skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Having worked with Qasar for about a year, I only wished he would have met earlier. If you are in bay area and are thinking about products or startups, Qasar is definitely a guy to talk to. He always makes the time to talk about ideas, startups and products.
Among the few things that I learnt from Qasar which has pretty much reshaped my career, few things that have stood out the most is
1. Care about the team the about the product and users.
2. Get things done. No Bullshit, no excuses!
3. Work Ethics. Weekend, Nights..whatever

Its awesome to see his as a partner at YC, his experience in startup and Google will tremendously help YC startup founders!
What worries me most about that last arc is the possibility that we have to solve the plot before it turns into a sad ending. Eliezer has mentioned the possibility before, and even has done something similar before.

We may want to read HPMOR again before the last arc goes out, in the hope of gleaning that crucial piece of information that may save the plot.
Very good point, thanks for the reply. One remark though:

> "Dell isn't actually doing anything with Bitcoin"

Perhaps not directly, but they don't go and accept any odd currency that comes along. It shows that Bitcoin is an interesting option to look at.
I read a few dozen chapters of this while I was laid up sick a few years ago and after the first few it was with increasing revulsion and curiosity of just how terrible it would get.

(The answer is: pretty terrible).
Why not hire remote?
I think the language or plattaform is not the break point at the start.

Just think on what could be useful for people, even if the code is jut 10 lines, if it solves a problem, then it would a sucess.

Just take a look of many projects that solves a simple thing, they are not the super coders, they just solve a problem, the rest is part of the process
Dumb question: is there a way to load that onto the kindle?
That's a reasonable way to think about it, except that Git is just one backend option in Irmin, whereas git-annex is obviously specialized for git (and does it very well, too). The Irmin in-memory store, for example, never actually serializes into Git (and so is faster for IPC).

There are some interesting tricks going on from the native Irmin representation to the Git conversion (which is slightly less descriptive than Irmin and so virtual nodes are constructed to represent the extra data in Git). Will write that up in more detail in a future post I think, but for now:

https://github.com/mirage/irmin/blob/master/lib/backend/irmi...
https://github.com/mirage/irmin/blob/master/lib/backend/irmi...

(is the Git serializer, and you can see in the interface how you can spawn an on-disk and in-memory Git).

and the simpler in-memory backend:

https://github.com/mirage/irmin/blob/master/lib/backend/irmi...
https://github.com/mirage/irmin/blob/master/lib/backend/irmi...

where the implementation is mostly a noop since no mappings between representations needs to take place.

(Edited to note:) The reason for wanting an in-memory backend in the first place is that this is also very useful for IPC coordination. You could build a session layer where all the messages that go back-and-forth between two processes are recorded into an in-memory layer, and then when the whole process is done, the entire graph of communication can be dumped out to a Git tree as the log (for later analytics or debugging). If disk space is an issue, the Git tree can later be rebased to eliminate the intermediate communication commits. This is very, very useful for debugging.
>a cut from $250k/yr in SF to $70k/yr in Iowa, even if cost of living decreased to match.

A BMW costs about the same, be it SF or Iowa. Retirement to Florida (or to France, or to Costa Rica) costs the same, be it SF or Iowa. ...

In addition, being laid off in Iowa and being laid off in SF means 2 completely different situations - catastrophe vs. a chance at exploring new (and better) opportunities ...

Edit: to give due to Iowa - a young male driving a BMW there would probably get at least some attention while in SF one probably needs Tesla at least :)
Better than set -e is trapping ERR. You can set up a trap that prints out the command that failed, and the line it's on, rather than just dying quietly like set -e does. It's much easier to debug that than trying to work ahead from the last command with output. For bonus points, when you have a bunch of scripts together, put the trap code in its own file and source it in all the other scripts (rather than duplicating code).
Sure, and I'm not claiming that you must unify them. Or that you can't. I'm also not saying that the language of mathematics is a formal language, but instead that it shares structure with them. The very notion of the interplay between a theory and its model is not dissimilar.

I'm not trying to absolve a cultural gap. Nor am I trying to claim that if you dropped a mathematician into a programming role they would thrive, or visa versa.

I'm simply trying to claim that there is a whole lot of similarity between the two and refutations of that are silly. Seeking a clear-cut demarcation between fields is a little silly as an exercise.

Finally, exploiting the similarity is powerful. Both fields benefit from this fact already and the more widespread the idea is the better.
Unfortunately in Apple's App Store Review Guidelines, you have: "2.9 Apps that are "beta", "demo", "trial", or "test" versions will be rejected" Of course, people do have "Lite" versions with fewer features, but I guess there was some vague "threshold of usefulness" that they wanted to impose with this rule. Anyway, although I can find the word in the store, I think its use gets avoided due to this restriction. (And I know the article is about Google, but you used the more generic "app stores" so I'm replying to that)

https://developer.apple.com/appstore/resources/approval/guid...
I've been calling them hyper-rationalists.

There's a line somewhere in the story where I think Harry is delighted to have found at Hogwarts a group of people who talk like people in novels instead of all the other people he knows from school. It's a line that resonated with me for sure but gets at some of what I don't like about this philosophy.
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Toilet Paper Tragedy
Arguably, it was only after France's inevitable and necessary[1] retreat from the global power sphere that it's "real" source of power -- it's way of living, and vernacular culture -- began to really flourish, and be genuinely appreciated on the global stage.

You "lost" Indochina and Algeria, pretty much all of your "possessions" everywhere else. But in return you got Houellebecq, Goddard, the Gainsbourgs, Hardy, Dutronc, Pussycat, etc (and the world finally discovered Brassens). And now we all eat brie and goat cheese. What's not to like?

[1] In the sense that the retreats of all colonial powers, including the current crop, are inevitable and necessary.
Besides the "more accurate at poles" issue, you are also double-counting because you don't need to cover the circumference twice.

An alternative is to find the Earth's surface area (5.1e8 km^2), and divide by 10mX10m. This gives the number of cells. Then take log base 30 (26 alpha + 10 digit - {"O", "I", "S", "U", "V", "Z"}).

This turns out to be 8.60 characters. To detect all single-character errors, you need a full extra character (9.60).

If you allow all alphanumerics (36 possibilities), you end up with 8.16 characters, plus one for errors is 9.16.

Conclusion: if you were willing to give up some accuracy over oceans, you could get away with 9 characters, otherwise, 10 is the best you can do.
The Whois lookup of filecoin.io gives the name "Juan Batiz-Benet", so this isn't very anonymous.
nope, it isn't ;)
How about current Supreme Court associate justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg? In a 2009 NYT piece she said, "Frankly I had thought that at the time Roe was decided, there was concern about population growth and particularly growth in populations that we don’t want to have too many of."
17. At least in my social circles, it's polite to respond to texts (and Facebook messages) within a couple hours. Texting definitely carries more expectations than email (for example, I'd consider it rude to text back the next day, yet emailing in the morning is A-ok), but it's certainly not on the level of calls.
Sweden's school choice disaster
The "Turner Diaries" author was trying to get across some ideas as well.
"The NSA's job is to secure US systems, the Cyber Command's job is to go attack foreign country's systems."

Well we know that is not true. NSA is almost entirely offense.
Yes, in fact they have several well known developers. I just did not realize they had a code blog.
My issue with Google Alerts is they seem to only send me a few hits once in a while and when I actually search for my keyword phrase (which is long and has unicode chars in it), I find more and newer exact hits.
Probably the most visible example is the http library. You would never use python's reference http server in production; Go's http server is not only rock solid, but very high performance.

Go's http client is really easy to use; python's http client story is complicated and incomplete, and the majority of people went with the `requests` library.
Amen to this. Almost my feelings exactly
I on the other hand, get no insight from yours not liking hpmor. what exactly did you two found wanting, and why?

This is not a challenge. I really want to know.
Oh, and the language selector is broken for me on OSX Chrome 35.
In the West governments have a balance of power, especially the US. Opposing Putin in Russia means no business and death by Polonium. I am not sure why you wish to defend a murderous dictator, the people of Russia deserve European style freedom and as long as glorious Putin is alive they will have none.

Russians have a cursed capacity for suffering and I don't blame them for being afraid of Putin, but eventually someone should take him out for the sake of the country. The longer the citizens of Russia are denied basic freedoms the more irrelevant Russia becomes. There is no need for this besides Putin's greed.
I like the free/paid model, but what you have doesn't strike me as "shareware", but rather "adware". How well does a completely free (no IAP, no ads) trial with a paid full version do in reality? That's more in line with the shareware model in desktop software and I remember it being a very successful strategy in console (and PC) games when I was younger.
Did some checking

Enterprise Google+ Account Post: https://plus.google.com/117578386194324385666/posts/JTp8HWPJ...

Links to a Blog Post: http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com/2014/07/bringing-google...

Links to: http://lp.google-mkto.com/Google-imagery.html
I read this post, both when you linked to it just now, and, prior to that, while I was researching the urandom blog post I wrote a few months ago. I'm being repetitive, but:

* I think the distinction this post is drawing between Solaris random and urandom is functionally very similar to the distinction between Linux random and urandom (I think the distinction on Solaris might be that random has a higher quality rekeying system than urandom).

* I can read a straightforward description of a SHA1 PRNG keyed by kernel entropy, which is what this blog post describes, and unless I'm missing something in the article, I don't see how it is any less cryptographically secure than Solaris /dev/random. It seems to be less forward-secure than /dev/random. That's about it.

Since you appear to have grokked this article better than I did in either of the two cases I read it, could you give a short summary of the argument it presents for avoiding urandom for long-term secrets?
Ahah, to be honest, this was the first feature I put in, you can send any article to the Reading List by swiping a cell. I use the offline feature of the Safari Reading List a lot. This is a killer feature for me. http://cl.ly/Wf4t
Yup, I know. But out of the hundreds of books I've purchased through Amazon, only a small handful offer free Kindle versions.

The complications between Amazon and publishers are deep and messy and I surely won't get what I want as a consumer for some time, if ever.

Just thinking about the ideal situation for me, however unrealistic it is.
What does the YC software team hack on? Internal tools other than HN?
Have you had to refactor at all between releases of the xcode beta?
How is going from 40k transactions (Jan 2013) to 60k+ (Jul 2014) not growth? That's +50%!
The whole point is that even if you prevent them from buying high risk securities, they will buy AAA rated commercial paper from ibanks that will.

And surely you're not going to prevent a bank from making loans, that's their whole raison d'etre (safekeeping of money is incidental).

Short of getting rid of central banking, I don't think you can do anything about this.
In the context of the story, information is a substance that you can almost shovel around like snow. Brain-uploading isn't an inevitability in the real world but in Fine Structure it's a (relatively) simple application of informational plumbing.
Nothing is illegal yet. The regulations have been proposed, but there's still a 45-day comment period that hasn't started yet. I don't know if there are more comment/review periods after that.

Moreover, as I understood it, the proposed regulations apply pretty much entirely to those holding others' BTC, not to retailers. I didn't see anything in my (admittedly very cursory) reading to suggest a company that only takes BTC as payment for services would be disallowed from investing in, or making payments in, BTC.
It's both a target list, and a list of people who would be useful to impersonate in spear phishing attacks.

People open attachments and click URLs when they appear to come from TS cleared people.
You sound like you are tooled up, why not just explore/create ideas until one sticks or you die trying? Isn't that the next step? You have all the tools to slay a dragon, now go find one (if you are lucky).
The issue with many expat is they want what they get at home without embracing local culture. Stay home I say.
Got it, yeah 50 was just a total guess.
My 2 cents: Honestly, you don't have to solve for all your weaknesses. You can find a cofounder and advisors that help you fill in the gaps. It's of course smart to have a rudimentary understanding of go-to-market strategy, but I think one thing you should definitely develop is a diverse network. If you're surrounding yourself with smart people who excel in a variety of fields (not just web development) then you're probably more likely to be able to tap into their knowledge when you need it.
Apps, Apple and the Trust Problem
My Brazilian friend called this "taking the dictionary to bed".
So you're a consultant too? What made you decide not to work there permanently?
There was another game called Empire, and from reading the article I suspect it refers to the other one.
The bottom line is there's a price on it. Almost certainly in salary terms, but to a marginal degree perhaps other parts of the package.
more money than on the coasts. Simple answer but people don't like "paying more."

Do you have SV/NYC/etc esque perks? Uncounted vacation, free food, etc etc?(which would all be cheaper to offer in the midwest for your company).

If you want the best people you should compensate in line with the "best"(by comp) employers OR differentiate yourself substantially.

I would totally work for "midwest market" for 25hr a week or so with full benefits. Big pay cut, big cost cut, lots more free time(but companies don't like that either).
According to that we're at the same level as we were in March of 2013 with a few dips and a bubble in the middle. Thats 17 months of more or less constant.
The benefit of an accelerator is the money and the introductions to investors. Also, you need a lot of "chemistry" for a successful start up. Not trying to be discourging but you might need to think on that part of it.
I lived in Omaha for a year and would definitely consider moving back for a great job, however, there's one big problem and that is: even though you're in a beautiful rural part of the country with lots going for it, you're still in the big city, i.e., the one place in that state that has the fewest of the advantages of being in a small state. You don't have the low cost of living, you don't have the strong sense of community, don't know your neighbors, can't leave the car unlocked, and it's still difficult and expensive to get away from it all. So you may have people come to work for you thinking they'll get to enjoy life in the slow lane, and then find out that they've given up all they loved about the big city but haven't experienced the promises of the country.
Just pay more. I'd even work in the middle of Alberta, CA if I were paid 2x Silicon Valley median salary.
I don't think it is plausible that a significant number of people will receive a material portion of their income from Bitcoin. Your examples of ways in which I can receive BTC are trivial in amount and frequency.
Yup. Hire remote and pay tech hub rates. It's that simple. You'll also get much more loyal, dedicated employees. Currently in this situation and it's really the best job I've had out of dozens.
You sometimes have to use the tools you have available.
Actually, no. The big changes was for the beta 3 and it was mostly around arrays syntax. The old syntax was "deprecated" and Xcode gently allowed me to use the new syntax in 1 click.

I was impressed :) Can't wait to see the changes in new seed next week.
The whole problem started with people who paid/downloaded and felt lied to afterwords. Better analogy would be an advertisement for renovated house with fixed ceiling and you find the ceiling was just colored and is leaking water during rain.

In most free-to-play games I have seen, player does not really know the real value he is paying for. At least when you do first buys, you usually do not know how far you can get with that item and when you will have to buy another one.
Programming is not math?
ZipSlack? I seem to remember it was called ZipSlack because I actually had a ZIP drive at the time. That was definitely the coolest thing ever.
See footnote 2. http://redsymbol.net/articles/unofficial-bash-strict-mode/#f...
It sounds like they want to only pay coastal prices.
If you go to the original post [0], he provides a link to the maze in question [1] which clearly states at the bottom of every page "© 2010 KrazyDad.com". How much clearer can that be?

[0] http://krazydad.com/blog/2014/07/13/hmm-this-maze-looks-fami...
[1] http://krazydad.com/mazes/sfiles/KD_Mazes_IM_v1.pdf
The reason you don't discern the presence of any problem is that you happily purr along as an effective 'human compiler' in a language with a [relatively] lower level of abstraction. You cannot detect that you're actually doing compilation from higher-level constructs because those higher-level concepts have not been formed in your mind (and you haven't been exposed to languages which capture those concepts more precisely/succinctly). It's quite likely, in fact, that your [manual] compilation process is not consistent or repeatable and you end up with a lower fidelity translation (i.e., with lots of noise interspersed) than a truly mechanistic compiler would.
50 fantastic freebies for web designers, July 2014
Also, I hate to bring this on, but is it possible to set a dead man switch to distribute your unedited notes on the final arc... just in case you get hit by a bus over the next couple of months/years?
Watering the Lawn
Lending library, though, only allows you to check out one book a month, and you have to have a physical Kindle device. The Kindle unlimited, it seems, allows you to use any kindle app, which is a nice change. I did just recently get a Paperwhite, so it doesn't affect me as greatly now.
Trading costs are an expense and you pay Coinbase more than the market spread (they need to make money). If you use a credit card to buy BTC you pay those fees directly or indirectly.
> 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.

Gigantic arms like you get from holding your smartphone the whole day and using it? I would guess that it might be even better to work this way than sitting 8 hours in a chair using the keyboard of your computer or your smartphone.
It took me a few moments, but I think you mean 'scraper', and not 'scrapper'?
that's right
the only thing which saddens me a bit is that any Swift app is iOS 8+ only :(
This is something that I never knew I needed.
I would just like to link to my comments from before for people who maybe curious:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7803101

I will also add that looking in to hessian free for training over conjugate gradient/LBFGS/SGD for feed forward nets has proven to be amazing[1].

Recursive nets I'm still playing with yet, but based on the work by socher, they used LBFGS just fine.

[1]: http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~rkiros/papers/shf13.pdf

[2]: http://socher.org/
Yeah, I did not like that one either. Though claiming that Dumbledore is portrayed as a "drooling moron" there (or anywhere else for the matter) is not precisely correct.
I believe the correct solution is to have coherent light emitted from very small pixels, with the ability to modulate either the phase or amplitude of each pixel. This will give the appearance of a regular film hologram. Color is of course another challenge, but this approach seems more practical than tiny lenses producing a finite number of directions. OTOH the old CRT shadow mask was a marvel in its day and was quite practical.

Ultimately we DO want glasses. A single holograpic display per eye would be fine and would allow looking around by moving your eyeballs instead of your head in a VR context. This could be a couple of square inches (or less) of hologram per eye.
I've struggled a lot with Mandarin pronunciation. I think the difficulty is mostly due to Chinese speakers being sensitive to differences between some sounds that English speakers lump together.

For example, most English speakers would initially not be aware of any significant difference between the sounds of pinyin "x" and "sh". They're both basically English "sh".

And there are a few other similar cases in Mandarin. Imagine how confused you'd be if someone was speaking English, but randomly swapping the sounds of "p" and "j", and the sounds of "r" and "b", etc.

One thing that makes me love Chinese people even more is that they're so forgiving of my mistakes and accent. The provinces have their own mutually unintelligible dialects, so they're very used to hearing heavy accents. As long as I paint a good enough caricature for them to catch on, it's good enough, and they never make me feel bad about sounding strange. I'm very touched and grateful to them.

Here's something I wrote a while back on this subject: http://nopandas.posthaven.com/understanding-by-listening
Haha! Well, the crypto and game theory took a very long time to get right. (and more of it to come!) Send feedback!
Great job Alexis, although I thought you were already a partner :)
This is exactly what I've seen in some companies near where I live--they refuse to hire at market rates, and if they resort to "but but but cost of living" I assume they're trying to sell me something.

It's so fucking obvious--pay the same amount, have a better culture, and that should be it. Alas, some folks are a bit slow. :(
what did you mean by tech hub rates?
This technology will be DOA if AR glasses take off at the same time - the latter could be used as displays for any device, not only the smartphone in your pocket.