skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's an equivalent of 2 days of work for an average person.

But my dad had to have few operations for cancer,and now takes a very expensive drug called Glivec($3000 for a box of 30 pills, needs two boxes per month), everything is completely refunded by the government as a part of public health care. He also needs to travel to Warsaw at least once per month to pick up his medicine from the hospital there(you can only do it in person because of how much it costs), which means he has to take a 4 hour train journey - he gets it completely refunded.
I was responding to your comment that you had not looked at Play 2.0. I would not argue that it's outdated, I am arguing that if you excluded it from consideration, you missed something.
Network connection can be handled by Bluetooth low power mode. I don't know exact specs but it may work.
We're not producing custom written software for a single customer, rather cost-effective software product used across many many clients. So yes, as our bug queue will attest, our software is not perfect. Each report has had and will have bugs. But the number of defects each customer must find and resolve themselves is likely lower than alternative approaches.
Next SpaceX Cargo Run to ISS Set for March 1
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The blog post is for startup founders who are making very early-stage decisions on technology, hiring, funding etc. If you are not one of those, it's probably not very useful to you. We did receive appreciatory comments from people. I'm not sure why you say "wasting everyone's time" ...
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He really has a lot of great thoughts/questions in it. Especially with regard to management & how we could create software can ease their burden so they can focus on more interesting work.
Just for the sake of urgency, this discussion is already behind the curve.

China already consumes almost as much coal as the rest of the world combined:

http://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.cfm?id=9751
Yes, a lot actually, in fact carriers here are infamous for offering phones even for free depending on the contract, resulting into one carrier once making a ad, saying that their bonuses for long term costumers were cash, because "paying" with phones was silly.

But the law says that if the costumer want to end his contract, then he will pay his fines or whatever, but the carrier must unlock the phone.

Also you see "unlocking stores" frequently on metro stations for example, it is perfectly legal, and encouraged by the government, to incentive some free market between carriers (here we have 4 big GSM carriers, some people even own prepaid GSM chips of all of them).
This is our first attempt at a B2C software product. I'd love to hear any thoughts or suggestions on the site or product.
Doesn't every single DRM scheme rely on that principle to protect content from the user?
Riak 1.3 Released
> I agree with you about the only constant in life being change

Change and motion are apparent. The only constant in life is LIFE ITSELF, which is stated as:

1 - balance (if one word is enough)

2 - rhythmic balance (if two words will do)

3 - rhythmic balanced interchange (if 3 words are necessary)

or cold still white magnetic light = life itself = rest = balance...

Change and motion are false information gained by sensing.

I will now step down off my Walter Russell soapbox and humbly request you read "The Secret of Light" by aforesaid :)
Udacity CS101-Building a Search Engine: One Year Later
This is not a tutorial, and the title is supposed to be intriguing, not to be taken literally.

Seems like you're pointing out the obvious, at least to me.
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Indeed. As a product manager at the company authoring the post, I frequently prototype a new report in this manner.
Wait, are you comparing the ages of Django and Java? Wouldn't it be fairer to compare the ages of Python and Java? Python is about four years older than Java.
I'm using it to combat the dreadfulness of jira.
The patent mentions using multiple power acquisition methods to simply extend the life of the battery.

The patent also mentions many power savings features, basically putting the device into life-saving mode most of the time and only waking to perform a task or notify you of something.

If that's the case, then low power use when off is the priority for them, and if they are able to use drips of power from multiple sources to partially power that stand-by, then the battery only really gets used when you put the screen on... meaning that the device's standby time can be legitimately advertised as being some very long period of time.

And for an idea of standby power for a bluetooth device, let's go back to Casio ( http://world.g-shock.com/us/en/ble/function/ )...

> Since Bluetooth® v4.0 uses low-power near field communication technology, your function-packed G-SHOCK is able deliver to approximately two years of operation on a single coin type battery. This makes the watch's advanced functions practical for everyday use. Approximate battery life when communication function are used for 12 hours a day (tentative value).

2 years!

The iWatch (or whatever it's called) really is only going to drain the battery when that screen is on and in use.
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Patents and suing aside, I think Apple's nosedive into the watch industry is a really interesting one considering their past. Traditionally, they enter new product lines with great hesitation and deliberation, but it almost seems like in this case, they're trying to catch up with the market (Pebble's massive success, etc.).

As a hardware company, they're playing with human real estate. They've already got us locked in our desks and on the go with our phones, but now they're trying to add yet another level of convenience with the watch.
Busy man?

http://btlondon2012.co.uk/pano.html?view.hlookat=-64.2875...
> I didn't make any money out of it, but I did get a day and a half to look around a new city on expenses.

This strikes me as curious. Were you billing hourly?
Another common bug: bad troubleshooters don't verify their hypotheses. They get attached to their first idea of what might be going wrong, and start tweaking things to alter the behavior of whatever they think is at fault --- and after each such tweak fails, it's on to the next, without a pause to consider that the problem might be elsewhere. Time wasted like this can range from hours to weeks.

Where this gets really annoying is when you present them with direct evidence that the problem is elsewhere, and you get back an emotionally driven argument for ignoring it...
I understand this, but for better or worse, I can't have a serious conversation in my organization without pricing information. There is no, "Check this out, it's cool, should we consider it?" without an immediate, "But what does it cost?" Without having the answers to the latter, I can't even really initiate the conversation in any meaningful way. Am I expected to bookmark your site and repeatedly check back until the information I need is actually available?
I don't even know what pricing per developer means. They should rethink this, because I know lots of people who ignore it because it doesn't make sense for their situation.
Stack Exchange’s Colocation Move: Lessons Learned
It's a truism that a company will try to make more money. I often find people in comments lecturing this basic in a way that feels a bit repetitive and sometimes condescending. It's not your comment, but it adds up so finally I took to replying.

Too often in these kinds of threads people start with something like "Google should have..." or Apple should..." and arguing from the position of those companies. People play armchair manager and identify fully with a multi billion dollar corporation.

I don't mind studying a business case for education, but I can't cheer on every silly action that a company ends up doing, intentionally or not.

The accountability to shareholders also seems a little like a strawman at times. With regards to Android, a few years ago you could have convincingly argued different product/marketing strategies.

Denying every single "good" action in our professional lifes because it could cheat a shareholder somewhere ... that would definitively be a strawman.
"people have already voted with their money on what they value more"

1. We do not vote with money in America. Poor people get as much of a vote as rich people in this country.

2. By making jailbreaking illegal, the government is giving carriers a special legal status that makes it harder for anyone else to compete. If you want a market-based solution to life's problems, you cannot have the government swoop in and give special privilege to certain players.
Bootstrap and JQuery Mobile poised to compete in 2013?
The Bootstrap team recently announced that v3 will be mobile first. v1.3 of JQM features responsive design and desktop compatibility[2]. Are the 2 projects poised to compete in 2013? If so, how will the competition play out?
[1] http://blog.getbootstrap.com/2013/02/07/bootstrap-2-3-released/
[2] http://jquerymobile.com/blog/2013/02/20/jquery-mobile-1-3-0-released/
In Greece, all carriers offer subsidies for most phones (some are even free with a plan), and every single phone is unlocked. It makes no sense for them to sell locked phones, since you can't get out of paying your dues for the duration of the contract anyway.

The lock-in is in the contract, not the phone, so locking the phone as well is unnecessary.
It just sits and spins for me in firefox too - maybe it is too overloaded at the moment.

(I did wonder if it was because the sites I tested it with were IPv6 only, but even IPv4 sites are doing nothing.)
Drug dealers? Pirates? Hell, the somali pirates even have an investment system now.
You must be smarter than me, so to collect your five dollars you must explain how my statement means I subscribe to that myth.

My way of thinking on the matter is if you hand someone the technical drawings of a lock, then they have the means to determine how to best open it without having the key.
It looks great - in theory - but for some reason the performance seems to be dismal. I put together a site using an older version of jqmobile about a year ago and was impressed how smooth and quick the widgets worked, even on a 1G iPad.

I just went through the demo site on my iPad 3 and it just seems terrible - slow, improper rendering on a bunch of elements, stuttering transitions, etc.

Is anyone else finding this? Perhaps something is amiss on my iPad, but my impression is not great so far...
Many stores carry unlocked phones, but the locking of phones and the discount are specifically linked. You can buy an unlocked, unsubsidized phone from any carrier, but if you buy it on contract, it will likely be locked.

Not entirely sure this applies across ALL carriers, but it does apply to ATT/Sprint/TMO I believe.
Can you imagine if google acquired this company for street view?
> shouldn't have brought up terrorism

Word mightier than sword
The President is not the head of the party (Debbie Wasserman Schultz is to the extent that the position exists), nor is he in charge of whipping people (for the Democrats that's Steny Hoyer right now).

He admittedly does have a huge bully pulpit. A defined legislative role. And he does personally lean on representatives. But the US has absolutely nothing equivalent to the organization and party discipline that countries. And "President" is an individually elected position by the country, and has no particular relation to his party other than "(very prominent) member".
What's the problem? Per-seat licenses are nothing new, it's how you have always bought Adobe/Microsoft/Autodesk/etc software.

Use d3 if you don't want to spend the money, it's much more powerful anyway.
Mark Zuckerberg is putting his best developers on Glass
Funnel is a big one. I don't think anyone else has this (besides D3 - but you can do basically anything with D3).
Concerns of how many citizens? 10? 1000? Out of how many millions?
That's not a subject to talk about imo on hacker news. (Refering to your second remark) Let's talk tech, I liked the new UI but I'm waiting for the price because for now my PC and my PS3 will do fine. The only thing that could make me move now is the fact in the near future there will be no new games on PS3 so I will have two choice, buy a new console or stay on my PC/Steam.
That may be true - the industrial design may not actually be finalized. But ultimately this is to Sony's benefit - people are talking about the games, the features, the controller, etc - things that actually influence a buying decision. Rather than salivating (or bashing) the industrial design, which nobody actually cares about at the end of the day.

Intentional or not, this is a great move.
Unfortunately, I don't think you'll get your payout in this case.

DRM is inherently insecure. All DRM is actually employing obscuring tricks to make it as difficult as possible to access the plaintext content. At _some point_ though, you have the plaintext sitting somewhere in memory or in registers on the attacker's machine.

Since DRM _is_ security-through-obscurity, an open source module would make it significantly easier to break.
I buy google branded phones and make my own build. By not building all the junk my battery lasts almost 3days with average use which is pretty amazing for a nexus s. It would need constant recharging with the stock build
The topic in #regex on irc.freenode.org:

READ THIS FIRST: Need help? 1) Language/platform. 2) Sample string. 3) Desired result. 4) Your attempt. | Do NOT use RegEx to parse HTML! | Do NOT tell us a RegEx doesn't work if you aren't testing it in the language you asked about! | Intro: http://bit.ly/XrnV | Home: http://bit.ly/KEo1Gx | FAQ: http://bit.ly/L949Mk | Quiz: ? quiz | Regex website: http://regex101.com/

Note the part "Do NOT use RegEx to parse HTML!" ...

You can use regex to to parse HTML, but it's a verry bad idea.
Basicly you would nee to reimplement the HTML definition in regex, otherwise your regex will screw up.
You can buy DRM free books on Amazon as well, it's the publisher's choice. I don't know the percentages, there doesn't seem to be a huge number of them but they are there.
Wish it had google maps type navigation, wish the images weren't HDRd in post.

Other than that it's pretty cool.
Looking closer, the "Learn More" link under Single Developer says "Allow Highcharts to be used with an unlimited number of SaaS projects, web applications, intranets, and websites for you or your customers."

Based on this, their pricing seems reasonable.
Would be great to have this: collect 1,000,000 votes for petition and it goes to Senate for mandatory voting.

Otherwise it's impossible to penetrate the wall between government and people via "your vote, we write response, maybe" - type of approach.
I wish it was more affordable too. I believe it was only $100 a couple of years ago. That was almost OK as a price to try it out, but the current pricing puts it out of my range for now.
The "How It Feels" video put you in tears because it's a cinematic compilation of a fantasy lifestyle set to stirring music. The vision you found so compelling is the vision of a life filled with aerial acrobatics, skydiving, exotic travel and the surface indicators of deep personal relationships.

It's a product pitch, not a manifesto. It is to a true vision of a better tomorrow what a thirty-second "I Approve This Message" ad is to the Declaration of the Rights of Man. It has been calibrated and hand-crafted by highly skilled advertising professionals to evoke an emotional response that you will imprint onto the product itself.

You are already living in the age of augmented reality. It just hasn't been augmented in quite the way you're hoping for.
For me, math is just a written language. I don't see anything, I just read it, write in it, and think it when neccesary.

Would you mind sending me an email, or putting an email address in the "about" section of your profile? I was hoping to get your thoughts on something.
I would be surprised if even 25% of those startups had a meaningful exit. But even at 25%, we're a very long way from the lottery odds -- that comparison always strikes me as quite misleading.
I wouldn't say that it's a problem, it's just outside of the scope of this essay, which focuses on Arab armies:

"Examining Arab warfare in this century leads to the conclusion that the Arabs remain more successful in insurgent, or political, warfare — what T. E. Lawrence termed 'winning wars without battles.'"
I played around with the sign-up form because I'm designing something similar at the moment.
Once I get a "username not valid" error, I can't re-enable the submit-button anymore. You might want to fix that.
Also I don't think that the username was already in use, because I entered a random email. Probably a validation error.

To say something positive: I like that the headline changes the last word periodically. That caught my attention.
Sell it to PepsiCo!
From that excerpt, all the parrot can tell is if two objects are the same color or not.
In th US, carriers discount the hardware and make it up in the contract. If you pay fully for your hardware, the carriers still charge you the same monthly amount and just make a lot more profit off of you.

We may have voted, but "own my hardware and just pay for service" wasn't on the ballot.
The problem is that it's on a website, and the number of developers can change from day to day.
> You havent lost your "touch", because there wasnt one to lose from the start. You just got lucky.

Thanks for writing that, it resonated strongly with me for some reason.
JavaScript developer, can you reverse a linked list?
Pretty soon we will be able to make a song out of that list.

Now I know my ABCs,

Next time won't you sing with me.
I wouldn't fret about it. Investors know that investing in tech startups are as high risk as they come (b/c they have some of the highest rewards - risk vs. reward). They know there is a chance that the investment will hit the bottom, so don't worry about them. Start looking for some jobs. I'm sure from your experience over a few years you can provide some great value to other organizations who would take you in a second. Keep your head up.
The billing practices of medical providers in the US are appalling. I have seen statements where the "billed" amount was $15K and the "contract" amount actually paid (and accepted as full payment) was $1300 for one aspect of a one hour outpatient procedure.

The $1300 seems reasonable considering the people and resources involved but the game of financially destroying people without insurance in a nation where people are denied independent coverage for something as trivial as allergies needs to end.

Access to group health insurance alone can be reason enough to choose a corporate job over an entrepreneurial lifestyle once you have dependents.
Show HN: User-editable fixes/workarounds for all PC games
All Linux is Unix but not all Unix is Linux. Applicable?
Corporate's taking away my desktop, and replacing it with a laptop. The old computer's being retired, and all of the computers on the menu of replacements I had to pick from were laptops. Developers like me who want performance get a beefy desktop replacement model that I have to admit is on par with what we'd have gotten in an actual desktop computer.
The NHS forces costs down as a monopsony.

Also there is not the separation between provider and payer which results in providers angling for the most expensive treatments, only forced down by a payer who regards the patient as an unwanted liability. (This has been partially subverted in the British NHS by ill advised privatization.)
I find I like working on existing projects for this very reason. You can scope things into weekly blocks and emphasize the value you're adding to their business. It's easier for the customer to "See" it since it's not vaporware. It's also much easier to get a 1-week estimate right than a 3-month estimate. And even if you really really screw up, all you've lost is a Saturday. When you screw up a 3-month estimate it's more likely to cost you six weeks' billables. Even if you charge hourly, do you think the client is going to give a stellar reference for the contractor that billed $20K+ over his estimate?

Short scope, well-defined, less risk, more fun, easier sell for both parties.

So I'm with you. I would not want to jump into a 3-month fix priced contract blind.
It's better than Microsoft, which still doesn't have a name for Metro or whatever it is that is in Windows 8 that nobody uses.
What things mean ...
...And what do you say? :D
I have never seen a Pebble in the wild. By comparison, I had seen mp3 players, smartphones, and tablets in the wild before the iPod, iPhone, and iPad, respectively.
Video of The Verge hands on with the Ubuntu Tablet
Israeli Court Says Full-Text RSS Feeds Create an Implied Copyright License
Brutal honestly requested – Built this last night
NASA spots giant, fast-growing sunspot that could lead to big solar flares
Show HN: Ringo - Building access the way you want it
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No, salaried.

[EDIT] I didn't quite walk out straight after fixing the problem. I stuck around to help out with any other queries they had with our software but they ran out of questions by lunch time.

[EDIT2] Customer wasn't being billed at all for my visit. They pay annual maintenance for the software though. If it's a serious (or weird) enough problem (or they shout loud enough) then someone is sent on site.
It also helps when the bug is ultimately not your problem, so you don't have any personal stress about getting it fixed. It's just an interesting challenge. Treating your own problems in this way can be tough, though!
Only till they realised CD rippers exist, and CD-RWs became popular and affordable. Then came the DRM and rootkits.
Really? To me at it sounded like he explicitly announced he was someone that United corporate feels the need to monitor. There are a number of valid ways to interpret that. If I walked on a plane and said "Hello! I'm someone the big wigs at United corporate monitors closely!", I'd expect to get tossed.

I'm getting very tired of blogger-entitlement-syndrome. "I'm important on the internet! Respect my authoritah!"
Google in Talks With Warby Parker to Make Glass More Stylish
They seem to have a very broken presentation of the funnel, though. The example looks more like they've squashed different area sizes into a fixed funnel shape, rather than showing how much the funnel narrows at each step so you can immediately see where you're losing or converting a high proportion of prospects.
The Write Tool for the Job
This post reminds me of Clarence Thomas' explanation of his short opinions. This is the perfect example of a "5 cent idea in a $10 sentence."

Post adds nothing of substance to the following:

"Well-formed HTML is context-free. So you can match it using regular expressions."

"But most HTML you see in the wild is not well-formed. And just because you can, doesn’t mean that you should."

which wasn't even written by him.
The cherry on top: 100,000 Americans die from hospital-acquired infections each year.
Sorry, but standards aren't formed in committees, they are standardized there.
The right way to do this is: Put out your stuff, get others to implement it, everyone has experiences, get together and standardize based on those experiences.

This is why folks like IETF rely on "rough consensus and running code" when standardizing.

I always see this idea that companies should get together in a room and define protocols, and having seen standards orgs that do this, it scares the hell out of me.
http://www.legionhardware.com/images/review/Asrock_Z77_Extre...

Look at the "Boot" logo.
IMHO this is from transmission torrent client.
It looks similar to the concept from Nokia from 2007 https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&...
Apple Hit with 'Planned Obsolescence' Lawsuit in Brazil over 4th Generation iPad