skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you can read the post and come to a very different conclusion and one that I have written about in the past.

The MVP is a curse for ambitious technology companies that want to grow. In an increasingly transactional world, growth comes from long-term customer happiness. And long-term customer happiness comes when customers adore your product or service and want you to succeed. You should be thinking about what it will take for customers to love you, not tolerate you.

In this case, insights from the data about the agriculture is what customers really need. And if you give it to them in a meaningful and actionable way, they will love it (at least that's the theory). That's radically different than what might be minimally viable (e.g. a ton of data that they could sift through in Excel).

Really think about the type of mindset change it would take. What would it take you to create a Minimum Lovable Product (MLP)?

http://blog.aha.io/index.php/the-minimum-lovable-product/
I think you'll find that, with due respect, this will kick an iPhone 5's ass around the neighbourhood and back by the time it's released (pending funding success). Not least because it will have better specifications.
I wrote about using the same technique with a headless browser a while ago.

http://backbonetutorials.com/seo-for-single-page-apps/

Works nicely...
That's only 20 hours of a good attorney's time, plus his/her expenses. One wouldn't want shoddy representation on such an important matter, right?
OT, but someone should go update the Golang version to use zerocopy.
So Machiavellian huh?

Such cynicism and paranoia just breeds an equal amount of such on our side. It makes it that much harder for those of us who wish to engage and do good in the OSS community.
OK. That's completely unnecessary and racist; very racist.

Please take a couple of minutes to reflect on how wrong what you just did here really is.
Theoretically, it increases liquidity - the chances of a trade executing, and it keeps the trading price of the traded stocks close to their real value, whatever that is.

In practice, it's probably fairly neutral, so long as no-one is playing silly b@#$%^rs, front-running other people's trades or similar.
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I agree with Shopify, but what else ? I thought Toronto and KW were the only cities with a good startup ecosystem.

As far as I am concern, Washington DC isnt the startup capital of the US, so why would Ottawa be? In my opinion government shouldn't be a driver of capital in startups, nor is it ... ?
Systemd for most Servers, svc / rundir ( a version of daemontools ) from busybox on embedded services.

The code is designed to be shot, and will always recover after a restart. rundir/svc will neatly reap a process and re-start it again. And can be used separately.
In my experience, OSX's implementation of NFS is buggy as well. It's not uncommon for my NFS server to simply give up and stop responding to requests from the vm.
Trying out Fusion's share has been on my todo list for a while. I'm a little sad to hear its performance is poor.
I've also found that processes like Guard which watch files for changes aren't properly notified.
Even with these issues, moving all my development to VMs created by Vagrant has been incredibly useful.
The layouts don't really look anything alike and I think they may be using an off-the-shelf theme for their landing page. Also their site works... have you launched yet?
> ...which is strange, because both the Afghanis and the Iraqis seemed to have made out just fine against Uncle Sam.

Despite the protestations to the contrary from the liberals, neither Iraq nor Afghanistan was faced against the U.S. in total war, and even what little attention the U.S. has paid to those conflicts have resulted in relative disaster for the peoples of both nations.

It is true that defeating a dug-in insurgency is no easy task, but there are examples of it being done in history. Unfortunately the methods required are brutal, far worse than anything the U.S. is likely to stomach doing again.

It's kind of apropos you mention economic dominance though; to the extent that resource rights enter into economic stature, a strong military is essential to stopping wars of conquest before they start.

There's a reason China is building up their military so much, once they are strong enough to engage in 'power projection' of their own then little international laws like UNCLOS will be no impediment to them extracting exclusive resource exploitation rights, and probably without much bloodshed (as long as it remains a regional-only conflict, at least).
If you've been following the phone industry for a while you'll realise this isn't all design cues from Microsoft. You'll find a lot more in common with Nokia's N9 than WP8.
On a related note, it looks like Crossroads I/O is dead.
Minority Report?
The Matrix?
Office Space?
Cool idea, I still wonder how you'll cope keeping that entire index in memory :)
Indeed. The GP's question was about "American employees", which I interpreted as "full-time employees at a company in the USA".

Contractors are subject to the health care plans of the company they work for (or whatever they buy on the individual market, if they are self-employed). Part-time employees (less than 30 hours per week, IIRC, although that's probably state-by-state) also receive different treatment. Some companies have started to manage hours to have more part-time workers instead of fewer full-time workers as a means to game the heath care laws: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/05/06/w...
What bond has that high of an interest rate? I am seeing 0.3% annual rates for US bonds right now. (And that is for 2 year bonds, not very good for 1-3 month lags)
No, I haven't. I live in Latvia. I'm sure that the older generation of Estonians don't like the russians, because they blame them for the ~50 years of life under a communist dicatorship, the relatives lost in the siberian death camps and so on. But comparing this dislike to the history of slavery and segregation, linchings and so on of african americans seems stupid and the qualification of "to some extent" doesn't remedy that. Again, can't really speak about Estonia, if you would claim that the russian speaking people can't sit in the front of the bus, I wouldn't be able to refute it other than to express my sincere disbelief.
I agree, being long-winded is no substitute for being substantive.

And, if you respect that man's uncommitted, unexplained opinion, then his article is a good starting point for further research that draws conclusion.
Article seems a little misinformed. It claims you couldn't sent a signal to the front of the ship to turn the drive off, but the whole point of the drive is that, within the bubble, nothing is going faster than the speed of light. It is the stretching and compression of space time outside the bubble that moves the ship.
Side question: has the State now successfully argued that I can secretly record all conversations provided that I do not listen to them until I later get a warrant or court order?

Personally I think the two-party consent laws for recording are a great boon for corruption, and having the ability to record everything just in case I might later need to prove what was said in court would be immensely useful.
I've used monit since forever, but have really come to like runit more recently.
Depopulation is not a disaster. We save the world!
Crossroads I/O has been superseded by nanomsg: https://github.com/250bpm/nanomsg

It's still pre-alpha but has a ZeroMQ compat layer already.
Our First Outage
The performance of Fusion looked pretty good in that comparison. What do you mean its performance is poor?
How does one generate the negative mass necessary to warp space-time?
You consider double the RAM, double the storage space, the fastest CPU available by HW sign-off, sapphire crystal and full metal uni-body to be 'almost the same specs'?

I must admit, I do like the look of this phone and I've followed Canonical for years now - but please, lets be realistic on both sides here - these specs are not 'almost the same'. They're not even close.
The central bank is the sole reason why the US military can spend $600+ billion every year.

It has funded the NSA build-out. It has funded all the wars, all the boondoggle military projects, and all the spying. America is bankrupt except for that little clock ticking off as each dollar is printed and the spiral downward continues.

Run the math on paying back $20 trillion in public debt. It can't ever be paid back under any scenario no matter what happens. That $20t is the tiny baby cousin to the entitlements disaster that totals at least a hundred trillion in unfunded liabilities; meanwhile Social Security is already bleeding out, while the politicians pander to a non-existent SS trust.

Take away the central bank's financing - which has covered over 3/4 of all government debt since the deficits erupted, not to mention artificially propping up tax revenues with new stock market and real estate bubbles - and you then have to decide between dissolving the entire US military or getting rid of Social Security or Medicare / Medicaid.

Without the Fed holding down interest rates via 'printing,' the $16+ trillion in public debt we already have, would turn America into a 2nd world nation instantly (if we were so lucky). How does 7% on $16 trillion sound, minus the ability to fund deficits. That would remove $1.8 trillion from the government's budget, effectively wiping out half of the Federal Government.

So yes, the central bank is absolutely at the middle of all of it. The NSA as we know it today does not exist without the printing presses to pay for it all.
I want to know details about how he constructs his models. At least in terms of what kinds of models he uses, what types of statistics are needed. Is it all "Bayesian"? I could not find much via google, anyone have pointers?
No there is no way they make $40 M/yr profit with 10 employees.

That would make them more successful than Craig's List which remarkably manages to earn $3.3 M (Revenue) per employee per year.
Agreed. It is an unfair match. It is, statistically, almost a tautology: The set of examiners is necessarily limited by government funding constraints, but the number of patent attorneys and agents they contend with on a daily basis is only limited by the market, which is huge. The examiners will eventually be overwhelmed.

I think this is one reason that most examiners (at least IME) have their default mindset to "Reject! Reject! Reject!" Also, this is why something like Ask Patents is invaluable to even the odds.

I don't agree with the quantitative approach, but I can't help think that technology can help. Google has already (in my opinion) helped the PTO greatly narrow claims the past decade; similar technology can help even more.

I have some background in NLP. And I know it's surprisingly effective when it comes to domains with specific jargon (cf. Watson and medical language). I've lurked long enough to know some here (such as VanL) have already experimented in this area. Personally, I have toyed with the idea of constructing parse trees out of multiple technical texts and claims, "normalizing" them using ontologies, and trying to find matches (i.e. prior art) using various tree-matching algorithms. I have a feeling it would be very effective. (Maybe Google already does this!)

But that does not address the problem of identifying patents that are quantitatively invalid but qualitatively valuable. To me, that is the more important long-term problem.
I'm not sure if they could compete. Disney/ESPN is as deep pocketed, lets him get closer to sports (don't forget, he made his name originally as the guy who created PECOTA), and gives him as much or more freedom as the NYT. Also, I don't doubt he looked at what ESPN has allowed Grantland to become under Bill Simmons.
That's a bit overwrought. A country is not "dying" because its population has declined for two decades. You can't extrapolate that trend all the way to the x axis.
> "special needs users are unable to access your sites content"
Sorry I have to call you out on this, ignoring the use of the term "special needs", how could this possibly affect someone's use of JavaScript?
can anyone share when you ordered and when you were delivered?
It is fascinating that it is always possible to find a section of the society that has less representation is something than it's percentage in overall population and claim rampant discrimination in our society. Until we make the representation in any area match exactly the population demographics to three decimal places, we'll always find ample evidence we have rampant discrimination, all the affirmative action and "diversity" preferential treatment notwithstanding.
Ubuntu Edge Crowd Funder Passes $2 Million In Less than 12 Hours
> uninformed

And yet, your comment provides no relevant information I didn't already possess. Shocking that two people with identical knowledge can reach different conclusions, isn't it?
AirBNB Users: we can't afford for EBay to buy them, either.
Well, congrats! I hope it's been fun! I'm excited.
What Good Is Half A Sucker?
Personally on this Win8 laptop I uninstalled McAfee first to switch to Windows Defender only to find Norton Online Backup was leaking memory too so I uninstalled it too and it was fine after that.
There is reason to believe phones have been remotely hacked by law enforcement using carrier credentials to leave the cellular radio running and registering with the cell network even after the off button has been pushed and the phone appears to be off.

Starting point for further reading: http://www.brighthub.com/electronics/gps/articles/51103.aspx
But wai-aria has nothing to do with JavaScript, rather the application of semantic elements to make non-native controls able to be interpreted by screen readers.
Sooo expensive, I made mine for like $30...
Double-Double, Please! When 64-Bit Floating Point Isn't Enough
Reginald Braithwaite is a GitHubber
I use runit in production for http://typing.io. I appreciate runit's strong unix philosophy (shell scripts instead of dsls). However, I'm starting to experiment with systemd because of features like properly tracking and killing services [1]. This feature would be useful with a task like upgrading an nginx binary without dropping connections [2]. This isn't possible with runit (and most process monitors) because nginx double forks, breaking its supervision tree.

[1] http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/systemd-for-admins-4.html

[2] http://wiki.nginx.org/CommandLine#Upgrading_To_a_New_Binary_...
These are actually sometime the worst things to read if you actually want to understand stuff. The publishers of these kind of popular science books enforce the rule for authors that no equations should ever appear. If authors get really upset with that they allow printing one equation, usually, E=Mc^2. This leads even talented authors to water down everything with faulty and many time absurd metaphors. There is no real substitute to reading real physics books. On a lighter side, check this out: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5VVEw4ZSRI
You represented that TSA treats you like a criminal, which implies a vastly different type of treatment than what actually occurs.

TSA have always treated me and everyone I know decently. Airport security is basically the same as it was 30 years ago. It's really disgusting and irresponsible to attack the TSA for carefully and respectfully enforcing regulations. I have no problem attacking idiotic regulations and regulators.
>And he upset them further by turning political prognostication into something understandable by common readers -- instead of something only pointy-hatted political wizards could divine with the right amount of eye-of-newt and other secret ingredients.

How did he do that?

If anything, I would argue the opposite, because his model is proprietary and his explanations (presumably deliberately) vague. 538 is awash with numbers but the algorithms used to generate them are the very definition of "eye-of-newt and other secret ingredients".
Intel made special editions (4.4ghz dual core) of some Xeons that went into some servers Dell sold for HFT.

http://www.cpu-world.com/CPUs/Xeon/Intel-Xeon%20X5698%20-%20...
Thank you for explaining the GR vs SR aspect of this. I was somewhat aware that the no-FTL rule was different in GR but I didn't really understand how. I'll have to look into this more and now I know where to start. I'm not sure I follow the second part, about Lorentz invariance, but my physics is decades old, so that's not surprising. Time to do more reading.
I don't, currently, because I don't have to monitor services, but if I did, I think I'd likely use daemontools, based on the fact that djb really, really understands how to write Unix software.
I see that nanomsg is still C as opposed to C++.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3953434
That's cool... adding texture helps ... but the paint composition itself is equally or more important.

I suppose they could go as far as trying to replicate that too, but the cynic in me says probably not...
You people forgot the games industry in Canada...

Beside canadians participating in some large game jams and having cool events there, Quebec state is the second largest games producer in the world (behind US, and above the entire Japan)
Scrapy is really awesome. It's a soup to nuts queuing, fetching and extraction workflow tool and if I had to start a larger than trivial project (like an rss reader or shopping aggregation site) I would base my spider toolchain on it.
Older HN post for reference:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1368855
congrats to raganwald! The link to help in the blog post is broken, btw.
Wow very impressive - I can see so many diverse uses of this (the least commercial but fun one would be up to the minute javascript framework popularity contests!).

All the best with the continuing launch.
I thought Keccak has already been chosen to be SHA-3, is it not the case?
Why on earth is this interesting enough for the greater HN community to care about?
Should the policemen than release all the criminals from the jail? They'd want to be released if they were in jail.
I guess that's what I'm confused about.. No legal action has been taken (or even threat of legal action), so isn't that overkill at this point? Seems like something that would require a few hours of advice at most. Perhaps I'm vastly underestimating the legal ramifications here.
Sales cold calling basics for nerds..
so how can i access recordings away from my phone?

and a delete is vital. you should really warn users that they can't delete right now.
Off course before you even get to all that, I'd be concerned about the steganographic problem where they go to your ISP's logs and see you've visited the site.
High quality article, thank you
I was confused for a bit as well. Reginald is raganwald, one of the more prolific hacker new users (https://news.ycombinator.com/leaders).
Because many of us care about raganwald's voice. He's among the top 10 in all time karma on HN:

https://news.ycombinator.com/leaders
Rice, beans, frozen veggies.
Music streaming hits 70% of market in pioneering Sweden
Object factory for django - test automate
Take it from the founder himself:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6039053

(I believe he's the founder)
I thought about making an app in the same vein, but for a specific purpose: recording lectures. However, I think it'd be useful in meetings.

The idea was to have the ability to take a photo and associate it with the time you took it. This would come in handy when the audio is referring to a specific powerpoint slide, whiteboard drawing, etc.

I think if you add this in, you could have a killer app for college kids to record lectures for later use.
Ask HN: Alternatives to PhantomJS that works with OpenVZ (64 bit Linux)?
There is a segfault at run (dealing with webkit): https://github.com/ariya/phantomjs/pull/295

Which happens to be issues for some people: https://github.com/ariya/phantomjs/issues/10481

And I was wondering what others may have used to get around this problem (and/or possible locations for binaries of such)?
Does he ride a very shaky train to work?
You're inferring a casual relationship from two unrelated data points across a particular year.

So if I find two security violations (there's one like every other week) originating from the US across a random year, does that mean Americans are unethical?
That they're using SHA3 as a key generation function to convert a passphrase to a key for encryption? What else would it mean?
Thats very cool. How do you get around health and safety matters? What happens if someone falls off it and tries to sue you? (apologies for the morbid question, just curious thats all)
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Excelente application for generate fake register on Django Application.
At the moment, they're averaging $53K every 15 minutes. I know it's the initial rush, but it does look promising.
The Nexua 4 is a no brainer?
The lack of MicroSD expansion says otherwise.
A million dollars and an opaque amount of waiting time. Just having the money and fulfilling the stated requirements doesn't reliably get Chinese people into Canada. May differ for other nationalities.
Absolutely agree! Kurgman is a poor fit for any media outlet that tries to appeal to a mainstream audience. It is just saddening that such a brilliant academic mind now dedicates his life to partisan punditry.
Recently I've been using Fake Browser (fakeapp.com) for web scraping. While it's inefficient for large jobs, it's awesome for hacking together quick scripts. With Fake you can write your scraper in JavaScript and it run in an actual browser so it's very visual process. It's great for instances where you want to get past complicated authentication systems without writing code. Just sign in manually and start your script.
Leap wants an unspecified cut if you make one of these:

"Specialized Application" means an Application which is: (i) sold, licensed, leased, or otherwise disposed of for a list price of more than US$500 or local equivalent, or more than US$240 per year or local equivalent if on a subscription, lease or similar basis; (ii) sold, licensed, leased or otherwise disposed of as part of, or for use with, another application, system, machine or device (other than a personal computer), having a list price of more than US$500 or local equivalent, or more than US$240 per year or local equivalent if on a subscription, lease or similar basis; (iii) designed for use, or that is primarily used, with or for control, whether direct or indirect, of industrial, commercial, military or medical equipment.
In another patent thread some time ago I identified what I think is the core problem with software patents, which is abstractability. I used the example of a tractor being generalised into transportation, so I was nodding along with Joel's example.

This is because that's how software development often proceeds. We start with the concrete problem, then notice a pattern that encompasses a class of concrete problems, then a pattern that describes a group of classes of problems and so on. Building abstractions is literally what we do as a profession.

Now, as Joel points out, the rational strategy is to take the highest-level, most abstract version of your invention to the patent office to see what will get passed in. So patent applications are written like matrioshka dolls, with a super general case on the outside, and progressively more concrete descriptions as you go deeper. Somewhere near the bottom is the original thing that started the ball rolling.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_Keynesianism