skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You should try reading stuff written by Tibetans :-) More seriously though after going through various debates both with Chinese nationals and Chinese ex-patriots the only conclusion I can rely on is that its "complicated" and just as someone from the #Occupy movement might write a very different description of the benevolence of our government than someone in the 1%, points of view are greatly affected by their origin.
Has anyone used Glassmap? It has pretty good reviews on the app store.
With regards to the people who decide what runs on supercomputers: the simple rule is they designed the system for low-latency high-throughput calculations, and don't want embarassingly parallel stuff running there. They spent half the budget on interconnect, and don't want it wasted. It's entirely possible the OP's project allows them to run embarassingly parallel codes, but frankly, that's just a waste of energy given what the hardware is capable of. I had this argument when I worked at the supercomputing centers, over and over (I told them to build loosely coupled commodity clusters with great storage IO throughput) but they never saw my point of view, so instead I built exacycle and work to make it available to scientists who can keep it busy.

With regards to sharing scientific information related to pharma, I (and the rest of the Exacycle team) believe strongly that the results the Exacycle Visiting Faculty achieve must be made public- ideally all the raw data in addition to the published analysis. If you look at the blog post I referenced, you'll notice that three of the faculty are working on protein/drug related problems, and we'll be sharing the bulk of the results with the scientific community.

The work we've done has moved protein folding and drug design far beyond incrementalism. The scale we make available also turns things that were 1-10 year projects and makes them an overnight job. I also spent a year running MD simulations on a supercomputer, so I can appreciate the higher level of scientific productivity that a system like Exacycle provides.

Some of the questions you raise about cloaked IP sharing are interesting, mainly from a theoretical perspective, but I think pharma would be more likely to use existing IP protection mechanisms, or they would simply not collaborate at all, before adopting stuff as "complicated" as this.
I see a link. Maybe they just added it? Or maybe you're saying the linked article is not the O.G. source.
This might not seem that relevant to HN at first blush, but a war between the two would involve the US (by treaty), and result in an unprecedentedly severe disruption in technology supply chains (not to mention a complete upending of supply and demand if the conflict were to gain any sort of traction).
And the inadequate amount of housing availability is because of government regulation as well. If they would allow more building this would be less of an issue.
I hope this goes well for Google, wishing them the best.
You just have to mention this is backed by Oracle and I doubt any suit would dare say something.
I love that book so much. I recommend it often but nobody ever takes me up on it.
This is super duper awesome, how can I incorporate it into a web app?
Instagram loses nearly HALF its daily users
You're just making the argument that the amount of the cross-subsidy would have to be calibrated so that the losers are not bankrupted by it. We care about fairness in baseball because it's a game. Why do we care so much about it if this succeeds in getting the highrises in Chicago gigabit fiber, when up to this point we haven't been able to?

And let's go with it say you're right. Why can't we just create two or three classes of ISPs (like "cars" and "light trucks" for CAFE) based on their coverage density, so that rural and urban ISPs only compete with other rural and urban ISPs respectively?
This is not Pedro Felzenszwalb's discriminative part-model algorithm. This is simple AdaBoost. The authors have labeled a bunch of datasets (1000s of them) and are able to detect whatever object.
AdaBoost (Viola/Jones) is the most popular Yes/No detector, there is an OpenCV api for it. It used for detecting faces and license plates in commercial applications.
Full person detector is nothing but a SVM+HOG descriptor.

As a computer vision researcher, I am not impressed by this. It is primarily an api for smartphone app makers who want a binary result for detection. It does not help with scene context analysis. For instance, if I have a big picture of a airplane on a wall, it will detect the airplane.. Does it know that this airplane is in the sky? or on a wall?
There are a 1000 failure cases.
So many things to say, but really not the right forum.

Sigh. I laughed at this, it's a fun and smart response targeted to a sub-community that barely broke the threshold to get that response.

But let's be real. If your standard of 'blowing up the planet' is somewhat lesser than 'the Republicans'...it might make you feel better to say it but history shows both of them are plenty happy dropping bombs for no justifiable reason.
I wish they didn't make you do stuff, but I guess its a course. I want to just see tips and tricks.
This is not news. The whole purpose of Head Start is to recruit low IQ children and keep them down. (It is illegal for Head Start programs to teach reading, in order to skim off the few resources available and fritter them away on meaningless feel-good activities.)
That's cool, I never really thought of using NaCl on the server side like that.

So you are saying it is a better solution than any combination of Java, Ruby, SELinux, any other regular OS ACL, Xen, or any other virtualization platform?
Looks like this is using training data from the PASCAL VOC object detection
challenge [1], which is the standard benchmark for evaluating object detection
performance in computer vision.

Object detection is an extremely tough problem (some would say it is the computer vision
problem ;-)), and while we've made a lot of progress in the past decade, the best
methods are still terrible [2] -- average detection precision between 30-50%.
For reference, most consumer applications require an AP of 90+% to be considered
usable.

So if this is a completely automated solution, it's not going to be able to do
much better, unless the creators can make massive (I mean orders-of-magnitude)
improvements on the state-of-the-art.

But that being said, there are some applications where lower performance is
acceptable. And if you add some manual verification, you could conceivably
make this much better (with an increase in latency, though). Another possibility
is to specialize on a certain type of input image (e.g., if you're a company
taking photos in your warehouse, where all your photos look very similar and/or
you can control the lighting and environment).

Still, I'm excited to see companies attempting to take object detection out to
the real world. All the best to these guys!

[1] http://pascallin.ecs.soton.ac.uk/challenges/VOC/

[2] http://pascallin.ecs.soton.ac.uk/challenges/VOC/voc2011/resu...
You could similarly defend any kind of stealing. The communists said "грабь награбленное", which means "steal what has been stolen". Here's the English-version of an article from The Great Soviet Encyclopedia: http://encyclopedia2.thefreedictionary.com/Expropriation+of+... which advocates an equivalent of praptak's point of view applied to other kinds of property than the copyright.
I know its a political site, but please stay away from politics as shown in the guidelines.

http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
There's apparently at least 96 responses so far. https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/responses

Is 96 the real number? Since the search bar always says 'featured responses'. When you click the bottom bar to see more responses it does some delayed-JS-scroll action and shows all of 8 more results.

Unless you're really trying to increase the drop-off rate on each click, why make it so crappy? How many sites set their pagination to 8 items, unless they want users to linger on what was just delivered?

They don't seem to be very serious about the petition site. Good PR, and I guess I'm glad they have the option, but it's kind of a joke.
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"You know what would really be great, and would almost certainly save money? If prescriptions could be done electronically."

This can be done today, and frequently is (depending on the organization). Schedule II is a bit nastier since there are regulations about electronic delivery, but the vast majority of medications can be sent electronically in exactly the manner you describe. Just two weeks ago I was in for a follow-up and they ordered some meds that were automatically sent to the pharmacy, where I simply picked them up. Easy.
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Try Brute-Forcing the human genome with the aim to find fractal patterns and it's Hausdorff dimension. You could try to find out if the extracted fractal patterns can be used to speed up protein folding.
I think we're about to reach a point where internet humor and government and humor finally converge. Congress has basically been trolling the American people (minus anyone actually getting to laugh about it) for most of the last decade, and they're finally getting trolled back by the likes of internet-driven campaigns like Mint the Coin.

I think this is a great development. As a DC resident, I can attest to everyone here taking themselves far too seriously.
For all the talk of the Obama administration being anti-religon, they're relying on ancient myth to argue against technological progress
"Destroying the Earth is harder than you may have been led to believe.

"You've seen the action movies where the bad guy threatens to destroy the Earth. You've heard people on the news claiming that the next nuclear war or cutting down rainforests or persisting in releasing hideous quantities of pollution into the atmosphere threatens to end the world.

"Fools.

"The Earth is built to last. It is a 4,550,000,000-year-old, 5,973,600,000,000,000,000,000-tonne ball of iron. It has taken more devastating asteroid hits in its lifetime than you've had hot dinners, and lo, it still orbits merrily. So my first piece of advice to you, dear would-be Earth-destroyer, is: do NOT think this will be easy."

- Sam Hughes, "How to destroy the Earth" - http://qntm.org/destroy
Wifi networks max out at those speeds because "super speed" internet is elusive and so there is insufficient demand for faster/better wireless devices. 802.11n supports significantly higher speeds than that already, but nobody uses it because 802.11g is faster than most internet connections. Moreover, we're talking about building networks that haven't been built yet. By the time we build them there will likely be 802.11ac/802.11ad devices on the market that can handle even more.
Also you could change the resolution mid screen.
It's not a matter of fairness it's basic financial calculus. Internet speed is completely a function of capital expenditure. If you take the slower ISP's and siphon away money from them to give to faster ISP's, they'll never have any hope of catching up. At that point, the leading ISP's can just sit om their duff, because the other ISP's are basically paying to cement them in the lead.

This is true even if you separate rural and urban ISP's. Verizon has a great network in the DC area. If they win, then say a Houston ISP subsidizes them. At that point they have zero incentive to improve. Moreover, people in Houston are stuck with even worse service, because money that might be spent on capital expenditures in Houston are going to pad Verizon's profits in DC.

You're overly focused on the incentive part of the equation and ignoring the underlying market dynamics.
Everything that isn't a Star Wars reference in that response is fantastic and actually a little inspiring.
You were doing well up until:

> With the gained attention, market a new product
Why oh why would you link to a short summary of the real article? Is this what they call "blogspam"?

Real article: http://www.dailydot.com/news/reddit-ban-porn-mods-nsfw-bribe...
It gave us something important: a third major engine (webkit in general).
Standards really get taken seriously when there are more than 2 players.
Disabling plugins, or even just Flash, would break many websites. Users would blame Mozilla for "breaking the web".

The popup is necessary because many plugin elements are too small for a usable "click to play" message and button. Some websites use Flash content without any visible UI (elements that are just 1x1 or 0x0 pixels). For example, Gmail uses Flash for attachment uploading and audio chat. GitHub uses Flash for copying repo URLs to the user's clipboard.
I wonder, too, how hampered Nokia was by trying to port it to an existing platform, presumably striving for a lot of backwards compatability. Nokia, at the time, had many popular handsets available, of varying power/capabilities/providers. Apple was designing a new phone, a single piece of hardware, a single provider.
Not without people screaming about the danger of government meddling in industrial policy and wrangling over it for the better part of a decade.
finally stepping past the limits of article 9.

I think it's not fair that we crippled japan's military autonomy; I mean the military funding in the usa is why we are at the front of the computer revolution.

I just want a japanese competitor to wintel :'(
Sure. RBTree in C is that ugly. Take your time.
The Government is showing the early signs of "getting" the internet. This could get interesting.
It is said that the great majority of startups fail. Maybe this is the reason: many of them lack basic business common sense?
Secrets to recovering a sunken airplane
What does this mean for sites that use Java services internally?
dig -x <ip>

Will also correctly do a PTR query for the reverse entry for that IP. Also functions correctly with IPv6, so you don't need to remember to split the IPv6 address up into a lot of dots :P
Telescope dev here. Meteor supports a lot of different authorizations, so changing this is literally just one line of code.

I just picked Twitter because that's what I personally like to log in with best.
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>Good PR

Is it? It seems to lead to a lot of discontent when petitions don't get the response people want.
I think when people say "destroy the Earth" they are talking more about it's habitability than what a Death Star can do.
I got down voted to hell for saying this. what the fuck is wrong with this community? I was looking at the website in Chrome with a powerful desktop, and it was shit. 0 to circlejerk in record time.
du -sh .* *

Problem solved.
No not really, but the national government wants you to think so. The local (less powerful) officials have always been convenient fall guys for national problems, as in "we are good, but our hand chosen underlings are the bad guys." The problems are pervasive up and down.

You'll find that a city like Shanghai or even Kunming are much better governed than the capital of Beijing due to strong local governments and less national government interference.
A bit off-topic, but... can you recommend a library or a service to recognize license plates? Thanks!
Sure, but that just lets you set the next block. You can't use it to generate false transactions because no other client would find those transactions valid.

At best you can drop all transactions that are broadcast to the network and generate blank blocks, thus freezing all future transactions.
At least in my experience, most of the codes we expected to run were written in C or C++. We would like to support Java, but it's not an option right now (Native Client doesn't support Java, and I'd need to research the Java sandboxing technologies). Another issue is that we limit memory usage, and Java memory usage tends to be higher than C++ programs; ditto for virtualization. Note that virtualization isn't really a security solution on its own. I can't really see Ruby being the right approach for CPU-intensive computing (we're talking hundreds of thousands of cores, so it's worth investing in making the code efficient).

BTW, I definitely think seccomp http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seccomp
and linux containers
http://lxc.sourceforge.net/
or perhaps OpenVZ:
http://wiki.openvz.org/Main_Page

could be engineered into a secure sandbox, without having to resort to virtualization (which I'd like to emphasize isn't really a security solution). This is called "container virtualization" (as compared to hardware/CPU-based), and has a number of very nice properties.
One of my highest priorities for several years has been a full-page, portable PDF reader. My mountainous "must read" inbox is increasingly electronic instead of paper, with most of the serious stuff in PDF format. I can listen to fiction in audio format with half of my brain while grocery shopping with the other half, but my serious stuff requires my full brain capacity (or more) plus hi-rez graphs, equations, charts, maps, etc. to give me a fighting chance at figuring it out and learning something. These little eBook formats are fine for things that I could just as easily listen to in audio (if only they were available), but I need a better reader for my REAL stuff.

The iPad is the closest I've come, but I'd hoping for something more like a touch screen eInk reader in a form factor like the lid of my RetinaMBP.

It may be that those of use who read full-sized technical textbooks after graduation could all fit in the same elevator and aren't worth building devices for, but there must be a huge market for students reading textbooks and everyone else reading magazines. I hope I'll be able to piggyback on their market someday.
> Disabling plugins, or even just Flash, would break many websites. Users would blame Mozilla for "breaking the web".

Why not make it easier than going into about:config, then? In Chrome it's available in the settings.

> The popup is necessary because many plugin elements are too small...

How about a whitelist then, so that the main Flash applets on YouTube and other prominent sites with large, easy to locate Flash applets have a non-popup click-to-enable dialog (as is used by extensions like Flashblock)? That would cover 90% of use cases.

Also, how about an option to have click-to-play settings controlled on a per-plugin basis? I wanted click-to-play enabled for Java, but now I'm getting the same crap for Flash when I already have an extension (Flashblock) for that.

And even otherwise the popup doesn't have to protrude over the browser window. It could just be something in the chrome.
How much traffic are you actually getting?

HN doesn't drive all that much traffic to a site, even for sites at the top of the first page. It's virtually nothing compared to what Slashdot could drive to a site in its heyday, or what reddit's front page can drive today.

I don't mean to offend you, but something is seriously wrong with your web app, your database(s) or your other infrastructure if it can't withstand a relatively minor amount of traffic. It's hard to tell for sure given all of the application errors, but it seems like your web app's functionality is pretty basic.
For streamed video? I don't even think that is possible. But please correct me if I'm wrong.
Unfortunately vertical subpixel rendering is much less effective than horizontal rendering due to the nature of latin scripts.
> Hasn't this always been true about scientific papers? Descriptions can be verified by reproducing the experiment. Why is a paper any less trustworthy just because there's code involved?

It was always true to an extent.

Code is a force multiplier that makes it significantly harder to evaluate the paper with out it (and without reproducing an equivalent).

I'm not in academia myself, but I've heard from friends more than once that when they actually received code (and/or data) they requested from an author, the code turned out to be not precisely described in the paper, and the data is often massaged to fit in a way that's not precisely described either.

The question shouldn't be "why aren't you satisfied with what was good 20 years ago?", but rather "when sharing the bits that makes everything reproducible is a 'git push' away, why isn't it considered mandatory?"

It is a common error that science is about proving things; The scientific method is actually about trying to disprove things and failing to do so. If what you want to do is science, why don't you make it easiest to disprove your results?
That is amazingly awesome. Glad it can integrate with Ruby and Python. I haven't even read the whole info and I already signed up.
Perhaps only in the larger umbrella. As in, "we have a site where you can sign petitions, and if you get 25k signees, you are guaranteed a response".

It sounds good in theory. But nobody in proportion to the general population is actually using it (much less heard about it), so it's just a cutesy PR move at this point.
The need for reproducibility in experiments is an accident of the fact that our universe is horrifically complicated and true reproducibility is a myth, thus we must make a deliberate, conscious effort to come as close as possible, or no progress can be made. When that is no longer true and it becomes possible to run (under certain constrained circumstances) fully deterministic experiments that can be freely replicated to the bit by anybody, it's time to rethink the assumptions made lo these many centuries ago.

People arguing against source code release often argue as if those of us in favor think that re-running the original simulation is the end-all, be-all of reproducibility. Clearly that is not the case. No one simulation can truly prove anything, and independent reverification will always have a place. But since we do have the source artifacts and original data, why not release them and show exactly what was done and how it was done? Again, the idea that experiments should not do so is merely an artifact of the fact that scientific papers could only be 10 very expensive pages or so in a journal; why carry unexamined assumptions based on that now outdated fact forward into the future?

Accidents of the past are nothing more than accidents of the past, not holy writ. And I'm not aware of a good argument against release of source code that doesn't boil down to well, that's just not how we do it when deeply examined.
Oh, bullsh - it is not illegal for Head Start to teach reading. Also, Head Start recruits on parental income level, not on a child's IQ.
Of course it's possible: http://netequalizernews.com/2010/10/26/enhance-your-isp-offe...

> To ensure better performance, my Internet provider keeps a local copy of the popular YouTube content (caching), and when I watch a trending video, they send me the stream from their local cache. However, if I request a video that’s not contained in their current cache, I’m sent over the broader Internet to the actual YouTube content servers.

I have no doubt that the vast majority of American ISPs have cached Gangnam Style. In the US at least, Google/YouTube likely assists in this process.
Wait, is private industry really going to put a human on the moon this decade?

Somehow that feels like vaporware.