skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was doing visual design using code 30 years ago. It's doable, sometimes even preferable. It only sucks until you develope a facility with the tools. Just like watercoler paints or charcoal; which I've used for 40 years.

Design happens in your head, but it's a feed back loop between your tools and your imagination. Different tools _do_ influence the outcome.
One thing that interests me is the "inductive leap" implicit in all modeling situations. You have empirical risk minimization, Bayesian, MML, MDL and others all taking a different approach to taking the leap. You also have the "mind projection" fallacy Jaynes liked to talk about.

Understanding what modelers do is a good way to understand what AI will be doing.
Yea that makes sense, so obvious now that I think of it. Presumably it's easier or more cost effective to raise capital this way than to try to issue bonds. Thanks!
Being an entrepreneur is about 2 things.

1. Learning the skills you need to do step 2.

2. Creating something that people want and figuring out a way to help them pay for it.

Its well documented in books like "The Talent Code" that the most effective way to learn is to be an environment where everyone else is doing the same thing and being sucessful at it. So yes SV would be the best way to start a VC backed startup.

But there is actually something thats more important than the above 2 - a HUGE SURGING MARKET. People in SV are not near Indian middle class and arent focussed on it even though:
"The middle class in India and China is bigger than the middle class is US + Europe + Brazil + Africa combined".
Give this and the fact that you CAN learn on your own I think you should stya in India and try there.

Use social media to watch videos from SV and learn. But stay in a huge growing market with much less startup competition. Even if you suck at execution but listen to the market your bound to become rich.

Now if you didnt have to do 1.5 + 5 years of slaving away for a corporate master before you could start your own company in SV then I would recommend SV but you dont have that option (unless you qualify for founder visa when that bill gets enacted).

All said and done, go out tomorrow buy Rs 2000 of vegetables from a vendor and try to resell it at market where you live. You'll learn sales and negotiation and you'll get the feeling of getting paid with cash - it'll be a great first step :)
As a relatively recent Mac convert, the whole "Option (Alt)" thing still gets me. I regularly see shortcut hints and then have to sit there for a few seconds thinking "Which one's the Option key again?"
And now the reply link shows up. I assume there is a reply-delay feature?

These codes are all taken.
flagged. Never understood HNs interest in drugs. Hardly on topic is it.
So? Not being the first to make this kind of app doesn't dimish the coolness of what these guys built.
Dump truck hits car and lands in canal in Lake Wales, FL
That’s typical Windows chauvinism.
Zip and gzip both use DEFLATE.
This is awesome. I dragged an audio file, ran open to play it and a later slide showed the dir, let me adjust playback rate etc. May fork.

Project homepage: https://code.google.com/p/html5wow/

Edit: I am late to the game, just found html5rocks. Wow.
All taken! Any possibility for more?
What Rich Website Owners Know That Poor Ones Do Not
This is a simple matter of people doing what they are incentivized to do. The vast majority of directors have incentives tied to short term gains (short term in the sense of a company - quarterly or yearly), and so their actions are to seek short term gains. They might say they are required to act in the best interest of the stock holder... but it just so happens that they have compensation which is tied to short term gains in the stock price.
I am most interested in how people got the attention of their first visitors and customers for their first projects.
...that's pretty slick but the discoverability on Windows is still better

first..you'd have to know to think about what the feature is named...

...on Windows...you can invoke any menu by pressing ALT and then the first letter of the menu or a designated letter on a menu option (or you can use the arrows)...all windows menus get this behavior by default, in addition to separate keyboard shortcuts that can also be defined in the application

...you can get to the menus on Macs through a rather inconvenient combo CTRL-F2 (CTRL-FN-F2 on Macbooks)...but you can only arrow through commands, there are no letter shortcuts in that case.

...I like OS X, but this is one area that Windows does much better (that and multiple monitors)...
So, the mechanic that did happen is that those banks were holding a ton of CDOs, and unloaded as many as they could before they exploded by calling their customers and saying "Hey, check this out, these bonds are super-hot right now, great deal, you should buy it".

As far as the mechanics of my perfect system, "too big to fail" should be done away with, along with proper enforcement of our existing fraud laws. We'll have eliminated the means (smaller banks) and motive (deterred by steep penalties) for this happening again. As of now, I don't see what's changed since 2008.

That settlement's ridiculous. A few hundred million for each bank? How many of these things did they take off their balance sheet in 2007-2008 while selling them to their customers as perfectly good bonds?
> If you find that micro-optimization greatly increases your performance, you probably shouldn't be using hadoop anyway...

It's all a matter of what you optimize for. In a recent project, a C++ version, using memory mapped files with a fixed-length record, was about 20 times faster than the hadoop version, and that's just the CPU.

The C++ version had: no deserializing needed, everything random access, multiple runs on same data had NO I/O requirements (mmap was cached between runs). It was about as hard to write.

So, instead of running a 100-core strong Hadoop install (which is small, but far from trivial), I was able to do with one hefty 8-core machine.

Scaling up is "easier" with Hadoop, in the sense that you can just throw money at it and get more EC@/rackspace nodes when needed. But it is a lot of money.

Hadoop makes sense if you've got lots of money to waste, and actually need thousands of cores (cause you'll only need a few tens if you effectively use your hardware).
This type of thing is my biggest complaint with OSX.

I've been using OSX as my main desktop OS for about a year now, and it's unbelievable how many simple customizations require third party products. To make it worse, a lot of them cost money.

Coming from Debian and Fluxbox I'm used to almost any possible configuration or customization being possible via /etc, the files in ~/.fluxbox/, or utilities installed using synaptic.
did you read the article? It's all about how a traditional market (cocaine) got disrupted by startups (meth labs). With the lovely side effects of proving the War on Drugs as useless as we thought it was.
"IaaS" is often pronounced "ice". And "Paas"/"Saas" is "pass"/"sass". Useful for geeks. "Cloud" works for non-geeks.
My favorite is a lossy compression method that results in any file(regardless of entropy) compressing down to 1 byte.

Just throw out the rest of the file after the first byte.
Laminaat - Issa Vloeren
"If the Mexican police were actually doing their job, the criminals wouldn't be running the show."

This suggests a very simplistic understanding of the issues surrounding Mexican police. You're just mindlessly finger-pointing and didn't even hint at ways the Mexican police could counter some of the obstacles they face.

I hate the downmod system here as well - entirely anonymous and trivially easy to reduce someone else's comment - but I can see why your comment might have been downmodded.
Just plug in your flash drive with Thunderbird Portable on it. There's no need to reconfigure anything.
Tax Burdens Tilt Coastal, and System’s Fairness Is Debated
Not just a possibility. Wachovia/Wells Fargo helped Mexican drug cartels launder money. Here's an article from back in April about it:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/apr/03/us-bank-mexico-d...
> In the default Terminal app, there are no shortcuts (at least none that I could figure out) for moving around the text I'm typing quickly, like going forward and back a whole word, or going Home or End, you have to hold down the left or right arrows for a while.

What? I don't think you understand how terminals work! The terminal commands (on every terminal I've used for the past 20 years) are interpreted by the server. If your terminal is connected to a unix machine then generally emacs key navigation is the default. This is true for Mac OS X. Meta-F and Meta-B go forward and backward by words. Meta-delete deletes a word. C-a (and the HOME key) will go to the beginning of a line. C-e (and the END key) will go to the end.

That being said there's a couple annoying (for powerusers) defaults in Terminal. I always use the "option is meta" setting so I can type Option-f when I mean M-f. Otherwise I have to type ESC-f which is harder for me. The other is that the naked HOME and END keys are by default bound to scrolling the terminal window and you have to press SHIFT-HOME and SHIFT-END to get Terminal to actually send the HOME and END character sequence through the terminal (same for page-up and page-down which are also stupidly backward). If you come from Linux and are used to using SHIFT-PAGE-UP for look at your scrollback then it can be annoying. But luckily those are easily fixed.
The founder previously founded GetThere.com which sold to Sabre for $757 million.

Wow.
Logo was a useful language on the Apple 2e.
It's too bad that the temperature sensor in the iPhone isn't accessible through the public API.

It has the hardware to measure temperature, but we can't use it.

(See: http://www.iclarified.com/images/news/3832/14751/14751.png )
Initially I thought this would be a free system for paper publishing which would let all new papers published to be available in public domain.

Why doesnt such a thing exist by the way?
If it weren't for those damn spiders, it'd probably be double that number.
Internationalization issues could explain the change from a word based navigational to an icon based one. Long words from languages other than English might not fit well in the new layout.
Far from dead. Only Flash on mobile is being discontinued, the larger, stronger, desktop market won't be discontinued.
I'm an aviation enthusiast also bummed by the fact that this feature does not work outside the US. I live in Spain.

Fortunately, this current thread reminded me to try it out while being close to Newark Intl. Airport (EWR) in New Jersey.

This is what I got and it changes every time I hit refresh, this is a very busy airport:
http://i.imgur.com/VnDXH.png
http://i.imgur.com/EhWBh.png
Dave McClure (500 Startups) answers about Y Combinator
As I understand it, regular beat cops sometimes wear masks in Mexico, which doesn't happen in safer countries, not just special operations. In my brief visit to mexico (an afternoon in Nogales, pretty safe) I didn't notice any cops, but I did see trucks with soldiers in them, probably a third of whom had masks on.

I think the issue is more around the regularity with which authoroties have to conceal their identity.
Maybe the answer is for all browsers to just standardize on one rendering engine / JS implementation

Heh, this would be an ideal situation, but good luck trying to get them to agree on that. The browser wars are not over yet, who knows if they ever will be.

We thought that the Web would be that final platform that would give us the ability to write our app once, and then make it available instantly on all operating systems. Well, technically, we got that. Except now we have to worry about browser incompatibilities. We didn't solve the problem of cross-platform compatibility. We just have a different set of platforms today.

What wee need is a language that will do for web development what Java has done for development in general in 90s - something that will allow us to write our apps once, and have them display perfectly on all major browsers. But seeing that this magical language would probably also need to support arcane versions of various browsers I don't see that happening any time soon.
Actually, I use it quite a lot in mundane dispute-resolving situations, akin to Wikipedia. It lets you easily pull out stuff like 'gdp per capita in 2003 "United Arab Emirates", "New Zealand", "Hong Kong", "Norway", "Israel"', 'languages "papua new guinea", bolivia, kenya', 'hdi in africa', '"oil reserves"/area middle east, "oil reserves"/area north america, "oil reserves"/area china', '(switzerland railway length/switzerland population), (usa railway length/usa population)'

As you can see, the queries can sometimes get rather tricky, but that is fun stuff. Also, it's a super-useful calculator.
Miles ahead how? It's the same thing, but written in Ruby instead of Perl (Fink) or Tcl (MacPorts).
And You Thought C++ Was Bad
That's where the newer Microsoft Windows method of maximizing into 1/2 the screen works well. I'd prefer if it were customizable to work in thirds, though.

I maintain that people think of multi-windowed UI in terms of windows first. Resizing a window to fit the content makes less sense than resizing the content to fit the window. People also seem to get really upset when UI interaction isn't consistent, and the Mac approach means that it varies wildly between apps.
Capital Raising Series 3: Venture Capital Language
Bizztrust : The Most Secure Android Phone
s/not that great/barely works and slows web pages to a crawl/
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I've had this same thought many times.
Let's be very clear: directors who release a toxin into the environment, if done purposely, will end up in jail.

I'm pretty sure no one from Sherwin-Williams ever went to jail over dumping toxins into the Cuyahoga River (http://www.wbez.org/frontandcenter/2011-06-22/anniversary-cu...)

Corporations who do it accidentally will end up paying for damages. If they don't, that's a failure of our criminal justice system, not the way corporations are formed.

Except that a) most of these cases are civil, not criminal (which, haha, is a crime in my opinion), and b) writing off tragedies of the commons as a "failure of our system" only serves to perpetuate this sort of behavior.

* most directors may be very amoral sorts only caring for the bottom line. That's fine.*

How is it acceptable to support or encouragement amoral behavior? That's a slippery slope. Today we're talking about whether or not it's acceptable to dump toxins, tomorrow we might be talking about whether or not it's ok for companies to foment a coup d'etat (oh wait, that's already happened, too).
This is a great idea, however there is fundamental flaw in their hypothes.is, a flaw that is inherent in all comment-based sytems (Hacker News, Digg, Redit ).

The flaw is to score people based on past comments, thereby creating a meritocracy that will lead to those voices that need to be heard the most being lost in the noise.
Interesting that the report only mentions incarceration rates at the end, but doesn't seem to give any credence to the idea that 'permanently' locking everyone up reduces crime.

The incarceration rate in the US is unbelieveably high, and started exploding in the late 80s. Increasing the incarcerated population fivefold isn't considered to have had a causal effect on the decrease in crime across the board? Come on, pull the other one.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incarceration_in_the_United_Sta...
Penn State, my final loss of faith
It's going to take a lot of LEOs to guard the Manhattan Project weed/coke/heroin territories we instantiate in states that begin with the letter 'I' or 'N'.
> the direct bit encode method of the present invention is effective for reducing an input string by one bit regardless of the bit pattern of the input string.

Beautiful.
It's possible that the HTML5 revolution will come from new developers that never learned Flash (or, who like me, tried it once in high school, but didn't inhale).
She's in political science. Is there any chance that what you're doing might prove useful for a social science prof?
> ban

As if Adobe has some right granted by the deities to have their precious plugin on every platform under the sun. And as if Apple singled out Adobe (there are no plugins on iOS). If the iPhone was a flop Adobe wouldn't have cared about being on iOS, just like they never cared about being on Linux even when users were begging for it. Adobe has displayed nothing but contempt for non-Windows platforms and they only started whining because iOS was successful. Where's the fuss over being "banned" on Windows Phone 7?

If Adobe is capable of delivering a good runtime for ARM platforms then where is it? They had time, more than enough time.
Combine this with Farmeron and you have a winner.
Why do so many technical recruiters suck?
On Zynga and its give back stock or get fired story
Text only google cache version, since the website seems to be slagged.

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:UGF6HCq...
"So your mother and aunts told you stories about how they were sexually harrassed in the workplace? These are certainly some interesting data points, if what they told you actually happened. I would be interested to know whether they spoke about this sort of treatment in the 60's and 70's rather than waiting until much later -- when the "male-chauvanist bosses hit on their female employees and passed them over to promote less-qualified men" image has become so much a part of American folklore."

There's a difference between believing someone I know and trust (in this case, my mother), and some random guy on HN (who I don't know at all, much less trust) who claims some of his friends (who I don't even know exist) claimed something.

Now, if he wants to believe them, that's his business. But if he expects me to believe his claims, he's going to have to do better than just say he knows some guys who told him something happened 40 or 50 years ago.

"Please cite examples of [FOX's] outright lies."

You must be joking.

"The Coast Guard would be prohibited by the privacy act from naming the woman."

Assuming the source of the initial report of the woman getting spat on was the Coast Guard, this might be true. But there is no indication in the FOX story that this was the case. They don't mention any reason at all for not revealing her name (not that I'd believe any reason they gave).
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Cant see this being used practically. Even at $25k a unit, you are still limited by hardware restrictions. Battery tech is still limited. Nurseries are not all built the same.

A nursery can hire some young chap for $8/hr...and that young chap can do more than move identically sized plants...judging by the amount of spilled dirt, they are still under 100% perfect at its current task.

Here's an idea if you want to move plants like this...get a bunch of platform carts at $40 a piece, and leave the plants on the carts.
Result of a Google search for "tilt" …
If your working set fits entirely in ram on a single machine, hadoop is the wrong tool for the job. Hadoop is more about getting obscene IO bandwidth from hundreds of hard disk spindles going in parallel, not raw number of cores/parallel computation.
Language and The Brain: Intricate Relationship
What does "online" mean when talking about a single player game?

I am thinking about playing oblivion on xbox360 and I can not understand what being "online" would mean.
79,000 is a joke for online xbox players. There are more people in the ground war playlist than that.
I'd like to see a longer data set.

Judging from the small segment we see, it appears the peaks (U.S. evening and night) hours are sharper than the troughs (U.S. working hours). I expect the peaks on weekends are higher and broader.

Fun. :-)
Yes, those pesky dudes who see a cosine are +pi/2 heretics and should be burned at the stake.
It would require an Internet connection, but GPS + some weather API would do.
building sharded inverted indexes
>I really liked being able to middle-click the maximize button for vertical, or right-click for horizontal.//

Works on my KDE4 (over Ubuntu) .. only been using KDE since about 98/99 and never knew about this.

This goes up there with double- and triple-click +drag for selection.
This doesn't seem to show the fighter jets that regularly zoom overhead at 1,000 feet of altitude or less.
Which is why a call to action is handy. But without even an "about" link somewhere? I can't find the docs, reviews, or architecture papers. They seem to just want you to download and install this thing called "live" that does something that they won't even describe, and run it. That's just a bad landing page.
I was about to reply to this with "My favorite fake compression scheme is..."

...but it turned out to be this.
I hope this was not a hw question for you.
I find Wolfram Alpha is the search engine equivalent of an "idiot savant."

Sometimes it works quite well; other times it's completely unable to parse the input and come up with any kind of answer, no matter how many times you rephrase the query.
"the only thing "dumbed down" here is your rant."

What are you talking about? Almost all of your rejoinders are poorly discoverable or require unexpected amounts of effort.
My creating a dwolla account is a direct result of my interest in Bitcoin exchanges. I wonder how many of their users have a dwolla account for this purpose.?
It just means that they are playing it right now. Since most people stay logged in while playing SP Steam games, they can tell how many people are playing any given game at any given time.

In other news, I'm proud to be one of the 240k. :)
you can stick with assembla,
http://offers.assembla.com/free-git-hosting/
Rock in Prevention
I believe that it's only considered "online" because you have to be connected up to Steam in order for it to play. I don't think you really get anything out of it from being online.
If you don't test and fix things for multiple browsers this is true of any web standard, not just the latest versions of CSS, JS, and HTML.
Real World Exams for the Global AI Class
A certification is being given to students of www.ai-class.com (the online class being taught by Sebastian Thrun and Peter Norvig) who show up and take the exams at the University of Freiburg with Professor Wolfram Burgard. Cool!

full disclaimer: I work on the site so I might be a bit biased, but I think it's an interesting preview of how technology might shape the future of education.
For what it is, it's about as close to perfection as you can get. That is what gives it a longevity that other games have a lot of trouble matching. You see this in all genres, though, for example, I have no doubt that if Starcraft were on here, you would see it showing a similar longevity.
It might look like C, but the last time I looked to the C++ standard that is also valid C++ code.
Still better than Windows, where it just takes up your whole screen.
I'm sorry, I don't have any more codes. I got only 50 codes, and posted all of them on the internet already.

The app is available for $0.99: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/acoustic-ruler-pro/id47508196...
A certification is being given to students of www.ai-class.com (the online class being taught by Sebastian Thrun and Peter Norvig) who show up and take the exams at the University of Freiburg with Professor Wolfram Burgard. Cool!

full disclaimer: I work on the site so I might be a bit biased, but I think it's an interesting preview of how technology might shape the future of education.