skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is certainly true. There are many, many risks. Without getting into too much detail:

- delay (past Jan 11 expiration)
- denial
- partial approval

All possible outcomes that would wipe out the $1,000.

I would still consider this option superior to gambling or any illegal activities -- but that is a personal choice.
I saw precisely this in the (attempted) cross-continent deployment of some enterprise software. The amount of data being moved was relatively small, but the software was so damned "chatty" -- insisting on dozens of requests/responses for even the simplest operation -- that latency effectively killed it in this context.

I'd argued this point and that it be tested -- a simple network simulator would have sufficed. But management was willfully clueless, and the vendor wanted the sale more than an effective deployment.

Latency should be a part of any non-trivial testing.
Given the detailed info from an ITA search result, any travel agent can book that exact fare, or determine that it has sold out. All those obscure codes do mean something!
I would say the major selling points of smart phones is not browsing the web, but the use of "apps". Browsing is still mostly a pain on such small screens, not many pages are optimized for mobile.
Yeah, the closest you get is the substring matching, which is inadequate any time you want to do more than one or anything not on either ends.

Would it be so much to ask for basic regex on selectors? Sure, it means abuse is possible... but no worse than allowing JS.
See, there you go. This was never a problem. Microsoft is trading the time you spend rotating the battery with your hand for time in which you have to read the damn instructions on the device.
I've noticed a similar phenomenon in certain business situations: Ever worked at a tradeshow booth or done product demos? One thing you'll surely notice is that over the course of interacting with hundreds (or thousands) of people, strong patterns will emerge. Different people will say the _exact_ same thing in certain situations, and they'll all think they're being super funny or super original and clearly the first person to think of that.

We may have "free will" in the conscious sense, but our brains are still, for the most part, wired the same way, and what we think is an original or free-response is likely part of a very common, very non-original pattern.
It's rock solid for us, although we are using Elephant for disk storage, so I have no knowledge of the fluid library.
http://groups.google.com/group/weblocks/browse_thread/thread...
Guys, give up the conspiracy / corporate overlord theories please.

Conclusive data already out there from independent sources:

http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2010/07/iphone-4-anandtech/

"the iPhone 4 did show a greater dropoff in signal strength in every holding position compared to the iPhone 3GS."

"However. . . the iPhone 4’s reception is definitely better in low-signal situations than the other two phones."

“Reception is absolutely definitely improved,” AnandTech wrote. "There’s no doubt in my mind this iPhone gets the best cellular reception yet, even though measured signal is lower than the 3GS."
Unless there comes a new ice age and people start fighting all over the place for food and shelter, or whatever. Let's hope it won't come to that - but anyway, the future might not always just be new versions of iPhones. I think we are actually one of the first generations that never had to experience a war in their home country (speaking from my countries perspective).

That said, I am also curious about the future and hope to experiences as much of it as possible...
I don't think it's too common in the US, but people definitely do it. I think most people here just see it as being juvenile.
3. Ardently or earnestly wishing. e.g., "anxious to learn more".

Also, please don't do that here. :-)
I've wondered about exactly this principle before. If a MP were to read out large sections of a novel in parliament, and then it were to be published through the mechanism of hansard, would that invoke copyright infringement laws? I expect it would, and that parliamentary privilege wouldn't be a defence.
I wonder if the fake-3GS case the real-world test units were encased in (as in the phone found in the bar) masked the issue during testing.
I have some stuff on my personal web site: http://www.stratigery.com/

I do not submit anything to the copyright office.

I do not know of any other measures for protection in case of a conflict.

I personally doubt that anything I've ever offered up has been of enough value to bother. I'd put it in public domain if that existed any more, but it doesn't. I'd rather that people use the stuff I've written, rather than I waste my time trying to pinch fractions of pennies out of it.
One of my favorites:

Dick acted as a consultant for a company in Switzerland, which took him there every summer. About 1982 or so, I had business in Europe, and I met Dick in Geneva. We decided to kick around for several days. We did the shops and the countryside on the first day, and on the second day, he asked what I'd like to do. I said, "Well, if it isn't too much like a postman's holiday, I'd like to go over to CERN," which is the European particle accellerator, where so much particle physics is done, and where Dick used to work a number of years before. He said, "Sure." So we went over there, and Dick couldn't find his way around because the buildings had changed. We finally found our way in, and looked into a room where there were some physicists doing work on the blackboard. One of them spotted Feynman, and pretty soon there was a crowd gathered, and the director came in. He decided they'd take us on a tour. We went into a 007, James Bond cave underneath the ground, with all this wonderful high-technology equipment. There was a giant machine that was going to be rolled into the line of the particle accelerator. The machine was maybe the size of a two-story building, on tracks, with lights and bulbs and dials and scaffolds all around, with men climbing all over it.

Feynman said, "What experiment is this?"

The director said, "Why this is an experiment to test the change-change something-or-other under such-and-such circumstances." But he stopped suddenly, and he said, "I forgot! This is your theory of change-change, Dr. Feynman! This is an experiment to demonstrate, if we can, your theory of fifteen years ago, called so-and-so." He was a little embarrassed at having forgotten it.

Feynman looked at this big machine, and he said, "How much does this cost?" The man said, "Thirty-seven million dollars," or whatever it was.

And Feynman said, "You don't trust me?"

-- excerpted from "No Ordinary Genius" by Christopher Sykes
Sofa- Many Mirrors (thoughts on the design of Kaleidoscope's icon)
The only compiler I use that will warn for it is gcc, and even then you need to use -Wall.
It's all gone a bit spinal tap hasn't it. Why not just add a sixth bar.
As other's have noted, the number of dBm being received by an antenna is not really a very interesting figure. What is much more interesting is to know what is happening to the signal to noise ratio.

Imagine someone talking to you in a load bar. That person can, by shouting at you, make themself understood - but just barely. Although the signal is high, the noise (bar music, other conversations etc) is also high, and the quality of the communication is much reduced. That same person talking in a library could use a tone just barely above a whisper, and still be more clearly understood because the noise floor is so much lower in a library.

Many people don't realise that noise is actually the limiting factor in communications - if a signal has been attenuated, we can always just amplify it back up, but amplification amplifies the noise as well as the signal. Eventually, once the signal and the noise reach roughly equal amplitudes, amplification just gives you the noisy bar situation, you can't ever get back to the quiet library...

Bringing this back to the iPhone's antenna, we same to be in the library case, rather than the bar case. The signal that is being received when the antenna is being held is much quieter than what we see in other phones, but when we look at the only metric that really counts - bandwidth - we see that the iPhone is achieving consistently high transfer speeds, even when the antenna spacing has been bridged by someone's hand.

If I had to guess, based on the anandtech data, what we are seeing is an antenna that performs extremely well at reducing noise from the environment. Alternatively, the calibration of the sensor giving the signal strength readings in the 4G might not be terribly good. Either way, the independent tests done so far have all indicated that the iPhone 4G is outperforming every other phone out there at the moment, when looking at signal throughput.
Engineers cry over how many pixels are used in an already simplistic arbitrary visualization of a set of complex analog values?

Really?
Translation from Apple's PR-Speak to Mac-fanboy PR-Blog-Speak.
And visionaries say, "Holy crap, the ceiling just got lifted off of our capabilities in a huge way -- we can process 100X more data per second/minute than we could 4 years ago, due to changes in the way we think about these things. Ok, let's think of an application in this space."

Big data isn't just a new keyword in your PL/SQL routines.
Precisely. But to keep the analogy going: because Apple chose to lie to you in 2008 to make that hybrid look like it gets better gas mileage than it actually does.
And now, the results of the 2010 Reader Survey
No, they are related, but not the same, particularly on the server side.
It's refreshingly honest for a country to just openly admit they treat politicians as above the law, as opposed to pretending otherwise.
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Also, package tours and cruises often include airline tickets and they are usually still booked through travel agents (or via the operator's website which I doubt counts as online airline sales).
Same setup here but it just says "missing plugin"
I find e.g. closures in Lisp overly verbose. The ML family of languages has a much lighter weight syntax for functions. This makes amazing stuff look less like code for code's sake.

(Though I do admit that I immensely like Lisp's macros.)

In e.g. Haskell abstractions are the straightforward way to solve a problem. Abstractions are cheap.
Except that same article explicitly says real-world antenna performance is actually better, despite the increased drop.

Can this whole stupid nonstory please go away?
>Ever since the first iPhone was launched I've made sure to complain very little about it.

Complaining gets issues fixed, period. Living with issues and accepting them may be better for your health and outlook on life, but it doesn't bring about progress. If Apple had just accepted the things wrong with smartphones there would be no iPhone in the first place. I agree that complaining and entitlement sometimes go too far (though not in the case of dropped calls; a phone should be able to be used as a phone), I'd say that complaining overall remains very much a good thing. Satisfaction leads to stagnation.

Edit: And although I don't agree with your post, I didn't find it downvote worthy. I hate to bring karma into discussions, but it seems like it keeps things more civil when one side doesn't downvote the other, so I don't.
Dan Weinreb has made some comments on the acquisition, the future of Lisp at ITA/Google, etc.: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1481299
It's disappointing to me to see them choose regular HTTP for communication. I think XMPP PubSub or just regular XMPP messages would work better, and you could use the existing federated jabber networks. With this, they are probably going to run into NAT traversal issues, etc.
Sweet. Corrupt the system from within.
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I know. Could John Gruber suck Apple's dick any harder?
http://www.go-mono.com/moonlight/prerelease.aspx
Our company is research-driven in the sense that is based on me reading a lot of papers on distributed systems and algorithms (eg. Google papers, Lamport papers), and extracting a design concept from those for our first product (Keyspace). To give back, I write a paper for each product we release or algorithm we invent, and we're an open-source company.

It's working so far, we have bootstrapped ourselves to a nice profitable level, we just rented our first office, and are working on our next-gen database product, which will be scalable not just replicated.

(Btw. we're in Budapest and we're looking for a C/C++ programmer.)
Deserts are themselves intricate ecosystems like any other.
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Reminds me of this : http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1472175
Similarly, I wonder how long durable water-collection pots would stay scattered around trees in impoverished, drought-stricken areas.
What would be the impact if Google, Skype, and RIM were to abandon the Indian Market?
So his way of demonstrating that: "I am committed, perhaps even obsessed, with getting Nokia back to being number one in high-end devices" is basically to "stay the course"? This read to me like "we need to focus on quality, but other than that, no changes necessary."
Sorry to say but "this doesn't work, that's wrong, this is broken etc" is going to be said regardless of when you release and regardless of how many users you have.

The number one rule of software engineering. Your code sucks.
I think the headline is misleading - is sais nowhere in the article that this is a response to symbian-guru
Interesting. I'll try to reproduce your example. Could you make something up that I can just copy-and-paste into ghci? Thanks!

Chris Okasaki argues in "Purely Functional Data Structures" for making lazy evaluation optional, but easy to use. Some data structures have optimal asymptotics only when evaluated strictly and some only when evalutated lazily.

With better strictness analysers most of the problems lazyness is causing at the moment, may go away. A Haskell compiler is free to make your program (or parts of it) strict, if it can prove that this preserves semantics.
I think privatizing profits and socializing losses will result in passive income society.
- What price range? < 200? <800?

- Mainly for espresso, or also for capuccino and others (ie. good frother)?
Rarely are there two movies in theaters at the same time that I want to see. Plus, I find it hard to sit through more than one movie at once, but that's just me.
You can do some sick stuff right now: Ruboto On Acid

http://jay.mcgavren.com/blog/archives/1419
The reality is Apple will likely insulate the antenna bridge with a non-conductive coating, i.e. using diamond vapor-phase deposition like Anand and Brian mentioned.

I wouldn't be surprised if Apple followed his (their) recommendation exactly. SSD manufacturers actually switched/redesigned controllers for future models based on Anand's findings and recommendations before. The man (and Brian Klug) is usually spot on in his (their) analysis.
But, don't feel afraid to go into excess when the time permits. Life is about pushing the boundaries.
I have trouble believing this is just a display issue. Has anyone done experiments to show this is a hardware, rather than software issue? It seems that my 3GS reception actually got much worse after I upgraded to the 4.0 firmware. This would explain the widespread perception that the iPhone 4 is worse than the 3G/3GS, since previous owners would have been running the old firmware.
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On Apple’s statement about iPhone reception strengths
They are also neo-nazi kind of people. Still love them?
Hilarious. I read bits of the letter to my wife this morning as she dashed about before work (she ordered her iPhone 4 a few days ago) and after the bit about bar display I said "the subtext here is that this is AT&T's fault!"

The blame-shifting approaches subliminal. If you aren't looking for the hidden message, you probably won't see it.
because only juveniles have 4+ hours free to sit in a movie theater...
This reminds me of the candle problem:

You are given a candle, a book of matches and a box of tacks. You need to mount the candle on the wall in such a way that the candle won't drip on the table below it.

When the problem is presented as above people struggle to come up with a solution. When you simple changes the description of what you are given to: "You are given a candle, a book of matches, a box and some tacks." people are able to quickly solve the problem.
The DeLonghi EC155 Espresso Maker makes beautiful espresso because of its 15-bar pump (most models in this pricerange have lesser pumps). Only 90$. I've had it for a while and it's awesome. Haven't been able to make very good capuccino yet, but I'm told that's a matter of milk-frothing technique :)

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Except generally when the screen is off, you're not using the GPS. Also when you're talking on the phone, the screen is on also.
Couldn't you still be predisposed to go against your typical behavior in that instant?
Teenagers/college students do this sometimes out of boredom or for the minor thrill of being sneaky. I've never seen it as an out-of-control practice in the U.S., but it happens in almost every movie theater.

I've seen people do swaps when they realized they hated the movie they were at and walked out, found another movie that ran about the same time and went there. (This tool doesn't sound like it would help that, though.)
So, perhaps I'm way off base here, and there is some actual need, but I just having a hard time seeing Twitter as something more than a luxury. I can't help but wonder how much it would be used in developing nations, honestly, but my gut feeling is 'close to none'.

Can you enlighten me as to how you feel this would benefit people?

More to the point though, I worry that something so single-purposed is far less useful than something like OLPC program, or in somehow making a greener, solar/hand-crank powered general computing device, as they would then have not only twitter, but lots of other tools.

The required time and materials to build something JUST for twitter seems excessive when that same device should easily work for Facebook, Gmail, etc?
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I wonder how much of the speed differences are due to the time spent turning pages? The iPad generally turns pages faster than the Kindle (no matter what app you're using on the iPad), and most books present more text at once, so you have fewer page-turns to begin with.
Yes! It shouldn't be too hard for them to find some good UX people in the middle of SF and still flush with Kickstarter funds; they'll just need to know what to look for.

Of course, there's still the issue of actually countering Facebook with a more organic social structure. If you will excuse my carting out of this fine dead horse once again: http://interuserface.net/2010/05/how-diaspora-can-succeed-mo...
Sorry, I should have been clearer on what I meant. Google/etc CAPTCHAs don't work 100% against anti-CAPTCHA. As those articles suggest it's a fluctuating 80% or so, and obviously an ongoing arms race.

My point was more to the fact that the slider solution wouldn't retain anywhere near the same stats if it were put up against the same level of effort and sophistication spent towards breaking it. It would get solved and then bypassed completely.
So Nseries is not dumping Symbian after all. That's sad. I really think that Nokia has still a fighting chance, but it really needs to focus. It has now, what, 5 operating systems (s40, s60v3, s60v5, s^3, maemo) in production and at least 2 more coming (s^4, meego). And I don't have a clue how many models Nokia has introduced last year or two, but the number is seriously too large. One of their larger competitors, Apple, has one current model at a time. And its a hit.
You get a 30 day return period with AT&T or Apple. That's the part of this story that has never jived with me. If lots of people are having this problem we should be seeing lines at AT&T and Apple stores for people waiting to return their phones and, as far as I know, we're not.
I don't think it's blind deference to authority, I think it's a result of over-active pattern matching. We see patterns all the time, but that doesn't always mean there is a pattern.

For example, in a science class students are typically presented with a phenomenon, asked to speculate about it, and then presented with a scientific explanation. Do this often enough and a clear pattern emerges - phenomenon -> scientific explanation.

In the case of the article, it was actually phenomenon -> human interference, but it shouldn't be surprising that the students assumed it would fit the usual pattern.
The so called "developing world" is developing. It's doing it's thing, you know, just progressing along some path of least resistance. You are coming in with no idea at all how their world is developing, and trying to impose an idea that developed along the path of least resistance in YOUR WORLD, into THEIR world.

A farmer does not know how to read well, and he does not know how to read the complicated stuff that is written in the west about farming.

The people in the developing world who use twitter are not using it for research or anything like that, they are usuing it to see what Chris Brown and Lady Gaga are up to. Yes, seriously, go on twitter and search for your appropriate third world members.

You know why? It's because this is a young person medium. Some dude who has been farming his whole life is not going to start twittering suddenly. Young people will, but then they will look for what young people care about.

Your idea is idealistic, but ultimately pointless. The 3rd world is developing but they are interested in messaging (Blackberry Bold), SMS, mobile pages. Not really in twitter or in talking to some people who barely understand them, or reading some academic papers they don't understand.

I don't think you understand your audience. You really think a person who is advanced enough to understand twitter needs a hand-crank? That's a bit silly, is it not? The third world has power supplies - how are all those billions of mobile phones being charged?
I'll probably get downvoted for this comment but in this case, I think Apple tried to hard-code in a reality distortion field with the bars and it backfired..

A heavily-biased 3G signal meter that shows 5 bars for over half the signal range seems to have been implemented in iPhone OS 2.1 back in 2008. Problems show up with that display implementation due to antenna being on the outside on iPhone 4 and crossing the threshold from 5 bars to "other".

AT&T on the other hand is recommending a more accurate approach instead of interpretting 50% as 5 bars.

Not sure why people are reading this as an AT&T issue.
But this doesn't happen to the same degre as the iPhone 4. The iPhone 4's antennae placement makes this happen with a relatively standard hand position. I've tried this on a Pre and EVO, and I can't get either to do it, although I'm sure there must be some hand position where it happens -- but it shouldn't be one of the most common hand positions.
This is the only espresso machine I've owned, but I really enjoy it. One-button lattes and cappuccinos are very nice.

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B001NAATK2/ (DeLonghi EN670.B Nespresso Lattissima)

(Edit: If you're not looking for automatic, you can probably scratch this one from your list.)