skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Lunacy is too strong!

I think the average mobile app developer has no business thinking about radio optimization.

They should however be spending lots of time thinking about cacheing and minimizing interaction with servers. Developers in general have gotten too comfortable with unnecessary traffic on Desktop machines. There are too many devs who have been focused on speed as the limiting factor for mobile apps, when it fact should be cost. The end user is paying not only to acquire your app, but also to use the mobile provider's transport.

We should take every opportunity to reinforce the importance of minimizing mobile traffic to only what is necessary. Just because you can use a 4G connection to move a ton of data doesn't mean you should.
MailChimp is based out of there and GA Tech's Advanced Technology Development Center is pretty rad from what I hear.
I wish I'd known about this further in advance. ~ a month isn't enough time for me to get funds and travel arrangements made to come from Arizona. I hope there's some kind of event here. Regardless, this is exactly what I was hoping would happen in response to the news lately, so happy to see this.
A lot of folks are probably wondering "why the heck would they put a nuclear power plant there?".

If you look at the distribution of Japan's nuclear power plants, they actually tried to put them in the safest areas: http://www.oecd-nea.org/press/2011/NEWS-02.html

Where there are nuclear power plants along Japan's eastern coast (close to the subduction zones), they're mostly in the north.

Japan has two subduction zones. The Japan Trench in the north, where the Pacific plate subducts, and the Nankai Trough in the south where the Philippine Sea Plate subducts.

These two subduction zones are very different. They're on opposite ends of the spectrum in terms of earthquake behavior.

Before the Tohoku earthquake in 2011, we had never observed a magnitude 9 earthquake on a subduction zone like the Japan Trench in the north of Japan. (The Japan Trench usually has frequent magnitude 7's. Damaging but not devestating.) All of the previous magnitude 9's were on subduction zones similar to the Nankai Trough in southern Japan.

Furthermore, southern Japan has a 1300 year written historical record of large earthquakes and tsunamis occuring every ~200 years (they're not regular, but that's another story). The last two were in 1944 and 1946. In contrast, northern Japan has just as long of a record, but no records of very large earthquakes and tsunamis. (There's some sedimentological evidence of a very large tsunami in northern Japan ~2000 years ago, but prior to this, we assumed that it must have originated somewhere else.)

Therefore, southern Japan has the highest hazard for large tsunamis, and northern Japan has a much lower risk. Northern Japan's risk is now higher than we thought it was, but southern Japan is still more likely to have the next big tsunami.

Notice that there are very few nuclear power plans on the east coast of southern Japan. Instead they're on the west coast, away from the main tsunami hazard. That's why.

At any rate, the Tohoku earthquake really turned what we thought we know about very, very large earthquakes on its head.
Haha, read my mind! Even if you sell behind the scenes, a profit focused company can't really say no to advertising.
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Likewise, it irritates me when people put something down for popularizing an idea without too much technology. This "who needs marketing? all we need is code!" code is exactly why desktop Linux never took off. Popularization and marketing by themselves are very important, I'd wager at least as important as the code. What good does your code do if few people know about it or how to use it? The Docker guys are doing LXC, Linux, Aufs etc a huge favor.
I agree.

It is worse in touch devices. At least in a desktop webapp you have the option of waving your mouse cursor over suspect areas and can get some kind of feedback (a balloon text or some change in the status bar etc.) On a touch device, you won't know until you touch!
Sounds kind of corny, but Winged Migration is a cool movie. Not flying on the back of the bird, but it's shot in a way that is pretty awesome. Worth watching on a high def TV.
Do you think they're doing it (playing Go, listening to vinyl, whatever) despite not enjoying it? That seems a weird, self-sacrificing thing to do.
Obviously this is NOT the algorithm we use in our product (Swayy)...
I think that only Americans are blind to the fact that they are slowly losing their constitutional rights while the whole world look in wonder as to what is going to happen. This pretty much saddens me. Despite its craziness, I quite like that country.
> I wonder how many of these developers who are working all day with headphones on will eventually develop ear issues? If the volume is up too high, it's a good bet that they'd eventually suffer hearing loss, but even at low volumes

It's oft-repeated, but I am uncertain this really is a thing without a pre-existing condition.

> the increased temperature and humidity in the ear canal might promote bacterial growth, etc.

That should translate into existing high rates of ear issues in scandinavian, canadian and russian populations. Is that the case?

Plus 'cans can be open-back.
i'm guessing front end and back end?
sadly that won't count as fraud. if you read the text it does say cancel = don't install crapware. which is not deception just unethical.
"Just C and C++ for everything? Boring..."

I seriously doubt that the world will stagnate at HTML and JS. Thing will evolve!

Though judging by adoption and advancements from W3C, it might be thousands of years ;).
IIRC there is a C compiler (cc65) that targets 6502, AFAIK it's a dead project :(

Anyone know anything about writing NES programs in C? Writing a NES game really appeals to me, but 6502 ASM does not!
Siddhartha

The Alchemist

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

How to Win Friends and Influence People
does it works with ODF files? is it fully compatible with libreoffice or are we getting boxed on closed formats again?
Unfortunately, biological age and mental age don't always go hand in hand.
You are correct. In fact, I just drove x-country and Outliers was one of the books I listened to on the way. I haven't had the time to cross-check much of the information, as I just took most of what Gladwell wrote as fact (even if this was just an opinion).
>Do I even need to mention the "geek girl" bullshit?

The thing is, the 'geek girl' stereotype is something that almost never happens, but as far as I understand it the stereotypical hipster is not uncommon.

It is possible to 'like' something the wrong way: namely where you do not actually like it. Hipster hate isn't about being different, it's about a perception of dishonest attention-seeking.
The author talks about Google Cloud Messaging to avoid polling. I've been researching the topic and gave it a try with websockets without much success. TCP connections tend to hang on cell tower switching and I suspect TCP keepalives keep turning the radio on.

I really wonder how to implement push to client on the html5 platform. I even wonder if this is possible at all for now.
> Discounts could make sense because of the evidence that women tend to be paid less than men

While it is true that many studies have shown that there is a disproportionate difference amongst the average between men and women, people working in information security are generally paid above average to start with. Furthermore, quite a lot of people who come to 44CON come through their employer.

To be honest I'd rather we gave a bigger discount to those who are paid less, but I don't know how to do that.
That might be true, but their UX remains broken even for people who do support their vision. I have backed plenty of quirky, art, or dance projects and I love backing those people even for no reward. Kickstarter have all the data in my profile. It would be quite possible for them to point me at non-commercial, small-scale artists but they just don't do that. Instead the thing most close to something useful is the Popular feed from the various categories. But it takes a lot of clicking and is not very useful anyway. There are a lot of projects I would have loved to back that reached the end date without me knowing. Kickstarter are leaving money on the table, not just for them, but for the artists they host as well and that's a pity.
Wow, really? These questions are like criticism of people who live in flood zones. Yeah, we should all avoid water like the plague. We don't need it to drink or grow crops or foster basic transportation. Have you ever looked at a map of "disasters"? You cannot escape them. It is a case of pick your poison. Which type of risk scares you less?

Japan is a densely populated, urbanized, modern country. It requires substantial electricity. That electricity has to come from somewhere.
I've only had my Nexus 7 since spring this year. There have been two updates, and both of them made my device faster, which was a refreshing change after having three iOS devices where OS upgrades made the devices slower, and in two of the cases, unusable.

While I'm more curious about WP8 to replace my iPhone 4, I have no issue with upgrading to an Android Nexus phone, given my experience with a Nexus tablet.
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The Future of Data: RDBMS Will Be There
I can't speak for websockets, but holding a TCP connection open indefinitely does not require that the radio stay in its active state. On iOS, setting the kCFStreamNetworkServiceTypeVoIP property on the connection allows the radio to return to the idle state and reawake when it receives data on the socket. Android may have similar APIs.
Kind of recently, a close friend of mine took a picture of him and his wife explaining something to their dog:
http://i.imgur.com/bfpOGYK.jpg

They're the sweetest, coolest, most open-minded people and I adore them. They're not trying to act like they're better or more stylish than anyone else, but the level of "hipster hate" they got in the thread was just intense.
Question away. The fact is, many entrepreneurs do not have a habit of regular exercise - and some of those entrepreneurs are pretty successful! So it's not like you have to do it. But it definitely helps.

Research shows [1] that you can gain significant benefits from a fairly low volume of light-to-moderate exercise.

I personally workout A LOT more than 15 minutes a day, but the point of this post is to create a series of habits that is realistically achievable by the vast majority of founders.

[1]http://www.amazon.com/First-20-Minutes-Surprising-Exercise/d...
Cucumber _does_ mean something: it's about outside-in testing. Cucumbers have a skin on the outside and juicy stuff on the inside.

You may argue that that is silly, but there is some sort of reason.

(None for Sinatra, though. "He's so classy he deserves a web framework written after him.")
For several years, I've been listening to music at a higher than recommended volume, to drown out the ambience and try to work.

My hearing has noticeably dropped - a test a few years back showed I have a hearing similar to a person in his 50s, and I'm 32.

The company I work for built a new building, and we're moving there next month. Development's quarters? A 500 square foot room, for 18 developers :( .
Correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't Quickoffice used to allow signing in from multiple services? I remember using an older version of Quickoffice that allowed logging in with Dropbox, SkyDrive, etc. while this new version appear to only work with Google accounts.
> With an open office everyone hears the conversation and can know if they want to participate or not.

That's only true if no one is wearing headphones. Both the OP and many of the commenters here state headphones are necessary for these environments. My own experience in an open office was the same way, headphones all day every day. The people with headphones are excluded in exactly the same way as if the conversation had happened behind closed doors.
>it doesn't put ideas into people's heads.

I'm going to assume this statement was meant as a rhetorical device, because on its own it's clearly ridiculous. Of course the internet puts ideas into people's heads.

More generally, while I understand the point you're making, I think you're underestimating the influence of a community on the behaviour of its members. I would say that by far the most significant factor causing people to be dicks on the internet are communities that normalise that kind of behaviour. People see others criticising "hipsters" and they are taught that this behaviour is accepted and even encouraged. Many of these people would be offended by the same behaviour in real life, and not even notice the hypocrisy.
Or you could stop relying on the government -- who is broke, mind you -- to fund your livelihood.
Okay, i'm no expert, i don't know how the play. But wanted to learn it a while ago.

As i think i could be a user, this is what you "could" keep in mind:

What i did was (i didn't have a piano and that's expensive), i bought a piano keyboard. (it's like a piano but with notes instead of buttons and it runs on batteries :-P).

All that i learned, was the start of the fûr elise while watching youtube videos. I know about the 30 first notes or so and that's where my expertise ends.

My brother has a piano, what i did then was put a tablet on top of it (not much space on it) and imitate a "virtual piano" app. I could imitate some some because of this.

Some things you should know:

The idea of this project is great, but a lot of people who don't own a piano. So your audiance is already "limited". Suggest alternatives like a cheap piano keyboard for the ones who don't have one. Just to get them started.

Second thing, not much people have place to put a monitor on top of their piano. A tablet is about the max you can get on top of ours.
You could start looking into Raspberry Pi and small screens to adjust this.

Third thing, you are showing notes and in the start, people don't know where the notes are, you could show piano buttons /places instead.

Fourth thing, you're video isn't inspiring. If you look at the top kickstarter campaigns... You'll see a lot of different things then you're video. Watch these for inspiration:
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/556341540/pressy-the-alm...
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/danshapiro/robot-turtles...

Because no matter what people say, kickstarter is work.. And making a video is your ad to the outside world.
I haven't seen any idea that got into the media, with a bad video. If you want to know how important it is, read this: http://www.danshapiro.com/blog/2013/09/robot-turtles-midmort...
You need referrals, kickstarter is only a place where they can give you money.

I'm sorry if i sound rude, i don't have much time right now and just wanted to give you immediate feedback on my perception of things. I understand how "miserable" it can feel if "kickstarter" doesn't seem to work.

Get into some music/piano communities / forums / .. online. I have read on a lot of places that those could be your audiance.

Going out on other places for feedback, inspiration, ... is a sign you want it. But besides wanting it, there's also a lot of work into media / marketing.

I wish you the best and if you could address the above things. That's my sign to support you as a non-piano owner :), but perhaps i'm not your audiance also.

For you to decide.

PS. Wrote the comment fast and i'm not a native english speaker /writer
> the motion co-processor

Agree with your general points but the Moto X also has a pair of interesting co-processors: http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2013/09/the-iphone-5s-the-mot...

Personally, I don't think Apple's getting anywhere enough credit for their in-house processor design at the moment. If that's not engineering talent I don't know what is. Just look at the Anandtech review for proof of that:

http://anandtech.com/show/7335/the-iphone-5s-review/5
I'm in a similar situation. I'd much prefer a subscription model to ads.

Or at the very least, a subscription with the single benefit of "no ads."
It's not like vinyl is a huge sacrifice in quality. I think you underestimate the value of feeling special/cool, especially in somebody 15-25.
Yes. And he's not the first one to say this. There was a post saying the exact same thing about a year ago, maybe even on HN?

But, yes, just yes.

(I'd go even further and say "why rspec when you can test::unit/minitest? especially for Rails since the minitest path is officially supported by rails." Again, the extra layer of stuff is just more stuff to understand and troubleshoot when your tests aren't working as you'd like -- for unclear benefit.)
"Diablo Canyon 1, why can't you be more like Diablo Canyon 2?"
I attended the Restore the Fourth rally in Minneapolis on 4 July 2013.[1] It will be interesting to see how much traction the further protests against NSA surveillance will gain. On my part, while agreeing with many that it appears that NSA is gathering more data, testing more limits of federal legislation, than it previously acknowledged to Congress, I'd be especially interested in what anyone could do to roll back the surveillance state in China or in Russia. It's hard even to get leaks out of the surveillance programs in those countries.

[1} https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5993477
I think the radios are down at the IP level and have no concept of a TCP connection, so an open but idle connection won't keep the radio from shutting off.

For example, Apple recommends that VoIP apps on iPhones keep a TCP socket permanently open and use it to receive notifications of new calls and similar:

https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/iphone...
IOS 7 will define Apple's future going forward
With Keep involved, I now have three ways to make a grocery list.
Ageism is dumb, and I rally against it now as an adult as much as I did when I was 15.

> "but I seriously haven't really heard someone over the age of 30 or so make snarky remarks about how so-and-so is such a hipster douchebag"

Maybe that's because you surround yourself with people who have similar outlooks? That doesn't mean that all people over 30 are above high school bullshit. And it certainly doesn't mean that all people under 25 are perpetuating high school bullshit. There is really no reason to bring age into this conversation at all. You're just confirming your own bias.

tl;dr condemn the behavior, not the demographic that you feel is representative of the behavior
At work, I make sure anyone around me isn't watching my hands, much less my screen. I get what the guy is saying in the article, but I don't agree, either.
Here's the Forbes link for anyone who doesn't like giving techcrunch hits:

http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2013/09/19/ios-7-b...
This guy used to be my dog walker inBoston, not kidding. In the South End.
Cucumber also prints the step source file and line number with a command-line argument.
Should we trade in our privacy for perceived security?
YMMV. I went to school in mid 70's and both parents were working when I was in HS and before. As others have posted, I was unsupervised. Could ride a bike to/from school for 20-30 min etc. Not sure what all changed but the things I read now suggest its way different than when I started. I hesitate to say people seem younger but they do seem nastier and more self-focused. We had stoners and grinds and everything in between. I seem to recall sex. And the drug stories are legendary. Maybe the parents are trying to prevent their kids doing the same?

Which, of course, does wonders for the forbidden fruit aspect of things. Oh, and we had computers too. Big, slow things but they were there and just as fun to play with. But their relative rarity forced us to be social to a degree.

I'll go back inside so you can play on my yard now :-).
You weren't the first: https://www.relishapp.com/
EHR Comes to iOS7
Foreground prefetching aside, there are controls that let users disable background data prefetching/syncing. In fact, it's even one of the buttons on the standard "power control" widget.

While the screen is definitely a huge power drain, it's easily controlled by the user. Poorly behaved apps will drain battery regardless of what the user does, and definitely _can_ be a huge drain. These used to be a lot more common when Android first came out -- many of these apps got better when users got better visibility of battery usage and started complaining to app developers.

And in general, we're talking kilobytes of data here. Not megabytes. Prefetching is good for metadata and text content; image content and other large assets should be an opt-in feature. (Android's "News and Weather" app was a good example of how to do this right.)
Wow, those benchmarks are old. 195MHz test machine?

Still, 15K rows is not much. Just did that 100K rows (read/sum) bit in Octave. Took about 1/4 second to extract and sum. I assume HDF rocks for much larger sets.
Overpriced, this board is.
I keep saying it, taking photos of random people out in public not hurting anyone for the intention of posting online and ridicule is one of the most vulgar, inconsiderate modern phenomenons that seems to be socially acceptable.

Its the ugly, non creative side of accessibility in modern technology that hurts people sometimes significantly. If someone did it to me, I would probably be very hurt. "Look at this super ugly fat guy on my bus!" That ugly fat guy might of just mustered enough courage over the last week to step outside and as a result he gets ambushed in a hurtful demeaning way. It's not just the post, imagine going outside and noticing people slyly trying to snap pictures of you, how would you feel?

These sorts of posts are often veiled behind a thin curtain of pathetic vacuous wit. People need to call this sort of behaviour out more.
Use your PhD to figure out a way to advance science at a profit. Bootstrap that shit ;)
Pinterest should sell internal data on which items get pinned the most from which retailer in which time period.

IE: This necklace got pinned the most from Macys.com during the week before Valentine's Day. I'm sure JCPenny, BlueNile etc would find that data useful.
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Setting p=1 is sort of frowned upon in the bayesian methodology. Bayesian inference has nothing to do with this discussion, because the results can only be explained by speculation, and have not been externally verified etc.

Constructing priors from the knowledge of what has not been seen before seems to me like an abuse of the methodology. You might as well say "It's impossible because it's impossible."

I do tend towards a terrestrial origin, but it's certainly a good thing to investigate further how these organisms got there, what are they doing and what sequences do they have...
What's wrong with enjoying the feeling of being counterculture?

This whole anti-hipster sentiment is so bizarre to me. It's all about policing other peoples' fashion/taste/activities without reason. The idea that hipsters are somehow not genuine doesn't make any sense. What is there to be genuine to?

If you use an old film camera because you like the photos it takes and are fascinated by how it operates, more power to you.

If you use an old film camera because you think it looks cool around your neck, more power to you.

If you use an old film camera because you like the fact that you're one of the only people using one, more power to you.
The 4-Hour Workweek by Timothy Ferriss. He is some weird combination of crazy person, scummy used-car salesman, and genius. The best idea from the book is his "dreamline" idea, and I have been doing it since around 2009. It really helps you focus your effort, and get rid of tasks that don't accomplish your goals.

[And from your Jahreslisten: the Bible.]