skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Quite so. We can't predict the future, nor can we fully predict all of the potential applications of any given theory, but we do know that not understanding the fundamentals of how things work in our Universe is certain to limit our options. Many of the most important bits of scientific knowledge in industry today were at one time just as esoteric subjects of research as the study of the Higgs field is today.
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> I strongly suspect that the people who can't adapt are having difficulty because they are not programming with the new syntax full time. Practicing at night while the majority of your time is still spent with some other language is not the same thing. This is also true for learning human language and is why immersion programs are so successful.

I think this is spot on. I have a minor quibble that can't adapt ought to actually read find it difficult to adapt for the very reasons specified--it's not a matter of can or cannot, but a reflection of how much time one is actually able to invest in learning, like a human language. Random, sporadic investment into learning French vocabulary won't help much in improving one's ability to actually speak French. Much will be forgotten that way.

Immersion is definitely the best model for picking up any new [programming] language. Each language I use with measurable proficiency--Python, Objective-C, C#, JavaScript, French, English, etc.--is in that list because I actually took on tasks in which that was the language I had to use. Each language I've messed around with on the side for fun/experimentation/curiosity--Mandarin Chinese, Lisp, Haskell, Java, etc.--is barely worth mentioning.
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I don't use Haskell, I just read about it.
Why did United neglect to tell parents of a minor she was rerouted?
Nice to see more competition in this space. I've found newsletter email filtering to be a godsend and it's changed how I deal with email.

I used to setup tons of filter rules manually, but now I just subscribe to anything of interest, and don't worry about the consequences.

Sanebox[1] allowed me to do this. It uses a ML algo over any Imap account (I'm using it on Gmail) so it's email client independent. It works incredibly well.

No affiliation with SB, just a happy customer and it's 1/4 the monthly price to boot.

[1] http://www.sanebox.com/
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Thanks! All analyses on Hooktheory are in done in sections. Analyses load one section at a time. Since songs (well, most songs) repeat the same harmony in each verse / chorus / ... it made sense for use to use the section approach. One the Trends page the section that loads is the one that matched the chord progression you searched (if multiple sections of the same song match, we omit them from the song list). If other sections of a song have been analyzed, there are buttons just below the title so you can see them.
> Bitcoin may do this, but it does so by sacrificing rigorous security and offline payments

Both seem like definite hard tradeoffs to me. Offline transactions imply there is some ultimate real-world identity that can be punished for fraud. By "sacrificing rigorous security", I assume you're referring to the majority of CPU power controlling the network. If we give up having a central authority and verified identities, we necessitate some measure of "majority of power" in the system (although it doesn't necessarily have to be CPU).

> a system built from secure cryptographic primitives can still fail to meet its security goal

Sure, but one can formalize the properties of Bitcoin, and could prove that it indeed meets those properties.

One of these properties is "network is controlled by the majority of computing power". I'm not saying this is a universal good thing or ultimate solution. What I am saying is that this property is what provides independence from a central authority, which is possibly what has enabled Bitcoin to actually be adopted.

> Parties are not created by authorities; parties are what communicate in a distributed system

No, "parties" are a convenient abstraction for distributed systems papers in that they bound the pervasiveness of an attacker. The reader intuitively understands them as some notion of identity (IP address, digital certificate, etc), but here we have no luxury. As you later touch upon, once you get rid of identities, a single attacker can create an unlimited number of parties.

I think general MPC has only been proved secure if a majority of parties are honest. Bitcoin is substituting 'parties' with computing power, for precisely the reason you describe. Would we say MPC is insecure because the effort required to attack it (number of malicious parties to establish) is linear in the size of the system (total number of parties)?

I understand this isn't the best security guarantee, but you seem to be having an allergic reaction to it. Complexity theoretic guarantees are useful because they work. However, most real-world power balances are close to linear.

I guess my main point has been that Bitcoin provides a property (authority-independence) that previous ecash papers have not. Its guarantees of this aren't the strongest, but if we're to improve it we must recognize the problem it's solving.

Maybe there's another way of implementing authority-independence that doesn't succumb to something as simplistic as computing power. As it is, it seems that Bitcoin will continue to centralize as miners further specialize and the requirements to be "on the network" (versus transacting through an agent) grow.
Short answer: No.

Long answer: The question is sparked by a recent court case where a farmer - named Bowman - purposefully used unlicensed technology on a commercial scale. If you are doing it by accident, or aren't doing it on a commercial scale, you're perfectly safe. (Some reporting in the popular press makes it sound like Bowman was unaware of his infringement or that it was an accident - a lot of people are freaking out at the idea of Monsanto suing a farmer because some patented seeds happened to be found on his property. If you read the court case, it becomes clear that nothing of the kind happened, and that if it had the case would have been thrown out.)

Really, it's just like every other bit of patented tech. If you're operating a factory pumping out unlicensed Rolex watches, you've got some potential legal liability. If you bought a fake watch in Bangkok, you don't. While I personally have some very serious qualms about the patents on GM crops, the current legal situation is, honestly, pretty sane. Hobbyists are perfectly safe, as are farmers acting in good faith (ie, they plant seeds believing them to be unpatented, or their seeds are contaminated by patented seeds blown across their property line). Activists like to construct scary hypotheticals, but the truth is rather more prosaic.
They have an "in-browser" client, but I think you may have to install the correct extension for it to work. Check out www.feedly.com.
Roses are also patented, so you're not supposed to propagate them by planting cuttings.
Blocking you on twitter was a bad move. Have you got any results since?
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Reputation among what group is the question. I'm guessing if someone backs out on such a deal Y Combinator will remember, pass it on, fail to invite to Demo Day. This protocol works to YC's benefit even if the information never spreads beyond employees, participants and alumni. Any spillover is a bonus.
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Python is not a bad place to start expanding your knowledge wider.
Google uses it for a reason.
It's a good time to wake up and inject your life with new purpose.
Emotional pain is a wake up call to begin a new life.
> If Monsanto can't patent their new seed, then anyone else who wants to can also sell the seed, and Monsanto will never recoup the R&D costs. Under this scenario, I don't see why anyone would develop new plants.

Could the same apply to GNU or Linux or any other free software project or is it far different thing?
The first laser was originally described as a "solution looking for a problem", in 1960.
Who said those incentives should be commercial. They probably should make a point not to be. But practically this usually happens with placing the tools outside the jurisdiction of DMCA. For example repositories that host libdvdcss are located outside US, since the whole purpose of libdvdcss is to remove DRM from DVDs to enable playing them in open source players (which is naturally 100% fair use - i.e. to view the legally purchased content). And it is widely used - all Linux users basically use it to watch their DVDs.

The level of "mainstream" penetration of such tools will depend on the level of DRM penetration. The more DRM will be pushed on people, the more commonplace the circumvention tools will become. In practice however the developing trend tends to be to use less DRM in various areas, so circumvention tools are kind of not very widespread either.
As I see it, OOP PHP 5 is Java without static types and without a proper standard library. I'd regard it as an upgrade coming from PHP. Check out the Play Framework.
Technically yes, practically no, unless you're selling the result and have previously signed a license agreement for the patent.
There's a typo on this page[0]:

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If you’re going to rebut the Series A crunch, it’s a good idea...
We went to Twitter and made sure that we were not blocked for a violation of terms and they confirmed we were not and that a user blocked us.
Thank you so much for the link, very helpful and I've actually read through PG's blog posts and advice before. But I couldn't isolate any indication of progress prior to application. ie. do I have to have traction prior to application? Does this have to be in the form of users or can it be in the form of registered interest?

Thanks!
A Heroku or EC2 build would be amazing

Hosted would also be good though, I think there are a whole class of people who don't care all that much who has access to their data so long as they could self host it (or have someone else host it for them) if the service ever stopped running.
The irony for me is that I had no idea Marco had ads on his site, because I get to read his blog content in Google Reader!
you're at an important point: you realize where you stand. from my experience, that's good. accept that, remember who you are.

now go do something. ask for a job. don't get too focussed on github, domains or social media. find someone that needs something you could do and start there. don't be picky. try it for at least three weeks and if it sucks balls, find something new. don't quit before you've found something you believe is better. rinse and repeat.

good luck!
The important thing is they're building a new lounge and smisek wore a hardhat to tell us about it.

Where is the line between civil and criminal when it comes to caring for children?
The free developer account allows you to do more than just IP calls.

You can create Plivo endpoints to make calls on a multitude of clients -> Browsers (using our Web SDK), iOS, Android, any Soft phone that runs SIP, and any hardware phone that runs SIP like Polycom or Cisco.

When you bring in your own numbers, you will not be charged. Additionally, when you make calls on these numbers, the balance is taken from the credits on the free developer account.
For what it's worth:

When people think about plant patents, they're usually thinking of the Monsanto suits. I don't know that there aren't crazy patent trolls out there suing gardeners, but as far as Monsanto is concerned, I don't think gardeners have much to worry about.

If you read the Monsanto suits that have been published, the behavior Monsanto pursues is planting unlicensed Roundup-Ready seeds and then spraying them with glyphosphate-based ("Roundup") herbicides. You can spray Roundup without a patent license. You can probably plant RR crops without a license. But if you do both (commercially, at least), Monsanto sues.

The point of RR seeds is that they resist Roundup, which is a broad-spectrum herbicide that will kill non-RR crops. In the commercial suits, it becomes tricky to argue that you planted RR crops unwittingly when you are later shown to have sprayed them with an herbicide that would have certainly ruined your harvest but for inbred RR resistance.

The patent they have on the whole RR system may be totally invalid; I'm hoping to have the presence of mind not to end up litigating that point. I'm just saying, the likelihood of accidentally become a lawsuit target appears like it might be overblown in some ways.
“Please, as an advice to general HN posters…”
Stop complaining.
Go to some local dev/tech meetups.
Do some freelance work and/or hack on opensource projects.
Work on your self esteem.
Be more confident.

Maybe, despite living at your parents, you were the best time she had... who cares anyway, YOU are focusing on the bad stuff, look at what you have not what you don't have.
Should have been coded in python :( .
Whenever i see a project that i think is cool and then see that it has been coded in languages other than js, c++ or python i consider it just for my usage, and not for my contributions as developer.
There is nothing stopping Monsanto in selling those in the US or markets outside of India.

However, in lands commonly plagued by famine, I could see the argument that terminator seeds would impose a serious security risk to the population. If for some reason the harvest fail, then the farmers is out of both money and seeds to survive for the next year. There would be nothing to fall back on. Terminator seeds would become de-facto time-bombs that are triggered during bad years, and I would understand a government depended on farming to outlaw such seed.

Correction: Below commenter is right that there might be legal issues in using the seeds even outside countries that has explicitly outlawed it. My fault for just reading the sources and not the whole Wikipedia section.
More correct analogy: You are allowed to pay someone to paste paper over newspaper ads before you read it. You are just not allowed to hire such a guy inside the shop selling that newspaper, as per that shop's policies. Feel free to hire anyone outside the shop.

i.e. Google is fine with downloading AdBlock independently. They just won't allow it in Play store which is closed (unlike the OS, which is open).
To develop free software, all you need is a PC, Internet and free time.

To develop free GM plants, you need workers, material (host microorganisms, plant fertilizer), green houses, lab time, machines (PCR, sterile workbenches, ideally a sequencer, PCs, maybe a fun electroporator, etc.), space for growth etc. Also, the laws are strict - you can't just create GM-organisms in your backyard, depending on the country you're in you have to be in a certified lab with correct procedures for waste disposal etc.

The upfront costs involved in developing GM are much, much higher. But it's definitely not impossible - there's for example an open source PCR machine for self-builders, I can see more machines like that coming up...
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Disclaimer: I'm a cofounder at Intigi.

With https://intigi.com, we've done just this, intake content from both social (Twitter) and RSS feeds. With Twitter, we index the full text of any linked article and make the text fully searchable. The full text provides much more data for us to search and also is a great way of deduplicating content (i.e., Tweets linking to the same article).
You could tweak the subscription in ways that don't really change your costs but allow you to price as separate offerings. Monthly vs. quarterly vs. annual. Data limits, bandwidth limits, different features active, different levels of support, etc.
I figured as much, I was just wondering if anyone knew of any potential predictions. As a counter-point to your examples, Tesla had lots of visions for the possible uses of his research and inventions that were years ahead of his time, many of which have come to be and some of which are still ahead of our time. So it's possible to predict possible uses for cutting-edge science, even if it's rare.
Getting gas.
Getting it serviced.
Getting it repaired.
Buying selling it.
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This is something we considered.

Part of the problem is that sometimes when people analyze a section of a song, they include a pick up, etc. Other times the song doesn't have a strong resolution, so it's not clear where a progression begins or ends.

We thought this was the best compromise for now. The tool will show you all songs that start with the progression, as well as songs that use the progression in a phase shifted manner (which is also interesting).
I wrote something on this topic a while back. http://www.supercoders.com.au/blog/theskillsmatrix.shtml
Modern English is not exclusively an SVO language. You probably aren't aware of how often you use VSO sentences. For example, it is very common for interrogative sentences (questions) to have an inverted order. For example:

Where is the (object)?
When was your last birthday?
Whither wander you? — Shakespeare

All of those sentences use inverted word order. One of the reasons that English is so expressive is that it uses both inflections and word order to determine the meaning of a sentence.

One of the great things about Lisp is that it allows you to define your own infix operators.
And with a single click, United loses the goodwill they generated when they delayed a flight so a man could see his dying mother.

Bravo, social media team, Bravo.
It's sort of like analyzing the moves to 1300 chess games for patterns. The good stuff is when you go off-book.
So let's change the title: instead of "Digital Comic Publisher", put "Steam", "Sony" or EA.
DRM is the 21th century worst trap of all and we must stop it from spreading.
Curious what vetting you do of the complaints that you handle this way? What do you do to verify they are valid and not, for example, hoaxes or even if not hoaxes that they contain all of the relevant facts and are not slanted in favor of the harmed person?
this is so bad it's good. I'm dying of laughter. The technical specs are quite nice though.
I was pointing out a misunderstanding of what he was saying.
Or that what was created to be a bandaid over a design failure (was hashtag on purpose or not?) is now being considered a feature.
Monsanto already has a great incentive to make things "roundup ready" - they can sell more roundup as a result. They've done something of debatable patentability that drastically increases the value of their existing assets. If you want to milk it for more, raise the price of roundup, which as a fancy chemical cocktail that isn't self reproducing, is much more viable for patent and trade secret protections.
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What a Fuck is Samsung doing?
Their event is like a child play from the kindergarden. This was embarrassing. What do HN think ?
I'm the project lead for Vienna, the open source RSS client for the Mac. We support Google Reader, and we want to support this:

https://github.com/ViennaRSS/vienna-rss/issues/160

If you're a Cocoa developer, feel free to jump right in. If you're going to implement the server side, shoot me a note @mstroeck (app.net preferred).
I hate to be that guy, but the chart would be a lot more useful if the colors were used to communicate something rather than just being pretty. Ideally items that were better (e.g. were compatible with older versions of a browser) would have more visual weight than those that were worse. The less/sass and tablet/desktop sections do it better, but the browser section is pretty useless.
The only thing on your list I know how to do would be to hack on opensource projects. Github account, pull some stuff, fix bugs.

Do employers value such work?
The current version of Reeder supports Fever. It took me about ten minutes to setup Fever (you need a MySQL instance, but thats about it). I use Bluehost for my hosting and setting up Fever was pretty painless.

It does cost $30, but it is worth it for me.
I think I could deal with a single email from each vendor. Maybe even two if the second catches me on a good day.

But, this incessant, "we will force you to reply and act increasingly irritated if you don't" bit is out of control. Like I owe them my time? It also doesn't give me much confidence that they will actually stop.

My gripe is why should I be forced to make an effort to get someone to stop bugging me?
And that's exactly why I'd like to try out something that is a lot more different, not just slightly different ;-)
I personally reached out to the mother, checked the flight records and reached out to United before sharing anything. We also waited until the child was home safely before sharing anything.
I think your first paragraph would likely be relegated to spin. While your oversimplification of the problem makes it seem acutely cut and dry the short response is: it's not that simple.

Like all other constraints of life in general, I think going lax on things like a separation of an ill corporation and the direct corollary effect it poses to something nature has originally derived is treading in unknown territory. The fact that this simple question would have been laughable at best 15 years ago showcases the downward spiral into everything being a legal matter in the not so distant future. You may think this is counterproductive activism but skim the history books. Look around you and reflect on the choices that others have made to put your in your first world situation. That can quickly change if there aren't people who keep those ideals in check and balance out the corporate tendencies that often times spins out of control when left to its own device. That is a path where morals take a back seat to suits and dollars more often than not.
They have claimed they did not block us but I know for a fact that it was someone on their team and not Twitter.
One more reason I avoid flying them whenever possible.
This reminds me of the issue with Dave Carroll http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Breaks_Guitars. As a company, you can't afford to get yourself in conflicts with people who have genuine issues and are savvy with social media.
Ha! Funny how effortless it is for them to bug the heck out of you.
> I don't see why anyone would develop new plants.

A large portion of the most powerful companies are depended on fuel. With constantly climbing oil prices, renewable sources are very much sought after. The military would likely be willing to send top dollars for research into more effective crops and plants. Almost all plants used in farming is also used for biofuel (corn, soy and sugarcane to just mention a few). Animal fat is also used, so basically anything a farm produce could improve the biofuel industry. This is an industry with a loot of money to send researchers regardless of any patents involved.
Very few customers care anything at all about technology issues such as whether a SaaS product is built with RoR, ASP, PHP, Python, or whatever. They just care whether it solves their problem at a price that is a good value.

Unless you are specifically targeting some niche market of software engineers, the underlying technology just doesn't enter into the discussion. Basecamp was built for project managers.
Yeah, I keep hard to replace things lying around too. I haven't gone full blown minimalist, just more minimal than I used to be, and more minimal than average.

If it goes too far I feel it can be more trouble than it's worth, though there might be some benefits I'm ignoring.
Roundup is out of patent.
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