skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is already true and has been for years. Cereal farmers were some of the earliest adopters of GPS and autonomous vehicles. I remember being at a rural show in the early 90's and CASE had a combine harvester for sale that recorded the grain yield per 10 square meters of the field via GPS, and if you bought radio beacons for the corners of the field, it was capable of resolution of about a square meter and semi-autonomous operation (though I wouldn't have wanted to stand in front of it). By this point the software if a major part of what differentiates the various models [0]. These days farming, especially crops is incredible technologically focussed. If you are not tracking crop yield and soil nutrients, you have no way of knowing how much fertiliser, pesticide or seed to spread at each point, which equates to massive waste. Given the margins for farming are incredible slim, and you are often over 5 million in debt, just to finance that years crop, the relative cost of investing in the latest technology is small. By comparison to the integrated systems that tie in everything from soil quality, to transport, to current grain spot prices, this is a toy.

It's not that Watson is not impressive, it's more that I get irritated when journalists talk about farming as if it is merely getting up each morning and riding around on a tractor idea before heading home to the wireless as they haven't yet got anything as new fangled as television. My apologies.

[0] http://www.deere.com/wps/dcom/en_INT/products/equipment/comb...
In an unlicensed spectrum range, with a much greater range than WiFi, will this have a much greater potential for signal interference? Already, the WiFi network in my apartment is very limited in range because of interference from a large number of neighboring WiFi networks.
I imagine it depends on the lab. A friend worked as an assistant at a place that did forensic dna matching five years ago and she definitely used your suggested method.
One trend I dislike, is the forced use of voice recognition in these cases. A machine as powerful as Watson should not be limited to my mobile device, it should be available via all my computing platforms and should be able to interpret text form.

Siri, for example, can get me David Beckhams age very fast ... It would be nice on my laptop to get access to that type of speed, hit cmd+space "how old is david beckham" and get a result. I understand google can do alot of this, but why limit this technology to voice input only and mobile devices only
>Offshore is, most of the times, about getting the same quality of work at cheaper cost.

If this is true, then we're all in deep sh*t, as we'll all be working for Chinese-level wages soon.
Why aren’t Apple’s error messages written by marketers?
I would suggest you read ben horowitz's thoughts on the subject. He was in a startup during Bubble I (Loudcloud) and is now a VC during the current market: http://bhorowitz.com/2011/03/24/bubble-trouble-i-don%E2%80%9...

That being said...I think there is a proliferation of crap ideas and crap "companies"; however, I think there are some other really interesting startups attacking some big and interesting problems.
This is the most confusing landing page I've ever seen. I honestly have no idea what to think of this person. Does anyone have any info on him?
CentOS 6 uses Upstart.
>It only makes sense to continue selling the older, higher margin products until a competitor comes up.

If you're the only one on the market with memristors the margin is determined by whatever the market will bear, and if they're really that much better than existing technologies it will be much larger.

None of this conspiracy stuff makes any sense. They're delaying a year because they can't manufacture the product.
First of all, it's a bit arrogant, to say the least, to make insinuations about someone's intentions, especially if you are such a big champion of non-BS contributions : I am an independent so I have no dog in this political fight and my comment had nothing to do with anyone's political affiliation. Second, I am amused that you call it "verbal gaffe." If you want to brag about your accomplishments, you better make sure you checked your data well or else you may end up looking incompetent at the very best. If you are not sure, say so, or simply abstain from bragging. That's what I expect from a professional or anyone (who should be) concerned about his or her integrity, and Mr. Ryan is a professional politician, so I see no reason to cut him any slack. You have a high threshold of tolerance for BS when it comes to politicians, it appears, but I am afraid it comes with the price of seeing BS where it's not.

My comment had to do with the integrity (be it professional or personal), which is the real issue of this thread and not some "guy who cheats at marathons" and it was your comments that turned it into some sort of political issue, and made you sound like an apologist for Mr. Ryan.

This piece ("it's that the comment wouldn't have even been made if it wasn't about a politician.") is not even wrong. What are you God? You think you know everything?

You made lame straw man insinuations that would offend anyone of normal IQ and then you hurry to close with "maybe it is time for me to leave" as if you wanted to prove yourself right and the issue were closed. But you are still wrong because your assumptions were never right. Sounds like a typical political "logic" to me, based on insinuations, twisting facts, and pandering to the audience. Yes, I too would like to see this place free "from that bullshit," because that's the real BS.
Did you ever have car insurance or any other kind of insurance?

Yes. I go with the largest excess possible (what I assume is also called a deductible) because the chance of making a claim is low. But it's only 10-20% more to have no excess at all.

The logic in your second paragraph makes sense on the surface, but the lack of a deductible in many European-style health systems doesn't seem to result in a larger share of GDP being spent on health (which is notoriously high in the US) or the healthcare being of a lower quality.
I do hope it's a private venture. My kids will have to work too many years longer as it is, to pay for all the other things. (I know that space travel is so cool that we're supposed to ignore the consequences of borrowing money for it.)
And how do you make a social app, you can use from anywhere with good UI without webserver/client ?

Moreover web servers are compatible with peer-to-peer and provide application agnostic connectors.
Compare the amount of GNOME developers discussing GNOME development at http://planet.gnome.org/ to the number of MATE developers discussing MATE development at http://planet.mate-desktop.org/
Looks like Matt Brown's resume template: http://thingsthatarebrown.com/blog/2009/05/sample-resume-tem...
For anyone interested in a real, shipping app that offers many of the niceties of Enterface, check out Antetype: http://www.antetype.com

I decided to use it for doing the high fidelity mockups of Enterface, and it turned out to have a lot of the stuff I was looking for. I still want my app, though :-)
Wow.. this has just about everything.

Why not take just the most important layout and design features and create a tool that can output actual web pages?

I'll tell you why. Because web developers code in CSS and HTML. If you can just export a web page, then it takes away their "programming" work.

If we took 1/100th of the effort used to create mockup tools, we could have 10 really great graphical interactive web page and even web application editors.

That stuff about "semantic" markup for SEO is bullshit.
On the other hand without separation of concerns, you get the risk of the lab "finding" what the investigators wanted, like the incidents in the FBI labs in the 1990s.
I'll believe memristor tech when I see commercial products of it available. I don't think it's far fetched that a company is slow to shift it's mainstay, profitable business product to an unproven new technology that has no mainstream commercial products out yet. Cutting edge tech is always rife with delays and shortcomings that weren't anticipated until the rubber actually hit the road.

While many in these comments are touting "double storage & reliability for the same price", that would be for raw manufacturing costs, not including all the R&D money and the cost of fabrication plants that must be built or retooled. It is highly unlikely consumers will see those benefits anytime soon.
From their other writings i assume the author uses pre-processors but they also practice a form of object-oriented CSS, which is concerned with the final compiled CSS.

Mixins are great but they can still compile to overly repetitious CSS. Even with mixins, you still have to think about and decide on the structure and how much repetition should be in your CSS.
>There are often local campaigns of "have your DNA taken, get ruled off our suspect list" when there are murders or multiple rapes.

Really? That's just daft. Why would anyone who isn't actually a suspect be susceptible to that line of reasoning?
I'm fairly certain this won't make the front page, but... I have a friend who bootstrapped his company using the SBIR program. Doing so requires some extra work/bookkeeping, etc., but it's worth it for risky projects and, based on his experiences, I'd highly recommend it. His project was risky and required a major amount of research and there is no way he would have received traditional funding because it seems almost like an impossible project at first glance. It took him almost a decade of work to bring it to market and he's very close now. When I say "bootstrapping," I'm not talking living-off of ramen. I'm talking about being able to pay you and your researchers salaries, purchase required equipment, etc. -- you have to justify every dollar spent, but you don't have to live in poverty. In the end, you own all the equity, you own the IP and the final product, and I believe there's even a program where, under certain circumstances, the SBIR program will match outside investments if you are able to commercialize your work, but I don't know the details. It's not automatic, but it's not impossible either.

And, btw, he's an engineer and was able to manage the SBIR requirements without the help of a professional paper-pusher, etc.
Finally! the ad-hoc statistics card was played and it came attached with the "but think of the children" postcard too.

btw, if someday you feel the need to stop pulling out stats of your ass, here it is:

http://www.census.gov/compendia/statab/cats/transportation/m...
LWN wrote a good article on GNOME OS at https://lwn.net/Articles/512783/

Submitted to HN at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4455028
This is a good looking set. Maybe the creator should consider contributing some of them to the FontAwesome collection. Just a thought!
Gigaset Elements: DECT ULE home automation
Thank you. I will. ATM, it's mainly jQuery or Zepto, just like Backbone.
Great, thank you for taking the time to write this.
it does not matter to simple rhel rebuilds like centos or scientific linux. it is unfortunate for the linux stable kernel maintainers. that's for sure though.

it is very different from this case. that it's a simple mistake is not very probable. see the java sec update controversy a few days ago.
At some stages you may feel the need to create pixel-perfect mockups.
Especially when you are working with remote teams you don't have other way to specify how your product look like to developers that don't pay that much attention to details.

Besides from pixel perfect I've been missing a product that allow me to be "screen-transition perfect" since being sketching on omnigraffle / sketch and having to use another product to mockup transitions is a really painful process.
Shoot their feet off how?

Most people saying "Time to switch from MySQL" (probably) aren't paying for MySQL. From a business perspective, those people are a net loss anyway. Getting them to switch to something else may actually save Oracle a little money.
The Rasberry Pi is the perfect board for a new CS student as it is powerful enough to do almost anything a regular linux server would be normally used for (NAS, Print Server, Web Server) and cheap enough for a starving student to afford. Plus it keeps the students away from playing games as it is too slow to be fun.
Interesting points are made, but I miss the "How to find people to outsource to" part.

What websites do you use to find competent people to work with ? And many other questions.
> How is storing in Redis(or any other in-memory store) any different from storing in Memcache?

Memcached is a cache, not a store. Memcached happily removes keys when it feels so

Please see this post where memcached author recommends not to store sessions in memcached:
http://dormando.livejournal.com/495593.html
SQLite is very nice for simple single user apps :-)
okay thanks!
I only use Mint. You're able to export all your data and do as you please. :)!
"alive" :D
>There's no sensible scenario where memristors are ready to go but they don't want to sell any memristor products yet because it will hurt existing sales.

It's not about existing sales, it's about stock. If you have built a lot of stock of traditional devices (including materials and infrastructure for manufacture) while waiting for memsistor tech to be ready for prime time, you want to sell it first before you put out the new products in the market.

But surely, competitors will jump right in, right? Unfortunately, there are that many players. Similarly, they can't "undercut the competition" because there is no competition, just a few players that "understand" each other.

Storage/memory manufacturers have had a few price-fixing scandals over the years.
No, they do PCR amplification of highly variable STR sites and then measure the PCR products by capillary electrophoresis. The false positive match probability is low, unless partial matches are allowed.
There's nothing super about it. Old Wi-Fi uses 20 MHz channels and the newer versions sometimes use 40 or 80 MHz. The white space channels are 6 MHz wide, so that's roughly 1/3 the throughput.

It's true that the TV band can give longer range which is only useful in rural areas. In places with population density, longer range means that each AP covers quadratically more clients, giving each client a smaller share of the already-low throughput.

Between this and the memristor nonsense, today is a sad day for HN.
Don't store sessions in memcached
Mitt Romney Lies Like Obama?
How my mom "hacked" my phone.
Seems more like how to program a microcontroller/soc course rather then operating systems course ATM. Still good though.

I did simlar things in a electronics course for pic microcontrollers which I would hardly call a os course.
The whole premise of the article is that if the DNA matches, the prosecutors argue that you're guilty, and if the DNA doesn't match, the prosecutors argue that you're guilty anyway. If the results of a forensic 'test' show that you're guilty no matter what the outcome, that's pretty much the very definition of a sham. They might as well be using a truth-telling chicken.
Nice writeup. I agree in principle.
Lots of things have never been done before. This appears to be a case where it's used as an excuse not to do it.
But they could happen in the future to work for a corporation that would like to pay, but as it stands they will never suggest using MySQL. Thus MySQL will slowly disappear from the youngs mindshare and Oracle will make no money at all on it.
Google Shopping returns zero 802.22 devices. I'd say it will be a while.

You could buy a "book" about it. (Just a dissertation robotted into a book to dupe you into purchasing it.)
Indeed. I've recently had an issue along those lines albeit on a lesser scale as a witness. The police were more interested in securing a good case for the CPS than actually fairly evaluating the situation. I was actually advised that my statement should only refer to the facts which were likely to aid a conviction rather than be a fair and balanced account of what happened. The moment a conviction was not obviously going to happen, they recommended that I withdraw my statement before they submit the case to the CPS.

I wrote an addendum sheet for the statement instead stating that they'd asked me to do that. That didn't go down well so I better move to another area if I want any policing or assistance in the future...

For ref, no-one was hurt other than insurance companies in this case. Two idiots bounced a car off each other at 20mph - neither need prosecuting.
Please finish your website first before coming to hacker news for suggestions. I hit a 404 page.
The article on stress management should be listed first.
http://artofmanliness.com/2012/08/30/heading-out-on-your-own...
My point is, every major design decision at Microsoft now has to go through their legal department to ensure it won't run afoul of any consent decrees. Over the past few years, much of the design process at Microsoft has taken place in a courtroom.

I believe they've only recently been released from the original Netscape antitrust sanctions.
> This article is really out of date.

Well yeah it's from early 2010, it's been 2 years. In January (2012)'s "state of the servers" post, the reddit blog noted traffic was 2 billion pageviews per month in December 2011, up from 870m or so in December 2010.
So you think that it's fine to pay someone less for the same work?
Going to sit-down restaurants and refusing to tip is a great recipe for becoming a pariah.

Quite. I really don't understand the idea of showing one's dissatisfaction with tipping by hurting the guy earning $2/hour and not the owner of the restaurant - it seems pretty obvious whose bottom line will suffer the most in this instance.
Alex Chadwick has done a fantastic job on this. He's just finished his first year of the undergraduate CS course, and has spent the summer interning for us at the computer lab working on this. It's fair to say that it's more a guide to bare-metal programming on the Raspberry Pi right now, but Alex is planning to add further material. I think a contribution many hobbyist developers will find useful is his minimal USB HID driver, which should hopefully be far easier to put in to your own minimal OS than the dwc_otg driver used in Linux (and probably a more concise source for learning what you need to know about the Raspberry Pi's USB controller).
What's with the old comment "// Sleep for a few milliseconds", followed by the sleep function?
It's not only products siting in inventory. It's also:

1) products sitting in store fronts and retail, that will be unsold if they announce something new.

2) Investments (in the billions) they have made for flash production. You don't just kill all the money you have invested to build a flash plant because there's a new better technology. Not if you can delay the introduction of said technology until those costs are absorbed, and the investments have paid for themselves.

3) materials they have ordered for flash production. Volume deals to manufactures for metals and the like can run not just one year ahead but several.

Selling the old stuff for a while is not even about price-fixing, if you think at this level, it's something natural that benefits all companies involved.

They all have: factory stock, retail stock, investments in flash technology and volume orders on materials to absorb before making the jump.
> And juries aren't allowed to be instructed on that.

Why?
As an alternative, would you pay 1cent per video you watch?
Apparently, there are 4 billion youtube videos watched per day. That's $14 billion in revenue annually.

Apparently, their current revenue is estimated in gthe $3.5 billion range.

i say 1 cent per video, and bill me monthly. Or 1 cent/minute of video.

If you're a creator, you get a discount (to keep people creating), or your friends can watch for free, or something like that so that only the viral videos are charging $$.

Just an idea.
How many senses are there?

It parses, then does "bytecode" generation, then fiddles with the bytecodes a bit. So it does multiple passes.
That is a third possibility, but I don't know anybody that fits into that category.
Hmm, I don't think I was trying to attack his position as much as posing a question. Any company that wants to hire a foreigner thinks about the ease with which they can be brought on board. Companies that are used to doing so in India tend to have people that can navigate the system so the employees-to-be don't have to.
Self-Driving Cars Approved by California Legislature
>The semiconductor industry is brutal in general. Selling to consumers is worse, but the worst by far is the part that sells any type of memory.

Really? Because there have been all kinds of price-fixing scandals and accusations for the last 2 decades... Price fixing does not sound very cut-throat to me...
If you work with a wireless company you already have a working infrastructure on an existing technology for which hardware can actually be purchased. e.g. the wireless ISP I use does bidirectional 10mbps to me over 9 miles. Maybe in the future, with channel bonding added, 802.22 would beat that.

I think where this makes sense is for a new company that wants to "bring broadband to rural america".
I have yet to meet anybody IRL who actually likes Gnome3. I see a few posters on the 'net from time to time who claim to like it, but that's it.

OTOH, I see a lot of people saying they've switch to Mate, or Cinammon, or KDE, or XFCE, etc. Personally, I've switched to KDE and couldn't be happier. Good riddance to Gnome, as far as I'm concerned.
The odds of coming up positive on a DNA test are a lot higher than I would have originally believed:

"DNA matching for criminal cases looks at only a few specific loci and the alleles associated with them, so the chances of two separate people matching come in somewhere around 1 in 7,000"
http://www.fluther.com/145318/is-there-a-possibility-that-th...
That's like me saying "LibreOffice, where are you?" and you saying "AbiWord".
Unfortunately you're probably going to get lots of old ideas anyway as no-one that has recurring (i'm guessing you mean Passive Income) will tell you their current stream. It's a Goose that laid the Golden Egg problem.

What I would recommend is reading up about different ways to make money, looking at things that other people have done in the past, then find ways to think up what niche you could fill.

After that its about getting it done.

Look up Patio11 and read his comments, that's a great start.
I love that he uses assembly to twiddle the bits in memory, but the title is quite misleading. I was expecting tutorials on using something like Buildroot, OpenEmbedded, or a similar embedded linux development environment.
Software Delivery and Billing: The Butcher Model
Are you drunk? Not only did I not mention children, but the documentation at the link you yourself provided, backs up my stats...
lower cost
It's reasonably certain that the vast majority of entrepreneurs who are making large amounts of cash are going to remain silent!
There's a ton of adverse selection issues, and I suspect a large part of it is due to the price point. People and startups tend to want to pay a very small amount of money for design and code, and as a result the best people will opt to go for higher paying gigs. And if you want to pay a lot, many jedi knights have become disillusioned and avoid working with you in case you decide to flake at the last moment. And god forbid paying upfront: you don't know what you will get.

There is also the strange model of communication. Some places side with the developer and other places side with the sponsor (in the sponsor case, they present the spec and if the developer doesn't perfectly match the spec they won't get paid)

It's really ironic to see this and other similar posts recently, given that I'm about to launch a site to address the stated issue: http://codewren.ch

But more generally, the best option is to work with a friend or a friend of friend.
Big Data: you don't need a data scientist, you need a data plumber