skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It would indeed be interesting to see some info on systems trying to accomplish this. I would argue that the cat owner gets better data in the first place because they are physically present, while a mobile app has to reconstruct a lot from video input.

Then there is the problem of interpreting the intent of the cat itself. I would say there are a few different modes of communication with varying degrees of obviousness.

First, the app would probably be good to determine basic mood, such as fear or joy. But then again, any human could do that just as well. More nuanced communications of mood and intent can vary from cat to cat, giving the owner-human the edge here as well. I don't need an app to tell me that my cat feels 57% optimistic about her day, 32% playful, and wants more social contact with a 75% probability. As a family member, I can also use other heuristics that an app can't, for example I can factor in what happened yesterday, or other specific data that is hard to generalize programmatically.

The other category would be purposeful coordination with the human. In this, the cat explicitly addresses a human with the intent to communicate. This is probably where the most misunderstandings happen, and hence the best opportunity for the app to shine. As a lifelong "cat observer" I'm pretty good at reading a lot of the cues instinctively, but these too vary a lot from cat to cat. Usually the cat also tries to show what the problem is. For example, she literally walks me over to the door, or to the place where food is stored, or to where a toy is kept, or to a dirty litter box if I forgot to clean it. My cat also regularly points out other things that are clearly my fault, such as rain or the wrong food flavor. Once again, this is not hard to recognize.

In general I think this is a fascinating area, not because it's about cats, but because of the implications of communicating with minds that are not human.
No, definitely not on every deploy! For a deploy, I just do a "git pull" on all of the production boxes and restart the web server.

Baking a new AMI only happens when there are new underlying dependencies, like a new package from apt-get or a new Python module from pip. In other words, it's rare.

Hope that helps!
If you don't think that the feature of being able to browse porn video sites on an iphone or ipad had a huge push in making their success you're missing out.
No, that he is whining. He isn't being questioned because of his name; he is being questioned because he is whining. The quip about his name is not an ad hominem because the quip is immaterial to the argument.

There is no "you should question this because his name is Foo", rather "you should question this because he is acting Fooish, which incidentally sounds similar to his name."

Immature, but not an ad hominem.
Heh -- my blog is still hosted on Heroku, and I forgot to up the dynos. Which I suppose is a nice (and ironic) argument for doing the AWS auto-scaling stuff!

The site I was writing about, soundslice.com, has not seen any blips.
I share your dislike of pretend businesses. (I call it "playing office dress-up".) But Tumblr had $14 million in revenue last year. I suspect they could be in the black on that, and if not, they're within striking range. So I don't think this is a "mud pie" company.

Further, businesses like Twitter, Facebook, and Tumblr have strong incentives to defer seeking revenue as long as possible. The businesses will only succeed at large scale. Time spend on early revenue is a distraction from what really matters, which is pleasing users. Better to wait until you have a large share of the market. So I think it's dangerous to look at Tumblr's current revenue and assume that a) that says much about their future revenue, or b) the company doesn't have a pretty solid revenue plan that they're waiting to roll out.
"books are damn expensive" party 
- i'm tired of paying hundreds for college books and selling them for pennies
4 Reflections On The State Of Startups Arising From The Yahoo-Tumblr Deal
She only lost about 10% of her life savings on that trade on the first day.

"Her son advised her to hold onto her shares until she either resolved the matter with Vanguard or the price bounced back."

That would be an interesting malpractice lawsuit, mom vs son. Just sayin.

How dare her trade not profit! I know, file a lawsuit for a 400% rate of return for, um, well, not winning in the casino, thats what.

This is what is known in the business as catching a falling knife. By the time the legal stuff wrapped up, she lost more like 90% of her life savings as the stock cratered. A legal maneuver attempting to cash in on the situation was the gamble that lost most of her money because she caught a falling knife and stubbornly refused to let go. Really its two back to back gambles both of which failed.
In the Wake of Google I/O, a Retrospective on Anticipatory Search
Well, if they want to stay with the ! theme how about something along the lines of !AnotherStagnantProductFailure
It wouldn't be sustainable. The folks trying to build the next Amazon.com on a t1.micro would be paying a buck a month and expecting the same level of support Netflix gets.
Kickstarter projects are not allowed to be turned into for-profit companies, even though KS themselves broke their own rules in this by turning a blind eye for Penny Arcade.

If they want to turn Ghost into a for-profit company and not a non-profit organization, they can follow in Wordpress’s footsteps exactly: create an open source, non-profit blogging platform, then later create a separate entity (a for-profit company) to offer additional services for money.

But that’s assuming that is their goal. Who’s to say their goal isn’t simply to create a much better blogging experience than Wordpress for the same reason Wordpress was created in the first place (to offer a much better blogging experience than existed at the time)?

I’m all for companies having a business model and focusing on both quality and profit, but that does not preclude the valuable existence of non-profit organizations and open source projects, like jQuery or my own project, Modernizr.

I think a better use of time would be to criticize the obviously for-profit startups that obviously have no business model than an exit strategy of hoping to eventually sell, or get enough users and investment capital to grow to the point where ads become viable.
If jEdit were written in something other than Java, then it truly would have been an emacs successor. Unfortunately it's Java background is simultaneously both it's weakness and it's strength.
Future of Google search is Now
He just reminded me of a 'modern day Einstein'. I understand the main point of the article was that Einstein's genius took a lot of hard work, same as the kid. They do have a lot of similarities in their process of acquiring knowledge and understanding.
> I have no idea, just things don't work on EC2.

A raw EC2 instance is identical to your average VPS offering. You don't have to use all the extra alphabet soup of ELB, SQS, SNS, SES, etc.

> When it came time to ping the server... no response.

What were your security group settings? ICMP (ping, traceroute, etc.) are blocked by default, you have to enable them.
OP here. I actually used to use App Engine for Soundslice, about a year before Soundslice launched publicly. It was cool in principle, but it's severely limited to the point where I just couldn't run my app on it. Plus there was wildly varying performance with the database layer.

I'm sure it's gotten better since then (this was circa late 2011), but I'd think long and hard about using App Engine for anything nontrivial.
Doesn't happen in Perl for me:

pfedor@Pawels-iMac:~$ perl -ne 'print "Digit!\n" if /\d/'
af
3
Digit!
23fa3
Digit!
asdf
١٢٣٤٥٦٧٨٩۰۱۲۳۴۵۶۷۸۹
৩৪৫৬৭৮৯੦੧੨੩੪੫੬੭੮੯૦૧૨૩૪૫
୧୨୩୪୫୬୭୮
౨౩౪౫౬౭౮౯೦೧೨೩೪೫೬೭೮೯൦൧൨൩൪൫൬൭൮൯๐๑๒๓๔๕๖๗๘๙໐໑໒໓
234
Digit!

(perl from Macports and perl from /usr/bin/perl behave the same in this respect.)
Hey! Just checked out Salient, are you referring to the shortcode generator? I've never used the theme, just checking it out on Theme Forest.
Amen. I've bumped into the "anyone trying to make a profit is a sinister shark" types in the event organization world. More intimate, non-profit community events provide a totally different experience to large, commercial events, yet there are people who would irrationally love to wipe out the latter rather than live and let live.

Doing things for profit is certainly not the only (or even best) way but it's a perfectly legitimate approach that can be done honestly and with integrity, and not one worth dismissing out of hand even if it doesn't fit into your worldview.
Where does it say that Kickstarter projects can't be for-profit?
And it's worth pointing out, Paul Graham's product is still around and/because it made a lot of money for Yahoo over the years.

http://store.yahoo.com
DiffWeb?

Detect? (amusingly not taken within tech, seemingly)
Yes, that backward mentality was especially prominent in the event space. We experienced that a lot when I was running Carsonified.
I completely agree. I'm not sure this should be titled CSS as it's really HTML and CSS. Should have been done in SVG and CSS.
I actually read the post for the plugin that probably prompted this blog post of yours (I saw your comment at the end of it the other day).

I agree. It's been stated numerous times from the WordPress devs themselves that trying to hide that you are using WordPress is futile. Which it is.

Your post mentions the 2 primary things needed to secure your WordPress installation; 1. strong passwords, 2. up-to-date WP and plugins. I would add: choose a well regarded hosting provider.

To enforce strong passwords when you're working with a larger group you may want to look into this plugin:

http://wordpress.org/plugins/enforce-strong-password/

Otherwise, well done.
Has tumblr tumbled ?
Shall the cool kids seek a new indie alternative ?
Surely this acquisition creates such an opportunity for some Nu upstart ?
15+ illustrative website design inspiration
If you think they're wrong, write it anyway and put it in the Kindle store.
Investing greater than 10-15% of your net in high risk stocks is crazy. If you look at Berkshire Hathaway 13F Facebook is nowhere to be seen. There is Amex, Coke, WAL MART, IBM... These corporations will probably be here in 2023. I have no idea about FB.

http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1067983/0001193125132...
Yahoo...where the internet goes to die
10% of her losses were on the first day trading. No big deal. Most of her losses were later on while she tried to cash in on a big lawsuit as advised by :

"Her son advised her to hold onto her shares until she either resolved the matter with Vanguard or the price bounced back."

"Her son, who studied finance at UC Berkeley"
I am curious how many dynos you end up using under traffic for a blog site. Care to share?

Also, how many dynos did it take to handle the load on soundslice, when it was on the front page of reddit?
Welcome to the cloud.
The underwriter's job is a little bit more complicated than just maximizing the offering for the company. They actually serve many interests including those of their own clients and stakeholders.

A "pop" does not necessarily mean the issue was underpriced. Besides, an increase in share price benefits the founders too

This issue didn't just fail to "pop," it subsequently tanked which suggests that it was overpriced/oversold and while Facebook, Inc. received more cash for the offering, the net value of the enterprise was worth less because of it.

Stock is a form of currency too. For compensation, acquisitions, and more. I think Facebook was out to get all they could, probably still expected a pop (hubris) and the bankers who did the issue let them because they're all shells of their former selves, and they were hedged with the way the deal was structured anyway (greenshoe).

Think of it in terms of taking a cash-out refi on your home with an artificially inflated appraisal. You might maximize the cash you can get, but what's the value of that cash when the actual value of the house is realized and you're at break-even or worse, underwater? Is the bank just "doing their job" structuring deals that way?
After reading some of your sources, it doesn't appear to me that anyone was held in contempt for exercising their Fifth Amendment rights. Rather, they seem to have refused to cooperate with the Grand Jury at all [1]. You can be compelled to cooperate with the government to incriminate others so long as you aren't compelled to incriminate yourself.

[1]: Perhaps for good reasons -- it seems people are fighting against what appears to be an over-reach of Grand Juries. But that would just be an example of civil disobedience, which often carries the risk of jail time, not an example of the Fifth Amendment not applying in a Grand Jury hearing.
I am sorry, but shouldn't it be San Francisco. I think you have a spelling error.
"I negotiated for myself a role as the "Chief architect of Symantec's Mac strategy."

If you have to negotiate a made-up role for yourself during the acquisition of your own company, it's clear the company sees no value in your input and only wants your product and customers. I doubt David Karp had to negotiate a role for himself because his expertise, just as much as his company, was sought after.
There's an easy solution and it's called charge them fucking money for your product.

Every bootstrapped, for-pay startup has users who invest in them. Do those get shuttered? Sure, that happens.. but with less frequency I'm sure, especially when the business is actually turning a profit. As a user, it makes sense to pay attention to the complete cost of 'free' when choosing a service.
Whatever happened to Viaweb?
Something that tracks diet, bodily ph balance and associated health effects so we can get some real data about that. It currently is presented as rather woo. For starters, websites that list acid and alkaline foods do not even agree which foods are which.
The cassette tape returns
How to Be a PR Hacker Without Spamming the Media
> I think as a society we'd benefit from celebrating the successes (and even the failures) of "late-bloomers" like Zhang a lot more.

What do you mean? It seems like Zhang's success is being fully recognized and celebrated, by mathematicians and the public alike. Do you think it deserves still more press than it is getting?

> Mathematicians have always amused me with their weird way of turning their craft upon themselves

> this work seems to be motivated by insecurity and a base of other negative emotions.

On what basis do you make these assertions? How many mathematicians do you personally know?

Mathematicians are overall a positive and cheerful group who are positive, welcoming, and as optimistic as circumstances allow. It's one reason I love working in this subject. Our portrayal in the media and Hollywood is, I think, a bit misleading.

When the editors of the Annals of Mathematics received Zhang's manuscript, from someone in his fifties and entirely unknown, what was their response? To forward the paper to experts, and ask for an evaluation. And, indeed, the paper was evaluated on its merits.

> The skepticism it breeds isn't at all useful or beneficial for the field; if anything it's destructive, but yet it seems to persist.

Since I don't understand what you're talking about, could I please ask you to translate your criticism into advice, which I might then consider following?
I was under the impression that macronutrient makeup was a pretty solid proxy for satiation/satiety. Perhaps the reason there isn't a ton of research behind satiation/satiety is that it's largely a "solved problem" (in terms of research being "thin"; I do think adding more clarity on packaging isn't a bad idea).
Most of the examples are just the 3% of the companies acquired in the whole existence of the company. Google bought so many companies that most of them were just talent acquisition.
> A raw EC2 instance is identical to your average VPS offering.

See, you say that, but then you later say

> What were your security group settings?

I dunno, man, I just want a server. Every other VPS provider works, and I can set up my own iptables etc.

I'm not saying EC2 is _bad_, as I'm sure things being extra mega locked down by default is good overall. But I don't think it's fair to say that EC2 is the same as a VPS.
If Tumblr is an all cash deal, does that mean Yahoo has 100% power over the company now?
Building Social Gaming Infrastructure on the Google Cloud Platform
How we do Kanban?
For EC2 security groups you have to open access to both the correct ports and protocols. Ports are a concept at layer 4 of the OSI model, while ping, or more correctly 'ICMP Echo Request', is lower down the TCP/IP stack at layer 3. So when configuring the security group, look for the option to choose Protocols, then enable ICMP :)
Just because something works doesn't mean your hypothesis as to WHY it works is true. See any research published on Traditional Chinese Medicine for a similar example. [spoiler: it definitely works, but is it REALLY because of qi meridians?] I think it is great that your approach is working for you, because that is what matters. Congrats on the weight loss.
Although the style of this website is sufficiently 'Western' that these people are probably trustworthy, I would recommend some caution when it comes to signing up for their mailing list. My experience is that Chinese companies—even the ones you might think are respectable—don't know the meaning of the word 'unsubscribe'.
Right, hence my 'I'm not a lawyer.' I guess I tend to associate 'not incriminate yourself' with 'not talking,' which is not true 100% of the time. Thanks for pointing out this difference.

The end result is the same, though, especially given the post I was responding to.
> Kickstarter projects are not allowed to be turned into for-profit companies

Kickstarter is used very much for projects by for-profit companies. Maybe there is some accurate but confusingly presented point behind this, but if so it could definitely use clarified (and perhaps a specific reference to the rule at issue.)
I can't downvote and, in this case, wouldn't do so even if I could. I respect your opinion and I fully agree with you that in the relation with his wife Einstein was no saint.

However, I do not think it is relevant and the quote is also not very obscure. Furthermore, claiming he used tedious propaganda to claim credit is taking it to far without citing sources. I think I would downvote that if I could. From what I've read his insights and work in physics were respected by his peers and revolutionary. So for me how Einstein thought and attacked problems is quite interesting. How he thought about that is something I do want to mimic.
The real difficulty in CMSs isn't in making the CMS, it's making a CMS that is reasonably extensible and configurable by end-users as well as coders.

Too far into that extreme gets into Drupal-land.
David was likely approaching the subject from the standpoint of a user -- no one likes ads that are too in-your-face and irrelevant. But as a Division Head (no longer CEO...), he has to ensure that he is profitable. Like I said, I don't know how good Yahoo's ad-serving network is, and hopefully they have a broad & deep enough pool of content to show visitors, so that Tumblr remains a viable publishing platform.

Given Marissa's previous stint at Google, I expect her to focus her attention next on their ad-serving. A large & strong revenue stream will keep the board off her back and give her time to fix other things there that need fixing.
I look at it through the way they both think, how they both process information. He's a pretty interesting kid.
Unlike Fliker or Tumblr, the monetization strategy was obvious.
You made it sound like he knew where the bills came from and that he was just unwilling to sell out his friend.

Look at it from the police's perspective. Someone passes counterfeit currency, but then claims he didn't know, and is unwilling to help find who the money came from. What do you do? If the answer is: nothing, then anyone caught passing counterfeit currency, or crimes of a similar nature, could just claim that they got the money from someone else and declined to disclose who. If he had cooperated with the police regarding the source of the money, it's quite unlikely that he would have gotten jailed.
I had you labeled as a lush (that's a joke about being a 'wine'-r). A few generations back in my family we had actual whiners, so I empathize with you.

I mean, consider the bright side, you could've gone into politics with a last name like "Weiner"...
Really? I hadn't seen the original posts before clicking on the this one and I assumed this was some kind of security breach...I hadn't heard of Aphyr before but just assumed it was some kind of netsec (white or black hat) group. I actually skimmed the OP's first paragraphs several times because I didn't understand what was going on.

That said, I agree that DB reliability should be taken with the same rigor as net security...but I was kind of under the impression that it already was, in that DBs are pretty serious business. Also, "attack" has the connotation of, well, an "attack"...here, some of the failures happen in regular business operations, which is a problem different from when the system is under "attack".

But at least the OP took the criticism graciously. When I read what the case actually was, I then worried that the OP was having a bunker mentality.
Show HN : An UrbanDictionary like startup terms (weekend project)
This is my first week-end project while I'm trying to learn Symfony. It's based on a discussion I saw recently in HN and I thought it might be interesting to create a place where to gather all the startup related terms.
http://www.kickstarter.com/start

Kickstarter projects can of course be for-profit, or be launched by for-profit companies. But Kickstarter cannot be used to solicit investment or start a for-profit company.
A Cryptic Crossword Clue Solver (in Python)
Except this isn't about Yahoo/Tumblr... this was written years ago. It might still be relevant, but given the new leadership at Yahoo, it might not apply anymore. At least, one can hope.
Yes, however I don't remember playing with Lego for hours everyday, week after week, month after month. There's something qualitatively different about Minecraft that makes it even more engaging than Lego.

In fact, today's modern Lego is nothing like it used to be. Today kids get a kit, which they build from the instructions, then put it on a shelf. They _consume_ Lego now, whereas when I was a kid I _created_ with Lego.

When my kids have kids, they may very well show their children some Lego, and their kids may say "oh, you mean it's sort of like Minecraft".
San Francisco Must Upzone: The Needs of Many Outweigh the Needs of Few
My apologies. I should've said "to an existing instance."

http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonRDS/latest/UserGuide/USER_R...

"You must create a DB snapshot before you can restore a DB instance from one. When you restore the DB instance, you provide the name of the DB snapshot to restore from, and then provide a name for the new DB instance that is created from the restore. You cannot restore from a DB snapshot to an existing DB instance; a new DB instance is created when you restore."