skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Actually, it's not as covered as you might think.

Japan's relatively cold (in geothermal terms) due to its tectonic position. (It's counter-intuitive, but forearcs have relatively low geothermal gradients for such tectonically active areas.)

The main areas of geothermal potential are localized around the volcanic arc. Most of this land is inside of national parks.

Compare this to areas like Iceland or most of the African rift, where you have a very high regional geothermal gradient. Anywhere you can find deep permeability, you'll have potential for geothermal power generation.

Japan certainly has a lot of geothermal potential, and hasn't utilized most of it yet, but it's not as simple as it seems at first glance.
$199, 4.2” computer is Intel’s first Raspberry Pi competitor
That's unrelated to the statement I addressed. If McDonald's could pass savings on to their customers and keep the same profit margin, thus selling more burgers, and generating a higher total profit, they would.
Please read your link. That addresses deficiencies in a paper about a meteorite. This paper is about samples collected from a weather balloon. And while the criticisms in your link are well-founded, I feel sure you can find equally well-founded criticisms without all the distracting ad-hominem insults.
We would have loved to get news out sooner, but unfortunately mobilizing a coalition of this size is a substantial process. If you RSVP and sign up with your zip code and phone number, we'll follow up with you to let you know if any events are planned in your area.

Would you be interested in helping to support or organize an event like a livestream viewing party in your area?
Brainwashing is a label applied to the mysterious techniques that communist foreigners and non-Christian religions use to convince someone.

Labels applied to the techniques used to convince someone are 'rhetoric,' and 'argumentation,' amongst others.
Wouldn't the radio have to wake on a timer to scan? How else will you notice there is data waiting on the other side of the connection?
I suppose you could use the Java-to-JS bridge, if you're using WebView inside a native app.

However, there's not really any "mobile-friendly" push solution available as part of HTML5 right now. I wish there was. There's "GCM for Chrome" (http://developer.chrome.com/apps/cloudMessaging.html), but that's both Chrome-only and only available on the desktop.
Stunning Procedural Skies In WebGL - Part 1
Hipsterism itself is thinly-veiled bullying - it's essentially "I'm cool and you're not". It's like before Apple became really popular, some users exhibited a 'smug field', where they considered themselves better people for using this elite product, being part of those 'in the know', and were just better than you. I have an aunt who was like that, who would mock me for not using Apple... yet she couldn't articulate why. It was just 'better', and she'd backed it.

Hipsterism is like that, putting on airs without having the substance, and that annoys people.

Above all other things, internet communities is what makes me cynical about humanity.

Pre-internet communities were far from unicorns and rainbows. Conformity was much more strongly required.
> If you read the app description, its for working with Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint files.

Imagine explaining this to your insert-technologically-inept-relative-of-choice.

"No no no, if it's a Word file you need to click on the hollow yellow-blue-and-green circle to edit it, if it's a native google document you need to click on the hollow yellow-blue-and-green hexagon to edit it."

"You don't know what type of document it is? No problem, you can tell by... Open it up in one of the two apps and tell me what the file extension is. The file extension. The three of four letters at the end. Wait a sec, forget that, native google docs documents don't have file extensions."

["Well, does the icon look like--no, never mind, the icon is the same for both, four white lines in a blue square." - I was wrong about this, word files do have a different icon]

"Umm, well, open it in one of them, and if you can't edit it, open it in the other one."

"Hold on, I'll drive over..."
IOS 7 lock screen bug allows full access to Photos app, contact info
The term "brainwashing" implies 'Asian,' 'Communist,' and/or 'cult.' It describes nothing.
WiFi is supposed to be around the power of 2G, while 3G consumes a lot more power than either.
I work at Grameen Foundation, and we do that in developing countries. The system we are developing, called MOTECH, is a modular application that can be used for Pill Reminders, tracking appointments or sending periodic educational messages.

We have a lot of work still to do, both on our documentation and our code. You can read about the system here http://www.motechsuite.org/ or watch a video describing some of our implementations https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EzYy6NETvGI (there are shorter videos in our channel if you don't have 14 minutes). Our code is on google code if you want to check it out or even help out http://code.google.com/p/motech/
Rewording of http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2013/09/19/ios-7-b...
Instructions for playing this game in functional style are included, but you need to order 25 copies of the game.

More seriously: I don't think the game is too biased towards imperative style and would be useful foundation for any future language choice. Yes, it is technically imperative, but those cards don't move the turtle as side-effects. That's their primary effect. A stack of cards behaves much like a function. Similarly to how concatenative languages (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concatenative_programming_langu...) are usually viewed as functional rather than as imperative stack manipulation.
How long is any one buoy in service? 5 years? 10? will it really matter on that scale?
Respecting known limitations and working within best practices is absolutely not premature optimization. If you know that using the mobile radio in a certain way is a source of excessive battery usage, it's silly to just disregard this information. It's not premature optimization if you know where the performance issues are from the outset, and these performance issues are so incredibly common that the Android team put out videos about them.

The mobile radio will eat your battery very quickly, and probably chews through as much power as your screen. If you want to see how expensive it actually is, disable fast dormancy†. A slightly less brutal demonstration can be had by opening an OpenVPN connection. The keep-alive packets will keep your mobile radio in a higher power state, pretty much in the same way some disrespectful apps do and you'll (quite unsurprisingly) see your battery drain faster.

A badly written app can drain hours of battery charge, not minutes.

> Your users will be better served by you fixing bugs or adding features.

Excessive power drain is undoubtedly a bug. I absolutely love apps that respect the fact I want to go as long as possible without charging my phone. I might often be in a position where I can't charge my phone too. (Carrying a second or third battery is useful, if you've got a phone that has a replaceable battery.)

> Really, unless you're a huge team with a huge budget...

It's quite trivial to think about performance and battery life. This is something every mobile developer should be thinking about from the get-go anyway, and if you can't afford to write an app that performs well, you can't afford to write an app.

> Making battery usage the prime concern for most apps is overkill.

I'll uninstall apps that I identify as too power hungry without a second thought, and I'll also write negative reviews too. I'm pretty sure that when put in this light, power consumption suddenly becomes important.

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† Don't do this. Some phone networks are misconfigured and may fail to ever recognize that the phone is FD-capable again.
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If you are an experienced programmer, I would recommend just diving in and building something. You will get a lot of hands on experience dealing with the platform, and at the end of the process, you will have what should be a shippable app that you can point to as a sign of your competence as an iOS developer.

This is what I have always done when wanting to learn a new language/framework/etc and it has worked well for me thus far.
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It's quick_Office_.
Use pypy. At 10 GB the bottleneck will probably be the storage.
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Funky new gadget for smartphone photography
portable darkroom for your smartphone, sans the chems. ideal for budding hipsters.
Unless they have a completely sterile, sealed container that is open only at certain altitudes to collect material in a filter, they will have nothing to stand on.

That is exactly their claim (with detailed method), and they did a control as well, in which the container was not opened, to validate their anti-contamination protocols. I'm all for critiques of the paper, but I do think you might have gone to the bother of looking at it first.
You seem to have chosen to intentionally misinterpret my remark. In Florida, hurricanes. In the plains, tornadoes. On the coast, tsunamis and flooding. On the west coast of the u.s., earthquakes. And if you eliminate forest fires, you a) increase the odds the next one will be far worse and b) interfere with the reproduction of some pine trees whose seeds need high heat to open.

Yes, your choices matter. No, there are no perfectly safe places anywhere.
I actually don't see the difference between Ubuntu's Amazon search bar and a crapware browser toolbar.

In both cases, there are some defenses for it: it's not a terribly big problem, the developer can rationalize it in terms of obscure use cases where someone might actually want to use it, and you can always disable it once you realize it's there.

But in both cases, it's making your computer perform worse, showing you things you never asked for, and possibly breaking your expectations of privacy, just so that the developer can make a trickle of money from you.
I've used them on tens-of-GB datasets (not TB), and they're quite fast except for those implemented in Perl, which is kind of a hidden gotcha. For example, calcfield is barely usable, because it loops a perl expression over every record in the file. But things like funiq and cutfield are fast, at least as fast as the traditional Unix tools. And if you have pre-sorted data, aggregate2 is a nice aggregation tool for larger-than-memory datasets.
The eyebrows show a lack of commitment, my friend ;-)
I'm just relieved to find out that "CLANG" isn't a video game you play by writing C++ code with the Clang compiler. LLVM's C++ frontend is cool, but not that cool.
I'll take the bait. Can Japan scrap all their remaining nuclear plants and just rely on the entire globe to cheaply bring it the power it needs to grow ?

To be serious, "[it] affect the entire globe" could be generalized to so many things from so many countries, from drug research to farming, fishing, industrial wastes etc. Having everyone put aside short sighted gains and be on the same page to do The Right Thing to reap long term benefits feels so utopian it's depressing.

It would be more realistic to push for more secure, better engineered, more efficient and reliable nuclear plants. Companies from all over the globe would get behind that.
Why did they not say anything until they had run out of money? It must have been obvious from some time ago that they did not have enough left to complete the project, yet they didn't care to tell their backers.

Also, it seems odd that they talk about the problems they've had seeking other investors, as their kickstarter page didn't mention anything about needing more money. Rather, it implied that the $500k raised was all they needed to release the game. So at some point, they realised it wasn't enough and sought more investment, yet couldn't be arsed to post an update to kickstarter about the funding shortfall.

Very poor.
All Aboard WiFi-Enabled Mass Transit: Transit companies respond to commuters
I have to say, if you can make her laugh that hard, you will have a long and happy marriage.
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Totally. I've got a "18 Months of CoffeeScript" post drafted, in fact. Keep an eye on our blog :)
That's not exactly a fair comparison, Firefox is a third party app whereas this lock screen vulnerability is part of iOS itself.
This is outside my area of expertise, but I've heard that there's a keepalive timeout for open sockets set by the cell carriers. (Again, don't know the details.) So, there is a small cost to keep a TCP connection open, in order to avoid this timeout.

Also, as I mentioned in my previous comment: Even if keeping the socket open is free, every time you send a packet there's a cost -- both for the actual data transmission, as well as a medium-power state the radio enters for a bit before really going to sleep. And given the number of apps that use background data, background traffic on a phone can get quite chatty. This is why it's important to synchronize background activity across apps. If you implement your own push channel, there's no way for the OS to do any sort of synchronization.
Feel ya. So many API's and yet it seems like there is no interface - since they change all the time. Might as well don't have them at all.

DBA it is then.
Devil's advocate: there's nothing wrong with some ambition, and all the backers knew what they were buying into.

That said, your broomstick idea is actually really interesting: imagine an Oculus Rift + Kinect combo. You don't need any additional hardware other than a stick or rod of some kind, since the rod will constrain the motion of your hands and the Kinect could detect the rod anyway.

Only potential issue is a lack of haptic feedback, but we've had vibration motors in games console controllers for decades now so it should be feasible to make a pair of gloves that vibrate on impact fairly cheaply. Surely someone must've tried this..?
Let's hope that Rust takes off.
hey you don't have to convince me.

"U.S. Government Issues Warning About Security on Android Phones"

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/08/28/u-s-government-issu...
The big nerd ranch series, and "pushing the limits." Bonus points if you read blogs about iOS dev.
If anyone in the HN audience is participating in an unpaid internship — which I doubt, but … — please stop immediately. In this industry (software development) there is absolutely no reason to accept being stepped on like that.

You can easily find a paying internship at any half-decent tech company, just interview around at a few places. Speaking as a developer, mentor, and interviewer: internships are where we get our best hires and are an extremely good deal for us — paying $25+/hr no benefits is a STEAL for us. And you should name and shame your current "internment" office, for being total assholes.

My 2¢.
I had a feeling that a critique on Apple would turn into a Google bash. Can you please stay on topic.
As an IOS user who is posting from his iPhone, I'm tired of Apple fans deflecting genuine criticisms at APPLE. You didn't raise or refute one thing in the article.

You sir/mam are a fanboy of the worst kind.

For the record, I feel IOS 7 lost its way. Jobsy would have shot it to pieces and buried it before it saw the light of day.
Japanese have no say in CO2 emissions by any other country, including ones relying on coal plants. Yet they suffer from the externalities of it.

Tragedy of commons. WWI -> League of Nations, WWII -> UN ... How about establishing a world government without WWIII this time. Though what the frak i'm talking about if we can't even stop a government from butchering tens of thousands of their own people (like Sudan, Siria)
Looks beautiful, but why isn't it free?
Will this mean I can create GUI applications with native look and feel (i.e. native looking widgets) across all platforms?
Also, developing an app for someone else lets you focus on the technical side and out the creative aspect aside. Just make sure to always remain curious about how the system works.
The sun moves 0.25 arcminutes in the sky every second, and has an apparent diameter of 30 arcminutes. Meaning that even after 50 years, if you (or your solar panels) look straight up at noon you'll still be pointed at the sun. So systems built to last for hundreds of years are the only situations where I could see it mattering.
That's true, then Google would have nude pictures of your teenagers.
Great idea! Expect 300K for your kickstarter!

But be careful, sticks hurt. That's why there is nerf http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=icmm7-W3e3E but it often looks embarrassing. How can one solve the player skill problem? I don't think downloading a technique book will quite cut it, but maybe with well produced videos, coaching eye apps some progress can be made.
Also, read code on open source repositories on github and such.
The author had zero qualms in stacking the deck himself, and I was merely responding in kind. Someone wants to see your password? Then they must be hiding in the bushes in the parking lot with a telephoto lens. No-one will see you enter a password? Then you must be socially isolated.

This isn't about having a different workflow, it's about the author having a pain point and engaging on a rant instead of bothering to think it through properly.
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The writer clarifies in the comments that yes, he had the passcode set to 'immediately' to repro this.
You can't downgrade.
JavaScript Hero: A GuitarHero-like engine written entirely in JS and HTML
AGAIN! This is probably the 7th time?
Develop photo prints straight from your phone
I don't think the capitalization would have helped, it's too subtle. I too was wondering what a game had to do with a C++ compiler.
It's about trading off reward and risk. Imagine two otherwise identical pre-revenue businesses, one aiming to become a $10m business and the other a $100m business.

What's the difference in risk between the two ? - by and large risk is about product-market fit, execution, hiring, etc. i.e. both companies will face similar risks. The smaller market might be less competitive but rarely is that deciding factor in success. So the risk difference isn't actually that much.

For someone to invest in the $10m startup it would have to be 10x less risky for it to make economic sense. And all the evidence is against that being true.

Certainly you can build a business without venture funding, through bootstrapping and loans, but you can't expect someone to rationally invest in a high-risk investment without having high returns.
Chrome/Safari support subpixel rendering, using OS X's font renderer. Subpixel rendering works well for black on white but looks awful in reverse

See:
http://www.usabilitypost.com/2012/11/05/stop-fixing-font-smo...
They can use it to get their perpetual motion machine and water powered car started.
I think this is a pretty good summary of why hipsters are such an object of ridicule: http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/11/17/how-to-live-...
NASA’s Plutonium Problem Could End Deep-Space Exploration
> I can easily control how much battery life is remaining on my phone by plugging it in.

Except when you can't. Are you really always near a power outlet? There have been plenty cases where I just haven't been able to charge my phone and have had to turn it off rather than use it for what I want.

> I can't control how much of my data plan an app is using, except by uninstalling the app.

Depending on where you are, get an unlimited data plan. I know not every country has these, but most do.
That has nothing to do with Firefox properly downloading files. Your link has to do with a security bulletin regarding out of date Android devices being vulnerable to attacks.
I swore I wouldn't wear startup shirts anymore, but then a shirts.io guy handed me one at a conference and it was so absurdly meta (print your startup shirt using our cloud API!) that I want to wear it all the time
Some of the core guys behind Blade Symphony are people I worked with on Dystopia (the multiplayer cyberpunk HL2 total conversion). They've done it all on the back of a kickstarter campaign which raised $19,058 back in 2011 and more recently pre-orders (which includes beta access). $15k of the kickstarter money was used to cover the source engine license cost.

I'm obviously biased since much of the team are good friends of mine, but the quality work these guys are doing blows my mind.
Couldn't we just redefine the second by a tiny amount so it fits the day?
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WTO?
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There's so much happening and accessible on a "locked" iPhone that it's not surprising something may go wrong. Securing a phone that can't do anything when locked would be much easier.

Reminded me of this Win95 login bypass: http://i.imgur.com/rG0p0b2.gif
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I think the author just wants a kiddy version of Windows :P
Maybe we can name it Windows Portal (after the M:TG Portal expansion for new players). One that is not meant to be used in a professional environment and does not have any security things. It's actually not a bad idea. Just keep it very far away from me.
Not entirely true. You can always offer to provide them electricity at a lower cost than they would get from the nuclear plants. There is a cross-country marketplace for electricity in the EU, and probably nobody will stop you to sell such thing to Japan.
Your last sentence answers the question you pose: the new UI is attempting to train users to use the browser search bar.

A huge number of Chrome users go to google.com to search for things; if the new page looks like the Google search page, and it moves your cursor to the address bar, Google hopes these users will learn that you can just search from there. Maybe it's an experiment that will fail, but it seems like it might work.
Vastly less. I can save a few percent of battery life an hour just by using wifi instead of the mobile radio for data.
If I understand your question, you want to know if its possible for multiple people to type at the same time? The answer is yes- all changes are synced in real time to everyone. Ideally, the user experience is no different, just multiple sources of input. We also have some tools built around following incoming changes, etc.
This remind me of the "souvenir d'italie":
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPXuIirf8Ow

then post on victim facebook for great fun
Actually minecraft gets pretty shaky on my mbp 2009.

My minecraft server can get bogged down just my wife and I playing. That's on a core2duo 2.0GHz with 4GB.

It plays better on my phone.
I'm struggle every 3 months. I use Safari then go back to Chrome then go back to Safari, then go back to Chrome and so on.
Nowhere is completely safe but I think that Northern Europe is pretty much safe from all those things. There is occasionally some localised flooding if you are in the wrong place and we can get occasional strong winds (less than proper hurricanes). Of course past performance is no guarantee of future results...black swans... etc. but there are places in the world at very low risk of serious natural disasters.
How to use body language to get served first at a bar
Used to be true. But recent versions of SQLite fix this.