skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's fairly accurate. We're adding support for more retailers rapidly, and the ability to see and manage orders from across the internet from a unified place (the Zinc Save dashboard) is part of our value proposition.

If you place an order with a retailer we support, you don't need to dig around their website to figure out how to cancel it. We provide a consistent interface.
I like this. The idea is that you can easily get lost among the facts and details; forcing yourself to stop and distill everything in 30 seconds trains you to find the overarching patterns and reasons.
Isn't the next win turning your house / apartment into a game world / holodeck using something like this together with an Oculus Rift?

Household layout and furniture are mapped out, then re-textured to represent a castle, evil lair, enemy corporation, etc. Textures can update allowing the story to reuse each room as different places as you progress - the same way the holodeck area is actually small but uses optical illusions to give you a sense of greater mobility.

Not saying we have holodeck. But it's a step towards.
you mean javascript is native on Firefox OS. Firefox OS api =/= web standards.
You could increase your potential user base by 50% by adding firefox support

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_web_browsers

seems to indicate firefox has about half the usage of chrome.
Fun to imagine this tech being put into a contact lens.
I am trying to trace some of the problems. For example, I believe Vic Gundotra should probably be fired.
How about a HUD that projects a map onto a firefighter's SCBA facepice?

That would be absolutely incredible... Firefighters die every year because they get disoriented and lost in zero-visibility conditions. Even if it didn't have a pre-generated map of the structure loaded... it could build a map as it went, and at least be able to provide a 'retrace my steps' view.
Thanks! It's Backbone.js on the front-end (with lots of help from the amazing strophe.js), Rails for the REST API, node.js for lots of supporting services, ejabberd for XMPP, and MySQL for storage. It's one of those problems that seemed like it was going to be simple to solve and then wasn't (as usual) so there are quite a few moving parts to bring the whole experience together.
That's exactly the sort of volume we are looking to cost optimise. As for absolute cost it's really difficult to say, it depends so much on the exact configuration of your board.

If you would like to upload a design the quote is pretty much instant!
Please explain, how do you get an efficient market without monopolies if you don't have anti-trust regulation?
That's great. Until they take bad risks, cry "too big to fail" and finally socialize their risk. I'm more on the libertarian side myself, but you can't deny the hypocrisy here. If a business is so big that it poses an existential crisis to the US, then it needs to be broken up by the government. Plain and simple.
Woah, did I miss something? When did HN start voting up articles from "a leading voice of the American left, offering socialist perspectives on politics, economics, and culture"? I mean, not that I'm complaining too much, but that's a total shift from what I remember of a year or two ago. Did the demographics shift or have the times changed people's opinions?
True. But if you cut the wrong nutrients, you'll lose not just fat, but muscle. Your body will throw whatever it needs in the fire to survive. A diet high in fat and protein is better than a diet high in carbs.
How does an security PoC and API library fall under the DMCA? See this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7273662

From what I recall, the DMCA is about copyright and trademark infringement.
In London, i observe considerable bureaucracy, outsourcing, and all-round incompetence in capital markets organisations. Quite possibly less than in retail operations, though.
Budgeting for hosting? Compare the costs Don't get fooled by the hype.
Is "culturally interesting" code for dirty and run down? ;)
My idea was more of a replacement for a shopping list, not necessarily one's memory. To do diffs on physical environments may help situations where the contents of the diff matter. Maybe you don't have to catalog, maybe it can just show you what shape appears to be gone. Yes, there are many practicalities not ironed out, but I could see it being useful.
Central planning in Russia was really incompetent and food shortages in Russia (not Ukraina) while Stalin was in power were often result of incompetence. In short, they used the fields in a wrong way.
True, engine efficiency is kind of flat-lined. Turbines aren't efficient for most GA operations, but there are new diesel aviation engines coming online.

Aerodynamically, I don't know about big gains. Something like a Lancair Legacy is pretty low drag. You can make lower-drag planes, but that typically comes with much higher stall/takeoff/landing speeds that make the plane harder to fly and much less safe in the event of a forced landing.
Yep, that's about right. If you do it right, schooling can be quite a bit cheaper, but starting is sometimes even less than 20k.

Plus figure in "working" 60+ hours a week and only getting paid for 30-40 of them. It's not uncommon for airlines to fly pilots from city to city to stage them for flights. But they only pay them for the time they are actually touching the controls. So they get up at 3am to catch series of flights, then don't start getting paid until noon.
I take a cupcake tray, throw an egg in each compartment, shredded cheese, and some bacon. Cook. Each one is now a keto-friendly "mcmuffin" with no muffin.

http://www.reddit.com/r/ketorecipes
> First, diamonds are not fucking rare.

True, but jewel-grade diamonds are rare. Likewise, run-of-the-mill executive talent isn't rare... but top quality talent is.
Is China a well regulated market? Or are they communists who don't understand markets?
The solution is to stop centralized data collection.

The reason it doesn't happen is because corporations don't like giving up control of data that they can keep to themselves and store forever.

Many of these apps could run clientside and access the cloud solely for information, but that doesn't fit in with the Google vision of organizing the world's information and making it useful for selling products and services to advertisers.

Data retention and collection practices that prevent widespread spying must be codified into law for this to ever work. Companies, Google being the shining example, (but Apple and Facebook not far behind) will simply not enforce these boundaries upon themselves, because the data is just too valuable in the context of future algorithmic analysis.

Also, it's not a "slight chance". All these major innovations HAVE been used for evil, from mobile phones to wide-area networking to the web. It's not just fearmongering.
Thanks for the feedback! We're hoping to make the extension work for one-click users soon.

Establishing trust is a big challenge for us. The best we know to do is provide an amazing experience for each order we get, and hope that trust in our service spreads through word of mouth.
and the alternative would be? why would VC invest money with such an ease if there wouldn't be a good chance of a good exit? And how would you have innovation without VC? I mean take any place outside Bay Area - such anyplace would be an exaple of innovation without easy VC.

>WhatsApp is the kind of unconventional startup that could have changed the world if it had grown into an independent public company.

future is easy to predict.

>It might have been able to attract some of Silicon Valley's most talented engineers and pioneered new business models that don't rely on intrusive ads and pervasive data collection.

and the money to pay these engineers would come where from? I mean if we exclude "intrusive ads and pervasive data collection" as the revenue stream (the stream that glorified in the article Google mostly relies on).
This reminds me of William Hertling's 'AI Apocalypse' trilogy, specifically the last book 'The Last Firewall' where brain implants enabled depth-specific metadata info on everyone in vicinity.
> In an efficient market without monopolies there's no such thing as rent seeking.

That's a variation on the assume-a-can-opener fallacy [1].

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assume_a_can_opener
>It's fucking absurd.

On an unregistered browser, someone has to guess the answer to two security questions and the PIN. Did it occur to you that maybe it's not a problem since it's been that way for at least 8 years now (I signed up in 06)?
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The problem is I use credit cards for reward points and I only pay them off once a month. It sounds like you can only get budget reports for money you've spent on your Simple card. Correct me if I'm wrong. This wouldn't be too helpful to me. The budget tool would be awesome if it encompassed all my cards.
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I suppose the good news is that 3D point cloud data in context of a public setting wouldn't be much more invasive than the already-pervasive video surveillance we have today.

The bad news is as you say: having mapping data of your private residence siphoned off by third parties, be it government or private industry.

I would say I'm as excited as I am worried about the potential for this technology. That said, I think the privacy implications are very similar to Kinect, which is already here. The only difference perhaps being mobility.
Im not sure where all of these cluttered Google search UI comments are coming from, this is what I see. Maybe a reality distortion field due to pent up HN Google hate? Just a few icons in the top right off screen with my profile pic and configuration wheel icon you can't see.

Things look fine.

http://i.imgur.com/J9AqaQK.png
It has an emulator, debugger and simulated hardware built-in. The dialect itself is very simple to learn, so it's perfect for teaching assembler. Also, compared to any desktop-tool, the setup-time is zero.

I'm glad you like it :)
> FB buying WhatsApp will have almost zero impact in day-to-day lives.

I was only responding in the context of parent's PR comment, re: scale of press worthiness of the day. Tech sites have been covering WhatsApp/FB non-stop for the past 24 hrs.

As for impact on the world, this is just a call for developers. I'm encouraged by the ambition, but it's too hard to judge if this will be successful. FB/WhatsApp will almost immediately affect 400M users (+1M more per day).
"You can write sloppy code in any language" follows "LAMP is really easy to set up." Both of those things are true. But you know what? A quick search is all it takes to run quite a few configurations that don't involve PHP.

Honestly, this article is pretty poor, even by medium.com blogspam standards. "Sure, PHP [weaknesses here], but it gets the job done." You know what? So does Brainfuck. And the argument there would be that it'd end up being unmaintainable, but the author has already dismissed that, because hey! You can write bad code in any language, so it's not a valid argument.

It’s just one of those pointless endless debates. Just use the right tool for the right job and sometimes PHP is the right tool for the job. A developer who doesn't understand that isn't a developer worth paying.

A developer that doesn't share the author's opinion that PHP is sometimes the right tool for the [undefined] job is not "a developer worth paying?" Even if we take the arguments presented here as valid or worthwhile, the only scenarios the author has presented in which PHP is "the right tool for the job" is when either you don't have a sysadmin or are so poor at systems administration that all you can manage is a LAMP stack (RED FLAG) or you don't know anything else (because if the argument is that you can write good or bad code in any language, PHP has absolutely no advantage over anything else). I'd say that person is not qualified to choose a platform, let alone build your business.

If you're going to argue that PHP doesn't suck, at least point out its merits. The political style of "I'm not as bad as my opponent, or at least I'm no worse" doesn't work here.
Imagine if you're requiring that local module throughout your codebase. Now suppose that the module has become large enough to be come a directory. All those requires with the .js extension will break! If you leave it off, then no problem. Always avoid adding the .js.
What do you mean? The person you're replying to talked about MDN, which is the Mozilla Developer Network you linked to.
Actually it seems they place the order for you, i.e. not using your Amazon account at all. In other words it's a proxy service, except instead of paying a fee for the proxy, you actually pay less, and they make up the difference through optimized ordering habits. Very interesting.
That's unnecessary.
Flying at night without an instrument rating in some areas is pretty sketchy to be fair. More than one person has died by losing track of where the ground is and where it isn't. In much of Europe you actually do need an instrument rating to fly at night.
The solution to the privacy question isn't easy so obviously we should all do nothing.
It has "Java, C/C++, as well as the Unity Game Engine" API end points, and if it's fast enough to be input to a game, it isn't touching the cloud.

I think you're misreading this. There may someday be a Google product that reads in a full 3d scan of your surroundings, but it's not this product. It's a sensor and some APIs.
Until a device is actually released that requires you to upload all data, it seems premature to give up on it.
Invoke the boogie-man of "US spies" and open fire on your own people. FTFY.
Business Insider reported $10+ million run rate:

http://www.businessinsider.com/y-combinator-startup-standard...

Edit: from "ST stated" to "BI reported"
This might be slightly relevant here:

http://arxiv.org/pdf/1002.2284.pdf
The good news is that it works great in the browser, so it should work really well in Ubuntu. We support desktop notifications in Chrome and Firefox. The desktop app is based on Chromium so it should be fairly trivial to get it working on Linux in the not too distant future.
"I firmly believe that the financial sector is nothing more than a thief."

Then, why do you use their services?

If your financial advisor does not provide value to you you could fire him.

"Can anyone tell me a way to save for retirement that produces similar results and isn't funding criminals?"

Is called: Investing in yourself. You should probably do it as early as possible, you will probably lose all your money(like most people do first time they try). Then you will either go back to your financial advisor(but with some respect from what he does, as you show how it was not as easy as it looked) or you will learn and do well.

Personally I don't like lots of financial institutions, mainly because the tricks of simulating value created in order to justify outrageous incomes. Then the trick is revealed and society has to pay the party.

Having said that, investing well is a profession or value creation activity like any other. It takes skill to know what is going to work and what not, where to risk wealth and where not, and facing responsibility and accountabilty.

The problem is not the financial services, like people like communist(much worse system) want make people to believe.

The problem are monopolies, big institutions without real competition married with politicians.
Note that this works and is pretty easy, just like switching to any other DNS server it can take up to 24 hours for the changes to propagate everywhere.
Great article, comes at a very good time for me and my company.
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There's a spectrum, obviously, but the post I was responding to, as phrased, seemed to be oversimplifying and basically arguing against letting the invisible hand, defined as a bunch of selfish a-holes creating market forces, work at all. (The poster clarified downthread that that's not what they meant, don't want to misrepresent them here.)

I don't disagree with your conclusion about political structure, but if we're talking about pure collective planning with no reliance on private allocation of capital, that's never actually been done with a democratic political structure anyplace larger than a kibbutz. Democratic socialism, IMO, is much closer to well-regulated capitalism than it is to communism.
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Let me give you another example that goes on the line of your comment.

Days ago a friend showed me how after calling a restaurant (just a number) for doing a reservation and later the contact list displayed the name of the restaurant and an image of it.

Cool, right? Joe and Foo love this feature, but do not know the implications of it: a query is sent to Google asking for the info on a number (one must presume, tied up to your account id). Google now knows which numbers you are calling. and, Assuming they do this just for restaurants (how would they know, the query is sent anyways), they might even know your food preference.
This is called "tax".
The "real" number is 66%

While I don't normally agree with dismissing something from the source -- in this case Apple Insider -- the way that the article digs to try to generate their manufactured numbers borders on comical. Secondly, the metric that it is "junk" (the article's word) because the ASP is $200+ is asinine, if you will. As is the notion that such makes it a "feature phone" (where ASPs were in the LOW double digits).

A $200 device in many Asian markets is a decidedly premium device. The Xiaomi Redmi, for instance, is a $139 (retail!) decidedly decent mid-range device. In no way does anyone have to design down at all for devices like that, the notion being absurd.
This would explain why it is barely used in France :
http://ymuchomas.files.wordpress.com/2013/09/global-reach-of...

Unlimited texts come with every mobile plan which cost more than 20€,
even when it's not unlimited the rates are really cheap and you don't pay for received texts ever.
MMS were never part of the data plan either, when you get unlimited SMS it always comes with free MMS.

afaik, using whatsapp require you to have a data plan, and in France you'll almost always get unlimited texts before data plans
Startups could create products that generate revenue. They would use invested money to scale quickly.
Surely I'm not the only Charlie Stross fan who immediately thought "SCORPION STARE"...
You're aware that you have rights under DMCA too? File a counter-notification[1] explaining why you think the takedown isn't valid and Github will likely put the repo back online. And if WhatsApp doesn't like it, they can sue you.

[1] http://www.chillingeffects.org/dmca/counter512.pdf
I thought VCs invested in a diverse portfolio of companies, expecting most to fail, and profit drastically off the few that succeed. Since when did they expect all their holdings to get an exit?
SMSs are expensive and people just don't prioritize email like they do IMs.
It's machine vision. I mean the possibilities are endless. Your phone can see now. This gives the device way more information about an environment then a camera would. I can put this on the dashboard of my car or on the handle bars of bikes, I could leave this thing on at home while I'm work, I could use it to as a click counter at a theater to measure capacity, I could navigate pitch darkness much better, etc.
Its never to late to save and start living healthy.
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China's a big place, a lot of people, several sets of rules depending on where you are and I don't even know which decade you're asking about.

IM-uneducated-O their national decision makers currently do a better job than ours on economic policy (they actually invest in infrastructure and aren't in bankers' pockets on the plus side, a bit too cozy with leading industrial firms on the minus side), while local government there tends to be very corrupt by our standards.
I wouldn't call that article the most accurate written about Standard Treasury.
Sure but it is not as simple as that. The banks were coerced into taking on the risk by the Community Reinvestment Act.
>feels compelled to not even go home at night

I don't think you're following. This isn't the company that has had a Series A and Series B.

The guy in that example lives there. There was another place that was hacking away with no air conditioning; It was just a bunch of passionate 18-year-olds with their baby of an idea. This isn't a W2-health-insurance-401k lifestyle, it is a Jobs-and-Woz-in-a-garage-we're-broke lifestyle—and that is one of the huge reasons it is exciting!!!

I implore you to visit. You can't walk away from a tour not feeling energized by everyone involved.
Apple ‘Snaps Up’ Three Years’ Worth of Sapphire Screens for iPhone 6
That's not what they mean by "rent-extraction". One of the problems with articles on Jacobin (which they try to combat but still fall short) is assuming too much prior context. It limits the mass appeal of their writing.

Those with capital are extracting rent for the use of their capital, much like a landlord with property charges rent for the use of the property. Rentiers (there's a term you can look up on Wikipedia for lots more) as a class are parasitical on actual producers. That's what's meant by the title - "the rent is too damn high". Not that the use of capital or property is worthless, but that the rent charged for its use is brutal and immoral.
You're falling into the trap.

It's not a question of more or less government. Just like it's not a question of socialism vs capitalism.

We know that some problems are best solved when society pools its resources, and other problems are best solved by market forces.

For those problems where pooling society's resources is the way to go (healthcare), it's a question of what are the "regulations"? Are they effective at preventing corruption? Or, are they built in order to facilitate corruption?

The devil is always in the details, and that's what matters, not whether there's more or less regulation. Take healthcare for example, if we went single-payer, that's a government solution, but it also requires far fewer regulations than the current system.

There are systems that can be put in place that are simple and effective at serving the general public. The reason they don't get put in place is because big business has captured the legislators. Is this the fault of government, or is this the fault of big business? I think we need to fight to put in place those simple, effective systems and not eschew all government. People's memories are short, but we've seen what happens when the government is small or non-existent.
So that your passing isn't a financial burden on your family. Also, he doesn't look like he was in any worse shape than Winston Churchill. And, Jim Fix was in _much_ better shape. Life is uncertain.
news:comp.misc is active and interesting
http://squte.com provides a moderated interface to newsgroups (it will be familiar if you have ever been to slashdot.org)
http://soylentnews.org
Solved then: I see nowhere in this that says that this device is centralizing any data.
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Not rue, homelessness and welfare is also garunteed should you not save. There are many things which can kill you in this world every day. There is many more which can simply maim your ability to work and provide for your family.
Some religious people used to call usury a sin.
Neato's robot vacuum cleaners already do this using Lidar.
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Not going to subscribe to read the whole thing. Just Googled the issue to find more info.