skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure if you misread my comment or perhaps just posted this as a reply to the wrong comment, but I completely agree that it's a good HN post and I (personally) don't think it's a problem for it to get posted again every few months.

HN does have a dupe detector and won't let an identical URL be posted a second time. But, as you can see in the above comments on this same page, even very slight differences are sufficient for it to allow the post through.

Anyway, I hope you keep posting items like this! If they're not sufficiently interesting and novel to enough people, they won't be upvoted. No harm.
I wonder - if Java was born today (instead of the late 90's), what would it look like, and how popular would it be? I feel like Java owes its current following to its entrenched position in a broad array of corporate and government IT departments. Also, in a sea of newer interpreted languages, it's the compiled one (and isn't C/C++). That, by itself, will win it a fair number of adherents.
Could you provide a link to a sample chapter and table of contents? Thanks!
This is notable because it's an actual implemented system. Yes it works in theory, on the exact same principle that a radar speed gun works, but these researchers have shown that it is possible to implement in the 2.4GHz band. That's the first step to making it smaller and cheaper.
Looks like the Apple Lisa had this symbol on its standard keyboard (sans the word option), meaning it's been in use since at least the early 80's.

I would wager that this was the first use of the symbol to denote this purpose.

Interestingly enough, the symbol hasn't been widely explicitly mentioned in menus in Apple's OS until relatively recently (OS X). Option was always that special easter egg of a key that half of Mac users still never used or realized existed.
Economics is broken in a number of other ways.

The biggest questions to me are growth and sustainability. In the neoclassical world (I studied and degreed in the study) growth factors are all engogenous to economics:

The Neoclassical Growth Model, where output is a function of current stocks of capital and labor: Y = A K^α L^(1-α ), and capital accumulation is simply a function of investment and captial depreciation: K = sY - δK

The AK theory, which reduces growth to aggregate capital: Y = AK.

The product-variety model (Romer, Dixit & Stiglitz): production as a function of summed intermediate production functions based on capital

The Schumpeterian model, output is based on a productivity function (technology, assumed to be increasing without limit, and capital.

Technology increases. Inputs are perfectly substitutable. Innovation will produce substitutes.

And that's straight out of the first chapter of a graduate level text in economic growth (Aghion & Howitt, The Economics of Growth, ISBN 978-0-262-01263-8).

Then there's the whole class of heterodox economics:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heterodox_economics

Among these, the fields of thermoeconomics / biophysical economics / ecological economics, in which a, if not the primary factor relating to economic growth is energy. Many of the contributions to this field come from outside the field of economics, particularly from ecology, biology, and physics, but there are also a number of classically trained economists: Kenneth Boulding, Robert Ayres, Charles A.S. Hall, Robert Costanza, Herman Daly, H.T. Odum, and others.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heterodox_economics
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermoeconomics

Further work is being done by a wide range of people, some with training in finance and business, but "unbrainwashed" (in their own words) by economic orthodoxy. Gail Tverberg of Our Finite world (http://www.ourfiniteworld.com/) is key among these. Joesph Tainter has an extensive study of collapse of complex societies with profound implications for the Western European, now global, civilization.

When I look at the predictions and statements of mainstream economists, I see huge amounts of wishful and/or fuzzy thinking, and a long string of disappointments. When I look at the track record of the energy-oriented heterodoxy, I see a much stronger record. I tend to consider my own degree "economic woo" -- more similar to astrology and alchemy than astronomy and physics.

Not that it's _all_ bunk: markets are useful (though highly imperfect, and rare) concepts. Changing the relationship of money to underlying real wealth (which I'm increasingly convinced should be measured in fungible energy units, localized (and yes, that reads "FUEL"), and even predictions of how people generally _do_ behave (though not how they _should_) can be useful. But in planning and plotting a long-term path through the future, I'm increasingly fearful that economics is the wrong tool for the job, and that collectively we're going to have an Alan Greenspan moment, in which we find we've been grossly mislead by our belief system.
The linked article and video never said that it wouldn't work on non-human moving objects, just that it would work on moving humans (as it is a wireless relative-motion detector)

It is possible that this tech is especially effective at tracking humans due to the fact that we're bags of mostly water and the specific frequency used interacts with water more than other nearby frequencies. (I'm not a microwave engineer, so I don't know this for sure)
Thanks for mentioning this. I may switch to it.
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The only advantage I can think of for this is that it could be concealed in the wall, where a passive IR motion detector requires a clear field-of-view of a room. The downside is that this is actively emitting microwave radiation, so it would be easy to detect, while a passive IR sensor would not be emitting any discernible radiation (assuming its internal electronics are properly shielded)
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Invented is a strong word when these already exist.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFqrx2-ENgE
I would have to definitely recommend discussing this with a lawyer and BEFORE the launch.

Good Luck!
I am putting together a sample with the first and last chapter, but it may not be on the book page until tomorrow morning.
I think you got it backwards. Maven doesn't support any form of authentication or verification for packages. So you better trust the network you're on, the core network, and the remote repository.

Maven central and other repositories contain a lot of software, under many different licenses. So unlike, say, apt-get or rpm, you can't always be sure that what you're getting is free/open source software. Be careful with the licenses!
I dislike it particularly because of the implication of stupidity: "I believe only stupid people won't know this, but I'm going to tell you anyway".

In general it's poor form to assume readers know anything - consider (for example) a future lay-reader who is trying to find out this information.
There have been more than a few occasions when I've needed to review a movie script to quote it for a paper, only to find that it's quite different from what I'm seeing in the movie. Are these transcripts from the films, or scripts used to shoot the film (which may be improvised on, rewritten on the spot, etc.?).
I'm currently that senior dev and i welcome any and all questions just for that reason.

I'd rather spend 5-10 min helping out/teaching a junior to be a better programmer than for me to review code later that just doesn't make the cut or has some horrible mistake leading to the dev having to spend more time overall fixing it.

Not only that, but i find that helping others out generally makes me a better programmer.
>Presently there isn't a national database for ALPR but >they're working very very hard to make this a reality.

Maybe not a government run one, but there sure are private ones. Companies like Vigilant (http://vigilantsolutions.com/) probably have over 1-2 billion plate reads nationwide, and law enforcement agencies can get free access to it (http://nvls-lpr.com/nvls/).
I believe that would be an accurate statement, yes, and it also would seem that the performance of the device would increase non-linearly.
How was surveillance promoted with that movie? If anything it showed the downsides of such surveillance (rogue operatives hijacking it for personal gain).
A heat sink yes, but a fan? The electrical output is already very low.
David Graeber is a left-anarchist whose work backs me up: those anarchist societies don't have private property, they have personal possessions. You don't get capitalist enterprises without a state.
I used to work with a guy who did the same thing every time you went and asked him a question while he was in the middle of something.

He would answer your question politely and talk you through it etc... but when you got back to your desk he would ALWAYS over and over send you an email link to a Joel Spolsky article stating it took 15 minutes to regain concentration after you are interrupted.

His message being wait to I'm not obviously working, try someone else, or spend an extra 15 minutes (x2 devs) yourself trying to get to the bottom of it yourself.
Dat: Git for data
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How are you guys planning to celebrate social media day ?
I'm in a similar situation. I used to use Google Listen for podcasts (which was backed by Reader). I never used the online interface, but I've been using Listen a lot.

I tried a bunch of different free and paid apps, but I settled on Pocket Casts, which wasn't free. I'm happy with it - it syncs cross device, it has good config options, it looks gorgeous. I don't think there's a web interface, so it might not be the best for you.
You Can't Quit, Google Reader, Because I Already Fired You
Since this Snowden story broke, there has been a lot of (justified) criticism of the US government. And rightly so. But I think anyone - living in the US or not - would be foolish to think that most (if not all) other world governments don't do similar things. Especially the more advanced, "first world" governments. Maybe the government of Botswana or Nicaragua or Kenya doesn't have such well developed intelligence facilities as those of the USA, but I expect their governments are spying on people as well.

It's just that this story is particularly galling to Americans since we like to think that the 4th Amendment to our Constitution provides some measure of protection against indiscriminate snooping by our government... so finding out (well, really, confirming) that they are doing this, points out a hole in our system.

Other countries may not have the explicit wording in their founding documents that would seem to protect against this stuff... but then, maybe some do. I'm not familiar enough with every world government to say. But regardless of what your nation's charter says, I'd pretty much be willing to be money that they are doing things in the name of "national security" that you wouldn't approve of if you knew about them.
These are certainly not what's used to shoot the movie. These appear to be closed captioned data from the films.
Does anyone want to speculate what Snowden's motive is for leaking these particular documents?
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The Beyondpod beta adds feedly support to replace the google reader functionality. Been using beyondpod for a while, and it's bloomin ace.
Next thing you know, they'll tell me that hollywood actively collaborates with the government on portrayals of the military.

"The major exception here is the Department of Defense, which has an ‘open’ but barely publicized relationship with Tinsel Town, whereby, in exchange for advice, men and invaluable equipment, such as aircraft carriers and helicopters, the Pentagon routinely demands flattering script alterations."

http://www.globalresearch.ca/lights-camera-covert-action-the...

http://original.antiwar.com/sean-a-mcelwee/2013/04/28/propag...

It can't be a conspiracy if it is not a secret, right?
There is a right to privacy (in case of the German constitution literally, by the way). And I take issue with anyone saying that violating the privacy of non-citizens is totally ok.

I do not want to claim any kind of superiority – that is very clearly not the case. The German government consists of many, many people who do not respect privacy at all and are disgusting scumbags. No question about that.

I just want to say that from a moral point of view the statement that it’s ok that non-citizens have no right to privacy is totally bankrupt and idiotic.
You are weak and you know it. You should never have continued this far. You know what the right thing to do is (quit), so just do it. Of course it's complicated, now that you poured so much effort into the whole thing, it's even more painful to quit. But it won't get any better.

It's time to review all the emails and papers you signed and figure out what your bargaining position is. You seem to have a weird situation where "share ownership" has been agreed (2/3 vs. 1/3), but nothing was written down. That doesn't sound right.

Your options are, from worse to best:

. quit the "partnership" and give up on the idea
. quit, keep the IP you developed, and continue the project on your own
. take control of the project, fire your co-founder and keep everything
So you're writing a bot to play currency exchange with the goal of making it migrate its programming between allowed machines and pay for itself?

I'm sorry, since when did currency exchange markets yield reliable, non-normally-distributed profits like that? EDIT FOR DOWNVOTERS: I'm seriously asking this. I honestly thought forex markets were pretty normally distributed and quite a hard place to make a consistent, algorithmically-driven profit.

Also, I feel like this is going to blow up into some huge lesson in Why Capitalism Is Evil, as portrayed by the Capitalism Bot, and people are only really going to get it once they can look at the economic system as a malicious AI. But whatever.
Great talk at Techweek!
That's funny. If the USA asks the Belgian government to jump, they only ask "how high?".

A small example: all international bank transfers within Europe (through SWIFT, located in Brussels), are all sent to the USA. Because they need that stuff to catch terrorists. Apparently the US can (and have) even interceped money.
The idea that faster parallel hardware will lead to a parallel software future is nice, but I don't really buy it. For example the move towards cloud computing is the big thing these days but its completely orthogonal to that. The cost savings from cloud services are driven by making highly parallel hardware look like an awful lot of one or perhaps two core servers for dozens of clients at the same time.

In other words the big ground breaking world shaking trend in computing isn't about running clever parallel applications on clever parallel hardware at all, instead its about leveraging that hardware to make good old single threaded applications run as cheaply as possible.
Interesting. More info here:

http://thermalforce.de/de/product/module/index.php

http://thermalforce.de/de/download/m101.pdf

ThermalForce says price is available upon request -- so it may be available for sale as a custom order. There are some other interesting products at that first link as well.
I'm not moving to another reader so my primary source of news will disappear overnight which I think is a shock I'm not ready to take. Come June I'll likely go to reader.google.com several times, if not just by mistake or out of habit.

Unless I haven't looked hard enough, I want:

* Reader software that can easily install onto a LNMP stack

* Runs in the browser (Desktop & Mobile)

* Has a UI that's extremely similar to Reader - including the inbox system!

* Is FLOSSy (No license preference)

Why?

* Prevent this from ever happening again (no vendor lock in!). It's also free.

* An app is fine but I have reader set to my homepage - it literally is my news source.

* Unlike others, I prefer the inbox system. Too many feeds? Unsubscribe.

* See point #1.

Any suggestions?
I just bought the book (at $6, it is an easy impulse buy...)

Table of contents:

Introduction
# Other JVM Languages
# Github Repository for Book Software
# Use of Java Generics and Native Types
# Notes on Java Coding Styles Used in this Book
# Book Summary

Search
# Representation of Search State Space and Search Operators
# Finding Paths in Mazes
# Finding Paths in Graphs
# Adding Heuristics to Breadth First Search
# Search and Game Playing

Reasoning
# Logic
# PowerLoom Overview
# Running PowerLoom Interactively
# Using the PowerLoom APIs in Java Programs
# Suggestions for Further Study

Semantic Web
# Relational Database Model Has Problems Dealing with Rapidly Changing Data Requirements 59
# RDF: The Universal Data Format
# Extending RDF with RDF Schema
# The SPARQL Query Language
# Using Sesame
# OWL: The Web Ontology Language
# Knowledge Representation and REST
# Material for Further Study

Expert Systems
# Production Systems
# The Drools Rules Language
# Using Drools in Java Applications
# Example Drools Expert System: Blocks World
# Example Drools Expert System: Help Desk System
# Notes on the Craft of Building Expert Systems

Genetic Algorithms
# Theory
# Java Library for Genetic Algorithms
# Finding the Maximum Value of a Function

Machine Learning with Weka
# Using Weka’s Interactive GUI Application
# Interactive Command Line Use of Weka
# Embedding Weka in a Java Application
# Suggestions for Further Study

Neural Networks
# Hopfield Neural Networks
# Java Classes for Hopfield Neural Networks
# Testing the Hopfield Neural Network Class
# Back Propagation Neural Networks
# A Java Class Library for Back Propagation
# Adding Momentum to Speed Up Back-Prop Training

Statistical Natural Language Processing
# Tokenizing, Stemming, and Part of Speech Tagging Text
# Named Entity Extraction From Text
# Using the WordNet Linguistic Database
# Automatically Assigning Tags to Text
# Text Clustering
# Spelling Correction
# Hidden Markov Models

Information Gathering
# Open Calais
# Information Discovery in Relational Databases
# Down to the Bare Metal: In-Memory Index and Search
# Indexing and Search Using Embedded Lucene
# Indexing and Search with Nutch Clients

Data Science Techniques
# A Mix of Open Source and Proprietary Tools
# Handling “small big data” in a Cost Effective Way
# Writing and Testing MapReduce Applications
# Example Application: MapReduce Application for Finding Proper Names in Text
# Using Inexpensive Large Memory Leased Servers
# Example Application Idea: Using the Google Book Project NGRAM Data Sets
# Example Application Idea: Using Wikipedia Data Dumps
# Conclusion

Conclusions
Easy enough to clear that up when the car is pulled over.

I agree, it's fair game for probable cause. Otherwise, they couldn't pull over a car driven by bank robbers or kidnappers on the basis of its license number.
I suggest lowering your expectations.
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Tragically, not scripts. Transcripts from closed-captioning.
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I approve of this.

Related: Will code Node.js for food if given out of France, wanna hire me?
Perhaps Snowden will not have to make the long flight to Ecuador after all. In light of these revelations, perhaps London or Paris or Berlin would provide (and will provide) a more agreeable sanctuary.
"France has always been a land to which people dream of coming. Not leaving."

That would be news to my mother and her ancestors: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cajun
Honestly I would not want end users creating tickets directly. Imagine the number of duplicates to close. GitHub issues are no replacement for a true customer engagement platform.

For beta builds we mainly use email feedback via hockey.
What else are people using these days?
Thanks for posting that! And, of course, thanks for buying a copy of my book.
Gotta love FB's legal dept. They have nothing better to do than search for recently purchased domain names with their name in it. They take themselves way too seriously.
Oh, well Italy is even worse...
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The truth is even weirder: in California there is a "celebrity exemption" that allows one to drive around with no license tags at all, if one meets certain qualifications.

Apparently you do get a bar code (according to one 2005 article), so the exemption would be of no use against automated readers. It just keeps ordinary citizens from being able to identify your car.
Percona already runs their own MySQL fork. (http://www.percona.com/software/percona-server) They include various patches that their customers have asked for and also update it every time Oracle releases a new MySQL version.
Being in the military makes executive-branch verdict legal. For example if a soldier disobeys orders you can shoot him.
More seriously, who uses public internet terminals for anything?

Travelers away from home. And these cafes tend to be much more common outside the US - I've used them from Colombia to Germany to Korea.
PHP-based RSS reader with a similar UI? I don't really see that to be asking too much. How low should I go then?
The future won’t bring new Radioheads. Let’s get used to it.
On Secrecy & Authority
The car that parks itself
I'll start working on some :)
Tiny Tiny Rss.

You can use some css themes to have tiny tiny rss to look like google reader.

I tried fever for a while but stuck with Tiny tiny, for me it works better due to the customization options and lower server footprint.
I'm a biochemist engineering an enzyme, when I read Krugman I get the vibe of someone who uses the veneer of the structure of the scientific method to delude himself into thinking that he isn't operating in the realm of confirmation bias.

I could also be biased: When I was a (math major) undergrad holding study sessions for lower-level mathematicians at a school with a very prestigious econ department, I recall the econ students coming to me with problems that seem to be specifically concocted to satisfy a culture that valued 'make a model such that you can take the gnarliest derivative possible so that you can remind everyone that you actually could pass calculus'. Gnarly derivatives, of course, rarely correspond to honestly measurable quantities (up to error). There was also NO dimensional analysis, so often equations would have the same term in an exponent, as a sum, and as a divisor.

In the real sciences for 90% of useful things, we take advantage of taylor's theorem and call everything locally linear.
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The fact that America's two largest political parties are not inherently ideological is part of what's wrong with them.

The fact that they might change eventually does not help those who want change now.
A different view on stereotypes and generalizations
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TV closed captions at that, going by the occasional lines of material from adverts/promos appearing mid-script.

Nice resource, though.
ownCloud News: http://algorithmsforthekitchen.com/blog/?p=580

* ownCloud is mainly for LAMP but also works on Nginx (which I presume is the N): http://owncloud.org

* it’s a web app, and there are several mobile clients: https://github.com/owncloud/news#mobile-clients

* simple UI. What do you mean by »Inbox system«? (If it’s »unread items«, we have that)

* it’s open source, AGPL v3, code up at https://github.com/owncloud/news

* Plus: We have an API so anyone can code apps for it: https://github.com/owncloud/news/wiki/API-1.2

What do you think?
This sounds like someone trying to sell me a Turing tarpit of 1995's internet. "You can still create beautiful, functional, and compelling web content" - beautiful sure, compelling maybe if a static site is what you want, but functional - not really, unless you abuse the permission of JS to reinvent the wheel enough.