skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Looking around the web site, it's a little hard to figure out what their Android story is. On the one hand, their developer info is about only their iOS library, and explicit references to Android elsewhere are ... not prominent. On the other hand, on Android, apps have been able to "claim" URLs for a while now. (The Twitter, YouTube, and Google Maps apps routinely offer to display URLs on the corresponding web sites, if they're present.)
I'm don't quite get what you are saying, but I also note, you are just saying it without backing it up in anyway.

Why wouldn't it last?

Why can't some members be incompatible with others?

Why must there be a framework to make judgements on others?

The United States is a good example (in a lot of ways) of successful multiculturalism (it's a bad example in some ways as well). But no official language, no restrictions on belief, the only consistant thing is a 'rule of law', is that what you mean by a framework for judging?
Yes, in a lot of jurisdictions, that's the generator cost. Generation is typically < 1/3rd the total cost of electricity.

Here in NZ, I get a generation charge, a national lines charge, and a local lines charge per kwh. Then I've got an additional daily charge to be connected to the network. It works out to NZ$0.22/kwh.

Electricity isn't very useful when it's at the hydro lake!

[Edited to add numbers]
Looking into it, Ontario power is:

(Peak 11AM-5PM)
12.4c/kWh generation.
3.37c/kWh distribution
1.21c/kWh transmission

$17.29/mo connection.

So, that's CDN16.98c/kWh delivered to a suburban home.

Still, nowhere near 30c/kWh.
there is 8 pages talking about it here but the forum is down so I can't see what the conclusion they came to was, only the first page

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:GOrNxy8...
I got an HP Chromebook, and it was amazing. Smooth interface. Slim. Light. Fast. It was only $300. Only thing preloaded was a 100gb Google Drives offer, which isn't bad.

Great as a side-laptop for personal reading / email.
Electric bicycles are pretty big in Japan - a lot of mothers and housewives use them to get around all the time as they don't tire you as much as normal bikes.

Also, there's a few bicycles these days with two childseats, so that's a lot of weight to cart around.

A bit of info here: http://www.japantimes.co.jp/life/2008/08/17/travel/electric-...
Not too mention the many different styles and models of bikes with different levels of design.
Yes, I came here to say the same thing. They tried to correct for it by stating how far past life expectancy they are if you enter an age older that life expectancy at birth, but if you enter, say, one year less than life expectancy, you get an estimate of one year's worth of visits, which is not correct (or even close, really).
> We've all seen the arguments about the in-kernel HTTP daemons and whatnot. I tend to be on the side that says that more things should be pulled out.

I always wondered if a lot of components like this could be either sped up, or moved out of the kernel, using a zero-copy messaging system based on splice() / vmsplice() in the Linux kernel (which works by page table remapping as far as I understand). I guess the prime candidate would be device drivers.
You need to differentiate from the long-existing BionX hub motors[0] which do regen braking at user-selectable levels AND allow proper 7, 8 or 9-speed clusters, unlike the single gear your pictures show.

[0] http://www.bionxinternational.com/bionx-international-north-...

Edit: the big differences would be (a) this has the battery integral to the hub, where the BionX uses a separate battery pack; and (b) that this communicates to its controller -- your phone -- wirelessly, where the BionX console[1] connects with a wire.

IMO as owner of a BionX-equipped bike, I'm dubious about whether either difference is a positive one. For (a), the in-hub battery is clearly size-limited, can't be removed from the bike for charging indoors, and would be harder to replace.

As for (b), is it really a good idea to require a smartphone to be attached to your handlebars whenever you ride? That's not an easy environment, it has a lot of vibration as well as exposure to water, dust, and sweat. A minor point, the BionX dedicated controller has an optional thumb operated throttle lever for proportional control when you don't want to pedal, and it's hard to see how that could work with a smartphone.

[1]http://www.bionxinternational.com/bionx-international-north-...
Why we play Moneyball rather than Powerball?
It's not on LowEndBox, which is strange. I'm going to go in for the annual one at $12.
Op here: they do exist and the backing company is Fibernetics.ca (Canadian Clec based in Kitchener/Waterloo)

Their other lead project is Fongo - Dell Voice, which got a lot of attention last year.

The uplink is nothing close to digital ocean, but decent.

Disclaimer: I've worked for Fongo until a few months ago.
This isn't as crazy as people seem to think.

Firstly, they have partnered with a telecom[1], which means they get bandwidth at vastly reduced rates.

Secondly, their prices are roughly 1/3 more than what you'd pay elsewhere for a year of hosting[2]. If they already have paid for infrastructure (which it says they have), selling off underutilized servers quickly like this isn't a bad way to get cash.

Thirdly, I'm sure they have done the math, and can guess how many of these VPSs will be basically unused. If they are already paying to keep the servers running, most of the extra VPSs have negligible influence on their costs.

I wouldn't rely on it for something you expect to be around for ever, but it's probably not an outright scam.

[1] http://www.fibernetics.ca/

[2] http://lowendbox.com/
Looks like a less expensive version of the Embody, which is a good thing. I've got an Embody at home and at work and won't sit in anything else.

I think this will be a good replacement for all those Areons out there. Attractive, cheaper, and likely better quality. It seems like a winner for them.
Since it said Haswell-based with touchscreens, they're almost definitely talking about Windows. Android/ChromeOS tablets don't need that kind of power (and they won't pay Intel's premium where it'd be wasted). The "Ultrabook" moniker is also controlled by Intel which requires a touchscreen to use that label.

Pretty much all the major PC makers have new laptops they announced at trade shows in July/Aug/Sept that they've been holding back until November. They'll be shipping with Windows 8.1 which they couldn't do if they put them on shelves in the summer.
Feels like some decision makers are doing cocaine and making them feel perhaps more confident than they should.
If you don't mind having to position a battery on your bike, for $399 you can already get an electric wheel.

http://www.electric-bike-kit.com/hill-topper.aspx

Otherwise I've been using a wheel and battery from http://www.leafmotor.com/hub-motors/16r-electric-hub-motor.h...

If you're more into plugging stuff together yourself. They also offer more wheel sizes, like 700c.
As far as I know, the general meaning of "charging cycle" is "used up a full charge worth of power." Whether you recharge from 50% to 100% twice, or only use 10% of the battery before topping it off 10 times, you've used one cycle.
it is illegal in Russia too
I just bought one. Seems to be legit. A couple of minutes after handing over my $35 I'm ssh'd into a Debian server with the specs that they claim. Even if they go away after a few months it's not a bad deal.
Other than the fact that they are using docker, what I found most interesting was that they are developing support for Racket!
Multi-core MIPS SoCs add Linux support
I bet you could raise money to buy word.ms domain and point it to this post :p
I think this is probably a fair assessment. I just wish their website was slightly less shady.
I met a person named "Cocaine". It was actually the name his mother gave him. Also, he had reached adulthood and hadn't changed the name or started going by "Cain". De gustibus.
"Regardless of the name, these cocaine clouds represent a new force in the cloud services market and show the trending acceptance for Linux containers."

Ah, yes, "cocaine clouds."
Sounds very interesting, couple of questions:

1) Have you thought about falling back to the advertiser's website if the app isn't installed?

2) Will the link scheme be made available and if so will it be possible to link to apps from within web pages?
This would be great for something like the Raspberry Pi.
In many ways, the work of a critic is easy. We risk very little, yet enjoy a position over those who offer up their work and their selves to our judgment. We thrive on negative criticism, which is fun to write and to read. But the bitter truth we critics must face, is that in the grand scheme of things, the average piece of junk is probably more meaningful than our criticism designating it so.
Thank you!

But I find it odd that the neutrino which doesn't participate in electromagnetic force can make a charged particle (the lepton or the W).
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I live in Southern California. SC Edison has a 4 tier pricing system based on kWh consumed. The first tier is $0.13 kWh, while the top tier is $0.31 kWh.
Oh, huh, I must have arrived 5900k for daytime use too several years ago
"Not guilty" can also mean that the jury exercised their right to jury nullification.
NYC is over 30c/kWH (to my appt), cost & delivery & taxes.

400kWh is $127.93 or 32cents/kWh
Hmm, no. It's open-source system to create your own PaaS like Heroku or Google App Engine. Right? See here: https://github.com/cocaine/cocaine-core
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Did you watch the video? He appears to have dropped everything to train for the event. What more could he possibly do?

In case you are 22, let me tell you that at 35 he can't say "I'll train for five or ten years" - that training would be offset by his natural physical decline, and an increase in injuries.
The Magic Behind an App Store: Personalization
The high end of the PC laptop spectrum has been neglected for years. I guess the market is just too small to care about. I have no idea where they're taking their profits if they're pushing down on the low-end prices too.

I've been looking for a new laptop for over 2 years, and nobody's been selling anything worthy of replacing what I'm already using, which was built in 2010. For a few brief months that year, HP made a wonderful MBP clone (magnesium alloy case, 1600x900 14" screen with edge-to-edge glass, SSD, etc). Soon after, that product line turned into the same plastic 1366x768 crap everyone else was selling, and that's been what's filled store shelves ever since. Meanwhile, my 2010 laptop is starting to fall apart, with dead pixels, an overheating GPU and lost battery capacity.

I am looking forward to buying an ASUS UX301 this November to replace it. That's the first and only Ultrabook-class laptop I've seen since 2010 that'll actually be an "upgrade" without buying some thick "gaming" monstrosity. It'll have a Haswell i7-4558U, which comes with the Intel HD 5100 graphics, the first Intel integrated graphics chip to outmatch the 3-year-old Radeon in my current laptop. Plus 8GB RAM, 512GB of RAID-0 SSD, an all metal and glass case and up to 9 hours of battery life. Assuming this PC in that configuration actually makes it to market.

What's amazing to me is that this many months after Haswell parts started showing up in stores, that one ASUS laptop is still the only announced product by any name-brand manufacturer with the i7-4558U/HD 5100 parts. Every other new/"refreshed" laptop that'll be in stores this holiday season will either have an integrated GPU incapable of playing games well on the higher resolution screens they ship with, or give up its thickness and battery life for a discrete GPU.
Revolutionary encryption standard found at AppSec2013
What complex code, lua?
> "makes me wonder if only a minority of HN users have deployed to enterprise environments with rigid infrastructure policies"

I haven't, so I'd appreciate some perspective on this.

If an org does not allow other browsers besides IE, what are the chances of, for example, having a QT exe that simply wraps a webkit webview installed? I assume all orgs would have some procedure for requesting and then deploying third party software. Is this route an easier sell than simply saying "Please use Chrome or Firefox"?

Thanks
Maybe this argument is less useful for BSD users, but wouldn't most users be using the stock kernel? So it's up to the whims of the distributors whether to include it or not.
We had a few Herman Miller chairs in our office and are now switching exclusively to them for our new digs. The reason is that despite having bought our current chairs on eBay, HM upheld their 12 year warranty and fixed any and all issues that we encountered over the past few years. That level of service has made me a convert for life!
They have a new AppExchange integration that is free. It works perfect for me. Syncs our Salesforce contacts with our Mailchimp lists every hour.
This is a great talk by Stuart Halloway on what sets emacs apart from typical editors/IDEs. It's 25 minutes and well worth the time.

http://vimeo.com/1013263
> Android/ChromeOS tablets don't need that kind of power (and they won't pay Intel's premium where it'd be wasted).

Wouldn't be so sure. Acer has a Haswell Chromebook out already, and if Intel really wants to stave off ARM, they'll come down...

And while Chromebooks work with low powered CPUs, they're better with a faster CPU. WebGL is getting real, Google already has Nacl in the browser (examples are 'From Dust', 'Bastion'), and as web apps become more 'native-like', the extra power will be appreciated.
Who says it needs to run Windows and bloatware?

The HP Chromebook 14 (14" 1080p) is $299, and the Acer C270 Chromebook (11.6" 720p) is $249; both of them are Haswell-based.
What did you find shady there?
Interesting quote. Who is this "we", an actual critic? No, it's just a line from the antagonist in Ratatouille. It's not a critic's view of the profession.

I personally find people like Lester Bangs, Robert Christgau, Pauline Kael, and Eileen Jones incredibly enjoyable to read. Some "creators" like Wes Anderson actually went to great lengths to get Kael's opinion.

One-upper posters are annoying, but barbs disguised as blandishments like Ratatouille's bug me even more.
If you're in the US, that money is always for keeping you off the street, at any age. It's funny you mention retirement homes. Those cost more than my current lifestyle does. Medicaid, you say? Ok, but first you need money for a lawyer to help you get on Medicaid, because the state will seek to deny you no matter your situation, as a matter of policy. We've been going through this pathetically broken process with my grandfather for a year. Just in case any young people out there are under the impression that 'the system' just sort of kicks in and takes care of things at a certain age, it doesn't. So you don't save for retirement so you can go jet-skiing in the tropics at 90. You save so you don't end up stuck, suffering alone for years in bad conditions, because you can't afford a roof and humane care.
So, I have the experience of routinely seeing the opinions of attorneys on a whole range of issues, and while I'm sure you're right and they could come up with any number of hazards, if we made our decisions based on attorney worst case scenarios, we would never do anything.

It's funny because your response is very hostile, but we actually agree. I see how fraught alcohol in the workplace is. It's clear to me how it could cause problems. I have what I think is a fairly deep appreciation for the kinds of people that I work with, and I can make considered judgements based on that understanding.

But I definitely don't have a one-size-fits-all prescription for how to handle it. Other people on this thread talk about the glasses of beer they drink in meetings in the afternoon; I followed some teammates down on one of their smoke breaks and asked about it, and they were unanimous in judging that atmosphere frat-y. If you're routinely drinking substantially during the workday, I'm worried about your culture too. But: maybe you understand your team better than I do.

If I was in an office full of people I'd only known for 3-9 months, I'd probably be on the "no drinking in the office" side of this issue too.

Also, the idea (which I'm getting from this thread) that beer is an expected perk of startup dev jobs makes me a little queasy.
I sit on the Embody too, man is it a choice ride. Wife has a Mira and loves it. I had an Aeron for a dozen years prior, and they are OK, but the Mirra is more comfortable. The new one looks fantastic.
I see, thanks for clarifying. My direct sales activities haven't ramped up yet for this product. I've been working with my client who has told me endless stories of the vendors who charge ridiculous money for really poor results. I'm frustrated in general with companies who do great not because of quality products, but because of sales & marketing.
I'm going to say Bulbasaur has the edge here. Pikachu has a pretty decent speed stat, but it doesn't have access to many worthwhile moves. Let's talk about the build you'd use to pretty decisively beat a Pikachu.

Pikachu's common passive ability 'Static' means that it can potentially inflict paralysis when hit with physical moves. On top of that, Bulbasaur has a fairly high Special Attack stat, so it'd be a good idea for it to use Special moves rather than Physical. On top of that Pokémon get a Same Type Attack Bonus (STAB) for using moves that match their type, so we want a non-physical Grass type move. 'Leaf Storm' is probably the best move we could use in this case. To get a Bulbasaur with that move, you have to do some breeding, but it's totally possible.

Now we'd also want to take advantage of Bulbasaur's own common ability, 'Overgrow', which boosts Grass type moves' effectiveness by 50% when it goes below 1/3 of its HP which, combined with our STAB means Grass type moves are now 200% as effective. Of course once we get our HP that low we're going to want to avoid taking much more damage. Using Bulbasaur's 'Sleep Powder' move at this point will cause Pikachu to fall asleep, preventing any further attacks.

So we've got our basic strategy, get down to 1/3 of our HP, put Pikachu to sleep and then wail on it with Leaf Storm. While we're letting our HP drop we could use something like 'Swords Dance' to boost our attack stat as well.
Of course they ignore it. If they took every counsel opinion to the bank, they'd almost never sign a contract.
I'd buy that if I could put Ubuntu on it. Haven't seen that as of yet.
What the fuck are you talking about? If someone brought a gun to the office, that would be their last day working with me.

I don't even know what to say about porn in the office. In 19 years working in this field, that is an issue that has never come up (unlike guns).
Any high quality Fabric Material Case for your handheld jammer?
1- Definitely. this is something we can easily accommodate, depending on the advertiser's preferences (ex: mobile only vs. mobile second companies)

2- We've built our own link creator (see footer link on site) to make it easy to learn about other apps' url schemes and create links into their apps. these links can be used from anywhere, including the web. We're adding apps consistently, so let us know if there are any that aren't already there.
They are comfortable and extremely high quality. Not to mention the aesthetics. Cheap chairs break, and even worse they break "slowly" with weird tilts and whatnot that creep in slowly.

My first Aeron lasted 12 years of my use. The hydraulics finally died, but my son uses it now ^^
I guess I wasn't the only one who parsed that as a $299 Haskell notebook ?
Sort of like the Qwest CEO who was the only head of a major telecom to deny access to the phone companies in the illegal tapping scandal, and was shortly thereafter charged with insider trading (I don't know anything about the merits of the case):

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Nacchio
I think Dell m3800 might be what you are looking for. Not sure how they will price it though. Specs seem pretty nice.

http://www.dell.com/learn/us/en/04/campaigns/precision-m3800...
Deeplinking has been supported on Android since the beginning via Android Intents. Our ads work for both Android and iOS, and we are currently finishing our Android Turnpike library.
Why do you say that "email marketing is spam"? I get email from marketers that I would miss if it was gone.
It would be extremely cool if they'd expose information such as what moveset each Pokémon has available to them so I could make queries like 'what water type Pokémon that can learn Hydro Pump has the highest Special Attack stat'.
We don't have a small bottle fridge because we want to seem like a relaxed and fun place to work. We have a small fridge to hold Fresca, and enough people that really appreciate craft brewing that the bottom shelf of that fridge tends to have good bottles.

There's no company policy that keeps the fridge stocked; it's something that arose organically from the people that work in this office. Our MTV and NYC offices don't routinely have beer (the MTV office has the empties of the Dark Lord we bring them when we get out there).

A deliberate company policy of keeping the office plied with alcohol sounds to me like another one of those signals that maybe your company's relationship with alcohol is a bit fraught. (But that's easy for me to say; maybe I just like to drink so much that I can't see how fraught my existing relationship with drinking is? Who knows.)
Doesn't that just mean you have a particularly good warranty? It would not make sense for the warranty to last significantly longer than the expected lifetime of the product, so the only alternative would be to have a warranty that explicitly lasts much less than the expected lifetime. This seems strictly worse than the alternative!
While he did a laudable thing, Snowden ain't Nelson Mandela.
We've built a free link generator (http://www.urx.com/about/urx_links) that helps expose schemas for apps that we know about. Please contact us (team@) with any that we're missing.

http://schemes.zwapp.com/ also has a ton of schemas, but is a bit unorganized and not completely reliable.
Knoll's ReGeneration is the yin to the Mirra 2's yang.
Advice on marketing/advertising myself as a freelancer
Hey everyone, I'm a freelance writer (not a coder) mainly write about advertising technology, digital security and occasionally about non tech subjects.

Basically I wanted to see if any of you who are also freelancers (in whichever digital services category) have any advice on where I could promote myself further at low cost, for more well paying work. Currently charging what amounts to $50 - 70 per hour of work and work is reasonable, but I'm always open for more.

Any suggestions from any of you folks here?
I agree with you 100%. If you're not a Mac guy there seems to be a lack of premium options. When it becomes available I'm going to opt for the UX302 which should have a 2560x1440 screen and a GeForce GT 730M GPU.
I'd guess the real "we" is the writer of movies speaking through the character about their perspective on critics. So it would be not the critic's view of the profession, but the criticized's view. In this instance, that seemed helpful.

Criticism, like music, can be done poorly by nearly anyone and have little meaning, or by someone who has trained and studied carefully. Consider the source, I guess?

By the by: Did you really just criticize my critical quote on criticism? Recurse you, RodericDay!
The Asus UX301 is a beautiful machine, but I disagree that the last few years have been barren for the high-end market. My problem is that everybody has just been making copycat machines that look just like Macs.
Can you elucidate on your point about Zerocoin? I'm really fascinated by what I've read about it, but admittedly don't have much of a basis to evaluate on.