skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The key to it working smoothly in the past is that all the manufacturers had standards-essential patents. So then if other manufacturers ask a lot for their patents, you ask a lot from them for yours and one way another you come to a cross-licensing agreement (because otherwise neither of you can sell any phones).

The problem with Apple is that they refuse to license their own patents for any reasonable amount, so the other manufacturers come in and ask them to pay the full ticket price for the standards essential patents, and Apple starts crying about how expensive it is when they refuse to offset the cost by cross-licensing their own patents like everybody else.
Are the fraudsters using the charity website itself for confirmation that the card works?

Could you run them off by just always displaying success for any sane-looking small value donation, without leaking the result from your payment processor?
At the risk of being labelled as negative, I'm going to disagree. The majority of people just don't care. They don't care about politics, about science, about reason or about anything outside of their day to day lives and relationships. That's how it's supposed to be.

As it turns out, the average person isn't brilliant, anointed or blessed (this is due to the meaning of the word "average"). Saying that everyone is "brilliant in their own way" is a cop out, a platitude that's no better than saying nothing at all. Intellectual curiousity, love of learning and scientific rigor are real things, and a large number of the humans on this planet don't possess them. If you object to the idea that Neil DeGrasse Tyson is more brilliant than most, then you're in danger of losing touch with reality.

If NDT is showing any arrogance, it's in thinking that he has the ability to raise the level of public discourse. He's really smart, but apparently not smart enough to realize that no amount of education can change the basics of human nature. You can teach people how to think, but you can't make them like it.

A laughably small number of americans vote in presidential, much less local elections. And many of those voters have only the shallowest understanding of the issues being decided upon. deGrasse Tyson has a point...education may be democracy's only hope.

ASIDE: I'm noticing rampant selection bias on hn. It's important to remember that most of the people on this planet are nothing like us. Working at tech companies and hanging out at tech events it's easy to believe that everyone is as intelligent, reasonable and hard working as our family and coworkers. Most people just don't have the same love of learning and/or hacking that we do. While we value knowledge and intelligence above all, most humans don't and there's nothing wrong with that.
I tried both and know your feeling. Geckoboard seems to support more services but Ducksboard has a far nicer UI. Shame we can't merge the two together.
This is actually an amazing paper - well worth reading. It's like a long list of what not to do in your application (even not a security-related one).

Looks like in a couple of days running Sophos may be more dangerous than not having it installed at all...
If both are bad, why do you care which one you chose? I would opt for voting the current one out of the office, since at least it sends a message that you are not approve what the person is doing.
I have an idea for such a sentence!

"We're not Google Adsense"

I am just happy to see competing services in this space. Adsense has shut off many publishers and stonewalled them. It could happen to you, and it could happen to me too. We have to embrace new services and nurture them.

I will be trying this one for sure.
I do that stuff, and would love to talk more. I'm based in St. Louis but can be mobile.

http://dylanhassinger.net :: d@dylanized.com
They'll probably be able to patch this. Most likely it's a simple oversight
I just love it when I click on some deep link into a site, and it redirects me to the HOME PAGE of the mobile site, with no way to get to the page I was actually interested in.
Occupy Sandy hacks Amazon Gift Registry (in a good way)
So going on the 3mil figure they put out, that was around $400mil profit in 3 days.
Scattered votes will have very little impact. The most impact we can have as voters in locked states is in concentrating on one party to boost for now. Party status and funding is based in part on percentage of the popular vote, so concentration is necessary for that visibility. While I wish it were more viable to vote in a manner I abhor less, I recognise it would be a better bet to shine light on the viability of third parties by bolstering one first.
It's definitely fun to mess around with. Nicely, done!
Quick question: why do repo and gist counts cap at 100? I haven't looked at Github's API myself yet, so there might be a technical limitation here that I'm unaware of.
Response by Sophos:

http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2012/11/05/tavis-ormandy-sop...
Are tiny combustion engines practical for RC aircraft?
...Which unfortunately falls short when you need to do anything more complicated than transforming dates between local time and UTC. If you need to, say, display a Date in Pacific Standard Time to a user agent in Helsinki, you absolutely need something that understands the timezone database.

I've found that timezone-js [1] does the job.

[1] https://github.com/mde/timezone-js
Google tried this, but to a first approximation nobody used/uses Hotpot/Google Places/Google+ Local.
I think you're reading too much into it. The point is everybody hates (or at least complains about) their elected leaders, despite the fact that they keep electing them. Rather than complain, he chooses to educate. That is "arrogance"?
The extent to which really obvious pandering is effective makes me disagree somewhat. There actually are a lot of very ignorant people.
Github pages and prose.io would do the trick for you then.

I really like Ghost, but as a front-end to a github-pages/Jekyll powered blog. It'd be exactly what I'm after.
That was only materials and manufacturing costs. The real margin is lower. Subtract advertising, software development, hardware design, etc
ntm shipping
New Xbox 360 dashboard update brings Internet Explorer to your console
Show HN: Command line issue tracker
How to super-protect a wireless network?
McDonald's Monopoly promotion may be a gimmick as well, but it increases same-store sales by 5.5% while it's running.

This will likely increase sales for Exec in the short term too.
Yeah, there are a lot of technical limitations that we had to work around. Mainly, everything is paginated with a max per_page of 100. We decided to only analyze the 100 most recent gists and repos to not have to worry about that.

For commits, however, we couldn't not analyze them, so we do a ton of processing. Basically, we loop over every one of your repos and loop over all of the pages of commits for that repo. For big repos (i.e. Facebook), that means we end up doing 100s of async API requests...it gets pretty intense.
What is it doing while "processing"? A progress bar would be a good idea.
Sophos patched some of the vulns back in October, and the rest today.
It's a lot harder to email paper? there aren't many good paper VCS? Paper is great for quick sketches and has its place. Digital is good for lots of other use cases. Maybe use what suits on a case by case basis?
The attention to detail is superb. This is the first complete set of mobile widgets which I would actually use on a website, as well as for prototyping.
I wish it worked on my 1st gen iPad. I get the first component, but everything after that is semi-transparent.

Sounds great.
I said it below, but the big chunk of "processing" is looking at all of the commits for all of your repos. There's no good way to access this data, so we essentially loop over all of your repos and than for each repo loop over all the pages of commits--a lot of API requests.
Or any site running the dreadful onswipe.
I'd much rather use features that are consistent and that I am familiar with on my device (zooming in Mobile Safari) than every Tom, Dick, and Harry deciding how they are going to cripple their site because User Agent =~ /Mobile/.
Unlocking the secret of life, apparently. At least, that's what it says it's doing now, after complaining that nobody else had got this far. It's been about 5 minutes...

...maybe it would have been wise to start with a table of existing entries that could be resolved quickly. I don't use Git and couldn't think of any accounts off the top of my head, so I just set 'abc' against 'xyz' on the theory that those usernames were likely to exist. UPDATE: I'm getting the behavior with Obama v Romney and indeed Jesse P v Remy G. Maybe the server's just overloaded...
Looks like everyone else has discovered this too. I'm getting back messages that I've discovered the secret of life and still no results...
Appreciate the effort, but there's some huge errors there. The reactor you mention will fission 1,500 kg of one isotope, U-235 -- out of some ~50,000 kg of nuclear fuel (3-5% U-235, rest being useless U-238), and 300,000 kg of mined uranium (mostly U-238, most of which is thrown away in enriching from 0.7% to 3-5% U-235 fuel). OTOH, your classroom uranium cost is for natural uranium, 0.7% U-235. So you're underestimating cost by 2 orders of magnitude at least.

Here's real numbers from the industry [1]. You use $90/kg. They say on the the order of $3,000 per kg of reactor-grade UO2, which is $60,000-$90,000 per kg of the U-235 isotope.

On the flip side, you're greatly overestimating fuel usage (your assumptions are equivalent to about 6 mpg mileage), and you have a unit error where you accidentally multiplied by one thousand (45 kW * 2,500 hours = 112 MWh, not GWh!). So the figure is about 1/3,000x yours: about 5 grams U-235, or 100 grams reactor-grade fuel, or 1 kg of natural uranium. Costing on the order of $300.

This doesn't apply to (imaginary) nuclear cars. With reactor-grade fuel, you need hundreds of tons of uranium, and hundreds of tons of moderator, to get a critical reaction. This won't fit into a car. The only way to approach a reactor this small is to use highly enriched fuel -- "weapons-grade", which is not sold at petrol stations. This is how they miniaturize reactors to fit in submarines and space satellites (like [2], not an RTG).

If you did try to build a car like this, it be pathologically wasteful. The amount of HEU would need to be several kg or more, to have a critical reaction at all. But because a car uses so little power, you would burn less than 1% of it (several grams) over hundreds of thousands of miles. Extrapolating (using [3]) enrichment costs ($150/SWU from [1]), the fuel cost would be on the order of $300,000. And almost entirely wasted.

[1] http://www.world-nuclear.org/info/inf02.html

[2] http://www.etec.energy.gov/Operations/Major_Operations/SNAP_...

[3] http://www.wise-uranium.org/nfcue.html
hey Swizec,

> The reason for waiting is I don't have enough money saved up for a buffer to tie me over possible/probable dips in freelancing income. I think this is a good enough reason for waiting.

There are always plenty of reasons for not doing stuff, but life is made up of the stuff that you do, not of the stuff that you postpone.

There is a song (in French) about a guy that his whole life long wants to go see the gulf of Mexico, and on his dying bed his wife tells him 'If you'd have had any guts you would have gone there to see it'. It's a pretty rude ending to an otherwise perfectly sweet song but there is a grain of truth in there.

You're young, fairly talented. You could likely land anywhere and make it, and even if you don't it'd be a fantastic adventure and you'll be smarter and with a broader horizon regardless of the outcome. I've moved countries several times and likely will do so again at some point in the future so this is not me telling you how it could work in theory. It can work. It can work for you too.

One way in which you could finance your move is by working free-lance for companies via the net. I know a few people doing this right now and they can pretty much work from anywhere in the world. Enjoy your freedom while you're still mobile, young and healthy.
True. But those are fixed costs that can be spread out over millions of devices. Some estimate that 2 million iPad Mini's were sold this weekend (http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9233257/iPad_Mini_iPa...). Given that a couple more millions will be sold in the future, you could accommodate $10mil+ for a few bucks.

Note that the 3 million figure is for both the new iPad and the iPad Mini.
What's the average eCPM you getting publishers?
A working Node.js runtime for Chrome
Postgres for MySQL users
Also "select a player at random and plug him into the projector".
Congrats to the meetings.io team. I'm a big fan of the product.
To be fair I am sure Ember can do the same. But yes, we do need alternatives.
Update 5.1 Facebook iOS app launched, breaks logins for lots of users
This helps you write code that works across all browsers.
> Don’t disable zoom ability in the viewport metatag, such as in user-scalable=no.

Please don't ever do this. It really sucks for reading your site on a touch tablet.
>If you get off your high-horse and actually talk to them, you'll find that they are just as brilliant as you, in their own ways.

Seems fairly unlikely that the majority the 200,000,000+ eligible voters are nearly as brilliant, in any way, as this particular astrophysicist who graduated from Harvard and earned a PhD at Columbia.

>Our problems don't stem from the majority wallowing in ignorance. They are not ignorant. Our problems stem from divergent interests. What is in the interest of one, is not in the interest of his neighbor. The path to a healthier nation is in finding creative ways in resolving those conflicts of interest.

Getting everyone to vote in the direction that's actually in their own best interests would be a huge step.
The solution to this is to design for the iPad mini. If you make the user interface elements large enough to tap on a mini, they will also be large enough to tap on a full sized iPad. This also has the benefit of presenting a single user experience no matter what size iPad the user has, which I think is a plus.
I feel a lot better now! :-) So it's not something to worry about at this stage.
There is no user-agent detection between any models on iOS in Safari; it's not an oversight. You've never been able to detect a difference between iPad 1. 2, 3, 4 or 2(mini) or iPhone 3, 3GS, 4 and 5, nor should you. User agent detection is horrible and this isn't news.

Downloads over iTunesD show difference though; since you may want to serve them different payloads. "iTunes-iPad/5.1.1 (4; 16GB; dt:77)" vs. "iTunes-iPad-M/6.0.1 (2; 64GB; dt:75)"
No oversight, you've never been able to differentiate between device models in the iOS User-Agent. Nothing to see here.
Haptic Feedback for Touchscreens
Hmmm...it shouldn't be taking that long? Would you mind checking your console?
What if I turn off Google Web history?Doing this should resolve tailoring result,or not?
my first thought: i have no real interest in building iphone apps, but this looks like it would be really nice to develop mobile-specific webapps and even pages. are there any non-obvious reasons this couldn't just be used to develop and deploy a webapp?
This is fantastic. How did you make those circle widgets?
Who is doing this guys PR? clearly a series of nearly "ghostwritten" "stories"... this is about the 10th "version" with the same headline. Ranging from US tech blogs to UK newspapers... The guy is writing a book and a democratic partisan -- says even...the New York Times.

For reference:

_____________

Why political journalists can't stand Nate Silver |

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4736736

Nate Silver Took A Huge Shot Against Mainstream Political Pundits In His Latest Election Forecast

http://www.businessinsider.com/nate-silver-on-who-political-...

Pundits versus probabilities: The misguided backlash against Nate Silver

http://www.cjr.org/swing_states_project/pundits_versus_proba...

how-statistician-nate-silver-has-thrown-a-wrench-into-tradtional-election-metrics

http://readwrite.com/2012/11/05/how-statistician-nate-silver...

People Who Can't Do Math Are So Mad At Nate Silver

http://www.theatlanticwire.com/politics/2012/10/people-who-c...

________________

but then something different?

NY Times public editor: Silver has Dubious Judgement

http://publiceditor.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/11/01/under-attac...

He has been out there promoting his book...which has increased his visibility further....In short, he’s everywhere...

UK Telegraph: Nate Silver is partisan and wrong.

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/timstanley/100186850/romne...

We’ve witnessed the evolution of polling from an objective gauge of the public mood to a propaganda tool: partisan and inaccurate.
are there still repos left under the processing box? if so, would you mind checking your console?
If you write with sufficiently strong terms that you sound like you're blindly evangelising rather than rationally advocating, the average HN reader is going to go "eep" and adjust their prior expectation of your being right -way- down.

This effect is, I'm afraid, largely independent of whether you're -actually- right or not - so assuming your goals include "maximise the number of readers of your comment who go on to do some research about the technique", adjusting the language you use to try and put across that they should go and research it is probably a good idea.

Disclaimer: The above in no way indicates a judgement as to whether the technique in question is sufficiently awesome to deserve the language you used.
He's making a statement of goals consistent with his temperment and skill set.

He's an educator and scientist. He has knowledge, knows how to process systematic knowledge (qualifications of a scientist). He can express and explain his knowledge, and enjoys doing so (qualifications of an educator).

He's probably much less skilled and/or interested in politics, negotiating, electioneering, campaigning, and leading, all required of a politician / statesman. He may actually be able to do these things, but very likely dislikes doing them.

I know that my own preferences and skills lean similarly, though I can fill a leadership role in a pinch / emergency situation.

Arrogance need have nothing to do with it. Sounds much more like an accurate self-assessment in my book.

As to the problems we're facing: some result from ignorance, some from tactical stupidity, and yes, many from divergent / conflicting interests.

NdGT is suggesting his own ability/interest in negotiating such conflicts may be insufficient to fill a political role.
We lost Cyrix I certainly don't want AMD to fold we the consumer need competition.
Single-issue bills are a reform angle:

http://www.politico.com/blogs/glennthrush/0211/GOP_senators_...
it's jquery knob

http://anthonyterrien.com/knob/
Sure:

Failed to load resource https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js
Port error: Could not establish connection. Receiving end does not exist. miscellaneous_bindings:236
chromeHidden.Port.dispatchOnDisconnect miscellaneous_bindings:236
Uncaught ReferenceError: twttr is not defined app.js:190

¯\(°_o)/¯
There's a question to my mind as to how much of the posturing on evolution, anthropogenic global warming, resource depletion, age of the earth, etc., is based on true belief and how much is tactical stupidity. I could go either way on that. Many people are highly self-delusional.
I've tried Github Pages, not intuitive AT ALL, terrible user experience.

I'll look into prose.io
Money quote:

Sophos were able to convince me they were working with good intentions, but they were clearly ill-equipped to handle
the output of one co-operative security researcher working in his spare time.

The very detailed account of his interactions with them prior to disclosure is a good read.
Improve your listening skills to improve your language learning outcomes
I noticed there is no approval process. How do you deal with inappropriate content like adult or gambling sites which may breach the TOS of the affiliate networks you work with?
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Why am I different than others here?

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Did something up there convince you that I'm your guy? If so, shoot me an email:

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I am a US citizen, available immediately, can pick up new projects, fix existing projects, just answer your questions, or help at any stage of your app's progress (idea, building, testing, distribution, marketing, etc.) -- I've done it all and would love to help you out.
Considering yours is a paid service, I would hope you're already thinking of something else, because im sure the FB TOS will block you and besides, if someone wants a customizable free version then they just use tumblr with one of the millions of these (or make one by hand)

If your product service offered a channel from instagram to tumblr and it didn't violate the TOS for FB then your product might have a future, but likely only as a free offering.
It's pretty simple once you know the rules:

- Always store times and calculate differences/offsets in UTC.

- Never attempt to convert a local time to UTC (it is not a one-to-one mapping!).

- Depending on your application, convert any dates to a given timezone at the moment they are displayed.

Now Javascript throws a monkey-wrench into the whole affair, because it assumes Dates should be handled in the user's local timezone, which, if you're dealing with timezone issues, is certainly not what you want. So attempting to convert a Date object from one timezone to the next is surely impossible to do without introducing bugs unless you understand the rules for every timezone you're dealing with.

Luckily, a guy named Olson created a database of timezone rules for us mortals to use in our timezone-aware applications. In another stroke of good fortune, some smart people wrote a Javascript library [1] that parses this database for you and can convert your Javascript Date object between any timezone on the planet. So you do all your calculations using this Date object in UTC mode, then convert to the desired timezone at the time they are displayed.

[1] https://github.com/mde/timezone-js
Considering that, I find it odd that the Ratchet homepage doesn't appear to be using Bootstrap.
True. Some of these politicians may be "playing dumb" for political reasons.

Though really that just makes it a question of if the politicians and their constituents are in need of a better education, or just their constituents.

Whichever is the case, I think an increased emphasis on science education is important.
:/ twitter's javascript api seems to have broken...weird. refresh and try again?
I'm no lawyer, but I'm pretty sure that any US court would consider "unethical bag of scum" to be a statement of opinion, and thus not covered by defamation laws.
Instagram Users To Have Web Public Profiles
It makes sense that you're analyzing only the first 100, but it would probably be cool to add the raw quantities of these things as a metric. Perhaps they shouldn't count towards the score, but it would be cool to display them, and the info's readily available from https://api.github.com/users/:uname