skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Except of course that conservatives are pretty much about that, while liberals' great claim is that they don't enforce any social order. They are about freedom, you can do anything you want, believe anything you want, want anything you want !

Here it's obvious that the exception is that this is predicated on you wanting exactly the same they want. The problem is the hypocrisy. The problem is that liberals constantly scream bloody murder if anyone uses the "but those guys do the same" defense.

The problem is that they enforce their own rules on others but not themselves. The problem is the blatant intolerance, the attempt to destroy a man's career because of his beliefs.
Higher risk for consumers on a purchase, lower risk for consumers of being defrauded by billing scams or skimming from those who have access to their card numbers.

Consumers are accustomed to the risk of cash; and many would be more than happy to use Internet cash since they trust their vendors. They'd still have the card option for unknown vendors. Bitcoin simply adds a cash choice. This isn't an either or situation; it's a now you have two options situation.

Bonus, teenagers can now shop online.
Can you recommend some boards? Whenever I looked into it, I got overwhelmed with all the options and I was not quite sure what to look for.
Goodbye, Google
Demand-revealing referenda to decide on software features
Check your emails quickly, I'm going to shut down the electricity http://i.imgur.com/Dkf3QKR.jpg
The worst designed website on the internet.
DIY Open Source: Free Space Optic Laser System 1.4km and  10Mbps full duplex
I also thought of local maxima and hill climbing algorithms.

How do you encourage finding a global maxima within your company?
I imagine that an engineer complaining of a low 6-figure salary with stock options will convince a jury that (s)he is really being hurt that much will be very tough.

I don't find that hard to imagine. In fact, I think the opposite would be true and I'll give my logic.

I believe in wrongful death suits (e.g. airline crashes) the earnings potential of the victim is considered i.e. higher payouts go to higher earners.

I assume a jury would follow the same logic and would be able to understand that the more an engineer earns, the greater the damages should be. i.e. a 1st year grad might have been hurt to the tune of $20K / year ... while it might have cost a more senior engineer $200K / year.
I wonder how history would have remembered Eich if he never got CEO.

The thought has not fully crystallized, and possibly not quite the same, but Nikola Tesla was a Eugenisist. But we LOVE him.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikola_Tesla#Societal_views
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Sometimes opinions flow seamlessly from a person's identity.

What if a gay principal is fired for supporting gay marriage. What if someone is a religious pacifist and the ballot issue had to do with gun control? Are those just opinions or is there no other option for a person given his or her identity?

I'd even go so far as to say that sometimes opinions are core to someone's identity. As in, the person would be fundamentally different if that opinion changed.

I'm not sure the issue is so cut-and-dry as you presume.
Tom who just commented on this above ^ - he's GoCardless (awesome tech btw!), one of the leading startups disrupting payments/direct debit in the London scene. They've been going from strength to strength and recently raised another huge round. Definitely validation that YC works and gives value.
Ah, so a "housing speculator tax" or an "unused residence tax." That makes a lot more sense than a landlord tax.

edit: Occurs to me that this would help deal with bank-owned properties that can sometimes sit vacant for quite a while. OTOH, that very thing might make it harder to get a mortgage - lenders would be scared they'd end up owning some unsaleable property in downtown Detroit, and paying elevated taxes on it to boot.
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Are the users' opinions even relevant to Facebook? Remember, the users aren't their "customers," they're their product. Their actual "customers" are the advertisers. If the new news feed is making their advertisers happy (and bringing revenue into Facebook), then that's what they optimize for.

Harsh, I know, but that's the reality.
It's like they realize that reading English is kind of tough, so they give you a whole new language to learn, which doesn't help at all.
We manage all deps in our cabal file, and have scripts to make sure that what is in package database matches the cabal file (this way we can upgrade versions without manually unregistering and reinstalling).

Like you said, there is nothing seamless that is part of cabal ... yet. I would like improve our workflow and integrate it into cabal.
As long as parking spaces are a free public good the market won't figure out the right number
Modifying existing biology is probably easier than building nanotech from scratch. I'm pretty excited about the possibilities. How does someone get into this?
Yeah I'd be interested in hearing that as well - I think most will take a slight hit in speed for something that's been successfully used in production with several well-known companies.
Indeed, I always wonder why such a (relatively) exotic and low-volume technology is also very low-cost.

3 minutes is very fast...one of my projects takes about 30 minutes for ~30K Luts on a modern Core I7, I used too many registers.

Developing and debugging it is basically torture.
Un último recuerdo.
I have traveled pretty widely and the most remote place I ever went to was an un-mapped village in sub-Saharan Africa a 16 hour drive from the nearest large city. I was there last about 4 years ago, at the time I felt the most away from civilization I had ever been, then my cellphone rang, I had 5 bars.

In January a man I met in that village sent me a friend request on Facebook they have 3g now.

>clean water, food, medicine, clothing, safety

aren't really profit centers. but bringing internet service to as many people as possible... is worth its weight in gold to major telecoms.
I've been building a lockitron clone using a raspberry pi. The key functionality selling point for me was being able to lock/unlock the door base on proximity like lockitron's "sense" feature.

Turns out this is much more difficult than it sounds because bluetooth le rssi is pretty unreliable. I've figured how to get it working for my particular case but I would be curious how lockitron configures it to work consistently for a wider range of locations and devices.

On a separate note, the servo can be attached to the door without duct tape or modifying the door if you have a door like [1]. I simply bought a piece of rubber tubing that fits over the knob and then configured a smaller piece of rubber to fit the servo arm to the lock piece on the knob. This design is also nice in that if the device malfunctions a key can override it.

1 - http://www.happynews.com/living/livingimages/remove-door-kno...
Facebook announces new drone internet program
There's pHash, which creates a 'perceptual hash' of an image:

http://www.phash.org/

I haven't personally used it yet but it seems useful.
No doubt. Although in coffee shops they wear name badges and don't have much reason to tell people their names.
I can say that I have disliked more or less every change Facebook has made since I joined. I, like a large section of early adopters, only keep my account around because of an attachment to old social connections.
Every Little Penny Counts
How Google responds to U.S. Search Warrants
And anyone over 60 is still using an XP laptop from 2002.

Most people have a computer in their home. If they graduated to mobile devices, they didn't just chuck the thing in the trash, they kept it around. They still probably get photos off their camera or print coupons on it, because AirPrint and whatever Androids 4.4 printing thing is are barely known about, crummy, and only supported on a fraction of devices
"Mutability" would make sense in that context rather than "malleability", no?
Is the project committed to being 100% compatible with oracle mysql?
All I'm pointing out is that they're fundamentally different. Sexual orientation is something you're born with. Opinions can be changed. Neither should be grounds for termination. What are we arguing about here?
This could just as easily backfire for Apple.

Lets assume Office 365 is a runaway success and two or three years from now it becomes a must have, essential piece of software for business iPad users.

At that point Microsoft starts having the power.

It can start adding must have features to Office 365 that only work with Windows Phone or features that turn up first on Windows Phone.

It now has a Trojan Horse that allows it to slowly but surely chip away at that particular iPad user group, working hard to move then away from Apple and back to Windows.
That's a good solution, did you just mount the servo to the door itself?
Predictive tech is getting smarter – but more controversial, too
Should I design my [math] exams to have time-pressure or not?
How the NSA would get phone data under Obama administration’s new plan
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Great post, I think you analyzed this very well.

I think it's unfortunate that he's donated money to fight against personal liberties. I don't think it is worth it to deny yourself contributions to Mozilla on this one fact alone.

There are many greater causes to throw yourself behind, and I'm somewhat disappointed I don't see the same vehemance for those
It would be easier to answer your question if you provided more concrete examples. The only businesses I can think of that are strictly "can technology of this caliber actually exist?" are ones that likely violate the laws of thermodynamics :)

There are certainly business for which YC is not a good fit though, and we generally screen them out at the application stage. In fact, most businesses aren't a good match for YC, as we are only looking for high-growth potential startups of the sort described in http://paulgraham.com/growth.html
The Altera DE2 is great to start off with, and it's also heavily discounted for University students.
If you don't see the problems with this, I'm not going to get dragged in.
Threes: The Rip-offs and Making Our Original Game
This is great news! CentOS needs to get its feet wet with ARM even if it's 32-bit to start with. This will kick off another growth wave in the lower end dedicated hosting segment with the target being individuals and very small businesses.

We're already offering managed ARM-based dedicated servers that are cheaper than our cheapest VPS plan. But we've picked Ubuntu 64-bit as the base. I'm looking forward to integrating CentOS 64-bit sometime/hopefully next year!
The POTUS seems a tad more sane than Jobs with regards to taking offence to trivial matters.
Maybe I don't know enough about the details of the RedHat/CentOS distinction, but if RHEL supports ARM, then doesn't CentOS automatically get that support for free?

Or is the CentOS project going to be adding extra functionality above and beyond RedHat?
Every one of us has oppressed another at one point in our lives. Is it just because it is recent?
This works great in dense cities with good mass transit. Some cities like Los Angeles virtually require auto ownership; this would just further increase costs in low income neighborhoods not served by effective mass transit.
> The fact that his donation was so small makes it much worse in my opinion. That indicates that the primary intent was to make a public, symbolic statement on the matter.

Making a donation is a pretty ridiculous way to try to make a public, symbolic statement on the matter. It relies on someone taking advantage of the election disclosure laws to get a list of donors, then going over the list of donors, then picking him out of the list of thousands of donors, and then calling public attention to that.

He's not the Robot Devil. If he wanted to make a public, symbolic statement on the matter, wouldn't he simply tweet, or use Facebook, or blog about it?
Why should they be free?
I've had the same experience. Delayed 3 different times, for about two months each occurrence. :(
You shouldn't think in terms of "open slots". We accept all of the companies that seem like good bets, and we don't know how many that will be until interviews are complete. Teespring coming in with a million in revenue didn't push out some other pre-revenue startup.
Students can get a 4 year subscription for $80. http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/university/
It's interesting that the development is not really designed for public contributions; only contributions originating in the "webscale" companies.
YC doesn't fund lifestyle businesess (on purpose).

Lifestyle businesses don't need growth; they need profits. If your revenue/profit are consistent, and they're high enough, you don't have to grow.
Not entirely true though. Yes the advertisers are their customers, but their customers need a large supply of the product (the users). In order to keep a consistently large supply of the product, Facebook has the difficult task of finding that middle ground where users are happy using the site and advertisers are happy with the revenue they are making from it.
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If we exclude all the practical and legal aspects that are satisfied by a civil union, marriage is a ritual, a cultural custom. Its value and purpose lie in the symbolism ascribed to it. But customs aren't rights and they don't have to be inclusive.

What has been the symbolism of marriage in our culture? Part of it is definitely gender-neutral: celebration of a couple's love and their commitment to each other. But it has also been about the particular dynamic and beauty of a relationship between a man and a woman, including procreation. This part is very important to many people and it is taken away if the custom of marriage is changed to include gay couples.

I think this is a legitimate cultural dilemma where both sides can be empathized with. Opposing gay marriage (but not legally equivalent civil unions) can be a legitimate position that doesn't necessarily imply any sort of intolerance or hostility towards gays. Moreover, it is intolerant not to respect this position. I find it unacceptable for people to be ostracized and disenfranchised just for wanting to preserve a custom which they hold dear and which is part of their cultural identity.

You may think it's all just academic, but I'm actually convinced that a significant proportion (though probably not the majority) of gay marriage opponents isn't anti-gay. The unnecessary polarization of the debate doesn't serve good to the gay community either, as they feel more threatened than they should - such as in the case of Brendan Eich becoming Mozilla's CEO.

As for me, I think marriage shouldn't to be sanctioned by the state any more. Civil unions for everybody and let the cultural stuff be figured out organically.
Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne Australia.

As a bonus, the Bach. of Software Engineering is accredited by the Australian Institute of Engineers.
Sleight of hand is about manipulating attention. What I'm doing with my other hand that you're watching is "true" - what you're seeing that hand do is what it's doing - but you should have been paying attention to my elbow.

It's (let's grant) true that the lawyers make most of the money in a class action suit, but they're doing the work and taking much of the risk. Denying a legitimate claim to spite the lawyers is wrong if it means the company keeps whatever incentives lead it to hurt people.
One can script both photoshop and gimp. I spent a year and a half writing scripts against Photoshop and gimp has a batch mode in a CLI.

One used to be able to record a macro in Photoshop and export it to a script that one could call from a visual studio project. The code it produced was barely human readable but it was helpful for discovery.
My 80 year old grandmother actively uses VMware on her windows 8 machine, for real not making this up.

And that's the problem with anecdotes they tend to be way more interesting than the real data.
Think before you delete that Facebook post
Country-wise break up of data requests[0].

[0] https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AqAxkyS3N9_wdHc...
It's somewhat expensive at first sight for an individual, but it's a pretty phenomenal pricing for a family. Lets you buy 1 "license" and it works on up to 5 Macs/PCs and 5 mobile devices/tablets.

2 parents + 3 kids? Not bad. Not sure what the stance is on doing some "framily" thing where you share it with friends.
"multiple non-residence ownership taxation"

This is the one I would most like to see. I wish I could find the article now, but I remember reading a while back about buildings on Central Park in NYC where people own all the apartments but that at any given time only 10-20% of them are actually occupied. All the others are owned by rich foreigners who use them maybe once or twice a year for less than a month total.
Threes is the original game that 2048 (and its clones) are based on. This site starts off a bit slow (talking about 2048), however the hundreds of emails / screenshots showing the progress is insanely awesome. It's a great look into what it's like to build something from scratch.

Spoiler alert: at one point it was a game about argyle socks and monsters (Argoyle).
If we assume that the "UI design by metrics" approach actually works, I wonder, why would we need designers at all?

Shouldn't then the most rational choice be to start with a crude initial design an use a reinforcement learning algorithm to optimize it according to the metrics?
It doesn't happen that much, so "most users" is going to not be very many users.
I highly suggest going straight to his flicker feed its way better

http://www.flickr.com/photos/24796741@N05/
The servo is mounted to the piece of rubber which is then mounted to the doorknob. The only thing keeping the servo on the lock is friction.
There are people here who come from countries that were the target of America's equally fabricated reason to get into WWII.

Pearl Harbor? What are you smoking?
Such a tax would be especially beneficial in a city like Philadelphia, where such a high proportion of lots are sitting vacant or uninhabitable and the owners are nowhere to be found.

It also doesn't help that the city is derelict in its duty to collect existing property taxes, and has been entirely incompetent when it comes to claiming those properties and reselling them.
They don't have that FPGA to offload the CPU, I think its rather to interface with external components. GPUs don't come with external IO and for a lot of high-speed buses you are just dead in the water without an FPGA to handle the delicate timing.

That is really the unique benefit of FPGAs: the implicit parallelism makes them a really great fit for the kind of high-speed bit banging that would be impossible to get right on a normal CPU (not to mention very difficult to program in the first place).
This assumes that the intruder was able to get into the house without breaking something, which I would assume occurs rarely... unless you actually do leave the door unlocked.
"already have a shortage of parking (street parking is
constantly full)"

I see that as a sign that the neighborhood has outgrown cars and parking. Once the per capita density hits a certain point, it's time to move from cars to public transportation.
I was just going to post NO for that reason only.
The Basys 2 is a little old, but it's very simple and easy.
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How Google Responds to US Government Requests for User Data
Feeling self important today much? Talk about some hyperbole. You speak as if you have 20/20 vision from the future. There are other things than technical talent needed to build this future you speak of - including sociology, political acumen, and taste to name a few. Please don't over inflate our powers.
PHB: "That's it. Now you've confused everyone. So what exactly is stopping us from doing this?"

Anderson the Engineer: "Geometry."

Client: "Just ignore it."

PHB: "We have a task. Seven red lines. It's not 20. It's just seven! Anderson I understand you're a specialist of a narrow field; you don't see the overall picture. But surely it's not a difficult task to draw some seven lines."

Walter the PM: "Exactly! Suggest a solution. Now, any fool can criticize --no offense-- but, you're an expert. You should know better."

It's a shame that this will die in "new" submissions. Because it's fuckin' hilarious.
¿Qué son las inversiones temporales?
Este tipo de inversión están siempre representadas por lo que son los valores negociables o por cualquier otro método de inversión, que perfectamente pueden ser Fondos de inversión, pero que a la vez en corto plazo se convierten en efectivo, y por lo general el objetivo de estos es del rendimiento de manera inmediata hasta que la entidad que los emite los utilicen.
I don't recall much being proprietary about the first Lockitron -- it was off the shelf insteon components for the lock and the controller as this post highlights can be done in a number of ways.

It's nice to see different homebrew options popping up -- hopefully it will lead to an open source equivalent that can be 3d printed eventually :)
Really well written. Great analogy. Well thought-out.
Chargeback is a feature, not a bug. Without it there's no way I (as a consumer) will engage in commerce with a party I don't already trust absolutely.

And if intermediaries have to be used we get back to fees and chargeback.

BTC is not a good consumer payments system.
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Speed. Reconfiguring an FPGA is a very slow process, and FPGA's can't match the clock speeds of conventional ASICs. That may change in the near future with FPGA-like devices built using memristors, which potentially could be reconfigurable at the speed of writing RAM and run at the same clock speeds as any ASIC.
Possibly. One thing I'm worried about is that our brains might not be good generative models. We remember the high level details, not a pixel by pixel map of what we imagine. That's probably why humans aren't naturally good at drawing. We can imagine a picture but trying to create an image on paper that matches our imagination is quite difficult.
i have somewhat of a curious attraction to deceit -- this is awesome
I can't use an ipad for real work. I can't program on anything smaller than a BFM and I need a real keyboard to do more than a few characters.
Finally. Yes, there are alternatives to Microsoft Office for the iPad, but make no mistake, none of them even come close to that of Microsoft Office. I just downloaded Word and Excel, couldn't find a flaw in either of them. The subscription part for editing sucks, but subscriptions are fairly cheap.

We are witnessing a new Microsoft that began when new CEO Satya Nadella took the helm. This is his first of many acts to turn the company around, instead of the previous closed door approach Balmer preferred.

It's good to see Satya doesn't appear to be full brainwashed by the Microsoft cool-aid. This isn't 1998, Windows is no longer the dominant platform and it makes sense to open up your products to other platforms, especially given Microsoft's failure to break ground in the mobile market.

Now all Satya needs to do is bring back the start menu in Windows 9, get rid of that horrid Metro tile interface for non touch devices (or at the very least give users the option of the new Metro interface or classic desktop) and I'll be ecstatic.
Microsoft made products for the Apple decades ago.