skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is simply not true that WP forbids citations to the academic crypto literature. Anyone can go read the WP policy on primary sources (WP:PSTS) and WP:V and see that what you're saying is false.

What you're doing here is cherry picking a very reasonable policy that Wikipedia has and generalizing it far past its actual application.

What you're saying is that WP frowns on journal articles because they are "primary sources".

What WP actually says is that you can't go take the results of journal articles and use them to synthesize conclusions that the author didn't actually make inside a Wikipedia article. In other words, you cannot use WP articles to ratify new science.

I feel like if there's one place on the Internet that should appreciate a policy forbidding unfounded extrapolation from journal articles, it should be HN, which routinely hosts debates that pick apart the media's broken analysis of scientific articles.
My red flag alarm is screaming right now. I hope they have some amazing fraud protection here.

It's way too easy to compromise a twitter account, I'd to have that attached to my bank account.
Coming from NYC and commuting on the subway everyday for around 40 minutes was a pleasure (as you could read a book, listen to music or do something else to amuse your time).

Driving is any longer than 30 minutes to work (each way) is going to be more of a pain as you can only do so much in the car without endangering others.

Public transportation when it works well in cities leads to people tolerating longer commutes to work. If I had to commute 45 minutes in CA traffic I would be very upset.
Agreed. I was job hunting a couple years ago and decided to stay in Austin after looking at SF and Seattle areas. The cost of living + commute just wasn't worth it to me.

In Austin I can get pay pretty close to Seattle, but live within 30 minutes of my office (fairly easily) and have a nice house to live in.
Author here. From what I understand AWS tries to address the performance problem with RDS - marketing statement "this is build for solving this problem". Do you have any experience with RDS? Still the same problem?

That this problem does not exist if you kill it with hardware in the first place is true. But the way from evaluating an idea, to gaining traction, to hiring people and buying hardware is still a long way.
But NYC is the greatest city on Earth ;)

Disclaimer: I haven't been to all the cities yet.
That was irony, right?
Ah yep that's a good point. Trouble is it doesn't apply to all cases, and has really strict requirements, but if it's a big enough need I could totally see a .price() method that hits GA's ecommerce API and then delegates to other providers's normal event API with properties. Wouldn't be a bad way to handle it.
To each their own. I rather enjoy riding the train. It forces me to do things I should do anyways.

For the vast majority of jobs it would be time wasted. But as a software developer it's an automatic 1.5 hours per day I have to spend thinking about what I need to do.
Great post. Font seems completely aesthetically appropriate.
That's actually more-or-less the "traditional" british and american method of teaching (at least at the college level); historically, one was expected to show up in class having already studied the material to be discussed and prepared with questions to ask about points that were unclear.

I'm not sure at what point it got "flipped" around to the current state where students expect to learn the material in lecture and then study their notes, but attempting to flip it back seems like a good idea.
The story of 500friends (w2010)
Just browsed through your code, very cool! We're working on chord recognition as we speak and went down a similar road in the beginning. Would love to chat more about this, shoot me an email (blake at getinstinct).
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You seem to be claiming that intelligence can overcome fundamental limits of physics and signal processing.
Yeah I can definitely see this approach being aimed towards other creative endeavors, but the idea behind this is that it really is for anyone who is interested in just making things in their life. Most people contribute and create things in various facets in their lives, but then website x they become a "lurker" or a "curator". The goal here is to provide a fun outlet for that kind of creative energy regardless of your background.
we'd love to see that too. as well as uber here in sf. like my co-founder said here (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4912389), we'd love to see people build all kinds of things like crowdfunding-as-a-service (think kickstarter meets wordpress).

whether it's a feature in a current app like exec/taskrabbit or it's own app like a dinner-bill splitting mobile app (take a picture of the receipt, ocr, text it out, everyone's charged once the total is reached or exceeded, etc) the api was built to help any time groups and money interact... and we hope this renders the ideas devs come up with endless.
Yep, pretty much. And even if they do reconnect, it is highly likely that their relationship will be different. Change in number of synapses, strength, even physical locations make a difference. Synapses at the end of a dendritic arbor affect the neuron differently than those that are close to the root. Even inter-synapse spacing is important, as adjacent synapses have modulatory effects on the reactivity of it's neighbors.

None of this is overly important per-se. Your brain doesn't have a specific pattern of arrangements that must be just so to make a human. But as you start changing these little details, the changes will eventually bubble up to create a different "you".

How much different is hard to say, maybe not even enough to be noticeable. This is firmly in "theoretical" territory. But considering how drastically people can change from relatively small strokes, I would hazard that there isn't a huge amount of deviance allowed.

Perhaps it's possible if you can do it finely enough that only single neurons are changing, allowing time to resynapse (or artificially recreating those connections?). Not sure.
it's funny you should say that...
Slightly side question:

If JPG and video codecs already store information in terms of wavelets, frequencies, or whatever have you --

Are there any programs that will render JPG or videos at a higher-than-native resolution?

I know you're not gaining any extra signal. But if you have a 320x240 video, and you want to play it full-screen at 1280x960 -- instead of rendering at 320x240 and then naively upscaling 4x, would some kind of direct codec rendering to 1280x960 possibly produce more accurate results?

If the codec/format is doing a good job at extracting "meaning" from the original image for its compression, it seems like it ought to.
An idiom is a meme too
Please explain. Note, this is not a comment about the teacher. Nowhere in my comment do I reference the teacher.

>>>That's no justification to sabotage a math Q&A site.

I assume you mean: [learning a valuable lesson about the internet is] no justification to [knowingly post an incorrect answer to] a math Q&A site.

I disagree, and I think that the justification the OP mentioned is an excellent one, for one very specific type of sabotage (posting an incorrect answer). I will try to paraphrase their justification:

Someone who reads an answer on a math Q&A site and does not check to make sure the answer is correct will learn "a valuable lesson about the internet" if the answer turns out to be incorrect.

I assume that the lesson could be that "thinking that an idea is true doesn't make that idea true true". A more specific lesson about math could be "check your work". In my mind, these lessons are both valid justifications for the one specific type of sabotage mentioned. Some people believe that checking your work strengthens your math skills, so the people who checked to see if the answer was correct or incorrect may have improved their math skills as well.
I think you are claiming that I am referring to the notion of "parade of horribles" with my comment "list of horrors"; I have no formal debate training, and have never heard of that specific "cheap" tactic you are now defending not having committed. If your defense is relevant, it is sufficiently pedantic as to go over my head. :(

My "rebuttal" was actually that I liked that entire list of things, and I can only see Wikipedia being better for including information on all of those topics (along with appropriate visualization to demonstrate the inability to as easily trust the content that has had fewer editors, something you need anyway to solve the "subparagraph of article 4" problem).

Honestly, I thereby cannot see one thing in your most recent comment that actually responds to either of those contentions; again, to be highly repetitive on purpose: 1) that those things are not inherently bad, and 2) that there are better ways of solving verifiability for both articles and paragraphs (the latter of which being important).

(Also, on the off-chance this wasn't clear to anyone: the actual articles are deleted permanently. What is archived publicly is only the argument regarding the deletion, which is often just "I don't think it has enough sources", "I think it counts", "no, it didn't", as in the case with the article Jason Scott is complaining about today: without the actual text of the article or what the references even were, you cannot judge for yourself. I maintain this is inexcusable for a project with Wikipedia's charter.)
There's also the huge difference between solid fuel rods used in uranium-fueled nuclear reactors and the liquid fuel used in molten salt thorium reactors. Solid fuel rods break down beyond use after less than one percent of the fissile material has been consumed, at which point the entire reactor must be shut down and the fuel rods replaced. With molten salt reactors, the fuel is constantly being replenished and the waste removed during operation, allowing a much larger portion of the fissile material (up to 99%) to be consumed before being treated as waste.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liquid_fluoride_thorium_reactor...
Awesome idea - we've been considering a feature at FamilyLeaf that would have required building something like this, but this API would make it much more feasible. Looking forward to trying it out!
Wouldn't it be a good thing as that would open our eyes to the fact that Wikipedia articles are really not reliable at all? I don't see how a fast deletion mechanism makes the articles more reliable.

The proper solution seems to be to let the articles stay, and learn that they don't have much weight.

And if deletionism is a reaction to SEO optimization, as the other comment states, it is even more of a tragedy. Really, we have to delete articles for fear of somebody getting an unfair SEO boost? Again the solution seems to be to just lower the impact of links from Wikipedia.
Silicon Valley started in the 1950s: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shockley_Semiconductor_Laborato... . It was affordable until the mid-90s.
This Nature article throws some cold water on the claims that thorium isn't very useful for making weapons.

http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v492/n7427/full/492031a...

Unfortunately the article is paywalled.
Steve Jobs on Creativity: connect the dots
You're looking for Piwik (http://piwik.org/), which is awesome.
New version released, with unit system change option, new layout and suggested/nearby searches. Check it, please!
Oh come on. Clojure has a Wikipedia page. _why has a Wikipedia page. Y Combinator has a Wikipedia page, as does Paul Graham.

Cite the Wikipedia debates you say are happening. Citing HN freakouts isn't a valid argument, because anyone in the world can spark one at any time, because anybody can nominate any article for deletion.
On the motherboard. You could still add RAM using ISA cards.
Content isn't killing Reddit, users are. This post is clearly relevant to people based on the upvotes, yet here we are in a thread where someone decided it was more appropriate to condemn the post rather than acknowledge that it exists and people are happy that it does.
I was raised in California but have spent considerable time in areas of the US with 4 seasons (such as Chicago). I have come to love the 4 seasons for this exact reason. Sure, hot/humid summers are tough, and winters can get chilly, but I would keep them for the cyclical nature they produce. They make it so life continually changes, but more importantly, they make the passage of time explicit in everything (what you see in the city, what you do, how you dress, etc.).
(edit:) Why do you keep ignoring the arguments about the actual topic? Please respond to my first two paragraphs. This entire thing about verifiable sources is an off-topic argument that I'm only going down as an aside because you forced the issue by ignoring the notability problem.

You do realize that I quoted Wikipedia's guidelines, right? That those links I added were not some kind of lie: they were direct references to validate my argument.

Wikipedia seriously goes so far as to state that "mainstream newspapers" are an example of "the most reliable sources", in addition to all of the stuff I already pasted from their guidelines about journal papers.

(OK, I have 2% battery, and I can't find the reference for this, so I'm going to have to temporarily cede this argument. Grrr. I had that bit on newspapers as direct quotes in an argument from a couple months ago on this same topic, though. :( It certainly explains common practice, which "you are allowed to cite primary journal articles without backing them up from secondary sources" does not, in addition to bring a contradiction of the various guidelines.)
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Learn something new everyday on HN! Didn't know this existed and I am wondering how they actually achieve this via Amazon but that's their secret sauce.
Is this a hosted service? If so, in light of the article[1] posted here yesterday, I think I'll pass. Not that I have any suspicion that these guys would abuse my data, but it'd be all-to-easy...

1. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4907609
perhaps the easiest tl;dr is to try:
http://syzygy.st/javascript-coroutines/#demo

but as for an explanation:
it turns out coroutines let you "invert" memory/variable state into control/flow state!
It has sat unmolested because you wrote a good bio about a computer security professional. It's difficult for a random Wikipedia denzien to quickly reach the conclusion that Ms. Davidson isn't notable enough. She's works for a powerful, well-known company, and is notable enough that she was asked to testify before Congress on a topic.

Wikipedia gets fuzzy when you step outside the basics. Is comprehensive list of "Two and a Half Men" episodes from 2003 notable? Are the results and player profiles of the 1959 NBA draft worthy? A stub article about a village in rural Poland?

In those cases, the answer is "yes", because there is a constituency for NBA fans and TV fans. When you step outside these types of topics, you are stepping off of a cliff, and wikipedians will capriciously and relentlessly enforce whatever rules they deem important.
The rise of mobile gaming and more interest in MacOSX and Linux brought more attention to OpenGL, SDL and etc. It definitely threatened the dominance of DirectX.

Practical example:
http://en.thewitcher.com/forum/index.php?/topic/33183-red-en...
I have been working on this question for a long time and I think most people have been fooled into believing an incorrect answer. My research indicates that it's actually 41.
yes. a recent nature article pointed out how thorium can be used to make uranium-233 which can be used to make nuclear weapons.[1] (see the conclusions section at the end of the article)

here's a more detailed explanation: the "old" idea before this nature article was that the uranium-233 produced in thorium reactors would be inevitably mixed with uranium-232 (which isn't useful for making bombs). but the nature article pointed out that the real decay path is thorium-233 --> protactinium-233 --> (uranium-232 AND uranium-233), and that by separating the protactinium-233 from the thorium reactor's neutron flux after 1 month, you can ensure that the protactinium-233 converts to uranium-233 instead of uranium-232.[2] ... step 3 you can make a weapon.

[1] http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v492/n7427/full/492031a... (sorry for the paywall :( )
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thorium_fuel_cycle
ok. that wasn't obvious from my initial sign-up and look around, from my mobile. I'm a big fan of cartoon-style graphics but not at the expense of clarity and focus. I'm not really your target audience; I play piano, however my brother and father are definitely in your group. so, I could really use more information to help me decide if this could be for me. what do I need? why the wide-open space, sky and clouds? is my choice of avatar important? wasn't avatar an expensive movie? is this free? (hope this isn't too negative but I presume u would prefer constructive comments rather than 'awesome graphics' statements. we know they're awesome but that don't get u signups converting to payments.)
WOW. I play guitar, and I love this concept!
Google is not really censoring results, they are "now filtering – or selectively showing – hardcore porn with a bit heavier hand". Here's the full story on TechCrunch:

http://techcrunch.com/2012/12/12/fear-not-those-without-acce...
That is an ideological position, not a statement of fact.
The API looks awesome Khaled. Congrats to the Crowdtilt team. Can't wait to see what people do with it!
Which is why Berlin is very much a good place for startups right now. The rent is still very cheap, but there's a huge concentration of creative people wanting to create companies. This will fade over time just like in SV, but for now, it's one of the best places to be for small companies.
First they came for the torrents, then they came for the boobs...
We're giving this a demo in the office today. Really loving the ease of integrating things like Jira / Github.
Guatemala deporting software pioneer McAfee to U.S
I like it in the pop up. Keeps it out of the way.
When entrepreneurs start thinking like corporate buffoons
Move Your Startup to St. Louis, Get $50,000
How is enterprise babby formed?
Unfortunately, RDS is EBS backed, so it does nothing to solve the issue. And you are stuck with oracle on top of that.
In the sense that it is a cultural artifact that is passed along from one individual to another, yes. In the sense that it is something annoying kids on the internet use that must be complained about, no, not necessarily.
Well that was depressing. Mostly photos of the going away party(ies) we had for my good friend who left town.
I guess I haven't actually found that to be true, despite editing in many niches. Sure, sometimes stuff gets shuffled around, but that's okay too: I want people to improve on my work, which sometimes means moving it elsewhere, splitting it up, whatever. I don't feel the need to "own" the articles I write. If anything, I want more people to do so! I've written articles that are 100% untouched years later even though I know they are not really "done", and someone could improve them. It can be quite nice when someone comes by and tidies up a rough draft: fixes some spelling, adds an infobox and geographical coordinates, rearranges my text-dump into some nice sections, formats my citations nicely and adds ISBNs and DOIs to them, etc.

The people I've seen run into problems most often are either in political hot-button areas, or have too close connection to a subject: someone writing an article on their own programming language, on their own academic contributions, their own company, or that of someone/something they have a close relationship to. If anything, that kind of CoI editing is still rather laxly tolerated, rather than too strongly policed. I know of at least one university that actually has paid staff writing puff pieces on their professors, and most of them are sadly still there, untouched, because there honestly isn't that much close scrutiny.

Imo experiences are much better if you start from the perspective of wanting to improve the encyclopedia, rather than from the perspective of wanting to get a particular thing into it and then maintain/defend that article. The way I usually work: start with a good source I have no personal connection to, and write articles based on it (and citing it!). For example, pick up Knuth's TAOCP, find some interesting subjects it discusses that are not yet covered in Wikipedia, and write a well-cited article. There are >99% odds that people are going to be happy with that kind of contribution, not try to delete it. I've recently been doing that with some books on archaeological sites, and I've gotten only positive comments about it; people are generally happy that I'm filling in articles on important sites that Wikipedia still lacks articles on, and that I'm doing so with references to good scholarly literature on them.

That's not to say every encounter with another editor I've had is positive, just that I think it works reasonably well on the whole, especially given the scope of the endeavor, which I would have guessed was frankly impossible, if you had asked me 10 years ago ("random people on the internet writing the superset of all subject encyclopedias?! won't it just be filled with cranks and nonsense?!"). Actually that's an interesting aspect of the HN reaction: HN is generally worried about Wikipedia being too closed, too deletionist, etc, whereas I'd guess that 90% of the world is worried about Wikipedia being too permissive, not fact-checking or insisting on sources strongly enough, etc. The most common criticism outside HN is pressure to add more reviewing and quality-control mechanisms, which gets especially strong in the wake of occasional hoaxes or libel scandals.
+1 for Austin. My base salary is slightly higher in Austin, mostly due to moving to a later-stage company, though the salaries really aren't that different. My take-home pay is noticeably higher because of that and the lack of state income tax. Couple that with a substantially lower cost of living [1], and my dollars go a lot farther.

The financials of it isn't the end of it, though. The nightlife is better, the people are nicer, I can have a backyard, I'm not severely limiting my options by having dogs, and the weather is better (for me, but I'm used to hot). I'm significantly happier in Austin.

[1]: My 2-bedroom house that I live in by myself costs about what I was paying for my share of a 2-bedroom apartment in SF. Both required about a 10 minute commute, though I drive in Austin where I could walk in SF. It extends beyond rent, though. Everything in SF is more expensive, though nothing is quite as dramatic as the rent.
Won't get fooled again? Hyping Syria's WMD 'Threat'
I could have sworn this was the same thing. Oh god.
The Christian bible indicates God was lonely so created humankind to keep him company. Thus my flippant view: I exist as entertainment for a cosmic intelligence beyond my understanding. I am probably more entertaining when screwing up. So it's all good. I am free to treat life as a "sandbox" and try shit and see what works. God can watch on days when he finds me particularly amusing. He can do other shit when I am boring as sin.

Edit: I am not Christian. Just to be clear here.
Try out the alpha version of the VisualEditor
Optimized for Change: Architecture at Etsy [video + slides]
C# is dead (again). Long live C#.
Put a counter on it so I have a reminder to complete challenges each day. I like this low-friction making as encouraging an attitudinal shift.
I'm unfortunately inclined to agree. While this opens up some amazing possibilities, there better be some strict limitations ($/transfer, $/day, email verification...)

The entire concept strikes me as one of those things that's trivial to implement technically but very difficult to do commercially.
I am quite surprised nobody searches for porn on the internetz.
That Nature article was also linked in the original article. See point 3 towards the end.