skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am so sorry to hear that! My mother, also, was found with a tumor that we didn't know about for a long time. She fought as long as she could. She never gave up hope.

Doctors don't know everything. There are ways to fight, even natural ones. Fighting with anything is better than giving up. Hope is very powerful. Don't give up. Keep fighting.

Best wishes to you from one who has walked this road with another.
install-package java --defaults

> Installing:
> Java
> Ask.com toolbar
> Ask.com rootkit
That's an excellent observation. I often feel that in the rush to acquisition the future of the product line can get lost. For example, one of the previous non-profits I worked with used myfamily.com for communications. Myfamily.com was bought out by Ancestry.com not too long ago, and progress on the MyFamily site - a completely separate but corollary product line - stagnated until they simply ended the product's run with just a few week's warning. After a while, when the acquired company's goals no longer apply for the new parent - or when they simply become too much of a hassle - they are simply left to twist in the wind.
I know what key escrow is. Nitrogen didn't claim that Apple does that, and for good reason -- there is absolutely zero evidence that they do.
Scott Sumner is wrong about the impact of QE. Read Winterspeak and Warren Mosler. Or just use simple logic. How does QE improve the balance sheet of the average person? All it does is swap one piece of government paper for another piece. If my balance sheet is not improved, why would I spend more money and drive up the prices of goods? QE does lower interest rates. If lending is limited by interest rates, than QE could increasing lending. But at a certain point, interest rates are low enough that lending is limited by the lack of creditworthy borrowers or by bank capital requirements, and so further reductions will have very limited impact.
The release notes here (https://github.com/OneGet/oneget/blob/master/release-notes.m...) show a few mentions of defining and getting dependencies. I'm going to guess the answer is 'yes'.
I came across backand - http://www.backand.com/ - they might be a good alternative
Superposition revisited: Proposed resolution of double-slit experiment paradox
I agree, I think YCombinator is great and they need to find a way to "foster" the growing community of mini start-ups who are perhaps, not yet ready for incubation, or don't need it, but are still capable of realizing their potential. This community should be free for all, in order to meet, network, collaborate, learn and keep passions burning. Focus on investment potential could be secondary to focus on start-up community growth, involvement, and learning.
Let's say you get your nth X GB at XGB/(1000n)s. Then in a month=2628000seconds, you'd get at most about (70X)-ish GB per month. Meanwhile, if you get a flat X GB at XGB/(1000)s, then you get up to (2628X) GB per month. That sure doesn't feel unlimited in comparison.... but I suppose when I put it that way, all data plans are limited by finite time. :-)
Seeking the Source of Cosmic Rays
HTML5 specification finalized, squabbling over specs continues
The APIs may be annoying (HWND, NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, DWORD_PTR dwcsprcadrswtfbbq, NULL, ...) but that backwards compatibility you're suggesting they do away with is pretty much the best thing about Windows. I got so fucking sick of the desktop Linux people constantly breaking everything on foppery and whim that I went back to Windows 7+mingw, and while Stallman would be ashamed of me, I have to say that it's incredibly comforting to use a platform that mostly figured itself out over a decade ago, that won't change under my feet every other month, and even when it does (Windows 8) I can keep using the version I liked best for years and years because they actually took binary compatibility seriously throughout the entire system. There are still people on XP for christ's sake. I'll take that over overzealous redhatters who think they know what's best for me any day.
But as people will still be people, ability to get what we want easily also drives culture.

Deep inside we all are shockingly selfish and lazy little animals. We all take the easiest road, at least what for our selfish desires seems to be the easiest road. Sometimes, it's looks like a hard or unselfish road on the outside, but needed to fullfill our own selfish needs. Even buddisths are selfish, as they try to be free from selfish desires for the selfish reason of reduce pain in their live.

There's always a melt down of higher cultures. People having all the tools to fullfill their basic needs loose the drive to achieve. That's why I generally see this "we make the world a better place with all our great services" direction quite sceptical. It was never easier to distract ourselves with mobile devices, but do we benefit? No, Apple, Google, FB, MS and Amazon do.

BTW: One of my favorite movies is Idiocracy :-)
Frankenstein fera l’objet d’une nouvelle série sur la FOX
Untappd anniversary party tonight at The Pony Bar in the Upper East Side of NYC. 3h & 18 minutes remain.
I have a really hard time believing that.
Untappd is great. Another awesome beer tracking app is BeerTab (http://beertabapp.com/).
The part at 42:00 makes it sound like the engine is/was considered sort of a gamble. I wonder what the current thought on this engine is.
The tty layer handles line editing so that programmers do not have to replicate this functionality.

If you write a simple program that obtains commands using "fgets", you automatically get simple editing, and that functionality goes away when the input is redirected from some other device or file.

The simple editing is consistent from program to program and maintains the user's preferences.

The tty input editing could be done in user space, like in the C library (and in POSIX implementations on non-Unix kernels like Cygwin and whatnot, that seems to be where it is).

The mind-boggling complexity is in sessions, controlling terminals, POSIX job control, foreground and background process groups and such.

Plus the quirks: like Ctrl-D just means "return now from the system call", so it only signals EOF when typed on an empty line due to read returning zero. And on TTY's it's a recoverable condition:

cat /dev/tty /dev/tty
a
b
c
[Ctrl-D] # first "EOF"
d
e
f
[Ctrl-D] # second "EOF
I'll preface this by saying I'm not a big YC apologist. I've never been through it, I've never applied, I've directly competed against lots of YC companies, yada yada. But I disagree. I've dealt with VCs before and I've read enough to understand what dealing with YC is like, and they are much more different from a traditional VC than they are alike.

1. Anybody can apply, from anywhere, and you apply online. Good luck finding an online application for a normal VC, and cold-emailing partners isn't going to get you anywhere. Oh, and if you don't live in the bay area your chances just went way down of getting a meeting or investment.

2. They give you a nice chunk of money in exchange for a really tiny amount of common stock (I think it's common stock), have really nice terms, and don't take a board seat. I'm sure for many of the companies that apply, YC could take much more equity but they don't (and it would still be worth it for the companies anyway). They are paranoid about and lose a ton of money by restricting partners investing or taking their pro-rata rights to protect the companies they don't follow on with (this is my understanding of their policies).

3. They keep increasing their class sizes in attempts to get more people going through it. They created an online class that they offered for free to everybody to encourage more people to do startups and spread the knowledge.

4. They have a means of preventing and responding to investor misbehavior by threatening to blacklist them from YC companies. This is hugely valuable for your average entrepreneur as its helps to shift the culture in a way that is better for entrepreneurs (which has happened a lot in the past few years).

They aren't perfect. They don't claim to be perfect (case in point: the title of this blog post). But believe me, they are miles away from a traditional VC.
Is this what you mean by "a lush"?

"lush. one who becomes intoxicated after a few drinks and flirts with everyone." [Urban Dictionary]

It's not a term I've encountered before in Australia.
\o/ for rejection!

Launched a turbo tax, but for PCI Compliance.

Managing PCI Compliance is an unsolved real (big) problem, even bigger than HIPAA. There's been headline breaches in the news (e.g. Target, Kmart, Staples) and companies fear PCI because of its vague language and cost. With my relevant domain expertise in the security field, I'm bringing new tech to an old-school market.

http://www.ComplianceChimp.com

Instead of completing a PCI Requirement that looks like this: http://i.imgur.com/ZW0PzBd.png

You can complete one that looks like this:
http://i.imgur.com/XdkrG4o.png
I love this essay because it challenges us[1] about things most are too polite to mention. If you feel outrage at the following, then try recognizing that as a challenge to your beliefs.[2]

1) The third problem is that it accepts capitalism’s redefinition of us from citizens to consumers. By accepting this redefinition, we reduce our potential forms of resistance to consuming and not consuming. Citizens have a much wider range of available resistance tactics, including voting, not voting, running for office, pamphleting, boycotting, organizing, lobbying, protesting ...

Two things we[1] generally promote contribute to this:

* 'Free market' economic policy: By reducing citizens' control over the economy and businesses, and by reducing their bargaining power (i.e., via the dominance of money in elections, reduced organized labor, click-wrap agreements, etc.), we reduce people's roles to that of consumers: If you like or dislike something, all you can do is consume or not consume.

* Reduction of end-user control in technology: From hosted applications to automatic updates to eliminating confidentiality to mobile devices built for consumption and not content creation to closed systems and data, we train users to passively consume rather than to control and create. Information technology, to some significant degree, establishes the Zeitgeist of our time.

2) So how, then, and especially with all the world at stake, have we come to accept these utterly insufficient responses?

Climate change is putting the world at stake. How can you accept your utterly insufficient response? Whatever you are doing, it's probably utterly insufficient.[3]

It's nothing new to humanity to walk open-eyed into catastrophe. To borrow the author's analogy, now you know how people in Germany could watch Hitler rise to power and people in the West could watch him start marching across Europe, all knowing the very likely result, and do nothing about it.

[1] By "us" and "we", I mean what I imagine to be most HN readers.

[2] For the record, I like the author's questions but don't at all agree with his solution of ending modern 'industrial' society; things weren't so great before it

[3] Me too
That doesn't sound like any spy ware or virus, Just got someone to click a link and logged the ip which connected to the server.
Deflation is only bad for fixed interest rate debt bearer. Adjustable interest rate debt goes lower along with deflation. The only problem for adjustable rate is that it can't go lower when interest rate reaches 0 and deflation rate keeps going down. To fix that, allows interest rate to go negative. That means the principal of the debt goes down faster.

If everything is floating down with deflation, it's not too bad. For the fixed rate debtors, well they made a calculated risk that inflation will go up.
The fact that RCNN does a wasteful and naive feature re-computation for every object-like region in the image is well-known in the community, and there are several papers addressing the shortcoming in very similar ways (i.e. precomputing pool-5 features for the entire image once, instead of recomputing from scratch for each individual box). The Overfeat detecion paper [0] was among the first ones, for example, and it achieved similar speedups as discussed in the article, but the accuracy is not as great for various other reasons.

This article makes it sound like Spatial Pyramid Pooling is something new and amazing, but in fact this idea has been around in Computer Vision for a very long time (starting with this 2006 paper [1], which has now been cited almost 4000 times) and it has been successfully applied to pool descriptors over the image into fixed-size representations, ready to go into an SVM.

But this was the first time the basic concept was used as a layer in a ConvNet (by having variable-sized pooling bins) and it's nice to see the numbers.

[0] http://arxiv.org/abs/1312.6229

[1] http://web.engr.illinois.edu/~slazebni/publications/cvpr06b....
Absolutely agree with your thoughts here.
DuckDuckGo wants you to write their vertical search engines. Those are the things that provide weather, traffic, stock quotes, sports scores, and similar data as specialized search results. Yahoo Search originated that concept, and now all search engines have to have it.

The vertical search engines you write go on Github, so someone could take all their verticals and put them into another search engine. It's not "send us the code and then we own it". Might be worth it writing one if you need the exposure as a programmer.

DuckDuckGo is still under 1% search market share, though.
I don't get the "Tech Brands Are Huge" slide, specifically the comparison to the same companies in 2004. Wouldnt you compare to the top four tech companies at the time (MSFT, AOL, whatever) to demonstrate that the share of global brand value in tech is much higher now?
Windows used to have those things. Windows 8 was where they removed it. I believe the official answer nowadays is "run a Unix using Hyper-V."
Not sure if it's improved, but I found it a very slow process to add past beers (rather than only add them as I went) and abandoned it.

It did however beat my previous method which involved adding beer names to a list in the Notes app on my phone and then having limited idea of when and where I'd tasted it, or no search option to check whether something was already on the list.
Being built on Linux as GP suggested doesn't mean its just Linux -- presumably you'd implementing Windows APIs on top of Linux. Think WINE, but without the disadvantage of having to be done by third parties.

Though a more likely way, were Microsoft to want to bridge that gap, would be to have a solid first-party POSIX environment on top of Windows, rather than the other way around.
From malware to NSA targeting, Tor has more risks than its supporters let on
> Legally you can't fund the Foundation with the Corporation money

The Foundation is the sole owner of the Corporation. The Corporation pays dividends to the Foundation.

Now the amount of those dividends can't be too much if the Foundation wants to keep its nonprofit status. "Too much" is determined by how much people donate: the restriction is on fraction of money that comes from non-donations.
Well done, Meteor team. My project based on Meteor is going to finished this Friday.
Once bonds yield 0% in a deflationary environment why would anyone hold on to bonds vs. cash? So QE means the government buys it's own bonds and that's about it. I'm talking about the long term rates, not the inter-day rates. Japan has sort of been in this situation and I think they even tried giving money to people and that didn't spur inflation/consumption.

The salary loss aversion I'm talking about is taking a 10% pay cut in a deflationary environment vs. not getting a raise in a zero inflation environment or getting a raise smaller than inflation in an inflationary environment.

The pay cut is going to feel much worse. That's loss aversion. From my exposure to behavioral economics through Dan Arieli I'd say the real loss of $1 is going to feel a lot worse than the nominal loss of $1 eroded by inflation. The latter feels like nothing which is why governments can use inflation as a tool so effectively. The imagery of high inflation is of people rushing with their bags of money to spend it before it becomes worthless... I've lived through some periods of high inflation and when interest rates were at over 10% I don't recall people rushing to invest, they rush to spend...
birken: good point. I think the wording i used was too strong (again, disclaimer that I'm still a little bitter from our team being rejected). i think they're becoming more like a traditional vc, but still miles away. in other words: i agree with your points above
I once tried to become a paramedic. I was working in a sort-of outpatient clinic at the time, talked a couple of times with an paramedic instructor, along with some regular officers. I never got in - the HR recruiters didn't like me for some reason. This made no sense to the instructor, who thought I was a prime candidate, nor to my medical colleagues, and I also later successfully coached two friends through the process. I often wonder how life would have turned out differently had I been accepted. Sometimes people on both sides of the wall think you'd be the best for the job, but if the gatekeepers don't think so... :)
Hi Friends,

I've just received rejection email from Ycombinator... :( Though I realize, how competitive it gets to get in, its not the start one expect for their product or idea...

I would appreciate if fellow community members can help point out areas of improvement in my product at,

http://joday.com

Thanks for your time! I really appreciate it!

Nish
Founder, Joday.com
For the purposes of this reply, I'm talking about packages as distinct from Windows itself.

A reboot is required if something you are trying to install is already in uss. Windows locks executable files and dells while they are being used, so it's not possible for an installer to overwrite them. When an installer detects this it places the new file in a temp store, and windows empties this store on startup,

Thus if you are updating say Java, and the Java binaries are in use, then a reboot will be required. On the other hand if the binaries are not in use, then they won't.

So the need to reboot will vary enormously from one user to the next, based n their habits (do you close the program before updating it?) and also the kinds of programs they have running when they do an update.

Aside: some installers can detect that the program is running and terminate it as part of the upgrade process, thus explicitly avoiding a reboot. That's why say Firefox and Chrome never need a reboot. But that's easier to do with a program, and less easy with a runtime like say Java.
Android is built on Linux, and it seems to do just fine despite the kernel being GPL'd.
Code obfuscation mixing 32 and 64 bit mode instructions
Wow, what's next, ability to shift-ctrl+c & shift-ctrl+v text in the console just by default?
>You're of course referring to the current bogus CPI, which was put into effect in the 1990s to hide the real rate of inflation.

Let's just assume this is true. CPI, as currently measured, has been in place since ~1996. One can thus safely assume CPI would reflect the alleged inflationary effects of QE on price levels, regardless of how accurately it measures the actual rate of inflation, since it represents a measurement of some consistent snapshot of the total rate of inflation throughout the entirety of QE.

But CPI shows no change in the rate of inflation due to QE, and even more curiously, tells us inflation is currently lower now than pre-QE. Regardless of your opinion of its measurement of "real" inflation, the fact remains: there has been no uptick in price levels due to QE (startup valuations aside, hah!), despite the intuition that it ought to have resulted in substantial inflation. Hence, cause for concern.

EDIT: And I say all of this as someone who was horrified of inflation back when the Fed first started QE. So far, I appear to have been worried about the wrong thing.
Well,the truth is Mozilla never blocked anything.They were on board with Adobe about ES4(basically actionscript3 in the browser).It's brands like Microsoft and Apple who ironically were the most vocal against any change in javascript.
The article says that it's the same format as Chocolatey (an existing Windows package management tool) but actually it's a fork of NuGet in Windows 10 and Chocolatey is also a compatible fork of NuGet. Microsoft already owns and maintains NuGet.
I wonder if some of these critics aren't confusing "condescending" and "conceited", to further muddle things.
Honestly it just sounds like you were hurt that they didn't accept you. If they have thousands of people apply they have to reject the vast majority of them. I don't see how this is now following the hacker ethos. You might want to ask your self why you don't already have traction.
I think there's a difference between ChromeBook or FxOS apps, which may need functionality and more importantly permissions that are not available on the web yet and creating web apps that use functionality that's supported in multiple browsers but restricting to only one browser.

That said, I agree that more FxOS bits need to end up on standards tracks. The permissions issue really needs solving to make serious progress there.
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Any plans to gamify/add user incentives for "Stumbling?"
Well, no, they didn't remove it; its been a separate component for a long time, and with Windows 8 they restricted it to Windows 8 Enterprise and Server 2012. (Though I think the Windows 7 version can actually be used in Windows 8.)
You're obviously right to think that hillis. What are your thoughts on the potential that could be achieved if YCombinator would build on the idea?
> I find Evans' analysis of mobile a bit hyperbolic....for a lot of use cases small touch screen devices are simply inadequate.

Consider his use metonymic and look at the picture on page 28. When you see "mobile" see "extremely personal device that you interact with ubiquitously and almost continuously, with sensors so it senses your movements, listens to you even when you are not explicitly manipulating it, and is constantly connected." Today, essentially the only devices like that are phones.

But his core points are:
- You no longer sit down to have a "computing experience" -- it's increasingly part of the fabric of society and life
- This will only accelerate and new devices and modes and capabilities will flourish and extend it
- This shift is transformational, not incremental.
- Almost any plan that made sense a few years ago is now irrelevant.

These are concepts that are so clear that they simultaneously appear banal and yet will go unrecognized by most people even as they are being planed by these "banal truths".
Vincent Granville to Be Interviewed Live on Clear Channel
When I saw that slide I said to myself "rather, email is for people who have a job". But who knows, maybe that generation will reject email and create some brilliant collaboration tools that are modeled more after the instant messaging model? Was Wave just ahead of it's time?
That and the ability to control core OS packages so other packages can depend on those correctly where needed.
If I forgot everything I'd probably leave the field entirely; pack my bags and go to law school or something. Hell, I might do that regardless :)
That seems like a very silly analogy Steve made. By percentage, ya more autos were trucks back in the day, but there are more 'trucks' on the road than ever before. From small light duty trucks to gigantic semi's with an army of axles under them we are no closer to post-truck then we were when they owned the road.
Billions, not millions.
IBM's the same way.

Doesn't mean it will forever be relevant beyond a small niche.
Too bad your TA didn't work on that Russian rocket that crashed a year or two ago... IIRC the accelerometers were installed upside down so as soon as it took off it incorrectly thought it was pointed straight down. The rocket flipped around until it thought it was "up" and slammed into the ground.