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One app for email, calendar, lists and notes
Simpli is a productivity platform, the first to integrate email, calendars, lists and notes functionalities, with cloud storage access and tagging features that works across all functionalities.
Simpli frees up time wasted switching between various apps that provide such functionalities in isolation and offers a simpler, lighter interface for planning, working and keeping track of things. Why Simpli:
-	The first IoS app to integrate email, calendars, notes, lists, in a single interface; synced across devices with the Simpli web app
-	The unified home screen provides a snapshot of your day, with the emails received, upcoming appointments, notes, lists and reminders of the day
-	Read content online and even watch videos in newsletters, without leaving your email
-	Easily add a note to an email (no more “emails to self”)
- Custom tags: you can add custom tags to any email, note, list or event in your calendar
-	Simple, modular design
www.simpli.co
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ConsoleOS[1], a similar solution, got successfully funded on Kickstarter[2] last year.

[1]: http://consoleos.com
[2]: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mmv/console-os-dual-boo...
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Macros are for extending the language, I have never in 2 years of professional clojure dev, used a single macro in problem domain code. I've written a few libraries that are supposed to extend the language, but I've only used them rarely there too, maybe under a dozen times.
D has lots of tools to avoid heap allocation. There is no reason why D should use more heap allocations than Rust.

A GC might only encourage you to use more heap allocations.
People still do not accept driverless trains or tubes yet. I remember talking with an AI expert a few years ago. The London's underground had a fully automated driverless prototype in the 70's. And here we are, in 2015 and only a toy driverless system in London (DLR).
> "The person doodles or draws without a particular goal. Boredom - The person has no interest in the current topic or has tuned out completely. 'I would like to do something else now.'"

This is one of many dangerous myths, that made the life of thousands kids in school terrible. In many cases doodling or fidgeting helps them to focus, not the opposite.
Because there are so many on the mobile, huh?
> Facebook, Google and Twitter

Aren't these the companies all terrible at taking outside contributions, except for the projects that they don't manage in their monorepos?
We use Shopify's (https://www.shopify.com/?ref=lbit) cart as a backend for this site: http://buylittlebits.com.au

The entire front end is Vanilla JS + Static HTML (compiled by Middleman) on S3. We upload the site to S3 with S3_Sync (https://github.com/fredjean/middleman-s3_sync). We've made a local JS cart and then send then checkout at Shopify. It's blindingly fast.

This wouldn't be possible if it weren't for Shopify's cart links. Cart links allow you to craft a URL that contains quantities and product variant IDs. Documentation on cart links is available here: https://docs.shopify.com/manual/configuration/store-customiz... .
Ask HN: Coming up with ideas?
I'd like to build a few small but useful apps to build experience and a portfolio outside of my workplace, an area shamefully neglected.

I'm stuck at the first hurdle and I haven't got a clue where to start or what to build first!

Do you have any tips for coming up with ideas?
Parse, so far so good. Main draw is very easy to setup and start using.
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The article actually does say this amounts a 20% YTD return so far, which is a lot better than the performance of other prominent hedge funds... that seem to have a lot of minus signs for entities that supposedly "hedge" market drops:

http://i.imgur.com/ltjqLxW.jpg
>>It's essentially salesman and confidence skills. They're generally no better than in house people.

Sorry, but this is a very ignorant thing to say. The fact of the matter is that there's different types of consulting at different points along the problem-complexity spectrum.

At the low end, a consultant is no different than a contractor, and the point is not to hire those who are better than in-house people, but more efficient. For example, your in-house IT guy may have the skills to configure Kerberos, but maybe you'd rather have him work on a more important project (or maybe he is busy fighting fires, as helpdesk people usually are, and doesn't have the time), so you hire an outside contractor to do it, and he or she can get it done a lot faster (and with fewer errors) because they have done it many times before.

At the high end (which you don't sound like you have experience with), consultants are highly specialized and they are hired to solve very difficult technical problems that are of great importance to the firm. These problems tend to be well outside the competency of in-house people. For example, imagine a scenario where the firm is the target of a lawsuit and they need to perform e-discovery to gather each and every business record pertaining to the subject matter from a large variety of sources and office locations across the country. There are consulting companies that specialize in this type of complex service, and they charge very high fees for that reason.

So yeah, it's not "essentially salesman and confidence skills". It may look like that from the outside, but it just isn't.
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sounds quite nice. I am still running around looking for my power supply for my old lifebook here.
I have a MacbOk G4 and a PowerBook G4 lying around. Not quite sure if I can install it on those machines.
But android is horrible, HORRIBLE, OS. Why would you want it on your PC. Only reason I can see is to run it in VM for development purposes. Should be faster than emulation.
To put this into context, the S&P returned -3.4% YTD, whereashis fund returned 20% YTD. That is actually pretty spectacular compared to the performance of other prominent hedge funds (which are supposed to "hedge" against market drops): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10139552
Wow! This looks a lot like where Windows is heading. Including the tablet computer (ultratablet) they plan to sell.

Of course, I meant from visual and usability stand point. The ARM equivalent on Windows will be Continuum when it launches.
Anecdotally, I don't agree with the hypothesis that culture fit means they want to hire nice people. I've worked in a few places where people needed to be, for example, tough, tricky, bitchy, to survive.

I think part of the reason I got my job is because I euphemistically referred to "successfully implementing technical solutions in a complex political environment", and everybody knew exactly what I was talking about.
Multiple plan b's, sadly with a correlation of their go-bust probability of 1 in a scenario of economic stress, unless they are really diversified.
I see similiar issues at mozilla.

Monorepos are far easier to work with from an engineering standpoint, for external contributors they are definitely prohibitive.
I've always said that if I was in another industry, I'd be out of business a long, long time back. The traditional brick and mortar business people I know have to be ruthless. They negotiate like they'll run out of money tomorrow and never leave cash on the table. And they can't understand why I won't haggle or force my employees to work longer hours.

The tech industry is heavily insulated from what passes for 'normal practice' in most businesses.
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I think it's healthy to suspect that the entire pharmacopoeia-industrial-complex has a similar rate of veracity.
ncurses isn't supposed to be used on the iPhone anyway ;)
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This is taking homøopathy to a new level. The snakeoil factor is the same, though.
> is that the algorithms that actually work are mostly machine learned and therefore very opaque to human inspection.

The identification of objects is, but the actual driving logic isn't

You still have a list of 'check if light is green', 'check there are no obstacles', 'accelerate slowly' etc
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The governments are giving the companies enough rope to hang themselves.
Personally I agree, but shiny pretty shit seems to sell.
> Require Trunk-Based Development

This I think needs bit of expanding. Does he mean in contrast to feature-branches? Why monorepos would not be compatible with feature-branches?
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I would be inclined to agree with extensive testing being desirable in this case. However, the only way I think that we're going to get a sufficient quantity of testing under representative conditions is to get a reasonably large number of these cars out on the roads.

We don't need to worry too much about their use in a non-testing context, I feel, when we look at companies actively pushing this stuff out they're either doing so in a highly controlled environment (transportation on mining sites for instance) or they're pushing it out in a highly limited form (for instance, self parking cars and lane keeping features.) Entirely automated driving is still experimental and the number of people who have access to it is still very limited, no-one's selling their current prototypes to the general public.
I meant this

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=716111

I think he said he had an implementation almost ready to release but I never saw it. I would be very interested to see it. Thought it would be a good thread to ask.
i usually just get the ideas while im working, from things that suck

need to write a regex for css parsing... why isnt there a regex generator yet

need to debug my javascript... why isnt there a repl?

writing windows 10 hello world, <button xmlspec123ABCUnstandard="{{ Microsoft.Windows.XAML.WinForms.Imaging.Image.NewBitmapFromFilestream(filestream) }}" /> ... wow mixing xml with code sucks why doesnt someone make a good template language

(edit: actually, why dont compilers have enough logic to at least try to include the right library so I dont have to type shit like use Namespace Windows.XAML.Winforms.Imaging 10 times for every file)

etc!

anyway

another good idea is to get your ideas from books, say a productivity book, the guy recommends keeping a schedule? make a scheduling app with the features you need, the author recommends using timers? make a timer app with the features you need. this is actually what i did. heck why not even sell it on iphone for a few bucks afterwords using phonegap.
I know people who work with e-discorvery, digital forensics from the consultancy departments of big 4 accountants(PWC, kpmg etc) etc

They essentially run dedicated tools against computers and report and summarize?

The real technical skills are the people who wrote those tools.

I was thinking of applying but the recruitment process says they look for social skills, and not hard core techies. That put me off.

I.e they rather get history graduates , with social skills and teach them how to use the tools than say super skilled computer science graduate without salesmanship skills.

That says to me that technical skills arnt that important, its the sales part that is is important.

I know people that did apply, and after talking to them, its mostly writing SQL scripts, bash/powershell scripts, running dedicated forensics tools I.e not 'really' hard technical skills

Most of the value added for them comes from proposals, reports(templates) and presenting it.
What an interesting (and long) history of how software with mixed licensing is brought together. Copyright is complicated in software, when your contribution might be 15 lines that's really really important - or not.
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I've NEVER seen a lift attendant in my urban life in India.

Maybe's it's there on the old style lifts with black gates, idk.
That supports my point that many hedge funds are being used as insurance by institutional investors who make their money elsewhere.

Putting the fees aside for a moment, I think that hedge funds as a class can be expected to underperform long-only funds during a years long rally.
Misleading headline. It's an isolation experiment, and the six person team are not astronauts. Only in the loosest sense is it preparing anyone to go to Mars, or simulating life on Mars. It's also not even the longest to date.[1]

[1] "Other simulation experiments have taken place under the ocean off the Florida coast, in Antarctica and in Russia, where a 520-day Mars experiment was carried out in 2011."
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This is true for literally all unskilled labor. Most such workers are aware that it's only a matter of time before technology makes them obsolete. The older ones may be able to ride the wave until they retire, but those who are in their 30s and early 40s are in for a rude awakening within the next ten years or so.
Assuming that both groups are competent for their level of experience: If you can't make more profit out of someone with 15 years experience than you can out of someone who is fresh out of college, then I really question how good you are at running a team. Sure, they're more expensive, but they can get a lot more done a lot faster.
You're talking about the millionaires who became right by saving their incomes. Their net worth will be in the low seven digits.

The folks with $10, $100 or $1B got there by either building businesses, getting incredibly lucky (lottery winners) or working as top execs in big companies.

For them, the sacrifice is not of money but of time. They don't wonder "gee, should I brew my own coffee and save $1000 every year?", but "gee, should I work on this deal right now or spend time with my kids?"
If we cannot really choose, we are not really responsible of anything we do. Are you comfortable with that?
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Not yet, but wasn't there recently a big national ID program enacted and then repealed? Eventually people will be too weary to push back.

In the US, it's very common for police to "request" identification in routine encounters with pedestrians and fly off the handle if they don't get what they want. People say it's a post-9/11 world, but this happened to me many times in the '90s.
Genymotion's free edition has too many limitations. It's not just free for non-commercial usage. Some examples are: multi-touch and accelerometer, which are not supported in the free edition.

Comparison can be found here: https://www.genymotion.com/#!/store
Ah, thank you for the explanation! It sounds like I (unsurprisingly) need to read a bit more about the theory before I can program in it.
Surprisingly this code was accepted into mozjpeg nearly a year ago and remains as in the blog post.

Why not? The examples seem to work and show improvements. Anyone is welcome to submit an improved version if they like.
> I don't know of many people who assert that people are blank slates, they just take equality as the null-hypothesis until they see evidence to the contrary.

You've not been paying attention to the media then. But even a "null hypothesis" of equality is indefensible given the facts. Everything heritable is correlated to a lesser or greater extent, that's just how genetics works. Pretty much anything you can think of a measure for - height, weight, IQ, myers-briggs personality traits, religiosity... - will have different averages for different sexes. It would take an extraordinary coincidence for job performance at some particular job to be uncorrelated with sex.

> And I'm not sure what you mean by "suddenly make sense". Differences caused by discrimination also "make sense", the question is which is the better assumption.

I think there are cases where people will tie themselves in epicycle-like knots where innate differences offer a much simpler explanation - see e.g. http://slatestarcodex.com/2015/01/24/perceptions-of-required...

> I think it's unhelpful to assume innate differences, because that assumption encourages discriminatory differences, and so confounds observation.

Assuming that any difference is evidence of discrimination is equally unhelpful. If you want the truth you can't assume one way or the other; you need to consider all the possibilities.

> Poverty traps are caused by economic policy, not anti-discrimination policy.

It can be both. Some anti-discrimination policies (e.g. having black students taught by black teachers) have made things worse for those they were trying to help. And I think those mistakes largely happened because the people involved were unwilling to even consider the possibility of innate differences.

> Do you have any other examples of this "massive collateral damage", because I'm not finding your examples particularly compelling.

Compelling (at least to me), relevant-to-here example: it's illegal in the US, and possibly elsewhere, to use an IQ or similar test in hiring (without doing an expensive study that large organizations may be able to afford but startups generally aren't). This is foolish; it damages the ability of companies to hire the best person for the job, dragging down the whole economy.
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> Not yet, but wasn't there recently a big national ID program enacted and then repealed? Eventually people will be too weary to push back.

The then-government announced a proposal. They were opposed by the other main parties, and voted out at the next election. Prediction is hard, but I don't see it happening.
Vertica has all those performance enhancements, great DB can't recommend because of pricing :(
if you want a secure sandboxed OS android is the wrong place to look
Modern American life probably had very little influence, because the study was performed in Germany.
it's not like android has been a paragon of os security
In tipical geek fashion, this discussion is stuck around matters of safety in driverless cars and how can people be made to trust them. How much better they are, how fascinating the tech is. How driverless cars can replace cars entirely.

But do people actually _want_ driverless cars? Will they _ever_ do?

A driverless car is not a driverless elevator or train. People never drove their own elevators or trains, they were driven by other people. A car is another matter entirely. People enjoy driving their own cars, some because of the control it gives them, others because of the act of driving itself. If this weren't so, people wouldn't choose to drive their own cars in situations where taxis or other forms of public transportation are clearly superior.

I want a self-driving car as much as I want self-drinking beer.

I'm not saying self-driving cars are useless. I can certainly see a future with self-driving buses and taxis. However, for that to happen there are a few human obstacles that must be overcome even if the technology becomes perfect. The same obstacles that currently prevent self-driving trains from becoming more widespread: if you need a human to stand watch against vandalism and to react in emergency situations, he might as well be driving the thing, it's cheaper.
Well that didn't make a whole lot of sense. The most methodical use of the methods of rationality you'll find are the natural sciences and they are incredibly open to anyone interested. Its just that most people are not actually interested at all. Nor are they in rationality.

This guy is a bit like a confused version of Noam Chomsky.
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Since last few weeks none of the videos in Yourtube are getting streamed in
real time, even with the low quality (360p, 480p etc.) However speedtest
showed its still 20mbps and no other website has loading issues.

For example the same video in two different streaming site

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jAmY4m7FcKs does not stream and buffers
every few second

but

https://vimeo.com/channels/staffpicks/135806831 buffered completely in 30
seconds.

It is least likely YouTube is having a server problem, help me understand
if ISP is throttling Youtube specifically.
Any source? There isn't much on the web about self driving car software architectures.

You can totally train for those three scenarios (well, in a simulated environment anyways), but whether they have the trust or tech to do that yet, I don't know.
Is it really a single big repo for the whole organization? What happens if you want to deploy your code on servers? Do you have to upload all the mobile app code and history as well? Doesn't the history get very polluted this way?
Looks like there's no actual QKD happening on the QKarD, so, if someone were to replace the “TA does QKD with a satellite” part with a “TA generates a bunch of random bits”, nobody would even notice.
Indeed, there's still a case for car ownership even if one doesn't enjoy driving.

One reason for preferring a car over a bus or taxi is the ability to transport luggage. I frequently find that I have to undertake round trips of 200-300 miles with a car full of bulky and valuable equipment; the destination is often somewhere that is not easily accessible by public transport, or requires changes between bus, train and taxi, even if I could take the luggage via that means.

It might be rather convenient to have the car conduct at least the motorway portion of the driving itself, but access to my own car is pretty much essential in order to do this sort of thing. I suspect that for anyone in business where they must transport goods or tools it will be even more vital.
Those things won't work with this Android image either.
Seeing as you can recall as far back as before the "Enterprise" appellation to RedHat you're clearly a long-term user of Linux! If you've been using Linux for that long I'm pretty sure that all the distributions are basically the same, no? Technically they all draw from pretty much the same pool of code, with various different choices due to timing. And, if something isn't quite right you can always remember how to install things from source as we did in the "old days".

Sure, there are plenty of differences, but these are mostly the equivalent of vim vs emacs - if you're good enough you can make either work. They're mostly just matters of personal preference.

Though many users don't have the benefit of your level of experience. And, there should always be room for new users benefiting from Linux. So Ubuntu's tended to focus on being a Linux that works "by default" on the desktop and make sensible choices for developing in the Cloud.
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One significant way where a free market economy has an advantage in efficient resource allocation over a planned economy is not the priority allocation of resources to successful enterprises/groups/economic niches (both styles can do that), but a rapid, ruthless deallocation of resources from unsuccessful enterprises, so they can then be used elsewhere. Planned economies could do that in theory, but this has always been their weak point in practice.

Bankruptcies are an important instrument for the overall health of the economy. Yes, there is a short term hurt during the reallocation. But if many companies are in trouble keeping afloat, then a few of them sinking will free up resources (workers, capital, materials, land/buildings) so those resources are cheaper for the remaining, slightly more successful companies, allowing them to come back above water.