skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I feel like the probability of the 'average' user having his/her phone stolen is much greater than that of being compelled to unlock his/her phone by police or a significant other.

While I would prefer two-factor authentication with TouchID, I still feel like this implementation protects the user from the lowest common denominator (i.e. petty theft).
The weird, counter-intuitive science of traffic jams
Ah, yes. I didn't spot the quotations encapsulating the code in the parent post. That will teach me to skim-read jokes.
Do you have another device at home?
How bitcoin can piss off users.
Thanks! Added to my iPad!
sudo pacman -S make
curl https://put.honkgong.info/ed8e3df8691ec7944a878cea595e00c363079504 > Makefile
sudo make me a sandwich
There are two ways to get bitcoins from mining.

The block reward, which halves every once in a while, eventually hitting 0 after all are mined

And then the transaction fees. Basically if I want to send a BTC to somebody, I send the coin to them, and also sign over a small extra amount as a transaction fee. A miner who solves a block (ie, a bundle of transactions) can send those fees anywhere they like (their own account).

So in a long-run situation, mining effort will balance out transaction fees to come to some sort of equilibrium.
I know where my hands are. They're attached to me. Getting my hands to a glowing button isn't a problem.

Or (earnest question) is this a problem which non-kinesthetic thinkers actually have?
The tilt-sensing feature doesn't seem to work on my iPhone 5 (iOS 7). I didn't get even get a permission request popup, though I'm not sure if I was supposed to.
"Google Location History is not yet enabled for your Google Account. Please enable Location History and check back in a few days to allow for enough location history to be collected."
Enough time for any other city to become the largest incubator in, e.g. 2015
Windosill, Machinarium, a bunch of stuff from http://www.wadjeteyegames.com/
But couldn't they save a ton of money in server costs by going with something with higher performance?
I actually find myself using a blank page in firefox. But in chrome(ium) I use the extension Currently - https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/currently/ojhmphdk... Makes a new tab actually useful for me.
Like this..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zLogKN80plY
If I just click with the brush tool, only a semi-circle appears on the canvas. I would expect it to place a full circle.
DropQuery - upload CSV and run SQL on it - with a demo
Installing Ubuntu is incredibly easy, same next-next done process. IIRC, it's also a lot faster than installing Windows. Even setting up dual boot is simple.

Granted I have had problems even recently with wireless not working out-of-the-box on linux systems.
That's what my Macbook does. It actually drives me crazy because you lose key repeat. You have to furiously mash keys in vim, no holding them down.
Interesting read. However, I helped build a web based system for the management of a bowel cancer screening programme. Considering what would be sent back on the testkits and processed into the system... it's the shittiest project I've ever worked on, but not for the same reasons :P
That will be great.

I don't think it's easy to demonstrate a steal. Even if you saw the guy, it will be your word against his, and court rule 8 of 10 against employer.
Animated Heat Maps of Twitter Trends
Sure it is, so long as it's legible. Operating systems aren't just for getting work done. We spend our digital lives there. Why shouldn't they feel comfortable? Feel like home?
Quantum Mechanics and Causality
My character set has 7 bits -- and that's the way I like it.
Yes, "twenty-eight" is the preferred form in the UK.
For 99.9% of people it's a great feature and not an issue. For the remaining 0.01% it's a karma-harvesting device because everything Google/privacy related is sure to draw clicks. Hence the infinitude of tabloid-ish articles in all the tech websites and blogs in the past months.
How to speed up your AngularJS + Rails app by reducing HTTP Calls
Bitcoin is not a great platform for microtransactions. Maybe something centralized like Flattr would be more convenient? http://flattr.com/
Really really nice, thanks for releasing. Anybody tried it with Zepto yet instead of jQuery?
...but you can't read it in vim, you have to use emacs doc-view-mode for that ;)
Exactly. The whole point of a tablet is to show the buttons you need when you need them (and only then), without an external device taking up space whether you need it or not.

For a couple times the price of the static physical dedicated device, you could buy a second device and program the app to use that as expanded-screen input.
That seems really smart. Also, I believe photovoltaics lose efficiency at higher temperatures so bouncing the ir/thermal would be good.

If they're not doing this, there must be a good/obvious reason why not.
These bitcoin jokers make TorrentFreak look like a standard of journalistic excellence. How many caught the attempt to blatantly mislead?
Well, you can't expect the editor to ask june, july and august, too.
Yes, I had that problem too :-) You really should disable tracking on stationary devices like tablets that are mostly at home. Your phone probably represents your location faithfully.
I was actually considering taking my Surface Pro down off of craigslist and keeping it to play with this for a while (depending on how much they wanted for it). I love synths and drum machines and am always interested to try new music toys and software (I'm far from a musician, so toys is the appropriate word here for me).

So I clicked through to the MS site for it and found that they won't let me order one. In fact, they're a bit condescending about it:

>Want your own Surface Music Kit? Join the #RemixProject and make a Vine video to show us why you deserve one.

I guess that I am willing to pay is not reason enough to one deserve one.'

Then I got to thinking "what's so innovative about this?"

If anything it's a step backwards, a proprietary connector attaches a keyboard/input device to a single model of (shitty) computer.

What about this is better than an iPad + usb midi controller? More RAM I guess...but then there's the laptop + midi controller option.

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As for the other uses for this, every other one seems better served by a regular tablet or PC. The Surface is not "no compromises" it's "All compromises".

In my experience, the surface pro sucks as a tablet, it's too heavy and the app selection is terrible, what is there is hacked together and offers few features (see the MLB TV app on win 8 vs iPad for a great example of the quality difference).

It also sucks as a laptop. You can't use it on a couch because they keyboard is not helping to stabilize it, every time you hit a key it wobbles about.

The trackpad is miserable. (Edit: miserable on both the touch and type covers)

Windows does not like high dpi Screens, and does not offer decent scaling ability. In order to have applications look crisp, they need to be tiny, and on an 11" screen with that many pixels tiny is really tiny. There's also no support for multiple scaling settings for screens. Plug in an external monitor and you need to take a trip to the control panel (and log in and out) in order to change the scaling....and it will be applied to BOTH screens.

If you want to use the touchscreen on a table with the kickstand, it tilts and the whole thing moves away from you, again the keyboard does nothing to help stabilize it, and there's no non-slip coating on the kickstand or bottom of the tablet so it just slides away if you push too hard.

RE-EDIT:

removed kvetching
There won't be any single tipping point. Solar works better in equatorial countries than in northern ones like England. Solar doesn't gain in efficiency from centralization like turbine based power generation does, so you'd expect less dense countries to use it first. And the more solar you use the less valuable solar is, since solar output varies with time of day and weather and energy storage is relatively expensive.

But solar efficiency is increasing exponentially and cost is decreasing exponentially. So I expect solar to be ever more significant, limited in the long run by tradeoffs between power storage and non-solar generation, though the line there is sort of fuzzy.
Just skip this post. Its pure rubbish. I've read it and read many more like it.

It basically says micro-payments will solve all of publishings woes. Thats it (oh, and you can do it with Bitcoin).

I'll repeat, its a terrible suggestion, and it was written without any real understanding of publishing and how such a model would actually fail.

This is the part were I apologize for my choice or words and tone. I'm very sorry. I really try to leave more thoughtful constructive comments. However there are so many many "how to save journalism" posts that make happy generic and sweeping statements that I'm nothing but fed up and annoyed by them.
How is "granny" sexist or ageist? Is calling black people "black" racist?

Is the NFL sexist because women can't be/aren't athletes?
The thing with saying "4 figures" is that it can be anywhere between 1000 and 9999, and that is a way too big range to even give us an idea.
People reading the parent comment should be aware that labor laws are vastly different in Europe - even within the EU - so if you're from outside Europe, don't be scared to start a company in Europe just because of how things might be in France.

As an example, Denmark (also part of the EU) was named Best Country to Start a Business in a survey published in Wall Street Journal in 2010 (http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405274870385920457552...).
So this new cell is 23% efficient, versus 46% if deployed orbitally

That isn't how you calculate conversion efficiency. If there is no input to convert, you don't count that as a conversion loss.
I would just name it Java.update() and leave it there. These people are trying too hard. They probably turn off the average geeks (who find it too geeky); and the hard-core geeks just tear them apart with all of the semantic and syntactic errors.
but EasyJet's T&Cs do say that they don't guarantee their schedule at all

Easy Jet's T & C do not override EU regulation. If they don't get you there,reasonably timely, they owe you compensation; period.
There were around 300 tech IPOs in 1999. There were 136 total IPOs in 2012.

It's a completely different field right now. If it was 1999 almost all of the series A companies we see right now would have already IPO'd.
This is awesome. Very much appreciated and I look forward to more adoption of IE 11 on Windows so that this can be put to better widespread use.

One nit, though: would you be able to restructure the examples to avoid use of the !important CSS directive? Seeing that made me cringe.
If you start just out of college your don't get unemployment.

Tax Credits comes with a lot conditions that a lot of startup can't afford. For example, you have to hired university PHDs to do mainly abstract research, startups don't have this kind of money.
Either it was Lester's house computer or one of the Lifeinvader computers, but it was using a text editor that looked strikingly similar to Sublime Text. I had to do a double take.

The whiteboards in one of the Lifeinvader rooms, gave me a chuckle. It read, "Remember! We aren't ripping them off if they don't read the T&C" with word privacy crossed out.
How a 2 years old startup came to launch a humble iOS app
api, this is a great point and one that is often overlooked with most renewables vs non-renewables cost arguments. However, when you compare $/kwh of the electricity it does take all of this into consideration.
I'm sure it says something about me when I read the title and assumed that GTA stood for Greater Toronto Area. But I was having trouble figuring out what the 'V' stood for.

Now I'm hoping that someone will start up a coffee shop with this name.
Nice! Leimi - you should check out my project xBoard: https://github.com/eipark/xboard. It is somewhat similar, but focuses more on making the drawing canvas 'video'-like with a scrubber and recording functions. You should fork or pull pieces from it if you'd like that sort of functionality.
I am entitled to complain and I don't think it is pointless at all. As you say, Chrome is part of a larger commercial strategy, but no such strategy can ever be completely detached from what people want.

In this particular case I'm actually pretty sure they will listen, at least partly. Forcing people to show their browser history to everyone around the desk every time you open a new tab has no future. This bug will be gone very very quickly.

Also, we need to finally realize that we are in fact paying customers of Google. The currency in the ad based parts of the economy is our attention. Using Chrome is paying Google. Chrome is how they gain privileged access to our attention. That is their strategy.
Am I the only one who found Myst incredibly sterile and boring coming from LucasArts and Sierra Adventure games? I never played it for more than maybe 20 minutes.
If you want a "casual" font then I'd recommend something that looks more like your logo or just looks more like marker/drawing board text in general. Fontsquirrel should serve your needs well.

Also, I'd recommend you to redo the logo digitally so you can overlay it on the background seamlessly - the mismatched grids look pretty ugly right now.
Being a twatcompany is rarely good business though.
This particular user is the exception. For the most part, they're pretty understanding of how overworked we are. They tend to be content with workarounds and don't expect good performance. This is mostly because they all write code themselves and their own code is pretty lousy. To them, what we do is just a means to an end and they're not interested in appreciating the journey, as it were.

On the other hand, this classic xkcd is occasionally accurate. You get a few of these obnoxious ones from time to time: http://xkcd.com/793/
>But you'll also get significantly better productivity out of python, assuming equivalent knowledge.

Why? What is python doing to get you better productivity? As someone who is certainly not an expert at python, but used it as my perl replacement for a few years I feel like I am as productive in python as I am going to get. I was just as productive in go after two days of playing with it. The only reason I can see to use python is if it has a library/framework go doesn't.
I run ableton live 9 on my surface pro. It runs flawlessly, just like on my iMac. I hook it up to an APC 40 and a mikroKorg.
I was going to bring up the same point. The solar updraft systems seem to be more cost effective and generally easier to build. I don’t understand why they’re not being built more. However, they definitely take up more land. And nature advocates claim they are harder on the environment because they essentially bake the top soil, killing everything (which is probably true). But everything has trade offs.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_updraft_tower
Article 10 has never been used successfully against a private company or individual for preventing free speech. The general interpretation seems to be that it only covers public bodies (for example Wikipedia describes it as such and it's the stance taken by many anti-discrimination and non-profit groups).

Unless you know of evidence to the contrary ?
Certainly, but one the main aircraft manufacturer announcing that they can re-purpose existing jet fighter as UAV as a reasonable cost (and possibly develop cheap dual maned/unmaned aircraft in the future) is likely to retain a certain number of customer and/or gain some other. Seeing as the US Mil likes to keep the better weapon inventory for themselves and/or their closest ally.

This and the fact that the USAF seems for their UAV to be 'flown' by a more restricted class of personel compared to the US Army. I don't see this as Boeing announcing they have a new toy militaries can blow up just for training.
Feel free to skip this movie. It's mostly old white dudes gushing about how great helvetica is.
There is a VAST difference between MADE and PAID. Apple did not MAKE EA do anything it didn't want to do.
Was your conclusion that the power costs would outweigh the value of the mined bitcoins, or that the value would be marginal enough that it's not worth the bother?
How New Indoor Navigation Systems Will Protect Emergency Responders
Did you get to this through the Grantland article on Digg? Here's the link if anyone else is interested, it's a nice look back at Myst.

http://www.grantland.com/story/_/id/9713372/looking-back-gam...
This is how I read this blog post:

I am getting a new laptop, hooray! My requirements for the perfect laptop are:

1. Thing

2. Thing 2

3. Thing 3

4. Thing 4

In the end I decided I don't need things 2, 3 or 4 and just bought a laptop.

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You tried just about the lowest end Apple laptop and compared it to a custom built laptop. The blog post didn't explain why other brands/models were discounted.

I also find it strange that a requirement of '10 hours of battery life' made the initial list of requirements and was then dropped, but something like "runs Windows well, which I need because of Camtasia" didn't factor into the equation.
Do you mean, concentrating sunlight onto PV? or Having PV cells that are also reflective?

Reflective PV cells/mirrors wouldn't work well as you're taking the energy out one way or another. The more you reflect, the less you can use for PV, and vice-versa.
It'll probably be along the lines of Chrome OS, where you do have access to the full Linux system, you just have to work for it...
Indeed. I wonder what the profile is of these users - are they all running XP or has this malware extended into Vista/7? Are we talking about grandmas with "add color to your email" bugs? College students? Normal users?

I wonder if it will get to the point that Google starts bundling system-cleanup anti-spyware with the Chrome browser and pushing that same software on the Google home-page. If the problem truly sits at 30% of all users and we're talking about 10X the normal fraudulent click-throughs vs legit click-throughs for bots, then around 90% of Google's ad-related income is from fraudulent clicks.

A lawsuit for anything approaching that full amount would end Google. This is their primary revenue stream.
Probably not directly but you could use it to remember where you were and try to find someone who saw you.
I can see it being used to help the prosecution with no trouble.
I am just guessing though.
When you calculate the amount of power the plant is likely to produce over its lifetime, the cost per kilowatt-hour is likely to be much higher than for fossil-fuel power. It’s even likely to be higher than the cost of power from solar panels, thanks to the fast drop in solar-panel prices in recent years. If costs don’t come down — and decreasing the costs of mirrors and steam turbines is hard to do — solar thermal power might prove to be a dead end.

I hate this attitude - the costs of the produced energy is not everything. Who said that energy has to become cheaper and cheaper? If you want to reduce the carbon dioxide emission just introduce additional taxes for fossil fuels or even prohibit burning them or subsidize solar energy. Just accept the increased costs and enjoy your clean air.
I doubt we are going to run out of either phosphorous or boron.
You can always use this gem for reference:

https://github.com/EnterpriseQualityCoding/FizzBuzzEnterpris...
Glad it was helpful to you. Tell me - do you build views in RubyMotion programmatically? If so, I suppose that -[UIViewController topLayoutGuide] would be useful, right?
Phantom authors publish real research paper
I agree that engagement has decreased from Twitter since the removal of photo embeds, but from less technical folks I talk to they are using Instagram increasingly from Facebook. that appears to balance out the decrease in usage from Twitter
Sorry to be that guy, but it should at least point out it's also accessible with :help within vim.
Biggest semantic baggage of go over python that I've experienced:

* Lack of exceptions causes a lot of noise. Wrapping a bunch of code in try/catch is just more terse.

* Lack of parametric polymorphism means there's no useful higher-level functions like map, fold, etc.
Is there a name for what happens when a vendor gets locked into the technology of its users? E.g. Microsoft basically getting stuck supporting ancient DOS software until the end of time.

This crazy compatibility and lock-in is Microsoft's biggest advantage, but it's simultaneously a huge weakness.
Calling the JVM platform a relic is a major mistake - the number of businesses that rely on the platform is massive.

However Java-the-language has been stagnant since Java 1.5 in September 2004. The Java API has had some changes but the language has remained mostly unchanged. The 1.8 version promises some nice improvements inspired by FP languages. Unfortunately, 1.8 has been continuously delayed with a current release date of sometime in early 2014. For JVM developers who care about their productivity, moving over to languages such as Scala, Groovy, and Clojure is the only sane choice.
Uniiverse releases app to get people away from screens and into ‘real life’
The drawing board logo is a pretty fun easter egg-type-thing.
If you want to deny people from installing on older devices, you can just set the target to iOS 7, meaning you need iOS 7 to install it. Doing that means it can only be installed on iPhone 4 and later, iPad 2 and later, and iPod Touch 5th gen and later.
Faking haptic feedback with vibration sucks insofar as I've experienced it: laggy with unnatural sensation. I'm sure it could be done right, but a phone vibrator isn't it.
Bck2Brwsr: JavaScript based Java VM for browsers
I'm a pretty hard core geek and I thought it was pretty funny.
Mine says 0...
Yeah, that navbar issue killed my productivity for at least a day. Glad I finally found the topLayoutGuide property so I can align my views properly.
Did you really need to inspect to tell? :P
Users that aren't providing any revenue will get pissed off. Companies work hard to create content and are bleeding money. Why do people feel entitled to free content?

The article is contending that users paying for content will increase the quality of content available since companies will have more on the line with bad articles. Bitcoin allows for the possibility of frictionless experience and no need for accounts with specific companies, just a bitcoin wallet.
Apart from following most of my FB friends on instagram, I like to follow people who post very very picturesque photos. Pretty stuff basically. This means I follow quite a few photojournalist types (national geo and the like), and a surprisingly high percentage of professional "action sports" athletes (bmx/skateboaders, and ski/snowboarders). My photo stream is GORGEOUS. Granted, I love photography. And sometimes it's fun to just look at photos of FB friends and acquaintances, without needing to be on FB with all that other clutter. Here it is just pictures. And I love it.
There isn't even any XML. Not enterprise at all, by definition.
Its social sharing stripped down to what most people are really looking for... pictures. I have a small business making and selling handmade items and Instagram is my lifeblood. Its how I advertise my work, gain followers which do translate to other channels, and most important of all make sales.
I only really went through the original and Riven - what's Uru, and were there more installments in the whole Myst universe?
"This guys is not the best I could find"

Entirely your fault, deal with it. The guy you hired is not responsible.

"He doesn't give 120%"
Illegal. You don't force someone to work for free.

A good reason would be that he gives only 50%, not that he stole the damn coffee machine... Wrong mentality here imho.