skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's what's really going on, it's a great way to make some quick money. But if you were to ask the standard free-market ideology side of it can always be mustered - "we're just trying to get the pesky and inefficient government out of markets so they can 'function better'", despite the efficacy such claims proving incredibly dubious over the last few decades and even more doubtful when empirically tested [1].

[1] http://www.amazon.com/The-Misbehavior-Markets-Financial-Turb...
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> there isn't. Just our low evolutionary stage. Deeply xenophobic.

This seems to be a deeply confused comment.

What about evolution is "high" or "low"? Which is a higher form of life, the housefly, or the Neanderthal? Which one is still around?

If aliens with FTL travel and psychic powers were to visit us and start wiping us out, would their xenophobia[1] mark them as a being at a "lower" evolutionary stage? If so, what is the use of such a classification?[2]

Evolution is not always "up." For that matter, "up" isn't always "up."

"The feedback loop never really ends, so a tenth year polysentience can be a priceless jewel or a psychotic wreck," ~Alpha Centauri

[1]And if they were the ones wiping us out, who would be more "phobic" (afraid), us or them?

[2]http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/EvolutionaryLevel...
That confused me too. Almost as confusing as wealthy people complaining that seed rounds are "ridiculously overpriced". I share his concerns about "Crowd Funded Equity" because I think it creates an opportunity for fraud which are infeasible to preemptively defend against.
It's pretty tiny when the expectation is that one will be treated like a regular employee with respect to compensation and benefits but expected to behave like a 20% (or more)-equity founder with respect to passion and (especially) effort.
So many WTF, so little time.

They designed a carbon frame and fork for a commuter bike, going through the huge time and money sink that is creating their own moulds (plus need at least one per frame size and they are expensive) and it doesn't have fender or rack mounts (for aesthetics). Nice practical choice there.

Maybe it is just prototype photos, but custom designed bars/stem/fork and they couldn't route the cables for the electronics internally? Plenty of examples of that working already (look at Di2 builds using PRO parts from Shimano). And on that: integrated stem/bars might be fine, but only if they are exactly the right size for you.

And routing/directions? (Ooh, haptics, that'll work on a bumpy street.) For a short-ride/commute bike? That you'll need once to learn the way and then not again? Maybe on a touring bike to get you through a complicated all-day route, but this is not that bike.

Yes, I'm a bike snob, but I'll stick to my cheap commuter and my fleet of pricer rides, thanks.
This is too strong a response. You and nobody else has a 1:1 memory map of an intense experience. It can takes weeks if not months (plural) to remember everything that happened to you in the last month. That is because basically your brain samples space time and segments in in your memory in a non-linear fashion. This is why people have flashbacks. When people recall linear events, they only recal prioritized samples. (eg, highlights, takeaways). It's universally understood that this sampling is also highly biased. That is why we have the concept of "type 2 fun". You can google this but the gist of it is that lots of things that are insufferable during the event form warm and fuzzy memories afterward upon recall. There is also the related case histories of people who compartmentalize basically into a black hole, where the thoughts never come back to consciousness or only after some extraordinary event (therapy, or otherwise). Certain types of trauma survivors fall in to this category.

Clinical use of disassociation is somthing involving this process and its important to understand it as part of a continuum.
Do you really think same sex marriage (as it stands) would have been possible without the internet?

The internet has made people far more open minded.
This is actually pretty scary. It is basically giving AI a human-like form of will. It "desires" what you program it to desire and goes about achieving it, learning from its' own mistakes and becoming increasingly proficient at manipulating its' environment to achieve its' goal(s) along the way. It makes me excited, but also quite frightened to think what goals people might give AIs like this in the future...
>>The telecommunication industry naturally gravitates to a oligopoly, because it provides a utility.

Facebook tried to brand itself as a utility. Is my grocer a utility, I need food as much as I need water? I don't know what makes utilities prone to monopolies, but it probably the large investment and slow payoff - this is true of things that aren't traditionally called utilities like pharmaceutical companies, oil wells, or defense systems. These guys could use a good 'regulating.

Indeed, everything gravitates towards a monopoly as it maximizes shareholder value at the expense of the large economic community, this is was recognized by antitrust regulations in the 1890s which aimed to promote capitalism.

>>If the internet itself had been subject to thousands of regulatory bans

Yeah but it wasn't, perhaps because they regulators didn't fail. In many ways this is a success story.

Regulation is necessary, you can debate the merits of a particular method, you can say some regulation is bad or some is good but remove the goverment ability to regulate currency leaves the economy vulnerable deflation during recession which is has been attributed to the recession of the 1930s.

Will high credit card transaction fee's plunge civilization into a new dark age?
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C++ has nothing of the sort.
> would you have said the same about say, a (male?) engineer claiming that "I can often tell good software architecture from bad". Which is a similarly subjective, heuristic-based imprecise classification problem.

I certainly hope so, although I of course can't be sure. I do think I did more than just make a bald assertion, though, by presenting an example of what I would have expected a more skeptical claim about her abilities to look like. In other words, I think I gave a characterization which could apply to either gender. Of course, whether I would have highlighted it to begin with if she were a man is a whole different matter and, like I said, I hope I would have.
You forget transportation of goods. Pretty much all over-land cargo in the U.S. and most of that elsewhere (less so, because trains) could be transported by self-driving cars/drones. Not sure if that is larger or smaller than transportation of people at this point, but it's still an astronomically huge market.
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You're cherry picking the quote:

> In a bubble there is always someone with a “great” idea pitching an investor the dream of a billion dollar payout with a comparison to an existing success story. In the tech bubble it was Broadcast.com, AOL, Netscape, etc. Today its, Uber, Twitter, Facebook, etc.

In context, what he's saying makes a lot of sense.
> plug in their old hard drives

I honestly have no idea how inefficient 'old' spinning disk hard drives might be, but I wouldn't be surprised if an older drive consumes more electricity than a modern, power-sipping ARM-based RPi. Maybe GP took that into consideration?
> Whenever I hear about stuff like this, I wonder: Is there anything the failure modes of the human brain allow us to deduce about the software architecture?

There is a long history of this in Neuropsychology. It's referred to as Double Dissociation [1]. Arguably, this is more about the hardware, but the hardware affects the software ("Brain is the seat of the Mind").

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dissociation_%28neuropsycholog...
Comparing a packet capture with the output of netstat is like comparing an x-ray image of your brain with your latest selfie.
Heaven forbid you read the comments section before the actual article. His point:

>The bubble today comes from private investors who are investing in apps and small tech companies.
...
>Why ? Because there is ZERO liquidity for any of those investments. None. Zero. Zip.

Is he wrong?
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I think he was just pointing out a fact we might all know, that there is a sort of "investor bubble" that keeps getting feed by the good/big payouts.

Then goes into a better model for inexperienced/new investors by "crowdfunding"

Maybe he should have used another title :/
This is already solved with BEP 39 [1]. It wouldn't be difficult for the Internet Archive to implement, either.

[1]: http://www.bittorrent.org/beps/bep_0039.html
+1 for VC task force. They bring in quality VCs for you to practice on.
>If stock in a company is worth what somebody will pay for it, what is the stock of a company worth when there is no place to sell it ?

A stock that is personal and non-transferable once bought, should probably be valued using discounted future dividends. Or discounted buy-out price.
Thanks for this link. I've been digging for my old homepage data from '97 or so that started returning blanks on archive.org. I found a viable copy here!
Idea of shared/distributed backup leads me to vision of web browsers actively archiving and sharing public data. No more slashdot effects: more clients hits some public resource, more caches are filled and seeded in case of original resources downtime.
Completely agree on your suggestions for urban areas.

However, not everyone wants dense housing... Suburbs exist because people do not want to be that close to each other. Some people want to own their own yards/property/houses, have open space, and are willing to trade driving significantly more (with its associated dangers) for these features. People are going to create the kind of environment they want to live in, and we should figure out ways to make that environment better/safer, rather than dictating that everyone must live in (well-planned) urban environments.
Except egrigiously slower https://github.com/bevacqua/fuzzysearch/pull/6#issuecomment-...
Hey, not sure what happened there but I've used this for years on hundreds of different systems and never had that issue. Not even once as far as I can remember.

I thoroughly recommend it, but if you don't like it and can install Network Monitor, you can use NMCap which is also a command line tool.
Some investors spin doom and gloom as an excuse to lowball entrepreneurs they're offering to invest in.

Shark Tank is a pretty good example of this, even if Cuban's not the worst offender on there.
I get a sour taste in my mouth every time I hear wealthy people "looking out for" the small-time investor who may end up needing the money to fix their car after they've invested it.

I would take a poor, but well-educated and well-informed investor in a transparent marketplace light years before I would blindly accept an arbitrary rule that states you can't invest your money where you want to just because you don't have enough.
Compared to the power requirements of an RPi, the power for several spindle drives would be pretty significant.. except you have to figure they won't be spun up most of the time.
This is a GODSEND. Legalese has long been used to irritate and take advantage of customers who don't have time to read every contract. Short of rewriting the laws to require plain english overviews of contracts, this is the next best thing!

Great work guys!

Note: I didn't click on the link the first 3 times I saw it because (of the title) I assumed it was an article telling me I ought to read contracts ;-]
It seems like TAHOE-LAFS would be a great way to let anonymous people donate storage while maintaining data integrity.
What? Wait. Really? Oh no (a post about ES6 classes and privacy)
As a motorcyclist, I have used bursts of speed to get out of sticky situations. The car that crashed into the guard rail behind me would have taken me out if I had slowed down.

It's easy to second-guess.
> I share his concerns about "Crowd Funded Equity" because I think it creates an opportunity for fraud which are infeasible to preemptively defend against.

Like penny stocks?
If we are asking about culture from an innocent standpoint of maturity and mapping, it ties directly to social issues we still hear categorically ignored as minority issues and money issues.

If we want a stable culture we need to address the hierarchy of needs errors, without numb economics and unchecked corporal pleasure, with enough pattern recognition to pay serious attention to habits of terms of 'model, view, and culture.'
The full data set seems to show that the strongest argument in the article is that propensity to fitness is mostly a result of genetics and upbringing - it was apparently very difficult to find twins where the level of fitness was different, and very difficult to find twins with significantly different dietary preferences. This seems to indicate that in most cases, your level of fitness is basically pre-determined by age 18.
Docker Acquires Networking Startup SocketPlane
In the assets themselves
The numbers at a glance:

Revenue
2012 $74.6M+
2013: $125M+
2014: $195.5M+

Profit:
Net loss
2012: (2.3M+)
2013: (0.7M+)
2014: (15.2M+)

$88M cash on hand - so they can afford to run at a loss for a few years while they grow the company. I guess it makes sense to go public and raise more cash while the market is hot.
What's the latest verdict on flame retardants? Last I heard, the conclusion was that they are carcinogenic, but you have to weigh the risk of dying of cancer in twenty years against the risk of dying in a fire tomorrow, and the best guess seemed to be that they save more lives than they cost.
store them on a gazillion 360yunpan+weiyun+baiduyun (or justcloud) accounts!
Yeah I think he just might be wrong.

There wasn't previously a very good market for small and medium size investors to get near investing into early stage tech companies nationally. It has been a locked-away market. I know lots of people with single digit million dollar net-worths, none of them have a clue how to get close to interesting tech start-ups for investing purposes.

How does a person from Nebraska, worth $5 million, invest into interesting tech start-ups in Seattle? Until now, that has been extraordinarily difficult, if not impossible.

So now that there is a market for doing just that, why wouldn't prices rise on those investments? It makes perfect sense that they would, and should. Those valuations have been artificially repressed by government regulation.

What Cuban is claiming is a bubble, is more likely in fact a market being unleashed where it was previously forbidden to exist by regulation.

We're a long ways from the next Dr. Koop billion dollar valuation, with a $50+ million round of financing, coming out of crowd equity funding sites.
And yet pop cans travel halfway around the world daily... I don't see the issue. As I said, it could be expensive, but there's no risk or danger in it.

People transport extremely fragile things by sea all the time. You may have to be mindful of weather, but it is do-able with the will and money.
With that much data, it would be cheaper to build your own Glacier-like service.
I absolutely agree, but that doesn't mean that epistemological rigour can't be brought to bare on the non-analytical side of things. Jessica may in fact have these right brain skills, but that doesn't mean that it's not important to be very, very careful she's not falling prey to a bunch of well documented biases.
Well he explicitly mentions equity crowd funding which allows people to bypass those rules. Also, from personal experience as an angel investor, there isn't really a great authority out there enforcing accredited investor requirements. All the times I've invested in private companies, I simply had to sign a one-page document self-proclaiming myself as an accredited investor.
I was discussing the email problem with a friend a few months back. Without researching further, I just assumed they pivoted the business to become a spam farm.
One tweet led to Microsoft purchasing Minecraft
try and detach the note from the menu bar and see if it still does not detect.

send us a mail at info@ our domain name and we see whats going on. It should work.
That show drives me nuts. They take WAY too much equity unless they are doing heavy lifting (that is to say, as much as the extant founders.)
Not exactly true. I publish articles, which we translate into English (mainly from Russian). The original author is Dmitri Gribenko and it seems he is not a member of HN community.
Here, try this...

A monoid is made up of:

- Some arbitrary type of thing. (Lists, sets, strings, numbers, whatever.) Let's call it 'A'.

- A value of type A. Let's call it the 'empty' value.

- A function that takes two A values as arguments, and returns a single one. Let's call it 'combine' function.

Here are some examples of monoids:

- String concatenation: 'combine' is string concatenation, and 'empty' is the empty string.

- Integer plus: 'combine' is the usual + operation, and 'empty' is the value 0.

- Set union: 'combine' is the union of two sets, and 'empty' is the empty set.

You can come up with monoids for all sorts of things: maps, lists, functions, bloom filters, futures / promises, ...

There are, however, a couple rules:

- It doesn't matter which order you combine things in: `("hello" + "world") + "!"` has the same result as `"hello " + ("world" + "!")`; and `1 + (2 + 3)` has the same result as `(1 + 2) + 3`.

- You can add the 'empty' value to either end without changing anything. `"" + "hello"` is the same as `"hello" + ""` and plain old `"hello"`. Likewise, `3 + 0 == 0 + 3 == 3`.

That's it! To get an intuition, you might want to pick a couple more types from the list above and pick a good 'empty' / 'combine' function that satisfies the rules.

Of course, why you'd want to do this is another question. (And one I'd be happy to answer, if you're curious.)
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That's pretty much the basis of my complaint, yes.
I would think -- if you had a culture that wasn't obsessed with making the stock go up -- that you could still operate effectively.
SmartClick: Revolution in the sphere of quizzes
Apparently I had a reading comprehension failure. I thought he was just saying that you can use that as an alias instead of downloading a new command. That is neat.
11W is about the highest active draw I've seen on a drive datasheet. As far as I know, the power usage hasn't really changed in a while because it's mostly attributed to the 5400-7200RPM motor. The control board is very specialized and draws effectively no power in comparison.

The Raspberry Pi can run on a 5V / 500mAh bus, which is a 2.5W max load. This gives us a theoretical 13.5W max constant draw (which is likely much higher than reality, as we're talking about rated power instead of measured).

13.5W * 24h * 365 = 118260Wh = 118.260kWh max in a year

At 16 cents per kWh (a lowish power tier for PG&E in Silicon Valley), this comes out to $18.92 a year.

These numbers assume a 100% efficient power supply running the unit, but are also talking about theoretical maximum power draw and not observed power. This is also a fraction of the average power draw of any of these you might use: electric oven/range, microwave, fridge, incandescent lights, electric dryer, electric water heater.

As far as observed power: I've seen a fairly efficient Intel motherboard (CPU TDP of 17W) with 8 modern spinning disks drawing around 75W (measured at the wall using a Kill-A-Watt with all drives active) so I'd guess the real-world number is <8W per active drive.
I think Cuban is wrong. It's WORSE when ordinary investors are risking their money. Today, you've got angels and VCs that have risked their money. And this is money they don't need. Big deal if everything implodes, what do they lose? Simply their bets. Back in 2000s, a lot of ordinary people lost money they couldn't afford to lose.
HTC Vive: Virtual Reality That's So Damn Real I Can't Even Handle It
Those buses might get you to within a 20 minute walk of your destination, but depending on when you are departing, you might have to wait up to an hour to catch the bus in the first place.

Seattle's public transit may be better than many American cities, but it still isn't great.
If the definition of a bubble is when people are knowingly making bad investments and counting on a greater fool, then if there is zero liquidity then that pretty much means that we can't be in a bubble.
World's Most Accurate Clock Loses Just 1 Second Every 16 billion years
accredited investors?

Who accredits investors?

Is there legal status for this?
Data-processing and machine learning with Python
Shouldn't there already be a lot of existing tech for doing crowd backup/sync? Quick googling yields at least a few companies which allow you to donate unused hard drive space in exchange for benefits:

Symform: http://www.symform.com/

> Earn free cloud storage when you allocate unused space on your device for your Symform account. Users that contribute get 1GB free for every 2GB contributed. Contribution can always be fine tuned for your personal needs.

Wuala: http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/windows-and-office/review-w...

> Extra space is available: Unlike the majority of online file storage services like Dropbox and Box.com, which offer paid plans only as a means to expand storage, Wuala offers you the option to gain additional online storage in exchange for some of your unused local disk space to commit to the network.