skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Wouldn't that have at least been a real effort and protected them from being charged with fraud?

This is very close to the standard for a defense to criminal fraud and grand theft (when there is a contract). Basically if you can show even minimal effort was made to comply with the contract, usually that will be a strong defense to fraud and/or grand theft.

Off the top of my head there is one case where a guy was contracted to paint a house, he bought the paint and showed up day one but never did any work. He was convicted of theft but on appeal it was over turned because since he made some effort it showed he didn't have intent to defraud when he entered the contract (obviously that is debatable). However, that is just the criminal side he would still clearly be liable in the civil context for at least breach of contract.
Doesn't Lyft also have some substantial debt beyond its cash on hand?
Actually, it's more related to the original naming term that was adopted for cellular neural networks (CNN). Convolutional neural networks were originally referred to as ConvNets (CNN term is also used for them as well).

IMHO, I don't think this naming is misleading since CNN has been originally used to refer cellular neural networks.
And cause a massive economic issue for every owner who gets put underwater by the resulting price crash?
When you click the GKE(hosted Kubernetes) button on Google Cloud Platform, it's those very Salt configs that set up your nodes (and once upon a time they setup your control plane too).

Basically what's arguably the best publicly available Kubernetes setup in the world is hiding in that Salt codebase, and EVERY would-be Kubernetes admin should look at it before venturing on their own.
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I think it's partly a side effect of modern education techniques (and TV), which conditions people to think that they are special. It's a gulf between educators and employers that results in a shock when reality sets in.

Confidence is good, but thinking that the world revolves around you is bad... unless you are calling the shots.
Um. Modern Standard Mandarin pronunciation is based on Beijing dialect, and it doesn't take a Beijing accent to pronounce it like "sure", that's totally standard. Beijing dialect does feature more erhua than other dialects, but even 哪儿 is considered standard, not specific to Beijing dialect. There are definitely dialects (mostly southern iirc) that pronounce shi as in "ship", but that's not Standard Mandarin. Every television show I've seen, for example, pronounces it like "sure".

Edit: To add a clear example, look at 事. Standard Mandarin would pronounce it "sure", Beijing dialect goes even further and pronounces it more like "shar".
I think, you underestimate for how many people this works.

Non-technical people very much orient themselves based on what they know they can trust. If they don't understand the consequences of something, they will try to err on the safe side. See for example anti-virus software.

This will is not terribly strong, as even already having to remember a few more letters in a password can completely shatter it, but in the case of Firefox vs. Chrome, that difference is practically nonexistent for the average user, so being told to use Firefox, because it's safer for you, for reasons that you don't understand, but smart people say it, so it's probably true, that can very much influence them to switch over.
Thank you so much! Glad to hear it.
Nobody's been clear on how this will be accomplished, but I can really only see three options.

1) Actual blacklisting of the CPU in a Win7 update.

This would be foolish at best, since people would just decline the patch or use modified install media.

2) Lack of support through lack of drivers for new hardware

Maybe the most likely, but still not guaranteed to prevent people from running Windows 7 and either working around missing support or disabling the signed driver requirement and hacking up newer drivers until they do what's desired on Win7.

3) Requiring Win7 backward-compat hooks in BIOS/UEFI not be present on Kaby Lake+ motherboards.

This would probably be the most effective, though it would require more coordination and signoff than I'd necessarily guess they'll muster.
Microsoft Hololens: Some First Observations
We would think that by such time people would have figured out artificial solar shading to keep the planet at a nice stable temperature for a long time. This could even be decades-away technology.
There are some more photos here: http://www.burkemuseum.org/blog/burke-museum-team-discovers-...

They no doubt found something. And the location is well documented: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hell_Creek_Formation

We've all been told that fossils are dated by the layer of rock that they are in, and the layer of rock is dated by the fossils that they contain. I've always found that hard to believe. Especially in the case of Hell Creek, where supposedly an entire large area of 65+million year old rock has just been sitting in the open sun light for the last several thousand years. Interesting at least. Perhaps I need to make a trip there and see for myself.
What It's Like to Be a Defense Investigator in a Rigged Justice System
The competitor Amazon never saw coming
It sounds like there are a bunch of drivers/controllers on the software side that don't support Win7. I seriously doubt that you won't be able to install/boot Win7 on this (I mean modern x86 is still backward-compatible with 16-bit mode!) but will probably end up with sub-optimal power performance and graphics capabilities, and any other niceties that come from platform drivers.
If autonomous cars will be on the uber platform, the autonomous rides will be very cheap. There is even more incentive for people to not own a car and instead use Uber. This means that there will be less customers demanding to own an autonomous car. The autonomous car manufacturers will have to sell to Uber.
Show HN: Decided to sell my Voxel engine source
So to finance a bit of my time for indiedev, I decided to put up full source code for my Qake - Voxel engine. $10 for full source.

Buy on site: http://qake.se/demo/
Is this meant to be serious (surely not) or rather like Mark Twain's take on spelling reform?
The good news is that most non-founder startup employees never risk losing out on this much money.
> Share a Worst Case Scenario - The prospectus for the Scoundrel deal showed a conservative, most likely and optimistic scenario. The conservative scenario showed that Mr. Brandenburg would receive all of his investment back in just two years. In fact, Mr. Brandenburg never saw any dividend or repayment on his $250,000 investment. Don’t gloss over risks.

This is an interesting piece of advice. I never thought to plan the negative scenarios when doing high-level planning. You always discuss possible risks and keep them at the back of your mind but adding a failure scenario to your plans among low, medium, high outcome scenarios is a really good idea.

You don't hear much about risk management/planning for startups. If you're not monitoring your risks along with your positive KPI's (or factoring them in your KPI analysis) it's easy to gloss over them or delude yourself that they don't exist.

Although, otherwise I question the value of taking much lessons out of this 'startup' failure. It's not very analogous to anything like the standard HN web startup. Just some outsider non-techies who wanted to make a 'web portal' and wasted a bunch of money frivolously (ie: 100k went to the author for licensing upfront). Even ignoring their lack of technical industry experience, their business plan heavily centered around building a community with a target market they didn't already have any traction or influence in - which is always the hardest part in any community-centric product. The tech is (usually) the easy part.
I never understood why the double quotes around property names are mandatory. For example, in JavaScript, I can write

{ foo: 1, bar: 2 }

but JSON syntax insists on

{ "foo": 1, "bar": 2 }

This makes JSON less easily readable by humans, and harder to write or edit by hand.

Anyone know why JSON was designed this way?
Have you seen - http://osmocom.org

I had followed the OpenGGSN project for a while, which is now under this umbrella of open source telco projects.

Some cool things there, I've used a few for some basic testing however I'm not sure if anyone is actually using them in any kind of production network.

From my previous experience most seemed to work, but did miss some fairly basic/standard features if you were comparing to an off the shelf box.
The Silver (Basic Paid Support) plan at https://cloud.google.com/support is $150/month. And sorry about the language issues, we've tried to have lots of translations but got consistent feedback from customers that unless we were going to do an amazing job we should just not bother.
I won't deny that being on HN gives publicity — but the request for advice is genuine. There's a lot of knowledge and experience in this community, and a much higher degree of civility and helpfulness than most places on the internet.

As for prominent people using nootropics:

Astronauts on the ISS use Modafinil and Melatonin. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_medicine

There's some indication that President Obama might be using Modafinil, but the evidence is a little thin. http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2010/03/04/the-white-h...

Dave Asprey, from the bulletproof executive uses Modafinil. https://www.bulletproofexec.com/why-you-are-suffering-from-a...

Tim Ferris from the four hour workweek uses racetams/choline. (Can dig up a source if you're interested)

Soylent's new Coffiest contains the classic Caffeine+L-Theanine combination.

Peter Thiel takes human growth hormone — although more for longevity than nootropic effect. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2014-12-18/investor-p...

As for why not more smart people tout their use: why would they tell the world? There's no value in it to them, and there's a lot of stigma around using "chemicals" when someone isn't ill.
The pitfalls in Kenya’s high internet penetration
Does this article improve as it goes on? I got to:

> Aside from the prefix ordering, Common Lisp’s syntax is already a bit more elegant because you can set arbitrarily many variables without repeating the assignment operator over and over again

Which is both wrong, and pointless, and it didn't seem worth continuing.
> It feels like a bit of a gamble to write a series of books and throw a huge marketing budget at them.

How much money would they even have had to spend on marketing the books, given they would have their own web portal?

> I dunno, does this make it sound like the scam / system described in the submission is worth a punt?

Maybe not if you're trying to make a successful business. But if you're trying to do the bare minimum to quickly score about 80k usd while still protecting yourself from fraud/felony charges, wouldn't this be good news? It sounds like you could easily find an author who'd be happy with 10k or even 15k per year.
Does Henry Kissinger have a conscience?
This is a CNN sub-site. CNN began running the "Great Big Story" a month or two ago -- at least that's when I noticed it. Go to CNN.com and scroll don the page and you come across the latest "Great Big Story" (and some of these are there.)
My point is its of limited utility to a lot of institutions because students need to earn money and summer is the time to do it.

Plus, the accreditation rules have changed in recent years to make people without a 4 year degrees (and indeed in some areas without a Masters) to be problematic for teaching.
That is offset by the convenience of owning an autonomous car which can drive you anywhere on the spot, with all your stuff already in it. If I owned an autonomous car that acted as my personal chauffeur, I'd only consider services like Uber or Lyft when flying out of town.
I've been waiting for years for somebody to do something like this with emoji. All we'd need is a way to add radicals and a central dictionary.
But why must everything be an expression?
My guess is that he's not fully coming clean with the real reason he was fired. If he was a leader worth promoting 2months earlier and wasn't making product planning spreadsheets then they'd have told him and/or hired someone to help him. That story doesn't jive with being told he was a liability.

Given that he leaked info previously without talking to the team, I suspect that he was fired because he did something of that magnitude again and they decided he could not be trusted and he was out.
Eye of Sauron was what I thought.
At this point, I'd settle for JSON5 (http://json5.org/), which says any JSON that's a valid ECMAScript 5 object is valid JSON (including trailing commas, unquoted keys, single quote strings, and comments). I don't think it's very popular at this point though, but I guess I've never tried to use it.
While you are correct, throwing out a number none-the-less does have an impact - the concept is known as anchoring:

https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Anchoring
A long, long time ago? It has been a while. But it also isn't what I'm looking for. Aminator is designed for pretty restrictive situations where you're deploying applications (in the form of single RPMs). And I do a lot of that in what Aminator considers a base AMI, and that's fine...but what do I use to build the base AMI? =)

Packer has a lot of user-friendliness problems (destroying build artifacts on failure, as the OP noted, being just one of them), but it does constrain the universe sufficiently that I can just run Chef and get on with my day.
Every employee is "replaceable" at some point in time. I get the sense from his writing that Noah Kagan is a smart capable guy with a provocative demeanor that gets him into trouble from time to time.

So he made a bad decision and as a result may have lost out on a big pile of money. But he seems to be doing fine and has accumulated more than a couple epic cocktail party stories. Thats a smashing success in my book.
Nvidia’s GTX 1080 can crack passwords as easily as it can game
The difficulty people have with the statement is that the relationship is inverted: it's Windows 7 which does not support the new processor. The processor does not have some explicit blacklist that prevents Windows 7 from running. Rather, the processor does things that Windows 7 was never designed to deal with, as Windows 7 is a decade old.
You should check out Pando, a grove of this one quaking aspen tree that is supposed to be about 80,000 years old. It's bonkers how old trees can live.
> numerics

It's too late to edit this now, but I meant "generics". Whoops.
Gladwell is (IMHO) a bit of an ass, but anyone in academia knows that the richest research universities also make a habit of ripping off the federal government in the form of research indirects.

Notionally, indirects are overhead for administration and distribution of grants (typically hundreds of thousands to tens of millions of taxpayer-provided dollars) but if someone could explain to me why it costs Mass General 90% of the grant's value to hand the money to the researchers that wrote it, or why Stanford will go broke if it doesn't recover at least another 58% above and beyond the face value of a $10m P01 grant despite getting oceans of free $$$ from CIRM, I'd be much obliged.

The research industrial complex isn't exactly on a par with the military industrial complex, but donors can certainly vote with their wallets against the most egregious abusers. (For what it's worth, shitty little schools like USC and UMich can somehow manage to hand off decent sized grants for less than half the "service charge" of a Stanford or a Harvard... I'd pretend it's because of the football teams but Stanford doesn't have that excuse either!).

The example of a private donor marching in and rescuing a nearly bankrupt Glassboro is cool, although I wonder if it will be a permanent solution if the school doesn't fix whatever got them in that mess. In that respect, Harvard and Stanford and Princeton are rather safe bets. But safe bets are for wusses anyways, so fuck that. :-D
I see some confusion both in the article and in the comments.

If we're talking about an API key, then the issue isn't collision and there's no relationship with hashing or uuids except the recommended final length.

A key should be a random 128-bit string (or 192, or 256 if you need additional security).

If you need to generate a key from a passphrase, use a key expansion function, not an hash just because the length is the same.

I don't know if there's any proof of randomness for uuid, the risk (in absence of a proof) is that to provide uniqueness the bit distribution is uneven, which could leak some information to an attacker, thus reducing the real bit strength of the key.
I don't understand where the 100m figure popped out of.
Yep - it's actually been pretty invaluable in getting this project to where it is now. :) It definitely has its own flaws, but those are easy to work around.

Edit - looks like they have a similar problem from dealing with hand typed data. From their road map:

Ambiguous token classification (coming soon): e.g. "dr" => "doctor" or "drive" for an English address depending on the context. Multiclass logistic regression trained on OSM addresses, where abbreviations are discouraged, giving us many examples of fully qualified addresses on which to train
People had a lot more to work with in those games. NMS is little more than a tech demo. No physics, and superfluous variety. No real goal. The game is a fuel mining simulator, and the fuel is abundant with little effort to achieve. The only challenge is in overlaying your imagination on top of the cardboard box that is in front of you.
The article seems to blame Intel for this. Intel has absolutely nothing to do with it, and the dictum was by Microsoft and primarily relates to support. They want new computers shipping only with the latest OS, and as a line in the sand they won't support you if you run older OSs.
I've read your reddit threat and this one now and I'd like to let you know my somewhat knee jerk opinion. You say that you need a differentiator but that you feel you have one. For one, i think that if information is indeed your only differtiator (nd's jars look good enough) then nootropics might be the wrong market. most people getting into nootropics do so because they have already read a lot and tend to be better informed, thus degrading that differentiator significantly. People who dont know much about nootropics will be hesitant to try them at such high prices and even if they do once, you won't necessarily get repeat businesses out of them.

the venture you are starting should be validated with a good study beforehand as you are essentially trying to sell information repeatedly to folks who know googleing well. As you can see with amazon, which is in a business similar to yours, customers care most about price and then about convenience and security (refunds etc). the information amazon provides about the products they sell is shit at best and the website does not look good either. furthermore, nootropics cannot be tried easily and then be refunded, as many need eg two weeks of consistent use to be able to feel a difference.

in my opinion, approach your businesses not as a startup but rather as a shop would. define the customers, their needs, do interviews and then decide if it is worth getting into
Neal DeGrasse Tyson did an interview with Jimmy Carter on his podcast (Startalk); the interview covered the guinea worm in detail--very interesting.
anecdotally I know several europeans where they know at least their language + english + at least one of (french, german, spanish, italian)

brasilians I know typically know english and portuguese and they dont want to admit it but usually they know spanish. they just prefer brasilian or english.

overall if we just all agreed on english as the universal language (imperfect as it is) then it would save so many smart people so much time from needing to learn and translate between so many languages.

just from an efficiency perspective alone, humanity would see a major benefit, I believe.
But on the other hand, not getting bogged down by legal resistance works a lot better when you are not perceived as the biggest asshole in the room.

AirBnB for example is facing some resistance despite having a very clean image, but I imagine it would be much more vicious if they had a reputation like Uber.
Two quick observations:

- Getting standards passed is hard (especially for popularly used standards), but can be supported by latent usage in the community. You can create a plugin for a few languages that automatically allows the timestamps and doesn't require commas. Get a bunch of people using it, and you'll be on your way to actually getting it in the standard in the future (still debatable in this specific example, but broadly, usage never hurts for getting something into a standard)

- If your concern is your own frustrations (rather than benefits of the vast majority of people) - I highly recommend a simple editor-level mapping that translates from your preferred DSL to the underlying standard
Microsoft could improve sales of Windows 10 by leaps and bounds by coming out with a No Analytics edition. They may think its a techy problem, but I keep having normal people tell me they won't upgrade because "it spies on you and snoops your credit cards". This is getting silly and stupid.
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Just use yaml?
It's not the oldest tree I've heard of, but the article describes it as the oldest in Europe. What makes other cadidates for oldest tree not count, and is there some political significance to the combined type, age, and location of the tree?
I wonder how much danger there is of the worm finding a new host species. I mean an animal other than dog and possibly harder to control. That would be a disastrous outcome.
Ma­jor ir­ri­tan­t: Com­mas

I thought the major irritant was having to add double-quotes around keys? Commas never bothered me personally, but having to use double quotes is actually irritating.
MopPub, AdMob - on overall they give more money than PPC networks on the web. Downside - the mobile is squirming with cheating/clickfrauding publishers, if you get banned or suspended it is "guilty until proven innocent"
different senses of innovation /shrug

for stuff in the more progressive vein, check out:

Jaga Jazzist : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HVIFUQV20NM or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ws25EyTGdTg

Jacob Collier - P.Y.T. : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DaNxq6Q4v1w

more Hiatus Kaiyote : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-e6-jjbrs0 or

more Snarky Puppy : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_XJ_s5IsQc
The original point is that this doesn't have to be a kernel. None of the current rationale gives any use-cases for the features you're offering, you're just saying "this feature requires kernel support" well what is the use case for that feature? Maybe there is another way that doesn't require kernel support.

Multicast messaging as your main motivation for a message ordering layer when that layer has drastic effects on performance and operational characteristics is a strange proposition. I'm willing to argue that 99% of application protocols will have no use for baked-in multicast as you've implemented it. What exactly is the killer use case for multicast messaging with side-channel aware causal message ordering? What prevents an application that cares about this from ordering incoming messages according to a lamport clock itself?

I see no downside to these features in general, it's just that the justification for putting it in the kernel is weak. Kernel code has an infinitely high maintenance cost and it's not clear bus1 is the end-all messaging layer you want it to be. There are lots of past failed examples, inotify, dnotify, and fanotify come to mind...