skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think everyone should stop using the web browser.

It's fascinating anyone starts using smartphones.
Isn't $327 about the same as an iPad Mini?

The used & new price 'starts at $250' but there aren't any actually available at that price when you follow the link, and even that would be more like 3/4 the price.
Heh. You've seen what I've seen.
They'd replace the "jackbooted thugs of the state" with the jackbooted non-union or pensioned thugs of the lowest bidder.
Half a quart = one cup.
Does your father change units each time he needs to divide something?
> The main use case I considered was a card for online shopping that would only be good for use with one single merchant - then I can shop without worrying what will happen if they haven't secured their database correctly.

BofA at least already does this - https://www.bankofamerica.com/privacy/accounts-cards/shopsaf...
..and a better frontend to it would be great!
> I only use zipcar 10 times a year but it works well enough for me (apart from the nearest car being 2 tube stops away).

Ah, we've got 20 cars within 1 mile of our house. That certainly makes it easier and I generally have no problem finding a free car within easy walking distance even on short notice.
Will the 14px perfection still look good at standard powers of 2?
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I remember being at a 1971 conference in London, when a Brit asked a member of our party "When will the US go metric?"

My buddy quipped without hesitation, "As soon as you Brits learn to drive on the right side of the road!"
Here you will find 10,000 publications from Microsoft Research:

http://research.microsoft.com/apps/catalog/default.aspx?t=pu...

That appears to be about four orders of magnitude more research than that used to fact check your story.
http://www.asymco.com/2011/02/04/nokia-employs-as-many-engin...

Nokia developed HW, Symbian, S40, MeeGoo, and services. It also spent a bit on actual research. Pure research often pays off (in unpredictable ways). Developing a number of platforms turned out to be a bad idea.
If it made my life easier and wouldn't get me fired, I'd gladly donate the $10 to get it done myself. And I wonder if that might be the target market here. Small groups in bigger companies that want a no hassle listserv?
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I like in the US and am from EU.
As a result, while I try to ask for things in imperial units, I happen to ask for tools and related things in metrics from time to time. My experience is as follow:

- most people actually just get me exactly what I want

- nobody ever complained "why do you ask metrics, you're in the US we use imperial!!", ever

- nobody ever told me "I don't know what that makes in inches, do you know it in inches?" (or similar), ever

So while I'm just one person and all, I still have a feeling this could eventually work.
I actually find that interesting. Why can't we change our names at will? Is it because government needs them as a unique ID (combined with birth date and what not)? If governments had other IDs (and they do have social security numbers), why bother keeping track of names?
I don't think this is strictly true. The runloop has different modes, and you can attach background operations to them accordingly. It's true that scrolling does block some modes (and by extension some background tasks and timers), though.
The link to jsoneditoronline.org on the About page is incorrect.
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Agreed. Although benchmarking performance, in my opinion, is more of a study than a programming advantage. It's to affirm that a model does indeed work without flooding the system with memory intensive operations. The goodness an inheritance model brings has more to do with simplifying code rather than performance.
Just a note: Brazil adopts the metric system, but we measure diameters in inches and land in acres.

Adopting the metric system doesn't mean getting rid of non-metric units, some things just make sense to measure in units that follow human scale.
You didn't read Reamde in the browser, though, did you?
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It wasn't quite that simple. Very interesting but very long reading:

http://www.uek.ch/en/schlussbericht/synthesis/ueke.pdf

Almost 600 pages but if you have a spare bit of time and really interested you could do a lot worse than looking at this, it is one of the most candid introspective pieces about world war II.
"...no downloading, nothing runs until you lift your finger off the screen."

It's not true. The browser continues fetching data, and the kernel continues with context switching.
Copyright terms need to be reformed, but 10 years is far too short. Right now almost nothing is entering the Public domain and that's wrong, the books/music/movies of my parents and grandparents are still under copyright.

Happy Brthday shows the problems with the system. A killer law review article titled "Copyright and the World's Most Popular Song" traces how a Happy Birthday to You started out life as Good Morning to All a song with the same melody but different words, written as a classroom greeting by two teachers in the 1890's is still under copyright. It's one of the best things I read in 2012 and readable by a non lawyer.
http://docs.law.gwu.edu/facweb/rbrauneis/happybirthday.htm

The first copyright law in the english language, the Statute of Anne from 1710 had a term of 14 years renewable for another 14 years. Under those terms things like StarWars would be entering the public domain, which given where it is in culture and the profits lucas has seen sound about right.

Going to 10 years would mean that most authors/comic book creators would NEVER see movie option money and film studios wouldn't
Just a thought- on the page if the author showed a few example regexes that would be really useful. Rubular does a great job of having a 'key' at the bottom, so I don't have to remember (or look up) anything.
Should have flown to Kobe, Japan instead. :)
There are things you can't swarm. Security, for instance; a breach is a breach. Put the hardware you're trying to secure in the hands of the consumer -- the nominal attacker -- and this becomes Really Hard.

Swarms work great for server farms, or bespoke projects where cost is not an issue (e.g., that spacecraft, where you can afford multiple implementations of the system).

I can't see anyone throwing a swarm at a consumer product. Why would you waste the money? The pressure is to go to the edge and make it more reliable, and cheaper.
"As is Yelp."

These days I think the majority of these claims refer to separate "social media experts" who claim to be able to adjust "yelp reputation" and imply that they have an in, but do not work for Yelp or have any connections, just sockpuppet accounts.

http://www.thefunkyapple.com/2012/01/scam-alert-craigslist-a...
Solar energy on the rise in Germany
So? Why don't you simply use your phone number, nobody else has the same one as you. Why would identity be restricted to names?
Not to slight 37signals, but I think this is one of those cases where they can sell something that other companies have had limited success with simply because they are 37signals.
Does is matter what the rest of the world would call it?

In the sense that I expect a larger sample size to give more accurate results, yes.
I lived in Alabama for a while back in the metric days. The article you link to seems to confirm the general impression I had of how it went down. US: "We're switching to the metric system, everybody!" Alabama: "Yay! Switching to metric!" Alabama: "Okay guys, we've got all our new metric highway signs up, how's everyone else doing with theirs?" (crickets chirping)

I personally thought the kilometer signs were pretty cool. The person's comment about the metric initiative being hard to defend when none of the other states followed through seems to ring true -- it's easy to see how the public might have thought they had been talked into a boondoggle.
If you spend any time at all without net connectivity, you need to be able to work with native tools on a cloned code repo. The machine is more than powerful enough for plenty of local dev tasks, it's really a shame you can't work locally.
As an aside. I quit using regex to validate email addresses a while ago. Part of it is that a regex that large is simply incomprehensible and very difficult to maintain and fix if something is broken. The best solution, in my opinion, is a state machine based analyzer that checks the email address character-by-character and confirms compliance with RFC5322. This would also include checking DNS for MX records (which might require following CNAME to find it).
The baja bug is a VW beetle re-run (so German, hence metric).

Agreed with all the other points and that is exactly why I think this will not happen.
I'm curious as to why they put this under the Basecamp brand. While it can be used by teams, it sort of gets lost on the homepage and its target market probably won't even discover it. Why not make it a separate product that can handle its own marketing and brand without trying to be interchanged with Basecamp?
In case of a DNS outage, we're doomed.
I've even seen Android devs using these icon fonts now. It's actually one of the easiest way to do vector icons, and they can be colored dynamically using a Shader class.
On the way back from my honeymoon this past summer, I woke up one morning in Bangkok, spent that night in Abu Dhabi, and the following night in my own bed in Kansas City, having traveled more than halfway around the world. The future indeed!
You could base64 it first.
Only between feet and inches, but usually, he's working solely in inches (and fractions of an inch) for his projects.
Which is another way of saying they weren't economically viable at the prices consumers were willing to pay for them.

The iPad killed Netbooks stone dead. I had a netbook, but 6 months later I got an iPad 2 and have literally don't believe I have even touched the netbook since. I currently have no idea where it is, but should probably trash it just on general data privacy principles.
Who is the target audience of Basecamp Breeze? Is it meant for business use or personal use?

Based on the example emails addresses (my-book-club, classic-movie-club etc.) on the front page, I assume it's meant for personal use; after all, most business have email servers that can easily handle/manage email lists.

On that note, I believe the "Company Announcement" images on http://basecamp.com/breeze/compare should be replaced with a non-company email (@37signals.com), something more similar to the email examples on the front page (my-little-pony-fanatics@breeze123.com).

Lastly, if it is targeted at non-businesses, using the Basecamp brand, which is primarily used by businesses, is a bit confusing.
Physicists continue work to abolish time as fourth dimensionof space
Scientists can easily publish free papers online. No change in law needed.
It's not really "standard junk" though. Imperial measures are standardized human units. I have a foot that is about a foot, a knuckle that is about an inch, a stride that is about a yard. One day carrying a gallon of water a decent distance I realized that this was about the max amount the average person could carry comfortably over distance.

That is what kills me about the metric system. It seems to intentionally ignore the human scale. Why is 10 centimeters not a standard unit of measurement, and this is the important part, that is marked on every ruler and tape measure? The same for 10 Milliliters, 10 grams and 100 grams. Over the entire metric system the base 10 increments that are human scale are always ignored. The liter is the only one that comes close. Why is this?

Until the human scale is taken in to account I'm perfectly happy using more than one measurement system...
For security reasons, we can not access our email without a VPN connection.
Requires www.
Haven't ordinary business revenues already been taxed as sales tax when you pay income taxes on them?
At least in the Bay Area, that sounds like a boon for City CarShare.
Everything is not equally good
Fahrenheit is just an offset Rankine scale.
Ha, thanks. Old habits die hard.
I am entirely unclear on what is worse about being shot by 10 soldiers with rifles than being strapped to a chair, and having all the paraphernalia attached in order to have thousands of volts applied.

The morality of the death penalty itself is a reasonable thing to argue over. The idea that some current implementations (chair, gas) are better than firing squad (or hanging/beheading for that matter) seems nuts.

Of course, given the choice, I'd probably choose to go the same way as my dog went. Sleep.
Absolutely. Actually, it looks pretty good anywhere larger than 14px, too. But multiples of 14px will render best.
All good points.

There is a market of course for car sharing. But I think what people are forgetting is that the reason why someone might go with a name brand (McDonalds/Avis/Mariott etc.) is that you get the "system" and some quality controls and hopefully the same product anywhere. This will be much harder to scale with a zipcar type system (or airbnb) because you have much less control over the product or the interaction with the end user. You can't have a maid supervisor make sure the room was clean and all the linens are in place. You can't centralize the cleaning, maintenance and readiness of the vehicle inventory.
That is an awesome analysis of video and working through the physics.

Complete aside: Mind exploded from unit mismatch. Miles per hour then meters? Gah....

Just please dont use gradians for angle measurement :)
NASA may have learned a hard lesson that time.
It's like the writer suddenly decided halfway through, "fuck writing tech stories for a living, I'd rather write novels for Mills and Boon".
A system of measurements dating back 300 years is not ancient by any sane scale. It's still the newcomer to the set of systems of measurement.
I see it more akin to Dribbble than Instagram. You could also introduce 'rebound' - which is improving/optimizing/add your personal touch to the 'shot' (uploaded image, or code in this case).

I'm actually going to try and redesign this as my case study for this weekend, thanks for sharing!
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Thanks! Fixed - https://github.com/tburch/jsonblob/commit/a4e6f145f5166c26e2...
I think mostly it is because of the legal status that names convey - contracts can only reference tangible names for people or organizations in them, not abstract concepts. So I guess it's not the Government who would and do happily use SSNs to identify us, but the legal system.
My irony sensor gets kind of pegged when I see all these interesting Microsoft research projects using the Kinect and Kinect-related sensing technologies, but Microsoft had to go and buy the original tech from PrimeSense.

http://www.cultofmac.com/67951/how-apple-almost-got-microsof...
Scaleable icons with PaintCode frames
Apparently they're working on it: https://support.twitter.com/articles/15362-inactive-account-...
Auto manufacturers take a new turn with Google Maps
"The point here is that good R&D is a necessary but not sufficient component of innovation, the second is a willingness to productize your work"

This is my biggest beef with MS. They consistently wait for other companies to innovate, then wait to see if the market will support it.

Only when they see an advantage to developing their own version of a product will they enter a market. You can look at their MP3 player the Zune, you can also look at how long it took them to get into the smartphone and tablet markets.

I'm wondering if there are any concrete examples of them releasing a product which has utilized their arm of R&D for a specific product and pointed to it as a reason why it's available to the public. Similar to how Google always touts their R&D teams for developing a myriad of their products.
Ask me about developing for mobile
Waiting for kickstrap now...
I would concur with that. I also don't think that's a slight at all, what a great place to be as a company!
I'm a Presales Engineer, and a big part of my responsibility is to translate what engineers are saying into something customers can understand, and vice versa. Over the past 4+ years I've been at this job, I have come to realize that this is a very, very rare skill. I don't think it has much to do with being able to communicate (English isn't even my native language!), but rather being able to think in abstract terms and recognize patterns among different ideas.

One neat trick I learned over the course of my career when talking to non-engineers is to use analogies, especially car-related ones. For example, trying to explain a named user licensing model to someone who has never dealt with software licensing before will be a nightmare. But if you say "it's like having assigned parking spaces, where every parking space is assigned to an individual," people just get it. Whereas an engineer will describe how the model works from a software perspective, and the non-tech person will just bang their head against a wall thinking themselves as stupid.
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I'll have to try it again then. Last I'd looked at it (this was early iOS 5), though, it caused really nasty issues with a preloading gallery I was working on. We ended up having to preload several slides in advance, as iOS would just flatly refuse to do anything in the page until the user had removed their finger from the page. The context switching I'll give you. I really meant that the browser appears to stop doing all its stuff while you're touching the screen, not that the system comes to a full halt. Obviously the render loop is still running.

The fact that you also don't get scroll position updates until the drag momentum wears out is also a giant pain in the ass.
One more day to get Packt Pub books for $5 each (when ordering 2 or more)
One of those mentioned in this article that I thought was particularly great was GUI Bloopers. I read this in college and when I went to work in the industry I was almost immediately tagged as a developer with a "good eye for design" (we had no actual designers) despite having had literally no other GUI experience.

This is a fantastic read that should be required reading for everyone in The Enterprise.

(Of course, with this newfound awareness comes massive frustration working on Enterprise applications which routinely serve as anti-patterns of UI design)
haha - the 32mph was originally 14.4 m/s. Given that the top story here today is a white house petition to adopt the metric system in the US, I should know my audience better :)
>The only plywood you will find that is "actual" size...

Actual thickness you mean...

All construction sheet goods available in the US come in 4x8 sheets (drywall excepted, which I believe can be as long as 12').

Just because you can express "4ft by 8ft" as "Xmm by Ymm" (and that very well may be the official spec) doesn't make it 'metric' lumber in any meaninful way.
Yes, hence why I was constantly calling it "DCI" in quotes
Avis Budget swallows up Zipcar for $500 million
Ease of use with imperial? I say no way. Trying to add 1/16 and 1/5 is somewhat harder than mm addition.
I'm with AT&T and went to the $15/month a couple years ago (don't know if the price went up, I'm on someone else's contract and I've never actually seen the bill). It's a pain to worry about bandwidth, and video is out of the question. Yes, WiFi bandwidth is free, but sometimes I forget to turn on WiFi, then almost have a heart attack when I see how much bandwidth I've consumed (thanks to the "3G Watchdog" app). It's just significantly less stressful to put the android phone down on my desk and just surf on my desktop or laptop on my Cable connection.
Cool, now what is a third of a quart?

Suppose I am recounting a dish I made to someone over the phone in two realities, one with Imperial and the other with metric.

Imperial universe: "Okay, now add... say... a third of a gallon of milk" "...third of a gallon.. eehh.. half a pint of milk.

Metric universe: "Okay, now add... say... 2/3rds of a liter." "Two thirds of a liter... 666 ml it is then."

In the imperial universe poor conversations force two inaccurate estimations. In the metric universe only one of the parties is being dreadfully inaccurate.

Imperial is defined in terms of metric units, so it is possible to be as accurate in imperial. The difference between imperial and metric is that imperial adds mental overhead that in practice reduces accuracy.
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Please list your recommended Packt books below:
Ubuntu releases phone OS
lab inventions can look so far ahead of the industry that they are ignored and considered useless toys.

see plan 9.
True, yet most of the rest of the world seem to be suffering any from this 'deficiency'.
There are loads of cheap low-end Android devices that are able to browse the internet, but the people who buy them are not so interested in that

Case in point: my wife and I both have Android phones, so when my mother in law needed a phone, we got her an Android too. She has not used the internet once on it, but we installed a few apps to make it easier for her to use (e.g. one app puts a picture of the last person who called on the home screen). We also set it up to dial out through Google Voice (total integration is best on Android, including replacing the dialer). I bet a large portion of Android users fall into this category.
I'm curious what the long-term plan for this service is. Surely it won't be sustainable at a one-off $10 fee?
The problem with any book list like this is the scope. Software is turning into a very diverse culture, a very heterogeneous ecosystem. Subjects that are very important to one area might not be as important to other areas. Design patterns are essential for enterprise development, not so much for AI and low level systems programming. Algorithms are essential for the latest but not for the former.

Given this, there are some books you might add or remove depending on the area you are interested (e.g.: Knuth's "Art of Computer Programming", Martin Fowler's "Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture", ...)

To finish, 2 books people recommend a lot for beginning programmers:

"The Pragmatic Programmer"- Hunt, Thomas: a very good book, with sound advice and very easy to read. The only bad side is that it became so influential that its ideas became vulgarized in thousands of blogs.

"Code Complete" - Steve McConnel : A very dangerous book. It does give have a lot of sound advice. But, IMO, it has some big problems. First is that it gives the false impression that there is a lot of empirical evidence on what works on software engineering. Second, it perpetuates some myths that don't have such evidence: the "orders of magnitude programmer's productivity" and "the cone of uncertainty" (see: https://leanpub.com/leprechauns).