skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My Informatics degree (also BS) required 1 philosophy and 1 psychology. The philosophy course was focused on ethics, and the psychology course on business relations, though they were both professor-dependent (the topic changed with different professors). They were part of the "human-centric" track of the curriculum.
but care deeply about financial institutions (at least, those too small to purchase legislators) actually following the rules

Might want to ask Elizabeth Warren about that one.
It's valid to say that CLA is somewhat separate from mainline research, and some of the terms are a product of that. The specific ones you refer to arn't misnomers however.

CLA - Closest 'mainline' term would be a recurrent neural network, but the neurons and network organization are very different.

OPF - This is more of a runtime environment or a set of tools to work with.

Encoders - These are actually a step below what you think of as an autoencoder. They translate many data types into useable inputs for the network. Then the spatial pooler takes over and tries to find efficient representations.

While it's possible to describe Numenta's work with existing frameworks, and unifying nomenclature is always useful, I hope you'll take the time to learn the system so that we can apply the correct shared terminology!

Full Disclosure: I used to work for Numenta.
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"Yes, because you can always relinquish your citizenship and leave the country if you don't want to pay taxes."

Thank you for this comment, I thought I was the only one on HN with that opinion.
Yeah I also don't get that. Would they not be able to just be disinfected and resealed?
This is a fantastic book.
They were taking money from customers, in exchange for which the customer received some sort of token of value, which could be used as a medium for exchange or reconverted to USD later.
Boy does this suck for Zynga employees. I really feel for the former OMGPOP employees as well- looks like Zynga has taken them down with them. I know that OMGPOP were desperately short of cash themselves, but at least they were the masters of their own destinies.

EDIT: and I wouldn't be too smug about their downfall if I were you. There could be repercussions across the tech sector if Zynga totally fails.
The man who lives without food
It's not that getting employed is the focus. It's that if you can't get employed, then your degree will only make you miserable (not least because you are saddled with a load of debt). There needs to be a balance between the student's short term interests and society's long term interests. And that means - whatever else you learn as well - at college you must learn a saleable skill.
I know I'm taking this article out of context... so who is it targeted towards? Some background would likely help this article tremendously because as-is it's obviously ridiculous.

Most people out of college are not in a position to forego a job to vaguely "build something". The issues are numerous: money, knowledge, ability, a realistic world-view, etc. I'd suggest the opposite to most smart engineering grads: sell your time (i.e. get a 9 to 5 job) and invest the money, knowledge, and free time you get into learning how to build things.
Dunkin' Donuts to introduce bacon, egg, doughnut sandwich
It seems like it is using Google Cloud Endpoints which means that you can generate client libraries for various languages (Dart, Ruby, Objective-C, Python, JavaScript, …) from your backend API definitions.

See http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uy0tP6_kWJ4

We are currently looking into Google Cloud Endpoints for exactly this functionality at Blossom (https://www.blossom.io)
An eBay auction exclusively for EUR? Yes.
Why "I saw the man on the hill with a telescope" is the best sentence ever
Philosophy is the thing I turn to when I am sad/stressed/troubled. Best course the french schools gave me.
"My personal recommedation is to have a nicely populated GitHub profile and send the link to that. If asked to narrow it down, pick a project that you’re proud of and submit it in its entirety."

Great if you work mostly on open source projects. My clients would not be happy with me publishing their code on GitHub or sending it out in its entirety. I can usually get permission to show snippets or maybe one source file, but most companies view their source code as valuable intellectual property. That's why they ask you to sign an NDA to see it.

To expand on the journalist angle, eliminating candidates who don't have a "well populated GitHub profile" is like eliminating writers who don't have a body of work published in The New Yorker.
nobody is asking for yearly updates for Visual Studio

Ahem... I am. I would much rather have smaller more frequent updates to important tools than huge disruptive ones. Short feedback loops are a good thing.
> The truth is that people just don't dislike things online that often

You've got to be kidding me. From what I see, and maybe it's just the places I frequent, that's what the internet is for!
I'd be interested in seeing this analysis using what the actual final cost incurred was (normally the fees you are shown are negotiated down by your insurance company to the amount they actually pay).
> To get started with ePaper development you will need a display and the RePaper Extension board

As someone new to ePaper development, where/how do you get a compatible display?
There is no way for you to read the one time passwords. You can only disable them from dashboard or make new ones. The parent comment was about keyloggers, and the don't-require-two-factor-auth checkbox is for browser cookie session only. So there is no way for a keylogger to exploit the checkbox. The attacker can only know your email and password, not your browser's cookie data.
I feel really bad for the employees getting laid off, but this feels a lot like a company that assumed growth would be forever up and to the right without leveling off or declining. Maybe when you go from zero to hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue it's easy to feel that way, but I don't see a place where Zynga is going to ever grow very rapidly again like in the "good old days"
Thanks for the feedback!

You're totally right that ratings datasets will skew positive. I was trying to get really get across that they aren't bimodal at all (unlike what some other people have claimed) and tend to look somewhat normal if you squint hard enough.
You're awesome, Jaisen. We're excited to partner with Trovebox!
Sadly there's very little value in reading this article, insofar as it contains no useful insights or lessons but rather is simply an exercise in throwing stones at someone's life-work, and, near as I can tell, it comes from out of left field.

Mostly this article makes me feel bad for its author. He must have spent a non-trivial amount of time writing this piece, and it serves no end. I suppose I just can't fathom why it made him feel good to write it.
Bitcoin supporters on HN:

One thread: Bitcoin is the future of money

Other thread: Bitcoin is not money, so why apply money rules?

It either is or isn't.
Good thing Pincus sold off a bunch of stock [1] -- $190mm worth [2]. Even better, he sold it before the employee lockup expired [3]. Living like a boss == fuck you money in the bank, instead of locked up in a company like suckers (employees and investors). From the stock charts [4], it looks like it closed opening day at $9.50, Pincus and insiders dumped at $12, and if you're a regular employee w/ a 6mo lockup that presumably expired 16 Jun since the company opened 16 Dec 11, you've never seen a price higher than $6.

ps -- dear employees and investors: your ceo dumping big blocks of stock is probably a negative signal

[1] http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405270230472440457729...

[2] http://www.forbes.com/sites/nathanvardi/2012/10/05/zynga-kee...

[3] http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/31/zynga-insider-tradi...

[4] http://www.google.com/finance?cid=481720736332929

updated to include pricing. Again, selling at 2x your employees == living like a fucking boss.
This is the first I've seen a stock's trading being halted. Does anyone know more about the mechanics of how this works? What the advantages/disadvantages are?
What are the "8 Screens"?
It seems unlikely that they would be peering in a way we would expect, considering that out of the billion-year history of life on a given planet, 100 years ago we weren't looking at all and 100 years from now we may be looking in entirely new ways.
Whatever happens - Pincus will do alright for himself.
Forums, like social networks, are networks effects businesses. HN grew from a seed set among YC people, applicants, pg's essay audience, likeminded individuals. After there is a community and conversations, they pull in other people. (I randomly got drawn in when someone referenced my blog some years ago, and I just happened to stay. etc, etc)

Assume you have the magic wand of product design. You wave it and create The Best Forum Ever. That's great. I don't use it because I use HN and you have no reason for me to switch. People who want to read what I have to say can't find what I have to say on your forum, because I'm not on it. Sum up that interaction over the entire space of possible users and it leads to a forum with 0 users and no content.

If you (hypothetically) want to create a competitor, your big problem is not creating a better designed website. It is, instead, convincing a seed set of users to use your new website even in the absence of much content on it, and having those users be such wonderful/connected/popular/thought-provoking/etc people such that people will join your site just to hang out with them.
> Also, one of the article's major claims (its first, in fact) is that Japan didn't surrender immediately.

I find it hard to reconcile this idea with the relatively persuasive reasoning that the second bomb was unjustifiable: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debate_over_the_atomic_bombings...

I am not entirely convinced that it was so, but I do think it is reasonable that a few days is not sufficient time to understand the full magnitude and novel nature of such an event. The second bomb was probably necessary, but even in an alternative universe where it was not, I think it would be foolish to expect a surrender that immediately.
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If it's cheap enough and doesn't produce toxic byproducts, you could get point-of-use reactors. No more need for utilities.

Naturally the utilities would fight that with every fiber of their being. But doesn't everybody here dream of that kind of disruption?
How does it hurt, though? You say you're not running 2012 yet, so obviously you're not feeling forced to upgrade before you're ready. So why shouldn't they put out the latest bits when they've got them ready and we users can start using them when we're ready?
The trading halt caught my eye too. Who decides when a stock get's halted to stop it from tanking? If there's a legit system issue with the trading market that the Zynga has no control over sure, I get that, but to keep traders from reacting to the state of the company and/or market itself is pretty shifty.
My reaction to this article:

"That'd be nice, but I live in New York".

That's why that Onion headline is so brilliant: you HAVE to do the thing you love on nights and weekends until you get good enough at it to attempt to do it full time. In the meantime, you have to pay your rent, you have to buy your food and have a social life and a girlfriend and all those other things that make life pleasant.
Your comment really resonates with me.

Where you rank, why you rank, etc. with Google is never explained. This used to be effective in the old days, but they have lost the edge. Instead of focusing on providing excellent search results, Google has focused on trying to draw in all parts of the internet to personalize search. This is where I think Google has lost the focus on quality.
It's not a token or store of value. Bitcoins only have value to the extent that others will buy them. There is not a person on the planet that has a contractual obligation to exchange or buy Bitcoins for anything.
Why? I felt bad for Zynga employees who got screwed earlier since that was the first breach of trust by their CEO and it was still unclear if Zynga was something other than a game-copying exploiter of economically disadvantaged people through game mechanic trickery. But now, after all the dirty laundry has been aired?

edit: Any repercussions for the tech sector if Zynga fails will fall in the "healthy correction" column in my book.
> I've never heard a defense of nuclear weapons based on their ability to end wars, only as a weapon to prevent them.

TFA aside, it is generally accepted that the bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki caused Japan to surrender. Besides, the bomb was not invented until well into the war.
Just curious: and what is your estimation of salary ranges for Java SWE in Seattle? How many sexy start-ups/companies there(I think not too many). Can diff in salary between Seattle and SF be covered by $500-$1000 savings on apartment rent?
It's unfortunate such an ethical CEO as Mark Pincus has to go through troubles such as this.

This is also a reminder that only very few companies caught up in the bubble have real business models that will last when the bubble pops.
Quitting My Job and Learning to Program
Correct. The Numenta name is now associated with the open source project and NuPIC, whereas Grok is the commercial company.
Good point. Assuming ad absurdum that all exchanges (fiat/BTC) will be forbidden, does bartering via a 3'rd party - in this case BTC subjects to the same regulations ?

For example: instead of "I exchange 3 bananas for 3 apples" to "I exchange 3 bananas for 3 btc which I can exchange for 3 apples".
He apparently trains "growth hackers."
Qualcomm Publishes New ath10k 802.11ac Linux Driver
Stock trading halted after this was published? Did this article beat a planned press release to the punch? If you traded this news you might have had a good day.
I find this response almost shocking. Most of HN criticizes microsoft for slow releases cycles, slow change but the Visual Studio has clearly made progress for the better by addressing UserVoice requests, integrating Git etc.

If your employer is to slow to keep updated, why should that slow MSFT down for you while the it is trying to reinvent itself, just catch up in 2015.
>Truth was, he was a hero who helped to defeat the Nazis and Imperial Japan.

Stalin wasn't a hero. The Nazis were defeated by USSR (millions of peoples oppressed by the Stalin's regime, yet the alternative was even worse). USA helped defeat the Nazis.

USA defeated Japan. USSR helped defeat the Japan. USSR had
no viable ambitions and wasn't in any shape to have them beyond the 38th parallel.
The next sentence says:

"The EPD extension board supports driving PDI’s 1.44, 2.0, and 2.7 inch E-Paper display (EPD) modules."

"PDI's" links to: http://www.pervasivedisplays.com/products/panels
I don't understand what you're getting at, can you elaborate?
You can buy a dev kit, which includes a display, from Adafruit. It's USD 35 and comes with a 2-inch display.

http://www.adafruit.com/products/1316
Yes, new college graduates, please do not be seduced by the idea that you can be employed by a company that will pay you to learn how to do something of value.

Instead, take everything you have (inexperience, limited funds, lack of domain expertise, etc.) and invest it in making "something."

If all else fails, which it most likely will, join a startup, ideally one filled with a bunch of other young people trying to learn how to make "something" too.
Always try to think of alternative ways to sell/market your product. How products are sold in any market is defined by incumbents; to get through them, and stand out, you will always have to go a different route.

Don't rely on the press to sell your product; it is almost always unsustainable.
Stocks get halted all the time.

Sometimes for news, sometimes due to a fat finger, sometimes due to market volatility.

What normally happens in the case of news is that the stock will be halted before the news comes out and then the stock will reopen sometime after the news so that everyone has a chance to digest the news.

In the case of a fat finger or market crash things are a little different. In that case trads can be undone, meaning that if you bought as the stock crashed you could get your trade busted. After the trades have been undone, the exchanges make sure there is adequate liquidity on either side of the book and trading resumes.

This second case is a bitch for automated trading systems as we(the designers) don't often take this into account and even less frequently get a chance to test this case in the wild.
I think the bigger problem is maintaining the data. The advantage Facebook has is that your profile is always kept up-to-date implicitly by the act of you using it. You "like" something because you want your friends to see it, you add and remove friends because you want or don't want to communicate with them. The side-effect is that your data is actively maintained and therefore relevant to share. A dedicated identity provider that doesn't have avenues for continuous interaction will quickly render your profile stale, except for the most resolute users who are willing to manually duplicate all their interactions from all other social networks.
Yet another Visual Studio, yet another truckload of "features" that do nothing to help day-to-day, heavy-lifting programmers. (And which probably help by adding bugs or just bloating the system). Sigh.

I am hoping they have made substantial improvements that are not mentioned in this blog post.
Amazing what controlling the means of production can do for you.
The point he's making is that a dystopia that achieves buy-in from a large portion of the population because it delivers wealth, cleanliness, and low crime, is much more likely to persist for a LONG time than a dystopia like North Korea.

You could have an authoritarian government that routinely tortures and executes political opposition and severely punishes minor crimes that ends up with the support of the majority of the populace because they like clean streets and a strong economy. That sort of government would be extremely difficult to uproot.
It often happens after huge news, and it's meant to give investors time to digest it.

I believe the last notable instance was after Jobs died, AAPL was halted.
OK maybe the term "business model" is confusing. What I meant is what the sandwich makers actually get paid for.

No matter how many people get served, or how well, or how many sandwiches get made, or how many bags of chips and cups of soda are up-sold, or how many other people worked with you that day, your pay won't change. The only thing that changes your pay is how many hours you were there.

As for the employer/owner of the store, what does he get paid for? The amount of sandwiches, chips, and soda sold. So the employees sell their time, but the owner sells sandwiches.
Bullshit.

Things with easily accessible, live-updated exchange rates have value. We're not talking about baseball cards here.
I've been into strategy for 15+ years.

In my humble opinion this Product > Strategy > Business Model is suitable for the current bunch of feature start-ups that aspire to be acquired by big cos.

If you want to do it right, then it is the other way around.

1. You check the market you want to compete/be in.

2. Then you understand which business models work and which don't and why. You choose several to start with.

3. Then you define your strategy, i.e. What do I need to do to disrupt current market leaders?

4. Then you develop product(s) that fit your strategy and business models.

So if you want to do smth serious the right sequence is Market > Business Models > Strategy > Product(s)
This would have been disasterous earlier in Google's life, but at this point they're so dominant that they can basically force everyone else to deal with their screw-ups.
No, jobs can be great, and if you're anything like me you greatly value the security, built-in social nature, team spirit, and the sorting out of all the boring crap (accounts, admin, even cleaning) by other people. I could probably make a bunch more money as a contractor, but money isn't everything by a long shot. You do have to pick the right company, though. Do your research and follow your instincts about the culture. Good luck!
Skylines and Water
It's uncool to post a long comment on an article you didn't bother to read, let alone dismiss it with a slur about "revisionist history", whatever that is. The article is clearly a serious one, and since it challenges the #1 belief by far that nearly everyone (in North America if not elsewhere) has about the end of the Pacific War, it deserves attention.

Unsurprisingly, you haven't addressed most of the article's arguments. Even where your material does overlap, it does so incoherently, because one can't figure out where you actually disagree with the author or are even talking about the same things.

A serious counterargument to the OP would be very interesting. The comments on the FP site itself are terrible. So far, the only real argument I've seen is that the article is old hat, since we already know that it wasn't just the bombs that ended the Pacific war. It may be old hat among specialists, but it isn't to the millions of us who were taught and still believe exactly that.
Startups are hard, let's go shopping?

Meh. OK, yes, doing a startup can be a difficult process, and you probably have to make some serious sacrifices if you want to succeed. That's not a big revelation.

In my own case, I've basically forgone social interaction, dating, spending time with friends, etc., in order to try and get this thing off the ground. No, it's not pleasant, but I remind myself that this state of affairs is (if things go well) temporary... we'll get some traction at some point, and I may be able to back off a little. One day, we'll be a profitable, growing company, we'll hire a CEO, and I'll designate myself "chief coffee mug washer" and step aside to spend time doing fun stuff. Maybe some of my friends will still be alive then, and still know who I am. And maybe I'll still be young enough to have some kind of chance of finding a girlfriend. Or not. Who knows? But who ever said any of this was going to be easy?

Winning isn't normal, right?[1]

[1]: http://www.jasonshen.com/2010/winning-isnt-normal/
If you've ever had to maintain a large, legacy .net app that has been around since 1.0 or even has some ASP 'classic' code in it, upgrading is a major nightmare. I know at least two shops right now 'stuck' on 2005 because various problems upgrading to 2008, let alone to 2012 or 2013 now. They are more likely to re-write the whole thing in Ruby at this point.

I'm actually running 2012 personally, not such a big deal on that front, my side projects tend to be pretty manageable and not hugely large or sophisticated.

But yeah, you have anything large and enterprise-y, the pain just amplifies each version you are behind.
Excellent read.

One point on disposing of fancy, potentially reusable, tools: We do more than a little precision machining in our lab. When a job matters, the shop buys new tooling. It's lower in cost, especially time, than verifying that a tool is sharp and correct.

At first, it seems wasteful to throw away a once-used tool, but if all you do is critical work, you must be certain that your tools are reliable and correct. Once you have a complete set of nice hand-me-down spares squirreled away for coarse work, any subsequent used tools go in the recycle bin.

For the computer-inclined, this practice is no different from taking a perfectly functional linux installation you've used for a little while for a side project and using it on a mission-critical task. It's easier and more reliable to reformat and reinstall than to inherit whatever curiosities might emerge from the past.

When quality matters, provenance matters.