skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Uh, by the token, a badly designed desk which makes things harder for researchers is an ethical problem.

I wouldn't minimize the problematic quality of having a bunch of crap in research or what-all else. But the thing is that, as you know, the academic world puts extreme pressure on people to both follow the rules and to makes themselves look good. When any violation of a rule-set can be called an "ethical violation" when it's really not that, it cheapens the whole concept of ethics. Which isn't surprising given how monumentally unethical it is to set up system.

Essentially, I can't help seeing people with a lot of power engaging in seriously unethetical things and happy to blur the lines between that and people cuts corners in response to pressure (and that stuff winds up being more pressure on people which doesn't actually stop the corner-cutting).
Why though?

I mean I am an Indian who emigrated here, athiest now.

But honestly what difference does it make. Do we want to live in a society where we have to concious about what religious symbol offended who.

I find incredibly hypocritical that Quebec doesn't want a "Canadian" identity, they want their own. Yet they will prevent you from having our own identity. Since when was the state responsible for culture and identity. I thought that was for the people.....
My 2 cents, if you feel you are more valuable look elsewhere. I am a startup founder, and I don't want anyone to hang out that feels the have outgrown what we do. At the same time, I want everyone to see how much more there is to learn. But having come out of the enterprise space, I know there is a lot of grey area. If you feel you should move on, no one should tell you different. If you aren't sure, learn for awhile then make your decision. Base the decision on how you feel not where you are at.
Nice! Yeah, I think it's really important not to be intimidated by stats & data science. I mean, as ihnorton said, if you want a career in academia, you need an academic degree. Period. You want to enter a v sophisticated field, like quantitative finance or Google search or whatever, that degree is really going to help. But if you just want to surround yourself with good data, good questions, data-loving friends, then I believe you can teach yourself. Absolutely.

Why do I think this? Because (1) the day-to-day of "data science" is more of a craft than a science. Before you run complicated analyses, you are just cleaning the data, visualizing it, trying to see what questions it could answer. It feels a lot like playing in the woods to me... you're just knocking about, seeing what cool stuff is in there, building a fort out of scatterplots. And a truly wise data analyst will know when to not run tests at all. Also (2) it would surprise you how many academics are themselves kinda self-taught. They get into research because of their interest in a specific topic, and only come around to learning stats later. Think about it! The MCAT does not test prob/stats, even though doctors end up reading reams of statistical studies for work. I'm not saying these doctors are ignorant, not at all... just that after undergrad, they (and a bunch of PhD candidates) find themselves in the exact same position you're in. They teach themselves, or they squeeze into stat dept courses, and they all turn out OK.

I would just look for the data that's already around you. Cool data being produced at work? Ask if you can make some charts in R/Python/Julia to show your team. The internship suggestion was a great idea. Or you can take on some cool longish-term project and blog your way through it online. You'll do the next thing, then the next thing, and so long as you keep the awe, you'll end up somewhere neat!
True, but I suspect that doesn't massively prolong most movies, only big ones that people are passionate about (Star Wars, The Godfather Trilogy, etc).

Just randomly picking... 2004. Top 10 movies from that year, and pulling future media sales predictions out of my ass:

Shrek 2 kids movie, profitable regardless.
Spider-Man 2 probably poor
The Passion of the Christ probably poor
Meet the Fockers nobody cares.
The Incredibles kids movie, profitable regardless.
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban great.
The Day After Tomorrow nobody cares.
The Bourne Supremacy possibly good.
National Treasure nobody cares.
The Polar Express nobody cares.

I mean, I am sure all of these will have future releases on new media. There is no reason not to re-release movies, it is essentially printing money), but will many of them see dramatic sales that will really change how we view the profitability of those movies? Meet the Fockers was a good movie, but nobody is going to give a shit if you re-release it in 3D, 4K resolution, "hyperdisk". Only a few have that potential I think, and it gets more bleak if you stop looking at the top 10.

After the initial burst of home media sales, I just don't see most movies getting anything more than a trickle of revenue. For every movie like Office Space, there are dozens that aren't.
Not generally a fan of videos posted to HN, but thought this was worth making an exception...
Which is why streaming tv boxsets is the real cash cow at the moment. Lots of people missed the 100 odd hours of The Wire, Sopranos, 6ft under, 24 etc. That's what really keeps the eyeballs on box.
Why? It pays for itself. That's how movies get sold too - you get the best bang for the buck by spending about equally on production and marketing.
I deleted my comment because I was just helping you make this thread be about me, which is the most boring thing you could possibly make it out of.

I have no idea what the "100% undetectable rootkit" thing is about; if you're referring to the talk me, Nate Lawson, and Peter Ferrie did about Joanna Rutkowska's "Blue Pill", our talk made the exact opposite claim --- that virtualization did not make rootkits undetectable.

Look: you don't offend me. I do not mind if you think I'm wrong about stuff. I'm just frustrated because I like Matthew Green's blog, and your comment hijacked the thread. I'm sure you didn't mean it to, but it was obvious to me that it would.
By claiming it's her husband's? Anyway that whole rumor part turned out very annoying.
Eric, what is the problem you feel you have solved?

As a founder there are a few different issues that I see us dealing with. 1) finding people, 2) parsing though the people we find, 3) finding those worth talking to, 4) finding those worth risking an offer to. Which problem are you saying you figure out how to solve, each has its own unique dilemma to solve.
You can also run Play projects with vanilla SBT. That's what I usually do. Then you don't have to worry about the unusual stuff that Play does.
Explaining big-O.
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Sometimes a system is completely morally bankrupt, but still profitable for the players thereof. Many players will, in that circumstance, continue to play, even if everyone agrees that it would be better to have a different system.

Few (or zero) people believe that patents are universally valueless to the patent-holder.

What is widely believed, especially in the field of software, is that society would be better off without software patents. In particular, that "Progress in Science and the useful Arts", at minimum in the area of software, would proceed faster without patents. Whether or not it would be more just is less widely agreed upon.

Of course, many stakeholders profit from the existing regime. Some of those say "patents are good", some say "patents are bad, but while they exist, will shall use them".
This is similar to what happened to TheWebMachine which hosted tutorials for Photoshop/illustrator and family and simple HTML and a bit of PHP (anyone remember Shoutboxes?). "Rough around the edges" is acceptable, IMO, if you're doing this for fun. But Wired is a business and without sufficient relevance, they probably thought it wasn't worth the effort to keep it active.
I wonder if the disdain is for the idea of machine made Turkish coffee, or because there's some factor creating variance in the bubbling times for which the machines aren't compensating.
If a metric is easy to game the people who rely on that metric should want to become aware of that.
I'm gonna add it to our chef builds, especially since you always misspell things. :P
I think it is marketing is need most of the time, sometimes it isn't. Have a look around you at all the marketing that is going on. Even on this website.
All my browsers keep contending for the limelight known as: Default
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When I was showing my wife around Stockholm, it started pouring down, and we quickly went into a small coffee shop on a touristy street. I tried to buy a coffee ($5 mind you) and they wouldn't let me. Not without buying something else as well. Now I can understand that it makes economical sense for them, since they had few seats and it was a busy location, but that experience was just hugely off-putting to me. I will never go back there.

I call it... the Stockholm Syndrome.
Following the link yields a description of the project:

"Tny is a simple library to serialize data in C. It can be seen as a kind of binary JSON but unlike BSON it also supports arrays as root elements."
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I have to disagree with that. We've been using graphicsmagick via cgo on memecrunch.com (alexa 30K, 8K in US) for 9 months and we're serving around 500K images per day on a single server without any issues. In fact, I've just logged in and the app is currently using 0.3% of the memory (out of 64GB) after running for a couple of weeks, since the last update I pushed to production. I don't believe graphicsmagick leaks memory in any significant way.

Of course, you need to cache the thumbnails for a reasonable time once they're generated, otherwise the CPU usage will skyrocket, but that's pretty easy to achieve with nginx's proxy_cache directive.
This is great, thank you. Some links for Scala:

Documentation: http://www.scala-lang.org/
Twitter School for Scala: http://twitter.github.io/scala_school/
99 problems in Scala: http://aperiodic.net/phil/scala/s-99/
Coursera with Martin Odersky: https://www.coursera.org/course/progfun
People keep saying this, but there's little evidence outside of the X Box.
> I could just as easily say: Correct, the goal: "To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts", i.e. encourage people to invent.

No you can't, inventions that aren't public don't promote the progress of Science. Science is by it's very nature a public endeavor.

> My point is that it was left up to us as a society to interpret those words, and just claiming that your interpretation is the correct one does not make it so.

It is so because words have meaning and under no interpretation can promoting science simply mean to encourage invention because invention alone, without making the knowledge public, does not promote science.
JSON is a key/value data structure for JavaScript, but it's useful across languages due to the number of libraries. It typically looks like:

{
"hello": "world"
}

Tny converts this JSON into a (usually, but not always) smaller form that's faster to traverse and encode/decode. Tny's alternative, BSON, is being used by MongoDB [1], so that might be a good place to learn more.

[1] http://www.mongodb.org/
Its quite embarrassing that discrimination is going to be a part of Quebec's official values.
Despite the salacious title, this is more about politics in the plex, and it's quite interesting.
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I'm saying paas solutions like Heroku and AppHarbor are rightfully successful.
The worldwide population count is inflating, so the point still holds.
I'm trying to become more comfortable with git, but I'm afraid I found this site a waste of time. It's not the concepts that make git hard to learn - it's memorising all those bloody commands.
The important news here is that video games are surpassing other forms of entertainment. It is evidence of the disconnect between the media, politics and actual society: every other month you get discussions about video games causing violence and calls for legal restrictions. Compare this to movies, where you can produce the most violent splatter horror trash and nobody will bat an eye.

Meanwhile, people are validating games as the work of art they are with hard dollars.
> The reason patents exist, as you've repeatedly asserted, is to promote the progress of science and useful arts.

Then our discussion is over as that is the only point I was making.

> We are discussing two mechanisms by which that might be accomplished

No we are not, as how to accomplish promoting science was not anything I commented on at all. You may be trying to discuss it, but I'm not interested in that digression.
Interesting how Blackberry continued to grow until mid-2010 even after iOS/Android had made their debut. They had a chance then but not anymore.
Nintendo and Square sell their old games over and over too actually.
R&D is just a cost. What brings money in is sales and marketing. You dont just sell a product because its 'out there', you need to spend considerable efforts to make it look valuable to all potential customers. Of course its more important than development, because it brings money in. Thats why even shitty games sell relatively well.
[TogetherJS Team Member Here] Our hope is for people to find easy, early success with TogetherJS. Hosting a service is still a relatively difficult thing to do, full of potential pitfalls and costs including SSL certs, etc. We want to steer first-time implementors down the simplest path. That being said, we're happy--no, ecstatic--for those who feel the need to host the hub themselves to do so.

Long term, we'd actually like to do away with the Hub server altogether, and rely instead on the WebRTC DataChannel API. Decentralizing this communication would bring countless benefits to the project, including lower hosting costs and much better end-user privacy implications.
They would lose billions, maybe 10 to 20 billions a year from Apple.

Nobody would seriously end this relationship from Samsungs end, at least if they had any brain cells.
First time I see togetherJS, seems a bit on the sluggish side, great premise though.
Wargames-style: reverse engineer oldschool RS422/RS485 multi-drop 2 or 4-wire command & control protocols for physical security / surveillance / access control systems. Plug in a pi via http://www.bb-elec.com/Products/USB-Connectivity/USB-to-Seri... to an arbitrary cable (maybe with servo-automated sensing/tapping of cable cores for speed/precision), and have it detect channels, passively map devices and grant full control of the network. Jumpstart with http://wiki.wireshark.org/FieldbusProtocolFamily dissectors and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socketcan library. Probably loads of firmware bugs on that era of devices...
If you look at the entire system, its sad for me to think that companies spend 60% of their budget to fight for attention between each other.

Its not Rockstar's fault or shortcoming, but its a problem in how things are done in general.

In the form of a story: Company A and Company B compose an entire economic system, and each build a product with 100% budget.
Company A falls behind in sales to Company B for a variety of reasons, of which luck could be one of them. So to get more awareness and better sales, they take 10% of their budget and put it into marketing the product.
Now they get ahead in sales, and are very happy. Company B figures this, and now uses 20% of the budget, to overcome Company A.

They will keep racing on marketing and presence as long as they can build the product and stay afloat.

So production is decreasing in proportion to available resources. In absolute terms, we'd have to answer the question of "is marketing making the pie larger" and if so by how much.

If you believe this article http://www.strikemag.org/bullshit-jobs/ it apparently takes more than it gives.
They could have raised the price of coffee instead of eliminating it.
Rails and Django are both on there.
For a while I thought he was making a joke about how if you continue to abstract a given theory, you end up "encompassing" everything eventually, but not in a useful way. To put what I mean in programmer terms, if you take a Javascript framework, and just keep abstracting and abstracting and abstracting, to a pathological degree, you ultimately can end up with your "Javascript framework" consisting of:

eval(x)

where the user supplies x. It is literally the most powerful Javascript framework ever!... and yet, obviously, also not useful. It trivially encompasses every possible Javascript program, at the price of not saying anything useful about any of them.

But then he threw me when he linked to what appears to be a real proof. I read through it, and found no signs it was tongue-in-cheek itself.

So I'll admit I'm at an impasse here; if he's got a real mathematical construct that is usefully better than what was presented, I don't get the tongue-in-cheek tone; if it really is tongue-in-cheek, I don't get what the real proofs are doing there, unless the proof is itself the best-disguised joke I've seen in the math world. (Generally I've got a pretty good eye for mathematician humor, even in fields I know little about.)
Cool hack, Anant!
I dont agree. Proper marketing can sell you almost anything. Even so-so products. And its not rare to see not so good games make it to top 10 sales. The game quality can vary but to sell a lot you can be sure marketing is the decisive factor.
Android started succeeding before it had an ecosystem. Establishing a viable app ecosystem actually took a long time.

The problem for RIM, Nokia, Microsoft and others is simple really: they fail to align their business interests with all the other stakeholders in the market. Explosive growth like Android's comes when you get a sudden synergy of different stakeholders whose interests all align. It's not one thing.

* Customers want more choice in phone
(bigger screens, different styles, lower cost, etc.)
* Carriers need an answer to the iPhone. Something where they retain
some tiny piece of control
* OEMs desperately need an answer to the iPhone
* Developers want something more open, with more control and less barriers
* Media distributors want some other channel than Apple / iTunes

Basically, Android was a win-win-win-win for Google, carriers, developers, OEMs and customers, and it came at just the right time when all these needs were urgent. The common theme you see in all these other players is that they are not open, offer less choice, and they are trying to force others to cede control (license our software, no you can't have the source, no you can't customize it, etc).
Also seems to explain the overall strategy they took a bit.
My fear with this is that it will be less "bullet proof" than creating a PDF slidedeck. With this I'll have to worry about getting the fontsize correct on the projector, which means I have to worry about getting a terminal set up on whichever computer I may be using for a presentation (hopefully my own, but I can't count on that) and (in the case that it isn't my own) I have to worry about networking too.

With a PDF slidedeck I can have the PDF on my computer, on the network, and on a flashdrive, I don't have to worry about presentation software compatibility or installing Gvim+plugins or putty, I don't have to worry about font-size, etc.

If I could be absolutely sure that the presentation was going to be given from my computer, then I think this would be great.
While I agree with a lot of your points, I'm a little puzzled by this one:

"It always amuses me to see how much vitriol comes from anti-apple folks..."

Was I the intended recipient of that description? I'd hardly call myself "anti-Apple," nor would I say I've engaged in "vitriol" directed at Apple. Almost the complete opposite, in fact. :)

Apologies if I'm misreading you.
How should I interpret the wording of this Facebook privacy feature?
"People on Facebook who can see your info can bring it with them when they use apps. This makes their experience better and more social. Use the settings below to CONTROL the categories of information that people can bring with them when they use apps, games, and websites." - (note, my emphasis on "control")

The above statement is followed by a list of checkboxes that are initially unchecked with categories such as Bio, Birthday, If I'm online, My videos, etc.

"Control", here, is such an ambiguous term. On a normal site, I would assume that "checking" a box off (which usually equates to a yes/confirm action) would mean that you approve of the sharing of that category, but here, I believe it's the opposite.

If you were to take a quick look at it, you might think "OK, great. Nothing is checked, so nothing is shared.", but knowing Facebook, pretty sure I have to check everything.
I'd be pretty uncomfortable about that situation, too. There should be a nice place for me to unplug the power supply entirely before I do anything around the blade.
"People on Facebook who can see your info can bring it with them when they use apps. This makes their experience better and more social. Use the settings below to CONTROL the categories of information that people can bring with them when they use apps, games, and websites." - (note, my emphasis on "control")

The above statement is followed by a list of checkboxes that are initially unchecked with categories such as Bio, Birthday, If I'm online, My videos, etc.

"Control", here, is such an ambiguous term. On a normal site, I would assume that "checking" a box off (which usually equates to a yes/confirm action) would mean that you approve of the sharing of that category, but here, I believe it's the opposite.

If you were to take a quick look at it, you might think "OK, great. Nothing is checked, so nothing is shared.", but knowing Facebook, pretty sure I have to check everything.
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By "Zuck" do you mean Mark Zuckerberg? Mark Zuckerberg was the captain of the fencing team at Phillip Exeter, which requires much more than average athletic skills.
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So I wonder if the author read the XDR code. XDR, which is a lame acronym for eXternal Data Representation was what Sun's remote procedure call library used to encode (or 'marshall' in the vernacular) arbitrary data into something you could send over a network and reliably unmarshal on the other side and get back the same data structure.

The positives (like tny) were that the code was very straightforward and easy to use. And one of the negatives were that it wasn't "self describing" (which JSON is to some extent).

Of course the ultimate in binary self describing data is ASN.1 syntax :-) but lets not go there.
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That just takes the argument in circles since the former #1 might not have been the inflation adjusted #1. It may be the case since "launches" weren't always such a big deal.
It is 100% a joke. He seems to be pointing out that you can get the press to over hype a scientific/mathematical advance by giving it a neat name, e.g. dark matter, anti matter, god particle, quantum-anything, electro-anything, super-anything, hyper-anything.