skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They will, of course. It's highly unlikely that a bank that took possession of a medallion in a foreclosure would let it sit idle (and TFA says as much).
Ask HN: How to get into a good university
I'm a 16 year old international student. Early admission happens at November. My goal is to get admitted at one of the top CS universities; MIT, Stanford, Harvard, and the likes.

I've won my continent's space settlement design competition. I'm a winner of Google Code-In. I've freelanced as a designer and developer and have worked for over a year with a known technology blog among other clients. I head my school's computer club.

My current plan is to get good a good score in the standardized tests, then start developing apps and webapps and hope that they get popular.

Will letters of recommendation from people like my old boss, or important figures from NASA/Google help? What else can I do to strengthen my application?

- A confused kid
Awesome, good to see this type of thinking is backed up. Sadly, I am for the first time starting to underestimate the value of large scale farming in California. It is becoming big business instead off a good source of food, at least at a level that goes back into Californians. This might open a can of hate, but why don't we just ban exportation of our farmed food in for example a red zone district due to water shortage, i.e. it can only feed us. I bet the water usage would drop significantly.
The patent language in the previous FB license seemed pretty similar to the patent language in Apache 2.0. Can anybody comment or link to a discussion of why the FB language was undesirable? And why not change Apache 2.0 in the same way? (Confused)
Blood carrying what it physically carries is a fact no one is disputing. The concept that is archaic is that people strongly resemble their parents in character, because they are birth parents. The reality is that the nurture of the parents plays a much bigger role than genetic lineage. It is not uncommon for people to punish someone for a relatives actions, basically for something the relative has no power over. This is as unethical as punishing someone for being of a certain race, something the person has no control over and something that has no presently measurable impact.
upvoted for shutting up and multiplying. It's good to see.
I run => RunKeeper. I'm terrible right now, but working on it. I'm in the shin splints phase.

I started meditating => HeadSpace. This really has the most gains for me. I don't even do it everyday and I feel like I'm looking at myself in a totally different perspective. I've started observing my fears, my emotions, etc.

I do Yoga if I can in down time. => Yoga Studio.

Consistency is key. I don't run much yet, but I'm trying to get up to 3 days a week x 3 miles. Really, the hardest part about ANYTHING is consistency. So even running 1 miles x5 is WAY better than running 5 miles x1 per week.
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I agree there is lots of misinformation on this issue. But how is it not a zero sum issue? Either the water goes to the farms or to the fish. No matter how much we talk, hold hands or sing kumbaya we can't have both.

BTW - I think the underlying problem is pretty clear: water is being allocated by a broken and unresponsive legal/regulatory system. It needs to be replaced with a market so water goes to it highest and best use. Hopefully this can help restore some sanity to our collective decision making.

PS - At a conservative $500 an acre-foot that's $6 million for six fish!
My mother had black hair, even though she was of pure Swedish ancestry (both of her parents immigrated from Sweden). She said that it was a family legend that the black hair was inherited from French women brought back by Viking ancestors.
Exactly. I think the question is built on a false premise.

http://techcrunch.com/2015/01/28/facebook-q4-2014/
Your write up on EC and tensors, I enjoyed it a lot. Thanks for the excellent effort!
Paralyzed again
All these new TLDs honestly just look like ".info" to me. That is, super-scammy and fake-seeming.

If I want to go to Canon's website, I will search for "Canon" or try canon.com.

I'm not going to think "Of course, canon.camera! Or maybe canon.printer or canon.toner!"
While I totally knew what I was clicking through, I don't expect everyone to know what Jane Street is famous for.

Know your audience.
Almost all subject matter will have a technology aspect to it, does that immediately qualify it as HN worthy?
Should the title be altered to reflect the actual price of the car? It starts at $75k (+$1200 in fees)
Well, actually, after 8 generations, each allele has 8 chances to not get inherited. So if the rapist had, say, one copy of the Huntington's allele (an autosomal dominant mutation according to Wiki), then you would have a 1/256 chance of having inherited the disease from that ancestor. Two copies of the allele from the rapist would give you a 1/128 chance. I'd have to say GP's point stands here.
I agree, subtracting the price of gasoline in a conventional car isn't what most people understand "price" to mean. Title changed from $55k to $75k.
Heh, I'm currently in the positive phase of my oscillating love-hate relationship with Perl, and acknowledge its right to exist.

No, I was referring to implementing a replacement/frontend to Make.
The standard tests didn't get it. I actually discovered it when I just totally gave up (at this point I'd been to doctor for numerous blood tests - especially for mono). I cook a lot, and have always eaten fairly well. I just got tired of it... so I ate a lot of terrible food for a month, mostly fried, and I felt awesome. Then i started to get fat. So, i started cooking again. The first meal was beef stew. I ate it, then felt terrible. So I eliminated everything in it, and reintroduced them one-by-one to my diet. The onions were obvious, garlic less so.
Pretty sure all the teams that got an interview are celebrating
Number is from Elon's tweet: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/586750504450916352
The complaint reminded me of that article a while back decrying tax increases because the writer would probably have to fire his maid and gardener, and be forced to send his kids to public school.
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White blood cells.
It is a very reasonable price for a fully electric luxury sedan with these features.
YC Rejection letters are out
Looks like very same email from last time.
Everyone else who is there is an adult too. If they don't like it, they can leave. There are better ways to make a moral stand in the workplace.
Baidu CEO Robin Li Interviews Bill Gates and Elon Musk
The price listed in the title is "after incentives & gas savings" and before taxes.

For example: the 70kWh battery has the 'pitch' price at $56,895... except that the actual cash price to the right is $76,200 delivered.

Edit: The main difference in this new edition is 70kWh battery and AWD vs the previous 60kWh battery and RWD.

second edit: the HN title has been changed to more accurately reflect the cash price of the car.
Neat! Try it with various characters off marvel.com, you get some really cool looking output.
For item 2, in most locations meth and marijuana are punished very differently. For example, many states have marijuana decriminalized, where you would only receive a small fine for possession. In those states, you would almost certainly be taken to jail for meth possession
Spotify raising $400M, on course to be Nordics most valuable ever startup
Wait, the price of petrol over the life-time of a car (10+ years) is only $20k? Man, that's the best pitch I've ever heard to buy a nice sexy gas guzzler with great engine/exhaust noise.
LHC breaks energy record
I looked up and did the conversions because I had no idea what a foot acre was. I thought other folks would be interested as well. I expressed no opinion on whether it was a worthwhile endeavor one way or another.

I'm personally not a fan of the 1.1 trillion gallons used for almonds while they pull water off restaurant tables (yeah, that'll work), but I didn't think that had any place here either.
CNNIC is no longer trusted by Chrome due to recent incidents, and you can manually remove it from Firefox and IE. While you're at it, take a few minutes to browse the list and also remove anything that sounds Chinese.

If any website you visit legitimately uses a Chinese SSL certificate, you can whitelist it specifically. I actually do this for SSL certificates signed by my own country's CA (not China), and it works wonderfully.
Did you mean the email of the person who applied or the email listed on the application?
Did you read the Wikipedia article you link to? This has everything to do with memoizing the result of running compilation programs (function) on input files (arguments).

The "trick" here is using strace to figure out the complete set of inputs to the (assumed to be) idempotent compilation steps.
Wasn't there an article on HN earlier this week about a 6.5 <some unit> pulse of energy being detected in space? It went on to suggest the possibility of intelligent life out in the universe. Maybe it was just some time warped echo from the LHC?
As a non-native English speaker, I couldn't understand the title until I realized his great-grandfather Michael Zarbatany is his mother's grandfather, instead of his father's grandfather. Why doesn't English distinguish between paternal grandparents and maternal grandparents?
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Intel can't sell chips to China because the US is afraid of nukes
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It bugs me that they deduct the gas savings but don't include cost of charging the car without access to superchargers.

That being said, it's good to see the prices coming down.
Although it's probably not at all what that author meant, there is a way in which throughput and latency have a kind of fractally-layered relationship. For example, if you have a distributed computation that requires all parts to be finished before any result is returned, your throughput is dependent on the average latency for each part being consistently low. If one of them gets stuck it becomes a huge bottleneck, and speeding up the rest won't matter. And at the lowest levels of optimization a similar concern arises when CPU throughput is ultimately concerned with avoiding unnecessary latency such as cache misses.

For modern systems, latency seems to be increasingly important, as the fast paths have all grown various asynchronous aspects. For some systems 60ms pause might be fine, for others 2ms might be way too much. It's definitely a "what scale are you thinking about" kind of thing.
Graph Theory is pretty widely applicable. It's been a core course in my undergraduate program for years (I think since the beginning of the program). For example, you can apply it to a number of different domains in physics. It can be used to analyze electrical circuits, pipe flow, and mechanics. It's at the core of a number of packages related to these topics. The circuit simulator SPICE uses graph theory as does Modelica and MapleSim. That's only the physics applications. I've read papers that use graph theory in a lot of domains. There was a good book I used as reference when I looked at using graph theory for CAD (as part of an undergrad project), but I don't recall it as that was years ago.

I very likely would have done a graduate degree under a professor studying graph theory (he was my 4th year project supervisor), but he died over New Year's that year and I had to change supervisors for my last four months. But, he was the reason I decided to go to grad school in the first place.
Did the DNA test through 23andme.com, some interesting East Asian and African skeletons were discovered for a family supposedly of purely European lineage :)
So if you donate enough money you can name the chair anything you want?

This raises so many opportunities!
Well, actually the "after incentives & gas savings" price listed is 57,000. The title price only missed the reg fees.
Someone had to do it...

https://asciinema.org/a/18623
I think the title got changed.
I've got an old file named HELPME.COM taken from my family's XT. My father pranked me with it for April Fools, 87 or 88 - he added it to the shutdown script that parked the hard drive. The complete phrase was "Help, somebody get me out of here, I'm trapped in this computer! Help, somebody!" It still works in DOSBOX, although you've got to turn the emulation speed way down - the program does use a timing calibration loop, but it doesn't handle the massive changes in instruction timings since then.
Hey malpiatko, you should check this page from techmeabroad: https://techmeabroad.com/search/au/all

Hope this helps
> The typical M.O. of American business and industry is to drive a species right to the edge of extinction and then let some minor weather event finish the job. That's what's happening here.

Brilliantly put.
At recent prices it was nothing but a gamble. The way this guy makes a comparison to massive banks is laughable.
My thought has been that they need to go back to requiring a physical implementation. So, if you devise a hardware product that includes software, the whole thing can be patented, but not the specific algorithms. This eliminates all the business process patents and basically software patents as well.
Domo comes out of stealth after five years – and raises $200M at $2B valuation
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The way you phrased that shows some bias toward contemporary European family structures.

Inbreeding was standard accepted practice pretty much everywhere until 1500 years ago, and still is in many parts of the world. (In many Arab countries, for example, marriages between first cousins make up 15+% of all marriages, and marriages between first or second cousins make up 30+% of all marriages.)

It’s especially in Western Europe where cousin marriages out to 2nd, 3rd, or further cousins were taboo, and universal “outbreeding” was/is the enforced norm. (Primarily because the Catholic church wanted to break the political power of extended families, and divert more inheritances to the church instead of to people’s kin. In similar vein they discouraged/disallowed divorce, adoptions, marriage of widows, etc.) I did a google search to look for quick sources just now. This page has a summary: http://www.collective-action.info/_DEB_MAP_RelationMarriageP...
Ah, yes, sorry, I was interpreting the numbers incorrectly. Should probably sleep more. Thanks.
Congrats, saw on your blog that you got in! :)
It has some serious limitations compared to Bittorrent Sync. E.g. BTSync can relies on a tracker to find peers and uses relay servers in case port forwarding cannot be set up. Syncthing does not have anything like that yet, meaning that it cannot traverse many firewalls that you don't have under control. E.g. at work, all incoming connections are blocked unless they are initiated from within. So, Syncthing wouldn't work. It's pretty much the same with many hotels, etc. So, if you are on the go, it may not be any good.

Another problem that I have with Syncthing is usability. With BTSync I can be pretty sure that if I send a sharing link to family, that they will be able to install the software and use the link. Syncthing would be too difficult to set up for most family members or friends.

So, if you are looking for syncing some machines on a network under your own control, Syncthing is great. If you are looking for a Dropbox replacement that works everywhere with good sharing capabilities, BTSync is clearly the winner of the two.
I don't think that you are wrong, most of the JVM users are not forced to look into how GC works unless they are exposed to extreme high scale and load like LinkedIN, Twitter, etc. It is not uncommon to roll with 6GB+ heap. GC gets in your way if this high scale meets with low latency requirements for p99 (and above) latency, again which these guys care about a lot.

I think the best approach to GC based memory management is what Erlang does, extremely limited scope, no global locking and tiny GC time. I am not entirely familiar how the OCaml VM works, just started to play with the environment. Also, my understanding is that OCaml is not for highly concurrent systems. Anyways it is kind of offtopic here.

The summarize:

- JVM GC details are extremely important for high throughput low latency systems at scale, as far as I know the G1 GC is used for predictable low latency compactions, and I can verify that with my experiments, having 10ms GC pauses

- I think the Erlang approach is superior to garbage collected systems, but it requires no shared memory across your threads (or in the Erlang case processes), so the GC scope is tiny (and few other niceties in BEAM)

More on Java G1: http://www.infoq.com/articles/G1-One-Garbage-Collector-To-Ru...
More about Erlang's GC here: http://prog21.dadgum.com/16.html
After learning PGMs, I find that I've almost completely eschewed first order logic for my own personal everyday reasoning. Arguments based on logical formulations require that the propositions are not leaky abstractions, and for most problem domains (i.e. not physics), there are going to be so many exceptions that I find very few cases where I can rely on first order logic. The softness of PGMs, and ideas like "explaining away" [1] come in quite handy. And after learning some of Pearl's (and others) formulation of causality as graphical models, I understand much better why counterfactual reasoning is so error-prone.

Further, PGMs have the advantage over deep networks in that they are highly explainable, and you can go back and look at the chain of reasoning. For some problem domains, this part is more important than prediction accuracy.

[1] http://www.cs.ubc.ca/~murphyk/Bayes/bnintro.html#explainaway
I have got neither rejection or selection email :(
How did it look like?

I faintly remember that we did `use` graph theory in our HS assignments, but haven't actually touched hypothesis or proofs, that I now associate with it.

I remember we wrote programs to higlight a graphs skelet, find shortest path, search for components, e.t.c.

Discussions on correctness and efficiency were informal.
I do think your logic holds for many combinations of users and infrequently-used applications. If your "brain loop" works like: press a button, then wait to see the result and completely mentally parse the screen before pressing anything else, then yes, there will be a few dozen frames after any action in which the program can safely run a garbage collector. This is the way we all operate when we first start using a new program. But then, for many users, once they've become familiar enough with that program, they no longer need to think about most of the screens, and can rely entirely on muscle memory to navigate.[1] At this point, any additional latency is certainly noticed. The best example would be typing; at least on HN, the vast majority of us can touch type, and any pauses between typing and characters appearing on screen (such as the incessant pauses I experience with Firefox and iOS Safari) are incredibly annoying. And since typing is an important part of almost any application, that basically necessitates a never-ending "continuous interaction," I don't think you can discount the importance of a highly interactive feedback loop for everyday programs.

I don't really see how you were discussing incremental GC in your original post, but yes, incremental GCs designed to scan their heaps in small bursts do exist and are common in embedded languages.

I wish that modern OSes and programming paradigms had better support for signals/"software interrupts", so that, even if I don't think garbage collecting everything is the right strategy for interactive applications, at least you could say "let me run my GC/other background task up until exactly the moment that the next frame starts," instead of having to manually parcel out work into tiny units while poling a timer.

[1] This is a big part of why I prefer "tacky" 90s Windows and UNIX UIs to modern animation-heavy ones. Once I've "learned" the program, I'm not even consciously looking at the UI, so the superfluous animations just force me to add delays of my own to my muscle memory, instead of letting me work as quickly as my muscles can move. Programmers tend to get this right for keyboard-driven interfaces, but they tend to underestimate our ability to use muscle memory for mouse and touch-driven interfaces.
Got rejected for http://www.innGrid.net despite the real revenue & growth. Perhaps it's beacuse I'm a sole founder.
Anyways, I am determined to disrupt this market with or without YC on board. Here's the vid: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6OGHW9rrLY
AFAIK the ServerKeyExchange message is signed by the server, and this includes DHE params.
You just demonstrated how to.

"Why aren't there words instead of phrases for paternal grandparents and maternal grandparents?" is what you mean, right?
Yup, but you have picked a stupid example.

What if you wanted a new app, like cup? Now you will be able to differentiate between the different cup's easier?
Syncthing is great though, which is an OSS clone of Sync.

It doesn't offer anything near the features of Sync, requires that you have control over the firewall or the firewall is set up to use uPnP (which is not true for many networks I use on the go), is be difficult to install for friends or family I would want to share files with, and doesn't offer sharing invitation links.

Syncthing is great for a subset of use cases of BTSync, it's mostly pre-1.4 BTSync (minus the trackers and relay servers to make it usable when you do not have control over the firewall.).

After I saw the awful security review for BT Sync,

Well, it was mostly the security review that was awful (did you read it, of course BTSync accesses the update server). iSec Partners also did a review of BT Sync and found it to be secure.

Disclaimer: relatively happy user of Bittorrent Sync. Just not too happy with their monetization model, would have preferred purchasing the software, rather than a subscription model.
Got rejected 3rd time for http://www.innGrid.net despite the real revenue & growth. Perhaps it's beacuse I'm a sole founder.
Anyways, I am going to continue this journey with YC on board or not. Here's the vid: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6OGHW9rrLY
So, if I understood correctly:

If I use an HTTP 1.0/1.1 with PacketZoom, I'll be communicating on the internet with HTTP 1.0/1.1 over PacketZoom?

What if I want to communicate on the internet with other protocols such as WebSocket, SPDY, or HTTP 2.0? Does it work the same way?
feels like they've backtracked on decentralization

You can still use BTSync completely decentralized. 1.4-type shares are still available (shift-click '+') and you can disable tracker/relay server use.

But it would've been better if they continued on the open protocol/source path and earn money by offering encrypted read-only peers.
Brands redesigned by hand, an experiment in lettering
IANAL, but my understanding is the termination is not retroactive. You would only be liable if you continued to use React after your patent grant was terminated.
Leave it to a vice.com article to reference how relevant material is avoided (twice) because of the cost for a paywall.

If the guy really wanted to find out what was going on, he'd at least pay the $20 to find out.
I'd be interested in seeing a history of early photo editing software. I remember editing photos in the 90's (I still have some print-outs of the results), but I have no recollection of what software I was using other than that it was not photoshop!
Is Selena Stalking Justin?
Is it really time saved if you still need to find some other activity during the day to perform to stay in shape?