skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This title is obnoxious, but the content is really good. The title refers to "burn rate", not that the company is a house on fire.

I did a similar calculation... they are spending about $40M/quarter on sales people who are generating an incremental $5M in recurring revenue each quarter. Not great, but not a disaster. Especially when you account for the fact most of the sales people are new.

A year from now, with the publicity from the IPO, and more experience and natural snowballing, the same $40M salesforce could be generating $15M in incremental revenue per quarter. That would be a recipe for a quite valuable company.

He came to pretty much the same conclusion that I did:

"When you look big picture, I believe they see themselves in a winner-take-all battle vs. DropBox and in this case, the strategy — while amazingly cash consumptive — does make sense."

5 years from now, I do see a possibility that Box is doing very well in enterprise, and Dropbox gets squeezed hard in the fiercely competitive consumer/SMB space.
https://www.nccgroup.com/media/481258/usb_physical_access_an... (pdf for those not wanting to click)
Lacking in discipline/highly distracted, tbh. I have an iPhone 4, which is more than capable. I often go days without checking anything on it.

Then I go into the kitchen at work and see people getting coffee while checking their email. wat.
same for Apple or anybody basically, just different cash cows.
This bottle is shaped like a drop of water, plastic free, and completely edible
The challenge of getting more women in tech needs to involve the whole community - investors, entrepreneurs, engineers, both male and female. It cannot be a female only dialogue. I am a technical woman founder myself. And,my biggest challenge is fighting those subtle biases that men have. When I am in a meeting with investors, I find that I am treated in a patronizing fashion vs my male co-founders. Whenever the investor is speaking, he's addressing my male colleagues more and I am ignored. The only way to fight these is to make men aware of how they behave. Women already know it, since they are at the receiving end. Hence, I do not like closed, women only conferences.
I agree.

The most exciting thing would be Mono becoming a first-class citizen for .NET.

I think this is likely for two reasons:

1) They may well acquire Xamarin, which would result in them 'owning' Mono.

2) The new CEO has been extremely forward thinking vs the rest of Microsoft on supporting open source software on Azure.

3) Increasing amounts of ASP.NET and other .NET technologies are open source now

I would love for them to do this. I think they'd also do very well out of it, as Azure is great platform.
I don't believe you. The exact degree of influence may follow a normal distribution, but no one is not influenced by those around them (except sufferers of some mental illnesses). You need to be to learn anything at all that we expect all children to learn.
This is an awesome framework from visionaire team :)
This is awesome, thanks for sharing! The rainbow coloring is an interesting technique for visualizing the structure of mazes.

For those interested, I wrote a similar maze generation tool in Python which includes implementations of Kruskal's algorithm, Prim's algorithm, and recursive backtracking, and can output similar images. https://github.com/jpwright/maze.py
GNOME has a continuous build system now, you can get images in cow2 format every day!
What is the advantage of using this instead of OverFeat for natural images? I have been operating on the assumption that the strange license of OverFeat is not a problem, since you are using someone's software to feed in input, and generate a bunch of floating point values.

Are the floating point outputs of a program then "tainted" by the license of the code as well? If not, why not use the state of the art, which handles both localization AND classification?

I can see using ccv for custom datasets, though I am also assuming the 6GB TITAN requirement for GPU use is only for ImageNet, and not for a custom dataset? TITAN GPUs are pretty expensive...

I am very impressed by the result, as I have not been able to even approach OverFeat with my own work (pylearn2 + theano) thus far. Will definitely be experimenting with this in the future. Thanks!
No, I don't mean crawl the web. I mean Twitter could just compute the data and calculate the graphs via their direct access to the data. Traversing the full corpus of all data, across all dimensions, including time, including data points not exposed via the platform.

> Given their scale, access to twitter graph data should not have been a problem

Yes, because Twitter could decide it doesn't want to provide the data or do so at costs that make it unfeasible. Like I said, this is the fallacy of the platform economy (which I was quite involved with in its infancy).

If you are co-founding anything that uses twitter platform you should consider what happens if Twitter's biz dev team decides they doesn't want you to exist. This already happened once to the Twitter Dashboards etc.
"Would you go to a doctor who you knew dispensed ineffective sugar pills to the sick?"

It depends a little on what else they could dispense. I would rather they give out homeopathic medicines then give out antibiotics, in the face of unreasonable demands from their patients. I'd more rather they successfully educate their patients. I'm not sure the degree to which that's typically possible.
Ask HN/PG: Bug report for "pending"
Hi, in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7482033 I posted a link - and the comment immediately went to "pending", despite me having over 1000 karma points and the parent thread totally empty...
Microsoft is a software company, and Office is one of their biggest products. Why would they make it free? While they do give out OneNote for free, it is not a major part of Office. Making Word, excel, and PowerPoint free would hurt them much more than it would help them.
Presentation: The Power of Framework Thinking
It's an interesting idea. I wonder how it would work in the case of jobs where there's a strong interpersonal component. You could get someone who looks great on paper but who is a bad communicator or doesn't interact well with other people.

On the one hand, face-to-face does allow all these preconceptions and prejudices to happen. On the other, it allows the team to assess those things that actually matter in meetings, presentations, and other face-to-face venues.

Perhaps for a purely distributed company, this wouldn't matter. But in many existing cases, the face-to-face is still a factor.
And Word: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/microsoft-word-for-ipad/id58...
This is my question too. Tarsnap is cool, and Colin deserves to get paid for his hard work, but the cost differential is far too much for me to use tarsnap right now. If they cut their costs in half, I'd be able to afford to use them over raw S3.
Are you suggesting that a "western conspiracy" was responsible for the turmoil in Syria? That their people did not have serious grievances with a regime that tortured and murdered tens of thousands of people for political reasons even before the current conflict started?
Serious question:  Is this RapGenius founder high/drunk during this interview?
And don't forget Explorer for Mac back in the day :)
I think your points are good ones, and that today's landscape basically requires access to a lab if a biotech product isn't software or a medical device. So for "homebrewers", as you say, it can be challenging to get started.

But there is still a desire to develop biological therapies and tools and businesses around them; I think it stems from the close ties --almost symbiotic ties -- between biotech and academia. It reminds me of the earlier days of computing, where those with big ideas were either working at an academic institution or closely associated with it in some way.

If you are affiliated with an institution, the barrier to start working on something "homebrewed" can be quite low. There has been a great upswing of biotech incubator spaces in the past 5-10 years; I presume this has to be partly driven by demand.
I wonder if Apple gets a cut of the subscription pricing.

I also bet any other company would not get away with a model like that. Apple requires that you make payments through their AppStore or in-app Payment systems so it can collect its cut. Good luck trying to publishing something with the same model on the App Store.
Two Types of Entrepreneurs: Risk Takers vs. Small Bettors
You're operating under the assumption that Wu-Tang doesn't want this leaked. It's all a publicity stunt, and it worked.
I agree with XDes that corporations like MS should make money. My negative reaction is that I do not like the subscription model for software. Perhaps that's what amaks viscerally reacts to as well.

Subscriptions bleed money from users continually, regardless of how often they use something. Paying for major upgrades only allows the user to upgrade based on whether they need certain features and potentially skip every other update or so if they use the software only lightly.

For example, my personal at-home copy of MS Office is the 2003 version. I use it so rarely that this does not matter, especially with other options available that can view and edit MS Office documents.

I stopped using VMWare Fusion, for example, because they got into the habit of releasing paid upgrade versions that were required in order to run on Apple's new OS X version. Perhaps it's not their fault that Apple's OS updates broke VMWare's virutalization, but I don't use this often enough at home to want to pay for an upgrade every year. Before I would pay for an upgrade every 2 or 3 years. Now I've switched to VirtualBox at home.

For business use, software is used much more often and it matters a lot more to have it up-to-date. So in that case a yearly subscription might make sense.
a strange switch, xterm doesn't have transparency eitiher and as far as correctness goes, gnome-terminal is very correct compared to others. So I have no idea why you would switch to xterm.
Slow cooker.
A few minutes of prep in the morning = at least 5 days worth of food by the evening.
Scientists Constructed a Functional Eukaryotic Chromosome from Scratch
Interesting. They need subscription to read this article, but not if you are using Safari browser.
Ah, you are right. I must have looked at Vladimir's implementation and then just associated him in my mind with the leaflet-extras implementation.
> risk moves from merchant to customer

Bitcoin's downfall in six words.
Seems guilty of trying to do imperative programming in a relational database, then wondering why the performance is not good. Why use an array and not rows in a table?
1 — number of child porn accounts we kicked and reported

Just 1? Wow, you gave up way too easily.
Having over 1000 Karma does not give immunity to having comments being pending.

Looks like the entire site is in pending mode now.
> If you're willing to pay thousands

Photoshop CS6 is $700. If you are doing professional work that is a trivial amount of money.
That's the official excuse?
Use Safari browser. It does not ask for subscription. Probably because they want all iPhone traffic
I know there's a very slim chance you are going to see this comment, but could you give me more information on what course you took? Thanks!
Great that solvers.io is seeing some activity, it's such a good idea.
And in the following week some court will take down the takedown...

On some part, yes, the Turkish government tries to restrict free speech, on the the other hand they seem to be abysmally bad at it!
Wow. Office for iPad actually looks pretty great. This is great news for Apple and the Windows users out there who didn't want to use iPad for lack of official MS Office products.
Maybe it is like xkcd footnote: "Warning: this comic occasionally contains strong language (which may be unsuitable for children), unusual humor (which may be unsuitable for adults), and advanced mathematics (which may be unsuitable for liberal-arts majors).".

Many crazy things do not work for "normal adults".
Tell PG: "Pending" discourages conversation on older threads no longer on FP
I followed up with a reply answer to someone who, in turn, had asked me a question deep in a thread started a few days ago.

My comment is now in "Pending" mode and if that user doesn't have >1000 karma they are not going to see it and its unlikely anyone is viewing deep into the thread any more.

I'm wondering if this is an implementation oversight or an intended consequence to discourage conversation of staling threads?
Pricing aside, I disagree: YC is in part a startup incubator, no? Those driven to work in an incubator space are precisely the kinds of people who can benefit from a "Hacker News for..." site.

That said, there are many biotech incubators across the country, so perhaps this isn't my/your favorite. But even so, I commend them for getting the site off the ground.
Together with the 502/504 errors in the last hours, I guess this is an instance of Update Gone Wrong(tm).
You're looking for something like https://github.com/harthur/fxconsole
I'm just thinking that if the game do not stop at 2048 it will be much more challenging, as reaching 2048 is a relatively easy task for AI.
Run out of Internet to read?
"Artificially inducing scarcity in order to increase value is an interesting experiment"

This is an interesting experiment in another (more extreme) way of doing that, but "artificially inducing scarcity in order to increase value" is the basis of much intellectual property.
Oops, not sure how that happened, but I've turned it off.
From what I've seen and heard in the (academic) computer architecture community, performance and power gains often diminish when moving from theory to simulation to RTL and into silicon (It seems the Mill team is aware of this too). Thus, I tend to be skeptical about large performance/power gains. On the other hand, it's not entirely unreasonable that VLIW could see these gains. I'll be curious to see what happens with Mill. It seems to me the biggest challenges with VLIW architectures are on the compiler side and the need to recompile legacy code.
If you listen to recent interviews, he still holds to the view that Microsoft has always been the true innovator with regard to tablets, and that's where serious business computing takes place.
I want to but I'm waiting until they at least hit "beta".

"During our alpha period, Chaos Monkey (i.e. random reboots) is built in and will give you plenty of opportunities to test out systemd." <- https://coreos.com/docs/quickstart/
Neither; simply a bug.
Cryptanalysis of Skein
If these are the kind of people working at Mozilla it's no surprise Firefox has been continuously losing market share to both Chrome and IE over the past 3 years.
The fact that they can come out and say this demonstrates that these employees, the people best able to assess this, don't believe that Eich will retaliate. That Mozilla is and remains a place where any employee can express their views on political issues, even if they know they're contrary to the CEO's. And that destroys any argument for Eich's role as CEO creating a conflict with Mozilla's ability to welcome LGBTQ employees and community members.

You have a right to work for whom you choose, but not to demand that everyone above you in a company concurs with your political views. This is the social media witch hunts we've seen in last few years reaching into actual corporate boardrooms and tossing out a man's career because he holds a view that is not only mainstream, but that he has demonstrated he won't bring into the workplace.

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.
Renewables Aren't Enough. Clean Coal Is the Future
It's his personal view. What does freedom mean if it's only about views that everyone likes?
"App store for Android,"
What does this mean? Looks interesting.
Cryptanalysis of Skein
D.J. Bernstein and T. Lange
Journal of Craptology [1], Volume 8, Nov 2011

[1] http://www.anagram.com/jcrap/
Nissan to Extend Electric Car Leadership With 135-Mile LEAF
How can "@mozilla stands for openness" if you restrict who can run the company?
I haven't followed that particular drama, are they asking him to step down solely because of his anti-gay activism? Or are there other reasons as well?

Assuming it's the former and as long as he's not pushing his agenda through Mozilla (discriminating against gay employees or whatnot) I'm not sure it's a good reason to "fire" a CEO.
2 things:

a) Learn soft skills - that will contribute more than they think to career progress

b) Learn transferable skills.
If your chosen career doesn't work out, is there something you have that can be used by any industry? (e.g project management skills, marketing knowledge)
IBM Accelerates Big Data
What would be nice if you can read and comment/highlight for free and edit for pay. I suspect one typical use case is to have someone send around a doc to solicit comments and incorporate them subsequent. In fact, this model kind of enforces that flow so you don't have multiple people editing it and forking the original.
It seems a natural consequence of the popular continual-development, release-early-release-often model of software development.
> If I wanted to embrace functional programming, I would skip Scala and goto Haskell, ML, or Clojure.

Interesting choice of languages. Out of that list, only Haskell is suitable for the argument you're trying to make.

Is that SML or Ocaml? If that's SML, well it's a really poor choice. And what makes you think Clojure is better for functional programming? I'm not arguing that it isn't, it's just interesting seeing it in a list of what are supposed to be better choices for FP. Because in my opinion, Clojure is just as dirty as Scala or maybe even more so. And it's also a Lisp and the styles and patterns used tend to be different in Lisps, than what you do in Haskell or Scala.

That book I linked is not about Scala, but about FP and just happens to use Scala as the language. It's a good book. If you preordered it, it would be a waste to not read it.
Some comments here refer the potencially high cost of the membership for Office 365. It seems like there will be a new plan for $7/m ($70/y) supporting 2 devices[1]. Like the previous plan, it also seems to include 1h of Skype calls.

[1] http://blogs.office.com/2014/03/13/announcing-office-365-per...
I think there is something about the HN layout that makes it feel more "homegrown", which has no ads or images at all. Kind of reminds me of an old-timey newspaper, or the WSJ "What's News."

Not saying it can't be improved.
Project Tango has a 320x180 depth sensor running at 5 fps, i.e. 290k depth measurements per second. Compare this with off-the-shelf depth cameras (e.g. DS325) that generate 320x240 at 60 fps, i.e. 4.6m measurements per second.

The reason for this is that mobile processors aren't fast enough to process more information. So the Tango prototype has to have, in addition to its depth camera, a special motion tracking camera with a fish-eye lens and 2 dedicated processors in order to robustly track.

Even then, with less depth information, the quality of any Tango reconstruction will be far inferior. Maybe in 5-10 years, mobile processors can approach what desktop GPU's are capable of today.

In any case, it remains to be seen if Google can persuade cellphone manufacturers to include 2 special cameras + 2 extra processors in their future devices.
Right, this is mostly a threshold-pledge model, with the caveat that one wealthy individual could buy it up and destroy it.

What's interesting is that this model works in a world without copyright - you can always sell the first copy.
I've seen systems that perform standard image recognition on one side and point cloud integration on the other, then combining them.

I don't know if they're open source though or even available.
It looks like Office 365 subscriptions are available as an In-App Purchase (seen on the sidebar here : https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/microsoft-excel-for-ipad/id5... ), so Apple get their cut of the revenue and Microsoft are above-the-board in terms of App Store regulations.

Naturally if you buy a subscription from outside the app, Apple don't get a cut - that's how everything works and as long as you don't give the user a way to get to the non-Apple subscription payment system from inside the app, Apple is fine with that.
Microsoft releases Office for iPad just looks like that Nintendo publishes Super Mario Bros on Xbox!

So, are they going to discard Windows (|phone|tablet|...) platform and become a pure third-party? It reminds me of Sega.
The arguments in the article (and repeated here by some HNewsers) are familiar: "If a computer does it then it's not a mind." Well, if that's the definition of mind for the sake of discussion then there isn't much to discuss. I see it differently, I feel that mind is a property of a working brain and that someday we may say that mind is also a property of a working AI program.

I don't believe in magic. I don't believe that there is spooky stuff in my head. I think that my brain is an amazing biological machine. The idea that there is some fundamental insurmountable barrier that will prevent strong AI from succeeding (eventually, if humans survive) would mean that there is some magical property of brains (human brains, whale brains, chimp brains, dog/cat brains etc.) that we will never have access to. This seems so unlikely that I prefer to believe that there is no magic and that AI will succeed. And I'm not saying that we need to mimic brains to have thinking machines. The mind and its thinking, feelings, emotions, and so forth may simply be emergent properties of advanced enough artificial or natural computing structures (e.g. brains).

If space aliens landed on earth tomorrow, would we say "Oh, but they can't think. They don't have brains like we have here on earth so they don't really think. They just process inputs into outputs."

I've enjoyed many books on this subject, but two older ones I recommend are: Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid by Hofstadter and Society of Mind by Minsky.
Ring: Shortcut Everything
This would be an incredibly interesting development. I personally love c# and would be thrilled if it became a mainstream language outside the enterprise software crowd.
Before we discuss the continuity of consciousness after suspending brain activity like this, I think we should first demonstrate continuity of consciousness from one moment to the next.

Are you the "same person" you were one second ago? We all think we are, but there's no proof. The continuity we experience could merely be an artifact of memory, and not real. Me-in-one-second might not share consciousness with me-now.

It seems to be jumping the gun a great deal to try to establish this for exceptional circumstances before we establish it for the common everyday one.
Just the CEO? Who else shall we burn at the stake? Mary, the office manager, goes to church every Sunday. How did she vote? John over in mobile dev is a devout Muslim, I'll bet he doesn't take kindly to such things as gay marriage. Time to start scanning through those campaign contribution records for Prop 8 and seeing if a JOIN on the employee database gives us any results.

I've always held to the idea that my job is to make my manager look good. I don't know that mouthing off on twitter such that Ars Technica picks it up is fitting to that philosophy.
$100/year for subscription.
OR
$139 one-time for Office Home.

Sure sounds expensive to me. I'll stick to the Apple office suite for now.
Zapier co-founder here, this is incredible! It is fun and humbling to see people doing stuff I never would have predicted when we started Zapier.

Thanks for sharing. :-)