skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You do realize that the guts in all of these monitors are either Korean or Chinese, right? All display manufacturers feed off of just a handful --quite literally a handful-- of OEM panel manufacturers. There is no real special sauce except in cases where an OEM, like Apple, pays for a run on a certain spec panel in exchange for exclusivity for a period of time and a guaranteed purchase of an agreed-upon volume of panels. After that the panels become available to anyone who wants to use them.

My point is: Don't fall into the false idea that a company like Dell is doing something unique coming out of their R&D labs. Consumer displays are commoditized to hell and back. Just look at this weekend's flyers from companies like Walmart: 70 inch full HD TV's for less than $1,000.
http://pineapple.io/resources/tagged/sprites
> The "hit him with this $5 wrench until he tells us his password" school of torture produces highly reliable information, because it's trivial to check whether what the guy said was correct.

Sounds like the difference between P and NP problems in Computer Science, i.e. P (polynomial-time) problems can be solved in polynomial time, whereas NP (non-deterministic polynomial-time) problems can't be solved in polynomial time but their solutions can be checked in polynomial time.

> How do you differentiate someone who is LYING from someone who is the wrong person, or who doesn't know?

Sounds like the Halting Problem in Computer Science, i.e. checking whether an algorithm halts for all inputs in uncomputable.

It seems Computational Complexity and Computation Theory have something to say about whether torture is an effective means of extracting information.
Check https://moot.it/upgrade — we currently offer 2 paid upgrades, Branding and SSO. — Janne/Moot
I own the Seiki 4K 50" The launch version of the retina MBP is artificially limited to, I believe 16hz. There are firmware hacks floating around to get this number to 24Hz (and above, IIRC).
Can you point me in a direction where I can find contestants that are claiming this? I work at Salesforce and I would like to investigate this further.

I already commented on an earlier thread (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6784782), and so far I can find only one person that is claiming that their video was not shown (@colabi). While every complaint deserves to be investigated, I think colabi's has been heard multiple times already and I'd like to see if there is some other cause for concern.
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Sorry, she came out as an inexperienced (perhaps first days on the job?) tech support person, and you came out as a royal dick.

You could ask to talk to someone else before, in the first case of incompetence.

Or you could easily hang up, and try again, which would have given you another support person to talk to.
Europe's Ryanair vs. America's Southwest
Will Google Kill my Blog on December 6th?
That would be quite agreeable, yes! The bezels would then be the target for elimination by the next generation.
HP did release a windows tablet called the Slate...
I doubt FAA would ever allow that.

It's a cool idea, but imagine a drone hitting a wire and crashing into a car on the opposite lane. It will kill.
How the heck did she get hired? Interestingly, there were no canned responses like you usually see from Tech Support. I wonder if this is Amazon trial'ing something new?
Why dropbox is the new pipe
Link to the prototype.
Flagged because it's behind a login wall.
Drop the screen refresh rate to 24hz to match the video then...
If you run over someone with a vehicle then you are using your vehicle as a weapon, same with throwing a cinderblock or having BigDog kick an enemy.

My point was that the headline was technically correct.

I'd be willing to bet that they're absolutely not allowed to show the BigDog or a similar animal-like robot with a machine-gun mounted to it. That's why there was the "teaser" video with the bull horns.

Numerous robots have had machine-guns and grenade launchers attached to them, it would be trivial to attach one to the BigDog platform.

It would be cool to use as a distraction as well. If the BigDog was heavily armored and sent out to draw fire. If the BigDog ran up to an enemy and kicked them or threw a cinderblock at them, that would be a pretty effective weapon (from a psychological and physical standpoint), with no gun required.
I wonder how many of those online merchants you can actually complete a transaction with? 25 external links on that page appear to be broken for starters.
Just found the same article.. It really is a HUGE difference, wow. In 2012 there have been hundreds of killings in the US and below 10 (in a whole year) in either Canada or the UK or Germany. Now, i'm quite convinced that it's entirely possible noone was ever shot in Iceland (by police) until now.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6836944
They should have made a timelapse video out of it, it would be much better than tormenting my mouse wheel.
Yes. To call this result "unsurprising" would dignify it unduly.
This is technical support bliss compared to the 8 or 9 occasions I have had to deal with Adobe support.

Adobe still owe me around £30 (for reactivating a deactivated subscription and charging me), but I dread another 90 minute support call dealing with them...
Pfft. It's a hit piece, and I don't even like Amazon.
I was at UIQ back when the iPhone "happened". It really was as pivotal for the industry as he says. I quipped that the iPhone made us irrelevant and Android made us redundant.

I was surrounded by people with strong ambition and vision, at UIQ, Symbian, at our owners Motorola and Sony Ericsson, who wanted to build the iPhone and knew how to build the iPhone long before the iPhone was announced and before they knew anyone else was doing it.

We knew all about capacitive displays, finger-touch and so on. To be honest my own vision was tainted by Flash-based UIs and the mechanics of that, but the Flash demos I was trying to enable were fancy iPhone-like UIs. The artists had the design ascetic that was the iPhone to a tee.

But the phone manufacturer upper management were essentially very traditional hardware manufacturers with traditional channel relationships and techie vision was never given much attention.

Not taking away from Apple, not saying actually I could imagine it having turned out any different. Its simply that Apple didn't have the management constraints. Apple created new teams to make new products. The entrenched phone makers made existing teams punch out variants and incremental refreshes of the same tired formulae.

I imagine it was much the same in Finland too.

The big question is, without Jobs, will Apple settle into defending what they have - and punching out variants and incremental refreshes of it - or will they have fresh ambitious restarts?
You've hit the two top things on my to do list.. command substitution and control flows. It says on the top of the home page that they're not implemented yet.
Is this also the source of the ultra-real "soap opera" effect that ruins movies on new televisions?
So 4ch.io would have knocked-off another 30 bytes or so?
This guy is missing the fact that in a lot of European countries, and elsewhere in the world, carriers mean squat. The carrier is often simply the provider of the SIM card you put in the phone, so carrier support is in no way needed for a phone to succeed. You don't need to be successful in the US to be successful.
My takeaway here is to reflect on how I would have responded to this service incident had it happened to me in person vs. online. I know I would be much less likely to yell and swear in person and I definitely wouldn't wait an hour before asking politely to be assisted by someone else.
Nope, and now perhaps you can appreciate how hard it is to come up with solutions. Problems are easy to spot, your intuitions on solutions is often wrong. Thousands of drones are in use right now, this very day, serving useful purposes. Drones can already survive heavy wind and rain. Part of the reason is that open space is far less obstructed and much easier to navigate in an automated fashion than public roads. In comparison to drones, the number of non-experimental self-driving cars is probably close to zero.

Self-driving cars also would have no flexibility in package placement, making the idea a non-starter. Amazon isn't going to leave your packages at the curb.

One problem people seem to be having is that they think Amazon has to come up with a perfect solution that covers every edge case. They don't. They can start using drones for carefully defined environments and expand from there.
I wish for a future where every human being has more or less the same standards of living independent of where they were born. Or at the least, the same "pollution limits" independent of borders.

The earth and the climate don't care who pollutes how much. The total amount of pollution matters and there shouldn't be a privileged few consuming magnitudes higher than the rest. Plain and simple.
In what way do you beg to differ? You're just linking me to an article about AWS profits.
Just like investments in Bitcoin startups are binary, so are investments in Bitcoin itself. Put some USD into it and don't worry too much about it. People waste millions on lottery tickets with much smaller chances of success, so, I'm tired of all these negative articles, just because Bitcoin dropped 20-30% and then almost fully recovered in a day. Sell off if you wish - there are enough people to buy your Bitcoins cheap. And by the way, the tulip craze is an obvious myth.
Is Kickstarter a store?
Paul Graham actually wrote an essay about this: http://paulgraham.com/inequality.html

I agree with pg -- eliminating inequality would almost eliminate incentives to take great risks, and would be a disaster for the economy.
I don't know what this reference is about.
FYI, any dots in your gmail address are immaterial, so you didn't need to have this conversation in the first place.
https://support.google.com/mail/answer/10313?hl=en
Speaking as a former employee, this is a great place to work! A+++!
Meet the BRCK
Still not getting the point here.

- One individual or fund doing well in any particular year = random chance

- One individual or fund doing well for a decade = chance is not a possible explanation

Essentially the chance of getting a heads on a coin flip is a 50/50. If you get heads, it's a chance event.

However, if you do 10,000 coin flips and end up with 8,000 heads, either the flipper or the coin have an edge in making heads turn up. The pattern shows that it is no longer a random 50:50 chance.
Airbus to Customers: Your $200 Million Plane Is Not a Lemon
OK awesome, I like the site (and it's clear it's being used, congrats, looks like a lot of people love using it!)

Some questions/suggestions:

1) In the UI, why +/- instead of toggling one button to do both? (like click to use/remove)

2) Why not enable clicking on the entire div to add/remove? Since the page seems to be formatted for small screens, I would probably find it much easier to click the whole div to add/remove

3) Is a preview/realtime mode in the works? Are you planning on adding any functionality for previewing the bibliography that gets generated? Of course this depends on the time it takes to generate each of these, I'm assuming it's not very long

Of course, all the things I'm suggesting here and secondary (if it ain't broke, don't fix it) -- but I was wondering if you considered these things.
I had a similar thought, but was thinking about coding. I try very hard to write 'perfect' code the first time. I think it's a skill that's developed, and also a spectrum. You start out writing awful code and need to go back and revise it many times, but hopefully over time you internalize what better code is so that you don't have to revise as much.
Well, I'll explain my thinking and maybe you can tell me where you think I got it wrong without resorting to bad analogies involving rape.

Public shaming requires two elements: a shameful act, and an audience.

The shameful act is usually provided by the person in question. I say "usually" because there are cases where people are shamed for rumors or outright lies. I think we can both agree that, in this case, the person provided it themselves.

The audience, in acts usually considered to be "public shaming", is provided by a second party. That is, the shameful act would have been private, but then another party brought it to light by providing an audience.

In this case, the audience was already there by virtue of the environment in which the person carried out their shameful act. The tweeters enlarged this audience, but they did not provide it as might have been the case if they had been tweeting a private conversation. Even without them, these people would have still shown their shame to a couple hundred other people.

Note that I am not saying they "deserved" this treatment or anything like that, I'm just saying that they made it happen themselves. The people everybody is getting angry at for posting the events weren't even necessary for it.
Deep content search for mobile apps: Will a standard emerge?
The Web is Slow Because of Database Queries in Loops
ITunes 11-style color matching code for Android
Homeland: An old school CIA operative chewing an old school gum
Right--that's the assertion made is this well-done and damning post:

https://medium.com/hackers-and-hacking/b839268fb82d
GNU dmd 0.1
I remember reading (some time ago, and I can't find the article now) that YouTube view counters are designed to be probabilistic and "good enough" to give a general idea of the number of views. I don't believe YouTube is providing any particular guarantee on the accuracy of their view counters.

Lock-step global counters, even when you play games like sharding and summing to reduce contention, can still introduce latency and SPOF. But then again, I would have expected any probabilistic counter to only kick in after a certain popularity threshold.

I would hesitate to make any claim that something definitely was not viewed based on anything less than the full HTTP access logs of a self-hosted video.
Well that was just a simple example with round numbers. In reality you will have thousands and thousands of such transactions all going to seemingly random wallets with random amounts, and then to ten thousand different ones, back and forth. They will look like real transactions too.

You can't possibly track something like that. Most wallets don't have any names attached to them.

And even in this simple example you don't know who F, X and Z are and how to find them. They are just wallet numbers.
Exactly rather than focusing why a smartphone can't succeed, I'd like to see how and why a phone can succeed.

If anyone thinks that the mess in the Play Store and the development environment of Android doesn't leave a bad taste in your mouth they should really re-consider thinking that Android is going to be around forever. I would like to ditch this platform the first moment I get. There are a lot niches that are not addressed by market players today, and the overlap between them can wedge a dent in the market. Google has serious weakness in hardware, and it looks like they will never get over that hump. Can you honestly expect them to optimize performance and battery life, if they can't even make their own devices.

Niches like:

Open-Source/Flexible development environment

Sustainability

Emerging Markets

Actual Innovation

Disruptive technologies and emerging markets shouldn't be counted out either. Nor should finding ways to monetize open-source. People, developers especially are increasingly looking for open platforms/devices, that market is NEVER going to get smaller only bigger.

Imagine actually being able to use Javascript or Python or Clojure for your apps, or scripts. Will you actually discount a platform where you can program without managing a thousand configuration files or worry about the gatekeepers(Google/Apple). See these problems aren't necessarily problems in Linux(not to say there aren't other drawbacks).

The great(maybe not?) thing about innovation is that if your to busy looking at the technology today your going to completely miss out what is coming next. - At least it's great if your competing.

I can't help thinking about what Jobs says, "Experts" are clueless.

>Experts—journalists, analysts, consultants, bankers, and gurus can’t “do” so they “advise.” They can tell you what is wrong with your product, but they cannot make a great one. [1]

[1]http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-20117575-37/what-i-learned...

People seriously underestimate the power of a great product. Products that don't rely on massive feature lists that mean nothing a day after buying your device. I regret falling into this trap and wasting precious time instead of thinking about creating a better product experience. But again this is easier said than done.
You could also broadcast noise in those frequencies at a loud enough volume to block any signal.
So, someone who is a prolific FOSS contributor is screwed?
Ninja Java Web Framework 2.3.0 released Featuring SuperDevMode.
The economics of cheap drone delivery
X-Star DP2710: a 27" 1440p PLS monitor for $300 shipped
Yes, but every time I've investigated it, the tl;dr was "not worth it" given our requirements/constraints.

Google Analytics has its shortcomings, but it's a great product and free.
It's referencing Microsoft back tracking on the XBox One being 'always connected' and calling homebase once every 24 hours. The removed that functionality after a huge backlash o the 'Net

http://www.cnn.com/2013/06/19/tech/gaming-gadgets/xbox-drm/
We're going to solve the problem of giving our ex-employee's team $1m by giving the runner up, a company we own a portion of, $1m as well.
Where do you draw the line? Let's say I'm a core developer on Rails, am I not allowed to use Rails then? What happens if I contributed 1 line of code to Rails, does that negate it then?
Keep your headphones plugged in.

BAM!

Solved!
I saw the talk at U of M. It was both insightful and entertaining. Unfortunately the Q&A was dominated by questions about Reddit. I wanted to hear your thoughts on bitcoin, but knew you'd never get through the line at the mics. Have you written about it anywhere? Ever thought of selling the book for BTC?
This [1] is my candidate for why I'm not cut out to be a master C++ programmer. There's far too many arcane rules. I want to use a language I can enjoy.

[1] http://herbsutter.com/2008/01/01/gotw-88-a-candidate-for-the...
That's true on Google's end. Is it true on Amazon's end? Do they view johndoe@gmail.com and john.doe@gmail.com as separate email addresses?
The issue is they specific said you can't start or use existing code before the date (still there in the rules PDF). I know that many very talented teams followed that rule even though theycould have used some of their older repos and did something even more impressive than Upshot. Then they respond to a forum question, weeks after the hackathon started, saying "yeah sure, just not a significant amount". Most programmers were heads down in their code and didn't check the forum. That's wrong and they did nothing to explain or correct this.
No. That's the TV interpolating frames. The effect described would introduce a stutter.
BRB, switching everything now!
I've used that but I think OP's UI is sexier. Thanks though.
It doesn't need to be cheaper than a delivery driver. The service would still be an enormous benefit to Amazon even if it operated at a loss because they'd be getting tons of business that would otherwise go to brick-and-mortar stores.
Why isn't lack of DB connection a panic condition?

It is a panic condition... I could have chosen my words better. That's what I meant by the program exiting.
I have 2 24" monitors at work in portrait mode and bezels are my bane. I would much prefer a 30" (or hell, 50") with no bezel.

With my main MBP display as a good 2nd screen (great for telecons where you share one screen - you can keep your side-channel chats and email private on the other), one large main screen is perfect.
Google's mystery barges are 'floating retail stores' that cost $35 million
I just watched a Soviet film called Gosudarstvennaya Granitsa (State Borders) which showed various events in the evolution of the Soviet Border Patrol, and in the 5th film, about a few days around the invasion. In it they showed border guards doing a lot of dumb things including being woefully unprepared. So even the Soviets acknowledged that there was a lot of military incompetence around the German invasion.

Later on, they got a lot more serious about competence in their military forces, and won the war while the victorious Germans, gloating about overcoming their enemy and having captured such an astounding amount of territory, let down their guard and paid the price.
For $1k, you can get /three/ X-Star DP2710s, which are 27" 1440p PLS monitors. A much better deal in my opinion. (http://www.ebay.com/itm/Matte-FREE-EXPRESS-X-STAR-DP2710LED-...)
Profiling Python Like a Boss
We get surprisingly little mobile web traffic -- only 16% in November.
It would be a heck of a coup if it was the same gamut. One can dream...
20 bits = 2 and a half bytes, and you are right that is enough.

What surprises me is how people regarding this as "novel" not too long ago quite a few people used a "modem". That was a mythical device that used phone networks to transmit information. Regular phones would pick up that as sound.

Sure there are few technical hurdles - covert communication and stringent error correction are most visible, but concepts are remarkably similar.
I commented last! I win!

e: And don't even think of replying.
"I'll keep trying - maybe someone at Google could help?"

Doubtful. Getting support from Google is pretty much impossible (you do have slightly increased chances since you've put it on HN however).

If I were you, I'd initiate a domain transfer to a different registrar that will actually provide support when you need it before your domain expires.

Even if you're lucky enough to have Google resolve the issue this time, you may not be so lucky in the future and there are numerous domain registrars that would handle your domain better than Google will.
An Apple spokeswoman confirmed the deal but wouldn't comment further. "Apple buys smaller technology companies from time to time, and we generally do not discuss our purpose or plans," she said without elaborating further.

Question for those more experienced here, but doesn't "purpose or plans" of acquisitions generally fall under things that you have a duty to share with your shareholders?
Rights Group Sues to Have Chimp Recognized as Legal Person
The obvious place to draw the line is the point where the code you wrote isn't equally available to you and all the other competitors.
That would present infection vector^^. Study was purely about two computers with very special software trying to covertly communicate using ultrasound.
For Siri perhaps?
People are lazy. But on the other hand, there are far too many sites forcing people to have unique passwords. Ultimately, passwords have to be re-used.

I suppose the alternative might be a password manager, but given the NSA revelations I feel even less secure about putting my passwords onto a cloud-based list.
Http://www.wired.com/design/2013/12/terminal-cornucopia/
The C/C++ devs at where I work decided to move to Eclipse last year and they have been very happy ever since.

They work with large C++ codebase and Linux C kernel.
For the purposes of this article, it is assumed the air-gapped computer is already running the malware, having been infected by some other means (ex. thumbdrive). The ultrasound communications provide a continuous (albeit slow) link between two infected computers.

It would be quite impressive, though, if a vulnerability in an audio driver allowed an uninfected computer to be infected simply by "hearing" the exploit sound!