skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Instead of a battery-powered beacon you would likely use fiducials [0].

The issue I see with delivery to windows is all the clutter that is commonly found in front of windows such as power lines, tree branches etc. since that cannot yet be easily detected with computer vision and inexpensive 3D sensors.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiduciary_marker
>but the Buffet approach doesn't pay more than you would have anyway.

https://www.google.com/finance?q=NYSE:BRK.A
I'm not sure it does encourage the use of SHA256 crackers.. It's about looking for/generating a particular hash, not cracking or breaking a hash; all that these miners do is generate more hashes quicker.
I don't know Agda or Coq but I assume all it would take is to test the size and throw a runtime error for it to statically assert that it is the correct size after the test. Now the compiler is helping you write the runtime preconditions checks and handling that you should be writing anyway.
May I urge you with some force, to upgrade from Pot Noodles to a superior brand of instant noodles? There are many blogs devoted to reviewing the many variants of this versatile form of nourishment. e.g.: http://www.theramenrater.com/tag/ramen-review/

My current personal favourites are the Indomie 'Hot and Spicy' or 'Spicy Beef Rendang' or the Mama 'Pork Tom Yum'. I also hear good things about Sapporo Ichiban if you prefer something with a little less heat.
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>FYI I'm not a luddite

yes, man, have you read about mid 19th century auto laws in England?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Locomotive_Act

"The 1865 act required all road locomotives, which included automobiles, to travel at a maximum of 4 mph (6 km/h) in the country and 2 mph (3 km/h) in towns and have a crew of three travel, one of whom should carry a red flag walking 60 yards (55 m) ahead of each vehicle. "

"In addition to any concerns about the state of the roads, by the 1860s, there was concern that the widespread use of traction engines, such as road locomotives and agricultural engines, would endanger the safety of the public. It was feared that engines and their trailers might cause fatal accidents, scare horses, block narrow lanes, and disturb the locals by operating at night. "
Probably better as an anonymous poll. Lots of people with high-IQs are rather shy about it.
Why "for startups"?
This seems like a foolproof scam because it would be completely legal and guaranteed to work. To make it seem even more legitimate I would set the timeframe to 10 years.

But here's what I don't get. It seems like such a reliable and lucrative scam that there should be dozens of managed funds who have grown by 1000% over the last 10 years. Where are they all?
I expect that you will learn a lot, and much of it will be interesting. Some of it will even be applicable outside of finance. Almost certainly you will lose money (through fees and buying data, if nothing else). If you're okay with that, then go ahead.

There's an interesting guide with some suggested reading at

http://quantivity.wordpress.com/2010/01/10/how-to-learn-algo...
Oh man, I started reading about this 20 minutes ago, and now already have a mental image of the landing platform that I'll install on the roof of my house.

They probably didn't say anything about when this will come to rural Germany, did they?
That question is not very helpful without specifying which test you took, and in which country. (And whether you practiced..)
Okay, when i read the news i was thinking like, may be if he (driver) was slower and still caught fire, they might have been saved in a Tesla due to better fire prevention. The pictures show wreckage in a poor shape so its hard to realize whether the state was achieved mainly due to impact OR fire. I also read some where they people risked their lives trying to take them out. This makes me think whether it was possible to survive (or at least get to hospital alive) if there was controlled fire at least as expected some what with a Tesla. Of course disregarding its cost, but then it really makes it worth the cost if you are relatively safer.
Poll: When do you start your workday?
There are many opinions about the right amount of sleep you need.
But more than that it's quite interesting to see when everybody is starting their workday to get things done, have a workout before heading to the desk, ...
before 6am
6am to 8am
8am to 10am
after 10am
God yes. And some grated cheddar.

I used to include a fried egg but I received a stern letter from my arteries and had to abate the practice.
You really want to see Jacques Tati's "Jour de fête". It's the 14th of July, French national holiday, late 1940s. There is the traditional village fair and party. The village mailman gets inspired by a combination of alcohol consumption and a stunt movie about speedy modern American mail delivery.

An absolutely hilarious prequel to this drone delivery thing, and a must see for people even remotely working on this project or anything similar.
You're right of course. I know plenty of people who are in the same pack who work, buried away in the bowels of a company somewhere who'd never make a notable list of smart folks.

But I thought it was interesting that the same list wasn't an intersection of notable AND did something you'd expect smart people to be doing. A list of Stephen Hawkings for example.
They did. It's called NASA.
I'd say high 800s. I'm sure someone could back me up on this.
A digital currency requires arbitrary tokens as a medium of exchange.

It does not require peer-to-peer creation and verification of tokens. It does not require mining, it does not require pseudo-anonymous transactions and a distributed public ledger of all past transactions. Those are all properties of Bitcoin but not of currencies in general.

Bitcoin has some interesting ideas, but it's hardly the only type of digital currency which can exist and mining is a concept particular to Bitcoin (and spin-offs) - it has the effect of enriching the devs and early adopters and transforming it into an appreciating asset rather than a currency.
As long as your traits are independent, the order does not matter. Anyway, how do you imagine this could be done better? For order to not matter, the linearization could not be possible and we'd end up with something much more complex and ugly like multiple inheritance in C++ with all the diamond inheritance problems, etc.
Kind of a reason why I didn't ran with a poll. This way you get to provide additional information.
Ask HN: Converting bitcoins to real money. Who’s done it?
Googling something like 'bitcoin withdrawal delay', turns up a slew of comments and complaints about delays in withdrawing money from various exchanges.

Has anyone successfully converted bitcoins into USD, EUR or another real-world currency and, if so, how much did you withdraw?
This sort of thing (possibility of making it big and losing instead) could be true of any number of stocks or other investments. How is this a story at all?
Although often hilarious, Urban Dictionary now pretty much allows people to make shit up.

It's a shame as I'd like something that fills it's former boots (i.e. there has to be at least some attempt to record reality rather than invent it)
What do you mean by "-tk" domain hacks?
Me on dropbox today: Why would anyone want this?

seriously. Sure, the mob uses it, but they also use facebook, skype and whatsapp
... and soon they get their christmal gifts delivered by santa's little drones
I second edwardliu's comment. did the same thing, putting my own money where my mouth is. Whether you take on investor money obviously depends on many, many things but in my view, but bootstrapping it for as long as you can helps you focus on what matters most when you run a business: revenues. build a product that solves a real problem, get traction and make money.
The implication is obviously that there won't be a "final(!) crash." This sort of reasoning applies to every penny stock in the market. Am I supposed to read this and then invest in all of them? After all, they will all continuously go up (unless they all go down).
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can vouch, my IQ is around -1600ºC
The sense of injustice changes the way emissions should be cut across the population.

Western countries just want to have more stuff at all costs. The developing countries know this, from direct experience in recent memory. So they are not going to play ball.

It is extremely critical to understand that the reasons the developing countries are not playing ball is different than the reasons developed countries are not playing ball.
There's even more:
- implicit objects & type classes
- path dependent types
- abstract types
- generic variance control
- trait linearization
- awesome collections library
Warren Buffet wrote about this a while ago: http://www.tilsonfunds.com/superinvestors.html
Lesson Learned #4: The chart does not always go up, it will come down eventually. Be careful not to be the one that goes down with it. Nothing just keeps getting bigger. It will eventually deflate.

Yes, eventually every bubble will deflate - and arguably BTC is a bubble. But, that said, no one knows how big the bubble is going to get, or when it'll burst, or how bad it'll be when it does. It might burst tomorrow, fall to $50, and confidence will be so screwed that it never recovers to anything like the level it's at now. Maybe. Alternatively though, it might continue to grow to $10,000/BTC and then deflate to $5,000. Investing now would still represent a fantastic return after then crash.

I suspect that when the bubble does burst it won't actually be that bad for the reason that it's quite hard to get your money out of BTC. Exchanges are slow - a sell order can take hours or even days in rare cases. Consequently, people aren't likely to be able to cut their losses quickly, so they'll end up with BTC they can either sell on at a huge loss, or keep. People will keep them in case they go back up. That supply side limiting will stop the market collapsing completely. Markets can only collapse as quickly as people can pull their money out.

That said, I don't own any, so my speculation is irrelevant.
that what GPU vendors have been waiting for, as with the current Full HD max resolutions there wasnt really a need to upgrade in the last few years.
Certainly: http://a.fsdn.com/sd/firehose/017/546/952-1.png
Do you want that in metric or Imperial intelligence units?
Too bad it didn't get very much attention on the mailing list.
Good point. But how do you protect yourself from this scam? Do we always have to ignore the track record of every investment fund?
Camera that takes 3D photos in darkness by measuring photons
Weird. My Toyota iQ is much warmer.
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Where do you get the idea that the EMH assumes perfect information?

In any case, since you are now revealing that the movements of the market disprove the EMH, I take it you've already made your billions by trading your EMH-disproving strategy?
I think tree branches will be a rather large problem for these drones since you need a pretty high resolution 3D sensor to accurately detect them.

GPS is most certainly not enough for navigation next to a building since you can hardly get an accuracy below 5m. I would bet on navigation by computer vision and 3D sensors.

Another interesting aspect of this is the choice of location where to drop the package. You certainly would not appreciate finding your emergency math textbook in the middle of your flower bed. This could for example be solved by setting up delivery spots in advance, or perhaps by using human judgement through something like Amazon's Mechanical Turk.
136 - Cattell III B - UK - No practice, at age 15.
Some guys from Russia (CopterExpress) already tested that idea in Moscow during this summer. They had negative experience as i know
Indeed. It's possible to get decent Emmentaler, but most of the prepackaged Emmentaler is really the European equivalent of American sliced "cheese food".
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I have a personal corollary that I am now extending.

Two things always suck: bug tracking and build systems.

What I think happens is that even if the foundations are different (and better), the ideas on how to do it are still the same as the first build systems. And that's the problem

Overcomplicated, unhelpful, trying to fix language problems.

Yes Makefiles are bad but a handcrafted one (or minimally automated) is usually much cleaner than most of the automated stuff.
I gave an example: a request that is in multiple linked lists. e.g one by chronological order for quick timing out of oldest requests, and one of active requests waiting on the physical wire.

Now the timeout elapsed, so you have a pointer to a request that needs to be destroyed.

In that case, you typically use the very cheap O(1) list_del on each of the lists it's in. In STL style you pay O(N) for each list it is in. Or you conclude lists are worthless and another structure should be used. But no other structure would give you the incredibly cheap O(1) add and delete you get from lists.
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somewhere around 850g.
"And whether you practiced"

My oldest sister (17 years older than me) did psychology at University and specialized in child psychology and education at post-grad level. Guess who was experimental subject #1 for her?

By my teens I had seen every possible "intelligence" test you could imagine and could do them in my sleep. Fortunately nobody (other than members of Mensa) seems to take IQ tests very seriously in the UK....
For me, a big benefit is the tooling support. If the API is statically typed, I can easily find the headers I am able to set using my IDE. And for setting the date I don't have to check the http spec for which syntax I have to use for the date.
Drone's may not have uniquely human problems, but they will have uniquely drone problems... plus, whatever advantages gained will simply mean drones will be pushed to their limit, until new uniquely drone problems are exposed. The only difference is that at this point the uniquely drone problems are new and not as well understood.
It is easy to remember if you think of it:

+ (covariant): the type can be cast to some broader (more general) type

- (contravariant): the type can be cast to some narrower (more concrete) type
But the point of this article was to not solve "Big Problems" and instead to solve "big problems": to look at uninteresting problems that happen to be big and affect an underclass you are not part of that isn't "exotic" enough to be interesting.
I can urinate much higher than you can.
Cool...:)
I have been reading Grammar of Graphics, but it’s a slow going. I don’t yet see where the connection is with D3 and the Grammar, though (probably since I lack knowledge of the Grammar and don’t yet grasp the whole of D3). D3 works best with SVG constructs, where elements and attributes are manipulated based on what functions return. These functions then react to data, but D3 doesn’t really know what is in the data. It merely binds it to element’s __data__ attribute implicitly so it can know what to change when node gets selected. It’s the developer’s job to choose the right elements and attributes where results should be placed. Resulting graphic is an SVG document, which can look as a cohesive graph if developer gets the parameters right. This structure is often hard coded into script and not done with specific grammar that could calculate the graphic parameters consistently and reliably. This might be since D3 is intentionally low-level, but then there are parts that try to do more abstract things (like axes, that generate SVG directly). I feel this contributes to the lack of reusability.

Popularity of frameworks like Angular and the recent appearance of Ractive and React, as well as Fastdom (not to mention ClojureScript) suggests to me, that easy, efficient and reusable DOM manipulation is a hard problem and there can be many solutions. Its because of this I’d like to keep using D3’s great functionality (for me the scales and geo module) without its use of selections and W3C DOM API. There are other ways to declare a graphic and bind it to data, but calculating points for lines should not be coupled to a particular style of DOM manipulation. I like D3 a lot for discrete visualizations, but creating many interdependent graphics (like map and bar chart from the same data with interactivity between them) is not as easy as with, say, Ractive.

What I understand of Vega is that it works as a kind of grammar for graphics, but one that completely encapsulates the DOM manipulation. This allows it to support other render target, like canvas. I feel that this is opposite of what Alexandros is suggesting, that is to use D3 where it is good, but not parts which clash with Angular’s view of the DOM. If Vega makes it easier to use its functionality without the renderer, that would be great, but I don’t know how well it supports D3’s great functionality. This is on my study list, though.
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> Ever port a MUMPS app to Erlang... I have!

Wow - that sounds like an article I'd read!
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If I had to guess, I think they meant that anyone writing new code will avoid using 'new'.
In addition to sensor-based collision avoidance you would probably want some means of communication between the drones so they can choose non-colliding flight paths in advance.

In the altitude these drones will be flying most of the regular traffic probably is composed of helicopters. For those Amazon could easily provide some means of requesting a temporary drone no-flight zone.
The highest I ever got on an IQ test is 134, and the lowest is 86.

I got a couple of others around 120.

So, take your pick.
Modern IE is nice to use and has reasonable support. It will cost you as much (in dev time) to support as any other browser (or specifically, rendering engine), and its market share is comparable to Firefox.

The problem is old IE. fuck old IE and every bit of its ridiculous, antiquated and outdated self.
Mine's not even that high and I'd rather not blurt it out in public, so I completely agree.
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Scala reminds me of C++ too, but it's impressive that, in a mere 10 years, Scala has achieved all the multi-paradigm incoherence it took C++ 30 years and tortuous backwards compatibility constraints to attain.

Actually, I spent some time over the weekend trying to get familiar with Scala by using it to solve some Project Euler problems, and it was pretty entertaining. Still, the language's bias towards there being more than one way to do anything does worry me; it does seem that the kind of mutually incomprehensible code bases the OP talks about are likely. I would assume that, like C++, you need a strong style guide for a Scala project laying down which parts of the language you are going to use. Does anyone have any recommendations for guides on writing comprehensible, maintainable Scala?
As poorly as Joyent may have responded, and as badly they might have misunderstood this entire situation, I am convinced that everyone involved here (on both sides) had nothing but good intentions, and that until we acknowledge these things and make up, this is going to become needlessly harmful to the community at large.

Pause, reflect, forgive... nobody here is a monster.
Helicopter.
I'm surprised anyone would think that 20% returns are over the top - outsized returns in markets are hardly an industry secret. Triple digit returns are not unheard of. Most of the people making big money don't exactly advertise and some are downright reclusive. But they certainly do exist.

I recommend reading http://www.amazon.com/The-New-Market-Wizards-Conversations/d... and the other versions in the series - I think there is 4 now. These are candid interviews with the individuals involved. They are good reading just for the interested entrepreneur.
Interesting idea but wouldn't work for me - though as a solo founder in Australia, I guess I'm probably not your target market. Some quick feedback:

* Not having a choice of beans (or knowing what the flavours/kinds are) is a bit of a turn off for me. While I like to have variety, my favorite coffee is a chocolatey flavour, and I like that first coffee of the day to be something I really, really look forward to & enjoy.

* As a solo founder, I'm not going through 16oz of coffee every week, so weekly deliveries would be too much for me. Your pricing is surprisingly good though, once I did the math of how many grams are in 16oz.

* No information on whether your deliveries can be left at the front door / in the mailbox. Not having to sign for the deliveries would be a huge bonus.

* Again, talking as a solo founder... it's actually kinda important for me to get out of the office / house sometimes. Working from a cafe is not just about atmosphere, it's also about mixing with people. I tend to buy my coffee beans while I'm on one of those days out with the HuMans. So having beans delivered could actually be a negative for me, remove an excuse to take a break & get fresh air / exercise / socialize.

* If you can guarantee freshness of beans, that would be a bonus. Occasionally I've bought beans from a cafe, only to discover it's an old pack roasted a year ago. Blech.

* Have you thought about extras? I'm a fan of having dark-chocolate-coated coffee beans on hand as well. Or variety, an 8oz pack with your favorite beans, and another 8oz pack with something new for you to try.
del.icio.us was a "domain hack". He's talking about the fact it is hard to construct one with a .tk domain as there are so few English words that end with tk (if any?).
Um, what? IntelliJ has supported HiDPI since about a month after the Retina MBPs shipped. It looks great.
As is often the case, writing the code from scratch in Haskell is easier than reusing a library in Java..

Android uses named integers rather than enums, due to some issue with Java enums.. And the switch would only help a bit, the main problem is needing to correctly interpret the associated payload according to the message type. That's what sum types give you, which Java doesn't properly have.

They could be emulated with visitor pattern, if one is masochistic...
Imagine how many of these could fit on a single flat road. Then imagine stacking dozens of roads on top of that. Then imagine the roads are several times wider because there isn't any property or buildings in the way up there (with the exception of a few tall buildings in big cities.)

It will be a long, long, long time before we run out of airspace. It isn't the limiting resource at all.
163 using whatever test Mensa used in the UK in the early '90s. I have always assumed they were incentivized to ensure as many people as possible got high scores. I'm not particularly smart and only took the test as I was feeling intellectually insecure at the time.
No, you're getting it confused. For a start, the fund that I bought into advertised exactly what they expected (it is based on a computerised trading model, so they know what to expect if it worked). It is not 'chance' that I happened onto a fund - what we are talking about is random chance that anyone can have consistent above-market returns. Certainly it is possible for any one individual to have a chance occurence of a high return one year- the EMT would say that next year the chance is for a loss. When people or firms put together year on year of consistent returns above market, that is no longer chance.