skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That made me curious and did a quick profile:

25.52% camlp4 ocamlrun [.] caml_interprete
14.60% ocamlopt.opt ocamlopt.opt [.] 0x000000000016ec61
10.51% ocamlfind ocamlfind [.] caml_interprete

Looks like ocamlfind is the bytecode version too ... I opened a bug.
This is Microsoft Photosynth's function, IIRC
Could this also be used for a giant antena?
Forget the stigma that videos have to be paired with audio. A video is a convenient means of making a moving picture. They're easier on bandwidth, higher quality, and more flexible.
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The title in HN has a tipo, correct version "World Cup Curse of Maracana" (or "World Cup Curse of Maracanã")
F# is really cool, but the fact that it isn't the primary .NET client language does show. For example, Swift's mandatory option types are fantastic, and they're so integral to the language that they get special syntax support. Meanwhile, F# has an option type, but non-F# code doesn't know anything about it, so any actual use of the system frameworks litters your code with unexploded null mines.
> Traditionally speaking, Medicine and Law are doctorates... and they both rank ahead of the Doctor of Philosophy

No, while medical doctors and lawyers (civil doctors), were recognized uses of the term "doctor" for quite some time, traditionally the professional degrees in both fields have been baccalaureate degrees (the MBBS in medicine/surgery and the LL.B. in law), outside of certain Scottish universities, and the change to make the degrees generally doctorates were fairly recent (19th Century) US innovations.
The URL for one.
>It would be nice if one could tick the checkbox by, huh, clicking on it :)

Ease up there Jony Ive, this is codrlab, not uxlab (j/k)
Thanks for taking the time to give me some feedback. I'll redo the landing page to make my value proposition much clearer. And I'll get rid of my retro pictures, even though I do kind of like them.

In regards to the OP, that's just the kind of feedback I was hoping to get from my Show HN post. I think I only had 3-4 arrivals from that page before it dropped of the "New" page into oblivion. Maybe I was just unlucky.
The people in the meeting should be participating in the meeting.

The meeting needs a fast and accurate note taker to shorthand or type what everyone is saying and distribute those notes.

That leaves you free to make the important notes and mark your action points. (This can be paper or laptop).
Article is entirely about this site: https://onarbor.com/
abadonware typically refers to software where the owner is unknown or hard to track down. Not to software that the owner is still in business, and knows they own the copyright.
Many times a company buys out another company, and then gets bought out itself. Sometimes a company doesn't even know it owns the rights, and other times it is almost impossible to track down who actually owns the rights... That is abondonware.
I really enjoyed this piece. It lays out a line of reasoning I would certainly like to be true, but is it?

My start-up vocabulary is failing me here so I'm going to have to use an analogy.

---

In boxing, the most profitable fighter is not necessarily the best fighter.

A promoter will use an expert eye for the sound fundamentals of a great fighter at least as much to avoid bad match-ups for his prospects as he will to find those prospects in the first place.

Great fighters are not necessarily marketable fighters and their value falls through the through floor once they take an L.

What the promoter really wants is the right face, a guy with a great story and charisma, someone the people will pay to watch beat up cab drivers - he needs him to be good, but only good enough.

The promoter has all the resources to arrange the rest.

---

So, is the issue that the VCs are overlooking / ignorant to these technical factors of great companies or is it simply that great companies are too much effort when they can get rich(er) on status quo games of cash and connections?
Consult a lawyer if this concerns anything important, but I know at least elance has standard terms that all IP belongs to the person who hired the contractor.

https://www.elance.com/q/sites/default/files/page_pdf/legal/...

You would want to check they're not using code they don't own, of course. The agreements bans it without disclosure, but in practice I'm sure many elance contractors use GNU code without mentioning it.
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Excellent, you're open for business and I'm in the area :) I am a hacker and an ex-homebrewer (but will be a homebrewer again when my kids are a bit older and assuming I have the time ;) )

I'll definitely check you guys out! We're definitely getting some good craft breweries in the Twin Cities!
I just wrote a script (https://github.com/Glank/repeat_test) to see if I could catch these sorts of errors. It does OK. I looked for repeated lines based on their levenshtein percent difference. Then for those repeating groups, if the percent difference between any of the lines is an outlier it returns a positive result.
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All the economic gains go to the owners in a cooperative too, it's just that every employee is an owner.
If I recall correctly, the point of Singularity wasn't to have a platform base where all programming languages shared the same infrastructure, but rather to have an operating system that ran (almost) entirely in "managed code" (the .net framework's safe-execution system).

.net itself is what you're thinking of.
When version control was new and when dvcs's were new, there was a lot of controversy. And the period when something is 'new' and controversial can be quite long, but people tend to forget and history tends to repeat itself.
Also, rabbit haemorrhagic disease, which was investigated as a possible agent, then "escaped" from the lab "accidentally". Both didn't really work long-term.
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Outlook.com recently announced that they'll no longer be signing up for custom domain emails. Gmail too stopped this in Dec. ZOHO looks like the last man standing. Are there any other alternatives?
And ironically, death rates from obesity just crossed those from hunger. The abundance of food (or rather, abysmal diet culture) is now starting to hurt us.
I love dash; I've been using it for years.

A small wishlist:

- ClojureDocs: http://clojuredocs.org/

- Hoogle integration: http://www.haskell.org/hoogle/

- BroPages: http://bropages.org/
The most likely explanation is that knowing "relevant literature" as proof of "doing homework" simply doesn't correlate with company's success and investors would rather wait to see some validation from the market.
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Little anecdata that agrees with your sentiment: I did regular meditation sessions almost daily (basic concentration exercise where you focus on breathing) throughout my middle school and high school years and finished high school with highest grade average possible (that was in Vienna, Austria). It was even more surprising as the time that I felt was necessary to invest in order to achieve these grades went down over the years and not up.
Just because one particular superscalar processor can calculate the instructions in inner loop of the author's example in parallel doesn't make the general case incorrect: adding instructions typically makes the program slower. I think the author is not fair here.
I think some people thrive on being contrarian, regardless of whether they have a valid reason for it or not. I just can't decide whether some people do it for the sake of appearing smart (look at me! I call everything into question!) or because they're extremely pessimistic and/or skeptical in nature. The problem with the latter is that it almost seems to be expressed in online discussions to a pathological extreme, so I'm sure it shares something with those personality traits that lend themselves to trolling (at least to a degree).

There's an interesting discussion on the bottled plant over at skeptics.stackexchange.com [1] that covers many of these reasons, but in more detail. The crux of it is that we can't really prove whether or not David Latimer did or did not water this plant in the 40-odd years since bottling it, so we're left with taking his word for it.

But at the end of the day I don't think it really matters. He looks like a nice guy I wouldn't mind having for a neighbor and really appreciates his plants. Maybe he's spinning a yarn, maybe he's not. Does it really matter? No.

[1] http://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/15838/can-a-plan...

Edit: Someone already linked this 5 hours ago (I should've ctrl+f'd it), so toss 'em some upvotes [2].

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7858522
It looks like people share just the tabloid and sports news.
This is addressed to. Not all languages compile cleanly to the CLR. Running in the VM has serious tradeoffs as well. Garbage collection is a serious problem for soft/hard real time apps. Understanding performance is difficult too because the VM may be doing stupid things behind your back and you can't directly control things like CPU cache locality with this many layers.

Porting the VM is also difficult. It is a really complicated piece of machinery, and if you are in truly cross platform environments, getting the VM up on new systems is a massive engineering challenge in by itself. Often these other environments are CPU and memory constrained too which isn't great for the .NET VM.
Ah, you're absolutely right. My mistake.
Funniest thing I've read on HN in a while.
I think I wasn't obvious enough with the sarcasm.
So many great craft breweries, it's really incredible. I live walking distance to Dangerous Man, Indeed, and 612, have the day job near Fulton, make it a point to get to Steel Toe, Harriet, and Flat Earth. I wish I could get out as far as Excelsior and Lift Bridge more often. So many choices!

Make sure to introduce yourself sometime.
Gotcha - good point.
I actually respectfully disagree with this advice. Delaware LLC's are expensive compared to most states (I believe mine was over $300 when I filed plus have high dissolution fees should you need to dissolve it or transfer it to another state plus annual taxes) and don't really offer that much compared to other states with much lower filing fees for a business just starting out.

The main reason Delaware LLC's are so popular is that the laws in Delaware are very business-friendly. However much of this doesn't realistically apply to a business just starting out. If you're Facebook it makes sense. If you're a one-man consultancy with potential liability in the less than $1,000,000 range maybe not so much. As always, this depends on many factors.

I know the counter to this is that if you are billing $X00/hour, filing fees for an LLC aren't a significant cost of doing business. I'm just offering this opinion up because if you are just starting out you don't really want to waste any money you don't have to. I'd talk to an attorney in your state before filing.
Researchers such as John Ioannidis have been making an increasingly good case in the last few years that a substantial proportion of published research in areas such as the social sciences and medicine may be wrong or misleading, though.

http://www.economist.com/news/briefing/21588057-scientists-t...

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1182327/

It's a crisis worth becoming aware of and thinking about the implications of.
Doesn't careful research into safest bets and optimal ways to do things just end up opening a bunch of McDonald's?
fascinating. Here is a question, outside of the publishing aspect, why would one go with onarbor (or experiment.com, even) instead of more mainstream avenues of funding such as crowdtilt, indiegogo, etc. which take a smaller cut?
Anecdotally fits in with my experience. I always sat at the back off the lecture theatre (but its only 20 rows deep), and the people with laptops were almost always doing something other than paying full attention to the lecturer. I used to leave my phone in my dorm lest I end up checking out a tech blog and be completely lost of the rest of the lecture
The sad truth is that they are in it for the money, right?

If the market is rewarding me-too mobile apps, then by Christ that's what they'll fund, because that's where the money is. Why fund a cancer drug or space company or whatever when there is no clear case that that is going to make a good ROI (or succeed at all).

The perception is that VCs are the money-men behind startups that change the world and make everything better and create value and value. The reality instead is that they have to make money and pay for themselves too, and the surest way to do that is to bet on "safe" products and things the market provably wants.

It is a great shame that the narrative is that VC-backed startups are the best actors for positive progress--I don't think we could be further from the truth.
Welcome to the neighborhood. I live on 9th street two blocks west of the taproom. I was at the event yesterday. I'm glad you guys decided to give downtown St. Paul a try. The taproom is great and allowing people to bring in food is a major plus. I hope you guys are in business a long time. Good luck.
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> The current US government nutritional guidelines call for 6-10 servings of grains per day.

US government policy and science aren't exactly the same thing.
"just end up opening a bunch of McDonald's"

Never underestimate the challenge in an undertaking like that--or the profits.
Wow looks nice! Now if only it were a SoundCloud client..
One also has to look at the surrounding studies for context and plausibility, not just this one in isolation. For example, I think you are overcautious in your comments on nutrition data in humans for calorie restriction and fasting - there is in fact quite a large amount of support for both benefits and safety in humans, both in the context of augmenting chemotherapy and as a general health practice. There is further an enormous weight of evidence in various mammal species for the benefits of calorie restriction and fasting.

In the case of this particular item, referring specifically to alterations to the white blood cell counts and lineages, the human data only goes so far as chemotherapy patients, and not very many of them. Talking about age-altered immune systems is premature. It would not be a surprising result if validated by other researchers, as calorie restriction and fasting are already known to beneficially influence immune function over the long term, but the details here should be taken as merely interesting until someone else runs larger studies to obtain more data.
The Daily Mail is especially hated because it's a tabloid hiding under a veneer of respectability. It has a long history of pandering 'science' stories.

This story for example. Don't you wonder how the interior of the glass has stayed so spotless for 40 years? It has to be cleaned, but they don't explain how.

Maybe it's some kind of magnetic cleaner, or maybe he's simply opening the bottle up to clean it. It's an obvious question, but it's typical of the Daily Mail's cynical and patronizing attitude that they don't care to answer it.
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Linus torvalds...?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linus_Torvalds
Thanks, I am going to have to start asking people for their name and internet handle/username!
> Every entry in the food guidelines is backed up by reams of scientific references.

Just because something references science doesn't mean its well grounded in it.

> If the guidelines are well referenced yet can still say whatever Coke and McDonalds want, how can we call that science?

We can't. That's the point -- evaluating the merits of science by looking to policy that references but does not reflect science is invalid on its face.
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Well, it is both. Cleaning the water supply has drastically increased infant mortality and general health, which is someways is a nutritional advancement.
Uber raises $1.2 billion in new funding
Completely understand. I think simple percentages for the grain bill would go a long way to showing the character of the beer. Personally I've never understood the desire to clone a commercial brew, but it's certainly fun to riff off of established recipes or to get some inspiration for a new brew.

Next time I'm in the MN I'll have to swing by.
Were you a solo-founder when you started it? How did you build your team and find a cofounder?
In the lower grades, I think a case can be made that during the time they are in class, students should not have any other demands on their time.

In contrast, with college students, I don't think it's unreasonable to think that -- at least occasionally -- a student may need to "check out" from a lecture momentarily to deal with some pressing business, even if it means that he has to spend time later asking a classmate to fill him in on what he missed.

For instance, maybe I'm in class, and I get an extremely important email and need to send an immediate reply. Maybe I'm a working-adult student and my babysitter has just IMed me. Maybe I manage the campus newspaper's website and someone just sent me a report of a critical bug that I need to deal with right away.

This is all the sort of stuff I encounter regularly in the working world, and I don't think it's unreasonable to think that college students encounter it, too.

Being able to keep open a laptop to deal with things like this is a lot less distracting than having to step outside the lecture hall to take an urgent phone call.

Yes, putting away the laptops might slightly increase students' abilities to soak up the material, but (sorry, professors) sometimes the class you're sitting in is not your top priority, and sometimes that's OK. I occasionally had to skip class to chase down a hot story for the school newspaper, and I don't regret it a bit. So long as the student is using the privilege responsibly, I say let 'em keep the laptop open!
In formal, established companies this does exist: it's called "decision support analysis (or researcher)." Whether a particular staff person is steeped in academic research, which they should, and whether a particular staff person provides actionable insight and intelligence that big companies often lack is another matter. The problem is discoverability of results (because there is a vast universe of unstructured data and research out there) and applying it to specific needs: academic journal search (LexisNexis) and regular search engines combined with talented staff might work.

Sounds like there's a startup or two in decision support anyhow.
Postback creating a stateful web. The web is STATELESS. Event-driven, I'm MAYBE ok with. But the web is stateless and postback attempts to provide pages with state. So what happens is you end up with shitty programmers who write big loops for handling page submission back to itself.

ClientID's making javascript an absolute pain or a mess of inline asp code.

MasterPages with forms on the child. It makes things very...strange.

Finally, most developers I've met are just...subpar. I can't really explain it, they just are good at .net stuff but they lack understanding below the surface. And I should add I don't just hate webforms (I really hate webforms actually), but even the new MVC stuff is just not implemented well in real life, probably because of the developers using web forms before using MVC stuff. I think MVC is the right way to go, but developers are so completely behind its sad. You shouldn't bill yourself as ten years experience if you have spent those ten years doing nothing but falling behind on development practices. Its not physical time that matters in this profession, its all about your knowledge-base, which needs to be worked on continuously. As I said, most .net developers, are just behind (or even scared) of newer development techniques; and when I say new I don't mean bleeding edge, I mean 4-5 year old techniques. If it wasn't 2004 - 2006, it doesn't really get another look by some of the 10+ year experience people I have worked with.
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Meh. Just start doing things. Apple uses this code, YouTube uses this code (in the wrong way, I might add), it isn't the end of the world.
This is exactly the root of the issue with medical "insurance". We know that everyone will need medical care at some point. Insurance models work only in circumstances where the policy is rarely used; the concept is that everyone wants to be protected in case this rare, almost anomalous event happens, so they're all willing to put up a small payment to pay for that coverage in the extremely unlikely event that it will be utilized. However, in today's society, medical care will be needed by everyone at one point or another, and many people will need it consistently or in large amounts.

Insurance is absolutely the wrong model for something with this kind of usage pattern. The insurance industry is notorious for its antics precisely because they're one of the only industries that can only make money when they don't provide the service you're paying them for. The fact that medicine is so widely used makes this especially egregious with regard to medical insurances. They'll do anything they can to deny your claim because aside from basically accidentally having a healthy group of people in the insurance pool (due to the way corporate policies work, and the new health legislation), denying claims is how they make money.
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I haven't seen a blogpost about it yet, but seems like Cloudflare is under heavy attack recently that causes performance degradation:
https://twitter.com/CloudFlareSys
Any idea when it'll be all mitigated and performance back to normal?
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Seattle, local or remote, Full Time / Contract

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Contact: sean@seankelleher.org

Senior Software Engineer with 15 years at startups, Microsoft, AT&T, and Disney.

Mobile and embedded software architecture.
2D and 3D graphics for mobile devices.
Embedded real-time software, device drivers.
C, C++, Objective-C, assembly language, PERL, Python, Java, OpenGL.

I'm seeking a senior developer role in wearable computing, embedded systems, graphics, computer vision.
> Maybe this speaks to my bias against people who bend reasonable rules for profit.

I share the same "bias" (I would actually refer to it as "normal thinking", but hey…) and think it's a shame people in Silicon Valley have collectively decided it's fine to break the law as long as you can get away with it and get a high valuation out of it.

To take one example, AirBnB has clearly had a negative impact on many local rental markets via units being taken off the normal market and instead being turned into unlicensed hotel rooms, but their response has been basically complete and utter defiance to anyone to stop them, and this attitude gets applauded here on HN and elsewhere.
* Infinite Loop..?
Further more, what is the exact connection between academic talent and great companies? Is there a connection to the value and position a start-up can obtain with the number of academia oriented employees it contains? Is it even a positive correlation?
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What is the overhead (roughly) for this guy? I do absolutely love the idea of using elasticsearch for this instead of a traditional database.

Using celery or django-rq to delay the processing also seems reasonable.