skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was hoping for something more than an RF crime sketch.

This recent EM visualization was pretty cool and a bit more substantial.

"Through a series of experiments in photographic and lighting techniques followed by customising an Android phone to act as an EMF indicator and then coding our own app in Processing we were able to visualize how these fields change over objects."

http://vimeo.com/65321968
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Well, does that mean that every other country in the world is well within its rights to spy on every US citizen? I am sure no other country's constitution stipulates protections for US citizens either.
It would be crazy cool to get a real-time feed of browsed URLs (not this dump format). Kind of like the mythical Twitter fire-hose.
seems like a good tool for prototyping
Not necessarily. The proof presented depends Schanuel's conjecture, but there may be another proof that doesn't depend on that conjecture, directly or indirectly.

The question you're asking is one of metalogic. It's like asking, what is the necessary structure of the proof of some proposition? Mathematicians definitely ask questions like that, but those are tough nuts to crack.
Very much this. I sold my motorcycle yesterday for ~$7K cash. Immediately afterwards I went to the ATM to deposit it.

Who still keeps items of large value at home?
Very cool toy/tool, good implementation too
Sometimes I will use it in a conversation when referring to a third party unknown to the person I am talking to and the subject's gender has no bearing (like in my first comment).

For example, "Oh, I know a guy that knows X," "I know a guy that is a fan of X" or in a less positive manner "That guy just cut me off [on the freeway]!" (since you rarely see who it might be and their gender doesn't matter)

I could say "dude" as well, but sometimes dude might be too informal. I could reword it with a number of other pronouns, but it depends on context and whom one is talking to.
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Yes, it's possible - the Obama administration :) Shall we declare the US a no fly zone?
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Perl, Ruby, Python, and many others have a succinct "evaluate this string" command-line flag. It's so commonplace it's to be expected.
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Their government are an evil, theocratic, messianic cult who care nothing about their people but do care about promoting barbarism internally and terrorism externally to further their dispicable agenda. There are few more evil governments on the planet right now.

If you want to be sad about the punishment of the innocent Iranian people, be sad that Khomeini's thugs murdered, jailed or otherwise incapacitated all the real liberals during that country's revolution.
The reason is "Chevron alleges that it is the victim of a mass extortion conspiracy." Ok...seems a bit ridiculous to me.

I'm no lawyer, but is this significant in relation to the constitutionality of the NSA spying? "(The Judge) ruled it didn't violate the First Amendment because Americans weren't among the people targeted."
Yep, exactly. The JIT backend would generate js (hopefully asm.js style code), which will be further optimized and executed by the js engine down to native code.
No; for that to be the case, equivalence would have to be proven (i.e. construct a proof of Shanuel that works when you assume this theory to be true.)

Right now, it could be that there exists a proof that is valid and does not depend on Shanuel's conjecture.
If I type in '02/03/2013' is that the 3rd of February or the 2nd of March?
This one might actually be a tool I can use in my workflow. Can't wait to try it out.
Ask a lawyer.

This stuff depends on the fine print in your contract, where you live, what computer you used, where you chose to spend your spare time, and many other factors.
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I thought the same thing, looks way better than Edge ever did.
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I think these guys - http://functionspace.org have some kind of subject groups and articles. They announced some upcoming courses a little while back, perhaps they're on this idea.
There is some precedent for the notation (a, b) or <a, b> or [a, b] meaning "some function applied to a and b". For example, inner products or commutators (for a group, the commutator [a, b] of a and b is equal to a^-1 b^-1 ab).

The compactness really can matter sometimes... you might have a gcd appearing in the initializer of a summation symbol. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobius_inversion gives you a good example of the "d divides n" notation appearing in such a position... pretty sure there exist similar constructions but with gcds.
What would be so bad about rebuilding Ubuntu on top of Bionic, so there's only one libc, the one required by the GPU drivers, and the lighter one to boot? If Bionic is good enough for FIrefox and Chrome on Android, then surely it's good enough for anything on a mobile device.
From blippex.org:

'Blippex is a search engine by the people, for the people. Individuals that have our browser extension installed tell us how long they stayed on a webpage.'

I haven't had a chance to download the dump yet but I'm assuming that the time points are time spent on the website by users.
I spoke with a LEED guy once about this.

Heating efficiency is more a function of heat escaping the house through poorly sealed doors and windows, poor insulation, etc. You lose heat from every side/top of the house. The heat gained inside a house from winter sun on a roof in a cold environment is negligible. The best strategy for maximizing heating efficiency is to get better windows/doors and insulation.

This compares to the summer, in which the majority of heat is gained by solar radiation on roofs and walls, with a much smaller amount being obtained through heat leaking into the house or radiating through doors/windows (assuming somewhat modern doors/windows).
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As I learned recently, there is actually a good reason why gcd(a, b) is often abbreviated as (a, b). Roughly speaking, in ring theory, an ideal I is some subset of a ring (which you can think of as a number system, sorta) for which ai is in I (if a is any element of the ring and i is in I). Given any element x, we can generate an ideal from x by just taking every other y in the ring and computing yx - if every yx is in the ideal, then multiplying by some other z to get zyx is the same as just having (zy)x ,which is just a different multiple of x. This ideal - the ideal generated by x - is written as (x); if it's generated by multiple elements, it's written as (x1, x2, ...).

If you consider the ring of the integers, then the ideals are multiples of some integer. For instance, the multiples of three are an ideal, because multiplying a multiple of three by any integer yields a multiple of three (so if you multiply the set of multiples of three by any integer, you just get back something that's in the ideal).

The final point is this: the ideal generated by two integers is actually just the set of multiples of their gcd. Therefore, if a and b are integers, (a, b) is the set of multiples of their gcd - just like (3) is the set of multiples of three. This is why the gcd is often written in this way.

The cool thing is that this works in rings in general, not just integers. You can extend the concepts of gcd, primality, divisibility, etc to rings in general, and operate on things besides just integers, such as matrices, polynomials, or rotations of a cube.

For more info:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ring_theory
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ideal_(ring_theory)
You always see programmers act smug regarding the fact that our job is somehow protected from the coming automation revolution. After all, all those processes will need programmers, right? I think this is very short-sighted thinking. I've come to realize that about 90% of what I do as a web developer is in fact a very mechanical process: take the specification in English, find the appropriate APIs and wire up the data flow such that the result matches the specification. The only part of this process that machines couldn't do better than me at this point is understand the specification.

I envision a system (in the surprisingly near future) where anyone could simply tell a computer what they want done and it will churn out "solutions" to the specification until the user whittles them down into exactly what they want. I don't think this would take any great leaps of technology either, besides a passable NLP system. This is already the main roadblock towards automating white collar jobs where 95% of it is performed on a computer. It may turn out that our jobs will be the first ones to evaporate.
Upvoted despite the personal attack. Can we keep it civil ? I don't think I was fear mongering, I just said what was reported over there.
A lot of negativity in the comments I think comes from a limited use-case. Something like "I want to get from NYC to SFO in as few clicks as possible"

However, there is a different type of travel which is "I have a little extra money sitting around, i'd love to travel"

When you don't have a predetermined destination, this interface is incredibly useful.
Nice, hospitable, open people, good standard of living, great skiing.

And a despotic government with no interest in war, just the subjugation of their own - and they'd still be a democratic secular republic if it weren't for the CIA orchestrated coup in '53 that resulted in the 79 coup, overthrowing the shah puppet govt.
Yeah, but they carry $500 smartphones with them now instead.
Even a receipt.
I'm finding this article unsurprisingly hard to reconcile with the actual opinion, which concerns something like 30 specific named accounts and no others, as part of civil discovery during an ongoing court case. At the very least, it seems like the headline is egregiously overblown.

The conclusion that we'd be better off without Techdirt (the MoJo story Techdirt hijacks is somewhat better and at least includes a link to the order) continues to be hard to avoid.
I don't find this particularly surprising and that's sort of unfortunate. Chevron has large ties in global communications networks. They have a huge stake in Reliance Industries who are responsible for undersea cable communications throughout the world. It's possible this court case was simply a formality.
Phone companies keep different records in different formats"
Do you plan to support the MYO? How do you think it's accuracy will compare to the Leap and Kinnect?
Best of luck and god speed with this initiative. Were I a US citizen, I would be calling my representative.
I've thought about this before, but on a large scale. As in, millions of square miles of solar panels. Could you effectively regulate the temperature of the earth by modulating the amount of sunlight that is converted to heat by turning the excess in to electricity?
If it's true that welfare makes it less likely for someone to commit a crime then wouldn't that also mean it makes them less likely to get a job?
Sounds great, I also like Retina, but lackings of current HDMI standard are equally discouraging as a 3D session with Samsung monitor against Samsung glasses nowadays. At least until the make it work out of the box, and compatible.

BTW Is there any indication that next HDMI standard will be able to standardize both 4K _and_ 3D, while keeping performance above 60fps?
what does this mean?

what is Soma?
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Countries are just arbitrary divisions. Just because you are born in a certain geographic region doesn't mean you are the property of the government of that region. Every person is a human being with inherent rights and freedoms.

You think we are all equal, but Americans are just more equal than others?

Dividing people is counter productive and antiquated. We are all unified as citizens of Earth and denizens of the internet.
Are you sure? I thought you could work for a company you start as long as you are treated like an employee (you can get fired, take a salary).
Huh? What does this have to do with communications networks? Chevron is embroiled in a legal battle with several people in Ecuador and the US, itself having nothing at all to do with communications secrecy, and has identified some of their email accounts. It has asked for information about those accounts as part of discovery.
From comments:
damoncloudflare: "We would not disclose that."
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The US is proving to be a rather bad actor. Drones. NSA Spying. Indefinite detention.

Should the rest of the world place economic sanctions on the US?
Wow Denmark is gone on that map :/
+1 to this! Also consider the endless entertainment available via the internet. Today for about $50 per month I have access to a plethora of streaming movies and television shows via Netflix, practically unlimited news to read, and many more forms of entertainment at my finger tips. Just 20 years ago I might have paid $4 per move rental at the video store. I'm honestly wondering if the fall in crime is due to the rise of the super couch potato lifestyle similar to that portrayed in the movie Idiocracy.
I guess a lot of teams are going through these same things right now. If anyone has more topics they're curious about, add them here or on the post and we might add to the series. Thanks!
+1 for TP-Link w/ OpenWrt. But if you're going to do it, spend the extra few pounds/euros/dollars and get the WDR3600. It has gigabit ports, whereas the WDR3500 is 100Mbps.
Your blog post has some assertions that are either overbroad ("No type inference.") or just unsupported ("The whole design of GOROOT/GOPATH is completely broken".)

Everyone is welcome to their opinion, but it'd be nice if they actually supported it with some explanation if they want to bandy it about in public.
It does look unpromising; even something like nacl_dyncode_copy is too restrictive for the PyPy JIT (can't patch jumps).
A good design will actually specify the format (mm/dd/yyyy or dd/mm/yyyy) or just let you use a date picker/calendar. So no confusions there.
It's not hard to create beautiful layouts and cool interactions when one is not constrained by real-world limitations, restrictions, users, budget, and technologies.

In general I'm not a fan of this sort of splashy, spec or concept project. I think it telegraphs that a company is not focused enough on real work, or at least that they do not understand the crucial importance of constraints to good design.

It reminds me of this rant about tech company "concept videos", which I very much agree with (ignoring if possible the MS vs Apple minefield):

http://daringfireball.net/2011/11/companies_that_publish_con...
> Their government are an evil, theocratic, messianic cult who care nothing about their people but do care about promoting barbarism internally and terrorism externally to further their dispicable agenda. There are few more evil governments on the planet right now.

This is a discussion on Iran, not Israel.
As a "destination discovery" system, I think this would be ok. However, I'm not really the target market. I already have ideas of where I would want to travel to, I just don't have the time or the money. Seems that a site like this is designed for someone who has the time and the money but not the ideas.... First world problems.

Personally, if all airlines in the world would magically work with google flights, I'd be happy.
I don't think you can get away from Betteridge's law of headlines by avoiding the question mark at the end of your question.
Actual database:

http://cpudb.stanford.edu/
And don't forget that for all the stuff that can't be replaced by computer-software-writing-robots we'll have low cost Chinese / Indian / whatever.
I started myself when I was in grade 6. I've always been ahead of others that started later as well when I've been in the same class.

But I've also spent a lot of time correcting bad habits, reading on good habits, and relearning a lot of things I did as a child -- and most of the code I wrote as a child was pretty awful.

Still, it's something that I've heard often and I can understand the logic behind it.
Then please propose the nonviolent solution.
This has nothing to do with acceleration. The idea is that you bend space-time so that you experience movement of a relatively short distance but actually travel hundreds of light years. In order to do so you have to alter space-time as we know it. Just a few weeks ago, we found we don't even know what happens at the edge of our own solar system. How can you think that bending space and time will act the same way as driving faster in a car? Your experience could be movement in the range of a few KM, but in the end you could be light years away. The problem (and the reason you will surely perish if you try it) is that you need to change the way space and time fit. Go ahead and try it, just be a few hundred light years away first so you don't ruin our perfectly functional solar system.
I travel a lot, and I can safely say that I don't like any of the current solutions much. It always takes me a long time to find a good pleasing flight. But their proposal doesn't really cut it, sadly.
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It's haswell or bust with the new laptop.
You charge extra to do it properly?
it seems that those trend are too dramatic to simply be a case of fudged numbers with no underlying change on the ground

(not that numbers can't be fudged, just that if you were fudging numbers you wouldn't fudge them that much)
You know, I've seen many comments that lamented how this guy is wasting time. Yet this is what someone looks forward to when setting up enough passive income to cover living expenses.

In 4HWW, Tim Ferris talked about his emotional breakdown when he realized he had set things up so he had nothing to do.

It's something to think about, examining just what is the motive and underlying emotional current behind the lamentations of "wasting" time.

Besides which: the guy had also a period of his life where he worked his ass off and was obviously coasting on the goodwill and reputation generated from there. People respected him and seemed to think he was very busy, because in the past, they've seen him work the 70 hours a week.
why write toy, when you can write a real one in python, check http://hylang.org
The quoted 139 MB includes the full Python standard library, which certainly accounts for a majority of that size. repl.it also compiles the entire Python standard library, so why should the two be significantly different in size?
OP here, Thanks for the comments. It was a very interesting project to build. To add a little background, ColorHits is using the iTunes EPF data with about 3.6 million albums available to search.
You could generate a javascript (or asm.js) string and eval() it. That should be the equivalent.
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I'm told by someone who's taught one that the completion rates on free MOOCs are in the low single digit percents of people who signed up, if that. But, as he points out, this is really ok, as people are learning as much as they care to.
No interest in war?! The Iranian government funds every nutty group in the region.
Wow. Thanks for sharing. That's going to become my goto site now!
x<1>=x and by induction x<n+1>=x^x<n>

How does one induct (induce?) this?
Nice idea I think we should do that.

Gerald, CTO blippex
Also, when stretching analogies far enough, one could argue that the GCD serves a similar purpose in number theory like the inner product in linear algebra. :-)

However, I think the real reason is the notation of GCD as an Ideal generated over two elements of a Ring, as described in the other reply: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6090688
Is there some reason why every code segment inside not one but two scrolling frames?

And does anyone else dislike web design that (1) limits the text to a column a third of the page wide, and then (2) because this is too small, requires a horizontal scrollbar on code segments?

For an explanation of a small Lisp interpreter (in Python) that uses sane web design, one might consider Norvig's http://norvig.com/lispy.html
I was only commenting that I'm not surprised when Chevron is involved in issues regarding access to communications since they have very large ties to some of the world's largest communications networks. I wasn't commenting specifically about the court case or the judge's decision but about the fact that it just doesn't surprise me that this would happen, and I think that's unfortunate.
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You're raising the coolest kid on earth. I wish I had the knowledge to implement an idea when I was young. He's going to think of something awesome along the way and have the skills to get it done. It'd be great if he had a github repo we could follow.
Because phones don't "ring" when on a call - you get a beep in the phone speaker. At least with every landline and mobile phone I've ever seen in the past few decades.

I guess there is a subset of people who may still be fooled.
That really isn't the type of input I was thinking of, though certainly that is a fairly easy problem to solve in a variety of ways. I'm more interested in being able to say something like 'Aug 2' or 'next Thursday', the way I can in Google Calendar.
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6033603 for discussion about the case when it first happened.
If nukes are the problem, why is Israel not sanctioned to hell and back? Have nukes, refuse to sign NPT.

Because nukes aren't the problem. Protecting US interests by destabilising Iran is the problem.
Three months ago when we were trying to book from California to Tehran it was impossible to find flights. It seems google brought back Tehran to their list now but many others don't have it yet.

Sucks to be innocent victom of a conflict that you didn't do anything for it. I can not even do a anything to change either.
This is a great counterexample to those that decry mathematical notation. Ambiguity may not be introduced for raw efficiency, but instead to indicate powerf techniques through punning.
Echoing other comments below, here's my feedback:

Visually it looks awesome, but what it really comes down to is the quality of the code. Most WYSIWYG editors leave a lot to be desired.

Second, I am always wary of amazing tools with unknown pricepoints. I get that you're still early, but some semblance of cost structure would be great. Frankly, I don't know if you're going to charge $1500 or $5 a month or free. I just don't know, there's too many ways you could choose to market this, and that insecurity, that lack of knowledge makes me uncomfortable.

That being said, great job on the concept and I can't wait to see what it looks like when it goes live.
Who needs a toy lisp? Can't we just lisp for real?

Edit: Ok, ok. Now that the title of submission has been changed from "Toy Lisp Interpreter" to "Little Lisp Interpreter" my quip, having lost context doesn't make me smile anymore either.
I lived right near DC. Trust me, it wasn't the police that killed Occupy.
A clear example of Betteridge's law, "Any headline which ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no." -http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge's_law_of_headlines

Why? This is a pretty site that has a bunch of usability flaws making it pretty useless for actually searching for flights. And all the other reasons mentioned in this thread…
Great work. I'm working on palette determination on a project, so I'm curious- which algorithm/library did you use to parse the album covers?
Likewise - I did this as part of a hackathon earlier this year - thoroughly enjoyed seeing how all the pieces fitted together.