skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The way this usually works is that the inventor would inform the university's technology licensing office of the invention. The licensing office would sample the industry and decide whether or not to file for a patent. The bar for filing a patent is often very low. Interested companies can then approach the licensing office to license the technology.

In some cases, one (or more) of the researchers may decide to start a company and license the tech. Often, the researcher is a student that worked on polishing the original invention; sometimes (rare) a professor takes a sabbatical to build a startup based on the invention. Many tech companies get started this way, including the likes of Google. It's also one of the ways Stanford gets filthy rich.

I'm surprised USC's office of tech licensing were unaware of the original invention and/or that they decided against filing a patent. Perhaps there's more to the story.
But why don't you think it's OK for the other poster to be a recluse? Like him, I quite enjoy solitude and that's one of the reasons I posted this. I spent a month working in a remote desert last year and found it the peace and quiet very restful, in contrast to the hustle and bustle of city life. I enjoyed the latter much more when I was younger but over time my tastes have changed.

I see no reason for you to project your standards of mental health onto other people, even if you don't share their inclinations.
David Einhorn: ‘We Are Witnessing Our Second Tech Bubble in 15 Years’
That's an interesting workaround for not having FUSE on Windows - create a WebDAV server and mount it. It looks like it shells out to net.exe which makes me wonder if there's a Win32 API for doing that.

Other options for FUSE-ish things on Windows are CBFS and Dokan.
> As a first step, we could check whether the digits 0 through 9 appeared with approximately equal frequency, among, say, the first million digits. Passing such a test is clearly necessary for randomness...

Why is that the case? This just means that the digits are uniformly distributed. Why can't they have a different distribution and still be "random"?
In Canada, no. Every transaction is rounded to 5 cents, so in your case, no change

If it was 4.97 it would go for 4.95 though
"We saw lots of people in the City University of New York system who graduated as computer science majors but weren't going into the tech industry...It was a lot of access and network problems, and a lack of technical training."

This is really confusing. How do you graduate as a computer science major and lack technical training? And if that's the case, how does such a faculty remain in business?
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Hi, I'm the founder of the organization. 85% of the class had never written a line of code before. We believe that there are people in Queens and other underserved communities who can learn to code and also pursue tech entrepreneurship.
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Thanks for the explanation. I am aware of that; however, the sentence I quoted does not make sense grammatically; "algorithmic complexity" is not an adjective.
"After learning some of the tricks of the trade, some people think they know the trade." - Eugene_Kleiner
Go 1.3 beta 1 released
The Noel Smith-Wenkle Salary Negotiation Method (1996)
> baccarat players have a long and tawdry history of introducing some truly
> bizarre superstitions into gaming parlors. Gently blowing on the dice at a
> craps table is downright sensible behavior compared to some of what goes on in
> baccarat pits on a daily basis,

Can anyone provide some examples of these tawdry and bizarre superstitions?
Crunchbase 2.0
This does not include a lot about startup funding, at least not the details, but still, for beginners, I'd say its pretty good. http://www.forbes.com/sites/brentbeshore/2013/02/19/the-non-...
Are you familiar with Apollo 13's pogo oscillation?

One of my friends in Houston was dealing with pogo in rockets specifically. So yes, I am familiar with pogo in general, and I had heard of it during the Apollo program.
Ah, now it all makes sense. Thank you for the explanation :)
http://box2d-js.sourceforge.net/

box2d has good documentation and plenty of examples available. You can start with this.
I have trouble deciding which part I like more: the simplicity or the better valuation.

Unanimously positive move.
Parody vs Fake is what difference, again?

It's helpful to think that through:

"I created a padody twitter account..."

"...to prove I can write fiction"

Sounds like a work-sample test.[1,2,3]

___________

[1] http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2011/08/12/meet-the-goldman-sach...

[2] http://money.cnn.com/2014/03/19/news/companies/gselevator-bo...

[3] That being said, OP should really read these footnotes--The perils of using bad judgement are real.
Well, if you do go the hermit/recluse path, I hope you keep coming up with the elegant products and great designs that you've created in the past [1]

[1] http://www.chrisnorstrom.com/category/creation/
For my online business, I pay the accountant about $100 or $150 to handle everything, I can't remember the exact number. I just hand them a paper with my total income, a list of business related deductions, talk for 15 min if they have any questions, or I have any questions, and then I pick everything up a few days later and pay the amount owing online.
Show HN: My entrepreneurial innovations class final project.
That's all very hard to do when your code takes 10 minutes to compile. Yes it's C++.
The program is fully scholarship oriented, we intend to serve low income communities so that adults can all backgrounds can enter the tech industry. Our students were from 18-37, most were not in college at the time and didn't know how to code. We also believe it's not just about working at a tech company, we want to empower those through the course to be tech entrepreneurs. Those that aren't working are pursuing their own projects and launching new ventures. The income mobility statistic shows potential for what coding can do to raise income and improve peoples lives, but it's important for us to increase opportunity for people to create their own startups and apps.
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Very cool stuff, but need to satisfy my OCD:

It's spelled Naphtha (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naphtha). And for the HN hordes - read the bottom of the linked project page, it is supposed to be a reference to Naphtha.

:)
If he is a good worker why would the future employer fire him? This is actually a pretty daring approach and he actually put in a lot of effort in just making a fake one tho.
Low cost-of-living counties in states with high minimum wages meant for city dwellers, most likely. The cost of living difference between Seattle and eastern Washington is immense, but guess which one the state sets minimum wage based on.
i would prefer if they stopped the freebies. tons of non-developers register for a conference that is basically designer towards developers.
There are CS majors that learn foundational skills but don't learn practical frameworks that companies are looking for. Also, there many other adults from other backgrounds that never have a chance to learn iOS or ruby or code. We want to provide those opportunities and build a new pipeline of technical talent, particularly for underserved communities.
David Einhorn Just Cried Bubble And Let Slip The Shorts Of War
I am including it as part of my application, not worried about anyone seeing it.
The 120k for 7% is a great middle ground. Trying to raise that amount on your own isn't going to be easy or net you nearly the same valuation as this deal and re-investing every penny is wise but it may take several months/a year to equate to 120k.
This is so true. People can't find work and valuable their jobs so much they never shut off. With phone and email at a touch away the high level workers are becoming slaves to companies.

Atleast entrepreneurs who overwork themselves are doing it for themselves and not their bosses.
Your quote in the articles says -- "We saw lots of people in the City University of New York system who graduated as computer science majors but weren't going into the tech industry" --- You can't graduate as a CS major without writing any code...So this quote has nothing to do with the people actually in your program?
Isn't that like telling Google that it's actually spelled Googol?
How to Automate Your Social Life and Social Traffic the Best way
I once consulted for a company whose previous consultant had tried to help them do a line-for-line translation (using off-site random-people-in-a-sweatshop online programmers for hire) from ASP to Rails. They pitched it as "transcoding". I will argue that this was not practical (though I can appreciate the idea that at first glance it almost sounds amazingly scalable ;P).
> steel pennies will be drawn to magnets whereas the zinc and copper pennies will float.

Float on water?
Two weeks of a detailed personal time tracking
Was anyone really waiting?
I think your math is off. 5 NP's per batch * 50k = 250k from teespring which makes your point even stronger.
It's worth taking a look at the federal budget in detail sometime. Politicians love to argue and make a big deal about relatively small outlays, in comparison Social security + medicare/medicaid = 48% of spending, with military you have 66%. Non-military discretionary is only 17% which includes all of the department of the interior, including the USGS.
Do you have any links to the pixelated cards?

This dancing story is nuts:

> A complaint filed by the board against Caesars Palace says a customer was
> playing baccarat in the high-limit baccarat room on Oct. 10, 2009. On three
> separate occasions, the man climbed onto the baccarat table from his chair,
> walked on the table and made a bet before returning to stand on his chair,
> eventually sitting down, according to the complaint.
>
> On the second occasion, the player performed a dance on the table before
> returning to his chair, the control board said. The three incidents took
> place over a 45-minute period, according to the complaint.

(I think this is what you are referring to. But it is from 4 years ago.)

Link to complaint: http://gaming.nv.gov/modules/showdocument.aspx?documentid=30...
I will just repeat: "An idea is worth nothing. Execution is everything."

Oculus Rift has solved a huge pile of technical problems that makes the original idea actually useful.

If you think that an idea is worth anything, go sell someone the idea of time machine — without an implementation in sight.
The best way I've found to handle this for DJ sets is to use a single MP3 file and a CUE sheet with the times each subtrack starts. Then your media player has to support CUE sheets (Winamp has/had a plugin, Foobar2000 does, other than those YMMV). Matroska Audio showed promise in being the format where this would just work out of the box, but loses due to first mover advantage of mp3s and the market reach of other formats.
Weird. I was looking for something just like this earlier today, and got frustrated because the only thing halfway decent I could find were some documents from RocketLawyer.

My only comment would be that my honest thought is that I would sign up for a month, pirate your questionnaires, and turn them into my own documents, but if the service is good enough I would probably not bother.
I really wish it could AOT compile to ARM, MIPS, etc.
Very good points.

By now we all should know that women are routinely harassed in tech companies to a preposterous degree. On the other hand, I've seen cases where mentally disturbed people invent (or self-delude) incredibly detailed narratives of persecution. We could be dealing with a situation where one, the other, both, or neither is happening.

The thing that irks me about all this is that murky incidents like this, where the alleged victim is (to many) not a very sympathetic character, and possibly acted improperly herself and instigated the whole situation (if the anon blog post is to be believed), does little to help set an example for why the real instances of harassment are so wrong and terrible.

After this, I'm left with a very poor taste in my mouth. GH's investigation was likely somewhat flawed, though it's unclear to what degree. Horvath almost certainly wasn't telling the full story about what happened, and may even have instigated the entire thing, and is using the prevalence of sexism in tech (and the expected knee-jerk community outcry) to attack someone she's (unjustifiably?) angry with. Or maybe everything she's said is true, and the Preston-Werners are terrible people, and GH has/had a serious discrimination problem coming from the top. We'll probably never know.

The whole situation just stinks.
Looks like a great improvement on the sous vide. Is there a prototype?
Why is Apple Deprecating OpenSSL in MacOS 10.7 (Lion)?
The churnalism sites have been around for a while, this looks like a better summary of what's new (eg of interest here, a switch from Python to Go, plus a browser extension)

http://mediastandardstrust.org/mst-news/the-new-churnalism-c...
This is an awesome piece of research - I feel your pain that you can't get it published due to the Gmail data issue!
good catch! I think I meant to say that Joxa was like LFE, which is by rvirding who did erlog and luerl.
Everyone deserves to have this extension. It's even better if it could be a browser's default feature. ;P
Can you cite a few examples of companies they funded with substantial revenue? I'm very curious to learn about which ones they were.
Have you really never previously encountered suspicions aimed at those with book larnin' and fancy talk?
Oh totally! And I hope it was ultra-clear - I wasn't asking because I ASSUME they wanted something in return, but rather because that's a proposition I've never heard before. They're giving them $50k not $50k in tee-spring right? Or is it $50k in tee-spring? I guess that's my question, but either way - too cool! Proud of those guys, right thing to do.
The post has an incorrect definition of Kolmogorov Complexity.

It says:

> The overall Kolmogorov complexity of a string is thus defined as
K(x)=|p|
where p is the shortest program string for language L such that
L(p)=x
and we consider all programming languages.

This is wrong. The definition of Kolmogorov complexity is always given relative to some fixed programming language. For example, K_perl or K_ruby are just fine, although we usually consider some Universal Turing Machine. The reason that we can prove theorems about Kolmogorov Complexity without even specifying which language we fixed is because of invariance (on all but a finite number of strings, any two languages will differ by at most some fixed constant). But the point is that you have to take a single fixed programming language. Then the issue raised in the blog post does not arise.

As this post is almost a year old, I doubt it matters much or is worth contacting the author though. But for future reference, if you think you've found such a basic mistake in a foundational concept in math or CS, you can always ask about it on cs.stackexchange.com or math.stackexchange.com rather than making a potentially embarassing post about how mathematicians are wrong/silly.
I think the writer deserves a ton of credit. This article was informed, technical, and funny.

What I don't understand is how much information the players got. Did they have to learn each half of the deck? That seems absurdly hard. I get the feeling Phil Ivey was just along for the ride. My guess is the chinese guy could watch how the cards were sweeped, adjust in his head which cards were in what half, and recompute odds based on the backs. That is a bat shit crazy talent.
This might be a situation where a story merge feature would come in handy.

In a "merged thread" the title could have more than one link value (but still have a canonical (by mod standard) top ranked url.) And the discussion could be merged to one thread (or version controlled in correspondence with a particular top level link.)

I also think it would have some other benefits:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7564254

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7564289
I remember having a look at a friends Weebly sites and couldn't help but notice you insert your own Google Analytics tracking code on every website without any option to remove it. Is this still the standard for Weebly sites? If so is this a part of the business model? Do you plan on allowing people to opt out?
I have wanted an extension to do this for so long. I even started coding my own at one stage but hit various issues. Thank you so much for creating this.
Idea: Perhaps the deleted submissions can be visible in the user’s submission list as [deleted] (without the title or any other information). So it’s easy to see the accounts that do this frequently.
Ok. Digital Ocean itself is supposed to come to Canada sometime this year if you can wait.
Can you link me a source to that article? Phil Ivey is perhaps the greatest living card player in the world. Do not underestimate the near autistic savant level of perception and mental capacity that he and other genius card players have. I can imagine Ivey still being able to gain an exploitable edge merely by simply recognizing the direction in which specific cards are returned into the deck.
> We usually don't attempt to talk about the running time of merge sort by fixing a reference machine on which to do an instruction count.

Unless you're Knuth!
>>Why the rich now have less leisure than the poor

Leisure = Free time.

I can annually go with my family to Paris for 2 weeks with the peace of mind that I have a very-well-paying tech job waiting for me upon my return. And my weekends are almost always completely relaxing.

A poor person can be not working months out of the year but filled with stress and anxiety, watching daytime TV, wondering how to get the bills paid and where/when the next job will come along.

If you're mentally full of stress & anxiety during your free time, was it really free time? I'll take my weekends and 2 weeks in Paris over their "leisure" anyday.
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Nice!. I've been wanting to visit Alaska for a while. Mainly to get away from the daily grind and constant hustle-bustle of my busy life.
Re-circulating the currency in larger denominations is the same as buying them back. In order for them to take 100 pennies out of circulation, they must compensate the owner with a dollar bill/coin (i.e. a larger denomination) or a dollar of bank credit.
Fixing up is part of the fun.
But equally, credit costs nothing to give.
bonus points to scan QR-codes
Yes, I'm always intrigued by that term. So they want a programmer who is into sex, drugs and rock and roll and shows up to work once in a while, always late and never sober?
I did consider adding a final paragraph saying something like "I am assuming here that you were sincerely asking a question rather than merely being rude and snarky, but of course that may not be true", but decided to play it straight.

So, having established that you were merely complaining about a grammatical slip, and that despite asking "what does ... even mean?" you knew perfectly well what it meant:

Yeah, I agree, it would have been more correct had they written something like "provided that your problems are not a matter of algorithmic complexity" or "provided that your problem is not algorithmic complexity". Congratulations, you found a mistake. (Though not, I think, anything to do with thinking "algorithmic complexity" an adjective.) But (1) so what? and (2) if I'm right in detecting a subtext of "man, if they can make that mistake, why should I take anything else they say seriously?", then I strongly disagree; anyone can perpetrate the occasional grammatical error. (Just out of curiosity, I looked at some of your recent comments, and found one having looked through considerably less text than the length of the article in which you found an error. I dare say one could do the same for mine. To err is human.)
Really good article, but if you're going to bundle libraries, PLEASE provide a way to make configuration fail if you can't get to the system copy.

A lot of projects (libgroove included) will try the system copy and then fall back to the bundled copy if the system one wasn't found. That's nice for users (maybe), but it's a pain for packagers. If the packager just happens to have one of the dependencies installed, the package will automagically find it but it will have incorrect deps.

Further reading: https://blog.flameeyes.eu/2009/01/bundling-libraries-for-des...
10 Reasons an Artificial Intelligence Wouldn't Turn Evil
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I would assume it to be house price less mortgage balance, but not really familiar with the situation in the US. How do people prepare for retirement?
An assumption I did not make. My statement about convenience was in reference to being around services central to population centers, e.g. medical facilities. Clearly most people here don't agree with me, but that does not justify projecting your own mistaken ideas about my position.
I understand that it might make sense to stop printing new pennies, but how does the central bank benefit by taking the _existing_ pennies out of circulation, assuming the scrap value of the metal is less than the pennies' face value?

(If the scrap value were higher than the face value, presumably the private sector would take the pennies out of circulation, and no government action would be required.)
so much for i.i.d. random variables.

we don't know if the variables are random and have no way to tell - definitely - if they are independent or identically distributed.

i was always confused when cryptography textbooks only talk about pseudorandomness. probably `import random` is not sufficient for them

and I was also confused by ergodic theory textbooks, which qualify levels of randomness like "equidistributed" or "3-fold mixing" but we can find dynamical systems which only go so far.

that would be an interesting experiment to see what happens to the law of large numbers if the randomness bits are correlated.
An idea-stage startup should not be paying a FTE 120k. That is lunacy and engineers need to start to understand this. More equity, lower salary until there is money coming in would help more companies survive longer while they look for product-market fit.
Not just PPC. They also stopped support certain intel hardware too.
"The lawsuit claims that Ivey and his companion instructed a dealer to flip cards in particular ways, depending on whether it was a desirable card in baccarat. The numbers 6, 7, 8 and 9 are considered good cards" from the article linked by https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7580399

FWIW I think almost anyone could gain an exploitable edge by recognizing the direction in which specific cards are returned into the deck if they took it seriously and practiced... it just sounds like a lot of work, and a way smaller edge. I personally think it's more impressive that he socially engineered the dealer.

It's kind of like "good artists copy, great artists steal" only for statistical edges. maybe "good gamblers work hard for an edge, great gamblers have an edge before they sit down"
How much of Walmart’s revenue comes from its shoppers’ food stamps?
There actually is 3D information in the form of a depth map including in the images, put their by the Google Camera app.
How can I downvote this post? He uses a non-standard definition with a very obvious flaw, and then proceeds to explain how Kolmogorov complexity is "silly" because it has that flaw.
Yes, that is the incident I was referring to...I guess I just read about it last year. Here is the new card back: http://prntscr.com/3cjo5v (here's a closeup: http://prntscr.com/3cjlqk). This is much different than the diamond design they used until recently that enabled this scheme - http://prntscr.com/3cjnne