skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is in essence what I enjoy most out of good web journalism. Taking advantage of one of the real powers of hypertext, the lack of "shelf space" restrictions on column inches, to have huge, blown-up photos; and using understated interaction and animation techniques to enhance the reading experience.

It's a fine line, and most of the stories in this style are filled with the "million paper cuts" style of UI/UX issues. But when it's done right, it's very effective.
This may well be true, but what analysis has he done to support this. The only detailed analysis I have seen from anyone is from Moravec. I have been through his analysis and I can’t find any flaw with it.
They own the most popular video hosting site, the 5th most popular social network, the most popular search engine, the fastest internet service publicly available in the US, and the most popular web browser, and you just said they don't do anything better than advertising.
This is known in religion as "god of the gaps”. We will know when we have true AI as the it will tell us and not take no for an answer :)
FWIW, I just switched from Windows Phone to iOS -- from the 1020 to iPhone6+. Personally, I preferred Cortana over Siri. And it basically comes down to speed and responsiveness. Cortana is much quicker to launch, and much quicker to find results. I haven't noticed any discernable difference in their query results. And actually, for one of the my most used queries - "What is the weather today?" -- I dont even use it on iOS because the stock weather app is disappointing, I use Yahoo. Cortana telling me the weather was much more usable. Siri is just so freaking slow, that I rarely use her.
There are a bunch in the works. The dev kits just started shipping but alpha versions have been in the hands of some awesome people for quite a while. The next few months should be loads of fun!
Aside: from the vid, what are "2ons" of onion? I've searched and can't find it on Wikipedia. Google's doing it's thing of not letting me limit SERPs to those with the terms I want (yes even when they're in ""). I found a couple of recipes that mention "X ons" of ingredient but ... is it USA ounces to distinguish from "oz" as imperial ounces?

It's not in the Dummies book, not on Betty Crockers list, not on Wikipedia, not on a list I found on epinions, ...?

This brings to mind, does the recipe auto-convert to metric (eg from cups or imperial). How does it handle that?
Oh awesome, let's see... how many atoms are there in the universe?

"The number of atoms in the entire observable universe is estimated to be within the range of 1078 to 1082."

Thank you Google!
http://www.google.com/search?q=how+many+atoms+are+in+the+uni...]
It makes sense that it would answer the question first and then give relevant info. Most of the factual questions that I ask would be related to a broader context.
That sounds bleak.
I think this is a biproduct of what open source is. People contributing their spare time for little to no financial gain, and when new people expect them to hold their hands they take offense and lash out. I think it could be a slippery slope to expect people to act a certain way when contributing to the common good (open source and the like) because really there is no obligation to use the work these people produce.

Conversely this sort of behavior when dealing with vendors where money changes hands is almost non existent. And I suspect this is because there is a economic incentive in place for people to act civil to each other.

Complaining about this dynamic wont change it only changes to the economic model will change peoples behavior.
I've actually taken to dictating most of my texts on Android. It's faster for me than typing or swype-style keyboards and it's really very accurate until I need to use a strange proper name it doesn't understand. I'd say it easily gets about 90% of what I say, and it figures out the correct context for words like "there" "their" "they're" and "to" and "too" so far completely correct.

edit thought I'd add this. I just had a conversation with a united agent and they probably understood less than 70% of what I was saying. it was beyond frustrating I wish that I was actually talking to my phone instead.
Look carefully. Except for the eggs, none of it needs to be cooked fresh, including the pastry. Cheeses, olives, halvah etc go from fridge to the table, back to fridge, and get restocked on the weekends...
I use Google's voice dictation frequently for text and email, because my fat fingers don't like onscreen keyboards. It often gets the dictation of an entire paragraph totally right. It's impressive.
If you want to feel happy again read “Robot” or "Mind Children” by Hans Moravec. He has some pretty good arguments based on human vision that support a AGI around 2030 to 2040 assuming Moore’s Law (the general not specific law) hold.
40. Still developing. Freelancer.
What a great idea. It sits quite well in the spot of giving people with a passing interest in birds, and nature in general, quite a decent amount of information. It might even be a gateway app, transforming casual users into full-time birders.

What I think might be missing is some form of call to action where people could engage with local groups or NGOs to find out about organized field trips and other events that would better inform people about a range of conservation issues and make them more aware of the world around them.

The work that the Cornell Lab of Ornithology is doing is pretty interesting. There are many online databases for recording bird sightings but as far as I know eBird is the only one with a strong focus on data quality and monitored by network of local volunteers that work as curators and moderators. They are also leaders in making the data open through their API which is generating a lot of useful projects and ideas.

http://ebird.org/content/ebird/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EBird

https://confluence.cornell.edu/display/CLOISAPI/eBird+API+1....
One of my favourite projects to work on was with inaturalist.org . It's open sourced on github (https://github.com/inaturalist) .. we were making the New Zealand port : http://naturewatch.org.nz/

Has Android & iOS ports..
Try it on Wolfram Alpha.

Actually, they all seem to me pretty limited compared to the answers you get from Wolfram Alpha.

Also c.f. the responses to one of their test questions, "how much is a quarter cup of butter?". Google makes fun of the inquiry. Wolfram Alpha gives you a thorough nutritional profile, and links to variations based on international cup sizing and different types of butter.
Consensus is not the truth. And if an _unskilled worker_ is getting paid less than a highly skilled worker, that is the justified reason for there being inequality.

The wording "unskilled employee" is actually in the article itself. So the fact that you can have leverage multiplied by a large skill/knowledge difference is not enough. Then, what will be enough?

When Marc Andresseen says you have to be in the top 25% in two fields or the top 1% in one field, and you have to be pegged against an "unskilled worker" how is that fair?

What about "Quality of Life" as a reasonable metric? What about the legitimate difference in skill? Why do "Journalists" think that they are beyond citations when almost every one does it by default?

Why doesn't Kyle Chayka know anything?
Very nice. You should give the boat a cat-rig like a laser to remove the mast in the middle.

You may want to check out the guys at SailX. They are focusing on the simulation of sailboat racing, but they needs some of the same principles that you are trying to simulate. http://www.sailx.com/

For instead of sail-power complete guide, take a look at Aero-Hydrodynamics and the Performance of Sailing Yachts. This is a fun tech-read. http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0071629106/ref=pd_lpo_sbs_d...

To add to the discussion on sailing faster than the wind, I present Blackbird - which was a land yacht made to sail faster than the wind....DDW! The final design was able to sail 2x the speed of the wind.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackbird_(land_yacht)
Thanks for this. Not that a gaggle of experts is always right, but this is a lot sooner than 2100. I am surprised that for someone that is so interested in technology that Thiel would push off AGI into distant future.
Yeah, you're right, outside of the city proper (and the very nearby surrounding areas like Arlington and Silver Spring) the walkability is terrible. We'll see if it improves, the model of "stick a station out in the suburbs and build huge parking garages" is not one that I like. Ideally the areas right around the stations should be high density, very walkable, mixed residential-shopping-office.

Using the subway system as a commuter rail line means that it can take something like an hour or more to make it from an endpoint station to the city.

Plus D.C. has two actual commuter rail systems (VRE for Virginia and MARC for Maryland) plus Amtrak.
Not sure of this. Can you point me to one?
I find the ideas of the slides good, and as a coder that learn programing from the database point of view I agree a lot. But the specific examples are too "the small stuff". I think that a large-scale code organization could be a better example of how data-oriented programming will yield a better/easier solution that focus in what happened in a loop.

This kind of example reinforce in the newbie the idea of obsess for the performance of the tree and not of the forest. But really, where are a better example?
Youngest Female Billionaire Elizabeth Holmes
Thank you. Good luck for us iPhone users that we won't need to buy a new phone :-).

In terms of 80 % functionality I think all three are quite close. In terms of general features I think Android is already lightyears ahead. But I need a solid day-to-day phone with consistent usablitity concepts and I'm very tempted to give WP a try as it seems to be the cleanest here. Let's see what WP 10 brings ...
Who owns the key patents for voice recognition - AT&T, Nuance, IBM? When will they be expire and be available for use in open-source speech recognition?

Edit: some data at http://www.quora.com/Is-anyone-working-on-an-open-source-ver... & https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4987875
50% is good enough if its done by Apple.
90% not good enough if its not done by Apple.

This is how I interpret most responses when people talk about Apple.
Ad is standard, the headline grossly misrepresents the story. What The research actually observed is that in the presence of an observing angry/disapproving person, the kids were cowed, hestitant to play. Kids not stated down by the angry person played more freely. That suggests that kids are scared of angry people, not that kids tried to avoid making the person angry. Ad is common for psych studies, they read far too much into one behavior delta, and don't try multiole configurations to tease apart the many possible interpretations.
I was thinking the same thing for the Japanese breakfast. Are those foods prepared beforehand or is someone (probably the mom) waking up early to cook those?
Not really. The headline is a poor summary.
It seems practical to say a functional language has first-class functions and a purely functional language has first-class functions and no mutable state -- purely functional -> functional and not imperative.

I would identify a language as distinctly imperative if it has mutable state and has statements, e.g. operations with side-effects that have no return values (ex: loops, if's, void methods) -- not to be confused with expressions, which may have side effects, but always have return values.

So, if you look at the matrix of possibilities based on these classifications, a language can be any combination of (OO or not OO) and (functional and/or imperative).

It is trickier yet when many languages support multiple paradigms but encourage a subset. Or if you choose to restrict functional to require anonymous functions _without_ syntactic sugar.

Does that help though?
The Adjacency Fallacy
Hey, the script is cool. A more realistic simulation would probably very quite complex. You can still shape the boat a bit more like a sailboat to make it more intuitive (making it pointy just in the bow end = front).

http://www.croatiacharter.me/images/download/1204484832-boat...

As for the boat traveling faster than the wind, it has more to do with sailing angles than lift proper. The boat can get lift and push from "different air" as it slides perpendicularly with the direction of the wind. It's more of a constant force that produces acceleration until it's cancelled out by forces of resistance.

Typically the fastest points of sail of a boat (varies with hull shape, sails and their configuration) are about 45%-75% from the wind direction.

http://i.imgur.com/61OGxxx.jpg

In polar diagrams 0% is into the wind, so 180% is dead downwind and 120% is about 60% away from dead downwind which is aprox the fastest direction for the boat described by that polar diagram.
So the argument is that monopolies are ok so long as they are won fair and square? Umm... ok.
I'm happy to hear we're on the same side, then. This time I agree with what you say about CFAA. The punishments are too high which, as you say, gives prosecutors an unfair amount of leverage. I'm simply trying to inject a dose of realism into the YC conversation on this issue: unfortunately, I don't think any judge is going to strike down, or meaningfully limit CFAA any time soon. The legal arguments just are not there.

If we want it fixed, we need to come up with a strategy to get Congress to fix it. That won't be easy, but I think it may be the only way. (Of course, CFAA is only one of many criminal laws that need to be reformed in precisely the same way. Drug laws are, of course, another great example.)

I do want to try to dispel just a bit of your cynicism about the criminal justice system, though. Unfortunately, I can't say a lot about the state systems, but I can tell you from extensive first hand experience behind the scenes in the federal court system that the plea bargaining process (and all the rest of it) works pretty much as advertised. While prosecutors may be overzealous, there is no shady back room business going on behind judges and prosecutors in strip clubs or anywhere else. (I'm not saying, of course, that it NEVER happens, but that, if it does, it would be a rarity and all the other judges would be aghast. The actual culture among federal judges would never condone what you've described.) This doesn't mean that defendants always get a fair chance. They typically have few resources, little knowledge of the system, and are threatened with huge penalties (though at least in federal court the appointed representation actually tends to be decent). But at least the courts themselves are not rigged against them. (I suspect much the same can be said for many state courts, but not, unfortunately, all.)
I didn't say that. I believe that there are psychological benefits that have physical implications, and physical effects with psychological implications… As in depression can result in physical pain, and chronic pain can result in depression.
Think of it this way, when you have a normal system, your write is flushed out to the disk as fast as possible. When you add in full disk encryption, you're going to have to encrypt on write. Your write won't be acknowledged until it's physically on the disk, so the faster your disk is, the faster your write will be acknowledged. Same thing with reads, the faster you can read, the sooner you can decrypt and return the data to the application.

So SSD is definitely the way to go if you want to encrypt the whole disk. If that's too expensive, get a 7200rpm laptop drive.
10^78 and 10^82

Just a formatting issue.
How much is a quarter cup of butter?
Deep neural networks have helped a lot in improving accuracy (at least in the last few years).
If you look at what the answer is linking to (or in the snippet of the first result), it seems like that's just a bad parse. The answer should be "... the range of 10^78 to 10^82".
You may have missed this sentence:

> In addition, this was a straight up knowledge box comparison, not a personal assistant comparison. For purposes of this study, a “knowledge box” or “knowledge panel” is defined as content in the search results that attempts to directly answer a question asked in a search query.
Do you have a source? It's true that household income has been flat since the 1970's, but the nature of households has changed, there are a lot more single parents where there used to be two income earners.

If you look at income on a per person basis, we're much higher (in inflation adjusted terms) than we were in the 1970s.
41. Job title at day job is "Senior Consultant". Job title at startup is "Founder / CEO". These days I focus on "big data" at the day job - stuff like Hadoop, Storm, MongoDB, etc. At the startup I kinda do everything, but from a development standpoint I work with a lot of Semantic Web tech - Apache Jena, Apache Stanbol, etc., and write a lot of Groovy / Grails code. Live and work in the Raleigh/Durham area of North Carolina.
It's actually beyond product placement. It's about getting something in the story line that triggers brand awareness. This doesn't even mean showing or mentioning the product directly. I know several screenwriters who have their work subjected to this kind of editing. It is utterly subliminal and not at all similar to the popular culture version of "subliminal messaging" that you refer to.
I would rank Cortana as the best and Siri as the worst.
Ember.js runloop handbook
Jane > all three
I saw the video and that was quite amazing. However, this spreadsheet seems pretty broken right now.
Congrats. How has it been with TJ Holowaychuk on the team?
Planet Money did a great radio program on the (probably the mom) aspect of homelife in Japan - http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2013/07/19/203372076/will-rob...
Saw that after posting my comment, thanks!
it's a little more elaborate than we genuinely cook every day, but:

Rice - in a rice cooker with timer, so just needs scooped

Natto - from a package

Pumpkin - been made already, prolly leftover from previous night's dinner

Cucumbers - same (those are not fresh, they are in a vinegary sauce)

Eggs -take 5 min, wife makes them every morning

Miso soup - leftover from previous night's dinner

Salmon - leftover from previous night's dinner, or from little "bento sized" frozen packaged & microwaved

The "real" meal is elaborate, but as you can see from above, a lot of it is left over from last night or night before, constantly mixed in for variety

These days, my older girl settles for toast :-)
ahhh i miss the great traditional breakfast in Tokyo . It took a while to get used to cold fish and rice for breakfast, but I ended up loving it.

Also worth mentioning is Tamago kake gohan (egg rice), literally raw egg over rice mixed together
I want you to consider how wrong you might be. Filtering is defensive in nature, and the quality of a banks' filtering affects the value of CC numbers stolen from it. How many false positives will you accept in order to make your CC number virtually worthless to thieves?

I have no idea of course. Maybe the bank is incompetent and getting robbed blind, but I think what I describe above is a distinct possibility.
>> For example, if your job is writing custom software, it becomes progressively harder to find problems that don't already have open source solutions.

Open Source is just software, solutions take people. It will continue to be the case for the next 50 to 100 years. The computer industry is still a baby learning to crawl.
Not to mention the most popular email and maps
A huge part of the problem here is the low, low interest rate environment we're in. Low interest rates make expensive machines cheaper than humans. High interest rates make humans cheaper than machines. (For a range of values of cheaper)

Being able to afford a $300k house on $50k/year is great until you don't make the $50k/year anymore because you've been automated out of a job.

In the past people with a lot of money could invest their money and see a fairly stable, secure return of 5-15% a year depending on the exact risk profile of their investments; savings accounts -> stocks.

Now if you have a lot of money you can buy businesses and replace people with capital equipment. Better returns than investing in the stock market (or bank accounts!) and it's basically off-limits to people who don't have 7+ figure amounts of cash. Which statistically is basically everyone.

Higher interest rates would let the rich enjoy more work-free income but it also keeps normal people in jobs. And it provides some kind of incentive to save; interest in a bank account is basically scale-free.

I think maybe that's another one of the problems we're seeing, opportunities to grow your wealth aren't scale invariant. A little money has very, very few opportunities to earn interest. A lot of money has a many opportunities to be grown.
Geek Feminism: Resources for allies
To make money. YouTube, Google+, Google Search, and Chrome don't make money, other than being vehicles for advertising. (I don't know anything about their internet service.)
Sorry about that,
We took a calculated call with the editor. For the consumer, a structured tabular view of ingredients make sense but for the author, the structured way of entering it in tables becomes a chore. This is the main problem with creating good recipes. So we try to hit a sweet spot, and bring up a bit of that desired structure the way we parse the ingredients.

The writer is learning continuously with more people using it, and we correcting the imperfections as we spot them. There is no end to the ways in which people may enter ingredients. Our bet is, once the user get to see how it is presented on the final output, the second time they will start visualising the way it needs to be entered. A bit of mutual learning. Meanwhile, we keep looking for patterns and keep correcting these rough edges.

Also there are tons of use cases that we try to solve here. For instance, people who have recipes stored on their personal Onenote/Evernotes accounts or blogs can simply copy/paste the ingredients and steps to the free form editor.This would not have been possible in a structured form.

http://raymondsfood.cucumbertown.com/ recreated around 100 recipes from his blog over a weekend using the editor! Sure, it could still render buggy, but it is possible to iron out the bugs with more data coming in and patterns detected.
They don't give out equity in LA for most of my career and the equity I did get got destroyed by dot bomb so I seem to be damned to work 20 hours a day until I drop dead at 45.
dug into this following https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8430412

what I find fascinating here is that this query appears to show a "knowledge box" result based purely on the content of some site (the answer is a direct quote of the allrecipes page referenced) which leads to the question: can this be gamed? As in, can pages be created with content that leads google to believe it holds the answer to some question posed in natural language? It's interesting that the page quoted also contains a more appropriate response: "1/4 cup of butter = 57 g" but this is not used for some reason (perhaps simply because it comes further down in the page flow?). Even more interesting that a more specific search for "how much is a quarter cup of butter in grams" does not yield a knowledge box result, but rather gives the quoted page as the top search result.

Does anyone have examples of Google providing knowledge box results that are clearly the result of someone attempting to trick google into treating some snippet as a knowledge fact when it isn't?
Why nobody seemingly cares about PRISM
An idea along these lines is that of the Honduran ZEDEs: http://fee.org/the_freeman/detail/startup-city-redux

(I'd link to a less ideological source but libertarians and their fellow travelers are the ones giving them the most comprehensive coverage and the Wikipedia article is atrocious.)
My breakdown of Google Music's desktop UI
The story is that their deck was a graph of their user growth... and that's it.