skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What exactly do you mean by poor quality? Have you ever run the OS? Do you have a reference to some results that reveal some aspect of it that is poor?
I have to agree with you. The fact that he is going through Musk's finances, measuring how much money he can make by Tesla's stock bumping up a point, and stating that the publicity of this Oatmeal article will be measured (in hopes that it has a positive impact) all seem, to me, like a back handed plea.

He's also stating that the name / technology has entered the public domain so he knows that Musk is doing nothing wrong by using it and naming his company with the family name. I've got to give him credit for a creative approach to raise the money but it really feels ugly and backhanded. If it gets funded -- great! I just don't know how I'd feel in Musk's shoes considering it opens him up to future things he should donate to because he is using somebody else's work / tech to piggy back his way to where he is now: success.
I've been using Cmder(http://bliker.github.io/cmder/) for quite some time when I'm on Windows, normally I just develop on Vagrant or Nitrous using Nitrous Desktop, so when I develop I'm always using an UNIX terminal, Cmder allowed me to do so on Windows, it depends on Console2 and it's quite nice, but oh-my-zsh is actually way more awesome, if this works nicely I'll consider switching. Babun seems to be much more serious than Cmder though, the fact that you can update it using 'babun update' and you can create plugins and such makes it so much potent.
The problem with that is that the app on your device is usually developed by the same entity, meaning they could take your key and steal your coins.

What we need is to decouple the online service from the app on your device. Maybe someone could develop a secure app with a nice API or protocol that users can securely connect to 3rd party services without fearing that the key in their device could be stolen.
I almost got a 0 on a programming project for an intro to CS class because it compiled and ran perfectly fine on Windows, but segfaulted on Linux.
And get an exclusive car ordering system setup right in the museum foyer!
That may depend on whether or not the double-quotes are delimiters here or actually part of the name. He could sign his comment as "PG" or PG accordingly.

Though, by signing his comment he would break the guidelines (http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html).
soooooo good!! Thanks!
Seems like Bitcoin haters have reached HN too. All the comments being downvoted for no reason.
Surprisingly, not a lot more than 1080p video!

There's no reason the color and depth data produced by the Kinects can't be encoded and compressed in a "regular" video stream.

A very naive approach (where you simply stitch the images side by side in a larger video stream) would require you to transmit 6 separate 640x480 video streams.

640 x 480 = 307,200 pixels

A 1080p video stream, that can now be easily broadcasted to any decent household internet connection, has 1920 x 1080 pixels.

1920 x 1080 = 2,073,600

2,073,600 / 307,200 = 6.75

So the 6 separate video streams would fit just right into it!

I'm not taking into account some factors, like:

* The effect of existing video compression algorithms on depth maps (might cause some severe artifacts, since they're tuned for color vision perception)

* The fact that the depth map has a single color channel, and can probably be represented more efficiently than a full color RGB 640x480 image.

* Framerate (60 fps is probably needed for a more immersive feel)

But I do think it's very feasible to stream this type of 3D video in real time with current Internet speeds.
Exactly. Why donate millions to a museum when there are starving scientists (like Tesla)?

(And yes, I know the Africa vs NASA argument.)
I was stating an opinion based on my experience. I don't deny that tools like SciPy are very useful for experimental programming. However SciPy and Matlab are exceptions, where the end-user of the program is also the programmer, so the developer experience IS the user experience.

In most cases, when you are a professional developer, you are not the end-user of your product. In these cases, deliberately choosing a less performant language for the sake of developer productivity can mean you end up penalizing the end user.
Cache:

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:r4w8_HO...

and the paper:

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:mfQeoRS...

EDIT: Here's a vacuumed Scribd link to another PDF version of the paper (http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~nieh/pubs/asplos2014_cider.pdf) that hopefully won't go down:

http://www.scribd.com/doc/223946296/Untitled?secret_password...
Mac only? Why?
116 comments and exploding: I commented a few points on the blog and I will say it quickly here. I know what he said and why he said it because I said the same thing at the same time when I was only two years younger than him and I believe the same thing now.

He said this: Do not avoid hiring young people. They are great and terrific and amazing and full of ideas and energy. Give them more power and more responsibility. Just baby sit them periodically and gently guide them when they need it. Value them and utilize them.

Every other interpretation of that quote is just bizarre. Btw, when you are that young and have taken such a deep ownership of life and world, you see things other people just don't see, and one of them is the power of the twenty-somethings. And you might remember the power of 18-20 crowd.
Actually this kind of gives me an idea: what if modern systems decided to just tell people they can't use "p" so that people stop using the word "password" or variants as their password.

Hell, for that matter, tell users they can't use vowels so they can't make words. They might do leet speak, or whatever which is pretty easy to crack given time, but it stops things like password re-use attacks (people less likely to have the same password as their other apps) and simple guessing attacks (try top 3 most popular passwords on all known emails/accounts).

For such a simple rule set (no vowels) it forces a decent level of password complexity.
but but we must remember the dead. i for one would love to see a museum for Elu'tha.
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One issue for IT is having employees write down their passwords. I can imagine something like this would have the same effect and probably decrease security somewhat. Although, take what I say with a grain of salt. I'm not sure how prevalent having your passwords physically stolen outside of a closed environment like a workplace is.

There are a lot more variables at a job than at my house in my locked drawer.
Press 't' and search the filenames in repo instantly. Very useful.
Not everyone browses the web with a MacBook trackpad.
Why didn't phone have Q and Z? Everyone is mentioning that they did not have them, but I can't find a reason for that.
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While I don't play anymore, I used to play this game quite often. It is an absolute blast to get a few friends together, hop on a Skype call, and spend the night playing. Glad to see the game is still under development!
Jesus Jet-Skiing Christ. All he did was ask. Politely I might add.
What is the point of that section then?
I was totally confused by that spaceneedle site at first. Didn't realise I needed to scroll up. And once I figured it out it was very jerky. Chrome improved things a bit but it was still kind of frustrating to use. Nice when it worked though!
I then wonder if these passwords are even less secure since the backend system would have mapped {A,B,C}=1 at some point for the dialer system to work. so my password "CaB" would be the same as "cab" and "CAB" and "ABC" and "111", etc.
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It's not a good HN story, for the obvious reason that there's nothing of intellectual substance here. Someone is asking somebody famous for money for a museum. It may be a worthy cause but, in the absence of some other relevant factor (and I don't see any), it's clearly out of the scope of this site.

It also ought to be rather obvious why theoatmeal.com is banned, and the same reason ought to have prevented you from circumventing the ban.
what if the investigator is investigating astory involving salaries?
I think this article is exactly right. These types of businesses are not prohibitively expensive nor time consuming to start and leaner competition without the "rents" is always a danger for them.

In addition, companies like Uber and Airbnb will have to do work clearing regulatory hurdles leaving a "free" path for competitors.

"The early bird gets the worm. The second mouse gets the cheese".
I presume he's staying out of the way for a while to let Sam push his personal brand a little more. Hard for him to develop as the leader with PG hanging around.

That said I do like PG's essays.
When I clicked on 'Click here to find out' I was expecting some self-referential joke.
Not a rhetorical question: What's so wrong
with Web Forms?

Postback? That's really part of HTTP.
What the browsers send back to the server is as specified
by HTTP, not Microsoft or Web Forms.

Viewstate? Okay, it's a bit of a tricky thing, but
really can mostly ignore it. Else it provides a
somewhat useful service.

Controls? Yes, for each HTML 'control', there is
an ASP.NET class so to send the HTML for the control
to the user, get an instance of the class corresponding
to the control, assign values to the properties, attach the instance to a big
tree that gets walked by the code in one of the ASP.NET 'events', maybe PAGE_PRERENDER, and move along. Why is this
so bad?

Web Forms is my first and so far only
way I've written Web pages. Explain what
is wrong with Web Forms and what is much
better and why?
After browsing around, you're GitHub repo is a learning treasure. Thanks for posting all of that stuff in such a clear way.
I'm on a 1920x1200 display running chrome full screen, and it says "Whoops! Right now this demo doesn't handle resizing or browsers less than 1000px wide. Reload this page or get on a laptop!"

I don't think this counts as Done Right.
> The issue is that nobody is going to see it that way without actually reading the page, and let's face it, not an amazing amount of people are actually going to read the page.

The issue is that people in general need to be more thoughtful in general rather than spouting off knee-jerk opinions. That statement that "nobody is going to see it that way" sounds like an appeasement to the mob.

I mean, that same mob were the ones who were shouting very loudly about electric cars getting set on fire.
As far as I know Paul Graham has never signed a comment as or claimed to be "PG" including the quotes. OP's question is phrased in a way that assumes Paul Graham has commented as "PG" (whatever that may mean) before, so if OP was using the quotes as part of the name then the question itself wouldn't make any sense. And if that IS the case then, well, I really don't know where to go from there.
it was the simplest way to map 3 letters to each number 1-9 on the keypad.[1] that way you didn't have a few numbers with 4 letters and had a consistent model.

[1] my grandfather explained it this way back in the early '80s. I couldn't find a good link to a more official source.
Yes, that's a fair point. I agree with you.

PS: Ugh, not sure what I said that was so controversial. Always annoying to get downvoted for no reason. Oh HN.
Because OMG HACKERS. Seriously, why do we have any security on anything?
Are you sure that the article and connex ideas (e.g. Rousseau) really have no flavor of "modern humans and their artificial life are evil, while the good old savages and their natural life were much better"? I would connect this trend to some parts of ecology, and I think it is wise to never forget that Mother Nature is "amoral". "She" do not care a bit if hundred of thousands of being suffer and die. We do, and we humans have built ourselves mostly against and despite of nature.

Another example: you can't really have tigers and humans living too close of each other. A part of the work of civilization process has been to kill tigers so to let human offspring live. As much as we may like tigers (so beautiful, and endangered!), we still should prefer humans, right?
Cross-validation, separate training and test data sets, or AIC/BIC (AIC is more forgiving than BIC) if you can get a reasonable estimate of your "degrees of freedom". (For many models, however, d.f. is either not defined or intractable. For bagged or boosted trees, for example, you need CV or a test set.)

If you're data rich, you tend not to use CV but to have two or three sets. The reason 3 is better is because you ideally have (a) a training set for building models with known, fixed "hyperparameters" (e.g. regularization coefficients, tree sizes, neural net topologies), (b) a validation set for evaluating models with varying hyperparameters, in order to optimally select them, and (c) a test set on which you can evaluate the model for accuracy after your hyperparameters are chosen from b. Cross-validation is typically what you need to do when you have a small number of observations (say, 1000).
Interesting. I felt like you at age 25, when I was hit by poverty, uncertain direction, and health problems.

I'm 28 now, and feel like I'm getting younger as I age. But not quite as young as when I was 21. There's definitely aging there, I think.

The three things that have produced the biggest impact for me have been:

1. Barbells
2. Mindfulness + stoicism (Seneca)
3. Finally earning a good amount of money

The first one was the easiest to implement. Have you tried barbells?

Mindfulness I only really managed after a health crisis forced me to deal with the stress constructively. Money I can't advise on.

But barbells are very easy to implement. Takes me about 30 minutes, three times per week + a $40 gym membership.
It's at least available to view the source:

http://referencesource.microsoft.com/System.Web/xsp/system/W...
> If you only come away with one thing after reading this, let it be this: focus on the process. Don’t focus on your output.

That kind of flies in the face of the hacker mentality and lean startup methodology. The growing trend seems to be: focus on creating value; not how many hours you spent working today. And I must agree with the trend in this case.
One neat testing strategy is to artificially lower counter used to tier up. Instead of using 1000 for DFG and 100000 for FTL, use something like 10 for DFG and 100 for FTL. This will cause lots of opt/deopt stress and can discover correctness bugs which may hide in more normal executions.
I think this is a great story. It brings up some interesting (as in, ambiguous) moral and ethical dilemmas, with a secondary challenge to the myth that technology is "value free" (that is, "technology is neither good or evil").

Perhaps, when you stated "there's nothing of intellectual substance here", you meant, "I failed to see anything of intellectual substance here."
I take 1800mg of DHA a day and on those days my joins don't hurt. I do martial arts and that takes a toll on my knees but when i take fish oil they feel better.

Placebo? Maybe, but it works for me.
My absolute best experience has been with a ThinkPad W530.
Looking at some examples, all those \/ on every line are really ugly. Reminds one why the term `syntactic vinegar' was invented.
Hard to believe its "just a cult" 30+ years after her death. Rand held skeptics like Shermer in lower regard than the religionists. I agree.
(The submitter included a text description of the project, but those don't show up if the post has a URL. You need to post it as a comment in a thread.)
I can't tell if you're joking or not, but for the benefit of people who don't know any better: such a scheme would not meaningfully impact the strength of the password storage scheme at all. (To prove it to yourself, think about how rainbow tables work. Then consider how little additional work would be required to replace all Q's and Z's with the appropriate string before making the table. It's not much different from having a "salt" that's the same for every user in your application, which also doesn't meaningfully impact the strength of the password storage scheme.)
Out of curiosity, why? Is it because a standard screen hurts your eyes?
Julia is another dynamically typed language using LLVM. On the other hand, Julia was designed to use LLVM. I think this may be the first to succeed in dynamically typed language not designed to use LLVM.
Nothing, we are all being downvoted. I guess it's the usual Bitcoin haters.
I think what bothered me is that your comment was entirely negative about someone else's work without any sort of balance. The author of the blog post you're responding to was able to demonstrate that you can disagree with one thing someone says while agreeing with other things. If you're concerned about controversy, pure negativity can only add to it.

>I disagree that having an appreciation for love and family is related to being a successful startup founder in the way Mark meant his statement, except perhaps in the vague sense of, say, being happier and therefore more productive.

I took "the importance of love and family" as examples of things that, along with other undeniable benefits, come with experience. To deny the importance of those things excludes people who can contribute more than simple boundless energy.
Are you playing to win....or not lose?
why not hash the the password and encode it in base34? (36-2)
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As an academic work this would fairly clearly fall under a fair use defense, but I wonder how the recent Oracle / Java copyright API decision would affect any potential further development / distribution / commercialization of something like this. It seems at very least it would have a huge chilling effect on anybody who might otherwise have thought to attempt it.
ELI5 version please?
The Kinect is an awesome device, the only reason it didn't take off is because the game industry is extremely risk-averse these days.

The tracking issues are big, I feel that Oculus is doing tracking right by using a standard webcam, but then mounting infrared on device, that makes it a lot easier to solve "the dog problem" mentioned in the article.
From another thread: https://www.gittip.com/buunguyen/
This is fantastic. I just read through it and it is a fantastic diversion from the usual descriptions of category theory

I scoffed at the "we'll explain it in computer terms" notes at the beginning, but that caveat really helped.
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Except that 3 * 9 = 27, and there are only 26 letters in the English alphabet. They are actually mapped to the numbers 2-9, which leaves the question of why they didn't use 1.
I meant it in the sense of "will he ever comment again under the HN username of PG". For all I know, he might be commenting now under a different username, but if so, that's his business. Not mine. It has been a while since the PG account has commented. I was just curious if he plans to return to the PG account.
Yes, that's implied. However, it's my job to make those calls for this site.
It may not help throughput, but it will certainly help warmup and caching.
When I switched from an iPhone to an Android handset, I found that I not only had to switch off iMessage, I had to switch it off while my SIM card was still in the iPhone. Switching iMessage off after the fact didn't seem to work.
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Am I the only one who thought this was going to be a Half Life 3 announcement?
Or emailing them before they hash them.
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Site is down.

Demo Video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uaple0Ec1Dg

Paper Mirrors:

http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~nieh/pubs/asplos2014_cider.pdf

http://jeremya.com/files/pub/2014/03/cider-asplos2014.pdf

http://alexvh.com/publications/asplos2014_cider.pdf

http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~alduaij/pubs/cider-asplos2014.pd...
For me, chrome still beats this webkit and the latest firefox for deep learning mnist in the browser:

http://cs.stanford.edu/people/karpathy/convnetjs/demo/mnist....
One of my friends made this one showing the effects of increased mobility for females: http://www.tylervigen.com/view_correlation.php?id=2973
Nowhere did I recommend following the Finnish model. Rather, I provided a counter-example to the parent comment, which implied that the problem was due to a public system monopoly.
Barbells I've got down solid. I was on Stronglift's 5x5 for quite a while. Now I've been getting more gains from a hybrid zyzz's workout, with enough compound lifts mixed in. My diet could use some work though, as that's what accounts for most lifting gains.

I'll look into #2. Maybe that can help with #3. When I can think straight and focus, I can stomp my foot on the ground and money seems to spring up around it. Thanks for the advice.
Wait, you mean there's more to that page than a single still image (with title overlay), and it was a broken flash/overly-fancy-javascript that it looked[1] like?

/me checks again after reading this thread.

WOW. That's horrific. Not only does it give ZERO indication that there is actually content there besides a background image/title.

The scrolling is not only bad per-click the z-axis mouse buttons, as cnp said. This same nonsense makes Page{Up,Down} only "scroll" (advance the animation) like an inch. In fact, the only way this even seems to approach "usable" is if you hold down the key for autorepeat, which gives it a constant "frame-rate".

This type of intro is yet another example of a style of design that really wishes the web/HTML wasn't a "document" with hierarchal markup, and try to force movie/tv style over how it is seen.

As others have said - should have just been if a flash intro/video instead.

From the end: "Really, anything is possible …"

Ok, I made the zombocom reference in a reply below before seeing that - now I almost wonder if this is some sort of waaaaaay-too-subtle parody or something?

[1] Extra broken, because the site detects browser width and overlays the ENTIRE PAGE with a black screen that says:

"Whoops! Right now this demo doesn't handle resizing or browsers less than 1000px wide. Reload this page or get on a laptop!"

So because a potential source of layout problems, such as my browser in a portrait-mode-like aspect ratio and too narrow for the background image, it's better to slam the door so the user sees nothing? How nice. If I'd seen the "broken" version, I might have had to drag my window a bit bigger. Or how about "background: center 100% no-repeat fixed url(...);"?
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Why the hell would you put the new file into a popup that disables resizable?

(additionally why the hell does chrome honor that brain dead option.)
In my test, Octane numbers improved by 25%. Improved benchmarks are Richards and DeltaBlue, which the blog post already analyzed in depth, and Mandreel and zlib, which are asm.js-like.
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28-32 are great years.

you are mature enough to be a bit more in control, yet young enough to still be... well.... young!
Memo to Texas cities: Adapt or fail (Tesla, Uber, Google Fiber)
Correct Horse Battery Staple[1] is a good example of a good password with high entropy, bzzl123 is not. Something like that would surely do more harm than good.

http://xkcd.com/936/
Or too many end users that forget their passwords. Never underestimate the costs of supporting password resets for nontechnical users.
I assure Beyoncé would have drawn a crowd.
part of it is the time.
money is harder to get now then it was in 2004.

except for a small slice of silicon valley it seems.
Of course, that seems obvious. Elwell and I were having what I consider to be a fun theoretical discussion.