skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Had a few friends who got invites and have one to play with for a month now.

Must say I'm somewhat feeling meh about this on many levels.

Initialy the price was a wake up and I thought, ok I'm missing something so I did a little digging and still think its too expensive for the sum of parts.

Issues I have are:

1) Price
2) Limited local storage
3) Only USB2 and no USB3
4) No 3g or 4G options in the UK and given the price I'd expect at least 3 years worth of unlimited 3G internet based up consumer prices and that spec.
5) battery life, is somewhat lacking

Concerns that may also be worries when I know more are:

1) Keyboard mic could be used to snarf passwords via applications that have access to the mic
2) No vents apparent and suspect hidden under the keyboard which is worrying in case of spill/splash
3) Screen mooted to have good viewing angles so more mindful to shoulder surfing

But in general for what you get it seems way too expensive and look forward to a teardown.

Now all that said Google did somewhat get burned on the Nexus 4 pricing and I don't know if they are over compensating or what. They may be releaseing at a silly price for those with more money to burn, then gradualy lower the price to fit all price pockets.

Another aspect a friend said was it has 1tb for 3 years cloud storage and whilst nice and with that local storage overly needed I do think such lockins to Google without being able to tap alternatives and cheaper alternatives distracting from the price. Remember Microsoft many years ago got lambasted for tieing in everybody to IE on windows as default and not offing a simple-janet-and-john alternative for the happy people. This ties in more than that, but different times.

When I factor all that it is and is not I still think if I had that money I would get a macbook air and I have never had Apple product and very much a google fan, but this is so over priced to me that it would be insane to buy one at that price, least for me.

I would also add that two wifi ipads with retina screens and a bluetooth keyboard works out cheaper and with that, it does somewhat again highlight the price factor.

So with all that I'll stick with my plans to get a Chromebook (cheap one) and probably get one even cheaper 2nd hand now :) that and my netbook with built in 3g modem and twice the battery life is still nothing to worry about.

I would like to see a resolution like this but with more storage, USB3, built in 3g modem (3G in the UK is faster than USA 4G and CDMA 4G with voice is a battery nightmare apparently as well as a kludge somewhat). Also at the very least twice that battery life.

So I will with for a tegra 4 version, which will make more sence on more levels.
Zen Form: Add distraction free mode for forms
Efficiency as well as integration with the native OS's style & interface.
Those who are doing the oppressing always find it "unfair" when the persecuted speak out against them.
Here's one example: ReactiveMongo, the only async db library ,is only for Scala.
http://quanta-gaia.org/reviews/books/FeymanJoking.html
Another place for root kits to hide.
> But if something isn't expressible in plain language

It is expressible in plain language. The scenario I brought up states that the person responsible for expressing it in plain language did so in a way that might have left a loophole or otherwise failed to capture all of the subtleties the legal language version expresses.
Why do they say "California is an actual self-parody"?

I'd much prefer to meet someone at 24 Hour Fitness than Wal*mart...
Exactly.

Seeing this and saying: "These are just helicopters, but smaller" isn't very helpful.

The big difference between these and "real" helicopters (either realsize ones or RC helicopters) is that now these things are using a super fast feedback loop to find their balance.

This could definitely one day help piloting real helicopters: just like these feedback-looped quadcopters are way easier to fly than the RC copters...
Stability. Give it credit for being - probably - the most widely used implementation of malloc in the world.

I say this as someone who has implemented a lock-free memory allocator for mutlithreaded applications. I cared about performance, and I was willing to sacrifice nice things like detecting double-frees. I moved away from the project largely because I didn't want to be in a performance race with TCMalloc. (At the end, TCMalloc outperformed my allocator in some benchmarks, but not in others. But, surprisingly, there were also some places were glibc outperformed both.)
No one think this is a good news in fact?

People really need to thanks Google for bringing up the competition all the time. Now Apple have little reason not to add support for retina, lte, multi touch display in the coming MBA models.

On the other hand, it is a little strange that Google didn't mention the weight of the Pixel.
Apparently once you start having more threads than cores, tcmalloc really shines:

http://i.imgur.com/4RzmQD6.png

Looks like those on centos can install it easily via

yum install gperftools-libs --enablerepo=epel

which installs

/usr/lib64/libtcmalloc.so.4
/usr/lib64/libtcmalloc_minimal.so.4

then you just need to edit your mysql init script?

test -e /usr/lib64/libtcmalloc_minimal.so.4 && export LD_PRELOAD="/usr/lib64/libtcmalloc_minimal.so.4"

You can also try jemalloc which supposedly is close to as good as tcmalloc but uses less memory

yum install jemalloc --enablerepo=epel

which installs

/usr/lib64/libjemalloc.so.1

and for your init.d

test -e /usr/lib64/libjemalloc.so.1 && export LD_PRELOAD="/usr/lib64/libjemalloc.so.1"
I find the parallels between this and the recent HN outage to be interesting: Both times, the people responsible assumed that a recent software upgrade was the root cause, when the actual cause was something mundane and basically unrelated.
You poked the bear and, because you're white and rich, you got growled at instead of bitten. Pardon me if I do not feel sympathy for this "elite status" privileged whine.
> we should all be treated fairly/you have to pay for MY health care

How about "we should all be treated fairly/you have to pay for MY military"? Is that fair?
You are dividing fixed costs over a small number of units. Of course it's going to be bad. A lot of that money is R&D for current products. Another large chunk is investments in factory equipment that will be making cars for 10+ years.

If I build a plastic mold for $2 parts, and the mold costs me $100,000, you don't say that I lost $10,000 per part for the first 10 parts.
This site is so goddamn weird, it might as well have been a parody site, if I didn't know it was an unofficial hackathon.
Unfair.

Do you hear that? It's the world's smallest violin, smuggled in to prison in a body cavity.
True, and I recently did the coursera class on clojure. I'm definitely keeping it in the back of my mind for future projects.

I still personally find JVM languages slow memory hogs during development but that's another issue :P

It's definitely a good offering
Well, sometimes the black hole route leaks out. A (the???) Pakistani telco was blocking YouTube inside the country, but accidentally advertised itself as the shortest route to YouTube for a good chunk of the world. This was back sometime around 2008-2010.
I will consider it theft if and when the government stops using MY money to fund YOUR military.
T-Mobile 4G Hotspot Multiple Vulnerabilities
Probably not. First, if you search InTrade you won't find anything related to LivingSocial. Second, it's not legal for anybody in the US to bet via InTrade[1], and Privco is a US company with it's founder Sam Hamadeh based in New York[2].

[1] http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2012/11/26/after-regulatory-sanc...

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Hamadeh
Agreed; app requests' visibility and acceptance rates tend to be so abysmal in general that I'd bet that it makes very little difference to most developers that they've been yanked.

Meanwhile, Dr. Oz has a diet he'd like you to go on...click here to change your life.
0.65s of pure robotics awesomness...
I guess I don't get what's so horrible about giving people a choice. This is just a Quake-style mlook implementation at the end of the day, and gamers are used to being able to select the mlook polarity.

But no, there has to be a jihad, and somebody has to "win."
I think highcharts have better support for touch devices (ie iOS) than the open source options, as far I know...
Hmm I was confused when I saw actual articles from The Onion on there, but that's because the top navigation links point to pages on The Onion.

Aside from that minor confusion, the site's purpose is absolutely hilarious and I applaud the tongue-in-cheek approach.
It's a HUGE deal if you want to sell books. Yes the Kindle reads DRM free books, but 80% of the books being sold in terms of dollar volume MUST be sold with DRM. Thus anyone with a Kindle can't buy and read the majority of books being sold if they buy those books from a 3rd party.

I know you can buy good books without DRM, but if you want to read Stephen King, Nora Roberts, John Grisham they are ONLY sold with DRM. Selling those ebooks when they can't work on the eBook reader system that has sold more units than every other system becomes a problem.

Note, I happen to have a solution for getting ebooks with DRM onto a kindle in a readable form that I'm working on.
I am a recent grad and got job offers from 5 different companies in bay area. Well, recent grad or new grad means a bachelor/masters student who is on either varge of graduation, finished with his all school work or the one who graduated in 2-3 months and looking for jobs. I had applied for jobs when I was almost done with my school work, I was just left with my defense, I had started applying for jobs from sept 2012 and got few offers by november 2012, meanwhile I was working on my masters project too. Then, after 5 offers I stopped applying for jobs and chose an offer where i wanted to work. On december 17th I defended my project and joined the company on 18th december.

Hope it helped.
Whoops, serves me right for not double-checking [2]: https://github.com/dnschneid/crouton
Oh wow, I'm stupid. In tiredness last night I meant to type electrolocation [1] but ended up typing echolocation. Sorry about that.

You're completely right that we can develop echolocation quite functionally if we throw ourselves at it, as some blind people have demonstrated readily. The best examples are probably Daniel Kish [2] as well as Ben Underwood, who famously was that kid shown rollerblading down the street using it.

Suffice to say, had I actually typed electrolocation I'd look less stupid right now :) It's why I mentioned subterranean animals, e.g.: monotremes such as the echidna and platypus, as well as underwater creatures which tend to hunt in mud and silt. In both cases, echolocation isn't really effective since dirt/mud doesn't tend to let sound created by an animal penetrate too well.

Now, if you guys have examples of where humans have shown electrolocation, I'd certainly like to read about that!

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrolocation
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_echolocation#Daniel_Kish
This is more or less the greatest thing I've learned about in the last couple years.

What's happening here is that they're getting computation without executing any instructions, simply through the process of using the MMU hardware to "resolve addresses". The page directory system has been set up in such a way that address resolution effects a virtual machine that they can code to.

This works because when you attempt to resolve an invalid address, the CPU generates a trap (#PF), and the handling of that trap pushes information on the "stack". Each time you push data to the stack, you decrement the stack pointer. Eventually, the stack pointer underflows; when that happens, a different trap (#DF) fires. This mechanism put together gives you:

if x < 4 { goto b } else { x = x - 4 ; goto a }

also known as "subtract and branch if less than or equal to zero", also known as "an instruction adequate to construct a one-instruction computer".

The virtual machine "runs" by generating an unending series of traps: in the "goto a" case, the result of translation is another address generating a trap. And so on.

The details of how this computer has "memory" and addresses instructions is even headachier. They're using the x86 TSS as "memory" and for technical reasons they get 16 slots (and thus instructions) to work with, but they have a compiler that builds arbitrary programs into 16-colored graphs to use those slots to express generic programs. Every emulator they could find crashes when they abuse the hardware task switching system this way.

Here's it running Conway's Life:

http://youtubedoubler.com/?video1=E2VCwBzGdPM&start1=0&#...

Here's their talk for a few months back:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGXvJ1GKBKM

The talk is great, but if you're not super interested in X86/X64 memory corruption countermeasures, you might want to skip the first 30 minutes.
I wasn't criticizing your code, per-se.

I did fair bit of Smalltalk development back in school, so I know exactly where Obj-C/Cocoa naming conventions and 'message' syntax comes from. The problem is this: that naming convention doesn't make any sense in a statically typed language. It made sense in Smalltalk because the parameters sent to a message could be anything. It was a convention to avoid common erros. In Obj-C, on the other hand, it doesn't make any sense. Sure, it might sound like saying "message withBananaParameter: banana andCoconutParameter: coconut" is clearer and 'self documenting', but it's a waste of your time typing it (even when you use autocomplete) and the compiler parsing it. Let alone people reading your code in the future.

The indentation is arguable. I don't know whether that's the standard or not, but I dislike the fact that you are pushing stuff to the right, basically forcing yourself to break the parameter list a lot because you get closer to the "right margin". It looks like that indentation convention was specifically invented to make long parameters list harder to read (ironically, considering long parameter lists are an artifact of Smalltalk-like message/parameter convention.)

I've programmed in a bunch of languages and platforms over the yeas, and only three languages always keep bugging me when reading them: Obj-C (specially Cocoa code), Perl and very complex Javascript. There's something about them that just feels off.
With ebooks it's crazy easy because you can READ the plaintext unlike with video etc. where it take a tad more work to read the plaintext.
don't they use Eclipse IDE or alikes? (honest question)
>If chosen, you will not purchase a ticket of $1500 plus tax.

That's some strange wording. Could you clarify what it means?
What evidence? The evidence shows very clearly that the majority oft people drive less than 80 miles a day. To suggest that ICE cars have no limitations in these ranges does indeed fly in the face. of all evidence.
This! I just can't understand why it would be desired on a laptop.
Fair enough. (I drive a Navara camping - I wouldn't take a 5 series)

I'd probably want 3 superchargers for the Hume (Wangaratta, Gundagai, Goulburn is my rough placement) (In large part this is because MEL -> CBR is probably too far for just one recharge - ie: Frankston to Tuggeranong is 737km)
I'll grant you that if you only do one thing at a time, it works all right. I just tend to jump around a lot -- I use Tree Style Tab for Firefox just to figure out how I got somewhere -- and the Chromebook is a really bad machine for that purpose.
I wish I thought you were being grumpy and cynical instead of accurate.
I have a galax note II and I can't reproduce this. I am using the samsung keyboard.

I am rooted though.
Except that, according to the author, he was accused of refusing to stop taking pictures. Giving him the benefit of the doubt, it seems reasonable for him to critise the airline based on their words, even if he suspects their words are not truthful.
I requested the info for a company. The new grads were defined as soon-to-graduate senior undergrad students to upto 6 months out of school. I presume others follow similar time frame.
Here's an anecdote of what happened to me as an international student in the US. My mother stayed with me for about 4 months after I first arrived in the states, helping me to set up the apt, teaching me how to cook etc. My dad, who is paranoid about such things (he always buys travel insurance even for very short trips) insisted on getting health insurance for my mother, and reluctantly, I agreed to get it. There are many plans out there for a short term insurance, and I got one from a local company for about $400 for 6 months, which was an exorbitant amount back then when I had almost no money in the bank.

Anyways, come winter, and my mother gets respiratory problems. I took her to the local hospital, where they told me that I would have to put her in the ER. Turns out everything was fine, but she needed the reassurance of the doctor that everything was OK. We spent some 20 mins with the doctor. Bill for the visit? $250. Expensive, though expected, as it was exactly what it said in the insurance plan.

Anyway, much later, I found out that the insurance claim by the hospital was around $1000. I figured I had saved about $350 by taking insurance, but it struck me as odd that just meeting with a patient for 20 mins would cost so much!
Well to be fair to Googlerola, the Photon 4G was a pre-Google phone. I haven't tried any of the post-Google phones.
Looking at the Founder's background and the roster of corporate clients, PrivCo look fairly legit.

http://www.privco.com/our-team/founder-and-ceo
"The title is sensationalist and misleading. The photo taking clearly wasn't the problem because the author wasn't removed from the plane after taking the photo"

"Captain: Sir, you are not flying on this flight.

Me: Can you tell me why?

Captain: My FA tells me she told you to stop taking pictures and you continued to take pictures."

I mean, sure, this could be the lie theyre using to cover up the real reason. But when we're two liars deep in the process, its kind of hard to figure out what the truth is. I get that they could have been lying, but calling this sensationalist is infinitely more ridiculous. They told him he was kicked off a plane for taking pictures, he made that his headline, you said he was being sensationalist. How does all that logic connect?

"they were removed after they said something they shouldn't have."

This is my whole point. The fact that we will literally throw someone off a plane if the word terrorist is said, regardless of the context, is absolutely deplorable. Why shouldn't he have done that? Because he should have assumed he was speaking to a liar who has no ability to understand context? I don't want to have to assume this is the case when i talk to other americans, so maybe we can stop with this bullshit?
uTP is designed to let TCP eat all the bandwidth on saturated links, and generally defer to TCP whenever possible. For BitTorrent, that's exactly what you want. For web browsing, you probably want to be more aggressive. I skimmed the source code, and it looks like they're using the same CUBIC congestion control algorithm that Linux's TCP stack has been using by default since 2007.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CUBIC_TCP
> I wish they had gone with Groovy.

Play 2 stripped out all the Groovy code from Play 1. There must be a reason.

> Groovy 2.x offers pretty much all the benefits of static compilation and dynamic language features together

Groovy's dynamic compilation is reliable, but sloooooooooow. The static compilation added in Groovy 2 is much faster but still buggy e.g. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14774709/groovy-2-1-0-wei... It was written by one developer, and first shipped in Grails only 2 months ago. And does Grails actually use any of Groovy's static compilation features? I haven't seen anywhere it's used: point me to somewhere in the Grails codebase if it does.

You don't get all the benefits of static compilation and dynamic compilation together, you can get bugfree (but sloooooooooow) code, or faster (but buggy) code.
Hi. I actually work as a developer at The Onion. Given the conversation we just had, I'd say that it seems like you're not in "our circles".

Honestly, I think this idea is pretty cool, but just ripping off our CSS and HTML seems a little scummy. Not only that, but the fact that you were initially hotlinking our static media makes it seems like this is a bit of a lazy effort (let it be noted: you're still hotlinking a lot of media—now it's just from other sites). I'm actually a little sad that you stopped hotlinking our css, because we were already working on another stylesheet to mess with you.

Beyond that, you're using our fonts. These are not free web fonts. They are fonts that we paid a good deal of money to be able to use legally on our site, and they are definitely not authorized for use on yours.

Bottom line: cool idea, not OK execution.
This sounds dubious. It's obviously one sided which is OK, but what exactly is the motivation of a flight attendant to flat out lie about continuing to take pictures. And why wait to do it while continuing to service other passengers.
From Tesla's original post:
"For his first recharge, he charged the car to 90%. During the second Supercharge, despite almost running out of energy on the prior leg, he deliberately stopped charging at 72%."

And the graph of battery levels shows what level he recharged to. http://www.teslamotors.com/blog/most-peculiar-test-drive

If he had charged to 100% for that last Supercharge - I wonder if the result would have been different.
Yes, an 'ally' attacked. Now lets make life miserable for all the well behaved allies and our citizens as well.
Computational Journalism Publishers Workbench 2.1.0 Released
But you've just gone from "no limitations" to "no limitations as long as you travel within 80 miles".

So 80 miles should be considered a limitation, no?
The first read-later service
First MacBook Retina docking station live on Kickstarter
Same here. Love them, but they don't really understand and I don't want to trouble them.
Airports and airplanes have become pure fascist territory where we must act, look, and speak in a scared, deferential way to authority. It should be every American's worst nightmare. But instead we get pragmatic arguments about why we should comply. This is how we lose our freedoms. Fuck that.
It's an unofficial brainstorming session, where all you get to do is brainstorm with others about how to best apply for Google's contest.
I presume it's a parody of Google saying "Hey, if you 'win' the chance to get a set of Google Glasses, you still need to pay $1500 + tax to get a pair".
NBC shut down EveryBlock. I don't follow them anymore
Of everything, this goes uninvestigated??

"A microphone for the PA system. Some of them still work, and we assume that they still play in the main (functioning) mall."
Biggest differences of Thrift vs Protocol Buffers?
Note owners should be rightfully incensed. Also want to note that the Photon 4G is almost the exact same phone as the Verizon Droid X (pretty sure that's the model, too lazy to look) which DID get updates because V's model update schedule was behind Sprint's. They specifically only didn't update the Photon because they had a newer phone coming out on Sprint sooner. ICS works fine, I installed Cyanogen and can promise that it does. (with the exception that since no one owns a Photon, no one made a working ROM)

The bottom line is this, I've had one Android phone that was the best phone I've ever owned (better than the iPhone 3G even), which was the Nexus One. I sold my N1 to a friend and it's STILL IN SERVICE and works perfectly.

I've had two Androids that were two of the worst three phones I've ever used and those were the Samsung Moment and the Motorola Photon. I'm seeing a pattern here.
several years ago damon cali (op) told me: "startups don't sell a product, they sell a dream"