skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Microsoft's Infer.NET is essentially an automated system for variational (/expectation-propagation) inference. It implements primitives for common operations and distributions, and then uses the local structure of mean-field inference ("variational message passing": http://www.jmlr.org/papers/volume6/winn05a/winn05a.pdf) to build up variational inference algorithms for arbitrary factor graphs. It's not infinitely flexible and doesn't solve all problems related to variational inference, but once you get used to it you can iterate quite quickly on model refinements, inference tweaks, etc. without any tedious derivations.
As much as I value the idea of anonymity, people who want to be contacted can put that information in their profile. And many people do.

The amount of effort required to reach anyone who provides information in their profile feels about right. Contacting someone should be deliberate not reactive. If Googling or cutting and pasting a link is too much work, It can't be that important.
"Quick clarification: Many, many of the investors &
employees didn't see any money, not just the founders.
That's what I meant by fire sale."

https://twitter.com/monstro/status/585808886508040192
15 seconds of googling led me to section 632(a) of the California Penal Code. You could have done the same research yourself instead of promoting an incorrect understanding of the law and then asking that others do your homework for you.
I've seen them in people's profile.
But what are the long-term effects of active systems like tDCS? Anyone know?
And the firesale tweet:

To be fair, it was a total firesale. In the
years since we all got politely pushed out, the
business had completely tanked.

https://twitter.com/monstro/status/585797874300035072

Also:

Usually they at least throw the founders some
hush money, but we didn't even get that! So
I promise you'll hear more about it soon.

https://twitter.com/monstro/status/585798828822892545
must be a reason... and "Nothing" could mean so many things depending on what you consider value. I assume it means no money (cash) or equity.
liquidation preference?
In the Lean Startup order, going by canon, you should start with your front-end and then build the back-end to make it work. So you can actually start right away with the microservice oriented architecture. This will buy you a lot technically in the long-run, so it's usually the best choice. The basic pattern is an app/api split, but it can be extended to describe other parts of your app.

Separation of concerns at macro scale is a great idea just like it is at functional level. Even something like dependency management works so much smoother. But yeah, I agree with all the benefits that everyone mentioned in this thread.
So much Ultima influence! Some of those tiles look, er, very familiar :)

I wonder if Carmack ever dreamed that in 20 years he'd be building rockets and the author of Ultima would have traveled to space. (Incidentally, in Ultima II, you could travel into space!)
I'm on Linux Mint 17.1 (a Ubuntu 14.04 derivative).
Is that's the case where debt (in whatever shape or form) exceeded the payout?
> Medical advances are way more profound than new apps or web pages.

One of the main reasons medical advances are are coming out hard and fast is because of "new apps or web pages."

I really don't get this anti-tech bent. These technologies and connections are what is transforming science everywhere.

Personally I think saying most web apps are a waste is like saying the space program is a waste. Personally I think these cutting edge technologies that seems to have no use are taking us amazing places.
Sounds like some investors took a wash too, so it's likely they had significant debt. Otherwise, it's because other investors held liquidation preferences (possibly at a multiple).
In what respect do you think CRTs had universally inferior image quality: viewing angles, contrast, brightness, gamut, color accuracy, spatial resolution, or something else?
Everything I saw about Cathode (also available on the App Store) didn't seem to actually give much detail or confirmation that there was any simulation of those characteristics, more a "fast, accurate emulation", which could easily be a stereotyped / exaggerated experience.
Judging by the tweets mentioned and linked in this thread, there are going to be some interesting articles come out of this.

I for one would love to see the intricacies of investor influence. This sounds like it was a total fluster cluck.
Online sportsbooks a security and fraud nightmare
Founders probably had a lower liquidation preference than early investors. The acquisition didn't meet the minimum return requirement of these early investors, so nobody else received anything.

Read your term sheets carefully, this isn't uncommon nor something to be surprised about.
Maybe my memory is incorrect, but they were kind of sketchy; their page implied companies not paying them weren't interested in customer interaction and they wanted $1200/year to get rid of competitors' ads before 37 signals called them out: https://signalvnoise.com/posts/1650-get-satisfaction-or-else
This is the wrong place to have that conversation. This is a submission based on the premise that one must teach a group of students, as is the case in any classroom environment such as the one described.

You're arguing with the premise, which is unhelpful. You either accept the premise and engage in this topic, or you disagree with the premise and leave the rest of us alone.
> fluster cluck

Does the extra "l" bother anyone else?
I still think you manufacture a (slightly) unfair coin: http://www.win-vector.com/blog/2015/04/i-still-think-you-can...

( The post got truncated by a bad character in my blockquote paste (sorry!). It should be legible now (and include two figures). )
I still think you can manufacture a (slightly) unfair coin
As a student in my last year at an `elite' high school, I can confirm anecdotally that many kids are near breaking point because they feel it is `Ivy or bust'.

I think this is an inherent problem with the American university system, where the top tier is so small and so universally desired. I think Canada does it very well. Expectations to get into top Canadian schools are grade-based and their undergraduate enrolment is much larger. If you can pull a 90%+ average,you can be sure that you can go wherever you want in Canada for university.
Certainly an undergraduate education at University of Toronto might be not quite as good as Harvard's, but it seems to do wonders for the mental health of Canadian children; none of my friends in Canada have even really stressed about university admissions.

For me personally, the Canadian `safety net' also helped a lot: although I am going to Harvard next year, I knew from day one that if anything didn't work out I had myriad wonderful options in Canada.
Sounds like they signed a relay bad contract. I'm sorry for them.
Besides D3, Google charts, which are also in JS, are also quite elegant.
Just tried it again, this time using Firefox on my laptop.

Still doesn't do anything useful.

Does this only work for addresses in the Boston area? If so, then it would be really useful to know that before typing in any address.
You mean X and Y for Twitter in the future? It's impossible for me to say; if I could, it wouldn't be particularly innovative.

Historically, though, platforms die all the time. AOL and Compuserve lost out because they couldn't innovate at anything like the speed of the open web.

I don't think they need third parties immediately. They needed them in the past, though; they were important to Twitter's early success. They'll need them again at some point, too.

The notion that companies can innovate because a) they want to innovate, and b) they have lots of people is... unproven. How many years has Yahoo been floundering now? What's the last innovative thing Microsoft did? Does IBM even exist anymore? Lots of large companies open innovation centers and intrapreneurship programs. Small companies still regularly kill large ones. That's because large companies are mainly optimized for turning the crank on their current money machine. Things that interfere with that rarely survive, including most innovation efforts.
I have taken a year off. It was great the first six months, then life caught up and it was just a race to get back to cashflow positive. The last six months undid everything good the first six did.
I'm having the same issue actually. Firefox 37 on Windows 8.1.
Having people work over 40 hours a week is actively disincentivized by at least two things: the workers aren't in an overtime-exempt field where extra hours are free for the employer, and they're getting tax incentives for creating new jobs, which rewards hiring more people to work fewer hours each.
Show HN: New Yahoo Homepage Being Tested?
I see far more OS X machines than any other flavor of UNIX for desktop.
Define "genuinely big data"
Viewing angles are usually better, but there are LCDs with good enough viewing angles that in practice neither is a problem.

CRT contrast was markedly inferior at high spatial frequencies (as opposed to VESA contrast). The linked article is deliberately trying to simulate this. Even on aperture grille tubes this is obvious with pure white/black 50% ordered dither. This makes a big difference to legibility of text.

Brightness is lower than most LCDs, and fades quickly with age if it's set too high. Gamut is lower than high gamut LCDs, and color accuracy is similar to good LCDs.

Spatial resolution is much worse, especially as you can't benefit from sub pixel rendering. I've spent a lot of time tweaking CRT controls, and you can never get perfect focus and convergence across the whole screen. You can never get perfect geometry either, which is not an issue with LCDs.

Comparing a high end CRT to a high end image quality optimized LCD (eg. IPS or VA), viewing still images, from a normal desktop viewing position, I'm confident that the vast majority of viewers will prefer the LCD.
Yes probably more than hundreds (but I have no idea), which is why they bought the company but most of the users at that time were centered around Draw My Thing. There were still two or three very active games on the main site though. Admittedly there were multiple nearly dead games and also games that you had to know to access...
(1) Keeping it simple and consistent and (2) they want to ensure that as much relevant traffic goes through t.co as possible. If you want to lock people into t.co URLs, there's no reason for them to play games otherwise unless it truly starts eating into the character count. It's an avenue for profit through data mining. Also, the notion of blocking phishing sites is also there, but the real reason is data mining. They want as much desired, relevant data as possible about the URLs people are using on their service — where they're going, when they're going there, who's going there, etc., etc., etc. In the data, there is money. It's also about other untaped potential in being the middle man (e.g., injected ads) — not that they'll necessarily do such a thing, but from their perspective it's good to be in the position to exploit as many avenues of profit as possible.
Almost any significant round outside of seed would come with liquidation preference. CrunchBase says a total of $20.9 was raised, so if the final sale price was less then $20,900,001.00, there's likely no money left for common stock.
Perhaps you meant organized public meeting with a specific purpose?

Having just read some of my countries law( a developed country ) on the subject you are somewhat right.

Public meetings are regulated and must be registered. To qualify, the location, participation and organization must be public. Technically an arranged meeting with your friends in a public space could be considered a public meeting. This probably wasn't the intention of the writers of the law, but interpreting it as it is written, it gets that ridiculous.
Heh....I knew it didn't sound quite right.
Every time you raise money you negotiate the terms for that private placement. Lets say your start up has 3 rounds, A, B, and C, and raises $1M, $2M, and $10M with a 1x liquidation preference. Now you're business is sagging and you're about to close up shop, but an investor comes in and says "We'll provide the money but we want 3x senior liquidation" which is to say they get paid back 3X their money before anyone else. Lets say they put in $1M, and the company sells for $3M. It all goes to the last investor because they were senior in liquidation rights. Nobody else gets any money.

In terms of that last raise it is sometimes "nothing" (ie close the doors) or one more shot at making it. So from the founder's perspective the 'close the doors' option has them getting nothing, and keeping it alive long enough to sell it may or may not give them a return.
that's a very good idea.

is it possible to encrypt/secure it somehow from being pried open?
Yes, it's very much underestimated. The OS itself is very good. Very good usability, very secure and has some awesome features (can't live without the live tiles!). The hardware is really good as well.

In my opinion it's crazy that most developers still skip the platform. There's really no excuse not to make your app cross platform nowadays, Xamarin has a really good offering for example. At least in Europe WP has a market share of 10% where iOS has 18%, so they're not that far off! In the US the difference is bigger though, but the world is larger than the US.
It's not at all uncommon. My third startup, Smart Charter, was acquired pre-launch by Richard Branson and launched as Virgin Charter. Virgin then ran it into the ground. I never saw a dime. :-(
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>> .. but I'm better off outsourcing that to an employer.

That's REALLY well said!
The company tanked after having elected to raise $20M over 5 rounds, for what should have been a very profitable lifestyle business.

The lesson is not to raise VC money for a business where it does not make sense.
Here's their funding history:

https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/satisfaction/funding...

And here's a handy explanation of "participating preferred" which is one way early sharholders can end up with nothing:

http://www.feld.com/archives/2004/08/to-participate-or-not-p...
Wait, really? I had no idea! Off to check it out...
Hey. Cruised back around today. Looks like you got it fixed! Thanks and it looks like your getting a lot of good feedback on your project. Congrats on the launch.
NASA invites ESA to build Europa piggyback probe
You misunderstood. I meant that they could use the minimum of those two lengths when checking the length of your tweet while still turning it into a t.co url either way. All traffic still goes through t.co. The behavior is identical to today except that it's simpler and consistent because it doesn't make my 140 character tweet invalid.
What about Linux TLB Big Page [1]?

[1]: https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/vm/hugetlbpage.txt
In the spirit of inquisition, which "l" do you consider to be the extra one?
Interesting. I didn't know that. I understand that if expectations are not met there have to be consequences. But leaving the founders of a company with nothing while others earning money feels completely wrong.
I meant the second sentence too - I mean, if your startups are failing for the same reason one after another, you need to break the pattern somehow. He could get a job at Google for instance, regroup 2-3 years and then decide what to do next.
Find something you love to do.

Then find someone who needs the results of the work that you love.

Then do that work for that "someone" for free.

See what happens.
Web based *nix administration
You could buy e.uk and catch typos like <college>.e.uk with the same page!
As a technical founder, I'd be very careful to start a company again.

I used to ignore finance and bureaucracy, but the industry has changed a lot. The popular quote 'just passionately build something' is nothing but a trap. Although something like YC doesn't fit this profile, one will eventually find himself in a hostile situation.
> I'm saying that productive work is one way in which people can become more worthy of honor and respect.

It's not quite that I disagree. I just think that your statement and example don't make an accounting for what honor and respect a person is worthy of independent of their work status. Should a 3 year old, or a 93 year old, only be accorded respect in accordance to how much they work? Should hospital patients receive less honor and respect than hospital staff?

I think human life has value, and is worth of honor and respect, completely independent of the capacity and willingness to work.

Do you see it differently?
Because you don't notice a well-designed ambush until after it's too late?
excellent article. Where were you a couple of months ago when Kaggle had Axa's Telematics driver identification competition ! ( http://www.kaggle.com/c/axa-driver-telematics-analysis)

I don't think anyone from the top winners had a lane change as a feature for example.
I don't think so.

Tarantool uses an async evented IO model, but uses Lua coroutines and not Javascript. There are not callbacks, just 'yield points'.

Also, the primary data store backend is an in-memory database with optional 'snapshoting' to disk. An alternative backend uses sophia, so it's not 100% in memory.
BPM 2 Rocket Engine Test Firing
Local fileserver with RAID as primary store for files, and other random backups from various machines on my network. This is synced to Tarsnap (highly recommended) every night. Additionally, encrypted USB key used for other very important files (Keepass DB, Tarsnap keys, etc) on an ad-hoc basis (given these don't change very often).

The key is to keep it simple and easy.
.ova container that the client can load in their virtualization environment. A way to install it in a fresh VM or a on physical box. Nothing to fancy, stick to stuff your clients likely can deploy easily. (As in, requiring virtualBox or vagrant or ... which is uncommon for production environments creates unnecessary work for them, and you don't want that)
Strange. It works for me on Chrome. It pulls property information from Zillow's API, so the issue could possibly be that your home doesn't exist in Zillow.
On Becoming a Better Teacher
It's true that this trend is ingrained in the Asian immigrant community. To expand on your point that the pressures are due to narrow views when determining success, most people and especially Asians, measure success either by how much they have acquired or the status they possess.

Well if you don't have either, then you base your success on what your child/ren has accomplished. It's a competition within the community to see who has the more accomplished offspring - I see it every time my parents gather with friends or family - it's sad but it's all they know to do.

Anecdotal perspectives:
So I grew up poor, but I would say I am quite successful now by most standards - yet I still feel the pressure to achieve much more than I currently have (just from wanting to be the best I can be, but also I feel indebted to my parents and want to give them the world). They never pressured me to be a $high_status_title, but I felt to pressure to be someone that could support them into their old age since I saw how hard they worked to provide for me. In a sense, I understood the world of my parents and because of that, I created pressure for myself to achieve greater success (by their standards).

I had a friend in HS, who was extremely smart, and both his parents were doctors, living in a wealthy neighborhood, etc. I constantly saw how much pressure his parents were creating for him, PSAT prep and SAT prep and all that, which I felt he didn't need. Whenever we weren't playing CS, he would be studying to make sure he got into the right colleges, then the right medical schools, though I never really asked him if that's what he wanted out of life. I felt bad for him because I did fine in HS and felt fine just coasting (I didn't begin trying as hard as I should have till junior year of college, but in the end I think I did okay with much luck involved, of course). Well he is now finishing up his medical residency (looks like his studies paid off) and I really hope he feels fulfilled in his career path.

Just wanted show that pressure to succeed can come from external factors or pressures we create for ourselves, but I feel things are only getting worse as now we have parents competing to get their kids into particular preschools and all the extracurricular activities that just consume what little childhoods we have to begin with.

You can be aware of the circumstances, and do your best to "opt out" of the race, but others will just see that as an opportunity to move ahead, continually fueling these unnecessary pressures.
It's not a big issue for most of us, but if you want to work in a field where it's required, it's kind of a big deal. This includes some things that makes sense (graphic design, house painting) and some things that really should be accessible to the colorblind, if we hadn't carelessly set them up to not be (electrical engineering is heavily dependent on rainbow color codes).

It's not on the same order as, say, curing cancer, but finding a treatment for "8% of the population can't be electrical engineers or pilots for no good reason" seems like a pretty substantial thing.
I generally use spoonerisms in the sense of the first 'sound' of a word.
Only if you're the one encrypting them.
Depending on the terms and the sale price, the investors may have lost money too.

Without liquidation preferences, the founders could earn a profit even if the investors lost money.

(Plus the founders and employees earn salaries, often paid from the invested funds.)
Xodus from JetBrains (Java only / Apache 2 License) looks promising.
This is just not realistic - in business if you tell everyone you're taping them when they call you, nobody is going to talk to you. You go out of business if nobody talks to you.

In any case, this discussion about phone calls is a side-show. If Twitter is going to cut you off from their API, you can't avoid that by not picking up their calls.
Relax. This has, or will happen, to every freelancer once. You're going to learn from it and move on. You do NOT need a lawyer. This guy knows you haven't got any way to pay damages and it's going to cost him $10k+ for his lawyer. He'll fume and threaten and make a lot of noise. Eventually, he'll go look for another sucker—I mean—inexperienced developer to take advantage of. Send an email with a sincere apology, a zip with the latest files, and a clear statement that you're unable to do anything further. Don't return any calls or emails afterwards. He might get a lawyer to send a letter. This costs $100. Ignore it. The only thing you should respond to is a court summons. You won't get one.
You are dealing with one of the coauthors of "Dangerous Dave in Copyright Infringement"!
Because the art was generated in a way to take advantage of the blurring and inaccuracies of the screen. Showing just the pure pixels takes away the transparency effects, the shading that took advantage of the blurring, etc.
I know it's going to be difficult, if not impossible, for me to not be that overbearing, demanding parent. If current trends continue, when my daughter enters what's left of the workforce in 20 years, she's going to be living in a world where 95% of us are in abject poverty, fighting each other over the last few remaining jobs not already automated away, while the remaining 5% own the automation and means of production and are permanently, insanely wealthy. There will be nobody left in what we'd today call the "middle class". Education will be one's last (even if improbable) chance at class mobility--and in such a world, only the best grades and best educational institution will do.

We're moving rapidly towards extreme class polarization--in 20 years, you'll be either an Ivy League graduate or eating dog food to survive.