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Nothing is game changer, nothing is great here.
My experience is different. First, Where is the retail shop of this Akash tablet. It is not available anywhere, you either have to be a student of VERY VERY high profile English medium school (Whose student already have iPad) or you must be tech sevvy to order it online.

If you want to buy it from retail shop, there is no any warranty or guarantee. The retailer told me that its a China type product. Once you go out of the shop, the deal is finished.
Other thing, the ONLY tablet is for the price of $40, and you must have to buy a keyboard with it and a leather case both cost around more 40$ meaning total is for 80$.
Better way I will go for Micromax,
How to run a Lumia 920 on Verizon
My Windows 8 app approaching 100,000 downloads
Startups Find Fertile Ground For Explosive Growth In Latin America
IBM begs Britain's new top cops: C'mon, set up pre-crime units
This of how the top of the home page looks on my phone: http://i.imgur.com/yJjXT.png
Hope this isn't indicative of how mobile-friendly their output is in general.
"As the IT industry matures I can see a tendency to make everything Serious, Business Responsible, Grownup, etc. I don't like this development of things"

I guess it depends on your point of view, but I personally love the fact that: a) my field is becoming more grown up, which means more recognition of its importance to the world, and b) the field is growing up, meaning the people who nowadays hold huge amounts of power over many other people, are taking this power more seriously.

I also don't think it's a problem to still have fun in our field - but there should be professional limits. When some engineers get together to build an engine that goes into a car, I'm all for them having fun while doing it, and making jokes, etc. But I also want them to be professional and for the end product to do its job. Usually the two don't conflict. In cases like the "nor for Evil" license, some people think they did conflict. Perfectly valid for Crockford to do it, perfectly valid for other people to say "this kind of humor means we can't use your product, much as we'd like to".
Explaining Python yield, generators & iterables
Thanks for a great read in link.
It seems like a huge improvement over the original one, in both hardware and software (Android 4+, which makes more sense for tablets) and yet they managed to keep the same price.

The battery life is still probably pretty low as at this price level the battery will take up a big chunk of the cost, so they can't afford to put a very big battery inside. This is why I hope that for next year they use a single or dual core Cortex A7, which should be several times more efficient than Cortex A8, for about the same performance. It might be cheaper, too, as A7 is meant for low-end devices (and big.Little). They will also need to add at least a 1024x600 resolution (slightly higher PPI than iPad Mini at that size), to increase the sharpness of the display and make browsing better.

Using Jelly Bean next year will also add a significant performance/experience boost even with those low-end chips. Indians will soon get a very good tablet experience for less than $50. It won't be "cutting edge" in performance, but should provide for a very good user experience as far as most people using it will be concerned.
Sounds like Alex from OSX.
Inside Intel's Next Unit of Computing
"People simply will not pay for linux desktop support and there really is no other model"

RHEL need no competitors at all then?
We're working on that, thanks for the hint. We noticed that problem on wednesday, should be fixed at the beginning of the next week (from 12th on).

Alternatively you can hit our website with paymill.com without entering https in your URL.
Use RSS, e-mail, or as you said Twitter. There are a lot of alternative solutions to this problem.

I grant that lack of uniformity is a problem.
http://syntensity.com/static/espeak.html

If you're looking for a client side solution, here's espeak compiled to JS using emscripten.
Thank you :) Really needed something like this!
You deliberately evaded the duplication filter.

Why? Your post is now a deliberate duplicate of http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4769365

In the list of "new" your post is immediately above the original post. They wee posted 5 minutes apart.
Your website is outdated/wrong as it says the opposite.
How to squash commits in a GitHub pull request
Those poor operators will have to find something else to overcharge for.
If anything, this shows that HN hasn't strayed very far from where it was, despite complaints to the contrary.
Replying to this post and its parent: In the world of distributions there is CentOS/RHEL for the blue shirted suit wearers and me on week days. Then there is Arch/Antix/Absolute and the truly wonderful #! and Puredyne/Dynebolic (which both appear to have died a death) as well as blag linux for the ones who want to do slightly mad stuff.

I suppose over time, we will have the same split in applications and services. All of 'em will use the project that Torvalds manages, which is why I imagine he lets off steam in irrelevant directions.
"Our final estimate of registered voters was an unallocated 49% for Obama, 46% for Romney. The transition to likely voters moved that to the unallocated 49% Romney, 48% Obama."

Ouch. So their "transition to likely voters" estimation is just completely off.
Probably a better approach for GoI would have been to give away this console/tablet + basic phone connection for free.

And then open it up for people to create and add basic educational content, probably even let people evolve it to let people connect with each other and other dead simple activities.

Even stuff like plain email or a line-drawing app lets the disconnected individuals come out and say 'Namaste' to a world they've never seen.

Few thoughts that came to my mind. This is definitely a good initiative.
That site is extremely slow (with lots of CPU usage) on Firefox.

Seems fine on Chrome
Step 1: Ask people if they want to share who they voted for in as many places as possible.

Step 2: Add results.

Other than simple math, I'm not seeing what there is to mess up.
Yes, correct. We're gonna fix it today and make a live deployment tomorrow. ;)
So having just gone through the job search process, I agree it's frustrating. However, I'm not that frustrated if I don't hear anything from a company if the only thing I've done is apply. Applying is a very impersonal thing.

However, if I attended an interview and didn't hear back, that is incredibly frustrating.

It's important to manage expectations; ambiguity is the enemy of mental health during the job search and you'll be immersed in it so learning to cope is essential.
I cut one of the ear buds from an old pair of headphones. Connected it to the scope and got a cool visualization of the music being played.

Beyond that, the biggest benefit of the Oscilloscope was it let me learn about and build oscillators and op-amps. For instance, I made a relaxation oscillator a few days ago (produces low frequency square waves).

I recently also got two electronics learning lab. I got the 300-in-1 from Elenco. Radioshack also has a similar one. The material that comes with the lab is strange - on the one hand, the projects are pretty sophisticated. On the other, there is little to no explanation on how they work. But I've found that this is great for self-study. The oscilloscope has been very handy for this part.

P.S.1 Someone showed me a cool trick with an oscilloscope at maker faire. You need two signals out of phase. Go into X-Y mode and voila ... you get some cool annimated drawings :)

P.S.2 Be careful and safe playing with electricity!
Great presentation, very informative, but on a slight tangent I watch things like this and often get frustrated with, probably unintentional, nonsense that comes out of HTML advocates mouths.

'I have to touch js and it's super icky' - when talking about boxes resizing themselves

It's only icky because we can't over-ride control behaviour at a fundamental inheritance level.

Truth is it wouldn't actually be a problem if controls were actually extensible and overridable. If we could actually inherit and program the controls in browsers this all would have been solved 5 years ago, instead we have to wait for the browsers to agree on the next badly written, half-assed death-by-committee spec they'll bring out.

I mean look at what happens at 7:30:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=X...

Is that what I actually want happening? The content of B overflowing into C? No. But that's HTML's ethos, content is king, which is fundamentally wrong for apps where layout is king.

I have this constant nagging wish to 1. Use anything but JS in the browser and 2. To have actual control over the behaviour of controls and to be able to build composite controls.

Deep down I know it's never going to happen, but why do they have to pretend that it's brilliant when in fact it's just actually kinda sad that HTML is still stuck in the 90s. Why do they want us to coo over features that have been available in other layout engines for decades now?

It's like the speakers often wear a special kind of blinkers in presentations like this, like they've never used an application outside the browser and seen what computers and programmers can actually do when not hamstrung by HTML.
Wondering how they are printing these. Not aware of a plastic printer that can do that kind of color - are these hand painted afterwards, or come off the machine looking like that?
About 7 of these apps could be called inspiring on a stretch, but the rest should be called Visual Studio templates.

Good on Microsoft to make these templates to help developers get started, but the new and fresh of WANM (Windows Application Not-Metro) is quickly starting to look like tired PowerPoint and Front Page templates.

I'm going to start calling it WANuM Style. I can hear the theme music already.
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"We must change fundamental human nature!"

Yeah right.

Also, it's not like Linus does not provide reasoning for his opinions, and deriding him for not being a desktop developer is unfair.
The same tick-tock-tick pattern occurs in programming. There was a hacker koan about this I believe.

The apprentice is lax, undisciplined, and writes buggy code.

The journeyman sees all that he has wrought upon the poor world with his awful code, and immediately takes to applying every precept he can to produce rigorously engineered and stable code.

I leave it to the imaginations of others to perceive what might lay in the third step.
Royalties are Rolling In
RHEL is a server product, I guess I don't follow your comment. Do they even sell desktop support?

If you are suggesting Ubuntu should focus on the server market - well they have put a lot into that too but they cannot get the market share required to sustain their business from that. RHEL is far too entrenched.
Sending Async data from rails into the world - part 2
Best ppc/search marketing management company that delivers ROI. I recommend it.
Great, simply great API that just works. Keep up the good work!

What I would love to see now would be the ability to send compressed text to shorten the url.
"Look at the reaction people had when Gnome 3 was introduced, and Unity in Ubuntu. People didn't wait for Linus to complain against those changes driven by UI designers gone insane."

Not insane, just designing for a model of a user that does not include many here. I think the 'shock of the new' plays a part. I've been using GS 3.6 on the Gnome Ubuntu Remix (12.10) on the desktop for a bit and it isn't slowing me down much at all, but I'm basically an end user...
Show HN: My weekend project: Chrome Series Guide, with ThePiratebay integration
To a large extent, what you're asking for already exists, and is free for personal use. I've no affiliation; you may want to check out ninite.com
The guy's biggest mistake was buying an HP anything. HP is the new RIM. And they deserve the same outcome for the massive quantities of crapware they've forced consumers to endure. The worst.
Building a multi protocol broker for the Internet of things using nodejs
Curiosity: Should We Poke The Cube?
Ironic that the first thing that site does is try to set a cookie in my browser. I denied it. Also, I have JavaScript turned off.
My site giftivo.com was featured on TC on launch day this past week. Like the OP I found a writer that liked to cover similar products and I emailed her. I just asked her to check out the site and provide feedback since she is familiar with similar products and she ended up writing an article. She noted in the article that she gets contacted by tons of sites in the space so I guess it was simply a matter of her liking my site.
I just built this this weekend after a conversation I had on friday with my dad. We were both complaining about the fact that it's still a hassle to get your updates for tv shows. Even though there's awesome apps for android like SeriesGuide, this still makes you do the whole download process manually.

Some looking into the chrome extensions api and about 160 lines of javascript later the result already works and is awesome :)
That was the point I was making but didn't communicate effectively. There are a lot of different alternatives. Most of these alternatives are not 'push' but depend on the recipient monitoring something.

In the Further Education college I teach in, 98% of students have a mobile phone. Many of those are basic pay as you go dumb phones. Some feature phones, Blackberry phones are popular in UK with teenagers. A few have iPhones and Samsung and the LG slabby things. Not all have Web access on the phone (or have it but don't want to turn it on).

A result that surprised me was that teenagers don't access the Web that much on laptops or desktops.

The common denominator here is sms. I get 98% access. It costs a little money, but not huge. I hope it does not go away as we have brand (phone, carrier) dependent messaging.
Step up production, sell the subsidized in India, sell the unsubsidized version outside for E50, open up all software (including drivers). That would be a game changer as far as I'm concerned. This assuming it's nice of course and not something completely unusable.
Hate to play devil's advocate here, but shaming nonresponsive would-be employers has been tried and has failed many times before.

If an employer has time to run an ad, that means they're short-staffed and pressed for time. Sending heartfelt thank-you's, even at five seconds apiece, will not fix problems on the employer's end. It is not their job to make rejected applicants feel better.

Employee money and employee time are worth the same, by definition.

I agree the system is majorly due for disruption, and as a proud occupant of the tm;dr circular file for many of the targeted resumes and cover letters I've sent out, it does get extremely frustrating. I'd love to get an enthusiastic job offer from those who have snubbed me and treat them the same way, but that's just not how it would work for most people. Workers are plentiful and positions are scarce, even if salaries are high.

The parity in the system is maintained with the tendency for these lazy offerors to dissuade the best applicants from applying for their jobs. (Isn't it funny that the snubs that are the absolute worst are the ones that took you an hour of dedicated busywork to apply for, even though logic would dictate that a company with a more reasonable application process would average out to be a better job?)

If you're young and bright enough to be able to do that job; disrupting the hiring system for the better, rather than complaining about how unfair the world is, can't be any less worthwhile, even if it has long odds. The world will beat a path to your door and consider you a hero if you can find a way to fix this broken system.
Scala's approach is sane because you can't dissalow nulls when you're working with libraries that work with null values. On the other hand Scala gives you the tools to deal with nulls very efficiently. You can easily lift nullable values to Options, and because Option is a monadic type, it can be used in for-comprehensions and is very composable.

Languages like Kotlin are missing the point.
Grandkid/nephew/neighbour's kid was around to do one upgrade but not the other?
It's not for people who can afford a laptop/desktop, also know about the existence of Hackernews and know enough English to comment on it.

It's also not supposed to be available in retail market and will be directly provided to Government Universities, Colleges, Schools. I already know about a pilot project in National Capital Region(Delhi) as my cousins have registered for it.

Any keyboard will work with it. An Intex keyboard costs 3$ and Microsoft costs 20$. Leather/Synthetic case will be again for 4-10$.
Why not? This is a plug-in aimed to help in the event something happened with the browser window. Besides accidently closing it there aren't many other scenarios where this plug-in would be useful.
So, someone is being detained in solitary confinement on mere charges, and all this for making a site that lets you download movies without paying for them.

The world is fucked up.
This seems to be a hands on review of a pre-production model

http://venturebeat.com/2012/09/18/hands-on-with-the-35-aakas...

Quite positive.

I also believe that GPRS connectivity will be offered for R98 a month (about USD 1.80) for 2GB.
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Lambda is necessary because when you do nested subqueries, saying r['x'] is ambiguous and can cause all sorts of unpleasantness. So, if you use nested queries, the server rejects the implicit syntax and requires the use of lambda.

Lambda syntax is really nice too, I actually prefer it for writing queries.
How does the web look like from the 90's ?
Ask HN: Recommended hosting service that scales well
Apologies if this is sort of basic but does anyone have a good recommendation of hosting services for a small but growing webapp. I know if we throw enough money at this we can solve this problem very quickly but I want to be prudent and not break the bank unnecessarily while at the same time make sure the site doesn't crash every time we get a few thousand hits. I'm having a hard time finding a solid middle ground just by searching around the internet.

Thanks much for any pointers.

Best,
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With enough data you could build a model to predict, with some level of accuracy, the total number of tickets that will end up being sold for a given event as well as the likely time and geographical distribution of those sales.

In order to use such a model to increase sales you would need to be able to control some of the variables.

For example the model might tell you that there's a relation between the number of sales outlets in particular geographic locations and that some locations appear to underserved. Adding sales outlets in those areas might lead to increased sales.

For online sales having information about the expected time profile of sales could be used to more efficiently provision servers.

Is this just a hypothetical example or is this something that's actually related to work you're currently doing ?
The lack of AMEX and Discover seems irrelevant to me. The lack of local cards however is a major issue for some European countries, depending on what you sell. If I where to use Paymill, I would still need someone to handle payments on local Danish cards.

From the look of the API is also seems like Paymill wouldn't be of any use if you ship physical products. Some European countries don't allow you to charge the customers card until the goods are actually shipped. This mean that you do need to be able to reserve the money and later do a "capture".

I love the simplicity of solutions like Stripe and Paymill, but I really don't see them be all that useful. That might of cause be because I'm in the business of shipping physical products in small geographic location.

EDIT: Just noticed Dankort being supported by Spreedlycore, awesome.
He's a danger to society! That should be obvious to you from the peer to peer nature of the site he created! If he were to come in contact with any other human beings, he may turn them into seeders who would take forward his insidious agenda.

It's better this way.. We're all safer with a heinous man such as this under lock and key.
No industry will start thinking in multiples of Crores if they don't start somewhere.

(1 cr = 10 million)
Isn't this a Prusa RepRap (a previous generation version, no less) ?

The article is sadly very lacking in any actual details about the printer.
Governments of the world: Shame on you
It looks like the Web without privacy snoops whoring out visitor clicks to the highest bider.
No site can force you to set their cookies - you can simply turn that option off in your browser. You can even whitelist just the sites you trust, or blacklist just the sites you don't trust.

Not that you can really tell, anyway - it's impossible to know just by looking at a cookie what it's really being used for, or what data on you is being tracked. There are certainly good reasons to give cookies to users that have not logged in yet, though - one example that springs to mind is a CSRF token.

Lastly, what is this meant to achieve? The aim is to crack down on activity that was already illegal before this law came in. Sites that were doing naughty things and tracking users illegally aren't exactly going to stop because they now have to show a notice about cookies. Before the law came in I said "they'd just not bother showing the notice" but frankly, the could abide by it - users would just click "yes" anyway out of habit!
The article & the associated comment thread have much to recommend them. But let's not glibly assume that "post-rigorous" ==> correct; much of economics can serve as a counterexample to that hypothesis.

I got out of mathematics (despite getting a PhD from a top department) because I felt that if all but a few dozen mathematicians in the world were shot, the progress of mathematics would not be much impeded, and I wasn't sure I would be in that several dozen. I did think I was that good in economics and related disciplines, but in that case there was a question as to what would get listened to. And so I wound up in a non-academic career ...

And before any of that, I got out of physics because it seemed boring. In the mid-1970s, that was a very fortunate decision. Going to grad school in math was somewhat about "Oops, I'm leaving my major, now what? Oh yes, I also finished a math major, and I can probably get into an excellent school and buy some time to decide what to do next ...."
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I bought my current laptop last year. While wondering how annoying it would be to set up a dual-boot and have a not-so-bloated windows install, I've had enough:

I called Dell, telling them I'm not agreeing with their software license and that I want to return them all the software. 5 minutes.

Got 180€ back for this.

Wiped the entire HDD. Ah man! That felt good. No more rants on crapware.

Installed Ubuntu.

Now I have a computer that does what I want it to do, not what I'm supposed to want.

Sure I have to put up with other issues now but what a liberative experience.
Reorganizing the media industry will be messy, but solutions remain unclear
I found "Quotations from chairman Powell" easier to digest.

http://govleaders.org/powell.htm