skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To be fair, the difference between this and 'some variation on this' is also the difference between the iPhone and Windows Mobile 6.
They do when you take a picture in a crowd... It's funny.

EDIT:

I see this is a repeat comment, but yeah I love watching people take photos with tablets.
It makes no sense to die from an unregulated medical procedure?

Let's say it's stitches, and there's no regulation against reusing a stitching needle because in your world the elected body doesn't do that sort of thing. The doctor just washes it off a bit so it's not so gross looking every time.

You're one of the 1-2% that contracts something horrible from the doctor and you're dead within 24 hours.

Now sue.
I feel slightly verklempt every time I see someone say Google Glass won't work because no one wants to wear glasses.
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Are there any Python vs. Numba vs. Cython vs C examples?
Definitely a step in the right direction, but when I worked on federal contracting I used a VM because surfing through the different departments was wading through a sea of expired SSL certificates.

In terms of basic IT management Uncle Sam is way behind the times.
Market makers have always taken a small profit for providing liquidity. The HFT machines take a much smaller profit than the humans who used to do this by hand because, like in many many other places in the economy, computers are cheaper than humans.

It's the same sort of automation that we've seen in many many other places.
I've noticed that the "LinkedIn Updates" email spam tend to heavily feature a few attractive women than I worked with some time ago. I strongly suspect Linkedin is using these women's photos to bait people into clicking through to the site (and thus show up in the 'people also viewed' list).
Couldn't agree more. If you have your priorities straight, communication tools can be wonderful--in this case, for example, letting you do a "hangout" with said girlfriend while stuck at work for lunch. When you screw up your priorities, all communication tools begin to look evil.
Yeah this is the same thing that happened with the iPad (it's a huge iPhone without the phone part? who would ever buy that?!) and more recently, with Windows 8 (metro is a failure! Microsoft is doomed!).

Google Glass, in its current iteration, will likely never catch on with consumers. But it's a limited availability "preview" for a reason. Something like this is eventually going to get cheap enough and usable enough that consumers will buy it.
Clayton Christensen at its finest :)

http://www.claytonchristensen.com/books/the-innovators-dilem...
"Are you including liquid assets, like the California plant"

Since when is a plant a liquid asset?
Microsoft looks to get Nook all to itself for $1 billion
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> couldn't we start taxing these transactions, or the bids/offers themselves?

Yes, but that tax would just be passed on to "regular investors" in the form of higher spreads. Market makers are providing a real service. That service has a cost. FWIW, that cost is now much smaller than it used to be due to the fact that computers are doing it now instead of real humans. Automation FTW!
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Maybe I'm just hung up on a definitional thing here. I was using "disruptive" in the sense of a market entrant picking up non-consumption and solving a problem that the incumbents are rationally unwilling to address. I don't see Tesla doing this. I see them as making a superior version of what is already for sale.

My other mistake was in saying "electric car" and not "Tesla's electric cars". Thanks to all for the interesting discussion.

PS: I still want one.

PPS: I'm still pretty sure that trying to get to scale without a dealer network is what's going to break Tesla's back. Never underestimate the power of the local car dealer.
Eh, I prefer V8's with open headers.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_itM5B9fvo
Imagine working on an airplane engine and having the manual right in front of you

For example, you already have Google Maps to guide you around your city with turn-by-turn audio navigation. That tool doesn’t get any better when it’s smack-dab against your eyeball.

I don't see why a manual for an airplane mechanic is better smack-dab against his eyeball but a map in one's line of sight is not better for a person navigating.

Her claims that Glass distract you from reality are counter to Google's thesis that Glass frees you from the distraction of staring at your phone. Both claims could be true, but I haven't seen much evidence regarding Glass.
Yeah, that would be better.

In this context a revision is just a bug fix release, the same as a "point release" or "minor release" or "patch version." I'm sure there are terms I'm forgetting. A micro-version increment, where the system is ${major}.${minor}.${micro} (in what the kids call "semantic versioning," but what used to just be called "not versioning like an idiot.")
"How can a bug in the implementation be a security risk?"

It could fork the block chain:

http://bitcoin.org/chainfork.html
Yes, our client is open-source but our server isn't. But from the point of view of security this is sufficient, as the client does not "trust" the server and every server reply is verified.

The client code is GPLv3, so it could be a building block for other projects if they want to use it with a different server.
I thought her allusion to the Star Trek:TNG's episode of "The Game" was especially adroit. In a futuristic world where you have an unimaginable array of tech toys, such as the holodeck, why would visors be appealing? Well, it wasn't the greatest TNG episode, but I guess even in a Trek future, people will value the immediacy of such eyes-only technology. Just think about how phones have revolutionized thhe way we non-interact with each other in physical space.

Last night I saw the "Great Gatsby" and thought, like the book, it captured the timelessness of the story in that it would not feel any different in a modern setting, despite being written 80 years ago. But I kept thinking..."this is just like today, except no one is checking their phones"
Wikipedia page views could predict stock market changes
You really shouldn't trust them, especially on cars. They gave different reliability ratings to brand engineered cars built in the same plant with the same parts.
UPenn drafts guidelines to keep professors from competing against it online
The cryptographic purity of a system without a formal security definition and for which there is a known polynomial time attack? I think you were bound to be disappointed...
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Why do you say funding is getting cut? NIH's budget has almost doubled in the last decade [1] and many of the other funders have seen similar growth as well as new funders appearing every year.

I don't think the problem is lack of funding but screwed up incentives. When medical reaseach became focused on funding the quality of the results suffered. And if the vast majority of landmark cancer research can't be reproduced much of that money was wasted.

The solution will require a huge cultural change which may be impossible. However step one is recognizing the problem. And some efforts are already underway such as journals like PLoS which publish negative results and more recently The Reproducibility Project and Reproducibility Initiative [2,3]. Still it will be difficult.

[1] http://officeofbudget.od.nih.gov/pdfs/spending_history/Mecha...

[2] http://www.openscienceframework.org/project/EZcUj/wiki/home

[3]https://www.scienceexchange.com/reproducibility
I actually expected a "hands on" article. What I got instead were a couple stories, and then a bunch of vague predictions on the future of Glass.

> "And some overzealous Emily Post type (probably at an old-timey print rag) will write a much-mocked op-ed about the slight but growing disconnection between people."

A few paragraphs later...

>"...it’s not enhancing your life. It’s robbing you of the joy of actually experiencing your life. You’ll realize it the first time you step in dog shit or have your girlfriend get mad at you for not listening to her or lose your kid in a store."
A lot of people I know have have been using the Google "index-of -(htm|php|<etc.>)" trick to find music (and now ebooks) for years now.
Comments from the Sunlight Foundation: http://sunlightfoundation.com/blog/2013/05/09/open-data-exec...
Yeah, so I guess the site doesn't make its "raison d'etre" very clear. If I'm at lunch with my mates, and we are discussing salaries, and there's a way for us to anonymously give each other an idea of how much we're all making, well, I trust them enough not to lie. That's also partly why I'm shooting for "really simple to set up and add to".

Any other use of the site is going to be gamed. I agree.
To be clear, it seems that the data exposed in this way is only affected by your own actions; i.e. it does not tell you who has been stalking you, just who you've been stalking.
I don't believe the world is filled with "terrible" people. I do believe the world is filled with people who use their smartphones in inappropriate situations all the time.

There's a discrepancy here, and it's clear new tech is being consumed faster than we can propagate the social norms around the tech.
SHRDLU is definitely amazing, especially given its age, but one's amazement is tempered a little bit (or maybe enhanced, depending on perspective) when you realize that it achieved what it did primarily through really great engineering rather that some fundamental insight about language. Since SHRDLU's world is so limited, Winograd was able to explicitly program every facet of its language understanding. Unsurprisingly, this approach is totally not scalable and this reveals a little about why we don't have fully human-like language programs.
I agree. The new Fords are nice products. Not to mention, they're the 1 out of the big 3 that didn't take bailout money.
Even worse: glasses are so difficult to wear that they make you step into dog shit :(
What is the security definition?
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They absolutely use geo-ip correlations, and it is a problem.
looks nice. What's the main differences between this and BBQ? http://benalman.com/projects/jquery-bbq-plugin/
it's way easier to just look up and talk than to pull a device out of your pocket, unlock it, pull down notifications/open an app, then interact with the device. it will save you minutes everyday with that process alone.
How Tyra helped us train our user models in minutes rather than days.
Now I have a new life goal. (:
Or you can use Wuala which is at least as secure and not as outrageously expensive.

http://www.wuala.com/
On a throw away account.

Several people have hit upon the major method LinkedIn uses which is that someone you know who has your name/email/... (or likely many someones) uploaded an address book to LinkedIn. LinkedIn then infers that because that person knows you, that you may know the other people they know (which is often true). They then combine that when a bunch of far more complicated inferences to generate the list.

The goal of course is to provide suggestions to someone who just signed up. Sadly, the reason it feels creepy is because it seems like voodoo. They could do a better job explaining how it worked, but a lot of the bigger inferences are secret sauce.
They ARE expensive...and not a bit. At least for the legal uses i can think about. Who knows, they might have a market though. Wish you best of luck guys.
Tesla is the team that the nerds cheer for.
So how does the Prius fit into this? How could Toyota have spent any money at all on electric technology when they had billions invested in gasoline combustion? How did GM spend any money on their EV-1 when they were similarly rooted? There is a difference here with Tesla, but what you're saying amounts to a sunk cost fallacy.
Obama issues executive order making open data the new default
>4(b) This order shall be implemented consistent with applicable law and subject to the availability of appropriations.<

>4(c) This order is not intended to, and does not, create any right or benefit, substantive or procedural, enforceable at law or in equity by any party against the United States, its departments, agencies, or entities, its officers, employees, or agents, or any other person.<

(emphases mine)

Don't these provisions take the teeth out of the order?
Probably. from the video:

"This car performs better than anything we've ever tested before. Let me repeat that: not just the best electric car, but the best car. It does just about everything really really well."
Ok, this video explains what MVP is by no other than MVP himself, Eric Ries: MVP Guide http://www.startuplessonslearned.com/2009/08/minimum-viable-...
In that case, the Apple Store significantly disrupted the archaic music and retail software product sales model.
>But give it a few months. Soon, it’ll be streaming Netflix queues, taking brilliant long-form blog post dictation, and offering up a wealth of casual social games, a portal into an endless labyrinth of distraction.

No it won't. Give it a few years, maybe.
I would like to add The Reproducibility Project and Reproducibility Initiative to your list. They are seeking to specifically address this issue.

http://www.openscienceframework.org/project/EZcUj/wiki/home
https://www.scienceexchange.com/reproducibility
Oh, so as long as people are "killed" democratically it's cool.

Nobody's killing anybody. People die. It happens. Maybe someday I will have a heart attack. On that day, I'm not going to rob somebody at gunpoint and demand they give me $33k. Equivalently, I'm not going to have the government threaten fellow citizens with jail time and garnished wages if they don't pay their taxes to pay for my treatment. And I'd appreciate it if they'd extend me the same respect.
Tough shit. He's trying to support himself and his employees. Likewise, backporting their work to a even slightly different code base would require time they frankly don't have. Unless you have a time travel device you can give him, don't demand time he doesn't have.

Laurent frankly is underpricing his wonderful tools, and has to support himself and all those folks he's hired.

Time is finite, and no human can do all the things they'd like to do.

Modifying RubyMotion to have the right hooks for the OS X apis etc is likely much simpler than fixing up MacRuby architecturally.

Point being, people have finite time, they can't do all the things they want to. Either be nice or give him a time turning / time travel device
Sharp glass prism secured in front of your eyeball, just waiting for you to bump your head on something. Imagining an airbag.
I'm sure it's going to be stereoscopic, though. :)
Doesn't Ghostery also block specific widgets and the like, which NoScript doesn't?
I remember a time when I was literally the only person around me who had a Smartphone. I would play with it on transit. Did a feel a bit like a dork? A little bit, yes. Now everyone has them, it's way more obvious, and nobody feels like a dork.
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The thing is that being in the tech industry (I assume based on the fact that you're posting on HN in the middle of the day), you don't really need a smartphone because you're likely at your computer most of the day on most days. I don't have one either, or a tablet because there's no value added for me since I need a "real" computer with a keyboard anyway.

But folks outside the tech industry are dropping PCs completely in favor of these types of consumption-centric devices.
As a Model S owner I can attest to the awesomeness of the car. Will hit 20,000km in the next few weeks.

Moreover I'm hoping that Tesla will challenge others in the industry to rethink their business model from the ground up. In 2013 why are we still replacing mufflers, why are using timing belts and not timing chains, and why is it that every time I walk into the dealership for a regular service I end up walking out with an even bigger bill than I expected? I get there is always wear and tear on a mechanical component but how many components are there in a typical car that are designed to fail to support an after market industry? I want a car built right and will pay more for that to avoid getting hooked into an industry that has become addicted to model year turnover revenue.
> The question is: Does fast trading provide a net positive to society?

Why is that the only or most important question? How do you even define "a net positive to society"? Are we talking about utilitarianism, and if so, are we trying to maximize the total utility, or the average utility, or perhaps the minimum individual utility? Does my eating a candy bar provide a net positive to society? And even if something can somehow be shown to not provide a net positive to society by some metric, should it therefore be prohibited by the threat of violence (i.e. made illegal)?
funny this should come up today. the girl i am currently dating happens to be both attractive and asian. i was on her linkedin yesterday and noticed that the "people also viewed" widget was 100% other young, good-looking asian women. so, add race as a vector to the linkedin creep graph...
This.

Are wearable computers going to be a thing? Probably. But if it does become a thing, Apple will make it one, not Google. Here is this product segment that is, by necessity, the intersection between computers and fashion accessories. Only Apple has the mind-share to pull that off.
> When it comes to privacy and PII, Google holds itself to an extremely high standard. Many of these "social" innovations that are popping up on the market place were rejected out-of-hand at Google because it holds itself to an extremely high ethical standard regarding user data, as it actually expects them.

Buzz.
Yeah, my point isn't that the statistical significance is erroneous or that the difference shouldn't have been significant.

In my totally made up example, there's really a .1mm difference. And maybe to someone that's meaningful, so it's worth reporting. But it's not a big enough effect to say "When I see someone on the street I can look at their height and know which of these two cities they're from."

And my peeve is that people will see a statistically significant difference and think that that alone makes it an important finding, versus a very real finding that might not actually matter that much.

Or, related, it's bad to see something with a p-value of .15 and a large effect size and decide that since it's not significant at .05 it's not interesting. Since that combination typically means that you have a too-small sample size, the best interpretation is probably more like "This might be interesting. Looks like we don't have enough data to tell if there's a relationship here, but it probably deserves another look."

(Edited to add that last thought, and clarify the previous one)
When you create a business you're not applying for patents, and when you apply for patents you're not creating a business.
How long till lawmakers prohibit using Glass while driving? Unlike hands-free ear pieces, Glass can distract the driver (like texting). Given Google's track record, I would not hesitate to think of a future where Glass will have ads pop in randomly. It is, after all, an advertising company.
Either way it's an issue. Now that it's known, how many minutes will it be before some high schooler retrieves sexts sent by their now-hated ex, and distributes them to all their classmates? I suspect the number is negative.
Yeah, I'm not about to buy Google Glass any time soon, but arguing about it ruining your life is kind of like claiming that having a GPS robs you of all the fun of getting lost and knowing how to fold roadmaps
California: "Major income-tax hike in November hastens self-imposed economic decline."

How does an income tax hike lead to an economic decline? That's more an opinion than a factual statement.

Also the "Domestic Migration" figure is high, but not per-capita. A very populous state like California will obviously have a lot of migration. Alaska sure to come out on top in this department.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5680310
That was my first thought too. I'm not a native English speaker, but have heard about this term actually in the american film "Ghost World"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghost_World_(film)
You forget that for every buyer there is also a seller.

If HFTs push the markets higher slightly faster because of new public info then while it might be bad for you if you are buying on that news, it's great for whoever already owns the stock and is the one selling to you.

The same applies to your 3rd point. It might be a tax on whoever initiated the large trade, but it's a benefit to whoever is on the other side of the trade. HFTs put new information into the market much faster than humans ever could making them more efficient. They're also doing it at a lower cost than human market makers ever did.
> I don't see why a manual for an airplane mechanic is better smack-dab against his eyeball but a map in one's line of sight is not better for a person navigating.

If I'm performing a series of complicated manual tasks, I'm going to need both hands free. It's a pretty safe bet on something the size of an airplane that I'm going to be moving around a fair amount, too.

My phone, giving me turn-by-turn directions, will always be just a foot or so away from me, and clearly visible from the driver's seat. I don't benefit from having it "smack-dab against [my] eyeball."
Having been through the scanning of a large number of personal documents, I found good success in doing very good OCR on printed documents. Further, the software that the scanner comes with can also OCR pdf documents quite nicely.

This also includes mis-registered stuff.

I am about to start playing with tesseract ORC to see how it compares. It is claimed to be very good.
Explorer Story: Andrew Vanden Heuvel [through Glass]
>>But what market isn't being served that the Model S can waltz in on? It's an M5 with a linear torque curve that you can't take on long trips.

Yeah, except unlike an M5, it is a high-tech and environmentally friendly vehicle.
SO rad!
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The fact that that line came from Slashdot is a pretty important difference, in the context of your comment.
Talking about the service you offer, and presenting it open source because the client is, is misleading and sensationalist.

Also, it isn't a Dropbox clone (you wish!).
A similar thing happened to me on Orkut

It pointed to me that I probably knew a profile.

This profile was a "fake profile" of a person I knew, from the description it was clear it was this person, can't tell which email was being used, and if I remember correctly it had no friends as well (or maybe only one unrelated friend)
Awesome cant wait to try it
I think the Tesla is amazing, but Consumer Reports is bizarre. I've never been able to grok Consumer Reports car reviews... I remember one year (2003-2004 i think) where they punished Hyundai for some minor cosmetic issue, but white-washed an issue where plastic body panels were falling off a Honda, and gave that car their highest rating.

You could literally buy a similar BMW or Audi and all of the gas that you would ever consume for a price much less than that of the Tesla. And without the limitations of an electric car. Is the driving experience that much better than the other high end luxury cars?
They're trying to do this. I doubt they'll succeed.
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Apple iSight?
Since it hasn't been mentioned yet, I'll add https://github.com/MarcWeber/vim-addon-manager

(Not to be confused with http://packages.debian.org/sid/vim-addon-manager -- and yes, the author of the former got permission from the author of the latter to re-use the name.)
Matt Ringel on whiteboarding and new hire training