skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
http://www.carbuyingtips.com/used.htm

This has been around for years and is very in depth with his analysis.

I'm in the same vote , i'll be buying pre owned

but remember "a car is not an investment."

keep your payments low if leasing and lease short term

i guess in the end, ask yourself what car would you be fine with for a long period of time with no payments if buying
and why
It doesn't sound like a psychology experiment Scott is talking about, but a "stumble-upon" strategy. Psychology is a little more elegant than just pivot, pivot, pivot.
Interesting form factor (flat=easy to ship!) and price.

I wonder which features it offers and how it compares to a Raspberry.

Cheaper than the Raspberry, powered by USB, but also connected (usb-serial). No info about memory and flash (I guess some ports must for for a SD or for a USB client)

(it might make a cheap flashrom device - reading the specs ATM to see if SPI is there)
My advice for that kind of application would be to have a piecemeal approach. Use Hamlet for some templates on your page, and jQuery plugins for others. I hope it's modular enough to use as little or as much as you like.
They're used as "First level triggers" at some LHC experiments to pick out which collisions are interesting enough to store data from.
Anyone know how this is different from, say, prediction.io?

http://prediction.io/
It was a close second, but I think there's the same problem of someone already being named that.
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How about a 1 day trial or at least an example email on the page? The concept is great, but i'd be more comfortable spending the money on the subscription if I had some idea of what I should be anticipating in my inbox the following weekday.
Theres so much vitriol toward Microsoft in this thread regarding them "using" Krahulik as a PR pawn in their nefarious marketing schemes. He has written extensively about his experience using the Surface as a tool for professional illustration work (and for recreation) in the past; his thoughts on the Surface Pro 3 are not his first rodeo.

As someone who has been looking to buy a Surface for illustration work, it's so encouraging to see Microsoft even engaging with Krahulik, since it indicates to me that 'Artist' is a group of people they are actively pursuing, and willing to cater their device toward. He is an accomplished artist, and was a good pick to get feedback on this particular use of the device. It is also great PR and goodwill for Microsoft, but Krahulik's concerns seemed very genuine, and the fixes to them will benefit everyone like me who are looking to use their Surface for the same purpose.
Also checkout http://letsworkshop.com/
I've used them and can highly recommend the service, I got a few great leads over 2-3 months and the quality was high.

EDIT: Didn't realise it hadn't also been posted to Hacker News already. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7901640
>NY doesn't have enough road capacity to handle all of the taxis that would be profitable in a free market. //

Are you sure it will increase the overall number of vehicles on the roads?

There can only be more taxis if there is sufficient demand to pay for them and their drivers. If there are more taxis then there's a downward pressure on prices which, yes, creates the possibility of more demand. But reality doesn't follow that simple a model - it's probably chaotic - as more taxi availability will potentially reduce car and bus usage. If it doesn't reduce car usage then who's getting in the taxis? Taxis are better optimised resources in urban areas than car-ownership. Perhaps people who normally use a bus or walk can now afford a cab - can't have poor people using our transportation /s. Some people will switch to buses from cars because a bus is fine for many journeys and now it's affordable to do bus+cab journey or to do buses mostly and get a cab occasionally.

Suppose there are so many people who have a clean driving license, can pass an advanced motorist test and pass a hospitality test (eg good enough language skills) and pay for a car that passes the necessary road-fitness and emissions tests and thus those people can get a city taxi license. There are so many licensed cabs that the road traffic gets slowed down. Then people will take the bus or walk; there will be less demand and drivers will have to do other jobs. If there are still too many cabs then the barrier for entry can be increased - add your cities second language to the hospitality requirements, add a skid-pan test, increase the ecological requirements on the cars used.

Isn't that the free market at work?
This notion of commodity technology doesn't apply to every startup. Boston Dynamics was not a company slapping together commodity technology and testing user behavior.

But it does apply to a lot of startups. And that's why I work for a big company, because I'm here for long-term big change, not fashion and profit.
It's not only the cliff itself, but threat of the cliff and qualification hysteresis. For some benefits, if it's determined that your categorization changes, then getting accepted into the former level of benefit can take a long time. E.g. if you're told that more than X dollars in your checking account will result in a reduction of benefits, and getting your old status back might take a year, then it's logical to be risk averse and stay well clear of any jobs that could take you over the limit even for a day.
Microsoft has thousands of patents, only a few hundreds of them are used to extort Android phone manufacturers. If the list of these hundreds of patents was made public, people could start working around them.
You might say that there is an implicit ideology in what kinds of government activities people find interesting or concerning. For example, the Sacramento Bee has made great use of CPRA to find out about things that went wrong in the construction of the new Bay Bridge. Other people are concerned about government surveillance and send a lot of requests to try to expose information about it. Not everyone finds it intuitive that the ability of police to know your cell phone's location is a concern on par with the quality of the welding in the Bay Bridge.
Meta: What's with the tendency on HN to downvote people saying demonstrably true things? Do you somehow think that your downvote will alter the parts of reality you don't like or something?
"> And I have no idea why you believe that the alleged pedophiles had almost certainly done it before

Then you know nothing about child sexual abuse. Perpetrators who are not caught are extremely likely to keep doing it. Even among those who are caught and prosecuted, recidivism is extremely high."

The initial statement was that "because (A) they are attempting it now, (B) they had probably done it before".

That is, a high P(B|A).

You are asserting that a high P(A|B) (which is well established, I believe) implies a high P(B|A). I'm not certain that's true even as a generality, much less as a strong logical implication. Certainly, there could still be a high P(B) in this case, but I don't think it's well demonstrated.
Dealing with change
Thank you, this makes it much clearer to me. =)
FYI, this is for the PSoC 4 family.

http://www.cypress.com/psoc4/?source=CY-ENG-HEADER

PSoC® 4 Highlights
ARM® Cortex™-M0 CPU up to 48MHz

- Up to 32 kB Flash, 4 kB SRAM

- Programmable Analog: Op-Amps, 12-bit 1Msps SAR ADC

- Programmable Digital: Four PLD-based Logic Blocks

- CapSense® Touch Sensing

- Low Power 1.71 to 5.5V Operation

- 150nA Hibernate Mode, 20nA Stop Mode
Two editions pads for collaborative edition (Thx Framapad !) have been opened for the translation of the explanation articles to English:
https://cryptris.framapad.org/1 and https://cryptris.framapad.org/2 .

The bug tracker has been opened on github to discuss implementation of multilingual support.

Merci !
I like this idea as well, it seems fruitful enough that at least one organisation is providing it [0]. I would have thought overheads of getting new devices might cut into revenue though. I'd be interested to see what the difference in experience is for something on an emulated device (with HAXM) and a remote real device though, and if it's substantial enough to be worth paying for.

[0] : http://www.keynote.com/solutions/testing/mobile-testing
For a camp that teaches people how to practice good statistics with R, the data presentation is very inefficient and extremely confusing.

You can't have one chart or visualization take up an entire slide without any titles or axis labels.
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The creators of the drawing app "Colors!" for 3DS and iOS also tested their app's latency across a wide range of devices, and they achieved a 9ms latency in 2004's Nintendo DS:

http://www.collectingsmiles.com/news/measuring-latency-in-co...

Nintendo 3DS – 23 ms
PlayStation Vita – 49 ms
Surface Pro – 100 ms
iPhone 5 – 81 ms
Galaxy Note – 71 ms
Galaxy S3 – 104 ms & Nexus 10 – 99 ms
Galaxy Note 2 – 132 ms
Wii U GamePad – 53 ms
Nintendo DS – 9 ms
The idea of it sounds horrible to me. I want less email, not more. Getting a daily digest and managing to-dos via email in general doesn't appeal to me.
>What does a domain registrar have anything to do with placing orders on Amazon?

See someone make a blog post on their site about buying an Xbox from Amazon. Get WHOIS data from registrar. Have name and address of person who purchased Xbox. Use details to request replacement
Why my project is failing?
I posted this product on kickstarter which I though it would be really cool, but is failing, I would like your feedback in to know why?
Yes,but based on that one act,not on the "assumption" that you do it regularly and have done it a thousand times before,as the previous commenter was suggesting.
It offers a 30-day money back guarantee, so you can try it if you want without any worries. Shoot me an email though, and I'd be happy to give you a look at some sample leads. kesler@freelanceinbox.com.

*On Thursday, Freelance Inbox will have a big announcement that will alleviate concerns like yours going forward. As fair warning, you might want to claim a spot early :)
It looks like one of the JS fiddle examples we found for our demos wasn't up to our regular standards. We're looking into it.
What happens when they send the same lead to all of their customers? Now you've got to complete against the rest of the subscribers to land the job.
Yup, it's all the same Android is totally on par with iOS yet somehow the battery life on a typical iOS device with actual real software installed and used frequently results in far higher battery drain than on iOS.

Sure, the GPU is integrated now, but the graphics still chug on a Note 3.

Sure, if you unwrap any two android and iOS devices they will be on par, ask two heavy android/ios users how long their battery lasts and you'll get vastly different answers.
This Austin City festival manages crowd flow with RFID and data visualizations.
Huh. Pre-qualified leads are all very well, but how many people are receiving the same ones? If I am competing with 100s of others (essentially the problem with design competition sites), those 3 leads may not be worth very much to me at all.

I understand the curation value proposition the site has, but if the clients in question get 100s of qualified responses, I might as well not bother.
I didn't read all of his examples, but I read a few.

I'm confused by his issue with calling virtual functions from the constructor. Because of the order in which C++ calls the constructors in a base/parent class hierarchy during construction, calling a virtual function can be dangerous.

This is a valid restriction in my opinion. I get that it doesn't have to result in problems, and it can be useful, but in general, the guidelines in that section of the article coincide with whats generally considered good C++ code anyway.

The example about the copy constructor being disabled by default. That's pretty sane in my opinion, some of the downsides to C++ are that sometimes you can't tell what's going on when looking at an innocuous statement such as 'a=b'. This policy just greatly tamps down on the possibility of C++ hiding a heck of a lot of 'magic' from you by doing things you didn't necessarily expect.

I'm sure there are others, but honestly it feels more like the guy has a problem with Java than C++.
FPGAs are something you tell what to be, not what
to do (and high level languages tell CPUs what to
do, not what to be).

That's a really great way of putting it. I never thought of it that way before, but you're spot on.
Shoot me an email at prhodes@fogbeam.com, I can probably hook you up with a Fogbeam Labs shirt.
Did you read the article? They're planning on distributing a pressure curve configuration tool.
I gooooogled it [0], the patent was filed on 10/11/2009 (I'm British, so read that as dd/mm/yyyy). Some of the other patents listed go back a few years [1].

[0] http://www.google.com/patents/US8255379
[1] https://www.google.com/patents/US5889522
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This competes with Arduino, not Raspberry Pis. The chips are 24MHz ARM cores with 32KB of flash, and you can get them in PCBs that with pins to fit Arduino shields.
It doesn't seem that PuTTY has made very effective use of this or managed to explain the problem to most of their users.

http://noncombatant.org/2014/03/03/downloading-software-safe...
http://noncombatant.org/2014/03/05/followup-to-downloading-s...
There is an example email on the page (look for the text 'View sample email').
Interesting. Is this in someway a reboot of tinyproj? Or totally unconnected?
I can see how being in a financial tight spot might lead me agree to commit a theft that I would not otherwise commit.

I'm having trouble figuring out what kind of spot I could find myself in that would let me be enticed into paying money to have children sexually abused.
You probably have to have actually done the job to know where the pain points are. B2B problems (that aren't also consumer problems) are not something you can easily find in my experience.
Like any skill, I'd suggest this requires practice. One way I found as an introvert was to join Toastmasters. I don't have a big fear of public speaking—I can do it if I have to, but being in practice makes a huge difference. I've seen incredible improvement in people after 3 or 4 speeches.

Most clubs will have a social aspect and might gather for drinks afterwards. It makes a good way to practice smalltalk and keep in touch on a regular basis. There's usually a mix of people... some will be struggling with shyness and fear of speaking, others may be naturals and make good people to study for technique.

I've fallen out of regular attendance lately, but I'd highly recommend Toastmasters.
> I'm no lawyer, but I think it's compatible with contract law...

There was a neat talk from the silicon valley ethereum meetup a few months ago where a lawyer dives into the technical definition of a legal 'contract' and what parts of that Ethereum code does and does not satisfy:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSLK3lbENRc

(One of the key insights there is although Ethereum uses the term 'contract' to describe its autonomous code, Ethereum contracts do not by themselves satisfy the criteria for a legal contract in common jurisdictions... 'autonomous agent' would be a better term for Ethereum to use)

All of these links I got from people on a discussion on r/ethereum the other week: http://www.reddit.com/r/ethereum/comments/27gdhc/are_you_all...
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That's fine. It still makes it more expensive for trolls to do business.
The problem with services like this one is that your interests (getting more subscribers) are intrinsically unaligned with my interests (less competition for jobs).

Let's say I give you 29$/mo, what is there to stop you from sending the same 3 projects to 500 other devs who have also checked the 'Ruby' box?
That's a great tip––thanks, I'll do that.
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Haha no kidding, only a factor of two... thats not much faster...

If you consider that it generally takes about 1 year for mobile processors speed to double I'd call that a lightyear.
Base three is best, but not by much
Maybe someone can help me understand this. On slide 39 of the first slideshow, it says :

"For any irrational power p, there are an infinite number of solutions to z^p=c, all lying on a circle."

This means that most of the solutions have an angle larger than a full circle, right ? But if complex numbers can be represented as the sum of the real and complex parts, how can their angle be superior to 360 degrees ?
The companies that license Microsoft's patents know what patents they're licensing.
Submitted an hour ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7901360
That's fine and fair but don't forget that the US has the world's most advanced college education system and our government has been inflating the costs for a very long time. The cost to provide nearly 22 million citizens (to start, using the amount of those enrolled in US institutions currently) with free college education, using ASU tuition and fees calculates to $11,207, lets add on $3K for books, various class fees, covering the cost of those who might take excess tuition hours.

To cover the costs of just the students part will cost a whopping 298 Billion per year. This does not include the budgets already allocated to college institutions, etc, but should also note that we would be trading for $107B in student loans, and around $3B in grants, however the price is still more than double the current budget.

Also note that the US's government currently has a massive deficit and military spending will not be going anywhere soon as the US guarantees global stability and has many threats it needs to protect itself from seeing that it is the world's largest economy and most powerful nation as well. The US is also the guarantor of international law on the seas, in the air, and on ground, so much of the defense budget is more than pork. Maybe we could squeeze $100 billion in one year from defense from cutting costs, which will never happen if we are all realistic about the situation.

Also the US has $17 trillion dollars in debt which is not nothing to scoff at seeing that down the line we will have massive problems with entitlements and healthcare. Before we try to expand any program we must first tackle the current problems with the budget that is headed for collapse, then focus on paying down our debts, after which we can begin expanding programs.
> You know, those spammy pages where they promise something amazing if only you'll enter your email address.

You mean, like most of the startups nowdays?
Amazing work Dennis, Casey and Preston! Can't wait to see it in action!
They're probably not. Unfortunately, I don't expect that enslaved little girls whose associated revenue stream dries up typically wind up safe little girls - the perverts on the other end of a bunch of wires aren't their biggest threat. I'm happy that there's less inducement to enslave new little girls...
> Seriously, does any programmer have the time to decipher byzantine shit like this before writing a new feature?

No. That is the game that is imposed by entrenched players, the wealthy, & lawyers to protect their interests (and maintain their dominance). They found a way to "hack" the system to their benefit over creators.

> There should be a non-profit organization that files arbitrary new patents preemptively on behalf of the public and then release them into the public domain.

You need to have a working prototype to file the patent. This non-profit would need the inventors to cooperate.

[edit] Actually you don't need to have a working prototype. Now my question is isn't that the role that open source and free software / hardware fills?
Have you done market research? I don't know about most people, but i know not many people here in my country (Belgium) have blinds.

Also, i don't need an automated way to open/close my curtains... It's not really a hassle to close them while i walk to my bed :) andi don't know for sure. But Kickstarter is a real promotional campaign. There is a lot of effort in making it work and i haven't seen this project anywhere except for now.
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This is a great blog post, but I want to point out that this is not a new idea, just a way to express an old idea using new terms ("pivot", "startups", etc.)

What Scott is trying to express is that, in a capitalist economy, money is the goal. The process of getting money, once technical innovation is subtracted, is called Marketing. The process of doing Marketing is to understand psychology -- given a set of craftable stimuli, how can you influence the ape to swipe her credit card.
Having perfect knowlege about a system, and still being unable to predict the next state seems pretty random to me.

If "perfect" knowledge doesn't include knowledge of other universes which control our own, us being a simulation, then, I mean, I guess it becmes a philosophical question, since if we can't know, well then, by definition we can't know and we have to work with what we got. If what we got is the current quantum state of everything, and it's still random, then Ill continue to call it random.
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As mostly an outside observer in both countries (fortunately), this is one of the big differences I see between the American and Danish welfare systems. The Danish one has a reputation for being much more generous, which is true to some extent, but is not as true in terms of throughput as it is in terms of latency. The Danish system does a lot of short-term "business": people get onto the system in a matter of days, use it for 6-12 months, then get off again. (By "the system" I mean a range of things: housing subsidy, retraining, cash welfare, mental-health treatment, etc.) Whereas the American one seems incapable of delivering anything with less than a 6-month waiting list, with an extremely bureaucratic and unfriendly process almost always serving as the gatekeeper.
Speak to upper-mid-level managers in every enterprise who will go for coffee. Start narrowing down on the problems you hear. Be industry specific, rather than "generic" (a solution to a regulatory requirement beats "a calendar app"

In a month you will know which problems stand out

Start marketing around that problem, build an audience, evangelise something valuable.

Take your own good advice :-)
Got some great pithy advice about this a while ago: find something still being done with paper and fax machines.

There are a ridiculous number of them out there.
They most likely have better medical insurance with coverage for mental health problems. And probably more spare time to deal with it.
https://hn.algolia.com/?q=octicons#!/story/sort_by_date/0/oc...
I'm sure The Onion has some mockups.