skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Several of the industry specific firms are pretty new, actually.

The main challenge is time, not opportunity. I'm at a top tier "unicorn" startup right now, and my next best alternative is founding another startup. I probably would walk for a partnership track position in a top firm, but that's it. (Or "fix all of apple's online services", build apple's enterprise business, "make android or chromeos secure and secure against third party doctrine", secure the usg, or spacex, but nothing else.)

There are some great niches in tech investing outside of early stage startups (a PE focused on turnarounds of ducked companies like yahoo or twitter?), but in early stage, if you aren't getting the top deals (by being known as top tier generally or in your market), why bother?
Although perhaps more constraining, why not use a website that uses WebRTC data channels to transfer the files? Then you can be more sure the data isn't persisting in a datacenter somewhere. Plus, it is more plausible that the service can remain free and private.
Will make a great movie..
My biggest problem with Windows 7 and especially the start menu was that certain folders were first class citizens and other were not. I could never quite figure out how to instruct someone to get to their user folder or understand why downloads were not a library.
The actual guts of the algorithm are in compiled javascript

https://github.com/imeckler/diffgeo/blob/master/Native/ODE.j...

However, this seems to simply be using the numeric library.

http://www.numericjs.com/documentation.html

Which uses 'Dormand-Prince RK'.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dormand%E2%80%93Prince_method
1. Nice implementation of a potentially useful micro service. 2. Nice domain name. 3. You should put more details in your FAQ like "no, this is not guaranteed to be a perfect technical solution" and "we'll happily work with law enforcement if you're a pedophile". 4. I always look down on services that don't have an immediate and obvious way of making money, as it'll likely be gone tomorrow. 5. MVPs are all well and good, but a few more simple features wouldn't hurt: time-based expiration, multiple downloads allowed and passwords, or whatever else seems simple and useful.
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They are, but once you start learning about them, you realize the "black magic" part comes mostly from their mathematical nature and very little from them being "inteligent computers".

A neural net is a graph, in which a subset of nodes are "inputs" (that's where the net gets information), some are outputs, and there are other nodes which are called "hidden neurons".

The nodes are interconnected between each other in a fashion, which is called the "topology" or sometimes "architecture" of the net. For example I-H-O is a tipical feed forward net, in which I (inputs) is the input layer, H is the hidden layer and O the output layer. All the hidden neurons connect with all the input neurons "output", and all the output neurons connect to the hidden neurons "output". The connections are called "weights", and the training adjusts the weights of all the neuron with lots of cases until the desired output is achieved. There are also algorithms and criteria to stop before the net "learns too much" and looses the ability to generalize (this is called overfitting). In particular, a net with one hidden layer and one output layer is a universal function estimator -- that is, an estimator that can model any mathematical function of the form f(x1, x2, x3, ..., xn) = y.

Deep learning means you're using a feedforward net with lots of hidden layers (I think it's usually between 5 to 15 now), which apply convolution operators (hence the "convolutional" in the name), and lots of neurons (in the order of thousands). All this was nearly impossible until the GPGPUs came along, because of the time it took to train a modest network (minutes to hours for a net with a between 50 to 150 neurons in one hidden layer).

This is a very shortened explanation -- if you want to read more I recommend this link[1] which gives some simple Python code to illustrate and implement the innards of a basic neural network and you can learn from the inside. Once you get that you should move to more mature implementations, like Theano or Torch to get the full potential of neutral nets without worrying about implementation.

[1] http://iamtrask.github.io/2015/07/12/basic-python-network/
I have great admiration for their work, but it's missing two key things:

1. Their backend advancements have come at the expense of a focus on a more modern user experience. Their fork of Slashcode simply is not competitive with modern web forums from a UX perspective. It needs to be at least as usable as Disqus or reddit to be competitive, ideally better, as both of those takes on the web forum concept have plenty of room for improvement themselves.

2. Relevance. Try as they might, there has never been a mass exodus from Slashdot or anywhere else to Soylent. Until that happens, Slashdot still posses a much more robust bully pulpit from which to popularize a modernized Slashcode. Slashdot's relevance may be fading year after year, but it still has plenty left. That's why we're discussing it on HN right now. They need to seize that while they still can and make the most of it.
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Looks really cool! One question though, how did you implement the movement? When you press up and left at the same time in the flat you'd expect to trace the same circle over and over again, but instead it diverts in some apparently non-deterministic way.
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Open offices are not my favorite - I prefer silence or music of my choosing when I'm working. There's nothing worse than a loud sales meeting going on 10 feet away from you when you're trying to code.
When will these lynch mobs stop?
Do we even know that he pulled the trigger? I read several articles that said that he took part in the hunt, but did not actually kill the lion. He also thought it was legal.
I have no idea if the above is true, but this is why we have a court system instead of relying on pure emotion.
It's just like when the CEO of Reddit was bullied online: Nobody had any of the facts straight and in the end, she was forced to resign..even though she actually helped the cause that she supposedly was against.
All I can say is the vast majority of people are stupid. Just really..fucking..stupid.
I also wonder why people are so emotional about this, but don't seem to care when planned parenthood is selling baby parts. Such a twisted world we live in.
It truly is astonishing sometimes just what a remarkably thought-terminating taboo the topic of rape and sexual assault is. Of course it's a gravely serious one, but I don't exaggerate when I say most people are more comfortable talking about genocide than they are about rape.

Is it because a mass atrocity is more impersonal, or is there a degree of puritanism to the whole angle?

That said, mjg59 has always been a vested partisan on these topics, so I wouldn't use him to make any broader points.
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Is your objection here based on just the denotation of the word? What's your preferred definition? Are you coming at it from a legal definition (e.g. Black's) or other specific context?

I think the word broadly works in this situation although
certainly the leap in context it suggests (from private legal act to illegal governmental action) is unwarranted.
What a hyperbolic analogy. No, porting to new platforms is not like recovering from a natural disaster, and rooting for competing platforms is not like cheering for the misery of a disaster.

And for the record, doing a port well (as opposed to a hacky, broken one) frequently requires lots of creativity and technical ingenuity.
For those using a local account and having no use for these gadgets, would firewall rules be enough to prevent Windows from leaking data to Microsoft?
Could you maybe use your brain for a minute and try to identify the relevant characteristics of your interaction with a website before you ask stupid questions?
The naked truth about this new Windows from user's perspective:
http://i.4cdn.org/v/1438148570882.jpg
Your IDE looks darker than the default flat white theme? I like the flat theme a lot but can't stand the brightness, I hope you find some time to make a dark version of the flat theme! That said, yours is by far the best "web IDE" I've tried so far, congrats! =)
You need to let the browser capture your pointer.
Very nice, no sign up, no nonsense.
I aspire to be a venture capitalist at some point in my life. For me, being a venture capitalist is more about spotting the right people and the right vision more than the money. Companies succeed and fail. VCs lose on a lot and gain on a few.
I hope this link doesn't get flagged.

In HN, I've been seeing a lot of links with useful information be unnecessarily flagged by ideologists.
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Something similar I made a while back for those interested in hosting their own file-upload service via S3. You can configure S3's object expiration to delete/expire files after a set amount of days.

I still use it today for sending files here and there. :)

https://github.com/alfg/dropdot - Source with demo.
Contra most of the trend on this thread, I am super pro-Docker (I'm actually surprised so many people are unhappy with it - it seems to be clearly head and shoulders over other systems). I would argue that in your situation you need to use docker as your build system at the least.

Something like the following

docker run -v `pwd`:/tmp/buildresult your-weird-hodpodge build-command

Among other things, I see docker as an extremely useful mechanism to decouple server maintenance (build server and deployment server) from the tool maintenance. It can dramatically help reproducibility, etc.
Even Avalon/WPF has been back ported from Vista to WinXP. Afaik, UWP is newer release of WinRuntime (WinRT).
I was in a similar situation once. Untowered field that lay just outside of Class C airspace, though the pattern passed under it.

One afternoon I was departing east, climbing and preparing to turn crosswind at 1000 AGL. I had announced my departure like usual, but otherwise the channel was quiet. I was maybe 750 AGL when I noticed a tiny sparkle directly in front of me (fortuitously, the sun was at my back). After observing it for a couple of moments and realizing that it didn't appear to be moving relative to my position, I re-announced my departure and angled to the right (SOP in head-on convergence is everyone turn right, immediately). Sure enough, about 20 seconds later the inbound aircraft zipped past on my left. Hard to estimate distance in the air, but way less than a mile and equal altitude. Fucker never said a word, just landed straight in, with the wind, completely ignoring the pattern. Blows my mind to this day.
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Interesting down voting here, any reasons you care to give as to why you disagree? I think the above is a pretty common belief from economics, right wing thinking and Ayn Rand amoungst others.

Here is a reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rational_egoism
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I created a little CLI for it - https://gist.github.com/stfnhrrs/76b0e1df901a68c82f6b
Humb.ly also makes park.io where the domain file.io is from.
As opposed to those ideologists that post such links?

New account posts article on controversial political subject restricted impact on US, no prior comments, no direct link to hacking and/or start-ups or even technology. Flagged.

Simply because I don't think this is 'hackernews' and for being pre-emptively labeled an 'ideologist'.
Would be interested in hearing how you got involved in this and get more color on your role, if you wanted to share.
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XAML is far easier for app layout than HTML/CSS. It's very easy to do responsive design. We do have a full screen layout for those that want it, and it's what you get in Tablet Mode.

<Grid>
<TextBlock VerticalAlignment="Center"/>
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What makes you want to be a Linux sys admin?
Here's my 2 cents:
1. Create a grand vision for yourself,
2. See where being a sys admin fits into that
3. Give yourself a timeline into which both your vision and sys admin fit
4. With the big vision, start working small - create small daily tasks which will slowly but surely get you there within your timeline. This includes your need for funding your knowledge.

As they say, once you know the why, you can figure out the how.
Recently I had to develop a video overlay in html5 - a text that tweens together with a html5 video.

Wasn't a problem with performance - even an aged iPad1 was able to fluently do all the movement, translations etc.

What forced us to choose the ridiculously expensive option of server-side prerendering with After Effects was that iOS Safari is unable to play a HTML5 video inline on iPhones and thus cannot be overlaid with a Canvas.

Fuck you very much, Apple.
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You're right. Though at least on Windows 7, typing to search apps in the start menu was a miserable experience that takes dozens of seconds to find the application you're looking for. I hope they have improved it in 10.
Movement is implemented by using approximate numerical solutions to the geodesic equations (a system a differential equations whose solutions give geodesics in a Riemannian manifold). As such, there are some numerical inaccuracies due both to an imprecise solution to the equations and (I can only assume) due to accumulation errors from adding thousands of floating points together.
I don't think this is an appropriate parallel... apples and oranges as it were.

Admittedly, I only skimmed both articles, but this article appears to be about misinformation regarding recidivism rates affecting the judgment of legislators. The article you linked is in regards to someone being confused about what constitutes rape.

Why should OP be scared that somebody may label them as a rape apologist for linking this? For broaching the subject of what happens to people convicted of sex crimes?
Ridiculously how much things I need to turn off to have the same privacy than in Windows 7...
I don't get it, why don't they just make a slider after the installation where you could slide between Maximum Usability <-> Maximum Privacy and still have their "Additional Settings" where you could turn off everything one by one.

Also even after turning off everything I still need to stop OneDrive from working and other stuff that still isn't a good default, even for "home users" I wouldn't recommend sending too much data.
"We also looked at whether the college a founder attended might impact company performance. Unsurprisingly, teams with at least one founder who went to a “top school” (unscientifically defined in our study as one of the Ivies plus Stanford, MIT and Caltech) tend to perform the best. Looking at our community, 38% of the companies we've invested in had one founder that went to one of those schools. And, generally speaking, those companies performed about 220% better than other teams!"

I'd love to see an inverted analysis of this effect, ie. which schools had the best indication of success. Pre-deciding to look at their definition of "top schools" is probably only seeing part of the picture.
Do you store the IP of the uploader and downloader? If you don't you're going to want to.
Some very cool things, some very complicated things.

I feel that if a subset of this processor had been all that was introduced, that it could have been successful.

The majority of the penalty for making a function call being negated? Wonderful! Heck it sounds like (although I skimmed the later half of the article and I didn't fully grok the first half on my single read through) the stack doesn't even need to be touched for some chains of function calls.

But there is a lot of work for the compiler here, wow. Knowing the maximum number of registers that is needed for any function call made within a function? Ouch.

Support for multiple return values is cool though. That'd be incredibly nice.

And again, rotating the registers to avoid hitting the stack, incredibly powerful.

Having that many globals accessible, also really powerful. All of a sudden the penalty for accessing your "God" object just went down by a fair bit.
I did that exact thing a few years ago (reversing the X) and muscle memory still makes me start it the "old way" before doing the reversal #mildlyinteresting

And yes, I look at peoples shoes for this too...
Unbelievably, there is a Ted talk about this
If you can get past Dijkstra's arrogance and abrasive presentation, he actually has some useful things to teach.

If you look at one of the books where he and his colleagues teach how to do this (for example, A Method of Programming, by Dijkstra and Fiejen) it's pretty clear that the programmer him(her)self is supposed to come up with the formal specification. Much of the book is about how to write the specifications.

The formal specifications are just assertions - they are Boolean expressions that express properties of the solution.
For example the formal specification for a square root
function might be abs(r*r - x) < d, where x is the number, r is the root, and d is an error tolerance.

In general these formal specifications cannot be mechanically compiled into an executable program - they are nonconstructive - like the square root example above. So you still have to find or invent an algorithm.

An interesting feature of Dijkstra's method is, he does suggest some heuristics for getting from the assertions to the code, that can help you discover an algorithm. They remove the mystery surrounding how some non-obvious algorithms were discovered.

Dijkstra's approach is actually a lot like test-driven development - the idea is, you start with some assertions that describe what the code is supposed to do, then you check the assertions as you go -- instead of writing a bunch of code and checking it at the end. The difference is just how you check the assertions - by running tests or by attempting a proof. Test cases are formal specifications too - they are just incomplete - somebody said they are 'specification by example'.
The major issue with any Linux distro is the multiple ways it can break and when it happens, you either have to be very knowledgable in that particular distro and software installed, or you need to pay for support so they can fix it. In the past, I've resorted to make a script that check various forums for issues mentioning updates waiting. If non have popped up after 1 week, the updates is probably safe to install. Probably includes when it isn't, and can easily result in a full day of downtime trying to fix a X11 driver problem until the specifics and canonical workarounds have been learned.

I simply don't have time for that on a day to day basis where I need my machines to just work. I need it to work to the extend that I now have a base machine running Windows and with VMWare Workstation installed. All production work is done inside a VM with daily snapshots so I can always go back to before it was broken, and then tackle the issue when I have time for it. If my machine suddenly goes up in smoke, I can restore my production machines on another machine. I never have more downtime than buying a new machine, installing VMWare WS, and restoring my VMs results in.
I wouldn't give $50 for sourceforge at this point.

They're a liability, not an asset.
The US system is also supposed to be a process of truth-finding, just that we leave the parties to support their own positions as adversaries. Without advocacy, American courts do very little on their own. So far that doesn't bother me, but I'm a lawyer. For someone thrown into the system, there can be an incorrect expectation that the court will automatically act to do justice.
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Nice, I'm glad to see the company that brings more value is getting some nice funding.
>Alien is not setting a record for venture fundings. VentureSource counts four U.S. companies since 1992 that had raised 13 equity rounds through the second quarter of this year.

So at least 4 series M, too.
I don't think that's the purview of browsers. Browsers are, however, responsible for maintaining a good user experience, so the length to which ads and tracking scripts, like pop-ups of years before, create a poor user experience the browser is right to take measures to block bad actors. I think limiting the number of ad/tracking scripts is a measure towards that.
Could some of these be attributed to selection bias that ends up just confirming the conclusions/lessons learned? Prime examples - the ones re: age, schools, former employers, and repeat founders. Would it be fair to assume that they have a greater bias to fund companies with founders exhibiting these attributes to begin with?
It probably won't work long-term. What's great for the consumer is not so great for the person trying to make a living.

It just surprises me that so many people have no problem undermining the unions and essentially creating an economy with no benefits/regular pay.
where were you in the US?
I agree, but I'm not sure how amenable they are. It really depends on their goal for that page, and whether they think it achieves it better in it's current state.

Unfortunately, I'm far too burdened with commitments to do this myself, so it's more a call to arms than a statement of intent. :/
Censorship is a fact of life and human experience. Calling for its eradication is to call for the erasure of a fundamental aspect of human cognition.

So we're going to apply the principle sensibly. The simple truth no one here wants to admit while they argue slippery slopes and excluded middles about how the only harm worth noting is total genocide: there is no real communicative value for github in allowing slurs on the site.

Calling the request to "find a synonym that is not in current use as a slur against a marginalized group of people" is such a modest and low impact request. It truly boggles my mind that this is the line so many people here want to draw.
All that power and capability, and the fuckers are just using it to sell me ads. Sigh.
I dig it. Thanks for being polite. Cheers.
Facebook is absolutely filling in your- or at least my- private information based on context. It has my employment incorrect- based on guesses it has made (I've never given it employment data). It's so far off it's laughable - so I leave it. I figure they expect that I will fix it.
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the dentist also has a sexual harassment against him http://www.twincities.com/localnews/ci_28548920/bloomington-...
We both understand each other's argument. There's something more interesting going on underneath the surface arguments; values and priorities.

You are taking what I say in rhetoric, interpreting it literally, and throwing it back in my face. That is dishonest and hypocritical at best. The reason there is something wrong with you is because you have no intention of solving any problems here, you are attempting to beat me into the ground with your intellect. Your priority here is winning the argument.

Well, you've won. Congratulations. You're the smart one who knows best. I was wrong about everything, and I'm a dull moron with nothing interesting to say. I'm not worthy of your respect, patience, or generosity.

Now interpret that as sarcasm, throw it in my face, and get the last word in; your feelings are more important than anything I have to say.
I would also suggest not having punitive damages. Removes the prospect of / threat of a big payday coming out of a lawsuit.
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They don't care if we read the content, they already got their page view