skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
After reading this article, I can't help but think that Better Place is the Newton, or maybe the Palm of electric cars. Nowadays, we see smartphones and tablets in their near-final form (or at least one that's been stable for a few years), but we forget the many handheld computing devices that were tried before, some that had traction and others that didn't.

Which leads to: as an investor or potential employee, how do you tell whether that hot startup is is a Hi5, a myspace, or a Facebook? Can you know whether your contribution will make a/the difference between the outcomes?
It is absolutely an informal fallacy[1]. The onus is on the person making the claim of similarity to demonstrate why that similarity is valid, so on its own it lacks any argumentative weight.

Something being an informal fallacy doesn't mean that it can't be a component of a good argument (ie. correlation not implying causation doesn't mean there are no cases where something can be demonstrated to be causitive), it means that it is not an argument in and of itself.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Informal_fallacy
So it is a lens, CR232 batteries, and a LED... and you are invited to use and throw it away with the battery? not very clever.
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More to it than frequency response and dynamic range. The goal should be for the most accurate reproduction of the input waveform. Here is a pic of transient response for different sample rates.
http://www.eirec.com/DPimages/digisqwvtest.jpg
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I am going to go out on a limb and say that a lot of what PG and the like say is far more applicable to 20-something non-entrepreneurs who fresh out of school (while still in school) want to start a company. I don't mean to diminish PG or his always-valuable advise. I am merely pointing out that a lot of these points are far more applicable to a certain class of entrepreneur.

If you take a single 18 to 25 year old "kids" with no business experience whatsoever and a life experience mostly devoid of struggle I'd be the probability of failure is absolutely huge. Entrepreneurship can test you in incredible ways. It can take you to the deepest and darkest moments of your life. And, if you are alone and are not "built" for it you will crumble.

Anyone with a good amount of business experience has a far greater probability of success if only because they've done it before and understand the game. You can hire people for the other functions that need to be performed.

I guess my point is that a co-founder is not some kind of a magic pill that will auto-magically make things better. Teaming up with someone with limited or no business experience and you hardly know is a formula for disaster. If both of you are newbies and you have some external coaching (YC) then, yes, things could be better.

I had a situation with someone who wanted to partner-up for a mobile app. I flat-out refused to partner (in the sense of company co-ownership). We put together a revenue-sharing agreement (50-50 was fine for this case). Control and all business decisions remained with me. I would eventually learn this was a great decision when this person went off the rails half-way through development.

It sounds like you have solid business experience. Don't buy into the SCV mantra of having to have a co-founder. Do it your way. Now, if you have to play on their turf then it's their rules. Outside that, there's no reason you couldn't be successful. Not one.

BTW, I don't buy YC/SCV statistics because they do not include the millions of solo-founder businesses that are launched every year. There's everything from lunch truck operators to restaurants, web design shops and tech companies. I am going to go out on a limb and say that if you looked at that data you might see that solo founders have a far greater probability of success than the SCV crowd mantra paints.

Again, if you are taking business virgins out of college to start businesses, yes, absolutely, get two, four or six of them because they are very likely to commit business seppuku if on their own. Also, VC's need insurance if they are going to make an investment. Multiple green founders is safer than one green founder.

Here's an example of what I am talking about (and it looks like no VC money):

http://www.forbes.com/sites/hollieslade/2014/01/24/after-her...
Because Snort's signatures can't detect 'heartleech'.

But most other IDSs can, such as Bro.

Unless there is a tool that demonstrates this, people won't believe that there is a difference between Snort and Bro, because existing tools don't show a difference.
I believe that's the point. X is no different to your water-cooler chats. Rather than degrade the former, this comparison is meant to upgrade the latter.

There is a class of problems that don't sit nicely in a single domain and can benefit from collaboration. When we engage in spit-balling we are (un)consciously looking to extend the scope of our solution search. From experience such discussions almost never go anywhere beccause that space is really vast and intractable.
I imagine a new service here: Google Watercooler, providing tools to extend X into your spitball sessions and vice versa. Like TedX: call it XX.
It presumably checks launched just before the while loop, after the start_thread call is complete, under the assumption that whatever start_thread might have done to that variable has been done. (An implementation could have some kind of markup on the thread creation function so that the compiler can infer the pointed-at memory has become volatile... but I doubt anybody actually does that. Much easier to let the code fuck up and blame the programmer ;))
Doesn't seem to be working on any of the browsers on my mac
Same page as the one any secretive organization uses, don't tell anyone anything unless you need a PR boost then trot out some program that meets the need. Has worked for IBM in the past, works for Google, heck it even works for the CIA.
In my view, the headline is linkbait, plus it's misleading to use the word "brain" for one kind of cognitive reaction. There are probably some brain functions that are most active in babies, but that wouldn't make it correct to say "brain decline begins in infancy".
In this case it's a prostitution ring, which isn't really the same as a long term neighbor who happens to sleep around a lot. I think someone who calls an apartment home rather then stopping there once and never coming back will be more respectful.
What is your guess about the amount of memory needed to save a human brain. I mean all necessary information to save the personality.
The article mentions 98,000 petabytes. But does this contain everything?

In Wolfram alpha and Wikipedia you can read, that the storage capacity of the human brain is around 2-2.5PB.

When I estimate it assuming 10^14 synapses and 24 bytes (weight, connection info, etc.) for each synapse, I come close to 2PB.
Anecdotally, nonpayment is a much bigger problem than lawsuits. I remember listening to the CEO of Carle, a large Central Illinois healthcare chain, talking about this, and saying that "we expect to collect 60 cents of every dollar we bill".

It's a revenue optimization problem -- the goal is to collect the most revenue overall. Set prices too high and people/insurance goes elsewhere, too low and you leave money on the table the org could use to cross-subsidize non-payers.
depends where you live. a doctor in nyc could pay $30K/yr while one in kansas $2k/yr
But did you secure it against endless parser loops? At least older g++ versions have a problem with this:

template<class T> struct Loop { Loop<T*> operator->(); };
Loop<int> i, j = i->hooray;

And on older gcc versions this eats a gig RAM and a takes couple of hours:

struct a{typedef int foo;};struct a1:a{};struct a2:a{};
#define X(b,a) struct a##1:b##1,b##2{};struct a##2:b##1,b##2{};
X(a,b)X(b,c)X(c,d)X(d,e)X(e,f)X(f,g)X(g,h)X(h,i)X(i,j)X(j,k)X(k,l)
X(l,m)X(m,n) n1::foo main(){}

From slide 11 and 12 of this presentation: http://www.fefe.de/c++/c%2B%2B-talk.pdf
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7593830
It is a logical fallacy, however, claiming that an argument is invalid due to logical fallacy, is also a fallacy.

There is enough evidence that shows that prostitution, drugs, and violent crime are inextricably linked.

Prostitutes are more likely to be victims of sexual assault, while being under the influence of drugs provided by their pimps, who may also use violence as a means to control the prostitutes, and as way to deal with Johns.

In addition to sex, drugs, and violence, prostitution has ties to human trafficking, child exploitation, and slavery, not to mention the health risks.
> That Solar System game from today is likely already being cloned and remade by some team/person for profit.

What Solar System game is that? You've piqued my curiousity, but I can't find any obvious candidate on the iTunes App Store. :)
Yeah, I get that, but it seems pretty tenuous. All this talk about the "value" of the property with regards to it being used for one thing over another, when price is the way in which we quantify value.

Who gets to decide what the value of a piece of property to The People should be? Should it be elected officials, who probably only represent the interests of the people on even numbered days, or should it be The People themselves, through price movement?
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Congrats, Ryan and team on launching! Just placed an offer on some shorts and it was an easy process. Interested to see how this model works out for you guys moving forward.

Something pretty cool I noticed as I was checking out was the ability to share my offer on FB to get a small discount (which I did). This seems like a pretty obvious 'growth hack', but I'm surprised I haven't seen it elsewhere before.
Some would say the purpose of government is to provide the services the voters voted for it to provide at as low a cost as reasonably possible - rather than to maximise tax revenue.

There are many things that would increase short term government revenue but which would be terrible public policy.
As someone who's travelled a lot, this looks like a cool upgrade.

But man, what I wouldn't give for an adapter that make it easy to pack by having some clever and clean way to wrap the cord. It doesn't look like this one does.
I am a doctor, an anesthesiologist. I don't like AMA. But to blame AMA is a complete nonsense. (AMA really is just an insurance and loan agency, just like AARP.)

The real problem is government regulation of our profession, of the whole clinical process, and of devices and medications.

Those of you who go up in arms when government sticks its nose in your internet business, should imagine how it is to deal with the government that is there all the time for us. For example, how about trying to bill Medicare for a surgery, when one phrase--one phrase-- is missing from the documentation, and I don't get a penny for a 4 hour surgery?
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You mean North America only, they'll ship internationally, but I don't see anything about other plug types :(
Why don't they just let the cable companies deliver it and figure out a decent split?
All of the data is available through a well-documented API: http://www.brain-map.org/api/index.html

Fully documented with plenty of examples and relevant white papers.
I'm not sure if it's really random or they will rank candidates based on information they put in and then perform a weighted random selection!
Previously, processors and merchants accepting bitcoin payments would wait until a large fraction of bitcoin nodes listed a 0-conf txn as "valid-but-unconfirmed," the so-called memory pool or mempool (because it is a collection of transactions in RAM). This works well, because we empirically know how nodes operate: they accept these valid-but-unconfirmed txns into the blockchain and reject (both discard and fail to relay) any competing txns ("doublespends"). Doublespend attacks worked by filling the global mempool with the doublespends before the original txn fills the mempool. Naïve software wouldn't check the global mempool. So really, there were two types of 0-confs: txns which were agreed upon by >90% of the global mempool and those which it was unknown (but sometimes assumed).

Now, BitUndo changes how people perceive mining nodes! No longer is the mempool immutable, but rather mutable for a price. This price, as it stands, is 10% per successful undo and 0% per failure. So if BitUndo (and federated pools) controls 1% of the network, then 99% of 0-confs will confirm, 1% will be undone, and 0.1% of the total transferred will be paid in fees to BitUndo. It throws more of a wrench into the system as the BitUndo federation varies from 0% to 100%. Empirically, it will be trivial to see what percentage of the network is engaged in BitUndos. If that percentage becomes materially large, then it will have a material effect on how the system treats 0-confs, for better or worse.

Interesting, this service is definitely available privately (or should be assumed to be). As U.S. Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis once said: Sunlight Is the Best Disinfectant
Wouldn't that present a horrible UX in some cases when paying with bitcoin? You'd have to wait ~10 minutes to access your purchase while the transaction is confirmed

Figure source: http://blockchain.info/charts/avg-confirmation-time
The question is: Is the payoff worth it, considering that entire countries are currently "conditioned" to obtain Game of Thrones by illegal means?

Many people speak of Australia, but take Germany as another extreme example. HBO doesn't offer its services here so there are only two options if you want to watch Game of Thrones:

1: Get a subscription of Sky, which is mostly sports and has a minimum subscription time of 2 years. So if you're not into sports, that's about 800$ for two seasons of Game of Thrones.

2: Wait one year and then buy the DVD, because it will be available exactly one year later.

The thing about culture, though, is that you can't participate in the phenomenon that is happening _now_ if you have to wait a year.

So everybody here is pirating it like crazy. Curiously enough, Germany never appears in the piracy statistics because due to some weird legal specialties here, your chance of getting caught when using Bittorrent are 100%.

All the non-tech people I talk to watch it using sketchy streaming sites, thus generating advertising revenue for criminals and infecting their Windows boxen with malware.

I don't know what the long-run consequences are, but they can't be good.
I think rails users, who are able to find a bug in rails are also able to write a test for it.

A GUI system, which allows you to make the system do the stuff which causes the bug and records the steps would be great, but i fear most software is to complex and special to come up with a useful system.
And if the city loses residents, then it can't support its tourism industry as well, and then it become less of an attractive tourist destination. This really seems like a self correcting problem.
Is it just me or people actually think it'd be even cooler to have a visualization like the first image?

How do they actually know they have mapped everything right? How do they test that?
Only everything important. Sorry to be flip but it is so hard to sum up. I knew absolutely nothing at age 24. I had no idea how to deal with people, how to manage relationships, my energy, or long term goals. How to balance and prioritize. I am nearing 40 and feel I am finally taking the first baby steps towards having even the slightest clue about what's going on. I'm pretty sure I will die before I get most of it straight. If you've mastered all the skills you need by 24 you've either set your goals on the wrong thing or you are a prophet. But that's just one man's humble opinion.
Affirmative action as it is implemented in the US simply states that if two candidates on paper have the same qualifications then choose the minority candidate.

The reasoning is that it counters a pre-existing bias towards non-minorities and/or women.
http://www.scpr.org/programs/airtalk/2014/04/15/6508/ can you comment on this radio segment please?
> greater human trust in computers and recommendation systems

I am an MD and have a degree in CS. Expert systems are not remotely there yet for this purpose. On no planet would I trust care of my patients to a computer. Far too many subtleties involved in accurate diagnosis and treatment that are not encoded in a machine-readable format.

> legal regime which mandates DOCTORS perform procedures, and only after a lengthy course of study

Good reasons for this - it actually takes that lengthy course of study to safely perform many procedures, and, more importantly, to fix things when they go wrong.

NPs and PAs are helpful but based on the quality of care that I personally observe they should not function without physician oversight.

There is no escaping that medicine is an extremely complex field, and it is only getting more so. Not long ago, many of the people who today are restored to their usual state of health would simply have died. The sicker a patient is, the more complex and difficult to manage they are. By definition a doctor is the one who is able to do so.

I am still waiting to meet a patient who comes to the hospital and prefers to have their care rendered by non-physician providers over physicians, or would even settle if there were an option.
I paid cash for a time for my medical care, and GP visits for regular illness or annual physical generally were $70 to $80.
It's very easy to. Plenty of stuff from First Round shows up on the HN first page. So do stories from all kinds of sources. There are regularly articles on bootstrapping, as well.
You didn't address what I wrote. The demonstration didn't require the extraction of private key material from servers, because that's not the bug. The difference between Bro and Snort has nothing to do with private key material.
did this article "borrow" from the air talk segment this afternoon on the radio: http://www.scpr.org/programs/airtalk/2014/04/15/6508/
Of course it is, and there are collections of letters that are pronounceable words, but it doesn't give them meaning. The equivalent in English would be a spell checker that didn't flag "douberness" and passed it along. Sure you can pronounce if if you look at it phonetically but it doesn't mean anything. It is syntactically correct but broken. VHDL has a lot of things that can be written but not actually expressed in hardware.
They already charged the Card, what kind of lottery is this?
Yes, it's a good thing we've solved all the crimes with actual victims so we can move on to regulating behavior between consenting adults.
It all comes down to risk. The longer they can sit on the money, the less risk. Stripe's entire business revolves around risk management, hence why it's 7 days, which is longer than others (their banking partners).
From a demand/supply perspective involving only patients and doctors, it seems correct. I actually have the similar thought. But can anyone provide more dimensions of this "market"?
So is every apartment. In buildings near where I lived in Dublin there were known brothels in rented residential apartments. Long before there was Airbnb, obviously.

This is a standard part of success: criminals hack the system. Much like AWS being used for bitcoin mining, and every cash-in-cash-out system being used for money laundering.
would love to have a technical blog post on testing, code structure, etc. good work - looks great.
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I'm guessing the neighbors of these short term rental properties didn't consent to Airbnb's customers rezoning their neighborhoods for them.
Why not setup a local lab that mimics the environment as closely as possible and abstract all work with Fabric, Salt or something similar?

Then you just ship the code you wrote and have then run through the command(s) you've prepared.

Configure an SFTP server on your end so they can drop log data if needed.
Wire transfers in the United States are immediate as well. This has nothing to do with wire transfers.
Bookkeeping software tries to catch all payments and decides which invoice was paid. If the identification misses, they can try to match by other indicators (Name etc.). Some payments slip through the system and a person looks after it.

What i am saying is: Half-automated is better than manual.
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I didn't think d3 targets anything in particular (from memory the tutorial uses divs to draw a histogram), a google search turns up a number of d3 canvas examples.
> I am still waiting to meet a patient who comes to the hospital and prefers to have their care rendered by non-physician providers over physicians, or would even settle if there were an option.

Attach a price tag to each and find out. Maybe someone who couldn't afford a $500 consultation with an MD could settle for a $250 or $100 consultation with a PA, or an expert system. You really don't know until you experiment, and find out.
For Rails, sure - but most FLOSS projects are not like that.
That's a popular theory, but it doesn't help much because a) we want universal access (poor people just won't use it if they have to pay) b) non-professionals don't review metrics critically and don't have enough knowledge to (and the metrics are hard to interpret for experts) and c) laymen just don't have enough knowledge to make good decisions with their money, they'll just use price as a signal of quality regardless of the underlying quality.

For some ordinary, understandable things, we can get people to pay if they have the means and understanding to do so, but we need to pay for outcomes (indexed for the base sickness of the population) for more complex cases. However, paying for outcomes forces the financial risk onto the doctor, so what we really need is some mixture of "pay for performance" and "fee for service" to keep them in business, but focused on adapting their practices to evidence and modernity over the decades.

One way to reduce bureaucracy and paper work is simply "Medicare for everyone" which reduces the number of forms, data links, and creates a massive negotiating position for the payer which is needed in an inelastic market such as medicine.

To give an example, if the patients are directly on the hook and grandpa is sick, they'll just send him to the "highest quality hospital" as determined by a mixture of patient reviews ("The rooms were well lit and people smiled!") and price ("This is the most expensive and therefore best hospital in the area!"). It might even have the best metrics (the sickest and (correlated) poorest will go to the cheaper hospital and tank their metrics). They'll then pay basically anything to keep grandpa alive regardless of what the hospital asks, maybe raising money if they need to.

Hence, inelastic complex market without where transparency can actually hurt.

The other thing to note is that if people of means pay $100 cash to obtain better healthcare and jump the line, it's kind of like paying more to get gas during hurricane Sandy. You're not creating more or better resources for the people, but merely rearranging them at high cost to the benefit of the affluent. This TED talk has some interesting points about this trend:

http://www.ted.com/talks/michael_sandel_why_we_shouldn_t_tru...

Aside: I used to work in the healthcare billing industry.