skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It seems like you're assuming that the only priority is moving cars around - not walkability or livability. In other words it seems you're assuming the only purpose of the built environment is to move cars. I argue that it isn't and in that case we should measure other stuff besides moving cars efficiently when building our cities.
How is this different from complex event processing (CEP)? High frequency trading has been using this from day 1.

The real trick is working with historical events and fetch them from disk, otherwise your reasoning time window is restricted to whatever fits in RAM.
Hi there,

You can actually turn off notifications from the app by:
1) SK settings
2) Advanced
3) Uncheck the box

SwiftKey has also stated they are working on performance updates in the next release: http://swiftkey.com/en/blog/swiftkey-5-performance/

As far as the notification at the top of the screen this is a notification provided by the Android OS and cannot be turned off or hidden.

Cheers,

Ryan
Community Manager @ SwiftKey
I detest the spin on "Jugaad" that this article provides.
Having lived day-to-day in India I have seen way too many unsafe and potentially deadly "jugaads" every single day.

From the CNG Car driver hacking up his Car to use a cheaper subsidized gas tank, to the hospital hacking up their BP monitors to run longer despite failed parts to continual flouting of Petrol storage rules keeping it in tin cans.

This stupid mentality of taking dangerous short-cuts and flouting safety rules in the name of innovation just needs to die. You can escape disaster some of the time but finally you must pay the piper some time.

So while ISRO is indeed a bright spot, the craft they designed in this case was un-manned, not designed to land, and carried on top of the older workhorse PSLV rocket and was more of a technology demonstrator.
> That probably weighs heavily in many credit scores, and if you've only missed mortgage payments but haven't missed payments on revolving credit, that may be strong enough on some credit scores to outweigh the mortgage.

The FICO model was specifically modified in their latest revision to downplay the significance of a mortgage default if all other lines of credit were paid on time (due to the housing crisis). I don't have any proof of this other than a conversation I had with a Fair Issac employee over a beer and my own data from my credit report/score.
> That's not really a problem, since in Denmark people speak Danish and "venture capital" is not a Danish word, so people aren't saying it, nor writing abbreviations of it intermixed with other Danish language.

Don't be dense. I wasn't suggesting anything of the sort.

The point of my comment was one of humor (apparently that's verboten?), and therefore the intent was that a Danish person who also knows English may have something of a chuckle when they see abbreviations of it in English as a direct result of the OP's comment.

Further, since I assume "VC" comes from the Danish word(s) for "water closet," it's fairly reasonable to believe that a faint glint of humor crosses the mind of Danish people when they read such English abbreviations assuming they know English.

Humor loses its value when it must be explained.
Great point, totally agree.
Let Them Eat Cash
Why you should use Vim as your text editor
I'm not sure there is a catastrophe big enough to destroy all life (and all hope for future life) on Earth that would not also destroy Mars (think Sun exploding). Even a major asteroid strike wouldn't kill off everything on the planet, as per the dinosaur extinction theory.
"Our game was depraved, immoral and filthy, but that's not why we killed it."
Gerber EAB Pocket Knife
I don't see any link-bait with the article.

What I see is someone trying to speculate out loud about how such a society could work using Star-Trek as reference point.

Keep in mind that Star-Trek has always been fairly scientific in its approach to story telling and so I think it's absolutely fair to use it as a jump of point since it provides an already existing narrative to talk about an otherwise abstract idea for many.

To me it's speculation and it's concise enough to take serious. What he basically claims might be a possibility even if you took away Star-Trek but it would be harder to communicate the ideas.

After all isn't that what creativity is al about exploring?
Well except that the people paid the least per hour are also the ones who can afford to lose time the least and have the least ability to pay for congestion.
Yes. We changed to the article title. (Submitted title was "San Francisco losing population at the fastest rate of cities in the US (2006)").
I'm not trying to make a pro/con debate; I'm only pointing out that there are 8 million people living here, the vast majority of which are assuredly not billionaires. The original comment really provides no value by stating "I know some people in New York and they want to leave because they can't enjoy it without being billionaires."
Dave Ramsey's sledge hammer method is geared for those tending toward the innumerate end of math skills and the low end of self-control. They are simple, unqualified “baby steps” and rules that don't require one to understand any nuance to personal finance. They are not an optimum and don't really pretend to be. There are several rules he offers as non-negotiable that, for those who have even marginally above average money skills and self-discipline, end up costing their practitioners more money in the long run. It's a good program for those who suddenly find themselves buried in debt and don't understand how they got there; it's less suited for those who are already doing well or have a clean slate.
Can anyone explain why leap seconds exist vs. a gradual skewing of atomic time to match the earth's rotation. Like say, "from date X to Y, civil time will be atomic time slowed by Z parts-per-billion". It just seems like such a better solution than this discontinuity that occurs once every few years and _surely_ everyone would have prepared and tested for. Civil time just doesn't require the accuracy where it actually matters, and if it does matter to you, use a continuous timescale like TAI or compute the current skew offset using a simple formula. Really, I love leap seconds as geeky trivia, but they seem so impractical.
Decoding Facebook's Newsfeed Algorithm
No, that's a bit of spin you put on it. His point is that the people running money for the institutional investors are themselves highly sophisticated, and if a point so simple as "you need sell-side financial entities to make a stock trading exchange work" eluded them, there is a bigger problem than Barclays marketing; those firms are being run by incompetents.

Later

Sure! It's not controversial that Barclays marketing of the LX exchange was misleading. Nobody is sticking up for Barclays. But the important, subtle point is that the LX pool probably couldn't have worked the way Barclays claimed it could. It doesn't matter how they marketed it. Without market makers, with a collection of like-minded investors, it's hard to get action.

So it's not that Barclays was somehow corrupted by HFT traders. It's that they were trying to lead-to-gold alchemy to sophisticated clients, who should have known that Barclays can't turn lead into gold.
I don't know, he has a point, look at Instagram, Vine, and Clear. All very unsuccessful apps, all launched exclusively on iPhone first. /s
Ask HN: Advice on MITx Entrepreneurship Bootcamp
I'm a longtime lurker on HN, first time posting…

I took an edX course on entrepreneurship offered by MITx. A subsequent "one week bootcamp" is being offered through an application process.

For the heck of it, I applied, interviewed, and was accepted. Now, I am facing reality - MIT is asking for $6,000 in tuition. How do I raise this money?

Given the cost of an online masters degree, this bootcamp seems top notch, but expensive. Nonetheless, MIT has attracted ~250 applicants and ~10-15% will join the course. The applicant base is apparently fairly strong (MIT hasn’t said much about this). It sounds like a great opportunity, but funding is a big problem...

There are some online groups being created in which admitted students are contemplating the launch of crowdfunding campaigns for donations, but they are severely time constrained – there is a July 15 deadline for deposits to reserve a spot.

I am a low ranking manager in a stodgy F500 company. I have a corporate finance background and what attracts me to this bootcamp is that I could meet/network with others to solve unique problems that I have seen in my career and industry. This is what attracts me to HN/YC generally. However, I am doubtful anyone in my company would sponsor my participation.

Wondering anyone (or groups) out there would be interested in donating $6,000 to me so I can attend this program? I know that’s an audacious ask for someone unknown, but I’m finding it very hard to justify cost without any help. I would of course work in good faith to return the capital in some way down the road.

- Here is the initial course through edX: Entrepreneurship 101: Who is your customer?

- The bootcamp: MITx Global Entrepreneurship Bootcamp

Thanks for your time and consideration!
As I understand it, the business tax structure in Brazil is one of the most complex in the world [1], resulting in iPhones for example costing as much as $1,200 [2]. A good friend in Rio is working on a solar startup and said on some products they face 88% tax on revenue. Correct me if I'm off-base, but what impact is that having on attracting and fostering startups?

http://www.forbes.com/sites/joeharpaz/2013/12/17/brazil-rank...

http://www.bloomberg.com/visual-data/best-and-worst/most-exp...
I'm going to have to disagree with you there. See, even without authentication, in a world of pervasive opportunistic encryption, Eve is pretty much screwed for spying on everyone's data, and we can cause trouble for a fair amount of metadata collection, too. And a pretty large amount of the pervasive surveillance infrastructure out there now relies quite a lot on the information gleaned just from being Eve.

So, you say, a Nation State Adversary will just switch to being Mallory and MITM all the things? Well, that might not be a choice they want to make. In a good protocol design allowing for opportunistic encryption, Mallory can't actually tell for sure if Alice and Bob are being opportunistic or not. That means Mallory has to guess whether they can safely run active interference without getting caught, or whether Alice or Bob are in a position to find out about it and, thanks to things like Certificate Transparency and others, loudly tell the world about it - and then Mallory's going to have to fend off awkwardly pointed questions about why exactly they're spying on Alice the source and Bob the journalist, or Carol the perfectly normal person and Dave their lover having webcam sex over Yahoo [hypothetical names; real GCHQ operation, search platform cover-named OPTIC NERVE].

Opportunistic Encryption techniques give us the opportunity to, with no configuration necessary, close the door on several of the easiest ways to be able to spy on everyone covertly. That's a big improvement from where we are right now. It forces a potential Nation State Adversary to weigh up carefully the risks of using such a capability, given they can't be certain to hide it: the more they use it, the more likely they'll get caught. So they can either act in the open, where everyone can see it, or choose to not act at all, or (most likely) act more selectively (which isn't perfect, but it's a start). That is a hard choice for many of them to make and potentially opens the door to actual discussion about oversight (or lack thereof), necessity (or lack thereof), usefulness (or lack thereof), and the incredible risks posed by such technologies' deployment.

I don't think there's a hell of a lot we can technically do about a pervasive determined well-funded doesn't-give-a-damn-about-anything jackbooted Mallory, using what I'll call constructive techniques (as opposed to destructive techniques, which, for example, actively disrupt surveillance infrastructure - which of course are, from the adversary's point of view, perfectly okay for them but highly illegal when you do it). That's not the threat we face in all places, however: the situation isn't hopeless, everywhere, yet.

As the BCP points out, we need non-technical (i.e. political, etc) solutions to this attack model too: this isn't a problem we can solve on our own. But piece by piece, we're doing what we can to combat this attack - and this BCP is a clear statement of the overwhelming IETF consensus that we do regard it as having a malicious impact on the internet as a whole, and that it's an attack we need to address every practical way we can.
Just to be clear, lisper and I were talking about marginal tax rates, not overal effective rates. Only for the very highest earners does the effective rate approach the top marginal rate.
Usually waking up I think. I don't usually nap but I took a nap yesterday that probably turned into 3 hours of sleep. When I woke up I wanted to go to bed but once I got up and moving I felt fine.
In general, I'd say tactics are about working a defined problem, strategy is about defining the problem, or picking which problem to solve.
Crowd Sourced Journalism
This rant would have been so much better if it somehow captured (or at least didn't clash with) the spirit of the link, which is certainly not a celebration (or even a mere observation) of how the language does scalar arithmetic.
As much as this is a problem with the business realities of the ISPs, there is no way you can say that this is not a problem of Amazon Fire Tv that you cannot turn this feature off. Come on!
I second your opinion and now I worry about my house's value in 10 years.
When I took my first couple of (private) photos with my old galaxy nexus, my phone proudly informed me that my photos had been uploaded to Google plus. (They were marked private on plus - but the app was itching to share them with everybody.)

I was shocked and horrified. It might have been fixed since then - I've become much more paranoid and turn that crap off.
Some developer decides to show a utility library they wrote for better interoperability between 32 and 64-bit numerical types to Hacker News and this is the reaction?

Right this very moment there's a REST library for Haskell on the front page, and Javascript libraries for various purposes show up on a semi-regular basis. Libraries, code, and frameworks for frivolous and serious purposes, for old and new languages alike, are constantly being posted to Hacker News. I honestly don't see how this is any different, except for this backlash to phantom hype which I find frankly quite puzzling.
I also take a long time to fall asleep, but a nap does not have to mean full sleep. Just laying there for 20 minutes with your eyes closed is often just as effective.
I use one I built myself, Imperium. Manually enter received bills, track AP and pay via bank. Reconcile with bank monthly via import.
I'm now willing to try callbacks because I have no idea anymore.

http://andlabs.lostsig.com/blog/2014/06/27/61/my-ui-package-...

What do you all think of this design?
Do You Know What an Angel Investor Is?
It ought to be surprising to me that a total stranger would accuse me of having "no education or understanding of a topic", and then proceed to shit on me for daring to agree with NASA's practice of -- seriously, of all things -- sterilizing the equipment used to detect signs of life.

But, I'm not surprised. Welcome to Internet.
Ask HN: Will you take a short survey about improving (or replacing) email?
Many people have talked about how bad (or misused) email is, but I haven't seen much progress toward fixing it. PG talked about it back in 2008 (http://ycombinator.com/ideas.html - #28 Fixing email overload) and again in 2012 (http://www.paulgraham.com/ambitious.html - #2 Replace Email). There have been a few attempts to layer functionality on top of email (Mailbox, LinkedIn Intro), and of course there are other ways to communicate (social media, messenger apps), but nothing really fills the space that email does, at least for me. I have a few ideas to either improve, or as PG suggests, possibly replace email, but I'd like feedback from others to see if I'm on the right track. I'd appreciate if you could take a few minutes to answer the following survey. I promise to do a follow up post with the results once I have enough responses. Thanks!

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1TTE7bCSLY4KqWOre5EsVbR_xk-c9F9bxO1XJKe_qbYg/viewform?usp=send_form
I think you missed this part of the article:

"What sells this phone is the software and services it is bundled with, which separately would sell for $879"

The software bundled with the phone makes the phone worth buying.
Why old Readability works better than current high profile Readability service?
I used old Readability that is opensource and the current readability service on the same article and results are freaking.
using Old Readability: http://graceco.de/readability/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fradiokantipur.org%2Fkantipur-diary%2F12121%2F%25E0%25A4%25A6%25E0%25A4%25BE%25E0%25A4%25B6%25E0%25A4%25BE%25E0%25A4%25A8%25E0%25A4%25BE%25E0%25A4%25AF%25E0%25A4%2595%25E0%25A5%2587%25E0%25A4%2595%25E0%25A5%258B-%25E0%25A4%2595%25E0%25A4%25BE%25E0%25A4%25B0%25E0%25A5%258D%25E0%25A4%25AF%25E0%25A4%2595%25E0%25A4%25BE%25E0%25A4%25B2-%25E0%25A4%2586%25E0%25A4%259C%25E0%25A4%25AC%25E0%25A4%25BE%25E0%25A4%259F-%25E0%25A4%25B8%25E0%25A4%2595%25E0%25A4%25BF%25E0%25A4%25AF%25E0%25A5%258B-%2F%25E0%25A4%2586%25E0%25A4%25B0%25E0%25A5%258D%25E0%25A4%25A5%25E0%25A4%25BF%25E0%25A4%2595-%25E0%25A4%25B8%25E0%25A4%25AE%25E0%25A4%25B8%25E0%25A5%258D%25E0%25A4%25AF%25E0%25A4%25BE%25E0%25A4%2595%25E0%25A4%25BE-%25E0%25A4%2595%25E0%25A4%25BE%25E0%25A4%25B0%25E0%25A4%25A3-%25E0%25A4%2595%25E0%25A4%25B0%25E0%25A4%25BE%25E0%25A4%25B0-%25E0%25A4%25A5%25E0%25A4%25AA%25E0%25A5%258D%25E0%25A4%25A8-%25E0%25A4%25A8%25E0%25A4%25B8%25E0%25A4%2595%25E0%25A5%2587%25E0%25A4%2595%25E0%25A5%258B-%25E0%25A4%2595%25E0%25A5%258D%25E0%25A4%25AF%25E0%25A4%25BE%25E0%25A4%25A8%25E0%25A4%2595%25E0%25A5%258B-%25E0%25A4%25AD%25E0%25A4%25A8%25E0%25A4%25BE%25E0%25A4%2588%2F

New Readability: https://www.readability.com/articles/v4l0efos
Are there any services out there that allow automated trading, but as a game? There are many services that let you do manual trades as a game, but I've never seen automated ones.
neural nets are nothing new, the article puts them in quotes as people would write e-mail and inter-net...
in summary: is ressarching using NN in speech recognition, nothing to do with siri
Clickable link: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1TTE7bCSLY4KqWOre5EsVbR_xk-c...
With that name you can get a mascot, too:

http://en.bab.la/dictionary/danish-english/hest
This article seems like a gross oversimplification. There are a lot more variables at play here than just what people tend to do with extra capacity. Terrain and flow dynamics, as well as driver behavior, have a lot to do with it.

Take 405 in West Los Angeles for example. On one side it has the Sepulvida pass with very steep decent going south and ascent going north. It is crossed by I-10 going to Santa Monica and Downtown, a little further in 90 goes to Marina del Rey, and then exits for LAX.

If you examine this section as an example, you have number of people either trying to get in or pass through this section during commuting hours. From the north, the sepulvida pass makes people slow down as they climb the hill. Not exactly sure why, but many drivers seem to be afraid of it. This recoils through the rest of the traffic, as each incremental car slowing down results in the car behind it slowing down slightly more.

Once you get down the hill, you have people exiting and entering with very short distances to decelerate or accelerate, causing more slow downs.

On the other side, you have a similar dynamic, but people are also trying to merge to or from 90 and I-10. With majority of the traffic heading either to Santa Monica, West LA, Century City or Hollywood/Downtown/something in between.

The city has recently completed a major expansion on the 405 in that area adding a carpool lane, but more importantly changing how you merge to/from several of the exits, including Wilshire blvd and I-10.

In my observation, the carpool lane did relatively little, but the smoothed exiting/entering with enough time to accelerate shifted the bottleneck from before Wilshire blvd, frequently spilling past the 90, to no ending around Wilshire.

The flow restriction now seems to be the dreaded 101 interchange, with a huge amount of traffic stuck in the Sepulvida pass. As the result, I can not get from the 90 to I-10 in about 10 mins, whereas before it was easily 30.

Point being, that if you maintain road size (or marginally improve it) and optimize the flow, you get a lot better returns.
Travel cpap machines. (I saw an article on this might not have been this exact one it was a big advertisement also in the WSJ some time ago).

"http://www.cpap.com/productpage/z1-travel-cpap-machine.html"

I understand you still need a mask with these but it might be worth considering depending on where you can situate yourself.
Unless you have some fancy hardware around running your clock you've got bigger issues; as a general rule you can't run a computer and expect the time to remain +/- 1 second of UTC.
A screencast, or even a screenshot could go a long way to explaining what I'd get before diving in.

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Liquid dynamics sounds like an interesting hypothesis, but I agree with the critics that entanglement presents a tough analogy. If Pilot Wave theory suggests that the particle-wave duality is actually two distinct actors - a wave and a particle riding the wave - then 1) each particle has an independently generated wave? and 2) it's difficult to see how that wave could be exactly preserved for both particles over the long distances of entanglement experiments. That's like envisioning a ripple on the far side of a large lake exactly mimicking a ripple here. Granted, the entanglement result of simultaneous collapse of probabilities is also tough to rationally understand. But Pilot Waves maintaining their effect, regardless of various asynchronous interactions encountered between the distances of entanglement experiments, seems naive. Then again, I'm not a particle physicist.
> Conversely, saying that Nelson's "strategy" was to have a decisive battle vs a skirmish is, by Rumelt's definition, a great example of "bad strategy".

Nelson's tactics were in pursuit of his strategy, and even they remain open to question. The fact Nelson is revered as Britain's greatest naval hero is a great example of "it's better to be lucky than good", and not a great example of excellent strategy (or tactics).

I haven't read the book. It may be great. But the introduction doesn't inspire me. Post-hoc analysis of success is subject to the same problem as basing one's life choices on what elite athletes say in interviews.
This has been an incredible mission. Ignoring all tremendously profound scientific discoveries that have been made, it would have been worth it just for the pretty pictures [1].

I hope someday we can have missions like that to Uranus and Neptune as well. That's still so far away, sadly.

[1] http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/photos/halloffame/
Yeah, user data may be very skewed (read wrong) for a variety of reasons (People not knowing the relationship gallon/litre for example)

Numbeo gives 0.90 for a liter of milk in Seattle http://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/city_result.jsp?country...
Why does everyone assume that Satoshi is a singular entity? What if Satoshi is legion? :/ Given that initial assumption, which large/government entities would be most likely to start such a project?
> how does it work when Quark thumb-scans/charges Odo

I find it funny that a scheming Quark would bother thumb-printing a shape-shifter. It's only Odo's honor that prevents him from saying, "Oh, no, that's not my fingerprint. Let me show you my current set..."