skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Seer Engine: A conceptual search engine that sees.
We have an index bin with all the indexed pages. Every search brings up closely related results chosen randomly from the bin. We are location aware and we will look for matching results close to users location and beyond randomly. There is no ranking for the main index. Extra filters are available to choose from before and after doing a search to get user desired results like sorting based on select parameters etc. Businesses that bid and pay will have a block displaying paid results(pay big, rank high) on top of the regular results page. Paid results are not PPC ads etc, they are paid business listings that rank high based on bid amounts. Seer Engine is a hybrid utilizing the power of cloud and peer to peer resource sharing. Peers who share their power will be compensated in form of credits(for paid listings or perks/cash unrelated to seer engine). We will not judge go out and decide this is right or wrong, it is for Users to decide what is good and bad for them, not our choice. Obscene and sick stuff that almost all of us frown upon, seer engine will not see this stuff. We will not index sick stuff, if we do by mistake our filters will filter this junk out automatically based on public word lists. Seer Engine is context aware, it understands language like a human being(well try to) and gets rid of JUNK that you will never see on SEER.
"we all have obligations to society"

How is it that you cringe when friends get your daughter princess gifts but feel your daughter has a social obligation to (at times) act like a princess whether she likes it or not?
This is dues to a memory/cpu "leak" because when you press reset it doesn't run "clearInterval". This could be done via introspection on the code to "undo" any running intervals/timeouts when the reset button is pressed, but the notion of "reset" is to reset the text, not reset the code, so leaving as is.
Gravity Will be Turned Off
Video from the STHLM Startup Hack party, crazy swedes.
If a woman is "typically" girly, that's fine. But saying a girl can't be anything else is wrong. This particular character was designed differently, and Disney is saying: no, girls can only be this way.
My girlfriend works as an environmental consultant for the Keystone XL project. She spends 13-hour days ensuring that the pipeline's route does not interfere with cultural sites, animal migration, water bodies and many other factors. She and her team will spend weeks re-routing if it means mitigating an environmental risk.

Is the project infallible? No. But I would think twice before jumping on the bandwagon to oppose it categorically because of what people are saying on Facebook and Twitter. While I'm not privy to behind-the-scenes details, I've witnessed first-hand and been very impressed by the project's commitment to safety.
> Google Apps users will also be getting shared storage, so visit the enterprise blog to learn more.

This is a big deal. Previously, even though you could upgrade the regular version of Gmail, you couldn't upgrade your Google Apps Gmail storage for any price, even if you were a paying customer. A few of our accounts are getting pretty close to the 25 GB limit for Google Apps Pro customers.
While I can't speak for the new office online stuff, almost every time I've tried to put office files on Google docs it messed them up. So to me and I think other people involved in business stuff they have a point when they talk about loss of reputation etc. For techies etc if Google docs screws up you can all laugh it off and think it'll get better eventually but I think a lot of people doing business won't stand for it.

Still Google Docs is certainly better than old Office with collaboration, but even that has problems. For instance recently I was editing a 20 page document collaboratively and if we're both adding and removing lines at once it starts jumping all over the place making it super hard to use. Ultimately I think collaboration is vital and online will win out but they still have a ways to go to be completely usable.
I don't think there is another WebFWD III project licensed under the AGPL. We chose it to in order to allow people to use and customize our code but prevent competitive services built on it.

If you need a special license for your project contact us at founders(at)mist.io
I think that even ignoring privacy concerns, theres a quality difference between Dropbox and Google that Google is currently losing.

Our team is only 10 employees, distributed across two offices, but the number of times that I have seen email attachments for docs that were supposed to be synced in Drive multiple hours ago isn't trivial and has led to most of the team returning to Dropbox despite the space limitations. As is, if a doc isn't created in the Google environment (Google Docs, Calendar, etc.) then it will reside in Dropbox.
I guess I have the same issue with Chromium (29.0.1506.0). Codeblock demos won't work because 'codeblock.js' is served with the wrong MIME type (i.e. 'text/plain') and the browser refuses to execute it. You could host your JS file on GitHub pages (i.e. 'github.io' domain) to fix this issue.

edit: Sorry, I didn't notice you were not the poster. I'll create an issue.
Yes, as I said: She made a movie with Merida in it. That did not in any way push Disney in this direction. They made that choice all on their own. Her part was putting Merida in the movie — she had no part in the decision to change Merida.
Do you remember that one movie where Richard Stallman gets up and makes a speech about how once in a while people need to set aside their ideals so we can actually make a real profit?

If they DID make such a movie, would it bother you?

It would bother me, because the while POINT of Richard Stallman (as far as I can tell) is to be stridently opposed to ever bending on these principles. I don't have a problem with people who put profits above principle, it's that I have a problem with Richard Stallman doing it -- it suggests that EVERYONE should put profits above principle.
It's great that some children like sparkly princess phase type toys. The market is flooded with toys and films and characters for those children.

It's great that some children like tomboy style characters. There's now one less character.
Facebook or Instagram will just reimplement it themselves if they care. Smaller developers will just remain insecure. GPLv3 harms adoption of something like this.
Canada and science: NRC will now only do science that promotes “economic gain”
If what is said in the article is correct, I don't see what was wrong with "him tweeting". He sent messages via a prison-approved method to someone outside who tweeted on his behalf.

Do prisoners automatically retain the right to access online services? No. But why should they be denied the right to ask people in the outside world to use these services (which are completely legal - it's not like he was asking them to do anything dodgy) on his behalf?

Just because the title makes it sound like he sneakily found a way around the system, this really isn't a big deal, he didn't break any rules, he didn't even find any loopholes, he just did what seems to be perfectly allowed. (Unless the article is neglecting to mention why it would not be allowed.)

Weev is a massive tool, but (if his lawyer's speculation is correct) why do you feel that asking someone to post a tweet on your account warrants solitary confinement? What makes it worse than writing a letter to a newspaper, writing a book and having it published while in jail, or just speaking to someone and asking them to pass a message onto friends/family - all of which happen without outcry.
So they pastoralized the archetype for the movie, then pasteurized the iteration for later marketing?
If Google wants to fight against SEO (of whatever color of hat), it needs to somehow separate the links of people that are trying to manipulate Google and the links of people that are just trying to use the Internet.

The closer a spammer's actions appear to that of a normal person, the harder it is to find and devalue those links.

Google's updates have been in the recent past are saying (Panda, Penguin), "Well, spammers generally tend do to this, let's make that bad now."
$550 million. Gross

And downthread you're all exercised about agenda while completely giving Disney a pass on pushing an agenda?

We get it. The "ethics" you're advocating argues for giving kids plates of sparkly sugar for dinner because it will "test better" and gross more.
OK, but we can probably say, "many websites have not prevented unsavory inbound links". How can these sites be helped? Do they need to "referer-bomb" (e.g. how some photo sites that didn't favor image embedding used to serve goatse to unrecognized referers) these links to a "don't count this link" document? Could Google propose a standard semantics for such a document?
EME spec covers only a JS API for metadata exchange with unspecified magical CDM plugins.

The spec deliberately doesn't cover how CDM gets integrated with the browser (currently: you're Google and you make a deal with Netflix privately and get binary to bake into closed version of ChromeOS).

* It might be that CDMs will be shipped with the OS (Widevine in Android/ChromeOS, WMDRM in Windows, FairPlay in OS X) and you'll have to rent licensing servers from each vendor.

* It might be that browser vendors will allow ActiveX-like download or allow regular .exe installers add components to the system and you'll have convince viewers that you're not giving them a virus.

* Or it might be that major browser vendors will license Netflix DRM, Hulu DRM, Amazon DRM and that's it.

In either case if you're a small player, you probably won't be able to use the DRM. The only option for you will be the default ClearKey which is as pathetic as the name implies. It can be broken with:

javascript:MediaKeys.prototype.update = function(key){alert("game over " + key)}
Perhaps the way to phrase it is that the soviet surveillance apparatus was an expression of power, just as the modern technological surveillance apparatus is an expression of modern power.

I think that this stuff matters, to the extent that I'd like to be in solidarity with those everywhere who are in a tension against authority. Not selling exploits is one small way that I can do that, and writing a blog post about it is one small contribution (I can hope) to creating a culture of doing that.
In a very good sociology course I took in college the professor drew an upside down bell curve on the board. The y axis was risk for suicide and the x axis was social interaction. The extremes of social interactions, very low or very high amounts, led to being at greater risk for suicide according to research quoted by the professor. Average amounts of social interactions had the lowest risk for suicide. I don't remember the specific studies or evidence, but it still resonates with me today.
There is a HUGE valley that separates the embraced traits you're describing about the women who surround you and the princess myth that Disney pushes on little girls (and boys!). The director is not attacking women who want to bake, dress in pink, or are nurturing. She is fuming because Disney doesn't want to allow that a female character might not want ANY of that and still be feminine.
> The idea that who they are is somehow shameful is disgusting, and it's disgusting to me that the third-wave feminists, or whatever the group is that is pushing this rhetoric, seems to get a free pass on it.

It's not that liking girly things is shameful or bad. People should be free to like whatever they want. The problem is that this character had design and writing elements that tried to make it different from that girly princess mold, but over time those facets of the character have been removed to make a more stereotyped character. Keep in mind the original director and originator of this character, Brenda Chapman, was fired from the director role of Brave (she was the first female director for Pixar).

> Should she be ashamed of herself for that? Is she not a real woman, is she weak? Is she submitting to the evil male patriarchy every time she puts on a pink t-shirt or does something sterotypically girly?

Not at all. However, it is good to have diverse representations and there is a significant lack of representations of women that don't fall into a particular set of stereotypes and tropes. That a character that was created to be different from those tropes is being forced back into them by a corporation known for not having diverse representations of women is the issue.
to be honest, it'd have to be coupled w/ ec2 or some other cloud providers, that presets proper deployments with firewall/authentications. that'll be then something i'll definitely be interested in.
Prisoner or not, would expect things to be legal unless stated otherwise by a specific law. Is there a law that makes it illegal for someone to tweet on behalf of a prisoner? I'm genuinely curious about that.
This is one of my oldest bookmarks. It's not only that the professor shows the illusions, but he also shows his research and explains them.
I think you misunderstand their pricing structure (as portrayed in the story). It's a penny or more per attribute, per person. How many items would the abovementioned FB profile access garner per Rapleaf? From my experience in market research and by looking at the linked price sheet, it doesn't appear that Rapleaf supplies PII.
Well, the whole point of the article is that for some needs even the option of extra functionality hurts - you want to remove every extra 'if', every unneeded (for you) field in a data structure to make it fit in cache better, etc.
Monsanto win GM seed case
1. Does being a cretin or a jerk or whatever mean it is OK to be imprisoned for non-crimes?

2. He wasn't the one who started the comparisons with Aaron Swartz, from weev's tweet: "CNN is also sitting around calling me a meanie. I'm a bad troll, and no Aaron Swartz, the outraged masses cry!" Then he goes on to continue differentiate himself from Aaron, he never created or invited a positive comparison.

3. The article said he was sending messages to another person who was tweeting on his behalf. Why would he lose his right to free speech just because he has been convicted of a crime? Why wouldn't he be able to tweet (by proxy)?

EDIT s/charged/convicted/
Look at how this discussion gets framed. I see it every single time.

It's not "oh, well now there is one less non-stereotypical character for me to idolize", it's "look at this regressive stuff! How dare they!".

How should girls that like sparkly things feel when they read this? Are they regressive? Should they be ashamed with themselves along with Disney?
Linkedin, Facebook, Google, Twitter, Apple: How they used to look.
The picture looks unnatural. Whether this was achieved with props or post-processing is not relevant - what is relevant is that it won a competition for realistic photos, despite not exhibiting realism.
Macros aren't solely used to implement high-level features, mind you - in CL they're introduced without much hassle to work out gruntwork as well precisely because an elided form in s-expressions seems just as natural as the original forms.

Although that level of fragmentation you do talk about is plausible - I'd find it simultaneously disheartening and worth a bit of a chuckle. (I'm reminded of all of the concurrency abstractions CL seems "capable of" hosting with minimal friction - but none with definite thrust.)
There is nothing wrong with liking stereotypical "girly" things, or ten of the eleven Disney Princesses being stereotypical girls.

There is also nothing wrong with being a tomboy, or having one of the eleven Disney Princesses being a tomboy.

While I'm sure there are some extremists out there that want to see nothing but tomboys and hate pink colored things, I think (and hope) most people are just outraged that the only tomboy Princess was changed into something that she clearly didn't want in the movie. This isn't saying that being stereotypically "girly" is bad, but that being a tomboy is. Nobody's asking for the likes of Snow White or Cinderella to become a tomboy 'cause fuck being a girly girl.

As someone that grew up as a tomboy but likes baking and knitting and dressing up, I would vastly prefer a Merida that stayed true to the movie rather than yet another girly Princess because goodness knows there are enough of those. And I don't think protesting Disney for this change to Merida is saying that being girly is a bad thing.
If you think that, go implement a MIT-licensed variant.
>I have to agree. It didn't really turn out as well as I wanted. The talk is really good, but I could never make this read smoothly.

Props for stepping forward and saying this :-)

I think it has to do with that you're trying to capture the content of a talk largely by presenting the bullet points from that talk's slide deck, but in doing so miss a lot of context that came from the presentation.

Your summary at the bottom is great -- I think it should be the whole article. This would offer viewers a snapshot of what they can expect out of the video so that they don't miss anything (for example, a very common takeaway I'm seeing from this and from people I show it to is that this is "just" a network stack hack -- no mention of his proposal for multi-core optimization, etc).
Brenda Chapman was fired from the directing role for this movie. It isn't unreasonable to try and make a compromise to create a work for a mass audience, but it is laughable to say that she has had control over anything since she was let go (the rights were already signed away at that point).
>> I get that we're all supposed to hate Monsanto because they're a corporation (something which they apparently don't have in common with the YC-backed companies)

Can you name any YC-backed companies whose products are widely suspected to be causing unprecedented harm to society (or at least have the potential to) but are getting increasing legal immunity? We also hate corporations that enforce patents in software because it's ridiculous to patent software - how about patenting genetic codes?
Upvoted because of the many interesting resources linked to from this post. I'd be delighted to see more discussion of this submission, as I am trying to follow in the author's footsteps of going from kind-of, sort-of knowing about programming to being able to program as needed to work on my day-by-day projects.
There was a story on This American Life a while back about a Chance, the unusually tame bull. He died, they cloned him. The result: Pet Semetary. Your cloned dog probably won't stomp you to death, but it wouldn't be the same dog, it would be a sibling.

http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/291/t...

http://animalinventory.wordpress.com/2009/05/20/did-chance-t...
Show HN: PyClock
I wish more people were familiar with Ibogaine. It's expensive, but it's helped two friends completely return to life with no withdrawal symptoms or desire to use again.

It has properties that break opiate withdrawal almost instantaneously, as well as other psychological effects that tend to reset senses such as smell, touch, etc, back to an almost childlike state. Very mysterious and beautiful substance.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ibogaine

This is also a must-watch documentary:

Ibogaine, Rite of Passage:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPDIH9WODnk
> People don't realize that some girls, in fact lots of girls, in fact I would say most of the girls I know like stereotypical "girly" things. They would like to have a dress that is sparkly like the one in the photo.

Is there a shortage of sparkly dresses in the Disney princess stable?
There will always be alternatives which you pay hard cash for, but if you want 'free' services you most likely end up paying through advertising.

The majority of people seem to find their internet habits being sold as a data point to advertisers and getting targeted ads is an ok 'price to pay' for gmail/outlook/google drive/skydrive/dropbox etc et al.

Again if you don't like this deal there is always someone willing to take your money in exchange for such priviledge.
Dress is lower cut than original. Waistline is considerably smaller than original, which emphasises bust (which probably hasn't changed) and hips / ass (which also probably haven't changed).
Great advice. I'd be interested in hearing more about Thomas's hack re: flexibility. tptacek - any chance you can weigh in here?
If it's prison-approved then it's true that stuff ending up on Twitter (which is how I'd phrase it rather than 'weev posting to Twitter') should not land him in solitary.

But that is weev's theory for why he landed in solitary; there may be alternative reasons (e.g. joking about killing himself, disruptive behavior with other inmates, etc.)
Once again regarding this story: to understand what's happening here, it's very important that you understand that the farmer didn't just acquire Monsanto seeds, but also used glyphospate herbicides on the crops. The point of Monsanto's invention is that it survives Roundup; if you spray Roundup on normal crops, they die.

Most people who see this story play out seem to think that it implies a Monsanto seed could blow onto your field and then get you sued. But of course, if you didn't know you were planting Monsanto seeds, you wouldn't think to try to kill them with Roundup.
Splinter.me launches Common Connections, aggregated from all social networks
I haven't seen this movie, only the previews...

Isn't the princess in the movie an archer? Why can't giving her a sparkly dress mean: "It's okay to wear a sparkly dress and do archery at the same time! Do whatever you want!"

That seems...more in line with the idea of liberating people from binary gender roles.
$295 with an early-adopter offer for $95 sounds better than charging $45 "because it's limited".
My main site was part of the collateral damage from Panda, so I'm pleased to hear Matt say that they're still tweaking Panda to help sites that are still being affected.

My site is pretty much all user generated content (car reviews), and Panda seems to struggle with differentiating such sites from content farms, unless they're part of a larger, established brand.

Almost two years of attempting to fix the problem by improving quality and layouts, reducing ads etc had no effect. Then I raised my case on Google's own forums, resulting in a lot of attention, and a few weeks later I saw a massive improvement (I know, correlation is not causation). Unfortunately I seem to have been hit again last week, by something that looks suspiciously like Panda (though I'm not 100% sure).

I've mostly moved on (now working on an iOS app), but it did appear from the outside that Google was comfortable with the impact of Panda, and it's good to know that they're still focussed on improving it.
I would make the point that it might make sense to leave the initial price point low, and add plugins perhaps or a marketplace, and support options at higher price points.

You can sell the "infinite" (the bits) for low price (price IS different than value), and sell the "scarce" (your time on customized plugins, install time, training, etc...) for more, and the customer will often be very happy with this arrangement.

As well, this should get you more sales, and a larger community. This is an important point to consider, as an active community can often make or break a product like this.

As a side note, I am considering purchasing this for my own consulting use. At that price, it becomes almost an impulse buy. Thank you for making this an option!

Just my 2c.