skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And in these situations it makes more sense to just use a trusted third party broker than to have it built into the transaction schema. It adds huge amounts of overhead and unpredictability to what should be simple exchange.
Even the latest XQuartz install appears to be 3 years old. Were you able to find a more recent one? I would be very interested if such a build existed.
No. There isn't.

Source: I've ported most of the whole thing to pure angular.js. The code is riddled with UI elements directly being injected based on events, where it could have been a service API.
http://shopify.github.io/dashing/

http://www.quora.com/Is-there-an-open-source-alternative-to-...

That's where I started finding some. I've not implemented one yet as my ToDo list at work is just huge.

Also highcharts, a basic eye for design and some simple javascript will get you 95% there. Most of those squares are just a big font with a red down or green up arrow next to them.
Do not try to conflate etymology with racial segregation. It is dishonest and an obvious trick.
It's worth saying that at a number of firms that 2% goes into the pockets of the partners.

One thing to like about a16z (full disclosure, I worked there over the summer), imho, is that by using this fee to scale their organization to help portfolio companies, they are far less out of alignment with LPs than most firms who have success with a smaller fund and go on to raise a larger one.

The old algorithm of do ok with a small fund, raise a huge one and live off the management fee is under threat -- 5x or die.
I've been a big proponent of ZFS, but recently btrfs has been making a lot of good progress with features. Most interesting to me is the ability to rebalance and switch redundancy levels. I have 20TB btrfs array in production as a backup target for a couple months now and it's been doing OK. I've even switched it from raid6 to raid10 and back. There's still a lot of rough edges though, which is why I'm only using it as a backup.
This is something that's repeated here, but I have a feeling mostly by folks that are backing up small amounts of mostly static data.

Even after de-duplication and compression, my company stores about 400 GB of data with Tarsnap. Tarsnap is a double digit percentage of our monthly infrastructure costs.

I think, perhaps, it's rather that the value that a business backing up a 30 MB database every day gets isn't radically different from the value that we get backing up several orders of magnitude more than that.

The question really is if straight utility pricing makes sense. I could imagine that a floor on the pricing, or a non-linear curve would probably do better than simply keeping the same model and raising the prices. There's also a question of distribution of total revenue -- if the revenue for the small accounts was increased by 10x, would it balance out a 50% loss of large accounts?
I'm lazy. I use my 20 gallon compressor :-)
Or maybe founders who understand value, and can get a better deal elsewhere. Not everybody takes the YC hype at face value.
Thailand was never colonised.
I'm not so sure I agree with that statement. Intellectual property (as it applies to digital goods) is rarely about inducing scarcity. The purpose of IP-protection tools (DRM) isn't typically to limit the availability of a product-- it's to limit possession of a product such that the quantity possessed is equal to the quantity purchased (the attempt to minimize piracy).

There have been cases where companies have tried to artificially induce scarcity--I recall that during the release of a certain Battlefield game, EA's storefront had temporarily "sold out" of digital copies--and in that case, the same DRM-based distribution tech that was designed for IP protection was being used to induce scarcity.

In other words, if ten people are trying to purchase your product, IP enforcement means you want exactly ten copies to exist. Inducing artificial scarcity means you want fewer than ten copies to exist.

It's hard to find examples of artificial scarcity in the digital world, which is what makes this somewhat interesting to me. However, in the brick and mortar world, the diamond industry is a good example.

edit: it's worth noting that the handcrafted case is a legitimately unique item, so in that sense, the scarcity of the complete package is real, not artificial.
There is an externality, but it's still smaller than the total benefit. I think the ideal way to handle it would be to find some way to insure for it, or hold the tenant responsible. It certainly shouldn't be illegal, just at best violate a private contract/agreement with the landlord.
Governments in democracies work in service of the people, and when the people want the government to protect them collectively instead of having to fend for themselves individually, that is what the government does.

If the people want some protection from being exploited by ruthless companies, that's what they get.

An gee, what surprise, most people don't want to spend their days looking over their shoulders and constantly having to be concerned with every little detail for fear of getting screwed.

They just want to get from A to B in the certainty that in a civilized, well-organised society these things are properly arranged.

Why is this concept which is so simple so terribly hard to grasp?
Exposing the seedy world of penny stock promotions
The thing is, if you're good enough for YC, you can get $14k for ~0% of equity elsewhere.
I think you'll find that people mean the BGP protocol when they say the internet routes around damage. While this is true, it doesn't route around firewalls forcibly installed around a country by it's government.

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

Also, I'd contend this is not really true in practice. While BGP does repair some faults, what happens in reality is that ISP engineers route around damage. BGP itself might keep reachability intact, but any error will still lead to massive capacity loss. This is then repaired by NOCs around the world. That's what really keeps the internet rolling.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7482946
In a limited way. Word, Excel, Outlook, Powerpoint, and Communicator (i/o Lync) are available for Mac, but they are not even close to the Windows versions in terms of feature parity. VBA support has been on-and-off. Access, Infopath, and Publisher are not available at all. They're written in Cocoa and on a different release cycle. There is no Office for Mac 2013, current version is 2011.
Technology doesn't respect those boundaries, so full discussion of it cannot either.

And global warming? Please. That is hardly a non-technical subject.
Getting kicked out of the system.
But anyone who has taken a graduate-level data structures course should know how to implement functional sequences with log-time concatenation or better. There are several known techniques.

So your inference is, in fact, incorrect. The assignment must make a logical copy, but this does not have to involve making a physical copy.
YC DDay
Warren Buffet runs an office with about 24 people, managing over $182B in revenue, $480B+ in assets, and filing 900+ page tax return annually. That is efficiency beyond anything I've seen anyone do, period.

Mark Z is certainly leveraging his position and wealth, but I wouldn't call him a Buffet yet.
The fault line in this discussion lies between the different perspectives on the common good in question.

Here's a hypothetical: What if we "disrupted" the regulation on what you can hook up to the electric grid and how you have to do it, so everybody can start messing around with "throw-on" connections as they do in Egypt?

Probably a lot of HN users would dislike having to cope with the thus ensuing frequent power-outages. The problems that Airbnb causes in residential areas can have a similar impact on life, it's just that it is the life of people from a different demographic than the HN crowd.
> I don't want to defend Gox, but it is conceivable that they lost significant amounts of BTC prior to this via TM and were just doing business with a deficit of BTC

Sure, but it's unlikely given the rate of ~1btc/day and the fact that it wasn't resolved until well after 2013.
Liability insurance is required for all drivers, not just taxis. If the driver didn't have insurance, he was violating the law regardless. The fact he was operating a taxi service has nothing to do with anything. License plate readers could trivially identify cars on the road without insurance if it's a huge problem.
over 9000 files names like
myfile.backup.old.xcf
myfile.other_edit.xcf
myfile.tried-some-filter-10.xcf
>Probably we need to consider how US would react if an Al-Qaeda linked group starts taking over northern villages of Mexico while a civil war is going on in there.

Why would "al-Qaeda linked" groups be considered more dangerous than the mass-murdering cartels? Mexico is almost a failed state and we haven't invaded.
Any particular reason the app is tied to a specific location for the beta launch?
Well, I haven't used plivo and twillo but I have build a lot of voice selfservice products on self hosted solutions. It have mostly been financial information and services (some people apparently like to call a phone number and hear stock prices).

It have also been applications where people for example call in to enter their electricity usage.

It have been on self hosted solutions but if you ignore the privacy/legal implications the services could have been build on either of these.
I've had some experience doing IPTV stuff both with incumbent MVPDs and as part of an OTT play. I'll warn you, in case you don't know, that these kinds of deals take a LONG time (think 2-4 years) and if you are looking for content rights expect significant upfront cash payments if you can even get them. HBO for instance is/was part of a conglomerate that also owned a cable company and like everyone else in the space is very sensitive about anything that will increase risk (even marginally) for their multi-billion dollar cable deals.

I'm not trying to discourage you, just pointing out that there are huge obstacles in the space that have nothing to do with technology.
My bad, I thought you are talking how much could be made with the phone mining.
Amazon event announcement likely for new set-top box
If chargebacks were not available they would happen much more often. This is evident by looking at the bitcoin community as a whole.
They are doing quite a good job as VCs, but lets not start painting a picture of skill based on one of their companies.

Investing in startups is gambling, and A16Z is basically rolling up to the roulette wheel and placing a bet on every square. The only difference is the payout of one success is (maybe) large enough to offset the loss of betting on everything else.

I can't look up the numbers now, but I'm pretty sure when the investments are pooled, the returns are modest, relatively in line with returns on other types of investments. (Would love for someone to back this up or correct me if I'm wrong based on the numbers).
The rules also exist to benefit society.

When an insured cab crashes insurance companies are there to help people potentially rebuild their lives.

When an uninsured cab crashes without insurance and there's no insurance... Well then you're out of luck. And lets not forget that it's not only the customer of the taxi that can get hurt in a car crash.

I wouldn't be surprised if many taxi fees and regulations went to help the roads that those taxis proceed to drive on (in many places). Uber cars aren't contributing to that and the steadfast refusal to do so at the behest of municipalities hurts everyones system as a whole.

It's not just about whether the consumers will choose to use this or that. It's about a system that works for everyone. Of course you can overdo regulation, and disruptors are a necessary forward for change but just because of libertarian principles which have never worked as espoused anywhere doesn't mean that these people shouldn't be subject to certain regulations and shouldn't thumb their noses when asked to comply.

Now most of this is just what I think. I don't have examples where a municipality requires its taxis to pay for the roads through fees, but hopefully the point has been made clearly.
Isn't violating a contract by definition illegal?
I do not understand your description in terms of push broom scanners. Scanning is done by a linear array of sensors that detect at varying angles that go off perpendicular to the angle of motion of the satellite. Imaging in the direction of motion of the satellite is done by physically moving the satellite - which of course is happening quite quickly. This is like looking through a slit in a door frame - you move the light sensor perpendicular to the slit to see the objects inside (except not a perfect analogy: it would be more like carrying the doorframe with you as you move so that you need to move x distance to see something x distance from what you were first seeing). The image is being taken orthographically along one direction. So for the red sensor to see what the green sensor is currently seeing, the satellite must move forward by a few inches so that the red sensor is above the same spot as the green sensor was earlier.

This is not how traditional photography works. There is actually a one-to-one correspondence of motion of the sensor with displacement of the imaged object (in one direction). This is similar to how a "photo finish" is done [1] Since the satellite moves much faster than the plane and the displacement between the sensors is small, it seems that the plane should not have traveled very far.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photo_finish
Game over for my browser I'm afraid... looked exciting tho!
I've had both happen to me.

Neither take more than a few moments on the phone to resolve without the lose of any funds.
>I still have a very tired feel in my eyes at the end of a long day.

I asked my optometrist about this. He said that our extraocular muscles get tired like any other muscle on the body, and it's normal to feel that way after staring at a screen for extended periods.

FWIW I have good vision and don't wear glasses.
You're leaving out the part about the software and operational support to handle failover, data integrity checks and correction, etc. You're not just tossing disks in a rack but managing a highly-available, highly-durable storage system on top of them.

You can definitely beat those rates at large enough scale but for a startup you're talking about dedicating a non-trivial chunk of your skilled technical staff's time in the hope of breaking even. That's an obvious move for Backblaze or Crashplan but for other companies it might be a dubious investment versus nailing the core product.
I am not a "consumer", I am a citizen.

I have no choice if my neighbors choose to use AirBnB, but I do have to deal with the consequences.
Scalaz's @@ covers many of the use cases, though not all.
Actually, same sex unions were illegal under Roman law, even before Rome adopted Christianity.
My problem was not that developed in a month or two but was there from a long time and it took couple of months after I started taking the medicine to get cured and I could see the effect on myself on a weekly basis (It wasn't that one day I woke up and found that I am cured).

And you mean to say that just because my mind thought that what I am taking is real medicine hence my body developed the immunity to fight back the bacterial growth by itself? It is not necessary that what people do not understand now does not mean that it is wrong/flawed/fake. We are not so advanced to know each and everything about chemistry and biology and human body.

I have seen multiple results and have also tested myself by stopping the medication and again starting it and seeing the results for numerous other ailments, hence my belief stands.
2 summers ago there were a couple of great shows at some Tokyo Museums about Tokyo's Urban Metabolism[0]. Not only are homes quickly replaced as you have stated, but the neighborhood structure, created by the commercial buildings on the main roadways and the small homes on the interior, forms a firebreak.

With earthquakes, fire is the greatest threat after the shaking stops.

0: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metabolism_(architecture)
>>>"to survive the inevitable mainstream enlightenment"

Well said! It dawned on me yesterday that we are in the Middle Ages of technologies. Hear me out — what I mean by this is we are in a point in human civilization where a LOT of people use technology, the Internet, computers, computer software...

...and MOST of those people have No.Clue.What.It.Is.

This to me sounds like when the Church dominated people's lives, making everyone live by a book called "The Bible".....

....that only a few monks in their "lofty ivory towers" knew how to read, and everyone else to get it from them.

They (the clergy) were the ones who had the power/privilege to disseminate and translate "the word of God" for the rest, and most people had to just....believe them.

....until the Englightenment
Immersive Media was the first company to do street view, before Google.
But as a company who employs these drivers, shouldn't at least part of the onus be on them to ensure that their drivers meet these requirements? In the same way that Uber/taxi companies have to ensure that their drivers have a license, shouldn't they also have to make sure he had adequate insurance?
Feel free to shoot me a mail, email's in profile.
I've been using the Stroke Width Transform (SWT) from libccv for more than a year now. It's amazing.
I think it is because it is an attempt to break down a terribly complex system into a set of simple rules which simply do not factor in all of the externalities of day to day life in societies featuring tens of millions of independent actors.
> It's not changing, expensive subscription for editing is the proof. Same greedy corporation which cares about its cash cows.

I don't understand why that was downvoted. Office 365 is expensive...compared to a one-time purchase you own forever. I don't understand why users aren't showing more resistance to subscription-based software (Microsoft, Adobe, etc.)...it's as if people enjoy getting screwed over.
Very cool :-)

On a sort-of-related note: anyone know of a good FOSS library for making a reverse image search? My current method is just to use findimgdupes, but this is rather slow and hard to script around. (Ideally, my desktop with my main private image storage would have a simple web interface that works like tineye.)
Also, "having a friend" and "choosing to be around" certain people are 2 totally different things. There are many ways to be around people including volunteering, playing sports, and especially taking a job. Those people can exert great positive influence on you regardless of whether you become friends with them.

Obviously, there are many people that we're very close friends with, even though we're rarely surrounded by them.

So its generally when you're choosing your friends around some utilitarian metric that you begin tread into sycophantic waters.
Alenia Spazio’s insistence on confidentiality may have played a role in this oversight. NASA reviewers were never given the specs of the receiver. As JPL’s Mitchell explained to Spectrum, “Alenia Spazio considered JPL to be a competitor and treated the radio design as proprietary data.”

I am surprised that NASA would allow a piece of hardware on a spaceship that they do not have the specs for. Unless NASA/ESA do very extensive testing, this seems like a terrible practice.
Which is why I almost never make purchases with cash.
Previous discussions...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7482017

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7482546

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7482690
I went to all private schools, my healthcare if provided by a private company and I work for a privately owned company. And none of the investors in my company are government entities. Also, the government hasn't been doing a good job protecting me from criminals, only imprisoning minorities with a dimebag on them or shooting the mentally ill. Trash pick up and road cleaning? Sure, I'll keep paying for that. But they are most definitely extorting businesses.
the insurance company won't cover it because it's personal insurance not commercial insurance. Personal insurance isn't priced on people driving around in their cars all day.
sourceforge is full of cool shit only a handful of people use... This is why you need a salesperson... the pet rock sold 1M units in 8 months, why because people thought it was cool. Most stuff never gets any thought because dev guys think they can create stuff without sales guys to pitch it. Doesn't work like that... If your light is hidden under a bushel, it doesn't it make it any less of a light... it means you don't know how to get the bushel off.
How to pitch the tech press
I also agree that these services are a net good, but I think what the original article was trying to say was "why don't they just suck it up and insure their operators?" Then the "net bad" argument disappears.
Except signing your name, or other contractual information, is the one thing you shouldn't do with a fountain pen because of the water-based ink it traditionally uses.

Next time you sign a check with your fountain pen, take a damp sponge and see how easy it is to wipe the ink away... ;)
Gothenburg Startup Hack
I've actually been to both of these links already, but thank you :)

The problem with Dashing is that it seems like it's a really low-level framework, i.e. we'll need to basically suck the data out and render it ourselves down at the JS level, instead of saying "Here's my web service, here's how the data is delimited, show me a table".

Which is fine for initial setup I suppose, but it's not something we really have time to maintain and tweak on an ongoing basis. This is more of a "would be nice" type deal instead of a very pressing business need, so securing resources to code something together would be tricky.
Uhmmm...

You can't say "when doctors wrote me off, I began trying stuff. I didn't die. I got better." without giving some details... please :)
Although it's hard to tell from the images presented with the article, the face generation looks like it could be similar to the techniques used in Nishimoto et al., 2011, which used a similar library of learned brain responses, though for movie trailers:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nsjDnYxJ0bo

Their particular process is described in the YouTube caption:

The left clip is a segment of a Hollywood movie trailer that the subject viewed while in the magnet. The right clip shows the reconstruction of this segment from brain activity measured using fMRI. The procedure is as follows:

[1] Record brain activity while the subject watches several hours of movie trailers.

[2] Build dictionaries (i.e., regression models) that translate between the shapes, edges and motion in the movies and measured brain activity. A separate dictionary is constructed for each of several thousand points at which brain activity was measured.
(For experts: The real advance of this study was the construction of a movie-to-brain activity encoding model that accurately predicts brain activity evoked by arbitrary novel movies.)

[3] Record brain activity to a new set of movie trailers that will be used to test the quality of the dictionaries and reconstructions.

[4] Build a random library of ~18,000,000 seconds (5000 hours) of video downloaded at random from YouTube. (Note these videos have no overlap with the movies that subjects saw in the magnet). Put each of these clips through the dictionaries to generate predictions of brain activity. Select the 100 clips whose predicted activity is most similar to the observed brain activity. Average these clips together. This is the reconstruction.

With the actual paper here:

http://www.cell.com/current-biology/retrieve/pii/S0960982211...
How to Scale Yourself and Get More Done Than You Thought Possible
To be honest, I was in a bad mood when I wrote that and made a negative assumption about what you wrote. I'm sorry. I wish HN would let me take that one back.