skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Anyone who's interested can still check out the git repository at https://github.com/venomous0x/WhatsAPI. They didn't remove the actual commits yet.
The Most iPhones Ever Is Still Not Enough
I might not be the target demographic, but when you're trying to revive a dead horse, you would think your target demographic would include people who use any browser, not just the ones you approve of.

If there's one thing I do know, Opera has a very large, very loyal following. Not sure what motivated them to simply discount these people as possible users. Not smart IMHO.
Build Links by Maintaining Relationships
> The author raises a good point about page load times not
> really being minimized and lack of thought around good
> responsive design

The author has likely not experienced the wonders of setting images as DIV backgrounds, then setting @media screen and (max-width: 320px) { #ID {display: none; } }

Or even going that (oh so tedious) extra step of sniffing browser signature at the server-side, and negating higher bandwidth assets.

Effort. Try it sometime. ;)
Great work implementing what was discussed here: http://notes.xoxco.com/post/27999787765/is-it-time-for-passw...

For previous discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4308190
>esoteric open source architectures with no applications in the real world

Why does an open source architecture have to be esoteric? It could just as easily be conventional. We don't know for sure that ARM will be as popular in the future. Presumably aim isn't to teach individual intricacies but rather the overall concepts.
I do not necessarily disagree with you that I'd prefer a username/password, but please be nicer than "this is a dumb idea" - someone spent quite a bit of time making this work.
Link bait and wrong on every point. This article is a waste of time to read.

On each point...

1. Where's the proof? Where's the research? The usability studies? The group surveys? There is NO evidence presented to support this point. It's just opinion and conjecture. Moving on.

2. Any actual numbers on ROI or expected ROI? Nope. Moving on again.

3. Again, any usability studies to back this up? No. Next!

4. Research? Numbers? Proof? Nope. And on to the last...

5. It's not a subjective decision when designers use things like evidence (something you obviously know nothing about) based on usability research and studies.

I have no problem with people speaking out against something (though the comment that there is a lack of arguments against responsive is a joke - there's probably just as many articles against as their are for due to link bait like this), but when you do argue against something, you need to present proof that shows you're right.
Also works on my colleague's HTC & Huawei phones - it's not just TouchWiz.
When I was a kid I got my indroduction to programming on TI graphing calculators. They are unfortunately expensive (though pretty much every American school has boxes of them sitting around already) and lack the pinouts that Arduinos have (there is an IO port which isn't great, and USB which... is ok.) but they are otherwise fantastic for this purpose.

The TI-BASIC on them is dreadful slow so after you cut your teeth on it and learn the basics of just what programming is, you are encouraged to switch to assembly. In the case of most of those calculators that will be Zilog Z80, of early PC fame. On the higher end calculators you get Motorola M68k's, which you can also program in C fairly easily.

Plusses over Arduino are the keyboard and screen. Downsides include the lack of shields. Anyone who really gets into it is probably going to want to get an arduino anyway, unless they really lack an EE muscle.
Libertarians have defended Somalia after people tried to use it as a reductio; quite explicitly, too, consider Leeson's "Better Off Stateless: Somalia Before and After" (http://peterleeson.com/better_off_stateless.pdf) which is pretty much what it sounds like. Hence, bringing up Somalia is perfectly fair.
One thing I don't understand - if licensing issues was the reason why Apple and Google fell out on maps, can people on iOS 5 continue to run the old maps, or will it stop working sometime in the near future?
No one believes that the US is going to use its nukes in all but the most dire circumstances.

Does Iran fear that the US will nuke it? No. But it does fear a traditional war.
I don't think it's "android feautre", I've seen this on a few non-smart phones in the past. I don't know which one though as I owned few of them over the years.
Medication non-compliance is a big problem.

About half the English medication budget (£4.5 billion of £9 billion) is wasted because people don't take their medication correctly. This isn't just the medication for little things either. A major cause of transplanted organ problems is people not taking the meds correctly.

Not great sources, but:

(http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/science/casenotes_20040817.shtml)

(http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/science/casenotes_20060509.shtml)
Guy Kawasaki prefers Android. So he uses an Android phone.

I'm looking forward to the follow-up: "Guy Kawasaki on why he gave up pizza because he was frankly more in the mood for a hamburger for lunch."

I'm happy that he found the mobile device that fits his needs, but otherwise I just really don't care. I prefer my iPhone. I have little opinion about what other mobile operating systems people use.
VICE co-founder Shane Smith is doing a reddit AMA at 11AM EST.
Can someone please write an article about what happened to Gizmodo after antenna gate? Seems like they're all pretty traumatized by the whole legal problems caused by it and are holding a pretty big grudge.
I used Impact two years ago on something and I was so impressed with the API simplicity and power (not to mention the fact that it ran very well). This guy does great work.
The index.htm page crashes in Chrome (Version 21.0.1180.89) with the "Aw, Snap!" error.
The issue seems to be the direct manipulation of the ".class" attribute of some object in JS.
Except the outliers, as you mention, in which case nothing will help. True psycopaths cannot be reformed.
Imagination. moe's got it. If as Brin suggests, Glass is available next year then scanning QR codes is one of the brain dead obvious launch apps for it. QR codes will be less variable and more reliable (under arbitrary conditions) than OCR at that point as well as being able to hold more information per square inch. They will be quickly translatable and displayed as human readable information floating in front of your face - with little to no effort required on your part.
Linux programming on embedded systems is much more closely related to PC Linux programming than it is to "bare metal" embedded programming. If someone wants to pick up embedded programming, they should start with an Arduino.
Breaking up with a co-founder
Especially since the average male lifespan was around 35 years up until a few millenia ago. Are you saying that most males died before they reached maturity?
Publication in Nature is not so much for newest information on your specific and somewhat narrow subject, but for more or less breakthroughs of various degrees.

From guidelines[1]:

- report original scientific research (the main results and conclusions must not have been published or submitted elsewhere)

- are of outstanding scientific importance

- reach a conclusion of interest to an interdisciplinary readership.

[1]http://www.nature.com/nature/authors/get_published/#a1
Biggest proof that this article is wrong? I'm on my phone reading the blog post and the site doesn't scale for my screen width and it is so annoying to read because I have to keep scrolling left and right to see all of the text. I got so frustrated I didnt even continue reading the article and I left the site. That is what will happen with users when a site doesn't display properly for their device, it's a fact.
I believe that because we are talking about quantum effect energy, then it is a case of any form of measuring would effect it. That is to say any attempt to extract (which could be deemed a form of measuring/observing) any energy from it would be at the expense of the source. Can think of it as quantum friction if that helps. Perhaps a betetr way to explain it would be a atom, which has the classic solarsystem effect with orbiting electrons. Now we have managed to tap into that energy and that is the atomic bomb and later nucleur power stations. Now you know in those cases the original source of material/energy is changed and that is it in a nutshell, by measuring/observing/tapping into that level of energy will effect it and in a way introduces friction into a frictionless state of energy.
Doesn't this need some kind of browser plugin to set your cookies with? Most websites don't have secret token URLs that will log you in, right? What about sites that issue cookies per-IP? Maybe I'm misunderstanding the mechanism here, would love clarification.
I really appreciate OP's honesty/humility, and (presuming you're right franze) it shows that even things we ourselves consider to be dead-ends, may in fact be useful to different applications.

I'd be very happy to see lots more of these interesting experiments - regardless of outcome.
Twitter mulls a replacement for follower counts
"That said to get a drug through phase III trials shouldn't cost more than about $20 million."

I would have to seriously disagree with that statement.

I've spoken to a number of CROs that run clinical trials. They estimate that it's somewhere between $10K and $20K per patient per year to run a phase III clinical trial (the exact number depends on what kind of data you are collecting).

For example, if we look at a cardiovascular drug where you're trying to get data to support improved patient outcomes (not just reduced cholesterol, but fewer deaths), you'd need to run a trial of 20,000 patients or more, for several (think 3 to 5) years.

For example, look at the JUPITER trial http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JUPITER_trial

Figure out the math on that: 20,000 patients * $10K/pt/yr * 3 years. I get $600M for ONE trial.

Keep in mind that the FDA requires TWO pivotal trials to gain approval for a drug.

Of course, this is an extreme example. CV drugs and the trial described above are pretty much the largest trials you'll ever see. However, to say that getting a drug approved through phase III should cost more than $20M is clearly wrong.
The stations generate more power (via solar) than the cars use while charging. There is a net REDUCTION in energy use if you charge solely from these stations and I'd imagine that part of the business model is selling the excess energy back to the power companies. I'd bet that getting certified for this sort of thing is also a heck of a lot easier than getting certified to build a solar farm. Pretty smart move I think.
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Great idea. 99% of website accounts I create are only accessed once or twice to purchase something or to leave a comment or get access to something. I use KeePassX to generate passwords for most of those, but most people use passwords that are either repeated, insecure or forgotten.
Of course, it's a classic PR move (and one that Apple has used quite frequently in the past) to brashly deny that you're building a product up until the day you release it.

Whether or not it's true, what's genius about Eric Schmidt's statement is that it puts the ball entirely in Apple's court for the maps fiasco. He makes it sound like Google was perfectly content to just let things keep working as they had been, and that it was Apple who unceremoniously ended things for no valid reason, where the truth was almost certainly more nuanced than that.
Agreed, and the articles about Woz saying Android is better are also more of the same. Given the number of column inches of coverage I'm surprised I've not seen a more rigorous set of metrics observe, I wonder if I'm just missing them in all the noise.
A Short History of the ER Diagram and Information Modeling
I AGREE. Responsive design is only NECESSARY 1% of the time, and is poorly implemented 99% of the time. Most modern mobile devices can show full desktop site scaled down, with pinch-to-zoom functionality. Personally, I get annoyed with "mobile pages" and responsive layouts.
Interesting! I created Node-Five with a similar goal in mind (low-level graphics and audio from the HTML5 spec):

http://documentup.com/arturadib/node-five

Glad to see someone had the same idea for iOS :)
> friction towards but later take them to be fate accompli

Two malapropisms in a row, or an iOS autocorrect?
I still have one in my junk electronics box in the basement. It's what I always think of with QR codes.
Automotive First, Tesla Pushes Over-the-Air Software Patch
From the link you posted:

"Atheism is the view that there is no God. Unless otherwise noted, this article will use the term “God” to describe the divine entity that is a central tenet of the major monotheistic religious traditions–Christianity, Islam, and Judaism."

From the Wikipedia article on atheism:

"Atheism is, in a broad sense, the rejection of belief in the existence of deities. In a narrower sense, atheism is specifically the position that there are no deities. Most inclusively, atheism is simply the absence of belief that any deities exist. Atheism is contrasted with theism, which in its most general form is the belief that at least one deity exists."

Now from the Wikipedia article on theism:

"Theism [...] conceives of God as personal, present and active in the governance and organization of the world and the universe. As such theism describes the classical conception of God that is found in Christianity, Judaism, Islam and some forms of Hinduism."

I don't have any a better source than Wikipedia, although you could check the footnotes, of which there are many. My basic claim though is that atheism doesn't just mean that you believe there is no god, it means that you believe there is no theistic god. (Hence the word.) Theism is the belief not that there is a god, but that there is a personal god.
I wrote a trivial webpage (using the show IMEI USSD * #06#), served from my desktop with Lighttpd. It certainly can be executed via a simple web page using a frameset on both Chrome & Browser, and there's no prompt. Works on a Huawei running 2.3, a Galaxy S2 running ICS, and an HTC.
Rights don't exist for individuals period. Groups define rights not individuals. Groups do so in their own self interest which we must temper to protect the weak from the strong - to do otherwise merely leads to revolution or collapse. If you want those - have it at - somewhere else.
I purchased ImpactJS after picking the "Creating HTML5 Games" book about it. I was really surprised with the quality of the toolkit and how responsive the developer is. I think it was the best investment I made this year and I can't wait to release some games.
It's beyond difficult for costumers to agree on 30min waits between 3h runs.
Unfortunately, editing doesn't allow me to change the URL. I posted the source I found it through, but if mods want to modify the destination, be my guest.
A lot more slides and details here:

http://www.treehugger.com/cars/tesla-unveils-its-supercharge...
The iPhone 5: What’s Missing Is App Discovery
Via quantum entanglement, possibly? I honestly have no clue either, but they hint at entanglement, and they don't seem to be worried about observation:

"Peng Zhang, another co-author and member of Zhang's research group, notes that a space-time crystal might also be used to store and transfer quantum information across different rotational states in both space and time."
This is incorrect.

I would agree that universities do a large part of the basic science behind new drugs, but they do VERY little pre-clinical work (pretty much anything beyond simple receptor/enzyme bind studies).

Pre-clinical work is done by CROs and biotech/pharma. The resources required to do pre-clinical work is enormous. Membrane barrier penetration, microsomal metabolism of drug product require a very large investment and there aren't any universities I know of that have large enough R&D programs to support it.
No you don't

import (
_ "fmt"
)

Try it.
I couldn't disagree more.

Most importantly, I'm not sure it is safe to say users expect an IDENTICAL experience (experience being the most important word) on their mobile as they got from their desktop.
Apple hardly use any sidebars (web/iOS/OS X). Even in the new iTunes they removed the sidebars. I can go on with the examples.
The Decentralized Social Network - A Nerd's Wet Dream - Curtis McHale
I find it amusing that a page discussing passwords/security would throw a couple of SSL certificate warnings when loading it.
Even embedded programming doesn't require the level of openness that he's whining about.
I was also told Somalia might be a good choice for me when I was arguing against widespread government surveillance.

It's a strawman used by the intellectually lazy to posit that anyone who disagrees with sprawling government that has its fingers in everything must necessarily prefer anarchy, a form of government of which they have a quantum of anecdotal evidence showing it is not ideal.

I didn't see the original essay as Randian, did you? I thought the argument was that these things aren't ideal and there's no way to opt out; in fact for some people there's no way to opt out of even their native country.
At lanl.gov, we've been developing a ton of stuff related to distributed problems, recently we wrote a library for abstracting self-stabilization for single-mount petascale filesystem treewalking that extends Dijkstra's original design: https://github.com/hpc/libcircle

We have a detailed paper on it coming out at SC12.
I'm not ignoring it -- people used to make mixtapes for friends and copy games on 5.25" floppies (see the classic "Don't Copy That Floppy" -- but only when online distribution became a reality did people start arguments of the nature that "IP should not exist on this category of entity."
That's the Steve Blank definition. In the end of this essay, it seems to come around to that point of view.

You're committing to search for one of the rare ideas that generates rapid growth. Because these ideas are so valuable, finding one is hard. The startup is the embodiment of your discoveries so far. Starting a startup is thus very much like deciding to be a research scientist: you're not committing to solve any specific problem; you don't know for sure which problems are soluble; but you're committing to try to discover something no one knew before. A startup founder is in effect an economic research scientist. Most don't discover anything that remarkable, but some discover relativity.

Not exactly the same, but has the searching element.
> but it transparently stores and compares UTF-8 strings

Thanks for this good news! The last time I tried Lua it didn't work. UTF-8 is ok, full Unicode is not necessary.
It could be a good strategy for Google to turn iOS people to Android. Why offer such a good competitive advantage to their competitors for free? If Android has top quality maps and iOS has poor quality maps, it may not sway a lot of people to go with Android, but it will surely sway some people to go with Android.
It's all green for me on chrome. What's causing the issue for you?
I'm 95% sure this bug was fixed between ICS and Jelly Bean.

I'd been using the app Hidden Menus (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.lorenx.and...) which stopped working at the ICS -> JB transition. You now need to type USSD/star codes manually.

Perhaps this puts a new face on the Android OS update/fragmentation problem.
AppRadio Hacked to Run Android on your Car Stereo
Just curious: Why rest stops every 20 miles? I'd imagine that the rest stops are going to give you traffic issues from people merging off and on. They're obviously necessary, but I'd put them every 150 miles, which still gives you a break every two hours while preventing the need to deal with 150 different merges along the trip.
I've never been interested in hot code-swapping; I find it's sufficient to just take that resource out of the pool, give it the new goodies and then boot it up again. I know the Erlang runtime can do this, but I've yet to find a good use case.

As far as std{err,out} redirection, does Node.js have no Unicorn equivalent?

Daemonization (and respawning) should be handled by a process supervisor, like supervisord/Upstart/Monit or whatever. They can do more than just 'this process died, restart it.'

Also, most of this logging code didn't need to be written:

https://github.com/indabamusic/naught/blob/master/src/log.co

Just use logrotate.
Google Indoor Maps launches in France - Airports, shopping malls & more
do you have a source for the proficient/96% stat? I'm not doubting the claim, but I if I want to use it I'd like a source.
A friend of mine has been working on this non-stop. It is a very cool end-result.
[Defcon20CTF VM] help pls accessing tcp6 service bound to specific interface
Since GA is non-deterministic, you will never know how long / for how many iterations ( generations) to run the GA for.

If one could get a pretty good compression in around 200-500 generations, then perhaps it would be a good solution.
Show HN: Do usability testing? We're building an app that saves you time
If your focus in pure money ROI then I supposed you would be right. At some point, however, we need to vote with our wallets to influence larger investment decisions. At the early stages of adoption per-unit costs will be higher than volume manufacturing. This is where Tesla is at this point (and the EV segment as a whole). If I continued to buy internal combustion vehicles because they were cheaper then I would continue to prop up a segment that needs to either be deprecated or pivot.

At this price point I am willing to vote with my wallet in hopes that it will spur on further investment to broaden the market in turn driving down prices through better technology and higher volume sales. This is no different than the PC market in the 1980s - very expensive to buy a PC, but if none of us did then we would have had a different outcome.

What is different about this investment than, say, buying a Ferrari is that this feels like something that is moving us forward rather than burning cash on a cool car that the ladies will dig (although you do hope for that as well - it's cool being green after all, right? :)).
He is without a doubt right about this part

"I think the size of [the Nexus 7] is perfect. I love the size. I think that 10.1-inches is just a little too big for me for reading. My test for a tablet is that if you fall asleep and the device hits your face, does it hurt you? The seven-inch doesn’t and the ten-inch does, so that’s my test!"

I am really suprised i have not broken my nose with my ipad yet.
This is really great. There's quite a few places where I'd love to sign-in like this.

The one area where I think it would fall down is logging into web apps that have multiple points-of-entry. Such as chartbeat(phone app and website). I don't see how you would be sent a link to log into an iPhone app. Or could you be sent and email with multiple links: one that goes to the site, another that flings you into an app?

The best implementation would be if web apps offered this in the preferences area with a check-box saying: "Enable NoPassword" (so you don't offend any traditional password lovers or confuse people that just might not understand it).
This is it...exactly what the industry needs!