skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Whenever I think about "risk" in starting your own business, my mind always wonders to health insurance (living in the US). Individual health insurance is of course an option, but many of the legal protections that are in place for group health insurance plans are not applicable to individual health insurance. For example, when you move directly from one group health insurance plan to another, the latter plan cannot claim a pre-existing condition exemption for an illness that was identified during your previous coverage. If you were moving from an individual insurance plan to a group plan, the same protection is not available.

This is a huge issue for me as I value my health above all but my family (certainly leaps and bounds above my career aspirations).

I haven't looked very much into this, but I'd be very intrigued to hear how U.S. startup founders address or mitigate the risks associated with health insurance in their early-stage ventures.
Ask HN: Summer reading
What recent non-fiction books should you recommend for someone interested in science & technology?
It's because we don't feel comfortable telling people who wear suits and ties and working in high-rises that they're going to jail because they followed the prevailing ethics in their neigborhood. We have no problem sending black people or sweaty guys with ethnic names to jail just because they were joiners who went blindly along with the prevailing social mores in their social group, but we only send investment bankers to jail if we can prove they knowingly sunk lower than other investment bankers. We allow the Wall Street subculture to set the standard for its own behavior, and we consider that the desired normal state of things. Instead of reluctantly intervening to "send a message" once in a while when the corruption becomes too egregious to ignore, we should recognize that the complexity and lucrativeness of the finance industry makes Wall Street a natural locus of crime that requires constant attention. Just like a bad neighborhood or a bus station bathroom.

That means we need a proactive and well-funded SEC, of course.
us vs. them is a common situation, but you need to read about why Pakistan was created and what the concept for the new nation was, because that is not a garden variety "us vs. them." Comparing the India-Pakistan split to support of sports teams seems superficial.
I know you're joking, but his point is very badly made. Anything that can support ~1 billion users is not piddly. Facebook are doing amazing work with PHP, as are many others at a very large scale.

Why the unpaid work of Rasmus and many, many other open source contributors like him, who's hard work facilitated the growth of massive web sites like Facebook, is constantly being ridiculed on threads like this is sickening.
Where can I find this study?
In the us, few cards besides AMEX have annual fees. The credit card companies make most of their money on people who fall behind on their payments and end up paying a ton of interest, and i would guess that annual fees aren't attractive to those customers. New college students are a prime example.

While this sucks for the system as a whole, on an individual level it does mean that those of us who have a reliable income (or FU money) can use credit cards very differently. They provide convenience, consumer protection, usually some kind of 'reward' (travel points or such), and yes, a 30 day grace period in which you can do something else with your money though I usually don't think of it that way. In fact, from an individual standpoint the only reason I can think of to use a debit card rather than credit here is a complete lack of financial responsibility/will power.
"In fact what you call a "core" when you're talking about CPUs is composed of multiple such general purpose programmable, as well as less general purpose memory load/store units"

So are GPU cores.

"But saying that the NVidia GPU has 1526 "cores" is just dishonest."

No, it isn't. You can run 1536 things in parallel at speeds that would have qualified as full cpu speeds several years prior.

Something isn't any less a core merely because it does less juggling magic, and that juggling magic is actually undesirable for a heavily parallelized task.

"So there are some tasks where the Intel core will be much faster than the NVidia SM, and some tasks where the NVidia SM will be much faster."

This conversation already has a context. Arguments which ignore that context completely miss the point.

If you don't understand how I achieved the amount of processing I did, that's fine. Playing games with the semantics of a "core" somehow magically requiring all the features of current Intel-strategy chips, though, are not going to convince me.

There is more to Heaven and Earth, Horatio, than is dreamt of in Intel's philosophy. This sort of attitude towards what constitutes the no true scotsman "a real core" is why Arm is in the process of eating Intel alive, and why Tilera stands a decent chance of doing the same thing to ARM.

This is merely extreme RISC. I realize it's sort of a tradition for the modern VLIW movement to suggest that if you can't double-backflip through a flaming hoop made out of predictive NAND gates it somehow doesn't count.

But, if you actually look, the rate of modern supercomputing going to video cards is rising dramatically.

So obviously they count as cores to somebody.

You also seem to have missed the point. It's not the core scale that we're discussing here. It's the dataset scale. The number of cores you throw at a problem is not terribly important; 20 years ago it would have been breathtaking to throw 32 cores at a problem, and now that's two CPUs.

What makes an experiment cutting edge is the nature of the experiment, not the volume of hardware that you throw at it. I was talking about the /data/ and the /problem/ . Predicting movie ratings is a hell of a lot harder than feature detection.
Unfortunately, the opposite is much more common: people who start out as regulators move to the other side. Sure, high level positions like the Treasury Secretary and his staff will often have people from industry. But rank-and-file regulators are, as I understand it, often not from industry.

Harry Markopolous has an excellent book, "No One Would Listen" (http://www.amazon.com/No-One-Would-Listen-Financial/dp/04705...) about how he warned regulators multiple times about Madoff. In the book, he explains how good regulators often end up going to industry because the pay and prestige is much, much better. So, what you're left with are the people who couldn't hack it in industry, which means the regulators are continually going to be outgunned.
"Booting our CDs will rely on a loader image signed by Microsoft's WinQual key...the UEFI specification only allows an image to be signed by a single key."

This is anti-competitive and should not be acceptable. The UEFI specification needs to be fixed before vendors are forced to comply with it. It is disappointing that this won't happen.
Can’t we just be friends?
Awesome Olympics Wallpapers | Scratch The Web
Freedom of Speech and Information Produced Using Computer Algorithms
Clojure-powered Startups
No. The author of the Y! Combinator article.

I apologize for being vague, and shall endeavor to be clearer in the future.
As a former Commodore Amiga user, I really enjoyed this: http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&...

It was surprisingly in-depth, both technically and historically.
Ask HN: Looking for Designer Co-founder
Are there any sites/online hangouts that match technical co-founders with a design/UX co-founders?
"This time for sure."
USB is only 4 wires. The 30 pin connector has a lot more signals available than that:

http://pinouts.ru/PortableDevices/ipod_pinout.shtml

Yes, you can sync and charge the device using only the USB wires, but some accessories use the others.
GitHub. I've also found annotated source code to be very helpful, it's quite popular in the javascript world. Check out Locco: http://rgieseke.github.com/locco/
As Facebook Seeks Answers, SEC Investigates Exchanges
No content for me.. HN'd?
That would depend on the motherboard you bought
My book is three years old now, but it's still relevant. The Geek Atlas: http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9780596523213.do
It's not like the money which forms part of a policeman's salary is used for the greater good either.

Except insofar as it compensates the policeman for doing his job, and insofar as that job is for the greater good. (Although, I don't think everyone agrees that the moral justification for everything is a unitary 'greater good').

The problem isn't the policeman taking money, the problem is that he is taking money under the table and it is likely compromising how well and how fairly he does his job.

When bribery becomes so regular and highly routine, to the point where you can be seen to justly complain about the bribe being raised, the difference from a normal fee is entirely one of top-down regulation. Which is good and helpful for management. But the distinction is about the looseness of supervision and control (and the bad results that leads to) rather than the basic interaction.
To a computer vision researcher, 15.8% on 20k categories is phenomenal.
You can only see a heading without any content. Anybody has this cached?
I'm perfectly fine with the robustness principle being applied, but it seems as if it gives people who write poorly thought out projects a convenient excuse for bad design decisions. I've been using PHP since the early 4.x days, so I've seen the project change over the years and I can honestly say I don't think the robustness principle was ever consciously applied across the project, it just ended up that way. If it was a conscious decision then there would be at a very minimum a standard output for invalid input across all functions. Instead, every function returns something different (FALSE, 0, '', '0', NULL). Sometimes the output for invalid data is documented, sometimes it isn't, sometimes it changes without any notice or modification of the documentation. This doesn't seem like a design choice to me.
Does anybody happen to have collected periodic snapshots of these pages on http://www.freezepage.com?

I looked around on the Wayback Machine a bit but it seems like images are not always stored.
For JavaScript unit testing I have been pleased with Siesta so far (http://bryntum.com/products/siesta/). The standard version can be automated using Selenium or PhantomJS.
I was running without javascript, and was confused for a second when there were no example graphs.
Nope. Credit score is about the ability to repay in the US. Parent doesn't know what he is talking about.

However credit cart companies do like you better if you are the type to 'slip up', mortgage lenders not so much.
Using Mahout Recommenders in Grails
The link is broken, click the link in the headline in what looks like the half loaded article to get the real article.

EDIT: Wait, why am I giving instructions to get there? This is hypertext dammit!

LINK: http://www.salon.com/2012/06/19/new_nsa_docs_reveal_911_trut...
This seems very related to this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZmNOAtZIgIk speak by Andrew Ng. It is a 40min speak, but he explains very simply how all this works for images and some examples about the audio case.
It is incredible how using this deep learning techniques we can teach this "neural networks" to recognize such complicated patterns. It is like reverse engineering the brain's algorithms.

BTW I took his Coursera's course about Machine Learning and it was great! I also recommend it A LOT to gather basic ML knowledge.
Google has the text cached: https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?strip=1&q=...
Had a quick read through of this, very good. Another important one to add is not to host your blog on a subdomain for SEO. http://blog.example.com is inferior to http://example.com/blog

I couldn't agree more about not using it for a corporate news feed, this is one of the main points I tried to get across when I spoke at the HN London event! It's a lazy thing to do, and just appeases a managers checklist of things they must have. Blog? Tick!
Where are Muslim Crusades currently being waged? Remember that the Crusades were a huge undertaking involving many entire nations engaged in full scale war.
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I'm more concerned with testing less commonly used modules, and the front end. I'm newer to the web dev word, but not new to SW development and testing.
so, the links provided on that page don't work. There's a sourceforge project by that name, with some ancient code that won't work in Chrome... do you have a link to a version / repo of that that works in modern browsers?
I would say that three years fits in 'recent' timeframe :). I've read that one and recommend it too.
LinkedIn Breach: How a 6.5M Hole Could Sink a 160M Ship
Google app for managing off-site workers
Ah, thanks. From reading the summary, it seems that case would have been prevented by using signed integers throughout, but would also have been prevented by using unsigned integers throughout?
Not my project, but you can open an issue or pull request :) https://github.com/benpickles/peity
The link contains the suffix "/singleton/" . Remove that, refresh.
I think one of the links mindcrime provided attempts to answer that question briefly: http://www.ozarkia.net/bill/anarchism/faq.html#part16

However, I don't feel it does a very good job. It basically devolves into private security provided a la mafia protection money or what's been seen in Sao Paolo / Rio de Janeiro with the cops enforcing payments from the populace for keeping the riff-raff out, while running their own schemes. Likewise, I can very much see the whole law system being subverted to benefit those providing the most cases (thus helping the bottom line) or benefiting a certain plaintiff over another, like with the eastern district of Texas handling so many patent cases.

Overall, the response seems incredibly wishy-washy with little thought paid to the ways the system can be significantly subverted.
Wearelucky decided to pass on good luck to others by giving away £1,000 a day
Indeed very nice. What technologies did you use?
I would recommend using the Selenium WebDriver browser automation framework (there are C# .NET bindings). This can be used in combination with a BDD approach using SpecFlow, which is also for .NET, or Cucumber for Ruby.

Here are two useful resources where you can learn more about these and successful automation approaches.

* The Secret Ninja Cucumber Scrolls (http://cuke4ninja.com/toc.html)

* Ideas for efficient BDD with SpecFlow through examples (http://ndcoslo.oktaset.com/t-4861) a very recent presentation, from NDC 2012, where the SpecFlow author goes through a couple of testing approaches.

Learn about the "Page Object" model approach to automated web testing. It's important for creating reusable, encapsulated tests that can evolve with the system under test. This is vital for advancing past the initial, small automated tests to much larger suites whilst still keeping them maintainable.
Nice work, and (as another fastmail.fm user) thank you for the responsible disclosure. May it amply repay you in consulting gigs :)

Regarding the script injection from image file names, there is a simple solution to this problem: separate the data types of strings and document structure. For example:

http://www.gnu.org/software/guile/manual/html_node/Types-and...
Does it fix the problem if there simply is no public school system, and everyone who isn't wealthy simply doesn't go to school?

South Africa is better compared to the rest of Sub-Saharan Africa than to Denmark.
We need to harness this neural net to improve kittydar:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4116990
Australia vs Wales Live
Twitter says outage wasn't hackers or Euro 2012, but a software fault
I don't get you wrong at all, just wanted to get some more info. Thank you very much!
Ask HN: Where has common courtesy gone?
Things as simple as holding the door for the person behind you?

Waving thanks at someone who let you into traffic?

Phone etiquette? (The way I see it is, if you set aside time for your clients, and you're a professor teaching students, those students are - at that point in time - your clients, and you shouldn't be answering the phone.)

Getting on the subway, and being cussed at to move faster, when that's not really in your control?

I sound like a grandpa here, and I'm not trying to be a downer when I see things such as this http://voices.yahoo.com/common-decency-where-has-gone-4558385.html

But legitimately asking the question here - who/what's to blame? education? media-perpetuated-trends that moves us to increased anxiety/desensitivity?

What happened?
For those keeping score, google's image feature extractor shares the same core principles as microsoft's speech recognizer.

EDIT: by keeping score I mean keeping track of which techniques are being used where.
Hate, hate, hate on specific platform, not everywhere! All that trouble that he complains about is only on *nix. For Windows is quite simple. Install Phyton, then look here for other packages: http://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/

Edit: I should have said ”For Windows and ReactOS”
My e-mail provider has fixed this by displaying the attachment as plain text. I guess until they update to the newest horde where it has been fixed.
Show HN: Stachify, Instagram for mustaches
OPM? Other Peoples' Money?
Oh yea... Singularity should roll on in very soon - in more science fiction.
The cost of doing a startup has of course fallen over the last decade, but on the flip side, the cost of living has also shot up.

Nowadays, you are likely to need more money than ever to to pay for your living accommodation, expenses, potentially large student debts, healthcare costs etc.

For this reason, I would say that the personal risks are very real. The consequences for ending up flat broke can actually be quite serious and quite tough to get out of if you crash and burn and are not quickly able to find employment.
Why not linking directly to the source?

http://blog.canonical.com/2012/06/22/an-update-on-ubuntu-and...
Ubuntu's Plans To Implement UEFI SecureBoot: No GRUB2 (real source)
When Should I Use An ORM?
> ...you won't be able to run the modified version...

"Tivoization"[1] is a different problem than "can't run because of [any reason besides the hardware owner doesn't want you to]", unless you're talking about another aspect of v3. For instance anything that is AGPL'd presumably is released without the passwords to the database, which presumably doesn't allow remote connections! Are you saying that doing such is a violation of the A/GPLv3 in either legality or spirit? (And you can't license all the data in your DB--think of all the poor sites storing user passwords in plaintext. Also data licenses are more tricky than software ones, but if code is data and data is code...)

And of course, even with DRM that supposedly makes it so unauthorized code cannot be run, it's more or less really just saying "we make it harder." I've seen a lot of "we got our tivo to run Linux or something else" posts, and the PS3 drama was interesting to watch unfold.

[1] I side with Torvalds with a dislike for this word: "[Stallman] calls it "tivoization", but that's a word he has made up, and a term I find offensive, so I don't choose to use it. It's offensive because Tivo never did anything wrong, and the FSF even acknowledged that. The fact that they do their hardware and have some DRM issues with the content producers and thus want to protect the integrity of that hardware.

"The kernel license covers the kernel. It does not cover boot loaders and hardware, and as far as I'm concerned, people who make their own hardware can design them any which way they want. Whether that means "booting only a specific kernel" or "sharks with lasers", I don't care."
Ask HN: AngularJS vs Backbone vs Ember?
Hi guys,

I'm starting a new project and am wondering what are the pros and cons of each framework over the other?

Thanks!
Research paper on the system: http://www.se.cuhk.edu.hk/hccl/publications/pub/HLT2006.pdf
If you have a risky or nonexistent payment infrastructure, poor ability to enforce contracts, high inflation, high interest rates, and high risk due to corruption then it is going to be tough. Unfortunately these kinds of conditions cover most of the populated world.
> CCP is notoriously bad at understanding the impact of changes on the in-game economy

Letting these things slip in might be a deliberate choice that rewards out of the box gameplay and generates noteworthy PR. As I understand it, classifying one as an exploit can reverse the damage if it gets out of hand.
Longitude is a good book
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/080271529X
Hmmm, gives me an idea. Maybe if I ran all the songs through sox to create a spectrogram for each and then use graphicsmagick on the spectrograms to count up the black pixels (silence or quiet sound) I could create a playlist of solid and continuous sound songs... or I could just stick to Helloween.
I see where you're coming from but you're incorrect. It's not about sweeping things under the rug. It's the tarring of all 'muslim countries' (whatever that means) with the same brush, as though we ourselves in non 'muslim countries' don't have the same problems.

It's the perpetuation of all muslims as evil savages that leads to the idea that they're somehow subhuman. Just because some of the 'other' may (or may not) talk differently, have a beard, dress differently or not drink alcohol doesn't mean that they aren't people. And yes, all countries have their problems with human rights abuses, people being attacked for various reasons and so on, but it's important to separate the religious element from the culture of individual ethnic and tribal groups.

To tar all 'muslim countries' is to tar 'muslims' as being part of that, and that's a slippery slope some seem to be further down than others.
How geckos wash their feet
Biscuit.
Twitter Stays True to Roots in Fail Whale Marathon
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Were the Troubles a conflict waged between the Scots and the English?
does ipad not have google reader?
I thought they might be talking about the density of articles on the page growing exponentially.

The Guardian has one of the worst layouts of any webpage I regularly visit.
IIRC, it's basically has to be the combinations of the two. Monopolies aren't illegal in and of themselves. But neither are actions that may be deemed anti-competitive. It's only illegal when a monopoly (or a dominant player - doesn't have to be a monopoly) exploits its position to gain further advantage through anti-competitive actions.
+1 this comment. I have recently had an experience with a kid which reminded of the value of this benefit. What other options have founders exercised to mitigate this risk for their families in a cost effective manner?
> But without the hyperbole, people won't get engaged, they won't get angry.

As above, "getting people angry" about stuff that is very tangentially related to hacker news is a good indication it's a bad fit for this site. There are so many other sites on the internet to discuss politics, economics and things of that ilk. In the grand scheme of things, those topics are more important than "hacker news" and could easily "crowd out" our "dry" discussions of computers and startups here.
"The ego tunnel" by Thomas Metzinger ( 2009 ). It offers an amazing insight on the concept of the self and the inner workings of conscience.
The point was that you don't need to know anything about the driver or hardware to make clones. There are other ways.
That's an impressively fast fix for an e-mail provider. Are you able to disclose who you are using?