skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This.

Pinterest is the greatest cash cow in the making that nobody's talking about. (I mean, they're talking about it. But nobody's talking about it the way they're talking about Snapchat, which is kind of nuts. Pinterest is the perfect ad platform, outside of Google, for a demographic almost every major consumer brand cares deeply about.)
Thanks for putting those links up - the Theano documentation has some great tutorials for how to code these in practice.
Should Quadrotors All Look Like This?
I like how about 15 of the 30 or so comments right now are about the lack of a backup. This is something that stood out to me too, and I'm happy to see people at least in the tech sector are taking it more seriously.

If you have car/health insurance then paying for backups should make sense to you... if it doesn't your data is clearly not very important (to you).
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I hope that the author was exaggerating when he talked about being so uncomfortable with the parody video that he couldn't keep watching.

However, you're looking at the wrong thing with the original video. Yes, the video itself is pretty tame. The problem with Blurred Lines is the lyrics.
It would be nice if people could lay off the script injections. It's clearly insecure, but that's not really the point. It makes the experience worse for everyone if you alert(), etc.
Since such an exchange can circumvent Chinese monetary policy it is unlikely that it can keep doing so and become popular.
I think the medium-term effect of this trend will likely be advertisers buying more space with services like Facebook, where you get a better guarantee that you impression was an actual person with a real profile.
It still is a valid pattern. As disks get bigger, the harder it is to move the data and the more efficient it is to move the compute to the data.
I like the craziness that this devolved into. It's funny when a bunch of people are all editing like mad.

I had the thought that it'd be fun to have a contest using jsfiddle to start from some point, like the excel (lite) clone in 30 lines, and add the best/coolest feature in some limit of lines.

It's really wonderful how ingenuity stacks.
I would think that would imply a heavy running game, which would break down your backs very quickly. (A whole lot of Option)

That being said, if you recruited for that it would be an interesting strategy.
Pinboard has been huge for me...I almost never use the HN saved feature...not because it's bad, but because it's not good at what it does...I upvote a lot of things, sometimes things I don't plan on ever revisiting but that I think are worth praise (Show HN projects)...So it's not the saving, it's the lack of filtering.

Pinboard does some sort of Bayesian analysis to automatically tag things I bookmark, but I still add tags manually. I also take a few seconds to copy and paste the first paragraph of the article. And when I need to look up articles on Ruby, algorithms, databases, etc...I just rely on my Pinboard tags

(My public tags are here...looks like I have 800+, which is not too bad for a few years)
Just emailed the story to my cofounder to scare him off a little.

Thanks for sharing.
This strategy works so well for the same reason that the no-punt strategy works so well: because the opponents are kids.

In high-end college basketball, or the NBA, full-time full court press can become a recipe for easy fast break points. Inbounding teams can pass faster than defenders can run, and smart, disciplined players can memorize and run dozens of full-court plays.

At minimum you need a deep bench to consider it, because it is exhausting. So it's perfect for a kids team, where getting all the kids into the game is a virtue in itself.
I was personally more interested in the Bank of America files, but I think they're gone now too.
Can you recommend any good books on this topic? You just blew my mind.
yup. I guess some couldn't resist the urge. I hope there aren't more malicious minds, trying to steal cookies or stuff.
This is absolutely true and is a part of the general cash flow problem that the poor face. Never having surplus (or even being at a defecit) after attempting to meet their basic needs month-over-month serves to keep them from moving ahead.

For instance, it is very difficult to reduce debt, invest, obtain an education, or otherwise "get ahead". All income is instead spent on day-to-day subsistence, so they continue to receive a lower share of the economy, while paying down little principal and paying maximum interest.

It's another overlooked element: it's not just about income and wealth. It's about cash flow. It's just somehow odd that if a person earned the same income over his lifetime, but received a sizeable advance on some portion, it could dramatically alter the quality of his life.
They don't become voltage levels, they are represented by voltage levels. There's nothing that converts a 1 to a particular voltage level. In TTL logic for example (an old type of transistor based logic circuits) it has a voltage swing of 0 to 5 Volts and a 1 is usually defined as 5 volts.

There's a think called a J-K flip flop that is worth having a look at - it's the simplest memory element conceptually and it takes a number of transistors to actually implement (6 I think from memory in TTL - I may be wrong - it was a long time ago).

In a real cpu D-Ram stores the bits (1's and 0's) and it works by storing a charge http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic_random-access_memory

The software / hardware boundary you speak of is a matter of definition and different people would define it differently. For a hardware developer, they would probably regard microcode as software, but an application developer would regard it as part of the hardware.

hth
I agree that seeing the problem from your client's point of view has great value, much more so than any particular technical skill that might be useful to solve that problem.

However, what you're describing isn't really risk management, it's just marketing. You want a prospect to believe that you have the ability to understand their problem and help them to solve it, because that will determine whether or not you get the gig and how favourable the terms are, but the real risk in hiring you for that gig depends on whether you actually have that ability.
Know your customers
interest in knowing the twitter accounts associated with your users' email addresses? I can find the exact twitter account behind a given email (or that the email is not yet associated with any account). contact a13330caf@live.com
And someone killed it...

EDIT: Nevermind, it's back.
Apropos of nothing: that is the weirdest stock photo I've seen in months, the caption underneath it is asinine, and the guy on the left sort of looks like Matt Damon.

Apropos of the article: the headline is really making hay out of a tangential point. Sure, the "poor vs. rich" angle gets more clicks and inbound links. But the real point -- which is a huge one, as far as the field of economics is concerned -- is that the "rational (and by implication, homogeneously rational) actor" presumption is under fire. It's been under fire before because people have been shown, time and again, to behave economically irrationally. But this time it's under fire because people have been shown to react heterogeneously to the same stimuli and incentives. (Not really touched upon in the article, but also worth mentioning: a third major critique in recent years has been the revelation that classical economics was highly skewed by the idiosyncrasies of the Western cultures in which it was cultivated and codified. It turns out that not everyone around the world behaves like 19th-20th Century Austrians, Britons, or Americans.)

All of this is huge, I repeat, because pretty much every foundational theory in classical economics is predicated on homogeneity and rationality. Every single one. The entire field. Even a preponderance of modern economics is undergirded by flawed assumptions borrowed from classical models.

I, for one, am really excited by the modernist, behaviorist, relativist, empiricist and frequentist challenges to classical economics. This is sort of like seeing a paradigm shift in a highly influential field of study play out in something resembling real time. Economics has always been based on statistics -- even highly sophisticated statistics -- but the inputs, so to speak, have been pretty unsophisticated. These challenges will help drag economics into the 21st century.
Great post and thanks for being open to what happened.
I'd say it's actually a good thing that your would-be-cofounder quitted early thou. I think it'd be worse if he quitted after getting in YC OR right after getting investors' money.
I really think people will have the opposite view about it. Before making a purchase in bitcoin you could think "I could hold this bitcoin and it will be worth ? in the future." or "I paid X for this Bitcoin and now it is worth X+Y so buying this product now for X is a discount of Y"
I'm going to go out on a limb and say that sour grapes probably had no bearing on your further success.
Its just a property of humans I guess. If it worked the last 600 days, why would it fail tomorrow?
This is incorrect, because the scenario where they go for it and make it does not have a value of zero..it is still -EV
The big one is obviously a critical flaw being found which makes it possible to counterfeit bitcoins or steal at will from (genuinely) protected wallets.
I am a net-metering solar PV owner who's not averse to a reasonable, independently audited "connection charge".

But I would be adverse to having to pay via a "connection charge" for what looks to me like a failed uprating of a nuclear plant, if I were I a Southern California Edison customer.
Wow this link took about 30 seconds to turn into porn. Be warned.
Are you claiming that most NFL teams gain 7+ yards on 40-50% of plays? That can't even be close to right.
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I'm from NZ, I've never heard about this stuff till now. I just bought myself a couple of bottles here[0], $4.88NZD each, which is currently $4.05USD.

[0] http://www.mightymart.co.nz/product/Suree-Sriracha-Chilli-Sa...
$179 in the US means that it'll probably sell for around $400 in Northern Europe. At least, someone in Norway wrote that the $350 Nexus 5 was marked up to $780 (the Swedish price seems to have gone down to $600 from $660).
At what part per million do burning eyes actually happen?

At what part per million does the factory actually affect the surrounding atmosphere?

Without any idea at all about these numbers your intuition is worthless.
Have you seen Steroids.js?

http://www.appgyver.com/steroids

Check out the video on that page, it uses PhoneGap and the results are pretty impressive.
There are plenty of high quality bond funds I can invest in with 5% return where the returns are taxed as dividends and not interest.

When we talk about "interest" here, I think its defined as passive low-risk investment income that is able to be taxed at a lower capital gains rate.
> Also, wonder how much Motorola makes(or loses) per Moto G at these prices.

Motorola claims it doesn't sell them at a loss but hasn't said more: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/14/technology/motorola-to-off...
No matter how it looks at first, it's always a people problem.

Gerald Weinberg, Secrets of Consulting.
The trouble with providing a phone number which is only intended for emergencies is that customers will learn that they can call it for ANYTHING. And woe to the company that says "That doesn't sound very serious! This number is only for emergencies, can you please send us an email? Bye now."
I am waiting for someone to reproduce healthcare.gov with 100 lines of code...
Totally 0wned!

wow, what are you doing? How comes you could afford it? Are you a developer? You're living the dream!
Adblock Plus doesn't work in Pintrest yet?
That's a matter of bad training.
You'd have football as it was played 50 years ago?
That's 16mbit/1mbit ADSL:
The fact that so many people participate is one of the things I complain about.
Center something vertically :). Or even better, create three divs, arranged horizontally, with a different amount of text such that all the divs are the same width and height. Note that you cannot specify a height for the parent since the text may be of arbitrary length. Makes me sad every time.
I disagree. Especially when you're trying to drain the clock with a lead, going for it on fourth-and-short is a completely orthodox strategy. I've never seen an announcer criticize a team for applying it: Far more often, I've heard some variation of "it's the defense's job to stop you, not your job to stop for the defense."
I like that everyone is collaborating to keep N S A in the last columns, that is team work !
"Water sleeps, and the enemy is sleepless"
that's the spirit ! seriously it would be an awesome idea to create a website with challenges like that. create a substractive synthesizer in js in less than 1k, like old demos
Show HN: Bunster Media's new design - comments?
Paul Johnson at Georgia Tech goes for it on fourth down all the time.
I swear I've seen this on hacker news before
Until there is enough renewable generation that you're actually reducing or eliminating their profits on the fixed-cost of generating equipment they have in play.

I think that's the concern. It was all, "Ha ha look at solar, how cute and expensive." Now its more, "Its going to eat our lunch." and its only getting cheaper year by year.
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106 votes is still enough that your vote wouldn't have changed the outcome. Even a 2 vote spread means it wouldn't have been worth your time.
People work their entire life and when they're rich, they think that working is the worst thing that could happen to them. Nature only allows the fittest to win. Somebody who never works on his own, is in no way fit, useful or in any sense going to be happy with anything he owns or will own. Switzerland is doing the right thing, by paying it's citizen for living. The citizen make the country worth, what it's worth, not the banks, not the government or anything else.

I can understand how they value that offer by that logic. It's always a risk, but that's what makes the game worth playing. 3 Billion is a lot, but their future valuation must be close to that, if they are sure enough to decline the offer. Alright dear traders, get your keyboards undusted and unleash your bids when Snapchat files an IPO.
Can you simply disconnect from HECO and self-generate?
Reminds me of a story I read about a girls basketball coach who was not really familiar with basketball but I think he had coached soccer. He didn't understand why you would only defend half the floor, so he trained his players to run the floor like soccer players so that they could defend the entire floor all the time. Pissed off the opposing teams something fierce, but he did win a lot of games.

Edit: the story I recalled is the one already posted in another comment, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6729372
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Google says density of concrete is 2400 kg / m^3. Multiply that by 5x5x5 m^3 and you have 300,000 kg of concrete (300 metric tons).

m = 300000 kg
g = 9.8 m/s^2
h = 10 m

The total amount of potential energy you can store is:

m * g * h = 29400000 J = 29.4 MJ

The more customary unit of energy in electric circles is the kW hr. Converting a kW hr to joules gives:

1 kW hr = 1 kJ hr / s
= 1000 J hr / s * (60 s / min) * (60 min / hr)
= 3600000 J
= 3.6 MJ

So the potential energy stored in the parent's system is:

29.4 MJ * (kW hr / 3.6 MJ) ~ 8.17 kW hr.

Probably needs to be bigger to supply a decent sized household. Not to mention issues with inefficient conversion of potential energy to electricity, maintenance, and a backup plan for cloudy days.
Your mind was blown from the idea that a government does not necessarily exist to serve the interest of its people, or the little historical blurb?

In any case, the heavily ingrained belief of government benevolence in contemporary Western societies, is horrific. But not surprising, with minds like Edward L. Bernays at work (his 1928 book Propaganda should be mandatory reading for everyone).
In my experience, it's not straightforward. First you need to install an update from ZTE to unlock fastboot. Then you'll need to compile 1.1 on your own, and flash it yourself. I'm hoping ZTE releases an OTA update, but I'm not holding my breath.
Seconded danso on Pinboard. It's simple and fast so I tend to save quite a few everyday from HN and other places.
The Internet could have happened on a planet without copper. Could Bitcoin have happened on a planet without the internet?
They didn't happily take money form him. There apparently was a billing mistake or 2. And there has been at least one communication. I would be very surprised if he never wanted to use Uber again.
I don't know if this device works or not, but I certainly see the value in being able to take quantitive measurements and automatically store them in a database.

It'd be like measuring your weight with a scale that submits the data automatically online, instead of having to go to a website to enter the numbers manually every time.

It would be particularly interesting to follow how much your muscles are decaying during a period of non-training (thus not knowing how much you can still lift).
Warning: Don't click it. This fiddle spams infinite javascript alerts.
Yes... for the past...... 24 hours.
"I also mentioned the option of creating money"

So, you did. I missed that. So I guess my next question is why can't we just create more? The (increased) amount we would have to create would not be equal to the amount of the basic income, because we could eliminate most welfare programs and their associated overhead. On the surface, I don't see a problem with printing the rest.
I think we broke it, the fiddle no longer works for me
They're not evil, merely really, really bad at their jobs. They seem to believe they're doing the right thing.
Agreed. Numecent is tackling delivering applications in the cloud from a different angle. They have a technology called CloudPaging[0] that breaks an application up into different pages which are requested from the cloud when needed. It loads the initial set of pages needed to start the application and the loads other pages as needed. It's definitely another interesting approach...

[0]http://www.numecent.com/technology/cloudpaging.html
But at the same time, the consequence for access of account information for cat pictures site on the site holding financial information shouldn't be discounted (passwords, social engineering info etc).

To continue the (somewhat stretched) building analogy my house falling down doesn't affect yours, but someone stealing my access codes from my poorly secured building potentially could affect the security of yours.
I found it a strange article due to "Hey, this tactic masked the lack of skills of a team with low passion. Let's use it for our core economic theory!".
He asked me to implement strcpy(). He thought it was strcpy(from, to) - it's strcpy(to, from).
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one could use a function constructor instead of eval to try to mitigate XSS.
Why would a company plan an IPO when they currently don't have a business model that makes money? Suggesting Snapchat is gearing up for an IPO is laughable.
There's a similar thing going on with penalty shots. A penalty which when committed also deprives a player of a scoring opportunity can result in the non-offending team having the choice of a penalty shot or having the offending player serve the penalty. Teams will frequently choose the penalty shot, but statistically it's often a better choice to take the power play opportunity.
This tells me that there is no Ruby/PHP/node.js equivalent to Udacity's Python-based web-development course. Pity.
I remember when I had this in Vietnam for the first time four years ago - I was blown away. I wondered why it hadn't been sold in the USA, why I'd never heard of it, and lo and behold, the very next year, it started showing up in various places.
Economics is the best attempt to understand the economy we have. When it is normative, academic economics is generally aimed at maximizing the common good. The IMF uses the best available knowledge to combat global poverty, although it is not completely immune to academic fads and politics. Austerity might be good or bad policy, but sometimes it is a necessary response to a fiscal crisis.
There are no real academic requirements for an MBA program other than you have an undergrad degree and did well in it. Prerequisites would be nil. On that note, most adcoms likely value work experience more than undergrad experience.

You don't jump right into advanced topics, most streams give you an intro sequence first assuming you know little to nothing about the topic.

That said coursework is like < 50% of the value of an MBA, it really isn't the point of the degree.

Plenty of smart but somewhat wayward humanities/soc sci majors end up graduating into a random office job, find out that surprise! they perform well and enjoy business, and proceed to do an MBA.

Disclaimer: I'm not an MBA, this is second-hand from MBA'd friends and acquaintances.
Ultimately, that's the only thing keeping any currency from going to zero.
You could, but you would need to purchase and setup batteries.
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Interesting. I bet a big part of your win was not just that you were right, but that you conveyed your disagreement without being a d*ck about it. That's a lot harder than being right.
Like I mentioned in the other thread on the TPP Leak, the TPP could immediately have the following effects, if it is enacted into law by the participating nations. I picked the ones you would most likely notice:

1. 3-strikes laws in all participating nations. Note that the US and France have already effectively abandoned their attempted three-strikes laws [1] [2] [3], but would likely reinstate them.

2. dvdcss and UEFI Secure Boot circumvention (including shim loaders) will become illegal in enough countries to have chilling effects on open source innovation

3. significant extension of patents for medication, increasing healthcare costs

4. additional regulation of internet backbone providers – to perform deep packet inspection for government investigation of copyright infringement. This would use taxpayer dollars to enforce dying copyright regimes. I assume governments would be delighted to have justification to tap the internet at backbones.

5. End of works entering the public domain. Copyright term extensions are likely just as the US has done, so the public domain may not see new additions for a long time.

I want to mention the significant curtailing of fair use in Europe, which would train young artists not to remix or reuse others' ideas. However, it might take up to 5 years to feel the effects.

[1] http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/07/france-defangs-it... (I'm citing Ars here mainly because they follow copyright law pretty closely. Please use google for other sources.)

[2] http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/02/heres-what-an-act...

[3] http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2011/07/major-isps-agree-...
How do run blocking code in a way that doesn't block an OS thread? Is there some abstraction that allows this that I'm missing?
> Never ascribe to malice what can be adequately explained by stupidity.

Do you seriously think you can just copy paste a phrase that sounded about right in certain context and reuse it everywhere?
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The government. It's obvious that people want to use it. Its popularity will only increase from here. The government is the biggest threat to bitcoin by far.
I read Propaganda last year. It is much less interesting and "magical" than some hype it to be.
There are 18 Quarterbacks in the NFL with an average Yards per Attempt over 7 yards. So it could be in the ballpark, at least.
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