skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As for uses, how about: I live in a crappy country with a crappy monopolistic ISP that provides a crappy /128. No amount of purist theoretical pontification can fix this reality, which is guaranteed to happen for someone, regardless of the size of address space (say, because a business guy at $ISP thinks that will somehow force users to pay for extra subscriptions for their devices).

I for one am glad to see that if the time should arrive for me, Linux will support this out of the box, and that the greater madness by far, is to ignore a problem simply because you'd prefer that it not exist.

Besides all that, there is simple hacker value in having this kind of translation available. Great ideas are often borne of insanity.
Agreed, this is completely absurd. Say what you will about Chris Dixon (zomg he doesn't code, wtf!!!!!111), but the engineering team at Hunch is second-to-none.

Grandparent makes it sound like Dixon pulled this off in his spare time. He assembled a team of A-level engineers, then secured millions in funding so they could develop an awesome recommendation engine with almost no clear revenue stream. I challenge anyone to find a CS grad who can match that in his or her spare time.

EDIT: restructured on second read.
Playing the devil's advocate here: could she not be pushing for more revenue models similar to Spotify where artists and labels are paid per stream, because people are ACTUALLY listening to them?
For all the aspiring non-technical founders
I'm going with "lost track of perspective" here. I've heard the same tune too many times to keep thinking that all those people are really very good dead-pan comedians.
Honestly curious because I know nothing: what regulations prevent non-millionaires from investing in startups? I thought that's what "friends and family" type of financing was...
> it is happening, and it is picking up speed

Again, I refuse to believe I live in a magical land unaffected by the daily problems that cost countless sorrows to the rest of mankind. I never experienced an Android malware and never heard of someone who did. It's entirely possible someone somewhere installed a malicious application or jumped out of a window, but the fact I know nobody who did it gives me pause when people say the sky is falling.

It's not.
Android malware increasing; Google’s Chris DiBona calls it a scam
I've been a developer for a bit and decided to brush up on some of the basics. Started watching the CS50 class (yes - I'm starting at the beginning!) with David Malan. And wow, it's really fantastic to see such a knowledgeable individual with so much passion on the subject speak. Made that hour and 13 minutes fly right by. Highly recommended.
Food-safe? Not hardly:
"no infection or irritation so far; in fact the site's doing pretty well, although i had to put superglue out of the toolbox in it yesterday. if all is still calm by next week, i will take it that Sugru doesn't cause major immediate damage to the interior of the human body"
http://sapiensanonym.blogspot.com/2010/07/progress-bar.html
I really wanted to go with Wind when they came out, but none of the new providers would let me use an iPhone on their system, which meant that they were instantly out of the running.

Sounds silly I know, but I want to keep using the phone I'm using.
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Actually I think Nasa's approach is to design as best they can - then have layers of management each add a a factor of 10 to the assumed level of safety until it's sufficiently safe.

In the Challenger accident the engineers estimated the chance of a fatal accident at 1:100 , the next level of management 1:1000 senior management at 1:10,000 and the official Nasa press release 1:300,000

Presumably by adding more levels of management they could have made it even safer!
Of course. I wouldn't suggest landing on the Moon something that never landed on Earth. I wouldn't land on the Moon (or Mars) anything that didn't land reliably over Earth a hundred times, until we understand thoroughly what can go wrong.

I would be perfectly confident with a device you could trow it out of a plane, that would parachute until a reasonable altitude, engage rockets to hover and lower a rover to the surface a dozen times without incident.

It'll be at least 30 years until we can inspect the crash site to learn what went wrong.
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I agree.. I'd love to work for SpaceX but even though I have my Canadian security clearances, and an eligible for a TN permit (mechanical/aerospace engineering) with 5 years experience I can't apply. Same for Scaled Composites...
Yes, see this.

http://www.seomoz.org/blog/how-to-choose-the-right-domain-na...

Using real words is also generally necessary. One "u" pops right out and ruins the batch.
>During the hearing, it became painfully obvious that the proponents of SOPA simply do not understand the Internet as a medium.

I disagree. The MPAA and friends perfectly understand the internet - that's why they are trying to push this abomination. I think it's dangerous to assert misunderstanding. It severely underestimates the tremendous danger these fossils pose.

I might sound extremist with this, but we need to get rid of the current music industry (and other content industries that rely on copyright), completely. They're forever stuck in the past, and this won't change - they don't want change. Change and progress are their complete anathema. They have demonstrated that countless times in the past.

That also means you cannot fix the current system somehow. It's fundamentally broken, because it was never intended for a world with the ability for infinite, almost-instantaneous and virtually cost-free redistribution, available to anybody with access to a computer or some other multimedia device (phones, PMPs etc).

Furthermore, seeing as copyright originated as censorship and monopoly laws[1], it's really not surprising how things have escalated over the past decades. I do hope we can put an end to this madness soon, once and for all.

[1] Contrary to what the copyright industry would like you to believe, of course. The claim that copyright was invented by poor, starving authors isn't just a slight distortion of historical facts, it's an outright lie. Authors/artists never had a say in copyright, never wanted copyright in the first place and have only been made to believe that they need it over about the past 100 years. A good essay on this: http://questioncopyright.org/promise

Edit: Sorry if anyone's seen my triple post. My internet connection had a hiccup. Promptly deleted those, of course.
robots chugging away at petri dishes that contain hundreds of mini-dishes with chemicals/biostuff. Making sense of the millions/billions of data points is the job of machine learning.
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There may be a reason Chinese gov't does not view SSL as a threat. Collusion with CAs?
Technical co-founder needed for London based start-up
Before we start, I am not a programmer and if you don't like that, then fair enough, I know there will be people that will dismiss me immediately - but I am here looking for a technical co-founder for a London based start-up, and if you are interested, then read on. I know finding the right person is slim to none, but I am going to give it a try.

I am a non-technical founder of a early stage London based start-up. I am ideally looking for a technical co-founder so I am bringing this to Hacker News. I know everything there is to know about both technical and non-technical co-founders, and I am aware technical co-founders don't often take start-ups seriously if they don't have one already. So let me give you some background to explain I am not just someone with a flimsy idea who thinks it will do well, who's diving unknowingly into the world of start ups because it's the 'trend'.

Who I've consulted:

Six-months ago I pitched the idea to a small IT firm who decided to take on the development side as co-founders because they really liked the idea. Eventually the company, although eager to work with me, thought they could not afford to take two guys off of their small team to work unpaid for a few months. This firm has worked for large UK based companies such as BBC, TopShop etc.

I've also consulted with various people in the start-up industry about my idea. These people include those who have helped other start-ups, to people who can help with grants, and potential Angel Investors. I've got great feedback although most think it's a shame I don't have a technical co-founder (yes, I know that). The idea is based equally on sales as well as development so it's important to get both bits right.

You can't just find a co-founder like you would an employee:

Yes, I know that. I contemplated posting this message on Hacker News for ages because I know working on a start-up requires heart, dedication, struggles etc and if someone isn't as dedicated as you problems can arise. I understand the advantages of producing an idea with someone who you know well, who has a similar work ethic, view and understanding - but I just haven't had the opportunity to find someone, it's not an easy task. It's a shot in the dark but I am giving it a try.

Where I am with the idea:

Currently I am paying a developer and designer to create a prototype website based on my guidelines. I know it isn't ideal to have to get someone external involved but I have to (as you know). With this prototype I hope to sell the product to companies - or confirm that they would be interested in the product if fully developed - and then go down the funding route. It's hard to look for funding without anything to show - especially with what I am doing.

If you are interested or want more information please email cofounderinlondon@gmail.com.
I'm suspicious when any startup makes this claim, not because I don't think they legitimately mean it (at the time), but because it rarely ends up being the case as markets, situations, products and lives change.
What if Occupy Wall Street Protesters Did Startup Weekend?
I was hoping for more information on how they implement it.. there's nothing in there about which hardware facilities they use, and they say that at worst STM is a global lock for the process.

Hopefully they're at least using some kind of compiler analysis to only use the same lock across transactions if it's touching the same memory addresses (pessimistically of course)?
This looks more like the usual "bright idea" of some third rank guy. Next year the people at the top will notice, because more and more foreign companies are pi##ed, and they will revert the whole thing again.

I can't imagined that this will stay the same for long, especially now that the GDP growth is down to 9% and likely to go down further. Next year they will even loosen the restrinctions on real estate purchase again, to get the economy going.
Ah, right. I meant non-determinism in the sense of a non-deterministic automaton that calculates all outcomes at the same time, not in the sense of introducing randomness.
I have a good amount of experience in natural language processing and machine learning, and I don't think offering an API that provides easy access to the algorithms is the right solution. The major algorithms in text classification aren't that complex to implement, and can be done in a few hundred lines. Moreover, all of the most widely used, widely tested, and reliable algorithms have public implementations that are readily adaptable to your needs. And that's the problem: understanding your needs.

Understanding your needs (or your company's needs) is where people with PhDs make their money. Machine learning isn't a panacea, and we won't be seeing a one-size-fits-all approach for awhile. Even though data has become more accessible, it might be noisy, incomplete, streaming, partially labeled, etc. This is why understanding exactly what you're trying to model with these algorithms is crucial and why "just applying" them is impractical at best and misleading at worst.
The high throughput imaging that I'm familiar with is in regards to cell imaging. Cells are cultured in high-density plates (96-well or 384-well dishes), each well is given a different experimental condition (drugs, RNAi, etc) and then imaged on an automated microscope.

As you can imagine, this generates tons of data. Our lab did a highthrouput screen of genetic mutants in neurons, and then used software to quantify basic morphology such as neurite length , arborization, and cell death.

Crystallographers will use a similar system to bathe their protein in billions of compounds to find the right combination for crystallizing. Automated cameras will capture images and try to identify which ones have crystallized so the researcher doesn't have to do it by hand.
I got slammed by pg himself a while ago for being easily trolled, so I'll stop commenting.
Of course I’m not a language, I’m a framework. Never mind “Java,” am I Spring or am I Struts?

Never mind “Ruby,” am I Rails 2.x or 3.x?

—

This may seem tongue-in-cheek, but regardless of how we see ourselves, ignoring how others see us is an exercise in frustration:

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/LordPalmerston.html
Britain's chief rabbi blasts Steve Jobs, Apple (then says he didn't)
The last statement, "you need us more than we need you" is definitely arguable.

I believe that there are aspects such as leadership, foresight and intuition that can't be taught or learnt with a college degree or from a book.

These things CAN be brought to the table by people with non-technical backgrounds and can be more valuable than all the technical background in the world, because most technical professionals can easily be replaced by the next applicant.
I think this is the implementation (pdf article available): http://www.velox-project.eu/velox-transactional-memory-stack

They point to the Velox project, which has many published papers. But this paper has Ulrich Drepper of Red Hat as a co-author. Since Drepper is active in glibc, I can imagine he worked with them on integration. The notation in the article also looks like what's shown on the website.

There's plenty of other work that could have gone into this implementation: http://www.velox-project.eu/publications There's a full TM system that tries to use idle cores or SMT threads (also known as hyperthreads) for the transactions, called STM2. Then some papers on lock-free techniques, static analysis, and a benchmark suite. There's also what looks like a direct response infamous "STM: Why Is It Only a Research Toy?" (http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=1454466) article: http://www.velox-project.eu/why-stm-can-be-more-research-toy

I don't know for sure, of course. The STM2 paper published at PACT of this year also looks interesting. Email me if you'd like to read it.

Edit: the paper I linked to at the top says it's implemented in gcc.
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It's really important to scrutinize the various streaming services available, because they definitely cater to different groups of people. For instance, Super Pass offers lots of extras to hard-core reality television show fans, like the wildly popular Big Brother, Survivor, or The Biggest Loser. For starters, you can access actual live feeds never shown on the regular programming.
I think you're reading that wrong. The CPE (the cable modem itself) gets a /128, similar to the 10.0.0.0/8 address that it currently gets (that is not visible to the end user). They then go on to say that the home gateway gets a /64.
Daniel made no indication that she inherited it or otherwise didn't earn it.
You're right, the article is sort of clumsy. There are three sparkplug issues at work here: 1) founder self-awareness 2) how to hire people and 3) how to develop effective teams. They're all lumped together in the article (and in many actual companies). What would have prevented the problem in the first place? Somehow short-circuiting the tendency, especially in founders, to insist the same qualities as your own are most useful in business building.
Ever notice how the classic startup curve follows Campbell's "Hero's Journey"?
This is so true. I've been mining mailing lists and framework documentation for my Ph.D. and most of my effort and time was spent normalizing the data. Once that was done, classifying content and linking concepts was relatively easy...
Indeed, option pools are usually created before the actual investment (and therefore dilution) happens, but the option pool percentage you negotiate is % of post-money (not pre).
Apple bought the tech behind Siri for $200m in 2010.

MS bought Powerset (and their NLP-type search engine) for $100m in 2008. They also bought Farecast (travel pricing forecasting) for $75-115m in 2008.

Hunch for $80m is a steal, as far as talent acquisitions go.

EDIT: I'm not sure if they were product or talent acquisitions, but does it really matter? All companies listed above obtained state-of-the-art algorithms and the teams that developed them.
I don't believe real time is very hard. Something that ebay can' already do. And if they can't already do it, how will hunch come in and solve it. It would probably require major changes to db's etc if that is why ebay can't already do it.
They do dive deep, but there are various animals that I find more surprising. For example, Wikipedia claims 500m+ for emperor pinguins and 600m for elephant seals.

Also, IIRC, it is fairly hard to get the bends without using scuba gear (not that that says much, but I do not think free divers consider it a grey risk)
See my above reply to suking--$80m is kind of a bargain.
Ask HN: 4 of 24 VCs showed interested -- what now?
Background info: we launched few months ago and we're growing like hell traffic-wise, team is great and experienced, product is innovative and has a strong fan base. Sent 24 mails to VCs (most were cold) and 4 replied. Each of the 4 replied instantly like one day later. Each thinks about next steps, is still checking our product or wants to meet us soon. They have one thing in common: after the initial reaction they seem to let time lapse away until the next step. I think they all act by the principle of late-decision-making.

They are smarter and more trained than me regarding such deal processes. So, how can we push them or initiate an authentic "bidding war"?
Can someone explain http://screencast.com/t/CFzp8f8Dx9 this section to me? I assume it was supposed to be "Typical 1965 CEO pay for the same period" on the left and "Typical 2007 CEO pay for the same period" on the right, but I also might just not be grasping the point.
Yes I am because they are deciding at a government level what everyone should be looking at.

People are using VPNs to bypass the firewall therefore the people inside of China do not want the restriction so it's obvious that the people inside do not want to be restricted.

So yes, I deem what they are doing from a government level pathetic as it doesn't stand for what the whole nation wants. So it's not MY values of what I call freedom but my understanding of what a majority of the people inside China actually want.

If people didn't want that then there would be no need for encrypted traffic to connect to sites that the firewall would class an inappropriate.
You must be young. Not that there's a problem with that, as the young usually innovate and put a lot of youthful energy into progress.

As you get older and/or start a family, the thought of 80+ hours a week becomes laughable and even dread-inducing.

If work is hard, I'm probably going to look at a different career. Hard implies suffering and unpleasant obstacles to me. If it's challenging however...
The short answer is no, STM is only a small (and some smart people suggest overrated) part of Clojure infrastructure.

But the Deep Thinkers in the Clojure community feel your stack trace pain, and now that 1.3 is in the can it seems to me that there was renewed enthusiasm at Conj for doing something about debugging clarity. You shouldn't give up hope yet.
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I wonder if it was a good idea to use the blue light "to see what they are doing" as Cherenkov radiation they would see in case of a radioactive leak[1] would also be blue.

If it works at least as well as the one on Voyager it should be good for 40 years!

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goiânia_accident
Allen curve
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On a related note, the cilkplus branch of Gcc 4.7 contains the cilk work-stealing multithreading runtime and language extension that intel has open sourced. http://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/intel-cilk-plus-spe...

Exciting times ahead.
House to Investigate Threat Posed by Chinese-owned Telecoms
The fruit is knowledge, aka knowledge of good and evil, aka sex.

[A Recovering Catholic]
And if a rather more brilliant and more important code breaker, Bill Tutte, had been recognised by Canada they would have a silicon valley now.
I frequent HN, Reddit, Twitter, etc. and have heard the name Hunch once or twice, but have no idea what they do and don't know anyone who uses it.

There's a different kind of bubble in the valley, it's a contained ecosystem that people get caught up in. Similar to the social bubble surrounding a college or church. People inside the bubble often cannot see the forest from the trees.

In the bubble it's easy to get to know all the trees, but from the outside it's just a forest and few trees are easily recognized or stand out from the others at all.
I wonder if Google was in on the action for Hunch.
Text mining: most of the time is spent on gathering the data, curating the data, and working with your annotators (domain experts). After that, you try a dozen or more ways to covert documents into a matrix format. Then, you try a dozen or more feature selection algorithms. Finally, the icing on the cake: you get to try a dozen or more machine learning algorithms, each having a dozen or more parameters to be estimated.

Yep, it would be very nice to have an API that would do all that for you. But that would require a group of at least 10 ML experts + 10 NLP experts + 20 domain experts. Still, I think it's doable and one should make small efforts to make it happen.

Marginal thoughts: decision trees are very bad for large p >> n problems - random forest might work, though. If TextMinr doesn't have radial SVM with auto-tuning then it will not cope with more difficult problems.
Ask HN: What are web design/development companies doing wrong?
I'm in the web design/development business and I'm almost embarrassed to admit that. Why? Well it seems that nowadays everyone and their pet had a "web design firm". There are all these idiots running around calling themselves web designers/developers after reading the first few chapters of "Build a website for Dummies". They're all out there flooding the market with ridiculously low prices and low quality work. This in and of itself isn't as big a problem. The really big problem is that they end up pissing off their clients and those of us who are competent get a bad name as we are all lumped in together.

I'm not claiming to be great. I'm okay. Decent enough to charge what I do and nothing more (for now). But here's my big problem - I've been researching and brainstorming for months and months on how to differentiate myself from the competition and I cannot figure it out.

It seems everyone is operating in very much the same way. So I research the common the problems with these companies and there's a lot of talk about processes and problems with the tools we use but nothing really speaks to what problems our clients have that we are either not solving or could do a much better job of solving. The closest thing I've come up with as a differentiator is business strategy help for clients. Being in this business puts you in a unique position to spot flaws with the client's business strategy as we need to know their customer and their business, etc.

So after months of racking my brain I'm coming here to ask all you people I respect, what are web design companies doing wrong? What problems are we not solving and how can we solve current problems better?