skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So Mozilla is shifting (partially) to b2b consulting, then?
Hackpad is a good starting point for tracking but if you really want to know how well you're converting, and automate a follow up email, I recommend you try out ToutApp.com.

Super simple, super effective for this kind of thing.
Any chance of adding other coins, such as Nxt?
>> the Court not only did not address this sort of argument but it also carefully emphasized the idea that it was to "tread carefully"

I'm very much against the software patent industry, but in general, judicial restraint is usually more good than bad. Sweeping redefinitions of law by the Supreme Court that go beyond the primary issue at hand in the case more often than not have very problematic unintended consequences. While it would be great to kill the software patent industry overnight, that kind of change is better left to the legislature, while courts deal with challenges to specific claims of patent trolls. It's a slow process, but it's much tougher to roll back a Supreme Court decision with unintended consequences than legislation.
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> Where the Federal Circuit and the Supreme Court differ is that the former is reading it broadly, while the latter is trying to reinforce narrowing exceptions to the statutory text it created itself.

That would be a compelling story, except that the CAFC and Supreme Court came to the same conclusion on this case, both on the judgement (that the patent was invalid), and largely on the rationale (the plurality of 5 out of 10 judges in the en banc rehearing found that all the claims were patent-ineligible as the Supreme Court found, and a majority of 7 found that at least some of the claims were patent-ineligible.)
I agree with your first 2 sentences, but that last one is really just pretty lame. Not every agency is a sweatshop.
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At this point it wouldn't be cold!
Have you considered that your nicotine cravings are actually adding to your stress throughout the day, and the relaxation you get in the evening is simply from satisfying those cravings? Once a body is acclimated to a given cigarette use, the good effects diminish almost entirely but you feel bad when you don't get what you're craving. This is the same as a lot of drugs, including caffeine.
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Hey gdb,

I have made thousands of posts on Hacker News, Twitter, and my own blog. Every time someone emails me about one of my posts and tells me about how it affected them or reminded them of something, it makes my day. So thank you!

I'm not interested in working for anyone I don't already know. But no worries, I'm an easy person to get to know and with all this great technology, you don't even have to meet me in real life. I don't have time for coffee, but I'd welcome the opportunity to talk about our common interests and build (another) new friendship on-line. Who knows where that can lead us.

I encourage you to get to know me and others like me. I discourage you from using quick tips and tricks and showing others how to do the same. I embrace sincerity and reject !sincerity.

Thanks for the insightful post. Looking forward to talking to you on-line again soon.

- edw519
So you call say 3 methods, and at the end you have a "file not found" error... which call resulted in that failure? I don't know Scala specifically, but from what I know of most languages that support this kind of chaining, you can't tell. And that's the problem. Did your initialization fail to find it's config file in step 1? Did you fail to find the target file you were going to transform in step 2? Was there some other failure in step 3? You can't tell, so you can't actually handle the error.

This is effectively like doing this in Java:

try {
DoX()
DoY()
DoZ()
} catch( Exception ) {
// The code has no idea what failed here.
}

Whereas, the go code looks like this:

if err := DoX(); err != nil {
// handle error from DoX
}
if err := DoY(); err != nil {
// handle error from Doy
}
if err := DoZ(); err != nil {
// handle error from DoZ
}

This is what Go programmers means when they say "actually handle the errors". At each step you handle the specific failure from the specific call. It's somewhat more verbose, but it's a LOT more robust against real life failures.
I think just like any machine learning algorithm, especially with computer vision, you need to prepare things properly. More robust data and images such as moving window on image patches and image rotations, even going as far as applying filters like sobel for edge detection will make your algorithm a lot better.

Any algorithms have weaknesses. It's a matter of being aware of them and compensating for them in your model, possibly by using another model.
Not really. That kind of code complexity is simply not worth the tradeoff. You'll waste a bunch of time fixing bugs in your dual representation codebase. It's always better to do the simplest thing first, and then optimize if and only if it turns out to be necessary. In this case, the simplest and most effective way is to use strictly vector representation, because it will result in the lowest complexity codebase.

Modern computers are monstrously fast. So fast that it's hard to imagine just how fast they are. The more time you spend thinking about optimizations before they're necessary, the more time you're not spending on implementing features.

If it's just for fun, though, go for it. A learning exercise is always nice.
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I absolutely LOVE optimizely. But I have to say, to me the new results page takes a step backwards in terms of usability.

The table that appears on the top of the old results page summed the most important metrics quite nicely. I could immediately see conversion differences and the number of visitors on each variation in one place. Now this information is scattered across the page.

To compare variation performance for different goals you now have to click the show button, whereas before it was immediately shown.

Even small things like highlighting in red/green whether a variant is doing better or worse than the original is no longer used. It's a small nuance, but makes a big difference in my opinion.

I guess those are relatively small things that can be applied to the new design. I sent some feedback directly but didn't hear back (yet).
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Why wouldn't Steensgaard's algorithm be an abstract idea?

There is a difference, since unlike hedging (Bilski) and clearing house (Alice Corp) it is a novel abstract idea. But it is still an abstract idea, and logically, should not be patentable.

Stålmarck's algorithm is a similar case. Can't argue it is not novel, but 100% abstract. Parabix is another.
I would try it with Wine and see.
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Hi Clever gang, this hack is rather clever ;) I do a similar thing dealing with complicated relational structures but I child out to bash scripts vs your stream solution.

Is your stack coffescript? Doesn't look like generic javascript to me...
Adversarial examples are tied to a specific algorithm, they didn't produce any universal adversarial examples from what I understand.
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This is correct. From a tax perspective, this brings up a lot of headaches. Let's say you get paid $5000 per quarter (to make things simple):

March 31: 25BTC (price per BTC - $200)
June 30: 20BTC (price per BTC - $250)
September 30: 20BTC (price per BTC - $250)
December 31: 10BTC (price per BTC - $500)
Total: 75BTC

Now at the end of the year you need to calculate your income. You made 75BTC over the year, each of which was purchased at a different price. When you sell them to transfer them into USD, you need to keep track of _which_ bitcoin you are selling. If you sell one on December 31st, was it one from your first paycheck (in which case you made a profit of $300, which counts as income because you didn't hold it for over a year) or from the last one?

Simply buying BTC with USD from a company's bank account and sending it somewhere isn't difficult. To actually provide a service that doesn't leave employees in a tax nightmare they have no way of understanding is really what matters.

http://www.irs.gov/uac/Newsroom/IRS-Virtual-Currency-Guidanc...
Is Gene Quinn pissed at this:
http://www.ipwatchdog.com/2014/06/19/scotus-rules-alice-soft...

"In what can only be described as an intellectually bankrupt opinion..."

Wow.

He thinks it will invalidate lots of software patents - not by invalidating software patents per se, but the way they have been written to date. I'm not qualified to give an opinion, but I would be interested to know if that is a mainstream view.
Both the District Court and the en banc panel of the CAFC came to the same conclusion as the Supreme Court, it was only the initial appeal to a smaller CAFC panel that came to a different conclusion.

So its really hard to paint this Supreme Court decision as essential because the "lower courts" are not getting things right, since both the trial court and the last panel before the Supreme Court to hear the case got it right (insofar as the Supreme Court decision defines "right".)
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If you're in the UK, it's bytemark on the server and Andrews and Arnold for your connection. They're the only two respectable companies I've found.

Glad to hear some sense being spoken in the blog post. Everyone has their head in the sand here in the UK.

One more point to add: dump your smart phone. All smartphone vendors are external to the UK as well so loading malicious firmware OTA is permitted under these statements.

Probably sound like a tinfoil hat nutter here but there are a lot of people popping up on the amateur bands suddenly (I listen with my scanner).
I dont know if would be considered consulting for NYT or WP. It looks like they are all in a strategic partnership of some kind. The article stated in 2 years when the project is done it will then be available for download by other news agencies, this leads me to believe they are "all in it together".
It works fine with wine.
#8 is, indeed, beautifully put.
Yeah, but you're talking about Operations, not Production. You don't just keep adding new scenes to a film once it's done, or fix bugs. You make sequel if people really want it that bad.
Is the permanent residence just granted after 4 years, or is it a stressful process like the American Green Card one?
This post makes a claim, and provides minimal/no support for it. Really, the support is because it's a trustworthy source. But still, there's a lot more value in truly understanding the reasoning behind it.
Stan is definitely the project you'll want to follow if you're going to be doing this sort of thing a lot. It's built by Andrew Gelman out of Columbia who is an expert in hierarchical Bayesian methods and has done lots of big models for social sciences (and I believe was responsible for the original NYT 538 model).

Stan uses the really clever No-U-Turn sampler algorithm which will help a lot in highly correlated models (where sampling tends to take much, much longer to converge).

Edit: Also, if anyone is interested in learning more about MCMC samplers then reading up on NUTS is a good idea. The basic material there does a great job both getting ideas about Hamiltonian MCMC out in the air and also talking about how to do some tricky optimizations to the algorithm while retaining its probabilistic properties.
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Please please please use Mozilla Persona as the login mechanism. Pretty please.
the logo recognition very much reminds me of SIFT as opposed to deep learning

I like the stats they're able to provide, but wouldn't trust it very much without some confidence bounds...never know how many hard negatives may have slipped through
We want to add other coins for sure. We're going to get BTC right during the beta and then start adding other coins as we go. Maybe we could open up voting.
This game changes your screen resolution, if you don't want this you have to select 'windowed' in settings.exe.
I know, I meant more generally. I think the original panel opinion, vacated en banc, which required it to be "manifestly evident" that the idea is abstract is an example of reading the statute broadly.
That sounds like a reasonable compromise, but I'll need to see some studies before trying it.
Whilst entirely agree with Gregg's approach, I wouldn't use his response rates as a metric to measure your own response rates. Cold approaches like this tend to have significantly higher response rates when you are a company like Stripe.

I would expect that most of the people they are approaching have heard of Stripe and are familiar with their high calibre team. If the same people are approached by a company/startup they have never heard of, the response rate will be very different.

It's still a fantastic approach and arguably the best approach regardless of how well or little known your company is.
Have to thank/blame @buzzdecafe for that!
As an example, Papers Please is a game which has been technologically possible for... maybe even decades. Still a wonderful, fresh game.
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our site http://www.violetgrey.com went down because of this. Luckily we were able to reindex pretty fast before their backups kicked in. Any ideas on how to have fallbacks in such cases?
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You're absolutely correct. Part of our need to build this was to enable employees to have reporting for the BTC/USD price when they were paid in it vs. when they sell. The idea is for them to make their lives more simple in this regard.
In that case, I just came up with some awesome new minimalist wiki software: it's called 'plain text files in a git repository'.
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IIRC even the human brain has the 'adversarial' image flaw (these images will be unique to each person), but one simple workaround is to alter the input image via eye movement (which happens unconsciously).
Yep - this is what we ended up playing. Though we did just do it time-based, which also created a bit of a hit on productivity :-)
And this is why all this "cooperation" is a real problem. It is basically an end run around the legal authority they've been given in regards to domestic v. foreign surveillance capabilities.

Realistically, the only way to secure things is to run your own privately encrypted VPN in which all data remains or use PGP. At least until the NSA and GCHQ can crack them.
This is some crazy persistence and dedication to a project.

And to think my 5 years was long, 5 years I will never get back working on my web scraping project: http://scrape.ly
That pretty much defines 'art' I think. The artist is compelled to see the vision through, it isn't about the money or the time or the cost. I am quite impressed he stuck it through.

A long time ago (1983 to be precise) I started rewriting Empire, a curses based turn based strategy game (Hi Walter!) because I was convinced I could make it so much better and I had spent a lot of hours playing it. When I was at Intel working on a high end graphics chip I joked with one of the design engineers that it would be cool if you could see little armies fighting but we both agreed there probably wouldn't be enough CPU / graphics capability to do that in real time, at least not in our lifetime :-).

While I never finished my efforts (-1 for me I guess) I learned so much along the way, I bought Dunnigan's excellent 'How to Make War' book which was the bible for wargames at the time (and to some extent still is) and tackled path finding algorithms, and automated forces deployment, and strategic evaluation with limited vision, and all sorts of really interesting problems/puzzles that each offered up a ton of interesting insight. Bottom line it wasn't a waste of time for me, even though I have nothing to show for it.

I love that Adam stuck with it and got it done. Very inspiring.
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"Predatory pricing" has the name it has becuase its..not 'nice'

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predatory_pricing
MFA for all console accounts is the only right answer. If machines require credentials to do specific task or perform API calls then roles should be used.
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How about we just abolish slavery instead? Then we wouldn't have to worry about offending anyone.
Twitter's GIF hack
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The key claim, from the original paper:

> Second, we find that deep neural networks learn input-output mappings that are fairly discontinuous [...] Specifically, we find that we can cause the network to misclassify an image by applying a certain imperceptible perturbation [...] the same perturbation can cause a different network that was trained on a different subset of the dataset, to misclassify the same input.

It's an interesting outcome -- but there are many deep-learning approaches and many different benchmarks, so it will be important to see if this is a misleading anecdote or indicative of a systematic problem.

[1] http://cs.nyu.edu/~zaremba/docs/understanding.pdf
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The inverse also applies: if I get recruiting mail from someone who demonstrates no special knowledge about me that a Google search or similar wouldn't instantly turn up, it tends to go in the circular file without a second thought. And never refuse to tell me how you found me in the rare event that I'm still interested enough to ask anyway, at least not if you expect any further interaction...
It is instructive to note where FPGAs are used (and yes, they are used). For example, lower-priced oscilloscopes. Too small volume to merit an ASIC, too high performance to use a CPU, and too fast to interface directly to the central DSP.
> If machines require credentials to do specific task or perform API calls then roles should be used.

Even then, if the data must be considered highly valuable/immutable, then versioning/delete protection should be enabled for the S3 bucket(s) in questions. This requires the MFA token to be in the API call for the delete to succeed.
Yes, at first glance, that's pretty close. (You'd have to do something about `.getTime()`, as the original just did lexicographic sorting on date strings.)

The article really didn't get into the fact that these blocks of code that were listed inline would ideally represent reusable functions. That these functions would best be defined separately and only included by reference would have cluttered the article, but leaving them out does make it feel a bit like a strawman, I agree.

The breakdown of a task into these smaller functions is something I discussed more fully in the previous article: http://fr.umio.us/why-ramda/
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Anybody else getting this ssl error?
I think this is a pretty good approach to cold emails for a company like Stripe. If your company doesn't have the name recognition of a Stripe, however, the "if you're up for it, I'd love to grab coffee next week to chat" close in an introductory email is probably going to be a lot harder to pull off with most candidates because you almost certainly won't be able to establish that the value of the meeting might reasonably be higher than the cost of the recipient's time.

This is why in-person networking is so important for most startups. To make the most of it, everybody in the organization should understand that networking is an opportunity (to meet potential customers, partners and employees) and they should be prepared to articulate a compelling description of what the company does. It's a gentle version of "always be closing."

Unfortunately, you don't need to go to many events to discover that a lot of startup founders and employees aren't effective at communicating what their companies do and why the person they're talking to should be interested in learning more. And then they wonder why they have a hard time attracting talent.
What particular issues have you had with IAM? I find that the wizard is a good starting point for understanding the policies.
TL;DR:

"Some people actually advocate using Elasticsearch as a primary data store; I think this is somewhat less than advisable at present."

"The good news is that Elasticsearch is a search engine, and you can often afford the loss of search results for a while."

My personal favorite solution would reliably channel data from a Riak cluster to an ES cluster. Anyone knows if there is something like that out there?
Well yes, of course, but that's a case where (as mentioned above) the FPGA is a temporary for a final chip.
Yes and no. A small ASIC can be prototyped on an FPGA, but FPGA are radically smaller and slower than high end chips.
Can anyone comment on the state of these "microVMs" they speak of? I didn't realize Openstack went that deep in the sense that I thought it was just a VM management platform.
The larger problem with exceptions, checked or not, is that they interrupt the flow of your program, which is too bad since most exceptions are not that exceptional. That problem is exacerbated by developers who don't know how and when to throw exceptions and end up throwing exceptions for easily recoverable errors.
The other thing I dislike about exception is that your code ends up with tons of try..catch blocks.
Note that before this existed, you would have to go into Youtube/Google Maps/etc. individually to view your history settings. Comments from here (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6873032) and here (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7804350) show that many users may not be aware that they had history turned on, so a centralised settings page will hopefully raise a bit more awareness.
Abstract corporations are legal persons, but they are fictitious in the sense of relatinoship building. Relationships are only built with actual people, who may or may not have perfectly aligned interests with the legal entities they work for. This is both true in the instant (a VC might have more than one fund he invests from) and over a lifetime/career (that same VC migh work for various wholly distinct legal entities and /or transition between investing and operational roles. Similarly, governments and banks are run by people wearing multiple hats -- take alook at how many legal entities were inside of enron, lehmand, or one of the other TBTF entities just for some perspective. Other large corporations are likewise composites of various fiefdoms and P&Ls and are not at all aligned internally at the personal level.

edit: I didn't downvote you, but its just part of the picture that might expain something.
I would just beat the snake dead with the phone (galaxy note 3)and take it with me to the ER.
If you think ME is the epitome of storytelling in digital gaming, I highly suggest you grab Planescape:Torment from Good Old Games[0]. And grab a few mods to modernize the experience[1].

0. http://www.gog.com/game/planescape_torment

1. http://www.gog.com/news/mod_spotlight_planescape_torment_mod...
It was briefly vandalized, but restored now
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