skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe I'm phrasing what you meant with your third sentence, but one reason the banks would have losses is that 2ct per dollar is only the average and those that could actually pay those 2ct are worth more then those 2ct.

Simple example: 100 people overall, each having a 100000 dollar debt; 20 of them will not be able to pay back anything, 20 are able to pay back 1 ct per dollar, 20 are able to pay back 2 ct per dollar, 40 are able to pay back 3.5 ct per dollar. Those 40 on top will now, too, only pay back 2 ct per dollar and the bank loses 1.5 ct per dollar on them, resulting in 100000 * 40 * 1.5ct = 60000 dollar losses.

Personally I'd like that solution anyway, because it would help to even out the unfair distribution of wealth.
kudos. This is something on which bridges will be built for the corporate world.
It's not a technological problem as much as a political one. Baseband processors implement umpteen standards (politics) and have to be certified by communication authorities (_big_ politics).

And what is the point of building a more secure implementation, if all these tools must (by law and by standard) have backdoors for local authorities anyway?
Yev from Backblaze | One might say that we are "Backblazing a trail"? To my knowledge we've never paid for a HN top article. People tend to like our pod and storage related stuff and we're always thrilled to see it on here, so we come and chat about it along with everyone. The discussions are awesome. I'll chat with the writing team to see if we can take out one or two Backblaze's from future posts ;-)
New Software Defined Storage startup Maxta out
Maxta is a new player in the software defined storage space that caught my attention. Their solution creates a storage layer across server side flash + magnetic storage. The product is downloadable, 100% software only.
For the data I was compressing (JSON) it was getting it to about 17% of the original size. Obviously that will vary depending on your data.
Since I'm pretty sure I'm who DanI-S was referring to, I'll respond.

My impression was that something "modern" in Britain would tend to fit a stereotypical 1980s-era optimistic prediction of what the early 21st century would be like. Compared to the U.S., a "modern" space in the U.K. seems to me a little more ordered, neat, well-packaged, brightly lit, and perhaps a little more sterile than its counterpart in the U.S.

Of course, most spaces in the U.K. are not like this. But that may be why such "modern" spaces exist: if your town has an 800 year-old castle, and your pub is 150 years old and filled with well-worn, comfy furniture, having other more brightly-lit, ordered spaces is probably an interesting contrast.

My impression of the U.S. is that "modern" spaces are a little more warm, and less concerned with presenting an ordered and tidy facade. For example, it's easier to find "modern" spaces with exposed ceiling pipes, building supports, etc, in the U.S., whereas those seemed almost always hidden away in British spaces.

But at the same time, you don't have nearly the same amount of contrast between spaces. So it's hard for me to find a "pub" in the U.S. that has the same warmth and comfy feel as a U.K. pub.
This is so nicely packaged. I am definitely going to snag one up for the sake of curiosity
Yeah, crazy.

If this was a law, everyone would run up a bunch of debt and settle it for pennies on the dollar (nearly free money). How could a credit system survive if there is little consequence for being a dead beat?

Why don't I just borrow a million dollars, buy gold with it and bury most of it in a field. When they come for it, I'll just give them $1000 and then go dig up the gold and retire.
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I can't speak directly to the differences with Unity, but comparing C# from .NET 2.0 to the latest you're missing: LINQ, dynamic data types, extension methods, optional and named method parameters, covariance and contravariance, async and await... and a whole bunch I'm probably forgetting. It's a lot more flexible now and lets you take advantage of dynamic/functional code. After coding in 4/4.5 for awhile, I certainly wouldn't want to go back to a 2.0 ecosystem.
Feelings of nostalgia are frequently observed in subjects discussing chemistry sets, however this observation may be subject to survivorship bias...
Funnily enough, Deus Ex: The Fall for mobile is made with Unity, and the team that built it said it was much, much better experience than the engines they've used in the past. So YMMV.

(note: I work at Unity)
> Waiting for the next Snowden.

The pinnacle of democracy: waiting for someone else to do it.
There was a blog post from James Fallows last year[1] which contained a English translation of a single Chinese tweet. 140 Chinese characters transformed into 115 English words with 676 characters.

[1]http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2012/05/chi...
>Many programming languages are based on English and the Latin script.

Because UX/design = programming..?
Yev on Backblaze | We actually hope to see if we can collect enough data to release a "per manufacturer" report on had drive failure. We're currently collecting that data, but as always, follow the Backblaze Blog for info on that type of stuff!
> Why does Soylent need more scrutiny than any of these or the hundreds of thousands of other food products on the market today?

An excellent question. It doesn't, it needs the same scrutiny as those products.

Because they're telling the FDA that it's a supplement they get by with lower levels of regulation and inspection.
You really can't have multiple people working on the same prefabs or the same scene at once. The files are text, so you can merge them, but anything more than just minor changes will not work properly and someone will have to redo their work.

Working on code is fine and your normal guidelines apply to simultaneous work.

I have Unity projects with 3-5 teammates and we don't run into too many problems with scene/prefab merges. Normally each person is working on separate stuff so it would be rare for 2 people to need to touch the same prefab or scene.

If your scenes or prefabs are huge and it becomes a problem then you probably should think about redoing your architecture to keep your scenes and prefabs smaller.
I dislike jargon, but in this case, neither "efficient" nor "fast" captures the same concept as "performant".

First, both are open-ended and relative. "Fast" and "efficient" compared to what? A cheetah is "fast", but it's not fast if I'm trying to use them to propel fighter jets. If I say, "my code is fast", am I saying it's fast enough for the problem at hand? Faster than it was before? Fast compared to most other code that solves the same problem?

"Efficient" has all of the same problems and it's also ambiguous. If my library is efficient, does that mean it runs fast? Starts up fast? Uses memory efficiently? Bandwidth?

"Performant" is etymologically strange, but in the place I've seen it used, it has an effective, precise meaning: "well-performing in speed relative to the needs of the problem". It means "fast enough" without the negative connotations of "enough", sort of like "plenty fast". Likewise, it's negation is usefully precise, "not performant" means "however fast it is, that isn't enough for our needs".
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That was the only thing I came back to comment about. I wanted to keep browsing and couldn't figure out how until I resized the window and infinite scroll kicked in.

I think this is an awesome idea, grats on launching!
Very cool idea. I would change the functionality of the commenting system. I'd like to see the comments on the same page as all the videos, rather than clicking through to a new page. I think it would have the nice side-effect of more engagement with the comments. They're also not super obvious at first as I found myself looking around for a comment button of some sort.
> I knew how productive and skilled the 10x prickly developer was

How? What makes you so sure you weren't biased?
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Nice! Please add a "Upload" button too.
Website is still down. On the other hand, the signature is a lot shorter.

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That's a pretty good point. Even $500 per year would be an enormous help.
This is a great list, but IMO lacks the most powerful (but unfortunately unpopular) one:

https://github.com/dbro/csvquote

Apply it first, then do the normal processing with GNU coreutils and you'll cover most use cases.
But we've _always_ been at war with Eastasia…
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Why say "use" when you can say "leverage"?
I agree. One of the smaller (but oldest) surviving black markets, Deepbay, apparently seized all bitcoins on deposit and stole them from its users a few days ago. Was it hacked? No, just the operator decided to cash out. Does this have something to do with Bitcoin tripling over the last month and additional competition from new black markets like Pandora and SR 2 and Tormarket? Probably...
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I was replying to a comment that suggested he was interested in using it merely as a supplement (replacing only lunch). Ensure is perfectly capable of doing that. I'm not sure what "stronger guarantees" Soylent would have. Ensure has been used to replace meals for tons of sick people for 40 years; why do you think that a few computer geeks will be able to suddenly do better than 40 years of industrial research?

As far as the taste, it's too soon to tell. Indications are that it's pretty flavorless http://gawker.com/we-drank-soylent-the-weird-food-of-the-fut... (outside of joking reactions like "It was great and I love it. I don't want to eat anymore.") Given that they aren't particularly focusing on trying to make it taste good ("I'm not trying to make something delicious; there are already a lot of delicious things. It's all about efficiency, it's about cost and convenience."), I doubt it will wind up tasting much better than Ensure.

I just don't get all of the excitement over Soylent. It seems like a solution in search of a problem. It's pretty damn easy to get a healthy diet for cheap and extremely low effort, as long as you don't care about flavor and variety. Rice, beans, and grated cheese covers pretty much all of your nutritional needs (maybe toss in a multivitamin per day to be on the safe side), takes about 5 minutes of work and 15 minutes of waiting for it to simmer, you can prepare a week's worth in advance and reheat it over the course of the week, and it will cost you less than $5 per day in the US. How is Soylent supposed to be so much better than that that it will "disrupt the world food system"?
The baseband can control everything, and the baseband itself can be controlled remotely. It is at least technically feasible. There's no real room for doubt on that.
The videos loading all at once crashed my ubuntu computer with the newest version of firefox :/

It also totally bogged down my subpar internet connection since I would hover over a video to check it out, then scroll down, but the video would still be loading.
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This makes non-removable batteries creepy in addition to annoying!
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Pulling down all my employee hours from Harvest (I run a consultancy), updating a MySql database, running a bunch of burn-down / project reports monthly and emailing our customers.
You're handwaving away the problem of measuring intangibles.
Thanks, I'm interested in chatting. No idea how to contact you though, and there doesn't appear to be any contact info associated with your user profile, that I can see.
For the same price (easily under $10/day), frozen vegetables and chopped meat. Just add spices and a bit of oil. Dump it all in a rice cooker if you're really pressed for time.

Not as trivially portable as a bottle of soylent, but otherwise superior in every respect.
>Imagine people said that you could save time and money by replacing friends with Facebook. Or you could stop walking a buy a segway.

or, and hold on, not everyone lives with other people (like, say, students etc) and cooking a meal just for yourself is time consuming and requires you have the energy to do so.

That says nothing about your social life whatever, but, replacing friends on with facebook does. Soylent is in no way social suicide. Even if I wanted to replace my diet 100% with Soylent, that'd have little implication on my already thriving social life, because, you know, I don't only socialize over dinner, there are actual other things to do...
Extension methods work (I use those all the time), and async and await are unnecessary because Unity gives you coroutines and yield.

The rest of that stuff seems cool though. Oh well =\
Every time I hear about that stuff, I get annoyed--if they'd just open up their API, I wouldn't have to build this ;)

Bet seriously, security is definitely a goal of this project.
I was expecting this OS to be the browser. The browser really is another OS these days especially with all the new HTML5 specs (firefox OS being the proponent of such things).

The way HTML5 is progressing it might even beat the API of the OS it seems! For example, the OS itself might have no contacts API but the browser has HTML5 API to access them!
Fail: the whole point of soylent is to replace convenience meals, not meals of love with your family.

Nice to see a critic who obviously hasn't even read the basics of the idea...
> It's interesting how the word "nude" boosts posts to the top

We're mammals. Despite our large cerebrums and ability for abstract reasoning, we're still primates. Of course we're drawn to sex, food, and emotion.

I think it's more interesting that we're surprised by this. Sure, it's good to try to overcome your bestial nature, but pretending it isn't there at all seems a bit silly.
Delicious unhealthy cheeseburger or a tasteless but healthy goop in a can? I guess you're right, it's a no-brainer either for people with self-discipline and for those without.
This is hosted on github (https://github.com/sheetjs/sheetjs.github.io) so I can't directly do it from there.

If you want to see an example using AJAX, the browser stress test (http://oss.sheetjs.com/stress.html) downloads files. DO NOT RUN ON YOUR PHONE -- THIS WILL DOWNLOAD MORE THAN 80MB!
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> Delicious unhealthy cheeseburger or a tasteless but healthy goop in a can?

I choose -- false dichotomy. Plenty of healthy and not tasteless quick meal replacements that already exist.
You didn't understand the scenario. If they're going to sell to the collector for $1500 the why shouldn't the borrower have the chance to pay the same $1500 first?
Is it so important that the individual components of a person's performance be evaluated individually? What about someone with exceptional technical abilities who uses those skills to ensure that blame for potential failure is always assigned to other people, rather than focus those impressive skills on the success of the overall project? Is it so important that person receive recognition for their technical skills?

If someone's social behavior jeopardizes the success of projects they work on, then perhaps it doesn't matter how technically competent they are.
But now, the key part of Line’s massive revenue growth now is in gaming. The games part of Line’s business now makes up 60 percent of their revenue, followed by stickers, which make up another 20 percent of their sales. Then there are sponsored accounts and merchandising, which is pretty minimal.
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> this would cripple an important part of the financial system. Think student loans never existing.

I'd see loans more as band aid for broken social structure: "People would not be able to pay for their important medical bills in case of crises." - If the US had a proper medical care system nobody would have to pay for important treatment personally, "Without student loans only the rich would be able to go to university" - If good education was free (at least until your first master degree) even more people from poor families would dare to get advanced degrees, and so on.

There are a lot of countries in which a debt free life is the norm and not the exception. The only parts of society where loans are necessary seems to be for startups and generally for corporate investments.
The $65 is the pre-order crowdfunding price and includes a (~$10) steel shaker bottle and free shipping. I'd expect the final price to be lower.

People who don't cook are looking to save a lot of money even at the $65/w price point.
I paid 15 dollars retail for a flu shot today. The estimated actuarial price of a human life is approximately 10 million dollars. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Value_of_life)

So in principle flu shots like mine are "worth it" if it has a greater than 15 in 10 million chance of saving a life -- either mine or someone I might infect.

So, yes, for the price of a single life we could immunize about 600 thousand people. That's probably enough for herd immunity in an entire population for some region (like an entire state). Such a measure is bound to save more than one life.
Indeed, something I have been thinking about for over a year ;)

http://blog.awilkins.id.au/2012/12/go-in-browser-llgo-does-p...

Sadly I don't have a lot of time, so progress is quite slow. The PNaCl support isn't working at all at the moment, as I'm going through a fairly major refactoring to make things a bit more solid.
I agree disambiguation is a tough problem, but I'm curious to see whether the vector representation learned by word2vec can help in that regard. Have you considered using clustering to attach a few possible cluster memberships to each word (which would hopefully each capture information about a different usage context), then selecting the meanings for each word that give the maximum overlap?

The idea being that the words used to search on your website are likely to be conceptually similar (one doesn't add apples to oranges), so you can assume that "queen (sovereign) + man (noun) - woman" makes more sense that "queen (band) + man (unix command) - woman" because "man (noun)" and "woman" are likely to belong to similar clusters and not "man (unix command)".
Hey, it was tongue-in-cheek. Your service looks awesome, and as an awareness piece it was bang on. Although I don't recall hearing about backblaze before, the name has been ringing in my ears all day. Keep up the good work and good luck!
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Cant wait Tegra 4i hacking allows unrestricted i500 SDR platform access :D
Yev from Backblaze | I know, right?
- This is really nice. I love it.
We have a plan for earning revenue but haven't deployed it yet. This feature furthers our vision for notifications as does the rest of our service. We'll be focusing on revenue soon but right now we're focused on growing since people are excited to sign up.
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Funny how that article mentions selfie.com--some vaporware--but makes no mention of the app this is a clone of, selfie.im--which has been around for months.

Also see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6721729
> It's open source, but all committers are Googlers and/or have to sign a copyright assignment. It's controlled by Google (which isn't a bad thing necessarily).

Very importantly it's a copyright (and patent) license, not assignment. And it's the same thing required for any contribution to Chromium[1], and just about every competently run open source project out there, so it's not really an interesting distinction. The important aspect is more that the only "spec" for PNaCl is the documentation, which means that it can be changed by them...but then you break everyone's already compiled apps, so there are some incentives against that. Regardless, it's still open source, and you can still fork it, etc.

[1] http://dev.chromium.org/developers/contributing-code#TOC-Com...
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You're claiming that "most" home buying in Oakland is all-cash? That's deeply detached from reality.
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Basic, primal existence means no dental care and death of the first sufficiently strong infection. As somebody who would be dead at least 4 times already without modern medicine (nothing special, a bunch of inflammatory diseases, appendectomy, etc.), I'm not buying the joys of primal existence. That doesn't mean I'm ready to give up my juicy steak for a glass of beige sludge, but I still love my civilization.

And yes, "organic" as currently practiced is definitely not scalable, as it is mainly consists of removing scaling improvements, like using chemicals to defeat pests. You can allow pests to eat 30% of your crop if you sell it at 50% higher price point. But if you need to produce more and cheaper, it no longer works. As niche market, it is fine, as main food producer - I believe it when I see it.
Even more impressive to me is Woz's 5 chip disk controller and hand assembled 6502 code.

https://s3.amazonaws.com/s3data.computerhistory.org/atchm/do...
I don't think that is entirely fair, as it seems to presume the scale of atrocity for any government necessarily outweighs the scale of its benefit. It isn't the case that events like you describe (genocide, internment camps, the Holocaust) are inevitable or constant. Governments do these things, when they do, because governments are the only power structures capable of it -- one would have to prove that corporations given the same opportunity or power would somehow not engage in anything similar. Other governments also fight against them. The only difference between a company hiring Pinkertons to shoot striking miners and an army killing civilians is in scale, I don't believe it says much about the implicit evil of government versus the implicit good of a free market.

Most of these events had some measure of popular support. Many people wanted to put the Japanese in camps. Many people wanted to rid Europe of Jews. A lot of Americans wanted the Iraq war, and a lot of Americans want prisons to be horrible, believing we're a Christian nation and that a Christian nation should punish the wicked and smite the infidels. It is, I think, a mistake to presume that government even in the act of tyranny necessarily separates people from the better angels of their nature through deception or coercion.
The guy behind this is a brilliant hacker who has been working on this for a long time. He also has a keen business sense. Anyone who's interested in partnering with him should shoot him an email.
Thank you for the answer:)

I was expecting similar answer. Being cautions because there are no free things.

I might give it a try.
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