skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I want a seamless experience from laptop to tablet to phone so in that sense, I like it. I don't want lots of different user interfaces and different setups. It would be great if my laptops file system was laid out like my phones. I can never find stuff on my phone!

This is why I think ultimately Microsoft will do well in the phone market.
Pinterest for Facebook, basically. I'm not a fan.
By god, it's like timeline^2 !
Kurzweil did a lot of good work on AI a while back; he came by his fame legitimately, as an engineer and startup founder. If he had then kept his mouth shut about his predictions for the future, nobody would find his hiring at Google particularly surprising.

(Don't believe me? Google it.)
Very nice! I'll echo thoughts of some one else here who said you'd be representing it right if you added "in seconds" to your tagline.
Show HN: Tuple Markup Language – An all-purpose (Lisp-inspired) markup language
Less memory? I don't know about that. There are some Google Book PDF scans of early 20th-century magazines that are close to 1GB in size. It's been my experience that even a good tablet doesn't keep more than 3-5 of these scanned PDF pages all rendered and ready to read if you want to switch back and forth between a bunch of pages.
> If you just hook up its outputs to a web server, it's going to take a mighty impressive AI to destroy the world.

All it would take is for the AI to just be smarter than you. Human psychology is hackable too. Cf. AI box experiment.
Temperature is conventionally defined as the average kinetic energy of a collection of particles.

More precisely, temperature is related to average energy per degree of freedom via the equipartition theorem.

This doesn't only break down in case of negative temperatures, but also if continuity is no longer a good approximation for quantized energy levels. See http://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/33750/is-temperat...
The entertainment industry (music, games and movies) still does 2/3rds of it's business from physical media so I'd say it will be okay in the shortterm future.
Users will not understand that TURKTRUST did something wrong. They just see that Chrome is broken. More abstractly, one of the problems of the CA system is, that no one has any incentive to do the right thing. CAs will try to
hide a breach in the chain of trust, since discovering the coverup is no worse for them than discovering the original breach. And blacklisting a CA in a browser will degrade the user experience, so browser vendors are reluctant to do so.
I'm not one for the usual HN cynicism, but I have to agree. DHH is much smarter than these trite truisms. This would be an impressive article for an 18-year-old upstart, not someone who's ostensibly a thought leader in programming.
Dark Chocolate and Connected-Devices (Node.js, Arduino, Responsive, and NoSQL)
yeah, I feel your pain. want to work together on this? I'm jrgifford on github and twitter, hit me up.
So here's the problem: average users hardly change default settings.

On a side note, I understand the economics of ads. But lately they have become increasingly annoying, and most of the time they're badly targeted. Fix that and I'll stop blocking them.
No. The problem is that for historical reasons we choose the wrong scale and it's a little late to change all the books.

We choose to measure the temperature in this way

(infinityK) ... ->- 10K ->- 1K ->- .1K ->- ... | 0K(impossible) | ... ->-.1K ->- -1K ->- -10K ->- ... (infinityK)

Where ->- means hotter

In this scale 0K is impossible and impassable. But infinityK is possible (only one unsigned infinity) and some kind of systems when they get hotter they can pass from very "big" positive temperatures to very "big" negative temparatures.

And the negative values are hotter than the positive. For example: -.1 is hotter than -10K that is hotter than 10K that is hotter than .1K

It's (theoretically) better to measure beta=1/temperature (the usual notation is beta) In this way:

(infinity/K) ... -<- 10/K -<- 1/K -<- .1/K -<- ... 0/K(possible) ... -<-.1/K -<- -1K -<- -10K -<- ... (infinityK)

Where -<- means hotter

In this scale infinity/K is impossible as expected. But 0/K is possible. And the order is the correct order hotter=less_than. Using beta they are ordered more intuitively. Hotter means moving to the right in the line.
Excellent info! Thanks.
> a revisionist source control system

This is now my new favorite phrase.
Agreed, we will always need teachers in some form. Also governments have so much invested in teachers that it will be a long process before the category is eroded.
Is gorgeous the new beautiful?
No designer worth his salt would object to a method such as that, as long as it produced good results.
Response: Education is the Work of Teachers, not Hackers
Facebook purchasing your copy of kaliblack Home Premium 8?
The problem is that an ISP is altering legitimate content that it's supposed to serve to their customer by contract, that they took this decision unilaterally without suggesting a change in the contract, that the feature is opt-out, that this unilateral decision will reduce by ~10% the global revenue that companies can make from advertising to French internet users in 2013.

This is not a matter of being pro or anti adblocking, but rather about realizing how far the consequences of a default value can reach.
Yeah, I agree that if this spreads, then its a real problem for web sites, however, many sites have gone too far and annoyed users to the point where they will not care for the concerns of web sites.

I assume that this sort of thing is a for-runner to general opt-in censorship, like parental controls. Now, we in the UK avoided mandatory opt out porn filters. Meaning that if I didn't want it, I had to essentially declare my self an internet pervert to my ISP. Well, as a parent, I would welcome some controls. If I could have this function on my router, on a per machine basis, that should cover all concerns. Odd to me that the French started with ad blocking and not porn blocking.
This Is Your Brain on MDMA
There was an issue filed for this. One simple fix would be to have Vigil delete your .git directory when a transgression occurs.
Thank you windows 8 for "inspiring" a whole generation of designers to rip you off.

In all seriousness, I've seen this same style concept for more then a few redesigns as of late. I fear for the design industry sometimes. I guess it's better then rounded corners, reflections and drop shadows though.
This is awesome! So far from useless, I'd like to see the most recent or most popular on the home page though
I did say "... unless he cleared it with some Google authority, which I doubt he has."

So what are you specifically objecting? My saying that I doubt he cleared it with Google? I'm entitled to my doubts, thank you :-)
If so, it looks like he's decided to go implementing again. Have you heard that he got hired at Google to do AI development work? I think it was mentioned on Hacker News at some point.
Me too.

Came here to say it won't look as pretty when you replace all those photos with random images taken by random people from their phones but the parent beat me to it.
It's a combination of growl/SMS/email. The terminology has stuck around (and I know doctors still use actual pagers for their reliability).

And given our issues lately with our phone carrier silently blocking our messages as spam, the thought of going back to an old school pager for reliability is still there.
The part about not really deleting your account is actually a good thing.

I've bought dozens of audiobooks over the past year or so. Audible is promising that even after I stop "subscribing" that I'll still be able to download and listen to the books I previously bought.

This is as good as it gets with DRM. I freely admit isn't saying much and I do plan to backup my audiobook collection via http://www.opentutorial.com/Convert_audible_aa_files_to_mp3
When a huge percentage of your supposed new design is covered with stock photos of pretty people, it makes it extremely hard to judge objectively. On the other hand, that is a great sales tactic.

I always felt it is kind of wrong for designers to use stock photos that represent best-case uses instead of typical-case photos. Best case photos show models smiling. The typical-case pictures are poorly taken photos or random gifs or someone not very photogenenic.
As Keynes famously observed "Newton was not the first of the age of reason. He was the last of the magicians". One can argue that Newton was "pre-Newtonian"!

Keynes' essay on Newton is an interesting read: http://www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/Extras/Keynes_Newton.htm...
Does It Pay to Become an Entrepreneur?
sorry to be off topic, but the article used this word 'breathless.' I've noticed this word constantly appearing since about 18 months ago. Prior to that, I don't think I encountered it much except in reference to The Corrs' pop hit Breathless (which drew heavily on an 80s Belinda Carlisle track). Am I the only one puzzled by its sudden surgence?

Sidenote: weird how 'surgence' isn't a word in the dictionary
Having white on black and black on white next to each other makes it hard to transition. Hiding nav mobile-style on a desktop is an extra click for no reason.

There's a lot of work into how it looks, but very little into how it will actually work.
How early is too-early to file and receive a trademark? Is a landing-page with a "coming soon" message sufficient, or do you need to have active customers / users to get an approval?
For years, before Behance redesigned their layout (which I think was sometime last year), the way that it sorted projects when you stumbled across the site was by popularity, so the popular ones just kept getting more popular. A project called the "Facebook Facelift" from 2009 (http://www.behance.net/gallery/Facebook-Facelift/314489) was (is?) the most popular project on the site, and is equally thorough with a video to boot. I'm going to take a guess that the designer here was looking to piggyback on the success that project had, rather than create an honestly useable/consistent design (not that this is a justification of how poor some of the concepts are, but rather a reason why someone would spend so much time working on something as tedious as this despite the UX issues it creates).
Our New Stats API (or, Why Your Wireless Provider Sucks)
Exactly this.

If the op learned anything at all from this project I would argue that it is in fact far from useless.

Great job on setting a goal and creating something, op!
FTC Slaps Google’s Wrist in Search, Patent Probe
Exactly what I've thought.
Why You Won’t Be the Person You Expect to Be
They should really use more photos taken with crappy cameras in less than optimal conditions so it looks more realistic.
Ironically, the friend I'm thinking of works in the games industry as well. However, they're on the smaller side, so their code base can be handled by pretty much anything.
From experience, the other guys just go dark on you. I got a threat of libel from the companies attorney in response to my initial cease and desist. I rebutted the claim with them, but never heard back. After talking to about 10 attorneys, the estimate for fighting it in court is about $80K. Another option is to file for invalidation with the USPTO, which can be done without an attorney. Here's the whole story if you are interested: http://www.geekceo.com/entry/zoto-trademark
Great, another mosaic of shit I can't visually organize. I think it needs more stock photos as well.

Are we done with this kind of stuff already? Do people think that Facebook just haphazardly through together their current UI without doing extensive user testing?
Medal of Technology from Clinton

Political awards don't mean anything, just that you have good PR. Hilary Clinton has a Grammy, Barack Obama has a Nobel Peace Prize, and Al Gore has an Oscar. Nate Silver is doing things publicly in statistics but that doesn't mean he's the end-all be-all.

Some of us don't buy into the Kurzweil hype. Frankly, I think he's delusional. But my mother always said that there's a fine line between an idiot and a savant.
I won't speak for anyone else, but better friends would certainly improve my Facebook experience. Unfortunately, I would be unlikely to improve theirs similarly.
It's not the ISP, it's the router doing the blocking. The ISP is still just being an ISP. This is, from a technical standpoint, no different to configuring a proxy/filtering server yourself. Going off what the articles have said, the ISP themselves are not doing any filtering or monitoring it's all happening on the router.
Bacterial “immune system” used to engineer human DNA in human cells
Does this not require Flash Player at all then?
I have read so many personal thoughts on start ups, I always wonder - are the best start-ups planned? or are they accidents?
Assuming the second law is not violated, the system of lower (negative) temperature becomes a source of energy (as opposed to sink). If this is right, that is mighty interesting.
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Considering it is one of Steve Jobs' buzz words, no.
I like the look, though some of it would need to be changed for functional purposes. My question is...why not implement such an interface via a plugin/extension and actually make it a reality for anyone that wants it? It's possible from a technical standpoint. There are already a few plugins that add themes etc. but not the this extent.

That would be an interesting business...create better/specialty interfaces for utility websites implemented by third parties via browser plugins. Maybe have a different and more convenient view and tools on Facebook depending on what you are trying to do on the site at the time (marketing view, developer view, time-killing view, etc).
That actually is a good point. The thought crossed my mind while I wrote the above followed instantly with "well Bell labs, and to some extent IBM in the early days was different." I can't quite put my finger on why. Some sort of constrained, institutionalized invention in which a culture of talented but not "rockstar" inventors were allowed to simply sit around and try to impress each other (this was probably somewhat accidental), but at the same time were expected to be generating innovations and filing patents (this was the intentional part).

There was a fairly lively discussion (either here or on slashdot) a few years ago about whether or not Google with its 20% rule could be the next Bell Labs. Driverless cars and Goolge glasses are cool, but it wasn't quite the landslide of cool everyone was hoping back then.

It might just come down to the difference between "create a world changing technology for us, cost is no object" and "go work on whatever you think is cool, and don't worry about the bills".
From a cursory investigation of the source, this is WebSockets only.
I think this is a very positive development. I had been wondering why it's actually taken this long. Very happy to see this now. However, we need to get this out on SmartPhones now. 2014 is too far away.
I'm working on getting Vigil to be self-hosted. There's a bit of a "who watches the watchers" problem involved.

But, remember, Vigil only holds you to the oaths you yourself have sworn. If Vigil swears to punish a function, then it should be punished for failing to do so. But if it's given no oath to that effect, then it's off the hook.

You may reasonably ask yourself, "well, what oaths does Vigil swear to uphold?" The answer is a frightening "none", since Vigil is not currently written in Vigil (nor is the README, which is in Markdown, a decidedly sinful format).
You sound like a Kurzweil press release.

People always list his accomplishments in this fashion. They state some things that he was "heavily involved in" which are impressive when they sound as if he alone created them in a vacuum.

The reality is a lot of different people were working on a lot of these same things, and it's not as if everyone agrees that Kurzweil was the first to accomplish most of these, or even that he indeed did accomplish them in a satisfactory manner.

Yes, the Kurzweil keyboard was very popular and groundbreaking, but "the first to sound just like pianos"? No. They did not sound "just like pianos." They sounded more like pianos than the keyboards that came before, and less like pianos than the ones that came after.

This is the problem with Kurzweil (and others like him), he paints himself as an iconoclastic, groundbreaking figure; standing alone among a sea of might-have-beens. But the reality is that he was just one of many people working in a field which has had a lot of impact in our lives, and which he likes to wax ecstatic about.

The reality is that his main job for the last 20 years has been making a litany of ridiculous predictions nearly non-stop and then when some of them hit anywhere close to the mark he and his supporters claim that he was visionary.

It's absurd and it annoys me to no end.
No. Just no. Too many carrets, visual clutter, and form over function.
I don't see any problem with the original solution. It is classic (but little bit old fashioned) way of detecting objects, far from random. I also think that you oversimplify the SIFT solution. You use sift, then what? Match the feature vectors, get bunch of possible correspondence points, prune outliers using 3D model of a cylinder (or assume that the face of the can is flat plane and just use homography) and robust fitting, validate fitting, find other cans, if none found change parameters? No preprocessing? Ignore color? Etc. Not so straight forward.

SIFT is faster than generalized HoughTF in this case, use of points instead of whole objects/blobs gives you nice ways to validate using 3D model, etc., but I would still not look down on some one who finds and implements this solutions as a student.
> somewhat tongue-in-cheek

Somewhat?
...and while you're at it, rewrite those into some other form. Everything but the find_by_* dynamic finders is going to be deprecated soon anyways.

http://edgeguides.rubyonrails.org/4_0_release_notes.html#ext...
From the article:

"Schneider and his colleagues reached such sub-absolute-zero temperatures with an ultracold quantum gas made up of potassium atoms. Using lasers and magnetic fields, they kept the individual atoms in a lattice arrangement. At positive temperatures, the atoms repel, making the configuration stable. The team then quickly adjusted the magnetic fields, causing the atoms to attract rather than repel each other. “This suddenly shifts the atoms from their most stable, lowest-energy state to the highest possible energy state, before they can react,” says Schneider. “It’s like walking through a valley, then instantly finding yourself on the mountain peak.”

At positive temperatures, such a reversal would be unstable and the atoms would collapse inwards. But the team also adjusted the trapping laser field to make it more energetically favourable for the atoms to stick in their positions. This result, described today in Science1, marks the gas’s transition from just above absolute zero to a few billionths of a Kelvin below absolute zero."

And this:

"Another peculiarity of the sub-absolute-zero gas is that it mimics 'dark energy', the mysterious force that pushes the Universe to expand at an ever-faster rate against the inward pull of gravity. Schneider notes that the attractive atoms in the gas produced by the team also want to collapse inwards, but do not because the negative absolute temperature stabilises them. “It’s interesting that this weird feature pops up in the Universe and also in the lab,” he says. “This may be something that cosmologists should look at more closely.”

Just sayin'
Thanks! I found a good free one for OS X as well:

http://www.dejal.com/timeout/
Tell me what you think of 'The Future of the Book' by IDEO:
http://vimeo.com/15142335
IANAL, but it has been ruled that NFL player names and statistics are protected by the First Amendment, i.e. no one "owns" it and anyone is free to use it for any purpose.

http://blogs.trb.com/sports/custom/business/blog/2009/04/cbs...

However, you do have to get the data, and unauthorized access of computers (which constitutes trespassing) can be a legal gray area. I'd love to hear a lawyer weigh in on the legality of scraping the data directly from espn.com.
This is really well done, but it relies too heavily on the users providing good content (clean, high res images).
Hack Scala / Akka / Cassandra in beautiful New Zealand

Looking to do some travelling, join us in NZ. Exciting code, great lifestyle!

We're looking for a permanent NZ based software craftsman - more details http://movio.co/page/jobs/
You're my inspiration! You are the wind beneath my wings.
$50k for a laywer is out of reach for plenty of people above the poverty line.
Once again I am reminded that half the facts I know are wrong.
Ask HN: What are some aesthetically pleasing web-based apps?
I'm trying to do research on apps that are generally thought as aesthetically pleasing. Can you share links to apps that you think are pleasing to the eye?

For example www.desk.com (shows app in screenshots below).
I've always hypothesised alcohol consumption is largely independent of income.

At both ends of the wealth spectrum you find people drinking far more alcohol than is healthy, just in different forms.
> Suggested extra hard-mode for short competitions: deletes all code.

Too easy: then it's obvious you have to rewrite it. Hard mode is it replaces random tiny expressions with syntactically similar but semantically different ones... sometimes.
Just being able to buy a nexus 4 on google play would be impressive on its own...
Could you explain what this means? I don't understand your terminology

They always seek massive rent capture via outright purchase of a corp with a very large moat.
New Sony patent may signal death of used games
Visually appealing and gorgeously executed, but HELL NO to the "windowsification" of facebook...
I'm waiting for someone to re-do the comps with crappy quality photos, ugly non-smiling people, meme pics, and instagram photos of garbage.
I read that, and I'm still not sure what you're talking about. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Kurzweil#Recognition_and_a... is a pretty good summary of his accomplishments. He's had a full life, no question, but how much of it was AI? His biggest AI accomplishment seems to be in OCR technology with the Reading Machine back in the 70s. Other than that his strengths seem to be in commercializing inventions, and in attaching his name to his products.
>Also best and brightest of engineers and AI researchers, shitload of money, culture of ambition and a clear intent to go after AI tech. I haven't heard of any other company like that.

IBM ? Who also have been doing it for decades and are far ahead of Google from all indictions.

>I'd actually welcome it with open hands. It's about time for some automated diagnosis.

My point was that IBM Watson if it made wrong decisions could directly influence health care outcomes i.e. life or death. Nothing Google does is comparable.

> Shut down Google and see what happens. Huge sectors of economy depend directly on search ability they provide, not to mention how many people are now using GMail.

Google is not the first or last search or email company. We would simply switch to Bing and Yahoo and the world moves on. Or have you never heard of Altavista, Excite, Lycos ?

> Without Google we'd be all back to Yellow Pages.

Hilarious you mention that since that's where Google gets its worldwide Local/Places search content from. So in fact we are already using Yellow Pages.

>If there's one company humanity really grew dependent on, it's Google.

Humanity doesn't depend on Google. Get a grip would you.
Oops, sure enough. Somehow I read "r"s into that whole Github page! I guess you see what you expect to see. You have to admit though that all its moral language sounds a lot like Aeneas. :-)
It always looks goodwith hot girls everywhere; Sadly, my Facebook is more about old "friend" whining about temperature.
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