skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're a high profile figure and you expect us to believe that?

For someone in this situation, it's very unfortunate that Google doesn't have this info anymore!

Although historical records would be more dispositive, it isn't difficult to verify that someone is running open wifi now.
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Do I need to be logged in to see/edit this? I only see a drawing of a women, no text, cant edit.
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You complain that you don't want to spend a whole day deleting your users so surely a $9 investment is trivial?

Your request is senseless. You're receiving a discount for the service and expect to be able to suspend and reactivate that service as and when suits you. As far as I'm aware, that business model doesn't exist in the real world without some form of financial penalty.
Well, fortunately there is no country that is to France what Iran is to Israel. Or is it? :)

A good part of the economic immigration today is from Africa, and they are a bit more educated and far more hard-working than one could believe (being a doctor in some African places is really not easy and you earn more washing a rich white man's dirty clothes). The problem with immigration in France seems more to have with second and third generations: kids born in France but that are not integrated in the society. They seem completely lost and without future and a lot of them evolve badly to either crime or religious extremism. If I had to point fingers, I would give a shared responsibility between public policies that have done nothing to integrate them (with school in suburbs filled with inexperienced teachers for example), racial prejudice and a lack of culture from the uneducated parents that are unable to show a good path to their kids.

Selective immigration is not so easy. If they really want to, people will come, eventually. If you put hurdles in their path, you only make their integration more difficult. Speaking of the Canadian example, I am in Canada right now, and my wife being a recruiter for a call center, she hires a lot of smart immigrants who actually hold the equivalent of a Master or even a PhD. Their diploma was given in France or another European country, but it is not recognized in Canada (it is often the case for medical professions which are very locked up in Quebec). Now these doctors and researchers call people to sell them washing machines or baby diapers. That's a waste.

Update: speaking of my wife and immigration, she is Romanian and had a lot of trouble finding a job in France, due to all the restrictions that Romanian nationals still suffer when they want to access the job market, and also her uncommon education path (she hold business degree from Romania and psychology degree for German university, which is great anywhere except in France when the culture of education is favoring people coming from one of the few elitist schools).
One of our main reason to move to Canada was our bet that it would be easier for her there, Canadian being more open to people like her. It proved right, and she got jobs very easily. That's a huge loss for France, because she is a very smart woman! :)
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LuaJIT is amazing... :]

Keep in mind that the benchmark in question (whetstone) is at best a microbenchmark, and doesn't necessarily reflect the performance of real apps... Still, it demonstrates how well LuaJIT can nail this sort of tight inner-loop code.
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Hmm.
Sneaky. Not noticed the spammers try this before.
Congratulations on finding a shortcut to learning.
You're right. GPU on any ARM SoC will never run full-fledge CUDA code (except Maxwell I guess), but the benefit of dynamic GPU resource allocation is still useful if we believe computing resource should be as flexible as storage in cloud environment
It seems that media just read the title of the bill and ran with it.

Explain it to me as a 5 year old:

This is not a true 'first to file'. You basically get 1 year grace period.

Example: John gives a speech on his invention. Mark files a patent a month later after hearing John's speech. John then files a patent application 6 months later. Mark's application cannot be used against John's application as prior art,even though, Mark filed a application first.

This was generally the practice before AIA. As most people would say it harmonizes US patent laws with around the world. In other words, mostly semantics...
All (good) statisticians validate their models. Nothing new there.

The main difference between these newer networks (besides much improved performance) is that the algorithms can handle "deeper" networks better (more hidden units). If we're talking about Deep Belief Networks, they're not much like the old ANNs. DBNs are generative probabilistic graphical models using Bayesian inference.

Conceptually, going deeper (LOL) allows the networks to learn higher level concepts. For example, a 1 layer ANN (perceptron) can only learn linear functions, while a deep network is able to internally form a belief of what, say, a cat is.

More technically: Much of the work in ML is deciding what your inputs (features) should be. When classifying text documents, should you use word counts, bag of words, word stemming, character counts, etc. Should the model be linear, polynomial, gaussian, trigometric, etc. Deep learners try to automatically do feature selection and control the degrees of freedom in the model for you.

Also, deep learning is catching on in some industries. It has recently had huge successes in speech recognition, and all major companies developing this technology have started using it (e.g. Siri for one).
I really hope you start using a framework. This would free up more time for you to develop a sense of humor! :)
I see. I will make it clearer.
For anyone who still has a GP2X lying around: I uploaded a Puyopuyo clone to http://dl.openhandhelds.org/cgi-bin/gp2x.cgi?0,0,0,0,25,2919 a week ago, written in Chicken + SDL. My first ever Scheme/Lisp project...
That 53rd and 6th cart is a money factory. They charge more than any other halal cart in the city, have 4 employees at all times, and serve you an $8 plate faster than you can order it. It is really good though, although not my favorite halal cart in the city.

Fun fact about that cart is that it's one of the most and best reviewed "restaurants" in all of Manhattan, which is pretty crazy.
Don't ask me, I just see that your posts are [dead] (so, only someone who has 'showdead' in their profile, like me, can see them), and you don't seem like a troll or spammer, so I decided to tell you.
This was my genuine response Matt. I guess this is how I act when someone takes money out of me in exchange for nothing. How can that not piss me off?
I'm not convinced the model of online cofounder matching works at all. Cofounding is like getting married, a website for finding cofounders is like a dating website for people who want to urgently get married.

You're much better off developing these sort of relationships organically. A good place to start is at events like Startup Weekend / Launch48.
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Ask HN: Selling SaaS to Small/Offline Businesses?
Anyone out there successfully sold a SaaS app to small/offline businesses? Essentially those such as landscapers, architects, accountants, lawyers, etc.

Since these aren't necessarily as captive an audience as say developers are, meaning they may not be online, looking for the latest and greatest, I'd like understand what worked best with respect to marketing/obtaining leads...was it all cold-calling, emails, a mix of online/offline efforts?

It's been difficult finding solid information on how to proceed...as most is targeted towards consumers/tech friendly folks that are actively online. I realize its a bit of trial and error, but I'd like to learn from those that have been through it already.

I'm happy to compensate you for your time/advice...possibly through something like Clarity.fm

Thanks.
Do I get this right, this is not a web-service but an application, which runs on my PC?
Hmm, I always saw each of them as an answer to completely different problem, so I have hard time contemplating this scenario.

How exactly would CPU be more like GPU? What would happen to branching and out of order execution pipelines? Do you see today's complex superscalar cores so cheap and small in the future that you could have thousands of them on single die? What other way is there get vector computations to work as well as scalar computations on same hardware? Would you rather have few superscalar cores and a lot of SIMD's around it? Or do you envision a completely new architecture?

I'm just trying to get a picture of how this would be done. Any reading material would be welcome.
I have a pattern of the opposite. At one point almost everything was in Python, even very simple things. I "discovered" awk, and found I could do a lot of things in a few piped commands.

Python is still my go-to for a tasks > 1 line of code, but it is still surprising what can be accomplished in just one line of bash.
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Agreed - came to comments to say the numbers aren't necessarily, and the navigation is unclear (though I just used keyboard arrow keys)
The dumbest thing which happens in the age of digital distribution is region-delayed releases.

This is a thing which makes absolutely no sense: the product can be delivered nearly instantaneously, I have money I am willing to pay for it, and the product is released - on identical hardware - in another part of the world.

Why can I not give you money, for said product, right now?
Ask HN: Best App marketing bang for your buck? 
Since launching our app a few weeks ago, it has seen moderate success mostly thanks to it being featured in a few categories on the iTunes App Store. I'm wondering if anyone has any suggestions for further marketing at this point. I've gotten great reviews on most of the top mommy blogs (our app is for young children). I've tried some search marketing and Facebook Ads but found that its hard to justify the cost per click when our app is only $1.99. Our numbers have been declining since peaking a couple days after launch when we were on the New and Noteworthy section. We made it to #20 in Top Paid Books for iPad for about a day but have since fallen to the high 60's. Within this category, that equals very little sales. Essentially, we are a production company, not a marketing company, but I'm trying my best to learn the ropes. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. You can see our app here: www.jubitron.com
Press works pretty well as does posting to Facebook.

About press - you need to pitch people. Start with smaller blogs and work your way up from there. Guess reporter's email addresses and try to find a way in by being helpful first.

That's how I got my first customers for http://www.artsumo.com.
The Chicken website has some good information for programmers coming from other languages:

Chicken for Ruby programmers:
http://wiki.call-cc.org/chicken-for-ruby-programmers

Chicken for Python programmers:
http://wiki.call-cc.org/chicken-for-python-programmers

Chicken for PHP programmers:
http://wiki.call-cc.org/chicken-for-php-programmers

Chicken for C programmers:
http://wiki.call-cc.org/language-comparison
Almost all phones do use the base tower to speed up getting a fix with Assisted GPS:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_devices_with_Assisted_G...
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Speaking personally, I never left Firefox.

I've been using Mozilla code since the Netscape 7.X days (and tried to use NS6, but it was way too buggy.) I progressed from MS7 to the Mozilla Suite to Firefox, and have stayed there.

I have Chrome (and Opera, Safari, Midori, Konqueror, K-Meleon, D+, and a few other things including IE installed, but mostly to keep up on what others are doing. Firefox is what I use in production, and I currently run Aurora (which will be the next release when it gets out of beta.)

FF isn't the smallest or fastest browser on the machine I'm on at the moment (and old netbook) but is the most capable. FF, like other current browsers, makes assumptions about what you will run it on, and assumes a reasonably current machine with a reasonable CPU, GPU, and amount of RAM. I have another old machine I don't even try to run FF on.

My reasons are tied up in the architecture. FF uses the Gecko engine, like everything else Mozilla puts out. Aside from HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, Gecko interprets and renders XUL, an XML language for designing user interfaces. The look and feel of FF is determined by XUL, CSS, and widgets, and the browser is simply an instance of something Gecko renders.

This makes it possible to create themes that change what FF looks like, and extensions that modify and extend what it does, and that power is why I use it. My RSS reader, IRC client and several other things that would ordinarily be external programs are implemented in FF as extensions. Since the browser is always running when I'm at the computer, this make things very convenient.

Other browsers like Chrome added an extension capability, but they are pure JavaScript and limited by what the device API will let you do in JavaScript. Half of what I do in FF isn't possible in Chrome.

Chrome is a worthy browser, and I'm glad it's there, but it's not what I use. It invokes somewhat faster than FF, but page rendering is equivalent, and memory usage rises rapidly as you add extensions, so there's little difference between FF and Chrome in use. Faster invocation is a non-issue here: I start the browser when I sit down at the machine and simply leave it running, so a few extra seconds to invoke it isn't a concern. Too many people have the bad habit learned from IE of hopping in and out of the browser, and I just tell such folks "You're doing it wrong".

On my desktop booted into Windows, I run FF from a RAMdisk. The desktop still runs XP and has 4GB RAM, but 32 bit Windows can only use 3.2GB of it. I found a RAMdisk driver that can use the rest and have a 768MBR ramdrive seen as Z:. Firefox, its cache, and its profile all live there and FF is run from there. It's quick. (Batch files populate the ramdisk on start up, and store the contents back to HD on shutdown.) I don't believe I can do that with Chrome.
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"The question to me is why would someone want a faster Z."

Cyclists, Joggers - anybody who uses their iPhone for logging external activities is frustrated with how inaccurate the iPhone is for capturing Z. It's not completely useless, but it's not very precise.
As a side note, where are those gray icons at the bottom coming from? I needed a light bulb like that on my last project, and ended up having to slap together something on photoshop
I've never used Chicken Scheme (only Racket), but I've read a few articles about it and the advantages seem to be:

-Compiles to C, so it's highly portable and you get the performance optimization benefits of whichever C compiler you're using

-Lots of libraries

-Good packaging system, with packages that are cutely referred to as "eggs" (similar to Ruby's "gems" system)

Racket is great too, though, and DrRacket is an excellent IDE with minimal install/configuration difficulty. It just works.

I'm not really sure what tools exist for Chicken Scheme. With Clojure, you're probably going to need to configure emacs or another text editor for syntax highlighting and REPL. I write Clojure in Sublime Text 2 with SublimeREPL but that requires some config and isn't technically free. There are Eclipse and NetBeans plugins, but I dislike Java IDEs for their enormous memory footprint.
First, it pains me to see MS lumped with Nokia. I'll be clinging to my N9 for a very long time yet (and probably only move on when Ubuntu or Firefox phones are compelling). I miss Maemo/MeeGo.

Same here: I'm still clinging to my 2 year old N900, which I still consider a great phone. When I bought it I knew that the patform is in a dead end, but I got it anyway and never regretted it.

In fact I still have a brand new N9 in a box in reserve. That's in case that the current phone moves into a state beyond repair.

What is most interesting is that my pretty ancient clunker feels much more snappy then more modern smart phones after 6 month, apart from a couple scratches on the screen it looks and feels still rather fresh.
If your second point were the dominant factor, then Android should been hit even harder( in the US), since Google Voice has been included since 2011.
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I'm not sure that's fair because zite obviously already had some degree of integration with Google Reader, and an elegantly enough built back-end to speed further integration (admittedly, I don't know the specifics).

As a side note:
I'm not a user of zite, feedly (sp?), or flipboard, and I can't stand these magazine-like interfaces. It seems to me, people that want that sort of interface never want to see the RSS acronym, nor know what it is/ how it works.
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So true, every third party AV I've installed on Windows has been a pain in the arse, but MSE just works.

It's a crazy mixed up world in which they're actually afraid to ship MSE with the OS, because a third party application industry relies on the default OS release to be insecure.

Edit: I didn't realise MSE was included in Win8.
It's just that Perl's power/expressiveness and TMTOWTDI mindset tend toward harder to _read_ code. You can write awful hard-to-understand code in any language, but in those other languages the reading part is usually easier. Except for maybe C++. :-)
What he and the Gruber peice he references (did he seriously say Gruber isn't an Apple Cheerleader?!) fail to mention is trend.

The trend is your friend, one of the first things anyone who's suffered a trader learns. It's not a case of how high or low something is, but where it is going to be relative to it's current place.

Press and Markets get this (the former to a lesser extent true) but the fear is that Apple have had their Halcyon days. Originally Apple didn't need to worry about such issues as apps, they had the first phone device with a web browser that people really spoke about liking. Heck they didn't even have GPS dispite most feature phones in the UK having it with maps.

A lot of analyists are asking, rightly so, why is Apple able to keep making such money, now the market is cramped. Want a better camera, buy the 920, want a better screen? Buy the HTC, want a larger phone, buy the S4, want a smaller phone buy the. Hell I don't even know, but you get where I'm going with this.

The brand of the iPhone people fear to be falling. In the old days of Windows 3.1 domination, the software took months to years to write. Most of them now adays have little if anything more than weeks of platform specific code. The alternate marketplace is huge, due to the size of the global market place. Hell a friend was just telling me how he thinks he'll make a profit porting to the new blackberry, despite it having very low uptake here in London.

These notions lend people to conclude that what is currently happening with Apple might not be sustainable. Gruber has been consistently wrong the last few months (in fact he is always as he predicts little but Apple growth) with regards to the decrease in share price and failure to develop new market share.

tldr; It might not be Apple vs Google. But neither are expanding their userbase rapidily, without encrouging on the other.
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I suppose now there is going to be an app to measure the height of a building.

http://www.snopes.com/college/exam/barometer.asp
I'm wondering where else you have lived, just to correctly frame your comment.
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Eh? There's about one green ycombinator bookmarklet post every week! :)
Memphis has a pretty cool "design and marketing help" VC-alike called A>M Ventures. They're the newish investment arm of a local advertising firm and they provide major help to early-stage companies that would otherwise be relying on their own amateur Photoshop skills.

Some of my favorites from their portfolio (n.b. - I know the founders and have worked with some of them):

- http://kufikia.com - Cohort-based dev skills courses with job placements

- http://paytopia.com - Cardless online payments
there is chewing-gum :)
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Look great for super lightweight tutorials.

If you need to customize more, http://tutorialize.me is my favorite.
That sounds pretty terrible... is there a way for you to escape from this crazy country to one where you can declare bankruptcy? It sounds like you're basically in indenture servitude at the moment.
P.S. To everybody who saw the words "Open Pandora" and laughed... the project was taken over over a year ago and is actually running pretty smoothly.

I really like my 1Ghz (2012) model Pandora :)
Great article, but doesn't cover the mother of all French bureaucratic challenges - employment law!
Well, if you come down to London any time, I'll be up for a drink/coffee anyway. Good luck with your search!
I was about to post this link myself. I'm not quite sure which one is better.

I tend to like the Intro.js page fade animation. Although JoyRide 2 actually scrolls to the highlighted object, whereas intro.js does not.
>Do you not still buy and sell licenses?

You do not buy and sell licenses. License is the verb. You license the work. License as a noun refers to the agreement document, not the product.

> seeing license is just going to confuse them.

If by "confuse" you mean "cause to be suspicious" then that's kind of the point, right?
It would be nice if persons used this analogy rather than 'cure'.
There is no need to fire up gdb in the example case on the backward-cpp Github page because it's a trivial example (dereferencing an obviously invalid pointer), but to say it eliminates the need for gdb to debug segfaults in general is a bit of an overstatement.
That argument is indeed the core of it. Every other antivirus needs to be in your face constantly so you think you're getting value out of the purchase. They all suffer from the "this rock keeps tigers away" problem, that their enemy shows up too infrequently to justify their own existence. So they need to noisily invent enemies.

MSE's existence makes a ton of sense when you realize the reason for its creation. It was developed to reduce Microsoft's own support workload, as a significant proportion of Windows support tickets are caused by both malware and belligerent antimalware. MSE justifies its existence by reducing OS support costs rather than by annoying users into paying for antivirus. So Microsoft's incentive is simply to have users use MSE, which is nicely aligned with delivering a clean quiet positive user experience.
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Ah, never mind. I shouldn't post to HN too early in the morning.
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You can embed a private key in the TPM module of a DRM hardware player with signed boot and it will work reasonably well. This is the PS3's approach and, had they actually salted their keys, it would have remained effective.

Business-wise, DRM doesn't have to be perfect, it just needs to keep honest people honest. The fact that the lock on the door to my apartment can be broken in, or picked, doesn't make the lock itself a bad idea.
I think you're referring more to "evolutionary psychology", a field rife with pseudoscience (and nearly 100% pseudoscience in the pop realm), much less so evolutionary biology.