skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Inclusionist 'forks', 'annexes', or 'salvage yards' have been attempted a few times. They usually adopt the same MediaWiki software and general article-format, for familiarity and ease of starting-up.

But, since that stack has coevolved with community practices, it is essentially dependent on the same mentalities, content-standards, and critical mass of contributors in order to function at all. A site that's "exactly Wikipedia, but inclusionist" imports many of the stresses and doctrinal limitations that have fed deletionist urges, but without a vibrant-enough seed community to build the full set of alternate practices that inclusionism would allow.

Between other projects, I've been working on an alternate kind of reference wiki that I believe can capture more info without as much conflict. Variances from standard Wikipedia/MediaWiki I'm trying are:

• all information must be contributed in small capped-size chunks – think about 2-3 times as large as a tweet, or like a Google search result snippet but in complete sentences

• community scoring of chunk quality, so that rough/undersourced/needs-improvement material can live on, somewhat out of view, rather than being lost completely to deletion

• extensive use of atomic, single-click feedback (upvotes, flags, likes, thanks, etc.) for quick reinforcement/correction loops (learning from Facebook, Quora, Twitter, etc.)

Though recent updates are few, you can read more about the plans and progress at my project blog – http://blog.thunkpedia.org. Following the @thunkpedia twitter handle or otherwise contacting me will get you invited to the beta as soon as it opens.
> If you write an article about an algorithm that cites the academic literature, it'll most likely survive.

Most of the time you actually aren't allowed to do that; there seem to be exceptions in a few fields, such as Medicine, but the overall policy of Wikipedia is that you cannot cite primary sources, preferring, very specifically, newspapers. Of course, there are secondary sources in academia (summary papers), but they are fewer and far between, making it difficult to defend some newer topics. The article on "Coppersmith%27s_Attack" against RSA, for example, is seemingly forced to cite a summary paper. (The article on RSA itself has a couple citations to an original paper, but only if it can be backed with a secondary source.)
Branch prediction? On a 386?

AFAIK the first Intel CPU to have branch prediction was the Pentium 2 -- which was released many, many years (I'd say ~12 years) after the 386.
Oof, Comcast died as soon as I made this post.

I have two major contentions. First, I'm a neuroscientist by training, so hearing anything related to "upload my brain" just makes me weep. The only realistic way to "upload your brain" is to pump your body full of fixatives (paraformaldehyde), section it on a cryostat and then perform electron microscopy across every single slice. Then put it all back together (fixing skewing artifacts, etc) on a computer.

THEN make a simulation out of it, where every atom of your body is replicated with pristine accuracy. Otherwise you are not yourself anymore.

I'm not saying it's impossible. I'm saying it's so far from likely that being near-immortal due to bio-enhancements is almost certainly more practical. Or you can develop some "scanning ray gun" which does the same thing without killing you first, I suppose.

Second, the whole notion of "exponentially increasing intelligence" I find silly. Are we more intelligent than homo sapiens 3000 years ago? Perhaps more scholarly, more literate, more capable of engineering complex systems. But our inherent, base intelligence is not any different. Just applied to different problems and starting at different bases of knowledge.

Edit: Musing on this, I find a "Matrix"-style hostile takeover of highly intelligent AI much more likely than humans "transcending" into some super-computing cloud of blissful hyperintelligence. That's seems much more likely than humans ever fully shucking our meat bag bodies.
These system fonts are detected through Flash/Java. Disabling these will fix this.
Great Post! I've definitely thought of some of these strategies but never had them all together.
Also:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4911747
has a few links to Google discussion forums.
Secure Shell (Chrome Extension by Google)
Certain failed investments I'm familiar with are not present in the timeline.
I agree with you. I think this is a good time to (again) point to Pinboard's "The Five Stages of Hosting": http://blog.pinboard.in/2012/01/the_five_stages_of_hosting/

You should move up the hosting chain as your needs demand it, and not before. Yes, you'll pay more for cloud-hosted solutions, but if one of the racked servers has a power supply failure or a motherboard failure or bad RAM or a failed drive, that's their problem to deal with, not yours -- and at the moment, most of the cloud providers seem to be very good at dealing with it.

All of those things are a distraction, and worse still, if you don't have multiple layers of redundancy -- which will add to your costs -- then they can result in down time for your service, which is bad.

I, personally, would not move to a dedicated server until the costs for required resources became so egregious in the cloud that I could no longer afford not to use a dedicated server.
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You're never going to kill the pixel until you have a display that doesn't use them.
If you're looking for the FB equivalent to those pages check out http://www.facebookstories.com/2012
Are humans not animals now?
Aren't HiDPI displays killing pixels?
Infographic: Every Murder In “Game Of Thrones,” In Just 90 Seconds
Guatemala to deport McAfee to the USA
No, not at all. Even if you knew the Coke formula today, you wouldn't be able to unseat Coke. Similarly, the people that use the site to the tune of $400 per day haven't seem to be able to steal it, yet.
Show HN: A virtual guitar teacher (after 18 months of dev)
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I'm struggling to understand what the point is. Video codecs don't store data in "pixel" format either, they store wavelet coefficients, data from the frequency domain.

From the article, the source data is in pixel format. No codec format can be better than the source data. And the output is displayed on a screen with pixels. Pixels in, pixels out. The intermediate format can only make things worse, not better. It's not surprising that they're able to do better than current formats: it sounds like they're using a huge amount of CPU for encoding. You could get better compression if you created a new MPEG4 profile that required more CPU too.

The intermediate format may be tweaked to provide better results while scaling, but you could probably add scaling hints to more conventional codecs, too. Not sure what the point would be either unless the source data had a lot more pixels than the output format...
Hi everyone, this is v1 of an app we've been working on for a really long time. It uses pitch detection and note-by-note feedback to guide beginners through their first songs on the guitar.

Everything's homemade, including the pitch detection and the animated guitar teacher. We decided to go web-first (which was definitely out of style when we started) and built everything in JS (Backbone/Node/Couch).

Today we finally launched, would love any feedback people have.
I ran a Dell Mini 9 for years, and loved that it had no moving parts (SSD, no fan).

I replaced it with a MBA 13, and I was shocked after 6 months when a firmware update made the fan come on. Before that, I didn't even know it had a fan.
Congrats James & Khaled!

+1 - Love this idea :)
I find the lack of humility in this page fascinating. Even though it's my account and my life, I have no control over what my top 20 moments are. The concept is great, but the tone (Facebook assuming authority) definitely rubs me the wrong way.
I downloaded the trial and tried to create a Xmarin.Mac.Project and I got an error that I need to buy the software.

Did I choose the wrong option? If so, which one should I be testing? Why can't I test out all features of the tool?

Also, I agree with everyone else that the price point being $399 is way too high for personal development. Would it be possible to get something cheaper for personal development to see if it's actually useful for my needs?
Congratulations! Now to go put this together with exec or taskrabbit. :)
Charging Entrepreneurs To Pitch To Venture Capitalists? YSV At It Again
The story about the little girl briefly shown in 2:26 is also incredibly touching.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WoZ2BgPVtA0
This doesn't really change your statement, but 20M MD5 hashes/second is pretty damn wimpy these days. IIRC 20 BILLION is more accurate.
Strategic Analytics: The Final Frontier for “Enterprise” Data
Rails, by default, uses '<table-name>-<id>-<updated_at>' for the cache key of an activerecord object. When an ActiveRecord object's `updated_at` column is touched, then all of it's cache keys will invalidate. I don't believe there's a default implementation for a collection.

There's significant network overhead to looping over a collection of objects and using cache blocks, so this gem appears to be a big win by using memcached's `multi_get` command.
This reminds me of a talk about Evolution of Code at Facebook [1].
One of the first architectural restructurings (and still the major driving factor behind later changes) was the switch from sequential memcache_get to parallel memcache_multiget.

[1]: http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Evolution-of-Code-Design-...
Maybe most people you know aren't writing copy the way tokenadult recommends above. He's absolutely correct imho. Send them a link to his comment, and try it and see.
Yep, as a fun science-fiction idea...it's a lot of fun. I've enjoyed several novels where the Singularity is central to the plot. Fun to read about.

Mostly ridiculous to talk about in practice (imo).
It's probably a joke, if I were to guess.
Elegance to me is strong types & classes, decoupled. Elegance to you may be more about loose types and flatter structure?
I'd have thought something more like the old Qt license tiering would make sense - a GPL version that can only be used to develop GPL apps and a commercially licensed version if you want to sell anything.
...and then saying "no."
Why I Left Maker Studios
What Being A Meta-Leader Really Means
> Interesting way to spark curiosity and learn new things!

Thanks! That's exactly why I designed this page. I've learned so much from just looking at GIFs.

> I wish there was a link to the Wikipedia article/section under each GIF.

If the image is used in an "en" language Wikipedia article, a link to that article appears beneath the image.

For example, this image is used in the "Screen Printing" article: http://www.wikigifs.org/#PrintLayers500px.gif

You can also click on the title of the image to get the file information for any image, scroll down to the "file usage" area for a full list.
Can you sit on it, though? I usually carry an iphone 5 in my back pocket, and it's small/durable enough that sitting on it isn't a big deal.

I actually have cargo pants which will fit an iPad 1 in the cargo pocket (barely). I used that a lot on military bases where you weren't allowed to take a bag into the cafeteria (for fear of bombs).
The Witness: Mapping Walkable Surfaces for Robust Player Movement
Is pedantry a good use of your time?
First, I'm not "defending the deletion of BBS history". It's telling that merely trying to put what's happening on Wikipedia in any kind of balanced perspective counts as taking a side here; it shows how artificially polarized this issue is.

Second, there are clear practical reasons why it would matter if the examples I provided survived as Wikipedia articles:

* The overall perception of Wikipedia's reliability --- which, in reality, is comparable to that of Britannica's for most subjects, and particularly for subjects that are important in the context of traditional encylopedias --- would be sharply diminished.

* The encyclopedia would be full of overtly false information, since no contributor to the project would be able to verify any of the information in those articles.

* Wikipedia would be ruthlessly gamed to get pages to the top of Google SERPs (it already is, and a lot of deletionism over startups and individual people is a reaction to that).

* The project would lose huge amounts of time to mediating squabbles over article name real estate as different garage bands or local volleyball teams argued over which should be the first listed name for their project.
Yep, the problem is getting physicians to utilize them instead of dismissing them as "cookbook medicine".
I also enjoyed "The Prestige", I recommend it
Seems like she got over it: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLwDRbCiFEsPI5A0Z6JE7_g...

Here are some great clips of my Dad playing the Sitar for anyone who never saw him perform live.

He's 51 in the first clip and 92 in the second clip and an inspiration in both. I love you and miss you, Pops.
Ruby is mostly well-designed, but it certainly has its warts. One of them is that 'or' and 'and' have the same precedence. They don't in Perl. That's one reason while Perl monks use them, but Ruby rockstars don't.

And please don't try to tell me that the lambda/proc/block mess is "well-designed".
What kind of security by obscurity banks are people using where they have to enter numbers with the mouse to avoid keyloggers and answer to silly questions like my mothers last occupation??!

Any reputable bank will give you a small external card reader with a keypad where you have to insert your smartcard, enter your pin and a punch in the challenge-response code from the website. 2-factor authentication is a solved problem, plus no risk of keyloggers since the device is disconnected from the computer. (Most come with the option of connecting to the computer via usb to save you from manually entering the challenge-response but your pin is always entered on the external keypad.)
Rally Keeper – Kinect based ping pong visualizer
The Year In Google, 2012
CloudFlare's scrapeshield might help:

https://www.cloudflare.com/apps/scrapeshield
Modern HotSpot is probably one of the best VMs out there; while you could certainly argue that the language isn't wonderful, the VM is superb, and a lot of the tools are excellent.
7.4 cubic KM of ice crashing in Greenland
Looks great, but I wonder how this goes beyond https://github.com/lockitron/selfstarter?
"Getting your foot in the door" cost me a large part of my career. I did something I didn't really have my heart set on at a large financial services company and the OP is right: it's hard to work on the craft you love at night while doing your day job. I wish I'd have picked up on this years ago but that's life.
It's more than cultural. All airplanes of a type are basically the same. They have the same parts, the same operational and maintenance requirements, and the same procedures work to fix them when something fails.

Humans aren't so standardized. Not everyone with a disease responds to the same treatment in the same way. They may not even display the same symptoms. Some people have allergies to certain medications, etc. Medicine is just way more complicated than ticking through a pre-flight before takeoff.
Mitsubishi builds radiation-resistant robot
How are you so sure most people don't return to Google? I do it more than half the time, and just add Wikipedia as a search term to narrow the results. For years I've felt it made my search more fruitful than using Wikipedia's search. Maybe my feelings are wrong, but if I feel this way, then a lot of other people could, too!
It sounds like you know what they mean by "intelligence," but you're instead choosing to use your preferred definition and call them wrong based on semantics. Being more scholarly, more literate and capable of solving much bigger problems sounds like something that could reasonably be summarized as "more intelligent."
Wow, the video has 3.7 million comments. That you can see 7 at a time.
Tools & Processes for ensuring software quality at Mozilla
Wow, considering how FB's algorithm seems to pick a good news feed for me to read, it's astonishing how poorly done this year-in-review thing is done. It's not organized even by content that was most liked or read, and random, arbitrary events are given large prominence...it makes me wonder if my newsfeed really does reflect the things I'd be most interested in
It says that he goes on to continue his research once he is uploaded. So perhaps him being uploaded to the machine is distinct from him trying to create the first sentient computer.

He is trying to create a sentient machine before he dies and his uploaded self is continuing his research along those same lines.
Or Prestige, which is on my "top 5 greatest films of all time" list. Along with The Dark Knight.

(The others you mentioned I like, but not top-5 like).
I think that metric works a lot better for seed investors vs. series B/C.

There's a trick a lot of the newer or mediocre investors do -- put tiny amounts into popular late-stage financings of known winners, just so the investor can claim "we were an investor in all these great companies."

Picking a great company at seed stage is harder. If you could have a seed-only portfolio where in 5 years someone knows even 50% of the companies (positively; not talking about investing in adelphia, etc.), you're doing amazingly well.

Based on yclist, I'd say YC, one of the better seed-stage investors, is probably around 10-15% by that metric, assuming none of the YC companies not on yc list are "known".
For event tracking, how does

analytics.track('Purchased an Item', {
price : 39.95,
shippingMethod : '2-day'
});

translate to Google Analytics?

_gaq.push(['...?

How many properties can you have?
Agree with your sentiment.

However why on earth would brain uploading be done all at once. Given the right nanotech you could begin at one part of the brain - slowly replacing biological neurons with artificial ones.

Once all your neurons are artificial - just download their state. This is pure speculation and way out in the future - like 100 years - but it could be fun :-)
Love this kind of elitism. Means easy money for those of us who have the patience or imagination to look past the name of a school.
1) I'm surprised that you as a neuroscientist make a definitive claim that we need to simulate every atom of our body to ensure that "you" is still "you". Clearly, cutting my nails destructs my persona ;) (Less flippant, it's kind of hard to say which parts of us make us ourselves. I certainly don't see much of a consensus on that)

2) What about the old idea of replacing one neuron at a time with a simulation? (The "Moravec Upload") Caveat: Provided our identity is just defined by our neurons, which is certainly more than up for debate.

3) I'm not aware that there's a claim of exponentially increasing human intelligence for the singularity. The idea is for technology to become self-improving. We'll see about that, but it's certainly a different claim than what you're refuting.
this shouldn't be hosted on the cloudflare.com domain. since I am a customer every request sends my cloudflare session cookie and a bunch of Google Analytics cookies.

Not only is it 2.5KB of extra header info sent, but I don't think cloudflare should know which websites their customers have been visiting.
But you can download it and play around with it for free.
Workplace Distractions: Here's Why You Won't Finish This Article
This is exactly why I wrote the post. It was 100% a personal decision, but I hope that other people might relate and find a little courage if they are feeling the same way.

Thanks for your comment. I really appreciate it.
Yes, and nfg and I are trying to point out the downsides of using the term "Hispanic" when you mean "Latin American". The terms aren't interchangeable, even though people might try to treat them as such.

It might be an academic distinction to you, but it isn't to everybody. On the flip side of your example, while teaching in an inner city, I broke up a fight that started because a kid called a Haitian "African American".
"Are we more intelligent than homo sapiens 3000 years ago?"

We might be. Unless the Flynn effect[0] is around to just make us feel good about ourselves. We only have data as far back as the 1930's, but this trend could have been around for a while.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flynn_effect
How did I know someone was going to be shitting on the author in the comments? The Obama team ran the most successful presidential campaign in history in terms of donations, and this guy was a part of it. Be appreciative that he let us take a look behind the curtain.
> even if it can't have one in reality

It doesn't have a presence in reality, it apparently won't have a presence in reality any time soon, but saying it can't happen is about as egotistical as we could be. Our generation has not yet discovered a means to synthesize this type of intelligence, but there is still plenty of time left to figure it out. We just don't know yet if it can happen or not.
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patio11 has a lot of good stuff on this topic:

http://www.kalzumeus.com/greatest-hits/ (scroll down to 'Conversion Optimization')
Apologies. I must learn how to. Write.

I've realised a good analogy would be if a golfer was going somewhere on holidays and was going to play a few rounds of leisurely golf with friends while he was there.

The thing with the woman officer who stopped my friend and then interviewed her was that woman lied saying that she phoned music venues and they told her how many thousands of pounds my friend was going to be making. Completely. Ridiculously. Fabricated. Just started making stuff up to back up her case.
ah, didn't see that. thanks joel!
Careers are long, and you don't look that old. ;)
I'm not sure that the OP was "outraged at a person's lost productivity". It seems like badv0r may have thought that the project could have potential merit if it focused on something like "feeding 80 human beings in poor country" instead of "Buying random things from amazon each month".

To be more general, the bot currently buys:

<unneeded thing> for <person who can afford it>

while it could buy

<needed thing> for <needy person, who can not afford it>
A few diferences:

1. Xamarin.Mac comes with a commercial license, so you can ship to the Mac App Store (not allowed under MonoMac's LGPL license).

2. Xamarin.Mac comes with commercial support.

3. Xamarin.Mac includes bindings for several new APIs, including CoreBluetooth, GameKit, StoreKit, SceneKit, and the new Mountain Lion AppKit classes.

You can see a full list of differences here: http://docs.xamarin.com/mac/guides
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What is the craft you love and why does going back to Chicago help you work on it?
They are useless. The amount of times I was cursed at and asked if I had nothing better to be doing than checking up on my friend was ridiculous.
Apologies; I'd thought you were saying that userspace was the appropriate setting for in-progress articles, and that this simply needed to gain widespread knowledge.

But I think the "grace period" idea scarcely scratches the surface. Is it better if the article is given time to mature before it's deleted entirely by people dogmatically adhering to some arbitrary criterion of notability?

If Wikipedia is to remain a useful resource and to realize its unique potential, deletionism neesd to be vigorously suppressed. If the current Wikipedia culture is too far gone, then perhaps it needs to be forked and maintained in a culture that regards the fact that enough collaborative effort was made to produce a coherent article as itself sufficient evidence of "notability".
This should go at the top. I was really annoyed to read this.

His career as a producer seems fairly limited, but it's worth considering that Steven Spielberg was a producer on Transformers.

I didn't see much of a Spielberg touch on that movie.