skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Same two suspects (one of which has already agreed to desist) different article.

If you want to read about the parking guys and restaurant reservation guys again, read the article. But if you have already read 7 articles about how evil they are, you can safely skip this one as it has nothing new.
Interesting... Belize, eh? Is the internet reliable/fast? Can you fly in and out without going via the US? Do you live in Belize City or someplace else? How'd you wind up there?
Thanks! We've changed the url (from http://luis40pr.wordpress.com/2014/01/15/world-mysteries-the...) and unkilled the post, since users were probably flagging the source rather than the story.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redbox#Redbox_Instant
>I think "I want a diversion" is more common than "I want a game". Mobile games compete against Facebook, Twitter, the news, text messaging, anything else someone can do as a diversion on their phone. And none of those things cost anything at all. People who want a game and are willing to pay good money to get one generally expect a better experience than mobile can provide.

I agree with your general point, but I want to point out that the last sentence doesn't have to be true. Like tools in a toolbox, some platforms are more well-suited than others. The reasons vary for this, but in games it usually it comes down to control schemes. Mobile has its advantages as well- you always have it on you, likely has network connectivity 24/7, its unique control scheme, etc. I think mobile's biggest problem right now is creators are still trying to shoehorn last decade's games on a platform that was not designed for it. They may be different games than we're all used to, but there's no reason why mobile can't come into its own.

That all said, I would rephrase your last sentence to "...generally expect a better experience than mobile currently provides."

For what it's worth, I feel a game like Clash of Clans uses mobile's strengths very well (although I personally find it boring and its revenue model distasteful)- it makes good use of mobile's control scheme, makes good use of its platform's always-on mentality by delivering notifications of attacks, etc, and is social.
How would you know what the LTV of a user is for a freshly launched app??
I've found a combination of the 2 to be great. Most deep networks (even just the feed forward variety) tend to generalize better with mini batch samples of random drop out on multiple epochs. This is true of both images and word vector representations I've worked with.
> But encouraging people to buy up tickets for resale at markup seems jerky to me.

StubHub isn't doing that; the act (or venue) is. Knowingly selling something in bulk at 50% or less of its value is "encouraging people to buy up [the thing] for resale". They do it because they like packed houses.

edit: having read the article, it's striking that all three of these examples (entertainment tickets, public parking spaces, and restaurant reservations) involve valuable things being given away. It's difficult to complain that people who sign up for valuable freebies and resell them are "just being jerks"; even if Parking Monkey never makes its business work, and dies, it can perform the societally-valuable service of restructuring the parking situation generally.
Wow. Wow. Wow. Is that really your dodge? "Well, we didn't invent it!"

We did it. It is our job to fairly and accurately represent our history. Guess what? The facts are clear as fucking day: We. Imported. Black. People. We. Enslaved. Natives. There is no dodge to that. There is no escaping that. There is only acknowledgement of it. This is not "narrative", we have the receipts.

And omitting it in a "historical" game in favor of heroification is unforgivable.
Maybe it is because you didn't show an example, but that doesn't seem like something caused by lazy evaluation. It is pretty easy to get into infinite loops due to logic errors in Project Euler type problems even when using imperative loops.
Apologies for being skeptical, your whitepaper does seem to be more indepth unlike the Storj scam which will probably unravel soon

If this filecoin does take off and does what is being promised I will personally add hundreds of terrabytes of storage from our storage servers.

But seeing what Storj are doing I am extremely sceptical so please understand where I am coming from.
$2 sounds really cheap--did I miss the laser on the bill of materials?

Anyone else hoping for a modern and inexpensive replacement for the legendary classic EG&G microflash?
No, the cases I speak of get lost in it when they have tree-style menus, when their apps are grouped in different themes (games, tools, office) and want a flat, 3-column single layer.
How one man bypassed Internet congestion and fixed his Netflix streaming
What is "flyover country"? There's a world of difference between a place like Chicago or Minneapolis (an underrated gem) and some exurb in the Deep South. Does Chicago count as "flyover country"? You can definitely get the kinds of people they're looking for to move to, say, Chicago or Minneapolis. A suburb 40 miles from Chicago, on the other hand, is pretty much a doomed location.

Being in a city (even a mid-sized city like Madison) matters more than the general geographic area. Chicago itself is rock-solid, an office park near the airport is not going to work.

* Obviously, if you're not paying a full relocation package (which includes a month or two of temporary housing, all moving costs, and a spousal placement agency) then you're not playing to win, and you won't.

* Same pay as on the coasts. Excepting Chicago and Minneapolis, you may even want to make that 110 to 120 percent in order to offset decrease of spousal pay.

* 3-5 conferences per year, fully paid. Announce it upfront as a perk.

* Establish a culture of giving back to the open-source world. Get the names of some star employees out there. People will then apply in order to work with them.

* At least 4 weeks of vacation. Minneapolis is beautiful, and its winters aren't as bad as people make them out to be, but getting out of there for a week or two in February really helps.

* Enough interesting work, and enough diversity of interesting work, that the job looks like a probable 3-5+ year fit. If it's run by McKinseys, you're dead in the water. Great engineers want to work in engineer-driven companies. Cross-country moves are too stressful to do one without an assurance that there'll be interesting work to do many years out.

* Culture of talent development and internal promotion. This needs to be verbalized in recruiting. "We're in <X>, so we invest in talent. We can't take smart people for granted." Now it's a selling point.

* Remote work. Smart people want to work with other smart people, and while you'll have some rock-solid people who are willing to move, you won't get "critical mass" unless you allow remote work.
or you use lean methodology pre-sell a thing, then build a thing.
This post completely sums up what makes HN great.
A question about the actual slides: why don't they use unsupervised pretraining (i.e. Sparse Autoencoder) for predicting MNIST? Is it just to show that they don't need pretraining to achieve good results or is there something deeper?
Having them all reinvent the wheel would be a security nightmare.

I agree, it absolutely makes sense from a business and security perspective, but at the end of the day what you end up with are a few key players who represent a centralized point of failure for spending your bitcoins on mainstream goods and services. More and more, the community is moving away from decentralization, relying instead on these centralized services to facilitate bitcoin purchases and off-chain transactions. The more companies that jump on board with bitpay and similar services, the bigger the disruption will become when one of these companies inevitably hiccups, fails, or gets hacked.
He said explicitly he's excluding it (and a few other things).
You make it sound like AI is not a serious risk…

I'm not going to justify myself (okay, a little bit[1]), but I must say I'm at a point where such assumptions make me raise an eyebrow.

[1] http://intelligenceexplosion.com/
Cofounders social network and Idea sharing
is there a good site or program to share your startup ideas and look for cofounders?
To be honest, I think there are way too many apps out there just like yours that are way way better. So instead of putting effort into marketing your app, I would put effort into making an app that fills a need that no one else fills instead.

Let the product do the marketing for you. Of course you need to do a little marketing yourself, but the more unique the product, the more your marketing efforts will scale it. In turn, I think with your product you can do a looot of marketing and nothing will come out of it, because the product isn't unique enough.
Announcing Cloudbreak – the Hadoop as a Service API
Interesting -- sounds like once implemented, you could leverage the consensus algorithm to implement atomic multi-document/multi-table transactions too?
> learning Hindley-Milner type systems

Well, HM is about type inference and they can just assume it works correctly. And I don't think they are expected to write extensive, complex programs in the language but more put together pieces from their "vast trove of proprietary libraries", which are most likely designed just for the fact of faciliating the use of the language for users who are not (primarily) software developers.
A technical debt generator's confession.
As a non-game app developer, I WANTED THIS FOR YEARS!

Google (and Apple) calling my apps "free" did bring in massive amounts of bad reviews.

I think this is good news for any developer that wants to offer a "free-to-download" app with non-exploitative IAPs. Think of a magazine-app: People should get the app itself for free to be able to choose which issue they want to buy. There is no emotional engineering going on. You don't want to trick people into believing this app is useful if they don't spend money - in fact, you don't even want people to download your app if they won't spend money anyway. But the app store says FREE...

We had/have major problems with getting tons of bad reviews like "THIS APP IS NOT FREE, ASKS FOR IN APP PURCHASE!!11".

We played with the description, so it would start with "buy" or "purchase" (e.g. "BUY THE NEW ISSUE ABOUT XYZ"), which helped a little (although most people seem to skip the description). We tried screenshots of the point where one needs to purchase... which is sort of fine for iPad screenshots, but a waste for smaller phone screens. We do now also offer a lot more content for free initially, which seemed to have helped most.

I'm hoping for a consistent labeling of all apps (not only games!) that sets correct expectations for the user when downloading an app.
Is there a TLA+ or Coq model available for this?
DefCamp 5 – Where Hacking and Security Collide
Hence the scare quotes around "sharing economy" or "peer-to-peer". They're creating something that appears to be about people helping each other, but it's actually about a middleman sucking money out of those people.
I'd like one too. Everyone thinks they one one. Until they see one, then don't.

Compare the Amazon Fire Phone. It's got that "3D-ish" display, which is about as close to having a 3D display as you can get without quite going there - and it was received with a resounding "meh."
The iAP fad is a direct result of game studios becoming sharecroppers in Apple and Google's fields and of the rules they have set. If Apple and Google changed the rules, due to government regulation or something else, then studios' business models would adapt. If iAP were not an option at all, there would still be a demand for quality games and studios would converge on some new business model that satisfied that demand.
I would recommend reading 'Lean Startup' by Eric Ries. He gives couple of pretty interesting ideas I found useful when making business.
Not to mention, that react side-steps the entire issue of heavy DOM reflows/rerendering as individual components update. I don't see Polymer doing anything but make that issue worse until browsers support it natively, and even then it will take some changes to the way browsers handle rendering to improve performance there.

I do think that long-term (5+ years) something like Polymer will become the preferred solution. For now, imho, React is about as good as it gets for componentized web applications.
I don't think that setting IFS this way is a good idea. Of your variables do happen to contain tabs and newlines, you still get unwanted word expansion. Much better is to just use double quoted expansion primitives that always expand one element to each word: "${foo[@]}"
TL; DR: The company: its people and its mission. Everything else is secondary.

I recently moved from San Francisco Bay Area to join Farmlogs in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Here is how I thought about it:

I derive majority of my happiness from what I do, not necessarily from the money that I have in my bank account or the social ameneties that are provided by the city that I live in. This is not to say that it will not be nice to have more money in my bank account or to live in a big city like New York or San Francisco, but my self-realization that I am most happy when I am satisfied at work.

I feel that you first need to pick the company you want to work for. I chose FarmLogs. It just happened to be in Ann Arbor. It would have been nice for me if it was in San Francisco but it wasn’t. Now I was not going to let that opportunity go just because it was not in San Francisco. For me, doing meaningful work has more importance than living in a specific city.

People have mentioned a lot of cons about working in the midwest but here are some of the pros:

1. Lower cost of living: I am not kidding when I say that I save much more in Ann Arbor in dollar amount as compared to when I was living in SF. I have been able to purchase my own house as compared to spending a fortune on rent in SF.

2. Better Negotiation: You can negotiate a better deal from your employer just because they are in midwest and want to hire you.

3. Experience of living in a new place: I, personally, have never lived in a place where it snows and I am looking forward to that experience. I don’t know if I will like it or not. If I don’t, I will know snow is not for me and will go back but I have to try.

So in short, I feel one should pick a company they want to work for. Everything else seems secondary. You will spend most of your time at work, and at least for me, if I am not happy at work, I am not happy in life.

In addition, I can go back to SF anytime if I wanted to.

Thats what I have to say about that.
For beginners, I cannot recommend this tip highly enough:

"action.disable_delete_all_indices: true"

Protection, protection.

(from an actual victim who learned the hard way ;-(
The main reason is because Delaware has a long history of case law and is preferable to investors. Many here (CA) will typically structure a C Corp in DE and a foreign C Corp in their home state where they operate.

I am not a lawyer, this is not legal advice.
Coinbase or Bitpay are optional facilitators, for people who want to buy or accept bitcins

Yes, they're optional for merchants, but for average consumers who want to buy the same goods and services they can buy with fiat, it becomes an unavoidable potential point of failure. If these services go down, the consumer cannot spend their coins, they rely on 3rd parties to turn bitcoins into something that businesses actually want to accept in exchange for their products.
But in this case, it is.
How so?

The copyright office is clear that mechanically generated works are not copyrightable.

Read the original hn post about this if you want to see a ton of debate on this. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8030439
I followed Font Awesome 4.0 really, I am not really the biggest expert on CSS advanced features like wildcard selectors, but as someone else said, I think there's performance hits.

But really, I followed Font Awesomeas I figure Dave knows his shit (also check out blacktie https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/232193852/font-awesome-...)
You find the weather in Canada nicer than Phoenix?

I'm thinking that might only apply 5 months out the year. But I'm not a cold weather person.
Valve responds to open letter on Steam security concerns
I've read his book as well as another book called Running Lean. Both books were very helpful, the book by Ries lays down the concepts and Running Lean shows how to apply them and make them actionable.
> You see, Mei’s fundamental misconception is that the kind of applications that we haven’t yet automated and modularized constitutes what programming is all about.

Please forgive me if I'm making the most heretical question possible, but once we reach the level of software sophistication the author hints at ("how to automate the translation of drawn sketches to good HTML and CSS") wouldn't software also be able to create and analyze mathematical theory ("conjecture, proof, and building theories")?
Understood! Stay tuned :) We're working hard to upgrade internet infrastructure with the nice properties cryptocurrencies can give us.

And, by the way, see http://static.benet.ai/t/ipfs.pdf -- https://github.com/jbenet/ipfs -- Filecoin's sister protocol.
All of this discussion, quite possibly because so much of the initial conversation happened on twitter, embeds a lot of assumptions into the words used that seems to result in a lot of people talking past each other.

There's "programming" that's a single person essentially performing research-level mathematics; there's "programming" that's a thousand people writing to a spec without considering anything about the structure or complexity of their code. Programming is obviously not just math, nor is it no math.

If you become defensive when someone says "programming isn't math" or when someone asserts that it is, you're failing to think critically about the both words they're using and about the assumptions you're making.

Disclaimer: I have a degree in mathematics, and I'm a programmer. I can't think of the last time I used anything from my college years directly in programming itself, but I attribute a lot about the way I code and think about problems in general to having a mathematical background.
Not really disaggreeing with you but,

> What I am saying is that a sizable portion of academia uses a variant of ML. Maybe it hasn't caught on in industry, but that doesn't mean that there isn't a community that uses it.

Academic communities tend to be scattered when it comes to software and the primary focus is on publishing papers rather than producing software that is useful to others. Also, I know a number of skilled academics that use functional languages, but they tend not to have an interest in changing into the industry, rather stay at university. So I wouldn't depend on them as source for recruiting.

Of course there are exceptions, e.g. OCaml Labs seems to be keen on producing well-written, usable software that can be used in industrial settings. The development of Mirage is a pretty exciting area.
I frequently get thrown into projects with aging codebases, technical debt, and few people around who wrote the original code.

In this scenario using this kind of verbose state logging starts to sound like a huge win, especially if tools exist to visualize how state mutation is different on various legs and use that information to infer dependency guesses between execution branches.
Sorry, let me clarify my point:

It appears that you're making a value judgement about behavior being rational or irrational, when it's just how human beings make decisions. If we all operated as purely rational individuals, unswayed by emotions, the vast majority of consumerism that exists in society would be gone. Singling out IAPs and free-to-play titles specifically while not going after basically every single consumer-based industry in the world is inconsistent and unfair to one specific sector.

We all make decisions based on our emotional responses to the information we're given - some people value certain things more heavily than others, and I don't think any individual or set of individuals can be the arbiter of whether a decision is rational or not. That's entirely up to the person making the decision.
I've found that with a large enough network, using the two together is good, but as your network grows smaller and you lose redundancy, dropout starts to hurt you when compared with using weight-decay alone.

In huge networks in which you have a lot of non-independent feature detectors, your network can tolerate to have ~50% of them dropped out and then improves when you use them all at once, but in small networks when you have a mostly independent features (at least in some layer), using dropout can cause the feature detectors to trash a fail to properly stabilize.

Consider a 32-16-10 feedforward network with binary stochastic units. If all 10 output bits are independent of each other, and you apply dropout to the hidden layer, your expected number of nodes in 8, so you lose information (since the output bits are independent of each other) without any hope of getting it back.
Haven't read the paper, but could you ask for a hash of a random offset+byte count of the file?
Unrelated to Filecoin, this brought to mind a question about the Bitcoin blockchain I've been pondering recently.

Since users can put small arbitrary byte data in a transaction that gets included in the block chain (AFAIK), isn't it possible that an attacker could insert illicit / illegal data that everyone using Bitcoin replicates?

Copyrighted materials, sensitive personal information such as SSNs, and moreover, child pornograpy immediately come to mind as things that could forever be persisted.

If this is possible, wouldn't that make everyone using the bitcoin blockchain criminally liable for storing and/or transmitting that information? (In the US and similar jurisdictions.)

I assume lightweight clients that only store a hash would be unaffected. But still, this seems like a serious issue.
I believe this is officially one name too many matching /ar[ck]/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ark#Technology

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arc#Computing_and_gaming
Essentially: outreach.

Reach out to relevant bloggers to offer to do a guest blog post and to relevant podcasters to get interviewed. Some podcasters will charge you to be interviewed.

Consider starting your own podcast about working out. It's actually not much harder than recording MP3s, publishing a RSS feed, and applying to iTunes.
the proof-of-retrievability. see http://cseweb.ucsd.edu/~hovav/dist/verstore.pdf
Does "Renting disk space" not sound extremely sketchy to anyone else?
Check out New Zealand. It's clean, safe, environmentally secure, relatively educated and great for families, and if you hang about awhile they practically throw citizenship at you. Rent is expensive, tax is high, and income low... but coming from the US you'll like the relaxed lifestyle and plethora of holidays. When the kids grow up they can always hop the water to Australia and/or onward to Asia for some more excitement.
> If you're only pocketing $1k each month in either place, the BMW costs the same and still takes the same amount of time to save up for.

I spend about $2100/mo for two people living in Manhattan (83rd & 1st). I'm a frugal person (cook my own food, only spend $1k/year on tech and use what I have for 4 years or so, etc) so the increased base translates into $10k+ in my pocket every year. I know other people aren't in the same situation and I do spend more than I would living elsewhere but as-is the increased base works heavily in my favor even after the extra NYC metro taxes.