skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Vector art can look very good when optimised for smaller sizes. The issue is that the current formats and engines for vector use on the web.

I've spent a lot of time trying to tweak my vector icons to work well in various browsers, and its next to impossible at the moment. More often than not SVG graphics are larger than their bitmap counterparts, almost always crash WebKit browsers, or take 5-10 seconds to render. Safari on iOS will crash if you zoom in on even the most simple graphics.

I love vector artwork, I truly do. It's the rendering engines that are letting us down.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vector_monitor

TLDR: Imagine a CRT/Osciloscope not sweeping row by row but instead line by line, where line doesn't necessarily mean horizontal but can be diagonal and even turn midway.
My definition of optimal was in terms of control over the environment. We could kill all 50 billion chickens if we wanted to.

If we want to redefine optimal to mean quantity of genes in the environment, then humans don't come out on top right now, but we could if we wanted to; I am sure that if we desired we could set up a lab to replicate more of our genetical material than any other species has in the environment.

Also, by this definition the most optimal human would theoretically attempt to turn all of the matter in the universe into copies of his/her genes.

A gene for a behavior that affects the number of sexual partners an animal has would likely have been selected for or against long before H sapiens evolved, thus enough iterations have occurred to weed out polygamy in mammals if it was a detrimental behavior. As for your ride-along-nose-picking thesis, I suppose it could be true. Nose picking only recently became a detrimental behavior in terms of evolutionary timescales.
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"…my actions felt like they were driven mostly by ego and the desire to be known in the startup community."

This is not exactly unique for people working in SF as part of the current boom cycle.
The Google Analytics provider doesn't send properties for events. The only thing the GA API providers that's even close is a "Label" which is just a string. The idea is to get as much from each provider as possible, so we just don't send properties when a provider can't use them.

Hope that helps!
> What about the old idea of replacing one neuron at a time with a simulation?

This sounds disturbingly like replicating a live database by copying one bit every 162 ms.
Good to know, maximum info in minimum time, cheers!
White Flight is what we were taught in school but really. White folks didn't move out of the city to get away from blacks, we moved out to get away from the dirty treeless city, shitty schools, lack of land, and overcrowding.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auto-segregation Humans tend to naturally segregate themselves by group when faced by diversity so they can preserve their language and beliefs.

Also, suburban sprawl has happened everywhere from Africa, China, Australia, Brazil, Mexico. Even black folk don't want to live in the city. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_flight
Great library! I know that a number of companies have created a wrapper of their own exactly for this purpose.

We could contribute integration to https://bitdeli.com for those who want to build their own analytics. Is it enough to add a new provider to availableProviders?
Yahoo launches Instagram-inspired Flickr iPhone app update
Show HN: Get Creative, a website within a chrome extension
I just launched a new project aimed at helping people to do something fun and creative every day by giving them daily challenges. The goal is to promote habitual creativity by reducing the barrier to content creation and reminding users to keep at it. Everyone can see everyone else's creations and give them some encouragement with a like.

When designing Get Creative, I wanted something with a mobile sensibility: badged notifications reminding users to return, a very simple interface, even a predefined viewing size. But I didn't want to dive full in to iOS or Android where testing would be much harder. A Chrome Extension seemed like it could be an interesting solution so I built an extension designed to operate as a website entirely within the extension's popup window.

You currently can only see the site by installing the extension, but would really appreciate feedback from anyone that is willing to install. Thanks for the Feedback, HN!

LINK: http://get-creative.us
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That's interesting, can you elaborate? The dialectic is troublesome, especially from the perspective of Deleuze's multitide, but I don't immediately see how it is tied to a claim of novel configuration.

In my experience with Marx, the dialectic mostly let Marx approach Smith and Ricardo's works in a way that allowed for the inclusion of a wider conception of the conditions and consequences of capital. Whereas a WSJ oped might say "capital has benefits! the downsides are simply worth it", Marx takes a benefit and a downside, considers them 'an internal contradiction of capital', then uses a dialectical mode to reveal some hidden 3rd variable.

Are you referencing Das Kapital's inevitability of the rate of profit to decline? Or something in one of the more explicitly political texts about the inevitability of communism? I can only really discuss Das Kapital, which I feel is more of a historical reflection on political economy than the explicit party politics you might find in the Manifesto.
I defended you the last time this came up; this time I think you're being wholly unfair. A single incident -- severe though it was -- does not make "woeful and disgraceful security policies". And the only data center that they have that has occasional issues, as far as I know, is Fremont, and it's worth pointing out that Fremont has had less downtime than AWS this year.

I use their Dallas and Newark data centers currently. I have had zero downtime this year, which puts Linode at the head of the pack in terms of reliability.

So if you don't understand why people keep recommending Linode, it's because:

1. The prices are fair;

2. The service is as reliable as anything else out there, and in some cases, far more reliable;

3. The performance is good;

4. The support is blow-you-out-of-the-water fantastic;

5. The software (their management console) is pretty good;

6. There are very very few complaints overall, other than their handling of the Bitcoin incident.

I agree that they should have handled that incident differently, and that they still haven't taken proper care of it. However, you're being otherwise dishonest in your portrayal of Linode.
GCM doesn't work on any non-Google Android distro.
that may be true, but getting it (or any new technology for that matter) to the point where it’d be economically viable requires an investment at some point..

and ‘blowing’ those billions in the 80s may very-well not have paid-off with economically viable fusion power today, but i highly doubt it would have left us with nothing to show for it.
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Exactly. That's another reason I felt the urge to leave, particularly if I was going to start a business. I didn't want to be influenced by the bad habits of the Valley and SF. It seemed unnecessary to touch on that in this particular blog post, but maybe in a future one.
I don't think the "cheating" was anything unethical. I wrote about the pervasiveness of that (anti-)pattern this morning.

http://michaelochurch.wordpress.com/2012/12/12/fundamental-s...

TL;DR: People have to seem more open to subordinate roles than they actually are in order to get jobs.

It's not always greener on the software side of the fence, though. Much of the job is dealing with bad legacy code, which seems to hurt you more if you're a good designer (cf. first and second design paradox) which your well above-average writing skills suggest you are.

I like Chicago a lot and think that it's a great place to live. Honestly, I think the obscene cost of living in New York and San Francisco has a negative overall impact on the quality of businesses that can be founded, but that's a rant for another time.

Good luck!
It's not clear in either case. He says that he ideally would like to be a product designer, but then says it's tough to stand behind a developer and watch them build code instead of doing it himself.
bloggergirl: You are hell banned. Your comments are are marked dead on submission, and can only be seen by people who are logged in, and have "show dead" on in their profile. Open an incognito window or logout, and you won't be able to see your comments.

PS: I don't know what is the etiquette about letting hell banned users know, but from bloggergirl's previous comments, I don't see any reason for her to be hell banned.
OP's point could be that the bot could have "stimulated the american economy" in a way that fed "80 human beings in poor country", as opposed to buying him random things.
Preface: Obviously I'm not making any 100% claims. Nothing is impossible, someday, etc etc

1) Ok, I was generalizing for the sake of brevity. Agree that there isn't a consensus, but it's pretty safe to say that it is somewhere between "your brain" and "everything".

2) To do this, you would also have to effectively freeze all the other neurons in your brain. Neurons don't operate in isolation. If you remove one from the network, the rest start (ever so slightly) re-adjusting weights, synapses, dendritic arbors, etc. So I suppose if you could put someone into a hibernation where their neurons were effectively frozen, this may be possible. Ignoring the invasiveness aspect too.

3) I suppose this boils into a big argument about what intelligence actually is, and I don't want to start an internet argument about that. Suffice to say, no one really has any idea how to define or quantify intelligence. How do you improve intelligence? It certainly isn't the addition of more knowledge (although that helps you become effectively more intelligent, since you can stand on the shoulders of those before you). If you take my brain and speed it up so I can do the same thing but faster, am I more intelligent? I don't have a good answer to that.

Perhaps hyper intelligence is nothing more than being able to think intelligently really really fast.
There is no ESTA to fill in going to the UK from the US (that I'm aware of anyway). No rules were being broken either. Just being too honest and excited coupled with not fully realising she should've just said on holiday and nothing else. I get to deal with changing rules and paperwork and being at the mercy of the mood of an immigration official all the time too, so I don't think it's just you or a certain kind of person.
while focusing on short-term, ego-stroking opportunities makes things exciting, i'd also recommend setting 10-year goals.

what do you want at 30? at 40?

the chain of your short-term decisions should connect to fulfill your ten year goals. this will help make whatever short-term decision you need to make not feel so aimless, soul-crushing, or rash.

at the end of the 10 years, you can proudly look back and see how each opportunity help fulfill a larger purpose.
The method they use for vectorization is cool (vectorizing Y, U and V independently) and also illustrates why subsampling UV yields such good results (for standard raster-based codecs).

Ultimately however vectors are far more expensive to rasterize than bitmaps, especially if you want antialiasing along edges. There was a bunch of noise a while back about NVIDIA's path rendering extension -- they do antialiasing via 16x multisampling (!!!) NOT a mobile friendly approach.
Google Shuts Down A Local Shopping Store Service In China
Product designer is what I should be doing, and will be doing from here on. In my definition of product design, the ideal skill-set is a UI designer who works mostly in front-end code.
> Tipping IS about capitalism.

Perhaps it's better said as: "Tipping WAS about capitalism". The problem is that tipping amounts in the US have become standardized as part of social compulsion. It's increasingly rare, and I think increasingly considered rude, to undertip a server unless they are very unusually bad. And overtipping is likewise looked on as decadent, the kind of thing hip hop moguls do.

Even so, having lived in cultures (Italy, etc.) where tipping is frowned upon, I think it is true that tipping cultures have somewhat better service. But it's also a pretty small difference, and the annoyance of tipping is so incredibly high it is simply not a worthwhile institution. It's basically a mechanism to keep most servers in poverty. Plus we don't tip for food or decor. Why just service?
Counter-Strike : Global Offensive Server Launcher
A simple script to launch your Counter-Strike : Global Offensive Dedicated Server. Tested on Debian and Ubuntu.
Another reason to get out of SV: people won't think you're over the hill at 35.
Some of us want the highest performance CPU and GPU possible in our laptop, but that requires a fan, but a silent fan would be a real value add over the current ones. Personally I'm happy to hear this, hope it makes it way into production laptops soon.
Show HN: Computed fields for Backbone.Models
GhostShell's ProjectWhiteFox campaign ends with a Bang - 1.6M records dumped
> There, the culture is to live by the day, because winter never comes and they don't need to prepare for hard seasons

You might find this video interesting. Philip Zimbardo on Time. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3oIiH7BLmg
Building a Brainfuck compiler with LLVM
Can you please show me what it is and does without me having to sign up? At least, explain what it is on the About rather than talking about your dream and effort.
It sounds like you had held up San Francisco and a startup job as being some sort of perfect ideal. This type of thinking usually results in feeling unhappy later.

San Francisco is just one city among many in the world. It may or may not be right for you. Believing the hype that "NYC is the greatest city on earth" or "San Fran is the only place where smart developers go" is a surefire recipe for disappointment.

It's your life and it's up to you to find the balance that makes you happy. Congrats on realizing this and having the courage to do a 180.
Good thing there's a photo of that guy having lunch.
Why I Quit Facebook Today
Nanotech is another catch-all term that makes me unhappy.

You know what is a really awesome piece of nanotechnology? All the proteins and enzymes that are making your neurons function, right this very moment. How do you download their state? Look at their conformation and who they are interacting with.

Nanotech isn't just making a computer smaller. Much of your body already operates on the "nano" level, and does it pretty efficiently.

I'll admit nanotech really isn't my field, but I understand enough of it to know that it isn't a panacea. If a materials science person wants to jump in on this I'd be appreciative (to either confirm/deny what I said)
Thanks for answering that. Yep, there's a bit here:

https://github.com/n8/multi_fetch_fragments/blob/master/lib/...

@collection.each do |item|
key = @options[:cache].is_a?(Proc) ? @options[:cache].call(item) : item
expanded_key = ActiveSupport::Cache.expand_cache_key(key)
keys_to_collection_map[expanded_key] = item
end

Where I use ActiveSupport::Cache.expand_cache_key to create a key based on the item or the Proc passed in. And expand_cache_key does the work of coming up with the proper key. And activerecord objects have a default cache_key implemented that uses an updated_at timestamp if it's available:

http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActiveRecord/Integration....
Why in hell is this on HN?
The Cure for Thinking is Work
California law requires a privacy policy to be posted:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_Privacy_Protection_Act
If anything drives people to Bing, this will be it. After all that money Microsoft has spent on advertising and other promotional gimmicks, it ended up being Google shooting themselves in the foot.
Author here. You are right that I should have given a better overview what exactly I am doing (the introduction + requirements are a bit short).

The pros and cons can change, some of them, like availability of features, support,... don't. But you are right that there is no "one solutions fits for everyone" plan.
The 'D' in 'HiDPI' stands for 'dots', a pixel is one dot.
Good plan. 2 dirty secrets of the software industry:

1. Programming itself can be more fun than 99% of what people get paid to do, at least if you're building new stuff and in at least enough of a leadership role that you're not constantly keeping up with other peoples' changes.

2. 85% of real-world programming work is crappy maintenance and you need some independent credibility (e.g. "X who programs") in something else-- product, data science, finance-- to dodge it and keep getting the good stuff that builds your career.
What were you doing at 12:12:12 on 12/12/12?
I think The Dark Knight Rises is a great litmus test for people's opinion on Nolan.

If you think the movie is a masterpiece or remotely close ... agree to disagree.
I've heard nothing but good things about this conference, can't wait to attend in 2013!
This looks awesome! One thing would be nice on the demo/landing site is to maybe add screenshots of how your examples translate in Google Analytics or the others. Like karolisd mentioned in his comment, I would like to see how that stuff translates or what it looks like in the respective apps. Again, great work! :)
Awesome, I was thinking of writing something like this, but you took the idea and made it much more powerful than i was planning.
Ask HN Down Under: Best Universities for AI/Machine Learning in Aus/NZ?
I'm looking into returning to study after many years working, and I'm interested in studying AI/ML at postgrad level. Any recommendations for universities with a good specialisation in this field? The ones I'm aware of are Monash and Melbourne Uni which seem to have a lot of AI activity, and Waikato which has a large ML group developing Weka. Does anyone here have experience with any of these programs or recommendations for others?

Thanks!

Edit: to emphasise that I'm interested in postgrad study.
Good feedback, we're considering moving the signup flow to after the first lesson.
Am I the only one who can't see any video? Only sound plays in both Firefox and Chromium.
Fair enough. I mused on this in one of the responses up above. I still don't think that makes a person more innately intelligent. More capable, perhaps, but not more intelligent.

But, humans are pretty fond of defending our position in the cosmos and our idea of "human intelligence", so maybe this is just speciesism at work =)
Yep, feel free to just pull request to the analytics.js repo.
The problem came because on the visa form it said occupation and singer was put down. When asked why she was there, she said holiday. Then being too honest when asked, she said she had some small non-paying gigs. I can understand how this might lead to secondary inspection but after phoning the venue (who told her they were non-paying, small and promotional) the immigration official went off on a lie claiming she knows how many thousands of pounds my friend was going to be paid and that they were big events (small open mic at a pub where my friend could do a few songs for London friends). The woman even admitted to me hours later that she made a mistake but claimed she couldn't reverse the paperwork.
Yep, they're German.
It should do, yes. The developers of Julia have said that they're going to use the IPython notebook rather than rolling their own interactive interface.
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The content Nate points to isn't wrong, it's just given inappropriate weight. But Wikipedia's coverage of block cipher modes is, compared to any other encyclopedia, successful. My kids are better off with Wikipedia's block cipher coverage than Britannica's.

I suppose my friend Nate could be arguing the following: it's unfortunate that there is marginal content that survives wikilawyering while at the same time there's good content that doesn't. But he hasn't supported that argument with evidence. What's the "good" content that belongs under CTR mode that he'd have a hard time placing there? The CTR coverage in WP isn't bad because of deletionism; it's bad because there isn't enough crypto expertise in the WP editor community.

If Nate sat down and wrote a well-sourced article on CTR mode, it would survive.
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you could set up an alternative 'naughtypedia' site for these!
Seed shares of Tumblr... I'd like some please.
Can you go into some issues with the editor?
This guy has got 5 followers now. Are you just waiting for what kind of stuff he comes up with next, haha :D
congrats to the entire CT team. Happy to be working with you guys!
You seem very confused about what "Singularity" denotes.

You also seem to be confusing "the only way with current technology" with "the only way, ever".

You also seem to be claiming that highly intelligent AI couldn't solve the upload problem. And that it would necessarily be hostile - this is likely if we were to sample randomly from mind-space, but hopefully we will be careful about which highly intelligent AIs we create...
Usually you are trying to catch neutrons in a lithium blanket, and using the fission products to extract energy. At least that is what they are doing at ITER. The electromagnetic energy goes back into the plasma and helps with keeping things hot. The energy extraction is one of the biggest challenges with sustained fusion.
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Tweeting about Aaron Rodgers, #12 QB for the Green Bay Packers!
He is called out right there in the post: Andy Clarke.
Google adds it's own "compare mortgage" & "compare insurance" to top results
Starting from today, Google shows a special "start a quote" button and link in top results of queries such as "compare mortgage" & "compare insurance" when using it's uk search engine google.co.uk

This is how it looks:

http://i.imgur.com/LFjbS.png

The link takes the user to what seems to be a proprietary lead generation page:

www.google.co.uk/compare/mortgage
Totally agree. I merely speak in principle - my apologies for being vague and hand wavy - I didn't mean to.

My main point was that brain uploading need not be done all at once.
it fits the pattern "Why I'm <verb>ing the <noun>", ever hear of SEO? :)
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Why? I didn't love TDKR, but I think some of his other movies are excellent.
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> more like an "Oh hey, this was done by John Williams" than something that best fits the film

Really? I would be tempted to argue the opposite. The theme for Jaws, for example, is instantly recognizable and well known precisely because it fit the movie so well. Star Wars is near-impossible to separate from its music - from the main theme, to the imperial march - and his use of choral music in Phantom Menace had a big impact in the years that followed, much the way the "Inception sound" has been showing up all over the place in the last few years.

And citing the bigger action-adventure movies doesn't really make a good point. Williams has done a wide variety of music for movies, all of which is very good (Hook, Schindler's List, ET, etc.)

I do think music has changed over time in how it's used in film, and that Zimmer has a more "modern" style, where the soundtrack ties more closely to the emotional ups and downs than Williams does. (Nothing wrong with that, I like them both.)
You are suppose to set the security level of the Internet zone to "High" (the default on Windows Server), or add the sites needed to the "Restricted Sites" zone.