skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I guess the way I'd put it best in terms of what you've asked is: "what if we (humans) are on our second, third, or nth attempt to create a sustainable technological culture, all previous attempts met with ruin or we were forced back into a 'pre-technological' hunter-gatherer lifestyle."

It's hard to put into words because it goes against everything I know or believe, and yet there's this little thought in my head that won't go away: "this cannot be the first time." Normally with UFOs or other sorts of "pseudo-reality" I would just write the thought off as an interesting weirdness of our world, but for some reason I can't. Might just be a personal failing ;)
Why does it matter if a puzzle has an 'end'?

And each stage clearly has solutions.
Reverse SSH tunneling: easier than port forwarding
Rent the Runway: Data meets the little black dress
> This is the same bull*t that is thrown at Castro, Che Guevara, and many others.

Bullshit? Should we infer that you think Castro's Cuba was a smashing success and has totally justified all the bad things he and his followers did?
Ouch. yeah. I do use checks, and those also have unpleasant fraud implications, but it seems like the response to such fraud usually turns out better with checks than with wire transfers. Most people I've heard about who have had people steal money through bad checks just had a big mess to deal with[1], while most people I've heard about who had money stolen through wire transfers actually lost the money. Just my impression from hearing about different folks complaining about it.

[1]http://sunburn.stanford.edu/~knuth/news08.html

"I cannot in good conscience continue to traumatize the people at my bank, who obviously have plenty of other things to worry about."
>"Cloud" isn't about external hosting

Yes it is. You represent the internet as a cloud on shitty visio diagrams. That is where putting stuff "in the cloud" comes from.
I purchased and sent in my kit before they removed medical information from their website. However, it hasn't processed yet. I expected that medical information (even though I knew not to trust it). What an awkward position.
Why does most of the blame go to the FDA? From their complaint:

> More than five years after you began marketing, you still had not completed some of the studies and had not even started other studies necessary to support a marketing submission for the [testing service]," the letter states. It also says that in January 2013, 23andMe claimed that it was doing further testing for its approval application, testing that would take several months to complete; nearly a year later, it never submitted the results of the testing.
Are you patronizing a startup or a big IT company?
It appears big IT companies have picked up a new trick from food and drink conglomerates. There are plenty of seeming quirky upstart food and drink brands out
there that are in fact owned by large companies.

It appears there is a new trend with big IT companies launching what are essentially brands and masquerading them as startups.
Some of of these companies were indeed startups at some point.

Pivotal is one that comes to mind, they belong to EMC (if there ever was a non-startup)...LightCMS (Netsuit), Asana (Microsoft), Podio (Citrix).

Please post others that you know of.
Students go from zero to featured apps in 8 weeks
The intro video already has a few red flags to show that he doesn't know what he's talking about (or he's not being honest):

- He considers the 240x240 display an HD display

- He claims the watch has 4GB of RAM

His Kickstarter page is so full of BS materials that anyone with just a little bit of common sense and technical knowledge about smartphones should be able to tell this is not a legitimate project.
GitHub is usually pretty intuitive. Not a huge fan of their organizations layout though.

Basecamp probably has the best UI I've used for a SaaS project.
I have to admit that this is the first newsletter in a LONG time that I've been interested in subscribing to. Thanks for creating it.
Resources for getting up to speed with Redis
1 & 3) Oh noes! The evil taxman! We all pay for things we disagree with, but I prefer we do that than have no commons at all. Feel free to disagree with this but you're basically walking into "Public education is bad by definition" which is not something I'm here to argue. I'm really only saying that I don't think it's anyone's aim.

And no, we do not all pay taxes, some do not because they are as poor as dirt. It's an awesome facet of modern society that they are not condemned to stay there by lack of access to education, nor by parental indifference to it.

2) I do not believe that it is the goal of educators, nor of others that operate or support the system. I do not believe that even if it was set up to do that by some bad evil people last century it is a key goal now. This is the root of my argument. It may be an outcome, it is not a goal.

4) We don't do that over here in communist UKia, because it's weird.

5) I have no idea who Brown is, or anything about Little Rock beyond it being where Bill Clinton came from, sorry. Not american.
Wow this is great news! unless I read wrong it should be totally vegan now as the fish oil is not required? I love the idea of cooking being a collaborative ritualistic experience you engage in for holidays/celebrations and soylent being something you use the rest of the time.
People challenge venture capital all the time on HN to apparent ill effect. I'm certainly no VC champion. Not only that, but I've repeatedly annoyed Paul Graham, talked down YC, complained about the moderation on HN, and suggested conflicts of interest.

You very consistently manage to mine personal conflicts out of threads and stories that have no apparent connection to you or your beliefs. It's a worrisome habit, in the "I almost worry about criticizing you because I'd feel bad if it turned out that you were actually ill" sense. Broken record: I really think you need to relax and let some of this stuff go, or, at least, if you're totally dedicated to the idea of promoting your vision of the evils of startup culture, find a more coherent way to do it. Perhaps your ideas would be better carried in long-form essays.
> "How do we help children learn better?"

By acknowledging that not all children learn well in lecture/"traditional classroom" formats and doing something about it. But that would undermine the system.
The reality is that once you reach a reasonable level of scale (multiple physical machines), the cost savings from going to your own cloud will easily allow you to afford that extra capacity and then some.
Tor is a tiny wart on the Internet's nose. Even the darkweb of which it is a part probably isn't that large. The statement is just an attempt by the author to add color and drama to his story.
There seem to be people who think that Mandela was a pacifist like Ghandi. I can buy the "was justified in the use of violence" angle, but he was supported the use of violence for political ends enough that Amnesty International refused to call him a Prisoner of Conscience at the time.

People are not totally good or totally evil.
What really disappoints me about the current crop of VC funded messaging apps is that none of them care very strongly about user privacy. Even apps that claim to keep your messages "encrypted" are closed source and don't include details about their encryption techniques.

There are open source encrypted messaging apps like ChatSecure [1][2], and TextSecure [3] but they lack some of the modern vanity features that users expect and they can seem difficult to setup for an average user.

1. https://github.com/chrisballinger/Off-the-Record-iOS

2. https://github.com/guardianproject/ChatSecureAndroid

3. https://github.com/WhisperSystems/TextSecure/
It's not really a problem with the analogy; I'm just saying that a good analogy is no cure for a lack of experience. My first non-toy C program was a disaster because I knew what a pointer was but I didn't yet understand how to manage them.
Well, sort of. In a broad sense an option is simply an irrevocable right to acquire or do something, without an obligation to actually acquire or do it. You can write options for whatever you'd like, despite securities being the most common use.

You're right about securities; the security usually exists prior to offering a contract on it. But even then it gets a little more complicated. For instance, I can write a naked option (an option to buy a security I don't even own). They're pretty flexible instruments, and I'm not sure how Safes are substantially different. That having been said, it sounds great for founders and funders, since it's far simpler than the alternatives, and I'm shocked no one has thought to do this before. Kudos to the YC folks for having the insight to set it up.
A worthwhile take on the historical place of MOOCs.

The problem with these has always been not just that they are oversold, but sold from the wrong direction. Call them an alternative for the traditional college course, and we can see how cheap, watered-down, and mass-market they are compared to the real thing. Call them, instead, an alternative to the traditional textbook (or even traditional lecture) then the improvements are apparent, the possibilities open up before us.
You shouldn't use jQuery, inline CSS and inline JS right before closing </body> tag.
hah yeah this is what i was thinking about too. if you follow deflationary logic through to the end it makes you think of a Mad Max kinda world. But they expect it to stabilize when it hits the cap, no? I don't know.... experiments that take hundreds of years to run. Why not just dollar-back it? lol, i know i knowwww, they hate that. But the Canadian gov has a cryptocoin, right?
I think the question is referring to the cultural norms of programmers with an Indian background. malux85's answer discusses this well.
Microsoft is funny. Maybe they should put some of that money into developing products people actually want.
To add, it looks like my company is blocking the site as malware. Looks like it's on this list: http://cbl.abuseat.org/lookup.cgi?ip=95.85.5.100

> IP Address 95.85.5.100 is listed in the CBL. It appears to be infected with a spam sending trojan, proxy or some other form of botnet.

> It was last detected at 2013-12-05 22:00 GMT (+/- 30 minutes), approximately 20 hours, 30 minutes ago.

> This IP is infected (or NATting for a computer that is infected) with a spam-sending infection. In other words, it's participating in a botnet. If you simply remove the listing without ensuring that the infection is removed (or the NAT secured), it will probably relist again.
That would be possible, but since Hebel is mainly meant to be used in research I don't think it's a big priority now. The most important reason to do this would be to allow development on laptops and workstations without NVIDIA cards and to run the finished model on CUDA hardware later.

As far as embedded devices go (I assume you're talking about ARM cpus etc), they are probably too underpowered to run Neural nets anyway, or models would have to be written in highly specialized C.
My sentiment exactly. 2 days ago I put it on my wishlist, reasoning that even if they weren't marketing, the results would still be interesting. What if I get a kit now? Do I manually look up everything in SNPedia or something?
These are the futuristic space suits astronauts could wear on Mars
What we learned open sourcing a major part of Mailgun
Tydlig - A new kind of iPad calculator
Prior discussion from last night...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6859732
You would be surprised. The amount of creative and intelligent expression that anonymity allows makes it a magnet for smart people trying to get a break from the culture of 'satisfiers'.

http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/201...
I think the point of the article is not the end truth of what he says, but just to encourage speculation, so I think all of us will draw different end conclusions. I doubt that we'll have as many iterations of society as he suggests. At some point we'll do something that kills all of us, and will then hand it off to the next species.

If you look at Detroit, it doesn't take long for nature to take back buildings. I would just think that there are certain artifacts or clues that would be somehow visible. We are leaving much more artifacts than every civilization before us put together. But I might just be inserting my short term bias into the situation.
"No, they don't. They've done nothing to suggest otherwise, and they continue to try and make it clear that it's not a story, you aren't buying something like in a store."

So you think this page:https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/253126792/rocktm-first-...

which lists "pledge" amounts, and "rewards" does not lead people to think they are getting something in return for their money? It lists descriptions of the products, and also gives indications of limited quantities in some cases. Something that would likely not be a concern if a person had no reason to expect a physical object back from their pledge. If you have no right to expect something, why would available quantities be an issue?

"At the end of the day, the only people thinking they are "buying" something at KS are those people that don't actually read what they are "buying"."

On this we mostly agree. I just went through the pledge process on KS for this (up to the point of actually pledging). There is a whole lot more text describing the item you receive with a pledge amount than there is warning you about the caveats (one small text box that gives of an ebayish "we're just a middleman" warning), other caveats are behind links, which we all know are rarely clicked.

From the perspective of the average consumer, KS looks much more like a store/daily deal/discount style website than anything else.
It's more of a question of what the semantics of failed requests are than concurrent clients.

The key is to segment your system so processing is orthogonal to the implementation details of the networking protocol on a given system. Just because on a particular OS when a process closes the TCP/IP connections are dropped does not mean that every time your process crashes that client connections are dropped.

In the case of a webserver you can use something like mongrel2 / nginx that maps physical connections to backend processes so that a process restart doesn't mean a dropped connection, or failed request.

Forcing your machines to reboot early and often makes you think about and deal with these problems rather than simply delaying them until one of your nodes dies and takes out a bunch of client connections anyway.
This will be even cooler if they add 'turn-key' scaling. Their scaling approach is still a work in progress.

http://www.arangodb.org/2013/05/22/replication-and-sharding-...

Anyhow, good job so far to ArangoDB team.
Just like a convertible note, as soon as there is an equity financing the Safe would just "convert" into a class of preferred stock. So you wouldn't have the valuation problem after you do a first financing, if I understand correctly.
This is acknowledged, as is parental choice. You don't have to send your kid to that kind of school or to any school at all, but you do have to educate them.

I struggle to find this unreasonable.

The people (via the state) fund a particular model, it's true. And you'll never catch me arguing it's not full of all sorts of flaws, but I would still dispute that suppression of individuality and creativity are even a minor goal in state education, let alone a primary one.
I have studied Mechanical Engineering as well, and I, on the other hand see plenty of opportunities to use things taught in ME in real life. Might be as simple as "How safe is this plank for me to walk on" (bending moment) to "It's strange that there are cold pockets in this room, what's the optimum positioning of a flow mixer".

But we don't generally think even for a second. People just take a 'common sense approach' to most things, which while good enough for a large set of applications breaks down in many cases. And come on, you're an engineer, you should try to get the optimum solution possible. Obviously, I'm not pointing to you directly but to people in general.

And yes, I do know that there's analysis paralysis situation as well, but a good engineer know where that line is, and to stop just before that line.
Care to elaborate on "all of the bad things"? If there's anything to take away from this discussion on Mandela, it's that there are a lot of misunderstandings about what actually happened, especially if you are primarily informed by American media.
So, men always guess it's a man, and women always guess it's a woman?
For me (in The Netherlands) the domain is not up yet:

> The domain that you are trying to use does not exist. Please click on one of the links below to help find your site.

> ResolvingNameServer.com provided as a free service by DNS Made Easy, the world leader in Enterprise DNS Service.
Johann Fichte, Alfred Whitehead and Ross L. Finney are some thinkers off the top of my mind that were influential in shaping the compulsory schooling system.

Intent is something many people are willing to brush off as mere conspiracy theory, but it is present. Hanlon's razor does not necessarily apply to political contexts.
Its not wasted time if you enjoy doing it.
Writing MapReduce Jobs with Clojure
how the f is it reasonable to assume that it will preserve purchasing power, based on the assumption that it will be stable?

I can set up a chain of assumptions about the dollar based on actual historical precedence & Bitcoiners will whine & whine but because Bitcoin is "so pure" or something you think it's safe to chain a set of dependent assumptions together & say "This is how its goin down"?
Unfortunately the differences genetically between different groups, aka ancestry, is less than the differences between individuals in the same group, so the medical part is what is interesting.
A lot of the theory behind "Apple should buy Nintendo" is premised on the idea that Nintendo would release its games on iOS -- something it is under a lot of pressure to do, regardless of whether Apple were ever to buy it.

Nintendo, being a hardware company like Apple, would much rather you buy its games on 3DS (or whatever future system) than on iOS devices. But it may not have that choice indefinitely. Its hardware sales (Wii U and 3DS) have been in freefall. Its software is the one bright spot in its portfolio right now. Its overall financial health is tenuous.

Regardless, I don't really have a position on whether or not Nintendo should make iOS games. I'm addressing the "Should Apple buy Nintendo?" argument, to which my position is "Why?" Absent some sort of fire-sale opportunity to scoop up Nintendo if/when it approaches collapse, or to buy it on the cheap in a defensive move against Android, I don't see the pressing need.
What kind of benchmarks were you looking for? Benchmarks with respect to speed or MNIST results? For MNIST, using the DNN example, Hebel gets results that are in line with reported results on the MNIST homepage [1] for similar models (pure Neural nets with cross-entropy error and no distortions etc), which is about 1.3% error.

There are some unit tests in Hebel though [2], even though coverage is not complete.

[1] http://yann.lecun.com/exdb/mnist/
[2] https://github.com/hannes-brt/hebel/blob/master/hebel_test.p...
Who says that creativity implies risk? This article treats the two as equivalent.
Domain unavailable here too in the Pacific Northwest of the US.
Still, if you send through their API you still need to list mailgun.org in your domain's SPF records (because you define ...@memofromsanta.com as the sender).
- Good Work.
I keep all security questions and answers in Keepass. If you had done that would you have been locked out?
Is this guy serious? He is literally insulting people for enjoying learning stuff they are interested in because it doesn't carry the Seal of Institutional Approval. He even calls Gates shallow for enjoying a course on oceanography!

>Jonathan Freedman is a professor of English and American culture

I don't mean to demean any discipline, but I wonder if his specialization has anything to do with the condescending tone. I just completed 3 MOOC's on coursera (Algorithms with Sedgewick, that Scala course with Odersky and, my favorite, Programming Languages with Dan Grossman) and I assure you none of them were "lists, hooks, easy handles". They were difficult and I gave several dozen hours of hard work to them. I wonder if he has ever actually attempted a course? More likely just turned up his nose at all the commoners trying to get an education.

I leave you with this totally serious quote from that article:

>Yes, the vulgarians who run Coursera and Udacity deserve to be swept into the dustbin of history, and the fact that they seem not to have figured out how to profit from their enterprises suggests that they'll soon be hoist by their own capitalist petard.
This is a great option. It's about time!
Same in NE US.
That's actually how it works. If you target an ad to /r/programming it will show up on the frontpage for users subscribed to /r/programming.
I heard about a service called Promethease[1] that will apparently give you some in-depth reporting as well as risk levels for disease. It may be of interest to you.

[1] https://promethease.com/ondemand
Very interesting! I'm curious about the parser's error reporting for malformed input -- does it use Irony's default error reporting, or a custom solution? Are error reports good, bad, or lacking in any way?
I have an unused kit from the 99$ sale years ago... Crap. Will they still provide all of the data? One could create a 3rd party service to give the same analysis?
What resources did you use to learn NodeJS?
Their 'Check Records' tool tells me my records are fine. I'm on the chat with them at the moment, trying to figure it out. Thanks.
Diggin it. Already using Elfster though!
3D Systems and Motorola Explore 3D Printed Lego-Like Modular Smartphones
It's the same article, just got reprinted.
That's funny, according to https://www.whatsmydns.net/#A/psdgrade.com (which is not a complete list of course) some DNS servers have the entry and some have the old 54.235.159.97 (that's the parked domain). The URL http://162.243.32.243/ seems to work fine.
Currently, when I fill out the form, I have no idea what's going out to the recipients - perhaps a mad libs-esque design would explain why each field, e.g. party title, is necessary :)
I was referring to myself. I want to be online and know who has signed up, who needs support, how the next project is progressing. I am not selling pixels or chips.
If it is not resolving try these

http://psdlint.com
http://www.psdgrade.com
Tripping through time, space and color-bending coded artwork
Looks like the math is off for the grade.

Received an F for a place and still got a 100% A somehow.

http://i.imgur.com/CaEeG3o.jpg
Hopefully they got all of the rats [1] out of the production facility.

[1] http://www.vice.com/motherboard/life-after-food/
Meanwhile, in the political system we live in, most Americans think that a balanced budget should be achieved by cutting foreign aid.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/04/09/americans-want-to-b...

"Market exchange is a pathetically inadequate substitute for love, but it scales better."
I guess I will be making screenshots of all the health information in my 23andme account now. Who knows if they'll be allowed to keep it up there indefinitely?
Friendly note: It's piqued, not peaked. Used to make the same mistake myself. Pique means: "stimulate (interest or curiosity)."

To say that your interest peaked, means the article went down hill from that point on :P

And yeah, I read that joke in one of Ze Frank's voices: (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFzz6EZmkq8)
My gut tells me that part of the reason why Reddit was a flop is AdBlock. I would not be surprises is much of r/programming ran it. These guys are tech savy without necessarily being in the start-up scene.

Numbers that low could be attributed to miss-clicks, users who thought it was an r/programming post.

All speculation mind.