skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"The Black Swan Strategy"

But this really doesn't have anything to do with black swans... this technique isn't about a rare and unpredictable occurrence, but rather with a deviation from the norm.

"Community Natural Selection"

Again, this doesn't map to their findings -- the community was not selecting the preferential strategy, even though it was present in the community.

"Positive deviation" would have been a less sensational way to put it, but link-bait in and of itself isn't a bad thing, if the linked-to content delivers. Which I think is the case here.
At the end of the post you say you fully believe their explanation (that those are added as forwarding examples on new accounts). Which one is it?
Sitting in a class right now reading this while Hinton is teaching neural nets.
Did you speak about reimbursement before flying there?
I agree that it doesn't really matter, but I think the concern is that a layperson will read this and assume that the rats are actually exchanging conceptual knowledge, which we can't really prove at this point.
We are using Sanger sequencing technology.
Yup, I think you just touched on (what could be) the main issue for Yahoo.

If they don't have any of the right people, they're in real trouble.

Can an amazing coach with a mediocre team produce a championship? I don't think it's possible to lead a mediocre team to produce great products.
Ask HN: What's the best tool like Kindle highlights but for the web?
There are many highlighting and annotation services on the web, but it seems none have traction.<p>Is there a standout service for someone to quickly see "the best" parts of a news article or particular URL in the way that notes and highlights in Kindle apps show aggregations so well?
Kudos to Watsi for doing this. The transparency is the key which is differentiating it from other non-profits and wish them all the best. Even though we know, but it is sometimes hard to keep in mind that for a mere $1200 , you could save someone's life and what it could mean for them. Sometimes, I forget how lucky I am to have sound health, great family and a roof over my head. We take it for granted while millions of people in this world fight every day just to get some of it.
It's been a while, but I'm pretty sure that the first HMO I got treated at used an auto-titrating CPAP initially, just to see if I was a candidate for a sleep study. The machine can sense when you stop breathing, and adjust the pressure accordingly.

It's not always as easy as just strapping on a CPAP and seeing if it works. There are at least two major kinds of sleep apnea: Obstructive (which is the most common) and Central (where your nervous system "forgets" to breathe). Using a CPAP with central sleep apnea can cause serious problems.

There are several different things that can cause poor sleep. So just giving them a machine may miss some important things.

Also, CPAP machines can really screw with your blood chemistry.

I used a CPAP for a three or four years. Overall I had better quality sleep, but there were lots of difficulties and some very long stretches where I think I was much worse off for using the machine.

Depending on the type of sleep apnea a CPAP can make it worse.

Oh, you can sometimes find CPAP machines at swap meets and craigslist, if you look around. I've ended up with three of them, and should probably sell one or two. I know it's still a pain to get a mask, though.
To the people who hold a social norm, someone who violates the social norm is doing something outrageous. Even if it turns out that the violation is actually very positive.

If you gloss over the part where someone's norm is violated, you have missed an important aspect of this
In practice, since so many web developers violate the rule about ids being unique, I think browser devs are forced to make the ID map into a multi-map, which makes it exactly the same as the class map.
EBay now comes to San Jose
Yes I did.
I was also sent the policy document which stated they will reimburse me for the flights/accommodation/food.
I also have the email communication with their recruiters which said that they will reimburse me. Do I have to get a lawyer?.
Heat pipes are passive, though - there's no pump to carry the heat as far as you need to.
You used to be able to buy them online without a prescription, but it's changed now. You can easily buy them through craigslist, though.
Nah, expiration is 20 years from the earliest priority date. So if they're claiming 1996, the patent will expire in 2016.

The backlog used to be problematic along the lines you're thinking, but they adjusted the rules in 1995.
Then it should be a browser preference.
Researchers amplify variations in video, making the invisible visible
Bodhi Linux 2.2.0 uses E17
Enough people have pointed out the importance of value pricing over hourly billing that I don't have anything to add there.

But I will bring up a neglected point, which is that this formula assumes that all employees hours are equal, or at least indistinguishable enough that you can take an average, and completely ignores the idea of leverage in professional services. Leverage is how you make a professional services firm a profitable, growing business, and not just a series of contractors that you farm out.

To start thinking about leverage, you need to realize that not all of your employees are the same, so a globally blended rate doesn't make sense. Some of them are junior level employees who are smart and capable, but still learning the ropes. They benefit from your firm's intellectual property, so they're able to add value greater than their salary would indicate. At the top, you have the firm's principals or partners, who tend to have less time to spend doing work, because they're busy trying to market the firm and win new business. So even though their rate may be higher, it's spread across fewer hours. In the middle are either technical experts or managers who are able to command a higher rate, and can mentor others, but aren't quite ready to bring in new business on their own.

As your employees learn and become capable of better work, they also become more valuable to you, which means you should pay them more, which means their rates should go up accordingly. But now you need them to do more valuable work, so you also need to find new junior people to replace them. This is how you help your employees grow, and it's how you help your firm grow.

Your firm's profitability comes from the fact that you can charge greater than an employees costs to your clients. That's the basic idea behind a services business, otherwise you're all just independent contractors. So your source of profits is the amount you charge on top of your employee costs, and that could vary by level.

The number of people at each level, and the amount you charge for them, depends on the nature of your work and your firm. Figuring out the rate balance and the right growth rate is one of the most important parts of managing your firm (probably second to creating a great culture, although the two are related).

The reason that the firm in the article is able to raise more revenue by raising prices is because they've been undervaluing their own work this whole time. Once the price starts to better reflect value, the way you grow is by sustainably hiring in new people and growing them with the firm - the price mechanism is money that's currently being left on the table, it's not a growth mechanism.
Does management complain that engineering's too slow?
Ask HN: Any "growth hackers" or UX/UI rapid prototypers up for coffee?
For those in/around Silicon Valley, I'd like to meet to talk about launching a new kind of development shop focused on customer development, MVPs, and lean startups in general. Any takers? If so please see my profile for more background as well as my contact info.
*checking if cuckoobox.com is available
Beautiful stuff
Ouch. There's the link in my post so people can go to it. Tx.
This was a really fun read-thank you! If you don't mind answering, I've got a few questions:

1. "Vanishing gradients after 2-3 layers"-does this mean that the partial derivatives tend to be smaller on the higher layers, and therefore the network finds local minima that aren't very useful?

2. Step 3 (p 18) mentions that the outputs are not continuous variables, they're binary. What's the reasoning behind that?
I'm curious as well, since most of the programmers I've met prefers a dark theme. :)
My workaround for this was to add a TXT record for *.mydomain.com that just returns a string like "Unused". This seems to stop them from hijacking any subdomains, and it's not an A record so undefined subdomain names do not resolve, just like if you had not defined them in the first place.

(Workaround shouldn't be necessary of course, but this kind of bullshit is par for the course with cheap hosting companies.)
Give a standard amount to top-level domains (like tumblr.com), but keep track of it per-subdomain (so you know how it's divided up, even though it all adds up to the same quota).

Then, whenever space is used up, ask the user if they're willing to authorize extra space for the specific subdomain being added to. If they say yes, then it's authorized for that single subdomain (but not other ones).

I don't think there's any "automatic" way to do this, without asking the user. And I think most users would prefer to be asked.
My cofounder refused the idea of seeking accelerators (even YC, at least for now) for more or less that reason. He (and the seed investors) agreed that the company will do what we wish only.

We are now happily seeking investments that are bigger than an angel, but smaller than VC, specially from private individuals, in a way to not be pressured into the classic VC model (ie: not having to exit, or return the VC investment in 5 years and so on)
The comet has a hyperbolic orbit, but that doesn't mean it came from outside of the solar system. Most comets come from the Oort Cloud, where they orbit around the sun at great distance until their orbits are perturbed. It's postulated that the sun's path through the galactic plane is the source of these perturbations, but not the source of comets.
How I chose the technology stack for my startup
Given that no means currently exists to safely hand out a certificate for example.org that can in turn sign separate certificates for arbitrary foo.example.org subdomains, some sites still need wildcards. If you hand customers their own subdomain, and you automatically mint new customer subdomains when new customers sign up, you can't get a separate CA certificate for each one even if SNI does work; you really do need a wildcard for that.
Jolla's Sailfish OS on video
Overhead is what would it cost for the business
to exist, but to create nothing and ship nothing.

One approach is to make a table or Venn diagrams
using various rules about overhead, and to stack them
up and see which components most frequently appear
in the overhead area. You end up with a spectrum
rather than a hard division, but that's a start.

Costs other than creating shipped products?
Costs not variable with number/amount of
products (physical or virtual) shipped?

Another way to look at this is that the question:
"How much of the capital you are raising is going to be spent on overhead?" might be an indirect way of asking
"how much of the capital will NOT go to create value for the investors?" or "how well have you planned to spend
what you hope to raise in this round?"
Well, the command server also had directory listing enabled. The bad people just didn't bother with properly configuring their (hacked?) box.
I tried to do freelance development from home after our first child was born and my wife went back to work after her 3 months off. Even with a non-mobile baby there was no way to be productive. Young children need attention. You can't just put them down on a blanket and expect them to be happy. And once they start walking, forgettaboutit.

I would think that any employee saying that they can give a full workday working from home and watching young children at the time is not being truthful.

Sure, when they're older and don't need to be watched constantly, but if I turn my back for more than a minute I'll find our 1 year old playing with an electrical outlet or trying to eat something he shouldn't.
Similar, my first thought was "Wow... you get to do proposal work during your 8 hour day!?" When I was a consultant at a global firm that was what you did on the weekends.
Define Protocol Buffers messages with Haskell Generics
are the changes reversable?
I think the only solution is to require objective evidence of non-obviousness. The subjective approach, where the patent examiner decides whether the idea seems obvious, is just not working -- particularly for software.

Such objective evidence could consist of successful publication in a peer-reviewed journal, for example, or of providing published references that say that the problem being attacked is known to be difficult, or of showing that others have tried to solve the problem and failed.

In short, the burden of proof needs to be on the applicant to prove nonobviousness, not on the examiner (or the defendants in a lawsuit) to prove obviousness.
It's a pretty similar model, but yes with most loans on Kiva, the field partner pre-disburses the loan to the recipient and then lenders backfill the loan. The idea is that this will give field partners some "market" feedback on what kind of loans lenders wish to fund, although obviously there's an education aspect here, because new lenders may not know that some loans may be more impactful at alleviating poverty than others, though either way they are free to choose. As you say, obviously you wouldn't want to do this with medical donations where people's lives are on the line, but it does work pretty well at Kiva I think to provide some inspiration to our field partners to find the most impactful and catalytic loans. That's about 90% of the loans, and then about 10% are post-disbursed only getting funded if Kiva lenders fund them. Then we have Kiva Zip which is true peer-to-peer, for cases when a field partner is not necessary such as working with mobile payments in Kenya or some borrowers here in the U.S. http://zip.kiva.org
It's really not hard at all. I wrote a blog post about my setup a few months ago[1]. To summarize: djbdns + a few VPS instances which can be very tiny + puppet.

[1]: https://bugsplat.info/2012-12-31-how-i-run-my-own-dns.html
For a user of a speed reading CD (eye-Q), thank you for this info!
> To rephrase it a bit, there are vanishingly few pieces of gear that the Navy assumes that must work in the middle of an attack

That's reassuring to know. What are the "must work" bits?
Nipster: sort node.js packages search results by popularity
I am not interested in a meetup, but thought I would give you a quick tip.

If you are looking for blind connections, you should consider posting a little more frequently (you're karma point total = 2!!) I don't think you will get much response without letting people know a little more about you.

Hope that helps get you more connections!
Just fyi, mydomain.com is a real domain, example.com is better to use for illustrative purposes.
Death to loading screens
That's excellent, so Yahoo! employees have access to a nursery at the work-site? That sounds like a reasonable thing to do after revoking the work-from-home policy on short notice.
Finding customers is always a tough task. We started from μ-ISVs with simple Windows applications to probe the market and see whether people are ready to buy tests and QA as a service and then slowly expanded the offered services list.

We have great customer retention (excluding some specific one-time projects, like a penetration test), I hope due to our dedication :)

I would say manual tests are most popular, and then load tests, then automation. Often customers start from a tiny manual test and then use our services more and more, in other QA areas, being happy to receive all of those from one window in a unified manner.
Neural networks are interesting, but they are not a simulation of a brain. Brains re-wire their connections, these "neural networks" cannot.
Totally understand what you're getting at.

It's up to each individual how specific they want to be, and how much information to reveal. At the very least, we hope that it can help people who need it lift a burden off their shoulders, or know that we're not alone in this.
Laser cutter melt-and-fold mod allows for fast 3D plastic modeling
All your favorite music on one website.
Shuffm is an online tool where you can listen to your favorite music songs and compare it with others. Founded by Marek Schauer and Matúš Macko in 2013.
What do you mean? I believed their explanation but wanted to leave anyways. I don't want them redirecting my domains regardless of intent.
Moving your git repo up one directory
A show is like a dream. There are so many images, so many ideas that cross my mind during a shower. But they can be just as easily forgotten as a dream if you don't deliberately memorize them after the shower.
Also, they released the SDK a few days ago, Linux only currently: https://sailfishos.org/
Focusing on persuading influencers is an old strategy for innovation diffusion, and that's not what this article is about.
Awesome, really nice to have such great Clojure support
How We Treat Pets in America
Nintendo’s Yoshi sneaks on to Google Play in unlicensed game
From idea, to design, to the HN frontpage in 3 days - Stats and Reflections
Thousands of Public Data Sources
Thrillist, Mashable, and Lyft are a few other companies that started as side projects.
Oh? So the "Last week in WebKit" isn't actually in the nightlies yet? Interesting.
Thanks for the heads up. I'm worried about that too. Although I've been a long-time lurker this is actually one of my first posts. All my info is in my profile so hopefully that gives people some context.
This applies to customers of DomainSite too (same company). Annoying, as they've been really good otherwise for many years.
This is a good workaround, and I am voting you up in the hopes that others see it.
A lot of these indignant "work from home is awesome, yahoo sucks" posts seem to be written so broadly as to imply that a car factory can and should let its shop floor workers "work from home". I guess "good managers" would install tele-robotics...
Researchers discover global cyber-espionage campaign
iscover global cyber-espionage campaign
Hack the Philips Hue
It’s the Sugar, Folks
Though I haven't seen it myself, my roommate read this and immediately thought of the movie "Surrogates", wherein apparently this type of control has become the norm for standard interaction between people.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surrogates_(film)

Reading the plot of the movie right after the article definitely gave me the sci-fi heebie-jeebies...
Especially given the difficulty of arranging good quality child care on short notice.
Something I've been toying with a for a while now is finally/actually becoming useable for production code.
I don't like LinkdIn (I don't like to put up my profile on any social media platform because they are all alike). How do I circumvent this personal preference and still be out there looking? How do I satisfactorily answer that I have no interest in sharing LinkdIn with you?
GitHub is the new resume
Not sure it's a good idea. Remember why your interviewer is asking those questions? So that he can compare candidates. You're making his job a bit harder because you now have advantage over people who did it on a whiteboard.
I've had my own business since I was 15 and also multiple internships. You can do both, and if possible, you should. Never underestimate what you can learn as an employee. This is especially true as a software engineer. Once you work with a talented team of engineers at an established company, you realize that you don't actually know anything. You will learn more in a summer internship than you will in any CS class or teaching yourself.
Point being is that Yahoo is in a bad situation and, if you followed earlier coverage, she was indeed hired to "save the day".

If this were a company awash with cash, then - yes, denying perks to others while granting herself one would've been a "dick move". Alas, this is not Mojang, but Yahoo and it wasn't a champagne bubble bath that she installed, but something that would let her spend more time at work.
hi there jcr, this is jy-p, thanks for the kind words :)
Wired: take MAM to cure a BYOD headache
Just found out you can do it for your dog's DNA as well!
Again, you RubyTards need to grow up and realize the consequences of using an immature security-hole ridden open source software and quit using it just because it looks "cool" on your resume. You are probably also not getting paid even half of what enterprise .Net and Java developers make with 1/2 the effort.

Security should never be an afterthought. You'll realize when that "cute" site you build gets hacked by a 12 year old in China or Iran!

And quit downvoting me cos I am saying it like it is, you PG Groupies!

~premsai karthikayan
(someone called me coward for not using real name, so here it is!)
It'd be better to think of it as "Last week in the WebKit project". As as the post points out, the WebKit nightly is only representative of the mac port of WebKit, which Apple mostly calls the shots on. In many cases Apple takes a conservative approach when enabling features that other ports may be implementing or experimenting with.
IMO even if they make a slight loss on deliveries, there are other ways to add more monetization, so it's probably worth just winning the market first.
From the Front-line of StrataConf: A VMware Perspective
This is really interesting haha. Crowdfunding company seeks crowdfunding. I'm excited to see how the VC climate shakes up in the next few years as crowdfunding becomes even bigger.
1. Basically. It means that the network has a hard time pulling itself in any direction since the weights in the deeper layers are never really adjusted by very much.

2. It's been a while since I read the paper, but I believe that the justification has to do with the proof of convergence of Gibbs sampling. I haven't tried using continuous values, so I can't give an intuition for what happens in those cases.
that's a pretty definite statement that is definitely false. Conformal Systems LLC has no government contracts at this time.
Peter's posts talk about everything that's going on in the WebKit project. The nightlies are just builds of Apple's Mac OS X and Windows ports.
The "communication interface" would be the server's network link, which it does indeed employ to:

a) receive a request for the current version of the RSS feed ("compilation file")

b) transfer the RSS feed to the client

c) receive and respond to a request from the client for audio files linked to from the RSS feed

This appears to be a correct description of a web server hosting a podcast. I'm also not a lawyer, but I do see a possible loophole in that the claim describes a single machine serving both the feed and the audio files. If the audio is hosted on a separate server or a CDN, it wouldn't violate my reading of the claim. (If that's what you meant, then I guess we agree.) Of course, that's the kind of detail that would need to be hashed out in court before I'd trust it.
Everyone wants to change the world, but Watsi changed "her world" and gave her the opportunity to pass it on. If Watsi never makes a dollar ... or even if they never help another soul, it would be sad, but they've left a legacy that few companies can claim regardless of their size.

Well done!
I made that statement because the incentive structures & cultures of these organizations make it you have to behave this way on some level or get weeded out. It wont apply to everyone of course, but the overall trend points to it.

It's up to the people who hold the knobs on the incentives to make the changes they want to see.