skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Somewhat related technology to the winning team: http://delver.io/

They launched in stealth on HN around 12months ago and reached the front page. Since then they've been operating under the radar working on the technology.
Teflon is actually completely inert in your body. It's only a problem if it is heated to the point of giving out fumes at 260 celsius, and I hope that isn't happening in the bedroom...
"Controlled environment" would require that these people would not see their friends/family (because almost every social gathering these days features calorie intake in some way), not be able to go into a convenience store to get the paper, and other things. It's much harder than you'd think.

A friend of mine is an MD who does weight management research. Apparently, people misreport their intakes by significant factors - either because they don't consciously remember, or because they try to make themselves feel better - but generally, you can't trust what people do when you are not watching, or describe what they did.
>Ask any forex trader

Are you dense? That's the problem. The majority of a currency's users SHOULDN'T BE TRADERS.
Just one step closer to making your penis obsolete.
I don't think its unreasonable to be able to pick 80% winner startups, as long as you're willing to wait long enough. As an employee, you only need one company every four years in your "portfolio."

If you narrow to startups that have hit, say 50MM active users before employee #50, you might get to 50/50 success rate. If you analyze potential market size, red flags, comparable companies, and talk to three employees to get a sense of the internal workings of the company, it seems pretty reasonable that you can weed out most of the companies who are capped on their potential market, and the engineering or other disasters waiting to happen.

Incidentally, I think friendster didn't hit 50MM actives. The semi-fails of the rocketship class are Zynga and Groupon, both of which still have market caps logarithmically closer to 10B than $500MM. Foursquare might be both a rocketship and a fail, but I'm not quite sure. Who else grew like mad in the last decade?

I guess my core point is that you can tell really, really early whether something has very strong network effects, and if it does, the arbitrage is currently very easy.
Scribble a pencil on a piece of paper for a while, fold it in half, blow the dust into the lock and run the key in and out a few times. Works like a charm.
How do you know it wasn't manure what he meant? :-)
Yesterday I made the point that I thought Chinese were investing in BTC as a form of savings (as opposed to a way of moving currency overseas)[1]

Watch from http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=zz_yf... to see him say the same thing.

Disclaimer: I'm still not convinced by the long term prospects of BTC, but I have put some money (that I'm prepared to lose) now.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6774010
> average person should be high fat

You probably want to be getting a substantial fraction of your calories from sugars and starches, mixed with fat and protein. Ya know, like portions in cuisine all around the world has favored for ages.

I used to buy this high fat idea before reading more broadly. Firstly, non-saturated fats should be avoided to the extent possible, and that's hard to do on a high fat diet. Secondly, high fat meals are clearly inflammatory. More inflammatory than carbs. They cause endotoxin absorption and promote dysbiosis. The hormone profile of being a "fat burner" is not so great either. Cortisol goes up, because that drives fat metabolism. This is why people who go atkins or go on a fast say they feel great. It's elevated cortisol, just like a runner's high. That's fine in short doses, but sustained it leads to breakdown and damage.

Relax and have some sugary chocolate milk. It's perfectly healthy. Almost a balanced meal, in fact.
Congratulations to Turian!!! :)
Its interesting that Safari doesn't need to be on for these to work. I wonder if it will launch my browser of choice (Chrome) when I click on one of these.
Just like your traditional SQL deployment with a single master, Datomic supports hot failover for high availability:

http://docs.datomic.com/ha.html
I am pretty sure it is from 2007. Pages are dynamically generated so http last modified date is not helpful.

But, the home page refers to the root definition as being the most recently updated page and at the bottom of that, it says "Updated October 27, 2007."

http://www.linfo.org/root.html
Sounds like a good idea for a kickstarter.
Can you run Chrome Apps with that though? It looks like it might be just nodejs.
i'm sure gates, with his ambition, wants to be all of the below, and more:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rockefeller_Foundation
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnegie_Corporation_of_New_Yor...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_D._and_Catherine_T._MacArt...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_and_Flora_Hewlett_Found...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_and_Lucile_Packard_Founda...
We do have some fairly complex / real world examples within our ansible-examples repository. A hadoop cluster for instance ...

https://github.com/ansible/ansible-examples/tree/master/hado...

For a complex EC2 example, here's an openshift deployment ...

https://github.com/ansible/ansible-examples/tree/master/open...
Woo for roles search path configurability! I'd been symlinking a devops folder into all of my projects and doing relative imports from it.
Winamp: A case for open-sourcing sunset software.
I used to work in an open office and it was super annoying. People would throw stuff around the office and you could hear everything that was going on...
You're jumping around a bit..

Did the four-color map problem use numerical results? I imagine it was just a pure combinatorial enumeration problem (I have not read the original paper, I may be wrong about that).

If you're doing a finite element method to validate a bridge design, you're hardly publishing a paper based on the result (though of course you will do plenty of validation and then times everything by 2 for good measure!).

What kinds of actual fields of mathematics are you thinking about, here?

I know that error analysis is a deep and arcane subject, and personally I have no idea how well or badly we do in that department, but I'm struggling to think of where the details of how we get it wrong or right is crucial for the development of published academic mathematics.

"Most" maths is totally abstract these days, categories and sheaves and topi and what not.
Tear It Down
That's okay for some, but many people use the built in apps for Netflix, Livefilm etc.
They don't exclude people by using math any more than programmers exclude people by using subclasses or anonymous functions.

I too would love to see more entry level ML resources, but we are talking about academic papers here.

Imagine how stupid it would seem if some outsider came in to HN and started telling programmers to dumb down their code when it's open source because their advanced techniques are too hard for a novice to understand off the bat. Instead of optimizing for efficiency, elegance and readability for their peers - the people they are collaborating with to solve actual problems - they're told to cater to novices always.

The language in your post is textbook anti intellectualism isn't it? And strangely entitled. You would certainly not apply these criteria to code but since it's not your field they must cater to your lack of experience? You know better than they how to communicate ML research to other experts?
I was going to say the exact same thing about the kerning. Good eye.
WikiLeaks: Walmart bid Stratfor to investigate rival CEO’s alleged affair
I think this is the same talk he gave at another NYC meetup a few months ago. The beginning of the talk is an interesting take on thinking about "processes" and "machines", in true Rich Hickey style. The later half of the talk involves some REPL exploration, which gives a good flavor of actually using the thing.
Micro... hard?
When I was growing up it was advised to skip the bread, pasta and potatoes if your goal was to lose weight. Skip being interpreted to limit, not eliminate.

This all changed in the 80's when fat became the culprit behind heart disease. Thus began the high-fat, low-carb diet trend we're on now.

Now we have the Swedes telling us fat is good for us, actually reducing the risk of heart disease. Seems like my grandma was right all along: watch out for that bread and pasta.
I'm new to web design and have been experimenting with a few other development environments. Reading through these comments I became excited to learn more about foundation. I went to their site and looked at their site examples. Many of them were broken and didn't seem to work as intended, nor were they very beautiful to the uninitiated. This was on a desktop using chrome. I didn't bother to check with my mobile.

My main platform so far has been extremely buggy too and is not even primarily made to create websites. I've been using Google Web Designer. Take my advice with a grain of salt as I represent hobbyist developers who thought "hey, i'd like to build a site. what tool should I start with?" I would not invest $200 to enroll in your intro course for something that gave me an initial first impression of being flimsy. However, it is equally likely that I am unable to realize the full potential of your product with my limited understanding of web development at first glance.

I'm excited about seeing how Macaw works and am going to begin a new project with Bootstrap soon. While my main focus has been purely static web design I plan to incorporate dynamic applications within my approach very soon.
But doesn't "supported" mean iteration? If you don't want to use them why do you care if your framework is "supported" or not?
Massive Gamma Ray Burst Causes Scientists to Overhaul Theories
Good for you. For some people, level of activity matters little, and intake composition (with amounts less relevant) making all the difference. I've been a very active fat-but-not-obese 220, and a lean-but-not-active 170, and my "calorie intake" was larger on the latter.

I can easily go lean by going down to a 500-calorie-a-day diet for 2 months; And then, for 6-8 months, my intake doesn't seem to matter - I stay lean - until all of a sudden, with no change of intake, and within a couple of weeks, I balloon 20-30 lbs, that stay there until the next "low-calorie" period. Yes, this is baffling. No, I haven't figured it out yet, though gut bacteria and similar explanations seem much more relevant than anything else at this point.

Read this guy about consuming 6k/day: http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/sam-feltham/why-i-didnt-get-... - I've known other examples. calorie counting is NOT science, physics or thermodynamics, and produces miserable results for some people.
I can't say I'm particularly plugged-in to the DC-area startup scene, but there seem to be some fairly localized pockets of activity (in the Herdon VA area, parts of the District, Silver Spring MD, etc.)

If you are interested in living relatively cheaply and working most of the time, you might look into the area around Dulles, but you won't have all the amenities you might expect from an urban area (little or no public transportation, limited walkability, relative homogeneity, etc.) but you could certainly drive to a nearby strip-mall to work at a pleasant enough coffee shop or to a moderately isolated office park to work in your rented office space.

On slight tangential note there is a DC-area HN meetup group (http://hackernewsdc.org/).
This was only found because LG was stupid enough to use plain HTTP instead of HTTPS. I wonder how many devices use SSL/TLS for this same thing that just haven't been caught yet.
Safari doesn't have to be on, but you do need to be using Mavericks. Good question around "default browser" behavior however. I really, really hope they don't try to force Safari on me with these.
Although manor is oddly apt, don't dare act up in my manor!
had not heard of cell providers that were offering streamlined integration with wifi for call and text. I don't know if it's revolutionary, but it certainly got my attention.

thanks for the share.
I sort of dislike email discussion in many cases because I feel like I need to cover all points and consider all possible replies. Even for areas you know well, simply expressing your points understandably and concisely can take a lot of time and effort, and as you often don't really know exactly which points are important to the recipient, much of that effort might be wasted.

In a face-to-face discussion you can drill down and explore exactly those areas which need exploring... If it's a subject you know well enough to talk about without a lot of offline research, this is often way easier.
Yep, it's easy to spot those mistakes in others', when you look from a side. It's much harder for me to do boring work myself, instead of playing with new frontend libs and writing code.
At least you'll be more self-aware next time, few people have this luxury.
The way I see it there are a few possibilities:

1) He isn't the real DPR

2) He is the real DPR, but he's extremely inept and didn't get caught before due to dumb luck

3) He isn't the original DPR, but an inept person who took over to take the fall for the original DPR

4) He wanted to get caught?
I'll readily entertain the possibility of tangible artifacts over some bytestream any old day of the week. If he's busted with a bunch of fake IDs on his person, I'd consider that to be evidence proper.

But anything transpiring in the netherworld of the internet needs to be taken with a grain of salt, especially when no real-world violence erupted.

It may be possible that this is the guy. The evidence that rings truest in my mind is that there was a real world cause-and-effect chain of events that occured immediately after his arrest. The shit hit the fan, and the site went down. Clearly, the real world arrest had a direct influence on the availability of the website.

But given the DEA's predilection for parallel construction, and the NSA's predilection for electronic dragnets, can we take the narrative of how they came to bust the Ulbricht at face value? Even if he was breaking the law, was he apprehended lawfully? Did they come into possession of this digital evidence in a lawful manner?

If Ulbricht gets off on a technicality for the crime he's charged with, I wouldn't lose sleep over it. He's being charged with the hypothetical thoughtcrime of killing an internet persona (or two). To me, that feels like a technicality to begin with.

If the people he killed never existed to begin with, then how can we be sure that the evidence that supports these ideas was collected and not crafted?

He may be the real deal, the guy himself, responsible for The Silk Road. But if you're going to put him away with that in mind, justice is not served unless he's charged with the crime he's being punished for, and justified by the true story of how they nailed him. I want to know what was truly so evil about The Silk Road, such that it might necessitate some sneaky peaky, in order to lock up the man responsible for it.

Maybe they achieve their goal of unmasking him, through this direct relationship of arrest and then site outage, but does that mean we have to swallow this murder-for-hire wrap too, no matter how flimsy it feels?
I don't know honestly, though you don't think it's possible the government would try to demonize someone in order to gain public support?
Hi mpdehaan. I hadn't seen parametered roles - maybe I just overlooked them. I did use a lot of parameterized includes but roles would be more flexible. Thanks for the heads up.
personally, I'd rather starve.
So correct me if I'm wrong, but this ONLY works if you have Mavericks, correct? If so, why is it called Safari Push Notifications? Safari doesn't have to be running for them to work.

Unless you don't have to be using Mavericks, and it works with the latest version of Safari (assuming you have it launched) regardless of OS (Windows, OSX v*, etc), and Mavericks is only required when you don't have Safari running.
Google Executives Globetrotting on Taxpayers' Dime
I'm not sure if the posters on this thread are serious (w.r.t fundraising/designing/contributing for Winamp), but here's is my thought:

I would venture that doing this exact same thing for Foobar2k is going to have a higher possibility of success than for Winamp. Secondly, while Winamp has mostly been in maintenance, Foobar is now considered an audiophile grade player (bitperfect?) (e.g. [1]) . There's also this team that has built a stripped down version of Windows 8 with Foobar for audiophiles ([2])
There is usually a post every now and then on Hydrogenaudio forums, asking if Foobar2k can be opensource/ported to linux, and the answer is the same - the authors have no plan to make it so, because in all probability they are waiting for a financial outcome of all this work.

Be warned that the authors can come off a bit... prickly. But I suspect that is the side effect of handling a huge freeloading community for many years.

Disclaimer - I have moved off PC audio for a while now. I prefer listening to my audio on the phone streaming from my laptop over Plex (however, I got interested in Foobar again while trying to build a stripped down Windows 8 using AudiophileOptimizer[2])

[1] http://archimago.blogspot.ca/2013/06/measurements-part-ii-bi...
[2] http://www.computeraudiophile.com/f11-software/iso-usb-key-i...
I don't see how what you just quoted contradicts Chuck's "[Libre Office] isn't what RMS wants" post. Libre Office is a free software WYSIWYG word processor with an extremely powerful feature set. But it isn't what RMS wants, because it doesn't have some things Emacs does.

It would be easier and less work to modify Emacs to do WYSIWYG than to add Emacs work flow and features to LibreOffice.

I'd suggest that you're vastly underestimating what would be involved in "doing WYSIWYG" to a sufficient degree that Emacs would actually be useful as a word processor to people who are not already dedicated Emacs users. I did read the mail thread, and it's pretty clear to me that a lot of the folks there -- and I do not mean to take away from their brilliance by saying this -- don't have a blinking clue what a full-featured word processor is capable of.

The reason that this hasn't been done, I suspect, is that the intersection of users for whom WYSIWYG is important and for whom having Emacs-ish features is important is virtually nil.
Given your situation, I'd say component, bower and browserify are all interesting and worth checking out.

Bower really doesn't do much other than resolve dependencies, but that doesn't mean you won't find it useful.

If you are really into the node.js ecosystem and your back-end is node.js, then browserify is worth checking out. If not, I'd opt for component.
Explicit self referential media is an interesting memetic spreading tactic.

I used to watch family guy confused as fuck as a kid. What the fuck is up with all these references? If I wanted to be in on the jokes I had to consume more of the same TV media.

Same goes for most pop/rap... in credit referential to others within the same medium. But of course not all music relies on explicit memetic references.

So the question is, why the tactic? I don't know. All I know is that it made me feel ignorant to not consume more mundane TV to feel superior in my ability to get meaningless footnoYes.
Good point. You can't learn Java that fast (at least not well enough to make money at it... that's why they're the highest paid developers... people pay lots for souls.)
yeah man! murder is just a thought crime now.
How is their inclusion of a medium break point not at the top of this thread? This is the most significant and noticeable addition to the Framework IMO.
The equity markets are the fastest economic indicator. Yes there is a dicatomy between the economy and the equity markets but they should not be separated. Also the it seems like you might not be watching financial news often enough because the most common phrase is "we are seeing growth but at extremely slow levels," "the economy is still weak," and many more that have a similar undertone.
There's an observation from the FBI that applies to people caught for child pornography: it turns out that usually most of them have disk encryption software installed, but don't actually use it (i.e. you find a whole bunch of unencrypted stuff that's still completely illegal just in a folder somewhere).

The main thing to remember about crime is that it's not rational - the risk/reward payoff is absurdly lopsided, so to some extent every step of the way you have to engage in little fictions to convince yourself you won't ever get caught - because if you took stringent precautions, you'd have to acknowledge that if you ever need to use them it probably still means you're going to jail for some amount of time.
Keep coding. Don't stop. If you have to take other jobs to support your habit, oh well. Find out what the local scene wants and start doing that for free on the side. Eventually someone will hire you.
What a clean, concise approach to both the tool and the demo.

Watson also reminds me of Gina Trapani's todo.txt[1], which I love.

1. http://todotxt.com/
Now we just need a standard for this, as not many people use Safari in Mac (compared to others as a whole).
Teflon or PFOA is supposedly in everyone's blood already at least in the US and probably most western nations it's so pervasive.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfluorooctanoic_acid
they've got a wide variety of physical evidence like the fake IDs shown

I'm old enough to remember when a fake ID meant you wanted to buy beer.
Seems like a scum bag to me.
Actually I was thinking strongly about who they were, I just didn't want to name names in this forum.

But the sector they operate most flagrantly and disastrously is still Africa.
I recognize that seagull photo in that article, I'm therefore qualified to immediately dismiss any and all points made in it.
It's the feds. They faked the hit.
Hot Cookie USB Mug Warmer
The donation was 100 grand to 11 different teams. That's about 1 engineer per company for 1 year (if that?), is that really enough to do this? There's first the invention of this thing, then there's manufacturing process, etc.
5) Hubris.
I can't imagine what world he was in inside his head

Perhaps the world of in for a penny, in for a pound
5) none of us are as smart as we think we are.
Well, you see, terrorists..
People looking to get into a bar don't get half a dozen different identities from multiple nations and states.
Chrome Apps did not work so far(zero traction), why do they want to waste ever more time on it?
well yes, but it is hard to learn from it. For comparison take a look at this - https://gist.github.com/marktheunissen/2979474 [pedantically_commented_playbook.yml].
NOTE: yes, I did note mpdehaan's comments that this yml is old. However being a beginner in Ansible, I learned a LOT from this.

The OpenShift example is a bit funny - I had asked this on the forums as well. For example the play to shut down a running cluster first attempts to idempotently launch it, causing the appropriate variables to set and then uses it to shut it down. There is another way to do it without doing this. Again, I'm not advocating approach A vs B - I just dont know which is The Right Way and why.

As I said, it is really really hard to learn non-trivial workflows in Ansible. I'm still plowing ahead, but I strongly suspect that is because Ansible has been getting all this support in HN and it is right now the flavor of the month.
Thanks, will keep that in mind!
I think all 8 of us are talented, maybe not equally, but still.

Will have said conversation. Thanks!