skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, as far as I understand the technology, there's a projection of a 3-dimensional image emitted in very many directions.

So what you see at 45 degrees (polar) angled to the screen would be different than at the normal (90 degrees). Then there's the azimuthal angle as well (you can walk around it if it were laying flat on a desk).

Unless there's some other input indicating to the touchscreen at what angles your eyes are at, determining what you see, there seems to be no way to correlate touch/movement gestures with 3-dimensional surfaces.

This said, I can still stipulate tremendous value in treating all gestures as acting from the perspective of the normal - you would have a 3d image under glass and every touch on the glass corresponds to a z-dimensional intersection with the holograph.
> Yep, obviously the incentive system of bitcoin is deeply flawed.

Then how do you explain that apparent lack (or at least, very low rate) of such attacks? It seems to me that what we observe is evidence against your description of the incentives.
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"Compensation and benefits are reasonable as well, considering the low cost of living."

Why not ignore the the local cost of living and compensate at SV market rate levels? That way there is a tangible and obvious pro to the move: the delta between "tech-hub" cost of living and "flyover" cost of living.

If you scale compensation down to be relatively in-line with local cost of living you aren't really offering anyone a pro in the face of many cons (harder to find another job if this one doesn't work out, the general inertia of moving halfway across the country, likely less interesting social/cultural options, likely screwier rules when it comes to non-competes (than what you get in CA), etc.)
Is this one also vulnerable to people creating fake nodes that "store files" for each other to earn coins for doing nothing?
I believe you're asking if there's a user interface to goTenna? If so, not in the current device. The UI is your smartphone -- the point is to conform to consumer behavior (i.e. the way you already text on your phone).
> So if the Dutch or Dutch government are not mad at the Russians, then dunno what it would take.

The guy mentioned in the article isn't representative for all of the Netherlands. I heard many Dutch people speak of war.

The Dutch government is generally veryyyy reserved and politically correct. They don't often act fast or decisively and are certainly not going to use a lot of violence.
This article reads very much like how git-annex works to me, except that while git-annex is built on top of git (and consequently works at a much higher level), Irmin sounds like it does pretty much the same thing but at a much lower level.

In other words, I think I could implement what's being described as a very thin shim on top of git-annex. You'd just need a special git merge driver (the same as Irmin, which requires 3-way merge providers), but with the extra caveat that all three components of the merge have to be present in the local annex before a merge can take place.

This is just based on the article, and assumes I've understood correctly.

Is this accurate?
Bad example since you're implying that they're continuing to stand in front of the person who punched them. It's not like Dutch flights are going to continue to fly over that part of Ukraine.

Better example, someone at a concert gets hit with a bottle someone else threw. It was the only bottle thrown at that concert or any other concert they've ever been to. They've know that it does happen though very rarely. They look at you and say "I'm not going to do anything major, the chances of that happening again are slim." You suspect they won't return to that same venue however. Would you be impressed or would you think they're a little crazy?

Personally, I'd be impressed.
How to create new crypto-currency:

- Pick something to base you currency on. Bit-, Name-, and File- are taken, but some might be left.

- First letter, two stripes, here's a logo!

- Publish a whitepaper. You must use LaTeX to typeset it.

- No names or credit anywhere. Stay anonymous.

Joking aside, this looks like something I will try. Have a spare 1TB connected to fast internet, and assume many others have as well.
They will. It's one of those things that people don't know they want until they have it. Nobody is asking for it, but the minute they see it in the real world they will pull out their wallets so fast it will tear their pockets open.
Facebook clicks on the ‘Buy’ button to measure ad effectiveness
Not sure where you got the number 50 from. There's a list of all of the full-time partners on the site[1], adding the ones today for 17, plus another handful of part-time partners (6 or so?).

As far as I know, the partners help choose the startups to fund and advise them. I don't think they invest their own money (except maybe after Demo Day[2]), but choose how to invest YC's money at the start of each batch.

[1] http://www.ycombinator.com/partners/

[2] http://blog.ycombinator.com/new-yc-partner-investment-policy
I think it still has them, but I can pretend not to care about them because I don't have to set them up, which I would have had to do on Gentoo. You literally just install Slackware and it works.

It can skip the "modern" desktop crap though, that's cool. They don't distribute Gnome anymore, so it doesn't cram hundreds of libwhythefuckisthisalib and libgnomewhythefuckisthisagnomelib and their dependencies on the drive, and all the KDE stuff is nicely tucked away so you don't have to install it.
> It's pretty much the worst PR possible for Russia.

Sometimes military actions are taken for reasons other than PR.

> In fact, the only parties who have anything to gain from the plane going down are Kyiv and the US.

Making civilian air travel perceived as unsafe through the Ukraine (and thus, also, into or out of the Ukraine) increases economic pressure on the Ukrainian government to reach an accommodation with the rebels (the PR downside may overwhelm that advantage, but its not impossible to conceive that the rebels might see it as a net gain.) Its not that uncommon of a reason for rebel/separatist forces to attack civilian transport (air or otherwise), tourist, or other targets.

That's not to say I think that it was intentional -- I think that an accident is, given other incidents in the region, the most obvious explanation. OTOH, its not inconceivable that it could be intentional, and there is a clear potential motive for doing it intentionally.
Also:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aerolinee_Itavia_Flight_870, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_Rhodesia_Flight_RH825, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_Rhodesia_Flight_RH827, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_Air_Lines_Flight_902, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libyan_Arab_Airlines_Flight_114, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polar_3, T&G Aviation DC-7
and more shot down by fighter aircraft.

There are far more than a dozen incidents in the past decades.
I don't know. I use noaa's forecast site a lot, and I kind of like the images they use for the conditions.
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> "Considering the strides that have been made with stuff like Kinect"

And it still sucks.

The problem with motion controls is that it's a solution looking for a problem. Why would I want to hold my left hand out below my hip at a 45 degree angle and hold for 5 seconds, when instead I can hit the "back" button on my controller, is a mystery.

It's the same problem as voice recognition - good demoware, poor products. We don't speak to our computers because the lag in feedback and the accuracy, while having advanced leaps and bounds, is still strictly inferior to hitting a keyboard (virtual or otherwise).

This is before we get into more fundamental usability problems like having to hold your arms out while interacting with devices. Minority Report should've featured Tom Cruise with gigantic arms, built up from years of holding his arms out in front of him all day just to do basic computing tasks.
http://www.slideshare.net/mobile/0xdata/h2o-distributed-deep...
That's my biggest problem living in the midwest. I never want to move to SF or NY or places with massively high cost of living (because of the cost of living), but the pay seems to scale directly in line with cost of living anyway. If I have 20% discretionary income no matter where I am living, why would I not move to someplace more exciting?

Although I don't know if I would be able to stomach a cut from $250k/yr in SF to $70k/yr in Iowa, even if cost of living decreased to match.
Bash is not just Bash but also sed, awk and all the other goodies. You can grow Bash scripts from the command line. You don’t have to worry about things, everything is a string is a number is a stream. One could go so far as to argue that shell pipes behave quite distinctly functional-programming-ly(?).

Plus it’s some sort of middle ground between “BDFL tells you to put a space there“ and “one day, archaeologists will find a script written in Perl, awk and csh and it will become the new millenium’s Rosetta stone“.
Transhumanists tend to share… uncommon assumptions. I for one don't feel that mind-uploading is weird. If we don't blow up ourselves before, its eventual rise is near certain.

The lack of foreshadowing probably wouldn't have shocked me. I'd be very excited about how the author deals with the implications, though: while mind-uploading is relatively mundane, its consequences are huge.
Are Rolls-Royce's 'robo-ships' the future of seafaring?
Keeping employees from discussing their salaries is illegal
Direct link to slides: http://www.slideshare.net/0xdata/h2o-distributed-deep-learni...
Conventional history deals with things that are actually true, not with things that fit the narrative you prefer. There was no systematic extermination in American history (at least not until 1974). European settlers in the New World did not invent slavery, instead, they fought a great crusade to end it. There is a great deal to celebrate about the colonization of the new world and the creation of the new nations here. The narrative you are telling about American history was basically invented in the 20th century to fit the Marxist vision of history as perpetual war between oppressor and oppressed. We would not use the term "politically correct" to describe it if it were actually "correct".
Furthering my impression that LessWrong is analogous to a religious cult.
There is no issue. Both learned and learnt are acceptable and attested for the verb, pace the OED:

learn, v.
Forms: Pa. tense and pple. learned /lɜːnd/ , learnt /lɜːnt/ .
I think looking at transactions is a reasonable metric. In fact, even this metric may be overstating things. Tim Swanson has analyzed transactions excluding popular addresses (apparently this excludes things like SatoshiDice) to identify transactions that are positive-sum in an economic sense and then the numbers look even lower. [1]

Another factor to consider is that if you count purchasing power transferred (which I assume means dollar value times transactions) you'll end up giving a lot of weight to events like when coinbase/mtgox moved their coins from one wallet to another.

[1] http://www.ofnumbers.com/2014/06/23/separating-activity-from...
+1. I worked with Qasar at Google. He's a brilliant product guy and a great manager. Uncanny ability to cut through the political bullshit and get things done. Congrats to Qasar; we will miss him, but he'll do great things for YC.
I take issue with the idea of considering consider this a "sad" event or assume that people are "falling" for emotional tactics and that they're later "convincing themselves" that the money was well spent. I think if you break down the vast majority of expenditures, you could say this.

* Bought a $500K house over a $400K house, or over a $25K house that was completely livable? Seems like the buyer fell for emotional tactics and peer and/or realtor pressure. Later they convinced themselves the money was well spent.

* Upsold on a new phone? Apple used emotional tactics to compel you to spend that money when you weren't really interested.

In games:

* Spent $200 during the Steam Sale on games you never actually played? How manipulative of Valve.

* Spent $1,000 buying Magic Cards after-market so you could win at a local tournament? It's a psychological sickness that you'll later convince yourself was just you "having fun".

There's a serious problem when people analyze any customer's behavior as being different from their own, and therefore irrational. I do think that there are many companies that trying to take advantage of consumers, but to another commenter's point, there are also many companies doing this responsibly. You could argue that many industries or businesses work on irrational behavior of consumers, but I think it's a slippery slope to categorize it as irrational - it's just behavior. People spend their income on all forms of entertainment good and bad, and frankly I was unhappy a lot of the time buying console games for $60 that never lived up to expectations. At least with free-to-play games I can choose what I'm paying for.
The economic question is whether Ghash.io will make more money by staying legitimate or by attacking the network. They might be able to get a nice one-time payout with an attack (although even that's debatable), but I suspect that it would be more profitable to provide the legitimate service.

It's the same reason why most bars don't take your drink order and money and then refuse to give you the drink. Obviously, in isolation it would be more profitable to take the money then refuse to give the drink. It's illegal, but you're unlikely to sue because of the cost of litigation. The reason the bar gives you the drink isn't that they want to sacrifice their profits just to make you happy, and it's not that they fear litigation. The reason is that it's more profitable in the big picture for them to give you the drink, because people don't tend to visit bars if they hear that the bartenders take money and don't give drinks in return.
If you're thinking between Passenger and Unicorn, the main determining factor between the two is that Unicorn is most efficient when you're serving a single application in production. Meanwhile Passenger is best if you have multiple apps running on the same server.

In terms of functionality (i.e., subdomain redirects) both are practically identical. The one functionality that's tougher is the ability to do streaming. In that case, you'll have to look at Puma, Rainbows!, or Thin.

And in terms of deployment, you'll use Capistrano. You can use Jenkins too if you're looking to setup continuous integration, but you'll need Capistrano regardless in order to deploy to production.
Those (and KAL 007) are all outside of the thirty year window, but within a 40-year window. But, yes, there are lots of past incidents.
Or better yet, I just issue a chargeback and get my damned money back.

The restaurant is just a terrible retort. I'm physically in a location to receive a service. This has nothing to do with paying for a product and not receiving it.

Of course if I'm receiving bad service in a restaurant I will speak with the manager. If he refuses to speak or help I will demand a check and pay without tipping. Simple as that.
How do you prove a person's location with your app?

There is very little info on the main page. If I click "more info" I expect to see more than 3 circles. Sorry to rant, I don't think you want a page that disappoints.
Why on earth would it be intentional? Because they launched a missile with the intent of bringing down an airplane.

It might be bad PR, but you would have to be one hell of a PR specialist to successfully spin this as an "unfortunate accident".
Pretty sure you have a subpixel order difference or something then - as previously mentioned, screenshots are not the way to compare.
Drunk User Testing
Which was recently discussed in a HN thread, which is why HPMOR is on the HN homepage again. The circle of life!
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Looking for someone who is setting up a museum and is looking for these items. They are willing to pay for them. Any ideas reply in comments with your email.
I might be nitpicking, but it seems worn to call this holographic. It is 3d, but it's like an improved lenticular process; it has many views, but they're discrete not continuous, and they don't float above the display.
Lack of package management drove me away, too, but now I don't find it so much of a hassle because I have developed an active distaste for programs that bring a ton of dependencies. There are legitimate cases (e.g. Calibre -- has many dependencies because it must be able to read many kinds of files), but a depressingly large proportion of the programs with dependency headaches are just bloated or badly packaged.
wi-meteor

I pray we never see this in the forecast.
It's far from clear that the maze was subject to copyright in the first place, so it's easy for him to be forgiving.
Add no non-compete to the list, CA is also clear on that, and for a very long time.

It's the single unique thing about the state, and I'm convinced it has a lot to do with Silicon Valley's long term success, especially during the decline and fall of Route 128 (roughly the '80s and the PC era, which I watched first hand).
I really like Worm (read through it once, then reread about 90% of it when preparing to write a review). My experience from recommending it a few times is that if people get a few chapters in, it's probably going to be a lot of very late nights of reading. The world building is some of the best I've ever seen, and Wildbow is really good at setting up cliffhangers that just make you read one more chapter. Probably a requirement for the web serial format.

I also find the business model to be very interesting as a sign of the times, some more thoughts on that in the aforementioned review: http://jsnell.iki.fi/blog/archive/2014-05-24-book-review-wor...
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I hated the movie for the reason listed above. Visuals were great, and acting was OK, but the book has such gravitas, and it felt low rent. My wife, who hasn't read the book, liked it.
1. The Solaris crypto designers / developers believe their rng is is appropriate for short-term session keys and padding. Read the post I linked before as to why the believe that.

2. /dev/random basically only uses bits from entropy sources while /dev/urandom just uses a few bits from /dev/random as a seed. Read the post I linked again.

Again, I would reiterate, the situation is somewhat different for Solaris. Usage of /dev/random vs. /dev/urandom is actually considered different.
Exactly my thought! Seems like a big flaw.
Met Qasar at Startup School last year. He was happy to talk about my idea and even gave his e-mail for me to follow up. Down to earth guy and super approachable.
Is Street Photography Ethical?
You're overthinking it.

Build a thing, sell a thing, see if it succeeds, try again.

Maybe learn along the way.
The authors address Sybil attacks in the paper. Essentially, there is a PoW style consensus using hashes of files+metadata (as opposed to bitcoin which is hashes of nothing + metadata)
does everything just automatically get a $10mm valuation these days? this sounds like the pet rock of apps.
irmin creators: awesome! Merkle DAGs ftw. Check out

- https://github.com/jbenet/ipfs
- http://static.benet.ai/t/ipfs.pdf

Highly relevant :)
(talk coming soon)
It's not like I disagree but discussing this aspect of every new thing that comes along is rather tiresome.
So you want to pass off your demo as a "free" game? Ah I see your other posts on this.
Sounds very very nice, I can't wait for iOS 8 now. By the way, please add a "add to reading list" for links.
I think she was implying that college-dropouts that build software projects can afford to buy Teslas without understanding math.
> Or better yet, I just issue a chargeback and get my damned money back.

Doesn't work with cash, and might not work depending on how the credit card company's arbitration works.

> The restaurant is just a terrible retort. I'm physically in a location to receive a service. This has nothing to do with paying for a product and not receiving it.

Your physical presence is irrelevant to the analogy. The point is that acting legitimately is in the interest of both the company and the customer.

> Of course if I'm receiving bad service in a restaurant I will speak with the manager. If he refuses to speak or help I will demand a check and pay without tipping. Simple as that.

Then you're out the cost of your meal. The restaurant gets your 20 bucks, and didn't have to provide good service, which is clearly profitable for them in this isolated case. So why don't all restaurants do that?
Heh. I'd question the accuracy.

Using their speedtest I get 8Mb/s up and 237Mb/s down. On a 10/100 (non-burstable) connection through another provider.
Wildbow didn't state that. In fact, he's compared GRRM's issues with later GoT books to the fact that GRRM needed but ultimately decided against/was forced to avoid a timeskip.

Wildbow stated that the timeskip suffered for poor execution and a lot of IRL stuff that was going on at the time (including a semi-forced 2 week break from all internet/computer stuff mid-arc), and he intends to rewrite it and cover different bases for the published final version.

Source: Am Wildbow.
They have always explicitly funded abortions, giving tens of millions of dollars directly to abortionists, and making very little effort to convincingly lie about it. Money is fungible. If you put money into one bank account, and I pay a bill with my other bank account, you have still funded my activity. Every ten-year-old knows this, which is why they are not only lying but also insulting us with such a poor lie.

By the way, Planned Parenthood does abortions "in house", so it's not like they have any budget line items for "abortion" anyway. Unless they're doing activity-based costing, their budget is for things like [abortion] advertising, [abortion] lobbying, [abortion] facilities, [abortion] equipment, [abortionists] salaries, etc. Melinda Gates could conceivably fund their entire budget while claiming shamelessly that the funds were "not for abortion" and "earmarked for other expenditures".
They both spoke the language of love. :x
There's a better method.

Create a multihashmap of <sorted word -> list of words> for each word in your input dictionary. This is O(n), but only has to be done once.

Then just sort your input word and look it up in the multihashmap. O(1) lookup time (well, to be pedantic, O(|word|*log(|word|)), or just O(|word|) if you use a weird sort).

So, roughly:

from collections import defaultdict
def makeWordMap():
mm = defaultdict(set)
for line in open('words.txt').readlines():
word = line.strip().lower()
mm[tuple(sorted(word))].add(word)
return mm

def anagrams(w, wordMap=makeWordMap()):
return list(wordMap[tuple(sorted(w.lower()))])

(Please ignore both my (ab)use of default arguments and the dance with lists being unhashable types)

This method ends up being ~17x faster than ana5 given on my machine for the input "spare", even when using the SIL wordlist (109582 words) and changing ana5 to precompute the word list.

(On a sidenote, the largest collection of anagramming words in the SIL wordlist is ['spear', 'reaps', 'apres', 'asper', 'parse', 'apers', 'rapes', 'pares', 'pears', 'spare'], with length 10)
I am really excited to navigate through this code! Great work.
IMHO weather icons really need color. This will be even more necessary when you want to have more subtle variations in conditions. Color - or shades of gray - could even be an indicator to the cloud type. A dark cloud with yellowish lightning is going to convey thunderstorms much faster and with less visual processing than anything you can possibly do in a mono-color icon.

This all leads to the question: Why use a single color?