skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do you detect stable states to declare a draw? They can take many generations to develop and reveal themselves...
Building Full Screen CSS3 Menus with Tons of Creative Demos
You can immediately sync it to your device when you purchase. But of course that requires you remembering to do it. Annoying, but if you're online to purchase you can sync to device then as well.
Show HN: VirtKick – Self-hosted Digital Ocean
This is a bit of a false dichotomy, I think. Of course there are good (and valid!) psychological explanations for the behavior patterns exhibited on Twitter.

When I say something is a "Twitter problem," I mean that these patterns are less prevalent on other platforms. I mean that Twitter has created a scaffold for communication that encourages certain bad behaviors.

One example: If I were to pluck the middle sentence from your response and criticize you for saying that "Everyone is lazy" here on HN, I'd be down voted into oblivion because I am obviously being a jackass. Twitter's structure can make it very hard to see when someone is being misquoted or their views misrepresented. It's the Fox News Soundbite version of online discussions.
Unless you actually offer your application, and support it, in a particular language, "optimizing your conversions" from the app store by putting up lots of translated keywords amounts to spam.

Sure, you may earn money from it, but it's not really helpful to your customers.
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Insider trading is a thing you know.

A prerequisite to a free market is perfect information. Insider information makes markets imperfect, thus losing the sort of holy grail property of getting the "right" price for a good.
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The Emergence of GitHub as a Collaborative Platform for Education [pdf]
Because Google Translate is absolutely horrible? You can kind of understand what it's trying to do, but most of the time it's not something you would put nowhere near a professional product.
Open Letter to B&N - http://tenletters.org/

So, I wrote this open letter to B&N about a 2 weeks ago and just haven't gotten around to posting it yet. I was waiting until I managed to track down the e-mail addresses of some of the big wigs, but since this seems relevant I'll post it here as well. Once I've gotten the e-mails out to B&N I'm going to submit this on here as well as a couple other places.
It also makes it hard to skip further down the page. It's an issue I keep running into with Google+ communities: there's something that I know was from early in the timeline's history, but I don't remember the exact dates. But the only way to access it is to scroll slowly through the entire archive. (Google+ has the additional problems of an ineffective search that can only be sorted by "best result" or "most recent".)
Teach me to not read to the end. There's a fixed number of generations, it looks like.
The SEC website explicitly states: "The subscription price is set annually by Attain, LLC, using a weighted average methodology based on the number of primary feeds for subscribers at the beginning of the each year. Subscriber organizations can be invoiced annually or monthly."

There are two very detailed documents on the linked website that have both business and technical details along with specifications for the service.

There is nothing shady going on here.
Haskell is pragmatic.
The quality automated translation is not really there yet and Google translate won't have the context of your app anyway.

There is also lots of other small details on how people are going to use your app. For example in some countries, the last name is supposed to be put before the first name and if you put it the other way around, you would still have ~15/20% of people which would put their last name on the first field anyway regardless how it's labeled.
A Quick Intro to Rust Macros
Conway's Game of Life in Racket (2013)
Other submissions. Many votes, no comments:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8526843

White House computer network hacked
(mashable.com)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8526769

White House computer network breached
(bbc.com)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8525191

White House Computers Hacked
(washingtonpost.com)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8524606

Suspicious cyber activity at White House
detected, addressed
(reuters.com)
HandUp: The “GoFundMe” for Poverty
A long post justifying underpaying from the guy who in his last blog post dropped this money quote "If you consider yourself a hacker, I believe it's time to change. The time of hackers is fading out."
But if buying is sufficiently more cumbersome, I do sometimes go back to piracy.

Even after I've bought films/series, I tend to pirate them because it's faster than getting the DvDs out and switching them every 4 episodes etc if just watching on my computer. I continue to thank everyone and anyone who does the service of ripping disks
In OpenBSD the ftp(1) program /is/ the cli http client for the base system. wget is available in ports but not install by default. FreeBSD is probably similar
>And more terrifyingly, which is Ozymandius?

Would any real-life Ozymandias play up a massive personal brand like that?
Kinect SDK 2 and an XBOX Adaptor
What is the status of supporting Redis. I'd be more excited if I could use my favorite instead of Mongo.
Is Docker ready for production?
The thing about visionary technologists and supervillains is that it's pretty hard to tell the difference before the maniacal laughter starts. Still, I fucking love supervillains, so it's all good to me.
It was not the decision of debian to rebrand Firefox. Mozilla forced them to.
Debian wanted to be able to ship security patches whenever they pleased, Mozilla required that they shipped Firefox stock, even if that meant waiting for Mozilla to approve security patches.

Chrome is not open source. Chrome tracks you. Chromium is open source and does not track you. Other than the slight branding differences, a user would not know the difference.

How are these slight changes an issue?
This is fun to do for when you are the only one using the app (ie, early testing). It looks like a privacy nightmare. You'll probably lose millions in lawsuits.

Still, I think I'll have fun with this :D
I don't think it's important that his narrative be perfect, as long as it's well-presented. There are thousands of calculus books on the market and nobody reads them because they all suck.

He may consider taking out the Will Farrell gif since it has nothing to do with Calculus.
You're just making allegations. It says in the contract that the subscription price is based upon how many subscribers subscribe to the service (they need to cover their costs of implementing 24/7 support and a help desk). It probably isn't public, but Google-fu turns up some older information:

http://contracts.onecle.com/edgar-online/trw.svc.1998.09.11....

A. Broadcast Service Subscription Charge
This charge will be set on October 1, 1998 based on the number of signed
contracts received by that date. The table below contains a 14-month price at
various subscription levels:

SUBSCRIBERS AS OF
OCTOBER 1, 1998 PRICE

1 to 8 $152,172
9 to 15 92,967
16 to 25 55,346
25+ 42,179
"If you need more than 2 tweets to express your thought, you're either using the wrong medium or thinking too far. If that conversation model doesn't fit you, that's perfectly fine, but that's not the fault of twitter."

Very true. It's like blaming a radio for not having pictures to go with an advertisement. Wrong tool. Echo chambers aren't good for in depth conversations.
I mostly agree with you, I guess the University of Michigan is not quite a private institution though.

It's somehow in between public and private; it certainly receives substantial funding and support from the state of Michigan and the federal government. I don't think it's obvious that they should be prevented from gaining financial advantage from research activities (but there are certainly people on both sides of that question).
The site http://wehighfive.com gives the error -
Error 521 Ray ID: 180ff4b9abf0042a
Web server is down
This was our first time, and we are rejected. (http://cubic.fm)

During the application process I started to realize, YC asks all the right questions. Just trying to find proper answers is a huge step forward for the first timers, like us. We learned a lot.

I think, the only thing that missing is the feedback loop. I'm aware of the fact that there are more applicants than YC could accept, or provide a feedback. But after all, we still need a feedback.

After I saw the rejection email, first I planned to share our application in HN to get feedback from the community. But now I see this is a need for all the rejected applicants. I'm not sure what could be a better way for closing the feedback loop. Maybe, there's a start-up idea in here somewhere :)
Obviously. But the Univ of Michigan data was economic data and not collected from insiders. So it isn't insider trading. It is research. Should we make ALL research available to EVERYONE at EXACTLY the same moment? You can see how ludicrous that sounds when you consider how much research is behind some form of payment.
There's also the problem of "dot-@ing", where instead of starting a tweet with "@staz", people start it with ".@staz", meaning that the tweet appears in the timeline of everyone who follows you.

I rarely see this used in situations that aren't passive aggressive attempts to get followers to pile onto someone you disagree with. Totally ruins any chance of good debate.
Skifree in JavaScript: Rough patch in life and need something to occupy me
I am going thru a tough stretch in my life right now, and I just need something to keep my mind occupied and get thru these few days.

I started working on this a while ago and found myself with some extra time over the next ten days.

I'd like to finish it up, but I'd like to feel encouraged by the community in some way.

I also wrote the chrome extension in which i state the future feature, but never quite found the time until now.

Would appreciate some encouragement.

The chrome extension:
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/skifree/fdlnnaddiaihgfjjjhngoncjfjfjiggg?hl=en

the website:
http://naiduv.github.io/

Hope someone reads this.
Thanks :)
Google can now monitor how fat we are getting
New Fed Policy Subjects H-1B Records to Destruction
Sleazy paparazzi can exist in the world without breaking the law, but I expected more than that from Mozilla.

One hypothetical example: SSIDs often betray vendor names out of the box, and home routers are typically embedded devices that don't frequently receive security updates. Suppose Mozilla makes its database public and lists my SSID--or more likely, some weakly-secure hash of my SSID--in a public database that later gets compromised (e.g. plenty of people know their own SSIDs). Then, through no fault of Mozilla's, there's some 0day announced for my router. Now, every script kiddie in the neighborhood's using metasploit against a pre-selected list of vulnerable routers, potentially even remotely depending on their ability to integrate information from other sources. Maybe that sounds like more of a security issue than a privacy issue, but at some point, the effect is the same.
Have the Angular Team lost their marbles?
They must have heard us!

http://www.aftvnews.com/netflix-releases-new-fire-tv-app/
IKEA Actually Made a Half-Decent Spoof of 'The Shining'
Terse also means short, clearly explained. Yes, 'terse' has an extra meaning, but in a technical context, and especially when contrasted with 'verbose', it should be completely clear which meaning I meant.

And for the record: I don't train myself to limit my thoughts, I train myself to use a form for expressing them appropriate to the medium I'm doing it in. Expressing something shorter and in steps is not inferior to long-winded explanations. If you must blame something for a fine nuance I failed to grasp, blame the fact that English is not my first language. I doubt I would have caught it in Dutch either, but at least that could be a valid reason.
Answering your question slightly different from interpreted vs compiled:

There are lot of things on the web today that are compilers: Jekyll and multiple static site generators compile static pages. A cache like Varnish works as the end-point of a process that results in a compiled result, to the same interpretation doesn't need to be done ('compiled').
My native language is a germanic one, Swedish, which is globally speaking pretty much as close to the English family as it gets. I know for a fact that Google Translate butchers it completely and it's sometimes hard to even understand the results. I can only imagine what it would do to Japanese or Chinese, which are much, much farther from English.

If you want a hint of what Google Translate does to a language, do it full circle. Translate a text from English to for example French, and then input the result for translation back to English. The resulting experience is pretty close to what the French user would get.

(It also doubles as comedy.)
Why does the "big picture" matter in this case? This is an unfortunately all-too-common story: a company makes an ill-thought-out and obnoxious policy change with no regard to how it impacts normal people.

That is always outrage-worthy.
note that, confusingly enough, "tracelets" have nothing to do with "tracing JITs".
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The specs were written from scratch, because the W3C holds the copyright on them (the old specs are also of relatively little use). The spec now called HTML5 was officially called Web Applications 1.0 till after the W3C HTML WG was (re-)chartered.
Have you ever tried something more advanced than VisiPics and Duplicate Annihilator? I've found that Duplicate Photo Cleaner is reliable for finding similar photos and Easy Duplicate Finder works really well for the rest of the duplicates. They are not free, but I think these programs work better than the free ones like VisiPics, Auslogics, Duplicate Annihilator and the rest.
In production in bundles and minifies all JS and HTML into one file that is sent to the client. Then all further communication happens with JSON over WebSockets/SockJS. If changes are made to the JS/HTML, the server will send down a new application bundle and hot-reload the app without interrupting the user if you are storing the user's app state in the Session.

The CSS is also bundled in production. When further changes are made to the CSS, the new stylesheet is live-injected into the running apps without reloading the browser.
He had a vary positive image in the US prior to WWII. IMO, this is simply an outgrowth of what it takes to gain power. Sure, plenty of people recall Hitler being man of the year 1939. But, few recall Josef Stalin was also named TIME's Man of the year January 1943
Not trying to be pedantic, but Microsoft doesn't own/maintain NuGet. OuterCurve does and while MS supports OuterCurve with cash/time, it is its own entity and MS does a good job keeping them separate.
One of the biggest things is that there is one, singular Twitter app. There are a million RSS readers, but it's difficult to know which one to get. And, of course, it's a reader, not a publisher - you need a separate app for that.
There are no use cases for Twitter in professional communication if your profession is not communication itself.
Thank you for your feedback! This is unexpected, I'm checking it right now. I'll let you know when it is solved.
actually yes, that is exactly what should happen if your objective is to have a free market. But most people are not trying to have a free market, they're trying to get paid.
Eventually. It's on the roadmap: https://trello.com/c/sWcxRwxN/31-redis-support

One of the core developers seems to be working on it: https://github.com/meteor/redis-livedata
Hey guys - Tamar from Namecheap here. Just an FYI - we've been promising this for quite some time and we're still working on it. I can't offer an ETA just yet, but it's on our roadmap.
What evidence? Learn history! Churchill's "the Second World War" might be a good place to start.
$150,000 = you are paying for early access to insider data. You are NOT paying for a fucking help desk at that price.

Edit: downvoting does not change this fact either.
Scala is pretty widely used. JRuby seems to do quite well as well.

Future times should be interesting as well. I'd be interested to know if the work on value types in the JVM would be useful for Clojure.
Reddit launches its own crowdfunding platform: Redditmade
I don't use Twitter. Never signed up, never read it, unless someone I know posts a link to some insightful 140 character piece of text, which is rare.

It might be a good news headline spreading medium but not for conversations.
Speaking of IE/Mac, that's the reason why the HTML DOCTYPE now is `<!doctype html>`. If it hadn't been for IE/Mac, it'd be `<!doctype>`.
Where did see that? I search and didn't see them post? I'd like to reach out to them.
It is also a good idea to provide language selector, not just always use OS default language. Especially if you put some human effort into translation. Some people use English system language because many translations are sub-optimal.
One of the main reasons I have a blog.
Question to the authors: Any reason why hippyvm is not included for comparison in the paper? It does usually outperform hhvm on those benchmarks (but not on real world use cases which is maybe a good reason to include real world use cases more into such papers).
Depends on your opinion, and honestly if he _was_ a legitimate whistle blower (as stated by current law, not my personal view), don't we think he'd be protected under the Whistleblower Act (http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/794) or any sort of legislation ->currently<- in place? Matters of National Security does not qualify and to be frank, and its pretty clear he is guilty of treason (no matter what my opinion is, again). This most likely isn't a popular view here on YC (I am not judging anyone openly here), but this makes for fascinating reading. Edward Snowden is no better than John Walker, Aldrich Ames, Aaron Burr (VP of the United States!!), and Benedict Arnold. Russia really didn't want him, but they sure didn't exactly push back considering whatever Snowden had on his person (or remotely access to) and surely has been taken and shared with the Chinese as well. I'm simply trying to provide the deep (on occasion conflicting) loyalties that underlie many security professionals in this country that are married to the ultimate goal of protecting interests domestic and abroad of the United States. They are the best and brightest, and the leadership generally above them are FROM the ranks of trusted/vetted/experienced individuals.
I was confused by that, too. But it's hardly on the level of Windows PCs.
Pretty good. I think Larry Gornick's The Cartoon Guide to Calculus[0] is better. Has a lot of narrative elements as well.

[0] http://www.amazon.com/Cartoon-Guide-Calculus-Guides/dp/00616...
Completely disagree. Let's take our app as an example, it's an music making app with just a few sentences in it, which aren't really relevant for the core experience.

If a russian person searches for делать музыку (make music), why is it spam that our app is there?
No, that only puts limits on the provability of particular theorems in formal proof systems. Inductive reasoners have no such trouble.
Right. I should've used a threshold. Fixed now.

print where(outputs > .5, 1, 0)

The example is for OR.
In general, inputs is mxn matrix. m - training instances and n features. targets is training output matrix. In this case its 4x1 for 4.
I see sometimes, it doesn't converge after those iterations perhaps because of initial weights. There are other techniques I have to use like momentum.
Exactly!

The majority of companies in the music industry are aware of the problems driven by the fragmented setup. Some react by offering additional features for user retention. Others continue to drive the fragmentation further. New companies emerge, focusing on eliminating this setup. (bop.fm is one of them. check : tomahawk, wyhd and kollekt.fm)

This fragmentation though, is more the user’s problem than the industry’s.
We start by accepting that music consumption, discovery and sharing has to be fragmented. Our competitors misperceive this problem and conclude that ‘sharing’ is broken in music. Taking a step backward, we know that the core problem is that ‘music consumption’ is broken.

On-demand services, download services, discovery services, terrestrial radio.. They are all complementary products from and end user perspective.
This is why we accept that a user needs access to all these services and fulfil different consumption habits. This should not prevent a user to create a music library; accessible from anywhere and anyone. The users need an online Winamp!

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My thoughts exactly - not to mention the fact that [1] was based on the earlier Spatial Pyramid work of Grauman & Darrell.

The language in the article is a bit zealous - Microsoft did well, but didn't "win" any challenge in Imagenet. VGG and Google seem to be the ones people are really watching / emulating.
would be great if they actually released anything as a real product though.

what ever happened to the contact lenses for diabetics?

as of now, google x is all talk. a success in biotech is measured in its approval by the FDA - until then it is just paper.
Red Hat begins offering free OpenShift to startups
I went back after seeing your comment. This looks like Pinterest if it existed in the 90s.
>A prerequisite to a free market is perfect information.

So there are no free markets? Perfect information is just a theoretical benchmark used by economists, not something you'll ever encounter in real life.

>Insider information makes markets imperfect, thus losing the sort of holy grail property of getting the "right" price for a good.

What a load of nonsense. Just think for one second about what you wrote: not incorporating information into the price makes it "right"?
This whole subject is a source of never ending amusement to me. I am a book lover and still read paper books and each year that goes by I feel increasingly like some kind of rebel.
Yeah, I can see your point, to say that it's a "twitter problem" for leaving that door open.
William Gibson’s ‘The Peripheral’ Is a Wild Ride into the Future
Anytime someone describes something as "X of/for Y", I go check out Y. I'd work on your pitch.
I'm not sure there's a way for B&N to revoke titles either. The DRM seems to just be keyed off of Name and Credit Card Number. I may be a minority, but I have several hundred titles that fit with room to spare on one of the later gen Nooks. Now as far as getting an actual file.... Maybe you'll just have to get a first gen Nook. Surely the desktop application stores an epub locally at some point though?
Windows Phone sees rapid global decline, Chinese users almost non-existent
The data you have from the U.S. Gov is false as it down NOT include benefits like social security, Medicare, Medicaid, etc that are substantial part of the budget. Once you include these guarantees among other guarantees ( like the bank guarantees ) you are looking at 600%
Memwa: A complete C64 system emulated on an STM32
No published prices + a seemingly HIGHLY profitable portion of a government service provided by a private company = something pretty shady.

Even the contracts to run private prisons don't give this much opportunity to gouge.

Were this service run on an at-cost basis would maybe cost $80 or so per month. $200 at most.