skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
i think the only point in here that represents a potential risk to startup investing is #1 - declining GDP. Basically, if we run into a recession, the risk is that asset values decline based on negative projected growth. when asset values decline, startup values decline even harder, since they are a risky/"high beta" asset.

The rest of these charts are basically the background on the decline-and-fall of america, and I would say only tangentially relate to the startup ecosystem.

the most important chart that you left out was the stock price of Facebook, which is riding/causing a wave of investor (and corporate) enthusiasm for all things social, which in turn benefits the startup eco system because they buy lots of companies, and drive the hype that a given company could be the "next" facebook or sell to them.

Facebook (more so than google) seems appropriate for ecosystem barometer because:

* they do the most audacious acquisitions, with due diligence that consists of weekend meetings eating strawberries - $17bn for whatsapp, etc.

* Facebook is valued at $170 billion dollars, based on selling ads which I've never seen (because i use adblock+) and peddling to brands i also never engage with (because i only use FB to keep up with friends). that seems unsustainable IMHO.
So, would you consider a site where you can click a button and have a DDOS attack launched for you to be illegal? Because that's exactly what's being referred to here, "DDOS-as-a-service".
Bohmian mechanics is not classical mechanics. The wave is guiding the particles. If quantum computing is based on the standard quantum formalism then it is also present in Bohmian mechanics. That's a proven fact.

So quantum computing is rather orthogonal to this.
Their status twitter is interesting, they aren't going into any details as to why their service stopped working, and they haven't made any statements about the accusations against them.

https://twitter.com/NoIPStatus
They need to fix the bugs that are being exploited by hackers. If major corporate customers are still receiving fixes why can't they be extended to every one else? After all it is the same software everyone is running.
Is this not a clear case of Fraud & Mis-representation?
If a person had pulled this kind of stunt you would see criminal chrges flying all over the place ..Why are bank executives at Barclays not going to jail over this?
I started programming using a copy of vintage 1998ish Visual Basic that my dad had on our computer. I drew a button, and then I clicked it, and I added code that gets run when the button is clicked. That was awesome! I built useful, visual programs in a matter of hours from when I started.

Now, I want to teach a friend, and it's Python + HTML + CSS + JavaScript to get anything cool going. That's a high bar, and a huge part of me misses the sweet simplicity of VB. I can't imagine breaking in today.
> But those same technological advances invent new goods and services for an ever increasing population.

While I'd agree this has been the case historically, I'd argue this is no longer the case.

> While it's tough luck for the 99 workers who are not in a position to learn new skills, the bet is that tech advancing will create more economic opportunities for the next generation (while improving the quality of life) and upgrading society like 'aging up' in Age of Empires or Civilization.

Seems like a pretty big bet to take.

Where are ~4 million drivers going to go when self-driving cars roll out? Bus boys? Service jobs? Technology is going to saturate the labor market with surplus labor (that labor having been automated away). History has shown us this does not end well.
What kind of a thug do you have to be to think like this?
Bring it back to the scientific method. The way to differentiate between competing hypotheses is by devising experiments that falsify some of them, and then running the experiments and either falsifying or failing to falsify them.

The issue here is subtle, and it's that the most popular interpretation, Copenhagen, isn't a complete theory because it doesn't tell you algorithmically when collapse occurs. For any possible algorithmic way to handle collapse, there's a corresponding experiment that could (at least in theory) differentiate between Copenhagen and Many Worlds. But the Copenhagen is inordinately slippery in that collapse is defined to occur ex post facto in whatever way is needed to make the experimental results match the theoretical results.

It's perhaps not so surprising that this shortcoming was overlooked in the beginning because Copenhagen was hypothesized before we really had a clear handle on the study of algorithms. But the fact that Copenhagen is still as popular as it is means that Yudkowski needs to spend a lot of time on philosophy of science, because that's what's holding back most people from seeing the problems with Copenhagen, and why at first glance it looks like philosophy.
Yes, you would rather trade in the clown pool. But isn't the problem that the sell-side doesn't just fleece the clowns, but also enables the clowns to trade at the rate they expect to trade at?
RoboVM 0.0.14 has been released with initial Java on iOS 8 support
It's interesting that they make the point that congestion pricing will induce people to take alternate routes.

The recent update to Google Maps seems to do the same thing. It's much more proactive now about suggesting alternate routes. Here in Seattle, I recently bypassed I-5 by taking an astonishingly complex and twisty route that was all prompted by Google Maps, and I got to my destination five minutes sooner than Google was estimating I would had I stayed on I-5 (although that's impossible to verify since traffic congestion changes throughout the duration of a drive).

All that said, while it was fun (also especially when I avoided a Tacoma I-5 snarl that I hadn't previously known how to avoid), I don't think we actually want to redirect highway drivers onto local streets. Local streets aren't designed for highway overflow; they're designed for local traffic.

Isn't the real answer to design more decentralized town areas so people have less reason to drive long distances, for reasons other than recreation?
But there is an important difference - you can observe the other stuff in our universe and therefore know that we are not (exceptionally) special in our universe. Other universes are usually per definition completely outside of our reach, as hard to grab as a god or Russell's teapot.
I submitted this to https://cryptanalys.is. Its like HN but for crypto-savvy bitcoin geeks. Nice find though, thanks for the share!
I think you have a point. We took "open source" out of the title as misleading, since the project apparently isn't there yet.
Correlation may not imply causation, but non-correlation is pretty strong evidence for non-causation.
This actually makes sense in an unintuitive way.
The government seizing a domain is one thing, but a publicly traded company taking on this authority is a new low.
Why would you expect them to be talking about this?
I'm pretty sure it would be easy to predict the spikes in usage. In the mornings people mostly want cars near their homes to take them to work. In the afternoon/evening they want cars near work to take them home.

Even without knowing this it's pretty obvious that if you have a large portion of users heading to one area (increasing the density of users in that area) they'll probably want to leave that area or move around it so you should have a higher density of cars in that area even if they aren't all being used.
Of course, the patent examiner would almost definitely not see the post in their shallow searches for prior art. The patent would get issued, and then it would cost near to the tune of $1million to invalidate it using the court system. Yay patents.
This is old material, right? Or is Knuth publishing a new fascicle?
I agree that it will happen before B equals D but no one knows the tipping point ratio. In theory, a government can always argue right up to that point that, "we'll grow our way out of this."
Some interesting thoughts on better ideas here: http://bleedingheartlibertarians.com/2014/06/why-living-on-t...
Zipcar is fail because you pay as long as the car is away from its original "home" parking spot. Why can't I drive it to another Zipcar spot in front of the mall? For example instead of paying just for the 15 minutes it takes to drive there, I have to pay for the drive time plus the time it sits in the parking lot for 3 hours while I shop. Fifty dollars, no thanks.
WebODF v0.5.0 released: Collaborative editor API and touch support included
Really nice work, I use their website every day and I might just switch over to this.
I think a lot of these "not legal advice" disclaimers are overkill.
You can't get proper "legal advice" from a blog. You get legal advice when you hire a lawyer. A blog might be full of accurate and useful legal information, but that doesn't make it "legal advice" in the sense that you can sue the blogger for legal malpractice.

Maybe I'm wrong here, but has anyone actually seen such a lawsuit?
>>The really important thing here is to understand that Pilot Wave isn't a real wave/object. It is just a description of possible positions of the particle at specific times.

Is it possible that pilot waves are ripples in space-time? We should not make strong assertions especially when a theory is young. You make it sound like nothing more than the a regular QM wave function.
Nice work! If only I wasn't using Nuvola Player http://nuvolaplayer.fenryxo.cz/home.html
Paper in short: http://download.repubblica.it/pdf/2014/scienze/science-xpres...

Paper in full: http://arxiv.org/abs/1404.4369

To the physicists among the us, please share your opinion on the paper with the rest of us.

It's not easy to digest the paper. The finding is not only going to change finance, but also the whole data economy will speed up. Now 'Quants' can be located anywhere and everyone has can enjoy same advantage of datacenter-closeness, evening out the prestigious role of the select few. Well, not really. It's going to take quite some time until the mid-class can access this technology unless, someone finds out a way for mass-production. That would be stellar.

That's it. I hate nobody with a rational mind of whatever kind, but naysayers really itch me.
For My Brother: A game about becoming a monster to protect somebody you love.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/859254890/for-my-brother
The thing that really frustrates me about the Internet Archive's treatment of robots.txt: if a domain expires and the domain provider changes the robots.txt to something restrictive, the Wayback Machine will completely clear the history of the site. Even though it's very clearly not the same agent at play-- this is not the creator of the site's content. I've seen it happen, and it breaks my heart every time.
To add another resource to the list, I gave an introductory talk to bacon.js and FRP last year which has similar diagrams to these which I animated with d3 if anyone'a interested: http://vimeo.com/m/68987289
Well yeah. My point is simply that if Barclays had really managed to achieve what the chart appears to show without compromising execution rate (probably impossible), their clients would have been happy rather than insulted.
Unfair to name & shame a private entity that doesn't want it's content to be archived.
It's just plain outrageous that this court order was granted. It essentially puts no-ip out of business when they were not complicit in anything illegal.

It took me 5 minutes to switch my completely legitimate hosts over to ddns.net. I'm sure the evil botnet owners have backup hostnames and will do the same, or more likely switch to another provider entirely.

The end result will be a short-lived dip in criminal activity over the next 72 hours or so, inconveniencing many thousands of legit users, and putting a completely innocent company out of business. Nice move, MS.
well, before computing involved massive business interests, I guess things were a little healthier.

Now all companies start something, grab a piece of market share, and lock up everything to make sure programmers will only extend their market share, not the one of competitors. There might be research, but nothing really new lands into the hands of programmers so that they can improve their productivity.

It's like the screwdriver, the hammer were invented, made popular, but other new, time saving tool really appears for a century after.

In my view there is a gap between the goal of investors, and the role of engineers. It's a common situation in any industry. When something is invented, it rarely evolves out of a well oiled business model. Once the technology becomes popular, you can't improve it anymore, it's too late because it's just too hard to bring new things to large markets.
The ignorant swipe at Haskell irked me, but "programmers have become plumbers and documentation-archaeologists mostly, which is sad and uninteresting" resonated strongly as a description of much of the workday grind.
As a former Ruby developer: Please for the love of all that is holy do not make SBT more "Ruby-ish". Rubygems, Bundler, RVM and friends don't do anything SBT doesn't already do. And SBT does it with less set up and ceremony, fewer tools, more reliability, and less DSL "magic".

Rake is a cancer. SBT Tasks are far from straightforward, but they're certainly no more complex once you start throwing in dependencies. Tasks could use some work. But dependencies, project definitions, build settings, cross compilation, all light years ahead of anything in Ruby-land.
The bigger opportunity might be in traffic management. If a control system tries to get humans to do things, they will cheat at nearly every opportunity. Computer guided cars can be programmed to cooperate a little more.

If everything is networked, dynamic tolls also become easier. I guess a lot of people react badly to the concept, but it creates the ability to simply prevent heavy congestion.
We already know that these agencies carry out real mitm attacks on users regularly. We already asked them pointed questions as to why they do this. The reality is that they don't care yet. They have near complete legal freedom to carry out these attacks.

Maybe OE would raise more eyebrows? I don't really think anyone will even care if the NSA are caught spying on your cobbled together private Web mail server. The applications that OE will be deployed on just aren't politically sensitive enough IMO.

I don't think OE will likely make anything worse. I just don't think it will actually achieve anything. I'm certainly not going to tell someone who can't use a CA cert not to deploy it though.
Which ever way you cut it technically speaking Microsoft runs the biggest botnet because they have control all the computers running Windows upgrade, and if they can't shut them down, they might as well fix them.

Whether you like it or not for better or worse a botnet is an economic resource whose value is not lost on Microsoft and sooner or later they are going to come up with a wheeze to exploit them.
The clearest version of Many Worlds that I have seen is from the "Bohmians": http://arxiv.org/pdf/0903.2211.pdf

Basically, you get a mass density on physical space by integrating over the wave function. Then you have correlations of changes in the mass density. Reality becomes a bit like fuzzy tv reception with overlapping channels.

There is no splitting of the universe or any other nonsense.

I still don't like the theory, but at least it is a well-defined theory.
I don't understand why every result is stored into the same class-level variable. What's the aim behind that? It just seems like it would introduce unexpected behaviour without any gain, but I don't really know swift yet so maybe there's something I'm missing?
However a number of futures markets used to have rules that the size of the market positions of speculators weren't allowed to exceed the size of the market positions of the buyer / sellers; this was to prevent the speculators driving the market rather than the buyers / sellers. The most famous of these is probably the position limits imposed by the Commodity Exchange Commission (forerunner of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission) in 1938 on the commonly traded grains. In most countries these limits have been removed over the last 20 years or so. The debate on the necessity of such limits is still ongoing...
PluginBase – a module for building plugin systems in Python
> having such features in the standard library makes a big difference for a newcomer.

And not just for the newcomer. The biggest benefit is that your dependencies and your dependencies dependencies can all compose better when they're all using the same standard implementation of feature X.

The extreme case of this problem was c++ in the bad old days when lots of organizations were writing their own String libraries. Inevitably, you'd add a dependency that pulled in yet another incompatible string implementation.
This is old material, from Volume 2. What's new is the recently-published electronic editions, and, I guess, publishing some excerpts in online article form, like this one here.
Interest doesn't get come out of the GDP, only the Government pays it.
Nah bro. You can try their demo account. The login is 'edemo/demouser' and you can use it via their API as well. The only issue is that the demo account is not persistent, so you'll lose your positions the next trading day lol. Plus there are tons of peeps sharing the account trying to test their trading bot as well after-hours. But if you're just doing daytrading QA, it's pretty good.
Because money is power.
I have been contemplating Julian Barbour's work which has a frame of reference in it. This would make it natural as to what the "now" of Bohmian mechanics would be. That "now" is the mystery at the moment.
That doesn't dispute my point at all. I'm not worried about the payments now. I'm worried about the payments if interest rates go up.

And we shouldn't be surprised if rates go up substantially, because they are at historic lows right now.
Pure CSS 3D Camera Animation
This all makes sense. Regrettably, the Verizon salesman did not explain it to me this way, and presented it as a penalty due to my low credit score. It seemed believable, too, because it wasn't that interesting of a phone. This was in circa 2002; $100 seemed like a decent price for the phone I was trying to buy -- $600 did not.

Oh well. Thanks for your comment!
I am writing a game engine in Scheme that uses FRP. My implementation may not be robust since I'm the only user, but perhaps seeing what it can do will help someone. My implementation was heavily inspired by Elm.

Blog post with screencast to demonstrate:

http://dthompson.us/functional-reactive-programming-in-schem...

Implementation details:

https://gitorious.org/sly/sly/source/8cf0096791821c7711c9dc2...

2048 clone written in a reactive style:

https://gitorious.org/sly/sly/source/8cf0096791821c7711c9dc2...

Reading the explanation from the Elm folks is what made things click for me:

http://elm-lang.org/learn/What-is-FRP.elm

Edit: Also, SICP has 2 sections that describe systems that are reminiscent of reactive programming systems.

A Simulator for Digital Circuits:

https://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/full-text/book/book-Z-H-22.htm...

Propagation of Constraints:

https://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/full-text/book/book-Z-H-22.htm...
I think I can agree with your first paragraph, even if I'd phrase it somewhat differently, but I don't see the connection between it and the next two.
I'd like to say DIY ovens are hard; don't even attempt it :) but if you are interested in really good pizza, pita, bagels, and ciabatta all you need is a conventional oven modded basically like this[0]. Also a baking stone is required. SV takes too long, is it worth it?

[0] http://www.instructables.com/id/Hack-a-Toaster-Oven-for-Refl...
You made a very specific claim:

When you actually conduct the experiment -- a randomized controlled trial where you give some poor people cash and others in-kind services, the cash group outperforms.

None of the above links appear to support it. Please let me know if I'm mistaken, otherwise please do provide a relevant citation. Like many others here, I'm genuinely interested in learning about such a study.
"On the positive side, but as you’d expect with near-zero rates, US equities are at record levels." I'm no so sure this should be on the positive side. Those equities are artificially inflated by central bank (indirect) manipulation. Those prices might not reflect the real value of the underlying assets and could collapse, which would once again put the whole financial system at risk.
Volume 2, third edition came out in 1997 http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~uno/taocp.html
If Barclays was displaying resting orders to HFTs in LX, the AG wouldn't beat around the bush about it in the complaint. It would have been the headline issue. Doesn't seem likely that was the case.
While taxis are one likely use for these cars I expect they'll also replace existing car share/co-op programs. I used to live in an urban area where I didn't need a car 99% of the time. I was in a co-op so I could book a car for a few hours the other 1% of the time. I don't see anything preventing someone from booking an autonomous car for a few hours while they get all of their shopping done. This type of use can also replace a second car for some families.
Ripples in space-time are gravitational waves. It could be a real wave but the danger is that one introduces a preferred references frame. Not that it would be the end of physics but it would surely be a big surprise.
>> But those same technological advances invent new goods and services for an ever increasing population.

>While I'd agree this has been the case historically, I'd argue this is no longer the case.

Better kill ourselves now, we've reached the End of History.
I don't commute.
This is actually really dangerous advice in my opinion. While it's important to define performance expectations, performance can be subjective and this agreement could leave well performing founders in a bad spot.

Seek proper legal advice, please. You get what you pay for.
It is supposed to provide a unique identifier for all packages in all applications, allowing you to mix code from multiple packages without namespace collisions.

From http://docs.oracle.com/javase/specs/jls/se5.0/html/packages.... :

> The suggested convention for generating unique package names is merely a way to piggyback a package naming convention on top of an existing, widely known unique name registry instead of having to create a separate registry for package names.
Of course a court can seize domains. But if an investigation follows, it should be carried out by the police, not by private companies (and especially not by the plaintiff).

At least that's what I'd expect from a constitutional state ;-)
This decision is very disturbing indeed.
Downvoted you. And Apple should be providing free updates to people still using 10.1 Puma.

- signed, owner of an iMac, two rMBPs, two iPhone 5Ss, two iPad Airs and an Apple TV (no Microsoft brown-nose here).
The newest, shiniest gadgets? Like generics? You're kidding right?

Like putting words into people's mouths as a discussion tactic? You're kidding, right? So it also lacks some not-new "old dependable" gadgets as well. So what?
Right. You do it yourself in Rx, including the topological sort needed for glitch-free re-evaluation and whatever other features you need. Is there is a meta protocol to dissect event streams to reason about there sources? How does switching work? If you read an FRP paper, say Leo's flapjax one (which is still only kind of FRP), you see all the complexity needed to support those features; no wonder Rx didn't bother.