skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because we are all spoiled with high resolution, capacitive touch displays.
The basic idea is great, but the touchdisplay is shitty. I have a n900. Unfortunately Nokia abanded meamo.

It will be very tough to create a market and develop hardware. Hardware development is simply so expensive.
This is unfortunate. Food can be a cultural experience, it brings people together, and tasty, well-prepared food is one of life's great pleasures. Reducing food to merely taking care of physical needs (presumably so we can work more hours) is a shame...

Edit - missed some parts of the article - seems it's more in the quick meal-replacement shake category, not to outright replace easting. Either way, I'll take real food.
My current phone is 4.7", capacitive, with 1280x720. My next phone will likely be 5" or more, with 1920x1080. The perceived improvement in readability etc. in going up my current phone was fantastic - I've pretty much stopped using my tablets because I can now comfortably do so much more on my phone.

Using a phone that small with a resolution that horrible would be like being forced to wear glasses with mud smeared all over them. And have to pay extra for the privilege.
I don't think this is something you should be wearing out for a jog, or while you work out in the fields, or similar.

It sounds great for my situation, though, where I'm sitting around programming in Costa Rica. I could turn off the A/C and let the house be its normal temperature of 85 degrees or so.
Minor note: People need 2000 kcal a day, not 2 kcal. 1 kcal = 1 Calorie = 1000 calories.
Declarative 3d scene graphs combining three.js with polymer
I think this could successfully be marketed to developing countries as a food ration/field ration -- the cost per KG is quite high but it's far superior to other rations.

Imagine if naval explorers of yore had Soylent instead of cured/canned meats.

Canadian military field ration: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Individual_Meal_Pack

American military field ration: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meal,_Ready-to-Eat
No.

Of course not. C'mon.

Quite an annoying headline.
Reaction of Google’s chief legal officer, David Drummond on the news. Sounds a lot more sincere then their previous denials (which proved to be lies forced by the law anyway).

"We have long been concerned about the possibility of this kind of snooping, which is why we have continued to extend encryption across more and more Google services and links, especially the links in the slide. We do not provide any government, including the U.S. government, with access to our systems. We are outraged at the lengths to which the government seems to have gone to intercept data from our private fiber networks, and it underscores the need for urgent reform." [0]

[0]http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/google...
FAA changes safety rules so airline passengers can use electronic gadgets
Hellish ‘twin’ of Earth makes finding truly Earth-like planets more likely
How do you know you weren't just tricked?
Right, when the professor choose popsicle assignment, he clearly want everyone to "grasped the difference" and do nothing about popsicle at all. May be everyone of his assignment is always this meta zen like assignment. Kim would have gotten even higher score had he grasped the truth about "what he can do" and just go doing something else instead of wasting time doing presentation, that's really "what he can do".
The problem is that you can hold all the presidents responsible you want and that does not have the power to change this problem.

Congress, perhaps.
If you max the RAM to 8GB and add a SSD it will be a completely new machine. Also not that hard to do, well worth it. I have the 2011 model and updated first from 4 to 8 and then 16GB of RAM and from a standard HDD to Crucial M4 500GB and the machine is a beast, must faster in 10.9 than when I originally bought it.
Yes, that is possible (technically), but again, in the view of people on the scene whom I trust, VP8 was never -- meaning extremely unlokely -- going to win MTI. Likely outcomes: no MTI or H.264 MTI.

No MTI would let peers negotiate, and VP8 does win against baseline h.264 on quality. Then the question becomes: will all the bigs support it? We do, and will.
So we've just launched our new service which is the simplest way to share a browser session with others. It does not require any extra software or plugins nor do you need to write a single line of code. Just open surfly.com enter an address and share the link.
FAA officially allowing electronics during all phases of flight
Congratulations, you've discovered the ultimate bike shedding troll comment.
Open source == standards? Don’t kid me
It would be great if there was a single standard so unique drivers don't have to be built from scratch for every new bitcoin mining ASIC that's developed.
10000 submissions (woaw, a day's work just passed)

- I cheated, I admit.
Is this actually true? I'm not calling you out, but I see it reported in comments all the time, but I've never read anything about it. I failed with a quick search.

Beyond that, this whole discussion just went down in another thread, but I'm like the parent post...I just sweat easily. Even when I was younger in great shape (4-6 hours of basketball daily) I would sweat quickly and profusely. I read that some percentage (~15% I believe) of people sweat more than others.
Not to be confused with BB&N, the private school just down the street from it...
Northrop.
Normal at home prepared food is about half that cost.
I thought it was odd Microsoft was listed in the sub headline. lol
Management Studio Isn't the DBA, You Are
Thought any passionate data people out there might appreciate this piece about datacenter pros never resting on their laurels and letting technology do their jobs for them.
Because it is using a blurry and resistive (barely responsive to finger touch) monitor, making the experience of using the device way worse than the modern High PPI monitors used in other mobile devices on the market today.

The use of the term "TFT Display" is also a sign that they're not using any of the more modern types of panels like IPS. If they did they would have said so.
While I agree that up until now most of the developments on nuclear technologies have been funded by the military, it does not mean that a massive push by the public can't force governments to fund new thorium research.
I think your server is misconfigured. I'm seeing php code.
I can't be for sure, but I bet it does not trick your body, just your mind. I can go out in the cold, ignore my mind telling me the discomfort of cold or warm, but I still will shiver or sweat appropriately. Still, I would likely only use something like this indoors.
Exploring the Github Firehose
Perhaps not a rule, but a general onus on any large corp to give up domains that aren't being used for something "useful", to donate them or at least lease them out.
Custom Splatterhouse arcade cabinet for Halloween
All valid points. Still, I'm inclined to take it simply to beat all the other people with the same name.
Did Google say the paid advertisements should have disclaimers?
I don't know who compiled that statistic, but I can show you the USDA statistics!

* http://www.cnpp.usda.gov/usdafoodcost-home.htm

* http://www.cnpp.usda.gov/USDAFoodPlansCostofFood.htm
Hi,

The tool was made available for customers to legitimately check if the Private Key matched the SSL Certificate that was being installed - a common question and feature request from our customers.

However, upon review of the comments made in the internet community we have made a decision to remove this specific tool and to review all other tools that we make publicly available via our websites.

We also saw a heavy attempt to hack/abuse this tool over the past few hours, perhaps to look for exploits, an action I find absurd for those who make out to be security conscious.

I welcome any further comments on how we can improve our service and do hope that our actions to remove the tool today were prompt and satisfactory.

Zane Lucas
General Manager
Trustico Online Limited
Healthcare.gov send info to 3rd parties
Most frameworks aim squarely at programming in the small/medium scope.

The Big Lie is that you should outsource your design to them completely, because the people who designed them are smart. Nobody ever calls out the implicit appeal to authority there.
Both me and my brother had one when it came out and I can honestly say it's the shittiest phone I've had.

But this is a matter of ideology.
Human hallucinogen research: guidelines for safety
It's worth noting that the EU "Cookie Law" doesn't actually explicitly refer to cookies.

Its wording is broad enough to include alternative approaches of individually tracking users.
Sending it over HTTPS at least narrows down the recipient to.. who it's intended for. And I wasn't suggesting encrypting and then sending it to them, instead perform the check on the client side in a way that no information is ever sent back to their server; using the browser as a platform to run an "app".

I don't condone this at all, but if they're adamant about providing this service they should at least try and make it less damning than it already is.
Dark Matter Experiment Has Detected Nothing, Researchers Say Proudly
I think startup culture is breaking into a lot of other spaces, and that's where the press is coming from --

I think of YC alumns like FlightCar who, while sure there's a technology element in how they organize (but what company doesn't have this), are certainly not a "tech" startup -- they're just a good idea.
Providing such a safety net would remove the risk from starting a company. Sometimes taking on that risk is what pushes an entrepreneur to get a product out in three months rather than 18.
Are there any tutorials on this so that we can compare it to emscripten?
Mysterious Mac and PC malware that jumps airgaps?
> Also, what was so special about the N900 and is that relevant in the market today?

N900 had:

- HW keyboard

- Pixel-accurate touchscreen (with stylus)

- Desktop-ish hacker/FOSS friendly Linux OS

Essentially N900 was the embodiment of the dreams of what Nokia could have been if it weren't for EVIL Elop and MS ruining everything, and that is why the device has small cult following.

There has been occasional HW keyboard equipped Android devices since, but they have usually been of limited availability, and while Meego lives on as Mer (and the rest of the family) it afaik is not really usable as daily driver (yet). And Mer has been adapted to fairly limited number of devices, none which afaik have HW keyboards (besides N9x0).
The reason why I paired Express with Mongo is people seems to go with that route. I also made a scenario for both apps to convert the data returned from the DB by transforming the object structure first before delivering it as JSON.

Anyway I find Django code seems to be more maintainable.
New Study Finds Cash Alone Effective Way to Fight Poverty
Not if you have normal vision. The point is that we don't consider normal glasses dangerous (otherwise glass-wearing people would be banned or at least have restrictions on driving), so why would Glass be, if it was kept off?
Also, paint roofs white, not black.
Ifvisible.js - Idle user detection
It has a keyboard. That makes it infinitely more interesting to me than a Nexus 4. I bet a lot of (former) N900 users will agree. While I never used an N900, I've used phones with and without keyboards over the past few years, and I'm not settling for a touch-only device.

There's also more and more of the base Android apps that are abandoned in favour of closed-source, Google branded apps. So there's that as well.
Free Mac Wallpaper - Halloween
For those who haven't read the book, you might consider editing out your second paragraph, or at least adding spoiler tags.
isn't ghostery very/very/very slow?
I think you're ripping off your client if such basic functionality as displaying a static page on a website is "extra work" for you.
Second this; judging from all the hate resistives get, I'm starting to think that most people have never used a good one.
10 Myths About Creativity Can Derail Your Startup
Hehehe I read it like that also :)
How to master live video streaming from iOS devices
And it's been taken down. This is still up though and just as bad:

http://www.trustico.ch/ssltools/convert/pem-key-to-der/conve...
This has huge potential for us as a way of quickly making styleguides reducing both development time and designer QA time.

There are some important things missing, as far as I can tell though, like ... how do I make a list?
It uses an OEM modem module (non-free) and PowerVR graphics (non-free).
At the moment there is just no really viable open-source baseband/graphics hardware available (though people are working on both).

However, building working, commercially available phone platforms is an important step towards completely open mobile phones.

Compared to an unlocked Nexus 4, Neo900 has a few crucial advantages:

* most drivers are in the mainline Linux kernel, making it easy to upgrade the kernel.
* the hardware will be completely documented, allowing me to add or modify sensors for research projects
* there are two supported non-Android OSes with working kernels, existing communities and developers.
* it has a physical keyboard

(of course, there are a lot of obvious disadvantages, too)
Tim Cook: iPhone 5c Wasn't Meant to Be an Entry-Level Phone
I second the Python one. Why the wierd distinction between packages, modules, and things in files?

I believe all of these three should give me os.path.isdir:

import os
import os.path
import os.path.isdir

os.path.isdir(...)

And to get isdir() directly, I would use either:

from os.path import isdir
import os.path.isdir as isdir

This should work if path is either a package (a directory), a module (a file), or an object defined in os.py!

Sometimes, for some reason if I only import a module, I can't use submodules. So `import os` wouldn't give `os.path.isdir`. I don't know when that occurs, maybe it was in an ancient version of python. But it leaves me with an uneasy feeling every time I use a submodule. Anyone know when this happens?

Last but not least, it should be easier to import stuff from above the script. If my script lives at ./tools/foobar.py, and I want to import ./helper.py, it should just be something like

# ./tools/foobar.py
from .. import helper

$ python ./tools/foobar.py # simple run-a-script syntax

and not

$ python -m tools/foobar # hideous run-a-module syntax

or what I'm using now

# ./tools/foobar.py
# hideous boilerplate header
import sys, os
SCRIPTDIR = os.path.relpath(os.path.dirname(__file__) or ".")
PARENTDIR = os.path.relpath(os.path.join(SCRIPTDIR, ".."))
sys.path.insert(0, PARENTDIR)

import helper

$ python ./tools/foobar.py # simple run-a-script syntax
I think the general point is very relevant. Don't all founders start because they think they'll be successful? Otherwise they wouldn't in the first place. Alas, markets may beg to differ and your product/service even if it appears useful is not in demand. Even Apple was down at some point...;-)). If this happens during a recession try finding a job - good luck. A safety net of sorts is useful and the now EU wide initiative to at least have a discussion about a guaranteed minimum income is a starting point. Maybe it could also be an attractive proposition for a social impact entrepreneur to come up with a solution.
Neo? http://www.gizchina.com/2013/09/02/neo-n003-review/

Is this the same company, or just a coincidence?
I assume they will use some kind of browser fingerprinting.

https://panopticlick.eff.org/
Yup.

This may be part of the lack of technical background in the article, but how do Facebook widgets on people's sites track whether you are logged in to Facebook if not via cookies? The mechanisms I know, user agent and IP address, don't seem reliable enough to replace a session cookie.
That's only true if your business is crudely comparable to the iterated prisoner's dilemma. But any given recruiter can expect to fall off the end of the mental space you've allocated to $BAD_RECRUITERS by the time they contact you again, if they ever do contact you again.
People that cannot produce a nutritous tasty meal for under 3 dollars within a few minutes need to take a cooking class, not get fed brown powder.
Registration via Mail? And the mail takes way too long ... what year do you live in? 1990?
There's a similar technology already being tested on athletes:

http://corecontrolcooling.com/
Well, it can transfer heat when electric current is applied. They used these for processor coolers in the 90s, I remember my father had one and it broke one day and so his processor let out the blue smoke.
This doesn't help in quite the way you would like, but the recursion limit is adjustable through sys.setrecursionlimit [1].

[1]http://docs.python.org/2/library/sys.html#sys.setrecursionli...
If you've never read it before, you're in for a fun read - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Internet

Back then email was still the primary civilian use of the internet, although by the mid-80s BBS's and USENET were firmly entrenched. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulletin_board_system https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usenet

The early walled gateways (AOL, Compuserve, etc) and then the wider web as you know it didn't really take off until the early 90s.
Expanding our understanding of the universe IS part of culture since it allows us new avenues of thought. The arts and sciences were considered to be the same thing not so long ago.

I also find it highly doubtful that you do not care about the results of technology. Technology pretty much shapes our lives so you cannot plausibly pretend to be so blasé about it all. Our continued existence depends on the responsible use of powerful inventions so not caring about the results is a pretty unscientific and downright dangerous attitude anyway.
Been a ghostery user for a long time now. Haven't noticed any slowdowns ever.
You don't have to only consume Soylent. You could do it 2 meals a day and still enjoy dinner with friends.
New FAA Guidelines Permit More Device Use
Mine is adjustable. I have it set to 3 minutes. I still often snooze 5-6 times, but now it costs me ~20 minutes instead of an hour.
Are you sure it was the screen? The early Maemo 5 builds were pretty bad at scrolling without freezing, then popping forward quickly. The later updates and CSSU are smooth as silk.
Believe me, I'd be as happy as anyone if someone did a movie of Consider Phlebas (maybe Luc "5th Element" Besson?). :-)

Pretty much every time I hear Coldplay's Paradise a trailer for Consider Phlebas plays in my mind.
On my personal blog I made a button to disable/enable all the social media plugins. I don't know if anybody uses it (my readership is approximately zero, so no point in tracking clicks or A/B testing), but I figured I'd give users the option out of courtesy.

It does use a cookie to track your preference. The default is to enable them (since most users are not tech savvy enough to know they want them off, and those same users wouldn't easily find a button to turn them on).
The embarassment of complexity
Sorry about that, will look into it.
This list makes the rounds every year or so, but I always like seeing it; one of the domains is a special one to me, although I was not there at the time it was registered. UniPress Software (unipress.com, #80 on the list) was my first job while in college in the late 90s, and gave me the ~14 year experience of creating a product that went through all of the stages from "figuring out if people want a web-based application that does ___" to being a grown up, enterprise software that was acquired by a very large company. The two founders had real software-startup instinct before startup/entrepreneur was something written about, a love for what it is that we do, and are still close friends. It was a great place to be, a great time, and awesome people to be around. The two founders reached the age of retirement and sold the company years ago, but have been involved in two startups since, just because it's what they like. It makes sense that they would have bought a domain when it was a "pioneer" thing to do.

Most recently, seeing that Twitter was becoming very popular, Mark had been pumping out PHP code using CodeIgniter and made www.mediaroost.com in his spare time, a Twitter Management platform. It didn't take off, he retired it, but had a good time. Going way back, this is the same guy who wrote C compilers and sold Whitesmiths Ltd which released the first commercial C compiler.

(and going back before my time again, but interesting history - UniPress had also purchased Gosling Emacs which then became UniPress Emacs, controversially asking Richard Stallman to stop distributing GNU emacs source code.)
Nature news has a better writeup: http://www.nature.com/news/exoplanet-is-built-like-earth-but...

Direct link to the pair of papers:

[1] http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/natu...

[2] http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/natu...
Email came instantly for me.
Some things I've noticed:

- Push notifications are much needed.

- I logged out, but now I can't log back in.

- I'm unable to send more than one message at a time, but it's complaining that I need to wait 2 seconds.
Resistive touch screens is why smart phones never really took off in the main stream before the iPhone (which for some reason introduced capacitive touch screens on smart phones).

Basically it is a terrible technology for small devices and barely usable without a pen. The only advantage is with a pen it is actually way more accurate than a capacitive screen allowing for for example handwriting recognition.

On my orange m500 (which was a rebranded htc) I could write text messages so fast, I think faster than I do on touch screen keyboards now. But yeah, wouldn't trade a cap screen for a resistive screen for the world.
Looking back on the Spanish war - George Orwell, 1943
What a waste of effort. There has never been the slightest consumer interest in modular phone systems. In fact, the whole modular idea goes directly against the current state of consumer hardware manufacture which is tight integration and automated construction of hardware.

The state of art in PC and tablet devices is light and compact which is directly opposite what a modular device would entail.

It might have some slight hobby and enthusiast support but as a consumer model is preposterous.
A client of mine asked me at the start of the meeting; "how would you go about making a logistics application that will collect data from 300.000 different logistics companies, calculate the price based on the country the logistics company is in, and make it usable all over the world between users, agents and said companies".
See here: http://www.cnpp.usda.gov/Publications/FoodPlans/2013/CostofF..., thanks to HN user fennecfoxen
I mostly agree, but "within a few minutes"? I think you're underestimating a bit. It does take time and effort (which is, for sure, not wasted).
> People want to be able to shut their door, and this interferes with the cross ventilation.

Go back a little further (1850-1900-ish) and everyone had doors that look like
http://makingitlovely.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/MG_8405...

These work great with assisted convection. Open an attic window. Place a box fan in the window, blowing outwards. Everyone opens their windows and the hottest air in their room (at the ceiling) is drawn out through the door vents. It'll even work in single-floor apartments. Since getting a box fan (12 years ago) I've no longer needed AC to sleep at night.
HTML5: The Platform Of Perception And Assumptions
I'm not convinced that's "replication" in the sense that's important in science. Bugs in the original test will be reproduced in the attempted reproduction. It's useful for "this person didn't flat out lie about their results", which is probably also a good thing, and for finding issues when replication fails, so I don't disagree that it should happen. I just disagree with calling it "replication".