skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your brain is a neural network of neural networks, during sleep, a cost function is applied across the entire grid. Important aspects of your day are done, and redone at high velocity, simultaneously (leading to dreams).

Cost benefit analysis are done against what you might have done, and the results of that, and actions that would have caused more desirable outcomes are projected, as best as it can see, and the habits, and motor neurons are reconfigured accordingly, this explains why when you get good sleep, and you wake up, you find yourself much better able to do tasks than had you not slept. If you don't sleep, you die.

Source of these points:

http://www.amazon.com/How-Create-Mind-Thought-Revealed/dp/06...

https://www.coursera.org/course/ml

Title is misleading, this function also has to do with encoding short term memories to long term memories. Since the mind only has limited space (limited number of neurons to configure), that only the most useful memories are stored into permanent disk. Disruption of the 7 to 9 hour sleep cycle garbage collects the memories that were about to be stored. The mind queues them up to be dealt with the following day, but sometimes are displaced or missed by more passionate things in the present.

Sleep is one of the most important things you can do to maintain your mind and keep it in top running condition for as long as possible, not too little, not too much, sleep in intervals of 90 minutes. If you consume garbage knowledge on a daily basis, your mind will encode that garbage to permanent disk, and you will become that garbage.

Conspiracy theorists suffer from a mental misconfiguration where the cost function applied to the neural network of neural networks suffers from "over fitting". Finding patterns in randomness leading to conclusions are not valid. A lambda function can be applied against the cost function which will alleviate this. I can do it in software, and when I discover the operating principles of the neo cortex, I will be able to fix all the conspiracy nuts in the local nut house. Take care to not take for granted the fresh slate of your mind while you are young, because when you are old, it'll be mostly full and encoding new skills to disk much more difficult, the cost function is more reluctant to modify the grids since doing so would damage your ability to consume resources, find mates and create more of you. Fill you mind with timeless wisdom and get good sleep before your hard disks become full.
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"the developer couldn’t get past that barrier"

I guess you are right!
Resharper isn't going to read it for you.
Absolutely. Where are you working at (I see you're in Sthlm)?
Its not 1:1, but while its people coordinating its pretty easy to draw the comparison, only when its done by a botnet wrangler or extortionists do things start to diverge.

You just don't see the equivalence because operating on the internet you only see your susceptibility to a ddos, and it's always different when it can happen to you.

It's a nuisance you deal with until the protesting party gets board. In one case you call the cops, in the other case you pay someone with a fat pipe to absorb the hit and forward the legit traffic to you.
> TBH, the thing that concerns me most is that these are posted to HN since they are very SF specific.

Which so long as there is a live stream option I think makes it ok.
Less that can do more in less time is normally more expensive. Seperating out areas into design, front end and back end development also splits your risk.
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"Every group I worked with in the past six months spent several orders of magnitude more than that [$60,000] on their iOS products"

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Yes, Piwik I can highly recommend! The fact that you are doing the analytics by yourself also means they don‘t become part of a larger graph–in theory, this is better for the privacy of your users because you can’t track them outside your domain.
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bintrees is a fantastic package. There are even Cython-powered implementations that give a nice speed boost, if you need it.
Currently contracting iOS stuff in my underwear from my parents place. I don't put pants on for nothin'.
This post reminds a lot of a post by 37 signals' Jason Fried one time about startups and failure. This days failure just seem sexy. Its never good and cool to fail and will not. At no time should you plan or consider the option of failing. Its like preparing for divorce on your first day of marriage and then again I could be wrong.
Hmmm... is the trademark domain and/or country specific?

Because there's a cider company in the UK that has a claim to that name going back well over 150 years.
sensible type system means you cannot add string and numbers.
Not true at all. You tie your risk into multiple factors that can go wrong.

It's easier to replace one entity with another, than several parts.

Knowing the SDK and design elements beats a designer that only knows design.

And the API consumer would probably develop a better API than some guy who generally doesn't consume most of his API for a living. That being said, that assumes the front-end guy also knows back-end. Rare, but exists. points to self

I generally dislike "Mobile UX, UI, IOS Design expert" if they can't code their design. Either for Cocoa or (S)CSS CS/JS depending on platform.
A classic blunder. Never get involved in a trademark war with Reddit.
It's a different "category". Like Apple (hardware) and Apple (records), it was okay for them to share the name until Apple (hardware) moved into the music business.
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The .Net Platform is a massive enterprise mainstay.
If css/html has been directly copied (evidenced say by comments from the original appearing in the copy) then that certainly creates a prima facie case for infringement.

However, I would say in this case, although the new site may have been inspired by certain stylistic elements of the original (white item background on a dark main background), I wouldn't say this is anywhere near sufficient to amount to actionable copying.

Overall Lot18 feels much more polished than Caskers on a brief navigation of both. In any event, it would be advisable for Lot18 to focus on their own business rather than expending energy taking action against Caskers.
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These type of clients smell like deja vu to me and the post is a good light education for these kind of clients.

For people who get shocked at 60K for a full stack solution: go with the devs from [insert any outsourcing country here] or with the friend and keep a journal of how things went. I'd be damn curious to read it... (even though I already know the outcome).
This is a really strong point. When we talk about "Connections", we're actually often talking about information flow.

Capital-C Connections are about the ability to advertise oneself to a set of parasitic people with disproportionate power. As the world wakes up to this emperor having no clothes, this is becoming less important. Look at Mitt Romney's amazement at the fact people who scoff about the "47%" in private (in a world with smart phones and the Internet) can't get elected.

That's a push-driven information flow that exists in a time of scarcity. One has to advertise oneself to the few people who are in power. That has been the dominant world for centuries.

However, as we move into an era where talent, skill, and know-how are the scarce resources, the more important information flow is pull-driven. The game for an ambitious person is more about finding things out-- what's worth learning, what to work on. So you win by pulling down the best information, not by pushing (low-quality, biased) information about oneself into the streams of others.
Exactly. While I'm sure there are apps that cost > 6 million (How much has Path spend sofar?), the "several orders of magnitude" seems highly overstated for an MVP.
Neat, this is pretty cool - essentially ring-fenced bookmarks.
You caught him.
If anyone here is concerned that someone in their life might be a danger to them, I would encourage them to read 'The Gift of Fear' by Gavin de Becker: http://www.amazon.com/dp/0440226198
Let me know if you need an NSCoder.
True. 3 months and two devs does sound like a pretty solid idea, beyond MVP. The problem could be on the client side who demands too much from a risky idea.
“A fashion is merely a form of ugliness so unbearable that we are compelled to alter it every six months.” Oscar Wilde

There is a threshold where good enough is good enough. Once above that threshold, your e^(ipi)+1 still rings true. It is one of many of our versions of the peacock frock.
Indeed, HTTPS is really easy if you do it in your nginx/apache config. Also StartSSL do free SSL certificates that are recognised by people's browsers.
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Fascinating book, in which Gavin De Becker (the author) reiterates the advice of commenters here, to deny the stalker any form of feedback whatsoever. It also highlights how, as in the Lasdun case, it can be a completely banal and initially harmless social transaction that can spiral out of control.
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Could I get a download link on that article? Scribd is paywalling.
The beginners guide to Google Adwords
This is a (freaken awesome) guest post by Alex Fredheim from Ascendancy Marketing.
Dan’s intro: Adwords is such a huge part of small business marketing that I really wanted to help people out with it. However I know very little about it and what I do know is that I suck at it. Good thing I know someone who rocks at it!
> Once you have established the trademark, you can prevent others from using that name, even if they have been using it for a long time.

You can prevent others from using it in the field the trademark was registered for to identify a product or service not approved by the trademark holder.

Most statements of trademark law being ridiculous for allowing people to "own" common words hinge on ignorance of these details.
Just curious here: Are all publishers interested in proposals from first time authors?

How hard it is to get a publisher interested in promoting your book?
I don't understand why you are being downvoted- this is an essential question to answer. For instance, Alzheimer's patients show sleep disorder- specifically, they tend to not sleep as much as non-Alzheimer's patients. There may be some evidence that this starts before the symptoms of dementia are diagnosed. If it turns out that memory issues cause poor sleep, that could potentially be a big break in early diagnosis.
Anti-piracy site claims small, 40 percent victory in anti-Mega campaign
.NET 4 most certainly does optimize tail-calls, and the 64-bit versions of the CLR contain additional optimizations that the 32-bit versions don't.

In fact, F# is able to target previous version of the CLR (.NET 2.0, 3.0, and 3.5) and I know for a fact that they also support the 'tail.' opcode and perform some TCO (though it handles fewer edge-cases than .NET 4.0 and 4.5).
I'm most surprised the MVP effort can be so consistently estimated. It might be that the pool of "apps" is extremely shallow, so they're just reimplemention #1231 of "XYZ" therefore estimation is simple based on extensive past experience reimplenting #1230, #1229, etc. "fart app #2935315" takes just as long to MVP as doggcatcher or evernote?

Also a major problem I've experienced is trying to force what I consider the technical requirements for a MVP past the non-technical people barrier, I didn't see that in the discussion, maybe it was assumed. For example, in my opinion, at least some minimal backup strategy is part of the MVP, whereas the non-technical types just reply "well, if THE hard drive crashes, we'll just sue the hosting provider, my buddy is a lawyer so he'll work cheap" or "if it blows up, you'll just work 36 hours straight on salary to fix it, right, so don't waste money/time preventing it from blowing up or adding debugging code or monitoring code, just work on features for the PR checkboxes".
An automated response is entirely different. The the bad part about responding personally is showing it affects you, however minutely. An automated response that it was not received takes away that crucial motivation quite effectively.
I am unaware of any successful DDOS (other than accidental ones) which food not make some use of unsuspecting people's computers, either by ping reflection, botnets or secret iframes. All of these sound less like a sit-in and more like an attack which should be prosecuted to me.

I am happy to hear of counterexample.
Sure can!

https://www.dropbox.com/s/5r3nfol818s4qna/People%20love%20a%...
It does kinda feel weird that http://helishopter.se doesn't work when the application is in Swedish.
"The hippocampus stores short-term memories, while the prefrontal cortex is our long-term memory bank." This statement runs contrary to all the current concepts of information storage in the brain. The hippocampus is where long term memories are stored, the prefrontal cortex is involved in working memory, planning and evaluating action outcomes and a bunch of other things we have barely figured out.
There are already EU laws about exporting data outside the EU.

US saying they can grab data just means US companies who want EU business need to set up EU companies with servers in the EU. That means more work for EU citizens, and more tax[1] paid in the EU.

For me (as a European) it all seems pretty good.

[1] Albeit minimal tax with their borderline illegal weird methods to avoid tax.
True, it's hard to track subscribers, etc. But like others have said, those subscribers are much more tuned in than say casual readers of your blog articles. Much higher level of trust with a podcast audience imo.
As soon as I read his opening piece I thought 'this guy needs to use LaTeX', so I'm glad that he did in the end. I've benefited a lot from the stories and comments here at HN, so I'd like to offer my help in getting you started with LaTeX if you'd like to do something similar.

I'd say that the major of downside of LaTeX is that it's not very accessible. One of my goals at the moment is to improve that, and that's part of my motivation for working on ShareLaTeX [1], which is probably one of the easiest ways to get started with LaTeX (I am of course biased.) We've cut out all of the installation and configuration needed to set up LaTeX, so you can dive straight in.

[1] https://www.sharelatex.com
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I am actually looking for similar service that supports German, French languages, without having to translate a wordpress theme etc.

Anyone knows other 'paywall' service, or 'membership website' service?
I built something like this as a personal side project awhile ago: http://simpletask.davertron.com.

I tried to keep it dirt-simple as well: just let me add tasks, click a button to start timing and click the button again to stop.

I have a list of things I'd like to add (let people use it without creating an account, tags/categories, mobile support, etc.) but it works well enough for what I use it for now so I haven't gotten back to adding those features yet.
I really like this idea too. A curated content newsletter a la http://www.nextdraft.com is a concept that is still under-utilized.
All the publishers that I've been in contact, where I initiated the contact, they wanted proposals that followed a certain guideline. The guideline can be different from publisher to publisher. Some publishers don't even respond if they don't like your initial presentation/idea.

I've been contacted with publishers after publishing this book where they had a plan for the entire project but the royalties aren't even worth comparing against self-publishing or where you initiated the contact with a "big" publisher.

If you have a good idea and have written a Chapter that is based in the middle of the book containing about 30 pages, then I don't think it's too hard getting a publishers attention. Or do you mean if I wanted to get a publisher to promote the book now afterwards?
A nifty way to implement a lexicographic ordering in C++11:

struct Thing { int a, b; };

bool compare(const Thing& t1, const Thing& t2)
{
return std::tie(t1.a, t1.b) < std::tie(t2.a, t2.b);
}

Basically, this creates two tuples-of-references to the Thing members and compares the tuples lexicographically. Modern compilers optimize out all the tuple stuff and emit code basically indistinguishable from a hand-written variant like the following:

bool compare(const Thing& t1, const Thing& t2)
{
return t1.a < t2.a || (t1.a == t2.a && t1.b < t2.b);
}
Thanks Rob! Is the software open source? if yes, got a link?, if not, what tech/stack was used please?
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Pick a random tweet from a public hashtag. Put aside all knowledge you have of major sporting events, news & current affairs. Pick how 'happy' it is from 1-9.
Totally agree. Getting good at podcasting takes a lot of practice. It's a lot harder than it may seem.

Writing the topics and talking points — and sticking to them — is also a tricky task. In my first podcast series, we tended to ramble off-topic making for some pretty boring segments.
That's still more "alive" than Firefox OS currently is.
Thanks for the input!

The biggest problem I had with LaTeX was after the book was done and I wanted to get it ready for Kindle and Epub. Luckily I found tex4ht which compiles LaTeX to HTML/XML which I just needed to write CSS for.

Writing the book using LaTeX is one of the best decisions that I made.
It all depends on how honest of a person you are, and if you're willing to take advantage of someone who might not know or perhaps not care how much they are spending. If you have a bigger budget, sure you can do a lot more experimentation - pay others to do experimentation and thinking for you, that is - but if you are good at building relationships to feel out honest people, have some direction yourself and are good at communicating it, then you can come out on the lower end of costs.
If they're bringing something to market, even if not immediately, that can do this, it's not frivolous. There are a lot of serious technical challenges to be solved creating a machine that can function as described.
Sorry, but that's bullshit. Most stalkers are people who simply can't accept a breakup in a previously existing romantic relationship.

There may be cases of this multi-layered string-pulling you describe, but they are a rare exception.
He could mean base 2. So 60,000*2^2=240,000
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I like it, seems like a hybrid between amazon and pinterest... but what makes you different from sites like thefancy.com?
As a corollary to your awesome "don't stalk a psychiatrist" tip — if you're going to stalk someone, don't stalk a federal agent!

A close friend was stalked for years by someone who sent increasingly threatening e-mails to him, his ex-girlfriend, and her family with varying From: lines.

Local police in three different states were pretty sure my friend was the culprit because he knew a lot about computers. He got a restraining order and a pretty harsh interrogation; under the stress, he ended up failing out of university. The stalker got away with this stuff for years and never got close to getting caught.

The bad guy's mistake was to start sending e-mail with a "From:" line of a Department of Homeland Security agent. Turns out the FBI knows their stuff and does not tolerate this nonsense, and they unravelled the situation within about a week.

It also turns out that "impersonating a federal agent" is much worse than ordinary stalking — the bad guy is serving a 15-year prison sentence.
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For those interested,Coursera's class on Algorithms has commenced from today.
How have your e-book sales compared to your print ones?
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That's pretty spot on. We're trying to mix the "practical" of Amazon (everything is there) with the "inspirational" of Pinterest (your friends are there).

We're different from the Fancy in that we aim to provide a natural destination point for all shopping (whereby we have a very large product database) - where I believe the Fancy are more focused on a "personal curation". The Fancy is an awesome site though!
Picking a single tweet will not result in an accurate reading of sentiment, I talk about this in the study. In fact, the only way right now to gauge anything near useful analysis of 'sentiment' (it's just textual analysis really, not true emotion) is to use the wisdom of the crowd and find trends. Surprisingly, this shows some pretty interesting results, regardless of whether it's accurate in the sense of showing a single person's emotion.

It's also worth pointing out that the data-set used in this study to gauge 'sentiment' is based on firm psychology and actually infers much more than just perceived happiness.
Someone on the UKCrypto mailing list; and if it's not them they'll know who it is.

They may have already spoken about it. I guess they have a searchable archive somewhere.

(http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/ukcrypto)
That's what happens when you don't monetize your projects, you never find the time to add the features you'd want to, because the initial enthusiasm has worn off.
It looks nice btw :)
Since the e-book is included when you purchase the printed copy, the printed versions have sold better because you get everything.

Maybe 1/3 is plain Kindle/PDF sales and the rest is printed.

When it's time to write the next book I will certainly be targeting all the different formats again because everyone likes to read differently. A lot of the printed sales haven't even requested the e-book.
I don't like to get involved, but..

>Numerous witnesses saw gunfire coming from behind the fence and heard shots coming from different areas

Eye witnesses are beyond useless at everything. Gunshots echo. No one 'saw' gunfire. Everyone filled in their own blanks.

For example, big aircraft crash at an English airshow. Of the hundreds of people asked what they saw only one remembered correctly. There have also been more scientific studies into this. (eg something about a video of a speeding car, some participants were told there was a barn in the video, there was not. 3 days later when asked about the barn a significantly higher % of people who had been told there was a barn said they saw one.)

Anyway. I have no opinion on the assassination - but if I was trying to make an argument for anything the last thing I would take as true is the statements of witnesses.
I'm going to be refining and updating the tech behind it (it's quite old) but I wrote a little more here, at least for the Twitter scraping: http://rawkes.com/articles/how-i-scraped-and-stored-over-3-m...

As for the sentiment analysis… I'm unable to release the data-set as it's owned by a university in Florida and only available to students. A quick Google on sentiment analysis, or 'Affective Norms for English Words' will come up with useful things. :)