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> who decides this is first page material? It has 10 pts and 17 comments...

People voting decide what makes the front page or not. Sometimes they vote for the wrong things (purely political stories; celebrity fluff; etc.) This is not an example of wrong voting. Most ShowHNs deserve front page coverage.

> I've been noticing lately that there is a huge amount of trash coming into HN rather than what I am used to being over-the-top, higher-quality-than-usual news and/or products.

You claim that you're not trying to bash OP, but the next words you say are really negative.

Your account is less than a year old. Please re-read the guidelines.

(http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html)

> Please don't submit comments complaining that a submission is inappropriate for the site. If you think something is spam or offtopic, flag it by going to its page and clicking on the "flag" link. (Not all users will see this; there is a karma threshold.) If you flag something, please don't also comment that you did.

> If your account is less than a year old, please don't submit comments saying that HN is turning into Reddit. (It's a common semi-noob illusion.)
Can you provide evidence to the contrary?
Might as well make a slider for how far you'll go out of the way/into the way for hills.
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> Only recently have researchers developed learning procedures that can learn these deep architectures efficiently, using some clever unsupervised learning techniques.

Would you mind naming some of these techniques, if you're familiar with them? I'd like to take a deeper look.
While it seems like a great idea, you are gonna need to get more servers if you want to play with the big boys, I can't seem to get anywhere, clicking any link throws an error and the drop down menu is empty. Also I can see elements appear on the page as I download them... I haven't experienced that since 2004.

Still +1 for idea/effort
That's due to limits of the Google Elevation API, it only allows a certain number of samples to be fetched at a time. The app's only meant for use over short distances, like around a city.
Wouldn't if be the difference between fraud and a violation of a game's terms of service?
In short, no. I believe these things can be added via extensions, but the only thing from your list to be implemented this way is a persistent-hash-map [1] so far (the egg doesn’t provide for a reader syntax though, but it is definitely possible to add [2]).

[1] http://wiki.call-cc.org/eggref/4/persistent-hash-map

[2] http://wiki.call-cc.org/man/4/Unit%20library#reader-extensio...
I have always been a night owl. With or without computers. Even when I spend time camping out doors. I like to stay up, I don't like waking up.

Once as an experiment I began waking up an hour later every day. I went around the clock, felt great, couldn't stop my body from doing it again, had to work hard to avoid it happening a third time.

If days had 25 hours, I'd be all set.
Very cool! Have always thought that Google Maps needs this feature!
I think its more like watching a master photographer experimenting with a new way of taking pictures (think HDR or something), to keep your reference.

In the Clang world Carmack usually lives in, the tools for game development are extremely mature. There is decades of knowledge and experience that went into the current generation of 3D Engines/Games.

Game Development in Haskell on the other hand is extremely new, as in never been done on a larger scale. Of course alot of the knowledge and experience can be reused, but it is starting from scratch to a large degree.

So id see this as an experiment of a very talented programmer who wants to see if he can translate his immense knowledge of graphics programming into a working game prototype built with a functional language like Haskell.
If you mean a service which lets you stream your media, Google Music I believe was designed with this in mind.
That's what's great about this, it just shows you the data, you can optimize the route yourself how you'd like it.
The thing about night owls is that you can't trust them, because a part of them will always believe that morning people are just pawns of the system; they just can't get out of it, no matter how many times you tell them they're being gamed by The Man.

If the people who surround you subscribe to either the view you present or the one I did above, it's not a matter of morning or night people, it's a matter of stupid people, and there is no cure.
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> but if the bombs are flying and buildings burning

And state issued currency that could be worthless after a civil war or invasion would be better? Technically you could argue that bitcoin, being not issued by a government or controlling entity and possibly still in use in less volatile parts of the world is more likely to retain its value, as would a cold-storage BTC wallet hidden until afterwards when the internet is back.

However if you are thinking along the lines of of gold, silver and gems, then yes, bitcoin can't compare .
$100k electric sport cars aren't a real solution to global warming.

Of course they are! With electric cars, it doesn't transmits carbon, plus it can get cheaper energy from the grid. Of course, coal plants are still dirty, but they are more efficient than using gasoline in ICE, and ICE only converts like 30% to forward motion.

All that is left is to improve and drive the cost of solar panels into the ground until they are competitive with oil and coal.
As the other female on the team, I've always found my chromosomal makeup to be a huge advantage rather than a disadvantage (especially after establishing some level of technical competence). Despite my own belief in merit over affirmative action, it's one of the biggest tools in my toolkit, frankly. Where males have nepotism, we have novelty and the promise of good PR. I would even go so far as to say it may give us a net advantage over all-male teams.

I am not going to hypothesize on this converse. However, having evaluated the team, I'll just leave this here[1].

[1]: http://www.businessinsider.com/attractive-people-are-more-su...
I was just thinking I know quite a few runners that would want this option.
Here's a question for my fellow HNers.

In the article linked from his tweet, Carmack describes how he ported Wolfenstein3D to the iPhone. He apparently didn't start off with their own original code base, but used the open source project "Wolf3D Redux" (http://wolf3dredux.sourceforge.net) as a starting point.
This was possible because id open sourced their original game, and "Wolf3D Redux" is distributed under the GNU GPL v2.

Carmack also states: "I think the App Store is an extremely important model for the software business."

Therefore my question: is it possible to publish GPL'd games in the App Store? I seem to remember that this was not possible, since ToS of the app store impose further constraints which is forbidden under the terms of the GPL.
I wrote a webapp so that I can read it on my phone, and a browser. You can filter top 10 stories of the day/week, ask/show hn stories.

http://premii.com/hn
You need to keep the paddle more to the left, by the end of the table. I don't know if this is a feature or a bug.
Interesting idea, though I just finished a course in Matlab so this seems laughably inadequate.
My biggest issue with these visualize tools is that you can't really choose how to visualize things, meaning unless the creator has thought of that idea as plausible you can't use it, I like to manipulate data in many ways and these (socrata, manyeyes, etc) just don't seem to think the same way I do...

Edit: just saw the command line button, this may actually be awesome!
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> The only 'upside' I can see, is that the system is bankrupting itself. Police states are expensive and tend to destroy themselves (the only example I can think of that hasn't so far, is modern China, and that has required vast liberalization of their economy)

Superb analysis! I do believe that these power structures are not only expensive but also they depend on incomes via depleting resources - like energy, oil etc. So it's kind of double trouble.
Kind of defeats the whole "free market" thing, doesn't it?
how did you go about getting licenses to do this from the copyright holders?
PS: I'm glad the site works fine without Javascript enabled.

Who does this and why? Do you like browsing the web where 80% of website's functionality is broken because you think its a good idea to browse with JavaScript disabled. Makes no sense.
It's a little offtopic, but can you recommend a random forest implementation to be used from the command line, like Vowpal Wabbit does for linear learning? I like VW for its speed and ease of use.
I am using Heroku and Parse Data, I am going to try out Parse Hosting.
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It's really hard to say one way or the other what this is. "Recapitalization" is a hilarious euphemism for "gimme back my cash," but considering they're keeping a lot of what's in the bank and still going with their investors, it could also be a very good sign. What reasonable person would want more liability to investors than necessary?

Granted, the ~50% staff reduction probably sets off some alarm bells, but if it really is a matter of improving efficiency, that's actually really good business for a startup.

Unless I'm missing something... this is either news in both directions at once or neither. Now my head hurts.
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And if you monetise the hills option you could quote Jens Voight: "I get paid to hurt other people - how cool is that?"
that means capitalism is working right?
Because they're frankly retarded and subject to neither serious competition nor consequences like going out of business by poor performance?
Pft... if he were that wise, he'd have his own HN account. ;)

[edit: Parent previously attributed quote to "A Wise Man"]
Yes, unfortunately his partner, Daphne Koller, though very esteemed academically, made me feel very frustrated in the PGM class. Not the same great feeling of clarity.
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That really depends on circumstances.

If conditions favor liquidity and portability, and your currency is stable, it's a rational choice as a value store.

Your _best_ value store is investments which grow in value. In a well-functioning economy, stocks, other investment vehicles, a business, agricultural or other productive land, etc.

Where this isn't the case, your most valuable assets are those which can protect you, support you, and/or get you to where you will be safe. If you've got value left over at this point, a convenient store that's readily convertible at your destination is best. If things aren't horribly bad, a fiat/hard currency (even bitcoin might work), gold, or other items of high but convertible value.

One argument in bitcoin's favor (and I'm not generally a fan) is that you can store immense quantities in very small physical space, or (assuming communications) transmit them elsewhere quickly. The main caveat is their utility (and value) once you're outside the trouble zone. Assuming there is an "outside the trouble zone".
Awesome! Boy, this graph highlights why my evening commute (SoMa to Noe) is killer in comparison to the morning commute.

PS My wife is in Hackbright as well, it is an exciting time in the program (for other HNers, it's the last week of the current cohort). I heard about FlattestRoute a few weeks back, it looks really great!
It's not tight enough to be a real concern, just enough that I can't remove it. I think it's more symbolic than anything...the only reason I made it through school was to get the ring and it's a big part of who I am as a person.

Now it is part of my person.
I lived in Syria for 8 years. Some of the early members of the FSA were good friends of a cousin of mine. This war wasn't started by outside forces, no matter who got involved after te fact.

Sure, there's all sorts of crazies involved now, but there are also still plenty of Syrians involved. Which makes it a civil war.
I take new courses at any time, even if they have ended. Later on, when they recycle, I can do them all over again with ease.
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While Clang/LLVM is cool, this is more of a pure business decision.

IBM supports multiple compiler toolchains: XL C/C++/FORTRAN, GCC, Java, COBOL, etc...

So, when a customer comes by with a codebase and wants to run it on their System x/System p/System z big iron, IBM's response needs to be a simple "Yes" when it comes to support.

Customer A has used XL since the epoch of computing, cool, that's supported.

Customer B has codebase tuned and littered with GCC attributes, cool, that's supported as well.

Customer C wants Clang/LLVM because devs find it easier to debug and it's growing in features, cool, that will be supported as well.
I blame employer-provided health insurance. It leads to people thinking "hey, it's free!".

The story I've heard is that at some point (WW2-ish?) there was some sort of government-induced cap on wages, so employers couldn't compete for employees merely on a cash salary.

So, as an unintended consequence to the original government action, employers started offering health insurance as a non-cash benefit.

(Please correct me if I'm wrong, I am admittedly going on hearsay.)
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Not necessarily, especially if you have emerging clean energy technology coming online.
The creator is dyslexic and the site discusses a study done among dyslexic students at Uni Twente.

Given the other comments on the thread that indicate that there are already free clones available, I'd say that it's probably reasonable for him to ask for compensation for his work and investment in tools.

It's in line with commercial font licensing.
Yet the roles of the proponents are clearly set in the article: he's the good guy, she's evil girl.

My question is not about whether this is actually the case. My question has been called hypothetical (and rightfully so), thus let me make it clear that I'm not actually talking about these very people, but just about the described events in terms of an abstract storyline.

I think that what we make of a story like that is very much influenced by how we perceive the characters. Many of us will, for instance, be outraged by the actions of this girl - how could she! Now, since we're putting reality aside, what if a week later, there was another newspaper article, this time reporting the conviction of the guy from the first article.

This would then perhaps change our perception of the roles. That was what I was after with my question, and whether that would change the way we assess the girl's actions. I was hoping for a (perhaps more philosophical) discussion, but that clearly didn't work you.

It is now clear to me that I should have made a stricter separation between the abstract events and the concrete people involved. I never meant to accuse the guy (or the girl for that matter) of anything, I apologize for any misunderstandings that might have given such an impression.

Other than that, I've been basically asked "why bother about hypotheticals", so it seems that not a lot of people find such a thought experiment as interesting as I do.
They are trying to find THE ONE ALGORITHM that solves all A.I. problems. The brain has an implementation of it, but it is in wetware, hard to extract. Deep learning makes some pretty good approximations of the visual areas, though.
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Mostly for this https://panopticlick.eff.org/

18.28 (nojs) vs 21.45 (w/js) bits of identifying information using Chrome.
there is some great research on what books are available at amazon in terms of when they were written. there is a graph that shows a huge hole with long copyright where books are not reprinted. can't find it at the moment.
We keep all the deployment stuff in source control anyway. For me, it would just mean shifting it from being declared by salt in the "infrastructure" folder to being written in python in the django folder.

I agree that you should keep the code itself in python, but that can be handled just by making it a management command that gets called by cron.

Sysadmins understand and love cron, too. I think celery reinventing the wheel might make some of them a bit mad.
Why aren't the insurance companies working to drive prices down?

I understand the theory: People buy insurance; the insurance companies 'police' medical providers and regulate (through the market) the pricing of services.

From the outside it doesn't look like that works. From the outside it looks like very many more (often unneeded) tests are conducted. And it looks like the insurance companies are not squeezing the providers of health care, but are squeezing the patients.
Well, some people think of skydrive as superior to DB (myself included). E.g. if you are a student and bought MS Office, you get 20gb skydrive storage for free. Also your normal free storage is at 7gb. And it's conveniently tyed into outlook.com, which still has push support unlike gmail.
Also (of course personal tAste, too) but I prefere MS's online Office over google's.

I think skydrive support would be great :)!

Btw, really really well done from what I tried!
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Always tell them you are paying in cash.

Take bill home and sumbit to insurance if you are lucky enough to have insurance.

You just saved the system at least 75% of the cost.
Restricted Boltzmann Machines. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AyzOUbkUf3M

This video drives the point home, and is made by the author of this technique.
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That seems accurate.

Here is some history regarding health insurance in the US that backs up that story: http://www.ebri.org/publications/facts/index.cfm?fa=0302fact
This is why the ACA is such a boon for people that thonk health care should be a free market. It takes the free market ideals and embraces them; the accusations of socialism are more telling of the accuser than the accused. That's not to say that I think health care should be a free market, just that its the goal of the ACA, and the current situation in the US is much less free a market, and due to employer provided insurance, barely a market at all. No price information is communicated to consumers, and the ACA will start to do that.
Just find some red and black routes, it should just work.
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"Delayed Sleep Phase Syndrome."

This is where you lost me. If you're arguing that it's normal, don't call it a freaking syndrome. Don't give it an ADHD-like name, don't make it a diagnosis. Say it's nature, say what you mean, stop with the excuses. You are making exactly the opposite of your case.

No reasonable person will listen to the deluge of "treat your Shift Work Disorder with this pill" and "solve your Erectile Disfunction" with this pill and somehow hear "Delayed Sleep Phase Syndrome" and not think "yeah... bullshit."

If you want to alter people's idea of normal, don't frame your existence the way people frame diseases and disorders. You are not changing perspectives, you are reinforcing them, and you are making yourself look even more abnormal.
OK, I can't argue with that. https://nemaload.davidad.org/news/2013-developments
Yeah I'm the same, I look for the steepest rides, I look at my commute home as part work out. Still, no matter which way I take, I still have to climb ~500ft
Most private health insurance in the US is provided by employers. Thus, the people paying for the services are not the patients but insurance companies, and the insurance companies are selected by employers not the patients.
My wife (the creator of this app) happened to showed it to someone from Google Maps today. It was demo day at the school she's attending and they were there.
"Just logic" I think really underplays things. That logic ends up in flight control systems, valve control for oil rigs, power grid management, robotics, factory automation, satellites, etc. A lot of software programming has very physical implications.
Just like everything else in this country, because: profit.

Why does the health care system suck? because: profit.

Why do our politicians suck? because: profit.

Why do we go into war without a care? because: profit.

Why is corn syrup subsidized but not salad? because: profit.

Yay 'murica.
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The insurance companies are going to "negotiate" with the hospitals in which the hospital's bargaining position will be to offer fewer services, or the reduce the level of service provided. That's what it looks like from the inside. The insurers put as much money in their pockets. And the hospitals do the same. The patient gets hit with a large bill and fewer sub-par services. Everyone wins. Except the patient.
It also doesn't work in IE10.
Sourcetree doesn't appear to have a linux version.
This is common among olympic gold medalists who wake up feeling depressed the next day. I thought it was referred to as "morning after sickness" but I couldn't find anything online...
What matters a lot is branding. That's what makes the difference mainly between Samsung and HTC, even though HTC arguably makes the better phones overall. Nokia can get the branding - I'd say pretty easily. And they make pretty good phones.

They also still have much better relationships with carriers around the world than HTC or others (except in US, where they've always struggled). They used to have the best relationships, but I guess now that belongs to Apple and Samsung. If they would've chosen Android in 2011, it would've been much easier to keep their leadership.

No matter how well they'll do in the "WP market", the whole WP market is still but a niche market in the smartphone market.
The jump from honeybee to mouse is enormous - much larger than any of the other jumps except chimpanzee to human.

Maybe try lizard in between them.