skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That actually was an attempt at humor.

Google is badly managed but they're not going to subject a heavyweight like that to their typical nonsense (blind allocation, manager-as-SPOF) and if they do, I'm sure he'll be just fine.
CS Ed Week: Don’t Just Tweet About It, Do Something
"The Library of Babel", by Borges

> "The Library of Babel" (Spanish: La biblioteca de Babel) is a short story by Argentine author and librarian Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986), conceiving of a universe in the form of a vast library containing all possible 410-page books of a certain format.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Library_of_Babel
Let your kid have the toys s/ he wants most .
What corrosion issue? It has already been shown the a combination of adding one additional alloying element to the Hastalloy N while keeping the salt slightly fluorine poor will greatly reduce the already minimal corrosion issue.
You can use an Android phone without signing into a Google account. At least on all the Android phones I ever used except the ADP1.
It's much more subtle, you feel the pressure from the tip of the brush. Depending on the brush. You also feel the differences in friction between painted and unpainted canvas. I did painting and art classes for about 3 years fairly seriously as a kid and the most fun part to trying all different types of making visual art was feeling the different physical nature involved in each type.
That's true, I guess the differentiating process can happen in later interviews. I definitely think this is a step in the right direction.
Congrats to Naval and Team.

He was instrumental in helping me out when I was new to the game and of all the investors/angels I have dealt with, he is the most down to earth and awesome in many ways.

I feel very confident that he is one of the few guys in the valley who actually cares about helping entrepreneurs and is not in it for the cash. Angellist's success is proof of that.
Security Vulnerability in popular mobile app, what do?
Hi,

I discovered a security vulnerability in a fairly popular mobile app. So i submitted a bug report and - surprise, surprise - no reaction.

The app in question fails to validate the ssl certificates of the app services server it communicates with. This means man in the middle attacks are possible.

If you don't know what that means: this is one step before not using SSL at all. Without SSL, everyone intercepting your traffic can read it. With SSL, but without certificate validation (the app accepts any certificate presented to it), you have to pretend to be the server (intercept the traffic to it; there are several ways to do this and it depends on weather you are using g3, wifi or what ever. But running your own DNS or DHCP server with custom features on an open wlan is certainly one of them) and get to see what the client sends. You can forward the clients requests to the real server, if you like, but the client will have no idea it is not communicating with the real server either way.

I'd say this is worth fixing and my first knee-jerk reaction would have been to just spill the beans. But maybe someone has some good advice how to go forward with this.
Oh certainly no ulterior motive, but these things never have ulterior motives, just good people not doing what they should. I was just curious why it wouldn't be just as easy to make it use imap rather than being gmail specific. The idea of making an email client that only worked with email addresses from a single domain would not even have occurred to me.
Gmail supports IDLE according to a quick search. I wonder if battery life will be adversely impacted because now you will have another persistent socket connection to Google instead of reusing the push notification socket that Exchange syncing used.
When I was there, Directors were still above the Real Googler Line, but it may have moved up in the time since then. Also, he lives in Massachusetts, which means he'll only get the work that MTV doesn't want (unless he moves). Finally, with his visibility, he's going to get a lot of prank Perf and his manager is going to have a hard time promoting him because of that.
Then it's typically a loan with a pre-defined interest rate.

A convertible note does not buy equity - thats what 'convertible' means - and 'note' means 'loan'. So it's a loan that can convert to equity based on certain conditions.

As I said, all of this is overly simplistic. It's just a 30,000 foot overview.
> His tendency to handwave rather than retreat to data? What the heck are you talking about? Have you seen how many graphs he puts in his presentations?

The ability to present something in graph form does not mean that it isn't handwavy bafflegab rather than data.

One need look no further than his absurd joke of a "paradigm shifts"/"countdown to the singularity" graph.
If you need a really useable web interface, Zimbra community edition might be an option. But it is quite ressource hungry. On the plus side it gives you a premium CalDAV compatible shareable calendar server. Zafara might be a nice alternative to Zimbra.

If you only need a mail server hot standby solution without web interface, then dovecot/postfix might be an option.

Whichever solution you go for, feed it with the mails on the current Gmail server with imapsync or offlineimap. When you want to switch to your own server simply change the MX records of your domain.
Really? Their stated goal is: "assemble, educate and inspire a cadre of leaders who strive to understand and facilitate the development of exponentially advancing technologies and apply, focus and guide these tools to address humanity’s grand challenges."

Why would this not in alignment w/ Google's aim for such a position? Why would they not want a strategist they believe who could direct their engineering staff in this manner?

The people who attend the university are CEOs, CTOs... Directors of Engineering, etc. It's not for fringe kooks to congregate in celebration of the upcoming nerd rapture. Not at $25k/10 weeks it ain't.

I get that he's a polarizing figure. But there are some very powerful people in this world who believes the man can walk on water.
I'm waiting for the first stories about people having their Christmas present surprises spoiled by their SOs seeing retargeted Amazon ads featuring the products they were browsing while doing their Christmas shopping. Or their kids seeing retargeted Toys R Us ads with the toys the parents were looking at. :)

(I don't think retargeting is bad in general, I just think that the shops that due the specific-product-including ones are treading the wrong side of the creepy line and haven't thought enough about shared computers.)
Partially, it's a business continuity issue. The other part of it is that startups with multiple founders tend to grow faster as the founders feed off each other.

If you're the sole founder, and you die. It's over. Nobody else is going to take over with the same energy, passion, and insight you had.
> Try upsetting a doctor by calling him/her "mister"/"miss" repeatedly.

I know a ton of CS PhDs, they never like to be called doctor or introduce themselves as Dr. So and So, are you talking about MDs?
> Computers won’t be replacing humans for writing the great American novel or entertaining the masses on TV

Want to bet? Of course they will.
So there's lots of people who can barely get by if at all?
LEGOs!!!!!!
I wrote all 138,000 lines from scratch, over 9 years.

You guys are niggers. India-niggers?

God says...
quit buy blest Wisdom possess

My compiler generates an intermediate language -- an array of stack operations that eventually gets converted to machine code.

------ input file ----

f=i*5;

----------------------

Parsed:

PUSH address off RBP of f
PUSH address off RBP of i
POP and dereference i, push result.
PUSH immediate 5
POP and MUL Top TWO
POP Top Two, put result in dereferenced second from top

-----

Keep top-of-stack in RAX

Assign REG variables to frequent offsets off RBP

-----

merge little instructions into bigger ones

----

Convert to machine code
Just taking a second to thank you for all your work on Marionette, and your seemingly endless contributions to Backbone/Marionette questions on StackOverflow Derick - I'm nowhere near the level to be contributing to Marionette but your humbleness inspires me to use your code every day :)
Hopwatch – a debugging tool for Go (HTML5)
I've tried this before and the iPhone didn't support it
I you're on an iPhone there's already a couple of other push connections that keep active too. Apples push notification service is just long-polling HTTP for example, I don't think it shares the same connection with iMessage either.

I can't pretend to know anything about IMAP or Exchange, but one would assume that push uses less than polling the email server every 5-15 minutes.
I believe that ~100 deferred applicants were accepted last year, out of the deferred pool of 3,000 and the regular pool of 30,000.

Hm, what are some misconceptions then? What do you think they are looking for?
Aw, man. I used to hate this guy when I worked on the title authority team. The programmatic titles alone often caused the title matchers to infer that all the books were somehow related, and cluster them all together. Oh, the happy hours spent unpicking the resulting mess. The Wikipedia guy was the worst in terms of sheer pointlessness though. Personally I'd delete the lot of them. Hard to think that your job is worthwhile when it consists of cleaning up after other people's crappy perl scripts...
Phil Parker here. Interesting posts. Here are some links that can clarify for some:
Here is a piece about reaching underserved subjects/languages:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jeff-jarvis/davos-2011-too-lit...
Here is a current project dealing with agriculture:
http://gulfnews.com/news/gulf/uae/education/campus-in-abu-dh...
Here is a poetry project (graph theoric stuff):
http://totopoetry.com/poetry/credits/edgepoetry.htm

My favorite page:
http://www.totopoetry.com/search.asp?word=truth
I have used this approach to write definitions as well (www.websters-online-dictionary.org)
The following contrasts definitions of zealously:
1. In a zealous manner. [Human]
2. In an enthusiastic, fervid, ardent or fervent manner. [graph theoretic]
3. In a fanatical manner. [graph theoretic]

A vid on fiction automation:
http://vimeo.com/17168987
A debate/reaction amongst literature people:
http://www.thepassivevoice.com/10/2012/can-robots-really-wri...
Cheers
Phil
p.s. most of the “books” are used by businesses in narrow markets, and are econometrically estimated, not compiled from internet sources.
> Why would this not in alignment w/ Google's aim for such a position?

Singularity University helps you meet people who can help you facilitate engineering feats, in the sense that more money helps you facilitate engineering feats. That's okay in my book.

But, you're not going to end up with a working knowledge of mechanical engineering or computational neuroscience by hanging out at the Singularity University lectures.

People are surprised about at how far "Director of Engineering" can skew in that direction, they aren't surprised that Google is interested in the future.
Data crunching to find the cheapest airline in the world
If this happens, I'm never buying another nVidia card. I will switch to ATI/AMD in a heartbeat. Not because I think Intel is evil, but because it's a customer aggregation play. It's not happening because nVidia will become better under Intel.

As a result, nVidia will be put to death in favor of Intel's crappy graphics engine.
While I think this is more a shot across the bow of Windows Phone (no support for cardDav and calDav, and no GMail app from Google), I don't think iOS users get away scott-free either.

I was under the impression that GMail uses their own version of IMAP? The built in iOS mail client does not provide push e-mail via IMAP but instead uses P-IMAP for push e-mail via iCloud.
I'm reposting this comment I made a couple of months ago. He's no John McCarthy, but he was a true pioneer in the commercial applications of AI:

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I don't think that's a very fair assessment of Kurzweil's role in technology.

He was on the ground, getting his hands dirty with the first commercial applications of AI. He made quite a bit of money selling his various companies and technologies, and was awarded the presidential Medal of Technology from Clinton.

As I was growing up, there was a series of "Oh wow!" moments I had, associated with computers and the seemingly sci-fi things they were now capable of.

"Oh wow, computers can read printed documents and recognize the characters!"

"Oh wow, computers can read written text aloud!"

"Oh wow, computers can recognize speech!"

"Oh wow, computer synthesizers can sound just like pianos now!"

I didn't realize until much later that Kurzweil was heavily involved with all of those breakthroughs.
I'm still really upset about this. If I update a calendar item on my desktop, it won't update on my device until after a considerable delay or whatever without this. Same with email, I won't necessarily get notified of emails.

This is making my move to Android more and more inevitable, actually. However, for a horrendous reason.
Great, the last thing I need is for my sex life to accidentally make its way to my timeline.

That'll will be fun when this data is eventually leaked... I foresee quite a bit of blackmail.
What's Kurzweil's motive?

He's a visionary who can deliver a finished product. I think he must have some pretty specific ideas, and he wants to partner with Google.

A few guesses:

- New interfaces to replace keyboard/mouse/touch. Voice, gesture, face, brainwaves. Sign language with humming, blinking, and pupil pointing. Works with tablets, TVs, wearables, cars, buildings, ATMs, etc.

- SuperPets (r) that can pass the Turing test. And do the shopping.

- Surgically implanted Bluetooth. (It could literally be a tooth!)

- Hover skateboards.

- The Matrix. (Or the 13th Floor, which was a better movie in my not-so humble opinion.)

I don't think it'll have to do with life-extension though. That's just too crazy far out-there.
Do you not see your texts as noise in the literary signal?
You just agreed with me. A lot of people use windows because of office. This is why people have windows installed, particularly in larger enterprises.

Using one (Excel and word), does guarantee the other (windows). .Doc and .xls are standardized much like .pdf.

Yes, Xbox is a contributing factor, but still...
That's my favourite, I've also seen Kurzweil called DeepakChopra++ which I like as well.
It occurs to me that that would be a slick way to get around spam filters... Just have a character in your e-mail that maps to the "Cialis" glyph, for instance. :)
I don't think just having two devices with the same google authenticator seed key is inherently horrible (e.g. my phone and my ipad). It's a security compromise, but not a huge one. I just need to keep both devices physically secure and put a decent passcode on them.

I do this manually when setting up the account, I don't do online backups with a third-party service using their crypto code of my google authenticator seeds, though.
What a distinctive photo on the home page. It's casually erotic and says a lot about who they're trying to target and how.

But, the "How It Works" page is cartoonish and has a completely different (immature, tacky) aesthetic.

One of these things is not like the other.

I wonder if they properly licensed the original photo from Theo Gosselin: http://www.flickr.com/photos/46799990@N04/5157819128

I'd put my money on "no."
I really love it, already found a new gift for someone!
This is why I tend to prefer the android architecture over the iphone's. If I still had an android phone and a not-google 3rd party provider stopped offering ActiveSync, I'd just use whatever their new thing is.

iPhone says I have to sync using the X Y or Z protocol. android can connect to Exchange and also lets me write a custom sync app. I can download an app that hooks whatever-the-hell directly into my contact list (or other android system bits). As long as a little bit of java is written for it, any and every API can be turned into a 1st class citizen.

Its the same for sharing. I click the share button on android and I get a list of all the applications that can take my android.content.Intent.ACTION_SEND intent. On iPhone, I can pick any service I want as long as it's twitter.
> The people who attend the university are CEOs, CTOs... Directors of Engineering, etc. It's not for fringe kooks

A much larger percentage of CEOs, CTOs, D of E's depend on psychics and astrologers. So that helps define the strength of the "other powerful people follow him" defense.
A lie is much more convincing if it's constructed on a kernel of truth.
The war on drugs is perhaps the biggest civil rights fiasco currently. Unnecessary and unjust incarcerations are absolutely inexcusable, and they fall almost exclusively on the minorities. i502 is not a bill about getting high, there is so much more to it.
Please no, just stop. HTML in email is an awful idea. Get PDF/A attachments standardised in the client for presentation purposes, if you really must, but No Scripting.
Victory shall not be yours until your precious Vim has both Tetris and Towers of Hanoi. Emacs shall prevail.
Already replied to this comment, but what the heck, I thought about what you said and had some more to add (since my original posts were "ha ha" funny, or at least I thought so).

I don't have startup credentials. My last startup was 10 years ago; I built a hosting company and sold it to a consulting firm for a couple hundred grand. I'm still in IT, so I clearly haven't made enough to cash out yet (I'm an IT operations lead; paid well, but definitely not F-you money).

I'll offer something better though; come to me with an idea I believe in, something that is going to change the world for the better. I'll provide free room and board for six months while you build it (my wife and I aren't great cooks, but practice makes perfect). If you get huge, awesome. I don't want any equity, I just want you to succeed. If it doesn't work out, head on over to a code school in SF that guarantees you a high five figure salary after your time with them.

I can't offer credentials; I can offer to give what I can to help someone reach their goals/dreams. The startup scene needs an airbnb.com for founders who don't need cash, just time and a place to live, and for people who are willing to host said founders at no (or very little) cost to help with their goals.

startupbnb.com?
Just wanted to comment that at Vimeo we had this same problem, but approached it in a slightly different way.

When you first scroll down on the logged in homepage (feed) you get to the footer. It is only after you click "Load more videos" that we begin infinite scrolling.

I think this makes it less intrusive since the user is initiating that they want to see more (rather than clicking on a link in the footer for example).

See:
http://cl.ly/image/1d3L3H3c0P2q

On top of that we use html5 push state to make sure that the current url is updated as you scroll up and down the page with infinite scroll.

I'm not saying this solution is perfect, but it has seemed to work fine for us.
If the only problem is really "sitting alone", wouldn't working in a company that does pair programming solve it?
The answer, when compared to typical light water reactors is... A hell of a lot less.
First, since Thorium is a byproduct of Rare Earth Element mining and Uranium is mined specifically, there is all the mining waste that is saved.
Second, since Thorium is used up ~completely and Uranium is used only about 0.5%, you need about 200 times more raw Uranium metal than Thorium meaning even MORE mining waste.
Third, all the extra metal is RadioActive Waste.
Fourth, in making the solid fuel elements, various reactants etc. become even more RAW.
Fifth, the pellets are clad, then assembled into bundles using metal that gets irradiated and becomes ever more RAW.
Sixth, the vast majority of the fuel pellet is U238 which gets irradiated and some becomes transUranic elements, significantly more than in a LFTR.
only then do the two become ALMOST equivalent in the amount of fission products made, though even there the LFTR can be substantially more efficient at turning heat into electricity, so less fuel needs to be converted.

Oh, and most fission products decay to stability in hours, some take years, a few take a few hundred years and the rest are transmutable. It is the TRUs that represent the big storage problem. But guess what, LFTRs can burn them up too.

Not only do LFTRs not generate significant amounts of "wastes" but they can burn the problem waste from PWRs. How cool is that?!!!
Yes, they could stop sending email full stop. There's a reason we wanted Domain Keys. Having the spamming fuckwits just moving from one starry-eyed mass email startup to the next every time they get canned wasn't it.
We made a similar compiler with the same goal of supporting text/python but it only compiled python it down into javascript. We could manipulate images from the webcam and make calls to jQuery and through python.

In the end, it was hard to replicate 100% of the usefulness of JS through python and convert python's cool features into JS.
Would that as applicant idea be too meta?
Wind and solar can be complimentary: Watch the Cal-ISO renewables graph (second graph on on this page: http://www.caiso.com/outlook/SystemStatus.html ; the first graph is demand and reserves ).

On many days, the wind power goes up at night and down during the day, very much in complement, though in larger scale than, solar generation. More solar will more nearly equalize the two -- on good days.

California is nowhere near having an overcapacity of renewable sources to worry about; just look at the first graph where the lowest demand (2 AM to 4 AM) is 22 GW on 12/14/2012. The highest the solar gets is not quite 1 GW. The wind is more variable, anecdotally as high as 3+ GW and as low as a flatline near zero for the whole state all day and night.
I like running my own mail server. It means I can null route people who think this is acceptable.
Hi, UX designer here, which I came to via usability and Jef Raskin's The Humane Interface.

You don't want to look for modern UX materials.

You want to look for older "usability" and "human-computer interface" (HCI) materials. 1970's and 1980's-era.

Classical usability and HCI, and the tools and practices that came out of those fields, were entirely about line-of-business applications, because you had an 80x25 text-only green screen and no graphics and no pointer and the entire purpose of a computer was to make the user more efficient.

This is the route Jef Raskin pursues in The Humane Interface. He talks about basic measures of efficiency, things like GOMS and information theory, and how to apply them to UIs.

The example he uses is an interactive thermometer. You're a lab assistant, and a scientist calls out temperatures to you and you need to yell back the conversion as fast as possible. What is the minimum amount of input such an application needs before it can give you the answer? And he works through all the possible examples with you in that chapter.

I'd pick up his book, and then look for all the things he references in the text and the bibliography, to start.

Feel free to contact me if you have questions.
Phil! Is that Phil Phil or motion-capture salamander Phil?