skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You raise a good point by highlighting that this book focuses on British examples (not to mention provide really nice links!).

However, I think the most important lesson in this book and other publications like it, is not in its specifics, but in its general message.

Too many people blindly trust pharmaceuticals, too many don't even consider them "drugs", because "drugs are bad" but pharmaceuticals are good. Books/Articles/etc like this are essential if people are ever going to realize that just because a doctor hands them a pill, it doesn't mean that pill is safe.

The lazy and apathetic will never shift their focus, but hopefully books like these will inspire more people to do their own research before popping an unknown,name-branded chemical into their mouths.

All it takes is a google search of "Active Ingredients of 'X'", and then five minutes of searching "Side Effects of 'X'", or "Interactions with 'X'" to prevent potentially harmful ingestion.
Thank you, sir! I feel 1000% less stupid now.
Right now, the frame's source is tel:*%2306%23
Fred who and AVwhat?

The posters sent that site's credibility down the drain years ago. Good riddance.
At least they avoided a 'zombees' pun. I'm not sure I could have resisted.
A very good start point I would say.
- he worked for apple almost 25 years ago.
- He spruiks his book for Google+

Im a big fan of Rules for Revolutionaries and Art of the Start was OK but since then I havent read anything that I have been impressed with.

Not sure how his start up portfolio has faired:
http://www.garage.com/portfolio/
Well, thanks.
Testing this myself, any USSD code that begins with * # launches the device's dialler with no characters dialled. Looking at the list of codes:
http://umitem.blogspot.com.au/2010/10/samsung-galaxy-s-i9000...

The factory reset appears to be the only USSD "auto dialled" code that doesn't begin with *#. Which is rather unfortunate.

Edit: Actually, the IMEI code works on the Galaxy S2 running 2.3 (just tested) but not the Galaxy S3 running 4.0. My above comment refers to the S3.
Can't post comments on the post anymore... This just me?
Any plans on making it usable without XCode? (or a Mac, for that matter.)

Since the users just write javascript code, as long as you give them a way to insert that code into an app, they wouldn't really need to use the XCode build system at all (I know, app store rules would need to be addressed...)
Untrue in my experience, but if you're experience has been positive that's great. I've done the mobile first approach and found that for anything with interactions that are more complex than a simple blog or other content driven service it does add significant time and effort and the quality of the desktop experience typically also suffers as most of the focus is on polishing the look and feel of the mobile browser experience in addition to addressing each and every browser quirk between Android and iOS.

I'm a fan of responsive/adaptive designs but based on experience just dont' feel I can always recommend the "mobile first" approach to startups. Perhaps for more established businesses that can afford the extra design effort, it's fine. I still have a lot of reservations though.
This guy is a hacker in the truest sense, I read a blog post over a year ago about him tinkering away on this. It didn't seem he'd take it this far. It's a great achievement and I'm glad he's been insightful enough to keep it free.
Only in the US where Pyrex is made by World Kitchen. In Europe, Arc Internationl still uses borosilicate for Pyrex-brand glass. Also, FWIW, a popular US glass bakeware manufacturer claims tempered soda-lime glass is stronger while still as heat resistant as borosilicate:

http://www.anchorhocking.com/Bakeware_Facts.html#BORSILICATE
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Giving people food and welfare, makes them dependent on the state. Once you're dependent, you have no incentive to progress through your own hard work.

Giving handouts does far more harm than good. It keeps people down.
My mistake - low system resources on the P.O.S. laptop I'm issued with.
The NFC chip might be small but the antenna is HUGE.
It looks like it does not work. It opens telephone keyboard on my S3, but except that nothing happens.
EDIT: i'm using Jelly Beans
That's inherently wrong, if only because there's no one who knows the actual statistics. We know that it's possible to develop a drug for less than $20 million, how much pharma actually spends is indeterminate.
Responsive Design doesn't have to be a pain if you just do a little bit of thought, research and planning, and a little bit know and care about your craft. Let the content inform the design, and plan from the start for flexible designs.

It is going to get a LOT easier when I'm done with the next revision of Edit Room... Designing to multiple custom breakpoints is amazing... [1]

Going responsive and flexible does involve a leap of faith, and articles like this one are from folks who have not yet taken it.

[Edit Room is fast, flexible design prototyping and css animation.](http://www.edit-room.com)
My professor argued that keeping even publicly funded research and data behind paywalls will keep at least some of the people who have no idea about the scientific method from doing dangerous nonsense with it. I don't share this opinion.
Yup. %23 makes the #-sign, making the number *#06# which is the default IMEI code on most phones out there.
I feel we may be arguing without me having properly defined what I meant, so I will try to remedy this. Consider the following code:

a, _ := some_computation_that_may_fail()
b := f(a)

In Go, if there was an error in `some_computation_that_may_fail`, the call to `f` will be made with a undetermined value for `a` and we end up with an undetermined value for `b`. This is why I say that there is a path where we can use `a` even when we shouldn't.

Compare with OCaml:

let Some a = some_computation_that_may_fail () in
let b = f a

First of all, the compiler will warn you that the pattern matching on line 1 is non-exhaustive and will give you an example of a failing case (here, it will simply be `None`). If the programmer ignores that warning and runs the program anyway and the computation executes with an error, the program will fail at the first line, and thus the second function `f` will never be called and `b` will not contain an undetermined value.

I hope this clears up what I meant, I apologize that I wasn't clearer in the first place. Cheers!
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No problem, I would have suggested a helpful correction but I was completely lost. On that note, I just though how funny it would be if autocorrect just had a WTF? when it was completely lost.
This is for real. Just confirmed the auto-execution of an USSD code on a Samsung Galaxy Mini II. Try the link below to see whether your device is vulnerable:

http://www.tinyurl.com/samsungexploit

It will show your firmware version by executing *#1234#.
The information density of QR codes is much higher.

In a few years many people will also be walking around with AR-glasses (e.g. google glasses) which may very well scan the codes automatically and overlay them in the viewport with whatever they want to represent.
How would you read the state? If, at the lowest energy state, there is no energy output, would even photons change the state? If so how would you read the "time" from it?

Does that make any sense?
I'm new at this. Who put money into TLSA expecting a short-term positive return, though? That's what I don't get. Google, or Apple, I could understand. Tesla? Seems silly.
JUST bought an 830...
The database class before it was explicitly Coursera included exercises using relational algebra where any expression that produced correct answers in the general case was correct.
Ah - I had missed that. Thanks, that makes a lot more sense.
well I actually used the opportunity to increase my rate, but to work it out I used a rule of 8 hours a day and rounded up to a nice figure that's easier to sell.
Anecdotal "data point": my wife works in the biotech field. For one very large company they had a drug developed that worked but had to be dosed dependent upon weight.

Marketing felt that doctors would only use the product if it was simple enough, so they made it a one-size-fits-all dose.
Because academic journals are products of inelastic demand. Researchers need to publish to keep their jobs[1]. Thus there is absolutely no incentive for the channels through which this publishing occurs to offer free access.

[1]By the way, being able to publish is especially necessary to receive public funding in the first place.
Getting Started with Storm was released!
Fake laptop in exchange for a fake payment, sounds equitable.
Google says there's no Google Maps app for iOS6
This is why LWN has never jumped into Google Checkout. Google is a great company in a lot of ways, but they just don't do customer service. When it comes to your revenue stream, it's really important to have somebody you can actually talk to.
Social signals to rate hosting providers.
Using twitter and possible other social signals, they can give you an accurate idea of how well a hosting provider will perform.
You're forgetting that old, less capable devices are still widely used, all around the world, and will be for many years to come.

Don't forget a basic principle of the web: Accessibility.
I dunno, they came enough schematics that you could interface anything you wanted to the user port and read/write to it with what we now call memory mapped I/O. RS232 was a universal standard, the most you would have to do is physically make up a cable. Both the Beeb and the C64 came with a manual that explained to you how to patch the OS (via vectors). On the C64 you could even switch the entire OS out and get its entire 64k of address space, just you and the hardware.
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I switched to a galaxy note in February because there wasn't anything as compelling and new out from Apple at the time.

My previous iPhone 3gs managed to do a lot for me. The iPhone.4 didn't interest me at the time because of the antenna, and the 4s seemed underwhelming.

I realized then Apple was no longer pushing the envelope with what my smartphone could be, or do, and it was about maximizing product cycles.

On the other hand, Samsung had the gall to release a phone like the Galaxy Note. I didn't know if I'd like it, and it turned out I was burnt by having 3 year old gingerbread on it with no upgrade in sight, I realized whether or not I liked it, Samsung seemed to have assumed the role of being the cutting edge.

iOS is totally more optimized out of the box than Android to use. ICS has made large strides forward but it still requires me to spend time customizing my phone which I didn't, or couldn't.

Will the iPhone 5 win me back? if it came out last year I probably would have been writing this post on it right now.
Personally I think they would take off if we had some sort of large plastic dedicated device that plugged into your computer to scan these things. Perhaps shaped like a cat; people like cats.
Simply put, Responsive design is only worth it if you do it correctly. Just because your site scales with browser dimensions does not mean that it scales with user expectations. There are a few rules to follow:

1) Test on as many devices as possible, even if you are using a tested framework. Your design is going to be different that what the framework author(s) have done.

2) Be agile and responsive to your users. Just because your responsive design is amazing doesn't mean that the user experience will match.

3) Catalog your "must have" features, such as search and navigation. Make sure that these "must haves" are present and accessible across all your designs. Loosing navigation on mobile means dead ends for your users.

4) Related to #3, keep your experience consistent across your devices. Perhaps mobile users do need a different site, but don't loose the core purpose of the site. Mobile shopping carts need to function as similar as possible to their non-mobile versions.

5) Responsive !== Mobile (sometimes). Just because the design scales with browser size doesn't mean it's ready for mobile.

6) Use a framework whenever possible. I don't care how smart you are, it's smarter to use a tested framework at least once. Even if this means that you eventually build your own, it will give you an idea of the conventions to follow.

7) Frameworks are awesome, but none are launch ready out of the box.

8) Find your dimension breakpoints, and what they'll do to your design. Don't go too crazy though, you don't need to design for every conceivable screen dimension.
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Yeah, doesn't exploit my Galaxy Nexus, though.
Ok, that helps me understand where we differ.

If I understand your statement correctly, you are classifying God as a kind of dogma, which makes the notion of God a sub-concept of religion.

Fair enough, I have the opposite relationship which is that God as an independent concept of religion. My claim was that since several religions share the same God, God is an independent variable.

One of the nice features of my taxonomy is that you can throw out the entire system of dogma for a given religion and still believe in God. This seems to be the underlying mechanism in a theological conversion as well.

I recognize that if you're understanding of God is entirely dictated though the teachings of a particular religion, that it can be difficult to reason about God independently of those teachings.

Not unlike trying to reason about how a computer's CPU works if your only exposure is through a single programming language. It is hard to know which constraints or features of the CPU are part of the architecture of the CPU and which are artifacts of the expressive power of the language.
My buddy created KillNanny, an app that hacks a touch screen car radio named AppRadio, so that you can run your android directly through it. His still-beta efforts can be seen here:

http://appradioforums.com/Thread-KillNanny-Video

It is very cool, even though it is still in an early state.
> By the way, being able to publish is especially necessary to receive public funding in the first place.

Being published in Nature gives you bonus points when it comes to funding. Which I don't quite understand, cause Nature is like the last journal where I'd look for newest information on my subject.
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I once saw a QR code advertised in a Buenos Aries subway station that was just a QR code and nothing else. No graphics, logo, or ad copy around it. So having some time, I scanned it. It was just text, not a URL. (I don't remember what the text said. But it was basically just "buy slurm!"

Seemed pointless to me. This is how the public interacts with QR codes - they can't do anything that can't be done by pasting TEXT where the QR code would be.
"I love NFC, I love the fact that you can have a live widget that shows you emails."

My Nokia 701 running Symbian Belle does both of that, runs Qt apps. Nobody gave up their iPhone for Nokia though.

Nobody cared about beautiful open source Qt as a mobile framework contender driving Qt and Meego down into the dumps.

Closed garden? Nobody cared about apple's "walled garden" when Richard Stallman had been preaching against it for years/decades for the right reasons. Not because he finally found it inconvenient.
<!DOCTYPE html>
Seconded. This works beautifully as proof-of-concept against my S2 and a colleagues random HTC phone.

<html>
<frameset>
<frame src="tel:*%2306%23" />
</frameset>
</html>
I'm saying that in many cases, you don't have two projects, you have just one, which is that of the website built for desktop/laptop screens. Could be a cheap client, or a short-term project that doesn't require a mobile site, etc.
I have both an iPad and a Nexus 7. For a couple of specific things (docs, etc.) I find the larger screen size of the iPad to be handy. However, for most recreational and daily use, I find the Nexus 7 to be a better size. Functionally, they're pretty much do the same things. iOS has a better UI, Android better customizability.

If I had to pick one to use for the rest of my life, I'd go Android, without regret, for the open platform.
Surely increased demand for a resource should, long-term, drive the price down and not up?
Your moral values seems to hold that individuals have few rights, and that collectively we should operate from the principle of infinite risk aversion (i.e., the Rawlsian veil of ignorance). Great - we all agree that if these are your values, Libertarianism is not the political philosophy for you.

Individuals have no rights. Rights only exist within the context of a group. Without a group, you're not talking about rights, you're just talking about ability.
Which company sells the most isn't really relevant (to this particular topic) - check out what Wikipedia has to say on specifically S3 sales, with plenty of citations: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samsung_Galaxy_S_III#Commercial...
Right, but after designing the first ARM (on a BBC Micro), and ARM was spun out of Acorn into a separate company, Sophie Wilson went to work for Broadcom on their Firepath DSP chip. So all these guys are connected.
s/anarchism/libertarianism/

While there are certainly strains of individualist anarchism, the dominant tradition has been that of socialism, which stresses the importance of community and social relations. You seem to be confusing the maxim of "no rulers" with "no rules".
IMO the built in framing is one of the things I really like about websockets. I'm sure it will become my transport of choice for non performance critical messaging even when a browser is not one of the peers.
Yes, this is how it works. I tested a Galaxy S2 and HTC with Chrome and the stock Browser - both spawn the dialler and pass the code which triggers automatically on the terminating '#'.
There are a lot of cases where responsive design just isn't a good fit, and something with complex user interactions (like a lot of web apps) is often one of them. Responsive design is great for things like content sites, galleries, informational sites... most forms of content publishing. Anything that requires the user to actually create and/or manage large amounts of data or has a lot of interactive media, however, would probably benefit more from a dedicated mobile site and/or app.
So why wasn't the 2 minute full charge time that Better Place unveiled several years ago the tipping point?

This is an incremental development and nothing more.
This is an opinion. People are allowed to have them. The article may make points that some (many) don't agree with, but that doesn't make them not valid. That said, the title of the article inflates the argument.. just a tad.
Kayaking, fishing, hiking....generally outdoors type stuff.
And it does not play nice with aluminium casing. It is basically mutually exclusive choice.
This is dumb idea and requires that you open your email to login to a site that you want to use. Faster is just typing your username and password and pressing the login button. Anyway browsers make this even faster by storing the username and password.
This reads like someone's justification for their own lack-of-talent with media queries and CSS, or their laziness toward creating an optimized experience for all users.

"Responsive" is a trendy buzzword thing for what solid digital designers have been doing ever since Netscape 0.9b tossed alignment into the image tag (among other things)... paying attention to how a design looks on multiple screens. We just have more screens and means by which to optimize for those screens now.

And I'm really not sold on "mobile first" either -- feels like another short-lived trendy buzzword thing. Scaling a mobile design concept up to the desktop is shorting your 1024w and up users. Designers who care think about all screens at a design's inception... then plan the CSS accordingly.
I was going to read this article, but since I'm using an iPhone and your article isn't responsive.... I didn't read it. Responsive is about capturing your audience. This article is the perfect example of why you should do responsive.
Get out your resume, throw it away, and talk to us like we’re human.
WhatsApp threatens legal action against API developers
I had a Sharp Zaurus (PDA) before smart-phones were available and I loved it for the same reason. On the other hand, the ADK is much easier to use than the Qtopia (or is it back to QT Embedded?) system was and between the proliferation of Android hardware devices and the number of Java-trained programmers, I don't think it's a surprise Qtopia lost.
Very cool! Unfortunately it's blogspam from http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2012/automatic-building-mappin... would you mind posting that instead?
The S3 was released four months ago, not in 2010.
I do not subscribe to the libertarian point of view. I considered 'armoring' the post against this exact accusation but it was long enough as it was without that but I guess I should have seen it coming.

You make a mistake in that you think that I disagree with the actual laws, I do with some of them (specifically: the obligation to buy certain products or services without the right to negotiate) but on the whole I agree with the 'package' and it is write there for you to read.

Selfishness doesn't enter my book, I gave away plenty of goods and money in my life to people that needed my things more than I did (or made the case that they did). In fact, I probably gave away more than I'm left with, I wonder if you can make the same statement.

Yes, the weak should be protected from the strong and I'm weak in plenty of ways. But I have this curiosity about why things are the way they are and if we can do better than this.
My favorite Guy Kawasaki quote is in connection with the launch of windows 95, when someone said that windows is now as good as the Mac. He response was

"Saying Windows is equal to Macintosh is like finding a potato that looks like Jesus and believing you've witnessed the second coming".
however, although the resulting file size is smaller,
once gzipped it actually leads to larger files than
by only using minification, therefore this is a
totally useless article,

no, it's not. mobile devices have a relatively small cache size, and assets are cached in non-gzip-ed form. so non-gezip-ed filesize is important (on mobile, that is)
Oh yea. If you paste an image into OneNote, it'll auto-OCR things and index them.

If you record audio into OneNote, it'll index the audio, synchronized to any other notes. I've used this on multi-hour meetings, to jump right to places where I think one party said something. Amazing.
I won't: Accessibility is very important to me.

Though I see a difference between access to design and access to content.

I think it is fine to just serve up a reset-CSS for 2008 blackberry devices in a few years, like some now do for IE6 browsers. I don't think it is reasonable or necessary to expect designers to create responsive designs that translate to 2008 blackberry devices (or IE6 browsers) and also work on the future devices of our choice.
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Of course I would. That's part of managing.
Works on a stock Galaxy S2 with Samsung ICS, and a random stock HTC (colleague's phone). Triggers IMEI display via dialer from both Chrome and Browser :(
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I'm not entirely sure that's correct, but you're still talking about a multibillion dollar industry ("big nutri") claiming oppression whenever they're expected to show objective results.
This seems handy. I already knew a lot of the companies within the bounds of the configuration specs I listed, but found a few new ones.

I'd love to see digitalocean.com on there (maybe I missed them?). No affiliation ... just saw someone link to them recently and would be curious how they stack up with the others.
Outcry over jailed Russian chemist
Also you are kind of putting all your eggs in one basket...