skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That would harm small inventors more than large corporations. A small inventor working out of her garage would be nearly incapable of capitalizing fully on a patent any sort of for a big-market consumer product. Being able to transfer patents allows the inventor to sell their rights and obtain some degree of compensation despite lacking production capacity.

The idea is just the idea. It's execution that matters.
I don't have a source to cite, but I think in general, Debit cards swiped as credit cost the merchant the same or maybe more. There are some recent court decisions that may have capped these.

High fees for this stuff is the reason by so many banks changed their retail business model to things like Totally free checking(when you make 12 debit card purchases each month).
> The opinion that art should have nothing to do with politics is itself a political attitude.

Or people just disagree about the definition of 'politics.' Once you get to a point where "no book is genuinely free from political bias," you've basically reduced 'politics' to 'point of view.' Sure, most books have a point of view, but that doesn't make them political in any meaningful sense. Or alternatively, if you broaden the meaning of 'politics' to include all the things, then you've diluted it to the point that it ceases to be an effective critical or creative tool.

Edit: All those 'you's are the indefinite 'you.' I realize you're quoting.
I, a male, don't bike for exercise because it's bad for the main vein. I wonder how big the gap would be if this weren't the case.
> the universe used to exist as a point and expanded from there. Everything we see, everywhere, points to this.

Yes but if I understand them correctly most modern scientists think that "everything we see" is only a miniscule fragment of the universe. The vast majority of the universe they assert is invisible and it's characteristics are said to be unknown to man. They use placeholder words to describe the vast majority of the universe such as "dark energy" or "dark matter".

If you hold to such a view then how is it reasonable to assume that science has enough data to draw any conclusions about the mechanics of the universe as a whole ? Isn't it analogous to the proverbial blind man who feels one small part of an elephant and assumes he understands what it is and how it works ?

To be clear I haven't been arguing against the existence of randomness nor against the existence of the big bang, because truly I don't hold any beliefs either for or against their existence. I'm just honest enough to admit that I don't know, whereas it seems most academics at least are convinced that they do know. My larger point is simply that science does not have the means by which to ascertain whether or not these things exist or ever have existed with any kind of reasonable accuracy.

Society just likes to pretend that we know more than we really do for political reasons and because it makes us feel more at ease in general. This psychological phenomena is well documented with vast amounts of supporting evidence dating all the way back through the history of science.
Not even a YC Startup. Any startup. I interned at a very small startup in college that is pretty well known. I learned a ton. Compared to my other internships I had I accomplished a TON more (and more was expected of me, which is good!).

At my startup internship, I pushed real code to real users on the first day.
At my internships with BigCos, I wrote code for 3 months and then I left. I have no idea if the code was ever used. I was never checked on and had to be overly outgoing for guidance. I probably could have sat on HN for 3 months and nobody would have known.

If you are in college or high school, you should be searching HARD for internships. Start early and don't be afraid to email people you don't know asking for help. One of pg's essays say something along the lines of ``take jobs when you are young that are challenging where you will learn the most''. Finding these types of internships can be hard, so the search is difficult.
Good post. I didn't do an internship because I didn't have confidence. I was at a top school and had good grades, part-time dev experience. But there were always much better guys (and gals!) around me. "Just 2 more weeks, I will do a side projects/learn something/whatever". Bullshit! it won't make the difference.

Deadlines passed, not much progress and I had conversations with friends such as "where will you intern?" "emm nowhere" "aw... me at Goldman Sachs/IBM/whatever". It sucked big time.

If you, the reader, are feeling the same just apply for your own good. A lot to win, nothing to lose. Being declined feels scary but a week later you won't remember that. There are better people, there will always be. But you are much better than the majority. Apply! A while ago I wrote a blog post about the regrets and mistakes on this topic http://blog.gedrap.me/blog/2013/08/21/a-guide-on-how-to-not-...
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Re: Get in shape - there's Planet Granite nearby, it worth checking out, signing up for some classes.

http://www.planetgranite.com/locations/belmont/bl_hoursanddi...
Haha, couldn't help but crack up on that last line. Glad I at least went 2 for 3.

You raise a lot of good points. I'll be in touch.
"Some argue that home distilling is more dangerous than home brewing, but I don’t buy that."

I buy it. In fact, I'm pretty certain of it.

But otherwise, good article. I'm continually frustrated when I try to buy beer on Sunday and they don't allow Sunday sales in my town. Of course, the two stores directly outside the city limits do pretty well from the law but I don't know that it accomplishes much else. Except maybe promoting drunk driving.
Wait, weren't you being snarky? "Don't you have to eventually make money to pay back those VCs?"
I think the key wording was "uber for bouncers" and "per guard". We're not talking executive protection or major event security. An average armed guard in my city would be lucky to make $15/hr. For $35/hr you can hire an off duty police officer. A quick google shows the mean security guard salary is ~32k in SF and 75% of $36k, so even with a 50/50 split a guard working 40hrs would be making normal wages and bringing home $35k a year.

There's a ton of small events (think a 100 attendee unconference) that may be required to hire security for legal/insurance/contract reasons. Many event spaces require you to hire security whenever alcohol is served. Small events like that where showing up an hour ahead of time is plenty to figure out where the exits are, who's in charge, etc. I could see this being useful for smaller restaurants/clubs/bars that don't have an established relationship with a security provider and could use this to call in security only on the busy nights.

Of course, I also see people using this for parties at their house/office just for the image of having a party so 'exclusive' there was a bouncer. People who need real actual security will look elsewhere and pay much more.
Yeah, things like http://www.fusionio.com/products/ion-accelerator#specs, designed to be a (not so) mini-SAN.
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I do see what you mean about the messaging and I understand how you could feel that way.

I apologize if it's a little aggressive, it's not our intent to belittle the work of others. We'll try to find the most constructive ways to express the tradeoffs between tools as we continue to refine our project and message.

Thanks again for the feedback, sorry if I come off as an ass sometimes.
Interesting that Cap'n Proto[1] is not even mentioned given that this library has similar if not the same goals and lineage.

[1] http://kentonv.github.io/capnproto/
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yeah for sure email me on liam@trak.io :-)
Yes, I have been thinking about adding .NET. Just want to be sure that there are enough leads. Shoot me an email and I'll let you know when/if I roll them out.
Don't mean to hijack the comment thread, but can anyone recommend any good videos that introduce machine learning or courses? I studied computer science, but was not able to take any classes on the subject. I found the Stanford one, anyone have experience with it?

http://online.stanford.edu/course/machine-learning
steveklabnik, along these same lines, I've come across the claim that things like map, reduce, fold, etc., are not idiomatic Rust. But nothing about why or why not that might be true. That kind of guidance would be valuable, especially since Rust borrows so many concepts from functional languages.
Japan has been engaged in QE for a long time. Abenomics involves more than QE. Recent experience (and older research, c.f. Krugman) shows monetary policy simply isn't going to make any real difference in situations like this. It's better than _nothing_, maybe, and might hold you steady, but that's about it.

That said I don't think Abenomics is going to be a resounding success. There's just not that much changing in terms of fiscal policy, which is the only thing that's going to have real short/medium-term impact. There's a little, and it's an improvement, but not a lot. So I'd expect to see small gains.
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In my case:

Stickers collected: 638/638
Money spent £585.00
Packs opened: 1170
Total stickers: 5848
Doubles: 5210

Took 80 minutes.
I wonder if there's a way for startups to systematize Adams's insight that "[e]very entrepreneur is now a psychologist by trade" by hiring professional psychologists.
Agreed, definitely easier if you are doing your job right
Can confirm founder is a subscriber of my service, Workshop. http://letsworkshop.com
I can relate. Dad died when I was 13, Mom and 3 kids moved to a single-wide in rural Florida. I was buried in books and calculators from the time I could walk to the library, but I had no positive role models. I had no idea of the value or importance of the PSAT and SAT, I had no idea what I would do once I graduated from High School. I lucked into the local community college offering scholarships for the top of the local HS graduating class, lucked into a moonlighting GE engineer teaching a programming (Fortran!) class, then started to work toward a State university, a Fortune 500 job, and a career as a software developer rather than a cook/kitchen manager like I might have been. I married a HS guidance counselor who by both trade and passion wants to give kids a vision for what they could have and don't see... and I have much the same vision. My real career dream, beyond getting to be a software developer, is to help even one kid short-circuit the journey I took to realizing their potential.
As a casual user of the various Office apps, the ribbon bar is what made it usable. Before that, I'd make every attempt to keep out of Office.

Those who use it with any regularity likely know the keyboard shortcuts for things they use regularly, and the ribbon should work for finding the less common things in the same way it helps me as a casual user find everything.
I don't know much about the american legal system but where I live the question of intent and the act itself are separated.
This topic would be well served by something like "katas." A series of code samples that look (to the noob) like they should compile, but don't. The series of samples would be chosen to walk the learned through the surprises in pedagogical order.
Thanks for posting this link :) Can confirm founder is a subscriber of my service, Workshop. http://letsworkshop.com
I presume it's been made with the author's own library: https://github.com/unconed/MathBox.js/
I've heard nothing but good reviews of the online version of the class. I took the class at Stanford (and actually worked on the system mentioned in the article) and I found its content to be useful. I believe that the online version contains less theory but this is not necessarily a bad thing if all you want is an introduction.

I've also found reading papers to be illuminating: often the first article about a given classifier is fairly well written and accessible if you have a strong background in math.

This is also a useful thing to keep in mind: http://scikit-learn.org/stable/tutorial/machine_learning_map...
It is interesting to see how outcomes of the CHSH game to generate random bits. However, I am left wondering how Alice, Bob, or an external observer learns about the outcomes of the game?

Or, maybe I am misunderstanding the mechanics itself.
The oddness is that Wacom is itself a Japanese company so even the 'original' products are Asian from soup-to-nuts.

So, why is that odd? Is this some kind of racist pseudo logic that claims asians can't knock off products of other asians?

I'm unclear on the relevancy of your Korean extraction or what you believe I am supposing.

I'm kind of unclear on the relevancy of this whole subthread. Currently, China and other asian countries are doing what the US did in the 19th century: engaging in rapidly expanding economic activity around manufacturing, much of which plays fast and loose with IP laws and also disregards or abandons certain aesthetic, design, and otherwise traditional concerns. "Asian knockoff" is shorthand for countries playing the above economic role in the early 21st century. As far as I can tell, you're sniffing around motivated by the possibility of some kind of racially-based knee-jerk reaction to the term, in a way that reminds me of certain people who are motivated by racially based knee-jerks.
Founder here, the thriving community behind the service is one of the biggest value points for members.
Poor critiques of disruption like this one are only going to come thicker and faster now that many academics are starting to feel threatened by MOOCs and online learning.

Critiques of disruption have been around for years, most notably from within the HBS faculty itself. Porter was quoted recently in the NYT as saying: "If Clay and I differ, it’s that Clay sees disruption everywhere, in every business, whereas I see it as something that happens every once in a while... And what looks like disruption is in fact an incumbent firm not embracing innovation [at all]."[1]

The NYT article cited is in many ways a much better illustration of what I think Lepore is trying to get at in this article, namely that disruption is not a universal theory of technology in business. That's a view I'm very sympathetic towards. Lepore ends up making the bigger claim that the theory has no predictive power and is only a useless after the fact justification for why businesses perform in certain ways. I think that's totally unjustified. If business theories were as certain as calculus we'd all be rich, but none of them are. That doesn't make them useless, and the theory of disruption certainly isn't so vague as to be useless.

Because Lepore isn't across the field in any detail, the article ends up being a mix of side swipes at Christensen and caricatures of people in the startup community. When you have to go through the bibliography of someone's book to find fault with the choice of a reference to a tangential point (as the author has done here), you start to come across as ranting rather than making a point of any value.

I think the second last page is revealing though, as the author (who is an American History professor at Harvard) takes aim at the application of disruption to universities. There's a big problem here, because most academics are pedagogues who love education for the sake of education, and can't accept or can't see that for most people, university is a job certification factory rather than a place of intellectual inquiry. I read a lot of MOOC and disruption-hate from academics, and much of it tends to stem from this problem. We're talking each other and I'm afraid it's only going to get worse.

[1] http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/01/business/business-school-d...
Large companies like Samsung probably don't just rollover because Microsoft shows up on their doorstep with a license agreement and a pen. I can see the case being different for smaller players.
Definitely applicable for any startup. Agree there.

Just please guys, try something tiny!
A more effective approach might be to maintain a peer-reviewed ranking of various large tech companies based upon their patent history and to semi-regularly publicly base your employment decisions upon said list.
The legislature that unwittingly passed an honour for the 'Boston Strangler' (used his real name, not that name) lends pretty clear evidence to the idea of legislative rubber-stamping instead of disinterested investigation and fact-checking.

Politicians aren't scientists, and don't operate from root causes and facts; they operate from manipulating social factions and perceptions. If they don't see something as important to their key social factions, it's not worth their attention. Honour this Albert de Salvo guy? Sure, why not? Do it and let's move on to the stuff I want to deal with.

http://www.snopes.com/legal/desalvo.asp
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There are plenty of counter examples cited in the article. And she also points out some significant flaws in the examples Christensen used to support his original theory. Maybe some people just aren't comfortable having their new orthodoxies questioned?
For me this doesn't render correctly -- the visual transitions just flicker by. Tested with Iceweasel (Firefox) 29.0 and 30.0 as well as Chromium 35.0.1916.15 on Debian Wheezy.

Renders almost correctly on Android Chrome on my Note3 (but the screen is a little cramped, so while the animation/transitions work, parts of the text is garbled/layered on top of other text).
its too bad this is made for coffescript, i would have liked to see it for regular javascript.
They're perfectly idiomatic operations on iterators, but they're not the one-and-only way to do things, sometimes you just need an imperative loop.

(That is, Rust borrows concepts from functional languages, but is not a deeply functional language itself.)
Thanks Sacha. :)
or an ISO/ITU-T standard: JPEG-XR, which they do support already?

http://ie.microsoft.com/TEStdrive/Graphics/ImageSupport/Defa...
You agree with the conclusion but are upset that an example which has been simplified to make a point isn't as nebulous as real life?
Fair enough. You probably want to make sure that you have something like this before people start writing larger projects in Rust but write them the same way they would write C++. Eventually, they would hit some wall and complain about Rust as whole even though it's not really Rust's fault.
I actually find the whole kata code sample thing to be entirely inverse to how I learn. I typically learn by principles first.

Others entirely differ. And that's A-OK! :)
I will certainly say that Rust is young enough that idioms are still forming, so beware of those who say anything is strongly idiomatic. Except four spaces, no tabs. That's _incredibly_ so. ;)

But yes, as they develop, I'll be encouraging the use of idioms directly in the documentation. My years of Ruby make me a big believer in developing and following idioms.

Oh, one last thing about that: iterators are way better than explicit loops in Rust, because loops have to do bounds checking, but iterators don't. So generally, iterators are not just better stylistically, but also performance-wise too.
It is indeed displayed on the front page, in vanilla JS, but that doesn't change the fact that it's not a very accurate comparison, providing that the point you're trying to prove is LOC. The React version also showcased attributes such as `className`, which Hamlet didn't. Nothing against CoffeeScript; just picking on the comparison itself.

Also, React is a view library, not a full-stack framework. The fact that it's put on the same level as other real JS frameworks is an acknowledgment of its paradigm's power and usefulness. So I guess people viewing it as a framework is a misleading but very telling phenomenon.

That being said, good luck with the project!
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Great insights I see in here! Nice post!
That's true, because favorable-normative analysis of "disruptive innovation" suffers from survivorship bias. However, as a posit-ive description of a phenomenon, "innovation" simply put, exists, and I'm not sure what "can be done about it" - after all, "biological natural selection" is basically "disruption", as is "the scientific method".

So what? Might as well be disruptive, on the off chance you do society a favor. If you're disruptive and profitable, odds are you're likely doing society a favor (marginal though it might be).
Yes, as you mention, the lifetime system is the big issue for newbies in Rust, and also a large part of the point! Revamping those guides is high-up on the TODO list.

I also suspect that lifetimes are one of those features that people might say, "I learned Rust, and I don't code in it, but learning about lifetimes improved my code in $DAYJOB_LANGUAGE." Just like how I think Haskell improved my ability to program in a variety of other languages, but I don't really write Haskell anymore.
I don't really understand why Microsoft is expected or obligated to produce that list for the public.

Because it's impossible for any small player to know if they're following the law if they don't know what the law is. In effect, undisclosed patents are like a law that someone says they know you are breaking, but they won't tell you why unless you agree not to tell the next guy. That's no way to run a society.
>Have you seen many airline start-ups in the past half century or so?

Yes, several.

Virgin Atlantic, Virgin Australia and Virgin America were all startup airlines that have gone on to have success despite being in highly regulated businesses. Virgin Australia was started in 2000 with $4 million and two planes and now has a market cap of $1.5 billion. It entered an oligopoly market with two airlines and cracked it wide open.

Even companies with gentlemans agreements are susceptible to entry by new competitors - even if it requires large amounts of cash - there are plenty of people with large pools of cash looking for opportunities. It happens so often that I am genuinely shocked that people think it doesn't.
Any word on whether / how well that Windows-only IDE performs on WINE in Linux? (Hint to Cypress: that Windows-only thing is a dealbreaker for enough of us that you really should address it.)
I wrote about this in more detail here: http://blog.seliger.com/2014/06/15/talking-about-progressive... , but one underappreciated facet of this dynamic is the extent to which the infrastructure we've collectively put in place to help people financially and otherwise has an enormous time cost of its own.

I do grant writing for nonprofit and public agencies. Virtually all federal, state, and local programs either mandate or imply that case managers must be hired or deployed. Each one of those people, and each one of their interactions, carries a cost. The situation is different from but still analogous to the one pg describes in "Makers Schedule, Managers Schedule": http://paulgraham.com/makersschedule.html .
While I completely agree with your point that there are things that are better shown then described, it doesn't seem that difficult to say, "The home button is positioned such that it is too easy to accidentally hit it."
Way to go, Bannerman! Have used them for an event and had a great experience.
In a general purpose language, every line of code is implicitly sequenced, until told otherwise (e.g. for each in parallel, do...)

In a hardware description language, every line of code is executed in parallel, unless explicitly sequenced.

QED

I think it would be interesting, or at least instructive, to try and teach the HDL version of thinking to an untainted student.
Depending on the day, 2-3hrs/project. I usually work on 3 very different projects each day.
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