skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The iPhone is priced at over 600usd unlocked. From 720usd in Hong Kong, which match US pricing very closely ( can't find it on apple's us store unlocked)

I don't think it's naive to price a high end phone above what is essentially the most mainstream phone available. Which they didn't considering theirs have 128gb memory.
This might just be me, but if you have a perfectly good two year old phone. Why did you buy a new one?

I recently bought another battery for my Galaxy S2 because the old one died. I have no plans for replacing that phone until I absolutely have to. Preferably not until there is a Samsung Galaxy S6 or so.
> He claims the NSA tapped the phone of high-level government officials and the news media 10 years ago.

That would explain why Obama seems to have become the best sheep ever:

1. Spy on them

2. Collect everything that's somehow "embarrassing" for them

3. Regularly remind them of what happens if they don't do what would want them to do

By that logic, they have probably "vetted" Obama thoroughly, before deciding to not discredit/destroy him completely in front of the public.
I've written a static blog generator, too. But I haven't written a lot of blog posts since then. I realized that I'm missing a browser based backend to edit the posts.

sigh
Always ask for immunity or ask them repeatedly to rephrase their questions as a vehicle of supporting a useless conversation. Until they bring papers for you to sign immunity, tell them that you do not understand and tell them to explain it differenty because you do not understand.

You can be held for 24 hours than you have to be released. After you are released make sure to find strongly worded complaint that whoever you dealt with overstepped their boundaries. Scan then submit it. Put up a scan on your website and link all relevant resources that have been used to harass you and jail you for that period of time. Add diquis or some other commenting service and roll with it.
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Ya, it's crazy that almost everything related to video is taken. I like promostudio.com a lot which is the reason I got it just wasn't sure if it was a little long. But since this isn't the type of thing to have social sharing and being B2B, that angle probably doesn't matter.
Honestly I thought I was going to see some visualisation of a 1px high image vs. various other long things. E.g. " At a pixel density of 330ppi this image would be longer than 1000 Starship Enterprises* ". Alas, no.

> What a 600,000 megapixels wide picture looks like (oddly-even.com) 23 points by lukedeering 1 hour ago | flag | 12 comments

Megapixel: I do not think it means what you think it means.

> A megapixel (MP or Mpx) is one million pixels [1]

600,000 * 1,000,000 = 600,000,000,000

> The largest photo ever taken of Tokyo is ... 600,000 pixels wide [2]

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pixel#Megapixel

[2] http://www.oddly-even.com/2013/07/31/the-largest-photo-ever-...

*I wouldn't mind knowing how many Starship Enterprises a 600,000 megapixel wide picture would be if viewed at a pixel density of 330ppi.
In my mind, they failed to miss their crowdfunding target because of a poorly coordinated campaign.

1) lack of tiers - t shirts came way too late. They should have added phone docks and exclusive first preview to their convergence.

2) pricing - the sweet spot for the pricing was about 650. they priced the product way too high
I think Coursera Systematic Program Design is largely based on HtDP, if so, I agree it's one of the most balanced introduction to programming, where their definition of programming is more thinking through the problem instead of writing LoC or learning syntax. All this without complex problems (whereas SICP first chapters can drive non-math lovers away)
Ya I checked uspto.gov before I bought it and the name was available which was the reason I got it. Glad to hear the consensus is that we got a solid name that is good which means I don't have to drop $6000 on another :)
They are referring to the Dummies Guide and other books that claim you can learn to program in a very short period of time.
http://d3js.org/
=> http://metamarkets.com/2011/hacking-hacker-news-headlines/
=> https://news.ycombinator.com
More petty than pithy (or pity), I think.
It's nice to see US way too long max sentences backfire a bit.
This is simply awesome.
Sounds like the information you've been given is in the wrong context.

I've had MongoDb running on my laptop in less than 5 mins and used it locally for multiple projects without issues.

The kind of problems you mention probably occur on very heavy use but i've never witnessed it myself.

For small scale stuff and getting up and running quickly, i've not used anything as convenient as Mongo

Note: I'm on Windows.

Also consider MongoHQ - They have a really good Start-Up package.
I remember noticing that it was common practice to steal electricity when I was in India about four years ago. I also work with an Indian who backed this up.

I decided to check up on the statistics when I read this comment. It seems like 32% is stolen nationwide, making it the highest world-wide [1], with reports of 42% in New Delhi [2].

[1]http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-05-31/world-s-greatest-po...

[2]http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/4802248.stm
Hum, a lonely head :)
http://360gigapixels.com/tokyo-tower-panorama-photo/?v=-0.5,...
Is this a mini cemetery? Squished between tall buildings?

http://360gigapixels.com/tokyo-tower-panorama-photo/?v=-296....
That is some advertisement for Goldman, work for us and you will be fine, quit and we will sic FBI, Police or whoever we can find to persecute you, take your money destroy your family and ...

.. man this sounds like some mafia.
I chose my words poorly; I didn't mean "assume" in the interpretation of the joke, I meant the joke writer was presumptive in using gender roles like that.
Yes. Of course. Why else would Canonical have used the GPL for the software they'd developed? Why else would they release their OS for free? Profits have clearly never been their overriding reason for existence and they look very much like a social enterprise to me.

See, this is why I hate cynicism: it's intellectually lazy. It doesn't bother looking at the actual detail of any particular case, just hand-waves away details with a suggestion of naivety for even considering them.

Give me a solid reason why Canonical should not be considered as a social enterprise?
please ignore. I always manage to click the wrong button to reply on the mobile app
I used to work in Western Digital. This is possibly the easiest conspiracy theory to debunk, since anyone who lived in Bangkok can confirm that the floods were very much real.
Exactly, just speech-to-text the whole thing and you're done. Bonus: it's a lot speedier to search through.

Since you don't have to justify yourself in court, you're never going to have to submit the actual audio to any judge as evidence, so why would you keep it?
Featuring on Wired, within 2 days of launch
Half a car : http://360gigapixels.com/tokyo-tower-panorama-photo/?v=163.5...
Full Stack Bootstrapped
I don't understand why these systems need to be on the Internet. If engineers really need to be able to connect to them remotely, those seeking to connect shouldn't be establishing the connection, just requesting that one be established. Like the old modem connections where you just wait for a call at an already known phone number.
It's the exact opposite on a touch device.
Reposting this from a previous thread (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5897654)...

I remember during the Boston bombing investigation, Tim Clemente, a former FBI counter-terrorism agent, told Erin Burnett on CNN that they could go back and get access to the content of the calls between the deceased bomber and his wife, Katherine Russell.

After some Googling, I found a partial transcript of the CNN interview...

"Almost immediately Erin Burnett, the host of CNN's Outfront, wanted to know how the government knew. Aren't phone calls supposed to be private? She interviewed Tim Clemente, a former FBI counter-terrorism agent on May 1, asking:"

Is there any way … they [the federal investigators] can
try to get the phone companies to give that up … It’s not
a voice mail. It's just a conversation. There’s no way
they can actually find out what [was said on the call],
right, unless she tells them?

Clemente: There is a way. We certainly have ways in
national security investigations to find out exactly what
was said in that conversation. It's not necessarily
something that the FBI is going to want to present in
court, but it may help lead the investigation … we
certainly can find that out.

Burnett: So they can actually get that? … that is
incredible.

Clemente: Welcome to America. All of that stuff is being
captured as we speak, whether we know it or like it, or
not.

Source: http://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/crime/item/15340-boston...

CNN Interview Clip (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPHZrVPt4-U)

CNN Follow-Up Interview (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vt9kRLrmrjc)

When I initially saw this on CNN, my first thought was, do they also have access to all photos and videos that are taken and transmitted online?

And if so, couldn't they stitch together a multi-angle montage from all the photos and videos taken at the scene of the Boston bombing (like http://photosynth.net), rather than asking everyone to manually scour through their personal footage?
Frosted Glass Effects — Why I switched to Android after all these years
The Quadlock is great. Use it while mountain biking.
Yeah, that's probably it. I read it as if they only recently looked into http caching, but it may just be that they recently looked into that specific tool. Makes more sense then.
Laws often say things like 'significant' which are generally interpreted at the agency level. The DoD has a lot of agency's so these interpretations are unlikely to line up.
Mods, and even total conversions are completely different from taking source code and building a derived game (which then becomes a direct competition to the original).
>Is second edition complete?

Chapters 9-12 are still empty in the stable release, and only partially done in the draft version.

http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/matthias/HtDP2e/Draft/index.html
It is also the only one library available for Golang atm.

Except it isn't: http://go-lang.cat-v.org/pure-go-libs
That disappointed me also, but the FP voice from the community is strong enough. Reduce lives on in functools and the functional package also adds additional functions, like compose. It's one of the packages I install first in a new Python installation. But true, Python will never grow into Haskell.
Closed source games are the only ones that matter. Name one AAA production that's open source.
The idea was not that they made up the floods, the theory is they made up the supply shortage. They used the floods as a cover up. Now as you said, you worked for WD, and maybe you can prove that their production really did take a huge hit, if yes then well and good, as I said, I am not a fan of the theory either.
Watch for a drop in China traffic, HTTPS Wikipedia is blocked but HTTP is not.
And many are monopolies that have little incentive to prepare for black swans. They will just be bailed out or allowed to raise rates to clean up a catastrophe.

Tokyo Electric Power Company in Japan was allowed to borrow billions after their colossal failure at Fukushima. A failure that could have been avoided with better planning. But with no competition, what incentive was there?
Barely laggy on a throttle core2duo 800Mhz running Firefox Nightly. Try harder
If you're paying taxes in the US, you would probably hate this concept, b/c:

You spend something like 25% of your work life (taxes) to pay for something that works against you (mass surveillance). Then you start trowing stones at it while continuing to work for it.
the sweet spot for the pricing was about 650. they priced the product way too high

Price versus demand is not the only constraint here.

It is an incredibly ambitious piece of hardware, so obviously more expensive to produce than say the iphone 5. The iPhone 5 costs $849 for the 64GB model. That's half the memory, and more expensive than the Ubuntu edge even at these higher price tiers. Unfortunately most people will probably compare the subsidised price from a carrier instead, or cheaper hardware.

Just because they could sell more doesn't mean it would initially be cheaper for them - there might be constraints imposed by their choice of supplier, who can only handle a certain volume of a new experimental device for the deadline. There are a lot of setup costs involved, and the greater the volume they sell, the greater the risk - many kickstarter projects have run into this issue - what is easy to do for a run of 10,000 just won't work for a run of 1,000,000, and if they had problems in their first batch, it could lead to serious damage to their brand if they have a huge userbase angry and waiting for hardware. So plenty of reasons for wanting to constrain supply.

So from Ubuntu's point of view, perhaps keeping the production run small was a requirement - that would explain the higher price tiers, because that imposes a higher average cost on them per device. They're probably making a loss on a $600 sale given this is a new device and the specs. Without knowing the demand curve in advance it must be quite hard to judge, but if nothing else I guess this campaign will give them a very good idea of the demand curve for a phone like this, so they will at least get that out of it if it fails.
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I don't know why anyone would want to use an Ubuntu smartphone, excluding the obvious free software implications. It's guaranteed to be worse than virtually everything else on the market. And why would Canonical even want to get into this business. You're competing against Apple, Google, Microsoft and Blackberry. They cannot win.
The Amazon advertising fiasco? The commercial "Ubuntu Software Center"? The lack of upstream patches for many years? Debian maintainers and Red Hat wouldn't even thinking of pulling off that kind of junk. It's not about deeply analysing every possible motivation for every single thing involving them -- Canonical simply shows an attitude of taking from the open source community and not giving back.
Whilst it might not suit the needs of "serious cyclists" it could do well being sold on Amazon or on high street bike shops.

I'm a non-serious cyclist and happily suffer using my Nexus 4 as a GPS. The biggest downside I experience is the battery going flat by the time I reach the pub at the end of the route :)
You're right and that makes far more sense. I apologize for this idiotic calculation. I should have known better because just capturing call signalling on one company's network, was taking 1TB compressed a day. To be fair I did add a disclaimer :\.
Another interesting slum-settlement was the now-demolished Kowloon Walled City in Hong Kong http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kowloon_Walled_City
I have mostly the same concerns, but I think you aren't the target market. Time trial bikes, for example, are not even worth considering, since they aren't used in scenarios where a smartphone is an appropriate bike computer (e.g. no navigation needed on a TT, no desire for extra weight, bigger need for cycling-specific connectivity like ANT+).

Making a smartphone mount crash-proof is probably not practical. But kudos to these folks for making something that casual cyclists might actually want to use, won't attract thieves, and is cheap. They should focus on the 98% of the market who will never pay $300-500 for a Garmin device (which anyway are hard to use). The more Android devices we get strapped to people's handlebars, the quicker Garmin or another player will make an Android device for serious cyclists (n.b. they recently introduced Android on the Monterra GPS, which is more for hiking but shows where things are headed).
Absolutely. It's starting to play "God".
I'm curious what the author thinks about Windows8 now that Windows no longer has the frosted glass effect?
I know this is evil and you should not do it, but just for the doability, here's a JavaScript that removes the censorings (like http://360gigapixels.com/tokyo-tower-panorama-photo/?v=-154....):

javascript:$("*").filter(function(){if(this.currentStyle)return this.currentStyle["backgroundImage"]==="url(http://360gigapixels.com/black.png)";else if(window.getComputedStyle)return document.defaultView.getComputedStyle(this,null).getPropertyValue("background-image")==="url(http://360gigapixels.com/black.png)"}).remove()
Building a [static|dynamic] blog in $language is the most classic weekend project for us web-nerds. It's the one field where universal reinvention of wheel is culturally accepted. And it's just fun, I guess.
I hate having to enter my details (name, email and address) over HTTP. I hope they can update that to HTTPS soon.
Ask HN: Best sites to market a mobile app?
I'm building a tech startup simulator (www.hipsterCEO.com) and have submitted it to the usual sites for early coverage (148app.com, Ars etc) - can anyone out there suggest other sites I should contact?
Agreed, it adds nothing and makes the authors seem juvenile. I am not someone sensitive to language either, if it added value I would be open to the most vile introduction imaginable.
At, 330 ppi you talking 28,000 miles but I don't think all the enterprises where the same length. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starship_Enterprise

Edit: The next gen enterprise was 642.5 Meters so a little over 70,000 of them.

PS: The NASA enterprise was a test platform and not space worthy.
The iPhone is 849 USD unlocked for the 64GB model. Scroll down on this page after selecting a model:

http://store.apple.com/us/buy/home/shop_iphone/family/iphone...
Silicon Valley’s CEOs Make Too Much Money
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Where can I find the page which guarantees me that any given version of any given package will be fully supported by a defined security team for security fixes for at least 2 years from release, preferably 3+?

That is my argument against using Gentoo. I have absolutely no idea how long any given piece of it will be supported. If you can point me to a resource which explains that, I might take another look.

I also have no interest in picking and choosing packages out of a bucket - I want a stable, well-defined OS that I can build on, and preferably one which is as close to what everyone else is using as possible so I can ask for help from people who understand my OS.

Yes, it might work out if you're running at scale, have specialised needs, and can dedicate resources to what essentially amounts to development of a forked distro. It doesn't work out for me, as I need to know that the system I'm building isn't going to be unsupported in a couple of months, and I need to know I can talk to someone who is running similar versions of everything I'm running if everything goes wrong.
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in ~/.elinks/hooks.pl: http://pastebin.com/P4frn4N7
Nice one, a fun list of hobby side projects made by Golang enthusiasts.

I'm gonna drop Jetty and Java altogether in favor of AeroNotix/wedge!
We have 600 * 10^9 pixels, at 330ppi resolution this would correspond to 1.828 * 10^9 inches, or 4.618 * 10^7m, i.e., about 46200km.

Now, there are different Starship Enterprises of somewhat varying lengths, but let's take NCC 1701-D, because that's the first one I found data on. Wikipedia puts its length at 642.5m [1]. Thus, it ould be about 71880 Starship enterprises for the given length (not accounting for any other dimensions of course).

More interesting, it's a bit more than the circumference of Earth (~40000km).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Enterprise_%28NCC-1701-D%2...
And ultimately:

Did they want these events to happen?

Fear is the oldest and cheapest manipulation strategy. Religions such as the Catholic Church have successfully used it for thousands of years:

"It's going to be hell, if you don't do as we say."
I think Japan is working on one, but I might be mistaken. But yes, the Shanghai one is german. :)
The table-top game they are playing is Shogi.
See my comment about two-way. It wouldn't matter much as it's rare that both parties are speaking at the same time.

It's also possible that the compression techniques for long-term storage are vastly superior to realtime codecs. The lowest realtime voice codecs are 300-600 bits per second (they sound like shit), which is 213x compression (so an hour would be under a a meg).

http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=600bps*1h*300000000

81TB a day. Again, this is assuming one hour of calls for 300 million people.

I did a quick search and found this snippet: "A telephia survey said that Americans average 13 talking hours a month – with the 18-24 age group averaging 22 hours."[1]

So that is under half an hour a day average. So, let's assume 300bps (lowest realtime voice codec I'm aware of), half hour a day, I'll stick to 300M people and we get:

http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=300bps*30minutes*300000...

20TB.

So maybe I was only an order of magnitude off. Still pretty sloppy of me.

1: http://www.accuconference.com/blog/Cell-Phone-Statistics.asp...
What's the point of using clojure to js ?
I love the fact that he has taken the photos with the 400mm/5.6, which is a very affordable, lightweight, quite old lens that is supersharp.
It doesn't bring the $1m kick-off grant for the fertility fund, but another new app in that space is http://www.helloclue.com/
It focuses more on tracking the monthly cycle and how it affects you personally, instead of pregnancy/ fertility and crowdsourced data on conception. Clue was actually started by a female founder - seems that could be helpful in this instance.
> DF's simulation model is deterministic. Most aspects of it depend on prior aspects.

I don't see what that has to do with using parallel programming to improve the performance of DF's simulation. If you are implying that threading implies nondeterministic behaviour in a simulation, you are mistaken. In fact, a system with such a discrete space model as DF would be quite easy to parallelize in a safe and deterministic way, with the proper expertise and forethought.
Some people like new things
Computer hardware has a low replacement rate. And this:

4Gb of RAM and 128Gb of storage.

Is simultaneously too much for a phone and around the low end for any computer released in at least the last half decade.

They've gone the wrong way, it seems to me. What was impressive was the fact that you could move your user environment around in your pocket. They chose to make the hardware a small computer to accomplish that though. People already have computers at their workplace already plugged in, they've either got laptops or desktops at their homes.

You're not just asking them to get another phone, you're asking them to replace their computers.

They've decided to compete in both the markets at once - and that only works if you can leverage needs that overlap at the same time in both markets that they don't natively address. Otherwise, you just end up crippling your ability to optimise for both markets as individuals and the natives in those areas eat you alive.

A saturated marketplace where people rarely replace their hardware and where your features aren't impressive, I suspect - might be wrong, does not have those features.
>"what plugins work/don't work in your browser" //

How'd he do that?