skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here is an idea:

- 256 random chars long passwords stored in a bluetooth keyring.

How it works:

pre-session:

- every user registers two passwords, short and long.

session:

- app asks for password

- user does nothing, computer recognizes keyring

- computer sends 256pw to app

- app accepts two kinds of pw, short and long

- if pw.length > 200 treat as keyring pass

post-session:

- if user loses keyring, he can deacativate his 256pw

- user can change 256pw at will, just buy new keyring, update password on app.

That's how I see it, and that's how I would like to do it.

Keyrings can be anything, just a chip and bluetooth, can be carried or placed on a desk, can have buttons to press to send the signals, can be locked, can have many shapes and colors, etc.

The secret is not the keyring, I know there are plenty out there, the secret is in allowing apps to accept two kinds of password: short, user generated, or long, device generated, so convenience is on the user's side.

And when machines fail, there is always old-password at hand.
Could somebody please tell me why the f2k we care how fast some random bird can fly? Why the swallow? Why not the bald eagle? Or the chickadee? Who gives a f2k.
> Slaves did not choose to be slaves.

Quite often false, in the ancient world. Debt slavery is probably as old as mankind.
hacker news :)
The feelings you state above come back, and you view them as a problem, because you've not really made an attempt to understand them. When you view them as problems, and not ephemeral conditions, they become problems.

"Whatever it is, sit with it."
It's a Monty Python reference.
SQLite is suitable only for single user cases. "redis, memcachedb & tokyo cabinet" imply his needs are way beyond the capabilities of SQLite.
The great thing about the internet: when you don't get an inside joke, you can just google it.

http://www.google.com/search?q=airspeed+velocity+unladen+swa...

Second link.
iPhone development tip:  pick a name starting with an early letter in the alphabet.
Notice that the releases for a particular day are sorted alphabetically. Moreover, at most the first 25 are shown automatically. So this will normally require users to tap "Twenty Five More..." to see apps with names starting with later letters of the alphabet.
Solaris + ZFS = The Perfect Home File/Media Server
"Zazen is good for nothing!" --Sawaki Roshi
To me it is letting complex things emerge from simple rules (like ant paths emerging from simple behaviors of ants).

The classical AI approach was more about modeling, knowledge representation, inference rules, decision trees and so on. The only thing related to NKS the classics dabbled with were neural networks. Most of them were also very restricted, though - in order to have a shot at analyzing them, the common neural networks have relatively simple structures.

The idea of cellular automata is of course not from Wolfram, but he studied them to an impressive extent. To me they are just one variant of the theme, though. For me NKS is not the invention of evolutionary computation. But it portrays one part of it very well. And he argues that many things could be handled in that way, which was not obvious (I remember how he could imagine the real world to work like an cellular automaton, and still agree with quantum mechanics).
Meditation doesn't solve any real problems; at least not more than any other religious belief. It seems really strange to me that nerds frown on certain religious beliefs while lauding others. We're in the territory of the unmeasurable here, so I'd say that tolerance goes first.

But a lot of smart people bash the belief in God when it presumably gives meaning to depressed people, or helps drug addicts and criminals get their lives in order. The same smart people praise psychotherapy or meditation for the same results. It's hypocritical. I'm a tolerant guy and as long as other people's beliefs don't get in my way, I accept them. But when rationality and reason are your most important virtues, it's contradictory to support a schism like this one.

These questions are always questions of the current immeasurable, unprovable part of human nature, and should be treated as such. You can't use the words meditation and scientific in the same sentence.
How much money will you be saving them by using your pre-existing work? I realize you're a college student with a summer job, but it seems that you've got the situation backward.
Could you expand on that?

Searching for the intersection of a set of tags' references seems like the epitome of a set/relational operation to me.
Wow, college math homework beware.
I'm not sure what your problem is. Do you mean multiple keys pointing to the same value, like key1=>value key2=>value?

You could use indirection:

key1=>valueID
key2=>valueID
valueID=>value
I edited that after our interview. I guess they didn't accept my edits. Strange. They usually take my post-interview edits. Maybe they need more time to a approve it.
Here's the NPR stream they mentioned: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1041295...
Okay, we get it. Wolfram Alpha can't answer bullshit inside-joke questions except for that Monty Python one. Why is this news? It's a scientific tool, not knowyourmeme.com.
http://nrds.co.uk/DemoEngineInput.html doesn't do anything...
Not necessarily. If he's doing a lot of concurrent writing, that's true, but that's unspecified. Either way, I would say "only up to a couple dozen simultaneous users", which is very different from "only a single user". He's also asking specifically for something with low latency and (implicitly) a simple implementation.

For all we know, he's using the above because he doesn't like (or understand?) SQL/relational theory, or because of vague stuff he keeps hearing about MySQL not scaling. I'm not assuming he's ignorant, but we don't know why he started with memcachedb, et al, and those reasons are worth ruling out first.
In case it's not obvious, the rest of the book is here:

http://www.vipassana.com/meditation/mindfulness_in_plain_eng...
My opinion? The more decentralized and self-sufficient we become, outside of a central authority, the better off we all are. I think the way to make this happen, however, is not open hostility to the current central powers and authorities, but through disruptive social and technological change that renders them largely irrelevant.

Anyone have any ideas on how to pull that off?
That's the first thing I noticed too after wondering why the fonts were rendering so poorly.

This is bad for both accessibility and readability.
Do you know anything about meditation? While its origins are religious, it's a secular practice that's about learning to stabilize your mind and develop inner balance.

It's only religion if you think that you're developing a communion with God through meditation. If you meditate to commune with yourself, then it's entirely sensible to laud meditation while bashing religion. Meditation is not superstition.
I don't think anyone here has something against "aggressive promotion" in the form of interesting information

I think you are the only one here enjoying reading PR releases. This sure looks like spamming (or a good PR work):

http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=site:news.ycombinator.com+w...
While I'm not into the 'mixologist = artist' thing myself, in an age of abundant content it's a valid choice. If you're writing a consumer application and there are great libraries available for much of the functionality, you'd probably use them, right? Is it so bad to do that with music, especially when ~80% of pop music is just a thinly-disguised rearrangement of the same 3 chords?
I find this all v. dubious:

"What’s important about a NRDS Datacube is that it is given so much written material stated in enormously varied ways, covering enormously varied subjects and such exhaustive explanatory information, that when it is asked to do something — analyze text, lookup a reference, or anything else — it is able to understand language rather than merely sort it."

What do your mean by 'understand'? If the message analysed the statement "It is cold today.", what would its conclusions be? Surely 'understanding' that statement requires understanding the experience cold. Please clarify for me.
I don't buy the Matt Maroon argument. I've worked in large corporations and observed general incompetence at many levels. You only need to look at the state of the finance industry today to see that highly paid experts can get things wrong on a massive scale.

That's not even a function of intelligence - it seems to be more a function of the level of isolation they live in. How thick are the walls of your industry's bubble? For the finance industry, it was thick enough that it's not even completely burst yet.

The music industry, similarly, seems to have an exceptionally thick bubble (probably thickened with dried up bits of Coke, discarded LSD papers, and the money they accumulated over the last 50 years of ripping off the general public and their own artists). I wouldn't be at all surprised to find out that these smart people, who, outside of that bubble, would probably think like you and me, really do believe their own bullshit - if only because they spend all day surrounded by people who keep repeating it.

Smart people aren't immune to brainwashing.
Looking at your front page for 30 seconds, I have no idea what you're offering, and so I close the page.

Also, is that top-right page-peel really necessary? It makes it look like you're trying to pile gimmicks onto your page to impress newbies, and by default it blocks some of the text on your page. Not cool.
It wasn't clear whether the university is your employer, or whether you're a student. Some general thoughts:

A) Double-check your employment agreement for clauses that might give ownership of the code to your employer, even though you thought you were developing the code on your own time. (In some U.S. jurisdictions, overly-aggressive clauses along that line may be unenforceable.)

B) If you developed the code in question before going to work for your employer, keep an eye out for ways to demonstrate that fact. (In court, truth is always the goal, but what actually matters is admissible evidence.)

C) "Playing nice" is usually the best approach.

D) It's almost as important to be able to document that you played nice -- without being too self-serving in your writing -- as it is actually to play nice. That's because in court, judges and juries can sometimes be skeptical of the testimony of witnesses who have interests to protect; contemporaneous written documentation is often regarded as more reliable.

E) Assuming your employment contract doesn't contain any special language giving your employer the ownership of your code, a simple exchange of emails -- which you'll want to keep in your personal files -- may well do the trick. At a minimum, it would make a lawyer for your employer think hard before recommending taking any action against you.

F) If you're a university student, vice employee, the ownership issue might be a bit more complicated, but OTOH the university may be less likely to care about ownership than a company would.

(Usual disclaimer: Don't rely on this as a substitute for legal advice, consult a lawyer, etc.)
life expectancy 40 year old male UK

GOOG YHOO

nathan name

president of nigeria 2004

weather seattle christmas day 2008

microsoft

ethnic groups nigeria

With the exception of Microsoft, none of these are questions I'd see myself typing into Wikipedia. Some of these might have tangential information available on Wiki, but this is not Wikipedia's meat and bones.

Wolfram Alpha is not going to kill anything. It provides a new kind of service, and if it becomes popular the only deaths will be of those services that offer very limited value to begin with.
I'm really happy with the easy to deploy options being made available. I'm not too sure about the "it scales" attitude with any of these products. Scaling is not about the platform, the platform is one component.
Off-topic:

“has the distinction disappeared” <== that's not a question is it? (Don't get me started.)

Even BBC announcers regularly use "the preposition 'and'" - as in "We need to try and do better." ::Shakespeare grave-rolling::
Smart people aren't immune to brainwashing.

If anything--they're more susceptible. http://www.amazon.com/People-Believe-Weird-Things-Pseudoscie... is a great book on the topic.
Tons of songs are just: Play a bass note, play it an octave higher, lower, higher, with a 4/4 beat.

Then there's a note, play a note higher, one note higher, back to the first note.

For instance, The Music Sounds Better With You by Stardust, Drop the Pressure by Mylo

[Edit addition] I should also point out that in a big way, modern music is about the clarity of the production, and not necessarily the melody or lyrics.]
Talk to you boss, and look at your contract (assuming you have one that covers this). Most will have some clause in there saying that if you use code that you created before your employment, by using it at work you're giving the University an unlimited and irrevocable license to use that code.

In terms of saving your ass for the future, I'd put a note in the source of the file saying where it came from initially, and keeping a copy of the email from your boss saying that it's OK to use that code (and expressly acknowledging that it's your code that you wrote before being employed with them).

Do watch out about transferring the other way, however - if you use these libraries and add to/modify them, you can't then add that new function to your "clean" version to use in the future (it belongs to the employer, even if you type it into your clean version off the clock). Also check the part of your contract/clarify with your manager about what happens to code you write for personal projects while employed - some companies have especially onerous policies about them owning that code, even if you weren't at work when you wrote it.
http://www.dekorte.com/projects/opensource/tagdb/
In terms of merits your submission karma says very little about you, unless you submit your own articles, of course

Similarly, popular comments say nothing about you other than that people agree with you. Short comments get more upvotes. Does that make short comments necessarily more valuable than longer ones?

Why have the leaderboard at all? What value does it provide, when karma says little other than activity and longevity on the part of the user?
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The 'Try It Out' and 'Demo NRDS' links don't lead to any demo.
This has been my problem during testing. I'm very impressed with the quality of the curated data, but getting at it seems very hit-and-miss. I gave the exdample a week or two back of searching on 'Orson Welles' - you can ask 'who directed [OW movie]' and it'll tell you, but 'what movies did OW direct' (and yes I tried many variants) always gets you an error.

In this respect it feels like the sort of thing that has always annoyed me about expert systems: it's useful to the extent that you are already familiar with what data is curated therein, and want a handy way to look it up, but rather frustrating for surfing and exploration. I do like it...but I can't help sharing some people's view that it's sort of an ad for Mathematica.

It will find a use as citation source - you can embed statistics or factual info in your web page and reference Alpha, in relative comfort that the data there is factually correct. On the other hand, the lack of specificity in the citation info means it won't be quite adequate for academic use, at least not just yet. Might be that its best market will be among high school students who will a) buy Mathematica later and b) grow up with Alpha as past generations did with their slide rules or TI calculators, and stick with it as it evolves.

I didn't take time to play with the API yet - superficially it looks flexible, but I'm only a hobby coder. Much depends on where Wolfram draws the line between openness and proprietary use.
Facebook raises $150 million more to cash out employees
You need to seriously rethink your copy. I read a few pages of the site, but still have little idea what benefit your product is to me. It reads like it was written by someone's who has english as their second language. Harsh, but true.

* "Unlocking the mathematics of LANGUAGE" means nothing
* Demo doesn't work (at least for me)
* Page curl in top right is a waste of your and my time
* Who are 6com? Their 90's looking site is linked to from every page, yet is in a foreign language
* For a company that appears to generate metadata every page lacks meta tags, or differentiating title tags
* Typos - "taxanomies", "DemoEngin"
Mmm, kurtosis. I like that word too.
I don't think there is going be a Wolfram|Beta etc...although you're not the only person to interpret 'alpha' like this.
A lot of the mathematical proofs and descriptions of algorithms on Wikipedia are surprisingly well written. You're telling me Wolfram Alpha can replace that? In fact, Wikipedia is a completely different type of service.
And often.
We need to try and do better.

This sentence is entirely grammatically correct. It makes the point that simply trying better isn't good enough -- we must also do better.

Now, whether this is the sentence intended is a completely different matter, of course. :-)
No dice for me as well.

Also tldr;

A video showing what it does instead of pages and pages of text would be much more helpful.

side note: A speech-to-text interface for your engine would be quite badass if it really does understand regular language. Would be like Goog-411... except better.

side side note: Wolfram-alpha needs a telephone speech interface.
I think you misread his intent -- The point he's making is that Erlang grew organically into its current form by way of continual sculpting during use by its creators, rather than being refined to approach a theoretical ideal. You seem to think this he means this as a slam on functional programming, but I don't think that's the case.

Going one further from the linked blog post, is OCaml functional? By Fischer's definition, yes, but I've written very non-functional (ha) code in OCaml. It's a multi-paradigm language, which happens to have very good support for functional programming, but it isn't limited to it. (I've also written very functional code in idiomatic Lua. Is Lua functional, then?) While functional programming techniques don't go against the flow of Erlang, saying it's functional is probably a bit of a stretch - its design doesn't prioritize this the way Haskell's does.

(HN favors substantial comments over one-line reactions, btw. "I didn't bother reading this" doesn't add much to the discussion.)
The server has a note saying:

"This machine is a server. DO NOT POWER DOWN!!"

... reflecting a common problem (perhaps the main reason behind the creation of server rooms.)
Meditation is not superstition, true, but one should still be aware. It does tend to attract the same people. I'm an atheist meditating, and occasionally I have to grit my teeth.
I'm being paid considerably more then my co-workers mainly because I've demonstrated the ability to complete projects very quickly. To a certain extent, this code is one of the reasons I was hired; that said, I'd still like to be able to use it when I eventually move on to other, even more exciting projects
You have the image nailed down. Perfect. You come off as both casually hip (the logo) and very well established. The little tear-down sheet at the upper right corner is a nice surprising touch, but might quickly get old ;-)

My best wishes!
From Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perpetual_motion#Patents):

Proposals for such inoperable machines [perpetual mobile] have become so common that the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has made an official policy of refusing to grant patents for perpetual motion machines without a working model. The USPTO Manual of Patent Examining Practice states:

With the exception of cases involving perpetual motion, a model is not ordinarily required by the Office to demonstrate the operability of a device. If operability of a device is questioned, the applicant must establish it to the satisfaction of the examiner, but he or she may choose his or her own way of so doing.[9]

And, further, that:

A rejection [of a patent application] on the ground of lack of utility includes the more specific grounds of inoperativeness, involving perpetual motion. A rejection under 35 U.S.C. 101 for lack of utility should not be based on grounds that the invention is frivolous, fraudulent or against public policy.[10]
To be fair, Danger Mouse is a lot more than just Gnarls Barkley. He's a competent producer with credits on a dozen albums in the past 6 years. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danger_Mouse_(DJ)
The "invest in us" page reads more as a gimmick than a real business opportunity. Private companies rarely, if ever, list valuation amounts or concrete prices at which a share can be bought- this makes your company look amateur.

Also, the line "This is an opportunity that could be big enough to IPO, and will certainly have a number of interesting exit opportunities," sounds more like the daily spam in my inbox than a serious business.
Both Google and WolframAlpha answer this question almost instantly, without soaking up the fractional attention of dozens/hundreds of human readers here. Always try the simple automated query first: it's the only polite/efficient thing to do.
processing is a framework for creating graphics and visualization. i am sure this is a good way to write the graphical language container, but i was looking more for what graphical metaphors should exist if we wanted to solve problems using a graphical layout.
That would be a zen joke. Or a very serious thing, depends on the mood.

I'm having trouble with the whole "short-circuit the reason" thing in zen. I get it that it is useful, but it just might not be for everybody.
It's under active development and still alpha, so things do change.

CouchDB is great, but that's just one description you don't want your database server to fit. Go for boring, stable and tried and true.
Before we put meditation in schools we'd have to scrub it really really well from any traces of religion. We'll be able to do this in some years, with all the active research in meditation, but right now I don't think we can.
True. If i could write constitution 2.0, I'd include a requirement that all legislation come with an expiry date.
I been conflicted about whether to pursue Buddhism. Its ideals of not wanting too much makes a lot of sense. However, civilization thrives and life expectancy increase because we work towards our ambitions and wants.

Another reason is that I admire Zen Buddhist practitioners Steve Jobs and Phil Jackson (zen master). Ironically, take Steve Jobs for example, his demanding and often angry management style is the opposite of Zen teaching.

I love to hear yalls opinion on how great achievement and Buddhism can co-exist.
This has been used and abused by business who wanted to list themselves in the first entry for a category in the phone book: "1AAAA Auto Insuranace" and such. But the practice became obsolete when the phone directory publishers allowed business to pay for graphical, sometimes full-page ads.

The introduction of an "app recommendation" algorithm will make these cryptic names moot.
The purpose of every educational system is to prepare humans for life.

That may be its stated purpose, but in practice, the results seem to be rather different.

Unless, of course, your definition of "prepared for life" is vastly different from mine.
The meaning of life according to Wolfram Alpha
Kent Pitman, circa 1994:

http://www.nhplace.com/kent/PS/EQUAL.html
You don't need a recommendation algorithm to solve this particular problem. Apple could just sort by the release time.

Maybe it was done this way to be more user friendly and/or to get full apps to appear in the same place as their lite versions.