skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To your mind, is this more a matter of the particular UI that currently exists, or are the UX issues more fundamental to the technology?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3kREPMzMLk
I agree with these concerns; I really can't see how a system like this would possibly work. Why would anyone do anything if they had no incentive to work?
The camera is definitely the most used app on my phone. I would say it's the same for about 50-70% of my friends.
Hmm, there was a time when function was occasionally considered over form..

The phone is hardly ruined, it's just a high end handset for people in a particular niche, one I happen to belong to (long gave up carrying real cameras, don't give two heaps about Android/pointless OS wars or "mobile apps" or any of that crap, adore the notion of a reasonably high end camera that requires zero effort to bring with me).

Design is often about trade-offs, and based on the parent comment, you seem to have entirely missed the point of this particular design.
Ballmer isn't exactly non-technical; he has a degree in applied mathematics from Harvard.
Github hosts Passion Projects with Jessica Hische
OLPC XO Tablet may hit Walmart shelves July 16
Growing fast by cutting trees
Mediocre CEOs have only three levers to pull: "acquire," "layoff," and "reorg." Eventually Ballmer will pull all three levers in every order.
Here in Brazil there are several known cases of people changing their soccer team after a heart transplant.

This is known here because soccer fanatism is common, and some of the "victims" would never changed their team normally.
I am clamoring for that. A smartphone that combines the best of the 808 pureview[1] sensor and the improvements of the Lumia 920 like image stabilization and better dynamic range[2]? Yes please. Also, I'm in Europe so don't need to worry about US contract woes.

[1] http://www.dpreview.com/articles/8083837371/review-nokia-808...

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LbvhZ-Mq4aQ
Thank you for the extra info. I had no idea there were multiple denominated chronophilia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronophilia
You're right, it's a ridiculously large organizational overhead.
Not to mention the CA's become single-point-of-compromise for the whole PKI.
Even after 10 years or so of the CAC, the DoD process is still not pain-free. They've finally moved to OCSP instead of CRLs, which helps (the CRL is so large now that it will bluescreen Windows on import to the registry, haha) some of the pain.

Even the DoD doesn't roll it's own cards and foundry stuff: they're standard Gemalto (and a few other provider) cards. You can order blanks yourself, I believe.

It's also a black art - VERY very few people seem to know how to 'boostrap' the system (enable PKI for a domain or web server, get new certs issued, etc.) even within the over-archign framework.

That said,my point still stands: millions of people (literally) use PKI for client SSL certs daily.
Recycling rice husks for high-capacity lithium battery anodes
Huh? A strategy is not the same thing as a mission statement. Microsoft's mission statement is "to help people and businesses throughout the world realize their full potential."

http://www.microsoft.com/about/en/us/default.aspx
While they do have their own bespoke fab, the description given there is wildly more impressive than I've ever heard it described by people not giving speeches.

For obvious reasons they are always going to need their own fab to some extent, because some applications are just too low volume or would leak way too much project specific information. Wherever the truth lies, I'm sure nothing coming out of there is general purpose computing meant for typical nsa run systems.

It's not too hard to figure out who they're using for mainstream chips and mid size run custom fabs. Look for well established strong us based companies that use us designers that have good analog and small cmos process digital fabs that are located in the US - especially new york, texas and oregon.
There ARE Republicans in Silicon Valley. They're just too embarrassed
I suggested coupling them because I was looking for something that fits, "Solve as many problems with one go as possible, getting rid of as much legislation as possible."

If you create a significant CO2 tax separately from some specific program, like basic income, the fear is that it will be (and will seen to be) just a general supplement on government spending. Which has a tendency to grow until it cannot, so you're just putting off an inevitable crunch that we're already bumping up against.

But if you tie them together, the pain of the tax is balanced by the pleasure of the income. And people have been shown to enjoy that sort of thing. Witness the popularity of tax refunds, even though getting one is strictly worse for you than not getting one.
I am not a professional pryer. You dont need to use it that often to make it worth its weight in gold; it is god's metal so it is light enough that I do not notice it.

I also EDC a spyderco[1] tenacious and I am thinking about getting a Leatherman Piranha.[2] (which you should check out if you have never heard of it and like these kinds of tools.) With a spydie and the piranha I would have everything I would like to have on me during daily urban/suburban life.

I cant say enough about Spyderco. I wish they were more popular outside of the .mil/leo/tommy-tactical circles. Most of the knives are "Made in Golden Colorado, USA, Earth" and this is etched prominently into the blade. The one problem for me is that the USA knives are superior quality so they also cost $100+. If you dont mind spening 100+ get the Para-2 the thing is awesome.

Spyderco also makes a line of knives (they all have "human characteristics" names like: Tenacious or Persistence) that are made in China with a lower grade steel than their normal knives. They cost around $30 and given the price point they are extremely well made. This is the blade I EDC. I have a tendency to lose things and I never have to treat the thing like it is sacred. With a zip tie on the thumb hole you can essentially turn a manual opener into a knife with optional auto deploy.

All of the knives come razor sharp from Spyderco. If they lose their edge to such an extent that the average person can not resharpen it on a kitchen knive stone you can just put it in an envelop with $5 and send it to Spyderco. They will put a new factory edge on it, lubricate the bearings and send it back to you. The tenacious/persistence knives make great gifts for guys of any age. Anytime I need to buy a git for a guy I buy a Spydie for them if I have not already given them one.

I have a whale fetish so the following is one more reason I am such a fan of Spyderco. Spyderco makes a blade for marine biologists to free whales that have been entangled in large marine ropes.[3] They lose $100 a blade on these and they are only available to government and NGO biologists/wildlife folks.

I realize that this turned into a Spyderco advert, I apologize, I am just a big fan of the product and the company. I have no affiliation whatsoever with Spyderco.

[1] http://www.spyderco.com

[2] http://www.leatherman.com/product/Piranha

[3] https://www.spyderco.com/catalog/details.php?product=279
Fair enough, it is definitely vague.
I read an article a while back when they were just testing this tech. It said the camera takes a picture at the full ~40MP res and then algorithmically chooses the best pixels and sizes down the image to a more reasonable 8MP. Apparently this has a huge benefit on low light shooting.
Maybe planar worms have souls...

Alternatively, the hypothesis that some of your learning is stored in your nervous system outside of your brain seems compelling.
And the number of people illegally beaten or killed by cops at routine traffic stops is an order of magnitude higher than cops injured or killed.
What ties you to Android?
Not only is is asking to manipulated, I'm not sure if the results are manipulated or not already. I did a search for "search engine optimization" just out of curiousity: and the number one search result was "Limo service los angeles". Looks like that company's "seo firm" inserted their links on their client site: and it's ranking for "search engine optimization". Great SEO there, NOT.
"“We are very interested in vertical software as a service,” he said. “There’s about a trillion dollars of enterprise software, if you’re looking at market capitalization out there today. Some of that will transition to [specialized] enterprise software…and create multi-billion dollar companies.”"

Interesting point. Two points converging really. Enterprise SAAS & Vertical SAAS. There is still lots of room here. Customers willing to pay. Anyone that's trying to come up with "synthetic" startup ideas might start here. More difficult to comprehend verticals are probably least served.

Basecamp for X, where X is some business type that not many people understand.
The original statement was pretty clear and short. This new one takes a lot of words and it's not at all clear to me what they are aiming for. What, exactly, does "empower" look like when it's implemented? Exactly which are the activities that people value the most? (Actually, has anyone thought about whether those activities even require a computer?)

This isn't ambitious, it's meaningless. Not a good sign for corporate excellence.
Yeah, a functional language combined with dynamic typing struck me as an odd combo the first time I encountered it.
> Sample video comparison against the S4.

Ahem, S3. I'm sure the 920 will still perform favourably against an S4 in this regard, but still.
Interesting idea, but I tried simple searches :

Facebook

gmail

news ycombinator

countries in europe wiki

Did you gather enough data already ?

All of these seraches were not successful. There was no Facebook link in the first search, no Gmail link in the second one , no news.ycombinator in the 3rd one, and the only wikipedia link I got in the last search was :

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_champions
>> The problem with phone cameras (mostly) ins't the sensor, it's the glass, or lack there-of.

Is that a problem with the camera or the user's expectations of what that camera can do?

You can only push the laws of physics (with respect to optics, especially) so far, and if you want a camera that can fit in the pocket of a pair of skinny jeans, compromises must be made.
The states are teetering on the verge of bankruptcy, and it's extremely telling that the public unions are the last things to feel the pain after states have been gutting things like higher education for decades. Many of the recent municipal bankruptcies have been driven by pension obligations for public employees: http://www.foxbusiness.com/government/2013/06/11/california-....
the whole point of BI is that everyone gets it, even the rich
Talking Points from NSA's Utah Data Center Ribbon Cutting
Go Rust Go! :)

Sorry, I could not resist.
Not that I think this system would work, but people do volunteer without being paid: charity, soup kitchens, etc.
Building A Simple Recommender Engine - Using Azure, Hadoop And Mahout
Thumb drives.
Thanks, that is a very interesting input. We should think about running additional semantic analysis and relate them to the time spent on sites. We are very sure that our algorithm needs a lot of fine tuning and this could be a very important part of it.

-Gerald
Disclosure: I am the CTO of archify/Blippex.
Though some more reasonable forms of this idea exist, this particular description has some major problems:

* What if the money you pay someone does not go as far as expected? Maybe they lose some of the money in various ways, or maybe they are just very bad at negotiating economic transactions or buy the wrong kinds of things from the wrong places. Maybe they are trying to live in an expensive area -- do we kick them out?

* There will be a significant class of people who simply know nothing at all about work or participation in the economy. That may have all kinds of bad effects for those people, one of which may be a greater likelihood of the problem above.

* Some people who would otherwise be productive will put off both education and work for a while. When the time comes that they want to be involved, it will be hard for them to make the transition, and many will just stay out of the workforce forever. So, some of the ultra-productive people the author is expecting to do the heavy lifting will not exist.

* There will be pressure to stop granting new citizenship/residency to almost anyone, because the potential cost will go way up. Even if, in the long term, immigrants are good for the economy, in the short term it could be crushing if each one gets a comfortable living regardless of work.

* There will be an imbalance in which jobs are actually done. The number of computer programmers might be higher, but the number of nurses might go way down. If having a nurse is required to make some people comfortable, how do we remedy that?

* "Comfort" in general is a moving target in this process because changing the basic income will have a big effect on the economy. It's hard to say whether you could ever really find a stable value that offers anything resembling "comfort" for those living on it.
For example, if the basic income was $10k/year, would you feel as though you still had an incentive to work and earn a little more money than that?
Sure. My point is this is the _worst_ kind of spec padding.
And that's the problem with Nokia and their phones. People are buying them for the hardware, despite the OS. They could sell so much more with Android.

I'd say they could even beat Samsung in sales eventually (again). But right now I can't even extrapolate how much time it would take them to ever do that, if even possible.
Err what? They're not discontinuing the old Lumias.

The Lumia 920 will still be sold on AT&T, Lumia 928 on Verizon and Lumia 925 on Tmobile.

Samsung and Motorola phones have been regularly selling for $299.99 with contract.
You don't ever do anything - not any one single thing - without a profit motive?
ADFS and UAG - the crypto card is tied to an account in AD, AD is configured to trust certs signed by a given CA, and the UAG software then uses that authenticated user to provide SSO.
In Europe you have to worry about this being close to 1000 euro, unlocked, which is what its price will be.
There are a lot of companies doing this already - Qunitiles, Blue Chip, Acurian, etc. Anything that can streamline the process is potentially beneficial
I kind of feel like "blip" is way, way better than all of the above. It's a word that's already a word, and its use on Blippex is almost congruous with the actual word. In my mind, that's a win.
Do you want to live in poverty? No? There's your incentive!

You don't believe that is an incentive? Well do you personally do more than is required to survive in poverty? Could you work less and get by? See, the incentive works on you!

Where basic income really helps is with groups like single mothers. Single mothers have a strong disincentive to work - a job has to cover whatever they receive now, plus child care costs. If you don't have good job prospects, few jobs pay enough to do this. This is the fundamental economic reason that creates "welfare moms".

With basic income any job that exceeds the cost of daycare is a net positive.
Verizon joins Ubuntu Carrier Advisory Group
Commercial aviation has been using autoland for decades; automatic control in favorable conditions is rarely the problem, it's the edge conditions (a.k.a. "oh shit moments") where humans still outperform the automation.
We are using client-side SSL certificates extensively for API as well as browser-based single-sign-on for 20+ employees on a smattering of Mac/Linux/iPhone/Android devices. Definitely some ramp-up and wonkiness, but it's working well.

Also worth noting that infrastructure components like Cassandra [1] and RabbitMQ [2] leverage PKI as well.

Checkout our Jenkins client-side SSL cert auth plugin: https://github.com/pantheon-systems/certificate-authenticati...

[1] http://www.datastax.com/documentation/cassandra/1.2/index.ht...
[2] http://www.rabbitmq.com/ssl.html
It may be impossible, but that's certainly not self-evident. We tax things other than labor, and that portion is liable to grow as we approach irrelevance of labor - and not irrelevance broadly, but specifically as is necessary to provide that comfortable life.

That said, I'm not hugely stressed about determining precisely how impossible a policy is when I don't support it anyway.
I agree. It just doesn't always happen. I'm guilty of leaving too-short commit messages and not enough commenting as much as some of my teammates.
Healthcare and education are the biggest laggards in technology yet data is super important to their effectiveness. The regulatory minefield (and traditionalist culture) within these industries can only hold back modern technology adoption for so long. Fortunately they seem to be becoming more open to it these days.
It's some kind of AI or even some kind of neural network, people are involved to train the search engine, so, more data users will contribute to the search server - more proper and relevant results they will get. Good idea
Were those in the bottom rank shown the door in due course?
Verizon and iPhones
That's still incomplete info.

It takes both a 38MP photo and a derived 8mp photo.

The 8MP photo is for easier storage and sharing, while the 38MP is for zooming in.

http://c699379.r79.cf3.rackcdn.com/Nokia%20808%20Pureview%20...

http://i.nokia.com/blob/view/-/849564/data/2/-/Download1.pdf
But that "reasonable profit" is itself determined by the other opportunities available.
It's not about the camera, it's about presenting Nokia as a producer of a premium phone, so that other versions of Nokia look better in comparison. No one cares about Windows Phone, but when Nokia makes headlines for 41-megapixels, the general populace that doesn't really get that they don't need 41-megapixels will nevertheless notice, and think 'wow, that is a lot, does my iPhone have that?'.

99.9% of people who will buy this phone will never have a need for 41 megapixels. But they'll buy it just the same.
Coliving Experiment Tests Sharing Economy's Potential
Three Green MBA graduates have set out to test the limits of sharing by weaving it into the fabric of everyday life, housing, work and community. They see sharing as a path to living more in alignment with their values by reducing their reliance on income from jobs and increasing their community relationships through online and in person sharing tools.
I can't tell if you're trolling. I would say most mathematicians and scientists are enthusiasts. Many programmers are also enthusiasts.

I don't even have to specify the occupation. All I have to say is that "some people are enthusiasts and would continue to produce anyway".
I paid this for the 920, huge disappointment.
Human readability too could mean base64 encoding.

Instead of ACKNOWLEDGE you say ACK or mere A. Instead of REQUEST PAGE FROM <path>, you say RPF <path> and so on. This is my main point of hatred towards "human readable formats", because they waste bytes for no reason.

I can run the water for as long as I want without absolutely no consequences for me, but why would I do it if I can avoid it? Why would I not save resources whenever I can, even though I don't need to do it? It's more a philosophical question, to which I would answer with "save anything you can, whenever you can and make no waste.". Very simple.
Well, Halliburton isn't alone in this UN staff trade food for sexual favours in famines.
I don't think that those "generic" term are the main advantage of Blippex. But if you search for example for "NSA" on Blippex (https://www.blippex.org/?q=NSA), we are assuming that you will get those articles about the NSA which is currently the most interesting or the most read.
-Gerald (Disclosure: I am the CTO of archify/Blippex.)
You're erecting a straw-man, stop it.
Worthless blabber. Giving people good social guarantees leads to more people unwilling to work. If you want examples take a look to Norway.
Also another dumb question how the hell this article ended up in frontpage of Hacker News in first place?
The article is inconsistent. There is one morphological clue from the Denisovans that could be used to match the Chinese skulls - the huge size of the tooth.
I've already experienced some of this flow having experience grabbing pull requests from new developers. Typo fixes or simple one liners are dead simple to add in browser and not over command line.

I only worry this will encourage people new to git to copy paste files for changes into a fork on Github directly instead of cloning for big changes manually. We'll have to see how it plays out.
If the computer has been tampered with hardwarewise the spying device may have its own network connection. Best medicine against that wouldn't be to go luddite, though.
Emergence versus Evolution - Design is not Passive
Inside the mind of a developer.
Obligatory link to "What's Wrong with a Free Lunch" a short synopsis of the main arguments and responses of people against basic income. http://www.amazon.com/Whats-Wrong-Lunch-Democracy-Forum/dp/0...
I think that's just it. Under our current system, that's what people believe because that's what we've been taught to believe in order to make the system work.

But, if we were free from the need to earn income, would we all just curl up and die? Or, would we pursue other interests and make (perhaps even more valuable) contributions to society? In fact, when you look at the financial incentives our society provides, they are frequently misaligned with their net value to society. But, that's another discussion.

The author makes the point that even now, much work is done for free and given away (software, music, content creation and information curation, etc.)

Then, remember, this is just a basic, livable income. There is still financial incentive for those who desire more.

Not having to work to live may be the best thing to ever happen to the planet. :)
My only observation of golf is how it is neat trick to create apparently more valuable real estate out of otherwise nearly valueless and featureless land by building a golf course. Can't build a beach, can't build a mountain, can't build a real lake without a real river, but a golf course, yes, we can build one of those.

China seems overdue to fall into permanent Japanese-style economic stagnation. Maybe we can flog their economy to death with overpriced golf course housing developments.
(Note: When I say LINQ I am referring to the functional style it encourages, not the query syntax. The query syntax is nice, but it's just a trivial syntactic transformation.)

Correct me if I'm wrong, but the world is moving towards functional programming (i.e. LINQ) not away from it. Personally, I find LINQ far, far easier to read, write, and analyze. (On the other hand, I understand the deferred semantics and watch for warning signs like enumerating a sequence more than once.)

Honestly, a C# company avoiding LINQ sounds to me like the canary in the mineshaft telling you the company has programmers falling behind the times and doing things the hard way.
"Disincentive" is not the same thing as "impediment." This isn't to say I necessarily agree with the parent comment, but you seem to be responding to an overly strident reading of something that wasn't quite said.
Not sure where i learned about magnets. Just did some web surfing around this.

Too risky for google? why ?

They seem like a company who takes risks.see: automated cars, internet balloons, google wave, competing with amazon on fast product shipping.
Yeah, but notice that most volunteer work has a special feel-good element to it? Feeding the homeless. Saving lost animals. Helping disadvantaged children.

There aren't many volunteer organizations that, to borrow dgallagher's example, mow lawns or rake leaves, and the ones that do, only do it for special places. Perhaps for a monument or a park.