skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Words, words, words. How many times a start-up pledges something (like, being there to actually solve a problem for users) only to get to "an exit" and disappear, selling on shutting down the product? Even if they really believe what they say (for which their cliché-laden copy is a negative evidence in my book), investors will want their returns. I don't think they're gonna pull this off with micropayments.

I need more than a pledge to start believing in a VC-backed startup.
See also "Is it warm? Is it real? Or just low spatial frequency?", Margaret S. Livingstone Science 17 November 2000

http://livingstone.med.harvard.edu/MSL%20publications/2000_N...
So they put a lot of effort into promoting SNI. A potential gotcha to consider, especially for peeps on HN; SNI isn't supported by a lot of Android, including the default download manager and parts of the networking stack—that bit me recently in development. At least as far back as 4.4.0.
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"Without cell or wifi [to the internet]" is a reasonable implication.

Did you think this was an article about the human microphone?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_microphone
Assuming you are technical, even a failure is probably a net positive to your career prospects. This is particularly true if you are very early in your career, or are later in your career and have been involved with some well-known or successful companies along the way so far.

I view entrepreneurial experience as a positive that tends to correlate with intrinsic motivation, follow-through, and analytical risk-taking.

Obviously YMMV, and a lot depends on how you execute. If you have a crappy idea and throw years of your life away with no demonstrable progress, obviously it's not going to be easy to tell a story about. But a failure reasonably well done will be a good learning experience -- and obviously even a modest success has lots of upside.

The biggest real issue is opportunity cost, factoring in not just income but the potential to be part of something epically successful and all the experiences, halo effects, and relationships that come from that.
I don't recall the US banning twitter or censoring any social network. No prohibition of coverage.

Not to mention there was a tremendous amount of sympathetic coverage. Time 2011 person of the year was the protester. It was a huge conversation that entered the common narrative.

Apples and Oranges. Yeah, there are best practices for dealing with crowds and there needs to be security at huge protests. The cloak and the shield is a very fine line.

I know for a fact in Canada there was no wifi/cell/BT blocking. And I cannot find a reputable article the provides any evidence that this occurred.
Say what? You can get insane single-precision efficiency out of GTX 980. Double-precision OTOH is a disaster (1/150 yes 1/150 as opposed to GK104's 1/30 or so). But for most machine learning, double-precision is overkill.

IMO What remains to be seen is what one could do with FP16 data mixed with FP32 accumulation. My signal processing friends think a pure FP16 network is just asking for trouble and are of the opinion that a minimum of 20 bits is needed for stable accumulation and 24 is more than enough. That's not far off from Teradeep's 8-bit data plus 16-bit accumulators for image data.
servalproject.org is free (and open source)

P2P voice, chat and online status.

Uses Ad Hoc networking, which iirc FireChat uses bluetooth so servalproject should get better range.

I'm not affiliated with the project in any way (I'm not in Australia) but I've happily used it for some tests.
I've been really impressed with Nautilus. Awesome to have a new magazine that seriously covers scientific topics, and do it quite well and with style.
That would result in a broken pipe and the command being aborted. We're not dumping raw datagrams here...
With time, we'll see if the beauty is skin deep.
It sounds awesome but I was there in 1990 and worked in the computer lab and never saw it.
Under Rainier’s crater, a natural laboratory like no other
In case you've been living under a rock .. https://www.sqlite.org/mostdeployed.html
Right Sector and Svoboda both have representation in the new Ukrainian government. Both are right wing, fascist parties, and Right Sector even has paramilitary forces which engaged in attacks on political opponents, for instance the attack in Odessa in which they killed and burned alive dozens of Russian-speaking Ukrainians in the Odessa trade union building...

Prior to the 'revolution', Svoboda was denounced by many European nations and the EU. Now they form a fairly significant part of the Ukrainian government, and they were a large part of the 'revolution'...
The SSL on free plans is only compatible with newer clients.

The SSL on paid plans is compatible with all clients, such as IE on XP, Android 2.x, and slightly outdated HTTP wrappers for most programming languages.
16-bit float has dynamic range from + or - 6.5e04 to 6.1e-05.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Half-precision_floating-point_f...

That's plenty IMO for most inputs and weights. Where it gets tricky is in accumulation. You could constrain the weights for each unit I guess, but this is the sort of work best done under the hood rather than by the data scientist IMO. I'd personally choose 32-bit accumulation just because it would drastically simplify code development.

I've also worked with fixed precision elsewhere. It's awesome if you understand the dynamic range of your application. It's a migraine headache if you don't.
> double standards are such a common thing today, especially for western people

OK, now I know you're trolling.
I think it's great. I'm paying about $30 more per year for Photoshop and Lightroom combined than I was paying for Lightroom by itself before. Plus it means that I now get to use a 64-bit version of Photoshop. It's a huge win for me without any reservations.
> the irradiation of mosquitoes

Eradication. Irradiated mosquitoes would just make our problems worse.
North Bridge VC Santinelli sees tech bubble that will burst in 12-18 months
Sun had a specific phrase for these workstations. It was quite geeky to carry one of those id cards embedded with a chip. Practically everyone outside Sun made a mockery of these cards.
If people who possess oil reserves are short-sighted and selfish actors they will certainly try to hold on to those reserves in expectation of large future price increases.
>No. In the case of oil, there's low elasticity of substitution. Trillions of dollars of infrastructure run on oil, not alternative fuels.

Is this elasticity of substitution quantified? I'd like to read more about it if you have a link. My gut feeling is that this elasticity is improving (despite increasing oil consumption) due to general technological advancement and a high-speed globalised economy.

How well can we respond to a price spike now versus 30 years ago? Can we mitigate the economic impact of a price spike faster than we could 30 years ago? These are the trends I am interested in investigating.
Using Tor correctly as well..lol. Thanks for the worries, but no worries. I good old maple syrup blooded Canuckle head here.
We use Postmark https://postmarkapp.com/ for most of our emails at Perch - including things like notification emails from the support forums.

It's always been reliable and inexpensive.
Scientists make droplets move on their own
This podcast talks with the creator about some systems that have SQLite in it and the open source project. http://twit.tv/show/floss-weekly/26
Not to mention that the geniuses at Apple and Google continue to refuse to expose OpenCL or CUDA on their devices (or has this finally changed?).
They certainly got the shape of the curve wrong, but the fact that you'll eventually have to stop using a finite resource is axiomatic, isn't it?
The garbage collector needs to know what things in memory are pointers/references and what things are actual data.
In this case, the atmosphere is essentially a thin (compared to the radius of the Earth) two dimensional sheet wrapping the Earth, so it's probably valid to think of the sound as propagating on a surface. There wouldn't be much loss of energy to space. Would the atmospheric interface with the ground reflect or absorb?

The divergence is probably even less that 1/r because the Earth is roughly sperical, and the sound will focus at the antipode of its source. There might even be a region, approaching the focus, where as the sound propagates its sound level is actually increasing, not decreasing!

It would be interesting to know what history has to say about Medellin, in Colombia, in 1883. Being at coordinates 6N 75E, it is roughly at the antipode of Krakatoa and could well have had an awful lot of energy dumped in it general direction a few hours after the eruption.
microorganisms aren't really part of the food chain

That is not strictly speaking true. Microbes in the soil have a lot to do with the healthy/unhealthy growth of many plants. Microbes in our gut have a drastic effects on our ability to digest food. Just because we don't see them doesn't mean they don't have an effect.

I do believe however that the sheer variety speed of mutation in that portion of the food change insulates it from a lot of damage. Perhaps the same could be said for Insects as well I don't know.
Can light be used to send messages when wi-fi is jammed? I mean modulating the torchlight and using cams. I realize this would be very low bandwidth though...
better to use --long instead of --csv, the latter preserves newlines that can lead to problems with piping and xargs.
When I was a kid in the 70's we used to visit my great-grandfather every summer on his ranch in Texas. He owned several oil wells in the area.

I remember at nights the family would sit around a bonfire and talk. The elders would smoke cigars. I still can remember the feeling of the dry summer heat and the star-filled sky.

Sometimes the topic would come up of what would happen if great-grandfather's oil wells dried up.

He always laughed and said the same thing, "Every time they say we're running out of oil, the price goes to the moon."

Then he'd ash his cigar and stare into the fire, "They've been saying it for sixty years. But those wells just keep pumping."

Great-grandfather isn't around anymore, but his wells are still pumping.

This last part isn't related to oil, but one year my great-grandfather tossed a box of fireworks into the bonfire. It was epic. I never laughed so hard in my life. Still haven't.
Quantum data are compressed for the first time
Serious question: Are people upvoting this to poke fun like some kind of daily wtf?

A logging platform that lists 1 of their 2 major requirements as "To not drop any data, ever" is using round robin DNS for fault tolerance? I can't see too many people on HN upvoting this for being insightful or impressive.

Edit: I just can't help myself. How are you going to send syslog when any server fails and not "drop any data, ever"? Even over TCP the in transit messages are lost when the connection is broken. So like, their business is basically syslog and they don't know that?
I don't doubt that things in Denmark work satisfactorily, but I'm curious why you suspect that a laissez-faire market would produce worse outcomes.
You are probably spot on, thanks! And nice to see to read/see Mr. Cringely (silicon valley documentary fame).
Does it use Wifi? Someone else posted saying it was Bluetooth.
Which makes it somewhat surprising that Facebook is trying it now.
Gensim: Models.ldamulticore – Parallelized Latent Dirichlet Allocation
The self-made man
Encouraging discussion helps everyone. That's what the comments are for. The guidelines have that line in them because people do not like reading complaints about being downvoted, and because those complaints are not productive conversation. Not because there is some underlying reason why drawing attention to the existence of comment moderation is somehow wrong.
Can you elaborate more on what you mean by 'methods', and list any history books which, by your measure, should be taken seriously?
> You are assuming the majority of chinese want a democratic government. I'm not sure that's true.

This position always raises interesting questions for me: What do they want? How do they express their desires? Finally, how will they express their desires when they change?
> Wrong, it's much less democratic because it isn't just (A) which names are preprinted on the ballot or (B) candidates likely to be elected. No, you literally cannot make a valid choice beyond those pre-approved by Beijing.

And do you get any choice other than those approved by the Dems or GOP? What do you know about the vetting process of those two parties? How about third parties?

> You're telling me that every single change to the US since ~1870 has been from something other than protests?

How about changes in the last 3 decades? Once upon a time you had a semblance of a democracy, not so much lately...
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Agreed - it is either wrong or a contentless axiomatic statement. My sense is many "Peak Oil" people were predicting something dramatic would happen (not just price increases) and were simply wrong. What is strange is the strong appeal of the idea to some people.
The 'duh' is that exercise has a positive effect on people.

That it's especially beneficial toward children with ADHD is not common sense at all.

What if it was less beneficial and so they needed more exercise than the average child? That would also be a perfectly reasonable result.
Sometimes, yes. But my actual goal is to encourage dissenters to reply, because I actually want to know why they disagree with me. The karma itself is entirely meaningless except in that it affects how many people end up reading the comment.
I never really agreed with the whole "ignore copyright law" approach. I think tech companies in our increasingly examined world need to stand for righteousness and integrity.

The power of tech and ramping up of robotics is going to bring the pressure of public opinion on us all very soon -- we need to be on the right side of the fence, and so, although I enjoyed the technical capabilities and innovation from Grooveshark, I'm glad they've lost the war.

The founders are still smart and will be able to continue to do great things. They've proven their ability to build/design a functioning, beautiful product and amass an very large audience. Excited to see what is next...
Nuclear is basically ready.
We could at least reference a known good version by hash. This is at least a little more secure. But considering that Github could have been compromised by this bug, I would probably not pipe much from them until I know more about them not being compromised. Isn't running a jailed git server over ssh one of the great exploits of this bug?
Except for Google, who will (eventually) actively mine all of it, likely by way of some plausible universal search feature.
Frog Fractions
terrible name!!! They need a catchy name like FireChat.
i think its wifi else the reach of network would be far less
How come _private_function is available in your 4th listing while it wasn't mentioned in __all__?
- Facebook is an excellent product and has never violated anyone's privacy.

- Democracy is as arbitrary as monarchy.
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Why do you link to websites with a paywall?
> Ultimately, "applications/apps" will not exist, there will just be the web

Except this isn't the web at all, this is some closed Google-only internet. This isn't the death of personal computing, this is the death of the web.

It should be pretty clear by now to most techies that Chrome* is the neoMSIE.

We should stop applauding these complete violations of web standards. This is the opposite of awesome.

The direction the web is heading these days literally makes me sad: less open, less standards-based, less cross platform. Everything which made the web a good thing in the first place is being driven away by.
Researchers Make “Invisibility Cloak” from Ordinary Lenses – IFLScience
Mining Massive Datasets class on Coursera starts today
> What does it really cost to run a social network? $5/user/month? $1/user/month?

More than ${what parents will let their kid spend on the Internet}, which is usually > $0. The problem with non-free Internet is that it quickly gets inaccessible to those without credit cards.
Maybe this is asking too much from Google but maybe they could provide some accounts which only back up data to Canadian servers?
Contact details are in my profile (or write to me via orb@google.com).

I currently work for Google. They are pretty enlightened in general, but somewhat conservative in official language choice for big projects, but it is possible to do prototypes and smaller projects in a wide variety of languages. (Eg we have a Haskell group, and of course there are 20% projects.)
Why is infant mortality higher in the US than in Europe? [pdf]
Because the content is of high quality.
It's interesting (at least to me) to think that without the likes of Napster, LimeWire, Kazaa, Grooveshark, Pandora, etc. we would not have gotten to a place where the music industry is willing to play ball at Spotify's level. It's too bad that there was a lot of collateral damage in the process.
How long ago did that happen? I know it uses Dash now but I'm not familiar with the shell history of Ubuntu.

Regardless, the difference is people who run Linux upgrade major versions intentionally (I assume the switch happened on a major version upgrade) and expect software packages to have to support their OS version. For example, the package manager keeps separate packages for each distribution.

OS X works differently. It's a customer OS, which people upgrade without reinstalling anything, and they expect their software to continue working. Furthermore, OS X software never targets specific OS versions, instead only targeting a minimum version, and software that works on one version of OS X is expected to work on the next version (any changes that break apps go through a deprecation process first, so the software has to be unmaintained for at least a major OS version before it will break).

Because of that, any software that relies on bash-specific functionality would break if bash were replaced, and it would generally be considered unacceptable.

What can be done is /bin/sh could be changed to another sh-compatible shell, but Bash would still have to be shipped on the system.
The science behind getting bit more or less depends on your ability to process cholesterol, your production of certain acids, and how much carbon dioxide you emit. Unfortunately, its mostly tied to genetics, so you and me are both screwed.

http://www.webmd.com/allergies/features/are-you-mosquito-mag...
>Prior to the 'revolution', Svoboda was denounced by many European nations and the EU.

yep. EU and US are at very interesting place. In order to fight Russia the EU and US are forced to support new Ukrainian government which performs "anti-terrorist operation" in the East (de-facto amounting to ethnic cleansing of Russians there) by mostly using the volunteer forces built of Right Sector and similar nationalist people. It it a big political skill to talk about freedoms, human rights, democracy (it is ok for Scotland to vote for separation, yet not ok for Crimea or Donetsk) and to not notice the stench coming from Kiev.

And this new "lustration" law champined by Svoboda and making its successful way through the Ukranian parliament - setting up committees on "un-Ukranian activities" with people identified by the committees (read Russians and all opposition) banished from all the _elected_ , government, education, military, etc.. positions.
Indeed,

port install bash
cat /opt/local/bin/bash >> /etc/shells
chsh -s /opt/local/bin/bash
mv /bin/bash /bin/bash-apple
ln /opt/local/bin/bash /bin/bash

solves the problem.
Are you a mosquito magnet?
The iTunes Store deserves much of the credit for that shift.
I saw a lot of hype about Ello in the Hackathon Hackers facebook group. This may be against the typical positive feedback mentality of HN, but it kinda seems like a huge circle, a product of the tech bubble enthusiasm, as no one else anywhere has mentioned it (except on Hacker News that one time).

In fact, I suspect the "31,000 invites" was the result of one post on the Facebook group involving an exploit that used dictionary attacks to generate invites for someone's account, which was quickly used by several people, but eventually taken down, and is not their average traffic.

I suspect this because my personal opinion, my friends' opinions, and it appears quite a number of Hacker News peoples opinions, while anecdotal, seem to indicate that Ello is quite lackluster, and I find it hard to believe that many people would want to try a social media platform that:

a) has none of their friends on it yet

b) doesn't look great

c) appeals to you through things you typically don't care about ("ads", "data", "privacy")
righteousness and integrity != law abiding
This is good. Cigarettes seem way too addictive to most people to be used responsibly, so the only way we'll protect public health is by deterring the first purchase.
A digital collection of over 10,000 cylinder recordings
It comes bundled with most Python implementations (import sqlite3).
I don't think substitution to synthetics is very common for the reasons you mention. Oil substitutes such as ethanol have been driven by government policy not economics and would mostly disappear without subsidies. True synthetic oil products are very rare.

Instead persistent high oil prices and new technology have made previously uneconomic oil sources economically viable.
Yeah, that looks good - I'm in Australia so anything that reduces the amount I need to download is excellent.
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Pitched my idea, positive feedback, then no responds
Hi,

I've pitched my idea to a company that works in the field my idea is aimed at. I was looking for a partnership. They were very positive and asked for my Skype to continue the discussion.

I've replied them 36 hours ago and still don't have a responds. Should I send another email?

Was it stupid of to not have them sign a NDA first?

Regards,

Hans (Netherlands)
Exactly. The "boon" of unconventional oil looks like a catastrophe to me:

http://photo.capital.fr/l-enorme-desastre-ecologique-du-petr...

Actually it should remind us of "the limit to growth" book: the meeting point of pollution and lack of resources will destroy us.
I second Mandrill. 12k free emails per month, $0.20 per thousand after that (and cheaper for very large volumes). This is for a shared IP address with other free tier users. You can add a dedicated IP to build just your own reputation for $30/month. You can easily setup DKIM for your domains even on the free shared IP tier. Libraries in many languages + restful API if needed for others.