skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I really wish you would read my comment further down the thread about not being a Kurzweil fan boy (I've copied it below for your convenience.)

Kurzweil's theories deserve scrutiny and thoughtful criticism, just not the emotional middlebrow dismissal you're engaging in - to borrow PG's favorite expression.

I guess it's possible that Kurzweil is The Talented Mr. Ripley of the technology world, and that your "horseshit pattern recognizers" are just that much more astute than those of Gates, Page, Brin, Minsky, Norvig, Wolfram, Kamen, Reif, etc., but I hope you'll understand if I'm leaning a bit more towards their take on this one.

Also, I realize endtime is about to jump in here any minute now with his Argument from Authority wikipedia link, so I'll freely admit that given imperfect information, yes, I'm allowing people I respect, who are extremely knowledgeable about the relevant subject matter, and in many cases have worked closely with Kurzweil (Page, Wolfram, Gates, Norvig, Reif, George, etc.) - to help confirm my own fairly well researched opinion.

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Honestly, I think you're barking up the wrong tree here. Even his strongest critics generally concede that he's a brilliant man who has contributed significantly to technology.

Please understand, I'm not a Kurzweil fan boy. I do think a lot of his conclusions are inevitable in the long term - say 100 years out - but I'd guess it's 50/50 whether or not his timelines are too optimistic to benefit any of us here personally.

What I'm reacting strongly to here is the knee-jerk dismissal of his credentials and accomplishments by some on HN due to their incredulity towards his later ideas. It doesn't encourage an informed debate, and quite frankly smacks of a religious or political argument - which admittedly many of his supporters are just as guilty of.
The criminal justice system for blue collar crime is very sad. It's the result of decades of "tough on crime" and the voters have nobody but themselves to blame for it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Werner_Herzog_Eats_His_Shoe
but facebook doesn't choose what photos get uploaded. They simply provide the platform for it and the content is up to the users. Most users take photos with camera phones, not DSLRs.
We need a solution to this. It comes up every time a ca misbehaves.

How hard would it be to allow a website to have multiple certs? If Turktrust's important customers had redundancy, we could pull less painfully.

Or for less rollout, could browsers acknowledge turktrust only as a root for .tr hosts? That would contain the damage, but probably not hit many legitimate customers.
We had a dog that would do this with some regularity. ER trips for dogs add up.
Given the change-averse nature that I notice a in many of my facebook friends - I think a design change this radical would cause people to absolutely freak out.

I actually like this design though, it reminds me a lot of Microsoft's new aesthetic.
"Faster than light" stories in relation to phase velocities.
I think the parent was criticizing the unfortunate naming of these discoveries (designed to capture the imagination of laymen) rather than the discoveries themselves.
I am planning to start using it in the coming days and I am glad to see such feedbacks
This is all very nice from a design point of view. But from a User Experience point of view, it's horrible. Each screen is totally different, there's absolutely no consistency between views.

I would like for things to go back to minimalist and simple. After all, the human brain can concentrate only on one thing at a time, so why show 20 different things on a page, when you could make the experience so much better with just what's essential for you in that very moment?

Facebook is a social network where you can view info about what your friends are doing. A good UX needs to do only that, and nothing more.
I purchased a FitBit based on it's reputation without realizing that I would have to pay to access the data that I'm collecting... deal breaker! As others have said, I understand charging for an ongoing service like analyzing the data and using their site, but not for just accessing the raw data from the device.

For me, this is the first time that not owning my own data has really put me off. I'll be returning my FitBit.
One dimension I think is missing from your analysis is time. How long will it take to get the payment to a recipient? If one vendor can get payments to recipients in 212 countries, but it takes two weeks, is that more valuable than a vendor that can get payments to recipients in 90 countries in 3 days?
Why is Flickstagram more successful in non-English languages?
Honestly, I've heard the majority of it before, and I have never been a Google employee. I have, however, listened to some of their talks on the internal workflows and processes that they've presented and posted on youtube.

I think the only things I didn't hear before were some of the specific toolnames.

edit: http://google-engtools.blogspot.com/ here's their engineering tools blog.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2qv3fcXW1mg and a talk

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b52aXZ2yi08 and another talk

Really cool stuff.
An explanation of the results would be very helpful. It works but I have no idea what its telling me. Why are some boxes orange and some black?
No to update the firmware you have to explicitly reboot the box (router).
I'm using the irccloud iPhone app for this exact usage right now. The difference is that irccloud itself is a single point of failure that i can't fix if it goes offline.
It's easier for publishers to produce multiple, smaller titles. Economies of scale apply to some extent. And they do! But mainly as part of a broad portfolio.

Valve are not typical developer/publishers. They are the gatekeeper, like Apple, Microsoft or Sony. Everything they do is to bring customers in to their walled garden. Their games have effectively infinite budget and can be seen as loss leaders.

Greenlight isn't amazingly helpful for small indies because it requires your game to hit a critical mass of popularity like kickstarter. Unlike kickstarter you need to have already developed the game and have it float about on greenlight for 6mnths+ before you see any return (after Valve's XX% cut of sales).
Windows 8 meets MySpace 2.0
Best commercials created with Blender in 2012
ActiveRecord was basically rewritten in Rails 3 due to the introduction of ActiveRelation. That could have introduced security issues that weren't there before.
It also looks like Google and a lot of other people can and should sue them. From the featured comment on Ars, it seems they are blocking everyone's news sites, except for his own.
Great idea! The js is a tad slow overall and takes a while to load. Maybe you can determine what to load on the serverside and then only load the first few on the client side.

I'd love something like /r/tldr but in semi-magazine form like this.

Post on reddit, you should get a lot of views from there.
Interesting that you can reproduce the bug by asking it to speak "filled with":

http://translate.google.com/#en/fr/filled%20with

Or something like this (closer to the original bug):

http://translate.google.com/#en/fr/patterned%20with
First, in general it is cheaper and quicker to file as actually using the trademark (1a). We've gotten trademarks with as little as a search page and a logo, literally, created with a cheap logo maker.

So if you file 1b (intent) that is fine but then you have to pay a fee and do another filing (iirc $100 more) when you finally use the trademark. And wait for approval. So if you can start to use it (in the class you have filed in) right away that is the cheaper route. Generally this is stuff that lawyers have little benefit in telling you since they get extra money for doing the extra work for you. And of course it is probably more ritualistically or legally correct. But if you are going to be lean you will have to cut corners and take some nominal chances. Important point.

Or operate the site that they see at something like

joeblow.mydomain.com instead of "www.mydomain.com". And give them that address.

Or simply give them screen shots actually even easier and say it's pw protected and only open to selected users.

There is stuff to know, not a big deal, but hard to summarize in a HN reply.

We got a trademark by putting up a site which literally was created by putting a logo on a customink.com shirt, screen grabbing, submit that to the trademark office and say that was the product. This is not a patent. It's a trademark for a logo or for words, right? All you have to do is show you are using it. In general.
I'm given broad flexibility for web development work, as I know what needs to be done and how to go about it. Self-discipline is necessary, as is clear and regular communication. I do have a workspace to go to, which I do most days. As has already been mentioned, the discipline includes when to start working, when to take breaks, and when to stop for the day.
I ran fifteen design workshops in 2010, so feel free to ping me off HN if you have questions or need support. The HID protocol used by the USB version of the Neurosky Mindwave EEG headset is also undocumented AFAIK, and I could test drive your training using that.

You might also consider trying out Zed Shaw's "Learn X the Hard Way" format as a framework, which he recently formally published: https://gitorious.org/learn-x-the-hard-way/learn-x-the-hard-...
Popular Domain Redirects as a Marketing Tactic for a Bootstrapped Startup
The story of Nokia's MeeGo
This shit is pretty awesome. Good stuff.
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The BORING Highschool Science Fair NEEDS an UPDATE
Everyone submit projects that they don't give a sh*t about. All these projects are meant for 60 year olds to adore and need the intelligence of a toddler to create.

But this year, my group and I have decided to give the BORING science fair a much needed technological update. We want to create a computer program that analyzes text and can tell you the author of the text without matching it to another source but by identifying patterns such certain words and frequecy of words.

So we would like to ask the help of the programming community of Hacker News, as we only have learned the basics in Javascript.

Instead of just moving on to another submission, take action and give back to the community that has supported you for so long.

Thank You,
-A
My preference would be that my ISP not interfere with my traffic without my consent. It baffles me to find any other opinion expressed here.
Or being pro or anti-free websites. There aren't that many websites that offer their services completely free, if any.
Has this been fixed? I've not been able to reproduce this.
"But why bother? Why bother spending any money or thought on pen and paper? Because, I’ve found that having a pen and paper that you enjoy actually makes you use them both a lot more."

I found that about instantly after I bought a Moleskine reporter notebook. If I enjoyed using it, then any use case I'd delegate to something inferior (i.e. quick note taking on paper versus a smartphone or tablet) suddenly transitioned quite easily to pen & paper. I don't have any special pen, and I rock the pilot G2 Peter says he's switched from, but the notebook quality balances it out fairly well in my experience.
You tend to lose things you don't care about far more often than things you do care about.

I've had a lovely mont-blanc fountain pen for some time now, in my shirt pocket every day. There's a real effect on how much I write with it, and how much that helps me get my thoughts together, versus a regular ballpoint.
>> However at Google it was noticeable that designs aren’t really taken seriously. Which explains things like android’s less-than-beautiful UI, and google’s generally noticeable lack of focus on design.

This is something I have a hard time wrapping my head around. I am not a designer, and wouldn't even consider myself particularly good at it. However, there is no shortage of evidence to support the value and importance of good design. Therefore, I don't understand why any company or team culture would marginalize it.

Can anyone comment on the extent of this culture at Google or elsewhere? Specifically, why it exists and how it's propagated.
TIL: fuzzy search turns up unexpected results that are sometimes amusing.
I just tested this on my Nexus 4 and it reproduced. I guess I now praise the iPad.
Yes, after I wrote that it hit me: font hinting would qualify as automatic pixel fitting.

I was thinking about something more elaborate, like an algorithm that takes distances between neighboring elements, proportions and other factors into account (and which can be tuned to include/exclude factors).

An example "smart" rule would be: If a group of elements are aligned, the same size and the same distance, they must remain aligned, the same size and the same distance after the processing

Ideally it would be a plugin for a vector graphics application which could then allow the designer to add finishing touches to the places where the algorithm got it wrong.
They're gateway drugs to other fountain pens :-) I had a lamy fountain pen, tried with noodler's ink, and eventually gave up on the fiddliness of it. It was always dry.
TL;DR: OP finally bought an expensive pen on Kickstarter; they like it.
I was able to reproduce this in Google Translate (as the bug pointed out).
It hasn't, change the resulting language to English and you'll see the issue is still occuring.
While OP is wrong about this specific implementation, is there anything stopping someone from modifying it to make you an exit node?

While the authors clearly have good intentions, the basic idea of my browser relaying traffic transparently that I am not aware of is indeed disturbing.
You are correct. Berkshire Hathaway would benefit, not him personally. The tax credits are a big reason these things get built. There is a 30% solar tax credit that can be passed through to owners against other income.

http://www.dsireusa.org/incentives/incentive.cfm?Incentive_C...

The reason this may not be a tax play for him is that ConEdison or SunPower may have already stripped the tax credits from the project and sold them independently. This means there may only be a long term investment vehicle that insurance-type companies like to hold. But someone benefited from the tax credits and I wouldn't be surprised if they were part of the deal.
Google analytics is also blocked, it's not just ads.
HN - Do my science fair project for me. Give back

Thank You, -A
Here's some soccer data, doesn't include play-by-play though (soccer generally isn't suited to that kind of breakdown, although Opta Sports do track it).

http://www.football-data.co.uk/downloadm.php

Tons of European leagues, going back to 1993 in some cases.

Here's some sites that give detailed stats and match reports:

http://www.eplindex.com/

http://www.whoscored.com/

http://www.soccerstats.com/

http://www.soccerway.com/

http://www.squawka.com/

Man City use their petro-dollars to open up Opta Sports (detailed match stats) to all: http://www.mcfc.co.uk/the-club/mcfc-analytics

Someone needs to compile stats equivalent to these NFL ones for european football! Hmmmm...
Since when does intelligence = human intelligence ?

You would think an intelligent person would know this.
It is fairly common for routers to be backdoored like this. Best get your own... or disable it if you feel like it (the O2 one has a telnet interface with available password that can control stuff not on the web interface).
gotta agree here, I had the same reaction as probably every one else and instantly assumed it was using Adobe Flash before I read more.
Content wasn't really top of the list of priorities, it seems, which I think is a bit of a mistake if you're trying to 're-design' something driven entirely by content.

This reminds me of all of the times where I enountered disappointment that the actual functional implementation "didn't look as good" as the flat mockups because the actual content had sections of varying sizes.

Content in the real world? It's messy and uneven. If you can't design for that, you're doing more harm than good.
Actually, when the project started they used Flash to set up connections. I guess the name stuck on. :-)
It doesn't just look like Metro, to me. It looks like Encarta circa 2000. Not necessarily a bad thing at all. The aesthetics just really remind me of turn of the century Microsoft software.
So, according to you, when Google employee writes a blog post on official Google blog (i.e. as an agent of private enterprise), this post is not covered by first amendment?

If New York Times publishes an article written by his employee, it is not covered by first amendment?

etc. etc.
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http://lorempixel.com/
So, how does this design look when you put the "average" person's photos into the slots provided...
Jason Calacanis is right about one thing
Ask HN: Does anyone make a lot of animated gifs?
How do you make them? Would love to chat with you.
Moat = High Switching Barriers or Switching Costs.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Switching_barriers
Good points. In the USA (where I reside) buying mailing lists is legal, and common industry practice.
I still say that bulk cold emailing is not neccesarily spam. It all depends on the value you are providing people.
All of my fancy pens wind up coming out of the box when I figure I should do more than just polish them. They're all lost within a week.

I've probably managed to lose hundreds of dollars in pens, but I've also never bought myself a pen more expensive than a G2... they're always gifts.
For those familiar with Linux development, the whole article could basically be summed up with: "Nouveau can now generate firmware for all GeForce GPUs on the market, including Fermi and Kepler SKUs". Yay! This is good progress, but not really earth-shattering; it would have been expected.
Aha, I didn't know that! Thanks for the info and apologies for the incorrect assumption.

A mobile app would be even cooler actually.

It's just I only have 3G in a lot of situations; I can only afford a meagre amount of bandwidth and the tedium of uploading to multiple places can be very, very annoying.

When I am behind a computer, I will be sure to check this out because if it's really simple, I could probably find good use there too :)
I don't think Microsoft is completely to blame here, but I could be wrong.

One of the benefits Apple has is complete control over the hardware and software and the interfaces between the two.

Microsoft attempts to cover many more types of hardware where they don't have complete control of what devices their software is loaded onto.

It is the responsibility of hardware vendors to test their products and communicate with Microsoft about these issues.

Not to say this isn't a Microsoft problem. I think it is, in that consumers just want something that works, and I think Microsoft needs to be taking the initiative here and working closer with the manufacturers making sure the hardware works better.

I have no idea what their internal system is for this.
Does Google still allow translation suggestions & help? Sounds like a cleverly executed prank that resulted in the database getting bad information added.

I'd cite a page number but I don't have the novel on me. I seem to recall I'm Feeling Lucky mentioning that in Google's infancy, the user translation project left curse words on an alternate language version of Google's homepage for a short time, which led to the abandonment of user translated material for important Google properties.

Edit: Mystery solved on the Reddit comments, it comes from http://fr.zicos.com/mac/i26331784-Hearst-magazine-CEO-offers.... More info seems to reveal that "so much drama he now praises the iPad" will be spoken if "filled with" is used on Translate.
But in this case, it seems to be correct. So, we, laymen, should update our concepts and throw away the idea that "0° is the lowest temperature."
What kind of hosting infrastructure was involved?

You're only looking at part of the picture, I think. It's not just a matter of asking, "will the site hold up?", but rather it's one of "will the site hold up, given an economically-feasible amount of resources?"

Throwing a lot of resources at a Ruby on Rails site for one day of heavy traffic is one thing. Having to do that for years on end just to maintain a reasonable level of service in the face of growth is a very different thing, and far closer to the reality that we have to deal with.
Sure let's filter also porn by default, and anything that could be offending, or that might look like copyright infringement.

I think there are legitimate questions: at which point would it become not acceptable for you? who decides what is blocked? should it be enabled by default?

Also if the ISP is in the business of "editorializing" what the user sees, maybe it becomes actually responsible for the content (no safe harbor). That also seems like a dangerous game for them.
How to reverse Order of list using JavaScript and HTML
Thank you. Someone smart enough to understand the point.
This looks ultra amazing.
Adding New Record to Database - Introduction to jQuery UI - Part 27
I don't agree that Rent Capture is the correct terminology, because Buffett isn't using political or social engineering (so to speak), in order to capture the market.

He is simply finding companies with very high switching barriers that have occurred naturally in the market.

We usually associate "Rent Capture" with activities like limiting the amount of taxi licenses in a given city which helps incumbents but drives out competitors.
> That's hardly the same thing - you have to actually
> run/install something on the Android device itself.

I was scratching my head trying to figure out where the impedance mismatch was between our two comments... first, you're obviously talking about man-in-the-middle attacks on untouched devices in the wild. Second, your original statement that I was quoting was about intercepting Google apps that contact *.google.com, which I was pointing out that you can do anyway in a controlled environment. I thought you were surprised about the latter in the context of app security, otherwise why would you mention those apps specifically instead of the entirety of all traffic you can intercept etc.
On Google Now
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JW-79Rs7ORo&feature=youtu...

From:

http://www.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/11jr75/need_some_bo...
If anyone wants to learn more about how this stuff works (and why does Buffett does these types of deals), then read the book Security Analysis by Benjamin Graham.
I just uploaded a version with some crap instead [1], and it still works fine. These Metro styled tiles looks great whatever content you put in, the problem is the space wasted to achieve this look.

http://imgur.com/H9Tri
Facebook I think not Google http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/07/29/facebook_translation...
Is this official and endorsed by FB? Or is it just an artist's mock up?
So on a somewhat random note, I wonder when it will become true that this sort of thing will ensure the design never gets used. My reasoning here is based on watching the evolution of the entertainment industry, and industry lawyers.

So it used to be someone could say "Wow, wouldn't it be funny if Gillgan had a secret crush on Mary Anne and the skipper found out and used it against him?" and some writer for the show might say "Yeah, that would be funny, and maybe include a variation of that in the show."

Except there came a time where the show would air, that "someone" would show up, lawyers in tow, and demand compensation for using their idea. Which, after some pretty amazing litigation, the studios paid, and which resulted in pretty much any idea that was ever shared with a writer, or person associated with any show, was put on the list of 'things we can never do for fear of being sued.'

I'm surprised we haven't seen more of this already frankly.