skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> "I have no idea what they will do."

Stall. Send out some FUD. Maybe lobby for higher duties (as compared to tariff rates).

But most of the goods that have sufficiently large price discrepancies are going to a digital manifestation anyway.

So region-coding, DRM and the DMCA will (continue to) be the order of the day.
Here's an email I sent someone yesterday about it:

I am very intrigued by Bitcoin. It has all the signs.
Paradigm shift, hackers love it, yet it's derided as
a toy. Just like microcomputers.
I am not impressed.

You are issued stock or a convertible note after your initial investment and you can cannot convert that note till the company is either bought-out or goes public.

What if they don't do either and simply reinvest the "profits" back into the company thereby showing no profits?

What happens if the board of the directors of the company you invested in dilutes your shares by issuing more-and-more stock to themselves and others year-after-after till your percentage of the company is practically non-existent?
I only mentioned the Citizens United case because it's popularly reviled. I see no problem with the ruling as far as precedent goes (although I have qualms about the general rights without responsibilities that corps get) and I don't think it has really changed that much. Except... the commercials seem to get more and more interesting.

The SCOTUS certainly has an idealogical split (as in conservative vs liberal) but the categories are far more nuanced than just Republican or Democrat and I think they've been doing a decent job.
An article will appear a year from now..."Perpetrating fraud with large-scale machine learning."

Just kidding ;)...Looks awesome and easy-to-use, congrats on launching.
Sure, I'll share my experience over there. The slowest part seems to be multiple file selects or working with multiple file selects (right click to add or remove from index) in the Working Copy changes and Staged Changes windows.
Chrome OS was hacked at Pwnium 2013 after all
Interesting. I'm surprised that US contract law would differ from English in such a fundamental way. Thanks for the explanations, on that and on Scalia's approach.
Accessibility is important, but it's not a reason for stopping progress. If it were, we never would have had computers at all. The solution there is more investment in making new technologies accessible, not preventing new approaches altogether.

That latter thing isn't really a benefit. Or if it is, it's satisfying your personal aesthetic sense. I too happen to think that past version of the future was awesome. But I also liked the future where we all used jetpacks to fly up to our long-haul zeppelins. That's no reason to ban airplanes.
but there are plenty of remotely controlled Cisco routers that can pump out more data than hundreds of thousands of bots

Have any examples? I would think that a router is less than ideal here, as most forms of traffic generation would involve the anemic CPU and control/mgmt plane.
Secure Puppet client-server connections?
Hi :-)

When we use 'plain' Puppet to configure our VMs, the Puppet agent connects to the Puppet master, maybe controlled by cron.

Security officers I know say this is not a good idea. It should only be allowed that the server starts a connection to the client, but not the other way round.

Do you agree? Is it such a bad idea that Puppet clients connect to the server via a typical, secure port? There are credentials and whatever.

And what were the alternatives? MCollective. I'm a little bit scared of it, because ActiveMQ can be hard to configure sometimes.

Would be great to read you ideas...
It takes a team of 2 people 6 months and 25K to set up a broker-dealer, do relevant background checks, pass relevant exams, pass audits, get personnel exemptions, SRO agreements, etc. (https://www.sec.gov/divisions/marketreg/bdguide.htm). That's a one-time process and WeFunder may have done it already.

Once that's done, setting up separate legal investment funds is a 1 month initial process (and its fairly simple to scale this up -- the individual investment funds would be set up in parallel). There's some quarterly paperwork and some yearly paperwork, but it's entirely within the abilities of one person to handle "dozens"
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Having asked this same exact question before my answers, as some have mentioned below, are RaphaelJs and JqPlot. That said I am also looking into D3 which is also mentioned below. RaphaelJs has a number of controls based on it such as JustGage animated gauges(not by me but I have used it), and JqPlot which is highly configurable and seems to "just work".
"you will need them again; maybe at another team, maybe at your next company or next job."

Why does the author highlight this?
So the motive for open sourcing is primarily to help yourself? The collaboration and chances to get better are more important IMHO.
In my experience it varies quite a lot. From maybe 5% to 100% or more of initial time spent. Depends on the problem the code is solving and also how good the code was in the first place.
Note: these are my own views :)

It varies depending on your infrastructure and whether the issues were thought about at the time of design.

For example, in Google's case, there are plenty of pieces of software that would be insane to open source (time-wise, it would take many years to come up with something someone else could use).

On average though, if they had planned on open sourcing it, so that there is some chance it's reusable, someone is probably still spending at least a few weeks, maybe a few months, to make it useful to others.
Agreed, my two servings a month hardly count :(
And hopefully karma catches on with whomever does this and rot in jail.
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Another 512 data point (London DC, all 5 tests run within a ~30 second window):

201326592 bytes (201 MB) copied, 2.61587 s, 77.0 MB/s

201326592 bytes (201 MB) copied, 3.06237 s, 65.7 MB/s

201326592 bytes (201 MB) copied, 5.70759 s, 35.3 MB/s

201326592 bytes (201 MB) copied, 6.24756 s, 32.2 MB/s

201326592 bytes (201 MB) copied, 3.98084 s, 50.6 MB/s

EDIT:

For comparison, here's the same test on a 4GB DO instance (Amsterdam DC):

201326592 bytes (201 MB) copied, 6.16116 s, 32.7 MB/s

201326592 bytes (201 MB) copied, 5.08132 s, 39.6 MB/s

201326592 bytes (201 MB) copied, 7.73071 s, 26.0 MB/s

201326592 bytes (201 MB) copied, 7.55657 s, 26.6 MB/s

201326592 bytes (201 MB) copied, 7.9936 s, 25.2 MB/s
Is it possible to run this stuff on certain purchases say like gift cards or would that reduce effectiveness of the software? If its looking for patterns in ordering, and i only feed in gift card purchases, it would have nothing to compare against. Reason I am asking, we have almost 0% fraud/charge back rate since you can only by our physical product via a subscription model.
From the article:

"Right now, the Arduino isn’t reading serial data from the BLE module, it’s pretty much working as a pass-through for whatever the BLE module says. It reads the value of three of the BLE’s GPIO’s to control each color of the LEDs. In the future, it should read serial commands from the UART and have a big list of awesome things that it’ll do. Naturally."
Such a genuine entrepreneurial story!
The 8% come from the fact that I don't need you to negotiate the base pay. I was going from $100 without you to $108 with you.
A Rails 3 engine to see SQL cost per controller
Free works
None. But I'm very conservative.
Strangely, this was his last tweet.
"Malcolm Tredinnick ‏@malcolmt
Woke up late, afternoon nap and I still want to go to bed early. So tired; wasted the day."
Nothing about his life was wasted.
I agree, we should fix the internals. Haskell didn't have concurrency by default and things turned out pretty well there.

I actually did try out a solution based on gevent and eventlet before switching to Go.
The author here. There is a difference in spirit between publicly accessible and published. I did this in a burst of mania over a few days more than a year ago and only pushed it to github as an afterthought. I never really expected more that one or two people would look at it. I am very surprised to see it here. Given that the hivemind has discovered it, I'll happily contact Mr. Bellard to see if he wants it out in the world or not.

I'm a synthetic biologist, not a professional coder. I did this primarily because I wanted to study how emulation worked, and I pushed it solely in the hopes that one or two other people might find it useful as a study guide of the original codebase.
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For comparing two portions they’re okay. For larger data sets it can be difficult to compare the sectors: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b4/Pie...
>either through apathy or greed the lecturers have shirked their responsibility to their students.

This "greed" idea is just not a thing. It's a meme that's repeated in places like HN, but not something that really exists out there in the real world. There'll be isolated cases, but it's not even a little bit relevant to a discussion of why textbook industry is able to extort students.

In so far as profs. are responsible for "collaborating" with the industry, it's because of inertia, and a poor understanding of the alternatives. And probably also laziness. :)
It's interesting that the Omega watch case had a 4-4 tie in the SC while this decision was 6-3. Does this mean that Costco can start importing cheap watches again?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omega_S.A._v._Costco_Wholesale...
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maybe they've closed these holes, but click fraud has been an issue every since the earliest days of banner ads, so I'd be really surprised if it has been eliminated completely.
SSL certificate validation is in the 2.4 release.
Direct sharing is going to be the real internet revolution... we've just scratched the surface of what's going to happen when everyone directly collaborates. :-)
It is certainly common knowledge in some groups, but not in others. There are plenty of people who are primarily designers who know just a little JS, as well as developers in other languages who have learned just enough JS to get by.
Wow, that's funny. As I was reading that, I was thinking "what a thoughtful comment for HN." At least I'm consistent.

Twould be nice if you punctuated it properly though.
The analogy to software is a good one. Often the software is shipped full, and you unlock features as you pay for.
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Hashing out "ridiculous" things is exactly what rule of law is for. Because what's obvious to you is not obvious to everyone, or there wouldn't have been a dispute in the first place.
It is if that focus is their own product. Not a desperate late-to-the-pary imitation of someone else's product.
I do, actually, think that are organizations like the IDL and the EFF are misrepresenting this for attention, as it will ostensibly boost their donations.

To be fair, I also think this is the nature of the beast, and almost all advocacy groups do exactly this. I just think these groups, in this specific case, are doing it rather... severely, due to the tendency of the Internet community to react so viscerally towards any legislation that's in any way related to the Internet. When the government uses the word 'cyber' in their legislation proposals, Internet people tend to get nervous.

They're playing on a lot of very legitimate fears that Washington doesn't understand the Internet and seeks to cause harm to its openness. Fears which I hold, to be clear, but not fears which are warranted in this particular case.

They'd gain back a lot of my respect if they prominently focused on the bill's text rather than summaries without citations, and offered explicit amendments which would satisfy their issues. Of course the problem with this is that a great deal of what they're saying isn't citable (it's hard to cite factually dubious statements), and their complaints about the bill are nebulous and nonspecific, so I understand why their rhetoric is not focused on the bill's content (examples of this "the content of the bill doesn't matter, it's the precedent" argument can even be found in this very thread).
Thanks for the very valuable feedback Kenoch, will check that and try to make the images look less like shit and load faster.
I was surprised the other day when I was testing the bitcoin integration for a project of mine (here's a how-to: http://techblog.bozho.net/?p=1114), that the price is so high. I bought my bitcoin a couple of months ago at 10 times lower prices, and it was a pleasant surprise.
More teachers are grouping kids by ability
I attended a talk by Quoc Le at UCSD recently, and he made the case that it is necessary to get the algorithms tested large scale, rather than sending too much time on it at small scale.

He had presented a graph comparing some models and their accuracy as the number of features was scaled up to the tens of thousands, his point being that some models that work best at smaller number of features fall off as the number is scaled up. Unfortunately the slides he has on his web page is outdated, so I haven't been able to find that reference. I'd be very happy if one of you know which paper he was referring to. In the old slides he refers to this paper, which makes something of the same point: http://ai.stanford.edu/~ang/papers/nipsdlufl10-AnalysisSingl... It shows how simple unsupervised models with dense feature extraction reach the state of the art performance of more complex models.

Of course, I can see how it makes sense to at least do some small scale prototyping, to work out kinks like you say - but the lesson is that if you are planning to do large scale machine learning you can't necessarily use the small scale tests as a good guide for large scale performance. It's certainly promising if you get very good accuracy, speed or both at small scale, though neither necessarily will carry over to large scale. On the flip side, if your method is worse than state-of-the-art at smaller scales, that doesn't mean it won't beat state-of-the-art at large scales.
The mass media doesn't often doesn't even try distinguish between the two. For hot button issues that make it to the Supreme Court, there is always a lot of talk about "I think people should be allowed to X" not "the law says Y" or "The Constitution allows Z".

If we want to be in control of our own governance, we would be better served if elected Congressmen make the laws rather than nine old people who are accountable to no one (even if those nine old people are brilliant thinkers).
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I have a feeling that if the url says "heroku" that you will get some drive by up votes.
My university owns anything you make while you are a student there. The example they used was something along the lines of: if you worked on it only in your dorm room and it had nothing to do with the university and received zero university funding, it was still theirs and you couldn't ever file a patent on it.
Hey, sorry. I didn't mean to write "real, abusive situation". I meant "really abusive situation", as in "very abusive situation". It appears I cannot correct it. I was tired.

Having a discussion with folks like you requires tiring surgical precision with rhetoric. It's interesting that given the two possible interpretations, you picked the most offensive. You should be careful with that - not everyone out there is oblivious and unsympathetic to the problems facing women and underlying currents of a male-dominated society.
This begs an interesting question: perhaps the way for the public to become seed investors is through diversification (i.e. index-style investing applied to small companies as well). Already, something analogous is possible through micro-cap index funds. That said, I agree that ultra-small companies are not a place to put all of your capital for the long haul, but they could provide correlation advantages with respect to the broader market in small doses.
The world is full of fundamentalists that are not, trufax.
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Just out of curiosity, what don't you like about Google's spreadsheet?
Wouldn't a conservative hedge?
And that's still a pretty big assumption.

This doesn't require any explanation other than inertia.
Yes, I too am confused by how paleo makes some people so angry. Try it for yourself, or don't, who cares?

About two months I tried massively reducing the amount of sugar and carbs I consume, and saw good results.

I wouldn't call my diet "paleo" since I'm not super strict about it (I eat oatmeal for breakfast every morning, I take Saturdays off as a day to eat whatever I want, I consume lots of dairy because I'm trying to bulk up and its an easy way to get protein), but even with those relaxed restrictions, I feel way better.

After a week or two of cravings, I don't even want to eat high-carb staples like bread, pasta or rice before - I now see them as just a cheap way to fill yourself up.
Make the variance by country and 99.9% of people will never know.
I agree that ordinary people shouldn't bet their life savings on startups. But this allows an average well-informed SF employee to invest $1,000-2,000/month of his/her salary into any startup they like - hardly a life changing amount. See it as a Kickstarter on steroids. At least this gives us a chance too to invest in the next Dropbox and Airbnb.
Interesting. It looks like one can summon PG by just quoting him. We should try this more often.
I always tell financially conservative people they can buy US$1 worth of Bitcoins just so they can learn how it works. I think many newcomers believe Bitcoins are indivisible.
Retina is just a marketing term by Apple. They are actually displays with a high DPI. You could call them high DPI displays or high resolution (kinda misleading) displays instead.
I don't understand the disdain that Citizens United gets. It is a pretty clear cut application of 1st Amendment principles.

People don't lose their 1st amendment rights simply because they are organized as a corporation. The law can't favor free speech for some corporations/groups (New York Times, MSNBC, UAW, etc.) but not others (non-profit groups like Citizens United).

On top of this, the speech involved was political speech, something that lies at the heart of free speech principles rather than more controversial areas of free speech theory (advertising, obscene or vulgar speech, etc.).

The main argument against Citizens United seemed to be a dislike of the source of funding for the speech (i.e. trying to get 'money' out of politics). But you can't take that approach to the problem without explaining why media corporations (TV networks, newspapers, online media) get some special consideration.

The common ground in this area seems to be in better disclosure and transparency regulations.
this presentation offers a good overview pre 2.4, but will give you insights into how you can prepare for memory issues
http://www.10gen.com/presentations/mongosv-2012/capacity-pla...
Really happy that Chart.js is back because if it didn't come back, I would have been able to use only xCharts (http://tenxer.github.com/xcharts) which I find less versatile.

Apart from this, I don't get the comments at the top! Is this what HN users think of open source projects which spring up from time to time! If a project is taken down due to IP rights and then comes back to life after a day, is that all a marketing campaign? Don't you think of it as an accomplishment for the community? And this is not the first time that HN users just go about destroying someone's project in a second. Shouldn't we help in giving the person a direction and helping him out.
Out of curiosity: I submitted the exact same link 6 days ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5369899

How is it possible for the same link to be submitted in such a short time again?

Old link: http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2013/03/20133913253...
New link: http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2013/03/20133913253...
Ensure and Ensure plus are one brand that come in a variety of flavours.
Book Yourself solid.

Very interesting if you're a freelancer or building products. I'm 1/3 through the book. Goes a lot into how to create trust and how to adjust your sales and marketing based on the trust you've created.
Any thoughts on the currency vs hoarding issue?

Quick background for those unfamiliar with the issue - Bitcoin was built to be a currency, to be used to trade for goods and services. However, a significant portion of BTC is being hoarded and not traded, thus leading some (like Nobel Prize laureate Paul Krugman) to argue that it's not a currency at all, and any value is purely speculative. For the record, I don't agree with Krugman's argument.
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Contracts(well, consumer sales, anyway) in the US is done by Uniform Commercial Code. Basically, model legislation that was adopted by all states.

It is, in part, an explicit repudiation of English common law.

(Note that I generalized. There are areas where subjective intent does not matter, and areas where it does, but it's nowhere near as objective as English law)
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Here's our[1] take on it... Our entire company is built around F/OSS, including both code we've written from scratch, greenfield style[2]; code that we've written which is (based on|inspired by|links to) existing F/OSS packages; and code which is directly borrowed from other projects (in compliance with the license, of course).

So if our entire product suite is based around F/OSS, and given some public statements we've made[3], you might ask "is there anything you wouldn't open source"? And the answer, is "yes". There probably isn't a lot we would keep proprietary, but where we did, it would be internal tooling or software related to internal processes which we believe constitute (some or all of) our competitive advantage.

That said, even on internal tools, we are open (no pun intended) to open sourcing more stuff. I wrote a Grails based app a while back for managing competitive intelligence. The tool itself isn't anything particularly special but it's handy. The value we derive from it is the data we have loaded into our instance, not the tool itself. So there's a good chance we'll open source that eventually. In fact, it it weren't for lack of time to polish up the code a bit and otherwise do the "stuff" I'd like to do before releasing it, it would probably already be on GitHub.

Oh, and it needs a new name before we'd release it to the world. The (silly) internal name is FUCIT - Fogbeam Universal Competitive Intelligence Tool. :-) And we'll probably expand this to a more general "industry awareness" tool eventually, as opposed to being strictly about "competitive" intelligence as well.

From TFA:

The codebases of the most companies are made of business logic dominated repositories and tools/utilities built around them. Assuming that your company has a valuable business logic inventory, you should probably keep that code to yourself.

Yeah, that's about the size of it. A tool which embodies logic which is core to the business per-se, will stay proprietary. But generic tools, which confer no particular competitive advantage, are just as well open sourced.

[1]: http://www.fogbeam.com

[2]: https://github.com/Fogbeam

[3]: http://www.fogbeam.blogspot.com/2013/03/the-google-question-...
Not really sure what to say about this, but congrats to these guys.

Two weeks in the App store, a monster raise, insane user base, not sure if it's any different/better than WhatsApp or others. Seems like they took a lot from Facebook's chat app, among other things. Proves you don't really have to reinvent the wheel here but crazy, rapid user growth and a nice raise to get them to the next level.

The constant high-profile funding of basic and regurgitated social apps is difficult to comprehend.