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>Video and audio are free from all notifications, signals, adverts or pop-ups.

I guess it depends on if you consider the Skype logo an advertisement.
Patiently waiting in a trash field for a future entrepreneur genius who would devise a way to extract on the cheap anything and everything useful from it.
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if you're in London and looking for someone to share in your SICP adventure, check out the London SICP study group: http://www.meetup.com/London-SICP-Study-Group/ we just simmered down for the time being, but parallel groups are planning to start soon.
Regular folks aren't buying into firms with proprietary knowledge that deeply care about trading speed. They're buying into index funds or dumb mutual funds. These sorts of funds are the ones that benefit from more accurate and faster updating prices at the expense of the Bill Ackmans & David Einhorns of the world.
Wait -- so you're saying that Disney has a moral right to buy up land at a fixed price, because they had the bright idea to build a theme park there? That Disney should be able to freeze the valuation of all the lots they want to buy, after the neighbors find out that Disney is buying?

Or is it just that you believe that ONLY the landholders should be able to profit by raising their sales price, and not some third party who may have "invested" his/her time and money in figuring out what Disney's future plans are and starts "front running" Disney on land acquisition?

It feels like the more we discuss, the grayer the situation gets.
It's also a dead ringer for all the stereotypes about gung-ho ignorants taking all their views and opinions from the talk show ideologue du jour.
> I agree 100%. Apple's biggest problem is they've ceased innovating. Was a flimsy fingerprint reader really supposed to be the killer app of the iPhone 5s? Jesus.

No, the problem is they are innovating around what will be in the new commercial. The truth is that smartphones are largely "done". Usually this is when Apple moves on to the next thing but unlike in the past there is no obvious new next thing to move into. Because of the success of the iPhone and to a lesser degree the iPad the expectation among shareholders is that the next thing has to be high-margin like those things are/were.
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Did the quick ^W at work :|
Good to get a direct response. APR is still the right # to give Apples to Apples comparisons. Service fees should be included.

That said, these rates are no worse (and in many cases better) than other Microloan program. It highlights the dearth of credit for good projects when people can make a profit borrowing at such high rates.

This is a highly lucrative business.
the video was posted for April fool's, wasn't it?
I think you mis-read what I wrote.

Nowhere do I mention a guy actively wanting to sell 2 million at 209 (the market maker was willing to, but didn't necessarily desire to) nor do I mention a guy (an actual human being, not HFT) who was in fact able to buy it for 210 because neither of those happened.

Furthermore there is no such thing as an HFT market maker (at least that I'm aware of) because the definition of a market maker is someone who has to provide liquidity continuously. The HFTs all go offline when things get dicey ergo they're not market makers.

What I described is how it SEEMS to a lay-person and how it SEEMS like HFTs are jumping the line.

A human being can't want to buy or sell stocks much faster than the blink of an eye, which is about 80ms. So everything that happens faster than that, or the click of a key (which might be 100 or 200ms) is going to SEEM like some serious bullshit. Technically it might not be but the entire world isn't going to get educated about HFT to make "smart" decisions.
> The feed the HFT gets is faster than the NYSE to NASDAQ feed.

Assuming for the moment that someone can see an execution from NYSE and route an order to NASDAQ in response in less
time than NYSE can send their own order to that Exchange you haven't answered the rest of the question.

How does the HFT even know there is an order in-flight to NASDAQ? How does the HFT know that the buyer is willing to pay $10.02?

> You placed an ordinary 200,000 share limit order. You didn't use one of the special order types.

Is this supposed to be an answer? 100k executed at NYSE @ $10.00, this is public information. NYSE routed the other 100k to NASDAQ. Are you saying there is some way for Mr. HFT to know the particulars of that order to NASDAQ?

> knowing they can sell back to you when you buy the other half of your order.

You seem to be under the impression that at some point along the line someone besides the NUSE is seeing the parent order details (buy 200k @ $10.02). Please explain how you believe this information is transmitted to third parties.
Can anyone explain what "drafting" is?

It's apparently not playing the game itself.
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This is an important lesson, but I was hoping for an implementation of stopping rules. If you're looking to actually stop your N-armed bandit trials properly, look at the S+ package SeqTrial. It implements the stopping rule framework described in KittelsonEmerson99 (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11315020).
I like Google's [0]:

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What's the rationale behind having laws like these in place? Is it protectionism for the hotel industry, or is it more intended to protect apartment renters from unintended liability issues?
I only partially agree with your comment. I wish there were a way to distinguish between people truly profiting off rent-controlled property (as @numlocked said) and sometimes not even living here, and those just trying to get a little extra cash to make ends meet.

If you think about a year's worth of rental cost, no matter how much you rent out your apartment for in those short term bursts, you're probably never going to even get close to breaking even. And especially if you're one of those people not in a booming industry, it can really help when you're out of town for a weekend or so to try and defray the cost of living. Because while rent is controlled, nothing else in this city is.
This is really disappointing news if this acquisition goes the way it's sounding. Cover was a great app and one of the reasons to use Android over iOS (along with Link Bubble, etc.).

At the least, if it gets pulled or falls into abandon, that's opportunity for someone else to fill the spot. There are obvious ways to improve Cover (like picking a time interval for it to default to Work mode--it is pretty bad at detecting Work mode in general IME). It would also be nice if you could customize the number of apps that show up in the app switcher (mainly useful on large devices like a Note 3).
Unfortunately, it's so laggy as to be unnavigable. :/ Nice idea but as you say the message is lost.
Well with this system on memory footprint, if my application doesn't need Ethernet I won't add one to the board, and if I don't add one to the board then the jack and chip won't be wasted or e-wasted.
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IMO "average lender interest" means the average amount of interest paid to lenders over the life of all loans made on the site. I see nothing intentionally deceitful here. It does not say APR because they do not mean APR. My understanding is that the length of each loan is variable, and because of that, the effect of the site's fees on "APR" will vary with each specific loan. "Average lender interest" is more meaningful to lenders than it is to borrowers, and I would imagine that it was a term coined for them.

I haven't been through the loan process on the site, but I cannot imagine that the exact terms and fees are not fully disclosed on a site like this. I just don't see anything wrong here given that the site deals in loans with many variables. At worst they are guilty of advertising a number that does not have a lot of meaning to borrowers, but again they have two sets of constituents: borrowers and lenders. This number does have meaning to lenders.
> Therefore, a properly-functioning wave-to-disarm feature (and other irritation-mitigation mechanisms) are not just conveniences; they literally save lives.

I'd be interested to know how well these things line up, you're expecting a big overlap in people who will disable their smoke alarms because it's too much hassle and people who will go out and buy an expensive and fancy one. So you're looking for someone who really cares about their fire alarm but is stupid enough to completely disable one.

However, a non-functioning disable feature could be either phenomenally annoying or hugely dangerous. I don't want to worry that my smoke alarm has turned off just because my dog ran past it or because of a bug. We're also talking about a device which can have its settings updated remotely, what if an update bricks it or turns back on something I feel is unsafe?

> When a smoke detector starts falsely making noise in the middle of the night

I'm not sure I've ever had this happen, would not getting a decent smoke alarm solve this?

> Similarly, when there's one in the kitchen

I've never had a smoke alarm in the kitchen. In the hall next to the kitchen, yes, but not in the kitchen. That's across 9 houses/flats, the last time I set off one from cooking was about 8 years ago. I'm happy dealing with a once-a-decade annoyance.
* Hearing aids that can run off body heat. Not even sure if this is possible, but I've heard of watches that can recharge their batteries from body heat. You know how expensive and annoying it is to buy batteries for a hearing aid?

* A better credit report system than Experian/TransUnion/etc. The current system is flawed on a number of levels -- not the least being that someone can file a claim against you and you have very little recourse. Something with a little more accountability and a little less emphasis on distant history. For instance, if two years ago I lost my job and fell behind on bills, but now I've had a steady job for a year and have been paying down my debt, that shouldn't rule me out for buying a car or a house. In other words, just because I might have been financially unstable in the past does not mean I'm financially unstable now.

* a HUD for subtitles/closed captioning on TVs, so hearing people don't have to see subtitles while deaf/hard of hearing people can see them. This would be especially awesome in movie theaters.

* A Fitbit clone that actually figures out what I'm doing, rather than just counting steps. (For example, it knows my height/weight/gender, and it knows that I took X steps in Y minutes, so it should be able to calculate Z pace and conclude that I'm running.)

* Something that makes tracking caloric consumption EASY. For instance, I'm at a friend's house and we have some mac 'n cheese. I open up my LoseIt app, and I see several options: Kraft Mac 'n Cheese, Velveeta Mac 'n Cheese, KFC Mac 'n Cheese. Well, you know, we made this mac 'n cheese from scratch. Which one of these is the most analogous to what I just ate? At this point, I'm just guessing, right? So make an app that makes those guesses for me. "What'd you eat today, Jemaclus? On a scale of 1 to 5, with 5 being super healthy, how healthy do you consider what you just ate?" Then check out all the values for macaroni and cheese, identify the options that most closely match the health scale I gave, run some calculations, and come back with an estimate on what I ate. If at the end of the day you say "You ate somewhere between 1900 and 2150 calories today," that's better than saying "You ate exactly 1937 calories today," when honestly, I was just guessing about those portions to begin with.
Even if you own the place, are there issues with the bank who holds the mortgage (about 2/3 of all homes have mortgages) or the insurance company?
COuld simply be that the ignorant/dumb are more likely to react favorably to propaganda.
Thanks for the links -- wish I could take those courses in person.

I haven't found anything like SICP (thus my question), but I feel compelled to mention two great practical repos I discovered yesterday thanks to HN, both of which are teaching me a lot about practical type systems:

1. https://github.com/tomprimozic/type-systems (great practical intro to Hindley-Milner and variations)

2. https://github.com/typeclassy/plzoo (collection of mini languages implemented in OCaml, many of which feature different type systems)

Edit: Can't reply to jcurbo yet, but I'd be really interested in that Haskell link if you can remember it.
> Why not skip this step and offer real results as they type?

This is one of the most annoying thing for me for general search(if it's something very precise, OK). How annoying it is seems to be counterintuitive, since a lost of search components do it.

There can be half a dozen of UI elements popping under a text field. Autocorrection is one, autocomplete and input history are another two, autosuggestion can happen depending on the device (Os5~7 Blackberry phones heavily did it). IME is also right on this spot and individual keystrokes don't have much meaning in this case anyway.

It's usually sad to have two dropdown like components auto updating at each keystrokes, especially when there is a network request for each update on the one hidden below the other. It can wait for an ENTER key, really.
This is rich coming from a city with more dingy rent-by-hour flophouses than any other I've ever seen
I didn't know I2P also had some incentive system attached, but it doesn't sound like it's going as far as what the post is describing. I was just mentioning bitcloud because that's what they propose to do, I haven't followed their actual progress (maybe because there is none ?)

Concerning Tor, as far as I understand the incentive part is only active to make sure your host has a good enough average uptime, right ?
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I think the real outlier dots are "I give up, so I'll just click whatever."
Thanks! Stopping rules is probably something I'll look at in a later post.

Also, building in stopping rules is something Optimizely should consider.
Seriously, at the end they said "late 2016" for commercial production? Press release 2.5 years early.
and shorts without options to cover your ass are probably more stress for the individual(non filthy rich) investor than they're worth.
My company, OpenCNAM (https://opencnam.com/) provides a caller ID API with a pretty generous free tier. No signup required. You can hit the public API endpoints directly with a GET request, and get back caller ID information for a given phone number. Enjoy!
I don't see how that post is making an objective argument.
I think the highest priority needs to be "Put the results the user is looking for at the top of the list". Second might be "Don't put anything on the list unless it's likely to be what the user is searching for". I don't know if there needs to be a third, but if there was it would be something like "Do it fast and unobtrusively".

Applying this to the article, let's look at the examples in #6. Correcting "Gmae of Th" to "Game of Thrones" is great, but what are the chances that the user would have typed "Gmae of Th" if they were searching for "The Hunger Games", "Enders' Game", or "The Game"? I'd argue that it's close enough to zero that the last 3 choices shouldn't be on the list.
http://www.wizards.com/magic/magazine/article.aspx?x=mtg/dai...
The Droid Razr M is about the same size, at 4.82 x 2.40 x .33 inches[1]. It's only .09 inches wider, and .03 inches deeper than The 5s, and it is actually .05 inches shorter[2]. I'm not sure if you'd still find that too big though.

1: http://www.gsmarena.com/motorola_droid_razr_m-4973.php
2: https://www.apple.com/iphone-5s/specs/
Okay, because of lag they might have to retrace more than one step. But eventually, they would have gone "back in time" enough to disentangle, regardless of their direction.
It should be noted that Disqus ads are opt-out, meaning that new accounts have to explicitly disable ads.

Ads were OK when they were text link to another site a la AdWords: it was clear that they are ads. Native comment ads, however, can be deceptive.
It's mostly a question of training data. Google trains its acoustic models on thousands of hours of annotated audio samples. It's very hard of an open source project to i/ get enough data ii/ have the computing power to actually train with it.
Some people own their own home and still can't use Airbnb because their HOA (Home Owner Association) made a rule that you can't sublet your house. And if you are found in abayence of this rule, they can fine you any amount they want per day, and then if you still don't comply, they can sell your house and kick you out of it.

So people who have houses with an HOA, they don't technically own their house, they are just borrowing it from the HOA while paying the taxes, insurance, and doing all the work for them to keep the house up.
500 watts represents 5-10 incandescent light bulbs, or 1/3 of a hair dryer. It doesn't seem crazy that if the power electronics of the battery and charger were designed right, that they could handle this.

Of course, the rate of change of temperature might be a little shocking - you can imagine that the battery case might heat up 20-30 degrees in the 30 seconds of charging. (~1 degree Celsius per second)
Oh thank you very much for that. Wow, that "Bioorganic nanodots for non-volatile Memory Devices"[1] is a pretty quick read. I'd bet money they have used their material to build what is effectively a high internal resistance capacitor, storing charge rather than a chemical process. That makes much more sense as charge storage is limited only by dielectric constant and the internal resistance.

To make their video compelling they need to then start a program on the phone, and show it and a clock before the 'low battery' alert goes off. That will give a sense of how many watt-seconds they can hold in that volume.

[1] PDF: http://scitation.aip.org/deliver/fulltext/aip/journal/aplmat...
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Right but you need /jobs/XXX to return a response that is not 404. How you accomplish this is outside the scope of what 202 provides you.
It's interesting how many wrong clicks are piled up in the general region north of India / east of China. In other words, where any marginally informed person would think is an area of unrest and trouble.

Kazakhstan seems to be an attractor, probably because it's so big.

"Hmmm, so Afghanistan is in that general area, and it's a troubled country, so therefore Ukraine must be thereabouts also."
Enabling a large number of people to more easily do slightly illegal things can be viewed as an opening offer in a negotiation. If the scale is large enough that enforcing existing laws is unrealistic, what often happens is that lawmakers and offenders eventually meet somewhere in the middle.
That's a kind of ad-hominem attack on a law. Just because the hotel lobbyists might favor it doesn't mean it's not a good or fair law. The fact of the matter is that these sorts of provisions are supported not just by hotel lobbyists,[1] but property owners generally. Short-term renters reduce property value in neighborhoods, and property owners love measures to ban such rentals.

[1] Invoking the specter of "hotel lobbyists" is intensely amusing to me. If hotels had such good lobbyists, cities wouldn't have almost universally exorbitant (over 14% in NYC) hospitality taxes, which quite negatively affect the hotel industry.
I'd be interested to find out where this push of evictions is coming from. They mentioned a surge of complaints from neighbors of renters, but I think it's more likely to be the hotel industry pushing back, or perhaps the city making a point about evading hotel taxes.
The use of the word "successor" in the article title implies that Bitcoin is dead. It's a shame how many people (and news outlets) equate the failure of MtGox with the failure of bitcoin.
Ok. Folks who downvoted, tell me why you did. I thought this was a relevant question.
Drafting is a form of Magic the Gathering play where you start at a table with other players. Each player recieves 3 booster packs. One pack is opened, and each player selects one card from it, and passes it to the left. Once each pack has been exhausted, the next pack is opened. In this way a deck is constructed for play for the night.
I discovered it was https everywhere doing it.
The Micro is a $200 3D printer that can make a teacup in an hour
The obvious way of granting something to your heirs is to include it in your last will and testament. You could split the keys to your identity among different heirs, or give the complete key to any one of them.
If you're looking for a similar replacement, I like Aviate. Yahoo bought them, but they're still developing the app.
Your English broke down there, and I'm not sure what you're asking. "Why would anyone but HFT traders want to move 10K lots through the market?"?
They probably started development after the Skype fiasco at 30C3.
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The UX certainly doesn't help! I've been to Russia and Ukraine several times. I can easily point out Ukraine on a normal map but I must admit that single colored map is a bit confusing.
Is Google a search company?
Its about liability and protection of the other people in the building. This type of law has a long history and a lot of things can go very wrong. This is a totally different story from Uber and the taxi industry.
Drafting (Limited) is often more competitive than playing typical MtG with pre-made decks (Constructed)

In fact, drafting has become so popular that the next MtG expansion has a card that's only playable while drafting: http://www.wizards.com/magic/magazine/article.aspx?x=mtg/dai...
> What Mercedes' has done isn't so much about the innovative layout, it's that they've made it work without turbo lag.

The innovative layout is what enables the reduction in turbo lag. The latter is entirely predicated on the physical positions of the turbine relative to the compressor.
worse than having the team continue to work on a good product that people love.

I think it's the point of the author of the comment here.
It's illegal in SF even if you own your own place:

San Francisco bans all residential rentals of less than 30 days unless the hosts have a conditional use permit - an expensive and cumbersome process that virtually everyone ignores. The ban applies whether the hosts own or rent, paying guests visit frequently or once a year, or hosts rent out a room or an entire dwelling.

... though I'm not sure what the penalty is in that case, as you're not going to get evicted from your own home.
What's an example of any law that's currently in place which you feel is unjust or unfair?
Duly schooled.
Also - many of the borrowers find positive NPV results despite the high interest rates. This is because there is such a dearth of credit, that many activities that would be profitable elsewhere are just not being done.

If you make it illegal, it creates a worse problem because then people's legs get broken when they miss payments.
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Yeah, that's pretty much the value of a talent acquisition the founders: enough cash and credibility to make things go a lot faster the next time around.
Both. "Sohpisticated" as in sophistry, or, showy complexity.
If you haven't seen it yet, HBO have put the whole first episode on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VvkmsI54ss4