skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Weird. It works pretty smoothly on Chrome (about 50Hz). Just tried on FF/Mac, it's ultra slow there too. I think it must be redrawing the SVG every frame, if it's that slow. But in the HTML5Rocks tutorial Paul Irish says "Chrome, Firefox, Safari and Opera all hardware accelerate transforms and opacity." I'll try a few more things.

EDIT: ha, IE10/Win7 (in a VM) is super smooth for me. Still no idea what's going on with Firefox.
Did you roll your own version of t-sne to use in Erstaz? Now that I think about it, I've never seen a 3D visualization with t-sne before (and searching just now didn't find any), it could be that t-sne doesn't work as well in 3D (or has bugs which only appear in >2 dims).
check out Saylor.org. they're trying to build a single open education platform that actually has self study equivalents for entire degree programs
This looks to me like literate programming gone totally wrong.
How long until someone finds themselves in a life-threatening situation because their car refuses to start because it has been remotely deactivated?
Original article: http://vihart.com/google-youtube-integration-kind-of-like-tw...

HN Discussion to the original article: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6719069
My question exactly. If something stays flat and what it's compared to grows 40% a year, it looks like it's collapsing.
If you can use a password to generate/link a new certificate, wouldn't that mean the weakest link is again the password? Sorry if I am misunderstanding, it's a very interesting topic but I'm not sure I get it :)
What are the top main 3 competitors to youtube (besides vimeo).

Shouldn't someone be able to come up with a half decent competitor at this point in the game? Seems like Google is trying really hard to kill the best media property they've got.
None of which has anything to do with the transparency of taxi prices or the influence of the law on such.
This is like... 8 years old or so?
Streaming may mean less bandwidth than overnight torrenting, but it means more peak-time bandwidth, and as the article mentions, that's the real killer. I wonder if we'll see Netflix etc. offering to predownload overnight for people whose connections can't keep up with primetime streaming.
Why not put up a landing page and advertise on google and/or bing?
Isn't calling voodoo voodoo the opposite of "spreading FUD?"
Snapchat turned down more than $3B from Facebook
So? Dont treat the automotive market the way you treat the tech market. single companies have a much, much lower affect on the market when it comes to cars.
There doesn't need to be science to support it -- its effectiveness at eliciting confessions is evidence enough.

The name 'lie detector' is horseshit but it's still useful.
You've ignored the "evil hacker" scenario in which someone who doesn't like you tricks the software into locking down your car. It wouldn't be difficult, as long as their encryption is set up improperly, which it almost always is.
There are many things built off of a basic set of axioms which are internally consistent.

Unless you can prove that those axioms are sure things then how can anything be a "sure thing"?
Hey, lawn mowers can't dodge about in 3 dimensions at insane speeds. Hard to weaponize a lawnmower.

However, that helicopter seems ideal for antipersonnel rapid assault. Add an ounce of C4 and how could you defend against it?
Double slit experiment shows that you can't predict which slit the particles are going to go. This is pretty much non-determinism to me
The top level of a Dart program is a group of definitions, like in Java or C#, instead of a series of imperative statements. That makes it easier for static analysis, since you don't have strange constructs like:

if (itsTuesday) {
class Foo {
...
}
}

It also means mutual recursion just works, without weird semantic shenanigans like hoisting in JavaScript. In Dart, the top-level is "simultaneous": all of those definitions are static with no mixing of side-effecting imperative code at the top-level which would make ordering matter.

The main side-effect of this approach is that you have to wrap your entrypoint imperative code in a main() function. It's a pretty small price to pay, especially in an application with thousands of lines of code.
Yup. We'll have an overblown followup the first time a car is incorrectly e-repossessed. Errors like that happen whether the company need to push a button on a web app to send a kill signal or push a button on a web app to send a ticket to a real-live repoman.

Honestly, controlling for all other factors, I'd probably prefer an electronic repo man to a real one. (That said, I only ever pay for cars in cash, so I wouldn't be in this situation.)
Thanks! That's pretty informative! :)
Right because length of existence of a username is really a good argument of anything...

All of your posts attacking Dart are for nonsensical reasons, and then your replies are backsteps admitting part of what you originally said was wrong and then coming up with a new nonsensical argument. I don't know what you have against Dart, but your basic premise that it's verbose is absolutely wrong. They've actually taken pains in the syntax to not be verbose (factory constructors, => functions, getters and setters, .. syntax for cascades, etc). It just shows you judge the language based on glancing at the front page of the website for 2 seconds without doing significant reading. In other words your posts are FUD. I stand by that.
Industrial espionage is a very real thing with very real risks for larger companies. Here is one example of how NSA could use (and may have used) the data they're collecting to help American economic interests:
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130909/04383424450/latest...
The pirate bay seems to run better than ever. Massive sharing via torrent is really fast nowadays.
The thing is, if he was shaky, the earlier he disappears, the better. And if you can show you can go on even when losing key people, that's a good sign, because chances are high you will lose key people.
Until someone can explain otherwise, I defer to Dr. Feynman, who essentially tells us that probability is intrinsic to the universe itself, and our experience of reality. I love the line that says (from the quote, below), "Someone has said it this way: 'nature herself doesn't know which way the electron is going to go.'"

When discussing the double-slit experiment, he said:

"It is not a lack of unknown gears - a lack of internal complications - that makes nature have probability in it; it seems to be in some sense intrinsic.

Someone has said it this way: 'nature herself doesn't know which way the electron is going to go.' A philosopher once said (a pompous one): 'it is necessary for the very existence of science that the same conditions always produce the same result.' Well, they don't: if you set up electrons in any way - I mean, you set up the circumstance here, in the same conditions every time, and you cannot predict behind which hole you'll see the electron.

They don't - and yet the science goes on in spite of him."

--

Watch the full lecture here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUJfjRoxCbk

I posted a transcribed portion previously:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3756989
Not that they wouldn't have ruined it, but Google must be kicking themselves for not trying more aggressively to buy Twitter years ago.
The bigger chilling effect is my situation. I would love to comment, but I'd rather not create potentially incriminating or embarrassing ties back to my personal life. People may think this is exclusively limiting trolling, but for me, it limits me discussing economics, politics, and controversial events that usually 30% of the population is always creating bad opinion about.

At least with pro username websites, you can opt into real names. I feel like this is the optimum approach, and that all others are subversive to a completely free conversation, which is what the internet first championed.
Why should I want to disable Adblock, given horror stories like this one?
There is also an interview with Manoug Manougian, the founder of the rocket club, here:

https://now.mmedia.me/lb/en/10questions/10-questions-with-ma...

apparently this year is the first time he has been back to Lebanon since he left in 1966.
>(Youtube) to promote G+

Google+ was never intended to be a product in itself. Google+ is Google's social layer. Providing social features to other Google products was always the plan for Google+.
Guys, Something's Up With the Sun
Internet of Things Cloud Company "Arrayent" Nabs $11.9M
Is it possible to use G+ without my real name?
It seems to be called a "pod", actually: http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/new...

(I wonder if the Internet connection makes it an iPod. ;-))
This is an interesting proof of concept of Tufte's ideas around dense imagery and visualization. Beyond that I'm kinda underwhelmed.
> You can download a lot more.

Not to mention seedboxes running 24/7 at blazing speeds.
I think the biggest problem or criticism with these deals is that they are being negotiated with special interests completely in the dark.

When it then comes up for public voting (in senate, congress, whatever) any attempt to amend or change it is turned down with the justification that "the deal has already been agreed upon by our international parties", parties which needless to say will be given the very same explanation when they too object.

This is special interests trying to frame something as an "agreement" which everyone somehow sees a benefit from, while it most certainly is not.

This sort of thing needs and deserves as little secrecy as possible, so that we can avoid long-term, fundamental damage to the internet. Serving these dinosaurs one last dish isn't worth much, and definitely not a price that big.
Most difficult part of "personal EEG" going forward seems to be the pasting of the electrodes to the front and back of the scalp and the chest. In hospital, someone else does that for you.
You're saying that leasing is better than buying because cost of obsolescence is borne by the lessor.

This is an economic fallacy so common that it deserves a memorable name.

If a product became obsolete so quickly that everyone chose to lease it, then the lease price would rise to the level where leasing and buying were equally good.

For example, if the cost of a product went to $0 after 3 years, then--all factors being equal--the cost to lease it for 3 years then return it to the lessor versus the cost to buy it and throw it in the garbage after 3 years would be equal.
Thoughts on Quantified Self
Some thoughts on where USV is in thinking about investing in quantified self.
I wonder how this compares to say, the Louisiana Purchase? How much open discussion took place during those negotiations?
The real benefit of Netflix/Hulu is not so much a reduction in video bitrate, but that they run cache CDNs closer to the customers, so there is less traffic traversing long distances over the Internet.

Thus, less "Internet" traffic (but more last-mile traffic).
Or your friendly in-flight magazine showing a special selection of...
Really, for the purpose of Play reviews and public comments and other public fora outside of your circles, Plus needs a consistent "Pseudonym-wrapper" interface. That is, a way to create a pseudonym around your Plus account with its own icon. Others can send messages to the pseudonym and can reply to it, but not directly view the owner's real profile and link it back to their account.

Then YouTube channels or public fora could have a "No pseudonyms" options that requires a commenter to use their real + name if they want.
I don't think this is a problem with G+ per se, just a bad sorting algorithm.

What would a good comment sorting algorithm even look like for Youtube? Something like HN/Reddit votes would be worth a try but I wouldn't be surprised to see the trolls float to the top there either.
No, G+ has always required your real name, whatever that means.
Design Yourself by Evan Spiegel, CEO of Snapchat
Where is the Inflation?
Feater (https://www.youtube.com/feather_beta) + ViewTube (https://userscripts.org/scripts/show/87011).

That's how I use YouTube, and I couldn't be happier. I was hiding comments on YouTube before anyway.
I'm surprised everyone is ignoring the obvious elephant in the room: The car receives a signal to lock itself down. Therefore someone can impersonate the car dealer and lock your car down (as long as their encryption is set up in a broken way, which it almost always is).
Dropbox for Business is still a public cloud service. The reality is we live in information economy where information and intellectual property is a first order citizens for any business. So storing your organization data to a public cloud (whether it is dropbox or some other service) is equivalent to giving keys to your organization's treasure trove. Also Dropbox being a high profile target, if the service hacked for some reason, it puts your organization data at risk in inadvertently.

We have built Tonido FileCloud (http://www.getfilecloud.com) to specifically address this use case where organizations can self host their own Enterprise File Share and Sync platform.
Unique Thoughts On This $3 Billion Snapchat Buyout Thing
There are two sides to this.

I understand Facebook's strategy trying to stay on top of the mobile social game and remaining relevant to young users.

While I value Snapchat from Facebook's perspective, I think Snapchat itself is now in a tough spot. They're going to raise money at a valuation higher than $3b, and soon enough, the pressure will be on to start generating revenue. It's funny - people give social apps like Snapchat a hard time about not making any money, but if they tried to monetize right now, they'd look like idiots for thinking they're worth $5b or whatever, because the revenue would be peanuts in comparison. They're better off literally not making anything for the time being.

There's no way they'll ever get $3b out of that business without selling out. Maybe they think FB or someone else will be back with a better offer. I'm not sure that gamble was worth the risk.
I'm not sure Vimeo is really the right platform. Vimeo seems a lot more targeted towards the art of videography itself, so comments about technique and editing and so on are a lot more common, rather than the actual content of the video.
This is a neat idea, though the quality of questions is terrible. Would probably be a good way to garner a decent amount of followers if you spent 20 minutes answering a ton of questions. Not very clear on how to 'ask' questions though..
It sounds like Google+ is meant to be Google's answer to Disqus as much as its answer to Facebook. With that in mind, Youtube integration makes perfect sense.

That said, it's obviously got a lot of warts, like promoting Plus power-users over the regular subscribers. Say what you want about Reddit, but at least the infamous karma-farmers get a lot of legitimate upvotes before they bubble to the top and don't pop in their^H^H^H^H^Hthere automatically on the strength of their reputations.
I guess Google couldn't resist tapping into one of their only successful social media (Youtube) to promote G+.

This is a common sentiment, but doesn't simple platform pragmatism make it obvious why they want to merge disparate identities and systems? Why should YouTube have an island comment system given that it's a Google property? Of course the replacement should be ready for prime time (it sounds like some basic features are missing right now, such as channel owner moderation), but the eventual move to that is something that under virtually any situation anyone would recommend.

My Flickr account got turned into a Yahoo account. My Skype account is now a Live account or whatever. Of course these things come together, and I'm not quite sure why every narrative about things like this (not necessary your post) has to be "G+ needs to take on Facebook so this is how it's doing it", when the more obvious explanation of "Company homogenizes systems" fits so well.

Further one annoying aspect of this whole drama is that to demonstrate that there is a problem, people become the problem. It seems like the vast majority of abuse in YouTube land right now are people desperately trying to demonstrate that the Google+ migration was a mistake (e.g. copy pasting tanks an other inanities). This demonstrates that people resist change more than any fault in the new platform.
A Neuroscientist’s Radical Theory of How Networks Become Conscious
32-bit microprocessor made by Russian students in 1984
Thanks for sharing the link. The book that includes the published version of this essay, Out of My Later Years, was on my living room bookshelf just now. My late dad bought the book in April 1951 during his college days, as he studied the philosophy of science, a topic Einstein wrote a lot about. It's very interesting to hear these words read in Einstein's own voice. I ran downstairs to bring the book up next to my computer as the audio was playing. (And now I know how "Euclidean" is pronounced in German, as I had guessed just the other day while thinking about the pronunciation of the name "Euler.")

Another passage from Einstein, also from a book I had at home growing up, can be found on my personal website[1], where Einstein describes his school experiences in a quotation from his longest autobiographical writing.

[1] http://learninfreedom.org/Nobel_hates_school.html
Google font the header.
http://graphicriver.net has a lot of decent vector images to buy for quite cheap.
Zero-day vulnerability in Chrome on Nexus 4 and Samsung Galaxy S4
I just installed a userscript to hide the comments.
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1. At the beginning of every month (on Hacker News), people usually post about jobs and what they are looking for in designers/developers. So without Freelancing, Hacker News is the 1st way to go. Maybe you can do a HN Search and look for past post messages.

2. Do you have a blog? Marketing yourself thru blogs, Facebook, GitHub, Instagram or Pinterest, doesn't seem like a bad idea.

3. By omitting oDesk/Freelancing, I really think you are limiting yourself, because if you do a great job for one person (with word of mouth) they can tell somebody else and that will give you more work for a lifetime. People also tend to comeback to you, if they trust you and your work.

4. Cold-Calling/Emailing, but this might be annoying for some and you might get a bad rep for it.
I'm saying something a little bit different, but I was not being very clear. Yes, the cost of leasing is born by you, the lessee. However, the risk of fluctuations in value of the car itself is born by the lessor, for which you pay a volatility premium. The lessor places a bet on the future value of the car ahead of time when they lease it, just as you would implicitly place your own bet should you buy it.

Electric cars are so new that they may be one of the few cases where leasing makes sense; some people may not want the downside risk of buying, and are willing to pay a bit more for that. Battery technology is ever-improving.
That assumes that everybody is equally smart and well-informed.

I don't know that it's true, but it seems reasonable to assume that many electric car customers are treating it like a normal car purchase without thinking about obsolescence, and allowing the natural desire to own an object rather than rent it to push them in that direction.

In an ideal world filled with sane, rational humans, buying and renting should cost about the same. But we don't live in such a world.
Yes, and it's likely that the cost of the lease would be signifcantly higher to account for the risk of default.
Do you know any hobbyist design that can be built safely?
OK, if you think that's the more likely scenario, and you believe the FAAs analysis is wrong without even reading their report, then I rest my case.
Maybe it isn't that far off: http://vimeo.com/51702339

"Imprint Energy aims to reshape the battery landscape. Currently available battery technologies limit the pace of improvement in design and functionality of portable electronic devices. Imprint Energy will address these shortcomings with its breakthrough zinc-based rechargeable battery technology, Zinc Poly™. Zinc Poly™ battery technology removes longstanding limitations on the rechargeability of zinc-based batteries and enables the production of ultrathin, flexible, high energy density rechargeable batteries for significantly lower cost and without the design limitations or safety concerns of other battery technologies."

I think they say the batteries can be printed on modified textile printing equipment. I contacted them recently because I would love to use this tech if it lives up to their claims. They wouldn't give me any sort of details like how much energy is stored in one of the square inch patches they are showing though.
Hey John, thanks for your comment. I'm working on the questions at the minute - I agree, it's tricky to filter out what are/aren't questions, so that's something that I'll develop to be a little more sophisticated for a future version.

I suppose the purpose of the app was solely to answer questions, really; I didn't even think about the "asking" side - again, something that I think the app could benefit from in the next version.

Thanks again John, really appreciate your feedback :)
So simple but potentially incredibly useful. I like it! :)
I guess Google couldn't resist tapping into one of their only successful social media...so far this G+/Youtube integration is an unmitigated disaster.

There's much made of how Apple isn't the Apple it used to be. What about Google? A guy I know through music commented that getting hired at Google was "a breeze." That contrasts with the being interviewed every which way I used to hear about.
Or Reddit needs to focus on providing a good API and Disqus-like embedding so they can provide Reddit-as-a-service for other websites. Right now sites can throw a skin on a reddit community and wrap it in a domain-name, but it's not really set up for embedding.
The project is from 2004.
You have $10 a month to charge the battery money, but not $200 a month pay for the car money.
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What is a logo? It's an aide-mémoire - a convenient shortcut for users to recognise and remember your company's image. When you have a strong brand a logo can be a phenomenal tool to keep your products in the public consciousness - but at the stage you're at now, a logo is just a small picture to put in the corner of a website. That's it.

Your company cannot survive without validation, and a logo (or lack of) is not stopping you getting that.
Which html color are you?
The whole point is that they do not want to sell it. They want to rent it. They are quite explicit that this is not a purchase arrangement.
Except that lease $ payments are fixed and agreed at point of contract.

The parent is suggesting that on day 0 of the lease the lessor doesn't know if the EV will be worth less than they project, due to accelerated obsolescence from a new technology emerging.

You're right in the macro, that if this happened leases would go up, but those that were already in contract would be "protected" and I think that's his/her point.
there are tools that resolve addresses into stack traces. it's not as easy as in Java/C#, but it's perfectly doable and a solved problem.
The same talk, over and over again. The problem is DRY!
i think: if the even smaller components starts to cycle, its deterministic.
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