skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Whose algorithm do we use? How much time has deviated is arguable and ties in with things like rotation, earthquakes, inertia, tidal forces, etc. Would your proposal be yet another buggy and heavily patched update we need to worry about constantly being updated on the world's IT infrastructure? Incorporating a simple leap second via fiat seems to be a simple and sane solution.

Then what of high accuracy computing? If my clock randomly adds or substracts 2ms a day, that could fuck up my calculations. Better to have things work in a classical sense and to just tack on or remove a second once in a while and be prepared for it in advance. 25 leap seconds have been added since 1972, according to wikipedia. Why make this harder than it needs to be?

Atomic clocks are right and human calendering is arbitrary/wrong. Trying to merge the two automatically can only cause more problems as our arbitrary political and cultural nature could spill over into our scientific nature. See trying to legislate the value of pi in Indiana for an example. The current method works the other way. We push science into our calendering. We keep them nice and separate.
There are other post-scarcity economies, some of which are discussed more in depth than Star Trek. The first one that comes to mind is Cory Doctorow's "Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom"[1], which uses whuffie[2].

[1] http://craphound.com/down/download.php
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whuffie
Basically, baseband can read the RAM. If you can ram dump you can do virtually anything, including get encryption keys.
"Some industry observers have suggested that Google should pair up with Tesla, which is also developing self-driving technology and which shares Google's Silicon Valley mindset."

I wish the article had expanded more on this topic. Both companies could make significant gains by partnering and cutting out the old money from the automotive industry. Not that I'm saying I hope that happens, I'm neutral on that matter for now, but I'd like to see a lot more R&D done on autonomous driving tech in my lifetime.
Yes, in your interpretation what that data means.
Less open than many competitors. But more choice is always nice. Hopefully they get the module FCC/CE certified.
“Amateurs talk about tactics, but professionals study logistics.” -- General Robert Barrow, Commandant, USMC.
Then somebody stumbles over the computer and you are outed.
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Being able to set my own sleep schedule was a driving factor in wanting to start my own business. The tyranny of early wake ups and long commutes left me pissed off, grumpy and unable to work to the best of my ability at school and jobs.
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telecuda, everything you said is right on point. The tax is Brazil is beyond crazy. If I recall correctly, even Amazon had problems bringing servers into the country because of the taxes and import duty. That's just the tip of the iceberg in terms of taxes and regulations in this country, it is not at all a startup friendly country.

In the end of the day, none of this really matter, because people will still go to Brazil to do business. It is the center of Latam economy, if you can win Brazil, you are destined to win Latam. The Brazil opportunity > obstacles, hence why people are flooding Brazil despite the challenges involved.
What about all kinds of national radio spectrum regulations or broadcasting/telecom laws? Will these baloons be allowed to operate everywhere?
In the unconditional part? Some implementations might have a mean test for who gets what (so a lot like welfare in Anglo and/or European countries) but there is an unconditional part that means in the UK, an ASBO isn't going to be used as a custom law against people needing help or in the US, instead of giving rules about what people can or can't buy with food stamps. For me, that is the interesting part. That is the game changer.
Buckets is an Open Source CMS built on Node.js and MongoDB (on Assembly)
Levine has very very quickly become one of my favorite writers, because of 1) his ability to say "Here is an animated picture of a stoned Wall Street bull pouring Doritos into his mouth next to a pink bong because why not"[1] in the middle of an article, and 2) his pointing out of incredibly obvious things that most commenters seem to miss. (Why was Barclays lying about the existence of the HFTs in the dark pool to the institutions who make it orders of magnitude more money than the HFTs? Because they need the HFTs to service the institutional investors.)

[1] http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2014-06-20/levine-on-w...
What is the perfect use case for symptoms-based?
"The Internet is the opiate of the masses"
Unfortunately, even if launch prices drop dramatically over the next several years the absence of Pu-238 production in the US will sharply limit our ability to send probes to the outer planets.
This phone seems like a better option for people worried about privacy
http://www.cryptophone.de/en/company/news/gsmk-introduces-ne...

"Baseband firewall: Based upon three years of cutting-edge research in baseband processor security, the new patent-pending GSMK CryptoPhone Baseband Firewall™ offers unique protection against over-the-air attacks with constant monitoring of baseband processor activity, baseband attack detection, and automated initiation of countermeasures. A global first, the CryptoPhone 500’s Baseband Firewall provides a revolutionary line of defence against over-the-air attacks not available on any other product."
That would be a killer feature. We could prove that the price increase in SF is insane.
Well, if it has nothing else going for it, it was interesting enough to pique my curiosity and make me want to read more. To my way of thinking, any book that accomplishes at least that, is somewhat worthwhile.
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I don't know enough to have an opinion on HFTs and whether they actually provide liquidity. However, creating sub-markets that are illiquid if you remove them, but become liquid if you add them back in, strikes me as a pretty powerful bit of evidence in HFT's favor. Rebuttals? (Serious question.)
> they don't allow for long winded rants much like you see on Yelp

Yelp practically encourages them by nudging reviewers to hit a character minimum in order to meet some definition of a high-quality review.
I built a site for a restaurant and use a Google Spreadsheet as the back-end for menu data. Whenever they have a change to make, they modify the spreadsheet, and the updates are instantly live on the site.

They like it because they're very non-technical people, but totally get spreadsheets. I like it because there's version-control on any changes to the spreadsheet, so tracking updates is easy. Everything is cached in-case Google'd data were to ever be inaccessible, but it's a system that was easy to implement, and has worked well for a couple years without any perceivable negatives.
Deming's career arc has been interesting. Neglected in the US to revered in the Japan to revered in the US to forgotten in the US. Maybe now that we don't fear Japan so much, we don't feel the need to obsess about his views on quality.

Many of his ideas stand the test of time. He just doesn't fit neatly into any academic curriculum.
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Because then you have to tear up the ground and maintain the grid's quality and physical security, this would involve managing relationships with numerous jurisdictions on many levels.

Also the bandwidth/latency needs are initially going to be quite a bit lower, which eases capacity planning.
Robg, who posted this, is a longtime HNer whose current startup makes a watch that monitors your stress level. He wears the watch all the time and told me that one of his biggest lessons from it so far was about sleep. Rob, do you want to repeat that here? I thought it was interesting; maybe others would too.
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Ask HN: Would a Hacker News app that gives you "peaked" topic only be useful?
I've been testing out different Hacker News app on AppStore, there are 21 of them and I still haven't found the solution to:
1. Information overload problem - love the content and esp. reading the comments section but I couldn't find that many extra hours a day!
2. Having to read the same topics day in day out - it annoys me that I've to scroll through and read the same topics again and deciding whether I've read it or not before scrolling on

So I propose a solution as to how I would like to use it if I were to code the app myself. I love reading highly upvoted topics with plenty of comments and I fear that I will miss out on future comments which may be insightful in a life-changing kind of way. So in Version 1, the Hacker News app would:
1. Be able to highlight "peaked" topics by level. Just imagine the WiFi signal strength bar but for how peaked a topic has reached. To measure how peaked it is, there is a calculation for each topic whereby the comments posted per day is measured relative to the previous day. Sort of like measuring the deceleration of comments.
2. Grey out topics that I've read
3. Ability to Upvote and in my case also send the topic URL or the comments URL to Pocket

More features to come but that is what I would build first to save myself (and hopefully other passive consumers of information like me) tonnes of time. I hope Paul Graham and team is OK with it, since you could tell there is a small group of users who rarely posts comments unless we have a great gem to share.

Since I plan to learn RubyMotion, I was wondering if anyone is interested to join me in building this open source app? I've coded several Websites in RoR and my next frontier is RubyMotion.
That's unfortunate. I try to keep my code (no matter what language, Perl included) as readable and tidy as possible for the sake of those reading the code in the future (myself included). While creatively stringing an incomprehensible stream of punctuation marks into a usable program is fun, I'm with you in agreeing that such coding styles should be avoided in anything that's not a one-off mental exercise.

That said, too much verbosity can introduce the same problem of unreadability by making important things harder to identify. There's an important balance between verbosity and terseness that should always be considered.
Good paper, thanks Bowei. It is a great place to be an entrepreneur - despite some of the problems you point out it is also a world of opportunity where you can help solve real problems if you have the right attitude. Also, its a great place to live!
this guy seems pretty pissed
I hear you.

Sometimes though you need a bit of a fictional narrative to help push thinking past the constraints if nothing else as inspiration and motivation.

But I am sure there are more rational ways to approach this.
The perfect use failure rate for symptoms-based fertility awareness is (according to Wikipedia anyway) 0.6% per woman per year. (So, 1 woman in 167 per year.) The typical use failure rate is 1.8%, or 1 woman in 56.
The other benefit is being able to do something useful on the commute too. I can usually get through all my morning's emails on the train into work.

This is much better than sitting behind a wheel for 1hr+ a day doing nothing.
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I agree completely. I love Foursquare. The social aspect is weak, but only in the active sense (commenting and liking and whatnot). The passive social aspect (seeing where friends with similar tastes go or have gone) is definitely useful.
There is one thing that really bothers me, I've not found a single a mathematical formula that defines FRP. The closest thing I've found was the "Denotational Semantics" showing the logic behind, which is quite lenghty and leaves a lot of room for variations. I hate descriptions full of buzzwords that, when you look at it closely have really nothing to do with FRP, but are mere tools that help realizing it.

Is there someone who can explain us scholars how FRP can be noted down formaly? Even a link to a page of a paper that shows the formula would be enormously useful. I'll put all the good papers that I've found in the footnoes.

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The following are a few of the good papers on FRP (ordered by subj. quality). I've read the Elm paper, but it's vague despite having a lot of maths in it. What it really decribes is not FRP, but Elm (also it's not exactly FRP).

[1] https://blogs.janestreet.com/breaking-down-frp/
[2] Higher-Order Functional Reactive Programming without Spacetime Leaks - https://www.mpi-sws.org/~neelk/simple-frp.pdf
[3] An Axiomatic Semantics for Functional Reactive Programming - http://www.wpi.edu/Pubs/ETD/Available/etd-042908-133033/unre...
[4] Push-pull functional reactive programming - http://conal.net/papers/push-pull-frp/
[5] Categorical Semantics for Functional Reactive Programming with Temporal Recursion and Corecursion - http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~pbl/msfp2014/catsemfrp.pdf
[6] Completeness of Conversion between Reactive Programs for Ultrametric Models - http://www.cs.le.ac.uk/people/fdv1/fdv1/Distribution/SeveriD...
[7] Fair Reactive Programming - http://www.cs.mcgill.ca/~acave1/papers/fair-reactive.pdf
[8] A Survey on Reactive Programming - http://soft.vub.ac.be/Publications/2012/vub-soft-tr-12-13.pd...
[9] Signals, Not Generators! - http://www.ioc.ee/~wolfgang/research/tfp-2009-slides.pdf
[10] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5875929/specification-for...
[11] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1028250/what-is-functiona...

The bad thing about all those papers is that a) you need to know Category Theory, b) Temporal Logic, c) Denotational Semantics d) (and optionally Henkin and Ultrametric Models) Unfortunately I'm not yet that smart :( hope someone can bring clarity into FRP

Sorry for the ugly footnote, that's the best I got using HN's formatting capability.

Update: I used unicode spaces, that fixed it.
I second that. Flash does not work well for me, a fully functional HTML5 version would totally get my money.
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Unused road space is staring everyone in the face and only a small percentage of commuters are using it: motorcyclists. If you just took 10% of the cars off the road and had them riding and lane splitting instead, congestion would be reduced exponentially. The good news for Californians is that lane splitting is actually legal unlike every other backwards ass state.
I wouldn't worry so much about water... it will go up in price, but there is enough at current heading to last at least 75 years before either nitrates or salt water step in...

worry about the next earthquake... that is beyond overdue
> Poor design decisions and shortcuts are sexy because they give you a small amount of value right now (not having to do the work to architect things properly), and you dramatically discount the value you would get in the future by doing it right the first time.

What do you call this bias? People like to think that if a different person had been in charge, or if they'd had more time, then things could have been done "properly". But really there is no "proper" way to do anything in software engineering. Every decision is a judgement call. Everywhere you look it's shades of gray. Especially without the benefit of hindsight.
Not ever having owned an EAB knife, these seem like a nice option for a higher-end box-cutter type blade. But they do seem quite limited compared to a good conventional knife.

Anyone with experience of these care to comment on the pros/cons of the EAB style vs a regular knife?
"Foreign entrepreneurs should expect to spend about 70 days and around $3,000 in legal fees to incorporate."

That's absolutely shocking! How in the world can incorporation take more than two months?!
No problem, happy to answer questions.

We picked GH stars because it's a transparent public number. Also because it's a relatively lightweight ask that still means a little more than a retweet or FB like. This campaign is about the existing Meteor community reaching out and encouraging new people into our community, and raising money for CodeNow is in the same spirit of accessibility and sharing.

Like Bahamut's comment shows, people do hesitate to star something they aren't actually interested in, and that's good; we want people to actually make an effort to tell their friends why they should check out Meteor. And then, if they succeed, it only takes 1-2 clicks for the friend to register their interest and get counted as part of the campaign.
Well, my CPAP machine is already relatively portable, but I don't have anywhere to nap at work, except in my car, which doesn't have an AC outlet (also, I'd like to start biking to work, so I don't want to wed myself to the car). I share a room with several other people, so I would need somewhere else to nap.
Look, I fully agree with you, that ideally we should find a middle ground and learn not to destroy in order to move forward.

But my view on this issue is based on what is practical and what history teaches us.

We actually always destroy things, to move forward.

I'd rather have us not spending so much energy on dominance and wars and instead on science and social systems, but the truth is that there is no sign that we will ever change our ways.

That's why I applaud any country whenever it puts some energy into something, that isn't just about wars and geopolitics.

Even if it's very limited resources they are investing, it's in my opinion still better than doing nothing at all, or spending the 70 million on a few tanks that will rot away somewhere close to the Pakistani border.
Well, qq space is more like an half-heartened adventure from Tecent. By its nature, it is in conflict with QQ the IM. And with success on the IM side, there is no growing space for qq space. It's never being updated fundamentally since its introduction.

So I guess the problem is that Tecent made the strategic decision to not pursue the social area in the same way as FB; and this is a good decision.
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Also a bit funny is the Founders all look like Odo, or rather his "father", the scientist who experimented on him when he was "young".
Absolutely agree. I especially enjoyed my short stay at Belo Horizonte, go check it out if you have a chance!
How do you know they can do it, if they never have? "I could do that, I just don't want to" is the lamest excuse in the book.
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This.

What's missing from this article, is a discussion about ideal sleep TIMES. Not everyone is meant to sleep from 10-6. Yes, you can fudge your sleep cycle and you can adjust, but only so much.

I'm naturally a night owl. With no alarm clock, and no obligations, I will "naturally" fall asleep at 3am, and wake up at 11.

In times of my life when I've been able to do this, the 8 hours that I would get then FAR TRUMPED the 8 hours I get now. It's night and day.
Lol, yes, doesn't apply to directors ... it's partly by choice, in that we've chosen a lifestyle that prefers family time over income. My point was more to indicate that it's quite possible to live comfortably on these sorts of incomes (we have a mortgage and run a car, have internet and a mobile phone contract, go out on trips, have holidays [not abroad], can afford occasional takeaways and meals out too, we're not destitute).

Thanks for caring enough to give that information though.
> Also, def is an expression in recent versions of Ruby. I don't remember exactly which version introduced it, but def returns the method that it created.

They added that in 2.1 Well, it was always an expression... in Ruby, every statement is an expression. But it always used to return nil. Now it returns the symbol of the method name. Still not as good as returning a method object, but since you can easily get the method object from the symbol, in practice there's no difference.
Considering the brain needs to sleep to fixate memories, your approach is better. Of course, assuming you can fall asleep - if you can't because you feel you haven't studied enough...
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"Just a minor thing that confused me was that the music tab layout(maybe that's the standard) is different from the layout of the strings in the animation (which is the same as my guitar). I think both should be the same as the guitar."

I agree. Tabs are normally an inversion of the guitar, or more accurately, how you view the strings when looking down at the guitar in your lap (high string is on the "top" of the neck, low string on the "bottom" of the neck)

i also found the left handed guitar player a little weird :)
Yes. Haskell provides excellent facilities for cleanly managing side-effectful code, like the IO monad.
Elon Musk alludes to "really big spaceship" in 10 year timeframe
That is true, but you also do have to take actions that generate that default good credit. In many cases no credit == bad credit. Hence the question OP asked.
It is much better to develop self driving technology in-house rather than risk being stuck licencing technology from Google in perpetuity. The software is the easy part. The regulatory and societal hurdles are the hard part and Google is already working on that for free.
Sorry, my question is: How does one use symptoms-based perfectly?
My understanding is that a perfect use case happens only a few days each month. So on those few days, you might have very low "failure" rates, but on the other 25 days per month, is a "perfect use" possible?
Car traffic is harmful, so having more of it is bad.
Incorporation is the easy part. Paying taxes is the much tougher thing to do in Brazil.

But! Brazil it's the land of opportunity in Latam, so that's why foreigners like to go to Brazil.
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Awesome, so glad that your first lesson was a good experience!

Yeah I agree about the layout of strings in tab notation being confusing as a new guitarist. We wanted to default to the standard layout for tab, but then it gets a little confusing because it's different than the guitar layout below.

One trick with Instinct is that you can flip the notation by clicking on the string names along the left side of the tab.

In the future, we also want to give you the option to flip the guitar, but so far we've only implemented that in our pro courses (i.e. the courses that have pictures of real teachers on them).
I'd put Matt Levine, Felix Salmon, and Aswath Damodaran as my top three finance list. Matt, in particular, is very no-nonsense in his coverage, and uses simple, short sentences that are very helpful\ when you lack some of the jargon/background.
I think my general feeling is that "there is no true reactive", but it's trendy to be responsive in that you have a system which behaves in soft or hard real time. There are a lot of components of such a system and lots of ways to organize it, but no clear feeling for which is best.

At the end of the day it always feels like fighting between general purpose programming languages. Nobody can win, everyone optimizes for different things, and broad terms are useless except for marketing.
Using the term "unsuccessful" with Instragram and Vine is a bit misleading, IMHO. Instagram got a rather large (even if undeserved) purchase, and Vine is huge.
Desalination has a very large negative impact on the natural ecosystems within the ocean[1].

http://www.pacinst.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/21/2013/02/d...
NYC is the most extreme case. A good local example of is the San Mateo Bridge, at rush hour the San Mateo Bridge / 92 interchange backs up the 101 all the way to Woodside (several miles) but clears up after that. By the time they get around to expanding the bridge or adding another one (ha, when pigs fly) the demand will cause whatever the replacement is to be jammed as well as I would assume many more people would live in the East Bay which is cheaper.