skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Both Xperia S and HTC Rezound had 342 PPI, and were launched a long time ago:

http://www.gsmarena.com/sony_xperia_s-4369.php

http://www.gsmarena.com/htc_rezound-4099.php

And bragging about having 3 more PPI than the iPhone is just lame...just as bragging about having "better than HD" display because you have 48 extra pixels, is.
ShellJS looks great! Thank you.
Sounds great.

FYI - Never, ever simply walk into a dealership for anything but a test drive. You can avoid a lot of the car buying bullshit by getting your own financing and dealing strictly with an "Internet Sales" department.
As long as it is interstate commerce and Tesla maintains no business presence in a state, that state government can't regulate.
Ok perhaps Google will disappear as well? I can't say I use any of their products or services at all, so I'm not that bothered.

I don't have a problem with advertising.

I think the real issue here is that cookies are just shit.
Mind posting a link to a place with an 'Internet Sales' department?
UEFI Secure boot in Fedora: status update
I did this with my BMW ~5 years ago. There are no import tarrifs or environmental problems. The car I bought there is 100% to USA spec and when I'm done with it I can sell it back to the dealer down the street and it is just the same as a car bought on US soil.

There is a huge forum just dedicated to BMW European delivery if you are interested and it helped me out a lot when I was researching this back then. Also someone there every year I believe posts the internal pricing for BMW US/Euro wholesale and with dealer markup so I just went to my local US dealer told him I would give him $1k above German wholesale and he filled out all the paperwork for me. I flew to Munich a few months later showed them my passport and off I went. It was great.

Link here: http://www.bimmerfest.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?s=68aa7500...
What is that bump in worldwide deaths around 1985?
Email died in the enterprise a decade or two ago; enterprises run on Exchange/Outlook now.
"Anyway, that's obviously not what Tesla is doing -- but they should. They should definitely have a California Delivery program. They probably already do."

They can't give the same discount (the discount stems from avoiding new car taxes).

But as an American example, Corvette has a program where you get to participate in the car building process and you take delivery in KY. What makes that program cool is that you get to see the heritage (the Corvette museum)
I use it, with Ghostery to avoid all the obvious ones. It's fine.
Both can still be true.

The majority of people do not die as children, but the effect of those who do is disproportionately large on "life expectancy" because it's an average.

Let's say that 23% of children die in their first year (true in Sweden in 1751). Let's say everyone else dies at 80. Life expectancy is 61.6 years.

Now let's say time passes and now 0.2% of children die in their first year (true in Sweden today) and everyone else dies at 80. Life expectancy is now 79.7 years. It jumped over 18 years (30%) with no one living any longer than before. Additionally, the percentage of children dying was never even 1/4 of the total, so the vast majority of people still died from other causes.

The point is that the linked chart represents numeric percentages of people dying, while life expectancy weights younger years much more heavily.

Most of the progress that has been made in life expectancy is from young children, but most of the progress in "what actually kills people" has been for older people.
I recall trying Netbook remix on my Aspire One and quickly reverting back to stock Android, but I can't remember what I didn't like about it. OTOH Cinnamon reminds me pleasantly of Gnome Classic but feels less hobbled, compared to the old Gnome desktop.
On the other hand, a financial crisis probably won't make for a more enjoyable cityscape. But given that I was there 2003, the property bubble might have improved the architecture of the city a bit before it burst…

Total cost of living was pretty high, and I'm coming from one of the more expensive regions in Europe. I'll definitely have to visit again. A callcenter job and depressed Scandinavian roomates probably colored my impressions a bit…
Wow, that's actually quite well done. A bit over the top with some transitions and such, but looks pretty neat.
BMW is most known for their European Delivery program. The car you're purchasing is a model made for the US market, you're just picking up your order at the factory instead of the dealership.

In fact, once BMW ships it to the states you normally pick it up at the dealership anyway. I believe some eager beavers pick it up at the New Jersey dock but I think most wait until the car is delivered and titled in your home state (and any shipping damage is discovered/rectified).
Same as when they decided to get into the social networking space, FAIL! Since they just don't get it....it being getting laid.
4.5-inch PureMotion HD+ display, dual-core 1.5GHz Snapdragon S4 CPU, 2,000mAh battery, NFC, integrated wireless charging and an 8-megapixel rear PureView camera capable of 1080p video. The display packs WXGA (1,280 x 768) resolution, is 25 percent brighter than the next best panel on the market and it's the fastest LCD that Nokia has ever shipped on a smartphone.

What...on Earth...does this all mean?!? Consumers don't care about any of this. I'm tech savvy and I still don't know why having a 8MP camera makes pictures look any better? Furthermore, I have no idea what my iPhone has in terms in Megapixels, so I have nothing to compare it to...
Wireless charging comes three years after Palm.
Apple have sponsored some major useful things that the BSDs now use e.g. LLVM/Clang.
Nokia has said that PureView is the new kind of optical image stabilization, not the megapixels on the sensor. It's not misleading, you're just not understanding it correctly. The high MP count was part of the 808 PureView, but it wasn't what defined it as a PureView. The optical image stabilization was. The 41-MP sensor was just Nokia showing off.

http://www.theverge.com/2012/9/5/3293041/nokia-lumia-920-pur...
OK, you could in theory, but it'd be stupid to base your currency on a country you just separated from, unless you wanted to be completely beholden to their economic policy.
58% say it's the Doodles that keep them using Google
Optical image stabilization in Lumia 920
> Any real software business is happy to upgrade from the 28/mo plan to the 39/mo plan if it gets even the tinniest benefit.

But I'm not referring to benefits, I'm referring to "bragging rights". Say your company was utilizing a SaaS that offered a "Freelancer" tier and an "Agency" tier (where "Freelancer" costs less and offers less than "Agency"). Now if your company's needs could be serviced by the limits of the "Freelancer" tier would you pay more for the "Agency" tier just for the prestige of saying you pay for the "Agency" tier? No, you wouldn't. However that does happen with suits (or watches or luxury cars or other luxury goods), it's signalling.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signalling_(economics)
Reduced mortality from heart disease seems to account for essentially all the mortality reduction. How are we reducing deaths so much in the face of rising obesity, etc.?
Show HN: Create Obama or Romney speeches with Speechmix
Mathematical Olympiad Dark Arts
More value in inbound links than outbound links?

The environment sets the context of the content. But your content may appear different when viewed from a different aspect (under a different context.)

A piece of content barely stands on it's own, that's the charm of the web. It's an endless task trying to atomise it.
Dying is one of the most important things a person can do. I was in the airport last week sitting near a little fog-tornado machine and guess which age group was curious enough to go over to it and mess with it? Only the kids. The grumpy old men were angrily waiting for their flight, the stressed-out moms telling their kids to be quiet, and all the people my age were mesmerized by their phones.

Over time we get too world-weary and cynical. How many innovative startups that push us forward are started by people over 50, or even 40 for that matter?
I haven't received mine. Ordered 17 July 2012, despatch expected within 11 weeks but still no feedback from RS.
Sorry, you are NOT tech savvy if you don't know the pixel count of the phone you own.

Edit: i meant the camera mpx and not screen resolution. If you dont know tha your 8mpx camera phone has 8mpx camera, you are NOT tech savvy.
I did, after rather a long wait (I ordered in early May, and it came in early July). After the excitement wore off I installed OpenELEC and it now sits in my front room, working pretty damn well as a media centre.
This is really scary.

If Nokia goes out of business and its patent portfolio ends up in the hands of a patent troll, there will be an effective entry barrier in the smartphone market (because every current smartphone maker probably has a cross-licensing agreement in place, only new players will be affected).

My bet is Microsoft will acquire what's left of Nokia and use patents offensively against competitors where the CLA's don't cover them, but, even if they decide not to do so, life will get a lot more dangerous in this space.

If that's the case, I hope Google acquires them. The peace of mind not to have that IP in Microsoft's hands is worth a lot of money.
How to make a sci-fi flick for $5,000
You cannot have your... cookie and eat it (sorry for a bad pun). Many useful features simply require some persistent state.
Liberator - Clojure REST library
iOS ships the darwin libc. Does it use any other major components? I'm pretty sure I remember there being no unix userspace available on iOS. Note that the stuff you quote are kernel features. And again, it's really not a BSD kernel; it has BSD roots, but they're back in the 1980's. There's no relationship between the existing projects and the Free/OpenBSD open source work.
For that well-run land-of-Theory coal plant, you'll want to look at what the net costs of all that scrubbing and sequestering are on a per-MWh basis. While sequestering CO2 is possible, it also consumes a large share of the power output of the plant.

I'll share your assessment of the risks of plant damage -- in the case of coal, it's normal operations which are a risk, in the case of nuclear, it's abnormal operations which pose the greatest risk. We're starting to get sufficient baseline data to have a sense of nuclear's actual risks (though some, such as long-term waste storage still haven't been resolved).

The biggest risks, as I see it, with nuclear are actually organizational. Tepco, Hanford, and Chernobyl are all cases in point: managerial incompetence or malfeasance have resulted in hugely damaging events or consequences. A large part of this managerial threat can be attributed to the very high concentration of value that a nuclear plant poses. At roughly 18 GWh annual production rom a typical plant, that's $1-2 billion in annual retail electrical revenues -- a pretty substantial turnover.
The introduction of New Coke!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Coke
We've been thinking about it. We might too it at some point, that's a great idea.
Off topic, but if I get one more modal popup on a website I'm going to scream. Are javascript modals the new popup?
I don't know, actually using the phones, it's very easy and quick to scan through the screens and actually use the interface. The screens are usually very simple and light. If you don't have the blocks you have a simple list, or a screen with very little chrome held together by typography and whitespace. So blockiness can be good. Web site usability books are always saying people scan sites, they don't read them.

I do think it is kind of ugly actually, but it's so damn usable I like it anyway. Before Windows 8 I'd always turn off all the special effects like Aero and have a dull gray bar that just worked snappy on my Desktop. Finally with Windows 8 I can tolerate the defaults.

And the scrolling is so buttery smooth, even on the phones since 7, that Android didn't catch up until JellyBean.
I appreciate it, thanks for catching that :)
Thanks for the leads! I will check those out. If you don't mind my asking, what made you quit your blog?
Every dealership that I've talked to for the past 5 years or so has had one (albeit, typically the "department" is one person at the dealers around here).
One in 2.4 million means you are unambiguously uniquely identified out of 2.4 million clients, which is the exact opposite of untraceable. If your browser fingerprint was similar to 2.4 million other browser fingerprints, then you would be untraceable.

1 in 2.4m is being similar to ~150 other Americans. Not good odds for hiding among the crowd once non-client browser specific identifying clues are taken into account, such as browsing habits. 1 in 2.4m is being similar to ~400 other facebook users, and facebook knows a lot more about its users than just the client browser fingerprint.
"programmers like neat little boxes, and especially boxes within boxes within boxes. For some reason. Regular human beings on the other hand, tend to think linearly, which is why the Windows explorer for example has tried in a few different ways to flatten the file system hierarchy for the user."

Regular people think in terme of boxes-inside-boxes as well. They'll know, for example, that the dog food is kept in a sealed plastic container in the bottom drawer of the leftmost cupboard in the kitchen. That's a four level hierarchy, just for the dog food. Same goes for books, clothes, the vacuum cleaner, the band-aids - hell, pretty much everything.

Hierarchies are how we keep information sets small and manageable. Removing that does not simplify things; it's more like just lumping everything you own into a big pile on the floor and searching through hundreds of items every time you need something.
I just love how they are calling it HD+, because it has a 1280x768 resolution instead of 1280x720. Was that really worth a whole new marketing term?
You cannot jailbreak Android devices. Android devices usually come pre-jailbroken (able to run arbitrary software) out of the box.

What you mean is getting root access to the linux system that android is based on. Which is a cool hack, but not similar to a jail brake.
Not to mention their definition of "Global" is a little odd/dishonest ("Gloabal = OECD")!
Jessica Roy from BetaBeat wrote about it this morning, she helps explains things a little better http://betabeat.com/2012/09/status-chart-the-resume-porn-for...

I will update the site in a bit with some copy, I forgot to add that :/
i checked out the site, and still don't know what it does. participate and discovery are buzzwords.
Yes we had to close the doors. Thanks to everybody who supported us.

P.S. Could the poster maybe remove my cell phone number? Thx
>Drynk.me is the easiest way to catalog, share, and discover alcoholic beverages. From beer, cosmos to ‘on the rocks’, see what friends and followers are experiencing and saying about their drinks. The platform will allow users to post pictures and/or videos with a geo-location tag of the drink they are enjoying and add their thoughts about with the option to push it through to other social spheres.

Good lord, does EVERYTHING have to be a geotagged social experience?
Indeed the commercialisation of the web is tawdry. I'm surrounded by a sea of bullshitters too. The scientific aspect of the web - it's honesty and naivity have been lost.

I still think there is room for the semantic web, to put right these wrongs - not sure about how you actually achieve that though.
Reading a lot of anti WP sentiment, and much of it directed at WP8 (surprising, because Microsft hasn't really revealed anything about it yet). That said, the Lumia 920 is without a doubt my next phone. Granted, I'm in a position where price means nothing to me, so the deciding factors are wireless charging, NFC, offline maps (not the pseudo-variety Google offers), PureView (even if it's only a 5Mp camera I'm betting it'll still outdo anything else in a smart phone).

I accept that no two people share the same view.
It's not iOS, UILayer, and UIView, but Blossom[1] supports an equivalent, canvas-based development model and hardware-accelerated layers and transitions in the browser, based on Apple's SproutCore MVC framework.

It would work well with mrdoob's editor, and it's all JavaScript (no HTML or CSS to deal with).

[1] https://github.com/fohr/blossom
I think the point of the article (which wasn't very clear; maybe Adam Davidson should stick to radio) was that even at a price most of us would consider expensive, this guy doesn't make much money. And the reason is that, as the modern economy makes everything else cheaper, things that depend upon people's labor get relatively more expensive.

So bespoke suits have gone from being a huge part of the suit industry to being a tiny part of it (not non-viable, just not very important). If bespoke tailors want to keep from becoming ever more expensive/niche, Davidson speculates, they will have to adopt at least some labor-saving techniques.

Note your solution--raising prices--is exactly what Davidson is annoyed about. As tailors raise prices, fewer and fewer people can buy bespoke suits. Which is bad. I'd like a custom-built suit, but I definitely won't bet getting one.

You've jumped into this assuming Davidson is writing about a business problem. But I think he's coming at it from a consumer point of view. He doesn't spend a lot of time trying to figure out if the bespoke tailor can raise prices because, well, higher prices reduce consumer surplus, so that doesn't solve the problem he's concerned with.
Thanks Fabian. We will keep you in the loop.
What is the purpose of this website? The landing page doesn't make it very clear why I might want to sign up.

Poking around the about page I found a link to the founder's status chart (why isn't that link on the main page as a sample?) and at least I can see what it does, but it seems like it would only be useful for folks who attend a lot of meetups or do a lot of conferences.

As it turns out I'm one of those people, but I'm still not quite sure why I might want to use this.
Stability without State
So I'm not sure if I'm slow or what, but I'm not getting any of the Tomorrow or Base16 Textmate themes to import into Aptana. Imported a few other .tmThemes and they work fine. Any ideas?
TechCrunch tends to only cover startups for a reason. They won't just say "This startup exists". They'll say you reach a certain number of users, raise money or do a deal with a major partner. Why should they cover that a new social app or dashboard has launched? TheNextWeb does a little more of this but still this is how journalism works.
Thanks for the example. Receiving a patch does let you know just what change the user intended to make, and often you actually care about the change, not the before or after.

As I keep looking at this, it seems that it's most valuable when you consider the patch as an element of an event-based system, where you're storing or operating on changes rather than just the data. The reason it helps with a bulk editing process is that you want to know what changes Alice and Bob made if they both submit at the same time - operating on diffs simplified the system. For other systems where you operate on diffs, like an audit log, it's helpful to have a first-class format that defines the diff on a JSON document.

I think that's the biggest caveat I'm seeing with the proposal. It's pitched as a way to handle HTTP PATCH requests, but a format that defines "diffs on JSON documents" is most suited for systems that primarily store JSON documents and diffs on JSON documents - it is much less broadly applicable for "HTTP servers that accept JSON data", since frequently they only work with JSON over the wire, not as the ultimate source of truth. If you don't store JSON documents as the ultimate source of truth or have a domain-model reason to want diffs, I'm unsure of the advantage.
You know, I tried centering it and it looked "off" to me. Just my eye, though. I'd be curious if others feel the same. Anyone else's thoughts?
Thanks, that makes it much clearer, pretty good concept and nice domain name.
Storage Wars: A 3-Way NAS Round-up with Thecus, QNAP and Netgear
I ordered mine the day after it went on sale. Two months ago I got am email saying it was being shipped out and should be here within 12 weeks. Last week I got an email saying it was delayed another 8 weeks. This really depresses me that they're talking about Rev1 production coming to an end and Rev2 production ramping up when they can't even fulfill their existing orders.
> "Hackers aren't necessarily smart, but operate from a set of well-known principles, Graham said. "If I have an e-mail list of victims, and a new 0day appears, I'm immediately going to phish with it. It's not Chinese uber APT hackers, it's just monkeys mindless following a script," he said."

Define "hacker" and "smart." This is a mostly-useless article with little-to-no actual information in it. Oh, but the title claims to say how Anon stole Apple UDIDs, so now its on the front page of HN.

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I use Debian, but the tool I use (DejaDup) is also available in Ubuntu:

https://live.gnome.org/DejaDup

https://launchpad.net/deja-dup

It's duplicity, but with easy graphical configuration. I previously used command-line duplicity with a custom Bash script, but realized that the program had matured substantially since I last tried it in 2008.
The ratio of social companies to success must be crazy. So many more people building Foursquare for X instead of building the next Kickstarter, Square, Skype or Spotify. Kickstarter isn't that crazy of an idea or even to build but people are instead building niche mobile social apps.
That's a really astute observation. I've heard of people doing this before, but didn't realize that the whole auto-vacation was about a tax dodge. Really interesting.
This baby is going to sell hundreds if not a thousand units.
8 is enough megapixels, but will it have the proper flash of some of the pre-windows nokia models? That's the one thing I really miss from modern smartphones.
It's such a shame that the guys at Raspberry Pi can't communicate very well.

This is fantastic news, but where's the picture? the schematic?

There's a massive thread on the future Camera Module. Once a day or so, someone says "Can we have an update please?". The response: "In Development." Snooze.
Sweden Tops Berners-Lee Internet Index
Direct benefit of drastically increasing pricing to best fit offering to profit curve: ability to hire skilled labor to accelerate delivery of offering to customers.
Take a look at http://opensignalmaps.com/reports/fragmentation.php

Android manufacturers & carriers have little incentive to get you to upgrade [Apple sidesteps them and delivers updates directly]. Do you want to target a several-years-old platform to guarantee the most access?

Screen sizes are also a challenge. iOS (iPhone + iPad) has 4 different ones to choose from. Android has... a lot more than that.

Fluid layouts usually don't work that well -- awkward spacing here, awkward wrapping there. Notice how many web frameworks use fixed-width columns (like Twitter Bootstrap).
Yeah they've shipped tens of thousands of them.
The problem is any XML schema would be influenced by the opinions of the creator of the schema so you couldn't do a diff and get equally weighted values.
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Escaping is difficult to get right, especially in PHP... witness things like magic quotes that existed for so long.

The right thing to do is provide an output capturing API that does not require escaping because it takes a list of strings passed to the exec(2) system call.
>How many innovative startups that push us forward are started by people over 50, or even 40 for that matter?

This has been discussed quite a bit on HN but most successful startups are run by people >40, the young hip megastartup is somewhat of a myth (not that's it's stopping anyone).