skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Internet Explorer 11 supports WebGL 1 (based on OpenGL ES 2 which itself is roughly OpenGL 2 minus v1 API). I read it will be available with Windows Phone 8.1. WebGL on Xbox would be great. (PS4 GUI for example is powered by WebGL.)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebGL
Microservices: No Free Lunch
Map of Los Angeles' Pacific Electric Railway circa 1940
Definitely makes me want to buy Tesla stock. My guess is that Elon is on a road show to get the stock price back up. He'll probably stop by New York Times, ABC and others this week and the stock price will shoot back up to $230.
Social Angle
There is? ... So there is. Guess they don't get as much attention for some reason. Hmm, tempting.
"I think there is a world market for about five computers"
Interesting article - I'd only seen high speed trading discussed rather abstractly before. Katsuyama's "Essentially, our fill rates went to 100 percent. We couldn't believe it when we actually figured it out," is interesting experimental data on how it's actually working. I wish him luck with the IEX thing.
But what if you want to reduce the list with something other than a sum ? with this substrate (and closures) you can separate concerns, increase reuse and reduce bugs.
From the 60 Minutes piece: http://www.cbsnews.com/news/is-the-us-stock-market-rigged/
> Settled for relevance would indicate they are
> currently not relevant

Or it could mean that they are currently relevant but there is a risk of that going away.
You can find them on doorkeeper: http://hntokyo.doorkeeper.jp/
2014 F1 explained: What is brake by wire?
Man, the HN crowd is always rough but I agree with the whole "look for a job" advice. Maybe just for a little while; it's not that bad, haha. You're only 23 so you have a lot of time to figure things out. Plus, you'll learn a lot from mentors there too.

Hope it works out for you :)
All stock markets are so far removed from actual useful endeavour that it's hard to see what their function might be.

I think we need some human-friendly reform in this area.
It's not just insider information that is a problem. Is the world really better off because UBS/hedge-funds hire out satellites to surveil Wal-mart parking lots in order to get an earnings prediction 1 day before Wal-mart files their public earnings disclosure?
Don't work on the side project. Do _nothing_ .... go live life. Build skills, think, create, but don't work on an exit, how Christian.
Online textbook database
A few months ago I came across a comment that had a link to a huge online book database with downloads, and I can't seem to find it. Any ideas?
No, I'm saying Goldman Sachs has computers located at the stock exchange that are programmed to trade based on order flow information.
Get some treez and stay blazed for a few daze to decompress, then get back to your grind. Build a product. It doesn't have to be software.

I'll give you the keys to the kingdom..

start selling webinars... paint yourself as someone who is qualified to teach WHATEVER and get people to join a free 1 hour webinar where you're going to teach them whatever.. give them a taste and then upsell them on a package of additional 2 hour long webinars. $200 package.

Start advertising your free webinars via social paid distribution channels. Once you tweak it perfectly and build up some experience you'll be able to spend a certain amount on advertising to acquire enough customers to fully book your webinars each week.

20 people per webinar shelling out $200/each.. doing it again every week with a new batch of people.. every time you do it you build up a video archive that you can to build a non-webinar based video product down the road...

People feel good about spending $$ on webinars because they can get personalized education not just a pre-packaged info-product.. all you need is a niche people care about and some life experience that you can market as being valuable.

This one 35 year old lady is selling webinars for $400 to teach people how to "leverage instagram to better market your business". That's just one example.. she didn't even have any material written down when she started selling her first webinar she just kind of learned as she went along. She's doing well because her product is about teaching small business owners how to make more money. You want your info-product to appeal to people who already have money to spend.

good luck
Luckily passion and money in this industry aren't mutually exclusive, and I'm extremely grateful for that.
The wikipedia write-up suggests other grounds. From the majority opinion (via wikipedia):

> The evidence that petitioner was ready and willing to commit the offense came only after the Government had devoted 2½ years to convincing him that he had or should have the right to engage in the very behavior proscribed by law.

Jacobson was let off on grounds of entrapment; the reasoning was that the government specifically persuaded him to do what he otherwise wouldn't have done (or at least, what it could not be reasonably shown that he otherwise would have done). It's not obvious that that has much to do with whether he was or wasn't aware that child porn was illegal; the fact that the entrapment campaign included political literature protesting government intrusion tends (IMO) to suggest that he was.

Legality does get coverage as an issue, but it seems to be mostly (again, all I did was read the wiki article) as a way to show that Jacobson wasn't a suitable target for the entrapment campaign in the first place; the argument went that buying legal child porn doesn't demonstrate that he's likely to buy the same child porn after it becomes illegal.
Steve Wozniak surprises girl with Mac delivery[video]
What deceptive marketing exactly?

Could you cite an example please?

For example, there was noise before about how MongoDB was allegedly tweaking benchmarks.

The funny thing was, from what I've read, they've always had a policy of never ever publishing official benchmarks. Their line was, read the manual, and try it with your own data.

Are you aware of any "deceptive marketing"?
The 'tens of billions' is also without context of how much money HFT save investors by basically keeping spreads at zero, and nearly always guaranteeing liquidity. Providing liquidity to the market isn't a public service... participants need to be compensated.
Why wouldn't it? Seriously, why wouldn't an Android device sometime in the future be loaded with thousands of dollars of software and hardware and be used for CAD? There is no reason to say that this will never happen.

But besides that, Windows also used to be used for loading tens of dollars of software and be used for email, word processing, surfing the web, etc. That use of Windows is shrinking. What's taking it? Android and iOS. So yes, this is all one big market. And nobody can say for certain whether that would eventually extend to the market of software that costs thousands of dollars per license either. Especially if software continues to move towards SaaS models.
Sounds like he is building skills, thinking, and living life to me. He is failing at his current endeavor, but that is fine. Failure is good, builds character.
This post was an entry in the Winter 2013 Neo4j GraphGist Contest. The author of this submission also has a blog post about doing k-NN in R [1]. In other words, this GraphGist is an example of how you could do basic ML in neo4j, but it's not meant to imply that neo4j should be chosen over python.

http://nicolemargaretwhite.blogspot.com/2013/12/movie-recomm...
Excellent! My code will now finally work as intended! I used: `uname -r` * r * r and 2 * `uname -r` * r .
I'm surprised Iqiyi has overtaken youku and tudou, or even letv. Original content in China still sucks being mostly costume dramas, patriotic stuff that no one under 50 watches, or poor imitations of Korean dramas (or better yet, just show the original Korean dramas with subtitles). I'm not sure if there is much to get excited about, yet.
Not when it underperforms the market in general:

http://finance.yahoo.com/q/bc?s=MSFT&t=5y&l=on&z=l&q=l&c=%5E...
It's an issue, but hopefully a fairly minor one.

The classic Japanese serial novel Musashi ( http://www.amazon.com/Musashi-Epic-Novel-Samurai-Era-ebook/d... ) includes a fairly disturbing subplot about the protagonist's reputation being trashed by a little old lady of no significance who follows him around insulting him to anyone who will listen. Despite the fact that no one knows her, and many significant and influential people know (and like) him, this prevents him from landing a respectable job.
True here, http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/credit-card-f...

But thanks for that, I wasn't aware.
There are similarities, to be sure. One difference is that state is more often closed over than passed around explicitly.
Well, to be honest, I wouldn't call a white supremacist a "jerk".

And racism is most definitely not equitable to arguing over what's a marriage, and what's not.

If this imaginary white supremacist was just some weirdo who genuinely thinks white people are superior, I would probably just label him a strange, somewhat deluded man - I wouldn't hate him though.

However, I probably wouldn't invite him over for dinner, either.

If, on the other hand, he was going around calling for lynching blacks, that's an entirely different matter - that's illegal (hate crimes).

Brandon Eichs hasn't expressed any homophobia, or that he "hates" gays, which is what people seem to be trying to drum up publicity for.

He simply has, in his private time, given him support for maintaining the status quo on marriage. You might disagree with that, and think that marriage should be redefined, and that's your right (just as it's his right).

But if you descend to the level of name-calling, and saying "Your view is like, so wrong! I'm right!", then we've already lost.
I don't think you can go past Invictus as a commentary of sport in society.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1057500/
Being scared of the wrong things, is pretty much impossible to avoid. The best we can hope for is people 'think more', and thats a pretty long shot.
USPTO has partnered with askpatents.com of StackExchange fame

I was at the roundtable where they announced it:
http://www.uspto.gov/patents/init_events/sw_partnership_2013...
Some things like "equity ownership of a company" are also not physical things, and thus can't be "physically taken" from you yet we treat them as property.

It's not the physicalness that is a prerequistie to propertization, it's the rivalrousness.
Startups in China focus mainly on copying ideas, either from abroad, or from each other; its not a very healthy market to be in. I had a friend tell me what was behind Kaifu's Innovation Works, and how it wasn't economical right now to do anything but sure bets (i.e. copies) in the current investment environment.

If you are interested in clones, then China is a fabulous place to look at how everything is copied and adapted locally since Twitter, Facebook, Youtube, and so on, aren't even allowed to operate in the country.

The CCP won't tolerate digital currencies; they even just shutdown alipay this weekend.
Failure is excellent, wish I failed in bigger ways as a child, it gets more expensive as you age. Continuing to work on side projects is a still a sure way to burnout. Side projects of pure personal enrichment (exercise, art, etc) are what repower a person for greatness.
"This is what so annoys me about Haskell: it works very well when you can figure out everything before hand; in fact, you are expected to think long and hard about your problems because its language abstractions are very unforgiving otherwise."

This is not my experience at all. I find refactoring in Haskell to be quite pleasant, and you can generally start from something small and build up. You do have to get the types to line up before it will build, but if the types aren't lining up your logic is likely incorrect, and figuring out why can be instructive.
Interesting book and good title.

The problem is really that so called Intellectual Property is just a new form of monopolizing new areas of human living. The result is, that intellectual work will be also dominated by those that have monopolized already the other things in the world: the rich.

After money was cached in the hand of view, after land has been sold, after everything has its price-tag -- the last thing, how some people can change their faith and also can get some piece of the pie, their ideas, shall also be monopolized.

That's all it is about.

Without patents, some can have a good idea, invent something and become rich. But with full patent enforcement in place, the durability of IP (copyright and patents) enhanced to the max, you can not have any ideas any longer, since every idea you will have, will infringe on some patent. You can not even sing "Happy Birthday" without paying to somebody.

The big companies already want, that patents, copyrights and the sort are coming to new areas, like film-making. So every idea can be owned, by the big companies and thus by those that own the most shares of them.
I'm aware of the raytracer library example. The solution to that is to not use types to represent shapes. Instead, classify shapes by primitive types (triangles, quads, bezier curves, NURBS, etc.) and use a closed sum for those. It's far less common for a user to want to create a new primitive type and you can always use an escape hatch in the closed sum that allows the user to define their own primitive along with a function to draw it in terms of one of the other primitives.
He obviously did not try the demo. The demo meets all specs that Mike listed in his talk and it exists today, thus nullifying the entire thrust of the article.

The demo is not consumer-product-ready, as it is currently expensive and the tracking requires you to paper your room. But those things are all solvable (inevitably with a bit of time, which is why Mike said 'within two years').

A number of the key people responsible for the Valve work are now at Oculus with a mandate to consumerize the best tech possible. So yeah, it is going to happen. Do not believe this article. Oculus CV1 may not get all the way there but it will be better than is necessary to show clearly the writing on the wall (the main factor in its quality being cost, which the Facebook deal helped tremendously with). CV2 will, I expect, be pretty badass.

(I have tried the Valve demo and then spent a few days working with my game on their hardware.)
The reference to the AirBnB valuation is completely misplaced: The best rated hotel chains don't own the real estate. Furthermore the ubiquitous coverage that AirBnB offers is unmatched by any hotel chain.

The current valuations reflect the perfectioning of business models and practices since the nineties. Everybody has learned a lot since.

It's not like 1999. This feels more like 1998.
This is available on exchanges today. It usually happens 2 - 5 times per day.
I always balance full truth with consequences, no need to claim everything you think is true if it breaks everybody down (unless it's for their own good).
hahaha we actually considered trademarking 'scrollher' as the porn subsidiary... seriously though porn is fine as long as it's appropriately tagged NSFW!
There are certainly cases which aren't expressible(things which require kinding, for example) but your examples aren't a problem. Both tuples and functions can be represented using System F, and thus can be completely transposed into C# generics.

I believe you don't understand C# generics and you should look closer at the fundamental type calculus.
Beautiful thanks Angie - the vast majority of our current users are Kiwis! :)
My guess is he/she was speaking about the concept of a 'creation point of the universe' - not religion.
Here's one to mull over... unless associated with a Fire Department, most EMTs working on ambulances are paid near minimum wage (sub $10/hr in most parts of the country). When I was working on private ambulances building experience, it was usually of great surprise to the baristas serving us coffee that they made more money than the person who provides emergency medical care when you dial 911.
That sounds like an interesting wrinkle. The (odds of a) round closing could also be sensitive to the in-rush of sealed bids or even how different later orders are from earlier ones. That might help ensure an early-close either just before, or just after, a wave of orders that hints at information the earlier-bids didn't have. (That is, tick the unseal-matching process based on a signal of substantive change, rather than only wall-clock-time.)
AI is a very broad field. Much of the academic "classical" AI requires some advanced math to understand in depth.

A fun place to start is video game AI because it is visual. For example, path-finding algorithms, the ghost AI in pacman, chess/checkers, bots which play video games.

Another fun visual subfield is computer vision. If you have a webcam, you could get OpenCV and play around with recognizing faces and motion detection.

If you are really into math, I always think that attempting an automated theorem prover would be fun. It is an up and coming science (in fact there was a HN post today about it), and I bet there are a lot of ad hoc approaches you could take if you choose a specific area of math.

If you want something very practical, nowadays search/recommendations/etc. are important on the web. There are some high-rated books on Collective Intelligence that are more practical-minded than the academic AI classics. And mining the web for a dataset could be a fun project.

As for the best language, it depends on which subfield you want to pursue. Scheme/Lisp are probably the most strongly associated with AI. However, in practice they are rarely used. I would say it does not matter, as long as you are motivated :)
Hey, answering both your comments here ..

> I do want to say something explicitly: you've been very respectful and considerate and I really appreciate that. That's an increasingly rare thing on Hacker News.

I hope that would've been expected :)

I think you make very valid points regarding the potential organizational benefits of IP for large scale endeavors. Actually one of the core arguments I make against my own anti-IP position is whether a large-scale hollywood production would be possible without copyright.

I.e. Much like Mozart or Beethoven who produced wonderful music without IP protection, I'm fairly sure a Spielberg or Scorsese would push the boundaries of their art whether or not they could earn hundreds of millions (but as long as they'd get enough to live and prosper). Same could be said of the great actors and musicians.

The best scientists & engineers are no different than the best artists or athletes. They do what they do, because this is what they are interested in.

I even think this is true for the greatest startup founders. Though they end up quite wealthy, I doubt this is what wakes them up, and what they dream about.

Certainly it would be true of pharmaceutical scientists as well.

The real question (which is analogous to what you brought up) is whether there would be sufficient resources to pay the required staff, marketers, and other non-creatives to put the greatest films together.

I don't know, frankly. I suspect at the high end, it would happen. My hunch is that the vast majority of money due only to IP goes to lawyers and operational business executives, not the creative geniuses.

I also suspect that without these massive giant corporations, and the onerous FDA regulations, we'd have hundreds of smaller, more innovative firms. Yes there would be more risk, but I think overall outcomes would be better because orders of magnitude more solutions would be brought to the marketplace and the best would rise to the top.

But I'd oppose IP regardless. My fundamental opposition to IP is not practical, but ideological. I just can't square it with the absolute freedom of speech that I believe in (and believe is more important than anything else). I do simultaneously believe that greater freedom bodes well for prosperity, but that's not why I support greater freedom.

I'm kind of tired, you'll probably be able to poke more than a few holes in what I wrote .. if so, I'll answer tomorrow. Cheers.
The real problem with lying (apart from the obvious moral one) is the risk you might start to actually believe your own lies. Once you can't tell what is true and what is not then you are on track to mess-up big time.

All the times I have been really side-swiped by someone it is when they have told themselves so many lies that they can no longer act in their own best interest.
Bitcoin's demise
Good advice to live by.
Are you saying that `nature uses is-a hierarchies, hence it's good for source too.' or that `source code that models real world concepts so it should follow the same concepts.'?
Yes, this was indeed another daft poll on the subject. I rejected catholicism about 20 years ago (was a hard thing to do considering my whole family are devout catholics). I am in no way religious. I also (weirdly even to myself) had to vote 'yes' here. I assume / guess / something created the universe. I don't know or really care what it is.
No, it's not. That's one injury per population amount, so the lower the second number the less people you "need" to get one injury.

Assuming a fixed population size of 1 million, given the 1980 prevalence of injuries you'd expect about ~689 injuries. With the 2012 prevalence of injuries you'd expect about ~865 injuries. So it's actually an increase, not a drop.
Thanks.

> I know nobody here likes to hear it,

For what it's worth, I do like to hear it! I have a very small amount of Bitcoin but just for fun, really.

That said, I'm not sure that "machine to machine payments" is all that small of a market, in the world that we're apparently hurtling towards.
Exactly - speak the truth, but don't go out of your way hurt people.
Possession of child porn is not a strict liability offense. You still need to have the intent to possess whatever media is at issue and you must know what the media contains.

Now, it's easy for me to believe that if you can show affirmatively that you received child porn by accident, for example through the unknown-to-you malicious actions of others, the judge might let you off, but that's not actually encoded in the law; the federal agents you mention have an accurate view of things.

If you can show affirmatively that you received child porn by accident, the judge will let you off, because there wasn't any intent to possess child porn. Moreover, the prosecution will go after the person who sent the porn to you, and will likely recommend a good civil attorney for your lawsuit against that person.
shakes head If you send a martketable order the first any colocated participant (HFT or not) will see is your order crossing a number of order on the other side of the order book. If you send a market order direct to NASDAQ for GOOG then you will cross with the best price with best time priority shares of GOOG. You are probably referring to internalization which is a function of your broker.
Is that old footage ? Just wondering because it portrays his second wife Talulah Riley, but (german) wikipedia states they have been divorced for 2 years already.
And similar with Detroit Fire: http://www.detroitfirefilm.org - long, hard, dangerous, and badly paid, with fire engines that are badly maintained, in the highest arson area in the world.
This is a vacuous statement of indignation. We don't want those on Hacker News. Please don't post them, even when the sentiment itself is justified.

Re-read what you've posted and, if it mostly just expresses indignation, delete it. Then feel happy: you just put the signal/noise ratio up a tick for all of us.

Not picking on one commenter—this is for everybody.
They all will soon enough :(
no, haskell (ghc) has many extensions that extend hindley-milner by a great degree.
How did you solve the original performance problem with scrubbing by default?
Twitter is killing itself in order to grow and please wall street