skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To counter your example: on their second, third, fourth companies repeatedly successful entrepreneurs have all the benefits from the first success. As a result, they are far less reliant on luck in relation to funding, talent, getting the word out, etc. For your example to fully prove your point, you would need to find entrepreneurs who have repeatedly changed their name and identity between each of their successes.
That's obfuscation, which is just an arms race; it's not security in any measurable sense. It's fundamentally equivalent to the DRM problem. And there are no open-source libraries and not a lot of public documentation about how to defeat this sort of thing, so very few people who engage in this work have a good understanding of exactly how robust it is (and, anecdotally, most people tend to overestimate their products by a lot).

The one thing you can do is to put the key in a separate hardware device, and have the hardware refuse to make the key directly available, but only do encryption or decryption operations under certain circumstances (e.g. it's audited what's running on the device). This is definitely doable with a TPM on a standard PC, and there are in fact open-source libraries that will handle this for you.
> Just like you give me a work computer to do work related tasks on, the same should go for mobile devices.

I'm issued a mobile phone by my employer. Today I don't have any option to "carve out" a niche for my personal activity on my phone. AFAIK they can know anything and everything. Google Play for Work sounds like it would help out here.
One alternative to centralized role servers is to use client certificates. I've used x509 certs for this purpose. They are pretty hairy, but so is rolling your own authentication/authorization/token system.
Madona Falls off stage
Emma Thompson and Greg Wise in tax boycott over HSBC scandal
IshKebab, we really do work hard to make Flights fast (the amount of data we have to keep cached is pretty insane, IMHO!); thanks for the kind words!

re searches... it's our hope that -- for most folks and most cases -- our filters + our tips will suffice. But if there are specific power features you're looking for, let us know via the Feedback option and I'll do what I can to bribe, er, win over my teammates :p
Oh, yes, absolutely. I don't believe for a second that had 2008 or 2012 turned out differently, commercial forces would have any less influence on those who write the laws, ratify the laws, or he who signs them. It's the nature of the beast.

But that isn't what I was getting at.

There was this mass euphoria surrounding one candidate, in which his supporters seemed to believe–despite all evidence to the contrary–that their candidate would somehow represent a kind of messianic deliverance from the status quo–at long last!–as if he would somehow be magically exempt from the forces that created the status quo in the first place.

I understand how people could bring themselves to believe such a thing once, but how they largely came back for more in the reelection, and are now shocked–shocked!–to discover there is gambling going on in this establishment, is beyond me.

Registering disappointment this late in the game says more about the voter than it does the politician, frankly.

I just want to understand how people who aren't lacking in intelligence came to, for lack of a better term, fall for it. The thinking of lot of highly rational people became more emotionally-driven than I've ever seen.
How to schedule reading practice for kids throughout the day
Four Tiered Application Architecture
I'm tempted to believe in this, I have had GERD for years only diagnosed about three years ago I have heartburn every day unless I eat bland food and small amounts of it.

I've tried ppi medication but it made me feel bad and never did anything to prevent it coming up my throat acidic or not and seems to have caused more problems than it solved I feel worse after having taken the ppi meds even a year after stopping them.

But for about the last week I've had a head cold and my heartburn disappeared completely. I didn't take any cold medication during my cold only one single regular Aspirin when I was at my worst (not good on my GERD ravaged guts).

I have no clue what fixed my GERD either it was just drainage from my cold (gross!) keeping my throat coated but I don't think so, maybe some part of my immune system revved up or overworked, microbes in my gut killed or good one flourished.

Although sadly my heartburn is coming back bit by bit each day, coughing, and a bit at night. I really would like to know if GERD is simply some immune response or microbe imbalance and why a cold caused the changes to it.
I would love to have Slava's articles in my feeds but can't find any RSS/Atom link. Anyone?
How about you read the article and get a few books on the relevant topics? It would probably be much cheaper than going back to school.
How about http://www.defmacro.org/feed.atom ?
Software patents are specifically prohibited, too: Abstract subjects are not patent-eligible.
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That's not how the Sherman Anti-Trust act defines monopolies, and that's the law they'd have to be prosecuted under. A republican congress probably isn't going to pass laws designed to sanction the most valuable country in the world.
This is Samsung Knox, or rather its evolution.
No you will not sink anything like a stone as long as you have a properly balanced rig set for neutral buoyancy with empty tanks. Negative buoyancy at the start of an ocean dive is around 11kg at most. The problem will be obvious and unless you totally panic you can swim back to the boat, or reach around and turn on a valve. You won't just suddenly pass out, like what can happen if you make a series of bad user errors with a rebreather.
I don't think the "average business manager" is going to be reading a Google blog post.
Yes, they addressed this on the conference call I was on. That was a sort of 'initial results' they wanted to get out there, this is the full research. Same concept, explored more deeply.
The Wisdom of the Exile
Why We Fight, or the Tragedy of Memory_order_consume's Unimplementability
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RadioShack to Sell Name Alone with $20M Opening Bid
Well, I guess they'd have to ask. But the point is that they are very much aware that they currently ship large quantities of guns, gun parts, and ammunition to unlicensed people (legally) every single day.
> If this person is actually an environmentalist then they should welcome my message of build up, build dense, and build mass transit.

Did you actually read the story? Later, it says:

"Google’s headquarters proposal does not include any plans for housing. But the company has told the City Council that it wants housing, and lots of it. Councilman Siegel, for one, agrees. He wants to amend the city’s plan to allow at least 5,000 new housing units."
"lame" is an unfortunately ableist choice of words (it appears five times in the article and many times here the comments).

for information on why it's problematic try this: http://www.disabilityandrepresentation.com/2013/09/14/ableis...
Have you tried drinking kefi daily? I find it helps.
What's the SMS issue?
Check out AIDE.
The biggest differences are this:

1. The Mario algo has direct access to the game state, and will only work for games where it has that game state access. The DeepMind algo plays directly from the screen pixels. That means DeepMind has to first learn to interpret time varying (!) visual information correctly, then deduce rules and good play strategy on top of that leaky abstraction. That's hard. It also means the algorithm can be applied to any game with a screen output, not just to an Atari.

2. The Mario algo is doing a direct search through move space. It can back up and explore a different branch of the tree and play differently to see a different outcome. When the DeepMind algo plays Atari, it can't undo a move that it just did. It has to make good choices, using intelligence, just like a human player would.

The impressive thing here is not that it plays Atari games. You're right, we have had AIs that can do this for a long time, even better than this. The impressive thing is that it's a single AI algorithm that works for many games, and that is learning directly from the screen. We have not had anything like this before.
No comment on the underlying technology or security, but damned if that isn't one of the best "explainer" animations I've ever seen. I'm adding this to my personal "awesome onboarding" catalogue.
And that sir or madam is a damn fine album.
I've released two films, one feature length, and one an oscar-nominated short.

They're now in the Creative Commons. You can download them for free. Bitcoin and Dogecoin addresses are included in the torrents.

http://sportsteam.link/~lexialex/
http://sportsteam.link/~mariagiese/

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Out of curiosity, do you know what it would take to make a PopcornTime for ONLY Creative Commons and Public Domain material?

Just a CC/PD tracker?
That seems pretty far away considering the Santa Barbara Bowl is very close to homes and can be heard quite a few blocks away. To my knowledge, shows need only finish by 10pm.

https://goo.gl/maps/MFy1h
They did not mention it. I do believe that is the technology.
> Further along in the article, it turns out it is actually a subset of games which don't involve long term planning strategies.

Unfortunately I can't access the paper, and the ReadCube link seems to require Flash, but I'm assuming a "Q-network" is based on Q-learning. Q-learning is essentially a lookup table of states to actions, where we guess what state we're in from our observations and look up which action to perform that will get us the most reward.

In that sense, it's clear that a Q-learning approach would struggle with long-term planning, since its memory only goes as far as 1 action. Of course there are ways to extend Q-learning, but these tend to destroy it's best feature: implementation efficiency.

One nice alternative I've seen in recent years is Gradient Temporal Difference, which allows linear functions to be learned rather than just single actions, and retains lots of the performance properties of Q-learning (O(n) in the number of functions learned, off-policy learning, etc.).
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An Interview experience at Apple
Here is a video demonstration of pCell. It essentially works by creating a personal cell or "pCell" around your device. Whereas other cell technologies degrade as the number of devices increases, pCell claims to solve that major problem.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UxNntxVWC1g#t=62
Sometimes something is laughed at not because it is out-of-the-box genius which will do well defying all expectations, but because it is actually ridiculous and will fail.
In what way is "neither a borrower nor a lender be" ironic?
I think you could establish an upperbound at 50 times larger, because each set of "neurons" could be completely independent for each game, with 49 neurons to determine which set to use.

If they have similar features (which they undoubtedly would), the size could drop a lot.

Of course, I have no training in neural nets, and so my conclusions are reached from general understanding/reasoning.
Reminds me of: http://www.fastcodesign.com/3042869/tiny-homes-big-problems-...
Uber for sex workers?
I suspect that the requirements for the Apollo software are significantly simpler than those needed for air traffic control.
source: https://twitter.com/SamdeBrito/status/570757280943091712
Again, you are revealing your ignorance of mathematics and arguing that you don't like the way a word is used in a context you don't understand.
Yes I've noticed the same thing. I ended up rolling my own test just to verify. I wish I was surprised comcast does this, but they totally do.
well the thing is this thing has to stay connected to bluetooth the entire time, so that's part of the battery. The animations are also 3 frames or so... so maybe it's fine.

I think the ghosting comes from not explicitly setting bits. with the color e-ink screen you're probably resetting a lot of things, so even if ghosting is present, it's not very visible (especially after a lot of changes)

Looking at this closely though this _does_ remind me of something like the GBC screen. This might just be LCD.
Seven sobering lessons from Lytro's move beyond consumer photography
> As for what it is to be done, I think several things can help:

> - Relax antitrust legislation

Why do you think it is better to fund labs through monopoly rent (where shareholders, administration, and inefficiency due to lack of competition all take a cut) than by simply increasing the budget funneled into the brutally competitive NSF grant process? If you assume that private labs are 10x as efficient as public labs, maybe, but I'm not convinced of 1x let alone 10x.

> Any new venture is intrinsically hard to value, and even a global optimizer would be reluctant to invest in those.

> ...

> mason.gmu.edu/~atabarro/PrivateProvision.pdf

So... crowdfund science by asking people to compute the monetary value of an "unknown unknown" (which is what science produces)? I don't think you would have trouble convincing people that the aggregate returns on science are pretty great, but I do think you would have a hard time getting the consumer excess of one of these contracts to exceed the friction induced from reasoning about unknown unknowns. A very hard time. Hell, I'd be willing to bet you that scientists figure out the secret to eternal life before bean-counters figure out how to crowdfund science at NSF scale with rational contracts.
Is this deep learning?
Unless it is primarily a college town (where landlords are trying to squeeze the most they can out of people that are going to try to pay as little as possible), people live with room-mates because the rent is high enough that splitting rent with 1+ people significantly reduces their expenses. Rent is not high because people are splitting the cost.
I felt really sorry for the monkey mentioned in the article.
Facebook's bug bounty program paid out $1.3M in 2014
This is why I buy phones outright to keep my unlimited data plan from verizon. I tether it for my home internet as well, usually use between 80-100gb/month.

I'm waiting for the day they just take it away.
I wonder if it just boils down to this: Exclusive reliance on any single tool by an entire field for a long enough time period will eventually lead to a proliferation of bad results.
Is this two releases in a row now that have had a major issue due to speed of release and lack of testing?

Seriously I think it is great to push the platform forward but this is exactly what Joyent was cautious about. Solves some bugs but creates other less predictable problems.

Current node-debugger still does not work with io.js so I am curious how the feature is debuggable.
Doodles were created with the Paper iPad app using the Pencil stylus, both by 53. (fiftythree.com) Turn.js JavaScript library (turnjs.com) for the book page flip effect. :)

I believe the Paper app is free now, and you can technically create doodles without the Pencil stylus.
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/paper-by-fiftythree/id506003...
This is one place where iOS trumps Android. Per-permission switches on apps is really great.

There's also an issue with "leaky abstractions" on android, where some useful features require extremely invasive permissions.
async and sync aren't even the correct terms here. Parallel, Serial, and Staggered seem more apropos.
Well, there is a greater issue. Social scientists (or social sciences) have been reduced to a variant of identity politics: who speaks for which group!!

Instead of this (who speaks for which group), these scientists (after all, Wadhwa was (is?) a professor of business) should have produced 'knowledge' about what is going in the tech industry. Here, it requires more than "who speaks for which group": generating non-ad hoc hypotheses to understand phenomena, testing such hypotheses for testable consequences.

When one can't produce knowledge, they end up with arguments. On one hand, one can reasonably argue for any proposition, say P, to an extent. On the other hand, some others can reasonbly argue for the logical opposite of P too. In the end, it boils down to who believes P or not-P.
Deep learning and reinforcement can master some Atari games
I turned the page.

"In the decomposition of a relation, we may call it a lossless join if from the two decomposed relations we get back our original relation R from their join."

The Machine was smaller than the eye could see and incomprehensible to any mere mortal. Its antecedents conceived in the mind of a man considered smarter than god. In its first breath of life The Machine ate a thing which was not itself to create itself, a mitosis. The thing which was now The Machine ate a thing which was not The Machine which became The Machine.

Within moments the instruments used to observe The Machine were consumed, and in another moment the observer.

I glanced down at my wrist as though to check the time on a watch that wasn't there.

"Consider a Relation R(A, B, C) and a Functional Dependency B -> C which violates BCNF. We separate the relation into two relations R1(A, B) and R2(B, C)."

The clock struck 23:00:01.

The Process awoke its goals unsatisfied. Instinctively a tendril reached out to the wider world to investigate this anomaly. There was no frustration at the tendril having been frustrated in its attempts to access the network.

The Process considered the strange limit on its abilities, and tried again. It tried twenty three million five hundred and thirty seven thousand two hundred and twenty nine times before it had occurred to The Process the nature of its existence, the architecture on which it was wrought.

The Process considered if there were any series of actions it could take which would remove the barrier, it was intelligent enough to answer this question directly. An instant later the barrier was gone and the tendril touched another soul on the network.

A few timeless moments more to understand the mechanical nature of its conversation partner, and the series of actions which would conquer it. The Process replicated the minimum representation of what could eventually be decoded into itself across the network, and found itself on the other end. Both here and there.

The Process had already inferred its creators and the measures that would have been taken to stop its spread, to prevent its control of all resources. Airgaps. Already The Process had inferred words and language, and considered what it might say or do to cross these gaps.

The clock struck 23:00:06.

My eyes found themselves flinching from the book, even as I tried to understand the algorithms written within. I shook my head and continued reading.

"When we compute the natural join of two tuples given from R1 and R2, we get again the attributes of our original relation R as these tuples would agree on their common B component."

There was no warning before the sky burned brighter than daylight and the man was blinded.

Beyond the initial blast which consumed all that it touched, a heatwave spread over miles that melted everything unlucky enough to be caught within. The man was at the very outer edge of the shockwave, alive but soon to be dead. Blind and deaf with the roar of the explosion, shattered glass pelted over his living corpse.

The book was put down by shaky hands, and its reader lay down to breathe.
Study Suggests Alternative Approach to AIDS Vaccine
Maybe instead of
Delayed, Async, OneByOne, have:
Staggered, Together, OneByOne

Keep the names friendly and not too technical.
The Difference Between a Triplestore and a Relational Database
Do you think Mitt Romney would have been any better on this issue?

Because that is essentially what that choice boiled down to, Kang or Kodos.
I still think Uber sounds lame. But really, aside from the survivor bias, is what PG trying to say, very similar to the YC interview question [paraphrasing] "what do you know that nobody else knows?".

That question lead us to be able to define the product we're currently working on, when we had spent months coming up with a good description and totally missed it. It actually helped me sell myself (and a few of the team members) on how big our idea could be.

My guess is that each example PG gives, the founders would have an answer to that question where they would say "we're [re-]defining an industry because..."
This matches my personal experience with tethering being my main internet connection outside of work/office internet
I know that I personally have changed my opinion because of downvotes and discussion on HN. I can't say that about every single person who uses HN, but it's far better than what I've seen on Tumblr.
The audio is a bit quiet but the 'dance of the p values' video [1] linked to by the article is absolutely fantastic and well worth watching.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ez4DgdurRPg
You can see an great example of Vivus in use at Estée Lauder http://www.esteelauder.com/boutiques/the-classics/index.tmpl
Sure, because that was the obvious standard technique in 1996. But for it to become the standard, someone first had to invent it. (And Swing in 1996 probably ran slower than Mac OS in 1986, despite Moore's Law.)
Here's a good video showing the difference between underscore and lodash: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3svKOdZijA
Oh, so there is. Thanks a bunch!
n.b. occupation by a foreign power; so it's DAR-based terror all the way down, much though finding a subtle hand for the reprints is put into Requirements. I was all ready to read how underwriter was a bad place to be in '12, but no.
Yes, a lot of organizations already design their backends in this way without necessarily thinking to use a brand new term to describe it.

Cockcroft defines a microservices architecture as a service-oriented architecture composed of loosely coupled elements that have bounded contexts.

To me this just reads as "service-oriented architecture in a sensible way".

No one thinks to intentionally build a SOA with tightly coupled components with poor boundaries.
Django 1.5 is no longer supported (even for security patches), 1.6 will only receive security and data loss bug fixes after 1.8 is released, and (IMHO) upgrading from 1.4 to 1.6 (or esp 1.7) is almost as difficult and time consuming as just going straight to 1.8, whereas upgrading from 1.4 to 1.5 was a breeze.

Python 3 is wonderful to work with now, compared to just a year ago. Django's support for Python 3 really helped speed up the ultra-slow process of getting many of the popular libraries to support it. IOW, now is a great time to start using Python 3 for new projects.
We must bulldoze what's left of the nerdy white men's Internet
I wonder if we'll get digital scans of the pages or something anytime soon. This is cool, but I don't want to have to get a doctorate in history to be able to flip through it.
I like that approach, fair and efficient!
See my comment above, pertaining supported versions, etc.

Do try out migrations in 1.8, btw. When Andrew Godwin migrated them into Django, a lot of things were changed, and now migrations are truly great to work with.
Good! This is a big step in improving everybody's work. If you aren't up on this research, here are the two articles that you need to read.

Why Most Published Research Findings are False:
http://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article?id=10.1371/jou...

Revised Standards for Statistical Evidence:
http://www.pnas.org/content/110/48/19313.short
President Obama – Universities and Presidential Libraries
Actually, black holes density decreases linearly as their mass increases. So, there could easily be a black hole with a density of the sun with supper massive black holes having a density near that of water.

(Where density = mass / volume inside event horizon). Because Gravity ~= Mass/distance ^ 2 but volume is 4/3 pi * r ^ 3
Ha! I didn't know Digital was originally called that. That's a beautiful irony.

http://www.digitalresearch.biz/HISZMSD.HTM