skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why would an author use this and not the better known site Kickstarter?
This seems like a pretty clear-cut case. The Coinpal creator didn't do his homework, and PayPal acted well within its stated policies to protect its business.

The Coinpal creator chose to email Paypal to ask a question that is clearly answered in the company's acceptable use policy. Under Prohibited Activities, Section 3(f): "You may not use the PayPal services for activities that (...) are associated with the following Money Service Business activities: (...) currency exchanges.

Second, the operator expresses in his post that he had kept his agreement to keep chargebacks low, at 0.9%. Consider for a moment that PayPal and the credit card company are splitting somewhere around 3% of the transaction amount to cover all of their expenses and make a profit. Let's assume that, out of 100 transactions for $100, one gets charged back. If it costs the companies $50 to investigate the customer complaint and process the chargeback, then the combined companies are losing 16% of their revenue to cover chargebacks.
That's a pizza. LOL
Elegant gourmet meals she will love, just warm and serve. Finally a food based business model that makes sense.
The backpropagation neural network itself is a variation of many nonlinear, additive statistical models. The field emerged as an independent entity largely because it had "cool" neurological connotations and was largely ignored by statisticians. The Netflix prize was ultimately won using linear algebra with sensible starting values (the KDD paper that describes the winning method is remarkably easy to read).
Thank you very much for the comment and links. They are very useful to me. I would like to show you Tagmask after reworking.

And what do you think about the picture itself in the logo? I am worried that it is too ugly.
Ask HN: What's the best customer support system?
What do you guys think is the best customer support system (ticket system)? I have to set one up for this startup and I'm looking for something as cheap and simplistic as possible.

Thanks!
http://blog.backblaze.com/2009/09/01/petabytes-on-a-budget-h...
He committed the crime,and was successfully prosecuted for it. The personal favor was not the arrest, it was assigning an agent or two to investigate the case.

This is not much different from asking your cop friend to give a ticket to your neighbor for parking too far out into the street, or asking the zoning board to investigate a neighbor's unapproved addition.
Diffusion of responsibility at its finest. As a private individual, I get crushed under the wheels of the system, while Toshiba gets to ride in the backseat.
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The Java Developer description explains that you are looking for a Senior Java/J2EE programmer with a minimum of 10 years of experience. Are opportunities available for good Java developers with fewer years of experience, but who are quick learners and have worked with some of the technology listed?
I do not think that this is a hype. It seems to me that a fully decentralized payment system would be of huge value to buyers and sellers.

Don't you agree with this?

Or do you believe that while useful, bitcoin won't be the system that prevails, or that no system like this can prevail because of government and/or special interests?

And on the issue of energy..
The sha256 generation is only to prove that you did invest time into it, and it is not a specific amount of time or energy either, but in relation to the total time spend by ALL miners during the past hours. I'm not saying that you don't know this, but it seems to be a common misconception.
Moving to near Mountain View and looking for a roommate / place to live
My girlfriend and co-founder (ainsleyb on HN) and I are looking for a roommate or room to rent. We're currently working on a startup called Tinfoil Security, and are moving out to the SF bay area in the next month. We both have a substantial savings we've attained from working for the past few years and would certainly be able to pay rent.

Both Ainsley and I went to MIT; she graduated in 2010 with two degrees in "Brain and Cognitive Science" and "Writing". I graduated in 2009 with a bachelor's in "Computer Science and Engineering." We're very laid back people, not prone to drama (and really try to avoid it as much as possible). Neither of us does any drugs, we'll occasionally drink (not to excess, just socially), and neither of us smoke. Well, I will have a cigar once every six months or so, but that's certainly something I can curb. :) Also, both she and I are 23 years old. We're both very clean people, and enjoy going out with friends, so you won't find us to be hermits. I basically can't survive without some sort of social interaction. Plus, we love animals.

We both want to make things people care about.

If we sound semi-interesting, we'd love to hear back. :) I hope the fact that we are two people doesn't make you consider us less; we really don't mind living in a single room together. Also, let me know if you'd want to chat on Skype or something to get a better feel for us; we'd be open to that.

Feel free to email me at the address listed in my profile. :)
Somehow left out dolphins, who commonly gangrape females, or chimps who wage (admittedly not so technologically advanced) clan wars.
in machine learning, the 'big' thing about neural networks at the moment is deep learning via some sort of unsupervised pre-training. there's be a lot of work published on this recently.

http://deeplearningworkshopnips2010.wordpress.com/
Thanks -- it's also on our site here: http://www.profitably.com/about/jobs.html
You make it sound very fun :) I've done some usability testing, and I've really enjoyed it in the past. But really, I'm not sure how I would realistically test a flyer.

Actually... it could be quite fun to create a couple flyers with links listed, post them around town, and see how many hits I get. I don't think it would be a true a/b test, though, as it wouldn't be possible to alternate different flyers at the exact same location.
I've got bad news for you: that tax program expired in January. It was only a temporary extension to a small business incentive program that ran from 2009-2010. The law still exists, but the tax benefits are significantly reduced, and it only applies to C Corporations. (http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/html/uscode26/usc_sec_26_0...)

Here are some thoughts (for free, so not in enough detail to act upon without further legal advice):

- Hire a tax lawyer. The amount you save in taxes will pay for itself.

- If feasible, delay the execution of the sale until you have held your company for more than 1 year.

- Consider selling your company for stock of the acquiring company instead of for cash. The transaction would be fully tax free if solely for stock, and taxable only to the extent of cash/non-stock received. (See IRC 368, and related sections.)

- If you made the S election, you must unelect for Small Business Sale Exclusion to apply. This has fun tax consequences.

And finally,
DO NOT HIRE A CPA to do this for you. CPAs know how to add things up, but they frequently get the law wrong. Tax lawyers exist largely to clean up the mess created by CPAs.
Is http://www.commendo.at/references/files/kdd08.pdf (this) the paper you are talking about?
And Linus Torvalds.

Oh wait, he's rude and publicly successful, a counter-example to this post. Oh well. All hail the post!
Can anyone tell me why vim is better than emacs? I've been happily using emacs for a few years but would switch if vim is really better.
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Full time, summer interns.
Several reasons. First, we're focused only on books. A talented author can build a fan base and even early market demand. Also, Kickstarter manually approves which projects are accepted (about 80 per week I believe). With StoryFunded the community decides what is worthy.
I can't tell if the question is asked in earnest but copyright is the law being violated. Instapaper likely has the same issues, but at least the page is actually viewed once to save the article so the content owners may not care as much.

This is going to be a ongoing issue and, frankly, the content owners have a very valid point.
You can watch a video of a talk on this subject (neuroplasticity) given at Google by Matthieu Ricard, the scientist turned monk who was mentioned in this article. The video can be found on YouTube:

Change Your Mind, Change Your Brain

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=peA6vy0D5Bg
If you throw the serial number into google, you get a few resellers-

http://www.google.com/search?q=SC847E16-RJBOD1&ie=utf-8&...

2K - Case + Backplanes
1K - CPU, MB, RAM
3.3K - 45 1TB drives at 75 ea
--

6.6K - 45TB RAID0
If I want it to be even somewhat sane, I'd add every 4th drive as spare/parity, which drops to 33G

$6600 / 35TB gives $.19/GB

That's higher than the .12 from the 2 year old BackBlaze box, but not much.

If instead we go with the $179 3TB WD drives, we can get slightly better than the pod pricing.

($179 * 45) / (45 * 3TB * .75) in dollars per gigabyte = $.08/GB
Comments definitely can be the best part of a site or the worst. We're trying to figure out how to scale better comments.
backpropagation is just the chain rule of differentiation. each layer of an ANN is logistic regression, which statisticians have been and continue to be interested in.

i'm not sure your caricature of the netflix winning solution is correct: i believe it was a blending of around 25 different models (including, i think, the RBM someone pointed about above) each in themselves quite varied from one another. this is typically how these challenges are won.
Will any of the browser makers implement implicit text/coffeescript support? That'd be neat.
Why Canadians Still Trust Stephen Harper Is Beyond Me
This post is ironic in that it's smug and insulting (though in a typically passive-aggressive way--few are ever direct with "you're ugly and stupid"), and without actually analyzing the beliefs of anyone who disagrees it lumps the "beliefs" into one category. Quotes like: "Great. Good luck with that. Oh, and by the way, your cause will die, I promise." and "I can hear your retort, oh ye smart and lonely." don't make me want to read further. False humility? Screw that. http://lesswrong.com/lw/gq/the_proper_use_of_humility/

As others have noted, this post has nothing to do with bad social skills. If you want to learn how to manipulate people, fine, and one could argue that's an aspect of social skills. Figuring out how to avoid awkward silences with people who aren't comfortable with them? Wondering how to invite people over to your home? Wondering what verbiage to use when asking someone out on a date? This post won't help you there.
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It's different by virtue of centralized redistribution, which infringes upon publishers' copyright interest.
Learning new tools to use, new techniques to employ, new languages to express yourself, new environments to deploy in, new projects to hack on ... and for devops, new daemons to configure, new setups to benchmark ... these are the vast majority of a working programmer's time so switching editors is trivial in comparison.

Arguing against something because it takes away coding time is a sign that you probably need to broaden your experience.
I am not convinced it does; as I used the above defaults write and then fired up Evernote on OSX only to see adds...
The Supermicro case is pretty awesome. It looks like it might be a great option- It's almost exactly what I was looking for.. Half a step above custom frames. Thanks!

It doesn't feel like 2 years worth of progress, though- The numbers are pretty much still where they were 2 years ago ;)

Thanks Again.
SEEKING WORK

In the Bay Area right now -- I'd prefer remote and am not interested in any equity offerings.

work in ruby/java mainly but am very strong in ops/admin work

email in profile and github is username, mail me for resume/refs if that is your cup of tea
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$12k referral bonus seems a bit rich. Is that the norm for Seattle?

I'm seeing around $5-10k referral bonus at other Bay Area startups. Talent is also insanely constrained around here.
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SO: Can a type system distinguish between different units of dimension?
Good start !
It seems a bit heavier than MacVim (bigger memory footprint), but the simplicity of configuration and the textmate bundles will surely make it very nice for users coming from mainstream text editors.
Focusing on a clear and usable OS X experience is definitely the way to go.
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Two different issues.

The sale of a company is a taxable event to the owner(s), not the company. It does not matter where the company is located, it matters where the owner is located.

That's why Arrington moved to another state while he was in talks to sell TechCrunch, but left TC in Cali.

Also, the danger with multi-state companies (i.e,. incorporated in one state but with operations in other states) is that they can subject themselves to the taxes of each state in which they have a presence. It is settled law that presence can include facilities or employees even if the business is HQ'd in another state.
I'm remember being fairly skeptical of the Backblaze storage pods. What happens when you have a power loss situation? What happens when a drive dies? Seems like it would be pretty tough to maintain and service those custom pods with the unnecessarily expensive non-redundant custom power supplies. I'm going to second the Supermicro case recommendation made by wmf.
This is _exactly_ what I'm looking for. I've been using MacVim and Janus with good results, but this has so much promise.

Looks like Visual Block Mode isn't yet supported... did anybody find this?
to do well economically in the modern world, whether as an auto mechanic, computer engineer, reporter, nurse, etc. is:
1) solid writing skills, preferably in English
2) strong reading comprehension, preferably in English
3) Basic grasp of math up through and including statistics

so while you don't need college/university you absolutely need 1-3. I picked up #1 in university because i went to a lousy, impoverished high school. I mostly taught myself #2 and #3. A new learning community focused on narrow skill acquisition won't help students acquire 1-3.

Investing in basic education will fix these problems, both investing in teachers and in pushing kids to just fucking study and take learning seriously.

This article is the "High Cost of Low Teacher Salaries" http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/01/opinion/01eggers.html?_r=1...
is much more relevant in my opinion.

best of luck w/ skillshare but please don't think it will teach calculus to people who can't add.

While mikekarnj has some interesting points about education and the obvious higher ed bubble, he is apparently unaware of education concept of "scaffolding" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instructional_scaffolding
I'm surprised there aren't any services selling raw storage space. i.e. no RAID or other redundancy, no doubling as a static web-server, just a bunch of disks.

So people (myself included) buy physical HDDs for local backup -- simply because every online alternative jacks up the price by maintaining 3+ copies and keeping everything permanently online.
Awww, that sours my view of dolphins! :(
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About the front-end specialist position:
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Direct links to the relevant McKinsey reports referenced in the article:

http://www.mckinsey.com/clientservice/Social_Sector/our_prac... [Sept 2010, 2.2 MB]

http://www.mckinsey.com/App_Media/Reports/SSO/Worlds_School_... [Sept 2007, 10 MB]
A good example of opportunity cost borrowing is Microsoft. They have borrowed money by issuing bonds, even though they have plenty of cash. In the recession they didn't have to offer high yields on the bonds in order to find people begging to buy them, and they can invest the money they raised at higher rates than they are paying. It's basically free money for them.

Of course, it does open them up to FUD. The Boycott Novell folks were all over it, proclaiming that Microsoft is in debt, and that SEC filings showing Microsoft doing well were the result of cooking the books to hide the truth, and the press is not reporting it because Microsoft bought them all off.
San Francisco, CA — Twitter.

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WebMynd - Javascript developers - London or San Francisco
http://www.webmynd.com/jobs.html

This is for #4 in the company. We're well-funded with significant revenue.

We're writing a framework to make cross-platform app development simple, like jQuery does for web apps. Currently in private beta for browser add-ons and mobile apps.

Email links to your work to: jobs@webmynd.com
The larger the retailer, the more likely they will offer payment methods other than/in addition to PayPal. As the retailer, it's in your best interest to give the customer the greatest possible number of ways to give you their money.
I've been searching for this for a long time. If you opensource this, I will become an active contributor.

Something things:

Padding on the left file pane would be nice. http://cl.ly/3m223V172r3R3b1B1P1A

Also, with the left pane, some way to navigate between files like NERDTree allows would be useful.

vi' and similar should be supported. It means visual select inside quotes.

If you use command-w to kill the last open tab, so that nothing is open, you can't use the command-line ':', which is useful when changing directories to work on another project

Again, I love this project
Diomede might be worth a look. Their offline and nearline options are waaay less expensive than S3. Never used them though so let us know how it works out if you go with them.

http://www.diomedestorage.com/
You should think of a snappier name. Other than that keep up the good work. I'm atm reading all the pypy papers, very cool.
Startups Open Sourced, 1 Week Later: $10,000+ in Revenue
Offhand, only anecdotal. For much of the last decade, I have done production sound for film and video. I generally use Schoeps microphones, which cost a couple of thousand apiece (just so you know cost isn't a factor here). The reason I prefer MDR7506s is that when I'd set up every day, they're the only headphones that sound the same when I put them on as when I take them off.
That's because scrolling with the mouse was a bit of an afterthough, I think. If you use motions, word objects and Ctrl+f/Ctrl+b you don't really notice this choppiness.
Getting diplomats fired for being honest is not the kind of reform we need, is it?

You can cure cancer by killing the patient, but it is a lot better to try to treat just the problem, not kill the whole organism.
RAID0 ephemeral storage on AWS EC2
That's a flattering comparison for us since reddit amas are so addictive / useful / entertaining. But in addition to asking the author, on Qomments the author could ask reader questions which is an interesting experiment in collaborative-crowdsourcing news.