skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Developed countries have their own sets of problems. Developed countries tend to be more individualistic. In countries like India, you live a more social life, you can't just lock yourself up in a room and cry for hours. It is at least true for sub-urban area. You may like it or not there will be people around you. Life is also less automated. At many places you have to go and pay your electricity and phone bills. You will be more engaged most of the time.
I'm not talking about cell tower triangulation, I'm talking about offloading computation to more capable hardware located remotely. It exists:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assisted_GPS#Modes_of_operation

I can't find anything about chipsets that only do that, but I'd be surprised if nobody had ever done it.
Vinod Khosla: Y Combinator Startups Need Help, Not Hype
boy, don't you feel sheepish, now that we know it was the Taliban that coordinated and planned these attacks?
The stronger side-effects the more effective placebos.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfRVCaA5o18
$100k and 100 Days to build a business
Try for an actual solution whereby most scripts have a few fine-grained capabilities or can only modify specific sites? Better UIs so that people are informed of what an addon is capable of? nah...

Security is hard; let's make shopping!
Also, arguably unlike social media, it requires domain expertise that many potential founders do not have.
With such strange definitions (e.g. open, lose, narrowly targeted, etc) ... I don't think we'll be able to communicate with each other; we don't seem to have even vaugely similar definitions (in this context, at least).

Maybe you're right, maybe 'open' will win. But if it does, I'm fairly certain it won't be your definition of 'open'. At the very least, it's not the case right now. The most successful systems/devices are most certainly not 'open' and are trending towards being 'less open' aka designed for that 'general population' that you so actively deny exists.

Thanks for explaining that rsync isn't an Android feature. That explains why I've been using it for the last decade on Linux and FreeBSD.
As I pointed out, my completely isolated GPS still gets a lock pretty much immediately, once it has the almanac. That is the limiting factor. It's hard to see how a barometer would help much, especially since it could be off by 1000ft or more when not calibrated (i.e. always.)
There's way too much nasty FIXME configuration stuff scattered all over the code (course name, institution home page, etc.) All that should be in (e.g.) a JSON file that gets read at load time.
The size of your hand is fixed. With a wider object in your hand you cannot fold your thumb over as far.
The genesis of instagram
That's because Afghanistan was a warzone and still is; but to make snide aspersions as to where these nations are 'stuck' based off of acts of wanton violence is wrong and belies a blind hypocrisy.
Well there's a key difference; Google doesn't exactly _need_ continued super-rapid user growth on Android. The reason slowing growth is a problem for Facebook is that it's the only way they could justify their valuation (or more importantly, grow their company), other than better monetization of users, which is their other Big Challenge.

Also, the hypergrowth of Android is essentially driven just by the hypergrowth of mobile devices (since it's the most accessible OS for manufacturers and thus consumers across the world). The point of Android for Google was to foster this rapid growth of smartphone adoption without being under the thumb of a single vendor (especially one as capricious and overbearing as Apple). If it ever gets to the point that the world is saturated with smartphones, Google probably won't care that Android isn't the majority of that growth anymore.
They're providing a counterpoint to the poster that said "google data" pointed them to Ord, Nebraska.
>a prepaid data plan

Is there even such thing in US?
Also, most likely they are not going to sell nano-SIMs for pre paid plans.
Totally, I was in Chicago for work earlier this summer and Apple Maps was completely useless. Luckily I still remember the transit from when I lived in Chicago a while back, but had I not had that prior knowledge I would have gotten myself lost many times.
Considering the new US embassy in London (special relationship! BFF!) will have a frigging moat, I think they try too hard most of the time.

It's actually ridiculous how they got caught out so badly in such an unstable country. Surely you wouldn't rely on "New Libya" military to buy you a packet of crisps...
From the bug report it looks like they will allow users to choose safe software sources. Presumably this means you could add userscripts to this list and regain the old functionality. It's just not done yet.

This change was made to protect users. Off-store extensions have
become a popular attack vector for compromising users of larger
sites (e.g. Facebook). Since the trend is only getting worse,
we're putting the power back in the user's hands by allowing them
to control where extensions are installed from. By default, the
Chrome Webstore is the only source, but users and administrators
will be able to add other safe sources as they see fit.
Vinod Khosla: “I Feel Sad Sometimes For YC Companies That Get So Much Hype”
When 3GS was released, it was an evolution of a 3G that was still at light years from competitors.
I guess he misspoke. Regardless of which app you're in or even if the screen is switched off, pressing the camera button for a couple of seconds opens the camera app. Whether you take a picture or video is up to you. It's much faster than fiddling around for the power button and then tap the camera button on screen.
What do you think about Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
Google, please.
A thousand times yes.

If you are going to use C, then at least know what it's doing!
In my experience, Scrum / Agile / XP tend to be more about the process than the results. I find these methodologies to be particularly useful for contractors and consultants, primarily because the value proposition for a consultant is much different than it is for an employee.

A consultant comes in and typically some sort of statement of work or master services agreement is agreed to by both parties, which outlines roughly the work that will be performed over the course of the engagement. Once work begins, some Agile hoops will be jumped through (storyboarding, etc) in order to further establish and agree upon the work that will be performed. This way, at the end of the engagement, when the consultant has been paid for 3/6/9 months of work, they can point back to what was agreed upon each step of the way and say, "See, we're delivering what was agreed upon way back when."

Employees at most software companies, and certainly at early-staging companies, don't work like this, nor should they. As a product engineer, your job is, in a nutshell, to figure out through software how to make the business work. There might be a high-level strategy laid out for you, there might not be. Either way, you're engaged in an inherently creative activity in order to devise and implement a solution to make users happy, and hopefully make money. Whether or not the employee delivered upon what was agreed to three months ago, or whatever the timeframe, is irrelevant (at least it should be).

The question should be, "Is your work having a positive impact on the business?". There is an inherent necessity to quantify "positive impact" when working with consultants, partly because they cost a lot more in the short-term, and partly because the nature of their work is generally less creative and more controlled.

So, if you trust the people you work with, and the company communicates it's vision well, IMO Scrum and Agile are too much procedural overhead. Of course, you have to meet those two conditions :)
$ CFLAGS="-g -O0" make simple
cc -g -O0 simple.c -o simple
$

This is so handy. I never knew that you could call make without writing a default Makefile. Thanks!
One cannot reliably obtain wisdom from internet forums, because as soon as someone there obtains wisdom, they depart.
The key is that it may be wiped. Files stored in /tmp are not guaranteed to survive boot. Whether or not they are there or not is a bit of a gamble (a regularly losing one should you choose tmpfs).
I updated the post to use unsigned long long for the values (which does not overflow)

I timed the calls again, but didn't bother to update the values in the post as they were within 1% of the original timings
pg:

Do you make a distinction between "solo founder who is and intends to remain solo" and "solo founder who just hasn't happened to meet the right co-founder(s) yet?"

Just curious, as I see those as being pretty distinct cases. With Fogbeam Labs, I was a "solo founder" for a year or so, before our second founder came onboard, and then it was about 8 months after that when our 3 founder joined up. I imagine other people find themselves in that place where they are open to (even seeking) a co-founder, but just haven't met the right person yet.

In any case, my thought, FWIW, is that a founder should keep working on advancing their vision, whether or not they have located (a) co-founder(s) yet. I wouldn't "stop the world" to do nothing but look for a co-founder.
There is a food shortage in Africa. One way to solve this would be to kill 80% of the African population.

The end (solved food shortage) does not justify the means (mass murder).

The means must be able to stand on their own.
Do you have any idea how hard it is to waterproof electronics? Not only do you need to keep water out of the device, but you also need to make sure that it can't collect anywhere and corrode away parts. There's a reason that hardened waterproof electronics are the way they are: big and heavy.

On the weekends, I go fly fishing. Full waders and everything. And I take my phone with me. In a plastic sandwich bag, which has kept the phone completely dry even after I accidentally submerged my bag. I could invest in a case if my phone spent more time in the water, but I don't feel the need to.

So yes, I understand your entire point, and yes, it IS pretty much down to wanting a pony.
I'm just guessing/searching based on your description, but Empower Interactive
fits your description fairly well.

http://www.empower-interactive.com/
Samsung to sue Apple for LTE use in iPhone 5
I'm truly sorry to hear this. Have you looked into ketamine? NPR had a story about it in January: http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2012/01/31/146096540/i-wante...
He doesn't really address the health care issue which goes from like $900 / year to > $25K/year as you move from age 25 to age 75. But the basic concepts are sound.
Is this a disabling of compression on both ends? No DEFLATE on either requests or responses?

Will a site using HTTPS be able to serve compressed assets (like javascript & css)?

If not, we’ll urgently need a way for site devs to whitelist precomputed (and thus immune) static assets for compression.
Thanks. I was first exposed to this in Zed's Learn C the Hard Way: http://c.learncodethehardway.org/book/. I think it's quite handy.
Not really. Many violent fundamentalists belong to religions with prohibitions against violence that they have to rationalize away, and they tend to be quite good at it. The only reason there's no violent Jainist fundamentalists right now is because it's too tiny and powerless to have any.

Also, think about what redthrowaway is saying. He complains that religious fundamentalists "believe that their fundamentalist beliefs must triumph over liberal democracy, and they're willing to blow people up in order to see that happen", yet despite this abhorrence to violence he's quite happy to blow other people up in order to make sure that his beliefs win. Violent religious fundamentalists justify their actions in exactly the same way - you could swap the two sets of beliefs around and this would make perfectly servicable al-Qaeda propaganda!
The real cost of an iPhone 5
Using a nice typeface provides an incredible boost to site design. I'm a very happy user of Google Web Fonts (PT Sans and Ubuntu Mono) on my site http://typing.io

Very small performance suggestion: minify the initial css!
It would for a significant portion of human beings alive today. We stand at and often think solely of what ends up being the 99% percentile of human capability, happiness, opportunity.
For certain situations like the one you describe, I agree. But for straight-up depression with no other exacerbating factors (and which responds to treatment), I think the statement still stands. It certainly helped me when I was suicidal.
I know this is a dumb question, but I haven't found a great answer to it yet: why does it matter how the salt is generated, so long as its done on a per-user basis?

If the salt is allowed to be "less than secret" (by which I mean it can be stored in plain-text, not that it should be published on your website), then what does it matter if it's "pretty random" versus "cryptographically random"?

What's wrong with something like this:

$salt_length = 22;
$cost_factor = 10;

$lower = range('a', 'z');
$upper = range('A', 'Z');
$numeric = range('0', '9');
$special = array('/', '.');

$salt_chars = array_merge(
$lower,
$upper,
$numeric,
$special
);
$char_count = count($salt_chars);

$salt = '';
for ($i = 0; $i < $salt_length; $i++) {
$salt += $salt_chars[mt_rand(0, $char_count -1)];
}

$hash = crypt(
$password,
'$2a$' . $cost_factor . '$' . $salt
);
I agree with geoffschmidt - domain expertise is difficult to acquire if you don't work in a large company and understand where the pain points are. Sales cycles are always going to be a hassle though and a fundamentally different skill set to acquire than building the tech.
termkit is a failure because it throws away forty years of unix history. it's not a shell to run in your regular terminal, it's not compatible with the legacy commands, it's not even an extra layer to provide support for new features. it's a complete re-implementation of the entire set, trying to do too many things at once.

something like kmscon will be more successful, because it does a single thing: provide hardware accellerated rendering to the console. https://github.com/dvdhrm/kmscon
This assumes that the number of times one can rotate before losing one's orientation is random. Presumably it is not only regular, but you might even get better as you practiced. Both of these would conspire to produce substantial autocorrelation in the generated series.
Please, do share! And thanks for the TED link :).
I think some of this gets back to talking to customers asap and getting over the fear of them telling you that they don't want your product. The faster they tell you what pains they really are having, the faster you can move in the right direction. But good pitches need the one sentence "here's who we are" followed by the one sentence "here's how we're solving your problem". Get that correct and people will at least know why you are worthy of taking their cash. And as he referenced, vitamins = where you spend spare change, health care (painkillers) = large $$
You could buy music directly on the original iPhone, no need to sync music over to it, starting with the 1.1 update about 3 months after release, 5 years ago.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IOS_version_history#Version_his...
Apple hired Benjamin Vigier a few years ago. Their mobile payment solution is Passbook which is currently not NFC based.
Sure, but a checklist is an aid to memory, not a set of prescriptive rules.
Ask HN: Recommendations of Physical Devise Assembly
Hello,

Does anyone have recommendations for an assembly / fulfillment house?

We are having all the components, plastics / electronics, manufactured in China, by separate vendors.

While we've been able to find plenty of suggestions for manufacturing houses, we haven't had much luck with finding recommendations for an assembly house.

Ideally this place can assembly the parts, flash the software, package and ship.

We are only planning on a 1000 unit run, so it would have to be some place that deals with low unit runs.

Thank you
This is an incredibly big deal.

If the customer didn't order it, it doesn't matter how well you coded.
Sample iOS 6 Passbook Web Service in Rails
Check out Nokia's accessories for Lumia 920. All of them pair with NFC and some of them even charge the phone. Without cables or connectors. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4zx2xy6VjE
Kul had an informative post about doing YC a second time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3520856
Not to be contrary, but why should any user not disable web fonts if they can? Unless they're being used as a set of custom vector icons (a la Wingdings), I can't see any real downsides. Without web fonts you never have to deal with the world's worst typography, your pages load faster etc etc...

Are we putting up with a worse user experience to gratify some self-absorbed designers? Is this all about letting them properly execute their "grand vision"?
It's not just what you put into it, but what you keep out that makes it special. More features means more weight, potentially lower battery life, more cost, etc. etc.
Samsung Galaxy S II Jelly Bean update should hit this November
There's a couple of Common Lisp projects that generate SSE and CUDA code:

http://common-lisp.net/project/sb-simd/
https://github.com/angavrilov/cl-gpu

CMUCL comes with SSE2. There hasn't been any effort to revive StarLisp or Paralations or NESL (http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~scandal/nesl.html) as libraries on top of that though. Not to be snarky, but the state of the art in data-parallel programming languages hasn't even caught up with NESL yet.
Putting Out The Bonfire
I disagree. Google had a monopoly on the maps market and was taking advantage of it. Apple's Maps app used vector images, brought 3d buildings to more cities, used higher quality textures, etc. They may have problems with it but I feel like the added enough innovation to force Google Maps to be better.
One thing I think SV companies don't try and do is actually figure out how to do disruptive startups that don't burn cash for the first few years.

I'm sure that's because money is so readily available in SV, but there's no actual reasons why startups can't be disruptive and still cash-positive early.

The main benefit of funding is actually social connections and social proof, not money, in my experience. (If anything, the money is a drawback, because it most cases it causes companies to do stupid things -- grow big when they haven't even figured out the product yet.)
Airplay
I'm currently reading The Silmarillion!

Highly recommend for those who would like to know more about the 'history' of Middle-earth.
Asteroide amenaza a la Tierra - Wikia News online
I would like to ask your criteria for deciding the best phone.

A few years ago, yes the iPhone was the best in specs and had the most innovative and unique features. I don't think it holds true any more.
Deeply hurtful? Are you serious?

The implication being that employees who work at corporations that make luxury goods don't have feelings worth considering?
How to Use “Filter Words” to Attract the Customers You Want (and Repel the Rest)
Can Ben Silbermann Turn Pinterest Into The World’s Greatest Shopfront?
This is a good idea for a post, but needs specifics.
I wish there was a way for page authors to disable user scripts.

Yes, I realize that users can easily open up a console. I'm not afraid of the users, I'm afraid of roque JavaScript being injected into a page that's reading sensitive data and using it for nefarious purposes.
I thought of 7X/18
>This really is a security feature and will undoubtedly help vast numbers of people.

This is the worst kind of "feature" (and a colossal personal annoyance), the kind that breaks functionality and/or convenience because some people don't know how to handle their browser. I know how to handle my browser. Why are you making my life harder?

How about a switch for big kids who don't need their hands held?

Note: If your answer begins with the word "fork", you lose.
I'm pretty sure we'd have funded him anyway. Trevor had tried his prototype and said it was good. The big advantage of Arash (and of good cofounders in general) was not that he got Dropbox through YC interviews but that he helped make the company successful.
Well if your only complaint is the design of the page (which is a fair complaint, a poor design can def. be annoying), then the whole "stop trying to confuse me into using Google+ when I just want to use Places" of your original comment is sort of a red herring, isn't it? Aside from having the name "Google+ Local", it's essentially equivalent to having the Places page undergo a visual redesign which you dislike.
Droid Sans Mono.
SF or LA: Software Engineers for OUYA video game console

OUYA is hiring full-time front-end and back-end engineers who are proficient in Ruby on Rails, Android and Java programming.
Work internally within the SF/Bay Area or remotely from the LA area (with occasional travel to SF).

- Ruby on Rails, Android, Java a MUST
- Security experience a plus
- E-commerce and payment backend experience a plus
- Hardcore video gamers preferred

OUYA is a record-breaking, Kickstarter-backed video game console designed to be inexpensive, open and hackable.

Link to our Kickstarter page:
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ouya/ouya-a-new-kind-of-...

Our web page:
www.ouya.tv

Please reach out at jobs@ouya(dot)tv
Actually the comment about shit slinging falls outside of the logical point I was trying to make, which is that there are indeed things here to be impressed with that he omitted from his list. No moral high ground.
I think both ivanr and thatwonthelp were suggesting that any non-secure site (same origin or not) can be hijacked in order to make the requests necessary for this attack.

I understand and agree with your comment about the secure flag, but if I understood ivanr's comment it doesn't apply.
> Injustice means one thing for me and another for someone living in China.

Why? That standards of living are higher in some places than others is no reason to be negative about attempts to change the status quo. Drawing attention to this has resulted in improvements, even if there's a long way to go. People always want things to be someone else's problem. The good news is that, looking at history, these things usually get better over time.

> There's no need to crucify Apple or Foxconn over this.

These are their own workers. They are directly responsible for the conditions in their own factories. The notion that it's China, so it's reasonable to expect them to be treated like crap doesn't sit well with me. That may be how things are in much of China, but it says nothing about how things ought to be in China. You could complain that if so, they ought to improve things, but that's exactly what they are doing here: bringing the issues to light so they can be dealt with.
Any technology product that promises to cure anxiety, depression, or stress is going to fail. Technology is a large part of the problem.
How old apps run on iPhone 5 screen?
Should Google be censoring videos just because they are linked to violence?
From their perspective, we started the fight. If only we'd kept to ourselves, they'd have no quarrel with us. There's been a huge amount of really violent and nasty and selfish Western intervention in Africa and the Middle East and indeed most of the world since before you were even born.
Yeah, and after 1945 all Italians had been "resistance fighters", of course; saying otherwise would have put your life in danger. Every revolution has its special tribunals.

I suspect, 10 years from now, the well-educated youth who grew up in secularist and nationalist Arab regimes, will think they made a big mistake when they toppled them. Like Coptic Christians who badmouthed Mubarak in Egypt, they didn't know how good they really had it.
I don't think this is it, he said it's more of an web based application. Empower's product is DVD based. But thanks for taking time to search. I wonder what search terms you used (I tried a lot of combinations before asking HN).