skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's great, thank you!

But I remember some time ago antirez was trying to implement the same idea (it was called "virtual memory"[1]), but failed [2] mainly due the complexity of implementation.

[1] http://redis.io/topics/virtual-memory

[2] http://oldblog.antirez.com/post/redis-virtual-memory-story.h...
I'm hopeful we'll be able to look back in 30 years time and see this development as pivotal in helping to curb the use of explosives where diplomacy would be more suitable.
As with most of the API services for text analytics, sending out confidential data to third parties is simply not acceptable. I run into this almost daily where I work. Contractually, we are neither allowed to send our clients' data to a fly-by-night startup nor a an established 800 pound gorilla.

The other part is that often in text analytics, the training corpus matters significantly (also this seems less so with summaries at first glance).
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To see their point, imagine an American in rural Mississippi being told she cannot move to New York City to seek a better career.

Tangentially, this is exactly the situation in China today. The central government restricts movement, particularly between rural and urban areas. Many rural poor want to move to cities, but it is not legal.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hukou_system#Household_registr...
People saw that public harsh criticism doesn't work, so now they're trying something different even though they know it isn't "right".
I was also surprised this used leveldb underneath, especially since the goal is for larger than memory datasets.

For every level you add an additional disk read to every query. For optimal performance you should have RAM greater than 10% the size of your dataset, so the OS disk cache can operate effectively.
"or many conservative opponents of hate crime legislation, their intent is pretty clear: they want to commit violent acts against gays, blacks, and other minorities with minimal reprecussions."

No, I believe a crime is a crime. I believe in equal rights and clear cut rules. If you knife a person, it is a crime regardless of who the victim is unless it was in self defense.

What most conservatives are very afraid of is the "code word" mentality that was demonstrated in the 2012 election cycle. Look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dog-whistle_politics for some serious horror.
> Americans have no duty to import Haitians to make America a dump like Haiti. Americans who feel sorry for Haitians can send them money.

I sincerely fail to understand why some Americans always assume everyone wants to emigrate to the United States. It is a fairly probable assumption, but I often see it being the default one whenever I discuss the topic with some people from the US. Most people from the UK/Australia/NZ at least often ask "immigration to which country?".
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If I were a canadian, I would be looking through the Criminal Code of Canada to see what things _aren't_ considered an act of terrorism now. Since Harper's been in, the Canada Gazette has been full of changes.

(is a canadian, has looked through the criminal code, knows what is or isn't terrorism)
Kindly identify the box in the upper right corner of the frontmost window in this screenshot from 1988:

http://www.guidebookgallery.org/pics/tutorials/macplus1988/f...

Hint: the name is given at the bottom. Where did you get this crazy idea?
Life on earth started 3.6 billions (3500M) years ago.
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The state is the enemy of freedom? Big news!

Journalists don't look further than their noses. The truth is that vast majority of governments restrict freedom on much much larger scale. It is stupid to expect that government in your country is any different.
This is really great! It would be very cool to use this for other things as well (restaurants, sports, etc.)

Small bug - When I Sign In With Facebook and then Cancel, I get a Heroku error.

It would also be nice to see which friends have already liked a movie or some sort of RottenTomatoes integration.
1. Intentionally or not, you post seems to use my usage of the word 'liberal' as an excuse to express your disdain of 'Liberals.' I.e. "Look! He said 'Liberal!' Now I can express my views!"

2. I was using liberal in the sense of that particular issue. The opinion that homosexual males engaging in sexual relations should be banned and/or regulated would probably be described as conservative and/or repressive.

3. Maybe I should have used 'progressive' rather than 'liberal?'
Any hint at how http://symas.com/mdb/ behaves ?

Been using Tokyo Cabinet for a long time now, and have repeatedly hit similar hangs. Shopping for a future datastore of this sort!
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Ask HN: Looking for UI/UX feedback
We recently relaunched our content-heavy site www.greenbrideguide.com with more of an e-commerce focus. We are trying to migrate more visitors to the shop without losing our content foundation. I would love any feedback or suggestions you have about the new design as we would like to begin A/B testing in the next few weeks.
Agreed, this does not sound like the bug.

Even if it was a realistic design pattern, what are the odds that not only that a collision occurred, but also occurred between two users in the same geographic area (i.e. Norway)?

Here is a more likely scenario: They're using the same ISP, and that ISP has some poorly configured transparent HTTP cache that is serving Cache-control: private responses to multiple users. I would bet a significant amount of money on this being the problem.

To test this theory, the journalist should logout (invalidating his cookies), and then only use HTTPS with Google Plus (Install the HTTPS Everywhere extension to be certain https://www.eff.org/https-everywhere). If the pictures keep coming, I'm wrong. If they stop, then they're going to another user with the same ISP until they fix their broken cache.
It's interesting to see a social engineering proof of concept released in this way.

When my company conducts social engineering assessments, whether physical or remote, it always surprises the client to see how high their rates of failure are. We rarely hit below 40% of users willing to change their passwords for us on the phone, and usually more than half of the employees we email an arbitrary URL will enter their password on a cloned webmail portal.

Most security advisories we see are for software vulnerabilities, but it's interesting that "Ximer," the user who posted the linked forum advisory, seemed to map out exactly the information needed to conduct this attack.

Hopefully Skype takes swift action to require more identity verification so this attack doesn't become pervasive... but at the same time, it should be no surprise that "social engineering works."
Then you license it for onsite.

The training corpus doesn't matter one bit. The type of document does. (Report, op-ed, News, thesis, Fiction, etc)

We even do summary based on query. Summarize a 1000 page report only looking at things related to surgeries, or IT.

We have hundreds of traits you can mix and match. Want to read the Snows of Kilimanjaro with only the parts that are directly about winter, or foreshadow winter themes? We can do that.

Lord of the Rings only when encountering evil. We can do that.
The only devices that can’t run iOS 5 or newer are the original iPhone (2007), iPhone 3G (2008), 1st gen iPod touch (2007), and 2nd gen iPod touch (2008).

Compared to later models, their share of the total iOS devices sold is very low. About 30 million iPhones of the first two generations were sold. About 20 million iPods touch of the first two generations were sold. Out of 550 million total iOS devices, that’s under 10 percent. And of course, many of those older iPhones and iPods touch are not in use anymore.
The appropriate trick here would be to change the point of reference each time you zoom out. At the millennium scale, the point of reference might become this year. At the epoch scale, the point of reference might become the millennium.
It wasn't a huge deal for me, but I could tell that Inconsolata-g had enough of an improvement to warrant the change.
Someone hacked my Skype account back last summer and took at a subscription to Guatemala.

Skype picked it up and locked me out of my account but after that were quite frankly F All use: wouldn't refund the money, wouldn't give me any details as to where my account had been accessed from (citing privacy concerns!!!)

Furthermore they even left the fraudulent subscription in place until I cancelled it.

Don't leave money in a Skype account or hook it up to a credit card
I would expect it is already a reality in some or all of those countries? I know it is in Norway and has been like that for a long time. When the government/taxes pay the health care bills anyway, frequent home visits to reduce expenses are more of a no-brainer.
Are you guys gonna open source that sexual dropdown at the top? (the answer is yes)
EPA Methane Report Further Divides Fracking Camps
178K is the biggest I can find a screenshot proof of: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Aa7f-uvCMAQF1th.png

Thats on one site out of 8 that share the same cluster/platform, so the net total would have been in the mid 200K's.

edit: props to chartbeat for even being able to track such things, I'm just scaling reads, they're scaling writes.
Add first generation iPad to that list.
Yes, but, (importantly) only if the immigration isn't so rapid that it destroys the cultural and social capital that makes the wealthier countries desirable targets of immigration in the first place.

Caplan has very insightful remarks about the benefits of immigration and the inconsistency of current policy on it. But he is unhelpfully silent on the question of the upper bound on ideal peaceful immigration, and yes, there certainly is one. Taking his ideas literally, we should be totally okay with Chinese army regulars "peacefully" immigrating, then using their free trade rights to import their weaponry. Sure, enacting their "takeover America" plan would be worthy of opposing (and violating free trade/movement ideals), but by then it's too late.

(Before you flame me: no I'm not saying that this would be the result of relaxing immigration policy; please read it carefully and flame me for the right reason.)

There has to be some principle that tells you when you are allowing in too many immigrants, which would stop you before you reach that point, and Caplan shows far too little interest in articulating it.
TD Waterhouse works the same way. I was actually surprised at how little information was asked of me when I phoned in.
Yeah, I hear you. Persona isn't public-key-utopia, but I do think it moves us to an unambiguously better place. The protocol is built so that users who want more "advanced" authentication schemes, like client-side SSL certs, can have them. Seamlessly. But everyone gets a better risk profile, even in the common case.
> Idealogical and political absolutism is a cancer in our society. These type of dismissive comments reenforce that mind set.

Because you're not doing that at all.

> The goal is finding the best solution, not picking the best team to back. That involves experimentation and compromise.

That's difficult when we have already disagreed on what the problem actually is. You've stated that you believe--keyword: believe--in strong property and self-defense rights. I have stated that I do not, that I do not even believe in rights at all.

What is the problem we're supposedly searching for a solution to?

You haven't even asked which team I'm on. You just merely found out that I'm not on yours. Who's picking the best team to back?
It was one guy and he's out of power now. And he's hardly a hard liner, he just likes to ban things.
Skype is switching to use Microsoft Accounts, which have security questions and 2-factor auth. This vulnerability is only for people who haven't switched yet.
A few years ago, there was a book where the general implication was that Muslims in Europe would gain power/majority just through sheer "out-breeding" of other ethnicities/religious groups. This was deemed to be 'hate speech' because it might incite people to commit hate crimes against Muslims.

Note: I did not read the book, so I don't know how inflammatory it was. Just adding an anecdote.
It makes about as much sense as having a magic device that induces dream-sharing. :P
It depends on where I pull the traffic from:
when I post on social networks, like Tumblr, I usually get at most 3 concurrent at a time.
If they come from direct source they are usually more spread around the clock also due to their time zones differences.
The peak I had was when I wrote a comment on the Sex channel on Reddit right after the launch of my platform (http://www.sexycrets.com) a few months ago.
Licensing it runs into another hurdle. How much value does random feature give you? Is the feature valuable enough to justify custom licensing costs? Would 100 lines of Python/NLTK give you enough value for your target market?

I'm researching this right now for theme clustering. There are some products available for purchase/license that provide reasonable results. The question is if the difference between these reasonable results and 100 lines of Python/Clojure sitting ontop of Storm is enough to justify the cost of the license. That question relates to how much value our 100 line knockoff get our clients vs the extras that a full-feature solution would bring. In the few times I've done the comparison before, it has not been worth buying.

Edit: I want to make it clear I'm not saying build it yourself 100% or that building it yourself will give you a reasonable facsimile in all (maybe any instances) with NLTK/OpenNLP/etc. If summarizing is a core feature of your product, by all means, license away. What I'm specifically referencing are situations where maybe I'd like to add a feature, but it's highly unlikely that the single feature along is going to drive a sale. In these circumstances, build it yourself with NLTK or the like is extremely attractive.
>This makes me wonder about what exactly it is that the opponents of hate crimes want to be free to do, were their actions not criminalized?

I think that you're confusing the opponents of hate crime laws with the people who commit hate crimes, or else I don't understand who "their" refers to in this sentence. That's a terrifyingly aggressive equivocation when it comes to laws, punishment, and policing.

The defense that hate crime legislation is fine because labor discrimination law is fine is weird. Labor discrimination law is screwed up and unenforceable in the US, because it allows people to be terminated for any reason excepting a few. For example, I can fire you because I don't like your face, but I can't fire you because I don't like your race. IMO it's a way of papering over a complete dysfunction in the balance between the rights of workers and the rights of employers, one that tends not to acknowledge, even theoretically, that workers deserve any rights at all.

This is not an issue with assault or murder. If we have a list of less valid reasons to hurt and kill people than others, we are simultaneously creating a list of more valid reasons to hurt and kill people.

Also, anyone who says that they don't understand how people could criticize hate crime laws as laws criminalizing certain kinds of thoughts, when the only qualifications distinguishing them from other laws are speculations on the mental state of a person committing a different, separately recognized crime, is being disingenuous.
I do think increasing migration from poor to rich areas is a good idea, although it should probably be scaled up slowly to make sure that there is no unexpected effects that makes the wealth of rich areas suddenly collapse.

I have a different cause though, which I also feel receives too little love: increasing migration between rich areas.

Currently citizens of EU states have the right to move freely inside the EU, subject to them getting a job or having enough independent means to not need state welfare. This is seems like an excellent idea, and surely it could scale up to a larger area than just the EU. For example, how about the EU, the US, Japan, and the rich areas of China [1]. For software developers, being able to conveniently move to the Bay Area would be really welcome.

[1] E.g. Beijing and Shanghai. These already have strict immigration restrictions, so including them in the common area would not expose industrial regions to immigration from agricultural regions.
I've never seen a good idea come out of George Mason's econ department, and Caplan is no exception. They push the kind of head in the clouds politically oblivious oblivious economics that became passe outside hack thinktanks years ago.
Most of my projects involve a mass-market audience so I get a pretty good view of what average competence looks like. Based on this, I would guess that a significant portion of Americans have a great difficultly reading. Even when you put a big message that says this is not for X, people will continue to do X.

If you run a startup or a company whose audience is early adapters you get a skewed view of the average level of competence of users.

I don't know if things get worse in other countries. However, I would guess that 10-20% of the US population lacks the basic literacy and logic skills to hold a manual job involving anything but repetitive tasks.
They say they're not patenting the mixture - does anyone have more details on the chemistry?

It sounds like they've found a way to prevent the nitrate-sulfate substitution from occurring directly in the fertilizer, which is very interesting if true.
This reminds me an awful lot of the role of village witch in Terry Pratchette's books. I think we've lost that caretaker role in society because we always assumed it was their children's responsibility. It seems like if capitalism can get something for free, it is assumed to be worthless.
As long as there are privately owned central banks and debt based money there will always be extreme poverty.
Switch the ftp:// for http:// if it's more to your taste.
All of the other things in the article are at a Federal level. I think it's just trying to show a general pattern of limiting freedoms that has seeping into Canadian politics.
You are using a red herring. A people's views on homosexuality have nothing to do with how free and open that country's press is. You are doing a disservice to the discussion by implying that Jamaica's Press Freedom ranking should not be commended highly because some Jamaicans allegedly "dislike gays".
I get the impression that these "open borders" advocates are utterly uninterested in the fallout in the West. The advantage of open borders for the economic elite is it will likely drive down Western labor costs and will further weaken the union movement. Labor costs and union strength have already been dramatically reduced by globalization: another idea promoted using similar rhetoric.
As far as I know the bill was overturned after the ruling party lost the election. It does show a willingness to handle these kind of situation with "emergency laws". Then there was also this: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/story/2010/12/07/ombud...
Pirates 'that they were the forerunners of the modern private enterprise and democratic shareholder rights'? What? This is a mountainous unsubstantiated statement you've pulled out of the air.

To help SagelyGuru out, the book The Invisible Hook by economist Peter T. Leeson talks about how pirates adopted the system of constitutional democracy more than fifty years before the US and had written contracts detailing how much each member should get, including the captain.

http://press.princeton.edu/titles/8850.html

http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2009/05/leeson_on_pirat.htm...
FounderDating: Nice concept, dodgy viral mechanism
This argument, one that is seen quite often, is quite possibly the worst in the subject. Making assumptions and straw man arguments to support your position is not something to build legislation off of. Immediately assuming that someone who is against thought-crime like laws is siding with racist, violent, hate-crime supporting individuals is so absurd that you have to have to preform some serious mental gymnastics or doublethink just to make it seem reasonable.

Arguments like these are very comparable to those who support the erosion of privacy online and at home. They don't want people or the government to snoop around in their data, so that must mean that they're pedos hiding child porn in their hard-drives, right?

This is a prime example of a lack of critical thought.
As I said, with xf86-input-synaptics I can't complain about my notebooks touchpad. Two finger scroll is ok in both directions. I don't really need the "genius" of mac touchpads as tapping on the touchpad will be a "left click", a two finger tap will be a middle click and a three finger tap will be a middle click.
"As Google Glass doesn’t have a mobile antenna or GPS tracking, My Glass is essential if you want to send and receive SMS from Google Glass, use a data connection, or navigate using GPS."

The phone is pretty much essential. NB: My Glass is the companion Android app.

http://www.androidauthority.com/how-it-works-google-glass-19...
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For example, modern liberals would take away guns from people who have done nothing to earn that distrust.

You have to draw the line somewhere: Should you be allowed to own rocket launchers? Nerve gas? Anthrax?

As owning a gun isn't really a basic human right (feel free to disagree, but if you do so, I'll feel free to consider you a nut case), it's a matter of social contract: If the majority decides guns should be banned or only available after a mandatory psych eval, tough luck for gun owners. If the majority decides that everyone should be able to own a gun, tough luck for anti-gun activists.
Don't worry about it. Just as you're quietly making placements while a small minority of top developers brag about the uselessness of recruiters, plenty of developers on here and elsewhere are quietly working with recruiters to find positions. Just a few weeks ago I recommended an acquaintance to a recruiter and now that acquaintance is a CTO in a nearly ideal situation for both him and his new employer, and I thought the recruiter easily translated the employer needs to my acquaintance's skill set despite not being a standout in any way. Sure, if my friend was Zed Shaw, this recruiter wouldn't have been able to handle him, but there are recruiters who can. It's no different than the need for multiple skill/experience tiers of people who do the same job on paper in any profession.

I think that along will come a recruiter on HN that shows that recruiting is good business in the way patio11 changed the way a lot of people here think about sales, which is another thing developers OBVIOUSLY never have to stoop down to touch, until they do.
No the Independent Party (the conservatives) are the ones that were voted out last time and they merely added 3% points this time around (their second worst result ever). But since the Social Dems got slaughtered they are the biggest party now (by virtue of not crashing and burning this time around).

The big winners are the Progressives (the farmers party) and they were last voted out of power some 6 years ago, before the 2007 crash. They are winning now because of the Icesave issue which the Social Dems and the Left Greens fucked up badly last term.
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I spotted that too. Maybe I'm a terrible nitpicker / extremely harsh, but it kinda turned me off. Made it look instantly less of a serious project, when otherwise the look & feel of the page were pretty solid.
And even strongly statically typed languages won't catch the typo if l is of type int...
Reminding me once again that there still exists problems for which Congress could apply itself and get credit for "healthcare reform" from both sides of the aisle.