skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, please add kanji to the system. I'm learning Japanese and use SRS's for kanji memorization, along with Heisig's Remembering the Kanji (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remembering_the_Kanji). While Anki (http://ichi2.net/anki/) works wonderfully on my Gentoo system, a web-based option would be nice as well. However, beware of lag; that was one of the big drawbacks of Khatzumemo (http://www.alljapaneseallthetime.com/khatzumemo/), which was otherwise quite well-designed, IIRC.
I'm not sure I agree with that parallel. ME was the end of a dead codeline, while a lot of what's good about 7 could not exist without Vista (example: the improved security model). Vista was just bitter medicine.
Hey cvboss, thanks for giving it a spin!

Yeah, we really do need an instructional demo video on the "try it page." We actually just got the front page up, so new instructional demo videos and the like are on the way. It's good to know people actually want them, and sorry for any confusion.

Regarding you interest in seeing success stories or incentives, we are going to conduct a study next semester with a big batch of students so that we can make claims about the efficacy, is that the sort of thing you're looking for ("With Skritter, you can learn character 44% faster than with traditional methods, see our study") or would it be more enticing to see small narratives from users about how much its helped them?
The problem with this question is that there is a significant gap between pay rates for part time and full time work.

I am a contract worker for a big company right now. They expect me to work 40 hours or more a week. If I could convert this contract to 20 or 24 hours a week for the same pay, I'd do it quickly. The problem is that those contracts or jobs are hard to find, and they usually pay significantly less per hour. (We'll ignore health care for now.)

I'd love to run or work at a company where most people work 20 hours a week, with spikes only as necessary. It would mean a completely different attitude toward working.
I think we're in a good place for charging for it: it's something that will save users a lot of time and helps with something they're probably already paying a lot more for (learning Chinese). We also have no competition with writing practice, and not much free online SRS with effort put into it.

So how much does it make sense to charge, from an outside perspective?
The plan was to mask a deceleration in growth of the main eBay platform while they bought time to fix it. Whoops.
damn, wanted to give it a whirl, but my ctrl-space was already bound to my quick-open
Analogous:

Someone breaks your car window with a brick, but doesn't steal anything.

You thank them for showing that car windows aren't brick-proof.
We don't have a lot of stats yet, but I'm at 1700 characters after 60 hours of practice, and I probably could only write 600 when I started.
Every day, I see more and more parallels between coding and law: the philosophy of each dictates elegant and simple design, but(because) the practitioners spend most of their time navigating hopelessly complex legacy systems.
Ask HN: Resources for image pattern recognition algorithms
I am interested in extracting a set of objects from a large, noisy image. For instance: if I had a high-resolution picture of a seating section at a stadium, I might want to extract each baseball cap into individual images given a second picture of a prototypical baseball cap.

There is obviously a lot of research published on this subject (by subject I mean image pattern recognition as a whole). I've been pouring through the IEEE, as well as just searching via Google for a couple of days.

My problem is that this is so far from my field of expertise, I feel like I'm wasting an awful lot of time reading research papers that are not applicable or are outdated.

So my question is, if anyone has any experience in this field or a related field, are there a set of known problem definitions I could narrow down my research into? What about known classes of algorithms (and by that I mean more specific than "machine learning" or "neural networks")?

Any advice is mightily appreciated.
People are so gullible to believe a troll saying "I did it". Spend 15 minutes catching up on any military conflict and you'll quickly find that any unconventional attack has several groups claiming responsibility. It's just how it goes.

And getting so highly rated on HN is that time-honored tradition known as _feeding the trolls_. Please don't feed the /b/ trolls.
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If someone is going to alter my storefront sign, it's vandalism, intent as a prank or no. If they leave it that way for a few days, then I have every right to seek redress, especially if it affects my livelihood in some way.

It's not the intent as a prank that's the problem. It's the intent to have the particular effect that he did. I'm sure Amazon's Terms of Use would preclude what he did.
Hehe. I might have been over the top when I wrote my previous comment. But seriously, I would prefer working on things that I do not know yet than fixing other people's code.
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Some things are still best done face to face.
In the case discussed in the headline, the guy is admitting -- nay bragging -- that he deceived a number of parties on purpose.
Third, C++ culture encourages poor use of operators. The standard library itself uses bit-shift operators (<<) and (>>) for string formatting operations!

You can see elsewhere I slagged on C++ for its limited choice of operators, but this criticism never made sense to me. Using << and >> for stream operations isn't confusing to me. They aren't intrinsically shift operators; that's just the only way they were used in C.

Perhaps this kind of disagreement is why operator overloading is so despised. I see no reason not to use the same operator to mean two different things in two completely different contexts. I don't especially love the iostreams library, but the choice of << and >> to denote insertion and extraction seems perfectly sane to me, and obviously seems insane to you. For some reason method naming isn't so contentious.

The most galling problem is a lack of syntax for declaring collections. There would be no need for `ostream<<` if you could have something like `cout.Write("foo = %d, bar = %d\n", vector[foo, bar])`.

This example doesn't make any sense. First, the iostream designers didn't use format strings because they thought IO type-checking should be handled via the same mechanism as type-checking for other operations. This decision might have been infeasible without operator overloading, but the motivation was type safety. Second, you don't need a collection here. It isn't even helpful. If you wanted to use format strings, you could use the same function signature as printf.
yeah, we're experimenting. i understand both of the for/against autoplay arguments. it gets trickier when you realize how you can easily confuse your users a/b testing this type of thing.
I was a kind of quirky kid when I was younger... I sort of memorized the Hobbit without really intending to, along with every other book I ever read. Being something of a quirky kid it took me until about middle school before realizing a) this sort of thing is not normal and b) sometimes its better to keep it under your cap. (I can't do it word-for-word anymore, although I still have fairly good retention. I just stopped doing it and it stopped happening. Happy/sad about that, mostly happy. Being "scary" makes for an uncomfortable middle school experience, and being unable to forget the uncomfortable bits sucks royally. Trust me -- been there, done that.)

One of my friends from high school, also diagnosed as being LD, still remembers my drivers license number. He saw it when I showed him my photo after passing the exam, more than a decade ago. Oddly enough, I have never had a particularly good memory for numbers, even back in my freakish days. (It also took me until about age 10 to figure out the difference between left and right. My little brother, who was exasperated at that and thought I was playing, mentioned that left is always the same side as the mole I have on my left wrist. I still check my wrist to this day, out of semi-conscious habit.)

Ahh, the human brain -- it is pretty freaking weird.
Your logic simply doesn't hold. If some guy repaints highway signs to cause a car crash, then, if anyone dies, he should be up for murder, not the driver. The guilty party is the vandal in both cases, not the driver or the computer operator.
I am quite interested to learn more about object recognition as well, unfortunately I don't have any direct answers to your question.

May I suggest your search for "Content Based Image Retrieval" for research papers in that field.
And also, less people want to ride in your car. How nice!
These points have also been covered at length by Steve Souders (formerly of yahoo, currently at google - http://stevesouders.com/), the YSlow Firefox add-on, and the Yahoo Exceptional performance team itself (http://developer.yahoo.com/performance/).
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I don't forget either -- I just never really remembered in the first place.
A long time ago (before Internet gambling), I remember reading in Reader's Digest about a professional card player with a photographic memory who got caught in a tragic casino fire. In the article, it said that since the fire, he'd been unable to enter any casino because his photographic memory brought back the scenes of the fire vividly into the present.

I also remember the hypnotist at my college orientation who hypnotized a bunch of our class. He had a couple revert to kindergarten memories, telling him who sat where in the classroom, who their friends were. In the most memorable sequence, however, he asked a guy in childhood mode the question 'did you ever make a special sound'. The guy/kid was shy and said 'yes but I'm not sure I want to do it.' Eventually, the hypnotist coaxed and encouraged the guy/kid enough ... and the guy/kid did the most spot-on, uncanny, loud Chewbaca roar. He got the nickname Chewy around campus after that.
Jane would approve.

http://www.google.com/search?q=jane+austen+singular+they
Uh, no you see the danger and are trying to weasel out of it by pleading "oh noes, the greys," but, "Mrs Smith leaving the money in a bag on the floor of her store," pretty much breaks the back of your argument.

Someone absconding with that bag is stealing. Period. They didn't pay for that bag, why are they leaving the store with it? The thief is wrong. Nothing grey about that.

The problem here is that Weev's intent was to deceive and have a particular group's books effectively censored. This fits in with Amazon's Terms of Use? I don't think so. There is no grey area. If Weev wanted to improve the world with his hacking, there are tons of ways he could've done this without hurting anyone (reduced income), deceiving anyone, or running afoul of the TOS.

Prediction: if you go any further, your analogy generator is just going to illuminate how far you have to grasp for straws. (And I'll also note that I have been careful to construct relevant analogies, usually 2 or 3 at a time, picking the best fit. Also, your feedback in the discussion has resulted in iteratively more damning analogies.)

Let's see it!
there is a lot of defense work in the bay area.

I know several smart people who could do my job working for defense companies.

But I make more money than most of them. Like most jobs, there is always a tradeoff between stability and money.
"use the metacommand '/switch', for example '/switch clojure' to start coding in clojure"
I could consult our very own pixcavator:
http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=pixcavator

http://inperc.com/wiki/index.php?title=User%27s_introduction
It is interesting to note that having a very good memory used to be a tremendous advantage. I mean before ubiquitous books (never mind the web).
Yes, I've done a bit of searching on CBIR actually. There are a few papers out there about querying at multiple resolutions (like http://grail.cs.washington.edu/projects/query/mrquery.pdf), which will definitely be helpful.

The next step, for me, is to use a single image as the set to be queried, without knowing at what scale the target objects appear in the image.
Yet another science article where a vital gap in reasoning is simply left out. I trust scientists over science journalists, so my guess is that the scientist provided an argument, but the writer or editor didn't realize its importance and cut it out of the final piece. Still, you never know. Maybe there will be a better writeup when the study is actually published.
First, a link direct to the REPL: http://lotrepls.appspot.com/

The lack of state between evaluations for the non-Lisps is unfortunate, but this is still really neat, I hope it continues to improve.

What I'd really like to see is a set of "Try Ruby"-ish interactive tutorials for each of the languages...
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Anki does have a web-based interface. Works great on the cell phone.
I would much rather recommend a book less on luck and more on doing the right things as you will get a lot more out of it.

"Doing right things"/success story books won't teach you about mistakes they made. You better learn how you can fail, because you can repeat failure, but you probably will not repeat success by using the same methods as in success story books.
Um. The first tune rocked my socks off, and I'm gonna let the next one play too.
Don't autoplay, and feature a prominent (read: huge) play button.
The stroke recognition is both really cool and somewhat disorienting. Really cool because it works, and somewhat disorienting because if you're off a bit, it repositions the stroke.

In a fluent writer, each stroke follow from muscle memory, relative to the size and position of the previous stroke. Repositioning breaks the rhythm.

I don't know, the positive reinforcement might work very well for a beginner. I would be more worried about the intermediate student and above.
Counter-example: I used to do contract development work at $65 - 85 / hr. At 40 hours per week, this would equate to $130k to $170k / year. But if I was to get a full-time job as a developer at my skill level, I'd probably make half of that.
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Haha, I never thought of it that way, but now I see Microsoft just made a huge fool of themselves.
I find it very ironic that a former communist owned car company could be turned around and become world-leading in a short time, simply because it just adapted to free market principles : make something the people want, and can afford. This guy soundsm more like a 21st Century Henry Ford than anyone currently based in Detroit.

All the while the rest of the world are pointing and laughing at the seemingly poor build quality and lack of 'badge', this company will sell millions of cars and gradually reinvest the R&D to make them better. This is what the Japanese did 30 years ago, and what the Koreans have been doing for the last 20. It's a much sounder business strategy than taking the same old rubbish and updating the styling every year, then trying to move it with special incentives and deep discounting, all while using advertising to evoke the memories of a bygone era, and lobbying the government for more handouts. GM will go the way of British Leyland, and BYD will go the way of Toyota.
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Also, I love the ability to keep navigating without losing the currently playing track. This seems like a basic, necessary UI trope for any sort of temporal media.
Death by Architecture
Suggestion: search box should search music, not people first.
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Really? How are gays and lesbians persecuted? Gays now have more rights than most other people. I would rather be gay than be fat.

And they have that universal excuse ("you're firing me because I am gay?") that they use in any situation (almost as good as the “you're <doing something that does not suit me> because I am black/a woman/Jewish/a vegetarian?).

Why don't everybody just leave everybody else the f*ck alone?

It is because gay people wants to force acceptance to all people that believe differently. If there is a church/religious institution that does not “accept” you, why don't you fucking start your own?

Why do you have to whine about “homophobia” (a misnomer). And why do you have to whine especially on the Internet? (you are getting almost as irritating as the Atheist Army (e.g. www.reddit.com/r/atheism)). NRA supporters do not whine on national television about NRA-phobia. Hunters do not whine about hunting-phobia. Yet they will be treated worse in liberal areas as liberals will be treated in conservative areas.

The most persecuted group is middle aged white males – they have to hear how bad they are from black people, feminists and gays. If they are successful in an area (such as engineering for example) it must be their fault for “disadvantaging” black people or women and that they are “overrepresented” (i.e. will not be promoted in favour of a “designated” group). I wonder when we will start seeing Gay Economic Empowerment!
So then is the supposed hack by 'weev' false?

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=560075
I am OK with the fact that if he is an equal contributor in this project that I would be happy to divide the revenue( or equity) equally.

However, I think I need to make it clear to him that I am taking a personal expense on the server cost as of now and into the future till if/ we make any money or just leave it behind as a fun project that we both collaborated on it. I think 60/40 sounds fair and reasonable. [I would love to hear other people's opinion on it]

A few questions further into it:

1. Say we do it 60:40 (informally say over email records), what happens if he works on for a while and ...

a. does a good job and then decided to not continue for X reasons.

b. does not get anything done for X reasons and decides to move out of it.

2. This is a pure fun project on the Social Networking platforms. So, it may or may not work like N other applications. Is this the right time to talk about it and how to bring this revenue sharing idea into the discussion without loosing the other parties interest?
Not persecuted? Are you kidding me?

Gays are SPECIFICALLY excluded from many legal rights heterosexuals enjoy.
haha you should see the imob post...

http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/01/15/imob-hits-the-iphone-pr...
Woo! You rule! If you were here right now I'd shake your hand.

I've been using your app for months. This is a fantastic way to practice character writing.

Simply phenomenal work.

Thank you!
You hate Twitter because you don't get it. That's fine. I just don't get why you got 7 points for this invective...
It is flash memory. There's nothing sleazy about it. Anyone who doesn't know the difference between DRAM and and flash memory has no business even considering ordering one of these.
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I would consider linking characters by various criteria (the sound, the radicals, the meaning). In Chinese my experience has been that understanding the relationship between characters is not a science. What I mean is, I don't really care if you are giving me the perfect ancient etymology of a word or character so long as I am able to explore and relate characters in a way that makes sense to me.
Previously on Ms. Price:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=373529

And similarly:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=192454

And necessarily:

"Funes, The Memorious" by Jorge Luis Borges

http://io.uwinnipeg.ca/~morton/bigidea/funes.txt
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Like what? They can vote and they could have voted since Licoln.

One of the few things that they whine about is "marraige". Well, uhm... start your own church and start marrying people - you don't need the government for that.

(They do want the state to name it marraige instead of "civil unions" because that would force people to accept them).
Yes, neither phrase is passive, in the technical grammatical sense, but the first is passive, as opposed to active: i.e. dull, inactive, indirect, circuitous.
I see you don't forget URLs.
I think "Dubai bashing" is in style now. This is not to say that the problems there are illegitimate. BUT, simply bashing everything about Dubai is not a fair analysis either. There are some great things about Dubai such as a relatively progressive social attitudes, capitalism, entrepreneurship, boldness of vision, etc.
I'm glad you're planning on expanding the site to include Japanese, I'm very very excited about this. I was not able to login using the demo account given, did you already expire it?
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Corporations will only hire drones and you have to prove that you are a drone in order to get hired. By being entrepreneurial you are automatically labeled as an anti-drone, therefore, no job. The only border line exception to this rule is sales. In sales you are expected to be like the hunter's dog, bring in the game and be content with getting cold leftovers the next morning. That's after it was you that jumped into the freezing lake not the hunter.
The problem with an engineering student telling a liberal arts student that their degree isn't valuable, is that the engineering student's opinion is very rarely grounded in experience. Although one group happens to have the "right" opinion, that's all it is until reality vindicates it.
Very nice. If you could incorporate a Japanese version, it would be great.
Marriage is a legal union which is specifically denied to gays in the overwhelming majority of states in the US. The issue is not a religious one or a question of acceptance, it is a question of equality before the law.

Marriage confers many benefits, including financial, guardianship (of children), visitation rights, control over partner's affairs when the latter is incapacitated, etc.

At the Federal level, the US prohibits same-sex couples, even if they are married in another country (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gay_marriage) to sponsor each other for immigration.

These are things heterosexuals can take for granted, but our gay friends cannot.
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Junior at Duke University; co-creator of Twitter app StrawPoll (@strawpoll).
Really? I'd guess that it's the advanced learners who can abstract characters better and don't need as accurate a writing style.

We're thinking of not repositioning strokes, or maybe not even recognizing them, until each component is completed. Will improve recognition heuristics, give less hints, and be a natural way to indicate components. We have t build the decomposition system first, though. Might that solve the problem you describe?
Indeed, there are good things in Dubai, but what about the bad stuff?
It seems like Windows 7 should do pretty well. The hardware has caught up, whereas Vista was pushing it for crappy business (versus gamer) class hardware.

For MS' sake, it surely can't fail, though like XP before it, the full acceptance may be a year or two coming. I remember when XP was banned from our Schlumberger LANs because it could do its own routing. All that was soon forgotten though.
I dropped my cable subscription when I moved to my new apartment last August and outside of HN I've been relying mainly on Twitter to hear about what's happening in the world at large.

That's just a stupid thing to say and exactly the kind of hype that's getting on our nerves (speaking for us, the twitter immune here).

My opinion towards twitter as a technology is fairly ambivalent - It's a horrible implementation but as long as I'm not forced to use it I couldn't care less.

What's annoying is all those people who feel a need to cite the medium as if it added any kind of value to a message.