skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But oddly enough, you pay $99 first, and get $91 returned in 'the next 30 or 45 days'. Why not charge $8 in the first place?
It doesn't seem to work offline.

It's different than Google Now on Android, as the results are just the Google search results for the query. But when the Google Knowledge Graph provides an actual answer, it puts that up top and reads it out.
I must admit, I am not a fan of the default blogspot theme. I miss their old blog theme that worked fast and well with or without JavaScript enabled.
One newbie question: Why do I need a REST framework? I am able to create get/post APIs with what django offers. What would I need REST frameworks for django?
As an aside, congrats to Ars for including a link to the paper (and a DOI) in the article. They always do this, and it's really something that needs to be encouraged elsewhere, especially in newspapers. I think it's fair to say if you don't link to the original paper, what you do shouldn't be counted as "science journalism."
In this day and age, you can just look up the model number and read a review on it, and find plenty of reviews on forums. After a short while you find out what makes a quality model and not (construction quality, driver quality etc). Best way imo is to start looking stuff up and reading.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bells_Theorem ?
Seems like a good idea for a Gmail Lab down the line.
Most of the sandboxing just comes from using embedded Lua and only whitelisting a small number of functions. We also do a little process-level isolation to prevent runaway processes.
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They just mentioned that they're working on updating the page right now on build live, I think.
And we're back! All Fog Creek services are back on line. Our datacenter has enough fuel for several hours and is working on getting a delivery of more. We are hoping that Kiln, FogBugz, Trello, and all our services will remain up, though things are still a bit dicey.

The details are all here: http://status.fogcreek.com/2012/10/fog-creek-services-update...

Thanks everyone for your patience!
For those not fluent in Japanese, and didn't notice otherwise:

https://github.com/norinori2222/boyfriend_require/blob/maste...
Agree - wouldn't an infinite loop take down your site?
Local hidden variables. Bell's theorem does not address non-local variables.
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Just to make this all portentous, you're basically saying that we can only win against nature when we've won against ourselves? There's a religion in there somewhere :)

One might argue that there's defeat inherent in the idea of conflict with nature. We are a part of it, after all. Perhaps cooperation and understanding are the real path? We don't bomb the tsunami into oblivion, but learn to watch for it and get out of the way when it comes. There are many examples of this philosophy of 'going with the grain': buildings which use ground-source heat pumps, unforced convection and solar panels for HVAC & hot water; kite-driven cargo ships, and so on. The tree that yields survives the storm.

I'm sorry to say that I don't find geoengineering inspiring at all. I find it terrifying. We do not understand the mechanisms at work in global climate at all, yet we're presuming to try and pull the levers to create an outcome years hence. Have these people never heard about chaos, about sensitivity to initial starting conditions? It's exceptionally dangerous.

Most of us look down on 'cargo cult' programmers, people who copy and paste stuff from the web into an editor with no idea how it works, bashing away until it compiles. That's what geoengineering is. To extend the metaphor, we don't have the first clue about the world's API, even what language it's written in, whether it's functional, object oriented or what have you[1]. We're trying to change the value of a few public ivars in the hope that something will happen.

The consequences though! It's not just a compile error: we have some greedy, pig-headed salesman dumping kilotonnes of heavy metal into a rich ocean ecosystem so he can sell some phantom bits of paper to industrial polluters.

I'm coming across like some Sierra Club hardliner here. It's not right, because I'm not, I'm a proper capitalist and I love a supercharged V8 more than I like cigars and steak. I really do hate arrogance though, and I'm a big fan of the precautionary principle.

[1](Everyone knows it's actually in Lisp.)
That's exactly how search in Now works on Android. Search obviously can't work offline, but that doesn't mean the recognition isn't running offline.
Screenshot: http://awesomescreenshot.com/0adkr46be (as they now redirected). Compare it to http://www.woothemes.com
We don't plan on supporting custom domains, because we don't think people will serve up content directly from these scripts. (We think of them more as APIs, so typically invisible to end-users.)

That said, my startup's other product (www.site44.com) is great for serving up content and does support custom domains. We plan to add support to Site44 for forwarding API calls to Webscript. So you could build a full HTML app with content served from Site44 and API calls handled by Webscript, all with a custom domain.
From the sibling comment: "We also do a little process-level isolation to prevent runaway processes."
Are the results also pushed then?
Thanks
I stand corrected; thanks.
Mostly referring to 89a's criticism ("Same goes for this stupid piece of shit.") I usually reserve language like that for politicians, Sony products, and iTunes, not cheesy weather apps.
Give it a try. :-) We kill runaway processes after 10 seconds.
Does anyone else on HN think this is a growing trend?

- Services/Startups that start really wide and then begin to pivot by narrowing in scope/niche (ex. An exec for all things -> building an Uber for cleaning service)
Get an engineering job without the "chest-thumping"
If you're willing to read through it, there's a Wikipedia article on Bell's theorem: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell%27s_theorem

The summary: If you assume simple locality (your k and ~k,) you get different results than what quantum entanglement predicts.

If you want to get rid of the spooky action at a distance, then you need much, much more complicated hidden variables.
Sure, but one of the challenges for 'SoC' companies vs 'server' chip companies has been that 'SoC' companies continue to think that the 'system' is mostly just their 'chip' (hence the SoC moniker rather than say CPU moniker)

To date, I am not familiar with any ARM licensees who have made 'CPUs' vs 'SoC's, they may be out there but I've not seen them yet. Something where the ARM CPU is the core but the system designer can pick the level of IO or memory that is included. Basically a socketed ARM chip like server CPUs are socketed today.
Highly determined, most capable people with ruthless execution, who have a history of shipping quality products.

It has taken the team a few iterations to get the right product. This could be it.
Even with such a preshared rule book you wouldn't get any FTL communication. You could crate a pair of random number generators this way which will always give the same result. Certainly useful for cryptographic purposes but sadly not direct communication.
The mamasans in Osaka are the worst. If you tell them you are not interested they will literally grab you off the street. I mean I know Osaka is the city of the hard sell, but... geez.
I question the long term survival and accuracy of the capacitors in electronics that old. You often have non-fatal (to the device) but defective caps in say, filters, etc.

http://www.antiqueradio.org/recap.htm for some things on checking old caps.
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Great point! I wonder if using predictions of ball movement might make it easier to recognize them, as well.
This is Next Level Shit. This is absolutely next level execution. The responsiveness is incredible and it immediately falls through to a well-formatted search result if it can't give you a soundbyte or a Knowledge Graph result.

Unit conversions provide in-line converter widgets... it'll gleefully show you pictures of anything safe-search while playing dumb if you search for something "naughty"... web links you select pile up in little tabs that let you slide right back to the original query... it looks good... it makes pleasing sounds that let you know what's happening...

If Siri can stage a question to Wolfram Alpha, the result is great. But if she can't, she just lamely offers a button to (Search the web for ______?) that then kicks you out to Safari. Google voice search makes Siri feel clunky.

The voice recognition is verging on instantaneous. This is amazing work.
This isn't that realistic in practice.

You're going to run into one of two scenarios. First they agree to have a person with the authority to approve, but that person has to run around and gather internal approval before they sign off, and you're now stuck in the same situation you just have a designated "approver" but without veto power.

Second scenario. They just don't approve that language in the contract. We have lots of brilliant language like this in our boilerplate contracts, but most of the time it just comes back deleted. We can haggle back and forth on it a while but eventually if its a big enough deal, we're just not going to decline a large contract because their approval process sucks.
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The way I've usually seen this one presented involves precisely the observation, in that you gain knowledge of the other particle. Of course, saying "because it was always a ~k particle" does not a good explanation make, because that would imply that the resolution of the measurement was somehow predetermined, which is a fancy way of saying that there's a hidden variable.

Not that interpreting all of this to mean that physics is non-local "spooky-action-at-a-distance" is the only viable route, mind.

Consider this: why, exactly, do you believe that when you measure the particle you somehow force it to enter one particular state and therefore the entangled one that's sitting X miles away suddenly enters the opposite one? Are we, humans, sitting outside of quantum mechanics and looking down upon it - and then what we observe is the one true way the world is?

Why would you not, instead, when you measure the particle, entangle the measuring device, and yourself, with the state of the particle? You are, after all, only another part of quantum mechanics the same as anything else.
They could project a light on the table based on expected ball movement, to show bounces off of the bumpers or other balls. That would be tremendously cool as a learning aid.
Ask HN: How do people respond to your .io domain name?
For those of you with .io domain names, how do people in the "real world" (i.e., people who aren't very tech-savvy) respond to them? Have you gotten any positive or negative feedback? Any misunderstandings or confusion?
A flooded piston would be more reliable than a flooded motor IMO. Lots of reliability critical things like vehicle brakes use pistons. All you would need is enclosed tubing sufficient to withstand the internal pressure. Submersion shouldn't be an issue because the system already needs to be sealed - the pressure would cause a leak if it wasn't already sealed, and in fact flooding would reduce the probability of a leak by reducing the pressure differential.

If you keep sufficient water (up to the weight of the fuel) at the location where it's needed, the entire system needn't need a pump at all when called into action, just a tap - gravity would be sufficient. This is presuming that the fuel is kept at basement level for safety purposes, of course, otherwise you could just keep the fuel where you're storing the water. You can get by with less water and active pumping, since hydraulics are easy to turn into gearing (force multiplication) effects.
Why? There is already a pretty thorough understanding of how amphetamines work (as compared to other psychoactive substances) because they've been used by militaries around the world forever. Oh and baseball teams.
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I would bet that most of my friends have their assets sitting in a checking account, so I think this is a huge problem. Glad some big investors agree!
I believe you're talking about "hidden variables" and the argument against it is Bell's Theorem http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell%27s_theorem

I'm not a physicist and I don't really understand it fully, but I believe this is what you're talking about.
I have a $2500 setup so I may not be a sane voice on this issue, but I honestly think part of it (the mid-range?) is partly about setting up an environment in which "just" actively listening to music is acceptable (as opposed to watching TV or a movie).
Instant Approval with a personal credit check... doesn't say if it's a hard or soft pull.
If I'm reading the wikipedia article correctly, Mutt was threading email in 1995.
The paper is behind a paywall, so I cannot see if they researches addressed this already, but doesn't Everett interpretation preserve locality and not need faster than light propagation? Are the results incompatible, or was it simply disregarded to make the paper look more impactful?
I also question the sanity of anyone spending that much on equipment and seemingly nothing on room treatments. If your goal is accurate sound reproduction, your room is going to be one of the biggest sources of problems (phase smearing, standing waves/room nodes, flutter, etc), especially in smaller square-shaped rooms. Spending $10k on a sound system and zero on room treatment is like putting monster truck tires on a lawn mower. It's no coincidence that studio control rooms, especially ones that do commercial-quality mastering, use all kinds of room treatment tricks to ensure the mastering engineer can accurately hear everything in a mix.

And while I don't think audiophiles are just about spending money to impress friends, sometimes they go about things in incredibly inefficient ways and pretend they are not susceptible to placebo effects.
Although I prefer the performance of pure native code, I have to say that this is what makes bytecodes + JIT so appealing nowadays.

IBM is doing this since the OS/360 days, as far as I know.

The JIT lives at the kernel level and all languages, even C, compile to bytecode.
Laughably bogus (almost entirely unreadable) on a former flagship Android phone that is just barely out of contract, too.
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Oh, this explains the results when I asked "Siri, Find me some girl scout cookies".
A $20 USB soundcard also seems to help, if your source is a laptop.
Then you contact a close friend (i.e. "His people"). I'm sure someone as smart and well connected as Jeff Atwood could figure it out.
I think I'll just build what I want myself so I don't have to literally switch hardware and software completely. I prefer the consistency of iOS hardware and the superior 3rd party app quality, and that shows no sign of changing any time soon.

Plus, the iPhone 4 is the best free phone you can get by far.
>From an aesthetic design perspective, grids are a common tool used widely outside of web based design.

Yes, we're not in 1996 anymore. We're beyond the "lets pretend the web is print" phase finally. That means separation of content and presentation matters.

>CSS has always been a hack that disallows completely or properly separating content and presentation

What? People (deliberately?) not understanding how to use CSS correctly certainly caused problems like that. And I'm certainly open to blaming much of that on the design of CSS. But it by no means disallowed it separating content and presentation, that is the entire point of it. Stop littering your markup with classes and you can get the benefits of that separation.
While I agree that's a beautiful app, I fail to see how it would prevent you from burning pizzas, where regular timers would fail.
While I'm replying, I may as well point out Ovo[1], the free rival.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.ilumbo.ovo...
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This doesn't work because there is no moment at which the state is 'known' or 'detangled'. There is no way to tell, by observing one particle, when the other particle was observed. If there was you could send a signal with it, which would be no good.

The universe is a strange place.
Not all analogies have to be identical. It was close enough to demonstrate how you approach people about their projects.
This is cool, and a very fair pricing model.
Don't you need to distinguish individual pieces? It's probably hard to discern chess shapes from above (unless they're specially designed for this).

You could "cheat" and track the game's progress, but that wouldn't work for pawn promotions.
Ironic, given your comment, that FogBugz is $25-30/user/month, and aimed at non-individuals, typically, so teams and above, so a client could easily be paying Fog Creek hundreds or more a month.
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I experience performance issues a fair amount in gmail now. The issues are network related. Such as sending a message or just loading your inbox can take forever and error out.
Do you mean that this thesis is the definitive introduction to Erlang or that it demonstrates a key problem?

In the Adder() example on page 56, is the final line a typo (Adder(10). resulting in 15)? Should it have been Adder10(10). resulting in 20?
In the United States, the medical industry is allowed to vary prices significantly based on the method of payment, and the cost of buying care without insurance is much higher than the cost of buying care with insurance. This is true unless you can't pay, in which case you will still be treated and the taxpayer will foot the bill under EMTALA.

So the argument goes that, given that the taxpayer is already responsible for unbounded medical expenses for everyone, it would be reasonable to compel everyone to buy prepaid health plans. In order to compel people to buy these, they must be available to everyone, so the government must also prevent insurance companies from refusing to sell prepaid health plans to people who are certain to use them. I use the phrase "prepaid health plan" rather than "insurance," because insurance is purchased to protect against future risk, but a prepaid health plan will cover things that occurred in the past and things that are not risks but certainties.

It's a pretty sound argument as long as you don't ask "Why is the taxpayer responsible for unbounded medical expenses for everyone?"
Congratulations! You've built a fantastic service. But, I notice that even your most expensive plan only syncs every five minutes. Do you think you will ever offer a plan that syncs more frequently than every five minutes?
This wasn't a surprise storm, and it wasn't "more severe than expected" - this has been national news for a while. More it was "eh, we'll be alright, why pay for something and not use it, we'll just apologize later".
Care to clarify? I'm in the UK, though have worked in the Bay Area for many years.
> Does your library have to be a single compiled binary across all these variants?

No no, not that. :)

As Matt mentioned my work does include JIT compilers, so I'm curious to know how many instruction variants I'd have to support. But I also want to simply test that my plain C code (ie. the interpreted, slow paths) doesn't make any platform-specific assumptions that break on some processors.

> What do you mean 'supported across all (or most) ARM cores'?

My intention is that anyone can compile my library out-of-the-box and have it just work, unless their CPU has a fundamental limitation that I can't support. So far the only such limitation I want to concede is that I require at least a 32-bit CPU (for one, my program's code and data will only barely fit in 64k of RAM, and wouldn't leave much space for anything else).
Hey, I am one of those who have installed PressureNET. Where can I see analysis of data that you guys collect?
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Interesting.

I can the "i" button in that video, but my app does not have it, and I don't get voice answers.

Edit: Switching to English (US) does give vocal answers, but then it doesn't seem to understand my South African accent anymore.
Wow, wow, wow.

Apple vs. Google, style vs. big data. While I love Apple's sensibilities, here's more evidence that data will win in the long run.
With the amount of information provided as to what you want to do with the languages, the most I can do is suggest flip a coin.
>I've read your responses below and you're weirdly contemptuous of these frameworks.

No, just that using the word "framework" in reference to something that is in no way even remotely like a framework caused much confusion. I was expecting it to be a framework, and was trying to figure out what I was missing. If the answer is (and others have already said this is the case) "its just a design to copy" that's fine. Although I do find it pretty absurd that so many people seem to want to suggest that "a default stylesheet" is some revolution in web design, and is a "framework". Hasn't everyone already used their own default stylesheet since the 90s?
Don't know how everyone else feels. The author is being facetious. But coming from a student, I liked the post.
Agree, a real audiophile is not one who pays 250k his system. After a few thousand dollars there is no real difference.. I'm sorry but I've been mixing/mastering for over 10 years and for 2000$ plus a great room, you have it, the best sound you can imagine. Buying more and more expensive stuff is more like a drug than a true need. Audio entertainement (and) professionnal are two of the most overpriced fields.
You should let it crash
But it's not about cheap and expensive, and it's only partly about measurable performance. It's just as much about style (this car was designed with the "perfect" stance) and about personal preference. Things you're not going to get everyone to agree on, and occasionally are plain irrational.
I can't help but think that for the average person this guy is right. The audiophiles are going deeper and deeper into owning high-quality media to play on their high-quality systems.

I have several large boxes of CD's which I know look at with scorn. I haven't used a CD or even a ripped copy of them in years. I've tried Audiogalaxy, Google Music, iTunes Match, and Amazon MP3. It takes a lot of effort to migrate your music to each of those services.

What I've found by using subscription services is what the author is saying: cheaper, faster, and more social access to music. Audiophiles will continue to have their niche but I tend to agree that that is not the way history is going.
This looks pretty good. I like that it leverages Django's CBVs. I couldn't tell from the docs if you could do queryset filtering though the URL's querystring (e.g http://api.example.com/blogs?author=10).
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If you were able to construct a rigid beam 25 million miles long wouldn't you be able to transmit data (push a button) on the other end faster than the speed of light?
It's reserved for your account.
For some reason I had English (Australian) active in the Google language settings even though I don't live there. It started reading the answers when I switched that to English (US).
But read extensive reviews first. There are a lot of cheap and horrible USB soundcards, and many times the built-in audio out is better.
Kristi from Braintree here. We're working pretty furiously to make the sign-up experience just as seamless for our international customers. Can't offer specific timing yet, but working hard to get there.

While the sign-up isn't quite as seamless on the international front, it is the same great software and APIs that our US clients use. So in the meantime, we'd love to work with you to get you up and running with us as quickly as possible.