skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is still net benefit. Call the law FooBarBuzz if you prefer, I don't care as long as it is a good law.
I think you might be underestimating the technological sophistication of a twin-turbo V8 that develops 550bhp at 7000rpm, in a cabin so quiet that they have to pipe artificial engine noise in -- but set that aside. The Model S doesn't do anything that an M5 can't, save charge from the mains. That's not insignificant, by any stretch, but it also seems to me less like a different class of thing than a serious, big-time but incremental improvement.
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This. The email address I signed up with used to be on a mailing list in another country I lived briefly in, including many people I'd lost touch with and some I'd never met. LinkedIn suggested all of them were contacts (at least until I built something resembling an actual network)

I didn't import my address book, but the most logical suggestion is they imported theirs and LinkedIn did an ultra-simple matchup.
Rogue Amoeba to Apple: Reverse Engineering is Not a Crime
Does anyone have any information on how the previous fellows are progressing?
Ask HN: What are your craziest abnormal experiances?
I assume HN crowd is mostly geared towards technology and logic.

But, I also assume most of the hackers are simply curious about abnormal, paranormal, pshycic things that escapes reality (or the way we perceive it). It is evident by the fact that a fair number of HNers try meditation and other lifestyle hacks.

I believe science is current understanding of nature through current paradigms, which means there are always unknowns that escapes science and logic, simple because we haven't developed methods and devices to measure them.

So please tell us your experiences, that nobody would believe, but you know for sure that really happened. What do you know, that nobody else knows (or only very few people)?
I know a woman who was thinking of joining tech recruiting, and she asked me about it. She went for an interview, and most of the to-be co-workers were young women, and also attractive. It seemed like one of the requirements though it wasn't explicitly stated.

She was interested in it primarily for the pay; they were promising something like 45-60k a year, and her current position was only around $30k. You start off as a recruiter, and then you move up into account management, which is better pay and a larger budget for wining and dining clients.
That's fallacious reasoning. Just because people said the iPad wouldn't fly doesn't mean that when people say something won't fly, it's valid to bring up the iPad as a counter example. 90% of the time people pan a product, it really does fail.
> This is the first time I've heard of an insect running (or driving) a robot.

I could swear I saw a similar project once that used cockroaches.

Edit: Found it. http://vimeo.com/m/2398096
It's built to Chevy construction standards, Chevy aesthetics.

Which vary greatly, I might add. The Corvette and Camaro are very nice cars. The HHR was a nice looking, if somewhat derivative car, and the SSR was pretty unique and a pretty cool ride in it's own right.

OTOH, you have the modern Malibu, which is an insult to the Malibu legacy, and all the other crappy/generic low-end stuff they are pushing out.

GM has really suffered from "brand confusion" the past few years. And even killing off a few brands (Oldsmobile, Saturn, Pontiac) didn't really help, because there's still little clear connection between any of the remaining brands and any specific positioning. Well, OK, I guess Cadillac is still the "luxury" brand. What what does Chevy represent? Performance cars (Corvette, Camaro), electric cars (Volt), entry level cars for first-time buyers (??? I don't even know what their model for that is these days), or something else?

This is probably going a bit off-topic, but when GM did the big brand re-org, I think they screwed the pooch. If they were going to kill what was supposed to be their "performance" brand (Pontiac), they should have repositioned Chevy into that role, and focused on the Corvette, Camaro and similar models. Saturn could have picked up all of the low-end, entry level stuff, and Buick would have made a fine home for generic mid-level sedans and family cars. Where electric cars fit into this is subject to debate, I suppose. I would think you could position one as either "luxury" and put in under the Cadillac brand, or "performance" and put it under the Chevy brand (in my re-imagined GM).

Anyway... sorry for rambling. I grew up a fan of GM products, Chevy in particular, and still own a 1968 Camaro, so I have some sentimental attachment to them. But GM management never seen to quit finding new and innovative ways to disappoint their loyal fans.
Of course, a large portion of laptop users have actually been tapping on trackpads to "click" for a long time now...
I'm always interested in working with practical examples. Do you have some sample code I could look at?
I believe implementing https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perestroika aka https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communal_Award is the permanent solution
I'm glad I wasn't the only one who noticed that. I was admittedly hesitant to add that part to the story.
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As it happens, a Tesla/Mercedes partnership for a small electric
MB is in the works for limited availability in 2014:

http://money.cnn.com/2013/03/27/autos/mercedes-tesla-b-class...

Mercedes-Benz has unveiled a new electric car developed in partnership
with California-based Tesla Motors (TSLA). The car is a version of
Mercedes' B-class hatchback which has not, until now, been available in
the United States.

This car, the 2014 Mercedes B-class Electric Drive, will be available
first in the states before reaching other markets, according to
Mercedes-Benz. It will go on sale early next year, first in just a few
states, but will become more widely available later on.
Announcing the Royal Princess and Her Godmother
I like the layout of the type matrix, thanks for the tip. The directionals might be more useful to you closer to the resting position. Also, the separation between left and right hand keys probably helps with overextending as well.
Arq seems to be a backup rather than a sync service that makes your files available on all your devices + from the web. As for the questions:

1. I couldn't find detailed info on Arq, but "plain" encrypted storage is different from client-side encryption (where you, and nobody else, control the keys)

2. Our integrity check is very efficient, allowing us to update a hash of the complete dataset in real-time (while re-MD5ing a set of data at every small update takes time)

3. See another answer in this thread: from a security point of view, the fact that the server is not open-source does not matter as the client verifies all server replies.

We believe that our security features are top-notch and are worth the price if you really care about the security of your data :-)
Problem is that standards erode under pressure from share holders and crummy boards. This sort of thing needs to be a law, and not a company policy.
Rule-based parsers recover richer representations, but tend to have lower coverage over arbitrary data

This parser usually has a coverage around ~95-97%. In one experiment we also parsed Flemish (which uses some constructions that wouldn't be considered grammatical in Dutch) and obtained a coverage of ~94%.

It also has a robustness component that attempts to provide an analysis for as many constituents as possible if no fully spanning parse can be found.

Having worked on the CCG formalism through my PhD, I can say that even small differences in annotation scheme can make a big difference in which parsers come out ahead.

Certainly. But you are not mentioning the other elephant in the room: Dutch is a free word order language and also permits very liberal ordering in the middle field. The rule-based grammar may benefit from the detailed constraints in the lexical attribute-value structures.
Well, spoking of broken promises and people abandoning things, didn't you write a book on MacRuby and a couple of articles touting it, and then abandoned the project for greener pastures (Ruby, Go and such)?

What about the folks that bought into the book and MacRuby, thinking that it was a viable project, and then see you, one of the (few) main contributors abandon it -- and long before today's release of RubyMotion.
Last 10 years for Apple: iPhone, iPad

I would say the iPhone changed the industry. The iPad also changed the industry. A toddler might not be able to use and iPhone but they sure can use an iPad. That is a game changer not just a bigger iPhone.

If I described Tesla the way you described and iPad, I would say "another electric car with better styling".
There have always been market makers. The fact that we've replaced a whole lot of market makers with a smaller number of people programming computers to act as market makers means that we're now probably devoting less human resources to this job.

Also, as an aside, it's worth nothing that Hammerbacher only said that after making millions working at Facebook. I'm pretty sure that makes him an asshole.
It didn't, but I was wondering about the actual technical aspect of using a single asset type and a codec as a shiv.
This is well put. People have rightly complained about imprecise use of the term "disruptive" -- this term does not mean "any company that has novel products compared to incumbents". You've used the more precise meaning of the term.
The problem with that pricing is that you can have the same security by heavily encrypting a file and then storing it on any other cloud, or even USB sticks (as shown on your webpage). And because many cloud providers have a free or very cheap offer for small storage, you can afford not to keep all the eggs in the same basket and use more than one cloud provider for the same file.
> When science became so big that it first needed then eventually was run by "managers" I bet it lost much of its effectiveness.

You can just do projects on your own, you know. There's nothing about science that absolutely requires an institution.

http://groups.google.com/group/diybio
Interesting, this seems very similar to Haskell at a very basic level.

A Haskell program consists of declarations of functions and constants. Constants belong to the class Eq

http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/latest/html/libraries/base/D...

Functions do not.

How is your notion of nonsymbol/symbol different from function/constant?
Thanks - that's a really neat solution - however presumably someone would complain if I called that 'Open Source'?

I think most people will be smart enough not to care as long as they can legally do everything they want to do with the source code, but there will be a few vocal people who will produce huge amounts of negative publicity if it is not 'truly Open Source'.
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Customers don't classify the websites they visit as "startup websites" or the businesses they buy from as "startups" any more than they classify the fish they eat by taxonomic rank.

The "ideal customer for a startup" is a human. Humans read what interests them, and buy things based on emotion, not logic. And what interests them is, with 100% predictability, themselves. Not you, your product, your business plan, your home page layout, your design scheme, nor any of the other elements many startups choose to create rigid sets of communication rules around. If you wanna talk to your customer effectively, then talk about your customer. They'll listen every time.
How to hire smart people for your multinational corporation and get free PR in the process:
- comb through startups with talented founders
- "acquire" their "company"
- Make techcrunch headlines
- 2 to 4 year committed employees, team oftentimes included
- ???
- Profit
Future of voice calls?
There's absolutely no difference amongst the different kinds of things people can die from, especially ones that are easy to fix and ones that we can't do anything about.

Hey, we actually came back to the point, kinda! There's a lot of things you can die from that fall in between "easy to fix" and "can't do anything about it". Where you draw the "fuck it, people die" line is hugely variable between different people, and it's not something you'll find a shred of consensus on across the 300,000,000 people in the USA. It's better for people to negotiate coverage with individual hospitals (and voluntary charities) than to have standards of care dictated by a central authority.
The "proprietary" part of the solution is the efficiency it brings. MD5 hashes for a large set of data are slow to update and not really usable for a dynamic dataset. Our technology makes integrity checks possible in real-time.
The point is that secure is not an absolute, but a relative value. There will be many Fortune50 projects where Wordpress will be plenty secure enough.
The endorsements on LinkedIn are useless. LinkedIn suggests things like "Endorse [So and So] for [some thing]," and people just click the "endorse" button.

People that know nothing about technology have endorsed me for skills I don't have.
How about

Links => "follow"

[Nested] Menus => "navigate to"

Buttons => "press"

Other => "select"
What do you mean "hasn't changed any business models"? It has thrown Microsoft for a complete loop. Microsoft has restructured their product development to combat this erosion. Windows 8, Metro, the App Store, etc. are all direct responses to the iPad shifting people away from Redmond's desktop platform.
> It doesn't change any business models

Tell that to all of the small businesses that have replaced their cash registers with iPads equipped with Square Register.
But what happens to these hackers when they arrive to a company that has Yahoo's culture? That's their problem. Their culture is the same one as any shitty American company.
Who ask for this misinformed opinion?

>Apple invested in MacRuby? What a joke!

Yes, it did. Back in the day, MacRuby started by Apple employees and initial development was paid by Apple.

>This project was almost singlehandedly held by one person.

Which is beside the point.

>I know for a fact that Apple doesn't give a fuck about MacRuby

You don't say! That has been the case several years now, since Apple stopped supporting the project. Everybody in the MacRuby community knows this.

>don't fool yourself about that.

Thank you, Captain Informed.
Software patents and copyright are a form of welfare for business.
"They[Microsoft] can't hire smart people anymore" is easily the most fatuous thing he's written.
If electric cars allow producing things that are so much better, why haven't we seen them from other car companies? What's that R&D going to?

In general, I got the feeling that "mediocre" was referring to all the shitty interfaces on cars, and general lack of polish that Tesla seems to be doing correctly. This is something that car companies could / should be doing for minimal effort since they employ so many and spend so much money, but they're not.
Praise, profits propel Tesla to valuation of more than $8 billion
That's a good question. If you can create a startup that's profitable day one, that's great.

But, there are lots of businesses that need a fixed cost base that only turn profitable after millions of users. But, they turn very profitable with tens of millions of users.

If you restrict yourself to just ideas that are profitable day one, that's great though you may miss out on some great ideas.
Orkut still shows the people who viewed your profile.
Using the examples of dizziness and high blood pressure, you've got thousands of possible outcomes and stroke is not the most common. This is an incredibly complex system, made more so by the fact that it's so individual. If I experience dizziness and high blood pressure, it potentially means something quite different than if you do.

I'm not saying it isn't worthwhile. It is. But let's say you raise all these symptoms and red flags and decide you need specialized testing from 3 different specialists. Then it turns out you didn't need that testing at all.

Who pays for it? Your insurance company won't.

One of the things I'm working on right now is software to facilitate the coding process for payment and insurance purposes, and let me tell you, it is complex for a reason. The insurance companies do NOT want to pay.

This is changing. One of the most likely potential models is a condition based pay model. An example case would be a 50 year old smoker with high blood pressure; the insurance company says, ok, on average it costs $1000 to cover this person for one year. They pay the hospital $1000. If the patient needs a procedure, the hospital eats the excess cost. If the patient needs no procedure, the insurance company does.

Now, couple this with a change in how MD's are reimbursed, so it's a performance based plan rather than a procedure based plan, and you have a more efficient and better managed system.

We're not quite there yet. When we are, your planned software might work. Give it 1.5-2 years at a minimum. The new coding processes come out in 2014 and we're shifting away from private practice, but it takes time.
yes, balance sheet is really important. CL was never that interested in building a balance sheet by increasing revenues, going public, etc.
| although more recently some distributions

Even CentOS 4 had a Vim with python in it. The issue that I always came up against was Ruby support. Ruby wasn't compiled in, and some Vim plugins (e.g. LustyExplorer, FuzzyFinder) relied on it. I worry less about that now that Ctrl-P (written in Vimscript) has replaced those for me.
Heart Patient Risk From iPad2 Found by 14-Year-Old
You're right, I hadn't thought about that. The first person that commented on the blog pointed it out. You're also right, however, that it only explains some of the suggestions they made. It still doesn't explain some of the others, and they still don't make any mention of that in their Help page explaining where they get the data from.
Having read through these comments for the last several minutes, I'm left with the overwhelming conclusion that programmers, on the whole, have about as much to contribute to a discussion on the biological sciences as they do one on economics.
Yes, right on. Great point.
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"The smart bitcoin users will choose the best client available, not just the default one."

What you are saying is that the security of Bitcoin depends on everyone other than the smart users. If the block chain is forked because of an incompatibility between two Bitcoin clients, the fact that smart users choose the "best" client is irrelevant; you need most users to choose that client. You should not rely on most of the users of a cryptosystem to be "smart" about using it:

http://www.securius.com/newsletters/Security_Through_Usabili...
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very JoCo-like! Awesome!
<sarcasm> Right!!! </sarcasm>
> The choice of language is not what causes the slowness of the Stanford parser. It's the choice of search strategy, which trades-off speed for accuracy.

Even amongst chart parsers it's not a very quick implementation.

> The choice of parsing logic (shift-reduce, dependency) and the search strategy (greedy, sometimes erroneously called "deterministic") are orthogonal. It's the greedy search strategy that leads to linear time performance.

They're really only conceptually orthogonal, because in practice once you choose shift-reduce you're always going to choose greedy/deterministic/whatever search. I'm not aware of any shift-reduce/transition-based parsing results that don't use 1-best or beam search.

> I am not aware of state-of-the-art results from greedy shift-reduce parsers. Do you mind sharing?

Zhang and Nivre (2011)
http://www.sutd.edu.sg/cmsresource/faculty/yuezhang/acl11j.p...
93.5 UAS on Stanford basic dependencies. This is the best published result on the dataset, and the best published dependency parsing result for English.

Probably the parser is still worse than the C&J reranking parser, when 200 parses are supplied to the reranker. But I'd be very surprised if it wasn't better than the Stanford parser, and probably also the Berkeley parser.
I meant to say illiquid =P
https://socrates1024.s3.amazonaws.com/consensus.pdf
Yeah, it's a non-trivial filtering process (I volunteer, and a few other people I know). One of the best parts is that those selected for the last round but not ultimately accepted get most of the benefits from the fellowship (other than the money), too.
Probably, but we want to simplify this. Actually, on our roadmap we are planning to replicate the user's data on multiple clouds so that the process of selecting the "correct" file (untampered) is automated.

The main difference brought from the technology we use is that while a system like the one you describe involves some probabilistic decision-making (like voting: e.g. out of 3 replicas, you choose 2 that seem correct) we have a mathematical way of verifying the integrity of the data (so you don't need to access all replicas to be sure that you are working with the correct data).
Sorry about that, I didn't expect the response the article got, should be resolved now. And thanks for posting the cached version!
I'm not advocating anything like that. I'm saying before criticizing Google for trying to avoid or change the laws, it may be useful to consider if these laws are actually good idea. If they are not, all props to Google for trying to circumvent or repeal them.

I do not see why one needs "legal standard" to evaluate somebody's actions. Why not use the standard that is supposed to be the base for the legal standard instead? If in some country it is illegal to publish links that the government thinks are inappropriate, and Google doesn't like it - why would we consider Google being in the wrong?
Are you familiar with the Millionaires' problem? [1]

There's an easy solution when you're looking for an average salary (and everyone doesn't mind doing a little bit of calculation). The first person thinks of a random number, adds his salary to it and tells it to the person on his/her right (so noone else hears!). The next one adds his salary and tells it to the next person and so on. When it re-reaches the first person, he then subtracts the original random number.
The result is the sum of their salaries, which can then be divided to yield an average. All done in a way that no one person learns what the salary of any other person was.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yaos_Millionaires_Problem (link sadly broken by HN url parsing?)
Great app! Very fast, fluid, and pleasing design.

Three things:

1. Is there any way to allow for selecting and copying of text from someone's comment? It is very often that someone posts something so profound or useful here on HN that I want to snip the text to save it in Evernote for future reference.

2. And like css771 posted, remembering your scroll position in comments (and which comments are folded) would be a HUGE addition. I often click a link in someone's comment which opens in the browser, go back to the app, and the reading position is reset, including any and all folded comments I had. Quite frustrating. Fixing this would be incredible!

3. Minor visual issue, but it seems the first indentation of a comment is not indented, as the other levels are. The first indented level has a color, but is not actually indented. This would help to make comments slightly more readable. I do love how easy it is to fold comments though. A quick tap and instantly folded.

Anyway, I love the app; you did a great job on it. If it had these three features above, it would definitely be my go-to Android app for Hacker News. Thank you!

+1 for the app, and I hope you found my feedback useful too!

P.S. Feel free to contact me via my personal email via my profile if you need any more detailed feedback, as I was a software tester for a while and hopefully you found my feedback and writing style useful.
here's another one: https://teelaunch.com