skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I collect the barometric readings with pressureNET. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ca.cumulonimbu...

We have about 11,000 total users (half are active) and are VERY excited that the Nexus 4 and 10 both have barometers. We're looking to improve short-term, local weather prediction asap. The project is open source at http://cumulonimbus.ca
In the US, what's the best kind of cellular service plans to get if you come in with an unlocked phone? I would love to get out of the 2-year contract thing.

But I have this vague understanding that a lot of the prepay, mvno, or non-contract plans don't give access to parts of the big guys networks (like roaming relationships).
Right. It happens, but that's not the same as being an issue. In terms of a developer efficiently using their time, chasing after the <5% of your users who pirated your app, and who in all likelihood only heard of your app because it was one of the ones they found on a piracy site, is not a good strategy.
No, CPI includes food, housing and fuel. There is a "core" measure that excludes those, since they add little information but a lot of noise when you want to track the underlying trend.
It would be child's play for a store to tie faces to credit card checkouts and thereby get full ID information. I can't see how that information doesn't then get packaged and sold.
- what's the value or meaning of being married?

I don't think it needs to have any value or meaning.

What is the meaning in, say, receiving a diploma/degree? I've never once looked back and thought, boy, I'm sure glad I have that piece of paper. The education I received remains with or without it. The recognition means absolutely nothing. It is really just an excuse to celebrate something going on in your life.

- I'm just arguing that marriage was meant to (in culture, religion) be different.

There seems to be two schools on this matter:

1. It was once traditionally illegal for mixed-race couples to be together, and marriage provided a licence from the state to allow those relationships on a case-by-case basis.

2. Alternatively, women were once thought to be the inferior gender and were pressured to bend to the wishes of their husband, and the marriage license made that control legally binding to a single entity.

Neither are socially acceptable anymore, thus any historical usage of marriage has been lost.
Great! I love it :D
> Here's a screenshot of what I see

Yes. This is what I see: http://imgur.com/mYVH2

> I'm Irish, just signed up this morning using that link.

I assume that Spotify and Facebook are doing some pretty energetic identity-tracking, then.
Unfortunately their hands are tied on this one. The DRM is a part of their licensing agreement with their content providers. I'm sure if they could move off Silverlight for their desktop streaming platform, they would in a heartbeat.

Interestingly enough, they use FreeBSD for their servers.
I don't see any part of the agreement that says you cannot develop apps for another ecosystem.
You don't see anything excessive about impersonating somebody and surreptitiously posting a public apology for piracy on their behalf? Huh?
I think the manufacturers are trying to make restaurants, public transport and maybe even office furniture companies to add those charging surfaces everywhere. That way your phone would pick up some power here and there.
It isn't meant to be a "jab," cheap or otherwise.

This blog post is, at least in part, a revenue generator for the blog (because of referral links). My question was, did it also generate revenue from the company who's products it links to/talks up?

If it had have been (or is) then I would consider that immoral. This immorality has zero to do with making money from the blog post and everything to do with a potential conflict of interests (between his commitment to his readership and the company that would be paying him).

The Amazon referral links have no such conflict of interests as he could equally have linked to any manufacturer's products and get the same revenue.
Switch to Teksavvy/Acanac. $35-45 for unlimited 6-15 Mb.
To easily get my contacts to sync with my phone, which is the primary reason I collect them at all, I still have to vouchsafe them to Apple or Google.
"one more brain cell"

People do what they are familiar with and can wrap their hands around.

The typical guy who runs the local pizza shop or small import export business does not evaluate what is the best way to earn money for their time and energy after carefully assessing their abilities and advantages in a methodical way. They do what they can wrap their hands around and get done. Something they feel comfortable with.

I don't think it's good to confuse intelligence with what someone uses their time for. Or ends up doing.
Posing as a lawyer to collect money from young women to remove nude pictures of them published without their consent from a site you run makes you a moron, full stop.
I don't really see the point of comparing IE10 (just released) to a browser that has a minuscule browser share and hasn't been actively developed or updated in something like 6 months.
There's abusing the system and there's using the system as it's intended.

Estimates put abuse (fraud, payment through mistakes) at 2%. Yes that's a lot of money, but that's not going to turn the country's fortunes around if it were eliminated. Realistically there is likely to be a minimum realistic level of fraud which balances the cost of catching offenders against the cost of the offence, and the side effects in excluding those who are actually valid claimants.

Those using the system as it's intended (that is being genuinely out of work, unwell or whatever) are a bit trickier. There are bits of Scotland that have terrifying problems. I live in Glasgow and the east end has areas where there are three generations of families who've never worked.

That's obviously a major problem but there are a few things it's worth thinking about:

1) Long term unemployed - that is longer than 12 months - is less than 30% of the overall unemployment figures. That's obviously pretty high (though not surprising, it's harder to get a job when you've been out of work for a while so it's self reenforcing) but many of those will be people who genuinely want a job. The people I mention who've never worked and will never work are a tiny fraction of that.

2) Contrary to popular belief, these people are not living any kind of luxurious existence. People point to satellite TV without realising that most of those decoder cards are pirated and designer clothes without understanding that for the most part they're fake.

3) How you deal with it is complex - pulling benefits from these people is more likely to drive them to crime than to work.

4) How do you make sure you get people who are genuinely on the take without removing the safety net from those who need and want it?

So I'd argue (a) it's a smaller problem than many suggest and that (b) the solutions are a little more complex than the swift kick up the arse that some feel will sort things out.
When will this sort of thing become affordable?

The wireless card is 50GBP+VAT and the board it plugs in to is 20. thats > $150 to control an LED wirelessly which is only a little bit insane.

I'd love to throw together little 'internet of things' projects here there and everywhere but the per-unit cost just doesn't allow it.
Locking on to a GPS involves numerically solving a 4-dimensional set of linear equations

Hah, hardly.
>somehow it still manages to be better than Opera and Safari (Windows Safari, at least) for HTML5 games based on my testing

Same here. I still note that IE9 and IE10 run some things a lot smoother than Chrome.
> Also it made me really appreciate how nimble and agile Microsoft really is.

XP released in 2001; Vista released in 2007, essentially an updated XP with some Aero bells and PMP whistles. That it was only started in 2005 after throwing away the Longhorn fiasco stuff does not make Microsoft "nimble" or "agile" in my opinion.
Internet access is a right, judges rule
Assuming the USB 3.0 works as advertised for all cases... It's probably much better than it used to be, but I've plugged in devices claiming to be "USB3.0" into my USB 3.0 slot, and gotten very pedestrian speeds.

Check the return policy before you buy!
The Haskell comparision is I think wrong (from my limited knowledge of Haskell, rather than C++). He is folding over a tuple of different types, rather than an array, allowing the return type of each tuple operation to be different. Not sure where this would be useful of course.

Doing foldl (+) 0 in C++ is done traditionally with something like (OK, still not that nice)

std::accumulate(v.begin(), v.end(), std::plus<int>(), 0)
Notes from Silicon MilkRoundabout
Thanks for the write-up - interesting read.

Out of interest, how do you catch and block all POST requests when the site's in read-only mode without duplicating code? Not sure if you use CBVs at Lanyrd - if so, do you use a common mixin? If not, how?
Really? Which bit of this looks anything like a lisp interpreter?
And I say you have a moral obligation to pay as little in taxes as possible, since the government is too big.
Nope, it was silently killed.
Even if both are true, the app still may not have been pirated. I wouldn't take any action based on this information beyond perhaps gathering statistics (and keep in mind that those statistics could be way off).
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The Linux GUI Development Nightmare
Very possible, as i said i could be 1000% wrong lol. But it was just an example, the $40k they are looking for is a drop in the buck in terms of production costs. Simply pointing out that they money they are seek would have very little impact on the actual development/production of the product.
Straight Talk and Net 10 Sim are both great. You buy a SIM card, and then every month pay $45-50 for unlimited service. I think they use AT&T's network.
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Until recently I recall seeing some canvas apps performing much smoother in IE9/IE10 than in Chrome.
Bah, MPGe, not MPG. And anyway, MPG has been the standard of efficiency measurement for a century now, so such an argument is a bit weaselly, don't you think?

My claim still stands. The Volt doesn't need three clutches, but it has three because GM is concerned about efficiency, and Tesla not as much.

> Not to mention the fact that any electric car will be more energy efficient than one using an internal combustion engine.

The Volt has an ICE.
They're using iOS's built-in Twitter functionality, which I believe Twitter sees as simply coming from iOS. Twitter might possibly have a way to block this stuff, but I don't believe it shows up as a separate authorized app for the users to deny.
The files you're reading are already cached by the OS (to perform the exact same work). The only processing involved is computing a hashes and a small RSA encryption.

Less than half a millisecond?
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I am curious, in US, most carriers don't offer any discount for bringing your own device. So, how does spending $349 on Nexus vs buying a subsidized iPhone for $200 going to save anyone money or makes Nexus a better deal?
Author here. I think Safari gets bonus points for being easily the best mobile browser for HTML5 games, and Opera are actively working on WebGL support.

Also, the Web Audio API is available to all web pages in all recent stable Chrome builds, as well as Safari on iOS 6+ - it's not just a Chrome experiment. The Web Audio API, along with WebGL, are both very good things for HTML5 games, and especially larger engines like ours. I think they're both ready for prime time and the fact other browser makers haven't got round to it isn't any excuse not to support it. Why can't IE be a browser that leads the way rather than leaving Chrome and Firefox to invent everything?

Why is it stupid to put canvas 2D head-to-head with WebGL? They're both rendering the same thing, and it illustrates how WebGL is far faster than canvas 2D for drawing the same content. That's an important consideration for a HTML5 game engine, no? Under the hood most canvas 2D implementations plug in to a 3D API at the same level as WebGL, and it shows how cutting out the middle man can win you lots more FPS.
I used to use the T-Mobile $30/month Monthly4G plan. You get only 100 minutes but 5gigs of HSPA+ unthrottled data. If you use the GrooveIP app or set up another SIP client, you can make calls without a problem. Latency for those calls depends on the signal strength in your area.
I used that but it failed for me for some reason or other. So i tried it, its also nice piece of code that worked nicely for me. Doubled the battery by more than 100%
Hmm, seems pretty irresponsible of Apple to do that, given that it's thus going to go unpatched and its users will become progressively more vulnerable, no?
How does knowing the altitude help figure out which satellite to look for? (Are GPS receivers "directional", anyway??) GPS satellites orbit at ~20,000km; for the initial acquisition I'm surprised that receivers would care if they're 0km or 1.5km from sea level.
The article alleges that the publishing processes isn't automatic and that they have some editorial control of the content.

If that's the case, it may work.
My favorite quote from the article
"By contrast, there are about 50,000 new books published in the English language each year, containing of the order of a hundred billion bits of information. Of course, the great majority of this information is garbage, and no use to any form of life"
I'd love to know what the advantages are over iCloud and Google Contacts, both of which sync all my contacts currently.

You guys could be in a good position to revolutionise this space by allowing me to manage my own contact information as it appears in other people's address books – so I can update my email address when I move jobs, update my phone number when I lose my iPhone etc. – and have this information automatically update in the address books of everyone I know. This, I would pay for.
>> K&R than GoF.

> Very different comparison to the patterns Fowler presented.

You are intentionally trying to miss the point. I don't have to explain how K&R and GoF are very different books, and how Fowler and GoF are very similar books.

> people who in many cases have not even heard about the other ORM patterns presented by Fowler, much less other alternatives.

You mention Folwer 10 times in a row as if he is the appointed expert on ORM. Call me when he has written one, and it's better than the existing ones. Yes, AR is based on AR pattern named by him. So what? Talks are cheap. Produce a better ORM if you are so sure about the deficiencies and Fowler already told you a better solution.

> even then, the "Rails way" of doing your example would be Person.find_by_lastname(lastname)

find throws and exception and where does not. Whoever told you the rails way is to not use where and use the dynamic finder is full of it.

> The biggest problem in your example as why you are asking for persons with specific last names in the first place.

Do I have to tell you that's an example? Really?

> Also, what happens when you need to serve that query from a web API instead of your database? From a full text engine? From file? From a noSQL database? From on disk hash table? I've had to do all of these - often several from the same application. With a suitable architecture you just plug in your new storage and implement the finders you need supported, and won't have to play "hunt the raw SQL". Changing column names is the least of my concerns - that can be fixed with a simple search replace.

Querying needs a language. SQL is for relational databases. A data source agnostic query language does not exist. You can't abstract something that doesn't exist in the first place.

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> github, twitter, heroku et al would like to disagree.
And Ebay at least used to be written using ISAPI modules, and large parts of Yahoo runs or used to run on a horrific mess of PHP and Perl (I used to work at Yahoo; there was a lot of dreadful code). Your point again?
(and Twitter is a particularly bad example given how much time they spend moaning about how they've needed to move most stuff off Ruby)
</quote>

You said AR is a pain for big projects. I pointed out big projects which use AR. And then you are selectively copy pasting to paint the wrong picture.

Twitter moans about Ruby's performance, not project size. Either get your facts straight or stop intentionally twisting them.

> Strawman. If you think simple cases like that is what it is about, you've not seen much complicated Rails code, and it's a waste having this discussion with you.

I have not seen big projects. Twitter and Github aren't worth mentioning. Apparently I missed the memo where you were appointed the authority on big projects.

I have wasted enough time with you. Apart from mentioning Fowler about 50 times, and whining about how Person.where("last_name = ?", last_name) will be an issue when we find life on Mars and we need to integrate with their data sources, there is absolutely nothing you have to say about AR.

You win. You can go home now.
Is there any kind of service that broadcasts just that you're working on a project and that there's space to sit nearby, whether it's your apartment or a cafe?
yup, right.
Two Pricing Strategy Takeaways from Apple's App Store
Sublime more feature rich than Vim? Elle est bonne celle-là.
I have to purchase some overpriced PC hardware to run Xcode though.

That has very little to do with developer-friendliness, since it applies to any Mac or iOS-only application.

I can write a program today on Windows 7 and go install it on Windows XP, a system that was released over 11 years ago.

I know, that's why I asked what he is comparing the backward compatibility too. Microsoft goes through great pains to guarantee backward compatibility, I wish Apple would go so far. But backward compatibility on OS X is definitely better than e.g. Linux.

There are many reasons but I believe the primary one is that Apple often locks out developers where Microsoft does not. For instance, only Apple can affect NSScreen visibleFrame.

Microsoft also has a history of private APIs. In fact, it is well known that Microsoft used APIs only available to them to get an edge over competition. Even Windows RT has such limits. E.g. Microsoft is the only developer that can use the desktop mode on Surface RT tablets.

Microsoft also creates tools and frameworks for all types of developer stories where Apple simply has nothing.

Well, it's no secret that Apple is not really in the enterprise server market. So, no, you'll not find an equivalent of Microsoft's enterprise .NET stack. Fortunately, you can use Java or any mixture of widely-used open source libraries, which are often far easier to compile and use, given that OS X is a fairly regular UNIX.
We have some common Django middleware used for every dynamic page on the site which deals with that (among other things). We also strip cookies at the Varnish layer.
It is. It's just one step behind, and that's one step too far for some people.
I'm surprised at how little new information I found in this talk. Which is not to suggest I'm very knowledgeable, only that a few of my favorite wikipedia articles must do a damn good job of summarizing these topics, particularly http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermi_paradox
What was the tool Zuck used in Social Network to monitor traffic to Facemash?
Idk, as I state in other comments and as others have said if they do get the 40k it will be nothing in the whole scope of the project. This means they have to have substantial funding elsewhere. And considering that is kickstarters purpose(at least as i understand it) is to provide crowd funding it seems to be counter to kickstarter.

My issues is companies using kickstarter as a test-bed/proving ground(if it is indeed as you stated it).

I guess it depends on what ones view of "kickstater" is and should be. I personally would be very interested to see if this product goes to market if it does not get funded by kickstarter.
FYI adding a trailing forward slash to the url fixes the database error:
http://johnkary.net/developers-we-are-no-longer-apples-targe...
Apple forced to cut dealers in to get iPad Mini shifting, says analyst
The US price does not include sales taxe (19% in Germany). If you take this into account is's still more expensive in Germany but less than 10%.
The S3 and Note 2 have a Samsung-tweaked version of Android. These amount to some different apps, slightly altered UI and in the case of the Note 2 some tweaks to accommodate the stylus.

It's not bad, but most prefer stock Android for the crispness of the UI, lack of bloat and fastest OS upgrades (they come direct from Google without delay while Samsung/another third party adapts their stuff).

I had the Note 2 briefly - it's a powerhouse but ultimately decided it was too big for my taste (5.5" screen vs 4.7" on the S3/Nexus 4). It needs two hands to operate most of the time and the screen is the same resolution as the S3 so you're only gaining in size, not detail. In the end I was happy to come back to my Galaxy Nexus.

The Nexus 4 runs stock Android and is the same size as the S3. It's also cheaper and faster. I'd say it's the clear choice right now.
Apple doesn't really seem to care much about responsibility or security.
DDoS Takes Down The Pirate Bay
It looks like it cost $40k just to make that video...
Review: The Mac mini takes the Ivy Bridge to Fusion Town
Nice to see this appear here! Probably worth pointing out that we spent a few weeks preparing for this move - it's not something you can pull together in a few days (unless you're very laissez-faire about your data).
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No, that is the very point. We encode the social contract in a system of rules. When you deliberately manipulate those rules to avoid the spirit or original intent of the contract, then you are breaking that contract, regardless of whether it is legal or not.

This is the framework under which I consider tax avoidance to be unethical -- obviously if you do not support the society in the first place, you might disagree.
Question... I know it's a small chance of getting a response at all but if you do how do you get it? I haven't found an inbox / messaging area of any description...
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I'll take a lighter device + $100 over 16GB + LTE at least until LTE is widely available in my city (which is probably 2-3 years away).

But again, ignoring OS which is generally not a good idea when making a phone purchase.
Billion dollar brine: mining saltwater with bacteria
I don’t think Opera and Windows Safari matter even a little bit.

Chrome, Firefox and Safari (not so much the OS X version, rather the mobile version). That’s the benchmark.
I've never had an Android phone, but from what I understand, the Nexus line are the phones that gets the OS updates when they are released. The other guys have to go through either the carrier or the manufacturer or, sometimes, both before an OS update reaches the phone.

If I were looking to make the switch, it would be this phone.
Apple explicitly suggest an exit(173) if the certificate check fails for Mac App Store apps.

Although I've definitely had non pirate users report this error to me because they've drag and dropped the app onto another machine instead of reinstalling from the App Store -- so you're right, it's not a guarantee that they're a pirate in an absolute sense.
But everyone should be able to understand the economic importance of having products being designed and built in their country. Especially if their country has been hit hard recently by manufacturing being moved to other countries.
Resistance is an important factor in guarding against runaway phenomena in dynamic systems. History has many examples of severely disappointed humans caused by too little resistance.