skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The reasons for this [that no one uses C] aren’t terribly difficult to discern. Let’s face it: compared with higher-level languages, C is hard. Like, objectively hard

So.. instead of leading with one of the many, many great reasons not to use C, he pretty much calls everyone too stupid to make it work.
Insights like these are so rare. You must have worked really hard for them.
You missed to mention Duda I/O:

http://duda.io

On this case this framework target web services, you can do web development but the goal is to be a fast HTTP/Websocket stack instead of a friendly MVC renderer.

Even is do in C, i tries to present a friendly C API as you can see in http://duda.io/api, if you think into a fast big data server front-end, Duda I/O fits pretty well. A few slides:

http://duda.io/slides/
I don't think it has much to do with the license, CDDL is based on Mozilla Public License after all (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Development_and_Distrib...). The license being different to the kernel prevents distribution of kernel images with inbuilt ZFS support, but this can be worked around by installing it later, just as they already do with proprietary GPU drivers.
As Anandtech points out: the iPhone 5s' PowerVR Series 6 moves to a fully scalar architecture (allowing better shaders and GPGPU performance) but loses a lot of raw triangle performance in the process (30-50% slower than iPhone 5 in some cases). On shader heavy scenes (T-Rex HD) the tradeoff is worth it (iPhone 5s is 30% faster than any other GPU).

Apple (and PowerVR) have made a couple tradeoffs in this generation that sacrifice performance on some tests for better shader capabilities.

Final point: it'll be interesting to see what these numbers look like when the bugs in the different graphics tests are resolved (are they compiled using the armv8 instruction set?)
I don't think Jesus ever had belongings like that to sell. He did recommend it to others, though.
Wow, I feel so disproven.
Often times choosing the framework du jour is the best choice just because it's the framework du jour. Support, training, books, an active ecosystem, a rich base of developers to hire from with experience, corporations incentivized to fund further development, etc, etc all act as a hedge against "slight technical mismatch between our requirements and the technology vs more esoteric ones."
i'd say ocaml or one of the faster schemes, though go isn't too bad a choice either.
When I was traveling in France I busted my chin. I walked to an ER and got stitches. They later mailed me a bill for 40 EUR, and I'm not a French citizen, just a random human.

When I got back home to the US I went to get the stitches removed. That visit cost me over $300. :sigh:
True that. I've written a few Web interfaces for embedded devices in C. That being said, I now try to use Lua along with C for projects of this type. It all really depends on memory and performance requirements.

I was once part of a team on a project that we wrote an embedded webserver that we compiled in all the html, images(converted to c arrays), css and js, into a single binary so that we wouldn't have to read from flash to load those resources for speed boost and less flash access.

I've learned now, that given the target hardware and resources, that wasn't really necessary...
I see it available on 4.2.1 but not 3.1.3.
I can't say it is baseless extrapolations. If you are hesitant to associate hamburger menu's to Android, the whole idea of iPhone revolutionizing mobile industry would be baseless extrapolations. Everything is built up on shoulders of its predecessors. Hamburger menu and side drawer have become an Android design standard at this point of time and there is no harm in saying that most iPhone apps will look like redesign of Android apps.
I know that it what it gets called... But it is seriously the worst name for it :/
Apple marketing sounds so hi-tech, so unique, yet China is selling RF fingerprint readers by the truck load.

They're so cheap to manufacture that you can sell them for $1 and still make a profit.

http://www.alibaba.com/product-gs/325177895/High_Performance...

http://www.alibaba.com/showroom/rf-fingerprint-reader.html
I sincerely hope not since, as a recent HN submission pointed out, you [EDIT] possibly [/EDIT] lose all 5th amendment protections in the US when your device is no longer protected by "something you know"

"As well as" == fine

"Instead of" == run!
Google still does primarily use C++.
Also 'Structure Sensor/Oculus Rift Hack'; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=stwjUHooYcA
Hehe, this looks similar to some stuff I've worked on with embedded devices.
> But they nail the initial execution, and the communication. So their phones are still the absolute centre of the market. And no other company can inspire product lust to the degree they can.

While they may have implemented Touch ID really well, it's still just yet another way of unlocking the device. Strategically it has little benefit to Apple.

How much would you pay for Touch ID? It offers little security benefit, only allowing you to log in a tiny bit faster. I can log in with my passcode fairly quickly and often without even looking at the screen. Maybe $5? $10 at a stretch. Definitely not worth getting locked into Apple's platform for another generation.

Edit: It will be extremely telling of the politics of touch ID internally within apple when we see the uptake of this stuff on non-iPhone hardware. Does the entire company believe in this technology? Will we see it on the iPad, iPad Mini? On Macbooks? Once we see deeper integration of touch ID across the rest of Apple's hardware devices and software services would a moat start being formed, but it would require a stern guiding hand within Apple to make it happen.
Dept. of Commerce takes tiny step towards restoring right to unlock cellphones
I think your observation aligns with startup culture in general - an idea (fingerprint scanner) can be valuable, but the execution is what matters. Execution means in this case, identifying the probable use cases, picking one or two flagship ones, really refining those (i.e., ensuring the hardware & software are good enough to make it all work as smoothly as possible).

I think Apple is in a unique place because they are beholden to no upstream provider (either hardware or software), retailer (they own their own stores) or component manufacturer (in the case of x64 chips, they flirt with AMD enough to keep Intel in check - for ARM solutions they run the show). They have volumes that can command suppliers' compliance.

Lenovo is hobbled by Windows, and the margins in that space are small enough that it's honestly not worth their time to simply "make it work right" w/r/t their drivers, which is why my Thinkpad fingerprint scanner never got used after about day 3.
Oh, the Founders You’ll Meet
Well to quote the quoted regulation:

"shall not deny, limit, or restrict the ability"

They aren't really doing any of that are they? Do they say that LTE will never be available to you on your device? Or that you can only use it so many hours per day or only between such and such a time? I believe that is what would be required for them to violate these regulations. And it appears that they are acting within their legal rights to postpone their "mandatory inspections to make sure the devices aren't bugged with something that could disrupt their networks" or something. Are they doing it to gain a market advantage for a bit? Sure. Is it immoral? Maybe. But is it against FCC regulation? That's much harder to prove.

To say they are sidestepping regulation is one thing, or to say that they're being immoral for their corporate actions. But suggesting that they are violating FCC regulation is a statement of fact. A statement that could lead to you being sued with libel.

I'm not saying you are wrong to be upset, I'm just saying: be careful what you say.
I don't think it's a rehash. Your original comment makes it seem as though Jarvis was expecting LTE plus CDMA fallback, but the quoted portion from his post says he understands there is no fallback and that he only wants LTE.

Yes, but that still leaves the issue of why Verizon would issue you a Nexus 7 SIM while denying officially they can do so, multiple times:

"We apologize for any inconvenience; however, it can not be activated." - https://twitter.com/VZWSupport/statuses/380081363166048256

"I'm excited you got your Nexus 7 but not all LTE tablets are created equal. It's not part of our line up & can't be activated" - https://twitter.com/VZWSupport/statuses/379946773730443264

"This is not yet a device that is Verizon 4G LTE certified. We’ll let folks know when it's certified." - [Edited and corrected the URL] http://www.androidcentral.com/verizon-responds-inqury-about-...
U.S. to seize Manhattan skyscraper secretly owned by Iran
I think you've got some selective bias here (you couldn't tell by your writing :)), I see two things happening here.
Keep in mind, I think TouchID is a great feature, but...

1)Minor improvements get fawned over and made to seem like such a life-changing massive improvement and Apple fans gloat about how Apple is the best because of x, often when other manufacturers have had the same feature/capabilities for a long time. Doesn't matter, now Apple has it, it just sucked before.

2)Apple actually seems to regularly release just about as many new features/capabilities as the next guy, but then focuses in on the things that it's fan base promotes and is excited about, and that becomes a feedback loop regarding the 'few key features'. There was a tag-cloud image from the keynote that listed all the new stuff, and most of it you'll never hear about again. It isn't the focus on key features in every release, it's you, deciding what features are key and then telling your friends all about them, and then Apple also amplifying your message. If people latched onto iBeacons, we'd be reading about that non-stop now. The difference (and where you're correct) is that Apple focuses on these features vs. Samsung with the S4 commercial that tries to show you everything and you end up not remembering any of them. Contrast that with the MotoX ads (very well done), which are still a bit scatter-shod, but much more focused.

Question for you though, what's with the comment about "Google competing in the medium-term"?? I think you're more confident about Apple then they are ;)
I've done it. The use case was settings web pages on an small wifi audio device. Using a few hundred lines of code more was in all respects preferable to trying to fit some other language runtime into a 6 MB budget.

And I don't know why it would need to be so horrible to program web in C, once you have abstracted out common web tasks, using them is as simple as using them in any language, just call a function.
if murderer is rehabilitated would he use the chance to go free after 365 days?
Once you've removed managers, there aren't many non-productive people left to fire.
A video lecture by Nima Arkani-Hamed here on the topic:

http://susy2013.ictp.it/video/05_Friday/2013_08_30_Arkani-Ha...
This is a possibility, not a definite. The courts will have to decide.
Shielding Good Science: Upholding Publishing Ethics
Rupee Fall Led To 8.41% Increase In Mobile Prices
They just need your thumb...
I imagine it would be good for online sysadmin training courses.

Read the lessons, follow along in another tab. No messing around with VMs etc.
The 2013 HTPC Build
Awesome! Great post
Why do you think there will be or should be a golden age, rather then continuous progress forever?

http://beginningofinfinity.com
Google is so huge now, I'm not sure if that is really something that you can state unequivocally. The search engine and a lot of the plumbing that everything is built on top of is written primarily in C++, but there is a TON of both Java and Python code there (and that's not counting things like Go and specialized languages like the infamous Sawzall).

Back in the day (particularly before they started doing ads), almost everything was C++.
Task.JS - A Extreme Simple Specification For JavaScript Task
Task.JS - A Extreme Simple Specification For JavaScript Task
>are you prepared to take away the property rights of land owners so that you can grow the food?

Is that a question? Because damn. The lack of empathy or even respect for people's basic humanity is just astounding.

Is it not self-evident that a homeless man's right to be alive and healthy is worth more than my right to the BMW my family could have purchased instead of paying income tax?

There are good arguments to be made about the efficacy of the state vs. growth prompted by a free(r) market in actually achieving that goal, sure, but when you make such a plain insinuation that property is worth more than life... I don't get it. I will never understand the ideological fascination with property rights at the expense of all else.
So this guy was right? The geometry-based particle interaction theory sounds similar to what this guy was saying a few years back on TED:

http://www.ted.com/talks/garrett_lisi_on_his_theory_of_every...
> You really only have a choice between two identical assholes. There's no point in voting unless America drastically changes its voting system to something more democratic.

Some people insist that the entire point of democracy is to restrain power. In that sense, voting for the lesser of two evils is a perfect representation of democracy: you're voting for which set of restraints to put on, not what kind of future you want.
The Amplituhedron
Bringing on 1st Co-Founder (In a non-tech community) 
I have just launched an e-commerce site after working on it for 4 months, alone. I now realize I should have brought on others to begin with. A solid co-founder is very much needed at this stage of my startup. I live in Tallahassee, FL and the startup ecosystem is putrid here (cannot locate solid web developers, hackers, etc.) What are some resources/ways to attract a co-founder that might be interested in working remotely?
Chennai doctor uses Google Glass to air operation live
IPhone 5c Review
You have changed the subject. We're talking about effectiveness, not cost to implement.
"it contains signs of a genuine conceptual breakthrough."

It contains claims of such signs, which seems to be the point of this fluff piece.

Alarm bells should go off when you read statements like this:

"...giving up space and time as fundamental constituents of nature and figuring out how the Big Bang and cosmological evolution of the universe arose out of pure geometry."

Ah yes, well that solves the mystery, doesn't it. The universe arose out of pure geometry.

A more concrete sign of the limitations of this work can be seen in the paragraph prior to the above quote:

"Physicists must also prove that the new geometric formulation applies to the exact particles that are known to exist in the universe, rather than to the idealized quantum field theory they used to develop it, called maximally supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory."

The problem is that maximally supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory conflicts with experiments (see e.g. http://news.discovery.com/space/lhc-discovery-maims-supersym...). This is why they hurry to qualify this point by saying:

"This model, which includes a 'superpartner' particle for every known particle and treats space-time as flat, 'just happens to be the simplest test case for these new tools,' Bourjaily said. 'The way to generalize these new tools to [other] theories is understood.'"

Well that's good, because they're going to need that generalization. Now all they need is to actually produce it.

This is the sort of thing that leads these gee-whiz models to end up on the ash heap of history.

Don't get me wrong, it would be fantastic if the amplituhedron revolutionizes quantum theory. But based on the red flags in this article, I wouldn't hold my breath.
A Capella String Theory: Bohemian Gravity
Why wasn't this a problem 10 years ago when fingerprint scanners were introduced to desktop and then laptop computers?
Data driven explanation on why health care costs so much
Why C? Performance. I wrote a C webserver on a PIC32MX795F512L (80 mhz/ 128kB RAM), and it was _screaming_ fast (for what it was running on). Easily handled ~100 clients making 2-3 requests/sec continuously to a JSON based API (I really don't know how far you could push it before it got slow), which is respectable for that chip ... but this was written to the bare metal with no OS (did use libraries for IP/TCP/HTTP/JSON, though). C isn't my first choice for web development either, but there's absolutely no way you could pull that off in a higher-level language.
Given your sentiments about FreeBSD, I'd imagine you'd find an OpenIndiana based platform even more compelling.
Ralph Baer: Building video games at age 90
Completely different thing. Garrett Lisi threw us some weird looking thing that when you turn it to the left and spin it 3 times and do a backflip looks like an electron... and if you turn it up and around and up town it looks like a quark. However, if you're gonna propose a structure like this, it better behave in a way that any way you look at it, it better look like something you might see in the universe. This thing predicted WAY too much shit to have physical relevance.

The thing in this post is a new way to calculate scattering amplitudes that has nothing to do with space, time, and isn't motivated by unitarity or locality.
Not as if anyone can see it, but I have nothing but fucking terrible things to say about Verizon. I've never been treated by a group of individuals or a company so poorly. Fuck em, especially on how they play these games.
Fingerprint scanning is yet more evidence that the iPhone was designed in sunny south California rather than chilly northern Europe.

Resistive touch screen may not allow multi-touch, but at least I can use them when wearing gloves (and no - gloves with a capacitive finger tip don't count).
> The comments about btrfs are about 5 years out of date.

Not really. I've tried it, and it still has pain points I'd not like to have in my filesystem. It's like ZFS almost a decade ago (and I'm not talking about features)... although ZFS on Linux vs. btrfs on Linux... right now I'd still go with btrfs.

> Neither of those things were ever true (or are going to be true in the future) for the various ZFS-on-Linux projects (yes, there are multiple.)

I believe there is a shift with regard to this, as demonstrated by the Gentoo project's integration of ZFS.
Steve Jobs in Sweden, 1985
Google wants their services to be available on all US wireless carriers in the US, not just one. And however much they fail to demonstrate it sometimes, Google wants their services available in the rest of the world, too. Getting entangled in a particular wireless market would also be an issue.
Things that work on simple models motivate work on more complex models. He STARTS OUT by saying N=4 SYM is a toy model. The klein-gordon equation is unphysical but motivated a lot of good physics.
I'd be very careful — plenty of "free" fonts come with a license that doesn't permit you to resell the font. And what's scary is that sometimes the font is distributed without the license so you could get sued if you "just assume".

My advice is to find a few type designers and ask them if they would would license their typeface to be on the safe side. Either you want to offer a flat fee, or a fee plus a cut of each sale.
FISA Judge: No companies challenged phone record orders
The iPhone 5S and 5C
Apple marketing sounds so hi-tech, so unique

That's exactly the point. It doesn't matter whether it's really hi-tech or unique or not. It's Apple's ability to present these things in a way which just makes you salivate that matters. This is a point which seems so hard for tech people to understand... it doesn't matter if you think people should see through Apple's claims, the spoils go to Apple because they know, as seemingly no other company on earth does, how to entrance people. A few key features, lavish, presentation, a feeling of luxury... that's what builds anticipation and excitement. Apple's closest equivalent are food companies, who have mastered the dramatic, salivatory description of products.
Haha electricity-wise, yeah, but you can get almost as much heat out of a 100W lightbulb as a $1,000 Xeon that's running at 100%, so you might be better off going that way if you're looking to save money :-)
Pragmatically Feasible?
In some ways iOS7 looks cleaner and more subtle but to me it is generally MUCH worse for understanding what to do (like when MS Office went away from menus and to the tool strip junk). The old version used blank space better, it was clear what elements could be clicked as buttons were clearly buttons, content was more separated from control, etc.

Some of the icons/fonts/colors are clearly improved but in general I think it’s a fail. And, to me, flat looks cheap.
I always think of "golden ages" as arising naturally from a random distribution of "big breakthroughs" and similar. It's not unlikely that you'd get some clumps of many breakthroughs followed by time with very few breakthroughs. And we call these clumps "golden ages." And of course, the fact that they're not independent events, but that one breakthrough might precipitate another, just reinforces this.

So I don't think "golden ages" are going away any time soon.
I was talking to a friend in the physics department at Stanford a few months ago about how one of the people whose work is cited in this paper (Greg Moore of Rutgers) had found analytic expressions purely rooted in geometry for Bethe Ansatz[1] results in (1+1) dimensional systems. Based on that, I told my friend I believed these "physical mathematics types" (as they call themselves) were on to something. He concurred that their methods would be very important in the future.

(This was in May, lol)

[1] BA is a nifty numerical method involving a lot of number crunching to find scattering matrices for these theories, and is very useful in low-dimensional electronic systems.
Thanks for putting specific numbers to it. It's really surprisingly efficient, especially at warmer temps (0℃) which are more common in most of the US.
Hack Design.
We have just got SolidWorks PDM at work and I am in the process of setting it up. I know a little about it.

There is two different solidworks PDM products, workgroup and enterprise. We went with workgroup which is cheaper and probably better for smaller teams. Workgroup is about £1000 + £200pa per seat and no cost for the server. Enterprise from memory was about 50% more per seat and you have to a few grand for the server, plus pay someone to 'configure' it for you.

PDM workgroup is actually pretty similar to SVN, you check files out, work on them and check them back in again. Except it understands relationships between files and their meta data so you can check out an assembly in its 'as built' state and it will checkout the correct old version of the parts.

Enterprise goes much further and creates work flows for you company. Documents go through different stage gates with different people being able to make changes and approve them. It is very much design for large teams with rigourous QA. It also appears as a network drive with some nice shell extensions on Windows.

Suprisingly neither of them have a Diff built in, although solidworks does itself have that sort of tool.

As a market it is definitely ripe for disrupting, although to succeed there would need to be tight integration with the software packages (solidworks, creo, inventor etc)

I anyone on here is looking to do something in this area I would love to hear from you.
If Apple has 20% market share but 50+% profit share, then what does that mean?

BMW is definitely in control of the luxury car industry, which is quite huge worldwide in terms of revenue and more importantly, profit. It depends on how narrowly you define "industry."
I like the way Tei from Rock Paper Shotgun forums put it:

"Diablo 3 is not PvP or PvE, it's PvAH."