skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That was kinda my point. :) Compare the rents. Yes, of course the homeowner has to cover costs, but apples to apples the rents in Austin are 50% or even less vs San Jose.
From seeing attitudes of friends doing hardware startups, no, the GP's 3) was accurate. Kickstarter is now a marketing and product/market fit evaluation tool.

A friend of mine is halfway through his Kickstarter now and he directly told me that he doesn't expect much more than breaking even on it - the whole point is a) marketing and b) greater chance to get new investors on board, because that's where the real money is.

And, while I'm not sure of that, I suspect it's their current investor who suggested that Kickstarter campaign.
>If evolutionary pressure causes a feature to evolve once in one part of the tree of life, why couldn't it happen multiple times independently? //

Isn't it rather that the features work in the same way. Bats and dolphins [1] using echolocation that - I've heard - works the same way but the pressures on them are different, the environments different. Given the random occurrence of mutations it seems striking (to me) that these similar paths should be followed.

A corollary would appear to be also that if parallel evolution can converge on identical structures that reliance on morphological features to indicate common ancestry is flawed. If evolution tends to converge then a geological sample with a simple form of fossil can't be assumed to be contemporaneous with another sample, the fossils could be the result of parallel evolution.

I've never understood why mainstream paleo-biology seems to reject that life could have started in more than one place. Convergent evolution suggests that the same types of complex structures can develop independently too.

Perhaps Star Trek's universe of four-limbed, bipedal, binocular aliens isn't so far-fetched after all!?!

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[1] http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v502/n7470/full/nature1...
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That is an incredible assholish comment that does utterly nothing to benefit this community. I am sorry to have to call you out on it, but could you please provide some constructive critism in the future?
A first baseman, sure. They only need to be able catch well and sometimes throw across the infield. Find me an out-of-shape center fielder. Miguel Cabrera, for example, is a bit bigger. He's slow getting around the bases. But his talent, other than being a first baseman, is hitting the ball hard enough that he can casually stroll around the bases if he wants.

But humans were meant to run. That's why we stand upright, that's why we sweat. Running long distances on a flat grass field, to a trained athlete, is going to be less fatiguing than standing still in the sun waiting for something to happen. Pitchers throw 100+ pitches at 90+ MPH and for the most part, are dead accurate. Even if the ball is spiraling through the air to confuse the batter. And the players, other than the starting pitcher, are out there almost every single day, and sometimes play two games per day. Baseball has a ridiculously packed schedule.

So I would disagree that soccer players have it rougher. Running is easy.
Nope, sorry, that was never true. I just peeked at the source for 2.1 (which is on sourceforge) and comments are the same as today.
Where is time spent transitioning from userspace to kernel and back accounted for? And (perhaps relatedly), when does the accounting happen? After each timeslice?
My point is that utility is a rather narrowly-defined concept, so if you find a situation where people don't seem to be maximizing any utility function, one of the possibilities is that the concept of a utility function is too narrowly-defined. Things like anchoring, loss aversion, ambiguity aversion can all be modelled: the only thing you lose is the name "utility function". Maybe the utility function needs to depend on the entire history of states (for loss aversion), or maybe the question being asked is subject to uncertainty, or there is a fundamental amount of model uncertainty. All of those can be modelled in probabilistic terms.

So if rational maximization means that people have a utility function that they maximize, then yes, rational maximization is not what people do. But that is partly the fault of how the definition of utility was chosen.
LLVM already has official go bindings in the main repo, also, the llgo go compiler uses these bindings.

Unfortunately building it all was a pain for me, and the resulting binary was 80 megs which seemed a bit ridiculous (Go had to statically link all of llvm into one monolith).
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According to the comments in this thread, the safety harness and other equipment was inadequate enough that they actually were one step from death - so it was more daredevil than he intended?
Average $1.8M for 3b/3b in Mt View. $1.2 for 2b/1b. I paid $1600 for 2b/2b for a decent apartment (2625 California St) in Mountain View--in 2001. Now the same apartment goes for $3200.
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CrowdMed founder here

See "How do you vet your Medical Detectives?" and "Who is your crowd?" at https://www.crowdmed.com/faqs

Our final reports are automatically generated in PDF format once a case closes.

It's funny, just a few weeks ago a patient offered to invest his life savings in our company because he so believes in our mission and the value we provided. Unfortunately we had to turn him down, because our seed round closed a couple years ago :)
this tends to be the style for the professional/marketing photo business. Realism is not actually the goal. Glossy eye-popping photos (think HDR) are what the customers actually want. If you want natural-light and documentary-style photos, that is better suited for an "art" photographer, not a "commercial" one.
I was just trying to come up with some suggestions for alternatives, I do not necessarily support any of them.

Also I didn't intent for that to be a shared kitchen but a kitchen you ordered from and had others cook your food - it simply makes little sense for me to have every household spend time every single day to make food for themselves.
Wow, yes – I think a lighter-touch on the post processing would be even more impressive.
I was replying to this: "my best months have been ~$18K". Sorry for trying to encourage someone. You're right that $20k minimum is a lot harder, at $100/hr probably impossible. But as a peak?

Last year January, July, October, and December all had 23 weekdays. $100/hr * 9 hr/day * 23 days/mo = $20700/mo. If you have no commute and maybe do a Saturday or two that's pretty doable. I wouldn't make it routine, but I've occasionally had months that busy.

Yes, not all hours are billable, but the non-billable stuff isn't that time consuming:

Marketing: Aren't most freelancers turning away work right now?

Billing: I push the "invoice" button and it's done. 1-2 hours a month.

Taxes: If you're working for yourself you shouldn't do your own taxes.

Anyway, I hope this is helpful to someone. Best of luck to you all.
Are there any utilities for management of the hosts file?
This is why I'm excited about the possibility of the crowdfunding provisions in the recently passed JOBS Act. In theory, this should allow companies to sell small pieces of equity (up to Math.max($2000, 5% of investor's yearly earnings) per investor and up to $1 million total) without having to go through the headache involved with an SEC Public Offering registration. While the potential for fraud needs to be dealt with, this opens the doors to something like "Kickstarter with Equity".
Rather read https://www.ria.ee/e-voting-is-too-secure/ and http://estonianworld.com/security/attacks-estonias-e-voting-...
But they could drop the prices on their devices and corner the market overnight. If Apple offered an iPhone 6 for $99 off contract and a $299 Macbook Air... not everyone would switch, but enough would that their competitors would have a hard time staying in business. And Apple could do it. Forgetting for a second that dumping is generally illegal, selling products at a loss in order to put competitors out of business isn't unheard of.
American Fuzzy Lop (http://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/afl/), a fuzzer which instruments programs at compile-time to help find interesting inputs faster than brute-force fuzzing.

It may have indeed found a bug in TimSort, since it's more apt at exercising branches, but I think AFL is C/C++ only.
Hasn't patio11 mentioned SLAs in the context of enterprise customers somewhat frequently? I'm not trying to be rude or anything I just thought that was pretty standard stuff.

Edit to add: even just googling patio11 SLA will give you links to some posts you'd probably find quite useful if you'd like more after reading the comments here!
To clarify, I don't see basic income as THE magic touch to get Greece out of its troubles and it doesn't do much by itself. It just happens that I'm excited about that piece of the whole plan. Implementation is still king and, for the good or bad, Greece is going to be the testing ground and provide data for future debates.
Thanks kmod, keep up the good work.
It's like the started with a target price ("N under Apple Watch") and worked backwards. I don't care if it costs more, the industrial design of this pebble is too cheap for me to wear.
But the correction is simpler and less distracting. I can backspace the word I misspelled and fix it without breaking my thought flow, whereas when I try that with dictation... well, it doesn't work that way. Especially that the whole point of dictation should be that you're not actually looking at the screen and double-checking if what's recognized is what you said.
Can this be used as a standalone 3d Engine without it being scene based for iOS applications? That is the big issue with Unity - and most engines actually - which keeps us from using it.

We can't find a robust (UE/Unity level) mobile 3D Engine that is not scene based or just built for level based games.
Naw. I think that line was probably placed in there by the CrowdMed lawyers, to prevent and/or defend againsts Lawsuits. This way, they can pass the blame on to the "Medical Detective" whose diagnosis led to the Patient becoming worse, dying etc, after following the instructions or accepting the detective's diagnosis.
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The bit I find intriguing is how the paid subscription packages aim to improve your diagnosis by actually reducing the number of eligible participants.

That and (according to the FAQ) the unusual design decision of making flagging public. I wonder if the "try homeopathic magic pills" suggestions are efficiently eliminated, and whether reciprocal flagging behaviour has ever been an issue.
I've never really considered Unreal Engine. I'm more of a hobbyist making small 2D games, recently picked up Unity (been using SFML and LibGDX before) to make some small games.

I guess UE doesn't really target small games? When I think of Unreal Engine I think of AAA FPS Games with amazing graphics, but has anyone actually used it for small indie games?

Also nice to see it's opensource, I guess I read the news a couple of months ago but I forgot. I had no idea.
It's not a choice between bland and functional. Metal and sapphire crystal is much more robust and functional than these cheap materials.
There's always a subset of people who don't care.

The problem is when it's the seeming majority who don't care.
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Nice introductory article to Polynesian navigation, too bad the title is so misleading (dragons?) and the quip at the end is wrong. Polynesian navigation did almost die out, but the Polynesian Voyaging Society, a child of the Hawaiian Renaissance, has worked hard to keep it alive. They now have more than one reproduction double-hulled voyaging canoes traveling the world with traditional navigators:

http://www.hokulea.com
> Also, I pay 200 CHF for the cheapest insurance.

What insurance do you buy? And do you live at home?
Exactly what I was after - thanks!
Nonsense. Those who invest a lot into education (and yes, I would say this requires having a lot to invest---but people unwisely taking out student loans in the US prove that this isn't necessary) in an appropriate field will typically have higher incomes. So by taxing them more too, society is double-dipping.
in a very similar position, dealing with a tool that produces data. they also ask for the sample data. most of the time it is relatively quick but then of course always something extra that needs to be configured and customer doesn't like to pay extra for the labor.

I find it interesting that NONE of these people that have requested sample data ended up as customers. It was almost always a wasted effort. In fact, almost all the customers bought immediately and then worked with to figure out what needed to be done and in most cases quite okay with waiting.

I will have to agree that filtering might be good here.
Sweden is attempting to do both, being one of the largest givers of humanitarian aid per capita.

http://www.ibtimes.com/which-governments-are-most-generous-c...
http://www.thelocal.se/20141130/sweden-fifth-largest-ebola-a...
Well, thank marketing for you being impressed.

It's actually the only issue I have with Pebble. They are all amazing and unicorns, but why on Earth intentionally confuse people to think they're buying an e-ink display? It's not e-ink, it's e-paper, a fancy name for something that is not the thing that uses zero energy when not updating.
If this was insured (which I doubt) and a claim was made, the insurer would turn right around and sue Von Wong (as the organizer of the project) for gross negligence. On the preponderance of the evidence stand (ie >50% probability) that obtains in civil litigation, they would almost certainly win.

I don't like making all these negative comments. But I've seen people get seriously injured in entirely avoidable accidents, and could give you numerous examples of fatal accidents on film sets off the top of my head - whenever I read of one I study it carefully to ensure I never make a similar mistake. Film and photo shoots are fun, exciting environments, precisely because they often involve unusual locations, activities, or situations. But because everyone is participating in the pursuit of some larger goal (producing art of some sort) the people in the roles of director/producer have an outsize responsibility, because they are temporarily invested with significant authority to the point that people will put their common sense and personal judgement on hold, akin to Stanley Milgram's famous electric shock experiments, due to the blend of unfamiliarity and micromanagement that the endeavor necessarily involves.

http://deadline.com/2014/04/sarah-jones-midnight-rider-film-...
I don't think he was that negative. It's a well know issue the problem that git has with large files, and he was not disrespectful.
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Yep. There's even been some debate WRT to the Black Death agent being Yersinia pestis (formerly Pasteurella pestis), some think or thought an hemorrhagic virus was a more likely cause.

It's hard looking that far back in time ... but we've got some amazing techniques now. We've found enough DNA in exhumed victims of not only the Black Death, but the 6th Century Plague of Justinian, 1,500 years ago (DNA is hardy stuff) to confirm they were distinct strains of Yersinia pestis.

From what animal reservoirs they jumped from, though, pretty much has to be speculative. But it is interesting they're smelling a new "rat" ^_^.
Common Terms looks like an interesting idea, I'd like to think I actually would read a summary of terms like what they're suggesting
Why not describe each element in the actual order that top actually presents them, from left to right, instead of jumping around? #flow
I won't pretend to appreciate the challenges of being a professional baseball player, but I can imagine that the constant travel and resulting disorientation is a contributing factor to fatigue. This article discusses the challenges.

http://m.mlb.com/news/article/2878521/
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It's not e-ink, it's "e-paper". A power-efficient display, but not the stuff you get on Kindles. I wish they wouldn't mislead people again with this.
If you think privacy is "power over what others perceive", then you are being selfish and short-sighted in a way that prevents mutual privacy, and is thus generally untenable.
As I mentioned in another thread, efficient storage of these files is necessary, but not sufficient. Exclusive locking is a requirement for working with editable (but not mergeable) binary files in a team environment. It's the reason most games studios use Perforce or SVN instead of git. Tracking locks using a separate system does not scale, it needs to be integrated and enforced by the VCS.

PlasticSCM has a hybrid approach that is worth studying.
This is awesome in so many ways because it captured the imagination of the people using it. They just saw that switch and actually tried to figure out why it wasn't magic.

Obviously it wasn't, but the way this is written really shows how dumbfound they were because they couldn't explain it.
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Semantic analysis of the Federalist Papers[0] comes to mind. It originally was not known which individual author wrote which paper, but stylometric analysis (i.e. word-counting and matching word frequency distributions of the unlabelled papers against those of labelled papers (in which the author was known)) made it reasonably straight-forward to identify the original authors.

[0] A set of historical papers of great political importance. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Federalist_Papers
I know of three people (including myself) who will find an interface very difficult to use if there's so much movement in it.

Indicating state and actions by visual movement is so incredibly specific to its audience (people who don't mind seeing things zipping round their screen vs people who do) it's a shame to see it destined to become universal.

I wonder if they've (Facebook, Google) done any actual scientific research about how various peoples' brains react to movement when they're trying to concentrate on something.
is .rocks the new .io ?
WiFi routers kind of inherently need to do a lot:

1. Drivers for wifi & ethernet ports, and other hardware needed for the device.

2. TCP stack and routing mechanisms for forwarding packets between the two.

3. Access control for wifi portion, which (depending on how much flexibility is needed) may involve keeping track of individual user accounts and permissions.

4. Some way to administer this complexity. Currently the only thing that seems to fly with users is a web administration interface.

5. All the "usual" OS stuff to manage this: process scheduler, filesystem layer, memory management, etc.

Sure, you could design a special purpose OS that's simpler than Linux, but the development effort required would be much higher, and it's not clear to me that you'd end up with something much more bug-free.
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Off Topic: For some reason on Chrome 40.0.2214.111 I can't click the play button on the YouTube video of your bulletboygame.com site.

Edit: The cloud-right div covers the top three quarters of the video player.
Can you expand on this? I'm genuinely curious.
Yes, but if your income is usa sourced but you are working in Chiangmai, both the thai and U.S. governments have first dibs on taxes, there is no tax treaty that can help you.
Definitions of words matter when people skim text as to determine how they communicate their opinions, form their opinions, and take action, including writing legislation.

If I was actually typing out the opinions of my spouse word for word: whose age combined with my own is divisible by 3, how would that change your view?
They look like illustrations. I don't get it either.
Being a part of these sorts of shoots is one of my favorite perks of working at SmugMug, hands down. Reminds me of art school when my friends would try to convince me to be a part of their crazy photo shoots, except this time the photographers are quite a bit better.

To date, Ben has...

- Lit my head on fire

- Taught me to breathe fire[1]

- Stuck me under a rain machine[2] while I lifted a giant tire infested with spiders

- Popped a balloon full of curdled green milk over my head

Never a dull moment, and there's always an amazing photo afterwards to immortalize the moment (for better or worse).

[1] - Photo of me breathing fire courtesy of Subversive Photography who grabbed this shot while I attempted to spin in a circle.
http://shostack.smugmug.com/SmugMug-Office-Hijinks/n-NGr8t/i...

[2] - Me lifting a giant spider-infested tire while I have freezing "rain" pour on me. Amazing how it turned out.
http://shostack.smugmug.com/SmugMug-Office-Hijinks/n-NGr8t/i...

[EDIT]
The links are just to individual photos of me on my personal SmugMug site because I think they're incredibly cool--nothing promotional.
You are assuming there is a meaningful contract to uphold. So I ask you this: what exactly do you think you are buying from them?
It's not just averages, it's division in general.

Division is not commutative, as the article says. A simple example referring to the article's diagram of boxes:

orders_2013 has sum(price) = 10, with 3 records

orders_2014 has sum(price) = 11, with 5 records

orders_2015 has sum(price) = 31, with 7 records

Average on each node, and average them:

( (10/3)+(11/5)+(31/7) ) / 3 = 3.32063492063

Sum the price individually on each node, take the counts on each node, sum them on the master node, and divide on the master node:

(10+11+31)/(3+5+7) = (10+11+31)/15 = 3.46666666667

hence, running division on each node is not the same as finding the division across all orders. (replace my use of division with "average" and it's the same concept).
at a glance seems so similar to the "magic" app that I can certainly think of this "natural talk chat" as some next trend for apps

is this going over sms?
The Green Party are extremely unlikely to achieve a majority vote in the election, but it's just possible they'll be involved in a coalition.

It'd be exciting to see what happened if a policy like this is ever talked about seriously at high levels of government.

However, I do notice that the "Citizen's Income Trust" charity that provided the research to justify this has more recently changed their opinion. They are now stating that the poorest would not benefit from such a policy.
http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/jan/27/green-party-...
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One of my favourite stories growing up.
Point of correction: Unreal Engine is not open source, the source is merely available for perusal. You still need a license for most uses.
Pretty much all technologies have facets where markets break down and require some form of corrective regulation to make things work the way we want them to.

No! Nooooooo! Say it isn't so! The market is a magical infallible oracle of laissez-faire goodness! (That snidely said, the market is absolutely a marvellous thing in precisely the contexts where situations are so complex that centralized control is hopeless and only massively distributed decision making can hope to keep up. Again, context is everything.)
PERM fixed the labor certification bottleneck, but the adjustment of status bottleneck is where people now get caught up, especially those in EB3 and/or coming from a high demand country (China, India, and Mexico).

Without a real fix to the immigration system that will remain the bottleneck for over 90% of employment based applications.