skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Exchanging value is different than taking value. What is this guy giving to the websites whose ads he's replacing?
Meta irrelevancy.
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I noticed this today as I was searching around for some opencl image routines, and thought it was of general interest to the community. I really think this is an awesome thing, and the availability of a high performance open source BLAS that can be compiled to a wide array of OpenCL capable hardware is just great news.
Since when do "natural supplements" make medical diagnosis? Not even in the same ballpark.
2.5 billion people in the world have internet access.

But most of them can't have a reliable Skype call. We still have issues calling from Australia on a decent connection to a similarly decent connection in the states.

What we've found - Good connectivity that can hold a reliable Skype or Google Hangout conversation is essential - don't be fooled thinking you can achieve this at a random Internet cafe in Cambodia. You might be able to (!), but plan accordingly.
> It's also not possible for a physician to be informed about every possible condition.

You are absolutely right. The one thing we definitely know is that we're still a long ways off from even having the books written on it all, let alone any one human having even majority of the information in their brain. I'm in pathology, sort of the end of the diagnostic road. We have the molecular tests and microscopes. And we still don't know. In fact, we're best positioned to see the vast ocean of unknown before us. We can't even see the other side.

Sorry to hear about the diagnosis, you've done extraordinary things despite it and I hope more patients can emulate your success. I am constantly educated by my patients.

You're not Canadian, are you? The GP vs endocrinologist issue is actually well-studied there. Unsurprisingly, the specialist-treated patients fair better.
>I've literally had million dollar ideas while high.

So, just to clarify: you're currently a millionaire?
> the most relevant example here is their model's assumption that governments can and do spend money into existence

There are three points here. First of all, they are very clear that this only applies to monetarily sovereign governments (i.e., not Euro members, not state governments).

Second is their claim that directly spending money into existence is the more natural way of looking at things, and everything involving debt issuance is a voluntary add-on. That's not how things developed historically, but it does make sense when you think about how you would design a state-run currency from first principles.

Third is their claim that, as a first order approximation, even when all sorts of debt issuance dances are in place, the economy behaves as if they weren't and government simply spent money into and taxed money out of existence. [1]

The second point is admittedly a bit philosophical and subjective. You might care more about the historical account than the first principles account.

However, the third point is quite objective, and if you have a concrete example of how debt issuance actually makes a significant macro-economic difference that contradicts MMT, I would be highly interested (and I assume MMT economists would be as well).

[1] One way to look at it is this: Debt issuance is a red herring; what matters is the central bank policy of (usually) maintaining a positive interest rate. Debt issuance is only a way of shifting the cost of this policy from the central bank's books into the general government budget, i.e. it is a political that hides the true cost of monetary policy so that the public won't be as outraged about it.
>you are seriously limiting your audience by making people install and host it themselves.

Wordpress would like to have a word with you.
Where do people buy iPhones from
How exactly is this a blow to CUDA though? NVIDIA has been shipping CUDA versions of BLAS and FFT (see CUBLAS and CUFFT) for years now.
why start a company where every year the market size shrinks.
unless you prove to me that churn is slower than the market realizes (e.g. netflix when it began) such that you can be the stepping stone and your larger vision is to be the formidable player in this new technology X that you'll develop in the background, this seems like a market (even if there is one) that a) investors will murder you on and b)not sure you want to be in the space.

enter a space where there is secular tailwind not headwind. don't look at next 12 months (you'll be busy just getting the product ready for market reception)... but next 5 years and how you'll bridge that gap. maybe i'm missing something here about your vision.
Sounds like they followed the philosophy of "its easier to ask for forgiveness later than ask for permission up front.
Sort of, yes. He incentivized users to upload popular content for credit on their service knowing full well that the popular content was generally copyrighted. There is a legal difference between letting users upload files for storage, or files they own for sharing, then trying to squash the copyrighted material you do get, vs actively incentivizing users to upload infringing material and then taking it down while you pay the next guy to upload it again.
Yes but Bitcoin uses 'below number X' which has more precision than just counting leading zeroes.
Drug abuse about 10 years ago. Then missing mandatory testing, by being out of town or something. Not sure all the details.
That's a great question. I would hope no company would voluntarily put themselves in that situation.

Biometrics are useful for authentication, but I struggle with a safe use for authorization, per se. Just for the reason you identified.
That cuts both ways, of course. Government is just other people, not demons.

Anyway, you're right and I certainly didn't intend to speak for everyone. I was just pointing out that the attempt to caricature the current state was not really a caricature but just the way we actually do things.
Cool, collaborators are welcome, it's easy to add a new tracker.
I made what I perceived was a potentially valuable insight, and lightened my comment with an idiom. No need to get emo.
Because there's now more competition?
The Dogpatch is cheap? When was this? Last I checked you're likely looking at $2500+/mo for a 1BR. Maybe if you keep heading down towards Bayview, Portola, and Sunnydale (never mind the deterioration of the neighborhood) you can get closer to "rent for cheap". I think I'd actually favor the Sunset, but you'll have to head out a ways because inner-Sunset and Cole Valley are heating up.
Wow. I haven't used it yet, but I love it already! I am going to go ahead, open a pull request and work on connecting a time tracker like SlimTimer (though I wish someone came up with a better interface). Opening a pull request because I'll need all the help I can get since I am still new to web development and nodejs.

Also, Spotify!
You are aware that a core concern of business programs is risk assessment and mitigation, right? So how does this out-of-hand assumption follow so necessarily?
It's pretty okay, but I'm moving from Santa Monica to the Mission tomorrow... And I actually prefer Brooklyn to both.

That said, I think there's good stuff going on in all three places, and all three have their problems.
I fail to see the difference between your complaint and the reality of all large tech companies, as we now know them to be. Secret agreements for wire taps and traffic analysis. National security letters and eavesdropping. Facebook, Google, Apple, Microsoft. All of them.

I say again: Why is this guy more evil than anyone else? Why is he worse than, say, Steve Ballmer? Why is he smeared, but other corporate parasites, not so much?
Developers are actually good customers if you sell to their lazy points. Keep it OSS and offer a hosted plan with your API. Your API is rest, so offering a hosted service with a client-side js library can target a lot of wordpress or static page customers. The interface seems to be generic, maybe if you had some "prefab" use cases you could branch into analytics or developer-dashboard markets as well.
Too bad it's going to be destroyed now that DeBlasio was elected. He has no idea what to do with the tech sector. Bloomberg spent millions to basically stump for the tech scene in NY. DeBlasio plans on doing no such thing, he has no clue and no plan. When all the other candidates visited numerous startups during the campaign, DeBlasio showed almost no interest.
| On the other hand, maybe there are just <1% people who don't identify them self with being male or female.

Huzzah for logic. But note that the question was, "Do you have 1 apple" and not, "Choose a statement: 'I have 1 apple', 'I have 2 apples'"
Looking great, good job.
The problems that medicine has with free markets apply least to elective, cosmetic procedures like laser eye surgery, and that is naturally where market forces have had great success.

There are plenty of free markets in other sorts of medicine out there, just not in the USA. They are often very good if you have money, thorough information on the provider, and enough time to take advantage of it, and atrocious otherwise. That's not the sort of system I want to have where I live.
Snowden 'doomsday' data threat to spies
Adding numbers the hard way
I'm a happy user of https://clicky.com for analytics.
Well I took a phone call this morning on the beach while drinking some excellent Groundworks coffee . . . it was almost too hot in a t-shirt and jeans. Weather is niiiiiiice in Santa Monica.

The tech scene is healthy and not frothy. Google Venice is a large presence, as is Factual (my employer), Hulu, Snapchat with their sweet Venice boardwalk office, and assorted others (http://siliconbeachla.com/). I like it here because being in a tech startup is very different and cool, unlike in SF/SV where it seems a ridiculous number of people are doing identical work.

I moved to San Francisco last year and settled in a nice apartment on Dolores Park; I was hired at Factual to work remotely but came to the L.A. office for the first month to train up. After a week I told them I wanted to stay, and I love SF. It is just . . . really nice here.
Now for a real (non-rigged) competition judged on merit:

https://dtsn.darpa.mil/cybergrandchallenge/CyberGrandChallen...

• 1st place: $2,000,000

• 2nd place: $1,000,000

• 3rd place: $750,000

Good luck writing a service that prevents shell-code injection and actively patches executables after realizing RCE has taken place...All without source code.. That's why the prizes are so big. You can pretty much stake a billion-dollar company on an IDS system that versatile.
Contrastingly, Ive had a very positive reaction from reading the article, even a small sense of awe over it, if i may.

To quote this article,
"Choosing the proper amount of abstraction is tricky, because each user comes to what you’re making with their own amount of experience."
That said, I do have a problem with it's conclusion.

We gave up the monarchy system (to a degree in Western Politics) because a privileged class can never truly choose the correct course of action for subclasses.

We replaced this with a pseudo monarchistic, pseudo technocratic, representative democracy, yet all our problems with War, Poverty, Oppression, and Moral Decay continue unabated.

We're at a pivotal point in our history, where we're coming to the realization that democracy doesn't work, and that we're either going to have to commit to some consistent narrative, or perish while we convulse with confusion over the increasing chaos.

If you ask me I wasn't saying this system was by any means proficient in it's duties to any degree. I was just pointing out that some/many people simply don't care, in other words, they are apathetic. And why not? Individuals can't communicate at the communal level like they used too, and we have no power against bureaucracy.

That said, we only live once. It's no use trying to make the world a better place for the next generation, the one after that, or the one after that. Humans will go extinct in the future. Nothing will remember us on this mortal plane after 1 million years. The things we bicker about are profoundly insignificant to the universe. IMO, we don't merit existence outside of this planet if we can't feed the people we have on this one. Let's not spread suffering amongst the stars with us.
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Give me a break. Do you think that racism is justified just because you let black people ride in the back of the buss? Arguments that the back of the buss is equally good as the front of the buss is not good enough. If you think that putting in nicer seats will be a useful observation of the effects of racism, think again.

Instead of using those fixed up back seats as a bad argument in favor of racism, be honest with yourself. You simply want to continue a society that separate one part of society (black, poor, kids), from you (white, rich, old enough to be working with a high paid job).

Btw, I do produce content for free. My tax money however goes to support the restriction of 12 years old who want to learn physics. I think that is not the compromise that copyright is intended to be, or should exist in a moral society.
I agree that Disney should receive copyright protection on its new works. My complaint (and I assume the parent's) is the part where they keep that copyright indefinitely through retroactive extensions. It's not supposed to be a permanent rent, regardless of what they do with the money.
Ha, I thought it was kind of funny and I wrote the darn thing.

For the record, I did hear someone refer to it as "the ongoing New York/SF debate". This isn't something I just invented. I had personally never thought there was any comparison to be made until I heard that people out there make it all the time.
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>you are seriously limiting your audience by making people install and host it themselves.
Wordpress would like to have a word with you.

They host 72 million blogs [1], and I'm sure that the total number of WordPress blogs wouldn't be so high if they all had to be self-hosted.

[1] http://en.wordpress.com/stats/
Yeah you should use the word "reuse" or "share". Steal is counter to the idea of open source.
A quad-core Xeon is overkill for a static content webserver. An ARM is overkill for an embedded controller. If you specify inappropriate hardware then you'll end up with an inappropriate power/performance ratio.

As for low-power x86 - HP's Moonshot is in the ballpark of ARM blade devices, and Baytrail pushes Intel even closer. ARM probably still wins, but the figures are nothing like 15x. And once you take fixed costs like disk and RAM into account, the difference ends up being even smaller.

ARM have done a great job of improving the performance of their cores. Intel have done a great job of cutting the x86 power budget. Given that nobody's really shipping ARM servers yet, it's still not clear who's going to come up with the better product. The problem that ARM face is that they not only have to be better, they have to be sufficiently better that it's worth the cost of porting in-house applications to a new architecture.
Vancouver HN Meetup
Vancouver needs a hacker news meetup. I'm organizing one for Sunday Dec 08 in gastown. Venue undecided still. RSVP on the meetup page[1] and I'll reserve something when we know how many.

http://www.meetup.com/Hacker-News-Vancouver/events/152692392/

Nothing exciting this time; just a meet, drink, and share ideas.
I heard it referred to as a "debate". When I got there, people were asking me left and right about what I thought was different, so it seems like the comparison is already being made.
81% of the internet do not use Wordpress: http://venturebeat.com/2013/07/27/19-percent-of-the-web-runs...
I only knew it was "a thing" from HN, actually. I recently took a holiday to visit both NYC and the Bay Area and I liked both of them a lot.
Microsoft is in nearly every enterprise anywhere, partially due to inertia, but also do to the fact that no one else offers a complete solution - Office is ubiquitous because it was better than all of its competitors, and largely still is. Outlook/Exchange from a objective point of view is horrible - but there is no other complete solution that matches its features.

In every one of their traditional markets they have blasted every incumbent away and largely kept any new competitors from entering in any meaningful way, That said, from about 2001 - when entering new markets they've been like a rudderless ship sailing around in circles. However, there is a changing of the guard coming shortly, one that I think could change the direction of the company in ways that could cause sea change in any new market is chooses to enter. Once Microsoft can figure out how to work with itself again - god help any part of the technology sector they choose to target.
Show HN: My new game, Pixenomics, play war with pixels
Don't turn this around as "my problem." I don't have a problem. I look at reality and I derive the correct conclusions.

Including the fact that I live in a mixed economy.

I am not the one in conflict with reality.

Logic and talk are not meaningless. There are reasons that there once was an Enlightenment, ultimately culminating in the founding of the only contry originally based on the concept of individual rights---the United States.

And hopefully we can get there again. Greater than the tread of mighty armies, is the idea whose time has come.

Of course, to make the time come, much intellectual groundwork will have to be laid.

> Look around, turns out it's not really perilous at all. It's actually the normal way the world works.

It is perilous. For instance, the US is in a perma-recession. In the long run, this is quite dangerous.

You are explicitly advocating that we ignore reality. That should be enough to make my point and probably everything else I just said is just distracting from it.
"ghetto monkey"? Really?
Fundamentos sobre como aclarar la piel
Si usted quiere tener un cutis radiante y más blanco, lo que hay que hacer primero es entender los conceptos básicos sobre como aclara la piel con el fin de determinar qué producto es el mejor para usted en función de su tipo de cutis y los resultados que desea alcanzar.
Because it makes it easy to keep his faux-outrage going.
I have to admit being a little surprised about the uproar over the LG situation when I assumed it was common knowledge that cable/satellite boxes/DVRs are sending your viewing data back to the operating company.
> Demand for treatment of a life-threatening, painful, or debilitating disease does not depend on the price or the quality. It's not a free market at all because consumers have no choice but to buy at any price.

If this were true, wouldn't this be true:
Demand for [food, shelter,..other necessity..,] does not depend on the price or the quality. Markets for this good can never be free because consumers have no choice but to buy [food, shelter, etc.] at any price.

Don't consumers always have a choice at least to the degree with which they have choices of whom to by from?
I love sites that do this. Why anyone would block access to their own content is beyond me.
Zoho gatecrashes Salesforce event with new marketing campaign - The Hindu
Man, that's not pedantic. That's the critical insight that demonstrates someone is competent to talk about stats at all. I wish more people would take the time to point that out when people make the OP's error.
And you probably don't want a job with most startup founders.

You're looking for the startup founder who is able to see beyond his own preconceptions, because he will most certainly need that skill to survive in the marketplace.
Developers: You get to CHOOSE your customers
When jumping out of a plane, parachutes are optional. Just make sure you put one on before you hit the ground:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDBrdl2sZWs
>>the TSA has never caught an actual terrorist. The FDA has stopped potentially harmful and/or ineffective drugs from coming to market<<

This is an excellent example of the "seen" vs. the "unseen". Sure, the FDA has stopped harmful and/or ineffective drugs from coming to market. But the FDA has also stopped plenty of effective drugs from coming to market, both directly (e.g. no more Vioxx because it might slightly elevate your risk of heart attack) and indirectly (the billions of dollars it costs, directly due to FDA requirements, to bring a drug to market).

Is the assurance that FDA-approved drugs are safe[1] worth the inhibited advancement of medicine? I don’t know, but I doubt it. I think a much wiser approach would be to have potential drugs freely available, and subject to testing by third or quasi-third parties (ala Underwriters Laboratories). Hell, you could even leave the FDA in place if you want to, only limit its ability to restrict drugs to market. For example, you could reverse their decision-making criteria: FDA will only pull drugs from market if it can be shown that the drugs are more harmful than beneficial for their intended use. This would leave the choice to use a certain medication to individuals and their doctors, with guidance from FDA/labs who conduct the same sort of testing the FDA does now.

[1] Note that the FDA’s stamp isn’t really an “assurance” anyway. Vioxx (and loads of other “harmful” drugs) still made it to market.
I don't mind as much when they at least bother to bind the ESC key to close the overlay.

I hit ESC and it goes away. Not sure why it needed to be there in the first place (is there anyone on the planet that actually looks at these things?)
It's a restriction put upon all of society, that creates artificial poverty and scarcity.

Property rights have a net positive effect, increasing the value property yields.

Copyrights decrease the value these works yield to society.
Udacity: Innovation is in our DNA
I agree. NASA's MAVEN launch last week had a fantastic live stream that included commentary plus telemetry data, it was space nerd heaven.

http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/40966344

I couldn't find a better video, that one cuts off 6 minutes into the launch, before they get to the good part where the telemetry shows orbital information. The stream went on for at least 45 more minutes, I grabbed a screenshot 51 minutes into the launch:

http://imgur.com/LUD6XUk
That is more a statement about iTunes than about Disney.
The text on the Reportr website looks kind of off on Windows.

http://i.imgur.com/QUL6Pzc.png
Exactly. The FDA takes this shit seriously and will order you to take products off the market or shut you down completely if you fail to comply with their orders. Abbot famously ran afoul of this 10 years ago and it looks like they're having trouble again. http://www.mddionline.com/node/5701
Apologies after getting caught are never genuine anyway, I don't know why it's gotten so trendy to call for people to "apologize" all the time, how about holding them accountable for the bad thing they actually did?
It takes millions worth of time and actual $$$ to make millions. :-)
And nobody is now allowed to create any derivative work to benefit society for the next ~200 years (or perpetually, if Disney has their way).

Ironic, since virtually all of Disney's works are based on public domain works that they themselves would be banned from using if their bought laws had existed then.
Yes, I am Canadian -- although I had the luck to be diagnosed while I was at Oxford. Having one of the world's leading research institutions in the field (OCDEM) in your back yard helps a lot where clinical care is concerned...
If advertising is involved, it almost certainly is sniffing everything it can.
I love browsing those sites with my mobile devices.
Why would anyone do that unless they were dead? :-)
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