skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not at all, it's a valid bug that's indicitaive of a deeper problem, presenting uncertain and locale-specific conclusions as being certain.

Even if you do language and locale-sniffing using n-grams you still have a certainty problem.

In the UK we traditionally use DD/MM/YY format, although since "9/11" the papers have started slipping into MM/DD format, and younger people have followed suit somewhat.

In the UK it's therefore completely crazy to rely on NLP to interpret "6/7/12" which might mean 7th June or 6th July. If you're going to capture it you need to ask the user, so you need both.
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This is what I call a mother-of-demos !

All stuff no fluff!
Eh. I have found that the Wikipedia math pages are not approachable for someone that does not already have a very strong background in math. There is definitely a place for blogs etc. that can present the information in a more palatable manner to non-mathematicians.

I also thought this was actually a nice way to think about derivatives. "To visualize derivatives, we can draw a right triangle whose hypoteneuse is tangent to a function. If the triangle's width is , then its height is the derivative." I think if it had been explained this way to me when I was first starting to learn about derivatives a million years ago, I would have grasped it more quickly.

But, I definitely agree that this is way too short for the stated purpose.
The way I see it, life is basically a long-winded effort to get loved. To get loved by ourselves, by others and by our gods. Everything everybody does in life boils down to this. From Hitler to Mother Teresa. From Osama bin Laden to the Dalai Lama. You want to do things that matter, to change the world? Why? How do you know they matter? Because those to whom they matter love you for it. You love yourself for it, others love you for it and by your own spiritual presumptions, your gods love you for it, or they will some day. And so, it is not the big things or the small things that matter. It is not saving the lives of millions or attending your kid's play that matters. The only thing that matters is you finding love, however you find it. If there is no love feedback for you, it doesn't matter. That's why nobody is trying to save the starving children in the planets of the Andromeda galaxy, coz there's no feedback for it. And if you think that's a poor analogy, well, there was nobody coming to the slums of Africa to do the things people these days come to do.
For the lazy - Conclusions:

A patent strategy can indeed affect a tech startup company’s growth. The data indicates that companies that have patents in earlier rounds (especially before obtaining funding, or in Rounds 1 and 2) are able to obtain more total funding. This occurs in all markets, but is especially so in Biotechnology/Agriculture, IT/Hardware and Medical devices, in which the largest patenting activity tends to happen in the beginning of the company’s life. This suggests that patenting early may be more important for start-ups than what some views in venture capital may predict.

Surprisingly, most start-ups that patented filed their first application before even receiving any reported funding. A possible explanation is that these companies were aware of the potential signaling value of the patents, and that they strategically filed their patents early, despite the relatively high burden of patenting costs for an early-stage venture.

Also surprisingly, companies located in California patented more than companies located elsewhere. The study supports the idea that California provides unique conditions for start-up growth, and points out to the patenting activity in the state, a factor that is not commonly discussed in the startup environment.

Companies that were venture-backed also filed more patents that those which did not receive venture capital in any stage. This is consistent with previous studies, and reaffirms a strong connection between patents and venture capital.

Moreover, the results indicated that the number of patents (and not merely the fact that the company had patents) was highly correlated with total funding. The effect of each additional patent for companies in the dataset was 530,000 USD more in funding per additional patent application that the company had.

Finally, the analysis also supported the idea that patents account for only for a fraction of start-up success. While the contribution of patents to startup funding seems to be positive, what is the importance of a patent in comparison to other factors? The results back the position that while patents have a positive effect on funding, their contribution to start-up growth is somewhat limited: one factor among many of those that influence investor’s decisions. Patents can only explain increased funding in a limited number of cases, around 10% to 15% of them.

So are we in a position to solve the “patent dilemma”? While the study alone may not solve the dilemma for all companies, it serves to shed an empirical light on it, which is uniquely useful to entrepreneurs, lawyers and the startup ecosystem. Patents may not be a fundamental requirement to receive funding or be acquired, but they prove to be an advantageous tool for early-stage signaling of startup’s value and potential.
The thing that least impresses me about this demo is the voice synthesis :)
Awesome, I've been thinking of building an Apple I for a while, I'll definitely use this
You seem to state/believe, that these guys are not able to open US or Asian cars comparatively fast?

For this claim (German cars being inferior regarding security) I would love to see facts, not trolling.
The work can be observed here: https://github.com/kvasdopil/docker/blob/freebsd-compat/FREE...
I never tried Things, I went from Wunderlist (which I loved) to Omnifocus.

I agree about the organisation in Evernote, I _try_ and tag/prune as I go along but sometimes you do need to dedicate time to it.
That is a distributed system.

Unless you can make the two systems independent, it's distributed. For most applications like shopping, for example, you must have a eventually centralized database. If you have multiple centralized databases that must talk to each other, guess what, that's a distributed system.
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You should update the wikipedia page with this explanation.
> How can you be any less ambiguous?? //

What would be less ambiguous would be when you download an installer for an app then the installer installs that app and doesn't attempt to trick you in to "accept"ing what you think is the initial app install but is in fact an entirely different app.

If you really wanted to let them add apps people don't want then at the point of download an unchecked box could have an offer for unrelated software and that offer would state something like "software we're getting paid to have installed on your computer". That too would be unambiguous.

It's like someone offers you a bag of sweets and as you take them they say "you're fine with cryptosporidium" under their breath; you think they muttered some marketing slogan and instead you get ill from the sweets. Perfectly acceptable, you even had chance to find out what was in the sweets /s.

Aside: What's your startup?
It is, but it has a mailing list mode.
In context, the most charitable interpretation I can give is that he's saying you shouldn't trust anyone (not even Google) with data you want to keep private. A less charitable interpretation is to replace "not even Google" with "especially not Google", as they're not just retaining incidental personal data but actively harvesting as much as possible.
> To visualize derivatives, we can draw a right triangle whose hypoteneuse [sic] is tangent to a function. If the triangle's width is , then its height is the derivative." is the most confusing and unintuitive way to visualize derivatives I can think of

This isn't only unintuitive, it's literally wrong.
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In the past there would have been a Microsoft Usenet group with "MVPs" (Microsoft Valued Professionals) providing peer support.

I guess the modern equivalent is SuperUser stack exchange?

So far there's this, which doesn't answer the question: http://superuser.com/questions/355108/csv-error-on-phone-num...

And this, which converts numbers into text, but maybe there's an option to keep them as regular numbers not scientific notation?:

http://superuser.com/questions/586306/save-data-exactly-at-o...

> To do this, open Excel first.

> Click on Data > Import from text.

> You will get a window where you'll have to pick the import type. Choose Delimited then next.

> In the next screen, check only comma, then next.

> On this screen, click the first column in the preview box, scroll to the last column. Hold SHIFT and click the last column. This should make all the columns 'black' (you actually selected all the columns).

> Now, click the radio button Text. After that, click Finish and OK to get your data as you wanted it to be!
I wonder if you get "land" dizziness after spending time in a tall building!?
Problems with simultaneity in distributed systems
Carlos, you are mistaken re: Haystack. I don't think it was ever planned to be replaced, it's always been in use as a hot blob storage engine since it was launched. There are three storage layers for blobs at Facebook: hot (Haystack @ 3.6x replication), warm (F4 @ 2.1x), cold (Cold Storage @ 1.4x). We have published papers describing each layer.

Haystack still handles the initial writes and the burst of heavy read traffic when an object is fresh. It has a higher space overhead of 3.6x because it's optimized for throughput and latency versus cost savings. The Haystack tier's size is now dwarfed by the size of the F4 and Cold Storage tiers, but it still handles almost all of the reads for user blobs on Facebook due to the age/demand exponential curve.

After a haystack volume is locked and has cooled down enough, it moves to F4 to bump its replication factor way down for cheaper, longer term online storage. And then Cold Storage is used for the older stuff that gets barely any reads but that you still want to store online for perpetuity.

That is why the team that works on media storage is called Everstore; they take storing people's photos and videos seriously and view it as a promise to keep your memories available forever. It feels really good to see photos from 5+ years ago and have them still work, and someday there will be 30 year old photos and videos on Everstore as well.

Source: I built Haystack with a couple other people and founded the Everstore team. :-)
Are the people making those decisions on the poverty line or are they making them to make themselves even richer?

[Yes it's literally a false dichotomy, I think my meaning is clear though.]
"then someone ought to be able to print money"

Putting aside whether that'd be a good idea or not, government money is generated via the bond market. All new money in the US is generated via the bond market. Therefore, you can't use printing money as a way to stabilise the market that generates it.
Yeah it was a total guess, not informed by doing any actual math. Thanks for adding some real numbers to the discussion!
"No Party may require the transfer of, or access to, source code of software owned by a person of another Party, as a condition of providing services related to such software in its territory."

Is the intent here to avoid government mandates for open source when tendering? Because it doesn't actually say that. Is parties only the government agency? Worded as it is it seems like it might trample over copyright by making the GPL unenoforcable in certain circumstances.
I don't think there were decent alternatives back then. Also, their business model has been based on web advertisement. It's a valid point that GitHub has a solid model and might not need to do shady stuff in the long run.
Train bogies can rotate around their center and follow the curves, I'd be very suprised if the actual car bent.
How do you plan to move to the US?
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I didn't mean literally print money. I meant make a lot of profit.

In any case I'm more thinking about equity markets - are there even flash crashes in treasuries yet?
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That's fine too. However, queries by default set an end time of "now" on the server. So depending on how far in the future the point is, it may not show up in a query that doesn't have the end time explicitly specified to past the future time of that point.
That is why you convert the spread sheet column to a number before you export to csv. The fulfillment center was lazy, when you paste large numbers like that into excel, it auto converts your large number into scientific notation. you simply only have to change the data type of the column and it will change it back to a number. A CSV is dumb, it only exports what Excel displays.
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Pretty fast for such expensive car, isn't it?
https://youtu.be/U3T_g-KyYTk?t=1m26s
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>"In the US, we have the ability for everybody to be employed - if we required that everything that is sold here be made here. That would instantly improve everyone's quality of life."

No. There are already enough limitations on international trade.
Trade allows the transference of the creation of products or services to other countries which are more efficient with their own resources. Allowing both parties to focus on what they're good at. Benefitting both parties to the highest degree.

>"But perhaps the biggest advantage is that it would allow us to stop the hiding of profits offshore and using derivatives - literally trillions in profits are being extracted and hidden pre-tax."

They're not 'hidden' if you know about it. The company has a responsibility to their shareholders to use their scarce resources in the most efficient manner, that means moving their money to the area where the government forcibly takes the least.

>"I would argue that every country should consider their own citizens first - and only after everyone has gotten to some reasonable standard of living should we consider outsourcing, offshoring, and foreign workers. Ironically, we could do much more for everybody in the world if we first fix the corruption in our own economy."

Please specifically define "reasonable standard of living". If a country only used the resources which are inside its borders they would not be able to produce a large amount of the goods and services which we currently enjoy, it is not feasible to grow all crops, produce all goods and provide all services within the confines of a countries border.
Fair point re: source - I'm struggling to find something. It's anecdotal from here too, but I encounter right-wing views pretty much daily from all sorts.

Also, if you want to be dismayed, stop by "Have your say" on the BBC site whenever they talk about immigration or the EU or Human Rights.
Both, actually. It doesn't even have to be a conscious choice; if you had every CEO make business decisions at random, those companies that made themselves more competitive would still thrive, while the others would die.

Those who keep sacrificing values tend to outcompete the ones who don't, and so the values end up being sacrificed regardless of however humans rationalize it to themselves while making decisions.
Don't eat soy.
No. When you first start learning about derivatives, you are told you draw a line tangent to a point and then find the slope of that line at that point. The slope is just del y / del x. So, if del x = 1, then the slope is just del y / 1 = del y = the height of the triangle.

Of course, it is more useful to get a derivative as a function of x, so you don't have to do this at every point. But, as a starting point, when you are first learning about derivatives and only have a background in algebra and geometry, this is a nice way to think about it.
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>after organizers discovered that the Baidu scientists broke the contest’s rules.
google tries very hard to leave the impression that you must have a gmail/google/google+ (not sure, haven't had the misfortune of doing this for some time) account to subscribe.
Yes, it was an exaggeration. But they also talked about having a bunch of different hipchat rooms and things like that. They also talked about having everyone log all their time in harvest.

I get that consultancies have to log hours, but that doesn't make it any less of a drag for the people who work there. And every hipchat room that you have to keep up with is additional overhead.

So you're right that 30 is an exaggeration. But that doesn't mean that they don't have overhead (in terms of time) from using these online tools.
So religion tries to reduce guilt. Well I guess I learn something totally new every day...

Admittedly I'm not familiar with Judaism except through the limited view of the Bible and comparing it to Christianity.
And having a Monolith doesn't preclude you from scaling horizontally when the bigger boxes run out. At GitLab the application servers are stateless and you can run a large number of them.
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Just in time for the return of XFiles.

ps: gradient overlay is seriously lacking. https://www.google.com/search?q=font+gradient+metal&tbm=isch
- GTK+ apps look alien in KDE env.

- QT apps look alien on Mac.

- wxWidgets look alien everywhere.

There is no real X-platform UI toolkit.
4 minutes is pretty fast (but longer than "10 seconds" stated earlier).
It's also completely orthogonal to the question raised.
A crash in bond prices means an increase in yields.

The article doesn't mention, and acknowledges this, whether treasuries or corporate bonds are worrying people. If the former it could be back to 'normal interest rates' (or at least ones that reflect and account for economic growth), if the latter then another recession, but I think this call is 3 years too early.

The article talks about CDOs and CDSs - the book 'The Big Short' by Michael Lewis is a good read about CDOs and CDSs in the run-up to the 2007/2008 crash.
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It's a non-confrontational way to express disapproval. It helps to keep the discussion civil, as opposed to jumping the gun and calling people names, which would just elicit animosity.

Additionally, it gives me an easy way out if it turns out I was wrong: no harm, no foul.
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I use ^$ vs \A\z as an interview question for senior engineers. Sadly, it filters a lot of them out.
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pg up/pg dn is Fn+Up/Dn. Home/End is Fn+Left/Right.
Web people, please don't start to use effects that are only supported by one single rendering engine (okay, Blink+Webkit).
they lose emails. subscriber sends an email to the list, it's accepted, and then it only appears in the web interface, nobody receives an email. or, the mailing list does distribute the email but it never appears in the web interface.
Is it even meant to?
Lattice[1] "cheats" by turning the bin packing problem into an auction. Execution agents perform a simple local calculation and send in their bids. Then jobs are placed according to those bids.

This is because while you can try to produce an optimal distribution, it's a fool's errand in a distributed system. A perfect solver, given imperfect data, produces nonsense. GIGO, as they used to say.

Amit Gupta wrote some notes last year about it[2].

Disclaimer: I work for Pivotal.

[1] http://lattice.cf/

[2] http://blog.pivotal.io/pivotal-cloud-foundry/products/app-pl...
Oh great now all we need is geocities and (the old) MySpace to come back. I sincerely hope this is a joke.
> However, I think it would be responsible journalism to ask a medical doctor whether the crowd did the right thing before hailing them as heroes and encouraging others to do the same.

Perhaps they did and the medical doctor said it's was OK in this situation.
Religion is a pretty complex thing. I totally agree that christianity tends to be, as Alan Watts described it, "institutionalised guilt"... but that's just one dimension of it. Religion is a huge topic. It's many things to many people. It's never helpful to intelligent conversation to reduce a big thing to a single axis.
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I would expect it to be very hard to distinguish between a temporary crash and a long term price movement. Prices are moving all the time and often for good reason. This strategy would have bought up large amounts of Nokia stock shortly before they became an also-ran.
These have been around (and in beta apparently) for a few years.

You may be fooled by the shiny new wrapper around the docs into thinking this is a new thing.
>, and cashing in _when_ the price crashes and rebounds.

[my emphasis on "when"]

I think the "when" is a huge part of the puzzle. How can an algorithm know the difference between a flash crash that will get remedied within 24 hours vs a longer period of irrational pricing that takes months to sort out?

For example, at the time of the famous LTCM downfall[1], it held several arbitrage positions that were eventually proven right... but they didn't have sufficient capital reserves to survive the short term irrational spreads (Russian default, flight to US Treasuries, etc). I'm not saying that LTCM didn't have many other flaws of risk analysis that would have also caused their downfall but in that one case, it was an illustration of "the markets can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent."

[1]http://www.amazon.com/When-Genius-Failed-Long-Term-Managemen...
Personally, I think in those days the web had more "character".
Can someone explain to me how that demo matches "Chicago"? From the source provided, I don't see how that is possible.
It is very hard to sandbox lua properly.
Embedded scripting sounds good, but in most cases is more of a liability.
With that being said, it still needs to do sanity check. Is it a valid date? if not, will it be if we change the format? Nobody really knows what you mean when you write a data as xx/xx/xx. It has to be assumed from context.

I've even have border control ask me about the expiration date of my passport since they couldn't figure out if it was day-month or month-day.

I couldn't tell them either, because it wasn't written explicitly. Later I realised I could deduce it from my birthdate.
I am not an engineer, but it occurs to me that high-velocity aerodynamic flight is still a seriously difficult problem; and one best avoided if not actually neccessary. The resemblance to an aicraft hides the fact that it is something completely different at various stages of its flight. And in all these stages there are different problems that could occur, and limited experience of those issues.
As a former glider pilot I had serious trouble parsing the headline because of the all caps and this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grob_G102_Astir
The central banks are printing money like crazy driving down interest rates below the historical average of 5.5% interest rate. This jacks up stocks prices and pushes up a new tech bubble. Who knows where we will end up another pets.com maybe?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pets.com