skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The sensors cannot both have the high accuracy because one or both of them are clearly wrong in your scenario, meaning the estimated accuracy of one or both sensors is clearly wrong.

If your estimate of the accuracy of the sensor is wrong, you are giving a very high accuracy weight to the garbage going in and you will get garbage out.

One of the really interesting things about a Kalman filter is that it improves its estimate of the accuracy of the input sensors over time. In your scenario, over time the Kalman filter would "learn" which sensor is lying and adjust its accuracy estimate down.
I predict it isn't going to do anything to hurt share price.
CPEU2 - Futurica Trilogy (Alexander Bard talks about information society)
Thanks Alex! The reason results open in a new tab, is because any keyword you click results in a new "search". For that search, a new summary is calculated and displayed "with the same interface". I haven't had time to design how this could be done by expanding within the current page. But it definitely should be done, you're right!

I am thinking to apply this to books and movie abstracts too. Any other ideas? Apart from obviously classifying HN comments :)))
Hashing is the correct way but big companies commonly do things wrong. If they had a sqli vulnerability in their site without knowing it's also possible that they didn't even know this database existed.
or delete one?
First of all, it hasn't been solved in the US, and not for these speeds, which are at least double of the fastest bullet train in the world.
>Lack of a down-vote means vocal minorities are disproportionately represented. How many Hacker News users really want to see 5 stories about the TSA body scanners every time they log in?

Clearly some do, if these stories get upvoted. I think a better answer than downvoting would be a ways to organize and filter content besides the single-channel model which currently seems to assume either a homogenous community or content or both. Clearly useless and repetitive content should be flagged, but judging by the number of "this doesn't belong on HN / yes it does " comments i've seen, a lot of people have differing ideas of what Hacker News "should" be showing them.

> Votes on comments are used to express agreement or disagreement rather than value, perhaps because many people simply cannot see the difference between the two.

I believe upvotes and downvotes should only apply to threads themselves, and comments should be left alone. I'm sure i'm in the minority on this among HN users, but I think when you can downvote comments, then specious downvoting becomes inevitable because it's less work than coming up with a cogent or relevant comment.
The worm could have been much more virulent had the author been more experienced or less rushed in his coding

It's a common misconception things go viral due to some sort of premeditative planning "over a period of months". New ideas start fledgling, because that's what it means for ideas to be new. They don't have concrete form in the beginning. Even the person having them can't tell what they can lead to.

Rushing the worm was crucial in making it work. It was more important to see if it had any chance of working. It couldn't have happened had Morris not been rushed, opening doors to a new research field and medium to the general public.

Who could have simulated that?
Considering more than half of all humans ever have died from Malaria it's a reasonable risk to take.
As far as I know ... no, and not unless you ask pg.
A book about a guy who crowdsources idea for a book, and ultimately decides that the story will be about a guy crowdsourcing ideas for a book.

Repeat indefinitely.

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Alternatively, outsource several trillion monkeys to type apparently random characters until you are left with a work that is more intelligent than Huxley, more potent than Shakespeare, and wittier than Stephen Fry.
Please note that "cure cancer" is in quotes. I am speaking from (bitter) firsthand experience about some other condition.

I don't expect to ever get the Nobel Prize. I mostly get called crazy.
Yes it does. Houston has tons of zoing laws. http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2011/11/30/the_myth_of_z...
The Ender's Game Movie Is Secretly a Defense of Millennials
And this, boys and girls, is what entrepreneurship looks like more often than not. The "over the weekend" stories are rare corner cases. In the vast majority of cases you have to be prepared to slog it out for an extended period of time before you start to see success. And that's one of the huge reasons for which most new businesses fail. Not everyone has the intestinal fortitude to, in the face of adversity, keep pushing forward.

@dumbfounder

First of all, I wish you had chosen a different handle on HN. You are not dumb at all. You are, in fact, a real asset to anyone who might want to launch a startup or get behind a difficult idea. I don't know if you project will ultimately succeed. Hard to tell. You, on the other hand, are an absolute success.

I know that from your current perspective it might seem you wasted a decade in this journey. I simply don't see it that way.

You've received plenty of design and functional advise on this thread with regards to twicsy. The first thing I thought about was something that came up in a discussion on HN a couple of days ago. Here's my short comment on that thread:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6647818

In my view that still rings true for twicsy. In other words, you have to deliver value that is not found elsewhere and that people are willing to pay for. Im my post I speak of the fact that the vast majority of news websites are regurgitated versions of the news item source, whereas there are a very few who provide you with real incremental value by taking the time to research and give you perspective.

If you are still interested in making twicsy a success perhaps you should start thinking laterally rather than vertically. In other words, don't stay on your current path. Explore other paths. I know that's easier said than done. For example: How might corporate marketing programs be able to use your service? Celebrities? Bloggers? How about a path to licensing some of these pictures? Not through you, through whoever owns the rights with you making a small percentage on the sale.

Don't give up. Pivot.
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Thanks, I couldn't find any info on this, thought maybe I missed something. I'll just stop using one of them (forgot my info while abroad).
I've used HEPA filters when I built an IV glove box a couple of years back. Don't recall the numbers, but I needed a fair bit of pressure from the air pump to get a decent flow rate. Somehow I don't think a fan will do it.
Amazon Tries Free, On-Time Delivery To Lure India Online
I often do that just to have a statement on which to place a breakpoint. It gets optimized out, but in debug builds it works fine. Putting a breakpoint on a line that just deals with the error code immediately after the error code will reliably display the error in the Auto Variables watch window in VStudio maligning it very convenient for rapid debugging.
$1000 Contest for Code Chrestomathy
LassoSoft is running a contest for contributing Lasso code to RosettaCode.org - a programming language comparison site comparing hundreds of languages (from PHP and C to Brainfuck and LOLCODE). Awesome site! and awesome idea... (for the rules, click on the link at the top of the page). If you don't use Lasso - you should try it out... if not - add some of your own favourite language examples...
J.D. Power’s suddenly Samsung-friendly tablet numbers
Use aquarium air stones. The smaller the bubbles and higher the column of water the better.
This class is also confusing because it is used both for a "link" and the "head" of the list.

IMO this class is politically incorrect, there is no mention of the "tail".
Well the problem is Battery. Since you are using the processing power directly on your Phone. It will required to be constantly charging. And this means if this was used for serious gaming the battery will use up all its recharge cycle much quicker then used otherwise.

AirPlay needs more work and my guess is that a 5Ghz only, Less interfered, Beam Forming mandatory, WiFi standard is required. Hence 802.11ac. Although i believe the Wifi lantency doesn't matter much if the developer had the intention of developing their games for AppleTV play they will have to use some tricks to minimize those Latency.
What she meane is that wellness is not a welcome topic in most circles, nor easily monetized. Everyone wants a new drug, literally or figuratively -- a quick fix, easy answer. No one wants to eat right, exercise, make dramatic lifestyle changes, etc. Wellness looks more like religious edicts than it does medicine.

This I cannot comprehend. Compared to the drugs I have gotten off and the potential surgeries I have evaded, what I am currently doing is a pleasant picnic. But trying to share that info has gotten me mostly open hostility. So I took the site down.
Actually, that's exactly how I know it would work. I'm pointing out the information your going to loose without having timezones because people are still going to get up and go to sleep basically following a solar day. Are people in Paris awake at 9:00 or asleep? Are people in LA working or not? Without a table, say a table that says what time of day it is in particular zones, 9:00 tells you nothing.
Looks like you're grabbing only economical news. I see only stocks, trading and finance.
An alternate history where smallpox does not exist in Europe, and instead travels from the new world back to Europe. Thus the Inca empire is never destroyed and the Americas are never colonized.
I like the small single-letter missiles.
yup, Mayor McCrack in Toronto. Seems like he got confused between the war on Drugs and the war on Cars...
I like DST, but I recognize that it's there largely for cultural reasons. (It doesn't save much energy.) Summer nights should be light until 9:00pm; that goes back to childhood and just seems "right". (I know that that's an emotional argument with no reasonable backing.) On the other hand, I don't it to be dark at 8:00 in the morning in the dead of winter, so I prefer the reversion to standard time in the winter.

Want proof that it's cultural? It starts in March and ends in November. Lightwise, March is the midpoint while November is almost the darkest part of the year-- but not cold yet. DST follows the temperature, not the light. People wouldn't like it if they left work in darkness during the high foliage season of October. Hell, I wouldn't like that.

What's really going on, of course, is that DST forces everyone to do everything an hour earlier during the lighter months. In companies that care about presence down to exact minutes (thankfully, those are rare in tech) it becomes socially acceptable to work 8-5 instead of 9-6, because everyone is calling 8:00, 9:00. This prevents all that light in the morning from getting wasted, because people are tricked into getting up earlier than they otherwise would. They think getting up at 6:00 is for old people and gym rats, but that's exactly what they do for 8 months out of the year.

People who work the standard workday want: (a) at least an hour and a half of light before they leave for work (typically, 8:30); (b) darkness by one hour before the average bedtime (about 10:45), and (c) as much evening light as possible during the nicest months (April, May; September, October) of the year. DST is the hack that makes that possible.

One could argue, on the other hand, that it would be better for people to just adapt to asynchrony in work and social life and thus make it irrelevant whether we call the summer sunset "7:30" or "8:30"... but most people don't have that luxury.
My advice is to always stay at your first job for about 3 years. Then any question of "job hopping" does not happen. If you really really hate your first job, then switch and stay at the next one for 3 years.
> It would allow us to more easily control the content quality and guard against pr0n, which would hopefully get us back into the good graces of top tier advertisers

I bet this is your main problem. Having experience with a site which has similar numbers (less in fact), I was surprised to know that you are able to generate only so much, as to cover hosting expense. And on that related note, which is another "top tier advertiser" network other than Google's?

The only other reason I can think of is you having a very high bounce rate, something above 90%?

Sorry, for being (inadvertently) blunt. But this is my area of some experience and also interest.
I agree, we need to make bitcoin even better before releasing it and see it fail because anonymity is currently not part of it, though people still claim it is.
Zerocoin and whatnot!
Haha, great. This reminds me of The Typing of the Dead and its sequel(s?), which were basically The House of the Dead games re-written so you had to type rather than point a gun. Brilliant stuff, this game.
Have you thought about _____?
First person narrative of a modern day man with innate knowledge that he is in fact the "Son of God" (Jesus) and that the modern Judeo-Christian religions are man made creations. The story is the Christ story, but placed now, the tone is like Kafka, with not necessarily the expected outcome we are familiar.
This is a very neat idea, though I suspect they'll ultimately want a more powerful fan.

Note that high quality air filters also have a carbon pre-filter that gets changed more often than the HEPA filter, and having one ought to make your HEPA filter last much longer, especially in somewhere like Bejing. They also play a part in controlling odors.

This is what I'm currently using and love it to death. Note that the customer photos with the "dirty" filters are actually the carbon pre-filter and not the HEPA

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00440EKRG/
Entrepreneur thinks their shit doesn't stink. Film at 11.
No he is more right than wrong.

We already have communications options available in those regions. The very same ones used over the last decades, whether its radio, hardline phones, cellular or even satellite.

Doctors and nurses out there already have communications. The issue here is that spending money to provide internet to the masses there is not as beneficial as making sure they live to use it.
But you still have noon being when the sun is the highest in the sky and the majority of the waking day is done when the sun is up.

9am is the morning everywhere in a time zone, 3 hours before noon when the sun is highest and the work day ends at 5~6pm. Seasons don't matter here.

"What time is it in Sao Paulo?" "7pm" "Damn they've gone home for the day." Whether it is winter or summer, that doesn't change this.
Sweden does it.
The federation starship Dvorak reporting for duty. I enjoyed it, my only problem is that difficulty increases linearly, so it took 13 or so rounds to even begin to be challenging.
Providing support to the extra 1800 customers, however, can be much more difficult.
It's not quite that simple. Building up can ruin the character of the neighborhood, which is often a big part of the allure.

I don't think I've ever seen an example of this reflected in prices. Do you know of any, or of any studies of this phenomenon?
Sooner or later, your wireless carrier will become just a glorified ISP
To be fair non obvious bugs come from being used in production apps. And 4 months is not enough time for those bugs to surface.
Congratulations on putting this out there and on the courage needed to tackle a new design. There's a lot of hard work here.

- Would removing text make the UI clearer? I wish the black readrs margin was completely gone, along with the grey search bar underneath it. And in return the search circle became bigger.

- The most striking change compared to a Google Search is that it forces you to change your perspective on what's important to search for. I find myself pausing most of the time. This is probably more of a good sign than it originally appears. It fights off the urge of the fingers to type. One more reason to put the search bar out of sight.

- This is probably an indulgence: I wished it could show me things going on around where I live. Like a TimeOut magazine. I see there's an Entertainment section, but it doesn't seem to work using my IP address for geolocation.

I love it! I can't wait to see what comes next.
Awesome idea. I tried the Evernote/Moleskin notebook (http://evernote.com/getting_started/moleskine/) for 3 months. Wanted to like it but couldn't - photographing my pages was a pain. Wanted to like Penultimate (by Evernote) as well - but writing on an ipad was way to far from paper.

Certainly some issues with this - going without your notes during processing. not getting back notebook. etc. - but nothing major.

Wonder how a service would do that made the rounds and scanned notebooks at your office or house.
Got to wave 17 and quit from boredom. Harder please! Much, much harder!

(reppin QGMLWB by the way http://mkweb.bcgsc.ca/carpalx/?full_optimization)
The car is a textbook case of catastrophically bad scaling. For sporadic use (errands, long trips, leisure) it's amazing. For daily commuting (60 miles per day, plus parking) it's horrible. Space-consuming, polluting, expensive (except cheap relative to, e.g., Amtrak because no one uses the latter) and unsafe when abused to the point that cars are (operated while drunk, while seriously ill, or at unreasonable speeds given congestion).

The problem is that people, individually, don't want to give up the freedom. It's "other drivers" that are the problem. Add to this the fact that so few people can use other means of transportation-- those have fallen into ruin.
Git 2.0 changes push default to ‘simple’
Lags on Safari 7.0
These are excellent beginner books.
> William Kamkwamba, a 19-year-old high school student

Wow isn't he lucky! He actually gets to go to school. Now if only ALL kids in 3rd world countries could have such chance in life.
Does anyone else have trouble seeing the words with the font that they use?
Android Jelly Bean passes 50% adoption, but Gingerbread still used by over 26%
I love Colombia and the Colombians but Bogota is one of my least favourite places in the world. Most Colombians would agree, I think. Traffic is horrible.
Fun, I personally got 1525, accuracy 88.8%, 38.9 WPM...

Creative and fun though
Thanks, I looked at your site and that's what I want. I'll have to take another look at Chartjs.
Tons of people write novels in less than a month. Source? http://www.nanowrimo.org

It started yesterday so possibly that's what inspired OP's question.
This was really fun! I quit at wave 17 though. Make the game faster and words longer, I love it!
Here's How to Make Hardware Startups More Than Just a Fad
I, for one, applaud the initiative, for which the bitcointalk forum announcement (by this post's submitter) exists here [0].

It's interesting to think of a system to support development of open source software, providing monetary compensation in addition to that feel-good feeling. The other day I was thinking if we could almost have a standardized commit message for developers seeking tips, something like <public bitcoin address><clearsignature of address with developers pgp key>, so that one could do this on a direct basis (and with certainty that their funds reach the dev).

This is NOT to say that I don't trust tip4commit, not at all. Think of the previous paragraph as an aside, a thought on how to tip in a way that guarantees all tips go to developers. If arsenische were less trustworthy there might be a greater argument, but I think people familiar with bitcointalk will know he's cool.

It's great to see an easy, less-painful, automatic way to have this done than simply looking up dev's addresses on an individualized basis (tedious if you like lots of projects).

Cool stuff.

[0] https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=315802
Flask and Rails have different focuses. I've used both and like them both quite a bit, but I've found there is often a clear winner depending on the task at hand.

Flask is a microframework that often fits within one file and is probably more comparable to Sinatra than Rails. I've only ever used it for setting up really small webservices and stubbing webservices. It could certainly scale up to larger apps, but it doesn't give you a lot of direction in how best to do so.

Rails is a full-stack framework. Out of the box it gives you everything from the view to the database and strong conventions for where to place classes as your app grows. In general, it's more often compared to Django.
Hi read, thanks a lot!

- I think you're right. I am already hiding the top bar when you scroll a bit down. Should probably move the search box. How about the following crazy idea - I was thinking to have another mode when all you see is keywords. That would allow even faster overview of everything. You could see articles on "mouse hover". What do you think?

- Yeah, this is a double-sided sword. It's kind of google, asking you first - so what do you want? Instead of showing you everything. I should probably show summary of everything at first, but I decided to go with just a circle on the front page for now - to increase impression that this is something new. Great advice though, thank you!

- No geolocation for now, sorry. I am a single founder, so if I find some financing, I will put this on top of the list ;)

Thanks again! I can't wait too ;)
Hard to see the words when they start stacking. And worse, you start typing a word and it picks a different word from the one you wanted and you have switch contexts. That's the hardest part of the game, not the typing.
Time is one of those things that's pretty much all edge cases.
But I really enjoyed it. Got to level 32 or something before I got overwhelmed
I got to wave 32 before realising how tiring it was and I got a liiittttle bit bored.

Awesome game - but it needs maybe a few more milestones to reward the player for getting quite far. Maybe acknowledge it when they get through a whole mission without making any wrong keystrokes, or every 10 levels give them some arbitrary 'promotion' - something like that.

Anyway, really good job.
Go to the front page, and select in the circle:

"Business > Sectors > Technology" - does it work?
Since nobody else is going to, I'll take the letters N, S, and I'd like to buy a vowel.
Doesn't let me type anything.
yes, hard font to read, looks like impact. And it's too small. When the letters scatter - the radial bursts - never sure if it's an l an i or a j?
So this guys gets to complain because he had one non-optimal search result and concludes that Google Maps isn't improving? Anyone who says maps hasn't improved since the last 12 months must have their head buried somewhere. I mean, you'll be able to experience a freaking solar eclipse on the new 3D webgl google maps UI this Sunday https://plus.google.com/+GoogleMaps/posts/fuC658DrVCk
you forgot your contact info.
I do like the idea, but the current level of funding is ridiculous.

So I have three choices

1) Work on this opensource project and potentially make 0.077 bitcoins

2) Work on my projects / startup

3) Work for somebody else with guaranteed salary of $100-150/hr.

I don't see how #1 is competitive at all, unless you're an idealist.
I have showdead turned on. For what it's worth, you no longer appear to be hellbanned.
What about the fact that each commit can be of wildly differing complexity and usefulness? It looks like in this system, a README typo fix would be worth exactly the same as fixing a threading deadlock issue.
this sounds similar to torwallet, except that you don't need to trust ppl running a service. it's a fine idea and will be possible without a browser plugin in the next month or two... ;)
I got caught by this too, but it was fun. It's the first time I have actually done a test that measures my typing speed without becoming bored after two sentences (I did 43 wpm, I don't even know if it is decent or not anyway).
I had confusion between 'v' and 'y'!
We have a free shuttle service between SF and the office.