skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Same kind of synesthesia here! fist bump (also annoying that chrome dictionary still doesn't recognize "synesthesia" as a word...)

One of my frustrations with synesthesia is describing the "impossible" colors when people ask about letters lie 0, O, I, or 1... In my mind these are simultaneously transparent, black, AND white.... but when you write out "zero", "oh" and "one" the colors are different!

And don't forget the "blurring" when you try to describe what color a _word_ is... Sometimes the first letter takes dominance, sometimes a middle syllable is particularly strong and has more color than the rest... where's the logic? ;P

That said, I wouldn't trade synesthesia for the world. I love having a free set of associations to help with recall and learning. The number of times I've remembered something because of its color rather than a more logical reason is too many to count.
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I know a woman that cannot stand it. Doing it in internal meetings will get you a beating. If you were to do it in a business meeting where she was the client, she would probably never speak to you again and take the business elsewhere.
Mapping human knowledge – seminal work for ICT for development
Hello!
Feedback time!

Please see below a seminal project I've been working at.
I'd like to receive your feedback about:
- applicability in markets (in this case, education + reference)
- UI / UX and the type of domains you'd like to explore
- discuss about AI , machine learning and models adopted in neuroscience to mine semantic-trees for knowledge prediction.

This second thread (2/3) is about feedback ICT for Development

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Atlas of Human knowledge
http://www.xdiscovery.com/en/atlas

A seminal project to use mindmaps of public knowledge to let anyone make sense of every topic, instantly.
The topology of mindmaps zips information about a subject, and allows manyfold UI to make sense of it.

Maps can aggregate external contents to improve outreach and communication of knowledge.
As example see Wikipedia, Youtube or News are pulled on top of each node.

Simple API REST can serve development areas (poor or no connectivity areas).
Recommender systems plug-&-play for emerging markets in Africa | Asia.

Which feedback would you give on biz development in education sector to bring access to knowledge in dev areas ?

(As knowledge, I always refer to * semantic trees * for telling about external content, not content itself).

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Background:
Atlas of knowledge is a mockup project: you cannot traverse the its whole knowledge base.
Maps are created with LearnDiscovery - mindmap of Wikipedia - a mobile tool I designed to access the mindmap computed from Wikipedia dump and save visual references.

http://learn.xdiscovery.com/

Recommendations have been benchmarked VS Google's Knowledge graph:
respect to Google approach, you get correlations for all topics, even the least popular (e.g. "American Indian Wars", "Dna", "Machine Learning" + you can traverse the whole domain...)
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Researching and preserving endangered languages for posterity is mostly field work. For the most part, hardly any online records (apart from those collected by researchers) exist. It's very interesting work because documenting endangered languages means studying them in their 'natural habitat'. It's probably as Indiana Jones as a linguist's work can be.

That said, computational linguistics and especially statistical language models (HMMs etc.) are very useful for finding and describing distinctive language features once the data has been retrieved in the field. This is an area of expertise you might get involved in.
> but making an entire orbital launcher using hypergolic propellants is a massive pain.

I think Russia might disagree with you.
Wikipedia describes the Proton launcher as "one of the most successful heavy boosters in the history of spaceflight."

Proton: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proton_(rocket_family)
Depends on the implementation. As a pre-banning feature, this mechanism from the paper may be a little heavy handed.

Though the mechanism can be used to sift comment content, and highlight/raise the best content to the top based on user behavior.

I'm surprised someone hasn't applied ML to reddit comments, in an attempt to predict comment quality. They certainly have the content for it.
Are you saying if more countries adopt things US will too?

Cause we all know that is just not true.
I did not, I have to admit.
A suborbital trajectory is an ellipse that intersects the ground, and it will do so twice within less than half the world's circumference. If you can make it halfway around the world, you're orbital.

My experiments with Flappy Space Program contradict this. b^) It is perfectly possible to miss orbit even after a complete circumnavigation. Trajectories are shaped like parabolas, not ellipses.

New York to Tokyo is nearly half that circumference, so the energy required is nearly that of orbit.

Well it's more like a quarter, but even if it were half it would take significantly less energy than orbit.
I was really surprised that Git "won" because I thought that Mercurial's friendlier CLI and being written in Python would give it an advantage. I think I underestimated how good it makes people feel to understand something incredibly complicated. I guess immutable history was a turn off for many people as well.

This fake interview is pretty funny:

"Linus: Git has taken over where Linux left off separating the geeks into know-nothings and know-it-alls. I didn’t really expect anyone to use it because it’s so hard to use, but that turns out to be its big appeal. No technology can ever be too arcane or complicated for the black t-shirt crowd."

http://typicalprogrammer.com/linus-torvalds-goes-off-on-linu...
WhatsApp's Encryption
I wouldn't discount it so fast, tuna have damage to their tail because of cavitation.

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn13553-dolphins-swim-so...
> get the hg-git plugin to work seamlessly with newer versions of Mercurial on Windows and Linux

Can you elaborate and/or point to an issue tracker that describes the problems?

The Windows malfunction may be more work than a reasonable person would want to bite off, but getting it to work on Linux should be feasible.
Azure is self hosting. If you have on-prem, it makes sense to host on physical gear, but most startups aren't at that phase of their lifecycle. GHE vs GitHub for me is a data lifecycle decision, and even with GHE on Azure, you have more control over your data than in public GitHub.

Influencing factors can be regulatory, policy, SLA, that sort of thing. A prior employer had a blanket policy against intellectual property in a public service no matter the security, for example. GitHub has reliability issues lately as well.

One practical thing I've heard is that it's really easy to accidentally make a repo public on GitHub (I agree).
He was only 62. Bjarne Stroustrup is a couple of years older and Donald Knuth is nearing 80 and he's still productive.

I was reading this a couple days ago: http://www.macstories.net/stories/life-after-cancer-how-the-...

It makes me wonder if in the very near future wearables will help give people enough added feedback, etc so they might get a few extra years. I'm sure someone with Paul's abilities had a lot more to contribute.
Show HN: Recalibrate, an app to make you feel at home, wherever you are
Unified VPN (see Azure "Virtual Network" or Amazon VPC), unified offsite management, low latency deploys, restrictions your clients may impose on you wrt data security.

"Self hosting" increasingly means "inside my hacked-together cloud, not yours"
this is really cool. I'm moving right now so I put "moving" in the bubble and really felt the stress go away. really soothing music and great positive reinforcements.
Also commonly referred to as "revenue runrate".
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I'm guessing it won't be long before we see Minecraft re-written for .NET, but this is a nice bridge.
Or where performance is a priority, in my experience. iostream is both slow and bloated.

... I don't like it's API either (it's a horrible abuse of operator<<, and is the exact kind of thing you tell people not to do with operator overloading...)
Looks very good. Try marketing it toward student that are about to enter the workforce. Keep the 12$ pricing but lower it to 3$ for student, perhaps?
The software will not be randomly modified when you are least prepared to deal with productivity changes and you can avoid having to wait for GitHub to respond to outages (while with Azure you might have an SLA, or are simply running other parts of your key infrastructure there and thereby already have them as a point of failure in your workflow). I will also say that you might trust a generic computation and storage provider more than you trust a specific service to not be mining your data (for the common "I want to host it myself as I don't trust you to not steal my stuff" issue).
"If you haven't watched a 12 year old play Minecraft, you need to do so. It's the ultimate fantasy universe, and the way you combine elements to make something new is very analogous to programming in the vanilla game."

Watching my 5 yo work in Minecraft reminds me of the programmer "crunching entities" in the movie "The Zero Theorem".
It doesn't need to be a recent mac, I'm running Yosemite on a 9 year old Mac Pro. I think you can pick one up on eBay for under $400 if you look carefully.
Playing games CAN make you better
And yet, on the earnings call Tim Cook specifically said the Watch doesn't have a profit margin as high as other products.. yet.
Brewers tasked with turning sewage into suds
> It's just how brains and (by extension) communities work

Any recommended references on this process of language forking and dialect creation, especially in the context of neuroscience?
> You speak as if they're making an honest attempt to give the bills meaningful and accurate names.

Even if they did make an honest attempt, it wouldn't solve the problem. It would just increase their workload and open themselves up to political attacks for no real gain.

You don't get the bill you want, you get the bill you can gain support for. Getting any bill onto the floor takes Herculean effort. Honest naming would just hurt these bill's chances.
I think that's a bad example. Tweet an opinion about gamers and don't label it with #gamergate, and most likely nothing at all will happen.

There is certainly a problem with harassment with many of the more prominent users, but if you don't latch on to an incredibly volatile hashtag you're not likely to draw any of that to you.
Launching Something Just for Fun
If you are hand typing each and every one of those characters by hand you're doing it wrong. There are a lot of projects out there aimed at making writing HTML faster.

For example, http://emmet.io/

The problem with your "15 seconds" example is that it is almost completely unreadable. .container? Ok, .container what? Is it a <p>? <div>? <span>? I think you're losing a lot more by trying to gain 30 seconds of time.
What I want to know is, when the VC money runs out, what's the barrier to entry to this business? Right now, Uber can beat everybody on price and quality because they don't have to be profitable for a long time. But once they have to compete on price, where's their advantage? Installed user-base? Incumbents forced out of business?

Many times I call for an Uber and a cab comes first and then they lose my business to the cab, which kind of highlights the commodity nature of rides--especially in the unregulated environment they themselves advocate. Maybe the long-term plan is de-regulate and re-regulate in favor of Uber?

Just thinking out loud because I'm genuinely curious what the strategy is.
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My favourite math library: http://us.metamath.org/
Why is "hard" a good thing?
Well, the xbox version of minecraft could be ported back to pc.
Project Oxford – An evolving set of APIs for natural data processing
If you use the term "SJW" you really might want to look in a mirror before accusing others of being "vile hate filled people."
That's not inconsistent with this analysis. As the article states, there are several factors, many of which would tend to be higher for a first generation product than a latter generation product (i.e. setup costs), that the bill of parts doesn't take into account.
I tried various "images" of Jesus Christ: 39, 37, 41 44, 72(!) :)
I was about to say the same thing (about enforcing the convention directly.) But there's a problem. Let's say I write a function called `HTTPHeaderScan()`. Someone else might have used `HttpHeaderScan()`. Or worse: `HtTpHeAdErScAn()`. How do you enforce one over the other? If you said "everthing must be CamelCase," how do you know that the name is wrong?
I can't believe this. Microsoft has pulled off what Mojang seemingly didn't, couldn't, or wouldn't. Wonder what direction they'll take server mods to, or if there will be a crossover between client/server being unified.
Kojima isn't dead, and I'm sure we'll see another game from him eventually, but is he going to once again be in a position where he yields unquestioned authority over a top Japanese publisher? Not likely.
Oh yeah? I was wondering about that bit! ;) Must have misread something.
And after that? How do you plan to make money with the app?
Well, IMHO, nowadays this classifies as bad design. It may have been the better design, but currently git's nomenclature is the standard and not complying to it will only hurt mercurial.
Well over 99% of the run time is spent in loadtxt which is pure python. In fact this code is slower than the original code due to the overhead of the checks that loadtxt does.
> Many times I call for an Uber and a cab comes first and then they lose my business to the cab, which kind of highlights the commodity nature of rides

In that scenario, Uber should be charging you a penalty for the cancelled ride.

> Right now, Uber can beat everybody on price and quality because they don't have to be profitable for a long time.

I certainly hope they're not losing money on each ride right now.
Quite a few languages do standardise style though (eg C# https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff926074.aspx). Just as quite a few (possibly most?) companies will have their own coding policies as well.

The problem is when individuals decide to go off piste and do their own thing. But then those same individuals could equally be likely to bypass gofmt when writing code (which is very easily done), or to ignore company policy about tab spaces et al when writing Python code.

That said, I've learned to love gofmt for the laziness it brings. Text editors that auto-close brackets and such like can often be more of an intrusion than an asset. Where as gofmt only jumps in after the document is saved and the syntax is parsed for errors. So sometimes I find myself just throwing code down knowing that gofmt will tidy it up for me as I go. Which I'd be the first to admit is a pretty bad habit to get into hehehe
Main discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9466761
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Git 2.4 – atomic pushes, push to deploy, and more
8,500 unique IP addresses during 7 months. How is this not trivial?
Second on Laravel. Formerly used CodeIgniter which has also fallen out of the spotlight.
I've come to the conclusion that git got branches right. The idea of permanent metadata for branches is appealing, but repository-wide single namespace is bit of a PITA in some circumstance. Mercurial's bookmarks are the same as git's branches, but Bitbucket support is lacking.

The other big thing git has is startup speed. Python is slow. Something like chg helps, but it's a workaround.
World maps without New Zealand
Google partnered with several research foundations to back http://www.endangeredlanguages.com/ It's not as specific as a dictionary, but it does provide a simple way to find particular languages and upload source material for them.
I was looking for some earlier today, as I often do when one of these discussions comes up, and when I didn't find any, I suspected that might be the case. It's a shame, as it's another case where a company works to restrict user information, which makes the market less efficient.
Didn't he also say that he had never seen a third-party cost estimate that came even remotely close to being accurate?
Covered extensively here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9466761 but the main point being missed is this:

There is still no official Minecraft modding SDK. This pack is simply to provide a tool for building mods against existing, unsupported frameworks.
It's not nonsense. The latest case is trying to completely fuck over Google just 'cause.

Oh, here's another one: Tall poppy syndrome. That unspeakable evil is not present in the U.S. I was horrified to hear about it.
This is impressive and odd to me as I graduated in Mathematics but I have never bought a math book in my life. Well, I had to when I was in North America but I don't think I read them, used mostly online resources.
Show HN: PyNeural – simple but fast neural network library for Python
Your comment made me wonder if this feature was conceived as a red herring just to keep people from going on about significant whitespace. :-)

If I ever design a language I might have to remember that.
Wow, I am not the only one :). For closed-source projects BitBucket is a no-brainer.
Organizations that have private navies including Greenpeace, Pepsi and Disney
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Hardware prototyping with the Arduino
Very nice links. Thanks for posting.
So you're complaining about the $99 fee for an Apple developer license, but not complaining about needing to buy either the $1,200 or the $6,000 Visual Studio license required to develop commercial software? Oh, and you want InstallShield? And MSDN? And a better widget library, like DevExpress? Am I taking crazy pills?! The situation is hardly comparable. For a SMALL team in a corporation, even with Select and discounts, this is an enormous expense.

And developing native Windows applications with Microsoft's tools is still just as proprietary as anything on the OS X platform. The recent open-sourcing of the .NET web stack means nothing in this regard. Unless you're telling me that there's an open source C# compiler that can do the job now?

I'm a couple weeks away from paying the Apple license, and starting to write my first iOS app, so I may not know all the costs and foibles of Apple development yet. I'm open to the fact that I may be ignorant of needing some basic things, like on Windows, to REALLY get the job done.
Holy shit. EFF supports this bill. You would know that if you read the article. Do you think EFF is down with more totalitarianism? Maybe time to grow up.
What are the big wins of Mercurial vs Git?
Getting a connection refused when I run it locally...
Mercurial and git were initially released within a couple of weeks of each other. To change terminology now would break ten years of backward compatibility.
TortoiseHG. SourceTree is getting to be OK, at least on windows but git gui apps suck. And if you are doing anything non-trivial and non-automated then gui SCM clients are just fine kids.
Baltimore's economy in black and white
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuous_delivery
I posted this earlier on datatau, but thought I would try a larger audience as well. This is a project I've been working on in my spare time, mostly as a learning exercise for myself. I've been using it with some success on the Kaggle digit recognizer challenge, and from what I can gather from reading the Kaggle forums and some preliminary tests on my own, the performance is pretty good compared to OpenCV and code that other people are writing on their own. Anyway, I would love to get feedback on the code and I thought others might find it fun or useful to play around with.
You can download QGIS and change the projection system pretty easily. It's also useful for doing other things like simplifying geometries, removing extra data columns, etc.
I just got accepted. Basically gives you: app store views, sessions, # active devices, geographic breakdown, retention graph
Good riddance.

When I have traveled the world I got to the conclusion that the main problem of the world is people speaking different languages.

Americans, or Japanese or Chinese believing whatever their media trows at them only happens because those people do not understand the rest of the languages of the world.

Those countries are so big, the people living there believe they don't need other languages in order to live, so they live in their own bubble.

For Americans it gets compounded because they also believe the world should learn their language and not the other way around.

Languages are the main cause of conflict in the world today as without understanding them you are at the mercy of other people's interest.

The person that yesterday was a friend, today could become an enemy just because media tells you so(because it is in their own interest). It is very hard for media to do that when people could actually travel their selves and understand reality talking to the people that supposedly hates them without intermediaries.

People have the natural tendency to fear what they don't know about, and this could be used against them in order to justify mass surveillance, emergency measures, also called "total control of the ruling's elite".

This was said by Goering in Nuremberg:
"the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same way in any country."

Not different today. War is created by media. Living in a language bubble is dangerous.

Most of the languages that are going to disappear are not that different from others that will survive. People that live near other people copy the best thing their neighbor has.
Single code-base for all devices and a performance boost - why not?
So to be that guy, it doesn't look like you've got replication and sharding at the same level of ease as MongoDB. According to the last few slides, you're targeting that at some point in the future; maybe this year? That's one of selling points of MongoDB.

How does this compare to putting a thin Node.JS veneer over PostGRE's JSON type? The server could covert the cursor from PG into the binary format that MongoDB clients expect. It would have been less work.
Why Windows embracing Android and iOS is a bad idea
People enjoy overcoming challenges. (People also like to brag.)
I simply don't agree with this. There's nothing wtf about git add, git commit, git push. Those are the commands that normal developers use. Maybe git reflog has issues but 90% of people are never going to come across them.
I wonder if the future stack isn't optional typing language querying optional-sql database.

Postgresql with jsonb lets you get the best of both world : schemaless when you want it, relationnal when you need it, and acid all the time.

I found it strange that they decided to map a document over relationnal schema. I would only map the "id" property of the document to a pkey, and then dump all the rest in a jsonb column, per document type.
The only case where I have found a brace-type syntax to be superior is when you do quick REPL stuff. With Ruby I frequently do things long, compact reams of statements combining blocks via map, inject, each, etc. that are all written on a single line, and plays nice with Readline history.
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Meet the guy trying to turn emoji into a legitimate, usable language