skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it would be simpler than that - I have not checked but I expect I follow both @jgc and @plan28 and if there are enough then somewhere a k-value will be high enough that suggesting a follower of one should follow t'other will work.

The geolocation idea is a nice one though - I will try and add it to my bag of tricks CMS - cheers
you are... a person somehow associated with singinst that I met with Jasen a while back? Your writing was interesting enough that I noticed your SN after, which is something like a compliment... otherwise, this pastee is 404ing for me so...
I'm curious as to whether or not this recovery method works on an iPhone. On Android, if at least one snap is left unopened, every photo sent to you via the service is recoverable. That seems like a lazy implementation of the delete function.
Anti-cocaine vaccine eats up drug 'like a little Pac-Man'
How could they not see that this was fake/manipulated?
Plenty of Fish is one of the worst offenders of what the OP is calling business porn. They've been pushing the "overnight success with zero effort" story for a long time.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/13/business/13digi.html?pagew...
Android chief says Google I/O will focus on devs, not new products
FWIW, someone on Crypto.SE reached out and received comments from DWave stating that it's not a problem in the foreseeable future.

http://crypto.stackexchange.com/a/439
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Crazy to see Felipe banned, but then he's always been one for expressing a strong opinion... strongly. Love his technical posts, been reading for over a year now.

Also, GNOME seems to be having a difference of opinion with the loud minority (or is it a majority? I honestly don't know), about how they run the project. Is that a problem? I think so, but then one of my favourite projects (Elementary OS) is run similarly... and it works well there.

The difference is, GNOME has been around forever, and I think end users feel invested in it. Over the past couple of years, it feels like it's been "taken away". Whether or not that is correct is up for you to decide. I'm not fussed either way: I use Unity ;)
To follow up on what mifchip said, binary data can possibly be quite large, and git-annex was designed to manage files in git and create syncing mechanisms without the disk space and overhead of managing the file contents inside said git repo. I would recommend that over using straight git, as it also has options for encryption which might simplify the workflow or make things more transparent. Again, ask around for better info regarding how versioning the file can be used by an adversary (it does depend on the encryption algorithm and implementation, YMMV), but this might be a more suitable solution for you.

http://git-annex.branchable.com/

http://git-annex.branchable.com/encryption/
I am not a cryptographer, but looking at a KDB file in git (with xxd in-between), it would _seem_ you're safe (esp. considering pfg's sibling comment). This pattern of differences repeats for all of the 4 commits I tried: http://i.imgur.com/rxesWJl.png -- so basically there's only two constant 16-byte sequences, there rest of the file being entirely unique.
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I got them from all over the world, but it is of course restricted to places where Streetview is available, so you won't get one in Germany for example.
A natural-language search engine (hence my earlier comments on NLP). I've been using it as a news reader for a while now. Should be able to open invites for the reader part in a month or so.

The crawler collects lots of metadata from content. The vocabulary engine is part of a planned down-the-road feature that will provide additional metadata for crawled content, as well as eventually help users find other users that write comments they want to read. (It has an "anti-social" aspect planned, where user interaction will be allowed on reader content, but the software will encourage users to form loose-knit groups of around 20 or so.)

I think the number one problem of social networks right now is that they try to grow without restraint and force hundreds (or thousands) of people to all interact. But humans aren't wired like that; we don't do that well. What does seem to work well is LiveJournal-style communities, or the BB communities, where people get partitioned off into smaller groups by common interests, with other people crossing between interest groups.

I'm not super excited about the community stuff though. The NLP work has been a blast so far, the interpreter I wrote seems to be working out well. I took a somewhat naive, very clean approach to NLP, and I think it'll support up to a few thousand different types of metadata (I can't even imagine that yet) and at least as many different phrases. I have a little more mostly front-end work to do on the reader, then after that I'll start working on providing direct access to the search engine behind the reader. (The reader isn't an RSS reader, it's a search engine interface that lets you use the results from searches as news feeds -- like, right now I have a "front page of HN" news feed. Reddit content is also being crawled, I just need to edit the parser to accept a query like, "front page of HN and r/technology and r/startups".) Eventually I'll mess around with the community part.

So, for example, users with an account on the reader (and, later, the search engine) might have articles closer to their own reading level get a mild rankings boost.
So they shelve something truly awesome and with massive promise, while they keep pushing ahead with Web-DRM which everyone external to the process has been utterly negative about.

W3C has sold itself to Hollywood and it has/will cost them their reputation, and ultimately their stewardship of the open web.

We need someone else to stand up and talk for the best of the web now.
Thank you - I did feel I had missed a decade reading the article.
I'm curious, has there been any kind of response from the GNOME team about the now-infamous "No"?
But the concept is still useful in other scenarios - it isn't limited to cars just because that's where it's shown. Also, a HUD for driving would be pretty sweet, especially for the driver.
It's so unbelievable, even the server can't handle it!
From the page:

"If you're interested in using any of this code in your applications, feel free to do so! You don't need to cite me or this website as a source, though I would appreciate it if you did. However, please don't plagiarize the code here by claiming authorship - that would just be dishonest. I also caution you that while I'm fairly confident that the code on this site is correct, I haven't mercilessly tested every line, and so there may be a lurking bug or two here."
As I understand things (and I'm not anything close to being an expert, just an interested outsider with enough of a physics education to be dangerous), you can add q-bits to cope with errors introduced by decoherence, but whether these codes work depends quite finely on the error rate. So if you can manage to keep the error rate low enough, then everything will be fine.

If it turns out that the error rate depends (for physical reasons) on the the size of the system, then for some size of QC, adding error correcting q-bits will be counter-productive. Given that (in public) no-one has made a QC with more than a handful of coherent q-bits, no-one really knows where the limits are: it might well be that error-correction lets you build arbitrary sized coherent QCs, or there might be insurmountable physical limits that prevent that from happening. I look forward to people finding out! It's a fascinating new experimental field of physics.
Yeah, trade transcends the individual, but profit based capitalism does not. If your utility function is profit, you will get egotistical behavior. What we should really try to maximize is the number of smiles in this world, because that, I think, is a better measure of the success of a society. We should really strive to feel better not to have more. Money is an instrument that favors egotistical thinking, counting what we have, but funny enough, we seem to feel better when we give more, not when we get more.
It's the interface that matters, both hardware and software. You only need to look at the success of the iPad to prove that.
I dropped out of grad school to work in a start-up, which also turned out to be my first proper full-time job after graduating from university. I had worked before, in internships and before university, which made me attractive to the company that offered me my get-out offer from grad school.

At the time, I was super stressed. I was working three days a week to pay for grad school and having to work pretty much every single day with barely any money to live on was hell. Start-up life, for me, was almost like a holiday. I was working regular hours, and although there were times where I was working hard and long hours it felt structured.

That being said, I absolutely loved grad school. The idea of it is what made me do it. My bachelors in CS left me wanting to know more, so a step-up was required.

I let my university know that I was struggling to make ends meet and that I would be leaving as I couldn't afford the next term. The university where I got my bachelors was as tight with money as possible, so I expected nothing, but they refunded EVERYTHING and wished me luck. I effectively got almost three months of education for free.

For that reason, I will return to grad school, and I will definitely continue it at the same university. Sadly, the price of a Masters degree in the UK has almost tripled, so it won't be any time soon. It if goes down to around £5k I'll definitely do it again.
Yeah, I have experimented with schemaless stores a bit (mostly with JSON fields in postgres, for now), to avoid adding columns for various things to the database, and I am not impressed. Not only is initialization and migration hard, but I've come to realize that there's no downside in adding these to the schema itself.

Sure, the schema gets a bit bloated and dirty, but having undocumented fields in a dict whose existence is signified only by a line of code assigning something is not better.

Where schemaless stores are great is prototyping. Especially for more algorithmic code, where I don't really know what storage I'll be needing and the algorithm will only live there for a few days, schemas are just a burden. That's why I wrote Goatfish: https://github.com/stochastic-technologies/goatfish
Apple should have kept A/UX back in the day, instead of dumping it.

I only managed to see one system live at an exhibition back in 1994.

Has anyone used it back then?
You appear to be missing the exact point, here. In a free society, it's specifically NOT reasonable for government to investigate anybody based solely on their political advocacy. Government powers should not be used to pursue or dissuade a political agenda. Even the mere threat of an investigation can be a frightening weapon, possibly enough to discourage citizens from political activities.
I banned GNOME from my desktop also without any warning.
I'd love to find this place as well. If you find it, let me know!
I'm unsure, but there was a "bug" originally on the iPhone that was jailbroken that allowed you to recover them before they were deleted. Unsure if it was fixed. Not related to this bug though, I think.
And this is what happen when two dicks-wannabe nerds meet online. I'm tired of watching argues like this.
I agree but even this definition feels a bit off to me. If, say, you start a new supermarket chain that is designed to grow rapidly, I wouldn't consider it a startup unless there is some kind of innovation in the business model. That may just be me, but I consider a startup to be a business that is designed for rapid growth and that is doing something new in one way or another.
"Your goal is to talk them round to your point of view, not make them never want to talk to you again for fear of you blowing things way out of proportion."

I'd like to think that one's goal is to improve any ecosystem/community and talking them round to your point of view could be one of them. I say this because of one of many things: you _could_ be wrong, the community isn't ready to accept the idea, etc. If you're facing a lot of resistance, it never hurts to back off and reassess, because although you possess the knowledge and insight into how to make things better, it is probably your job as well to make sure everybody knows in the most efficient way possible.

And yes, I agree, scaring colleagues/peers off is never a good thing.
I have to say, having used newsgroups, forums, and reddit for years and years, I totally disagree - conversations by their nature are threaded, not linear - people need to have the freedom to break off and discuss tangents without impacting the main thing.

With the quote feature you just end up with giant quote pyramids and impossible to track discussions.

That said, with Facebook it seems they have a) broken the chronology, which is insane, and b) not made it damned obvious that it's a threaded system, hence the confusion.
But the world would not be the same. Let me give you a somewhat silly example. In the TV series UFO, a moon to earth shuttle crashed. Sabotage was suspected. A pilot said he'd fly the same route to see if anything was there to sabotage a flight. Well, that's just impossible. The earth is in a different position in relation the the sun, the moon is in a different spot in relation to both the earth and sun, and the entire solar system has moved in relation to the galaxy and the universe. To paraphrase a saying, it's never the same river twice. The entire environment the clone would be in would be drastically different than the one the original was in, so it'd really be impossible to get a truly identical experience. And a dog's senses are different than a human's. What you would never notice as a significant change the dog probably would -- and that too would have an effect.
It was a good read, and reminded me of an old Asimov story (I don't remember its exact name, IIRC it is in his The Golden Age short stories)
403, and the offered alternative location is not available either. Is this another salvo in the Middle East propaganda war? Please enlighten.
The weird state of mobile web apps
> 1958 - John McCarthy and Paul Graham invent LISP.

Lol, PG was born in 1964! He invented Lisp even before he was born :P I'd credit PG for "re-inventing" Lisp though.
>Firstly, muslims would never show images of dead people

What BS is this? I follow world news for 20+ years. There have been countless, literally tens of thousands, pictures of dead people in muslim countries.

>Frankly, looking at the other fotos I find it quite hard to believe those children are even dead. (...) where's the blood? I hear even muslims have blood.

Really? Really?

And it goes downhill from there, with your explanations of why they are not really dead, of the "I've seen a lot of CSI on TV" quality.

Spoken like a true ignorant that has never gone 5 minutes away from his hometown in rural Idaho (or TV-land, which is the same).

All the BS about rigor mortis etc, are not even TV-doctor quality, but what is especially disturbing is the lack of humanity and empathy.
Really cool! Just to make sure there was nothing funny with the web page (not that I thought so, but still), I printed the Rotating Snakes picture on paper. Sure enough, they still appear to rotate, even on paper.
I've also seen cases where people who run on EC2 end up having to do a lot of extra work because of the bad IO/CPU. They end up with these solutions that are way overkill for such small websites.
Tradingscreen.
Sure, humans can react rash when emotions get involved; that's an explanation of what happened, NOT an excuse. I would hope that someone with power in such a big OSS project would have the self control to not act on his emotions and work off of objective facts instead.
I dont think Clojure for CLR will be useful for me. Because I'm mainly looking for C# Code Generation (readable code).
> I mean, I haven't used gnome in years or followed the community, but just reading the OP's post defending himself made me want to ban him. We can argue all day about a platonic world of argument and enlightenment where tone doesn't matter... But we live in the real world with real people.

And that is the moment someone who knows how to handle such a situation takes his fingers of the keyboard, gets a tea, takes a stroll or does whatever he needs to do to be able to handle the situation rationally later. The others? They behave like a three year old: "I will NEVER play with you again!!!!" and swing the ban hammer.
When Ford made the model T should we have cared about the catastrophic loss of employment facing blacksmiths, horse-breeders, stablehands, and carriage-makers?

It's true that digital communication has obliterated industries. And that's awesome, because those industries were inefficient, smelly, and slowed us down. Compared to the incredible value we each get by being able to speak to anyone else, anywhere in the world, any time we like - not to mention, the millions of jobs bourne out of the internet - the loss of jobs in these obsolete industries is nothing.
So the unsurprising question is, why wouldn't other parts of Bloomberg have access to some/all of this data? And even if everybody was terribly offended by that, what are they going to do? They're pretty much locked in at this point.

Bloomberg are playing with fire here, partly because they're almost a monopoly, and partly because they could be so easily replaced on the quotes side (if not on the financial news market side). Technology has moved on and exchanges are more open with data than they used to be, and this is probably only going to continue - I'm sure they'd love to cut Bloomberg out of the picture and charge their own fees separately.

There is no justification for Bloomberg journalists to be poking into private account information about Bloomberg clients - the potential for abuse of this position is huge, apart from anything else the journalists could use it for insider trading, which is of course illegal. They could also take information from one trader and sell it to a competitor, there is huge scope for abuse, and the only way to avoid it is to have very clear (and tight) boundaries for the usage of stats collected.

In the same way that newspapers have a firewall between editorial and advertisers, to try to stop advertisers influencing editorial, Bloomberg should have a firewall between the division which sells financial information and that which investigates financial news in order to get that information. I find it astonishing that so many people are defending this sort of privacy invasion as standard practice. It's not acceptable to use information such as queries and logins to measure specific individual actions and find out (for example) how active a particular trader has been in a certain market, then spread that information. It's fine to keep these stats and anonymise them in order to generate statistics about usage, but quite another thing to use them to track individuals and trading patterns. If Google for example used the content of private emails from a CEO to target companies to sell adverts to, there would be outrage, and rightly so.
This was in September 2011. Are you really holding a grudge for this long ?

My suggestion would be to forget about this and move on. No offense to anyone but GNOME is just dreadful and there are so many other Linux/FOSS projects that desperately need people. Help them out instead.
mathnode != Hugh Darwen

They are some big boots to fill. I'm just some DBA in London.
The smell of enamelled wire going bye bye is unmistakable. And bad.

Also is the smell of regular wire coating burning due to an overcurrent. (you also have the unmistakeable fumes to help you identify the problem)

On the other hand, the smell of Ozone is not particularly bad
Ask HN: what is the HN equivalent in biotech?
I love HN, and keen to start following biotech trends more.

What biotech sites do you know of, ideally with an article/comments community similar to HN?
I am curious about this. Other than the US, UK and a few Scandinavian countries, what countries do you think speak English better than India?

1) The younger generation is much much less corrupt.

2) Almost nobody pays for a masters in science and engineering. Those who do startup eventually end up doing it in India. I know a bunch of my friends running profitable startups.
Just Finish Everything. Golden advice.

Http://statspotting.com/just-finish-everything/
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Pointatme app by Virtualmob (Augmented Reality)
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No matter how shiny your prison is, you are still living in a prison.
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There is a problem with developer communication. It's an unsolved problem. There's probably some interesting research to be done about it.

You have people who don't have English as a first language talking to people.

You have people with varying levels of interpersonal skills - some pretty poor. For example, people with Asperger's can be pretty blunt when talking to others. And they don't always have best modern help to sort that out.

People tend to be protective of work they've done. Especially when it's being "attacked".

And people can be unconstructive in their criticism - "that sucks!" "You're an idiot for doing it like that!"

People can be very attached to certain models.

These combine into a massive clusterfuck. The fact the world runs on so much open source software really is remarkable.

As to fixing this stuff:

1) Create clear divides between technical lists and things that anyone can comment on.

2) Create clear rules about expected behaviour. ("Only technical comments"; "patches get attention, whines don't"; "comment on the code, not the coder"; "polite is good, constructive is essential, flames get you banned".)

2a) Have people to enforces those

3) Have some kind of comment limiting mechanism to prevent flames breaking out. Mostly this is user behaviour, but slowing comments might help to prevent a few flames turning into a forest fire.

4) Have experienced community members acting as mediators. Often flames happen when two people mostly agree with each other but are mis-interpreting a small point, or there are language problems, or some such.
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