skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
thanks! we used this for a production project to make our last non-static dependency (Firebase) static. The rest of it was a SPA (Angular, actually Famo.us/Angular) which we could already host off of S3.

I wanted to take the extra 30 mins it took to open-source this in the hope that someone else could find a production use for this simple tool.
Seconded. I'm on a netbook and actually can't read one of the paragraphs in the about section.
This looks awesome. Pretty much exactly what I need. Do you think this will work fast enough with databases with a large number of records? Some tables in my rails app have 1 million + records.
Absolutely. The Library of Babel (and other stories that touch on similar themes such as Funes the Memorious and Tlon Uqbar) are about philosophy - or rather they are about the same things that the broadest branches of philosophy are about - epistemology, ontology, mathematical philosophy et al. They are attempting to make one think about the broadest and most abstract topics on a human scale.
Opportunistic encryption and authentication methods
I take the bait:

Herman Hesse (Steppenwolf if you have to read one book from him).
Συνεχίζεται η Έκθεση του Εργαστηρίου παιδικής τέχνης – ΕΡΓΑΣΤΗΡΙ ΠΑΙΔΙΚΗΣ ΤΕΧΝΗΣ
Only if the machine is doing something in excess of computation. Then you have a machine that applies paint in a particular way. The algorithm itself isn't the thing you're patenting anymore.

Whereas "removing access to a file" is still nothing but computation. The machine in that context is fully abstract. Any general purpose computer of any design can do it. So the algorithm itself should be unpatentable and the machine is a general purpose computer that exists in the prior art, which leaves nothing to patent.
I'm in Canada and the UV index (which is based on UVB levels) is still hitting 4 or 5 on clear days. That is above the level where you are recommended to wear clothing, hats, sunscreen, etc to avoid burning. How do you figure that is not enough to produce vitamin D?
What the hell is wrong with me that I read the title as "Live streaming of Prolapse videos"?!
Supplement means "I am not getting enough, so I supplement my intake with this". Of course it is not helpful to take a supplement when you don't need supplementation. The problem is, plenty of people do need supplementation, and vitamin supplements work perfectly well for their intended purpose.
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"Virtual Machine" is an overloaded term. It can either mean virtualization of an existing CPU (like the x86), or of an abstract bytecode machine (like the JVM or Dalvik). In the former case, you have to efficiently virtualize/emulate an entire system (including stuff like hardware devices and CPU interrupts); in the latter, you only have to execute the bytecode program well, which most VMs of this sort compile just-in-time (they compile the bytecode program into a native equivalent at execution time).
Steve Jobs Didn't Want His Kids to Get Addicted to Apple Gadgets
Or for television news content, Internet Archive https://tv.archive.org has news from 2009 searchable by the closed captioning text, only Bay Area media market, national and international. Just added Philadelphia news too.
It's actually kind of surprising to me how many people like Ubiquiti here. Every couple of years I end up trying out lots of wireless gear. Last time was about 1.5 years ago, and Unifi was a cheap option that offered moderate throughput and range. By comparison, Ruckus' equipment is pretty expensive but is absolutely amazing in noisy/dense environments.

Looking at lots of wireless gear and 802.11AC, its hard to not get the idea that the industry is ignoring anyone who lives/works in a city. When you live in an apartment you can easily see 30+ wireless networks. With 802.11AC, we're back to having only 4 non-overlapping channels. Its like we learning nothing from b/g/n. No one is getting 256QAM in an apartment building.

Which is why I love Ruckus. For some reason (margins?) they've backed out of the residential space, but that are basically the only hardware company actually making wifi work better in congested environments. Everyone else is basically releasing the same hardware with slightly different antenna designs, differentiating only in software and management.
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Think you meant 'intertwines'. Thanks for the laugh :D
'the body can make Vitamin D by itself'. Sorry for underlining the obvious but no, it can't. It needs sunlight and the prevalence of rickets (as a result of vit D deficiency) in women who by custom, habitually cover themselves and live in somewhat sun-free England is a demonstration of this.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/1936208.stm
The key of course is that in Canada, you need a permit to operate it. You can't just fly drones anywhere whenever you want...

Would that shit fly in the US? Needing to apply for a government permit to operate a drone? I know you all are sensitive about perceived 'freedom'. Like how we have gun control, drone permits (and thus restrictions), etc...
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Been working with ubiquiti hardware for a few years now, sure they hardware is quality stuff and affordable but I've learned to distrust their marketing announcements, and dislike the shortcomings software/firmware part.

We're still waiting for ipv6 to show up in airmax 6 and as several other things it keeps getting delayed; Also aircontrol ? The 1.x version has been deprecated for years now and the 2.x has been in development for as long and is still not on par with the 1.x feature wise. It had to be remade from scratch following the debacle with the dev who left.

They still fail to deliver a proper snmp support, in favor of their own aircontrol solution which stilll doesn't work.

They are much proprietary and will not integrate nice with other manufacturers hardware or allow to deal with other manufacturer hardware in their software.
Travel back in time with startup Vid: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wXmPW8rUMAk
I turned off the sound and put on Koyaanisqatsi by Philip Glass:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4WlNj1TTqA

I skipped ahead to the 10 minute mark.
“I was a bartender in Antarctica”
Don't know if this is exactly what you mean, but in Slovenia, there is this website called http://prevoz.org (which translates to "ride.org"), where users/drivers can post when and where they're going, and others can contact and ride with them.

It's worked remarkably well for the past 5+ years and right now, there are almost 500 rides available for today.
Thank you for the initial posting, so much true. Brook's comment is a bit old and there usually evolve things to adress issues: His integrated database system is: The web, (project-)wikis, issue tracking, version control, (discussion&help-)forums, the code and comments in code. Anyways, it's true: Reading code often is a nightmare... but at least for me also because of over-abstraction/complication (done by IT guys/colleagues) and misdevelopments/trends/hypes (mainly done by the IT industry).
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Early sleep and early rising is not for everyone

What bugs me is people that say 'you will adjust, just go to bed earlier.'

After 15 years of rising early i still, as always, find the hours after 8pm to be my most productive. I am very focused and energetic, and my mental clarity is at its peak.
Ask HN: How did you get your early signups?
What things worked for you? What didn't? What would you recommend doing and not doing?
They don't patent the general process of compressing video and audio.

I get the impression from reading about Daala, VP8/VP9, and x264 that there are fundamental building blocks that are patented and used in threats. We have open source researchers who are just as willing to make high quality codecs as the MPEGLA members, but their time is wasted by fear of lawsuits and working around obvious patents.

I'd suggest that anything that becomes an international standard should have FRAND licensing for all patents, enforced by treaty.
"you require each user to use a valid credit card"

Who is "you"? Someone, somewhere would be creating a system that verifies unique identities, aggregates ratings, etc. Even if the logic is peer-to-peer, the system requires an extremely robust engineering infrastructure to keep it going, and the people that build that thing take on all the issues Uber is dealing with, but without real control over the system.

Or to put it differently, it's not a coincidence that all big peer-to-peer systems are anchored in weird spots around the world. In any major country the government will hunt down the keepers of the system and hold them accountable for the content.

So, to answer your question directly, you're missing a whole lot.
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Dealfind and TeamBuy are bankrupt and issuing fraudulent coupons
It's almost 4 am here and I'm still hacking away... minimum distractions in the middle of the night... and reply #2 to a HN post :)
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Mushrooms can be extremely introspective, I would imagine this could easily lead people to re-evalute their life choices in a more permanent manner than normal.
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Umm at nap naps ocklock obv
Monopolists can afford R&D, without demanding products or papers. eg Xerox PARC labs, AT&T labs

Today we have Microsoft Research and Google of course is funding lots of stuff that it's not really making money from.
it's true that patents create monopolies, but I don't think they're explicitly designed for that.

Aren't patents there to allow a company to have a temporary monopoly, to benefit from its invention, which expires the day the patent expire ?
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Napkin ways to completely blow this up:

1) Write a script to answer requests without ever intending to pick up.

2) Get out of the car, don't transfer the other half.

3) Sign up as a driver, and wait until you find an attractive/rich fare. Lock doors and do what you will.

Deregulation is not the answer for everything. Uber/Lyft works precisely because they are very well regulated to stop the cases I outline above, and more.
All of the methods used by the doctor to avoid triggers and delay gratification are exactly those used in NLP
> Allowing patent on even 'math' should not be an issue as long as the math technique is sufficiently complex that the probablity of someone else independently arriving at that math within the patent term seems to be very low

Your criteria would exclude in excess of 99% of issued software patents. Keep in mind that 20 years is the period of time between the introduction of DNS and the introduction of the iPhone. Twenty years ago Google did not exist and Windows 3.11 was the latest version. Twenty years before that the IBM PC did not exist, Microsoft did not exist, TCP/IP did not exist, AT&T would be The Phone Company (singular) for another decade, the Cold War was in full swing, people were wearing Disco Suits and many of the parents of this year's crop of college graduates had not yet been born.

Unless you meant that the term of a software patent should be on the order of six months to a year, which hardly seems worth the candle.
When you have cheap hydrogen it is relatively easy and cheap to use the Sabatier reaction to produce methane (and capture co2 from industry in the process). Basically natural gas. Easy to store and handle. Carbon negative.
Is this secure? That is, can you receive messages from an untrusted process without worrying that it will somehow crash or corrupt your process?

There are two processes mmap'ing the same memory, and operating on it with a mutex. It seems like the one side has to perform elaborate checks to make sure the other side is obeying the protocol. Or am I mistaken?
Less Wrong is a Cult
LESS WRONG IS A CULT.
REALLY listen to what Yudkowsky says. Just because he has a 50 cent vocabulary doesn't mean that what he's saying makes sense.
* Live forever as a transhuman.
* The singularity is sure to come.
* Only listen to your rational mind.
* Be a vegetarian so the vegan basilisk won't punish you.
* Bayes Theorem is the way.
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really innovative idea, I tried websrvr.in it's great, to host your website just drop your index.html in your dropbox. With in a second you are online. Website hosting has become really very easy by websrvr.in Try this it is really easy!
>Moneyball shows us that all that knowledge and experience used to pick a baseball team was wrong and that people should ignore their "common sense" (which is usually just another word for "cognitive bias") and should use hard data.

Nothing of the sort. Moneyball showed that an actuarial method was better than other methods in picking a baseball team. This does not mean that the previous methods were no better than random chance. In the case of baseball there was a large corpus of data which had good correlations to players' future performance. That's a rather unique situation.

In this case assuming that whatever previous methods are immediately wrong was on a much weaker basis: just the dataset from one particular toy challenge. A comparison with Moneyball is misleading.
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I would love to know what this device actually does and where it should sit in a network. Does this perform routing? If not, should it be downstream from a router? What would a typical network topology look like with one of these?

This seems like it has a lot of overlap with the functionality of their edgerouter product, so I just don't see where this fits in.
To be fair, science does gain its (narrow, but useful) power from defying common sense.

(For instance, people like Aristotle IIRC explained why things fall to the ground: they go back to their natural places. Ok, that's common sense; it makes sense to enough people until they let themselves get puzzled by it. Galileo's one person who explored the weirdnesses it entails; and Newton couldn't really accept gravity's occult non-mechanical properties that the evidence pointed at.)

But I agree that's one thing, and the geek-culture's uncritical fascination with the scientific enterprise is yet another. (Which probably has a bad effect on who gets to become scientists.) Thanks for pointing out Duhem's book; will try to look at it.
> Jordan’s “acid test” involved coloured discs showing different mixtures of pigment, such as a green made of yellow and blue. The mixtures were too subtle for most people to notice: almost all people would see the same shade of olive green, but each combination should give out a subtly different spectrum of light that would be perceptible to someone with a fourth cone.

From what I understand, a modern monitor is capable of displaying the entire range of colors perceptible to the human eye. Am I mistaken about that?

So would it not be possible to create a web-based version of these "coloured discs", and then we can test ourselves.
And their are official mono 3.8.0 packages for Debian and Centos Derivates here. http://www.mono-project.com/download/#download-lin

Great to see linux supported again as a first class citizen.The future is bright
Great in-depth piece
> Am I mistaken about that?
Yes. See:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamut
>> murdering the rich in their sleep

Well, you're a pleasant fellow.
Evil not so banal, says disturbing new probe
Google 'tetrachromacy test', first hit http://www.blogadilla.com/2008/06/08/are-you-a-tetrachromat/
Ask HN: Can Big Data Cure Disease?
I had an idea tonight. What if 100,000 people tracked everything they ate for four years -- and a team of researchers mined that data for correlations with certain health outcomes. Would this yield significantly useful information?

Because I was thinking tonight about ways the data could be collected. College students might gladly opt-in to a special low-priced meal service provided in exchange for their participation. Maybe large-scale volunteer organizations (like the Peace Corps) might find people willing to participate in the study, just as a way to help identify health risks. Maybe there could be a new movement -- instead of MOOCs, we have could massive online volunteer opportunities... There's even ways the government could get involved (with voluntary participation from servicemen or prisoners). Even before you get to the possibility that someone might actually try to privately fund the massive study with an eye to eventually benefiting from its data...
Has a nice UI (albeit cloned from Photoshop).

Save/Export doesn't seem to work on my machine (Chrome 37, Mac OSX).

Would be nice to see some kind of SVG export instead of raster formats.
I totally agree. It's different for each and every person. There is never ONE optimal solution for everyone. We aren't identical machines. -Irving of http://www.youngandceo.com
Perhaps because there are plenty of countries whose populations aren't armed, yet still capable of hosting a BBQ?
Meh, nothing new here. http://www.supermemo.com/articles/sleep.htm is still far more relevant.
Random thoughts; (1) A classic drawing tool made slick, beautiful. (2) Flash is not needed for this type of work at all, thanks to HTML5 (3) It's fast enough (4) View source shows nothing, which means all the UI view generation functionality has moved inside JS.
You could just enter new servers mysql login info to old server and work from both servers on new DB. Old server would be slower a bit due to mysql request have to travel long way, but it would be a few times easier and faster.
Square has recently slowed down hiring. I'm not sure what that means but internally they're not growing at the rate they once were. Some engineers are holding their breath.
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That loaded much faster than expected. I'd very much like a peek at the code (could not find a link to Github or Google Code).
It seems odd that Google would expend effort to make web video patent-free while at the same time pushing for closed-source DRM in HTML5.
It's not so easy to see in the linked article, but the article is actually in 3 parts:

Part 1: http://rcoh.svbtle.com/no-magic-regular-expressions

Part 2: http://rcoh.svbtle.com/regular-expressions-part-2

Part 3: http://rcoh.svbtle.com/no-magic-regular-expressions-part-3

It's really well done!
80% of the web running on WordPress is a great ambition.
Didn't know you can turn off Google/YouTube search history
Anyone interested in the topic should check out the Gingery series on building your own workshop from scrap, which is all based on aluminium casting
Look at this image (http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/60/CIE...) from Wikipedia. It represents all the colors (chromaticities) that humans can see. A device that reproduces images using primary colors can reproduce all the colors within the vertices of the primaries used. For example, an RGB monitor can reproduce all colors within the triangle formed by the particular R, G, and B subpixel primaries as plotted on that diagram.

What you'll notice though is that because the diagram has a curved edge (this is the spectrum of visible light actually), no polygon can encompass all colors.

I've always thought it would be cool if someone made a CRT using two prisms (splitting light from a blackbody), such that a narrowband of light from one prism is combined with a narrowband of light from the other prism in different intensities. This would be able to reproduce all colors a human can see, assuming the ability to tune to a specific portion of the spectrum is fast enough to scan over all pixels that constitute the image.
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that claim is quite dubious.
I don't think it's possible to create metamers for people with normal 3-color vision on an RGB monitor. To do that you need an extra degree of freedom.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metamerism_(color)
https://github.com/quasado/gravit

Found on http://gravit.io/, upper right corner.
If people find this interesting they might also like the myfordboy channel on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/user/myfordboy

There's tons of material in there on machining and especially metal casting at home.
Or in a friend of mine, trigger latent schizophrenia, ruin his degree, lose his girlfriend, flatshare and end up living in the back of his car for 3 years.

YMMV.

I'd rather not flip the coin on drug use. That goes for a fair number of prescription drugs as well for reference.
Maybe something related to "Fixed the current problems?"
Am I the only one who thinks her painting of the tree looks the same as the photo color wise?
Organizations deliberately breaking the law for profit is generally called "organized crime".

Drug dealers provide something of value and personally I think we would be way better off if drugs were legalized. So we're going to call our local drugs-gangs "disruptive startups" now?

90% procent of the time these companies are simply breaking privacy, consumer protection and labor laws for one reason and one reason only: greed. So occasionally they may stumble upon a law that actually needs reform. Even a broken clock is right twice per day.

That doesn't make me okay with OK with breaking the law as a business strategy, especially since most of the time it isn't the Comcasts of this world that suffer the consequences, but individual workers and consumers.

This Robin Hood worship is pathetic. These startups are not making the world a better place.
To get those things you need willpower and the research was about measuring willpower.

If you want different things that's your choice but for most good things in life you need willpower. You can't do what the guy from "Into the wild" did without willpower.
Hmm... I'm not sure about that. It's an interesting question. It's equivalent to the question: can we create two images on a computer monitor that appear the same to a person with normal color vision yet appear different to a colorblind person?

I think it would depend on the particular mapping from 3 to 2 dimensions... it might be possible.
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I have no doubt that these rubbish articles (probably backed by books, too) ruin lives.

This idea that we all should adhere to the exact same rhythm is ridiculous and it just serves to stigmatize people who despite all efforts can't fit in, especially if they're late risers.

Personally, I'm at my best when I can wake up about 3-4 hours after sunrise, after about 7-8 hours of sleep. I wake up without an alarm clock, I feel refreshed and ready to start the day. I perform better during the day, and I usually don't feel tired again until it's bed time.

Now, of course there are lots of occasions where this sleep pattern is simply not possible, but no matter how long the disruption lasts, it always feels grindy and awkward. Then I definitely need an alarm clock, I tend to sleep more overall, and I often feel purged about halfway through the day. Nobody can tell me this is what being healthy is supposed to feel like.

Of course a lot of people feel fine rising early, but the obvious mistake here is to derive from it that everybody must do the same. Even as we move away from an agricultural society there is still social pressure to synchronize the entire population as if they were tilling fields.
My first Maven-published lib: a set of Hamcrest matchers for java.time.*
This may be the first time I try a web app that is as snappy as a desktop one. Congratulations!

What front-end frameworks/technologies did you use?
That was exactly what i meant :) I guess i ommited "forced".
(Btw: signing your posts is something of a faux pas here. Including your website is worse, it makes it look like that's the real reason you posted.)
Yeah that, and write the redis data to the new server because it's not only for caching. But yeah it's a very viable option ! I'll add it.