skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wait so you changed your course of comment from "always-upload" and "lie-detector" to "syncs to a central server" when plugged in? Then how is this different than existing products such as Nike fuel band or fit bit?

My initial response was to your paranoic bit on being always on. Without the help of a median device, for data to be always uploaded or for constant lie detection, a wifi/4g module has to used. Which in itself is a battery sucker and not to mention, adds to weight of the bra making it uncomfortable.
So your solution to the complex problem of college tuition increases over almost 30 years is "Make a law, then create n enforcement department, then levy fines"? I'm presuming the latter too since it makes no sense to "Make a law" that isn't going to be enforced. To enforce this over the 20,000,000 job postings out there - probably need a department of at least 50 people. Budget $80,000 per employee + $20,000 in taxes + benefits = $100k per person x 50 = $5m budget each year. I guess we'd better make those fines pretty high so we can pay for the department but, if not, that's okay - we can raise taxes 0.004% on everyone to offset it.

Mike talked about how Repubs and Dems want the same basic things but disagree about (a) how to get there, and (b) the role of government. I'm guessing you and I are on different sides of (b).
Sorry about off-topic, but if there was ever a real title that I would have thought came from the headline generator of last week, this has got to be it!
On the Internet videos at least I think they do!
I already wrote my fact checking piece today on Ripple today: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6867324.

But let me quickly say:

* there's no mining in Ripple, so Ripple isn't pre-minded and there's no "genesis" currency

* they created 100 billion XRP, not 10 billion as you wrote

* they're committed to give away 55 billion XRP to non-profits, users and business partners for the foreseeable future: https://ripple.com/ripple_primer.pdf

* XRP certainly isn't derivative of Bitcoin, but the original Ripple system that this is partially based on started in 2004: http://archive.ripple-project.org/Main/HomePage

* Apparently you don't actually know what a pyramid scheme is or how one works, otherwise you would know that Ripple isn't one: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyramid_scheme.

* It's also not a Ponzi Scheme, incase you wanted to go there next: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ponzi_scheme

What Ripple is: a company, an approach and a currency you don't like and you clearly have an agenda to spread misinformation about it for reasons that are not clear.

I have no affiliation with Ripple Labs, other than being impressed with their approach of addressing our archaic, fragmented payment system that works almost exactly the same as it did 20 years ago. I also have received XRP in a couple of giveaways.

Don't get me wrong—I think Bitcoin is an incredible technology that changed the way we think about money, in ways we're just starting to grok.

What Ripple enables—being able to pay anyone anywhere anytime with whatever currency you wish to use for essentially for free--is the killer app right now.

This is what I mean by essentially free: I paid 0.000025 XRP to exchange USD for XRP: https://ripple.com/graph/#2EF43881B82AE8FBA31A2C3272E61CBC2E...). That's $0.00075 USD.

:: drops the mic ::
Fzf: Fuzzy finder for your shell
H&FJ is looking for a Front-End Web Developer
Yes.
The clock starting at filing change was due to submarine patents (people would keep things in process for many years, and slowly amend them, until when they finally issued, they covered whatever was cool at the time. There are a few famous examples).

Realistically, the life of the average patent was not extended by this change, since patent apps, on average, were taking three years to approve.
You should look into the following:

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/dec/06/technology...
Design is awesome except the horizontal scrollbar, which is quite annoying
Haha I get that! I was just saying for someone learning it at first vs approaching it from an object oriented angle with individual neurons and having it be a graph data structure. It seems easier to tackle when you can summarize it exactly as you said there vs, oh there's these neurons with these connections and you forward propagate each individual weight vector then backpropagate etc...
I worked at ER. No, you don't want to have a baby in ER. ER doctors are dealing with emergency situations and patients (auto accident,cardiac arrests,gunshot wounds,etc). I've seen one baby being delivered in ER, and it wasn't a good experience for the patient. Rather, you'd want proper pre-natal care and comfortable delivery room, with your own doctor. Also, ER treatments are more expensive. Way more expensive.
Yes, but other people are unaffected by that one person. That doesn't mean 100 percent chance of cure, but the chance remains the same for every person.
Genuinely curious... why is there a "™" at the end of "good thing"?
Currently evaluating mixpanel... curious what you are you struggling with?
Tech needs to be more inclusive
How exactly is cancer adaptive anyway? Think about how natural selection works: genes that are better at surviving and propagating themselves survive and propagate themselves. Bacteria evolve because they're an independent genome that infests other organisms but cancer is just a failure mode of biology.
Hi yes this is Indian
Create private git repos using dropbox
Juxtaposition in Ruby
Dragonfly is basically a glorious parallel universe in which the Amiga never died http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DragonFly_BSD
That's exactly what I mean; the simple sanity check case is easy, but once you start layering on things like complex geometry and surface models and volume data, the problem grows in difficulty absurdly quickly.
HTC Sense Pushes Minimalism too far
Copyright of two 17th century paintings (Alchemist and Astrologer)
Prevention of cancer is not a cure, and it would not prevent all types of cancer. Cancer can appear anywhere in the body without any significant "cause". Regular safe sun radiation can be enough to alter certain DNA part during regular cell divide and immune cells might fail to spot the cell and it can start reproducing. Unlike infectious diseases, cancer is the result of evolution within body, it is fundamental to every multicell organism.
Yes, that's what I meant. And this would beg for a Meta version of itself, although I'm not sure what that could be..
So I assume you don't buy insurance, for anything ever, correct?
I like your analysis of the incentives to do it, it reminded me that there is another place where it is used, Entertainment. Projects are pitched as "this is the Rambo for Millenials" or "This is Bonanza in Space."

So in those cases there is an attempt to transfer some of the success 'aura' of the brand name to the pitched project. No one pitches a movie saying its like "Heaven's Gate" :-) and I suppose nobody pitches a startup as "The Color for Dog Walkers."
Hopefully nobody will be offended by 4.
This is incorrect in several ways.

1) Acquired antibodies are passed from mother to child.

2) Epigenetics
if north korea would do that to usa, it would be considered an act of war...
Touchcast: A mix of TV and the web [video]
This is very disappointing to see.

I often see people wondering why HIV has evaded both a vaccine and cure for so long, despite the amount of attention and money it has received.

The HIV virus is remarkably fragile and (relatively) difficult to transmit. However, it mutates incredibly quickly compared to other viruses - an HIV+ patient may have multiple strains of the virus in their body at any one time, requiring the infamous "cocktail" of drugs as no single drug will be effective.

Vaccinations have been (so far) ineffective because they attempt to vaccinate against a rapidly moving target.

Hepatitis B, on the other hand, is a much more easily-transmitted virus, and yet we have been able to develop a reasonably effective vaccine against it[0]. For a while, it used to be standard practice to vaccinate all young children against Hepatitis B; I'm not sure if it still is.

Unfortunately, Hepatitis C, which kills more people in the US than HIV/AIDS[1], is arguably even worse - it is also much easier to transmit than HIV, but we don't have a vaccine against it either. Furthermore, because most of the public campaigns advocating safe sex and clean needles use HIV-specific language, many people aren't aware that it is such a huge threat. Like HIV, it is asymptomatic for several years, so as many as 75% of people infected with Hepatitis C don't even know it[2]:

Epidemiologically (not politically) Hepatitis C today is similar to the state of HIV in the 80s and 90s[3]. We have some medications to treat it, but they're not very effective - living with Hepatitis C is oftentimes worse than living with HIV.

[0] As with all vaccines, it is imperfect, which is why coverage across the general population is the best approach to eradication or containment.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hepatitis_C#Epidemiology.

[2] http://m.cdc.gov/en/VitalSigns/hepatitis-c

[3] At least outside the US - the US was one of the last countries to approve HIV antiretrovirals, which incidentally is the topic of a movie currently in theatres: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dallas_Buyers_Club
How about using a lightweight TFIDF engine like whistlepig [https://github.com/wmorgan/whistlepig]. It is implemented in ANSI C.

I had no issues writing a racket wrapper using the FFI for it: http://blog.shriphani.com/2013/08/27/racket-whistlepig-bindi...
Further improving digital certificate security
My best friend is a wildlife documentary maker and we often discuss the differences between our fields. Another example is that in his field, everyone's idea is their big secret, while in the startup world, you're constantly reminded that your idea alone is worth very little and that you should talk about it as much as possible. I think the underlying difference is that when you're making a documentary, it's impractical to run "lean" or gather feedback from the market before it's done. You raise money once (based primarily on your idea), then you go to the location and shoot, then you do the montage, etc and ultimately there's a (hopefully big) release. There's barely any feedback loop to speak of.
On Paper
That doing something you're good at and love is more important than doing something you're good at, not really passionate about, but makes a crap ton of money.

When I was younger, money is all I cared about (I come from fairly modest means). But when my friends and I started making decent money we started to think, what's next? Why are we doing what we're doing right now...

And ditto on the connections part (not just for space you're interested in, but also all across everywhere/anywhere. You never know when those connections will come in handy, especially if you're in the startup space.)
Language changes: https://twitter.com/dinodaizovi/status/405148448107659264.

I took a bit of time to read some of your more recent comments and I'm going to level with you-- I cringed pretty hard. Labeling people of 25 years as "old"? Yikes. I'm not sure if you mean to come off this way or not, but some friendly advice: your attitudes surely will limit the people who are willing to work with you to accomplish your goals. Might be worth some reflection.
On writing a technical book
fzf is very thoughtfully designed. Even installing it is a pleasant experience (which is what compelled me to submit it to HN).

Some unexpected features, in addition to just being a super-fast fuzzy-finder:

- works with pipes:
$ find * -type f | fzf > selected

- Extended-search mode (borrowed/improved from zaw[1])

- auto-completion support for bash and zsh. Used
to fuzzy-search PIDs, ssh hostnames, and of course
filename arguments for any command.

[1] https://github.com/zsh-users/zaw
A question for the developers: Does this support time series data?
But is it really a telephone? Could the purpose of these two gourds on a string have been something else? I'm not discounting the engineering prowess of the Chimu, but sometimes one has to be careful assigning modern-day interpretations to ancient artifacts.
I think that the leading figures of VC-istan would deny funding to settle a political score, yes. It happens in big companies, and VC-istan is the first postmodern corporation, and just a new form of the same old thing.

People stop good ideas and back bad ones for political reasons all the time, and VCs are known for the same behavior (probably no more than big-company high officers, but neither no less). People care more about their individual careers and status than about the bottom line of some organization that might kick out a bonus, and that's a big part of why companies don't "act rationally". The people in them are out for themselves because, honestly, who wouldn't be? Selflessness leads nowhere.

You argue that VC collusion would be "an amazing organizational feat considering how many there are and how much some of them dislike others", but there is, in fact, a lot of co-funding, social-proof-oriented decision making, and collusion. Think of how 90+ percent of funding decisions are based on who else is funding the round, or who made the introduction. It's a "who you know", good-ole-boy network, business in the extreme and you're delusional if you think it's still the meritocracy it might have been 15 years ago. The fact that some VCs dislike each other doesn't prevent that collusive culture from existing, just as high-ranking executives in a more traditional company can dislike each other intensely but that doesn't stop the firm from operating.

[ETA 1.5h: also, if you want to prove me wrong and show that you don't answer to VC-istan, you have the option of removing the slowban and rankban.]
There is a company trying to model it by 2015. Check FLiBe Energy out.
To make an an HN-relevant analogy: The FDA-hobbling of 23andMe pales in comparison to what it's like to work with nuclear regulatory frameworks and societal concerns regarding nuclear science. When I was an undergrad, DOE was willing to pay the university the entire relicensing and operating costs of the on-campus TRIGA. The university declined, knowing that the requisite environmental impact study for relicensing would bring withering community backlash.

(For those who haven't seen one, here's what it looks like when the control rods are blown out of a TRIGA [1]; the reactor runs away momentarily, but then self-moderates when the fuel warms. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=orNP1wMmPK4 . The Cherenkov flash is a beautiful blue.)

Nuclear power can provide a safe, well-studied, and effective bridge to solar power. Almost nobody's dabbling in it because there's so much societal opposition. Working on a reactor in an old schoolhouse in a rural area? Someone elsewhere in the county will be willing to speak at every county governmental meeting to shut you down. Their opposition has merit; it's easy to point to Fukushima and Chernobyl as major disasters.

A simple, clear, and publicly-understandable regulatory framework in which both society and innovators can feel comfortable with small-scale nuclear experimentation would go a long way toward driving new startups in the field. Experimenters shouldn't get their hopes up too far: Some forms of radiation are extremely penetrating/hard to shield, and some hazardous isotopes live a long, long time. If you're dabbling in the field, please plan from the beginning to minimize and safely store your waste.

We only get one planet; I'd rather it not be too warm nor contaminated by our litter.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRIGA
What is so complex ? Neurons compute a sum of its input. Neurons are connected by synapse. A synapse has a oefficient that weights the input. If the synapse coefficitent is the real value c and the value of the input neuron is i, then The sum will be computed with c*i. One can represent this by vector and matrix multiplication.

In the most simple model, this sum is the output. In more sofisticated models the result of the sum is modified by a function with a sigmoid shape. One of these sigmoid function is infinitly derivable. This allows to fit any continuous function with a sum of these sigmoids. Different strategies have been suggested to do the fit.

But all these ANN don't explain the biological neural networks found in our cortex.
There are other things that changed with the latest version of HTC Sense. I really liked when you could hold an icon in the program list and create a shortcut. Now with the new HTC Sense you have to drag it all the way up the screen and drop it on "Create shortcut" button. I dropped the phone a couple of times doing that too.
Tasty, maybe? Got your point, though :)
> The first issue can be fixed by upping the proof of work required to send a message, although this will not stop a determined attacker who has lots of cycles to throw at the problem.

Could you implement something like IRC's "flood prevention" in a proof-of-work based consensus algorithm -- so sending messages closer together costs prohibitively more?

The network could require, say, the work in a transaction to be proportional to ∑(1/message dt) for the messages signed by the transaction.
And the followups to do with actual production renderers:

http://www.fxguide.com/featured/the-state-of-rendering/

http://www.fxguide.com/featured/the-state-of-rendering-part-...

What's interesting is how far Pixar's PRMan has fallen within 2-3 years, despite PRMan 19 (current in alpha) going to provide BDPT with vertex connection and merging (state of the art lighting equation).

The problem is, despite providing the above, they're still getting some of the basics wrong, and Geometric lights still aren't being sampled correctly, in addition to:

Even with fully raytraced (i.e. no REYES) setups in it, its instancing support is still fairly pathetic, and its texture paging support is shockingly bad, even with Pixar-proprietary pixar format for images.

Once by far the dominant renderer in VFX, Arnold has come along and knocked PRMan off its perch (although Arnold still has a few issues as well).
Well done sir.

http://www.reactiongifs.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/well_...
Since you have "Past 24 Hours", I would also use "Last 7 Days" and "Last 30 Days" instead of the ambiguous "Last Week" and "Last Month". You may also want to consider using more meaningful absolute time values like "2 hours" instead of "99.97%"
Microsoft's earnings from Android trolling are not a matter of public record. Each agreement M'soft has made is secret.

In fact, there is no strong, solid evidence that M'soft is making any money at all off Android. When Barnes and Noble's Nook refused to pay the danegeld, M'soft sued and then settled to avoid discovery. Nook actually got paid by M'soft in the settlement, though M'soft ended up with considerable control of the unprofitable Nook in exchange.

Speculation is that HTC agreed to make and market Windows Phone phones instead of paying royalties. If that kind of agreement was common, it's no wonder that all the non-Nokia Windows Phone phones were garbage: They were produced under duress.

Also, my Android 4 devices no longer support any kind of FAT filesystems the way my Android 2 phones did. I think Google already started making FAT optional just so as to avoid paying for patents like this one.
Hello,
I'm not sure what questions you have asked in the past but I would be happy to answer them here.

-Atheros / Jonathan (creator of Bitmessage)
>i still collaborate with academia, and write papers and do research

May I ask what you do for living?
Main negatives about BSDs: more fiddly, not necessarily as well performing as a stable well optimised Linux release (read RHEL/CentOS), some compatibility problems (usually due to crappy programming by Linux-heads), you might have to compile a load of stuff yourself.

The big wins are however: rock solid, wonderful documentation, entirely cohesive base system, small, big enterprise features (ZFS, mandatory access control, tracing frameworks, awesome network stack, security, ACL support and better hardware support.

When I say better hardware support, I mean the drivers all work rather better than their Linux counterparts rather than being plentiful and the supported platforms are plentiful and reliable.

I can drag a 17 year old SPARC64 machine out of the cupboard and just use it.
Ask HN: "inspirational" jobs board?
I think I saw a job board on HN or DN a while ago that was entirely about jobs that are "good" and "inspirational", basically stuff for a good cause. Did I dream this up or does this really exist? I would need to use it.
As a former electrician, I should mention that trade unions usually have their own forms of college as well, in the form of apprenticeships -- these vary from trade to trade, but at least within the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, you got access to very cheap, job-specific vocational education that combined classroom learning with on-the-job training, and graduated pay as you progress.

When I was doing it many years ago, in Memphis, TN, a first year apprentice made, basically minimum wage, or something close to it, but graduates of the program made an actual living wage, or a rate of something like $25 an hour.

Those rates have likely gone up, since I'm talking at least decade-and-a-half old numbers, but the notion that they don't pay well is a relative term. Compared to minimum wage, they pay extremely well, once one reaches a level akin to 'college-educated'.

The majority of my family are blue collar workers, in trades from electrical to HVAC to fiber optics, etc., and they're all doing well. They aren't rich by any metric, but they all have comfortable housing, adequate/reliable vehicles, ample food, and enough surplus that nobody's starving, and nobody's generally in more debt than their mortgage.

In today's economy, that is something worth mentioning. That there are 600,000 of these jobs[1] is baffling to me, and merits further research.

[1] - Potentially, I'd like to see how many of them match up to what I'm picturing, as I see the numbers in dispute, so it's possible that there are a few of these jobs, while the rest are far lower, I dunno.
Yep, this is at least what I thought the commenter was referring to. Thanks!
Can you upload this to slideshare or something? Many people despise ppt files.
First - humans ARE robots and have no soul/spirit, second - you should not treat non-human with disrespect just because it was of another species. Animals have feelings just like you, and in the future an actual mechanical robots might too. Would you still treat AI as it was "a thing", although it could feel, understand and act just like any human being? Because if so, you should treat every human being as thing too.
I realise Martin Odersky admits it in his original comment, but grammar size has very little bearing on how complex a language is to use day to day.

For example most functional languages have a minimal grammar, but those grammars allow for extending the language from within the language. So the final complexity isn't represented in the grammar.

Also, additional grammar can hide complexity. For example C# has lots of grammar rules to deal with the LINQ extensions to the language. I doubt many would argue that the language is better without LINQ.

The whole post seems a little desperate to me.
It probably doesn't help that the immune system is what it infects.
Firefox just shows broken images, because of

<img src="data:image/png;base64data:image/png;base64...
von Neumann is 'skirt chasing' but Curie is 'slutty'?
Quick Look plugins for developers