skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What I'm curious about is the fatality rates for new drivers regardless of age.

Is the fatality rate for all inexperienced drivers dropping the way it is for teenagers? If not, that suggests that the apparent improvements aren't so significant as they seem. In particular, social and regulatory changes that make it more difficult for teenagers to drive, but not for young adults may only shift what age group the problem affects.
Agreed. I think that is a pretty good move for adoption. My QNAP NAS has always played well with bittorrent and backups. Adding ARM support means you can use this in a bunch of low power devices.
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These look a lot like the posters sprinkled around Facebook HQ:

http://bluebones.net/2012/09/move-fast-and-break-things/
YC would not put the $10M in, so from their point of view it doesn't matter. From the economic point of view it is simply statistics, a large majority of start-ups fails, the few that make it to round 'C' and then burn are not very significant. The majority will fail long before that or will survive.
can we get it without the y-hipsternator advertisement? If so, I'm in.
My server is struggling, here's a cached version for the interested:

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://...
I guess he is advocating applying leanness to "start-ups" rather than production, quality or manufacturing.
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Regexps are slow-ish. Several MB/second/core for applying the pattern in https://github.com/onemorecloud/dendrite/blob/master/cookboo..., vs pcre at dozens of MB/second/core. We'll probably put pcre into Dendrite sooner or later.

Dendrite is actually a port of an unreleased library I wrote in C with pcre. For us, the slowdown (which at our log velocity of hundreds of lines per second per box, still looks like 0% cpu in top), was well worth the productivity we got from moving to Go.
Very similar to $49 Cubieboard: http://cubieboard.org/

- 1G ARM cortex-A8 processor, NEON, VFPv3, 256KB L2 cache

- Mali400, OpenGL ES GPU

- 512M/1GB DDR3 @480MHz

- HDMI 1080p Output

- 10/100M Ethernet

- 4Gb Nand Flash

- 2 USB Host, 1 micro SD slot, 1 SATA, 1 ir

- 96 extend pin including I2C, SPI, RGB/LVDS, CSI/TS, FM-IN, ADC, CVBS, VGA, SPDIF-OUT, R-TP..
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Yeah. My estimate of the total amount invested in pre-ASIC hardware is 60 million, not counting power.

The key questions to predict ASIC mining profitability is:

- how much will be invested in ASIC hardware

- future prices of bitcoin

- how long will it take for the ASIC hardware to roll out

The only "easy-money" I see here is if you have access to ASIC mining hardware _right now_.
For YC's, I believe it's all listed out online. For the rest of the money, it's simply an uncapped convertible note.
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DIYbio sounds huge and looks like Genome Compiler is THE tool for it!
PgOpenCL takes a different approach- instead of a Foreign Data Wrapper (FDW) that exposes tables, it's a language for writing postgres functions in, where the language is just opencl.
http://www.slideshare.net/3dmashup/pgopencl

Alas, Tim's been talking about this for two years now, and as far as we know he's the only one whose ever seen the code.
I tell my bosses that before I can give a solid estimate I need to have two things done first:

1) I've eliminated most (or all) of the unknowns
2) I know how I am going to do the thing I am supposed to do.

Sometimes I know the system and I know how to implement what's asked. But if I'm working in some of the legacy code we have the above 2 tasks easily take about 50% of the total time.
Intel started out targeting the low end discrete graphics solutions, now maybe they re just moving their way up the food chain.

I'm actually more excited that the CPU has access to this cache too.
Did you look at git-annex? Its developer is working on an easier to use multiplatform UI.
We use the cast from Seinfeld (Kramer, Babu, SoupNazi etc...)
Firefox still does exactly what you ask for exactly the same way it did in the "old times".

Just go to Options->General->Downloads, tick Always ask me where to download files

Internet Explorer also works like this practically eliminating step 1,2 and 4 from your scenario above.
Yes, I often circulate drafts of my papers to colleagues too. I don't post them for the world to see into perpetuity until they reach a certain level of quality.

Your shower analogy doesn't work because there's no way to force people to post drafts. We already have the option posting of drafts. It's called personal websites and/or the arXiv.
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I would consider offering a discount of sorts when paying via bitcoin, or setting a fixed conversion rate (right now something like $120 per BTC has been fairly stable).

But I agree, there's nothing to prevent me from accepting the money via normal means, and simply buying my own bitcoins.
"Make people want something" - counterpoint
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+1 for typescript instead of coffee.
Just to respond a little, I actually just finished with my Master's in applied physics, so yeah, it can work with an academic life. ^_^ Actually it can even be beneficial, much like turning off the Internet -- where yes, you lose access to help docs, but you also lose access to distractions.

If you want a little more unorthodox advice I'd offer, "don't buy the textbook unless either (a) it is a workbook which must be submitted for the grade or (b) you were really so powerfully impressed that you want this book as a lifelong reference." Ask the professor to ask the library to put the textbook on reserve in the library -- so that nobody in the course can take it out, but rather you share it at the library. If this leaves you muttering about Kant's categorical imperative, remember that if someone else is using it, you can form an impromptu study group and make a new friend. :D. For that matter, student societies should have copies of the texts, and a study lounge at the department might also have them. If nothing else works, copy homework problems from a friend taking the same course and look up the same material in alternative texts in the library (or on the Internet) -- but that's almost never necessary.
This is indeed the solution. If you need the feature "needs to work without needing both computers on at the same time", add a third computer that IS always on. Might cost you a small amount of money on say EC2 or something, but probably cheaper than drop box.
PDF preserves layout whereas html doesn't (generally, although it can preserve layout somewhat if you specify one font, fix font sizes, and fix all dimensions), but that's a negative for PDFs.

Different displays have different resolutions and different dimensions. That makes fixed layouts obnoxious to read on e-readers. The most obvious example of how fixed formatting is an abomination is a PDF on an ebook reader.

There is one reigning reason for having a fixed page layout: ability to cite pages, e.g. for academic citations.

There is no need to cite pages for works that have good digital versions, other than antiquated citation requirements (e.g. MLA/CMS). Ebook readers have text search. Cite a digital form of the work, and anyone with that work in digital form can find it... an exception being OCR'd pdfs and ebooks converted from PDFs, because OCR often screws up line breaks or has other errors that make searching unreliable.

For less-granular searching, there's section, table, and image numbering/labeling. Again, fixed layout is not required to make content searchable.
My bad, I missed that part. But I still think those conditions are far from sufficient. A sharp picture and a credit card?! Really? How would anyone even resolve that this service was the accessory to the crime?

I like the slowness and hassle of duplicating keys because I know that someone would have to swipe my keys to do that. Not just snap a clear picture.

The future is probably with smarter locks, not enhancing what is broken.
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Made a Twitter #movie version three days after Twitter #music released
Three days after Twitter released their new music discovery platform, I started working on my own version using movies, aiming to connect movie actors/casts with Twitter. Suggestions? Feedback??
didn't inspiration used to be more subtle?
we calculate an economic value of around $6.1 bn added since the accelerator was founded in 2005

If you could add up the market cap of all of the companies you've been involved with finding funding all of a sudden the NYSE has "contributed" over 14 trillion dollars to the US economy. Except it hasn't.
In response to http://alvybrooks.com/ycposter.

An interesting counterpoint by @pricklynettles on twitter.

How much startup failure is not making something people want, and how much of it is failing to make people want it?
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Make something people want (and charge for it)
How to break the US market with one twit.
Skin, metal - some kinda head. Stop joggling my elbow, son, you're distracting me.
You can easily profit from ETF Volatility stocks (UVXY, TVIX, etc). They were up 20%+ during the 'crash'
What people don't understand about YCombinator is that they are ultimately in the business of making friends. The few thousand dollars they invest in startups isn't meant to be seed money, or enough money for founders to sustain a business. It's a token of friendship and a reason to continue a relationship.

The fact is that relationships with successful people can be far more valuable than bags with dollar signs on them. Relationships can lead to inside information, help with making deals and most importantly, once in a lifetime investment opportunities. Most rich people spend a lot of their money and effort on access to information. At the higher levels, information and relationships rule all and powerful people will go far out of their way to get them.

Evaluating the success of YCombinator based on the total value of their portfolio is missing the point. Most of their value is in the form of soft currency, the massive network of grateful friends that they are building. The incubator model gives them the investment returns of a venture capital firm combined with the social returns of a fraternity. We won't know their true value for decades.
> If I were you I'd start that rumor myself.

How would such a rumor help him at all? It would ruin his business!

> Low enforcement

I presume you were using some voice-to-text tool?
I'm a man, and I have observed a similar situation ("disrupt your career") holds if I take into account my own vision of how I want to raise my kid. I have had to make some re-adjustments, compromises, changes to the objective function of my life. And that's OK.

If I didn't want to deal with difficult-to-foresee, potentially life-altering consequences of factors outside my control, probably having a kid would not be a good idea.

This is serious stuff, but I don't understand the sense of gloom that seems to pervade these choices, which are, after all, rather joyful in both cases ("fully-realized and consequential career" vs. "parent of a child"). Is it the pain of saying goodbye to a version of yourself that will never be actualized? What about the version that will be?
Side projects are the new resume
Awesome. I hope you didn't have a Thomson for dev and a Thompson for production :-)
What I think will be an interesting use case for this technology is public file sharing.

If I want to share files with the general public I could just give them a read-only key and then they'll have a folder that syncs with whatever files I put into it. It's a new way of content distribution.

Will this be how people distribute music and TV shows?

Will this be the way people subscribe to content in the future?

I could be a game developer, and I could give my users a read-only key to download my game and at the same time they'll receive any updates I make to the game when I update the files in the folder.
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That's a pretty good idea -- perhaps a "prompt" attribute instead of a "download" attribute.

Lends itself reasonably well to a JS-only implementation, too:

http://jsfiddle.net/FLa8P/1/
That is the story I was talking about.

The link in my post is just a citation as evidence that account suspension is a manual process.
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Extremely confusing name, given that Unicorn happens to be the name of both an extremely popular Ruby web server and its extremely popular Python port.
Dropbox does not upload your whole Truecrypt volume every time you change it. It just uploads the blocks that are changed. It's pretty efficient.

The real problem with using a Truecrypt volume on Dropbox is concurrent changes to the same volume. It happens if you mount the Truecrypt volume on 2 machines at the same time. It will mess up badly.
That is an acceptable solution for the HN community, that is not a solution for the general public. Dropbox has reached wider success because you don't need to have an EC2 or know what one is in order to use Dropbox.
I'm pretty sure they attacked the country that gave them shelter purely because that is where they were physically located.
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> possibly even jail time

Are you really ready to go to jail, yet again? That sounds quite bold, and foolish... of you. (No offense intended.)

My 2 cents: if you start getting sued again, you should just leave the country, for some place[1] with not as inane laws. Perhaps Comeback might be more viable there.

[1] Dunno where though... perhaps somewhere in Europe? They probably have low rates of recidivism to start with, though.

As a side point, I can't help but think -- a lot of the recidivism in the U.S. is somehow driven by laws and a system that continues to be upheld by the "stake holders". The stake holders here are, ofcourse those private "prison-as-a-business" corporations.
A long time ago, I was fond of a young woman whose family was originally from Denmark. As the ultimate testament to my love, I named my computer 'danish'. Breakfast-themed computer names followed the in-joke: eggs, toast, waffle.

Years later, having moved on, I switched to jazz musicians (I play the saxophone.) coltrane, gillespie, parker.
Developers tend to have trouble recognizing and factoring in their own past failures. They mistakenly assume that the next project will be free of all the little gotchas and time sinks that plagued almost every one of their past projects. I've had developers working for me who had just finished a project that they said would take "a couple of weeks" that took a couple of months or so. They'd turn around at the next little project given to them of similar complexity and with a straight face said, "oh, a couple of weeks". Comedy ensued.

I tend to make pretty good estimates in my own consulting for two reasons: I usually bill on a "not to exceed" basis and I keep really good records of how long things have taken me in the past.

When I size up a project, I break it down into chunks comparable to chunks that I've bite-sized in the past. I look at those past chunks and I add up how long they ACTUALLY took to complete. I read the notes that I took during implementation to freshen my memory on the kinds of troubles that I encountered. I figure that same complexity plus similar work load means similar ACTUAL hours and resist my developer tendency to assume the best case implementation scenario. Also, by looking at past project estimates vs actual work, I've established an amount of inevitable overhead.

I throw all these actual hours chunks into a spreadsheet that adds them up and includes my previously calculated overhead and normally I'm pretty happy with how on-target I end up being.

[edited typos and readability]
Could they have possibly picked a more confusing name?

1. Unicorn for Ruby: http://unicorn.bogomips.org/

2. Green Unicorn for Python: http://gunicorn.org/

The fact that this is an HTTP request library, as opposed to a server, is what pushes this into serious troll territory. The only saving grace here is that Java programmers searching for this library might come upon one of the other two and realize what they are missing.

Edit: A Ruby and a Python library, named unicorn-rest and unicorn respectively, are built into this project. This is madness.
Thank you for the links. The first step is to find a client who would pay via Bitcoin, but I figure if businesses can accept Bitcoin then so can I.

I will definitely update you if I go through with it.
When I can, I enjoy naming them things like "Megahertz" or "my RAM" so that when they crash, people sound silly. "My RAM is down" or "Megahertz isn't working"
> Imagine the same about newspapers: This is really perverse, some of our best writing talent got pulled into writing news articles in order to get people to read the ads.

This isn't an apt analogy. Ads may bring in the revenue but people are doing something useful. Same could be said for Google---ads bring in the revenue but the product (i.e., search) is still highly useful.

The computational power used to mine bitcoins are doing absolutely nothing of useful value to society. I believe there was an HN discussion earlier about tying this in with Folding@Home or SETI@Home and make the mining process a bit more productive.
AMD kind-of-sort-of announces that more ARM chips are on their way
Help, I'm feeling repressed!
Well, when all browsers support the HTML 5 download features then maybe the 'Right click and save as' can go away. Until then it stays.
That's a really good comment you make, and in the exact spirit to the article. She's right - you do have to just decide not to 'play the game'. We, as a society, can make a difference here by hiring parents with young children or ready to have families, being generous where we can, and making time flexible. The issue at hand really only applies to the status quo which we know can topple at any moment given the right circumstances.
BoxCryptor is just a commercial implementation of encfs [1] with a nice GUI (and _a lot_ less hassle to install on Windows)

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encfs
Hm, that's the Github unicorn. I wonder if they have permission.

http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ksc5rubkMt1qz5pz6o1_500.pn...
This seems like a great way to deploy code and files to thousands of servers.

Anyone here already using BitTorrent for deployment?
I think you have a valid point, but my experience is that it is not nearly as rosy a picture for men.

Most women I came across while dating in my early thirties were not open to the idea of a 5+ year difference. Many women in their mid-twenties consider 30 a magical number that some how makes you "too old". Less then four years of age difference seems to be more along the norm that women looked for. I've seen articles that confirm that as well.

That said, it is true that the exceptions for age difference favor men over women. Not sure what could be done to change that, but having a realistic expectation and timeline of your goal will go a lot further to it success then anything else. You realize you may have to hedge your bets to make it happen. Unfortunately many women will not pay attention to that fact until it is too late to make that choice.
Isn't an estimate wrong practically by definition, since it is an 'approximation'. Or, the other side of the coin, without specified tolerances, all estimates are right. e.i. "This will take 3 weeks +/- 3 years".
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Well, I'll certainly admit we do have a lot of fasces in our government symbology.[1]

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fasces#Fasces_in_the_United_Sta...
Makes you kind of wonder if shutting down Boston for a day was partly motivated by the desire to be able to list damage to interstate trade.
I clicked and just assumed it was the Ruby server, I've even seen that logo used in conjunction with Unicorn before. Did they just not google the name at all before diving in?
I name my servers all after the muppets. There's something about typing ssh me@misspiggy that makes me smile.
What you need is a transporter that can teleport you from a space-bound craft to a surface location and back without all of this rocket launching business to deal with.
It may not be for you, but there is nothing pretentious about it. There are many ways to motivate yourself. Having physical reminders to keep important stuff at the top of your mind is just one way of doing it. It works for some.. it may even work for everyone if people weren't negative about this stuff.

A good example I like is Bruce Lee's letter to himself on his chief definite aim: http://www.lettersofnote.com/2011/03/my-definite-chief-aim.h.... Some may find this stupid, pretentious, or cheesy, but I bet it was useful for Bruce Lee and that is what matters.

I just got one because (1) I find myself coming back to this saying a lot, (2) I like this motivational type of stuff (I actually want all of little posters up in FB), and (3) donating to Watsi is a good thing to do.
We do! It's owned by Daniel Shaw, who I got permission from to use in an open-source project.
Maybe you only want to deny confirmations to your enemies. I can imagine that the US government might want to prevent people from making donations to Wikileaks. Maybe someone just wants to destroy Bitcoin, for reasons that are beyond your imagination.

Really though, trying to figure out your attacker's intentions or goals, or their willingness to commit resources to an attack, is a fool's errand. This is even more so when your system has known and exploitable weaknesses. The Germans learned this lesson the hard way with Enigma:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TICOM
And, besides, it says right there in the TOS that you clicked through to create the account that....
For comparison: Sequoia Capital estimates that 19% of the NASDAQ's value is made up of firms that they have invested in. If you apply the same ridiculous, super sloppy accounting used here to Sequoia, it has contributed over one trillion dollars to the U.S. economy in market cap alone, to say nothing of second order effects on the economy.

And you can add YC's value to Sequoia's, since Sequoia is an investor in YC itself.
Just tried it again. Still can't live with it at night, makes me feel like I am going blind with the shift to red. Might try it 1 more time with a gradual shift and see if that works but right now, certainly not useable for me.
git-annex also supports client-side encryption and is in the process of getting sensible syncing. I am a bit surprised it wasn’t mentioned here yet.
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Dan Schultz wrote a great article on some naming conventions he uses that was inspired by Starcraft. http://slifty.com/2011/03/starcraft-network/
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I'm curious as to why the association with Watsi was the deciding factor for you. Certainly, there are causes that are equivalently significant as those being confronted by Watsi, and indeed, organizations that do similar work. The fact that you'd be willing to support a cause associated with Watsi but not with another organization is indicative that Watsi has done something correct in their branding strategy and PR efforts.
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I don't understand why people keep writing new code in legacy hardware that most people don't own.

Its written in CUDA, not OpenCL. Stop that.
I think the best part is the fact that demonstrating your knowledge/understanding that occurred throughout your learning journey is being utilized to gain a more complete certification. This way, the learner can focus on the learning itself!