skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Aside from previously discussed, the pendulum length is convenient, and water drop "clocks" are fairly reasonable at one drop per second.

Also people can count one digit per second pretty easily if the point is to cook or process something for 45 seconds or whatever. That would be tough if the second were 100 times smaller than it is.

Its a numerical base with two "digits" not just one digit. So its not just 60 sec/min its 60 min/hr and if you arbitrarily decided to use 2 for both, or 1000 for both, you don't get multiple levels that result in the second being useful. If you used 2 for both aka binary then each new-second would be 900 of our seconds long, thats useless. If you used 1000 for both then a new-second would be about 3 ms which might be handy for power EEs (not the RF guys...) but seems a bit inconvenient for the ancients.

One curiosity from the chem lab from decades ago was measuring to a milligram isn't all that challenging and a candle burned about a mg of wax per second (or was it a tenth?) anyway I'm well aware the gram is pretty recent, but the point is your stereotypical apothecary type in the ancient world should have been able to build a "mg capable" balance pan scale or at least approach it, so weighing a candle before and after would be a not too awful way to measure time and the least they could measure might have been around a second.
Not in Germany, where opening your WIFI makes you liable for all the things that might happen with this.

But only if you are a private person (or a small cafe/venue). If you are an ISP, you can operate hotspots wherever you want and charge whatever anyone is willing to pay. And you do not need to fear being held liable for your users actions.

[Edit]
Meant to say, that since this change of law we do not have a lot of open WIFI-Spots anymore.
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Yeah. crazy invasive and creepy was definitely my first reaction.

I'm not a fan of the whole 'internet of things' to begin with, no thanks. My stuff doesn't need to track everything i do with it.
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Why didn't he just click "block" and wait for normal people to contact him? There are probably some idiots who jump onto every new profile that pops up. Once blocked, it will become much easier.
Out of topic, your page include logos of other large companies such as Linkedin, Dropbox, Instagram, is that legal? You can do that while they are not your customers/clients? Maybe what the logos mean is you can get your information from those company from your app. My first impression is those companies are your customers/clients.
Please not another long scrolling page without any real info... shame, I might have wanted one if they had provided any specs or technical details at all...
The last time I used it in earnest I did not have anywhere near the results you are describing. So my own personal perception of it is that it's probably as accurate as they say it is. More than 50% but less than 60-70%.
It's actually 1+2f versus 1-f. (I agree that the wording is not very clear. I misinterpreted it too at first and was very confused at how my solution was being rejected. If you look at the short worked example they give, though, it's unambiguous.)

You're using the normal approximation to the binomial distribution. It may or may not be a good enough approximation. Better to do the binomial thing exactly. This requires arbitrary-precision integer arithmetic, but that's pretty easily available.
"Strip out the baseband" of a dongle and you won't have a device that can connect to the network, authenticate, shift cells or anything else. It's like stripping the firmware off your disk drive.

Fully support the initiative for an open baseband. One reason it's not open is the (fairly legit) fear that intentional and unintentional DoS attacks would occur, affecting everyone in the area. It's really really simple to be an obnoxious cellular network citizen and it's pretty damn hard to police.

Baseband bugs that impact networks are common too due to the complexity. I saw a function point analysis of GSM vs 3G once, seem to remember 1-2 orders of magnitudes difference. Ahh Function Points, you flawed devil of a management metric.
I like Programming Praxis (http://programmingpraxis.com/), it has mostly algorithmic problems and the questions also include solutions.
Great advice!

What worked for me is to contact friends who are now in a very good finantial position. I have a high school friend and 3 years ago, when I was starting with this startup thing, he told me that he would like to listen to my ideas if one day I needed investment. So, now I need, I am ready to make an investment worthy, so I went to him, he liked the idea and he said yes!

He is not "smart money", and not connected at all with the rest of the market or the VCs. But is someone I can trust, smart and have the money (he is investment banking). Good enough for me.

But even if this works, by all means keep creating this network with VCs, successfull founders and mentors.

Also, you didn't apply to YC because you thought you didn't fit the demographics?!?! WTF?!?! You are quiting a job to do something with very low chances of success and is influenced by stupid myth? C'mon! Apply first, raise doubts later!
This is from a while ago, but checkout the script at the end of this post: http://planscope.io/blog/my-most-effective-newsletter-to-dat... This is how I landed many of our clients (I also did a lot of edu-seminars, etc.)

Whether I was billing by the hour or the week, I always estimated in a ballpark number of weeks a project would take, which translated to an estimated budget.
This is kinda my experience too, but it makes me very uncomfortable. It's as if some people have no asshole radar, and consistently end up being hurt because of it, but you can't simply tell them this (and worse, since they have no asshole radar then they have no reason to think that you aren't the asshole). However, this is a pretty self-serving thing for me to believe - I'm a decent person, other people are assholes, yet other people can't tell that the assholes are assholes and this is why my decent nature is insufficiently appreciated. But it does happen to be a fairly straightforward answer to the question of how sending spammy and borderline creepy messages to women on dating sites could be a viable strategy and I am struggling to think of a better one.

This doesn't amount to "Women! It's actually all your fault for encouraging these guys!", although it could easily be taken that way. I presume it's more complicated than that, though I am not a sociologist or psychologist and can't really take the analysis much further.
afaik you can't do that with IFTTT
This is the most close trigger "New tweet by @me including @replies"
You can see a big difference when you look at Africa. Countries like Botswana and Mauritius really have seen great gains in economic growth through economic freedom, yet we think the whole continent is struggling. Compare that with Cuba, North Korea, and Zimbambwe at the bottom. For a while Botswana was outpacing Hong Kong, Singapore, Taiwan and South Korea in economic growth rate.
Genius! That's going to save me so much time. :-) #yearslost
I think the idea is to make heap allocation taxing to type. Basically the sigil is too easy to type, so its easy for application to just allocates a whup ass of memory. So, this way it might force you to think about each allocation.
I bet they can, but then you'll need a separate recipe for each different command, and as a user you'll need to enable each command before you can use it. This way you just start by tweeting and it just works (after 1st oauth process that is, that is initiated as a reply to your tweet)
> but it will make men much more considerate

Yey, the sexism here.
The filter doesn't need to be accurate right away to be effective. Also, you could design a training set that gives more information than something made up of random messages.

Anyway, if the filter weeds out most spam without getting too much false positives, that's a win. Then, as you mark more messages as "inappropriate", you get less and less such messages.
It's an appearance of freedom, but really, many public office officials do whatever they like so long as no one is watching. Scaling oversight past Tragedy of the Commons apathy is a must have in American public politics. (Sounds obtuse bullshit to make another point but the literal meaning is also a point.)
Is this guy having a laugh?

Every time I've upgraded my monitor, I've found it easier. If you don't want a window to be wider than a certain point, don't make it wider. Myself, whenever I see apple users, I see them with these tiny narrow windows with nothing else on screen, which I have never understood.

That said, I always value vertical resolution - I have never bought a 1920x1080 monitor as 1600x1200 is so much nicer, or 1920x1200 for the wider aspect ratio.
This post manages to both miss the point spectacularly, and make you sound like a thoroughly unpleasant person.

I doubt you get hit on by "fatties" or "gays" every day and in unsuitable situations.
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For the rest of rest of us, real freedom also means not being imprisoned for interacting with other consenting adults in ways that are illegal...

You mean interactions like paying a consenting adult $7.24/hour to clean your bedroom? Selling a consenting knowledgeable adult a substance which has not passed FDA review? Paying a person without a medallion to drive you to a different location?

As far as I know, you don't escape from patent/copyright or work visa issues by travelling to other nations. Incidentally, those things are included in the Heritage rankings, and collectively get more weight than tax/govt spend.

http://www.heritage.org/index/about
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Wait -- I've heard that most of the drug trade is conducted in US dollars. Let's crack down on those!
Not mine. I'd never use instagram - but now I can't buy a Nest thermostat, which I used to want.
> Just wing it. Seriously.
> Why is it that so few schools teach children how to speak in public?
> It is not difficult, all you need is a debating society.

Speech and Debate was, by far, the class in high school that has done more for me than any other class. The ability to stand up in front of people and start speaking is powerful. The ability to think of a topic and speak interestingly for 10 minutes on the subject is powerful.

Doesn't matter that I still have to remind myself to slow down or stop pacing or make eye contact or whatever else. People ask me how I learned to do that, and I always tell them about my Speech and Debate class.

The Foreign Extemporaneous Speaking I did during debate events in high school was wonderful. I still remember may favorite comment on a judges sheet. They'd told me that when I started speaking and shared my position, they disagreed immediately and thought I was wrong, but after those seven minutes, I'd completely changed their mind. That, for me, was the highest praise I could obtain.

Today, the ability to speak in front of people on the spot makes me more confident to speak up. It makes me more confident in so many areas of my life. I agree, schools fail to recognize how important that skill is. They don't realize how often it becomes useful in one's life.

I was lucky. My school wasn't the largest, but we had a full debating team, and frequently attended events throughout the year. But yeah, spot on. Get your kids into speech and debate. It will serve them the rest of their lives.
I didn't consult with a lawyer or something... each company and their "branding" rules for API users and most allow to use the logo under certain restrictions that to my best understanding I don't break. Dropbox for instance had to approve the app before I could use the API and I bet they had a look at the website beforehand.
Isn't this kinda moot if you're using any services that is domiciled in the States?
So you drive to Canada or Mexico, and take a flight from there. Presumably someone who is radicalised enough to want to put their life on the line would just get more angry if faced with the no fly list.
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The index is by a conservative think tank but its certainly not just about taxes. I understand its been impacted in the past by things like the Kelo decision. Anyway it says its these four things equally weighted:

Rule of Law (property rights, freedom from corruption);
Limited Government (fiscal freedom, government spending);
Regulatory Efficiency (business freedom, labor freedom, monetary freedom); and
Open Markets (trade freedom, investment freedom, financial freedom).
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While we're picking nits, You could have replaced "exacerbated" with "magnified" in the original sentence. "it intensifies" sounds a bit weird too.
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I wonder if that treaty has any effect on anything. Signing parties exclude Japan, New-Zealand, Russia, Chile, Ecuador and all central america. Seems like this is one of those treaty done just to say: 'Look we tried, but it's complicated, [yada yada yada]'.
Another interesting read I can recommend is this one:

http://www.amazon.com/Universal-History-Numbers-Georges-Ifra...
Ah I see. Yeah I haven't kept up with the PHP community really for about 5 years. I'll definitely have to take a look some time in the next coming weeks to see what's been going on.
Sorry, it's US only right now. In fact, it's mostly local work (NYC or SF) so even US-based remote devs are at a disadvantage.
You look up the word tyranny - it absolutely applies to the NSA situation!

And just saying 'others do it too' isn't enough to weasle out of the fact that the USA spends far, far, far more energy and effort on establishing its tyranny - militarily and technologically - than any other country.

Fact is, 'others' would like to live in a world where we don't have to deal with secret injections at the whim of a politician in our lives. Some of us would like to build companies to compete with the American hegemony, and some of us would very much like to reduce the power that the military-industrial tyrants currently ruling America have over the worlds' population. We're not happy having to deal with American pixy-dust solutions to the problem that they're not in control ..
Forgive me if i am not reading this correctly, but surely we need to know what bandwidth netflix is streaming at?

For example Virgin in the UK offers 20mbps+ on their fibre network for most customers, so this is telling me that netflix is able to stream at a maximum bitrate (of assumably 3mbps)?

What this is not telling me is that Virgin's average network speed.
The idea is that your "high side" device is a phone, with all your apps, etc. It communicates over a well defined interface (USB seems like the best, but bt or wifi could be adequate given certain considerations) to a fully-functional mifi dongle or whatever which does normal cell/public-wifi/etc. functionality. No compromise of the external cell modem can get at high side data. The current "baseband can DMA your main device" is absurd; security processors (only on iOS and BB and maybe WP, really) help a little, but not enough.

Yes, it is two small boxes right now, but there's no reason you couldn't build a "baseband firewall" which puts baseband in one area, a firewall in between, and the regular phone, with only a well defined open interface in between.
> But also give me what a form submission error looks like.

I've been waiting over three months now for my designer to give me this. I mention it every time I see them and it never gets done.

Do they like my awful pink error boxes or just avoid errors when demoing???
Here's the actual index http://www.heritage.org/index/

It's a pretty well made website. You can export filtered data in csv, there are profiles for each country, etc.
Which poem (as you may well know) provided the title for Adam Curtis's interesting documentary about what happened when this cybernetic pastoral utopianism began to interact with politics and industry: http://vimeo.com/38724174
"In a web app world if, for example, Microsoft brings out a new input device (like kinect), nobody will actually be able to develop software for it until the gatekeepers of the 'web standards' decide to design an API for it."

What stops Microsoft (in this example) to implement kinect support in IE as a new API, propose it as a standard and evolve the interface like every other web API - that is, in parallel to the standardization process?

If it's any good, Google and Mozilla will scramble to implement it to prevent users to defect to IE.
Duodecimal counting still persists in some places in inches-per-foot and in the UK until 1971 in the "pounds, shillings and pence" old-money system. (12 pence to a shilling and 20 shillings to a pound).

It's interesting to me that both duodecimal and decimal counting are recommended as being easy to calculate with.

The benefits of decimal come from our using base-10 for other purposes. I guess the best of all possible worlds would be to use duodecimal for all units (including our normal number system).

Then we'd get the ease of use of modern base-10 units plus the better factorisation of duodecimal.

(But we'd still have an impedance mismatch with the binary powers. The KB/KiB split wouldn't go away).
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This came off as much more judgmental than I intended, especially towards Apple which I respect as a company and whose products I admire from a design and integration perspective. I was also not trying to belittle Apple fans or customers of any of the other big name manufacturers.

I also really like OS X. As a FreeBSD user for many years, seeing OS X be successful is even a little gratifying because I know there's a lot of cross-pollination going on behind the scenes. I'm not a mobile/laptop kind of guy, but did use a MBP for a couple of years and it was without question the nicest laptop I've ever used. If I were to buy a laptop today it would probably be a Macbook Pro.

I've been building computers from parts for 30 years. I enjoy the research, part selection and construction aspect of the process. I like that I can go into the process with a specific set of criteria and come out with something that satisfies them exactly or, barring that, that I'm in control of the compromises. I like that if these criteria change or I find I made a mistake (more likely), I can just swap out a part and continue on. This is possible with most of the name-brand PC desktops, less so with the Apple products, but I like building it all myself the most.

Also, as a FOSS user, it's typical for hardware support to be an issue. Sometimes it feels like various industries either do not care about me as a user or actively want me to suffer; constructing a modern PC that doesn't have support issues is a challenge that brings a small amount of satisfaction when overcome. I understand if people think this is silly.

So, I consider myself an enthusiast. Given this explanation, hopefully my original comment makes more sense.
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Unscientific rubbish. Discourse about economic justice is "value laden" but talk of economic freedom is based on "economics without values."
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I think you are confusing high resolution with high DPI (Dots Per Inch). The first one is a measure of resolution while the second one a measure of density. Sure they are both related, and I think your point gets across, but they are not the same.
No Play store in this I hope. I'm currently running Cyanogenmod without Gapps and I'm wondering what this will offer me.
No. The problem is not the common user who just follows common hardware and software. The problem is common hardware and software, which put security last.
To me, this is pretty awesome and not at all creepy (22). A friendly UI and ease of use for life tracking? Yes please. Attach it to barbells to track workouts.
What makes you think that other jobs would be better ? Not everyone is as well equipped in life as you are (an assumption based on the fact that you have a computer and time to post on HN).

Freedom != opportunities
Just get an old Nokia feature phone
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sure do, just don't eat, drink, get medical care, shelter, or education. Other than that, no problemo!
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Hey guys, I like your landing page a lot--what framework did you use for it? It looks like you used something out-of-the-box, not necessarily from scratch.
It would take less than 5 minutes of research to learn that it was not just about low taxes. Also cherry picking one country on there does nothing to disprove the notion that in general countries with higher economic freedom have higher economic growth. I don't think they are trying to say it is the one and only factor as that would be ridiculous. If it were purely ideological the list would look nothing like that anyway so I don't see why people are getting bent out of shape.
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For the record, some regions have "late payment" (with interest & charge) laws. Notably the European Union. http://ec.europa.eu/enterprise/policies/single-market-goods/...

I agree with your general point that an early-discount, as opposed to a late-fee, is an easier sell.
We've created a PDF with a summary of the questions and answers. Great for reading on your tablet.

→ http://btl.st/KiNU0L (PDF, 394 KB)
As anybody who's ever tried to train an email spam filter from scratch can tell you , the number of messages you need to classify in order to be useful is huge.

With email spam, everyone can more or less agree on what it looks like so you can reuse other people's training data but by deciding on what is a "bad" online dating message is much more complicated.
Not even remotely granular. Install XPrivacy[1] (which is still not granular enough for me, as it lacks filtering over function arguments) and see that categories are very broad.

[1]: https://github.com/M66B/XPrivacy#xprivacy
I know people here in Germany, far older than my 35 who give away every single bit of their privacy (and in that the privacy of their communication-partners).

For example: We have the so called "Spackeria" a post privacy movement, that arguments for not only willingly omitting every form of privacy, but to be brutally open/honest about everything in your life - and they really seem to mean everything.

And I know of people in their early twenties caring strongly. So no, it does not seem to be an age thing, but more of a ideology thing.
It's an absurd question. You might as well ask "Which socks should I wear to the meeting?" Because if your answer matters in the end, it's because you used something extreme. The only time this would matter would be if it was the reason you didn't get funded/interest. Who cares whether the presenter uses Prezi, PowerPoint, Keynote, etc? No one. Who cares that you wore black wool socks instead of brown polyester ones? No one. But if you try to do your presentation at the command line, for example, you're done. Or if you wear crazy runner half-leg socks and make a point to show them off multiple times during the meeting, you're done.

You should have better things to worry about. The fact that you don't should worry you.
Most of our clients have been in NYC or the SF Bay area and they usually prefer local developers. Even if someone is working remotely, it's helpful to be able to meet once a week or so.

We're happy to take applications from developers elsewhere, but we might not be able to get back to you for a while.
its from themeforest. pick your landing page here: http://themeforest.net/category/marketing/landing-pages (and then modify a little...)