skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
An extra pound of battery would make a big difference, but customers have shown that they would rather have a smaller, lighter device than 3years ago, even if it doesn't last as long.
I have always found this to be the deep irony embedded in socialism. Let's make things really nice and humane. But only for the people born between these lines.

You could argue that globalization and a true free market don't make this nationalistic distinction, and are in essence fairer to the human population on a whole.
So...

They need to fix their design according to your adblock rules?
Good luck with that eh?
I am amazed at how amazon remains doing business with so low margins or no profits. We love amazon at my house and being Prime members, we are almost ordering everything under the sun from Amazon that we possibly can. Here is why we love it:

- The reviews are actually useful. I just bought a 70 inch TV through amazon and the critical and helpful reviews really helped me get going with settings on the TV that would have taken hours to research on google otherwise.

- Shipping is superfast. Most items are delivered within a day or two with prime.

- Btw, if you are a parent of a baby, then check out Amazon Mom. It is free with Prime membership and gives you further discounts if you subscribe to ordering baby stuff like formula, diapers etc. on amazon. Also we compared the prices and it is almost impossible to beat amazon for these things as well.

- No need to go drive to a store. Sometimes I need to buy $10 item for which I might end up spending $2 on gas.

- Easiest returns if the need arises.

- Not to mention that Amazon prime gives you access to lot of great videos, movies, shows etc as a bonus.

One drawback with prime is that not all items are Prime eligible. Specially what they call "add on items"
Did that ever run code?
That's why Apple is succeeding. People are moaning about how they cannot view the live stream of an Apple event on their Windows/Linux platform, like we're landing on the moon or something. Amazing.
They left at 11am because they realized how bad the problem was and just gave up? Or left at 11am as a normal thing (e.g. before they noticed the problem) ?
Same experience here. Bought a year-long membership at a steep discount in March, shuttered without warning a couple of weeks ago. A mismanaged startup led to many people without a workspace: http://observer.com/2013/10/brooklyns-creative-community-3rd...
I have an office with http://workattheyard.com and am very happy there.
Chinese hotel guest data mining "...as a service"
EBay morphing into an ecommerce enabled social network?
If the product you are building is not future proof it is your problem not Mozilla's.

Nothing is future-proof if the people controlling the platforms move the goalposts. We have standards and value backward compatibility for a reason: it's because violating those standards and breaking that compatibility hurts. And it's going to become Mozilla's problem if they continue down this path, because Firefox will cease to be a viable browser choice for a significant proportion of their potential market.

Dont blame Mozilla for your poor technology choices. Applets will eventually stop working

I don't know why you're writing as if I personally broke these medical devices. I've never personally worked on any of those projects, I'm just familiar with them and citing them as examples of why this sort of change is damaging.

In any case, people really should get off the "Java applets is a dead technology" bandwagon. Viable replacements using HTML/CSS/JS are very recent developments, and people have been developing web-based user interfaces for all kinds of devices for decades. Of course they're not all going to throw out all that work and rewrite everything from scratch. There's nothing wrong with it, and contrary to your claim, there is no reason those applets must eventually stop working. They'll work just fine as long as browsers run Java applets, which they've been doing just fine for many years.

Obviously applets will stop working if browser makers deliberately drop support for them even though it's been available for a very long time. However, that's like saying obviously CSS3 is no use for anything because it's not all W3C standardised in stone yet so you're stupid if you use it today because it might all be different at some arbitrary point in the future that no-one can predict. You can shoot down any technology, no matter how modern and trendy, with such a generic argument, but it doesn't demonstrate anything particularly helpful to do so.

You broke the medical staff instruments by choosing or maintaining a dead technology thus putting patient lives in danger.

No, I didn't, but if the serious software I work on were medical in nature, you could literally bet your life that I wouldn't be letting either Java or Firefox anywhere near it and would be using an entirely different level of engineering practice to build it, as I do for certain projects in other fields where reliability is essential.

However, while we build the literally life-or-death systems that way, chances are the word processor, KVM, and, yes, web browser that organisations doing vital work use for day-to-day activities are not developed to the same standards. Breaking them still hurts, if only in efficiency (which can obviously still be harmful in a medical context). Unless you're claiming that all software that runs in any medical facility must be developed to the same standards as control software for high-risk, safety-critical systems, again, your argument is so generic that it doesn't really prove anything interesting.
The odd thing I see with fulfilled by Amazon is that nothing is necessarily stopping them from buying the goods themselves and selling them in the long run if they see fit.
Apple uses HTTP Live Streaming protocol. VLC should be able to play it just fine. You will probably need a custom URL to feed VLC though. I'll paste the URL here once it's available.

EDIT: Quick bash script for extracting VLC-playable URLs (when they're available):

curl `curl http://www.apple.com/apple-events/september-2013/ | grep "p.events-delivery.apple.com" | sed 's/\<script.*src="\(.*\)".*/\1/' | sed 's/".*//g'` | sed -e 's/[ \t]//'

UPDATE: Here are the links:

/snowLeopardurl/ = http://p.events-delivery.apple.com.edgesuite.net/1309ouhbqdv...

/non-snowLeopard url/ = http://p.events-delivery.apple.com.edgesuite.net/1309ouhbqdv...

/Windowsurl/ = http://p.events-delivery.apple.com.edgesuite.net/1309ouhbqdv...

/iphoneurl / = http://p.events-delivery.apple.com.edgesuite.net/1309ouhbqdv...

/ipadurl/ = http://p.events-delivery.apple.com.edgesuite.net/1309ouhbqdv...

/voip/ = http://p.events-delivery.apple.com.edgesuite.net/1309ouhbqdv...
hahaha lol
I agree -- and I think the amount of innovation that would happen would be unprecedented. I'm deeply disappointed in HN, that it killed this discussion. This is one of the most important ideas around.
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I don’t think this is about wanting protocols to succeed, or at least not primarily. Every iOS or OS X device Apple sells (so pretty much any of their products) can play this. No need to install anything. Why should Apple do any special extra work to make it work elsewhere without a bit of hassle?

Also, it’s just a fucking PR event. Why do people want to watch it? That’s just weird.
I've seen a few Amazon vans in the US as well. (Midwest)
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People keep saying this. All it really prevents against is the most blatant kind of theft from the company; it doesn't stop senior management awarding themselves salaries that are huge compared to any other worker.
From the page:

> Live Streaming video requires Safari 4 or later on OS X v10.6 or later; Safari on iOS 4.2 or later. Streaming via Apple TV requires second- or third-generation Apple TV with software 5.0.2 or later.

So, no, unless someone posts a link to a live stream you can watch with VLC, this won't work on any non-Apple device (even with QuickTime).
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Kudos for the landing page! However I would suggest you to play with the "buy" wording and replace the stock photos of the business people.
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In Java, you can iterate over a collection or an array without fiddling with indexes, eg:

for (Foo foo : foos) {
...
}
And here was me expecting a substantive design critique, possibly some sweet new mockups, etc.

Turns out it's just someone who doesn't like it adverts, and wants Google to hide them. I hope this is a series of posts, next up: "Amazon: I don't like paying for products, please hide your price tags"
I think typescript is such a good idea. And generics is a great addition.

The only thing I dislike about TS is the way it handles dependencies. The require/declare/import/export methodology confuses me. And on top of that there is the //<reference /> tag, and all of it seems to be relying on files, rather than on constructs in the code. Relying on files, means that I have to maintain the order of which to import what, and this becomes even harder if some of the files contain code that is not just module/class definitions, but actual statements in global scope.
And administrators and politicians make it their business to make it difficult. You can always find a few flowers growing in the cracks in a parking lot but that's hardly a trend. Most public school teachers I know have no time or budget to do anything other than do what the school board and state and fed guidelines demand of them.
"Crammed into conference rooms with pizza for dinner, some programmers building the Obama administration's showcase health insurance website were growing increasingly stressed. Some worked past 10 p.m., energy drinks in hand. Others rewrote computer code over and over to meet what they considered last-minute requests for changes from the government or other contractors."
ads aren't inherently bad. Because i don't watch traditional tv, I miss a lot of movie trailers. I've seen many movies I"d be interested in seeing just from that area you want to take out.
The biggest hurdle was using Rails 4 and Bootstrap 3 because the gems I was trying to use weren't quite there yet.

I'd argue that it is production quality ;)

There are no tests, which makes me feel bad about myself, and in the future I'd prefer to TDD the whole thing, but in terms of cognitive load up front it was too much to take in.
No, it doesn't at all. Increasing the demand for unskilled labor makes it slightly less a buyers' market than it currently is, regardless of how much of a buyers' or sellers' market it is to start out.
You're right. I understand a slow rollout, I was referring to the fact that they thought they deployed to all servers but didn't.

If you plan is for the software to be on all servers, it needs to be on all servers.
Ask HN: What cloud-based load testing service do you use?
I need to load test my site, what's the best service? blitz.io looks decent but there's got to be a ton more.
That's a really nice, really usefully thorough admin template. Good work dude.

Small suggestion - I found the demo pages very, very busy and tricky to parse at first. Perhaps a few sample layout pages with a bit more space on them could be a good idea before people get to the "kitchen sink" style pages?
Another great resource is http://gettingstartedwithdjango.com/
As I understand it, life expectancy is also skewed by misreporting of infant deaths in other countries, which biases infant mortality stats against countries that reliably report them.
I go with namecheap too, no problems at all, just works and it's not complicated. Can't be happier.
They also give you a free SSL cert with your domain, and their UX for things beyond purchasing the domain doesn't suck.
The "no minimum order size" statement about Prime is a bit disingenuous. Many low-cost items are now Add-On Items (http://amzn.to/1a4NFBI), meaning that Amazon will only ship them in an order of at least $25.

Prime has become a bit less useful over the past year due to the introduction of Add-On Items.
This is the approach I'm taking for the Admin, actually. Haven't started yet, but really looking forward to it.
I would be equally excited for google IO or microsoft build. this is not unique with apple at least for me.
15:00 São Paulo (Summer Time). Here's an updated TZ list http://everytimezone.com/#2013-10-22,300,6bj
The standard library only gets new features when a minor or major Python release happens. That doesn't happen very often which slows down development of anything in the stdlib significantly to the point that packages in the stdlib effectively "die".

To some extent this is intentional because anything that requires more frequent changes is probably not stable enough for inclusion in the stdlib, in practice it does cause some unintentional issues for example rather lacking timezone support.
That's an interesting claim which makes a lot of sense. Do you have a link/reference?
but their inventory sucks. way too limited.

unless you count in the other sellers. i.e. stuff not marked as sold by amazon, then all that you said stop to be true.

reviews means little because when bad reviews pile up, they create a new listing.

shipping is weird. some stuff may be shipped from china. arduino clones.

oh and that, you get arduinos clones being sold as originals.

at least the returns are usually still better than the alternatives.
Those don't even look remotely similar other than the general "flat ui" style.
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This is a great tutorial -- one of the best for Typed Clojure I've come across. The parallels to Haskell finally made some of the Clojure implementation of typing sink in for me.
I don't know that this lesson applies now. Apple occupied a tiny niche at the time the iPod gained Windows compatibility. Now there are the better part of a billion Apple devices out in the world that can view this stream.
I know I saw 0xffff or something like that being used for development in some source code, but it turns out searching for "VID" is impossible because it gets interpreted as "video".
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> If the problem is warding off a depression, then the solution I described is indeed a true solution.

If the problem is warding off an invocation of oomkiller at the kernel level, then just setting the jvm heap size lower is indeed a true solution. We'll just ignore the fact that it doesn't actually address the problem and the memory leak still exists and has actual consequences, because we stopped oomkiller from randomly killing innocent processes which is definitely a noble goal.

Keynesian solutions have consequences, they are not magic. And they are not really solutions at all if you're not deceived by the simple sophistry of them, they're band-aids. That

> The long term trend is unaffected.

Is terribly amusing, I guess that's why we don't have financial crisis anymore or hyperinflation or sovereign debt defaults or poorly managed national economies or anything of the kind.

> If sufficiently large your Bitcoin utopia will suffer these problems and you won't have a solution.

That's because setting a shitty raft on fire so you're forced to deploy life vests instead of drowning is simply not a solution, and pretending otherwise is just stupidity masquerading as tactics.

Whatever, as long as it works for you hope you're happy with it, I'm not buying.
I'm switching a lot of branches and Eclipse used to freeze for a few minutes until it indexed the directory. That doesn't happen in phpStorm. That's only one of the many reasons to use it :-)
mh. good thought. I'll work on it this weekend!
Thanks!
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So... is the stream live yet? Can we get an URL?
I actually just googled after my last comment and found your site. Very nice. Looks like more options are popping up since I last looked. Thank you sir.
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None of their pages load for me.

Google cache of that page (text only):
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Full Google cache (wouldn't load for me):
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:tDxefPp...
Absolutely agree. Even something as simple as adding an optional field is just ./manage.py schemamigration --auto <appname> and you're done vs "ALTER TABLE blah blah blah...." on your local system, dev/staging, and then again on production in the right order, every time, manually. Can't imagine anyone wanting to go back to manual after using South.
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It sucks that people get rewarded in the marketplace for being assholes like that. Theft is a part of the background noise in a cash business like a bar or restaurant -- a business owner is delusional if they think theft goes away when one set of people do.

My grandfather owned bars for many years. I remember him saying that he got more worried about bartenders who "weren't" stealing from him (either money, booze or pilferage) -- he assumed that if he didn't know about it, the guy was too smart and could do real damage.

UPS treats their people well and works them hard, and they have a strong union. The net result is that they make money, and they have a motivated workforce that performs and gets treated relatively fairly.
If I understand correctly, they were planning to remove the Power Peg code. Do you re-test the left-overs of your refactoring: the parts you delete?

The real problem here is that they were using incremental deployment and did not have a good process for ensuring the same changes were successfully made to all server.
Looking for the same thing for an eCommerce site that is looking to launch soon. Basically, we want to run an APM tool (dynaTrace or other) while the site is being hit hard with requests, transactions, checkouts.
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Well, I agree that it's somewhat less useful. There is an upside though, as shipping things has an environmental impact and people probably shouldn't be wasting a box + shipping on a missing cover for a food processor.
agree. but it shouldn't be a reason to get a min of 35 and a max of 75%.
Just wondering tho...are you working at wrapbootstrap or themeforest? ...or...have you ever tried to sell a template?
Is eBay set to change ecomm game 
eBay acquires UK startup "Shutl" to bring same hr delivery

Ecomm companies are moving from owning the logistics company to moving towards reducing delivery by acquiring startup that has tieups with almost all courier companies.

Will this change the ecomm market ?
In the comments on Reddit he doesn't find Clojure attractive (due to lack of static types), so dynamic langs are out the window for him.

As for Go, maybe, but assume he'd be more inclined to go with Kotlin and pull a James Strachan (former Scala advocate who created the Kotlin standard library; also creator of Groovy).

Or do something entirely different, god knows, he follows his own way.
I was hoping this was taking a stab at the player. I don't get the changes they made to it - looks uglier, and it now takes me more steps to bump up the quality to HD.
Transferwise.com does the same, even have nice ads in London. https://fbcdn-sphotos-e-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-prn1/55865...
just http://www.html5admin.com/download can i ask you "why this question" ?
Yea it's a great idea to exclude most of the world from your marketing.
From the name I would guess Jen and Meg Tilly.
I love reading about things like this because it's so far from my realm of any sort of expertise with programming.
Amazon logistics in the UK at least seems to be a cover for using a variety of no-name low-cost couriers, which for me at least has resulted in most deliveries now involving at least one fake 'delivery attempt' and needless runaround. I'm starting to buy things elsewhere as a result, it's not worth the hassle.
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completely reverted for me. Whenever i try to work with vim/sublime on larger projects i feel so crippled without the advanced debugging and refactoring features that i will go back to an IDE. With PhpStorm i didnt feel the urge to change again yet though ;)
:) The First version of HTML5 Admin was for free and opensource (https://github.com/ricricucit/html5admin) but it's never really been supported by the community...it's still there...but kinda old
What prevents migration to 2.7? It's nothing technical, is it?
Evry, the consultancy which developed and runs BankID, is largely owned by the public (The Postal Service: 40%, Telenor: 30%, of which the latter is 53% state-owned: http://www.purehelp.no/company/owner_network/evryasa/9343824...). BankID is in fact used to sign all(#) internet banking transactions by regular, private end users of online banking services.

The problem isn't the extra click - two factor authentication with a one-time pad is an excellent extra security measure. The problem is that the implementation sucks and is riddled with security holes, prompting you to update Java every other time you log into your online bank account. This in addition to incredibly slow loading and also outright crashes if you are using a non-standard (i.e. not latest version of IE) browser. It is a giant, steaming pile of crappy software. We can't switch to a Javascript version fast enough.

(#) Except for those customers who have not yet been pushed into BankID, which is the selected standard for online banking. And obviously not for intra-bank and similar transactions.
As a prime member, I didn't even realize there was a minimum...
Anyways, if I need to buy something I usually buy it on amazon both because its cheaper, but also i love seeing the box on my porch :D
Usually electronics. It doesn't work for super niche appeal items like a special textbook or replacement parts.
You can prove somebody wrong without making them feel like an idiot about it.

I love being wrong, personally.
This is wishful thinking at the moment. I understand perfectly well what that means but data is data. An application typically has access to all data and the fact that you run it through a VM doesn't change anything.

I can find this technology useful only in areas where you want untrusted 3rd-party code to run without worrying about what it will do.
That's a shame. I'm just writing a Go + Angular app and got a little excited for a moment.
The 2nd slide speaks volumes, his commit history vs. that of Odersky.

PaulP was trying to strip down the language while Odersky was adding on to it. The two must have been butting heads behind the scenes, and Odersky, the creator of Scala, probably wasn't wanting to follow PaulP's crazy wisdom.

Sucks, that's a lot of talent going out the window with PaulP's departure, big shoes to fill.
thanks joshuacc!
Hands down there is nothing more exciting about this OS X update than being able to use multiple monitors again. They can keep their fancy power management and their new apps, because nothing will compare to that feeling when I boot into my shiny new surf-speckled desktop, fullscreen a video on my second monitor, and my main screen isn't covered in useless grey cloth. For the first time in I don't know how many years, I won't have to repress the urge to knock my monitor off my desk and install Ubuntu. I will just gaze at the waves off Half Moon Bay, a satisfied smile on my lips, and feel nothing but pure calm.
The only downside with splitting the membership is that only the primary Prime account gets the free streaming and books for Kindle. Still a good deal though.
I don't think the law of libel works that way.