skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I just looked through the Datasheet and I have to correct my post. It HAS DATA about the latency, but I don't fully understand it. It says something about 2000 times a second.

Please open the PDF on page 14, chapter 2 Module specifications.
I use WidgetBlock for chrome and since then sites have been blazing fast. I mean it really helps to not have all those stupid share widgets load. It does however break all the share buttons.

So using links instead of the widget codes is better for your site (performance wise), privacy wise, and it degrades gracefully when people like me use Widget Blockers.
Whatever you say, I guess.
A 4D Treadmill would be crazy awesome, just imagine that!
Hey or 6D, altough I don't know how 6D would be like xD hehehe.
I have a theory. I think that posts like this get upvoted because some people now use HN as their only news source and think that if world news does not make the front page, they will miss something vital. I promis, this is the last time this year I am going to complain about political posts being on the front page. I also promise to spend more time flagging this crap in the New section. At this point I would rather see a discussion of whether glass flows.
Built on non us designed hardware, using non us o's, that doesn't transit the us? Wait... If the hardware is manufactured in China, is that worse or better?

I'm Canadian so I don't quite understand, but isn't the nsa's job to spy on people outside of the USA? So... Servers outside the USA, good idea?
Sure thing, that shouldn't be a problem at all :)
I'll check and see where the bulk of the work is currently at. Go ahead and shoot me (@natecavanaugh) a message on twitter, or to Iliyan (@ipeychev) who wrote the code for it and would know where to pull down the relevant files. There might have been a pull request for it at some point, but I can't recall if it was for this or a different component.

I'll let you know though :)

Thanks again!
> It's bad enough that I go running an hour every other day

Well you're in luck. Running at sub-elite levels has not been correlated with osteoarthritis.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9489830
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22632690
Legal is going to be nearly impossible. In the interest of having a continuum of badness for every class of drugs, and also in the interest of condemning the 1960s, LSD has been classified as the Worst Psychedelic, usually punished with harsher penalties than heroin, for example.

LSD was at least common and cheap until the 90s (when William Pickard[1] was busted), but now it's not even that.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Leonard_Pickard
> I believe it is

So do you feel like, after reading that, that you could replicate the study and get the same results? Because having read that I understand that the scores came from a committee, and are supposedly an an interval scale, but beyond that I have zero clue as to how they came up with the scores that they did. Also, as far as I can tell this is just a new analysis of his old data, and the methodology for that is still equally (or more) lacking.

> the data are provided to allow for one to pry apart the local and global harms

Yeah, but the local and global harms are both wrong, and combined they are even more wrong. You can break it down all you want, but it's still wrong at every single level. (E.g. do you really believe that, say, alcohol causes 2.5x as much harm to users than butane? And is it even meaningful to make that comparison in the first place?)

> In his book, he spends a good deal of time addressing routes of administration, pointing out that "the health impacts of a drug can vary enormously depending on how it’s consumed".

Then doesn't this only show that he knows his own study is invalid?

> I thought he went quite extensively into the War on Drugs

I was only talking about the validity of the study, not the book.
What for? So some guy sitting at computer in his underwear can pass judgement with his mouse? No thanks.
One would think some enterprising journalist or someone with a cellphone would have seen him and gotten a pic.We see pictures of everyone and everything except for Edward Snowden in airports or on planes.
Is this just speculation? Or do you have first-hand experience at Yahoo!, or something to that effect, to back up this claim?
Actually, it sounds like a golden startup opportunity: disrupting the recruiting industry. Besides, strong job creation dynamics sounds like a generally-good problem.
Ask HN: Order of reading for Paul Graham's essays?
Hey folks,
I was wondering if there's a suggested order in which one would read Paul Graham's essays?

Thx! =)
irregardless is not a word
There's no evidence to that. From my personal experience (yes, anecdotal etc) with dozens of LSD taking friends over the course of many many years, they all end up attributing huge importance to their acid trips, and all the insights gained from them. The problem is this is the same with the brilliant friend, and with the do nothing, sit on my couch all day friend. For example: one of my friends, after taking acid, was so euphoric because, as he told me, he now understood so much. 'Like what?", I asked, and the only things he could tell me he understood was stuff like "i know why this lamppost is here", and "I know why there's a sign over that bakery", and other crap like that. And no, there wasn't anything deeper than that. I prodded.
Who said that your ordinary iPhone4s or iPhone5 hasn't comparable, equal or better sensors? Am not here to speculate and I know it's tedious to prove everything, but I welcome it in your next post :)

Everyone benefits, if one bright mind comes up with a solution or a fact that others have to live with.
But certainly you can make things without necessarily having to be an idealist, even in pg's sense of the term. Sometimes people just want to build, or paint, or lead, or tinker with software, or any of a million other things that might make someone a maker. But none of that requires some kind of pure ideology, and in fact the successful maker with the pure ideology must almost be the exception to the rule. People like Dr. Stallman, perhaps. But certainly not all "makers".
I don't find it odd. I'd assume it's the same attitude plenty of parents have towards sex/parties. Assuming their child will be doing that even though it's not a given doesn't seem outrageous to me and seems like a fair analogy.
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The effect of deep pools of capital varies from country to country.

In Australia, for example, superannuation funds hold about AU$1.5 trillion under management (not a large number by global standards, but Australia is a country of only 23 million). That amount will continue to rise steadily, and the rate at which it will rise is being pushed up by laws increasing the level of compulsory retirement savings.

In the USA, retirement funds, hedge funds, college endowments and so on and so forth all invest in VCs. A few percent.

How much do Australia's superannuation funds invest in venture?

So far as I am able to determine -- nothing. We have venture funds here, but they're not really venture funds at all. They were seeded with government money; no such fund has an incentive to take true risks.

The other problem with a pure monetary explanation is that it predicts that all other asset classes should have moved in the same direction. One of the reason VCs got so much money is because shares were flat for a long time; the unadorned Austrian interpretation says that shares should've risen too.
Twelephone (http://twelephone.com) uses Twitter as its user directory and is almost at feature parity with Skype ;)
> "found a correlation of 0.04 – which means that there was effectively no relationship at all."

This is scary:

Independence => 0 correlation

but

~(0 correlation => independence)

Please get your basic statistic straight.
>> Those networks can still track user habits by clicking the URL.

Isn't that kind of the point though - if I don't click the URL then FB/Twitter/G+ etc etc don't get notified of my visit to a third party site that includes their buttons. If I do, fine, I'm going there and they get the info, but usually I don't.
I've yet to figure out how China's population numbers are not going to be a massive liability for them in the coming decades as robotics devalues their manufacturing labor.

Not today mind you, as I'm fully aware of the arguments against robotic manufacturing versus human manufacturing right now. At the extreme rate of improvement that robotics is moving at, within a few decades, large, cheap human labor pools will be a huge liability for social stability. Foxconn mentions turning their workers into robotic technicians; a million robots will not need a million technicians, the ratio will be a small fraction of 1:1.

It's not going to be: where is the cheap labor, but rather, where are the robotic factories and the resources to feed them.

Small, well run nations will be able to punch increasingly far above their weight through the substantial multiplication of effort that robotics is going to enable.
Self-curate or disappear
That's why I enjoyed it so much. PG puts thought into every word of these essays. If I know him well enough to have an opinion, that sentence was crafted as much for its contents as for its tone, and that's what made it so awesome. Any disgruntled founder saying it would have been status quo. PG saying that in an essay is just pure entertainment to me.
Yea, I'm stretching the remote video element. We could use a designer's help to pretty this app up. The code is on GitHub at https://github.com/twelephone/rtcroulette
The discussion is also relevant for sharing widgets (addthis and friends). If anyone is interested, I wrote about their behavior and how to circumvent them: http://www.j-ro.me/nixing-the-dataholic-sharing-widgets.html
"If there were a reputable investor who invested $100k on good terms and promised to decide yes or no within 24 hours, they'd get access to almost all the best deals, because every good startup would approach them first. It would be up to them to pick, because every bad startup would approach them first too, but at least they'd see everything."

Sounds like a classic intermediation problem.

The classic intermediation solution is a market maker who defaults to funding any start-up that meets pre-posted requirements. The intention would be to off-load the illiquid stake as soon as possible. The thesis is that liquidity conditions are restraining venture capital flows more than any shortage of risk capital. The plan may still achieve escape velocity if net transaction efficiencies outweigh the information asymmetry costs, i.e. the "6 weeks" liberated from fund-raising enhances valuations fast enough to make up for the duds accepted in the name of speediness. ROFRs and other anti-transfer mechanisms diminish the appeal of this idea.
A ‘Silver Linings Playbook’ approach to venture capital
RTC Roulette was built with Phono v1.1 with WebRTC and SIP support - http://blog.phono.com/2013/06/25/phono-now-with-firefox-and-...
If you were an ultra advanced entity capable of interstellar travel, what would you do with earth? Or if there were many of you? Could you spend time here without bothering the wildlife, like civilized tourists? :)
"Next in the WUO news: Department of Defense a major backer in corn foodstuff development programs. Corn farmers remain suspiciously silent about the whole thing. Do the corn farmers realize how their corn is being used???"
Huge difference between allowing someone entry to your country and the government paying to fly a jetliner across the world for one person.
Nice list. With regards to your choice of music player, I know you said you just wanted something easy to set up, but you might be better off with mpd as you can use a whole bunch of different front ends to it; from web front ends and native binary GUIs, through to command line clients. There's even smartphone apps, so you can use your phone or tablet as a remote control to your hifi.
Yes, please tweet bug reports and feature ideas to http://twitter.com/rtcroulette or send us pull requests at https://github.com/twelephone/rtcroulette
Stay tuned for an Expert Directory coming soon from Twelephone (http://twelephone.com)
The big difference is the former is just some crappy software, while the latter is about control of the world's food supply.

Given the choice of a world fed on GMO seeds, controlled by multi-nationals, rammed down our throats by governments with their own secret agendas, or the good old fashion natural seeds, I'll take the later any day.
Does this include using Dropbox for the local copy only? Still pushing to GitHub as usual, just using the Dripbox folder as the local directory.
It may be silly, but I bet 99% will understand that he meant the illegal stuff.
If you are interested in this subject checkout "Security and Usability" by Cranor and Garfinkel.

http://www.amazon.com/Security-Usability-Designing-Secure-Sy...
I don't understand the "Multi-core effects" one. Surely the linear memory scans in c[i] = a[i] + b[i] will result in cache prefetch and thus be limited by memory bus bandwidth and not cache size?
It's interesting that you point this out. I have always felt that way about investors: I would much rather have a fast "no" than an indefinite answer indefinitely.

For that reason, whenever my friends give me a pitch deck and are looking for recommendations, I'll usually pass them along to Kevin from SVA, who is not only an awesome person but has always acted quickly. When I think of the slow investors, I never recommend them to friends.

Decisiveness may be the new proxy for judging how good investors are (aside from their portfolio, which currently acts as the main signal).
Fine, then don't buy them. But don't be a hypocrite and restrict their access from others who may be too poor to buy organic.
I just talked to someone in France from San Francisco #HDvideo #HDaudio #p2p #secure #awesome
On the other hand, it's good news for people who sell programming tutorials.
Since he has been there for about a week now, it seems incredibly unlikely that the Russian government hasn't been able to get their hands on all the classified material and laptops he took with him. Flying to Russia without a good plan for step two was an epic mistake.
Adhocr lets you run commands on multiple systems simultaneously
The expanded analogy, can Microsoft create a virus that installs MS PowerPoint then sue those who purposefully don't install an antivirus in the hopes of catching MS Powerpoint.
If investors don't do the option pool shuffle, don't have mandatory minimum amounts to invest, don't waste everyone's time, and don't dick around for control provisions (board seats, etc.), I wonder if that ceases to be a "Series A" and is just followup very large seed rounds. i.e. does calling it a "Series A" when in fact it has terms closer to seed make it more or less likely to happen?

Doing two seed rounds (maybe one for $1-2mm, and a later one for $5-10mm) seems like an easier way for this to "just happen without conscious thought" than redefining A rounds themselves.

I've certainly heard of people raising <$500k early on genuine seed terms, and then $5mm+ on "seed rounds" which are essentially Series A minus control. Then you end up with crazy $100mm Series A rounds happening later.
As someone with direct experience of the stuff a number of times (all a long time ago now) let me just say.... spot on.

I think the psychedelic experience at most produces an unwarranted sense of the profound. You may feel like revelations have occurred, but really they were nothing. Like those dreams when you figure it all out but when you wake up it's gone, or it was something about wearing your trousers backwards to solve the problem of disharmony in the middle east.

That's not to say I don't think there are a whole load of positives in there, but deeper understanding of the universe and yourself? Meh, I say, meh.
I'm curious about the n² algorithm, and what n stands for with respect to batch size.
I think it's simply misleading to quote studies comparing the effects of acute LSD intoxication to the symptoms that can be seen in psychotic people as evidence that LSD in some way causes schizophrenia.

Drunken people share symptoms with schizophrenics too, as well as people who have gone without sleep.
You're only talking about a very, very small slice of the population - geographically centered around maybe 3 or 4 cities. This is absolutely not the case in reality though.
Is Dominica a safe haven from CIA rendition though?
No kidding! I would routinely get 850+ km from my Golf in city driving on a tank (45-50 L). 1000+ km should be easily possible on the highway. Larger cars would have a little worse economy, but should still be excellent.
The current venture capital model is all about social dynamics. Almost everything that VCs do is intended to remind founders that they are the supplicants asking for money, and the VCs are the wealthy financial professionals who are the gatekeepers of their social class.

If you've ever been to a major VCs office you'll know exactly what I mean. The decor is all marble and old money. It's designed to let visitors know that the VCs are rich, powerful and important, more so than the founder who is coming to seek capital. It's not that the VCs are bad people, trying to manipulate founders with psychological mind games. It's that this is the way things were done for most of the 20th century and most VC firms are still playing by the old rules.

Most of the things that pg complained about specifically fall into this category of social dynamic reinforcement. Why do VCs make raising money into a ridiculously drawn out process of months of email after email? Because only the powerful side of the negotiation can do that. Those who are serious about getting a deal done answer the phone when it rings. The boss can afford to wait until they have time on their schedule.

Why do VCs compel founders to accept more investment money than they might need? Again, it's a power thing. When you go to the bank and ask for a loan they don't convince you to take $5MM more than you asked for. This is because bank loans have become a commodity and they need your business as much as you need their money. VCs are fighting commoditization with everything they have. They like a system that makes them much more important than the other side.

The kind of VC that pg said would get "all the best deals" is one that valued founder's time as much as their time. That placed the founders financial needs on the same level of their financial needs. Well, what VC wants to play that game? It's smarter to preserve a system that you are firmly at the top of than it is to lower standards to get more deal flow. Right now the Sequoia brand is worth it's weight in platinum, which means that they get to dictate terms entirely. It will be a long time before they change the way that they do business in order to cater to the needs of any given founder.

I'm not saying that VCs are malicious or evil. They are generally very intelligent, capable and good people. It's just that they are they are caught up in an antiquated system that places too much value on social status and position. Most VCs worked their lives to get there, they aren't going to give it up even if it's the right thing to do.

I think the real question is: Why doesn't Paul Graham start this mythical founders first VC firm? People trust him with money and he's proven that he can put common sense over his ego. He has the respect of the community and as he said himself, if he followed his own advice he could get all the best deals.
No experience at Yahoo! here, but a quick look at the AltaVista page suggests the parent is correct.

The tabs eg. images, video, lead directly to subdomains of search.yahoo.com, so everything except web is handled very transparently on Yahoo's own pages.

More importantly, the action on the Alta Vista search form itself is (for me, I assume some of this is dynamically generated):
http://us.yhs4.search.yahoo.com/r/_ylt=A0oG7pc8zNBRgwMAFJel8...

Note that the action on the yahoo.com (US) search form is:
http://search.yahoo.com/search;_ylt=AkYpzVmc8WkqPKbMSU46mpqb...

It's certainly not complete proof, but it does seem that altavista.com search is handled by search.yahoo.com in a similar way to yahoo.com itself.
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Because something capable of achieving that currently looks like this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-8eVcN2z3k

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=msci440q18s

Think about it. How do you accomodate movement along multiple axis simultaneously using treadmill technology in a compact, affordable, game-room-sized package?
One major unintended consequence of strong IP is that it provides the backbone behind copyleft projects like GNU. With weak IP it would be as if all software had BSD-alike licenses. To give people the freedom to have the source to the software that drives their essential computing gear requires some type of strong IP regime to enforce the requirement to share-alike.

As technology becomes more important, the availability of source code correspondingly becomes more important. Right now there's a fairly strong social pressure to open the source, but it won't always have to be that way either.
> I don't really understand why they couldn't use a regular treadmill belt with some piezoelectric sensor to detect lateral movements.

Other than the obvious reason as they say, no moving parts(min 4 motors, moving belts etc) How would this work? How would one get coverage on a cone shaped walking zone, sounds to me like an engineering nightmare?
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There is an in-between between no government and an all-powerful one: a government that solely exists to secure the rights of its citizens.

"to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it,..."

It is of my opinion that power corrupts, and that's why you shouldn't trade your rights away in return for a promise of fixing problems, but there is some disagreement on this point.
I think he liked the alliteration too much to give it up.
>> I find it odd that the author of the article assumes his daughter is going to try drugs one day. Personally, I never have...

Some of the 'drugs' the guy talks about in the section about his daughter are caffeinated drinks and alcohol.

I also happen to think that these false distinctions (marijuana is a drug, alcohol isn't, oxycodone is different because it's a doctor-drug) do the debate a lot of harm.

I'm not saying you're wrong, mind.
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Regarding point 4, most of the calories that come from red wine is alcohol. Alcohol isn't metabolized the same way as other foods, so comparing calories from alcohol to other foods is misleading.

http://www2.potsdam.edu/hansondj/AlcoholCaloriesAndWeight.ht...

The rest of what you write doesn't really validate your conclusion. Actually, there has been a study indicating the reverse. People who drink live longer.

http://www.mnn.com/food/beverages/stories/study-abstaining-f...
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Actually this is interesting because America's representative democracy was set up because taking votes on things such as war was too expensive and slow.

But today we have the technology to take a nationwide vote within a day so it is within the realm of possibility.
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