skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thx. also this

http://research.microsoft.com/pubs/173887/model-learner-popl...

http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/fun/

http://www.cs.tufts.edu/~nr/cs257/archive/avi-pfeffer/figaro...
While engineer in me loves edge distributed and duplicated shards of encrypted data, does the business model hold up against the economies of the giant cloud providers doing it all in a few of their data centers?
I found this screencast by Tom Dale very comprehensive and extremely easy to follow http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ga99hMi7wfY
Go 1.1beta1 now on the benchmarks game
Can you share any experience you've had implementing w/ Venmo, especially in comparison to this Stripe implementation?
Please stop propagating these images. They're nothing more than speculation and could easily ruin the lives of these people.

http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2008/03/18/rush_ho...

Something from a few years back; I wouldn't be surprised if these photos end up causing even more trouble.
Why is this a subscription pricing model?.. if all the data is stored on peers Space Monkeys, then the only ongoing cost of keeping it running is electricity for the unit and bandwidth for the connection.

Unless it's a way to draw out more money over time from the user?
Celery 3.0.19 released
More time stamps are needed. I found three all from the race timer(assuming they haven't been photoshopped):
2:18:41
2:35:09
3:23:?

Is there any meta-data in these pics? I examined a few but it's all been scrubbed or it was never there.
Actually, I agree with you.

This is why when I dated her, she was a former model, and "overweight" (by her standards).

If she was still a model, I would pass... I am not into stick bags.
I've been wondering why this hasn't been done yet.

Their game being coded in Java should make it easy to port to many different platforms seeing as there's a library or framework for almost anything Java.

I don't play RuneScape but I'm happy to see this, this should help bring the game to other platforms like Android, Firefox OS and hopefully iOS (they could make a native app for iOS).
Right, my point is just that futures markets will of course reduce BTC volatility, but they're not going to make it nearly as stable as TIPS or something. Parent was saying it was going to "really stabilize."

Speculating, I think an optimistic outcome is that it will end up with volatility similar to an equity index (which themselves effectively have futures markets).
Colors in R
Transocean Restores Dividend - Asahi Associates.
According to the mail outage info, it's only affecting .007% of users anyway. Pay the SLA penalty for those guys and move on.
Interesting. We're finally back to the 1990's BBS days, with real-time sysop chat. I never understood why AIM and other chat messengers removed real-time typing when we always had that with the BBSes. I suppose it was due to latency or flow (you type a sentence hit enter, I type a sentence hit enter), but in 2013, you would think most chat systems would allow character by character typing by now. You can tell a lot from a person by how they type: slow typing, frequent misspellings, interrupting the other user, etc, and can convey more information.

http://codeshare.io/hackernews
Fair enough. I agree that they haven't moved between pictures 2 and 3. But I thought the point was that they were out of range by then, so there would be no need to go any further. Although I must admit that explanation seems highly unlikely.
Uh, where did you come up with $180 each?

The PTO revenue is vastly greater than that, and the vast majority is diverted to other agencies.

The actual PTO revenue is 2.2 billion in 2011
Depends, I doubt enough of the information about what is going to be hedged is public, and I'd imagine he takes a view on BTC to help stay anonymous too. (Ie delays certain operations)

It would also be trivial to have choice of exchanges and settlement currencies.

I don't know enough about silk road, having only read about it never played with it, but I'm guessing you can't see the time a merchant has placed an offer to the time they chose the hedging.

Combined with the low overall spend, and ever increasing liquidity of BTC, I would have thought that would be quite a challenge.

It is funny with BTC, I was playing with some exchanges the other day and there did appear to be free money to be had as not only some Bid Offer spreads were above or below other exchanges, there was some free cash to be had fixing the FX market, say selling in USD to buy in EUR with a hedge on a regular forex site. I figure its still pennies in front of bulldozers time mind, but the thing is its not a perfect market. As such hiding in it whilst making reasonable profits should be easy if you charge enough premium for the option.
Most of these didn't end with lives ruined. With Ryan Lanza, the media corrected the suspect name very quickly. Hatfill got a multimillion dollar settlement from the government, and Jewell ended up on SNL. In all cases the media did learn they were wrong and publicly admit. Certainly they jumped the gun and caused injury, but they did learn and do the right thing eventually.
Can anyone explain how this works?I opened the URL in two different browsers and it works fine but I don't see any data in Fiddler.
I do. Thanks.
Hm, are you an employee?
For such an special case, I think it's a great idea. How many analysts can the FBI/CIA/DIA throw at this? I wouldn't be surprised if one of those guys in the pictures comes out to be suspect or somehow proves his "innocence".
OTOH, there are pictures of one of the bags only.
Ah, yes, you are quite right. It seems like gross negligence on the part of the document to not mention that, given that the work factor is basically exactly what PBKDF2 is used for.
Technical Analysis is the Homeopathy of the financial world, just an "advanced" kind of scam using some basic maths...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Random_walk_hypothesis

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nash_equilibrium

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Efficient-market_hypothesis

I though you guys were more smart than this.
The best paying job offers I've ever received are for senior COBOL positions (but I'm no senior, I just took a course and had the bad idea to list it on my CV :P ).
How do you recognize good design in a fork? Devote time to comparing forks.

However, it's not as certain forkers wish it was. A $200 fork may have all sorts of wonderful properties missing from a utensil which costs $0.02 and still be a worse design.

What makes a design good or bad is how it meets someone's needs. Silk toilet paper probably feels wonderful but it will clog the septic system - or require cleaning for reuse.
PowerPoint: shot with its own bullets
If we are to say it is a perfect or near perfect simulation ('copy') then I don't see how, as stated in my first post.

It's interesting to consider if we were a different simulation. But it would still have the same limits (that the sum of the activity ('reality') in each simulation must be less large/complex than it's host), prohibiting the 'infinite simulations' concept.

It surely isn't necessary that we are similar to a host universe, but I wouldn't you say it was a necessary part of this theory?; because it all starts with the vastness of our own space(-time) as the justification for the likelihood of super-advanced civilisations. You could argue that the size of our universe implies simulations must happen, and that if our universe were a simulation the host must be larger, i suppose. If the simulations are not similar to their host, though, the foundation suggestion that a simulation could be our universe seems a little more shaky (as there would be no direct theory ('evidence') that a universe like ours could be simulated).

There is perhaps a semantic issue too.. if somewhere in this universe we are simulating something that works on different rules to our universe, is it in fact a universe, or what makes it so?
I click "go to beta" and then "register", and it says my Java is not up to date? I thought this was Java-free?
First, the majority of PTO revenue is from maintenance fees, not filing fees (this doesn't change your point, i'm just correcting you :P)

See http://www.uspto.gov/about/stratplan/ar/2011/mda_06_01_03.ht...

A large portion of PTO revenue is actually diverted to other agencies/budgets.

Google "PTO Revenue diversion". This has been an issue for various reasons for years.

So issuing more patents does not actually help the PTO in that sense, because they don't get the money they earn anyway.

They still have no real incentive, and don't really see themselves as the gatekeepers they really should. So you are right, but for the wrong reasons.

At least one good start would be for them to stop calling people filing patents "customers", as if it was their job to serve these folks.
that put a smile on my face, do i need to update my resume to be a database specialist?
It's a good screencast, but I wasn't able to follow along using the ember starter kit I downloaded yesterday (errors). I'm sure the problem was something silly, but I'm not a js whiz like the rest of HN so I got frustrated and quit. Hopefully the glut of ember tutorials on the frontpage today will help.
The beta is unfortunately not accepting new users at the moment, I'm guessing they don't want to put too much strain on anything before it's been thoroughly tested.
The difference is recklessness, a word previous user used.

Bad things happen even with reasonable safeguards in place - cars will keep crashing even if everyone is alert and sober, yet there is still a world of difference between a drunk swerving between lanes and a sober/attentive driver.

The fact that the criminal justice system, based around impartial trials, the right to defend yourself before your charges, and the assumption of innocence, will at times ensnare innocents is not an excuse to adopt the opposite system - i.e., the assumption of guilt, mob justice, and the lack of opportunity to defend oneself.

Put more practically, the difference between bad vigilante justice and bad institutional justice is its occurrence rate. Vigilante justice frequently ensnares innocents - the other posts in this thread demonstrate this in spades, and makes wrongful convictions in the US criminal justice system look like a drop in the bucket.
This is awesome. Hide it from the fanatics on Bitcoin talk, or post it for them to strengthen the feed-back loops?
Timeline says you can submit your application from 5-apr-2013 to 30-apr-2013. I dont think they have an expectation of a working prototype from what I've read on the various pages. Independently, I met an angel investment group head, and their expectation was just a business idea. So I think the expectation for Indian startups is a lot lower, at least in this 1st batch.
Dropbox does this too. I think I read somewhere that they md5 your file and see if matches one already on the network, if so, they just replicate a 'link' to that file in your account.

That's why sometimes if you upload a movie you downloaded, it uploads in a matter of seconds.
I've been using Backbone exclusively for building Tutorialize's (https://tutorialize.me) chrome extension. One year ago backbone seemed like a very obvious choice, nowadays it's not the clear winner. I'm thinking about moving away from Backbone and trying out Angular or Ember. I've even thought about playing around with Dart. The most difficult thing for me has been dealing with all the things that Backbone doesn't handle out of the box. Things like zombie views, data binding, and namespacing just to name a few. The worst thing however has been the constant need to deal with strange quirks and bugs that I've found almost impossible to track down. I've posed a question to the #documentcloud irc channel three times and did not receive a single reply. I believe in the long run that the strength of a framework is about the conventions put in place. After all, isn't it about making development easier?
GoDaddy expanding to Seattle
BeOS had some extremely interesting concepts, and I'd love to see Haiku gain some traction.

I'm not sure whether or not to call it Unix-based, though. It certainly isn't based on any known Unix code-wise: it's not even written in C. But it does retain a Unix-like command line, and you can even get much of the GNU toolset for it.
It will somewhat stabilize. With Call / Put options, you can start to create a straddle for instance, and make money if the market moves in either direction.

http://commodities.about.com/od/futuresoptions/a/futures-opt...

I'd expect the first strategy people will do when a futures market opens is to start making a lot of straddles. Therefore, these people make money if the market moves in ANY direction, up or down. (the more the market moves, the more they make money). Thanks to the magic of options.

A ton of people buying straddles will slow down the movement of the market. Then the straddlers make less money when the market fails to move.

Every time someone profits off of straddling, the market volatility decreases, leading to an overall more stable BTC market.
Agenda, structure and status report is not the way I usually see 1:1 being talked about. Contrast with Horowitz's [1]: "The key to a good one-on-one meeting is the understanding that it is the employee’s meeting rather than the manager’s meeting. This is the free-form meeting for all the pressing issues, brilliant ideas and chronic frustrations that do not fit neatly into status reports, email and other less personal and intimate mechanisms."

Not saying there's not a time and place for Ryan's style.

1 - http://bhorowitz.com/2012/08/30/one-on-one/

1' - http://www.randsinrepose.com/archives/2010/09/22/the_update_...
Spreadsheet programming problems
They removed it because people don't like it. Every chat system out there has had it at one point or another. As it turns out, people don't like their mistakes broadcast to the person they are chatting with.
Apple And Google’s App Stores Now Neck And Neck
http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/The_Thaw
> or somehow proves his "innocence"

Within that phrase is everything wrong with mob justice.
Though likelihood is low, you may succeed with niche market DIY website builder if you can figure out:

1. What your target customers will get that they can't get from mass-market/ plain vanilla website builder? The differentiation and value offered has to be significantly high for niche market customer to consider DIY website builder. Small set of templates and $9 monthly fee are not going to cut it.

2. How would you get to prospects in niche market? I expect the customer acquisition cost to be much higher trying to reach narrow set of qualified prospects. First, you will need to move beyond online marketing to reach niche segments then you need to figure out how to reach qualified prospects among the niche segment.

I don't believe DIY website builder for niche segments will succeed as the biggest hurdle to overcome is customer's lack of time, interest and technical knowledge and the value they may receive by spending non-monetary resources in DIY project.

If you are targeting niche like Church, Doctors, or Restaurants, the business will be more profitable if you offer full-service package from website development, hosting to maintenance and just specialize in the selected niche.
Great points, thanks
Facebook Home is creepy
> We are not trying to be sneaky here.

Yes, and the proof of your good intentions is that you posted the contest's conditions on your Web page -- the licensing and disposition of the contest entries, the awards if any, and so forth. The fact that these essentials are missing was an oversight?

> Our engineering team is actually the one that came up with the idea.

Your social engineering team?

> We are hiring and we are definitely doing it in a fun way.

No contest conditions = no fun. Those are the rules.

All you're telling me is that you're inexperienced in running a business. Take this opportunity to show that you understand the modern world -- fix the contest content of your Web page. Explain what it means, where the contest entries go, who owns them and so forth.
Very nice comparison. Is it really time to move on from Backbone? I'm about to migrate a project to it because I believe in its potential to force me to write better js code in the long run. Should I not?
I don't know if Google are going to like this if they figure out who it is. I would be inclined to say that they won't honour their agreement to sell them a beta pair if they don't even plan to use them.

What does everyone else think on this? This to me is like buying a ticket to a show with the sole intention of turning a profit on it?
Also, there's really no reason for this to be a special device. It easily be a blob on your computer's hard drive

Uh... If it was on your computer's hard drive and your hard drive failed, it wouldn't be much use as a backup system, would it?
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> Is that a new way of saying "I just don't care about it"?

It's one way of saying it, I suppose, yes. We don't worry about linking to states in desktop apps so why would we care about linking to states in desktop-like javascript apps?

> Links are the essence of the web platform. Calling something an "app" doesn't change that.

I agree. But when you make a desktop-like app that lives on the web, then linking isn't as important. I take it your issue is with desktop-like apps on the web?
You may be confusing high fashion models, a subset of the modelling industry, with modelling in general.

Not every model is a skeleton wearing over-stylized clothes on a runway.

In fact, this might blow your mind: the majority of models aren't that.
And from 1996, there is Richard Jewell:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Jewell
Djangocore-box: A virtual machine for running the Django core test suite
You buried the lede!

Note there is no entry in a debt-to-GDP ratio for assets, just liabilities. So if we believe the R&R story, then we can increase the growth rate through [auctioning off the California coastline].

People are fixated on the lurid detail of the story; do the Google search and see the "bad numbers! Excel spreadsheet! bad numbers!" roll by. The real issue, which Matt Yglesias pointed out last year, is that the purported result is hard to square with reality. Japan has the highest debt ratio in the world. If they disposed of it tomorrow, they would not suddenly be the fastest growing economy.
>No, you aren't. If that 1% chance is balanced by a 99% chance to increase the world's wealth by 2%, the expected gain is .98%, so anyone using pure expected cost/expected benefit analysis would give the go ahead if the cost of this were, say 0.5%.

If you could actually improve the world by 2% in doing that, maybe you should -- but don't discount what that would mean. You're not talking about a 2% increase in GDP. GDP measures commerce per year, we're talking about everything, forever. You have to account not only for the loss of the economy, but the loss of human life, family, humanity itself and all future endeavors of any nature by anyone. And if the alternative is a gain rather than a competing loss, you have to put a value on our desire to avoid losses as being greater than our desire to make gains. If you still think you can create a gain that would balance that loss, let's hear it.

And the fact is that we do as a factual matter make decisions like that. We built nuclear weapons because the risk of blowing up the world was calculated as being a better choice than the risk of fascism taking over. We grow genetically modified food because the ability to feed the population is deemed more important than the risks it entails. You can dispute decisions like these, but then you're just disputing the value we've placed on each alternative, not the process of comparing relative values in order to make the choice.

The idea that some risks are insufferable doesn't break economics, it just changes valuations. You have to consider both the consequence and the probability. Otherwise the world should pay me the billion dollars, because there is some risk that the alternative will be world-ending.

People object to putting a number on things like life and love, but there is no avoiding it. At the end of the day you have to make decisions. You have to weigh love against safety against money and make a choice.
Good name for Google's complaints system.
Does google own all beta test units or do the beta testers?
Looks like some fraud going on here. Look at the bidding history: http://offer.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewBids&_trksid=...

Started at $5,000, then the same user bid $5,100 all the way to $84,000 without anyone else bidding. Checking out the user history, this looks like the only thing they've bid on.
I thought they changed that because someone found that if you added that hash to your Dropbox to your local Dropbox database/config, it would download the movie. And for a week or two, people were pirating movies this way.

Though I suppose Dropbox could still use the same deduplication while making it harder to link a file to your account.
The city may choose to settle civil claims against it. The officer is not at risk. Which is a point made extensively in your link, actually.
This is nice news! I'm very interested in seeing how their HTML5 client turns out.

On a side note, I used to play Runescape years ago back in High School/College. Looks like so much has changed since then, maybe this summer I'll look to re-activate my old character :).
Nice to see the Ember.js team and community reacting so swiftly to the criticisms about learnability.
No, it's not a little creepy. It's fucking disturbing. These guys are innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.

Numerous examples were pointed out here (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5562909) of people that seemed obviously guilty and then weren't. This is no different.

There is a reason we have due process. If you do not offer protection to the accused, then who will offer it to you when you stand accused?

Whether these men are guilty or not, they have a right to due process, including the presumption of innocence. Encouraging mob justice is, quite literally and with no exaggeration, encouraging the abandonment of your own basic human rights.

You cannot separate protecting the innocent and protecting the guilty. You can only protect the accused. Yes, this means you will sometimes be protecting the guilty. It even means you will sometimes acquit the guilty. That is the price of our freedom. And if you are not willing to pay, then do not be surprised when your own freedom disappears.
Just some relevance, but everyone who is getting a set of Google Glasses has done so through joining the Glass Explorer Program. Upon joining they have all agreed to terms of the following [1]. These are not the terms which will apply upon general release.

'If you resell, loan, transfer, or give your device to any other person without Google's authorization, Google reserves the right to deactivate the Device, and neither you nor the unauthorized person using the Device will be entitled to any refund, product support, or product warranty.'

Since the original auction has been removed, here is a screenshot for anyone who missed it. [2]

Also, from a legal point of view, I believe that the first sale doctrine, does not apply in this situation because, 1) people had to apply to join the program, and then agreed to the terms of the Glass Explorer Program [3], 2) They are just shutting down the device. Your ownership and property rights are not affected.

[1] : https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-zeDA7Huey9o/UWy-qZX9LbI/A...

[2] : http://www.chrisacky.com/images/glasses1.png

[3] : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Glass#Glass_Explorer_Pro...
This wont be up long.
I didn't know that... Can you expand then on what glucose is and how it metabolizes, stores and uses sugars?
Did you read the auction description? It appears the owner is taking the auction down anyway due to resale being against the google glass ToS.
That's more extensible. I think that's the perennial problem with FizzBuzz, whether decides the spec demands generalizability or simplicity.