skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, I'm finding that there's little book-format info on deep neural networks as well. Similarly for belief networks. Gotta hunt down some journals, and wield some Google-fu.
> The one in which he equaled Debian, the most independent and free software obsessed distribution out there, to Microsoft.

Debian fails to do step 3. Microsoft's routine is "embrace, extend and suffocate" while Debian will never go beyond step 2. And they have the license to keep them honest.
Yes.

It also provides some context to the conversation. If only the companies most likely to become giga-corporations ever received investment capital how many opportunities would be passed up? More so, would a world populated mostly by gigacorps be a world you would want to live in?
I find pieces like this often leave out a very important piece of the equation: what you do with the time you gain. The value of your time isn't constant.

You haven't gained much if you pay someone $20 to mow your lawn because you think the hour you would spend is worth $100, but then spend that time watching soaps on TV. Is an hour of soaps worth $80 for you? Is that relaxation you need in order to $80 more productive later? I've seen people justifying purchases and luxuries by saying, "My time is worth it." but then they waste the time on other busy-work and still don't think they have enough time in their day.
That would be right assuming passwords were always encrypted - and we know that unfortunately even some of the biggest sites have been bitten by not encrypting passwords in their database[1] - but that's not actually the case I was thinking of when I said "brute forced".

Here's one possible scenario: let's say that I happened to be a member of a website that unfortunately allows an attacker to hit their login form as many times as they like and as fast as they like with various username/password combinations, and by brute forcing this login page in this way, they manage to determine what my username/password actually is. Now the attacker does know my username/password for one website I belong to and - if they're smart and determined - it may occur to them that now they know one of my usernames/passwords they might use these details as a starting point in trying to brute force other accounts that I may have on other websites.

I used to run these kinds of brute force attacks against websites back in the day when I had nothing better to do and before I had to work for a living. Often I was quite successful, but I wasn't targeting specific users and even back then I could tell that websites were getting more savvy in terms of detecting and defeating such attacks. So no doubt it would be harder to pull this kind of thing off now and it would probably depend a lot on which website(s) you targeted. But surely it wouldn't be impossible.

[1] http://blog.moertel.com/articles/2006/12/15/never-store-pass...
I do agree though the author is a bit naive sounding.

"By failure we mean the inability to properly educate our children equally and fairly."

I don't agree completely with this. By failure we mean the inability to properly educate our children PERIOD. Supplying "equal" education to the underprivileged is a sub-issue to the education issues (though it is a large sub-issue).

"One is that students are educated in order to prepare them for the world, allow them to succeed, and mold them into proper social citizens. This is the governments, parents and teachers point of view."

I wouldn't go as far as to say this is the government's point of view. The government I think has a main focus of molding people into "proper" social citizens.

"We need to discover our own purpose in order to help students discover theirs."

Good conclusion as well though it came out of left-field a bit. I agree that inspiring students should be the number one goal, and re-educating teachers first is a necessary step in reaching that goal, however difficult the task.
Dallas/Fort Worth anybody?
Not employed there, but I think Quora might be a good place to ask.
Aetna is surprisingly forward-thinking for a bunch of evil bastards.
Kinda cool, but can anyone imagine why'd you'd do this with PHP?
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To further confuse non-painters, although painting is done with a subtractive color system and, technically, cyan, magenta, and yellow are the primaries of such a system, painters don't actually mix their colors from a palette of cyan, magenta, and yellow. If you ask a painter what the primary colors are, they will tell you yellow, red, and blue. A typically painter's palette will consist of a couple hues of each of the primaries + titanium white (except in watercolor, where the natural white of the paper is typically retained instead of using a white pigment). For example, you might use cadmium yellow light, yellow ochre, cadmium red medium, alizarin crimson, cerulean blue, and phthalo blue for your palette. Mixing from a limited palette such as this helps to give the painting a color scheme that is harmonious (and is worthwhile practice if you're a designer who wants to really develop a good feel for color harmony in your designs). A common mistake beginners make is to load up their palette with every tube color they can find at the local art supply store. The end result is a painting with colors that clash like a bad 1970's leisure suit and/or ugly dull muddy color that doesn't pop at all.
Since it's up for discussion, does anybody know of anything even remotely like YC for the DC/Baltimore area? I know that LaunchBox was here in 09, but it looks like they've moved to NC.

Failing that, would anybody recommend any venture capital firms that focus on web startups?
I'm a software dev. for a medical device company and when I read pg's comment about the mismatch between startup culture and government culture, the first thought I had was "add medical to the list."

The medical device/software field is certainly interesting, exciting even at times, but it progresses at an absolutely glacial pace for the most part. You're dealing with slow, conservative institutions (hospitals, etc) and government agencies. Unless you hire people specifically to deal with those soul-crushing interactions, you'll probably want to shoot yourself.
> The IBM AS400 isn't something that people really desire

I liked OS/400, you insensitive clod. If I come across a 5250, I'll buy it immediately.

Not sure what I'll connect it to.

But, going back to Solaris and OpenSolaris, it's easy to switch a deployment to "legacy mode". Unix machines are Unix machines and it's not nearly as difficult to move from AIX/HP-UX/Solaris/IRIX to Linux as it would be to move from MVS, unless your binaries insist on running only under Solaris. Legacy mode means no new deployments and no expansion unless justified. It's slow death.

True, in the case of very proprietary platforms (like z and iSeries boxes) it takes very long, but it's death nevertheless.

In order to be kept alive, the Solaris boxes have to be able to perform tricks Linux boxes can't and, to a large extent, this is not the case.
Really? What cool companies are you referring to? I only know about AOL acquisitions which have been reasonably successful.
I went through TechStars in 09. It was the single greatest accelerator for my company. We benefited from incredible mentorship and attention from the web's best and brightest. We would not be where we are today without TechStars.

We chose TechStars over YC because of the focus on mentorship. Both programs are fantastic and both will help you develop but do your research on the strengths of each so you know which will work best for you.

I encourage you to reach out to any of the TechStars founders and ask about their experiences first hand. All are happy and excited to share their experiences. You should do the same for YC.

The bottom line. Get into one of the two and kick a$$. Apply to both, do some research so you know what to expect and then make the decision.
We have the exact same problem with Dyn, and it's pretty much just a way for them to make more money off you. Leaves a sour taste in your mouth, and I doubt most people even notice the extra req/s they're being billed for.

If there was an alternative, we'd switch. DNSMadeEasy does not charge for those AAAA requests, but it's not quite at the same level UI/functionality wise.
Too bad, hg and bb are great, but Atlassian makes abominable tools.

On the upside, my account is now cheaper (free).
If only they were lobbyists.
Yep. I have an A/B results page which automatically collects closed tests. http://abingo.org/results 75% or so of tests get a null result (A may or may not be better than B.). Lots of the remainder tell me to what degree of statistical significance my great new idea for improvement sucked. But you can still improve over time.
There will be more about this issue in the coming weeks. It's expected to pass in the SJC on Thursday but will get more scrutiny in the Senate. This caught a number of us by surprise but we are responding aggressively and quickly.

And yes, this bill would probably help my business, but I think it's still a terrible precedent to set and I am not interested in having the government induce ISPs or folks like me to block sites.
I went from not being able to draw a smiley face to drawing myself in a way that resembled a human and was even recognizable with that book.

A good book to read after you are done with Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain is Nicolaides The Natural Way to Draw. It's a lot of hard work, but it's worth it in the end.
so it's sorta like buying a workout tape, except the exercises are personalized for you? that seems pretty clever and useful. i don't know much about this space... is anyone else doing this?
After reading some of the "witty" things they tried to say it sounded like my 58 year old dad trying to spew out playful banter to my friends at a bar...it just doesnt work

Yeah there was definitely a generation gap there...I know people who work at Microsoft, and they're some of the wittiest people around. Maybe Microsoft should have let the devs actually answer the questions instead of the suits from marketing.
Yeah. At my interview, I had the guy who wrote the O'Reilly OpenSSH book asking me to derive Fermat's little theorem. Fun times ...

IIRC, even the HR person I spoke to had a PhD (russian literature, I think).

They are a very impressive firm, and I hope they recover from their recent misfortunes.
iTunes has like 180M+ users with credit cards and 1-click buying integrated into every iOS device, so I'm not seeing how Amazon can compete in any way with a store that'll only be accessible via something people have to install.

Plus, iTunes is international -- anyone can run a US-only store. http://slideme.org/ is more impressive, IMHO.
it would be nice to get at least one video for free... definitely useful for evaluating your site... probably useful for potential customers as well.
Just because one part of Amazon seems developer friendly, doesn't mean they all are.

Those "rules" are all about treating developers like crap. Which is fine, but I won't be going near this thing with a 20ft pole.
I don't know who else is applying this to workouts specifically, but the same technique would be worth trying for all kinds of applications: tutoring, dance, music lessons, foreign language.
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Made my day!

I hope this cooperation will result in a more dynamic progress of BB.
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Mmmm... Unlimited private repositories. Is this enough for me to move to hg from git?!?!?!
>Now, I thought the Live ID was a single sign-on for Microsoft’s online services, and the basis of a network of friends and contacts. Perhaps Microsoft is now ceding that concept to Facebook or others? This does seem to be a move in that direction; and while it may be acceptance of something that was inevitable, it is a bad day for Microsoft’s efforts to matter online.

I disagree. The sooner they kill off unpopular products and focus their efforts the better. Google has no qualms about quickly terminating projects that haven't gained traction, and MS shouldn't either. Especially now that they are going "all in" on search.
Let them know about the vulnerability. Help Google make decent anti-piracy protection.

P.s.: Don't forget to charge for your consultation :-)
Hey Patio, thanks for sharing that link, I didn't even know that page existed!
Very interesting how you see the role of the teacher. I never thought of it that way, but it's so true. With "free" learning available anywhere, their jobs are more to do with mentoring and less with transferring knowledge.
Can you expand on your Atlassian comment? I'd like to know more about them.
It's unclear what exactly they're doing apart from putting an iPad shaped border round an iframe. This doesn't in any way let you "test your website on an iPad". It let's you "test your website in the exact browser you are using right now but with a silly extra border". How is that useful?

The title, blog post, and the about page of the "app" don't mention this. Which is misleading and annoying.

Now, a service that actually let you test your site on an iPad in the manner of crossbrowsertesting.com or even browsershots.org could be very useful. But this ain't it.
Yeah, pretty much. You get three a week and they're different every time. We're constantly adding new exercises to keep things from getting stale and will start adding different trainers and different types of exercise like yoga.

I'm not sure if anyone else is doing exactly the same thing but there are certainly other people in the same space that have workout plans and some level of personalization. For our premium level, you get assigned a personal trainer who hand-builds your workouts, records intro videos for every single workout, and who the user has access to 24/7 to ask questions about their workout and general health and fitness related questions.
Like what?

(Disclaimer: I used to work for Atlassian)
Wow, this is awesome (I hope!) news for Jesper and the rest of the bitbucket team. I hope Atlassian treats them well - it should be interesting to see what they do with things.
But they don't call it "Knifecrime Island" for nothing.
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Do you use Atlassian tools? We use Confluence and Jira (especially with Greenhopper) on the project I am currently working on. They are not perfect but I would hardly call them abominable.
Oh, that is awesome! Do you adjust for multiple testing? You could do so and then test an overarching hypothesis (say, that there is at least one test on that page that differs from what would be expected by chance when looking at N tests).
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I don't have too much of a preference between Git and Mercurial, but the lack of even a single free private repository on Githib makes BitBucket a more favorable option for my numerous casual projects.
I don't care what MA says, it's a sad day for getting the controversial embargo-breaking news that TC is known for.
To generalize from a few anecdotes, the Humanities professors that "do" something can get their Association card in as little as 5 years. (e.g., notable book, visible research, department responsibilities...)
Cisco isn't exactly all about open source, so you know, calling it an issue probably makes sense for them. :)
It's definitely not as sexy as something from 37 Signals, but it sure as hell is more useful.
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mellery451 has pointed out the idea on starting with something I am comfortable with so i can build my app/project within the minimum timeframe/cost. On the thought of ASP.NET MVC, would you be able to clarify further what you meant by underrated? As in terms of amount of users, or something else?
I guess the only reason that lured me in when I first started was the separation of view, model(data) and control that allows you to put things at where it should be, and as a result of that, it helps for further maintenance. I know there are alots of open source frameworks out there that also incorporate MVC concept which really re-emphasise the importance of separation.
Thank you kindly.
"ruby-full" did not exist for a long time, nor does it still provide everything in the normal distro. So far as I know, that is, I may be wrong since I stopped paying any attention to what Debian does a few years ago.
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And here I was all set to migrate my projects to Github tonight. I think I'll stick around a bit longer and see what Atlassian can do to improve BitBucket.

On a side note, I paid my monthly subscription fee just a few days ago, but now everyone is on the same (basic, free) plan. Is that money just out the window?
I don't believe its that Atlassian tools and products are always 'great', but there aren't many competitors for many of their functions that do anything close. Definitely not on the open source side; And other commercial tools are generally even more terrible.

They aren't great, but they are better than the rest.
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We're still working on all of our marketing material and videos, but you're totally right. I think we don't give enough of a picture of what you get when you sign up. I'm not sure if we will give a free video workout, but we will most likely have a ton of screenshots and videos to help with this.
Most of the spam I get comes from AOL addresses, I actually think about blocking the entire domain altogether. I'm sure same competent engineers will help TechCrunch shine.
ok, mea culpa.

i've only used jira and confluence, along with a few plugins (the notably awful jira "agile" plugin). over the span of a number of years, myself, and everyone else in the vicinity (at multiple companies) hated it with a passion.

your mileage may vary. i fear for bitbucket.
My bash uses readline, so I have this in my ~/.inputrc:

"\e[5~": history-search-backward
"\e[6~": history-search-forward

This is for PageUp and PageDn.
Sometimes I wish Indianapolis had a bigger tech community, but realistically, being one of a few startups may play in my favor in the future. Hopefully we start to see more and more startups popping up throughout the country instead of just in SV. It will help inspire others and grow the communities around the country, vs keeping the startup realm a exclusive SV club.
This is not totally unlike the combination of fogbugz and kiln. I wonder if this means anything to Fog Creek, and if any of them will comment on it.
Yeah, I'm sure the CEO of AOL just mentioned that he wanted to acquire TechCrunch out of the blue and that Arrington had no idea.
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Bootstrapping in "alternative" cities makes business sense. I work for a profitable startup in Memphis that's using consulting to finance our work on a core product. It's shockingly easy work, because the bar is VERY low outside of the major major cities. Our nice, sunny downtown office is dirt cheap, all of our personal bills are low, taxes are low, and we've already got all the talent we need to launch the product. Perhaps we'll need the services and talent pool of a SF/NY type city eventually, but if you've already got a team and don't need funding, smaller cities are what's up.
To be honest, both the TC blog and Crunchbase aren't that complicated to do. Arrington could theoretically hire contract programmers to do upgrades to the software if and when they need them.

Perhaps what Arrington means is that it's really hard to find programmers willing to work on these two products for the long term. It is a blog and a database, after all, and the nature of the software doesn't make for terribly exciting work.
Google is sponsoring a free competitor to one of their proprietary solutions. I wonder why.

Simple. The enemy of your enemy is your friend.
This has been a major issue recently, and Radley Balko of the libertarian-themed Reason magazine has done a great job covering the issue (from the pro-taping side, anyway), viz.:

http://reason.com/archives/2010/09/20/how-to-record-the-cops
http://reason.com/blog/2010/09/14/cops-and-cameras
http://reason.com/blog/2010/09/27/maryland-judge-tosses-the-...

EDIT: Radley, sorry.
Interesting, unlimited repositories and disk space. I wonder if GitHub will attempt to compete with that, their plans have only gotten worse lately.
Maybe re-release "You Don't Know Jack!" series with updated questions...or live interactive gameshows.
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I imagine this affects men married to career-minded women just as much (though they probably are the minority).
I love people who believe themselves arbiters of taste. You use Windows, therefore you don't know what style is. You don't drive a BMW, therefore your opinion about software is uninformed.

And German cars suck. What they don't understand, and why Lexus vastly outsells them, is that the car breaking down every 20k miles is a significant blemish on their user experience. The inattention to detail could be overlooked, even the little GPS knob, which is the worst user interface ever designed, if they could just make it onto an IQS list once.
Are young women better educated than their boyfriends? Yes, but they can only afford it because they have better job prospects.

kidding, maybe
Ideally, time would not matter to your application in the way it matters to movies, unless it's a realtime simulation.
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*Radley
UFOs and Terror Plots
First, seven former US Air Force pilots say aliens have been trying to shut down our nukes.

Then a plot to launch Mumbai "commando-style" attacks on Britain, France, and Germany was intercepted and foiled by drone attacks on militants based in Pakistan.

Then a team of federal agents stopped tractor-trailers on I-20 just west of Atlanta, Georgia, inspecting each truck as it passed through a weigh station. Trucks were sorted into two lines, and agents used a variety of devices to check the exteriors of the trailers, including a large drive-through machine similar to a security tool used at the Super Bowl, and a tool that measures radiation.

Could this week get any wierder?
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