skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I want to want this, but the pricing just doesn't seem competitive with EC2. Am I missing something?

For example, compare the "I/O" server with an EC2 i2.4xlarge instance. The Rackspace server has 128GB RAM, 3.2TB disk, and 20 cores; i2.4xlarge has 122GB, 3.2TB, and 16 -- nearly comparable.

On EC2, I can buy a 3-year Light Utilization Reserved Instance for $3884, and then pay $828/month (based on 720 hours per month). After 12 months, my average cost has been $1152/month. I still have two years left on my reservation, which I can keep using, or possibly sell, so the effective cost is even lower.

If I'm more certain of a 12-month server lifetime, I can buy a 1-year Heavy Utilization Reserved Instance for $7280, and then pay $447/month, for a total cost of $1054/month.

On Rackspace, list price is $1800/month. Suppose my total spend is $10,000/month (list price) and I commit to 12 months. I get a 15% discount, or $1530/month. That's quite a bit more expensive than EC2, and with EC2 I'm committing less up front. A longer commitment would help, but it would also bring down the EC2 price.

Can anyone poke holes in my analysis?
Just so you know, it's a 3rd party doing that delivery.
That's similar to what I joke about it being when people complain about it being bloated: It's a LISP VM, which happens to have a thriving ecosystem of utilities that run on it.

Germane to the conversation that emacs make you "good at other editors" (nb: Are other editors as programmable/versatile as Emacs and vi -- certainly edtiors need to be able to rise to a level required by the operator... I haven't worked w/ textmate or sublime, etc., etc.) -- I've recently shelved Emacs for vi to "level-up" my vi skills. I'm as I delve into vi, I'm finding facilities that I really hadn't imagined in my previous episodes w/ vi, and I think part of it can be attributed to my years w/ Emacs, and the attitude that it instilled: "There has to be a way to do what I'm imagining".
Still no iPad or touch support?
Gender gap? Tech could take a cue from orchestras
> Another in the long line of languages that are created to solve a problem that doesn't exist.

I assure you that the problems Gosu was created to solve did indeed exist at the time that it was created.

> Even worse, created as a way to force P&C carriers to be tightly coupled to a proprietary piece of software.

I assure you this also is not true. For evidence, I encourage you to notice the fact that Gosu is not a proprietary piece of software.

> With one industry being the only relevance for the language

Put another way. "Number of heavily-capitalized industries where Gosu is heavily used: At least 1." Would you rather it be 0?

> and that industry with usually the worst IT technical talent available.

Please. There's fierce competition for that distinction.
I'm not buying it

1 - P=NP is a mathematical problem. It has nothing to do with Physics. Physics has to do with Mathematics but one should be very careful when extrapolating (range, constraints, etc).

2 - Nature has no problem whatsoever solving complicated equations. Our mathematical models are the ones who suffer to model simple everyday stuff in Physics. Turbulence and Navier-Stokes equations, electromagnetic propagation, the way lightning goes through the air, etc.
Seems nice, although I have a 60Mbps line at home, and am only getting 30-40 Mbps on the speed test.
"Nobody knows why we don’t observe these kinds of strange superpositions in the macroscopic world."

Yeah, why can't we observe processes that rely on lack of observation?
Also: censorship and traffic shaping.
Microsoft still doesn't get why the iPhone succeeded
I think the explanation for why we don't observe macroscopic quantum phenomena is rather more simple than that, and likely has more to do with the results of a superposition of a large ensemble of possible states than some fairly strained analogy with computation (think of it as something like fourier decomposition of a function).
Which month is it looking at when it first opens?
Maybe the site should use something like http://www.pingtest.net/
The sound waves from my motorcycle sets them off pretty routinely in parking lots or cars on parked on the street. humorous and oddly satisfying.
Lawn Love (YC S14) Is Coming To Your Backyard
The Software Grief Cycle
It never fails: You can always find some pedantic creepy internet weirdo to start tut-tutting "now, now, let's think of the poor pedophiles..."
>Face verification gives an algorithm (or a person) two images of faces and asks, "Are these the same person?"

>97.53% for people

I'm surprised that people are that good - I think I'd be horrible at it. From googling, I can see that number came from Facebook - would you happen to know where to find the paper?

>Also, it is interesting that they are not using deep learning for this. They are using a Discriminative Gaussian Process Latent Variable Model.

Does using this different model gain some sort of space or processing efficiency over DeepFace?

Also: does anyone know the point of fighting to close this 3% gap? That seems good enough for any purpose. (Is there any other purpose to this technology other than mass surveillance?)
20MB/sec is pretty dreadful, and 2 hours is not timely for that quantity of data.

I'm guessing you're paying a high price for the convenience of using a database? The kind of query you did, I'd run using grep on the command line source, possibly combined with a summarizing program written in Ruby.
My issue is that you can also have picky clientele at $300k, but you don't get paid any more. Or for instance, compare a client who spends every night checking Zillow for the latest listings vs. one who relies on the agent for new listings. There may be some correlation between home price and effort, but there are other factors that often dwarf that, and those aren't priced in at all.
So what does "getting into Harvard" mean - getting into Harvard College? What about the rest of colleges besides Harvard College and Extension School?
Hi, I'm developing this database, what tagline do you think would describe us better?
100% correct - RSI handles all the big decisions for the fracnhisees
Looks like I answered my own question:
https://www.aerofs.com/product/deployment/private-cloud/

Which means I can run it as a virtual appliance. Might make sense to just spool up an appliance for every tenant/customer, and then provision it that way. I'll take a look into this.

Could be the best way to get it running on FreeNAS too.
Play Store Changelogs Support Emoji
Sorry, it does not, unfortunately.
We are working on IDEA 13 support but for now our plug-in supports only IDEA 12.
1. I don't think we support running AeroFS _on_ a NAS, but you could have a team server point _to_ a NAS as long as the NAS is exposed as a file system

2. Yes, The AeroFS Private Cloud runs as a virtual appliance (we ship an OVA/OVF), and is compatible with VMWare ESXi. You could offer isolated AeroFS Private Cloud environments for each tenant, and then expose storage however you'd like to them.
I use xmodmap on Linux to remap caps lock to ctrl: http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/MovingTheCtrlKey
> Where is the logic?

Maybe face time is important after all. Which makes the SV pumping of MooCs and other "disrupt education" pitches hilariously ironic and bleakly dishonest.
When you join an Accelerator and the first thing
The distinction made in the context of this discussion was that frameworks call your code, whereas you call libraries.
Disconnect, too.
I think Trulia and Zillow rely on RE agents to post the information or they take it from other postings. They view it as a great marketing arm for RE agents, while agents (some) view it as a cost that isn't worth it.

With this announcement[1], if I am a broker in NY, why would I post to Zillow if this other agency's listings are always going to be higher than my listings.

1 - http://zillow.mediaroom.com/2014-06-24-Zillow-and-Douglas-El...
Surely Schrodinger’s Paradox implies cause and effect?
Having been involved with a couple of large collaboration physics experiments (but not this one) I can relate my experience that everything is planned in advance in frustratingly great detail. I'd assume that someone promised to be able to transport it via the short route, and was simply unable to deliver, or that the design specs had to be changed after the contracts had been let or something to that effect.

edit: Note here that they started planning at or before 2001 http://www.katrin.kit.edu/130.php#Anker10
The itch I needed scratched was that Trello lists sometimes disintegrate into junk-drawers. Their API let me build something to pull out a list, let the team rank the cards and then reimport it into Trello. Yay for killer APIs! http://blog.forcerank.it/tame-your-trello-backlog
The MLS and agent-based system is the real culprit. Until Zillow and Trulia came around and really captured attention, that data was accessed on a few larger sites, like Realtor.com, but also a massive amount of smaller agent sites.

While Zillow is ultimately doing the same thing, I think they can eventually position themselves strong enough to start wedging agents out of the process. One of the huge issues is that the MLS listings are the go-to source for information. If you want to buy a house that's in MLS, or want to list your house for sale in MLS, you gotta play ball with agents. Since MLS is such a dominant marketing tool, they're able to maintain the archaic, but profitable, agent system. If Zillow, minus the MLS, becomes a strong enough marketplace for homes, you'll have viable competition to MLS.

There are already flat-fee MLS agents out there, where you control the commission on the buyer-side and pay a flat fee on the seller-side to get into the MLS listings. That's a decent hack for sellers right now, but it's still just a small improvement on a crappy system.
This is from the tributary of the Danube to that of the Rhine, so there will be mountains in between. There may be tunnels, but I bet they aren't large enough for this.

Any company building this kind of stuff will be familiar with the problem of shipping stuff to the customer.

So, I guesstimate that this problem and the solution were foreseen before they started construction.
One part I didn't like is towards the beginning the author says: "Nobody knows why we don’t observe these kinds of strange superpositions in the macroscopic world. For some reason, quantum mechanics just doesn’t work on that scale. And therein lies the mystery, one of the greatest in science."

But I thought the reason we dont see macroscopic events exhibiting quantum superposition behavior was because of quanutm decoherence? It's just so hard to get a macroscopic situation that hasnt already been observed and collapsed.

But then the author kinda hints at this point later when he mentions: "Physicists have become increasingly skilled at creating conditions in which ever larger objects demonstrate quantum behaviour."

Am I missing something, or is he blowing the problem (and the impact of Bolotin's computational limit theory) way out of proportion?
Basically 1 company owns all the fast food restaurants in Puerto Rico. This company owns 0 McDonalds franchises.
YC Checkr Automates Background Checks For The New, On-Demand Economy
Some might argue that the ones who are not legacy or come from preferred families(wealthy and prestigious), are only there to increase the worth of those legacy and preferred family students.

Essentially, ivy league schools let in a certain amount of highly talented people by offering them an incredible education, often with financial incentives, on order to increase the value of the "real" students. The legacy and preferred family students who the school is really there to serve and are the majority of graduates.

Those companies that have a hiring preference for ivy league students are often just falling for the scheme as opposed to getting truly exceptional candidates.
sigh no, it doesn't "outperform humans" on "face recognition". In particular, see my previous comments [1] and [2] for discussion on why this method might be doing well.

As for "outperforming humans", a more accurate statement might be, "this algorithm outperforms (for this simplistic task) one experiment done with a limited set of humans on this one particular dataset which has been in the community for 10 years now and is thus highly gameable."

But I realize that's a lot less pithy.

In particular, this dataset is nearing saturation, and whenever that happens, differences in the accuracy numbers often don't mean much. So for example with Facebook's number at 97.53% and this paper's at 98.52%, you're talking about the difference between getting 148 pairs of faces wrong vs 89 pairs wrong. In practical terms, as a researcher working with a dataset like this, you very quickly learn to focus on just the ones your algorithm gets wrong, and it's impossible to not subconsciously try to optimize for getting those few cases correct, even if those techniques wouldn't actually help in the general case.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7637866

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7638269
Er, to be a startup you have to be in a hot, happening city. Otherwise you're just a new business.
kudu, are you getting 60Mbps at http://www.speedtest.net ?
Would high helium prices prevent this nowadays?
Trend Hunter – Facial Recognition
The guy is a legend to learn from over and and over

He namechecks this great older post on PR and conferences and how to launch:
http://joelonsoftware.com/items/2011/09/15.html

Worth a re-look for every startup founder

The shortest possible version is: launch is important
Rent, sure, but many other personal responsibilities are not so kind - especially from vendors who can legally tack on cumulative late fees.

Try not paying your Comcast or Verizon bill on time for a month or two and see what happens. The envelope only starts coming in red after quite a few fees are tacked on.

[EDIT: Don't actually try that :) ]
There are multiple very large public companies in the US which boast that their CEO earns a salary of only $1. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-dollar_salary

Is there some difference between the type of corporation which makes it acceptable, or could the IRS potentially go after all of those individuals?
Tame Your Trello Backlog: How to weed out that junk drawer
vi: combinations of commands.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1218390/what-is-your-most...
> What happens if Sacha wants to inform her self by reading a few old nature papers?

She can go to pretty much any reference library in the world. I'm all for open access but let's not over-do it.
honestly i have no idea why people complains about the ctrl and i actually love how accessible ctrl is.
i use ctrl all the time, ctrl-c, ctrl-v, ctrl-a, ctrl-e etc ... ie; ctrl-xs ctrl-xc just rolls off my finger like nothing. i think capslock thing was just a thing of the past when capslock was where ctrl was/is now.
This is just awful. There's owning up to mistakes, which is very "trendy" right now, and then there's being a straight up terrible, unethical, incompetent person. It's a bit gross to reference Ben Horowitz, to try to make this seem like a "classic" startup moment that every startup goes through. E.g., "most companies go through at least two, and sometimes over a dozen WFIOs in their lifetime."

1. "And so I learned that we hadn’t been paying payroll taxes for almost 3 years – a particularly painful thing given I believe in taxes as a means of giving back to society." It's weird and manipulative to throw in how much you believe in giving back to society here. You majorly screwed up oversight of how investment money was being spent to not notice the difference in financials given no taxes were being paid!

"This hurt even more because I’d been paying myself one of the lowest salaries on the team to maximize our runway and support our mission." Again, you're the founder. If you're going to make that statement, at least include that you have a much larger equity stake in the company - you're not sacrificing yourself completely!

2. "Mistake 3: Not being explicit about hacks" should be re-written, "Being Dishonest." Cloaking the language as "hacks" and again referencing PG to make your behavior acceptable - (he says it's ok, it's just really a grey area!)

3. "Mistake 7: Telling a half-truth" should be called "lying." If you still think it's a half-truth, you have NOT learned your lesson. It's not "rule bending." Everyone knows that when you say you dropped out of Harvard, the assumption is that you were some form of degree earning student. Seriously, it wasn't a half-truth if the people you're talking to were assuming something else - it was a lie.

Lastly, NOWHERE do I see remorse for the lives of your employees who you laid off. These people trusted and believed in you, and you let them down. Did these people find new jobs? Did you help them find new jobs? How did you structure their layoff packages? Are any still struggling? Were you able to support their next career moves in some way if not monetarily? Not really mentioned, which suggests you don't really care. You're much more focused on you.
There's still the matter of all the owner's crap in the car, and current EVs would need nearly as much engineering as ICE vehicles to sit vertically anyway.

For example, the Model S still has brake fluid, washer fluid, coolant, and transmission oil, all which are stored in conventional automotive containers and which would absolutely perform abnormally if the car were raised to vertical.

I also suspect the transaxle has open breathers which would drain oil in the vertical position.

EVs do contain far fewer moving parts and reduce drivetrain complexity over ICE cars, but in every production EV design I've seen you only save one fluid (engine oil). Tesla just hide the car's fluids from their owners by putting plastic covers over everything but the washer fluid and then demanding you take the car to an "annual service."
An interesting assertion. I don't think it's valid to object that this is just about hard-to-solve equations. As I understand the article, this is the argument:

1) It's not possible to directly observe a macroscopic quantum object. This is because the act of observation collapses the wave function.

2) It's possible in theory to describe macroscopic quantum objects in the solutions to Schrodinger's equation

3) That solution for macroscopic systems is NP-hard

4) A physical theory that can neither be observed nor modeled is "nothing more than [a] nontestable empty [abstraction]"
Severe Space Weather Events–Understanding Societal and Economic Impacts (2009)
I didn't say Gosu was proprietary. They've taken this whole "open-source" catchphrase and made some CIO's, that generally don't know anything other than budgets and bodies, feel better.

It does, however, tie you completely to the Guidewire platform/products. A very smart move by the company. It will be decades before these slow-moving behemoths will rip out this language that was a blip on the radar. That doesn't mean it was needed or is as historically important as the devs seem to think.
It's hard enough to use availability of free wifi as a booking filter, let alone quality. Wonder if there isn't space for an independent filtering service -- taking the listings from elsewhere and simply sorting by your own criteria.
(A lot of the metadata data is provided through third parties. For example, walk scores are provided via... well, Walk Score, a Seattle startup. http://www.walkscore.com/professional/walk-score-apis.php)
I agree

For those who never saw the Navier-Stokes equation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Navier_Stokes#Derivation_and_de...

That's it. It looks simple but it involves Tensor math.
The opposite solution is to be arbitrarily constrained by the transportation's environment. This is what NASA has done, their modules and engine parts are made to fit within the dimensions of the tunnels between the point of manufacture and the launch site where they assemble it all together.
Unless, of course, our entire reality is running on a very powerful, but not infinitely powerful computer, and the Great Programmers in the Sky decided to cheat by putting in a hack that cuts off quantum behaviour at a larger scale...

Unlikely, but cute...
Mapping the Spread of Drought Across the U.S
Socket acceptor pool for Golang
The fact that this has 133 points as of 7/24 is proof that, true or false, the campaign worked. It was shared on my FB feed 4 times today. People don't care if the stats are real because it resonates with them on a personal level.
Interesting and semi-related: http://www.opticsinfobase.org/oe/abstract.cfm?id=140598

Essentially, solving the traveling salesman problem in quadratic time using photon interference -- however, since the photons scale up as N^N, the Schwarzschild radius of the effect means it's not observable in less than exponential time.
Contributing to Open Source Git Repositories in Go
A FAB post on Material Design
For anyone interested, here's Scott Aaronson's response to the paper: http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=1767#comment-103591
Why, oh why, does Taco Bell's "breakfast" not have damn salsa!?

I mean, it's mexican food, for breakfast (not!).

So ya, nobody does do "crazy" anymore in Fast Food. Just normal, add some more onions + BBQ Sauce and it will sell.
How much conversation is actually taking place on social media?
"I asked him about his unwillingness to do what others have done (at the time it was drive faster than the speed limit on an empty road) "

The above (parent comment) as well as your comment "I pulled all the money out super excited about my find. He explained it wasn't mine" ... well, I can't agree that it teaches the proper lesson, even to a child.

Forgetting whether he is even right "it isn't yours" (I could argue against this) I think that's exactly the type of rigidity that teaches someone not to appreciate the nuance that you need to actually make real decisions in life. It just teaches black and white and unfortunately things aren't typically black and white.

I'm reminded of a time on "The Apprentice" where a candidate who was favored by Trump told him something claiming to be honest and thinking it was going to get him ahead and instead Trump "fired him". Forgetting we are talking about a TV show here (and obvious drama) life is full of nuances which you have to navigate. Being "too" honest can also send a message that you are not flexible and willing to consider the circumstances.

As far as "drive faster than the speed limit on an empty road" (the parent comment) the devil is in the details. Driving 56 in a 55 mile per hour zone is not a problem. In fact driving 60 isn't and at least where I live 65 isn't either. Cops typically never give tickets without some slack. And there is a reason for that.

If I interviewed someone and they claimed to not drive over the speed limit I wouldn't give any bonus points for that I'd actually take points away.

To me (and with all due respect to the parent commenters grandfather) when I hear things like this I think something is trying to prove honesty a bit to much and (once again not to imply the parent commenters grandfather is such a person) that is the type of person I actually watch out for sometimes.
I'm currently hunting for a home and the only two sites I've found relevant are Zillow and Redfin. Can someone explain to me why I'd use Trulia?
Slight tangent, but it's sort of the same with investing too.

If you're investing or saving 30% of your income, it's better to work somewhere with higher COL / higher pay. This way over time you accrue more wealth than you would if you were working in an area with low COL and lower pay.
One of several studies on what would occur if a Carrington-level event occurred today.

See also the OECD's report: http://www.oecd.org/governance/risk/46891645.pdf

The remarkable thing is that it would cost in the low billions to safe the United States' EHV transformers, which are the most difficult components to replace, but I suppose we simply don't invest in infrastructure anymore.