skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It wouldn't help in this situation, since you can't even download the stuff you bought[1]. Your "purchase" only got you on-line viewing.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5377617
And, as long as we know how to invoke it reliably and properly, we don't __need__ to understand how. (Though, being nerds, we often want to.) I agree: "Magic" is one of the best shorthands for "We can explain that later but for now let's assume this works".
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The person you replied to didn't mention taxes except as a metaphor 'tax yourself', talking about tipping well.

The rush to portray anybody to the economic left of Ayn Rand as a communist is the reason we won't see reasonable tax reform cleaning up deductions and all that, something that both Obama and Republicans say they support. The second Obama proposes something, it's communism, and there's no possibility for working with him.
Are you operating yet? (hard to tell from your facebook page) I'm in Cincinnati and would give you a try.
My take away from this article is that inc.com think they make money by jamming annoying things in front of my face which I have to close to read the damn article.
They are not shutting down the standard, they are dropping the support for it in services they host.
Doesn't this encourage rushing complex decisions? Aren't handshake deals best suited for inherently simple transactions? Diamonds were mentioned, futures traders (in the old school pits) are another.

In other words, does this solve the wrong problem? If venture deals were as simple as diamonds, would such a proposal exist?

I'm no VC, but it seems like it's easy to get a contractual "meeting of the minds" when you're talking about simple things, and this does nothing to simplify things unless you have standard paperwork to go along with it. Are those details not the main destabilizing influence? (this could very well not be the case - as I said, I'm no VC).
Switching an RSS reader isn't (or shouldn't be) particularly onerous, so there's really no reason to avoid switching even if a new one comes later.
The energies themselves aren’t that high, the problem is that the energy densities are high - the Planck mass, for example, which is usually taken as the highest possible energy in particle physics beyond which we have to take gravity into account, is equivalent to a mere 21 μg.

However, ‘practical’ uses of these physics are not immediately obvious in the way special relativity is necessary to get decent GPS[0]. Nevertheless, both the engineering advances _and_ the mathematical tools invented during such research prove very useful time and time again - methodology from String Theory, for example, is used in trying to find dynamical descriptions of superconductors, which, if found, will affect daily life strongly (hopefully).

The key point to keep in mind here is that predictions about the future are rather hard and we have no idea what weird things people come up with in twenty or thirty years time, let alone a hundred years. Or could you have predicted the global cat picture viewing machine mentioned next door in 1913?

[0] And to understand why more than 3 to 4 GHz are rather impractical if you want to keep the CPU and RAM physically separated, btw.
It is OK to be skeptical, all I am trying to say is that most of the comments leave the impression of the poster trying to lean over backwards to say something at all related to the topic, often ending up with generic truisms. For example how is model building being a small part of practical ML criticism of deep learning? How is it on-topic at all?
A quick read of this thread suggests that you could really get out in front of things with a well-placed FAQ, whether on a Netflix site, github, or your personal site.

Assuming your job description is something like relations.
What if I've previously signed up for an account? Is there a way to ‘convert’ my account to a developer account and leverage this new offering?
To clarify on the baiting comment, I didn't intend to accuse bad faith or mean that was generally applicable to debates. For this particular issue, we have already advanced beyond that point in the conversation last time this was on HN, and I just wanted to expedite that. "Debate fatigue" or something :)

So my eventual reply is, if I list off my concerns and you point out that it's already possible to do those things, what is CISPA adding? Let's start the conversation there.

I'm not sure if it's a fallacy to appeal to common sense, but I don't buy that someone is pushing this through so hard to narrow what can already be shared. Even though you are certainly more familiar with previous relevant legislation, I feel pretty safe in saying that if that is your interpretation, it has to be incorrect.

Nobody spends money trying to take permissions away from themselves, and nobody versed in this area of law isn't already aware of their capabilities under ECPA.
This is a great project and will surely help a few people down the road starting their own clone of IFTTT :)
Awesome. Great work. Looking forward to digging in.
Exactly, that's why you can't have loops in production code!
The number itself probably isn't costing them much compared to the per-minute costs of outgoing calls. In the US, once you become a CLEC (basically a non-incumbent telco - Google isn't a CLEC but they buy from them) you can get blocks of phone numbers assigned to you and pay no recurring per-number costs. In fact, you can even charge the caller a small interconnection fee and make a tiny amount of money per call (so tiny that the caller's telco generally eats the cost). This is how services like IPKall and Callcentric (both are CLECs) can offer free phone numbers, and why I suspect Google pays very little per phone number. The equipment you need to be a CLEC is quite expensive though so consequentially IPKall and Callcentric only offer free numbers in a few area codes.
For those unfamilar with 113/355: http://blog.wolfram.com/2011/06/30/all-rational-approximatio...
What about a caching proxy? You can't view it on your screen unless the browser downloads it anyway.
either factually wrong or completely irrelevant

Coming from Marco Arment that is rich.
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Of course! Which explains why I missed the other HN thread with all the comments on the front page, and posted here instead.
I couldn't in Chrome on linux either (Version 25.0.1364.152), looks like they've lost their site for the time being, have to check back later.
OAuth rather than POST. I don't want a bunch of client apps storing passwords in plain text.
Very, very cool - thanks for posting.

The math principle here is similar to the logic underlying gerrymandering.
Way to go Tictail!
I'm amazed that this wasn't here yet. This is from 2011 but is a gem.
Do you have the Grammarly extension installed?

This is almost definitely a problem with one of your extensions rather than Chrome itself. Disable them to see which one.
the changelog - don't know if dead, but lot's of
good stuff about Ruby, JavaSript, Git and working
in the command line.

http://thechangelog.com/
Are you completely stupid or are you just trolling us?

On the off chance you're just stupid, here's some enlightenment. Marco Arment is a cofounder of hugely successful Tumblr and creator of Instapaper, both of which certainly make or made him more money than he'll ever make from ads on his blog, however popular. He's also created The Magazine, which probably makes a fair bit of cash already, and will be making more in the future. He has a solid reputation in the tech space, and it is stupid to argue that he's somehow spending his days trying to bait HN with empty crap articles.

marco.org is very different from TC, in that if marco.org had no ads, Marco would certainly still write to it, as it's his personal platform, whereas if TC had no ads, it would fold in a week.
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Microsoft-level evil would be charging people for the privilege of using the API, like with ActiveSync. Google isn't quite there yet, but they're certainly moving in that direction.
Great project, though the name is confusingly similar to an existing open source tool [1] for photographers.

[1] http://hugin.sourceforge.net/
Interesting project. Were you aware there's also an unrelated project called Hugin[1]?

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugin_(software)
I'm a big fan of rss2email. Personally, I like doing as much as possible in a single application. Combining email and feeds feels natural to me.
The OP title include "The Biggest Data Science Breakthrough of the Decade", the topic has already stopped being "is this interesting" but rather "is there something to justify the hype" or, surprise, "is this 'The Biggest Data Science Breakthrough of the Decade'"

Sure, I only have a graduate math degree and only follow these latest developments casually and perhaps I just miss exact way this newest artificial neural network stuff is really that different than the older stuff. But the only thing that's being touted is a NYTimes article. As another poster said, if you'd like to add to the conversation, give us some "meat" here.

My small exposure to ML also left me feeling the whole train, test, operate cycle is a pain in the neck.
Sure. Shoot us your username over our live chat and we will get this done :)
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A good argument against the short scale is that it has a confusing offset. A quadrillion (short scale) is 1000^(4+1)=10^15.
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Renormalisation, however, does suggest that coupling constants[0] change with the energy level involved, which then leads to the nice idea that, given an appropriate theory, one could make all these runnings match at a certain energy and then get a grand unified theory (of the strong and electroweak force) which breaks down at lower energies and leads to our three different coupling constants of the gauge groups[1].

[0] Effectively the basic rate of things happening per particle/energy/volume of spacetime etc., originally assumed to be constant.
[1] Effectively things happening faster for certain types of interactions (electromagnetic vs. weak vs. strong).
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Very nice design. Easy to start a shop. I just launched one myself: http://water.tictail.com/

I just wonder if there is a market for my products ;)
I found the acknowledgements interesting -- folks who've read this and presumably not vomited all over it include Messrs. Andreesen, Horowitz, & Conway.
> It may be apt, but it's a stupid name from a marketing perspective

And? Should everything we do be filtered though the lens of marketing?
>I have to think that's within almost everyone's budget, amortized over a long timeframe and with a payoff of much less clutter.

Regardless of your level of wealth some things are just not easy or quick to acquire [1]. I have saved myself some money, but more importantly, weeks' worth of waiting time (or at best days if I paid extra for speedy delivery) while the components I want ship from abroad, by keeping a two large drawers full of weird hardware. I'd like to get rid of most of it but it's hard to predict not just which parts are I'm going to need in the future but also which I will have trouble getting at all.

[1] If you deal with computers and electronics it can be things like unique power supplies, PS/2-to-AT keyboard adapters (I had to use one at work just last year to do some data archaeology) and USB-to-serial adapters, spare parts for that one ageing ThinkPad you consider to have the best keyboard of any laptop ever, quality PC trackballs, etc.
Sure, but there are plenty of light, "pretty" blogs that I'll browse when I have time to kill, and tumblr wouldn't be bad for that. I'm not arguing in favor of Tumblr necessarily, but specialization. I'd love Twitter to have a separate but connected rss reader, for "twitter-like" content, for example. Any of these social network or quasi social network services could offer a customized rss reader - it's like having the best JavaScript "share this page on..." button possible.
+1 This is important. Compressed and non-compressed size.
You could make a similar reservation about written contracts, as the scale of formality goes even higher. Some kinds of contracts require a notary and the worst ones might even require a priest or a rabbi :)
At the end of 2011, Samsung started morphing Apple into a follower
I'm pretty much done with Google as supplier of business apps. I have to migrate our company's Google Apps account anyway because of a (domain)name change (which is still hell with Google Apps anyway, you basically have to buy and setup a totally new account an migrate everything by hand or with 3rd party tools), so I might as well look for another supplier.

As much as I dislike everything Microsoft, 365 currently looks well ahead of Google (everything they haven't killed yet has definitely stopped evolving), and has certainly proven to be a more reliable partner for business use.
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I am baffled by the idea that this is a binding contract. You agree to a loan without specifying an interest rate -- how is that a done deal??
Too true ;-)
I've been able to buy a lot of e-books without DRM (mostly tech books). But still, it is rather ridiculous, I can't help but think that the people of, say, 2050 will look back at the way we have gone about "managing" content in this era and think we were all mad.
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The purchasers are issued a refund in the form of a gift card. So, if you purchased it and DRM stripped it then you get to keep the comic and get the refund!

Edit: Looks like you don't

The point I am more worried about here is that we are actually reliant to an extent on piracy and DRM stripping in order to preserve abandoned works.
Why use logs in graphs?
> Personally, I think it's selfish to block ads on applications and websites.

I tend to agree, but that's the user's choice. Google can't come into your house to make sure you read the ads on the newspaper page.
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Dead space 3 has enought horror through the game
but this DLC is so damn scary
I'm not gonna play this, check the blog to download the game
But it's certainly a format which can be expanded upon and applied to the recommending of any number of things.
Efficiency only makes sense as a concept if you establish the context it's measured in.

Geeks tend to fixate on efficiency in the time/cost dimension, but there are many other dimensions in which something can be efficient.

And efficiency in those other dimensions is why many given systems exist as they do.
I have no problem with anyone e-mailing me. It's highly professional of them to solicit my business -- really! However, most of these aren't compliant with CANSPAM and I have a big problem with that, because even the most personal, friendly e-mail from a company to me is something that should come with an unsubscribe mechanism.

I find in practice that replying with a quick, "no thanks," gets rid of most of the unwanted e-mails. There are some who ask if they can follow-up, and I either say yes or no as I like and my wishes are almost always followed. Again, most of these people are professionals. The repeat offenders who don't listen to me, or those obviously mass-emailing, I send to the spam folder, and I find those messages were the least professional in the beginning.
What about people who have neither? (Very common for me, although I happen to have cash on me at the moment.)
Thank you for posting this! I wanted for a long time to see a concrete example of adding a feature to a Lisp language, I will study that code.
Thanks for the answer.

I'm sort of curious how much of the growth of basecamp you attribute to the RoR community though?
Do you think if you had instead just written it with PHP or something you would have had a similar level of success?
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Any idea what the command is for windows?

start /b "" "C:\Users\User\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe" --args --record-mode

doesn't seem to work
Nope, I wasn't. :) Do you think I should change the name?
Despite what the headline on HN says, the article states in the very first sentence that he was not charged with anything, and released:

"District prosecutors on Thursday said they will not charge a limo driver who city police had arrested and accused of raping a 20-year-old customer outside her home in December."

Edit: Looks like the news article used to have that same headline; it's still what the page title says. Apparently, the police got it wrong in their press conference:

"Bill Miller, a spokesman for the U.S. attorney’s office, told The Washington Post that the office was not charging Anouar Habib Trabelsi, even as a top D.C. police commander was holding a news conference outside police headquarters announcing the criminal charge."
Let's all take a moment of silence... git pull is dead.
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aaronsw was quoting google sources, not guessing.
Does it also run with postgres?
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Technically, the Antipope is Catholic. Inconsistent systems prove everything.
The Intel debugger is much better than gdb, I'm told.
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Great feedback. You can press esc to exit the nudge dialog - we purposefully made it hard to exit because we wanted people to engage in seemingly silly questions, because in our experience, that's when you have breakthroughs. As an aside, we've also noticed that the tool doesn't work unless you have a legitimate problem that you care about and are trying to solve - made up problems just don't cut it.

I agree that we could do better at communicating progress and more about the process - I think this is one of the major things we need to work on.

We're not thinking about charging for it right now, it's just a proof of concept to answer the question "Can software make someone more creative"?

We're not worried about people leaving and applying the skills elsewhere, since what we've seen in practice is people who've paid thousands of dollars to learn these skills revert to their old habits once real problems pop up.

Thanks a lot for giving it a shot, and for your feedback!
50g is on the high end of maintaining ketosis for most people, and 100g is specifically for those who wish to avoid ketosis.

And he says, multiple times, in that article that carb number can be lower without ill effect with sufficient protein intake. He's just saying it's easier for most people to just eat 50g of carbs a day than jack up their protein intake.

e.g.,

>However, strictly speaking, any diet with less than 100 g/day of carbohydrate will cause ketosis to develop to some degree (more ketones will be generated as carbs are lowered).

[...]

>In any case, an intake of 15-50 grams per day of carbohydrate will still allow ketosis to develop and those ketogenic dieters attempting to ‘eat as few carbs as possible’ might want to consider that in the context of not only providing much needed food variety (at 50 g/day, even a small amount of fruit can often be fit in) but also in the context of the protein sparing issues I discussed above.
Getting to the point, although the physiological requirement for dietary carbohydrates is zero, we might set a practical minimum (in terms of preventing excessive body protein loss) at 50 grams per day. I’d note again that, within the context of The Rapid Fat Loss Handbook approach, carbs are limited to essentially trace amounts; however protein (which makes up the majority of the diet) is set high enough to limit muscle loss.

[...]

>So, summing up mid-article, the absolute requirement for carbohydrates is zero grams per day. However, depending on protein intake, a practical minimum for carbs lies between 50 grams/day (if someone functions well in ketosis) to 100-120 grams per day (if they don’t function well in ketosis). Let me mention very specifically that I’m not suggesting those numbers are a recommended level, I’m simply using them to represent a practical minimum value.
It doesn't step between anyone. It takes content that was delivered to a person's computer and post-processes it (or changes the settings of the machine). What I do on my machine with content I access should be up to me, and if content owners don't like it, they have the choice of negotiating a different deal with me before serving me the content. I view adblock as the equivalent of paying someone to paste paper over newspaper ads before you read it. (By the way, I don't use adblock or any similar stuff.)
I've been thinking along the same lines. To begin I'd like to just mirror everything on a VPS (email, rss, calendars, dropbox, music library, youtube playlists, bookmarks (for me: pinboard)) on the VPS.

Then I'd have cobble together whatever oss webapps I need to access all that remotely, and then lock the whole thing down -- ideally only allow external access via ssh and then set up my phone/laptop to VPN through it when I want access.

It would be at least a day of work to set it all up but I think I've almost reached the requisite pain point.

EDIT: and it would be nice if I could run phone numbers through it as well via something like http://voip.ms/ ... if anyone is aware of someone doing something like this and writing it up I'd be interested to know, I haven't come across any setup like this.
Of course, only the first type ever changes the world.
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Great question. I'm not sure. If not, it should be very simple to get it there. Please try it and send a pull request. :)
Someone should make and distribute one before May 30th.
The refund appears to only apply to "Unused JManga Paid Points". If you used your points to <strike>buy</strike> license manga, you will not be getting a refund for them. (edited to replace "buy" with "license")
I'm inclined to agree ... but on the other hand, from reading the Anime News Network forum topic it seems very likely the people running the company were operating in good faith and that the rug got pulled out from underneath them.

You could effectively ban DRM that depends on active servers or schemes like this where the content is always kept on theirs' by requiring them to post a bond sufficient to refund the customers who've been screwed. Not the full amount, but enough to compensate for value promised but not delivered. It would be essentially declaring it is not in the public interest to allow companies to play these games, but here's a mechanism if you're really determined.

Liability of some sort really needs to be established, and it would be wise for the companies playing these games to do something intelligent before extreme DRM becomes too toxic.
This is great! There is one thing missing though. I tried to subscribe to the site in Reader and it couldn't find a feed. Could you?
This is a big problem with the web as well (the transfer of data may be distributed and redundant but the hosting of it is not).
I'm looking at eumx.net at the moment. Fastmail.fm and Polaris were other possibilities.
I hate it when a company weblog doesn't have a prominent link to the home site. Sure, I can edit the URL bar, but it's good to make things more convenient to the user.

http://www.plivo.com/

UPDATE: As noted in the next comment, it's been fixed. Thanks!
Ha! Nothing can hide in these intertubes :) Thanks.

I must say they're quite responsive. Took down the vid pretty quick and also removed the funding brag from the title.

I would, however, suggest this one: "mention.net - Google Alerts done right."
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The general rule is that intent of the parties to bind themselves forms a contract, even if the parties intend to draft a formal agreement later.
Without diving into the code (which I plan to do over coffee tomorrow), what would the User-Agent string of the spider be?