skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It may be impossible to keep up with much of the negative research, but it would save you time if you could look for very specific results. It might be that you would only keep up on the negative data for a very narrow pathway or from a small set of labs. Doing that kind of research could save a lot of time and money.

Unfortunately, if those data are of such narrow use, there may be problems with publication. Firstly, no journal of negative data would ever gain any impact. Next, it might not be worth the time and effort to put together the paper. Maybe it would become sort of a right of passage for the newest student in a lab, which could have it's own benefits.
>Plus, say through in-depth research and know-how, you do manage to beat the market. At best, you've created a part-time job for yourself. Unless you're managing other people's money, or have a 7-figure+ portfolio, I expect the time taken to do the due diligence necessary to consistently beat the market - if indeed such a thing is possible - would end up paying a lower hourly rate than you could earn doing other, more reliable, less zero-sum things.

Of course most people wont suddenly have a 7+ figure portfolio, but will first have a 5+ and then 6+ figure portfolio. Yes I researched something for days when I was only investing $30K and that could be called a low hourly rate job, but I was learning an immense amount and now can do the same research in only a few hours all while dealing with a significantly larger amount so my "hourly rate" keeps going up.

And for what it is worth I am really enjoying the process.
If you really want to blow your mind, you should look at the automated spriting in Compass: http://compass-style.org/help/tutorials/spriting/
You are applying your values to his life. You're of course welcome to do so, just realise that he has no obligation or reason to accept your judgement. It sounds like you do accept that which is great.

To me it is not sad that he has chosen to figure out what his own goals are and find a way to meet them. To you it is sad. Both those things are ok.

If you were to try to tell me that it is not ok for someone to figure out what their own goals are then I would have a problem with that.
That's right. 5400BTC is stated. Blockchain has been tracked, and first estimate was around
https://blockchain.info/address/1EiVHZnDVjFH6Tic1YmWUSfYmVUn...

And then another blockchain was tracked. (the 90m one)
And transactions all end all being chopped up, and redistriuted, with the largest amounts going into wallets like this:

https://blockchain.info/nl/address/1P7hjN2J119r2MoT14PwnvtNk...
This
I'm not too worried about this since you can be pretty sure the aggrieved will probably be able to track down the thief by examining the block chain. That is one nice thing about bit coin: it exists outside financial regulation and so penalties for transgressions like this can be handled extrajudicially. My paycheck comes today and I'm really upset I have to pay rent and not just invest the whole thing in more bit coins.
If you (and the rest of the world) have a policy of spanking your spouse unless they do X, and then you find out that they faked X, then sure spank away. There's a difference between taking away a reward which wasn't deserved and giving a punishment for not deserving that reward.

(Not to mention, the majority of the world does work with penal systems to try to prevent crime, so agree or disagree with this method, it is currently the norm.)
I'm curious about why you chose the horizontal plane in the first place, given that the web defaults to vertical.
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To ignore the java script.
Much simpler:
http://spriteme.org/
Isn't the comma and point distributed about 50:50 on worlds population?

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When I see points I think US/UK and inch, mile, pound.

This seems all wrong to me :D
eh, my point is that the more dollars that are invested 'blind' - the less the stock price will reflect anything actually done by the company.
Wow, this is pretty cool. Nice job guys!
Misleading title: the article is really about why spies never discover anything useful about other nations. They're really, really good at infiltrating internal dissident groups and spy (or terrorist) hunts serve as a great pretext for domestic repression ...
>in from one million to ten million years

66 years later we landed men on the moon. Funny how fast things take off once your crack that first big problem.

That said, Bezos is a businessman. Everything he does promotes Amazon in several different ways. This video will be used as negotiation muscle with delivery companies. It'll be used during union negotiations within UPS. It'll be used to make Amazon look technologically progressive and not just America's biggest mall. It'll make Bezos look good to investors. It'll spook smaller companies trying to get into this game (how's the nook doing?).

It might also lead to actually landing packages on people's front porches.
Rsync is one-way. Git stores all files twice, and is a pain to purge old versions from. Both require scanning every file per sync, leading to wasted power and minutes of latency.

They do not do what dropbox does.
for what excel is intended to do - the current formula language is actually perfect - I wouldnt trade it for anything else (being someone who does a lot of work in excel - but also spends plenty of time hacking python & js) - if you really want to do more powerful stuff - you have macros and the like. Theres also Datanitro and other plugins you can add in. Also - if you really just care about using the data in the sheet - just read it into a simple python script and manipulate away. Dont fix something that isn't broken, I say.
I guess they could just say 16K!
Could you explain that second sentence a bit? I don't see how EMH being wrong implies that there's a strategy that beats the market.

Let's say I think the EMH is false, because, I dunno, I think people are irrational and emotional a lot of the time. It doesn't necessarily follow from that that I can beat the market by betting on people being irrational -- irrationality is really hard to predict, people could be irrational in many different directions.
I feel like you could replace the word "programming" with any moderately complicated profession or skill and it would be equally as viable. Programming is currently in vogue right now so naturally it's going to seem like it's important to learn, even if the person learning it doesn't become a programmer. I'm not sure I buy that premise. Teach kids how to problem solve, sure, but programmers are not the only people who solve problems.
Nice. I would like to navigate clicking. Also, I would like to see pictures.
check out places like odesk or elance and bid your project out. Cut out as many features(bells and whistles as you can). Get a credit card for 5k-10k let someone else do the work and pay with a credit card. Now take your salary every month subtract the monthly credt card payment. Divide that number in half and send it to me for saving you a ton of risk a lost revenue. Seriously though at least bid out your project and see what it will cost and compare that to how much you'll make over the next year.
Wow, very interesting, thanks.
We'll see how long it takes for good OLED tech to make it into the consumer computer monitor market. When I was younger, it was predicted that we would have affordable 600dpi, sub ms switching time time LED computer monitors by the early to mid 2000s.

"The market" is often an obstructionist bitch.
Scheme is easy to embed and maps well to common spreadsheet operations because it accepts lists of arguments to functions like sum and stdev. It also has a full numeric stack. Modify it to accept ranges of cells and it would be an excellent language for Excel.
> most unexpected behaviour in js comes from people not knowing the language

Isn't this just a rationalization? Any unexpected behavior is by definition something the user didn't know to expect.
I would argue it's not _most_ parts of the world (imo roughly half) [0]. But surely it is a better idea to use comma here as the sentence is in English.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:20130228DecimalSeparator.s...
I've been working on a similar problem, and have some ideas I would like to test (on my dime, not yours.) Let's chat when you get a chance. james.aviani@gmail.com
int* bar(void)
{
int a = 7;
return &a;
}

int* p = foo();
int* q = bar();
printf("%d\n", *p); //7 (at least for most ABIs that I have seen in the wild)
Ah, in that case it'll be fine. It would just display the normal front page then, no harm done.
Where are the women in software?
We just fake it by being negative about everything.
> transgressions like this can be handled extrajudicially

Is this code for vigilante justice?
As an Asian, I can say with some amount of certainty that government official or company executive is viewed by the culture as 'successful'. All the parents I know want their kids to end up in a few industries: medicine, finance (accounting!), and law. It's an Asian thing. If similarities could be drawn, working in these industries in Asia would be comparable to living the American dream in the US.

It's truly a shame that the Korean news pan and label him as a 'failure'. It can only suggest what kind of a culture they have (as well as the majority of Asians). The man is spot on -- he is living a happy life as defined by himself, not anyone else.

Finally, you can argue whether IQ is a suitable metric or not, whether whatever metric should be considered, but the more important question is why is he being labelled as a failure for not turning out the way society expects of a person with high IQ?
The flaw in your post is that deterministic does not mean showing everyone the same thing. You can deterministically decide how much evidence to gather about underexposed articles as well, which is what I advocated

Though to be fair, a random number generator would be used to determine which users to expose the article too (just not how many of them).

Even if you fail to come up with a deterministic algorithm, you'll probably come up with a better random one simply by coming up with better probability distribution to draw from.
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I remember resolver one doing exactly this but the main problem was that it "wasn't Excel" http://www.resolversystems.com/products/resolver-one/power.p...
Waterstones, one of UK's biggest bookseller has just announced its response to Amazon's Prime Air:
O.W.L.S = Ornithological Waterstones Landing Service

http://www.waterstones.com/blog/2013/12/introducing-o-w-l-s/
To be fair, I don't really remember the first generation of the ipod being that successful. It wasn't until the ipod mini came out, a vastly superior product to the original ipod, that it became a must have gadget.
that's awesome, looks like the Emacs of spreadsheets
It's pretty easy for a drone to fly higher than almost all the obstacles you just listed. Skyscrapers and smokestacks are going to be a concern, but those don't move and it's easy to do offline route planning to avoid those. Construction cranes and other temporary obstacles are a problem, but some rudimentary sensing and fallback to human control should solve that.

As someone who makes delivery robots for hospitals, let me say that I envy navigation problems of flying drones. I'd seriously worry about power and range and weather and how you recover a drone that has a problem and crashes, but not navigation in general.
Thanks a lot man! Definitely let us know if you have any feedback or suggestions!
Mission accomplished! What are you going to take over next?
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Actually, it's split pretty evenly. See this map.[1]

The main difference is that the English-speaking world mainly uses the comma, and HN is generally an English-language board.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:20130228DecimalSeparator.s...
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An interesting perspective from a die hard Bama fan on their loss, his intense passion for the team (maybe a little too much) and the lessons he learned from the perspective of entrepreneurship.
Whoops sorry, looks like we replied at the same time...great minds think alike?
I just get my fb website in seconds. Never seen website building that easy!
I'd love to see some sort of crowd sourced solution for this system where Amazon offers up what it sees as the biggest technical/legal limitations and asks the internet for its solutions.

So far in just the HN threads, I've read some pretty innovative ideas (QR code landing pads that homes can setup for the drones). I'm pretty sure with the hive mind of the internet this problem can be solved by the collective engineer/lawyer/politician/etc

We put men on the moon I think we can put amazon packages in people's backyards!
Yeah, that's exactly how dynamic data can enter a statically typed regime of code. Dependent types make it so that it's impossible to bring dynamic data into type-controlled parts of your code without first performing and passing those tests.

Which seems weak since smart developers should do that anyway, but (a) there's still some divide between "should" and "it's impossible" and (b) this is just the tip of the iceberg about what dependent types offer anyway.
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Have you taken a look at http://www.pyxll.com/?
I'm not a lawyer, but I would imagine that knowingly faking data in an application for a Federal grant is criminal fraud.
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No doubt there were people in 1786 complaining about how that upstart Mozart was convincing "the kids" to stop going to revivals of "1550's Greatest Hits". And don't even get them STARTED on the filth that is "opera"...
It's true, and Tesla appears to survive as a company regardless.

I think the dynamic is a bit different for Amazon. The so-called risk wouldn't even potentially be borne by the user, which is much different from the Tesla case.
>Show just enough underexposed articles to gather evidence (votes) without polluting the front page too much.

That seems pretty much exactly what he is proposing. It doesn't require a randomized sorting though. For example, you pick some item from the new feed that isn't getting a lot of views and shove it on the front page for a small percent of users to get it more views, and therefore more votes to see how good the article actually is.

The trick is to trade-off between discovering new good content, and just promoting what has already proven itself. There is an optimal tradeoff somehow.
So you need [...] an unexplored statistical approach you know more about than most others.

I have one that I am trading profitably and for which I have written a scientific paper which could be published (i.e. I can reasonably explain why the approach works and nobody found it yet).

Still searching for an investor in that space to scale it up; if anyone has ideas or knows who could be interested in seeding such strategies i would be glad about a mail (see profile for contact).
Thanks! I like sites that have a small but helpful "about" section. :)
With the reason "Abuse and Copyright Infringement" no less. If you attempt to re-register the domain, it will either be unavailable or become a premium domain for which you need to pay.
Aren't they complimentary? You can have a side-by-side diff without the extra context this change introduces.

That said, I also want side-by-side diffs. They're necessary for more complex diffs.
It would be very cool if they will be able to do this, I've toyed around a bit with multicopters and know a thing or two about the current state of non-military UAV's, here are my thoughts:

- They use a octocopter; that's great for the payload, plus it adds some redundancy; If a motor fails the others take over to get back safely without crashing. A bad thing about this is that it's a heavy lift, so more battery drain, so it needs a bigger battery == even more drain. I think you can get 30 minutes of flight time at the max out of that, with a lot of heavy batteries.

- Multicopters carrying payloads use powerful electronic motors; You do not want to put a finger near a spinning prop, for safety reasons a UAV within reach of people or animals should always be controlled by a human, what if someone runs up to the package to pick it up and the UAV automatically spins up to return to home?

- Auto landing is possible, but might be dangerous; The current systems (for example ArduPilot) use GPS and acc/baro/gyro/compasses to achieve autonomous flight. It works if your in field without trees around you, but the system can't find the best spot to land for you, so you need to land it by hand for this delivery service, controlled by a pilot over FPV (first person, wireless video connection).

- Experimental FPV ranges over 10 miles are possible, but not fail proof, especially in a non-line of sight environment or while landing (low to the ground).

Hate it to be a nay-sayer, this will have a future but the tech isn't here yet at this moment to accomplish it fully autonomous and safe.
Oberon-2 was used as basis and extended for Active Oberon, the sucessor OS.

Not sure about EthOS though.
Awesome! Definitely let us know how you think we can improve it!
Why didn't you just use this? https://github.com/NUKnightLab/TimelineJS
Always wanted to have my own website, this makes it so easy!
What exactly is a comfort zone?
This idea is great! I love it!
I think it'd be neat to get some flowback from the FRP/Cells community which seems to be reinventing spreadsheet computation from first principles.
Drone deliveries are cool and futuristic idea, and I'm sure they will happen at some point.

But there is a big difference between "Bezos thinks drone deliveries would be cool in 5 years time", and "Amazon starts drone deliveries". The article rightly concludes that at this time, it's a PR trick for driving black friday sales.

The concept of drone deliveries isn't that novel: at least 10 companies have announced that they are working on or have put out promotional videos of the same thing in the last few years. The novel and interesting bit would be to figure out the real logistical difficulties, which Amazon nor the others have yet presented.

* http://mashable.com/2013/06/05/dominos-drone/

* http://thenextweb.com/asia/2013/09/04/chinese-firm-tests-dro...

* http://tacocopter.com/

* http://www.dezeen.com/2013/10/16/flying-drones-to-deliver-te...
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I was commenting in a general sense, on the notion I quoted, of which the current discussion is a mere symptom; not specifically about Amazon or package delivery. Yet the point is: when a technology giant talks about delivering packages in a new and technologically novel, yet questionable way, we shouldn't be talking about delivering packages; we should be talking in a broader sense about the political and economical implications of that new way, and how it's going to affect people in the foreseeable future.

The notion of being unquestioning "champions of the future" is a general trait of most HN participants, and in direct contrast to what you problematize, what I find problematic is the great wave of instant enthusiasm we're seeing among so-called "hackers" for Amazon's stated intentions.
That sounds fantastic!
Well uh, that's how I visualize my life timeline in my head :) A straight horizontal path, left to right instead of top to bottom.
Today with the politics at MS? I imagine it would be similar to powershell's syntax or just be powershell with new excel specific functions. I imagine there would be more wizards to help non-techies generate code. Maybe even natural language stuff. "I want to add up everything in column B." or "I want to append http:// to everything in column C."
Well, those SMP people stole money from drug dealers some of which may be part of or at least have ties to organised crime. I believe people like that have ways of dealing with something like this if know names and addresses.
Additionally to what we have, I wish each user could "simply" hide topics we don't care about, favourite others (and maybe even comments for good measure), and also have a view of the topics they replied to.

Yes, echo chamber, but also people talking about topics they know or want to know about with other people who do. Having an arbitrary and often rather short window of opportunity to discuss something sometimes really sucks.
That looks pretty complicated compared to the one posted here.
I'm also surprised that Jeff Bezos, well known for avoiding the press, spotlight, and all interviews, was suddenly being interviewed by a prominent television network.

Moreover, Bezos, who almost never talks about products in advance, was talking about something which won't be available for at least several years -- complete with a video demo.

I believe that Amazon has been investing time, money, and energy in this delivery-by-drone system. And I'm even excited by this possibility, far-off as it might be, and unlikely to come to my part of the world (i.e., Israel) in the foreseeable future. So this wasn't a just damage-control press tour, as the Guardian author seems to think.

But something is going on here, and I can't put my finger on it. Maybe Amazon is just trying to encourage more people to buy from them during the US "holiday shopping period," as it's known. Maybe this is something of an attempt to soften the negative image that Amazon workers' conditions have received lately. (Several of my relatives were talking about it over the weekend, so it has struck a chord with some people.) Maybe it's a "don't hurt us, since we're doing such cool things" image campaign. I'm really not sure. But this does seem rather out of character, and I'm glad that at least someone is raising questions about it.
>In each and every one of such cases it's still the pilot that has to decide how to handle the situation and either fly the plane itself, or reprogram the autopilot.

So far I've heard these drones won't work because existing aircraft can't do this, or because military drones can't do that.

But no one seems to consider that these drones don't fulfill the same role as a Predator drone or a jumbo jet, so many of these objections are incredibly odd.

I remember seeing a link on HN several weeks ago about a flying robot that was designed to bump into walls and reorient itself. What if we had an army of package delivering robots that flew at 5 MPH, did best-case collision avoidance, and if they bumped into the side of a brick wall it's not a huge deal?

If an Amazon drone runs into bad weather it could be programmed to land on the nearest flat roof. If unexpected airspace congestion is detected it could just turn back to home. Or hover in place until things resolve. Or(...)

We aren't trying to safely land an airplane full of humans at 100 knots, or deliver a Hellfire missile on a moving target. We are flying a lightweight, slow moving drone with a tiny package. The considerations are completely different.