skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, and Android's isn't the only app repo that could be doing more verification (reminds one of Windows Update and FTDI, no?). To be frank, however, adding additional required verification is a huge pain for everyone, so it's going to be rare.

To avoid the pain they could roll this out only to apps that declare themselves not to be assholes. I.e., an app could promise not to degrade ungracefully under limited perms, and in return it would never get spoofed data. (All other apps would get spoofed data whenever they access an API that a user had deselected.) If a non-asshole app were ever reported by a user and verified by Android devs to degrade in a user-hostile manner, it could just be placed in the asshole category permanently.
>Statistical significance is not the same as significance in business terms

Depending on the level of significance, why not? If it's expensive or simply not possible to gather the full data set, sampling is absolutely a valid basis for business decisions. Why wouldn't it be?
I was at amazon for the last redesign. It's interesting the direction they are going. In the 1990s they went from nothing to selling everything, and things got more and more complicated. During my time, we simplified a lot of the layout and created the pop-up categories window (along with the search sidebar that lets you filter hard drives by capacity, etc.)

I'm not in the A/B test to see the new design here, but from images it sure looks like they are going simpler and simpler. Notice how the front page looks a lot more like the Apple Store than it did in the past?

I think it's a good trend... hiding complexity can add a great deal to usability.
Thanks a lot. I'll get in touch.
> Facebook adds extreme value to your social life

But you fail to catch a crucial part of this: it adds value to your social life at the expense of so many other things. It may add some social value to your life, but corrupts and molds society at large. I think the tradeoff is absolutely not worth it. I touched on this in a comment below as well.

Social networking is a task that should probably be left for a 'Public Benefit Corp.' to do, as Ello seems to be trying to do. I'm hoping and praying that these sorts of companies start to take off, that pay-for-service becomes cool and commonplace again.
My company is somewhat involved in booking and we've found it to be very specific to the vertical. We looked at building something that integrated with Quickbooks, but found that it's nearly impossible to come up with something that works for enough customers to make it profitable. From what I can tell, people on the Quickbooks team tried it too and decided against it. The long tail just has too many differing needs.

The problem you've listed (not knowing how long a dental appointment will last) isn't really a problem for a booking system...a dental office with a receptionist scheduling patients will run into the exact same issue and the same rules that the receptionist uses can be programed into a booking engine. The bigger problem for a dental office is that the calendar is locked in a management system that's probably running on a Windows computer somewhere in the office. Maintaining two calendars is almost never going to work and the one in the cloud will never be the calendar of record. Short of going the ZocDoc route and having practices reserve certain spots for appointments booked online (businesses hate doing this), you're always going to run into problems with conflicting appointments. The interesting thing is that most dental practices won't care about conflicting appointments since the only patients that will book online will be new patients and patients that have fallen out of the typical schedule. Everyone else will schedule their appointments with the receptionist at the end of their previous appointment. So most dental practices will happily juggle appointments to fit those specific types of patients into their schedule.

But that's the dental industry and almost every other industry has just as many quirks as the dental industry does, if not more. And that's why the market will most likely be filled with smaller, specialized vendors that target either one or possibly a handful of verticals. I'm betting the winners will be the companies that make the management systems used by the businesses, but that's not happening quickly since most of them are small ISVs that only understand Windows development and think cloud computing is something that meteorologists do.
I have to disagree with you here.

Let me put it this way: There are theoretical limits to the upper bound of problem size. The number of bits storable in the (observable) universe is only, what, about 10^120? [1]

log32(10^120) is only around 80. So if you have a constant-time algorithm that runs around 80x slower than a logrithmic algorithm for small cases, the constant-time algorithm will never be faster. Period. And I've seem constant-time algorithms that take >80x the speed of theoretically asymptotically slower algorithms. I mean: a single cache miss can cause that level of slowdown.

Or, to put it another way, log32(n) <= 80 for all achievable n. So, realistically, you might as well consider it effectively O(80), i.e. O(1). You have something similar, albeit more extreme, for inverse Ackermann time.

[1] http://physics.aps.org/story/v9/st27
> Here's the fun part, if I start a company and get my friend to invest $1 for 0.0000001% of my company. What's my company's "valuation"?

This is a great point, but valuation is still a meaningful term, it refers to how much someone thinks the company is worth. Your friend bet $1 that your company is worth more than $10,000,000. We tend to trust people's opinions when they put their money where their mouth is so we pay attention to valuations, but we also need to consider how much money they put where their mouth is.
AFAIR the deques in PFDS don't permit anything better than O(log n) random access -- and the ones that do that are hideously complicated (again AFAIR, it's been years since I read it). Also, the thing is constants matter, and this is what the "log_32(n)" vs. "log(n)" discussion is driving at.

(You're still not going to get anywhere close to a linear scan of an array with directly embedded values, but there's just no way to achieve that kind of raw performance for pure functional data structures.)
You are the one who made the claim without providing any numbers. I do not believe you can support this bluster with facts.
Yup. There are plenty of people who can sit on an illiquid 3.2M investment for an indefinite period of time. Barring a dirty bomb, nuclear war or government collapse, I can't see 6000 lots in Detroit for $3.2M not being worth 10x that in 30 years.
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It's the reason why, like many here, I have never bought a Samsung Android device (with the exception of the old Galaxy Nexus which was clear from Samsung total software crap).

They tend to provide good hardware features (waterproof, camera, etc.) but they kill it with bad software. Had a few meetings with them a few years ago, and got the impression that they thought software is cheap and not worth improving.
Yes. This just highlights the fact that you NEVER, ever want to buy an iOS device from a carrier's store. Always buy directly from Apple. Not just because of this SIM lock issue, but also because Apple's return policy and the way they handle problems very early in the life of a device is very different if you bought it somewhere else versus having bought it from Apple directly.
Moreover, they support many crazy baudrates and can be configured for any reasonable IO voltage.

This made me choose FTDI for my homemade everything-and-the-kitchen-sink UART dongle.

Oh, and they can blink LEDs.
It's great to be able to afford that...
A court can order someone to stop publishing source code and to pay damages for illegally distributed material.

In the related field of copyright, courts have been known to order the destruction of books, fake watches, etc.
Seemed to me like the benefit of these SIM cards was that would could change providers at will without hunting down a new SIM. But it seems like you can only choose once.
> you may be able to recoup some cost on some properties or by selling scraps

All those houses have been scrapped for copper and stainless steel already. Detroit has a huge scrapper problem - you cannot leave a property sitting for any amount of time before someone breaks in and starts scrapping the wiring and copper water pipes. There are even scrapping gangs. A friend of a friend went to the Herman Kiefer Hospital shortly after it closed in 2013. He was escorted out at gunpoint by scrappers - they had a few guys posted there 24/7 with firearms and walkie-talkies to keep other scrappers from coming in.
HTML and CSS are not programming. This is not controversial.
Doesn't this completely negate the point of "Apple SIM?" I thought the whole purpose was to allow people to switch carriers simply and quickly.

They even sold it as something which would allow you to switch into different inexpensive plans as and when you needed it. That was their damn sales pitch.

If you need to buy tons of $5 SIMs, and walk around with them to switch, then the entire thing has absolutely no benefit and you should just get a result SIM which might be free anyway.
Hear hear. If you're worried about the privacy implications of Facebook, don't use it. I don't have a facebook account and I'm still alive. I talk to my friends via text or email or in person. It's possible that I'm missing out on something great, but, whatever. I have other friends that don't use facebook either, and we feel no sense of loss.

Thinking about it though, the NSA probably knows as much about me as they would if I had a facebook account. My social network can be put together from texts, phone calls and emails, plus potential access to the content of all of those things. My Google history would fill in any gaps about my interests or moods. I can't think of a lot of things that people put into facebook that wouldn't be reflected somewhere else.

Screw it, use facebook. If the government paints a target on you, it doesn't matter what you do. Any privacy concerns may be best addressed through legislation and oversight.
> “It was amazing,” he said. “It was beautiful. You could see the darkness of space and you could see the layers of atmosphere, which I had never seen before.”

I want to experience this before I die.
Just because a company is big, or even a government agency does not mean they have the skill. I've worked for both, and the real security expertise (when they bother) is usually brought in through consultants. The apathy around security in both the public and private sectors is astounding. I keep hearing that it's difficult to get right. It's not. It does take some up-front thought though (security is not a bolt-on/refactor thing, it needs to be built in from the start), and a LOT of work. I know because I've gone through it (https://www.wittenburg.co.uk/Entry.aspx?id=a7aae391-9ac8-411...).
I was going to say that using an Oculus to move the robot on the moon would be a bad idea because of latency. Good to know that it's just shoddy reporting.
The article says he had a GoPro on. Hopefully they release some video or stills from the actual jump.
One of the most sensible questions in this thread...
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you're getting a little more down-modded than you should, in my opinion (though it would help to make this more than a one-liner).

250K out here in SF still buys you a nice life, especially if it is a one-income family. If it's a dual-income, full time family with two kids?

The median price of a 3br house in SF is around 1mil, maybe a little higher. Full time daycare is about 25k a year per kid, really, this isn't an exaggeration. So a 5k per month mortgage and about 4k a month in childcare - and because the two-income family is "high income", they lose out on most tax breaks for the childcare expenses. Reality is, you're a lot better off financially with one huge wage earner and one stay at home parent.

250k a year is still a nice salary, and many people who have it 1) don't have kids, and 2) got into the housing market a while ago, and carry a much smaller mortgage (their property taxes are much, much lower, too).

But for a two income family new to the housing market, with two small kids? 250k keeps you safely in the middle class, but you'll be limited in where you can live (outer-ish sunset or south of 280 are probably your best housing options).
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I love it when things like this happen. He spends next to nothing compared to redbull, and surpasses their record. Awesome work :)
> Another options besides comment-based annotations is property based annotations.

You mean, exactly like what the generated JavaScript from AtScript has in the samples shown in TFA?

> The tooling behind AtScript would be a huge contribution if it were made in a way where the components that make up the tooling could be mixed and matched for use in novel ways.

As detailed in TFA, there are two main components that exist right now -- the Traceur transpiler and the RTTS (runtime type system) library, the latter of which provides the kind of functionality you discuss in much of your post. Clearly RTTS can be used independently of AtScript proper.

There are future plans (also detailed in TFA), which include at least one other standalone tool. So the "components which can be mixed and matched in novel ways" seems to be exactly the plan.

If you had spent as much time reading what they actually have done and are doing as you spent writing about what they should and shouldn't do, you may have realized that you were basically asking for exactly what they are doing.
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Seems like quite an assumption that 1/4 of loyal readers will pay for a website. They cite the NYTimes paywall as evidence, but the NYTimes is hardly a typical site or a typical brand.
According this [1] article from Microsoft, the TypeScript folks are coordinating with the AtScript folks.

[1]: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/typescript/archive/2014/10/22/typesc...
I hope you at least feel like you got your answer.

Yes, I take this answer at face value. I didn't really think there were only two possibilities here. Perhaps I was a bit blunt in the hopes of eliciting a "real" answer like this one.
No, I'm getting tired of other parties (most notably Mozilla) doing whatever they can to block such efforts on political rather than technical merits.

Do we really want to be stuck with a mostly stagnant JavaScript forever? Ugh.
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Post it to Lambda the Ultimate if you want the serious language designers to take a look at the ideas and make suggestions.
I agree when we speak about algorithms.

When we speak about specific implementations it's useles most often, because most of these implementations use datatypes that simply don't work for numbers bigger than 2^64, collections that can hold at most 2^64 items etc.

So your program can sort collections of at most 2^64 items in n log n? Nice, I can do that in constant time.
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I'm confused, where did I say carbohydrates are not easily digested?
I don't think they are adding integers. According to the readme integers are now 64bit by default.
Right, but once you start talking specific locations, you get back to the fact that land isn't really in short supply in Detroit these days.
The speed of sound actually decreases, and then increases again as you go up in altitude. So when they say faster than the speed of sound, they mean the local speed of sound (hence the sonic boom).

This is explored (with graphs!) here for the case of Mr. Baumgartner's jump:

http://blog.wolfram.com/2012/10/24/falling-faster-than-the-s...
> Hear hear. If you're worried about the privacy implications of Facebook, don't use it. I don't have a facebook account and I'm still alive.

I hear that a lot, and it frustrates me very much, because it fundamentally betrays an understanding of Facebook's true nature.

I do not have a FB account, never have, and never will. Yet, my pictures are on there. Because my peers inevitably do use FB and take pictures of social gatherings where I'm at... and I get tagged. I have really no real recourse to this. At this point I actually cannot tell my friends to not take pictures of me... because that is not a reasonable request. A group picture has me in addition to other folks... the other folks may want the picture to be up on FB. So now, if I don't want to be on Facebook, I have to kill my social life.
Unreal's model of subscription+5% of top revenue becomes a real nice deal when coupled with Mono. All o fthe sudden there is room for C#/.NET devs to be able to contribute to the platform.
It should be a nice boost for UE4's adoption
Maybe this is cynical but I dislike stories like this. I'm glad he got back safely, but it sounds a bit Everest-y. Felix Baumgartner was an experienced jumper. Every time a corporate executive pulls the "throw money at something hard for mere mortals" card I cringe. Again, Everest. The number of rich businessmen who die because Mother Nature does not give a fuck about job titles is immense.
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Perfectly relevant, given the background of company's principals.
Well, it does say so on the main page :) .
I suspect that this warning is here so that devs can show it to the eager product managers ...

I am still not that convinced by this approach either though.
Sure, that way you are sure that all your apps handle the business logic in the same way but since the platforms are so different, the cost of extracting the business logic can be pretty high for a low return.
People have tossed the idea of increased property taxes for empty lots around for awhile; Detroit could presumably do that or the higher taxes for unoccupied properties. (In upstate NY, it's quite common to have a discount on your property taxes if your house is your primary residence, which has the effect of charging people from the city with a weekend home higher taxes.)
I wonder how much money The Simpsons producers have spent over the years responding to this type of utterly ridiculous nuisance suit. I bet it's probably greater than $50 million.

Has anyone ever legitimately/successfully sued The Simpsons?
Most people don't see a threat in a lack of online privacy. Since the beginning of mass commercial internet use our online usage has been tracked. It is sort of absurd to think what you do online is private.

Your computer might in your bedroom, but the internet certainly isn't.

You might prefer using sites and apps that guarantee your privacy, but most people simply don't care.
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So? It has nothing to do with their nationality or religion. It's totally irrelevant.
> Yes, guess what is written in the pin.xml file? The pin we had to set during the setup of Knox in cleartext!

Good lord. That's brutal..
Most marketplaces are not zero-sum.

For example, futures and options are zero-sum because every dollar of profit that one trader makes is offset by a dollar of loss from another trader.

But stock markets are not zero-sum. Prices can be bid up without a single share changing hands, creating new wealth out of thin air, and everyone wins. Conversely, prices can go to zero, destroying wealth and making everyone a loser.

Same thing for most other markets you can think of, from real estate to used cars to your local flea market. As with bitcoin exchanges, none of these are zero-sum since there doesn't have to be a loser for every winner.
How true. So they paid $40k in back wages - also trivial.

Per the story, there were 8 technicians and some worked up to 122 hours a week. Let's assume they worked an average of 60 hours a week (extremely generous to the employer). Let's also assume that their work was minimally technically demanding, just requiring reasonable care to break down, transport and set up computers from one location to another; I think $15/hour would be a cheap wage for that sort of work in the Bay Area.

8 staff x $15/hour x 60 hrs/week (no overtime) x 14 weeks is still around $100,000, far more than what the firm has had to pay out. If one were to include all applicable taxes and follow laws on overtime etc., I guess a realistic bill for that amount of work would be double that amount. So far it has cost them maybe $50-60,000 including legal fees - a bargain >:-(
> When I used "need" I was suggesting that the syntax proposed did not have to be a mandatory part of adopting this feature.

And...its not. The two identified components that exist now are the Traceur transpiler which generates JS from AtScript and the RTTS (runtime type system) library which works on the resulting JS. While clearly the principal intended usage model is using both together, you can use RTTS with JS without using Traceur to generate the JS from AtScript.
When I first read "Samsung Knox" in an article merely talking about device features, I rolled my eyes and thought "there's no way Samsung wrote a solid piece of security software".
I have always liked this excerpt from the video game Deus Ex. It to me foreshadows where the security state seems to be heading
---
When one maniac can wipe out a city of twenty million with a microbe developed
in his basement, a new approach to law enforcement becomes necessary. Every
citizen in the world must be placed under surveillance. That means sky-cams at
every intersection, computer-mediated analysis of every phone call, e-mail, and
snail-mail, and a purely electronic economy in which every transaction is
recorded and data-mined for suspicious activity.
We are close to achieving this goal. Some would say that human liberty has been
compromised, but the reality is just the opposite. As surveillance expands,
people become free from danger, free to walk alone at night, free to work in a
safe place, and free to buy any legal product or service without the threat of
fraud. One day every man and woman will quietly earn credits, purchase items for
quiet homes on quiet streets, have cook-outs with neighbors and strangers alike,
and sleep with doors and windows wide open. If that isn't the tranquil dream of
every free civilization throughout history, what is?
-- Anna Navarre, Agent, UNATCO
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I could get into it about Israel, but it's totally irrelevant in this case.