skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, there's no doubt a benefit in reading a concept in a language you're more comfortable with. It would have to be an interesting algorithm that could extract meaningful variable names from the surrounding prose when translating an equation to code :)
Also, why do you need a date of birth?
>There's a link in the very line that you're quoting that goes to an article that discusses "open systems" and "open-source software" as distinct things

This is what it says about open systems.

>Another way to look at the difference between open and closed systems is that open systems allow innovation at all levels — from the operating system to the application layer — not just at the top. This means that one company doesn't have to depend on another's benevolence to ship a product. If the GNU C compiler that I'm using has a bug, I can fix it since the compiler is open source. I don't have to file a bug report and hope for a timely response.

From that it appears that they're conflating "open systems" and "open source software", not drawing a distinction like you're claiming.

>At no point does your quote say that open-source always wins, or that all things should be open-source, so it's like you didn't read even those two sentences.

From the same link that you site, Google says this:

>We believe that open is the only way for this to have the broadest impact for the most people. We are technology optimists who trust that the chaos of open benefits everyone. We will fight to promote it every chance we get.

>Open will win. It will win on the Internet and will then cascade across many walks of life: The future of government is transparency. The future of commerce is information symmetry. The future of culture is freedom. The future of science and medicine is collaboration.
No, those regions will not become good for agriculture just by being heated. There is no soil there.

In places where the ground is frozen permanently (permafrost), i.e. most places above the Arctic Circle, there is essentially no decomposition, and hence no soil production. You can often estimate the soil depth by looking at the tree height; the tundra supports no trees, and most of the rest of Alaska has pine and spruce that grow to maybe 5 meters.

The other thing to consider is the effect of heating permafrost, which is well-known. Well. To Alaskans anyway. Houses in permafrost zones are built on stilts, because anything that generates heat will turn the ground beneath it into a bog. If you heat Alaska and Siberia, they will turn into an unimaginable morass (and remain so for the indefinite future) and release gigatonnes of CO2 and CH4. That will wipe out any existing human habitation as well.

In short, I cannot imagine the confusion of ideas that would lead you to suggest such a thing.
This really is a real issue. My home machine was an open recursor for a while too. I set up a dnsmasq installation and forgot to set an "except-interface" to restrict it to the internal network.

I even like to think I know this stuff well, but still got burned. I'm sure at the time my security analysis (if I even thought of the externally-facing issue) was "who cares if I expose a caching nameserver with no sensitive content to the rest of the internet?".
I'm able to choose my location once I type it in, but when I click it just goes back to the loading... message. I can't get it to load and it won't let me continue otherwise.
Lead generation rate shoots up by 232% with masthead changes
Excel has had that capability forever. Excel VBA code had access to XmlHttpRequest as soon as Internet Explorer did, at version 5.0. XHR is a COM object that can be invoked from just about anywhere in Microsoftland. I was doing this in Excel way back in 2000.

Nowadays XHR is a bit limited as far as exception handling and other niceties you'd like for API calling. But Excel VBA can access anything through COM interop, such as a more robust C# library using .NET objects like HttpWebRequest.

Excel also has a notion of web queries, to populate a range by making an HTTP request and scraping a table out of the HTML. I think that existed as long ago as Excel 2000 and was brought out to the UI in 2007. It doesn't play well with websites requiring a login or a nontrivial click path, though. I have vague memories of wrestling with this, through the spectacular method of launching an IE window from Excel and relying on the MSHTML layer to share the login cookies between that and Excel!
You can’t really compare entrepreneurs and VCs roles, as they are entirely different things. VCs are investors and may or may not have a board role and although they add value in other ways, the day-to-day running of the company is left to the entrepreneur.

There are slight variations of this model where you can create an ‘incubator’ of companies which is what was started by IdeaLab (I think they were the earliest tech incubator in 1996) and what the likes of Obvious, Rocket Internet, Science etc are doing.

However, in terms of doing 1 startup vs. 20 startups as per your example – if any of them become successful you are going to need entrepreneurs to run the startups in your ‘incubator’ (and you’re going to have a problem even attracting them unless you have $$$) – and you have far better chances of having 1 successful startup than 20

The reason why you have a better chance of having 1 successful startup over 20 is easiest to explain with an example, so let’s pretend that you want to make $100/day from these startups. You may think that if you have 20 of them that’s only $5/day compared to 1 earning $100/day and getting 20 to $5/day may sound easier than 1 to $100 especially as, you can “spread” out your chances of success and income sources – it’s not. The reason why it’s not is because:

Bigger sites make more money – advertisers like to work with large sites because it’s the same amount of paperwork to advertise on a site with 100,000 pageviews as it is for one with 10,000,000 pageviews – which is why advertisers prefer to do 1 ad buy on that 10,000,000 pageview site than 100 deals with sites with 100,000 pageviews.

Bigger sites get better deals – when you’re generating a ton of traffic you get great deals from advertisers. Likewise, bigger sites open doors as most companies aren’t interested in working with small sites until they have a considerable amount of users – having 20 sites with 1M users each isn’t as interesting or valuable as having 1 site with 20M users. Why? Well 20 sites x 1M users each = 20M right? NO! Every time a member of one of your sites is member of another – it reduces the total number of users.

Bigger sites are easier to promote which makes them stickier after all the average user only visits a handful of websites.
Biological transistor enables computing within living cells
Is this who we want to take inspiration from? Reading http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_Shackleton I see:

Away from his expeditions, Shackleton's life was generally restless and unfulfilled. In his search for rapid pathways to wealth and security, he launched many business ventures and other money-making schemes, none of which prospered. His financial affairs were generally muddled; he died heavily in debt.

Yup! Sounds like he fits right in the startup world! (Not necessarily as a model to emulate...)
Representing that you have a potential cure or treatment when you have, by definition, no scientifically sound reason to believe that's correct isn't fraud? (If they had such a reason, they'd have no trouble getting clearance for human trials. You can argue about whether the current bar for evidence is too high, but that's distinct from arguing there should be no bar at all.)

> "We shouldn't treat anyone - physicians, patients, businesses, etc. - as guilty before they've acted. That's what regulations do"

No, they don't. They regulate activities, not people. They're distinct from laws only inasmuch as we recognize that while not just everyone should be allowed to do a thing (say, drive on public roads) some people should be allowed to do those things. So we don't outlaw those activities, we regulate who is and is not allowed to do those things.

Do you believe a law against murder is equivalent to treating everyone as a murderer before they've acted? How is a regulation over who can publicly make medical claims so different? If the law simply said "no-one can make medical claims", the way no-one can yell "fire" in a crowded theatre, would that be pre-judging?
* Fusion research -> We should build big experiments (eg. ITER) -> First principles: if it takes years to start the experiment, you'll lose momentum.
* Construction industry -> We should reduce the number of lanes so we can work -> First principles: using prefab roadblocks could speed up the work (cfr. comment of Elon Musk in an interview)
* Agriculture -> We should produce more -> First principles: the approach should be adjusted to the weather forecasts
That's why it's frustrating for those who have a network arch/eng background when we run across the sensationalized pieces. Or when all of the sec-only wonks make this out to be something to combat with a firewall, and put out pieces that never mention BGP, but are somehow helpful.

End rant, but at least there's more of an awareness of good network folk with things related to this sort of story. Not that it's the ideal path, but still.
What doesn't kill bitcoins makes it harder.
Thanks miss read that bit. 7x sounds more doable by a compactor.
We've been using Rollbar for a number of apps over the past few months and have really been liking how it fit into our infrastructure. Brian has been great about responding to bugs and suggestions. Keep up the great work!
If by "crunch" you mean "return to sanity"...
A Guide to Peering on the Internet
Out of curiosity, who are you using for finop (or is someone taking the 27)?
The RICO act pertains to threats of illegal force. Filing a lawsuit to vindicate legal rights is not illegal force, by definition. Filing a totally frivolous lawsuit can get an attorney and his client sanctioned, but while something like this may seem frivolous to you it's not legally frivolous (they have a validly-issued patent that has arguably been infringed).
Yes, it's true: HTML does not work on hackernews.
Will this use dropbox sync for syncing with an iPhone?
I think what really happened is that the Eastern Texas court district used this case to show legitimacy. They'll still eagerly allow less ridiculous but still ridiculous lawsuits from NPE plaintiffs. I see Eastern Texas a bit like Somalia. I imagine patent trolls cause $millions annually to drop into the area. Patent trolling is effectively an industry there, upon which many jobs and pensions depend.
But if the placebo effect is caused by human interaction, would this suggest that the best therapy is simply one-on-one counselling rather than a new chemical? In other words, we need to help people change their way of thinking more so than mess with the chemistry of their brain.
Agreed! Especially built with luajit.
It may be a combination of idealism (fostered by their status as the leading publisher, which while I haven't looked I would bet means they make a ton of money) and cold business logic that this hurts their competitors more than them.
> Data from the consulting firm Outsell in Burlingame, California, suggest that the science-publishing industry generated $9.4 billion in revenue in 2011 and published around 1.8 million English-language articles — an average revenue per article of roughly $5,000. Analysts estimate profit margins at 20–30% for the industry, so the average cost to the publisher of producing an article is likely to be around $3,500–4,000.

Amazing. What mature industry can boast such profit margins?
Thoughts On A Text Engine
TiKL opens Talkray mobile chat/voice API after raising $2.1M
Why Asm.js Bothers Me
Hotel search startup Room 77 hires its first CEO: Jetsetter's CEO
Proposal to “cut a bitch” gets selected for Google Glass program
Or you could just get a graduate student who has access to these papers to intern with your institute.
30,000 is an evolutionary eternity. The huge variety of bizarre dog breeds was created over a few centuries. Foxes were turned from nigh untameable wild animals into pets in a few decades.
>"lay people have essentially no ability to distinguish between potential 'last shots'"

I'm sure you mean well, but this type of thinking really bothers me.

For example, many of us here on HN, possess the critical reasoning skills to determine snake oil from a credible research lab. Given that there are almost no practicing oncologists present, we'd all likely qualify as lay people.

However the central issue is a medical doctor is not even qualified enough to choose, due to malpractice liability. On top of that even a specialist can find difficulty prescribing experimental treatment lawfully, unless it's part of an FDA trial. This is in addition to the incentives drug companies push. [1]

I speak from first hand experience dealing with Psoriatic Arthritis and establishment CYA (cover your ass) thinking. After spending $1000+ per month on Anti-TNF blockers [2], I'm doing just fine on lifestyle changes and have seen no disease progression after 3 years of being off meds. I wouldn't bother mentioning it if it weren't for the thousands of credible patient stories that point to fixing what we eat as a means to being healthy. Yet the paradigm for the last 30 years is one of treatment, not prevention.

Guess which makes more money for Pfizer, GSK etc? Hint: it's not vaccines (prevention). Chronic treatment (autoimmune, psych drugs, cvd etc) are dominating the top 10 sales charts. [3]

I would feel incredibly angry and upset if myself or someone close to me, were in a position to try an experimental cancer treatment, but were unable to, because of regulatory snakes and ladders.

I'm not saying the FDA is useless or provides no public benefit, but I would question the wisdom behind entrusting authority of one's life, to a single decision making body.

[1] http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/25/us/payments-to-doctors-by-...

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etanercept

[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_selling_pharmac...
Cancer evolve. In this sense it is like a new species (and it can occasionally become one).

That's why fighting it is so difficult. I highly doubt there ever can be one chemical substance that reliably fights all sorts of cancer.

And you can't really cure cancer anyway.

Our only hope at this point is genetic engineering.
Same here, I just assumed it was a stripped-down Ubuntu variant. Maybe Fundora would have been a better choice (though I do like Facintosh).
It's great to see progress with the SEC and crowdinvesting. Even though we (Wefunder) aren't dependent on the JOBS act and the SEC, it's great for everyone that they're making this grey territory lighter!
Show Me The Money: The Market For Legacy Development
Don't forget about about Sentry (https://getsentry.com/welcome/) which is also open source (https://github.com/getsentry/sentry) and can be self hosted. I've only used it with Python, but it has so far been infinitely better than the alternatives I've tried (probably because it's written in python). Integration with Flask is a 3-minute affair.
That's kind of missing the point. In statistics, there exists something called confounding variables. Confounding variables are factors that affect your outcome, but are hidden, or are outside your control. As your example becomes more complex the opportunity for confounding to impact your result goes up significantly.

I believe the multi-query database access test is actually a good example of a "complex enough" test, but not too susceptible to confounding. In this test, we see that Rails isn't so far behind.

Basing your choice of framework on speed alone is a pretty bad idea. When you select a framework, you need to optimize for success, and the factors that determine the success of a project are often less related to the speed of a framework and more related to the availability of talent and good tools.

That's not to say you should ignore speed entirely, but that you have to weight your factors. There is a tendency to believe that you will need rofflescale when you really won't. Keep that in mind when you're weighting your factors.
See Monsanto.
I don't understand the fascination with 3rd world debt, either the countries keep paying at the detriment to domestic spending or they default and end up with higher interest rates. That is it. These are non-recourse loans, the IMF or World Bank or whoever is not going to invade to get paid back.

Debt forgiveness is still default, just more socially accepted. But just like default it will still end with less trust and higher interest.
In the second case, you're not patenting the algorithm, because people remain free to use the algorithm to do things other than sorting lists of restaurant recommendations.

Which is ultimately why "its all just algorithms" is a uselessly reductionist view of things, in the same way "all creative works are just strings of bits" is uselessly reductionist, or even "all physical objects are just globs of atoms" is uselessly reductionist. It's not a useful level of abstraction at which to view the issue.

Ultimately you have to tie it back to the purpose of the property right. Why does someone have a legal right to a particular glob of atoms, or a particular string of bits, or a particular series of steps of some algorithm in some specific context?
"it is quite likely the drug is doing nothing"

The only way to be sure that the drug is doing nothing is to repress the placebo effect as much as possible.

There are people dying or suffering that could be helped with drugs that failed the placebo test. (Some of them could even have been helped with the placebos themselves)
Why Expensify endorsing Bitcoin is a really big deal
Tuesday's article on The Verge [1] was a lot clearer about the distinction between the various components that fall under the iCloud brand and what the problems are with the Core Data synchronization piece.

[1]http://www.theverge.com/2013/3/26/4148628/why-doesnt-icloud-...
Roundtable Recap: Positioning And Focus Create Fast Sales Cycles
Show HN: Load this image from a peer rather than from a web server (open source)
Watching that video feels like something out of Kerbel Space Program: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DWBgUnL_ya4
You're not adjusting for risk here. In tech, the norm is for industries to die within decades - how many tech giants are still around from the '80s? IBM, Microsoft, Apple (after a near-death experience), Oracle and... that's about all I can think of.

On top of the mortality rate, unlike a publisher or a journal, a dead tech giant leaves behind nothing that will still be valuable decades later: the technology is long-since obsolete, the brand irrelevant, and what intellectual property do they have? Their patents expire within 20 years while the publishers and journals' copyright on anything written since the 1930s will last what might as well be forever.
The document storage of iCloud is broken from a design viewpoint: I don't want to store/find things based on app, but rather by date/time created, content type, name, etc.

If I have many apps that do the same thing, I'd have to go through each one to remember where I saved something. No, just no.
PHP gets yield, now JS too?

You'd think it would be the other way round!
I personally think copyright law provides enough protection for software. I think patents would actually harm innovation in the software world.

Algorithms are inherently protected, anyway - they're not like clever mechanical solutions that can be reverse-engineered by anyone with eyes and a brain; they're usually close-sourced when the author wants them to be. Patents may be necessary to protect products with transparent functionality, but software usually doesn't fit that bill unless it's deliberately open-sourced.

Even if you developed a strong AI algorithm that will change the world, there should be competition. It's not like Microsoft will hire a few engineers to rapidly develop something that transcends yours; it would be a reverse engineering challenge to any competition.

What if algorithms behind network protocols were patented? Computers would still be novelties and corporate tools, I think.
ok, the promised blog post is done: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5457168
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"Here's how you guide new users: Lead by example, and treat them with respect."
Same here. Can anyone point to a good starting point for someone who understands TCP/IP to start understanding the Internet topology?
Creating Content For Earning Links
It's more than that as it's vary possible for things to fail peer review and or be edited and resubmitted. But, also in some ways less as you as a reader don't know who did the peer review.
The C# (and presumably VB) compiler just looks for an attribute with the right namespace and name (System.Runtime.CompilerServices.ExtensionAttribute). If you're using .NET 2.0 you can get extension methods just by declaring you own attribute with that name and using it.

This is also another area where C# took a narrow view of language features and implemented the bare minimum needed to get LINQ working. Why not take a general view of type extensions, and support type extensions as a proper feature versus a hack for LINQ? That is, support all members, including static members, for type extensions.
> But publishers of subscription journals insist that such views are misguided — born of a failure to appreciate the value they add to the papers they publish, and to the research community as a whole.

Okay, let's hear it:

(crickets)

Commercial publishers offer one and only one thing: the journals' names. I want to publish in Journal fur die reine und angewandte Mathematik and Inventiones mathematicae and lots of other journals with names every mathematician has heard of (and some of which are even in English!) I want the warm glow of having my ego thus flattered, and tenure committees are looking for the same thing too.

But nobody will actually go and read the journal. Why bother? If you want to actually read the paper, that's what the arXiv and my personal webpage are for.
It's called staging and scripts.
Soaked it all in until I saw that the read previous post link was titled "I don't get google+". Seems like someone just isn't a fan of Google anymore.

As for it being released when Blackberry was still king, I suppose technically that's true but...

[chrome] "The browser was first publicly released for Microsoft Windows (XP and later versions) on September 2, 2008 in 43 languages, officially a beta version.[18]"

[iPhone] "The two initial models, a 4 GB model priced at US$ 499 and a 8 GB model at US$ 599, went on sale in the United States on June 29, 2007, at 6:00 pm local time"

iPhone was released by that point, which although it may not have had market share, the technology existed. Comparing it to the blackberry is an obvious ploy to relate it to something known to be old and shabby, but honestly:

"The Firefox project went through many versions before version 1.0 was released on November 9, 2004."
In-N-Out Burger has a similar strategy in the fast food market.
That's even worse. What the heck were they waiting for? 10-20 million users not enough? we need a billion!
That's not evolution, that's selective breeding by humans.
In case you don't care about the CDN stuff, and only want to do p2p transfer from client-side JS, here's a demo app I wrote that lets you send and receive multiple images between people on the same site. http://github.com/dtrejo/peerimage
Note: it is really slow on big images. I recommend just using favicons!
Does this use data: URLs to get data from JS into the page?

Red means bad but checkmark means good, so red checkmark means... what?