skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This might be slightly off topic but this situation has always seemed strange to me.

As someone outside the US could someone explain why it appears to be so complex to start a company in the US?

I live in the UK and it is very simple if you want to register a private limited company (i.e a private company where shareholder liability is limited by the value of your shares). You can even do it online directly with Companies House (agency of the UK government where all companies are registered) for £15 and does not require any specialist legal services or for you to have any expert knowledge. This fee also includes the assignment of initial shares. See:

http://www.companieshouse.gov.uk/infoAndGuide/companyRegistr...

Just looking at the pricing on Clerky I'd be looking at $680 + $99 annually to accomplish a similar thing in the US so obviously this seems very strange to me.

Perhaps I'm missing something here but as I see it there just appears to be excessive red tape when it comes to company incorporation in the US and might even deter me if was considering setting up business in the US.
Sometimes motherboards work fine with more than the advertised supported maximum. It would be worth a shot if you can try with borrowed or return-able RAM.
> for traditional mouse and keyboard users

ie, 99.9% of Windows users.
How did this happen without giving them your password or using the same one?
When you have a hammer with 10,000 cores, every problem looks like it has been fundamentally limited by our computational abilities.
The design of Firefox makes it able to handle a lot more tabs than Google Chrome. You can easily have two hundred with no sweat.

It also features Panorama built-in, which lets you search through all the tabs. It's as simple as Ctrl+Shift+E, type your keyword.
>After all, you aren't storing my password in it's raw form, so length shouldn't matter for your VARCHAR(30) database field, right?

How can Google (helpfully) tell me that I changed my password so many days ago? Am I over-thinking this? Is it possible they just save the salt and hash of all my previous passwords and when I enter a password, it checks against this list to tell when I changed my password? Just because they know what I entered is my previous password does not mean they actually keep my previous password in plain text, right? It makes sense in my head but I just wanted to ask to more knowledgeable people. Thank you.
That all depends on what video card they used as the 7000 series covers a lot of ground. That said I suspect they went for 'fits in your hand' over a good cost / performance ratio.
You know what every lawyer in the history of the World ever said to the question 'do I need the services of an attorney to help me with this?'

'Yes' usually followed by the amount of the retainer they'll need.

Your lawyer seems to have done great work selling you and I admire that. And you've now done a wonderful job of destroying your credibility, so others are unlikely to take your opinion seriously. My work here is done. Have a nice day!
That was my reaction, too.

It has seemed to me historically that Sam Harris' grasp on what "religious" people are like is . . . tenuous. I guess that isn't really surprising, given that he isn't one, but people seem to inexplicably consider him a credible source anyway.
This happens to 13.000 people for me! I kid you not, I wish I made a screenshot, but it said that on the browser, I also tried the "close the browser" thing. It was not my intention at all to invite people to Linkedin, just to invite like 30-40 people that I know well and were also using Linkedin.

Although I never received follow-up on this. Maybe everybody rejected my request and ignored the e-mails, or the invitations/e-mails were never sent.

I felt really bad when I saw that I just sent an invitation to 13.000 people... including ex-girlfriends, connections so long ago, I checked my e-mail box for the next 2-3 hours, but FORTUNATELY nothing came up.
Shouldn't that be ((x -> _|_) -> _|_) -> x) and the y's at the end should presumably x's.

And shouldn't the quantification over x:Type be separately over each part?
A truly massive amount of electrical power is essential to maintain a human environment. For example, try drinking water from an unfiltered stream. You run the risk of getting giardiasis, which is a terrible way to spend a couple of weeks writhing in pain. Cooking food on an electric stove is way, way healthier than cooking it in your fireplace. And what about hospitals? They require a huge amount of electrical energy. If you force them onto a power source that isn't available 24/7, all year round, no matter the weather, lots more people will die.

Coal brings light and life to billions of people. It literally cleans their environment: coal power purifies drinking water, washes their clothes, keeps their homes from getting too cold/hot/damp/dry, pumps the water they take showers with, fuels the industrial processes that produce the antibiotics and other pharmaceuticals that keep them healthy, and so on.

Take away those coal power plants, and millions will die. Likewise, anything you do to make energy more expensive will cause people to suffer. Energy bills that leave me poorer do not help me out.

Whenever you see someone talking exclusively about the negative aspects of a technology, step back and consider the entire context, including the alternative that people face. And remember that the people you're considering have the same right to exist that you do.
I have a macbook air. Can't upgrade the memory. Using less memory is a definite positive for me. Because you're situation is different doesn't mean reducing memory usage is a bad thing for all.
Quick note of terminology: LLC is a limited liability "company", but not a corporation. "Incorporation" implies forming a C or S corp, etc. Corporations can issue shares, be taxed as their own entities etc. Quite a bit more paperwork and expense required, but this is what you'd want for venture funding. (IANAL, but this is from my experience).
Debunked months ago. Shame, HN
Is there a lot of SEO that relies on 'like' or '+1' spam?
Because that's the more apt comparison. Particularly when you consider the implementation of even a trivial 'karma' system.

The very creation of a network of mannequins would seem to run counter to the big goal of most SEO (traffic, now) as the mannequins would require months-to-years of seemingly-valid traffic of build-up to become relevant and then a very slow-and-cautious release of bookmarks to the desired spam to even attempt to avoid detection and thus nullification of all the preceding effort.

And the user-expectation of such a search would be heavily weighted to prior personal activity [1]. So even if mannequins were successfully pumping bookmarks to promote some site that just scraped stack-exchange, if you and I were bookmarking stack-exchange, we should always get the real links bubbling to the top.

[1] Yes, this would raise a lot of the same "echo chamber" concerns that people have with Google search, but if it matches the user expectation, I don't see a problem with it.
Nice explanation and good numbers. Also bonus I'm in a wedding soon and will probably need your software, but this is the first I've heard about it :)
This method may allow message passing between tabs, and windows, but it does not do so between iFrames. Two iFrames on the tab will not trigger storage events on each other.

In my opinion this is a bug that should be fixed,

https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=177342
How about something as simple as lack of emotional support? How does one actually place a price tag on a true confidant?
These networks are being trained on unlabeled data. The premise of training these kinds of deep belief networks is that they can learn surprising amounts of information completely unsupervised.
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Installed Firefox again because of this post.

One of the things I tried out was WebGL performance using the recently posted WebGL terrain flyover demo (http://www.zephyrosanemos.com/windstorm/20130301/live-demo.h...), but I can't get over 30.5 fps in Firefox whereas on Chrome I get 50 - 60. Hardware acceleration seems to be enabled for both, perhaps Firefox is not recognizing the graphics card?

One of the things that impressed my about Chrome in the beginning was when they launched Chrome Experiments to show off the performance. There was no comparison at the time between any other browser and Chrome. This may still hold true to a certain extent.

However, for general browsing I can't tell a difference with the current iteration.
I switched my main browser Chrome to Canary some time ago. And recently i have been using Firefox Nightly. And all i can say is that Chrome now lacks the quality it used to have (yes, even in the canary build) and Firefox has gained a lot in terms of stability, memory consumption and Dev-features.

The bad thing is: hardly anyone knows about this, because Google is investing tons and tons of money for Chrome marketing purposes (and developer evangelisation; a point you also have to consider).

Only thing i like more about Chrome: the dev tools
And if only 1% of those people...
The idea of deep learning is to eliminate the need for domain experts to write heuristics, ontologies, feature detectors, etc. In deep learning you feed the learning system raw data and it automatically creates feature detectors to model the data. Then once you have a good set of features you can train the system to perform a specific task using those features.

As the network gets bigger and deeper the feature detectors become more abstract and capable of higher-level tasks. For example, given a bunch of images, a small network might learn to distinguish straight lines from curvy lines, while a large network might learn to distinguish humans from cats.

So if deep learning actually works, then the main constraint on the capabilities of the learning system is compute power, not the cleverness of the domain experts writing your feature detectors. The main problem becomes scaling.
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After his death in January, we decided (with his family's blessing) that it would be a good idea to publish this work so people could read his ideas about programming the Web, his ambivalence about different aspects of Semantic Web technology, his thoughts on Openness, and more.

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Better yet, RDF. It's the final solution for data representation.
"law is simply too big and complex to be reduced to simple recurring steps in any important area. "

Agree. I'm not a lawyer and I have no relatives that are lawyers, and nothing to gain by raining on the clerky parade at all.

That said I've been in business for a long long long time and I've dealt with lawyers, paid legal fees, seen the good and the bad and have seen mistakes lawyers have made - even good ones.

Seat of the pants, I think it's a mistake for anyone to take an important step and pay a fee to incorporate this way.

The principles running clerky have nice credentials but as anyone will tell you "speak to 10 lawyers/doctors get 10 different opinions".

It's foolish to not even want to have a conversation discussing specifics which is not the same as having to give up significant equity to get legal advice. It is "always Delaware" or "almost always Delaware"?

I wouldn't advise anyone fresh off the boat to go the clerky route although ironically since I know what I am doing I very well might be a customer! That doesn't mean either that clerky wouldn't be good for some startups in some situations but they don't know that.

As an aside the entire concept of someone giving equity to a lawyer in exchange for legal work is to me an example on the face of how little some people know about business. I've seen countless examples (non high tech traditional world) where business people have a lawyer as a partner which to me makes no sense at all. "He/She will do the legal work". Bullshit. This is like someone thinking that they can buy legal insurance and that their lawyer partner will spend 20 hours a week on their business problems at no charge. 20 hours (arbitrary) that they then have to give up in billing their clients. Not going to happen. [1] For the amount of legal work you need just pay for it and factor it into your costs. This is not partnering with a painter on a home rehab or something like that.

[1] The other fallacy that I've seen is someone feeling that if they are dealing with a lawyer that it is easy to get sued because "it doesn't cost the lawyer anything". It does it costs the lawyer his time and a lawyers time is how they make money. And they know that and if they sense a case or action will sap their time they will run for cover.
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why would amazon care about this? their lawyers probably dont get out of bed for less than a $1,000,000. also, this brings business to amazon.
I do this on all my personal projects now. It's pretty amazing. I've actually gained several long-term contributors by doing this.

I've gotten emails from people that said, in effect, "Thanks! I feel like part of the team, that you trust me with the code. Before, I was just going to fix that one bug, now, I'm excited to poke around the codebase and see how I can help."

Really, this is a variant of a theme that we see around here all the time: autonomy, mastery, and purpose. The upside is that you empower people to take mastery over the code they use, you provide them with the autonomy a commit bit has to offer, and you give them a sense of purpose: you're now helping everyone else out, too.
nice job guys. this looks awesome.
The problem is that this utility defeats the battery life savings which is the main point of the metro "one app at a time" model by breaking the suspend/restore functionality by enabling you to run many concurrent applications.

It's very likely that this utility also breaks some of the sandboxing of metro applications, introducing security vulnerabilities that don't exist in vanilla Windows 8.

That said, this utility looks cool, and I hope Microsoft encourages, rather than discourages, stuff like this going forward. Let the power users customize the environment however they like.

But there are good reasons that they don't enable this out of the box.
Maybe these low-income people could make a decent living out of tending to farm animals if it was more of a concern to the industry than it is now.

... or we could all deal with the fact that meat isn't a human right, and the lack of it would be a slight inconvenience compared to the implications of antibiotic resistance.

So yeah, low-hanging fruit.
The promise of deep learning is that you will not have to do feature engineering. You give it raw features, like the pixels in the image, and then it discovers the latent features as you train it.

So in a very real sense, yes we are limited by computational abilities. Humans take in millions (billions?) of raw sensory inputs constantly. Scaling current ML methods to that level is a serious computational challenge.
"Paleo is a low-carb diet."

What are you eating and calling it "paleo"? Practically every meal I have ends with citrus / berries / apples / bananas / etc. Sometimes for breakfast we'll have some sliced up apples, that's 30 or so grams of carbs right there. Sometimes an afternoon snack is just a banana or a handful of grapes.

At a typical Atkins level of 20 grams carb per day, I'd be screwed by the time I'm done eating two apples for breakfast, and I've still got the rest of the day to go.

I don't think I'm unusual in that I paleo it around maybe 4 parts veg, 4 part fruit, 1 part meat, and maybe 1 part nuts and "other (possibly non-paleo) stuff" on a very long term average. I don't think its physically possible to low carb if you eat about four times as much fruit as meat. Its not so much that I eat huge amounts of fruit, its that I don't eat so much meat. I ate a 24 oz steak once and literally felt sick, don't know if it was the massive fat content or some kind of protein overdose or just too much in the belly. Lots more filet mignon than t-bone, that kind of thing. I tend toward larger fraction of fruit for breakfast (aka two pieces of fruit per breakfast), larger fraction of veg for lunch (aka salad bar almost every day) and larger fraction of meat for dinner and a chunk of fruit before bedtime. Individual days vary, this is just average.
> He assumes religious people reject atheism because of an emotional response to atheists' arguments, so he's trying to provoke the same emotional response in atheists to give them insight into the minds of religious people.

This, it should be mentioned, is a very wrong assumption.
What's the configuration?
true. the paradox is in the fact that without these crazy tactics the network won't grow. And once it does the network gains massive power.

Facebook did this. Guess why it worked out? Now that it's big enough nobody looks at how it got there and says "well its evil in it's marketing so we'll abandon it"
Now this is interesting. I'm not sure if this is the reason for what I'm talking about, but it's certainly good information to know!
Anyone know what distro it is meant to support?
haha, pls do it and report back
> In our particular market, we won't get in the door without having something to put in front of a customer, simply as a talking point to start a conversation.

Would wireframes not work? In my experience, telling a story about how your product solves a potential customer's problem with wireframes will get you a lot of conversations, IF the problem you're proposing to solve is important enough.
Your quote is from the caption, the actual article gives no indication of caloric intake.

More importantly, you are just repeating the line that high fructose corn syrup causes more weight gain. So what? There is no indication that this is a bad thing.
It has its share of warts, but doesn't lack any of those things you mention.

Java shines at the huge end, but for most everything else python is a more productive choice as it is so much more concise. Perhaps you are not yet using it optimally?
compared to other modern societies the US is at best mil-level materialistic. (probably calling the entire US a 'society' is a misnomer)

I'd be interested to see a graph of materialism to happiness (though both are fuzzy and difficult to measure)
I'd guess there is a negative correlation, but I don't have the data!
>I've tried to login to linkedin a couple of times in too much of a hurry, thinking I was logging into linkedin from some request and not reading the actual page. Luckily my passwords are different.

Believe it or not, this had happened to me. I mistakenly typed in my Gmail password. When I realized this I started hating LinkedIn with a passion. They're a spam company.

That incident made me stop using easy to remember passwords and move to using KeePass to manage all my accounts.
You had to register in NY as an out-of-state LLC, though, right? And maybe also in IL?

I'm a little vague on the requirements for additional registration in a principal's home state or in state(s) with declared office(s) when the LLC was formed elsewhere.

A startup may not want to deal with the additional fees for registering in another state, maintaining registered agents in each...
Hanlon aside, I interviewed there in, oh October or so, and my sense of the general trajectory of LinkedIn in light of that experience is that they may have a terminal case of not being able to see the forest for the trees.
so you are saving 95% memory by closing all tabs? I have an even better idea: let's save 100% memory by hitting that X.
problem: tab syncing also stop working.

one reason for me keeping chrome is the tab syncing works. Firefox offers nothing on iOS. safari only works whenever it feels like it.
What are you guys talking about? My main machine has 1.25GB of RAM and is 10 years old.

Sure I don't use it for modern gaming and sure I've delegated tasks to much stronger uni machines a few times in the past but other than the occasional hw problems due to age it still works and is mostly enough...
AAAAAAND security certificate so busted, Chrome won't even load the page.
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Thanks and I appreciate the response.

And I mentioned Eduardo earlier in the thread only to highlight a point: for most orgs, these forms will be fine. There won't ever be enough money on the table to make an expensive lawsuit worthwhile. But once there is real money at stake, you had better be sure that you have everything buttoned up in your formation documents or someone will find an enterprising attorney to point out your mistake.

Zuckerberg had great attorneys. Maybe the best. He still had to settle with two different parties who felt they had a case.
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I agree for the average person this is good advice.

I just don't think anyone needs to go to a college where they are going to have $60K-$120K tuition over the span of their degree. If you can't pay for most of the tuition in cash, then, I'm sorry, you can't afford it. And, no, being able to take out a student loan for the amount, does not mean that you can afford it. Just because you can, doesn't mean you should.

Go to college, find a local one that is reasonable in price. You should be able to go to a college and only have total tuition in the $20k-40k range. That's much more manageable than the $100k student loan.
Radeon 5850, 4gb ram, AMD x6 3ghz

$250

I built a techstation instead of buying a case, used an old hard drive, and bought the GPU + power supply used on ebay.
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You may want to check out the Quora thread on learning iOS (http://www.quora.com/What-are-the-best-resources-to-learn-iO...). When I was starting to learn iOS I saw this thread and picked up the Big Nerd Ranch book. I read through it and I believe it was very useful.

Read the reviews, YMMV, but after reading the BNR book I felt comfortable reading the Apple docs for the rest of the stuff I needed to learn.
It's clear valve isn't subsidizing it with game purchases, which may end up being a requirement. That can still happen though, so keep an eye out for a price drop.