skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Take a look at the digital.me EU project, which seems to have wrapped up after prototyping a cross-device architecture with role separation. Some earlier semantic desktop efforts floundered due to poor performance caused by RDF. Current, less ambitious KDE effort uses sqlite & xapian, https://community.kde.org/Baloo.

http://www.semanticdesktop.org/ontologies/

http://www.dime-project.eu/DescargarDocumento.aspx?idd=5207

"The Digital.Me project introduced the concept of a personal information sphere, referring to multiple devices (including personal computers, tablets and smartphones) and also remote Web services and online accounts as holders of personal information. In view of the need to integrate and better manage this distributed personal data, a number of extensions to existing ontologies, plus a number of new ontologies have been submitted and published by OSCAF. These include coverage not only of new and yet 'traditional' personal information that is of direct interest to the user (DLPO - for online item sharing), on more than one device (DDO) and online accounts (DAO), but also of context/presence-related information (DCON, DPO), privacy preferences, user histories (DUHO) as well as ontologies for the personalisation and customisation of entire systems and automised events (DRMO)."

Some Java code was released in Aug 2013: http://dime-project.github.io

There is the "Hub of All Things" project in the UK, http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/wmg/research/business_tran... which includes http://nymote.org

One could argue that Tiling Window Managers are relevant to semantic desktops, https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Comparison_of_Tiling_Wi...

Are you interesting in using or developing a semantic desktop -- open-source, proprietary or hybrid?
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this is exactly the plot for an action movie. big-rich guy, funds anti aging company in order to be inmortal...

anyway. nice work google
I think it's mostly to avoid the whole mess of having Javascript arbitrarily selecting DOM elements that are declared elsewhere and then manipulating them/cloning them to create some new DOM. If you were creating some DOM/code component intended to act as a black box, it may be conceptually simpler to have the DOM part of it created via code and explicitly referenced by the code. YMMV
Here's the law in question, for the record:

>Expenses (including attorneys’ fees) incurred by an officer or director of the corporation in defending any civil, criminal, administrative or investigative action, suit or proceeding may be paid by the corporation in advance of the final disposition of such action, suit or proceeding upon receipt of an undertaking by or on behalf of such director or officer to repay such amount if it shall ultimately be determined that such person is not entitled to be indemnified by the corporation as authorized in this section. Such expenses (including attorneys’ fees) . . . may be so paid upon such terms and conditions, if any, as the corporation deems appropriate.

You'll notice that, unlike the article above (and a few other sources), there is nothing here about 'other employees' or agents of the company or whatever else. It is strictly officers and directors.

But, I'm surprised it's ambiguous that he's an officer. I don't work for Goldman, but I do work for a similarly large corporation in the same industry, and I can tell you there is no question that I'm an officer, at least according to the company bylaws, where I have to follow even the rules laid out specifically for officers. I assume it was the same for him, since he's in a similar position to myself (actually, a bit higher up, even).

Perhaps the bylaws at Goldman are just weirdly ambiguous and open to interpretation. Knowing what I know of management culture at Goldman Sachs, it would not surprise me in the slightest to learn they chose to keep them this way. However, if they are wording their bylaws in such a way, I see no reason for the court to give them the benefit of doubt in determining whether he's an officer.

I mean, taken at face value, all you're saying is that a company never has to follow this law, since they can always claim someone isn't an officer or director.
Totally agree. Unfortunately, this requires their manager to have taste, which is probably (and tragically) an impossible requirement.
It was over 120 loans. All at 17.25% with a forecast 4.95% default rate. 0.5% fees. Actual return after 18 months is 13.85% with 5 defaults.
I don't think this is an attempt to claim ownership of Markdown, but it may eventually turn out like that.

Why is Gruber not included in the group?
For those who think only Google can find what your looking for there is two reasons for that, one of course is they are tracking the crap out of you and tailoring search results for you in your own little search bubble world you've created, but an even bigger reason why some have trouble switching is because whether you know it or not, you've trained your brain to search in a Google like fashion, in otherwords, every search engine takes a little finessing when choosing what terms your use in your search, I've been using DuckDuckGo so long now, that my brain is now trained to use DuckDuckGo style search terms, so much so that those same terms don't always work on Google when they work just as I expected on DuckDuckGo. If anyone wants some pointers on how to make the change, simply try adding one extra search parameter to your regular query that you would use on google and wala, duckduckgo will more than likely find it, which to me is a small price to pay for a bit more privacy. Yes at times I also !g bang google, but its gets more or more less frequent.
You can get a Surface Pro 3 for $799, if anything that's a bargain for what you're getting. I wouldn't be surprised if MS had negligible or even negative margins at that price. The only danger about that price point is that people might think it's an expensive tablet rather than a cheap computer.
Do you think they'd sue over the use of 'Starbuds'?
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Maybe they'll finally start running Capitol Corridor trains to Reno? That would be lovely in the winter for heading up to Tahoe for skiing...
Awesome :)

We found it through Homeaway. I didn't do the hunting or negotiation, but I believe the process was to first make a short list of awesome places on various vacation rental sites, then contact the owner and attempt to negotiate a better price for a large group.
Benchmarking: Analyzing AWS M3 Instances for Performance, Bandwidth
It's not at all UK-only. They accept Europeans, Australians, and Canadians as well (maybe other places too).
The Network Information API
A classic mathoverflow moderator debacle. Good question, marked community wiki, with good answers including the top-ranked one from Bill Thurston, an accomplished and beloved mathematician who died just a couple of years ago. Despite the amount of work put into the answers and the number of upvotes, the question is closed. Comments on the top answer deleted, even though other comments refer to them, leaving new visitors to the question momentarily confused. Luckily [closed] doesn't mean [deleted]. I guess the best place to post these kinds of questions is Quora? There seems to be quite a few high-caliber posters there now, including many from mathoverflow. I really like mathoverflow, it's just my personal opinion that the mods are too anal (read: conservative) about enforcing the narrow scope of the site.
IIRC McCain tried in 2008. It was partially financed by taxing expensive employer-provided plans, and was promptly demogogued as "taking away your existing insurance".

Would you not agree that treating all citizens equally, and giving them the freedom to choose how and where they get their healthcare would be an improvement on the current system?

Of course. Economists all over the spectrum agree that either individual insurance should be tax-deductible or employer-provided insurance should be taxed. But it will never happen, because politics. See http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2012/07/19/157047211/six-poli...
I personally have been itching for an affordable touchscreen that I could do much with. I have needed a touchscreen to augment my work space for a while now.

So here's a counterexample.
In the "perfect world", we would be using LISP, and our code would be data and our data would be code.

We're stuck with JS, so it's convenient to have a declarative syntax that compiles to JS, because nested function calls suck. As the doc states:

> The purpose of this specification is to define a concise and familiar syntax for defining tree structures with attributes.

This can be used for anything, it has nothing to do with HTML actually. Just like there are many languages and frameworks where you describe UIs with some flavor of XML that compile behind the scenes to API calls to create windows, append buttons, etc.
Seems like overkill, with the unused graphics capabilities, I guess the cards could be removed. Could a couple of macbook pros fit into a 1U?
I am interested to hear how you utilize the surface for a pen and paper replacement. I want something portable that works for a notebook, but I don't see it replacing a laptop for me. Care to expand?
Langton's ant colony eBook cover generator: each word in the eBook title seeds the initial parameters (location, direction) of an ant and the simulation is run for a large, constant number of steps, producing an interesting and reproducible generated cover.
In lieu of writing an in-depth answer, I'd refer to a previous thread instead: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1726795
I had an amazing experience earlier today with the pen during a complex phone conference. I wasn't near my computer and I needed to take a bunch of notes. Put it on speakerphone, switched to the s-note and got everything written down without a problem, then just shared the notes I just took as a PDF in my dropbox so it was on my computer when I got back to my desk.

It's one of the few times in recent years I felt like technology had actually done something magical for me. In the long long list of things modern smartphones can replace, a notepad is now absolutely one of them.

It's taking me an effort to fit the s-pen into my workflow, but when I do, it's usually a good experience. It seems to me to be more a matter of realizing I have a digital notepad on hand and actually using it than anything wrong with the tech.
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If the price is right, there could be a whole ecosystem using these big displays.

Imagine every family owning one where they can easily access kids activity schedules, pin lists of groceries, track chores, to do litst that could sync with every family member's phone (for those old enough),...

This could completely replace the fridge magnets and the pin board, and it could be an excellent way for younger kids to interact with educational content.

It could also server as a communication point for younger kids who are too young to have their own phone/tablet, be able to call each-others under supervision, ...
Future of quantum computing lights up with single laser method
Zopa was the UK one. It launched before Prosper and is a really interesting case study for why you should launch first in the US and not your random smaller home market. As a result they were late to launch in the US and as a consequence lost the larger market, which is why lending club is IPOing first. One major reason they had to withdraw from the US was because they had an existing (working) operation in the UK they couldn't take regulatory risk: the other US operations launched with an illegal model and later got shut down while they restructured, Zopa tried to launch a legal, but less attractive to users, model and failed to gain traction as a result. Really interesting startup case study!
Why is this better than a balloon? (Most use cases don't need maneuverability, which usually isn't possible with satellites either.)
Location based anon social network. I am working on it.
Wow, no love for Token Ring, ARCnet, AppleTalk or SNA, huh?
Google begins developing its own quantum chips, to prepare for the future
Banks started off as lending clubs.

I ditched BofA, signed up with a credit union, and enjoyed fantastic service since. If you don't want to risk these guys in case they get screwed over by regulators, talk to your local CU!
I'm aware of that, but I suspect people will (rightly) be wary of assigning copyright to my company, granting me rights over their contributions that they themselves aren't able to exercise (since doing so would require incorporating code licensed from me under the GPL).

We're currently putting together a proposal to make this an Apache Incubator project and I hope to have it developed as a community effort there. Thus everyone will be able to use it in their own open- or closed-source products if they wish (which will increase the attractiveness of the project for some, who would otherwise avoid GPLd code due to its viral nature). And then no company/individual has any special rights over others who have contributed.
You may also enjoy syntax highlighting on your diffs[1]

[1] Pull requests are welcome: https://github.com/danielribeiro/github-diff-highlight-exten...
I don't get it.

This question is unlikely to help any future visitors; it is only relevant to a small geographic area, a specific moment in time, or an extraordinarily narrow situation that is not generally applicable to the worldwide audience of the internet.

How is that even remotely true? This is probably the most widely applicable question on the site?
Something that's a standing desk/tilted drafting desk form factor combined with good palm/elbow/forearm recognition would immediately address the "gorilla arm" problem with such interfaces. Combine that with Reactable-style tool objects, and input from cameras and/or a Kinect, primarily in order to make the system "smarter" about how to interpret touch, and I could see some really revolutionary interfaces for applications that are amenable to a data-flow style model.

(Applications where you have boxes connected by pipes/arrows to other boxes.)
Maybe not, I don't feel like modelling the math right now to see if it could be statistical variation.

(I don't understand your numbers though. Forecast return was higher than actual?)
Reading through this I came up with one: Tinder for jobs. Employers can look through a small CV of candidates that they might like, while potential employees can do the same for workplaces. Matches lead to interviews.

I can't really see myself ever doing this though because you'd got a chicken and egg problem, plus it'd probably only ever be used by tech companies unless there was an easy to use API.
Does life play dice?
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In India we call it chit fund.
...because they don't know how to test links? ;)

real link here:
[http://staffmagnet.com/developers-hate-recruiters]
Try it and kindly please give some feedback
IRPs are the kernel "IPC" mechanism used by NT... And for whole classes of drivers/subsystems IRPs are the core processing mechanism. The IO manager calls to process IRPs could very well be traditional microkernel message passing API's complete with task switching and message copies.

While NT is not a microkernel, from a kernel API level it appears to basically be one, only missing the fact that everything is not actually isolated.
Surface pen + OneNote is pretty magical. It's the first thing I show people when they ask to try my surface, and they're always blown away. So basically I just write on there instead of using paper & pen. As an aside, I also like using the pen to draw diagrams for presentations, instead of using Visio or whatever. People pay more attention to the hand-drawn look, I find.
It also depends on screen size. Wide monitors work great with side diffs.
Thanks, I'd been genuinely curious. (I tend to stay as far away as I can from JS-based templating systems, so that's probably why I didn't appreciate that use case.)
So, yea I think this is a great thing and I don't mind JSX. It has been a pleasure to use ... I think. I can't help but be reminded about original PHP, though. When PHP was new, you could write PHP but then you could also write your markup in the same file. The end result was a bunch of bad PHP and markup. JSX is not quite is liberal, but it's along the same vein. You kind of have markup in your Javascript, now (I say now, but I guess you did before in some cases where you built DOM elements with JS). Especially with components that also have HTML-literal content in them, like labels and text and stuff. Like, to literally change the text in a form or something, you might have to go edit your Javascript file ... no wait, your JSX file to change that. Javascript is also already enough of a pandoras box, in regards to common patterns and "how to do X or Y." I don't really know how to articulate my thoughts on it yet, but I feel like I lean towards rather not having to look at code with JSX in it than having to do so.
I think the biggest reason health insurance is provided by the employer, rather than bought by individuals is adverse selection.

Simplistically: people who are more likely to suffer an illness (e.g., people with pre-existing conditions) will buy more insurance, and people who think they'll be healthy (e.g., younger people) will buy less. This drives up the amount of payments per insured, which drives up price, which further drives healthy people not to insure.

That's why you want health insurance purchase to be independent of risk of illness, which is (at least somewhat) what the employer-provided insurance does.

This is probably also the main reason state-provided health insurance might be a good idea.

Banerjee's and Duflo's 'Poor Economics' gives you a more detailed and nuanced explanation pp. 147-151. Great reading throughout.
> Who better to sell the product than the founding team?

and

> You can't rely on others to sell the product you built.

Agree 100%, we had the same epiphany a 6 months ago; actually _selling your product_ is one of the most important jobs as a founder.

Also, I don't think you can [reasonably] pay someone a salary, and expect the same level of understanding & drive that the founders posses. And, it also seems that understanding & drive are much more important than clever marketing plans when selling B2B software.

Funnily enough, we're selling to the same market, although we help with the estimating & quantifying side of dealing with Blueprints - https://groundplan.com/
I applaud this effort from the sense that generated book covers all seem to be so ugly and undesigned. There's nothing wrong with a generic, but well designed book cover. I mean, how many virtually identical hardbound books are there sitting on people's bookshelves...and they look beautiful instead of ugly.

http://bibliotique.net/images/080511-aa-1.jpg

http://www.dargate.com/cat/248_auction/248_images/1722.jpg

The difference is that there is some sense of trying to make them at least a little eye pleasing. Decent fonts, some pretty gold leaf designs.

This is not good enough http://i.imgur.com/YqjnSsF.png

Some kind of more clever generative art I think is called for. It should even have some kind of sensible themeing, like all books from the same author look kind of alike or something.

http://graywolfseo.com/wp-content/uploads/library-shelf.jpg

I'm not sure I like how the examples provided here look especially, but I think the idea is a good one.
I get a 403 Forbidden on that link.
Many of the comments seem to be along the lines of "why create a markup syntax to build more markup and throw it in JavaScript" - In my opinion that's not the real benefit of JSX, but just one use case.

The great thing about JSX is that it doesn't build markup. It doesn't even need to be used for markup, it can be used for anything. It's frequently associated with markup because it has been used alongside React, but JSX standalone is a simple syntactic transform for XML-ish notation to JavaScript.

This is quite convenient in some cases, as you can elegantly write DSL's, where each of the tag names are JavaScript functions - and writing the equivalent JavaScript would look something closer to a lisp (moving the function name to the right of the paren).

This:

<Database name="business">
<Table name="user">
<Column name="id" type='int' length={10} />
<Column name="first_name" type='string' length={255} />
<Column name="last_name" type='string' length={255} />
<Column name="choice" type='enum' values={['a', 'b', 'c']} />
</Table>
<Table name="account">
<Column name="id" type='int' length={10} />
<Column name="first_name" type='string' length={255} />
<Column name="last_name" type='string' length={255} />
<Column name="choice" type='enum' values={['a', 'b', 'c']} />
</Table>
</Database>

run through the compiler[1] becomes this:

Database({name: "business"},
Table({name: "user"},
Column({name: "id", type: "int", length: 10}),
Column({name: "first_name", type: "string", length: 255}),
Column({name: "last_name", type: "string", length: 255}),
Column({name: "choice", type: "enum", values: ['a', 'b', 'c']})
),
Table({name: "account"},
Column({name: "id", type: "int", length: 10}),
Column({name: "first_name", type: "string", length: 255}),
Column({name: "last_name", type: "string", length: 255}),
Column({name: "choice", type: "enum", values: ['a', 'b', 'c']})
)
)

I find the first easier to read / reorganize in blocks, which can be useful in lots of situations... definitely not all situations - but having declarative markup while being able to imagine it executing as the latter, constructing actual JS objects with specific logic built in - rather than needing to "parse" the XML tree and deal with an extra step of execution, etc, etc.

[1]: http://facebook.github.io/react/jsx-compiler.html
I have very similar concerns. Thanks for taking the time to write this comment. Yes, I really don't understand why the super-wealthy don't allocate some tiny slice of their wealth toward doing science differently. I stumbled across an article recently about the Flexner Report (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flexner_Report) which would be a great model for someone to apply to our broken process of scientific research.
You're missing the point, which is that in the search for yield, investors are mispricing risk. I would venture a guess that the vast majority of people who own a note tied to the loan of the aforementioned borrower either couldn't tell you what a similar borrower would have paid for the same loan in, say, 2005, or they don't care what a similar borrower would have paid for the same loan historically. They care more about the current interest rate in relation to other yield-producing instruments than they do about the actual risk they're buying and how that risk has historically been priced.

One additional thing to note: there are tons of investors (retail and institutional) snapping up junk in this market, but there are also many savvy people in the debt markets who are playing it cool because they know that you make money by pricing risk appropriately, not by buying the instrument with the most appealing yield.
what are you looking for feedback on?

looks like the idea is to search for dishes but there's no search box. need a bit more to go on.
> Can you invest in Lending Club if you don't live in the US?

No. And not if you live in certain parts of the US, either. And, in the states where it is available, there are additional restrictions.

http://blog.lendingclub.com/is-lending-club-available-in-my-...

http://kb.lendingclub.com/investor/articles/Investor/What-ar...
Don't forget Telomerase-restoration and protection factors. And don't underestimate the reverse-correlation of nutrition and mortality age. It's definitely statistically significant.
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Well, Lending Club is no longer pure peer-to-peer either http://blog.lendingclub.com/a-note-on-our-recent-loan-volume...

But would be the bank's role in a peer-to-peer transaction? Pure servicer?