skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While the microphone and buttons (if any) fit well on device's edges, I wonder how do they provide earpiece? Do they drill a hole through the display, or is it some sort of flat panel speaker? The later probably would be bad for privacy.
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I also noticed this

A spokesman for LG at CeBIT said that the product may come with other connectivity solutions, however, including possibly a "PDA style slot" for mobile phones.

which reminded me of

http://www.pcworld.com/article/228977/asus_padfone_combines_...
$26K for kickstarter prize fulfillment, really? Why so high?
He was chosen, but not at random off of the street. This was an exclusive program that he earned his spot in.

Beyond that there's the philosophical question. The tallest tree in the forest owes everything to genetics and environment. Is the same thing true for great men? I say yes, but that doesn't diminish his example for me. He was still a great man.
Why High-Tech Companies Are Moving to the City
It's definitely refreshing to see someone speaking out against blatant abuse of power by Homeland Security on these effective takeovers with no due process.
Apple supporters - Please understand that this is a clear abuse of patents by Apple more than anything else. Why? Because, the phones they are suing right now (Galaxy S3, Galaxy Note) are phones that have been designed to NOT look like the iPhone (as Apple had alleged earlier) nor use any of their technologies. This is clearly to stiffle innovation and competition by unethical means, by abusing the patent system. What's disheartening is that Samsung actually spent considerable effort to make these phones look different (Heck, one of them even has a stylus, something Steve Jobs himself was against) and yet they still find Apple suing them.

What are the patents that Apple is using to sue Samsung against?

The four new patents Apple is leveraging against Samsung include the '647 "Data Detectors" patent, the '721 "Slide-to-unlock" property, the '172 "Word completion" invention and the '604 "Universal search" patent.

All of them Bullshit.

Understand this, my fellow HN'ers, make no mistake, this is a threat for the entire Start-up community. Tomorrow you might be sued for the same BS reasons if you started a phone company as well (Sorry for repeating this, but I feel it's important). This is one of the primary reasons why we don't see hardware-based start-ups - Because of the fear of being sued by monopolies like Apple. If you would like to show your support, please consider boycotting Apple. There is strength in numbers. Please show your support.

And my only message to Apple is - Fuck you, Apple. Its only a matter of time until you will collapse for all the unfair BS you have done to us, as a community.

Thanks for reading.
The retina macbook appears to have problems with image retention
"Well, I wanted to be a part of a big conversation, so I wrote an inflammatory blog piece last week to see if I could elbow my way into it. And I was successful at that."

So Youngstown. (I grew up there)
Google+ Is Going After Yammer To Flank Facebook
If you've got a lot of donors I can imagine it adding up. Everyone who chucked in $50 or whatever for a sticker or t-shirt wants the thing, plus there's mailing, plus getting people to pack the things into the envelopes/parcels, getting the addresses on them, all that stuff.
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Apple is being sued by Motorola.
http://techcrunch.com/2012/08/20/motorolas-new-patent-lawsui...
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As your first task we'll probably get you to do some bug-fixes and feature work
on Polipo (an open source HTTP proxy) and you would be pushing your patches
upstream.
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>It's actually the law for Apple to make as much money as possible given any legal and ethical way it can.

A corporation has a fiduciary duty to act in the best interest of its shareholders, but I think this fact is greatly overstated. Since "best interest" is such a flexible and uncertain concept, most cases where people bring this up are not really the "legal imperative to be assholes" that they believe. By suing Samsung over this, Apple has risked triggering an all out patent war between the major players in the mobile market which could end up costing them tremendous legal fees and may wound them grievously if any of the ensuing lawsuits were not decided in their favor. Suppose Apple had not taken to Samsung to court over these patents. Does it really seem plausible to you that the shareholders would sue Apple's board of directors, and win?

But assuming that corporations are legally expected to perfectly predict the future and optimize for their shareholders' interests, a boycott would still be warranted. If we let companies see that acting like a bully will hurt their bottom line, then those companies will be legally compelled to act in the interest of their shareholders by not being bullies.
The Philosophy of it All.
Mine has quite bad IR, 20 seconds is enough.

Given a full minute I can easily read the entire page on a #444 background.
I'm curious why you do not run debian and install openbox? What does crunchbang add to the miox?

not trolling, genuinely curious
humans have time. that is a form of capital.

humans have needs.

there is no shortage of customers.

before currencies, there is trade. who is the customer in a trade before currency? it's an exchange, not a purchase by a customer from a seller.
google has also flatlined recently: https://www.google.com/trends/?q=google

is it not possible that the internet has reached capacity, that companies like Facebook and Google are never going to be in a position to add 100/200 million users a year any more?
"Microsoft won that one, despite loosing." (sic)

please explain?
It is non-blocking and executed within Nginx itself so it is supposed to be very fast. The Lua work has been done by Chinese engineers from Taobao and Weibo which obviously get a huge amount of traffic.
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Seriously, WTF, Apple. They pass this but rejected another Torrent control program (for the more popular Transmission) http://www.iphonefreak.com/2009/05/apple-rejects-transmissio...
Best paired with:

http://www.cookingissues.com/2012/06/08/tokyo-tales-300-of-s...

Dave Arnold from Cooking Issues writing up a trip to Sukiyabashi Jiro.
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Well, it is largely HTML5, so it may not be emulated.
sorry to say, but couldn't you have thought about that before posting it on HN? you're on the front page, if your site really runs without caching, you must be wasting an enormous amount of WP's resources.
Still- it was down for about 15 minutes (at least with my checks on downforeveryoneorjustme) Probably not the most productive of comments, on second thought.
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The one big question is not answered by the article.
Will they get a design patent for it?
They were sued and the jury found the U.S. case found no violations at all.
Z - Jump to directories that you actually use.
In Ruby can write `puts Object.new.inspect` to get something like `#<Object:0x7f88ded4cc68>`. Does that mean Ruby has pointers?

If you can't do math on it to access other parts of memory, it's not a pointer in the C sense.
He saved Gemini 8 from near-disaster due to a stuck thruster during the first ever US docking in space (with an Agena target satellite). He nursed an X-15 in after a test flight went wrong, setting a record along the way for the longest X-15 flight in the entire program (it bounced off the top of the stratosphere during re-entry and had to glide about a hundred miles further than normal to make the airfield). He was the LLTV test pilot -- the LLTV was the turbofan-powered test bed for the Lunar Excursion Module's descent control systems -- and survived an engine failure at low altitude, ejecting about 0.5 seconds before it became non-recoverable.

His list of hair-raising flight test achievements is remarkable; he was basically the best test pilot in the astronaut program for making split-second decisions when the shit hit the fan, and he'd also been the test pilot for the lunar lander. Do you need any more?

Start reading here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil_Armstrong

And pay attention to the stuff before Apollo 11.
Accurate remake of Pac-Man in JavaScript
I honestly don't understand what Apple is trying to do.

"I'm going to destroy Android, because it's a stolen product. I'm willing to go thermonuclear war on this."
I'm not sure I agree with your comment, but that is a very provocative article.

I wish he had framed it in terms other than whether these lives were "worth living", though.
"The Right Stuff" by Tom Wolfe has quite a bit on this topic. The answer seems to be habitualizing or "adapting out" fear. According to the book, when John Glenn was launched into space for the first time, the situation was so familiar that his heart rate held at around 70bpm.
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It's all good ... they can retrain in Ruby On Rails or Objective-C and become app entrepreneurs!
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Because people often ask, these threads do work. I got in touch with http://romotive.com after seeing them post in one, and am currently packing up to move to Las Vegas and go work on robots (!) with a great team of kindred spirits, only a few weeks after I first sent them a letter.

Good luck to searchers on both sides in finding your own perfect fit.
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I dual boot 12.04 on a Lenovo X230, very pleasurable experience. Great laptop overall. I've also used a W510 without any problems.
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I recommend samsung np900x3c-a01. It has actually better screen than MB Air.
Though you'll need to return preinstalled windows within 2 weeks from purchase.
The python example you linked to http://eli.thegreenplace.net/2010/06/30/python-internals-add..., which shows an example of adding an 'until' keyword, requires you to recompile the python interpreter. From your article: "After making all the changes and running make, we can run the newly compiled Python and try our new until statement". Of course you can extend any language by recompiling it and creating a new interpreter. That is exactly my point! Perl lets you achieve the same thing simply by using a module from CPAN.

I don't think you have been paying attention to what I have been saying. You keep mentioning that python has strong meta-programming. I never said anything about meta-programming. Perl, python, ruby, everybody can do meta-programming. I said that Perl lets you easily modify the core language grammar via 3rd party modules. This is an extremely powerful feature, if you took a second to think about it.
I didn't know about the Weibo connection.

It is a very fast module, and non-blocking, but just as importantly it provides the flexibility to avoid sending requests from Nginx to slow backend servers (Ruby, Python, whatever) at all. In real-life situations, this is the most important bit.

As I said in another thread, we've done some good work to tie this in with our Rails app. We now page cache almost every important request, even for logged in users. This means Rails and our databases are protected from most spikes of traffic. I would like to write a post describing this in more detail, I need to think how to get it across though.
Yesterday's discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4459958
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Taking a published statement from someone and attributing it as if it were an interview, with the words "this person said to me", is not "tidying up". It's lying.
I'm in the same sore spot with a Put.IO (http://put.io ) iOS client I've been writing. I think it could be luck of the draw based on who is reviewing at the time.
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A lot of engineers don't get evolution because engineers tend to think there is one best way to do something. How could evolution ever discover the "answer," they think? This is endlessly reinforced in school. You get right answers and wrong answers on tests, but that's because school tests are toy problems not real problems. In reality there are better answers and worse answers and worse-is-better answers and ugly-hack-to-ship answers.

But think about the Church-Turing thesis a bit, and universal computation, and it becomes obvious that there are infinitely many ways of solving any arbitrary problem. They aren't all created equal, but there are also paths between them. Evolution works by discovering one answer and then following pathways through the fitness landscape to converge on better and better answers. Sometimes it actually does discover global optimums, or sometimes it just settles on something that works well enough given all the trade-offs. (In some problem spaces there is no clear global optimum.)

But I see something more here. His opinions on gender are just batty. There is evidence for gender dimorphism in humans, but he takes that evidence and does a Forrest Gump run with it all the way off the field and into the bleachers. He also ignores huge numbers of counter-examples to his thesis and mistakes statistical means for universal laws.
I shorted from 31.50 down to 27 .. wish I held onto the position ...
I quite like my 15" Samsung 9, though there's room for improvement - the vertical angle on the screen is limited (horizontal is good), and the keyboard, while I'm used to it, could be a little quieter. I'm using Ubuntu 12.04 and have come to love the bomb, err, Unity. Only recently have I found settings that disable the touchpad while typing. I was planning to self upgrade it to a 256G SSD and 16G memory, but Samsung's recent showing of a new Series 9 with a 2560x1440 resolution matte 13" screen makes me think they'll probably have a 15" with improvements soon enough.
Agreed!

See: http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/android-and-users-freedom.html
yup, Iron man 2.
I think you may be talking past each other. C++ or D templates allow you to express (in a crude, verbose, error-prone way) some kinds of abstractions that are not expressible in Golang or ML. Not sure about C#.

There are certainly lots of abstractions you can express in Golang.
Why don't people from India or other countries post here?

Sorry for being off-topic but most of the companies here are from the USA.
IMHO, this is worse than any existing patent-troll. Patent trolls seek to force license agreements with practicing entities through litigation. They are, at worse, a serious annoyance.

Apple is seeking to entirely kill off an industry competitor from the marketplace (and their claims at being willing to license are disingenuous at best as the suggested publicly known license fees show). They are now a serious and terminal problem for the entire industry.

There was a brief moment a few months ago where I thought about buying some new Apple hardware, the new rMBP look delish. But now? Never mind. I'll wait till Samsung brings out a decent ultrabook with a high res display and give them my money directly.
I wonder if Apple and Samsung have some kind of deal where they sue each other for marketing purposes. It keeps them in the news, in blogs and in discussion forums. Few other products receive this magnitude of in-depth feature and style comparison. Samsung may have to pay one billion to Apple, but maybe they saved much more money that it otherwise would have had to spend on marketing.
I'm sure it can be helped, but I'm not sure if the kind of cool Neil Armstrong displayed can really be developed. If you want a good illustration of this, hang out with pilots and listen to their stories. I recall one pilot friend of mine, a flight instructor, describing an incident when he was guiding a student to landing in a small plane, when something malfunctioned and the plane started to tilt a hundred or so feet off the ground. My friend shouted "my plane" and took control, correctly diagnosed what had malfunctioned, and guided the plane to a safe landing.

Analyzing what happened afterwards, a few things were determined: first, given the altitude at which the malfunction occurred, my friend must have seen the problem, correctly diagnosed it, and acted in less than a second, and the total amount of time from when it offered until touchdown was something like four seconds. Second, this particular failure had occurred on this model of plane a handful of other times at such a low altitude, and had resulted in fatal crashes every other time.

So, being able to do that comes from a combination of a few things: tremendous rote training and knowledge of the plane, the ability to act calmly when your life is in peril, and an extremely efficient nervous system. Some of that can be developed, particularly the first one, and response to negative stimuli can probably be improved if you have time to think rationally, but in emergency circumstances like what an astronaut or a pilot go through, I have to say I think you're probably born that way, baby.
Lots of endorsers of Linux+Thinkpad. See my comment link below for my not-so-great experience running Ubuntu on an X220. I'll admit that I'm someone who just wants things to work (a mindset I probably owe to Apple).

tl;dr Fan spun constantly, machine ran hot, trackpad was basically non-functional. May just be X220-specific. Not sure.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4428967
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