skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> "X is a basic human right", then suddenly everyone who produces and sells X must sell it for government-imposed prices. Or has to go to jail.

This is nonsense. The ECHR is enforceable against states only (it's a treaty, after all - its signatories are states, not individuals). Non-state entities can't be sued, let alone prosecuted, for violating it - they're not bound by it.

It contains a list of rights and restrictions that states must comply in their three capacities (when taking executive actions, making laws, and ruling on cases). The rights are things like 'right not to be tortured' and 'right to free expression', not 'right to buy milk for 50p'.

(Ironically, if a state did decide to price-fix some basic substance, they're then in danger of running afoul of a different set of international laws: EU free trade regulations).
until you see some slime profit from your hard work by simply copying it... it's easy to talk about how evil drm, and copyrights are. I know photographers, great photographers, that were stunned when they googled their images and found them front and center on some scumbags webpage, claimed as theirs. musicians go thru the same ordeal. This isn't just about Hollywood, it affects creators who are far from rich.
"But the researchers believe that a more refined version of their system could prove useful even at something like its current scale. Armies of mobile cubes could temporarily repair bridges or buildings during emergencies, or raise and reconfigure scaffolding for building projects. They could assemble into different types of furniture or heavy equipment as needed. And they could swarm into environments hostile or inaccessible to humans, diagnose problems, and reorganize themselves to provide solutions."
http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2013/simple-scheme-for-self-as...
But you could easily do feature detection, much like Modernizr, simply changing the user agent is not going to fool anyone.
Either make way for content protection for video in some kind of standard, or we are stuck with Silverlight and Flash video forever. Why wouldn't I want some kind of standard platform for delivering protected video in my browser, rather than getting and updating 2-3 different insecure plugins all the time for doing the same thing?

Is this just a crusade agains DRM as a whole (good luck with that) from the free software movement, or do they have problems with this exact proposal from the w3c?
Thanks for taking the time to write such a detailed reply.

I do understand your view as well, and I share parts of it, I think that it will hopefully and probably end up helping the linux community, but I still think this midway period, if we can call it that, where we need to have several systems that basically do the same thing in a slightly different way and a bunch of different wrappers to make every system be able to run things designed for the other system is a bit tedious.

But perhaps that makes what Canonical is doing a bit good too? They are after all controlling one of the most popular distributions and pushing it in a way they think is best, which is sort of what I was arguing for that we do as a community anyway.

Linux isn't going to go away, and that is a good thing, I just doubt it will end up becoming a mainstream option for desktop computing without some serious pushing from everyone. But I guess with Valve pushing for Linux gaming (even though that might just be for their console) Linux will end up becoming more widely adopted among that crowd eventually anyway.

PS: English is a hard language to express myself in, it seems like you get the point of what I was saying, and I hope I understood you correctly when I read what you replied.

I guess very bluntly, my fear is that if we keep creating new things like this, in 30 years we will have 10 different working display managers that we have to keep running.

I hope one of them 'wins' and we can get rid of the others as soon as possible.
Because when you can't monetize your product, you can always make money from terrible investors.
I was thinking the same thing until I saw how they rotated along the paired edge. They don't need "cartilage and muscle", they're machinery, they need a hinge and the ability to apply force to move that hinge. With a stronger magnetic point along they edge, the swing of a hinge can be accomplished, though it will take some very fine tuning of the actuator and braking to accomplish something like walking, but I suspect it can be done.
"The rest of the internship didn't go any better, and is still a massive source of antipatterns I still draw from today"

Yes, my exact experiences with that company. Only it lasted a lot more time, at different stints. Sigh.
Self assembling furniture

Imagine just buying a crate and unloading it in your living room.

Obviously they're far away from something that could create visibly pleasing furniture.. But this is just the first step
I take that as a compliment. Yes, I like to think that my expectations are pretty minimal. All the more disappointing when they're not met.
This is obvious, but sometimes tough on employees. At a prior employer I watched how early employees felt that things had become too impersonal when they had to start recording their time and submitting expense reports. But the reality is the company was suffering from under-management as the founders couldn't keep a grip on the firm with their informal management style. They were smart enough to change some of the culture to enable the company to keep growing.

From an employee's point of view, it's tough, but if you're happiest at a 20-50 person firm, it's best to move on (at least after vesting) when the company gets too big.
> to 'View Source' being prohibited

Like this: http://www.w3.org/community/webappscp/

> copy-paste of text demanding micropayments to complete

There was some discussion about restricting copy-paste of text at http://www.w3.org/2012/08/electronic-books/ for example.

So the way we get there is that there are existing constituencies pushing for those things. And now they would be able to point to EME and say "Hey, video gets this, why don't we?", strengthening their bargaining position.

http://www.w3.org/blog/2013/05/perspectives-on-encrypted-med... is an example, for your delectation.
Congratulations Mongo. Hopefully they can keep up the pace of improvements they have done over the past few years.
Best Buy Drops the Price of iPhone 5c to $50
I'm the original voice of Siri
I know there's a policy to keep the title of the source article, but if admins are going to blindly change post titles to remove all useful context and revert to meaningless, misleading headlines, can't they at least come up with a prefix for it? There's Ask HN, Show HN... in this case "Distract HN" might have been appropriate.
Worst piece of design Ever
Most often in financial accounting, though conventionally, in other domains such as academia. Depending on the news outlet, some magazines and papers will also use "M" for thousand and "MM" for million, though that practice is probably dying out in the popular press. And of course, the "M" in "CPM" stands for thousand.

"M" was originally an abbreviation for "mille," which is French for "thousand" (by way of Latin origins). Traditionally speaking, one "M" means thousand, and "MM" means thousand-thousand, or million.

Example:

http://blog.accountingcoach.com/what-does-m-and-mm-stand-for...
MongoDB CEO Discusses $150m Funding Round
The second half of the article is arguably more interesting than the first: it covers Zappos' CEO's idea for increasing productivity with large numbers of employees.

I'll be very interested to see if his "city" experiment works.
That video is a bit unfair. I went to the MongoDB conference in NYC this year. None of the 10gen engineers made such silver bullet claims. They strengthened again and again that MongoDB is with significant limitations and scaling it requires a lot of effort and creativity from the client developer side.

That being said, I do wish they can use this investment to do more feature development than marketing.
Shouldn't that be Good/Fast/Cheap? Basically means the same and is known as the Trilemma :)
This is more great news for the NYC startup ecosystem.
> While I don’t support what went on on the Silk Road – the hacking services and illegal gun trading alone made it more like the Wild West than Utopia, not to mention the alleged murder-for-hire plots – I do support its right to exist. No government should be able to shut down a conglomeration of like-minded people who wish to do business anonymously. We cannot judge the pot dealer or the LSD buyer any more than they can judge our habits and predilections. The morality of this can be debated but the right to an anonymous exchange cannot.

This makes no sense at all. Why the heck can't the 'right' to an anonymous exchange facilitating illegal activities 'be debated'? Just cause the author says so, apparently. Why does he think no government should be able to shut-down a 'conglomeration of like-minded people' (what?) who want to buy and sell weapons, computer intrusions, and murders? I don't know, he doesn't say, it's just obvious, right?

He doesn't 'support' people selling murder on an anonymous exchange, but does 'support' 'the right' to have an anonymous exchange where you sell murder? He thinks you can debate 'the morality' of 'this' (what?), but you can't 'judge' the people doing the thing whose morality you are debating, and in fact apparently can't (can't? ethically?) judge anything that can be described as a 'habit or predilection'?

What does all that even mean? It's just nonsense put together into sentences.

There might be some ethical defense of Silk Road that makes sense, but that sure wasn't it. This is what passes for thought on the techno-libertarian internet? Really, tech crunch?
Has anything else significant been written in Arc? @pg talked about the language for a long time before its release, but it seems to have stagnated since then.
That video is three years old, though.
Paying MIN("DOE", "market rate", AVG('other employees')) to the best employees.
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That assumes the birth rates of other demographics don't fall sufficiently behind the replacement rate to compensate in the short term, and that demographics' birth rates are immutable in the long term. Will the offspring of Mormons maintain their parents' birth rates? Well they're already falling...
$1.2bn seems utterly mad to me, but kudos to them for getting it.
You have to be careful when you question big data. It is not recommended.

http://fakevalley.com/tech-executive-fired-for-not-using-big...
The "crystal ball" was my attempt at making an analogy for a situation in which the outcome is held equal. Perhaps it was unnecessary or clumsy as analogies go.

Read my post and mentally strike out the crystal ball analogy, and to your point, a lot of what I was saying still holds true.
It's like this Hollywood trope where data can only ever be moved - not copied. Come to think of it, that's essentially what the MPAA believes, too.
Kipochi lets you use Bitcoin in Uganda, & elsewhere
Why are CNN's headers grey?
>We want hundreds of cubes, scattered randomly across the floor, to be able to identify each other, coalesce, and autonomously transform into a chair, or a ladder, or a desk, on demand

Sounds interesting. But when will I get a robot to cook my meals, clean my apartment, and do my laundry?
Lets be fair guys. Someone needs to articulate "10 ways to get fired by your best employer", now too.
Contrary to what you might think, those of us working on http://deis.io/ are excited by the Red Hat / Docker partnership and its implications on interoperability. Why? Because there will never be a one-size-fits-all PaaS.

Deis happens to be built around Chef with a workflow deeply inspired by Heroku. We believe strongly in that approach. Other PaaS's are working with more experimental technologies like CoreOS and etcd, others are going the Erlang route, others seem to be writing things from scratch in Go -- with all of it Docker compatible.

We think this is fantastic for the industry and for consumers (software teams) who will soon have lots of choices in open PaaS.
I know. I added the smiley face because I meant it tongue in cheek.
Conway's Game of Life in a data uri
Well I'm not really trying to do personal computing, I'm just watching TV on my screen really. I want to watch a game that there is no chance in hell that the rightsholders will will release on the internet without DRM. They'd rather just not air it and opt for just using the normal outlets like cable/satellite if that was the case. This would mean I couldn't see it at all. You could argue that letting DRM into html is evil, and I agree, but I don't really care about evil if I can get rid of the current crap implementation which is flash on one site and silverlight on the next.
I think if the team decides that an idea is not currently worth pursuing, rejecting it and explaining why to an employee is not the same as ignoring it. If the employee then continues trying that idea, they're clearly not following directions and that can be dealt with.
Is MongoDB going to fix their scalability, performance, JOIN, and data type support problems with the money? Seems like a bad investment to me since a lot of developers are starting to move away from it because of those problems and others.
Int32 serialization in OCaml
Mozilla Australis: Firefox from the UX branch
Sneak preview of desktop Firefox design refresh
I think he was trying to get the message across without getting himself fired - at least in the first note. I'm not sure if it would have made a difference.

IMHO - Microsoft could have gone too ways. They could have gone full cash-cow, returned even more money to shareholders, and watched the franchise slowly shrink. (The IBM model, who seem to buy more shares back every year) Or they could have gone full-on towards R&D and killing their sacred cow with a better push into the post-PC world. In muddling between the two they did the worse of both worlds: they missed a tech wave, and punished their shareholders.
#0 Don't pay anything close to what the employee is worth. Underpay, furlough, slow-pay your best employees to really build that desire to see if the grass is greener elsewhere.
The World’s Most Complex Sand Castle Has 260 Million Facets
I guess so and 16 MB was certainely considered too large and complex to process it with traditionel data processing applications a few decades ago.
> Where the F#?k is Dexter when you need him?

Vigilantism is not the answer.
How an upstart came to dominate F1 with superfast Internet and tons of data
AWS OpsWorks: Lessons Learned
In 1996.
I wouldn't quite say they "nailed" it.

One issue is that a system like this needs to be trained for the specific kinds of documents you are processing. For instance, if you are looking about people's opinions on stocks, there is specific terminology to look for such as "buy", "sell", "short" or "long", "missed earnings", price targets, etc.

This isn't so much a problem with their method, but it is a problem w/ the specific model they are publishing.

I like that they are using "beyond bag of words" methods and I find it very believable they could get much better results if they had a bigger training set and more effort in tuning.

One advantage us commercial folks have is that we don't need to bet on every hand. Reviews like that one of the "Room" are ambiguous at best and should be filed as so.
Problems at Health Care Web Site Not From Online Attack, Experts Say
Boston Tech Jam and Shark Tank - A Night of Celebration for Boston Tech
This seems to miss the whole point of ML: you want to consider all the features holistically. As your GP said, you could tweak one parameter until it passes. But which parameter? If you have 300 features about an application, but they have an income of 10 billion dollars, of course they're accepted. If they have 0 income, they're rejected. You don't need a fancy algorithm to reject people for the obvious reasons you've described. The problem is the fuzzy gray area where I make 100K a year, but I seem to have too much debt. You don't want to kick this back to a human and say 'do it manually', you want to say 'Based on all his features, his risk of default is x%. This is (higher|lower) than our threshold'.

edit: Just to clarify, for banks it doesn't make sense (in my mind) to train a classifier based on a bank manager's past decisions. I would train a regression based on the historical default rates, so the algorithm would predict the probability of the client defaulting on the loan.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but as far as I know Docker actually does run a binary called /sbin/init, it's just that they've replaced it in the base images with something that is more suited for fast startup times and running of a single process. Setting the Docker start command to init will probably not accomplish what you want.
I'm pretty sure their download numbers say otherwise. One or two HN threads complaining about MongoDB every month are not a good indicator for their future success.
Here's the deck: http://www.haikudeck.com/p/BdYQODxkxD/good-manager-bad-manag...

For the research you could try looking up the works of Patrick Lioncini, he also has a great book on the subject called "five dysfunctions of a team".

In my experience, poor talent management and execution always comes down to egos, so yes, you would be right in thinking that it's almost always a personal level issue. When egos are involved, that's what you'll get.

See an answer of mine on Quora also: http://qr.ae/I5brc
I bet the results would be fascinating if we could apply some cellular automata rules to these.
http://this-plt-life.tumblr.com/post/55420560033/when-somebo...
Does anyone else read this and wonder whether anyone competent is handling this project? Even the commentators from this article don't seem to understand how to scale a website.
What do we want? Faster response time. When do we want it? Now
'n') Require Director-level approval to spend about £20 on 2 USB powered hubs AND have the director visit to inspect the two laptops that need the hubs just to make sure you're not being extravagant.
When you say gay story what do you mean? I'm straight but i don't think this is gay story, it involves homosexual momentum, like, let's say Naked Lunch, but is not pro or even against gays. Author really tried to make neutral view about everything and he tried to make human analysis of situation in which he was involved.
Hey, care to share your review on the phone..Broke my phone and don't have the budget for a 600$ phone
It seems like in SVM the best way to find out 'how to pass' is to find the shortest path from your point in the feature space to the separating hyperplane. The length of that vector in each axis explains how much you need to change to cross the threshold.
And after that, when will we be doing theirs?
Smart idea. I can say that the fully loaded cost of an online marketing manager (OMM) is somewhere between $5K-$8K a month.

We do a lot of BS like social media, but really we're measured on our ability to bring in trials and paid users.

If you can deliver more leads than the average OMM then you'll be delivering a ton of value and putting some OMMs out of work.
CmonDev put it nicely. Buzzword. Same when you hear, most of the time, how someone is leveraging Hadoop for whatever.

There are various definitions of what is big data. I like to think of it as whenever the only way to deal with your data is by doing full table scans, then we're in same domain of thinking of big data.
Science and technology are incremental. Someone needs to take the first step before the second can be taken.
JavaScript News HN-style: EchoJS
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P.S. federal agents, I don't use recreational drugs (anymore), I'm simply a longtime occasional reader of the SR forum... so please don't come kicking down my door.
Scientists who share data publicly receive more citations
GS doesn't use it for applications that require massive scaling, they already have their own infrastructure in place for that.
What's the average time between filing the S-1 with the SEC and then being listed on the stock market?
That stopped working for me several months ago... IIRC Netflix needed an updated version of Silverlight. Have they patched it?
Building A Better Mouse Trap
Curious - what systems has MongoDB replaced in enterprise companies (like Goldman Sachs, etc)?
Energy use seemed like a significant issue - how many flywheel spinups do you get out of a battery?

They could include a charging circuit that routes power through the assembled blocks. Each unit would still require it's own independent power for disconnected motion, but they could recharge when connected.
This all depends on the algorithm and whether the algorithm is discriminative or generative.

Regarding the cat identification task: If the goal is to identify cats from pictures, then what would you expect to learn about cats? The high-level features of a cat that we combine in a hierarchical fashion to arrive at 'cat'? After all, if we are just looking at pictures of cats, I think this is the best a human would be able to ascertain given numerous examples. If so, then algorithms like Convolutional Neural Nets do in fact provide such information - one just needs to look at the convolutional kernels to see these features emerge over the hidden layers.

A simpler example is the task of identifying handwritten digits - and this is the example that is almost always referenced when discussing CNNs. A well-trained CNN on pictures of handwritten digits will extract things like diagonal and straight edges as high-level features and then combine those in appropriate spatial orderings to identify the digits 0-9...which is likely similar to how we discriminate between such digits.

There are musical analogs as well of using NNs that extract out from a time-frequency representation, for example, individual instrument timbres (or at least decent approximations) in a mixture of instruments sounding simultaneously.
"While Ray Ozzie's time at Microsoft is widely regarded with disinterest by those Windows watchers who even remember him,"

They are not interested, or they are able to take a disinterested, i.e. impartial, view?

"it's clear now that the erstwhile Chief Software Architect was simply rowing against a tide of internal calcification."

Somehow I picture a lake of milk.
Agreed. Makes some intuitive sense. If we knew exactly what made things work, it would make sense to pick that environment. Since we clearly don't, it seems most of the limiting actions we take actually reduce the chances of finding that random walk that leads to success.
The Founders Guide to Surviving Startup Life
Show HN: Introducing Harp – A static web server with built in preprocessing
22. Don't listen when your workers show you a better way.
23. Continue to use one technology "because we've always done it that way"
24. Waste your workers time with bureaucracy.
A shortened list

#0. Force usage of shitty/hopeless tools/frameworks at work.

#1. Pay late

#2. Ask for TPS reports

#3. Recruit a bunch of abusive retards for middle/senior management

These four, for sure!
Might be true. I had access to the internal social network but I did not try subscribing to mailing lists.

Its good to hear not everyone got the same impression as me. On the other hand they may have been observing more private conversations than I am referring to. Still I cannot at all claim more experience than former full timers.