skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes.

> could even this strengthened Ring wholly take over the will of an eagle in as little as an hour?

Yes.
Also, because the corruption of ring possession basically sentenced you to the far lands (although it's 'offered' it's really mandatory), you might have a problem where Eagles wouldn't be accepted so....why risk corrupting an eagle and pissing that race off? You need them to fight Sauron off, at the very least.
I found Machine Learning for Hackers to be good as a practical, case study based book for learning to apply and understand what is going on in several machine learning problems.

http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920018483.do
http://www.amazon.com/Machine-Learning-for-Hackers-ebook/dp/...

It's definitely a practical approach. There's a lot of explanation but, despite coming from two PhD candidates, it certainly did not read like an academic paper.

It's also case study based, not necessarily algorithm based.

As a bonus, I used that book to teach myself R. I don't think it's meant to be an intro to R tutorial, but it worked for me.

All three are positives in my book.
It may simply not have been addressed because it was obvious to anyone present that it was an infeasible plan.
The design of the intro page is interesting to me. There's a strong attempt to avoid the "boxes in boxes" look that, unfortunately, facebook itself still has. But on the intro page, the only frame is the the browser window itself.
This is my last comment on this thread, since you keep repeating the same unfounded complaint. I did mention the extra measure of moving coins offsite in my original comment (which is trivial if you know how to use cron). As long as you do this, your risk of exposure is the amount of Bitcoins you accept during n interval, where n can be practically as small as you want it to be.

Also, I get the distinct feeling you're lecturing us about something you've never done. "to operate [a wallet]"?? "to transfer fund just there, either keys or source code capable of replicating it"?? How would you connect a web app, say a Ruby on Rails app, or a Django app if you're more comfortable with Python, to Armory to process Bitcoin payments? There's a new feature that's just been merged that I see would allow Armory to be used on the web, but as far as I can tell, no one is using it in production. But assuming this feature is production ready, how would you use Armory to process payments on the web? Have you actually done this? You're just mentioning a product and nothing about implementing payment processing. The extra measures needed to set up payment processing are most decidedly non-trivial and should be detailed.

Finally, I should mention that Bitcoin Armory is under AGPL (even stricter than the GPL), which means that no serious business is going to use it for payment processing since they would have to open source whatever app they are connecting it to (it's just fine to use it to store a business's Bitcoins, however, since in this case, it's not connected to your application). From the BitcoinArmory site: "Armory is licensed under the AGPL version 3, which guarantees that any derivative programs based on Armory source-code must also be open-source." bitcoind, on the other hand, is under the MIT license and can be freely used in commercial software without the obligation to share your source code.
Do you think the military would not shoot down a hijacked airliner heading towards New York?

With that in mind, how is using a drone any different?
CTO of AU uses HaikuDeck for presentations, cuts AU's MSFT budget by $100M
Actually, I think asking for the customer name in your payment form is good. It's what's expected and it gives you more information to match against (i.e. the name in your customer database to the name they link to the card).

Seems to me that the form itself is just one small corner of a larger battlefield and the real trick to using it effectively is threefold.

For users, it's about creating a user experience that is comforting and normal enough to gain user confidence and easy/frictionless enough to make the transactions painless.

For merchants it's about information gathering and screening. It's about being able to collect information about the user's payment card and comparing it to what you already know about the prospective buyer and depending on the your size and fraud levels, the form may also be a point where you make it more difficult to programmatically try cards (i.e. randomized form fields, rate limiting, err... captcha).
I understand you all, but even getting review these days dont give you so much traction...
For example, we are a small Indie (3 People) and release our game for IOS...you probably didnt hear of the game unless you are in the cocos2d community...

The game is FREE and it went live on the 15th of February 2013, till today we got more than 150 reviews with an average of 4.3 and we still dont see us in the rankings..

sorry, i forgot to mention the game :)

Game name is Atlantis Breaker HD link is : https://itunes.apple.com/app/atlantis-breaker-hd/id576385319...

by the way any suggestion and feedback would be highly appreciated.

thanks.
04 is April. Way to prove your point :)
Ask HN: Our app UI looks exactly like the new Facebook news feed, now what?
My company is building a product launching in December. I just saw the new facebook news feed and the general UI design looks exactly like our app.

Of course they didn't copy us, but we did not copy them either. We started this project last year, our github repo has all the files and project development.

How can I protect my right to use this UI style? I'm not interested in suing anyone, but we don't have enough stamina to work on our UI again.

PS: Our product in not a social network
New car radar system to protect cyclists
Has there been a rationale posted somewhere for the 'pivot' of refer.ly?

For some reason I see refer.ly and Danielle Morrill being featured again and again on Hacker News and TechCrunch, but it's mostly about personal stuff rather than the business.
For #1, the zip code 42223 spans Christian KY and Montgomery TN. The zip code 97635 spans Lake OR and Modoc CA. 95961 can be the city of Arboga, Olivehurst, or Plumas Lake.

The mapping isn't unique. I think the best you can do is restrict your pulldown to the possible choices. Even then, sometimes there are small cities and towns that you don't expect.
Minimalism doesn't involve hiding features, text, and navigation items away where they're hard to find. Minimalism is about finding new ways to make things simpler, not to hide things that were already there in the first place, arguably reducing usability.

See The C Programming Langauge for true minimalism.
Good to know and thanks for the input. I would assume this is a corner case and does not represent a typical situation. In this case, one could just send in the zip code for avs match. AVS will return specific codes related to postal code match. Here gain there's a tradeoff, I don't see the point of compromising the UX for 99% to cover the 1% case.
Thanks for sharing. Could you describe these 2 features in more detail?

1) Stop receiving notifications, and read Leisure emails on your down time.

2) Pretend an email arrives at a different time
A company I contract for develops a commercial software package for an industry. They allow to companies to 'buy' their priority development time for specialized features with the caveat, any feature that is developed is released in their mainline package. There are no forks, which over time would become more and more expensive to maintain. As of this time, I can say the policy has worked well for them.
Fraud is a huge motivation but one thing the article doesn't mention is sales tax.

When I sell a product online, I need to charge sales tax if the customer lives in Canada, a different tax if the customer lives in my province, or no tax if the customer lives in another country. Therefore, I'm forced to ask for the customer's address just for this.

That said, I can probably still avoid asking for a lot of the info but this requirement still increases the minimum set.
Hey Tom -- I'd love to see if we could help with fraud even above and beyond what Cybersource/TM do. Feel free to e-mail me: brandon@siftscience.com!
They are actually coming into line with the internet in 2013. Universal experience across all platforms? Awesome. New, clearer less cluttered interface? Awesome.

I also think the killer feature is the ability to clearly filter your news feed by pictures, updates, people you follow etc. Fot instance, I DO want to be able to follow some celebrities and tv shows on facebook without them cluttering up my newsfeed too much. Now all I have to do is select my following list and I'm there. Ditto for friends + photos etc.
Jolidrive
His example of NewEgg is a bad one. They straight up say they don't ship international orders on their FAQ page.
Hence REST: "representational state transfer." Fielding also uses 'application state' to talk about this kind of state.
Thanks for bringing this up. I responded here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5339604. There's no unique way of solving this and you have a pretty good suggestion
Fan fiction fills up spaces that were not covered in the original story. The pros and cons of airborne travel into Mordor are one of those spaces. The author of the article is just as entitled to speculate on this point as anyone who responds to him.
Good point, but as far as I've seen, zipcode seems to identifies locality good enough. If you have the right zipcode it doesn't make a material difference for either sending/receiving mail or for credit card checks.
Is it just me or does the side bar look a lot like the Ubuntu's Unity Interface sidebar?.
Neurobiology of psychedelics: implications for the treatment of mood disorders
Facebook will end up being a photo sharing site.
Another waiting list ?
This is really annoying.
LinkedIn wins dismissal of lawsuit over massive password breach
Announced in a YouTube video. I love it!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YaQQHYQHnMk
Pwn2Own: Down go all the browsers
What you said about user percentages doesn't surprise me at all. I thought about it and I would say those numbers accurately describe my habits personally. There are a handful of apps on my phone I haven't even opened yet. At least 70% of the apps I download never get launched again. And a tiny percentage of apps I download do I ever use a month later.
Not just you, I've yet to have a card with a non numeric month. Instead of being friendly, putting month name is a usability loss. Are cards with names instead of numbers the majority in the US?
They're not complicated if done with little bit of common sense.
Every time I see someone doing something cool with Chef, I think of this: http://progopedia.com/language/chef/

And then I think, "Wow. This person must be a mad genius."
Kills fraud and also conversion and revenue. Such a pain.
I totally hear you Jacob. Know exactly where you're coming from.

And yes, we will continue to work on our TOS. :)

Best of luck!
Mitch
Leave it as-is. IIRC, YouTube swiped the newsfeed design from Facebook last year or so. Facebook probably picked up some of these new-to-them UI concepts from other sites. Who cares?
Perhaps having the user enter their location information in the order country, zip, city, state, street would provide a better experience. It's not what they would be used to, but it's at least consistant (information is entered from less precise to more precise).

Having to build an additional "let me type it in" option seems like it increases the complexity and confusion. One of the banks I use asks for the zip first and then populates the city and state text fields on the lines below. This also has the benefit of working if Javascript is disabled.
gorgeous is becoming pretty common too
Actually it's more like whether it is legal for the army to fire on enemy sympathizers.
Glad they finally got rid of Lucida. The typeface sucked with Facebook's aesthetic; Helvetica Neue seems to be far more conducive to the new layout.
What's up with CloudFlare today?
Linode is definitely one of the best VPS providers. They don't market it as 'fanatical', but their support is simply incredible. I like AWS too, but the lack of support (unless you pay loads) keeps me with Linode.

Nextgen sounds cool. Extra bandwidth is great. I also hope they add more RAM and provide some kind of a storage pool to store images/snapshots/virtual-disks between different linodes (similar to cloudfiles or EBS).
Linux Beats Mac Dramatically In Humble Bundle Total Payments
AWS support gets a lot better once you're an enterprise level user.
Why is 3-6 months in jail for breaking in and repeatedly breaking the law overreach?
150 possitive reviews in 15 days and game is still not climbingin the charts
hi i would like the help of the community to let me know what are we doing wrong.

We are a small Indie (3 People) and we released our FREE game for IOS called Atlantis Breaker HD, you probably didn't hear of the game unless you are in the cocos2d community...

The game is FREE and it went live on the 15th of February 2013, till today we got more than 150 reviews with an average of 4.3 and we still dont see us in the rankings..

Any help, advice, feedback will be welcomed.
Game name is Atlantis Breaker HD link is : https://itunes.apple.com/app/atlantis-breaker-hd/id576385319?mt=8

thanks,
Meital
Change. Users hate change, period. Unless you were psychic and managed to change it in exactly and only the ways they were thinking of.
Look for some Communities in your field of interest. That way, G+ has become a great place to discover interesting content, at least for me.
Yikes... I've been waiting for these stories to start breaking. 'Bout to get real in Redmond.
I never used Linode for Arch, what do differently that makes it better than others?
Mine was all people reposting spam.

Share this and get an xBOX 720!!!!

I'm giving away 10M to whoever shares this!!!!

SHARE THIS AND GET A PLAYSTATION 5!!!!!

I got to the point where my feed was empty; almost every user was hidden.
Karma and Coloring Outside the Lines
There will be a new scheduler and an improved GC in Go 1.1, which will be released soon.
VP8 IPR agreement announced.
This leads to the question: Does the difference in processing fees outweigh the percentage of sales lost due to increased friction? This will have a different answer for every product and business which makes this a perfect example of something every company should be A/B testing.
Apple’s Phil Schiller on Android malware: ‘Be safe out there’
As a side note, what I liked about Steve Jobs is that he almost never used over-the-top adjectives to describe the products he was demonstrating. Rather, he used words like "cool" and "neat." This made him sound a lot more credible and convincing.
This is a great post. A concern is that this only works when the base salary covers your needs. If it doesn't, you can't pay your rent with surf time.
> "...to switch carriers"

What about roaming overseas? Anyone know?
This shows that VP8 wasn't as patent-free as On2/Google claimed. OTOH, there's probably nothing to worry about now since Google has licensed the patents on behalf of everyone.

Original context from 2010: http://x264dev.multimedia.cx/archives/377
This is the kind of story I always see, but rarely get to hear a post-mortem or how they eventually fixed it.
European Parliament blocking emails from concerned netizens
personally it doesn't reminds me of G+. It reminds me of Tumblr actually.....
This is the correct answer. Middle earth eagles in this scenario are large, flying a long distance, and under load. They would not be able to survive the high altitudes.
TL:DR - No one has to fix your problem unless you represent a significant portion of their income.

What I take from the whole article is the author severely underestimates the true cost of software.

FTA: "And while it's not pleasant, this approach has led me to realize, that in some cases, I simply couldn't afford certain software, even so it was offered to me at no charge."

This is all software, open source or not, unless you are paying for the direct development of it. There is plenty of closed source programs that I've seen companies tied up in that the manufacture quit supporting or wouldn't fix that cost tens of thousands of dollars in migration fees. The one benefit of open vs closed is that with open you have the option of posting

"I will pay the first person $1000 to fix X and release the code"
that was an amazing observation!
Protecting the weakest in society != zero Liberty.

So what's the cutoff for the "weakest in society"? Do you have a percentage of the population that we're obligated to care for? Should these people too helpless/clueless to ask for a competitive wage be allowed to drive cars? Should they be allowed to vote when they can't really perform the most basic of tasks in society?

I didn't say the government should be responsible for all negotiations

So where is the cutoff and how do we prevent it from creeping up? Food stamp use continues to rise because apparently larger and larger segments of the population cannot earn enough money for food. When does the continued increase of helplessness level off?

the people who cannot improve themselves

Cannot or will not? What incentive is there for people to get an education, to work hard, to improve their lot in life, to learn better ways to live, to learn how to negotiate for their worth at a job, etc. if the government tries to take over care of so many aspects.

By seeking to protect people, government creates a dependency and victimhood mentality in society.

Look, I'm for helping the helpless in our society. What I'm not for are absolute statements like your next one that are guaranteed to lead to an increase in helplessness.

One could consider very low wages to be an unfair contract, pretty much by definition.

If the wage earner is free to go elsewhere to negotiate the fee for his time then it is not unfair by definition.
But atleast with most laptops we can upgrade/replace the RAM, hard drive and the battery. I am starting to hate the new trend where phones are going: no easy access to the inside, batteries are glued on making it impossible to be replaced, no sd slots and finally the gimmick of upselling the higher spec'd version.
Upgrading a Rails application to 4.0
That's interesting - it's actually Steve Jobs to whom I attribute this trend.

I'm not really an Apple guy, though, so it may be a misperception on my part.
Here's a full capture. Large image ahead.

http://i.imgur.com/QbawFLb.jpg
Immutable aggregate types in Julia
He started using the word "magical" in some of the ads & announcements if I recall correctly.
Facebook IS the biggest photo sharing site.
Or, how about instead of trying to find the bestest Javascript ninja, you take a promising engineer and, I don't know, teach them? Whatever you might think, web technologies are NOT very difficult to learn. Most start-ups work on pretty trivial problems. People in the start-up crowd seem to believe that the smartest people on the planet are building web start-ups. Think again.
I think it is probably worth the extra cost. I use another "premium" VPS vendor (RimuHosting) to host all of my Clojure web apps and the extra quality of service is worth it.

I think you do make a good point if you are saying that for some projects the cheapest possible hosting makes sense.
A design for Futures/Promises in DOM
Sure:

1) You can create a filter for Leisure emails, and then when emails arrive that meet the conditions you won't receive a Push Notification, and the emails will be grouped together (like a single thread).

2) You can delay an email for a period of time (a few hours, tomorrow, next week) and a reason (need to reply, waiting for a response), and when that time arrives you'll get another Push Notification and the Thread will show up as a priority.
Achieving awesome numerical performance in Clojure
(Balanced employee)

We're thinking of actually open sourcing this iframe - it took a lot of work and analytics to get it to where it should be and we think the community could benefit.

Let us know if there's interest. Create an issue on https://github.com/balanced/balanced-api/issues/ and we'll see how to prioritize it.
Error control and backend processing failures.

When the user types 'Juny' did he mean June or July.

The longer drop down option of '07 - JULY' shows all the combinations that I've seen printed on cards with the least potential of failure.

I do believe your reply has validated my point with the error it contains.
I have an honest question.

Does it give them tactical advantage to redesign their site every year? Not that I'm against redesigns, in fact I think that they're getting better and better, but I'm curious whether they do this for the users or for their own sake.
I think a lot of us are curious if this is still possible (or whether it is only true if you built apps 3 years ago) and would like to hear from anyone with knowledge as to whether this is still possible simply by playing the numbers game with a 1-man shop.

For example, "met" a guy on Reddit who claimed to have built a bootload of Google Gadgets and made 1/2 mil in the process. I've been in the same market during that same time-frame, so I'm generally aware of what is feasible... and I believe I can vouch for the fact that this may still be possible, but probably 150x harder now.
I used the Sunglass manufacturers as an example. Did not mean that literally. I was asking for a more general approach to get lists of related things, exactly like Google sets. Did not know it existed while it did.
My payment form[1] is relatively simple.

[1] https://dl.dropbox.com/u/8554242/dmitri/pay.html
The couple keynotes I've watched Steve Jobs used more superlatives than I thought necessary. And he used them over and over again.
End up? That's basically where they started. The popularity of Facebook in its very early days was because they made it easy to "stalk" your friends (and/or crushes) via the photos that they shared.

If Facebook hadn't made photographic integration so central to their platform, I don't think they'd have taken off the way they did.

That's also why they were so scared of Instagram - they knew how powerful a network of photo sharing can be.
Please, please fix "I am a good writer, the content that I create is quiet good (I think)". That's the first line of your paragraph about gramatical oversights, and you say "quiet" instead of "quite". Also, the "(i think)" makes me feel like you're not a professional.

ALSO, I'm sure you can hire someone on craigslist to give your work a second read for gramatical mistakes, if that's really a blind spot you care about.

But I worry, are you even trying to get better? It sounds like you've accepted your current skill level as a fixed balance that can't improve, when that's probably not the case.
Facebook might care. And sue.
Whilst in SF (San Francisco represented through GIFs)
No, that is much more similar. You changed a couple of words and punctuation and reordered a couple of paragraphs. Those are minor changes. It is substantially the same as what I wrote, with far more similarities than differences. The similarities are so overwhelming that without careful inspection, it could be mistaken for an exact textual copy of my comment with some of the paragraph breaks omitted. The same is not true of the graphics in question. A cursory glance at those will reveal obvious differences.

A better refutation would be to produce a well thought-out comparison of the two graphics that shows substantial similarity. I compared them as best I could and most of the artistic decisions seemed to be different between the two. If you have reached a different conclusion, I would love to see your analysis to compare.

If you haven't analyzed them in as much detail as I did and reached a different conclusion, I don't see why you felt it was intellectually honest to take a computerized copy of my comment and claim it as containing "more difference."
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What about Rackspace Cloud?