skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your not buying a new watch every month.

Sure, watches don't last forever, but let's assume you buy a new one every ~2 years on average. Well $30/ month * 24 months = 720$ every 2 years.
Yeah, that's super interesting stuff... Also Etherium, which as I understand it is a way to do distributed algorithms in a very general way.
In Paris, taxi are making it worse in term of customer perception. For example, the last protest from taxi drivers that suspended the service UberPop [0].

0 : http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/jul/03/uber-suspe...
Is it still a 'normal Ubuntu' machine underneath? I'm getting a sense that you won't be easily porting X11-based apps to it - is this nonsense?

My personal desire is to have a multi-core, multi-gigabyte, 8-10+ hour battery life software development workstation, in my pocket, which can also receive phone calls. If this is the future, with Ubuntu, then color me converted.
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I would add https://pythonspot.com to the list.
Competing with Amazon on price is, um, ambitious, but even aside from that, you also need to compete with them on logistics infrastructure. Amazon has taught me that a) I shouldn't have to pay any shipping costs, and b) once I order something it should be at my door within 1-2 days. If you can't do that, I become annoyed. And I don't see that happening if they're just re-ordering things from other merchants, none of which can compete with Amazon in the logistics department either.

So, good luck I guess. Competition is good, but they've got a pretty steep hill ahead of them.
What? No. This is exactly how it's always worked and there have been few issues. You touch in and out with the same card. Now you have to use the same device. There is nothing to report here.
At the moment, the best candidate for such a disruption may be MirageOS, written entirely in OCaml.

On the other hand, MirageOS has no hardware drivers and depends entirely on a Xen hypervisor. This may be a smart move to get it all going, but also means a fundamental dependency on yet another large piece of unsafe code.
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"Verbing Weirds Language"

http://www.603copywriting.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/c...

http://www.603copywriting.co.uk/verbing-weirds-language/

My claim was not that the writer (in this case you) is (hence are) a non-native speaker, but that this is the sort of thing that non-native speakers do inadvertently. It can be done for effect, as I assume you've done, but for me it just totally detracts from the writing. "Bedraggled" is an adjective, used to describe something. Yes, when you walk in from the rain and look a little like a wet rat, you are bedraggled.

To me, the system might be bedraggled, but it has been bedevilled by problems, resulting in it being bedraggled.

Language is as language does, and I'm not a prescriptivist. However, your deliberate choice of words has, in this instance, resulted in a final feeling of "urgh" about the writing, and I thought perhaps you should be made aware of this.

Your choice is your choice, and I'm just trying to make clear some of the consequences of which you may otherwise be unaware. To me, it just feels like you got the wrong word.
For a durable, offline-ready search-engine written entirely in JS checkout https://github.com/fergiemcdowall/search-index (I contribute to this)
This completely misses the point, which is that consent can be withdrawn at any time.
Another valid analogy with large corporations is if central planning was the optimum strategy, then extreme micromanagement from the top would be the optimum business strategy. Surely it would take top level supercomputers and programmers to run an entire country, but any random MBA with an Excel spreadsheet could run a business more successfully than a business without TPS reports and content-free numbers. So observationally, micromanagement and management by metric number should be a sign of a highly profitable and successful company, yet its usually associated with dying companies or companies only kept alive by what boils down to corruption (monopolies, licensing, regulation, revolving door between .com and .gov, etc).

If there was a solid argument WRT scaling explaining why the result would be different at extreme scale vs business scale then the picture might be brighter for central planning.

There are also growth rate issues where your two examples are unfortunately companies experiencing an implosion of mindshare, people run from those companies as fast as they can, not run toward them. That is probably just an unfortunate coincidence but does look bad for central planning PR. There must be some "cool companies" that centrally plan and are successful? Or maybe there aren't?
If the exec is successful, it will be replaced by the exec'd program, and its exit code will then be whatever the exit code of that is.
Tedu covered it: http://www.tedunangst.com/flak/post/out-with-the-old-in-with...
While sales resulting from ad impressions are important (i.e. direct response ads), wouldn't you also agree ads for establishing branding are important as well?

The vast majority of ads for luxury cars, for example, aren't going to elicit an immediate purchase, but still provide value for the automaker down the line.

Obviously the ads have to eventually lead to sales, but an immediate and trackable sale isn't always an option.
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I guess that's a matter of defining "earth bound." If we don't have people in space but we have probes on all the nearby planets, moons, comets and anything with enough gravity to hold one down, does that count as earth bound?

ATM, a manned mars mission is in the "very hard and expensive" file. Unmanned missions to anywhere in our solar system are doable on smaller budgets. We can use telescopes to look much further. In all cases information is being moved back and forward between earth and space.
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I'm using Uber quite often, but mostly to get home from central London. I live in zone 5, and I rarely find one around there.

Unfortunately, a lot of the drivers are very unskilled. I once almost crashed into a fence that the driver somehow didn't see. Another time, the GPS took the driver to a dead-end road, so I had to tell him to drive back and follow the road. When I mentioned that he has to turn right, he turned right straight away, on the wrong side of the road. I almost collided head-on with another car.

Maybe I've been unlucky, but these drivers need to be evaluated somehow. I was reading Shortlist the other day, and apparently it takes more than two years and around 20,000 miles on a scooter around London to pass the black cab driver test.
Wow, a colossal waste of money. Space is far, far too vast and the time scale of human civilization far, far too small. To think of what other good uses that time and money could be spent on (that goes for SETI too)
There already is a killer app: notifications.

I like my Moto 360, but I disabled notification vibrations (I have it in silent mode all the time). It is terribly annoying when you are working or are having family time and something on your wrist vibrates all the time.

About 30 seconds on the phone.

Get a phone with active display (e.g. [1]).

[1] https://www.motorola.com/us/Moto-X-Features-Active-Display/m...
No, people want to buy things, and there are a lot of things competing for their attention. Advertising, at its most basic, is just how we inform potential customers that we even exist.

Yes, some (a lot? Most?) advertisers get way out of hand. But advertising is not itself evil. It's a tool that may or may not be misused.
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Maybe you can change that for the remake of Cosmos.
The biggest problems with central planning were never quite as much about the lack of computing power, but more about the incentives that go with that power structure. Politically, the central planner gets to reward all his friends and punish his enemies and deprive them of resources and opportunities. Even aside from the obvious implications on political liberty, getting the opportunity to do business in that environment is a matter of political connection, not merit, leading to stagnation.

I suppose, though, that you could at least use sufficiently advanced algorithms to monitor supply levels and inventories and sales to adjust prices so you can bring back some measure of the price-signaling mechanism that central planning has traditionally lacked... if the guy in charge isn't tempted to fiddle with prices for political reasons. Looking at some extant central-planning huggers like Tom Steyer (who wants to investigate/punish/tax oil firms because California regulations make gas more expensive than elsewhere in the nation) you can color me skeptical of the premise.
They owned PayPal first. The Skype acquisition was very suspicious though. It served no purpose to their core business despite their laughable attempt to hype it as a tool for buyers and sellers to communicate. I suspect that it was done to take the heat off pressuring them into bank regulation in return for cross-correlating certain Skype accounts with PayPal registered bank accounts.
I think the bigger problem is this:

1. Open Passbook on your iPhone - before boarding a bus or tram/as you approach a gateline.

2. Place your finger on Touch ID to authorise the upcoming payment.

3. Touch it on a yellow card reader within 1 minute

I can't see people doing that in a busy tube station when you can just wave your card at the reader instead.
The only problem is that it tends to backfire -- especially where nobel prize winners are concerned[1].

[1]: http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Nobel_disease
That concierge model is going to be a post-sale nightmare as well. Returns, chargebacks, etc, with 2 separate credit card transactions from two separate buyers? Ugh.
You speak as if the money was yours to spend and it was misused somehow. As far as billionaires eccentricity goes, this is a great use of money.
I put the same card in two different devices, and it acts like two different cards. You don't think that is unintuitive? Especially if you understood the old rule as "use the same card to swipe in and out."
> they come with certain assumptions about memory subsystem.

I'm curious as to what you're referring to here, with Rust. Could you elaborate?
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My wifes old netbook is about to die. Unfortunately I only upgraded it with a 2.5" SSD less than a year ago. I was thinking about buying a chromebook for her but was hesitant, because I'd really like to reuse that SSD. Does the C720 come with standard 2.5" SATA SSD or is it mSATA/m.2?
Startups aren't luxury car brands. If you're selling a product or service, I think you establish brand by making happy customers. That first requires a sale.
This happens to me on some online shopping websites. When I search for some generic term, I am shown a slider between minimum and maximum where minimum is so often 0 and maximum is 10^5, while I am interested in something, say, between 500 to 1500.
Sounds like bad UX to me...
I hope they have good security and nobody steal the database.
Entirely wrong? No. But the reported effect was somewhat exaggerated.
But should expect our audience to do extra work to make something usable?
Firstly, it's not a waste of money because it'll be spent on employing people, building things, developing technology, etc. They're not just pouring money down a hole.

Secondly, although it's hugely unlikely they'll find anything, in the event that they do it'll fundamentally change our perspective of who we are and where our place is in the universe. The outcome, while improbable, is so huge it's still worthwhile trying.
This is what I'm using. Generally easy to use but there are a few CSS issues. GitHub page has people's workarounds but it hasn't been 'officially' updated for a while.

Edit: also, Gridster shuffles the panels around nicely in both axes and allows resizing which is very useful
It's not really a "loss" though. It's not like there is a significant marginal cost to serving static content.
as a person who lived in yet another centrally planned country, let me tell you this, plain simply - it doesn't work. soviets failed, but so every other nation that went that way. let's call it slow but steady financial rotting that will bring any country down, given enough time. there are plenty of reasons for that, they are always the same, but for me one is most important - they all work with ideal person who wants to help the system, instead of disconnected greedy selfish individuals, that real society consist of.

this is of course valid for humans, who have all kinds of flaws, some more than others. so you propose to give power to software, who by principle always has... flaws. imagine how juicy this thing would be for hackers, who would have billions-big incentives from shady business people to nudge decisions in their favors... silly naive people :)

What I would suggest - let some state of the art simulation run along the humans, and evaluate its decisions after some time passes, to clearly see who made the right one, in long term. after there is some long term perception that computer is clear winner (definitely not below 10-20 year mark of steady performance), we can move that way. and always, always have some sort of semi-neutral commitee to oversee and accept/reject all important stuff (with necessary reasoning, not on whims of current most powerful one). make it as transparent as possible. -- do you think this is real? no way, when looking at how shady today's politics are done, be it US, europe or any other place...
The word "crusade" has the same meaning it always had. It has a positive connotation, just as it always had. And the same goes for the word "jihad" in the Islamic world.
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"PayPal's future is obvious, they'll be acquired by one of the financial or tech giants."

WRT the tech giants, who will toss out their existing wallet first? Five to twenty years ago, everyone who wanted a paypal-killer created their own. Far more likely some financial giant will buy them, the only question there is a retail bank (every checking account at XYZ bank is now a paypal account) or a service provider (every XYZ credit card is now a paypal account). Also tech giants are not so good at nickel and dimeing and adding crazy fees while providing poor customer service, but thats all financial companies do, so the fit is much better.
Let's say that somehow all the competing scientests and skeptics, religious and opinion leaders magically and peacefully agree..

That's sounds like exactly the sort of outcome we want, regardless of what else happens.
It was OK. You have to take it for what it is, a dramatization and not a documentary.
Alright, why use it for even five days, when you could be using something that's not a dead-end (or detrimental) for your development as a programmer?

You can get moving with a good language instead, which was my point.
Ask HN: MVP ticketing micro service marketing and kickstarting
Inspired by Joe Armstrong's post on Minimal Viable Programs, I wanted to see if I could learn a bit of bootstrapping and marketing experience by trying to create a very basic trouble ticketing system. I suppose you could use Github for tickets, and maybe there are other existing solutions that make this moot. If there is something that obviates the need for this please call it out. Below is a very basic API I was experimenting with.

the ticket (in elixir) would be something like

defstruct [:id, :title, :description, :creator, :owner, :created_at, :updated_at, :read_at, :label

new(creator.id) :: ticket # creates a blank ticket
new(creator.id,ticket) :: ticket # creates a ticket with
update(updater.id,ticket) :: ticket #
close(updater.id,ticket.id) :: true|false #sets status to closed
get(ticket.id) :: ticket # returns a ticket
transfer(ticket, new_owner.id) :: ticket # transfers ownership of a ticket

The next obvious step is to put authentication and relations in front of this very basic system.

new_user
list(user)
list(user,status: :open|:closed)
history(user)
assign(user.id,ticket.id)

Then a stretch funding goal could be setup for a web gui, and mobile app.

Wondering if this is something I could launch via Kickstarter and say offer 10k tickets and 50 users for the first year for $20 in funding? I've been in b2b enterprise sales for many years. I've never attempted to do any direct marketing, and I'm looking for somewhere or something to cut my teeth a bit.

Is Joe right that this is too much of a MVP to fund in a kickstarter way?
Has there been success with launching micro services via kickstarter?
If trouble tickets isn't the "thing", what micro service would you fund?
If you would like to collaborate on this with me, please let me know. I plan on using Elixir to implement.
For example, in this case any cert you blindly create with the example will have you located in Paris, France, which may not be accurate.

So, never blindly pipe the web into your bash, kids.
Could you name another good use of money that is better than SETI?
The reason central planning fails (in societies or in companies) is because the people doing the work at the "bottom" have a lot more knowledge about how things really work than the people making the decisions at the top. A lot of that knowledge isn't even easy to capture - it's tied up in skills, techniques, oral history and obscure trade secrets.

In other words: the problem isn't likely to be speed/power of the planning computers, but how you get the information that needs to be fed into them.

I think this could also explain why managers who worked their way up from the bottom tend to do well, whereas professional executives who are helicoptered in to companies fail.
I just read (two times) that "Dropdowns should be the UI of Minority Report". Guess I need some sleep.
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Is there a name for the phenomenon that people tend to push back against new technology they don't have, and then once they get that technology, they're raving about how good it is.

This is connected with the way people discover personal uses for new tech in ways they didn't foresee beforehand.

I'm a firm believer that wearable smart devices will eventually go mainstream. A bit like mobile phones did. In 5 years everyone will wear a smart device and there will be a choice of different platforms.
3 cases of "uber"-violence does nothing to suggest "that the notion that Uber/Lyft drivers are qualitatively safer than taxis is false" without data from the dangers of riding normal cabs to compare it to.
Upvoted.

What about other JavaScript DnD libs; which one's do implement keyboard accessibility?
Income from startup 4000 euro.

Tax 1040 euro (26%*4000) + 650 euro business tax = 1690 euro

(29% for 2015 plus 100% of it as tax in advance for 2016)

Social Ιnsurance [TSMEDE] 423 euro per month.

Being unable to renew domain name because of capital controls : priceless
What about, dropping Christopher Walken onto Pluto?
Is this the only source for Telegram open sourcing their servers? Seems like this tweet could just as easily be saying that they are removing the 200 person limit in August, not open sourcing.
Oh great, another regulation/law to allow government the arbitrary exercise of power, to be used to selectively target whoever they disagree with or believe to be against their interests in maintaining power.
Well, if we do detect a signal, we're not going to just transmit "wassup?" and wait for an answer. I think it will be an interesting problem to have a conversation with other beings where the lag time is measured in decades!
Anything contradicting relativity is currently out of the scope of science and not backed by any observation whatsoever, so any travel-faster-than-light theory has exactly the odds granted to it by it's own believers, and zero for everybody else.
Thanks, I'll consider how to address that. One of my original ideas was for PR people who need to Google their own company every day.
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Well if Apple Pay stored the PAN instead of creating a token it would work exactly as people expect. What they expect is that they are adding their bank card to their phone, not that they are creating a new card.

Of course the PAN isn't stored because unfortunately due to the lack of EMV ubiquity, the secrecy of the PAN is still considered important.

The point is, for a customer of a business who does nothing dishonestly, it is not acceptable that you pay more than necessary twice because of some obscure technical limitation that wouldn't happen if TFL just used paper tickets.
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Yikes, I'll check out that Haskell result, thanks!
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> The US is one of the few developed nations that has been busy paying down household debt for the last five years.

In the US, the people with the highest debt-to-income ratios have been briskly filing for bankruptcy over the last five years. I wish I had time to dig up another graph to match yours, volume of personal bankruptcy filings over the same period. It's correlated. It's also a much stronger effect than paying down, often someone with over 100% debt-to-income goes to 0% over a matter of months, with no change in income at all.
Mostly off topic, but boy do I enjoy articles that use the word "tosser" innocuously.
Please excuse my complete ignorance - this is something that continues to perplex me no matter how many times I hear it explained and I may sound like a complete idiot here. Can someone explain how this would work in layman's terms?

Let's say that life on another planet 150 million billion miles away wanted to send us a message. So that's 25,000 light years away. They send us one single 1 minute duration message at t=0 and that message travels at the speed of light as an example. And let's just say t=25000 happens to be today. Does that mean that we have a one minute window to intercept part of the message otherwise it's lost?

If so, let's say the life on that planet was persistent and continued to send messages continuously directly to us and no other planets for 500 years. Then I would assume we have a 500 year period to play with. If they started sending signals let's say 10,000 years ago, it seems we have absolutely no chance to receive the message unless this program is operational for the next 15,000 years or so. But our odds of receiving an intelligent signal is vastly higher simply due to the number of planets in our galaxy. Is my understanding remotely correct?
>> - Its obvious that this would be required, since there is no way for TFL to magically match devices or payment methods.

You mean, other than issuing a ticket?
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I am not in the online advertising business (one side or another), much less in the banner business. But that was a horrible, patronizing text to read. I couldn't pass the first half, which is sad, because it look like an interesting point.

The author somehow felt that the ones talking about the problem with banners were being arrogant assuming that the buying industry didn't know that for ages, so his answer to this was: 'I will be even more arrogant, more patronizing than they ever could be!!'.

Really, that was a boring read.
In firefox: Preferences -> Advanced -> enable "Warn me when websites try to redirect or reload the page".

Other browsers will probably have similar options.
>then why not get a smartwatch

Not having to charge it every day. Charging a smartphone every day is annoying enough. Charging a watch every day just isn't worth the hassle.