skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm just waiting for this to blow up like it did right before all these rules were added (i.e. the great depression). Startup investments are hugely speculative, the vast majority turn a lot of cash into nothing. The public is risk adverse; look at the last financial downturn, there is still a subset of people pushing legislated guaranteed stock market returns because they don't understand the risk/return relationship. As soon as a few people lose all their money, this whole scheme is going to violently implode.

Consider this, the 10-year early stage VC performance was 3.9% [1], with late stage and expansion focused funds at 9.3%. Average VC returns were 6.1%. By comparison, the DJIA returned 8.6%, the NASDAQ returned 10.3%, and the S&P 500 returned 8%. Private, non-qualified investors are going to get slaughtered. VCs are professional investors and their overall industry returns are awful. In addition, private investors have no connections. Those returns include VC's that now routinely liquidate failing companies to other portfolio companies and their LP's as "talent acquisitions", where they recover their investment through their liquidation preference; Joe six-pack won't be able to do that, he will just lose all his money.

The average mutual fund generates below market returns in the long run. If the average fund manager, a professional that spends 100% of their time trying to find strong opportunities for investment can't consistently generate excess returns, does anybody actually believe that the public will be able to? This is only compounded by the extreme risk and volatility of startup investing. Maybe you hand-wave this off, and say the average fund manager is stupid, and maybe they are, but I'd bet they are nowhere near as stupid as the average member of the general public, just go read some YouTube comments.

My bet is that late-stage and expansion deals still go to the VC crowd because they can bring mountains of cash, fast, with connections. The early-stage funding, with the 3.9% long-term returns will go to the public, with even lower than historic returns. As soon as the public figures out that they are hundreds of times more likely to get wiped out than become billionaires, this whole mess will get legislated away again.

[1]: http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2013/02/venture-capital-returns.html
I meant the first one. Definitely the first one.
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WE are not asking you to "buy" anything, we just tell you that subtitles are a requirement to any video stream, not an option.

And when that requirement is not provided, what we have is flawed product being sold.

And now with this news it seems that some people insist on their right of selling flawed product.

Again, there is no point of arguing if you don't understand it.
The code is MIT licensed, the website has not been updated.
blackberry for phones, not sure about facebook alternatives.

edit: also bbm is going cross platform soon, so that may give an encrypted social network alternative, haven't used it though. also I think they gave india/dubai a backdoor a couple years ago? so who's to say, whether they would be compelled to cough up to the nsa as well.
A scientific theory can never be true. It can only stand as "not disproven".
The prevailing theory is that they do the latter; the former would be both easy to detect (at the time of splice) and locate (via TDR).

Getting the signal out of the fiber pales in comparison, though, with the task of getting all of that data back to Maryland/Utah.

Unless they have specific cooperation of the cable owners and can tap/split the fibers at the landings, they must be spending a significant percentage of the cost of the original fiber runs (in parallel cables to return the tapped data). The mind reels.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Jimmy_Carter_(SSN-23)
There is always the Blackberry.
$20 still seems like a reasonable price for that. It would be more that the all-day'ers are getting a better deal. I'm sure prices would equalize regardless, and those who don't want to pay can continue their coffee-shop campouts.
Those awful pop-up ads render this pretty much unplayable.
"I almost always shoot in small (5.5MP) or medium (11MP) on my 22.3MP Canon 5D Mark III"

Kind of hard to take anything seriously after reading that. He buys a seriously expensive camera and shoots it in point and shoot size. That's just insane.

What's so hard with a simple home NAS. I replace the drive in my laptop every year for whatever is then biggest (sweet spot) and ue a NAS for backups. RAID5
Out of curiosity, how big is the pipe at the office? The one holding the local NAS?
Nothing you said contradicts the previous poster though. Germans do value hard work. You are inexplicably interpreting "hard work" to mean "long hours". Hard work is working hard, it is entirely orthogonal to how long you spend working.
There is a tradeoff between being selective and inclusive. If you are too inclusive (i.e. almost everyone fits) then you can't be very selective. On the other hand if you are very selective you must be definition not be very inclusive.

From what I know Valve is very selective. It seems that both Ellsworth and Valve thought it would be a good fit but for whatever reason it turned out it wasn't. While they lost out of her many talents they preserved their culture which has been very successful so far.
It only takes one joke about killing Bambi hunting last weekend to cause some people to think you’re a terrible human being who shouldn't be trusted.
You can all go home. I've already started.
I never thought of that mechanism as a thing which had a name. It was just "another stupid page-flipping site".
Why would I solicit anecdotes, when there is data available?

Median compensation for all physicians is above $200,000/yr for every region of the country.[1] The highest averge earning speciality is not surgery but radiology at $315,000. [2]

Focusing on primary care doctors is a goalpost shift. Your original talking about the extensive opportunity costs for all doctors and specifically mentioned the additional time needed to specialize. Furthermore foreign born and educated doctors, who faced very different trade-offs, make up a disproportionate percentage of primary care physicians.[3] Finally, primary care is the area most suitable for less expensive medical professions, if only doctors quit engaging in anti-competitive lobbying.

In any event, medical school applications alone put lie to any sort of overall compensation-driven doctor shortage, which was your original complaint.

Maybe it's because I'm not a Christian, but I'm puzzled as to how a profession can be plagued simultaneously with God complexes and Martyr complexes.

[1] http://www.medscape.com/features/slideshow/compensation/2012... pg 5
[2] ibid pg 2
[3] http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/12/health/12chen.html
The publishers had the choice to go with Amazon but decided against it because they made more money with Apple.

So in what way is this bullying again ?
I agree that I don't see how THESE GUYS can succed, but I feel that with the infrastructure, and automation technology that Amazon has developed/purchased over the past 12 years the home delivery of groceries is a slam dunk to be successful.
Some accreddited investors, who by legal definition are rich, use "protecting the unsophisticated" as an excuse to maintain their monopoly on investing.

http://www.sec.gov/answers/accred.htm
Because cloud this and cloud that! I feel like I'm the only person firmly against cloud storage. I'd constantly feel paranoid about my data randomly disappearing at the hands of a company I don't know run by people I don't know on hardware I don't trust.

I want everything local.
kyledrake, you are the spirit of old school geeks that made computing cool.

Gracias.
He's insinuating that people should be allowed to do whatever they want with their money and that any protection via regulation must be bad.

However, if you are someone who isn't an arbitrager(investor isn't the right term) in their daily job, the pressure to join the tulip buyers is a lot heavier than the available knowledge. The root of this problem is lies, because the tulip sellers are always going to give false data to encourage people to buy, and the amount of money changing hands will always attract a lot of unethical people. The libertarian mantra is that things will balance out via crowd sourcing (is it a market investing in a company that doesn't sell products yet? I argue not), yet you hear stories about the Maddoff's of the world running 30 year schemes which very much hit 'sophisticated' investors.
Looks awesome! One data issue I've seen go relatively unaddressed in the Clojure community is the serialization of big matrices and arrays.

There's a start on a clojure hdf5 (hdf5 is a container format common in scientific circles) implementation, but it's a long ways from done. https://github.com/clojure-numerics/clj-hdf5 I'm not the author, but I am the negligent steward.

I'd love it if someone smarter / better at Clojure than me was interested in helping to think about useful, idiomatic high-level abstractions on top this high-performance data store.

PyTables does a great job of making gobs of hdf5 data easy to work with for analysts--I'm just too novice at Clojure/FP to know what is a reasonable analogue for Clojure.
Another author here (Emil). It's been a pleasure and a great learning experience working with Prismatic (and Climate) on this. Hopefully it'll show that, given enough macros and coffee, all problems are shallow, or something to that effect.
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> Occurs to me you might wonder what this looks like today

I finally hit a sweet spot of performance, archive accessibility, and offsite safety, by using internal SSD for latest import workspace, direct attached WD Velociraptor (Thunderbolt) for current projects (can reconnect between Mac Mini server and laptops as needed), and 2 direct attached LaCie 4big Quadras (daisy chained via FW800) for archived projects (up to 32 TB).

Interestingly, because these are all direct attached, BackBlaze will happily back them up offsite at ridiculously low cost if that's your thing. Initial backup of several terabytes will take several months, though.

For fast cheap offsite backups, partner with a colleague with similar storage needs who uses the same ISP via the same head end. Just backup to each other. You can enjoy near LAN latencies at maxed out link speeds. This trick will save you both time and headaches.

Finally consider a product like the CyberPower OR2220PFCRT2U (this one also blends nicely in an AV cabinet) to keep an Airport Extreme and Mac Mini along with all that storage running for about 80 minutes of power outage.
You must have liked #8. Haha.
Between this and the PRISM stories, some hackers seem to think the interesting new phenomenon of a US surveillance state run by warlords is just as important to talk about as the Nth new javascript framework or blog post about MVPs.
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This is a terrible thing that they are trying to cash in on a closed, centralized solution based on proprietary GUI for only iOS / Android.
I'm very disappointed and thought the TPB guys would no better. Sad day...
Worst part is that people will fund them withing 24h!

But I guess just like 1 in 2 Kickstarter project, it's a quick sell so you can eat, but this brings nothing to the security/privacy table unless they come clean...
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There are many hospitals (often inner-city) that serve a large population of the uninsured. They are quite used to not billing patients for procedures.
Would http://aws.amazon.com/importexport/ work?
I guess coding standards where that locality trumped separation of concerns. Also, I find string interpolation in SQL kind of hot. Especially when magic quotes are deprecated.

I'm sure you can do nice things in PHP if you try hard enough, but you sure don't need to make any effort to do something absolutely terrible.
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Love it, allows to explore the relations between language in a different way.

I wonder why ECMAScript and JavaScript are different? Isn't it a different name for the same programming language?
Beam splitters don't cause any reflections?
See, when I said that the Chromebook is the only true netbook that has ever existed, I meant that the term "netbook" implies that the device is configured to prioritize the use of a web browser over that of native apps. This is assuming that web applications offload their processing needs to a remote server, so the hardware can be lower power. That's where the "net" in netbook seems to come from.

In the sense of a true netbook-as-a-thin-client, the Chromebook is the only competitor in this market. What you have with 6GB of RAM and a large hard drive is a small form factor laptop. I agree that there's a market for lower-end cheap laptops. I disagree with calling them netbooks, because then you get confused posts with people asking what the point of a netbook is. The Chromebook is the point of a netbook.
The policeman wants to go home to see his kids at the end of his shift.

All kids are different. Personally, I think I would have preferred my father not come home, than come home a murderer. Maybe I was a fluke, but just to be sure the police officers should ask their kids about this, before operating on potentially false assumptions.
"Windows ecosystem" is perhaps a better term.
wow, I thought that such form of "government" was book fiction and never attempted IRL. Thank you.
They could take the example that some record stores use, where there is a store copy that is played and customers use to see if they like it. When they bring it up to the register to buy, the clerk retrieves a brand-new copy.
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The current design is horrible.

Why have a bad design just to have a bad design? Does that make your site hip?
You can't get a decent general purpose computer for $250. You might get a laptop shaped kiosk device, but not a computer.
You are investing in assets that eat more of your capital continuously turning over their options and future contracts in the hopes that one day the market will crash again, but don't stop to think that maybe your money is better spent elsewhere.

You mention economics, but don't mention anything about what the right way to think about the economy is. You mention supply and demand, but don't apply that to the real estate markets you are talking about (namely that there are a lot of people who live in SF and Silicon Valley who have a lot of money and are paid a lot of money who are willing to pay more than you are, that is not a bubble, that is supply and demand). Which could also happen in Portland, once you and a few others move there.

There are certainly adjustments to be made in any economy as it changes. As we have moved away from mass producing cars with people, towards producing less cars (due to more competition from foreign car manufacturers who didn't sell many cars in the US in the 1950s 1970s) and using more robots, Detroit has suffered. It is unfortunate, but Detroit added to their own problems with some of the choices they have made.

Also, you never touch on why you believe it is about to get much, much worse.
Yes and no. Yes, there are general tissue-level anatomical structures that have consistent, predictable topologies. No, there's not a standard way to map these onto a cell scale coordinate system easily. When you are talking about cell-level anatomy, you can almost think of things as being slightly disordered, with the disorder increasing the smaller in scale you go. Most tissues have constant turnover of cells, further complicating the concept of a coordinate system. Some examples where there is a consistent (almost) unchanging anatomy would be in neurons and stem cell germ layers.For germ layers, simple 3D coordinates would work. If you could figure out a coordinate system that works for neurons, you would get a Nobel prize. Sorry I couldn't help you more. What exactly are you hoping to do with said library?
Could that argument be applied to the subtitles? If the use was "private" or just among friends. Just as how tabs are used.
You are allowed to write it down, and play it.

On another note: I still fail to see how the subtitles case is different than transcribing lyrics. They are used the same.
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Awesome, thanks for the feedback. I agree on the import/export. We had planned to have this feature in to begin with but its great to here it reiterated.
Why are they most jazzed about HTML and CSS?

Is it because they can create something immediate and show it to others online?
My two best buys in the past year were a 200 dollar new chromebook for my oldest daughter and a 375 dollar new ASUS 11.6 inch touchscreen Windows 8 laptop. The Chromebook is the only computer in our house that has never crashed and never had a virus/malware problem. The ASUS Vivobook has worked great and I enjoy Windows 8 on the touchscreen. I hardly ever use my Ipad 3 anymore. I will never waste money on an Apple product again as I get a much better bang for my buck with the alternatives on the market now.
> "Seems to me like the rise of inner city violence is a far bigger mover."

What rise? Crime, inner city included, has been plunging, nationwide, for decades now. Major city crime rates are approaching fifty year lows.
> I think this addresses the challenge of the general solicitation rule (finding the startups) without the negative of creating a bunch of unvetted startups advertising for dollars.

Not really. We, here on HN, tend to frame things around tech startups, but there's a larger world out there that incubators don't (and often can't) address. Consider this (real life) example:

Recently a local pub came up for sale. The asking price was $200,000. The purchase would include all current equipment and supplies, existing vendor contracts (subject to state transferability rules on the alcohol contracts), and local liquor license (the state license isn't transferable). It also included the building which housed 3 occupied (at the time) apartments.

The question, of course, is how to raise the $200K. Standard business loans were out (not an established business). There's SBA, but the loan amount we were looking for was a bit high for SBA. Friends and family, of course, but we wouldn't even come close.

In the end, we had to pass (though funding was only a part of the decision to pass). Here's kicker: If we could have spread the net wider, we may have had a chance to raise the money (with less effort), and been able to go ahead with the purchase.

While this is one story, I see these kinds of things al the time. A few years back, a founder looking to start a paintball facility got nailed by this (he was advertising the investment opportunity). It ended up shutting down the project.

The point is, outside of the technology world, getting investment funding for small businesses is very hard. This rule change makes it much easier.
If a cop has to choose between his own safety and the safety of innocent citizens, he should either choose the latter or find a new profession. He chose to become a policeman, knowing the risks; innocent people terrorized and murdered by the police never had that luxury.
Not really. Apple was going in the other direction with music. They would make a list of demands to each music publisher like requiring them to offer music on a per-track basis with $0.99 being the standard price. The music publishers were balking at offering their music at such low prices while also giving Apple a cut.

In this ebook deal, Apple was negotiating the prices up with multiple parties so that they could get their cut and the publishers would still make the same or more than they did from Amazon.

The difference is, if you are in negotiations with multiple publishers (read: conspiring) to raise prices, that's bad for consumers. As an analogy, imagine if Exxon, Shell, BP, Total, et al. somehow colluded to sell gas for 50 cents more per gallon. If all the major oil companies did it, none of them would lose very much business.

The only part I'm missing is how this is as bad as my analogy, because consumers could still choose to buy from Amazon. There are even Kindle apps for almost every device including iOS devices.

Maybe someone can enlighten me on that part.
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Thanks X4, I put over a year of hard work and a lot of my own money into Tree.io. I'm happy that it's used around the world by companies and universities even though I don't get any money from it.
Interesting... The Apple machines were pretty much unknown in large parts of the world outside the US, so I've actually to this date not even seen an Apple II in person as far as I'm aware, and didn't come across Don Lancaster's stuff until a year or two ago either.

Europe was dominated largely by Commodore, with Sinclair, and Atari and maybe Amstrad in "supporting roles" far ahead of the usual suspect of weirder machines for pretty much the entire 80's, until the PC finally got the upper hand.

The computer shops near me in the early 80's at one point or another probably stocked about 20-30 distinct home computer brands, but I can't remember seeing any Apple products at any of them until the Macintosh.

It's fascinating how the view of home computing is often so completely different from the US vs Europe as a result.
Wow you have a warped view of how business works today. These aren't cute, innocent little children.

If Apple comes to them and tells them they are the saving grace of the publishing industry it isn't a scare tactic. It's just meaningless bluster. Microsoft, Google, Amazon et al would be saying exactly the same thing. It doesn't mean anyone has to listen.
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First I've heard of this 51% thing. If it's true (and I don't doubt it) then the situation is even worse than I thought. Do you have a reference?
> The hospital just doesn't bother following up. Are you going to spend $200 to chase down a $100 hospital bill?

I think I would. Do it few times at random and get the offenders to pay $1k+, and soon people will stop scamming hospitals. For what I can tell, similar system (random ticket checks + penalties 10x the ticket price) works quite well for public transit in many cities worldwide.
Good candidates are rarely on the market for an extended period of time, and are often much easier for experienced recruiters and hiring managers to identify than mediocre or below average candidates. When I have a candidate that I know is in the top tier, I'll advise clients that they need to move quickly or lose their chance to even see them, because other companies will be relatively quick and aggressive to hire.

It's not much different than real estate, where if you see a house that has been on the market for a long time you may be less inclined to give it a look. Thankfully, job seekers don't have listing dates unless they choose to post a resume publicly.
This is close but wrong in some very important ways.

CALEA does not apply to Google (except Google fiber and perhaps Google Voice). Google does have to comply with FBI requests for emails and stored data, but they do not have to comply with CALEA (which mandates technical standards for the wiretapping of the phone network and most internet networks). Google does NOT have to build real-time domestic spying tools for the government, though it is arguable whether the 702 program (which PRISM is part of) does.

The FBI would LOVE to extend CALEA to Facebook and Google, etc, but this has not happened yet.

That said, it is likely that the FBI's backbone spying network (DCSNET), which was built for CALEA, is being used for PRISM.
I honestly thought that you and chc were joking about the Banana Equivalent Dose. But it turns out that it's a real concept!

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banana_equivalent_dose
2. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-15288975