skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Exactly. Microsoft is after the business users who will throw the subscription on expenses without a second thought. Personal use for something like this is likely not a huge market; google docs is good enough, and free, for that.
Yeah, wouldn't it be terrible if you were persecuted and had your career ruined because of your perceived feelings on marriage or political commentary/donations?

EDIT: Downvote away, but it's pretty obvious that these folks are abusing the freedom they have to attack somebody who deserves our respect and admiration, and are tarnishing the reputation of their cause.

This witch-hunt isn't helping anyone--it's saying that those involved care more about politics and sex and gender and bullshit than about creating good code and leading well and supporting freedom.
> Marginally higher costs that inevitably pass to consumers

Massive statement that I sincerely doubt is true (increased revenue off of increased liquidity drives prices down for everyone).
As far as I can tell, this is about the $1000 donation in 2008.
It is still expensive to build big companies, and $1.5B is tiny by financial markets standards. Bond firms like Pimco and Blackrock measure things by $100Bs and trillions.

Let's say you invest in 50 startups per year for 5 years. That is 250 firms, averaging $6M/firm.
>"McAvoy added that he feels fortunate to work at a company >like Mozilla, 'where I can say that without fear of >retribution.'"

May only be true because of how many eyes are on this. Regardless on how enlightened a company is I don't think you'll have a good time of things for very long if you're calling out your boss to quit his job.
This is how you start a revolution.
Well, Ballmer was famous for his enrage moments when someone show up at some meeting using an iphone [1]

[1] http://www.bizjournals.com/seattle/blog/techflash/2009/09/ba...
How far does it go? Would you say the same about a nazi or KKK member?
Hmm... is it possible that there's a spam filter automatically triggering on posts containing just a link(which the first version of the comment was)?
>when there is no documented instance of him ever disparaging or otherwise harming LGBTQ employees or community members.

Except the bit where he contributed $1000 to a campaign to vilify them and take away their rights.
According to Fortune, there are management fees required on the full $1.5B. It's a huge fund (same article pits the average American venture fund at $107mm), but given the fees and the assumed ease of the fundraising process, it's easy to understand why they went this far.

For all the tension between Andreessen and Icahn, they share one quality that few investors can claim. When Icahn buys AAPL and let's people know, the lemming effect allows him to profit merely from announcing his own optimism (note he doesn't sell off of this, but his shares are still more valuable). At this point, a16z essentially has the same star power. Their blessing can give a serious push to companies pursuing an IPO or acquisition, to the point that the boosted exit value overweighs any "overpaying" a16z might do on the entrance.
In my opinion, appointing someone as CEO can not be base purely on professional performance. The CEO position is too public to ignore personal actions. Eich is of course allowed to have his own opinion on issues, such as gay marriage. But now being CEO of Mozilla, Mozilla has to ask themselves if his personal views are in line with the views/mission of Mozilla as a company.

The freedom to have your own opinion on things does not protect you from the consequences of those opinions.
...or don't break it and use "as is" for someone you appreciate.
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Awesome to hear, thank you. Often high value conversations occur in threads after they have fallen off the front page.
So you'd be ok if he was a racist? Brendan is entitled to express his views, but it doesn't mean they come without consequences.
Does making a one time donation to a political organisation really constitute "anti gay activism"?
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You're forgetting money that they can leverage from banks with the money they raised.
Because the line about private activities staying private doesn't apply to conservatives for some reason.
"Fortunately, MCTS lends itself much more easily to parallelization" and "Although MCTS can benefit from parallel implementation, this benefit is not always as large as might be hoped" as no game-tree is constructed.[3]

I think the assumption holds: we won't have to wait 15 years; in ~7 years (or fewer) we will have 9p Computer Go players.

[1] https://webdocs.cs.ualberta.ca/~mmueller/publications.html

[2] https://webdocs.cs.ualberta.ca/~mmueller/ps/2013-CG-MCTS-Go-...

[3] http://www0.cs.ucl.ac.uk/staff/D.Silver/web/Applications_fil...
The thing that held me back at my last job with Geckoboard was the completely outrageous price. For half of what we wanted it to serve, it required custom coding. But for our team it would've been ~$300 a month, which was just absolutely nuts. Nearly $4k a year for anything that's going to take time from engineering anyhow is pretty hard to justify to me.
The spatial data structure literature is quite incomplete, and there is a lot of confusion about what to use when. Many of the issues with spatial indexing performance at companies I go into is that they are doing it wrong, not that they necessarily have a fundamental problem.

It should be pointed out that R-family data structures should only be used for data sets that are (1) small and (2) relatively static. They scale very poorly in a number of ways. The primary reason they are used in databases is that they can handle interval (i.e. non-point) spatial data types without the possibility of pathological space complexity (bad when talking about databases) and fit B-tree indexing models adequately, which that software understands.

Quad-tree variants can scale well for point data types but are often terrible for indexing non-point data types due to pathological space complexity.

Grid-file variants are the canonical structure for large-scale spatial data sets if the data is static. However, the number of companies implementing these correctly at scale is approximately zero in my experience.

For general, scalable, online/dynamic spatial indexing structures, there is another family of algorithms and data structures (adaptive spatial sieves) that are basically ignored in the literature even though they were first described in 1990, albeit in a not very useful form at the time. If you are doing petabyte-scale real-time indexing of polygons at extremely high rates, this is what you would use but little is published about them because most modern variants did not come out of academia.

And the most advanced algorithm family for indexing point-like data is not in the literature at all.

(Background: my day job involves extreme-scale, high-performance spatial indexing software and I invented a few spatial indexing algorithms back in the day that are still the state-of-the-art in their respective algorithm families.)
Thanks for responding! Can you comment about how you set the bitcoin/dollar rate you use for pricing?
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I don't think one person criticising another is going to cause a massive drop in market share.

You really are being a little silly
But BTC cannot simply wipe out the need. Transactions per second is absurdly low currently (7) and confirmations take more than an instant to complete. I just don't see how it can replace the well structured payment networks that exist.
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I was really happy seeing that azure sdks are released not only natively for windows but also for osx and linux.

Imho, their strategy for asp.net can be easily what you described here.
Agreed, not worth the effort.
Such maze patters reassemble Lightenberg figures: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lichtenberg_figure

They are created by electric discharge going through path of least resistance in insulating materials.
You're harming yourself in that you're paying a steep mark-up. You can probably find a cheaper placebo that's no less effective.
FWIW the way it happened was that I entered the latest changes to the pending comment code via the repl. So when the server restarted, it had the initial version of the code, which enforced pending comments sitewide instead of per thread.
An Arduino is a little more complicated than a breakout for the ATmega. There's a power regulator so you can use any 6-12V supply, a USB to serial converter chip (FT232R), and various passive components to support the chip.

The LPC810 is neat, but very limited in flash memory and I/O. Check out the NXP LPC1114FN28--it's a 28 pin breadboard friendly DIP package ARM cortex M0: http://www.nxp.com/products/microcontrollers/cortex_m0_m0/lp... 32k of flash and a similar amount of I/O as the ATmega328P used in an Arduino. The big advantage of ARM is that you can use free in circuit debugging tools like OpenOCD to debug and step through code in real time on the chip. It's not easy to do that on an Arduino without a $50+ adapter.
Eich was actively trying to stop what many people think should be a human right. He should face flak, and get a hard time over it, they should threaten his position. Even if they don't get him out of CEO it will make the next idiot that's high up in a company think twice before donating to stop human rights.
It's just the anti-corporate parade of users on HN who aren't used to paying for software. The majority of users here are wholly outside the target market.

There's a huge universe of companies more than willing to pay for these, and it's about time that MS take advantage of re-establishing Office as a cross-device dominant platform for the everyday office worker, rather than losing its edge as an office platform because of silly hardware / software politics internal to their own organization.
Subscriptions in general leave a bad taste in my mouth. What happened to just buying the software, and when you felt like upgrading (either because of compatibility issues, or needed functionality) then you can upgrade? Subscriptions definitely are a win for a business by ensuring income streams, but as a consumer I want to pay the company when I feel like buying something and not when they feel like they need money.
While this piece seems speculative, it's spot on.

Nissan has been working on a battery chemistry known as Lithium NMC (LiNiMnCo) since 2009. The survey which went out to LEAF owners this year didn't pick a random range number. The survey used the theoretical maximum range of a vehicle with a Lithium NMC battery at the same weight as the current LEAF battery, but 75% more density. They also showed a less than $5,000 additional retail price which is very achievable with NMC.

Nissan's CEO Carlos Ghosn publicly claimed to have the NMC batteries entering production two years ago. It makes perfect sense that it took Nissan this long to test their new NMC chemistry since they got burned in Arizona by their original LEAF battery chemistry overheating under extreme conditions.
What is the going CPM rate for an extremely low CTR user base these days? Between what little I know of that and my browsing rate, seems to me like I could set a purchasing limit of $100/year for bidding on my own eyes, probably win enough to almost never see anything but my own small/short "be a good person" reminder/ad on any of the Google ad networks that do CPM bidding, and still not hit the limit each year.
I type this on original IBM mechanical keyboard that I got in 1998 when IBM was cleaning their overstocks (I used to work there).

Works like a charm and make noise few people in my office hate :)
At some point you have to decide whether the the perfect (everyone using Windows phones/tablets and MS Software) is the enemy of the good (a lot of people using MS Software).

Microsoft has for whatever reason never hit the target with mobile platforms. I guess the Windows Phone is decent enough by some accounts but was just way too late to the party.

So they can try to make money selling mobile software for a mobile platform that nobody uses, or they can just accept reality and sell the software on all platforms.
Where are you getting this material advantage / ELO handicap ratio?

At any rate I'm also a decent amateur (2350 ELO) and it's absolutely unsurprising that a (2200+) player easily beats very strong computers with bishop odds.
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Should I be able to quit my job if I don't like my boss's politics? Yes (though your boss should never be able to force you to quit, and should never be able to use their position and authority to make you feel that you have no choice).

Should I be able to ask my boss to quit if I don't like his politics? Yes (though you should not expect him to agree to this).

Is it a good thing for the world in general if people are asked to quit their jobs because of their politics? My instinctive reaction is that it isn't a good idea, because we can't know what political views will be popular or unpopular in the future (in other words, it could be your opinions that make you the object of some campaign in the future). I can't defend Eich's opinions, but the principle that "you are not your job" and that what you do outside of the job should remain outside is something that should protect everyone and I'd require some pretty strong arguments to convince me otherwise.

We should remember, however, that plenty of people don't have Eich's profile or history of positive contributions (he was contributing to what became Mozilla before Mozilla even existed). Political firings do happen, and people do get fired for stuff that they might reasonably expect should be part of their private sphere, and only sometimes does this result in a court case or compensation being paid. Anyone who defends Eich's right to his political views should remember that, the next time a colleague or acquaintance is on the wrong side of an inappropriate dismissal.

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Let me be clear: I believe Brendan Eich is wrong about gay marriage. But I don't think the price of his convictions should be his career at Mozilla, a company he's played a large role in building, when there is no documented instance of him ever disparaging or otherwise harming LGBTQ employees or community members.

I don't know what the price of Eich's convictions should be, but I think that a good way to find out is for people who have been strongly affected by his convictions to say clearly what they think about it.

I don't know whether Eich will (or should) remain CEO, but whether he does or not, having people speak up in this fashion seems unambiguously positive.
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I feel that modern LCD monitors are too bright. Typically I have mine set at 50% brightness. Adjusting environmental/ambient light is important too if you can. I try to adjust my desk/chair orientation that overhead lights are behind my head instead of in front of me (no line-of-sight light sources other than my monitors). I also use f.Lux (http://justgetflux.com/).

I'm not sure what combination of this list of things does the most good, but I rarely get eyestrain and I look at screens for 12+ hours per day.

Not sure if this matters, but I had LASIK surgery 7 years ago and ever since my eyes have been pretty sensitive to light (night vision FTW), so this is something I've been working on for a while now.

Edit: I am 40 years old, and have been looking at screens for long hours at least 10-15 years now.
Software is eating the world, and a16z is eating the venture capital world. It's no surprise LPs are throwing money at them.

They've been around for less than five years and are already setting the standard by which other VCs are measured.

Case in point: they made something like a 5-10x multiple on their investment in Oculus-- in 3 months.
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Huh. Wasn't exactly expecting that.
1.5 is small compared to the war chests Apollo, KKR and the like amass, but it's huge for a VC accustomed to writing smaller checks. Average US VC find is 107mm.

They're either going to be doing way more deals or shifting some of the fund focus to later stage. I expect the former, given that investors seem to like the granularity of separate venture and growth funds to pick from.
I think this is a great thing to put out into the community, and I hope it gains widespread adoption.

I do have a few things to comment on here:

The architectures themselves have never been closed source (hence publication). Frankly, I think Alex didn't release his implementation because until TITAN came along, you needed two GTX580 GPUs to do distributed training. This is unique (and difficult) to setup and support! Just "putting the code out there" is not useful to many researchers, and the architecture is in the paper already to implement and extend or modify. You will be bombed to death with support requests, even if you just say "this is provided as is". Many researchers don't want to deal with that IMO.

Data is EVERYTHING for training these architectures, and the ImageNet dataset itself is still semi-closed source, and hard to get. You have to sign up to get their license coverage if you want to download the original images for research. I think you can get weblinks to the original data, which you could then ostensibly crawl yourself, but that gets murky from a copyright perspective.

It will also take a very, very long time to wget all 1.2TB of ImageNet. My download took about 45 days, so keep that in mind!

Most people just do not have the hardware to train a network of this magnitude. CIFAR10 is a much more appropriate dataset for consumer grade hardware/non lab-funded work IMO. I think this is one of the reasons most advances on this front have simply released the trained network parameters as a "black-box" preprocessor - it is much more useful for general tasks on normal laptops and PCs! See http://fastml.com/yesterday-a-kaggler-today-a-kaggle-master-...

I personally used a simple wrapper to DeCAF + a sklearn logistic regression to score a pretty good (96%) score for the kaggle Cats vs. Dogs competition on a Lenovo T400, and I think this is where the commercial usefulness will go as well. The training + data to get the "magic numbers" is probably going to be the KFC/Coke tradesecret formula of data science in coming years. Plowing through a bunch of floats in a particular format, then applying simple classifiers is good enough for many standard computer vision tasks, and could possibly be fit into a very small formfactor. Think FPGAs...
His personal view is that a subset of humans do not deserve equal rights afforded to everyone else. It's not that he votes for a different party, that's not a problem. It's that he actively wants to deny rights to certain people, some of whom are under his employ.

I wouldn't want a member of the KKK running my organization either, and I would imagine most minorities would speak out about that as well. Racist or anti-gay, a bigot is a bigot. This isn't about politics or personal views. It's about denying human beings their deserved civil liberties for no good reason at all. Would you want to work for someone who hates you enough to force a law to break apart your family?
I guess they really want to fail:

- if nobody pirates this, it means they've completely failed at producing good art/music

- if somebody pirates this, it means they've completely failed at implementing their artistic/marketing concept of "one copy album"

...one way or another, the inevitable result will be a big fat failure :)
There's a huge difference between holding general religious beliefs and contributing financially to a political movement specifically pursuing institutional discrimination of a large class of Americans.

I'm a little troubled by the chilling effects that career and public opinion can have on political expression, but it's hard to generate sympathy for blatantly unconstitutional, horrendously discriminatory forms of political expression.
> Why would I want to publish using Office instead of Google Docs

Because Google Docs continues to suck?
Do you really think this way?
Yea. As a server admin with 18 years under his belt, here's the first thing you need to know about the internet. If you have an anonymous service a basic tenant is moderation and spam fighting. I've seen a hundred good ideas that would never work because they don't take in to consideration that 'People are assholes'.

Any system that does not fight spam will quickly become only spam (porn considered as spam in this case as it's not the point of the app). Any image rating/manipulation program will quickly become only spam and porn unless heavily moderated.

TL;DR: If you aren't considering spam and security issues when developing apps please stop. Either read up, in detail, on how to do it correctly or add a developer that understands the issue.
I dont see how you could allow editing for free really it's so easy to steal then with the simplest of copy/paste.
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Totally understandable, but if you want to get started now, the chaos monkey can be turned off: http://coreos.com/docs/cluster-management/debugging/prevent-...
Some very strange reactions in this thread. The idea that this somehow validates the notion that Eich's politics don't affect Mozilla as a workplace seems particularly bizarre, to me.

My read on this is that there are employees at Mozilla who feel strongly enough about this to speak publicly, and the most likely reason is because they believe that Eich as CEO will affect their workplace.
Those who demand tolerance for themselves should also extend it to others...
I have to imagine hotornot.com figured out how to deal with a few more than 1.
> It's just the anti-corporate parade of users on HN who aren't used to paying for software.

No, they're in denial about the fact that they pay for their software, with their privacy, every minute they're on "free" services.
Note that recent Python versions use Gay's correctly-rounded conversions, so .1+(.2+.3) displays as .6, since that's equivalent when converted back to binary floating point. http://bugs.python.org/issue1580
When the political organization in question exists solely to promote anti-gay laws, then yes. Yes it does.
You are thinking small, seed or maybe round A. Rounds B and C funding is what you need to scale up a company to Dropbox or Twitter level of infrastructure. That can easily be 150-450m.

Granted not all of companies would need that kind of investment, but every once in a while...
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People are employed on what they contribute to the company, not on their social or political views.

If these employees are such bigots and fascists, that they can't fathom someone having a different opinion to their own, they should resign and work elsewhere.

Mozilla is a technology company with the mission to promote a free and open web. If these employees believed that Mozilla was some kind of political organisation, they are wrong and have been deluding themselves.
A special note to those energetic founders: don't go after a small market. That will certainly cut your chances in half or more. I've seen in many times (and for myself). Yes, I A/B tested the 'energetic founder' YC claim myself.

Show you want to go after something big. And if you switch after (you most likely will), no problem. You still meet all the big players and accomplish your goal (which will be impossible to uncover).
We have secret ballots for a reason: what you do in public has consequences.

When you speak in public, it's possible that you will face censure from your employers, your employees, or your customers. You can't control how other people feel about what your actions.