skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We're rolling our own for release, but right now we're borrowing liberally from the Barnes-Hut-SNE implementation here: http://homepage.tudelft.nl/19j49/t-SNE.html Barnes-Hut is a modification that makes T-SNE a lot more efficient, so I could train on hundreds of thousands of vectors instead of <10,000.

However, I'm wondering if there's something I'm missing that makes it not suitable for 3d--IE, maybe the assumptions being made to speed things up break down after the 2nd dimension. Also, there's interesting discussion in the literature about whether or not T-SNE is a good dimensionality reduction technique in general (as opposed to only a very powerful visualization technique), so my next step is probably going to be running the vectors through an autoencoder to generate 3d coordinates and then plotting those and comparing the visualizations.

Re: another example of TSNE w/ text--yeah, I've only seen this http://homepage.tudelft.nl/19j49/t-SNE_files/semantic_tsne.j... which seems to work but isn't interactive. Frankly, I'm surprised we got it to work with three.js--we're able to render as many as 250,000 unique words and it runs smooth (it just takes longer to download--this demo has 25,000).
- Depends on what direction he plans on heading. Does he want to stick as a web developer or move onto Mobile & Desktop App development? I'll agree with others and say JavaScript/PHP. It wouldn't hurt him to learn about Java/C++ as well. People talk about Go all the time, but I've never jumped into it.
It's nice to know that despite all the alarmist articles about the end of antibiotics, good progress is being made. If this works, it could completely replace traditional antibiotics. In that case, I could see dozens of new drugs in this class developed by the antibiotic companies. This would be similar to the race to develop new antidepressants, HIV drugs, and erectile dysfunction drugs. Any drug you have to take over and over again is a huge draw for the pharmaceuticals.
Renting the battery is rather the opposite of a loan.
So the fix for youtube breaking perfectly fine comments in a move to push G+ on the unwanting, is to remove comments all together?

Seriously?
You don't have to emulate functions in Dart. Dart has first class closures:

adder(x) => (y) => x + y;

You can also make you objects act like functions, i.e. be callable via obj(...). Which is a completely different thing (and you can't do that in JavaScript, only functions are callable).
> it only works the bacteria known as gram-positives, which includes problematic bugs like Staphylococcus

I have had one of those for almost a decade now.

> He hasn’t tested it in humans yet

How long is the road ahead before it becomes available to regular patients? Should I get my hopes up?
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Maybe for you... but for me this is freakin awesome and I'm glad it was posted.
How often has someone found themselves in a life threatening situation five minutes after the repo man towed their car away? I suspect the incidence rates will be similar.
And other cars are disabled as soon as a single gas payment is missed.

The payment here is for the battery, not for the car as a whole.
IF you want an example, of how the US govt could completely kill a digital currency, look up e-gold.
Thanks for responding. I should have clarified in my initial post that I am marketer with only barely passible php hacking skills. If I were to spend more time learning to properly program, it would probably not be in Python.

I'm sorry you felt I needed a downvote for offering suggestions for additional variables (I do not think the jk_rowling function alone solves those issues) was a negative comment. I was trying to help without having the skills to directly participate.

Nevermind the dual Masters in Business or the Minor in Economics. Oh and ignore the fact that I talk to my brother about complex economic issues (he has a Masters in Econometrics).

Ignore the fact, I think this is fascinating topic and have tried to read everything I can on the topic.

I'm sorry I tried to help without code.
- Any ideas on how this could be used in mobile apps?
> If I stop paying lease payments for my car, it will get repossessed

That's a somewhat different situation. The Zoe is a $20000 car not a rental, you do own the useless husk after your car has been remotely bricked because you didn't renew your battery-license.

In fact "license" is really what it feels like, and the Oracle-kind. With the Zoe it looks like your $20k don't actually buy a car they buy the right to a license, then you pay a license (the battery rental) on top of that, and if you don't pay for license renewal you end up with an expensive and uncomfortable shed.

Plus you're beholden to Renault for both use of the car (battery contract, which is per-driven-distance and does have overage costs) and its sale (you have to transfer the battery contract to the next owner).

But the license comes with free hours of support, yay! (free replacement of the battery, and roadside assistance)
it depends on how it gets implemented. if you decide that classic user/pw auth should co-exist it is of course still the "weakest link". sharing certificates across devices is also possible. os-x mavericks supports this natively with the new icloud keychain. although that might not be what you want, security-wise.
Why is my demo in French?

(Note: That's not a problem, I'm fluent, but it is very, very strange. I started on the home page in English, hit the demo, and all of a sudden, French. Stranger still there is no button or other control to let me choose the language. My keyboard is set to Canadian English and I am not connecting from a predominantly French area. AFAIK, my system settings are all anglo.)
Just out curiosoty, what are you development tools for use Cobol for web applications?
Why do we even need comments on YouTube?
Autonomous taxis would largely revolutionize car ownership. Why own your own car, when you can pay a fraction of the price to have one available whenever you need it, and never when you don't?
It couldn't, or they'd recognize that G+ is a false positive.
How to Create a Unique Value Proposition for Your SaaS Product
It is a great tool to discover interesting courses and it saves me a lot of time searching. I am not sure if you are working on it, but it maybe a good idea to allow people to subscribe subjects/classes so that they got notified when new courses got created.
About a hundred years after the first time someone found themselves in a life-threatening situation because their car refused to start because they couldn't pay for gas.
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This is a great start ~> http://corp.bankofamerica.com/documents/16307/0/investmentte...
Can try http://www.reddit.com/r/freedesign/ , I got some interesting submissions for my project, when I submitted a logo design brief as an experiment. In general, though, logos are not important when you are not even sure what will your project turn into.
The article is one of the stupidest things I've ever read that wasn't a Youtube comment. "Not allowed to own?" What kind of ridiculous statement is that? Can I complain that I'm "not allowed to own" my apartment because my landlord chooses to operate a rental building instead of a condo building?
But I believe that what kills you is the voltage and not the current.
It's true but until now it doesn't seem that google have been in much of a hurry to merge Youtube into their platform, at least brand-wise. They've acquired the site in 2006, less than two years after it was created. Go to youtube.com and search for the mention of Google anywhere. Can you find it? I couldn't.

They could have merged Youtube and Google video early on but never did. They only gave an option to link your google and youtube accounts if memory serves. There's no link to youtube on the Google Search home page the way it has links to gmail and other services. It's always been an island so far so the fact that Google seems to have rushed a G+ integration into youtube says something IMO.
Ha, I made something very similar with the goal of mesmerizing passersby at a conference where we had a booth: http://www.a1k0n.net/spotify/artist-viz/

Used t-SNE on a vector clustering which came from LDA.
Congrats on making it to lifehacker
On the first day of my upper level quantum mechanics class, I discuss exactly the sort of systems that you've asked about here. Unfortunately, it turns out that "common sense" is not in fact an accurate guide to the behavior of our universe (especially on an atomic scale). This is deeply frustrating, but in the end, the universe doesn't care.

Specifically, I introduce the idea of a Stern-Gerlach experiment to measure the spin of an electron along specific directions. If you prepare an electron in (say) a "+z" state (which is absolutely unique and unambiguous) and then measure its spin along the perpendicular x-axis, the results are 50/50 (and completely unpredictable).

At this point, your intuition is crying out, "We must have just overlooked some distinguishing detail in that initial +z state!" But it turns out that there are experimentally testable predictions of that sort of "hidden information" theory that differ from the predictions of quantum theory (look up "Bell inequalities"), and experiments always come back saying that the quantum description is correct.
Absolutely. Work a day job and freelance etc., on the side, but I'm free to drop the extra work if it gets too much and just live off a decent day job. Here in the UK it's tending more and more toward the US model, and I'm not a fan at all... luckily work for a small company that respects their employees :)
Hi, I'm on the Dart team.

> Dart has all the perils of an embrace and extinguish situation even if it is not the intention.

I'm not sure what you mean by "perils" here, but if it's just "by deciding to use a product, you could end up following it in a bad direction if they do that", I'm not sure how that's different from any other product. Any technology can go in unpredicted directions.

> Developers commit to Dart only to find in the future that the DartVM/Dart2JS targets have differing behavior or levels of attention.

Historically, the dart2js team has had as many or more resources than the VM team. If you consider the past a predictor of the future, then this shouldn't be a concern.

> And then suddenly Dart apps require Chrome and we end up with same IE6 mess again.

That would be pretty crazy of us, though, right? We want our language to be successful. Intentionally making it only work on a minority of browsers (and the unbelievably massive negative political repercussions of doing that) wouldn't exactly do much for Dart's adoption.

I'm trying to imagine some nefarious scenario where that could happen, and I'm having trouble conjuring one up.

Evil Chrome exec: Well done, minion! Dart is successful and has
lots of users! Now is our chance to attack!

Evil Dart exec: What have you in mind, O Master?

Evil Chrome exec: Now we'll add a feature to Dart that only the
VM supports. Users will have to use Chrome in order to run apps
that use that feature! Mua-hahahaha!

Evil Dart exec: But master, why would a developer use that feature
if they know it will prevent millions of users from running their
app?

Evil Chrome exec: Uh... it will be such a delightful feature they
won't be able to resist. Like... I don't know, currying or
something.

Evil Dart exec: But what happens if someone just sends us a patch
to implement it dart2js too?

Evil Chrome exec: Well, don't land it, obviously!

Evil Dart exec: What should we say in the code review?

Evil Chrome exec: Why do you bother me with these details? Just
move ahead with our plan!

Evil Dart exec: Remind me again what our plan is master?

Evil Chrome exec: To force the world to use Chrome! Soon, we will
be as successful as IE6 was!

Evil Dart exec: Not to question your wisdom, master, but IE is no
longer the dominant browser, so that didn't work out well for
them, did it?

Also, developers now universally revile IE because of their
practices. We'd be shunned if we did something like that.
Taxes - that's what needs a change.

While Norway can be a good place to be born and live permanently, it is really a bad destination for a foreign talent who might want to work for a couple of years and leave the country with the significant amount of savings.
Background Job Processing for Atheists
- The Matrix should definitely be number one. What about Minority Report?
The idea is to create jobs that normally wouldn't be worth a minimum wage a la the PWA (referenced in the article), so it by definition wouldn't compete with existing jobs except putting upward wage pressure on jobs that are minimum wage and less desirable than the created jobs.

You seem to be led by your conclusion that the issue is intractable and letting small complications (or misunderstanding of the proposal) defeat serious reflection on the issue at hand. Another benefit of the approach suggested by the author is to allow a framework for thinking through the problem. Policy has to happen, it's better to have a framework for thinking through the implications of policy changes than to throw your hands up in frustration because rhetoric is a wholly useless tool for making policy decisions.
Sigh

http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9227263/The_Cobol_Bra...
the infamous karma-farmers get a lot of legitimate upvotes before they bubble to the top and don't pop in their automatically on the strength of their reputations.

This "popping-in" reminds me of Digg somehow.
This is really fantastic news but I too am skeptical of the drug companies being interested in a cure as opposed to a repeatable treatment.

As a side note the article seems very well written for non-medical folks like myself.
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It's used extensively in finance from what I've seen. Not personal or even business banking, but trading, investment portfolio management, financial advisors, those sorts of area. Everyone is given a certificate they install, and that's to identify them.

I've also used it in client-server applications, not on the web, and it was very effective as a transport layer security mechanism, but in that case it was devices talking to devices in an automated way, so there was never a problem with user experience or education of users.
Ask HN: how to visualize a mailing list as a threaded conversatoin?
I liked the threaded conversation style of Hacker News and Reddit, especially the online interfaces for them. Google Groups, however, isn't as nice. I would like to not migrate off of Google Groups if possible. I'd rather consume a website or service that visualizes Google Groups. The emails are there, anyway. Any suggestions?

Reference mailing list: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/coderdojonyc

I have threaded conversation disabled for the time being -- figured it would be a better way to track conversations, but it hasn't been really.
My next car will be an electric car. My next car will not be a Renault.
oDesk/Freelancer; it's not hard to get a job on those, but not (even close) for the price you want to. You will be basically doing your first X projects for very little money and it doesn't improve that much with positive feedback (and it's easy to get negative feedback as well if you have an issue with a client while not even you are to blame). The only good thing out of it is that you might meet people who will hire you outside these sites after a few jobs and then you can slowly up your income.

Outcome may vary; i'm sure there are people with good experiences. That said, I wouldn't touch them.
Her actual blog post has been submitted [1], too, but it has a very nondescriptive title "Google+ YouTube Integration" so it had no chance of getting upvoted to HN frontpage.

I mean, the title is a good title for her blog, but as it does not mention Vi Hart (and why would it, it's her blog), it makes a very nondescriptive title for a HN submission.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6719069
What's the rental fee? Is it more or less than the $100-200/month most people spend on gas?
Pinkie Pie is an impressive dude. They've pwned devices/chrome at the last several pwn2own and pwnium conferences

E: corrected mistaken identities
> New antibiotic kills off persistent infections

Now available in hand-soap.
Triggered Email Gets More Clicks: By Over 40%
Ya, if my mission was to weaponize one of these (full disclosure: I've done sw for military UAVs and theater of war information sharing) I'd have it hover/dart above the theater to generate intel and coordinates for conventional weapons.
Why processing a sorted array is faster than an processing an unsorted array
Years ago, when the media industry was losing its shit over BitTorrent, half of the tech industry said, "This is only happening because you idiots are making your content hard to get to."

Now that they are finally making (some of) their content (somewhat) available at (more or less) reasonable prices and with a (mostly) convenient interface, we get "ZOMG BITTORRENT DYING STOP SEND EXCLAMATION POINTS STOP". By which they mean "BitTorrent traffic has leveled off." Rather than the more reasonable article, which is "Media conglomerates pull heads part-way from asses: 'Air a little better', say execs."

Sad. Journalism is necessary to a functioning democracy, so I look forward to having some again one day.
Since torrents eliminate the hosting overhead

Not absolutely true. (Though a lot can be done with incentivizing the user base to make it mostly true.)
How dare they ship a proprietary car! The blueprints should be open source and it should be assembled by volunteers. /sarcasm
>I have had one of those for almost a decade now.

Sinuses?
Works on firefox, but had a hilarious bug: I allowed the "hide pointer" mode, but after I hit ctrl-W to close the tab my pointer was locked in the middle of the screen on all the other tabs.

Since you're using FPS controls for navigation, I found I was missing space/ctrl for up/down. Also, for another sandbox map-editor (but desktop-based not web-based) see Sauerbraten.org
I fully agree. I actually realized only after that we're very happy he's gone. He wasn't a great fit at all. Even though he was an outstanding developer, we're much stronger without him.
Have you tried messing with the target perplexity? That seems to make a big difference.
New Glass Input Methods: Eye-Tracking, Touch-Sensitive Clothing, and Bananas
Google spam filter has many false positive.
For a project I just recently did, I purchased a font from www.myfonts.com and cleaned it up to the point of looking like a "good enough" custom made text logo. Path's font is on there as well: Coquette.
No, just an ear infection. More annoying than anything. Although it does supposedly carry some risk of hearing loss should it come back hard.
That sounds about right. I definitely used it in 2005, maybe even 2004.
It's kind of like reddit. On some very niche channels, there's actually "ok" discussions. Usually requests for more information that wasn't in the video...that sort of thing. It's not great discourse, but I've found it useful from time to time.
The risk of default in an auto loan is just as high, if not a bit more, as loan payments are typically higher than lease payments. But yes, you pay more for a lease than if you bought the car outright, assuming you couldn't get a higher return on your money elsewhere.

The ability to remotely lock down the car, though, probably lowers the default rate and eases recovery of the car, so leasing this car should have lower "bad debt" costs than leasing a non-DRM'd car, making the lease comparatively cheaper than other cars.
"The current practice... will I predict, be replaced by manufacturers who are willing to warrant their code."

You should run that prediction by some of your friends in the legal department and see what they think.
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> most of the JS community were quite ready to check out dart as soon as it was released.

There are definitely early adopter, bleeding edge types who love to look at things that are brand new. But we've gotten a lot of feedback from developers saying they are interested in Dart but not comfortable using it in mission-critical apps when the language is still changing.

Going 1.0 is a big deal for those people.

> I've seen more typescript interest than I have dart interest, again because type safety has nothing to do with unnecessary verbosity.

I'm not sure what you mean here. My experience has been that Dart is a good bit more terse than TypeScript (getting rid of "this." everywhere certainly helps). Are you trying to say Dart is unnecessarily verbose, or that that doesn't matter?
Extending Minitest 5: Progress Reporters
On videos with a few hundred or few thousand views comments can add to the experience (e.g. discussing a video of a show you went to with other people). Once a video has hit the level of 'like this comment to get it to the top so x sees it' comments are useless.
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a. https://www.elance.com/
b. http://www.freelance.com/en/
c. http://www.freelancer.com/?utm_expid=294858-54.y4dwHqwLR0uoK...
d. http://www.getacoder.com/
e. http://www.guru.com/
f. https://www.odesk.com/
g. http://www.peopleperhour.com/
h. http://www.project4hire.com/
The split between the Top 1%
Why do you expect IBM to hold back on marketing a product until someone has produced peer-reviewed research papers?

Watson IS marketing. Always has been. It is a way to show off IBM's capabilities, in order to improve their brand and their bottom line. So now they are trying to monetize it as a product. If it has some academic interest, that is just an added bonus, but not its core purpose.

This is just business in the corporate world, and there is no expectation of peer-reviewed research when selling software products.
Accessibility and streaming. I don't always want to download an entire video, sometimes I just want to dip into it and see if I am interested. There are streaming modes for torrents available in some clients that try to prioritize what you need to stream, but they never have worked very well in my experience.

Giving up accessibility and mobile seems like the touch of death.
>So exactly like when you purchase an ebook from Amazon, a game from Steam,

No, not like that. And definitely not "exactly like" that. Bridging the tangibility gap makes this into a different manner.
Unfortunately you have a marked lack of intelligence and continue to employ fallacious arguments. Murder is a more serious crime than theft, that is not cause to dismiss theft as trivia nor do any other companies crimes no matter how serious lessen Gates past crimes. Take your ignorant fallacies and irrational red herrings somewhere else.

You've been told multiple times to stop throwing in those other companies as red herrings and since you're unable to have a rational discussion, we're done here. Take your ignorance somewhere else, I'm not interested.
As a former IBM'er, I can't help but view this announcement with a fair bit of skepticism.

The IBM I used to know had a tendency to tightly couple all of their products and offerings, to the point of making it uncompetitive/unattractive in the market. This makes sense when you consider that IBM has been going through 6 straight quarters of declining revenue, and their Systems & Technology Group being unable to turn a profit despite thousands of employee layoffs. Assuming this announcement is no different, I expect this new offering to be proprietary, SAAS-like, and rife with restrictions limiting application development to an IBM-approved stack (Rational, Jazz, DB2, etc).

I have no doubt that Watson is an excellent piece of technology, but I believe IBM's executive and CEO leadership will mess this up by treating this offering the same way as their consulting and hardware services.
No, not at all like that.