skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One time a year payments (tax returns) have a different spending pattern than many times a year payments (welfare programs, and pension programs). The second pattern is the one that sustains people at the bottom edge of wealth. The former is what causes extra consumption.

Additionally, poor people live in areas with literally no banks.

Both of those alone justify a monthly payment method.
It's not nonsense. By committing to using ECL logic (read: cost is basically no object) Cray didn't need to bother with parallelism to get the best performance possible at the time, and so it was reasonable marketing for him to discount it. If he'd been confined to CMOS (or to a somewhat lesser extent bipolar) logic, he'd have had a very different set of trade-offs to get the performance he needed.
Some geniuses take long walks for inspiration, some dig tunnels and talk to elves. I don't judge.
Depends on how big the model is. The main problem with Deep Learning and practicality can be training time. For example, look here:
http://www.deeplearning.net/tutorial/DBN.html

You'll notice at the bottom for the training time. That's immense.

The reason I'm encouraging horse power for practical use is to reduce training time to something meaningful for iteration use via distributed means.

I have visualization techniques built in to the lib to help come up with an optimal model so you know it works well, I still need to implement grid search and some other stuff.

My timeline is within the next month or so to have all of this done. I will have the stanford recursive neural tensor nets and the conv nets done here shortly. The next part will be distributed GPUs ;).

I hope to make this as practical as possible for people. The next obvious step after training time is practical and easy to do is wrappers for common tasks.
Royalty statements of a Grammy-nominated artist
> It made clear the copyright must be established at the act of creating, not at the act of using.

I don't see how that should change the result. An API is an API from the time it's created. It's inherently functional. You can't change a single argument or function name without changing the functional behavior of the API, which is as true the day it's created as the day someone wants to create a compatible reimplementation.

It seems to me like trying to claim a copyright over e.g. the shape of a toner cartridge for a printer because some creative process was used to generate the shape, even though it's the only shape that will fit in that printer, with the intent of using that to prevent anyone from making compatible toner cartridges for 95 years. That's clearly not what Congress had in mind when passing the Copyright Act.
Why nobody is showing concerns about her to the USPTO?

This feels a little too close to being a witchhunt. Once we start talking about "why isn't the internet reporting these people to their employers?" the conversation has stopped being about ideas.

EDIT: The concerns seem justified. I'm just saying that maybe we shouldn't be trying to use HN to organize the end of individual careers.

Calling attention to the fact that this patent was examined by particular individuals seems ok. It's just a fact.

Using HN as an organizational vehicle to help angry people on the internet get some specific people fired, by name, would be a troubling new trend for HN. We're a community, not a task force.
Nothing compares to modafinil but modafinil. Modafinil is a glorious stimulant gifted to humanity by the gods themselves.
Unfortunately, no, I don't.
Launching a Privacy Policy Built the Wiki Way
While farmland is incredibly cheap in the US, small farms are on a boom-bust cycle basically tied to luck and the weather.

Modern farming is also very dirty to the surrounding watershed.
Is "good enough" the state of digital design?
For the love of being 'liked'
I think this is both good and bad

I love the fact that at Mozilla we listen to community input and make decisions that we feel are in the best interests of the user, I dont feel like I work at a company at Mozilla, I feel like I work with a community.

But at the same time, a lot of the broader community are (rightly) cynical and when something like this is proposed it causes a minor uproar, Its also hard to filter out what is the vocal minority between a genuine concern, I have no doubt that it would have been implemented in a responsible way that benefited everyone involved, so I think this may be a bit of a missed opportunity, but onwards and upwards.
This is why it is important to use a different account on each of your browsing devices, with [showdead] so you can see of you got hellbanned.

But I guess if you can do that, you would also recognize the effects of a hellban on your account.
No, you've only entered "Sambisa Fo" which presumably doesn't trigger special category handling for the word "forest".
Easier to obtain, I'm sure. What I wouldn't give for a Modafinil scrip...
Are you really suggesting that people can't have second or even third careers?

A 40-year-old who got into web design after a lengthy career in print media design, if not some totally unrelated field, is often no more experienced than a 20-year-old who got directly into web design. I know this can be true, because I've worked with both types of people in the past.

And "often" does not mean "always", obviously.
The original code is also in the public domain, since 2009: http://cr.yp.to/distributors.html
>The patent system is the problem, not the companies using it to their advantage.

How do you think the patent system ended up granting basically everything in the first place?

Like with practically everything benefiting huge companies in the US, it's the result of intense corporate bri... lobbying.
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I have yet to find any solution to this problem that I like. A separate config repo is least bad of the various bad options. The others have all been error-prone and failed to play nicely with version control.

If someone could make git store all on-disk data in encrypted form with an ssh-agent-like solution for on-the-fly (de|en)cryption, that would seem ideal.
Maybe the answer is rebranding. Dolphin fish are named 'Mahi-Mahi' on menus to disambiguate them from the mammals.
"Horse piss filtered through hay"...say no more. In.
absolutely.. stop here! It's the system not a poor woman working for a giant money printing industry! Challenge the status quo instead of sniping out individuals.
Drupal is the Microsoft Excel of CMS, it's sufficiently powerful enough to store and present data for average users without them having to learn any programming.
The Gmail frontend is Java. The backend (mail routing, spam filtering, virus checking and parts of storage etc) is C++.
That's the one I thought of once I wondered how hard it could be. I was more amused by the idea of the question appearing in Businessweek and wondering how many of their readers attempted to answer it versus the average HN reader.
http://www.google.com/patents/US558393
I receive a "Did you mean: Sambisa Forest Reserve, Nigeria" when pressing enter
And that continuous pandering to them is what will bring the downfall of the information age. We are dumbing down our technology, where we should be forcing people to get smarter instead. But unfortunately, dumber is always easier to sell. I fear that, as the world depends more and more on technology (and people actually thinking straight), this feedback loop of progressing idiocy might one day undo us.
I'm not a lawyer, so I really have no clue if this is accurate AT ALL, but.. is amazon the only one who can impose the patent infringement claim or can the inventors also? I also ask because, if they are the people who invented it, and they can, it seems they have gone off and started a photo/imaging company... that's a little troubling no?
happened already ;) remember the guy who patented smileys? (it was unapproved later)

I don't know, am I morally wrong if I don't give a fu about patents, but honor and credit the original founder, IF I copy things? I mean like we've been thought in practice with CC
It's an ugly trend, sure. But I think there's something to be said for reporting people to their employers when your concern is that they're doing their job badly, where "badly" here might be read as "incompetently" or "perniciously".

How do you feel about filing complaints against cops for, say, beating up arrestees? What about taking bribes?

If reporting a cop for taking bribes is OK, why is reporting a patent examiner for awarding a patent in the face of prior art bad?

What about reporting a clerk to their manager for speaking to you rudely? Not only does this happen all the time, I don't see a lot of people saying hey, lay off the rude clerks.

edit: a pair of summary examples:

"X is a satanist". This doesn't impact X's performance as a patent officer, or really anything else.

"X couldn't recognize prior art if it was disclosed in the patent application". This directly impacts performance as a patent officer, and can properly be reported to X's employer.
Good point. On the other hand, this isn't a case of non-disprovable accusations based on superstition. What it looks like is a case of incompetence. Surely not the only one at the USPTO, but that doesn't excuse it.
What's with the url? http://www-refresh.vice-motherboard-test.appspot.com
That's a good point. SBCL at least attempts type inference though, so I often find the code is quite fast without annotations. But then I suppose SBCL with type inference is probably closer to a statically typed language in that sense.
What about storing the credentials in environment?
really? clicking the map on desktop maps should do the same thing as right-click->whats-here. it does for me anyway.
Some other things:

* Start in San Francisco by typing San Francisco. It still manages to find that city. Do 'directions' and type in Eugene, OR, USA - my home town, which is a fairly straightforward drive north. It can't find it and gives you bad results.

* THEY KILLED TERRAIN MODE! This was a super-useful feature that I still use on my computer, but can no longer access on my mobile devices.
Sounds about right. The sad thing is the Australian government produces great in-house software when they do it - but for some reason "outsource it all" has taken hold all through the place lately.
At the same time, you have to acknowledge that Mozilla suffered a huge backlash from its user base when Australis was landed on release. For the exact opposite reason you're describing.

I'm not sure if these events are related, but Firefox developers have been talking about this decision in the mailing list for a while. This doesn't come to me as a surprise.
I was thinking this earlier today[0] - do those gangsta dudes who write books, do they put the phrase 'do you know what I'm saying?' after every other sentence?

[0]: white guy who uses gangsta slang with his homies
Israeli company invents battery load in 30 seconds
Increasingly, technology has evolved to bring convenience to our lives. Thinking about that oneIsraeli company invented a battery with load in 30 seconds . You must be wondering, how is this possible?
Ah, interesting. I haven't played TF2 since the player marketplace was introduced. It uses to be either buy from the official store or go through some pretty shady websites.
> Do you people suffer split personality or something?

I think it was Marissa Meyer who said, "Companies don't do things. People do things."

Companies are just collections of people grouped together under some sort of legal structure. It doesn't mean that they actually all act as if they were one monolithic entity. Even at relatively small companies, it's not unusual for one team to have the authority to make a decision that later gets contradicted or reversed either higher up the chain, or in a different part of the organization.

I don't know if this is better or worse than average at Mozilla, but it's certainly present to at least some extent in any company of (almost) any size.
In our brave new world where corporations are people and money is speech (and freely convertible to political power), it is in the public's interest to scrutinize who is hiding vast sums of wealth(power) where, for what purpose it is being used, and from where it came. A "donation" of $1B has the power to change laws that put people in jail, affect industries that people rely on for employment, and re-focus research away from things that could save people's lives.

The more layers of shell companies, shady law offices, and empty "foundations" these donations go through, the more scrutiny should be applied. How clean is all this money? Where did it come from?

The public has a legitimate interest in knowing what portion of a country's wealth(power) is controlled by what kind of people.
Just imagine what happens if you implement a One Click over a white bakckground!
It's funny you would make a dichotomy between the "old guard" and the "hipsters", and blame the latter for the problems of the new Google Maps. If there's anyone on Earth who I can name as part of the "old guard" of online mapping, it's Bernhard Seefeld, who invented draggable tiled online maps when he launched map.search.ch in 2004. (Google Maps was launched in 2005.) For the last few years he's been working as the product management director for the new Google Maps.

If I had to come up with a reason why the new Google Maps feels worse in many ways, my guess would be second-system syndrome.
> The federal circuit ruled that an API is a "creative" work and thus is copyrightable. But is it really creative?

I don't think that argument is a winner. Take any man-made thing, you can find some creativity that went into designing it. And that's the point -- creativity is not the sole determinant of copyrightability. What would be the purpose of the Patent Act if you could get 95 years of copyright protection just by describing invention as a creative process? Drug companies use creativity when creating cures for diseases. Should the formula or process of manufacturing for the Polio vaccine have to be licensed to this day under copyright?
Hopefully it's not like the CIL (CLR intermediate language), which is competitive with Java in verbosity. E.g.

.class public Foo

{

.method public static int32 Add(int32, int32) cil managed

{

.maxstack 2

ldarg.0 // load the first argument;

ldarg.1 // load the second argument;

add // add them;

ret // return the result;

}

}

If you ever look at a disassembled CLR executable, expect to see a heap of lines like:

valuetype A* modopt([mscorlib]System.Runtime.CompilerServices.CallConvThiscall) 'A.{ctor}'(valuetype A* modopt([mscorlib]System.Runtime.CompilerServices.IsConst) modopt([mscorlib]System.Runtime.CompilerServices.IsConst))
Among the points already mentioned, I really hate the 'shake to report issue' feature. Stuck in traffic and frustrated, that thing comes up every time I hit a pothole. The thought that comes to mind everytime is "No Google, I don't want to report a problem, AT THIS MOMENT".

Overall bad choice of control. Much more sensical to stick that in somewhere fitting, like settings.
Not sure if anyone realizes this, but Drupal is what powers none other than whitehouse.gov. They even were kind enough to open source some of their tooling around Drupal. It is pretty neat stuff.

https://github.com/WhiteHouse/fortyfour

http://whitehouse.gov/blog/2010/04/21/whitehousegov-releases...
Java APIs are copyrightable
I got to use a Y/MP-48 (COS with VAX/VMS front ends) in the late 80s. Excellent learning experience. The professor offered something like 10 bonus points on the final for anyone that could solve a particular problem (don't recall which one) in a faster time than he was able to achieve. Having done the best I could, I called the local Cray office looking for help. It was a sales office, so the person I talked to could only say he'd see what he could do. A couple of days later, they called and asked if I could come to the office for a bit. Turns out, one of the senior compiler engineers was in town, and he took something like 2 hours out of his trip to teach this college kid all the black magic and voodoo compiler switches and optimization techniques that weren't covered in the class. Very generous and great customer service. I ended up about 12% faster than the shocked professor, and got my A.
Without consent: how drugs companies exploit Indian 'guinea pigs' (2011)
StackExchange treats me with respect, Quora currently feels like they are playing the old 'Experts Exchange' game of shady techniques and firewalled user knowledge.

I hope joining YC they find a more open way to do business. Why should I answer questions to build their closed knowlege base?
Do you have any experience with Database Supported Haskell (DSH) [1]? I've just recently found it and it seems very nice. I didn't have the time to test it though.

[1] https://hackage.haskell.org/package/DSH
Modafinil:

Pros - gets stuff done, cuts the chit-chat, and all without a hint you're taking medication.

Cons - life without it.
The future of Malaysia and world
This blog will discuss about future of Malaysia and world.
Here's an articles I came across that explains the structure:
http://www.unixuser.org/~euske/doc/cdbinternals/

I think the theory is mostly that it's really simple and ends up requiring very few disk reads.
Not long ago I did a Google Maps search (on Android) for "restaurants" in my brooklyn neighborhood... and got directed to the Restaurants.com offices in New Jersey. Effing pathetic.
Some people prefer to keep the keys on specialized servers when a) the need for security is especially acute, and b) the project has the budget.

For more day-to-day stuff, environment variables on the server are an option. If you want to be able to provision a new server 100% automatically and keep the credentials out of source control, you have a few options. You can add a quick interactive phase to the deploy script, wherein the engineer must enter the key manually. Or the engineer could enter a value which is then passed to a KDF.
How do you feel about filing complaints against cops for, say, beating up arrestees? What about taking bribes?

Oh, there's no question: I love being beaten by police officers! And bribery is good for the soul, don't you think?

Seriously though, using HN as a way of organizing large numbers of people to action against specific employees is probably stepping a bit too far. That's almost the very definition of an internet witchhunt. Getting these people fired won't fix the underlying problems.
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If we don't touch SS Retirement or medicare because lets be realistic if we want something passable:

We can reduce the rolls of people who need to be paid to 278 million people.

We can get 396 billion by cutting welfare (but if we do this, children get the same bi, and that's not being sure there aren't protective services in here which would need to still exist) at the federal level, we get $187 billion by cutting the people who don't get SS because they are old.

That's a total of $585 billion, with a needed sum of 3300 billion total (aka, 3.3 trillion).

This means we're still at a deficit of 2715 billion (2.715 trillion) dollars

Where else does that come from? (I'm asking, legitimately)

With the money I can see that could be freed up at the federal level, I see a yearly benefit of 585B/267M -> $2191, or 183 a month.

This is an equivalent (for fulltime job holders) of a raise of the minimum wage by 1.10 an hour.
I've said it before and I'll say it again. Mapping is too important a thing to let one company control the experience. The debate is not about whether Google Maps is good or bad, but if its bad for you there is little choice. You can't fix it. It's not a 100% there, but get on the OpenStreetMap train, fix your local area and have fun. And enjoy all the good stuff startups are building on top of that data.

Here is an easy way to get started:
http://www.openstreetmap.org/fixthemap
Twilio, ParseApp and Webflow based audition platform
Voice of internet is a platform where people can call a number and display their talent within 2 minutes. It can be either singing,playing instrument or whatever you think of. Once the content is PG rated you can vote by sending a sms to the phone number mentioned.
At least they listened to the outcry and brought them back!
APIs are Copyrightable
This article is an interpretation of https://blog.mozilla.org/futurereleases/2014/05/09/new-tab-e... and I'm not sure it's the correct interpretation.

My personal opinion (which might be wrong!) is that jonnath is trying to reassure people that 'Directory Tiles' is not about slapping random ads on the newtab page, and is not going to just ride the trains to release. They're going to stew in the Nightly channel for a while while we iterate on them and figure out how to make them useful to users.

What I don't see is an assertion that the final feature won't involve some form of revenue. There's been no final declaration, but my understanding was that the suggested system involved choosing sites that are useful to our users, and then going to those sites and discussing payment for the placement, rather than letting sites come and pay us to be put on the page. This is very similar to what we do with the search box: we choose Google as the default because we think they're the best default for the users, not because they got to us first or paid us the most[1].

If you want more details about the implementation that's going to land on Nightly, check out the tracker bug for the feature and the dependent bugs: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=973273

(And remember kids, Bugzilla is for input on the implementation, discussion about the feature itself goes on a mailing list like firefox-dev[2]).

[1]: Granted, if we choose Google and Google said "Hah, no money for you" then we'd probably go to another provider because we have employees to pay, but this becomes a more important distinction if, say, Bing wanted to pay us more than Google.

[2]: https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/firefox-dev

Disclaimer: I'm a webdev for Mozilla, and can't speak for the people actually working on Directory Tiles, only as someone who knows how to navigate Mozilla's public information.
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Wasn't this planned from the start?
Ah yes, the old "just doing my job" line. If people can't hide behind that excuse, they'll be more inclined to act like responsible citizens and human beings.

So please, this is not a witch hunt. It's merely us saying that normal people, like you and me, are behind some of the madness that could potentially affect a giant section of the population. Treat them like human beings, and maybe they'll take the initiative next time without our prompting.
This is beautiful if you want to print maps:
http://www.maposmatic.org/
‘We Kill People Based on Metadata’
USPTO Started Approving Basically All Patent Applications Again
Extensive discussion:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7719419

An earlier submission, but it got no traction:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7716130
> If someone could make git store all on-disk data in encrypted form with an ssh-agent-like solution for on-the-fly (de|en)cryption, that would seem ideal.

You could probably roll your own. A decent middleground would be to keep the data in the central repo encrypted, but keep it decrypted on the engineers' workstations. Though a better approach is just to not check in sensitive values at all.
Are you paid to look busy?
Beego – The Missing Manual
They could just put it in settings too and when you shake to show it there would be a button saying 'Don't show again on shake'.