skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Check out AliExpress. The higher end Chinese phones and tablets are starting to get into iPhone / iPad price range (look at Huawei and XIAOMI phones, for example). You can do cheap, and reasonable, or you can get a huge range of very advanced products that are starting to look very attractive in terms of design and build quality too.

In between there's a large mid range where quality is rapidly improving but the prices stay low.

I got a Star B92M phone, for example. It's a cheap Galaxy S3 clone (same exact dimensions; comes with the same dandelion screensaver; some distributors offers it with a fake Samsung logo....). It's slower. It feels cheaper (the plastic back, for example is a noticeable weakness, and the GPS is a known problem - needs longer antennae). But it's got 1GB RAM, can take 64GB sd card, same 1280x720 resolution, higher resolution (12MP) main camera, dual sims, and generally acts and feels like a relatively high end phone with some minor caveats (try to run 3d stuff, and it's about the same performance as the much older HTC Desire HD, for example, though the Desire HD was much higher end when it was released and the Star trounces it overall performance). I'll stick to that cost range phone because it pays for itself vis-a-vis contract costs for a top end phone in ~6-8 months, and I'm good at breaking stuff...

Now the bar has been raised substantially higher, and there are 1800+ listings for phones with 1920x1080 resolution (in the 5" size range; lots of duplicates of the same models from multiple sellers, though), many of them quad core MTK based phones with 2GB RAM that are now at the very least up around the top of the mid-range segment if not outright challenging the most powerful high end phones yet.

In terms of innovation, you'll start seeing more of it once more of their manufacturers are pushing up against the ceiling set by the current pack leaders like Samsung and Apple. For now they are still busy playing catch-up in most respects.

To some extent we are also seeing different priorities that hides some of the features that these manufacturers put effort into. E.g. dual-sims seems to be pretty much a requirement for mid-range phones and above from the Chinese manufacturers, while you see it relatively rarely in models that are features heavily in the West. You even see 3 and 4 sim phones. A lot of these features may simply not make it to the West to any great extent because they're not what consumers here care about (but I'm in love with having dual sims - being able to slot in a second sim with cheap data etc. when travelling abroad while still being able to take calls on my standard number is great).
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The problem with a barrier that is hit is that you need to make sure it is structurally sound before you allow any other traffic past it. And if it leaves debris on the road, that needs to be cleaned up too. It's already a slow process to back out the oversized truck, so you don't want countermeasures that make it even slower.
I would disagree at least in the part that spending endless hours on meaningless non revenue generating flair / graphics art work, could theoretically be devoted toward either improving the presentation content, or toward revenue generating activities resulting in better results contained in the powerpoint.

I would also disagree in that its a crutch for the absolute bottom of the barrel presenters, because no matter how bad awkwardly reading slides to the audience is, its better than silence / choking up / repeating themselves / skipping intermediate concepts. Being read to like a preschool child is better than not getting a presentation at all, well, at least most of the time.
What if it was a convertible truck??
I hope Belize and other such places learn their lesson from this about leaving important places unprotected. For instance, if someone can blow up Giant Crystal Cave of Mexico, just for the fun of it, someone will, eventually.

It's not as if there is a shortage of stupid people anywhere.
Except it isn't "SQL" it's first-order predicate calculus - a provably sound way to store and query your data.
I also thought this was a common practice. Facebook, Gchat, Skype all do it. If you have sensitive links you shouldn't post them in chats/emails.
I understand "we got tired of saying 'excluding 1'", but I still don't grasp how the product of zero primes is 1 and not 0.
"I've wanted to work abroad but I feel I'm trapped now by my past"

Well, perhaps by international law (probably depends on the area) but make sure you're not looking for a geographic escape whenever you find yourself ready, your problems don't end in the US, obviously.

Still, 28 is fairly young to consider yourself "doomed".
Tigers.

Do I need to say more?
I fail to see why we should treat tangibile and intangible entities equally. In your opinion, how do you deduce what type of intangible property should qualify as intillectual property? Should chefs own his recipe? Should fragrance designers own their smell? Should phillosophers own their phillosophy?
I might (and I have open seats). Where are you located? Are you willing to relocate?
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Funny you mention New Relic because that is the company I had in mind when I read this post.

After unsubscribing/uninstalling New Relic from one of our servers/apps one of the sales guys contacted me via email. I ignored the first email, but he sent two more in 48 hours and I finally decided to let him know that we went for a competitors' service.

In a back and forth of emails, he kept harassing me because he wanted to know which competitor we went for. After telling him, this was his reply:

>Good luck with it. Doesn't look like there's much overlap with what we're doing in the way of far more advanced web app diagnostics and analytics.

That arrogance made me cancel a "Standard" account ($49/month) we had with New Relic on another server. A bit of humility goes a long way, not conceited attitudes.
I'm in a very similar position as you. 28yo, BA Economics and spent some time abroad. I finished a Master's in IT and did an apprenticeship at a software firm but I've been looking for a month and nothing has worked out yet. I think it's just a matter of time finding the right set of people to work with. You could try some courses at Coursera to build up your programming fundamentals. Good luck!
And there goes my morning productivity!
Worse is photobucket - they send out a similar amount of 'welcome' emails, even AFTER you click the 'fuck off' (unsubscribe) button. They seem to have stopped after I sent them a nasty email and reported their emails as spam.
Sorry, I'm aware of that. Thanks for suggesting it, though. I'm in particular interested in the 3D view.
I certainly didn't mean to come across as patronising, sorry about that, it's a mindset I've been in and one I sympathise with and frankly one I'm tempted to go back to.

It's really nice to have only(!) the technical challenges laid out in front of you and not have to deal with the business fluff.
That's the final score, but there's a filtering system with a letter grade from what I heard
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Nice blog spam. A youtube video with no article.
I think it is logging you into a demo account.
You need to logout.
Relevant viewpoints? This is Weebly spamming their customers in a sad attempt to resuscitate a dying customer relationship.
"This is a waste of time" is read by someone who currently does no exercise as "I may as well not bother trying".

Fitness advice is so fragmented and the debates between those who practice various types of fitness are so vigorous that it puts people off to fitness entirely.

If you actually want to inspire people who are not fit to get fit, it is going to take encouragement, not constant criticism of every possible method of getting fit.

There is literally no exercise routine that someone can propose and not face immediate criticism. A beginner doesn't need a perfect routine (which clearly doesn't exist anyway given all the argument on the issue). They need to do something. Something that is not actively harmful and will increase their fitness, even in a small way.

You may think you are showing people a better way, but you are really giving people nowhere to turn for support, because everyone always tries to show a better way no matter what the original way was. I could come here every single day posting about another fitness routine and every single day I would be told it's wrong. So if everything is wrong, what do you think I am going to do? Nothing.
Tested on Arch Linux x64:
[test@libros-dev tmp]$ uname -a
Linux libros-dev 3.8.5-1-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Fri Mar 29 19:18:14 CET 2013 x86_64 GNU/Linux

[test@libros-dev tmp]$ ./a.out

Killed

This is in dmesg:

[2112052.363397] Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP

[2112052.363890] CPU 0

[2112052.363969] Pid: 3775, comm: a.out Not tainted 3.8.5-1-ARCH #1 innotek GmbH VirtualBox/VirtualBox
> However - how many young men who are not insured by their employers, pick up medical insurance?

Under the ACA, essentially all of them will be required to.
The author is just interpreting effective email copy as aggressive communication. Good copywriting persuades the user into doing some action. But When you have no intention of doing that action, the persuasion, or pressure, that the copy induces by trying to make you do something that you don't want to naturally seems aggressive.

I'm not trying to justify the amount of emails that Weebly sends. That's way too many and way too annoying. But lets face it, the content of those emails is simply effective copywriting and the author doesn't like how it makes him feel.
> With C and C++ and Python and Ruby and Perl we have freedom. With Go, .Net and Java, etc. we do not.

Unfortunately, there is an important language design space that is not covered by C, C++, Python, Ruby, and Perl, which is that of statically typed, imperative languages with automatic memory management.

C/C++ give you static typing, but not automatic memory management; Python, Ruby, and Perl give you automatic memory management, but not static typing.

And unfortunately, while there are quite a few languages with these features, only few have the critical mass, long term support, and infrastructure to justify investing in them for serious development.
I quoted "developers", because we need a term to distinguish people who know basic computer science from people who know just enough to install software and piece together APIs. The latter group tends not to realize that things like overwriting your working set in memory and global write-locking lead inevitably to consistency and throughput issues.

The primary problem in software today is that we've confused the ability to build something with actually knowing anything of value.
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That trait is shared by lots of languages though. Racket and some other lisps do exactly that. So does PyPy.
You're making a pretty big assumption that everyone works in consumer-facing markets, and not with small- to medium-sized businesses.

The app store model is broken because it has too much Internet in it. Anonymity + Platform = arsehat. Dealing with clients one-on-one is really rewarding.
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> It's all well and good writing Go's compiler in Go, but then how are you going to compile it? A language needs to reach a certain threshold before it becomes possible to write a compiler in it's own language.

Is Go not at this point yet? I only have casual knowledge of the language, but it sure sounds like it is capable of building itself.
Curious — how are people using SpinRite?

I've wrecked one personal hard disk before, because I believed that SpinRite would "revive" the disk. I would have been much happier had I used ddrescue to try and clone a copy of any data that was still accessible, before siccing SpinRite on it.
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Great, I'm a fan of Atari Breakout pictures. Now I can't see images of Atari Breakout.

Damn you Google!
I agree that two examples doesn't mean much, but it means more than an unsourced assertion.
If you're going to the gym to burn calories, you're going for the wrong reasons. There's no better way to burn off excess calories than by not eating them. Exercise is a ridiculously inefficient way to burn calories and get rid of fat.
Depending on the truck, load, and barrier, that could be a hazard to other vehicles and occupants. Likely less so than the tunnel itself.
See my edit for the right way. I'm sorry the bloated fitness industry has inundated you with bad advice :(
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"Just as an appalling misapplication of the Theory of Evolution provided a justification for Nazi genocide, so has the misapplication of Object Orientation, for example, led to all manner of programming ugliness in the name of purism"

Yikes
So the problem seems to be that too few emails will leave users stranded, and too many emails will make users annoyed. As a solution, I think an approach similar to Beeminder might be good. They use a logarithmic distribution of emails. They send you an email every day at first (for the first 2 days), and if you don't respond, they dial it back to once a week. If you don't respond, they move it back to once a month or so, etc. I think the model is a good balance.
If I'm understanding correctly, you suggest that this is an example of the prime numbers not behaving randomly. I disagree.

Here's (more or less) the simplest possible random model of the primes. (It's called the Cramer model.) Take P to be a random subset of the natural numbers that includes each n>1 independently with probability 1/log(n). Then P is kinda like the prime numbers, though it lacks some structure it should have (e.g., it doesn't have the property that almost all elements are odd).

If you do this, then the expected number of ways to write a large n as the sum of two elements of P is on the order of n/log(n)^2, which is far enough from 0 that I bet (though I haven't checked) that Pr(every number >= 4 is the sum of two elements of P) is positive, and in fact probably quite big. This is kinda analogous to the Goldbach conjecture; note that it isn't only about even n, since in this model there can be lots of even "prime numbers".

I did a quick computer experiment, and it looks as if the probability is about 20%. In other words, if the primes were chosen at random according to the Cramer model, then about 1/5 of the time the appropriately mangled Goldbach conjecture would be true. (And the "odd Goldbach conjecture", which is what Helfgott has just proved, would be true substantially more often than that.)

Now, of course the Cramer model is way too simple. In particular, it doesn't know that almost all prime numbers are odd. So let's make it just a little smarter by declaring that 2 is always in P, the other elements of P are always odd, and that any odd n>1 is in P with probability 2/log(n). And now we should switch back to the original form of the Goldbach conjecture, looking only at even n. Well, according to my computer experiment the probability that the Goldbach conjecture holds if we use P instead of the primes is about 96%!

[EDITED to add: and if we force P to get 2 and 3 "right" instead of just 2, the probability goes up to about 99.5%. I fixed a few other things in this edit too.]

In other words: if the primes are basically random, then we should expect the Goldbach conjecture to be true.
Losing the team
You might think that trucks ignoring multiple, obvious flashing warning signs wouldn't be that common. This hilarious video proves otherwise:

http://gizmodo.com/5955244/watch-this-bridge-destroying-doze...
But this is 2013, there are somethings that expected to
come from a language default.

Very true!

Exceptions are one of them,

Very false! :) Exceptions have a lot of detractors.
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Sometimes email robots can't take a hint.

What about the use of exponentially decaying frequencies for emailing non-interacters (users who aren't clicking anything in the emails)?

Say an email one week later, than two, then a month, then next quarter, year, etc.
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ironically, physics would preclude an oversized truck from reaching the wet pavement.
They already have image algorithms to detect nudity with a good degree of accuracy so that's probably enough to forbid an image or video.
This is very true, but I'd also suggest making a big tweak to SS if your goal is not to be a powerlifter. Substitute the front squat and trap bar deadlift for the back squat and deadlift in the program.

If you use bad form on the front squat, you drop the bar. If you use bad form on the back squat, the bar drops you.

Similarly, the trap bar deadlift also makes it easier to keep your back straight and avoids awkwardness (and possible errors/injuries) as you get the bar past your knees.

(Both are suggestions given to me by my boxing coach.)
I want to know the new dominance ritual. At non AMZN type companies a major dominance ritual lower ranks spending inordinate amounts of time adding meaningless flair to powerpoints, as an illuminated manuscript work of art rather than a professional business communication to show off to the boss. So whats the new dominance ritual if its not powerpoint anymore? Buying the audience coffee? Charging their cellphones for them? Traditional stuff like kissing up and brown nosing? Buy the audience ceremonial donuts? Physical trinkets/gifts? "Here's a printed out copy, of the email you already read, about the results we previously discussed on the phone, as a physical artifact to remind you of the meeting and your superiority over me"?

You don't get rid of a behavior by suppressing one of its minor manifestations. You're just going to get a new manifestation of the same behavior. So what is it / will it be?
Assume there are a finite number of primes. Let p be the largest prime. Then 3p+2 is an odd number > 5, so it must be expressible as the sum of 3 primes. But since p is the largest prime, the sum of 3 primes can never be larger than 3p, contradiction.
Is any of the big IM companies going to offer OTR encryption by default or what?

It's not like they could make a ton of money by monitoring the chats, and even if they did, they shouldn't be doing that anyway. At least with e-mail they have an excuse for not using local encryption (it gets too complicated for the end-user), but they can't really use that excuse for chatting.

So why isn't OTR enabled like yesterday in Gtalk, Skype and Yahoo Messenger? (by default of course, otherwise 99% of the users won't use it).
It's good that you got stronger (for the reasons I explained). But unless you are doing some hardcore yoga, it is extremely unlikely that you actually gained muscle mass. (As proof, you can look at any long-term yoga instructor who wasn't muscular to begin with.)
The comments on the article page are quite interesting & insightful too.
If you hit that sign chances are you'll rip it down and drop it on the car behind you, as can be seen happening in the video in the linked article.
For problems like that, I can't help but wonder if some day we'll discover that we are just not searching for the solution in the proper "language". Maybe some day someone will find a problem isomorphic the the for-color problem in a different field, and that problem will have a simple and natural explanation. Probably in a field we don't know today.
Imagine if tigers started doing compound weightlifting exercises. We humans would be doomed.
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Many places in Europe have a bar with chains, the chains hang off the bar at the height of the upcoming tunnel / bridge. Does of course assume that the driver will hear the chains knocking about on his truck...
We do:
Automatic detection of child pornography using color visual words -
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/login.jsp?tp=&arnumber=60...

Automatic detection of child pornography - http://ro.ecu.edu.au/adf/60/
is 26 considered young? Can't you be covered under your parents until then?
Absolutely agree and it will be added to the list. Initially, we're interested in K-12 resources and something that might be a little bit easier for students still in school (although SICP can be used by advanced high school students). There do not seem to be that many good cs books for younger students, so any ideas on that front would be especially useful.
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Pray tell, where did I say that diet is unimportant ???

Doing physical exercise without controlling intake is a surefire way to fail any weight loss program, since you tend to overestimate the burned calories and compensate by eating more.

Let's take a REAL actual example, myself. I run 45/50 minutes x day (yes it's very possible to do that, as it is for the hundreds of people I meet daily in the park doing the same thing), burning an average of 500 calories x run.

To lose a pound you need to burn about 3500 calories. This would be about a pound every week.

Run half of the time(maybe more realistic, and perfectly achievable by most normal people) and we are talking about a pound every two weeks, without changing diet.

I have been running an average of three days for week over the last 6 years, according to my Nike+ record, and I have had very little problems in controlling weight over these years, as opposed as being seriously overweight before I starting working out.

Is diet more effective for weight loss? No, diet and exercise is a much more effective combination than any of those two alone, as doctors and scientists have been saying since, well, ever.

But I thought we were comparing a cardio workout to the 7-minutes workout, where diet entered into the discussion exactly ?
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Incidentally, the game also reveals a list of 418 specific image searches that Google considers interesting: http://pastebin.com/G3mZf0C6

I wonder Google came up with that list.
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Overheight vehicles are 4.3m and over in New South Wales, and this tunnel is signposted at 4.4m (and probably has a bit of leeway).

Trucker often have to deal with road limits: they are expected to know the size of their vehicle and pick an appropriate route. And if they don't, they are expected to read the signs along the route that indicate road limits ahead.
this is a workout WARMUP
I'm not sure why, but I love that Racketeers write their docs in Scribble. The application docs look like the platform docs... it makes everything have a very cohesive feel. So much more powerful than something like JavaDocs, too, since you get the full power of the language.

http://docs.racket-lang.org/scribble/
Lifting for strength and lifting for large muscles are actually quite different. It is likely a huge bodybuilder type will be strong relative to the average person, but that's not their primary goal, and correspondingly you can be strong without that look too.
I worked near a train bridge that was constantly being hit by trucks. It was a near weekly event at times. They installed big, flashing lights and drivers would still blow through.