skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is why systems such as MIT's ConceptNet exist. NLTK and other NLP systems can provide the grammatical breakdown and ConceptNet can fill in the semantic / contextual gaps.
So what is actually considered innovative in your opinion. I don't know about you but building charging infrastructure in addition to producing top class electric cars seems like a pretty big shift to me.

Think about what happens if the car really catches on in China (somewhere that has a ton of vehicles and needs a more environmentally friendly solution).

I think you are significantly underestimating the removal of gasoline from the car equation.
FightForTheFuture's CISPA page has a good tool for this: http://cms.fightforthefuture.org/cispa/
"a guy that didn't bother to use comments or any documentation and his idea of versioning system are a bunch of folders"

What does this have to do with the Objective-C language itself?
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Yes, the article mentions the defibrillators are meant to the turned off by magnets. The iPad magnet just happens to be powerful enough to trigger the off switch.
Also, "Make sure your chosen license is clearly stated"
http://www.contactingthecongress.org/
Hot Fitness Startup Seeks Promising Pixel Pusher
I'm with you on that one. But bear in mind it doesn't support Python 3 yet, so it might still be some way away.
Here's another question: How many people in the world, who are current or potential Facebook users, might like to have Facebook as their first and main interface to the world?
Facebook asked that question by making such an interface available. Guess what? In the world of rational beings (which might not include knee-jerk business reporters), it might take a while to answer that question.
Here's another question: Of the current or potential Facebook users who want Facebook as their main interface to the online world, how many will spend more time and money on Facebook as a result of having that interface? Gee, I don't know. Let's let Home out into the world, and find out. Snarky folk can declare it a disaster or failure after a month--I'm sure Facebook is happy to have it out there as one of several options, and learn from actual experience. Radical concept, no?
Is the client real? I only ask because I frequently find that unfunded companies are the first ones to ask you to sign an NDA. Also a company that is doing anything really confidential will employ people on site as opposed to outsourcing.

I can't tell you how many times I've signed an NDA and the person turned out to be a total flake. Usually said flakes know nothing about technology and some idiot told them that having an NDA was important. It's like a child playing dress up — and what's sad that child may be a lawyer or some other vague professional who doesn't know what they don't know.
I'd love to give you a small code snippet to look at. Can you drop me a line at dansbecker (on the email domain run by google).
No, never. The risk you are taking is tremendous when signing an NDA. Who is to guarantee that an exact same of your client's idea/technology is not developed elsewhere and your client will hold you responsible for leaking it?

There's also more realistic concerns as well. Most NDAs are written way too broadly. Excluding yourself from a part of the market because of such an NDA is just silly.
Wolfram Alpha is only showing you last year's losses, not the integral over all years.
That analogy is so bad it's like a really bad thing.
Glad to see this continuing and always an interesting set of young adults.

That said, the web page design there is abysmal - the expanding photo captions are unreadable, the animation thing is simply obstructive, and the problem persists no matter how big you make the window.
And Chris Dixon had the decency to give credit where it's due.
Ah, a budget ... what I would give to have one of those :).

More seriously though, I have definite plans to build a click-to-call tool in the next couple of weeks, but this news was sprung on my late yesterday, leading to a mad rush to get that page ready in time for this morning. Next time there's an action like this for FixtheDMCA, there'll definitely be a way to call. And if I build it I'll almost certainly open source it so others can do the same. Sunlight Labs have a great API for looking up rep's phone numbers that means its really just a Twilio integration away.
Not sure if there are any
I think Musk makes a lot of things look easy but I'm not so sure they are. Here's an example where it was not easy and ended in failure: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1948_Tucker_Sedan

A more modern example of failure: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aptera_Motors

But examples like Tesla and Microsoft and Google and Facebook and so on are all testaments to the power of startups. It's quite possible to disrupt large businesses (and become one) with a small foundation, I just wouldn't call it easy. I think Musk himself has said on occasion that Tesla has been very close to failure at least a few times.
This is a dumb saying.

Refusing to settle for anything short of perfect is often a bad trait, sure.

But if you don't have a "perfect" goal to aim for, what you end up with is going to be worse than it could have been.
I've had that. Some one-person marketing agency who wants a Wordpress installation, and you have to sign an NDA because they're going to 'revolutionise the industry'.
"As a constitutient, I write today to urge you to support the the.."

Seriously? C'mon!
I think you're misreading the article. The first paragraph describes an incident involving a four-year-old Lulu. It's not very clear when the quoted incident occurred, but either way the language used in the outburst would almost certainly not be used by a four-year-old in a tantrum and is much more characteristic of an early teen.
There's a partial list of people and reasons at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_former_United_States_ci... . It includes Vince Cate.

For example, Terry Gilliam (the director) "renounced his American citizenship, describing the George W. Bush administration as having created an environment "scarily similar to the Orwellian nightmare" of his 1985 film Brazil."
Why not do all of the above?
It was when she was 13, not 4. At 13 she is certainly capable of understanding her environment, how she's being raised, and realize she's being raised differently than her friends.
Apple’s ‘iRadio’ talks hit royalties snag
Forward progress is still forward progress.
In that particular case it was weird because something like 80% of the public network nodes / users / services were on <0.8 but most of the hash-power was on 0.8.0 simply because the two largest pools were already on 0.8. (0.8's performance improvements could increase miner's income due to needing less time to process and switch to new blocks)
Only getting 504s at the moment. Will try again later..
It just made my day.
"Authoritative" parenting means letting kids explore the world and their own interests while still setting strict limits that are necessary for the health & well-being of the kid. An authoritative parent wouldn't prevent their kid from running around outside with other kids, they'd let the kid run around outside "but stay away from the railroad tracks, and don't get drunk or do drugs, and be home by 11".
g0od call, it's updated.
Humble Bundle accepts bitcoin
Designer News censors posts criticizing LayerVault
A recently published article by Andrew Sass about the legal drama between LayerVault and DesignModo -- http://www.compylr.com/post/open-source-flat-ui-now-sue-me-sue-you-blues --
was censored after about 5 minutes on LayerVault's news aggregator (news.layervault.com). Andrew has since been banned and his account deleted for voicing his opinion.
http://httpstatus.es/418
That's pretty great.
Because these days it is institutionalized, and in our society that means it is funded by capitalistic entities, i.e. corporations.

In other words, the profit motive dictates that making money to enrich a few individuals is more noble than sharing knowledge for the good of society.
Nobody treats adults that way. I think kids benefit from really being treated like adults.
Definitely interesting questions. The perspective I would add with respect to the money itself (relative to the <20yr old stage of life) is:

100K/2 years is a $50K/year salary. It's not poor, but not wealthy either. Paid out monthly, it's serves to cover my living expenses and some other costs (travel, equipment), but not too much more. No hiring, no vacation homes. It prevents starvation, which otherwise blocks progress.

The interesting thing about that money is that in preventing starvation, it changes slightly how I approach my project. Because I know I won't starve for the next year, I can be a bit more exploratory with my work, and better understand the problems I'm solving. I can try a few more things without external pressure to make tangible progress. I can even delay fundraising for a company where I'd otherwise be in "fundraise or die"-mode.

I'm not entirely sure how these benefits generalize or apply to all projects, but I'll say that in pursuing a challenging project in a medical space, they help quite a bit.
no. I point them to FriendDA and then they usually feel like an idiot.

http://friendda.org/
I feel like this was always obviously the case in the United States. Nothing about US culture complements tiger parenting. Go ask Chinese kids in China how they feel about it. (hint: their culture fully supports and _expects_ this parenting style)
You're confusing "authoritative" and "authoritarian". Authoritative > permissive > authoritarian.
>> It has a morass of serious issues untouched by these modifications.

> Such as..?
That's nothing. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K_Foundation_Burn_a_Million_Qui...
http://404.io/ redirects to bitly
Both comments can be answered easily: This is not the end of their lives. If they fail, they have merely failed at the project that they tried. They can go off to college in four years having gained some experience and, perhaps, maturity, that will serve them well in an academic environment.
Very interesting. I wonder what the intended purpose of the message is.

It seems like Google might let employees see private YouTube user videos in their search results, but warns them not to share them.
The limitations specific to this device aren't the problem. The genuine issues will not be fixed before production, simply because don't have the technology. Specifically: the battery life, the poor voice recognition and the headaches.
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Happens on YC all the time. Just try to criticize PG- I dare you.
http://www.salarysecret.com/continue/358-ratoru54
nothing at all. but it scared me off. like in highschool i had this german teacher who scared me off german because she was a massive bitch. not the language's fault, but i hate german now.
Whats wrong with lobbying against the laws which you think are bad? In a democratic process, you can (and do) end up with laws which are crappy/outdated/unjust. Lobbying is a legitimate way to tackle this problem.
Googling will though.
From the linked post:

If you're a merchant: please stop processing transactions until the chains converge.

Is this real? This is like data processing slapstick comedy. I'm imagining the scene where someone steps into a boardroom and says this to Jeff Bezos. "Don't worry, I'll pay you back out of my salary. Wait, how many transactions per second did you say?"

When a Bitcoin company puts up a job ad asking for devops engineers: flee in terror.
Marrying Backbone.js and D3.js
I think the point was that that was still below the middle line.
Currently the bill is in the House, you can locate House representatives here: http://www.house.gov/representatives/find/ by inputting your ZIP code, or maybe here: http://whoismyrepresentative.com/ as it lists the known information (but I don't know if it's out of date).
I'm looking forward to seeing their stuff. Quite a few ambitious projects!
Bullet #2 is so very very wrong. Nice try. I can't speak to the first bullet.
Hey, I'm the FixtheDMCA founder. I set the whole thing up, and really I don't have any ulterior motives. When I was in college (2003-2006), I wrote and sold software to unlock Motorola phones (back when the RAZR was big). It was my first startup, and was a lot of fun to build. But about a year in I was sent a cease and desist by Motorola for violating the DMCA, even though there was no copyright infringement involved.

A very lovely lawyer by the name of Jennifer Granick at Stanford Cyberlaw helped me out pro bono, the case was dropped, and Jennifer went on to petition the Librarian of Congress to have an exemption for unlocking added. That exemption was granted in 2006, renewed in 2009, then dropped in 2012. I haven't been in the unlocking business for a long time, but I thought I should do something about it. I started the WH petition, which got 114k signatures and a positive response from the WH. But I realized that the real culprit is DMCA Section 1201, it really is just a really poorly written law, and it effects a whole load of people. So, with the help of some friends (shout outs to Azat, Joe, Austin and Dmitri) we threw up the FixtheDMCA site over the course of three days, and I've been maintaining it since. Meanwhile I've been trying to coordinate with folks like the EFF and Public Knowledge who are pushing things on the DC side.

For me it's kind of a fun break from startups, and I kind of feel like it's paying back the favor J. Granick did to me back when I was a college student.

I would really love to hear some decent, reasoned arguments why the DMCA shouldn't be fixed (and by fixed I mean limited to cases of copyright infringement only), as I think at a certain point the content lobbies will probably start making them and I'd love to have responses ready.
> What does this have to do with the Objective-C language itself?

Nothing except they had a bad experience using the language. It's like that time you ate a bunch of meatloaf right before coming down with the flu. It wasn't the meatloaf, but you still might never eat it again...
> Refusing to settle for anything short of perfect is often a bad trait, sure.

And that's what the saying means...

Especially important for technologists and entrepreneurs.
Congrats on the exit Ryan!
The Humble Bundle Bitcoin FAQ might be worth checking out: http://support.humblebundle.com/customer/portal/articles/113...

Seems mostly addressed at existing Bitcoin users with a very short two-sentence intro to let people have a sense of what Bitcoin is, which sounds like a good approach to me.
Haha, I can fortunately plass off blame to EFF for writing that. I'll fix it now :).

Edit: Should be fixed now.
Viewing a document on Yammer? That’s Crocodoc. Looking at a resume in Linkedin Recruiter? Crocodoc again. Reviewing an assignment on Edmodo? Crocodoc. Getting directions from Siri? Not Crocodoc. But you get the point.

That statement is funny to me because getting directions from Siri is the only one of those that I've actually ever done.
Agreed!

Congressmen value usable research and testimony. If you can hand them a credible argument for your point, well-condensed, well-organized, well-researched, and give a solid political bottom line (they are all about getting elected, you know) then you're ten miles ahead of the pack.
(Warning: wild-ass rambling follows.)

The only reason an agreement protocol is needed is because nodes are allowed to have different opinions (in Bitcoin's case, on the contents of the block chain) and so the protocol agrees on one of these opinions. If a system could be designed such that there is no room for opinion then it would be obvious whether a block is correct or not and thus having more resources would not benefit an attacker. This might require too much synchronization to be practical, though.
The word "app" (though more frequently pluralized) dates at least to the mid 1990s. How new do you mean?
I have it as well, but in Dutch:
"Experiment: je zoekresultaten kunnen vertrouwelijke inhoud bevatten. Deel deze inhoud niet met mensen buiten Google."
I prefer http://httpstat.us/400
Working link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yao%27s_Millionaires%27_Problem
Then so is rayiner, as far as I can tell. Not allowing your children to run around with other children outside is authoritarian, not authoritative.
Those actually use a floppy bus for the floppy disk drive, and good luck finding a pci floppy controller. I doubt one ever existed.
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"It assumes an anonymous protocol. The identity of the nodes does not matter."

Nor would it matter in a protocol where each node is assigned a unique ID. All that matters is whether or not the nodes are malicious and whether malicious nodes can violate some security property of the protocol.

"I had considered that to be the definition of a majority consensus."

This is kind of like saying that a Merkle puzzles approach is the only key exchange system.

"Lets just assume that some alternative protocol has a property where a an attack with the >50% computing power would be ignored."

Why even bother with "computing power?" Let's make the adversary more powerful by allowing attacks that run in polynomial time, and furthermore allowing the attacker to coordinate parties of its choosing, and to adaptive corrupt more parties in the system. Security against such attackers is not at all unheard of:

http://eprint.iacr.org/2012/441.pdf

"Then it follows that it would also allow an attack with <50% computing power— unless "attack" could be detected as a function of network state,"

Yes, that is how secure multiparty computation is usually approached. That is why secure protocols in the malicious model (or some multiparty variant of it) often involve zero-knowledge proofs, commitment schemes, and so forth.

"A _consensus_ ultimately depends on linear energy applied to an attack"

Again, it sounds like you are arguing against the use of consensus systems. It sounds like you are saying Bitcoin cannot be secure (at least not as a digital cash system), at least not by any cryptographic security definition.

To put it another way, would you want the person or group with the loudest voice to prevent you from spending your money, or to take money they gave you back against your will? It is one thing for a currency issuer to destroy an economy; it is another for anyone who spins their CPU to be able to cheat or engage in targeted attacks.
For example does PyPy always warm up, or can it store "warmed up" version of some function (where type of objects is inferred)? I know that this is not in accordance with highly dynamic nature of Python, but not all functions are highly dynamic.
Sure, if it's well-written and comes with some consideration (as in, you get some cash money for agreeing to the NDA).
It's funny that they put in all this technical effort and just ended up laundering the money in the same crappy way that drug dealers in the '80s did. I would think they could have found a better way then just buying expensive things.
This was a hack week project of mine sometime last year. I still get good use out of it, thought some of you might as well.
What portable computing market, previously dominated by Palm, WinCE, etc. create, exactly?
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My dog's reaction to fartscroll.js:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OIYySjIyy_I
Disassembling Square
General intelligence has declined one standard deviation since the Victorian era
Man! Whow! Thanks for the link!
Please elaborate; I have only minimal experience with ObjC and do not use Ruby in the context of native development, so any well-described counterpoints would be much appreciated.

Edit: I obv. didn't write your parent comment. What I meant was that I'm sure others in my position, having read your parent, would appreciate more elaboration from you as well. :)
"Why can't the existing industry do this?"

Because they can make massive profits with the way things are now. The existing industry is the last place you should be looking for change. Their job is to get a position and embed themselves in that position, not innovate.
Well attempting to exclude astronomy/astrophysics from the umbrella of science would be bending the definition far more than the current status quo.

Part of this is that science isn't about experimentation, it's about observation. We perform experiments when possible so that we have more stuff to observe, or more controlled events.

Much of astronomy, atmospheric physics, geology, medicine, the "soft" sciences and I'm sure plenty of other "hard" fields are at the mercy of certain phenomena having sweet FA for data points. And I'm sure they all do what astrophysicists do: make sure that what we do have plenty of data for works; make our extrapolations with as few assumptions/rounding errors as we can; and revisit existing models anytime we find a new data point.

It's as scientific as anything it's simply going to take longer to sort out in some cases.
Raising the question, maybe. However, for instance, in the eventuality that this bill passes, it will still be illegal to link to certain content. It only touches sec. 1201.
I think he meant ruby in bullet 2
It's idiomatic to use the if so you can do this

<?php if (have_posts()) : while (have_posts()) : the_post() ?>
<!-- do loop stuff -->
<?php endwhile; else : ?>
<!-- no posts found, show a default or error of some sort -->
<?php endif ?>
I think people underestimate how explicitly-programmed human language is in humans. I'm starting to think that this might be the central problem in NLP right now.

Humans have good natural pattern-matching engines in their heads, but the entire body of syntax and vocabulary available to a person is the result of the memorization of a huge amount of text. I suspect the majority of people rarely ever develop truly novel words or phrases on their own (with the notable exception of Lewis Carroll). (Aside: in fact, this is exactly how "memes" work in the modern online sense; one person invents a novel word or phrase, and that is then parroted by a huge number of other people.)

I recently started work on an attempt to improve the classification of English vocabulary by grade level. I built a database using publicly-available sources, and the number of unique words that the average child has been exposed to by the 8th grade is mind boggling. One source cited 15,000 unique words and over a million words read annually.

Aside from the words themselves, children have also by that age memorized an even larger number of phrases, pieces of sentence structure, and full sentences.

I think that because we aren't able to enumerate everything we've memorized, we don't fully appreciate just how much data is stored in our heads. As a result, I think it's possible that computer science researchers have largely been chasing a ghost in terms of some kind of magical "understanding" of language; the answer to NLP might actually be to simply store and access a terabytes-sized data structure of vocabulary and phrases.
Cython isn't 1) able to compile Python or 2) fast?

Hate to have to tell all my Cython code it needs to break itself because the hackernews thinks so. =P
I think it's very easy to cast a blanket across all universities as being more "industrialized" and having less student-professor interaction, and I'm sure there's truth to that.

As a counter-anecdote, however--when I was at Harvard, I don't think I ever felt separated from professors. I spent a healthy amount of time interacting with professors from many disciplines, in the classroom, through research, and even casually. I found even the most respected professors accessible, and enjoyed discussions with them.

Harvard may be a special case; I'm not to judge other schools without experience. But I will say that I actually miss that climate a bit, rather than having tried to escape it.
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HFT is used for many things, but it makes one task almost trivial: stop hunting.
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