skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
1. I'm just guessing, but my feeling is that the 5 was well into its design and testing cycle well before 2012. I don't know how long Apple's cycle is but I've hard that just getting network approval from some carriers can take as long as 12 months. It wouldn't surprise me if they had working near complete prototypes as far back as 2010.

2. I think it's specific manufacturers, not the aggregate community of makers. It makes it easier in some ways to target the largest builders instead of every random builder of cheap handsets one at a time.
"DoesNotExist" error.

At first I thought it was a joke related to the title, but now I see that it's just a Django error page. Made me chuckle at least.

Here's a cached version in the meantime: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache%3Athrow...
A Comprehensive Guide to Starting Your Freelance Career
Law applied to some recent HN headlines:

How Much Is a Fun Job Worth?
No.

Ask HN: Why is wikidot.com blacklisted?
No.

Ask HN: What is your ideal income?
No.

Which educational technologies are worth betting on?
No.

Ask PG: What Is The Most Frighteningly Ambitious Idea You Have Been Pitched On?
No.
LOL. I think the error message appropriately describes the Canadian tech sector. BTW, I am Canadian.
It is their moral responsibility not to initiate attacks. They can morally use patents only defensively.
I feel like yesterday's announcement has left a news vacuum that is trying to be filled.

The announcement was not so amazing that the cheers are deafening; nor was it so disappointing or controversial that the opposite occurred. So, instead we're giggling at Jimmy Kimmel videos and long iPhone photoshops.

Perhaps this is why Apple hasn't announced the iPad mini yet -- to make sure the iPhone 5 gets a bit of time in the limelight. If it was announced yesterday, few people would be talking about the new iPhone today.
Wing Commander creator Chris Roberts working on new space combat game
wait. the Author's name is Terence Eden, and who is the author of the quote appeared in the text?

"Harvard – one of the most prestigious universities – awarded an MBA to George W Bush. A man many of us wouldn’t trust to sit the right way round on a toilet.

– Terence Eden"

Wow, I haven't never seen someone who is so narcissistic about his own quote before. Don't quote yourself. If you would like to, you may repeat yourself; but don't quote.

Quoting is for referencing somebody else that support the point you are making, possibly from a more credible source than yourself.
...Its interesting....before Google all the investors were saying that you could not compete against yahoo....and before you could not compete against IBM....and you could not compete aganits microsoft....All this was BS then and it is all BS today...
It kind of works like seatbelts. You can't prove that the fact someone fastened seatbelts had saved one from death in the accident that already happened. Some people survive, some people die. But the relative proportion of those two cases is the matter of scientific studies - that's the first method we have to determine that seatbelts help save lives. Another one is a mix of physics and common sense. It's better not to be ejected from your seat at high velocity and fly through glass. In the same way, it's better when the screen does not hit the ground (as rubber cases are bigger than the phone and thus protect from impact) or hits, but with much smaller velocity (as rubber absorbs the energy from collision with the ground).

So yes, we can't say much from all the anecdotes here. But there are strong reasons to suspect that phone cases are a net win in protecting screens from damage.
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Ironically, SCRUM creates a sort of anti-zealot too. The kind that compares no SCRUM as giving "good, self-disciplined devs a little freedom" and having SCRUM as equivalent to "micromanaging them to death the scrum zombies".

SCRUM has basic principles that I don't think are egregious to any dev. Mind you, there's a million and one ways to mis-apply them, like patterns, frameworks and other things devs take for granted.
Foundry Group's Brad Feld has a new book on startup communities
I agree with your comments on the benefits of cooking as many meals as possible from scratch, and on the idea that it clearly was possible for people decades and centuries ago to avoid getting fat.

So absent some pervasive non-dietary effect, we should be able to stay thin by eating like our grandparents.

On the other hand, we don't want to be spending limited resources on things that don't solve the problem at hand. For instance, as the American Heart Association and American College of Sports Medicine stated:

“It is reasonable to assume that persons with relatively high daily energy expenditures would be less likely to gain weight over time, compared with those who have low energy expenditures. So far, data to support this hypothesis are not particularly compelling.”

If we tell people to go running during their lunch hour, and then they go eat at MacDonald's because they don't have time to cook, it's probably not helping the situation.
I really like what ReadyMag http://readymag.com is proposing in this area.
It's not necessarily ridiculous. Unless you are very unusual and have sought out independent primary sources (i.e., not sources assigned by a professor), everything, and I mean everything, you think you know about slavery in the American South has been filtered through the minds and pens of abolitionists and their intellectual descendants. You convict slaveholders based on the prosecution's arguments alone, not only without hearing from the defense, but without being aware that there's even a trial.

None of this is a defense of slavery. It is a defense of careful, rational, deliberative thought—no matter the subject.
i don't disagree with what you're saying (and i raise the question of efficiency in the link). my point was more about the sociology of the complaints: i think most people are complaining because they're used to generics and don't have the tools/smarts to solve problems in alternative ways.

i think the general conclusion from this thread is that generics would be useful because, at the moment, if you want top performance, you need to have type unsafe code in critical loops.

that sounds quite reasonable to me...

...so maybe i am just an arrogant bastard that doesn't think much of fellow programmers. but i suspect that most people, when they complain about generics are not making that argument. they're simply complaining because it's not what they are used to.

as i say, i may be wrong. i may be a horrible man. if people want to convert/improve me i suggest they start making comments that are a bit more nuanced than "i miss generics".
I don't know about you but I felt like those people they interviewed on the street are acting, this whole interview thing could be staged. I mean, it's Jimmy Kimmel Show for christ's sake. How serious is that?!
Love the "Go slower" idea. Would be very refreshing, if more people started doing this.

Then again, I am very much at fault for talking too much and too quickly on twitter.

However, I'm not actually certain what your product does.
Rails is a Rack app too. While I agree there are diminishing returns the lower in the stack you go, your original reduction is misleading.

The choice between Sinatra and Rails can reasonably be debated, but there's little reason to write a JSON API in Rack unless you need control of protocol details that neither abstraction provides. Sinatra/Rails are frameworks, Rack is middleware.
You know you've been working in undersea robotics for too long when you see this and think "cool, a cheap DVL for land robots."
I am not taking sides. Don't have all the data. I'll just say that there's a huge difference between "Research & Development" and only "Development". The first is far more time consuming, risky and expensive. The second is a clear and guided roadmap that you simply follow to completion.

I used to be an idealist. I bought the whole idea of "just build a better product" without question. And so I did. Many years ago I embarked in the development of electronic products for a specific industry while trenching new territory and bringing new ideas to the user base. I opted not to file for patents because, well, they were expensive and I was going to just beat them with a better product. Or so I thought.

The first product took about a year and a half in R&D. Lots of work. Lots of problems to solve. Lots to learn. It finally got out and we did really good business right out of the gate. Hundreds of thousands of dollars per month. Eight months later competitors came out with devices offering about 60% of what we were doing at half the price.

It nearly killed the business. A six month month run with a hardware product isn't enough to recoup your R&D. Our competitors had the advantage of only having to do the "D" part because they copied and stole as much as they could. Never mind the fact that they did not have to trench new territory and actually test to see if there was a market there.

The lessons I learned during this period were invaluable (and very painful). Patents do have reason to exist and should not be ignored. People will cheat and steal in business the first chance they get. It takes a special kind of person to honor an agreement without the threat of serious financial harm through litigation if violated. People will violate NDA's and use them to get your ideas and insight under all kinds of pretenses.

Business is war. I was an idealist. An idiot. Live and learn.

I don't know about the Apple vs. Samsung issue. Frankly, I don't have the time to dive into the details. Even if it did, it would be a huge waste of my time as I have nothing to gain from such an exercise. Not taking sides, here's hoping that the courts get it right.
This psychodelic background "rainbow" + music from the video gives me a trip.

Yet still, might be quite attractive for hipster sapiens.
Nexus S had a 4-inch screen (but it had an aspect ratio of 5:3 not 16:9, which means it had a noticeably larger screen than the iPhone 5).

This is a good opportunity to remember that we measure screen size by the diagonal. Which might be misleading if you are comparing screens of different aspect ratios. Most people seem to think Android tablets have a larger screen than the iPad (10.1 vs 9.8 inch), while the iPad has a larger screen because it's 4:3.

For those interested:

http://www.silisoftware.com/tools/screen.php
UX design guidelines are coming; the designer who is working on them gave a talk at MozCampEU last week. (Only the slides are available for now, but a more detailed write-up should be posted soon.)

https://wiki.mozilla.org/MozCampEU2012/Design-Principles-beh...
Both of those have potential as interfaces for music.

http://www.stick.com/instruments/

After looking a bit at the above site, I'm also thinking that they have potential as interfaces for teledildonics. (This is both serious and a joke at the same time. This goes for the whole field.)
one of those full circle type things -- it's far enough behind us that it's now funny and hip
Aggressive product-killing patent suits are not the norm, nor are they part of "the system" or "the game" as it's traditionally been practiced. Tech patents have been used to drive revenue: invent stuff, file patents, find infringers, negotiate for a royalty, sue if you can't come to agreement and eventually settle for whatever royalty you end up with.

Apple isn't the only bad actor in the mobile space right now. And other companies (c.f. Rambus) have been much worse in the past. But it's just not correct to argue that they were "forced" to act this way by their obligations to their shareholders. Don't make excuses.
I would recommend that get_object_or_404, with the 404 page enabled, would be better suited for this application. Very similar methods, but this way just handles all the heavy lifting.

https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/topics/http/shortcuts/...
This suggests an augmented reality approach where the icons are arrayed on a curved 2D surface in front of you, with your iPhone being just a window onto it. Or, heck, why a surface when you could have the whole sphere surrounding you? I'm pretty sure we could pack thousands of icons onto that, and just think of the awe-inspiring demos.
Design Your How: Collective Values (or Herding Llamas)
Demo of the CRIME TLS Attack against Stripe/Dropbox/github
Erik Meijer has — for sometime now — advocated treating Javascript as a target language.

This fact would be unremarkable except that a few years ago he advocated bringing functional programming to the .NET platform and we ended up with LINQ.
However, there are some very sound business decisions behind us chosing to go ... with cheaper, low-end devices. I'm sure they know what they're doing more than I do!

I'm not sure. Gecko is faster and lighter than Dalvik now? Since when?
Yup, and Xamarin's put it to great use on mobile devices.

Incidentally, Microsoft's got their own line of mobile devices that run their own implementation of .NET which doesn't currently support real AOT compiling. (Just ngen.)
I felt the same way. I bought a $1 bumper case off Amazon and it completely improved the feel of it for me. Also saved the screen on numerous occasions.
Depends on what you mean by setting pi = 1.

You can subtract (pi - 1) from every number, giving you a translation of the real numbers.

You can divide everything by pi, giving you a slight compression that ultimately doesn't mean anything.

You could use it to create a field extension of the rationals, giving you a http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algebraic_number_field where {1, pi} is the basis.

But to answer your question: probably nothing.
Show HN: FileBeam
Im not sure if high def is the right adjective:
https://www.scrollkit.com/s/plIhCWv
It was already broken with groupings.
You are right. I'm still new in this site and don't know how to upvote comments so I wrote this.
Not specifically about Down Syndrome, but here is one study with children with IQ below 75:

http://books.google.com/books?id=bNfuX26mSsAC&pg=PA151&#...

Note, however, that an IQ below 75 falls in the bottom 5% of cognitive ability. I highly doubt that it's possible to infer impact of these drugs on individuals in the upper 5% of cognitive ability (exactly the folks that are the most interest in boosting their intelligence to stay competitive -- software engineers, medical/graduate students, etc...) from these studies.
My school district is a pretty well regarded one in my state. I also contribute over $7,500 yearly in property taxes to fund this district. "Relatively" affordable is a complex idea as far as I see it.
Evidence for high-temperature superconductivity in graphite powder
If Only CardMunch were an API… Oh Yes We Did
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Google Glass and the Future of Technology
Watch the video. That's not native performance. It will never be native performance, because there will always be the layer of the rendering engine between your application and device. The best they'll ever do is "close enough to native that you don't notice", and they're certainly not there yet. And the number of apps is already in the millions? Give me an example of one app out there that's in the same ballpark of quality as the stuff you can find on iOS or even Android.
I don't know wtf happened... here it is again.
http://throwww.com/a/1ft
Insight on how Jack Dorsey is wired
A similar argument applies to people who always leave their furniture covered.
There's a bug in the back of my brain wondering if the recent round was Adam buying Charlie out.
Because Apple.

The notion of a "perfect" screen size makes exactly as much sense as a perfect ring, glove, shirt or shoe size - none.
Exploitation is not a neutral term in this context. By using it, you implied that there is something unfair, unjust even, about Foxconn's (and, by implication, Apple's) treatment of its workers.
I'm not sure about what you mean by retina, but there are Android phones with both higher PPI and larger screen than the iPhone 5.
> a target site which uses TLS and SPDY

Note that the article says that the vulnerability applies to TLS /or/ SPDY -- in particular, it sounds like TLS+DEFLATE sessions are vulnerable, even in the absence of SPDY.
Placing a case on a phone is like putting a plastic cover over your couch. I don't get it personally. Use and enjoy the disposable hardware and then get a new one a year or two later.
Acer has enough capital to make these toys in comparison.

OSM was a satisfactory equivalent to AAPL -- to the point of deliberately not acknowledging it (ie. worth stealing). As for f-droid, with all the iFart App clones culled is a definite win for mental health epidemiology.
I'm with you. But what about being tired of the "I hate Apple" shit?

I'd almost be for a total ban on anything that mentions "Apple" or "Android" from HN. I'll bet the site would improve 10-fold with no loss of useful info.
How much radio wave energy is around us at home? at the office?
"The web is the most advanced publishing system we've ever had but the process in which most people publish is backwards next to print."

There were probably similar things said about the shift from hand copied books to using printing presses.
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When using a preprocessor you don't have to minify your source for production. You can compile it minified with all @import rules processed. Some preprocessors contain helpers for CSS spriting, some let you directly inline the image in a data-uri.

A good tool like SASS/Less is not something to sneeze at without researching fully.
I like it. Lots of personality, you know they're there to make it fun.

We could do with a return of the GeoCities self-made-page aesthetic (with improved aesthetic sense, of course) on a web where everything on the big sites is neatly templated and identical in layout. Amidst all the consistency, I've been missing the touches that used to make personal sites unique. All people do on their blogs now is throw on funny pictures; the format/layout is never broken, or it simply can't be.

This is a good reminder to us to break the mould whenever we feel it's appropriate (or whenever we feel like it).
OK, the problem with your argument is this bit: "Eight months later competitors came out with devices offering about 60% of what we were doing at half the price.
It nearly killed the business"

If the HTC G1 "nearly killed" the iPhone 3G, then you might have an argument. Though it would depend in sensitive ways on things like whether or not Apple had made back its R&D costs over the year of Insanely Great iPhone sales. (The fact that that phone wasn't made by Samsung seems kinda important too).

Needless to say, Apple made out sorta OK under the Google/HTC onslaught of '08/90. So why cite something like this as a related anecdote when it clearly doesn't apply? The kind of damages you posit don't exist, so why sue to recoup them?
The Data-Annihilation Attack is Back
This is a good point as well, and more in line with what the original commenter was asking.

Using pi as a base is even briefly discussed on wikipedia. I had some interest in using e as the basis for a while, since (as is pointed out on wiki) "The base e is the most economical choice of radix β > 1 (Hayes 2001), where the radix economy is measured as the product of the radix and the length of the string of symbols needed to express a given range of values."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-integer_representation#Exam...
I agree that the total lack of structure in Sinatra can be harmful at times, but don't blame a technology for your team problems.

That's just the bad workman blaming his tools for the faults of the toolbags he works with.
“In the Studio,” Bloomreach’s Ashu Garg Brings Machine Learning to Big Data
We're a tool for people to make webpages without using a template, so they can start from scratch with a totally blank canvas. You can see the sort of things people are making here: http://www.scrollkit.com/s/I6QWRuK/
I'm confused, how is this hacker news?
We’ve decided to post one more video of Curiosity’s because it is spectacular.
Anonymous’s Barrett Brown Arrested for Threatening FBI Agent, Anon Retaliates
0.25 wants to chew on my phone every time it rings if it's within reach.
U.S. Cellular builds a virtual Wi-Fi network with Devicescape
2pac Hologram Makers File for Bankruptcy
Well it is a kind of hack
It makes scrolling feel horribly slow. What would be potentially interesting, though, would be to ensure that scrolling on the timeline stops at the top of the next picture.
http://www.springerlink.com/content/v6t6k526405vm570/?MUD=MP

Reading the Wikipedia entry for Piracetam exposed this double blind placebo controlled study.
Definately agree. I think a good alternative is something I used at my old job (when I wasn't required to run a clunky ide). Just use tmux for window management. Use vim for your ide. Use the shell for interacting w/ the OS and automating things. Then I use firefox with pentadactyl so I rarely have to ever resort to the mouse. Not the best dev environment, but I'm too lazy at this point to learn/develop alternatives. Maybe one day...
Perhaps I'm being idealistic, but that rationale does not sway me.

Having an obligation to shareholders is not an obligation to pursue profits by any and all means not expressly prohibited by law.

If I'm wrong, and that this is in fact what having shareholder obligations truly should mean, then we have a much bigger problem than the patent wars.
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Woz made the original Apple computers on a single board PC and did a good job for what they were but has done nothing since and never was a good businessman. Why does anyone think his opinion means anything or carries any weight? From everything I've read, he never had good business sense and I would just do the opposite of anything he says.
(Unfortunately, formatting is lost)

a) With a more complex type (I don't see how this would affect one more than the other)

Functional would be:

foos = map(foos, func(f Foo) Foo {
return Foo{f.A * f.A, f.B * f.B}
})

Iterative is:

for i, f := range foos {
foos[i] = Foo{f.A * f.A, f.B * f.B}
}

b) Composing various operations. Composing filter + map:

Functional would be:

x := filter(map(numbers, func(n int) int { return n * n }), func(n int) bool { return n % 2 == 0 })

Iterative is:

x := make([]int, 0);
for _, n := range numbers {
sq := n * n;
if sq % 2 == 0 {
x = append(x, sq)
}
}

c) Swapping the container type is just a matter of swapping "_, n := range numbers".
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Preprocess THIS
Fight Trainer Steward suggests Chavez Jr. and Pacquiao are taking Steroids:
THAT'S THE JOKE.
> The world can only process the introduction of so many mobile operating systems at once?

If there's a subset of the world for whom an iPhone or a high end Android smartphone is just a pipe dream, then the pipe-dream devices won't be much of a distraction.
Ya that's how I felt the first time I saw it too. The 7-day free trial is what got me. I used it constantly for those 7-days and was really sad when it was over.

Now it's the unconscious first place I start for any new idea, be it a new app, website, page, feature - whatever. Start a new mockup, put a text area on the screen and start typing my ideas into it like I used to do with pen and paper.

If the idea gets beyond this stage I just start dragging and dropping. What used to take hours with an awkward combination of Asana/Photoshop/pen&paper now takes a fraction of that with far more iterations and better results.

Can't sing the praises of this product enough.

However: there are many free alternatives if you just want the ability to make wireframes and don't need something great/wont use it often: http://moqups.com is the latest I've come across. There are lots more.
Just goes to show how stupid the average Apple buyer is. What a bunch of bozos.
I've played a bit with pattern matching as a DSL on top of JavaScript:
http://jsfiddle.net/ntoshev/q8Ayw/1/