skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Google has all sorts of stuff built on top of PageRank for their search engine - it's probably safe to say that their implementation is thus 'better' than the released algorithm.

One of the RF creators consults with a company (http://www.salford-systems.com/products/randomforests) on, I suppose, better implementations. Some people have claimed it's better than the R implementation, I don't know.

RootSIFT being patented is kind of my point - the authors created a (good) algorithm and haven't released it for free use. It's within these kinds of niches that Algorithmia can succeed.
Would be of interest to me if it's well written and goes from the basics to in depth coverage.
> "Global climate change resulting primarily from fossil fuel use has already caused tens of millions of deaths via famine, flooding, and extreme weather and stands a reasonable chance of killing every single human on earth over the course of the next hundred years"

You said statistics, not unproven speculation. (Which is not to say that there aren't statistics showing harms from fossil fuel use. Just that you should focus on actual data.)
Reading this right now and I think it's 6, not 9. But yes.
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Finally, a website where I can find homes for sale.
Answering questions about information flow might be interesting in this regard. You could quantify what sources of information an application retrieves and how far through the application that information traverses.

Downsides are that it's very difficult to get a binary verdict out of something like that, even as a consumer of the information. You see a report that says "it takes video data and streams it out to the Internet!" and if the app purports to be a flashlight app that's bad, but if it's Skype then that's expected.

Maybe the additional insight into "where does my data go in this app" would be useful? Maybe people could start asking "why do you need to take my contacts and pass them to the network, why don't you just work with the data on my device?"
> it is not a comparison to nuclear activity as due to nuclear accidents.

But nuclear accidents are rare, and are not a necessary consequence of nuclear power. Coal ash is not rare, and it is a necessary consequence of burning coal.
Even if you're right (which I disagree) you need to be way more tactful with this type of thing or you stoke the "programming is misogynist" fire.

Responding more directly:

> "I tried to politely decline"

> she strung him along

It could be interesting to see the exact conversations, but I don't think she "strung him along" as much as just never told him to stop "forcefully enough". Regardless, even if she had been banging the guy, stop means stop. Besides that, she shouldn't have had to decline anything in the first place... This is why you don't ask out women in professional settings: there is no good way for them to say "no".
A challenge which persists for tens of thousands to millions of years is well beyond merely "political". You're going to need to come up with a different term for that.

Keep in mind that for a long-term nuclear regime, you're also dealing with the extreme likelihood that large amounts of not-yet-vitrified wastes in "temporary" storage may face a sudden change in operational procedure and personnel. Say, during the Widespread Global Disagreement of 2639-2645, in which team Allied and team Axis butt heads once again under stars and bars and revived flags of Indian auspiciousness.

What's your technical solution for that? Or any number of comparable scenarios?

What are the comparable failure modes for widespread renewables infrastructures?
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In case anyone else was wondering what Chesterton's fence is:

"Chesterton's fence is the principle that reforms should not be made until the reasoning behind the existing state of affairs is understood."

I learned something new (and useful) today. Thanks!

Source: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Chesterton%27s_fen...
Putting aside everything else on the blog post, because the conference organisers seem inept -

As long there are "wanted advances" in workplaces, there will be "unwanted advances" also. To eliminate "unwanted advances", you must eliminate "advances" in general. For example: if she found him hot, we wouldn't be reading this post.

As long as "advances" are still permitted in the workplace, there needs to be social education in the corporate environment so that "brush-offs" aren't interpreted as "try harder".
I live near part of what was the epicentre of the Halifax Explosion.

Best estimates are that it was the equivalent of a 2.9 kiloton nuclear explosion, it's rivalled by the Texas City Disaster (1947) [1], but about four times as many people (~2000) died in Halifax.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_City_disaster
Magic Leap?
A good programmer will really have to be adept at both, and will have to know when to switch between the two models.

That's kind of a non-answer, but that's often the response to vague and conceptual questions. (Still a good question, though.)
I wonder if Vulkan will replace CUDA
Yes, and there are some volatility issues too-- the price of the ETF/ETN can fail to follow the target in cases of scarce supply/demand.

Agree that it's most effective to buy at the bottom of a crash. E.g. see SVXY Feb 2015-present.
Why don't you list your individual abilities and synergies as you see them here? Especially why you are good partners.

Maybe HN readers will see where you could apply these skills and make suggestions.
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>Selling cameras is still dangerous terrain and I think it pays off to have great ideas and to know your audience, but some very old and very big companies have been quite excellent at doing that, actually.

For good reason. People can still use their $10,000 pro film lens collections on new digital cameras. Lenses don't evolve like bodies do, most glass from the 70s and up is still amazing by today's standards and these companies with their proprietary mounts that haven't changed in ages offer a massive legacy lens market that a startup couldn't.

Fujifilm and Olympus have been doing great in this area relasing new mounts and lens systems that are catching on. Fuji makes some of the best APS-C lenses available and Olympus has done great with their m4/3 format.
Exactly. I have a ~30 minute commute by bike. It is built-in exercise for the day and a major stress reliever.

Not to compete, but a 2013 study found bike commuters to happiest. Walkers were #2. :)

http://www.outsideonline.com/1795631/study-bike-commuters-ar...
Moral of the story is HR is useless. They are not here to make you feel more comfortable. They are here to make sure nothing bad happens to the company.
I'm not blaming The Economist. I'm blaming some third party member of their affiliate program. (Do affiliate programs ever not end up with some affiliate spamming?)

The links in the emails go to the odd TLDs, where they then redirect a few times ending up at The Economist with what appears to be affiliate tracking information in the URL, which I presume is so that the spamming affiliate will get paid if I subscribe at that point.

If I can figure out what email address @economist.com to report this to I'll send them a sample of one of the mails and the affiliate tagging information and hopefully they'll kick that affiliate out of their program.
My impression has been that consumers frequently mistake the url for the brand name, which is unfortunate if your url is for instance http://{try,get,...}{brand-name}.{com,me,...}.

I also have the skill of naming companies and there are a lot of good names still left our there, even on .com. And I think a name should be 8 characters or less. If anyone needs help just send me a message. :)
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What are these 'melting pot sessions' you are talking about, and how do they teach social skills, empathy, and conflict resolution?
> It's only poor engineering that lead to Fukushima being fail-dangerous.

Poor engineering (more precisely, site selection) of the backup diesel generators, yes.

Poor engineering of the reactor itself? Absolutely not. The reactor was engineered extremely well; if it hadn't been, the radiation release due to the extended loss of backup power would have been much worse.

Yes, it's true that today we know how to design reactors that don't need backup power in the event of an emergency shutdown. But we didn't know how to do that when the Fukushima reactor was built. You can't fault the engineers who designed and built it for not doing something that nobody knew how to do at the time.

> How do we convince non-technical bureaucrats to convince reactor architects to make these be fail-safe?

I would say it's more a question of how do you stop non-technical bureaucrats from preventing reactor architects from making them fail-safe. From what I've seen of the decision-making processes that were at work at Fukushima, I strongly suspect that it wasn't technical people that made the decision to put backup diesel generators where they could be flooded by a tsunami. It was bureaucrats who were too ignorant to understand the issues involved.
> How do you reply on behalf of all of Microsoft? Of General Electric? Of Kraft?

All these companies have 800 numbers that I can call to get an official-ish reply to my question or concern. It should be just as easy to setup a shared email account for people to respond to.
It's amazing how many luxury units are going in. Who the heck is living in them?
Oh, and not to mention, imagine if he had actually tried to answer that question? Next day headline in newspaper "Paul Graham doesn't think we're in a tech bubble". Or if he did, "Paul Graham thinks we're in a tech bubble". It's a lose-lose anyway you look at it.
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This is largely a tradeoff between framerate and visual effects. Current generation consoles can make 60fps, but not with the level of visual effects that are expected from them. Whether or not this tradeoff is worthwhile is at least partially personal opinion (my opinion on the subject is... mixed, although I think the option should be available both ways).

Either way, it is undeniably harder to sell new consoles, or games for those consoles, when screenshots of them looks the same as it did in the previous generation, even if those screenshots were taken at 60fps.
I'd argue nearly any .com reduces friction, adds more credibility, and therefore increases the likelihood of answering those questions.

"Why would people come back?" is usually correlated with recruiting awesome co-founders, talented employees, great mentors, influencers to talk it up, and top tier investors. Then, the company has the time and resources to discover the best answer to that question.

Maybe once in a decade there's something like Facebook, which just explodes out of the gate instantly (and just buys the better .com later). But I wouldn't want to bet my company on that... especially when I can just spend an hour and brainstorm a .com to address the problem. Anything less is a failure of creativity.
The grandparent poster could be talking about magneto or traditional points-based ignitions, which are still common in certain classes of racing cars.
There is a user/account who regular posts about the Nordic startup scene. Some of those posts are popular, others aren't. The posts are written english though. Personally I would downvote/flag any language I don't understand.
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You've forgotten what a measurement is.

A measurement is any interaction between particles. In the case of entangled photons, a measurement consists of allowing the photon to be absorbed by an atom. You only get one such measurement; any new photon emitted by that atom will have a spin which is no longer entangled with the spin of it's original twin. (Actually, they were more like anti-twins; one was up when the other was down, and visa-versa.)

Even assuming you had two larger particles (let's say atoms) which were entangled, allowing you to make multiple measurements, nothing you change about one of them is communicated back to the other. If you measure a property of your atom you may also be able to determine the value of that property for the other, but in doing so you change the atom. You flip the spins of the electrons, or of the atom as a whole, etc. This is what "clearing your measurement" means; you no longer have any good information about that property. If you then remeasure that property, it's value is no longer correlated with the twin particle.
AppHub cofounder here -- I'm glad you brought this up.

A developer who chooses to use AppHub is not depending on the platform. If AppHub goes away (which we hope will never happen!), our iOS SDK defaults to using the App Store build. Moreover, developers can implement their own "AppHub server" if they so choose, so they're not locked in to using our service.

We're excited to open source the iOS SDK when we launch to the public so that developers can audit the code and assure themselves that they're not depending on our platform.
I am a big fan of Rosetta Code

Here is an example with a good amount of entries
http://rosettacode.org/wiki/Sorting_algorithms/Quicksort
Ingress is a great idea - but poorly implemented. I have cheated (not with malicious intent - I just wanted to prove that it could be done), and heard of other potential cheating cases as well.

I definitely wouldn't use GPS as a sole indicator of someone's position for a game.
I'm intrigued by Convox... and since the founders / engineers are lurking, allow me to ask a few questions that might help convince someone like myself:

- How do you handle updates? Heroku was on the early deployment for Postgres security patches. Will Convox deployments auto-upgrade, or do they require sys admin-style intervention on docker specifications to track security issues?

- What about other popular addons: Postgres, Mailgun, NewRelic, etc? Are there equivalents?

- Is it easy to setup automated backups and recovery for the database (eg. Heroku's pgbackups are amazing!).

- And perhaps most importantly: I don't see any mention of pricing on your homepage...?
Here is one example: http://engineering.flipboard.com/2015/02/mobile-web/
I agree wholeheartedly.

The point of incorporating a company in the first place is to create a fictional persona that is independent from the person(s) who manage it and/or work for it. To conflate a company with its owner(s) completely undermines the purpose of a company, both legally and psychologically. If you're willing to die with your company, you might as well just register as a sole proprietor.

Equating yourself with your project with your company is one of those grossly irresponsible things that self-made people tend to boast about and romanticize, along with pulling 18-hour workdays and subsisting on ramen. It's a shame that we as a society are complicit in this kind of romanticization. We should treat them as symptoms of a problem, not glorify them as rites of passage.
No idea, but one of the cars that I learned to drive stick in was a friend's 2003 Mustang Cobra. All cast iron engine and something like 400WHP. I don't know that the weight of the flywheel was everything, the crankshaft weighs a lot and I think even the moving mass of the pistons and rods translates into rotational inertia. Finally having 8 cylinders versus 4 means that your engine response time is theoretically twice as fast.

When the clutch engagement time is say 1 second and your engine is idling at 900 rpm you're only doing 1.5 rev/sec. In a four stroke, four cylinder engine that means you're getting on average 1.5 combustion events per second. In the 1 second engagement, you get 1 or 2 combustion events. In the 8 cylinder you get at least 2 and probably 3.

I thought about doing the math for how much energy is in a cylinder firing versus stored in the rotational inertia of the moving parts, but honestly I don't know that I really care. I know anecdotally that big engines make it easier to get cars moving for some reason, and that smaller engines make it a little more difficult. I just speculated as to why I thought that might be.
If I just said "it's semantic", and then I'm saying "I meant AAA success on a low budget", why do you feel the need to debate the meaning of words?

For what it's worth, "semantic" means "related to definition of words". The argument we're having is still semantic. And semantic arguments are usually pointless. Just in case you didn't know.
Seems pretty clear to me that the right answer here varies case by case. My company sells enterprise software in a fairly niche market. Some people in Europe are squatting on our .com, so we have .io and .co and use both for various things. We're a startup but have achieved pretty good name recognition and visibility among our target customer base through various marketing activities and plain old hustle. Also if you google our name, the entire first page of results are refer directly to us (website, crunchbase, linkedin, etc.). So from where I sit it would seem to do a lot more harm than good to change our name at this point in pursuit of the .com. Respect for PG etc. etc. but this is not a one-size-fits-all question.
The Halifax Explosion was during working hours and near one of the most populated parts of Halifax which contributed to the large number of deaths.

The Mont Blanc carried 3121 tons of picric acid, 200 tons of trinitrotoluene, 35 tons of benzol and 10 tons of gun cotton.

12 ophthalmologists treated 592 people with eye injuries and performed 249 enucleations.

British Journal of Ophthalmology had a journal article about the medical treatments that were needed at the Halifax Explosion:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1955605/
Here's a related and similarly interesting look into the New York Times' CMS, which includes some clever image management tools:

http://open.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/06/17/scoop-a-glimpse-int...
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Do you think that's a solvable problem? I would imagine it isn't, outside of using statistical analysis to spot obvious widespread cheating.
I could still be in the workforce at 2040, working in 100 year old languages. Ugh.
The trailers were rather cool, but the game came down to running around and mashing buttons in a rather ugly interface on your phone.
The game can be played here: http://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?tid=2232
Docker lets you run arbitrary N to M for Hardware to Software ala virtualization, with low enough overhead. Does Nix have a story for this?
Gamers develop sophisticated cheats, and, yes, multi-player game companies do look for outliers. It's not a solvable problem but it is an advanced arms race.
thanks for the positivity!
yep, the next step for us is a Brand Blueprint service where we will make recommendations like you mentioned.
awesome for us to get such insightful and honest feedback!
The US does this too. But they mostly go after Islamist sites. For example, see US FBO Solicitation Number RTB220610 for Persona Management Software for the Air Force.[0]

Also, there's the RT vs Fox dynamic. RT does lots of crazy stuff, from New Age to Tea Party. So sometimes Fox and RT are spreading the same memes. Very strange.

[0] https://web.archive.org/web/20110222010732/https://www.fbo.g...
Nope. Not part of Alphabet. Definitely on its own, but still partly owned by Google. (I'm a Googler who works with somebody who just transferred out of Niantic.)
Go to some interviews. This will give you some idea of what you could get elsewhere. If you get an offer that is more ammo, even if you don't decide to disclose it will boost your confidence to ask for more.

Not sure how experienced you are but no matter how much you love your job it is pretty much dog eat dog.

They wont hesitate to fire you if they need to downsize, even if they are downsizing for the wrong reasons. Your good boss could be replaced with a bad one, or the company as a whole decides to stack rank, or pressurize everyone with too much work etc. Let alone they sell to another company, decide to float, or whatever. This can happen in the future and change how much you love this job.

So don't be scared to change jobs to get what you want, if you have to. The grass may be greener, or less green. You can always change again.
The water could have become dangerous before the river changed color?
There are firms doing it but you need a lot more data inputs and they have to be sanitized (extremely high quality data):

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-08-11/acadian-qu...
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Another fun side effect of this character rule: you can say 3-4x as much in a single tweet in Japanese or Chinese as you can in English

Someone did an interesting experiment about this:

http://pugs.blogs.com/audrey/2009/10/our-paroqial-fermament-...

In other words, the entropy of Chinese or Japanese is likely much higher than English.
interesting. What's the performance like on the same/equivalent GPU when comparing CUDA to OpenCL?
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With the way the CFAA is enforced, you look at a computer in a way someone with money doesn't want you to and it's federal prison worthy. I'm sure an over eager DA could and would try and make the case.
I would argue that the app name in the store is way more crucial these days. Definitely helped us :-)

I remember writing about it four years ago: http://qbix.com/blog/index.php/2011/03/phase-1-successful/
Your thesis was that home schooled pupils have a more difficult time aquiring social skills than their public school educated peers. How does this study (or this quote) support that claim?
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Can you really call it a flaw when they did it on purpose?
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I really have no idea. I get paid very well but that is not representative of the common wages around here.

The service by itself is expensive, considering it's just Internet. The most common package for internet + phone, on the most popular provider, costs around 24 USD monthly. If you want cable add another 20 bucks.

According to some websites the median wages in Mexico per home at 2013 was around 740 USD monthly.
If you've ever tried to do even the most basic of UI's in game engines, you'll quickly see the truth in that statement.

Even "easy" things on the web like text input boxes, scaling for different resolutions while keeping text crisp, and scrollable content areas are much harder in a game engine.
It sounds like, in this case, she provided good evidence and they were convinced he really harrassed her. Then they handled it really poorly, including notifying him she had talked to them.

So, for starters, err on the side of protecting her and develop good protocols for not disclosing. Reading up on how HIPAA gets handled may help.

Second, when thinking about how to handle it, start with the assumption that bad people will find some way to twist or abuse your rules and cannot be expected to behave just because you have a code of conduct and reminded them of it. If you feel you have real evidence he has harrassed her, come to terms with the fact that excluding him is the only meaningful way to enforce your claimed standard.

In the mean time, up your game on your own behavior. The best antidote is ultimately to set the example of proper behavior.
The solution is to use other sources of location information in addition to GPS.
Shawshank Redemption - got me through the most difficult time in my life.
If it did, you didn't have any relationship to begin with.
And an example of doing it wrong: http://famous.org/
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Why not do actual work on the shuttle ride?
Unless that source of information is not on the phone, it will have the same problem. And I'm not sure I want cell phone companies reporting in to external parties where my phone is.