skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
First, what the headline tells me is that Samsung thinks both phones are nothing out of the ordinary. Which is shooting your own foot.

Second, that feature list is ridiculous. The Galaxy side is visibly littered with marketing buzzwords. You could add some to the iPhone too: shake to shuffle, airplay, BLE, photostream, blah blah.

In fact, everything is so off that it makes me question the authenticity of this ad, or the common sense of their agency...
But he recklessly damaged a protected computer. They're going to have to replace the fifty cent lock with a new fifty cent lock. That will cost over fifty US cents!

(Yes folks, it's true: pretty much everything is a federal felony if someone doesn't like you.)
Today I bought a Nokia 1280[1], it's pretty good. You do not need to adapt your site to its screen, though.

[1]: http://www.nokia.com/in-en/products/phone/nokia-1280/specifi...
I don't think it's for the political activism as much as it's for someone's friend at JSTOR.
I also thought it was a fairly fucking stupid thing to say, but perhaps saying bluntly that it is a fucking stupid thing to say is also a fucking stupid thing to say, given that people often react quite badly to being told that what they are saying is fucking stupid.

Therefore logically, this whole post is also a fucking stupid thing for me to to say, but once I had thought of it I felt compelled to post it anyway, due to a deep love of both recursion and swearing.
There you go - cross platform iOS / Android / Mac / Linux / Windows development.

The only thing missing is...the browser.

We're doing the same thing, but with JavaScript as the application code, and unique front-ends for HTML5 browsers, older browsers, Android, iOS, mobile browsers, etc.

It's trivial to get a JavaScript VM running on any given platform.
Not only that but I believe JSTOR has settled with Aaron Swartz and is not pressing for further prosecution.
Considering all anyone has done is make assertations with no proof, I will take the view of the many traffic engineers I work with over your so called "trivial to find" examples, none of which you or anyone else has been able to provide or prove. I'm sure your expert driving skills keep you very safe, but I will count myself lucky that the 17 year old that cruises down my street at 45 MPH despite his percieved ability got pulled over.

Incidentally, do you propose that "too fast for conditions" be the law? I find that surprising, considering how much discretionary power that would put in the hands of the government.
The issue is that news in its raw form lack context. You just read the event and only have the news you immediately read before it for context. Most information is better understood from a larger window. Mainstream news does not bother to educate you in those terms. That is why it isn't informative to just read the daily paper is have a very myopic understanding of the world.

This also means we are likely better off reading longer, meatier articles that provide context for what is happening. They are the ones that explain why we have the present problems and why all actors are behaving as they are.

Critical thinking is still required for this kind of information, but this information isn't really news. It's a sort of longform journalism that is a bit removed. But it is informative and doesn't leave the reader ignorance to current events.
It's not an argument about freeway speed limits, but about speed limits in general and in principle. I don't know where "freeway" was introduced as a limiter.
Why are you so sure he hadn't have read all those in his 20's? And didn't it occur to you that those "real" books may just be real for you only?
Ask HN: Royal Equestrian Government
Has any of you ever whois'd Google? Here's pastebin of a fresh query: http://pastebin.com/H2G3qV8W

For the lazy: http://google.com.all.the.people.who.spam.the.whois.are.seriously.annoying.somepony.com/

I wonder who is behind this "Royal Equestrian Government"! Any ideas?
Examples?

Cleaning streets, putting out fires, educating, infrastructure...

As someone who's spent some time in places with no government I will say there are many examples, but punishing criminals is one I've become fond of.
I hate to say this, but bullet points are not how you sell consumer devices. This ad looks like the result of a meeting with too many attendees that was too long. You're selling to average people who just want a cool phone, you're not bidding on a government contract. Adjust the style accordingly.

I don't really like Apple's ads, but they seem to work.
Most gamers couldn't care less, as long as it runs with the minimum of hassle. And I believe that graph is well outdated - the optimizations can be applied to the Windows version and reap similar benefits. And, realistically, 16% improvements are not going to cause a mass exodus from Windows. Additionally, FPS is a terrible performance measure once the counts are above 60 FPS or so, frame delay is more important, and in this case we're talking about 3.17ms vs 3.7ms per frame.
New report shows huge drop in jobs at new companies
Yes it's a good book and the principles of memory and how the brain remembers are useful in context of both to do lists and long term memory. You just have to practice them
This is actually very surprising to me. Thanks for the info.
I have Prime exclusively for the shipping, so streaming is just another bonus.
It wasn't too long ago that Sun SPARC systems were a thing. Still I agree, it isn't that often someone can scale vertically like this. Hopefully they do something interesting with it.

I'd love to see them use what they learn in the mobile space to push the boundaries in their workstation market and experiment with something outside x86. Since they've already been through the PPC->x86 jump it would be as painful of a transition both on the technical and the sales sides.
> DRM is by its definition a program, created to disrupt computer operation and gain access to private computer systems. This is an identical definition to that of malware. That DRM is indistinguishable from Rootkits should make it obvious to society as a sign that DRM is harmful.

I think you must be thinking of a different DRM. DRM means Digital Rights Management, and describes any technology that inhibits uses of digital content that are not desired or intended by the content provider. And that's it.

I'm guessing you're thinking of Sony's 2005 rootkit incident, which was an example of DRM implemented in a completely stupid and dangerous way. And it wasn't legal at the time nor is it now - Sony was forced to recall the CDs and settled a class-action lawsuit. But regardless of this, the fact that the program "gained access to private systems" was completely secondary to its goal of making the CD's content uncopyable.

I'm not saying I support it, but you're not helping your cause by telling hyperbolic lies about what DRM is.
Yep, Amazon lost the battle with the publishers to price ebooks their way, hence the illogical prices. I own a kindle but I am not purchasing as many books as before. I have found that $5 is sort of a magic number for me, any more than that and I will just skip it, any less and I'll seriously consider buying it if I am interested. Since I do know, more or less, what is going on behind the scenes with the digital distribution model, there is no way I am spending more than that on a digital book, and with DRM added on top.
The pages of the pdf are too wide to fit comfortably on my screen. Any way I could fix it (like modify the LaTeX) besides buying a bigger monitor?
Text content should be converted to PSD Text Element. Some of CSS effects are better represented using PSD Layer Style effects. Check out the complete PSD file format here: http://www.adobe.com/devnet-apps/photoshop/fileformatashtml/...

I haven't really try LZW compression for the image data, but it seems that generated PSD file for a single webpage is extremely huge (multi megabytes PSD file). Standard Photoshop App generate image data with mostly Packbit compression. There is probably room to improve on that.
Awesome share. Thanks.
This is probably well-intentioned, but a load of crap.

People in third-world countries don't care about the average U.S. site, and if they did, they would find someone with a computer that probably is 5-7 years old, possibly older, therefore they wouldn't be using that resolution.

What will be important, if you do care about them, is speed of load. Unless you are using GWT or other server-side user-agent sniffing to determine what to produce, then unless you have a mobile version of the site that the user probably won't use, then they will more likely than not be slowed down by your CSS3 and Javascript crap, that is- if you really give a shit.

Trying to provide usable news sites, etc. in the remote chance that you are the BBC is one thing, but 99.999999% of the time no one will care that your site looks good on a Nokia X2-01 and similar. They probably will care if it uses Flash and they can't view it on an iPad, or if it uses Java, or if it renders poorly, is hard to navigate, or is just too slow.

Most shouldn't obsess over low resolutions like that, and shouldn't use GWT or other methods of server-side user-agent sniffing to render content. And your CSS3 isn't going to jive with a Nokia X2-01 and the like, so don't even try that.
Is there a HN filter to weed out "rich man has opinions" type stories?
The lightbulb reinvented
Despite what Aaron's intentions were, he clearly knew he was doing something illegal. He broke into a building (closet?), setup a computer illegally and transferred information illegally. In addition to all of that, he tried to evade security when he knew he had been discovered.

It seems like there were many other (more reasonable) avenues that he could have taken to accomplish his goal. He's really the only one to blame for getting himself into this mess. I sincerely hope that he gets the punishment he deserves which should be a firm slap on the wrist. I'm uncomfortable with the idea of him getting any jail time, but if it comes to that then he'll have to deal with those consequences.
The Sun model ? Before the rise of the x86 based servers there pretty much evey major server vendor was doing this. IBM power - AIX, HP PA-RISC-AIX, Sun - you know already, Digital Alpha-Digital UNIX. Practically everybody had(and in the case of IBM still do) their own hardware including custom chips. The CPU world was way more diverse in the 90s and early 2000s. Sun was hardly the first or the only one.
AT&T keeps screwing over iPhone customers
Very good advice, but I'm going to take the curmudgeon level +1.

Or... take a little more time and actually learn CSS3 and media queries... then write your own style sheets. It's really not that hard and you'll end up with a style sheet where YOU KNOW every line and every class. When you get there (again, not really that hard), it's faster/better than SaSS or LESS. Seriously.
> There are so many laws, I don't know how you could possibly say in an informed manner that you agree with most of them.

Oh, come on now. You can be informed on the ones that matter to you the most, and the ones which are most commonly broken, which says a lot about the society you live in. It's not that hard.

> I don't see why we should factor the law into discussions of ethics

Because laws, in many or most cases, reflect the moral or ethical views of a large number of people, or at least they did at the time they were passed. The fact that laws survived the lawmaking process at all means we should consider the thoughts that went into their creation. I'm not saying you should read every word of every statute. But a nation's laws are in many ways reflections of its cultural ethics.
I've got the SR60. They are $20-30 cheaper than the 80s, but the same construction.
Thank you. I recommend Orwell Rolls in His Grave http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_lYGyIaK80

A great 3-hour documentary on media censorship, consolidation and propaganda.
On a tangentially related topic, the human genome is essentially a Hilbert curve in real life. It's behind a paywall, but in the very bottom thumbnail you can kind of get the idea: https://www.sciencemag.org/content/326/5950/289.figures-only
I disagree that there are other, more reasonable avenues to achieve the goal of putting as much information as possible into the public's hands. Breaking into a closet that you think you can access and downloading a lot of it is undeniably faster and more effective than lobbying or voting or petitioning companies or building alternative publishing mechanisms (all of which are also avenues which he has personally taken, to great effect.)

If ten thousand people took Aaron's approach and simply got caught less, society would be significantly better off for it.
Yeah, the book starts by stating that everyone can have a photographic-like memory if they practice the right techniques, goes on to explain the history of the art of memory, and then intersperses detailed descriptions of the techniques with a fascinating autobiography. It's probably not the best tutorial, but it's a great starting point and also a really fun and fast read. At the very least, I can guarantee it will greatly change the way you look at what the human brain is capable of.
I used this structure (although I knew it by totally different name) a lot in time constrained contests, the code is very short and easy to implement.

Also:

idx -= (1 << ctz(idx));

I used to write this as:

idx -= idx&-idx;
Ask HN: Seeking A/V hacker co-founder/s (Kill Hollywood)
semi-automated movie production, make anyone available for auto-casting, computer-generated acting, scenery, music, based on language use of actors, intonation, reading of sample dialog, based in turn on facial/emotional/interest-level recognition of the viewer, and related input. or a small innovation along these lines. such as making short, quasi-interactive, never-the-same-viewing-twice films that are effective as psychotherapy. essentially turn hollywood over to engineers, and move hollywood to redwood. i am prepared to direct, based on my own writing, standout visual aesthetics, (youth) acting, interfacing w actors, and i'm a semi-pro rails developer:

writing: http://share.jessecrockett.com/Sandstone.pdf

(part 1 of a novel in progress. i have the whole thing visualized, but less than zero support from the waspish literary scene)

personal: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vdFvnKBLpA4

or we make a movie that promotes the company. one way or another, something catches.

jesse@jessecrockett.com
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As a result of Swartz's conspiracy to release JSTOR articles to the public, it led to the company making many articles free for public for viewing. A lot of good has come about from what Swartz did, even if the morality of his illegal actions are under dispute. There has been a lot of recent criticism against academic journals and their publishing companies whose business model is keeping all science and research behind gated walls and away from the public. Even if the research was funded with public money!
To me it seems bizarre to put an expensive piece of electronics shiny side down. Are you not afraid of scratching the screen?
Dozen Books For You
If you believe sites are missing out by not supporting these phones there would be an untapped market for you to get into.

Personally, running a ecommerce site with low resources, places with high fraud and average shipping support aren't high on our list. So when developing for phones we aren't going to bother with the real low end that is common in these places.
DRM for music is deeply entrenched in the ecosystem. The most overt of DRM layers can't exist on old media CDs, but it's still everywhere.

None of the major online music services allow unlimited sharing (of files), and even getting this far was a long legal mess, representing part of the extensive history where DRM has attempted to parasitize the legal system.

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2011/07/are-google-music-...

Another form of DRM in the industry is a pre-emptive fee charged on certain blank digital media:
http://torrentfreak.com/where-the-riaa-gets-its-money/

I work for a small record label in my spare time. We submitted a song for pressing (on vinyl), and received a warning from the RIAA not to sell it. The record contained a (very interpreted) cover of a pop song.

DRM at every level of the industry. The lack of direct software enforcement in digital music files really doesn't mean anything.
at least half of RFPs are put out as a technicality after the deal has already been made informally with somebody's quid-pro-quo-friend/drinking buddy/nephew. It's the art of adding bizarre requirements to straightforward jobs

--Interesting data point, just order of magnitude.
In part this is probably due to discrepancies in the performance of Safari vs. UIWebView browsers. Apple require a different JS engine due to sandboxing concerns in native app contexts - apparently it benchmarks to around 1/3 the performance.
There's a significant amount of effort put into touch handling on the native side of the world. Browser-based apps shouldn't be in the business of emulating the native behavior unless absolutely necessary. (Unfortunately, it's painfully frequent atm)

You encounter difficulties such as:

* Different behavior across platforms (and risking uncanny valley responses if you don't duplicate it; particularly around scrolling)

* When the browser provides hooks into the underlying native code, the current event structure can't satisfy. For example, `-webkit-overflow-scrolling: touch` fires scroll events erratically on iOS and fails to update the scroll position between them.

* Fun "bugs" such as iOS Safari's annoying behavior of popping down the nav bar when you tap any anchor that has a href attribute - regardless of whether you intercept and cancel the events in either phase.

It's a matter of finding a balance between abstracting platforms and simply exposing their underlying mechanics. I'm not sure which side should win there.
I respect Elon's ambition and the perspective he shares in that quote but both Space X and Tesla only continue to exist by feeding at the government trough.

Personal and mobile computing have lead to massive productivity increases that affect almost everything that we do on this planet.

I'd also argue that the desire to improve space and ground transportation aren't the result of an enlightened human consciousness that discovered the right questions to ask. Using less energy to move around isn't going to improve the persistent suffering humanity experiences.

Jobs appears to have understood this fact but was unfortunately resigned to it rather than determined to fight it:

What's the biggest surprise this technology will deliver?

The problem is I'm older now, I'm 40 years old, and this stuff doesn't change the world. It really doesn't.

That's going to break people's hearts.

I'm sorry, it's true. Having children really changes your view on these things. We're born, we live for a brief instant, and we die. It's been happening for a long time. Technology is not changing it much - if at all.

http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/4.02/jobs_pr.html
This is a chicken and egg problem: gamers are not attached to Steam, they're attached to the game itself. Having Steam in Linux doesn't mean all big titles will work in Linux overnight. Valves title alone won't be enough. It has been over two years since Steam supports Mac OS X, but number of big titles ported to the Mac is still relatively low.
Whoa wait, this article is saying that [some significant subsection] of government projects is something like an order of magnitude inefficient? Hard to believe, I bet next we'll see articles saying that [some other significant subsection of government] is inefficient, too!
I think taking a page from the native frameworks would be good here: Have a scroll start, scroll end, and nothing else. If you want to update during the scroll, you should be using requestAnimationFrame
Just because you built an API doesn't mean anyone knows or cares. Bizdev looks for opportunity and partnerships that will drive revenue for both parties. It is a type of sales; if the company puts time and effort into it, it is expected to produce revenue. This can take nurturing, creativity, and a real life human to make big revenue happen in most circumstances. An API -- from the perspective of bizdev -- helps reduce friction and provides a reusable framework for these partnerships.
JSTOR have said that once they had a guarantee the articles had been secured--which I believe means that Aaron claims he no longer has them and has not, and will not distribute them--they had no more interest in pursuing the case. This is the feds acting on their own.
The meaningless drivel of "kids these days" in this thread pretending they know X and how it works just makes me want to run down the street and scream (except for the very few who commented and really know).
Dude, if Apple is liked and their brand loved even more, that $xxx million spent on solar there is nothing, even if it's declared a total loss. So, in theory, you can be a total capitalist and "waste money."

My point was not to assume that this makes sense economically just because Apple did it. They have other ways of getting their money back and if they lose, it's just a rounding error http://finance.yahoo.com/q/cf?s=AAPL&annual

You sure have seen the Beyond Petroleum ads, haven't you? http://www.environmentalleader.com/2008/01/15/beyond-petrole...
Apple picked the wrong time to invest in NC. The citizens in NC can use the jobs, but are tired of politicians lining corporations' pockets with cash in the form of tax incentives, etc. So, it is going to get expensive to be stationed here. It isn't the new Florida; NC just had a few governors that thought they would be more popular if they threw away tax dollars on corporations that brought very few jobs in, because they knew the local papers and media would spin it in a favorable way.
I am amused that only one interpretation of the facts is considered, and not its bizarre consequences.

At the end it is mentioned that the real numbers from 0 to 1 are not enumerable. Therefore there exist real numbers that are not in any particular enumerable set. Now consider the set of all potential finite definitions of a number using a finite set of symbols. This set turns out to be perfectly enumerable. Not all definitions in it will turn out to be well-formed, numbers have multiple definitions (for instance 5/10 is the same as 1/2) and many that are defined are not in the interval (0, 1). But this is no barrier. According to the classical view of mathematics, the set of definable numbers in (0, 1) is an enumerable set. Therefore almost all real numbers in that interval do not have any possible definition.

In what sense, I ask you, does a number with no possible definition actually exist?

Is there another way to look at this problem? It turns out that there is. If you take the constructivist view of things, things only exist if you can lay your hand on a concrete construction. "Constructions" that classical mathematics does not blink an eye at may not qualify. In particular this "enumeration" over possible definitions, and being able to sort through to figure out which definitions are valid, and which are equivalent, and which fall in the interval, is an example of something that is beyond the pale. Why? Well many of the possible definitions are computer programs. Figuring out which of them actually define numbers means doing things like solving the Halting problem. Which we can't actually do.

From the point of view of constructivism, "uncountable" does not mean "really big infinite set". It means "really convoluted set structure".

Yes, I know that constructivism lost. Nobody wants to consider these odd questions. But if somewhere in the middle of a proof you ask what it all means, you may find that classical mathematics doesn't necessarily make that much sense.