skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is one

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I bought a similar setup for a similar purpose a long time ago and unless you want to offer custom ffmpeg encoding beyond what Zencoder / AWS / TransloadIt offer my advice would be to use them instead.

If you really want to; I still have a 4x 3GHz Xeon server with 48Gb of memory and 8 450Gb 3k-RPM SAS drives in RAID-6 running in a colo. You're more than welcome to take it off my hands. I don't think it's load ever got above a few % :)
+1 for turning this into a Photoshop plugin
In the history of the Internet (or at least the WorldWideWeb), how many times has a big corporation pulled this stunt, even accidentally? If the answer is 0 or even a number I can count on 1 hand, I say go for it. Even if it was an accident, this is the type of fuck up that deserves Internet death. Think of it like the digital equivalent of walking out onto a highway with a semi barreling down the center lane.
No, you seem to be misinformed.
One of the _good_ things about open sourcing parts of a larger stack of software is that it enforces protocols and API's in a much more thought-out manner.

I've also found that integration tests are a great thing here. If an internal application depends on certain behaviour, it's not likely that you'll have a test to begin with, but when the open source product conflicts with the internal, it's a perfect place to make integration tests to make both sides more stable.

I'm not a complete believer in all kinds of tests at all times, but I've found that the more extensive your tests are around things like this, the less breaks in the long run.
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Pretty much my first thought too, add in knowing where I browse, and what I search for.
Great question. Re: the implied valuation of the company, I don't believe it will be different from the notes. The safe will convert to preferred stock, and while the price of the preferred stock certainly affects the price of the common, I think it would be hard to say that a prospective valuation for an event in the future increases immediately increases the value of the common stock.
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Apartheid was a unique situation. Comparing it to Ireland is ridiculous, especially when you lack the perspective of what South Africa is actually like. Mandela averted a civil war - a real fear for many that were preparing to flee from the country. You make it seem like Mandela was ordering bombings from his cell.
I love reading threads like this. It is all to rare to see people engaging with a spirit of humility and learning. Can't wait to see how this project progresses. Good luck dude!
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> > "TOR is an obscure routing network that allows anonymous access to the “darknet” — the vast, murky portion of the Internet that cannot be indexed by standard search engines. Estimated to be 5,000 times larger that the “surface” web, it’s in these recesses that you’ll find human-trafficking rings, black market drug markets and terrorist networks"

> Sure... the "surface" web is just the tip of the iceberg, right? Journalism at its best.

They seem to have confused some concepts. But the deep web isn't something mythical made up by 4chan trolls or science fiction writers. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_Web
> And it's not like there are chefs cooking healthy food in every home.

You don't need a chef to quickly cook healthy food at home. In fact, most chefs tend to overcomplicate food by aiming for taste instead of healthiness.

Throw some vegetables in the steamer, add some tofu and in five minutes you got yourself a healthy lunch. This is just one example.
Huh, I'm confused by your 2nd paragraph.

Are you saying that zen buddhism will make you get X to be happy, get up at 4am, etc. and then suffer a mild breakdown?

Could you rephrase what you meant? I'm legitimately confused :(
Are the BRCA genetics well enough understood that a deep sequence of that gene is able to be adequately interpreted?

It's not my field, but I know they're well enough understood that you can get far more information from the full sequence than from a few SNPs. Even 23andme has always said the same thing on their website if you look closely.

Ultimately, what you seem to be suggesting is that it is better that we not get partial data because most people won't understand that it's partial data and further won't know what to do with it.

I wouldn't quite say that. I think partial data is perfectly fine. I'm a 23andme customer, despite understanding that it's close to meaningless from a medical perspective (I think the most valuable medical information I got was related to male pattern baldness; coolest information is the Neanderthal stuff). The problem IMHO was 23andme's marketing, which to me seemed almost as if it was designed to mislead people.

Another example... over thanksgiving I was talking to my cousin. She brought up the 23andme news because she had recently done it, but hadn't received results yet. I asked her why she got the test. First answer? BRCA. She had no idea that the 23andme test was not nearly comprehensive. And she's not just some average person not smart enough to understand things - she has a PhD from MIT (albeit not in biology, although her husband has a biology PhD), knows a lot about breast cancer since her mom had it, and is generally very cynical about stuff like this.

Would this service be allowed if they taught cursory genetics and SNPs in the general biology curricula at the high school level?

I think high school curricula are irrelevant to the discussion, for multiple reasons. The vast majority of high school students don't have the background to understand this stuff. Even if they did, most wouldn't care enough to remember it. And even if they did care, the science is changing rapidly - it won't be too long before we're doing whole genomes and many other things.
Most dirt cheap hosts do. PHP via a PaaS is just as hard as Ruby is his argument.
Correct - the notes had this feature too, except that rather than shadow preferred, it was the preferred / common "unit" concept. The net result was the same.
OP here. That's what I meant. We often compare PHP to e.g. Ruby/Rails, Python/Django...but what we're really thinking of when we think of PHP is CGI.

Most of the same things we say about PHP deployment (it's easy, can be done in one file, etc) could equally be applied to writing CGI scripts in Ruby or Python. PHP is just a more extreme example of CGI, and arguably easier, because there's so much support for PHP-based CGI compared to Python/Ruby/Node CGI.
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I'm talking about supplements and products for enteral diet.

They are used on people with malnutrition, eating disabilities or digestion disorders, effectively replacing meals, but never marketed as such for the general population by Abbott and co. because 1) they know about nutrition, 2) know it's shortcomings and 3) know it's bad idea.
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I have to imagine there is a middle-ground between disallowing private use of drones altogether, and private citizens launching Hellfire missiles at each other's cars.
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I would love to take this off your hands. Could I email you later on at your email address in HN profile ?
"Weren't those laws only really enforced when coloured people broke them, though?"

What? 'Coloured' people also refers to a very specific subset of South Africans It doesn't mean what you think it does here.
I can only dream that one day neighborhood disputes will be resolved through miniature dogfights over the yard. Stream video from the "cockpit" for friends or coordinated teamwork. Toss in a dead man's switch hooked up to an EMP cannon. Safe? Nope. The epitome of fucking awesome childhood fantasies? Absolutely.

When the tech (and materials, refab costs, etc) get low enough, suburbia is going to get a whole lot more interesting...
I wonder if your results are unique enough to be identifying. Also, there are legal protections (in the US) for health insurance, but not for life insurance.
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In my reading, Huxley depicts a society too sated and distracted to criticize the power structures they live in. The oppression is not one of force and fear, as in Orwell, but is equally demoralizing and incapacitating. Maybe even more incapacitating: in Orwell, Smith's resistance wells up from within; in Huxley, the introduction of an alien from another world is required to throw things into relief. In this sense, Curtis may be describing sort of a synthesis of the Orwellian and Huxleyan views, built on the mass media stupefaction of the populace to glamorize the roll out the surveillance state.
If sub launched drones can eventually engage in precision bombstrikes and air-superiority operations, this could presage another shift in naval warfare.
EDIT: Below, I mean from the point of view of subjective valuation by investors of the different possible outcomes.

Nobody wants to have debt repaid when a company takes off that you could have had early stock in. (And normally I think that convertible debt doesn't allow such provisions.)

Losing the amount invested (investment going to zero) is really, subjectively, not the "worst case" - because it's money the investors could stand to lose.

Instead, subjectively, the worst case (and related to a common investor fear, FOMO, fear of missing out), is making the original and only seed investment that launches the next Snapchat (or whatever), and then getting failing to own any of it due to something like the company not raising another formal round or otherwise repaying the debt instead. That's subjectively a much worse case, then having an investment go to zero, which is rather expected.

Losing 100% of the investment is the "default" case, not at all worst or unexpected, getting converted into equity at a very small and unsure company is the "good" case, getting converted into the next snapchat or whatever is the amazing lottery-winning case, and losing out on the next snapchat or whatever despite ponying up the cash is the worst possible case that you would kick yourself for forever, subjectively speaking. IMHO.

If people here make lots of seed-stage convertible investments they can say whether this matches their valuations, this is just my opinion.
The cripping testing that toppled Google from its once-lofty heights as a profitable producer of popular products.
> Schmidt set out the trajectory of robotic warfare and considered whether it would be confined solely to national governments. "It's probable that robotics becomes a significant component of nation state warfare," he said.

This after Google makes a huge investment in robotics companies. Their future potential competitors in this space are in peoples' garages right now. This is Google pulling the ladder up after them.
What's the app?

Edit: nevermind found it in your profile.
And Drupal, Joomla, Magento, SugarCRM, CiviCRM, WebERP .....
What is the source? How can we make sure that this is not a hoax to manipulate bitcoin rate? The analysis seems quite superficial.
XMPP is not technically well-suited to mobile devices. It was designed with a base-level assumption that any client will maintain a constant TCP connection in order to receive messages. This doesn't fit well with mobile devices, which spend most of their time 'off' and try to have as little software running concurrently as possible in order to save battery life. Some mobile XMPP clients have come up with various clever workarounds, but all of them are hacks. For example, by keeping the 'real' XMPP connection open indefinitely on a remote, third-party server, and then communicating with the mobile app using a custom proprietary protocol that doesn't have this assumption.

A new protocol is needed. In fact, just the other day there was a story on HN where the original creator of XMPP said the same thing: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6849755 The merits of his proposed solution are another matter, though.
A company that never has one of the qualifying events is likely to be an extreme corner case. So an investor could end up holding a safe for a while, but for the vast majority of companies, there will be a financing or a merger / acquisition at some (or an IPO).
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That's your nose doing its job. The whole point of the nasal passages and mucus is to filter the air, the good thing about this filter is that it's easy to replace.
It's the ultimate in appeal to the geek crowd. It optimizes away a process which is a balance of expensive, inefficient, time consuming, and often unhealthy.

Breakfast and lunch are throwaway meals for me; I eat because I have to in order to live and be productive and healthy, but none of my choices seem optimal. I can eat a fresh, healthy meal at work (expensive), I can reheat yesterday's dinner (microwaved food is less appetizing and often not as healthy), I can grab a quick meal (unhealthy and often expensive), or I can prepare a proper lunch ahead of time (time consuming).

The promise of soylent is simple: from now on, you can eat meals because you want to, not because you have to. On top of that, you only get what you need, and not what you don't want.

I compare it to, say, Linux. You can compile all your software from scratch, install dependencies, and customize absolutely everything, and some people do that because they enjoy it. Many people don't, and don't want to deal with it, and we have distributions like Ubuntu that take away 80% of what you used to need to do to get a proper Linux distribution running.

With Soylent, you still have the option of other meals; it's entirely up to you. You can drink it as your sole nutritional intake, you can have a Friday dinner out, or you can eat dinner with the family and just replace breakfast and lunch.
It's silly that this is the top comment. Your examples aren't even analogous. The proper comparison would be the Streetview car sitting outside your house filming continuously, or someone wearing Google Glass standing outside your front window looking in while recording. These things would bother you far more than a Streetview car driving by or meeting someone wearing Google Glass.

However, as other's have noted, we already have remedies for those sorts of things, and things like someone filming via a telescope pointed at your house (you call the cops). I can get the slippery slope argument Schmidt is making, but you could make the same argument about just about any already-available concealable tech device, from radio transmitters to spy cams to the web cams in every laptop with exploitable software. We do have growing pains with all of those things, and so we inevitably get people that exploit them who the law isn't fully able to deal with (or even catch), but with all the benefits they also bring, it isn't worth trying to ban these things over that fact.
Is this for real? I wonder if this would work?

Not sure who would want this... the pricing seems high but still cheaper than a real girlfriend from what I remember.
You're making the mistake of conflating PHP the language with Rails the Framework.

I can do your app in Rails pretty damn quickly at this point (with one of my current skeleton frameworks I can add authentication administration and other nice features pretty much "for free" as well)

But tell me I have to do it CodeIgniter or Laravel and I'd be completely lost for days.
I didn't even mention that! Reddit reported 100% more traffic than I actually saw with any analytics service. Not only that, I saw a bunch of suspicious hits from reddit referrers that didn't load any CSS or javascript. Like someone was just running GET requests by hand.
"I'm not going to pass judgment on whether armies should exist, but I would prefer to not spread and democratise the ability to fight war to every single human being."

What an interesting choice of words.

He might want to read the 2nd amendment to the US Constitution (just as a good place to start).
One of the goals of Scala was having good interoperability with Java. This might not look important today, where considering different languages is ok, but it was certainly the case years ago, when programming environments were monolingual and proud of it.

There are bad consequences arising from that, but it was a trade off that was made taking into account the failure of Scala's predecessor, Pizza.

Among these things there's asInstanceOf, which you should generally not be using in first place. That said, you can use asInstanceOf with structural types:

scala> object X {

| def f(a: Int, b: Int) = a + b

| }

defined object X

scala> val y: Any = X

y: Any = X$@aebbca6

scala> val z = y.asInstanceOf[Any { def f(x: Int, y: Int): Int }]

z: Any{def f(x: Int,y: Int): Int} = X$@aebbca6

scala> z.f(2, 3)

res6: Int = 5

Your example definitely doesn't show structural types being broken: it only shows that type refinements cannot be recursive. This might be limiting, but it is not broken, and it was a necessary trade off to integrate structural types into a nominal type system -- something that was thought to be impossible.

Inheritance and type classes: type class is not a Scala feature, it is a design pattern that uses other Scala features together, so there's no "clash" here, because there's no feature.

The eleven ways in which underscore can be used is not something "at odd" either -- it's just the same symbol used in eleven different contexts to mean eleven different things. It saves on reserved keywords/characters, at the cost of making the language more difficult to learn, but there's no conflict between their uses.

There's nothing bizarre about currying syntax -- you may not like how it looks, but it's perfectly functional. Maybe you like point free programming, but that is NOT a style favored by Scala, intentionally so.

The rules for omitting parenthesis are actually rather simple: you can omit parenthesis around the parameter of a single-parameter method when that parameter is enclosed in braces itself; you can also omit parenthesis around a parameter of a single-parameter method whose parameter type is a tuple.

Now, even if I had not an answer for each case you raised, you have failed to show that they don't fit well with each other. You have criticized each one on their own, in isolation, and, in fact, failed to appreciate how they actually show their strength when combined.

Some examples of that:

* Omitting parenthesis combined with by-name method parameter passing allows for DSLs that look like native language constructs;
* Implicit parameters, type inference and nominal typing can be used together to produce the type class pattern;
* Abstract data types and inheritance can be used together to create a module system.
Awesome!. As a, alibet very small, mailgun customer, I am happy to see them pushing a big chunk of their code open source.
Or, perhaps even more pertinent, Google's commercial observational satellite[1], which already flies over our houses all day.

[1] http://www.informationweek.com/applications/google-launches-...
How does this amazing "unless you work for the government" clause work? Seriously, what is the legal basis of such exceptions?

EDIT: I'm not criticizing the parent comment. This is a legitimate question! (As usual!)
Lol. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. I'd personally take Unity or Gnome Shell over Windows' or OSX's UI anyday...
They would love to, but they are limited in the scope of their authority. Homeopathy companies tend to label their products as "dietary supplements" so they don't fall under FDA drug regulations. When they slip up with their marketing, the FDA does get involved http://news.discovery.com/human/health/homeopathy-takes-hits... (see "Skirting Drug Regulations").
I will book mark this. However, the problem I see with something like this is redundancy -- I would need atleast 2 servers and that would add up to USD 12k per annum.
Hmm, could be. If you start playing the 'bits of identifying information' game with DNA, I think it is conceivable that an insurance company (who already knows much about you) could narrow it down. That depends on how much they already know about you I suppose.
This is true and more important than it sounds. There is also the problem that a lot of people think that they will have to invest a lot in an idea to see if it will work which means that unless something sounds completely brilliant, there will always be friction to try it.

This IMO is what causes creativity to not respected, because people try to use their opinions or common sense to evaluate ideas (because of the perceived high cost of actually evaluating ideas by implementing them) instead of relying on cold hard data. We know is that a good number of the best ideas start out sounding really silly at first, if not they would already exist (right?) So it stands to reason that people would scoff at creative ideas because they would generally not "make sense" to the average person.

That is why it is important to come up with a process or culture that allows you to quickly run an idea through its paces, to validate or invalidate it using data. Making it cheap to entertain ideas in the same way git makes it easy to create and throw away branches.

I think that this is why you find that at the most innovative companies this is exactly what happens, and as soon as this culture of quickly validating ideas goes away, the company starts its slow decline.
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"Dr F. Xavier Pi-Sunyer, a professor of medicine at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons and senior attending physician at St Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital and the New York-Presbyterian Hospital."

- that's one handful of buzzwords and reinforcement degrees to hush the infidels
I wonder how a deep-belief network would perform at this, or even just an SVM.
How does it randomize the gift choosing? Algorithm or hand-picked?
FPM is a CGI like model. The F stands for FastCGI. Also many cheap-ass virtual servers do run php-cgi.
There was an episode of Numbers i saw recently about an augmented reality game where people were tracking down QR codes and such. Reminds me of this.
Wasn't much of an issue for me but since he is somewhat new I imagine reading a stream and basically doing an infinite foreach would be a tad easier than adding queuing, API ratelimits (per hour? forget which), timed polling, etc.
Ensure has been used as a complete replacement for decades. It advertises as a supplement because nutrition is not a one size fits all* kind of thing and being too aggressive about positioning it as a long term food substitute would end in lawsuits.

*Seriously, not one size fits all. Changing elevation will cause you to need more/less potassium for instance.
It is absolutely ridiculous - if you want a real cutting edge diet, check out keto or paleo. Too many carbs, too processed, not enough (or any? not sure) animal protein.

That he would be quoted talking about "saturated fat" as if it is evil, shows how clueless he is.
This appears to be in direct response to grellas comments a few days ago[0], but I find it hard to believe that even YC could operate so quickly so I guess it is just coincidence.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6849648