skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Horizontal resolution is important as well.

1080 pixels of horizontal resolution is far too little. 1440 is the same as my MacBook's Air's horizontal res, which is kind of ridiculous when I'm paying in excess of $1000 for a monitor.

Again, 8:5 ratios give you the same horizontal res (I don't know why this is such a difficult concept to grasp for some people) with more vertical resolution, in landscape mode.
But just saying "yes" takes space on the page and doesn't add anything to the discussion. At least say why you're so excited or something.
How A Movie Is Made
I disagree with a few points here...

First off, consumer offerings, like TVs, and perhaps laptops, are all at 16:9, sure, but almost any decent computer monitor (from Dell, HP, Apple, etc.) are 16:10. Even if I'm off base, 16:10 is certainly not hard to find.

Second, while I agree that computing activities lend themselves well to vertical orientation, like you suggest, they lend themselves even more to multi displays and multi tasking.

So the question is do you really want 2 or 4 or 8 vertical displays, with a physical seam between each of them, or do you want 1 or 2 or 3 horizontal displays, all split in two with your window manager, and with fewer physical seams ?

I organize my workspaces vertically, and I have 3x 16:10 monitors split into (roughly) 6 vertical workspaces. I only have two physical seams. If monitors were not horizontal, I would have 6 displays with 5 vertical seams.

So if you're working on a laptop, or have just one screen, I feel your pain. But big computer monitors are better off horizontal (and in threes :)
I have this book, and would not recommend it as a stand-alone learning guide. It gives a decent intuitive treatment of some topics but is inconsistent. It will furthermore jump between e.g. an explanation of neural networks without any mathematics to the full derivation of backpropagation. It tries to hit a sweet spot between rigor and intuition but in my opinion it largely fails to bridge the two.

Unfortunately, I'm not aware of any good ML books that are current. Mitchell's was really good but is out of date. Bishop is a megalithic tome of statistical mathematics and is better as a reference than a textbook. I think that a good MOOC course paired with selected readings is the best currently available option.
This site provides some good neighborhood-specific price/square foot info.

http://pricesquares.com/#/county/1/san-francisco/

You can see that the north and northeast portions of the city carry the highest rates (close to $1k/sq foot in Pac Heights and the Marina).

Zoom in to drill down to smaller neighborhoods/sub-districts.

For comps between SF and Palo Alto, I'd recommend Redfin. Last I checked, the Palo Alto prices were above SF prices (on a square foot basis).

Edit: I'll just add some more detail!

Here's the Redfin report for Palo Alto ($1,168/sq ft):
http://www.redfin.com/city/14325/CA/Palo-Alto

Here's the Redfin report for SF ($660/sq ft)
http://www.redfin.com/city/17151/CA/San-Francisco
In addition to a status signal, charities are also massive tax shelters. All around it is just a way to funnel money out of the government's hands, as most charitable donations would otherwise have been taxed by the government as excess capital or income.

The USA has so many structural problems that sometimes I find it ironic that people are so obsessed with solving third world problems. In a way, due to the massive global influence of the US, solving a big problem here (e.g. militant foreign policy) can lead to incredible improvements in the lives of hundreds of millions across the world. Conversely, if US foreign policy is dictated by warmongers, hundreds of millions suffer war and famine for decades.

As Aaron did [1], please read Noam Chomsky then decide in which order to address first and third world problems.

1. http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/epiphany
You should have the option of free mentoring in return for free mentorship. For example, I'm proficient enough in JavaScript, ruby, and c# to mentor others and even charge for it. But if its not a very intense schedule, I'd happy to do it for free in return for free mentorship of something I am currently learning (such as Haskell or iOS development). So if I get credits for free mentoring that I can use to pay other mentors, that would be sweet. Though i suppose I might as well just charge for the mentoring I do and pay other mentors for that money.
Wow, they are really good at starting things.
Not to mention the people who never went there in the first place because they have fewer romantic notions about what it means to be a tech startup and never saw the appeal in being paid barely enough to live in an expensive, crowded area.
Ooh, we have a solution to that problem (losing interest in collecting it if it's fully automated). Assuming you're collecting data that you want to change, like, for many people, their weight, or, say, how much time you spend on Hacker News: http://beeminder.com/d/hn

Namely, set up a commitment device that forces you to keep your datapoints on a path to some goal. That's what Beeminder does.
As an appraiser, I agree. SELL SELL SELL. Rent in the meantime if you'd like to stay put. The economics make more sense.
Isn't it more important to advocate a policy than to try to interpret the placement of a comma?

Notwithstanding the constitution, what policy would you advocate?
"Today's low mortgage interest rates and tight supply of homes for sale are "creating a kind of witch's brew of extreme price spikes," says Stan Humphries, Zillow chief economist. (1)

Logic tells me that when the all-important "monthly payment" rises, as a result of higher mortgages rates, that is going to be instantly detrimental to the housing market to a nearly equal degree.

But when I've asked this question of people I know in real estate (from realtors to investors) the answer is "yah but there are a lot more factors at work"

What are those factors? The FED is going to raise rates and when they do is this going to leave a lot of recent homebuyers holding the bag, again, on an inflated asset?

(1) http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/business/2013/05/28/home...
Here's a link of a graph to compare $/sqft for San Fran vs San Jose area.

http://www.zillow.com/local-info/CA-home-value/r_9/#metric=m...
SF is the urban core of the Bay Area, but poorly linked with the rest of the MSA. Manhattan is very closely linked with the rest of the MSA thanks to an extensive transit network ranging out to Connecticut, New Jersey, and the New York State suburbs.

In most cities with poor transit, living out in the suburbs is totally different from living in the city. You might only ever go into city on rare occasions. In New York, you can get much more affordable housing in say Westchester or New Jersey, and still work in Manhattan, with access to all the jobs Manhattan has, with a very reasonable commute.
Yugoslavia on Kodachrome
This is what MBAs call the "vision" part of "mission, vision, and values."
Messing with Python's semantics using Macros
You mean IE5?
Actually it is even worse. The majority of the people on hunger strike are Yemen nationals that had been cleared for release in 2010 but stopped from Congress after the guy that could not shove the stick of dynamite up his arse properly (underwear bomber) scared them.
I think the geek zeitgeist changes from decade to decade depending on what cool new thing is out there. 50 years ago it was building Heathkit and being a HAM radio enthusiast. 25 years ago, it was the PC/microcomputer. 15 years ago, the web.

Now, we have a weird amalgamation of all the above, at price/performance levels that would blow away anyone operating in those previous eras, and enabled things like cheap 3D printing and software defined radio.

It's a heck of a nice time to make interesting hardware.
Sure - I'm not saying it's bad. Far better than most people!

It's just that it's sub-optimal if he can actually run an org to solve the problems. Especially the risk of not increasing donation size with increased conspicuous consumption.

You can get soft quickly if you're not thinking lean...
Turkish police shooting tear gas nonstop for 20 hours now
FOR THEY ARE RESISTING TO LOOSE THE LAST PIECE OF GREEN TO A SHOPPING MALL TO BE BUILT DEMOLISHING EVERYTHING THERE...
8 ms response time... not ideal for PC gaming I don't think.
No I don't. And as a non-US citizen we are grateful that under Obama there has been a push towards multilateral engagement. And that is how you police the world: with established international treaties and institutions that have a strong moral authority.

And yes stamping our radicalism in places like Mali or Nigeria absolutely makes the US safer.
I got a copy of E.T. as the chip without a cartridge from my uncle way back in the day. That was one of the most frustrating games I've ever played ... I swear, falling into those pits still haunts me to this day.
Here, Let me fix that for you

Java, Flash, and Silverlight were insecure platform specific NPAPI plugins that make it easy to p0wn users machines.

PNaCl uses PPAPI that together are designed from the ground up to be portable and secure. PPAPI provides the only APIs NaCL apps can call. They are cross platform so you write 1 plugin and it runs on Linux/OSX/Windows. Compare to NPAPI where the plugin has to be custom for each platform and calls into the OS directly unrestricted.
Great. More middlebrow dismissal. [1]

Instead of just dismissing an article for the obvious points, try to identify at least one idea that could be considered novel or worthwhile. In this article, the suggestion of "X will inevitably be part of the future, so I will build it" is a novel idea, at least to me, and especially with the list of real-life examples he gave.

That is completely different than building what people want. For example, a different color phone case for a new smartphone is something that many people want, but not a "future" idea as the article suggests. Robot butlers like in The Jetsons [2] will inevitably be part of the future, so there's an idea.

Learn to think positively and see the potential of all things, including "obvious" articles. I'd certainly recommend The Magic of Thinking Big [3], namely the example about prisons.

[1] pg: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4693920

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_The_Jetsons_characters#...

[3] http://www.audible.com/pd?asin=B002V1BMPI
neat, I didn't know about this, thank you!
If the ratio of taxes to income isn't rising with income or at least keeping constant (which is what I think you're referring to as "linear"), your marginal tax rate is declining as income rises. I think you maybe mean it's staying constant with consumption, but that's kind of the problem - people with higher incomes tend to consume a smaller portion of their overall income, so taxes based on consumption are usually regressive.

That's pretty much the definition of regressive when it comes to taxes - people making more are being taxed less, proportionally.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regressive_tax
I've enjoyed playing with succinct data structures because they make interesting puzzles, and I've come across your papers. Succinct data structures seem to be a drain on performance, though, for ordinary kinds of datasets. It's not easy to find the kind of datasets that are so large that succinctness would allow them to fit in memory when they otherwise wouldn't (not working in computational biology, etc). Using regular data structures would probably increase performance more and meet most people's needs, and it would certainly reduce the code complexity.
This paper is fascinating. I have an extremely fast JSON parser for Java that I've been working on, on and off [1], and I'd love to optionally augment it with semi-indexes for cases where end-users are using a subset of a file.

[1] https://github.com/mmastrac/nanojson
I'm working on a laptop right now, which is part of the reason for my animosity towards 16:9. 16:10 displays exist, yes, but they're both expensive and limited in range.

I can no longer find a decent 22" 16:10 monitor; they're all 16:9. The only good monitor that's left is the 30" Dell Ultrasharp, which IS 16:10, but it's $1299, which is godly expensive.
A laptop screen is usually quite a bit closer than a desktop screen because the comfort of typing on it limits how far you can push it away.

I got my measuring tape and put some numbers on this.

I sit an average distance of 75cm away from my desktop screens. The 24" screen in front of me is 52cm wide. So the horizontal viewing angle is 2 * inv_tan(52/2 / 75) = 38.2 degrees, assuming I sit positioned at the middle of it.

I sit about 45cm away from my MBA's screen, with the keyboard in a comfortable position. Maintaining the same viewing angle, the screen's visible-resolution-equivalent width would be inv_tan(x / 45) = 38.2, or 45 * tan(38.2) = 35cm. So in order to have a higher effective eye resolution than my monitor, the screen would have to have more than 52 / 35, or about 1.5, times the PPI.

Work that out with the numbers in this thread, and you get a 140ppi monitor being roughly equivalent to a 210ppi laptop screen, in terms of average view angle of a pixel on an mid-range sized display.

IMO it's not that far off the 220ppi of a 15" MBP. Definitely comparable. Especially since a 31" monitor won't be as easy to sit right in front of as a 24" - as your screen gets bigger, you end up with more head movement, and it can get tiring.
Wow! At least I submitted something that interests HN...

ISL: 251 days ago
I'll just leave this right here...

rsync.net Warrant Canary - http://www.rsync.net/resources/notices/canary.txt
I wish I could short real estate.
Had a similar idea before but looked at it as more of a decentralized social platform where everyone hosts his own node with all personal information (maybe even locally on a personal device). Kind of like a virtual avatar that could connect and create a real social layer for the web, one that we could control and trust. Technically this should be pretty easy to create, nothing to fancy here. However standardizing and major real world adoption seems to be pipe dream (look at all the failed attempts like diaspora, etc.).
Mortgage rates do not affect cash buyers. Despite low interest rates-- and high dollar amounts-- there are surprisingly many cash buyers in the Bay Area.

http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2013/04/03/rise-in-all-cash...
Marks become genericized when the consumer's mind uses the mark as a word for the category rather than as a specific product/line/company.

Wouldn't that be facilitated by consumers seeing other companies/products in the category using the same/similar name (hence my (1))? Admittedly, consumers may spontaneously expand the meaning of a word (e.g. "google" as a verb for "to search") without a competitor having encroached upon it. If Microsoft ran "Use Bing to google what you are looking for" ads and Google didn't protest, would a court really give that no weight (as an admission that Google had accepted it being generic) if Google brought a trademark case against some other party in the future?

Of course, Doz and Moz are different words, and that may be a critical point.
It doesn't really matter. Compare the statistical odds of your vote impacting an election (forget for now the odds of an election actually impacting policy in the way the voters intended) to the odds of you being able to switch your stack away from a cloud service.
Indeed, the medical imaging industry (radiology particularly) has been relying on monitors like these for the last 10+ years:

http://www.necdisplay.com/category/medical-diagnostic-displa...

These monitors use IPS panels, run upwards of 5MP, and have better color depth than consumer-grade monitors. Often times they are grayscale (most of these images are not colored).

These monitors are extremely expensive (~$20K), but they are FDA approved for diagnostic use. And yes, radiologists do need them.

Interestingly, as digital imaging proliferates across other medical disciplines (such as pathology), the costs of these high resolution displays and appropriate GPUs have been cited as a barrier to digitization. It seems that now prices are falling fast enough to make that excuse go away.

Radiologists and pathologists seem to love retina iPad displays...
You don't really need much math to see why this is happening. First, the bonds in a benzene ring aren't discrete like we draw them, alternating between single bonds and double bonds. It's also important to realize that although we typically represent benzene in 2D all molecules really have a 3D geometry.

Electron orbitals can overlap in different ways depending on the geometry of the atom and its electronics. See this for a picture: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Benzene_Representations.sv...
So, the electrons in a benzene ring really form more of a cloud around the entire ring. You'd expect this to pull the atoms into a perfect circle with the carbon atoms all being equidistance from each other, all else being equal.

However, each carbon atom also has a hydrogen atom attached to it. So now you have a sort of a circle with 6 "strings" attached at points equidistant around the circle all pulling outward, perpendicular to the circle.

Imagine a perfectly circular piece of string with 6 strings attached equidistantly around the circle. You apply an equal force perpendicular to the surface of the circle.

Hopefully you can see how this would result in the original circular string being "deformed" into a hexagon.

It's a far leap from there to say why hexagons are "so common in nature." Are they? Relative to what? I don't know that any of this has anything to do with the shape of that storm you linked to.
Have you seen prices outside of San Francisco? It's "okay" in the East Bay, but elsewhere on the peninsula it's just as bad or worse (Burlingame, San Carlos, Menlo Park, Palo Alto, Mountain View).
It is without doubt a terrible situation that should never have happened to begin with. It's a modern day POW camp. The problem that nobody seems to be able to answer is what exactly you do with them. Their home countries don't want them and the logistics of simply releasing them into the US is very complex i.e. what will they do and what if they don't want to be there.
I agree with your description of the mechanics, but not with your conclusion that "there was a reason for discounting the value of the common at the time of the A round but that reason goes away once the acquisition occurs" and that "it is legitimate for company valuations to be based on the latest preferred pricing."

That analysis assumes that the acquisition will occur at a price that makes it worthwhile for the preferred investors to convert their shares to common, and therefore that the preference will be irrelevant.

Of course if there is a tender at a high-enough price, then the common shares will be worth the same as the preferred. But until that occurs, the preference is valuable. After all, the point of the preference is that it's a hedge against an uncertain outcome -- in this case, an acquisition that takes place at less than the original price of the preferred shares.

That's why you can't properly value the equity in a company by multiplying the price of the most valuable kind of shares by the total number of shares outstanding. In the presence of uncertainty about the value of a future buyout, the shares that don't have the preference really are worth less.

Fortunately, the company does not really claim this fake-valuation as its value anywhere that matters -- only when boasting to the press and to prospective employees.
I think the points related to better transit expanding the amount of available housing stock in other commuter markets have more to do with it than a 'business friendly' legal system or even zoning laws.

We're developers. We know shit-all about common vic licenses or actual brick and mortar business, those of us who own businesses incorporate in delaware anyways. Supply and demand of housing stock is much more important than 10% marginal friction in dealing with regulators (who we don't deal with anyways).

Austin will succeed or fail at continuing to grow based on how much they can grow their housing stock without turning into a gridlocked nightmare.
I have been using octokit for a while now and it is by far the best wrapper around for Ruby. Just make sense to have it official now that Wynn Netherland is working @ GitHub.
Correct - just basic DNS hosting - no extra features. It is only set apart for having 75 Anycast POPs and hosted by Akamai. Route 53 has 28 POPs, Dyn 17, and UltraDNS 33.
Yea, I see your point. But I'd just point out that even with the attrition from people changing their goals, society may still be better off with having outliers like Buffet and Gates. People like Buffett and Gates enable others to start off in public service, and fund people that have insight into solving problems and picking them.
Totally.

We had a townhouse in the South Bay (which has been going up very quickly too) that we sold a few month ago. We got $100k more than we would have about 9 months earlier.

It's madness.

(We moved a few hours away a couple years ago and had been renting it...)
You could sell and laugh, but then where would you live? You either get a ridiculous commute, or you have to pay exorbitant rent. Something decent runs for over $4k/month everywhere in the valley these days. Everyone said the same thing about the Valley during the last 2 bubbles, but it keeps going up. People need somewhere to live - selling now on some hypothetical crash makes living your life very difficult.
Mind-controlled prosthetic from DARPA
This is secondhand so take it for what it's worth, but I've heard that a lot of these all-cash offers are folks who tap their extended family for spare cash, buy the house, then "re"-finance into a normal mortgage and pay the family back. Rates do affect cash buyers who use this strategy.

Also, many cash buyers are flippers, but the flippers need to sell to normals who take mortgages. So impact there, too.
One day we will own our own node. Where we have control over everything, what we want to share with whom and why.

All we need is a place for storage and we add services like apps.
With ipv6 around the corner everyone will get his personal ip attached anyway so we can build upon that.

Many of us have this idea but no one made a breakthrough so far but it will emerge. We have not figured it out quite yet we have the technologie but we
need to get the idea of how we glue everything together.

I will look forward to the day when i pay a certain amount of money per year to have my own node without being the product of some megacorp thats only interested in quarter performance.
> His logic is simple: The more he makes, the more good he can do.
>It may be his logic, but it's not mine. And it doesn't have to be yours, either.
>I believe "doing good" is something to be done all the time.

I think you've really missed the mark on this...

The two view points can easily reconcile. You can make more and donate more while still always doing good.

There is nothing wrong with doing both and I'm sure the people mentioned in the article are.

I'm not sure what you have against his idea that the more he makes the more good he can do.
Nice! I like the idea of keeping all the data about me at one place. Given that so many companies are entering the wearable gadgets and personal fitness space, we will surely see some "Personal Portal" and the company making tons of money selling your personal data or showing "relevant" ads for you.
I second this idea
Texas has no personal income tax. So it is important regardless of where you incorporate.
8ms is the panel switch rate, not the same as the slow refresh rate of the Lenovo due to the bottleneck in the interconnect with the GPU (4 DVI-channels and 41 Hz refresh, when the panel surly did 60 Hz). It is a massive datarate, especially for a 12 year old system.
A Fast Voxel Traversal Algorithm for Ray Tracing
It's cool to do what you think is righteous. Nobody knows the right answer.