skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They are not all that good. As he says himself, not even their other funds are as good as the 2004.
Is there any synthesizer that would sound like a real violin?
Nitpick noted :-) It wasn't the best analogy!
Well, investing in startups is a great investment... when you win, like this fund which apparently gave out great returns. But of course, those investors could have also lost all their money. Risk and potential return always go hand in hand when it comes to investing money.
Shouldn't the '=' and the minus and the other signs be inside <mo>, rather than <mi>, because they are binary operators, not identifiers? TeX for example, makes a clear distinction in terms of how much whitespace it would surround operators with, vs. identifiers.

In any case, I suspect MathML was intended as an intermediate computer-readable representation, not something that anyone would write by hand (MathJax can compile your LaTeX to MathML). I don't see what's wrong with an intermediate representation that's difficult to manipulate by hand. And unless I misunderstood the article, their point is that MathML is bad as an intermediate representation.
Once you have kids, that doesn't really work any more. The number of nights where a screaming kid prevents you from sleeping is going to be larger than the number of sick days you have :\
> top-end UK market

Or London market? (including finance sector)
But wouldn't those people not able to program their current thermostat, for whatever reason, would have to be able to program their new fancier thermostat?
The RSS feed does not seem to be active, it only shows the hello world post: http://beerandpizza.co/feed/
I don't have the Nest, but I have the Ecobee, which is great, especially the wireless connectivity.

It's not "I need an exact 23.5 degrees when I get home", but rather, "I just left to go vacation. Maybe I should turn my thermostat off" and can do so from my phone, and also, "Looks like I'm getting home a day before I expected. I can turn my heating on so my home won't be freezing when I arrive."

Additionally, scheduling on the Ecobee is far, far easier than traditional thermostats.
I'm coming up on 17 years of remote working (we used to call it virtual office back in the day), and most of this rings true, however there are some additional considerations when a family is involved. I've found a couple of things to be most helpful as a family man:

Set a quitting time. Don't worry about starting your work day, that will happen by itself, but you need to put a good cap on the end of the work day, so you know when to walk away from work.

Have a place to work. I have a home office, but it could be a specific desk, room, or beach chair. Wherever it is, try to do your work there when family is around, that way they know you're working.

Leave your work laptop at your desk. Get a second laptop, tablet, etc that doesn't have work stuff on it if you're going to use electronic stuff around the family outside work hours.

And perhaps most importantly, take advantage of it! I have been able to watch my kids grow up in a way 99% of fathers can't dream of. I take them to dentist appointments, keep an eye on them once in a while when my wife needs to run an errand, and get to see the amazing lego creations they build right away - they don't have to wait till daddy gets home... My wife constantly drops comments like 'it's such a blessing that your job lets you be here for this', and it's true - I wouldn't trade it for the world.
Apply HN: Growth Report – Monitor Your Startup’s Growth in Slack
Hey HN,

I'm applying with Growth Report, a tool that helps your startup rally around growth with simple charts in Slack each morning. I went through the standard application process on 3/24 and I'm applying again here to hopefully get some feedback from the community.

The first version of Growth Report super simple: Connect your existing analytics tool and Slack, then get simple growth charts everyone can understand in Slack each morning. Some of the charts include WAU, activation, retention, and acquisition. All of the charts are based off two user events: Signed Up and Authentic Usage, which is a single metric that tells you if people are using your product as expected.

I’ve been in a closed beta since the end of last summer (treating this as a side project until recently). I’m working with 12 teams of various stages now, most of them < 5 person startups. A couple weeks ago I applied to be listed on Slack’s app directory and hope to go live there soon. The early feedback is enthusiastic but it’s still early and I’m unsure if this is something people really want. So I’m itching for more feedback. Would love your thoughts, whether it be here on HN or directly. (I'm on live chat as often as I can be and at alex@growthreport.co) Feedback on the tool itself is the most valuable. Onboarding takes about 3 minutes and requires Mixpanel or Amplitude. (Also, if anyone is willing to go through the onboarding on a screen share with me for 20 min, I'll gladly send you an Amazon gift card.)

https://growthreport.co/?slack=y&hn

Some other things I'm thinking about: A lighter-weight version using GA, an annotation feature to track what happened when (in product/marketing/sales), and channel segmentation (e.g. see activation rate for Twitter users vs those from your blog). All of that is on hold for right until I talk to more teams and make sure the foundation of the product is something people want.

Some questions for you:

-What metrics are you looking at every day?

-Do you track weekly growth?

-Is your weekly growth metric based on user action or something else (e.g. revenue)?

-Do you write written updates on weekly growth?

Edit: Added questions
Funny timing on this story. Just last night my Nest "froze" the heat on. Heat was set to 68, thermostat read 73 and the Nest was still running the furnace (and the screen was orange, indicating the heat is on). Had to power cycle the thing for it to stop running my furnace. Welcome to the future!
Don't you still have to wait the same amount of time for that zone to heat up? I guess I value a couple hundred bucks differently.

I guess I would just walk down the stairs, manually adjust the thermostat and walk back up, but then again my parents just told us to put sweaters on if we were cold.
Tried the text analysis demo, but didn't work for 2 out of 3 articles.
I can tell you for free! Your smart devices are on. Always.
But doesn't calling it "Windows Subsystem for Linux" imply that actual Linux is involved, or even included? Suppose I marketed a range of flavoured additives to put in you Coke and called it "Simon's Flavours for Coca Cola"?
No idea how reliable this is, but here's what Forbes has to say about USV's performance:

"66.96% IRR for its 2004 fund, a 38.88% IRR for its 2008 fund, a 29.04% IRR for its 2012 fund and a 61.44% IRR for its first opportunities fund"
source: http://fortune.com/2014/01/24/union-square-ventures-raises-n...
Success anxiety is a great way to put it. As I've started my career in tech I've noticed that everyone seems to be looking somewhere else. Mid stage engineers look at early engineers thinking if only. Early engineers look at founders thinking if only. Founders look at other founders thinking if only. etc etc. No one is happy with where they currently are.
Many people live in houses with poor insulation or other such problems. They may be tenants with landlords who will not fix this, or live in areas where fixing it is regulated in way that increases the cost by 5-10x (think building regulations where new windows must look like old ones).

Come home to a cold house, wake up in a cold house, heating system that overshoots, forgot to turn it off once when going on holiday etc etc. Even if they have a timer system, it probably has an awkward interface or is in located in an awkward place and some of these problems are still relevant.

Not the worst problems in the world but certainly something they wish was solved. And they like sexy little gadgets too, I expect.

I see the market. I have been part of it more than once.
Created a Startup in 6 Days: Cannabis Access and Safety Enclosure
>I wish we could have some more science done on this stuff (specifically relating to tech). I have a huge amount of experience-based evidence pointing toward the factuality of this article, but anecdotes and personal experience are not how you sway decision makers.

There is a lot of science out there. Henry Ford was one of the first major employers to figure out that when his employees had higher productivity when their work hours were reduced from 9 hours a day to 8. The interesting thing is that total productivity is increased (as well as productivity per hour) by working fewer hours. Working long hours long-term is highly detrminental.

https://cs.stanford.edu/people/eroberts/cs181/projects/crunc...
I'm genuinely curious about how many of those "regular people" replaced a working thermostat with a Nest. Anecdotally, it certainly seems to me as if it's the geeky gadget types who get all excited about things like the Nest.
I'm mostly using Khan Academy at the moment. But I see several people already posted alternatives which is nice to have ;)
Do you have a specific question?
It is not gonna be there before 2y I think. You can search for GlobalISel on the llvm mailing list to see discussions and patches.
Thiel Fellow here. The question is not whether or not you should take it, it's whether or not you should drop out.

I had already dropped out when I took it so it was a no brainer for me. If you've already dropped out or decided to I don't even know why you're asking - at worst it's free money.

If you're asking whether or not you should drop out, that's a pretty opinionated thing and depends entirely on your circumstances, but I'd recommend you go for it (fellowship or not). As morgante said, you can always go back to college. 10 years from now sillicon valley might not be so friendly to us tadpoles
Can you talk about your team? How many people are working on this full time, what are their skill sets, how long have they been working together, and previous accomplishments and work experience?
The two apps are one. Just for iPhone.
This is exactly where I'm learning from as well.
I did that once and my brand new laptop allmost fell on the floor. Cannot recommend.
The new tagline "The TOOL's tool for accessing the iPhone."
Their economy is way too socialist. $204 billion of expenses for $131.8 inflation adjusted billion GDP.
That's great, but someone else thinks PHP is worse than javascript. (All those copy-pasted security holes.) Another person thinks iOS is the real problem. (If we don't own our devices, we're not free.) For me it's malaria. (Think how many more capable programmers we'd have if fewer people were dying every day. Plasmodea delenda est!)

We can all go around commenting on every single thread about how our chosen terrible thing is terrible, and then every thread looks exactly the same and it gets really boring. Or we can all restrain ourselves to only talking about how terrible our chosen terrible thing is, in threads that are about that thing.
First impressions:

1. It also covers "classical" artificial neural networks, i.e., things like backprop from before Hinton and others made breakthroughs for deep learning. This means you can start with this book even if you are new to ANNs. The later sections cover "real deep learning".

2. The language is great for beginners and users. You don't have to be an advanced math geek to follow everything. They seem to cover a fair amount of ground too, so its not dumbed down either.

3. I guess it covers most of the underlying theory and practical technicques but is implementation neutral. You should probably pick up a tutorial for your favorite implementation like Theano, TensorFlow, etc.

All in all, I like it a lot.
Lack of proper subscript and superscript support is a killer for Unicode as well. Unicode is amazing for smaller, simple equations, but anything beyond that soon becomes extremely hard to process.
Do you plan to take on a second co-founder soon?
The same page says that it would be detrimental to the Internet if hyperlinks were fallen under such restrictive laws
Beyond that, I think that we can miss obvious solutions even when we are working on a problem for a reasonable stretch during a single day. Say, four hours. I can't count the number of times that I've been working on solving a problem for four hours or more only to discover some obvious solution (including "this problem doesn't need to be solved in the first place") when I take a break to go for a walk.

As for anecdotes and swaying decision makers, anyone who keeps a personal journal of what happens during a day and how much they've been sleeping will quickly correlate bad days with sleepless nights before. "Unlucky" events are more common on less sleep.
Sincere question: is there a way to implement socialism without major centralization of power and a disregard for the rule of law?
Record almost everything in the browser with MediaRecorder
Have a go at trying to convert a complex TEI or Docbook document to JSON; you will want to put a gun to your head before the day is out.
Sam Hinkie: Philadelphia 76ers Resignation Letter
Bandcamp has paid artists $150m in 8 years, $4.3m in last 30 days
You can see the color fringe when you view the character without zooming, here is an example I have found:

http://fsrv.dyndns.org/mirrors/dmedia-tutorials-textrenderin...

Make sure the image isn't scaled to see the text as sharp but with color fringe (on the left side of the image).

The image is from this other great article about sub-pixel font rendering: http://fsrv.dyndns.org/mirrors/dmedia-tutorials-textrenderin...
He also says they invested in 21 companies in the 2004 batch. Which means that 7 other companies returned negligible results.

Average investment per company was about $5mm.

So we can end up with:

$5mm * 115 = $575mm
$5mm * 82 = $410mm
$5mm * 68 = $340mm
$5mm * 30 = $150mm
$5mm * 21 = $105mm
Total: $1.58B, about $1.5B after losses.

So that comes out toabout a 27% return, using the same math as you, before costs and management fees.
I think the author is more concerned with hacking and exploring than perfectly duplicating the existing track.
For me, just doing something else is usually enough to help me recharge (if I'm not sleep deprived). Watching TV, going for a walk or bike ride, reading, etc.
Model 3 has 325k reservations in one week
He's buds with the NRx scene, funds Moldbug's company, and the two basically quote each other's anti-democractic, anti-education, anti-woman rhetoric regularly enough to be a known quantity. He basically wrote a whole book aping Moldbug's "Cathedral" theory. FFS, he gave money to Ted Cruz, a guy who makes Donald Trump look less frightening.

I sure as shit don't want his dirty money, not even to slack off for two years.
I'd add, for those that have to depend on alarm clocks, please sleep earlier or figure out your circadian rhythm ('biological clock') so you don't get jolted out of deep sleep by a horrible loud noise each day.

I'm fortunate enough to wake up naturally however I hear foghorn ringtones echoing from my housemates rooms most mornings and that's just a terrible way to start your day.

Leads to a grogginess that's hard to shake.
Nose.js left-pad is Accidentally Quadratic
The government nationalizing everything and trying to run the entire economy while the price of their only export craters is not related to socialism.
Seriously? All links that aren't directly to one of their mirrors are facebook links?

EDIT: Also, looks like all their mirrors are down, so here's the magnet link (from the archive.org torrent): magnet:?xt=urn:btih:bf682442530dac923d030ce225e92fd6d0284f21&dn=ComelecDB1
Kind of, in the sense that fellows get a large check and few responsibilities. You have to drop out of college, but you can always reapply and return.

Not really, in the sense that fellows are used as poster children for Thiel's vision of society. If you don't agree with the seasteader movement, you probably won't appreciate being a spokesperson for that worldview. If a different organization you disagreed with offered you a big check to drop out of college and act like a true believer, would you do it?
2artsy.com: Make avatar or portrait from photo using neural networks
Class is probably Fussel's hardest book to rip up. Look at Muscle, the book he ghost wrote for his son to find out what he really thinks.

To be fair when a graduate student I knew had an absentee PhD supervisor and a nervous breakdown and tried the "experiment" of not showing up for work and seeing how long it took for the paychecks to stop, the "experiment" strung on for most of a year until his dad realized he had no idea how to get in touch with his son, called up the department, and they called me up.

He had managed department failing department stores for decades and he thought our college town was a "dump" because it didn't have a Nordstrom's.

The social position of the college professor has changed a lot since Fussel's generation. Up until 1970 or so it was a path of upward social mobility, but a slowdown of tenure track hiring, social changes that doubled the number of professor's kids that could be recruited (counterbalanced enough by massive imports of male graduate students from hyperpatriarchical cultures to not threaten feminoid narriatives) mean it is no longer a path to social mobility, unless you mean trading a life of baking cookies at an organic cafe 9-5 to working 80 hours a week at 5 different colleges spread out over 200 miles while eating off food stamps...
The Babe Ruth Effect in Venture Capital

http://cdixon.org/2015/06/07/the-babe-ruth-effect-in-venture...
I would honestly pay to play pre-BC WoW again.

The real problem that Blizzard seems to have is listening to their users - they're constantly making changes based on the feedback of vocal groups of players or trying to simplify their games to be more appealing. They have some of the most valuable IP in gaming and I feel like they're not making the most of it.
Need to take something apart and don't know how? This is the website for you
This doesn't really go into hotlinking, does it?

What's the legality of hotlinking? = embedding an image in your page by using an URL directly to an image that is hosted & controlled by someone else.
Even working for yourself, there is still a physiological limit. You might be less prone to burnout working for yourself, but you still can't work 20 hour days and expect to be productive.
Do you consider Sweden to be socialist?
I'm not entirely sure what you're saying, but the whole point of the Nest thermostat is that it can still do a pretty good job without its owner having to do any programming.
I've never had sick days in any job I've ever worked. I can only imagine how nice it must be.
The C=64 had a built-in sprite generator. It had first class graphics (for the era) baked right in. It had a complex and powerful sound chip (for the era) for making games sound good, but not really good enough for professional musicians.

It straddled the fence between game console and personal computer, much the same way the Apples of the era did.

IMHO, this is a big reason why Steve Jobs was so hostile to gaming on the Macintosh. He wanted people to take the machine seriously and he was living through Commodore's failure on the Amiga.

I mean Amigas were powerful machines, with specs comparable to Unix workstations of the era; yet the only thing most people remember them for is the video toaster and the demoscene. It was perceived as a rich man's toy machine unless you were part of the tiny niche of TV production companies.
isn't this a self fulfilling prophecy? if i only invest in all-or-nothing startups, doesn't that mean that my returns are going to look like i only invested in all-or-nothing startups?
If you aren't already plugged in to Silicon Valley in some way, getting accepted will definitely help your startup career, mostly through knowledge and mentoring acquired and the relationships. Social capital, essentially. Plus all the knowledge you get trying to make a startup go.

I would imagine if you'd been accepted, you could always go to University once your startup is 'done', either finished or acquired, and you would likely have your pick.

That said, you get a different sort of social capital from going to a top-tier school and graduate school, and of course, in a good technical degree program you will learn a bunch of useful things, largely around rigor of thought, how to learn, how to work with peer groups and just how much smarter than you many people are.

Peter says those things don't matter, and in a way he's right; for the indomitable, driven hard-working, socially skilled, lucky entrepreneur, college is bullshit. Seriously, a total waste of working years. For the rest of us, there are benefits, especially at a top-tier school.
Building the TSA App in 3:03 [video inc]
Doesn't hurt to apply, right?
I am a big fan of Linear Algebra Done Right, if you are looking for an actual, dead-tree book with good explanations.
What is your plan for finding a cofounder?
Why Paid Drupal Modules Fail: Drupal as Art
This is a gamechanger, not being able to make changes to OSM easily (and if it's not easy, I don't do it, like the lazy fuck that I am) was the only thing that bugged me about maps.me. Actually it could be fun now to start mapping expeditions to not-so-well covered areas like rural Mongolia.
Sorry but you can't proclaim one healthy diet for everyone; people with different genes, activity levels and gut microbiomes will respond differently to different foods.

That being said, even your simplified recommendations are wrong. A ton of research exists linking saturated fat to systemic inflammation and a worsening of insulin sensitivity in pre-diabetic populations. Rice is fairly bad carb source in terms of nutrients/calorie (not to mention arsenic contamination in American rice) - the only thing it has going for it is it is hypo-allergenic. Whole wheat/multigrain sourdough bread is actually a really good carb source. Additionally, there are premium pastas like Barilla protein plus that are good as well.
Couple hosting Tor exit node raided by cops investigating child abuse
Tesla touch screen interface comes to mind...

I don't like it at all ... I just want to reach out and spin a knob.
Oh, you don't care for JS/node? That's really interesting. Do you have a non-flammable, on-topic comment about the project?
Freakonomics re-posted their "Econommics of Sleep" 2-part podcast. They look at sleep and how sleep varies across different demographics. One interesting point they made was that the "I don't need sleep" concept may have been popularized in the 80s or 90s with celebrities and politicians making these statements.

http://freakonomics.com/podcast/economics-sleep-part-1-freak...
http://freakonomics.com/2015/07/09/the-economics-of-sleep-pa...
Thanks for posting that.

Cuba Gooding Jr. was miscast. He is great but looks nothing like O.J., and a lot of what made O.J. so appealing was his looks. I saw O.J. on a plane once and he is striking. He is an enormous man with a chiseled face. Looks like a living statue. He was a combination of amazing athelete, great looks, and charm.

Cuba is great. Super charming, but small and has a wirey frame. This part of the series really bothers me. I remember the night that O.J. was in the Bronco (it was during the NBA finals and the Rockets were playing) and it all seemed unbelievable. O.J. was this moviestar athelete that everone looked up to and, over time, he started to look like a monster. People began to notice that - hey - this is a huge, strong guy.

Great show. I feel a little dirty watching it, but I can't stop.
"competent engineers with cronies is what really fucked them"

That' cannot be emphasized enough. This isn't the type of oil coming out of Texas or ND. It requires more money, infrastructure, and expertise to refine properly. Canada has this problem with the oil sands, but they have all three to deal with it.