skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Making a standard media player for Android
Diesel trains are still very common in many parts of the world.
Or, we beta test the iOS version & get it feature complete first and then bring it over to Android so we don't have to maintain old code. But that's just us wanting to make things simple, I guess.
Is Uber ripping off its drivers? The woman who beat Starbucks and FedEx says yes
thats not even close to reasoning imo, its just an assertion.

... but i agree that the code is safer if you check for bad cases.

i can't see why allocating zero ever is more sensible than not doing it at all (and therefore avoiding even having to know about this problem, much less deal with it).
Switzerland is awesomely-electrified, but there are still branch lines that don't have overhead wires. Diesel locomotives (actually, the Diesel generators generate electricity that then powers the traction motors) are still in common use all over the world.
C libraries do not conform to the standard.
CppCon 2015: Michael Wong “C++11/14/17 atomics and memory model”
Thanks; didn't know it was Sharp who invented the 'Propelling pencils'; that's not what they are known for here :)
I've been using Meteor for little over a year now and to me, the real selling point for Meteor was the insane speed, productivity, and almost instant gratification that results from that speed: all of a sudden you went from having to configure a million different moving parts to just coding, almost forgetting that you are coding in the process, enjoying yourself, and suddenly seeing your features pop out of nowhere. It's quite magical.

For someone like me (I'm more of a designer who can code than the opposite), the reactivity, feedback and interaction with your code make the whole process feel much more "hands on", almost like sculpture, in the sense that you are able to poke things and see them react instantly. And that makes all the difference.

Yes, many problems do appear once you dive deeper, but I've never used another tool that brought me closer to my ideas than Meteor. And in the end, that is for me the single biggest achievement here.
"iPhone users tend to use Macs"

Given the relative numbers of iPhones and Macs sold that seems unlikely.
Wearable posture tracker and coach: ALEX
Belgian startup PieSync raises €1.5M to scale business growth
Meteor started off so brilliantly. I wish the team would focus and just make it great.

Many people would complain about SQL and what not but the truth is there's a very large number of people who are quite happy with MongoDB and the fast experience building an app.

However there are some really big issues that seem to be ignored:

1) It's nice that its backwards compatible but some essential features are missing such as a router. Iron Router is available but it's practically abandoned. You can't even have URL's such as /2 on it.

It makes it hard to keep an app for the long run knowing there is a risk of an essential component about to be abandoned.

Other similar projects include Meteoric (an Ionic wrapper)

2) I wish they'd focus on making Blaze work. It works. Many people don't like react and just want an App build on V1 to work with V1.5 and V2. The lack of clarity is harmful to the use of Meteor in The Enterprise.

3) The build time. It used to be that Meteor built a project near instantly when a file was changed and hot code changed the page. Now it takes a good 20 or so seconds for a simple line change. It seems over the top.

4) Clarity and focus on direction. They spent ages pushing people to their Npm system, now they're going back. Why not start with node_modules/complete npm support instead of flipping back and forth. The volatile state of affairs with Blaze, Npm and the general structure of an app manifests risk in choosing Meteor for an actual Enteprise grade app.

5) A focus on improving what already works well over adding new features and degrading the performance of existing features.

I mentioned the build time, but other parts of Meteor such as Cordova, Blaze, Tracker, Mongo (Meteor uses MongoDb 2.6?!) would certainly help more.

I'm not sure what's happened but it seems a lot like the team is losing focus of what people actually like about the project.
not sure if spoof or real... :)
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK22417/ suggests that an elite athlete (they're talking about 2 hour marathons) could fuel about 1:20 of that with glycogen (~18 miles) but that they burn about equal glycogen/fat (which would give 13 miles of glycogen.)

I suspect your 10 mile mark is probably correct for anyone below "almost-elite".
They clearly have a for-profit mission. Linux means community, yet they have no community representation. Therefore, the foundation name is misleading.

"The IT Chamber of Commerce", however, isn't a misleading name.
New ninth planet? (nbcnews)
The former CEO of Mozilla is launching a web browser that blocks all ads
great article would be nice if it concluded with a mention of "there are no secure smartphones":
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10905643
Iirc, Atmel is from Norway
You don't need a big exit when you actually make money. And since they are middle men for cash exchanges I don't think making money will be too much of a problem.
From what I understand, beamforming won't allow high frequencies like 60GHz to 'bend it like beckham'. If your hand can block 60GHz, then the radio waves probably aren't bouncing around the room enough for it to make a difference. This is because, unlike the name, beamforming is simply phase modulation used to alter the constructive and deconstruction interference patterns of the broadcast radio waves. So for 2.4GHz, where you already have radio waves coming in multiple directions, the constructive interference patterns can give you a higher signal strength.
(author here) not sure what happened, but the site is up again.
There are also developers, like ustwo who releases the same game (Monument Valley) on both platforms within a short period of time. In this case iOS in April and Android in May. Still the numbers for Android are nowhere near those of iOS, despite there being more Android phone.

If the development cost for both platforms are roughly equal, it might not make sense to develop an Android version in the future. Instead the money could be put to better use making a new iOS title.

The reason why Android apps are selling so poorly could of cause as you say be due to lack of quality on the apps in general. If you buy two, three or four apps when you get your new Android phone and their all terrible, then you might decide not to waste money on any app in the future. If that's the case Google should start curating their app store. Otherwise it will be a continuing vicious circle where users aren't buying and developers push out increasingly lower quality, because the revenue can cover the cost of development.
Interesting, is that how google rev img search works?

I was trying to find a usecase for this tech. I thought google maybe hashed files and searched thatway, but thumbnails dont always turn up results. I thought maybe they just used pagesource data or metadata to find the same pictures because it doesnt work on all images. Maybe this library can fix that
This is really a fantastic point. It's sometimes as if people think these type of projects exist in isolation and any perceived flaws are permanent. They often fail to appreciate how much the flaws will invoke a response to address them, making them better than they would have been had the flaws never been strongly felt by the community in the first place.
A ninth planet, and it's not Pluto
This map shows which cities Berliners originally come from
"Enjoy your two-week paid fishing trip."
I see a disconnect.
Somebody knowledgeable, please comment.

here it goes :

Atmel had a deal with Dialog Semiconductor worth 4.6 Billion Dollars on September 15 already, refer [0] [1].

Microchip manage to break that deal with 137 Million dollar termination fee, but with a deal worth of 3.6 Billion Dollars.

That's 1 Billion dollars "less" deal worth agreed by Atmel to be sold.

Sounds unbelievable!

MCHP managed to do this by giving more cash for Atmel shareholders?
(..and not to forget 137 M of termination fine.)

1 Billion dollar (which was imaginary) disappeared into thin air??

If it was not of real value, then how / why Dialog over valued it?

Whoever understands all this, please comment.

[0] : http://www.dialog-semiconductor.com/content/dialog-semicondu...
[1] : http://fortune.com/2015/09/21/dialog-buying-atmel/
Litvinenko Inquiry Publishes Report
I'm not sure if you're referring to the tansit technique where a planet passes in front of a star multiple times which allows to determine the size and distance from the detectable dips in brightness.

This technique wouldn't work well with a backdrop since it never passes in front of the same star twice.

I'm also not sure if we can resolve the planet optically i.e. 1) it will always be smaller than a pixel of the telescope sensor 2) the pixels of the telescope sensor always collect light from the backdrop even if the planet is dead center on the group of pixels.

When you detect the light of a planet without backdrop both problems would be much smaller because then you can actually see some tiny dark blurry object moving relative to the stars around it in the image.
President Putin 'probably' approved Litvinenko murder
But seen for the point of view of the third party developers Android is still a less profitable platform.
Reşitpaşa Forklift Kiralama
Oh man I'd love a 15 min refund window. So many apps I've bought only to discover five minutes into using them that I was duped by glossy marketing, but because the price was $4.99 or whatever it's just not worth arguing over it. I'm dreading to know the aggregate though..
OK, I understand that. Well then, keep up the good work. HN remains in good health and hands.
The first link (Mike Taulty’s intro) leads to "page not found".
10 Website Visitor statistics your need to know about
NATO membership requests 2% of GDP be spent on defence.

The person you were replying to specifically stated income tax to highlight their point.
They actually nickname them "warrant dogs"
If you're going to go this route, why not just say it plainly: people who buy Apple products have more disposable income and more disposable leisure time than people who buy Android devices.
How soon people forget the Great TCL War of 1994. TCL/Tk was vying for a web position well before Java.

Apparently, not a lot of people remember Sun's unilateral announcement that they were going to make TCL the official web scripting language. (I can't even find a link to, unfortunately.) It triggered RMS's "Why you should not use Tcl" response [1], and the ensuing flame war [2].

There was a huge debate about what the official scripting language would be for the web, after Sun hired John Ousterhout [3] and made its announcement that pissed off RMS.

RMS's position was that it should be Scheme, not TCL, of course.

What TCL/Tk had going for it was not the TCL language itself, but that it had a nice GUI system with its own "canvas", much better than anything Java or JavaScript had years later.

It didn't go so well, so Sun changed their mind and decided to de-emphasize TCL, and then tried to make Java the "official web scripting language". And everyone knows how that went.

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20141028202423/http://www.vander...

[2] https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/comp.lang.tcl/7JXGt-...

[3] http://www.softpanorama.org/People/Ousterhout/index.shtml
Yikes downvotes galore. Did anyone get to the second sentence before going off on a tear about Linux on the desktop? The article is about politics inside the Linux Foundation. I commented on that Linux has now become something that multi-nationals fight over and are trying to keep for themselves.

Lots of other posts about LF, the license issues, other companies doing similar things, etc. Not sure how or why this sub-thread got taken so far off topic. Are we, at the start of 2016 still so sensitive about Linux that a 10 word setup sentence starts a frenzy and draws me a reprimand on "flame-bait?" In that case I'm sorry, I'll be much more careful in the future to not write posts that assume the reader will make it past the first dozen words.
We still cal them similar in Lithuania, literal translation would be something like "hygienic earpick" (like toothpick). Actually, only after reading this article I realized they are not for cleaning your ears. I don't use Q-tips to remove wax from the ear canal, but I use them to dry my ears after taking a bath. Though, I still believe it's a legitimate use as going out with your ears dry is much riskier to catch fever imho.
Yeah, in Switzerland they are pretty uncommon for civil transportation, but very common for transportation of goods, considering that a lot of big companies have private rails connecting warehouses to the national network that, ofc these rails are w/o electric wires.
A LinkedIn group to discuss IoT security
Imagine how dangerous Putin is going to become when his income from oil drys up this year.

In fact the whole world is going to become way more dangerous with the wealthy losing their oil income.

Somehow I think the Saudis want it that way, distracts the world from their crimes.
I would venture to guess that cramming something larger than your elbow into your ear canal would be likely to have some serious medical consequences as well. (I'm not convinced that using something precisely elbow-sized is entirely safe either.)
This looks fantastic! Please could you write some words aimed at potential recruits to qbix? What to expect, what not to expect. I noticed, in scanning your site quickly (... I think all content should bear the 'scanning user' in mind, but that's another topic) that php is mentioned. What php knowledge is required? What JS knowledge is required? Make it easy for people (I mean really, visitors who are pre-tutorial) to decide if they have the wherewithal for it to be worth them making a modest commitment to take it for a test drive.
5 Testing Tools That Make Tester’s Life Easy
The Readlang Method for Learning Vocab
Reads like a well planned, step-by-step executed (hostile?) takeover of the full power over the board.

Why am I not suprised?
May it receive a name starting with P so that

My Very Educated Mother Just Showed Us Nine Planets

works again
this is why i think having a dashcam recording with live upload is a good idea. Or better yet, a wide angle lense at the top of the vehicle, so the cops can't get out of view.
That works wonders, I love it. No need to be deaf any more.
If you'd love a 15 minute refund window, I wonder how you feel about the current Google Play refund window (2 hours).

See: http://www.androidcentral.com/google-play-support-page-confi...
I beg to differ, I see and sometimes use diesel trains on a daily basis in .ch

But that's not to take away from Switzerland having a very high percentage of trains being electric only.
Swiss innovate a lot in locomotive tech. (ABB and Stadler are 2 big companies that do a lot of electric loco R&D)
The TILO (Ticino Lombardia) Swiss trains (S10, Stadler FLIRT) can run on both 15kv AC (Swiss) or 3kv DC (Italy) power systems when they cross the borders.
No de-boarding and re-boarding to a different train is required.
http://www.tilo.ch/en/Azienda/Treni.html
Foxconn will be most likely walled out of this deal, like the average user gets walled by the wsj... Also news is a few days old already. INCJ already bidding for Toshiba white goods, which they want to fuse with Sharp's white goods division.
Planetary Deep Drill Successfully Chews Through Field Test
Previous discussions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10831261 (148 points, 17 days ago, 54 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10833549 (29 points, 17 days ago , 10 comments)
90% of the billion dollar unicorn startups are in trouble
That seems a bit pretentious. Surely there can be a species better suited for war?
Show HN: An open-source ultrasound imaging dev kit side project
Flagship phones are not cheap, but a lot of Android users are not using the expensive phones.

If they were, Samsung's business model would be broken.
throwaway7767 wrote:
"The linux foundation is not a non-profit."

As late as a month ago, it claimed to be: "SAN FRANCISCO, December 17, 2015 -The Linux Foundation, the nonprofit organization enabling mass innovation through open source..." (from the Block-chain page linked above, http://www.linuxfoundation.org/news-media/announcements/2015... )
Something like this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Act!_CRM
What?? I can't believe this is really happening, it's the funniest thing I've read this week.
> how you manage/compose them in one or many of your apps without embedding multiple times the ScalaJs runtime

That doesn't make sense. You have code, maybe also dependencies. Scala.js compiles it and produces one JavaScript file with a single runtime and only the bits and pieces of your code and your dependencies that were actually used.

> Don't forget Scala is slow to compile and ScalaJs is even slower so if you have a monolithic js app it won't scale as a good developer experience.

ScalaJS incremental compilation is so fast that it's already done when you switch from the IDE to the browser.
How the Cloud, Docker and Micro Services Change the Game
The Growing Academic Divide
Would be nice if they documented if they used TLS, and if so, how that was configured. Even if the 28kb per user is a typo and they mean 28kB then that would be impressive with TLS enabled.
I have a vivid memory of the last phrase of "Foundation and Empire". It was a shock to discover the Preem Palver was the First Speaker.

"But now there was a somber satisfaction on the round and ruddy face of Preem Palver – First Speaker"
I tried looking too before posting the comment, honest. But all I've got is a vague memory of reading it on HN a few months ago. Sorry.
Re-read the actual lesson GP stated the officers learned - that they should be more subtle when giving giving cues to the dog.
I worked on a top 10 grossing (at one time) freemium ios/android game. Our iOS and android DAU were basically equivalent. However iOS generally made about double what android made daily.
> even the crappiest app will cost you something.

isn't that a sign that competition in a more open platform makes for a better market for the consumer? And that paying for software is a thing of the past, and that other revenue models needs to be thought up.

Games have already made the transition, mainly due to the way they raced to the bottom and high cost of production, but i suspect utility apps will follow suit very soon.
Most likely because it would sound even more wrong.
Reading this article gives me much hope for my two boys. They are both diagnosed with Asperger's syndrome. I am also borderline as well.

What I have observed so far aligns with the article, the surrounding community (social, education, family etc)plays a big part in having a lesser complicated life.

Thanks for sharing.
They won't neccesarily physically force a test on you if you don't consent, so it's not that you can't consent it's that not consenting could be a legal offense that's as bad as consenting and getting a bad result.
What are some good resources to find this particular type of setup? i.e., work in Canada for a US company without actually having to latch on to a subsidiary.
It's sad that a woman who, if she remained a part of this conflict she joined, was in position to experience and realize its sheer insanity and maybe slowly weaken the frame of other participants, instead got killed for desertion in pursuit of acceptance from somebody who felt the urge to "fix her" in reaction to his private moral panic.

Your little flower won't kill anymore, but there will be someone new in her place, just freshly naive and clueless.

---

Sir, I think we may be going a bridge too far.
> iPhones are even more expensive than flagship Android phones.

Even thought they are barely really worth it, thats simply wrong.
> Eliminating the position suggests that the Linux Foundation doesn't trust the community to pick the "right" representative... and that says a lot about the situation.

The idea that the linux community is dysfunctional and would elect a representative who wanted to push a particular political agenda at the expense of linux itself is sadly none too implausible.
Is it safe to use finger for cleaning ears?
IMHO they did. They serve ads and make often more money than if they would sell the app for a reasonable price. You even see this on Windows applications, like qTorrent which imo really sucks, but thats exactly what you get from expecting free software.
I like the idea behind the semantic web and if everyone had the bandwidth to commit resources to it, it would definitely add additional abilities to the web. But, in my experience, the time spent on adding RDF support wasn't worth the adoption or limited gains in site usage.

What are its usage metrics in your site(s)? Does it appear that there is significant growth in its adoption?

Facebook's has offered RDF for a while. I've not heard of its use outside of academic circles.
Sharing is a bit odd - it doesn't offer apps like Audioshare etc. on the initial pane. If you pick "Open in..." you get a "Share Song" sheet which wants you to pick the format you're sharing -then- you can send it to apps like Audioshare.

Also it's a bit loose in showing your old recordings if you're using iCloud - one I did half an hour ago didn't show up for a good 5 minutes which made me panic slightly.
Fun fact: in Iceland, Q-tips are called "Eyrnapinnar", which literally means "ear pins".
It is not surprising for the reason you cite, but it is still interesting to see it actually measured.

Android dominate iOS by a huge margin, and I think it is ahead even in the high end segment. You can understand that people going for high end will spend more money on apps, but still price of apps is basically the same between iOS and Android, and iOS is not lacking in diversity including free software. So it is quite surprising that even a few buys from the middle and entry level consumers cannot offset Apple advantage.

And I write advantage, but I'm not even sure what it is exactly. iOS users spend more because they like Apple stuff was a nice narrative when Apple was a edgy high end alternative to mainstream. But in the smartphone world, Apple is mainstream, and yet the same behaviour is observed even with a much wider consumer base.

Is that because Apple brand is so strong that buying Apple change the consumer behaviour. (I have noticed that paying for stuff when you have Apple hardware is socially more acceptable. Like I bought BetterZip and my colleague didn't blink, but I paid for the Winrar license on windows and that was considered like sacrilegious. Like buying software for linux was considered weird but not on windows) Or is it because the Apple environment is just a tiny bit better that it makes a difference at the time of splashing 2 GBP on a game ?

Another alternative is that it is just that the app market is catching up more slowly than the hardware market, and it is just a question of time before sanity prevail. At least for the time being, my monkey brain is happy to have the social validation to have bought the "right brand of smartphone" :-)
Speed is an issue too. The 2015 MacBook has USB-C with 3.0 speeds (which is considered USB 3.1 gen 1 or something, it's not the new high speed mode 3.1 adds, see: http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2015/08/what-the-usb-if-is-do...)
> ...it was strictly a cash-flow problem and not one of general financial mismanagement.

I have no opinion on this particular case, but why doesn't a cash-flow problem count as a financial mismanagement problem?
OpenSource Decentralized Content Distribution Using the Blockchain for Security
Which one? I use SBB and BLS regulary and i never noticed anything else than electric. (Really just wondering as i have no idea)
According to some analysts (yes I know, but if a guessing game), Goggle makes 75% of its mobile ad revenue on iOS.

http://iphone.appleinsider.com/articles/15/05/27/apples-ios-...