skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For the Oregon site, when I overlay energy asset data -- at the end of that road is large underground natural gas storage for the Northwest Natural Gas Co. Maybe related, maybe not. But probably not a conspiracy :)
This post is disconcerting and epitome of HN Critical thinking gone mad. So, how much is fine, is it OK to spend 10K, 20K or 50K, 100K from personal funds? The research money most likely is covering the Research Lab costs. The RAs of the lab put the money from their pockets. HN crowd has attracted this thankless-savant grade find the hole in the story types, no good deed goes unpunished.
Machine learning systems are only as biased as their training data and their construction. It doesn't even have to be overt. Like when Google Photos tagged photos of African-American users as gorillas[1] -- sure, the machine learning algorithm wasn't racist in any recognizable sense, but it reflected the bias of the training data, which didn't have enough African-American people in it to let the algorithm learn about them.

1) http://www.theverge.com/2015/7/1/8880363/google-apologizes-p...
Thanks for the feedback. This is great.

Hmmm, I'll try removing the countdown timer.

The site does use a template. I actually tried making it look generic because I went with the approach of "this website is owned by 1 person and you can trust him". That didn't work. I am going to redo the front-end and make it look like a company owns the site. I'm thinking something similar to how http://gusto.com looks.

I'm hoping to one day have companies pay to have their prizes featured on the site. It'd be like Google / Reddit advertising except the advertising is a prize, not an ad. I tried the non profit approach but everyone doubted me, so I changed it. But right now, everything is out of pocket for me.

Yeah I realize the "mux" was a mistake. I thought it was clever, but these people don't have the time to read what a multiplexer is. Literally every time I tell someone to go to my site "MuxMe" they say "Is that a porn site?". I can change the name in 2 seconds, I'm just thinking of what to change it to. I like the idea of a FAQ, I need to add that.

Currently users land on the prize page, and either register or they don't. They don't click the "how it works" or any other pages, so I'm focusing on optimizing the prize landing page right now. I think I might add a video avatar (like this http://www.pt-hr.co.uk/) that explains how the site works on the prize pages. I can see the Hacker News guys are interested in the "How it Works" page, but the typical user doesn't click that. I definitely need to update it with something that's easy to understand, it's on the list of a million things to do.
A ridiculous amount of modern tech is patented in some way. All of those companies can be hit with lawsuits over patents with too much control of outcome in hands of patent holders. The enemies of their enemies are their friends.
> My partner Brad became obsessed with the strategy and go to market and told Dave Morgan, the founder and CEO, that he was “working too hard and getting nowhere” and encouraged him to rethink his strategy. Ultimately Dave decided to flip the go to market model to an ad network and within a year the business exploded and it sold a few years later to AOL for something like $275mm.

Are there good startup-oriented books on go-to-market strategy, distribution channels and business models? E.g. should startups choose business models that are compatible with existing strategy in companies that could aquire the startup?

List of software revenue models derived from a Fred Wilson post, https://gist.github.com/ndarville/4295324

OSS business models, https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_models_for_open-sou...

Across many industries, https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Business_models
Several replies to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10962782 mentioned it about 1 hour before you posted.

(inaccurate + convenient characterizations of existing comments are a pet peeve, sorry)
According to the Acme page at acme.cat-v.org, it was "implemented in the Alef programming language, and later rewritten in C using libthread".
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I met Marc Edwards in 2010. when I did a summer program at Virginia Tech. One of the most passionate people you'll ever meet. The big news then was water contamination in D.C. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lead_contamination_in_Washingt...), another project that Edwards spent much of his personal funds on. Fortunately then, his work earned him a MacArthur Genius Grant in 2007, helping him to pay back his debt.
> Imagine if the government said "hey, that money in your bank account, we can just automatically take our taxes from it, because we're not really taking it from you, we're just taking it from the bank."

That's exactly the logic used to justify civil asset forfeiture. There was a link on here two months ago showing that the assets seized were more than all burglaries in 2014: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10591250 .
What I never seem to see addressed, is the following: As the elevator ascends the cable, it's "ground speed" must continually increase. What is the source of the force that provides that acceleration (parallel to the ground)?

A traditional rocket expends a great deal of energy firing its rockets with a component parallel to the surface of the earth to gain acceleration in that direction. Where is the equivalent coming from w/ the space elevator?
Just a popular talk about the old Alcubierre drive [1], judging by the scant details.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcubierre_drive
There is a fundamental problem with difference-based synchronization: the meaning (intention) of operations is not preserved.

So while this method may work well in many cases in practice, there are classes of problems where the approach does not work. These problems may involve, for example, more complicated invariants that must hold between different parts of the data.
Ha, ha, ha, ha. OK OK, sorry. ... ha ha ha.
Those things are no doubt playing a huge role, but as a person increases their consumption of meat they may also be crowding out fiber. Fiber is substrate for the microbiome. Listen to what Dr. Justin Sonnenburg out of the department of microbiology & immunology at Stanford has to say about the importance of fiber...
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What it would take a resarch-funding organization to issue grants for specifically replicating results of existing papers? Why don't they do it? May be they do and I'm just unaware?
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In all seriousness - haven't they, at some level - always done this? Even in the sense that VCs will take a stance such that "we only invest in mobile".
Operating the PVR over the Internet is already obsolete: with IPTV, you can just "go back" and watch the show. There's no need for each client to record it, when the provider already has a copy and your device can stream it on demand. Both of our largest ISPs here in Portugal already offer this bundled with the TV service.

Same for the EPG: the app offered by my ISP simply downloads it from the web, no need to connect to my TV.
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BTW, a friend of mine suggest to me now:

https://www.rivescript.com/

That's an AIML alternative that seems a bit better (no XML!), but I do not yet understood if I can do with rivescript a "simple" ecommerce "script" worflow I explained in my comments and on the github doc. I have to investigate.

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Wow, I have never seen this bad a case of internet-mad. Upvote for persistence!
Thank you. Also, the map is mostly Thorin's, with only slight adaptations :)
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NKI-Rockland has a number of participants with "No Diagnosis or Condition on Axis I" as well:

http://fcon_1000.projects.nitrc.org/indi/enhanced/demo.html
I dunno, a ton of computer related words are translated in Spanish as well. Also, courriel is not the worst offender (I quite like it), I think logiciel vs matériel is much worse than software vs hardware as it doesn't really show the dualism between mind and matter that Descartes (a Frenchman no less) invented. Res cogitans and res extensa would have been better in my opinion…
That is not at all how it works. The elevator does not go into low-Earth orbit(LEO). It is part of the elevator system whose center of gravity is at Geostationary Orbit. So the craft itself, and the ribbon, is always over the same spot on the Equator.
There's a corresponding twitter feed:

https://twitter.com/bgpstream
The earth's rotation. Much like how your rotational velocity increases when you climb stairs. Also, the cable is not vertical, you want a large mass past geostationary orbit which pulls the cable fairly thought though there is some bend.

PS: Try and calculate just how much energy is in earth rotation it's a rather large number.
Only problem is charging money is illegal. I was thinking of "implying" that you may have to pay one day, and having the register button say "Sign up for your free trial", which will be an infinitely long free trial. But then again, the site is all about trust, and you've already tricked them from the start with this method.

Yeah I tried the approach of a quirky, 1 owner website, and it didn't work. I'm still trying to clean up all the jokes, memes, etc.

Hmmmm, yeah I can see how a first impression is that the site is a penny auction site. I definitely need to rethink the front end design and UX flow. Maybe don't even show the prizes until they've registered.
Yeah, I'd love to see something like a recurrent neural network that builds the rules behind an expert system. Then hopefully the rule set that's built can actually be debugged and tweaked by humans in a meaningful way, but it's first implementation is automatically generated.
I realise I'm replying to a fairly old thread now, but just wanted to say thanks for the insightful comments. After giving it some though, I agree that the scenario you've outlined is the most likely one.

I hope the 'eurocrats' keep an eye out for unintended consequences/incentives that 'hidden' (but more complex) arrangements can spawn. Hidden subsidies, like underwriting government bonds, give me the willies...
Some things aren't worth trying because they are batshit insane.
It's doublespeak. Like the CNN article whose title reads "Encryption a growing threat to security".

In software, working around existing patents has resulted in vast fragmentation on every platform. Thereby greatly increasing the time investment needed per developer when creating cross platform compatible apps.

Want to reach your audience with a simple app? Learn to use all of the native android dev suite tools and language. Learn all of the native iOS dev suite too. Make a Web app. Make that web app compatible for all browser platforms: IE, Mozilla, Chrome, Safari. Make that web app responsive for mobile users for all the different device types they might be using...

If you want to stimulate innovation, cooperation is imperative. A cooperative society would realize that the more unified and open your innovation processes are, the less time investment is needed for everyone else.
Well shucks, that is news to me. Thanks for the update.
This situation is horrifying. And if we're thinking of costs - those have only begun. I shudder to think the longterm health effects this will have for years to come.
I found that best indicator of such schemes is when their only achievement is a celebrity team backed by celebrity investors. while both are good for raising awareness of the cause, if traction data is missing, I stop reading, mentally flag it, and move on.
Huh, that link didn't turn out as planned...

It's from this page http://www.electproject.org/home/voter-turnout/demographics/ (3rd chart on page). I think the charts were made using data found here: http://www.census.gov/hhes/www/socdemo/voting/
Joking aside, this could be an exciting endeavor given how much robust software and tooling that INRIA alone has cranked out. Looking at their stuff, the French OS would probably be XtreemOS on Bertin's hypervisor with trusted components rewritten in Ocaml, Bigloo Scheme, or Pharo Smalltalk. They'd fail overall given OS's are a pain to write. However, we'd get a ton of type-safe, memory-safe, and possibly functional components out of it for every part of the stack.

Let's just nudge and encourage them to go ahead with the project as it should be easy. Cuz we need those safe alternatives to UNIX like yesterday. By the time they're done, the robust, C alternatives & compilers should be mature enough to recode whatever components the academics came up with. I'm game! :)
Hi, I created Pev. This should be possible to do since you can graph durations and they're even color coded (red being the slowest and green being the fastest)
The man who first made this connection with H. Pylori, Martin J. Blaser, thinks the same thing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_J._Blaser#Research

He has a book on it too, “Missing Microbes”. It’s sad how much dogma there is in the medical community.
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Thank you. Pev was definitely influenced by explain.depesz, it's a great tool
I thought Claris Emailer was the nicest email program of the Mac OS 8 era.
My brother and I had an elaborately worked-out story and setting for our Nintendo-themed plush dolls that mostly reflected our exposure to Dragonball Z in afternoon/early-morning cartoon blocks.

In fact, it was slightly more aware of its own genre conventions than DBZ ever achieved.

Of course, we had loads and loads of free time back then. Why, I had so much free time back then, I could spend time trying to write my own pathetically hand-crafted D3D8 game engine and play with dolls with my brother, all in the same week!

Compare to adulthood, in which I'm lucky to combine going to the gym, basic household tasks, and accomplishing 5 hours of hobby-stuff in a single week of outside-work time.
I hear a lot about American 'imperialism' in cultural phenomenon. That seems a strong word. It implies a jack-booted dictator forcing something on the world.

What I see is, the success of American cultural behaviors is emulated widely. Folks get upset about this and blame America for its success. Instead of, I don't know, blaming folks for emulating America? If you can even argue that they are 'to blame' for anything.
Governments are generally (but not always) staffed by people of questionable competence in the relevant fields, but once this incompetence is at risk of being revealed, the imperative is always to obfuscate.

Of all things to put in the hands of government, water seems among the worst. Of course, putting it in the hands of Nestle and other huge corporations is probably even worse. We need water anarchy.
That's caused by the Coriolis force. Rising elevator cars would leach the Earth's angular momentum, whilst lowering cars would replenish it.
I always knew there was something good about PHP lol :)
The article could have mentioned Skyhook [1], which can be built with existing materials.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skyhook_%28structure%29
I wasn't familiar with Dreyfus' work. Thanks.

Recently I noticed a parallel between Antoine de Saint-Exupery's comments on technology and Heidegger's notions of presentness-at-hand and readiness-to-hand. It's in his essay "The Tool", which also includes the famous line about perfection being achieved when there is "nothing left to take away."

Saint-Exupery has a profoundly romantic attitude to technology: I'm not sure about the order of publication but it is a fact that Heidegger applauded Saint-Exupery's Petit Prince, and apparently Sartre felt the two men's philosophies were related.

http://www.wesjones.com/wind%20sand%20stars/wind%20sand%20st...

(Apparently the controls of the Lockheed Lightning, the aircraft type in which Saint-Exupery died, were too complex for his taste, turning the pilot into an "accountant" rather than receding from conscious attention, as the primitive instruments of earlier, simpler planes had. Saint-Exupery clearly saw the purpose of "the tool" as facilitating his experience (and responding to his personal "authority") as a free spirit of the air, without much thought given to the constraining military command hierarchy or the pilot's job of killing.)
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The "look" of Erlang (and Elixir didn't really address this) isn't about the primitives, but about the surrounding syntax and structures (records!). Nobody looks at Erlang and asks, wtf is an atom. They look at the horrible mess of the prolog structures and say "it's not worth it to learn" or worse, "let's just rewrite it".

Also, the link seems strangely mistitled.
It might be more cost effective to build a really long, narrow elevator into space vs. paying $450 million per launch of a rocket/large spacecraft.[1] And keep in mind that launching a large spacecraft usually carries less than 12 individuals.

[1] http://www.nasa.gov/centers/kennedy/about/information/shuttl...
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Here's a normal brain MRI, compared to photographed slices of a brain:

https://www.claripacs.com/a.php?a=vw
(Click and drag to scroll. "Share > Download" to download the full DICOM data)

This site has thousands of anonymized MRI and CT images of normal and abnormal scans, with clinical history in many cases. For example, here are annotated scans of normal anatomy:

https://www.claripacs.com/folder/Anatomy&view_type=-1

One challenge with writing web DICOM viewers is the lack of full 16 bit image support in browsers. This requires writing custom code to properly handle window / level on 16-bit medical images.

Disclosure: I'm a co-founder of Claripacs.
> complicated invariants that must hold between different parts of the data.

Like, oh, when that data is, say, program code. Or text that has to be very consistent in the promises that it is making, or the requirements that it is specifying, and so of forth.

I.e. this is good enough for sloppily written collaborative fiction. Writer W0 kills a character C0 in chapter 3, while writer W1 not knowing about this removal of C0 causes the character to appear in chapter 4. Oh well, the sky isn't going to fall!

Even if these changes are in the same file, and even if the diff and patch identify textual conflicts, the chapters are too far apart for these changes to be so identified.

The aim in this algorithm seems to be to make it so easy and transparent that all textual conflicts disappear, presumably because the target audience is users whose heads would explode at the idea of resolving a conflict. (Rather than just swell up and get sore, as in the case of software developers accustomed to version control.)
My understanding of the biggest challenge is that each point in the cable must be strong enough to carry the weight of all the cable beneath it, which by the time you reach the upper atmosphere would be tremendous even using carbon nanotubes. The cable would also be perpetually struck and damaged by high velocity micrometeoroids.
I wish I had this five years ago when I was dealing with Postgres query planning every day!

Nowadays I just avoid it by using NoSql (which to be fair gives me a whole different set of problems). :)
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Wow. This goes to show that people in field X often have no idea what's interesting to people outside their own field. My PhD is in cognitive neuroscience, and so I have many dozens of MRIs of myself done for test or calibration purposes, done using all sorts of different machines, sequences, etc. It's never occurred to me that these images would be of interest to anyone but me.

I suspect this is true for pretty much anyone in any field.
Couldn't that be gamed pretty easily by buying the takeout boxes and then selling them again under the table to a legitimate business?
My statement was a little tongue-in-cheek but that was the first time I felt the raw power of my mind. I still feel it now, but it doesn't have as much of an impact as it did then. It's probably what everyone feels when they are in the zone.

So now, I will walk around doing nothing for 4 to 5 hours to let my brain work on a problem, then type it in and have it work in 10 minutes. I do this same thing with design, not just code. I've noticed that coding has become a lot easier as a result.

I still get stuck when I'm dealing with other people's bugs though, especially with third party libraries.

One I've noticed is that being in my head so much makes it more difficult to explain things to other people and I think this hurts me.
Funny how well it works in most other places to put shared infrastructure in the hands of the public. Maybe this is not about principle, but about implementation?
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not 'just another'

http://www.alexa.com/topsites/countries/PL

#14 overall, higher than any other movie/video related website other than YT.

http://www.wirtualnemedia.pl/artykul/najpopularniejsze-serwi...

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> It's very unlikely that there exists a treatment where all the effect is on a 35-variable interaction and none of the effect is visible when looking at each variable singly.

Maybe something about genetic modifications where 35 different point modifications to the genome have to happen in order to allow synthesis of a working protein? If you measured the effect of each point modification, you might measure it as zero.

I'm analogizing from trying to do statistical tests of whether a password is correct. At least in systems that aren't vulnerable to timing attacks, you can't just test part of the password and see if you get a little bit more access to the system as a result. :-)
I work on Python and the Pandas data frame is one of the core data structure that is used in the implementation. I have been thinking of how I can translate this code in a more robust type checking language such as Haskell, without loosing some of the conveniences Pandas provides. Do you have any suggestions or pointers to this?

I would love to encode the business logic into types. But, I am always afraid I might end up in type hell!
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Interesting. Thanks for sharing that.
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Yeah the giant table of "win this! win that!" seems enormously scammy. Maybe because scam ads just display something so similar. And, key thing with yours and theirs, no context and leaves me wondering "what's the catch?".

Even if you just added a short paragraph explaining the concept (since otherwise when I get to your site I look around to see what it does, and see nothing but scam ads all over = scam site; if you actually say what the site's for the prizes have context) and how it works (otherwise I'm like, "sure, effectively free cash, yeah right" = scam site), and then have the prize list, it would make a big difference in first impressions. Maybe have any list of prizes on the front page not be a countdown of upcoming prizes, but a list of selected featured prizes ("including these brands!").
Machine Learning was still well liked and accepted in research, and in fact the stuff that is solved by ML today (speech and object recognition, most significantly) was still solved by ML back then. I completely agree this article is very hyperbolic.
What do you propose as an alternative? Endless bliss?
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The fact that he took out a mortgage on his personal home for this is enough to convince the rest of us that he went way above and beyond in order to carry out the research. Calm the cynicism.
I fear we're heading into Year of Linux Desktop memes with the private sector. I'd love to be proved wrong.