skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can you comment on compatibility.

For example, if I decide to buy VMware Fusion for a team of 6 developers today (Professional costs 45 EUR*6 = 270 EUR).

Will I have to spend the same amount each year again or are you going to support each version (and potential changes to the APIs) down the road? I have no idea how drastic changes are going to be from Fusion 5 to 6 and beyond.

From reading your announcement, it seems like your plugin is a one time fee. I've seen other companies try this business model for software only to replace it with a yearly license down the road. Any thoughts on this?

Does the email support include a response time, etc.?
Redbox Instant
I've heard this argument ever since Norvig's Unreasonable Effectiveness of Data. While having a ton of data available is great, it has its limits. I believe you are overestimating the effectiveness of data (as, imo, Norvig did). And here specifically, it's not the case for the hype:

from the NYT article [1]:
"The achievement was particularly impressive because the team decided to enter the contest at the last minute and designed its software with no specific knowledge about how the molecules bind to their targets. The students were also working with a relatively small set of data; neural nets typically perform well only with very large ones."

NNs in general have enjoyed lots of successful practical (commercial) applications in pattern recognition though they were sort of replaced in the "state-of-the-art" by SVMs in many cases until RBMs and DBNs came along. I agree with your caution for skepticism though, only time will tell how good DBNs are.

I think the black box criticism is BS for the most part. In some cases (google's search being a famous example) it might be great to have a human readable and tweakable solution (assuming you have the resources) but for something like recognising handwritten digits from images, not so much.

[1] http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/24/science/scientists-see-adv...
Raising money relies on trust. If you don't have any faith in the other party holding up their end of the deal, the contract doesn't matter and you should probably reconsider the transaction. In practice, you can get pretty jammed up regardless of what the contract says.
I'm surprised Flipboard hasn't been added to the poll.

http://inside.flipboard.com/2013/03/14/weve-got-your-rss-cov...
This is fantastic. Like putting more leverage and negotiating power to engineers (who have traditionally been marginalized by the suits), providing more knowledge and leverage to founders and taking away grey-zone-hand-waving-smoke-and-mirrors wiggle room from the comparatively powerful party (the VCs) can only be positive in bringing about parity in the relationship.
And I forgot another — any thoughts on volume licenses? E.g. a pack of 10.
"I don't see how this differs from ureddit."

$80,000 waste of time versus a much cheaper but still waste of time?
Having a light shined on activity that pollutes an environment based on trust IME is a better disincentive than fear of legal threat, esp. considering the power disparity between the parties.
+1, the reader table definitely needs iOS/Android app columns.
22/7 is actually closer to pi than 3.14.
I don't have data, it was a guess as usually commercial vendors only tend to support new standards if it brings them money.

I remember everyone ignored the ISO Extended Pascal, because Mac/Turbo Pascal were seen as the standard.

From HPC you left out Portland group, but they are giving good support.

For games I was thinking about the console vendors toolchains and vendors like Codeplay and SN Systems.
Now that's just silly. I totally understand their reasoning behind this, but it just doesn't make for an enjoyable game.

I suppose you could call it compartmentalization[0].

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compartmentalization_(psycholog...
Agreed. I do most of the above as an employee in a startup company, and we use Hubspot to have most of our marketing efforts "under one roof".

However if you're a bootstrapped company, you may not have a choice but to put the time in yourself rather than paying for professional SEO services.

If you have a technical and non-technical co-founders, this list is a large chunk of what the non-technical guy should/will be doing.

Building a great product that people want is pointless without letting people know about it.
I think you could deduce the net positive from comparing capitalist companies to communist combinats. Somehow they churn out more, cheaper and better. They're people who spout that that's materialism and bad, and then they say we should help the poor. But more, cheaper, better helps the poor. So no matter how you turn it, it's a net plus.
Why not have both parties sign a contract digitally with crypto?

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/opengp/id414003727?mt=8
Does anyone here primarily read their RSS feeds "river of news" style (e.g., http://tabs.mediahackers.org/) instead of "mailbox" style (with unread counts)? If so, what do you recommend?

So far I'm thinking of using a river for my "firehose" feeds while using newsblur (or something) to keep tabs on my "must read" feeds.

I played around with Dave Winer's OPML Editor/River2 but it just never clicked for me.
Well said. I don't see much consensus happening soon with all the vitriol being thrown about and a lack of even being able to agree on simple things like whether or not a national debt the size of our GDP is a bad thing.

But we can hope.
What's crazy is that this reminds me of how slaves used to be sold. Round up a few folks who can do hard work, put them on a podium and then sell them to the highest bidder.

Not a perfect analogy by any stretch, although it is interesting.
This is what a like about C++11, it feels a safer language and lets me do lots of functional style programming.

Sadly I am stuck in JVM/.NET on the day job.
I saw the same thing. PG is pretty consistent with that tagline. So presumably the VCs knew it would be there. If those VCs didn't want to give the appearance of agreement, they probably would have asked to have their names witheld.

PG also specifically mentions VC "noobs" as being a motivation for this protocol. I would think that experienced VCs would be in favor of such a protocol so that "dishonest" or noob VCs wouldn't disrupt a potential deal or increase the cost of the deal with disingenuous offers.
Though this does follow the qualities of a contract, it's important to note that oral agreements only get you so far in many jurisdictions and particularly have an upper limit on the value, around the order of $500. So while its great this is an explicit and clear conversation, I don't think you can say that it is assuring unenforceable agreements aren't made.
It's likely that other casual agreements that you don't think of as contracts are also contracts.

I'm not a lawyer, I'm a guy who took a business law class during undergrad, but my prof drilled it into my head that a contract consists of offer, acceptance, consideration, capacity, and legality. It can be on a napkin, it can be verbal, it can be in a text message, so long as those elements are present.

The difference between an offer and preliminary negotiations is the intent to contract, and language can be used to provide evidence on either side of this one. "Would you take $100k with a $5MM cap" is negotiating language, while "I'll give you $100k with a $5MM cap" is an offer.

Again, not a lawyer, but this "handshake protocol" appears to create valid contracts.
Python & DevOps: Make your own heroku
>The evidence does not support that claim

What claim?

>No I'm saying similar to "Vitamin B"

There is no vitamin B. You clearly know this, and are deliberately posting complete nonsense.

>In other words K2 intake was correlated with reduced levels of prostate cancer, and K1 was not

And in the studies that found no such correlation to begin with? Pretending a single study is evidence that there's an entire family of vitamins we know noting about is so incredibly stupid I refuse to believe you are actually doing that.

>it's arrogant to dismiss this them as being functionally equivalent

No, it is arrogant to claim that you know everything and this guy is a total moron because he did a great job of 100% completely and totally covering all vitamins, but you want him to worry about what form of vitamin D he uses based on absolutely no evidence that it matters at all.
We try to build a positive, two-way, relationship with our readers, but if someone removes the ads from our website, they are directly attacking our ability to stay in business. Not cool.

Removing ads from a website is no different than pirating software: You're getting the product without paying for it. Publishers deserve to make money from their work.
Fear is why you fail
Through the lens of this example, Lisp does not offer any advantage. In fact, I'd argue, that Python, Ruby, JavaScript, C#, and even Haskell are simply explorations of this example, and others like it, with intentional ignorance of some of the other advantages Lisp offers.

The one thing that all those languages drop from Lisp is Homoiconicy [1]. There are entire other categories of "Eureka Moments" that you can experience with Lisp through the lens of homoiconicy. This is at the heart of the utility of Macros, but macros can exist without homoiconicy and there are other benefits besides easier macros.

What makes Clojure, in particular, interesting is that it's Homoiconic in terms of more than just sequences: There's also maps, sets, etc. Common Lisp & Scheme encode maps, sets, etc in terms of lists.

If you're having a hard time seeing past the syntax (or a lack thereof), I suggest exploring Mathematica. Download the demo [2]. The Homoiconic parts of Mathematica are hidden behind more traditional syntax. Use the FullForm[...] function to see the Lispiness leak through. I suggest exploring the Rules & Patterns documentation [3] to get a feel for a non-macro approach to homoiconic transformations. Rules & Patterns makeup a rewrite system, which are strictly more complex than macro systems, but often easier to grasp during initial exposure.

[1] http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?HomoiconicLanguages

[2] http://www.wolfram.com/mathematica/trial/

[3] http://reference.wolfram.com/mathematica/guide/RulesAndPatte...
I have a similar experience, but it applies to Haskell, too. I understand functional programming just fine, but I can't read the source code at all. I can slowly grind my way through a snippet and work out what it means, but I can't read it. I wonder whether this experience has anything to do with one's comfort reading mathematical notation - I basically can't, and skip over all the formulas when I'm reading a paper. It's at least 100x easier to just infer the principle from a working example.
That's awesome. I'm glad to see that the healthy competition is making GCC improve.
Its only been a recent experience for me (last 12 months).

The ones that grate on me the most are where their one core product is completely irrelevant to me - and some basic research on their part would have revealed this.
I like work for pie better. This just seems creepy.
I think without new features and innovation every one get bored so innovation is necessary.But they must be user friendly
I find rm -i to be unusable because it is so annoying when you are deleting more than a couple files. It would be nice if rm -I (notice the capital) would first determine all of the files to remove, print them out and then ask if you want to delete all of those files. Instead it just says "rm: remove all arguments?" which is clearly much less annoying than having to type y for every file, but it is also mostly useless.
True, but this is probably enough to stop quite a bit of piracy. Any program that has the capability to modify the binary of an installed program runs with quite a lot of permissions. Since it is also illegal, average joes don't have a trusted source for the patcher. This means that the only way to break the game is in the form of an executable that is functionally indistinguishable from malware. That alone will stop a good fraction of piracy -- plenty of people who would be willing to rewrite some hosts file to point to a fake server are unwilling to run a crack program that came from PirateBay and probably has keyloggers, spyware, or a rootkit.
Worth noting that auto-vectorization is new in MSVC.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh872235.aspx
There is a written component to the protocol: The follow up email/text. "This is to confirm you're in for X." "Yes."
Just added Platform column.

Sorry, it's really meant to be collaborative, so that anyone can make changes. I just launched it in a hurry to stop avoiding launching :-D
I'm concerned deep networks are being overhyped. They're certainly exciting, but they haven't seen much use in industry yet; it's too early to make claims about how they have impacted data science.

Also, data science involves a lot more than building predictive models. In my experience >95% of effort goes into something other than building a model. In kaggle contests you usually concentrate on that <5%, which IMO is the fun part but it's not the reality of industry. There are many big breakthroughs in data science that don't involve model building.

edit: I haven't listened to the podcast yet (at work), my comment is more about the title.
It was a bit sad actually.

We were porting a particle simulation framework done in Objective-C with Renderman shaders to C++/Windows, because we thought NeXT would die soon.

This was way before Apple decided to buy NeXT.
If Google kills Reader, I will...
There's no excuse for people calling you stupid.

But see orthecreedence's post. It can be learned with practice.
Let us keep in mind that as we boot up our own cyber sabres to rattle at China, et al., the USA and Israel are extensively attacking and, essentially, invading sovereign nations and breaching the international peace. I don't like corrupt, oppressive regimes any more than the next guy or gal, but maybe we should try just not creating, causing, supporting, or sustaining them in the first place. I really don't think that the actions our government is taking in our name is in any manner better than the very "regimes" they feel righteous to openly attack.

As with the unfettered use and expansion of drone warfare in a stupid, narrow-minded, degenerate manner; this type of wanton wielding and violence through cyber weapons will backfire on us. Who will no longer feel justified to use the very same tools against our own national grid and economy if we show no ability for restraint at using the nuclear option.

Just a few thoughts to keep in mind. You can't whine and cry once the shit you pull being an asshole is turned on you.
This is exactly what I wanted to know, thank you!
What I like most about is that it embodies the idea that funding is an end rather than a means. Rather than commemorating revenue you're celebrating funding. It's perfect for the VC centric world of Silicon Valley.
>What if Microsoft includes an optional os level ad block with windows blue that is on by default.

Huh? So much for baseless FUD. Ad-blocking is much different than adding an extra header for voluntarily respecting someones privacy. Incase you din't know, blocking ads involve removing the content or terminating connection to the ad-server altogether. No, Microsoft or any big players don't have a reason to or is that stupid to do so.
The FAQ says "Our primary focus is the SF Bay Area, LA and NYC. We accept great engineers from Seattle, Boston, Boulder/Denver, Chicago and Washington DC as well."

Does this mean that DeveloperAuction will only accept developers residing in these specific cities? What about non-US residents (e.g. Canada)?
I think there could be value for a customer if the product is presented differently. For instance, offer free shipping, give personal reviews, offer warranty or guarantee. Its about differentiation in the market. It really is a study of competitive markets and disruption.
The Gibson Index - a ranking system for cyber attack severity
I like Scheme, but I have this desire to be productive without reinventing the wheel or most of the automobile. If it's not in the core Python language, chances are it's a feature in one the almost infinite selection of third party modules. Or can be done in C and called from Python.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5375929
I'm pretty sure that matches my statement about bending the world to match your Ideology. Odd that you would disagree when saying the same thing...
>Are you seriously citing Lyle McDonald as proof that low carb diets lead to muscle wasting?

I don't even know how to answer such a nonsensical question. Are you upset that a proponent of low carb diets actually knows what he is talking about and doesn't lie?

>It's a surprisingly common topic of discussion for something that's supposedly not done.

Your evidence of what bodybuilders did decades ago is that people have started talking about doing it in the last few years? Seriously?
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In fact, you could make everyone who attends register by signing a message- that way everyone at your event would be ready (and have a public key registered with YC) to sign any contract digitally.

Welcome to the future.
I'm on it https://github.com/fgrehm/vagrant-lxc ;)
I need to make it work as a real Vagrant plugin since I started it before 1.1 was actually released
You don't use your browser's zoom feature?
I understand completely verbal contracts are enforceable if all the 'wiggle room' is squeezed out, by specifying in detail the specifics of the contract and witnesses to remove the 'he said she said'. That's all a written contract with all the legalese and signatures in triplicate etc really provides.

My point is IF you create a handshake protocol that meets all the criteria to be fully 'enforceable', no one will actually partake, because business people do not enter legally binding contracts without lawyers reviewing etc.

The handshake deal in addition to the legal aspect really requires a level of trust. a handshake deal works because both parties trust the other really is making a deal, that both parties are operating in good faith, AND that if their is some technicality does occur they can still back out, but trust exists that neither party will back out unless such a technicality does occur.
Ask HN: Why is that there are no datacenters being used by big players in India?
Why is that none of the global players like Amazon, RackSpace, EdgeCast, Heroku, CloudFlare do not have a datacenter in India and the nearest is Singapore ? (No info about Akamai - I could not find a list of datacenters of Akamai)

India has approximately 137 million users which is close to Japan of 101 million. I can see the percentage compared with the population is very low and is still a developing country.

http://www.internetworldstats.com/stats3.htm#asia

Youtube is decently fast, Vimeo is too slow and no where close to Youtube. Since Google uses Akamai (assuming Youtube does too unless its does not have a caching server at the ISP (weird youtube urls when loading the actual video which indiciate the ISP)), search is at good speed.

I have two other questions -
1. Why are there no offerings for EC2 type services by RackSpace, Amazon etc in India ? There are few datacenter services like NetMagic and Ctrl-S which do not have the option of API calls. You cannot believe the interfaces and no easy way to evaluate a service.

2. The VPS server (I did not research dedicated servers) costs are significantly higher than a similar VPS server say, RackSpace or Linode or even MediaTemple. Compare MediaTemple and Linode, there is less significant difference in value of the servers based on the configuration offered. Is it purely business that drives these costs ?
All the projects eligible for this contest are Java.... :\
I have no idea if it is the breakthrough of the decade, but I think deep learning isn't just taking a perceptron with many hidden layers and applying backpropagation to it, as you seem to say, all the interesting things about it you summarized as "fancy stuff" and "not making a big difference", without any context, references or arguments. I do not feel competent to discuss it as I have very little experience in this field, but it doesn't feel too informed even given whatever little knowledge I have. Certainly faster computers and more data have helped, but just like in traditional algorithms research, they cannot completely make up for having exponential growth functions with respect to computational needs of the amount of data required. There have been large improvements in both respects in the deep learning community, in fact rarely does the term "deep learning" refer in practice to traditional completely supervised learning that you are talking about.

There are nice and more balanced overviews here:

http://ufldl.stanford.edu/wiki/index.php/Deep_Networks:_Over...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_learning
http://orteil.dashnet.org/gamegen
A great foreign movie might not be as "great" given English subtitles, but I'll still appreciate it's greatness when I have access to it in my favorite/native language.

Stretching the analogy..., since Lisp isn't my native language, I very much appreciated the Python "subtitles" provided by the grandparent.
Bolloré Bluecar EV to be sold for 12,000 Euros, but you have to rent the battery
It's not so much that Lisp has no grammar, but that it's a VSO language (or it has the tail-first/head-final parameter set, if you prefer), where infix programming languages more closely resemble the SVO natural languages most of us in Europe or North America are used to. I'm sure that something more "normal" like Python, C, Pascal or BASIC would be as hard for uninitiated speakers of verb-first languages to wrap their heads around.
Wait a couple of days and there will be a Python project.

You can also write a new monkey in any language you want.
“Almost everything you do will seem insignificant, but it is important that you do it”

Mahatma Gandhi
Pyredise gets faster with LUA scripting
I found this paper NCSU a while back: http://staff.unak.is/andy/MScTestingMaintenance/Homeworks/ST...
Build in SHA256 signing and you have something rock solid.
RIM's record one-million BlackBerry order: Signs of a turnaround?
I am so pissed.
that's what steps 3 and 4 are for, aren't they? Wouldn't that make it a written contract instead of just an oral one?
US intelligence wants to use alternate reality gaming to bolster research
Oops you're right, thanks.
If you use OS X, I can recommend Vienna, which has no problem at all with pulling and keeping as many feeds and articles as you want, up to as many as your filing system can cope with. It's mature, having been around for a few years now, and open source to boot.
I'm also very interested in this question.
http://ifgooglekillsreader.tumblr.com/
lol for anyone else like me who didn't remember the reference, it was back in '08: http://blog.jquery.com/2008/08/29/death-to-javascript-rock-s...
A friendly warning to fellow developers. While Dev Auction is a great idea, there's no way to ensure that your current employer doesn't know you're on the site. I wasn't given the option of returning to my job after my employers found out i was on Dev Auction. Matt was pretty callous about it ultimately ignoring my emails.

[reposted from disqus comments]
Sorry but this is completely incorrect. Oral agreements are just as valid under the law (except where something called the Statute of Frauds comes into play) as written agreements. You just need a somewhat specific offer, an acceptance, and consideration. That's it.