skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The HTC One isn't the greatest comparison because it comes in a Google Play Edition, which is a near-Nexus experience (though outside the US you are still stuck with ROM flashing, albeit from a source with solid base and guaranteed up-to-date drivers). Compared to the One, I'd say the major draw is price (and maybe the NFC secure element if you care about that).
They're common, but not good. Almost every factory has a robotic system, but they're not the sci-fi bipedal humanoid AI that people imagine we would have.
The series Futurama was named for such displays at the world fairs.

The name Futurama comes from a pavilion at the 1939 New York World's Fair. Designed by Norman Bel Geddes, the Futurama pavilion depicted how he imagined the world would look in 1959.

I presume the New York World's Fair of 1964 had a display with a similar name which is what he is talking about.
I love emacs, but I can definitely see how rms got RSI.

Like Jeff, I was not content with any of the available keyboards. I have two Kinesis Freestyles (the old one and the new one), and they are both great. But the halves only separate by 20", which is not enough to mount them on armrests.

So, I cut the separator cord one night, only to find that it contained twenty fine, individually shielded wires. At length, I reconnected them with an extension piece (three CAT-5 cables), first with breadboard (proof of concept), and eventually with soldering, heatshrink wrap, etc. I am NOT a hardware guy, and this took forever. But it was worth it.

Freestyle nitpicks: (1) The hardwired keys along the left (C-x, C-C, C-v, etc) are pointless and easy to hit by accident, yet hard to find on purpose. (2) "B" should be on both sides. (3) It would be nice if the two spacebars were distinguishable. I'd map one of them to Ctrl.

Mapping caps lock to ctrl is invaluable. (Except when you're on someone else's machine and you're constantly WRITING IN CAPS.)
If only Sprint had gotten this device
It sounds like what you're trying to say is that this is a problem that's bigger than Noisebridge. I think that homelessness is a huge problem in San Francisco, and I think it's a shame that it's such a problem that Noisebridge has to make these decisions.
Since I have a laptop, I think it would be easier (and cheaper) to just have a standing setup and a sit-down desk nearby to switch between.
The most accurate prediction is to predict that most things will stay the same.
There is a reason Lua has taken over so decisively: speed, simplicity, and good support for both functional and oo programming.
Depends on what you mean. Dish washing robots are OK and common.
you didn't include the sweet ?hpid=z1 tracker at the end of the url.
"you can't feasibly build a 1 kbps transceiver with 16 mW transmit power and a two inch monopole antenna and expect to get anywhere near half a km of range with the TI radio"

I mean... you say that, but we did, and we're not doing anything special, I just set two android phones to volley their GPS position over USB to the board, send it over radio, and calculate the distance on the other end. I then verified the calculations manually using google earth and landmarks.

Here's what texas instruments has to say [1] about the radio:
"You can achieve a range of several km with the CC1101 without any problems (line of sight). The output power can be programmed up to 12dBm and the sensitivity level on the receiver is dependent on the programmed baud rate. With a sensitivity of -112dBm and an output power of 12dBm, 915MHz ; the expected range with Friis equation adapted to take into account the height from the ground would be approx 3km."

We're being advised by Earl McCune, a serious Silicon Valley Radio expert (google him, he's awesome), and he donated some of his time to help test the board with his nice Agilent RF stuff. He was impressed with the performance of this little chip, and was also impressed that my layout nearly perfectly matches the TI reference design.

[1] http://e2e.ti.com/support/low_power_rf/f/155/t/15984.aspx
Since this is Docker-based, it sounds like it will support any version of Node that you'd like. If you want to run on whatever's on master, it should be possible.
Where's my flying car?!? I was promised a flying car and I want it right now!
Ok, there are some things that don't lend to the iterative approach. Airbuses, bridges and skyscrapers would be three examples.

When you are designing the wing for the A380, probably a good idea to bust out the FEA software. But it's still going to be tested with hydraulic rams.
Yup. The biggest fallout from this won't be that those big sites were down for hours, it will be the millions of computers that redirected to that IP.

http://blog.opendns.com/2013/08/27/high-profile-domains-unde...
Slide to unlock is a problem? Running an old beta?
They used to use radioisotope powered batteries in cardiac pacemakers up until the mid 80s.
Tales of porting games to microconsoles
Except: losing jobs and business in USA will help sway public opinion against broad scale undirected mass surveillance.
The 16GB model went from $349 to $249, the 8GB model from $299 to $199.
I'm inclined to say that hacker spaces should have showers. That way there's no excuse. Plus, it makes it easier to work out there as well.
Real engineering [compared to software development]
Interesting. It sounds like nee-han or something. You might be able to get by using "Ian" as a nickname, losing only the initial N sound.
Yes, but your time-unit won't change if you get a Kinesis Advantage over a regular keyboard, so, even per time-unit, it's still more expensive.
If everyone gains access to the same ingredients, then you're no longer special for using ingredients other people haven't heard of. not special => homogenized.
> For "0" I would have made an empty box, out of strings if necessary.

That's 4. Because you used four strings. Oh, you do it with one string? It looks like 1. You do it with N strings? That's N. Oh, you're trying to talk about what's inside? Nothing's inside. That's silly. We both know there's nothing in there. Why are you trying to show me nothing?

Are you trying to multiply by the inside? That doesn't make any sense. Why would you multiply by nothing, or add by nothing? What's the point? No, I don't know what it does. Why should I care about your nonsense?

> For the -2 I would have placed two of the strings in a different location.

Now do "square root of negative nine".

> For the Roman numeral conundrum I would have placed IV and then a line and then a V below that.

Oh, so there's 4 on the top and 5 on the bottom? So, 9 total, right? IX?
Android is a ‘party we want everyone to experience’
I think thats a little harsh.

I've been using Passenger since it was called Apache mod_rails http://www.concept47.com/austin_web_developer_blog/ruby-on-r... you have to remember that before the Phusion guys showed up, there was no easy way to run a rails server without proxying requests to mongrel, thin or something like that. instances could bloat in memory or die and your app could, for whatever reason, go down and you wouldn't know it. Did I mention that rails apps were also pretty slow back then?

They made deploying and maintaining rails an order of magnitude easier with Passenger, first with the mindblowingly simple installation process and later by introducing ideas like killing and spinning up new app instances after xxx requests, or spinning instances up or down depending on activity. All this with simple configuration switches out the box. Even the advances in Passenger 4 are pretty amazing (threaded mode, and out-of-band garbage collection, come to mind)

What I'm saying is, they've done a lot for the Rails ecosystem and while I'm not a fan of their new pricing strategy with Passenger or their marketing tack with Puma posts on this thread, I think its worthwhile to be a bit more gentle in chiding them because of their peerless contributions in the past ... plus their link is actually a very well written comparison
Gambling with a Space Fence
"First 500 MB of data at up to 4G speed"

Basically don't watch tons of videos or stream and excessive amount of music over the mobile network and it'll be no problem.

Anyways, for $10 more you can get 2.5 GB of 4G data, which should suffice for anyone.
Consuming Windows Azure Service Management API In Java
If you're interested in good, smaller Android phones, keep an eye on Sony. The current rumor is that the mini-edition of their next flagship will keep the high-end specs of its larger sibling (except for the screen resolution, of course).
What if I could get a clone of myself made, can I download my conscientiousness into my clone, then kill my original self and start over as a new me in a clone. I could leave all my wealth to my younger clone; claiming it as my offspring. I could get like straight A's in school. How boring though. Maybe I could make an army of clones of myself with the same copies of my conscientiousness in each one, would they all think the same and could I then take over the world. Or would one loose it's mind. Probably something would go wrong and one of them would become a Psychopath and kill the others and become a tyrant. Sorry, I got carried away, I thought this was a pitch session for a made for TV movie on the sci-fi channel.
I've got a very nice "bar stool."
There's a buyer protection plan if you purchased after august 12th.

$100 refund by the looks of it.

You'll have to wade through the support prompts, but start at:

https://support.google.com/nexus/4/

and click 'Contact Us' to get to the form.

Edit: you'll need the order number and the device IMEI
I don't entirely disagree with you but I do think you're not doing anybody any favors by "disrupting this conventional wisdom."

When I was an engineer at Formspring I profiled our social graph service which was basically PHP client hitting a Python service that queries against Cassandra. Thrift was used to communicate between PHP and the Graph Service and, being Cassandra, Thrift was used between the Python Cassandra client and the Cassandra server. So, two-way serialization, twice.

In the end, this isn't a bad design. I didn't write it then but if I were re-writing it now I'd probably use protobuffs but aside from that, it was a clean separation of concerns and fit in nicely with our larger SOA.

Point being, though, that serialization is CPU expensive. Reading from Cassandra was blazingly fast compared to the work Thrift was doing.

All that said, I think noob engineers should be taught that network operations (db queries included) are at least an order of magnitude slower than, say, opening and writing to a local socket. Experienced engineers can see the balanced view of things and agree with the point you're making, so advocating it, IMO, will only serve to make you look smart and confuse noobs.
Useful Network Tools For Linux Learners
- Workout
- If you run into a problem, fight for it. If you can't figure it out, take a break and go for a walk.
- Disengage when it is personal time
- Get PLENTY of sleep (cannot stress this enough)
and... biggest thing I've learned:
- Draw. This helped me a lot. Drawing engages other parts of the brain so if you run into problems, try drawing them out to solve the problem instead of working it out in your head.
Yeah. It's an extremely low end phone (Cortex A5 processor, 3.5-inch HVGA display). Specs are about something you'd see on a high end phone 4 years ago. Appears to be mostly targeting emerging markets where it's a good fit (as cheap as a feature phone but with full smartphone capabilities).
Paul Vixie...security company? Is it April Fools?
Check this out.
http://muratbuffalo.blogspot.com/2013/08/beyond-truetime-usi...
> Not always is possible to save everyone.

False. God is omnipotent :)
I think you're having trouble with the definition of "preserve". If you begin with a false statement, there isn't actually a truth value available to preserve.
I hope this isn't another case of 'the suit is back':

http://ajpm-online.net/article/S0749-3797(10)00412-5/abstrac...
Scumbag Google: lowers Nexus 4 price - makes it unavailable in your country.
> People know about inflation, and are free to adjust their behavior accordingly.

People are not free to adjust their behavior accordingly. The average person is forced to transact in the official currency. Any alternative that threatens to become liquid enough for the average person to use will be shut down. (Thus the interest in this Bitcoin backers meet government regulators article)

Sovereign countries with key energy resources must sell them for US dollars exclusively and they must recycle excess dollars into US government bonds, or receive freedom and democracy. This is the Petrodollar system, and it is the reason why the Feds can run endless deficits, and the Fed can put trillions of dollars of unmarketable assets onto its balance sheet without creating Weimar-style problems.
I have two Leopold 87s w/ Cherry Browns, at work and home. I love them. They also have a solid build quality and with the Cherry Browns, they still have a slight 'clack' but not to loud. Never once had a complaint from a coworker. Never experienced the Cherry Clear switches.

I don't see backlighting as a necessary feature. I almost never have to look at my keyboard. If I do there's generally enough ambient light, even if the lights are off, my monitor throws enough around.

I run Windows so media key's are more than easily compensated for by AutoHotKey. Instead of Fn+Key you can make whatever shortcut you want. Obvously a different equation for other OSs.
I... will admit I just looked up to see if Visual Forth existed.
Professional Mac Video Converter for Samsung Galaxy Note
Samsung Galaxy Note probably was the first phablet the world has ever seen. It was introduced in October 2011. It has an impressive 5.3-inch display screen. Why they are making the screen so big? Maybe they want to talk you into watching movies on your phone, other than on your tablet. Then how to watch your own videos on Galaxy Note? With one smart video tool called Mac video converter software, you can convert all your own videos on your Mac computer to play on this massively big phone. And DVDFab offers such a software tool, Video Converter for Mac, which does that job in just three steps.
I tried to tell you, the casting is all wrong. Ashton Kutcher was wrong. I know, everyone said Ashton "plays dumb", I get it. But really, I am not Steve Jobs fan, but his IQ was off the charts, you need someone with a much higher IQ to play Jobs, I even think this and I hate the dude (he burned me a long time ago). Be he was a genius.
I was curious about the elseif complaint so I looked into how different languages do it. This is nowhere near a comprehensive list but elif seems to be the least popular.

elif: sh, python
elseif: PHP, Modula-2, Dylan, Eiffel, Oz, Matlab, Julia
elsif: Perl, Ruby, Ada, Modula-3, Tcl,
else if: Awk, B, C, C#, C++, Java, JavaScript, Pike, YCP, OCaml, Delphi, Pascal
Microsoft Ballmer’s Retirement Highlights Challenges of Sustaining Tech Success
This would OBVIOUSLY happen 1 week after I bought the S4 Mini. I was seriously considering the Nexus 4, but couldn't justify the $350 price range when compared to the Mini for only $400.

Go figure, I couldn't wait any longer and Google couldn't do this any sooner.

Just my luck!
Steve Jobs' 'To all iPhone customers' letter removed from Apple website
I was reminded of this [1] after seeing the Nexus price drop; it turns out it was removed from Apple.com on April 20 this year [2]. Odd, but you can still view it on archive.org.

[1] http://www.apple.com/hotnews/openiphoneletter
[2] http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.apple.com/hotnews/openiphoneletter/
Ah yes the old "engineers are more expensive than machines" adage.

Thing is, that's true for some small number of machines. But when you build scalable systems and actually scale them you get to a point where the balance tips. And it just so happens that building those systems is exactly what the Golang team has in mind.
Why Did This Homeless Man Turn Down $100?
Not complete underground cities, but there are plenty underground marijuana light-forced gardens out there... Even with panels that change colors (some growers use different wavelengths for vegetative and flowering stages). :-)
Gnu turns 30
Strong disagree for me. I have no such issues with making "ear" selections and I find the overall responsiveness of the device to be incredible with the latest 4.3 release.
>I agree, but are you letting homeless people sleep in your house or in your office?

interesting how in future, when time will weather out a lot of details, people will look back at our time and see huge amount of dwellings - offices - going empty at night while some people would sleep under bridges, on the streets, etc... Was it a personal choice of these people, were they punished, banned from the society or was it a society without empathy? One can imagine various archaeo-socio-logical PhD-s.
> Poverty usually isn't a way to increase life expectancy. One must presume they're doing something right.

Poverty actually can be a way to increase "life expectancy", depending on how it's calculated. If a baby is about to be born horribly ill and/or premature, a poor country is likely to let it die quickly and be counted as stillborn; a rich country will apply heroic measures to keep it alive for long enough that it counts as a childhood death instead. (in the US it does anyway - the US records infant deaths differently than Europe and this also has a big effect on calculated life expectancy)

Cuba also can't afford a lot of cars or roads to drive them on, so fewer people die in auto accidents. (If you adjust for fatal accidents, US life expectancy apparently climbs to at or near the top of the chart)
EL panels: those exist, you're probably staring at one right now, it's behind your LCD. LED lighting is also fairly common these days. It's certainly possible for exactly what is described to be installed in a house, it's just not particularly desired.

Adjustable transmissivity glass is a reality but not yet practical enough for it to be ubiquitous.

Radioactive batteries very much do exist, they are called RTGs, and they have given great benefit to spacecraft and other equipment. They power the Curiosity rover, for example. However, they are too impractical and too expensive to be used for ordinary household equipment. This would be true even without the radiation problems of RTGs, which are, of course, significant.

We should have moon colonies by now and ironically the Apollo program is probably the most at fault for that. In order to make it happen a lot of political capital was expended, creating a particular political situation which has become a permanent institution within NASA manned spaceflight (specifically, billions of federal dollars flowing into a few very specific congressional districts which has continued through Apollo and Shuttle programs and now SLS/Orion). If NASA had instead concentrated on a slower program which built up long-lived infrastructure and optimized toward lowering launch costs and increasing capabilities then we would easily have cities (or at least towns) in orbit and moonbases, and Mars bases.
Now who will bring white ethnic food to Han China? Seriously, I get depressed whenever I have to settle for expensive frozen sausage from Nick's or Jenny's in Beijing (our only chance t ethnic food). And let's not even get started on high quality flower needed for real baking. At least they sell green curry packets and jasmine rice at Carrefour.
It already is a server-side thing.

This post shows how to steal that session/token/ticket after the authentication step.

What are you proposing?
Great explanation, worth an article! My thinking was more of a struggle a student has to take to correlate with a abstract concepts like algebra while in school. It is almost impossible for a kid to really look meaningful context out her daily maths class. However, all this concepts are born out of "need". If that "need" magically does not gets shown to kids "in their own language" there is going to be lot of trouble in bringing up right math power.

I guess the teaching style has to change. Was also wondering, folks in this thread, talking great things about math are teachers? Should be less, I guess!
The perfect keyboard for me is the Logitech Wireless Solar K750, but it has 2 big flaws:

a) It discharges in around 3 days of heavy coding, and requires real sunlight, I had to leave the keyboard at the garden when the battery exhausted, and there are no alternate ways to charge it (the least I expected was a detachable USB cord).

b) Hardcoded limit of 40 pairings and no indication of that limit unless it won't pair anymore, I used to have two "Unifying receivers", one at home, one at the office, so I exhausted that limit relatively fast... It was frustrating and disappointing when I reached that limit...
> > where productivity is magnitudes higher

> Overall, yes. Per worker? Hell no. Half or more of current jobs are pushing paper and doing meaningless bureaucratic work.

Actually, productivity per worker has grown for most developed countries. The Bureau of Labor Statistics has a wealth of information on the subject: http://www.bls.gov/fls/intl_gdp_capita_gdp_hour.htm

Of note is chart 6, which shows GDP per hour worked has grown, albeit slowly, for most developed countries; and table 2a, which shows real GDP per employed person has more than doubled since 1960 for the US, and in some developed countries like Japan, increased 6-7x.
I don't understand the fascination with keyboards by software developers. I spend a lot more of my day thinking, testing, navigating code, etc, than I do punching keys. There are a lot of professions where keyboard interaction is critical but I don't think software development is one of them.
As far as I am concerned, bridges have fallen, buildings have broken, and airplanes have crashed. I guess its a different iterative process then software, but neverthless, it is an iterative process.
Hey, he's got plenty of experience with vulnerabilities...
An interview with a 14y/o Ruby on Rails developer
3 Hidden Features Of iOS 7 That Apple Didn’t Want To Tell You About
Wow, I may have to try this Julia thing out. For some reason I had associated it with Lisp or the JVM.

The documentation for the graph module (data structure, not charting) suggests that Julia is not a toy language at all. The interface was inspired by the Boost Graph Library! http://julialang.org/Graphs.jl/interface.html
You can buy it from the play store in Australia. The price discount is there in AUD too
There are other options. Why a huge desk in the first place? The Jesper Workpad [1] is just $299 on Amazon [2] -- a minimalistic laptop desk with a minimal footprint and clean aesthetic. It's not motorized, but it doesn't need to be.

[1] http://www.jesperoffice.com/jesper-office-ergonomics/526-hei...

[2] http://www.amazon.com/Jesper-Height-Adjustable-Computer-Tabl...
Peter Thiel on Mapping A Life