skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> rather than call an industry that has been pretty damn successful creating companies over the last century a bunch of idiots.

Is this actually true? (note - I don't know) My understanding is most VC firms aren't successful. Just a few are.

I've thought about writing a post almost identical to the OP and came to your same conclusion: "At the end of the day they have the money". The other harsh reality is that VCs are no different than the enterprise companies of today's world...they are all about reducing risks at scale. One of their scariest risks is failing to instill confidence in their clients. For example, if the market dictates that the hottest thing right now is photo sharing, you better be damn sure that a VC is going to invest in a photo sharing app. The VC is going to say "Dear client, we aren't going to invest in the next big photo sharing app, even though all of the analyst say its the next big thing. Instead we're investing in 21st century pig farms!" The client will say "but what about Instagram!" No matter how risky you personally believe it is (for example - photo sharing apps have no revenues) the market still is throwing money at it (i.e. Instagram).

So, conclusion - I blame media hyperbole and people's natural biases, not VCs on the amount of funding put into "good" startups.
P

Pitch Deck for Shave of Month Club:

We been open for 2 Months and have doubled our sales!

We will double our sales at $1 a razor each month for 30 Months.

1: 1
2: 3
3: 7
4: 15
5: 31
6: 63
7: 127
8: 255
9: 511
10:1,023
11:2,047
12:4,095
13:8,191
14:16,383
15:32,767
16:65,535
17:131,071
18:262,143
19:524,287
20:1,048,575
21:2,097,151
22:4,194,303
23:8,388,607
24:16,777,215
more capable yes, but are they good enough? for most college students (excluding CS,IT, Engineering etc)i would say yes and like someone said 4 Chromebooks for the price of 1 macbook. from what i have done with Google Apps and Chromebooks, i would say the chromebook is probably a better fit out of the box for this use case than a Macbook.
Now Is A Good Time To Refactor
Kippt promised me early on they would never go "social".

I just need a place to store my damn bookmarks. I don't need to share them with anyone, or see what anyone else has shared. There are enough sources for interesting content. And there are enough places to share things and have ego boosting "followers".

I'm just sad to see another useful service get bitten by the "social media" bug. Don't we have enough of those?

Crusty old fool here, I guess.
Git in the browser is exactly what we need to bring git outside programming circles.

What I've wanted for a while is a site where I could fork somebody's muffin recipe, fix stuff and so on ... I've even considered building a site like that, but how many people who cook are also handy enough with a console to make that viable? My guess is not many.
> And work through that, rather than call an industry that has been pretty damn successful creating companies over the last century a bunch of idiots.

Let's not forget that they've also created a whole bunch of failed companies. That's fine, companies fail. Risks and rewards and etc.
Most of the time, you don't want to save the world because this presents scaling problems. Instead, save a little corner of the world and be open about how you are doing it. If you do this right, then you will garner lots of imitators. Then if your way of "saving the world" is well documented and robust enough to avoid the "cargo cult" pitfall, you will convince some large part of the world to save itself.

Note the implication: You don't save the world by telling it, "You're doing it wrong." You save the world by getting the world to covet your success.
Forward your local dev webserver to the Internet (ForwardHQ)
I think the word "should" is properly a ternary relation

If A wants B, then they should do C <=> If A does C and B doesn't happen, then it's not A's fault <=> If A does C and B doesn't happen, then any person Z (in the set of people we care about) who wants to appear reasonable should not blame A in a conversation about what happened.

So really, "should" is defined in terms of expecting anyone who wants to be reasonable not to blame you.

Many people think "should" is some absolute thing, such as "A should do C" regardless of what they want. It seems to me that absolute morality requires tons of adhoc exceptions and rules, and that relative morality gives a much more fitting description of what happens.
Your company is the average of the five companies you pay most attention to.
I have never, ever, ever, ever seen an application one-way hash their reset tokens to prevent disclosure of them from their database. That's all I'm going to say here.
Netflix Goes Super HD
Well, there's certainly a popular conception among program analysis and formal methods researchers that side effects make analysis much more difficult.
> True&Co doesn't have a subscription model. You get a bunch of bras in a box when you order from the site, you keep what you like.

That's pretty important. Just from that line it seems like a great idea.

If they can keep tack of the different sizing between brands (or can help with sizing in any way) they could do well.

I wish them luck!
I think if you tried to name moral principles that are absolute and unchanging, you would mostly name principles from logic.

For example, we should not punish an innocent man. But that's because it's a contradiction in terms.
> It's like being offered a cell phone or a car allowance.

Which reduces your overall salary - you might not be aware of it, and it might not be said in those terms, but it's absolutely true. All "side benefits" or "perks" of employment are just a way for the employer to give you something other than money. Too bad if the last thing you want is a cell phone.

> Why in god's name you would turn down what in many cases is free money is beyond me, but that is your prerogative.

Because it's not free money! My salary is being docked for that expense, as the "benefits overhead" (my company told me to my face it's about 26%). I'm perfectly happy with the public coverage, and want the rest of my salary in my hand, thank you.
I'm not affiliated with this service at all, but found it super useful when I set it up today.
So use one a week and chuck it, wasteful, but still cheaper then dollar shave's similar model.

edit I thought you meant "leave the razor a week" but I think you mean leave your beard a week on second reading.
Ask HN: Recommended JavaScript books?
I've read these so far:

- JavaScript The Definitive Guide by David Flanagan
- High-performance JavaScript by Nicholas Zakas
- Object-Oriented JavaScript by Stoyan Stefanov
- JavaScript Patterns by Stoyan Stefanov
- JavaScript: The Good Parts by Douglas Crockford
- Test-Driven JavaScript Development by Christian Johansen
- Learning JavaScript Design Patterns by Addy Osmani
- High Performance JavaScript by Nicholas C. Zakas

and am thinking about getting these:

- Maintainable JavaScript by Nicholas Zakas
- The Past, Present, and Future of JavaScript by Axel Rauschmayer
- JavaScript Web Applications by Alex MacCaw
- Eloquent JavaScript by Marijn Haverbeke
- JavaScript Enlightenment by Cody Lindley
- Secrets of the JavaScript Ninja by John Resig

are there any others worth adding to my reading list or thoughts on these?
I do not think walled-garden means what you think it means.
You really need to stop a second and try to see things from different perspectives.

Not if those perspectives are bigotry.
No - the system first sends the secure random token, then instead of asking them for a new password then, it instead auto-generates a random password and emails it to them.

Then the system FORCES them to change the password when they login with the new password.

Oh - and the tempoary password only valid for 24 hours.

So you get the best of both worlds - without anyone being able to 'guess' anything able to do anything...
What ad providers are you using?

Why did you build your own infrastructure instead of using Apple's turn-based GameCenter like Letterpress does? What specifically was missing, in terms of the quote "more revealing was how deficient Game Center actually was for building a complete, feature-rich multi-player game"
Ruby interpreter written in C running on an OS written in C.

No this is not inconsistent; I said move as much code as possible away from C. That which is impossible to move has to stay in C (and will probably be responsible for 99% of the headaches when porting to a new architecture).
I didn't agree.

There's no concise way to answer why your underlying political philosophy is wrong, unfortunately. One thing that should be a clue though is that the majority agrees with you. That's always a bad sign.

As it happens I did write a book on this topic, I don't know what the etiquette is here for posting links, just search "for individual rights" in books, you'll see it. If I could provide a more concise argument, I would, but that's the best I can do, sorry.
Was the screening with the on-screen captions?
Yes, they have a special arrangement with Microsoft. That is why you will see that it is more expensive to run Windows-based instances on AWS than it is to run the free Linux OSs (Amazon Linux and Ubuntu, for example.) You can put together and publish your own AMIs for Amazon based on Windows, but users can't download and use them (as with all AMIs) - they just deploy them to Amazon and then they would be paying the additional hourly fees.
My standard 'kit' now is a knock off iPad charger for power supply ($10), USB mini A/B cable, an HDMI cable, a 16G SD card, and a Logitech K400 wireless keyboard with built in touchpad. I've been using double sided tape and the free Priority Mail 'small box' cardboard box as a case. So the reasoning.

The iPad charger from Apple is 10W (5v @ 2A) so even the knock offs try to meet that spec. If you are careful (and this is important because there are some crappy ones out there) you can get them for $10 - 15 and they are quite small.

I usually get a 9' (3M) USB cable, that lets me put the Rpi on a table close to a monitor even when the outlet isn't too close.

The HDMI cable is a much better way to connect your Rpi to a monitor than composite video :-) I haven't got audio over HDMI working, but a small portable speaker plugged into the headphone jack works great.

The K400 from Logitech gives me both a keyboard and a mouse. I don't use wired keyboards with the Rpi since it is way too easy to drop the keyboard and have its cord yank the works off the table and on to the ground.
Statistical significance grows roughly like the square root of the number of samples.

No, no, no. You are confusing the growth of the standard deviation (which does grow like the square root of the number of samples) with the increase in certainty as you add standard deviations. That falls off like e^(-O(t^2)) where t is the number of samples. This literally falls off faster than exponential.

What does this mean in the real world? In a standard 2-tailed test you get to 95% confidence at 1.96 standard deviations, 99% confidence at 2.58 standard deviations, and 99.9% confidence at 3.29 standard deviations. These numbers are all a long ways away from 5 standard deviations.

Let's flip that around and take 95% confidence as your base. If you are measuring a real difference, then on average 99% confidence requires a test to get 32% more data, and 99.9% confidence requires a test to get 68% more data. Depending on your business, the number of samples that you get are often proportional to the time it takes to run the test. If making errors with x% of your company involves significant dollar figures, the cost of running all of your tests to higher confidence tends to be much, much less than the cost of one mistake.

That is why I say that if the cost of collecting more data is not prohibitive, you shouldn't be satisfied with 95% confidence.
Interesting post though I feel the author is somewhat missing the forest for the trees; the issue isn't about "real-time" the issue is that many people conducting A/B tests don't understand what the statistics are telling them nor do they understand when an adequate "sample" has been pulled.

Real-time data isn't needed for A/B testing but this falls into the PEBKAC category.
"If you don't like it, leave."

Might doesn't make right. This land is not all your land. You may have total and utter domination of it, but that's not a moral argument.
Off the core topic, but the author seems to misunderstand what the Series A crunch is.

The Series A crunch isn't anything to do with crappy companies raising huge series As. Rather the crunch is caused by the huge growth in the number of companies successfully raising angel rounds (both through accelerators and the explosion of angels created by the IPOs of Google, Facebook, etc.).

While the number of Series A rounds done by VCs is going up, it's been growing nowhere near as fast as seed funding so naturally the number of angel funded companies who fail to raise Series As is going to go up. Hence the term Series A crunch.
I disagree. Tolkien's comments on allegory were intended to defuse allegations that Sauron represented Hitler and that his novels were a cryptic retelling of WWII.

Claiming that Tolkien does not use symbolism or allegory more generally beggars belief. Sauron is evil while the ring represents power. Nor when characters go "into the west" should we ignore the standard symbolic gesture (west as death, as with the setting sun) any more than miss the point of the ending, which shows the one character who resisted the ring return home to rebuild a garden on earth.
What's the point of your comment? Just four paragraphs shitting on an open source project, and completely barren of actual content or insight. Who cares.
I disagree. CS2 could do almost everything I'm doing with PS today. To take even more extreme example, I would be pretty happy with MS Word 1997 if I never had to open new document formats introduced in the later versions. Yes, it's 15 years old and I don't even know how many versions obsolete.
It's surprising how much weight the community gave your opinion, because the truth is that it really doesn't matter what your opinion is.

My comment isn't meant to be snarky; it's meant to point out the /ultimate/ absurdity of our copyright system - that you literally /cannot determine/ if something is or is not fair use without a judgment. As in a judge.

So while you make important points about the presence or absence of commentary, the fact that the video was transformed /at all/ means that it's no longer a determinable question.
If memory serves though, the further out you push your sigma's the greater the likelihood of introducing a type-2 error.

There is no easy answer in statistics!
At this point though, you are evaluating employers, not health care systems.

It's pretty easy to find an employer in Canada that offers no benefit plan at all, just stay away from larger companies.

Most privately run businesses would be more than happy contracting you at a higher rate and not paying you any additional benefits, or their share of CPP or EI. They are a significant expense to the company. Go get yourself a GST number and have at 'er.

Seriously, if this is that much of an issue for you, you should talk to your boss. I can pretty much guarantee they'd be more than happy to work something out with you.
It didn't change last time I checked - Emacs is still almost mandatory for almost all tutorials on Lisps (I searched for beginner tutorial for Clojure about half a year ago). I find this attitude stupid too. Emacs is a great editor, not to mention operating system, but I just don't like it and I feel that I have the right to do so. It shouldn't be too costly to list the alternatives and help with getting expected functionality in other environments.

This was never really an issue for me though, because I was lucky enough to start my adventure with Lisps from Racket and it's excelent IDE, DrRacket. I then used it with other Lisps, because I was already familiar with it and adding some keywords (well, names - for indentation purposes) was trivial. I didn't use them (other Lisps) long enough to be seriously irritated by the lack of built-in repl, so obviously YMMV - but I would recommend DrRacket as low-entry-barrier alternative to Emacs for Lisps editor - it handles parentheses rather well :)
Awesome! I just saw their paper from the trafficwaves site a little bit ago and was curious what this would really look like. I like their point that a car suddenly slowing down is not really to blame for the jam, but rather an inevitable trigger that happens after a certain critical density is reached.
Soyeahdjango
Not sure. I know you can edit comments for up to an hour after posting, but I don't know about top level stories. People with moderator privs can change things. Perhaps one will see it and change it.

Or you could just post a new top level story with a better URL.

Either way, I'd hate to see this story get no traction. Good on you.
I'm actually not familiar with any specific numbers from research, just anecdotal evidence from the private school I attended, the one I taught at for several years, and hearing about other schools in that area.

Interesting point about nuns, I hadn't thought about that but it could very well be true.
Wrong, the latest version of Gimp has major UI improvements. There are still some focus glitches and so on, but if you want to do serious image editing you either pay for Photoshop or use GIMP, it's that simple.

Paint.net and the like are amateur tools, they're not even playing in the same category. Pixelmator has a nice UI but is still underfeatured and so is Acorn. Inkscape is a vector tool.
What happens to the bra's that are returned? Unlike Warby Parker, I wouldn't mind trying a used pair of glasses but I doubt woman will be OK with used underwear(bra's).
The system forces them to change the password if they actually log in. If they don't, the password just sits there. And some users will just cut/paste it.

I'm sure there's a million fiddly things you can do to address the weaknesses of temporary password issuance, but you'd be better off sending a semantically meaningless random token. All the countermeasures you're thinking of here apply identically to the token.

I am advocating for the reset scheme that is the hardest to mess up. Yours is not the hardest to mess up. I'm not trying to get you to change yours.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argumentum_ad_populum

A cargo cult is not an argument.
Java script the good parts is worth a read
Good question. I'm also wondering which current tech company will have the greatest increase in valuation in 10 years.
posted again with a URL to the blog's About page. It's not getting much attention anyway it seems :) It's not my blog but I thought that people here may find it useful
you might want to look at this ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5033540 ) comment on why the PBKDF2 is sent for the authentication rather than the password.

As far as concerns the usage of TLS, your guess is correct, right now we allow the usage of the most common cipher suites, with some of them not providing PFS.

However, the negotiation of cipher suite is just a matter of configuration, and we might take a closer look pretty soon on which ones we want to allow or not.
Portable OpenCL 0.7 Improves On OpenCL 1.2
Pain of the New: The Hobbit at 48 fps
The article was very poorly written -- I couldn't even finish it..doubly surprised to see it at the top of HN.
What constitutes the north bay? I've been to Marin and Sonoma counties and like them both. I go to SF every now and then, but I just never stop in SV although I drive through it.

My priorities are different from 1999. And while I no longer wish to live in SF, I am still avoiding SV. The primary reason is price.
"Show HN" is supposed to be for stuff you've built, not blog posts you've written. (And C's switch statement is fairly basic.)
I keep on meaning to, but the article turned out to be more complicated than I initially expected. I will get around to it one of these days though.
There's a lot of intuition and experience that is required to be a talented statistician; once the test has begun things are pretty much locked down (ie, if you know the math there is only one "right" answer from the data). The intuition and experience side of things comes with how the test itself is setup. Are things properly controlled, are you collecting the right data for what you're testing, is the data distributed properly for the test statistic you're using...the list goes on and on and on and on and on.

There are plenty of places that require intuition and these are the places that errors are often introduced. Statistics is an art.
Will you be sending out email reminders when every new lecture is posted? I'd love to follow along, but find it very hard to remember all of the classes I subscribed to.
Surface Pro: an in-depth look at Microsoft's super tablet
Delete a branch in the UI, thank you!
Have you got a good example where Lisp macros would work but standard Haskell would "fail"?

http://people.csail.mit.edu/gregs/ll1-discuss-archive-html/m...
You can have metaprogramming, but it's not the same level by any means.

Take Perl, for example. You can't have robust metaprogramming on a language with an undecidable grammar. Read through the above link and you'll see the difference.
"VCs think my boobs need an algorithm. My boobs don’t need an algorithm."

Horrible link-bait introduction. Algorithm is being used as a dirty word. Algorithms are not soft, caring, touchable, feminine, according to the imagery in the piece.

In the real world though, boobs and lives are saved daily by algorithms. I want my family's boob cancer screening images reconstructed from tiny, noisy signals by the most hardcore medical imaging algorithms available, thanks.

But "VCs Think My Bra Fitting Need A Questionnaire" wouldn't be getting those views.
Wow, this looks great, only I'm a tea drinker... is anyone trying to do this for tea?
What's the best place to start if you have a startup and don't know what you should pick? Should you just get in touch with an accountant who knows about this area and get their advice, or?
It will run under WINE/Crossover, but blech that's not fun. I wish there was a way to bring Rosetta back on 10.7.
I can think up ways to approach the problem, but I don't see any of them being adopted.

The best technical idea that comes to mind is using a kinetic or similar device as they become more widespread to just scan the person's form and return a result.

But, I can only compare the experience to that of a man as that is my gender, I can't see myself posing nude in front of such a device to get the perfectly fitting jock strap (or male bikini, etc). I just can't imagine doing it. I have no clue if the comparison is valid, it's just as close as I can imagine personally and I just can't see myself doing it.
http://lifehacker.com/5356529/extend-your-razors-life-with-a...

microscope before and after pictures here: http://teamdonline.com/technology/extend-life-razor-blades/
Why single out Google? They're in category 1.
Waterloo,ON meetup
Hey All, I've always wondered why a tech city like Waterloo doesn't have an active hackers news community. So I'm wondering if anyone interested in doing a meetup, if there is, I'm willing to help organize it (posters, venues etc)
As to that, I have no idea. However, I would argue that the video is absolutely fair use even without the captions. Ignoring that its status as a critique is not strictly necessary for it to be fair use, the video would still be a critique without blatantly spelling out its point in words.
Yeah, I don't get this. Especially now that tablets and ultrabooks are commonplace, the need for such a system doesn't really seem to exist. My laptop[0] weighs only 3 lbs - very easy to carry around. And if I don't want to, I can always just use my phone or Nexus 7.

0: http://www.lenovo.com/products/us/laptop/thinkpad/x-series/x...