skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know if I missed it but a cursory glance through your dev docs[0] do not, imho, lay out your terminology. What is the difference between and alert, mention, mention task, etc.

Looks good overall. Can you talk some about your tech? Are you ingesting material and then polling via peoples interests? For example, Alice and Bob are interested in "Apple". Is there a query que with "Apple" in it that polls your db and alerts the people interested in the term "Apple"? Or is there some kind of push magic happening when material is ingested. I'm interested because I want to do alerting in some of my own apps.

[0]https://dev.mention.net/
While deep learning is a very cool technique and is currently getting the best results in a few domains I think all the hype may become a problem. I was around for the prior round of neural network excitement and much time, effort and money was wasted. In that case it turned out that other techniques were more tractable and thus easier to use and improve upon.

It must be the association with the human brain that just makes neural networks more exciting than other techniques. But dispite the appeal of imitating nature has this usually been the easiest way to make progress in the past? Seems like it would be harder to achieve both goals at the same time.

So far the results are looking pretty good but it is probably best to keep the hype at a reasonable level unless it is crucial of your business model. ;)
Exchange server is $10 per month at Rackspace [1] I've heard good things about Microsoft Office 365 as well. Then, there's always Google Apps for Business...

[1] https://www.rackspace.com/apps/email_hosting/exchange_hostin...
The important aspects of the recommendation data challenge was put in production. Of course, it wasn't the precise weights and models, but the important ideas, namely ensembling and RBMs (which didn't exist before the challenge) were put in place. What you're describing is a misunderstanding of the statement from Netflix.
Do you know any specifics of how the standard model breaks down at high enough energies?
The only thing Digg about this Digg is the brand Digg.
I'm sorry to add fuel to the fire but I've noticed this last few weeks. Almost every single top post to every new Show HN type submission is a brutal teardown or sometimes unfounded criticism. This kind of behavior does not encourage sharing of neat things we build. I've made many things and shared on HN in the past but I'm pretty sure if I were to submit similar things today I'd be called out for not supporting PlatformOfChoice in v0.1a or using improper font-size. I would be nice if people constructively criticized the core product being shared not the tertiary aspects.

If I write a blog post on how to find and fix leaks in single-page JS apps in various browsers, the top post shouldn't be the one complaining about how Chrome takes more memory than Firefox. Comments like that are certainly on topic because memory leaks end up using more memory by definition. The problem is that those kind of comments are too generic to improve anything for anyone but incite enough vitriol to get voted to the top. The top post should be the one finding faults with my leak handling practices and suggesting better methods of doing the same.
I already found two in my career.

One in Turbo Pascal 5.5, which allowed to use local variables as the function name.

Another one in IBM JDK in Linux, which produced core dumps.

Both were discussed with their respective vendors.
"Digg hasn't found its place yet really after their pivot, and I think a reader will really give them a lens to look forward with."

That's not clear. FTA it was much later in the roadmap, so its not clear whether stepping up that process now makes sense (or if they are reacting to current demand that is quickly dissipating as people commit to other products)
You can't whine and cry once the shit you pull being an asshole is turned on you.

Is it your opinion that ignoring seven UN resolutions demanding a halt uranium enrichment activities does not on some level constitute asshole behavior?
All I am seeing is a table (not a chart). Am I missing something?
Hope they release the results of the DNA matching. Innocent until proven guilty.
It actually sounds awesome that Digg is behind it.

I can already picture the frontpage of Digg made of posts that were most liked by individual users on their RSS feed. of Comments on Digg about the RSS item.

Anyone sees this as a huge potential? You don't need to post anything, you just need to like your own rss feed and posts gets promoted. You can check comments in case other users are following the same rss feed as you etc...
Buried in those comments is one from a MS dev who claims that he is the only guy working on the standard library implementation.

Doesn't Microsoft license its standard library from Dinkumware?

http://dinkumware.com/
As someone who hasn't been past first year of law school, I can't say whether an SMS creates a valid written contract.
thanks man. :)
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"There are many promising and talented young women currently in the space moving in that direction and certainly many even younger codenistas from programs such as Black Girls CODE that I certainly feel change the future. Then hopefully this discussion will finally go away. For good... ;-) ~Kimberly- BlackGirlsCODE" -- Kimberly, I love that and speaking for my organization, I actually have a saying for that; My org exists so it doesn't have to exist. My ultimate goal is to make what I do so much the norm that I won't have a need to be around. Maybe that's 5 years, maybe 10, maybe 20 years. As long as the problem exists my org will be here to combat it.

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Makerbot and Adafruit team up for a special limited edition MakerBot
According to Wikipedia, smallpox 'killed an estimated 400,000 Europeans annually during the closing years of the 18th century (including five reigning monarchs), and was responsible for a third of all blindness. Of all those infected, 20–60%—and over 80% of infected children—died from the disease. Smallpox was responsible for an estimated 300–500 million deaths during the 20th century.'

Of course, this disease was contained by vaccines. And immunology is definitely more broad than mere vaccines. In fact the modern immunology plays a quite central role in today's research of physiology, virology, microbiology and pathology.

Back in 2003, when SARS broke out in Beijing, the streets were emptied. Nobody wanted to meet each other, nobody dared. If immunology had not existed, such scenario might not be just one incidence, but incidence after incidence.
Then it misses the point, don't you think? There is not too much gain between your version and original one. On the other hand, we are used to the use of parenthesis in formulas and people don't complain too much on that.

I think the main annoyance is not the syntax per se but the fact that calls are way more nested than in an imperative language counterpart.
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I don't really appreciate the fact that the suspect is named publicly, but the victim is not. It should be either neither, or both, preferably the former. Every time I see an article about rape, there are hints of bias to full on convictions in the court of public opinion. Innocent until proven guilty!

Uber probably has GPS data for the Driver's phone. Did he linger at the destination long enough for a rape to occur? Or did he immediately begin traveling towards his next fare?

There's a character witness for the driver, but what about for the woman? After all, she was just kicked out of a bar...

What is the status of her injury?

There's just not enough information here for this to justify as news quite yet.
If you throw out all the 'tit-for-tat' assumptions, it really makes sense. Google has an API for nearly everything. I could easily see this as a standardization approach.

Personally, I'm not effected at all between using the Google calendar website and my android based phone. I think Google's goal is to push everyone to use the API for their calander in future apps. I don't mind doing that for what they provide.

I could easily imagine that use of their API could allow for better data gathering than using the open standard.
Proposed to my now wife on Pi day. Had no idea it was Pi day when I was doing it. Made the day even better!
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If a dollar bill is signed, only one party has a record (which can easily be spent and conveniently lost forever). If an email is sent, both parties have a record.
Even when salespeople don't have a better understanding of your tastes they're more likely to be persuasive and more likely to add the perceived value to it... a salesperson who admits to hating something she recommends is a more memorable and compelling call to action than an algorithm

I'm sure Amazon's algorithms often do have a better idea of what I'd enjoy than many of my friends, but friends' recommendations are still more likely to induce me to act than a personalised promo email.
Show HN: I made a votable list of Google Reader alternatives
Lets vote :)
Tell HN: Major bug in Chrome
I tried sending an e-mail in G-mail and it was saving and sending it as "undefined". At first I thought it might've been a weird Gmail bug, but now I see others mentioning that it saves their text as "undefined" in Wordpress, too, when using Chrome.

This seems to have started happening in the past few hours or so. Is anyone else experiencing this?
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> It's about how you can quickly iterate an application using StackMob

Then the title should say that.

If you dupe people into reading your article by using a misleading headline, you should be held accountable for it.
Feedback:

* Add option to restrict keyword(s) to headlines, titles, and/or keyword density. This is useful for generic terms that get mentioned frequently but aren't the actual topic resulting bad results.

* Domain blacklist, not just URL blacklist. For example, I want to block answers.yahoo.com and all region subdomains under it (eg malaysia.answers.yahoo.com)

* Why is it pushing me to download a native desktop app? I don't want a desktop app and the web app is quite nice.
In the light of recent events, I'm aggreeing with you...
Today Reader, Tomorrow Mail - its time to abandon Google
What do you think guys?
Title says it all about how i feel about Google.
Without Reader, I don't need Mail from G...
So lets come up with best alternatives for the both of them...
I think Aaron Swartz hit the nail on the head with his "What Does Google Mean by “Evil”?" blog post[1]:

> "They specifically name three: showing irrelevant ads, using pop-ups or other annoying gimmicks, and selling off actual search results. Hardly the stuff of comic books. But what do these three have in common? They’re all instances of refusing to make things worse for your users in order to make more money"

This is just about the first time I've seen Google unambiguously break their own definition of 'evil'.

[1] http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/googevil

Edit: On reflection... not the first time.
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Dev contest: $5,005 CASH prize to disrupt the world of collectors
Colnect, a social network for collectors offering niche-specific unique services based on its wiki-like collectible catalogs, launched a contest to encourage the creation of new solutions for collectors. Any developers out there for the challenge?
Also, a regex will replace matching strings in incorrect places (like a string literal that happens to contain Go code).

You can design your regex around this, but at some point, you'll end up just reinventing a Go parser inside a hideous, unmaintainable regex. So you might as well just use gofmt.
Well this is disappointing, to say the least. At least replace it with a better open standard, or I won't use google calendar, which is probably my favorite google product after gmail.
It's less of missing the entire point and more of the article being link bait.
Excellent write up and thoroughly honest. Great insights.
Pure speculation, but I would assume Apple will be a "whitelisted developer".
I tried and failed to do this about 4 years back (http://feedeachother.com). Alas. Still think the idea has huge potential if someone does it right.
Do you think it is reasonable that an auto insurance company that operates under DPPA, or a classroom management service that operates under FERPA, or credit agency operating under FCRA, or nationwide bank under RFPA, or for that matter any online service managing information that could be considered stored communications --- do you think it is reasonable that these organizations should incur either the risk of a class action lawsuit or the expense of tens of thousands of dollars of legal review simply in order to push a worm signature or botnet identification or DDOS netflow information to a public clearinghouse? In other words, do you think it is in the public interest for you to retain the right to sue these kinds of companies to vindicate your theoretical privacy interest in network security data shared in good faith?

Thanks to Declan Mccullagh downthread for making my arguments about CISPA more vivid by citing all the privacy regs CISPA interacts with. :)

Oh: by the way: if I understand you correctly, you're not at all concerned that CISPA is a backdoor attempt to enable copyright enforcement, and by rebutting that idea earlier, I mischaracterized your point. I apologize for doing that. CISPA makes me jumpy.
Wow. Thankyou. Made my day and possibly our QA team's day.
This is is suggested very, very often. It's been implemented a few times, but has never gained much currency. As best I can tell, it's one of those ideas that sounds good but rapidly grows either complex or kinda useless as you throw more cases at it and you just end up with lots of weird syntax thrown around instead of lots of parenthesis. It works best in a Lisp that was designed with this syntax like Dylan rather than as something you bolt onto a paren-dependent Lisp.
I was part of the Bloglines team from 2007 to 2009.

The current Bloglines is nothing like the original. It looks like MerchantCircle kept only the name after acquiring it from Ask. The archived feed data is gone, and the current UI appears to be a re-skin/fork of Netvibes. It's a poor imitation of its former self.
You protect yourself by having proactive policies (e.g. Über will do well for themselves to show the extent of their background checks and driver training), business insurance and legal representation.
There is a second paper where they specifically point out the differences between their approach and previous approaches using neural networks and it isn't only the number of layers that has changed but also the internal architecture of the network, the "responsibilities" of the layers, so again, it isn't just a traditionally trained MLP with a lot of layers:

http://research.microsoft.com/pubs/157341/FeatureEngineering...
Sorry about the confusion. I treat tables as a first-class data visualisation type. The app will have more chart types. I'm just launching with tables right now. But even the tables will be interactive soon and display more information visually in the form of colour coding, sorting and filtering.
don't ever read beyond mass media headlines for HEP; just go here instead: http://profmattstrassler.com
I beg to differ. Plenty have tried to say that. In fact in pretty much every attack (yes attack, the threads feel very orchestrated) on iOS, one of the principle benefits touted is that Android is open. Even Rubin tried to declare it 'open' with his now infamous tweet (https://twitter.com/Arubin/status/27808662429). Let's keep those goalposts static.
Rape accusations, true or not, always end destroying the accused, specially because there are low penalties for false accusations, and the media is very fast in plastering the person name and photo everywhere.

Also, being a driver is kinda dangerous regarding that, I have some driver friends, and they all have the same rule: They don't pick up lone women, period, it might be raining, hurricane, dust storm, middle of the night, day, whatever, if she is a woman, and alone, they don't pick up them, ever.

It is because here in Brazil at least, is a very common scam to a women accuse a driver (be him professional, like a cabbie or Uber-like driver, or a volunteer that wants to help a hitchhiker) of rape, or make threats to accuse him unless he pays her something.

On this case in particular, I think the best is wait for what a judge and evidence has to say.
Find the best Reader replacements
this is a smart idea
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How to never lose synced data in Chrome with git/Version control
1) Close Google Chrome

2) Create a new repository into the root folder, in my case (win 7) will be C:\Users\<user>\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data

- Notice that the root is not your account, but the folder above of your account

- In this way you sync all the users and other important/global stuff

3) Your .gitignore file should look like this:

*/Application Cache/*
*/Cache/*
*/Media Cache/*

- In order to don't fill your git repository with cache data!

4) Only commit when you close the Google Chrome browser;

5) Have fun and never ever lose your synced data!!!

Why?

- google chrome delete sync data (13 200 000 results)

- http://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/chrome/45bCWXEh-vQ
I was hoping that the neutrinos were actually going faster than light. Confirming established theories is boring, but breaking them is exciting.
My personal "wow" moment with Lisp was this:

(+ 1 2)

I was thrilled in the moment when I realized that all of the three parts of this banal form can be an arbitrarily complex forms themselves. For example, you can in place substitute "+" with a long code that contacts a web service and in the end, after 100 lines of code, returns "+". This 100 line function is made of forms made of forms made of forms and each can be replaced by the code that you might need. It's the beauty of the conciseness of the ternary operator in other language (a = b? 1 : 2) taken to a possibly infinite extreme.

This can sometimes be achieved in other languages with the use of temporary variables, one-shot functions if the language doesn't have lambdas (or multi-line lambdas like Python) and in the end litter your soul with the use of "eval"

This also leads to the other wow moment, when using Lisp makes it appear other languages' syntax so inelegant and cumbersome. At its core everything in Lisp is just like this:

(FUNCTION argument1 argument2 …)

When it clicks, it really hits you with the beauty of its perfect mathematical purity and you wonder how can you feel so comfortable with the average C-like language, where for has a syntax that is different from while, switch case is a beast of its own, sometimes you use curly brackets, sometimes square, sometimes regular or even angular, you don't have to forget commas and semicolons, you use colons and dots and question marks and myriads of keywords each with its own syntax and some things are functions and other operators and equal means something different from the double equals and so on.
>> No one ever insinuated that Google is completely open with Android.

You must not visit the same tech websites I do then...
113/355 is several orders of magnitude closer. To bad we don't have 355 months in the year.
Hmmm... interesting to read http://jamesmaskell.co.uk/2012/inspiration_for_startup_found... now...
Why is Über even mentioned? How about some details on the manufacturer of the seat the driver was sitting on, maybe what barber he usues too? Regardless, this is tragic if true, and my heart goes out.
A fellow Chicken and Rice fan I see!
Taxis are limited at the behest of established taxi companies. Just how zoning laws are used to keep competition down. Food trucks are simply hit by FUD spread by traditional restaurants as well as established food trucks. It is not really different than regulations requiring that interior designers, hair dressers, and the like, having to be licensed and insured and whatever else.

Existing groups use their connections to politicians to get laws favorable to them and not favorable to competition. It has nothing to do with society becoming more conservative as it ages
"the consumer has to see the reduced overhead filtered down into their prices."

I think lack of competition (as described in the article) causes these hyper-inflated prices. If these gourmet organic locavore so-and-so food trucks had to compete in, say, Portland[1], they would have to contend with 30-40 other single-dish trucks in the same pod/lot that provide a heaping, often exotic lunch for 5 bucks.

"If it's not faster, cheaper or more convenient than the to-go menu at a traditional restaurant"

But often it is more convenient. Hypothetically (since I work from home), I would find the food truck at the end of the block of my building to be way more convenient than getting in my car and schlepping to a restaurant (as I would do when I worked at an office).

Or, if you get it delivered, you gotta know what you want in advance, phone them up, make sure you get a drink, wait awhile, tip the driver, etc.

It's a mess. Food truck? Pop down, walk to the corner, buy Korean taco and sugar water. Lunch done.

[1] http://www.foodcartsportland.com/
Software? eugh
No, there is plenty to gain whe you have stuff that's nested 3 or 4 levels deep.
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I can't find a cite, but I read an article somewhere that some transit fare systems work like that. Each node tracks every customer's balance and broadcasts transactions. That's how the turnstile is always able to respond instantly, because the validation is local. It's possible to duplicate a card and swipe it simultaneously at different stations to double-spend. It's considered an acceptable leak in the system given the high effort, infungibility of the good, and near-zero actual cost of a free-rider.

Where subways diverge from Bitcoin is that sold goods can represent a real loss, can be resold thus creating the incentive to scam, and that Bitcoin is anonymous where subway cards aren't (security cameras) so repeated instances of this crime can be caught. So the consequences of double-spending with Bitcoin are vastly higher and the network can't just choose to live with it.
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Based on Google's previous app releases (YouTube, Gmail, Maps, ...) I wouldn't be surprised to see a native Google Calendar app instead.
The real problem for Google is that Microsoft has better products than Gmail and Google Calender. I am completely fine switching to Outlook web mail services and actually want to move after the way they are handling the active sync situation, the redesign and the closing of services. Once I switch, I would still log in for Google Reader but that ends in July. Google is king of search but the game its playing with these other products are dangerous considering the competition.
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What is new? I have the first edition .. what will you change?
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Show HN: My all-nighter project to find the best Google Reader alternative
Why don't your driver friends just put a small camera in the cab? In the US this is fairly common in cabs, though not at all in towncars. It prevents a whole host of potential problems.
Missing root-css which is based on Stylus, and is imo the best framework.
Lawyer up, big time.
It says she paid her fare. What other motive could she have had to make this accusation?

Unfortunately, there is little evidence to go on at this point aside from her testimony, so much of this discussion is mere speculation.
You don't like traversing directories like deep nested ones here before you get to any code?

https://github.com/Netflix/netflix-commons/tree/master/netfl...