skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is ridiculous, it's not even a partial implementation, it's just a serialization library, at the moment. People should get their facts straight :)
Marking archived Gmail messages as read using Google Apps Script
I would use "click". In fact, I do use "click" to refer to using touchscreens, all the time.
This is it, the internet has reached it's pinnacle, time to close up shop and move on.
Well, "TSA threat level", which was #3 on the list.
Clickable http://justnotes.cc
It's a clever way to find a new hire, if you scroll to the bottom of their page.
Google Analytics has nothing whatsoever to do with online content.
>Plenty of people say that the most productive time is when there's no one else in the office.

Yes, but that is not inherent to having other people in the office, it is a symptom of a bad office. Intellect workers require a quiet space where they can work without distraction and interruption. In most offices, the only way to get that is to be there when nobody else is there. In an office where management isn't clueless, people could get that all the time.
I always had the same hypothesis as to how they were able to find those random connections. Which is why I refuse to give any social network access to my email contact list. For my own privacy and for my contacts privacy.
My First 48 Hours Wearing Google Glass
I'm guessing you haven't met the founders of Venmo , Timbre or any of the other companies you have written gushing articles about either.
This has been going around along with the Chemo Therapy doesn't work thread.

The problem with people like the author is they think all cancer is the same. They try to apply information about Hodgkins to non-hodgkins. They think "Breast cancer" is a disease, not a symptom. There over 40 different cancer causes for breast cancer. And the treatments that work are primarily based on the cause not the visible symptom.

This makes studies hard. Most people never learn the cause of their cancer. We are not fortunate enough to always have a single known cause that says "yes you worked in a nuclear waste plant for 6 years" and know that was the cause.

Chemo for example in Hodgkin's Lymphoma increase your 5 year survival chances by 45%. But if you have Smoking related Lung Cancer it is less than 2% difference.

Nature.com rarely produces articles that are informed. They push an agenda of Holistic medicine at the expense of scientific research. I am all for non-traditional medicine, but I don't discount the advances from University and Clinical research.
I'm sorry to read about your loss, and I applaud your initiative. I believe a large part of the reason things like this happen is because the solution is so enormously complex. Developing the software tech (a undertaking in itself) is one thing. Also required: updating/changing existing regulations (slow & bureaucratic), training & support, budget approvals, politics, not to mention the doctor's decision-making process and communication responsibilities...the list goes on and on!

Eventually we will have a better system. Unfortunately this is likely to be a very slow, gradual process, which I hope to witness over the course of the next few decades. In this particular case, software tech could have served as a communication platform to reduce the chances of doctor miscommunication and/or overlooking a patient's varying conditions. Generally speaking (and by my personal experience), doctors seem to be notoriously bad about communicating the overall picture to responsible parties, at least here in the U.S. Each doctor takes care of his/her own "backyard" before dashing off to the next patient. I recognize that this is by no means solely the fault of the doctor. It's the system!

Again, good on you for wanting to be part of the solution.
Depression part 2
Web 2.1b!
To all the people who think the free market and medical care are compatible:

Boom! You just had a heart attack, you'll be dead inside of 15 minutes. Now, go shop around to find the best price for your treatment.
US government will take your data even without the Patriot Act
Co-founder and CEO of systems integrator Cloudreach Pontus Noren has warned firms that the US government is capable of taking data it deems important to its security, without needing to rely on the Patriot Act.

Read more: http://www.computing.co.uk/ctg/news/2266861/us-government-will-take-your-data-even-without-the-patriot-act#ixzz2SoFzCWkf
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RubyMotion is not a wrapper. It is an implementation of Ruby on the Obj-C runtime. This means that a RubyMotion object is an Obj-C object (for comparison, a Ruby object in MRI is just a C struct). So why would you want to use RubyMotion? Well...

* Obj-C, from the very start, was implemented as a strict superset of C. This means that every valid bit of C code must also be valid Obj-C. This places some rather sever limitations on the Obj-C syntax. Ruby does not have this limitation, and neither does RubyMotion. So one reason you might use RubyMotion is to get a cleaner syntax that does the same thing as Obj-C.

* The Obj-C runtime is very dynamic. You can create classes on the fly, add methods to them at runtime, move methods around between objects, and create methods dynamically. The Obj-C language makes it nearly impossible to take advantage of any of these features of the Obj-C runtime. So another reason you might use RubyMotion is to get the most out of the Obj-C runtime.
AdBlock blocks ads, Ghostery blocks "trackers", and NoScript blocks all JavaScript (and a few other dangerous potentials). NoScript doesn't necessarily block ads but it does block "trackers" by default.

I used Ghostery for a while but found it redundant and onerous since I also run NoScript. I agree with the parent that said Ghostery was a poor man's NoScript, though Ghostery only blocks known trackers (analytics tools) and will let random evil scripts through. NoScript allows you to whitelist script sources by domain, so you usually see "Enable example.com; Enable analytics.google.com; Enable quantcast.com;", etc., and you can just enable example.com if you don't like the trackers.

NoScript is really important and useful I think. Less convinced on Ghostery. AdBlock is useful but I don't know if I'd call it "important" really; it provides a great visual convenience to be able to read sites without being bombarded by ads, but one can live safely without it if necessary.
My computer just farted very loud in a hotel lobby.
She should create an ebook - 55 year old makes $899.00 per day as a programmer - make monies online in 1 month.
Would probably sell as well!
How about 'press' ?
Yeah this really highlighted to me the inherent danger of social computing - I can be as private as I want, but I'm only as private as my real life friends are about me. I don't have to upload my email contacts for third parties to find out all sorts of interesting things about who I talk to.
Not sure from your comment if you got the gist of it... but this is not an alternative to Bitcoin, the currency. It's an alternative to bitcoind, the library.

If anything, the article suggests, the rise of such alternative implementations of the same protocol could make the network as a whole more resilient and stable.
We need not wait for that to happen. Such shenanigans have been observed and documented already, such as in the book "Reminiscences of a Stock Operator." It was written in 1923, and worth reading today.
Can Congress Blow Up the TV Bundle? John McCain Is Going to Try — Again.
Sounds like Web 0.1 to me [1]

[1] http://thedailywtf.com/articles/web_0_0x2e_1.aspx
More bad news for the people shorting tesla, then.

edit: Up 27% on Nasdaq at 12:47 ET
I always assumed the suggestions were from other people importing their Twitters and email contacts. So if person A emails me and then imports their emails, Linkedin can suggest to both of us that we might know each other, increasing the chance of creating a connection (and creepy-ness factor for me).
More than half of the world's population lives inside this circle
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The Stanford parser is particularly slow --- it's in java, and it's written for research more than anything. The C&C CCG parser runs at about 60-80 sentences a second, although it gives either CCG constituents or dependencies -- so the output may take some interpretation.

Shift-reduce dependency parsers are linear time, and are giving state-of-the-art results. My parser's currently a pain in the ass to install, as it hasn't really been released yet, but it does hundreds of sentences a second. Accuracy is state-of-the-art -- 92-93% depending on the beam width and the evaluation set (Stanford or MALT dependencies).

https://github.com/syllog1sm/redshift/ . You'll want the develop branch. It's GPL licensed.

It's implemented in Cython (i.e., almost all the code is Cython --- I'm not using it just for the speed critical bits), which would make it easy to work with if you're using Python. But, as I said...I don't claim it's currently fit for human consumption.

A C++ implementation of the same algorithm is here: http://www.sutd.edu.sg/yuezhang.aspx . Note his papers too -- he did some of the important work on this line of research.

The last few years of work in shift-reduce dependency parsing have been a bit of a break-through in parsing, imo.
I tend to say "tap" instead of "touch" and, at a pinch, this could work for mouse users.

Saying that, most people will know what "click here" means, regardless of the input type, so I wouldn't lose sleep over it.
Actually I did too. And, American-centrism at its finest in me, I wondered why the USA was not on the drop-down until it dawned on me...

I need more caffeine
Speaking of which, does anyone know a good way to put a monitor-keyboard-mouse combo on a moveable boom? Ideally I'd like something like the monitors on booms with handles in operating rooms

http://surgery.ucla.edu/images/pagephotos/OR-Photo.jpg

just with a keyboard and mouse, and maybe without the multi-thousand dollar price tag.
ResponsiveImages: A Ruby Gem for Server and Client-Side Responsive Images
What's the fallout going to be like in the next 5 years, maintaining applications and code written by 90-day bootcamp programmers?
I don't know, LinkedIn seems a lot less creepy than Facebook. I mean some of the ads I get hit with would make many folks blush.
No, I don't only get meaningful requests. From a ratio perspective, I probably get 1 meaningful request for every 10 non-meaningful requests.

I'm probably in the minority when it comes to how I use the network, but I've also found that I get a lot less noise from it than most people. I can't say if these two factors are correlated at all, but it stands to reason that they would be.
AdBlock: Blocks requests with a url match in the filter list.
NoScript: Blocks JavaScript.
Ghostery: Blocks webbugs (JavaScript and hidden tracking elements, such as small/transparent images).
AdBlock appears to be the simplest, and NoScript the most complex (e.g., ABE).
Had Nokia kept Meego they would not be in the pickle they are in. Asha sales fell sharply in the previous quarterly report. S40 is not a competitive OS. Meego devices would have multiprocessing and Qt-based apps.

While some customers prioritize industrial design, battery life, and UI responsiveness, the success of Android phones among low-cost Chinese OEMs indicates they think some customers want capabilities before a nice physical package.
Is there any evidence that the misfolding occurs due to the inappropriate digestive system? I've never heard of this, and some quick searching around shows nothing of the sort.
I looked at Numba a few weeks ago and it looked very impressive. One question I had that I did not see addressed in Numba's documentation was whether Numba is generally applicable or if it is focused on mathematical computation? I understand that math loops might be most in need to speed-up, but it would still be nice to speed-up non-math-centric code (e.g. Django...).
You are assuming a monotonically increasing version number. What happens when you need to go back to the old "version" and push out an update? For instance, you shipped 3.0 a few months back but most of your users are still on 2.7. Uh, there's a bug on 2.7, you need to push out a fix. If you are doing versions by date, then there is no easy way to distinguish parallel development.
Curious what quality they encoded them with.
No creepier than other social networking sites.

I find it interesting that it has automated what some folks have done on their own for years. There was a woman at Netapp who managed these sorts of potential and known relationships in her head about the folks working at a couple of big Netapp customers.

I guess what I find amusing is that it is was my experience when introducing myself to someone new at a social event and saying "I work at <company>" or "Yeah, I grew up in Las Vegas" or something along those lines I would often get "Really, I knew this person <name> who worked/lived there, did you know them?" as social banter. It didn't creep me out then either, but I'm sure that for some folks it does.
Which phones don’t charge via USB, apart from the weird idea Apple has of a standard to require an extra cable?
LinkedIn recently suggested my neighbor from 1995. I didn't even have Internet access, let alone an email address back then. I haven't had any contact with this person since.
A paying vim customer?
> I don't mind going to different sites to do different things, rather than having everything handled under one umbrella.

In my perspective things change when you are using services for business rather than personal consumption. There are SO MANY sites that can capture your interest or where you want to just duplicate that blog post or copy your tweet to other sites, and are impossible to manage because we all have 24 hours days.

In some way it is the same problem that arises in the long tail: probably there is a product that a million people want to consume but is unknown. Probably there are hundreds but we humans can't focus and handle periodically so many items. I think the problem is not the lack of resources but tools that help you to pick many of them with a simple interface.
I would argue that if we are to give chimpanzees human rights then we may as well start enforcing building codes for beavers and ants. What is unnatural (law) does not necessarily work for those the animal kingdom. It should not be forgotten that animals have a certain level of rights to coexist with us on Earth but at the same time it does a disservice to humanity to treat them as our equals.
'Deleted' Snapchat photos saved in phone data, can be examined as evidence
That's correct, though at NY Tech Day I did run into the Venmo people, and they seemed to have liked the press. Have you actually used Venmo? It's fantastic. There's a reason Braintree bought them, I use that app daily.
1) Pay SEO marketers to make shill blog posts.
2) Outsource all of the work to india.
3) Profit.
Just a note that Ctrl+Shift+N on Chrome opens up a new incognito window instead of starting a new note.
Disagree. And that's why we have RubyMotion! :-)
I was thinking the exact same thing. It's funny that he wrote that entire post and never raised the possibility of OTHER people sharing their contacts with LinkedIn, and that may explain at least some of the "people you may know."
Great to see she's coming back. Time to go reread ALL the posts!
MoPub Reports sees iOS7 traffic for the 1st time - 2k Monthly Uniques
MoPub Report observed material iOS7 traffic for the first time in late April/early May: roughly 2K monthly unique devices concentrated in US and Vietnam
It is a fart sound... how much quality do they need? lol
Twitter is more interesting in this case because it allows unilateral following. So even if you broke it off with a now ex-girlfriend if they were still (or even only now) following you on Twitter that graph might make indicate the awareness.
>there are perfectly legal ways to clone the backend service and construct an API that is basically identical.

>If there is a monopoly power on behalf of proprietary APIs, it's created by market inertia and NOT by a state-granted artificial legal monopoly.

Or it's created by the investment necessary to retool everything to work with a "basically identical" API which cannot be substantially identical. I wonder if they'll be a market for people that come up with synonyms so that companies offering an identical service with entirely different codebase can avoid duplicating copyrighted calls. Maybe we can download shims from torrent sites?
... which, incidentally, is the DOM event you can guarantee will be fired, regardless of the input device (unless you choose to `preventDefault()` before it gets a chance).
It's a bit lower but it's not a huge change. The promise of the "American Dream" was fair opportunity for success, and social mobility through hard work -- on a meritocratic basis. Not fabulous wealth or anything like that... just fair pay for a job done, and the ability to make a comfortable living from that. It doesn't seem like a lot to us these days but it's still a "dream" to a lot of people outside the US, and I can definitely see how it was a dream to immigrants ~100 years ago.

Reminds me of the piano player at Nordstrom's who worked 27 years and put his kids through college. Not something most of us would want to do, but definitely the American Dream by a lot of definitions.

http://www.thenewstribune.com/2013/01/27/2452005/nordstrom-p...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Dream
Today, I learned that The Onion has a Github account. Kudos guys!
Hi everyone,
I'm trying to make the best way to search for homes in Colorado. I've put together a responsive and rather flat design. Feedback is greatly appreciated. Thanks!
Facebook does the same thing and it's just as creepy.

I closed my "real" account around 2011. A few months back I created a new blank account because I needed access to a couple organization's pages. The only information on that account is my name (a fairly common one) and an email address which is different from the one on my original account. It's possible they have some geographic info linking the two accounts as I closed and opened them from the same city.

90% of the "people you may know" are correct and from dramatically different social groups. Some how it's picked out a girl I did a family stay with in Germany in '04, a fourth cousin I'm only vaguely aware of, current friends from several groups, and high school friends I haven't talked to in 10 years.
Because many, many vim users (majority even?) are running vim on a headless *nix server with no display or display software, let alone a mouse. Anyway, there is already "set mouse=a", or use something like MacVim or another port of vim to graphical UI.
Big data will go mainstream when nanotechnology is embedded into humans
Big data is not yet being embraced, according to Adrian Asher, chief information security officer (CISO) of the Skype division at Microsoft.<p>Asher told delegates at Infosecurity Europe 2013 that big data is currently just a buzzword used for marketing purposes, but that in five or 10 years' time, the real benefits of big data might be realised.
It's funny you mention that it sounds like an ad, I was reading it and felt that it was quite similar to my own situation.

I just got my first technical job (website integration for an online marketing network) in the last month, previously being in general office administration for 10 years. I've always been technically minded but had never pursued it as anything other than a hobby (running home servers, being family tech support etc...).

While I've found Codecademy incredibly frustrating at times (lack of response to feedback and glitchy lessons mainly), it was definitely worth using. I also bought some domains and built a couple of Wordpress sites to try and showcase my skills and interests.

I'd spent all of 2012 firing off CV's to try and get into an entry-level IT support role (which I know I could do) and didn't get a single interview. This year I managed to get in touch with a recruiter via a friend in the ad display industry and pretty soon afterwards I was put forward for an interview. That I could demonstrate my websites and willingness to learn outside of work using online courses on my CV was a definite factor.

An HTML test was a requirement in the interview, and having no idea how complex it might be, I ran through Codecademy's lessons and covered as much as I could to refresh my knowledge. This was a huge help and I did fine on the test.

I was offered the job the same day and one month in I'm loving it. I'm in a fantastic place with a great environment and working with other technically-minded people.

I think there's real value in many of these online courses and education sites (I have also played around with RubyMonk and Learn python the hard way), especially for someone like me who went straight into work rather than Uni.
Have you considered Papers? http://papersapp.com/
Never mind the workman's comp, I'd be more worried about zoning laws prohibiting open flame up there...
I'm hesitant to totally dismiss the movie, but the trailer definitely left me cold. In addition to all the problems you mentioned, I feel like they blew the "____ simplified" gimmick, which almost worked to tie the trailer together.

In some ways the trailer reminded me of Primer but it didn't quite make the low-budget vibe work in it's favor. Having made a few student films, but never having made a good short film, it's still hard for me to put my finger on the little differences that make something like this work.
Why Does Your Startup Sound Like a Startup?
Yes, I also noted the creepiness of "viewers of the profile also viewed."

https://twitter.com/joelandren/status/251417778643406848

If I were a woman, I would be turned off to see something like this.
I can attest to this. Initially, I was extremely skeptical that the Tesla was anything great (electric cars haven't been the highlight of the automotive industry despite repeated attempts by established manufacturers). A few weeks ago, however, I had the chance to drive a family friend's Tesla and I was stunned.

The Model S seems like a car from the future. Forget the fact that it's completely electric and charges via an alien-like, glowing plug. The interior with the large, beautiful touch screen, a voice-activated system (that, contrary to Siri, actually works) coupled with access to the internet, and the gorgeous trim and accents really make the Tesla a standout.

Moreover, it's every geek's dream. You can remotely control the car with a smartphone app, monitor the car's efficiency and performance via beautiful graphs, and even have presets for charging cycles.

Best of all, the pickup is like none other (as one would imagine). Flooring it in a Tesla has a completely different meaning. Pure acceleration and no roaring engine noise.

I think it goes without saying that I'm very excited about this company.
RuLu (Ruby conference in Lyon, France) Early Bird tickets are on sale
there already is, and always has been