skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think it's true that we failed to create any noteworthy online services.

We built the internet. Maybe you've heard of it. We also created TCP, UDP, IP, DNS, email, the Web, Usenet, IRC, Git, BitTorrent, Tor, Bitcoin, and Wikipedia. We killed AOL, CompuServe, Encyclopedia Britannica, Solaris, the Information Superhighway, and the Advanced Intelligent Network. We were only unable to do smartphones because the carriers ruthlessly shut us out, demanding insane amounts of control over handset software and using their regulatory capture of the FCC as leverage, until Apple forced the doors open for us — but on Apple's terms. And we built most of the software that runs Apple, Facebook, and Google, too.

But how can we build new services to replace Facebook and Google on a decentralized basis, like email and the Web? That's a problem with both technical aspects — how can you build a distributed full-text query processor that runs on the machines of volunteers? — and social/business aspects — how can the people who benefit from these services effectively collaborate to get them created and improved? (Kickstarter and the like show a very promising direction for this.)

Those are the problems I want to be working on, not how to persuade Google Drive users to entrust a well-intentioned but unaccountable central authority with all of their family photos.
> I take serious issue with the statement that "Nevada is the entertainment capital of the world."

I wouldn't worry about it, Americans are notorious for saying "world" when they mean "country", because they're usually not thinking about anything or anyone outside their borders.
> You really should look into adding some kind of online payment integration (Stripe is very easy to get up and running if the allow it for this market).

That's the hard part. Stripe's rules say you need to pay by Visa and MC's rules. It's hard to get merchant accounts for business like this. People selling porn have a hard time getting merchant accounts and everyone agrees that's legal.
Create a better user experience by changing the way you write
The last time someone told me this, I asked them when the last time they ran with adblocking was -- answer, years.
I love Brian Harvey. He sits in on my compilers class and gives Prof Bodik a hard time. Seems like every other class you hear Harvey yell, "Nooo" from the back of the room. Its hilarious.
Thanks :) The entire app is free to use and free for me to run as it all exists device side, use away!
Visual languages: ardublock, simulink
Arduino robot: look at the sparkling redbot
All the data munging in the world will not make progress of any sort in improving the state of ML/AI. All advances come from better algorithms and understanding of associated mathematics.

Applying techniques to new problems involves data munging, and that is an important and useful task, but it is not difficult in the same way that doing new algorithmic work is, nor does it advance the state of the art.
It's very, very hard for traditional CAs to compete with free, trusted in all major platforms and with dead simple set up. Hopefully this sort of scheme, combined with the added trust of Certificate Transparency, can kill off most traditional CAs.

The only reason I would still buy 1 certificate is for wildcard support.
Android version comes out next week! Email me brian@killthebusinesscard.com and I'll let you know :)
>Figure out how to mass-manufacture these things.

So what is involved with making a large number of these things? They have the design available. Is it just a matter of giving a board manufacturing company the design and a truckload of money and they will send you 1,000-1,000,000 boards(depending on size of truck)?
Correct. You also have to be there because only the person with the doctor's recommendation can accept the delivery.
Originally Apple did tell everyone just to make web apps. Renegade hackers made native apps for iOS anyway, creating consumer demand, and Apple relented. All this happened before I wrote that message in 2011. By 2011 webapps were already second-class. (Not as second-class as they are on Android, though!)
> I really do think it has to do with grep swapping out regex implementations based on features needed.

That wouldn't explain why one regex engine is 5x faster than another. Only looking at the regex engines themselves would tell you that.

> Complaining that Perl uses a regex and it isn't Perl

I'm not complaining that it uses a regex, I'm complaining that it doesn't do anything else.

A representative Perl program would use regexes and contain some logic that processes the results of those regexes.

> I think it's more related to the fact that the actions of the regex parsing implementation when optimized sufficiently is very close in implementation to C code that steps through a char array

I used to think that, but it is really not true unless your regex engine contains a JIT compiler.

Specialized machine code for a text parser (which is what you would get from writing C) is significantly faster than generic NFA/DFA code. In these tests, an average of 65% of runtime was saved when the regex engine included a JIT (ie. the specialized code was over twice as fast): http://sljit.sourceforge.net/pcre.html
> There’s also a twist on the Nested Sets model, called the nested interval model, where the nodes are given two numbers that represent the numerator and denominator of a fraction, but it doesn’t seem so popular, and was too complex to wrap my head around!

...and the author just wrote-off the best performing generic tree solution, because "it was too complex to wrap my head around!"

:facepalm:
haha, the problem then is still you both have to have Bump, that is a huge friction in and of itself unless Apple and Google and Microsoft banded together to make one universal connection method.

As far as I've been able to find the only two mediums that match that friction are an email or a phone number. (And we're looking at adding text message support instead of just email)
How to hide webpage parts from Google indexing
Are the contracts open to the public? Between Tesla and Nevada?
Reliable, reproducible testings are hard because every engine customizes results for every user, based on history...
I think lanaius was violating rule 2.
I wouldn't login to my bank's website if it didn't present me with green EV url bar. Same with paypal, amazon and basically anything to do with money has to have EV for me. I might be slightly paranoid, but I thought the point of ssl was EV.
Well, I didn't. I don't have any HDPI display.

But I've seen that from people complaining about workflow, supporting non-usual options, and accessibility.

Anyway, yours is the first review I see about KDE in HDPI.
I don't think it would get adopted in its current form. Systemd is a massive violation of the Principle of Least Astonishment[0].

[0] http://www.unixguide.net/freebsd/faq/16.17.shtml
Es6-browserify-boilerplate
The feds have seized operations which were legal in their state.
So what is the "right" bit to calve off? Which part of Google is a public good and which private innovation ?

My gut feeling is the basic crawled results are a public good, I also am concerned we don't deal with metadata well enough - information about me should belong to me and make me beneficiary.

But then I am a bit taken by the UKIP victory and that makes the EU seem warm and fuzzy.
A friend of mine was applying to various large tech companies and recommended Programming Interviews Exposed (Mongan). It's got good coverage of standard interview algorithms as well as broader topics like concurrency, oop, databases and tech-specific interview prep.

He didn't get the job at Google unfortunately, but he did get a job in ESA's flight dynamics team which I think is far cooler.
I am disappointed in the extreme level of rudeness in your response. I note that it seems to be occasioned by your not having been able to understand my message, with the result that the person whose dishonesty you are attacking exists only inside your own head.

10-year-olds can keep their data on their own server as easily as they can keep their books in their own bedroom in their own house, sleep in their own bed, call their parents on their own cellphone, and edit videos on their own computer. While the 10-year-old may not have legal title to any real estate, it is not therefore necessary for them to live in an institution. They can live with their family.

Hopefully that clarifies my message for anyone else who may have misunderstood it.
There are probably some countries in SE Asia that are poorer (New Guinea, Myanmar, Laos, maybe even Cambodia). If DPRK reunited with ROK (under the ROK government, of course), it would probably only take a generation or so to catch up to ROK. They have a culture of high literacy and industry, only their government is holding them back (less developed countries have much less to work with).
some do, i used to live at a place served by https://webpass.net which wires up larger apartment complexes with ethernet and runs as many fiber drops as necessary. They only operate in a limited area with specific kinds of buildings though.
Wait. Where can I get free certs today? Or did you mean once this service goes live?

I've used StartSSL, but somehow messed up the process and can't issue a new cert unless I pay to revoke the current. Even then their free certs expire in a year.

The only other free cert I found was from Comodo, but it expires after 90 days.

So, I wouldn't exactly say the only reason to pay for a cert is for wildcard support.
This is really a great book to read if your prepping up for an interview or in general just want to study algorithms. This book is much more readable as compared to CLRS which is very dense and pedagogical. This book is more like novel as in the author also describes his personal experiences in short snippets called war stories which are pretty fun to read. The second half of the text book describes problems and solutions. If your looking interview prep then the 2nd part of text book would be really helpful.
Thanks, since the post I was replying to was clearly an example of this, I'll assume you're just being helpful.
That seems to me now like it was just a ruse to buy them time. They went on to hamstrung the browser from attaining native performance and never added all the direct hardware features you could get at with apps - which is what they would have done if they really intended the browser to be an app platform.
As I mentioned in another post, Bump had a web app.

A third medium is that most people have the ability to access a website. I built http://near.im/ (sorry for the ugly frontend) with this in mind. An advantage here is you don't have to communicate to another person your name or e-mail address (which can be hard for some people), just describe a short domain name.
Minecraft is hugely popular with kids:

http://www.minecraftforum.net/forums/minecraft-discussion/di...
I don't know if the benefits were too large but Musk spends the entire article refuting something else: that the deal would be net negative to Nevada.

If I paid $1 for something and today's market price is $10 then I got a bad deal if I sell it for $5, even though I made a profit.
If you're looking for a comprehensive review including both intuition and theory, I'd be remiss if I didn't recommend CLRS(http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/introduction-algorithms)

I personally believe understanding intuition and theory are more important than simply being able to recite an algorithms implementation.
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Answering my own question. The robot is based on Kilobot that uses similar locomotion:

"The Kilobots move by controlling two vibrating motors, the same type as you have in your mobile phone and the movement is based on similar micro vibrations. The same principle is used when you leave your phone on a table and the vibrator goes off. The Kilobots actually jump forward, but the jumps are vertically so small that you don't see them leave the table surface. They actually fly for a little while. The robots accurately controlled motion to ensure that the locomotion stays energy efficient, conserving the battery for an extended operating time."
http://m.electronicdesign.com/boards/kilobot-swarms

And:

"Kilobot uses two sealed coin shaped vibration motors for locomotion. When one of these motors is activated, the centripetal forces generated by the vibrating motor are converted to a forward force on the Kilobot located at the motor’s mounting location. The principle of converting the motor vibration to a forward force can be explained using the slip-stick principle…
The slip-stick locomotion of a Kilobot was confirmed using high-speed video of the robot’s movement. Due to the off-center mounting of the two vibration motors, as shown in Fig. 1, the vibration of one motor alone will cause a rotation of the Kilobot about its vertical axis, while the vibration of the other motor will cause an opposite rotation. By controlling the magnitude of vibration for the two motors independently in a differential drive manner, the robot can move in a continuous range from clockwise rotation, to straight forward, to counterclockwise rotation. This enables the Kilobot to move approximately 1 cm/sec and rotate approximately 45 degrees/sec."
http://dash.harvard.edu/bitstream/handle/1/9367001/Rubenstei...

There's also "Analysis and Experiments on the Force
Capabilities of Centripetal-Force-Actuated
Microrobotic Platforms" article:
https://web.archive.org/web/20121021190224/http://nereus.mec...
Uh, no, it was a rhetorical question. I'm saying that if we want to make some special case that the author must disclose that she knows the subject of her article before describing what she witnessed first-hand, then we should maybe recognize the fact that all other people reporting on this topic with so much certainty as to what happened weren't actually there. If you read pretty much any Pando article you will find that all citations to past articles seemingly supporting the main thesis are actually other poorly-researched stories written by other Pando authors. After all, how reliable is a source who is a writer for BuzzFeed?

Here's one example of sensationalist headlines masquerading as journalism from a cursory scan of the front page (yes, he is citing a BuzzFeed article that is apparently citing an internal memo that despite some crafty sensationalist language, is doing nothing more than outlining plans to hire an internal research department). Is this somebody who has a less-biased view of the situation that the HuffPo author?

http://pando.com/news/uber-sought-to-hire-opposition-researc...
The only thing wonky about this is the price. I really like the idea of having curated, nice strains delivered.

However, this is really a service for aficionados, (I think?.. who else would possibly smoke even an eighth a month regularly).

There is no problem getting mega-high quality herb delivered like 'right now' for cheaper than this.. if I were to subscribe to this service (I am not in SF) I would prefer a discount for a subscription lock-in.

This to me is like subscribing to a monthly-book.. where you send me a random book you think I'll like and charge me more-than-retail for it... when I can just get a book (even with recommendation.. every dealer will talk ad-nauseum about their strains) delivered instantly for ever-lower than 'retail' prices.

Curated delivery is good.. prices are a bit steep compared to the market. I smoke more weed than easily 95% of HNers; and I would pay for a subscription service.. but only if that service offered me more value than I could get from any halfway decent distributor (which I think is .. and maybe I am just wrong here .. very very difficult to do), or if it were cheaper than calling them.

I wish you guys luck. 420blazeiterrdayetc
Americans are notorious for saying "world" when they mean "country", because they're usually not thinking about anything or anyone outside their borders.

You write like someone who has not been to Las Vegas, Nevada as recently as I have. When you write something like that, I wonder where you have been in the world. I was in Las Vegas for the first time since the 1980s just more than a year ago, to meet up with high school classmates of my wife--who attended high school in Taiwan. The classmates we met were not the only Chinese-speaking visitors we encountered who had just flown across the Pacific to be in Las Vegas, not by far.

I actually don't have a particular place in mind as I read the phrase "entertainment capital of the world," but I'm not sure I would say off-hand that there is any place that outranks one city or another in the United States for that designation. The United States is, after all, second only to France in the number of international tourist visitors it receives each year, and at least some of the tourists who come here come for entertainment of one kind or another. Many consumers of mass media entertainment in other parts of the world consume quite a lot of entertainment that is produced in the United States (although not so much that is produced in Nevada, methinks, as contrasted with California or New York).

In the context of the article kindly submitted here to open the thread, it is clear that Musk could have written "gaming capital of the world" (that's the Nevada way of saying it) or "legalized gambling capital of the world" (that's how I'd say it, to be clear what kind of "gaming" is being written about), and then he would have been both more coherent with the point he was making and less likely to cause topic drift like the topic drift found in the subthread here. His argument is that a state that regulates a lot of gambling knows how to bet wisely in its state regulations.

AFTER EDIT: Hat tip to the other participant in this same subthread who pointed out that Las Vegas uses the term "entertainment capital of the world" as a promotional slogan.[1] But people outside Las Vegas refer to Los Angeles with that designation.[2]

[1] http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2008/may/15/evolution-worlds...

[2] http://www.todayszaman.com/travel_los-angeles-entertainment-...

http://www.forbes.com/places/ca/los-angeles/

http://www.columbiawestcollege.edu/featured/hello-world/
>If FreeBSD doesn't support my hardware, it's the equivalent of being broken for me, given that I can't use it anyway

That's the point. People like to pretend linux has more hardware support, but mostly what is has is broken drivers for obscure buggy hardware that you can't actually use. The "well supported stable hardware that actually works" list is practically identical between them.
This?
http://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2010/2/69354-a-few-billion-lin...
http://web.stanford.edu/~engler/BLOC-coverity.pdf
What's a better candidate for world entertainment capital? Dubai? Maybe they have taller/more entertainment buildings? I seem to recall adultery, premarital cohabitation, having a shared bank account with a woman you're not married to, and looking at a woman will get your hands chopped off or some such nonsense. That kind of takes it out of the running for me personally.

I'm genuinely curious.
distributed -> database
Ben Edelman, somewhat notorious for being paid by Microsoft, has done a really good excellent job at documenting problems with Google for many years. Irregardless of who paid for the time invested, these problems have been well researched and aren't simply American companies playing cry baby. I'm not a regulator, and am not suggesting a regulatory answer, but I think Peter Thiel has given a fairly honest explanation that Google's rationalizations are largely PR-fud.

There are very profound and far reaching issues here. Imagine if instead of Wikipedia we had some encyclopedia where half of page 1 was sponsored editorial and the rest of what made it on page 1 was done in a totally opaque environment by a company who had commercial interests on what was showing up. If your company operates in a fairly narrow market, has limited retention, and needs to use search traffic vs demographic traffic to build your audience, you are effectively operating day to day with a giant guillotine over your neck.

(Very happy to see DuckDuckGo get some meaningful traction, and for Google's sake with the regulators the better DuckDuckGo does the more room there is to let off some pressure.)
And MIT won in Curriculum. So out of the three MIT two firsts and a second, Harvard two seconds and a first. They didn't score an overall winner, I just extended the scoring to include that.
Wow. This whole controversy is interesting only because of how completely trivial it is. Really? This is what people are upset about? A comment at dinner?

And yet, in spite of it's complete triviality, it's important. Lots of people will scan their newsfeed and make the connection between Uber and "evil" -- and that matters.
The Handstand Theory
I don't think "scathing" is the appropriate word here. It has 4.3 stars after 80 reviews, which seems pretty good to me.

In any case, to answer your question, I read the book a few years ago and thought it was really good. I don't remember there being many mistakes, and I didn't mention any in my review on Amazon, but I may have just not noticed.

It's definitely my favorite algorithms book, because it's more practical than books like Intro to Algorithms and TAOCP. A large portion of those books are dedicated to proving theorems and big-O run times, and things like that. This book skips over most of the proving and math, tells you what the big-O run time is, gives an implementation in C, walks through the algorithm in a way that actually explains what it's doing, and points to other resources for the deeper math.

If I needed to implement an algorithm, I'd grab this book. If I was curious about the math behind it, I'd grab TAOCP or Intro to Algorithms.
It's a shame you're getting downvoted for what was clearly a joke.

Have an upvote, you made me laugh. :)
PostgreSQL has a specific type for this, ltree.
I suppose it depends on how you'd even define something like that - headquarters, production, shooting, effects.. it's all so distributed now. Consider SohoNet's reach, as a network provider that specialises in high capacity connections to studios, effects houses, et al:

http://www.sohonet.com/our-global-reach/

That said, I'd wager you could ask people around the world, and they'd still say "Hollywood", though plenty of folk are, I'd imagine, aware of Vancouver's popularity for doubling as many US cities, Pinewood Studios, and WETA.
Bullshit. There are always externalities in these deals. Since I do not know the details, I can.not say. But what about things like pollusion and waste. These are negatives to the people of nevada that are most likely not accounted for. Also work olace hazards ir worse damage, explosions, etc.

Also what about surrounding infrastructure like roads, sewage, etc. Who is paying for that?
Thanks for the concern. I've sorta gone through this before. I ran another company (Servprise International) for 4.5 years and went through the adjustment back to a full-time job. The biggest difference is this time I'm older and wanted to think about something I could reasonably see myself doing for 3 - 4 years, at least.

I'm actually fairly at ease with things. Making the decision to leave it behind was liberating. Dealing with the BS required to shutdown a company is just annoying. But, the open source question has come up quite a few times. I wanted to give it more than a simple "no" answer and explain why. I feel like it's really a loaded question to ask a start-up that just shutdown, especially when it's not often asked of start-ups still running.

I threw the pettiness quip in there to be intellectually honest. Taken out, I don't think it materially changes the decision. But I wanted to address it. I'm human. I certainly have irrational tendencies and I'm rather okay with that. Sure, I'll work on them, but humans aren't perfect automata even if this forum is wont to linking to Wikipedia pages on logical fallacies. Even after challenging that part, I couldn't find a strong enough set of pros to outweigh the cons in spending more time to give it away.