skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"for one, it’s running an outdated version of Android that may make it vulnerable to hackers"

Then I went to check what version it actually runs, and it's 4.4/KitKat. I do not have any phone with a version more recent than 4.4 (and that's the case for everyone I know). In fact, my phone is only running 4.4 because I went through the trouble to look in Russian forums for custom ROMs for it, since the manufacturer didn't get it beyond 4.2. My phone is a not very popular model, but even for some former flagships the only way to go is to get custom ROMs e.g. on XDA. Sure, I (and my friends) could get a new phone... but we are not interested in changing phones before they are even out of warranty (2 years in Europe).

This is no surprise: Google's statistics[1] indicate 4.4 is still the most used version. Cheaper phones being launched with older Android versions doesn't help, that's true, but these cheaper models are good enough for many people. And to be honest, the features (and change in looks/functionality) introduced in the later versions do not interest me much. If only Android had an update policy more similar to Windows and some Linux distros, where you stay with a major release but get security updates for it, for a sane amount of time...

[1] https://developer.android.com/intl/zh-tw/about/dashboards/in...
Womens wear
where u watching pure handloom online stores in India?
There have been $10 phones in the USA for a couple years now, they all have the same low end specs.

512mb of memory (which is limiting)
480x320 screen (this is the weakest part)
dual core (which is nice for the price)

The new thing this year is $5 and even $1 phones but some of those are single core and don't have gpu accelerators.
Can I use this phone with any SIM card? Or is it locked to a particular carrier/network?
That would make sense, thanks (your reasoning, not Carson's reasoning.)
Your whole life and reality is created by advertising.
Really interesting subject. I'm more like a forest than an animal!

If humans are higher-order animals on top of cells and bacteria (us not caring much about them and them not being aware of us), are humans also the cells of some super-er animals?

Apparently the Buddha said that one of the characteristics of reality is that there is no such thing as "you", no unchanging entity that could be called the perceiver of all these perceptions. I guess we're like the boat whose parts are all replaced over time.
> This makes me wonder what kind of experience could arise if humans organize into a single "meta" organism, and if the "lower" individuals would experience anything of the meta-experience.

Have a look at a stadium full of people watching a football match. It really does from some angle look as if there are two giant organisms. Or nation states at war as observed on a map (the latter reminds me of amoeba moving around).
It is worth what someone is willing to pay for it. The correct question is: under what conditions is it worth it? Many valuations seem to rely on investor N+1 being even more gullible than investor N.

You can't defy gravity though; eventually someone is going to want to get a dividend. It must be more profitable to own shares in a firm than to not once the chain of fools has run out.
As a dev,this interests me too.I just like buying low end phones to figure out their cost reduction/optimization techniques and figuring out how normal apps would survive on them.
Although ,I think comparing it to the first iPhone is unfair.
The can of coke already has sugar, so you can skip the skittles. Unless you like skittles, of course.
Incredible story. What a world we live in where something like this is even possible.
> Yeah it's like when Dawking wrote the Selfish Gene.

Dawkins.
Perl.org is a completely different organization than the people around Perl 6, just how Perl 6 is a completely different language than Perl 5.
Let me qualify that: work for them across goroutines
npm install myproject

On mac, windows and anything nix + arm is a very compelling proposition. I'm not trying to say this is unique to node. It is what it is.
Most of these phones are tracfone, so it is locked to one of their mvnos, depending on your market.

at&t mvno for gsm (usually) and verizon mvno for cdma markets
$10 phones have been around for a couple years now.

They are designed to sell minutes/data plans.
> their demands

But this same "their" would only be a very tiny pool of powerless people if nobody else was willing to listen to them.
I say the word biscuit 16,000 times a day
Generating HDL out of C (or OpenCL) is a very bad idea anyway.
> The pyramids having anything whatsoever to do with the Exodus is a myth created by Hollywood, it is not a Jewish belief at all.

Any source? Google only returns articles about Carson, so it looks like it may be his idea.

edit: It seems to be an old story, easily predating both Carson and Hollywood.

http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/secret-chambers-grain-s...
The Busicom 141-PF calculator and the Intel 4004 microprocessor
The “lagom” leader
Zynq from Xilinx uses an AXI bus between the CPU and logic. The first gen ones are not cache coherent between the logic and CPU but I believe UltraScale will be. I don't know much about PCIe, but how is AXI much lower latency?
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Dunno... It's pretty hard to brick the router beyond recovery via tftp... That said, I'm no expert on the issue... I've been using the Shibby Tomato-USB releases myself, but tbh don't update as much as I should.

Looks like there's no third party release for the RT-AC3200 yet, though the mfg release is modified tomato.
Those are streams on views on the map. My complaint is that a reader seeing "maps don't support streams" with no further explanation is unlikely to get the correct idea, and may infer that something like

map.entrySet().stream().filter(e -> e.getKey().equals(e.getValue())).findAny()

is not expressible.
Java EE is currently an excellent framework for complex distributed enterprise applications.
> One only has to look at the terrorists to know for sure that provoking them is not the issue

Maybe you shouldn't look at their behaviours today, but at their origins. Most such groups appear because somebody felt excluded and powerless, or because some sociopath exploited a power vacuum. They grow because there's large populations of people who feel powerless and excluded.

Prevent that from becoming a problem in the first place and the few remaining terrorists would be powerless, because they'd be too few and far between.
Lol. TEN DOLLARS!! It's going to cut a few corners.
As the old saying goes, those who don't know unix are destined to reimplement it ... poorly :-)
It wasn't my intention to conflate, but I do consider advertising based on emotional appeal as harmful to society. I have no issues with content-based advertising, but that's not the norm in my experience.

I know that may very well be because of selection bias, in that the less egregious forms of advertising don't register with me (oh the ironing). For example, I actively search for reviews when buying new hardware. But the sad state of affairs is that it's very hard to find quality information between all the content-free fluff even though both are produced in the name of "advertising".

I disagree with your latter assertion though, that "consumption is the economy". To me, that's like saying "TV is society" or "the president is politics". The economy is much bigger than consumption, and I did not suggest that less advertising would lead to less consumption. At least that's what I meant with zero-sum game: it would just lead to different consumption.
There's also dangers when mixing alcohol with ibuprofen or other NSAIDS such as Voltaren (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diclofenac)

It can lead to high blood pressure.
Oops, there was a copy & paste error – sorry about that! Updated with correct figures.
I work for one of the tier 1 automotive suppliers mentioned, and the author couldn't be more wrong about data.

We have exceedingly large data sets -- equating to millions of km of driving from locations all around the globe -- and we use that data in a very disciplined and very effective manner.

(My particular area of interest is in the use of off-line machine learning algorithms to analyse and optimise the algorithms that go onto the vehicle as embedded software).
Did someone just buy old stock from LG (save them from recycling) and do a one time deal? Or if this a new permanent thing?
It has nothing to do with how much ads cost. Modern ads are not helpful to society. They exploit human psychology for profit. They slow down the web. They collect vast amounts of personal information. They divert resources which could be used to actually improve the world.

I understand that ads are a necessary evil for some businesses, but scroll to the bottom of a news article sometime. Is this really what we want our world to look like?
Excellent points! Do you have a sample pitch where someone is asking for beta users?
I always start it as "bc -l". On some computers I have alias bc to that option.
So you think Bitcoin is the first distributed database? No. There is no reason for a private blockchain to exist; it's a nonsensical idea.
GPS Always Overestimates Distances
Really? What other phones you could buy for $10 without a contract?
> "Single anomalous data point"? His description is exactly how targeted advertising works for pretty much everybody

The anomaly is not how targeting works, the anomaly is that it "doesn't work" on him. The fact is that most people do occasionally buy things because of advertising, particularly targeted advertising.

"Doesn't work" is in quotes because I suspect that he has in fact bought something based on a targeted ad in the past.
The Blurring of the Public and Private Markets
people have been dying in middle east for many years, especially in Palestine, but i've never seen such unified reaction from all over the world. are lives in france more valuable? is terror more awful in europe?
Well, at least that's what advertising agencies advertise to their clients :)

The best-paying sells advertisers make is to their clients and their industry peers.
Actually, all nullable variables should be explicitly tagged as Option values.
The ignorance is strong with this one. Not worth the effort to enumerate all that's wrong here.

The Apollo DOMAIN OS was entirely built around single-level store, i.e. memory-mapped files. It scaled well beyond anything Sun was building in those days, even across large networks.
On the whole, you're then likely to have bought a worse welder than you would have otherwise. If the welder is just an impulse/emotional purchase that will be used only a few times in its lifetime, then I suppose that doesn't matter.
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I want to see a webgl shader implementation of this!
I think it's more likely that OP is meant to mean Foreign Policy magazine.
Not working :( I have an error after link at pocket
The automotive industry isn't populated by idiots -- but writing safety critical software isn't the same as writing an app.

It is true that there is no fundamental conflict between modern software development practices (Agile etc..) and process-maturity oriented standards like ISO15504 / ASPICE / ISO26262 / DO-178b etc... but writing the tools, build-systems etc... that let these differing concerns coexist in harmony does take some careful consideration, planning, and organisation.
Kind of a fluffy piece to me, but that might be because as I write this, I am looking up on my shelf with "The Selfish Gene" sitting underneath "The Extended Phenotype".
WOW I appreciete you get somewhat bad deals teclo wise in the USA but even that bites. In the UK can get for £10 (7.50 for 3 months) unlimited calls/text and...data.

Kinda messed up, still even for the UK that phone is a steal price wise.
Particularly, I'm wondering if this method converges to the exact solution under all conditions (for various definitions of "converging").
I spotted a few things.

1. Class 828 was a really good class, best he took. Others might want to try it too!

2. There's another operating system that's used in the class called JOS you might like to check out also if you are into learning about operating systems.

2. b) JOS is similarly quite simple to understand and doesn't take that long to build. Try it out also.

Hope this is helpful!
SCP remained bundled with the hardware, so you only got it if you bought the hardware, but if you bought the software it belonged to you so you could run it on whatever hardware you liked. I suppose if you bought both an IBM and a non-IBM mainframe you could take the SCP from IBM and run it on a non-IBM box, but I'm not sure if that was addressed in the ruling. The point was to decouple software sales from hardware sales when it came to commercial (sold) software.
If you really want an shell written in Node, why not go all the way and choose both a shell and a terminal written in it. https://github.com/black-screen/black-screen
Tinder Ditches Moments
> “There should be no worries about personal information being leaked,”

This always makes me more worried about personal information being leaked, as it implies they haven't considered the possibility carefully enough.
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Material Design Hierarchical Display JQuery Plugin
Extremely vain and naive thinking. Best people to market to :)
Sorry, I absolutely cannot stand this "modern" meme.

(define-syntax stream-cons
(syntax-rules ()
((_ x xs)
(cons x (delay xs)))))

(define (stream-cdr xs)
(force (cdr xs)))

(define (stream-map f xs)
(stream-cons (f (car xs)) (stream-map f (stream-cdr xs))))

(define (stream-filter f xs)
(if (f (car xs))
(stream-cons (car xs) (stream-filter f (stream-cdr xs)))
(stream-filter f (stream-cdr xs))))

(define (stream-take n xs)
(if (<= n 0)
'()
(cons (car xs) (stream-take (- n 1) (stream-cdr xs)))))

(define (repeat x)
(stream-cons x (repeat x)))

(define (iterate f x)
(stream-cons x (iterate f (f x))))

(define (replicate n x)
(stream-take n (repeat x)))

(stream-take 5 (stream-filter odd?
(stream-map (lambda (x) (* x x)) (iterate (lambda (x) (+ x 1)) 1))))

Not mentioning all these different flavors of Common Lisp streams packages.

As for other features, Scala is around for almost a decade.
I was referring to the person asking what Atom was fast relative to.
The article says the test involved 1000 nodes running 50 containers each, but the conclusion only talks about "no difference between 1st and 30000th container". So we can assume things between 30k and 50k containers didn't go as smoothly? Or did I miss something?
Also, it's 1/4 the price of a Sansa Clip mp3 player.
I doubt it was inspired by a random Reddit thread, but rather by the news which the reddit thread refers to, which has been all over the media for days: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2015/11/151111-egypt-pyra...
I've found the phone specs[0] and seems to be pretty good for thinkers and makers!

There's plenty of sensors --and opportunities-- for less than $10.

- Qualcomm® Snapdragon™ 1.2 GHz Dual-Core MSM8610

- 1.9 GHz CDMA PCS, 800 MHz CDMA

- 65K Color TFT, 480 x 320 pixels, 3.8" (HVGA)

- 1,540 mAh / 7hours talk - 9day stand by

- microSD 4Gb (included) -- up to 32Gb

- 3MP Rear-Facing Fixed Focus Camera with Flash and WVGA Camcorder

- Accelerometer

- 802.11 b/g/n

- Bluetooth 4.0

- GPS

I'd like of another sensors not listed there; like light, proximity, or magnetic .. maybe anyone with the phone can confirm?

[0] http://www.lg.com/us/cell-phones/lg-L16C-lucky
I also have UC and "abused" ibuprofen in my twenties. My body cannot tolerate them at all anymore. I try not to take any pain relief, but when I'm forced to, I've turned back to paracetamol.

What are you using for pain relief? BTW, out of interest, did your UC start after a course of antibiotics?
I think the author is treating the frequentists somewhat unfairly. A good design involves both NHST and equivalence tests + discussion about power/effect size (imo).

Random grab from my methods collection in my literature tool: "A Comparison Of Equivalence Testing In Combination With Hypothesis Testing And Effect Sizes": http://digitalcommons.wayne.edu/jmasm/vol2/iss2/6/

I think the biggest problem is that many fields just churn out people who can click buttons in SPSS but couldn't really tell you what a p-value actually represents. "Unfortunately" it's fairly easy to do the testing with tools. From students, I often get the feeling that tests are conducted for the sake of conduction a test (talking about BA theses etc.).

I'm not sure how wide spread Bayesian thinking is in other fields. Coming from CS it is somewhat natural since it's pretty pervasive in AI/ML.
I think our econ students didn't get exposed to it at all (iirc). Would love some feedback from other fields :)
Interesting: how do you chose that starting point in the first place?

Sounds like the null hypothesis is just as arbitrary than any Bayesian "prior" (prior probability distribution, I mean).
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It's free since Facebook bought them. I've had Android friends mention payment screens are still on their WhatsApp though.
It's not laziness, it's risk-aversion. They're different. I will put in significantly more effort to go to McDonald's instead of some no-name fast food joint because I know for sure what the price will be and what the food will taste like.
designed for mobile use, on the go. not so great on desktop right now.
It may not be modern computer science, but it is modern Java. This post is about modern Java and explains the new (in v8) features very well. What's your problem?
What I Discovered from Interviewing Imprisoned ISIS Fighters
Listen, learn, pay attention, ask questions.

Being passionate about learning helps a lot, even if the focus of your work is dry.

I work in the insurance vertical and it is pretty dry!
PyCon Brasil: Topics of Interest {AsyncIo In Python} (David Beazley)
You are in, that's good news because 1) they think you may come good for them and 2) they will make you come good, provided you show willingness, enthusiasm and grit. So, no worries, congrats on the job offer and good luck!
> since we're doing anecdata, I just checked my Amazon front page. Many things are irrelevant, a few comical (I recently looked at a 80-book box-set of Penguin classics[1], now it's systematically recommending each individual member of that box-set to me :-/ )

I'll raise you mails that I get from Alibaba - after few months of receiving offers of aerospace-grade struts, I'm now getting mails advertising... stones.

(I do know how this happened though; the first is the result of me searching for aerospace-grade struts after CSR-7 launch failure, seeing if I can find the unnamed vendor by looking if someone is dumping cheap struts on Alibaba; the second is the result for me accidentally typing in "Pebble", meaning Pebble Watch).
Foreigners have had to carry "residence cards" (formerly alien registration cards) which are basically these for years.

Having said that, the My Number system is bullshit and will hurt the economy because it will hit people who spend the most money (working cash jobs, side business at home...) disproportionately.
> You'll see more and more "sponsored stories".

Great. /s
You could imagine that "you" is simply an artefact of memory. Because it creates a sense of continuity, it is an easy place to create a barrier outside of which is "not you". If you could remember other people's thoughts, how would it affect your perception of yourself?

Just as a neuron acts in concert with other neurons, but does so independently, so do we act in concert with our surroundings. If not for our memory, that creates identity, how are we separate from the rest of the universe?

Though having said that, there are many other explanations which people believe in very strongly. I'm not attempting to challenge those notions. I'm just musing out loud.
Rick Webb's comments on banner ads are a pretty good indirect rebuttal.

https://medium.com/@RickWebb/banner-fraud-doesn-t-matter-fc8...
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To become a 'Foxconn' of automotive is really an interesting idea. The model of designing a vehicle might have to become more constrained which cuts right into the core of the automotive industry's design processes and car model portfolios. They're trying as hard as possible to horizontally differentiate from the competition and vertically differentiaite to access more segments.

A billion dollar plant isn't really novel for the car industry - that's what it costs to bring a new facility for a model or family of models online.

I think the missing link to do what you're describing (a 'flow shop' that can be very rapidly reconfigured to act like a 'job shop') would take an order of magnitude or two more investment which, given the automotive industry's single-digit profit margins, may be too risky for the incumbents. I've heard of Tesla trying to do this, but not without major difficulty (no one has ever scaled this while simultaneously building a brand new company and car and distribution network and being at the forefront of aluminum body components, etc.)
Don't forget that Teslas have significantly fewer parts than a conventional car does.
Sounds like simulated annealing described in a simplified-for-the-journalist way. Anyone know what the new thing really is?
Modern here obviously doesn't mean "Java is modern", but rather "the modern form of Java"
>>Advertising to someone who you have reason to believe is going to buy your product is much more effective than advertising to an unknown person.

Totally depends on the product and the person you are marketing to. Marketing hammers to carpenters makes sense: they use many different types, and presumably go through them quickly. Marketing faucets to regular folks is a dumb thing to do. A faucet is something you buy once in a blue moon.
That's just market forces at work. If what you say is true, you can just as well say it's a startup bubble where they are willing to lose money on customer acquisiton. Inflated costs to advertise is a normal effect of increased demands. That's not an advertising bubble.
If you are using Java and have not tried Lambda Expressions, method references and default methods, do so now! After that, you'll think "How was I able to live without that?"

I think instead of "How was I able to live without that?", people are more likely to exclaim "about time!"
Mark Zuckerberg's plan for the future of Facebook
I remember the talk the former Prime Minister of Poland gave to technology students on event I was attending; he retold this joke and wished us to be "the guy with the running shoes" in today's competitive market. I recall feeling pretty disgusted by this remark. I guess I prefer cooperation over competition.
I'm not sure why the writer mentions this. (It's probably an excuse to link to another Vice article.) The Android version number in itself isn't a good indication of the phone's vulnerability. Stagefright, for instance, was patched for 4.4 in many phones without an upgrade to the API.

An Android phone's security depends on whoever is responsible for maintaining the device's ROM, usually the carrier or phone manufacturer. Samsung, for instance, includes extensions intended to enhance security. Admittedly, for $10 I wouldn't expect much in the way of OTA updates. But except for a few changes to the framework in the way app permissions are handled, the version number isn't the best measure of security.