skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just fyi (since this is glossed over in the article), Bing has already had real time search for some time.

http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/news/2009/10/hands-on-bing-...
> but I cannot stand the author's self-absorbtion: "By making life harder for myself, I prove how macho I am!"

Aren't you projecting something unto him?
And the GPS info could narrow down the search in most cases.
Regarding copycats, http://la.eater.com/archives/2007/03/13/the_yogurt_wars_part...
You're missing the fact that most people use Google as their 'location bar' and not the actual location bar. People literally do a Google search on Yahoo.com to get to Yahoo's site.
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Nah, a phone that you need two hands to use? When I can use the magic wheel of a blackberry and do everything with one hand? Preposterous. It'll never sell.
"(You can't build a Smalltalk-80 image from scratch because of "strange loops." We've been doing binary transformations to pre-existing images all this time! Even the Squeak image was produced this way."

Wow! You mean a Squeak image can't be fully built from source?

That's kind of... scary.

It also reminds me of how we do Plone upgrades... I always cross my fingers.
It would be great if they added a datacenter in South America (eg in São Paulo, Brazil).
Worked pretty good on logos around the office. Also great for business card, recognised all the data, but the add to contact was not selecting the most relevant data.

It did great with QRCode too, but those were already easy to read. It's faster with Barcode Scanner.
Although I haven't gotten to that part of my game server, I've tried to design it to avoid any sort of physics, because of the potential latency between a client and the server. (I'm targeting mobile users.)

The only 'physics' that need to be calculated is when a player changes speed/direction, and you must calculate the path and detect collisions.

However, to minimize negative effects on gameplay, both the client and the server 'dead reckon' the position of players in their immediate view bubble.

In the client, this is done on a separate thread, on the server, a separate set of processes. Again, I don't expect my algorithms to be cpu heavy, but if they were I'd probably implement them in C and communicate with the erlang processes via message passing.
However, this may not be feasible if the latency is too much, in that case, C/C++ is probably more apt. However, you'd have to implement your own scaling, so I'd rather modify my game design than write the functionality that erlang already provides.
So there would be no costs involved marketing a non-existent product?
This really is a great idea. I think this style of cloud cracking might have larger applications as well, outside of just PSK. Inexperienced users will pay to crack systems like this.
It is a gotcha. How on earth could you deliver that as a reply to the original question and not have it be a gotcha?
I think it's an opportunity to test whether the damage the approval of OOXML caused caused to ISO affects this standardization process or not.
This should clean up the App store a hair.
The court battle between Craigslist & eBay begins today
Maybe, just maybe, somehow the outcome of this will be functional search on craigslist listings? I'm an optimist.
quick, patent it
Which Android products with Market don't have 1.6 yet?
There's a bit of the Yogurt Wars here in Palo Alto, with Fraiche and Red Mango. The Fraiche stuff is pretty ok, but the Red Mango tastes exactly as you describe.
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Reminds me of the first time I saw TinEye. Mobile is sweet, though.
> Java is a memory hog

Tomcat with a simple app installed uses about 60 MB when it's idle and not much more with dozens of parallel requests. With Rails you need about 40 MB per instance for a very simple application.

Edit: And Java is lightning fast. An old project of mine running on a tomcat on a crappy VPS with 192 MB RAM serves the home page in about 100 ms, and without any manual caching, although it executes 7 queries to a postgres-db.

A simple rails app which I deployed on a VPS with twice as much RAM takes at least ten times as long to deliver the home page. And the only "dynamic" thing that happens on the home page is the formatting of a date. There is no database involved.
It's based on 1.8.7, so no worries on that front.
I have no idea about the whole mess, but I think the statement "techcrunch is just a blog" would probably resonate with a lot of people and actually get them sympathy.

I do think the TechCrunch PR and marketing probably could have made it better, but perhaps there is a bit much credit and attention given to the louder mouths then is deserved.

In any case, interesting to watch, and a device like this for that price point would be awesome if anyone can pull it off.
No obligatory humor referencing H.P. Lovecraft's mythos?

We're probably better off without, come to think of it. Good find; thanks for sharing.
Oh, wow. With Google's backing, an AR future suddenly doesn't seem very far off at all.
The Best C++ Interview Question – Ever
Just because 1.8.7 will be 'standard' doesn't mean that MRI has to remain the standard interpreter for it.
You know about "Latest" mode under Search Options, right? That's perhaps more the experience that you're looking for.
(I have a math degree)

I think the OP still commits the common error of focusing too much on what math studies rather than how it studies it, to a mild extent. Math, to me, is a style of thinking, and the corpus of math knowledge is this style of thinking applied to particularly well-suited domains.

That style of thinking is characterized by a few things. One, obviously, is rigor: every step is justified by formal rules, there are no appeals to intuition or leaps of logic. Most people's impression of mathematics stops there, that it's a list of rules like you're taught in grade school (because that style of memorization is the only way your teacher got through math in college). There's a lot more to it though.

For example, there's a heavy focus on interpreting a single fact in many ways. There's a lot of bridging knowledge between different sub-disciplines of math, and they work a lot by interpreting a mathematical structure in new ways. There's a lot of treating abstractions as new concrete topics of study. There's a lot of exploration.

Abstractions are well-suited to math because you can make them clean and simple enough to be amenable to complete rigor. This doesn't mean that math-style thinking is limited to worlds populated only by platonic ideals. And I think that's another core disconnect between the potential of math, and its realization in the education system, is that the arbitrary rules of symbol-manipulation are described as applying to illusionary ideals, not real things. There needs to be a bigger focus on motivating the ideals as modeling something useful, because they do, and that connection to the concrete helps a lot at getting a grasp on the topics.

I don't do very much "math" in my day job (other than working with numbers ;P) but that style of thinking is still a great benefit. The real world doesn't often allow math-level rigor, but you can still show exactly where the rigor is missing in your line of reasoning, which lets you identify assumptions, and then challenge them. The focus on abstraction and fundamental principles of systems is also useful, especially because it helps to apply experience from one domain onto another.
No, I don't think he would. He'd point out that there are things which cannot be placed in the realm of verifiable and undebatable, but that doesn't mean there are no things which can be placed in that realm.
For me this won't be very useful until someone develops the more crucial ass recognition technology.
Pricepoint sounds more realistic yet still reasonable, glad to see it's still moving forward. Sad to see all the ugly behind the scenes business stuff (which is usually hidden from view, but all too common) airing in public.
Well, they've certainly received a lot of publicity out of this. I read Tech Crunch an average amount and I actually wasn't aware at all of this device until recently. The device looks fairly average to me, and I can't image spending that much on a limited tablet style computer.

The racism in the comments over at engadget sure is unpleasant. Also, the green screened pictures is certainly doing them a disservice!
What's your favorite math proof?
We have a lot of people here with a more-than-passing knowledge of math and who understand that math is about structure and form. For others it's just about arithmetic, formulas, calculations and equations. So I ask those with more math - what's your favorite math proof? How can you show someone that math is about elegant arguments?

Here are a few:

The infinitude of the primes.

If you take a single closed curve that is allowed to cross itself, it can always be colored checker-board style.

For a map, vertices+regions=2+borders (but not on a Moebius strip or donut)

Less accessible, but a real favorite of mine:

1+sqrt(2) = 2 + 1/(2 + 1/(2 + 1/(2 + 1/(2 + ...))))

From that we can deduce that sqrt(2) is irrational.

Six people at a party - you can find three who have all shaken hands, or three who have not.

Cut a Moebius strip in half lengthwise and it remains in one piece.

I have some others, but I'd like to hear yours. Alternatively, ask more.
Am I missing something or a transhuman is just a more intelligent human with just more access to data (think about someone who could process the entire Internet data within seconds)? But while he needs the human species, why would he exterminates it?

As history teach us, we would kill him, beacuase ...
Not exactly the same. An English speaker would pronounce d-sounds before the js in "JooJoo" that wouldn't be there in the French "joujou".
Just because there's a standard doesn't mean you have to follow it. I'm sure MacRuby for example will keep its divergent selector syntax; they just won't advertise themselves as conformant to the standard.
> instead of living off rice in an ant-filled van

Uh, I think you mean "instead of going to graduate school."
Honest question (I've never done Java web stuff): what does that 60MB actually buy you? Rails gives you a whole lot of tools in that space.
They used to be called "Computer Literacy", which was so un-memorable that half their customers couldn't remember buying stuff there.

http://www.computeractive.co.uk/information-world-review/new...
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First there was the internet of Documents (www).

Then there was the internet of People (social networks).

And the internet of Places (maps, LBS, still happening).

Soon we will see the internet of _Objects_ and something like Google Goggles will be the key driver.

Documents -> People -> Places -> Objects. What's next?
Neat. All I need is 40 accounts to eliminate my competition.
I've heard a lot of good things about Linode, but I can't say I'm thrilled at the moment. I have a site partially hosted on Linode and the Dallas datacenter has had two failures in the past month, during our busiest time of the day. People going to our site at noon and the page not finishing because the image server is down (with all our ads) is clearly a very bad situation.

It's not really a sign of reliability how I can't even get their blog to load.... It's been loading the entire time I was writing this and I've only received the page title so far! What's going on over there?
That's interesting. Gardner describes himself as a journalist interested in math and science, but specifically not a mathematician. It's interesting that he disagrees with two mathematicians on the question of what math is.

I find MG fantastic, but sometimes his articles and books lack depth. He is a wonderful writer and populariser, but I wonder whose side I would take if this were a real debate.

But it isn't. There's room for both opinions. I've never met Gardner and am now unlikely to do so, but I know a few people who know him fairly well. I'll ask their opinion when I get the chance.

Do you have a reference for that review?
This is a great example of how Google could out-do the iPhone. The more non-trivial mobile applications have some processing that happen in the cloud. If Android phones could translate voice in real-time during a phone call and the iPhone could not, which phone would you consider buying?

Realistically though Google wants their services and applications on all platforms; now if only the App store would approve these...
What should the average home user with a standard linksys router use?
Worked with a bottle of A1 steak sauce and a restaurant logo - although I think it used OCR actually for the 2nd one, but still impressive.
> "The fact that GCMs can fit the temperature increase is totally meaningless. Why? Because the allowed parameter space is so large climatologists could fit anything from a small temperature decrease (as was claimed in the 70's, before the imminent ice-age) to double or triple the observed 20th century increase."

Isn't this simply an assertion of fraud, made in a less direct manner?

> or c) a priesthood. There is a big difference between a conspiracy and a priesthood. Priesthoods are very, very common in history, and they result in very widespread consensuses that turn out to be very wrong. See: The Catholic Church.

The Catholic Church nicely matches my (a) whether you call it a conspiracy or a priesthood, and I'm sorry, but I don't see it.

If one of these outsiders had a truly viable alternative hypothesis, and could back it up, there is plenty of room for them to be heard.

> When you look at the raw unadjusted data, there is simply not much room for alarm.

... says one professed layperson to another.

Personally I find it almost inconceivable that, given how extensively we intentionally and unintentionally alter our local environments, we wouldn't be making corresponding impacts to the global environment. Argument-by-intuition, sure, but it's just as valid as yours!
Amazingly people don't say the same thing about Apple's ridiculous pricing.
No, just anecdotal evidence and personal experience. And the dismissiveness of the sibling poster aside, yes, pick-up artists can be very successful by faking signals of confidence and status. Believe me, I wish it weren't true, because my personality is the exact opposite of what most women appear to find attractive. (Of course it's great for being "friends"...)
I don't understand why he has the source as [unknown]. 5 seconds and google brought me to: http://lbrandy.com/blog/page/10/ -- the original post I believe.
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yawn && who cares
I'm a big fan of
e^ix = cos x + i sin x

Cook's theorem is pretty sweet too.
http://twitter.com/arrington/status/6442811004
"There aren't any more CrunchPad posts coming from us. It's all in the lawyers hands now."
This is what Arrington/TC had to say....
I'm guessing that your smartphone probably comes cheap but locks you into an expensive service contract. Not that this obviates your point, but it modifies it. For that matter, the iPhone was very expensive at launch compared to now; I thought that would kill it straight out of the gate, and boy was I wrong. Similarly, I doubt your smartphone has such a large screen - perhaps an advantage when you're on the move (this tablet won't fit in your pocket) but more desirable when sitting down.

I'm a little perplexed at how this device seems to generate such strong opinions and armchair quarterbacking. It seems to me that there is a lot of pent-up demand for a decent-sized tablet but people have been disappointed so many times they're a bit paranoid about it.
Already migrated. Less than three minutes from submitting the ticket I got the response and started the process. It took some time to get disks copied, but overall everything went flawlessly. I am impressed.
I think it's a fair question. It's also fair to ask them about the company's weak points, why people have left, etc.

Interviewing is a two-sided process. Maybe my arrogance will be a problem for them. Maybe their widely fluctuating revenue will be a problem for me. We both have a right to ask.
Microsoft is already looking for Don Dodge's replacement
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Doesn't the "Places" feature count as video?

http://www.google.com/mobile/goggles/#place
the "search" algorithm is pretty dumb now, it only looks for functions and classes. I'll make it smarter.
Type sys and wait for auto complete, it should give you thousands of results.
I'm eagerly awaiting an AR app for language learning. See the native labels for objects like a VH-1 Popup video.
This is a completely broken C++ interview question. It asks the candidate to reason through a worst-practice, which exposes you to their knowledge of trivia and tells you nothing about whether they can actually get stuff done in C++.

My old Sonicity C++ code, which was built on ACE, is littered with "delete this" calls for Reactor callbacks. Obviously, "delete this" is OK if you're on the heap and you can guarantee that the code isn't going to touch the object again. But what I remember most about that ACE Reactor code was how fragile the event handling was; "delete this" is a recipe for horrible memory corruption flaws.

This is what you get when your C++ interviewers decide that interviews are more about proving how smart they are than about qualifying candidates.
why aren't they enabling this for PCs/Netbooks & webcams?
Modern scholasticism! :)
The judiciary branch had to intervene to prevent Google from sidestepping the law, which they were attempting to do. If Google had gone to the courts to try to upend copyright law, that would be using a democratic process. That's not what Google did; they ignored the law, and the judiciary branch was invoked by someone else to step in and stop them.
I've done this kind of research 4 years ago based on general Internet image. That was a failure, but because of the rising of Facebook, it might work again. Someone already work on this for sometime: face.com.
Yah, I like both of them a lot, but I find them hard to explain to those who aren't already in some sense "into math." I was going to include Euler's equation, but left it out for that reason. I do sometimes explain 3-coloring of graphs, and can sometimes get to NP-Completeness, although it's a bit of an effort.

However, I don't want to preclude stuff that maybe can be explained, even if at first glance it doesn't seem so.
A long random string for a password.
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It works surprisingly well! It also includes an option to rate the results at the bottom of the search results.
They would have probably been better served by giving a simple "no comment".
Google Chrome OS is 7 years too late
Interestingly enough for anecdotes, I've had a VPS running from the Dallas datacenter, and haven't had any outages (that I've known about) since I signed up a year ago. I've been more impressed with Linode that I even was with Slicehost.
A few days ago I sent a message to the FB developer that wrote the blog post about Haystack.

He told me that they are working on getting it open sourced and that it will be ready 'soon'.
That's what happens when you pick a name at the last minute without doing proper market research. At least it's not called "JooPad".
No Kidding! This sets a dangerous precedent.
Neat in concept, but this still looks like it was hastily deployed. I see more twitter traffic than anything else, and that's only really great when it concerns google's products.
That is, if you don't end up just eliminating yourself.

We could also interpret your comment as meaning: "I've already hacked into my competitor's machines, so Apple can trace the IP addresses back to them."
Not even likely. The spec/standard is based around 1.8.7 and does not yet address 1.9->2.0. Most of the innovation in Ruby lately has been in how things have been used, not syntactically.

My understanding is that the standard will largely be compliant with RubySpec, pioneered by Rubinius.
Plenty of people go to grad school on limited means and still manage to live in a heated, watered apartment. IMHO this whole exercise seems more like an attempt to escape consumerism (in whatever way the author has defined it), more than it is about being able to afford education.
Apple should just monitor high volume developers. I'm not saying all developers with 100+ apps are evil, some are ebooks or whatever, but they should definitely keep an eye on them. Many developers with that many apps are doing something weird like splitting an app into 50 overly specific apps or sometimes very shady techniques like in this article.
Since everybody has a definition for math, it seems, I'll give it a whirl.

Math is the act of creating a self-consistent system of symbology and symbolic abstractions that, at some place, exactly mirrors reality (even if that place is only the counting numbers). The belief is that since nature is also self-consistent and ontologically hierarchical that by working inside a parallel symbolic system we can discover aspects of nature we never knew existed. Note that the systems have gotten so complex that in many fields math is entirely theoretical and never "closes the loop" back to observed reality. In fact, some would argue that applied math is more in the realm of physics, whereas "true" math is entirely abstract.

Is that anywhere close?
It's questionable. There are a ton of "evangelists" at Microsoft. It's just another way to say "technical salesperson".
Is WPA2 still safe from this kind of attack?
Yep, FB has an enormous corpus of accurate training data due to its millions of users performing tagging on hundreds or thousands of photos each. I would venture to say that they're the only ones that could do this/enable this to be done.
> Other risks exist, therefore what?

Therefore "it might be an existential risk!" is not a root password to my conscience.
The number of mashups I would like to do...

Desperately awaiting an API.
One step closer to photographing a sign in a foreign country and doing OCR followed by Google Translate, maybe followed by overlaying the translated text back on the sign.

I think this would be a killer feature. I've never had much of a positive response when posting it as an idea previously - is it the case that if it really would be a killer feature, people would be all over the idea as well as the implementation, or is it possible to be a little supported idea that turns into a killer feature?

(Edit: Or maybe it's just more a European thing where several foreign languages are a few hours drive in any direction?)
this guy would be talking to a wall if it wasn't for Techcrunch. He would have never been able to raise any money either, since most of Asia won't talk to him and certainly nobody in Singapore does since he burnt his last startup in much the same way.

This guy is a complete scammer and has a track record of doing exactly this. Watching HN people take his side after watching his video spin and not knowing anything else about him is just sick.
Very nice. Points for cleanliness. I'm running Chromium on Win7 RC1 (SRWare Iron specifically) and I'm getting blocks for the quotes in the sub title “Find your character!”

Also couldn't ignore your last name, Allisons win :D
Never underestimate the power of emergent behavior of a small number of interacting rules. The ghosts do not have to explicitly interact in order for them to coordinate. The fact that a ghost blocks scent means that they influence each other in a way that leads to them covering multiple paths. I'm not an expert, but I would bet hard cash that such a strategy works better than any explicit coordination strategy that takes up to an order of magnitude more effort to implement, and I wouldn't be surprised if it's mathematically optimal.