skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The CPU cost to do use this approach is terribly high. I don't think this approach is going to give better results than a few simple rules and NLTK would.

This API will do a better job telling you what an article is about. https://www.mashape.com/stremor/stremor-noun-phrase-and-part...

That said, the approach we use for our TLDR software and search rankings doesn't rely on just frequency, the adjectives that amplify the content, the sentences with emotion attached to them, and the "charge" of words matters too much.

Consider the following:

That frakking loser Drakaal came over and hijacked my NLP thread. Just because he does NLP for a living, and thinks he knows everything doesn't mean a thing. My NLP is way cooler because it uses machine learning and that is the future of NLP, not the heuristics model he uses for his stuff.

What is the "core" of that? Clearly it is about how Drakaal sucks, but we only mention him once. NLP is important, machine learning is important, but really it is about why Drakaal sucks.
That was my thought as well. There are cheap prismatic glasses for reading or watching TV from a prone position. (Search Amazon for [bed prism spectacles].)

Perhaps two pairs of those could be cobbled together for wearable "extreme stereo separation" specs?
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The likelihood of falling for another person soon after break-up is those who recently got out of a relationship.
The original Kreb's blog post is far more interesting and detailed-

http://krebsonsecurity.com/2013/09/data-broker-giants-hacked...
Aaron Swartz would be proud of you.
It's easy to dismiss IE6 -- and even IE6 on XP -- assuming that no one uses them anymore. I work at an ISP and am converting a number of Windows servers to Linux servers and adding SSL/TLS support as I go along. I've done some analysis on our own log files and was amazed at the astounding number of users still running IE6 and/or XP. :/
Or he means literally 3D-print structures using water, which will freeze in the Martian atmosphere to form water ice - which is actually a pretty great structural material if used appropriately.
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I have to agree with you. 6 is MUCH, MUCH better! As far as platform restrictions, I just meant with iOS in general. Its a lot more restricted than other platforms. Ive been doing a lot with PhoneGap on Android, but haven't had any luck on iOS. The problem I run in to the most has to do with archiving and validating.
I'm Brandon at Stremor com if you want to drop me a message.
Your rebase-based workflow is easily achievable with Mercurial. And there's even --outgoing switch in histedit.

> Histedit extension which is meant to provide this feature has warnings all over the place

Ignore them — you do know, what are you doing, right?

> changeset backups written to locations in the working tree

That's not true. Backups are written to .hg/strip-backup directory, which isn't tracked.
Just make a branch for each v1,v2,v3. Instead of having a single main, you have three. Unless you are literally typing with both hands on two different keyboards, you just checkout whichever branch you want to work on at the moment. That is a very lightweight operation.

Note that 100MB is not really big in Git; you don't really run into issues until you are in the low GB range (at which point you should probably be considering if perhaps you actually have multiple different projects in the same repository. If so, that is where tools like 'repo' can step in: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Repo_%28script%29)
@zt

You say payments processing is a hard business - mostly because margins are commodity unlike software business where margin is exponential. This is an apples/oranges comparison

If one is evaluating startups/enterprises how does one determine market value ? Mostly by growth potential and the profit margin. However before profit margin there needs to be growth

In a startup there are 3 basic ways - either ad based - need to have 10s of millions before one can start monetizing, freemium - need to have millions before any significant monetization or transaction based where the very first user/customer makes the startup "post-revenue". Doing a payments startup negates the question "how/how much will you monetize" to simply "how will you scale" This reduces the startup problem by an order.

Add to this equation that payments defies that standard dictum of entrepreneurship i.e. "if I can only get 1% of the total pie I'll be a billion dollar company" In payments if one gets 1% of of the total pie it is indeed a multi-billion dollar company e.g. Paypal at ~$150B/year annual volume is less than 1% of total ACH volume and only about 2% of total VISA/MC volume

In short payments is a volume business and if done right volumes can get high very quickly and hence valuation can increase equally quickly. As for the long term growth potential witness VISA and Mastercard still doing a good 14-16% CAGR in the past 20 years after being founded 40 years back. Certainly "long term" wouldn't you agree ?

And now about profit margins: Do you know the size of the "interchange pie" - even with Durbin amendment and Debit becoming low cost, its still more than $150B/year. That's greater than the entire semiconductor revenue industry combined. Traditionally large processors e.g. FDC etc. have not been able to intermediate themselves to threaten the interchange monopoly of banks but with online space volume increasing exponentially its possible for an online 3rd party processor to get big enough in size to eventually challenge status quo. The valuation of such a company particularly if it can intermediate itself to become a consumer brand could be as high as the next google.
Google unveils major upgrade to search algorithm
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The back story https://www.aclu.org/racial-justice/mississippi-school-distr...
Microsoft's Tablet Surfaces Again
It's a storage company that provides free pick-up and paid drop-off. How is that "Dropbox For Real Life"? Can I "sync" my stuff between multiple apartments?

These "It's like X for Y" comparisons are so frustratingly dumb.
>I ate something I shouldn't have the other day and ended up having this surreal dream where Mencius Moldbug had gotten tired of the state of the software industry and the Internet and had made his personal solution to it all into an actual piece of working software that was some sort of bizarre synthesis of a peer-to-peer identity and distributed computing platform, an operating system and a programming language. Unfortunately, you needed to figure out an insane system of phoneticized punctuation that got rewritten into a combinator grammar VM code if you wanted to program anything in it. I think there even was a public Github with reams of code in it, but when I tried to read it I realized that my computer was actually a cardboard box with an endless swarm of spiders crawling out of it while all my teeth were falling out, and then I woke up without ever finding out exactly how the thing was supposed to work.

http://lesswrong.com/r/discussion/lw/ipu/open_thread_septemb...
Amen. Until software and "business-method" patents are abolished thoroughly, all of these patent "reform" maneuvers are a sham.

And no, a "step in the right direction" isn't always a good thing. It means legislators will slap themselves on the back as if the mission were accomplished, then the issue will be shelved for ages. We need REAL reform, and that starts with not awarding bullshit patents to begin with.
Verbatim search, and it's already there. It's annoying to regularly use (3 clicks, but those clicks will get old if you use it every time), but I believe people have found either the wildcarded URL for search bars or browser extensions to always use it.
Why I won't help you find a technical co-founder
Not everything remotely related to the MSL mission is performed by NASA or US government employees. Non-US scientists cannot be employed directly by NASA due to citizenship requirements. NASA avoids cutting itself off from the world scientific community as a result by granting contract work to, or simply cooperating with, non-US scientists.

Indeed, some of the work "freed" here was performed by European scientists, using NASA data -- which is available to the public in the US and out -- but without a penny of US government funding. These works are certainly not in the public domain.

Most scientists would be happy to share their research. Just ask.
Amazingly, around every Wal-Mart near me there are more small businesses popping up than I want to count.

Cars, public transportation, and now the internet, did/do more damage than anything to small businesses and people are not location trapped.

Big box stores like Wal-Mart become a destination fostering business development nearby to take advantage of the situation
I wonder what semi permanent structures we are building now that future generations will be looking at in 80+ years and wondering about our archaic technology.
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People don't want jobs. They want a good standard of living, and to have a social role. They want to matter to others. Jobs can deliver on that, but it's just one social construct among many.

Because our economic engines have been so focused on human labor since the dawn of agriculture, we now think of jobs as the most significant type of role to play, tied only with "parent", followed by a long tail of non-profit edge cases (volunteering, running a racquetball league, etc.)

But while there will always be significant demand for human labor, its value is steadily diminishing, a trend that shows no sign of stopping, with the lion's share of the benefit going to those own the hardware and/or the patents. (Maybe machines make cheaper goods, but who cares if I can't make any income to buy those goods?)

Maybe we can invent or entrench enough human jobs where a computer can't compete (a Starbucks bot can get you coffee, but it can't smile at you); but to assume that that's either possible or optimal seems like putting the cart before the horse.

While hypothetically our existing political structures could try to solve this problem (basic income, etc.), those processes have been so effectively captured and divorced from anything resembling democratic rule that I'm not very confident in good results.

Ironically enough, this seems like the perfect problem to be solved by software: allocate resources to ensure basics of survival and dignity, incentivize desirable social behavior and wealth creation, and create sufficient negative space for people to also create social value in unpredictable and unmeasurable ways, by having actual free time.

It's a tough nut to crack.
ditto.. and unless its your company :D
There are a great many no-load funds. A cost-sensitive investor will naturally buy index funds, and all the major IRA custodians offer at minimum, their in-house index funds fee free.
Fukushima disaster: New information about worst-case scenarios.
I would add that the low barriers to entry to become a startup founder (and to raise several hundred thousand dollars) leaves us with few great people to be employees (this goes for engineers & business folks alike).
One person's anecdote does not make good evidence. Business decisions need to be based on real data, not anecdote, or worse, arrogance from people who think they know a lot more than they do.
$100k-$120k for undergrad? that's crazy. I guess this is one of the reasons why Facebook and Twitter decided to open offices in Vancouver _specifically_ to hire undergrad. Undergrad salary here can be half of that.
The draft does contain the words "unless the information is not reasonable [sic] accessible".

There is a balance to be struck here, I agree, but in one example [0] it cost a troll an estimated $450 to file a completely baseless lawsuit which would have cost the defendant almost $200k to have dismissed ("would have", but didn't, only because the attorney worked pro bono). That doesn't seem to me to indicate that the balance is currently struck at about the right place.

It seems to me that before the court allows the dogs of discovery to be loosed upon the defendant, it is more than fair to require the plaintiff to be specific about what claims it is alleging infringment of and what the defendant is doing that constitutes infringement.

[0] http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130814/02270724171/massiv...
thanks for pointing that out, elindell...I've noticed that every once in awhile as well and we'll stamp that out.
There was literally nothing to stop them delaying the release by 1 - 2 months and delivering more than a bare-bones Chrome.

Opera sets their own schedule beholden to nobody.
When using Trip Advisor I skip over reviews where the reviewer has only 1 review. I assume they are written by competitors. A hotel could have many pages of favorable reviews, yet the reviewer with only 1 review under his/her belt will likely report something disgusting like bed bugs or blood stains.
AngularJS is a level of abstraction above the old JQuery and Backbone style of app. It frees the developer from worrying about the tedious details of updating the DOM. For example, a typical old style app would do something like this:

function updateCheckoutButton(cart) {
if (cart.length === 0) {
$('#checkoutButton').addClass('light-blue');
$('#checkoutButton').prop('disabled', true);
else {
$('#checkoutButton').addClass('dark-blue');
$('#checkoutButton').prop('disabled', false);
}
}

And in the HTML:

<button id="checkoutButton"></button>

Compare that to how it would be done in AngularJS

(In the controller code)

scope.isCartEmpty = function() {
return cart.length === 0;
}

(In the HTML)

<button ng-class="{'dark-blue':!isCartEmpty(), 'light-blue':isCartEmpty()}" ng-disabled="isCartEmpty()"></button>

The AngularJS style has the following advantages:

1) Code reduction - The C language was invented to be an abstraction above assembly. Assembly code has a lot of low level details of moving values from registers, adding them, etc. The C language abstracts that away. In a similar way, AngularJS abstracts away the low level details of DOM manipulation.

2) Data binding - In the first example, it's important that updateCheckoutButton() is called wherever it's necessary for it to be called. Otherwise bugs could appear when the button is not updating when it should. AngularJS simplifies this to just listening for changes in the scope. It's possible to achieve the same thing using events, but again that's a lot of low level details of managing events and event propagation.

3) Declarative UI - <button id="checkoutButton"></button> tells me nothing about how this button behaves. The AngularJS example is immediately obvious on the button's behavior.

4) Unit testing - I can write a unit test to ensure that the value of scope.isCartEmpty is updating correctly. This test can be pure JS without any DOM support. It's much harder to test the DOM manipulation code style.
Manhattan Mini Storage does free trips to/from your storage unit, you just have to book in advance and fit into a van. It was awesome when I was using them.
It does say 'In silicon valley'. But even after price adjust, that does seem WAY too high for a junior developer.
http://www.justice.gov/olc/2011/conduct-diplomacy.pdf
Big Medicine Takes a Dose of Big Data
I too had pretty bad strabismus when I was born and had an operation to correct it around 3yo, but have never been able to see in 3D, except for 3D movies where the effect is important. I have never been able to see a stereogram for example (and there was a huge fad of them when I was a teenager). As soon as I try to focus beyond the image as I was told many times, my left eye wanders off and nothing happens.

He describes exactly how I see: I see from one eye at a time while the other gives peripheral vision and I can usually switch between them at will. And I just caught myself with the face turned a bit sideways while reading his post, like he's describing as well.

What this thread shows me is that being stereoblind is not uncommon, but I feel that somehow it's not discussed or really considered as a handicap of sorts. Some people don't even know they are until their late twenties! You get tested for color-blindness early and often, as well as just plain vision, but somehow stereovision is either not tested or tested and the answer is often "well there's not much you can do". (granted, a lot of people are unaware they're color-blinded too, despite the tests)

I have always been bad at sports and it's obvious that this has played a role in it, so it leaves me a bit bitter because it was never something that was taken into account into me being bad. I was just bad.

I'm glad I came across this post. I'll definitely checkout http://www.stereosue.com/…
If we had the government make concrete arrows like that today, they would be cracked into rubble in three years because the contractor cut as many corners as they could. (Sorry, My cynical, the past was so much better moment for today)
> Why Your Startup Can’t Find Developers

Relying on recruiters.

Recruiters are notorious for buzzword searching and resume stacking. And Googler's probably don't respond to interview requests because they don't trust or respect recruiters (just a hunch).

Find other ways to advertise your jobs, like old fashoined networking, message boards, social media, etc.
> Indeed, some of the work "freed" here was performed by European scientists, using NASA data -- which is available to the public in the US and out -- but without a penny of US government funding. These works are certainly not in the public domain.

I think most information-should-be-free advocates are under the assumption that work performed using public data should be public; i.e., that taxpayer-dollars transitively "infect" projects sponsored atop them with taxpayer-ownership, somewhat like the GPLv3 does.
How does this compare to researchgate? I know lots of people that use researchgate.net, but nobody I know uses academia.edu.
GPS relies (heavily) on the satellites knowing their own orbits, which they get from a ground station, which means the satellites would very quickly get very inaccurate (and GPS with 200km accuracy is somewhat useless).
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BloomThat (YC S13) Is Hiring iOS Engineers, Operations Managers and Designers
From my knowledge Brightscope rates the plans themselves based on expenses and other criteria.

Kivalia provides plan participants ongoing, actionable advice on how to invest the funds held in their individual accounts.
i can vouch that facebook was recently hiring people from Cornell for ~$100-$120 starting + $30 signing bonus ($50 if you interned) that admittedly you had to return if you quit in less than a year for any reason that wasn't explicitly their fault.
Betrayed by the America’s Cup
GeoFire: Location Queries for Fun and Profit
My understanding is that it is an acronym.

Fucked Up, Got Ambushed, Zipped In.
i've actually found the performance of gensim (the topic modeling python module i use here) to be pretty great. we're not at a scale where CPU performance is make or break just yet, so i haven't done any comprehensive testing of performance. but i've definitely not run into any performance issues worth complaining about. however, gensim is 100% based on lazy evaluation where it can be, so it's relatively light on the CPU. i love NLTK as well, but it did lack in the dimensionality reduction/topic modeling department which gensim did so beautifully. LDA + SVM seemed like an interesting approach to go with, and it didn't disappoint.
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From the article:

"So why not do it?

"Kamenetz's plan doesn't lack for details. An as-yet unpublished appendix lays out exactly where spending at Cohort Colleges and Adult Online Us would go, down to the instructor salary level. But it also would uproot thousands of workers in the higher ed sector and radically change the careers of those who remained. Kamenetz acknowledges the concern, but thinks reform is too important to not do something drastic.

"'I recognize the political pain involved, but the purpose of public higher ed is to educate people, not to employ them,' she e-mails. 'One of the travesties of the current system is the percentage of classes taught by low-paid adjuncts. I envision a system that might have fewer jobs, but they're better jobs.'"

And my comment on that is that this always requires political courage. To make a large government appropriations plan (and higher education is often the second or third largest budget category in a state budget) work, you have to keep your eye on the people who are supposed to be served by the program. But the people who are employed by the program will almost always be more organized to lobby for their benefit before the state legislature, especially because they can use purported benefits to students as a fig leaf for demands for more administrators and less checking of the effectiveness of how higher education is delivered.

Most of the suggestions in the article seem sound. They also sound rather radical compared to what is usually proposed to improve the bang for the buck of colleges in the United States. It will be interesting to see how much uptake there is of any of these ideas.
> Merely discounting a review for being "biased" doesn't seem wise to me.

To me, fake and biased are not too far apart considering the context that I expect reviews on books, restaurants, etc. to come from random people who don't have any particular reason to like or dislike the product outside of the quality of the product itself. I believe friends & family are too close to the product to give a review without external-factors influencing. It's true that the friend could have truly enjoyed the product, but I still think the chances that their review was influenced by their friendship is high enough to make the review suspect.
Find, or entice to join after an offer is made? Two different processes.

The first can be solved by getting one's name out there: writing a tech blog, hosting meetups, coming up with novel perks. The second is harder and more objective.

Most startups give mediocre salaries, but people know that. There are two things about startups that damage them, though.

1. Low equity. Once the VCs get involved, equity allotments become so low that their motivational effect is pretty much nil. I feel like the current culture of startup mediocrity has a lot to do with the fact that seriously skilled people aren't interested in the laughable equity amounts they get in post-A startups, unless they can treat it as a 9-to-5 day job and have almost unlimited autonomy.

2. Low autonomy, which surprises people. You're more able to have a global effect on the company in a startup-- that's pretty much impossible for a big corporation-- but the amount of day-to-day personal autonomy people have over their own work and careers is often less in the startups. Big companies can't compete on options and usually pay market (because they set the market rate) so the good ones give their good people decent projects. A lot of startups have micromanagement and, worse yet, an increasing number that have that MBA douchebag culture are popping up (and if you work for a startup with MBA douchebag culture, you get the worst of both worlds between big and small companies; the risk and division-of-labor uncertainty of a small company, usually run by someone too unstable and arrogant to last more than 6 months-- which isn't even that hard to do-- in a large one). New York is full of startups run by MBA types who couldn't hack it in real finance but made enough contacts to raise VC.

I'm pretty sure I'd have no trouble hiring good developers. I'd run open allocation as far as possible, and I wouldn't give out any equity, but replace that with a far more generous profit-sharing program. There wouldn't be far-off payouts with messy tax implications as with options, but bonuses would be 200-500% in good years.