skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Good point, that would be the 'proof of life' in this case (at least for Romney and PwC).
> I don't think anyone was saying that there's no need to increase pixel density in 2000 or 2005, at least not to me.

Well, there's that Apple marketing page that in 2004 said 100 ppi was the "ideal resolution" (http://web.archive.org/web/20041011130432/http://www.apple.c...). I'm sure internally they wouldn't have minded a 220 ppi MBPwRd display with around 100 ppi effective, but they weren't saying that - they were saying higher density causes eye strain.

> Can you even focus 1mm in front of your eyes? I can't, but I'm old.

Arbitrarily small distance. Vast majority of people physically can't hold a screen that close in front of their face, so a "retina at 1 mm" display would be retina for all feasible uses - unlike the current "retina at 25 cm."
Why should internal tools be ugly? Well designed tools help people work better and more efficiently—putting a little bit of thought into them is not a waste of time.
"We, Silktide include [sic], have not only done fuck all to solve the problem"

You mean apart from creating the most popular, free, open source solution for complying with the law?

http://silktide.com/cookieconsent

Or proposing alternative solutions that might actually work:

http://blog.silktide.com/2012/09/fixing-a-broken-cookie-law/

Or creating a free information site to help people comply?

http://silktide.com/cookielaw

Or debating the nuances of how the law might be interpreted for the past 18 months?

http://blog.silktide.com/2011/05/cookie-law-makes-most-uk-we...

http://blog.silktide.com/2011/05/can-we-use-analytics-with-t...

http://blog.silktide.com/2012/02/cookie-law-analytics-are-il...

I'm hardly alone in my opinion of this law. Read any number of technical or legal opinions on the matter:

Wired - http://bit.ly/lJQs4x
The Guardian - http://bit.ly/mQKOnv
OutLaw - http://bit.ly/6VZgd
TechCrunch - http://tcrn.ch/JC15c3

and they're virtually unanimous: this law is a total clusterfuck.
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Twilio Queue
I usually don't try to comment on the ideas. I can frankly never tell the difference between a hit and a miss.
This is why I like browsing the diversity of kickstarter.
>> "Still, it's a new kind of gatekeeper, and it holds the keys to a platform used by millions of people around the world. While not as horrifyingly Orwellian as it could be, the fact that the biggest company in U.S. history makes decisions about which content is too "objectionable" for its customers is unsettling."

I am forever bewildered by consumers that have this sense of entitlement around a company and "demand" this action or that action.

It's their company. They can do whatever they want. If you don't like it, that's great. Dissenting opinions are a foundation of this great country. But Apple also deserves the right to not care what you think, and not care if you go somewhere else. The majority of consumers have no problem with it.

If Apple wanted to wall of the entire platform, they could do that. But instead they have created the biggest app market for mobile devices (from what I understand, please correct me if this is not 100% accurate, but the point remains it's huge). Does it suck that a few apps are rejected for seemingly dubious reasons? Sure, I guess it does for those developers. But I've been hearing dire warnings about mass exoduses and public outcries since the inception of the app store. Hasn't really happened besides a few edge cases that we see on Hacker News every other month or so.

To be honest, I feel that this particular app's story is only popular because it has to do with the politics of the drone program.

>> "Some consumers are already beginning to grow uncomfortable with Facebook's privacy policies, Google's targeted advertising, and other cases in which, whether justified or not, technology starts to feel a little creepy. Twitter takes protecting privacy and free speech very seriously, and even if most users don't notice or care yet, that stance will serve the company well as social media continues to part and parcel of our daily lives."

Got it. FB and Google evil. Twitter good.

Except that's not really true either. Twitter has worked with several law enforcement offices, particularly when identifying Occupy Wall Street protestors that were accused of crimes.

So I just don't find this article very credible on the facts, or the opinions persuasive at all.
I've owned a HTC One X; the camera was far inferior to the SIII's, while the screen was way better. Not happy about the tradeoff.
Well, let's just say then that they pushed a bit harder. The difference now, is previously I could have purchased a phone, and then in some indeterminate period of time in the future, upgraded to a new phone, and brought all my applications (and, much, much more importantly for most people - my familiarity with the platform) along with me. WP8 is pretty similar to WP7 in terms of GUI.

But now - I know what that new phone is going to look like - so buying todays phone is like buying the previous generation. Also - it was _demoed_ - so it feels like it's going to be released any day now...
A Problem With Equality
Hah. Yes, you have reached the edge of grey-land where the number of black and white statements become fewer and fewer. :-)

Yes this is entirely a function of your experience, so now that you know what can be done your ability to choose is compromised. Its funny because this happens with anything where there is a surplus of the currency [1]. The short answer is that the next step on the journey is to prune meta-requirements. You have this endless tree stretching before you and you start writing the code where you put blocks in the group and you note how it would have to change if it would need something more complex and then you stub that off with a comment like:

# this only handles one level of grouping to group further
# will require a subclass for groups which identify the type
# and a method for invoking that groups display policies.

Then move on. People will be amazed when they come to you and say "Uh, we kind of want to group by color..." and you say "Ok" and then blam that change is in. Basically you build your potential into the structure of the code so that if any of these possibilities are realized you can do them quickly.
I think connecting a keyboard and mouse as well may significantly increase the odds of it failing, which is unfortunate given how the Foundation advertised it.
I think you make a great point here about the confusion that often gets put out there between data and analysis - a confusion which I'd say is implicit in the term big data as well (and hence I ran with - caveat, I'm the author).

As far as the problem with the term "intelligent data" - I think what you say is exactly true if you do data analysis one time; however, the issue is that for those of us running startups, we find ourselves doing analysis over and over - so intelligently selecting data (in a way that takes us less time together and leads to the same decisions) is a huge win. Read intelligent data as being data + intelligence - not a new type of data.

Likewise, the problem with asserting that more data is always better ignores how most companies are making decisions. At the end of the day, our analysis is completely meaningless without a new action. So a better analysis that doesn't get implemented is worth far less (nothing) than an analysis that gets implemented successfully and drives results.
Thanks for the heads up - I didn't know
It might. But out here in the Southwest, we don't dress like Saudis even though their garb is better suited to the climate. For a lot less than $4000 New Englanders could wear mountaineering suits and that would probably retain heat and repel the elements better than a suit, but I doubt that one's coming around either.

Ultimately it's just a cultural difference, and searching for rationality behind it isn't going to bear fruit.
"Dial *#06# for IMEI"

Does anyone know any other neat tricks like this?
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Am I the only one tired over how TorrentFreak will say anything, related or not, to try to confirm their bias? This aid was decided on for over 5 months ago, in march 2012 (http://www.sweden.gov.se/sb/d/574/a/94013), and it is obviously not the result of Sweden trying to get at Svartholm. But if you want to be believe it then please do...
They should tweak it so there are NO false positives. Maybe they miss a bunch of videos that have to be brought manually to their attention, but then at least the people playing by the rules are not punished.

The majority of copyright usage on Youtube is probably illegal or unsanctioned. Most of the time Youtube is doing the right thing and taking down bad videos.

But for the small number of people who are playing by the rules, and trying to do the thing they have asked us to do, you can't keep making them jump through hoops. They are punishing the good guys!
Author here. I wanted to explore the GBooks ngram dataset, and see what parts of sentences were less predictable by models, so I made a little visualization.
US Government Starts Bailing on SC12
Now you know, always ask for name and confirm with the target person before passing the phone.
Y Combinator style applications in the Non-profit world
Yes, you should. Whatever time was spent doing this is recouped a hundredfold by making this data so easily accessible to any engineer working on the project. I'd have killed to have this kind of stats at my fingertips, especially on projects where I don't have access to the production server to dig through the logs.
A High Resolution Experience
SAP's Jonathan Becher Claims That Brainstorming Does Not Work
I think that is less than the dealers cut, which has usually been 50%.
It's not good enough until it's right
Actually, Vimeo offers a Pro plan, and Wistia's pretty good too from what I hear (although pricier than Vimeo).

I actually know one training provider who hosts his videos with Vimeo. It seems to work pretty darn well.

However, the film I'm referring to is free. If it weren't for the threat of some bogus takedown, YouTube would be the perfect venue for it.
Nokia’s new Lumia might not be enough
What part is gratuitously pretty? As a dashboard it looks pretty basic to me with an easy to look at color and lots of graphs to quickly figure out if there are any issues.
Ten Things You Should Know About Haskell Syntax
The last in the office job I had (12+ years ago in San Diego, before my wife and I moved to the mountains in Central Arizona) was doing game AI for Nintendo and Disney.

I loved it! The only reason I left was that we bought a house and had been planning to move.

I only work remotely now but if anyone ever wants a technical partner for doing a small Indy game, contact me. I have no skills as an artist. I write code.
Check out Coda Hale's talk: "The Programming Ape". Well worth a watch, but jump to 24:15 or so if you want.

http://vimeo.com/40988625
So we started to live in the JavaScript Era
In this case, he's actually been convicted of a crime. (Though one significantly less serious than rape.)
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I tried something similar using a 2700mAh LiPoly battery, a 3.4watt solar panel and a USB / Solar LiPoly charger, all purchased from Adafruit for a different project. It can power the Pi for about 4 hours, but you'd really want a much larger panel and battery. Also, I was very worried about the potential fire hazard from the LiPoly battery. I will eventually be setting up my camera in a state park, and I don't want to be responsible for starting a brush fire.
You are overthinking the purchase of toilet paper.

(It makes sense for Amazon to think about the price, they are going to sell it thousands of times at that price. But you only buy a case of toilet paper once a year, and it's going to cost you at most $30, so it's not really worth your time to figure out how to save eighty cents.)
Redirected to an internal page: 127.0.0.1:8000
Is it? My clients have all been fine with it. Going back to 2.2 isn't that hard but the people on those devices aren't likely to be very valuable customers.
Yes, because part (actually most) of a project (and what you should be worried about managing) is the people who build it and people who use it. People are complex with many needs and desires above and beyond crapping out the cheapest product in the shortest time.
It could be if they reach a certain size, especially as the web moves to mobile.
New Smartphones May Be Nokia's Last Stand
I could be wrong, but I remember reading that there is only 1 hardware model for the iPhone 4s. It supports both GSM and CDMA networks. The wikipedia article seems to support this claim: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPhone_4S#Hardware
As someone who lost a few loved ones to cancer, I wished the same thing. It'd be awesome if Elon tried to innovate healthcare.

But unfortunately, it is very unlikely according to what Elon said in an interview: Source: http://www.gq.com/news-politics/newsmakers/200901/elon-musk-...

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Elon: "It's important enough to be on the scale of life itself, and therefore goes beyond the parochial concerns of humanity," Musk says of our interplanetary destiny. "We're all focused on our little things that are of concern to humanity itself. People think of curing AIDS or cancer as being very important, and they are—within the context of humanity. But curing all forms of cancer would improve the average life span by only two to three years. That's it."

"In other words, while eradicating disease is a worthy pursuit, and would extend the lives of individual human beings, my life's work is extending the life span of life itself."

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Interesting to hear that coming from someone who has 5 kids.
http://www.forbes.com/pictures/mkm45fjlie/elon-musk-10/#gall...

By the way, Elon did talk about some projects he would like to do if he had the time. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5FESP1h7IZM
In most cases, cancer progression results from cumulative genetic damage, which is strongly linked to aging. See, e.g. http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v448/n7155/full/nature0...
This would be a good time for an experienced enough investigating journalist to set up a Kickstarter project on it. I'd chip in at least..
The Real Reason Apple Wants a 7-inch iPad
The mission control bar looks very familiar. Although I can't remember the name of it now, I seem to remember there being a debug bar of sorts that worked with merb/rails projects that had the same type of look. Anyone remember the name of it?

Edit:

I was thinking of FiveRuns Tune-Up toolbar.
It's a Java Embedded World
In The Selfish Gene, Dawkins proposed that grandparents - obviously well beyond child bearing - can affect their gene propagation by caring for their grandchildren, at least indirectly.

What a true scientist; most people are content to think we dote on grandchildren as a civilized people with innate appreciation for new life. Rather, our genes will eradicate those who fail to help their offspring's offspring survive.

http://musingsofscience.wordpress.com/2010/07/21/book-review...
Good post - although for posterity retrieving a phone number doesn't work as described in all cases. Calling `getLine1Number()` on a GSM phone will return the MSISDN, but not all carriers store the MSISDN on the SIM (for security reasons), so it will in some cases return null. This is a somewhat moot point, because there are other ways to find mobile numbers!

As you point out, this is almost certainly an Android specific implementation, because there's no way to get either the MSISDN or the IMEI through iOS using the public API (if it was to transpire that WhatsApp were using private calls to obtain them then that would be another story entirely).
Car Buying: we are amateurs dealing with professionals
Meet the Man Who's Rewiring Google From the Inside Out
It's their company. They can do whatever they want. If you don't like it, that's great. Dissenting opinions are a foundation of this great country. But Apple also deserves the right to not care what you think, and not care if you go somewhere else. The majority of consumers have no problem with it.

Too bad Bill Gates isn't looking for a lawyer or advocate now. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Microsoft
Introducing the 4chan API
NReduce has been really interesting and done a good job of trying for something different than YCombinator. In many ways it's much more of a complement to traditional startup incubators than a competitor.

Of the startups that I partnered with since June, about 15% have gone on to geographically located accelerators, a few have been acquired/hired for their product, a few have launched and not really gone anywhere and about half never got as far as launching a product.

Personally, I've gotten a huge amount of constructive feedback and a good handful of solid beta testers for my project.
It was done in-house. We really care about how our graphs look, because graphs represent information. It's like typography. Humans learned how to write 5000 years ago, and it took us a very long while until we mastered the art of transmitting information like that. Once we mastered it, however, we started caring about the way we present that information. For no specific reason, but we developed unique typefaces that look beautiful, different, yet transmit the same information.

Likewise, we've spent a ton of valuable time graphing and mining data from all over our stack; it's only natural that after that, we care about how we present that data. Like typography, it's hard because it's an arduous hunt for the aesthetics hidden behind information. But this hunt is what makes us human.

That's why we design beautiful graphs, just like we'd design a beautiful typeface. Not because we are GitHubbers, nor because we are designers, but because we are humans.

Life is too short to stare at ugly graphs. And yes, you should feel bad.

PS: we have no project managers at GitHub.
This is really cool. Seems like this could be turned into a really nice little web/file server and screams to be used in car AV/carputer setups.
Great board. Great price. Heard about this through the Homebrew Robotics Club.
Thanks for the reference!

See page 8, section 3: »The funds available for the period covered by the strategy amount to
approximately SEK 400 million«.

Can we end the speculation now, please?
Rack Bug? https://github.com/brynary/rack-bug
They're GSM feature codes - implemented features vary from carrier to carrier, but there are lists of commands here:

http://www.stereo.org.ua/2007/gsm-codes/
http://www.arcx.com/sites/GsmFeatures.htm

There are additionally model specific codes for hardware diagnostics (rather than interacting with the network) on a model-by-model basis.
How hard is it for them to make the key colors match the graph colors? They're off by quite a bit and it makes this chart very difficult for my eyes to parse.
Boutine puts you front and center in a virtual fashion collection
It looks like the GPU on the RasPi is still more powerful, so the cheaper board might still be better for things like a media center application. I'm very curious though about what appears to be a SATA port on the Cubieboard.

Also, the RasPi has a huge initial advantage in that it was in the space first. They have a leg-up in publicity, marketing, and simply an initial user-base. If the Cubieboard benchmarks don't absolutely trounce the Raspberry Pi for almost every type of computation, I don't see the Cubieboard overtaking the Pi anytime soon.

Still, a cool board nonetheless.
KARL ROVE ALERT! This is a very similar in spirit to past tactics alleged against Karl Rove. This enables Romney to dodge the Tax issue by having it release this way and have all the focus pointed toward an "anonymous" group. Don't fall for this!
"No one has rights to his personal information he has not decided to share. This attack is despicable."

You realize Mitt Romney is campaigning for the office that is the single worst violator of that philosophy in the world, right? Don't get me wrong, I generally think law enforcement should have privileged access to private data, but you disrespect your philosophical position by pretending to apply it in a manner where the outcome is predetermined through uneven application.
I've got one, I've had it for months now.
> how is cooperative coevolution a crossover-dependent approach?

It's not. What I meant was that CCEAs and univariate EDAs (and most forms of ACO) make the same basic linkage assumption inherent in crossover, indeed to even more of an extreme: that you can assemble individuals from bits and pieces scattered about the space without any dependence issues.
The amateur quality of the website (esp. the prose) worries me. Do we have any further information on the owner? Or, the location of the company?

I could quite easily imagine cubiebox being no more than an amateur scammer's effort to cash in on the uptick in interest in ARM boxes.

In particular, the grammar on the parent Company's website (http://cubietech.com/) is horrific. Plus, it has a newsfeed populating from god knows where: "Missing NY teen found safe
Marriage doesn't make people happier, it just stabilizes the happiness they already have. The research shows that the married people surveyed weren't any happier than..."

Not encouraging.
Are you suggesting Apple is a monopoly?
Completely agree, it should be emphasized that nReduce isn't trying to compete with existing accelerators. I think it's actually a great first step for companies to get to the point where they can join one (since the good ones tend to require serious traction just to get in).

Personally the best thing our team got out of being an nReduce participant is the weekly checkins. Having 12 video checkins that document our progress has been really useful for showing investors the amount of progress our team can make week by week. We intend to continue this habit throughout the life of the company.
Does the deleted post mean that it contained false info?
Take a look at https://github.com/nesquena/query_reviewer (if you're using MySQL).
I disagree: Apple convinced developers that censorship is cool, and that is at least as dangerous as the broken patent system.

Upcoming versions of both OS X and Windows take large steps in the same direction already. We all enjoyed a free software market for most of our lives. Now Android seems to be the only "personal computing" platform with a future.

And who knows when Samsung or Google are going to shut down that door on Android as well? It wouldn't hurt them, since neither consumers nor developers seem to care about independent software distribution anymore.