skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have a Nokia N900 and I find making and receiving VoIP calls (Skype and Google Talk) just as convenient as POTS calls. I had never owned a smartphone before this, so I find its lack of battery life disturbing, even though it seems on par with a colleague's iPhone.

So for the random guy on the Internet recommendation: overall, I would buy this phone again, especially if I had wide-ranging access to WiFi.
As a kid I always thought one headlight looked brighter than the other. It wasn't until I grew up, smashed my headlight, and had to have my headlights reinstalled and readjusted that I learned they were actually aligned asymmetrically.
Link to related thread:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1530274
In this case I think domestic oil production serves as a failsafe against the doomsday scenario of a war in the middle east cutting off foreign oil imports. It's not nearly enough to meet our normal demand but it's enough to make sure thousands, maybe millions, of people don't starve to death when the trucks stop rolling. It keeps the military going so they can "stabilize" the situation. I'd argue the war in Iraq was for basically the same purpose. If that doomsday scenario happens we're going to look back at these events much differently.
more friends. ;)
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How about this: I know about 20 people who have iPhone 4's. None of them have any issues with the antenna, no matter how they hold the phone. This issues is hugely overblown, demonstrated by elementary arithmetic. These issues exist in very few phones, or maybe with very sweaty hands.
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Of course Gruber will quote the parts where AT&T is asking Apple to tweak the iphone (trying to shift more blame on AT&T for their network) and now all the parts about how Apple is extremely hard to work with or where the iphone's baseband radio is incredibly buggy and is arguably one of the main reasons for the constant dropped calls.

Gruber is nothing but a hack who's trying to glorify Apple in every way.
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They still sell the 3G.

And that's kind of a tautology. You're tied to one manufacturer and one carrier. I can walk into the Verizon store and purchase the most expensive HTC phone and I know that I have the latest HTC on Verizon just like you know you have the latest Apple device on AT&T. A lack of choice doesn't mean you automatically have something better in your hands.
Changes like that are usually fine. The tagging isn't keyed to specific DOM paths.

glenn (Needle)
Means and (especially) medians mean little to nothing when you're doing them over entirely different benchmarks. Why bother? A 3D plot would be a lot clearer.
I have a problem with the term "Sold" when it comes to Kindle books. Nobody actually "buys" one, they license it.

DRM is toxic.
Licensing things as a joke is generally why I use the WTFPL over 'real' BSD.
Erm, I think that Honest Tea was the only completely unsweetened tea in my local supermarket. "Was" because the glass-bottled, unsweetened teas are no longer being stocked there; only the apparently more sweetened plastic bottled teas remain.
Yep, you can read it anywhere Amazon allows you to read it.
You appear to be operating according to this logical statement: "If it has a flaw, it can't be a superior product. It has a flaw. Thus it is not a superior product."

This is sensible if we define "flaw" to include only issues that cause serious harm in using the product: those that make it lose a large portion of its value. For the vast majority of people, this isn't a "flaw" by that definition: it's instead a weakness caused by a specifically chosen engineering tradeoff that, all things considered, appears to have been a good one — the phone is thin, beautiful, strong, and has great battery and reception in almost all cases. To satisfy those for whom the issue's severity does rise to the level of legitimately being called a flaw, Apple announced that they're giving everyone a free case, which remedies this condition. And reminded customers that they're perfectly willing to give a complete refund.

So what would have been better for them to do? Recall all iPhone 4s and replace them with a 3GS-style case that does better in that one situation but worse in essentially every other way? Most customers would pick the 4 any day of the week over the 3GS, "flawed" in one specific way or not.
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OK, so I'm a troll, but how do you get any coding done while doing all this other stuff?
I like the idea of my DodoCase, and if it weren't mostly defective, I'd use it. It's a very inconspicuous way to carry the iPad, which I love.

Unfortunately the bamboo curls outward in essence making the shape that of |( where the pipe is the iPad and the parenthesis is the DodoCase.

I've sent a request for some sort of reasonable way to fix this, as it's been this way since I've received it. The reply was they would send me new rubber feet and it's doing what bamboo does naturally. I stopped using it the day my iPad slipped out of the case and hit concrete on the corner making a nice nasty dent.
C'mon, an AT&T underling is handing along advice on what Steve Jobs should wear? I work for a MegaSlowGiantNotWithItCorp, and the people on top aren't stupid. They pretend to be when they can get away with it, but they aren't really. Plus, matters of personality, protocol, and diplomacy are where they shine. The people attending to the AT&T executives probably memorized the names, ages, and favorite sports of Steve Jobs' kids just in case they had a chance to chat with him. They would have, um, kind of known that he was a notoriously finicky control freak and narcissist with an aversion to suits. (You know this, yet you assume that someone whose job it is to know this, and who has finagled themselves into a position working with high-level executives at one of the biggest companies in the world, would somehow not know this?)

Perhaps as a matter of diplomacy, just to get under his skin, they decided to insult him or pull rank on him ("my market cap is bigger than yours"), but they certainly didn't do it on accident. And honestly I can't imagine them needing to invent ways to get under his skin when there are so many contentious issues on the table.

Even back at Dell in the early 1990s there was some friction between sales/marketing managers and engineers

That's the difference between being an engineer and being one of the most powerful and respected CEOs in the industry.

Plus, the 1990s were a lonnnggggg time ago. The bestsellers about the casual tech company culture of the early 2000s are already in the remainder bin, because they've achieved cliché status. If you think the executives at AT&T missed all that, well, it would have been impossible for them to miss it, because they were shopping at Barnes and Noble and watching CNN just like the rest of us.
Them taking part in a competition with a $100,000 prize for getting the most sales in 6 months might go a long way to explaining why they didn't suspend orders once they realised they production capacity was lacking.
I'd like to see a nicer way to read followed blogs. The Dashboard bundles everything together, and each site loses its design and identity (which a big part of what makes Tumblr great).

Maybe they'll do something like they've done with the Archive view (e.g., http://staff.tumblr.com/archive) or the Mega-Editor (e.g., http://www.tumblr.com/mega-editor if you have Tumblr log).
Does iTunes rent suits now?
I disagree in two senses. First, it's a poor measurement of brevity that depends on identifier length. Even LOC (surely the gold standard of bad metrics) doesn't depend that much on that. Second and more interestingly, as code gets more concise, long explicit identifiers begin to detract from readability. Well-written concise code discloses valuable information just by the shape it takes. With experience reading such code, you start to grok it at a whole-expression level. Lengthy identifiers interfere with this gestalt: they provide an initial boost when reading the code, but at the long-term cost of overwhelming the code with lexical noise.

Concise programs often appear laughably unreadable to people who are used to a definition of "clarity" that derives from more verbose languages. At one time they appeared that way to me too. But with time spent working in less verbose languages, to my surprise I found myself wanting to use shorter and shorter names, not to interfere with clarity but to enhance it.
I wouldn't call it a prisoner's dilemma - competitors that oppose HFCS have no incentive to make the switch as the perception (or reality) of better taste/health are their top selling point.

You don't fill up on salad before a pie eating contest and you don't get into the ring with Coca-Cola on their terms.

The problem here is that Coke has to decide between a unified front and hedging their bets. One way kind of undermines the other.
You're the one missing the point - you're not being restricted. You can run your program on any (single) computer that you want, and "dispose of it how you please". If you wanted to ride 3 bikes at once, you'd have to buy 3 bikes - the bike company won't give you an extra two for free.

You can have all the hissy fits you want, and it is (sort of) an artifical limit, but these are the restrictions that you accepted when you chose to buy the software. If you don't like it, go open source.
Why Is The Universe Complex? Broken Symmetries, Information, Energy, Work
I've never seen the android browser crash, for one thing, and the extra memory means less refreshing when switching between windows.

Biggest for me is file browsers, being able to copy content onto the device from across the network, not needing to deal with iTunes.

I've replaced the default media browser, video player etc.

And I can use my phone in bed with auto rotate disabled without having to jailbreak.

To me, the primitive nature of iOS stands out. It has a lot of polish, but it is simply less functional, less useful.
Agreed. As much as I hate it Kindle is quickly becoming the default e-book platform/format. It reminds me of the earlier days of DRM-encumbered iTunes which was 'opened' up to be usable on other devices. The question in my mind is who will be the white knight of DRM-free e-book distribution that Amazon arguably was for music?

My best guess would be Google, but they have seemed determined to prove their complete inability to enter any direct-sales industry. So I will place my hope on some yet-to-be-birthed scrappy young startup.

Assuming that even happens, of course. As draconian and dinosaur as the recording industry was in the DRM-iTunes era.. The publishing industry is simply notorious about taking a hard-line approach to copyright infringement. I guess it makes sense; they predate the recording industry by several hundred years.

To make matters worse there was always a huge amount of music piracy. Recording companies were anxious to generate huge heaps of bad PR. Apple's forced use of the iTunes software was restrictive enough to chafe not only the tech crowd, but many mainstream consumers. There was a public outcry for DRM-free legal digital music stores.

With e-books.. No one seems too concerned.
Last year Carlos (aristus) and I launched http://www.cloud-peering.com/ and spoke at a few conferences to highlight exactly this issue.

Essentially the biggest interop problem in the cloud is the lack o backhaul sharing. It's the only thing we can't code our way out of.
Except that that's likely to cannibalise sales, ie. in the case where people or businesses would have bought multiple licences.
Hired consultants and business partners are different. Consultants work for you. Business partners are theoretically equals, and your sartorial standards are no more important than theirs. In a case like AT&T and Apple, where the balance of power isn't clearly tilted one way or the other, I would say they're equals practically as well as theoretically. It's insulting for one to dictate standards of professionalism to the other.
We wanted to be able to serve arbitrary sizes so we can handle different demands for thumbnails and new use cases. Having to resize all of your images because you've re-designed your homepage sucks, and is no fun (especially if you have a large set of images).

Cloudfront is really enticing, though. For a cheap CDN, if we really had the need, we'd probably migrate to cloudfront, then come up with a task to batch resize our S3 images, then stick them back into S3. This could probably be done on a one-off task on ec2 by spinning up a few instances, or even with Hadoop.

If anyone's taken this approach, I'd love to see it!
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I suppose I failed to see how destructuring assignment on hash-maps accomplishes anything interesting at all related to the post. The post eliminates hash-maps altogether.
I believe I read (in a Slate article?) that the dropped-call rate for the 3GS is around 1 in 100. So an increase by another 1 in 100 actually doubles the dropped-call rate. It's a bit more significant when you look at it that way.
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Where in the BSD license does it say that you can't?
Definitely. Another thing worth considering is their culture and a bit of their "history". My wife is very risk averse, but with reason. She actually had a bit of a bad run with entrepreneurship. Actually her dad, who I respect for having the balls to take a punt and give it a go (about 15/20 years ago), tried and failed and the family had to to into a bit of debt which it took them years to recover from. So from that perspective she (like many people) view risk as a 0 or 1 thing. My way around it (almost) was to explain all actions (and risks associated with them) and having (or atleast trying to show) backup plans. Even if it means moon lighting (which is slow and painful but much better than no support from your SO). And giving a time frame helps and it also makes you more serious.
A sample of 20 of your friends/acquaintances is neither statistically significant nor random.
Yep this is pretty funny because I seriously considered working on this idea too and had a decent chunk of code written before moving on.

Your implementation looks great though. Do you mind if I ask what you used to built the UI? It looks great, transitioning etc.

Also +1 on the GitHub integration.
"Cognitive Surplus", Clay Shirky @ LSE [mp3]
It would seem that AT&T won a few of those battles.

All of the features you mention are so bandwidth-intensive, that the user experience for them would be non-existant. FaceTime simply wouldn't work on a typical AT&T connection. Even YouTube via 3G is painfully slow now, when it works at all. Add a couple of people downloading 1.5GB movies, and the network would grind to a halt.
I was thinking the same thing. The bandwidth of the 747 isn't a constant. It depends on the distance between the endpoints.

If I want to transfer data 30 feet from one system to another, pulling the hard drive, tossing it onto a 747 rolling by on the runway, tossing it back, and then reinstalling just blows away any LAN ever built.
> Means and (especially) medians mean little to nothing

It's the other way around. Given the skewed nature of the data, the median is a better measure of the central tendency of the data set.

But note that I'm not plotting the median only. I use a box plot which gives you a much better statistical picture than using a simple median (or mean). Nevertheless, summarizing different benchmarks has its limitations and box plots give you a rough, general idea of what's going on.
Kindof, I think that DDG's bang searches take you to the respective website's search API. This one seems like it shows results in blekko's website simply filtered any way you create.
If you're going with self-hosted Wordpress, I'd also recommend putting it on a separate machine and ideally on a separate network from your other machines, so that they aren't compromised when your blog gets hacked.
I recently bought an HTC Desire - there's no "with Google" stamp.

I don't think your statement is correct.
Or more likely, the probability of a negative user experience is too high on AT&T's network.

To use a non-#attfail example: The little microwave ISP I use in a rural area gives me 10mbps, but they don't have enough backhaul to support that kind of bit rate in a sustained manner. If I start to watch a YouTube video at a better-than-awful bit encoding the first 10 seconds or so are great, then the routers notice my connection being a pig and fair-queueing or whatever mechanism they are using lowers my allowed bit rate to unwatchable levels.

I have a negative impression of YouTube watching because of my ISP. It is only because I have had experiences on other ISPs first that I don't associate this with YouTube or my browser.

Apple knows better than to let Facetime get a reputation as choppy, unreliable, or generally flakey, which it would on AT&T's network.
Pitting cloud against cloud
Sounds like an golden opportunity for a software tweak.

Have the ability to configure this stuff on the lock screen.

Either text (this phone owned by bleh) or a maybe a button to dial an emergency number.
Yep - I would anticipate this sort of "leaderboard" to be a big use case.
I see a couple Delaware recommendations, but no reasons given. That is because there generally aren't any good reasons to incorporate in Delaware over your home state unless you plan on being a large public company that gets sued a lot, or you are trying to impress investors who have more money than brains and will think that if you go Delaware like many giant companies do that will ensure you become giant.

The Delaware advantage is that their laws and court system are good for and good at handling large complicated litigation, like tricky M&As or complex shareholder suits. They make much of the state income from this, and charge accordingly. If your company is the kind that needs that, you would not be asking for advice here. If it doesn't need that, save the money. You can always reincorporate in Delaware later if needed.
Darwin, 1839: first discussion of the "uncanny valley"?
I came across this in The Voyage of the Beagle (1839):

The expression of this [Trigonocephalus] snake’s face was hideous and fierce; the pupil consisted of a vertical slit in a mottled and coppery iris; the jaws were broad at the base, and the nose terminated in a triangular projection. I do not think I ever saw anything more ugly, excepting, perhaps, some of the vampire bats. I imagine this repulsive aspect originates from the features being placed in positions, with respect to each other, somewhat proportional to the human face; and thus we obtain a scale of hideousness.

I added it to a new section of the Wikipedia article about the uncanny valley, but I thought someone around here might also find it interesting.

I wonder if there were other similar descriptions before Darwin.
Jesus, the advice is perfectly clear. It doesn't require logical dissection.

If you are unable to choose between two candidates, pick the candidate
who is a better writer (as opposed to a better lumberjack).

It assumes that your original method of choosing did not take into account writing proficiency, and that one candidate is a better writer than the other.
Chipotle! - carnitas burrito and some tacos.

That's assuming I read that right: "buy" and "subscribe online" are separate phrases. If I have to buy it online, then a tuner/metronome combo.
It leans on Pascal, but when I first read it, I was waist deep in Turbo C. Luckily Pascal is almost pseudocode.. :-)

The Pascal is simple enough that, I suspect, FreePascal would be OK with it - http://www.freepascal.org/ - though getting Turbo Pascal 7 for DOS would be a real blast from the past.
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Yes, being an HN reader is definitely a plus. :-)

The best way to get an invite is hit us on twitter or facebook (see links from blekko.com). Then we can DM you an invite when we have them ready.
Awesome story. Please tell us that you actually kept the book!? :-)
Hi Jason, quite a few of the comments here are pretty constructive. What struck me about the landing page though is the first things I see on the screen are the logo, then an ordering form.
What would probably work better for me at least is some more information and some pictures of different examples where it could be really cool (I can imagine using this on my fridge for example).
The video is OK, however youtube is banned at many workplaces as well, just a thought - some images wouldn't go astray!
he was the photographer at ellison's, though:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Ellison
No it's not saving... and honestly it's not even grabbing half of what's being posted live on twitter.

Depending on the time of the day it turns mostly asian, american, etc. It's really entertaining to watch.

I don't really see a point in saving them?
excellent argument and choice of words
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Everyone in the industry knows they'll be transitioning off of oil in the long run. In the short run, this would take the fall off BP, and onto the oil industry, just as Apple moved the blame onto the phone industry.
Do you realise how clueless some MBAs really are. Ok, these days everyone has heard of Steve Jobs and Apple, but 3 or 4 years ago it was less common. They only heard of BillG because he has so much cash. Still most do not know who Larry Ellison is, even with the cash, and can you guess how many know who Linux Torvalds is?

And yes, these are MBAs who work in the IT field, since large companies have the philosophy that management is interchangeable, and you don't need expertise in a particular area to be able to run it.
Another factor might well be related to avoiding excessive accidental data roaming; e.g. helping to avoid surprise roaming bills, interacting with the EU50 data roaming cap etc. (At present people easily run up bills for several thousands by downloading a single TV episode.)

Intl roaming is quite prevalent in places like Europe so it seems well possible that related sensibilities may also be informing these decisions.
Reselling paperbacks and getting a good price for them? What's your time worth?
no there really are different kinds of sugar, each with different structures and effects. similarities? yes.
Most TS information is protected by SCI (Sensitive Compartmentalized Information) which means that these secrets are sectioned off into smaller groups so if one group is exposed/infiltrated other sections are more likely to be safe. This also means that being "read into" one section does not mean you have access to other sections. My point is that the TS clearance mostly describes the process to get information not the collection of information itself. I doubt there are more than a 100,000 people that know any one (actively guarded) secret.
I think he was referring to your choice of "end in" instead of "end up in".
I learned something new - disjunction is sometimes called "alternation":

http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/165607/disjunction
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