skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes. The whole range is available. I have a 2700 K LED bulb for the kitchen night light, and a bunch of 6800 K CFLs on a timer for my wake up light. Lowes hardware stores have a live demonstration of several color temperatures.
Seems a fitting time to remind those put off by this sort of complaining that it is not sufficient to merely convince like-minded bystanders to blame the victims. Victims must blame themselves for true peace and quiet.

I say carry on with the social hectoring of those who seek a better state of affairs and don't (yet) feel personally responsible for the outcome of their (increasingly loaded) societal dice roll.
Snowden Nominated For EU Human Rights Prize
Well that's depressing - I was banking on 30s being a lot better (at least for dating) than early twenties. I guess I didn't consider the inevitable midlife mortality crisis. Guess I'll have to make the most of late twenties and early thirties.
Cyborg short film: Shot with Google Glass
Watch my science fiction short film. It is about two friends (a human and a cyborg) who meet in a treehouse to discuss love. [DIY filmmaking: shot with Google Glass & iPhone, edited w/ Givit & FC]: http://youtu.be/X4hwxANq5-k
Seriously? Because you have to make $50 co-pay at the hospital, our society doesn't treat you like a human?
>if someone produces way more than they cost, then employers will be lining up to hire them

Not someone who buys into efficient markets in labor (or anything really): I don't think that's true. The cost of additional employment can be burdened by other things (human resources expenses, compliance) times the risk that the employee is a dud. These can increase the 'activation barrier' inherent into adding a hire. And what if you only need one widget? You wouldn't buy as many as possible at all, because the rest will just be dead weight.
The simple answer is: "No." Why was an entire article needed for this?
Low end and high end is just an extra dimension secondary to them being different products for different markets. Unmanaged dedicated hosting to managed hosting to cloud hosting are as different as a car rental to a limousine to a public transit service.
one of my friends from kindergarten -> high school was Gore Vidal's last personal assistant. I hang out with him about twice a year (including this coming weekend), last year we had a long conversation about Gore... He gave me a manuscript he was writing about his time with Gore (and other things). I devoured it in 7 hours. Three days later, Gore died.
Reading through the comments here, I see a lot of reference to GPU speeds. Anand mentions in the article that the new iPhone 5s is more powerful than the 2010 Macbook Air 11" and has more graphics performance than the iPad 4. I used to be one of those guys who would build his own PC and spend hours overclocking everything for the maximum performance gain but I do not understand this;

What's the infatuation with performance in a cell phone?

Snappy is snappy but there are diminishing returns here past a certain point; I think Anand stated it best when he said it is "the most future-proof of any iPhone ever launched"
"Sensible" is a value judgement, and as such does not have to be anything, as we see in the current policy environment. We can say that the current policies are not sensible (or symmetric), but that's a response to a different question. The facts remain that the current markets are not free and that there are policies in effect that do socialize losses while privatizing gains.
I'm not sure it's that cut and dry. For one thing, PHP itself has vulnerabilities, as do its flagship apps. These vulnerabilities are easy to scan for, because the default configuration advertises that it is there and what version it is. If you're worried about some kid running scripts or idly scanning, you're probably in better shape with a custom C program than with a widely-used PHP program, even though the custom C program is likely to be more fragile and crumple more easily under actual expert attention.
"I’m doing what I love, and it makes me completely miserable".

I've got a suspicion that he's not actually doing what he loves, only what he loved once, or hoped he'd learn to love.
Journalism is dying. It's entirely unrelated to being Gen-Y.

It's a pretty bad logical error on his part.
Adobe Unveils Dynamic Tag Management for Adobe Marketing Cloud
It would depend on the opacity of the shade itself.
Take away any semblance of job security, benefits and any possibility of advancement, then stand back and act surprised that Gen Y isn't totally loyal. Huh.
"And now that I've written this, everyone else can blame me if they want. That plus the inexperience card should work in most situations: sorry, we think you're great, but PG said startups shouldn't ___, and since we're new to fundraising, we feel like we have to play it safe."

>> These lines will echo in the glass conference rooms of the valley for years to come...
I find Apple so incredibly impressive. They target a few key features with every release, absolutely nail those features, and sell the new products perfectly. Their product line-ups and messages are constantly evolving, but slowly, determinedly. And so they achieve things no other company seems capable of - like an unlocking mechanism that is going to be market-defining. Why? Because when the other companies become jealous and try and come up with their own versions, they'll rush and release something half-baked, and out of the confusion only Apple's solution will speak to consumers. Apple is so far ahead of the competition it's ridiculous - maybe Google can compete in the medium-term, I'm not sure. Apple's confidence and poise is awe-inspiring.
Interesting that you should point this out because I converted my home to full ~5000K high-CRI fluorescent in 2003 and now ten years later, I am about a third of the way through replacing all fluorescent bulbs in my household with ~5000K LED bulbs.

I recently tackled the challenge of equipping an enclosed light fixture with an LED bulb. I ended up going with the Xledia D series A19 bulb. (Warning, Xledia is a Chinese company and I think they've hired a gray-hat SEO company to spam up Twitter and the like; but don't let that taint whatever merits they have in engineering.)

The D125 [1] is my favorite LED bulb to-date. My wife, an electrical engineer, was incredulous: "you bought a seventeen watt LED bulb??" It's quite astonishing to fire that beast up. 2000 lumens. And true to its spammy marketing ("the most efficient series of omni-directional LED bulbs suitable for fully enclosed fixtures"), its temperature management is impressive.

After hours of operation, its lens is merely warm, heatsink is hot but not flinch-inducing in the same manner a fully-warmed incandescent bulb would be.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00EW6R0EC (available elsewhere as well)
Stop this. The cost of healthcare is a few dollar co-pay. If you're poor you get Medicaid. If you're older, you get Medicare.

So, what exactly is your point? That if you're not poor or old, and you are too lazy or cheap to buy insurance, we should feel sorry you having to pay $100 to have your child taken care of? What an amazing sense of entitlement you have.
The Fossil DVCS has a built-in web interface for reviewing commits, along with a bug tracker and a wiki. It's all written in C, albeit with a couple of custom macro preprocessors.

I once wrote a toy web page in C; Lex made for nice HTML templating and with pseudOO it actually felt pretty modern, but I still wasted a whole lot of time reinventing various wheels.
Hey all, author of Designing and Engineering Time here. I am now a startup evangelist with Microsoft, but very happy to revisit this timeless (no pun intended) topic.

Remember that there is not only just actual duration vs perceived duration, but also how much users are willing to tolerate a delay, and whenever I get a question on how much people are willing to tolerate, I always ask if the users know/appreciate the value/return of what they are waiting for.

The delta between what was perceived and what they expect or are willing to tolerate, I submit, regulates user satisfaction. Some techniques manipulate perception, others manipulate tolerance (or expectations) - both are as effectively as actual code refactoring - but sure as hell cheaper.

Happy to share PDFs of the book and chat more. Ping me @steveseow
EVERYTHING beautiful is skeuomorphic. The page turn in iBooks, page curl in maps, cover flow, the shred animation in passbook, the date picker in iOS, rotating settings gear (when updating iOS), the Time Machine interface in OS X, photo borders and shadows in iWorks documents, etc.

This is not surprising, because our sense of beauty comes from the physical world.

So what is the problem with skeuomorphism?

Tech enthusiasts would like their phones to look like something from the future, not something from the past. But ordinary everyday people prefer for it to look like things they are already familiar with.

Tech enthusiasts worry that the skeuomorphism was getting totally out of hand, particularly where the UI metaphor started limiting functionality (e.g. an address database that's limited to what a Rolodex can do, rather than exploiting what is possible with a computer). But this is not really true. For example, iBooks has instant search, something only possible with a computer.

Some people say skeuomorphism looks tacky. This is partly true. Skeuomorphism is hard to do. When done poorly it does look tacky. But when done well it looks very beautiful.

By removing all skeuomorphism Apple is throwing the baby out with the bathwater.
Maybe your problem is CPU-bound. Maybe there are good C libraries that solve your problem. Maybe you just want to learn C better. Maybe you have latency limits you need to work within. Maybe you just want to be contrary. Sometimes "why not" is worth more than "why."
We spend billions on food stamps in the US. Seems we already do feed people.
Cubehero(https://cubehero.com) had visual diffs a while back
in a post (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4393704). However, I've found that people outside of software think about version control a bit differently, and diffs are of a secondary concern. That said, I think it's important step, and the next one is to figure out how to do merges.
> That is an excellent idea and barring a pile of non-disclosure agreements I could see a lot of people contributing to this.

The former law student in me sees it as a magnet for defamation lawsuits.
Phase I trials are also primarily concerned with safety, not efficacy
How old are you? My grandparents (nevermind my parents) could rely on hospitals, and they lived in rural Kansas on lower middle class incomes.

My Depression-era great grandparents had to make that choice (and worse), but implying we should be so lucky that we as a society are regressing 80 years is not such a good thing.
I found this article interesting: http://www.economist.com/node/17722567

Self-reported well-being follows a U curve. "Happiness" declines starting at age 18 and keeps going down until it bottoms out in middle-age. But then, interestingly, it rises, and keeps rising, all the way to end of life. This has been observed all over the world.

What's the global average least-happy age? 46.
Admittedly, few entitled people are going to say they /feel/ entitled.
I care about cell phone performance because I'm excited for the day when I can realistically start booting a general purpose OS on my phone and call it good enough w/ a monitor and external keyboard.
I have an Acer Aspire One, ZG5.
Intel Atom N270 1.6Ghz
1 GB RAM
160 GB hdd

I bought it about 5 years ago for a whopping $99, but it has an issue with shutting down about 30 to 50 seconds after POST.

I figure that I got my $99 worth out of it, and have acquired a new HP Envy 15, which is, unfortunately, equipped with a Broadcom 4313 wireless adaptor, thus I haven't yet taken the time to attempt getting the WiFi card to work in FreeBSD, but I intend to do so soon. (time permitting)
This is actually not true because it ignores the fact that a company's shares could be trading cheap or dear. One dollar in the form of a dividend payment is always worth one dollar (ignoring taxes), whereas if the company can buy in a share with intrinsic value of X for the cost of 0.8*X, then it is "creating value" for the remaining shares. Conversely, if the shares are expensive relative to intrinsic value, then a buyback destroys value for the remaining shares.
I am currently homeless. So, like, fuck you.
IIT Bombay invites application for Eureka 2013
> What's the infatuation with performance in a cell phone?

With better raw CPU and GPU performances, it's easier and faster to write decent code with less time spent on optimisation and well as a great UI — Motion Effects and UIKit Dynamics (supporting parallax effects, physics engine, 30D/layered look) requires a powerful GPU. Games, of course always push the performance of CPU and GPUs. I doubt there'll ever be future-proof hardware in terms of performance, unless the software is dead.
>>I was banking on 30s being a lot better (at least for dating) than early twenties.

In my early 20s I was in college and the place was full of young, single girls. I'm 28 now and it is pretty depressing how everyone has either married or at least in stable long-term relationships. So yeah, the trajectory is not moving towards "better."
You're at least an order of magnitude low on that estimate.

Also, where I am, you don't get medicaid if you don't have a disability or a kid. From 20-65 you're screwed, no matter how poor.

Edit: Downvote? Why?
> Did he somehow cause his kid to get a fever by choosing the life of a journalist or choosing to live in some expensive American city

No, but he chose to live the life of a journalist in an expensive American city. In doing so, he chose to sometimes be hit by negative shocks that might bankrupt him, like a child's fever or a fender-bender or an apartment fire without rental insurance.

Should the guy be able to choose that path in life? Sure. But I feel we fail the uprising generation when we say to not worry about rainy days, to be anything you want to be without the worry about financial stability.

Financial stability, for the record, isn't about employment stability, but in having enough reserve to weather life's issues. If I go out drinking with my buddies and spend $60 on a bar tab, that's $60 less of my income that I could put away for a rainy day. Add that up weekly over a year, and you quickly find a substantial rainy day fund. He and his friends could certainly find a less expensive hobby, like poker night, LAN parties, Frisbee golf, or what have you.

Is it his fault his kid is sick? Absolutely not. Is it his fault he isn't seeking to structure his life in a way to weather small shocks (like a kid having a high fever)? At least partially. Let's not deny him the right of his own responsibility here.
"Consequences" are what you get in nature; the consequences of rape is that the perpetrator got his jollies. Do you think that an imprisoned rapist feels bad because he's being punished? If anything he's going to be angry at those meting out the punishment. If he felt bad about rape, he wouldn't have done it, or he would have turned himself in, or killed himself.

And part of the point of rehabilitation is not "golly gee, we just need to put him through some advanced reading courses then send him back on his way!" as you so childishly put it, but that the offender wouldn't be released until it was fairly certain he wouldn't offend again (because he'd been rehabilitated). I'm fairly certain that kind of rehabilitation would take years at a minimum.
you were promised

entitlement is contraindicated a wrtitten contract
what an EXCELLENT review. Seriously. The author went through so much detail. It's ridiculous how thorough this review is - loved it. Thank you.
I actually think "push" and "pull" make sense on a door since it can go both ways (although you can solve that one by using a handle on the pull side, and a flat rectangle on the push side).

The real thing you shouldn't need to put on a door, though, is how to use it: "Use as an entrance."
Depends. If the unpaid internship had a reputation of leading to a well-paying job, it may certainly be worth pursuing over McBurger. This is called "consumption smoothing" -- we do it when we're young and when we're old, and possibly in between, when we're unable to financially support ourselves.

It's not good to remain a permanent unpaid intern.
You must be fun to talk to at parties.
All new chips support OpenGL ES 3.0 except Tegra 4.
> Looking at spectroradiometer charts even bulbs rated 95+ CRI have very narrow spikes compared to a blackbody radiator.

Are you sure you're not looking at SPDs for CFLs instead?

LED lightbulbs at least typically seem to have relatively broad and even spectral coverage, even if the distribution is a little lumpy and only a rough approximation of a BB.

All the SPDs of CFLs I've seen on other other hand, are vastly worse, with lots of super intense and narrow spikes in the middle of large areas of almost nothing.

In other words, CFL SPDs look nothing like a BB SPD, whereas LEDs can kinda-sorta-come-close-if-you-squint (it depends on the particular bulb, but some are not bad at all).

[LED lighting also seems much more likely to improve significantly in the future, as it's been developed for a much shorter time than florescent lighting.]
how about going through

http://sideprojectors.com

(disclaimer - I maintain the site).

There are plenty of side projects that people are either selling or seeking a co-founder for. Would love to have you check it out.
I once inherited a website written in C. I actually tried moving it to PHP but the server was hitting a rogue MySQL instance with a file socket and I couldn't find a PHP API to handle it.

There were two things I did that actually made it pretty painless to work with: I implemented a Dreamweaver template processor that you could hook up to output a string or execute a block on each template element. I also implemented a preprocessor that allowed injection of large HTML blocks:

for (int i = 0; i < n; i ++) {
[[[<tr><td>(((i))). {{{strings[i]}}}</td></tr>]]]
}

It's an interesting exercise, but as soon as I left they scrapped it for something maintainable.
No sir, no Product Managers.
Has there been anything like this, aside from Singularity OS, in recent years?

The license, vis-a-vis Singularity, is obviously much more appealing. Definitely something to keep an eye on.
Can I help you do this? I know a number of families in this kind of situation who would greatly benefit from your kindness!
As Dan said, it's not as if Intel is standing still. I definitely don't expect any Macs to be running ARM for at least a few years. Would definitely be interesting though :)

For those that haven't read the full review, here's a quote from Anand that addresses this topic:

As far as Macs go though, there's still a big gap between the A7 and where Intel is at with Haswell. The deficiency that Intel had in the ultra mobile space simply doesn't translate to its position with the big Core chips. I don't see Apple bridging that gap anytime soon.
Pretty much any decent language has a way to call out to C. I wrote a portion of a book on Tcl's C API, for instance, and it's very easy to farm out computationally intensive work to C code, as it is in Python, Ruby and most other things, one way or the other.
(disclaimer, I maintain this site).

I run SideProjectors - http://sideprojectors.com

There are a number of side projects that people are either selling or looking for collaborators. Might be useful for you to just browse through them. I'm not sure about 'creative' applications, but hopefully you'll run into something interesting!
What makes you say that greed is their "true colors" when this could be their true colors, finally shining through when the changes they were forced to make for D3 didn't pan out like the money-grubbing overlords wanted?

I just don't see how you can claim one completely fabricated story is true but the other isn't.
Newer disks use 4K instead of 512 byte sectors like older drives, so when you partition your disks you need to take care to align them accordingly.
from the tweet: "It works w/T-Mobile, A&T & Verizon. Or it's supposed to."

So who's fault is it? I wouldn't put anything pas Verizon (and ATT&T) but maybe Google didn't certify it or whatever

edit: " http://www.theverge.com/2013/7/24/4553054/new-nexus-7-lte-at... Update: We've learned from Google that 3G service will work through HSPA on AT&T and T-Mobile. Verizon users will be left out, however, as a CDMA radio isn't included — only an LTE one. That shouldn't be a huge issue for Verizon users though, as the carrier now has LTE coverage in over 500 markets."
Just started working on an outline. I am no expert, but have faith that I can research and simplify an explanation at the same time :)

https://github.com/mixu/distsysbook/issues/2

(Edit: On hold waiting for author to wake up .. see issues list)
"Did his kid choose to get a fever? Did he somehow cause his kid to get a fever by choosing the life of a journalist or choosing to live in some expensive American city?"

He certainly chose to not be able to afford getting decent healthcare for his kids fever.

Don't get me wrong I think the system is fucked up and we should do things to fix it. But you know what, the world and the way evolution works is pretty fucked up as well. Open any history book and it is obvious. If people choose to live an idealistic lifestyle and pretend the world is something that it obviously is not, then there are probably going to be consequences.
Ask HN: Is what you do the most efficient way for you to help the world?
If the activation servers do gets shut off, I hope MS will release an update to disable activation or an utility to generate the confirmation ID from the installation ID.
Even I wouldn't run Windows XP past December 2014. Install to exploit time would probably be under an hour.

Trying to get a migration plan in place. I'm extremely comfortable with linux but not sure if I want to run it as my desktop.
>>$50 co-pay

I take it you have never been to the ER. Hope it stays that way!
http://money.msn.com/now/post--panera-ceo-gets-hungry-on-foo...

Panera Bread founder and chief executive Ron Shaich has built a fortune selling pumpkin muffins and croissants to America's middle class.

But this week, he's trying out the SNAP Challenge in an effort to find out how the other half lives by limiting grocery purchases to the average benefit amount shelled out by the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program. It's not much.

A typical food stamp recipient receives just $4.50 per day in food aid, according to Feeding America.

Emphasis mine.

If we want to lower the cost of food aid, cut out the middle man. Buy the farm land, automate as much of the farming as you can, and directly manage the distribution of the food.
You're right that what matters is the cost of the employee to the employer, which wages form only a part. But if the employee productivity far outpaces that, then they'll be hiring, which will bid up those wages.

> You wouldn't buy as many as possible at all, because the rest will just be dead weight.

As I said, "if you could sell them for $1.00", which is not dead weight. Any merchant badly wants widgets that can be sold for 10x cost. Heck, I'd even start a reselling business if I could find such a product!
Wow. Who decides what gets in the product, and what doesn't? Is there no final say? (anyone can deploy anything they want?)