skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We moved our startup from Mountain View to Taipei: http://cardinalblue.com

Please contact me at john at cardinalblue dot com

There is an active startup community with various activities (e.g. HTML5, Mobile Monday, Ruby Tuesday, AppWorks mixer).

It will help if you speak Chinese... or are willing to learn... but everyone in technology can speak English ok. Overall, Taiwan is a very friendly environment with some interesting technology development located here (e.g. Asus, Acer, HTC, Yahoo Asia HQ, Google Android).

As for the city, it's very safe, has good restaurants and the MRT (subway) is very clean and convenient. It's definitely not a bad place to spend a year or two.
ZFS is really cool. The best things that stood out out to me when I researched it a bit a while ago (though there is so much cool about it) are

1) more storage than you could ever possibly use–you won't run out. 2) you can add and remove drives on the fly. 3) you don't have drives you mount, you have pools you can add to and remove from (on the fly). 4) great redundancy/error-checking built in, in all forms.

I'd love to see it on the Mac, officially…
Thanks for your comments.

I just want to point that I cann't afford at this moment hiring a copywriter for this side project. That's why I'm asking HN :) But I admit that with 0 budget I will be going more with an ok copy than with 37signals one.

Mz: your suggestion is good. I'm agree with the "stuff" comment, but sometimes are links, sometimes songs, books, etc. Then "stuff" is the most generic I can think, other alternative is "content" but that is boring.
Yes, and it's probably exacerbated in developed countries with an aging population.
Think Geek has a good selection: http://www.thinkgeek.com/geektoys/
Used cars
Thanks for given such a nice answer, it is really very nice and i like it so much.
For what it's worth, the government is fruit to phase out the more abusive workplace situations that are noted in the article.
Point taken, but for what it's worth, being in the US already puts you ahead of the game in many ways.
Everyone will be happy to know that entering the entire comment section of Hacker New's top post at the moment[1] returned 'Your text was of high quality' while Reddit's top post[2] returned 'Your text was of low quality'.

This text classifier is great!

[1] - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2086628

[2] - http://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/ez7po/i_agree_logite...
What techniques are now used in place of GAs?
And in trading applications (as with many other domains), GAs can lead to fitting if the quant isn't careful. What looks like a great strategy in a back-test suddenly blows-up in production. I worked at one hedge fund whose safe-guard against GAs was to make traders submit their algos a month before production so they could be tested again out-of-sample.
I would like to live in Equal-land, I could live there, slouch around, work the absolute minimum and avoid work, and enjoy exactly the same benefits as those working the hardest to maintain that utopia.
Thanks!
Do you have a suggestion to include "popular links" plus the idea of "archive" or "history" or "save".

I would like that the visitors get the complete idea of the site just with the tagline. Something like what Nielse says http://www.useit.com/alertbox/20010722.html
I know I'm a year or two late on both of these, but they have proven to be awesome books whose contents I was able to apply almost immediately. One is great for hacking and the other is about leadership and developing company culture.

Programming Collective Intelligence by Toby Segaran

Tribal Leadership: Leveraging Natural Groups to Build a Thriving Organization by Dave Logan, John King, Halee Fischer-Wright
According to Wikipedia, 87% of the wealth belongs to the wealthiest 20%. However over 80% of that wealth belongs to the top half of that group. The figures I am looking at do not break it down farther, but my understanding is that this same relative relationship holds for the top 5%, 2%, 1%, and so on.

Everyone agrees that some wealth disparity is a good and necessary part of a healthy economy. But there is a lot more going on here than the straightforward "some people are older, some people save".

The charts and tables at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wealth_in_the_United_States#Dis... are very interesting. Of interest to many in the HN crowd I direct you to "Current work status of head". Note the immense disparity between "self-employed" and all other categories.
I observe this with "PowerBoost", and that was the first thing I thought of when I read what he was describing.
// test 1 + 1 == 2
function testOnePlusOneEqualsTwo(){
return (1 + 1) == 2;
}

I find unnecessary documentation to be unnecessary.
Viewing the demo, then clicking the logo gives a 404 because it links to demo/index.htm not index.htm
Jose Saramago - The Cave because it the language was so beautiful even in translation that it made me want to learn Portuguese.

Roberto Bolano - The Savage Detectives because what's not to love about tough guy poets?

David Bain - Empire Express because it put startups and business in a new light.
Concurrency in Go: A Call Center Tutorial
You can add and replace, but you cannot remove drives.
Please, please change this language:

"Q: Are the images I upload, anonymous?

A: Yeah. Totally. Kinda. We keep your IP address. We wish we didn't have to, but there are some folks in this world that like child pr0nz and stuff. We really don't like that kind of thing, and if the cops come busting down our door, we gotta have something to tell them. But your IP address and the picture are literally the only things we track, and only the picture is made available to the public, so yes, you're more or less anonymous here."

"We keep your IP" and "More or less anonymous" are absolutely not compatible phrases. You either need to stop logging IP addresses or drop any pretenses of anonymity. You don't "gotta tell the cops something." There's no law requiring this. You don't even mention how long your data retention policy is.
GameBoy Color Emulator in JavaScript
GAs are just a really complex version of a local search algorithm. The problem with them is that they're just too complicated - you're trying to solve some non-linear problem, and your first step is to introduce several more non-linear problems that also need to be solved (picking chromosomes, mixing, population size, etc.)?
Racket's 2htdp/image module is arguably more fully-featured implementation of the same thing (though it should be fairly simple to add colors to Frank's code)
You should first ask to see whether you can keep your job and work remotely.

If you haven't been to Taiwan, don't plan for a year. Go for a month. If it's good, stay. If not, move to next destination.
I lived in Taiwan for two years and loved it; we just visited again this summer. It's a very foreigner-friendly place, and you'll be able to get by well, even if you don't speak Chinese - although I'd suggest learning, especially to read menus if you want to eat something other than McDonald's or TGI Friday's. Also, taxi drivers will love you if you can chat about their kids in Mandarin during the trip.

If you're looking at Taipei, take a look at Tianmu (which is part of Shilin district - there's a Tianmu rail station) - it's the North American expat capital of Taiwan, and you can find just about anything you'd miss elsewhere, such as Mountain Dew. If you have kids, there's also an excellent "American school" there, though I understand it's pricey.

If you're not used to humidity and heat, you may have a tough time at first - the humidity is very intense, especially when it gets hot in the summer.
One possible use of this is sorting objects in a scene by depth. If you do one pass of bubble sort per frame typically this is 'good enough' for most applications.
Let The Great World Spin - Colum McCann

Freedom - Jonathan Franzen

Eating Animals - Jonathan Safran-Foer

Desperate Characters - Paula Fox
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Konveksi baju seragam kemeja seragam kemeja kerja kantor
konveksi baju seragam kerja dan seragam kantor termasuk kemeja dan baju promosi
"Breaths new life" is a bit misleading' no? From the project page: "this code project will be used to record issues and ongoing development (if any) of this extension"

As well, only a single commit to the git repo since July. :(
"Everyone agrees that some wealth disparity is a good and necessary part of a healthy economy."

Nope.
Sure you can. You just can't shrink the size of a pool.
What is the differentiator from other image sharing sites like imgur?
Thanks for the feedback!

That's a surprisingly small negative, all things considered :)

Maybe the project will be revived after all...
Using the Kinect to Build in Minecraft
I don't think you're following my line of reason. You and I believe that red point is a planet because someone else taught us that. We don't have any independent evidence -- we simply believe what others have told us. I'm not arguing about the definition of a planet, or what 'Mars' is -- I'm arguing about what you and I _KNOW_. We don't KNOW that red point is planet -- we've simply been taught, and believe it. For the record, I believe Mars is a planet, despite having no personal experience or evidence whatsoever.
I love the marketing. "PowerBoost, the few seconds before we throttle your connection."
You're missing the point. The point is that even when everyone is actually equal, there is still some apparent wealth inequality because different people are at different stages of life.
Does anyone know if Oracle is still developing ZFS, or just Btrfs? Has the situation changed so that Apple may include it on next iterations of OS X, or are we stuck with HSF+ forever?
These days it seems like most self-described skeptics are morons. I'm not sure how we got to this point, but it's highly troubling.
Why do people create sites like these (from a financial perspective)? Do they have anything to gain? I assume they have to pay a lot in terms of space. Is there something I'm missing?
I'm not sure whether the EE abbreviation is widely-known for Electric Engineer, (I'm not a native English speaker) but given that your post title is 8 characters long, you could have written it full-length: would have been clearer.

edit: also, it is customary here to begin your question by 'Ask HN:', so a better post title could have been: 'Ask HN: Any YC startups founded by Electric Engineers?', and then, you could have explained the rationale of asking this in the body of the post.
I believe that was the promise of communism - which failed due to most people's inherent desire to be better than others or to excel. Also, people realized that they could/should do the absolute minimum, as there was no benefit for working harder.

They did end up adding incentives (in the USSR) which started looking more and more like capitalism.
the forum is very active, especially alex blewitt. There are fairly infrequent updates, but it's definiatly being developed.
I think burgerbrain is asking how far you are network wise from the target servers. Comcast, along with most of the other big residential ISPs, is notorious for having bad internal routing. It's possible your previous PacBell DSL connection had better routing to the servers in question, but Comcast doesn't. What does a traceroute look like?

My fiber connection at home pings an average of 12ms to my colocated server in the same major city. However, a friend's cable modem connection through Time Warner, just two suburbs over, pings at an average of 43ms. My traceroute? 10 hops. His? 21 hops, and goes by way of Houston.
I'm kind of interested if you could point us in the direction of specific techniques. I always thought neural nets and genetic algorithms were interesting and I'm curious what other techniques are out there.
Speculation, by the numbers:

AMD P/E: 5.46

Intel P/E: 11.12

ARM P/E: 86.94
Why Chinese Mothers Raise More Academically Successful Children
Share This -- Deanna Zandt
It's obvious enough that infrastructure has declined with the blackouts you guys have had over the last decade.
Share the Good Parts of YouTube video
That is not an adequate summary of the point. The point that you are addressing is that if we are to truly take this as a question about "what should a real person do?", the question can be rephrased without loss as "You are a person standing before the track and you know with 100% certainty that if you flip the switch that one person is 100% likely to die and if you do nothing that five people are 100% likely to die." and his response is that it isn't even possible in theory for a person to know these things with 100% certainty. The key phrase is "I can't occupy the epistemological state you want me to imagine".

I would also draw your attention to the first sentence of the next paragraph: "Now, to me this seems like a dodge." This isn't the core point of the essay, and the more I stare at it, the more it does seem like it's five paragraphs accidentally ripped from another essay ("And now the philosopher comes" -> "Now to me this seems like a dodge"); if you just cut those five out entirely it seems more focused, and those five paragraphs can spin off into another interesting essay. (One that would, I think, conclude that this is actually just a way of rephrasing the idea that philosophical hypotheticals are actually useless by virtue of being impossibly overspecified which itself comes from impossible oversimplification, and in general the hypothetical question "What if an absolutely mathematically impossible thing happened?" is not a fruitful line of thought.)
As far as anonymity is concerned, the images are anonymous to other user and visitors. It is our responsibility to keep track of unlawful activity for both our protection and the user's. The Terms of user explains this in detail. Also, the front page clearly states that Images expire in 30 days if not used.

Thanks
Guys, this is not traffic shaping by his ISP. I think it's just a poor calculation job by scp; I see this mis-estimation all the time when I copy a movie from my desktop in my bedroom to my TV in my living room over 20 feet of Cat 6 cable. scp starts at about something 200MB/s and then eventually converges to the real speed of 30MB/s. There is no traffic shaping, but there is one write at the beginning that fills the kernel buffer without blocking. (Why does this get "bigger and bigger every year"? Because people are setting it bigger. By default, the tcp write buffer is something like 4k. I have mine set to ~512k.)

If you want to accurately measure your bandwidth, try iperf. Between my server on Slicehost and my desktop at home, I get about 6Mbps. And I pay for 6Mbps DSL. So there is not some conspiracy here, people are just measuring wrong. scp is not a benchmark.
Are tears a turnoff to guys?
I'm not an expert but I don't think 4chan stores anything.. why do you need to ?
"a belief in Australia and a belief in unicorns are both lumped under the category of blind faith, which I think is a really silly classification."

I'm not lumping them together. Lots of people that I trust tell me they've been to Australia. I don't have any reason to doubt them. I trust them, so accept that Australia is there. Lots of others also publish pictures, movies, etc so I trust them too. But that's a belief, not a knowledge -- I _personally_ have no evidence at this point.

Nobody I know professes to have seen a unicorn. I also have no personal evidence, so I don't believe that.

And like I said above, I'm not trying to go to the point of whether we can trust our senses, or know whether or not we actually exist or any of that. I'm just trying to show that individually, each of us live our lives with 99% belief (ie no personal experience/evidence), and 1% knowledge (things we've personally experienced).

Let's take the atom. How do YOU KNOW that atoms exist? What personal experience/evidence do YOU have that they exist? We both believe they exist, but neither of us have split one and know for a fact that there is a nucleus in there. We both choose to believe, based on the coherent story we hear from many other sources.
I doubt this is a valid model of economic reality (even as a rough approximation). I seriously doubt that the average American is saving anywhere near as much for their retirement as this simulation suggests.

"Nearly half of baby boomers born between 1948 and 1954 and now between the ages of 56 and 62 are at risk of not having enough money in retirement to pay for basic expenditures, EBRI reports." - http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/07...
> He also put himself into a position where it was possible to get superbly lucky

That reminds me of a story where a professional golfer took a year off for practicing, no tournaments or other distractions. After that, on his first tournament he started with hole-in-one.

A journalist asked him "surely that must have been luck? Nobody can reliably train a hole-in one", upon which the golfer answered "Yes, it was luck. But the more I train, the luckier I get".

I always loved this answer, because it contains a deep truth: must people who seem to be "lucky" really worked hard, and then had luck too. None of our rich programming idols seems lazy to me.

P.S. I have no idea if the story with the golfer actually happened, or if it's fiction; I can't remember any sources.
The current system is full of waste and inefficiency, and the possibility of fraud.

As such people using it take great care and don't trust it.

This is actually a hidden benefit of the system.

If you introduce an ID that everyone 'trusts' implicitly (esp. relating to online commerce) then the scope for fraud widens greatly. You can assume the system will get corrupted because of the great benefits accruing to those who can breach it.

The vast majority of contracts entered don't need much; if it does go wrong, usually little damage is done. As the risk profile increases, then so does the amount of verification, purchasing a business requires reams of documentation, an iPhone cover shipped out of hong kong can stay anonymous.

As IT people, we all naturally love a world that fits into a relational model, one where all people have a unique ID. As citizens, however, we have to resist this because of the lopsided risk/reward profile for individuals. In cases if centralised ID, you gain a little but lose a lot.
My main pain point with my Android (2.1) phone is the soft keyboard. The spelling options hide the current text when text messaging, but there is no way for the keyboard to know where the text being edited is on the screen to avoid this.
Agreed. They're called "Bucky Balls" http://www.thinkgeek.com/geektoys/cubegoodies/bbe8/
Well, if you have a national ID, it's a lot easier to require ID when taking public transit (especially if they have RFID tags: "wave your ID to activate the ticket kiosk!"). That is certainly a step towards, while not necessarily totalitarianism, the sort of police state which I doubt that anyone would want to live in.

The problem isn't that national IDs will cause totalitarianism; they won't. The problem is that they're a step in a direction which a lot of people dislike, towards a government which is monitoring everything we do.
Why isn't this permalinked to the article?
Any reason from "just for shits and giggles" to "getting credibility in a community" (like HN).

I run a url shortener - it costs me time and money that I will never get back directly. Hopefully it gives me some credibility in the community but other than that it is just a fun side project.
Agree with the article. Here I now await my downvotes from the groupthinkers.
And some science is just a new religion for those who don't like churches.
FWIW, my understanding is that Hotmail is not part of the online services division (which is Bing plus MSN), but rather the Windows division (that's why it's "Windows Live Hotmail"). Don't ask me why.
> In the 50s, 60s, 70s children have dreamed of becoming astronauts, programmers, engineers, scientists. But nowadays the cool jobs are in sports, TV, finance.

More dreamed of becoming cowboys, police, and firemen.

Also, kids during the 50s dreamed of becoming professional athletes. The only that has changed in that respect is which sports.

In any event, that doesn't have anything to do with "How about because ppl prefer religion over science. And security over freedom. Federal government getting more corrupt and more powerful with each year."
Yeah, sorry I didn't make that clearer. I made the comment while this[0] poorly researched/written WSJ tech article was still on my mind.

0: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2086738
min.us may have won the game with their snazzy interface.
Some of them have made a good amount of money through advertising (e.g. Imageshack). It seems like the market is probably a little saturated by now, so unless you've got some killer feature or a base of users to market to (Imageshack started off on the Something Awful forums) it's probably not worth it.
Well, actually, I would have to say simplicity and convenience. imgip.com was intended for quicker image sharing,

It only takes two steps for you to complete your upload process and be on your way to share you image.

There are actually a lot more advantages currently and a lot more to come.

Thanks for asking.
Your query is so vague it's hard to know where to even start; you're looking for "artificial intelligence" or "machine learning". Here's a halfway decent start, actually: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_Intelligence#Tools , it at least arms you with a lot of search terms and introductory overviews.

Neural nets and genetic algorithms are plenty interesting, it's just that they're way more interesting than they are useful. (Also note I didn't say useless. Just, not that useful.)
Also, thought this was a great comment on MeFi about this

http://www.metafilter.com/99339/Why-Chinese-Mothers-Are-Supe...

(the discussion there is fascinating too btw)
URL Change: MF or VM?
People dislike government monitoring them exactly because it's a step toward totalitarianism.

Nothing prevents public transit to allow people pay with their credit cards or even with driver's licenses.
I'm pretty sure that if government works on such payment system -- it would be much more expensive and buggy than best private alternatives.

Besides, government has other things to focus on, such as pulling military out from Iraq and paying out huge government debt.
It's not government business to mess with payment system and/or National ID.
I don't see how this would be implemented at the ISP level

Simple: all new contracts with any ISP will require the customer to provide the internet ID.

All existing contracts have to be renewed no later than {date}, and if the customer fails to provide the internet ID by that date, he is forcefully disconnected.
Canvas rendering is not 100% consistent across canvas implementations.

So you would be losing the ability to have the browser do layout for you, losing the ability to scroll sanely, etc, and gaining perhaps some improvement in consistency, maybe. And maybe not.
What The Winkelvoss Twins Think Facebook Would Be Like Today If ...
No you don't. Money is a terrible motivator. If the only thing that is keeping you from working hard is the prospect of making more money, might I suggest that you've chosen the wrong career?

I'm not saying that Equalland is desirable. I'm just saying that I think you're overestimating the effect money has on how productive people are.
My 401K's in a 'LifePath' fund- more-or-less an index tracker which shifts more weight from a stock index funds into bonds as your nominal retirement day approaches. It's quite possible I'll come to regret it, but I can't think of a safer approach.
Please do not dare people to downvote you.