skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you go the open source route, then you will likely derive revenue from consulting and support activities. Modifying the open source code for specific requirements and applications, fixing bugs for paying customers, that sort of task.

If you are more into the tech than the business angles, then you could keep it closed source, create various platforms around it, and license the platforms. The F50-500 companies have already told you their likely use cases, even big wig himself probably revealed what they want to use it for. Instead of packaging the technology unto itself, create the interface to the use case, then license that integration package as a whole unit.

If they want to sync under a WebSphere stack, hold your nose if you aren't into the enterprisey stuff, dive into J2EE, build out as complete an integration to your tech as you can, then license that entire solution. You could do an end-run around big wig's team by making it feasible to get to a solution faster than his team could by themselves, since you only have to create the integration, and they have to build and refine the tech from the ground up and then do the integration. By the time they finish (if they finish at all), you are onto the next use case, and the next integration.

If you aren't relying upon this tech to put food on the table today, then you have nothing to lose by doing much of the integration work for your customers, and bridging the gap in the business case to adopt your tech much closer to reality for the business decision makers.
Inactivity 'kills more than obesity'
Is there a slidedeck or blog I can read about this presentation? I want to learn but don't have time to watch the video now.
sometimes I like to imagine what I think would have lead reporters/journalists to investigate what they do. For this one I imagine the reporter was like walking around the offices trying not to make it look like she's worried about the deadline she she needs to have another article in before. At some point she realizes the parent company also owns myspace, does some small amount of research and just writes this in one night and turns it in. Kinda like what a lot of people do with their essays in school.
It is certainly a contentious thing. A consideration, though, is that if they're preserving the rock face by not drilling bolts into it, then what are they preserving it for? I wonder if you can even see the bolts from the ground (I doubt it).
Automating Parse.com bulk data imports
The big problem though is that the pathological edge cases of our current system are much better than the extremely pathological normal cases of a system without checks on what people are allowed to do.

I mean, anarcho-capitalism is basically what sovereign nations are at a smaller scale: Factions of humans who make decisions without any real checks on their behavior beyond the environment and the reactions of other factions. And I'm supposed to want a microcosm of global politics in my back yard? No thanks, taxes are fine, please fix the roads so I can get to Chipotle.

The only reason I could see for anyone wanting anything approaching individual sovereignty is if a) they somehow believe that there is no bigger fish in the pond, or b) they're really so naive to have no idea what other people could be capable of doing to them.
For some context, that is 1/27 of Facebook's monthly users, or 1/10 of Google Plus'.

EDIT: was "1/270 of Facebook's monthly users", now corrected.
Beating pins in and out is a lot different that placing and removing a stopper. The only rock that is significantly damaged by clean climbing gear is (soft) sandstone and the like.
People who can build amazing technologies, and people who can explain amazing technologies and make them accessible to a wider audience, are not always the same people. I think you're doing the right thing by creating PRs and helping that discussion along; I hope they listen and that the public-facing info improves.

[edit] Not to say they're never the same people, just that to expect those two skills to always coincide is unreasonable, IMO.
Better print on it: "Not for human consumption" in Khmer and/or a crossed-out icon of a person dangling a lucky fish into their mouth.
Oh absolutely; I was just answering the parent's question, not endorsing.
INFOGRAPHIC: THE FUTURE OF LEARNING IS ABOUT PERSONALIZATION
This is not quite accurate. fsharp/fsharp is the F# Open Edition repo, and has existed since long before the current (well, obsolete as of this week) Microsoft Visual F# repo on Codeplex.

The F# Open Edition repo targets Linux/Mac/Mono explicitly. Compared to the Visual F# repo, it's quite close, but has a handful of tweaks to account for mono/xplat, plus has a bunch of xplat packaging capabilities.

Before the VF# repo opened for business earlier this year, Open Edition was maintained based on the per-release F# code drops that constituted the old open source strategy for F#.

Anyways, Visual F# (i.e. owned by MSFT, targeting windows/VS) is now at https://github.com/microsoft/visualfsharp. There is even a [doc](https://github.com/Microsoft/visualfsharp/wiki/Code-Flow-to-...) explaining how the code flows to Open Edition from there.
I was super excited about Fez because I loved the art style. But after twenty minutes of playing, I gave up, totally disoriented. I have a terrible sense of direction in general and that game was just me wandering around lost and miserable. :(
Hey did you see phone joke go wrong(break the door)
> All of these ants are born physically destined for their careers. There is no uncertainty. Ant societies look very much like human societies, except that all of it happens without the awkwardness of conscious thought or emotions.

Someone included "careers" in that sentence without a trace of irony? At least Benjamin Bratton covers such "post-anthropocene" (posthuman) topics in more depth, http://www.e-flux.com/journal/some-trace-effects-of-the-post...
(I'll paste a comment I made somewhere else here)

I understand your morals could be different from mine but heres how I see it.

A Chinese or Indian citizen is an individual, like any other, just like you even. Through no fault of their own they've been born in a country that doesn't provide the same quality of life for them and their family that an American/EU resident enjoys. Don't they have the right to the pursuit of happiness just like you?

For an extreme example, would you rather be a Chinese Foxconn employee or an unemployed American. ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veil_of_ignorance )

Edit:

If Exit is not longer an option for a citizen, that only leaves Voice and Loyalty and Voice doesn't have a great track record in these countries.
Not trying to convert you to FF, but it works great on FF 35 for me
>CBS News isn't a reliable source.

This tells me nothing. Are the facts presented by parent's post false or not?
Tactile feedback, muscle memory or feeling for buttons without moving eyeline around, not getting grease/dirty hands all over a tablet, etc
Conscientious men and emotionally stable, “agreeable” women live longer
Here's the documentation on changefeeds, which was a lot of what the presentation was focused on:

http://rethinkdb.com/docs/changefeeds/
This gave me an interesting related idea...

It may or may not work depending on the legal status of, among other things, the HTTP standards, but could you claim copyright on transmitted HTTP requests, at least if they contained sufficiently interesting contents?

If you could, then presumably one would have to say that ISPs have implied license to transmit those (implicitly) copyrighted requests to a third party, namely, the server. However, that implied license would presumably not allow the ISP to transmit a derived work to the third party, i.e., the original request augmented with the tracking header.

To argue this one would have to argue that the entire request, headers and all was copyrightable, but I suppose if one did something creative with the headers it could work; e.g., using the HTTP headers as a kind of poem. But of course there's ways to have creative content in something without it being art, just as long as the other side couldn't argue that the headers couldn't be copyrighted because the usual ones are largely predetermined by the standards.

Basically this is just the same idea you had, except instead of invoking the moral right to anonymity, it's invoking the easier-to-digest moral right to the content itself.

I'd say this was all baloney, but the DMCA is so ridiculously broad that it just might work. Of course, this is all pretending that the DMCA is meant to apply to corporations and not just us small folk.
I actually just came here to say how shitty was cursor lock on Firefox. Firefox just keeps getting worse and worse.
Key.me: Your keys, only smarter
This should be done by default on droplets which do not have backups enabled.
Same here, and my keys are mapped at the registry level in Windows (at work, don't judge :P). So I got to shoot and look around a bit. Looks awesome though, I just recently started making an engine that targets asm.js/Linux/Windows, makes me want to work on it more once I find a new job.
Savannah, the software forge for people committed to free software
s/270/27/
"the social networking site that put the very concept of social networking on the map"

Friendster?
Worked on Version 40.0.2214.69 (64-bit) (Linux)
Nowadays Pocket Wifi's or data SIMs for your phone/tablet are fairly cheap and ubiquitous, if you're travelling to the parts of the world supported by the feature, you'll likely have a decent connection.
The siege tactic is employed because they are trying something so hard it has never been done before, and even with all that support, years of planning, decades of training, and months on the route, two of the best climbers in the world barely managed it.

If these 2 guys were alone ... they would have faced a significantly greater obstacle

Exactly. They, world-famous world-class climbers, wouldn't have even been able to complete it.

You can look at it like, they are advancing the "state of the art" of climbing. If you try I am sure you can think of parallels in engineering, where something never-before is achieved in the face of absurd difficulty, opening the doors to future engineers.
Kudos to them for releasing their data and tools [1]! This is how science should work.

[1] http://wprof.cs.washington.edu/spdy/data/
Chromium on linux worked great, 60fps, pretty beefy laptop.
Having just spent a month travelling through Japan, I can attest to the brilliance of the Translate app even before this update! That said, the Android version seems more feature rich than the iOS version (maybe I just don't know where to look for the features)
The faster different markets come to agree on a price for similar instruments, the more efficient the markets are. The profit opportunity for the fastest arbitrageur drives competing arbitrageurs to compete. Ergo arbitrageurs are working with all of their skill and ability to make sure that markets are as efficient as possible.

Now you have a global marketplace where investors have a pretty good idea that their local markets have reasonable prices. The system works for investors and arbitrageurs (the good ones, anyways) alike. What's wrong with that?
AFAIK this is not a government program, it's being done by an NGO. I've seen this story pop up a few times in the last months, but after four years in Cambodia I've yet to see one, probably because it's a rural program.

Yes, the Cambodian government has problems, some very big problems. But there are some VERY good people in a number of ministries who really do care about helping people, and they are trying the best they can in a difficult place with little infrastructure, high levels of corruption (both in government and in NGOs here), a lack of basic education and literacy and no funding. Despite all of that things are getting better every year.

If life was improving as quickly in the States as it is in Cambodia, I would actually consider moving back to the States. I honestly don't see that ever happening....
It's not surprising that introducing high loss through a network emulator results in reduced performance of a single TCP connection vs. multiple connections. That's because there's a relationship between the maximum bandwidth a single TCP connection can carry and the packet loss % due to TCP's congestion avoidance. Introducing "fixed" packet loss through an emulator isn't necessarily a good representation of a real network where packets would be lost due to real congestion (an overflowing queue).

Throwing many TCP connections into a congested network can let you get a higher share of that limited pipe though...
Where does DO document all of the modifications they make to a vanilla FreeBSD install?
Are you saying that Darren Wilson was racist? Where is your evidence for that?
It's entirely dependent upon both the difficulty and the relative risk of the climb. The Edge at Tahquitz Rock [1], at "merely" 5.11a (R) has seen far fewer ascents than most 5.14 climbs. Similarly, the Bachar-Yerian at 5.11c (X) [2], it's seen, what, < 30 ascents?

[1] http://www.mountainproject.com/v/the-edge/106105353

[2] http://www.mountainproject.com/v/bachar-yerian/106244878

EDIT: good account of a repeat of the B-Y here:

http://www.supertopo.com/tr/The-Bachar-Yerian-A-Three-Year-O...
ECMAScript lazy load
Compete reports data that is very inconsistent with the numbers in the article:

https://siteanalytics.compete.com/myspace.com/#.VLdTnWTF_lQ

About a YOY 50% decline rather than a 575% increase in November '14.
It would be interesting to see what strategy SS would take with the patent trove. I'm sure it's not about the contracts with the few gov'ts which insist on having a blatant gateway for comms interception or the few lucrative stodgy corps who favor BB.

Who would SS go after with this trove, and if they did, do the others hit back with theirs?
The modeline in spacemacs looks beautiful. I used emacs live to kickstart my latest configuration, but I'm tempted to check out spacemacs now...
Grade. 5 means roped climbing, the decimal means how hard of a climb it is within the category of roped climbing.

5.6 can be climbed by any healthy adult, 5.7 by most. I reached 5.11 in a year of climbing; I expect to reach 5.12 within 5 years, and 5.13 sometime within my lifespan if I am dedicated and train relentlessly. 5.14 is only within reach of the greats who live their lives to climb, and 5.15 has been climbed by 2-3 people on this Earth.
And leaving no trace is less important to some people than climbing.
Even within the same school, there are different professors of differing quality. I remember when I was choosing my courses for the next semester during university, I'd always check ratemyprofessor.com before making a final decision on a course.
If I remember correctly, Peldi Guilizzoni (Balsamiq) highly discourages against starting a company in Italy. Something about how taxes are collected...
I think even before you bring responsibility into the picture, there's a lot for each actor in this situation to gain from reestablishing communications(I certainly can't see what they would lose, except for face). This is assuming the other party is mature and rational though.
Most research labs can do something a little fancier but basically similar, using mutual information reduction algorithms to mathematically align images. The software is also open source (see ANTS from UPenn or FSL from Oxford).

Sadly, none of this is easily available in FDA approved packages from typical MRI/CT imaging vendors like GE or Siemens. Often need to pay extra for such features. You could theoretically walk to the surgery suites and borrow a stereotactic imaging station (basically an embedded Linux PC) and do it there, but radiologists typically aren't trained to do that.

FSL and ANTS aren't approved by FDA for clinical use so can't be officially documented in a patient's chart...

Most radiology training is based on visual recognition of abnormalities in anatomy - the "eyeball approach" has its value, which is why intelligence agencies employ human spotters and people are working on neuromorphic chips. But there isn't really a lot of quantitative/comp sci expertise among typical medical students (maybe more now, who knows?)
Hey Paul,

Very valid points. I think like many other startups that blazed a path before them, they'll be able to figure it out though :)
Will online anonymity win out?
An attentive climber can see bolts from the ground at up to maybe 90-100 feet away. Mostly because of fortuitous sunlight reflections.

The general idea is that at some point in the future, we might be able to protect these difficult routes. So we preserve it for that. This argument is more legitimate in some cases than others. For instance, maybe someday we'll have some non-destructive way to protect thin cracks and flakes. But it is very unlikely that we can say the same about a barren face.
Not to mention that the definition becomes more loose when it comes to huge projects like this. One of the claimed free ascents of the Nose involved top roping two of the hardest pitches. Most people consider that a free ascent, even though that wouldn't generally be enough for an FFA of a single-pitch sport climb.
> so MT systems usually back off to English as a pivot language

That's an interesting choice, because English lacks features some other languages might have, and thus you end up distorting through English. I remember considerable work from different sources a ways back toward a constructing artificial languages for this purpose so to mitigate the introduction of ambiguity by using an existing natural language as a pivot language, I'm surprised that natural language as the pivot is the state of the art (though I'm not surprised that English is the pivot language given that.)
It's not like they'd have to settle in Naples.

Many people dream of living in Italy but jobs being short, this may be an alternative where you make your own job --and of course, the expectation if you create more jobs and value for Italians.

[addendum]Besides, most likely Italy would be your 'base' and Europe, NAmerica, etc your market --so the poor state of the Italian economy may not enter much into the equation about viability due to local economic climate.
I noticed that too, odd. I guess there is some js that's supposed to disable that after pageload. I wasn't using any blockers, though.
I suspect the author needs to switch languages a little more often if it's as hard for him as switching editors.
feature request: queer/trans specific resources!
One of my Italian friends isn't really encouraged by this. And I quote:

"I think that I close already 2 business in Italy due to the economic crisis, the fiscal pressure when I left Italy was about 65% (not it is more) and in the first year I went there the 30% of the shop in my city have closed (now it would much more)

Even without reading I can tell you that opening a business there now is a suicide. "
I know what clojurescript is. What I don't understand is why you can't write an externs file.
My experience is that most relatively fit folks can follow a face climb in the 5.7-5.8 range their first day out - some might manage 5.9 or 5.10. Again though, that's for face climbing which feels more natural and doesn't require much in the way of special technique. Climbing cracks (esp. wide cracks) is much more difficult for most people to progress on.
The current grades are more a snapshot of history than the physical limits of humanity, IMO. Like the 4 minute mile, once one person did it, you saw several people after that able to do it. In the golden years of Yose, 5.12 was this crazy thing that only the elite did. Now it's something normal people can achieve. Part of that is technology -- I wouldn't want to ever lead 5.12 without a set of cams -- but part of it is that it's just easier to get to somewhere if you already know it's physically possible.
I don't know about Darren Wilson. My suspicions aren't relevant.

Here are some quotes from people who gave him money after the fact:

"Waste of good ammo"

"He did a great job removing an unnecessary thing from the public"

"Wake up white america"

"After 60 years of supporting the blacks I give up"

"One down many more to go"

And that's just a sampling from what was reported on news sites, since the campaign itself was taken down (by the originators, not by GoFundMe itself.)
What's the main use case for this? (e.g. Android or iOS apps, or desktop apps, all of the above, or something else?)
This reminds me of a graph I saw in Forbes that showed tech companies with founder CEO's outperforming the S&P 500. A mutual fund built around the premise would be interesting to watch and possibly invest in.

http://ycharts.com/analysis/story/founderceorun_companies_vs...
Organized crime has nothing to do with the issues of opening a startup in Italy!
What is missing is an ecosystem for startups: no VCs, fair amount of bureaucracy and challenging employment laws. However, you get great engineers, passionate, inventive and hard working for a pricing that is competitive with India. (Sad but true).
When I was young, the NSA was known for how they helped! Totally forgotten in most of the current debate I'm glad someone is talking about it.
I love my local community college. I already have an undergraduate degree in computer engineering but several years ago took a class in linear algebra to refresh my understanding of it as well as out of personal interest.

I liked that the class size was small and that the teacher was willing to hear our questions. Some of the people were in the class for what seemed like grade 13 but about half the people were in it for the transfer program to a state university.

I admire the people who are trying to better themselves by taking advantage of community college (a bargain for education compared to the state schools). This is a very smart route whether they are trying to learn some new skills or attend the state schools on the cheap.

For those of you who think that there's no reason for you to look through the course catalog you really should give it a shot. I took an excellent project-based photography course and learned a lot that enabled me to take decent pictures wherever I go. There are public speaking classes, english writing, and all kinds of arts classes. Lots of other stuff like welding and auto mechanics. It's a great and relatively inexpensive way to try something completely different.
The original word lens app was much closer to a hashmap of words in language src to dest.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/15656331/real-time-image-...
Sizing Ocean Giants: The Paper
Really cool! Was pulling 60fps in Chrome on a retina MacBook Pro. Doesn't work in Safari, as Safari doesn't seem to support the Pointer Lock API.
India Faces Its First Major Net Neutrality Issue
It's just weight of research hours, and weight of data. Our English numbers are almost always better in NLP.
Languages are easy, APIs/frameworks are hard.
I think perhaps we might be talking at cross-purposes here.

My point is that when you call write(2) under Linux on a file descriptor derived from opening a /proc/sys pseudo-file you are talking directly to the kernel code responsible for updating the sysctl variables in the same way as you are when you call sysctl(2) under FreeBSD.

The /proc/sys files aren't real files - they're just a way of representing the sysctl variables in the existing file namespace.
(Follow up) What Teens Really Think about Social Media
the closest example of the application i have would be some sort of kiosk for rail reservation. people come, select journey and time, do the payment and get the printed ticket.
For such a scenario, i'm exploring nw.js.
Looking for business in Italy may not be a smart idea now, but opening the R&D branch of your startup there could well be brilliant.
The other thing that is worth preserving for is a climber bolder than you who is willing to climb it without drilling that bolt ;-)
Scary stuff, did you survive?

But seriously, how'd you recover from that?