skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
An Android device most certainly is a physical thing. If not, why isn't the CPU just an idea? A particular application of a set of physical things. Physical things include silicon etc.

Is a car a physical thing?

Yes, you can call it a computer but you could also call it a heap of atoms - both statements are true, but they are pretty much both just as useless to describe what an android device really is.

Again, my clock, my fridge and my washing machine has a CPU, RAM, storage, input, output and software. By the same argument they are literally and physically the same thing in a different package - which of course is true, but also so very very wrong.
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Yep -- you are right. Buying iPhoto for iOS looks like it'll do it. Funny, I'm a pretty big Apple fan and follow lots of their news, and still didn't know this. I suspect most people won't either considering it requires a separate purchase that seems unnecessary since I don't care about editing photos on iOS.
Apple Explains Why iOS Don't Need No Steenkin' Anti-Virus
It does leave out the one important thing you need to know - the feed has to be very precisely 1/4 wavelength from the back of the can, about 31mm for 2.412 GHz (channel 1) or 1.2" for US channel 11
Spotify Customer Service Response to Declined AMEX
The only possible scenario is #4 for my AMEX BlueCash everyday card, but why don't I encounter this issue with any other company?
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Hello,

Thanks for getting in touch. Sorry to hear you've had problems with paying for your Spotify account.

Please check the following requirements that need to be met for a payment to be successfully made:

1. Your card must not have expired. If you have received a new card, please update your card details on your Subscription page: https://www.spotify.com/account/subscription/

2. The country set in your Spotify account profile must match the country where your card is registered. If you intend to use a payment method in another country, you can make this selection on your Subscription page (We can only accept payment from our launch countries).

3. Your card should be enabled for e-commerce transactions (Verified by Visa/Mastercard securecard card).

4. Your card must be open to be used for foreign purchases.

5. There are some banks that require other security authentifications, the most common one being 3DSecure.

Once you have checked all of the above, please try again to subscribe from the subscription page of your account.

If it still doesn't seem to be working, you should try discussing this with your bank.

Kind Regards and a friendly smile,

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I think we've forgotten that higher education is supposed to be an investment in a high-paying career (the return).

I believe you meant to say that it isn't supposed to be an investment in a high-paying career.

Education, like any other hobby, is an investment in yourself. The return is what you take away in joy from having participated in the activity. Like any hobby, the chances of finding financial rewards are greater by having done said hobby (think of how many have made fortunes by playing in a band, or playing sports, etc.), but the pursuit has always been about more than just money. Monetary returns are a nice bonus when one gets lucky, but it is still worth the cost and effort either way.

One year of post-secondary employment would be an interesting prerequisite for college, as a filter to weed out those who are only there because they believe it is the only path to employment. Unfortunately, it could, under certain circumstances, also keep people who are there for legitimate reasons away.
ya... the first time I read the parent comment I opened iPhoto on my MBP and couldn't find this feature.
Although he doesn't mention it here, Berkshire also owns about 18% of the Washington Post:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_assets_owned_by_Berkshi...

Not sure if this is related at all, but Adrian Holovaty (co-creator of Django, founder of EveryBlock) also worked at the Washington Post -- he has been a big proponent of the hyper-local strategy for Newspapers (the original reason why Django was developed).

Probably a coincidence, but maybe there's some latent hyper-local vibe in the halls of the Washington Post.
So schemes notice the incrementing value, so I ended up doing !,@,#,... which is equivalent to 1,2,3...

The bonus is that I could still track how many quarters I worked for that place before leaving (lasted into the 6 quarter).
That doesn't seem to be the case here, though. The organizer's sigh and admission that "he never should have allowed this guy to come to the conference" sounds like he had prior warning that this could happen.
Mainly it comes down to how much money was invested in the development, coupled with how much return the creators would have. Sophisticated malware tends to make a profit for the creators. If it doesn't have this capability, then there must be some other motive.

Take the recent article on Stuxnet: the claim is that the virus knew the layout of the building, the exact systems to be infected, how to lie to the sensors, and how exactly to cause physical damage to the machines. This requires a lot of surveillance and intelligence (as in spying). Highly unlikely a private team would have access to the information needed to create it. Stuxnet didn't make the creators any money; it was designed to just damage. Likewise from my understanding of Flame, it's not designed to make money, it's designed to gather military-industrial intelligence.
An open letter to prospective Indian employer
And Meteor and Simperium.
Or at least a JavaScript AST standard, like this one proposed in 2010:

http://research.microsoft.com/apps/mobile/publication.aspx?i...
Like climbing Everest - because it's there !
Code Reviews that might actually work
Application form doesn't seem to do anything (maybe it shut off the day before it starts?). Clicking "submit" just takes you to the top of the page. No contact form to complain to. :(
I can't help feeling that /dev/zero produces neutrons rather than electrons.
The OP doesn't specify, but her alleged harasser is well known in the community already. So I would assume he's not just a regular conference attendee; he's probably got some technical reputation, and may be a featured speaker. That's usually what makes these things extra extra difficult.

As for whether the bar is really part of the conference, I agree it's a bit of a grey zone. But in every such gathering, the unofficial parts are where most of the important stuff happens. If you have a conference where the women feel unwelcome doing that stuff, you don't really have a woman-friendly conference.
Disclaimer: I'm Matt, the other half of Iconoclast Labs.

That platform limitation of RubyMotion and the cross-platform nature of PhoneGap is acknowledged multiple times in the post.

From a business perspective, the cross platform nature of PhoneGap may make it a better choice for some projects but from our short comparison of the PhoneGap version of the app deployed on both platforms, iOS appears more promising* so that's why we chose to write a native version for iOS (plus, coming from more of a Ruby/web background and having no Obj-C experience, RubyMotion lowered the barrier to entry for that). It's been an interesting learning experience for sure.

[*] http://iconoclastlabs.com/cms/blog/posts/chatoms-app-store-e...
I suspect that differences in the way operating systems format and read persistent storage create some interesting technical challenges for a dual boot device.
Not what I was hoping for (a NintendoDS like display with a touch keyboard), but like the NintendoDS maybe this machine can revolutionize tablets and/or notebooks.
Several document-based database systems claim to be schamaless, yet when your data demands cross-document relations (esp. many-to-many), something ugly rears its head which usually ends with you performing multiple queries and relating (or JOINing) data by hand. This essentially forces the work away from the locality and fast speed of the database level, and up towards the remote and slow speed of the client-to-database connection. The difference in speed is akin to the difference between registers and RAM, or between RAM and Disk.

The resultant design pattern often ends up a mirror of what you would have done in any standard SQL database, but without the low level optimizations that a SQL database brings to such a pattern.

Additionally, with a non-native design pattern now in place to deal with your data relationships, concurrency issues may begin to surface.

In SchemafreeDB, your data relationship possibilities are essentially unbounded; yet consistent in both design patterns, access patterns and performance.
nah -- looking for a user-friendly solution that can recommend to non-tech friends. one click sharing from mobile -- not just getting raw files to a computer.
I recently sold my startup. Oh yeah! The deal was much harder than I expected because the deal's tems required me to get 100% of shareholders to agree to the buyout. Those shares I issued early all on in my startup's life felt like serious baggage towards the end. The deal had a deadline, and one guy didn't decide to sell until 6:00 a.m. of the day the deal was set to expire. It was stressful to say the least.
Yes, but they could just as well burn their money on something that don't pan out.
All hail the generalist
Everytime I've ever worked with Bluetooth as a user or a developer, it has always takes a little bit to pair before any data transfer can go. NFC can start data transfer immediately.

Am I missing something from Bluetooth 4.0 that can allow a transfer to start-up instantly? I feel like Bluetooth would be a really slow and hacky solution for payment not to mention it'll be open to attacks from anything with a Bluetooth device.
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No, I think the MD5 collision hypothesized by rb12345 above makes a lot more sense. Someone went out and audited the full set of code-signing certs, discovered this oddball one, and exploited it. There's no secret in the process that couldn't have been discovered by a suitably determined attacker. It was a very understandable MS process goof that allowed this oddball cert to live.
Apple's arrogance and their security theater puts their customers in danger because it creates a false sense of security. It's just a matter of time before hacktivists make an all assault on Mac OS and iOS just to make Apple consumers more conscious about security.
thought I was the only one who noticed that.

lemme just cite wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Haskell_Alsup
It's not soviet but if you're interested in this you should also see all of the programs used in the Apollo and Gemeni missions:

http://www.ibiblio.org/apollo/links.html
Not yet, but it is still completely possible. Stuxnet was designed to cause physical damage to sensitive equipment. Imagine if a virus overloaded a power system. People could be injured by damaged transformers, people could be killed by failing electronics (anything from streetlights/stoplights to failing medical equipment). Iranian nuclear employees could have been injured or killed by the failing centrifuges.

Anything that relies on inter-networked controller systems has potential to be attacked by a virus, and many of them have potential to be destructive to human life.
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Backbone has pretty much changed the way I write JavaScript apps.
A friend performed it as a reading during our wedding ceremony - it was particularly fitting as we had just quit our jobs and were about to embark on an open ended round-the-world honeymoon.
The ability to enforce and optimize modular Javascript is one of the primary benefits of Google Closure Compiler, I've seen. I've only used it for one project so far but I can't envision writing another Javascript project without it.
Ah, OK. My read was that the certs granted by the Enforced Licensing thing were able to sign code. Your explanation makes a ton of sense to me. They just forgot to audit for MD5-based keys and left this alive in the wild.
My point is that it's one and the same. You're making distinctions where
there are none. Software which I run on my device is content, too. Denying
me the right to change or modify that content is the very definition of DRM.
Logging-as-a-Service with logentries
Don't conflate a strong signal with increased bandwidth. A good "tin can" antenna still isn't going to allow you to exceed 802.11g/n/ac speeds. Chances are you'll still saturate the link.
Command-Delete also makes sense as it follows the convention in the Finder / Desktop). Command-Z works to reverse both operations.
Paper strikes back: defending books, mail and dollar bills
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To give a little more context - this letter was sent after an announcement that Berkshire Hathaway was purchasing all of the newspapers owned by Media General.

http://www.mediageneral.com/press/2012/may17_12.html
So you are saying your grandmother is very compassionate?
Beautiful. I applied it and now can have TextEdit remain open.
Ask HN: What tools/workflow do you use for managing features/bugs/todos?
I'm working on a web application that is still private alpha. Right now I use Things.app for my todos, with my app as a project tagging todos 0.1, 0.2 etc. I also have a Basecamp account for communicating with some test users, receiving some bug reports/feature requests there as well as via email. Additionally I end up using Github Issues now and then for different things.

What is your workflow? What tools and how do you combine them into the ultimate workflow for managing all tasks/feature requests/bugs coming from you/your team and from your customers?
Our Rochester, NY USA paper just raised rates 50% for subscribers and are backing that with an online version of the paper that looks exactly like the print version. I canceled my subscription.

I want local news. I want to pay a reasonable rate (was $12 / month for 5 day delivery, now $18 / month). I don't care for an online version that looks just like the printed paper. I would sign up for a reduced (like $6 / month) version delivered to my iPad (or similar) that just had the local stuff (no AP, stocks outside upstate NY, no national sports, etc) because I do care about what's going on locally. I get the national stuff for free online lots of places, I can't get the local stuff easily.

Buffett seems to agree with my take, it'll be interesting to see where Birkshire takes their papers wrt the internet.
“If you had to pick an optimal human to machine cyborg ratio, what would it be and why?”

[looks at self] Being one, I'm not quite sure how one computes that ratio.

What's more important is how the mix leverages one's self to an advantage. I can't engage in certain activities lest I risk terminal disconnection of electromechanical components ... but installation of those same components prevented early cessation of the wholly 100% human configuration, and at least once since have, by happenstance, made the difference between racing to the ER by ambulance vs. walking in at my convenience and tolerating pre-surgery delays. The ability to do periodic data dumps on biosystem performance has also been everything from amusing to critical.

At this point of technology, I wouldn't recommend purely voluntary installation of machine parts, but if there's a good reason to get them then embrace the options fully.

BTW: battery replacement sucks. Yes, it's done the hard way. No, wireless/inductive recharging isn't reliable/durable enough to be viable.
Removing the ads.
I plan to visit a local planetarium that has nice optics :)
Can I ask why you're rewriting code on your production server on the fly without the aid of the rest of your tool chain?

In any good development shop you make a change, your CI server picks it up, builds it, and creates a release candidate you deploy. Every change should be checked into source control and built by your automated build bot.

At that point the difference between changing an annotation and an XML configuration file should be moot. I'd think the annotation would be easier because you can still mess up the syntax of the XML file pretty easy (e.g. "Can you change the blahblah label to System & such?" That ampersand will hose your system when you get it to production).
Ah, should have done the math. You're right, it's less impact that it seems at first.
I like the candy machine example. I have an even more absurd example: a Craigslist post looking for someone with 5 years of iPhone App Dev experience weeks after the first iPhone was released.
Code that is representative of the user experience
To be precise, 1/4 guide wavelength which is different than the freespace wavelength and depends on the diameter of the can. Here is a calculator that can spit out the guide wavelength http://www.turnpoint.net/wireless/cantennahowto.html
DirecTV chairman not worried about an Apple HDTV
So the only thing missing from iPhone is the built-in "share" button. But everything else is already solved with iPhone Flickr app.

But since TFA also list Dropbox and Kicksend, both are not builtin in iOS, it seems the author would accept non-builtin Flickr solution as well.

So the whole article would come down to "I don't know Flickr exists and can share video".
Ruby's Inspect Considered Harmful
Excerpt: "There’s another, insidious drawback to the default inspect that leads to severe performance issues. Both NameError and NoMethodError call inspect when constructing their exception message, and there’s simply no way to monkeypatch around that ... The fact that it took 7 months for this fix to finally make it into Rails 3.2.3 stable (and yet be mysteriously absent from the changelog) is another story."
Boxee launches Cloudee, its private online video-sharing service
Entrepreneurship for the 99%
If i understand your comment, you're saying it's pointless?

Enabling Kindle to read other formats besides .mobi(like epub) instead of messing around with conversion, makes it useful for me.
I can't reply to Avenger42 as this thread has got too deep, but in response to him or her, you are supporting one unproven claim, by citing her, citing him, making another unproven claim. He could be lying. She could be lying. And if I didn't have access to the same blog post and you were telling me about it, you could by lying.

Moreover, she could be _mistaken_. Perhaps about the guy's name. He could also be _mistaken_, thinking she's talking about another guy, or getting names and faces mixed up.
If I could get the same interest rate or lower I would do it, but as of right now I would get lucky if I could find one that gave me 3x the interest let alone higher...
I think they sold it cheap. They should have asked for something more involved than dancing where nobody even glances at you.

For example, getting invited as audience to a live TV show and yelling something of interest/funny.
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So let me sum this up:

Hetzner is comparable to Heroku and AWS, except that you have to do your own rack buildouts, private IP subnets, load balancing, redundancy zones, and CDN.

Is that right?
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I'd say the Peavey T60 was far more revolutionary because it introduced CNC machining into guitar manufacturing.

http://www.rocknrollweekend.com/peavey_t%2060.htm
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SPDY V3 implemented in Firefox Nightly
When Multimedia Was Black & White
CloudFlare CEO: Credit Card Numbers Not Exposed, AT&T Possibly Breached
This.

Mountain View has free city wide wifi sponsored by Google.

If somebody hacked into your a/c, they would do it, while being on a n/w belonging to somebody else, to try to cover their tracks.

My suggestion : send a detailed email to google/gmail support, with screenshots & times of access.
They might be able to dig up gmail logs & correlate with gmail isp mountain view wifi logs.
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I've never understood why this hasn't happened. It seems like being the first to create a widespread Mac (or Linux, etc.) virus would be much more appealing to write than just yet another Windows virus. Everyone and their brother have already done that.
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Did some tests. pgbouncer was faster. Something about pgpool using DML while pgbouncer operates at a much lower level.
This isn't universally true, especially in climates where trees grow naturally. Oftentimes, the poorest neighborhoods in a city are among the oldest, and thus the trees have had the most times to mature and grow.

For example, look at
<a href="https://maps.google.com/maps?ll=40.684543,-73.948116&spn.... Bedford-Stuyvesant is one of the oldest neighborhoods, and was once wealthy. Now it is one of the poorest neighborhoods in inner Brooklyn, but the trees have grown large with age, and that makes it one of the greenest neighborhoods from above. Vacant lots even grow verdant with age.
"If there is a NAND, people will build computers. I've seen that effect with Minecraft. But using unix pipes is just awesome, too :D" (first comment from post)
What is the stupidest technology related quote in retrospect?
A strong housing authority would be socialism. Converting urban housing from rental units to affordable condos is un-American.

I'm partly joking, of course, but you'd be surprised at the epithets and viciousness that can be thrown around if someone dares disturb the very, very classist segments of the population who participate mostly loudly in municipal governments.
Quantum teleportation over record distance, prelude to space networks
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Why do you think a version delivered to your iPad should be cheaper than the print version? Do you not receive the same value in both cases?
how do you deal with the huge latency to Germany from the USA?

In some cases the location is actually an asset. Surprisingly, not everyone lives within the US.

More helpfully, the partial solution is to use either the Rackspace or HPCloud CDNs. Both of them are pretty cheap and both use Akamai, which gives you PoPs everywhere that matters. In my case (Australia), Amazon doesn't have a PoP for Cloudfront nearby so I using Amazon means I'm stuck with either West Coast US or (even worse for routing reasons) Singapore.

If you are big enough then you might be able to find yourself a better CDN deal, but most of the cheaper ones don't have a POP down here.
"I have some strong political views, but Berkshire owns the paper - I don't."

Why can't all CEOs think this way?