skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am not going to debate that. As a long time Netflix customer, the recommendation engine does not impress me. This is what I was recently recommended (thriller? Okay), see anything wrong with this picture:

http://imgur.com/Lu0xfRV
...would it be wrong to point out the Shen is a Lisp too?
"Craigslist rapists" aren't employees of Craigslist either, yet there's still the negative stigma.
For me, reading Lisp is a tactile experience as well as a visual one.

Lisp code is a tree, and emacs has a lot of neat commands to let you move around the tree (up one level, down one level, leaf forward, leaf backward), and I find myself doing this whenever I have a piece of Lisp code open to "feel out" its structure.

It's a little different, and maybe less like "reading" than understanding a piece of Python code, but I like it.
One thing to note is that the CA statute of frauds renders certain kinds of oral contracts invalid, unless there is some memorandum of the oral contract is in writing. One such contract, as outlined in CA Civil Code Section 1624(a)(7) is:

> A contract, promise, undertaking, or commitment to loan money or to grant or extend credit, in an amount greater than one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000), not primarily for personal, family, or household purposes, made by a person engaged in the business of lending or arranging for the lending of money or extending credit.

This wouldn't seem to apply to equity financings, but I suspect it applies to debt financings. If that's right, an actual "handshake deal" is not legally enforceable absent the kind of e-mail memorialization that PG is talking about. Of course, a "handshake deal" starts to look a lot like a simple written contract if a handshake alone cannot a deal make.
10,000 customers is very impressive. By comparison, Shopify has been running since 2006 and has just broken the 50,000 customer barrier.

That said, Tictail is currently a free service. From what I can tell, no-one's paid them a penny. The real test will be how many of their merchants stick around once the add-on pricing is (a) announced and (b) goes into effect in May.

EDIT: From their help section (http://help.tictail.com/customer/portal/articles/531368-how-...):

> Our ambition is to offer these add-ons at between 1€ - 5€ / month.

(full disclosure: I'm a Shopify employee.)
The End of Google Reader Sends Internet Into an Uproar
It will be nice if this surfaces as an RSS feed rather than an email.
It's relevant. Uber are creating a network of unregulated cabs, and people have been voicing concerns over the consequences of that. It can happen with a regulated cab too, but it's probably a little more sensitive given that there are no regulations at all.

These concerns are not mine, and I'm not taking a position for or against Uber, I'm just pointing this out.
I think it will. Google Reader was key to Listen. I've been using BeyondPod since Google stopped supporting Listen. It works with Google Reader just like Listen did. It's disappointing that such a key feature will be lost. Does anyone know any Podcast apps for Android that supporting syncing feeds like Listen/BeyondPod did with Google Reader?
I think it is actually very important that Uber is mentioned. This comment explains it perfectly: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5377167

The driver was an Uber driver, the company supported him as a driver. Any event that occurs while he is doing his work as an Uber driver deserves to have Uber mentioned.
Ah sorry for the misunderstanding the paragraph was just copy&pasted by me from my old notes file.
I started to agree with you in terms of "fair is fair", but on the other hand rape is severely undereported partly because of the embarrassment, if you know you'll be publicly named I can't imagine that will increase the number of reports.
Don't forget selfoss, still in its infancy but looks very promising: http://selfoss.aditu.de/
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I have a feeling that it's regional. I live in Boston, and there are still significant amounts of restaurants that don't take credit cards.
I am sorry, but does anyone else have the impression that a lot of people is commenting here with so much confidence while clearly not knowing anything about the topic? It takes almost an equivalent of an undergraduate mathematics degree and than a lot of experience in ML itself to get a decent understanding how things like Deep Belief Networks work, so I don't wonder none of the comments so far hinted at any understanding of anything particular about deep learning, just general derogatory comments "not used in industry", "overhyped", pointers to whatever someone heard in an undergraduate ML class on older types of networks etc.

Maybe if you don't have anything on topic to say, just do not comment? You really are not obliged to have an opinion on everything.

(Waiting for the downvotes)
I think stepping up any process that can get them a user base that even passively interacts with them on a regular basis is better than anything else for them right now. They're in that odd position that they have a well known name but no well known product behind it. They kind of have to play it reactionary if they're going to keep that name in the position it's in.
It's still a more interesting article than "build a blog in two hours" or "chat apps in 3.14 lines of code!". There will always be functionality left for later but as an example of a quick prototyping framework I think the article is pretty great.
http://delvenews.com
> We’ve heard people say that RSS is a thing of the past, and perhaps in its current incarnation it is,

Does the author mean RSS as a format or aggregated feeds being "a thing of the past"?

I don't think feeds have achieved their potential yet.
I get a distinctly Perl-esque vibe whenever I try to read Haskell. So many pieces of type-system plumbing with non-alphanumeric names and uncertain precedence.
I started working on Pheedr a couple of months ago. I tried a beta test, but the typical response I received was, "Why should I try something new when I have can stick with Google Reader."

Well, now that Google Reader is winding down, my site has been getting hammered by people looking for an alternative.

The site has also received some shout outs on Quora and other sites.

Pheedr is still in beta, but I hope you'll help me build it into something really awesome.
I moved off of Google Calendar and Google Reader (and have never used GMail) for exactly these reasons several months ago. I do not want to be dependent on free services or ones that might go away. I know this could be true for any company - but at least for ones I am paying for I have support agreements.
Yeah this was probably a planted story by Big Livery
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What's digg?
Can we be a little more thoughtful this time and avoid the boom and bust cycle that so often leads to problems?

You would think that since it already happened with neural networks before it would be less likely to happen again. However it may be that the same factors that lead to the last cycle are still in operation and it is actually more like to happen again. Something like the reasons for the seemingly endless series of real estate bubbles.
Even if the Calendar API were open to all platforms, it's not a standard, it's just an API unilaterally defined by Google. CalDAV, however, is a standard <https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4791>. It is certainly an evil move from Google to try to replace an existing open standard with an API defined exclusively by them (unless they have technical grounds to do so, and considerate and documented extensions to the existing standard are not a viable approach).
Tracking, people are far less likely to commit crimes if they need to be identified beforehand.

Background checking, while far from foolproof it's both a deterrent and a preventative measure.

Higher barriers to entry, if it takes significant amounts of effort and money to be able to drive a cab then people are both less likely to risk it and going to try something else to have their 'fun'.
Nice stuff, I voted for Fever, even though it has some usability issues.
You crushed SICP and still aren't extremely comfortable with LISPs? That's worrisome. I'm in the process of working through SICP and hoping that there will be some kind of fundamental change in the way I think about code.
True, it's much more than simple search and replace, since it produces an AST, which provides more powerful refactoring.

It's also not very spectacular, since it's what Java IDEs have done for ages, plus incremental compiling :). (Or code analysis tools such as Sonatype.) Go is just playing catch-up here.

The one thing they did very well is dictating the code style with gofmt. You may not like it, but at least there is once standard. Though, one wonders how many developers and businesses use whatever layout Eclipse or Netbeans use out of the box ;).
I want an i day!

Well, I'll just imagine one.
Unfortunately Clojure is one of the few lisps without proper tail calls. (I love Clojure I just thought I should point this out in the context of the discussion).
Twitter and social sharing doesn't fit my use case.

I want to be able to scan all the articles on Hacker News even if I can't log onto Hacker News for days at a time. There's useful information here that I want access to but I can't be at my computer clicking reload on the Hacker News homepage every 30 minutes.
Selenium's no good, and it's even worse for user recordings: it only stores activity, so if the issue came from e.g. a mishandled network glitch, it won't be recorded.
I felt the exact same way. The product looked great from the screenshots and I was hoping the video would show it in action, but instead I was presented with some pretty contrived scenarios that made me feel like this was some sort of NY party app or something. I'm not sure why you'd start with the "how this helps you get laid" scenario. But yeah, I'll still give it the benefit of the doubt.

Edit: Also why is the Mac app a .pkg and not just a regular ol' app?
Wouldn't you just be reliant another another company? What's to guarantee that they won't close down the service one day?
How is licensing prevents rape?
If Google+ can't fathom a use for RSS, why should Tumblr?
I found this demo site
http://andmag.se/ress/

Through this tutorial
http://www.netmagazine.com/tutorials/getting-started-ress

Still looking for non-demo examples...
Aren't Uber taxi tracked far better than normal taxies (i.e. GPS)?
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Uber is mentioned because as one of the other commenters mentions licensing processes that existing cab companies use offer real benefit in terms of knowing about your driver population, screening them and controlling them.

The craiglist comparison is much more app than the the American Airlines one - a connection was made via this service with little oversight or regulation - that comes with benefits like higher availability and easier transactions, but it also can be risky.
Uber is mentioned because Washington have said that Uber is an unlicensed taxicab company, although they've changed some rule to make it allowable.

(http://www.npr.org/2012/01/31/146123433/upstart-car-service-...)
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Well, if unlicensed drivers constitute 80% of all stranger rapes (seems high, but let's take it at face value), and fewer than 80% of all drivers are unlicensed (highly likely), it certainly does seem to do something to help prevent it. Maybe easy trace-ability and filtering out of previously convicted criminals plays a part, which isn't too big a stretch.
Oh damn, I hope they change the backend.
Uber drivers are already identified beforehand, have to go through background checks, and, as we've learned in the article, are suspended if they are even accused of a crime. They are also tracked by GPS and probably cam, and probably will soon be tracked via other means as well (driver's door opening, etc.)
This is really the only way I can see social features being built into an rss reader without ruining it.
> "They specifically name three: showing irrelevant ads, using pop-ups or other annoying gimmicks, and selling off actual search results.

I think omitting a border around ads and intentionally reducing the contrast from the background to make it invisible to older people and people with bad monitors does count as an annoying gimmick and a user-hostile anti-pattern. The A/B testing would've shown a lot of ad clicks and increase in profit from people who mistake them for organic search results.

http://blumenthals.com/blog/2012/01/31/is-google-intentional...

http://i.imgur.com/Wmdd0.png

And also, didn't Google change its shopping results to be paid search results?

http://www.forbes.com/sites/anthonykosner/2012/05/31/how-evi...

I would think the beancounters are rapidly taking over.
Maybe I can explain.

It's been mentioned already how trucks are most likely more convenient. I mean, you're eating at that truck because it was closer to you or that you saw it and decided to eat there. I believe the reduced overhead thing is a bit misleading. The startup costs may be different, but the overhead is more than likely the same as a b&m. Apples to apples that is.

At most chef driven trucks, you will get food prepared by the chef himself/herself. Some customers perceive a value in this, hence the willingness to pay the higher prices of some trucks.

However, I do agree that the truck and its food will have to eventually provide a value that will keep a customer coming back. $9 sliders are insane. I've seen this play out time and time again at other trucks because the 'fad' and popularity gets to their heads. Some operators of trucks that have become popular really quickly become shortsighted and cater only to the yelpers who are excited about the latest new thing. They fail to realize that their long term viability is dependent on how well they are able to keep a line outside their truck once these early adopters run for another new thing. Good prices, good food, and fast service is key.
great idea would add alot of extra work on the plates of yc mentors tho
The most important thing right now is probably making sure that there is a documentation of the old API we all agree on. The one you are using [1] seems like a good start.

[1] http://undoc.in
I read it in diagonal but the paper seems to use the same DNN architecture as before. They seem to tweak the pretraining with layer-wise back-propagation (instead of full MLP-as-DBN pre-training). This does not imply anything new with respect to what I commented and the cited paper.

The only reference to differences I found is about differences between a DNN and a MaxEnt models, which is again not an argument for differences between DNNs and MLPs.

Could you point me to a concrete paragraph?, I would be happy to be mistaken in this regard.
This feels a bit sneaky: http://cl.ly/image/3c0A471T1K1X
Maybe I am misunderstanding your ideas but I guess I don't see the benefit of visiting Tumblr's RSS reader to read Tumblr. Why not just read from Tumblr's website at that point?
Tail calls can be used to increase the efficiency of loops simulated using recursion. However, not all tail calls are loops, e.g. void foo() { bar(); }

A good backtrace for a crash or exception can tell me the entire call stack. Logging at that granularity (i.e. every time a function is called) is not a good idea.
I'm not in the valley, but I have the opposite policy: I systematically use cash unless it is not possible to do so. (It's better for privacy.)
>It's quite possible to develop chronic conditions, that are not apparent at first, and only manifest themselves after years of nutritional deficiency.

Oh, well that is certainly a reasonable basis to pretend a very complete diet is dangerous and lacking. Oh wait, no that is a completely nonsensical basis.
How in the world is this an "Uber" driver... Doesn't he work for a company that's using Uber? Find this a bit of a sensationalized smear on the service to associate him so closely with it.
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I've used Pulse for quite a while, but I had to switch to Google Reader since it became too limiting for me. (It limits the amount of feeds per page.) Pulse also doesn't have a list view I prefer, and when using the website, it has to load a preview image for every post.

I think that Feedly is a better alternative to Pulse, since it has better layout customization.
Features for your rss reader project(add yours)
so, it seems everyone will compete on making a great rss reader now or reinvent it.
so i want to share some features i think it will be great>
feature(1): don't make users put the subscription link by them self, instead make the publisher submit the link and make a page for it (think of it as simple fb page)

feature(2): i want to follow some feeds with my friends, just be able to make group of feeds then allow to some of my friends to access it and can comment on feeds, this will be great(think of it as room you gather into it to read news).
or you can do this in a simple way by making another tab on public feed comments shows just my friends comments - and also can have notifications about them.

feature(3): i can like any post, and if the likes number be bigger than (1000 - you decide) it shows on the homepage automatically(so users can read important news from the homepage).

please, if you have any feature you like to have, put it in a comment.
thanks.
>Unfortunately Clojure is one of the few lisps without proper tail calls. (I love Clojure I just thought I should point this out in the context of the discussion).

Fortunately, thanks to Clojure being a Lisp, you can add it yourself:

https://github.com/cjfrisz/clojure-tco
Exactly. Running the truck yourself without pay and celebrating a $5k profit at month end is ridiculous.

Then again, any truck that is doing 200 tix for lunch and 100 for dinner is doing just fine, even paying 3 employees a decent wage.
>Python..is immensely more readable than..Lisp

fwiw, it is immensely easier to build a parser for (= z (+ y x)) than for z=x+y

you might ask, why should that matter ?

Ad outside the eyeglass store:
why do we have ears ?
so we can wear spectacles!

The point being, we first evolved as creatures with ears and later on devised spectacles so we could wear them over the ears. But we've now taken the ears so much for granted we think of spectacles as the innovation! Parsing should have been the whole point, but we now prize readability. We then add fluffy monikers like "serious perseverance" and "Lisp dumbness" to further tilt the balance in our favor.

http://briancarper.net/blog/442/lisp-syntax-doesnt-suck
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This is very different from the dark days of unlicensed London minicabs. Unlicensed minicab drivers would literally not be traceable - no driver id, no company, no receipt. The car would have license plates but even then how do you track down the driver? Here the fact that she ordered the driver by phone, and had a receipt on her phone, means that she could clearly track down the cab driver. Which is a good thing, and probably the best possible deterrent to this kind of thing happening more often.

[edit] Also its worth noting that the reason people would risk unlicensed cabs in London was that taxi licenses were so strictly controlled that prices were quite ridiculous for many.[edit2] And that the solution to the issue in London was to license the minicabs where trying to shut them down demonstrably failed.
What's the point in making a non-binding agreement? Isn't it easier to just not make one?
Trust me with this one: You need a better domain for germany. erwaehnung.de is just terrible.
Yes, lawyer up, but I think many of these comments are missing the true lesson here.

You need to take the proper precautions. Uber's screening of their drivers is laughable. Regulations don't exist solely to make your life miserable, and hopefully this incident, true or not, gives them the shock they need to understand their problem. While I appreciate what Uber's service is trying to accomplish, sacrificing safety is not the kind of "disruption" this industry needs.
So when an otherwise upstanding man brutally rapes a vulnerable woman, it's his word against hers? Rape is almost always perpetrated from a position of power. That's why most rapes are committed by men against women.

That aside, they caught the incident on camera, so it is not one person's word against another's: http://dcist.com/2012/12/uber_customer_accuses_driver_of_rap...
You know, I haven't seen anyone yet mention the obvious. I'd pay something per month to keep using Google Reader. Is there some reason they don't want my money?

We keep complaining that they are killing this free service. How about keeping it up, charging me something, and terminating only the "free" part?
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Im confused what other things are there to consider if you say your in for a certain amount you should have no problem having that put in writing right?
More specifically, Google is forbidden to replace IETF-approved and wide-acknowledged API with its own proprietary substitute without being accused of being evil.

Seems to be fair enough for me, just in case anyone cares.
I think the original commenter's point was that they frequently use Tumblr's current method of reading other Tumbls, and they would prefer that other web content appear there, too.

It's not visiting Tumblr's Reader to read Tumblr - it's visiting Tumblr's Reader to read everythign.
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Clozure is a good choice of Lisp to get something done. It's got a really neat FFI (Foreign Function Interface), including an Objective-C bridge that lets you talk with Mac OS X, so you can interface with C libraries to handle all those wheels you really don't want to re-invent.

That said, try to get over your Java prejudice with Clojure. Java libraries are nice.
Uber Customer Accuses Driver of Rape [security camera was present]
Did I miss something in their API, or was there absolutely no way to tell whether you had renamed a feed or not?
According to the article, the (legally, still "alleged") rapist was a licensed limo driver with Capital Limo. With the information we have so far, he was following the law totally with respect to taxi/limo licensing.
i like flipboard the best, but it still needs google reader for my rss feeds...
Should you really have to?
Not to draw any conclusions, but hiding the name has the effect of reinforcing that there's something to be embarrassed about.
If by 'that feature' you mean the sort by perceived importance vs. time, I hope they make that possible to configure.

If you instead mean the suggestion of additional content into your feed - that's really the core point of Prismatic. I wouldn't expect to see that configurable / given an "off" switch ever. In fact, I'm pretty sure that's how they'll monetize the product - slipping in pay-for-placement content that's relevant to what you're reading.
Would https://feedreader.co/api fit the bill? I'm looking for feedback. Example of it being used: https://feedreader.co/arpith
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You don't need to if you don't want to. It actually kinda forces you to break the problem in smaller pieces or use macros.