skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hey juxtaposicion, fascinating work. I have many questions so I am just going to shoot them rapid fire.

What is the dimensionality of each word vector and what does a words position in this space "mean"? What is this dimensionality determined by? Have your tried any dimensionality reduction algorithms like PCA or Isomap? It would be interesting to find the word vectors that contain the most variation across all of wikipedia. Have you tried any other nearest neighbor search methods other than a simple dot product, such as locality sensitive hashing?

I guess most of those questions are about the word2vec algorithm, but you are probably in a good place to answer them after working with it. Anyways, cool work, and I am glad you did it in python so I can really dig in and understand it.
They lent the money, they didn't "give it" to the banks. The difference is that the Fed got the money back, whereas buying $2tn of debt would result in the Fed having to create $2tn.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/traceygreenstein/2011/09/20/the-...
>issue is how do we protect people from themselves.

Sorry, but I think something is wrong with this kind of thinking. For e.g. someone who knows "better", could protect "you" by not funding your start-up! Also, if you read the article, Schmidt says "I tell people not to think about it for others, but think about it for themselves".
I read the column (it's not factual enough to be an article). It has numbers, but it reads like the numbers follow the conclusion, not the other way around. Krugman ignores some very sophisticated discussions to be had on many issues.

For example, will the aging population in developed countries affect their medium-term ability to repay their debts? Krugman doesn't say anything on this topic other than to say the problem isn't unique to France. Graphs and numbers on how aging affects productivity is very germane but absent in his analysis.

I actually don't blame Krugman here. Let's be honest, in this article, Krugman is a political columnist. He basically admits that this is a political rant in his second paragraph. And the thesis of the column is that some people did something he disagrees with so they must be bad people with bad motives.

I just don't like that this was posted and upvoted here. I like when HackerNews has better content than this. I can read this sort of thing in /r/politics, The Huffington Post, or The New York Times. I come to HackerNews for tech, startup, futurism, science news, etc. Any political posts should at least have a tech or entrepreneurship bent and be based in rational argument, not political one-upsmanship.
I think they've gotten very lucky that no one has gotten seriously ill from that manufacturing first set up. Hopefully that has and will continue to improve.
Thanks for the feedback!

The reason I decided against AJAX on the currency switcher is so folks would see the GET variable in the URL and know that they can bookmark it if they want to always see a currency besides USD.

In the upcoming weeks (once I have more than 5 currencies supported) I'll be looking for a way to AJAXify the experience while still making it apparent that you can bookmark the site with a specific currency pre-selected.

I've considered putting cookies in there, as well, but decided against that for the sake of reduced load times and keeping things as straightforward and lightweight as possible.
Okay...

So, Selling code you wrote == Preventing sharing of knowledge.
Good point. Either way at the end of the day this program is going to enjoy a lot of popular support (because the overwhelming majority will benefit) and they will have to balance the cost of the program, which means taxing the richest the most. Since the richest gain the least marginal utility from their money, they need to balance that lost marginal utility against remaining a Swiss citizen. Some obviously will renounce their citizenship and shop for other places to live over this, but I suspect that this would be a minority of rich Swiss people and that these rich Swiss are going to be those not really contributing anything to Swiss society other than spending money.

If they are Swiss business owners, operating in Switzerland, it's not like they are going to be able to pack up entire businesses and leave Switzerland wholesale when they renounce their citizenship. John Donne once wrote, "no man is an island unto himself", and this is also a valid observation about economic success as well. Most rich people have been successful because of the society around them and not in spite of it. Those who are actually rich from a business that benefits from being in Switzerland serving some need wouldn't renounce citizenship since doing so would essentially be cutting off one's nose to spite their face.

Think of the people who have been in the media for having renounced their US citizenship? The example that springs to mind and is most indicative of my point is Eduardo Saverin. What value did he provide to the US? What value does he provide to Singapore where he now resides. I'd say he's hardly a loss for the US people. Of course, he's just one data point, so this is completely useless anecdotal evidence. However, I would expect investigative journalism looking into exactly what kind of citizens are renouncing their citizenship over tax policy to be among those that add the least value to society.

How many CEO's and other well-compensated C-suite executives in the US have renounced their citizenship while still working as a productive member of society?
I believe he was talking about net wealth.
As a long time beta user I have a bunch of problems with this piece:

- the Oakland space was a temporary location while they were iterating on the beta. Soylent is not manufactured there.

- all the journalists writing about Soylent seem to attribute to Rob stuff that he doesn't actually say: namely that you should only consume Soylent all the time. The point of Soylent is that it replaces transactional eating and makes me healthier. It's not about replacing the eating I do for fun.

- Soylent is a technology company. It's not just positioning. They are iterating towards finding an exponentially better way to do transactional eating using technology. That's the definition of a tech company.
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I wasn't actually expecting just a single data point (perhaps I should have written the plural "startups" instead), rather I was hoping that we could crowdsource several contenders/candidates, and then use those examples to pose the following follow-up questions:

A. Historically, how many now-thriving companies have "slipped through the cracks" of the YC evaluation process?

B. If there are several notable examples that fit a certain pattern, what can/should YC do to better identify and/or attract those kinds of teams?

I like to think that YC has become its own type of graduate school at this point, so I guess a very rough analogue would be the phenomenon of many high-achieving low-income students never even considering the option of applying to an elite university[1], even though they would have a high chance of getting in AND receiving sufficient financial aid. And the few who actually did apply might not constitute a sufficiently large sample size to generate enough "success stories" to encourage others to follow suit.

[1] http://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2013/09/no-poin...
There are only two ways, either you take help of an online real estate website or you go out on street and find property agents who can get you a decent house and in turn they'll take their commission.

Some of the online real estate websites from where you can start looking are:

1. www.99acres.com (I have had a bad experience with them, see here - http://snooptank.com/why-99acres-need-get-its-act-together-a...)

2. www.housing.com (The new rising star in Indian market)

3. www.sulekha.com

4. www.commonfloor.com

5. www.magicbricks.com

6. www.olx.in
That seems like a pretty circular argument. Do you mean the ones that aren't supposed to be eaten as a primary source of a diet? Or do you mean the ones that are, indeed, harmful if they make up too much of your diet?

Either way, I'm not sure how that argument is supposed to build confidence in Soylent.
Statistics: “Self Publishing in the United States 2007-2012″
I agree with this, but I guess many Asian websites do feel like they're stuck in a 1998 trend. Actually this also seems to apply to music too... when I hear my Taiwanese friends' music, it seems like it still hasn't escaped boy-band era (1998?).
This is a great move for the company. Especially now that so many competitors have internalized the process. It was the single most identifiable thing that poisoned the culture at the company. It will be interesting to see what they replace it with. The process certainly made it easier to make decisions higher up the chain (even if it was difficult for the managers and their direct reports).
Eaten that way? Obviously no, they are not safe. That is why you should never suggest that they are eaten that way.... Don't eat only pears; It would be a stupid and dangerous thing to do.

You know why Soylent is receiving more criticism than pears? Because unlike pear vendors, they are suggesting that you eat their product that way.
What are the most famous web projects built in go today?
Waow i never tough that i would actually read the word "fan" along side php, it make my day.
When loans are forgiven by borrowers, the difference is treated as taxable income by the IRS (in the US). This would complicate your scenario somewhat, but the debtor would still be better off paying the taxes on the $19K than the entire original debt.
Keynes' comment about bankers applies. There's very little incentive for the people who run these big publishers to take risks.
For anyone who works on Chrome: does this mean that Chrome won't move to support asm.js? I tried searching the bug tracker and discussion group and couldn't find anything.

In general I'm really happy that we're getting faster (no-gc) runtimes, but I think I favor asm.js's approach due to its backwards compatibility (though I admit I am not aware of the nuances of each implementation).
The food industry as a whole is one big hack, even with it's fancy regulations and bureaucracy. People are dying constantly due to the failures of the industry. It is nice to see fresh ideas.
Scientists Have Made Bullets Out of Light
Let's just say I'm pretty happy I'm not maintaining any products built with Flex/Air.
It might be related to the rat.
Neo only uses his powers against machines, shutting down the sentinels at the end of Reloaded, blowing stuff up on the way into the Machine City, and in being able to see Smith's alter-ego in the real world. None of that is incompatible with having a wireless transceiver in his brain.
Well, many people seem to just view Steve Jobs as a "product guy" that simply greenlighted or nixed products, and that's certainly discrediting him and what he did.

Again, could you explain why you chose that headline? Perhaps because it would grab attention?

For me, all it did was turn me off your book.

What's next, some other people writing a book about Scott Forstall or Bertrand Serlet, saying "Jony Ive never coded. Did we give credit to the wrong guy?"
In practice, this is actually pretty difficult to do. They can send you cease and desist, block you via the ToS, threaten legal action, add stronger crypto, etc. It's different than DRM because Snapchat owns the entire system.

Also, once your friends realize you're using the "Snapchat recorder" they'll stop sending you snaps entirely.
Seems like Soylent is taking advantage if the entire industry loophole called supplements. If the loophole didn't exist, this type of entrepreneurship wouldn't.

Food companies are also doing real experiments. I don't see tasteless goop shakes disrupting the market any more than sport shakes.

EDIT: I stand corrected on the first paragraph. I still believe the 2nd to be true.
> “You’re not going to feed a booming population with organic farms,” Rob says.

This is a popular misconception. While organic farming requires far more labour than conventional farming and the yields are lower for the same land, it's not actually that much lower. We're talking about a 5-30% drop in yield. Not great, but not "OMG mass worldwide starvation" change. And that's while being vastly more efficient with fresh water.

Think about your average 3rd-world country and ask yourself what's in short supply - land, manpower, or fresh water?
Soylent might, technically, work. It might be safe and healthy, it definitely looks simple and allows you to forget anything related to grocery shopping, cooking and cleaning up afterwards.

But thinking about the prospect of the future makes me sick to my stomach. Soylent paints a disgustingly frightening dystopia where humans are fed 100% "correct" food to allow them to continue being cogs in the business machine, not stop for lunch during the day in the office, and be able to pull those extra longs evenings and nights to get more work done. Not to mention the vanishing social and human aspects of eating, together with friends and family.

Rob Reinhardt's assertions that organic cultivation of vegetables, fruits and legumes does not scale are downright FALSE, and only serve the Soylent marketing machine.

Soylent is doing nothing more than accommodating to the needs of humanoids who continue the endless pursuit of some vague promise of capitalist fulfillment (work hard, be rich, be happy), ignoring the fact that the direct opposite of such a lifestyle leads to a much more healthier, happier life which remains in touch with our basic, primal human existence.
Yep!! Protos is a very interesting company, but I'm not sure 3D printing will produce something near the current frame quality for another year or so. Also, eyewear design is extremely detailed and realistically getting customized glasses will still take a professional for a while. (See our live 2 hour demo of a professional creating a 3D render of frames from a sketch http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kxsu3EzOzJI) ... With all that said, we believe 3D printing has incredible possibilities and we hope to play a big role in in that space. One of our "growth hack" ideas to get site visitors was a contest (http://frameri.com/contest/#!/entries) and you can see some really cool concepts.
The issue is not necessarily with genetic modification itself, but the reasons for modification.

For example, if a plant is modified to be highly resistant to pesticides, then the concern would be that such plants are saturated with potentially harmful (to the person eating them and the environment) pesticides.

Another example would be plants that are modified to be incapable of reproduction (so that the manufacturer can sell them to farmers each season). In this case, the issue is social/economic rather than health/environmental.

I can't speak for the parent, but I can say that, for me personally, the position is not "GMOs are bad". But there are potential issues that should be taken seriously, and I'm skeptical of people who are so insistent about pushing ahead; they usually stand to make money.

To repeat, the issue is not modification itself. After all, we've been modifying genetics for thousands of years through traditional agricultural techniques. For me, the main issue is who is doing the modifying and why.
My initial thought was " Don't most people that go on weight loss diets shake do this anyway?" ... followed by "whats actually different about this product and existing food replacement shake diets?"
So, why are you publishing the photos?
Pinker's claim is per capita deaths.

I don't pretend to know if it is the correct measure, but it is at least an interesting measure of the human resources being put to war.
What makes Solyent special vs other meal replacements? I take a meal replacement called Raw Meal (only one meal a day) that's make mostly from sprouts. I feel great when I make myself do it every day. Is the difference that Solyent isn't made from any plant material but rather is raw chemicals?
>Not to whine (because this game is pure liquid gold straight into my brain meat), but the one thing I was hoping for was a new endgame as an alternative to the final boss.

Agreed. A wider variety of challenges in the end game would be appreciated. Once you played this game a lot you can usually predict whether you can beat the final sector -- it is just going through the motions.
Note: article is NSFW.
i like it thanks for doing this and giving it for free.
You're asking how managers will be able to freely assign numbers to individuals according to their performance, without being guided by numbers that the same manager previously freely assigned to the same individuals according to their performance?
A gift from me to me! Where's the box for that on my 1040EZ? :)

Alternatively, I could agree to pay myself back the full 20k at current interest rates so as to not create a tax singularity.
I really wish people would quit declaring anything they want as a "universal human right."

The real universals are things you naturally have that must be taken away from you. If you were the sole person on an island, you could speak freely, practice whatever religion, pursue happiness, etc. You have those rights unless someone else shows up and takes them away from you.

Things like an income, health care, and all the so-called "positive rights" are just entitlements. You can stand alone on an island and scream about your right to an income, but it won't matter.

Maybe the entitlements are a good idea, but no matter how good they might be they're still not "universal human rights."
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It's Michael O'Leary's biggest PR gaffe – he wants us to like him
Microsoft ditches Stack Ranking
>> It is better for yourself and the creditor to just bypass the horrible and at times abusive debt collectors, but this would create a perverse incentive to ALWAYS default on loans.

Doesn't valuing your credit counteract that incentive? You'd only get one shot at this before you lose it. Also, this has long been an option with credit cards.
For the record, I voted against the 12x proposal. It's unnecessary meddling in the workings of a free market, meant to appease ideologists. The basic income proposal, however, is a pretty dramatic, wide-ranging change that could make a big difference. It's not appeasing: it's incendiary.
I have a friend who is a Bill Gates type capitalist and a hopeless optimist. He argues that when/if we deplete some limited resource companies will engineer a way around it. Fossil fuel reserve gone? Well that's a good incentive to invent fusion power. Topsoil gone barren? So that's the queue to finally get around to develop those replicators. Too much CO2 to be able to breathe? So let's find and switch that gene that will allow us to breathe CO2.

The reasoning is that capitalism can solve EVERY problem that it creates, but not until that problem is right up in it's face (because you know, capitalism is so short sighted, which incidentally is not a bad thing, just an odd trait).

So we wait and hope that the capitalists are right, which they of course aren't, but then they'll say they're sorry and we will feel good again.
It failed partly because I never ran a business and never saw how a successful agency operates. Only poorly operated digital agencies and thought "I could do this better." Also, I had to make a decision to push the agency forward or take another idea into an accelerator. I chose the latter.
>We will continue to invest in a generous rewards budget, but there will no longer be a pre-determined targeted distribution. Managers and leaders will have flexibility to allocate rewards in the manner that best reflects the performance of their teams and individuals, as long as they stay within their compensation budget.

The compensation budget is the key part here. I don't know how this is going to account for:

- Failed products with smart developers and their retention.
- Avg products with very smart developers
- Less 'visible' projects. Those that management don't realize is necessary until you have no one working on it. (This happens a LOT in big companies).

All this can be solved by pumping a ton of money into this as they are alluding elsewhere though.

Overall the fact that they are taking feedback seriously and are working towards a solution is pretty positive though.
The paper's author should be slapped by the any CS book contains (Theorem: IP=PSPACE)
Well, presumably you could implement a language with bignums in PNaCL with reasonable efficiency, something which is evidently not possible in JS.
How safe is this compared to using a brainwallet (https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Brainwallet) with sufficiently strong password (say, a hundred secure-randomly generated characters)?

A brainwallet sounds far far simpler to set up, at least.
A scam? Hardly.

The only "scammy" thing was overreaching claims about how it's "optimized perfectly" and the like. And from what I've heard, they've toned that down.

We haven't cracked the human body, but there is science that supports Soylent.
Yeah, I was pretty appalled to see one of the founders/employees measuring ingredients out of a box on the floor while wearing dirty espadrilles (canvas shoes). I suspect that if you look at the skepticism/support in this thread you'd see a strong correlation between people who have worked in food service at some time in their lives and those who haven't.
Find one that lets you say "I just want an image upload field here" via a single button like Drupal does and we'll talk. Drupal's doing a lot more than your average scaffold.
Have you heard of Line? They have nearly $100MM per quarter in revenue.

(Not sure why the original TC link is broken. Weird.)

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:2Eqnnea...

That market just hasn't been cracked in non-Asian markets.
This is excellent, I've always wanted a simple db library that makes defining a schema upfront optional. After all a schema is a constraint that can be set in stone later on, just like adding indices for optimisation purposes.

Few questions:

- what's the performance like? is there any overhead to alchemy, eg comparing schema every time you do an insert?

- no way to specify primary keys as an alternative to the auto-generated id column?

- no table.remove()?

- what about inserting more complicated data structures, eg a dict with a nested dict or a list? would be great if those were serialized auto-magically into a blob type (or used to create another table with a foreign key?)

- would be nice to be able to freeze a schema with table.freeze() for example: from then on new columns don't get created automatically, or get stored in an extra blob column (this is a very common scenario for python devs where non-indexable columns just get stuck in a blob)

- let me optionally define a schema and specify defaults with table.schema(name='', price=0.0')

- would love to see table.ensureIndex('column', 'unique') similar to mongo for quickly creating indices

- db = Dataset() should do dataset.create('sqlite:///:memory:') for me - would be nice to have that as the default connector, so that Dataset() acts as LINQ for Python by default

- dataset.freeze is nice but I'd rather have dataset.export() & dataset.import() letting me easily copy rows from one db to another (after inspection for example)

Thanks for creating this!
They really should have just picked a better existing language... High risk did not get rewarded for them :(.
This. Modern capitalism simply wouldn't function without some rather non-obvious conclusions about property rights
(existence of intellectual property, limitation of liability, enforceability of contract law, land as a privately owned tradeable asset, sovereign power participating in the market primarily as a regulator)