skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> voice isn't that reliable

Maybe it's because I'm from Minnesota and sound like Don LaFontaine, but Google's voice recognition is easily 95% or better for me. Probably closer to 98%, even on spoken sentences for sending emails or texts. When I'm navigating, or trying to call someone, it's closer to 99%.
Amsterdam Has Officially Run Out of Spaces to Park Its Bicycles
Well, then you should come visit :)
Timsort is especially good at reducing the number of comparisons needed by taking advantage of already ordered subsequences in the input. This advantage comes at a cost of more overhead compared to e.g. quicksort. Therefore Timsort is faster if the comparison operations are expensive, quicksort if they are cheap. Java takes advantage of this by using Timsort to sort arrays of objects with a user specified comparison function, and quicksort to sort arrays of primitives. (Or at least it used to.) In Python everything including comparisons is relatively slow so they just use Timsort all the time.
The new green juice?
I feel the exact opposite as far as controls go. Android Wear decided voice and touch would take care of the UI whereas Pebble has gone completely with buttons (4 of them!) and as an owner of the previous generation of Pebble I always found them very awkward to use especially if I was doing anything except maybe standing still.

I also own a Moto 360 which is okay but honestly I'm not as big of a fan as I thought I would be. If they made Pebble Time have touch controls to get rid of the big buttons I would buy this thing in a heart beat.
It shows a lack of professionalism, a poor vocabulary, and a general disrespect towards the mentally handicapped. It just isn't up to the standards that people expect in this day and age.

You seem to think "political correctness" is some kind of dirty term, rather than just accepting that times change, and society has moved on. Homosexuals are no longer seen as a negative (per "gay" as a derogatory) and the mentally handicapped are no longer seen as being idiots or fools (per "retard" as a derogatory).

It surprises me that some people simply do not appreciate this and how their use of language reflects on them as people.
So you're saying successful "campaigns" are simply the ones using kickstarter as a pre-ordering platform?

That's very sad.
Anywhere you go as a tourist, you're not getting the rush-hour experience. While this is significant, the worst thing about the Denver road system is the unwillingness to plan.

There are essentially only two (!) real roadways: I-70 and I-25. If you're willing to pay the few hundred $/mo, you can also drive on 470 to bypass the traffic. Once you get away from these two (three), it's a mire of unconnected and unplanned roads.

On top of this - especially highlighted by the snow this past weekend - there is no regular maintenance of the roads other than 25 and 70.

At the end of January I was in a car accident and am waiting for repairs, so I've gotten a glimpse of the public transportation system also. What used to take me ~20 mins to drive now takes over an hour, and unless your complete list of destinations is along the I-25 corridor, that's pretty typical.

Now, maybe I just have a sour taste for CO. I am definitely looking to GTFO - that's why I was looking in this thread in the first place - but this has been my experience with the city/state for the last ~5 years. Take it how you will.
That's awesome! Congratulations. Financial discipline is definitely a nice side effect of this mess - sink or swim, as it were.

That being said, frugality is also not necessarily great for the economy =). It's obviously a fantastic idea for individuals, and you're much better off the way you are - on the whole though, we want people to be spending money on goods and services.

Sorta like how college is a great idea for the individual, but if everyone goes to college then value of those degrees goes down as a whole.
Freemium is scam.
The immutable Symbol is interesting, I wonder if React and such would benefit from it (using polyfills for the browsers that do not support it yet)
Why did we use Scala as our main back end language?
This is true if you're speaking of downtown Austin. Most tech companies are in north Austin, which is decidedly less cool and more strip mall-ish. You can still get a huge house for $200k if you look in Round Rock or Cedar Park -- both of which are within a 15-20 minute commute of the Braker/Metric area where most of the low-cost office space that attracts startups is. It's not super sexy, but cheap housing still exists in Austin if you're willing to drive a little bit.
The biggest advantage of javascript is quick prototyping + manipulating DOM objects with no tooling (you can debug with javascript console in the browser). I would die the day, I need a compiler to see a color change on a button.
If paying money out of my own pocket means I've helped people who were _scammed_ into crushing debt while holding a near worthless degree that they've spent prime years of their life working for; time that they cannot get back.... then yes, I don't mind paying for that. I wish more people cared about society as a whole instead of jumping straight to the argument "If they don't pay, then the taxpayers will and that's you!!!" that supposedly shuts down all discussion.

And anyways, we shouldn't even be debating this. University should be free, period. And yes, I know "free" = "we" = "our pockets". That's perfectly fine. Or we should start funding plane tickets and visas to send low income people to these countries[1] for study; requiring them to maintain a quality GPA or something. The world would be a better place for all of us if the "haves" weren't so adverse to paying for the "have-nots".

1. http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2014/10/29...
..And we have fiber[0]

0:http://www.freep.com/story/money/business/2015/02/22/dan-gil...
It's pretty easy to create a blank profile. That isn't magic wand easy, but it's a low bar.
Things I’ve Learned About Sending Email
We've been using it since the first beta.
It quickly became essential for our production servers.
Your First Rails App in 10 Minutes
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This is true, but the worst case of quicksort is so rare that this does not matter for average performance.
This sounds about the right level of crazy for Zuck, but he's got a pretty good track record for crazy.

This would be more crazy and less meaningful if there was worthwhile city planning happening on the peninsula, but check out traffic patterns, population density and public transit. Also look at where the FB campus is. That area needs any help it can get.
Subsidies are not a construct of a free-market, but of a state. Which can leverage vast sums of money into such a losing game (without any "market" repercussions).
If you use many services, often with the same company (say multiple Google accounts) it doesn't look that clean; you have many repeating icons. Many of which, you'll get a generic key (if only they'd let me add a custom icon). Then you're stuck with reading that tiny font, which requires several seconds of scanning, even on a 6 Plus.
I think you have a problem most people your age would love to have. That being said, I get it. It's easy to get burnt out - especially when you're trying to continue your education at the same time. If I were in your position, I would definitely look to my fellow classmates or any friends I had that would be a good fit. I'd probably bring on one more person (maybe two, depending on what they could help me with) and split everything evenly between the two of us. If the tool you've created is that popular, everyone working on it will be in a great position down the road. You'll either be able to turn it into a full-time business, or leverage the crap out of it when you go out looking for a full-time position elsewhere (companies will love hearing about it). Either way, you've been hit with a blessing - I wouldn't give up on it just because it got too popular for you to handle. That's a great thing. Congrats!
>It doesn't take longer than loading a single page.

Yeah, because it only loads a single page. It doesn't actually restore anything. Sometimes the pages it restores aren't even the live version but a cached one, I have no idea when or why it does that. It's absolutely infuriating.
It's currently trending towards a cool 68 million dollars:

http://www.kicktraq.com/projects/597507018/pebble-time-aweso...
> Eh, it's not "real" money

Why not? It was real to the tax payers who paid it to the government and real to the Corinthian employees who were paid by the school and it will be real to the students as they struggle to pay it back over many years.
I've also noticed the quality of DuckDuckGo search results has been steadily improving, especially over the past year. I would encourage anyone who tried it and went back to another search engine to consider giving DuckDuckGo another shot--you may be pleasantly surprised!
I'm not agreeing or disagreeing about this being snake oil... but how do you think phased-array and beam forming work if not by controlling phase delays between antennas so as to create constructive and destructive interference at a desired point, or points, in space?

Even if the air interface works the main reason I can see for carriers not deploying this is backhaul. It would be exponentially more expensive (35x if the air interface is indeed 35x faster) to provide bandwidth to all devices. Right now carriers actually rely on the LTE total cap limitation to save money on backhaul costs.
Show HN: Just another space survival game
I would guess that New York is getting underrated, because in finance, once you get a serious, adult job, you're usually called something other than software engineer. "Vice President" is the typical title for someone of my age (31) even if you're a full-time programmer with no reports. Only at Managing Director (30-35 if you're lucky or good, 40-45 more typically) are you culturally expected to start having reports. I've heard of full-time engineers getting "Portfolio Manager", even if the job has little to do with managing a portfolio.

So, I'd guess that there are a lot of high-paying full-time software jobs in New York (and Chicago) where the title is something like "Vice President, Technology" or "Quant Trader".
You do if you're looking in south Austin (78704). Even tiny 1br bungalows go for $750k+.

Unlike SV though, if you go a few miles outside south Austin there are plenty of affordable homes in good neighborhoods. They may not be as hip or convenient, but at least they exist.
Yeah, it's like all those famous chefs who give their recipes away for free, and then charge money for a printed and bound collection of them... SCANDALOUS
How we saved Baltimore $600,000 in one day
> My question was, what is the macro impact of them defaulting on student loans.

My mistake, I thought your question was more about the impact of student loan debt as a whole on the economy going forward.

My point was that there's probably no bubble (unless at some future point the govt decides student loan debt is dischargeable in bankruptcy), but that doesn't mean it won't be detrimental nonetheless.

> Seems like based on your point, everyone would be better off because PPP would go up slightly.

How do you figure? I haven't seen the data myself but it would be shocking if total accrued student loan debt (adjusting for inflation of course) doesn't skew heavily towards the 18-30 age range.

That leaves the older generation with significantly more purchasing power, and if the younger generations avoid student loan debt it benefits them as well.

> Basically would mean that Sallie Mae could tank significantly.

I think that's a very real scenario that will play out in another decade or two. I very much doubt today's toddlers will accrue as much student loan debt as millenials have.
This isn't a pre-order. Even if they wanted to provide a ship date, it will inevitably change.
People would need to learn to not use Javascript, instead moving to a more exotic language (exotic in the context of DHTML scripting, not in general) with more complex and possibly less mature tooling.

Given the current popularity of Javascript, this means that the exotic language must be very compelling; the two main reasons, reusing good libraries written in some other language and reusing good programmers who don't know and won't learn Javascript, appear rarely applicable (there are Javascript libraries for most needs and most developers involved in web development think they know enough Javascript) and they cover only a portion of most plausible projects or teams when applicable (there are important parts of the application beyond any library, and someone will want to use Javascript).

As for actual language fetures (templates in C++, various functional styles in Ocaml and Haskell, etc.) a language fan needs to justify costs like performance loss, write-only generated Javascript code, flaky libraries, gigantic file sizes, and so on.
Where to start up a startup
Growthhackers.com is a killer resource for finding scrappy, metrics-driven marketers.

Meetup, as someone mentioned below, is a decent resource, but truthfully I think it requires a lot of time/energy and can often be a bit fruitless.

A friend actually used TaskRabbit to find a co-founder. He posted a task for an intro to someone fitting his requirements and offered to pay $75 for a valuable lead. His inbox was filled with intros and awesome folks from a variety of backgrounds.
The advantage is that if you lose/switch phones, you don't have to reset your 2FA. (a disadvantage, of course, if your account/device is compromised)
Average student loan debt is about $30,000. A 10-year loan at 5% interest works out to about $318 or $345 at 6.8%.

The 5% choice is a bit debatable. I figured most people have some combination of loans at 6.8%, 5% and 3.4%.

Of course there's so much variation between schools that the average might not be too useful, but it seems like $300-$350 is a pretty reasonable figure.
Wwe raw 24/2/2015
At the very top "A FREE EMAIL COURSE FROM THE CREATIVE CLASS"

And at the very bottom: "FULL DISCLOSURE: THERE'S A PAID COURSE ABOUT FREELANCING OFFERED AT THE END OF THIS COURSE."

I fail to see anything wrong with that. They are giving away something for free in hopes they can sell something else. Nothing wrong with that at all. They are even disclosing that before you join the list, which most people don't. I guess you may not see that before joining but I see no harm.
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Personally, Tcl is by far my favorite language to program in. While I admit it's not the right tool for every job, but I feel a great sense of job when it IS the right tool because writing code in it always makes me happy.

When I'm writing pseudo-code for someone, I almost always wind up writing something that looks like Tcl (which a bit of OO/functional mixed in).

I think there's a number of reasons why I enjoy it so much:

- I find it's minimal syntax very easy to work with (for normal cases, admittedly it has it's warts)

- I've been using it so long (since about '95) that I tend to "think in Tcl"

- The ability to add new control structures to the language makes simplifying other code (ie, adding try/catch/finally to the language yourself) amazing. It's somewhat lisp-like (though not as powerful)

My use of Tcl over the years has spanned many different environments

- Interacting/automating network hardware tasks (SNMP, Expect, device scripting)

- AOLServer

- Vignette

- Personal tasks (lots of them)

- (minor) modifications to the core

- Plugins/Scripting for various other programs
Twitter Endorses Net Neutrality Proposal Ahead of Vote
Still now swipe animation (or "scroll bounce") on OS X sigh.
I live in the US and was able to go to college almost for free. There were a few caveats though:

1. I waited until I was 24. This meant that my parents income did not affect my federal assistance so that I could get the maximum amount.

2. I went to a dirt cheap community college my first two years. It was so cheap that the federal grants covered my tuition, books, plus a little extra for living expenses.

3. I did really well at community college and was able to get a few scholarships at a bigger university.

4. In my state there is a block transfer program so that all of my credits at community college counted at the larger university.

5. I was able to live at home for the entire duration so I did not have to pay a huge sum for campus housing.

I was able to get a computer science degree from a state university with somewhere around $1000 in debt which I paid off entirely with my first paycheck.

I was only in $1000 in debt because I foolishly bought a $2400 gaming laptop.
The first space selfie, during the Gemini 12 mission in 1966
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Did the students get a loan from the college or a bank? Did the bank fail? Can I refuse to pay back my mortgage if my house burns down?
"... the initial prototype automotive Tweel tires did demonstrate flaws with regard to noise and high speed vibration ..."
Ask HN: What do you use for debugging ads?
Tools for debugging ads are horrible. What do you use that isnt Charles?
Not by most people's definition. And it had (and I think still has) wide popular support.
They might have finalized the copy before that.
I'm pretty sure they "get it", but agreeing with this practice is different thing. Sure, KS is as happy as everyone else, but that's not what they used to present themselves as.
1. Put the studies on suspend for a while

2. Try to get a developer who can support you, should not be to hard

3. Try to scale your business

Where are you based?
Very useful thanks for your hard work putting together this info!
As we know there not just 3 currencies in the world. It could be Yen, Rupee or Ugandan shilling or any one of the 180 currencies.
People with university education tend to have higher incomes and in countries with sane laws therefore pay more in taxes. On average they will pay more than they get from government.

Apart from that I feel much more comfortable going to a doctor, knowing that she has gained that position by skill and not because her parents could afford it.
Great question. Yes, Bitrated is indeed centralized, but strives for a model that requires putting as little trust as possible on the service operator.

For example - user reviews, contracts and profile fields are signed with the user's ECDSA key, to make it possible to independently verify its authenticity and prevent tampering by third parties (or even by Bitrated itself). All the information is also freely available via open APIs, to make it easily archivable. User funds are fully recoverable in case Bitrated shuts down.

I would say that many of the benefits that can be gained from decentralized technologies can in fact also be achieved by using standard cryptography and leveraging the blockchain technology in smart ways. We have some interesting plans in regards to that.

We expanded more on that here:

https://www.bitrated.com/security#trustless-server-model

https://www.bitrated.com/security#cryptography-backed-digita...

We choose that route because building a decentralized solution requires a lot of additional resources, effort and time, and we believe that the Bitcoin ecosystem needs to have a working solution today. But we'll definitely be considering an even more decentralized approach as the technology evolves.
Awesome product
Unless you can lock in the early bird, I don't believe there's any point in pledging. I just about scraped through and pledged $179 + $10, which puts me about $20 ahead of the final cost (assuming shipping will stay the same).
> Being able to sleep with your watch on most nights of the week is a bigger deal than a lot of people realize.

This is huge for me and why I wear my FitBit instead of my Moto 360 most of the time. If I can wear it while I sleep I can set multiple alarms to wake me up that do not wake up the spouse or kids and it's less annoying than trying to turn a very loud beeping off.
Are the courses suitable for the professionals who want to become freelancers?

Thank you for sharing, I have signed in.
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I do some work for a helium supplier, and yes, yes we are. Some problems were averted by not shutting off the helium reserve a year or so ago, but the industry is definitely starting to face the question of what happens when helium supplies become limited.

Kids balloons aren't a particularly high demand use.
The amount is increasing by around $2-3k every second!! This ones going to beat every kickstarter record out there!
They have the same problem, which is that electric cars are only silent at low speeds. At high speeds, the tires already make plenty of noise. The problem with electric cars being quiet at low speeds is that's when you're most likely to encounter pedestrians. But that's just when these tires would make the least noise, so they probably won't help.
Voice recognition has improved tremendously for me as well. But what I can't seem to get over is that it's almost always slower than using my thumbs. Talking is slower than typing, plus the process time needed to interpret the voice commands. -- from a keyboard shortcut junkie
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All the info in one place. Finally.
Let's see how much a successful KS project can increase due to well earned trust.
As I like to say, shared-nothing & message passing takes an exponential problem and turns it into a polynomial one.

It still isn't "easy", but at least it's back in the realm of feasible.
"Dad is one of eleven siblings and Mum is one of eight siblings."

Looks like your folks went for the "Human Pyramid Scheme" instead of expecting the government to pay for their old age. But yes, 'Human Pyramid Scheme', it is frightening!
It gained over $500k in the last 15 minutes, so... yeah, I think we are looking to break several records here.
I'm presently in the middle of an experiment to use Firefox (and its Developer Edition) as my primary browser when performing my duties as a web developer. So far... It's been kind of rocky. Daily usage of the browser isn't that bad, but the developer tools are lacking compared to Chrome.

A good example is the Network tab. In Chrome, I need only have the developer tools open to capture information about requests. In FF, I must not only have the tools open, but I must also be viewing the tab.

Another minor annoyance is the state of add-ons. It seems that new versions of the add-ons I use regularly are several versions behind their Chrome counterparts. And have you tried to develop an add-on? Wow. The docs are kind of harsh. They could really use a guided example.
I think that in terms of what I was expecting out of Pebbles second iteration, this was not it. I like how they did away with the mobile thinking of apps because that was simply trying to conform a watch to a mobile phones way of thinking. Even sticking to e-paper for long battery life was a good design decision but beyond that there really isn't much in innovation. The design doesn't really wow or anything same with the UI. I know some comments really liked the UI and I guess with developers updating their apps and looks to match the new watch that may improve things as well.
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I would start by thinning the crap that you probably have in the form of extensions... I've been running Firefox since 1.0 on all OSes and I can't remember it crashing on me once (it probably happened, a long time ago, but I honestly can't remember.)