skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For the record: I consider raverbashing's comments constructive. He/she is honestly engaging with the material and other people. The second point is similar to one several people have already made on the thread.
> Also, it is interesting that they are not using deep learning for this. They are using a Discriminative Gaussian Process Latent Variable Model.

It's my understanding that deep learning is more interesting when you have a large dataset and need to generalize (e.g., recognize faces sideways, upside-down, etc), otherwise, when the requirements are more predictable, the hand-tuned algorithms tend to perform better. The task of finding whether two pictures are from the same person doesn't seem appropriate for DL (compared to e.g. find whether a picture contains a person).

Would that be correct?
This works pretty well where I live. Here in Vancouver, a major bridge that takes traffic into the downtown core is only 3 undivided lanes. There's a huge amount of traffic flowing over this bridge in the morning as it connects work to home for somewhere in the range of 60,000 - 70,000 commuters daily. From the residential side of the bridge, traffic zipper merges from 4 lanes into either one or two depending on the time of day. The traffic is coming from two different sources (west and east) so each source will zipper merge and then the zipper merged lanes will zipper merge onto the bridge. I honestly have no idea what this would look like any other way.

Zipper merges are obvious and natural if you set them up right - what it takes is the knowledge to do it. Once people know that they should be yielding to the mergers, the whole merge process speeds up considerably.
Sounds pretty made up. It's over 200ms for me to see a reply from most servers just due to the latency coming in and out of the deep sea cables. I wager most nodes in a p2p system would have peers far above that. You can't get around limitation that no matter how fancy your code.
I'd imagine zipper merging situation would change dramatically as soon as long trucks are involved.
Emacs is not an IDE- its a text editor. It would be nuts to use Emacs to edit Java compared to Intellij or even Eclipse. Having said that, it is no more productive than any other text editor at editing text (as compared to Vim or Sublime Text 3). Even if that weren't true, would you really invest years into learning a new editor to make editing text a few percent faster? Programming is limited by thought, not typing (common pain here is solved by plugins anyway). The benefits of using emacs are as follows:

1. terminal based
2. key chords
3. (e)lisp
4. open source
5. stable
6. extensible
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Late merging works fine in Seattle, and in my experience the lane that's closed moves substantially faster than the open lane because Seattle drivers will actually let you merge in. That's not how I recalled it working when I lived in Texas though. In Texas if you got caught in the closed lane you were pretty much stuck there for a while, while the guys in the open lane whizzed by too fast for anybody in the slower (possibly stopped) closed lane to merge safely.
Lenovo laptops tend to have BIOS enforced whitelists, so if you have one, dont be surprised if the new card doesnt work.
Poor founders and your VC-funded pain.

How about some empathy for each of those employees you are firing, who have to go home and face families and lives that they've shared with you and you have essentially shat upon?

They are not "resources". They are people, humans, and their lives and loves are just as important as yours. They shared a piece of their humanity with you to help you in your dream. A dream which, make no mistake, isn't making the world a better place. It's you yourself getting rich. You used these people and now they have to deal with their lessons learned.

Which aren't "lying is a bad thing" and "not paying taxes is bad" and "I need to network more with rich people." They are- "I need to find a new job and/or draw unemployment, I need to cope with this shock to my system, and I need to figure out how I'm going to pay the bills".

All the "libertarians" in this business lose sight of social agreements and safety nets, until they get screwed by someone who shares that approach.
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Well, cost trumps.

My comment above wasn't shooting down the concept of reuse, but showing that the lateral range of the stage 1 Saturn V booster was pretty significant. To re-land at Kennedy, you'd likely have to:

1. Change the launch trajectory to gain more initial vertical range.

2. (Possibly) reduce the first stage size to decrease its range. This means increasing comparatively the 2nd and 3rd stage sizes.

3. Use of strap-on boosters (themselves independently recoverable) which would reduce the mass of the remaining recoverable stage 1, and hence the momentum that would have to be re-vectored to KSC.

And while reusability is good, it's a bit like Amdhal's Law: your initial gains are the biggest, and likely you're going to see a cost function something like:

(fixed booster cost + reusability engineering cost) / reuses +
additional fuel cost + refurbishment costs + launch risk

The first two elements are going to decrease with reuse. The reusibility engineering costs will likely themselves be a function of reuses. And at some point you are below the increased incremental fuel, refurbishment, and launch risk (failure) costs.

Which doesn't say that the exercise is futile. Only that past 3-4 reuses you're gaining little for what's likely a large additional expense, or phrased differently, there's a minimum cost if you want to go to space today.
I still prefer a BK burger to most MCD's burgers.

There is a BK near the office, and I used to attempt a drive-thru on my lunch -- but, their drive-thru was actually slower than going inside. After a few attempts (and being late back to the office once) I gave up.
I should have been clearer...I think that model is effective only when users who have disproportionally significant influence are charged.

So Gaga and Obama should actually be charged an annual fee of something like $20,000. Maybe it's tiered, so someone like Robert Scoble pays $2,000.

Going by number of followers, Gaga's influence is an entire order of magnitude higher than Scoble's, so it makes sense for her fee to be an order of magnitude higher.

Everyone else below a certain threshold is free. I wouldn't (and shouldn't) pay for Twitter...it gives me little influence.
Yes, but at the same time, this is not a trial or an execution. Let's not bee too harsh (some of the comments above clearly are).
It sounds like the paper is pretty much gibberish from a scientific perspective, which makes sense.

It was, however, an interesting thought for me, and brought up a lot of classic philosophy questions about the nature of our universe, e.g. why would it matter if anyone could calculate it or not? If it was true would it lend evidence to a 'universe is computer-like' model?

Still neat to consider.
I don't know if this matches academia, but in my usage "identity" means that a user can prove they are the same user ("A user can establish that they are identical to another user.") What you're looking for is demonstrating uniqueness ("A user can establish that they are identical to no other user of the system"). I think that is a part of "identification", as you say, although my usage of "identification" might include mapping to other information (govt. records or similar). I don't know which of these MaidSafe is assuming - the first is not hard, UI notwithstanding. The others are.
Please allow me to refer to http://www.zdziarski.com/blog/?p=3466, Jonathan Zdziarski is far more qualified than I am to provide further information.
If everyone maintains speed it's actually not a big deal.
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Yes, as far as anybody seriously believes this is completely impossible. Their "solution" will likely be not one at all. There's several comments floating around that MaidSafe has saved all of the people who bought MasterCoin and didn't have anywhere to dump it due to the markets being too shallow. I'm inclined to believe that's more the purpose than anything.
Same here: http://www.hotelwifitest.com/hotels/nl/amsterdam/

Edit: it's working.
Hey HN, we're a pre-launch startup (http://www.hellowulu.com) that would love to hear your thoughts on the state of conversation online. Are you having real conversations on Twitter/Facebook/etc?
Screenshots? Details?

Trello is already quite a good UI on its own. What benefits do I get for trusting your app with access to my account?
Sorry for that, I had only stumbled on the article today, and HN did not catch it as a double post.
Root, a more compact/less bulky alternative to LibGDX
It depends on what you mean by implicits. If you are talking about implicit parameters then yes you are right. If on the other hand you are talking about implicit conversions, depending on their implementation they can impact performance by generating garbage etc.
I'm always blown away but how smoothly some areas handle congestion when overpasses are being built or repaired.
not exactly estimating, but I built something to let the team vote on items in a Trello list. We usually vote more along the lines of "bang for the buck" ie importance/estimation http://blog.forcerank.it/tame-your-trello-backlog
I have to deal with such a merge almost daily as the main road I use is under heavy construction. I am an "early merger" mainly because the people in the left lane (right lane goes away) will not let you in if they have a choice and it is widely seen as being a "douchbag" if you fly down the right hand lane expecting to be let in at the end. I'm not saying that I disagree with this article in fact I've sat in near standstill traffic in the lefthand land and I've had plenty of time to wonder if merging at the merge point does make more sense, which I think it does.

I personally wish they would have closed off the entire right lane as there is only a couple hundred meter stretch where this road is 2 lanes and so I wish they had just kept it a single lane all the way though while construction was underway. Here is the road in question: http://s.joshstrange.com/oRq9.png From where you see Louie Pl it turns into a 2 lane road then goes back to 1 lane at Opportunity Way then back to 2 lane where you see it get fatter again. However construction makes the road for a mile or two after Opportunity Way 1 lane only so the 2 lanes for such a small stretch are almost more trouble than they are worth.
I think it will be pretty much expected that people will be talking about their ideas at Startup School. I'll be there and would be happy to strike up a conversation about that kind of thing.

However you may want to think what you'll actually be asking people or what you want to get out of it. If you're trying to validate your idea - are we even your intended customer?

Alternatively you maybe looking more for some opinions on the technical challenges, to find someone to work with equally excited by the idea, info from people with industry experience, advice on the business side.

Ask the right kinds of questions and hopefully you'll get more than a general 'neat idea' kind of response.
"In reality, though, the main point that you missed is that in a world made of shades of gray, the only person you can ever truly rely on is yourself. If you don't have scruples and you don't have honor, you don't have anything."

Well let me put it this way. I don't think you understand my point about nuances and that I (once again) don't feel any of this is black and white.

As an example the honor that I might display, and scruples I might display, for an individual are not the same that I might display for a corporation. If I hired someone, a hacker, to do programming, I would be much more lenient because of a person relationship and especially because of the knowing that my actions would have a large effect on that individual. Otoh if I had a project that was being done by "IBM Global services" I would absolutely angle things differently if things weren't done right. I wouldn't care about that company not getting it's $10,000 (arbitrary obviously).

If an individual were doing a project for me and made a mistake and under billed me I would point it out. If IBM did the same I wouldn't.

As it happens I have seen various behavior (on the other side, say vendors) of both individuals and corporations over a long long time that I have spent in business. And each situation really is different.
"Most hotels offer free WiFi"

This may be true in the US but I don't think it's necessarily true in Europe. Too many hotels in the UK/Ireland claim to offer "internet access" which turns out to mean no wifi (or mysteriously permanently broken wifi) and one ancient PC in reception which nobody can tell you the password for. Germany was better for wifi but often had paid wifi in the rooms and free wifi only in reception, which I guess still lets them advertise it as "free".

Still, I like the site idea. If I could use the site to avoid the above, all the better.
Does it matter?

I'm sure he isn't actually doing much engineering/coding these days. His time is probably spent managing for the most part, in-which case it's easy to see him being able to juggle the three. (not saying managing is easy)
I am one of those people who find GAE a joy to use especially for projects like intranet sites. Obviously, GAE is not one size fits all. It doesn't even try to be one. Although you might find it hard to know whether GAE is the right tool/platform as for the size of the product is immense (Google Cloud Platform). Heck, you might have missed what you truly need.

I was given a chance to work with AppScale on a project and all I can say is that Google is lucky that they're there. AppScale and GAE truly complement each other. And only those who've used both products will get that.

I am sad for those who are swayed to the FUD in this thread, they truly miss a lot. Not all people want to do devops. Not everyone wants to spend time brainstorming what the optimal stack to use. Some just want to code, build fast, and that's what AE/AS offers.
I think you really missed the mark on what they were trying to illustrate.

It's not following societies rules for the sake of it. It's following your own internal compass, _and_sticking_to_it_ regardless of if it benefits you now or harms you. Theirs just aligned with certain things you obviously don't value in a person.
So in a country that has seen tens of thousands of extrajudicial killings in recent decades, not to mention cases of "torture, rape, incineration, decapitation and mutilation with chainsaws or machetes of dozens of their victims at a time, affecting civilians, women and children" (according to sources quoted by WP) -- the vast majority of which have never been prosecuted, and most likely never will be -- they're going to string this guy up for... sharing a PDF?

And for the sake of... a "free trade" agreement?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paramilitarism_in_Colombia
I've never been to Cambodia and it seems to me that every time I see videos or pictures from this country, everything is really tidy and clean in spite of it being very poor.

This contrasts with my experience of other poor countries where most places are dirty and messy.
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That's great! And reminds me of a 93-year old guy who gave a great presentation at TEDxZurich some time ago:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGgoCm1hofM
Box closed: two cats, one scientist. Box opened: two cats, two scientists, each sees one cat. Entangling yourself with the superposition pulls you into it.
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It all depends on the type of business you are in and at what stage your company is at. I'm a freelancer but I have staff. My office is based outside the city, but all my work comes from clients in Manchester and London, UK. The major cities are where the opportunities, networking and money comes from. My sacrifice for cheaper living means higher travel costs, longer work hours and in some cases less credibility. For myself, the offset of living in a low crime area with better schools works for me. But, I can understand why startups decide to work in expensive areas. Wealth breeds wealth.
My same sentiments, his stuff is often filled with typical rally cries you'll see from places like Reddit.
umm. is anyone as confused as I am?
Emacs and Vi are not IDEs. They operate on strings, not ASTs. Intellij Idea is an IDE for Java- it allows you to eg change the name of a method and have all call sites be updated. A text editor forces you to do this yourself with a string based find/replace. Having said that, text editors are easier to extend.
If I'm not mistaken, requiring the "date" stdlib wasn't required until Ruby 1.9, so that might account for its low spot on the list. I'm not sure but the same might be true for "time".
yes. now i realize.
One example is not a long history, and evidence not properly investigated by law enforcement is not legally admissible -- or credible -- evidence.

Doesn't it seem odd to you that not a single one of these shrill feminists complaining about rape and death threats ever goes to the police? Not one?

How are we to know that they're telling the truth, when they have so much to gain from lying, and they're caught lying all the time, anyway -- as Sarkeesian herself was?
SF is the most extreme example, but I think it is hard to grow a tech company outside of a tech hub (such as Silicon Valley or Seattle). Other tech hubs have the same cost of living problems (to a lesser extent), but they also have potential investors, mentors, and employees.
I never understood why, if the AN-225 is so insanely useful, only one has ever been build. Surely there would be economic benefit in building another few?
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The format I use is:

Read the person's name card and try to understand how to pronounce it. If it's a foreign name, every letter usually should be pronounced as written as otherwise it would not be there.

Hi, ___. What are you building these days?
If what they are building is interesting, I ask more questions about it and decline to talk about what I do until I have a good understanding of what they do.

...

Eventually the conversation will turn to you. Now you can say something like "I am building ___ that solves the ___ problem for ___ by _______________________."

This statement should be practiced and fluid. Ideally, you should tie to the other person's business. Try to keep it under 15 seconds. Then stop and do not continue unless the person you are talking to asks you more questions about it.

...

I usually close the conversation with. "I think your ideal prospects are ___. Is that correct? ____ knows me and I'll send her an email about you right now, if that is OK. By the way, do you by chance know anyone who would benefit from using my product today?"

The key is to be able to add value to the other person immediately. You should be genuinely interested in learning more.

Simply categorizing your contacts and interconnecting them when appropriate also creates value. Just be careful to not create irrelevant introductions.

Unless the person you are talking to is representative of the target market, it is unlikely you will get validation. You may get informed of existing competition, which is valuable. I ask for referrals on the spot, but that takes practice to do smoothly.

I will go out of my way to not give you negative feedback. I've slipped a few times and it just made me feel awful. That is why if you wish to be talked out of doing something going to a place full of entrepreneurs is a wrong approach.
Between shoddy quality and security, I just tether to LTE. That means no Netflix, but Netflix usually runs especially poorly at hotels anyway.
Zipper merging works great as long as everyone on both sides is willing to alternate (or if strong enforcement requires them to do so). Otherwise, letting "late mergers" scream past fifty "early mergers" often creates a situation worse than simple early merge. There's plenty of blame to go around.

* The vast majority of the people blasting down the late-merge lane clearly have no interest in alternating or merging into the largest/safest gap at the end. They'll squeeze into the smallest latest gap that they think they can possibly get away with.

* Quite a few of the early mergers feel they've already done their part. Whether they're competitive, territorial, or sincerely concerned with traffic flow/safety, they're not much interested in alternating with the late mergers either.

So how does this play out every effing day at construction projects and toll booths? You end up with a few late mergers playing chicken with a few early mergers at the chokepoint, jockeying for position inch by inch and degree by degree as they try to cut each other off. That's where all the "vigilantes" come from - they're people who are already stuck in the aftermath, they know how it happened, and they have decided that they'd rather settle for forced early merge than botched zipper merge.

Without enforcing proper merge behavior on both sides, zipper merge just becomes a big Prisoners' Dilemma game with a few defectors screwing all of the cooperators.
I wrote this a lot more than 1337 days ago. IIRC it first appeared on Slashdot.

http://it.slashdot.org/story/07/01/07/1352242/blurring-image...

Not sure what prompted someone to repost it to HN today. But that's cool because I see people continue doing this on a daily basis.
Does the reduced provisioning time create a huge security nightmare? I don't really see how it does.
Why do you want to avoid computer vision ?

If the space is unobstructed and the objects are visually distinctive it should be fairly easy to do this with a pair of cameras with known position and orientation.

100 Hz is pretty fast but that's mostly a question of how much processing power you're able to throw at the problem.

I've done some work with 3D object tracking. If you'd like to discuss this further my contact info is in my profile.
``It was through the private world of family that the public world of politics came alive.´´

-Sonia Gandhi-

This is a first. Never seen a startup quoting from a politician from India (not related to Mahatma Gandhi) in their landing page :)
You realize the paywall gives non-subscribers more access to these TNY articles than before, right? Before this current "free access" thing, 99% of New Yorker articles were not available online.
This brings up an excellent side point that I taught my children... that stealing is not taking something that belongs to someone else, it is taking something that does not belong to you.

It is a subtle, but important, distiction that is often used as a rationalization.

Edit: This really belongs on the child comment.
I've always found it fascinating how a single bad driver can cause a massive traffic jam ("ghost traffic jam"). I think this should be taught when you're learning to drive as part of some sort of mandatory basic training - zipper merges should be in there too.
Good reason to get a Clear hotspot, no more looking for the working WIFI connection, or cafe password, or trying to get the "I agree" TOS page to load. (PS: I'm not invested in Clear, have no affiliation.)
As a driver in the UK, I don't understand what exactly the difference between a merge and an overtake is. It is quite common here for roads to change from 2 lanes to 1 lane. There's no signage telling you to merge. There's no rules telling you what to do. You just operate by the same logic as an overtake, and you'll find that, quite naturally, everybody 'zip merges'. Perhaps the reason for the inefficiency is having rules in the first instance.