skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Pretty random, first thing that occurred to me. You probably did not want to be in this guy's path: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genghis_Khan

(I may have been echoing an old SF story where a XXX century displaced person was telling a friend about his punishment for trying a ruthless power grab, which was being dumped in Warsaw in September 1939. However, he had bounced back, remaking a good life. But the "friend" was an agent who then proceeded to continue the punishment by dumping him in Baghdad before Genghis hit it ...).

Anyways, pick a century, any century ...
To put it shortly, a completely de-leveraged economy leaves people starving in the streets. We're basically spending to outrace Malthus.
Linus of course, hahahah.
This is a common argument, but it's fundamentally flawed. We're in a very different economic regime right now than we were under GWB, and that makes all the difference.

I think you'd be hard pressed to find anyone on the left who understands the issues who is seriously arguing that deficits are never a problem, or never have to be dealt with. What a lot of us ARE arguing is that as long as we have an aggregate demand shortfall (everyone in the economy trying to save at once), paying attention to the debt is exactly the wrong thing to do, since the government is the only actor in the economy that has the freedom to act counter-cyclically and make up for the shortfall in private sector demand. The ultimate goal is to start a virtuous cycle of spending that gets us back toward full employment (and increases GDP). Then and only then does it make sense for the government to try to reduce debt through cuts.

There's decent evidence (see Delong & Summers 2012: http://delong.typepad.com/20120320-conference-draft-final-ca...) that trying to reduce debt through cuts in an economy like we have right now is counter-productive even on it's own terms (reducing the debt-gdb ratio) because any cuts you make further reduce aggregate demand and thus reduce the GDB side of that ratio even further.

It's not a democrat in the white house vs. republican in the white house thing that is causing people who were complaining about deficits under GWB to advocate against cutting short term spending now. It's all about the underlying economic conditions.
I have in the past written my CPU cores in a pseudo-language that allowed a custom preprocessor to spit out either a function call table or a switch table. (see bsnes v013 - v040 or so.)

It's not a significant difference. The margin of error is so slim that I couldn't confidently even say one ever outperformed the other.

The main difference is that, for about 512 instructions of 16-bit era complexity, the switch table binary will be about ~800KB smaller (obviously this is highly dependent on countless things. YMMV.)

Nowadays, I wrote a cooperative threading library. I am not sure how powerful a goroutine is, but my version allocates separate stacks so that each thread has its own nested call stack, and can exit even in subfunctions. It is indeed a major boon to writing clearer emulator code, to get rid of all that delicate state machine red tape. But it does come with a performance penalty in most cases.
The distributed proof of work / ledger system is an extremely cool insight, but that's what it is - an insight. Typically, a computer science PhD involves doing a lot of actual _work_ proving things and so on, which hasn't happened here.

This isn't to put it down, at all. It's just to say that the two things are kind of orthogonal.

No PhD-granting econ department would grant a PhD for this. They'll just keep laughing and nay-saying until bitcoin goes out of fashion, or proves them completely obsolete and out of touch with reality. At which point they'll just keep going on, just as the philosophy departments have despite their proven irrelevance.
Hey there, I'm one of the Triage developers from Southgate Labs. Happy to field any questions or get feedback! :)
It's weird indeed but note that, as a backer, you are free not to select a reward, no matter how much you contribute.
In June 2011 as well (http://seattletimes.com/html/localnews/2015353612_united18m....), a week after the same happened with U.S. Airways (http://www.ajc.com/news/business/computer-glitch-grounds-us-...).
I suspect the software already exists and here is why: Following the 2011 Vancouver Stanley Cup riot [1] there was tens of thousands of photos and videos posted to social media. Vancouver Police (VPD) where initially overwhelmed with tips and digital media, so VPD setup a website [3] to aggregate the data and identify suspects. ICBC (Vancouver BC's provincial entity that issues drivers licenses) offered facial recognition software [4] and their database (although I think this idea was scrapped due to privacy issues). An organization called LEVA helped investigators analyze 1,600 hours of video evidence [5]. The VPD riot website [3] puts the hours of video evidence at 5,000 [6]. VPD used a team of 40 LEVA forensic video analysts and technicians from across the United States, Canada, and the U.K. was assemble for an intense two-week period to review the evidence. [5]

So, I think these people will step up and help if the government has not already developed this capability. Wired states that "Data for the Boston Marathon Investigation Will Be Crowdsourced" [7]. This process is likely already underway.

p.s. since I mentioned the vancouver stanley cup riot, I should also mention the vigilante justice that followed [8]. Obviously these two instances are much different but I think it is worth mentioning. People were "naming names" on-line, people were fired [10], people were expelled [9], people were targeted with death threats [11]. IMHO this software can be very dangerous when operated by the public.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Vancouver_Stanley_Cup_riot

[2] http://m.theglobeandmail.com/news/british-columbia/riot-inve...

[3] https://riot2011.vpd.ca/

[4] http://www.straight.com/news/icbc-offers-facial-recognition-...

[5] http://pipelinecomm.wordpress.com/2011/09/14/leva-activates-...

[6] https://riot2011.vpd.ca/faq

[7] http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2013/04/boston-crowdsourced/

[8] http://www.vancouversun.com/technology/Online+vigilantes+slo...

[9] http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/story/2012/09...

[10] http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/story/2011/06...

[11] http://www.vancouversun.com/technology/rioting+teen+nathan+k...
It's pretty obvious. Your criticisms would have been exactly as justified with regard to linux. That doesn't mean node.js is guaranteed to be as wildly successful as linux, but it does mean that merely dismissing it because so much of the work on it is "just porting things" is misplaced.
How to build great Products: Insights
Ask HN: How to get funding when I'm over 2000 miles from SV?
Well I finally feel like I have an idea that, if done beautifully and right, actually would require some funding to make happen. How should I go about doing this from lonely Alabama? I've looked into some Angel networks but nothing seems to have high enough funds for what I have in mind. I'm working on a prototype, but I can already tell that having enough money for a badass and full-scale launch/sustaining business is really the way this needs to go for the idea to be executed the best. How would you guys/gals go about doing something like this?
SquareSpace started offering an ecommerce option too. Haven't tried it out though.
SABRE is more of a platform than a hosting company. It even had it's own programming language at one point.
Google Glass starts shipping now
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5qjHLsctLL8
You are not serious... if you are, I'll take all the paper with numbers off of your hand right now!
"Sex Machine" is a whole lot sexier. It gave me a chuckle.
This is not a credible source.
I'd like to see a paper on American Airlines software architecture. Although I doubt it'll pop up on "High Scalability" any time soon. Do we know anything about Sabre's platform? I imagine its highly redundant..how could they have a nationwide outage?
I think the most likely answer is pretty simple and non shocking: the key is loaded via an agent on boot (subject to the correct passphrase being entered) and stays resident in memory (either permanently or for x minutes/hours). Where's the problem?
"388 Townsend San Fran"

Would yield the same as above. Addresses are inherently dirty data and there aren't any decent/affordable/legal services that offer this. You can use Google Maps Geocoder or Yahoo Placefinder but both have fairly strict quotas and are only intended (legally speaking) for use with their mapping products. USPS/FedEx/UPS are also restricted unless you're shipping with them.

Edit - Yahoo is actually letting people pay very respectable rates for their PlaceFinder service now. This is great: http://developer.yahoo.com/boss/geo/
The main "problem" seems to be, that increased GPU power and tools just make it easier to brute force the master passphrase. AgileBits will improve the situation in the future.

Please take care and pick a strong master phassphrase!
Similar set up, but I use Cygwin so I can run `startxwin` then run `ssh box -Y` and have have all my applications/workflow running in the Windows taskbar.
government's current mission should be to lower employment

Well since we've exploded our debt to supposedly lower unemployment and the meter has barely moved, maybe we're doing it wrong? We've indulged the Keynesians quite enough over the last $6+ TRILLION dollars, tyvm.

I see people in this thread demanding evidence that more debt is bad for the country. Well where the hell is the evidence that shows that staggering debt is good for the country?

Maybe we should fall back on common sense "household" or "business" models until that evidence appears, huh?

this emphasis on austerity is actively making things worse.

What austerity? I've heard some talking about it, but we're not practicing it anywhere. Don't you dare use the word "sequester", because that was a joke.
There's SmartyStreets. You tried them?
Just viewed my analytics for my pitch. 4 views and estimated minuted watched were 2. The wait is killing. Since I'm located in England, I think I may stay up all night just to make sure I don't miss the call - if there ever is one.
Even the US-based "legacy" carriers find themselves directly competing with Southwest, which has forced them to gravitate towards the low-cost model. The only thing that differentiates them in such an environment is their award systems. Except Southwest which (ironically?) has the best service and perks now.
Sure, let me try to explain. My model is built as follows:

1. People speak and write not by following rules but their ears.

2. Since the ear hears words in sequence, the interpretation of those words also occurs in sequence.

3. Thus the phrase “great green dragon” is interpreted first as “great _”, then as “great green _”, and then finally as “great green dragon”, with the hole “_” representing the expectation of something concrete to come, something that the mind’s eye can eventually see.

4. This expectation is satisfied only when each new word reduces the possibilities for what will fill the hole. With each new word, the hole must shrink toward a single point, and rapidly.

5. Therefore, the most-pleasing ordering of N modifiers will tend to be the one that most rapidly and evenly converges to a point.

6. Therefore, we can find the most-pleasing ordering by maximizing the geometric mean of the shrinkages for all steps in the sequence.

6. For fixed N, the geometric mean and the product are interchangeable for optimization purposes, so we can just maximize the product of the shinkages.

And that’s pretty much it.

Now to your questions:

By “impotent” I mean without effect. Any word that you put after a word that has already reduced the hole to a near-point is going to seem worthless and spoil the whole sequence.

Re. begging the question, a sequence isn’t effective because it’s effective; it’s effective because, given our mental probability models for word sequences, it rapidly and evenly converges upon a concrete interpretation.

To take your “darkest/greatest” as an example, here’s the rapid-and-even-convergence scores for the two possible orderings:

$ { echo darkest greatest;
echo greatest darkest; } | ./modorder.py
170047264509 darkest greatest
3409987166088 greatest darkest

So, without any knowledge that “horse” will follow, we can predict that “greatest darkest” will be the best ordering of the modifiers.

(This is from a crude approximation of the model that I just whipped up. It uses a small database of 2-gram and 3-gram frequencies.)
The point is: don't copy Europe's austerity disaster.
Investigators Find Bomb circuit board
True, there is a minimal rate of unemployment due to people switching jobs. But that's different from "natural rate of unemployment", which is more an argument used to prop up unemployment.

Once everyone has a sufficiently decent job, workers will have have enormous bargaining power, because they do not fear losing their jobs. Imagine how negotiations between bosses and workers would go. The ability to openly disrespect the boss, and the clearer possibility to transcend boss rule.

Absent other methods of control (like the USSR used, as you point out), capitalism would risk overthrow; that is, replaced by another system, with different defining institutions.

Needless to say, this poses a problem for policymakers, whose success depends on their ability to serve the wealthy elites who finance their campaigns and dominate government. So they must pursue economic policies which lead to sufficiently high unemployment (often sacrificing growth too; obviously less people are making stuff); or at least fragile employment, like in the service industry.
From Wikipedia on the Bayer Filter:
"Bryce Bayer's patent (U.S. Patent No. 3,971,065) in 1976 called the green photosensors luminance-sensitive elements and the red and blue ones chrominance-sensitive elements. He used twice as many green elements as red or blue to mimic the physiology of the human eye. The luminance perception of the human retina uses M and L cone cells combined, during daylight vision, which are most sensitive to green light."

The Foveon sensor does sample RGB at every pixel by using 3 layers, but it is only used in a few cameras.
'Male', 'female', and 'androgynous' are sex designations while 'masculine', 'feminine', and 'neuter' are terms of gender.

The code is using the gender of a reference to determine the sex of the referent.

So you could say that they're both right.
It's admittedly been a few years since I flew a US low cost airline. But at least then they where pure luxury compared to Ryanair or Easyjet in Europe.
Sadly because of gerrymandering and pandering to interest groups, SV hasn't had nearly the influence it might. Also, remember that Cali's issues have been building since the mid-'60s or so and the Valley has only been a significant force for maybe the past decade.
Nesting maximum reached.

No, I do not agree that he constructed a false dilemma. Why not just answer my questions though?
| Personally my most consistent good service
| experiences have been with Air Canada.

I recently saw a headline that Air Canada is the third worst international airline for arriving on time. That said, I had no complaints about my only Air Canada trip (3 connecting flights).
I feel for the poor sods thrashing away trying to make this right. Do developers in mission critical areas earn a premium? This could knock a couple of years off your life in stress.
If you have a mac I recommend to have a look at the boxen project from github.
You could make mention of the efficiency of load balancing on the grid since electric vehicles are almost exclusively charged at night during off-peak usage.

Also, the entire essay is predicated on that first scary stat of people using between 5-20kwh of electricity per day and the average car requiring 8kwh to charge. It would be useful to note how many days that 8kwh charge are good for, how many people does each car serve, etc. I.E. if that's a weekly charge with 2 people per car, the incremental electricity usage would be 8khw / 2 people / 5 days -- pretty much noise at that point.
Reading the last two sentence made me smile. Of course, the following must be mentioned: http://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/its-pat/n10133/
Hi atrajan, I like the concept and I think there are a lot of large companies who would contract with you to provide those services. Still, the concept certainly doesn't seem easy to scale. You need ergo experts either jet-setting across the globe or regional people who can handle major accounts.

Nothing seems self-servicey about this (probably not your intention), which means you'll need a large investment beyond building the product. And, well, that's just fine, but it also means that organization and cash-flow is going to be a big issue, and hopefully your team is prepared for that.

I would say the barrier for you guys is having sales skills out the wazzoo.

Best of luck!
> Without knowing what data it's been trained on it's of questionable use.

Literally the very first line of the README has a link to the source data. It contains name frequency data for a number of countries and the README clearly indicates you can provide a country of origin when doing lookups.

> As an aside it's worth noting that as this library is GPL3 it means you can't use this code in any non-GPL product.

The source data is GPL, there wasn't much option.
In the proof-of-stake proposals, actually holding old balances, and actively helping to certify transactions when challenged to do so, is what earns you the right to 'mint' new ledger-extensions. (And if you don't, your future transaction fees go up.)

Not sure all the kinks are worked out, but competing based on who best enables the fastest, most consistent, most-fraud-resistant global log seems to more directly benefit the community, than proving who's burned the most resources on electricity and specialized hardware.
Most likely no. But the good news is everyone will assume they caused the problem.
Thank you for this analysis. "no magnets... no conspiracy theories". Priceless.
Well from the start I think you've got the process wrong. Your "idea" is worthless to an investor. They want some kind of execution. Narrow your "badass and full-scale launch" down to the absolute least amount of work you have to do to address a specific need for a few people.

Look into the Lean Startup methodology (don't just blindly follow, seek to understand). Then, talk to people that seem to know what they're talking about in the industry. Do some customer discovery, validate the idea.

The good thing is that the internet doesn't know anything about mileage. You can just as easily email someone in SV as you can someone next door. If this is your first-time starting a business, the chances of getting "blow your socks off" money from an investor is about the same as winning the lottery. Contrary to what TechCrunch would lead you to believe, it doesn't really work like that in the Valley either. You've gotta make something worthwhile first.
google for safecare asthmacare.

Note that they are smart enough to put in bold print "not a rescue inhaler" but then there's a page or two of weasel words about "might" and "may" cause virtually any miracle a sufferer could desire.

They claim the bottle is BPA free but diluting the BPA actually makes the effect stronger according to homeopathic theory so I am not sure about all that.
From https://github.com/logos

Please don't do these things:

- Create a modified version of the Octocat or GitHub logo

Do they have something against the Octodex?

http://octodex.github.com/
Splitwise Gets a Makeover
Boston Marathon bombs were placed in 6-litre pressure cookers
There is no serious rebuttal or debunking of Mcintyre contained within that post. Even if we ignore the details of that specific controversy, it is still obvious that there are

1) big problems in the climate science community with regard to data and replicability (see climateaudit for more than you could ever want)

2) massive statistical problems with reconstructions. See Mcshane and Wyner 2011.
Steve Jobs was asked about this aspect of Apple's success. It's not the "Victorian" working conditions, which is hardly the case in a modern factory like Foxconn runs, but resources.

If you want 5,000 skilled workers to assemble a new product that's shipping in three weeks, in the manufacturing districts of China and Taiwan you can snap your fingers and get them by the end of the day. In the US and Europe this would take weeks, if not months. There's no on-demand talent pool like this. It doesn't exist.

On top of that, if you want something made, nearly anything, you can get it sourced immediately. You want magnets for your new iPad? There's a factory down the road from Foxconn that makes billions of them. You want batteries? Specialized rubber pads? A particular adhesive? A solvent? A new type of display panel? It's all being made right there, and probably just miles away. It could be on a truck to your factory within the day. No customs. No duty. No logistics other than picking up a phone.

Don't forget Apple's original Macintosh computers were made in a state-of-the-art plant in California, but the scale of overseas manufacturers, who were making everything from toothbrushes to televisions, made it very difficult to keep competitive. It's not necessarily the wages of the workers, or their thrifty working conditions. It's the entire ecosystem.

Despite all this, Mac manufacturing is returning to the US: (http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2012/12/08/apple-mac-pro-made-in...) Details aren't clear at this point, but it seems Apple's partnering with Foxconn to open up domestic manufacturing for selected products. This will probably make the supply chain a lot more complicated, but for something like the Mac Pro, which is low volume, high margin, and on a much more relaxed update cycle, it wouldn't be impossible. Same goes for other products like the Mac Mini.

Let's not forget how horrible Victorian working conditions were. People in those times would find working at Foxconn to be like living in a palace. Flush toilets? Showers? Beds with mattresses? Company provided health care? A hard limit on over-time? No beatings? Foxconn's wages are well above the norm in that industry, even if thrifty by American standards.
What should the response be then? Being terrorized?
The ultimate goal is to start a virtuous cycle of spending

And where is that evidence? Included in that evidence, I'd like to see a model that predicted what actually DID happen when we tried the "stimulus" that Obama's economic advisers predicted would lower unemployment to <6% or better.

If you don't have a model that predicts things before they happened consistently, then it isn't Science. It's just guessing.

If we're going to guess, then we should fall back on models that we do understand and have a lot of data for, like how businesses and households manage debt. Common sense should be trumping guessing based upon esoteric economic models that haven't yet yielded reproducible results.
I understand you want to help, but i would have some serious reservations about building a proof of concept crowdsourced surveillance analysis platform and demonstrating whether it's viable. There are an incredible array of surveillance tools involved in the fight against terrorism. I'm not sure encouraging the general public to actively participate in a domestic intelligence platform would have a net positive impact on society & our basic rights.
I just found it ironic -- and possibly suspect? -- that 1 week after this XKCD What If? article (http://what-if.xkcd.com/40/), something like this happened. Could the XKCD article possibly have inspired the method of execution?
The Finnish Game Industry (slideshow)
Slapping your customers with a blank canvas
Not the compass and straightedge construction. It has been proven impossible: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angle_trisection