skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why do you presume that? There's no basis to think that.

Also: If Disney already has a dozen sparkly girly princesses, adding one with a different target market should expand their customer base. Adding another to the same group might just cannibalize sales of other existing sparkly princesses.
Well, it depends. I'm fully booked myself, but I hired a good programmer to take on another project. He's not as experienced but is a very fast learner (also he's diligent), so with a few minutes of extra work per day, I managed not to shut the door to am opportunity, and the deliverable is turning out very well indeed.
Unscientifically I've seen between 1-3 messages per second via imapsync so ~a day. The bottleneck seems to be the IMAP protocol or rate limiting on google's side, I've certainly never seen it approach wire speed.
I remember when I first listened to that episode. It was fascinating to hear about the second bull having none of the same qualities.

Even with that caveat the futurist in me says do it so we have more data points.
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That's actually what inspired that particular use case. I would love to be able to travel to a foreign country and be able to understand every piece of text I looked at. I think it could also be useful for learning a language.
Sure, it's possible he's in solitary for killing 20 prison guards, but this article and these comments are on the theory that it's for tweeting, and the person I replied to suggested that this alone warranted solitary confinement.
It's as if the money we earn is written on paper with disappearing ink. You better consume it quickly, or else it will have no value soon.

This planet is in desperate need of a currency that can't be inflated by a select group of people not loyal to the interests of American Citizens. If a bitcoin ATM shows up nearby me, I would probably pay money just to help fund the cause.
> What exactly do Zach Braff's finances have to do with how he funds a movie?

That if his motivation is the desire to retain creative control he does not need crowdfunding to do so.

> It argues either that Braff's fans would be somehow better off if he didn't make the new movie at all, or that Braff is somehow obligated work on projects for his fans.

It argues neither. It asks the question: you apparently want to do this, you seem to have the means to do it, why do you go through a crowdfunding site? The move also sends the message to potential funders that the creator doesn't really believe in the project so he wants others to bear the risks of it.

Which is (at least in part) incorrect since Braff contributes funds to it[0], sadly there's no more details and it's easy to miss it even when looking for the info. And of course the vultures who want to make copy will avoid asking this question and go for the outrage instead. But I don't see the issue with asking about it if it's done in good faith. I'm happy to know e.g. Brian Fargo is putting 100k of his own money into Torment, that tells me he believes in the thing.

[0] > I am absolutely contributing my own money to the funding of the film, but I actually can't afford to cover the entire cost of production. With a combination of my own personal funds, backing from my fans and the sale of some of the film's foreign rights, I will be able to make the film I intended to make which I am hoping is a film you want to see.
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I honestly have a hard time wanting more than 3G at any time.

if anything, i'd like better latency and coverage.
You don't have to be such an ass. I asked nicely enough.

I fully acknowledge Moxie is better at security than I ever will even dream of being. I just hoped he might see the value in releasing it under a more-amicable license. I don't have the numbers, but more-liberal licenses are by a wide margin the choice for open-source crypto.

I'm not speaking from the armchair, I've released open-source code under BSD/MIT myself. I don't have Moxie's skill for security, is it so wrong to point out the obstacle the license represents? He did release it to help secure the web, did he not? Why don't you let him reply.
I see a couple minor stylistic changes made to what a character is wearing.

I guess I need to see the movie, and the part where it's made obvious that "this girl would never wear anything other than a black burlap sack, ever, ever in her life, even in the future after the story ends. Ever." But I still don't think it would constitute some offensive sexist outrage. It would just be an inconsistent portrayal.
An interesting interpretation, which I had not considered. Thank you.
I liked the discussion about "'silos' in health policy, meaning that we see crime and low educational achievement as distinct from medical problems like obesity or heart disease."

It seems like medicine needs to be less short-sighted and integrate loneliness and nutrition and other non-medicinal factors into diagnoses and treatment.
>> What makes you think she was naive about it?

Actually I read the line "I forget that Disney's goal is to make money without concern for integrity. Silly me."

as implying exactly that.
Yeah this is double-edged news for Pro customers. On one hand you can give people lots of storage. On the other hand they'll use it and it'll then be that much harder to ever move off big G.
Furthermore, you have to jump through several difficult-to-recognize hoops to get that 9GB on your disk. IMAP will only sync what the sever feels are recent emails, and envelope information for the rest.
If the bitcoins are given in exchange for work, he is taxed as if it was income, and at income tax rates, much like if he was given a stock grant in a public company. Also, these taxes are calculated when he is paid, not when he sells the bitcoins, so if they lose value, he is still on the hook for the full income tax (which is in USD in the US).

However, if he sells bitcoins in the future, he will be forced to pay capital gains taxes on the difference in price between when he received the bitcoins (and paid income tax then) and when he sells. If he sells at a loss, he can use his losses to offset his income tax.
Eh, I disagree with your definition of "white hat SEO".

White hat is about earning links. A arms length third party has to give you a link for it to count.

That means it has a lot more to do with Public Relations than Page Rank.

If you drop a link yourself in a forum or blog comment, that's fundamentally NOT white hat. That's just non-automated black hat. That's also been below Google's radar.

This is the fundamental problem with SEO... People like you and me who are arguably 'experts' disagree about these definitions.

Ignorant clients hear "forums links are white hat" and reasonably extrapolate that "automated forum links are just scalable white hat SEO." And then they get into trouble.

I've seen it happen at some very well-funded startups. The marketing team looks like geniuses... for a while. Until they get nailed, then they claim they were tricked by a black hat SEO firm.
I wonder how much impact to this shady practice occurred when the Play store changed to Google+/Gmail profiles.
I quit Picasa when they dropped support for Linux. Granted it was running under wine, but it worked.
Hi. I just updated the pricing page to address most of the points in #1. It would be impossible for me to offer a trial since this software needs to be hosted on your own server.

There's no lock in. It's on your own server so you have full access to the mysql database with all of the info.
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Presume that my niece will like the sparkly one?

Because I spend a lot of time with her. Mostly at the hackerspace teaching her what a 3D printer is, how to make an arduino blink faster, and how to design files so that I can laser cut them.
Since I am not a lawyer and know nothing about patent law, I have no problem with what the farmer did, up until the point I read that he had intentionally signed other agreements with Monsanto, and that, I think, poisons his intentions.

Apart from that, I can revel in my ignorance that tells me that collecting grain from a common silo and spraying it with roundup is not much more a big deal than going to a river and panning for gold, or passing a list through a filter.

Or even was growing yogurt, and intentionally subjecting his cultures to "too cold temps" in order to evolve strains that would grow at lower temps.
I wonder how romantic relationships fit in. I don't have that many friends, but I have someone to talk to every day and I can be around my family.

But not having been in a relationship for many years, or rather, not ever having been in one that could be called serious has started to occupy a lot of my thinking time. It's something I'm reminded of everyday, like it was a disease.

It is often said that one has to be happy alone to be happy together. But might it be that even someone who is creating happiness for himself loses it because loneliness is its antagonist?

I smile when I walk trough the rain, I laugh when I hear a joke, I cry when I watch a touching movie. Isn't that a sign of happiness? Why does it feel so worthless if I'm not able to share it with someone I love?
No - but I heard people talking about that. Is this even possible?
How would you solve it then? By putting more focus on social media? They are doing that, too, but that can be even more easily abused sometimes. Google can distinguish between the less spammy and the more spammy links anyway, but it's a hard problem, so they can distinguish it to a certain agree.

But Google's algorithm by now is certainly more complex than "giving each link a vote". A lot of SEO is on-page SEO, too, so it doesn't depend all on links.

It also seems they will be focusing more on "author rank", which means posts written by "popular" authors (whatever that means in Google's algorithm) will more easily rank in Google than those written by less "popular" authors.
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Wow, 13 attempts each before the gun finally went off. I thought this game was just joking with me and wouldn't ever go off.
>>>Does all of this interaction being analysed have to in person and in depth?

I'd say depth matters more. It's not sufficient to just be seen. People want to be understood, or seen fundamentally.

Related, the Principle of Psychological Visibility from Nathaniel Branden (fyi, I am not an Objectivist): http://www.objectivistliving.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=...
Awesome post for the procrastinators!!
Thank you!!
This tool is slick! It should be part of Xcode. It lets you peel back every layer of every item in your UI and also monitors the notifications - all in real time.
Are you kidding? There have been a number of studies on hive collapse, organ failure and other problems that appear to implicate Monsanto that have been widely discussed on HN. To be clear I'm not saying that any one of these studies absolutely conclusively points a finger of blame on Monsanto - I'm saying that there is enough suspicion of harm that saying we hate them just because they are incorporated is an even more ridiculous accusation than any of the above.
tl;dr: market research + presales.
Well, that's the whole point - "A few gig doesn't seem that large, but if it's a complex graph with a complex hypothesis"... then it's still not 'big data'.

It's maybe smart data, maybe detailed data, but definitely not big data - that problem will have completely opposite needs and techniques than big data analysis, and should not be mischaracterised as such.
It has a name, but it's still a bad idea.
Haha that's good :)

But you said They presumably polled a test group and I meant, there's no evidence to support that.
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The answer is right there in the article:
"Yet, what you have is code running on Linux that you can debug normally, it’s not some sort of weird hardware system that you need custom engineer for. You get the performance of custom hardware that you would expect for your data plane, but with your familiar programming and development environment."

Maybe Mirage will pan out, but for right now it's in the pre-alpha stage. We've heard about the glories of microkernals before (GNU Hurd, anyone?).
This sounds nice but I'm afraid I can't trust Google with my storage needs due the constant nagging feeling that all my stuff could be gone tomorrow and I would have no recourse.

The stories of accounts being turned off for unknown (to the users) reasons are pretty scary to me. The last one was due to the contents of a file in the user's Google Docs account.

At this point, Amazon and even SkyDrive sound like safer bets, as odd as that sounds. Maybe with a little more access to customer support I'd be less queasy.
my LTE connection got much better latency than 3g on the same carrier (maybe around 15-25 ms less)
I think you're missing the point here. The creator of Merida designed here after a real person and didn't follow the standard Disney way of how a princess looks like. Now Disney gives here a makeover and thereby removes some of the attributes that the character and the movie was about. If I were in the position of the Merida creator I would be upset as well.

I also have 2 daughters who are big fans of the Disney princesses, but I would very much like it if they at least had the option to chose a princess that doesn't follow the standard formula of the previous 10 Disney princesses.
Does the supreme court ruling care whether Roundup was used? All I saw was that "copying" the seeds was not allowed, because they are patented.
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Well... they took away the bow and arrow for one thing.

It seems like you're over-analyzing this from an anti-political-correctness dogma. The fact is no girl is made to feel guilty for liking sparkly dresses just like no man is made to feel guilty for liking camping. Just because someone complains about the sexism of the stereotypical portrayal is not an attack against the existence of the base archetype, and you are quite frankly being way oversensitive to take it as such. It's the same reason that there's no such thing as "reverse racism": as a member of a privileged group, whatever indignation you feel pales in comparison to the that blacks / women / girls have had to deal with when they step out of accepted social norms.
Great Stuff!
The main criticism that resonates with me is that protected genes like this case are kind of an anti-LGPL, turning naturally open systems into closed ones just by nature of life reproducing via airborne fertilization.

Now this wasn't a great test-case since the defendant was trying to specifically rip Monsanto off, but it is my opinion that it is Monsanto's responsibility to ensure their protected product doesn't spread on its own.
I think they limit the length so that the emails can be examined. You wouldn't want someone DOSing the wardens and sneaking a message out via the whitespace characters.
Nagios: http://www.nagios.org/
> People who spend an extreme amount of time with others don't spend enough with themselves and probably lose their identity.

It's a bit more nuanced than that: there is a type of person who knows so many people that they really don't know any of them. Thus, it can be desperately lonely to be so well-connected, too: a lot of depression-suicide cases are from people who were major event organizers or well-known micro-celebrities who had completely failed to actually make friends.

> I guess my question is, what constitutes interaction? Does the brief conversations with my coworkers count? What about a phone call to my mother? Does all of this interaction being analysed have to in person and in depth?

It doesn't have to be in person, but it does have to have depth or at least remind you of depth. If you and your mother are close, a phone call probably suffices. (Unless you're the type of person who thrives on physical contact, as I am.) If you never got along and the conversations are always tired retreads of "yes, I'm doing fine", then probably not.
I agree completely. I run a company that handles high levels of compute load for financial applications. I often describe what we do as "big compute," not big data, because the data is actually very small in size. OTOH, this tiny bit of data (real-time prices on some 1,000 assets) causes an ENORMOUS amount of computation. Often this distinction doesn't get picked up either, and people might mistakenly classify us as "big data."
I'd love to see plan locking. I've read many horror stories where Postgres just by itself took an application down because its query planner decided to execute a particular query using seqscans because some statistic somewhere went above a certain threshold.
I don't know that "the government" really needs to have any particular agenda here. All that's required is that someone like Weev, with a well-known penchant for mischief and disrespect for authority, be placed in a situation like prison, where all of the existing structures are in place to prevent mischief and preserve authority. They have a tool (solitary) used to control inmates who cannot otherwise be controlled, and they used it.

Now sure: this seems like (and is, I argue) an unjust abuse in the abstract. But the specific situation here is that the prison has an inmate they don't understand. So you have to expect the bureaucracy isn't going to handle it well.

None of that requires a conspiracy, just a staff trying to do its job under strange circumstances.
Wow, I am blown away by how complete this implementation is. Nice work! Now please post a writeup of how the internals work :)
Whoa. Thanks for the heads up. I'll have to look into that.
Linux developers are very opposed to having their lovingly crafted network stack replaced with something crappy and/or proprietary (see TOE).
My girlfriend (a psychologyst) is doing a postgraduate course on Attachment.

Among a lot of material, she saw a lot of videos of monkey experiments, like Harlow's (mentioned in the article) and I saw some too :) . It's quite striking:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hsA5Sec6dAI

from the article

"Harlow subjected newborn rhesus macaques to appalling isolation—months spent in cages in the company only of “surrogate mothers” made of wire with cartoonish monkey heads and bottles attached. Luckier monkeys had that and cloth-covered versions of the same thing to cuddle. (It is remarkable what a soft cloth can do to calm an anxious baby monkey down.) In the most extreme cases, the babies languished alone at the bottom of a V-shaped steel container. Cruel as these experiments were, Harlow proved that the absence of mothering destroyed the monkeys’ ability to mingle with other monkeys, though the “cloth mother” could mitigate the worst effects of isolation."

the article goes on to show how there are different gene expressions amongst the differently-raised monkeys, and even posits that medication could help with the physical expressions of loneliness:

"Cole can imagine giving people medications to treat loneliness, particularly when it exacerbates chronic diseases such as diabetes and high blood pressure. These could be betablockers, which reduce the physical effects of stress; anti-inflammatory medicine; or even Tylenol—since physical and emotional pain overlap, it turns out that Tylenol can reduce the pain of heartbreak."

The ending statement is:

"One message I take away from this is, ‘Hey, it’s not just early life that counts,’ ” he says. “We have to choose our life well.” "
> But the problem is, the government is doing it exactly backwards. We need to be punishing AT&T for the fact that Weev gained access. Not punishing the person who got in.

I don't understand this line of reasoning. In any other context we'd be calling this "victim blaming."

The fact that you should have been more careful does not absolve the person who took advantage of that, nor is the government in the wrong for punishing the person who had malevolent intent,[1] rather than the person that was merely careless. Hell, one of the great things about living in a civilized society is that you don't have to be paranoid about your own security--that's why we created government.

The real lesson here is that the internet is now a part of everyone's "normal life," and people are going to expect it to be orderly in the same way other things in their life are orderly. Just as the wild west was tamed, the internet will be tamed, and it will be a good thing (romanticism aside).

[1] And yes, "I'm just dicking with you" is malevolent intent, as anyone who has dealt with a bully knows. Weev is at best a bully, the kind of person who dicks with you just because he can, as a way of showing his power over you. Indeed, most "black hat" hackers fit this bully archetype.
What kind of processing takes 1s per row? That's several billion instructions. And you can easily fit 86400 rows in memory, so disk seeks aren't an issue.
can you check your email address verification regex? I can't use my+tag@example.tld
page level(not field level) snappy compression
> Why is okay to tell my sisters that they should all be ashamed of themselves?

That's begging the question. It isn't about telling people to be ashamed of themselves at all. It is about changing society to have more appreciation for people who don't fit the traditional stereotypes.

This stuff is all around us, it is the cultural equivalent of the air we breath - so omnipresent that we don't even notice it. When I looked at the before and after pictures, I didn't even notice anything particularly different between them. That sort of pervasiveness means lots of people have internalized it and will take it as an attack on their person, but that isn't the intent. It may be an unavoidable side-effect though, it seems like anytime social norms are challenged - gay marriage, ERA, miscegenation, universal suffrage, school integration, etc, there are people who take those challenges as a personal attack rather than a societal reform.
Oh wait so in Google land, if I have an Android phone and have instant upload enabled, photos go into Google+ rather than Google Drive? I think that alleviates my concern.
There is absolutely a space for a new IRC. In today's world only a select few users can about /msg chanserve or worry about nickserv working, but they want exactly what IRC provides. I've even thought about making a mobile-first, IRC-like system for my friends and I to do group chats and coordination with.
The linked research only describes phenomenological characteristics of illusions, so it doesn't strike me as an explanation. But it points to research that does attempt to explain the peculiarities of what conditions these illusions arise. For example, it seems to explain the effect of the brightness of the background on these motion illusions :

First, an optimised stimulus can induce motion aftereffect on a stationary sinusoidal grating, which provides evidence for the activity of the visual motion mechanism. Second, perceived direction can be altered by background luminance. The local mean luminance seems crucial. On the basis of these findings, we propose that asymmetric responses of motion detectors to the jittering luminance gradient are the source of this illusion. A gradient model of motion detectors, which takes the image velocity as local temporal gradient over local spatial gradient, can predict such asymmetric responses if we assume imbalance in the positive and negative parts of temporal derivative filters. The asymmetry then depends on the DC offset of the stimulus, which explains the effect of the background luminance.

From http://www.perceptionweb.com/abstract.cgi?id=v031085
Re the chosen analogy: Fair enough, it does however present the problem of many engineer/programmer types taking such analogies a bit too literally.

Re Sinclair: I agree, probably not the best example, but when trying to think of a book with an intended social commentary it was the first that popped into my head. There are almost certainly better examples.

How about V for Vendetta then, the original book had a much clearer idea of anarchy, totalitarianism and the consequences of each than that watered down movie.