skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a person hoping to start my own business within the next couple of months, this scares me quite a bit.

Honestly the entire notion of building my own company and not having the security of a stable paycheck is frightening. But even taking that into account, it doesn't diminish my desire to keep following this path regardless of the risk and warnings I've frequently heard.

Maybe this means I'm "over optimistic" bordering on "completely delusional" but I'll be damned if I don't try and make this work anyways.
Agree, it's easy to backup all even I can write some script to backup all, maybe they feel boring to write a rich text backup after decide shutdown it.
Without a podium, he does look absurdly immobile on that large stage.
This is a good idea.

Although it is already pretty easy with a couple of lines Perl:

https://metacpan.org/pod/Catalyst::Plugin::AutoCRUD

https://metacpan.org/pod/App::AutoCRUD

http://www.slideshare.net/ldami/app-auto-crud

:)
Maybe because you cant. But what if you could?
Ive frequently wanted to be able to take pictures of concert posters and have my phone prompt me to add it to my calendar; or just buy tickets. Or maybe its a picture of something you want to know more about and have no way of choosing a search term. You need to pick a category and then filter through results yourself.

This way you wouldnt have to do that.
He could have asked for a second opinion elsewhere. The feedback would have been the same as Apples.

Going through 15-60 day review process for that is ridiculous, just like the post in question.
yeah, I agree with you. How do you think about those popular keyboard apps with good themes but useless? Those are in top now, do you think they will be gone after some time?
Great :D

Sounds like you already found my vim feed, but yeah, it's at http://gfxmonk.net/dist/0install/vim-custom.xml (it's not on that index page, because nobody else is likely to want it).

I've contributed to both the python & ocaml versions (and I made the logo :)). The ocaml version has not existed for all that long, I've only sent a few patches - I believe the porting itself was entirely done by Thomas, who's done great work.
So, my primary confusion was on how to implement this in Haskell 2010 (without Rank[N,2]Types, GADTs, etc.), but I'd like to say I don't think we materially disagree about any matters of fact -- it isn't as though I'm pointing to code and claiming it shouldn't compile (as I'd seen the gist) or anything equally crazy.

The specific polymorphism tradeoff I'm talking about would force the types to look a little more like...

data Resumption [a, b, c...] where
Resume :: x -> (x -> (a, Resumption [b, c, d...])) -> Resumption [a, b, c...]

I think having dependent types means you could have something polymorphic with respect to the value :: [Type], which encompasses a large portion of what I'm pointing towards. This gets closer to covering the cyclic type system Rich Hickey mentioned, but I still think you'd have to be pretty careful to make sure the compiler doesn't explode with an infinite-sized type.
Lots of theory here but surely there's some solid science that can address these ideas?
I agree that nutrients per calorie is also part of it, which is an unusual metric as was pointed out. The bioavailability metric is just plain cheating (or poor math) though since bioavailability is already factored into percent daily value figures.

Also, with the sweet potatoes, their vitamin C levels go up by a factor of 8 when cooked, which would rank them much higher on the list. Not many people eat sweet potatoes raw so whether it's good science to assume that they do is reasonably debatable.
The terms optimistic and delusional describe the two states of hypomania. Hypomania can be managed through good diet, exercise, meditation and other things that have absolutely zero to do with your business and everything to do with you. However, you are what makes your business successful at the end of the day. Manage it like you manage your business.
Startup owners in exchange for creditability had to give time - thats one of the main currencies in this scene. In this case I wont trust them from now on expecting them to do the same with any other new startup they will launch in future...
Interesting tactic, and I could definitely see it being employed by an intelligence agency, but it's unlikely the fraudsters would be able to see any significant monetary gain from it. As you alluded, Home Depot's stock didn't decrease that much, and it bounced back shortly afterwards.

Some of the fraudsters and criminals are politically motivated to an extent, especially with the recent US sanctions against Russia (the codename for the Home Depot card dump is "American Sanctions"), which you can read more about here: http://krebsonsecurity.com/2014/09/home-depot-hit-by-same-ma... The POS malware even has some not so subtle anti-American images embedded within it.

But that said, they care about the money above all else. The rest is just a little added motivation.
Yeah. I'm watching the keynote right now, and Carmack talks quite extensively about the display problems they're facing and in no way indicates the use of multiple displays.

Also, the demo video of Lanman and company mentions 'calibration issues' they have on the outer parts of the display where you can cleary see alignment issues.

I still think it's a very clever idea of getting better resolutions with reasonable effort tough ;)
What is organized skepticism good for, and does it matter?
what about releasing the source?
When people ask me if they should start a company, I do a short interview with them to understand their motivation. It's usually dissatisfaction with their job combined with a grass-is-greener view of entrepreneurship. I believe in many circumstances people have a higher chance of finding happiness by pouring deliberate energy into finding a great job rather than starting their own company.
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> Would-be entrepreneurs need to have a more measured view of the risks involved before they start a business. But society also needs to have more respect for people who put their lives on the line to build something from nothing.

Anyone entering the startup space thinking their lives will be easier is going in with their 'eyes wide shut'. Having said that, if you manage your own personal expectations of being the next Mark Zuckerberg and are realistic, then you should manage.

Always make sure you have more money then you think you need to prove your concept, always estimate longer then you need and always listen to what your body says it needs.

Great article.
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Well, my thought is that even if Baidu won't allow pornographic searches, that won't stop its user base from adopting a separate service to fulfill their needs.
I know nothing about this site in real life, but immediately recognized it from GTA IV.
RTS games are an application of this form of replication - each player had the full fame state, sends their commands to the server that timestamps them and sends them back to all users (including the player who initiated the action) and the player's action is applied in sync to all the machines. Synchronicity is maintained by pure determinism.
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Hm... I saw some cpan links and a slideshare presentation. I was prepared to be impressed by said "couple lines of Perl".

;)
Things like taking a picture of a product, and being able to order it straight away from Amazon. (big push behind the Firephone)

And then at some point, it'll become a live-streaming thing. i.e. instead of actually flipping out your phone and taking a picture, it'll be some google glass type thing. You walk past a store and you look at it and it's recognized instantly. You can then get the wiki page, the floor plan from gov records, its online store and opening times from various online repositories of such information. Of course this is already possible using GPS, just an example.
Without knowing the technology, costs, circumstances, etc, this is very naive to say. Don't armchair quarterback unless you understand all the circumstances.

Edit: And I got downvoted. I guess armchair quarterbacking is the right thing to do around these parts.
you have a big legal problem, either you shut down and discharge all the assets (sold or destroyed), or you keep the company alive and then you have to have a talk to your investors.
The neat thing with email is that you could just look in the 'Sent' folder and find all the emails you sent to Ohlife and see all your entries :)
I quit a good banking job after making it through the recession and several rounds of layoffs. My friends thought I was nuts. I had friends take me out to lunch and tell me most people were looking for jobs, not quitting them. But I didn't quit just because I was dissatisfied. At the heart of it, I just felt like a caged animal and I knew I had to break free.
Images will become more ubiquitous over the next few years. It's very hard to describe certain things that an image can very quickly.

I think mobile image search will see a big uptick if there's a good interface for it.
It's always good before starting do design for any Apple product to have a quick look at their Human Interface Guideline (HIG) https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/userex....

They have HIG for almost everything.

I also read that a lot of apps are developed on iOS first http://www.businessinsider.com.au/app-design-company-directo.... I wonder if there's any truth to that.

But saying that I know that Google is pressing their Material Design http://www.google.com/design/spec/material-design/introducti... quite hard lately. Would really love to hear what Android devs think of the Material Design. Are they going to port their current app design to it?
I delete it after sent, shoot
Maybe it's my own history and previous life path, but starting a business with a best friend has been one of the mots natural and fun things I've ever done. There are obstacles, and I'm sure the road is rough going for a lot of entrepreneurs, but... This has been the best kind of work I feel that I will ever do, with respect to my own life goals. It takes a certain type, certainly.

That being said, and as a print subscriber to The Economist, I was a bit overwhelmed by this article, which reads like propaganda or cult literature. What I do is hard work, sure, but society doesn't owe me respect for all my hard work (and sympathy for my sacrifices) anymore than they owe farmers or factory workers. And definitely not as much as the guys working on the garbage trucks.
As a fellow serial entrepreneur, it seems to me that between success, sleep, and living the life, you can only pick 2 out of the three.
I have no doubt that he's a racist, but I'm not sure what that has to do with the accuracy of this particular paper. What do you see as the error that invalidates its conclusions?
Not that I can see here: http://www.hasbro.com/common/instruct/battleship.pdf
I find the assumption throughout the last few paragraphs that being a hobbyist is a masculine thing rather sexist, and not representative of reality.
> Startup owners in exchange for creditability had to give time - thats one of the main currencies in this scene. In this case I wont trust them from now on expecting them to do the same with any other new startup they will launch in future...

Yeah, that's not how it works.

Committing time and money to a failed venture is the biggest mistake an entrepreneur can make.
I really hope they put the source on Github.

This service was so important to me that I think I'll have to make a Python script to keep this going in my life.
I hope "living the life" means living how you want it and not really the traditional notion of living luxuriously. I personally want to start a business to have an impact and to build something other people want to use. That would be living the life for me, regardless if I'm sipping Pina Coladas on the beach by noon.
Wow, and it continues. Let's see how long you losers will keep this up?
Ah, but there's a difference between mechanism and policy.

AIs are piloting our planes and boats, and soon our cars and trucks, so that they will go where we want them to go without demanding so much effort and attention from us. They implement the mechanism, but we still set the policy -- and we are still responsible for the consequences.

Now read 'austinl's comment at the top of this page, about a fictional world that cedes its policy decisions to AIs. That, I would argue, is a fundamentally different thing.

I think there is a temptation in human psychology to want to be taken care of, to want someone (or something) else to make the hard decisions. And I think there will be points where we're tempted to turn our power and responsibility over to machines.

I also think that the concern about machines taking over is misplaced: machines, though they may one day be unimaginably more sophisticated than our current ones, will never be conscious or make conscious choices. We will always be able to pull the plug, unless we ourselves set things up so that pulling the plug is too risky.

So the situation I see us in is where concern about a "singularity" that I don't think will ever happen is somewhat distracting us from more important, if rather more mundane, questions about exactly which decisions we want our machines making, and which we should reserve to ourselves. The stock market is a good example here.
It mightn't be a good idea to have such tight coupling between data schema and API...
Let me rephrase my post to soothe your butthurt...

> Needless killing and destruction doesn't correlate with intelligence.

Tell that to the Europeans after the arrival of the Mongols. Or to the North American megafauna after the arrival of humans. Or to the millions of species driven extinct in the Anthropocene.

There's hardly anything more correlated than less-advanced species getting wiped out by a more-advanced newcomer.
No one who works for Microsoft would bump Bill Gates off stage against his express wishes. Or Zuckerberg. Later in the same stream Palmer Luckey (founder of Oculus) was cut off even more rudely when he tried to allow one more question before a break. He was visibly upset.

Palmer Luckey and John Carmack should be in undisputed control of Oculus. These slick suits who invaded should all leave now that they've made tons of money. Leave the genuinely passionate people to their work.
nah, i'll just use bootstrap then.
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:( Been using this service for 4 years.. have grown so much thanks to it.
Everybody seems to be recommending Day One as an alternative, but that looks way more complicated than a simple daily email.

Edit: I take that back.. day one looks pretty awesome
Found https://twitter.com/kylesethgray/status/513476424955482112 which let me import all my OhLife data into this.. and this is backed by my DropBox account which makes me feel safe about my data
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hahah, apparently the people that down-voted my positive response to his comment. sheesh.
Robert Harris's 1986 book Selling Hitler: The Story of the Hitler Diaries covers some of the same ground and was an excellent read (and introduced me to his later books which are at least as good).
It's quite simple to suggest an experiment to prove the article's point (which I find very convincing).

Look at an ad for a product you own (e.g. iPhone) that you perceive as conveying some form of emotion. Now, go use that product.

Do you feel the emotion portrayed in the ad?

To make this more scientific, expand the above test to a few hundred people. Query their emotional state with a survey (or possibly by facial expressions, if that's considered an accurate means of evaluating emotional response). Do this for a number of products, ensuring that boring products (e.g. household cleaning products) are included to rule out emotion generated from the intrinsic properties of the product. Then check for the existence/non-existence of a correlation between the emotion felt and the emotion portrayed.
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it's far from perfect. I just created them, but I will give it a try.
I've already received notice from Discover that they are sending me a new card. They didn't mention Home Depot but did say that my current card had the potential to be used fraudulently.

If the card companies can issue new cards quickly enough they can contain the damage. 50 million is a lot though.
Maybe I'm too set in my ways to see what you're talking about, but I don't see this in the comments.
Things like this will continue to happen as long as the government insists on slapping companies on the wrist with small fines, which most of the time is a tiny portion of their annual profits.

My solution: hold the executive management directly liable for all security breaches that compromise customer data. Send a few of them to jail and you will suddenly see other companies treat information security with the seriousness it deserves.

(Most corporate CEOs make millions of dollars a year on top of an untold number of perks. It's time for them to start earning it.)
> There actually is, however, some value in having different units for methane vs electricity, since you have to run methane through a suboptimal furnace to harness its energy. Granted, modern gas-powered furnaces are usually more than 90% efficient, but there's still some loss.

Well, heat pumps transfer more than 1 kWh of heat transfer for every kWh of electricity. You have to account for the performance factor anyway, whether you're using natural gas or electricity.

The point is that, once you've divided by COP or AFUE, you get price per effective kWh, which you can then compare directly. As opposed to getting a price per therm, which you must apply a conversion factor to.

With cogen, you get both electricity and heating out of the unit. If it's all in kilowatt-hours, then you simply add them up and compare to the kWh of the incoming natural gas to get efficiency. But how does a therm of electricity translate to volts and amps?

As for the kilowatt-hour, I think the reason we don't use megajoules is that metric time never took hold. If we had metric hours, minutes, and seconds, then the kilowatt-hour would be as awkward as the hectare-centimeter.
Let's consider only "safe for work" Internet content:

Google/Bing have done well with keyword/phrase searching with results sorted by popularity and date.

Ng seems to be thinking that the big change will be having speech and images coming from the users as their input to the search process. My guess is that this will not be very important. I also guess that search for Internet content based on speech and images will become more important.

Yes, likely Ng can get a lot of pictures of what he knows to be, say, Ferraris and use some of them as the training set with a neural network to
identify Ferraris and test the training with the rest of the pictures. Okay. Maybe his neural network will be able to identify Ferraris. So, he could repeat this training for, say, 100,000 objects -- Fords, bread, airplanes, jewelery, Victorian houses, .... Maybe there will be some value there.

My view is that the future of Internet search is quite different.
hah, i'm with you. i thought the same thing reading the article. if there was anything new or interesting in it, it was way too longwinded for me to dig through and find it.
Why would state sponsored overseas farming of thirsty crops for US import be desirable?
Right. When people are so engulfed in what they are creating they forget how much of it other people don't know. My own personal rule is "start by stating the obvious", and then refine as appropriate.
You've missed my point. HAL would not have looked at Frank and Dave as potential threats to the mission unless it had some idea what the mission's goals were so that it could evaluate their actions against that; and it wouldn't have taken action to protect the mission (and itself) unless programmed to do so.

> human bias towards the meatbags

Interesting phrase. Do you really think people and machines have the same value?
Ah, sorry, Haskell 2010 won't have nice enough types on its own. The best you could do would be to fake RankNTypes and use them for existentials. A sorrier state.

You could definitely do something like what you ask. You could do something even nicer using a type family indexed on Nat. That all said, I don't know that I'm convinced that it's actually what was discussed in Hickey's slides even if his notation suggested it. You don't want your output changing at each step—you want the "sink" end of the applied transducer to pick the output and the "source" side to just treat it opaquely.

Internal states stored local to a transduction "step" might be valuably treated as Rich suggests, but this is exactly what the Moore machine handles—the constructor can pick the state and the user can only pass it forward with some new variable each time they "open" the state. Furthermore, due to purity only one "sequence of reductions" can survive the whole process. This gives you your indexed types much more naturally.

If you can think of a concrete use case where the more convoluted Nat-indexed type family would work better I'd be interested to see it. I'm reasonably convinced right now that it's closer to a sketch than a real need.
"The belief that there are biological differences between ethnic populations is wrong because the belief that there are biological differences between ethnic populations is wrong."

I apologize if I'm misinterpreting you, but do you not see something incredibly tautological with that line of reasoning?
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What's wrong with being impulsive, hedonistic, and selfish?
Could you give an example something Amazon would have a challenge doing due to its scale?
Some ideas...

- take a photo of a street scene and ask, "how do get home?"

- or more generally, "where am I?"

- If I hate reading every ingredient on a menu to check for allergies, why don't I point my phone at the menu and have it tell me what I would like best?

- "what's in this sandwich?"

- take a photo of water, "is this safe to drink?" (maybe realistic with near-IR?)

- "what plant is this?"

- record birdsong, "what species is that?"

- photo of text fragment, "who wrote this and which book is it from?"
I've been using WordPress for many months now. You can change the privacy settings so only you can read it, and it has pretty much everything OhLife had - and more.
The floating point version is dangerous and broken on platforms that have 64-bit ints. (Not sure what happens with ceil and negative numbers, it probably works, but I'd have to try it). And while not an issue here, since this looks like it's user-space code, it's bad to use floats in a systems programming environment (floats are often in registers that can't be modified or maybe even referenced in kernel contexts without some save/restore shenanigans).

The loop version works poorly for large queue sizes, and if I saw this in production code I'd replace it immediately.

I'd be okay with a division and re-multiplication (likely going to be optimized by the compiler, through it's foolish to depend on this).

I don't see any problem with the mask/not/and solution. This has been a programming idiom for decades, and should be no more mysterious than (say) a doubly-linked list.
And the guy that downvoted that ^^
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