skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Every version of Android generally uses a newer kernel release, but many Android drivers are binary-only and thus cannot be updated to work with newer kernels. To get ICS working on the G2, for example, hackers had to create a frankenkernel that could load old 2.6.x drivers but had the 3.x features that ICS needs. This is a lot of work and it has to be done for every SoC. Also, I get the impression that the custom ROM community is not well-organized.
I have a shower next to my toilet. Take that, Japanese people!!
I thought this would be about the benefits of the squat toilet.
There is actually a difference if we're talking about "adaptive layout" vs "liquid layout". In adaptive layout, the layout is adjusted in steps according to a limited number of sizes (various screen sizes, usually). While in responsive layout, the layout is adjusted continuously to every possible width.[1] When we're talking about responsive design, most example uses liquid layout.

Adaptive layout, though, is arguably better for readability. Optimal readability involves having control of the line-length of a body of text, which can be achieved with adaptive layout. In the case of liquid layout, line-length varies wildly over every width change, which is sub-optimal readability-wise.

[1] http://informationarchitects.net/blog/responsive-typography-...
The situation for new builds / speculative construction which are then placed on the market, versus 'having a house built to your specifications', might be some of the difference. Or you (that is, not you or I, but "people") might select a "style" of bathroom or use a particular interior designer whom you trust to make appropriate decisions.

If you're not getting an incredibly detailed itemised bill, you might find it tough to spot ~1K extra in 'bathroom furniture and installations'
Heated toilet seats are essential in Japan where many houses lack very good indoor heating.

The best for me was heated train seats, but we've ventured away from toilets.
I have a TOTO (cambridge ma), but it has none of the fancy features. It did come with a sticker on the seat for
www.cleanishappy.com/ which sells the super toilet seat ad ons.
The toliet works well and uses very little water. It doesn't spin flush but instead uses a wave of water when flushing.
> Just imagine (but almost no one could) how much more clean, efficient and natural it will be to implement something like Hadoop in Common Lisp or Erlang

Hell, let's go one step further and implement it in datalog:

http://boom.cs.berkeley.edu/ (scroll down to Boom Analytics)
I'm now unable to tell if your post is serious or satire. The strawmen are so glaring and absurd that I have a hard time believing you are seriously attempting to use them to make an argument. Chemistry, seriously?
A funny related article: Odor-eliminating pants are hot seller in Japan; Undergarments disguise smell of flatulence, body odor: http://www.nydailynews.com/life-style/health/odor-eliminatin...
Many health apps are based on flimsy science at best
I've been to both Sapporo and Tokyo, and I can assure you there're everywhere. Certainly everywhere I went. I did see squat toilets too though; some places had both.
At first I thought this article would be about squat toilets (which I did also encounter in Greece). While it's true that a squat toilet means that you don't have to sit on something that other people have sat on, it also leaves a lot of room for, how shall I put it... error? I encountered some pretty bad public restrooms in Japan...

When I lived in Japan for a few months, I think I only ever came across one or two bidet toilets. Frankly, I was too afraid to try it. I kept wondering what would happen if the mechanism malfunctioned or missed or something. Typical geek worries, I guess!
Algorithms for the toilets spraying, Only on HN :D
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Instacart (YC S12) launches website to complement its grocery delivery app
Show HN: done.sh — My first side project, a to-do list for hackers
I have to say that it was mostly the girls in the show that annoyed me. The guys were pretty believable in my opinion, and also legitimate. One of them was the founder of Carsabi (YC company).

I'm a startup founder and I've been to a costume party or two in my time. I'm not just at home coding all day. And yes, I've drank alcohol before and had fun, drunken, crazy nights.

For some reason I feel like the people who are bitter about this show are bitter because they work 24/7 and are completely stressed out. They don't like the idea that some people are making startups and having fun as well.

In the end, though, people need to stop taking this thing so seriously. They obviously took 6 people with the most extreme personalities out of Silicon Valley to do a TV show to ENTERTAIN. People understand that. People know that not everybody in Jersey acts like the guys in Jersey Shore.

I will say that the Sarah girl annoyed the hell out of me. When she said that one of her tweets was worth $10,000 I just laughed. She barely even has any followers.
Oh, the one in Japantown on Geary St. in SF, I need to stay there sometime
Yikes, you definitely shouldn't be seeing redirect loops. Do you happen to still have the URL you got it on? We're doing some muckery with Varnish that may be causing that issue; I'd like to track it down and kill it!

We're working on minimizing reflows and improving the speed of any given reflow, as well. It's not where we want it to be yet, especially on lower-spec hardware.

Thanks for the feedback!
> every visitor to your house would make a comment requiring you to justify having "fringe" bathroom habits.

Wouldn't this have been the case in Japan in the early 80s too, when Washlets first came to the market?
I feel like each time I get an endorsement from someone who I haven't worked with or can't properly judge my skill, they really are just giving an endorsement so that I will endorse a skill of theirs.
Really horrible! They should adopt the HN design philosophy -- less is more!
While I find bidet toilets incredibly useful, I don't understand why this is such a sudden revelation. The French invented these toilets in the 18th century: they were/are in wide use in Europe, middle east, and I've even encountered a few in Canadian hotels (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bidet). Is there something fundamentally different about Japanese bidets (other than integration into the toilet itself)?
Yeah, I realised I got the probability wrong but haven't written a follow up (typing on my phone is tough, writing code is impossible). The probability of being able to update an old version of the document, is simply 1/ 65536. That's a very high probability given thousands of documents or a modest number of competing updates. The biggest issue is that it's undetectable and non-deterministic: the update that should fail will succeed silently and it can happen at any time.

I'll re-open the bug in the morning with a proof-of-concept.
My whole career has been based on following directions found on some random forum.
Actually stolen from an old Simpson episode :)
Square Now Processing $10B In Annual Payments; Added $2B Over Past Month
SH*T 500 SAYS
I think that falls under "deliberately using crap HTML" ;)
I believe many of the high end Sun Servers supported hot swapable memory and CPU's. Only on their higher end servers though.
Michigan sing-along takes refuge on the Chinanet
In early September, the Michigan’s ‘Pure Michigan’ promotional campaign released a viral 50-city statewide sing-along video to the tune of Owl City’s ‘Good Time’, which was shared widely on Youtube.

In China, where Youtube (and now several other Google services) are blocked by the ‘Great Firewall’, the video still spread widely on analogous sites such as Youku and 56.com (http://www.56.com/u36/v_NzI4MDIwNzg.html), mainly via former international students who had lived in Michigan at one time or another.

Now, in a strange twist of fate, this video is effectively blocked in the U.S., due to a copyright complaint over the lip dub, but it lives on to promote the Great Lakes State in China.
Some way down in the answers is the proposition to simply ask the user. As spartan and elegantly simple it is, I'm not sure the user will always be accurate, what then ?
A better question might be: Why would you advertise how much money you have in the bank to your competitors?

You're providing info so they know exactly how much to cut prices and strangle you.
Benchmarking web benchmark tools
Side note: is anyone else having issues playing HTML5 videos in Chrome (Version 25.0.1323.1 dev)
That's a design failure (position:fixed also makes it crap), but it's not related to text/element size anyway.
How does one go about cleaning these? It always seemed to me that, if the nozzle got dirty, then they could cause more problems than they solve. Especially (to quote the article) if it's spraying the "female genital area." If there's any bacteria on that nozzle, and since it's been in a toilet for any number of years I'd guess there might be, surely there'd be a risk of it causing UTIs and the like?
You just described my exact interaction as well. Also, when I tried to go back to give it another try it wanted me to tweet again. No thanks.
The C# AGM example should be retitled "C# as written by an insane Java programmer who read a .NET 1.1 book and called it a day"

http://rosettacode.org/wiki/Arithmetic-geometric_mean#C.23
Maybe they believe in the next thing so much that they are willing to let it go. Maybe they are sick of this project. Maybe they don't think that it has much of a future after the initial surge of users. It's all speculation though.
w1ntermute - That's a great question. We'll have to hope someone with better knowledge of Japanese habits and culture will respond to answer it.
Because one of the strengths of Google (that projects are done by discrete, disparate teams) is also its weakness (in that there's no cohesion between products and projects).

Thus why Google TV, Android, and the Nexus Q are all different projects that don't interoperate especially well or share a common feature set.
I prefer GTVBox to Plex:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.gtvbox.vid...

Lets me connect over cifs/nfs, which is my preferred way to connect to my Synology DS410.
Sprouter's Interview with Adam Wiggins of Heroku summarized
Fantastic. I know I can view the source but is packaged up somewhere with a readme?
Ouch. Not that it will materially affect Apple's bottom line but even the incidental costs? You know there are going to be things thrown in there just to irritate Apple like private lap dances [1] to relieve stress during the trial.

[1] http://blogs.findlaw.com/legally_weird/2010/02/tax-attorney-...
How to Dominate Social Media with HootSuite [video]
I'm sure it's because Americans have funny attitudes. Programmers, who spend lots of time sitting, should see this as a way of increasing comfort during work time. For the same reason and others (prevalence of pizza at meet ups) programmers should consider modest amounts of fiber supplements like Metamucil. (Not like a conventional laxative at all, and it enables your GI tract to handle just about anything you throw at it gracefully, so long as you get enough water.)
Occupy Wall St. Offshoot Aims to Erase People’s Debts
I think this is a really cool idea (and works anywhere with a net connection). But what stops someone from entering my name and wiping out my entire task list?
The building managers, hired by the condo owners, are the ones that would decide to use a product like this.

- The building managers have to justify the cost and run it past the board. They often have some leeway in costs, so this might fall under the amount that needs approval. You need to find that price.

- The building managers also have to show that they are improving the community, and resolving owner issues. You want to demonstrate to the building managers that by adding condoly, they can show the owners that they are improving things.

- And finally, most condo communities might not know that this is a problem. You have to go and convince them. My condo building for example uses Yahoo Groups, which is terrible.
I really enjoyed this when I read it in Marco Arment's The Magazine a few weeks ago. I didn't realize the content would be freely available.

Apparently another article was also published by one of the other authors:

http://al3x.net/2012/11/11/alone-together-again.html

...with a note at the top about The Magazine's content deal:

The following was written in August, 2012. It was published a month ago in the first issue of Marco Arment’s iOS-only publication The Magazine. Marco has generously allowed his contributors to retain copyright and the option to share their work on their own sites after a time. If you have an iOS device, please consider supporting Marco and The Magazine by purchasing a subscription.
Can I ask a serious question? Why is there an argument about this every other day on this forum? Do you guys honestly think that the language or paradigm you choose is the most important decision you can make? I'm of the belief that programmers are programmers. Procedural, OOP, or functional, doesn't matter. What matters is the ability of your team to understand and build solid software from it. Can the tool accomplish this? Good, then appreciate the fact that other tools can also do this. Is your hammer the best? Yes or No is an opinion. There can be other hammers. And people using them aren't idiots. A bad worker will screw up even with the best tools. And a good worker will create the best software with even the worst tools.

I just feel like this entire industry gets caught up in trivial matters. What language, what paradigm, what editor. Not that these aren't valid decisions that need to be made but these are problems I can solve in a few minutes or a few hours of thinking about it. The big problems I face are people problems. Miscommunication. Lack of accountability. Developers going rogue. Management not understanding. Users not being trained properly. I could go on and on and I may sound like a grumpy old man. But I just do not get it. Choose your platform and be okay with it. Understand there are others. We don't need one platform or paradigm to produce great things.
OOP definitely has something about it that favors reuse of code.

I think you got it backwards, it's decomposition that it has a problem with - it's not easy to point fingers for exactly why that is (it's probably because of all the mutable state, which leads to entanglement, where components only seem independent of each other, when in fact they aren't), but you can find anecdotal evidence of this happening in the wild ... look at frameworks like Django and Rails, with tons of reusable plugins available and yet a humongous effort went into Rails for making it modular (e.g. such that you can import parts of it, like ActiveRecord, in other non-Rails projects, or for easily replacing ActiveRecord with something else), while Django never achieved it.
This is a typo that has been corrected. dynamic fields is indeed supported!
The big problem with the ppoop paper isn't that OO is bad, it's that it confuses OO vs Procedural with YAGNI vs Extensibility. (also, both the "hacker" and "OO" solutions are lame as OP points out)

If you actually have a reason to believe you need a gold-plated general-case OS identification system then throwing all those patterns at it is no worse than the nested-if spaghetti procedural code that would be the naieve procedural solution.

But in both cases it's just a stupid answer to a stupid question ("How do I overengineer a string->string table lookup?")
Have you considered reading the article? The full title as well as 50% of the article addresses exactly this.
That's the issue

Mathematica is too different from the rest. Or mathematically speaking, the intersection between the capabilities of Mathematica and Python for example is smaller than Python and C#

You can't have Mathematica serving a web site (for any non trivial amount of users) (WA has a lot of infrastructure to make it happen)

On the other hand try to calculate an integral over the gamma function in the complex domain, that's one line in Mathematica and how many I don't know in Python even using some libraries.
Mozilla's Big Comeback
that is very cool. How was the glow crated using CSS3 for the Sun?
Hey now, I'd have a Toto toilet if my apartment would let me install one. Problem is, they won't, because they don't want to deal with it when I move out.
Turing test failure, or highly trained human? I'm not sure.
This is a potential bias that he does call out in the article.
Also, economics. These toilets currently cost ~$500 more than a "normal" toilet.

Of course, you do use significantly more toilet paper with the latter, but a pack is ~$5 and lasts ~ 1 month, so you'd still be looking at, what 8-10 year return on investment.
I updated the question and gave a bit more reasoning to why it's ridiculous that we aren't able to properly tell the difference between an iPad Mini and an iPad 2.

Short version: It's not just about size. It's about weight and form factor. The iPad mini can and will be used differently, like being held with one hand. Designers/ developers such as myself should be able to provide users with a different default controlscheme for the Mini that could make advantage of this situation (such as using tap to walk instead of a virtual thumbstick - but that's just an arbitrary example).
Use the paper first. Then some soap & water.
While discussions of what goes on in the bathroom may make most Americans uncomfortable, it certainly isn't so taboo as to point out a different toilet. Perhaps the Japanese culture is different, such that, while people may have wanted to ask why you have a fringe toilet, social norms kept them from doing so.

I'm not Japanese, nor have I spent any time in Japan, so that's purely conjecture, but, knowing what little I know about Japanese culture, that wouldn't strike me as beyond belief.
I believe those are referred to as "Klingons."

I've never had the opportunity to use a bidet, but on top of the lack of a thorough cleaning, aren't you dripping wet after?

Even in a half squat after the fact, I would expect this unsanitary water to run down one's legs.
The youtube video in that question is the real winner - http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=p...
I don't have TV, but I make due with sports by using a mixture of questionable streams, friends places, and sports bars.
Well, this looks a lot better than the other show. Thanks for sharing!
Amazon S3 Now Supports Archiving Data to Amazon Glacier
Are you sure you're using the actual official CM release, or just an unofficial port? I have no problems on my Galaxy S2 (T-Mobile even!) even remotely similar to yours.
They wouldn't, because it would have too high DPI. That's why they went for a multiple with Retina screens. I remember seeing an Android with a 1280x800 display or similar, using "mobile-optimized" sites was a pain.
Why Macros Matter [video]
Let’s Talk Your Data, Not Big Data
Really stunning

This is everything that's wrong with 'Java lovers' (even though it's in C#)

But then again more lines of code and function points to bill your customer
Does anyone here have thoughts/experiences with Apple TV. I think it looks like quite a simple product compared with the Google TV stuff..?
I wonder how they are planning to do this because last I checked you can't transfer iPhone apps from one account to another without losing all app history. Last I checked, Apple's only solution is for you to delete the app and then republish it under the new account. This means you lose your rank and users who downloaded the app under the old account won't get updates unless they get it from the app store again. If there were a way to transfer apps while keeping history and ranking, I might consider selling some of mine too.
Fake, and gay. Go to the Hacker Dojo to see the real shit.
Ah, sorry, I misunderstood and thought you were introducing it :)

I still think that the messaging to potential users is really confusing, especially at the most critical point where you are just beginning to try and gain adoption, but I guess I could see it as a strategy of sorts. Didn't quite come across to me as an overt strategy for increasing engagement and instructing community norms, but I could easily be wrong.
Thanks. You're right, currently there is no authentication beyond a simple 'What's your name?'. If I had the skills, I'd like to implement something like ssh's public-key system where the server recognizes you/your machine by some kind of fingerprint.
"The paper concludes by advising analysts to not go through the Hadoop hoops until your data size passes standard hard drive limits (currently around 1 Terabyte) or at least reasonable memory limits (512 GB)."

Is a TB really considered Big currently?
Try Acanac, they don't have a setup fee, and they have a 30 day money-back guarantee. Their customer service is pretty bad though, so be prepared to be persistent if you have issues. Once it's up though... works great.
Opera and Safari Mobile Users Have Higher Ad CTR
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How many people build their own house, as opposed to buying one from a previous owner or a developer?

Also, remember that not everyone owns their own house. Many people rent apartments or houses from other people, or live with families.

Between all of those factors, I would say a very small percentage of toilets in this country were picked out by the person using them.
So... were ANY passwords created? I could see the success rate on this at like 1%.
This is also an example of composition:

cat /etc/passwd | cut -d':' -f1 | sort | grep -v root | tee /tmp/users

It was invented long before OOP and until today this is probably the most successful approach to code reuse.
I can't imagine these responses over here..
I've been to japan 3 times, and everytime I wish I would have one of these things here.
Metamucil is great, and without drawbacks in small doses with enough water. I will testify that it can solve such problems as discussed above for programmers. Plus, the extra fiber gives you guts of steel, which can gracefully deal with almost any rich food.
this is a terrible headline. Their valuation is $3 billion, they didn't raise $3 Billion
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> Less code is generally going to be easier to change later. If need be you just rewrite it.

That's in general an unhealthy attitude, because later might be too late to rewrite it, as complexity has a way of creeping in, as simplicity requires eternal vigilance and leadership with an iron fist, something which most teams lack.

You should watch the Hammock Driven Development presentation, by Rich Hickey, in which he makes a case for the value of thinking about the problem before acting. This man is in fact brilliant in how he delivers presentations, so while you're at it, watch Simple Made Easy, in which he argues that simplicity ain't easy.

TL;DR - easy to write code is not necessarily simple. But simple is objective, so you know you have it when you achieve it.
Perhaps it is on it's way to becoming a star? If only it could gather up more mass.
Microsoft and Apple clean house, but what if they need the mess?
I think the main difference is that the Japanese toilet is paperless. From the wikipedia page:

> In 1980 the first "paperless toilet" was launched in Japan, a combination toilet and bidet which also dries the user after washing.

The bidet often required something separate to dry after cleaning, so the difference seems to be integration with the toilet plus the dryer (heated seat optional).

On another note, on a recent trip to Korea, I noticed that many homes had these toilets (mentioned on wikipedia article). The article seems to imply that they are unique to Japan, when they're actually popular almost everywhere outside of the US.
Alternative: play a low frequency sound and detect the stereo speakers using the built-in magnetometer / compass sensor.