skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is true.

But people who submit security issues to them say that their turnaround time tends to be very long. Which is bad for their customers if the submitted security issue is being exploited in the wild.
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If you're meaning to reply to me, then no. I don't even see how you can draw that inference.

I'm only suggesting that a minimum wage is necessary, because there is a cost of living in a modern society. Money pays for shelter. Money pays for healthcare. Money pays for education and food. And unless you're in a socialist system, that money comes from wages. So a standard should be met. Especially in cases where a corporation would otherwise consider someone's labor to be essentially worthless.

And yes, perhaps if that standard itself were fair (assuming it's currently unfair), then in some places and in some jobs it might be less than whatever the current minimum wage is, where the minimum wage exists. Elsewhere it might be higher. I don't know, and I'll readily admit I might be bringing a checkers set to a chess match when discussing economics on this forum but I honestly believe it should be something.
Someone should have suggested that to the developers of "Alpha Colony" who missed their $50,000 funding goal by just $28:

http://www.joystiq.com/2012/12/04/alpha-colony-misses-its-ki...
I've noticed a looooong time ago that Google has always tried to censor nudity. This is just a continuation on the same path. All you have to do is load Bing image search next to Google and do the same searches. It's pretty self evident. And also pretty freaking lame, because it doesn't reflect reality at all, just modern day US centric political correctness. Part of the US public is up in arms about breasts the same way EU is about Google News or corporate America in general. Different traditions. Google should be neutral, but it clearly isn't.
They look at:

- qualities of the founder/team
- the product you're pitching
- traction (growth rate, # paying clients, etc)

If you're at the idea stage, stress how you can monetize, and how much the costs are to get to a proof of concept / prototype. Most importantly, validate that there is a market for what you're pitching.
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Mmmm... this seems irrelevant. I think OP is asking if it uses WordPress as a platform not the actual server technology behind it. WordPress.org doesn't provide hosting btw.
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Heh. At a previous job I advocated that format so much that people thought it was a Canadian format.

They were quite surprised when I told them the actual format that was used in Canada.
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I think your right about Japan. They love K-Pop, but more so the boy band style K-Pop.

I'm in South Korea now though, and it is the ONLY song they listen to 24/7 (1st birthday parties, weddings, elementary school art festivals, taekwondo practice...) Ganganam Style IS the whole-sale epitome of South Korea.
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I don't think they're trying to funnel users to MonoDevelop, I think they're using it because the iOS SDK is for Mac.

Take a look at Mono for Android, for example. It uses a VS plugin instead of MonoDevelop.
Space missions to detect Earth-sized planets had been planned for the middle of this decade:

http://sim.jpl.nasa.gov/index.cfm

And higher-resolution interferometers to take images of such planets for later in the decade:

http://exep.jpl.nasa.gov/TPF-I/tpf-I_index.cfm

Both missions were cancelled a couple of years ago. It's a budget problem, not a fundamental technology problem.
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"The Fed can seize all assets on a business touching marijuana" ... and the state of Washington could probably inspect and seize for minor infractions shipping containers at one of the busiest port operations in North America. But they don't, because it wouldn't be in their enlightened self-interest.

This will be interesting. Time to make the popcorn.
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But you are a buyer. By the terms of use of the site, you are purchasing the reward offered at the level you pledge, with a right to a full refund if the reward is not provided.

The problem is that project creators are treating Kickstarter as if it were a source for speculative investment with no obligation to deliver rewards when Kickstarter's own terms make it a system for purchasing with a commit to deliver or refund.
I've heard this concern raised before, and the real question is whether the thermal expansion of the fuel salt acts as a strong enough negative coefficient of reactivity.
The "if" in "if you're looking..." isn't merely rhetorical. As it happens, I'm not particularly looking for a female computer hero, but many others are, as evidenced by those well-intentioned but misguided people who have promoted Ada Lovelace well beyond her station. I'm merely pointing out that this is unnecessary, because there is a first-rate example in Grace Hopper.
I tried using it a couple years ago, just as a sample. It's very very unlike any other language I've ever used. Its weirdness comes from a more practical place than other weird languages, which typically have more of a mathematical or academic axe to grind (APL, *ML, Haskell). Lisp-y, and smalltalk-y with a lot of its own dialect. Lots of batteries included. Now that it's open source I'm more interested in putting the time into understanding it better.
Hmm, yeah, then it might be gem-worthy. Can't hurt to talk about it on the list!
That's sort of the conclusion that I came to as well.

For evolving The best basis is some representation that represents the widest ranges of perceived images while keeping some similarity between images with similar data sets.

The range of perceived images is a tricky problem in itself. Many images of noise can be perceived to be the same whereas images of a face will look significantly different with a small change to the nose.

The polygon approach is obviously not good at expressing fine textures. It would be interesting to construct the image allowing rendering into different representations of the same frame buffer. Allow drawing directly into a frequency domain for instance.
No matter how he tries to twist things, its still just regular hill climbing though.

The whole point of GAs is giving you a very simple heuristic for avoid local optima. How are you going to do that if your population size is only 2?
Also of interest: MonaTweeta, using genetic algorithms to fit Mona Lisa into a 140 "character" tweet. http://www.flickr.com/photos/quasimondo/3518306770/
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App to test if parts of the Facebook API are down.
Find some places that pay minimum wage and will also pay for education in some form. And do you really think that the unemployment problem in unskilled or low skill labor is simply because there aren't enough people who can show up and follow directions?
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Lets say you run a small movie theater. You hire a 5 people for $5 per hour to sell tickets. Many of these are teenagers and other people who have schedules that can't work a normal job. The government comes in and says minimum wage needs to be $10 per hour. After doing the math, you decide that financially you can't afford to keep all those people on at $5 per hour. So you keep one to help run the front of the theater and put in a machine where people can swipe their credit cards to buy tickets.

Who was harmed? The business or the people?

The $5 per hour may not seem like much, but to the teenager it is $5 per hour, plus a chance to learn to manage their own money, a chance to learn people skills, a chance to learn work ethic, a chance to have a good reference from you for later jobs, etc.
Using generators, you can also convert any callback code into a serial one.

Here's a demo: https://github.com/vjeux/AsyncAwait

Compare

function main() {
multiply(1, 2, function (res) {
multiply(res, 3, function (res) {
multiply(res, 4, function (res) {
console.log(res);
})
})
})
}
main() // 24

to

var main = async(function () {
var [res] = yield await(multiply)(1, 2);
[res] = yield await(multiply)(res, 3);
[res] = yield await(multiply)(res, 4);
console.log(res);
});
main() // 24
The first attempt used too few polys, and a less impressive painting.

http://i.imgur.com/BKkz2.jpg
I think Kickstarter should require projects to "level up", proving themselves with smaller milestones with smaller funding levels. For example, a project might need to fund a $10K project before a $100K or $500K project.
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There is no valuable postmortem on that instrusive-ad ridden site.
Twisted has a similar heavy weight machinery to support generator "coroutines" :)
We do that, but the problem is the fact that users create multiple accounts b/c they forget they logged in with email and then use Twitter which doesn't provide an email.
I would suggest that a lawsuit will help clarify what the lawyers and judges expect from crowdsourcing while completely ignoring what is best for crowdsourcing.
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I will admit I can't argue against that.
You're making a mistake by confusing effort and difficulty with value.

There are uncountably many human-requiring tasks that don't improve the world at all. For instance, "count all 'pretty' things and divide the number by two".

While silly this work still takes effort and you'd have a hard time finding someone to put out that effort without you paying them. You don't benefit in this scenario though because the work is silly. There is no value in having it done.

This is further complicated by subjective value. Even if we had identical homes in identical states we wouldn't identically value the same incremental improvement from having them cleaned. This is especially true across income levels.

If you set a minimum wage you ensure everyone working in that industry makes that wage in the same way that if you execute everyone over six-feet tall you ensure that nobody bumps their head. While you personally may even end up paying a bit more for a cleaner, poorer people who can't afford that would simply stop hiring cleaners. Their ex-cleaners make nothing but have conveniently been removed from the statistics so everything seems to be better. And now everyone's house is dirty.
So what are the actual terms of Kickstarter? I always assumed it was something more like venture capital than a loan, and if a project wasn't completed... that's that, the funders get nothing.
I mean you could refer to the function by its name, and then run it with () when ready.
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So after a period, you're required to issue a refund.

The issue is that you cannot always issue a refund after $period, where $period ranges anywhere from 60-180+ days depending on dozens of different factors (three or four different banks, your payment gateway, various data retention policies, card expiration, and more).

Unlike raising a seed round, for example, it's rather impractical to give (remaining?) money back if you realize the project is not going anywhere after six months or a year.

Suffice to say, there's a reason that Kickstarter has started to clamp down on projects with a higher likelihood of failures and is outright blocking certain categories.
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I never played but could you be talking about Minecraft?
fwiw, I was actually annoyed that the function does not take that many arguments, if I am not missing something.
For certain values of "most" and "highly", and depending on how much compression or latency you're willing to sacrifice for more parallelism.

The more data (from earlier in the bitstream/image) you can use for prediction, the higher a compression ratio you can achieve. But the more data you use, the more sequential you become, since you have to wait for it to become available before proceeding.

Modern codecs generally don't require a single frame to be parallelizable for encode or decode, and you must sacrifice either latency (encode/decode multiple frames at once) or compression (split a single frame up into parallelizable slices) to become more than slightly parallel.
I'd like to see your math. http://data.bls.gov/timeseries/LNS11300000 says 64 million at the end of 2011, 3.8M/64M = 5.9% No? I might have mis googled those statistics though.
Good point. Positive feedback for aspiring programmers is good, but also constructive advice on improvement also is needed, or, else, as you say, if naive young people get to thinking they are the next Gates or Jobs or Zuckerberg, they might skip out on really trying to learn the fundamental skills that help to create such giants. Encouragement is always good, but a sense of realism is also helpful for helping folks to improve.
Check the FAQ. It's pixel by pixel comparison.
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The easy way the Average difference in pixel values.

Slightly harder psnr. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peak_signal-to-noise_ratio

Harder again... ssim http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structural_similarity

There isn't any real solution to automating similarity as a human sees it. Humans are tricky.
very informative post, but I'm afraid it leaves us with incorrect conclusions. In all examples, no one tested just one high price point for the item.

The story starts out talking about how value is relative to each purchaser, so with different price points you can draw out the more valuable customers with tiered pricing and get more than your original pricing from those who opt in for the higher price point.

The glaring omission is not testing just the highest price point. The author explains he didnt want to price out interested readers at lower price points. I don't understand why though. The people who appreciate your value will pay a premium, and others who are not willing to pay a premium, or not really worth having as customers for many reasons, if not for the simple reason that if your goal is to create value, why wouldnt you focus on the areas you can create the most value? There are other reasons I would be glad to share...

The strategy of "comparing apples to oranges" so you can sell an ebook for $39 instead of $10 is a sound one, but the same strategy could work with only one price point at $179 or even $1700 if the value is there for your audience. In this case, the best comparison would be, "you can pay $10,000 or more to learn how to develop apps at college, or you can pay a developer $100k a year to develop for you, or you can buy a proven strategy on how to develop apps from me for only $1799."

Would everyone pay? of course not. Would some people pay? All you need is less than 20 for it to be a bigger blockbuster than his original sales.

I would personally be shocked if he only had the highest priced point bundle as the only option if he didnt generate much more revenue. Arguably, atleast a few of the people who bought at other price points would come around and spend more.

So, this article is absolutely right, draw your customers away from being able to compare your product to other products in the same category, and focus on the value proposition to them... But, dont take his tiered pricing proof as set in stone, odds are it cost him more revenue by doing it than if he didn;t.
PROBLEM: No time for your project because you're always exhausted after 12 hours of commuting and work?

SOLUTION: Wake up earlier and work on your project while you're fresh.

4:00 AM - Wake up, work on project
7:00 AM - Get ready, head into day job
8:00 PM - Sleep

I understand (very well) how hard it is to work on a project after 12 hours of commuting and work. That's why working on your project before you go to your day job is so effective.

But, it requires a lot of motivation and discipline to sleep and wake so early every day. If you can't handle doing it for at least a few months, while you get your project ready, you probably won't have the drive to do anything anyway.
Finding signs of intelligent life might be hard, but finding signs of life would be relatively easy. When exoplanets transit in front of their star, it's possible to get a spectrum of their atmosphere and determine its composition (though with large error bars at the moment).

One of the key signs of life would be an oxygen-rich atmosphere, which should be detectable (if it exists) in the near future. Of course, this is only a sign of life, not a guarantee of its existence, but it's very encouraging that such a discovery is perhaps only ~5 years away.
What you've described is basically what JPEG does using DCT (JPEG-1) or wavelet coefficients (JPEG 2000) as the basis. The advantage with JPEG is that the forward transform is very easy.

You can use whatever basis you want, but I wouldn't call it ideal in any practical sense if you have to run a GA for a several hours to encode an image.
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That's awesome! I made a similar app for my high school a year ago back in 11th grade

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/faschedule/id472827413?mt=8
It'll get found by anyone who's looking for it... that, anyone can do.
Heavy weight? It's under 40 lines of code. (The inlineCallbacks function here: http://twistedmatrix.com/trac/browser/tags/releases/twisted-...)
Was it specifically through Crowdtilt?
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Do you "think" you could "use" more "quotes" in your "post"?
When I try to set __name__ with -n it says it's a bad flag. This is with the shell command. Is there something special I need to do?
An excellent analysis, except for the part that I don't doubt for a moment that the plaintiff lawyer will attempt to tie Kickstarter in through some theory of shared negligence and structure that demand such that Kickstarter's percentage of it alone would satisfy the class. The person behind the Kickstarter in question, by definition, is either insolvent or nearly so, and that only leaves one target.

By this same reasoning I expect that if a litigator can't figure out a way to pull in Kickstarter then the case will never be filed, or will end up being 1000 small claims actions.
I think a better way of saying it is that distribution is a commodity. It is easy and painless to distribute newspaper-style information these days compared to 100 years ago. Not to say there aren't ways to make money - look at Newsstand for example.
The business owners I know who employ low skilled workers all have trouble finding people who will show up to work on time and actually do work.

The unemployment problem in unskilled or low skilled labor is largely because government benefits make is economically better for low skilled people to NOT work. In my town there was a waitress who quit her job rather than take on the more hours they wanted her to work because it would have meant losing the money she was getting from the government.

I see a lot of people whose job hunting efforts are minimal or are for jobs they know they aren't qualified for because they want to stay on unemployment. When the unemployment runs out, the real job search will begin.

For a statistical look at this see the book: The Redistribution Recession: How Labor Market Distortions Contracted the Economy
U233 more readily fizzes than booms, since it fissions faster it tends to pre-explode before getting into a really good super critcal state (probably something to do with the .6 instead of 1.6 delayed neutrons per 100 fissions mentioned above, it also has a slightly better neutron production factor than u-235).

U233 will have U232, which decays through some very high energy gamma emitters, making U233 impossible to smuggle through shipping ports etc... These gamma emissions also kill humans in minutes, so would-be bomb makers would need to use robots or other remote handling techniques to fabricate a bomb. This is something a rouge state would have a hard time pulling off, and is practically out of reach of basic terrorists.

It's not impossible but it would be easier/cheaper to just mine/steal some natural uranium and build centrifuges. It's easy to make U233 from thorium and thorium is abundant, so, really, how would reactors make thorium/U233 more available to rouge states when they could basically make it themselves, and why would they choose the U233 route?
Cool - I like the personalized schedule...
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This is crazy. Very smart and perceptive move, and it puts the power of crowdfunding directly into the hands of the masses.

I wonder if this will spin out ton of niche-specific platforms. This does remove some of the heavy lifting, but the hardest part about building a crowdfunding marketplace is priming the marketplace.
Thanks! Yeah - the logo is my school district's mascot.
He answers this on the FAQ linked at the top. http://rogeralsing.com/2008/12/09/genetic-programming-mona-l...

He just loops over the whole image and does a pixel-by-pixel comparison, taking the difference between each of the R, G, and B channels and summing them all.
Isn't this just the same situation we already have right now where a function can have different results if one of the hidden variables it closed over has mutated?
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I might be in the minority here, but I use MonoDevelop in preference to visual studio.

It's got a couple of irritating issues (the plugin support is rubbish even now, and it's ridiculously complicated to roll your own), but its just so fast.

My morning at work is: git pull, go get coffee while VS spazzes out for 5 minutes and resharper reindexes everything.
In Firefox, go to about:config and edit the "network.http.sendRefererHeader" integer.

2 = always send;
1 = send only to same FQDN;
0 = never send.
I am afraid once a successful class action lawsuit is unleashed, many similar lawsuits will be in the rise. It will definitely stifle innovation, defeating the very purpose of kickstarter
I understand your point, and I admit it's complex. But what happens when the government says I can pay whatever I want and I tell those people they're now making $2 an hour because nobody's buying the six dollar popcorn anymore? A minimum wage may have its downside but at least with it, people have an expectation of how little they can expect to make and plan accordingly. It provides a measure of stability at least.
How do people with those layouts survive in bash?
It's a publishing platform for iPad. We got approved after adding a Report button.

We're not releasing it yet because a newer version is in the works. If you're curious, leave an email at http://stampsy.com and we'll ping you once we're in the App Store (it will be free).
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Minor quibble: money doesn't facilitate barter, it is and always has been a credit relationship.
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I have to say it definitely feels like you guys are paying more attention to the MonoDroid things these days. Great work on the recent release BTW~