skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So I would say that it's a little of both. Profit wouldn't hurt, but primarily it's about the idea. Even if I never made a dime from it and just broke even, it would be worth it to me. And I say change the world, and I guess I mean it, but a small subset of the world. Perhaps 10% of the population of developed countries could gain benefit from my service. It's probably not even that good of an idea, however I have gotten quite a bit of support from communities of people with mood disorders that I've posted about it on.

The idea by the way, I'll write a more detailed explanation about it when I'm on my computer, is basically a mood tracker that your therapist/psychiatrist, and potentially friends and family, has access to if you as the user grant them that access. They can view your check-ins and mood graphs at any time from a professional/support account. It also automatically notifies your supports, mainly your mental health professional(s), but also family and friends if you're linked to them through a support account, through text and email if you mark yourself as having suicidal feelings, or feelings of harming somebody else.

Having dealt with depression I know for a fact that actively seeking help was not a concern of mine at my lowest points. However, something as passive as marking my mood as suicidal on an app or website, that's something I could do. And it would in turn have the same effect as if I texted my therapist about my feelings. Along with those features there's a bit more to it that separates it from other mood trackers but I'll only explain those if you're interested in hearing more.

So it's probably not the world changing idea I made it out to be, but I think it could help in the treatment of those facing mood disorders, by allowing their psychiatrist or therapist as well as family and friends to play an active role in monitoring their mood and helping at the lows or highs (for those with bipolar). Maybe it'll never catch on, but even if it got a few hundred users whose well-being was benefited by it, then it's worth it. If it helped saved even ONE life, then it's worth it.
Fair enough, makes sense from the C perspective.
Here's an example of "true" video search: http://www.baarzo.com/
Besides the fact that most people new to IRC are completely intimidated, a good web client solves connection issues as well. I'm behind a university proxy, for example, and port 6667 doesn't work. Currently I ssh-screen-irssi, but if there's a really good web client out there I might switch to it (I hear irccloud is good, though I'm really beginning to like scrollback)
Dear Vendor. A little advice. Stop it.
Smart spooks encrypt their disk, then throw away the key as needed. (An iPhone does the same.)
Is this project going to interoperate with W3C web annotation efforts, http://www.w3.org/2014/04/annotation/ ?

How about interoperability with crowdsourced Linked Data for events, people, places and times? NYU has a project: http://pleiades.stoa.org/ for ancient history, but the concepts apply to journalistic fact-checking.
I'm not much of a programmer, but it's great to know about this guy. The diversity link someone posted here [0] is inspiring.

Off topic question about Aphyr's website: the stylesheet is linked to only as
`<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/css" />`
How and why does this work?

[0]http://aphyr.com/diversity
I wonder if anyone has gone as far as to simply offer the person a consulting fee for coming and talking to them for an hour.

eg. I know you're busy, but we'd be willing to pay you a consulting rate of x/hr to discuss how your experience may help us achieve what we are aiming for.

Still going to be orders of magnitude cheaper than going through a recruiter, and potential recruits have something invested in making sure the meeting is worthwhile.
Hold on. You can't just say: Computers are implemented physically, so grounding a patent in a computer-based implementation makes it a physically-grounded patent.

If you want something physically-grounded you'd have to say: I want to implement this idea on that specific computer with these specific physical manifestations. And even if you got that patent, it would be effectively worthless. Changing what we view as trivial details of the implementation (e.g. swapping a Pentium for a Pentium Pro) would totally change the physical manifestations at the level of electrons and molecules. In other words, that would completely avoid any claims in the patent that are described at the physical level.

And the minute you retreat to considering claims at the functional level (i.e. what our collections of electrons and molecules mean) you're no longer talking about doing something physical to achieve a useful result: you're talking about combining abstract ideas with a wide range of possible physical implementations to achieve a useful result, which is something entirely different.
I just figured that it's his way of saying that if you're building distributed systems that lose prodigious amounts of data because you (a) don't implement the right algorithms, and (b) don't appear to have been influenced by the literature, then you might as well be playing with dolls.

IOW, his version of "databases are hard; let's go shopping"
Launching New Products
This is interesting. By "quotes", do you mean quotes that are short (often funny)? Or do you mean longer, monologue-type quotes?

IMDB has a quotes page for many movies[0] and there is a quotes.list file in their text file dumps[1].

I love movie quotes and I've had the idea of a Twitter account that tweets quotes 2x a day and the first person to reply with the correct movie title would win a prize (monetization strategy undetermined).

[0] http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0109686/quotes
[1] ftp://ftp.fu-berlin.de/pub/misc/movies/database/
That's cool. I've often wondered about creating a retro DOS-shareware-style game, as a throwback to Commander Keen and Jill of the Jungle etc.

It'd be a challenge working with the limited resources, but since most things run DosBOX, you'd also get cross-platform compatibility for free :)
Nope. This is a chrome feature that just happens to have the same name as that site. There is no connection.
The /css route is being served with the correct MIME type-- "text/css". That's all that really matters, despite the unconventional name.

This is likely a route that aggregates a collection of CSS automatically and outputs it.
My point is that it's a ridiculous sum of money over a long time frame for something that's not very complicated and of questionable value.

I don't care about internet points.
I remember reading a while back that employees at big news networks (think Fox, CNBC, CNN, etc.) had access to some massive database of broadcast videos, and tooling built around the database to do exactly this. I can't find the source at the moment, but if anyone knows it, a link could be relevant.
Absolutely irrelevant correction: Jay Carney is the current, not former, press secretary.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jay_Carney
Would you mind explaining your point? T-Mobile is a subsidiary of Deutsche Telekom. While they may be an underdog in the US mobile industry, it's a very far cry from a guy in his garage with some business idea.

In terms of what they have at their disposal, it's more like a relatively unknown channel in the UK owned by Turner Broadcasting or News Corporation.
While the government of Argentina could not actually guarantee repayment they instead agreed to terms to eliminate every possible method to avoid repaying: denominated in foreign currency, cannot be subordinated, terms can only be changed voluntarily, subject to foreign law, etc. They knew exactly what they getting into but pushed ahead regardless because they wanted the money no matter what.

Rather than think carefully about how to best default perhaps they should have been thinking carefully about how to best borrow or even better how best to spend.
Three years back I quit after 10 years of smoking (cold turkey). My notion of smoking was associated with break from work. So I replaced it with green tea and red tea(rooibos). You can probably give that a try.

Another thing that helped was sports, I started playing squash. I tried to be in better cardiovascular health to play squash, another motivation. Maybe you can pickup something (gym, any sport or anything physical)if you are not already doing that.
Nokia's New Homescreen Replacement App for Android
What other courses of action do you have in mind?
New algorithms produce patterns that could hide eyesores in public places
I can't comment on the theory side of quantum computation (BQP vs the classical equivalent BPP), but I would like to make an engineering comment about why I think quantum computation will be very difficult to scale, maybe even impossible.

To have good quantum registers (long memory time), you want each qubit to interact as little as possible with its environment. This means isolation (qubits far apart) or encoding the information in systems that interact weakly with each other.

However, to have good quantum computation (quick), you want strongly interacting qubits.

The two goals are diametrically opposite, so it's not clear how we can achieve both of them in a single system.

IMHO, the first interesting things that will come from quantum information science will be about quantum simulations of physical systems and quantum communication. Computation might come later... but I'm sure, by then, we'll have moved away from RSA and ElGamal.
No, but normal citizens have this strange belief security agencies follow laws.
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Some very cool physics involved-- a lot of basic quantum mechanics (electrons hopping on a lattice), but it has a lot of really broad implications about symmetries. There is a lot of recent interest in the butterfly [1,2].

It turns out that it is a very important state to study the Quantum Hall effect[3], and the fractional Quantum Hall effect[4], which seem to be in vogue in Condensed Matter physics these days.

Sorry to bog you down with details, I just wanted to mention how neat it is that Hofstadter's butterfly is still being studied today!

[1] http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v497/n7451/full/nature1...
[2] http://physics.aps.org/articles/v6/118
That is a terrible analogy. It's more like your electrical provider not charging you if you use a specific type of television.
>The audience is not forced to download an app and do a few other steps. It's just load URL and bam everyone's devices become a stereo. Many other ideas in this space can occur.

The same thing could happen with any sandboxed platform that allows code download from an internet resource -- even Java did it more than a decade ago (WebStart I think it was called).

For some reason (traction I guess) we did it through piling up of more and more BS into the web model (meant for documents), and leading into the current mess.

I mean, instead of the big guys (W3C style) getting together and creating a cross-platform sandboxed platform for native style apps (e.g with actual rich GUI widgets instead of just text entry boxes and text-boxes).

The irony is that each of the big guys developed a kind of its own half-arsed version of that, e.g Microsoft and XAML, QT and it's XML/JS thing, Adobe and Flex, etc etc.
> I think it's up to the founders and early employees to set the culture they want. It will usually change as the company grows, but my general feeling is that if you don't like a company's culture, don't join it.

Your "it will usually change as the company grows" observation is worth discussing further.

The reality is that "culture" as a lot of people in the Valley think of it simply doesn't scale. The environment you have at 10 employees is going to be different than the environment you had at 5 employees, the environment you have at 75 employees is going to be different than the environment you had at 25 employees, and so on and so forth. No matter how hard you try, the "culture" is going to change.

Now, I won't argue that at the earliest stages of a company, how well folks get along is important. But a lot of founders over-optimize the wrong things (such as extracurricular activities) under the guise of "culture" and "culture fit" because they naively believe that folks can't get along and do great work if they don't have an environment that forces employees to form social bonds that resemble the type of social bonds that exist between friends and family.

It's sad that more founders don't understand the concept of corporate values. Instead of trying to hire folks who look the same and want essentially the same experience from their job, it is possible to build a strong, diverse organizations united by shared values.
What tools are you using there? Is that mainly TMUX?

I also have a 30" monitor but haven't tried one huuuuge window for my dev workflow. How does that work for you?

(On my phone so might be easier to see on a bigger screen)
I guess bc theoretically someone is paying you to write applications at a fair clip. Granted, we have no idea what your role is or what your goals of the project are, so we are probably completely wrong at your own role! :)
>Quantum Computers have been proved to be more powerful than classical. wrong.

I take issue with that claim.

Take for example, the Deutsch-Jozsa problem.
Given some function f, on n bits to one bit, such that f is either {zero on all the possible inputs, or one on all inputs}, or f is zero on half the inputs and one on the other half.
To tell which of those cases it is, it requires 2^(n-1) + 1 tests of f. You have to test it on half the inputs, plus one.

With the added power of a quantum computer, we can solve it with only one call to f.

Boom, there is exponential speedup with quantum computing. This is similar to what lies behind Shor's algorithm for factoring.

Check it out, wikipedia has diagrams that I can't put in here.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deutsch%E2%80%93Jozsa_algorithm

EDIT:
It seems he addresses this exact problem here
http://rjlipton.wordpress.com/2011/10/26/quantum-chocolate-b...

I apologize, I was a bit hasty to call him out, he does know what he is talking about.
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So? If the Java applet was not proprietary, slow and crappy, and if Sun got GUIs and applications, it would be a good thing.

And none of the above are necessary elements of a reinvention.

In fact, it's the current web one-page-app mess that is a re-invention of the notion of the Java applet warts and all: it's slow, has crappy GUI support, and it's a mess to develop in (like Swing was over-engineered crap).

We could use an actual sandboxed, "runs code from internet resources" platform, that contains the whole stack rethought and simplified.
I'm not quite sure what difference you're pointing out. Why does is matter if the PhDs are at SpaceX or NASA?
Show HN: Product Hunt for Hackers
I'm assuming you meant this article at ars
http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2013/09/with-30-tuners-and-30...
I don't see adding WebRTC to IE on the list. #dinosaur
Aphyr calls it Jespen ;)

https://github.com/aphyr/jepsen
Jobs speaking english involve serving english-speaking foreigners, who have money.
If it doesn't leak out of the function (though a closure or a pointer), how can another thread see it? It's only on one stack.
Opsweekly: Measuring on-call experience with alert classification
MD here.

Hyperbole much? Only gram negative rods have cell walls. Many resistant organisms are gram positive species which do not have cell walls at all.

The one truism of microbiology is that the germs will win. Germs will find resistance to this process and pass it around to their buddies eventually. Evolution is just too efficient of a process.

Obviously I'm happy for new weapons against gram negatives... especially in this era when companies have largely stopped researching antibiotics.
I am a bit confused here. What is the difference between Dart and Angular, and this initiative? I hope this does not sound as a dumb question.
I am asking this because people here are comparing it to Twitter Bootstrap.
Optimize LOOP AT using Field Symbols
Maniac on building maniac tools! I guess it's kind of Catch-22 isn't it :P
You appear to be for legalization as long as the participants pass your test for "valid consumption".

I could also argue with a "new earther" or holocaust denier and try to give them a chance to make the nuances of their argument be known. But I choose not to because I know that they're wrong. As with you.

You have no grasp of the damage that has been done to society by the illegality of cannabis or the reasons that it's been done. Hint: it was never about the safety of those consuming it.
I find the reporting on this interesting:

The United States government told lower courts that this could create big problems. It could lead to countries choosing to borrow under English law, rather than New York law...

Most of those arguing for Argentina are arguing that it would be good policy to let them force restructuring. But:

There is no legal procedure to resolve debts of destitute countries. There is no court to approve a restructuring plan that will wipe out some debts and convert others to equity, as there is for companies.

The court essentially said that making policy isn't their job - only enforcing the law is.

I find it quite odd that the article and many of the parties involved almost seem to assume that the court should be making law from the bench. At least, that's the impression I get from the article.
There are many people better than you. There are also many people worse. Feel for the gradient. Walk uphill.
DDOS attack on popvote.hk exceeds 300Gbps
Securing the end point: a key challenge for business
I should clarify. Mugging someone because of the gopro.
It's not a bug, it's just how GDI ClearType renders text. It doesn't perform y-axis antialiasing so almost-horizontal curves look blocky. The solution is to use DirectWrite but Chrome hasn't made the jump yet.
WalkHub, a CI tool for online tutorials launches crowdfunding campaign
8-bit maps of world cities
This is a realistic and humble view - thank you.
We've created the most beautiful way to browse Wikipedia...in beta
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Amazon's Huge Bet On The Future Of Machine Learning
And this works as long as everyone is fully committed to functional programming and you have little to no turn over or a small dedicated team.

The minute you step into the standard industry things change a little bit. I once maintained an amazing piece of javascript that did dynamic server requests and rendered graph data, processed user input, changed views, and make lasting configuration changes to the database. The first 30 or so lines of code was simply setting up the functional haskellish environment for javascript, and the last 40 lines + 40 lines of HTML put everything else together. It was terse, compact, elegant, and impossible to maintain or make wider changes after the original author had moved on. It was tightly contained into one piece of the code, so not something that will be seen on the mainline easily. Going in and fixing any tiny little bug forced any unfortunate developer to immediately learn Chinese. Someone was tasked to re-write it so the rest of the team could maintain it effectively.

I like ruby/python a lot because it meets in the middle fairly easily, and doesn't require contortions to the natural intent of the language to get rid of cruft.
Is this working in multiplayer mode? I am on Firefox 30 and it doesn't seem to work for me.
Android and Windows to get 'kill switch'
The issue is that the team sits remotely. They are in a
different country and in a different time zone, so I can't
physically be there to keep an eye on them and stop them
from doing it.

Wow. Really? Is this not some knd of bullshit troll?

I don't/can't ask the network team to block
Stackoverflow...

Anyone who honestly believes that any given website can answer to the responsibility for any given team member, does not deserve to be in charge of anyone, anywhere, ever.

If you have developers that need network engineers to babysit them, then you're in charge of a nursery, or a kindergarten class, and failure to recognize those circumstances, means you lack the technical competance to be placed in charge of basically anything important.
8088 Domination Post-Mortem, Part 1
#OOTD
Nice Music Video from DJ Ken
I also feel much more stupid after reading his blog. Great content but bad for my ego!
If I understood correctly, in the posted article he addressed the class of black box problems, of which Deutsch–Jozsa is a subclass, calling it an unfair setting.

Specifically:

The fair comparison is to allow the classic machine the same ability to see the circuit representation of the box. The trouble now is the proof disappears.
When that offended woman calls names and other bullshit to other people, she is fighting oppression. When it is another person calling her names, she is the oppressed and more than that... she will create a pogrom against that guy.

A pogrom is not basic human rights. Calling names is just an ad hominem and swearing an appeal to emotion. Both seem to enjoy it.

- https://yourlogicalfallacyis.com/ad-hominem
- https://yourlogicalfallacyis.com/appeal-to-emotion
Boy, 9, creates library in his front yard. City, stupid, shuts it down.
I've had the same idea on the back burner for some time. My primary concern was - and still is - copyright.
Highlighting text you're reading increases readability as it adds a visual clue to where on the page you are reading if you look away from the page.

A lot of people pick up the habit without being taught it because of that.
Cat Desperately Fails to Catch Birds on Laptop 
Meet my friends cat Dali trying to catch birds on the laptop. He even tries to bite the screen. Funny cat fail indeed :p<p>Share with your friends if you like. Thumbs up for Dali.
A list of who wants to buy Silk Road's Bitcoins
Weird, could be the way that embedly embeds the video. I don't see the same thing with gfycat.
Scala is faster than Java
Funny production
This is what I see on the page: http://i.imgur.com/wFjEY8t.jpg

I can understand why twitter is saving money on hosting these new "gifs"
Discouraging withdrawal could be argued to be the point, and the amount of courses you would withdraw from at once should be much less than 21 credits. Assuming you still get 21 hours of money if you complete 21 out of 29 credit hours, I don't see it as a major problem.

And this is for the Junior and Senior classes. You should already know what workload you can handle by then.
You have to download and install the APK manually. With the ease of publishing something to Google Play, why haven't they done so? Is it just to limit initial deployment to people who know how to do this?

Also "Sorry, we are not currently supporting rooted devices". I wonder why.
Cross platform GUI widgets were possibly a good idea seven years ago if you didn't care about looking too good on OS X (still today, Qt applications look somewhat off on that platform). Today, they are a terrible idea, because every mobile platform looks different and if you try to make one interface for all, it will feel non-native on every one. At least if you use completely custom widgets, as HTML forces you to, it will be clearly non-native, not something pretending to be native but with the wrong behaviors.

I'm sure many people fundamentally want programming to be as close to write-once-run-anywhere as possible, and hence think this is a terrible state of affairs; for me, though, having different platforms with different, clear design philosophies is a good thing as it encourages people to care about and innovate in design.
At the bottom of the article is a link to the paper, but
on the project website (also linked) there is a "High Resolution"
version of the paper:

http://andrewowens.org/papers/2014_camo_hires.pdf