skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ah so that is my problem - I got an 'IdeaPad' or some such.

still puts me off the brand though, the should use a different brand for their cheap stuff, not a different series. customers (like me) will lose their brand loyalty.. .
"Application Offline for Maintenance" at 3:40 PM PST.

Edit 1: And at 3:41 PM its up. Spoke too soon.

Edit 2: And its back to a screeching halt at 3:42 PM.

Edit 3: Ups and downs. Works for 1-2 minutes and then breaks. 4:15 pm. I still haven't managed to read a whole lesson. Its a slow day so I'll check again in half an hour.
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This article is a welcome reminder that I've been intending to do this. Somehow, I usually remember all the things I want to do around 2am and then forget them again by the morning. It would be nice to have a more frequent reminder. And I love using Google docs for things like this. Things to do, places I want to go, etc.
The name gave me a bit of pause.
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That's great! I like that you guys are offering a small free usage tier!
If 3X the netbook price is not much then what's much? Why pay a magnitude more for a good laptop if you can get ten netbooks for that price? I mean, TEN damn things.

Depends on what do you consider serious. If you want to watch a movie in the airport, edit some text on the go or take some casual game break - the netbook is ideal. They work as advertised. And you're funny :)

For the heavyweight tasks I still prefer desktop. Built according to a spec I assembled.
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Oh this is cool! As a programmer and ex-musician, this definitely gets the wheels turning in my head. Thanks for sharing!
This is very clever. The autoscrolling feature is strongly reminiscent of reading text from dial-up bulletin board systems at low baud rates (300-2400).
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Underscore.js has a function called once for this exact purpose.
The other odd thing about this particular case is that the book's topic seems to include this sort of scenario. Maybe people did read the book with the intention of writing a review, and started wondering if this was some sort of twisted test. E.g. "If I read the book, and follow through with the agreement, will I be tallied among a group of weak individuals?" It seems that if you want to be able to draw conclusions about a social experiment like this, don't screw up the results by introducing a variable (the contents of the book itself) that could alter the results.
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That's an inventive take on the owners demanding the players give up 15% of their profit stake on top of 10-35% cuts to salaries, contract rights, health benefits, and licensing rights.

The owners started with a ridiculous offer and maintained the same ridiculous offer through the negotiations. In the end, the players union was forced to fold because the players did not have the same financial resources as the owners did to weather a lost season. The players union was negotiating against itself the entire time; the owners got everything they wanted.

Donald Fehr's strategy all along was to drag his feet for as long as possible to not only get the best deal for the NHLPA but to, more importantly, frustrate the NHL and show them that a lockout is not an easy button for labor disputes.

If that was his goal, he failed, miserably. It also ignores the previous two NHL lockouts, which did not turn out so badly for the players union.
Does "amount of pirating" refer to the number of individuals downloading? The number of torrent files? The number of kilobytes downloaded in aggregate?

Last I checked, all the copyright lobby and their lawyers are interested in measuring are the number of infractions (as a proxy for a completely fictitious number of "lost" sales).

A single Beatles anthology torrent (like this one—http://thepiratebay.se/torrent/6061246/The_Beatles_-_The_Com... —with nearly 1000 currently active seeds) contains a wealth of useful material for adapters, remixers, mashup artists, and other curators/authors of potentially transformative works, an untold amount of potential inspiration for creators of all stripes, and ~400 potential infractions waiting for whoever has the misfortune of being caught accessing it.

Compare this to one infraction for downloading a copy of Skyfall.

Furthermore:

>While I don't have the numbers to hand, I'm willing to assert that the amount of pirating of Elvis, The Beatles, etc is tiny relative to the pirating of Sky Fall, The Hobbit, Gangnam Style, Call Me Maybe, Games Of Thrones, etc.

I'm willing to assert—with just as much evidence—that you don't have the aforementioned numbers "to hand" because they don't exist.
Tokyo is certainly more dense than SV for the most part, but it isn't really fantastically dense. It's very large, and has locations ranging from dense urban centers to mountains, but for the most part is rather less dense than you might think based on its reputation. E.g. a lot of Tokyo housing stock is 1-2 story single-family dwellings (high-rise dwellings were pretty rare until fairly recently, in part due to the earthquake risk).

It has absolutely fantastic public transit everywhere, even outside the denser urban cores.

AFAICT, this comes from the way the city is structured: dwellings and businesses tend to cluster around rail lines and stations, increasing their efficiency, which makes it easier to support a large number of rail lines (rail transit is a profitable business in Tokyo), and that in turn increases the effectiveness of the network (the well-known "network effect"). Even though most rail transit is private and run by a huge number of different companies, they well-recognize the importance of the network effect, and so tend to cooperate, trying to make transfers easy and liberally using interlining.

There are also well-developed secondary transit networks (bus and bicycling) that increase the effective coverage of the rail lines.
For a lot of RDBMS, transaction semantics can be later with different transaction isolation levels. There levels like repeatable read which work in this way, but the default level is usually weaker.
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> But where is the value to the patient? Does it help to have Patient A’s cholesterol information in the same database table when treating Patient B? No.

This is incorrect. Phil might have experience from the DB side, but apparently not sufficent experience from the patient side.

One example where it has major value for the patient: While contemplating a heart valve replacement at age 71, a recent patient had many conflating factors (diabetes etc). What is the previous history of people with the same conflating factors surviving? How about surviving but only with a ventilator?

Only after considering the DB of about 100K entries did the patient decide on the valve replacement. (I'm happy to report she came through with flying colors.)
Define party. Political party? Social Gathering?
This is a classic argument from ignorance:

"Fundamentally there is not as much value to be obtained by having the ability to do a structured query into multiple patients’ data. Nor is there much value in being able to do a structured query into a single patient’s data."

ie: I can't imagine anyway to do these queries that derives value, so fundamentally there is no value.

I'm far removed from the healthcare industry, but I'm absolutely positive there are correlations hidden in those files. How would you ever spot commonalities between similar patients' histories without structured records?
How does this computer right here not consist of a whole lof of linear sequenceS?(notice the plural btw? and the fact that "linear" does say nothing about "serial" vs "parallel", either?) How is data not arrayed linearly? Please elaborate, "because I said so" is not enough.
Tell that to New Zealand then, we're in the process of doing (what appears like a bit of a mess of) a fibre rollout here. All the plans are 30/10 with the "premium ones" being 100/50.
It's not just China. In many places in the world you have a choice of a variety of ISPs to subscribe to. Including where I live - it's not required or mandated but still taken for granted.
Did a few tests and it works pretty well! No false positives at least.

Any plans to increase the number of objects you can search for at once? Very interested in using this but I'd want to be able to scan for ~20 objects.
Hey - I found a bug - no cat was detected here:
http://i.imgur.com/wGxWy.jpg
I can't scroll whatever magical way he intends in Firefox for some reason. I want the world to scroll AT ALL please.
great idea, I really like this site! I found a little glitch, it happens when image is too high. Here is a screenshot: http://i.imgur.com/IzhRF.jpg
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All of the various telecom companies are state owned. So I guess there is net neutrality in the sense that you can expect the same level of censorship on each state owned ISP which is really the same ISP.

Yeah, China is really showing America how net neutrality should be done...

In reality there is just one more official to bribe to build a house.
Can you give me bit more technical background. Tell me how this is better than for eg. out of the box openCV filters.
Another solution would be to have e.g. a "Completions" table indexed on user and on date. Then the RDBMS wouldn't allow duplicate goal completions for the same user and day. If you wanted to allow up to X completions/day, just add a new column to track that, and limit that column to the range [0, X). I often find that updating rows in response to transactions is a code smell. Each transaction should write one or more rows to one or more tables. Of course, if you have denormalized summary tables, they might have to update, but you only do that when you know you have to.
I'm guessing it's a netbook issue from some of the comments?
Just turn off the auto update for the blacklist (IIRC, it's in the Security prefpane). "Problem" solved?
European club soccer is much closer to this model and it both creates really strong competition at the top end and a large spread between the top and bottom teams in a league. It is also very difficult to move from the bottom to the top without a huge amount of outside revenue.

No, it doesn't. The disparity in athlete talent and revenues between teams which make the Champions League and those which don't is greater than the disparity between say, the NFL and high school football. For the past decade, the winning teams of the Champions League and its feeder legs have all been one of the top 3 highest-spending teams in their respective leagues. There's simply no contest between, say, Manchester United and some random Irish club. In contrast, most of the professional American leagues reduce the talent disparity enough that either team could realistically win a match.
It depends what you mean by unnecessarily. Public policy has multiple goals and stakeholders. If your policy priority is high bandwidth to large portions of the educated population for the long term economic benefits - and if you feel that this dramatically increases your global economic competitiveness, thereby increasing income and living standards for all, then you probably don't consider the small marginal additional cost per unit as unnecessary.
Its all in good humor, but it shows that I've been involved in product development/marketing for a while. I'm particularly proud of the "my wife and I are going on vacation" answer, because I was actually asked that one in real life by a friend. I replied the same way. His response was to laugh histerically. :)
Put it all into a tube along the top or bottom of the device. Also helps store the paper--just roll it up around the tube.
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As somebody who's trying to build a startup in this space, I'm not surprised.

The root problem I see is that emphasizing "records" is completely backward. Making health records electronic is about 5% of the real work.

The real value is all in building systems for effective collaboration and operational excellence. Records are almost a byproduct.

My pilot customers have measurable money savings. And my product isn't even a "full-fledged electronic health record", because that's rather beside the point for my customers. Their problem isn't fundamentally about records, it's about coordination between pharmacists, nurses, health aides, and administrators.
great find! Wish they would go in more detail or contained a bit of source. However, I can understand why they would not open source etc to prevent plagiarism, bit of a shame though.
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Ask HN: Critique my new app's splash page?
http://subvertapps.com/Tulip

I'm putting the finishing touches on a new painting app for iOS (and probably ported to Android soon) and am about ready to start pushing this out, but I want some people with experience to critique it. Basically, what will drive conversions? I'm going to tweak it when it launches to have that necessary info as well. I've used Bootstrap because I'm not too fluent in web standards/design any more.

What're your thoughts?
Put it in an educational or artsy context, claim fair use ... it's just a quote, live a little! :P
Consider how long the Beatles have been that high, and how long Gangnam Style has been that high. And then of course perform the standard RIAA multiplication by number of song files in each.
Site took a long time to load, but when it did, I gladly signed up. Got my first email already.

Really looking forward to this, thanks.

* Edit, It appears that the video "Objectified" (Or at least the preview) is not available to rent from YouTube in Canada.
"The uploader has not made this video available in your country." :(

I don't have time to try renting it right now, but I'll test it this weekend. Perhaps only the trailer is unavailable. Can anyone test/confirm?
I own a T530 and couldn't be happier, and I say that coming from a MacBook Pro. However two things you have to consider if you buy a Lenovo:

1. Get a Thinkpad, preferably a T series, non-Thinkpad Lenovos are crap, based on personal experience.

2. Expect to do a full reinstall of your system. It comes over bloated with the worst crapware available, to the point that it makes it unusable. Mine couldn't perform Windows updates and Chrome crashed constantly, all of this out of the box. But the mayor offense was including Norton bloatware, that I couldn't just tolerate.
Works well! Found a few it didn't work on. For example, it didn't detect an airplane in this image (but it's a fighter jet, so maybe not part of the training set): http://cdn-www.airliners.net/aviation-photos/photos/2/8/0/20...
I might be trivializing this but you could create a view "ActiveUsers" / "DeletedUsers". Not saying this make the IsDeleted flag perfect, but it would alleviate that particular problem, IMO.
It didn't detect face here:
http://i.imgur.com/c34dX.jpg
The algorithm probably got distracted and raised an exception.
Super slow to load the page and just got an application error.

Looks nice, hopefully I'll get on and learn a thing or two :)
An interesting feature of go I wasn't aware of is build constraints, e.g.:

// +build !windows
"this guy wouldn't be any fun to work with".

But I always show up for the weekly lets sing happy birthday to those who had their birthday this week. And sometimes I'm the one who brings the cake. That's the definition of fun[1].

[1] In corporate America.
Very interesting application though, but I couldn't realize real life usage via web api. As my knowledge those kind of stuff is for realtime applications and with web based approach it might not serve the purpose.

BTW, it can find only two airplanes in this photo
http://www.q8.com/SiteCollectionImages/Gatwick%20Airport.jpg
Should be really exciting to see what they end up doing at Groupon.
I can't seem to be able to change my password. Is that not implemented yet or am I not looking in the right place?

Great idea by the way. Looking forwards to the lessons.
Does anyone understand the usage of the term "copper" or "copperlists" as referenced in the attached articles?
Sometimes. As long as it's sufficiently interesting.
Very nice. Would y'all consider offering some embeddable solution that does not need to be ran on the net.
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Oh! Broken on Chrome for Android. The page turn button is supplemental to actual scrolling.
Not implemented yet. You'll have that functionality once we launch.
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VCs that funded True&Co. just say that the founder is a friend when asked why they invested. Nothing more. If it had a compelling business model, they would say that. They didn't. In fact, no one even have would ask. Being a friend wouldn't matter. Clear #VCCronyFunding. It's sad.
Many DBMS have a SELECT FOR UPDATE statement just for those cases you want to lock everybody out while just reading.
It is seductively powerful being a dictatorship. You can do things like this. Its not all its cracked up to be living with it though.
Ha exactly what my startup has built! I guess the playing field just got interesting!
So many pretty things! I'm a huge fan of seeing what people can do with HTML5.
The insight and creativity with which you discuss the concepts brought up in the article greatly raises the HN level of discourse.
Media hyperbole? A lot of tech blogs pander to VCs.
Ask HN: Can use the #1 supercomputer for any project I want. What should it be?
I'm taking a very interesting class this semester called Computational Physics. The goal in the course is to select a research project that requires the use of parallel computing. We can use our university cluster or, because of the close association of the university with Oak Ridge National Labs, we have the opportunity to use the world's fastest supercomputer, Titan (17-27 pFLOPS). The usage of the entire machine at once is reserved for very special projects, but I'm sure I'll still be able to use a large number of nodes because projects that can be done on smaller supercomputers aren't allowed on Titan.

The professor recommended choosing something that relates to published research in physics or our own research field (mine is chemical engineering -> molecular dynamics). This freedom to choose whatever is really exciting, and I've got some interesting ideas, but I imagine there a lot of experts in their field who post on HN, and so someone may have a good idea for a new and exciting project.

My initial idea is to contribute to the effort of porting Quantum Monte Carlo code to GPUs. Titan's processing power is unique among supercomputers in that most of it comes entirely from nVidia Tesla K20X GPUs. QMC is among the most accurate methods that exist in predicting physical phenomena; the problem is that the methods are incredibly computationally demanding, something which highly parallelized GPUs are well-suited to handling. But I don't know. Maybe that's too much to do in a semester.
You have a fantastic app and I use it daily. I would like the ability to email a link to the HN comments page. Right now I'll email myself the external page if I find it interesting but there are sometimes I'd like to receive the HN page. Being able to bookmark or save a HN page would be useful too.
Or company name. :)
Disney are only willing to pay an appropriately large amount of money to keep their IP if they believe the public are actually willing to pay them significantly more because they have that IP.

It's not such a big deal applied to films; the amount in the government coffers is swollen by less than the extra Disney fans have voluntarily spent on old films, but no great loss is suffered by those who aren't willing or able to pay Disney's asking price. But establishing a principle that corporations should be able to retrospectively extend the fixed-term of their IP for cash would be particularly dangerous when it comes to things like patents...
If you care to disclose, are you at Vanderbilt? I ask because this is one of the few places (known to me) to have such a large, query-able database and I am curious to learn about others.
Electronic medical records don't save money... yet.

Mr Greenspun left of the trailing "yet" from the title.
Very cool stuff. Trying to figure out how various classic (mostly Sega Genesis, in my case) games pulled off their graphical effects was endlessly entertaining as a teenager. It's a shame that the art of cycle-accurate raster techniques had to die, but it's probably for the best that it no longer takes a savant to make games with rotating sprites ;)

Here's a relevant explanation of some of the techniques that classic "pseudo-3D" racers used:

http://www.extentofthejam.com/pseudo/

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5045756
this is a surefire way to not get used to it.
Not everything - "data" does not trump philosophy. That we ought to go by the facts (i.e. data) and that we are capable of discovering the facts are examples of philosophical ideas.
Yes, but optimistic locking with a version is the general and known solution to this problem in all cases and is built into the framework already. Your solution works in just one case, not the general case.
Check out this wonderful read in a similar tho more interesting vein: "What the bagel man saw", the economic and psychological takeaways of a former economist turned honor-system-based bagel salesman http://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/06/magazine/06BAGEL.html?page...
The copper was a video-sequencing co-processor that lived as part of the Agnus chip. A copperlist is a sequence of copper instructions that would execute in parallel with the main processor. Please see:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Original_Chip_Set
As a long time CV enthusiast, I applaude the tech and the way you guys make it "just work". However for any serious application I feel a few things are missing:

- your pricing won't work for video (even at only 5fps)

- I can't really use the data without a confidence level of detection. Because for some applications I'd rather discard a bouding box that is below a threshold I set.

Other than that, congrats for the great work :)
> potential evidence

That's the most forceful language you can really use in this situation.
How does gstreamer compare?

http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/
For the 1st lesson I don't have Netflix and the youtube playlist is not available in my country (Brazil) :(
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I work in a related part of the industry. Care to chat?

Email's in my profile.
Yeah, "fun to work with" probably needs to be careful defined, but the word "work" is the most important part.

It definitely doesn't mean "fun only during non-work bullshit".
It detects a false positive in this picture for "full-body person": http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8232/8366217251_972624d84b_b.j...

The man is detected, but also a shape above the umbrella.

Edit: direct link the the result picture: https://s3.amazonaws.com/dextro_detection_results/debug13579...
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General thought is the play on "money" / "Monet" is clever, but i think given that the page isnt in itself very descriptive (until you scroll) the page doesnt do a good job of saying what the app is, and initially i had considered if the pun was a typo.

The mobile version of the page is very similar, although slightly optimized below the scroll, in general it has the same problem for me.
This reminds of the Phase Locked Loop/VCO setup you find in synthesized radio's but not. I wonder what impact the accuracy of their laser source has on the accuracy of the clock ...

Anyone have a reasonably simplistic explanation of how the laser 'kicks' would impact Compton cycles? I. E. what aspects of the laser affect Compton cycles?
How about Vimeo? http://vimeo.com/12793996
The location was Yale-New Haven.

To be clear: It wasn't me running queries, I was hearing about this second hand.