skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> A disease of poverty, iron deficiency affects 3.5 billion people in the world.

> They found a local scrap metal worker who could make them for $1.50 each

Paging Bill Gates... A one-off payment (these would last forever, right?) of a few billion would solve this problem... everywhere and forever?
Classic soulless PR-drone reply here:

http://www.turn.com/blog/in-response-to-propublica

"Clearing cookies is not a reliable way for a user to express their desire not to receive tailored advertising,..." Okay, but is it a reliable way for me to express my desire for you not to track me? I assume you ignore the DNT header, and I already block your ads, but still...

"Turn fully supports enabling consumers to express their choice and consent in regards to data use for digital advertising." Choke on a bag of dicks, you sleazy, lying scum.
It looks really awesome, I can't wait to check it out! Great work by the team at Rethink.
There was an article in the Guardian recently that expands on just how dangerous jobs at sea are in general: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jan/10/shipping-disast...
There are two solutions I see.

1) Regulation. Maybe it'll happen, I don't have much hope of it being done intelligently.

2) Feed them garbage data.

We just need a database of live UIDH numbers and a browser extension to inject a random UIDH number from that list into the header.
thanks for this! that amazon link is for a 50 pack -- is there any reason someone would need more than one? i've just been using tweezers up till now.

any chance you have a video of it in action?
This is really nice! Just built something quick with it and I find it way easier to work with than something like ncurses, though that might just be because I work with javascript alot. Sorta feels like a terminal based d3 in a way, though not as atomic. Not a huge fan of Node for terminal applications (I'd sooner use Go or Ruby), but this alone might make me use it for things people other than me will use.

Do you plan on accepting pull requests? I'd love to contribute to something like this.
6 to 5: Next generation JavaScript, today
"so I implemented a small neural network and trained it to sort 10 6-bit numbers, which was easy to do to my surprise"

Does anyone know what the inputs and outputs of a neural network that sorts numbers would look like?
And this is why I closed my ING Direct account very shortly after they were bought by Capital One.

On the other hand when I called USAA with a question about Apple Pay, within about five minutes I was talking to a specially trained Apple Pay expert that they had on hand.
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Thanks!
| A micropayment solution that allows content providers to get revenue from content rather than ads.

Even if this were popular, you'd still be tracked because it makes money. Really, so few people care about this deeply I don't think it will be solved. Sure, everyone hates it, but no one will switch carriers over it.
Bitcoin below $185, mining hash rate drops, network volatile
Physical exertion? How big is that bag of Doritos you're munching on?
Huh! Very interesting. I loiter around drinking my 1st cup of coffee with mule deer most mornings, I thought ours were just acclimated to people... north-side of Phoenix metro. A few dozen of them graze our property most mornings between twilight & sunrise. They are oblivious of my presence, sometimes curious... more so with newborns around. I've had them sniff me & my coffee as they mosey by. Just last week a young buck almost walked over me as I was standing in the middle of the driveway talking on the phone. I watched him approach 50+ yards straight at me. I tried walking backward but he wouldn't let up so I chickened out and stepped aside. He walked by without breaking stride or saying 'pardon'. They're pretty good neighbors, otherwise.
Pull requests are more than welcome!
> break down the ISP vertical into companies

The UK did this with British Telecom (BT). In a word, it sucks. It creates confusion for consumers:

* "I get internet from Twinkle but they say they can't repair my line."

* "I signed up for service with Floyd's Internet but a truck showed up at my house that says Ben's Broadband."

* "Decker offered me fast fiber, but when I called to sign up, they said WestLane only has copper to my home and they aren't allowed to run the fiber."

The names have been changed to protect the guilty, but the experiences are real.
Having your weapon drawn right from the get go is not a good thing. It tends to make calm people nervous. As far as getting out of the vehicle most police don't like surprises so if things go step by step according to the person with the gun things go much better.

If you stay in the car you have a much easier time dealing with a person who can't easily get into your personal space and limiting the options you have to protect your self.
the big question is of course about self selection: how many nonwhite, female and non-Stanford entrepreneurs would like to apply for YC but don't because they think their chances are basically zero?
by this logic, everyone should move all software to node.js, and any complaints are rationalization, because it's newer than C.
Did you end up finding a 3rd? If not, in February's Who's Hiring in r/hwstartups, feel free to brag a bit about all the awesome stuff you guys do.
I follow Bloomberg, FT, and sometimes the WSJ and I've never seen in mentioned that Dalio writes weekly updates on different global economies. I guess Ackman is getting all the press these days.

Thanks for sharing
Hence my constant needling of the Free Market Fundamentalists.
It's not. Retro first-person shooter, written in JavaScript using three.js.
I think it is great just as it is :) It is a little like a visual version of the confusion first caused by a recursive acronym. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recursive_acronym]
I've always thought of it like this:
Bitcoin:Cryptocurrency::Yahoo:InternetSearchEngines

Cryptocurrencies have a strong future, but I don't think Bitcoin has much of one. Yahoo had its early glory, but it declined as other search engines solved its problems.
The AI Bot That Scans Your Email and Automatically Schedules Meetings
Input: a 60-dimensional vector that is the concatenation of 10 6-dimensional binary vectors encoding the binary representation of the input numbers.

Output: the same, sorted.

At least that's one dead simple way to formulate the problem, multiple other solutions would work as well, and some would probably work better.
Yeah, I noticed they finally pulled in Otavio's Word Lens into google translate after they acquired him.
When expressing a wish, use "were".
True, but "really perfectible" sounds strange.
Whatever happened to shallow learning (or you know the regular learning) everyone did before deep learning.

Anyone still doing that?

Is this like BigData. As soon as someone mentioned BigData, anyone in the world who touched data all of the sudden did BigData.

So is this something coming out of Google and Facebook and such and everyone else in Academia is happily building SVMs and 2 layer neural networks or some new discovery happend and overturned the whole ML and AI field on its head?

> Crucially, the number of units required to solve these problems is far from exponential --- on the contrary, the number of units required is often so “small” that it is even possible, using current hardware,

Number of units is not what's important. There are "only" what, 10B (100B?)neurons in the brain? But isn't the trick in the connections. And there are orders of magnitudes more connectsion (hundreds of trillions). Not exponential but even quadratic at those numbers is still quite large.
Hey man, sore thumbs are no joke.
This guy did exactly what he should have done. He harnessed his experience and passion to ensure the continued health of a loved one.

The first thing to keep in mind is that you own your body. If you're not comfortable with a prognosis or course of treatment, then don't settle. No doctor is going to care about how things turn out for you more than you. You're the one who's going to have to live with the outcome. Don't be bamboozled by big names, consensus, or big words you don't understand.

In cases such as this, it is always worth checking around and getting a second opinion - whether you tend to agree with the doctor or not.

Having dealt with several severe medical maladies, one of the main things I have seen is that there is rarely if ever a broad consensus amongst doctors about how to proceed. Doctors are often divided by organization (which hospital they're with), the equipment they have on hand, and by specialization (a surgeon will generally make a different recommendation than a radiosurgeon, who may make yet a different recommendation than someone who does chemo). Also, some doctors are stuck in the past, some are way too willing to try shiny new techniques, and many others are willing to take a more balanced view. Getting additional opinions helps you put things into context and get comfortable with your treatment decision.

Also, get opinions from doctors who have lots of recent experience in your particular malady. Don't assume that a general neurosurgeon at a big name hospital will be your best bet - getting a neurosurgeon who performs the kind of procedure you need at least once a week is going to be a far superior bet.

I've not yet regretted digging into the available research and educating myself, and then going with a doctor and treatment plan based on that. On the other hand, I've talked to several people who just "trusted the doctor" because the doctor or the facility "had a good reputation", and they greatly regretted it.
I automatically ignore any GoFundMe campaign, after they let the contributions for Darren Wilson continue. Even when donors were making explicitly, unambiguously racist comments along with their donation.

If they had a policy of making no judgement at all on their campaigns that might be at least logically consistent, but given that they (by official policy) shut down campaigns related to pro-choice fundraising, it is clear that they have a systematic set of values which I do not share.

Given that a funding platform is explicitly designed to empower activist groups, and that they clearly support a certain racist, conservative type of group to a much higher degree, I believe it to be unethical to support them in any way.
The point of drawing comparisons to the human brain is that we know how quickly humans can perform visual recognition tasks and speed of signal propagation between neurons. Combining these two properties implies that the human brain is able to solve these tasks without feedback, i.e. no loops. Thus, a DNN should be able to perform similar tasks if it can be trained (which it can).

Recurrent neural nets add feedback and are are whole different kettle of fish.
ha, Ackman is so hot right now. And, its not Dalio. Just uses his approach to the markets.
Not to mention MBPs are about the best PC you can get at their price point.
Silicon Valley has several documented cases of someone being the first growth person at successful startup A being hired to scale startup B (which becomes successful as well). Each time you add one success to your resume, you become more valuable for the next startup. That's important because you want to choose potential winners. A bad startup (in a bad market or with a bad product), no matter how good you are, will not grow.
I haven't gotten to know a single animal (including humans) that didn't end up having a quite distinct personality. I assume ALL animals have different personalities... is not getting to know them an excuse to eat them? :)
I don't think you understand. Before the internet ideas took longer to spread as it was more difficult to disseminate information to people. Now it is incredibly easy which is why new technologies and services have increased adoption rates.

Bitcoin doesn't have that because most people don't care about what it does better and do care about what it does worse.

6 years into the experiment including an entire year regularly in the news and still almost no one cares and the userbase appears to have actually shrunk this year from an estimated peak of ~1-2m to an estimated 500k. And even that 500k is considered generous.

>Your mum and dad only got it when it had already become a mature technology.

I appreciate your condescending tone and trying to imply that I'm a child. But I've been on the internet and programming since 95 and while far from the earliest user I was a lot closer to them than most people. I'm well aware of days when online banking wasn't a common thing. And the fact that the idea of it and online shopping didn't spread fast because we were largely in the pre-internet(it existed but had limited adoption) world then.
The author makes this point at the end:

"In the end, though, Mr McFate tends to overstate his case. Private armies may indeed play a role in failed and failing states, but it is unlikely that modern mercenaries will become more important than the standing armies of NATO or China soon."
Really curious about the tech / arch. behind its ASR. Must have a lot of nodes and tricks in place to support high throughput and low latency.

If I'm not mistaken, this paper [1] is the last time Google published about the related architecture. We know very little about improvements over the last 7 years.

[1] http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/D07-1090
Consumer PC demand has gone off a cliff in the last few years, to the chagrin of companies like Lenovo and HP. Corporate PC use has remained steady and even increased to pick up some of the slack (it helps that these are a bit more profitable than consumer sales).

There is no point in upgrading a PC you hardly ever use, even if you don't toss it out altogether. Better to get a new iToy every one or two years instead.
Row and table would be the database terminology. In mainframes you have records in datasets, but they're the same thing: tuples of fields. It's just that in a mainframe to maximize throughout a lot of the work like dealing with natively supported data formats is offloaded to special I/O controllers, which makes it easier to work with via low-level assembly instructions.
Maybe that's what he's doing and this piece is a bluff on his movements. It's very specific -- 3 days planning, weeks, months when travelling international. Sure someone could have guessed as much, but why say this information at all?
Hey Slava, thanks to you and the team for all the hard work! Watched the video a little while ago with introductions to all the great features, excited to use the new stream functionality!
Yes they do. Wells Fargo issued me one to use on my trip to Paris. It worked fine in Paris, plug it in, enter the pin, and done. It does take some getting used to, but my Target Red Card works the same way now in the US (enter a pin, etc).

Also your link contradicts your point:

> As an aside, no USA banks issue chip and PIN cards. The EMV-capable cards being rolled out are chip and sign cards.

But if you actually read the very section you linked it says that they are Chip and Pin and not only are they Chip and Pin, but they're the exact same "EuroPay" compatible cards issued in much of Europe.

Did you even read what you linked to, like at all..? Because:

> The chips in these cards feature "PIN" ranked first in the list of possible cardholder verification methods (CVM), but with signature allowed as a fall-back option (or even no verification at unattended terminals).

So you're wrong. Every USA bank is issuing Chip and Pin you just cannot read.
This is fantastic and I'd install it in a heartbeat
They can't last "forever" because if they did there wouldn't be any increased iron in people's diet!
It absolutely explains that bitcoin, gold, and fiat all have value because they are strong in various properties of money. Gold is scarce, durable, fungible, portable etc. all to a certain degree. Not much money is history has had 'intrinsic value' so their intrinsic value becomes the properties of ideal money that they posses.

If water was scarce, it would probably make good money. But water is both abundant and not atomic so it can be created.
"From an economist’s point of view, this paragraph is very hard to understand. Real GDP and productivity statistics are calculated after adjusting for price changes – so they are unaffected by inflation or deflation."

Glad to hear that Mr. Summers has had a change of heart on deflation being bad for real GDP. Progress!
I don't think cryptocurrencies long term value is in their USD amount. It's in their other features like being able to send money across the world with minimal transaction fees and certianity the transaction will not be interrupted.
Honestly, I wonder why they don't bother to put an example on the main page. Looking at the github repo of the project [0] (which doesn't have a folder "example" as well), it says:

node-webkit is an app runtime based on Chromium and node.js. You can write native apps in HTML and JavaScript with node-webkit. It also lets you call Node.js modules directly from the DOM and enables a new way of writing native applications with all Web technologies.

So I suppose it's about desktop apps ("native" must mean "desktop").

[0] https://github.com/nwjs/nw.js
I just tried English<->Mandarin with my wife...though not always grammatically correct, it gets the point across.

For those who would use it while travelling abroad, keep it mind this requires an Internet connection. In China, you would need VPN since Google services are blocked.
How our health-tech startup chose an accelerator (and mistakes you can avoid)
The difference between a "state" and a gang is that states print money, right?
"I’ve been at countless meetings at various news organizations where a male editor, suggesting a story idea, loudly declares something like: “We need a piece on the drop in gas prices!” A woman, making the same point, might ask hesitantly: “Has anyone noticed that gas prices are falling? Do we know why?”"

Why the special treatment for women? If a man said it, they might get ignored too. Why? The first person was making a statement and being assertive (and confident about their belief). The second person (who just happens to be a woman) sounds like they are unsure of their opinion..and most people will not follow it.

“One of the things they can do in meetings is ask us, ‘What do you think?’ And include us.”

I've been in many meetings with men and women. The people that lead and are confident are followed. I have been ignored at times because I wasn't confident about my own opinion.

"Carl Allegretti, chairman and CEO of Deloitte Tax LLP, says that when he chose a woman to succeed him in a senior post a few years ago, her response was, “Why me?” He explained that “you’re an excellent leader, you’re excellent with people, and you’re excellent with clients,” he says. “But she didn’t raise her hand.”"

The same happens with men.

"that they are treated as if they don’t know what they are talking about until they prove otherwise."

Welcome to life: Nobody in the corporate world will respect you (unless you are the president) until you can prove your worth.

"One potential land mine: saying to a colleague who’s a mother, “You’ve got two little kids? How do you do it?”"

How is this a "land mine"? Raising kids is extremely difficult without working..and even more so while working full-time.

"Female leaders are more likely to try for collaboration, treating others as equals and checking in frequently."

Micromanagement is not a good thing and most people don't like it.

Everything in this article tells me that men and women are being treated equally. Women are finally waking up to things that men have had to endure in the workplace for many, many years.

The takeaway is that if you are not assertive and confident, you will be most likely be ignored and you may not get a promotion.
Something like DSL or satellite service is not comparable with others (it's too inferior). As well as a capped service is not comparable. Discarding all that you get something that is clearly a monopoly. Plus several companies which do offer something substantial but operate in collusion are essentially a monopoly anyway.

Real competition is for example Google Fiber or some other small ISP on the scene. That's when you starting getting 1 Gbps for less than $100. But such cases are quite rare still.
The FBI estimates the four Italian mafia families have about 25,000 members and 250,000 affiliates worldwide. They all are active in the United States [0]. I'm not sure what kind of ties the families keep with each other but considering the revenues of the Calabrian mafia alone ($80.5 Billion US Dollars in 2013) it's a safe bet that the ties of these families are very deep, and very wide [1].

Also if you look at Rob Saviano, he looks like a guy it would be hard to disguise. His hairline leaves very few options for drastic appearance changes unless he wears wigs which are a risk in their own right. He'd probably stick out in a lot of small towns (especially since if he wants to continue writing he'll just have to tell locals he's independently wealthy, which means he probably wouldn't hold a job, and would want to be at the scenes of interesting events) and in a lot of the big towns in America there's mafia family members he'd have to be worried about 24/7. That's just my speculation on the matter.

[0] - http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/investigate/organizedcrime/itali...

[1] - http://www.freenewspos.com/en/latest-news-article/d/1067995/...
English <-> Portuguese needs some work. I had an hilarious conversation with myself.
"I think you’ll be delighted to see that we’ve engineered spaces that are designed to get messy, entire rooms for the implements of creative inspiration and expression."

Awesome... I'd love to work in a place that has specially engineered rooms for creativity. The rest of the time I'd like to be on a spotless desk where I'm encouraged to "... you to proudly display a few small items at your desk"

Wired employees are soooo lucky.
What is scaling to you? I will assume that scaling means keeping up with increasing load on servers.

The number of different scaling problems are about the same number that startups having problems with scaling. It's a different thing for every company.

You should probably specialise in a tech that many startups use and learn how to deal with high load on that service. Learning this takes experience, gain that experience by working/consulting/running you own startup using the tech you want to specialise in.

When you feel comfortable with one tech, learn another, repeat.

When you have enough tools in your belt you could apply to a senior position at a fast growing company.
I don't understand this quote and was wondering if you could link to the context?
It reminds me of this old game called The Colony

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Colony_%28video_game%29

Which I never finished because it was so damn hard lol
I had a chance to talk to a fraud detection statistician at a large tech company. One major area of fraud is in very small scale fraud for minute transactions that fly under the radar. A lot of traditional machine learning and statistical techniques don't seem to work well for that. There is a lot of digging through literature to find statistical and signal detection methods to identify this sort of fraud.
Problem there is: there's only $4T in actual currency, but $18T in federal debt.
Undercover Agent Reveals How He Helped the FBI Trap Silk Road’s Ross Ulbricht
public schools were formed to produce factory workers.
community college would be the equivalent bare minimum for today.

I can see no reason NOT to support this proposal completely and immediately.
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