skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>I remember reading somewhere that in ancient times they would memorize lots of data by imagining walking through a house.

Sherlock makes use of this as well :)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Method_of_loci

It actually seems quite legit. I'm tempted to attempt it. I wonder if I could imagine my code/project in this way. To visualize each file, each function, each block as physical objects in a mind palace.
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I agree with Sten that it's a pitty that Europe doesn't receive more attention from SV. But most Europeans don't care. Most people don't want to be like SV. We don't care that there isn't as many startups. We're happy about living a balanced life and that most people here can do that (Most think it's ok to be taxed hard so that so many don't have to suffer and at least get healthcare and shelter...). People just don't strive to be financially hugely successful. Doing good is enough so that you can focus on what's important for you, which for most europeans isn't work. The ones that love to push their intellectual boundaries all the time and devote themself to work find their niche in Europe or move to the Valley. That's ok. I've heard from friends in SF that a lot of people there are "depressed" because of their high ambitions that they're not reaching. Europeans are often considered a bit boring. We don't have the same highs as in SF of pushing something amazing forward every day. There are good and bad sides to both of these places.
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>I haven't taken a look at it, but would it make sense to add dynamic <original>.translate.googleusercontent.com subdomains for translated sites and add the base domain to the public suffix list?

random hash as a sandbox.<hash>.guc.com will work.
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(2) is incorrect in that the tensor product is not the category theoretical product in Vect.

The product of Vect is given by forming the cartesian product of the vector spaces (with the usual vector space structure on it; and the usual projections into the components are the morphisms you need for the product).

The coproduct is the direct sum of vector spaces: In the product construction, take all those vectors where only finitely many coordinates are non-zero (but the morphisms you need for the coproduct are the embeddings of the components into the direct sum).

Of course, if you take products or coproducts of finitely many vector spaces, the two coincide.

The tensor product is neither a product nor a coproduct in Vect, as the universal property it satisfies is rather different from the product/coproduct ones.

(If you consider tensor products of algebras over a commutative base ring R, then the tensor product is the coproduct in the category of R-algebras, but this is probably not what you had in mind.)
As soon as we can talk to computers to code, we can start actually make the language for it.

Think "include I-O, method int main take int argument count, character pointer values. Body print Hello world, Exclamation mark. Edit line 6, capital w for world. Move line 8. Return zero. Compile and run."

Start adding in gesture and stuff and you can get rid of the 'moves' and 'edits'.

And definitely stop thinking in the old-fashioned C way of truncating every variable name to some bizarrely short name and start speaking properly. Most other languages have given up this readability disaster already.
Zurich is a tenth the size of silicon valley by population though, and it is a big financial centre too. There are other comparable tech-specific places, like Sophia Antipolis, Toulouse.

By github usage, which seems a decent proxy [1], London is second after San Francisco, followed by Paris, and Berlin is only 7 (much smaller city though, so density could be higher).

[1] http://www.itworld.com/cloud-computing/376551/where-world-ar...
I suspect that most of us believe it might be justifiable to kill people to protect a website.

Do you (or anyone else) oppose having armed guards protecting a data center? Armed guards protecting a data center means that someone might get killed to protect a website.

(You can draw other moral distinctions, and I'm not defending this guy in particular. I'm just pointing out that the specific argument you are making is most likely incorrect.)
In the US, Europe and elsewhere, the S.O.P. is "Might makes right" => "We're going to beat the shit out of you if we feel like it, and there's nothing you can do about it. Oh and we're going to rob (whatever personal property or money is on you) too.* "

* This happens not in a "3rd-world country," but in the U.S. of A.
Every time I consider the VR / 3D desktop, the big problem I run into is: what productivity, efficiency or ease-of-use gain is there? The only benefit I see is just a gee-whiz factor.

Why would I want to have to reach over and open a virtual filing cabinet? I can click a 2D folder easier and faster, and view the content faster in a line list. Reproducing archaic physical storage and work systems into a 3D space is going backwards, that includes a fake wooden desk and wastebin under it.

It's not so much the headgear presentation I view as an issue, but rather the theory of the '3D' desktop. My prediction is that over the next 20 years, companies will attempt over and over again to push consumers into it, and it'll fail every time because there is no real value gain. What will happen instead is 2D desktop interfaces will become multiplied and easier to use several of in a faux 3D space that is easy to use for your average person (by strictly limiting 3D spatial skill requirements or motion). Something much more akin to flipping the multi-home pages on Android.
London has two world class universities and Cambridge is pretty local.
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Here's a simple example (in their repository) :
https://github.com/tailrecursion/hoplon-uberwar
link : https://github.com/tailrecursion/hoplon-demos/tree/master/ca...
If you are interested, 'Moonwalking with Einstein' is all about memorization contests and it talks about the method of loci.
Even if they state they intend to protect individual freedoms, there is no guarantee. Reality shows that all systems can be perverted and all rules reinterpreted to mean something else.
>for a USB cable

And selling it to you for literally +2000% on cost. Seems these days things like cables or headphones are ridiculously marked up. You visit dealextreme and suddenly you realize; yeah, I've been doing it critically wrong.
If that was a Linux box, I would have booted into single user mode and changed the password. Or temporarily mounted the hard drive in a different machine and modified /etc/shadow directly. I assume you can do something similar in FreeBSD? Quicker then a re-install.
First? I've got a Midwesterner working for me. At least for him? it doesn't seem to be hurting his work.

My opinion is that while it's super nice, socially, to be around people who are into what you are into in person, it doesn't make that much difference when it comes to getting actual work done. Now, sales? raising money? all that bullshit where you have to interact with business people? face-time matters a lot. But for purely technical work, hell, I'll be working in the same house as someone and I'll communicate via IM, because it's less disruptive.

On the other hand, he's working for me - If you want to make money? you have to find a competent business person, or at least a business person with money, and most of those guys want to look you in the eye. Not all, but most.

That's the thing; I get a lot of offers to merge, to invest, and to do other business-type things because I'm here and active in the community. I'm not even that active. But you know what? I haven't made a dime off of any of those. (and some of those have cost me enough to buy a central-valley condo) - As for the parts of my business that actually make me money? I could do those from just about anywhere. Of course, that probably says more about my skillset than anything else; I've had serious offers from people with serious money (well, serious money by my standards)

My own experience? moving to silicon valley was more than worth it. But, I've lived in silicon valley, I've lived very near berkeley and I've lived in the central valley. I haven't spent serious time other places. Avoid the central valley. It's not cheap enough to put up with the culture and weather, in my opinion.

Yeah, housing is expensive. but the thing about housing? well, the increase is a percentage of the cost of housing, so if you are okay with modest digs? 2x what you would pay for modest digs in the central valley (probably 4x what you'd pay in the midwest) still not very much money compared to what you are getting paid, and I'm okay with modest digs. (Of course, if you like really nice digs... that percentage increase really hits you.)

One big downside to the south bay is that our public transit is absolute shit. You might consider the Berkeley area for that. VTA doesn't look that bad on paper? But it is nearly completely useless. BART, on the other hand, is pretty good by west-coast standards.
Though, at entrepreneur meetups/event, it's funny EVERYBODY speaks English. Just yesterday at hy berlin, all the pitches were in English and 1/3rd of the people getting food/drinks are non-Germans. So almost every conversation between 3 people had one english speak and was thus held in English.^^
It's a book ideal that doesn't recognize reality: the fallibility and self-interests of individuals.
I wonder if the delivery industry is only going to get bigger, and actually employ more humans, considering scenarios like yours. I guess with drones and self driving cars it can be utterly automated, but really that won't happen for at least 5 years and only in top tier cities.

I've always respected the delivery/transport industry. It's just so utterly necessary and will always be such.
If I were always perfect on the first draft I'd agree with you. But keyboards are far better suited for editing than voice is.
i posted a real fix below. sadly this fix the one you mentioned doesn't always work for me. also, usually i wouldn't notice that the bug happened until my battery was half drained
Mr. Money Mustache's account of how he retired at age 30: http://www.mrmoneymustache.com/2013/02/22/getting-rich-from-...
Start off with two profiles and go from there. I use virtual desktops (spaces on OS X) to manage it. Space 2 is gmail, space 3 is logged in sites, space 4 is development, etc.

Once you get used to it you instinctively switch without thinking about it

I also created an app for OS X that creates temporary throwaway browser sessions for any supported browser you have installed:

https://github.com/nikcub/tmpbrowser

Makes it easier than using command line options and creating users
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Reminiscent of the consolidated.db debacle:

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2011/apr/20/iphone-tra...
So kindly explain what's wrong, in principle, with defining book ideals and then using these as criteria to evaluate the success of organizations?

The Peelian principles have been largely obscured or ignored in recent decades, and arguably they were always a bit hollow -- but the history of British policing since the 1830s has had significantly less emphasis on raw offensive firepower than other police systems: even today the vast majority of British cops do not ever carry guns, and per a 2006 poll of members of the Police Federation, 82% of officers don't want to routinely carry guns:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-19641398

This demonstrates, if nothing else, that even after 170-180 years a high-minded book ideal can have a long term effect on an institution (even though we as a species seem to be extremely bad at keeping institutions on track on any time frame longer than a human working lifespan).

And, if I may editorialize a little, being aware that it is possible to constitute a police force along radically unfamiliar lines should free us from the tyranny of low expectations that leads us to assume that current abuses of police powers are inevitable and unexceptional.

We can do better, and we deserve better.
I hope it's legit, I was taught this method in school, at around 13 years old (now 31).

I don't use it very often, but when I do I picture the same house I lived in at the time. I wouldn't necessarily say I can remember lots of data with it, but maybe the order of 20-50 items doesn't take too long.
ahh yes, one of those china stories where only bad news is the politically correct / accepted news.

http://www.economist.com/news/finance-and-economics/21594345...
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What exactly are you trying to achieve with that, if I may ask?
80-hour work week for months is the only option if you are working on your ideas in parallel with stable, paying job. Then you quit and the project is just barely getting off the ground. You worked 80h/wk so far, so you have this chance to double your productivity. In fact, that's exactly why you quit, so it's damn sure that you keep working the 80h schedule. And then it becomes progressively hard to go back to the normal working hours, because it implies slacking.

So it's not a matter of believing in 80-hour engineering weeks and it's not a matter of choice for many people. It's just how things naturally develop when you are starting on your own.
But Y would I want to do a thing like this? http://weblog.raganwald.com/2007/02/but-y-would-i-want-to-do...
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Except you can lock your bitcoins in 5-of-9 multisignature transaction among 9 of your friends in San Francisco, London, Paris and Moscow with an agreement to not sign the transaction unless you are safe and can talk directly to them.
"No they're "fleeing" because of a 70% upper marginal tax bracket on person income"

Not quite true.
"Beyond 500 000 euros in yearly revenue, the maximum tax rate on the revenue is 49 %. The 75 % tax bracket was censored by the Conseil constitutionnel, and is now paid by the companies." [1]

"And I question how many have actually left".

Apparently, it's no so clear.

"The idea that France is experiencing a massive tax exile is widespread in some political circles and sometimes covered in the press, but there are absolutely no tangible proof that such an exile is happening." [1]

[1] - http://decodeurs.blog.lemonde.fr/2014/01/06/the-fall-of-news...
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Initial driving lessons, pilot training, Movies where you're sat inside the scenery. Virtual conferences, meetings, lectures, school lessons. Virtual strip clubs. Virtual weddings. The list is almost endless. If something can be done in VR, somebody will program it.

It's gonna be so massive and so addictive, I predict within ten years there'll be news stories about people dying in VR from malnutrition or heart failure and clinics specialising in VR addicition.
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>"This is crazy to me as an operator"

But they are in debt, they are in debt with their customers. What would be crazy is to recognise a 5 year service commitment as 1 year. This is no different from how the NYT, The Economist, National Geographic... account for the yearly subs. http://www.fasb.org/revenue_recognition.shtml

Imagine that GoDaddy is acquired by another company, and this other company wants to pivot GoDaddy's business into only hosting. The new owners need to recognise that there is cash in the balance sheet from domain registration services, a service that is yet to be offered. It could even be the case that that cash from domain registrations is no longer in the balance sheet, but has already been distributed as a dividend. If GoDaddy stops providing a service it has committed to, they have to pay back customers. Plain and simple. That to me is a liability, but it is not financial "leverage" or debt as you imply. This liability is noted as "Prepaid revenues" and hence not recognised as financial debt a.k.a leverage.
Can you still find usable MIPS hardware these days? You're probably eschewing keyboards and monitors as well, and program $20 routers by toggling connections on their serial ports.
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No matter why some users do this: It sucks. I mean I am the one giving the answer - I am the expert. It should be the expert who decides which term/sentence should be emphasised and which don't. I have nothing against correcting my bad english but when it comes to the content or formatting I don't want to be messed with it unless you want me to leave.
There is an opinion that AI Winter was caused by dramatic spending cuts, which quickly results in "brain power shortage", and has nothing to do with The Common Lisp, which is considered as [modest] success.)
I've heard billions go out of Russia every day, the old fashioned way...by train. I'm not sure if its true or not, but cash is kind of portable.
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Jello Biafra speaks of his possessions being seized in a police raid in the 80s, and the sheriff's office sold them off before he even went to trial - this was (is?) legal in his county.
How to be more Productive, by Aaron Swartz - http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/productivity
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Water in China isn't potable in general. We laugh at your west virginian river water contamination with the Songhua.
I think he should leave if he can, not to punish the manager, but in order to not punish himself.

I think managers should be wise this is their job, and developers don't need to make their job easy, they earn a lot of money anyway.

I see this trend lately where developers suddenly need to make everybody's job easier. Now developers need to make the HR people understand that... they need to make the stake holders understand that... etc etc Really?

Many programmers I know are very frugal and some single, and some are very resilient so they need to make a lot of people understand that there are limits and boundaries someone should not cross and that everybody should do their work.

Developers cannot do qualitative development in sweatshop environment.
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But it can't.
Yes you're totally right. The machine was/is a embedded low consumption headless server, but you can do that using a FreeBSD image and VMware.
What G+ service will replace it?
I agree with you vasilipupkin... It is very hard for both employee and CEO to manage their work and Family Life Balance. But, we do not forget that CEO is the commanding officer of his army and It takes lot of stress and thinking to take a right step for his company future...

But, I have a solution for these as well... Give some of the responsibility to your co-founders means they can take the final decision in that particular area. Through that, CEO can save himself from lot of stress and also can make some time to share with his family...
It worked out what language I was using. Neat.

Edit: Aha. It uses http://highlightjs.org/
Plus another host of side effects like:cybersickness, dissociation(a serious mental disease) and lower sense of presence in objective reality, unstable gait.

http://www.quora.com/Oculus-Rift/Virtual-Reality-Oculus-Rift...
Switzerland is the polar opposite of China, at least that's my feeling from living in both countries (2 years in the former, 6+ years in the latter).
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"maybe I'm foolish, I want my kids to grow in China"

You make it sound like China is some kind of eldorado whereas your country (France?) is crime ridden with a government that is expropriating his citizens.

If I was to be reincarnated randomly somewhere in China or Europe, I would choose Europe with no hesitation.

"The air is bad but they will respect their teacher and elders, they will be able to safely walk in any streets"

Personally, I think air quality is more of a concern than petty theft.
If you have ADHD, get Ritalin or Adderall. It also works for People without ADHD (doping).

In Israel everybody is allowed to get Ritalin.
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As opposed to within China where only good news is politically correct.

http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/
It actually is quite condescending to think that people upvoting this actually have trouble understanding the concept. It's an elegant animation and young students would benefit from seeing it.
IOS = Cisco Internetnetwork Operating System

iOS = Apple's mobile operating system

As someone who works/worked with both it always irritates me when they're spelled 'wrong'.
Yes this paper is excellent. Far more comprehensible (to me) than the link at the top of this discussion. I guess it all depends on what you are already familiar with. I was familiar with vectors and functions of vectors, and the concept of a linear function. Therefore, "A rank-n tensor T is, by deﬁnition, a real-valued, linear function of n vectors." is a much better starting point for me.
This could really hurt consoles. Also this require a really strong machine, which costs a lot - which means it's harder to charge apple margins on top of it.

Also a new platform means reducing the value of software available to windows/mac, since everything needs rewriting.
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The broken back button behaviour is a nice touch, too.
I do agree with them that voxels are where it'll all end up, particularly at the high end of rendering.

I doubt they're ready to take the next leap and abandon monte carlo + HACKS, which is currently state of the art. Removing the hacks and going with straight up individual wavelength photon tracing without any hacks (other than using the adjoint formulation, which simply flips the direction of the particles) is where it'll end up IMO.

The amount of data and computation needed is breathtaking, but it can be done today with a large cluster, Intel E5s, SSDs, Infiniband, and thousands and thousands of low end graphics cards to carry the math load. Individual scenes are in the 1.5 petabyte range using voxels, but there's enough compute there to turn off the monte carlo hacks and just get the damn answer, every frame, like clockwork with extremely low latency, and with all geometric optics effects enabled.

The cluster hardware I spec'd to do the above clocked in around $2 million 12 months ago. I doubt it's changed much since then, maybe dropped another 20-30%? That's actually incredibly low—30 months ago, it was over $100 million (and physically impossible due to space requirements). When it dropped down to $16 million two years ago, I went after funding (and failed to raise it, thus ending a 10+ year journey).

Now it's down to $2 million, but I've moved on to other work. I'm sure someone, someday will take up the torch and make it happen—maybe even these High Fidelity people. And if I ever end up with "fuck you" money from the startups I'm CTOing for currently, I'll write a check and do it myself.

Best of luck!
yet another thing learned!
Famous movie quotes applied to the world of startups
Wow thanks for that link. Branson had a really, really hard time answering that question. Actually he didn't answer it at all.
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As I said: i didn't think this was something new. It was however not foreseen that this particular app would be harvesting my location, hence the surprise.