skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
All Snapdragon 800-based phones, and there are quite a few of them, and there will be more in the coming months (and of course later even more chips doing the same). Right now it's the one you said, LG G2, Sony Xperia Z1, Samsung Galaxy Note 3, and soon the Nexus 5.

Now I'm not 100 percent sure if every single one of them has that as a user-centric feature (maybe they didn't enable it), but the chip supports 4k video recording.
#1 bugs me the most. False urgency is the name of the game everywhere I've ever worked. From my experience it's a problem of how the company is structured. When everyone thinks what they are working on or assigning is top priority it's because (a) they really don't have a sense of what is actually important (b) managment is fragmented such that each person's individual most important task seems like a global most important task.

In a law firm, which is basicly 1000 separate practices trying to exist simultaneously, this happens all the time, usually because of option b. When a "team" is really a group of people who happen to be in the same place instead of a collaborative unit, what is imporant is up to each person. It's a bad way a run a business and totally messes with your employees.
That blog post is from 2005. There was a major rework of how the block layer handles flushes back around 2010 and I'm pretty sure the issue he was having with fsync not being reliable has been resolved.
Does that mean that using a diceware password doesn't work?
it's the HN effect , one should better web scale before linking one's work ;) nice site though.
from wikipedia: "A public salt makes it more time-consuming to crack a list of passwords. However, it does not make dictionary attacks harder when cracking a single password. The attacker has access to both the encrypted password and the salt, so when running the dictionary attack, the attacker can simply use the known salt when attempting to crack the password."
I've built HTML/CSS/JS mobile apps with phonegap and while it's fun as a developer, the user experience is just not as good as building a proper native app.

If you care about user experience, build using what is native to the platform.

This is why most web devs don't build web apps using Flash or Java applets anymore. Those aren't native to the platform and don't provide the best possible user experience.

HTML/JS as "native" apps to a platform can absolutely work and be awesome, but it really comes down to what "native" on a given platform means. On Android it's Java, on iOS it's Obj-C, on Windows it's C#, on a web browser or Firefox OS it's HTML/JS.
Could naps during the day tell us a health issue is arising?
Sure, they were relying on an undocumented feature, but it's not like the GNU Make developers didn't know about this. They explicitly called out the backwards incompatible change in the release note; they knew they were breaking compatibility.

My point is that even undocumented features are an important part of backwards compatibility. If there is software out there relying on it, breaking it and saying "well, they were relying on an undocumented feature" doesn't actually help your users at all. Is your goal to ensure that developers do everything the way you tell them to all the time, and punish them if they don't? Or is your goal to provide software that your users can use to do their jobs?
The main idea is that there is a nice middle ground between pure SW, low touch SaaS apps and consulting services.

In particular this middle ground can actually help support a SaaS app until it reaches some level of critical mass. The early days of a PaSH app is about risk mitigation. A later stage company can use it to drive revenue up.

It's definitely not new, but it is a model I'm seeing more and more small team SaaS operators adopt.

Customers find it valuable because it ends up being a form of low cost, optimized outsourcing.
Agreed. DE Shaw's hardware work is very cool, but I'm in the camp that believes that the force fields suck (in general; not just theirs), and bashing through some multi-millisecond trajectories will only highlight their limitations.
> 7% of New York households are certainly livable but not good enough to rent out.

That statement makes no sense. Every single household can be rented out, it's only a question of price.
This looks like really cool technology to bring people together. I wonder if it would be possible to make movies with too by shooting different scenes in different locations and putting the audio all together.
The site is apparently HN'ed...

railo.runtime.net.mail.MailException which seems to be a framework error from a ColdFusion application server.

Shame on OP, posting something cool and letting it get upvoted without warning the author/host in advance! :)
To counter this kind of attack, you'd need to proxy through tor to a server, which would also connect to the rest of world through tor.

You would then create a script on a local machine (say, a Raspberry Pi) that simulates traffic to the proxy while you're not active.
> So we asked seven volunteers ... The volunteers were randomly allocated to two groups.

Ahem
More or less equivalent to the question, "Why is clang/llvm running roughshod over gcc?" It's the sum of a lot of really questionable decisions, like this one, made over a very long time.
Because GNU Make 3.81 was the last version released under GPLv2.
The Keyboard is pretty terrible. Several of my apps just don't launch, (Here, Notes off the top of my head), apps crash pretty regularly (reddit pretty often). Reception isn't the best and it drops calls pretty regularly on me.
Thanks for the suggestion. We leave food out all night, so it seems to be less about wanting to be fed than wanting (me specifically) to be up and downstairs.
I find this hard to believe. I have contact dermatitis and it noticeably gets worse when I am not sleeping well.
Sounds like not at the same time, though. He said the site was acquired in May 2013 [1], while this post says he is starting there in November, and his front page still says he works at room77.com [2]. Makes me curious.

1. http://www.asterank.com/about

2. http://www.ianww.com
I think you mean NodeSH, not OS. I don't see any aspect of this that tells me it's an operating system.

"Node is not a perfect language by any means, but..."

Also, Node is a framework, the language is Javascript.
Jeez, nobody tell poor old Julian about Larry Ellison.
We are probably 7-10km from an airport, but to the side, not in line with runway. We checked out the noise, multiple time a week for months prior to buying. We moved in. Then without warning the airport changes the flight paths to be over our house to make a few more pennies. It's been a bit painful to them so far (see link), and we will see how it goes. I set up an email template and just fill in the time and hit send to the noise complaints section at the council, aviation authority and local MP. It's quite therapeutic. They are installing a noise monitoring thing in our back garden this week at some expense (30k of gear they tell me). http://i.stuff.co.nz/travel/travel-troubles/9162498/Auckland...
3.82 was also GPLv3.
Don't do it. The web is dark and full of terrors.
IOS 7: How to See the Full URL in Safari
Why didn't they use satellite phones? Seems like that would bypass the whole phone logs issue.
for mobile applications Facebook Mobile Ads are pretty good since you can target very specific audiences and built local critical mass. whenever you're bidding on non-branded adword ads you usually have to compete with some incumbent that have spent time on their optimization which means you probably wont be able to beat them with your new product
Quadruple (or higher) precision is needed in many scientific applications.
Sorry about that. I didn't expect that would happen.

Will definitely do that next time. I found it really cool and thought of just posting it on HN.

Edit: Pinged @sqlfiddle on twitter. I hope maintainer did notice it.
Another victim of success? ;) http://www.theguardian.com/technology/gamesblog/2013/oct/09/...
BUG: Government occasionally shuts down
Should we stop believing Malcolm Gladwell?
very cool,

thanks!
Well, at least he should have chosen a country where the maximum penalty for what he did is not open end. He may face several times life in the USA now while in Germany for example he would face max. 15 years.
ConspiracyTheory Generator
It's hard for me to make a justifiable comparison between product dev and content dev. There's just too much variability between the two.

I do think a blog is a product and it requires the same level of distribution focus that another software product would. It requires a similar level of instrumentation and analysis.
one strategy that has occurred to me is to use a secret "master" salt, in addition to random public salts for each password. that way, an attacker would have to obtain the secret salt, as well as the public salts. the secret salt would be stored in the program that does the hashing, and not in the database. this requires an attacker to gain access to the filesystem where the program lives, as well as the database. of course, this offers no guarantees, but does make it harder for the attacker.
The One Language
Sounds interesting, and could serve as an alternative to Chrome OS or Firefox OS.

In many ways, it's a throwback to the old days of Lisp machines. Entire OS in a dynamic language, extensible at run-time, etc...

With the many languages that compile to JS (and now Asm.js) this could be huge and very interesting.
Very pretty diagrams and logos, but is there any code at all right now? The github repo is empty. https://github.com/NodeOS/NodeOS

Edit: ah, it currently resides inside the Docker-Node repository: https://github.com/NodeOS/Docker-NodeOS
"Node is not a perfect language by any means..."

'Node' is not a language by any means.

An OS's main job is managing hardware resources, and either Javascript/Node is too high level, or the abstraction needed to give it access to those resources will come at too high a cost to make this a usable operating system.
In a very large company, the corporate culture becomes massively varied by department. Critical parts of a company can easily develop a culture that comes from organisations and societies well outside the founders culture. Ultimately a companies culture is affected by who it can hire as much as anything else.
Scientists Accidentally Create Improbable Two-Dimensional Quasicrystals
Fantastic tool.

It pops up constantly on StackOverflow and I've found it incredibly useful for interviews. I noticed recently that the Execution Plan was added which just opens more avenues for teaching & interviewing.
I have a MBPR.
- I used QuickRes2 to switch to a much higher resolution 1920x1680 which is not possible otherwise.
- Wrote a script to download the beautiful bing.com backgrounds for use as wallpapers
I don't think it is useless. It is pretty common to use relative rather than absolute numbers: population density rather than population, GDP per capita rather than just GDP... When it comes to GDP, GDP per capita says more about how affluent a country is compared to other countries than just the GDP. And in the same way that a larger contry tends to have a larger economy, a country that is larger in size and in population is more likely to have more visitors than the same country with less size and less population.

Besides: things like history is likely to be what is often used to explain the large amounts of tourists that coutnries like France gets, in the first place, while the population variable is left hidden.
I do believe getting a position at Planetary Resources itself is worth having done the project.
What data do you have? Do you know the mechanisms?

We calculated heats of formation in our chemical thermodynamics course, but we were always given ample data, and we knew what we were trying to calculate.
That was wonderful. Thank you! :D
As far as I'm aware, the Chrome and Firefox parts of the respective OSes run in userland, and not that close to the kernel, whereas the diagram on GitHub for this suggests the kernel and Node would be much closer. I could be wrong about this though, it's vague.
Interesting, I've started a similar kind of program, but wouldn't mind abandoning it for something better. Gonna try it out.
There are a lot of similarities though, rocket ships run on software.

That said, there are huge challenges in robot manipulators, signals management (space is noisy) and vacuum operations.

One of the things I've been noodling on is a self contained mineral extraction pipeline. You know you suck in raw material on one side and pull out some useful mineral or minerals out of the other. There are several challenges here, one being that many existing extraction processes rely on either an abundance of water or power or both, and often were designed assuming gravity worked :-). So for grins and giggles I've been noodling on "The Mosquito" which is a cross between a well auger and a science payload. It combines three things I find fascinating, robotics, space, and systems design so it is a lot of fun.
Sure, because hosting the whole repo on github is going to be a smart move. Call me when there are dependencies issues, new versions that break the whole systems and security issues with unsigned packages.

No, just no.
Startup finished in 1.267s (kernel) + 1.167s (userspace) = 2.434s

Booting to a full featured Gnome. NetworkManager is the showstopper...
Amazon Now Shipping Chromecast Internationally
Simple announces instant transfers, "MoneyDrop" over BTLE
This is actually a Linux distribution.
Deep sleep sounds restful, but during it our brains are actually working hard. One of the main things the brain is doing is moving memories from short-term storage into long-term storage, allowing us more short-term memory space for the next day. If you don't get adequate deep sleep then these memories will be lost.

Compacting garbage collection.
You probably don't experience much anxiety if you say that. Strong adrenalin-induced responses, or panic attacks even, are pretty much impossible to ignore. Try being social when you're shaky, sweating, and have shifty focus (i.e.: fight-or-flight response, your brain is looking for threats in your environment). It's hard slash impossible to will these kinds of symptoms away. Usually, this kind of social anxiety is only amplified by jumping into a social situation.

Furthermore, being even slightly inebriated from alcohol has a very noticeable feel to it. If I went to a party that only had non-alcoholic beverages but pretended these had alcohol, I'm quite sure that I'd be able to tell.
What's about those that we can't describe? Some of these effects are very computation-intensive, but doesn't mean their basis isn't well understood already.
Other than the fact that such rentals are against the rules (malum prohibitum), has your condo board seen actual damages from such website-mediated-rentals, making the practice wrong in-and-of-itself (malum in se)?

The rules probably date back to when such arrangments were often quite sketchy and informal, whereas the Airbnb era adds traceable payments/stay-records, sticky reputations linked to real-world identities, and a commercial-entity's own "guarantee" against harms. So would the board consider waiving those rules under certain situations? It seems the option to rent out property in some cases will protect or improve the property's value... which I presume is one of the major goals of the condo board.
Microsoft Remote Desktop App For iOS And Android Announced
ORRR he doesn't have an answer yet! Just kidding Pud, congrats man. Always liked your stuff and made a crazy living off Adbrite back in the day! Good luck.
I've been happy with SideBarGit:
https://sublime.wbond.net/packages/SideBarGit

Lots more GIT options for Sublime:
https://sublime.wbond.net/search/git
Ask HN: practical uses for gesture detection?
I've been working on a technology that I can't find extremely compelling uses for. Here's what it is: you wear a device on your wrist, and can wave it around in various configurations (gestures) which are detected. Then you do something...

Aside from vague consumer-type applications that you'll see in mock-up videos (e.g. https://www.thalmic.com/en/myo/), what are some real value-add uses of this technology? Even if it's for a very small amount of people - in fact I'd prefer that so I can design a custom solution.

Thanks for any ideas / advice.
Time for BitcoinBnb? The Silk Roadhouse?
No. These attacks rely on popular phrases, not random combinations of words.

A diceware password of six words from a 7776 (6^5) word dictionary is 1 of 2.2 x 10^23 random possibilities. If your attacker can try 180 billion hashes a second, then it would take almost 39 centuries to exhaust the password space.
My guess would be deniability. If the Bad Guys come search your house and you have a mobile phone sitting in a drawer, that in itself isn't incriminating, because lots of people have mobile phones sitting in drawers. Very few people have satphones sitting in drawers, though, so possessing one would be anomalous -- which raises suspicions in the same way that having a mobile phone that never moves and only infrequently turns on does.
HTML5-based recreation of MacPaint
> I'm really happy for them, but i believe that as soon as Mercedes Benz, BMW, Audi etc. can affort to make "cheap" but great electirc cars, nobody will talk about Tesla anymore.

People said the same thing about Google providing the first usable web search, and their dominance (and the Microsoft would eat their lunch when Redmond finally got around to it).

I feel the same way about Tesla - the Model S is merely a product that embodies the company's vision and skilled workforce. Tesla may not yet have a patent thicket, but they probably have key battery-specific patents as well.

They are busy disrupting the way cars are sold as well (mainly because, in order to succeed, they have to)… an area that sorely needs disruption.

All of this means that by the time the other manufacturers get around to building a Model S equivalent, Tesla will have both moved on to better product as well as entrenched their brand as the leader in the space (not to mention whatever lock-in that Supercharger stations produce).

Perhaps this will be diminished in Germany which prides itself on it's car manufacturers, but even Japan gave into the iPhone eventually.
Is steganography then something that should be used?

"I just like looking at pictures of cats on imgur" (while they actually contain handler's instructions).

Now is a 40 year old Syrian man looking at pictures of cats on imgur?. That's anomalous. I guess one can't hide the need for a human factor, in other words tailoring it for a particular case.

It used to be that spies had short wave radios. You know they still have stations for example.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numbers_station

That's pretty good. Well except that this day and age spotting someone with a shortwave radio who is already a bit suspicious (maybe doesn't speak with the correct accent) is going to raise eyebrows perhaps. While maybe 10-30 years ago it wouldn't have.

So...now twitter is used for number stations:

http://boingboing.net/2013/03/11/numbers-stations-on-twitter...

Except that it is suspicious to access it and so on.

In other words it is a hard task not to be suspicious.
It feels half-cooked both because of missing features and bugs.

I can understand some of the missing features (such as can't upload files, no clipboard, the keyboard is small and irresponsible or only en_US available), but some bugs are really painful, being the biggest one when you're browsing a website and the the browser hangs leaving your mobile completely dead for way too long (I had to remove the battery a couple of times). For an OS that is basically a browser, this is really bad.

Also I've found both the wireless and the data connection to be unreliable. Sometimes it refuses to work and only a reboot will fix it.

I'm not an advanced Android user, but I can't do the few things I used to do before using the ZTE Open as daily smartphone. As I said the ZTE Open needs an OS update, really.
Looking forward to the PC version!
Can peanut butter smell test confirm alzheimers?
As a guy about to finish up school and make his way into the work force, would you be willing to release some of the questions you use in interviews. It be neat to see which areas I need to patch up knowledge wise!
Bug?

Orrrrrr feature?
The Fields medal for Economics is the John Bates Clark medal. I don't recall how many who win the Clark go on to win the Riksbank Nobel, but it's a lot.
you can use it to shoot video clips - so when you are filming, you hear the music - and it's easy to put all together nicely then ( 10x easier than using video editing software )
Less red would also help.
>our smalltalk starts with "What do you do for a living?"

I agree - it's not good small-talk. Since this was pointed out to me (~15 years ago) I've made a conscious effort never to ask people what they do for a living. One friend I knew for a year before I found out what he did (that's a rare situation, granted). If you haven't tried it then I highly recommend it.
Intelligence is not an unalloyed good as the article claims. An excess of intelligence without some outlet for it produces frustration and, in extreme cases, depression.
Two Techniques to Understand Complex Data: Topology and Compressed Sensing
One word: thanks.
Interesting. Do you have a blog or website showing off what you have so far? I'd love to learn more.

I think 2 main things will drive space "exploration":

- mining resources from astroids
- solar arrays for more efficient power generation
Pretty close to pointless - the trucks still need to run and the marginal cost of a truck carrying an additional can is almost certainly way the hell less than 5 cents. Meanwhile, we're paying these people way less than minimum wage. It still doesn't seem like that part of it makes any sense.
Been a while since I've seen a coldfusion error dump
By Google's Adam Langley. Nice. I know he's been a big supporter of DJB's curves.
If it can do it instantly, that would be great. But why does it need to be faster than real-time? You can't capture video any faster. (Though, "real-time" probably needs some sort of framerate qualifier… no doubt 60 fps is harder to encode than 30 fps.)

Unless you're thinking of re-encoding … on a phone?
Apple's Jony Ive designs a Leica camera you will never own
Woah now... How about trying to communicate with senior management to change these things first?
> "do", which always rebuilds everything,

To rebuild everything with Make, you can use the -B switch:

-B, --always-make

Unconditionally make all targets.
This is just an encryption scheme. It does not provide anonymity. Truly anonymous email would not be good for spam.
Great, more badass rockstar ninja developers using the newly discovered 201x techniques of async coding to disrupt the operating system.

My beef is not that the author is playing around with using an actually pretty awesome dynamic language as an operating environment; it's that the author doesn't explain that what they're doing is actually, you know, an operating system.

How are you booting? How are you writing to the file system--and which? How do you handle multiple users? How do you handle device IO? How about scheduling?

I want so badly to be able to take projects like this seriously, but it can be hard sometimes.

EDIT:

Ah, so, this is just Node sitting on top of Linux ( https://github.com/NodeOS/Docker-NodeOS ). Would've been nice if that was mentioned in the article.

EDIT2:

Hmm...what's the word for it when the OS suspends your program while waiting on IO for it...a sink ro nose? a sink rose? Bah, I can't remember--that's just old boring shit from the dinosaur ages of computing anyways.
I`ve been thinking a lot about it.. It`s clear that purchasing power is an important info when targeting and creating a more personalized shopping experience.

I believe we should also ask if they were able to find a proper way measure this power..