skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you have a good point here. My Tesla must have some sort of integrated SIM. Someday if that needed to be changed not touching the hardware to do it would be preferred.
This is amazing! Now I am actually starting to notice how much I have to wait when I click on a link from apps. Save to pocket, etc is a nice feature too.
"(since a good level for BI -- in basically any economy -- is about 50% of the mean)."

How do you arrive at this?
This article has another story from Heidi Roizen which may offer some perspective (seventh story „A Friend In Need“):

http://www.forbes.com/sites/connieguglielmo/2012/10/03/untol...
Patrick J. McGovern, 76; founded International Data Group
Even if my comments (those few I posted already, what shouldn't be enough of a basis for such conclusions) seem to indicate that I dislike Firefox, that is not the case. I have little against Firefox itself, so much I use it as my main browser, and the Beta as secondary. Though, I have to admit I went over with the above comment, as more than half was off-topic (and most likely the source of down voting).

What I do not like is some of the decisions Mozilla leaders made lately. For example, I am clearly against the Directory Tiles or Australis in it's current form, but I support the rapid release cycle, as it clearly threw back Fx into the race and is now one of the top two browsers.

what was also hasty without the 'addons are compatible by default' and Mozilla Maintenance Service
Talking to Chromecast with Qt
Nowhere does the article say what problem the author was actually try to solve by switching to Ember. It sounds like his only reason for this painful experience was that he didn't want to the last one in his group of friends who wasn't using this cool, new framework. And that's not a good basis for a business decision.
> Since electromagnetism cannot cause intentions, or goals

Says who, where's the evidence of this? This is a bold claim and an unproven one. As it's your primary axiom, the discussion can go no further until this fantastic claim has some evidence.
Or just send the program via email or through P2P. They can't make it less available, but unless they unplug the internet, the people will still be able to get it. Specially if there is a need. Just remember the days before the internet, the programs, songs, movies used to spread via magazines, floppy disks, tapes...
Andreessen Horowitz Podcast
Technological innovations that Nazis had introduced to the world
"It looks like you are taking away someones first dollar earned?"

I don't see where you're getting that. Presuming the numbers haven't changed since you commented, it looks to me like taking away half of every dollar earned.
How to ensure your server's software stays secure
Well that is true, I have experienced it myself now and then. However, I've discovered a special technique I use in those situations. I find it's very effective, much better than being rude. I'll let you into the secret if you like. Ready? Here it is:

I go away and do something else instead.
That is like saying the IPhone is a copied "concept" from other touchscreen devices.
But Knight and the novice were using the same approach to fixing it, weren't they?
I used to work with an office full of females, and a French woman was showing this site to the others. They were reading it and laughing about it, and I remember feeling uncomfortable then. I was imagining how a woman would feel if a room full of men went onto a website and laughed about picking out their ideal woman. A bit of a double standard because it's funny if girls are doing it, but if guys did that it would be sexual harassment. But I'm sure it was all in good fun and it was done in a classier way than men would have done.
Thanks, that is nice to hear. Lots of custom 16 bit blitters made that happen. I made one that blended between (I think) 16 bit patterns to interpolate between two images, plus some RGB blending if I remember right. PowerPC had some wonderful functions for all of that but in the switch to Intel, computers were fast enough that I used a regular loop since it was waiting around for ram anyway. We got pretty far on an OpenGL port but ran into issues with needing to draw the scene in a handful of passes instead of piece by piece. My partner had the vision for artwork and special FX and I just made it happen on the back end.
You can look at specific cases: the 97% "vote" in Crimea is worthy of a banana republic. You can legitimately call that "imperialist" or "expansionist." You can also find deep flaws in the transfer of Hong Kong. It wasn't an open expression of the will of the people. But we also have the track record of how Hong Kong has been run since then. You will find good and bad in that record but it would be hard to call it an indication of imperialism.
Among other things that picture contains a very young Patrick Collison, just above the projector.
jelly~

buzz
> Owning a car in NY is unusual and unnecessary

46% of NYC households own a car. I don't think that qualifies as "unusual". Or if it does, then some other things that are unusual in NYC are white people (44%) and males (47%). :-)

Even in Manhattan, which has the lowest car ownership within the five boroughs, 23% of households own a car, which is hard to describe as "unusual". Some things that are comparably rare in Manhattan: people who primarily speak Spanish at home (23%), and Black and Asian people (26%).

Car ownership in the other boroughs: 44% for Brooklyn, 46% for the Bronx, 64% for Queens, and 84% for Staten Island.
> The design needs a bit of polish, but the core concept is just so damn good it's blatantly going to be copied.

Chris Lacy (the author) delayed the release because he was encouraged to patent the idea. Looks to me like that was a good move.
It also occurs to me that this technique is fundamentally the same as more modern methods for sending data over power lines, such as X10, various telemetry schemes used for monitoring the power company's stuff, or the constant attempts to provide broadband internet over power lines.

The difference is that it 1) uses an analog coding scheme that allows data from multiple transmitters to be combined automatically and 2) it operates at an extremely low frequency which avoids interference, passes easily through transformers and the like, and can be received using cheap equipment.

I'm also reminded of side channel attacks on power consumption, whereby a computer basically transmits data using the same basic scheme as used here, but much faster, and not intentionally: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_analysis

All in all this is a crazy scheme, but it's interesting to consider what it's similar to.
> I was only hoping to plant seeds.

Considering you come off sounding like a quack, you're not the type to do any seed planting. You argue fallaciously with argument from authority, and then reference authorities that most here clearly consider laughable and debunked, and you want us to take you seriously. Really?
You're speaking of SOMA like you're familiar with the restaurants here. I'm guessing you're not. Perhaps you live here but are too busy coding to make it past the Creamery?

At the "everyday eating level", try Darwin, Little Skillet, Garaje, American Grilled Cheese, Source, Butler and Chef, La Briciola, Coco500, Zuppa, Holy Grill etc.

Want to go a little more upscale? Saisan. Alexanders. 25 Lusk. Prospect. Town Hall. Benu.

C'mon, don't make such broad generalizations unless you can back them up.
Here are some ways I think this could be more concrete:

"we pay well"
What is the salary range for this position? If you have already hired into this role, what are you paying them? I'd say a specific number is important here, rather than "market rate" (if you say market rate, It's important to define it with a number).

"we don't expect anyone to work crazy overtime"
How many hours, on average, does someone in this role work a week? If you offer vacation, how much time off do you offer? How many paid days off per year? If you don't do those things (many companies don't do vacation time anymore), what are the average number of days take off per week.

"good engineers", "competent developers"
How do you define this? This is probably hardest of all, but if you already have someone in this role... what degrees do these workers typically hold? How many years of experience is typical? Could you share specific examples of interview questions, and what kind of response is required for an offer to be made? Could you share an example of a problem solved on the job that represents the kind of work someone like this does?
Google going into ‘Defense’ mode about Google Glass (Plus our views)
You obviously never had to deal with bureaucrats, right now the 2nd biggest exchange BTC-e is runny by some shady eastern europeans who are simply ignoring all laws. The biggest exchange Mtgox was run by an incompetent fool who lost half a billion in the cushion of his couch or something.

Bitstamp seem to be doing the right things but I doubt that they can legally operate in US or take transfers from/to US as they are doing.
> "You're oversimplifying the rationale. The cops have to prove that the property is the fruit of a crime."

The meaning of "prove" in this case is the far more permissive "preponderance of the evidence" standard. But of course you already know that. You are lying by admission.
Cube Drone – Bloom Filters
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I tried that strategy 15 times in a row and didn't win once. It always became an infinite loop. I got to 4096 in 2/3rds (roughly) of the cases. I've also never beaten the original or any of the derivatives, except the 8402 one.
Who else commands that kind of money to be able to ensure a bunch of exchanges and other bitcoin-holding businesses?

Insurance companies. Where do you think that consumer insurances companies insure themselves? Companies like Lloyd's and Munich RE have dozens of billions of dollars in insured amounts.
No, Snowden wasn't behind 7 proxies at SXSW. It's a 7 year-old Internet joke.
Claiming to be behind seven proxies is one of the oldest jokes on the Internet. It's been in use since 2007. The sarcastic remark is used to jokingly bait someone who is trying to find your location through the Internet. Telling someone that you're behind seven proxies is a joke playing on most people's poor understanding of how to use the Internet securely.
I'm not sure if you are responding the the right comment or if you understood what I said. The point is when you initialize weights randomly, you aren't starting with a blank map and then adding stuff to it. You are starting with a random map and then trying to correct it. Random bias is still bias.
I always used to open a link on Chrome, switch to the previous app, keep the page loading and then after a few seconds I would open Chrome and see the fully loaded page - however this is a more elegant solution than my "hack".

Installed and already using it.
Astonishingly concise? SVG is based on XML, I don't think I've ever seen XML and 'astonishingly concise' in the same sentence before, congratulations for being the first. Besides, I've already pointed to another vector format that is far more concise, just by way of example. SVG is versatile, a jack of all trades if you will, but concise it is not.
Rare earths: Neither rare, nor earths
Is it a mobile oven? The bread gets baked as you drive to the delivery point? :D
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_mobility#Country_compari...
this is completely wrong.

edit: and this is frightening to see this kind of thinking on HN, this is not Fox News here, we all have access to the same google.
by glancing the title this comes to my mind first:
http://www.nick.com/shows/breadwinners/
I think Toyota is using a machine from Herzog:
http://www.herzog-online.com/_rubric/index.php?rubric=Produc...
Wow. What a great idea. Worst case is exactly the same as if you just saved up the money the old way. If there was 160 people doing this for 500 a month for a new Tesla, I would probably join.
Oh boy. That's nice. Could you deliver to São Paulo, please? Pretty please :)
But seriously, that's quite a great idea. If you can deliver in time, it would be supremely convenient. Reminds me of the milk bottles that used to be delivered by the milkman early in the morning.
Guile-OpenGL
As the article describes Snowden's decision to leak to journalists rather than directly to the public, this isn't a coherent argument. If we had "more Snowdens" we'd potentially need more journalists to cover the leaks.

Even if you had said "more Mannings" instead, how many people would have heard about anything she leaked without journalists?
The mobile one is particularly good: https://soundcloud.com/a16z/a16z-podcast-apple-and-google
Given I'm now hungry as a bat out of hell, I guess you already nailed the website both in content and in pictures.

Now if only I wasn't based in Italy...
People were still pumping money into MtGox after all withdrawals ended. The bitcoin community tends to be... trusting. Very, very trusting.
The problem is not due to staff not having time, or not dumbing things down. The problem regarding patient education will always be engagement and motivation.
> They want to know whether China is able to use Huawei's networking equipment to spy on other countries or conduct cyberwarfare.

The answer is yes, they are able to. If we got into Huawei, the Chinese government could too (if they wanted to).

I really dislike the "we have to spy on them because they might spy on us" argument. Especially when we point fingers at how everyone else is doing wrong and then come back and while forgetting when we have committed the same wrongs and while we are still committing those wrongs.

We give billions of dollars in aid to Israel, who refuses to stop expanding their settlements into Palestinian territory. We condemn Russia for reclaiming land that was theirs not so long ago, land that has more Russians than Ukrainians living there.

The hypocrisy is starting to drive me insane.
Google needs to acquire and integrate.
It's refreshing that instead of putting up a fake landing page and pretending to be an established product, they're just coming right out and telling us that this is an experiment. Very cool!
If you're looking for a full-featured IDE in the vein of VS, PyCharm is pretty good
Strange business, if that's what it's going to be. I've never had a sudden craving for a loaf of bread and wished I could order just that online. Not that I can't already; the local grocery store has a delivery service, and they bake their own bread every morning. I'm sure there's at least one bakery that delivers in the city, and there's a half dozen restaurants on GrubHub in my area that offer some kind of bread delivered.

It'd be a strange thing to pitch to investors too. I don't hear of much VC funding going to low-margin fresh food businesses. Bakeries generally don't make many billionaires; I think the entire Cinnabon company was sold for $30M some years ago. Perhaps they're going to pitch some kind of scheduling / routing / dispatch technology for delivery businesses?

Edit: Nope, missed the link to their real site. They want to be a bakery that delivers for free.
You're assuming the value of a person's time to themselves is zero. If it's positive, and if the economic value we're deriving from the make-work is less than it, then the make-work program is actually destroying value.
I don't know much about the whole BTC protocol, but why aren't there any exchanges where funds are kept in the individual account holders wallets and the exchange only touches the money in a split second while transferring the funds? Or if this is already possible on some exchanges, why doesn't it happen more?
Okay, given a box of data, shove it into
one of these algorithms, let the
computer run, and now what? What do we
have?

E.g., for some 'classifier', what the heck do
we have? That is, what guarantees do we have?
That is, is there something specific and guaranteed
that the algorithm has actually done?

I know; I know; in some vague, unspecific sense,
that seems to work in some practical cases,
the algorithm will 'classify'. Still, we don't
have precise description of (1) in what cases
does the algorithm work and (2) how well.

E.g., what is the rate (probability)
of false classifications?
Sure, we'd need some hypotheses to say.
Okay, what the heck are the algorithms
assuming for hypotheses that would let there even be
a rate of false classifications.
Then with those hypotheses,
what are the probabilities of a false
classification?

Without such considerations, about all we
have is some
code that runs.

Uh, where's the beef?
Ask HN: What online word processor do you use?
IBM PCjr STRIPPED BARE:We tear down the machine Big Blue would rather you forgot
I'm currently taking some classes at my community college.

Besides the insane prices, one things I've noticed is that students don't get their student aid paid out until weeks into the semester, so you either have the choice to buy books at incredibly high prices at the college bookstore (higher even brand new compared to Amazon), or you have to wait 6 weeks before the aid is available for students to shop elsewhere.

Sneaky business.
Please no, I like to see what companies can do without being bought by large lumbering giants.
If anyone wishes for whatever reason to read the original thread, http://archive.foolz.us/v/thread/235956257/#235956257 here. Caution: it may contain content that you find offensive, but was posted in jest in the original context. There is also content that is offensive and posted with the intent to offend. There is also content that is funny, but was posted with the intent to offend. There is no known algorithm to distinguish between them. Read with caution. Images are not archived, only thumbnails.

Edit: And before I forget. This thread is on the videogames board, but some people post pictures of anime girls wearing clothes. I've seen people get extremely angry at that practise, so if you're one of them, turn images off or something.
Because it means it's harder for me to get a job building those machines, which is how we make genuine progress.
Clinton: If the U.S. gives up Internet oversight, Internet freedom will suffer
Now you will also have to tell people that free software is free in the sense of freedom, and free in the sense of FREE BEER, and often but not necessarily in the sense of free beer.
What do you think about code bounties for coding questions?
This is incredible. This accomplishes exactly the way we browse on desktops: Open links in new tabs and switch to them when they're loaded, and then close them one by one to finally return to the original page. I remember thinking of how to solve this before but didn't come up with a good solution.
A wallet doesn't need to be online for to be identifiable and its balance verifiable through the blockchain.
I recommend everyone to check out his Android Launcher:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.chrislacy....

Im a big fan of it and find it makes my phone faster to use than any other launcher without having to learn new ui concepts.
it was only this morning that I was thinking, I wish someone could buy me breakfast from the nearby Au Bon Pain while I work on campus. This would work too. Great idea!
Any suggestions for something more recent?
this is the university bookstore (which is run by Barnes and Noble but I think this policy is separate from them.). I suppose I could have said to the students "you will have to buy your book online" but some of them might not have liked that. Some student athletes also get books paid for on their scholarship and probably are expected to buy from the university bookstore. Like I said, I am just a grad student so I just do what I'm told. I was teaching a summer course and they called and I just did what they said. If I was a tenured prof I might have took the time to figure out something else.

Regardless, in the courses I've taught that use textbooks I've always encouraged students to use older editions if I know that they are substantially similar to the latest edition.
JezzBall Anyone?
Is it? One thing that puts what could be called inappropriate power in the hands of prosecutors is the discretionary sentencing. If you could go to jail for one year or ten for the same crime, and the prosecutor promises to ask for one if you confess and apologise, they have a lot of leverage. It makes claiming innocence punishable itself.

I suppose they bypass anyway by selecting the charge/law that you are going to be prosecuted under. Hard.
Well done larsiusprime. Great article. You have me very interested in trying out Haxe and Lime, maybe OpenFL as well.
Statistics professors HATE him! Doctor's discovery revealed the secret to learning any problem with just 10 training samples. Find a separating hyperplane with this One Weird Trick.

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The worst case is that the people without Teslas are taking the people with Teslas to collections.

Even if everybody plays fair, some people are likely to have bad luck and start missing payments.
he said QE would cause a recovery in the loan market.

Can you provide a citation for that claim? Because my recollection is that he said QE would have limited effects. I can't find much supporting this memory right now, aside from this entry about QE2[1]. He definitely supported QE, but I don't think he ever argued it would fix everything by itself. He's consistently argued that the Fed can't fix things by itself.

On the other hand, here's this entry where he says that, contrary to what you suggest, the whole point of QE is to cause inflation [2].

[1] http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/10/23/how-to-think-abo...
[2] http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/03/20/fiscal-aspects-o...
These algorithms are all good, but they seems to be missing recurrent ANN, that is, the form of datamining tool our brains are using.
I can add this paper as relevant for those being interested
http://orre.neurologic.org/pubdoc/abstract/complex2003-abstr...
Lossy transparency is possible already in a backwards-compatible way: please try http://pngquant.org (cross platform) or http://pngmini.com (Mac)
What a brilliant way to validate an idea. No online payment processing, no fancy dropdown modals asking me to make an account, just pay when you get the bread.

I hope it stays this simple.
When was that image taken?

It would be interesting to see a collection of images from each batch to see a lot of the YC founders when they were just getting started in the accelerator.
"Well, Basic Job is sort of by definition work that doesn't need doing."

Not at all. There are things that provide economic value that is hard to capture. Determining what those things are and how to value them is going to be messy, though.
> "Don't even have the keyboard actually attached, have some guy in the gallery push the buttons too..."

Alternatively have the keyboard set up as one big "anykey" to advance the animation. The advantage of this being that keyboard strikes would be synced with screen updates, if there is ever a shot where you can see both the fingers and the screen (which is typically avoided, but still).
I didn't downvote, but I'm guessing it's because the majority of vulnerabilities are irrelevant if the thing is not connected to the Internet.
That was PG talking about Prototype Day at Y Combinator Summer 2009
For IE you can serve JPEG-XR http://caniuse.com/jpegxr and for Safari JPEG 2000.
Wouldn't it be a logistic nightmare when everybody wants their bread delivered at the exact same time (breakfast)?
That is a horrific sentiment and you are a bad person.