skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Note that the quarter where the S3 sold more than the 4s was the launch quarter for the 5: the iPhone (total) outsold the S3 by a moderate amount that quarter.

And note that the quarter after that, the 5 and 4s were the two top-selling global smart phone models.
It's open source though. Really, if you can't "trust" SELinux then you cant "trust" the entire open source community.
>That's your belief.

Really? Resorting to "Well that's just your opinion, man" on HN?

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2009/08/25/5-metabolis...
GPL isn't about control in the way proprietary licenses are, since it grants rights beyond what you would get with no license at all, while proprietary licenses take away rights you would normally have under copyright.
The real problem is not with drones, or spying. It's the monopoly of violence that people think is okay. Government = violent agency that achieves any of its goals using threats with a gun. Taxation, regulations and border controls - all of it is a gun pointed at you if you disobey.

Government does not have a 'monopoly of violence.' You are perfectly entitled to defend yourself if attacked by a criminal, for example. You don't have a right to initiate violence. It has not been monopolized by government; citizens have chosen, through law, to pool a part of their soveriegnty in government to fulfill certain ends, such as the creation of a police force.

Taxman will point a gun at my face if I refuse to pay taxes,

No he won't, he'll send you a polite letter and if you're intransigent he may garnish your wages or bank account or real property.

So people who dislike some gov activity cannot do anything about it.

Apart from voting, writing books, testifying on capital hill, enacting ballot measures, running for office, and all the other stuff you choose to ignore. If I've said it once I've said it a million times: government is not a monolithic entity, it's a bunch of people who are in large part simply representing the aggregate views of other people. It didn't land in a spaceship and impose itself on a bunch of free humans, we institute these things ourselves to advance our mutual interests.
"Google winning is good for everyone" is propaganda that Google uses when they are threatened. Google is no different from any other corporation. Once they have power, they exercise it to their advantage to increase their share of profits.

Also, you should check your facts - Samsung has not exceeded Apple in smartphone profits. They have exceeded Apple in phone profits overall. You might as well throw washing machines into the mix if you are going to include profits from single purpose appliances that are not general purpose computers.

So basically because you "want Google to win" because you believe they are somehow different from any other corporation, you are trumpeting a false statistic in order to convince others that destiny is somehow at work, going in the direction you want.

If this isn't shilling for Google, I don't know what is.
This is brilliant, thanks for linking this up.

Here is the famous Smalltalk issue Aug 1981. http://archive.org/details/byte-magazine-1981-08
You should actually use some premier Android devices before slamming them. My Motorola Electrify M and Nexus 7 perform beautifully. I have a basis of comparison too, my work phone is an iPhone 5.
Right, because the government drops bombs from manned aircraft in the domestic theater all the time.
Ah, I know nothing about Scottish Antisemitism or a lack thereof, and I wouldn't be surprised to know it's different than England.

Your latter point is a bit of a cheap shot; of course we all know which country was "infamous" in WWII; what's interesting is the counties other than that one. E.g. look at the percentage of Jews who survived in occupied ones, factoring in the differences in the occupations. And which ones accepted refugees and to what extent. Then there's the war policies, and there to a very great extent the U.K. called the shots in the Western European Theater. That's where I'm suggesting one look ... although of course it's not something that can be quantified, seeing as it was the only combatant after the fall of France.
Why do you think VW would do anything when you admit your own car manufacturer hasn't done anything, despite that information being out for years?
Does that mean that you're not allowed to view the page on your mobile device either? Is that supposed to be some sort of a silly artificial restriction?
Mirrors were my first thought as well, though in a slightly different way; you could have the mirror track the scene instead, counteracting head movement during a single frame's persistence and then snapping back between frames to continue the motion (probably with some display that could provide partial-frame persistence). It seems like this would address VOR, which from my reading of the article sounded like a bigger problem than saccading. A quick googling turned up piezo mirrors [1] with specs that look like they'd be in the right ballpark.

[1] http://www.physikinstrumente.com/en/products/prdetail.php?so...
This is a big problem in SE Asia too. Here in Vietnam I don't think I've ever seen anyone come back from a visit to the doctor without antibiotics, and pharmacies dole them out like candy without prescriptions. What's worse is that they seem to always provide only a day or two worth of pills, which in most cases isn't enough to do anything.
Simple sugars above all else; when in doubt, eat more vegetables.

For more, see Why We Get Fat: And What To Do About It by Taubes.
This is something that will make large portions of your target audience twitch.

Exactly, this is for literrate people!
The conclusion is a metaphor and this answer purely rhetorical.
> It plays in the Valley and at the mall, and nowhere else.

From where I sit I watch the Amish ride by in their horse-drawn buggies several times a day. I'm about as far away from the Valley as you can get (technology-wise) and it "plays" quite well here also.
Ohhhhhhhhhhh.

OK, I get it. So the law is irrelevant as long as everyone is acting in good faith and a good outcome occurs. Wow, that's really useful.

It's a shame it doesn't apply to subjects, errrr, citizens.
That's a very valid point.
An investment is socially useful if it has a positive rate of return, since it creates wealth. An investment will only be made if the investor can capture a positive rate of return.

If the rate of return is R and the wealth tax is T, then the investor can capture only R-T. Thus, productive investments for which 0 < R < T are not made.

Unless you want to assert that there are no investment opportunities in the world with 0 < R < T, the wealth tax clearly discourages some productive investments.
Tough Copyright Laws Chill Innovation, Tech Companies Warn Lawmakers
Archive.org has a lot of collections of periodicals, and there's a lot of interesting stuff in there, especially stuff relating to computer history. They've got the full archives of the old Computer Chronicles TV show on there as well.

But their UI for browsing these collections is unusable. I haven't been able to find any way of exploring these collections chronologically, or searching within the content ofa specific collection or issue and sorting/filtering the results to identify what I'm looking for.

Compare this to the way Google organizes similar collections: here's their archive of InfoWorld, going back to 1975: http://books.google.com/books?id=tDcEAAAAMBAJ
Lucky you. Lucky me, too, since I'm basically the same way. But we're just lucky; there are millions of other people out there who aren't like us, whose metabolism, instincts, and upbringing betray them. There's no reason to believe that willpower, hunger, appetite, or satiety feel even remotely the same across the population.

See this whole thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5300587
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Is this a REST API over Maxmind db ?
Amazon Simple Workflow might help: http://aws.amazon.com/swf/

Personally, I use queue_classic + postgres triggers to keep track of each of the job history. So I have a history of all the jobs, when they started, when they finished, the data in each job, etc.

But yes, it's a pain.

http://torquebox.org/ is supposed to help with the pain of managing background jobs (and lots of other things) for Rails applications.
Los Angeles buys iPad Trojan Horses for 30,000 students
This guy has the balls. Kudos, Mr Bonneau.

I'm curious if he will get a private reprimand from Google execs for unpleasant commentary on their partner :)
The AMA recently recognized obesity as a disease. Of course, that does not end the argument about whether it is a legitimate medical condition.

And plenty of the 35% of adults that are obese have problems like insulin resistance and high blood pressure (both of which are certainly medical problems). They are also generally at higher risk for cardiovascular problems.

There are probably many people who are told they have metabolic syndrome but fail to understand that this may be (at least partially) a result of their weight problems, not simply a cause of it.
Have you seen the Ubuntu mobile/edge/phone videos? It's not the same UI. They have the same "feel", but the UI is definitely different when you dock the phone compared to when you're using your phone directly. I think they're aiming for a convergent piece of hardware (phone that is also your desktop), but only a pseudo-convergent UI (ie. same look & feel, but reasonable compromises to adapt to the different form factors.)
You could improve it significantly by implementing something similar to this: http://www.donothingfor2minutes.com/

Any mouse movement or keypresses would blank the page and you'd have to reload it to see the contents again. Of course, there are probably ways to subvert this, but it would stop most people.
Skynet watch: Robot Farm Workers
But if you have seen it, what's the incentive for paying money after the fact? If you haven't seen it then it's just the same as a paywall.
Delusion
There is also a torrent ( http://thepiratebay.sx/torrent/7978965/ ) which has the ones at archive.org and more, with some replaced with higher quality scans. And ftp://helpedia.com/pub/archive/temp/Byte/ has some that aren't in either the torrent or archive.org yet.

http://atariage.com/forums/topic/167235-byte-magazine/ is where people doing the scanning are/were hanging out. Scanning seems to have kinda stalled recently. :(
I totally believe that a universal (or even regional-scale) persistent drone surveillance program would be something for which specific checks and balances, applied at the level of standard Article III courts (or, for that matter, state courts, since this technology is going to ubiquitous 20 years from now), would be warranted.

The problem with the RT article is that it treats any instance of the DoJ using unmanned aircraft as a kind of constitutional crisis.
The page says "Libramatic runs on multiple platforms including Android devices and any internet-enabled computer".
You don't seem to have any understanding of how Android works. The buck does stop at vendors since they are the ones who ship OS updates to consumers.

Vendors don't prioritize updates because their customers don't understand enough to make this part of their purchasing decision, so there is little incentive for them to spend resources on it.

Minimizing this major problem doesn't help.

And - instead of saying 'think outside the box' - why not actually contribute some out of the box thinking?
Google Engineer Wins NSA Award, Then Says NSA Should Be Abolished
Eat less and burn more calories, you'll lose weight.

If you put less gasoline in your car, you will produce less pollution. Simple as that. It's just basic conservation of mass. Just don't put as much in at the pump! Easy peasey. Problem solved. Get better mileage and pollute less just by buying less gasoline! Right?

Perhaps instead of focusing on the "moral inferiority" [those are scare quotes, I'm not saying you actually wrote those words] of the obese for their inability to accept basic thermodynamics, we should ask the question of what actually works in the big picture; what will actually produce the motivational or metabolic changes necessary to ensure a positive outcome. Asking what people do who have been thin their whole lives is probably not going to help.
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or until someone wants to put in a comment that documents a change they made at 3am to a production system.

I think I would prefer toml take off as a config language.
This seemingly innocuous attitude has brought us to where we are now :)
Schumpeter: Crazy diamonds
For my use cases, the standard documentation and tutorials (http://docs.cython.org/index.html) have been enough.

* Install it with pip, the packages in your OS distribution may be out of date,

* Rename your numeric code module's .py file to .pyx,

* Use pyximport from the main script ( http://docs.cython.org/src/userguide/source_files_and_compil...) to have it compiled at runtime without any extra build steps, and then

* Start experimenting with adding a few "cdef"s (http://docs.cython.org/src/quickstart/cythonize.html and http://docs.cython.org/src/tutorial/numpy.html)
FirefoxOS is "more open" in the sense that everything is HTML5, nothing is "native".

But we'll have to see if this approach already fits the bill or not. (Encryption is just 1 use case that comes to mind where you'll still have to rely on native applications, to get the best possible security.)
Darwin is an OS (the kernel is called XNU), so I was comparing it to Linux-based OS's. Darwin is the basis of both OS X and iOS. I agree that whether or not proprietary or copyleft is better or worse for a given situation is hard to say. A BSD license simply leaves the door open.
NSA surveillance program has had compliance problems
I'm not saying that they are there yet, but that's the goal of all of these companies. For various reasons, it's harder to merge UI paradigms on platforms with a large base of legacy apps and users--so while all of these companies started before Canonical did, they may well complete after Ubuntu.
I suspect we are on the same page in regards to the constitutional issues and the problem(s) with this article. I personally find the massive suspension of common sense in our community about these types of issues quite irritating. I just wanted to point out that cost seemed to be used by you as an argument in favor of the use of drones by law enforcement, when according to four Supreme Court justices in certain cases lower cost can make it unconstitutional without first getting a warrant. Neither I or you believe that is the case with drones at this present time, but I think it's important to mention in these conversations that costs do matter (i.e. cheaper is not always better). My purpose here is not to nitpick. It's just that I'd bet that these issues will permeate Fourth Amendment jurisprudence in the future and I think people who are part of this "anti-surveillance" camp should know what they're yelling about.
I'm going by YouTube videos of the s4. I only remember playing with galaxy devices in the store, no idea if others work well. This thread is about Samsung after all.
In the early 80's, my mom got a subscription to Byte, and I eagerly awaited every issue. My drug of choice was "Ciarcia's Circuit Cellar," which forged a connection for me, between my nascent interests in electronics and programming.
Reading the context they did say reform is an alternative.
The block lasts until you restart the browser. This same problem pops up in IE9/10.
I personally haven't, but a friend of mine has recently. Fiction in her case, but I think the advice holds. Get an editor. Even if you are going to self-publish like my friend did. It makes a world of difference in polish.

She used Amazon Createspace by the way.
thanks tunato!
There's so many opinions on that it's extremely hard to get a clear picture. The "optimal" diet currently in vogue seems to be a sort of squirrel diet consisting of soy milk, legumes, nuts, whole grainS, chicken and vegetables while cow milk, red meat, potatoes, sugar and salt is the spawn of the devil.

In a more moderate sense (i.e. My own biased opinion) "eating bad" is what everybody knows deep down: excess of candy, ice cream, soft drinks, fast food or the tendency to over-eat i.e. All-you-can-eat places and too big dinner plates at home :)
Things like this make me increasingly sad for our priorities as a society.

I realize that not everyone can be a biochemist and do antibiotics research, but we've reached a place where our most technologically savvy people are frittering their talents on food delivery services and cat videos. I have an advanced degree in biochemistry, and it's still basically impossible to get work doing antibiotics development. There's no money in it. I work on websites, because that's where I need to be to earn a living. If I could get venture capital to do speculative work developing new classes of antibiotics, I'd do that in a heartbeat.

What's the point? I don't really know. Rome is burning, I guess. Bring on the bread and the circuses.

(Postscript: $200M is considered a big initiative in this space. We spend BILLIONS on niche diseases: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142412788732397500457849...)
why avoid saturated fats? because they cause heart disease?
That's interesting. We also could revive phage therapy which uses bacteriophages (viruses that replicate in bacteria).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phage_therapy
Before they started being used as lethal weapons. This distinction is neither subtle nor unobvious.

I am content to end this conversation here.
I just wget the page and it works every time. I think its a mix of cookies and <ip, user agent> tracking.
Observations after installing on 10.6.8:

* GPG2 seems to be up and running very nicely, and it was an easy switch to get Enigmail set up to recognize it. (My previous MacGPG installation evidently installed GPG1. That seems to be orphaned now, I guess? Any suggestions for an ideal way to clean out its old stuff? I haven't seen it mentioned on your site.)

* This is the first GPG distribution that I can remember using that didn't provide hashes and a detached signature to verify the integrity of the downloaded file.

* It looks like the provided man pages were not symlinked into /usr/local/share/man/man1 (to match the way that the binaries were symlinked into /usr/local/bin).

* For reasons I've yet to track down, the GPGPreferences preference pane hangs whenever I try to open it. (I'll file a bug and/or ask for help on your forums eventually; just mentioning it here as part of the experience.)
It is only a deal worth considering because the rest of us taxpayers get to pick up the bill for a portion of the loss via the bullshit tax scheme known as negative gearing, where you can claim losses on you investment property as a deduction against your personal income (cf. places like the USA where I believe you can do this with only your primary residence).

As a result, the price of houses in Australia is completely disconnected from the rental returns, and instead driven by speculators chasing capital gains, and/or income tax minimisation by engaging in negative gearing.
I don't get your point. There are many ways to create a feedback loop. Saying "You have to have a feedback loop"isn't a one-size-fits-all answer. It's a technique for finding what works for you.
US allowed Italian kidnap prosecution to shield higher-ups, ex-CIA officer says
It's an interesting concept, However, I'm struggling to figure out a situation where it would be useful. There might be something here, just not in it's current state, and for that reason, I don't see it going viral anytime soon.
I'm sure there are Windows and Mac equivalents, but Ubuntu has a timed screenshot option. It would be fairly easy to just set the timer, go the the website, and wait. But I agree, most people probably won't care enough or think of it.
Twitter Blowup Leads to Sudden Cancellation of Fez II
Which law did they break?
Someone missed the point of the comment
DailyJS: Getting Started with Nodebots
If you store the seed on your device.

For gmail, Google texts me an auth code; the seed (if there is one) is in their data center. They could switch to seedless down the road since they own both sides of the auth.
Reminds me of this http://www.savetoby.com/
That was not my takeaway - it was more - we should give money to the people in Haiti who are asking for it, even if we don't fully understand or approve of the utility - presumably poor people.

There has been a lot of research in recent years suggesting that the most effective form of charity in many poor countries is to simply give people cash, but there has always been a negative reaction from this from some sections of the establishment who fear that giving cash to poor people will just cause it to be wasted. I think this stems from a residual Calvinist assumption that poor people are the architects of their own misfortune and therefore can't be relied on to use money appropriately.
I didn't finish it. I lost interest ...
Discussion from yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6110382
> anyone can confirm that your email was signed (with many email clients), so there is value to using s/mime prior to all your contacts also using it.

Provided that they trust the people handing out these certificates – with PGP, they need a chain of trust to your key to verify that it is you, with S/MIME, they have to trust random third parties. Or do I miss something and you mean something else that is possible with S/MIME but not PGP?
The importance of math for software engineering
I have no idea how you'd make a scoring system that worked well with a hill climbing algorithm. You could check each word for a match in the dictionary, but with a substitution cipher you could essentially turn one word into any other word of the same length (excluding words with the same letter in them). Without a way to check for "close" words, you wouldn't be able to climb the hill. would "pello" score a 0.7 and "hello" a 1? I can't think of a fast way to get that number.

I'd like to try my own hand at this, but the way I'm thinking of making the fitness function doesn't seem like it would be smooth enough.

What did you do?
Is this just a cheaper version of www.trycaviar.com?
I propose a 4th reason why they merged with Xhibit: the owners of SkyMall realized that with WiFi becoming more and more prominent on flights, bored traveler are less and less likely to flip through their magazines, but instead get online (where they'd have their own set of advertisements, shopping capabilities, etc). I think, therefore, it was the right move to cash out before companies themselves pull out of their agreements with SkyMall.
If you're going to make up hypothetical scenarios that have neither (a) happened ever nor (b) been actually mentioned, even by the inflammatory source we're commenting on, would you mind being clearer about that?

Either way: what does it matter that drones have been used as lethal weapons? Manned aircraft have been used as lethal weapons for almost as long as there's been manned aircraft.
Seems like a fitting fate for Skymall. A company that profits by selling overpriced shiny garbage is bought by an overpriced and shiny company, that is garbage.
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The custom 404 page example in the readme looked incomplete - how do you ensure those pages are served with the correct HTTP status code?
You mean 27 years ago. (1986)

Five of the justices have been on the court more than 17 years
For those interested in a legal way to play in the US: http://sealswithclubs.eu
If it's based on crime statistics, this software would be heavily oriented toward black communities.

So what? On what else than crime statistics do you propose to build a predictive system for crime? It doesn't matter which communities it picks as risky, people in those communities will scream "bloody murder" no matter what community we'd be talking about.