skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Love the application!
Hey I'm Daniela, the cofounder of goTenna. Yes, real prototypes have been made. In fact, the final product is done! That's why we didn't go the crowdfunding route because we're ready to move into manufacturing (and in fact already have).

Use our range calculator here (http://bit.ly/1qKVDEQ) to understand what your range will be in different environments and/or elevations. We've gotten up to 3.5 miles in NYC but more realistically, it's up to a mile in urban areas. Up to 50 in a skiing situation outdoors :D
So 13.000 people risked $50, and they lost. This is a painful reminder? It's just $50, it's no ones livelihood except the that of the Winterkewl people. They thought they could do something, turns out they couldn't.

Why does this author take offense to the tone? Isn't it clear as day? The game won't be made, so the backers won't get their reward. The studio did their best, but it wasn't enough so now they're stopping. Yes the Kickstarter says there should be a refund, but obviously the studio should have spend all of their money by now. That refund clause is just to make sure companies don't go taking money without being indebted to the backers if they fail. This one does go bankrupt, so everything is in good order.

He says Yogscast and Winterkewl are to blame, what for? For attempting to do something cool for their fans but failing? There's no shame in that.
Per Sam's recent blog post, there are two nuclear energy companies in this batch. They stand alongside biotech, on demand security, traditional saas companies and media enterprises like Product Hunt, to name a few.

Contrarily, YC investments appear to be more diverse than ever.
There must have been a lot of plugging and unplugging JIBO to create their video!

It does look neat though.
well, his duty is to the shareholders so having that as a priority sounds like a good thing to me. Yes treating your employees well is a good thing, and it's necessary for a successful business, but that doesn't mean you should keep people who aren't needed or aren't performing.

With an acquisition of this size there are going to be redundant people, and as Nokia was headed towards going out of business, everyone would have lost their job instead of just half.
I agree with you in as far as it makes a great multiplayer element. In the vs the computer game it is a bit of a crapshoot though. Working with different world leaders is not something that is possible. You can't sit there and strategize over several votes. Futhermore the later in the game you are the more frequently they meet. By the information era they are meeting every 10 turns.
I think this is ripe for a lawsuit if money is not refunded. You can name both Yogscast and Winterkewl in the suit knowing that Yogscast has enough money to pay damages. Yogscast would then try to get out of the suit, but it'd be tricky for them to shed their responsibility in the matter (which apparently they're trying very hard to do, according to the article).
But but but I did it first! And you didn't even publish it to npm. :C

https://github.com/vladh/five-coffee
No, it was not only Austria going after Serbia, but Austria and Germany together going after all of their neighbours, including Serbia, France, Russia, Belgium, ...
How about two hours? https://github.com/vladh/five-coffee

`five-coffee` on npm.
It may seem counterintuitive, but that's a relatively common result in machine learning. Often the issue isn't so much the quantity of data as the representative nature of your training data used to create the model. All other things being equal, a larger set of training data is likely to be more consistent with the true data. Caveats abound, but that's the general idea.

One way to think about it is to look at problems with human perception like forced perspective. It's relatively easy to create a situation where the only available information results in mental models that describe the size of an object incorrectly. Given a different point of view (i.e. more information) the faults in the model become obvious.
In Trac you can link to #/searchterm.
Why doesn't the URL look how it would look if you hit y by default? Seems like that would be what you usually want.

When I send someone a link, it's because I want them to see what I'm looking at.
Looks like it was taken down, Google Cache:
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:DBHDyx7...
Supposed tweet from someone from the Pro Russian rebels:
http://pbs.twimg.com/media/Bswg7UGCQAAtv47.jpg

Someone on slashdot translated it as:

"Near Torez (city) an An-26 airplane was just shot down, it crashed somewhere beyond "Progress" mine site. We warned beforehand - do not fly over "our zone". Here's another video proof of the next "birdfall". A birdie crashed down beyond terricon (mine excavation site), missed living areas. Population not harmed. We also allegedly have info on another SU-25 shot down".

If that's true, they have mistaken it for a transport plane and shot it down.
Expect is great, however if you ever determine that using it is the best way to solve your problem, then you are probably approaching the problem the wrong way in the first place (the best way to proceed from that point may very well be to continue using expect though).

I used it a few years ago to create a test suite for some dedicated VoIP hardware (controlling the boxes over telnet). It worked great, but if I had had more time, that definitely would not have been my approach.
Thank you. The story has been removed from the frontpage at least. Worth the downvotes if I've given attention to the 'flag' option to even a few people.
Barrkel's got it right. At least in accounting terms, companies aren't people and your college loans don't have covenants that allow the debtholder to liquidate assets.

The world of corporate accounting is very literal. 'Technical insolvency' is a synonym for balance sheet insolvency, while the inability to pay a debt is 'cash-flow insolvency'. You can have either type, both, or neither depending on circumstances.

GE at the time would've still been cash-flow solvent, however they had tens of billions of dollars in debt coming due that likely would've forced them into cash-flow insolvency without taxpayer money.
Made several changes to the layout of the site and streamlined the registration process. Still looking for testers, still trying to give away a free $20 amazon gift card :) still no one is eligible.
Great link.

There are always going to be more things in the world that you don't know than you do know. It's a good idea to get better at handling those situations.

If I could be exceptionally great at 3 things, "responding in a situation where I don't know the answer" would be one of them.
Not sure if you're reading the slides correctly.

Company Organization Chart, Company Handbook, Company Values.

This isn't something "Bob" comes up with.
It's all fun and games in your job/startup until Microsoft comes in and demands royalties for their patents (most of them obvious implementations).

But when it happens to HTC, Samsung, etc it's just: "why shouldn't they get a return from that investment?"

Microsoft (or any other company for the matter) demanding patent royalties after treating to sue a product they had no hand in producing, is wrong.

Earning more money form their patent extortion from a competitor's product than it's own implementation, it's just sad and pathetic.
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Except there probably aren't quite enough satellites to always have one over that area? Plus, yeah, downlink bandwidth probably wouldn't be sufficient anyway.
TH++(C++ tensor library), FBLuaLib (Torch / Lua components)
There is a whole lot of overlapping administravia, you don't need 2 full sized legal departments, finance groups, HR group, marketing groups, sales groups and so on. Some layoffs will happen.
Is getting an email, albeit unsolicited, about a community having a discussion about your generally new product[0] actually unwanted email for the majority of start-up founders? Especially to an email that is specifically mentioned on the site as a suggestions/feedback email. Both Erik and Ryan have said that many founders were happy with the notification.

It seems to me that companies might even actually pay for a service like this and if enough people thought it added value, I don't see where the issue with scraping emails is. Perhaps you could enlighten me or provide a different viewpoint as this would be something that I'd have no issue implementing myself and the fact that it scares you so much has me worried that I would be overreaching if I ever did. I just don't see why an email scraper is seen as inherently evil?

[0] I imagine a system where there has to be a minimum amount of comments and not one in which the only comment is made by Erik (or a bot) and used as the "motivation" for responding to the thread as a founder.
So you're saying that if I overpromise something and get a bunch of people to give me money for it, I have an escape hatch to never repay the money? Then it's appealing to start some BS kickstarters, never deliver, and never refund the backers (and isn't that a problem already?).

Is Yogscast to blame? Sure - they misled people into paying for overhyped vaporware by throwing their name on it. They also have the money to refund people, and right now they're trying to hang on to their money as tightly as they can.
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They'll have no problem making it past of the commerce clause. The law doesn't matter, politics do.

The rule of law is not a self-enforcing principle, it's a political equilibrium built around a consensus. Checks and balances mean that it's somewhat detrimental to depart from this consensus, which is why it's stable.

However, it's not a very tight equilibrium. The restoring forces are weak, and they keep weakening over time.
Not until Russia started to mobilize to defend Serbia. Australia versus Serbia would've been a minor conflict if it weren't for the various defensive agreements the Great Powers had with smaller states.
I downloaded it and gave it a quick try. Walking around the office at a somewhat fast pace yielded some blur on each step. I slowed down a bit and results were better. We have a lot of windows so there was a lot of light/dark issues which is more the iPhones limitations than the app.

Stability was pretty cool though not convinced it would work well on a bike. If you have some untouched videos you captured from the app itself without any post production editing, that would be cool to see. If you said the videos on your website background were all taken with the app I'd be more impressed.
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I can't imagine that Yogscast HAS any responsibility in the matter, considering the kickstarter was run by "Winterkewl Games LLC" who was developing their first game "in partnership with Yogscast"

Clearly they're the ones with the legal responsibility.
It's still a conversation even if he started it.

I find it totally bizarre that you would claim "you don't care about" this. As in, I do care about it.

Am I saying it's okay for someone to start talking about my product, then spam me to let me know this is happening?

Yes.
You're assuming it had to be intentional, which is an overwhelmingly unjustified assumption. All it would take is the person in control of the weapon to think it's a military transport.
Molo.io - Marina Management B2B SaaS

We just decided to start blogging. We're aiming to build an audience with our customer base prior to launching v1 of our product.

Topics: We are aiming to choose topics that will provide insights, thoughts, and solutions that will add value to the day-to-day business happenings of our audience.

Promote: We have a mailing list of folks interested in the upcoming launch of Molo so we'll use that, Twitter, and news aggregators from our industry.

Does it Work: Hopefully, we have an advisor who is also doing B2B SaaS and he has found great value and good leads coming from the blogging he does. Only time will tell for us.
So do you consider the coup leaders who violently overthrew the legitimate government of Ukraine as traitors and terrorists too?

And in case you're wondering, no, they didn't impeach the President or follow the constitution when seizing power.

http://politics.stackexchange.com/questions/2849/was-the-cha...
http://www.idealist.org/
The standard library is pretty nice though: http://nimrod-lang.org/lib.html

I spent a few days solving Rosetta Code tasks and was surprised how easy most were using the existing libraries: http://rosettacode.org/wiki/Category:Nimrod
This is old.

The guy did an AMA a while back.

http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/1ygcil/as_requested_im...
This is a most brilliant landing page - flashy, but in a way that directly demonstrates what the product does, and the text is readable even against the white waves. Each of the sequences look beautiful and seem like if I just had this app, I would be able to make my videos just as beautiful. Congrats.

I'm not sure, but I believe the beauty lies in the fact that each of these scenes is something I can see myself trying to capture: the beach, a forest, etc.
So then, "Lightning doesn't strike thrice in the same place"
I poked around at the source code and this really doesn't seem to be web scale at all. Please look into mongodb to store the five, maybe throw in Redis to cache five in memory, and consider using a real-time processing framework like Storm to implement mapping and reducing five.

Until then I'm afraid this is just far too slow to consider using seriously in my web-scale project. This probably cant even handle 100M+ requests/second. Right now, its just me and grandma so I need 2 requests/sec, but this really doesn't seem scalable.
You're sort of describing the problem of "over fitting", which is now very well understood in machine learning circles. That's when you get a model that describes it's training data very well, but doesn't generalise well.

The thing about using lots of data is that prior to publication of "The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Data" in 2009, most people did think that good algorithms were the most important thing. What that research showed was that a bad algorithm given more data will eventually outperform "better" algorithms, at least when those algorithms are initially judged based on their performance on smaller datasets.

So what happened with neural nets was that after some initial excitement about how they were more like the human brain, etc., it was found that "stupider" algorithms actually performed better and ANNs were written off for a while. It turns out that the reason NNs were performing badly was that they weren't being fed enough data.

Nowadays it's pretty easy to saturate a feed-forward neural network with data to the point where it's performance will never get much better. Deep learning techniques allow you to train bigger and more complex models with more data, but these more complex neural nets won't perform very well unless you feed them tons of data.

So in reference to your point about the brain, the thing about brains is that they actually learn based on massive amounts of data too. Think about how much data you have from continually streaming video ~16 hours/day, plus sound, plus touch, proprioception, and other inputs, over the course of many years.

Deep learning tries to emulate this to some degree with "pre training" which is where you feed lots of data into a deep network and have it learn "something" (it learns by itself at this stage). Then you start teaching it more complicated, high-level concepts. This pre-training allows it to do things like recognise common patterns in images, which the later training allows it to then associate with semantic ideas like "this is an apple", "this is a person", etc.

TL;DR: What seems to work best is fairly "dumb" algorithms, scaled up to be able to handle vast amounts of information and fed a ton of data to learn from. This is also how the human brain works.
I wasn't even really dissing Google, just pointing out the reality of the world we live in. The fact is that very very few people really care about visionary things. There has to be a way to make it pay, and unfortunately surveillance-based marketing is the only big meal ticket in town for services like Google.
I'll try it out when it's out for "the rest of us" who use Android.
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Ouch! Why not CC-BY?
The videos the app produces (I just bought it) work great as video background for pages. They're blur ready.
For now, this requires LuaJIT 2.0+, Linux x86_64.
Its a media play that backdoors its way into related things [e.g. job ads via jobs link, etc].

I doubt its going to scale to huge proportions but there is a place even for a business that employs 5 people.
Your source is a stackexchange post? C'mon.
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Would you use this?
WYSIWYG iPad app that helps designers create UI mockups and flows.
"For your convenience, 15% of positions will be removed."
"I would be very surprised to discover that Google has acquired close to as many headcount as Cisco has. But I don't want to do the research work either. :)"

In 2012 Google acquired Motorola Mobility with it's 20,000 employees.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2148219/Googl...
>Yes, but without any direct communication, no organized Air Traffic Control, and without tracking satellites, it seems very easy for ground troops to mistake a civilian transport with a military transport.

Except for the transponder...
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They were.
Blurring happens in low-light environment. Give it a shot outside, i'm sure you'll be impressed !
Interesting, the google cache of that post still works:

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?hl=en&q=cache%3...

and the google translation is as follows:

Message from the militia. "In the area Torrez just downed plane An-26, lying somewhere in the mine" Progress ". Warned same - not to fly in "our sky." And here is the video the confirmation of the next "ptichkopada." Birdie fell for waste heap, the residential sector is not caught. Peaceful people do not suffer. And also have information about the second downed aircraft, like the Su. "

even though the original post has been deleted from VK

http://vk.com/wall-57424472_7256
No, because that would be mismanagement, it would make you liable for a lawsuit by the backers. The government would hold you personally responsible for the debt of your LLC and you might go to jail.

There's no escape hatch, this is business.

Yogscast has nothing to do with this endeavour, it's a separate LLC that attempted to make money. I don't see why Yogscast would not try to hang on to their money. They have mouths to feed as well don't they?

I don't get why people are out for blood over $50 lost on a bet.
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One man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter. It's all completely subjective, depending on your perspective.

For that matter, Ben Franklin, George Washington and crew were "terrorists" from some POV.
you added an adjective to the term :-) Yes you can call them insolvent if you want to, but it doesn't mean anything if they can still pay their debts. If the number keeps going down it is certainly a problem, but if it heading back up it is fine.

The housing crisis is a perfect example of this. It only became a problem for people who bought more house than they could afford with hopes of selling at a moments notice. My house was as much as 50k underwater (going based on foreclosure sales of identical townhouses) during the crisis. Fortunately, I didn't buy more house than I could afford. I could easily continue to pay my mortgage each month and was never anywhere near bankrupt. I sold the house recently for closer to 10k loss. Was I insolvent when the house was down 50k? No.

[1]Cash flow insolvency involves a lack of liquidity to pay debts as they fall due. Balance sheet insolvency involves having negative net assets—where liabilities exceed assets. Insolvency is not a synonym for bankruptcy, which is a determination of insolvency made by a court of law with resulting legal orders intended to resolve the insolvency.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insolvency
I think fuzzy communication is a sign of fuzzy thinking.
They pour quite a bit of money into their research division, why shouldn't they get a return from that investment?

They should get a return. But nothing they created contributed to Android, so they shouldn't be extorting money from Android vendors.

The patents that Microsoft has been willing to assert publicly against Android are dominated by FAT patents which describe a system for working around the limits of Microsoft's own file system. Nobody wants to use Microsoft's file system for its own merits -- plenty of free systems exist that have none of its drawbacks and Android uses them internally. Android uses FAT only to interchange information with Microsoft systems and others based on their backwards filesystem. The patent system has been abused to allow Microsoft to block compatibility without contributing anything technological. It's a classical failure mode of the patent system which was supposed to promote innovation and publication, not vendor lock in.
You seen how many people have died in eastern Ukraine recently? 478 civilian deaths, 1000+ injured. 10,000s of people fleeing across the border to Russia. I have family there in kramatorsk. Most action is carried out by the Ukrainian army trying to rid cities from the separatists. Disgraceful. http://www.economist.com/news/europe/21607852-battle-continu...
My org merged dev and test. I'd say the jury's still out on the wisdom of that move.
If you do decide to keep the ticket, you will probably have an entire couple of rows to yourself to stretch out on...
What is CI and why use it?
Couple reasons of the top of my head: War is common. Plane crashes are rare. The average CNN viewer doesn't live anywhere near a warzone, but they probably have and are going to ride a commercial flight.
There really are only three ways to create a usable language, honestly:

1) Huge institutional support. See: C#, Java, Go.

2) Give it 20 years. See: Python, Haskell.

3) Weird, idiosyncratic factors. See: Javascript, mostly.

So it's hard for me to get excited about these sorts of things.

Edit: fair point, Javascript is really a case of #1, with Netscape as the institution.
Pairing with C is the whole point of Tcl; in its heyday, Tcl was known for having one of the easiest extension APIs of all the scripting languages. The idea of using a scripting language to knit C code together was one of Ousterhout's key goals.

Also: no other scripting language with the possible exception of JS has evented I/O so fundamentally baked into the core of the language.
In lawsuits, it doesn't really matter. You can name anyone and everyone who's connected to the matter, and then sort out who gets dropped from the suit in court.

For example, if Yogscast was actually behind a lot of this, then it wouldn't be fair for them to hide behind a shell company that takes the blame. Otherwise you could just play a game of setting up little shell companies with no money, let them go bankrupt, etc.
Lewis from Yogscast had some responses on Reddit a couple days ago:

http://www.reddit.com/r/Games/comments/2apng1/yogscast_cheat...
1. The legitimate government of Ukraine was overthrown in a violent coup. It was not legal.
http://politics.stackexchange.com/questions/2849/was-the-cha...

2. Subsequently, people in the already autonomous region of Crimea, ethnically/culturally/historically Russian, had a referendum to break-away from Ukraine and then join Russia - especially after the new coup leaders decided to ban use of the Russian language.

Check your facts, dude.
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