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tucson··on Ask HN: anyone interested to build a hacker news with tags?
hi, you can email me at: timothee . henry @ gmail.com
tucson··on Watson Services
create a persona that can have a conversation with people

see the movie "Her"

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1798709/

how many people will fall in love with Watson?

tucson··on Ask HN: anyone interested to build a hacker news with tags?
your idea might be better. I could help if you need support.
tucson··on Ask HN: Is there a hacker news toolbox? Pls validate the idea
One idea: it might be worth asking for email addresses. You already had 27 people interested. Build a quick unbounce page and get the emails so you can recontact.
tucson··on Ask HN: Is there a hacker news toolbox? Pls validate the idea
Excellent idea.

Not completely sure what scope you have in mind.

It reminds me of two things:

1. Tools of the Trade: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5235137

they do an edition per year.

2. and somewhere there is a google spreadhsheet of all hacker news derived websites (all the guys who scrape hacker news to build "derivatives").

tucson··on Ask HN: anyone interested to build a hacker news with tags?
Thank you. I appreciate the screenshot. Interesting; I get the feeling the tag algorithm is crucial to make it work. Not sure it's such a clear no-brainer as I first imagined it...
tucson··on Ask HN: anyone interested to build a hacker news with tags?
http://hn.algolia.com/api Thanks. How many requests would that require ?

http://algorithmia.com/demo/hn does not work for me.

tucson··on Telegram’s Cryptanalysis Contest
The contest actually puts the burden of proof on the "claim of insecurity" side.
tucson··on Telegram’s Cryptanalysis Contest
> They use the broken SHA1 hash function

They answer this point on the website: "Q: Why do you use SHA-1 in the place of a MAC? [...] since this means still requiring at least 2^128 operations (instead of 2^256 with, say, SHA-2) to even begin trying to break this scheme, the trade-off seems fair."

Why not break the crypto (and take the money) if it's so amateurish?

tucson··on Barbarians at the Gateways: High-frequency Trading and Exchange Technology
""It's legalized front-running. I think it is basically evil and I don't think it should have ever been allowed to reach the size that it did," he said. "Why should all of us pay a little group of people to engage in legalized front-running of our orders?""

Charlie Munger, http://www.cnbc.com/id/100705820

tucson··on Machine Learning with scikit-learn
Thanks.

I also found a blog post that figured the diagram, with some background infos:

http://peekaboo-vision.blogspot.de/2013/01/machine-learning-...

tucson··on Machine Learning with scikit-learn
I'd like to know more about slide 6:

http://amueller.github.io/sklearn_tutorial/#/6

Why the [Classification][100K sample?] checkpoint?

And more info in general about this whole cheat-sheet.

tucson··on How to Make a Complete Map of Every Thought you Think (2003)
A result example would be nice.
tucson··on Chesscademy, a free chess learning site
This videos on Box don't work very well unfortunately: I can't pause and resume a video. Every time I miss any information I have to reload the page and start from the beginning of the vid....

Otherwise, great and I like the one video I watched. Thanks.

tucson··on Ask HN: Educating a child who is severely behind
I recommend this book: "Happiest Toddler on the Block: How to Eliminate Tantrums and Raise a Patient, Respectful and Cooperative One- to Four-year-old" by Harvey Karp.

The book actually has plenty of "tricks". Contrary to what I have read in this page I found (and this is the point of Dr Karps' books) that there are plenty of tricks that are absolutely not intuitive.

For example to avoid a tantrum you repeat to the child what he actually wants ("Jimmy wants to eat more cake") then explain shortly why he cannot and propose something else. I found this works surprisingly well. Just the fact that the child hears what he wants from your mouth seems to make a big difference.

tucson··on Show HN: HN Store
Good idea.

I'd be interested in the same for web apps / web services.

tucson··on Starting your first business in France? Here are the steps, and some great tips
Thanks for the post.

What I find annoying is that to simply test a business idea where you need to store subscriber's email addresses you normally need to register at the CNIL for which you need a registered company which requires what is described in the article. It feels backwards somehow: you need to register a company (with all the paperwork involved) before you even know if it can work.

tucson··on Infamous "Hacker" Ankit Fadia revealed
"I dont bother remembering my account passwords, I just hack into them."

https://twitter.com/ankit_fadia/status/306741837295661057

tucson··on Try RethinkDB in your browser
should one use this instead of MySQL, and why? I couldn't find this question in the FAQ.
tucson··on Poll - product ideas - vote and submit
Product: lead generation market place "in a box" (or SAAS)

Input: domain name, and some texts

Output: a complete web app "ala redbeacon" for any niche

Use cases: RedBeacon for any niche, any language or location.

tucson··on Poll - product ideas - vote and submit
Product: CRUD web application "in a box"

Input: a SQL database structure (.sql file)

Output: a complete web app with CRUD interface, admin interface, and user authentication

(something like this -> http://phreeze.com/cargo/customers with user authentication)

Use cases: any team of people who need to work on a common database. (I am looking for this since years)

tucson··on Show HN: Create a Marketing Site for your Startup in Minutes
I like the design. Also picked up this great link on your twitter feed: http://color.hailpixel.com (great tool for picking colors).
tucson··on Google Glass
Recording playing with my kid seems very compelling to me.
tucson··on Google Glass
where the videos (http://www.google.com/glass/start/how-it-feels/) recorded with Google glass, or another camera (GoPro?)?
tucson··on Mandiant Exposes APT1, One of China’s Cyber Espionage Units
Cool video. Does this really mean Mandiant was recording what was going on on the hacker's machine in China, or is that a "reconstruction of the events"?
tucson··on Show HN: My forum project; a different philosophy than Discourse
Do you have a working demo site?
tucson··on A Wired.com reporter was first to register mcdonalds.com (1994)
For those who like this type of stories (domain name gold rush etc.) I highly recommend "The Domain Game" (http://www.amazon.com/Domain-Game-People-Internet-Names/dp/1...).

Also great interview from Michael Zapolin (who owned beer.com, diamond.com, etc): http://www.domainsherpa.com/michael-zappy-zapolin-interview/

tucson··on AdBrite will cease operations on Feb 1, 2013
> "I could target a specific website & specify exactly where on the page of that site I wanted my ads to appear."

You can also do that with Adwords.

tucson··on Pixels don’t care
> "Making fun of nazism is allowed."

Making jokes using the word "Nazi" is common in America and England but is not well received by German people. I would recommend not making this type of jokes in Germany.

tucson··on Imagine BitTorrent Group Sysop Speaks Out as He Heads to Prison
Would be interesting to see statistics of average sentence per crime. Something that would rank all crimes from highest average sentence to lowest, and where visitors can vote for sentences to go up or down. Crowdsourcing justice? Or is it better to leave justice in the hands of the few?
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