skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It isn't all that weird to hear that. Peter Singer's paper "Famine, Affluence, and Morality" suggested that if we can help and we don't reduce ourselves to marginal utility we should help. For example, you can skip breakfast and save $5 for the poor. If we reduce ourselves to the point we can die from starvation, as in not eating for a week to save $100, that's not helping. He also mentions (I am paraphrasing) that if we know that by not helping them now can reduce population and decrease the famine severity, that might be a better route to take. Now Singer's point may be controversial, but that's the difference between a utilitarian and an denotologist (and an absolutist).
You're right. That should say "because professors are incapable of handling its consequences". I think the point stands, though.
Cool I am going to host the "Male Founders Conference" And no girls are allowed.

What are you implicitly stating here? Women aren't good enough to stand toe to toe with male founders so the only way they will ever be able to succeed is if they are given special treatment. Why can't I go to this event and learn from female founders do they have nothing of value to convey to me as a male ?
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> All because they feel the need to control the course selection process.

It's almost as if the entire purpose of their institution was controlling the course selection process. You know. By offering courses in the first place.
But the bottom line argument is that when everyone gets paid in the same currency, the exchange fees go away. This can happen with US $ or Yan.
On Being (Mentally) Well
I see what you're saying. However, I wouldn't attribute to malice "attempts to conceal by presenting it as something it is not" what could otherwise be explained by the difficulty in getting a different globally available metric. GDP per capita is a metric that is globally available from reputable sources.

Is there a different globally available metric from reputable sources that you would suggest?
Correct me if I'm wrong, but are you somehow saying that procreation should be more or less random? That it's better if people don't get to decide when they will have children?

What's your opinion of people who choose to remain celibate?
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Shouldn't one of the first sentences of the article contain a deadline on how long the service will remain functional? It's the most important thing current users have to know.
Morning stand-up meetings and the office kitchen.
Why don't they do this in Silicon Valley -- teaming up with businesses to offer paid (paired-up) apprenticeships to qualified attendees?
True. I remember when that study was first posted that it did have curious metrics that were surprising in their own right, but it was disappointing that nothing was correlated by manufacturer. I can understand why that might have been the case. The potential for litigation would have been enormous. ;)

From my perspective (speaking as a consumer), it's more useful to have information about the relative quality of each and their tradeoffs. AFAIK, Seagate produces among the fastest mechanical drives on the market, but it appears you exchange longevity for speed...
How "automatically"? Seconds? Minutes? Hours? In other words, how much time passes between the customer paying X bitcoins, and those are converted into Y USD?
Google Launches AdSense Direct, A New Tool For Direct Ad Sales
Cool product, but apparently rendered moot.
Traffic Forecasts (autos on roads, USA)
It is. I'm in Minneapolis, it showed Minneapolis.
Report: % Of Americans Suffer From Synesthesia
It's different for every business but typically a CEO is the visionary, strategic leader of the company while the president leads the day-to-day operations.

If Github started selling insurance, there's a good chance they would have a president for Github Code and a president for Github Insurance. They wouldn't have two CEO's, though.
As expected, Microsoft isn't the only gaming company paying youtubers
"No, you're stating your opinion without appealing to religion, but you haven't argued for it at all."

I'm stating my perspective and trying to back it up by my reasoning:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7097722
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7097478
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7097670
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7097627

But maybe all I'm doing is stating my opinion and that I just don't know the difference.
Sequoia Capital partner Luis Robles departs
Casey's quickly become one of my favorite hosts. He seems like such a nice and entertaining person.
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to the moon

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much peace and love

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> Cool I am going to host the "Male Founders Conference"

I feel like I've seen that conference before, many times. Don't get me wrong, there were some very good speakers. But if one is trying to differentiate, and try something fresh, an all women conference makes a lot of sense.
Internet Archive looking for software to extract political ads from TV archives
Didn't really address the fact that there isn't a way to delete my account. And I've already received a marketing email, so... now I really want to delete my account.
fn+return does the trick on macs.

Tab works once you focus the map itself by e.g. clicking a node.
So only treating the sick is discrimination against healthy people?
Whether it is logically inconsistent depends on how you define several terms. Of course everyone is going to choose definitions that make their points of view self-consistent... so that obstacle needs to be cleared first. You very quickly fall down a relativist hole.

The best way out of that hole is to describe things literally, with as little interpretation as possible.

For example, if you interview a hypothetical person Alex, and Alex claims to be a feminist, then you could write: "Alex, a self-described feminist, ..." but should perhaps avoid writing "Alex, a feminist, ..."

The first only relies on you, the audience, and Alex agreeing on the very basics of the English language. The second implies some sort of agreement between you and Alex on what it is to be a feminist; basically you are injecting your assessment of Alex's beliefs. In the first, the audience may disagree with Alex, but they should have very little room to disagree with you. In the second, the audience disagreeing with Alex pulls you into the fray as well.
From moot's blog post, "Building any business is hard".

This statement could not be more true. I've had the fortune of founding a successful company. And yet, I still find that building new revenue streams is a royal pain. Building a business requires a herculean effort, and even then most fail.

First time founders often make the mistake of iterating various potential revenue streams. But the reality is you'll be lucky to create one substantial revenue stream.

"but you also fail your investors"

Not that this should make moot feel any better, but failing when it's your own money is no better. You'll spend time thinking about all of the stuff you could have bought that would have been a better use of that cash.
Show HN: Limelight - An open source implementation of Nvidia  GameStream
That summary of the Asimov story is very interesting. Do you have the name of the story if I want to read it ?
You wrote that issue is stigmatization. But by creating separate group we make stigmatization worse.

This field already has lowest possible entry bar. IT sucks and not all people want to work here. Get over it.
Geocoda (http://geocoda.com) launched last year, does point storage as well as geocoding, and should be comparable for low amounts of geocoding, and cheaper for large amounts per month (> 250K).
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Atomic power gave rise to both the nuclear bomb and the nuclear power plant. Does one justify the other? Probably not, but it sure is nice to have a source of clean energy available.

I don't think that Internet of Things is that big of a practical gain, but I do see the potential there for some pretty cool applications. Imagine if every power switch in your house could be controlled from your phone. Or if you could do inventory in a warehouse by asking each crate what its contents was. Or a farm where every tomato plant can tell you if it needs more water.

The privacy issues are separate from the possibilities that the technology provides. Surely we can figure out a way to build a system that's secure. Or choose not to introduce these things into our daily lives. I think just the industrial uses are very interesting here.
"The design goal of dlib is to make C as practical and concise as Perl"
True, but there was a time prior to that, before modernization. "Those sandal-wearing goldfish tenders? Ha ha! Bosh! Flimshaw!"
Out of curiosity, which was the specific argument which changed your mind?
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nope. its all based on repeat and referral. My first customer wanted to sell a pair of $1200 shoes but didn't know how so I put them on eBay for her. That one pair turned into two which then became her entire closet. She then referred me to a friend who did the same and thats been the foundation of my business ever since. 100% repeat and referral. I avoid unsolicited inquires as much as possible because they typically arent worth the headache. I even fire customers that make my business hard using the 80/20 theory.
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Offensive Security (of the Kali Linux fame) are doing an IAMA on Reddit
The USD is a debt based currency, so that is expected.

Bitcoins are a proof of work based currency, but unfortunately it acts more like a commodity at the moment.
Antimatter experiment produces first beam of antihydrogen
How to get predictions from Pylearn2, applied to the Kaggle Cats & Dogs contest
I haven't read anything about the conference, other than from the title, it seems to be geared towards women. That's fine - just hoping men aren't ban from it, and wouldn't be ridiculed or outcast if they did attend.
The only problem is when the people who are throwing the sexist event go on to claim they are against sexism. The logical position is to say that it is indeed sexist but that it is necessary, but they lose their standing to complain about a Founder's Club - Men Only event.
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Looks great !!!
Tom Sargent, the econ Nobel Laureate, has a great website with examples in numpy/scipy solving some well-known micro/macro problems.

http://quant-econ.net/
Oh, shit. Our startups should have been ready today? Shit! I failed, too. I haven't even started yet!
"Questions for the women of HN"

There are women here?!
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I maybe phrased that poorly. I don't think it's a defining commonality that good startups don't go to the networking events, but rather that the good startups (as defined by: growing users/revenue/people and taking on funding) are not as defined by networking and hustling as the "not good" ones (by which I mean: pre-product/not growing/not funded). For example, anecdotally, people on my team would much rather work in the office until 7pm and then hang out together than go to a networking event.

This is as much by necessity as anything else. When nobody knows who you are, you need to go and meet investors. But I certainly felt that the OP fell into a trap of feeling like it was vital to be doing that, like I did in the early days.
> The practical consequence of solving this problem is that Bitcoin gives us, for the first time, a way for one Internet user to transfer a unique piece of digital property to another Internet user, such that the transfer is guaranteed to be safe and secure, everyone knows that the transfer has taken place, and nobody can challenge the legitimacy of the transfer. The consequences of this breakthrough are hard to overstate.

But bitcoin doesn't do this at all. This is what makes Bitcoin amazing, but it doesn't solve this issue yet. Bitcoin is interesting since it is a minor revelation from providing this, but it seems incorrect to assert that this is the cool thing about Bitcoins right now.
Posts like this are the reason why I trust Backblaze.

In general I'm very suspicious about the unlimited offerings. When they tell the technical details I get the feeling they are up to task and not just reselling S3 and hoping people pay but don't actually use the storage.
My position on birth control comes from seeing human life as something worth bringing into the world.

I agree with the view that human life is something worth bringing into the world; but don't you think there's value in letting people choose when they bring human life into the world?

Most people I know want to have kids -- just not yet.
Son of a bitch!
InVision Launches Android Prototyping
Researchers achieve fastest real-world fiber speeds of 1.4Tb/s
Man Interrogated By FBI For Wearing Google Glass At The Movies [confirmed]
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3 major Google algo changes you REALLY need to address to win at SEO in 2014
It's worth re-reading this wonderful book every couple of years. Every time I do, I see something new, either in the story itself, or in the writing craft, or in the story's context in society, as our world changes.

It's also worth asking ourselves each time we re-read 1984, are we farther away or closer to the life depicted in the book, than last time we read it?
Code crackers hate her!
How is Linux support for these?

I had tough luck getting even 802.11n speeds on Linux. Are there any USB WiFi cards which actually work? I got D-Link DWA-160, but it never connects on the n band, only on b/g which limits it to approx. 50 Mbit/s. (I'm using rt2800usb driver).
There's been a lot of anger around Twitter on this. I've also seen a lot of people cherry-picking a non-native speaker's words out of context too. Specifically, "Ruby is not a project for security."

That doesn't mean that this bug is not important, or that the Ruby team's decision as it currently stands is a good one. But it's a complex issue.
Rather strange and confused comment. Many people have expressed concern "Saving lives leads to overpopulation". It is a common concern of donors[1] and this view seems to be particularly common among those primarily concerned about sustainably and climate change[2][3]. You are simply unaware of the complaints that health campaigners in the developing world, like Bill Gates, actually face.

You appear to be simply grasping at straws so that you can find fault with Bill Gates.

[1] http://blog.givewell.org/2008/08/03/infant-mortality-and-ove...

[2] http://articles.latimes.com/2011/jul/21/opinion/la-oe-harte-...

[3] http://www.conserve-energy-future.com/causes-effects-solutio...
Huh. An 'unfair competition' lawsuit by someone with a nominally competing payment product ('FaceCash') ...

After reading your CrunchBase profile, where I saw that you have your own competing product, and looking at the list of defendants in that lawsuit, may I just say that while I don't bear you any ill will (and in fact I wish you well), I don't hope that you win this.

That doesn't mean much since I base that opinion on so little, but here's my thinking, in case it's useful to you in communicating to others:

We need innovation in this space in the worst way possible. The VCs are showing up, and I'm nervous about their interaction with BitCoin. But however unsavory or unfair their motives or tactics, in the fight between traditional 'money transmitters' and bitcoin, the VCs find themselves on the side of the angels, fighting against premature regulation of a potentially world-changing technology.

BitCoin is a completely new and different thing, and it provides a lot of capabilities to companies that use it that those companies would otherwise have to do themselves -- and that central banks have to do, as well.

Sure, if BitCoin didn't exist, you'd have to do a lot of things yourself that the BitCoin network now makes trivial. But why should those companies be forced by law to pretend that BitCoin and its network don't exist? And don't have the properties that they have?
why not generate all possible brackets and submit?
I read that book my senior year in high-school, and to this day I will cite it as one of the - if not THE - most influential books I've ever read. I know Orwell was no libertarian, but what I took from the book (probably influenced by a genetic proclivity towards rebellion and anti-authoritarian thinking) was a tremendous mistrust of government... which I suspect was a strong influence on my eventually settling into a libertarian worldview.

Some people say that Nineteen Eighty-Four wasn't written to be a warning, and maybe it wasn't - but I have a hard time seeing how anybody could read it and not discover something of a warning inside. And I think that's even more true given the various revelations over the past few years, vis-a-vis surveillance and diminishing civil liberties.

I encourage anybody who hasn't read Nineteen Eighty-Four to go read it immediately. If you aren't either angry has hell, or sad as hell, or both, at the end, you're a rare breed.

http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks01/0100021.txt
Oh, yes, of course it doesn't do that, but it's still a useful thing. It's so short it hardly seems worth talking about, but, hey, I went a long time without using such a simple technique myself, so it probably is.
I last re-read it about 5 or 6 years ago, IIRC. I'd say we're closer to that life now, than then.
If all human beings on earth used the resources as much as an average American does, it would need the resources of the 7 earth to meet the demand.

Poor country have larger populations, but they ain't using earth resources as much.

What Gates is trying to do, transfer the resources to poor people to make up for this disproportion of resources due to wealth possessed by the comparatively richer people.
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It's a good question, as it's a very vaguely defined job title, but generally the CEO sets overall vision, and managing the board, investors, etc (i.e. external facing) - and the President focuses on execution of that vision (i.e. internal facing). President/COO are interchangeable in this case.

Think about Facebook: Zuckerberg sets direction/vision, and Sandberg executes against that. (I'm sure it's not as clear-cut in reality, but you get the idea.)

In some larger companies, there are multiple presidents with responsibility for their own divisions, who all report up to the CEO.
I cannot imagine mustering any offense toward a group of people for spending their own money to organize a conference about a topic that interests them. None.

Good for them for doing something they're passionate about.

There is of course a genuine (world-wide) problem they're trying to solve. As Paul Graham himself has written:

> I also think girls are less likely to become nerds than boys of equal intelligence, possibly because they’re more sensitive to social pressures. In my school, at least, girls made more of an effort to conform than boys.

If this conference could encourage girls to take risks (socially and financially) rather than go with the flow, that would be huge and extremely positive.

In a society that is far more sensitive to girls' needs than boys' needs, however, I do fear that conferences like this further marginalize disadvantaged boys (of all races). The overwhelming majority of boys do not go on to start startups, nor do the overwhelming majority of boys think they have a realistic shot. We all do a great job of completely ignoring those boys' needs, assuring ourselves that "nearly every senator and billionaire tech founder is a man, so boys will end up doing just fine".

It might be time for people to start catering conferences toward this growing, ignored group of young people.

Of course, that is NOT YC's responsibility. Just because they want to work on one issue doesn't mean they're morally obligated to work on another.

I hope this conference goes well for everyone involved.
That's what I thought! Oy.
We aren't going to send Seal Team 6 in to knife everyone we want to kill around the world.

Drone strikes are more accurate than F14's bombing buildings, and also safer for American soldiers (since they can't get shot down), thus they are a gain vs. a loss in terms of US personnel killed and accidental collateral damage (but this is still not the ideal 0%).
Exploits can escape your browser sandbox.
> Cool I am going to host the "Male Founders Conference" And no girls are allowed.

You can apply if you are male.

> Why can't I go to this event and learn from female founders do they have nothing of value to convey to me as a male ?

I think the conference goal is pretty clear: help aspiring female founders start more startups, the same way Startup School does.
"This field" refers to tech, and the startup scene in particular.
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Seems the article confuses the raw symbol rate with delivered L3 bandwidth (as evidenced by the testbench comment in the beginning).

See eg. http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/wireless/2003/08/08/wireless...
Micropayment channels do provide very small payments without flooding the network: https://code.google.com/p/bitcoinj/wiki/WorkingWithMicropaym...
I suspect that most general interest applications could generate revenue eventually with enough cash put in (the exception being fundamentally flawed business models - "let's sell bags of rocks over the internet to children!").

But the curse is that the longer your runway, the more cash you've raised/invested, the longer payoff time, and the longer you/your investors have to wait to get there.

That's why shutting down and cutting your losses is worth it in a lot of cases. If you don't see a clear path to the hockey stick or to breakeven, you're better off closing the doors, even if you can raise a little more money.

And I would say that the difference between DrawSomething and Google and Twitter is that the upside potential is correspondingly larger. Search is ubiquitous, twitter is a communications mechanism (albeit one I never "got" or cared for). DrawSomething is more of a game, and while games can definitely make money, it's a highly competitive space with lots of churn. It's just less appealing from an upside potential.

So, when you solve really big problems, you might be able to raise more capital for a longer runway, because the risk/reward is greater. I suspect that DrawSomething was cool, users liked it, but that it didn't have the upside potential that something else might have.

I give Chris credit for recognizing this and walking away - and for all we know, there might have been more money to raise, but at terms he didn't care for. Which is totally reasonable.
You've only claimed it had value to Uncle Sam here, we're far from “intrinsic”.
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Then you can attend. The invitation request form explicitly has a box to denote your gender. That implies to me that men are welcome, if they want to attend. I assume the webpage says "Are you a woman who..." because that is their target audience.
Good question, I have no idea. Did a quick search and found this:

http://beagleboard.org/project/CryptoCape/

And from there additional info about the hwrng lead me here:

http://processors.wiki.ti.com/index.php/Cryptography_Users_G...

It looks like it is just a module compile away.

Not sure about the rate of /dev/hwrng though.