skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
http://wiki.hackerdojo.com/w/page/25437/FrontPage

http://www.hackersandfounders.com/

http://grubwith.us/
http://www.quora.com/What-are-some-unusual-fun-things-to-do-...
http://www.quora.com/What-are-some-fun-and-free-activities-t...
http://www.quora.com/What-are-good-ways-to-spend-two-weeks-i...
Have you looked at how we write code? It is directly related to the hardware architecture. Operators over here, memory over here.

Why wouldn't there be a benefit in having the hardware mimic the type of software they plan on using, namely, neural networks? That way, from the ground up, you've got these "neurons" that can computer and store information locally, which is pretty much what you've got in a neural network.

I'm really excited to see what kind of ground-up software architecture is going to come from using memristors as opposed to the combination of logical operators and separate memory. It sure as hell isn't going to look anything like Assembly. :)
That could work, but I don't think they have it in their culture to be generic, low-margin, no R&D sorts of people, especially given labor and other costs in Finland.
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A part of the problem is that so many of the people in news seemingly didn't even pay attention in grade school science classes. I remember one local newsroom's momentary collective embarrassment when it became obvious that one of their number a) had no concept of how fast orbital velocity is b) apparently had an Aristotelian concept of momentum and c) held the 19th century belief that just going a certain speed could somehow harm or stress the human body.

In the US, a lot of news which has technical content is presented by people who don't understand it.
I'm in sales and in my spare time I am creating a program for online data management(which will also create leads although they're B2B and my company does B2C). Can I use the "not work related" exemption or should I renegotiate my employment agreement? I work in Nevada. Thank you for any help you can give me.
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Netflix seemed expensive to me in the $120+/share range. Even in the $100/share range, it wasn't where I was going to buy.

The market isn't rational, and it's going to be irrational with a lot more force than I can muster.
In 2010, I got accepted and kicked out of Y Combinator, lost my cofounders, and raised $1.5M from A-list investors

Sounds like it was more "our team was accepted even though they had no idea what I was up to, I subsequently lost my cofounders, and Y Combinator revised their decision based on that."

I'm surprised that YC accepted "them" after meeting just one of the co-founders. Also, what is not very clear is why he went by himself to get money and how he continued the company by himself without his cofounders. Meaning that it sounds like it's just that they didn't want to move to SF with a week-notice, not that they gave up completely on the startup...
Not interested in raising any VC. I've been part of a startup dealing with VC's and had a second startup fail to get the required VC investment. In both experiences, it was not fun.

Its far better create a product and grow the business. I also like owning the whole business and calling the shots. I'll take a 50% chance at a moderate success over a 1% chance at a huge success.
That right there is negative chi.
There's a story in there. Did Google actually have any claims to the software you wrote? If not, then you wouldn't need their persmission (except that now that you asked, they could fire you for disregarding their "advice").

I'd love to hear cdibona's views on that.
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No, that's a misunderstanding. The C1 and its ilk are not Symbian devices.

Most of Nokia's cheap phones are on the Series 40 platform, which is a closed "non-smart" OS (that has nevertheless grown some fairly smart features recently, like QWERTY keyboards and a HTML browser).

Symbian by Nokia comes in three flavours:

- Symbian^3, the latest and greatest -- e.g. the E7:
http://www.forum.nokia.com/Devices/Device_specifications/E7-...

- Symbian^1, the previous touchscreen Symbian version (a.k.a. S60 5th Edition):
http://www.forum.nokia.com/Devices/Device_specifications/C5-...

- Symbian S60 3rd Edition, still used on keyboard devices:
http://www.forum.nokia.com/Devices/Device_specifications/E72
OEM is to be installed on new equipment from manufacturers that have an OEM agreement with Adobe per the license. It doesn't matter that nobody else has used that copy. Just speaking from my experience searching in vain for legitimately cheap copies of CS.
At which point on the curve?
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Completely agree. I think there'd be an initial spike, but anything after that would well be within the capacity of my server, which is ~£30 a month. Not a high price for preserving the information... but how long would I want to keep it online, especially once it was only seeing a handful of hits a day.
You're absolutely right. There are really two questions here:

* Does my employer own this?

* Will they make me prove that in court?

The damnable thing is that, even if you really do own your work, having to prove that you own it in court may kill your startup by making you run out of money.
> Pretty much like the early WinTel era.

The company that got really, really rich off the early WinTel era was none other than Microsoft. Not Compaq, not IBM, not any of the other clones.
Most studies use raw p-values. This, coupled with "exploratory analyses" which are not mentioned in the research, leads to a high false discovery rate.

Alternatives include using simulations to estimate false discovery rates (this can be done analytically for some problems). Bayesian frameworks can also be applied, depending on the amount and accuracy of prior knowledge of the system under study.

That said, I see nothing wrong with publishing results with nominal p-values, as long as the researchers indicate the weakness in their results. Meta-analyses can always come back later and use the results they publish.

What annoys me is seeing 50 or so statistical tests done, and then researchers stating they have found something when 1 of those tests shows a p-value of 0.05. Just using a Bonferroni correction, the simplest of all corrections, would demonstrate that findings like this are not significant.
A program I'd written once got chastised by a young developer: he found it oldfashioned, "not of this time". After some asking about what he meant, I found out his main gripe was that the buttons and title bar didn't look like the 'aero' styled ones you see in Windows Vista٭. When I invited him to show me a prototype mockup of the app showing the GUI according to his taste, he declined. He also never properly completed the few projects he was assigned to, and eventually left the company for greener pastures.

٭) The app's controls look simple and grayish like in Windows 2K. No color effects. No translucency. No skinning. This is an app that 30 people use on a daily basis and it makes an effort to let them do things fast and accurate with the least chance of surprise and/or annoyance. No user of the app has complained to me yet about the lack of eye candy.
Maybe true, but they also spent months illegally withholding crash data from government regulators. Let's call it even.
That's one of the most interesting dataset I've seen released. I know what I'll be playing with this weekend :)
Am I the only one that wishes Nokia had bought Palm instead of HP?
Word. I hope he encrypted everything before he published the key so it can't be said that he is obstructing justice by encrypting his disks before he hands them over.
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SSL is definitely a huge concern for us. We're not sure we want to launch our product without it, but we certainly don't want to leave App Engine.
we have addressed all your concerns and they have been fixed/updated.

see the change log at http://hirednext.wordpress.com
Here's an article that makes the case that Bayes factors do a better job of summarizing the amount of evidence in favor of a conclusion: http://jnci.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2010/12/03/jnci...
Fake VP. It's a persona from their ad campaign.
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Three bug reports:

In Opera 11, the blog post doesn't show tags, but the main site does show tags. This may be the problem @tsanzer was experiencing.

When zooming (ctrl-scrollwheel, e.g.), the tags are not in their correct positions (at least in Chrome).

If I "unhover" sometimes, the application still thinks I'm hovering over the tag. I can reproduce this bug in several ways. For example, hover over a tag, and move the cursor up slowly.

Other comments:

I like that I can hilight a tag's text and even click links!

Flickr (and Facebook) integration would be fantastic!

Service looks really simple and fits a specific need. Don't bloat it too much or it'll lose its elegance.

> How would you promote it?

(Optional?) watermark on images (on hover). Flickr/Facebook integration.
I'd be interested to know what platform they're running Redis on. Is it Windows or Linux?

Edit: Oh, the article link mentions it's running on CentOS. I was looking for that in the parent's link.
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Bear in mind that I say this as one of the biggest grammar nazis I know: Who the fuck cares?
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I love the command line, but I find this to be hair-shirted fetishization of the command-line aesthetic.

If we're to have an advance in programmer's editors, what we really need are more powerful and convenient ways of dealing with our working sets. By working sets, I mean working sets of definitions, methods, classes -- code entities and not files.

Right now, we're fudging this using virtual screens, multiple screens, groupings of windows, working sets in git/Mercurial, tabs, buffers, code folding, etc... The only tool I've seen that deals directly and cleanly with working sets is code bubbles.

http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/3854

That looks nice, if Eclipse is your thing. What about a lightweight tool that's an add-on to vim that deals directly with working sets? What about a Textmate-like editor on OS X with explicit working set support? (This should be integrated with code folding, so that you can quickly delineate a working set, save it, then later restore it, with only the entities in the working set unfolded.)
substrates matter.
The trailer was released within the past few hours, and the film is set to release April 15th.
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Not sure what your point is. Anyone who could possibly find the key useful certainly has it by now.

Sony isn't trying to put the genie back in the bottle, they're trying to punish the kid who uncorked it.
I think Nokia need less OSen, not more.
The article makes it sound that PG and co allowed this guy to pick up and move to SF only to tell him to suck it the next day.

If that is what happened, they deserve some scorn for playing with a person's life like that. That's just not on. If, however, they were clear about their reservations and just wanted to meet the guy again to discuss, it was really stupid of him to transport himself from his home to a hotel.

Such a cavalier attitude to risk actually might be a very good reason that this guy should not be running anything, and YC made a sound choice.

Either way, don't know any of the actors in the story and wish them all the best. Thanks for sharing this rather strange story.
Pertaining the case cited by the answer, this might be an interesting read: http://bit.ly/gt5BGE (Google Books)
We may be needing Sheldon's sarcasm sign after all...
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Regarding the recognizability of the engine technology - it's fascinating to know how much materials science technology has filtered down from F1 into road-going cars.

The high-revving (9000RPM) F20C1 Inline-4 from the Honda S2000 has a peak piston speed that matches the highest-revving F1 engines at 25 m/s. The BMW S54B32 Inline-6 from the E46 M3 nearly matches the naturally-aspirated efficiency of F1 engines, at 14.3 bar mean-effective pressure (MEP).

We can also thank F1 and similar racing series for composite cylinder liners, titanium valve springs, hydraulically actuated cams (e.g. BMW's Double-VANOS), hydraulically actuated clutches (e.g. BMW's Sequential Manual Gearbox), dual-clutch transmissions (e.g. Audi and BMW Dual-Sequential Gearboxes), ceramic-composite brake rotors (e.g. Porsche PCCB), direct port fuel injection, etc.
How did they have this already ready? Was this a previous phone design that they just rendered with Windows Phone 7, or had they been working with Microsoft already?
I think integrating would be better, because it seems wrong to judge a products "success" only at some specific instant of time, rather than judging it over a full period of time.

The sign of the first derivative only gives you the present rate of adoption/abandonment of the platform, while integrating gives you a measure of success over the platform's entire existence.
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Fake VP, I should note. He's an advertising construct.
There wouldn't be a benefit because we don't know how to use neural networks to do AI yet.
The HP rollout this week was pretty impressive though. Palm's designs are already pretty good. HP gives them engineers and services to execute on it. I think HP+Palm is actually a pretty strong fit.
You don't even have to get exotic to see it's all about how much you want to spend in technology to get something out of an engine.

Ford makes a 65mpg engine with good performance in Europe.

They refuse to sell it in the USA because it would not be as profitable for them, even when it's made in Mexico.

http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/08_37/b40990604...

So basically we still drive 30mpg cars.

Maybe when gas hits $5/gallon that will change.
It wouldn't, I assumed you spoke neither languages and have mistaken "mazal tov" for Arabic.

It's "mabruk" btw.
The advice in that forum is an illustration of why you should not believe legal advice that is given to you by non-lawyers. Much of it is wrong, dangerously so.

For example one person claims that by default what you do on your own time is owned by you. Sorry, that varies by jurisdiction and local laws. It is true in CA, but false in NY.

Several people claim that CA offers strong protections. That is true, but the protections are not nearly as strong as they are claiming.

And so on. If you, personally, care about this topic, talk to a good IP lawyer who knows the local laws for your state.
The problem isn't with the use of p-values, per se: the problem is that the human brain tends to distort probabilities on either end of the spectrum. People see that there's only a 5% chance that something could have happened by chance, and they put that in the "Not possible" bucket.

It's a fundamental weakness of the human brain. There's not a whole lot we can do about it.
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Is the Internet partially responsible for Mubarek's resignation?
Hebrew is my mother-tongue, I have no axe to grind.
I came to SF the first time by myself because I was the hustler in the group. I talked to my team members every day. They knew I was in SF talking to investors and they knew I was interviewing for YC. They just hadn't heard of it until I was already doing the interview.

As to how I was able to continue, as I explain in the article, they spun off a t-shirt printing business that we had been running. It was a more predictable business. Less risky for them. More of a 9-5 thing with a steady income.

To be fair, they still believed in the business. They just didn't want to tattoo it across their face and sell their first born son like I want to.
I stopped reading after "is an excellent replacement for vim.". You guys know that there's no such thing as an excellent replacement for vim :).

On the side, good joke!
Not in Canada they don't. The courts will look at every case individually but unless there is obvious malfeasance on behalf of the employee, any "we own you" contracts are unenforceable.

(Point being that it depends on where you live.)
Your comment reminded me (for some reason) of Robert Full's 2002 TED Talk about embedding computation in the structure and material properties of a robot legs.

http://www.ted.com/talks/robert_full_on_engineering_and_evol...
And the IPO frenzy starts heating up... like it's '97
Yeah. Specifically, it's a lame gag in the vi/emacs holy war.
What's your source?

All I found are civil suits against Toyota asking for the EDR data but nothing criminal for "withholding crash data from the government regulators".
You need to go back to the 80s to see when power really peaked. There were 1.5L engines in the mid 80s that produced in excess of 1,500HP in race trim. There is one on display at the BMW factory in SC that overran the dyno in qualifying trim. It's a tiny little thing surrounded by two giant turbos and intercoolers.
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AirBnB FTW. Every time I used them it was a great experience and I had the chance of meeting some pretty cool people.
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If you look at how the brain operates, it's clear that its implementation is far from a "software problem". The line between the software and hardware is as blurred as it can be in a biological brain. AI is only a software problem in silicon because our hardware is static. With memristors we'll be able to more closely mimic how the brain actually operates. This is a potential game changer when it comes to creating true AI.
Yeah if you think it's a good idea to train your kids like you train puppies then this is cool.

Do you really want to bring up children that will happily do whatever they are told in exchange for some kind of material reward?
Not sure if it's just software; but a circuit-bending + Arduino project that gets songs and data from last.fm etc. would be pretty cool.

Other than that, maybe a song finder that finds all the popular songs with the same bpm or in the same/similar key for mixing. I know one of the mixing sites already do bpm which is pretty easy to decipher. The tech to decipher keys is also available.

Good luck.
Trying to ride the "Snowday 2011" wave (Mubarak is OUT!)
I'll let you guys know how it goes.
My Facebook group: http://facebook.com/event.php?eid=100930436654442
One of the concerns of the 2nd amendment was protecting the people from an unjust government. Back then I could see a citizens militia being able to violently protect their rights as a form of last resort. These days unless you live in a fortified mountain cave you would have great difficulty protecting yourself from the US military (if it came to that). Luckily the chances of the US military/government staging an overt violent coup are slim to none. Unluckily there are a range of new means to subvert freedoms that you can't resist with guns. Mr. Calyx holing up with a machine gun would have done nothing to preserve the rights he thought were being violated. Today we need a new form of the 2nd amendment that prevents figures of authority trying to prevent people recording them when they work[1][2], and protections for people's privacy both in person and online.

[1]http://www.pixiq.com/article/maryland-motorcyclist-spends-26...

[2]http://newsone.com/nation/newsonestaff2/chad-holley-brutally... - the video was initially suppressed
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I don't know much about the market/strategy behind IPOs. Is it a good idea to IPO if you just lost ~$325k?

I assume they have intelligent reasons behind the IPO - can someone explain the rationale?
A few hours on Photoshop and its done. I doubt if this is something real.
Zaatar, I appreciate your visiting and giving us some info on things. Can you elaborate as to why the VMs are only for MS Virtual PC. A lot of us use VMWare and it is so painful and silly that we can't use it directly to test browsers. I know VMWare competes with MS in this fashion, but it's this kind of "our way or the highway" that irritates me.
From TFA:

>The best part about this whole discovery, however, might be that it confirms Steve Ballmer's assertion that the engineers of both companies have "spent a lot of time on this already."
> I would argue that the odds of evidence being tampered are pretty slim in this instance.

Very slim. Not least because if the defendant's legal team get wind of it that's it for any evidence from the drive, period.

Too much risk.
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Nice catch with the zoom bug! I'll have to look into a way to either a) recognize zoom events and reposition the tags or b) from the get-go place tags that play nice with zooming.
From the article, "..confirms Steve Ballmer's assertion that the engineers of both companies have 'spent a lot of time on this already.'"

Which then links to the original with the quote from Ballmer here: http://www.engadget.com/2011/02/11/live-from-nokias-capital-...
I had the same problem a few days ago, maybe this little script will help you: http://blog.o1iver.net/post/3216036200/python-domain-finder
With almost 50 million units sold, I can assure you that the consumers that a fraction of a fraction of those consumers know what a "rootkit" is. The costs of the lawsuit are likely much greater than the opportunity cost in lost sales due to bad publicity, so they are well aware of the costs involved. I don't agree with their stance regarding this issue, but you can't blame them for wanting to protect their platform.
I don't find such interesting. Please look at the LtU post and consider what I said about working sets.
Of course you're right about this.. the turbocharged era produced incredible engine output. I worded my comment poorly.. I meant to convey that the power output of the 3.0L V10 format peaked in the mid-2000s.
Imagine how hard could be for foreign entrepreneurs that have to deal with immigration and visa also.
From what i can tell it looks like the satisfaction rate has declined since this went live. I wonder if the fact that this is public info has changed the responses some how.
A large number of programmers in silicon valley come from India, Russia etc. So if you say that offshoring doesn't work are you saying that the only good foreign programmers work in the US, and all of those working overseas are no good?

Of course not.

Offshoring definitely does work. I manage 45 staff in 9 countries and it's a matter of hiring the right people.

Hiring a company from India to just handle the entire development for you is highly unlikely to work.

Hiring staff directly, only looking for top talent, with staff working from home, and picking the very best of the best can work, and can be a fraction of the cost of hiring staff in the valley. It's very hard to compete with Google and Facebook when trying to hire top talent, so why compete? The Internet allows you to hire in any city and any country, so why limit yourself to one area?

Hire on skills not on geographic location.
It's not that Toyota didn't have any problems with the cars, they just found that there was no electronic malfunction.

From CNN (http://money.cnn.com/2011/02/08/autos/nhtsa_nasa_toyota_fina...):

"Toyota recalled nearly 8 million vehicles in 2008 and 2009 for defects related to gas pedals -- including sticky pedals and floor mat obstruction -- as a result of complaints of unwanted acceleration."
in what way is it a seller's market? as far as i can see, high-tech employment is still not all the way back up to pre-recession levels.