skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I looked on Wikipedia, apparently Asian Americans comprise 5.6% of the population. Perhaps that is low enough to not be the default assumption about somebody, warranting special mention?
Also according to Wikipedia "White Americans" are 72% of the population.
The 5C is a very cheap phone, where cheap is $0 on a contract. That is the pricing that Apple is talking about right now, as the North American market is overwhelmingly driven by contracts.

The 5C is built cheap. It has old, high-yield silicon, a plastic case, and a small screen. It is almost certainly cheaper to manufacture than, for instance, a Nexus 4 (which, as much as Apple wants to criticize "junk", is one hell of a well built device for $199, no contract). Where Apple needs to compete with cheap I have every belief that they will do what is necessary with the pricing of the 5C.
I thought that was system integration testing?
>Funny, because I thought that the whole point of buying an Apple product is that even if you lose features and interoperability, it's incredibly well polished and thought out.

Actually you only lose features you wouldn't want in the first place and would drag the whole thing down (less battery life, bulkier, etc). Not having FM radio for example is like not having a floppy disk drive an modern PCs.

As for "incredibly well polished and thought out" it still is. For one, there's much more to a mobile OS than graphic design. How it works and feels is much more important than how it looks ("design is how it works").

Second, most of those are some guy's pet peeves, not genuine problems. If he cannot understand why a red carret matches blue text, that doesn't make it into a genuine problem. Same if he didn't get the memo that drop shadows are used to add a depth to the UI layers and thinks they are stray leftovers.
> It's not ad hominem

Heh. Reread your initial statement.
In that context I'd be really tempted to ask why they needed a closed form expression for the number of rabbits...
You might be able to do that, If Brain-Machine interfaces become advanced enough.
I really hope this project gets off the ground. I don't know if it will prove financially viable in the end. Maybe the most it will accomplish is serve as an experiment to tease out aspects of high speed transportation that would work from those that don't.

Progress is made by pushing the envelope of what's feasible. The biggest shame of all would be to become a society that is so afraid of making mistakes that we can't move forward.
3 years increase from a non-infant mortality is pretty huge only when compared to what we have done before - but it's not huge compared to the actual lifespan.

Going from 80 to 83 (for example) is nice, but it doesn't have a radical impact on how we should live our lives - going from 80 to 160 could do that. If we want major improvements, then we either need to make sure that the other things are cumulative (say, that we can get 20 disease-cures to add 3 years each); or we need to look in completely different directions.

It depends on what you see as a goal - in the long run, I believe that we can get to lifespans measured in centuries, because it's technically possible as seen from other lifeforms. If the marginal improvements due to curing diseases can't get us there, then we should investigate other options how to achieve that, instead of treating a 5% increase as "pretty huge" and being satisfied with that.
I believe there is a PCI requirement that a company's system must be evaluated once every three months by a PCI approved vendor to ensure that data is being kept secure.

To me, it seems kind of contradictory because if a company is being approved by said vendors, then how could they be found non-compliant in a breach? Maybe the quarterly vendor assessment isn't mandatory. digs through documents

EDIT: This quarterly scan by an ASV and only evaluates the network in regards to external IP addresses, so it does not check anything regarding how the data is stored/transferred.
Yes, C wants a better measurement of WTFs. Get a grip.
Apple is really defined by superior design. Google is defined generally by superior engineering. A better point to make would be if Google revamped their search engine and it was meaningfully degraded experience for search. They'd be criticized and rightly so as that's what they're supposed to do better than anyone else.
If the virtualization tax is high when you care about throughput, then isn't that a case for avoiding virtualization altogether?
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Hey moot!

<3 from /mu/!
Afaik the usual practice when you want to hammer to the type system in to the dirt is to reinterpret_cast a pointer to FROM to a pointer to TO, and then dereference it. Alternatively just do a memcpy()
Wow, I'm not sure if I should be proud or ashamed, the two languages I use everyday now - C and Objective-C are in the winner's circle.
The Individual Contributions to OpenStreetMap, Visualized
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Right, but if you compile with warnings as errors, then assignment within a condition won't compile, which prevents the issue.

I'd much rather go that way than write code that reads less like a human wrote it.
Finally a table generator that allows merging of cells as well as importing from other formats. Been looking for that for a while.
Show HN: We made a parallax scrolling site.
Thank god I am not alone...
Children play less on their own, because they MUST be controlled; on every level of society the level of control is tightened, everything must be regulated by some authority.

Eric Schmidt is right 'surveillance ... is the nature of our society'

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/13/eric-schmidt-go...

Maybe its just that society is becoming more and more authoritarian ?
I respectfully disagree with "And still is not up there yet."

Android 4.0+ has fantastic design, in my opinion.
Also someone signaling the entire day that they are not available is a big red flag either in terms of their workload, stress level, interpersonal interactions with some people, or some feelings in general at the company.

Either way its something to tap to find out what's going on.
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Not really gameplay but the tutorial was slow (paced). I understood most of it by reading the text but still had to wait for the animations and had no way of skipping them.

Overall it was actually more difficult than it appeared on the face of it.
On the other hand the 'Lord of the Flies' tendencies might become even more powerful when they are never experienced and criticized.
I think the visual explanation here offers credence to the criticism. This certainly isn't "hipster" culture - this is design critique.

The worse thing would be if people blindly said things like "iOS7 is just not intuitive" and went on to drink their PBR and evangelize about Phonebloks - instead, these are real examples of why iOS7 could be better.

At the very least, this thread is instructive for learning designers. I know as a younger programmer and designer, when someone said that "JavaScript has the weirdest quirks", it was useless unless someone showed me the quirks. Along came Douglas Crockford's Good Parts, which, while critical of the bad parts, was very instructive. I think this can function in similar ways.

It's not just "Fail" culture rearing its stupid head - the tone is far from embarrassing to Apple, and instead is generally descriptive of legitimate design failures.
No... Just my observation that most people I know (and most people I know want to play GTA V if they haven't already) seem to have a higher tolerance for a lower frame rate than I do.
Hey, i'm the creator of RhodeCode, we're still open source, the whole core is still GPLv3. It's stated in our header of the enterprise release: https://rhodecode.com/enterprise.

cheers
It seems that 90% of the comments have missed the fact that this is obviously hyperbolic satire....
I believe they mean that

if (foo = 0) ...

generates a warning like this:

warn.c:2: warning: suggest parentheses around assignment used as truth value

which you should be paying attention to, in favour of yoda-comparisons in this particular holy war :)
> Guess why Apple Writer was so popular in 1979 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Writer), in spite of its many limitations?

Guess why so many people still use Vi(m) and not Apple Writer.
>bans list

>Global 2 - Underage User

Why not ban the shitposters and not the underage users.
Wasn't founded until 2005?

You could make a case for slashdot or wikipedia or google, but IMO all have changed substantially in the last decade.
Yes

But my bet would be zero, if the troll has infinite time
What compiler flag is that? Genuinely interested. Wall,pedantic,ansi don't trigger it. I've tried the following and I don't get a warning or error:

$ cat test2.c
int main(int argc, char *argv[]) {
if (argc = 0)
return 1;
return 0;
}
$ make test
cc -Wall -ansi -pedantic test.c -o test

GCC version: gcc version 4.7.2 (Debian 4.7.2-5)
How to use your own Docker registry
At a new job, I once encountered

using namespace std; // using namespace standard
From my own observations, GTA is an entirely different market. Sure everybody knows about CoD but in reality, not a lot of the people I know will buy the new one (and that can be backed up by looked at BO2 preorders vs Ghosts) but almost everyone I've spoken to either has GTA, is buying GTA or hasn't got the means to play it.
Your middle paragraph is exactly what I see of myself.

I go in the morning and everything is ready to go and so am I, but then attempting to load my brain with whatever I am working on, getting a question every 5 minutes or so makes it seem like a running a marathon and the cognitive load is such that I would rather just dedicate the time and work on it at home.
Inspired by: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Set_(game)
But they directly correlate.
Thanks for the tip. I'll tinker with the animation speeds.

Yeah, you get the hang of it, but it's not easy when you start. Do you think it'd work to ignore fill at first and just have color and shape to match on?
Solving the Roofing Problem for Rural India
Wow, this matches perfectly with what I see here in Brazil too!

"Fake investors", "Fake Serial entrepreneurs" and "Startup enthusiasts", I've seen all of them!! Great post.

I would like to add that, most of times, these people are not deliberately malicious. They really believe they "role on the ecosystem". I think this may be a consequence of reading too much Silicon Valley stories, specifically the vanity ones, usually on Techcrunch and Medium these days.

They read someone from SV with a history and grasps only the "glamorous superficiality" of what they have to say. So people emulate roles without actually knowing the real actions and real values one should have.

A "Fake investors" is emulating what he thinks how an angel investor acts on YC demo day; a "Fake serial entrepreneur" emulates how he thinks Steve Blank became successfull (as startups is a quantity game, found enough startups and you be able to say "My total score is: two large craters, one dot.com bubble home run and several base hits." one day); a "Startup enthusiast" emulates what he thinks someone, anyone, who frequent cafes and events in SV does and says.
Do you have a strong shoulder? From carrying that rather large chip on it?

Just curious?
I think that it's more complicated than just criticism of a less than perfect UI. I think it's an expression of the Apple community's concern that without Steve Jobs, Apple will no longer be able to produce the highly polished products that the community has come to expect.
I hope so, I'm not in that stage of my life yet. Right now, I fear that having children will just completely kill my ability to do anything as a hobby. I'm not sure how justified that is, but it's how I feel.
The Great Leap Forward - 1958 to 1961.

The Korean War - 1950 - 1953.

Until the Great Leap, Mao had done a fantastic job. Life expectancies shot up by about 15 years, as he dismantled feudalism, and established a relatively functional and stable state. Then he undid all the good he'd done, in the 1958, sending life expectancies back to ~35. Then things improved again, when Deng and co managed to contain Mao a little better (though they sometimes had ... issues).

tl;dr - Mao had done a fantastic job, up to 1958, which was well after the Korean War ended.
yep.

In light of this being satire, the HN news comments are 10x funnier than the article itself.

Some unsolicited advice (you're lucky, you found out it was a crap company in 2 hours) and some PC outrage (why does it have to be an Asian lady).
What is with content that can't be seen unless you enable social media plugins?

In this case, I'm not sure its intentional (looks related to how Disqus is embedded), but this is one of several such cases in the last couple weeks.
Use a Faraday cage to simulate low signal
Of all the common internet grammar mistakes, I think apostrophes on possessive pronouns are the most forgivable.

Mostly because that's the mistake I make most consistently.
The Zynq chip is a big plus -- easy reuse of the hardware platform -- but the analog... Duh. Deal-breaker.
Verbose.

Verbatim means "in exactly the same words as were used originally."
I think java 8 gets rid of permgen
Median Family Income Is Lower Today Than in 1989
The battery notification looks identical to that in iOS6, and probably has the same behaviour.

If you run your phone with the display off, say from 21% battery down to 11%, then it will cross the 20% reporting threshold. The next time that you unlock the phone and activate the display, you will get the notification.

It's not inconsistent; nor is it just being "optimistic" -- it may be poorly worded, but it consistently displays that same message every time you unlock the phone after the battery drains to 20%.

If the person who took that screenshot had waited another ten minutes, then the battery would probably have reached 10%, and the 10% notification would have been shown instead.
huh@px:/tmp$ cat a.c
int main(int argc, char *argv[]) {
if (argc = 0)
return 1;
return 0;
}
huh@px:/tmp$ gcc -Wall a.c
a.c: In function 'main':
a.c:2: warning: suggest parentheses around assignment used as truth value
Well I seem to remember there was a time beating iOS as a whole was hard to believe, and some still think that's true for tablets, even though Android already has more market share in tablets (each quarter, not yet in total userbase), and it's only a matter of time until it more or less replicates the success in smartphones. This would've happened sooner, if Google's employees weren't so dense to think that they don't have to do anything to push Android tablets, and thinking that devs only need to let their phone apps scale to tablets, which in hindsight I'm sure they also realize what a stupid statement that was at the time.
The Digital Revolution Will Change Our Relationship with Energy
Not sure if what i heard is true but i have been told that he had never played games himself.
The eevblog article was quite an interesting read. Thanks for sharing!
Published in the Journal of Cosmology?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journal_of_Cosmology#Reliabili...

"The quality of peer review at the journal has been questioned. The journal has also been accused of promoting fringe viewpoints and speculative viewpoints on astrobiology, astrophysics, and quantum physics. Skeptical blogger and biologist PZ Myers said of the journal "... it isn't a real science journal at all, but is the... website of a small group... obsessed with the idea of Hoyle and Wickramasinghe that life originated in outer space and simply rained down on Earth.""

Wickramasinghe and his collaborators make these claims frequently.
I think you are on the right track. I'm also a experienced programmer. After doing the courses on codeschool.com, I finally understood the concept of objective-c and now I'm capable of creating decent code with it.
Reminds me of the comment at the start of python's heapq module: http://hg.python.org/cpython/file/bd8afb90ebf2/Lib/heapq.py . Grammatically not a comment, but I would count it as one semantically.
This is one of those blogs that needs an RSS feed or email subscription. I'm interested in reading more from it, however will have forgotten the domain by the end of the day
Sounds like fiction
Sounds like the management has installed Gruber and MG as their sources for getting talking points! Hopefully just talking points and not strategy.

Case in point - “For us, it matters that people use our products. We really want to enrich people’s lives, and you can’t enrich somebody’s life if the product is in the drawer.” That's bull. Apple doesn't really benefit from people using web on their iOS devices. They benefit from selling hardware. Let aside the validity of such "surveys" ( do they count Chinese and Indian web traffic and how? Because thats where growth is.) - even if they were valid it isn't anything for Apple to bank on.
and yet, just registering the keyboard press mechanically will give you a much wider range of varying latencies depending on how fast or slow you press. To recognize velocity, there is a switch at the top (near the hinge), and a switch at the bottom. The timing difference, which can amount to up to 200 ms, makes up the velocity. This has always confused me, on the one hand, you spend your time tweaking IO audio buffer to have the smallest latency possible, and then you would have this input device introducing "enormous" latencies, and have them varying too.
It doesn't matter whether it's right or wrong. People do this, it's a fact of life.

If you live in Japan (as a white male) you will be commonly referred do as a 外国人 (foreigner) by every Japanese person.

Does that mean that all Japanese are racist? No.
Not a comment on the gameplay, but the tutorial is far to slow and drawn out - experienced gamers could have this summarised in maybe 2 images with a line of text each. Maybe under a "quick help" link?
Apple's weakest points as a company is its taste in software UI

That might be the stupidest thing anyone has every said.
It would be fantastic if this were true. I would think it wouldn't be too hard to genetically determine if these were extraterrestrial, no? The DNA would have some kind of unique markers due to the necessities of living in a different environment? Any biology majors here?
A better Kickstarter embed widget
The advanced embed widget include all the information you wished the Kickstarter widget had.
Finally, you can embed a widget with project updates, your twitter, and website.
Jobs was never known to be a rational man.
It's not really that hyperbolic. Only thing that clued me in was surprise push to production.
Original thread: http://marc.info/?t=106806555100004&r=1&w=2
Doomsday ;)
Claws-Mail. I found web-based clients slow.
So say a restaurant wants me to give them my card details to make a reservation but I'm in a crowded place (like on a train). I offer to email the details and they accept. I know it's bad but I would rather email my details then say it loudly over the phone and have everyone hear it. Now did they break PCI? Or not because I was the one who offered to send my details.

How does one send their credit card details securely to a brick and mortar store?

Via email I know it's insecure but if unauthorized charges do appear I can (and will) contest them and get a new card, so really the bank is taking on risk.
I would think flashing the caret is sufficient, but I may be biased by experience and good eyesight (for now). Given the number of people responding with how they used to lose the caret before, it seems that my experience is not universal.

Thanks for enlightening me.
This idea is awesome. Thanks for sharing!

Are your internal wiki, recruitment process, Day-to-day operations, etc. on a private repository? Do you have only one repository or do you have multiple repositories for your internal work?
Solid vs. Light fill is hard for me to differentiate, especially the last practice "Find the Correct Bin"...could you use a pattern to fill instead? (Much more like Set)
“The Fox” Parody You’ve Been Waiting For
Exactly. Why include physical descriptions at all. He should have said "three people" or even "three beings."

And who cares what they were wearing?

And why do we care what color the fonts were? He could have just said it was hard to read.
That means I can't just click next, next, next, install, finish without getting "infected", and the guys making these installers knows this - and takes advantage of it to make extra money.

This has to be one of the oldest tricks in the books, and you should never click next, next, next, install, finish. Even if it is legitimate software, I won't blindly keep clicking unless I know the installer from previous experience.

This is the equivalent of "I accept the T&Cs" and then complaining later that Facebook/Twitter/Instagram/whoever are doing something you didn't agree to when you never read the terms to start with (ok, bad example to some degree, I know those T&Cs can be legal and tricky to read but you get the point I'm trying to make)
I want to know how to do this with org-mode and freemind.
I don't know how to say this delicately, so I won't: I'm having trouble distinguishing this book from the disjointed ramblings of a mad man. The RANDOM capitalization of VERY IMPORTANT WORDS! combined with the "snake-oil sales pitch" style of writing doesn't do this work any favors, but it's really the content where this comes up short. Apart from the premise of mapping every thought, no viable strategy is offered achieve this.

What's the solution here? After a few years you end up with huge boxes full of notes, some of which have been appended over and over? Mind maps rarely scale when done with software, paper note-taking just makes it all the more hopeless.

And really, why be so obsessive about conserving every little thought like your stream of consciousness holds some big revelation at the end? That's not how it works. Forgetting and scrapping things is an important part of organizing the mind and the output it produces. On a meta level, this book illustrates very well what happens if that doesn't work.

If we're building a system with the goal of swapping out thoughts and memories, it really has to augment the brain in some fashion. Refining relations between concepts is something the brain is already good at, it would make more sense to help it along in areas where the brain sucks: keeping lists and details. Seriously, open an Evernote account or something and don't worry too much about organization and preservation.

I'm really sorry if this sounds mean, it's not supposed to.
I don't like the fill colors. Right now you have three fills - full white, very translucent, and "slightly translucent". But I find it very difficult to judge whether a shape is very translucent or slightly translucent unless all the options are on the screen.

This made the tutorial especially jarring - when I saw a white fill blue, and a slightly translucent red, I ended up confused about yellow... was it the very translucent or slightly translucent?

I'd suggest changing one of the translucent colors to a full fill or some other representation, like stripes/polka dots.
Just because you have stupid ideas doesn't mean you're not an 'everyman'. People like you critize Apple after every one of their product annoucements while they continue to use their OS. Apple has had the best UI in the business for the past two decades. If you don't see that, you're stupid.
Ask HN: Where is your Hacker Newsroom?
A little bored of indoors and working out of cafes the past couple of days and catching up with news here and there. Here is an image.

So, where is your Hacker Newsroom?

http://www.360.co/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/hackernews.jpg

Would love to see other hackers' setting and desktop and location.
I am near you, in Chandler, so cannot help test SF but would be interested in PHX. After reading your JavaScript I have a question: HTML5 geolocation returns lat/lon so what are you using that isn't shown in the script to get neighborhood?
Doesn't do that for me - what GCC ver and environment. Very odd! Digging in docs. Thanks for info.