skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"She has also been talking with Jason Blum, ... about a potential documentary that would chronicle her life and career"

This is her priority right now?? For a while it has been clear she is more interested in self aggrandizement than ensuring her technology actually works.
I'd heard that the most violent areas in New Orleans are those with high concentrations of lead in the environment, and a quick Google search brought up this piece from February that states that precisely:

http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2016/02/lead-exposure...
Niantic are either too busy or really don't care about social media. There's lots of people pointing out real problems with the game. I hope it's not like Ingress all over again, where the only way to get something fixed was to know someone at Google.
It's bad because it can be. Mobile apps are easily updated, so they don't feel the need to do as much testing. There's no way an actual Pokemon release would be that buggy, because they couldn't fix bugs later.
It didn't show up (no cache, no web link for me)
While the States that those high growth cities are located in may be Red, the cities themselves are blue bastions. Remember for example that it was Charlotte's progressive LGBT policies that resulted in backlash from NC. Politically the cities are very close in sensibility.
It's interesting that the author states that the majority of traffic cams from Reddit.

When I browse r/javascript, r/react, r/programming, etc. its practically a ghost town: 0 comments on nearly everything and only a dozen posts a day.
I personally dislike comments like yours as well? Is this fun? Class politics is a very real thing, for better or worse. And smearing/confusing the parent with cutesy Capital Letter Disdain seems fairly hypocritical, given your protestation of "this adds nothing to the conversation". One can argue this or that about macro policy, and I for one am not in a rush to brand "academics" as a "class", but to rule out class as a dirty word seems a bit bizarre in a post-piketty world (choosing the least likely to offend theorist of generational wealth inequality).
Nobody's mentioned Strava yet. (Other sports trackers work as well)

Cycling and running every morning does the trick for me. Starting the day early with the burning desire to complete something in the shortest possible time leaves you applying that mindset to everything else you do. Sadly, this also means I'm noticeably less efficient on days I don't exercise in the morning.

Keeping track of my rides and runs gives me a good perspective on competition. I'm trying to beat my own records, and see how I compare to others. I feel a constant need to improve, and this helps me push myself in a healthy way in other tasks.
To be fair, mostly anybody would hit server issues hitting Twitter/tinder-like scales in 3 days. It's impressive that they're staying up as well as they are
people already pay surge pricing in their utility bill
As a software engineer it's hard to imagine you can't see the benefits of learning something in order to gain an edge in productivity. I mean that is the essence of programming? In order to master something, it takes effort.

While lowest common denominator UIs are great for simple tasks performed by novice users, so much more can be accomplished by even putting in a little effort. I mean you did take the time to learn a programming languge, correct? Or was your programming language so natural you never had any questions? Did it just work without any effort?

Or are you implying that a GUI is a distraction? That it provides no benefit and something like a tiling window manager or other system can't give you any productivity benefit? I'd find this hard to believe.
I'm wondering if this is maybe a response to the film Adam McKay ("Anchorman", "The Big Short") is making.

http://www.theverge.com/2016/6/9/11896534/jennifer-lawrence-...
What do you think the likelihood is of a run on Italian banks? I'm curious if you're average Italian citizen is aware of what a supposed bail in would subject depositors to (anything above a certain euro amount would be wiped out, such that occurred in Cyprus as one of the links in this thread notes).
The immigration laws (and their execution) in israel prevent non-jews from moving there.
Also, why wouldn't they just move to america instead?
I don't have a specific answer, but rather a general suggestion: weatherspark is a site with pretty thorough climate data. It shows average high and low temperature and humidity throughout the year, as well as 10/25/75/90 percentiles for each. Also does wind and precipitation. I miss their old weather dashboard like crazy, but the climate data is still good.
AR game has been on mobile for many years. This became viral only because of Pokemon. I remember playing "hockey" on my phone with my friends a couple years ago on my mobile and it was an AR game.
One other detail. In my neighborhood, new means million dollar monster home. Those are the only thing they build anymore. Its not really cost effective to build anything less and that's way too much house cash and taxes for us. It has the unfortunate side effect of driving good ordinary average middle class people like us out of the neighborhood.
Think about it this way: Suppose my theory is that a fair coin is not actually fair but always lands on heads.

If I flip a coin one million times and only publish the ~500,000 results that show coin toss coming up as "heads," I could lead people to believe that a fair coin will always land on heads.

That's how misleading this bias can be.

But anyone can toss a fair coin, so I'd be found out pretty quick. But with more complicated and murky stuff like psychology this can be a huge problem, especially if people begin using this shaky work as foundation for things like: public policy, how to live their lives, how to do work, etc.

After all they can't just toss a coin to check my work on the more complicated stuff.
I think more of an issue will be people hitting "completion" relatively soon. Certainly, the most interesting part right now is just catching new Pokemon, but there aren't so many that you can't burn through most of that enjoyment fairly quickly.

The gym battles are terribly boring.
There are many reasons, one is that even if you are jewish amd have jewish culture you don't fit into the culture of Israel and feel better living in the diaspora.
Wait, what are some use cases for this service ?
I caught one of the local, younger, farmers stopping his tractor to catch a Pokemon.

Which is a really great way to do it since playing this game in a rural area basically requires walking significantly further than in a city.
She's quite likely going to be indicted soon. $400 million fraud cases tend to not go unnoticed by the DOJ. Getting her story out may well be her priority.
Looks cool, how did you go about marketing it ?
You are being needlessly pedantic. The point is that typing "vi" into a terminal runs some application that implements a "vi-ish" interface. Whether it is ported vi or vim or vim-tiny has some effect on how nice that interface is to work with, but I would argue that most vim users would be able to get their configuration fixed or whatever
Twenty five millimetre?

Or is MM shorthand for "million million" aka "trillion"?
I think you're definitely on the right track, but I have a slightly different philosophy.

I try not to use any sort of app -- as I believe that can be used as a crux -- other than what I have learned. So, I have learned a few key points.

* Focus on less things
[http://jamesclear.com/buffett-focus]

* Don't break the chain [https://www.writersstore.com/dont-break-the-chain-jerry-sein...]

* Be present in every moment (don't multi-task, either with thought or action) [https://www.amazon.com/Way-Peaceful-Warrior-Changes-Lives/dp...]
I expect this to go quite a bit like Miitomo. Quick uptake, followed by most of the userbase getting bored and forgetting about it.

This game is pretty superficial. There isn't much to do. It unfortunately perpetuates the notion that mobile games cannot have depth or good, lasting gameplay.

Last phone game I really enjoyed was Tiny Wings. That was a while ago. Since then, anything I play on my phone has been in an emulator with a GameKlip and a DualShock 3.
From the Spotify blog post: "We train a model on subsampled (5%) playlist data using skip-grams and 40 factors."

Any idea what those 40 factors might be?

(The item2vec paper describes using pairs of items that occur in the same set, i.e. just like using n-grams, but without a fixed n, and ignoring ordering.)
I live in the Valley, and ended up hanging out with some of the people from the pub crawl. It's amazing to watch :)
It's not, though. It's taking a technology which is at least being considered, and imagining a use which it could (if developed) very easily be put to. Do I think Apple is going to actually develop this tech? No, it would be a PR nightmare. But given the ease it could be abused if developed, I would like to see a firm statement from Apple describing their intentions with the patent. Understandably, they don't like talking about what they do with the patents they get, but this is one I'd like to see something more explicit.
Looks really good (Looked at the video)

Have you done any testing with real users ?

What exactly are your hopes for it ?
In your paper, please fix this glaring typo:

// psuedo-code for a ‘repeat move’ instruction

-> pseudo
How in the world are ICE employees allowed to not get vaccinated?
Turning off javascript also removes most paywalls, even the ones that have started protecting against direct links from search results.
Fewer people need to work every year. All those factory jobs? Never coming back in this civilization. Next - fast-food, bank teller. Eventually most all of them. We have 35M people in minimum-wage now; there are not and never will be enough Engineering jobs for all of them (and neither would they all want to).

We used to write fantasy stories about when robots took the yoke of work from our shoulders. Now that its happening, we resist with all our might. I wonder why?
It's a traditional financial notation for million. Some discussion about its origins here [1][2]

[1] http://english.stackexchange.com/questions/149190/what-is-th...

[2] https://www.reddit.com/r/answers/comments/2sd9bm/why_do_peop...
I'm glad to see sociology is becoming more rigorous.
It doesn't require hardware, though it really improves the performance. I've implemented 1588 a few times and was able to achieve ~ <30ns accuracies when using hardware timestamping. Also note that there are more and more MACs and PHYs these days that offer HW timestamping.

With software, it really depends on how deterministic your packet handling and timestamping routines are (or how deterministic the OS scheduler is). I was able to achieve accuracies of less than a microsecond on a Linux system, but it was "touchy".

For reference, there's an open source implementation called "ptpd" and "ptpd2".
It's a rather old subject, and much richer than just publication bias, so there's plenty written about it. There is a good introduction on Andrew Gelman's blog, for example. http://andrewgelman.com/2016/03/05/29195/ http://andrewgelman.com/category/zombies/

In particular, publication bias isn't quite as bad as the garden-of-forking-paths issue.
Please let me know how they are comparable. The US labor market is also "potentially" comparable to both of them. In US you also have a shortage of engineers for startups and it is difficult to compete with top employers like Google, Facebook, Apple, or Microsoft.
I wonder if these codes work in cmd.exe now that Windows 10 TH2 supports (some of) the features.
It's not illegal to deny life insurance, AFAIK. And in many cases that's more important than health insurance.

If I'm stricken with a terminal illness, health insurance won't do much for me. Life insurance could mean the difference between my family being OK or really struggling.
Israel is pretty strong in several "soft tech" - gambling (888, playtika etc...), adtech (amobee, outbrain, taboola etc..) and fintech.

There are a few other big consumer startups of renown that aren't copycatish - viber, wix, fiverr.
> highlights this ethnic bias

They've done that to a lot of British & American politicians.

They've been harder on Trump than they were on Berlusconi. And face it, both Berlusconi and Grillo were professional "pagliacci".
Have you looked at the designs of other astrology related sites ? They do not have a clean, blog/article like look.

When I first landed on the site, I was confused about what it offered. If you put up the charts app screenshot on the main page instead, that would have helped understand it immediately.

Take this comment with a grain of salt though. I'm not big on astrology, so I could be way off.

Have you thought of integrating this into facebook etc ? or am I wrong about the customer profile you are looking to target ?

Nice name, Btw.
It's not just class politics. Different social classes have (broadly speaking) different values. If you consider yourself a cosmopolitan and a citizen of the world, the losses to local community that accompany increased mobility may not even occur to you.
Yes, yes, yes! I despair at the lack of options for Rapid Application Development. Web development is a problem that has been solved a million times over; why is it still so hard? (Sure, you could say browsers, scaling, and interactivity all need special consideration.)

I believe there are certain personalities drawn to software development, who are very detail-oriented and love technical challenges, to the detriment of the end result - forest vs trees. Just look at people who want to make games and end up writing a game engine, vs people who jump into Flash and make do with the tools available.

Personally, I would much prefer to just feed in a specification, or set of constraints, to a program, and have it spit out a working program. Program synthesis seems like an interesting area of research, but fairly basic at the moment. I imagine any useful synthesis will be domain-specific - generating a JSON web service/API will be quite different to writing a music visualizer.
I find this humorous because Buzzfeed, as weird as it is, did a great job breaking the story with their investigations into Zenefits, e.g. https://www.buzzfeed.com/williamalden/how-zenefits-big-bet-o...
3D Racing in Traffic Bike: Racer Road Rider Car Free Games
It's interesting, I assume many on here could afford to pay for WSJ, but don't, because the WSJ makes up only a small percentage of the content they want to read.

The answer seems obvious - the industry needs an unlimited Spotify model that has the vast majority of content providers, and then pays out to the content providers by total minutes read. Why this hasn't happened yet is very interesting to me.

The existing model for journalism seems to be similiar to if there was a Spotify type service for each record label - and you had to subscribe to 10 labels to listen to the music you wanted to listen to. This model made sense when there was a marginal cost (printing and delivering) - but that cost is basically gone for online readers.

I love good journalism from the WSJ, NYTimes, WashPost, and many others. But no way am I going to subscribe to all of them - even though I want all of the content. Micropayments seem like way too much friction, and a decision (is this article worth it?) that is such a pain for consumers. Why can't they switch to the Spotify model?
> Ms. Holmes maintains a heavy security detail. Men with earpieces escort her wherever she goes outside the Palo Alto headquarters. Their code name for her is “Eagle 1,” current and former employees say. Mr. Balwani, until he retired, was “Eagle 2,” they say.

You cannot make this shit up. How full of herself can she possibly get? The Adam McKay movie is going to be particularly fantastic if there are more examples like this.
> Is there even any point of referring to an ISA as distinctly 'RISC' or 'CISC' anymore?

First, you need to be careful to not confuse the ISA with the micro-architecture. RISC and CISC are descriptions of the interface that the SW sees, and the fact that Intel processor pipelines use RISC-like micro-ops doesn't change the fact that the x86 ISA is very CISC-y (just look at the picture of all the x86 registers). Of course, the fact that we can so readily decouple the ISA from the implementation does help us lessen the sins committed in bad ISA designs, which is where are RISC arguments come back in to play - if we can make all ISAs execute at about the same performance, why not go with the simplest ISA to implement?

Of course, although I'm being provocative in the report, in reality, RISC and CISC are not binary terms - they're points on a continuum.

For example, RISC-V's RV64I (integer-only) is incredibly RISC-y (not even a multiply!), but once you add in double-precision FMAs ("D") and atomic memory operations ("A") and variable-length instructions ("C")... well, it's not CISC like VAX, but it's certainly not pure RISC!
The data and methodology is pretty suspect here -- Google for Pokémon Go reports 5m-10m installs while Tinder is reported to have 50m to 100m installs. This is an order of magnitude more worldwide installs. I think the 'current data' is being heavily weighted and producing a too sensational of an article.

For Tinder, about 25% of it's installs came from the US on Android. That still puts it at 12.5m - 25m Android installs range.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.tinder

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.nianticlab...
Show HN: A minimal setup for React/ES6 sites with a Firebase back end
Are you translating your website effectively?
I'm about 90% sure that Lewis mentions it in his "acknowledgements" in Flash Boys, as a great resource to go more in depth (which is why I ended up reading it). You might have made that association.
HFT systems scalp. They make their millions .001 at a time on front running and volume.

A way to discourage this is by adding a very small fee to each trade. This eats/takes away their profits.

The problem is their are too many folks making money that are connected to the right people in Government.There will always be talk about doing something about it but nothing will ever happen.

The only positive outcome from all this is that it created an arms race in the industry when it comes to the technologies used to facilitate HFT or fight it.

Now whether that technology trickles down to the rest of us through new and interesting things remains to be seen.
> For a while it has been clear she is more interested in self aggrandizement than ensuring her technology actually works.

Which one of those things is better for her career, do you think?
We hear this lack of engineers issue lately about practically every country, either it's a story that sells so it gets copied by every local news agency or it's a global trend.

I'm guessing its something in between - a global trend (mostly caused by increase in demand) and increased hype because people like to hear about it.
Huerainbo – turn your Hue lights into a rainbow from a web app
This constant stream of Theranos might be viewed by some on the surface as beating a dead horse... but every article is new news of their shenanigans. And the most important bit - it seems like nothing has changed. It seems like they are continuing on the same path, as it seems like Elizabeth Holmes is completely out of touch with reality.

Obviously this saga has thus far been negative for many of those involved - but I'm selfishly enjoying following the story. I'm curious to see how this ends. Theranos has hired some very good attorneys and I assume Walgreens and the consumer class actions will be interesting cases.

One question: If Theranos needs to protect itself from a criminal / civil SEC investigation, do the Theranos executives get to use investor funds to defend themselves? If so, who does that help?
The problem with thieving and murdering is generally considered to be the one presented by the people who's property or lives are unwillingly taken from them.
Yikes, my spell checker missed that. -.- (shakes fist at OSX).
The game is acting like a Tinder for Pokemon fans. I've seen hoardes of people gathering around Pokestops and socializing as a side-effect.
The real news people want to know is whom she has sex with. I would certainly rather use a Playboy spread than this WSJ pedantry.
Question about this paragraph:

> Is it possible to define a process that Solomonoff induction cannot predict? The short answer is yes, but the kinds of computers needed to simulate these processes don’t exist in the real world, and it’s unlikely that we’ll ever be able to build them.

Doesn't "pick a truly random number" qualify? And we can build those today.
The Temple Operating System

http://www.templeos.org

http://www.templeos.org/Wb/Demo/Games/EagleDive.html

http://www.templeos.org/Wb/Demo/Games/CastleFrankenstein.htm...

GrFillTri0()

http://www.templeos.org/Wb/Adam/Gr/GrPrimatives.html#l1397
Strikes me as being very in line with Uber's overall outlook. They think that laws and regulations don't apply to them.
The underlying suit was about surge pricing, however.
It definitely didn't have a "catch them all" mechanic, and that alone lets Pokémon Go have much more of a feeling of personal progress.

In Ingress, everything is about taking over portals for your team. You get items with weird names that you use for taking over portals. The maximum strength of the items you get is determined by your experience level, up to 8. After level 8 all players are equal.

What Ingress has that Pokemon Go doesn't have is "linking", where you form straight lines between portals your team owns that you've visited, and if you form a triangle of links in your color, you form a "field" that claims the area within it for your team.

That was cool, but I have made enough links and fields for a lifetime. Eventually there isn't much more to do, unless you're teaming up and making elaborate plans to form crazy huge fields, for which the reward is that you get to screenshot it and gloat about it on Reddit for a few hours before someone undoes your field, possibly by cheating.

I hope that Pokemon battles become as compelling as linking, or more. (I have only had one Pokemon battle that didn't crash or glitch out so far.)
Have you read this LA Times article?

http://www.latimes.com/projects/oxycontin-part1/

It seems patents, drug marketing and insurance reimbursement are the cause of this epidemic.
This is great and I really appreciate your thoughtful feedback.

Another question - looking to pick your marketing brain. We built a bit of a swiss army knife into our products. I'll try to break it down as simply as possible:

- a user can use one Puck as a remote sensor for their Nest

- a user can use one Puck + Multiple Vents for an Ecobee (like Nest but with remote sensors)

- a user can use Multiple Pucks and Multiple Vents with a Nest

- a user can use a Puck with a Window AC or Minisplit (standard AC outside of North America where they don't have central heating/cooling)

Without having you get too deep into our specific products my main question is more around how to market in a scenario like this. I am toying with the idea of effectively building different landing pages for different people (one person controlling a minisplit likely doesn't care about smart vents for instance and might even be confused). Was thinking specific adds that target different use cases that then direct to those landing pages. A bit of a PITA in terms of lots of different flows/content etc but need to make sure we effectively communicate without confusing.
You know it's bad because the previous incarnation, Ingress, had no where near as many players.
Perhaps the problem with breaking out the data involves not being able to read the manufacturers label on the side of the pill during an autopsy, and the unfortunate sudden unavailability of the lone reliable eyewitness.