skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What you're describing is "use just storage attached to your router and the AppleTV". You cannot already that.

I acknowledge that you can work around that limitation by using AirPlay from Mac/iOS, or adding media to your iTunes library.

My point is that there's no incentive for Apple to add the specific functionality you (we) would like, i.e. playing stuff from a USB mass storage device or from an SMB share.
In which case, rudeness must resemble flatulence.

Having now finished the book, I remain unimpressed, or at least not impressed in the fashion you expected that I would be. If anything, I have to say that, not only for there have been relatively few mishaps over so many years of nuclear weapons having been actively deployed, but for none of those mishaps to have had a yield measurable in kilotons, strikes me as powerful cause for optimism.
The legality of crypto-currencies in the US ultimately hinges on whether Wall St. execs can make money off them. If they could "frontrun" bitcoin trades, "naked short sell" into bitcoin exchanges, and execute "wash trades" to fix the price of bitcoins, then not only would bitcoin be declared legal, but we would see the US government using it and have it forced down the throats of middle-class pension funds.

But Wall St. can't control bitcoin. So JP Morgan CEO Jamie Dimon denounced it as "terrible" and predicted its downfall. Source: http://rt.com/usa/chase-ceo-bitcoin-terrible-downfall-100/

Then JP Morgan filed patents on its own crypto-currency, one that it can rig with frontrunning, naked short selling, and wash trades. Source: http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/e230307a-61c4-11e3-aa02-00144feabd...

As for bitcoin, I predict we'll increasingly see it in the news headlines linked to: (1) illegal drugs, (2) child porn, and (3) terrorism. These are the exact same smear tactics we've seen before used against P2P filesharing.

And we'll see lots more bitcoin arrests like these.
It's funny how each new copycoin tries to compare itself with Bitcoin, and assume Bitcoin will become a thing of the past. Every single copycoin does the same. Both Litecoin and Dogecoin users said "Bitcoin paved the way for Litecoin/Dogecoin". Now look at the Litecoin guys. They are starting to see how little value they added, and now that other coins like Doge did the same, their value is starting to get diluted and will probably just die eventually. The same will happen with Quark, Dogecoin, Shitcoin, etc.

And don't get me started with the obnoxious doge tips. If the tips are worth less than a penny keep them to yourself please.
Ha yeah, google indexes a lot of false content too so I avoid it.
What you need to know to become an angel investor
There is a time and a place for both, with option number 2 coming first.

When you are first interviewing your target customers you really want to gain a deep understanding for their pains and a sense of empathy for how their pains rank on the totem pole of "I will pay you money now to solve this problem" to "It sucks.. but the system we have now works".

Once you've had those first round of interviews go back to them with a prototype (this can be paper, or just marketing material) and have another conversation. It's a great way to start building a solution people will actually care for, and build a small customer base at the same time.
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I came in here to write something similar, but you said it much clearer.
I was lucky - when my first Startup Free.TV died, the company did not go bankrupt, but it did kill my credit.
I was also worried about what I would tell my wife - the great news is is was VERY hard, but she stood by me and we are still married ten years later.
I have eventually gotten the courage to start another startup, but now is that I now know how the system works and will not sell equity for peanuts anymore. This does hold me back - I would not say I am scared, just more careful.
There IS life afterwards. If you want to talk, email me HACKER at Free dot TV
How about a wolframalpha link to those calculations? Assuming they're simple enough.

Also, would this require the clocks and mass to be far away from other large masses like the earth?
One thing I'm really curious about: How can you measure the accuracy of the world's most accurate clock?

By definition there would be no more accurate timing device to benchmark it against so is the accuracy cited in the article only theoretical?
I feel the exact same way, and did when I first heard of Svbtle.

In fact, in some small way, even when I get linked to a post on an Svbtle-hosted blog, I get an off putting feeling just knowing that this was one of those people who was "better" than me, since they were allowed to have a Svbtle blog, and I was not. I often even lost interest in the author's content because of this nagging feeling.

Running a beta period to test your theories is one thing, but the entire platform was packaged and advertised as a walled garden for those whom were better than the rest of us. This is what soured it for me.

It was even more infuriating because I actually LOVED the features they were previewing.
> ... requires a set that fully surrounds the camera position ...

The scenery 'behind the camera' could be composited in.

And other tools might work well to focus the viewer's attention in new ways. Like lighting the important actions and bits of dialogue with brighter lighting than the rest of the view, or a slightly different color.

Imagine an episode of Sherlock that had the world slow down and such a lighting effect that acts as the 'light of Sherlock's attention' floating/darting around a scene and other characters. Giving the viewer a chance to think and try to deduce at his speed, so to speak.

One could also use a lower/higher resolution in areas of the view to suggest where a viewer should look or to communicate the confusion of a main character about what is going on behind them.
>Hierarchical filesystems are a dead end (the future is all about metadata, hashes, diffs and relationships)

What's the case against hierarchical file systems? I've never really had any issues with them that i've noticed but admittedly i've never encountered any radical alternatives. It's a model that seems to work.
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Zeus malware re-purposed for tech support
I would argue 99% of people care a great deal, whether they like to admit it or not. We are social creatures. Caring about these things (within some range) also gives a higher chance for reproductive success, so as you said, we are hard-wired to care.
Honestly, they're very similar. Medium feels much more polished. Svbtle has the cool kudos, color picker and brain-dump-title-post-draft maker thing going on. But that's it. Both have the idea of collections or magazines. I feel like Svbtle did wait waaaay to long to open this up. They don't offer anything starkly different from Medium. They should have been monetizing a while ago. Why the wait?
Little known fact: no major studio uses e-mail. It's all carrier pigeons and smoke signals. Why? Because they "hate the Internet". So you're right, using contemporary technology in this one instance is really weird.
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One idea might be to spell check your writing using a modified English (simple) dictionary. This modified dictionary would only contain the most common and simplest english word, allowing you to easily prune out words that would reveal your fluency in the language.
bookmarked, will keep an eye on it.
Ever heard of Nginx? Would have solved the problem (HTTPS & caching) without one line of code.
I got into machine learning through an article off of HN stating that Random forests would get you 80% of the way (I think they were right!) For my purposes rotation forest increased my accuracy considerably.
I have a few questions:

1. I have found that data manipulation and feature creation from a SQL database is harder than the actually using an algorithm, and knowing how to extract and aggregate data seemed to be more like "throw something at the wall and see what sticks" Do you have any suggestions or information on knowing how to extract the best data?

2. After getting a random forest going, I had a hard time figuring out which algorithm to try next, or how to figure out what would work best for my dataset. Any suggestions on how to take the next step?
Oh, absolutely, I love everything else about the change. It makes the conversation and commits/etc. much easier to follow.
This is a good redesign but I wish they put more focus on developing Github Issues. The back button doesn't work (old issues randomly show) and filtering needs work (for example, how can I show issues from two milestones? how about showing issues with no comments? etc.).
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On the other hand, in RL, how many major changes to world politics, wars, etc, have been due to accidents? Bugs? Glitches in the matrix? It would be an interesting study, in some ways. Accidental wars...
In spanish, you can say it both ways and usually depends on region.
Ask HN: Why does Google Chrome's TAB SEARCH not work for their own Google Maps?
Google Chrome enables you to search a specific site from the address bar by typing the site name followed by the tab key.

Ref: https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95655?hl=en

This functionality works on many sites (eg HN, linkedin, vimeo etc) but doesn't seems to work on Google's own property Google Maps.

Why have they not enabled this?
Youtubedown.pl (in which JWZ helps us download MP4s from YouTube)
Or the ability to have consistent tab settings that match your preference.

https://github.com/isaacs/github/issues/57
Same goes if you're based in London. My email is stevan@litobac.com. This too shall pass.
This is essentially the goal of probabilistic programming[1]: let the programmer specify and tweak the model, and have the analog of a compiler handle inference. Finding a good model is then analogous to debugging.

You are mostly stuck with Bayesian models, since that's what we have general-purpose inference algorithms for. And in practice an understanding of Bayesian statistics is a prerequisite for writing useful probabilistic programs.

[1] e.g. http://probabilistic-programming.org/
If you are in the NYC area coffee or drinks on me! Just shoot me an email to john@minus.com

Just remember it's not the end and there is much more to look forward to perhaps in a future startup months or years down the road.
@jenniferDewalt, can you describe your typical day of working on this project? For example, there are many threads about not being able to find time to get side projects off the ground, how did you do it? what did you have to give up to get it done? example of daily schedule? Thanks!
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I think this is incorrect in two ways - you do still have to pay yourself salary, and dividends are taxed at normal income rates (due to pass-through) rather than capital gains rates. It's unfortunate that they are called dividends, because stock dividends are taxed at capital gains rates.
Agree.

Not paying yourself is fooling yourself into believing you have a sustainable business.

What you have is a source of revenue (not income) and it should be mentally in the "side projects" category. I.e. you should probably have a job and do this on the side.

The stories about people who didn't pay themselves but finally made it are far between and is not recommended IMHO.
It also creates expectations of help, which can also be very harmful in the long term. Helping others should be voluntary, not done because of expectations.
I think most experienced vim users will tell you that it is pure muscle memory for them. Also, vim supports jjjjk as well as 3j. Anyway, I just realized I am debating vim vs emacs so I'll stop here.
Sources? Examples? Where are you getting this from?
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I think what you're going to find out is letting go will actually be a huge relief. You're going to bumble around feeling like a worthless piece of shit for a few weeks and then ideas will start boiling over in your mind. Before you know it you'll be writing a business plan or prototyping something new and you'll be armed with this failure as a roadmap of what not to do. You sir will be a-ok.

PS. Not having any money at least once in your life is something everyone should go through. You'll be surprised at how well you eat and live when you thought you'd be homeless. You'll also realize how much bullshit you have in your house or services you pay for that you really don't need. Good luck - you won't need it.
> This is also not a good model, because what we usually mean by intelligence are reasoning capabilities, not e.g. motor skills.

Yes, the model is not good, I agree. But your understanding of intelligence incorrectly. You think that intelligence is a rate of learning. Or in neuroscience terms, brain plasticity. So, first, plasticity is largest at birth and gradually decreases as brain matures. This means that newborn would be "more intelligent" than 50yo man. Secondly, a fast rate of learning is not necessarily a good thing. If you ever worked with neural networks, you'd know that when training it, you can adjust at what rate the weights in artificial neurons would change. If you make fast rate, for one, network quickly overlearns, meaning he becomes too specialized and adjusted to exact cases he experienced, and secondly, it can quickly "forget" what he has learned. Slow learning rate makes it longer to learn, but also is more "stubborn" and doesn't give of on old beliefs so easily either.

On the other hand, as you said, knowledge also does not mean intelligence. If it cannot learn from it's mistakes, it is surely not intelligent. So I'd say intelligence is a combination of experience and plasticity.

> Saying "machine more intelligent than human" is just a shortcut for saying "machine that is able to reason about the world faster, better, with less biases than human; which will manipulate mental concepts and prove theorems out of reach for humans, as well as invent better technology, tackle human social problems better than humans do, etc. etd.".

So in the other words machine becoming more proficient in some very specific skill or multiple skills. Yes, that is common sense.

It's not that I disagree with the core idea of singularity, I just find it pointless and unnecessary. Some might say "it brings attention to the field", but I'm not really sure it helps AI research, since it attracts the wrong kind of people that would make actual research.
> Dustin's elitist attitude

> I wasn't attacking Dustin Curtis, I don't know him, I know of him and I have no problem with him whatsoever

Not sure how this could be interpreted in any other way whatsoever. Your other points are very fair.
Beating the system
I can't wait for this bubble to pop.
The problem of inequality is mostly a local thing where gentrification is taking progress, or on a wider scale, a media debate. No one seriously feels inadequate because of how the people on Forbes 500 live. They are so far out of the average person sphere that it has no significance on anyone.

Likewise, I doubt a person from Mississippi genuinely feels a disparty with his investment banking brethren in NYC.

In short, I don't think inequality is something people feel unless there's an ongoing public debate. People judge themselves by their immediate environment, which I believe follows a normal distribution nearly anywhere (there are always some more successful than others; business owners, entrepreneurs, paid workers and homeless. It's like that nearly anywhere).

It's should be also noted that while nationwide inequality among western world countries is rising (all across the board), it's shrinking on a global level [1].

[1] http://i.imgur.com/B4vI8Y8.png
I dress really well (I ooze style), but I don't dress formal.
Having been through shutting down my previous startup just a few months ago I can say that my experience mirrors this quite closely. Its scary and stressful at the time, but at the end of the day, nothing bad happened and nobody ridiculed us. In fact, everybody (including our investors - some of which are involved with us again) was quite positive and everybody sees it as a positive learning experience. And being able to say that we're on our second startup has been beneficial too.
Not having any party with anything close to a majority in parliament helps enormously here (that might be a symptom, rather than a cause, though)

There are very few things that you will find a straight majority for in parliament, so hard-lining will get you nowhere.
Oh goodie! My critical bugfix is now in the CoffeeScript stable:

https://github.com/jashkenas/coffee-script/pull/3193
Who are these people "destroying everything", and how are they related to the SF housing crisis? IMHO this crisis is caused by a large increase in housing demand, correlated with a mostly fixed housing supply (more people want to live in SF than there are apartments). This could either be solved by building more in SF, or building more in Silicon Valley (but without the high density of SF).
Shoot blues, tell Vile Rat.
This is a good start, but misses two potential problems:

- The 172.16.x.x - 172.31.x.x address space, which is another internal-only one. Chances are that you'll know what your internal addresses look like, but things can change after something is built.

- What about IPv6?

It's really hard to get something right when you only have a blacklist to work with. It's much better to whitelist a few things that are allowed, but then that would limit the utility of Webhooks.
Perhaps we're looking at this problem the wrong way. What if, instead of trying to hide our activity online we drown our signal in noise; make activity logs worthless.

For example instead of everyone having a unique email address, why not have shared email accounts with many hundreds of thousands of people, but where messages meant for you are encrypted with your public key. Your email client will attempt to decrypt all messages the account receives but will only succeed with yours.

Or for making a blog post, rather than publishing on one single server / blog domain, why not post to hundreds or thousands of different blogs at once, using all kinds of different IP addresses. Perhaps even have other people that blindly post for you (mechanical turk/crowd sourcing)

Perhaps the meta level idea here is if we want to restore privacy, we need to sacrifice our individual identity (my email address, my blog, my phone) and lose ourselves in the crowd
That's dope, keep doing you, don't let them take your soul.
The comments below the post are what makes this really worth reading.
= attempt of implementation of sci-fi sounding idea that will be rewarded even if it fails.

It's is good.
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Show HN: Open Source Show and Tell
The thing I like most about Keen IO is their team. They are very open and would help anyone who finds their way to their Hipchat room.
Not in older versions of IE.
Would love comments about how to add to or improve the event.
It's the difference in mindset between having a discussion versus an argument.

In one case you are more likely to work for a mutually beneficial outcome, in the other it's a zero sum game where distorting your opponent's views becomes a common rhetorical tactic.

I'm not going to make grand claims, I just saw a lot of the latter from you recently.
i thinks this piece of advice its cool in almost all of it.. but there are some pieces of it that i think sounds a little overoptimistic:

> she's your wife for a reason- she'll support you through all of this

Maybe not.. a lot of marriages brake because of financial bankrupcy.. but this guy will have to face it anyway.. it will depend of how much the materialistic/spiritual type she is and how much she love him.. this will be definetly a good proof of love from her, if she stands up with him... (but these sort of people are rare)

> they(investors) will remember your honesty and ethics more than the fact that your startup failed

I think it will be harder for him to raise funds later if he try to do it again some other time.. but nothing that will do things impossible for him.. also there are other ways (you know, companies existed before VC funding :)) .. but maybe this make his charisma and charm to raise even more money.. like superpowers that come from a mature characther

This guy need to face the truth no matter how hard its gonna be.. and i dont think trying to make things look better will help him much.. there are times life sucks, and this can be a proof of the strenght or weakness of our character..

Let me make it clear that you advices are very nice.. i was just spoting some overoptimism in some areas and i dont think in that particular case, this would help.. its reality time for him now.. time to take the red pill .. the blue pill will only make things worse..

Again, everything can serve for good in our experiences.. even, and specially the ones that are bad.. it needs a superior point of view to spot the good things from everything and make ourselves better.. but we have a lot of examples out there of people that just can't see the things that way.. and never "come back".. its important to know this and never be one of them..

Its the end of a war or its just the end of a battle in life?
catastrophic cache miss

haha, great prose.

+1 for relative line numbers. I scripted up ctr+n so I can toggle between relative and absolute as needed, though, there are even plugins capable of intelligently switching when necessary (like http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=4212).
I love the paren-free chaining but

>When requiring CoffeeScript files in Node you must now explicitly register the compiler. This can be done with require 'coffee-script/register' or CoffeeScript.register(). Also for configuration such as Mocha's, use coffee-script/register.

Since I have not been specifying my CoffeeScript version, I have a feeling this update is going to break a lot of my Node.js code. Am I right?
To clarify, it doesn't need root on 4.4, it needs root on 4.4.2.
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Always Be Coding (ABC): https://medium.com/tech-talk/d5f8051afce2
One key point that is missed in this article: why do people making minimum wage have trouble making ends meet? Because all this advance of technology has not made the necessities of life cheaper in the same way it's made, say, computers cheaper. For a few hundred dollars today, you can buy orders of magnitude more computing power than existed in the entire world when I was a child. Yet it's still difficult for people working low wage jobs to afford food, housing (meaning housing in an area that's reasonably safe to live in), and transportation (again, that's reasonably safe to use).

Why is that? Why has all this enormous improvement in productivity not made the necessities of life so cheap that even someone making minimum wage can easily afford them? It seems to me that fixing that would go a long way towards fixing the problems Altman is talking about, yet nobody talks about it.
These posts are like torture porn.