skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The thing is that people had been building smartphones since before the iPhone, and none of them looked anything like that. Buttons. Everywhere. The fact that the iPhone form factor is now considered self-evident is a demonstration of Apple's design strength, not of how obvious the form factor is.

Don't forget that to make that form factor work, you need a whole software stack that is able to replace the physical buttons adequately. You need an on-screen keyboard capable of at least equalling a physical keyboard. You need to have virtual buttons that are easy to use. You're going to be doing a lot of scrolling on that tiny screen, so you're going to need some pretty good graphics routines. To make that scrolling anything other than an awful experience you're going to need low-latency right from the capacitive input right through to the content actually moving on the screen. Not easy, especially with the chip used in the original iPhone.

Think about Android. If Android had have been first to market, and they had actually undergone the post-iPhone transformation without the iPhone being present (because don't forget, it was originally going to be a phone with a physical keyboard), they would have released a touch-screen phone with Android 1.0 on it. Android 1.0 was awful. Battery life was rubbish, graphics performance was pathetic, even the keyboard was full of fail. If that had have been the defining capacitive screen smartphone, we may have decided that touchscreen phones were not the right direction.

It took Google, with a large chunk of the smartest engineers on the planet, about 4 years to ge to a point where Android was truly competitive with iOS. It took about 5 years for Microsoft to get Windows Phone to the same place.

Without the software engineering effort, the capacitive screen was not an obvious solution. The fact that Apple invested in that effort made the benefits obvious to everyone, but this was not the case pre-2007.
Seven Ways Startups Can Embrace Marketing
You can lock down iPads via the Ease of Access feature. Apple uses it to lockdown iPads in their stores, for example. The restaurant didn't have them properly configured, although it is an oddly termed feature in the settings.
Delivery By Drone
Circles? That's Nascar
Fisher's thesis is actually available on the internet archive: https://archive.org/details/optimizationofho00fish
I dunno if it's just me, but I usually skip an article that starts with something like "Four-year-old Riley Maida stands in a toy aisle of a department ...." and then there's a mile of scrolling to do. At least tell me what your central thesis is going to be if you're asking me to invest so much time and emotion into a story.
We scanned this from a computing magazine from 1970
Google Compute Engine widely available, extended OS support and lower pricing
I hazard a guess that it will collapse before that point.
Nail polish -> healthy nails -> healthy body -> lots of resources & good genetics.

Lipstick -> red lips -> sexual symbol (looks similar to vaginal labia) -> more reproductive choice
CERN CMS presents evidence that Higgs decays to fermions
Toshiba Acquires OCZ SSD Division
Hipoteca inversa • Hipotecas, préstamos y créditos
A meaningful "anything goes" tournament (compare "freestyle chess") would probably have as the single rule that there can't be a driver in the car. That, on the other hand, would probably remove most of the audience appeal, as it's just not that interesting to see machines compete (as is also the case with freestyle chess). No audience means no money and no money means no R&D budget. So that's probably why it wouldn't work.
Im not a lawyer so there may be subtle details I don't understand, but broadly in England and Wales, you can be sued within either 6 years or 12 years from the date of a breach of contract depending on type of contract, in Scotland 15 years. I don't know about the US or rest of EU, but think carefully about deleting all your old emails. You might have something in there which would be very useful to defend yourself if this ever happened. You would regret this if you had built the next Facebook and some old acquaintance decided to stake a claim based on some gmail conversation from 10 years ago. Better to archive to a redundant backup system I would say.
Try im.save("/tmp/artsciimg.png"). This will most likely show that it's a local permission error.

Then identify which directory it's trying to write to with os.system("pwd") and chmod 777 that directory.
I use Spectacle because it's free and I hate having to pay for each feature on OS X that windows has by default. I miss Aero Snap so much, but Spectacle does a decent-enough job.

http://spectacleapp.com/
This reminds me of an old video of a student's room http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DmuVD0X-fEE
Chatroulette with Facetime
Super Awesome Ways Startup Can Improve Customer Loyalty And Increase Sales
Inside Vertu
Network latency isn't really an issue, because the team has no direct control over any aspect of the car aside from what they say to the driver; Pit-to-car telemetry is explicitly prohibited, and radio comms from the team to the car are voice-only.

In short, the latency introduced by voice comms far outweighs any geographical distance introduced by sending data to and from the cray at homebase.
Latency does not matter because the driver must do all the work controlling the car and the engine.

They use data links (at some point they used direct radio links, don't know what happens these days) back and forth from the car to the pit wall and all the way back to the factory. There's around 20-50 engineers working every time the cars are out on track.

But the telemetry is all one way, it's not allowed to control the car from the pit wall. There are computer programs and engineers analyzing the telemetry all the time but all they can do is give instructions to the driver.

You can regularly see/hear this happen in races. There may be a slight collision between cars and e.g. the front wing gets damaged a little. The driver will radio the pit wall and ask whether they have damage or not. The engineers behind the pits and in the factory will analyze the data from the suspension travel vs. pitot tube telemetry and conclude whether there's damage to the wings and whether that damage is grave enough to warrant changing the front wing at the pits (~10 seconds stationary).

Here's an amazing video from McLaren mission control in their factory in Great Britain while the cars are out on track in Korea on the other side of world.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYhl7csZJHw
And no one is complaining about it.
In 1983, North America experienced a massive recession in the video game industry, now known as the video game crash. The crash had devastating effects, bankrupting game company after game company. At its peak, the revenues for video games in the U.S. sat at $3.2 billion in 1983. By 1985, revenues fell a whopping 97 percent to approximately $100 million. There are many factors behind the crash. The key factor is that by 1983, the video game market was saturated with low-quality games, which resulted in a loss of consumer confidence. Anyone who could make a game was making a game, and there was little to no regulation on the part of the console makers. Players got burnt. Retailers got burnt. People stopped buying video games. The crash marked what many believed to be the end of the video game industry.

Sounds like today's "casual gaming" market.
Do you understand the difference between "formalizing all reasoning" and just formalizing something?
We have a house full of Disney princess stuff for our one year old. It will probably still be true when she's 5 and can actually influence our purchasing choices. But what will the "market dynamics" tell you about her preferences, other than they are stable once we established them?

Anyone who still believes in a simplistic rational actor desperately needs to read the work that's been done on behavioral economics. Dan Ariely's work is an approachable way to start. He hasn't tackled socialization yet, but it still gives you an idea of how human actors don't resemble the platonic ideal at all.
The video mentions that the aerodynamics of the car generates so much down-force that it could ride upside-down on the ceiling. Wow.
Missing a negative! :)
More than that, it's things like "free to play" also sucking the will out of the consumer.
Adult human beings are not rational actors, why on earth would you expect prepubescent children to be? the age group that is most targeted by advertising (because they're the most impressionable).
Latest Security Breaches Around December 2013
That argument kind of ignores marketing. If I spend several million (probably billions cumulatively at this point) telling people that product X should be associated with characteristic Y which is traditionally assigned more to one gender than another, then I'm likely to be modifying the market to an extent that you cannot truthfully say that market dynamics provide a reason for the disparity that will emerge.
I would also like to recommend World war Z. cuz a zombie plague is much more dangerous than flu
This is from 2007
Despite that post for tolerance of other JVM languages, I still found the linked (original) thread a type of toxic community I haven't exactly seen before. Peppered with great posts, but overall, disturbing.

Self-important to an extreme (We are a threat to them .. mentioned dozen+ times), often describing people who don't like Scala as either lazy or defensive. The concept that someone could be very adept at Scala, and still think it isn't a good language (and set of important libraries) is simply a non-starter for them.

That type of fundamental arrogance in a community so young is bad news -- and it appears to come right from the top.

On the upside, there was at least begrudging acknowledgement that issues actually exist.
I used to think it was dull, but then I read up on the aerodynamic and engineering work that goes into each car's design and suddenly it became a lot more interesting.
The real question is how fast an "anything goes" F1 car would go around a racetrack. Especially if you remove the human driver, or make the car remote-controlled.
Here's the X2014: http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2013/12/03/red-bulls-gran-tu...

Also here's an interesting comparison betweek the X2010 and X2011: http://xn-games.net/okra/2011/10/29/gran-turismo-5-red-bull-...

Finally, tech specs and diagrams (indicating load & downforce) for the X2010: http://jonsibal.com/blog/2010/10/red-bull-x1/
While certainly impressive, that's been true of F1 cars for decades.
Meh, I charge my devices when I drive or when I sleep. The plugs near my bed are by the floor, so I need the cable to keep the phone on my bed. The iPad is in a Griffin Milspec case and wouldn't work with this- cord it is. Nice idea, but wouldn't work for my family.
Try reading the header
I'm in my early thirties and pretty successful (because I worked hard and am clever). Yet, even I can see this generation is being squeezed, between high unemployment, low wages and student debts. Not to mention high housing prices (and rent). What's the point of saying "be harder"? It doesn't change reality.
Also be aware that people like myself that don't know much about Scala, but are trying to keep it on their radar, may upvote such a post just to try and see where the comment thread goes and see if there are good insights from the defending community.

Often an upvote doesn't mean I agree with the post or even its tone. Just that I want to see some further discussion.

(I don't know if this is in the spirit of HN, I appreciate it must be maddening for some people to see 'low quality' posts get upvotes).
What you're describing sounds very close to F1 of the 60's, 70's and early 80's, now keep that in mind and take a look at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fatal_Formula_One_accid...

As to the question whether or not this would make for "great telly" or not, I leave to those far more cynical than me.
I'd be willing to bet that you don't have at least 2 non-twin children.

They want what they want. They have desires to be boys, girls, rough, quiet, loud, masculine, feminine, etc. all without (and often in spite of) being influenced to the contrary.

Advertising just showcases things that they already mostly want. It doesn't completely change their desires.
The Toxins That Affected Your Great-Grandparents Could Be In Your Genes
The underlying thesis is literally expressed in the subtitle, even above the beginning of the article:

> Unraveling the story behind the stereotype of video games being for boys.

This tells you that there exists a stereotype. This stereotype suggests that video games are for boys. It also suggests that an unravelling is intended, i.e. a disentanglement of multiple connected strands related to the persistence of a stereotype. Furthermore, calling something a stereotype outside psychological research suggests that something is regarded as "a preconceived and oversimplified idea of the characteristics which typify a person, situation, etc." (as defined by the OED).

This suggests a thesis that

a) disagrees with the premise that video games are, indeed, only for boys

b) will try to portray how this stereotype came into existence, i.e. it will try to trace its genesis.
Do you believe marketers have an agenda about indoctrinating girls to like pink?

In the hopes that you are not a conspiracy theorist you must assume marketers haven't done any research about what girls innately like and are purely marketing products based on what you might call 'traditional' views.

It's much easier to market sugar than it is to market broccoli so that's what most foods marketed today contain. I don't believe we like sugarry treats because of marketing. I believe marketers market flavours of sugar because sugar is what we're wired to like first and foremost.
If you asked me 6 months ago I would say the features that confused me the most:

- Covariance / Contravariance
- Implicit Parameters
- Implicit Conversions
- and also mentioned here, Structural typing.

However now that i've spent time with the language, seen these in action and used them myself I see the reason why they exist and embrace them. I can see why this would be a common complaint against Scala and can be a barrier for a lot, but I think the language is worth investing time in learning, at least for me.
Life... I mean the need for speed will find a way.

I'm quite excited by this, can't wait to see what innovations will come out of the new restrictions!
You can shorten it even further with pkill or killall:

pkill ^someScript.sh$ --signal TERM

Either way pgrep is a nice command to learn about.
That video of Jos Verstappen's pitstop fire is quite disturbing. That fire was partially caused by the fueling rig that had been tampered by removing a filter to allow faster refueling.

Here's another disturbing pitstop fire of Heikki Kovalainen leaving the pit stall with the fueling hose still attached and the fuel gets sprayed on his compatriot Kimi Räikkönen, who went on to finish the race in 5th spot.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OvgjhfQLTNk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hzg_9UXo9s8

Trying to refuel 50 liters (15 gallons) or more in less than 10 seconds is bound to be dangerous.
Speed kills not only in sports but also in tech
I wrote this article to document my thoughts on how using money equals speed in regards to reaching an objective.

In other words money gets you to the end game faster that doing it all yourself.
They're all topologically equivalent
Formula 1 is street circuits.
Children have no buying power. Parents and guardians actually perform the purchasing, and will only buy items that they consider acceptable. This is governed not just by their own personal values and media consumption, but importantly by the views of their family, friends and peers.

Children themselves are not immune to peer pressure, especially as they get older. They also want to meet the expectations of their parents and guardians. They too consume media, and like all of us make decisions based on both what they are told to want, and what they are told it is acceptable to want
You bought it for fun and now you find yourself clueless about it ? Let it expire
Get A Website
Brief in the sense that for most of the history of F1, refueling has not been allowed.
Ask HN: I have an iOS app with 2 million downloads. What should I do?
U.S. students score below international averages in math, reading and science
www.brendanvianney.yourlikes.com
Things Developers Wish the CIO Remembered
check-out these posts
1918:

"The generally accepted rule is pink for the boys, and blue for the girls. The reason is that pink, being a more decided and stronger color, is more suitable for the boy, while blue, which is more delicate and dainty, is prettier for the girl."
- Earnshaw's Infants' Department

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pink#Gender
Using drones to battle feral hogs
Straight to my bookmark bar!
Here's C in Common Lisp: https://github.com/vsedach/Vacietis#readme
Real World Java Interview Questions: Financial Industry
You can use requirejs but integration isn't perfect for now.
I'm surprised he isn't using a static website
Sydney Opera House responds to hackathon critics
> Especially if you remove the human driver, or make the car remote-controlled.

Now that's something I'd tune in for! A couple of high budget vehicles and sophisticated driver AIs slugging it out on a racetrack, that would definitely be interesting.
I believe feminism is most prevalent today than it ever was in history, are there any statistics showing that girl toy sales have declined?

From a quick search i find this : http://www.marketwatch.com/story/mattel-net-falls-24-as-barb...

Barbie sales declining but American Girl is up 14%.

You'd think that half a century of counter-culture would almost drive to the ground gender specific toy manufacturers.
It's still required to understand web APIs it's different from understanding JavaScript
Or they'll hide their motives better.
http://www.wisegeek.com/have-pink-and-blue-always-been-consi...

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/When-Did-Girls-St... - extract from this:

'For example, a June 1918 article from the trade publication Earnshaw's Infants' Department said, “The generally accepted rule is pink for the boys, and blue for the girls. The reason is that pink, being a more decided and stronger color, is more suitable for the boy, while blue, which is more delicate and dainty, is prettier for the girl.”'
Does having a foreign function interface to C mean that C is better?

It's better to see Javascript as a bytecode than as a language in these cases. It just happens that the bytecode looks like the language.
I heard that several types of race cars could stay upside down at 100km/h. In 2000 F1 was reaching 300km/h on most circuits, less now. I guess that means it could be upside down on a higher gravity planet.
Top Android apps for IT Professionals
Reporting on the same study findings by the Washington Post:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/us-students-la...
I can't agree with you based on that email this post refers to. But maybe he's been softening up over time?
It takes more than a few paragraphs to sum up the pathological problems in neuroscience research.

Studies like the one in the article give us data points, but nowhere to draw any conclusions from.

Conclusions in things like this are very often 'just-so' stories, of the kind you hear from the Evo Psych nonsense-heads.

Almost every study purporting to show innate differences between males and females has been shown to lack rigor, blindness, or has drawn conclusions from imaginary sources based on pre-conceived notions not found in the data.

You can see those preconceived notions in this thread. Many of the comments have a very strong stench of "of course, we've known this all along, men and women are different, and it's unfortunate that only men are good at the things that pay a lot of money, but that's life". The latter part may not be stated directly, but anyone who has paid any attention to this kind of argument on the internet knows that it's heavily implied under a very thin surface in the majority of comments like this.
There was also a BBC documentary called "Pandemic" which was pretty good, with more relatable characters than Contagion had in my opinion.
Surely you're just ignoring the other possibility - that increasingly gendered marketing is helping to drive feminism (which, from the people I know, does look to be the case!)
Indie Essentials: 25 Must-Play Video Games
> what girls innately like

This makes the assumption that there is indeed something innate about purchasing. Short of credible psychological research, most market research relies on past sales data, past products, as well as a survey of existing products. Marketing, then, forms a self-stabilising and self-perpetuated system that makes future decisions based on its own past decisions.

This is remarkably close to Adorno and Horkheimer's view of the cultural industry: The underlying thesis here is that the culture industry preselects cultural production. Within the constraints of that preselection, the customer is free to choose whatever he or she fancies. This in turn leads to a culture industry that can claim that every subsequent selection is indeed strictly based on past consumer behaviour. After a while, this claim can even be truthful, if this initial preselection is ignored. That is why the Dialectic of Enlightenment calls this a mass deception.
I thought the discussion the prior article created was really useful. Learned many things, including some things to look out for while evaluating, and other languages that people seem to like.
Holy shit! The error stopped. Thanks soo much. In fact, the error is, I was supposed to give absolute path for im.save() but your answer ("/tmp/artsciimg.png") showed me the way, Thank you :)
Sure, I get that, as I also wrote here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6839794

But those are messages for the men, not for the woman who applies the lipstick. So is the desire basically to be sexually attractive like a woman? Or falling in love with one's reflection in the mirror?
Let's hope that they'll introduce that for next year then.

(I might be able to watch it for longer than three minutes then)
First: Try repeating everything with a different browser. I couldn't update my adwords payment information recently in Safari, but I had no trouble doing it with Firefox. It sounds like you have a different issue, but that could do it.
Google sites are all a little funny with anything other than Chrome.
This is so awesome to see the robots coming and not having them being programmed kill people.

Thanks Jeff.
Quickest way to search through a JS string array
The whole cyber arms-race makes no sense. It's like mutually assured destruction when you have the capability to remotely dismantle each others' nukes by publishing your designs.
It's not possible to use prototypal inheritance to mock even simple inheritance since “method = object.metod; method();” loose the reference to “this” as “object”, it's a gotcha in the lower level mode Veloce of Pythonium that I tried to explain in https://github.com/pythonium/pythonium/wiki/Pythonium-Veloce.... The MRO and thus multiple inhertiance is implemented in pythonium_create_class https://github.com/pythonium/pythonium/blob/master/pythonium...
Likely, as the monocoque (safety cell) has to be fairly tall. It's said above that the limit was 6G, which F1 nearly matches [1] (that GP wasn't for the most powerful engines in ~2000). With no space for driver there could be more aero meaning it could go round a corner like that faster, causing more sideways G.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkish_Grand_Prix
Startups can have the innovator's dilemma as well - Pollenizer
Related: http://coinmarketcap.com/
I tried to squeeze the subtitle into the title of this post, too - but it didn't fit so I just left the main title there, assuming one could simply read the subtitle on the main site...