skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's actually hard & somewhat expensive to buy a foil pouch that cuts of signal completely. I've bought a $20 one to simulate cellular cut off situations, and it didn't work reliably.
While it may be true that it's impossible for a newspaper to be completely unbiased, that doesn't mean this is not the ideal they should strive to. Just like it's not possible to have completely bug-free code, but you shouldn't give up fixing bugs because of that. If engineers assumed from the get go that their code will be buggy, that would simply mean lowering their standards, giving themselves an excuse to be lazy. I imagine it's similar with news organizations, if they set out to provide biased reporting, then they will be happy to gloss over or justify much more glaring abuses of reason than if objective information was their goal.

Anecdotally, I see this opinion (that unbiased reporting is impossible, so why not have journals be openly partisan) mostly coming from people who themselves hold pretty extreme political views. It's almost as if the level of liberal/conservative bias they feel most comfortable with was so high that they couldn't pretend, even to themselves, that their sources are objective, and they deal with the cognitive dissonance by saying that it's OK since no source is completely objective.
Apple's UI and app centric approach is showing its age for sure. With Android Google has shown that it can take chances with the UI. Android UI has eveolved much more in last 4 years as compared to Apple's.

Of course Windows Phone though the most beautiful OS of the three is well behind these two.
It's fantastic.

Either it'll eventually take off, or else either Apple or Google will copy all the good ideas and I'll switch back. Either way works for me, frankly.

(Well, no, that's not entirely true. I'd prefer it take off next year and Nokia survives intact, because nobody else is making hardware that isn't hopelessly bland looking.)
The problem is the hardware. It's always the hardware with Android. If the phone has a nice camera the GPS is crap. If the GPS works, the screen is shit. Or it's got hardware buttons a year after ICS came out. And if you're lucky enough to get all that? Then it'll have a locked bootloader so you're stuck with whatever TouchSenseBlur crap the manufacturer's marketing department decided to vomit all over the beautiful, stock Android.
The offensive content problem may even have something to do with the appearance of their "monster" character being confusingly similar to typical portrayals of the devil (red character with horns), which itself is can be an offensive image in many cultures regardless of context. That's why feedback is so important in these review processes, especially with something so subjective.

As an aside, the devil thing isn't isolated to non-Western countries either. Linda Branagan famously recalls one instance of where the BSD "Daemon" mascot, which also looks devil-like, nearly got her into real trouble in Texas: http://rmitz.org/freebsd.daemon.html
Are you serious? How desperate are you to refute this claim? Nielsen is one of the top and most respected marketing research companies in the world. They have an entire division dedicated to mobile research, called what else? Nielsen Mobile. If you take a look at their website they mention exactly how they collect data. I will copy it below to make things easier for you.

"Nielsen uses a broad range of measurement tools to help companies make the most of their investments in mobile, including:

-Monitoring network signaling in 86 U.S. markets to count mobile subscribers and determine marketshare

-Analyzing the cellphone bills of more than 65,000 mobile subscribers in the U.S.

-Conducting extensive drive tests to measure quality of service in North America

-Deploying On-Device Meters to measure smartphone activity

-Analyzing carrier server logs to understand feature phone usage behavior

-Surveying mobile consumers via telephone, in-person and online surveys"[1]

[1]:http://www.nielsen.com/us/en/measurement/mobile-measurement....
And why should serviceability be sacrificed for qualities like weight, form factor, etc?

Because I will "service" my laptop maybe once, if even that many times, during its operational life. Meanwhile, I will enjoy its "weight, form factor, etc." every single time I use it.

Not everybody is going to prioritize environmental issues over all others. Those who have a problem with that can deal with it and get over it.
Samsung has a skin on it, it's minimal, but it's still there.

I have a dozen nonstock app installed... and they all fit with the style just fine or perfectly.

>It's confusing enough just knowing when to use the hardware "back" button or not.

I've never understood and may never understand this confusion though I hear it and try to address it constantly. It's the same in almost every app and is different in only a very few apps where the overridden behavior makes a lot of sense.
I disagree that the long URL is a problem because I don't see people typing in mobile app store URLs. Either they search on the name or click a link. I do agree that it would be nice to have an app name that matters somewhere in the URL.
Seems like those changes will just cause us to enter a stage where we'll hit the uncanny valley. What Siri seems to overcome is some of the social awkwardness around voice interaction, but the last mile, so to speak, will be much more expensive to overcome.

Hope I'm wrong though.
I am reminded of the facsimile of the frog. If thrown into hot water he will jump out, but if thrown into cold water that is slowly heated he will die without reacting.

These measures would have been unthinkable 10 or 15 years ago, yet we've to come almost expect them.

Spying and snooping appears to be a one-way street where our privacy is slowly eroded and the trend is never reversed (the excuses given for this vary, but they always include at least one of "child porn", "terrorism", "IP violation", or "organized crime").

"Those who sacrifice liberty for security will lose both and deserve neither." - Benjamin Franklin
What if the buyer wants to keep the free users happy and make it a profitable business? One thing leads to another, everyone is happy.
It also protects against derivative works.

I don't think it's obvious that they should naturally be allowed to prevent a clean-room reimplementation. The real innovative and creative work is in the designs that would be protected by copyright - the alleged "innovative circuits" subject to patent are really just being used as patent traps to prevent a clean-room reimplementation of the architecture - as anti-interoperability measures, in other words.
Which seems very weird, given how many different layers and materials already go into a lithium battery. Why is a small dab of glue so problematic?

It's almost as if the recyclers are too lazy to keep their processes up to date. Nah, couldn't be.
Then the market will have spoken.
>Can you imagine if they loaded 1000lbs of lead onto an airplane before they took off, just to see if the plane takes off with the headroom filled? "Oh crap, the plane is falling, let's dump the lead."

They actually do this kind of stuff (except for the "lets dump the lead" part), in stress tests, especially in cargo and millitary planes. And they do similar tests not only in aviation, but in most kinds of engineering.

So maybe misplaced sarcasm?
Android devs really need to step up their game and give these non-childish names. Jellybean? where am I, disney.com?
It is laughable, isn't it? If they're needing wifi to triangulate you chances are they already know where you are anyways.
Stupidest story title of the week.
This isn't a popular sentiment but the way I solve this is not to let anyone borrow or touch my devices.
Source - the emails with Torch, show that he was concerned about what was going on, not tacitly approving. Curious what you are referring to?
Does anyone have any idea what "problems" one "inherits", per the article, in building dynamic languages on bytecode VMs like Parrot and the JVM? It seems to be talking about the fact that the JVM was designed for Java the language, and how that's induced some kind of drag on porting other kinds of languages to it, but I really don't see how that's relevant to Parrot, which was designed to be language agnostic (modulo its bias towards supporting the needs of dynamic languages) from the get-go.
Windows might not be worth it for most developers. But it can be very worth while for a few.

Some months ago we had someone post how well their app was doing on Windows Marketplace vs Android's and Apple's simply because there's so little competition. In Apple and Andriod's marketplaces their app was just one out of thousands but it was so much easier to find and advertise on Windows' Marketplace that the Windows phone sold the most units of all 3. Their windows phone app made the developer more money than the other 2 combined.

So it all depends on what you're developing and who your target market is. Despite the tiny market share and other problems, Windows Phone users aren't app-phobic. They want apps too.

I am envious of your patience and persistence. However, I'm confused about your refusal to censor yourself.

Rather than get rid of unnecessary syncing messages referring to sex toys you instead refused to publish the app in China, Indonesia, Malaysia, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Iraq, United Arab Emirates? All because you didn't want to censor yourself? Who are you trying to impress? You're a business, not a freedom fighter. You're preventing people in other countries from enjoying your app. Why punish the people of a country based on the controlling manipulative laws their politicians put in place. Everyone's country is imperfect.
And if you think that's tough, try convincing an iOS or Android fan that MS actually built a spectacular user interface... all you hear is marketshare numbers.
I can't verify this, but unless you installed Helvetica manually, windows installations won't have it and will fall back to whatever is specified next in the family (usually Arial or the default Sans Serif).
Sadly, a lot of speed limits aren't set according to government standard 85th percentile, and local governments are easily swayed to lower speed limits just with a few letters from citizens, no study needed.

That's when you get things like 6 lane divided roads with a 50km/h speed limit. Just excruciatingly slow.
No, actually the only reason is "its not a language programmers want to use".

It is very much non shitty.

Its just that lots of programmers, especially OO minded cannot get into its mindset, and use it for what it is, they have to put a lame OO abstraction on top.

Functional programmers shoud fare better in this regard (or Prolog programmers, if they still exist).

If you really want to abstract it, something like LINQ is a better way.
I can imagine a negative resistor as a piece of wire that is substituted in a circuit of less resistance than the standard wire.

I cannot think what would actually happen if that was to be the case. Perhaps the reflectivity would change in some weird way.
The major danger on highways is difference in speed between cars ("variable traffic"), it's much safer to go with the flow of traffic. Absolute speed has little to do with it.

Additionally, speed limits are set for the benefit of police (increasing ticket costs) and for the benefit of politicians who can now say they are "making roads safer".

Case in point: the Autobahn http://autos.aol.com/article/driving-the-autobahn/

(but I am also still welcoming driverless cars! I'm okay getting places slower if it means I can read or study.)
Would be interesting if someone implemented CoffeeScript using this.
Check out a circuit called a 'negative impedance converter'. Gunn and tunnel diodes also exhibit negative differential resistances at some operating points.
Piracy isn't stealing; it's copyright infringement and often a contract violation. Using metaphors for complicated legal issues is not a good way to approach things.
Chris, I think you missed the part that they don't know why the app is considered immoral. They're just making a guess that it's that particular message. If they take it out, and the app is still immoral, then what?
So if the community (through an influx of new users) decides that the purpose of HN is to spread cat pictures and memes, you'll be cool with that?
It's funny how people's definition of stealing versus copying changes when it's their own skin in the game. Or at least when it involves the ecosystem they use...
Just like the PC. Funny how they manage to do this all over again.

Apple will go bankrupt again in the 2030's until around 2039 when Jobs gets re-animated...to squander whatever the next big opportunity will be.
Because a half and second here and a half a second there, and soon we're talking weeks.

Plus, the statement is not only meaningful, but also very expressive.
Malaysian here. We do have a large, extremely devout conservative demographic here, so I can see why Microsoft would choose to be on the safe side. Plenty of foreign artistes were banned from holding concerts here due to perceived lack of morals.

On the other hand, our newspapers regularly publish raunchier content without much fanfare.

It's a fascinating place really.
The way people here go about disagreeing with one another is perhaps my favorite part of hacker news.
Its not really important what speed driverless cars actually settle on. What matters is that they are consistent. The most dangerous thing about human drivers is that they are erratic.

I would not be at all surprised in the coming world of robo-cars to find that humans who still wanted to drive themselves will need special licensing and training, much like pilots of today, if nothing more than to learn to be predictable.
Does it make any difference if you wrap the executable in a zip file, or does IE look inside the zip file and raise an alarm anyway?
I think Dropbox did well enough financially and technically, so that the team doesnt need pedantic advice on professionalism...
It depends on the app but at least in the areas I work (business apps relating to tracking money) I wouldn't assume that device authentication is sufficient.

But for biometrics, keep in mind that biometric systems are currently seen as the most subject to false positives of any authentication system out there with the possible exception of improperly maintained and insufficiently strong passwords.
Taking up more space with the same mass is the definition of lower density.
keep covering saying every bicameral is the same
That's gotta be a good feeling. Knowing something you wrote has worked flawlessly for 3 decades, even if it is something trivial.
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> And this is on the Samsung Galaxy 3 the supposed flagship phone.

The Galaxy S3 was never the "supposed flagship phone." I don't know where you heard that, but whoever told you was wrong. The only "flagship" phones for Android are the Nexus phones.
Has anyone tried to write a scheme interpreter?
Your Mac number is not far off from Apple's Mac percentage in the US - 12%.
About damned time they did something. Still ugly and looks like a sitebuilder template, but at least they've made it to 2006 at last.
This isn't very smart.

Most delays and jams and other various issues drivers deal with are a result of human error. Suppose a driver on a highway slows down because {they see something interesting, their kid acts up, life happens}. This makes the car immediately behind them slow down. And the car behind that slows down. It's been shown that this forms a wave that propagates backwards at 12 mph or so. The fact is, this delay is caused by a human mistake/issue.

In a world in which every car drives "optimally", or at least without many of the human error mistakes that currently are made, many traffic jams will be a thing of the past. Many issues will cease to exist any any issues that do exist will be ameliorated and fixed by a machine that can do it better than most humans (or at least, the average joe) can. Perhaps one will be able to drive at the speed limit the entire distance from source to sink if the traffic grid is integrated into the network.

The transition to the post-driver road, however, will be difficult.
Apple manages to struggle along with equally "offensive" jokes in Siri.
Why is this the top comment? Did you even click the link? 54.6 != 36.3. Not even almost equal...

Also, don't knock it till you try it.
People often say this. It seems defensive. Basically if the iPhone has higher sales or market share, you can say "Ha, this one phone is beating everything!" And if it's losing in either of those areas, you can say "But it's only one phone!" Also can't you get an iPhone 4 for $99 and a 3GS for $0?

Keep in mind the iPhone is the only phone with iOS, so if you want to get an iOS phone, the iPhone is your only choice. You're not necessarily supposed to be impressed with these Android numbers - but if you aren't, you probably shouldn't be impressed when tides temporarily turn and iPhones are winning in these numbers, either. It's not just one device vs many, it's one OS vs one other OS.
It's quite possible that the building was special and did have an effect that was lost when people tried to replicate it. Trying to replicate things is usually a losing game.

For example, I bet they didn't replicate its temporariness or the fact that you could make holes in it.
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I worked with Jennifer in the 1990s and even then she stood out as a classy person.
Windows 8 -- sorry if you bought into WP7... But this time...
Where is Foursquare going?
I've tried in a second-tier country (Germany) and in an obscure country (Taiwan). While I have never entered an Apple Store, at least I have received solid and free service by all authorized resellers so far.
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I can't speak for other countries, but for Malaysia, that sentence alone probably won't get the app into any trouble.

I have a feeling this is a case of somebody at Microsoft erring too much on the side of caution.
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I wrote a paper published in an IEEE journal describing this mechanism.

http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?reload=tru...

http://www.kirit.com/A%20simple%20password-less%20authentica...
Very cool, thanks for linking me to this!
That's not copyright law. Copyright law governs the right to make copies and distribute copies. Use of a copy you legally acquired can only possibly be restricted by a license agreement; contract law.
I think you're describing asymmetric warfare. Study of countermeasures for asymmetric warfare would be fertile ground for learning how to counteract the trolls.

I'm not a real student of this, but off the top of my head the techniques used in real asymmetric warfare include:

* Buying off the enemy (pallets of $100 bills to Afghanistan)

* Drone strikes (perhaps not quite yet feasible, although domestic drone usage is increasing and no doubt gives corporate legal teams hope)

* Win the hearts and minds of the locals (equivalent: raise awareness in the judiciary so they no longer give aid and comfort to trolls)

* Supply them with arms (have them do your bidding by harassing competitors in exchange for not harassing you further)

* Legalize it (stop drug cartels by taking the economic incentive away from their profit center--in this case, change law to strip away their incentives)

What else?
There was a fun blog post several years ago, which has stuck with me ever since, and I think about it every time I'm stuck in a traffic jam. It was a one-man experiment in "fixing" traffic jams, by willfully slowing to the point where he no longer had to stop/start and could maintain a steady speed. He found that traffic behind him would "unkink", making the drive for everyone behind him a bit more pleasant/safe/consistent. He also found that many drivers would become angry at him, because he was going slower than the cars around him...but the cars around him were speeding up only to have to stop soon after to wait for traffic. Many people are, frankly, too stupid to be in control of a couple thousand pounds of rolling death...but, it'll be a challenge to get people to give up that control.

Hopefully, the ability to read, play games, watch TV, etc. while being driven to work will be sufficient to make people willing to let their smart cars take over the roads. As you note, traffic jams will become a thing of the past in most cases; self-driving cars can also factor in traffic data, weather information, etc. in ways that a human driver probably can't easily/effectively do, making them safer and more efficient in a lot of other regards.
I've heard of alarms on wheels that run away from you but that takes the cake.
You're right, I am an Apple fan. OS X has done amazing things for my productivity since I switched and I've done a tremendous amount of "creating" on the device people say is only for consumption (the iPad.) When my iMac had an issue, Apple paid a guy to drive 4 hours across state lines to fix it for me so I wouldn't have to wait for shipping. When my iPod died, Apple gave me a better one. Apple has earned my trust.

Google on the other hand has not. When my Gmail account was hacked I couldn't even find a contact for Google. Everything I read from 3rd parties said it was an exploit on the mobile Gmail website and yet Google wasn't going to look in to it, instead they had support docs that said it was probably my fault. Later, as an early Google+ evangelist, I had my account locked down because my wife and I were sharing the same Google account. Again, no way to contact. I've come to accept that Google doesn't give a shit about any individual customer and so I don't bother supporting them in any way.

As far as Android, I just don't care. No matter how good the Android OS gets, I care more about the 3rd party apps I'll be using. I've purchased a lot of great software from amazing developers that simply isn't available on Android. This is particularly an issue with tablet apps.
Reality distortion field?

http://www.loopinsight.com/2012/07/10/apple-responds-to-epea...

If the statements made are true, then there really is a problem with epeat. Just cause a company has many products certified, it doesn't mean that company is more green than Apple.

Interesting quotes:

"Companies like Dell have 171 products listed on EPEAT, but yet if you look on Dell’s Web site, none of their computers are even Energy Star Compliant."

"By its own admission, the EPEAT certifications are old.

“Part of it is expanding EPEAT’s global reach through the multiple certification [process]; as well as moving into new, additional products; as well as updating the EPEAT [certifications], because they’re a little long in the tooth. [Each of those] is a huge project on its own,” Christine Ervin, an EPEAT board member told GreenBiz in March."

"The hubbub over Apple pulling out of EPEAT is interesting because the products that were listed as gold products by the environmental organization are the same ones Apple is currently selling."