skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Authenticity? I don't really care about that as so much as if the food tastes any good.
Thanks! - I will check out engine shed. I plan to sit down and write out a spec sometime this week
That's a much better read. Thanks!
A feature which is frequently used by anime fansubbing groups, and almost never elsewhere.

Those groups often seem strangely bleeding-edge. They always adopt new features years before western groups will... I wonder why.
Suppose you have a market, to enter which you need to invest capital C. It you get a monopoly, you get profits having net present value M, while if there is competition the total profits from the market have net present value R, where R<M. If R<C then a monopoly is inevitable, and it is likely even when R is somewhat larger, because a new entrant can expect to get only a fraction of the market.

It is true, of course, that government regulations can reduce R and therefore make a monopoly more likely (or indeed by making some dumb exclusive deal). But there is absolutely no reason that government must be the cause. In fact, since R<M there is always some C for which a monopoly is inevitable, and we see this in the ISP market: in areas of low density population, C is higher, and there is more likely to be a telco monopoly. Hence, neutrality laws are likely to be needed anyway.
> I don't know, I think VS express is one of few batteries-included dev experiences. [...] , having to configure an editor to use a compiler (downloaded separately) is a huge turnoff.

You can download Java + Netbeans here: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/jdk-...

Comes with integrated Maven dependency management, decent refactoring, JUnit etc ootb. Other additions available through built in package manager.
Dangers of steelmanning / principle of charity
Summary:

* iPhone 6 camera sensor has same pixel width as iPhone 5, i.e., 1.5um.

* Sony produces iPhone camera sensor and also sells it as Exmor brand

* Most other phones has larger diagonal size sensor than iPhone, which is 1/3". This is actually diagonally smaller than most compact cameras which typically have 1/2.3". But the advantage for iPhone is that it's 16:9 so that translates to more area. Also with only 8MP those are much bigger pixels.

* So called focus pixels are 3 year old tech and was introduced 6 months before iPhone 6 in Galaxy S5.
You are right - I founded my current business with two friends and now only one of them is left! So I know about the grind and the importance of strong relationships.

My instinct is that if I don't have that relationship with a technical co-founder before we start then I would be in a better position to hire in and mitigate the risk of getting in bed with someone prematurely.
The funny thing about mathematics is that you don’t work with regular numbers so much. I never see a 37, I see ‘n’ –a lot of what I do involves a big number n that goes to infinity. Never any specific number.

An interesting answer to probably the most common question that mathematicians are asked. Radiolab[0] covered this and the significance of "favorite/lucky numbers" in a podcast a couple of months back.

[0] - http://www.radiolab.org/story/love-numbers/
Unlike India, USSR/US/EU have spent millions on R&D to reach Mars since 1960.
"If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants." --Isaac Newton
As a best practice, you should use it in a separate profile but this is the only way to benefit from this technology.
That would be an interesting way to turn the tables. We are on their platform so the user data is theirs but we are also on their platform so the ad data is ours. Of course, this would need an app (or plugin or whatever they are called in Facebook-land) and a critical mass of people to install it.
TV shows may have the same intro sequence, but the overlaid credits are always a bit different.

Hence any compression applied will always produce different results between episodes of a show. This would make any de-duplication extremely difficult.
Relevant: Heap automatically takes this "capture every event" approach for you. Would be curious to get your thoughts: https://heapanalytics.com.

(I'm a founder at Heap.)
but I guess we're stuck with it until we come up with a better way to install emacs
He's probably unaware of tag omission[1].

The site uses it incorrectly, though: The <p> tag belongs at the start of a paragraph - it is not a separator like <br>.

[1] http://www.w3.org/TR/html-markup/p.html#p-tags
Banking Customers Refuse to Choose Between Security and Convenience
Blogged: http://code.dblock.org/i-want-to-contribute-to-open-source-w...
I'm not sure why you experienced that but on my end I've received great support from the Mixpanel team. In fact I remember one case in particular where we were aliasing our users wrong and a team member there got on a call at 1am to resolve it.

Mixpanel is one of the few pieces of software I've been excited to pay for. Hate to see them get a bad rap.

It seems like there may be certain start-ups being targeted that aren't a perfect fit for the pricing structure. If you are B2B SaaS the price is well worth it.
My intention when I posted was to leave my existing business to run itself and to apply to YC W15 to found a new business.

Having reflected on the advice and the fact I don't have a technical co-founder I know and trust implicitly I am going to go down the route of hiring a competent technical advisor to PM this for me with sub-contracted work.
I've been suicidal on two occasions, and you're perfectly describing my thought process in those moments.

I'm sorry that your comment's being downvoted (probably because it's so direct); stepping back and thinking of the progress as biological programming helped me realize I could hack my way out of it to save my life.
Thanks mate, I need to work with someone face to face on this one. Canada is a little cold for me!
I think this was a pretty dumb experiment, and the outcome was to be expected.

There will always be some sort of noise, pixels aligned differently etc., in a production like a tv series, and expecting the encoded output to be identical/matching on a blocklevel is pretty naive to say the least.

I did some experimenting using ZFS deduplication on MPEG2 files, where I encoded hundreds of MPEG2 dvd-sized videos, where 90% of the material was identical (the last 10% was affected by applying different watermarking techniques to the footage), and got some decent deduplication ratio (x1.2:1 or so).. But ZFS deduplication is expensive in memory/SSD, and it was definitely not worth it.
By far one of the most satisfactory things (and also hair reducing things) I've had as a long term hobby is: O/S development. Been doing it seriously for just over a year now, it's slow because it is purely free time. Was working happily on the kernel but decided to go back and build a bootloader after I got to higher half kernel and was messing around with the GDT base address overflow hack. It's now turned into a multi-stage boot loader, because I appreciate the idea of your system have full control over your own partition, nothing else.

I enjoy going to http://wiki.osdev.org for a broad overview and then hitting the manuals for the details; sometimes that manual and note book session can take up to 3 days of my free time haha.

I especially love writing custom tools around the development process; I like to call it reducing reliance - I found that this really helps solidify concepts in my mind; although making the process even slower, I feel comfortable at every stage.
I am convinced that it will only happen if we succeed in making it a political issue. No one company or service can fix this, since all the incentives work towards more surveillance, not less. This type of so-called collective action issue is what politics and lawmaking exist to solve, so it is there a solution must be created.
I'm guessing it's because they have to do much more work: western rip group just rip and upload, fansubs have to rip, translate (or find a translation), integrate subbing, recompress and upload. And they'll be going through each episode multiple times to QC timings, subs readability and check that subs doesn't prevent seeing anything of interest, at least for quality groups.

As a result they're always on the hunt for options which could help them do their stuff and:

* they'll find out about other possibly interesting features at the same time as they're poring over release notes

* because they might have to re-export their rips multiple times during QC, they can toy around extensively with features & settings (especially on early exports when they'll most likely have typos & al and will have to redo the export anyway)

tl;dr: they have plenty of opportunities to find and try out bleeding-edge features.
For the lulz a while back, I did a rough implementation of the DLX algorithm for the N-Queens problem. For the 4-Queens problem, it only looks at 12 possible configurations. (Visualization here: http://taeric.github.io/DancingLinks.html)

The same algorithm works for the likes of Sudoku. Is quite impressive to see how quickly it can solve some problems.
That's actually what we use. I should have been more clear, it's the fulltext search that doesn't matter to much.
> BeOS was very optimized for multimedia, which is an interesting property I think. Also the GUI library used multithreading from beginning. This surely isn't interesting for servers, but for desktop computers.

BeOS claimed to be optimized for multimedia, but that does not mean that it was. I remember, that I was able to have fluid DivX (3.11) playback on PII-300 running Windows and Linux, but not on BeOS.

What BeOS did have is DirectShow-like media architecture, using nodes and pipelines. But at the time, it was not an effective architecture.

(And yes, the BeOS engineers never managed to support VESA GTF in their display drivers, meaning that the picture on my monitor was always shifted compared to other OSes).
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This is a great article for the corporate titans of yesteryear, which puts today's 'innovation malaise' into perspective (as well as putting the IT boom in a historical context). For instance :

"""
Perhaps the greatest shock to our Rip Van Winkle economist, however, would be the fact that, with the exception of the plastics industry, the main engines of growth in the past 50 years were already mature or rapidly maturing industries, based on well-known technologies, back in 1913.
"""

and

"""
Within the next ten years, information will become very much cheaper. An hour of computer time today costs several hundred dollars at a minimum; I have seen figures that put the cost at about a dollar an hour in 1973 or so. Maybe it won’t come down that steeply, but come down it will.
"""

Overall, a very interesting read.
Yep, there are a few others. Netbeans is clearly high on the list of those that tick all the boxes and is still free. It still doesn't come close to the most expensive versions of VS (with ReSharper), and IntelliJ, but those don't compete in the free tier.
Don't forget F# and Roslyn. There's not much of an ivory tower there at all any more.
>Maybe the goal of this post was not clear `enough`. I'm presenting it more like a solution for small/medium needs for search without the needs to add extra dependencies in your architecture.

it was very clear and I agree 100% with you. I just wanted to point out that like so often in life, it's not the be-all-end-all solution, but there are some caveats.

For what it's worth, we're using tsearch with quite a big (~600 GB total) body of bilingual german/french documents. Yes. We've run into the issues I outlined, but a) we could work around them (custom dictionary, thesaurus in-application before indexing, pgbouncer) and b) it's very nice to not having to maintain yet another piece of software (ElasticSearch or similar) on a completely different architecture (Java vs. PHP and Node.js).
Universal SSL
Apple adds support for Animated PNG images in Safari in iOS 8 and OS X Yosemite
Tut, tut. They did not say it means less, they said that it was more understandable (and it is).

The older person has more experience of life and gotten more from life because they (surprise, surprise) have lived longer than a younger person. And we all know those final years, quality-wise, can be pretty fucking awful whereas a young person has checked out before the complexities of middle age kick in. If you had the choice would you prefer your son or daughter to kill themselves at the age of 22 or 62 if it was inevitable they were going to take their own life? Or you think it doesn't matter?
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Yes I work professionally in the field.
This is the thing I was actually thinking of when I posted the above. This is a background worker (runs within PostgreSQL) speaking the mongo wire protocol: https://github.com/umitanuki/mongres

Again, very basic PoC.
Ask HN: Is there a way to get the number of hugs people get per day? I'd like to correlate it with suicide, age, location etc.
Google's got a ten-year headstart in this domain. It'd be great to see a worthy product from a formidable competitor, but I'm going to wait a while to hear some of the experiences of other publishers before I implement. I doubt that they're truly ready to compete with the AdSense platform at this point.
Great initiative, minor drawbacks such as up to 20% of the traffic wouldn't apply due to their use of SNI:

"Globally, more than 80% of requests come from modern browsers, and that percentage is growing quickly."

EDIT: Mixed content on that page (within the embedded map at https://cloudflare.github.io/sni-visualization/)
New Zealand to begin registrations for 2nd level domains tomorrow
Needle: a Haskell library that lets you draw functions as ASCII flow diagrams
The reason I assumed deduplication wouldn't be effective on TV shows is because the intro isn't always at the same point as most shows have a prelude these days. Since the preludes are of different lengths, it means that certain things like key frames (if used on that particular codec) would appear on different frames of the intro sequence. Which makes me wonder how effective deduping would be on older TV shows where the intro is at the start of the programme.

As for compression being largely ineffective, the shows are already compressed anyway. In fact file system compression seems to be less relevant these days as most modern file formats have compression built in (even Office documents are just ZIP files). But as the author said, the overhead for compression isn't damaging for the performance* of ZFS - unlike with deduplication

* ZFS compression is particularly performant† when using the newer lz4 algorithm available in OpenZFS - which I'd highly recommend people using if they're not already.

† I know "performant" isn't technically a word. But it should be.
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They're more expensive first of all. and each one has to be administrated individually, especially if it has a local disk. If the kernel is kept locally, then you have to go around each machine every time you compile a new one. Same thing for applications. Same thing for let's say /usr/dict or something stupid.

Plus it's another mechanical component which can fail.

If the user directories are local instead of on a central box, then you

1) need to be at a specific one to get your stuff, and you

2) can't just cd into someone else's /usr/*/src and collaborate.

The Labs word for timesharing was "communal" computing, if that helps.

For a school or company, in which the computers are provided by the organisation itself, the Plan 9 way is very obviously better than insular systems.

There's more, but it's another whole tangent.

Since you asked, the main Plan 9 paper ("Plan 9 from Bell Labs", 1995) does say

"the early focus on having private machines made it difficult for networks of machines to serve as seamlessly as the old monolithic timesharing systems. Timesharing centralized the management and amortization of costs and resources; personal computing fractured, democratized, and ultimately amplified administrative problems."

but even more to the point would be: with a terminal, you just plug it in and turn it on.
So you want your Team to start using Git?
I wouldn't presume to answer for Terry Tao but such a foundation certainly included the usual topics covered in qualifying exams at top departments. For example, Princeton: http://web.math.princeton.edu/generals/topic.html. Now that I'm looking at it, these topics actually align fairly nicely which what Chicago requires first year graduate students to take: http://www.math.uchicago.edu/graduate/grad_first_year.html.

If you're looking for some interesting reading, Princeton actually posts write-ups of each student's qualifying exam (http://web.math.princeton.edu/generals/index.html), including Terry Tao's (http://web.math.princeton.edu/generals/tao_terence).
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what is interesting I think, it that facebook more or less might make all private data peddlers irrelevant. I could be bad or it could be better in a sense that your data will be in one place instead of a thousand different unknown places. it would be easier to target by eff such well branded target..
IMHO.
You did it! thank you.
Minority report-style tech to transform windows into supersized touchscreens
The way you curse could be an indication to yourself that you are not approaching this in an even-tempered way.
Java's value types will be immutable, while in C# I believe structs are mutable. This is a very important difference with serious implications to concurrency.

> Something I really miss in C#/Java is a possibility to opt out of GC and use more stack allocation.

The tradeoffs are often not what you think they are.
It'll probably be better once the placement box becomes pluggable (so that it's possible to use specific allocators piecemeal)
If people use and understand the word "performant", it's a word. That's how language works.
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I just saw this today, the leaders are suffiently out-of-reach.
This is excellent news - one question though - what would a user on XP see when he accesses one of these sites?
The Internet Is Broken, and Shellshock Is Just the Start of Our Woes
Especially with cloud hosting providers, were more memory gets expensive, I would recommend to go with native C/C++ applications like Postgres/MySQL/SphinxSearch/SQLite-FTS. (add Lucene based Solr and ElasticSearch to the list if memory is cheap)
Thanks for posting this. Salient point for me was the following bit I'd never considered before, but explains quite well the feeling I've had about testing for a long time.

There’s a great observation called Goodhart’s Law that basically says any metric becomes useless once you start using it for control purposes. So the SAT, for example, is a good general test of academic aptitude. But since it’s used so much for admission to college, kids are trained and coached. They spend lots of time and effort, specifically to improve their SAT score at the expense of a well-rounded education, to the point where [the SAT] may not be such a good guide to general academic excellence, even though it used to be before students started optimizing
Would anyone mind to tell me exactly what I said that triggered the download. I am seriously interested.
This is great, but just two concerns. CloudFlare just generated itself certs for how many domains? And you don't really have a secure connection but the browser will report that you do.
DivX?

Back when BeOS was still on sale, Windows latest versions were Windows 2000 and Windows 98, with XP around the corner.

I never remember using DivX on those systems.
This kind of philosophical thinking is interesting and all. But it is a mistake to dwell on it too deeply because it is so egocentric. So what if life is meaningless, why does that actually matter? Why does it matter if your actions are couragous or cowardly?

When I am around other people I am more likely to concentrate on the practicalities of being happy instead of the abstract study of personal worth. I understand that none of this probably has much to do with serious depression.
>The machine evaluates food by measuring its conductivity at different voltages.

They should really have kept the functioning principle behind more smoke & mirrors, because this suddenly makes the whole thing seem very childish and ridiculous. Conductivity may slightly cross over with the tongue's means of perception, but the main determinant of a food item’s flavor is the sense of smell, which is incredibly complex. We don’t even know how it works, but it seems to perform an in-depth analysis of every volatile molecule’s shape and features.
Question: I usually use one web browser for social media and gmail, and another web browser for everything else. Does this positively effect privacy?

It certainly effects the utility to advertising frameworks for tracking cookies but I would think that IP address tracking might be enough to track users.
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Cantonese (written in Traditional Chinese) and English are the de facto official languages of Hong Kong. I'm not sure how well your rule applies.
Just saw this today, and the "leaders" are far out of my reach...
> On iOS the font used to be a horrible script - really hard to read.

That is odd, it is perfectly readable on my phone.

> Currently it's comic sans (or a clone of it).

Chalkboard: http://www.identifont.com/differences?first=Comic+Sans&secon...
Maybe https://bombermine.com would tickle your fancy? It's a massively multiplayer version.
Getting Started with ASP.NET VNext by Setting Up the Environment from Scratch
So I think, almost by definition, we will never have AI because we’ll never achieve the goals of AI or cease to be caught up with it.

Never is such a long time. Maybe he is biased as an educator, i.e. not to discourage thinking because a machine might do it for you at some point in the future?
If Windows XP and Internet Explorer then they'll get a SSL error if visiting via HTTPS. Won't have a problem over HTTP.
FWIW, I submitted this link here because I found your blog post immensely useful. Its an excellent intro for someone wanting to integrate text search on their site in a few hours. I think the title has led a few posters here to believe that you are recommending it as a panacea for search.

Although you have listed a few points where full text search is not enough, it might be a good followup to explain some cases where ElasticSearch / Solr / Sphinx etc. are needed.
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Bash is already libre - see http://www.gnu.org/software/bash/
I suspect it won't negatively affect privacy directly (unless you're taking less care as a result of your feeling of safety). That said, mechanisms such as flash cross-browser cookies are technically possible [1], and I'm sure are in use in the wild.

[1] see for example the evercookie (http://samy.pl/evercookie/), which even lists the various delivery mechanisms for cross-browser persistence, about halfway down the page.
In Swedish there is no theoretical limit, but more than 4 is uncommon. To split words you will need a dictionary and stemming/compounding rules for Swedish and process the word from left to right. Note also that in rare cases there can be multiple legal ways to split a given compound word.

As far as I can tell it is the same for German other than that they have a slightly different set of compounding rules, e.g. hyphen can be used in more cases in German.
i always rejoice when google shows me adds for tampoons or perfume, just because it shows that the add targeting stuff is not perfect.
Is there a mirror of this somewhere that doesn't require Flash?