skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I had a queen-sized bed, a desk, and lots of shelves.

I live in NYC with my fiancée, and I've seen friends' apartments in the size range you describe. Most of them now have Murphy Beds, which have gotten surprisingly good (http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_eye/2014/01/13/small_space_de...). Most of them seem happy in those spaces, as long as they're not trying to cohabitate.

I'll note too that I'm a bit skeptical of the $3000 / month charge for micro apartments; even in Williamsburg, new, conventional one-bedroom apartments were $3200 – $3,500 / month last summer. I can imagine people paying $2000 for micro apartments in desirable, commutable neighborhoods, but $3000 seems less likely right now. Then again, NYC real estate is rife with people saying "That's crazy!", only to find that a couple years later it's normal or even cheap.
Am I the only one who read that and thought to myself, 'gee, why would he set his clock so far into the future?'

Facepalm.
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Even better, it's from the future: Posted 25 Mar 2015
Yes, and it was trivial to do.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphical_Environment_Manager
pre-dated windows on the same HW !
PDF:

http://arxiv.org/pdf/1312.5602v1.pdf
What I don't like about JSON Web Tokens
I think that everyone should be getting their data from the same place, one of the major reservation systems, depending on the airline. For example, if you are looking at British Airways, it is served by Amadeus.
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I recommend the original title of the post:

"Why I’m Saying Goodbye to Apple, Google and Microsoft: I’m putting more trust in communities than corporations"

or the author's tweet:

"Weaning myself off Apple, Microsoft, Google et al -- a journey worth taking."

rather than the click-bait-y edited title submitted:

"I quit using Apple, Microsoft and Google and now my conscience is clear. You?"

which may have unfairly disadvantaged this post or caused it to get flagged. :-/
How do you get your own Personal Cell when on a train and you are crowded again many others? Degrades to as bad the status quo?
That was an aspect of it, one of the things that I had started at NSI and got cut short when they sold out to Big Blue (and PG would love this) was AI Expert System for Network diagnostics using a Symbolics computer using OPS5. I was convinced at the time that would be the next thing after the GUI. But if I had to be completely honest, a huge part of it (80%) is I just thought they had no chance of making it.
> unless you're planning to execute ad-hoc queries and aggregation on a significant amount of data, data that would do well to fit the relational model, which would be a stupid idea to do in the browser.

You mean like every iOS app that uses Core Data? And web apps will kill native apps with an approach like this?
The project would have to allow commercial use, which would contradict his custom GPL.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ttUvsrcxKmI
https://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/orwell46.htm
The more qualifications you pile on in the competence vs. luck equation, the more it looks like just luck. And the more it looks like any other field where many enter and few win.

The market selects for increasingly subtler and harder-to-attain qualifications, and while you could conceivably stay on top of what the market is looking for through careful reading of history in the short and long term, time spent doing this is time not spent preparing for actually starting an enterprise. The people who do succeed seem to only read history after the fact.
I'm pretty sure my microstudio in SF (Soma) is about 250-275 sq. feet. It feels slightly smaller than the picture of Kelli's 313 sq. foot apartment from the article. I don't feel like there's much interesting stuff to say about it. It's an apartment that's really small. I have no seats other than my computer chair and my bed, which is fine for me but obviously makes having guests essentially impossible. But hey, I have a place by myself in SF.
Isn't that supposed to be the reviewer's name, rather than the person who made the change?
Looks like the NSA penalty in article titles is still active? This one dropped fast.
I agree completely. I do not view it as a mistake (although it seems like everyone else does). It was just the path I took. And I went on and got to work on a lot of other very cool projects and did very well for myself as a result, just not "early MS money" well.
> The SBM criticism of EBM is the over-reliance on Randomized Controlled Trials that meet p=0.05, without looking at the prior probability that a treatment would help.

The strength of significance testing is that it purposely doesn't try to tell you how likely something is to be true, only how likely the data you got was the result of chance assuming the treatment is no better than placebo. You're still taking the prior probability into account when trying to figure out the truth, you're just not putting a number on it.

My concern with bayesian approaches is that, like with frequentist approaches, the truth is still fundamentally unknowable, only now you're encouraged to put a number on that and pretend that it's science. While bayesian approaches totally make sense in trying to determine a patient's likelihood of having some disease when there is already data available for the prevalence in a population and the sensitivity and specificity of the tests, using bayesian logic to weight clinical trials strikes me as being highly dubious.

It would be one thing if SBM actually developed a framework to give a weight to each methodological feature of a trial, but so far I haven't seen much work to build a functioning system. Though if you're really honest about all the ways that you can have positive results without something actually being true, it seems like almost no amount of research will ever have a significant effect on the prior.
> I'll note too that I'm a bit skeptical of the $3000 / month charge for micro apartments; even in Williamsburg, new, conventional one-bedroom apartments were $3200 – $3,5000 / month last summer.

Yeah, that seems unlikely to fly. I was paying $1700/mo for my place, on the ground floor in Alphabet City (11th between B and C, specifically); not the most desirable place in Manhattan, but definitely not a cheap area.
Running in the background is on I stumbled with porting an app from Android to iOS. what an an iOS app can do while it's not the current app is tremendously limited. This is for battery reasons, and I get it, but it would be nice if the choice was up to the user; instead Apple just decided the practice was unacceptable.
There's a mention of SN 1054: http://youtu.be/FBzZ-DPHd3Y?t=38m26s
No, this is a new paper.
What happens behind the scenes of articles like that? Just to be clear, I am very happy for this guy that he took the indie leap and is shipping, and I hope his game does great.

But why is there a 2 page article about it in a semi-high profile blog? Neither him nor his wife has previous fame from past projects; the game's twitter (@druidsduel) has less than 1k followers, they didn't do a Kickstarter or something crazy that would have brought the spotlight, etc. I follow a fair amount of indie game devs, and hadn't heard about this until today.

So again - congrats to him on shipping! All the best! But there are many indies following that route (saying the market is saturated would be an understatement), and they don't get 2 page articles. What's going on here?

The only thing I can think of is that he has a publisher, which is unusual for first time indie game devs, and that perhaps the publisher just knows the right people to make stuff like this happen.
International shipping already, come on!
Oh you youngsters, born just before Y2K...
Ask HN: Am I living in a parallel universe to think my idea is super awesome?
So I thought one day while searching for some code snippet on the web (because that's what developers do), how cool it would be to have a website where for a particular problem I can see a list of various implementations in one place. And the code snippets are already validated with test cases and I can try them online to see if it suits my purpose.

I tried searching for such a website. Nothing found.

"I can make this and its an awesome idea" I said to myself.

"I need to be careful, all the traffic I would get would overload my server" the naive self said.

So a few a weeks later I deployed a first version, initially for c#

http://volatileread.com/UtilityLibrary?id=1083

And then I waited..... And waited.. No users.. Shared the link on HN.. Din't even make it to the first page. Opened Analytics, saw 10 sessions. Digged deeper, they were all from me.

Is something wrong with me to still think this is an awesome idea?
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I'm thinking about implementing a kvikkalkul interpreter in Common Lisp. Sounds like a fun weekend project.
Can I place a sponsored link there?
I'm a fan of https://www.vamo.com/ for multi-city trips. You put in your point of origin and all the cities you want to visit (and for how long), and it routes you between the cities on the best type of transportation and offers accommodation suggestions as well.
> For Google it's part of their core business

No, it's not.

https://investor.google.com/financial/tables.html

Total Advertising Revenues: $59,056,000,000

Total Other Revenues: $6,945,000,000
I understand the discussion of app permissions is not a new one, but today I decided I wanted to try and buy a product through Amazon outside of the browser... Amazon specifically instructs you to navigate to your settings and allow installation of 3rd part apps. Then it directs you to download their .apk - To this point I was almost to the point of excitement that a MAJOR company is showing the public that this is even possible.

Then I opened the .apk. It asked me for what has to be every permission available on Android. Why would Amazon need access to me Contacts? It even asked specifically for permission to my microphone! What?
Maybe, maybe not. The general principles should still be applicable.
there are just other tools that will get abused. bayes factors for example
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v518/n7540/pdf/nature14...
Perhaps as harder call is, which MS-DOS is this the CPM-86 of?
That 768-bit RSA key is factorable nowadays.
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Or I could live 20 minutes away from SF and pay $700 a month for a small townhome with workshop space. Pass.
For a year, my wife and I lived in this floor plan, with our infant daughter: http://www.halsteadnewrochelle.com/redsimages/floorplan/unit.... It was a totally inefficient 420 square feet, with lots of unusable space in that hallway and giant bathroom. Comparable to a well-designed 350 square foot space I'd say.

Living-wise, it was great! These places aren't designed for people who like to hang around at home. We were out all day--my wife would wander around Manhattan while I was at work, and we'd spend all weekend shopping/traveling/etc.

The summer before that, before the baby, we lived for three months in an extended stay hotel room, which was 240 square feet. Enough space for a bed, small bathroom, kitchen, and table with two chairs. Cheaper finishings than I would prefer, but otherwise quite comfortable. The summer before that I lived in a 150 square foot bedroom/bath where I didn't have access to the rest of the house. If the UWS wasn't so filthy in the summer it would've been great.
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As someone who lives a few blocks from where this complex is going up, I don't know what these people are smoking. $3000 for 360 sq foot apartment is utterly absurd, even in NY. I pay far less than that for a nice apartment in a doorman building so I don't know who would in their right mind would pay for these. I could see _maybe_ paying if this complex were going up in a prime neighborhood like the West Village or Tribeca, but way over on 27th street which is a half mile (which is considered far in Manhattan) from the nearest subway station, no way.
I meant that corporations should be trying to figure this stuff out, not academics.
Not as originally implemented for use in the Linux kernel. It's meant to identify the original author, who is signing off on agreeing to contribute the patch as open source.

See https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/SubmittingPatches section 11: “Sign your work”.
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I think you need some serious SEO, because most developers I know just take the first or second applicable result from Google.

See also, StackOverflow. How is your site different from that (except for being more focused)?
The assumption behind this story doesn't make sense to me. If you look at amoeba today and a human today, they are at the same "depth" on the evolutionary tree, just on different branches. Mammals have been evolving for tens of millions of years...but amoebas have also been evolving during that time.

If we could go back a couple hundred million years and compare an amoeba from then, to a human from now, I think we would see that the older organism is less complex. But we can't do that, and I don't see how looking at a modern amoeba is any kind of reliable proxy for that.
If you're a porn star it might work.
It's a simulation [1]. The claim is that the technique is applicable to center frequencies below 6GHz and the 1Tbit/s used a bandwidth of 100MHz (for a spectral efficiency of 10^7 bit/s/Hz???). I'm guessing that whilst the technique might be applicable below 6Ghz, the 1TB/s rate isn't.

There are fundamental limits on the information capacity of an antenna using the EM spectrum [2], based on the surface area of the volume of space it occupies, in units of wavelength. (Related to the Holographic Principle?) I haven't done the calculation, to see if the claimed rate is within this limit, but a spectral efficiency of 10^7 bit/s/Hz is about 5 orders of magnitude beyond what others have reported (less than 100bit/s/Hz [3]). It will be interesting to see the details!

[1] http://www.ispreview.co.uk/index.php/2015/02/university-of-s...

"UPDATE 25th Feb 2015

We’ve been finding the 1Tbps claim a little difficult to
digest and so have been prodding Professor Rahim
Tafazolli for further details, specifically a greater
clarification of how the performance was achieved.

According to Tafazolli, the new class of Detector (a
completely new approach) was tested through computer
simulations (these simulated a real mobile/wireless
environment) and were found to achieve the 1Tbps rate
claimed. In our view that’s quite a bit different from
conducting a practical test.

Next year Tafazolli said that his team would work to
implement this in a proper hardware/software platform and
test it in a real environment in the 5GIC outdoor testbed.
Hopefully they will be able to announce the performance in
2017."

[2] http://arxiv.org/pdf/cs/0701055.pdf

[3] http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?reload=tru...
Nope, this is an awesome idea, I've had it myself several years ago.

My immediate reaction to your implementation:

- C# is icky.

- Would be cool to automatically compare performance of solutions, e.g. timing, memory footprint, etc.

- "Run" button doesn't appear to provide any output?

When I had this idea, I also wanted to be able to provide sample inputs and outputs, and have all potentially matching functions run, to see if any match.

In general, you've hit the problem of building a community without an actual community magically appearing. Keep at it.
I use AIDE and a git client on my tablet to read and run code. But it is a long way from having the refactoring, linting, and good error reporting of a highly mature Java IDE. Could be used to fix a problem in a pinch, but it would need tons of work to match Android Studio or Eclipse.
Are you making the argument that Go is finally the magic language that can make bad devs write good code ?

Let me be the realist here : it isn't.

Go is just a very young language that, for the moment, only has developers that are curious and therefore either good or willing to learn. This has the additional consequence that for the moment the mailinglist is very helpful. History teaches us that both effects have nothing to do with the language and are temporary (unless the language never sees any "real" acceptance, like Haskell).

You can look messages from some years back showing the same sentiment for Delphi, Visual Basic, Java, Python (especially Python had lots of people making this argument), ... And when those messages were posted, they were true. It didn't last long for any of them.

> But people would struggle without Visual Studio debugging and a big run button.

Sadly this is being used as an excuse for making language with substandard (to put it mildly) debugging facilities and editors.

And of course, like for every other argument, the Go team itself is just being extremely arrogant about this. "Why do you want this ?" type responses, or just dead silence, or outright declaring the people asking the question to be substandard developers or some such.
Great comment and awesome HN bio. Instantly made me feel good after a tough stretch. Thanks.

> A 58 year old hacker. 5 failed start ups, now work for a really really big company. eh, oh well.
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You need to write code to use the object, as per your needs, and then it will show all the Console.WriteLines. performance metrics is something I was implementing before getting demotivated.
I suppose I'll just have to wait and see if there's some capital punishment coming my way ;-)
The hopeless ones become college professors
Yes, they wrote an assembler/linker/simulator on old Harv-10. I was there bugging him late at night, asking why he was wasting his time on silly hobbyist machines when we had the whole Arpanet at our fingertips. (All 20-30 machines at that point.) ;/)

Even though lots of folks were using the -10 for commercial projects on the side, Harvard made him give all the Altair money back to avoid disciplinary action. Wasn't really fair.

So, yeah, some of us were blind at the time. In my defense, I did help Carl Helmers get Byte Magazine off the ground a year later or so, along with my high school buddy Dan Fylstra who went on to create VisiCorp to commercialize the original VisiCalc.
Ah, cool! Might be nice to auto-fill an example for that.
Stack overflow doesn't allow you to run solutions nor compare different solutions for the same problem. I know google isn't being nice to me.
My guess is that it's because this is KNOX.
I think you're right, that does seem like a possibility. It seems unlikely to me that our wage-paying jobs will be phased out by automation that rapidly, especially if you consider the whole global economy. Of course, I could be completely wrong -- I guess a true Singularity could invalidate almost all labor in a matter of years or even months, depending on what form the AI takes and what it invents.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outside%E2%80%93in_software_dev...
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That is an awesome deal!! $700 for the entire townhouse or just a single room?
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Another factor could be that it’s not easy for schools to evaluate job applicants on merit alone, because merit can be difficult to define or measure. In the tenure system, a professor might work at the same institution for 40 years. But when hiring for tenure-track positions, schools often have to guess about lifelong productivity based on just a few years of experience. Hiring faculty is therefore a high-stakes decision; while you can always deny someone tenure, doing so means you’ve wasted years nurturing talent that you don’t want to keep. With so much uncertainty involved in the process, it may be natural to go with what seems like a safe choice: an applicant trained at a high-prestige school, even at the expense of exciting candidates from slightly less elite institutions.

Brilliant, and applicable clearly to other areas
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Yeah and thats a flawed number since most ppl dont get a zillion signatures.

What it really means is that people don't use the web of trust that much.

Most people I encounter do not sign keys, they just verify they've seen the same key before.
Most of the banking/trading jobs are in the big cities. It's mostly NYC and Chicago, but a little for other cities. (with Chicago being more options and futures)

Like you mentioned elsewhere, it sucks as you might imagine. Why would a big bank need good software when they can get trillions of dollars in bailout money from the government? (and the losses by Knight are still a rounding error compared to the government subsidies the financial industry receives) For example, 0% interest rates are a massive wealth transfer to the financial industry, because they can borrow at 0%, buy stuff, wait for inflation, and profit (and get bailed out when they're wrong).

Financial software is shockingly low quality.

Like most things, you need previous financial/trading experience. I haven't done it in a couple of years, so I wouldn't be seriously considered now.
>The type of analysis being banned is often called a frequentist analysis

I find that there is a trend of associating "bad statistics" with "Frequentists Statistics" which isn't really fair. If you found a statistician trained only in Frequentist methods and asked their opinion on experiment design in psychological research they would likely be just as appalled as any Bayesian.

I'm a big fan of Bayesian methods, but the solutions of "we'll solve the problem of misunderstanding p-values by removing them!" is still a problem of misunderstanding p-values! The misunderstanding is the issue, not the p-value.
I know! According to [1] the minimax algorithm does indeed originate here. And Hamming said in that talk [2][3] that Shannon didn't do anything killer after Info Theory...

[1] - http://webdocs.cs.ualberta.ca/~sutton/book/the-book.html
[2] - http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~robins/YouAndYourResearch.html
[3] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1zDuOPkMSw
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Ah. I've seen it show up in the GUIs for a coworker or two, but I've never actually seen it filled in.
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After reading the HN comments, I just realize that the 'apartment' has really different scales for married (or family) and unmarried people. Unmarried people are likely sharing units and hence pay much less than married or families.
Resource-based SCSS/CoffeeScript files. For an API I definitely don't need these, for a regular app I don't need them because I try to write JS/CSS around components rather than resources.

Good call on just removing the generators though. I should just do that.
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I think probably not, but thank you for asking. This is something I'm just doing for fun. If you are a blogger with relevant posts, please submit them in the form at the bottom. Then you can get links for free.
Oh my god, Tracy, that logo... ;) Awesome doodles!
More like exclusive reliance on a single tool will lead to a requirement for everybody to use it, even if they don't understand how to use it properly, which leads to both unintentional misuse (by experimenters who don't understand it) and the inability to catch intentional misuse (because adjudicators don't understand it either).
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Yes very true. But i think mobile data has to be cheaper as increased data speeds are achieved and users are promoted to make more use of the excess speed on portable devices.