skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are a variety of different techniques that solve similar problems. We have some of them documented here: http://yelp.github.io/MOE/why_moe.html#other-methods (including these two), but would love to add more.

Each one has different tradeoffs depending on what your problem entails, what license you can use and what platform you are running on. Many of these methods have been around for some time. The seminal paper was published in 1998: http://www.ressources-actuarielles.net/EXT/ISFA/1226.nsf/0/f...

MOE provides many interfaces (REST, Python, C++), a permissive license (Apache v2) and allows for many optimal points to be quickly queried at once, non-sequentially (Expected Parallel Improvement), along with a slew of other features. We have also tried to follow strict software engineering principles throughout (testing, docing, etc). We are always looking to improve though and are taking pull requests and suggestions for improvements! https://github.com/Yelp/MOE/issues
No problem if you disagree; just a couple observations:

- any "shock" people have about corporations/investors routinely lying is hopefully fake. Or at least brief.

- simply read the charts and see how transparently YC misleads those who don't think through basic statistics: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2014/03/04...
I'm confused. Did you respond to the right post? Where did I post in this thread that I was offended by something?
Ok yeah that makes sense. Thanks again for the comment. Let us know when you're looking to refi :)
They are desperate and with good reason - they've been screwed by Congress.
They are just suggesting that 3D printing businesses locate themselves close to postal facilities so that they can quickly ship things. 3D printing hubs is a bit of a misleading heading.
The Surveillance State Is Looking in the Wrong Direction: The Asteroid Threat
>I'd much prefer a narrower portable to an ethernet port

Why? How in the world is a standard laptop with an ethernet too "thick" for you? Do you routinely try to slide your laptops under doors or through mail slots? Making laptops ridiculously thin doesn't solve anything except making them look thinner.
I reckon you could do the following to fix this issue:

(1) add the barrier from option 2 to option 1, so that all the merging happens at the front.

(2) Keep the "make both parties move structure" from option 1, but don't make it 100% symmetrical. Instead, nudge the top lane down just enough so they are forced to slow down and somewhat zipper in with the bottom lane.
I totally missed it, I was very much occupied at the time.

What made me especially interested in the whole twitch phenomenon is that we always threw out the gamers because it wasn't 'real' content, totally missing out on the opportunity :)

More power to them though for identifying the niche and running with it.
I think that you misunderstood his post (even though you may have more information than I do).

The end note is indeed ambiguous, but the body of the post of the post is more detailed and I had understood that he was talking about the alumni rather than YC itself.

I’ve been most surprised by the outpouring of support from other entrepreneurs (mainly from the Y Combinator network) who heard we might be going through tough times, and reached out just to let me know they were there for me.

Besides that, the he mentions YC and pg as inspiration, throughout the post, but there's no mention of an active support.

What more, he claims that the taxes issue was an oversight rather than an willful decision. It is thus irresponsibility rather than naughtiness, which requires intentionality. Also he doesn't try to justify it as pg-defined naughty behavior.
https://office.microsoft.com/en-us/mobile/
The Tinder Effect: Swipe to KISS (Keep It Simple, Stupid)
A little backwards. In 1.9 you don't need to require "date" to use the basic Date class.
You should absolutely rebind Caps Lock to Ctrl.

I guess it's time once again to mention the Kinesis Advantage keyboard on HN. You can rebind every key. You can rebind control and meta to keys that are under your thumbs, and put one copy under each thumb so you don't have to use the same thumb all the time. And everyone who walks by your desk will have an excuse to start a conversation about your incredibly strange keyboard.
Man, you guys definitely seem like the most hacker-friendly chat provider. I saw https://github.com/kato-im/documents/blob/master/POST%20API...., any plans for a more in-depth developer API?
$1 × how many users? :)
As tlrobinson and jacquesm noted, I certainly didn't mean to imply that YC in any way supports companies not paying payroll taxes -- as I advise in the post, companies shouldn't cut corners when it comes to that stuff.
What an interesting rabbit hole that was to fall into. Especially the linked[1] experiment and all the others available there. Makes it obvious that G-Sync and Freesync tech can't come soon enough.

[1] http://www.testufo.com/#test=eyetracking
We have this problem in Texas but there is an additional problem; If you are not an early merger people tend to not let you in anywhere in the chain forcing you to become a late merger. I tend to grab a spot early because too often people would not allow me to merge at any point. Texas drivers are very aggressive, I imagine this scenario is true in other places as well.
Everyone did know the terms going in. The premise of the 1996 deregulation was that the telcos would lose their legal monopolies, and competition would lead to higher investment and better service. The states torpedoed it, using universal service requirements to make competing with the incumbents unattractive in the very places (dense cities) where it would make the most sense.

Who is changing the terms after the fact? The deal was that these networks would be built with private money and privately owned. There is very little public money in there, particularly in the cable network. Since deregulation in 1996 the cable companies have built massive fiber-coax networks mostly at their own expense. Its changing the terms to come in after the fact and try to treat it as public infrastructure.
FreeBSD Quarterly Status Report – April to June 2014
Brazil is far from the economic center of the Internet. South Korea, a country with 1/4 of the population of Brazil, is probably better connected because it's on the route to Japan, China, etc.

Brazil's poor latency may be partly explained by the fact that a lot of their connections have to go through the US and Canada:

"The shape of the Internet varies considerably when examining individual regions. In Europe, the majority of cross-border capacity is between European countries, while in Latin America and the Caribbean the majority of international capacity is connected to the U.S. & Canada."[1]

"More than 80% of Africa's and Latin America's international Internet bandwidth connect to cities outside their regions. In the case of Latin America, 60% of the region's interregional capacity connects to a single city, Miami."[2]

Also, because of Brazil's distance from the economic center of the Internet, they probably don't get the advantage of unpaid peering relationships.

[1] http://www.telegeography.com/assets/website/images/maps/glob...

[2] http://www.telegeography.com/assets/website/images/maps/glob...
> When are you looking to buy a home?

I said, "refinance", so maybe "When are you looking to refinance?".
Can someone explain why the EU is pushing for right to be forgotten so hard? This type of legislation can only end badly.
I apologize for not having time right now to track down primary sources for you, but if you're interested in learning more about the current research specifically on this drought and climate, look up stuff related to the position and strength of the North Pacific High, how it's affected by the Arctic Oscillation (and decoupling of the AO from the North Atlantic Oscillation), and how those are related to extreme jet stream configurations (regarding which there is emerging evidence for a relationship with Arctic sea ice extent).

And if you find good stuff, post the links!
If it integrates well it could be a nod to a different strategy to fight Facebook.
I wonder how EU regulators are going to react when, for example, Russian regulators demand that Google remove all links to "inaccurate" (i.e. not Russian propaganda) stories about MH17, worldwide.
Imoji For iPhone Lets You Turn Any Image Into A Custom Emoji
Now we're solidly into threadjacking territory, we're not going to make this about gender in start-ups. You can argue about that until the cows come home, it has nothing to do with the subject at hand, which is the activities of the founders of YC and their relationship with YC. To know more about the subject you want to pull this thread into you'd have to know a ton more about the YC applicant pool than is publicly available and since there is not much good any company can do in this respect it's considered a minefield. For the record, all the people working for me are females, the start-ups that I've founded all had at least one female in the founder group and yet none of that proves anything. I'm sure you could make a pretty graph out of that.
DeepFace's figures[1] also come from running it on the LFW dataset[2]. While Facebook's production tech will be more accurate because of what you say, the Deepface algorithm has a lot of raw power, too!

[1] http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~ranzato/publications/taigman_cvpr...

[2] http://vis-www.cs.umass.edu/lfw/index.html
Also, Oracle was completely self-funded/financed for many many years. Or at least that's what the book says.
Thickness generally has a very strong correlation with weight. Weight is probably the single most important factor in a laptop for me. I didn't realize how much of a difference it made until I switched to an Air.
It's "possible to read" for me (FF on Debian), but it's not particularly "readable"... it seems to be using fonts that don't render very well for "traditional resolution" (~100dpi) displays, at an uncomfortably small size (maybe the author tests using a browser that tends to inflate text sizes?).
Alt title: CSS One-Liners (That Only Work In Opera)
Yet another idea I had and then assumed someone would get done. Just need to promote it (and I'll use it)!
That's just it. You listed 7 different services that provide various ways of streamlining payment. Should I sign up for all seven? Or can I rely on all content providers supporting the one I choose?

Just like Visa, Mastercard, Discover, and Amex* are accepted everywhere, this problem won't be solved until an underlying universal payment network is established and ubiquitous.

So... BitCoin?

* I know I know, but it's 80%.
opps - looks like my $5 a day, 4G all you can eat plan is grandfathered in.
well... there's this: https://signalvnoise.com/posts/1941-press-release-37signals-...
Of Microchips and Men: A Conversation About Intel
That's a very bad title. What the article states is that the EU would like those users that want to be forgotten to be forgotten from all google servers, not just from the servers in the EU. So it's not the EU pushing for the right to be forgotten to be extended to the citizens of all countries.
> home inspections

House is sold as-is. Buyer is responsible for finding all visible issues. Seller is responsible for X years (3 I think?) for hidden issues. Done.

> radon testing

Buyer is responsible for testing. The city can tell you if a certain area is at-risk. Sellers usually provide long-term testing results. You can add a clause to the contract stipulating that if radon level is higher than X within Y years, cost of fixing is split between seller and buyer by Z.

> title searches

What is that? googles
Oh. No, we have good public record-keeping, you don't need to pay third parties to trawl decentralized piles of unorganized records.
Any idiot with a two state system thinks they have a Quantum Computer, but this is different. Non-Abelian braiding statistics are so far the only known robust architecture for QC, so this will be interesting to watch. Its worth mentioning that the cocktail they discuss relies on something that has yet to be observed in nature; calling it science fiction would be an insult to time travel.
I think the distinction is between what a pedophile finds themselves drawn to and what they do. And, I might add, there are many ways for people to find gratification without actually having sex, or in fact ethically needing the consent of anyone. Also, pedophiles are absolutely comparable to homosexuals—both are individuals classified for their sexuality, regardless of how they express it or wish to be classified.

(To clarify, I absolutely to not condone any interactions whatsoever to do with pedophilia... but come on, people, let's not be blind here to the existence of people with full self control, ethical behavior, and private thoughts and desires.)
The Alliance: A Visual Summary
Because European courts are no more tech-savvy, nor capable of reasoning about the consequences of their judgements, than American ones.
Very cool. I'm starting a JVM-based project, and I'd love to use this in the places where I was planning to use JRuby. Besides being impressed overall, two pieces of feedback:

* On enhancements, I very much like C# extensions design, partially because I do have to import them explicitly. One of the things I dislike in Ruby is that you don't know where your methods come from, and that gets more complicated when they're actually from third-party gems. If a jar is giving me an enhancement, how does that work? How do I handle name conflicts?

* I'd love to have some built-in support for shell commands, a la Ruby's tick marks.
Well... duh. Nothing here suggests any real change by the USPS, of course they would ship 3D printed material, it's the same stuff they already ship, it's not like it's different. The "could" dedicate space to it? That's exactly what they'd do with anything with increased popularity and deals. Like... Amazon shipping.

Even a "company" with a monopoly can't avoid going bankrupt every 5 years and these buzzword ads won't help them. Give my letters (and 3D printed items) to someone who actually loses when they do a crap job, thanks.
MCV: Spartan Configuration Management in Python
It's a fairly natural privacy issue. The EU DPD has some fairly clear rules about automated gathering of information about people, the rules under which you are required to honor requests for reports about that data, to update it if so required and to be deleted at the first request.

Google is side-stepping the reach of the EU by keeping the data on servers outside of the EU but this goes against the spirit of those laws, it is about the citizens not about where the data resides.
This I find hard. This thread is a major eye-opener, quite heavily dividing the HN world. No one thinks Seth/Amicus did well here, but there is a world of difference between supporting a company or founder and condoning illegality.

This smacks of hanging someone out to dry. And that bothers me, unless you have much more backstory with Amicus than is obvious here.

This thread has shaken me - I initially sided with OP because he sounded a great deal like me - and I respected the effort such honesty takes.

I am not sadly a man of great personal integrity. I vow never to lie but only because I have found it leads to more stress and trouble than the alternative. Always being honest I am working up to - ChuckM's grandfather sets a high bar.

Ultimately I have no insight into this case, no idea who's story is more close to reality. But I value openness and admitting of mistakes - it makes my own stumblings more bearable.

So I respect Seth for opening up here. He may well lose this company, he may well suffer prosecution for back taxes. And he should take his licks. But if he has dealt openly and honestly with his investors and employees he will I expect be back again, backed by investors who will this time insist on a firm of good accountants

Incompetency in administration may be a crime, but it's more forgivable than lying.
Florence Nightingale was not a randomly chosen figure. The argument was about what the point is of making heroes out of people. The thing is, when Florence first got to the Crimea, she was pretty rubbish at keeping folk alive, but she promoted the cause relentlessly back at home. It was her use of that celebrity that eventually got money and resources out to the Crimea and that saved more lives there than her medical skills did at the time.

In the long run, by her use of statistics, she invented modern nursing and much of the practice of evidence based medicine, but she got started by establishing a name for herself.
What are the specific parts of their reasoning about the consequences that you find fault with?

I'm actually quite impressed that they're not falling for the non-existent technological obstacles that have been put in place here to side-step the law, for a change the EU court actually seems to be on the ball.
> Sweet mustache. I see it and it says 'Listen to me, I know what I speak.'

Solid comment.
You can't see that thing from space.

With optics you definitely would, but with optics you can see a single human from space.
http://edition.cnn.com/2014/07/23/travel/airbnb-squatters/

a cnn story too,an interesting one.

So the guys ran 2 scams on kickstarter and is now scamming an airbnb host... well not really ,since he is just using the law against his host.

> Eviction procedures in California can be lengthy and complicated, often taking three to six months to evict a tenant.

http://www.businessinsider.com/airbnb-host-cant-get-squatter...

> On day one, after the guest checked in, he called her and complained about two odd things, Tschogl says. He didn't like the tap water (complained it was cloudy) and he didn't like the gated entry to the condo complex. He asked for a full refund, according to Tschogl. She had a bad gut feeling about him, she says, so she agreed to a refund.

This guy is really ...

EDITED:controversial expression.
It would be nice to include the encoded Transit version, just to see what it looks like.

Edit: the tour linked at the bottom is basically what I was looking for. http://cognitect.github.io/transit-tour/
Have you ever tried asking any of these 10 questions to your customer base?
Russia Offers 4 Million Rubles to Crack the Tor Network
At least the people wrongfully convicted to life in prison have a chance (sometimes) to prove their innocence. Such an opportunity is obviously lost if one is executed. Executions are not helping to reduce false convictions. They might add a bit more media attention, but should innocent people die for that? Seems preposterous to me.
Is 37Signals worth $1B?
How do I add to this map?

My employer is hiring as well, and we're not listed, but we would like to be!
A Quiet Little Victory For Me and for HN
I'm pretty interested in the output of this lawsuit. But i think that Air Bnb, as it's kinda their business, would have spot such a big loophole in the law if staying 30d in a rental indeed gave people rights over the house-owner, no? I guess the guy is just trying to stay for free until the case is closed and cops are putting him out.
Thank you for catching this!
Does county matter? It didn't seem to work with New York City (which is composed of 5 different counties). I had to type in New York, NY; it didn't recognize either my zip code or Brooklyn, NY.
I went through with 20% downpayment, a 740+ score and a loan amount of about $500k, and it didn't return any results. I find this level of scrutiny a bit hard to swallow.
I had the same thought, but I suspect quality > speed for most people, and they don't print often enough to justify personal investment in a high-end printing hardware. For example, my wife and I like photography and most of the pictures on our walls are ones we've taken, printed on canvas or high quality photo paper. But we don't own a high-end photo printer, nor do we want to do the work of mounting canvas on frames. I've worked with such devices, they're not that expensive, but I just don't see myself buying a wide-format printer any time soon. I'd rather pay someone else to do so a few times a year. By contrast, I have been thinking about getting a new laser printer for everyday use and reading long documents - I don't enjoy reading everything on a screen.

I suspect that many people may end up owning a cheapie 3d printer for small things, but they'll outsource to a local hub when they want more than basic quality. I'm very into the idea of 3d printing, but the simpler, cheaper units are very limited - as evidenced by people at Maker Faires wearing plastic hats that they printed themselves. Home printing doesn't cut it for a lot of things; for example I use quite a few plastic implements in the ktichen but I would be quite hesitant to use home-printed kitchen implements of any kind.
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Ask HN: YC W14 When we could apply?
We are looking forward to apply for YC Winter 2014 but still cannot find a place to do so. When would the applications start accepting?
I guess Airbnb got hacked, eh.
kickstarter is scammer heaven
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[1] http://www.forbes.com/global/2012/0326/billionaires-12-featu...
Can't believe no one has mentioned Hewlett-Packard or Apple Computer...
Probably in October (and it will be Winter 2015 not 2014)
I've said this before, and I'm saying it again:

If EU courts and regulators want to give citizens the right to be forgotten, they should be doing away with restrictions on name changing.

Way before ordering a corporation to burn books.
Because "The right to be forgotten" is just doublespeak for censorship. Politicians are using it to hide an unsavory past. Businesses will use it to cover up past wrongdoings. I'm not just exaggerating, this is already happening now with the current implementation.
Amazon’s cloud price war with Google is starting to hurt
With the increasing amount of bandwidth (in US plans anyways) I wonder if the days of hotel WiFI is short lived anyways. We'll all be hotspotting it soon if we aren't already. Maybe if you are staying somewhere longer than a week and doing a lot of work in your room....but that seems like a small subset.
Am I the only one who thought about the McPoyle Brothers upon seeing the picture?
Is TLS Fast Yet? Velocity Conference session
As far as law goes, that's a quite accurate.
if they didn't force me to post all my youtube comments, app downloads and android game achievements under my real name googleplus I would probably only have one convenient google account.

it is the same with amazon. I don't want to have the same account that i have with 1-click purchase powers on every dumb and insecure TV (that even sends back to LG my files names, who knows about what i type?) just so i can watch amazon prime videos.
> Your pedophile / homosexual comparison seems to imply there's such a thing as consensual sex with a child??

Western law currently says no. But allowed sexual behavior (especially in this area) has historically been all over the map. One or two generations ago we were castrating homosexuals for their unnatural bevahior. Pederasty was an important part of Greek culture. Research the age of consent around the world and prepare for surprises.

I'll agree that a pedophile is much more likely to molest child, though. We define it that way.
Actually, it's the Wiretap Act (See 18 U.S.C.§2511), and the Pen Register and Trap and Trace Act (See 18 U.S.C. §3127) you have to ensure you follow when performing this type of research.

Here's an interesting analysis: http://spot.colorado.edu/~sicker/publications/issues.pdf

Equally interestingly, the same researchers who assisted with the paper on the legality of network monitoring for research purposes were later accused of wiretapping (although never charged) for monitoring Tor for research: http://www.cnet.com/news/researchers-could-face-legal-risks-...
They had come up with an excuse to use as an opening salvo for censorship, so they came up with "right to be forgotten".
So people cannot just dismiss this thing as bullshit? What is the actual thinking of these individuals? I am having a really hard time relating to them.