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I had thought the 2A03 didn't have BCD to save silicon-- but apparently they just crudely disabled it by removing 5 transistors[1]! Would Ricoh's second-source 6502 license have been more expensive if they included BCD?

[1] http://www.visual6502.org/wiki/index.php?title=6502DecimalMo...
Looks like you can only buy the F3 which is GSM only. I'd love to have one of these for when I'm in the boonies here in the US, but thats typically only covered by CDMA. F3c is not available, even on ebay.
Doctape Launches Standalone File Viewer For iOS With Support For 80+ File Types
If the government can monitor your book purchases, you don't get the protection that a good librarian can give you against PATRIOT Act intrusions.
The whole thing as a system requires it to 'police' itself internally, because we don't have enough information to be able to do it effectively (i.e., file lawsuits with 100% accuracy). I'll say it again - when a case review finds withheld evidence that led to a wrongful conviction, this should lead to immediate criminal charges from within the system - no lawsuit should have to be filed from the victim. If it was unintentional, let the jury decide. This is how the rest of us get treated.

I disagree that this is simple cost-benefit analysis. This is about the integrity and trustworthiness of the system, and it's not worth writing off a whole bunch of people to make the wheels squeak less and clean up easier when they grind up an innocent person's life. It needs pressure from the outside to reform itself from within.

EDIT:

I guess I'm asking for the justice system to do a better job policing itself and start treating transgressions like this as major offenses that threaten the system itself. But considering human nature, this is unlikely. There is an interesting book called 'Mistakes Were Made (But Not By Me)' which has a chapter dedicated to this kind of behavior in the justice system.
100 top CS students flock to SF for hacker Olympics
Hopefully this criticism is helpful.

I find this really hard to read, sorry.

I can't just scroll through or scan read, and I'm met with a variety of different things all at once. Everything's always visible, so I don't know what I'm looking at. I've scrolled down on the lowest level, and read a bit but have no understanding of the context. Clicking on it makes me realise where I am but I've skipped over a load of stuff in the middle so I'm scrolling back up that to find where I left off... I think this is a visual thing though rather than a major issue with the idea. Fiddling a bit I've only just found that not every node has children, but this this is only indicated by nothing happening (which is identical to something that should happen but doesn't)

This is really a different formatter for the same structure of text we've already been using, so the hyperbole is a bit of a turnoff for me.

\section{some title}

Explanatory text

\subsection{subsection title}

Sub text

etc.

Or

<section>
<h1>heading</h1>
<p>Text</p>
<section>
<h2>heading 2

Why do we need something new? What's being added? What couldn't I do before that's now possible? These are the things I want to know when you tell me you've got a new hierarchical document. Can I already read these well with a screen-reader? The ordering in the source would (I think) read each column individually, which wouldn't make sense. Try loading your viewer without CSS. Imagine a screenreader hitting the massive block of JSON at the bottom of the page. Why is that in the body?
I've heard around (I don't use Chrome personally) that Chrome just prompts for keychain access until you give up and grant it access all the time.
'Doctape Viewer' Launches for iOS with Support for Over 80 File Types
That article is one big landmine for people without the scientific background.

Genetics can give you the propensity for a natural advantage but you express your genes differently depending on your environment and your lifestyle.

Years of training will improve both your enzymes and mitochondria

I also thought the lactate buildup comes from anaerobic exercise, which is not what any long-range runner relies on anyway.

(I wonder how you replenish electrolytes, not to mention energy storage, on a multi-day run without eventually getting stomach cramps and other GI issues? From the picture, he already has very little body fat)
You know what else could be offered free on contract? An iPhone.
Oh, I'm not in your class or even at Berkeley. I'm just discussing things on an internet forum. Good luck though, because from the comments here it sounds like your students are pretty angry, and admin is being unhelpful.
This reminded me to (at last) master emacs org-mode.
original: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2270219/U-S-planned-...
Oh, I don't doubt that it's sometimes—or even often—deliberate. But if a UI is implemented badly, no one complains (because no one ever does), and the number of purchases/signups/whatever goes up, why would anyone bother trying to "fix" it?
I wrote a simple neural network about a year ago for doing optical character recognition as a class project. I think looking over the code could be good for learning, as it has a pretty simple OOP structure: https://github.com/bcuccioli/neural-ocr
I'm in Bangladesh. I would've come to Finland on a tourist visa and apply from there, but looks like that is not allowed for my country. Do you think applying from any other EU countries can make things easier?

I would love to intern at a Finnish startup. I'll keep my eyes on twitter :)
As soon as I read that Inc article I saw this coming.
All that text, and no mention of what platforms are supported (or will be supported in the future).
18% is a small minority. The headline tries to make it sound like more by calling it "nearly a fifth" but a fifth isn't very much, either. How about this: 82% of American scientists have never considered moving to another country. That doesn't quite sound the same, does it? I wonder how many Chinese scientists have considered leaving? I'd bet it's more than 18%.
Easy Greeezy
The problem with this approach is that it requires you to resolve conflicts when you first see them. So you can't do workflows that accumulate more than two versions of what happened. Nor can you resolve the conflict asynchronously.

For an approach that doesn't ever force you to throw away or merge data, see the data structures in my OSCON talk. https://speakerdeck.com/jchris/couchbase-lite-oscon

I owe the world a write-up explaining these slides. Or come see me talk at StrangeLoop in St. Louis or Couchbase SF in September. http://www.couchbase.com/couchbase-sf-2013
DOCKER.IO & REDIS ON DIGITALOCEAN IN 5MINS
How to improve Hacker News
Here's a GSM dumbphone that's $80 and runs on a AA battery: http://spareone.com/
I really like the redesign.

darkpatterns.org is a great resource for people in organizations needing a reference about what NOT to do.

I would be great to expand it to include dark patterns in software such as the Ask toolbar trick in the Java Oracle installer.

Wish I had the time to contribute to the project!
This "dishonest nonsense" has been proven in studies and it vibrates with my own experience in companies where behind the curtains this stuff is rationalized a lot.

Sarrazin didn't "raise important issues". He made superficially rational arguments which have in many cases been disproven completely. However these rationalisations were then echoed by racist beliefs buried in society and the discussion became one of racism versus civil rights, ending totally unproductively.

The main "issue" was that "turks are genetically inferior in intelligence so we need not try and give them better chances in education or employment". He didn't even propose to deport two million fellow citizens, but others did that for him in response...
Hack First, Policy Second – A Mobile Device Story with Simple iPhone Attack
1. Because that doesn't fix the vulnerability, only narrows the window in which the exploit works.

2. Because it breaks the "ttl" feature of sudo for people who log in and out frequently (e.g., create and destroy terminal windows).

3. Because .bash_logout is only executed when a login shell exits.

Perhaps a similar but more elaborate solution could work to better mitigate this, though.
I held off on a smart phone for so long it became a running joke in my circle of friends, I loved T9 on that nokia 6100.
Scrivener has the same "mission" as this. To make text writing into chunks that you can rearrange.

It's more fully baked and I think has a better UI that Ginko (writing a book or long piece with 3 relatively small columns isn't ideal).

Unfortunately it is marketed poorly, so not a lot of people know about it, but I have found it very useful when doing writing for longer pieces.
The lessons in GarageBand are amazing! I'm not sure I'll ever be able to get famous artists to do tutorials for me. It would be a dream if (one day) I could get Billy Joel to do a Piano U lecture about "Piano Man"... hehe.

The difference is this site will be free. You don't need a Mac with GarageBand and you don't need to pay for premium lessons. I don't expect to get rich off of it, but if I can "break even" by paying off serving costs and the cost to hire anyone to make lessons, then that's all I'm asking for.

I plan to monetize with affiliate links (7% for driving an iTunes sale) and donations. It would be cool to have a companion iPad app. In that case, I could monetize with advertising, and maybe with an inexpensive In-App Purchase for super premium content.

Also, I will follow Khan Academy's model of having super short videos. I think people's attention spans are about 5-10 minutes. So I'll break down material into ~5 minute nuggets.
Ask HN: What do you wish you had known when entering college? 
I've heard the sentiment that other people should be allowed to make mistakes on their own.

However, I believe that giving people advice on mistakes to avoid and things to do just leads to them making better mistakes - not no mistakes, just level 1 mistakes rather than level 0 mistakes.

So I was talking with a friend of mine from Stanford, and we are are collecting a short list of resources, book recommendations, articles, general tips, and advice to send out to the incoming freshman class of Stanford University '17.

So far on the list we have:

A collection of Quora posts along the theme of 'what do you wish you had known when you were 20'.

TED: How Great Leaders Inspire Action (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qp0HIF3SfI4)

Your Lifestyle Has Already Been Designed (http://thoughtcatalog.com/2013/your-lifestyle-has-already-been-designed/)

6 Harsh Truths That Will Make You a Better Person (http://www.cracked.com/blog/6-harsh-truths-that-will-make-you-better-person/)

Career Advice (http://www.thoughtcrime.org/blog/career-advice/)

What would you tell them?

And additionally, how can we frame this in a way that the advice actually sinks in?

(I'm reminded of “Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn.”)
> That article is one big landmine for people without the scientific background.

I would have said quagmire, but yes.
1,000,000 Bug Sweepstake – Deadline Approaching
Yeah, his quote is "at a certain level of intensity," but the author interprets it as "It is your body's way of telling you when to stop – but Karnazes never receives such signals." D'oh.
Is Zoom.it going to die?
They drive up their cost of doing business exponentially by making bad business decisions.
Maybe you should do something that someone other than the government is willing to pay for.
There are lots of people who can do what he does; I'm curious how and/or why he gets this kind of press or seems to be the more mainstream example.

Ray Zahab [1], Lizzy Hawker [2], Kilian Jornet, Anton Krupicka and countless other well known (in running circles) and lesser known people (your neighbor) have run just as long or longer and often faster...

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Zahab

[2] http://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/womens-life/10087146/Lizzy-...
That's a workaround rather than a solution. The font is indeed rather large. I'd guess most people on HackerNews know how zoom works.
Another classic is Errol Morris's The Thin Blue line, which pioneered the reconstruction technique seen in many documentaries and non-fiction crime shows that followed.
Apple is poised to start offering an in-store trade-in program
na. i personally haven't tried the build quality of WASD, but I heard it is really solid.

should be a pretty good keyboard for 150. there are others out there for the same price if it is sold out.
I thought they only did that with the two-generation-old-phones-that-they-want-to-get-rid-of-stock-of that they were selling for $99 off-contract.
Yes, that and Apple Writer. Full disclosure: I wrote Apple Writer.
Sinclair's branding was huge in the UK, but you can only sell so many calculators and the leapfrog in sophistication in those days was breathtaking. Technologies plummeted in price within months.
Very apt, considering the topic.

Tho in 1974 Sinclair could've fit it in a 37-char title.
Honestly, the only real data function I require on my phone these days is maps...

Car GPS? The inexpensive ones cost about as much as a few months of data plan, and require no service contract.
I carry around an Emporia Elegance, a phone designed for old people. Great battery life, no hassles. When this dies, I'll be getting this Nokia or some descendant
I disagree. The reason commenters' names are small and grey is because the identity of the person shouldn't get in the way of your judgement of the content of their ideas.
I've no intention of visiting the US anyway.
What happens if you play along with a Microsoft 'tech support' scam?
Really? A Daily Mail story for which the source is Infowars?
Martin Luther King was spied on and blackmailed by the FBI. It's a bit dated, but a good place to start.

http://news.firedoglake.com/2013/01/21/the-fbi-wrote-a-lette...
Same, I love the motofone and I got 2 of them for 20-something dollars off ebay! Lost one, the other one has been through tons of abuse. Still going strong.

Demo of car driving over it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EKocfAk7W4Q
I wanted this one when I was looking for a dumbphone a few years ago... I settled for an Emporia Elegance. Not the same :/
I've done a few long endurance events, though never at elite level. That article left me confused.

Aren't most people doing ultra endurance sports performing well below their lactate threshold?
As such, its not our lactate threshold that tends to stop us 'going forever'. Once our LT is above a certain point, our limiting factor will something else, such as muscle endurance.

If his unique feature is that he doesn't have a lactate threshold, wouldn't that mean he'd be an ideal sprinter, or middle distance, because he'd be able to go all-out without cramping, rather than an ideal endurance athlete?
The Horizontal Distribution Hack
> I gave all my books to Goodwill last year ...

Why not a local library? Same tax advantage, but a much higher chance that the books will get into the hands of readers at no cost.

I mean, assuming lending libraries even exist any more -- I haven't checked. :)
Trusting the numbers coming out of a calculator was ALWAYS a bad idea, especially if lives depended on it. It wasn't just the calculator making a mistake - you could have made a mistake keying in the numbers.

This is dealt with by:

1. running the results through the inverse equations to verify that you get the inputs back again

2. calculating the results using an independent method to verify them

3. having a different group of people independently check your numbers

4. have your results pass a "reasonableness" test, i.e. do they make sense

5. put the resulting design on a test rig and verify the numbers experimentally

How do I know this? I worked on critical flight control systems for Boeing.

Any engineer who just punches numbers into a calculator and bets lives on the results ought to be fired.
Miranda 'had crypto key for thumb-drive files written down' - cops
I'll submit that it was not smart to collate them into a tarball and bung them into my dropbox
Copying ebooks cost no money at all

Can you please tell me where do I get unlimited storage/bandwith for free?
The enormous number of people who don't want or care about smartphones, and the enormous number of people whose sticker price is closer to $1000 for the Nexus 4 because of import duties and stuff.
Ideas should be judged based on their own merit and not on the influence of the individual who proposes them, as the karma metric might suggest.
I came across a long writeup on the murder conviction of Michael Morton[1] which relied heavily on withholding evidence from the defence, and lying about it under oath.
Upon his exoneration (after serving ~25 years), an inquiry was held, and the prosecutor is currently facing criminal charges[2]

In what might be the most offensive part, his defense appears to be immunity under the Statute of Limitations, since it was back in 1986. Quite a risky defense, I imagine, given (AIUI) the exemption for "Fraud upon the Court", and the perverse incentive to ensure the wrongly imprisoned stay there long enough that you are immune to criminal charges. Civil redress is presumably available, but I can't imagine what 10-20 years of wrongful imprisonment is worth[3] that doesn't lead to immediate bankruptcy.

[1] Note: LONG. http://www.texasmonthly.com/story/innocent-man-part-one?full... & http://www.texasmonthly.com/story/innocent-man-part-two

[2] http://m.statesman.com/news/news/local/ken-anderson-court-of...

[3] $80k/year for Texas, according to the end of article in [1], but presumably from the state itself, rather than the individuals involved.
My phone of choice is this no-name Samsung one: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B007F9XJDY

It's dirt cheap ($28), quad band, dual sim card, pretty light, pretty tiny, really durable, has no internet capabilities (ie. no bloatware), a flashlight, and the battery lasts 2 weeks (although some reason my last charge only lasted 5 days).

It's not my ideal minimalist phone, but it's the closest I've found so far. The perfect phone would be thinner, look nicer, have an e-ink screen, month long battery life, and be made of some unbreakable material.
> My dream e-reader has a 8.5*11 display (standard paper size), high res, color, glow-lit ...

Don't leave out full color display by reflected environmental light -- or is that what "glow-lit" means?
Apple spoke. We ignored them. (Bitcolumns)
> I know Erlang is "the thing" right now

I don't think Erlang is "the thing" right now. The "hot" languages for concurrent programming are Go and Node.js, for better or for worse.
Only in the sense you can convert PDFs to native format through your Amazon account.

It works fine when you have a clean PDF with nothing but serial text (e.g. a novel).

Completely useless if your document is a less than perfect OCR job, if it has reasonably complex tables, math or non-Roman text (especially laid out in parallel with English translation). In other words, there's basically no way to read physics or Chinese philosophy papers from JSTOR with it.

Your average programming book might make it through okay, but might not. At the very least it's going to kill the indentation of any code samples (very bad for Python books).
Neat. A couple thoughts:
1) it took me some time to figure out that I could scroll a given column when the mouse is over it... Also when the mouse is over a non-column area (background on far right/left) it would be useful if scrolling did a global scroll of all columns at the same time.

2) It could be nice if the sections M+1/M-1 (above/below) the selected section in column N were given a subtle distinct color, and then the appropriate sections in column N+1 that are nested in M+1/M-1 were given the same color. Does that make any sense? It would give a visual indication of which sections in column N+1 lie within sections M+1 and M-1, and also help to emphasize the tree nature of the layout. A different color could be chosen for M+/-2, +/-3, etc.

Good job! :)
At least make bugmenot able to locate the login form :/
That's true of paper books also, depending on how and where you purchase them. Buying from (say) Amazon in either paper or electronic form is probably not in your best interest if you don't want anyone to know what you bought.
Ask PG: Are you planning on implementing a comment deleting feature?
I am a bit surprised so many people who are complaining about facebook privacy issues and such (e.g. that facebook sometimes doesn't seem to respect our requests to delete past posts) are more than happy to post often under their real identities on a website that, for all we know, will keep the comments public forever.
...which is an error that is rarely handled in the code nowadays, therefore highly unexpected behavior may be expected ;)
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What is your experience level? Are you a complete beginner?

Thanks for the signup idea. I assume you mean a way to gather users' emails? I signed up for MailChimp, but they require a physical address to comply with the CAN-SPAM Act. I'm not sure I want to show off my apartment's address to the world, so I might have to buy a P.O. Box first before I do email signups.

For now, if you like social networks, you can get updates from here:

https://www.facebook.com/PianoUniversity

https://twitter.com/pianouniversity

https://plus.google.com/b/109787527146738155349/

If you have a Mac, I recommend the free lessons that come with GarageBand. You can also try searching YouTube for piano lessons. For easy sheet music, I like this site: http://makingmusicfun.net/htm/printit_piano_sheet_music_inde...

If you have a MIDI piano, you can try out: http://synthesiagame.com/ Some people really like it.
I don't understand why people have to pay lawyers if they are found not guilty. At any time, I could be accused of anything at all, and regardless of being innocent, I lose boatloads of money from defending myself?
So some have commented that finding work is painful, but my current issue is getting rid of clients. here's the link https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6270791

Problem: I would like to pass off my contract to the right person (talent wise) and no one in my network fits their needs. I also want to be paid for the lead / introduction.
Anyone who accuses anyone of being X-phobic is laughable. Rational people ought to be able to debate - sparring through facts, hypotheses, and argument - without walking on eggshells. Dispassionate debate is a far better mechanism to find truth than name-calling.

If you're right, then why do you have to resort to attacking the motivations of the other speaker to win? Correct opinions ought to be able to walk on their own without relying on such crutches.
If it supports corporate Exchange and Tethering, I'm sold.
I've been using the Certificate Patrol add-on for a couple of year and I've noticed that there are periods of time during which Google's certs change very frequently (at least as seen by my browser). The last week or two has been one such period. It seems to be switching between certs from Equifax and GeoTrust multiple times per day.

http://patrol.psyced.org/

I've been thinking about installing the EFF's SSL Observatory - a sort of distributed cert pinning and comparison plugin.

https://www.eff.org/observatory
Dark patterns are a short-term tradeoff. Ultimately, though your customers will resent you.

Its easy for stakeholders to say "So what? We loose a few customers!"

However, your company really might be loosing a potential investor, a potential business partner, a potential star hire or a potential product champion.

Ambitious companies don't use dark patterns but dying companies do.
For the former group, I'm well aware that there are people who don't care about smartphones, but do you think there are many of those who want to be able to adjust the white-balance on their phone cameras? I think most people who don't care about smartphone features would probably do just as well with a $50 phone as this one, with less of the "fancy" stuff.