skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for the information!

I've started a successful event series in the fitness space, so I know a little about event promotion and operations. I was more interested in the communities that would like to get involved in this.

Our current event company runs events in 30 major markets in the US, so it can be based anywhere. I'd probably do the first one in the mid-Atlantic, but would quickly organize a others in the Bay Area/Austin/Charlotte markets if things went well.

So, first event, in DC/Richmond area?

If you want to get involved, email me. It's kyle.redinger@gmail.com.

I think the meetups and small events are great, but they are really geared towards people who are super enthusiasts, not those people who want a more casual, approachable racing event. Just some thoughts.

Thanks for all the great feedback! Keep it coming!

What are current drone racing events missing?
I think it's more nuanced than that. Private companies optimize for money, with the right incentives they work well, with poor incentives they become a pointless money sink.

All too often you see the equivalent of “though the magic of the invisibly hand we will solve X.” But, without the proper incentives simply privatizing or reducing regulations are going to do little but line someone’s pockets.
Charles (Mac) or Fiddler (windows) are the two options I'd use.
I guess the visibility of the other two was pretty low, is it really that annoying? I didn't see it before I'd have to be here all day to notice the two other posts.
Ask HN: How to start as a VC firm?
Dear HN,

My wife recently got an interesting offer. She is basically being asked to start a VC firm. This clearly sounds too good to be true, but everything appears to check out. From what we can tell, the firm appears to be a case of a wealthy individual starting a company to invest their own money, and hiring a small team of people to help them in that task. So far the company has focused on other markets, but is pivoting to focus on seed stage startups in the Palo Alto, California area. My wife has experience as as an employee at a couple startups, but not with fundraising for them. Based on initial discussions with the other employees at the company, no one else does either. As she is the first employee located in this area, she is basically responsible for building the company's business in this market from the ground up.

So here's our question. Suppose you had such an offer and had decided to go with it (as strange as this all sounds). Where would you start? What would you do? Who would you talk to? How would you find and evaluate startups, break into investor social circles, gain entrance to the various start incubators? How would you set appropriate investment goals? How would you avoid the pitfalls normally associated with VCs?

Thanks!

(Since this is a throwaway account, if you would like us to contact you, please leave us some way to get your contact info.)
I'm self taught, and had 2-3 years of a career before being incarcerated. I was incarcerated for 6 years. During that time, I had a few books. Other than a couple of basic computer courses, no access to computers. Just did my best to keep my mind in it.

EDIT: I guess a new account can't comment more than once (makes sense) so I'd like to address the background check issue: I've had numerous jobs, where I disclosed honestly. My felony was a very serious one.

Now I'm quite successful (making well over market; a regular poster on HN; throwaway account is obvious). I recently hired a released inmate who I knew could code though he hadn't ever really done it (he showed me some code he wrote down in TI-BASIC). This guy was locked up 15 years, but within a few months, he's learning as fast or faster than any random person.
Another way to do this (if one wants all plots to be rendered throug LaTeX) is to modifiy the matplotlibrc to include:

text.usetex : True

And something similar for the text.latex.preamble section.
There are a lot of companies that hire these people in silicon valley, including startups!

Usually the founders are older. Or the work is harder / involves a whole bunch of C & C++.
FDIC insurance exists so you do not need to keep checking in on your bank's integrity. It is set up this way by design. Should the bank run with your money or fold, you get your money back.

How you extrapolate FDA regulations and faith in it to banking is a bit beyond me, because if you get diabetes the FDA is not insurance you can use to treat it.
I'm a systems programmer with a pretty primitive intuitive sense for maths. I "agree" with you, in the sense that the algorithms this article mentioned were intuitively obvious to me and thus seemed like they couldn't be sophisticated. What's the state of the art for online estimators?

I've been playing with simulations of market maker algorithms from the literature, and simple Bayesian stuff and MLEs are all I've really seen, which makes me think that the interesting stuff isn't in the literature.
I get the impression this is "just for fun" and not seriously meant to be implemented out of need.
Only if you are caught _and_ they can prove you did it, which isn't likely to be easy if you launch the attack from a botnet.
We're up to 14 people! I'll be checking my email throughout the day to accept more invites.

Update: More people keep joining!
I'm embarrassed to admit I didn't know about half.com. That is pretty cool.
Why not try a remote job? You can stay @ home and test it out? This way if the company isn't to your liking you be able to break the contract a little easier and less of a hassle.
Or, why not try pro bono and as you are doing pro bono work you can create a portfolio in the interim?

just some thoughts.... Please don't take any advice to heart without thinking everything through.

Good luck!!
The rooster logo on the bottle IS trademarked.
The 13th is more likely to be a Friday than any other day
That is an ugly truth.
It is still a bit buggy, but I use it as well. Sometimes even only to get nice colours for Matplotlib (or more often: Pandas). Plus, there are many plots (e.g. heatmap, jointplot) that are practical and frequent, yet it would take a lot of lines of Matplotlib.
Apropos, from your link:

"The best propaganda is that which, as it were, works invisibly, penetrates the whole of life without the public having any knowledge of the propagandistic initiative." -Goebbels
And when you inevitably do get caught red handed, don't worry, because you'll have a Greek Chorus of Internet commenters making t-shirts advocating your release and writing Boing Boing articles about how you got screwed. Unless your offense involves credit cards, the celebrity might be worth the (very minimal) sentence you'll end up with.
Basing this analysis on ZIP Code greatly underestimates the reality many Americans face, especially in more densely populated areas.

Here in New York (10003, for example), the site says I have four options for broadband, but in reality, many buildings have exclusive contracts with ISPs (I could only get TWC in my old building, for example).

My sister lives in Miami and she also has access to one ISP, despite the site giving two options. Her ISP, Hotwire Communications (which gives her "up to" 20 Mbps), isn't even listed.

Same thing with my parents' ZIP Code (and they live in a single family home). The site says they have access to three ISPs, but one of them is only 12 Mbps and the other isn't actually available.
To be honest, even though the concept of English-like programming is commonly berated across various circles, I think the REBOL language might have had potential to prove otherwise. Sadly, like Plan 9, its long-term unwieldy licensing killed its momentum.
I know it looks like a random and out of context comment now that I re-read it. But someone even somewhat familiar with the band he mentioned would probably understand why it was relevant.
Samsung Could Roll Back Its Own Software and Embrace Microsoft for Galaxy S6
It's gotten to the point where there are numerous competitors, some of whom produce bottles that look exactly the same except for two things: a yellow cap instead of green and a slightly different label/print of the logo and other information.
mind if i ask why?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1tOvOMbizBs
Functional Error Handling in Swift
And it gets worse...

As critical services move to the Internet, and we become reliant on IoT and cloud for our day-to-day, including emergency communication, many residences and businesses will need access to at least two permanent connections because we will need 99.999 uptime (and some programmable CPE to abstract the user from switching between the providers when one is down or degraded).

This means even two broadband providers will not always be sufficient. Many of us will need at least four total (true) broadband providers:
2+ wired
2+ wireless
to then choose from in truly healthy, competitive enviro...
Apple Promotes 'Pay Once and Play' Games in App Store
The consumers directly don't. But as a consumer I don't know how to evaluate an automobile, a smart-phone, or other products. But there is a market that provides the relevant data to consumers. Before I buy a car, I check out USNews, or Edmunds; before I buy any product I check out the relevant resources. Because of the way the FDA is structured, not much non-FDA research and reviews are being done. Lol. I didn't propose a solution.
The Sad State of Fact-Checking
The Marketer's Guide to Surveying Users (In Depth)
Show HN: We Made a Marketplace for Reputation
Repcoin’s the first market-based approach to reputation. It’s a content-discovery platform for everyone from developers to musicians. Investors give reps, our virtual currency, to experts they believe in for various skills like coding, blogging, and guitar.
Moral hazard. It is a simple concept.
refreq is a free, open source software, an experimental project, which aims to open new ways to generate music, or new sound effects

With refreq, not only can you load music files into the program, but also images. But what does that mean?

Well, after you’ve imported an .mp3, the program first analyzes the track. Once the analysis is complete, the program can then draw its frequency spectrum -- or, in other words, the image of the music.

Once the image has been created, you can play it back with refreq -- and you can actually hear the original music play!

But instead of just exploring the image you’ve generated, you can now take that image and create a whole new sound. Just export it as a .png, manipulate it with your preferred image-editing software, like Photoshop, and then import it back into refreq.After you’ve explored your own generated image, try importing a different .png or jpg. See what different patterns sound like, maybe a mandala, the floor plan of your apartment...or even the Mona Lisa! Now you can listen to these images with refreq.
I find this question soooo frustrating. I mean, we live in a free ( relatively speaking ) capitalist society. Why does there have to be use to society for anything, unless the issue in question has negative externalities on others ?
FYI, if you have an iPhone there's now a couple manual focus camera apps. Free: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/manually-manual-focus-camera... and $2, but I've been happy with it: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/manual-custom-exposure-camer...
Any time there's a significant buzz around home automation, opportunists with marketing skills and no appreciation for latency and UX flock to the scene, drowning out the technically superior but underfunded and poorly represented.

This stuff doesn't have to be slow: http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=L7jeJSdJPpk
For algorithms there is this course in coursera. It already started but it is still open for registrations. Its from Stanford Professor Tim Roughgarden. Its also free.

https://www.coursera.org/course/algo
You may be confused about TIFF. Long after JPEG dies a horrible death some medical facility and some state ran organization are going to have a system that reads TIFFs that's been running for 30 years.
Fuck It, I'm Going Back to Firefox
Anyone who finds HFTs to be valueless is free to not pay: https://www.chrisstucchio.com/blog/2014/how_to_not_get_rippe...

People choose to cross the spread and take liquidity. Ask yourself why they might do this (hint: google "execution risk").
> The FDA already has the power to regulate supplements, for the most part they just choose not to.

The FDA has some power to regulate supplements, but the relatively light touch they use on them is not something the FDA chose independently, but a direct result of the limits on the scope of their power and the bases on which they may exercise it in the authorizing legislation, which Congress made very weak after a supplement-industry sponsored publicity campaign painting the effort to grant the FDA regulatory authority over supplements as an effort to "ban supplements".
Looking over your list it seems that Shellshock (and possibly heartbleed) would have been extremely profitable on the black market. Any guess as to their selling price?
Here in the states, Comcast cable modems/routers automatically create a "public" wifi hotspot in your home by default, so the infrastructure for a large wifi network exists in many places. The catch is, for the public to join the wifi network they must have a Comcast account in good standing. I can only assume based on Comcast's intent to build "the largest public (private) wifi network" themselves and the recent legislative attacks against community/public broadband networks that attempting to create a truly public wifi network using any of the available broadband providers as a backing service would be a Bad Idea. Anecdotally, the wireless broadband providers here are also a joke.
keep up the good work mate $$
This is a very personal question for a lot of people. I personally use the modern version of the good old IBM Model M (made by the same factory), called a Unicomp. Unicomp makes tenkeyless versions, btw.
I read Michael Lewis's article in Vanity Fair about this case back in 2013, and I remember being struck by this excerpt in particular:

[Goldman] called the F.B.I. in haste, just two days before, and then put their agent through what amounted to a crash course on high-frequency trading and computer programming. McSwain later conceded that he didn’t seek out independent expert advice to study the code Serge Aleynikov had taken. (“I relied on statements from Goldman employees.”) He himself had no idea of the value of the stolen code (“Representatives of Goldman told me it was worth a lot of money”) or if any of it was actually all that special (he based his belief that the code contained trade secrets on “representations made by members of Goldman Sachs”)...The F.B.I.’s investigation before the arrest consisted of trusting Goldman’s explanation of some extremely complicated stuff, and 48 hours after Goldman called the F.B.I., Serge was arrested.

That, as the complaint highlights, the FBI instinctively acted as Goldman's punitive arm rather than conducting an independent investigation into the facts of the case is disturbing, regardless of the merit of the allegations.

http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2013/09/michael-lewis-goldman...
Stream Processing and Probabilistic Methods: Data at Scale
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To be fair, if that's used instead of a traditional ad banner, then I think it's a great step forward. It's intrusive as it doesn't take up your operational screen real estate, however it is still extremely visible. And it's impact is when you're bored waiting for a sync which means the ad is more likely to get read than a traditional banner would.

Sadly though, I could see this being used in addition to traditional banners. :(
I don't think I ever mentioned 'replicating soylent' - By nutritional equivalent in natural products I presumed a diet.
This is only how many have access, not how many are using it.
or "car-crash sentence"
The Fight to Save the Mighty Honeybee
Could you please link to the technical reviews you mentioned? I would be very interested to read them because as an outsider, Flash Boys seemed overly simplistic, but I haven't been able to figure out what the real story is yet.
regarding a), not all technical professions require deep knowledge of massive data processing and time series modeling, so this statement is misleading

regarding b), the details of how exactly to use the algorithms are the secret sauce and those details matter.
SPRINT declaring war on Adderall
Art institutions take these problems seriously. XFR STN at the New Museum is just one example of dozens of projects which attempt to rescue obsolete digital content. I think the problem is less serious than you think where file formats are concerned. It is very severe with a platform like Twitter, though. An informed public would reject the useless level of threading offered by Twitter...
Why is it Verizon's responsibility to provide you with service? I am certainly not a fan of big communication companies and the monopolies, but I can't see the logic behind your argument. How are you entitled to a fast internet connection?

If internet access is a concern of yours, it should likely factor into your thinking when choosing a place to live (just like access to other services like fire/police/education).
The Data Mining one is from UIUC.
Flash code can read clipboard from Flash/browser i.e. it can run in background and silently and continuously collect contents of clipboard? If so then it should be rightfully classified as spyware and purged from every computer.
coffeeScript
/barf
Pretty nice page, but it doesn't say much about PCA. "Visualizing PCA output" would be a more appropiate post title.
Anyone tried L-theanine + caffeine? How's the price of SPRINT compare to existing ways to take the same combo of nootropics?
Ask HN: When do you know you have enough skills to freelance?
I am competent in PHP. I have 3 yrs of software development experience (in Java). I don't feel very competent. I want to master Ruby/Ruby on Rails/JS and start freelancing. What are some objective metrics I can hit before I am ready for freelancing? Like: Do I need to be able to build a portfolio of apps? Like facebook, twitter clones etc?
Nothing like taking advantage of someone who has nothing to lose, I mean - what could possibly go wrong.
Sorry but Sriracha for breakfast?
That's really bad for a country like USA. In India we atleast have access > 5 providers in big cities.

( Though, yes I agree there is no Internet in villages, but it's slowly changing )
Obama responds to hacks and Silicon Valley with 'emerging cyber threat' plan
But this is just a property of acceleration. If languages had started to change at the same speed as file formats have, or we had started to miniaturize in other ways, those millenia old letters might no longer have been usable either. It's definitely worth being conscious of the value of interpreted artifacts, but this is a continuation of a very old tension.
This is the first time a research paper has ever called me classless, and boy am I proud. #semantic-ui
It seems to be that it's not about racism but rather probability. This concept is described here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sensitivity_and_specificity
"doesn't come from next door" indicates to me that with "remote work" the GP doesn't mean a day or two per week, but 100% remote.
My point is, either she was saying it ironically or she was saying it seriously. She can't possibly have said it seriously.

Was it a somewhat insensitive joke? Sure. But you can't take the statement at face value.
Because buzzwords
We already lost.

Stupid shit like this done by the FBI is causing tax payer money. If Sergey Aleynikov wins then guess where the money will come from...

I always thought people should be financially accountable for their actions. The only thing that really work, is touching the wallet.
Abe is generally the only place I check, besides Amazon Marketplace: http://www.abebooks.com/servlet/SearchResults?an=stein+rives...

Also, don't worry too much about getting the latest edition -- for the core things, it won't have changed much.
from the "Novena guy" actually http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Huang
Do you guys support the LMS colorspace i.e. where L,M,S is the stimulation of the long, med, short cones in the human eye.
Wow, that Mondaq article is really the opposite of objective. Author Dylan W. Wiseman is really letting us know which side he's on with gems like "To correct the obvious injustice of the Aleynikov ruling..."
Initially they of course didn't shut down, that's not in Ranbaxy's DNA, but other parts of the world were none too pleased with the horrendous details of the FDA inspections, and that forced the shutdown of every one of their Indian plants at their 4 major locations.

As for Sun, who knows? In 2008 Ranbaxy managed to pawn off 64% of the company to Japan's Daiichi-Sankyo for $7 billion. Sun bought that stake in 2014 for $4 billion ... in Sun shares, i.e. a firesale price, at least compared to the original. And Ranbaxy has lots of plants outside India which to my knowledge and recent research can still ship to the US.

Although I'm not sure how many of those actually synthesize the raw stuff as these Indian plants did, then again Sun is probably best off with them shut down; that they didn't proactively deal with the Ranbaxy's cancer ... well, you can see why I'm nervous about that drug I'm taking.
I always took "cultural fit" to mean stuff like, do you prefer to work only with Big Design Up Front, or are you cool with a more Agile process? Are you more comfortable at a big company, or a small one? Do you take yourself seriously, or are you willing to joke around a bit? How do you deal with changing requirements?

Not something like "what kind of music do you like". That shouldn't be a factor in hiring. Right?
Rocket and the application container spec
>to fully prosecute you for trying to find a vulnerability

Wouldn't that strongly depend on how you found it? E.g if a friend sends you an invite to share files on dropboks.com (hypotetical dropbox like service) and you copy and paste only part of the link, you now have access to his files (think /mergers/dove-soap but you insert /mergers/ and get to see all his mergers). In this case you stumbled on a huge security issue but how did you do anything illegal?
Catch 'em All: Using an Arduino to Trade Pokemon
Ask HN: How to Get a London Fashion Week Invite?
Hi everyone, does anyone know how to get two (or, if it's not possible, at least one) invites to London Fashion Week (20.02-24.02)?

I want to make a present to a girl from UK who is studying fashion. She's really passionate about it, so I thought I might give it a shot on HN :) I hope it's not inappropriate to ask it here.
One comparison to this is the big push to get in car navigation and smarts developed by the tech sector. There is a reason radios and stuff work year after year through heat and cold and the like.
they may not be pretty, but it (usually) does what its suppose to even after years of use.
I've only recently discovered the horror that is AT&T U-Verse. Some buildings in Chicago have a contract with them so there's no escaping it. I can't imagine how bad it would be if a whole state only had one provider like this.
If the goal is Google or Microsoft, then this is the correct answer. A solid foundation in algorithms and data structures is a strict necessity when applying to those places as a developer.

Analysis of algorithms can be a bit intense, and also hard to trudge through as it seemingly has little direct relevance to coding. I found it's better to be in a classroom of people you can work with together to get through it.

It's very much worth it though for the intuition you will take away from it.