skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've said it before, but articles like this do more harm than good for the field of AI research. Overhype has killed interest in the field numerous times before, and if we're not careful it can do it again. Advice to reporters who have an AI story: please don't hyperbolize both what the AI can do and how it works. If AI companies over promise and under deliver enough times, interest in an exciting field may die down again.
Bachelorette – wer ist raus?
It is, but I'm using Firefox on Arch Linux and it works fine for me. H.264 has been supported in Firefox on Linux for a few versions now, although you need gstreamer installed with the relevant plugins.
Bloat free responsive dashboard
What if your domain model could validate the UI for free?
> Maybe the didn't ban bots that much so they could hide their own "bots"

They don't need to; they own the market, they get 15% + a flat fee for every sale. The items listed for 250 in the article? Blizzard earned 38.50 from sales like those, which is probably more than they earn per game sold via their own webshop. And the bans were wholly ineffective too, and they knew it - the botters would simply buy more game licenses from their profits and continue printing money, recuperating their loss with just one item found/sold.
From the article

"After all the lost money and time I still think Catch the Monkey is a good game. It isn’t very fun at first, but it is very fun and challenging in the later levels. Problem is no one gets there"

If "no one gets there", it's not fun, end of story! This has nothing to do with mobile VS PC.

I spent close to a year creating my first iOS game. I completed the project and then I NEVER shipped. I spent a lot of time working on the game, and it looked nice enough, but it SUCKED. The game was good for a laugh once or twice, and then it was just boring as F. So we didn't ship, mostly because I didn't want that trash on the app store associated with me.

I've released other apps since, no games but am working on another game now, and some have done fairly well but not well enough to quit my job.

So I work a day job and then I go home and work on my apps. If one of them hits it "retirement big" then I'll quit. That's a risky move; time for this guy to put on his big boy pants and get back to work.
There it's two records in two banks (in the general case) for each transaction. The sum must check out to be zero. And beside that there are laws that are enforced because it is not legal to create money out of thin air. Ok, it is done anyway (when the government prints more money and thus increases inflation) and to a degree banks are allowed to do that in some sense as well (they loan can a certain percentage more money than they actually have). The whole system isn't perfect (hence the economic crisis), but there are enforced laws that aren't written by companies (well, mostly).
Latest email from MTGox 12/08/2014
To whom it may concern,

This is a notice related to the bankruptcy proceedings of MTGOX Co., Ltd. (the Tokyo District Court 2014 (fu) no. 3830), which we are sending to you pursuant to the request from the Tokyo District Court.

On July 24, 2014, the Tokyo District Court 20th Civil Division issued an order to change the period for filing proofs of claims and the date for investigation of claims as follows (please refer to the attached file.).

Detailed information for the filing of proofs of claims, including the form of the filing document and the process of the filing will be disclosed through the website of MTGOX Co., Ltd. at a later date. Your patience would be very much appreciated.

(Old Date)

Period for filing proofs of claims: until November 28, 2014

Date for investigation of claims: February 25, 2015 10:00am

(New Date)

Period for filing proofs of claims: until May 29, 2015

Date for investigation of claims: September 9, 2015 1:30pm

This email address (mtgox_trustee@noandt.com ) is used only for the purpose of sending messages, and we are unable to check and respond to any replies to this email address.

Since we plan to provide the information regarding the filing of proofs of claims and the bankruptcy proceedings by posting it on the website hosted by the bankruptcy trustee (http://www.mtgox.com/ ), please check this website.

Bankrupt MtGox Co., Ltd. Bankruptcy trustee Attorney-at-law Nobuaki Kobayashi

https://www.mtgox.com/img/pdf/20140728_announcement.pdf
Its rediculous but I think we're going to loose this battle
> Can't get a 2 bedroom for less than $750,000.

Sure you can, maybe not in the tiny downtown peninsula. Mid-rise along Mid-Main or Fraser, or some of the towers around Joyce goes for $500k. (Still a lot, but not that lot. I've moved to London and it's a lot more expensive than Vancouver.)
The idea of essential amino acids is silly because it's impossible not to get enough from almost any diet. No experiment has ever succeeded in inducing an EFA deficiency. It's like calling air essential. Well, yes, but that's not a factor worth worrying about here on the surface of the earth.

Sugar/starch is more rightfully considered essential because glucose is clearly the preferred fuel for animal cells. Glucose deprivation leads to disease.
The sandbox is a feature afforded by the underlying OS and CPU architecture

Absolutely not; the sandbox of Javascript apps is entirely within the browser. The CPU architecture may theoretically prevent a userspace app from breaking into ring 0, but that's not the interesting thing; you're trying to prevent random apps from gaining access to all the tasty data in userland.

"Please do not download and run random executables" is a lesson that security people have been trying to get across for a while. Running a native game executable involves trusting it not to be malware. Running a webgl or HTML5 game does not.

(The sandboxing of webgl may be dodgy, which is a weakness here.)
Except they only did it a long time after introducing the RMAH - they were probably well past their peak income when it came to that income. If I were to make a random guess, I'd say that they made twice or thrice as much revenue from the RMAH than they did with actual game sales, and that's probably being conservative.

I don't know why they finally decided to pull the plug, given all that money. Probably trying to salvage some goodwill before figures were leaked about how much they earned from it, although I'm sure those figures are out there already, given that Blizzard is a publicly traded company and their earnings are out in the open.
Munich has one, too with a much smaller scale, with the sun central at the technology museum 'Deutsches Museum'
Show HN: System-Wide Web History Auto Completion
I completely agree. I was just making the point that it isn't necessary to spend a lot of money on a logo when bootstrapping. I've had logos created by designers on Elance for around the same cost and been very pleased with the results.
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Not directly, but I'm sure you can come up with a scheme where you get friends to give you money IRL and you transfer Steam money or gift a game to them.
Don't you need to give Lyft your Facebook account? Great, I can have "[acheron] took a ride with Lyft!" posted to my Facebook feed every weekend.
10 things to expect from Apple’s iPhone 6 launch on Sept 9
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4684599#up_4684845
I'll second a want for this script, let us know when it's up!
This looks especially stupid to those of us living abroad, where a car-centered, spread-out city might still have twice the population density of San Francisco.
Fun read. Does anyone here know how to deal with the Python being slow at sending ACK packets problem? Or is it a built-in limitation that comes with dealing with high level languages?
You don't need to use a browser; there's a simple JSON RPC interface.
I wonder what advantages choosing C++ to write web apps would bring. At the end of the day it's all JavaScript so performance is rather moot point.
I'm not sure if each individual needs to file a claim, but these are at least the dates that you need to keep in mind.
I'd recommend the Boneh Coursera class.
Well yeah Rotterdam had the heart bombed out of it in WW2. So no more narrow streets downtown.
So I don't know what textbook to suggest but are you aware of: https://www.coursera.org/course/crypto I've heard it's pretty good.
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We have solutions in Perl, but nobody that has submitted them has given us permission to share them. But we'll reach out and ask.
No, Android. App being short for "application" (or in some cases "appetizer"), I do not recognize Apple's claim to the word. If this isn't what you were referring to, please elaborate.
The V on your MVP
Implement it in C.

Also its likely more a python problem than a "high level" language problem.
Nitpicking, but removing "business" from the title would fit the article body a bit better. Questioning the viability of potential products and services is far different than evaluation of "business" modes or models. Good products will not save or propel a bad business, but good businesses can thrive on marginal and even terrible products.
You need to operate with late-model cars, so depeciation is absolutely a factor.

In rental car context, depreciation is anything from $15-30/day, depending on the type of car. With livery vehicles, it may be higher because when you're done with the car, it has 200k miles and is beat from urban driving. Rental fleets ditch cars at 40,000 miles

Standard personal vehicle reimbursement is $0.55/mile. Not sure about a livery scenario, but I think in an urban environment you're easily looking at a $1.00/mile or more. Livery vehicles burn brakes, tires and other parts. They spend alot of time idling or in traffic, so gas mileage sucks as well.
From the article:
"Google Now has a huge knowledge graph—you can ask questions like ‘Where was Abraham Lincoln born?’ And it can name the city. You can also say, ‘What is the population?’ of a city and it’ll bring up a chart and answer. But you cannot say, ‘What is the population of the city where Abraham Lincoln was born?’”

Out of interest I tried this question on WolframAlpha and it happily returned the answer[0].

[0] http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=What%20is%20the%20popul...
A Simple Battery Status Indicator for Awesome Window Manager
"After all, it took Thomas Edison hundreds of attempts before he invented the light bulb"

-> It still not easy, people were used to candles at that time. Edison did not study the candle making process or the problems of people with candles. His genius was in putting together the solution.

Apart from this, the article is nice indeed.
Engineering Minimum Viable Inspiration
Someone else who greets visitors with a pop-up that pleads with them to subscribe.

FFS let me read that article first! All you've done is make it significantly less likely that I'll even bother to read this first item.

Trust me - I won't subscribe without reading the first article, and all you're doing is stopping me dead in the acquisition arc.
ARP spoofing... clever. This was an amusing read and really informative, too. There is definitely something to be said for explaining lower-level concepts (e.g. TCP handshakes) using the common tongue. IMO, not a bad way to begin learning. Someone could perform the same experiment now and use Wireshark to see the raw packets, then draw conclusions to what is happening.

Anyone know why the Python program is so slow? I'm looking at the code and my first guess would be this part[1] but I can't explain why, overall, it would be so slow that a remote host would close the connection.

[1] https://github.com/jvns/teeceepee/blob/7e93970e16fbb0c3d4bee...
This is not a TCP stack.
Probably none. However, it could act as a gateway drug for C++ desktop folk. They do exist.
I blame all networking issues on the GIL.
We got hit with a sales tax audit in NYC here, which apparently is pretty common. Turned into a multi-week process of providing documentation, justifying why some of our deals were non-taxed, justifying some of the work we did, and a little lawyer time.

I think in the end we owed ~$3k. What a waste of everyone's time.
This kind of advice pops up on HN from time to time and while I believe it to be valuable, I guess it is at least incomplete. Here are two stories from my failed ventures to augment this advice:

1) Years ago I started a small side-business with a few colleagues. It was a web-based service for a very specific group of clients. Best of all: The idea had already been validated. We had our first paying customer before we even built the product. And we quickly found a few other customers. But after a few sign-ups things were not looking so good anymore. Even though our early adopters were well known in the industry, other companies would not follow. Everyone we talked to loved the product, but as we had to learn the hard way nobody was willing to pay for it. Some even went so far as to implement possibly illegal solutions instead of paying us a few bucks.

Lesson learned: Even if you talk to a few possible customers, question hard if those really are representative of your target audience. Also, liking a product/idea is not the same as being willing (or able) to pay for it.

2) A while back I wanted to find out if there would be any commercial interest in an app I had already built. So I set up a landing page and collected email addresses. Since I had already built the app I could easily hand out demo accounts for every interested party. I quickly collected around 60 addresses and set them all up with a demo account. Only a single person ever logged in at all! I sent out reminder emails but did not get a single response. To this day I do not fully understand what went wrong.

Lesson learned: Newsletter- or Beta-signups from your landing page is NOT the same as validation for your idea.
That's great, I'm going to Stockholm in November so I'll check out Mercury. Thanks for sharing.

It'd be even better if there was an international solar system which involved several countries, to make it an even larger scale.
Ok, it's me maybe, but why would you need personal assistant, really?
A similar question: In what cases does a claim need to be filed?
Effort to model Facebook yields key to famous math problem
Although you are not entirely wrong, "all pure speculation" is different than "this is a speculation based on some findings, so far".
Williams' Humor Was a Symptom of His Disease: Leonid Bershidsky
Scala's Modular Roots
Nice post by Dan James (@dwhjames) describing Scala's roots in ML in light of Martin Odersky's attempts to avoid Scala being pigeonholed as either functional or OO.
The answer to questions about performance is always "profile it". I mean, sure, you could probably get a crude speedup by just running it under pypy or some such, but the real answer is to profile it, see where the bottleneck is, and fix it.

As the other post suggests, this is not a problem in all high-level languages; it's possible to write very high-performance code in Haskell or Ocaml, for example. But python's semantics are e.g. that every object has its own methods that can be overridden arbitrarily, which means that every single method call pretty much has to involve a hash table lookup. 99% of Python code never uses this extreme dynamism (usually you define methods on classes, and if you want an instance with a different implementation for a particular method then you make a subclass), but it's there, and a Python interpreter that didn't respect that would behave incorrectly.
> How about we develop public policies and environments where the family thrives?

How do we do this? How are public policies harming this?
This is an early version. I expect the stuff to get radically simpler once it starts proper industrial deployment.
The rules vary by country. In the US, the FCC has prohibited amateur stations from using encryption intended to 'obscure the meaning' of a transmission. It's a grey area whether you're permitted to encrypt something for other purposes. This permits digital signatures, since they do not obscure anything.

In Canada, the Radiocommunication Regulations only permit amateur stations to 'use a code or cipher that is not secret'. That prohibits any form of encryption unless you publish all keys involved in the transmission. By my reading of it, it also seems to prohibit creating a digital signature, since such a signature could be considered a code that is based on a key that is not public (otherwise anyone could forge your signature). I'm not sure if there's any official rulings on this.
That's is all well put together, and illustrates my idea in the other comments, why validation is not the silver bullet. Thank you for sharing your experience!
ALl my knowledge about life will be gone.

On a serious note, I use it constantly but only for research and mail, which I think would be easily replaceable.
I think that's correct, but calling them a "front" makes it sound a little sinister.

I'd say "Polaroid" is mainly just a trademark licensed out by a shell company for random products because its still widely recognized and loved (at least by old people).

on second thought... maybe playing with our emotions like that is a little sinister?
"Zero, give or take measurement errors."
Still does not make any sense. It's completely wrong.
There's all kinds of different use cases for each. people use facebook for totally different reasons than a forum.
Have You Done This to Your Emergency Management Plan?
So it's like GWT for C++
And there is no mention of ScaPy? http://www.secdev.org/projects/scapy/
> It still not easy, people were used to candles at that time. Edison did not study the candle making process or the problems of people with candles. His genius was in putting together the solution.

^This, and this http://www.helpscout.net/blog/why-steve-jobs-never-listened-...
Solar Systems in scale are really impressive. We usually see them in books, where all the planets are close. The amount of space is astonishing. I saw one in Brazil in a Astronomy Museum http://www.mast.br/, the Sun is smaller than a golf ball and you have to walk dozens of meters to get to Uranus. The nearest star would be in a city more than a thousand kilometers away. This is what I call a humbling experience.
Uh, you may want to think some more about that. If your bosses are real humans, then some proportion of them will see this as criticism, which may hurt your position.
Show HN: Queries, a pythonic PostgreSQL client library
Qualitative reasoning was also a fairly active area in AI research for a while:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qualitative_reasoning
Ask HN: How to Parse “Requirements” in a Job Listing?
Because I'm curious:

When you see a list of "requirements" in a job ad, and fail to adequately meet even just one of the list items, do you apply anyway? If not, at what point do you, personally, draw the line?
Shouldn't the TCP handshake look like this:

---- SYN ---->

<-- SYN/ACK --

---- ACK ---->

rather than having the client send two SYNs to the server?
On Generalization
All creditors of Mt. Gox, including depositors, should file claims. Gox will likely arrange a mass process for depositors and "strongly encourage" the use of it. If you're not a depositor or you have a complex situation you should find a lawyer in Tokyo to walk you through the process, as I expect wheels failing to squeak may not get as greased as they'd like.
I wonder if it would have a better success rate on a site other than Google's, since I've heard that Google's done extensive tuning of their TCP stack to send page data faster.

Somebody's oversubscribed $3/month shared PHP hosting might not ramp up the speed as quickly.
" I was much more comfortable with Python than C and I’d recently discovered the scapy networking library which made sending packets really easy."

Did you even read the link?
There is, in the second sentence of the article.
Seems like a false correlation. Yes it was was Utah company founded by BYU students, but that is not the reason why/doesn't map cleanly to the culture. Culture comes in large part from founders and the first hires.
I've heard it summed up in one sentence: Eat less, mostly vegetables, and only lean meats.
How's it compare to the Saturn? I heard that was a nightmare to program for as well if you were doing anything 3D.
Dept of Collecting Very Important Objects
All cash businesses are leaky.

But just like with bartenders, it's pretty easy for a company to identify a driver who is skimming the fares -- their $/mile or $/hour will be lower if he steals more than his peers.

The cab company has an interest in accurate numbers because their payment is based on honest reporting of the fares.
It's a good idea to run your numbers through the Franchise Tax Calculator: http://corp.delaware.gov/taxcalc.shtml Mine was $180k on the statement, ~$1.7k in reality.

Still, even though I knew exactly how much I owed, when I saw $180k on the statement my first call was to my lawyer, for a hug.
This would conflict with the generally accepted story, that the Greek general Ptolemy took Alexander's body with him back to Egypt, where it was used to bring legitimacy to his new regime.
This is not an implementation of a TCP stack.
Remember, this is in the context of trying to analyze a fictional program -- The Office. Although there's some truthiness there, it's all a bit too neat. Wow, there's only three kinds of workers. Okaaay.
Note that these sorts of problems are not specific to startups. They apply to any sort of polling situation. For example, political campaigns face similar challenges.
Ha! Nice read, perfect after lunch material with my coffee :) Good job
I wonder if this can be used to set up a multi-headed workstation environment, where each user has their own desktop (Linux) on the same large, megalithic server? I have a machine with 128gigs of RAM and 1TB of SSD .. this seems like the perfect situation where I can give a desktop to 3 or 4 users on the same machine. Anyone know how well that works with Guacamole yet?
REST API with JSON
I would be interested in seeing if using asyncio would resolve the network issues.
And in Squeak (Smalltalk) ? take a look at: http://www.squeaksource.com/@Hl1Cdo4NwCmLqQl0/Im9cEg0J
If anyone from Cheerp reads this, I use emscripten (https://github.com/kripken/emscripten) at the moment, is Cheerp any better ?

Specifically does it compile faster, generates a smaller final .js output, or produce "faster" code ?
It confuses me that people make such a big deal of their little 20 lines of code toy projects.
That's actually not true. Emscripten compiles to code that is much faster than hand-written JavaScript. In this case they are not using Emscripten or a similar technique but are compiling to regular old JavaScript, so performance probably is the same, rather this might be for people who just like C++, like what GWT is for Java devs.
Slice: A media player and more
JSON logging in Apache and Nginx with Logentries
Python Web Chat Server
We do exist. The fables are true.
There is nothing iOS specific about it. MacOS X has been benefiting from this optimization since 10.7.
Government employees that were hired since the 1986 don't get a "pension" any more they are under a new retirement system called FERS that consists of Social Security, an IRA like retirement savings plan called the Thrift Savings Program, and very small basic benefit plan which only pays a fraction of their salary and isn't indexed for inflation.
If you are ever in Provo I would love to give you a tour of BYU. BYU is not like this, not even back then. Seriously message me if you are ever in Utah, I'll show you the sights.
there's a userland stack written in C in honeyd. http://honeyd.org/ (slow to respond) and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honeyd
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