skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Are there any good alternatives to this?
He's not a very good lawyer. The photographer owns the copyright interest in any photos they take. the subject may have an interest based on their 'right of publicity,' but that's something quite different.
So the anonymous owners of these companies are actually disgustingly taking advantage of the US patent system not to make a profit but simply express its brokenness and to encourage reform?

That's a good conspiracy theory :)
Start-up spirit after 20 years.

Hey, we're a startup, take a pay cut and work 80 hour weeks. Here's a free soda. Let's make Yahoo great, we're in this all together. http://money.cnn.com/2012/07/19/technology/yahoo-ceo-pay/ind...
Right, it's a moving target. Basically you'd adjust the cost function each time a new instruction comes along and rerun the optimiser to see what changes.

Thinking about dealing with a changing search space makes me wonder what an ant colony optimiser JIT would look like. A graph of instructions, maybe? With escalating path lengths?

edit: but then I need to update the graph based on the next legal instruction and voila, it looks a lot like markov chains with 0/1 probabilities :|
I found Mencius Moldbug's response fairly interesting (http://unqualified-reservations.blogspot.com/2013/03/sam-alt...) -- it's long, and he's a troll, though.

I don't think the "easy changes" of immigration and tort reform, and maybe lowering some taxes, will have that meaningful an affect on long term growth, though. I have no idea what actually would.
Good read, I'm a sucker for those love it/hate it posts.

Still being in the process of playing around with Ember and I really want to like it, but my mine gripe is still the documentation.
Take for example the linkTo helper which I wanted to use with the Twitter Bootstrap navigation. I found a few examples on how this could be done, but no API documentation for the helper? The Ember.LinkView documentation does not really help as well.

Maybe I'm blind or just too inexperienced with Ember.Js Views, but something like that really puts me off.
I don't know who first made this observation, but the best way to get a dumb law changed is to enforce it strictly. I can't help thinking that this is a good thing...
Due to past obligations and future opportunities, I can't/won't touch any of these documents directly.
Even if you ignore that data - all of the popular Android devices have been non-Nvidia except for the Nexus 7. (GS3, Note2, various Asian/European devices etc.) Even for next gen Nexus 7 there are rumors about Google/Asus dumping Tegra and going with Qualcomm.
Good question about whether it's sparse searching. To me the point of using markov chains seemed to be to converge more quickly, not to increase coverage (where you'd actually want to introduce more variation).

Annealing is always worth mentioning because a lot of the time, it's a better performer. GAs and GPs carry a lot of systemic overhead.
> Serious question: why do you want it to be free?

If I wasn't at least a little bit clever with my spending, I would have a lot more difficulty paying my rent.

Why would I want to pay if there is alternatives offering the same product at no cost?
It's good to see comments like this on here, because it makes me feel less alone in the world. I've got some entrepreneurial spirit in me, but I also am fairly content being a cog in a larger wheel. I like steady income and insurance, and a full time corporate gig gives me that padding. If one of my nights-and-weekend side projects every picks up, sure, I'll run with it, but that's not now. It's also nice having someone willing to pay for me to go to conferences, and having other people answer the phone with things break.
yea exactly - who does science without data. We've all been doing data science for years!
Reminder: patents are per-country.

A finding in one country doesn't necessarily affect other countries.
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Verizon shows some IPv6 support over FIOS. In the quick search I performed I didn't see any info about DSL. I've been hounding Suddenlink about their IPv6 support for some time. The response I received from one of the techs was that they were having issues with Cisco on the headend equipment.
I have an American friend (we met when we were both living overseas) who has been all over the world because he works for the international travel industry. He hasn't lived in the United States for at least a decade. If I remember correctly, he hasn't even visited the United States for at least four years. He and I have both long been skeptics about the United States Department of State and especially the Foreign Service. But after the Wikileaks release of many United States diplomatic cables, he told me that his respect for the United States Foreign Service had increased enormously. The members of the Foreign Service are actually quite astute about what a clash in values is involved in maintaining peaceful, normal diplomatic relations between their free, democratic country and many other countries around the world. Diplomatic business has to go on day by day even while countries are painfully slow in their evolution to civil liberties and representative governments.
It saddens me that every domain registration does not come with a free domain-validated SSL certificate.
I really miss the ability to resize, move images. Every time try to move image, the chrome tab crashes.
I think you could address that if you pay taxes based on a declared worth $X with the provision that anyone can exercise the option to buy the intellectual property from you for $X or you can reassess at a higher price/move your IP to the public domain.

The problem with this is that the creators of marketable and valuable IP could not exercise creative control of their IP without paying a tax on the market value of their IP even if they don't make money on it. Not sure about that.

I'm not buying into this idea at all, just adding a perspective.
Yes, and this is the Science of analyzing Data. The term isn't trying to say there is an alternative science that is "non-data", or that people in other kinds of science are not involved with data - it's just specifying what kind of thing is receiving the scientific method: the data itself.
2011. I think this was discussed here when it was first published. This is definitely an interesting article.
My experience has been similar, having a dog gets me up on a saturday when I might have blown it off and slept in, and forces me to take periodic breaks which keeps the blood flowing.
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I recently had a spare half hour and checked this out. Early Louis CK and Will Ferrell thing, filmed just before each would hit the tipping point.
Thanks for the update. Did this change at some point? I distinctly remember them requiring iAd when I was getting my developer id but that was a few years ago now.
I wonder if there's a fancy (latin?) word for someone who attempts to defeat someone else's argument by making points which actually reinforce the opponent's argument.

e.g.: the "more of the Earth is dangerous to walk today with an iPad than in 1950 with a typewriter" is patently false. Anywhere in USSR, China, etc., a white man with a typewriter would be pretty doomed. In a lot of colonial areas, too. Now, outside North Korea, it's crime which is the only real threat.

There are definitely parts of today which are worse than 1950, but the big problems are the higher derivatives -- growth slowing, and rate of improvement going negative, or at least rate of growth of rate of growth going negative) -- not absolute status.

In the US, being a black man with a typewriter might have been a serious problem in large areas in 1950, too.

Mencius is generalizing, incorrectly, from the horrible anti-growth, anti-civilization policies of San Francisco (and California, and to some extent, the US) and claiming they're universal.
The correct solution is IPv6 + Dual Stack Lite, but it's probably not mature enough for deployment yet.
Clever idea....I hate browsing when shopping online for stuff. Looks like you're on to an interface that might actually make that enjoyable. I'd say some of the feedback from the other comments could improve it a bit, but I really like it. If you open up an online retail shop with this interface, I'd definitely buy something from it.
A lot of great links shared in these comments... I'd like to mention a very interesting article on the near-disaster of Apollo 13: "Apollo 13, We Have a Solution" - http://spectrum.ieee.org/aerospace/space-flight/apollo-13-we...
This isnt that big a deal. They say that you can opt out of this and that it does not apply to Fios or Business customers.

I'm sure there is a huge amount of customers who will never have any clue that anything has changed since they dont play games, run servers, need VPNs, etc.

It's probably a good thing for everyone else given that it does raise even more awareness of the problem.
>This is counter to the more targeted idea of MCMC, which generates a bunch of correlated samples to more efficiently sample the distribution.

The idea of MCMC is not to more efficiently sample a distribution through to use of correlated samples. Sampling a Gaussian exactly is more efficient than constructing a Markov chain with some random walk proposal (for example) to sample it.

The idea of MCMC is to sample distributions that are considered intractable. Correlation in samples skews moment calculations, and this is bad. In fact, there is a whole field of research dedicated to designing proposals that allow chains to reach stationarity more quickly.
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The writer reached out over twitter. I responded with my info on the subject and another individual pointed him to Henkel's blog.
But if you stopped supporting those ie8 users would it detract from your bottom line? By breaking old browsers you push those people to upgrade.
Similarly I think there's a tendency to paint extroverts as being lacking in 'book-smarts'. Of course, anyone who has ever read a Richard Feynman book can tell you that's not the case.
Yes and no - the component pieces of data science have been used for years, but as the OP describes, the field of data science assembles skills and tools that really haven't been universally understood and effectively applied to problem solving - it is a relatively fundamental shift to a new way of interacting with data.
The footer says "In collaboration with TED" + a few others. Sounds more like a partnership of sorts.
It's a brave new world out there. Well, I knew this would happen eventually, and I got a lot out of the internet while it lasted. Shit, the last 15 years of my life have been grand thanks to the net, but now it's time to kiss it goodbye.

I, for one, welcome our new corporate master feudal lords.
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It's a place to hear about and discuss radical technology ideas for solving global problems. Radical in the sense that the solutions could help millions or billions of people. Radical in the sense that the audacity of the proposals makes them sound like science fiction. And radical in the sense that there is some real technology breakthrough on the horizon indicating that these ideas could really be brought to life.

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It makes sense in that context, though. Clearly, Disney knows what profit can be enjoyed from a public domain work, and wouldn't want others to profit on the back of their property. Besides, Disney is a red harring in the article - because of Disney's desire to protect their most iconic character, the author can't read some old magazines online.
It is rendering it, but not displaying it. The browser knows how wide the view port is, and knows that some of the text sits outside the viewport, so it does not display it. The same check could easily be performed upon OS copy event; it just isn't because the browser authors did not think they needed to.
He knows that he's such an asshole, he doesn't want his image out there in case of reprisal.
Annealing is hit or miss. I often have to sample a distribution on a domain that approximates an infinite dimensional space and annealing doesn't cut it for me. There are just far too many modes. Personally, I'd like to see what GAs and GPs have to offer in this regard.
Except that things in the common culture should be able to be built upon, and expanded. I do need not seek out the estate of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle if I should desire to write a Sherlock Holmes book. It has become part of the common culture. Similarly, I should not need permission to make my own animations involving Mickey Mouse, Felix the Cat, Betty Boop, Popeye, Superman, or any other of the creations from the early 20th century.

It is not only the artificial scarcity of creative works that makes lengthy copyright so obscene, but also the inability to build upon earlier works.
You might want to take a look at https://svbtle.com/
It's the reason I've never actually seen anything WikiLeaks has published since Manning hit the airwaves. :-/
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Do you mean public domain as in "unclassified", or public domain as in "publically accessible"? Because those are far different.
None taken.

You are right or you maybe right. When I joined my first job and started writing code from Day3(after initial HR/management hoopla doopla) I didn't have any commercial experience at all and I was up and going within 15 days. Must say it was a good team and now as I've experience and have some(or a little more than some) idea how things work, I believe I can pull it off.

Besides in the interviews I clearly mention the fact. It's not as if I've pasted some fictitious project/work. It's just there in C/C++. Along with Java and Python. That's it. And as I've already mentioned even when I mention C++ they test me for C only a little bit Java.

Back here, other than in startups and a few companies you are just tested for DS/Algo etc and not at all especially for a platform/technology. With the belief that the candidate will pick a language putting some effort which I believe, thought it may not be very fruitful for for a critical project where immediate expertise is required. In my last switch I was interviewed in C and worked on Java after that.

>>you have essentially no real-world experience

What do you called a real world experience? something that brought in rupees? Or sth that was used my thousands of people if not millions? Well, if that's your criteria then no I do not have real wold C++ experience.

But if you meant by sth that actually existed in real world and sth that I built from scratch and sth that was used by people - even a few, then I used my C++ text editor for over 6 months and some of my friends used it too, for some time :-)
If I were in his business I don't think I'd want my picture out there either. You can probably steal from people like this and 99.99% of those people do the "smart" thing and just get on with their lives. But if you send enough extortion letters, eventually you'll roll over a nutcase like a landmine and life will get "interesting" after that.
I see your idea, that going after money-influence in politics might always end up consisting of simply adding more rules, and thus complicating and expanding government further.

I would take the idea more seriously if its something that can be rigorously demonstrated; i.e. there is no way to amend the US government without adding so many rules as to frustrate the situation even further.

That being said, any government that consists of human beings is going to have an emergent agenda of some sort or the other. It seems to me that job number one of any government would be to police it self so that that agenda is generally in the people's favor, first. I would have thought that that's really what democracy means, maybe I'm wrong.

Surely even a more libertarian government would have policies in place to fight its corruption?
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> With Linux, this isn't even an issue

That's a problem systemd is trying very hard to solve.

/sarcasm

SysV init may be old, crufty, and inelegant, but it's reasonably straightforward to parse and troubleshoot manually (and BSD-style rc inits are even more straightforward). Making the bootstrap process nondeterministic strikes me as tremendously unwise.
"[...] incrementing a counter corresponding to the trigger event upon detection of the occurrence of the trigger event in the product [...]"? Sounds like a website hit counter from the '90s.
Patenting inevitable software functionality is just soo odd to me. It's awful that companies like Soverain software who obtained shopping cart patents were able to go after companies such as Amazon and settle because the cost of battling simply wasn't worth it. To say one cannot have an online shopping cart is as crazy as saying "You can't have a cash register in your brick and mortar store."
"The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly." - Abraham Lincoln
He does have a point though (the NK reference is hilarious because it's actually not completely off-base, albeit a little over the top).

I looked at Ember again the other day after a long abstinence and to me it has become frighteningly opaque. Even with my prior Ember-knowledge (before Router and {{outlet}} existed in their current form) I completely failed to make sense of a recent tutorial[1].

I wanted to wire the tutorial up with ember-data and add pagination (nothing too fancy), but a series of undecipherable exceptions stopped me in my tracks before I got either working.

A major problem for me was how everything in the "new" Ember is tightly coupled. No longer can I just make an ArrayController, reference it in my template and populate it with standard javascript until I'm ready to drink more of the kool-aid. Or perhaps I can, but it seems to be an anti-pattern now. None of the (few) newer tutorials does anything like that.

It seems I'm now supposed to jump in head-first. I'm supposed to understand all of Ember before using Ember.

Sadly that didn't work out for me, even despite knowing a bit of Ember already. I was constantly stopped by opaque exceptions from the "runloop" which didn't even point to a line of my code. Tracking those down is a Royal Pain In The Ass.

At one point I had enough and just wanted to drop back to "old-style" Ember (who needs a Router anyway!) but quickly gave up on that, too, when it didn't work right away and I realized I'd be completely on my own in that style anyway.

So, from my short (but second) endeavor with Ember I have to conclude that you seem to have turned the learning curve into a perfect square-wave. Every time I made a mistake (even as much as a typo) the useless error messages threw me back a mile. It took only a few of these cycles before I gave up in frustration.

I think you're on a dangerous track here. When I compare my first contact with Ember (about a year ago) with my recent experience then it feels like you're about to re-invent Sproutcore. If my memory serves me right Sproutcore was pretty awesome and powerful, but so opaque and unapproachable that nobody ended up using it.

I really hope this doesn't happen to Ember. I hope you're going to modularize it so newbies stand a chance to start small instead of being bombarded with meaningless exceptions from all directions at once. I hope you'll add narrative guides with little "run" buttons to augment the Reference Documentation that you accidentally filed under "Guides".

I hope you'll try to be more jQuery and less Dojo. More Sinatra, less Rails. More library, less framework.

In short, I hope my next attempt at Ember will be more like the first and less like my last weekend.

[1] http://twbrandt.github.io/2013/02/11/Ember-Quick_Start_Guide...
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I find myself disagreeing with all the positive feedback on the ui. I really dislike the squished view above and the anorexic view to the right. Why not use a Pinterest grid. I want to see everything at once. I can scan much faster for things that catch my eye. I'd like social ranking so the top/left most images, or first images in your ui are the most popular. When choosing a gift it's helpful to get an ideas about what others liked.

Too slow and annoying to see one item at a time.
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Not for the patent lawyers.
If my ISP did this I would switch instantly.
That might work for the likes of disney, but seems like it could be really unfair to smaller copyright holders. Suppose I write a successful novel, and that the "IP tax" is 1%. If I value it at $10m, my yearly tax is going to be untenable at $100k, but that $10m is a rounding error for a large studio that wants the movie rights. Yeah, I realize you could tweak the numbers, but I think it's a valid objection.

One approach I have heard that might work is that you get some amount of time of free copyright (20, 30, 50 years), and then have an increasing copyright-registration fee for each year or extension period beyond that, up to some maximum term. It could either increase linearly or exponentially, or someplace in between. I'm not entirely sure it would work, but I think the idea has some merit.
seriously, wtf was that noise that blared out my speakers as I opened that page. Turn that off by default. It's horrible.
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I wonder if the educational system is responsible for this idea that the Constitution was designed to have a "weak government" that wouldn't be "worth taking over." Growing up in Virginia, I definitely had a "states are so amazing" slant to my education (this is the same state that has a giant statute of a traitor in its capital). I don't know what people who grew up outside the south were told.

The fact is that the Founders didn't really agree on how strong the Federal government should be, but they all agreed it should be stronger than the weak national government that existed under the Articles of Confederation. And the Federalists wanted a very robust national government indeed (and remember, the reference point of the British Parliament, which has nearly unlimited power, was the framing in this situation), while others wanted to preserve the nearly unlimited power of the states. Nobody wanted a "weak" government--it was a battle about who should hold the power.

And it was a battle that the Federalists won in the first several Congresses and during the Marshall era, and finally consolidated at the point of a sword during the civil war.
I wouldn't count on it - it seems they plan on a rather limited trial on fios where they control 100% of the CPE. They only started shipping the router they've qualified for it late last year, and even so they are pushing a lot of firmware updates to it.

Not that it would be of much help to folks stuck with private space in the near term - it's not like their gaming or file sharing peers will be on routable 6. Except for some VOIP providers the big traffic sinks with 6 enabled are just bog standard http.

If this isn't just sabre rattling it's pretty stupid that heavy hitters like verizon are SOL while so many old school /8's sit around 99% unreachable. Somebody needs to cut the shit and start the auctions.
Didn't knew about Neil Postman, thanks for posting the video.

The problem with media and economic pressures - specially in today's "Like" or "Upvote" web - is that we have asymmetric exposure of different viewpoints.