skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am not posting my contact data on a website of mine because I do not want my real life social circle to know about one of my online circles. it is a simple matter of privacy. your comment is a strawmen or how you call that. there are many more possible reasonings than your two.
Sure, but you're not "supposed" to. Or maybe you are, which is the problem. "Inconclusive" or "negative" results are just as meaningful (i.e. no conclusion is still a conclusion), but we're biased towards "positive" results showing identifiable correlations.
How to Find a Profitable Niche – Part 2
I thought it was interesting how the CalTrain curve flattened out when you look at the bullet or limited service graphs instead of the local graph.
Long-time readers of Noah's blog will remember that most of what he learned in grad school is bullshit.
But there are hundreds of currencies that are identical to the dollar, just named differently and backed by other countries.
zomg capitals! Seems just to be yet another discussion about how awesome "big data" really is.
"Photography is about light" - indeed.

But most kit lens have a sub par aperture stop limiting the amount of light that can reach it. Yielding poor/blurry photos indoors and other locations where light is not ideal. Of course if the user understands the use of iso, shutter speed (w/tripod) & flash to compensate they can get a decent shot either way.

The 5D comes with a decent enough kit lens, 24-105 L lens, but it stops at f4. Try shooting with that indoors. Plus not all cameras come with a decent kit lens. Getting a 24-70mm L f2.8 or even a cheap 50mm f1.4 prime would be a better option for low light even tho you'd loose the extra zoom.

Best solution is if you are thinking of getting into DSLR world think about the lens 1st and then the body. The body is like a computer and will expire while the lens are a life long investment.
yep. it's the same reason amazon now is in favor of internet sales tax.
A lot of places make you pay for a parking space. Usually the low end rates are around $200 a month.
If it has been decided that their friend is going to be hired anyway, then why have interviews at all? Just hire the said friend, no?
That wikipedia page is a train wreck. It's pretty clear there's an edit war going on between two political factions that are uninterested in keeping things factual. Wikipedia is great but in some situations the quality of the content goes way downhill at the hands of people with alternate agendas.
Google Books PDF Death Match 3: iPad 4 With Retina Display
Fair enough. At that age, the doctor will be making $270k debt free and the engineer $152k + $20k. In any event, the non-financial trade-offs swamp the financial ones, I would think.

My basic point in the great-great grandparent post is that bellyaching of the form I'm not really rich because of X, usually doesn't stand up to scrutiny.
I was at the grocery store and the cashier motioned to my hand and showed me her ring and we had a short discussion. I felt happy that I had this bond with a person I had never met and then immediately very sad that she was working as a cashier in a grocery store.
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How many pages? That's a weird metric.
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fwiw I've been running homebrew out of my ~ folder without any problems, because I'm not a fan of that default either. But yeah, use what works :)
compared to the big the cities in the US

cities ==> city

The only big city in the USA with decent transit is NYC. San Francisco is comparable to Boston, DC, and Chicago and far ahead of LA, Dallas, and Miami.

By world standards, NYC is barely average and the rest of the country has no transit system at all to speak of.
I'm curious to know who you moved away to? and what gave you the confidence that they are a) better at security b) better at communicating transparently when things go wrong.

This security incident is very upsetting, but for me the linode track record in communication, responsiveness and support is still pretty amazing compared to the competition. At least at this price range.

AWS might be safer, but I basically don't get any support (for a reasonable price like I pay linode), Rackspace didn't seem nearly as responsive or transparent on much more trivial matters. Who else is out there which is worth switching to?

(I'm not being sarcastic, I'm genuinely curious)
You are right, thanks for showing me this. I agree with his ideas about undergraduate information versus graduate information. Undergraduate programs contain a lot more history, and yet still mathematical. However, I still disagree with the current post. You don't get autonomy in a graduate program; you are tied to a faculty and the programs currently available. It can be difficult to breakout on your own. This was my experience. This mixed with the time spent learning material that is at its best, interesting; and at worst, incorrect makes it seem like a poor choice. You can get the same correct information by studying other graduate programs. Intellectual fulfillment should come from discovering how these systems actually behave.

Our criticisms about graduate economic programs are similar, but our praise about their benefits differ very much.
The unofficial Otis D. Wright, II Statue Fundraiser
Very few reputable linguists believe in a hypothetical supergroup of "Eurasiatic". The reason that the same linguists are skeptical is that related languages diverge fast enough that after a few millenia, any similarities beyond that are indistinguishable from chance similarity.
Thanks for another great post Trevor!

App Store Rankings (http://appstorerankings.net) is good keyword research tool which I've been using since your previous post. It estimates the difficulty of ranking within the app store for that keyword, and can also show you competitors (guessed?) keywords.
I didn't advocate a delete button; I think it's a stupid idea.

My point is that having aliases is not sufficient, and will become less so over time, especially as the prevalence and sophistication of algorithmic surveillance increases.
Opinion sans clue presented as fact. I guess this is standard for Hacker News these days. Your conclusions are specious and imply that the behavior is totally illegal; it is merely overly difficult.

Frankly, you should be ashamed to post such entrepreneur-hostile crap on HN.

Food is a high-risk, low-margin business with enormous capacity for differentiation. Because the choices are highly nonlinear, a great deal of experimentation is necessary and useful.

So allowing entrepreneurs to de-risk some of that is extremely positive for the greater good.
No, you're completely mistaken sorry.
As far as I remember, it was a feature, not a bug (at least I remember reading something like that back then... can’t find any referenes right now): the idea was, Yahoo worked well with any light background colour.
Here's an ongoing frustration... I'm currently working on a startup while maintaining a day job, which means LOTS of hours. I'm often (usually) working until I go to bed. Now, I'm at my best productivity code-wise when I first start working in the morning (no, not a morning person). So I'd like to get up earlier and put in a couple of hours on the startup in the morning, before I have to go do the dayjob - give my best couple of hours to MY work rather than someone else's work. Working two hours from 6am-8am would be more productive for me than working two hours from 10pm-12am. But when I'm working late at night, it's really hard to let it go and tell myself to pick it up in the morning. Knowing logically that this is true isn't enough. Sigh.
I remember my first design without tables. It was for my private blog and I am not sure how many different designs I looked up on Zen Garden to find out how to do something with only CSS.

After some struggle and building two or three designs I finally understood why this was a good idea. It is one of the resources I am really thankful for.
Here's the Google Transparency Report page that features ongoing developments involving this disruption:

http://www.google.com/transparencyreport/traffic/disruptions...

(This page is distinct from the time series graph linked in another comment.)
I completely agreed with you (but upvotes are anonymous... ;) and didn't think you implied that - I just wanted to add that the Internet could represent a great opportunity to disrupt the exclusivity of certain mechanisms - even if that's not easy, and not the case yet.
The truthful founder
00101010 gives you outer space
Yes, but to be more clear I mean you should do what you love. If you aren't good at being a CEO but you are at being an engineer it's probably become you enjoy being an engineer more. Why force yourself to become better at something that other people could be great at, and you don't want to do anyway?
Why Isn't Gatsby in the Public Domain?
MAME prefers 100% accuracy over playability, and does cycle-accurate emulation.

The amount of custom code in each architecture is minimal-- it's mostly setting up memory maps and connecting the various chip emulations together.
I think Kickstarter is one tool to validate that your idea has people who are interested (assuming you market it well). Since you're putting up one "project", even with stretch goals it's not really the most data-driven way to get to product market fit. You don't really have people using the product in real-time and iterating on it as you would a live web app, for example. But it's still better than putting in thousands of dollars on a hardware investment without even knowing there's interest!

The other problem is if you find you're not building the right thing, you can't scrap it and build something entirely different because if you're funded you've made an obligation to your backers. And that can be a long arduous process to fulfill orders/incentives/perks. Not really the lean startup philosophy, but I still like that Kickstarter is a great way to find demand for an idea.
Words are cognate if they stem from a common root. How can we tell? If we have two sets of words S and T, then we need to postulate a third set R of 'proto-words' as well as two mappings R → S and R → T where the mappings can (within reasonable margins of error) predict the form of the words given the roots.

For example, take German and Latin: I assert the words Vater and pater (both 'father') are cognate, but to do so, I need to examine a whole set of corresponding words in both languages, so I take the sets {Vater, Fisch, Fuß} and {pater, piscis, pes}. From these, I can see clear correspondences (e.g. a German f sound always corresponds to a Latin p sound[1], the Latin sc seems to correspond to the German sch) and some things that are unchanged.

Next, I come up with a set of roots like {pater, piš, pes} and a set of rules to apply like {p → f in German, š → sc in Latin, š → sch in German}, and I can state with some confidence that these words descend from a common root.

In practice, you'd do this with way* more than three words—preferably you'd use most of the language—and there is some wiggle room for related meanings or exceptional changes, e.g. the German word alt and English word old seem unrelated to the Latin word senere 'to be old', because they actually stem from words for 'to grow up', and are therefore cognate to the Latin altus 'high, tall'. Additionally, some rules are more plausible than others based on research and phonological considerations, so the change of s → h is well-attested in actual languages and is consistent with similarities between the two sounds, while the change of r → b is highly unlikely.

And while there is some room for error, there is a limit e.g. one might argue that English and Japanese are cognate because in Japanese, 'to eat' is taberu and 'to see' is miru, and in English we eat off a table and see in a mirror. This doesn't get borne out with more thorough phonological rules and doesn't seem to reflect regular semantic processes, either.

tl;dr: Two words are cognate if they come from a common root; without direct knowledge of the parent language (e.g. Latin for Italian and French), we postulate one and show that regular processes can derive the child languages' vocabulary.

[1]: If you don't speak German, know that the German v is pronounced like an f.
Just took a quick look. I'm guessing they separated it into 20+ linebreaks between chunks to delineate which section of code produced which HTML.
Windows 8: Blood from a Stone
Like the author of the blog mentioned in this post, I too find it hard to wake up in the morning. But, so what? I don't feel pity for myself or try to blame my desire to sleep longer on a "disease". This blog post really hits the nail on the head.
Yes you are right.

Still, deep learning has done nothing more than classification right now.

What about predictive distributions, regression of complicated outputs (e.g. periodic data) and, most of all, heterogenous inputs? Right: nothing impressive has been done in that area, despite of huge amounts of practical problems.

Let's see if deep learning generalizes to those things. If it does (and I personally believe so) let's be happy. Before that, we still have to envy what Gaussian processes, Gradient boosting machines and random forests can do what DL so far cannot.
Econ aims to capture important aspects of real world systems, not model them perfectly. You can compare it with CS: big O notation is not useless even though in principle the constants in the big O notation could be huge. Turing machines are a useful abstraction even though in real life it is impossible to build one.

The criticism by mainstream economists of agent based models, is that they are so flexible you can create almost any kind of behavior you like. That said, the constraints that rationality impose on models don't prevent this either: with enough work you can get any kind of phenomenon you like in an econ model.

At the end of the day, economics is hard because people, institutions and technology are complex, much more complex than atoms. If you stuck with it, I'm sure your viewpoint would have softened somewhat. Once you try to actually do economics, you'll see why people made so many assumptions that seemed stupid before.
Restaurant tantrum exposes Mexican class divide
> Still spam by the definition of the top comment.

I see where you're coming from, but if it's made clear at registration that say, after 6 months of inactivity they'll notify you to say they're deactivating the account in a month, then it's not unreasonable. Perhaps better than just deactivating it without telling you.

With a lot of startups offering freemium services, there needs to be a way to either increase retention or reduce overheads with inactive accounts. You still have to pay for storage on your cloud provider, so closing inactive accounts while not great are certainly within the realms of possibility compared to trying to spam people into upgrading.
I'll trade all the global "click here to live in 1998" checkboxes for an Esc button that freezes a site into something indistinguishable from a scrollable screenshot.
Makes sense to me, this is what a lot of mammals do. When food is scarce in the winter, best thing to do is sleep and expend minimal energy. In summer when the day is long and there is good light to see by, be awake and productive.
Right, any cleverness should be buying you something worth it.
25 million games in 1 week
The price is a complete non-issue for me.

For me, the issue is time: why should I spend time learning this framework, versus all the other frameworks that I see showing up a few times a week on HN?

If you convince me that my time is worth it, I'd pay $60 as easily as I'd pay $20.
I think it's a fine example how someone takes a novel idea like this, charges 99 cents, and probably ends up making a nice dollar off it. No one ever asked for it, but a lot of people will want it.

Everyone is always asking to get their problems solved but it shows how you don't always need a problem.
And as I assume it to be the case in most other food truck culture centers, many of the Durham trucks have used their mobile success to bootstrap a traditional brick-and-mortar shop (e.g. The Parlour, Monuts, Cocoa Cinnamon.) Allowing entrepreneurs to experiment with minimal risk can be an inexpensive and effective way to build a local economy.
Shit recruiters say
That's what people said about the telephone!
You deal with the wrong auto mechanics. The local one replaced a plastic part in the door with one he cut out of aluminum and charged 1/4th the cost of a replacement plastic one.
I get a Matrix-style 1/0 screen.

http://t.co/7nUseCviLa
NewRelic was down
Developing is what you do to real estate.
> it has led to overwhelmingly positive interactions over the years, especially as people become familiar with my personality and sense of humor.

I guess if you can pull it off, my hat is off to you! :)
It’s your fault and your fault alone.

If you're in a coma, is that your fault? If you have narcolepsy, is it your fault? If you wake up having hit a snooze button that you didn't consciously push, is that your fault? If you have a medical condition that makes it harder for you to wake up than for 99.8% of the population, is that your fault? There's a line somewhere, and I don't think the author of the original article crossed it.
Perception is also strongly influenced by subsequent positive or negative confirmation. It may not be the best way to open up a unsolicited discussion with a YC partner, but even in this case, it served to induce some degree of interaction between you and "taliban". Which I presume ended on an amicable note.
Iron is ferromagnetic.
I argue my performance is better on my shifted schedule.

Also, I already make way more than I need to live. Quality of life is the biggest factor at this point, and that includes working on my schedule, wearing flip flops to work if I want, etc.
A thousand-times 'this'.
It possibly doesn't: those people may move in, stay a while, start failing to pay the rent, and then move out/get evicted.

Alternately, they might be getting unmarked income from relatives.
Hi all, Jacek here, and third founder of Exversion. Considering that this post has garnered a bit of attention, I figured I might as well chime in.

First let me say that I found mbellotti's post absolutely wonderful, and find that it serves as an example to the type of team we have become in a very short period of time.

We as humans, all have pre-conceived notions of one another whether they be based on appearance, mannerism, figure of speech, etc. For some of us, these first impressions become much more deeply rooted than for others, and I, at least personally, believe them to be a hinderance in getting to understand people.

Social relationships aside, this knowledge of, and understanding of one another is an absolutely pivotal part of any team as it leads to better communication, and more importantly builds trust, and friendship.

But excellence in teams is also derived from hardship. Mbellotti, in her post mentions that we took the RV to save money, which is true, however, as we started this project on a bus, under somewhat strenuous conditions we noticed that much like a hazing of sorts, the experience brought us, much closer together. Would the discomfort of an RV do the same, I dare say it has.

I don't mean to sound trite by saying this, but team really is everything. How often do you see a team fall apart because of squabbles over who's going to be CEO of a 3 person company, or an argument over the hue of blue that's served as a background.

To me the post was more about this anything, the trust, and belief in one another, and the internal knowledge that we can and will make it regardless of obstacles, because (excuse the mush) we actually do have one another to rely on.

As for the YC interview and later rejection, yes it was disappointing as all rejections are, and as a self confessed PR junkie it would have made that as well as fundraising all the much easier, but it was a great experience nonetheless, as was meeting the brilliant people who interviewed along side us, and whose relationships I would like to continue and nurture, because they really are great people.

With that, I highly urge anyone in a startup to get an RV and go a bouts the bay area or NE corridor in it, is a killer experience, leads to some absolutely brilliant stories and elevates the concept of "The "Mobile" Startup" to whole other level. #hackingWhileMoving.
Man, I could watch Tim Schafer videos all day. That guy cracks me up. I was pretty much sold by the video alone.
Pretty glad Mapplethorpe only ever used prime lenses.
woah, you got paid for it, that is awesome. When I started my career, I had to work two weeks for free to prove I'm worth hiring :(
How a concurrent Garbage Collector works
your generation might be full of sissies, but my generation is kickass.
Yeah, things here have been running for an inordinately long time.
One of the servers hosting that page:

-bash-3.2$ uptime
8:53PM up 3982 days .....

apache's been running for 8+ years. Stable as all heck.

Some other humorous URLs.
http://docs.yahoo.com/wineoftheday/
http://docs.yahoo.com/hidden/ferg/training.html
In going from $200K*0.25 = $50K, you forgot about personal income tax.

And houses here cost more than $1.5M.

(Side note: I was surprised to learn that private schools around here are $30K+/year!)
The main issue with DSGE models is that their simplifying assumptions make them useless for prediction: they replaced essentially atheoretical time-series models with hard, unrealistic theoretical assumptions about agent behaviour (over)fitted to time series and gained only a veneer of sophistication. Arguably no representative agent is better than a badly specified agent.

As an intellectual exercise to show that (for example) menu costs or nominal wage rigidities or technology shocks alone could have the economy's accounted for a shift from a [purely theoretical] equilibrium over a time period they're very interesting. For identifying which aspect contributed most towards economic change they offer little, and as a policymaking tool they're actually worse than useless since the models are generally built on the economists' assumptions about agents' response to policy and fitted to the data to justify those assumptions, rather than using the data to understand how responsive, rational and optimizing agents actually are. As such, their forecasting performance isn't very good either...
Because the government represents the will of the people

Not it doesn't, and it can't, because there is no such thing as "the will of the people". And that's because you can't meaningfully talk about "the people" as one cohesive, homogenous collective with one common will. "The people" is just a label applied to many individuals, all of whom most certainly do not have the same desires or wishes as far as what government should or shouldn't do.

And even if this unicorn of "the will of the people" did exist, we're not likely to achieve a government that reflects it, at least not as long as we vote and elect representatives anything like the way we currently know. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrow%27s_impossibility_theorem
To my surprise, googling armando sosa zen garden will give you the design that made it, and the design that didn't.
Yeah, sort of, but never if Im being "sold" something.

Customer 101 :)
You should never do what you love. You should do what works for you. I love fishing, but I would never hold it as a job. Programming works for me. I like it, its fun, challenging, and allows for a good lifestyle. Two different things.

We love those things that bring us pleasure, we like those things that allow us to do the things we love.
The day after I launched my website I received over 3x the traffic. Here's how.
Why didn't the guy just post a link to his blog post in the comments on the other article? Maybe that is frowned upon on this site. Seems like the right thing to do to me.