skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ok, thanks for clarifying. I guess that ups the challenge quite significantly.

Your research sounds interesting and vitally important - the kind of work that could help save lives even; at least warn people of nearby dangers. Do you have anything public on it?
Hi everyone! I'm one of the founders of GrowSumo and would be happy to answer any questions you might have about starting a partner program or joining one. We're excited to launch and look forward to getting feedback :)
Smartwatch Maker Olio Raises $10M: 'No Need for Cellphones on Wrists’
> Mutability could be always used to boost performance (...)

For the extreme case, see the EQUIVALENCE statement in old Fortran.
That's the depressing part of this. It's simply a race for who can raise and spend money the fastest. And yes, Lyft will lose.
Unlike Match, Apple Music will DRM-wrap the downloaded files, so it doesn't really get you free music.
That's true, but the statement was as to its usefulness in emergencies. This thing is fixed to the wall, limiting what you can use it for in an emergency. For example, if you have to find your car keys in a different room, make emergency repairs to your water mains after an earthquake, or figure out how to get a friend out from a collapsed wall in the dark, a torch is more useful.

For emergencies, I would prefer a mechanically powered flashlight with a supercapacitor over this thing.
Wonder when we'll see the first $1T startup valuation. Probably not too far away.
Hi Friends - just a quick note regarding notation. I messed up the sigma notation for the arithmetic average. Though I have updated the transcript, the video currently has the incorrect notation. This shall be fixed later this evening. Apologies for the confusion.
Ask HN: Can I count my contribution to the open source as a dharma?
It is mean, that if I am professional developer and I can help other people for free, can I think, that software development, that is my hobby and profession, in the same time is my Dharma?
The Grundgesetz has no Paragrafen.
So gravity is a catalyst, not the energy source.
I'm glad to see their success. Keep going, Uber! Thank you for changing the way I use taxi.
Show HN: A beautiful and simple todo list app built with ReactJS
Housing follows the laws of supply and demand like everything else.

Certainly not like everything else. The demand for housing is a function of (amongst other things) how easily people can borrow the money to pay for one, how much the interest on that debt is, and what they guess is going to happen to prices in the future. Under simple primary school "supply and demand" economic theory, increasing price leads to a reduction in demand, but it's common to see increases in house prices lead to increases in demand, and vice-versa. To simply say that housing follows supply and demand is such a simplified view that it's more wrong than right.
Back when the dynamic linking design doc was published, it included support for a 'plugin' build mode, wherein the package was compiled into a .so and a 'plugin' package to load and access said shared objects. Having written a number of things that would have been greatly simplified by having such a facility, I'm sad to see it didn't make the cut and has been all but forgotten. It annoys me greatly to see that C can employ plugins written in Go, but Go can not.
> The Bronx did go up in flames when landlords set their own buildings on fire as they were taking a loss on their rent controlled buildings, where the rent didn't even cover the mandatory maintenance.

This is demonstrably wrong.

Arson was involved in 7% of the fires and almost all in already abandoned buildings.

Fire burned the bronx because city budget cuts closed fire departments, reduced fire inspections and caused hydrants to not work. FDNY administration rigged the closures to not affect the neighborhoods they lived in.

http://nypost.com/2010/05/16/why-the-bronx-burned/
Of course HN will always be biased towards followers of the hive. Don't worry, I won't be coming back. ;)
Very much recommended, even if you skip or only skim the mathematical details in chapter 5, as I did.

What I don't understand, is why the patent application was not objected in the secrecy order phase. Or was it secretly partly in the US, because the actual US patent apparently only covers the recommendation to pick your own P and Q, and not the actual mechanism itself. It is not clear to me what the last few sub-chapters are meant to show.
I would imagine that it would be in the interest of any shareholder of a publicly held company to be very concerned about insider trading laws.
Not onerous? For what size libraries? For your iPhone? For a 3 year-old iPod Touch?

My iPhone 5 was trying to process photos in the background last night and my Twitter app stopped responding to touches. The keyboard was lagging by 30-60 seconds.

Are you sure acoustic signatures will not be particularly onerous?
Groupon doesn't have a network effect. Uber has a VERY strong network effect. In fact, it has the type of network effect that can keep its advantage over competitors (see Facebook versus Google+).
> What I don't understand is why you don't simply pick ffmpeg and be done with it?

Because distributions have picked libav or FFmpeg. So we need compatibility with both.
I think that, if a phrase is meaningless, it is enough to explain why it is meaningless (because it proposes to make an 'exact' connexion between something rigorously defined and something that is not) without having to explain in what way the argument for it fails to fulfil that meaningless goal.

Nonetheless, it's surely also true that it would be nice to suggest a constructive remedy; and, fortunately, one need not go farther than the abstract to find (a better approximation to) the precise statement that the authors are making:

> We construct an exact mapping from the variational renormalization group, first introduced by Kadanoff, [to] deep learning architectures based on Restricted Boltzmann Machines (RBMs).
Did Planned Parenthood “Hack” Its Own Website as a Publicity Stunt?
Thanks Mike,

Its MIT license https://github.com/laravel/laravel.com/blob/master/composer.... . However I have had people point it out that designs aren't. Not sure if they are correct.

Anyhow to keep focus on my product rather than this unwanted controversy I've changed it to plain bootstrap for now. Hopefully this should rest the case http://www.outsourceappz.com

p.s: My intention wasn't to rip it off as I believe I was permissible to do within the license.

Regards
Oracle Invites Java Developers to San Francisco
Should we be more strict about the use of the word 'drone'? Not just here, but everywhere. The vehicle in this article is likely just a quadcopter.

The only reason I'm being pedantic is connotation. The word 'drone' is often associated with its military context, which may cause trouble for those pushing for better laws on commercial/recreational unmanned aerial vehicles, autonomous or not. In the minds of those uneducated on the differences of these types of vehicles, having more permissive laws regarding drone operation can sound like a bad thing.

Once media and lawmakers start using this jargon regularly, it will be too late to go back and re-educate people on the proper way to classify these types of vehicles.
Better form validations, with examples
Thanks jcr. Newbie here.
It could raise your cost of living (e.g., housing) because now there are more people who could afford to pay a certain price for something than before.
Nearly all executives trade in the securities of the corporations that employ them.

Lots of executives exercise stock options and sell shares. I think executives buying securities on the open market is far less common.

The 'insider trading' issue with the timing of when executives sell shares is why SEC rule 10b5-1(c) exists: It allows executives to establish in advance plans for selling their shares, such that their future trades cannot be deemed to be the result of inside information.
Six languages to master (2012)
You shall not pry cupcakes from my masculine paws.

Male hackers rise up against those who would steal thy cupcake-loving birthright!
Because it makes a good story in their circle of people who don't know the meaning of socialism.

The thing is, like most words in English, "socialism" has taken on multiple meanings. Like it or not, there's the "textbook" definition and then then colloquial usage. And in America, "socialism" has come to refer to anything that involves redistributing wealth, providing social safety net(s), or otherwise trying to actively manage social inequality. It's a broader, more expansive definition, and I understand why purists hate seeing words diluted, but what can ya do? You can't put the horse back in barn, that ship has already sailed, can't un-ring a rung bell, etc., etc.
I get that. But I'm wondering, I've seen translate.google.com links reach the front page every once in a while. Which is fine if it so happens that it spits out a somewhat sane translation. This doesn't seem to be the case here, so a community member provided a translation.

What I'm wondering is, this was voted to the top very quickly when it was submitted. Were these all german speaking upvoters, or was there some interest from people who did not understand the content without translation?

It just seems kind of weird to me that this would be allowed if it was submitted as a google translate link. You could make the case that the google translation sucks and OP should have translated it himself to a pastebin and then submitted or something. But I've actually started translating it myself and it's quite hard, jacquesm definitly did a better job than I could have done.

I really don't want HN to become spammed with german (or other non-english content for that matter), but I think there should be exceptions where there's obvious interest for the community.

I also can't fully follow the argument that this story was already discussed yesterday, because this is a statement from the CCC that includes stuff your linked story doesn't. For example how to get free 32c3 tickets.
Do you agree: Ten Questions about Intuitionism
It's not even remotely germane to this discussion, but the entire point of living in a (democratic?) society is that it's a consensual affair. It's not theft if it's consensual. Judging by your username and posting history, you'd prefer to argue from nuts back to soup, rather than attempt to address valid concerns ("to rent stabilize, or not rent stabilize") within existing fungible frameworks (the rat's nest that is NYC politics).

Of course, if you'd prefer to avoid this "theft" altogether and are in the NYC area, I know some nice places in Van Cortlandt Park where you can set up a log cabin and forget about taxes.
Thanks Chrisan
Ask HN: What are problems inappropriate for iterative solutions?
I just watched Gary Bernhardt's talk "A Whole New World" [1]. Two-year old spoiler alert: he introduces an editor and terminal that doesn't actually exist. His thesis: that some pieces of software--specifically developer infrastructure--take long periods of dedicated thought (without user discovery) to improve upon. Case in point: Clojure.

To you, what are other kinds of technology that can be clearly improved upon, but not "iteratively" in the agile and lean software sense?

[1] https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/a-whole-new-world
You're going a lot deeper than I am with this.

Do you feel your mind is being controlled by advertisements? Because mine is not.

Maybe I'm some weird exception and maybe you think I'm naive. That's fine.
What is their remaining market? Are there many countries/cities that still have easily disruptible taxi markets (e.g. "Medallions" or similar)?
The first Porsche was basically a clone of the Type III fastback: http://images.thesamba.com/vw/gallery/pix/957632.jpg
Thanks sctb
With Self-Driving Cars Coming, What Happens to Millions of Jobs?
Gavan's work is outstanding to say the least, I haven't felt like such a fanboy in a very long time. Every time an update is posted, I'm on the edge of my seat waiting to hear/see more.

Some people here and other places have noted that it is hard to get excited without an actual gameplay, but for me the gameplay, while a very interesting and essential point for the final product, is almost secondary. Just looking at all the ideas people have come up with around the engine is quite telling.

People are being excited, curious, creative, collaborative and kind about the whole project. Gavan's doing an amazing job at being transparent and honest, while patiently listening and responding to people. Even if these are the only things that ever come out of Voxel Quest (though I'm sure that won't be the case :) ), I'd say that's already a great achievement.
The rebuttal: http://abovethecrowd.com/2014/07/11/how-to-miss-by-a-mile-an...
But if you were getting compensated fairly before, why are you no longer getting compensated fairly because other people got a raise? The most rational action would be simply to match your work output to your peers.

I mean if the market rate for the job you were doing is $70k, and all of a sudden fresh college grads are getting paid that at your company, it doesn't mean that you'll now get $100k elsewhere if you leave. If that is the case, you should have already left.

Now if you were already being underpaid and you were staying at the company for some other reason I could see bailing when others got a pay bump regardless of their contribution.
The End of an Era: On Leaving the Academic Track
If it really was just 10' up, you could pretty much whack it with a broomstick.

The presence of the firearm definitely complicates this story.
Nope, still in development. It'll be freely available once it is. My work wouldn't make a particularly good read anyway as it's intended for a specialist audience and the mathematics get pretty involved.

For radiation detection in general though, probably the most approachable introduction is this book http://www.amazon.com/Techniques-Nuclear-Particle-Physics-Ex... . You can find a free PDF copy if you google around a bit.
Very good point. I'll get it sorted. Thanks mgkimsal.
>Last time I checked neither OS even supported reading Matroska containers natively

Windows 10 actually does support Matroska out of the box, albeit 11 years later than FFmpeg.
It'll be worth even more in the coming years, which is not hard to fathom when you look at Uber as a logistics company rather than a taxi-replacement.
Hey, one of the 135 devs here, let us know if you have questions or feedback, we'd love to know what HN thinks.
The founding date shouldn't be when the website first launched, or when they incorporated (though both are good minimums). The founding date is when the founders got together and starting working on the idea full time.

This is a pet peeve of mine because often in the first year not much happens. For Uber, it seemed like they were building the app and preparing for a private beta. This doesn't mean the company didn't exist before the beta was launched or the app existed. This is important because many founders who don't know any better think that if their company isn't crushing it after a few months then they are doing something wrong.

It takes time to get stuff going, and when looking retrospectively if you skip over this time it creates a misleading timeline of how successful companies are created.
AFAIK you can create a named type from interface{}

type V interface{}

Don't hold your breath when it comes to generics. There is no way they can retrofit them without breaking the language, it's too late. Even features like covariance or unions are just out of question.

An option would be to write a super-set of Go with generics that would compile to Go code. what it would do basically is use interface{} everywhere the variable type T is required and insert type assertions for the user. Been thinking about that.
Paying everyone this amount of money just isnt practical and wont really help the employee in the long run.
Uber raises $1B at a $51B valuation
4 hours ago:

Uber invests $1 billion in Indian market

http://money.cnn.com/2015/07/31/technology/uber-india-1-bill...

Yeah, there are some big markets out there yet.
Microsoft Said to Consider Funding Uber at $50B Valuation
The Big Bang came from....gravity?
Please read anything I've written on the topic over the years.

Java runs as a plugin, like Flash. It has no deep DOM integration.

Both Java and Flash have become security problems, so they're in various penalty boxes, beyond the plugin prison.

Back in 1995, when I did JS in the shadow of Java, as a sidekick Robin-the-boy-hostage language, I did the primordial DOM too. Java was in only applets then -- pretty much the same as a plugin. We did connect JS and Java via LiveConnect, which led to the JRI (Warren Harris at Netscape), which led to the JNI. To solve the GC problem, the JRI user had to manage handles for global and local roots.

This did not solve the inter-heap cycle problem, however. Netscape never implemented a cycle collector, but we did at Mozilla, based on [Bacon & Rajan, 2001]. It was required for C++ and JS cycle collection. Around that time, IE would still leak memory if you made a C++/JS cycle by capturing certain global object property references in closures. Their C++ side used COM reference counting, so once the cycle closed through JScript, there was no way to drop the cycle-internal refcount.

Mozilla's C++/JS cycle collector was originally meant to handle C-Python too (and possibly other languages with full XPCOM/DOM access), since we had an optional integration of that engine, courtesy Mark Hammond of Active State. But both the C-Python integration and the polyglot support in the CC got ripped out. Browsers cannot afford overhead, even mostly-dead (but still hazardous in the 0day sense) code.

(Updated to note that LiveConnect is long-gone too. Java is just a plugin.)

I suspect you still have not read Filip Pizlo's post at that lists.webkit.org link I left, or the paper it references. Please take more time to study problems before casting aspersions!
Well, considering the range of an ICBM is by definition "intercontinental," your caution is a bit misplaced. First, the DF-21d isn't an ICBM, it's approx unclassified range is 900 miles.

And of course the USN has defenses. First are soft defenses like ECM, followed by AEGIS and SM3.

Not only are there defenses against the missile themselves, but it's not like the navy would just sit idle while being targeted. They'd work the entire kill chain, and most of this is assuming that the DF-21 can even find the carriers...
Well, that is what would happen if I ever got gender reassignment surgery...
I had that book and used it extensively. I think I went through three copies of it due to use and me destroying it with my filthy hands.

I had a 70.5 baja bug from age 14 until 21. I lived 8 miles from a town of 3,000 in Arkansas, and later moved even further out until it was 16 miles to town.

I drove myself, two brothers, and a sister to school in that thing for 4 years. (93-97) Well, I say 4 years, but anyone who has owned an air cooled VW knows how often we had to take the bus. Walking ~2 miles down a dirt road to the highway bus stop isn't much fun.

I'd probably do it all over again, too. Specifically because of that air cooled monstrosity I can fix anything, or at least I think I can. Fearless, if you will.

I'd do it again for my kids if it wasn't for the fact that there are teenagers driving 400 HP Mustang 5.0s and Ford Excursions can be had used for $5,000. An air cooled VW is a death wish on today's roads.
Rent a shipping container for $1000/month near San Francisco
I suppose if you're going to try to get around stuff, you can just torrent a whole library.
I'm concerned with what happens when Uber exits "rapid expansion" mode. Right now a lot of what they do is subsidised by VC cash in order to dominate the market. Once the competition is done, the cash will dry up, and we'll all be surprised at things getting more expensive.
2 tickets to tech crunch and August Capital summer party (7/31)
I have 2 tickets to this event: 10th annual summer party at august capital on 7/31/15

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/10th-annual-summer-party-at-august-capital-tickets-17311933459

My cofounder and I are unable to make it tonight due to a last minute emergency.

Please let me know if you know someone who is still looking for these tickets.

Karan
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No. Its not just boilerplate.

The links you showed above, just create the plugin structure. I've incorporated ORM, database manager, validation etc on top of boilerplate and planning to introduce more functionality on top to make lives easier for plugin developer.

Appropriate credits are given http://www.outsourceappz.com/docs/wordpress-plugin-orm-plus-...
Still no generics
I guess the historically low price of bitcoin has a positive impact somewhere. I guess I'm figuring the bots that spray out this malware were setup a few years ago when bitcoin was closer to $1000.
The location is hardly value created by the landlord, though. (The improvements to the land, like buildings, may well be.) Unlike people who earn income by producing something, people who extract ground rent are not adding value. What you're paying for then, is essentially bad luck: due to some complex set of historical reasons, this particular person owns that land and you don't, so you have to pay them a fee to use it. Why do they own it and you don't, when both of you did just as much work to create that land (i.e., none)? Usually you don't want to see how that particular sausage was made; the history of land distribution and acquisition in the U.S. is quite "dirty".
The truth wont go away. Silence me all you want and i will just come back stronger.
This was already posted at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8542091
Sadly, some companies are disorganized. Many companies are more disorganized when hiring because they are short staffed.

Once, I went thru 3 rounds of in-person interviews. They weren't sure what they wanted me to do, so they tried to cobble together a role with 4 hats and touching almost every area of the business.

After meeting both CEOs, I realized there was a disagreement between the 2 CEOs and the Director of IT. The Director wanted to hire me, but the CEOs didn't see the need. And since I am not good at selling myself, the CEOs won the disagreement.
> The fact that Lennart was giving out presentations about nspawn specifically makes me believe it's very much intended to be used in production, as a "chroot on steroids".

This is a recent development -- and why I put the caveat "for now." systemd-nspawn is probably going to be marked production-ready quite soon, especially because it's the foundation for the CoreOS Rocket container tool.
> How in the world did you come to that conclusion? oh_sigh's whole point was that a person would be upset if they knew they were getting much less compensation than others for the same kind of job.

Well, yeah. But that assumes you know what other people are getting. As I said, I'm assuming most people don't know or share what they are making (at least in the US) with their coworkers.

So, for the average person, this really comes down to the question I asked as most people don't know what others are making (again, total assumption on my part).

And that all comes down to my last statement in my original comment, which I guess is really just a way of saying "ignorance is bliss." And if you are ignorant of what others are making, the question is really as I put it: If you were getting paid $115k/year to do a job where $115k/year was the normal competitive salary in your area, would you feel that it was somewhat unfair? Don't assume $115k/year is higher or lower (you don't know).

I'm not pushing an agenda or anything. Just really wondering.