skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is absolutely amazing. Especially the high speed FPGA. I'm currently working with the Xilinx Zynq which is the same idea but with an FPGA on the same chip and it's amazing for a lot of things. In particular, stuff you'd do with only an FPGA is made so much easier with a Linux SoC on board to handle Ethernet, USB, and the like.
Is it legal for Mozilla to fire Eich because of his political affiliations? Is it legal to ask a prospective CEO hire his or her political views? What I found from a quick search indicates that it isn't legal. [1] I can kind of understand how a member of the LGBT community could be disappointed by Eich's promotion, but I don't understand what they think Mozilla could have legally done differently.

[1] http://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/california-employment...
Insurance mandates exist to protect the people hit by cars, not the drivers of the cars.

As a general principle, businesses should bear the cost of the externalized risk they create. If you run a taxi business, which is what Uber does regardless of how you try to lawyer your way around the definition of "taxi," then you should bear the cost of insuring against the inevitable collisions and accidents that arise from your business.
"Google is their homepage"

That's an interesting concept that I'd never even considered. I then realized that I couldn't even remember what the stackoverflow homepage looked like, yet I utilize that website daily.

It doesn't seem to be harming the stackoverflow and associated sites, so I guess it's not a bad thing.
You are correct. The same caveat that makes using one's personal automobile (and insurance) for pizza delivery problematic is the same one that applies to using your car as a Lyft / Uber or other driver.

Personal policies rarely cover commercial use of the vehicle.
I mean in the sense they can agree to any contract they want in theory. As opposed to having a law that no one anywhere can do it legally even if the owner agrees to it.
Apple is Attempting to Make Walking and Texting Safer
> If you let modulus number N be larger than n (e.g. n = 5 in my example, just let N = 6. Then 10 + x = 0 mod 6 will yield only one possible solution that is 2) then I think your solution will definitely work.

That was entirely what I was suggesting, but we don't need N>n. N=n would work. (btw, I defined n to be the size of the list -1, therefore in your example, the number is 4)

> But I think the big problem is: you said x = (b - a) % n. That is true, but how do we get "a" (the sum of all unique numbers from 1 to n) without overflowing? The reason we do modulus summation is for avoiding overflow, granted that can get "b" easily, yet now we have to find "a" still, I find we are still stuck. Any suggestion?

We can compute a using the same function that computes b. just sum all numbers from 1 to n mod n.
Here is a quick demonstration in Haskell.

http://lpaste.net/101868

> Even if assuming everything will work out and my previous question can be responded, still the modulus function is WAY MORE expensive to compute than xor operation.

True. I just want to show how to modify another solution so there is no overflow.
No. By saying it is a "good deal", the GP is just saying that your average outcome would be better than doing nothing. It is still theoretically possible for better deals to exist.

Edit: You aren't understanding my post; I just said that something can be a "good deal" compared to doing nothing regardless of what other options are available; i.e. YC offers a positive value proposition.
Has anyone tried analyzing the actual blockchain for likely malleated (malled?) transactions? Depending on which form of malleability was exploited (see: https://gist.github.com/sipa/8907691) it should be fairly easy to separate "normal" transactions generated by "normal" clients and intentionally malleated transactions.
>Because as a consumer, I've never had a complaint about my CC, ever. With the NFC chips built into all new CCs (at least here in Canada) I tap my card and leave.

I don't want to tap my card and leave. I wish I could turn off that "feature."

A way credit cards are bad for consumers?

Science proves that you tend to spend less money when you pay with cash, especially on unplanned and/or impulse purchases. I guess the psychology of actually handing something over then having less of it afterwards makes people think twice about if they really need to spend the money. Also getting extra cash when you over budget has an extra step (trip to bank/ATM) so you're probably more likely to stay in budget or to rethink if you really need that over budget purchase.

http://www.livescience.com/2849-study-credit-cards-spending....

http://www.investopedia.com/articles/pf/08/pay-in-cash.asp

http://seekingalpha.com/article/20333-guide-to-credit-cards-...

http://business.time.com/2013/08/08/turns-out-you-only-think...

I especially think this is interesting:

>McDonald's found that the average transaction rose from $4.50 to $7 when customers used plastic instead of cash
Balance (work/family/fun) = happiness
You can also rob a bank and get rich quick.
It has. And it was pretty good. Ironically at the time it was made available it was part of MSFT's injection of cash into a near death APPL and a way for MSFT to get the monopoly police off their back (See we are supporting another platform! wink wink) My how times have changed.
Cool result, but where is a publication showing the faces that were actually tested and "reconstructed"? Many, many submissions to HN (like this one) are press releases, and press releases are well known for spinning preliminary research findings beyond all recognition. This has been commented on in the PhD comic "The Science News Cycle,"[1] which only exaggerates the process a very little. More serious commentary in the edited group blog post "Related by coincidence only? University and medical journal press releases versus journal articles"[2] points to the same danger of taking press releases (and news aggregator website articles based solely on press releases) too seriously. I look forward to seeing how this finding develops as it is commented on and reviewed by other researchers in peer-reviewed publications and attempts to replicate the finding.

The most sure and certain finding of any preliminary study will be that more research is needed. Disappointingly often, preliminary findings don't lead to further useful discoveries in science, because the preliminary findings are flawed. If the technique reported here can generalize at sufficiently low expense, it could lead to a lot of insight into the workings of the known-to-be complicated neural networks of the human brain used for recognizing faces.

A useful follow-up link for any discussion of a report on a research result like the one kindly submitted here is the article "Warning Signs in Experimental Design and Interpretation"[3] by Peter Norvig, director of research at Google, on how to interpret scientific research. Check each news story you read for how many of the important issues in interpreting research are NOT discussed in the story.

[1] http://www.phdcomics.com/comics.php?f=1174

[2] http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/index.php/related-by-coi...

[3] http://norvig.com/experiment-design.html
I'm not, but I'm watching several of the Github repos and doing fresh EC2 installs and tests whenever they release a new version. I'm very much a fan of the project, but I would not use it in production at this point.

CoreOS is still alpha, which is exemplified in this release, which requires a fresh install and isn't upgradeable from the previous release with their auto-update feature.

Also the team is still working out where to put things, filesystems, and how to best integrate etcd, networkd, systemd, etc., with their fleet system for a fully automated, auto-scalable, auto-discovering, self-healing clustering system. All that stuff has come a long way in recent weeks, and I'm very glad to see a distro geared towards both Docker and clustering.
ok......
> There is an externality, but it's still smaller than the total benefit.

The problem is that the benefit and the cost of the externality accrue to different people. When that happens, you get a higher level of the activity than is economically efficient.
Let's stop with the "mind reading" warnings before they get too far out of hand and consider what's really happening: Six subjects were shown a "training" corpus of images first. Then shown new images. By comparing the subjects' responses to the new images, the software in the study presumably did its best to create composite images by pulling from the corpus.

So this raises many questions: How diverse were the faces in the training corpus? How close were the new images to those in the corpus? When you're looking at hundreds of images to train the machine, are you also unknowingly being trained to think about images in a certain way? What happens when you try to recreate faces based on the fMRI responses of subjects who didn't contribute to the initial training set?

The implications of the last question are pretty interesting . If different people have different brain responses to looking at the same image, does that help us begin to understand why you and I can be attracted to different types of people? Does it help begin to explain why two people can experience the same event but walk away with two completely different interpretations?
Did I read this argument right? Is everyone fired up for a guy that voted against some proposition that was against LGBT? Isn't it his right to vote how he pleases? Has he taken any direct action against someone in the LGBT community? Has he shown in the past that his views change the ways he treats people? So, I remember reading about something called the Red Scare that blackballed people because of their political views. Is that really the way the LGBT community wants to be viewed: Love us or we'll ruin your life? People don't see things the same way, and that's their right. People aren't required to see your same point of view. That is one of the great things about America, we can feel however we want. Once there was a time when his views were in the majority, and I think it's a shame that this is how people think it should be solved. If you want to change him, you should make him hate you and ruin his career. I'm not trolling, I'm just reading headlines, and I saw nowhere where this man did anything except vote his mind. Please correct me if I'm in the wrong.
There are people here who come from countries that were the target of America's equally fabricated reason to get into WWII. I would love to thank the US government for fabricating that (at the very least blowing one incident way out of proportion). My family has killed people for simply being on the wrong side of that battle, merely to make some profit selling pigs, or repairing plumming. You know what ? They were right too.

The problem with Syria is that the government is in the right. Or at least, it's less wrong. The rebels want to do religious cleansing of the country and the government wants to survive, and it's own ethnic group to survive. Of course Iran, equally being the target of the sunni muslim religious cleansing, supports their not-quite-brothers. Erdogan wants to "help" the rebels because he's on the side that wants to do ethnic and religious cleansing in Syria, and presumably because it would distract from his local problems. The problem in Iraq is the same basic thing. The good thing is that sunni muslim attacks in Syria, Iraq, Pakistan and Afghanistan are mostly their actions out of western nations.

But please don't be so stupid as to think they're ok with the US and generally the rest of the world just because they don't want to turn a 5-front war into a 100-front one. And also don't make the mistake of assuming they don't have support in America or don't have massive support in Europe. Both from local muslims living there, and from the governments that are afraid of these mad attacks.

As for Turkey, what do you really expect the leader of a sunni muslim religious party to do, except declare himself caliph and behave like he owns the world ? What exactly do you think he means when he says that "some" parts of sharia should be introduced ? You think he means to stop at "some" ? Really ? Religious freedom ? Sadly there are hundreds of millions of people who believe doing this is the answer to all the world's problems.

Please keep in mind that before Kemal Ataturk, Turkey, then the Ottoman empire, effectively the state of sunni islam that so many muslims are trying to recreate, had waged a 1500-year long war against the Europe, Asia and Africa. Then in WWI allah's caliph was overthrown, all but declared illegal (you wouldn't believe the number of imams killed and threatened in the 1918 - today period), and the war stopped, to be replaced with the cold war. The nightmare scenario is that this original war resumes.

[1] http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/oct/19/turkeys-abru...
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"In other words, if ten people are trying to purchase your product, IP enforcement means you want exactly ten copies to exist."

Monopolistic rent is extracted through underproduction.
I literally get this all the time... having to spell it out.. people asking me "did you say your name was Alladin? Is that like Bin Laden?"

I don't think I'd ever be able to change it though and tell a whole whack of people I meet to just call me Ben or something. It's too much a part of my identity.
Will you be easing up on the "prohibited businesses"[0] restrictions for these Bitcoin transfers, since you aren't beholden to the credit card networks for these transactions? I've got a business that falls under category #2 that I'd like to use Stripe for but can't.

[0]: https://stripe.com/prohibited_businesses
You're right. "Common" means something so different than it used to pre-internet. I'm reminded of that every time I google something I think is special.

Edit (missed your other question): He pronounces it "Miller".
Even More Details About What It's Like To Present to Jeff Bezos
Even in a best-case scenario, you'll be lucky to get anything at all. Even assuming there is a successful lawsuit, and after all of the assets have been divided up, and after the lawyers have taken their fees, in 10 years maybe you'll end up with $20. Maybe.
This Photo Shows The Primitive Setup Apple Used To Create The Original iPhone
You know, I'll get downvoted to hell and back for this.

If you read the Unabomber manifesto a few things strike you. One is obviously that the guy has a few screws loose as to how to resolve what he perceived as the problems of the world, another is when it comes to attacking the psychology of the protest movement he was bang on.

This is an example of exactly what he rants about - people over thinking and then making highly visible group based sacrifices with no reasonable endgame just to make everyone feel more solidarity but achieving absolutely nothing except making them all feel better.

Want to oust the CEO? Get in a group and walk into his office. Don't go on about it on the Internet.
Zuckerberg's update on Connectivity Lab
It's cheaper to pay people to help instead of giving equity.
Honestly curious, is there any company you know of who has publicly stated they weren't happy they went through YC? Not saying it's conclusive either way, would just be interesting to read why.
You don't need to copy and paste long Base58 encoded strings if you use this wallet: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/bitbrowser-bitcoin...
Worse, lightroom is an adobe application. I no longer use Photoshop because I use another Adobe tool more often... Makes the switch to GIMP kind of pointless. Not that I should talk, I hardly use Photoshop any more either, but that's because I live in Illustrator.

My problem with open source graphic tools remains the same. I'm in the print world, either it supports Pantone or it's not that useful of a tool.
I don't see it simply as disagreement. I draw the line at oppression. He's spending money earned, in part from any given employee's contribution to the company, to support the oppression of a group of people. It actually doesn't really matter if it's the CEO, this type of thing at any level in the company derails morale.

With this line drawn, it's not about going through and ratting out people who donate to stuff you don't like, and it's not about limit free speech. This is about supporting human rights, and more specifically to the private company, maintaining a workplace that is inclusive to everyone, and a vision for the company that everyone can get behind.

Yes, everyone has free speech and should be able to support whatever they want, but when you support oppression, I think it's completely fair that there is backlash and questioning of whether you should be part of, and benefitting from, a inclusive group. The employees have every right (freedom of speech, remember?) to voice opposition to you in your role, because it really does affect everyone in the company.
Dune, as an Allegory for Windows and Linux
>I don't want to tap my card and leave.

Then don't. No one forces you. Use signature only, or "chip and pin".
The comments here are a lot more sane than all the other discussions I've seen. It's still not obvious to me that the IRS will regard transaction outputs as discrete objects instead of fungible units like shares of stock (where you can use rules like FIFO).
You can't afford the investor's time if your investors are people who will really help you. An investor does a LOT more than give you money.
Yes, YC is a good deal in an alternative reality where YC is the only choice. However, I talked about doing YC in the real world, where other alternatives exist.
Not my app, but I assume because it's made by a college student in the area, who would like to see how the proof of concept develops.
Hundreds of companies would disagree.
Ask HN: Getting a job as a non-technical employee at an early stage startup
What's your experience when it comes to non-technical positions at early stage start-ups? I'm really looking for any point of view (people who have accepted positions, been rejected, ran the hiring process, etc.).<p>If you are someone who got the job or were involved in the hiring process, what were you looking for and what led you to accept someone?<p>If you are someone who was rejected, what did you do after?<p>Thanks everyone!
Fred Wilson gave a nice overview.[1] Indeed not much better than other investments.

[1]: http://avc.com/2013/02/venture-capital-returns/
> Consumers have a choice not to use their services.

You have a choice on whether to rent out your apartment on AirBnB. You balance the money you can make from doing so against the risk created by randos walking through your building. Your neighbor, on the other hand, bears additional risk if you decide to rent on AirBnB,[1] but does not benefit in any way from the transaction. This is a textbook example of an inefficient negative externality.

[1] It also substantially reduces her property value, as people hate buying property in buildings with lots of transients. Condo prices in a building with apartment units can be substantially lower than in a building without them, purely because people put a lot of value on not having renters in their building.
Bob owns his car and has personal insurance.

At work they ask Bob to take a widget to a customer. Bob drives his car to the customer but is involved in an accident before he gets there. This is the only time Bob has ever driven for the company like this.

Bob finds that his insurance does not cover him. He could lie and not mention the widget delivery, but that is fraud and is a serious crime.

We could say that the widget delivery is irrelevant and that the insurance company should just pay the money but insurance companies are SCUM and they employ many people whose only role is to see how to reduce or avoid paying money to the customers.
Wouldn't they use some external accounting firm to do the taxes?
I always open these up in a new tab (usually can be done fast with third click, or ctrl+click), then close the tab when I'm done. It's fast, you can keep reading the original site while the image/webpage/whatever loads, and the problem you mention never happens.
Screw 'penalties.' Have you looked at Wall Street over the past decade? Every month or so there's some 'settlement' with a regulatory agency with some fine or the other for all kinds of issues. Class-action lawsuits also enrich the lawyers mostly. It would be best if the engineers themselves would get compensated, but not sure how it would be possible to identify the plaintiffs.
Russian names are also much more likely to get mangled, as you'd have to do a very careful sound-by-sound transfer. You can't just go by the letters, because the vowels are pronounced differently if they are emphasized in the word.
>I take it you've never had your CC details stolen

No, but I've had fraudulent charges, which required only a phone call to complain, and they were reversed.
Usually the Turkish army would have stepped in and restored some sanity by now. Turkey is in the odd position that it's military coups tend to increase democracy. However, as I understand it, as Turkey wants (wanted?) to be an EU member, the army has been hesitant this time around, and the politicians have used this moment of political weakness to defang any unfriendly military chiefs.
How many of their funds were active in 2013?
There are two things here that are new. Firstly it's got an international angle, and laws around the world do definitely differ on things like poaching and anti-competes.

More interesting is Alan Eustace's comment about the value of the Apple relationship to Google, in 2006. Were they really that close? I struggle to think of why they viewed their relationship as of particular strategic importance at that time.
Jesus Christ, what is hard about this? It's his right to do whatever he wants. It's my right to think that he's an asshole and that I wouldn't want to work for him.
I'm not saying this stuff is easy.

I'm saying professionals (people who are skilled in non-easy stuff) know what they want and just do it.

Probably there are just many people out there who using PS and aren't professionals, which is okay...
It's common for Chinese to choose an "english name" when they study english even back in China https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3U5u3D2L9Q
Financially backing prop 8 constitutes taking direct action against the LGBT community, yes.
Reminds me of this Yegge story: https://plus.google.com/110981030061712822816/posts/AaygmbzV....
Ironically Facebook has the same walled garden philosophy.
A Personal API for Email and Web Apps
Ask HN: phpmyadmin alternatives for simple db tasks
I am not a db expert and when it comes to db management, I am just using phpmyadmin on my dev server. Yes, I confess. It is not pretty/secure etc but it does the task specially in dev.

However, I was wondering what other options are out there that are easier and simpler. All I want is a GUI on top of my db (mysql,postgresql) to run select, insert, update queries as needed. No bloat.
Does that mean Bezos doesn't care about AWS? Not likely.. Probably because he is not the target user.
It's like IFTTT or Zapier, but open source. FINALLY.
Good points although I still think it's very debatable. Housing is one of the biggest costs, and this is a great way to improve efficiency and save everyone money and resources. It would be said if it was banned entirely due to hypotheticals.

>As a society, we have to decide what's acceptable and what's not--and that's where laws come into play.

That sounds great in theory. In reality the government is far from perfectly competent. Additionally you get corruption where the government tries to protect an existing industry from competition at the expense of everyone else. Or jerks that shout "Not In My Backyard!" whenever anyone tries to change anything. People are irrationally resistant to new things and that is, on average, far more of a problem than the new things themselves.