skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Great idea. This will probably be up there with the invaluable-ness of Adblock. I have nothing against companies like the Wall Street Journal who want to charge visitors to see content, but if you are going to paywall content at least be consistent and charge everyone or don't charge at all. You can't give it away to visitors from Google and expect people who weren't lucky enough to come from Google to have to pay. It is unfair and discriminatory in my opinion.

This kind of reminds me of the aged old trick that people used to use for Google to get better SEO. Normal visitors would get one version of the site, the Googlebot would get an over-SEO optimised version of the site stuffed with keywords and junk (I am talking early 2000's here before Google was as advanced as it is now) to give the impression of a different site.

Like I said, I think content publishers should be able to charge people for their content, but you can't have two sets of rules for the same content for the sake of a better SEO ranking and NOT expect people to exploit that loophole. What WSJ and other content publishers are doing is a little borderline dodgy.

I am pretty disappointed in the comments from some people here shaming the author for creating this plugin. He isn't doing anything that we haven't already been able to do for a while now. He isn't breaking into servers and getting the content for free, he is exploiting an SEO trick WSJ and other sites are using to avoid being penalised in Google. Completely legitimate if you ask me. If WSJ wanted to truly protect their content behind a paywall, they would have presented the wall to everyone regardless of their referrer.
I read over it, but there are a couple of problems with that. Firstly, I never said that computers understand the images, just that the recognition is better than human. When they get it wrong, they do tend to get it wrong in ways that look ludicrous to people. Secondly, Stanford didn't win the 2014 ImageNet challenge: GoogLeNet did.

However, I was still wrong. Have a look at the summary paper from ImageNet: http://arxiv.org/abs/1409.0575

Page 31 states: "Annotator A1 evaluated a total of 1500
test set images. The GoogLeNet classification error on
this sample was estimated to be 6.8% (recall that the
error on full test set of 100,000 images is 6.7%, as shown
in Table 7). The human error was estimated to be
5.1%."

There are some bits there where GoogLeNet did better than human, but it was usually on specific classifications (what breed of dog is that, for example). Generally, a human is slightly better.

It's worth noting, however, that the error rate was halved from 2013's winners. I reckon the 2015 error rate will beat human, and in following years there will just be no contest. Just like chess programs have gone far beyond human capabilities.

And, of course, with cars we're talking about having multiple images plus depth perception, which makes it a lot easier for the machine.
> Most religions have codified kindness as "do to others what you want them to do to you".

I actually think the Golden Rule is very ineffective. Personally, I'd prefer if everyone got quickly to the point with me and said things quickly and plainly. While this is great for many engineers, some other people prefer a lot more subtlety.
If someone has to wonder wether they are kind; I have found they are just Not kind. They don't change unless they have a nervous breakdown, major health scare(like a TBI), or become poor(really poor).

Capitalism seems to cater to selfish individuals? A lot of selfish individuals get far financially in life. Think about some of the "successful" people, some of us, idolize here on HN. Think about that person before they became rich and famous. I can usually bring up a list of retched things they did to become financially successful.

That's the rub. They become comfortable in life and are in complete denial over how they carved their way to the top of their version of success.

That's all I have--I have a headache, but kind people know they are kind. They don't need to advertise it. They don't need an audience in order to give to the suffering (human, animals, environment). They are just kind!

Now, the Fakers--well that's what makes me unkind. Oh there are so many Fakers.

(I have a sister who stepped on family members in order to become financially successful, and her journey was ugly. I might be a little over sensitive when it comes to people and kindness.)
No need. A Canada Goose[1] can take out an engine; a flock can take out an airliner.[2] There are many drones larger than the geese, so I would expect this to be a distinct possibility.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada_goose
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/US_Airways_Flight_1549
Adding Digits in Python (or Smarter-looking doesn't mean better)
I'm not knowledgeable enough to dispute or agree with his broader assertions, but I found his anthropological arguments behind debt to be far more convincing than the "just so" stories of neo-liberal idealogy.

Definitely a good introduction to the subject matter.
Recent Play Services Update Reportedly Causing Battery Drain in Android Devices
It's novel in that I wasn't able to find anyone else who had posted a colliding HMAC pair, and the couple papers people have found have sniffed around but hadn't quite gotten to the point of "Oh, yeah, compensate for ipad and collide after the first block".

You're correct that it went without saying in that people did not actually say it.

Way to not cite Solar Designer though.
How Elon Musk Willed SpaceX into Making the Cheapest Rockets Ever Created
Yeah, a message less than blocksize bytes is padded with 0's, and a message greater than blocksize bytes is hashed to blocksize bytes. It "follows" just as much as Little MAC, is about as security relevant, and is no less clever (arguably a bit more).
What exactly should he have cited Solar Designer about? If you're going to criticize someone for not citing, and the citation isn't obvious, you should probably provide a link.

Are you referring to the key expansion property that Scott mentioned downthread? He cited the appropriate source: the HMAC specification. The properties he's talking about are obvious: the key is zero-padded to the block size and, if longer than the block size, hashed.
I use http://wappalyzer.com/ for this, but others may have more specific suggestions.
His last video was 2 years ago. Maybe he has a new hobby!
I looked at some of his pure math videos. Basic stuff but I thought he explained well. If you visit this HN post and you decide to investigate further, just bookmark his youtube channel and maybe you enjoy some of his videos on maths or quantum physics sometime.
Considering how the OP is the mythical 10x-100x programmer, I'd lean towards him not being a dickhead. He singlehandedly implemented several key features for FaceBook.

If FaceBook had an average employee instead of the OP, they might not have been as successful.
An amazing story, when you consider that later in life Benjamin Franklin was a diplomat.
Thanks!

Unfortunately I am no longer able to add "robots" to the conversation -- see the updates on top of my article http://blog.fourtonfish.com/post/118690105220/detective-node...
For me, smileys tend to be invisible - I often miss them completely.
But that can cut both ways. If having DRM on a computer at all is offensive to a user, than having a standard DRM method can make it all the harder to avoid.

And I don't think it's a very strong argument that fewer companies rolling their own DRM will be such a great thing, and I'd be surprised if DRM opposers would be relieved that fewer companies are rolling their own DRM if it means its harder to avoid ANYONE putting DRM on their machine. It's like a choice between letting independent, small-time thieves into your home, or having the Mafia allowed to organize, with the blessing or apathy of the general community. The first may be a more dispersed, less coherent adversary, and it might be harder to be confident that their crimes are high quality. The second will act like they already own your house and that they are affording you the privilege of living their under their "protection". But at least with the first, when everyone's not already used to them owning the place and aren't intimidated into accepting them, you can rely on some widespread denunciation of the robbery.

Standardized, widespread DRM is much more like these companies and committees acting like they already own our computers, that how we use them and how we connect them to internet is a privilege we enjoy only at their direction.
You can try BuiltWith http://builtwith.com/
Can you be a little more specific about the cleverness you're referring to here?
It has been around for a while, but I agree that hundreds of cross-linked PDFs is not the most accessible format.
Video to Blu-ray Converter
Add OTRTalk to the list:

https://github.com/mnaamani/otrtalk
To me, Property should not be a investment option, or Heavy tax ( 50%+ ) on Property investment profits.
Everyone deserve to have a place to live, large or small. The property market ( especially after recent years of QE ) has skyrocket to a point where many can not afford to live.

And if you think New York is bad, take a look in Hong Kong.
I suppose it should have been accompanied by a hail of emojis :)

Oh well, I'm sorry too. I've been commenting here for more than four years, and as far as I know that's my first flag, so I'll take it as a new experience.
Reminds me of the Aphex Twin "selected ambient recordings 1", was he rocking an 808? Hihats sound the same ...
No, I wasn't thinking of free markets. I was thinking of the bundled concepts of money, markets, capitalism, and the whole mess of technologies we use to allocate resources among the population.

It's more interesting to think about why we want a medium of exchange rather than how to contrast money, credit, and all the other vocabulary built into our current system.

To say that one technology is more efficient than another needs a definition of efficient. How do you want to measure efficiency?

Further, I did not argue that money (as a conflated bag of concepts representing our current system) is more efficient than a centralized authority. It appears so, given recent historical evidence, but that's still just a hypothesis.
The Third-Party Doctrine dates back to the time of the framers of the Constitution. Not merely the idea that there are third parties that have searchable documents, but the Constitutionality of the resultant searches.
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As requested, I put up a demo of neural slime volleyball without any pre-trained agents so you can see them improve gradually as they evolve:

http://otoro.net/slimevolley/training.html

Basically, I left the computer running for a day or so, and came back realising that they have become quite good. But a day of training on a macbook pro is probably equivalent of a _few real decades_ of simulation at 30 frames per second, so to answer someone's question is that evolutionary approach will probably not work well when training with actual human players in human-time. Other approaches such as deep-q-learning may be more suitable. But you gotta wonder about the power and possibilities of simulating time at super human speeds to artificially evolve cool stuff!
I still say that someone gave you a shit sandwich, and tricked you into believing that it tasted good.
PhpCart – Simple framework agnostic shopping cart
I think kindness comes in two steps. (1) Empathy. Think about what the other person is thinking and feeling. Think about how your words and actions can affect them either positively or negatively. (2) Implementation. When you speak or act, make others' desires or happiness a priority even if it conflicts with your own to some extent. How you manage that tradeoff is of course up to you.
Simple framework agnostic shopping cart.

Features:

- Simple API
- Support multiple cart instances
- Framework agnostic, with optional Laravel integration
I thought people prefer the sound of vinyl because it's analog and has a much wider range that digital music. (Not because it's distorted)
How TV Sex Got Real: The Internet
My professor once said, "If you want to make money as a consultant, invent an index." You'll make the low scores panic and pay for advice. You'll make the high scores preen and pay for your lectures.
Try Syncthing
Ask HN: How might the TPP affect the software industry
I know none of us have access to read it, so we have to rely on leaked passages -- but how might the TPP affect the software industry?
Can you explain why you say that? It seems you're suggesting that there is in fact a correlation between genius, or at least effective management, and unkindness. Is that what you meant? If so, why?

I can see how high high achievers could tend to be extremely focused and driven, which in some cases would present in this way. I wouldn't expect it to be the norm though; do you believe otherwise? How do you know?
In my belief, we prioritize the responsibility

God first, then obligation to parents (both sides if married) then to your immediate family

It keeps thing simple for me & seems to be working so far

Although, I'm guessing not adhering to social norm helps in a way
Why bother learning how to write software? I should have focused on sales if that's the only skill that matters.
Here's a hands-on video with a prototype: http://resourcemagonline.com/2015/05/hands-on-with-the-lily-...
Syncthing is the way to go.
Blah blah blah...something HN worthy...blah blah blah
No you couldn't, because it doesn't take any research at all to understand that:

1. Real currencies only exist by virtue of a central authority - a central bank.

2. The distribution of wealth is incredibly inefficient.

It's inefficient in the practical sense. It can take unfeasibly large amounts of time and effort to organise money transfers, certain transactions are either banned or deliberately made very difficult, and moving money always attracts a "tax" paid to the administrators of the transfer. Debt, which is a purely abstract social game, is even more toxic.

Wealth distribution is also incredibly inefficient politically, because most wealth is hoarded by individuals and organisations who did very little to create it. In a rational culture they would have no claim on it at all.

Meanwhile perfectly viable and useful business ideas are consistently starved of funding (i.e. approval by the financial priest castes.)

In fact money is just an irrational tribal status fetish. It makes as much sense as religion, and exists for much the same political reasons - as a useful backchannel by which mediocre and sometimes rather disturbed humans can make claims on resources and acquire political influence for personal gain.
Open source is the way to go.
A single big HTML file with MathJax and judicious use of semantic tags seems to me like the way to go. Heck, maybe even all Markdown with a good Pandoc build script included.
I had problems with this when younger, and I can point you in two directions:

1. Empathy. This is about understanding others. I think this is 80% of "being kind". It's a learnable skill. I learned through books and trial and error, though lately I suggest this book "Empathy: why it matters and how to get it". http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B00HDMMEP2

2. Observe/Listen. Many conversations we are planning our next point rather than really deeply observing and listening to the other person: their eyes, body language, voice timber, gestures, and phrasing of the words they use. Huge amounts of information is on display in the shortest of phrases. Playing back observations to another is one of the simplest acts of kindness: it validates, affirms, shows interest, admits nuance, etc.

There are a few references on how to pick up on this stuff, though for entertainment value I'd recommend the more mainstream PUA books such as "The Game" or "Rules of the Game" as it is good information on non verbal communication even though the purpose is seedy.
Exactly. And also that it can't be loudness-warred to death.
Seinfeld vs. Newman aka Andreessen Horowitz vs. Benchmark
If it's the same as https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xw5AiRVqfqk

then I believe so.
Can you explain why you feel that disqualifies it? The required input doesn't make any decisions, or hold any state as in your example; it's just "turning the crank" so to speak. Even a CPU needs a clock, right?
There are some instances when you have a moral duty to let people know they are wrong.
If it helps, "The Dice Man" is really Aphex Twin. He later used "Polygon Window" as another alias for a couple albums.
Whoa, this hit way too close to home...
what in god's name is that font

literally unreadable!
I don't agree with the author.

Did that my first sentence above just hurt the feelings of the author or or many of the readers over here? Please read on.

This kind of philosophies (be kind-hearted, be tolerant etc) are the ones making humanity loose their natural vigor and push people into unnatural soft-minded, lame and vulnerable population.

These self-restricting rules makes you neutral and weak against someone who goes by natural and wild instincts. This is what is happening in the case of extremism of different kinds. The natural attitude always wins.

Be yourself. Be natural. Don't let your supremacy go without gains. Don't impose restrictions on yourself, just to please others.

Look at this. The author says that the other people didn't like him because the author was always right and winning without regard to the feelings of the people who lost the argument. But still those people complain about the winner and forces the winner to mend his ways, just by holding team work to ransom, instead of improving their own thinking. And the author and his boss asks us to give in such unfair play.

Sometimes I feel most of the men in the developed world are feminized (weakened or neutralized) by their schooling and social restrictions. They are forced to present themselves always in a very pleasant form to others, instead of their natural form. Being social and well-mannered is taken to a little too far, and creating the lame populations all over world.

Please, let the better thought win and prevail. Don't let it loose to the unfair demands by the weak minds who don't want to accept the legitimate supremacy of others.
I don't agree with the author.

Did that my first sentence above just hurt the feelings of the author or many of the readers over here? Please read on.

This kind of philosophies (be kind-hearted, be tolerant etc) are the ones making humanity loose their natural vigor and push people into unnatural soft-minded, lame and vulnerable population.

These self-restricting rules makes you neutral and weak against someone who goes by natural and wild instincts. This is what is happening in the case of extremism of different kinds. The natural attitude always wins.

Be yourself. Be natural. Don't let your supremacy go without gains. Don't impose restrictions on yourself, just to please others.

Look at this. The author says that the people who lost their argument complain about the winner and forces the winner to mend his ways, just by holding team work to ransom, instead of improving their own thinking. And the author and his boss asks us to give in to such unfair play.

Sometimes It appears that most of the men in the developed world are feminized (weakened or neutralized) by their schooling and social restrictions. They are forced to present themselves always in a very pleasant form to others, instead of their natural form. Being social and well-mannered is taken to a little too far, and creating the lame populations all over world, begging for likes, karma, votes, recognition, appreciation and pampering. This is not how a strong society evolves. Stop being childish all through your life.

Please, let the better thought win and prevail. Don't let it loose to the unfair demands by the weak minds who don't want to accept the legitimate supremacy of others. Be manly. Because that is natural.

And finally, if you feel that the above is a little too harsh, you haven't grown out of your pampered childhood yet.
Probably race in some way, because when you control for race all ethnic groups in America outperform the respective groups overseas. Swedish Americans score higher than Swedes, black Americans score higher than west Africans, etc.
Agreed @ perspective-hopping. It definitely helps to consider every stakeholder's viewpoint when making a decision.

Also: I've heard the "kindness version" of the religious saying:

"Do unto others as they would have you do unto them."

Of course, taken to extremes this is a bad idea. But it definitely helps to get into that mindset.
Pretty sure the pyramids were the original massively pixelated structure.
How does it manage the offline messages without a server?
I wonder if it could it be possible to have a canister of compressed hydrogen that will inflate a balloon large enough to slow down the fall, if the acceleration goes beyond a certain threshold, like .5g or something?
I think some people need proper perspective on life. We are all actors playing out silly games of ambition. Achievement is really no different than a life of non-achievement, although your human instincts tell you otherwise. Also there is no such thing as being perfect unless perhaps you are a strong artificial intelligence that is a million times smarter than humans.
I have two different friends with 3 letter .com domains. It's all about being an early adopter.
I think I conceded that point in the previous post.

I think your example sucks, because as previously mentioned above, a person is not an issue. Donating to a guy and donating to a cause are two different things

you initially wanted to paint Eich as this evil bigot

With that, I am not participating further in this conversation. Either I am not communicating clearly, or you have some other reason for choosing to ignore things I've already covered. Either way, this is no longer constructive and we're both wasting our time.
Vinyl in actual use has a much narrower range than CDs or MP3s. One things that is common, though, is for Vinyl to be mastered differently than the digital final result. So, it is entirely possible for the CD/MP3 release of a given song to have a much narrower dynamic range than a Vinyl release of a given song despite being released on demonstrably inferior technology.
Big time.

It's especially depressing given their huge focus on "object oriented programming," given the 1000s of travesties birthed in its name on an hourly basis in BigCos of the world.

1) Even if you don't code FP in your day job, your sanity and code will benefit permanently from a strong grounding in it.

2) Nothing beats getting paid to code FP.
> When they finally divorced, Livvy got the house, the children, the lot. Once the maintenance was paid, there wasn’t much left for Drummond.

I guess getting suicidal over things like this is "social perfectionism".
The article begins with what appears to be a misstatement of fact. China is an unusual country where the female suicide rate has been higher than the male rate for a long time.
And taking your own life isn't such a big deal if it's all just a game.

Achievements or none; they won't matter to you when you're in the ground.
Wider range of what?
It's not technically a cast to a list. It's using the list constructor with the iterator as an argument.
Message, or key?

(Hi guys something unrelated finally prompted me to unfreeze my HN account!)