skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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Safe to assume deal is in place with both, yes.
It seems my comment was a bit too subtle for you. Infinite uncountable infinities of universes is not parsimonious.

Pretend that you're talking to someone who doesn't see many-worlds as an obvious corollary of the current QM theories. What experiments do you propose to indicate the simultaneous existence of e.g. a universe in which the photon chose Slit A and another in which the photon chose Slit B?

Your appeal to BitII fails because that concerns e.g. conservation laws that are regularly observed to be true, and which therefore can be assumed true when a particular situation makes observation impossible. Many-worlds has never been shown by experiment, so it is not eligible for such treatment.
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Your bank can probably cash those checks for you. It takes about a month to clear checks from Amazon USA here in Costa Rica.
"get me a dinner reservation next sunday with patio seating for 5 in the east village at an upscale tapas place"

Nope. I don't think anyone would ever leave it up to M (or whatever) to select the restaurant.
I'd imagine this method won't work for sites like AM...
My mother experienced Hurricane Betsy first hand, and was carried through the rising water by her older sister. I grew up hearing their stories, and could never imagine having to live through that.

Forty years later we lost our whole home to Hurricane Katrina (I was 14). Thankfully we were fortunate enough to evacuate. I remember sitting in the hotel room, watching the flooding on TV. The phone rings from a strange number. A family member who was a first responder at the time managed to just briefly get enough cell service to let us all know what we all but confirmed from the news: "It's all gone."

I remember being upset that I left the first computer I had ever built at home. I'll never forget the smell, and the eerie silence that became of everything I knew up to that point.

The city has made tremendous progress over the last decade, and I really hope they got the levees right this time.
I'd visit one or more of the Central / Eastern European countries. Mainly because of the culture, geography and nature; okay, food too :) Poland / Czech Republic / Hungary / Romania / Slovenia / ...

Also check out my feed of some blog posts with images of nature, from different countries, including some of the above:

http://jugad2.blogspot.in/search/label/nature
In my experience in startup culture, CTOs are in high demand. A lot of "entrepreneurs" just don't appreciate this aspect of the supply/demand in finding technical people to work with.

IMO, if you haven't already, spend an unpaid day or two fleshing out the overall business from a technical perspective. Most likely, the leader will have some invalid assumptions. How does the leader react to these assumptions? Are you able to steer each other in a better direction?

If you are going to do a short-term consultant role before becoming CTO; it's primarily to protect each other. If things fall apart, you walk away with cash, and it avoids equity problems for the company. (Lots of different people having tiny amounts of equity can complicate things.)

Therefore, you should only get equity once you all agree that you're CTO. When you're a consultant, you should get cash. Specifically, you should agree on what your rate should be, and then what you're "I like you guys" discount is. You could even put in some kind of clause like "Your discount is good until [date]" to protect yourself in case they decide that they like your labor, but want someone else as CTO.
Pretty cool. Written about Slack bots before and my main complaint was that I missed 'one bot to rule the all':
https://medium.com/@RecurVoice/rise-of-the-slack-bots-5a7928...
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Which systems guarantee monotonic behavior for gettimeofday()? I can't think of any. I hope there's no behavior in nq which relies on monotonicity other than file naming, because otherwise you might run into some obscure issues.
Making some pretty big assumptions in that people who upgraded are assumed to have liked it.

Wonder if this counts the 8 virtual machines I had installed it on and then deleted.
And what happens when your house burns down? You must have at least two copies ... back to the cloud
Also only eight minutes away, for the last four billion years.

Gravitic containment works.
Would any building damage caused by these artificial earthquakes be the subject of a class action lawsuit against the fracking industry?
If you look at Amazon Echo, the stuff that works is pretty specific:

Set timer for 5 minutes

Add eggs to shopping list

Play Clocks by Coldplay

Weather
Ask HN: Braintree shut me down with zero notice. Who do I migrate to?
Background: I run an online medical marijuana evaluation service (which is 100% legal via state and federal laws).

I've been processing with Braintree for the past few months, and 10 minutes ago I got an email saying they are shutting down my account immediately.

Obviously I am disappointed with Braintree's decision and lack of notice, but it is what it is.

Are there any processing providers out there that will work with a company that has the word "marijuana" on the site? I know I saw a similar story a few months back about Stripe shutting somebody down, but at least they gave a week or two notice.

Any help is appreciated.
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I'm not sure what you are even trying to say here. First of all, states are hacking other friendly states. States they cooperate with.

Then of course, foreign intelligence services derive their power and existence outside of the normal law framework from the simple fact that they are generally not allowed to spy on their own (e.g. US) citizens. That is pretty much the very fine line that separates them from a state-funded terrorist conspiracy. In that light, any cooperation with another intelligence agency (which naturally isn't bound to not spying on US citizens) is prima facie suspect.
Alas there is no statute that protects people and their email addresses from abuse in this way.

Anyone can enter an email into a webform even one that isn't even theirs and create an account and get away with it. I myself never found out who was entering my email into dating sites and other places. I wanted to talk to them and tell them to stop, but I was powerless to do anything.

When you share a name with 300 other men in the USA, and some of them forgot to enter a number or series of letters for their own address, it comes back to my address.

My point is that I found out the hard way that most websites don't even bother to validate the email, take any email, and people who own that email get unwanted messages from that site.
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Of course not; that's not what markets are for. The purpose of a market is to determine prices and facilitate exchange, nothing more.

There are (or at least should be) laws atop that to determine who is eligible to participate (e.g. minors, the mentally impaired, etc.).
Wow! A movie I really loved that showed similar (fictional) story is Emir Kusturica's Underground - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0114787/

This summary written by an anonymous in the imdb site: "The story follows an underground weapons manufacturer in Belgrade during WWII and evolves into fairly surreal situations. A black marketeer who smuggles the weapons to partisans doesn't mention to the workers that the war is over, and they keep producing. Years later, they break out of their underground "shelter" --- only to convince themselves that the war is still going on."

I was actually listening to the sound-track for the last week (Thanks to Goran Bregovic)
Linux is the exception because the support burden is much, much higher per user because "Linux" is a catch-all for what is really several operating systems that share a kernel and some userland code, so supporting Linux is much harder than supporting, say, Windows.
>we desperately need good energy sources.

the question is "are we ready?". With nuclear energy we were on the brink of nuclear war during various periods of time, and the natural limitations of the technology help to limit the access to it. The success of fusion in non-Tokamak devices, something like inertial confinement and mixed schemas, brings the risk of a new class of weapons, something along neutron bomb (or boosted fission) without fission primary, which thus wouldn't be subject to technological limitations rooted in the fission.
Obviously the only thing they cared about was money. Offered to delete the account for $19 but just hid it instead of deleting it.
I found the paper very eye-opening, but perhaps I missed the "moral" of the story. I understand that Google's auto updater can behave similarly to a malicious utility by an APT, but what recourse or mitigation techniques are available? According to the paper, each step individually is indistinguishable from benign activity. Techniques for identifying the end result of the activity and flagging it as suspicious are omitted (or perhaps I missed them).
Don't know why you got downvoted. My CC was recently compromised, and the "thief" purchased a lot of very odd things all at once which triggered the flag, including online services I had never heard of. And lots of dominos pizza!
I'm stunned I'm not in the AM database. Variations of my gmail address (dots in different places) have been used to sign up for every sketchy "adult dating" site in the world. My wife saw some in my inbox and was very upset, until I showed her the massive amount of things I get that are quite obviously intended for someone else with my name.
Resisting arrest.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fight_Club
This guy has two problems:

1) his wife doesn't trust him

2) his wife needs a lesson in spam avoidance, as she was foolish enough to type her husband's email address into a website form that very likely is scraping addresses to be sold to spammers.
No, in 20 years history will have been revised so that these events never took place.
> I just got tons of wacky e-mails for a while.

It might be worth saving those pearls.
No because microsoft's implementation calls to win32 and XAML for everything.

Also, would you trust an implementation that thinks this is an OK implementation of arc4random()? (even if it was fixed later?) - https://github.com/Microsoft/WinObjC/blob/59a63e42a9d10da8aa...
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My phone number used to be 222-3212 and every day when I got home from work I had a filled phone answering machine, (yep that long ago). Mostly random kids, but sometimes sales people.
Could you please add some usage examples or elaborate on when this tool would be useful? For example,

> building several targets of a Makefile

As opposed to `make && sudo make install` ?

> downloading multiple files one at a time

As opposed to `(wget url1 &) ; (wget url2 &)` ?

> or simply as a glorified `nohup`

As opposed to `nohup` ?
Something similar happened to me last week. I started getting e-mails from eBay to first.last@me.com, an e-mail address that I use for iCloud, but nothing else. I was getting inundated with messages from eBay, so this morning, I did exactly what the guy in the article did; I reset the password, and took control of the account. Hopefully, problem solved (aside from some residual messages I'm still receiving).

Also, it turns out that I get collections calls for a guy with my first and last name, and based on the information in the eBay account, I have reason to believe this is him. Guess where I'm pointing the next debt collectors to call me to?
In 99% of real world situations, the girlfriend or wife will either believe you or not. Once any experts are hired, the relationship is already over, no matter what the investigation concludes.
You got my curiosity and I subscribed for 1 day trial but I have a hard time believing people will pay for this service.

Maybe consider an ad based revenue system.

Good luck.
I'd love to print custom Leatherman Tread components:

https://www.leatherman.com/tread-425.html
In addition to the other answers you've gotten (which I agree with and are probably more important than this one) the same advantages that are normally given for working interactively with a REPL apply to scientific computing in economics, probably more than in most fields. (Programming efficiency becomes more important relative to computational efficiency when you're only going to run the program once.) Both Julia and Python are easier to work with interactively than C and Fortran.
Reference to the movie Fight Club, which you should now go watch.
I think something trivial like store employees prompting customers at the till to buy pornographic media that they looked at for too long on the shelf/online, would be legislated against easily.

"I see you've been looking at this porno. Would you like lube with that?".
http://www.businessinsider.com/states-where-teachers-unions-...

You can bust teachers unions.

Remind me again how they are forcefully demanding money?
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I'm an atheist and have an expansive view of morality, but I still value my privacy, not least because it provides me with a small asymmetrical information advantage against institutions with which I would otherwise be unable to compete. I don't think it's the case that if we were all to wake up naked (figuratively speaking) that hypocrisy would disappear and there would be a major adjustment in our social technology.

Take this AM hack; one of te first public casualties was a somewhat famous religious conservative, who had previously been in the news for committing multiple acts of incest/child molestation as a youth (the statute of limitations on which has long since expired). Despite abundant evidence of moral malfeasance and a blunt self-assessment as 'the biggest hypocrite ever', the guys followers are still lining up to defend his fundamental righteousness and condemn his detractors as being on an inferior moral plane. This is irrational, but people place a high value on their illusions and will expend real resources to perpetuate them.
"The cloud" could mean anything from a server in colo, to a desktop in a close friend's apartment, to riseup.net, to Amazon, to Google. Right now only a few of those are practical, and even fewer are scalable.
https://youtu.be/CJrVZCbKxsE

you couldn't help but think of this also..
Concept for an Oculus Rift user interface (2013)
> I have to wonder though at what point is adding all those filters more involved than checking a couple boxes and glancing at a map or some photos

_When the filters are across datasets and services that are hosted on different platforms, and there's no way one UI that allows you to access them._

Table timings are on OpenTable/Yelp, reviews are on Google/Yelp, traffic is on Google, rides are on Uber and Lyft, menus are on the web, there are recommendations you trust amongst your friends and blogs, and pictures on instagram - and you're on a messaging platform trying to coordinate with 4 other people.

At that point, whatever service helps you to narrow to 4 choices based on all of this data is a Godsend. It's about making decision taking easier.

> how such a recommendation engine can best present information about tradeoffs

That tradeoffs are still yours to dictate - you simply look at the results of your complex query and then use conversation/UI to refine. Faster than using 8 services to do this. Repeatedly.
Ah, gotcha. I'll try to explain and correct my claimed in #2. So the winning ticket index is chosen as H % n (read: H mod n) where H is a uniformly distributed number between 0 and 2^256 obtained from the hash of some block (I'm just picking 256, I don't know what hashing algorithm is being used, but I'm assuming the digest's length is a power of 2), and n is the number of tickets that were bought. This computation does not produce a uniform distribution unless |H| is a multiple of n.

Here's an example {0..7} % 3 takes on the values 0,1,2,0,1,2,0,1. Notice that 0 and 1 appear 3 times but 2 only appears twice. So even if you chose x from a uniform distribution of the numbers 0-7, x % 3 would have a 3/8 chance of being 0 or 1, but only a 2/8 chance of being 2. This bias disappears only when the order of the set that's being randomly sampled is a multiple of the modulus. I hope that made sense.

So even assuming that the block hash is randomly distributed, you're still introducing a bias with the modulus. I think this might be fixable by simply multiplying the number of tickets everyone has by 2.

Edit: Strike that last part. If the number of tickets is not a power of 2, and the digest of the hash is a uniformly selected number from a set with a magnitude that is a power of 2, then there must be a bias in the winning ticket selection as it's performed in this code.
Didn't know anything other than C-N/C-P concerning completion on Vim - considering switching back now :P
From the article:

".. at the end of June, there was a legal earthquake: Oklahoma's highest court ruled that people could sue oil companies over the earthquakes ... But there's a difference between knowing how the quakes are triggered and proving which well set it off — and it may not be hard for lawyers to take advantage of that gap.

"You could say that 'I'm injecting, but there's a lot of reasons it's not all me, or not me at all,' " Halihan said.

A Stanford University study published in June found that the quakes may occur miles away from an injection well and long after its use. Even if all of those wells were shut down immediately, the quakes could continue for months or years, it found.

"If I was paid by a couple of shifty lawyers to say one of those options, I could set up an argument using peer-reviewed literature on any of those and try to push that as the reasonable case," Halihan said. Without more in-depth data, "It's going to be a fuzzy case."
Wouldn't you rather it be in a data center somewhere? I mean, so long as you could still own the data...
This is nice. I like how the notes continue to ring, so that they interact with each other. There is a similar application called Scala which has the distinction of being written in Ada. It offers a collection of more than 4500 scales to download.

http://www.huygens-fokker.org/scala/downloads.html

The one quibble I have with the exploration of scales in this way is that the given pallet of notes is fixed, but most music that that is not based on the even tempered scale involves a lot of pitch variation.

I came across a book in a library once called The Handbook of Irish Music by the Rev Fr. Richard Henebry

http://www.itma.ie/digitallibrary/print-collection/henebry-r...

He was probably the first to make field recordings of Irish music on wax cylinder. Using this early recording technology, and a wheel of 100 pitchpipes graded into cents, he transcribed not only the notes played, but also made note of the precise pitch at which each note was played.

His theory, outlined in A Handbook of Irish Music, 1928, was that the character of a piece of music depended on not just the notes, but also the system of intonation, and furthermore tunes were divided into sections using different temperaments which he called 'melodic cells'. He maintained that these gave an extra depth to the performance in a manner parallel to the use of harmony.

http://www.itma.ie/digitallibrary/print-collection/henebry-a...

As far as I know, nobody has tried to recreate his transcriptions.
I'm not talking about hiring experts here, I'm talking about reading a text file.

But ya, while I might not go as high as 99% I generally agree with what you're saying.
Assuming that the "nurture" is roughly comparable. It's a weird paradox that societies put great effort into countering environmental factors make genetics more important.

For an extreme example, if I "nurture" a random selection of people by killing them, then their genetic gifts will not make that much difference to their IQ, GPA or salary, because they will be dead. In a society where they all get to experience 12 years of education and socialized medicine, those random environmental factors will be dampened and genetic factors boosted.
I get the same and have sometimes tracked down the people involved for things that seemed important (e.g . medical continuing education course proof).

I do gleefully mark as spam the ongoing stuff from a rather wingnutty gun rights organization that someone donated to, though I did attempt to unsubscribe first. Apparently once you give some groups money there's just no getting off their lists.
Does it have to be monetary? Best i can tell, the people involved are on what may border on a holy crusade to "improve" the desktop Linux experience. Meaning that to them the goal justifies the means.

And if you question this you are simply an ignorant infidel that will see the light in due time, they just need to spread the gospel more fervently (or should i say forcefully?).
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I love the idea. I see x86_64 limitation, are you planning to add support for Raspberry Pi?
Agree with Kevin, this might encourage the wrong way of thinking when applying for YC.

Average people, that do average things, generally think in terms of the odds "what's my chance of this, or that.." when deciding about things.

Extraordinary people don't care about their chances, they do things because they are determined or obsessed about whatever it is they are doing, and stop at nothing to make it happen. These are the types of people that go on to build great companies and are the types of people YC generally looks for in the applications.

So if you're the type of person that doesn't care about the stats: you should definitely apply!
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Hey Josh,

For apps that fit the model, a client-side approach can work well. There are a lot of limitations, though, that make it not ideal for a lot of apps. An incomplete list of issues:

- Basically all existing apps with server-side code would need to be rewritten to fit in this model. (Sandstorm can run arbitrary Linux binaries.)

- A large class of apps fundamentally need to be running even when you aren't present. E.g., a mail server.

- Sharing with other users, or connecting to other app instances, is tricky at best when there's no server to mediate.

- Real-time collaboration requires much lower latency than you can get when syncing through Dropbox and the like. You could maybe pull it off through WebRTC but it's much easier to use a server.

- Access control is really hard to enforce without an app-aware server. E.g. if you want to give users permission to comment on your doc but not edit it, how do you do that with dropbox permissions?

- Limited sandboxing: Generally you can't e.g. prevent the app from secretly phoning home to its developer, at least given the security model currently provided by e.g. Chrome.

PS. offtopic but can you merge this PR? :D https://github.com/google/protobuf/pull/710
No - I stand by that as a literal use.

Does 65B represent the actual money value that people will pay for the shares of 100% of the ~600 currently existing YC companies?

Does it tell us the average value? The mean? Standard deviation? Quintile distributions? P/E? Is that number just based on valuations from funding rounds? Projections?

It is literally meaningless. It is not verifiable. The standards that are used to calculate it are not explained. There is no explanation to how it relates to the companies in the portfolio.

I'm a bear by nature. I think that the current batch of SaaS unicorns have an unsustainable valuation, and I think this unverified number feeds into that.
Thank you for making the comment I came to make!

The shells have had queueing for, well, a very, very long time....
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