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I hope somebody reinvents this library.

I know it's hard to release something to the public, and easy to throw stones. But I'm going to do it anyway. I just don't see the “elegance” in this library and I see several problems with this library that make it unsuitable for production use. Examples:

This library provides access to a singleton database. Did you want to choose the location of your database? Sorry, it's going to be “SwiftData.sqlite” in your app's Documents folder (if sandbox) or the user's “Documents” folder (if not sandboxed). Did you want to use a SQLite3 database as your document storage format, and let the user have multiple documents open simultaneously? Sorry, not with this library.

This library doesn't use prepared statements. When you give it SQL with bind placeholders and substitution values, it creates a new string that embeds the values. Does your SQL statement have a string literal containing a `?`? Sorry, this library will treat it as a bind placeholder anyway. (Example: the ? here is not a placeholder: insert into x values ('?')) Did you want to use less error-prone named placeholders, which SQLite3 supports natively? Sorry, not with this library.

This library loads the entire result set of a query into an array and returns it to you. Did you want to reduce your memory footprint? Sorry, not with this library.

The library source code is full of copy-pasted code that should be unified.

Every enumeration case in the standard library (c.f. Bit, Character, FloatingPointClassification, ImplicitlyUnwrappedOptional, MirrorDisposition, Optional, QuickLookObject, UnicodeDecodingResult) starts with a capital letter. This library's enumeration cases (c.f. DataType, Flags) start with lower case letters.
I'm a bit confused, is the described 1PFlop system really only one million dollar, including cooling and power? That would be amazingly good value. The single digit PFlop systems I know of have cost two to four orders of magnitude more than this, even when powered by GPUs.
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Ok, we changed "$15,000" to "stabilizing". Let us know if something else would be more accurate.
There is a lot of inconsistency in gyroscope accuracy between Android devices.

The developers of Bounden posted about it here: http://gameovenstudios.com/bounden-on-android-delayed/
Hopefully the new Camera API in Android L makes this app possible -- you have much better control of the incoming frames with accurate timestamps, so matching them up to recorded gyroscope information and cropping/offsetting them before writing them out to the encoder would be much easier.
Great points vjvj! I'll try to answer them below:

1) Traditional microfinance services you are referring to have intermediaries (ground forces) to help them with loan disbursement, background check, loan recovery etc.. Zidisha is the first service to take everything online and that's why the interest rate is substantially lower. But it comes with a risk of low repayment rates. Repayment rate number was ~ 80% range last year and has gone up to ~90% after lots of process improvement. You can read more about it here: http://venturebeat.com/2014/08/20/y-combinator-backed-zidish...

2) Above link should answer it partially and Julia's answer should help more.

Hope it helps!
They're getting better. But unfortunately due to the way Android phones receive updates many phones have different, older, API levels which don't support many of the features.

So while they could likely make and release an Android app, expect only the flagship phones from the last 12-24 months to be supported, nothing a day older (and even a lot of phones within that window still lack the latest API updates).
We pay $1.50 per Mbit with a commit of 200Mbps in NY, LA and Miami. This is for 'premium' blended transit (e.g. Specifically excludes Cogent and HE)
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This is a massive takeaway -- but even I accept it's more nuanced than that.

Australia has the massive disadvantages of: 1. being miles away from everything, 2. having small population with high Internet-demands and 3. having very, very little "local" content.

This means a large majority of Australia's Internet needs must be serviced by extremely expensive not-at-scale trans-Pacific services.

Places like Germany, Japan, Korea don't have these same issues. They have tons of "local" content and when they need to hop to the USA it's using infrastructure that is massively at scale (i.e. serving a continent like Europe or Asia, as opposed to Australia).

Not to say the Australian circumstances aren't an example of a massive regulatory cluster, but it's not quite as simple as it sounds.
This is similarly motivated, and a similar approach to Oilpan in Chromium (http://www.chromium.org/blink/blink-gc).

But because Oilpan is written in C++, there is still some manual annotation of GC'd members that needs to be done.
There seems to be a low threshold for declaring something "link bait" over here.

Not long ago, I wrote something called "Never sanitize your inputs" and the content of the article was why you should never sanitize your inputs. And yet it was still called "link bait".

Maybe I should have just called it "Don't bother reading this, I'm not Jeff Atwood or anyone."
In Russia it should be more like Europe with peering (MSK-IX) and not terribly expensive connectivity.

However this might change because of political instability (or "stability" if you call it that).

UPD: If they consider Europe to have population of 750 they surely include Russia and other ex-USSR in the mix.
On the opposite, I've never heard of a lab that does use cloud computing for HPC. Only for highly variable workloads with low networking and privacy requirements something like AWS would make sense.
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So a user will be able to combine the powers of a native time-lapse feature and stabilize it through Hyperlapse. Now that I have actually taken the time to think about it I'm truly impressed.
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Apple and IBM both survive due to blind fans and platform lock-in. In Apple's case it's consumers, and with IBM it's corporations.
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See https://grindr.gay.cat/ for a demo on locating users.
Is it not enough to have the user run a calibration step when first using the app? I've had panorama apps do this.

Edit: Bounden has a calibration step every time you use the app, and again every time it detects too much drift. If it was a quality issue, they could just warn people that they'll get crummy results if they have crummy sensors.
> trying to upsell random crap in a similar way to RyanAir

"Trying to upsell" and "trying to hide the opt-out of an upsale" are not the same thing. I see no problem with a company trying to upsell you, and lumping that in with what RyanAir is doing is wrong.
I expect the default rate for loans being issued today will be less than 10%, because some of the amounts still outstanding will likely be repaid late. 90% is the portion of due amounts that has already been repaid (for 2014 loans).

That said, we are continuously improving our lending model in response to experience, and the repayment rate is increasing with each new cohort of loans we disburse.

Bayes Impact (another YC nonprofit which connects data scientists to nonprofits) is developing a credit risk prediction algorithm for use in vetting Zidisha loan applicants. Once that is deployed, we expect it will improve repayment rates substantially.
Not really, almost every search requires me to apply filters. I wouldn't say it's very smart at all.
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I believe Lime Text that was mentioned here previously also has terminal support in addition to a couple different GUI front ends: http://limetext.org/contribute.html
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Theres a whole list here

http://mnemosyne-proj.org/card-sets
Common resources should be treated as public assets. There's multiple ways you could accomplish that, besides just nationalizing oil fields.

Land value taxation and severance taxes can help recapture the value of our Commons, and allow us to reduce taxes on labor or investment.
I think poof31's idea of cross-party unity is less about the PARTIES and more about the POPULATION.

Meaning that the political parties do a pretty slick divide & conquer on highly polarizing topics that give half the population a reason to "hate" the other half despite the fact that both generally want the same thing.

Most people actually don't want regulatory capture since most people aren't in a position to benefit from it. But it happens because half the people "want" it on some topics because their party says "this is necessary for us not to get screwed!" and people generally go with the party line. And then on other topics the other party convinces its constituents that this other kind of regulation is necessary (which again has lots of regulatory capture built in) and their voters generally agree and support it.

If it wasn't for the few highly polarizing topics splitting the population pretty evenly some stuff could actually get done.

Worse is that the vast majority of people would actually support rewriting the tax code to greatly simplify it and close loopholes because most people aren't in a position to benefit from said loopholes. But this doesn't get any traction because the representatives from both parties know that they can't for the sake of campaign donations. This is literally in the interests of the people but it doesn't happen because it's not in the interests of the representatives.

Being able to realize that the people of the other party are good folks and that the representatives of both parties aren't so good would be a huge win to trying to solve a lot of the legalized corruption that makes Washington so dysfunctional.
So a modern Dave and Busters that incorporates the above and functions as a pseudo daycare.
> Australia has the massive disadvantages of: 1. being miles away from everything ...

It's true, I fully accept your point, but the wording made me ask myself where "everything" is located. 20 years ago I might have assumed it was unambiguously located somewhere in the U.S., but I think as time passes and the Internet grows and changes shape, Europe and other countries have begun to play a more important part.

This is an example where a traffic-based network diagram could be used to locate the Internet's "center of mass", so to speak, a region or location that could be described as the middle of everything.
Australian consumers also have on average less buying power then American citizens.

So then it is expensive relative to your income, is it not?
It’s not the same. To be honest, with this product out I’m struggling to see the usefulness of the time lapse feature. In isolation it’s maybe somewhat useful in some cases, but in a world with Hyperlapse out Apple should just remove it from the camera app and concentrate on the basics with their apps and leave the cool stuff to other people.

The usefulness (or at least coolness) of Hyperlapse is immediately obvious upon using it and it’s a good fit for smartphones, unlike the time lapse feature.

Smartphones are small and light. Standing them on an edge is in the best case precarious and in the worst case impossible (because the edges are sometimes rounded). Depending on where you prop them up (e.g. stone walls) it might also be damaging to the phone. Also, since they are so small and light (or not so much small, just not really ergonomically shaped for steady holding) holding them steady is a real challenge, especially when moving.

Hyperlapse tackles these problems with time lapse on a phone very well. It’s much more thoughtful and considerate of the hardware it’s running on than a simple time lapse feature.

(Plus, that UI is fucking amazing. One button to record, one slider to adjust the speed. This is inside the bounds of complexity Apple lets in their own very basic camera app. The slow motion feature Apple offers has similar UI complexity. So this isn’t even a super-complex feature from a user perspective.)
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Not to mention that services can participate in transactions and rollbacks a lot easier. Doing that with web services involves getting a ton of wacky protocols like WS-AtomicTransaction working, which many back ends simply don't support or don't support well.
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Surely that comes from a failure to recognize that macros would increase profit, not a rejection of profit because it would empower workers.
Ah of course, Nokia, should have guessed. Interesting video on their stabilisation technology - on the 925 it doesn't seem to add that much thickness, that one is only 8.8mm thick, vs 7.7mm for iPhone 5. They should have licensed their camera tech to all manufacturers. Wonder how much of it will pop up in iPhone 6 now that they snagged one of the main PureView engineers.

http://conversations.nokia.com/2013/09/25/how-nokia-lumia-op...

I think the earlier 1020 etc were thick because of huge sensor size.

I have OIS dSLR lenses but none of them are quite as good as that Sony's Optical Steady Shot linked above - it's almost as good as some brushless gimbals I'm using on drones, which are rock steady. Sony claim it's 13 times more effective than their previous stabilisation.
The alternative is first collecting empirical results that current theories do not explain, and only then work on a model for explaining them.
> all functions have (lots of) meta data

This is the crux of the problem. Before too long, the amount of metadata dwarfs the thing it describes and it's easier to rewrite the function than it is to find or describe it.
I'm pretty sure it's not a fragmentation issue. They said the APIs required changes.
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> Actually it does.

Did you not read the article? My comment was a counterpoint to the actions of a person who did exactly what you recommend, and now he's facing ten years.

> Trust me, it's always better to cooperate with the cops.

If we're going to play a round of Anecdotal Evidence: Home Edition, I can tell several stories of how keeping my mouth shut worked out just fine, and one story of how cooperating was the worst of all the choices available to me.
Australia is shockingly expensive the first time you visit there. Normal economics just don't seem to be at play.

It took me a long time to put my thumb on what Australia is like and it wasn't until I watched the show "Fringe" and saw the alternate universe (with the Airships and the Twin Towers) that it finally struck me, it's like an alternate universe America. Everything is just like the U.S., except for some weird little details. Big cars, lots of open land, cowboy analogs (drovers), purpose built capital designed by a foreigner, densely packed East Coast, East Coast vs. West Coast rivalry. And then suddenly it's not: driving on the left, everything is overpriced, egg yolks are a different color, etc.

I remember seeing real estate listing for some really remote housing in some dying gold town somewhere. Like 2 bedroom bungalows with no property. And they're priced at what you'd expect to find in a nearby suburb of Sydney (except the housing in the suburbs around Sydney is ludicrously expensive). While anywhere else in the world people would basically be paying you to take the title so they could get the hell out of there.

The local markets in Australia are just weird.

note I live in one of the most expensive housing markets in the U.S. so I'm used to seeing high prices. But even single bedroom apartments in Sydney suburbs rent out at prices you can get entire houses for in similar geographic regions around my area. You'd think the exact opposite would be true. In almost any other part of the world with plentiful land and low population, you end up with cheap housing, while in Australia that doesn't seem to be true at all.
> Whaling is a tradition in Norway and has been going on since medieval times.

Eh, but back in medieval times it was a fair fight--no sonar, no diesel engines, no grenade-tipped harpoons, and as a bonus, there was actually a legitimate need to do this.

The whaling now is done by people with money, in order to earn more money. Nothing more.
Wow. I would never have guessed that this would be possible to do by analyzing the gyroscope data. It must be sensitive enough to detect small / tiny jerks in your phone as those seemingly tiny jerks can often translate into enormous motion in your camera lens especially if a subject is far away.
Does OPAM work on Windows? I've read it doesn't which has kept me from further investigations.
I think there are a few examples of tripping being the result of poisoning. Mushrooms, various cacti...

The reason mescalin makes you puke is not because it does a body good.
Flagged.

How are we supposed to take people seriously about encryption who cannot spell?
United doesn't. And it's not listed as an elite benefit so I'd guess it applies to everyone.
Zidisha is working very hard to bring down the default rate. But as this is a relatively new approach, a lot of things can only be learned through experimentation. So far the results are encouraging and if this trend continues default rate should come down even further. You can read about some of the efforts here:
http://venturebeat.com/2014/08/20/y-combinator-backed-zidish...

Hope it helps and do share any feedback/suggestions you have. Thanks!
Aruba Networks used to make a model called the AP-65WB. The WB means "wall box" -- it basically fits in a standard wall-box, the same kind of fixture that could also hold a couple of outlets or light switches (or a combination thereof). Not sure if that unit's been replaced or retired, though. Also, it's not exactly targeted at home users.

Many of the enterprise APs with integrated antennas are designed for ceiling installation. They often have an antenna that's intended to radiate its best coverage down from the ceiling in a cone.
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Android users are going to be so disappointed if they have to wait until the Nexus 6 to download Hyperlapse.
Cleaning fees and service fees, to me, are like delivery fees. Everyone assumes they are paying for them in the rental.

And almost everyone I know uses AirBnB because it is cheaper than a hotel. But once you start adding on fees that value diminishes. The last place I rented wasn't exactly located downtown and, after all the fees, only $15/night cheaper than a hotel. Our final 2 nights we stayed at a hotel and had a lot more fun.

I've been a big proponent of Airbnb but my last stay reminded me that civilians are civilians and tourists are tourists. Some have very different expectations when it comes to housing.
Your quote is a tool for screening sales leads.

Keep in mind that a majority partner can structure the sale of a company in such a way that places their interests beyond those of the other stockholders - e.g. a majority stockholder can sell the corporation or some or all of its assets at a discount to another company, including one in which they also hold a majority interest.

Your friend's partners have an idea that requires complex software and no way to execute it themselves. This is indicative of a perception that software development is just a line item expense.

Their objection to your fee is an indication that they perceive cutting software development costs as good business.

Empirically and despite past events not necessarily determining future events, the single data point upon which you must make predictions about their future behavior consists of trying to get you to take a financial hit.

I will add that if they cannot afford the $250,000 it will cost to execute the software portion of their idea, they are ipso facto undercapitalized. This may indicate that they are undercapitalized in other key areas.

To put it another way, would you ordinarily take a contract where $100,000 was not payable for three to five years and only payable if the company was still around?

My advice:

+ If you're a consultant, run a consulting business. I've never read anything on HN about a one-man band getting rich by taking equity in lieu of consulting fees. Not that I'm saying it hasn't happened, only that it doesn't appear to happen often.

+ If you're an entrepreneur, be an entrepreneur. Pick your co-founders carefully. Build a business you understand and control.

+ Don't confuse the two.

Basically the deal you are being offered is you pay $100,000 to someone who doesn't want to pay you now, on the expectation that at some nebulous time in the future they might want to pay you a big pile of money.
Privacy Zuckering
"“The act of creating deliberately confusing jargon and user-interfaces which trick your users into sharing more info about themselves than they really want to.” (As defined by the EFF). The term “Zuckering” was suggested in an EFF article by Tim Jones on Facebook’s “Evil Interfaces”. It is, of course, named after Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg."

Source: http://darkpatterns.org/privacy-zuckering/
Not to mention, this kind of app does us no good. Its another little snitch clone. Joe End User isn't making heads or tails of this. Why would he want to?

What I want is a simple no-worry IDS/IPS I can install on easily on Win or OSX machines. Have it use the rules Snort uses. Make it dead simple to install. Now I don't have to spend hours digging through logs or graphs by apps like these. The IDS/IPS just stops hackers from entering. I'm a sysadmin and I run IDS and its a game-changer for us. Yet somehow in the home user space, its non-existant.

No idea on how bad the licensing on those Snort rules is, but a 1-click WinSnort that auto-updated itself would be a game changer. I find it amusing that everyone lives in fear of Cryptolocker when a simple rule can detect Cryptolocker traffic and deny it access to the mothership to generate a key. No key, no encryption.

I could see this evolving into a smart firewall type app on top of these static rules. It could say, "Hey why is guy downloading an unsigned exe from a computer on the botnet list? I'll block that." Or "why is this guy sending out suddenly smtp connections to thousands of servers. I'll just block that."
There's also a theory that our universe is a 3-D hologram that was spawned from a black hole in a 4-D universe [1]. Would there be any way to test this theory as well?

[1] http://gizmodo.com/our-universe-might-just-be-fourth-dimensi...
Seems to be a bit dangerous experiment. I remember reading something in some kind of a manual that it is definitely dangerous to put to much information in one place. It gets hungry for more information and then things get complicated pretty quickly.