skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here's a hypothesis for you: it's easier to follow the polls than it is to follow the issues, and when polling soundbites are ubiquitous, people will tend to follow the polls instead of following the issues.

You can spend an hour watching a presidential debate (plus additional hours looking up the various claims made), or you can spend a minute reading the heading, deck and first paragraph of an article that says this or that candidate "won" the debate.

Polls function as a kind of supernormal stimulus [1] that displace real analysis, in a manner analogous to the way that junk food, which distils fat, sugar and salt to their essence, displaces whole foods.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supernormal_stimulus
That was exactly what I was looking for, thanks!
Started this last night, looks good so far!
This is great; I've been looking forward to this book for a while. I'd recommend the author's blog, Quant Pythonista (http://blog.wesmckinney.com/), where he posts details of his various quantitative Python projects. It's great for a beginner such as myself to see real-world applications outside of my own projects.
Anywhere to download MP3 or other audio-only versions to listen in the car?
FiveThirtyEight definitely doesn't do this, or hasn't in the past, it least. It models via demographics and polling, while this would be a much simpler model basing its predictions on already reported results.
Looks pretty good. If it works half as well as Sparrow it could be huge!
The currency of the previous world-wide empire. The British pound
But it looks like this board uses the A8.
"According to Facebook you are not allowed to read this post, so beware."
Cool, check us out in a couple of weeks!
The kotaku story is following in the steps of the older stories and is somewhat inaccurate.

This was a much more interesting read by one of fail0verflows devs Marcan.

http://wololo.net/2012/10/25/clarifying-the-confusion-on-the...
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As jsnell commented the top status bar is wrong. Android does not allow for centered clock as pictured. Even if you say that this option was added in 4.2 the battery icons are also specifically used in AOKP and not in stock aosp.
I guess that means you can pan around and it'll make a long panoramic picture for you, much like the new feature in iOS 6 (and already found in Android 4.x, right?).
Depends on whether they worked with Instagram, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram, Amazon (Kindle) to make some apps available on day one. If not, then probably not.

I don't like the idea of buying the first iteration of any hardware either, regardless of whether the manufacturer is Apple or Microsoft.
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Who do I want running my presentations, socially awkward IT specialists, or a car salesman?

I'll deal with their lack of presentation skills.
I really like the idea of gamification when it comes to business and love this approach. Rather than asking HN if you would do this, build a light weight version and test it - even if it sites at another domain - throw some paid at it and see if you can get 20 people to opt-in.

As for rev model and long term - what other things could you incoporate/affiliate like http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/18/maneesh-sethi-blogg... - could something like this scale?

Or partner with http://www.fancyhands.com/ as a lead-gen model for them - help move tasks into outsourcing
I think they were being flippant.
Not knowing much about the internals of the interpreter (other than proper tco) I would assume just your old fashioned infinite loop unless it got into bignum territory and got too large for memory.

I'm sure you could use contracts to prevent the latter and reasonably sure there's some option somewhere to set maximum recursion depth to prevent the prior.

EDIT: as opposed to boring method of just putting/checking a loop count accumulator and if not bignum? into the function body.
You another Methods of Rationality reader?
Ayn Rand's Objectivism and the Silicon Valley ethos have a lot in common
>True, but what if you connect to that system while it's compromised and under attacker's control?

I don't follow you on this one. Could you expand a little bit?

>What if you want to separate your identities?

Sure, you can do this to preserve some privacy if you think the services might collude. But my point is that multiple keys don't make you more secure. (It's not like symmetric encryption where you should be using different passwords for everything.)

>What if you want to limit your responsibility and be able to just permanently delete the key after you finish working with some system thereby completely revoking your access to it?

This is a fair point, although having continued access is only a problem if an adversary gains control of the machine containing your private key (and in that case it's usually game over anyway). It's the job of the sysadmin of the other server to revoke authorized_keys as needed.

>What if you want to store passwords to some keys in your system keyring but enter the pass every time for others?

Again, a fair point, but this is only a risk if a bad guy has control of your machine. In general I'm referring to the misconception many people have that using multiple keys protects them if an external service is compromised. While this is true for passwords, for asymmetric crypto, revealing a public key is not really a problem.
Great team - love the ease of selecting the best icons.
There's a lot of great material in this post, but as a recent YC alum myself, I have a number of problems with it.

1) "If you’re writing your Y Comb application and it takes you less than a month of work, you’re not trying hard enough."

No. You should not be spending that much effort on your application to YC -- or any accelerator. Should you have a few people read it over? Yes. Should you spellcheck? Yes. But not much more than that. Focus on building your product and building your business.

2) "no one’s video is under a minute."

Ours was. 50 seconds, to be exact.

3) "But my point is, if your company and team is solid, than you will get in."

This is the most dangerous statement in the post. This is simply not the case. Every successful entrepreneur was told "no" and turned down time and time again on their path to greatness. Facebook got "no's" from VCs. Airbnb's founders were told they were crazy. Many people outright laughed at Elon Musk's dream to build rocket ships. SendGrid was rejected from YC. If you believe in your team, and you believe in your idea, trek on. The YC partners are some of the smartest people I've ever met, but they're not infallible.

YC has been absolutely amazing for my team and my company, and we're very grateful for having gone through the program. But we likely wouldn't have been accepted and wouldn't have benefitted so much from the program if we weren't focused intensely on what matters -- building our product, talking to our customers, and staying healthy. Apply, hope you get in, but if you don't, carry on.
FWIW my Australian credit card with Westpac charges foreign exchange fees, about 2.5% if I remember correctly. It's only recently that they've added those fees as separate line entries in the account.
In my experience as a Telefonica customer, the company is incapable of leveraging innovation. For example, in Argentina , the 3G service provided by Movistar is unusable.
What do you mean by that. If you mean progress, then that has occurred this year, basically the object recognition problem looks like it can be solved by neural nets (google brain cat detector and the latest imagenet challenge in pascal voc).

If applications, then they are literally immense. Robots that can perform any manual labor, thus increase in mnaufacturing ability (plus ability to conduct scientific experiments) by an immense amount. Marshall Brain has good articles about what computer vision technology can enable, including the short story Manna. Computer Vision is easily the most disruptive technology since the invention of the steam engine (it multiplies the work capacity of humanity by that much). It's a new gold rush bigger than the internet (robocars and humanoid robots including Baxter from Rethink Robotics are signs of that beginning). Startups should be all over it, web 2.0 and social networking are miniscule in comparison.
> Rolls eyes

In the real world knowledge of this stuff is vanishingly thin actually. Real world - the thing out there, with people and trees and stuff.
Don't count out the Euro just yet! From Wikipedia reserve currencies:
- 1999: USD 71.0%, Eur 17.9%
- 2012: USD 62.2%, Eur 25.0%

Sure the next 5-10 years might be worse for the Euro, but for things like a global reserve currency one should think in 50+ year frames anyway...
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Turns out the presenter also has a SparkFun tutorial on the topic: "The FCC and Open Source Hardware " <http://www.sparkfun.com/tutorials/398>;
Agreed with comment above. I recently bought ThinkPad x230 with ivy bridge processor, 128GB SSD and 8 GB RAM. The weight would be around 3 pounds. I doubt if any other machine (ultra book/air) would beat this in any performance benchmark.
I'm not sure if this is something good to admit or not, but I only spent about 2 hours writing my YC application, and we spent about 15 minutes planning and filming the video, no editing. The video got 2 views. We got asked to do an interview.

Seems like every "YC Application Advice" blog is about spending hundreds of hours doing an APPLICATION. To me this sounds absurd. If you're really using the time to figure out the direction you want to head, or where your product focus is, then fine. But then it's not really for your YC application, its for your company.

In the end we didn't get in. We didn't have a sound business strategy; our focus was on the product. Nieve, yes, but lesson learned. It was one hell of an experience.
The dollar was given a central place in the international exchange system under the Bretton Woods agreement, which came just after the end of World War II, as you guessed. Before the Great Depression, I don't think there was an analogue, because reserves mostly consisted of gold. However, part of the reason that gold became the monetary standard (as opposed to say silver) was because of its use by the British Empire, which was the largest player in international trade.
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So the classic version works in a lazy fashion, for example with infinite structures? Keep in mind that Clojure is a strict language by default.
I grant that - essentially:

Q: So the PS3 is utterly and completely broken?
A: To an extant yes, debatable but unlike the 3.55 hack we have mostly everything needed. Sony will never be able to re-secure existing consoles.
You do realize that knowledge of these things is an attribute of a tiny minority?
This is probably a reaction to this: http://pandodaily.com/2012/10/24/travis-shrugged/
Actually, people trust the dollar so much that the yield on a 10 year treasury bond has been below 2% for quite some, historic lows. Bonds that aren't inflation protected actually lose money (i.e., bond bought for $1000, worth $950 10 years later); people are paying us to hold their money.

And you'll note that Japan has had a much, much higher debt-to-GDP ratio for quite some time, but has had sluggish growth throughout. The U.S. debt-to-GDP ratio was higher during WWII.

The main reason for this reply is that we shouldn't be cutting spending right now. Governments should be running deficits during recessions. For proof of how poorly cutting your way to growth works, take a look at most of the countries in the E.U. (and no, we are not on our way to Greece. It's a horrible analogy. Greece was on the Euro, not their own currency. Their goods, therefore, are not competitive. So rather than external devaluation, a weak currency, high inflation, they're having internal devaluation, people have to accept lower living standards).

Interestingly enough, the largest area of long-term debt growth is health care costs (medicare and medicaid). The Bush tax cuts are number 3 or 4. The ACA takes some initial steps in order to slow the growth of Medicare and Medicaid. The Ryan plan does, too, but by moving the cost to the elderly.
The author isn't concluding that only the government will fix things. He's concluding that, in the past, the government has used its vast influence and resources to successfully identify and tackle huge technological challenges. And the government has not done that lately.

Secondarily, he's pointing out that, a great deal of private capital is being funneled into trivial endeavors. The VCs themselves recognize this; many made their money by hitting the software start-up lottery, but now they want to "change the world" by funding something "big." But what do they find? Apps are still selling, apps are easy, apps are cheap. Science, on the other hand, is hard and risky. What to do?
That's funny, I just did the Collatz in Racket for a class.
We'll also be tweeting out poll results from http://twitter.com/pingpoll
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The Allwinner A10 is a SoC that uses an ARM Cortex A8 as the CPU, a Mali 400 GPU, Ethernet, SATA, etc. Yes it's confusing. It's like calling a hypothetical Intel Core based SoC the Foobar Core 10.

Apple called their ARM SoC the A4 and then Allwinner probably designated their SoC the A10 to play off that marketing.
There's plenty of fallback places under the sea, deep underground, at the poles of the Earth. Or on the Moon, even. We've been there before.
> Have things slipped so far?

Yes. :(
So who gets to own .ART?
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Right, investing in first gen. devices is not always the best idea. First hand experience, and yet, I do not learn my lesson.
There are plenty of ways to define 'big', I'm just saying it's worth defining more clearly before you make a sweeping judgement that it isn't being done.

I'm not trying to posit a 'good' definition. I'm just pointing out that the one on offer is a bit hand-wavey for use in judging society.
I buy meat, produce, milk all the time. Refrigerated items come packed in these insulated bags with ice packs. Frozen items come packed in thick polystyrene coolers with dry ice.

I wouldn't leave them out all day on a hot day, but for a few hours in typical Seattle weather, no problem?
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Author, Wes McKinney, is an HN user wesm. Congratulations, Wes!
Yeah, I look at all out-of-the-blue mysteries with no context as the start of viral campaigns now, they've overused that trope. I can't even get interested in this because I don't want to waste time on something that turns out to be a sales pitch, which would sort of suck if anything ever ends up being genuine.
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That thing is both amazing and scary.
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Great post :)
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The function doesn't look to be tail-recursive, so my guess would be a stack overflow.

Of course, if you run it and get a stack overflow, you have no way of knowing whether the number was really a counterexample or just one that took many steps to reach 1.
Looks like they put a lot of effort in here and are excited about what they're doing. Congrats.

But, as an aside, can we please kill the abusage of the word "hacked" because, as far as I can tell, it's being used as a synonym for "did a lot of research and spent a bunch of time on".
My big question watching this webcast (and reading reviews of windows 8 online is), how does it all work when you step outside the ecosystem? I want to keep using chrome, not IE; dropbox not skydrive, gtalk not skype. VLC and a third-party media player, not the baked in tools.

Will these applications integrate well and can i switch off the defaults? For example, bookmarks on the homescreen, easily accessible play/pause controls etc. Or will i feel like i'm wrestling with the OS because i'm not using the Microsoft tools?
I'll make some for you in a couple of hours.

Edit: Where would you like them uploaded to? SoundCloud okay?
Self-operating vehicles will be the biggest disruption of the next decade. This is an area where the government will need to get involved (since so much regulation will need to change), and they now have an opportunity to move things forward tremendously or hold progress back. It will be interesting to see how this turns out.
Exciting launch day!! Congrats!
On my 23" screen, I can only see 4 User Stories at once, plus I can delight myself scrolling like a monkey when the US details exceeds 12 lines.

Seriously guys, WTF ?!!
Nate Silver (probably in response to some of these things) also has a blog about the limits of his (and other) models: http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/10/24/oct-23-t...
> We already have a colony in low earth orbit.

It's a little flying shack, not a "colony". Anyway, it's not self-sustainable, which is the main issue.

> Also, by colonizing mars we will only have 2 points of failure.

It appears that you've never done backups.
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In the US, 15-year-olds are typically going to be in High School, not grammar school, and have a choice of classes. Not everyone takes physics.
That's hardly the "general consensus".

http://www.anandtech.com/show/6385/microsoft-surface-review/...

http://www.zdnet.com/hands-on-with-microsofts-surface-rt-can...

Disclosure: I'm pretty biased here, as a Microsoft employee.
Hmm, what evidence do you have that China wants a gold-backed yuan? AFAIK, yuan is at present a fiat currency.
HP, IBM, and Oracle?

btw. the IBM XL C++'s support for C++11 seems to be as good as the one in VC++ 2012. They don't have lambdas but variadic templates instead.
They are certainly trying... however, Iran-Dubai-Turkey triangle consists of gold.

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2012-10-23/how-iran-evades-wes...

And it lets Iran sell its oil to others pretty easily.
She has moderate skillz. We use a several different devices at home; iMac, macbook, Windows pc, HP Touchpad (cm9), Android smartphones. I think she would be willing to put up with a few quirks from a first gen device. But, the iPad feels less risky.
The article seems to be looking at trends from the crisis years vs the pre-crisis years. It seems odd that it'd leave out any consideration of the fact that there's been a substantial amount of uncertainty in the global economy of the last couple years, and that whenever the economy seems like it's heading for trouble, the dollar gains and less "safe" currencies (the rupee et al) decline. One would think that would at least have a significant effect on the fact that the correlation between the dollar and developing world is shifting.
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These comments are hilarious.

People just nit pick on the details without discussing the trends the post talks about. Cmmon guys!
Regarding spellcheck: I noticed the application contains the typo "bolierplate".
I disagree. Treasury yields are not that low because of trust, but rather because the world is awash with money, and the owners of that money are desperate to park it in a liquid format, of which there are few options on the scale needed.
Now 'big' means $1B. Whatever cashes out.
Wait, how have you read this? Amazon is only accepting preorders.
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In that case, I'd be much too excited about making progress in mathematics to be bothered by my toy program not working right.
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On reflection, I could have worded that part of my comment better. I completely agree that constructive criticism is useful. I just think that we can be civil about it.
Who knows how it will play out. I read a fascinating book on the topic. The author is bullish on SDRs.

http://www.amazon.com/Currency-Wars-Making-Global-Crisis/dp/...
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This is really rather interesting. I don't think I've ever encountered anti-Canadian resentment before. Certainly never anything strong enough to bother accumulating a dossier of links and grievances. Or purple language like "lusting" after other nations' "soil"!

I feel like a bird watcher who just spotted a species not known to still exist.
If anything, that makes me even more likely to blame the user. Microsoft always lags behind on stuff like this, why would anybody expect them to change now?

Back in the IE6/IE7 days, Microsoft wasn't beating the drum for developers to code to HTML5. But that's exactly what's happening now - Microsoft is evangalizing C++2011 but they can't get their crufty old compiler to build that code.
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I live in Canada very close to a border with Alaska where many cruise-ship tourists cross over on enormous buses when they don't actually have to see the border guard. Often they are unaware they are in an entirely separate country.

When we mention degrees or kilometers, the response is often "What's that in 'normal'?"

Also, these people become extremely confused when told the price of something in "dollars" that are not the dollars they are used to.
Unfortunately, with modern hardware a "build an OS" tutorial goes nicely in small steps, until you hit "need a USB stack to get input".

Suddenly you are in the land of voluminous specs and large amounts of code to get anything working.
Just post whatever you make on HN and you'll get honest feedback.
> "This isn't precise, but it's not unclear."

When draining swamps qualifies but cell phone coverage doesn't, I argue that it is still unclear.

> "A Herculean task for a nation."

So the internet is not big because it wasn't created under the direction of a single authority? It's upending education, journalism, commerce and control over the exchange of information. Even at the most generous, the trickle-down impact of the Space Program doesn't match that level of societal change.

But this isn't "big" just because Peter Thiel once dismissed it?

> "Is shooting yet another Mars rover or satellite into space a difficult and impressive engineering marvel? Sure, but at this point, these events are not revolutionary. "

And how does that act of adding a life support system and a passenger qualify as more than evolutionary? If going to Mars is evolutionary because its been done, it would seem that sending meat to mars is also evolutionary.
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I was thinking the same thing. I rode my bike to work this morning in -14F (-25C)
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The basis of the Euro is on a multi-state entity with closed books and little regulation. This basically means the liability of any single country can impact the whole of the EU and by extension the Euro. Until the EU makes a part of membership, approval oversight on all member country budgets, the stability of the Euro is a bit fractured. (Getting oversight is something the countries generally refuse on the non-incorrect grounds of state independence, but then why join a combined currency in the first place? UK got it sorta correct)

And for clarity, the reason I see the multi-state being an issue is, it is slow to act to resolve issues or expose issues, since resolving issues takes a combined intent and single states have little incentive to keep their books correct publicly (plenty of upside, little downside).

While I don't see the dollar being the world currency forever, I also don't see it needs to be.
I wholeheartedly disagree. It would be exactly 15.8% more unnerving.

But in all seriousness, I'll bet it would make a lot less difference in the dark.
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