a new Aeron chair, latest Mac Book Retina, and a 30" display each year.
Can you provide more details / URL?
Do people still read TechCrunch?
Site that made my day
Caste = Corrupt by birth.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_scandals_in_India
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AIDE as well gives you a complete IDE on the device https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.aide.ui
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I was blown away by the video and overall humorous style of the website. These guys deserve to be extremely successful! Kudos folks and thanks for launching in Canada finally...
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