skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Adding in commentary like this immediately weakens the broader points, which is unfortunate.

Hmm.

Some would argue that by adding in commentary like 'Typical "smear by association" (without any link whatsoever) from the left' it immediately weakens the broader points, which is unfortunate.
$600 is for an entire cabinet, 15A, 100 Mbps bandwidth. HE doesn't offer half-cabinets in that facility, or I would have gotten one.

Note that 15 A is nowhere near enough power to fill it to even 1/3 capacity.
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I don't necessarily trust the adblock developers. The whitelist can say that a sitekey is only used on certain sites, but how can I know it isn't also being used on others? If sites want to have their ads white-listed, they should be less sneaky about it and just add `ad` to the class, making it possible for the users to prove that only that ad is whitelisted.
Just make daily backups. That goes for any bookmarking service you use.
Obviously, but enough to base their bike purchase around that aspect? Most people I know who ride a lot and spend up on their bikes use them primarily for commuting (they know the route) or exercise (know the route or are riding with friends who know). Again, sample set is just those I know, but they still drive if they're heading to a meeting or event at a new location.
I don't think most nuclear waste gets nearly hot enough.
You are right.

I should have just made the comment, like you, that I dislike having baseless links added to such releases, just because people don't like our current Prime Minister. It's completely irrelevant and detracts significantly from the seriousness of the information.

For what it's worth, I would make the same comment about any Prime Minister, regardless of party or persuasion.
I imagine a future where we will be able to track everything we eat automatically without having to enter any data in onto an app. Imagine seeing data about your body right on your arm. I eat a sandwich and it tells me exactly how many calories it was. I'll be the first to signup for something like this if/when this comes out.
I couldn't agree more with almost everything you just said (especially number 2). My only potential issue is with number 5. While I agree that raw data should be shared for purposes of reproducibility and progress, I can also partially sympathize with investigators who put in enormous time and effort to coordinate and run large studies / clinical trials.

If investigators were forced to immediately release their raw data from these studies, there would be armies of other investigators swooping in to scoop the original team on follow on studies from the data. While this would certainly be great for science, it partially punishes investigators for actually conducting the large trials. I'm not sure how justifiable it would be to put in the effort to conduct a large clinical trial and then only get 1-2 papers out of it (even if they went into NEJM / JAMA / Lancet etc).

What are your thoughts?
By all means confuse Pinboard with Pinterest if you are depositing that sweet VC money.
I crossfit, a community that is associated with the paleo diet. No one interprets paleo literally. It's just a buzz word that generally means eat less processed foods, more fruits, vegetables, lean meats, and healthy fats, and limit grains. Some folks do cleanse diets first. I've seen folks loose dozens to hundreds of pounds. For many, this is the first time they've actually paid attention to what they are eating. And this is really the important part. Pay attention to what you eat and avoid processed foods as much as possible. Call it paleo or "clean eating." Who cares.

Aside, I don't think carbs are evil, but they are very energy dense and not particularly satiating, especially refined carbs (i.e. carbs not from produce). I run 60 miles a week, crossfit 3-5x a week, and still have to pay attention to limit calories from refined carbs.
It's funny you should say that as the font in Hexiled ended up being the very, very default Arial Black and the icons are almost entirely based off Font Awesome. I paid a lot of attention though to consistency where possible (colours, use of caps, "voice" of the game, etc) but there's a lot of room for improvement.

Thanks so much for the encouragement. We've had a great experience launching the game. I'm on Twitter at @isaacforman if you have any feedback about Hexiled.
No need to downvote if you just disagree, that's not how HN is supposed to work :( It appears that you are using a different meaning for revenue.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revenue

Revenue normally refers to top-line or gross income. This is why I clarified with the 'net-' addition, it's probably what led to the confusion in the first place.

Flipkart nowadays anyway operates on a 'store' model for the most part so sales margin for this discussion could actually be meaningless anyway. But since they were doing an exclusive, perhaps they were directly selling, in which case it would be pertinent to the discussion.
I wish this article focused on how to apply these techniques to actual problems a typical developer would have as opposed to, "Here are some ways of visualizing data".

It felt like my typical high school class. They'd teach us how to calculate the circumference of a circle, but they never told us what we'd use it for. "Programming" is not specific enough.
I think the issue with electric bikes is that until you try one out you have no idea what you are missing out on. Recently I was able to test a direct drive (The motor is in the bottom bracket and assists you pedalling). It's phenomenal.

I could easily go up very steep hills without a lot of effort and I weigh 270lb. I could even vary the help it was giving me and choose to have more of a workout.

What I would suggest is that if you are on the heavy side or intend to carry heavy loads, direct drive is the best for you.

One negative side to the e-bike legislation is that in the UK, it's speed limited to assist up to 15MPH and on 250W motors. To a certain extent I have no issue with the assist cutting out at 15MPH (20 would be nicer), however the 250W limit reduces torque and if you had a load of shopping with you, this could be an issue.

The issue I find with the Copenhagen wheel is that it is trying to think for you and you control the wheel through your phone. When riding, I prefer not to remove my hands from the handle bar. Most if not all ebike configurations place the motor control near a thumb as if you were holding on to the handle bar. My criticism may be unfounded, but you need control sometimes at a moments notice.

The other issue is one of battery charging. Most people that I know that have an ebike, have bought two chargers, one for work and one for home, and charge their batteries at both ends by removing the battery from the bike and leaving the bike locked up in the parking lot. The copenhagen wheel doesn't seem to support that idea.
The only way I can think of breaking even is by asking for donations. Is donationware in the Internet age a viable option? Has anyone done it successfully?

Dwarf Fortress is supported solely by donations:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorf_fortress

Metafilter, a web community, recently had a funding crisis and has managed to handily cover it with donations (in a scenario where the owner did not so much ask for donations as got told "Shut up and take our money").

Though, that's a community, not an app. The principle is the same though: If enough people want it and value it, yes, it is possible to get donations. But, first, you need people wanting it.

Best of luck.
That's a classy reply. Thanks.
Comparing only the 13" models, you get 2 Thunderbolt ports so you can use an external display and Thunderbolt Ethernet adapter at the same time. Actually if you use HDMI for your display you can use a Thunderbolt drive as well. The 13" Retina is only .5 lbs heavier than the 13" Air. It still has integrated video but it's a generation better than the current Air's.
This strawman is the most common way of "debunking" the paleo diet. It's like saying that vegetarians should only ever eat vegetables. The article even sort of acknowledges that:

Some Paleo dieters emphasize that they never believed in
one true caveman lifestyle or diet and that—in the fashion
of Sisson's Blueprint—they use our evolutionary past to
form guidelines, not scripture. That strategy seems
reasonably solid at first, but quickly disintegrates.

..and then goes on to attack the same strawman.

No doubt there are people out there that think the paleo diet means that you should live exactly like hunter-gatherers and think they know what that means, but I think for most people on it (I am not one), that is just inspiration that leads you to conclude that maybe meat is less dangerous than popular advice would have you believe, and maybe the better guideline is to avoid food that's been heavily processed. This certainly feels like what Mark Sisson is proposing.
Thanks for sharing this. I enjoy Mallat's point of view. He has some similar talks on videolectures.net for anyone who's interested.
You need a hot source and a cold sink to transform energy.

Only if it's thermal energy. Given the small amount of power needed, they could easily use a betavoltaic generator.
Yes appeals used to go the Privy council [1].

Talking about anachronistic ties to the UK, Australia should do something about all the UK citizens on the electoral roll. There are hundreds of thousands of non-Australian citizens (i.e UK citizens who arrived before 1984) who can vote in Australian elections. Really if you can’t decide if you want to be an Australian citizen after being here for 30 years then you really should stop voting in Australian elections!

[1]. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Court_of_Australia
I guess today _is_ another day.

The fundamental issue is that, IMhO, security classification needs to be attached to the data at the lowest level -- OS level is simply to coarse. Take for example an encrypted channel. At the OS level the channel is treated opaquely whereas at the programming language level, after decryption the authenticated data can be assigned both a different level of secrecy and trust, and it can be data dependent. Strong type systems can ensure that secret data is never accidentally leaked, nor untrusted data used in a trusted context. (For a real-life simple subset of this, see tperl).

It may be possible to build such a system on top of seL4, but seL4 isn't sufficient.

I do intend on working on this eventually. Incidentally, D. J. Bernstein recently shared a similar complaint about the state of security - the models we use have practically not advanced since the 1950es.
These kinds of articles are getting tired. Most people who started paleo years ago have modified their diets to be more of a "natural foods" diet. The only people I know who still adhere to a paleo diet are the ones trying to sell cookbooks, or somehow profit on the name paleo.

Furthermore, if these articles really wanted to help people, they would explain what pieces of the paleo are bogus, and what pieces make sense, because the fact is, if most people cut back on processed grain, refined sugar, and processed seed oils, and doubled down on fresh fruits and vegetables and solid protein, they would in fact become healthier.
Let's talk business here, because I find the numbers behind Palantir both astonishing and fascinating.

Their burn rate looks to be around $275m/yr based on employee head count and they've received ~$900m in funding:

- Seed - In-Q-Tel (~$2m)
- Debt Financing - $8.3m
- Series C - $35m
- Series D - $90m
- Secondary Market (unk amount, 137 investors)
- Series E - $50m
- Series F - $70m
- Series G - $56m
- Secondary Market (unk amount, 137 investors)
- Private Equity - $196.5m (Founders Fund)
- Private Equity - $390.4m (Feb 2014)

Their last round was almost $400m in Feb of 2014. That's almost as big as all other rounds combined. Their "valuation" (for whatever that's worth) based on the last investment round is ~$9billion.

As of August 2013 they were not yet profitable but estimates for 2013 revenue were around $450m and <$300m in 2012.

Other revenue estimates (they're all over the place honestly it seems like every time they give an interview it's a different number)

- 2010 - $50m - >$80m
- 2011 - $250m
- 2012 - <$300m
- 2013 - $450m

They've publicly announced several time they have no interest in being acquired or go public. Yet one of their investors claims on Quora that they'll probably go public in 2015 or 2016.

Some questions for people who understand this mess better than I.

- What's their exit strategy honestly look like? At $9b valuation, I can't imagine too many companies who might be interested in buying them.

- All the private equity investment tells me they're burning money faster than they can find investors, keeping it private keeps their financials private, which smells like trouble to me if they were to go public. Am I right in this analysis or wrong?

- Does dilution basically make everybody who has shares or options through 11 (eleven!) rounds of investment basically holding onto worthless paper? Even if they go public? A review of glassdoor on the company says that people are underpaid and salary capped, they must be holding on for a big payday somewhere. Are they going to end up disappointed?

Anything else that might be interesting to discuss? Their fundraising seems really crazy and unusual from anything I've seen before.

Here's a longform history [1] of the company which shows they spend over $1m/yr on lobbying (IBM spent $6m, Raytheon $7.5m, Lockheed Martin, $14.5m, Boeing, $15m). To put that in percentage terms, if Palantir is worth $9b

Palantir spends .012% of their value on lobbying
IBM spends .003%
Raytheon .026%
Lockheed Martin .027%
Boeing .017%

This article also lists 16 distinct financing events, bringing dilution of early investor shares even more to mind.

1 - http://www.mausstrategicconsulting.com/topical-analysis-blog...
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If either HTTPSB or uBlock had a version for Pale Moon (Firefox derivative) I'd use it.

Anyone have a better adblocker than Adblock Edge for PM?
Update:
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But not to worry! You can still get the course for $15 using this code:

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What data was it trained on?

Also can it tell you where in the image the identified object is?
Nothing wrong with default fonts... :-) I've used many an app that uses nothing more than Helvetica (Neue).

Maybe it's just taste, but I found Letters' font to be too rounded. It's like Arial Rounded, and reminds me of Comic Sans. Letterpress's font is also a little rounded, but for some reason it looks more professional to me than Letters' font.
This is a really creative and interesting project... Will use it for sure
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I had a commute like that too. Cycled in sports clothes and showered at work. It was great.
How is that a very simple version of the problem :)
I find Flipkart's valuation very puzzling clearly the investors have seen what I haven't. Flipkart's revenue is extremely less for a population of the size of India. They makes ~$200M in revenues per year with an operational loss which I am told is significant.

Flipkart has managed to scale its revenue but without making a profit. Even this would have appeared as a good opportunity if Flipkart was kind of de-facto e-commerce business in India. Turns out that it is not. Snapdeal, Junglee (Amazon India) are pretty close. Myntra was the leader in apparel and fashion products sale online which was then acquired by Flipkart. (Myntra was not profitable either).

I find it hard to understand why anyone believes that Flipkart would ever make profit in next 5 years or so. I find it hard to believe.

Unlike USA, India has not yet figured out how to build proper usable roads, the cities are not planned and India does not have a proper addressing system. Government regulations have further made life difficult for courier companies. All this has resulted into cities and towns where traveling over few kms is very expensive and time consuming as a result small shops catering to need of local communities have sprung up like mushrooms. Current India is probably resembles more to the A&P days of USA.

My assertion is validated by the fact that Travel Booking and Movie ticket booking websites in India are growing fast and also very profitable.
Nothing happened since nothing has really changed. It is South East Asia after all.
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> Note that 15 A is nowhere near enough power to fill it to even 1/3 capacity.

Yes that's pretty standard, afaik. The dc I worked at had individual circuits even for quarter- and half-cabbinets (2x 16A each), but i don't know how common that is in general. (instead of just putting 4 quarter-cabinets on the same circuits and have 1 customer blow his and 3 others' power)
Sublime Text with the Markdown Extended plugin, or Vim, whichever is closer at hand.
Yup, not only is it in another class, but there are at least two classes between them (eg. the $~50-~100 boards like the BeagleBone Black or the exynos 4xxx series up through the $~100-~200 range of the imx6 and exynos 5xxx), etc.

But to be fair to Microsoft, the purpose of this board isn't really anything like the purpose of the Pi, so comparing the two is really just flawed to begin with. It should really be compared to boards like tge Arndale ( http://www.arndaleboard.org/ ) and in that context the price is actually quite reasonable even if you value the the Windows image license at $0.
What IDE should I use?
Hi Guys,

New to the forum and fairly new to hacking. I've taught myself basic HTML, CSS, PHP and Javascript. I would like to start creating some project I have floating in my head for practice and possibly for some startup ideas. Just wanted some seasoned vet's opinions on what IDE is the best for beginners that provides a one-stop-shop.

Thanks.
How do you define active user?
From my experience with cats, "doormat" is actually pretty accurate. Damn things always dart right under my feet.
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Because you believe the danger of government targeting dissident or other unpopular groups accurately outweighs the benefits that the proposed program adds to terrorist catching.

Terrorism is a low risk in the US, these programs seem to add little to just having investigators follow leads and intentionally infiltrate groups or paying informants or similar, and the US government has a long record of targeting groups that the powerful don't like.
Who is Riddle Quiet Ventures, LLC? They appear to be the "seller in the App Store"
http://rekognition.com/demo/concept

Rekognition API has a similar API for all developers free.

It's reliable and very fast.

Checkout their demo page.
Are you including indigestible carbs (fiber) as part of natural whole grain sources, fruits (pectin), oats (soluble fibers) as part of your "not particularly satiating" carbs? I spent 6 months on paleo, 12 months on keto, and 6 months cyclical keto. I have found that complex carbs have helped my training and weight loss far more than restricting carbs in general. It seems that proper carb sources are just as satiating as loading my bowels with red meat (and the outcome is vastly preferred).
The purpose of 5 is to improve science not ‘reward scientists’ [1]. If we moved to a system where the raw data was shared automatically then the number of “exclusives” any group could get from a study would decline, but the value of each paper would go up. As long as everyone was sharing then I don’t think funding bodies would stop funding groups willing to go to the effort of doing large studies. It is the funding that determines what research is done, not the how many papers a group can milk out of the study. It should be quality over quantity.

[1] For those outside of science what happen now is groups with the data hold back the data and then use access to the data to establish “collaborations” - basically they will give you access to the data as long as you put their names on any resulting papers. The people with the data often don’t actually contribute anything to the new publication other than access to the data and their names - my old boss was a expert at doing this.
I credit MUDding with my current typing speed.
Robb Wolf is a prominent voice in the paleo diet movement. It's worth noting his comment on this article:

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I'm not sure what it says about the broader scientific community that they seem incapable of actually articulating what has been written by folks in the Paleo/Ancestral health field?

I adress Pro. Warinner's TED talk here: http://robbwolf.com/2013/04/04/debunking-paleo-diet-wolfs-ey...

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Most debunking of the paleo diet actually attacks a strawman. There ARE some people who say they eat paleo and follow this strawman, but most don't.
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How Yahoo News Digest uses automatic summarization?
That's a great idea. It would be perfect for kickstarter, no?
If it did, we could just harvest it.
Very nice overview. I am just in the final stages of a Masters thesis in data visualization, and this article gives a really good bird's eye view of the field. The visualization field is really too broad that most programmers could be expected to know more than some key points, but given that vision is the highest-bandwidth sense, visual techniques are often given less credit than they deserve. As long as there needs to be a human in the loop, you need good visualizations if your data is more than trivial. D3 is probably good for its domain, but intuition tells me you'll have a problem if you mainly use Javascript to handle a 20GB dataset. (I'm not dismissing this categorically; I am not very familiar with these tools).

Unfortunately, to my knowledge there aren't any comprehensive textbooks that cover visualization from the ground up. We didn't use a single textbook in my 2-year degree; all lectures were heavily based on research papers. Central topics if you want to read up on this is perception (which color scales should you use? how many parameters can you plausibly put in one plot?), different visualization techniques for different data (scatterplots, histograms, treemaps, horizon graphs, volume rendering, graph drawing with edge bundling, +++), interactivity and applications of basic techniques (Visual Analytics, Interactive Visual Analysis).

A multitude of scientific fields use different visualization tools, so it can be tricky to find the relevant material for whatever it is you're working with. But in general, I think the data mining/big data/analytics fields could do very well with a bigger focus on visual techniques. If you get the right visualizations for your data, the truth often just jumps out of the screen. GPUs can let you work with multi-gigabyte datasets at interactive framerates, although I haven't seen a lot of practical applications of this yet. Can also be used for non-spatial data, if you're clever with CUDA or just use the shader data structures creatively. Would be interesting to hear if anyone in the industry uses this yet.
Much of what Congress does proves that they "hate" us, or more precisely that are more beholden to campaign contributions than to the people who elected them as their "representatives".

No easy answers here. The occasional defeat of an incumbent, like what recently happened to Eric Cantor, can't be all bad.
wow this is new to me. thanks