skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Three points that stood out for me were:
1) meditate
2) work on one thing that matters the most for today
3) know that you have good options even if your startup fails

In essence through meditation entrepreneurs can bring forth deep resources from the subconscious, through one pointed attention they can complete tasks that matter and by putting others first, deliver right value at the right price.

I am an entrepreneur too and the way I keep my balance is follow the eight point passage meditation program (http://www.easwaran.org/the-eight-point-program.html).
Yes, and this will only only grow worse the better screens get w/r/t brightness and contrast.
As for the video, is that basically Google Now for iOS?
What is Dropbox's product in your opinion then?
Steam selling non-game software may be a game changer
Free users are test subjects I suppose. It is way easier to test something out if you are not expected to provide support in case it blows up.
TPP seeks to export unjustifiably long copyright terms to other countries
No, the upside is that as app.net relies on people paying money, the users are customers instead of being the product.
I had figured they needed to be there in person to get past the fingerprint scanner.

Also, Bane's plan centers around presenting himself as a champion of the people -- I had figured he went in guns blazing for the psychological value of the thing (not to mention the possibility of drawing Wayne/Batman out of hiding). Exchange security just being compromised probably wouldn't be a big enough deal for most people (the police officer outside who makes the comment about his money being in his mattress certainly doesn't seem to care!)
HP announces $8 Billion writeoff this quarter as unit fails to meet expectations
NYPD Unveils Creepy New Surveillance System Developed with Microsoft
Fox said that, not Alfred.
I hope they sell a relational database and call it Cornerstone.
Potentially, it isn't just support costs to respond and potentially fix bugs. Instagram stores photos. Netflix pays bandwidth and storage charges for cloud hosting. All of this costs money.
Step-by-step guide to installing Windows apps on Mac (for free)
When ZFS was released, Sun made some strong statements about Linux filesystems, particularly regarding data integrity and ease of management. As a Linux sysadmin with a fairly large amount of data, I thought those were completely warranted but unfortunately some people took it as attacks rather than considering the technical merits. Toss in yet another licensing flamewar and the more vocal parts Linux community wasted a few years pretending the gap would go away if they ignored it.

This is the same reason why Linux doesn't have a viable DTrace competitor: the “what's wrong with kdb?” attitude started with Linus and it took way too long for the near-unanimous sysadmin voice to be heard.
Social “DataSift” Aims for Wall Street; Hires Financial Vets, Opens in NYC
the ability to save your work to your personal Steam Cloud space so your files may travel with you.

Anyone know how to export files from Steam Cloud?
It is "Bane". And no, this is not a hugely significant plot point.
avoiding pure black text on a pure white background is pretty standard one for webpages.

I wish it wasn't, at least not to the extent it is in the OP blog. The text is hard to read.
Would respectfully disagree. Dropbox and Box are building an awesome app platform as well and as long as users want neutral solutions (non iOS or Windows), they should be OK. In fact Box and Dropbox will start specializing as the author noted.
I'm another netbook user on a slow connection, and I've never cared for GNOME (since Breezy Badger), for various reasons, so when I found out about Xfce I was quite pleased with it.

I like that some distros provide different "spins" as Fedora does, although switching DE is a simple task, why download stuff you don't want?
Thanks for the suggestions! I might implement a couple in a future post.

Numpy can handle a 10k by 10k matrix - in this case, you wouldn't want to print it to the spreadsheet, but you could still run the optimization. I've tested to 100 tickers and there isn't a noticeable increase in computation time. (I'm sure there would be at 10,000, but it's probably doable; the constraint here might be fetching that much data.)

The optimization is done with a Nelder-Mead simplex algorithm [1], but SciPy has a lot of different functionality built in. There's a different function, fmin_bgfs[2], that does use BFGS optimization.

Computations as a service is something we're definitely looking into; if there's enough demand we'll do it.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nelder%E2%80%93Mead_method
[2] http://docs.scipy.org/doc/scipy/reference/generated/scipy.op...
While I would agree that meditation helps to introspect and obtain perspective, I don't think that aiming for happiness (of itself) is meaningful at all.

Yikes, I meant ... you cannot pursue happiness for happiness' sake. It's a byproduct of living. Happiness is an oblique outcome of being - of existing.

I like what Robert Oppenheimer wrote to his brother Frank in one of his letters:

"Everyone wants rather to be pleasing to women and that desire is not altogether, though it is very largely, a manifestation of vanity. But one cannot aim to be pleasing to women any more than one can aim to have taste, or beauty of expression, or happiness; for these things are not specific aims which one may learn to attain; they are descriptions of the adequacy of one's living. To try to be happy is to try to build a machine with no other specification than that it shall run noiselessly."
~ Robert Oppenheimer
I sort of understand the first point, though I don't think they did it on a whim without any "merit." I don't get your second point though, why do you lose respect for them for competing with a product MS hasn't even released?

Edit: I saw your post in the other thread where you say more clearly that you think the two are related. I'm still not sure why this is an evil thing to do, or why you're convinced the slamming was 'without merit' but it makes more sense now.
That's not making money off of feeling oppressed. That's making money off of successful serial lawsuits. Whether or not they feel oppressed doesn't enter in to the business model.

In the case of Hirsch, it's really hard to tell anything since an NY Post article (not a reputable source) appears to be the only primary source on the subject.

As for the ROHO post, the claim that they are raking in "huge amounts" of cash is pretty dubious. Even Hirsch with his 87 lawsuits would have brought in under $4500 total for his efforts. Not an insignificant amount of cash, but hardly a gold mine.

His lawyer, on the other hand...
Try to find out which blacklist you are on, and work with its maintainer to fix the problem. These links might help:

http://senderbase.org/senderbase_queries/rep_lookup

http://rfc-ignorant.org/

http://www.mxtoolbox.com/blacklists.aspx

http://multirbl.valli.org/

Also make sure your email list is double-opt-in so that malicious people cannot sign up other people for email.
This will dilute the hell out of what I actually use Steam for -- video games.

The Steam front page, though it may seem a little sloppy or insane, is extremely successful at pointing me to games I am interested in, at a cheap price. It's going to get weird, and very nebulous, if a copy of Adobe Premiere is up there in the hot picks slider along with Assassin's Creed 3.
I'm not sure this applies to user interfaces and digital design, where style is a huge aspect. The starkness of true black on true white is stark, and sometimes that's what you're looking for, especially for minimalism. For example, see http://whatthefuckshouldimakefordinner.com/. I would think a design student would recognize that not everyone wants to have the same look and feel as other people, and there is a place for black. Just not in his sketching class at RISD.
Here's a great paper on the topic: http://www.ess.washington.edu/Space/M2P2/rad.shielding.pdf

The biggest requirement is power, though it's within the capabilities of a large sized solar array. In terms of exposure to the crew, the actual magnetic field experienced within the cabin would probably not be that high (since the magnet itself would likely be on an external boom).

As far as bulk material launch, I don't think there's a ton of value in launching unprocessed raw materials into orbit. There's only a narrow time window where that's actually useful, because once you have built up even a moderate off-Earth industrial base then it becomes easy to produce things like bulk metals and whatnot. The biggest need will always be in complete, manufactured items, and I suspect more or less conventional launch vehicles will probably be the way that happens well into the era where off-Earth colonization is underway.
It's easy to switch to adjusted closing price - there's a 'which_price' dictionary that has adjusted price as an option. The weight limits do go a bit crazy if you can get close to 0 variance (but that's hard to do in real life).
New fossils complicate human family tree
Until now I don't think it's been terribly important. Mostly it's just game save / config files.

Although I suspect that all the steam cloud files are present locally and only put on the steam cloud as backup.
How Some Food Retailers Are Coming to the Rescue of Pigs
On the flip side, maybe Gabe/Valve disliked Windows 8 and Microsoft's store, so they decided to build their own because they saw a market for a better store?
Better go see it then to avoid further spoilers! I saw it with a housemate two weeks ago on a weekday, the theater was nearly empty. But I agree with the other comment that it's not a major plot point by itself.
It really involves both: particularly if you want high speed hashing, you need to pay close attention to how your hash function is executed by the hardware.
I'd strongly consider not using 25% of the data for the correlations. Then backcheck the generated model based on that last 25%. I'd be really tempted to make sure that the 25% included things like the Global Financial Cluster..ck, just to see how well things go when something unexpected happens.

Either that or run separate correlations for each $time_period and see how the results change over time. If they're stable, then you've got better confidence than if they're wildly changing at each interval.

Also, realize that people with way more data and processor power have been doing this for a long time, with very mixed results. /me remembers my uncle slaving over the Apple ][e looking at charts and numbers.
Building and testing at Facebook
What you're saying doesn't make any sense. The linked article wants Linux people to use ZFS instead of btrfs. How on earth is it "self-entitled bike shedding" to point out the clearly correct reason for ZFS not being in Linux?

I'm sorry you're interested in "actual tech". But in the real world stuff like the legal ability to use software sometimes gets in the way of our geeky aspirations.
The reason why many people prefer black text on white is that they have an astigmatism: http://blog.tatham.oddie.com.au/2008/10/13/why-light-text-on...

I have one on the left eye but preferred white on black before I switched to Windows (from Linux), where the system colors are black on white and thus I have mostly windows with black on white open (a few dark terminal windows are extremely distracting).

On the other hand, I found white/colored text on blue (as modern in the 90's, e.g. Turbo Pascal and other DOS editors/IDEs) quite readable.
i hate to be critical of an image sent from millions of miles away but I have an honest question:

Why do images from landers like this always look like there were taken from a iPhone 1's camera?
Those of us with data that we want to secure will care, and will run ZFS. Maybe not on Linux but on top of FreeBSD or OpenIndiana (in my case).

Sorry, but Linux isn't the end all be all open source operating system, and is the last thing I will put into a production system where I care about my data and or stability.
Although I would argue that Mars is a poor choice for a backup. It is fairly inhospitable and relatively close to earth. I think generation ships would be a better investment if this is our goal. Although Mars would be a good stepping stone.
I think it's so that on the individual image requests the server could be 'smart' and decide whether to return a 2x image or not.
Microsoft defense that fetched $50,000 prize bypassed in just 2 weeks
Steam pre-dates Microsoft's app store, Apple's app store by a large margin. It's been around for quite a while. Since 2002 I believe.

You make it sound as if they just opened it.
@dalton you need to pimp up the alpha design. That counts too, if you want a larger audience.
Bad Service Can Be Good Business
The gp commenter's feelings were hurt. Understandably so, though that's also not how pg meant his comment. (Note that pg's comment is conditional, therefore speaking directly to the ambiguity.)
> ...no such thing as pure black in nature.

This is exactly why it can be so effective when used correctly. Obvious, if you're painting, black looks uncanny, but that's a far different situation than digital design.
Some / many people would not consider an app that cost more than 99cents expensive, and having a barrier to exclude those that do isn't necessarily a bad thing.
Thought #38: When to plan
I run OpenIndiana on a variety of different X86 machines, both AMD and Intel without issues. So far compatibility hasn't been an issue that I've ran into and the operating system and everything around it is rock solid.

Much better than the Linux machines that were replaced.
If I had to guess - and I do, because I don't work for NASA - it's because there's a limited payload space on board, and visible images are some of the least interesting things, science-wise, that you can ask from Mars. Combine this with the electronics-unfriendly environment, and you probably aren't going to be strapping huge DLSR's on a 2.5 billion dollar science machine.

Edit: Also, these appear to be the navigation cameras, so they're probably just good enough to be able to point the rover in a direction free of road hazards and tell it to boldly go where no other machine has yet gotten around to going.
Patience, better images will come. They need to deploy the camera fully and it will take time to retrieve the data.
It has only a 2 megapixel sensor, which is a shame. I am sure that it has something to do with radiation hardening and the other environmental factors.

It would be good though if NASA did catch up with sensor technology. I suspect the 2MP sensor was approved years ago when it was state of the art.
We didn't market enough and had some more features in mind to build. But this is a tough market given the fact that people have to remember your app when they actually need it.
It won't succeed. The closest parallel is the Accept-Language feature in the HTTP headers, which never took off. By the time this could be implemented in many browsers and servers, everyone will have already solved the problem with javascript.
Disagree with the concept. I would recommend studying pixel art for examples of really strong color usage - most modern styles work within an economical palette, just like in graphic design. Black is commonplace, it's how it's used that matters. The scene as a whole has similar considerations for contrast and weight as graphic design, even though the individual elements tend to emphasize detail and lighting.

Enormous pixel art thread: http://forums.tigsource.com/index.php?topic=167.0
A good counter example to the pop art painter are Baroque painters, who used very dark colors very heavily in their pieces http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baroque_painting
>we have seen bizarrely correlated asset price changes due to macro issues

Actually, this is quite expected given event-risk in the market. For example, even in a non-crisis situation, correlation increases in intra-day trading when market-moving news is due - e.g. payroll numbers are due or ISM numbers are released.

Coming back to the present, headline-risk hasn't been as high as it has been since May, 2010 as we keep having one EU summit after another, one central bank announcement after another and each having a huge impact on how asset prices behave.

So the correlation is not entirely bizarre - people have been making correlation trades as well - for example JP Morgan's huge loss while betting on credit index tranches was a bet on implied vs. realized correlation (it didn't play out as expected, of course).

I'd be interested to know how people are playing this out in the equity space - via variance swaps?
Correct, the people who destroyed Megaupload have not lost anything.
Take a look at SmartOS which is based on Illumos. Has KVM and is used extensively by Joyent themselves.

Sorry, but having your underlying storage be rock solid is absolutely crucial for VM's.
With the solution I propose, it seems like the server could be blissfully dumb, and the client could be smart and choose whether to request 2x images if the page author indicates they're available. I don't see the advantage in this regard.
These images aren't even from the main cameras. These are still navcam images.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curiosity_rover#Rover_instrumen...
Uh... actually... Most city water (in the US) I've drunk tastes really bad. It's not just marketing.

So we buy filtered water in bulk (refill multi-gallon jugs). There are also filters you can put on the tap. I think it's wasteful to buy bottled water, so I avoid it.
Feel free to ask questions! I would really love to hear your opinion.
> Normal people will download a debian CD and get XFCE and think that's linux on the desktop.

Would "normal" people download Debian CDs though? I wonder if this change will pass unnoticed precisely because it is only people like "you and me" that will be interested in Debian.
If those were the concerns, it could have been dual licensed.
Because your markup doesn't need to change to support HiDPI. The beauty of this solution is that the browser can be DPI aware and use HTTP content-negotiation behind the scenes to ask for higher resolution images. This is one of the main, albeit underused, use cases of content-negotiation with Accept headers. The main problem is that it requires both servers and browsers to add support. Whereas with a markup based solution that pointed out how to find hidpi assets existing servers can serve two files just fine.
Great point--Liz Gannes asked that question at the event, and the answer she got was that we'd like to explore offering things like Docs or calendar information as well. Gmail seemed like the best place to start for the field trial though in terms of useful information to surface.
Small sites will just require small fee, one time or recurring.
You see, we can't take all site, multiply them by some price and add all results to receive some ridiculous number and declare that man just can't pay that much. Because a single human can't visit all sites on the Internet, physically.

One individual has at most 16 hours a day for internet and if someone would estimate average times that the discrete number of sites to visit would be rather low. It is entirely possible (not 100% sure) that after initial shock communities will restructure a little, some really obscure sites with little unique content or services will die, but users won't leave. they'll just shift to occupy all the sites they really want to visit.

And right now I see that small and obscure websites are NOT findable in search engines. They don't do SEO and SMO, they are totally dominated by ad driven monsters they produce and produce and produce... well something. Sometimes good content sometimes not. Mostly not actually.
I almost never find really good unknown stuff in Google&Co, only by direct links from friends and random people. Such sites are like dark matter of the internet, real but invisible knowledge. Invisible behind the noise from ad giants.
Our goal at Chute is to provide the complete infrastructure around handling media files. See our other products at picture.io, avatars.io, and even slidechute.com. We think photo and video assets require unique workflow and processing and we're focused on providing that.
Yeah I was backing up your point. Robots can do almost anything, but they cannot live human lives. Let robots do the dirty, dangerous work of making Mars livable for humans, then let humans do the living.
This may be one of the few discussions where the licensing discussion is apropos, so consider my prior rant as something broader.

But it doesn't help when "great harm" hyperbole gets thrown around. The world has benefited from the gift, unless anyone is daft enough to argue that Illumos' existence, FreeBSD's incorporation of ZFS and DTrace, and OSX's incorporation of DTrace, are a bad thing. Hell, DTrace is even being used for PS3 game production.
I don't know about Samsung's phones, but I've definitely held a Samsung tablet that did not say "Samsung"--or in fact anything--on the frontside. It was clearly designed to look as much like an iPad as possible.

And I now own a Google Nexus 7 tablet (in addition to an iPad). It also does not say anything on the frontside. It, clearly, is also designed to look from the front as much like an iPad as possible--only smaller.
I doubt that is the reason, the weight of a 16mp sensor or marginally more than a 2mp one. The metal camera supports are much likely to dwarf the sensor weight differences.

most of a DSLR's weight is lens and battery(s), both of which are not issues in this case, since the lens would be the same and the power comes from a nuclear battery.

NASA couldn't just bolt on a 5DmkIII and expect it to work because the electronics would be fried.

That said, the Apollo missions took a not-very-modified Hasselblad camera with them that worked fine, which is why we have much higher resolution pictures of the moon, despite it being decades ago.
They're using Instagram filters. ;)
It seems inflexible and potentially inefficient though. What if you have 2x assets available for some images but not others? Will the client be making two requests in all those cases? Or will it simply break?
Germany is killing it. Their economy is roaring, they've set very strong renewable energy goals and are acting on them, and to top it all off, they protect their civil liberties and are a relatively benevolent nation.
Thus the confusion. ",)
I hate Steam's DRM. People keep trying to convince people that it does not actually require an Internet connection and all that. Try using it for 6 months with a 0.2 Mbps connection that gets randomly cut every 5-10 seconds. It can literally take 10 minutes "Preparing to launch" a game. I really hope it doesn't expand to other software.

The funniest part is: "Could not connect to Steam network. Start in Offline Mode?". You answer yes. "Error: could not connect to Steam network. This operation cannot be completed in Offline Mode". Maximum trollgaben.
John Schappert, Zynga COO, Resigns
At the event, they demonstrated that the same one-click toggle to disable personalized results will also disable the results from Gmail. It's not in our enlightened self-interest to push information that's unhelpful or jarring, because then you're less likely to search on Google in the future.
We have been getting some consistent traffic, but need more push to market ourselves. Got real good feedback from both users, friends and HN, but getting the real consumer to use it is the key I guess. You guys figured out the pricing, which is great and being an iphone app you can use the in-app purchasing. We were more web focussed. Also, not generating real phone numbers as you did.

I might still add some more features to it, but thinking about the direction right now :)
Same here, too, but I think nirvana lived in the USA before being accepted to Startup Chile, so that was probably where he was laid off from. And I don't think it does vary significantly between states in the US.
It's one of the first scenes of the movie. It is not a "huge" plot point.