skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes.

Remember that we're talking MVP here, not production service. If your service makes it to the front page of HN and then crashes under load, you go to YCombinator or some other accelerator, say "We built a service, it was so popular that it got to the top of Hacker News and then crashed under load. Here's the demo link, and we have a list of X thousand users who signed up to learn more before it crashed." You will be accepted, and then you will have access to the $100K in Google Cloud's program.

The one exception is if they feel that you lack the technical talent to build a scalable system even with hundreds of thousands of dollars in funding. In that case, they will tell you "Go find an ex-Googler or ex-FBer to be your technical cofounder and come back to us." In that case, $100K won't make much of a difference, you lack some critical skills to employ that $100K well. If that is your situation, well, I happen to be an ex-Googler with experience scaling Google Search who is in the market for a new project. I have my own ideas but would be happy to abandon them for something with demonstrated traction, so I would be happy to entertain e-mails (my address is in my profile) with a demo link and a spreadsheet with X thousand user signups.
Yes, but with a lot of people living paycheck to paycheck, it's easier to rationalize costs that are not immediate.
I wondered if the Forth code was being transpiled into JS or GLSL. Inspecting the source reveals it is JS, which seems sensible since it has stacks.

That made me wonder, how hard would it be to turn Forth code into imperative GLSL? Seems like a fun exercise and would allow huge canvases.
Not only might you not get a perfect implementation, you might not even get a viable implementation. When it comes to really novel technology, it can take tremendous investment just to get a technology to the level of viability.

My point isn't that every new technology requires a monopolistic environment. My point is that monopolies (or oligopolies) are particularly good at developing really fundamental new inventions, while competitive markets excel more in making better variants of well-understood technologies. Blu-Ray and HD-DVD were competing optical disc formats, but the original CD was actually a joint-venture by audio giants Sony and Panasonic.

I think a great example is the work Google is doing in self-driving cars. It can afford this sort of blue-sky R&D because of the massive profits thrown off by its advertising business. One day the technology will be mature and you'll see companies compete to refine it and make variations of it, but it will have been Google, using the profits from its near-monopoly on search, that will have done the really fundamental work.
There's no reason you need to host the admin panel on the same server as your API. You can even add your admin tool to your existing repository and deploy that single repo to two different servers, one of which you mount the admin engine in and the other you don't.
Hey, that's good to know about, thanks!

Oculus looks pretty nifty.

I bet Skyline does a good job helping them keep track of all the system metrics. But, I think one thing our tool does better is periodic timeseries. That's the sweet spot of our tool, and it looks like Skyline doesn't have any special considerations for periodic timeseries (although it looks like their ensemble of algorithms is extensible).

Anyway, thanks for the link! And I hope you liked our tool!
I knew about the vitamin studies previously, and I also, from experience discussing it with friends, know how upset people become. Its really something people want to believe in.
Well, in the first case you're actually enrolled in a health-insurance plan, whereas in the second case you aren't. This solves many problems; for example, everyone who visits a doctor's office or hospital can be assumed to have insurance coverage, so those institutions aren't left with the mess of what to do with uninsured patients.
Disclaimer: my views on this are still being formed, and I don't necessarily have good, concise explanations for some of the ideas the way I'd want.

> I think that the fact that there are uncountable sets which means there is not a way to map the natural numbers in any "relation" to that set seems like it undermines the Aristotelian idea of linking mathematical objects with physical things.

I try to think of infinite things as extending finite mathematics by replacing a simple set with an equivalence class of pairs of (set, make_more_elms), where set is a set and make_more_elms is a constructor to make set in to a set with more of the "whole" set in it.

Then we can view acting on infinite sets (as long as we generate finite results, which we by default always will) as interacting with these tuples using finite math.

The fact that the naturals have a different cardinality than the reals can be expressed by ({}, build_naturals) and ({}, build_reals) being in different equivalence classes.

At no point do we have to deal with anything actually infinite to come to these conclusions, we're just looking at objects that are both finite with a pretend "infinity" constructed out of them.
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> The successes of AI that I see (eg OCR/speech recognition and Chess/Jeopardy) use these same old algorithms with only marginal improvements and more CPU.

Backpropagation training wasn't introduced until 1986 (http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v323/n6088/pdf/323533a0...). SVMs weren't useful until the kernel trick was applied to them in 1992 (http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?doid=130385.130401). Feature learning wasn't an active area of research until the 2000s.

There have been huge improvements in algorithms since the 1960s. The only things around back then were a few speculative papers on analytic methods. The current state of the art in learning algorithms is a huge advance over just having some ideas about the mathematical properties of learning and a few analytic tricks in obscure papers.
Ruby 2.1 does.
It also doesn't mean that nobody working for the company is making money. The workers' salaries aren't counted as "profits" (including salaries that the owners pay themselves). Thiel says at one point that a business that has to compete can probably only pay its workers minimum wage, but that depends on the market the business is competing in. Intel is in a competitive market for CPUs, but they don't pay their employees minimum wage.
Not sure if I'm missing some part of the concept here, but after logging in all I see is "Start Tutorial", which goes through some "loading" things, then back to the same page. No other options for any other way to navigate...

Edit: you have to not be logged in (delete cookies if you did), then click the link to verify. There's no where to paste the code that's sent in the email.
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Vitamins are "vital" substances that the body cannot make itself and need to be added from the outside through diet or supplementation. So if your "being the kind of person who takes vitamins" means that you eat an extremely balanced diet that covers all your macros, then you are good, but most people do not eat enough of the right foods.

In addition, there are tons of substances that your body can synthesize itself, but would love more of it. Creatine for example can be made in the liver and kidney from L-arginine, glycine, and L-methioninein, but it takes work for your body to do it. It is much more efficient (something like 20X) to just take a creatine supplement and bring it to levels that will allow your body to maximize it's production of the energy molecule ATP (by resupplying a phosphate molecule).
An alternative point of view is that it's seriously unlikely to do you any harm and might even do you some good - not to mention that if you are the kind of person who takes vits, it's likely that changing your behaviour off the back of some article will cause some level of psychological stress ("I've got what? I knew I shouldn't have listened to that woman!"). So ignore, and move on.
I've been trying to feed vegetables to three small humans. Sometimes it works, but sometimes the humans seem to reject them and it fails.
Once you click on "Start Tutorial", looks like it does an animation thing, but then just takes you back to the screen to where you can click "Start Tutorial" again...
I just realized that this keeps on going in a circle until you verify your email...
So if you think it's not working for because it is buggy, make sure you check your email and verify your account :)
Does anyone know why laws like this exist? What's the value of regulating carpool ride-sharing and single-user ride-sharing, and what's the additional value of having separate regulations for each.
I do this with a notebook. When I'm coding I always jot down notes and thoughts. As long as you can remember the date when something was coded, you can see what I was thinking while writing it.

Has helped me figure out what the hell I'm doing many a time.
verifying your email should fix the issue
Well, the Cochrane review actually found that they possible caused harm:
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2008/apr/26/medical...

And then more recently there is evidence that taking vitamin supplements leads you to take risks with your health:
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2011/aug/26/bad-sci...
There's a bait and switch in this article. Thiel starts out arguing,correctly, that monopolies can generally capture more of the value they create. But he ends up arguing, incorrectly, that monopolies create more value. Why incorrectly? Because his own opening paragraphs say otherwise: he says airlines (competitive) create more value than Google (monopoly), although Google captures far more value than the airlines.
How much should I pay them?
I'm looking at hiring students, still in University (Junior, Senior) for part time coding. JS, PHP, Python web app work.
I know I'll have to spend some time training, I'm comfortable with this and have done before.
We're in USA, a "top 20" metro area.
What do you think I should pay per hour?
Wow... This is going to make some game developers very very happy.
Verified account, still happens... =/

Edit: you have to not be logged in (delete cookies if you did), then click the link to verify. There's no where to paste the code that's sent in the email.
I'm curious, where do you see attempts to increase patent terms?
The lines between Mafia and tech entrepreneurs are not very clear. Threatening competitors of legal action and keeping salaries of employees lower sounds more like a Mafia and less like a tech entrepreneur to me.
Hi,

After the animation, you are redirected to a page with some text, right?

Make sure you click the green button.

[edit]
Sorry, I broke the header while fixing the AWS SES issue.
Should work now.
Assuming name and billing address is a unique identity (seems dubious), how do you verify name and billing address?

Credit card verification doesn't include the name, and only includes street number and zip code of the billing address.
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Did you take pure vitamin D or something naturally high in it such as fish oil?
True. It's a flat rate for a given town or neighborhood. You won't be charged for traffic delays as you would in a cab however nor can the driver charge you more if he needs to detour around road construction or some other issue.

The rate is the same for everyone in a given "zone" regardless of the specific route the driver must take.
Doesn't work for me. I logged in, got redirected to https://hackerexperience.com/welcome, clicked on the button, and it "loaded" and then reloaded the page. Repeat.
I went all the way through to the summary, the main article is behind a paywall. The amount used in the studies was around 800IU. If you go outside in the summer in your swimming trunks or bikini for 15 minutes or so your body will generate 10,000 - 25,000IU. Your mileage will vary according to latitude and skin color. But the point is that the amount used in the studies was ridiculously small. I take 10,000IU per day and this article wont change my mind.
Also the density of liquid hydrogen is extremely low, meaning you need a huge tank to store more than a little bit of it.
Thats like saying that doing rain dances can't hurt and might bring rain.

If you can't link the two its really not worth doing. Sure vitamins might not do harm (this is questionable), but that doesn't mean they are doing anything productive.

Also its just wasteful money wise. Why spend N dollars a year on something that has about as much evidence to back it up as a placebo pill?
> I'm reluctant to add asset pipeline

Consider using different/manifests layouts if you're concern is client-side. If it's compiling assets I think your concern is misplaced.

> admin panels tend to use large amounts of RAM etc

I don't think this is the case, or a huge concern depending on you're environment. Further, you could separate the apps into engines, they're great for this. TaskRabbit did a write up on this: http://tech.taskrabbit.com/blog/2014/02/11/rails-4-engines/

Personally however, I've normally roll out the app as one piece with active-admin, generically speaking most apps have little admin-specific logic to them, for example, it's normally something like: "Do <x> for user(s)", "Approve <x> content", the type of operations you do can easily fit under the simplistic nature of what active-admin offers. This isn't a catch all however, some applications require more of an integrative approach, in which case it's development as normal, bits of functionality injected here and there so-to-speak.
Yes, I'd say there's probably a cultural difference here. Vitamins are not high on the list of things doctors think about when they see a patient here in the U.S.

I think there are valid reasons for this - vitamin deficiencies are super rare and there isn't a ton of evidence that much higher levels of any vitamin does anything.

Herbs, amino acids, compounds, minerals ... there's a snarky comment below about doctors here not getting paid to push those and sadly that's largely true. Doctors will literally hand out promotional drugs to patients. It's a kind of bizarre situation.

Worse yet, unless formulated into a "drug," a manufacturer cannot claim that a substance can cure or prevent a disease. There are two (and a half) sides of this coin. On the one hand, it means that you cannot sell a bottle of Vitamin C that says "will cure and prevent scurvy." On the other hand, the supplementation market is largely unregulated. That's good because people have access to many substances that have a lot of science behind their benefits without waiting on the FDA. And here comes the half - it means that companies can sell things that are dangerous and/or of dubious content.

A largely untenable situation for a consumer, but money drives everything.
I believe that the need for profit drives certain values over others. Do you think this need for profit has no affect on values? Also, what values do you suppose motivated a system that requires a drive for profit?
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Sorry, I removed the verification but forgot to change the game header.

It should work fine now, no need for verification.
I drink a gallon of milk about every 3 days. Even at that rate its a bit too much.
Just fixed it. Please try again.

Let me know if you have any problem.
The list of speakers seems to be a bit less "star" studded than years past.
Seriously, can we stop this pretend game of Uber and Lyft being 'ride-sharing'?

They are no such thing.

They're rides for hire, and pretending otherwise is insulting at best.
> for whatever reason that rule was originally enacted

Most likely the law is simple protectionism for unionized bus drivers, to stop private jitneys from putting them out of business. The use case is: you commute every day from point A to B, so you go along El Camino following the bus route, picking up people FROM BUS STOPS to share your ride and charging them what the bus would have charged. This is great news for the bus riders - they don't have to wait for the next bus so they get to their destination quicker - but if it catches on the bus lines ride empty, lose more money, and eventually political support for the bus route goes away.

> Perhaps to prevent cabbies from charging pairs of passengers $4 each when a single passenger would be charged $5.

Nah, that's not it. Normal cabbies (that use a taxi meter) have no flexibility over rates - the whole point of the meter is to make sure they're paying the right amount of taxes and kickbacks; accepting any extra regular fare (other than tips) would be illegal.
Can you explain what Thiel's article has to do with professionalizaton or unionizaton of software engineers? Thiel's thesis here is that you need to innovate to hold an at least temporary monopoly on something (you have the monopoly because you're the only one in the market yet), it has nothing to do with what you mention.
Hey that's a great course. Pls do not avoid. Highly recommend signing up. The reason he wrote this famous paper & the book that evolved from that paper, in his own words - http://vserver1.cscs.lsa.umich.edu/~spage/thedifference_inte...

He says - "progress and innovation may depend less on lone thinkers with enormous IQs than on diverse people working together"

Not too sure about that. At all.Especially not in math, the subject he majored in.
Indeed. I started taking large doses (10,000IU per day) when I read an article about a doctor at Atascadero State Hospital who got marked improvement in his violent patients when he gave them vitamin D injections. Better not too low, I said to myself.
"Optimal entertainment choices" is so vague as to be meaningless. If I can spent 25K on a vacation and not feel it hurt my wallet, isn't that an optimal entertainment choice?
Just occasionally dumping arsenic in your drinking water. Occasionally some rat droppings in your meal. Just a little bit of bait and switch scam. Occasionally sneaking in hidden fees.

But we're providing something of value!
> It's bizarre that it's legal to fly a drone/quadcopter as a hobby, but not if you charge for the services.

It is also legal to have sex as a hobby, but not -- in (most of) the U.S., and much of the rest of the world -- if you charge for the services.

Actually, there are a lot of things that are legal to do if you aren't charging for a service, but illegal, or at least much more tightly regulated, if you are charging for a service.
I don't understand how you would even make it improbable. It sounds both very possible and probable.
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Truecrypt is discontinued. Is there alternative to Truecrypt? Do I keep using Truecrypt regardless of security issues?
I can understand the appeal. Vitamins are a sort of "quick fix". All you have to do is pop a pill every day and magically you get benefits x, y and z. There is quite a bit of helplessness involved in life, and vitamins allow people to believe that they have an easy way to control their body.

Sure it may be the case. Vitamins probably do help lubricate and enhance all sorts of things, which is intuitive. But that "intuitive" property is exactly the sort of thing we need to watch out for. If a solution/answer seems intuitive, then that pretty much means it has a back-door around our usual bullshit detectors.
As the article says large random controlled studies demonstrate taking vitamins lower your risk of death. In what way is that like a rain dance?

PS: Well assuming your an elderly woman taking vitamin D.
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Soubds like rich person who wants to stay rich. Since I am not rich, I have vastly different values.

I can not relate to this man at all.
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When I request a ride, the _system_ gives me...

To explain what you're missing, I have to talk about how decentralized networks are actually implemented.

Think of the "system" as a large crowd of people in a room. Only certain people in the room have the information you want. It is totally unfeasible to ask every person in the room, you can only ask the three guys closest to you.

What do you do?

The best strategy to maximize query performance mimics the real-world— each person occasionally gossips information to each other, which replicates data across a network and increases the chance that someone nearby will have the answer you seek.

The problem then comes down to trust-- say you ask three guys nearby a question: "Do you know if there are any cabs nearby?"

Let's say those three guys did happen to know of a cab nearby but wanted it for themselves (they just got an invite to this AWESOME party in the Haight), so they lie to you and take the cab for themselves.

Or, in an alternative case— they are all three sons of a rather horrible cab driver and tell you that he is the ONLY one available.

If we had a global view of the system, the chances of this abuse might be minimized but this is just not feasible in real-world implementations.

There's also other implications for privacy (nodes in the middle might log your queries) which might also introduce new vectors for abuse.
Seriously, why do we need the parasite middlemen like Uber?
You mention it in passing, but it's very important. "Integration" is hard when you never have a copy, BizSpark is at the least, a free windows testing vm, why make it harder to test on windows.
If you think a programmers union should exist, why don't you go ahead and start it? Judging from your history of Hacker News comments, this seems like one of your major life passions. So if you really believe in it, why not do it?
I guess it depends on your credibility thresholds.

I take vitamin D because some studies say it's good for you, none say it's bad, and some people on the internet report subjective cognitive & mood enhancement.

It costs me around $5/year. Sure, it might be doing nothing. But even a subtle cognitive or mood enhancement would easily be worth two orders of magnitude more than that, so I only have to think there's a 1% chance of a tiny effect before it becomes worth it.
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Most likely, they aren't Charter Party Carriers -- their purpose and operation in general don't seem like that kind of carrier -- and therefore aren't covered by the laws that restrict what Charter Party Carriers can do, but by entirely different sets of rules.
We have an email address on the landing page for folks like you -- cloudplatformstartups@google.com -- ping us, send us details, we'll get you over and take care of you. It's really more for recommending the intermediaries but it's a way to contact us -- so take the initiative :) The sentiment here is largely correct -- accelerators, VC's and others provide a great way to prevent fraud and other issues that programs like these deal with. We also offer $500 credit vouchers for folks who want to tinker and we are working on other ways (stay tuned) for people who want to evaluate for free to do so.

Hope this helps --

-Brian
head of marketing, google cloud platform
(This comment was killed by user flags. I'm unkilling it to reply.)

That's a cheap shot. As you know, personal attacks are not welcome on Hacker News.

You usually do a good job of forcefully arguing your positions while remaining civil. We need you to keep doing that. Please set a right example, not a wrong one. This stuff matters.

It weakens your arguments when you stoop to the lower levels, anyway.
It's interesting that wage controls, price controls, using martial law to seize assets, and paying large handouts to oil-owning capitalists can be spun as a "good thing" if you can produce a handwavey, mostly unsupported association between these policies and the good ol' days of America.

Waves of economic thinking tend to coincide with one crisis and go out of fashion with the next crisis. Most economic policies that were once popular can thusly be blamed for "uniform economic growth" in a chosen period.
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