skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your simile is right, but I think the problem is always in part these things:

1) Programming isn't impossible to learn. An outsourced MVP might be a sign that the non-tech founder is not fully committed (my grandpa owned a small factory, but stressed the importance of knowing how to work all the equipment even if he stayed in the office).

2) Technical people (of which I am one) frequently underestimate technical challenges. I'm a good developer but at times have have massively missed deadlines, released buggy/untested shite, and mis-predicted technologies (e.g. I once thought Flex would take over the world).

So if we have worked for years in a field and made these mistakes, we have a hard time trusting a non-technical person the even guess at the challenges/tradeoffs up ahead. And to tell when it's time to right the ship or pivot from an idea they are attached to.

So to flip it, you need to market yourself more than your project. I think the best non-technical cofounder is somebody who is a some-time developer. As a manager at Vanderlay Industries once said:

"If you think I'm looking for a guy to sit at a desk pushing around papers, forget about it. I got enough headaches trying to manufacture the stuff."
"(Though if what you say is true about it being law a net negative earner, then I am pleased to hear that).
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Out of curiosity, why would this please you?
in 3001: a space oddessy the book talks about how humanity had to build huge mirrors to reflect heat back into space. my body is ready
You can't blame a "smartphone" for the distraction. It is merely a tool. People don't like to think or create, they like to consume. The smartphone is the best tool for consumption. I try to chose when I want to interact with my phone. Sometimes that means ignoring texts or calls, and turning off notifications. Not perfect but it is a start.
Oops! Edited. It looks like like you may still disagree with me though. :-)
That's interesting, but I don't think it raises the bar a lot. Private keys are still kept in process memory, from where they can be easily extracted by the attacker who can attach to the process.

A great innovation would be to have web server fork a special process that will only handle private keys. That other process would be running under a different username. Bonus points if a separate process can be deployed for each key. (It's possible to achieve a similar effect by running decryption in a separate proxy layer.)
The 90's called, they want their bitmaps back..
You do realize you can install whatever you want on a Mac, right?
It's not just me. You can find many other comparisons like this one on review websites and anime forums. The blurry image in VLC is what everybody complains about.
Look for Shurtlenado on the Syfy network this fall
Nissan recalls 908900 vehicles for sensor problem
Unleas you're an undercover ladyboy. Then you can "flip the script" and dish out some pain.

Wait, what are we taking about?
There's nothing really new in this talk but I have to say it was well-delivered. Well enough that I want to really resolve to keep my phone in my pocket whenever I'm with someone - even if they get up from the table. It's of course unconscionable to start tapping around while you're in the middle of a conversation, but I'm very well-acquainted with the impulse to check facebook or email as soon as a friend goes to the bathroom. I'll really try to capture that valuable mind-wandering time.
> While VLC likes to advertise itself to anime watchers, it's an audience that on average cares a lot more about high quality playback than many others.

That's rich, considering the majority of anime today is garbage in production quality compared to anime of the past (in animation and story). Anime fans care deeply about playback quality? Yeah right. The minority do. The majority watch from CrunchyRoll or some free site like gogoanime. People such as yourself are such a rare breed, it would be an utter waste of time and resources for VLC to cater to you, and I'm not even sure why they make any attempts.
I only had about $2000 (half a month's paycheck at the time), but the change in work was prompted by a multi-month consulting gig that was paying in the low five figures over the course of a few months.

My advice is to start looking for work before you leave your industry job - think if it as though you're doing lean testing on your product, except your product is yourself. If you can't find clients while at your day job, then iterate on yourself (website, services offered, your client pitch, how you're looking for clients, etc) and try again.
Nanotube Computer
This is the best example of Poe's law that I've seen all month. Thanks!
I doubt that anyone on this site is the least bit confused as to how the system actually works. It's not exactly a secret.

They still front the money, then get it back from you over time. I'd say that qualifies as "subsidized", especially when the "over time" payments are not broken out separately.

Regardless of how it works out afterwards, the fact is that most American buyers prefer to pay $200 up front with a contract versus paying all $650 themselves. If Apple wants the carriers to keep putting up $450 in exchange for locking people into contracts, they have to cooperate at least a bit.
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hi there i'm a journalist in the Uk and looking for someone who'd be willing to be interviewed about this? If anyone is up for it please email me rachael.woolston@gmail.com
Not sure what's cooler — presentation itself or the topic.
That article is complete bollocks.

At best, you are exaggerating. Tell me which of the following claims in the article are false:

1) BBC reported in 2007 global warming would leave Arctic ice-free in summer by 2013

2) Almost a million more square miles of ocean covered with ice than in 2012

You said it's complete bollocks so let me know how the two items above are false or kindly admit you were exaggerating which does nobody advocating for AGW any favors.

There are obviously serious problems with the article - for example - I thought this part was ridiculous:

The Northwest Passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific has remained blocked by pack-ice all year. More than 20 yachts that had planned to sail it have been left ice-bound and a cruise ship attempting the route was forced to turn back.

Their apparent surprise of "The Northwest Passage" being blocked as being a major thing is just silly. It was blocked for most of the year until 2009. But I think it's better to point out things like that than to dismiss it as "complete bollocks" which is fairly easily falsifiable which reduces your credibility.
Arguably, the religious have chosen to pick on other sciences. Climate science, for instance. Hence, the GP's comment.
Why are Al Gore's finances any less relevant than the finances of those producing reports which are skeptical? It seems to me completely reasonable to consider one if considering the other.
I found the git book to be more than adequate enough for explaining the structures and practice patterns of git.

http://git-scm.com/book
Soon we will also add more sounds and noises on Noisli.
Any addition you all would like to see?
As right as you are, routine and habit play a part here. Intentionally leaving the phone behind at times will force you to displace the phone behavior with something else during the times you are waiting. That way, in the future, it's easier to do.

But still, I am not too sure about all this. Obviously if you are with friends or loved ones you should keep the phone in your pocket, but I can't really say for sure that staring out a window while waiting for something is any better than checking Twitter.
The cable isn't likely to be the limiting feature here. The method of energy conversion doesn't just require heat, it requires a temperature gradient across the device. Here they're putting the tip in the fire to heat it, and the little bowl at the back full of water is used to cool the other end, thus getting a good temperature difference.

In contrast, throwing hte whole thing into the fire might work briefly while the heating was uneven, and the water hadn't all boiled off, but as soon as it reaches the same temp all over, no more power. And if it's all in the fire, even the water evaporative cooling isn't going to help much, vs when it's out of the direct flame/hot air stream at the edge.

I imagine you could design a in-fire version using a heatpipe to transfer energy out to a radiator/cooler somewhere, but that would be much more fragile and/or expensive.

What we really need is MEMS (or at least, really teeny, zero-maintenance) Stirling engines :)
>As any other placement service, we take 1/3 of the first year salary (paid by the employer).

Wait, what? I don't know what the average salary is for junior-to-senior programmers in Germany, but 1/3th of it can't be a little...
Guess I won't be buying a Note 3. Sorry Samsung I use my money to vote and I vote not to accept your terms.
for streaming music?
> The fact is that the current warming is well below projected temperatures.

Well, no.
I am quite happy that this thing is going so good. Also surprised.
Because it has no bearing on the science of climate change, and it's very emotive -- a lot of people get the red mist if you mention the name Al Gore. (Note that I'm not American so this is just my impression from afar, but in a UK context you could substitute Thatcher or Blair as politicians that are so polarising that reasoned debate becomes very difficult and inevitably gets bogged down in very angry arguments about coal miners or Iraq).

It might be relevant if we were talking about carbon credits or some specific policy that Al Gore is involved in, but the rest of the time it's just going to take the discussion in a bad direction.

It may seem like I'm saying 'ignore the problem and it will go away' (the problem being Al Gore's hypocrisy). But there will always be people involved with or supportive of a cause that one can find negative things about. Expecting purity from everybody who just happens to agree with you, especially if they are politicians, means you will be waiting forever before you get anything done.
Git and Linux were both invented by Linus Torvalds.
Is the Pizza Hut bookmark from Vodafone or Samsung? I have a Galaxy S 3 from T-Mobile and I don't have any bookmarks like that. It does have useless undeletable T-Mobile apps, but that's clearly T-Mobile's fault.
#1 is not a GS3 problem, it is a carrier problem specific to Vodafone, which had a marketing deal with Pizza Hut at the time of the GS3's release. Other carriers did not forcibly include undeletable Pizza Hut bookmarks.
Surprising that he mentions missing on mobile but not Internet.
His book 'The Road Ahead' which was published 2 years before Mosaic came out talks about CD-ROMs, multi-media but not the WWW.
"If you have another way to donate in mind"

Seems like this would be an ideal project for a kickstarter, that way at least the project could create a more informative project page and detail exactly how they hope to spend the money with perhaps the goal of building a prototype in a given time-scale.

At the moment it looks a bit too much like someone's had a great idea, done a bit of initial design and thrown together a wiki page. It doesn't seem serious enough for me to donate at this stage.
Do you object to climate change in general, or just the anthropocentric portion?
To save others some time:

Inventor of headphones: Nathaniel Baldwin.
How do you release a driver that messes up glClear? How could you possibly not notice that?
Mathew Flatt: Racket - MetaProgramming Time [video]
Microsoft Ventures partners with Think Big Accelerator
A DIY version by Timo Noko [1]. The same guy has been tinkering also with some other interesting stuff [2].

[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R1A5qc872Ks
[2] http://koti.welho.com/tnoko/
No, it wouldn't have to hold for every device, only those that have different SKUs for different regions. Maybe the EU Note3s have some tweaks for the LTE bands in use there or vice versa.

Either way it might also be a purely legal thing, by having the sticker they indemnify themselves from the FCC saying you can't sell this for use in the US because it isn't certified.

People always jump to crazy conclusions when there are much simpler explanations that don't involve companies shooting themselves in the foot. Samsung as a brand is killing it in the world in general, they have no incentive to do something like this.
Amazon's business model doesn't really work either. They just have enough runway to make sure that everyone gets out of the market then theirs will start making sense.
Exactly. This is exactly what Braintree was positioning itself against, offering a 'human touch' to every interaction and having a real person to review the details if you need to scale your business et al.

We can only hope PayPal learns something from Braintree & hopefully change them for better or they may end up like PayPal. Only time will tell.

As a business they have done great. So, Congratulations to the entire team at Braintree.
Congrats to Braintree! My only concern is this is reducing competition in a market that desperately needs more competition.
Buy something else. Stat. It doesn't matter even if this is just a sticker put up by some product marketing idiot, it shows that they feel good about imposing these region-specific restrictions in a phone that operates according to a global standard.

The nexus devices are generally good about this sort of thing. Most of Samsung's other carrier-partnered phones are loaded with absolute crap anyway, this is another good reason not to buy them.
It's desirable on the way there, as costs get pushed down as disruptions happen. The problem is that once one company controls most of the market, their incentives change. It starts to make the most economic sense for them to lobby for anti-competitive policies (often under the guise of regulations) that increase the costs to upstarts (as they can't stay as lean with increased compliance). It's here that the benefits of a free market start to disappear, not because of the free market system, but because the winner in the freer market has a strong incentive to make the market less free, and has the money to lobby for it.
Maybe, is that really a religion thing though?
I like the idea of a blockchain for it, the only downside would be using all that space.
The hacker community has clearly created software that masses of people find incredibly useful and worthwhile. How is that success something to be compared to a cocaine addiction? Have you heard stories about people trading sexual favors for 20 more megabytes when their data has run out?
Drag-and-Drop in Webix UI
Would Apple let Vodafone do the same?
No. It's a Samsung problem. You don't see crapware on iPhones do you?
Linus just created a kernel that can be used with a Unix-like system. The difference here isn't academic, what I am talking about above was created before Linus was born. (mildly interestingly, he apparently missed Unix Epoch by only a few days)
Hold on. The US may have many faults, but claiming that it's not "any better" than China in regards to human rights or protection of individual liberties is just asinine.

China put down a peaceful protest using tanks. Hundreds of protesters and dissidents were killed. Some by being shot on the spot, some by being run over by tanks, many more by being executed for the crime of protesting the government. People in China have a legitimate fear that criticism of their leaders could lead to arrest, imprisonment, or even execution. That's a rational fear borne out by decades of evidence showing the consequences of being a political activist in China.
Monopolies are bad only because the winner in a monopoly nearly always uses their market position to increase the barrier to entry to upstarts, often by lobbying for increased regulations (costs) in the market that didn't exist when they started. If monopolies (at least some - Amazon works as an example) operated in the same way they did on their way up - looking for ways to disrupt and improve on the status quo rather than looking for ways to ensure the status quo does not change, they wouldn't be nearly the negative force that they generally are.
I wouldn't of course.

But doing 3 day long interviews means 1/4 of my holiday for the year is gone. On ONE company. Who may not even want to hire me.

3 more of those and I don't get to see a beach until 2015.
People operate under the law all the time. I know of plenty of places where polygamy is practiced, despite being illegal in those countries...
> It is surprising you are having a tough time finding a tech co-founder ... you have traction, a site that seems fairly developed, and a decent idea.

It's like a handsome, successful, wealthy, socially well-adjusted man who has trouble finding a new girlfriend because he only goes out with his current one. Any developer's first reaction to a new project is to wish they could raze it and start over from scratch, imagine how much more intense that is when the initial development was done by an MBA.
I had 3 months worth of pay in savings. My plan was to start looking for work if there wasn't enough income to keep me going after month 2.

1 year later and still going strong!
I've noticed the same thing with Apple's Messages. Sometimes messages arrive on my phone, sometimes on the Messages application on my laptop, sometimes both. Even when a message arrives at both locations, there's often a significant delay between the arrivals.

It's a shame these companies are taking over messaging and neither seems capable of providing a decent user experience.
In my experience, Apple will enable/disable the following features by carrier:

- Tethering

- FaceTime over 3G

- 3G, LTE, toggles to turn 3G or LTE on or off

- APN settings

And unlike on Android, where these features just get disabled on the phones locked to/distibuted by that carrier, even unlocked iPhones bought on another continent will lock these features when they see the carrier's SIM card.
For me, the winters are relatively better; unlike where I grew up (the 51st state), there's less snow on the ground, and walking everywhere keeps me warm. :)

As for taxes: if you're just coming for 3 months, no tax worries. Beyond that: 1) you get a lot more services for the tax money, like health insurance, university; 2) the treatment of capital gains taxes is very favorable for entrepreneurs: http://venturevillage.eu/gmbh-tax-change
> Worse yet, they first lured people in by releasing an awesome app (gtalk) killing most of the competition and then changed it to "Google way of doing web" without asking anybody and with competition already (almost) dead.

I believe you could call this "Embrace, extend, extinguish"?
Major breach at U.S. data providers
I think a single key on the keyboard to reboot -- what Gates said he wanted but didn't get because IBM wouldn't let him have it on their keyboard -- would have been a much bigger mistake than Ctrl-Alt-Del ever was.
The Developer Economy: Power to the Coders
Python + Hadoop: Real Python in Pig trunk
Bill Gates Admits Ctrl-Alt-Delete was Mistake--Blames on IBM
Thats awesome, thanks! I'll email you guys soon :)
Not really. I can either buy phone from local distribution or pay 10-20% less and get an imported one (wouldn't be surprised if it were from richer region, such as NA). That is the shop is still making money after they moved it half a globe and paid import taxes on it.

Because of that local distributors make much less money - they have to price lower and they don't sell as much. And probably forced this onto Samsung, which couldn't care less I guess since they still sold the phone in the end.
Except there isn't a single version of UNIX, each flavour has its own deviations.
It's not new at all, see this 1956 kerosene radio: http://blog.modernmechanix.com/kerosene-radio/
Martha Stewart v Lodsys Troll
I completely agree. I think it's amazing how our perception slowly shifts over time, until things that seemed high tech turn antiquated simply because we were overexposed to a certain font.
And it's a good thing that none of the psychologists told the subjects 'please mentally imagine that you are Warren Buffett'. ಠ_ಠ What on earth sort of manipulations do you think they're using? Seriously.
> The exception are models like Apple's where they've figured out how to consistently drive profits by focusing on the consumer and using the phone as a platform for selling other things (i.e.: apps and content like movies and music) -- the carriers are almost incidental in Apple's model. Almost.

This is absolutely untrue. Apple's business model is to sell $650 phones to carriers, who then turn around and sell them to consumers for the same price as $350 dollar phones. This is why they have fantastic margins. If the carrier model ever goes away it would be bad news for Apple, who would have to compete on price to a greater extent than they do today.
Perhaps there is confusion in this thread regarding "PM". PM to a programmer may mean "Program Manager", but in most countries with parliamentary government, "PM" may mean "Prime Minister".
Conversely, SVNs data model remained opaque after years of daily use simply because it solves the problem at hand poorly and is not defined very well.
Yet another reason to only buy unlocked, developer friendly phones.
In the case I'm talking about we were using RDF data that was curated, so we had no enemy.

Adversarial IR is a problem that came with Google and will go away with Google.

Bing has the problem because too they are trying to be Google.

If you accept Sturgeon's law,

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sturgeon%27s_Law

and realize that it's more like "99.9% of the web is crap", you can look at it as a whitelisting problem rather than a blacklisting problem. If you search for "WOW Gold" you're going to get some article from Wired about how people are working 18 hours playing video games under horrific conditions in a Satanic mill somewhere in Shenzhen. And that's it.

Google can't whitelist because of business and political reasons. Smaller companies, particularly vertical focused, can.

As for the prior, I was working w/ Thorsten Joachims and an undergrad years with classifying papers from the physics arXiv. If you want to separate out astrophysics (which was the biggest category) from anything else, the number of negatives in your training set will greatly outnumber the positives, and under this situation the SVM gets the idea that it's safer to bet against astrophysics than it really is. If on the other hand you have a balance number of pos and neg examples, it's also getting a wrong idea.

We tried using the SVM out of the box and had lousy examples and then Joachims told us to try

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Receiver_operating_characterist...

and we found we could tune the cutoff to get performance that was much more satisfying.

Most machine learning books go on for hundreds of pages about Kernel theory and whatever and spend two or three pages on ROC analysis (and it's friends, like logistic regression -> probability score.)

A big problem with things like TREC and Kaggle is that need to pick one definition of "accuracy" so that a whole crowd of intelligent but unwise people can fight for the last 0.2% percent, but it doesn't lead to applications because in the real world the cost of some mistakes is worse than other mistakes, and you could use simple methods and ROC/logistic analysis to make something that maximizes business value with 1/10 the effort.
Nice. I'd love to see more details about the index, the way to see differences between branches with log and diff, and I think stash should be mentioned.
If there's existing code then it typically means one of two things: 1) it was outsourced and, therefore, terrible and painful to work with or 2) there was a developer who was either pushed off or decided to part ways with the project at a very early stage, which isn't a good sign considering how self-described "business" people often view and treat developers.