skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
After trying Samuru out, it looks like a great way to broaden a search, however the results seem to skew toward the random.

That is, searching for specific concepts and things, it did not return the most relevant results, but instead results that were heuristically interesting- but not what I was looking for.

I'm also curious about the emphasis on the "Liquid Helium" name(from Language Heuristics engine) which although clever sounds a little silly.

Potentially useful (we do need more search tools) but a bit wide of the mark for what they seem to be claiming.
What's Tylenol Doing to Our Minds?
Miners WILL switch (for their own benefit). Something like this has happened before[1] (though the mining algorithm didn't change) and the community did cooperate. Some miners will be happy about it, specially the ones with GPUs which will be thrown off the game once ASICs arrive (and will get back in the game once ASICs are killed).

Well, if I can get a government to spend $1.2 M just to shutdown a currency for a couple days, I guess we won (specially hardware manufacturers).

Also: Bitcoin will never replace regular money, and it isn't meant to.

IMHO this attack will not kill Bitcoin, only ASICs.

[1] http://bitcoin.org/chainfork.html
It's that pompous head in the sand attitude exactly that helps America get to a police state everyday faster and faster. BTW Plutocracy by definition might not be police state, but it lands the same forces on a none existant middle class.

It is amazing that you can't see already how very little freedom you have compared with other nations
nah, the "broken, damn" effect is me taking my lunch break. You're of course talking of the "broken dam" effect :-)
Reciprocal judgments: I'm not perfectly clear what you mean by reciprocal judgment. I think that you'll find this helpful on the matter, though: http://travel.state.gov/law/judicial/judicial_691.html

Liquidation: Corporate governance issues are a matter of the country where the defendant is organized. So if the law there allows them to do it, they can. I'm less familiar with the process of chasing the money. Trying to remember back to law school here: In the US, the debt doesn't just disappear. It would either attach to the old entity (which would have to be paid a fair price for the acquisition of its assets) or the new entity (which acquired its assets and liabilities per the acquisition agreement). So if it has no assets to begin with, it's possible. If it has real assets, it's more difficult to do. Not impossible, just more difficult.
Diving into AngularJS
Well, the difficulty increase wouldn't stop an attacker having >50% computing power. Only switching the algorithm would (assuming the attacker would use ASICs)
You may be hoping America becomes a police state, but you will be disappointed.
> Interesting to know how much it would cost to build your own machines only reasonable solution at this time.

Finger in the air calculation: $3-4M. Assumes knowledgeable designers, and good ops people with decent offshore assembly experience.

None of this is particularly difficult from the standpoint of a VLSI. The issue is that profitability is questionable: If you're successful, you pretty much destroy the economic niche that forms your customers.
so it's like Facebook but with less users and a less developed API?
Cellphone tower locations should be available in public databases, depending on the country (as this is what is the base for non-gps geolocation).
If it was that simple, people wouldn't have any issue with the conditional operator. The problem is there actually is a semantic difference between the two lines you wrote in most languages.

If-Then-Else is a statement. It doesn't return a value. It's just a branching operation between the two blocks.

The conditional operator is an expression. It returns a value hence it has a type. And that's where things start to be messy. Typing rules for the conditional operator are, well, not trivial and varie from language to language. Let's use an exemple from Java Puzzlers (Joshua Bloch and Neal Gafter) :

char x = 'X';
int i = 0;
System.out.print(true ? x : 0);
System.out.print(false ? i : x);

will print X88 but the same thing in C++

char x = 'X';
int i = 0;
cout << (true ? x : 0);
cout << (false ? i : x);

will print 8888.

And I am not even talking about the priority mess when you try to use a conditional operator in a conditional operator.
Actually, the lockdown was voluntary, though with strong community pressure to comply.

But yes, multiple subsystems failed in the police response. If you listened to police scanners, you also heard that they had some trouble identifying streets correctly, or keeping their mics off when not talking. But police response protocols are one human system that definitely needs to be able to work in the face of multiple subsystem failure. I say judge the police on how the response worked as a whole.

I have to say though, thank god that Dunkin' Doughnuts' Tactical Ration Deployment Vehicle ran smoothly.
> AFAIK there's nothing special waiting for me at 1K (or any other level), though I admit I'd be slightly encouraged to participate more if there were.

I know what you mean. I'm mostly glad there isn't because karma-farming is probably harmful for HN.

There are a few people who submit a lot of articles from mid-quality sources. Sometimes they get lucky and those articles get many upvotes; mostly those articles just get a few votes. But it only takes a few people doing this to flood (https://news.ycombinator.com/newest) and that's a shame, because it means I miss the great articles from obscure sources.

Someone had a show HN recently which removed all the dross. It was called something like 'lessmeme'.

Maybe some filter so that all the traditional blog sites get aged quicker than other sources might help?
Relax, I've added an MIT licence :).
I believe the curfew had been lifted moments before he went outside for a cigarette - at least that's what's been reported over and over and over.
Added src/build.bat. Just missed it with my .gitignore settings.
The Social Conference Directory
I don't get the point. I am not Steve Jobs. Steve Jobs was.

I am me.

Also, all the criticism in this thread that he wasn't a great engineer and Dennis Ritchie and John McCarthy should have been given more coverage in the press the month he died is naive to say the least. They were both older. He still had much to do and was the boss of the world's biggest corporation. A bunch of Hackers on Hacker News won't reckon much on Steve Job's contribution to their field, but then he never was a hacker! He was a visionary who appreciated minimalistic design even if this meant that Apple products did fewer things. He made tech popular for the general consumer by simplifying it to just the essentials and burying all of the complexities.

Hackers like to have every choice to exploit. That is why they like PCs and increasingly the Linux OSes. Everyone else that actually wants to get on an accomplish some creative work just ponies up the money for an Apple and what extra they pay out on hardware they tend to save on software - MS Office > iWork.

Choosing which minimal set features to include in a product is harder than just lumping everything in, but the interface is far less cluttered and intrusive with less stuff to learn and therefore easier to use - which may not matter to Hackers like you, but is undoubtedly a factor in Apple's continued success.
Assuming nobody else buys any of this hardware too. That's how I see this anyway. All of these theories assume that nobody else is going to try and do the same...
If you want a game with good story telling, try The Witcher 2.
There have been (still are?) aggressive voting rings active on HN. These rings are harmful to the site, artificially raising stories.

There are people who's only involvement in the site is to submit articles that they have written on their blog.

Not disclosing how the site works makes it a bit harder for those people to game HN.
And the ancestors of female fleas shaped flea penises.

Rather unremarkable result, and link baiting by the Smithsonian Magazine!
Well, the example of AI applied to ballistic is a bit particular as the environment - the place you are trying to bomb - will adapt to what you are doing, and thus some human intervention will always be needed, but for a more standard problem where the environment is not adaptive, say, the exploration of an unknown region, I guess an AI could be left all by itself to do some specific tasks. I think it's more relevant in the context of space exploration where sending humans is both more expensive and very risky (note: I have no idea if Curiosity is controlled by an AI or not).

Off topic: I'm French as well, and yeah, Polytechnique has a high level of expectation in maths.
You site capitalism, when all rules governing a clinical trial are strictly enforced by the FDA which is a government entity. The FDA has study rules and the entity conducting the study is not the drug company. It is an independent entity (for example http://clinicaltrials.mayo.edu) paid by the drug company under the supervision of the FDA (in the US).
I'm in here and on the demo server to answer questions and take feedback.

Word of advice: don't all pick demo1.
The algorithm was not replaced, then it wouldn't be BitCoin anymore.

https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/List_of_alternative_cryptocurrenc...
Isn't Factor (at some level of abstraction) basically Lisp/Scheme with more minimal syntax? It replaces prefix notation and parentheses with postfix notation and a stack. All the benefits Lisps get from minimal syntax, Factor gets too.
Why is surveillance video not HD? Shouldn't this quality be almost a commodity by now? How different are these cameras than what you get in, say the latest Samsung Galaxy S4, for example:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samsung_Galaxy_S4
It is not pompous. Trying to impose a police state would be economic and political suicide. And what are these freedoms I don't have?
I think the key thing at the moment is why their customers should care about App.net
That looks great. How does it compare to, say Hubot? That's what is running on TRC.
It will still be Bitcoin, with a different algorithm... Bitcoin is not just a protocol and some algorithms behind it.

Bitcoin is a community and a currency. Your Bitcoins will still be called Bitcoin, you'll have the same wallet and the same number of BTC in your accounts. The webpage will still be www.bitcoin.org and we'll talk in #bitcoin as we used to do.

Changing Bitcoin to scrypt will not magically turn Bitcoin into Litecoin.

This scenario has been envisioned before. Nothing new here. Bitcoin will prevail.
Linux (Debian squeeze) Chrome 26.0.1410.63 has the same problems of small font and font not changing with CTRL+.

Ironic in an article that includes a sentence that starts with "However, because this technique is specific to Google Chrome...."
Well, the idea is that it will provide more functionality without the hassle of hosting it yourself. As to the specific commands, Hubot has more, at the moment, but Instabot's list is growing.
KYC was implemented for everything, including prepaid credit cards.

Real ID is very real; basically every state is now a member of the DMVPP and passes data freely, including to Canada and Mexico.

How exactly did comment campaigns do anything? I agree with the GP, the whole exercise is a farce. TSA will have the same guy that writes the condescending "pat pat You don't understand why the grownups want to do this" responses to the We The People petitions respond to all of these comments invoking 9/11 and how the world has changed and how sometimes you just have to accept unpleasant things.
So the curfew actually prevented earlier discovery of the younger brother, interesting.
I have reported the issue twice, but Twitter said that since I don't have copyright on the profile picture, they do nothing.
I don't get the point. I am not Steve Jobs. Steve Jobs was.

I am me.

Also, all the criticism in this thread that he wasn't a great engineer and Dennis Ritchie and John McCarthy should have been given more coverage in the press the month he died is naive to say the least. They were both older. He still had much to do and was the boss of the world's biggest corporation. A bunch of Hackers on Hacker News won't reckon much on Steve Job's contribution to their field, but then he never was a hacker! He was a visionary who appreciated minimalistic design even if this meant that Apple products did fewer things. He made tech popular for the general consumer by simplifying it to just the essentials and burying all of the complexities.

Hackers like to have every choice to exploit. That is why they like PCs and increasingly the Linux OSes. Everyone else that actually wants to get on and accomplish some creative work just ponies up the money for an Apple and what extra they pay out on hardware they tend to save on software - MS Office > iWork.

Choosing which minimal set features to include in a product is harder than just lumping everything in, but the interface is far less cluttered and intrusive with less stuff to learn and therefore easier to use - which may not matter to Hackers like you, but is undoubtedly a factor in Apple's continued success.
Both. I would consider it spamming, but might do it if it was worth it to me.
I'm really trying to understand app.net, I used it for a little while and browsed the apps people had made for it but they all just seemed like mobile and desktop clients to send status updates to alpha. It also seems as though you need an app.net account to use an app built with their API which seems very limiting to me in terms of the type of markets you can reach. What's the incentive for someone to use app.net's API over something such as hull.io?
Talking about the scanners and technology (and failures) didn't "homeland security" give millions to metro police departments around the country to get their communication encrypted? I vaguely remember reading about that a couple years ago. I wonder where that money went if that is accurate.

https://www.google.com/search?q=%22federal+grant%22+%22encry...
I see it as a sort of mirror to the thinking of our time. They see a way to put a human in control of something that was computer-controlled, and think that it will be better, despite the fact that their human computation can only do a tiny amount of the computation a computer can do.

Nowadays, we see a way to automate something a person does, and think that it'd better that way, despite a human mind being capable of much more than what a computer is capable of. The point of the story as I read it is that the power of new technologies can be illusory.
city lockdown failed (the guy smoking the cigarette outside when he saw the blood was technically violating the lockdown)

But for the shelter-in-place order (it wasn't a lockdown or curfew) the guy may not have been home in the first place for find Tsarnaev.
How does it compare to grove for example?
My inference (from hellbanning and rumors of a unique YC alumni topbar) is that there is a closure over each username. If that is the case, then http requests can be assigned various priorities within the queue...or the closure could include something equivalent to:

(let ((sleep 1000)...

Closures would certainly be a lispy way of doing things.
Surveillance cameras are typically bought and then forgotten. So the new ones are probably HD, but you get a collection of cameras between HD and Betamax if you look at the cameras that are actually in use.
this is absurd. i'm in Boston. there is absolutely no shortage of support and praise for the doctors and hospitals here.

lots of things went wrong for this to happen. thanks for pointing out the painfully obvious. our police deserve the "pats on the back" (which, by the way, is an extremely condescending way to put it) they're getting, and more.
I'm pretty sure I was just joking.
Keep in mind that a plan like that would take, at best, half a year to put in place. In that time the amount of ASICs in existence will already be far higher than it is today (I would guess at least three times what it is at the moment.)
Facial recognition is still treated like some magical technology, like the "zoom in, enhance" feature much mocked about on TV crime shows. I bet Facebook's technology is ahead of law enforcement's in terms of data, algorithm, and refinement, and yet it still stumbles on pretty obvious faces (if you have the default auto-tag feature left on)
Theoretically, MLM can work. In practice, most implementations don't work. The condition under which MLM can work is that the lowest level 'salesman' have sufficient incentive to stay at that level, because they can earn as much as any 'manager' or because they like the work better. As soon as the 'managers' can quickly earn much more as any 'salesman' or the pitch is that everyone shoul strive to become a 'manager', then it's no better than the next pyramid scheme.

Tupperware is good, Herbalife isn't.
Related to this is that there are no descriptive variable names either.

Sure there are; You can add a name for a cell or range of cells (and have been able to since at least Excel 97):

http://excelsemipro.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/Named-Con...
Someone with knowledge of cameras please either correct or endorse this, but I think the largest price/quality tradeoff in any camera happens at the lens choice, and given a cheap lens, the stills can't be much better than the video.
I would like to try out portrait, but I rarely work on monitors that can easily be mounted/stood that way. With two in portrait and a relatively high resolution, I think it would be pretty awesome.
Um, by the looks of what went down in Boston last week we pretty much have a police state. We have more armed "law enforcement" then any nation in the world.
It is pleasing to see error bars on a graph in a mainstream publication. It's very nice to have them saying that the study was small and there are more questions to be asked.

It's good that they mentioned the severe toxicity of paracetamol in overdose. It does kill many people, and it's not a pleasant death. It also accounts for many organ transplants.

It would have been nice if they'd said that, taken carefully and with no over dose, paracetamol is a very safe and very effective medication. It's very cheap. (At least here in the UK, I found it bafflingly expensive in the US.)

Cultural note: In the UK most medication is dispensed in blister packs. You can buy paracetamol off the shelf but you can only get limited quantities. Most shops will only sell you 16 tablets (at 500 g each) or 32 if you buy it from a person. You can get 100 if you see a pharmacist and persuade them you need them, but that'll be a struggle in most places. You can get large amounts if you have a prescription. 16 tablets at 500 g each would cost around £0.20 (for budget pills). Blister packs was an effective suicide control measure, reducing the number of pills taken and the number of overdoses attempted. Reduced quantities of pills sold had an initial success in reducing suicide rates, but number have since risen. Pills in the homes of old people are especially dangerous. This is because they're not locked away, and young children visiting sometimes take the pills. And also because suicide rates among old people are depressingly high.
Developing Backbone.js Applications (Early Release)
There's a lot of duplicate tweets and retweets of the original. Filter out the duplicates.
I'm going to guess that KS will be sending a C&D. It's a cute site, and I like the idea, but the style is way too close to KS. They have to be concerned about people stumbling onto this and not getting the joke.

On the other hand, if it gets popular to the point that KS sends a C&D, then the site probably served its purpose. Overall, a neat marketing idea.
Its not only about the cameras. Its currently expensive to store all that HD video. ( and now, one cant just upload it to the cloud. Necessary bandwidth isn't yet available locally ).

One are also dealing with a lot of legacy systems her. But the next generation surveillance system will probably be HD, and then maybe 3D, 4k, 16k etc.
London Marathon solidarity with Boston runners
Very ignorant question: "development" means developing what? Applications? Web sites? mobile something-or-other? chrome plugins? If applications then for what OS? Where does the compiler run? Is this just a shell into some other server that runs the compiler?
With all the attention Ember is getting lately I'm glad to see Angular getting some attention.
Click the "take me to possible formula errors" button.

http://www.c-sharpcorner.com/UploadFile/7e39ca/error-check-f...
Their costs would have been paid for the R&D so it wouldn't be their drug being ripped off, it w would be our drug being second sourced.

Also, their costs would be much lower because we'd be paying for the clinical trials and there wouldn't be marketing costs.
I've wanted to ask about this since seeing the Boston police channel available on the internet. In the UK all the channels are encrypted making it virtually impossible for a civilian to listen in. Is it simply financial reasons that the USA doesn't do this?
QR codes were the result of people who forgot about/never knew about the CueCat.

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000037.html

TL;DR: They solve a problem that people don't have.
> I found it bafflingly expensive in the US.

Brand-name Tylenol is relatively expensive, but generic acetaminophen/paracetamol is dirt cheap in the US. Here are 200 tablets of 500 mg each for $4.00, i.e. $0.02 per tablet: http://www.walmart.com/ip/Equate-Extra-Strength-Value-Pack-A...
This brings to mind this bank robbery news from few years aback: http://gizmodo.com/5711252/white-guy-becomes-black-bank-robb...

Don't know how easy it is to get those masks though.
to be fair if you live in Massachusetts you would know, all of the streets are not marked as you would expect in other areas. If there are street signs at intersection often times only one of the streets is marked.
Happiness Inc.
We set this site up for our new game Crabitron and decided to call it Crabstarter. It is intended to be a light-hearted parody of Kickstarter, while showing real sales.

One of the main reasons we set it up is because we wanted to have some hope of recouping our investment in this game. In order to do that, we felt that we couldn't go for rock-bottom pricing and hope for a mega-hit. That seemed crazy and unrealistic.

Instead we gave our game the price we thought it deserved — $5. In order to help App Store players get over the "sticker shock," we set up Crabstarter. When you see that five dollar price in this context, it suddenly doesn't seem so high.

We also wanted players to see that we were real human beings, and not a faceless company. So we tried to make an honest video in the format of a standard Kickstarter video.
HOWEVER, spreadsheets are rather unique in the fact that they hide the very formulas used to generate everything, unless you have a specific cell selected.

Unless you click the button to "show formulas" in Excel, then you can view them all at once.

http://i237.photobucket.com/albums/ff263/dharma-putra/Excel2...

http://www.lytebyte.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/view-form...
I'm not all that familiar with social tests like this. Is n=120 generally considered to be a large enough sample size to make any claims at all?
Is there anywhere in the world where there might be a "Silicon Valley" besides California where non-competes are unenforceable as a matter of long standing public policy?

richardjordan's "But Our Way" exception for this applies to every place in the US---in fact, I'd say there's a general obsessive focus on what's perceived to be good for individual companies to the exclusion of what's good for the ecosystem, like a liquid labor market. That would include the critical "embrace of failure", the areas I've worked in (Boston in the '80s, D.C. in the '90s) aren't good with that.
Only if you define police state as voluntary cooperation with the police.