skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But that's the thing though, companies like Apple pretty much ignore the whole "phone" and SMS thing, Apple has even shot the operators in the back with iMessage.

You're right that it's easy to make a phone nowadays with off the shelf components, like the article mentions that's exactly what the chinese/asian OEMS are doing now. The question is whether you will be able to make something that can compete with Apple / Google / Samsung. Even HTC is having a hard time doing that with some pretty decent phones.
This is awesome. Best post I've seen on HN in a while.
Boarding card reissue fee? It's been a few years since I've been on a Ryanair flight, but all the other airlines I've used recently have QR scanners now, you no longer need a boarding card to board a plane.
Yeah, this special case always weirded me out, it's hard to see a justifiable use case. In regular usage you'd use auto& instead to achieve the same effect.

C++14's decltype(auto) confuses things even further: http://coliru.stacked-crooked.com/a/f7d8195efc4708f3
At least on a single system, it's not that hard. You have to get over the fact that you can't compute accurate intervals by recording two human-datetime timestamps. Even aside from the myriad edge cases around date arithmetic, an administrator (or NTP) can always reset the clock between the endpoints of your interval, and your computation may be very wrong.

If you want a human timestamp, use gettimeofday[0] and related functions. If you want something to compute actual elapsed seconds with, use high-resolution timestamps([2] and [3]). You just can't have both, and that's because of the way human dates work, not the way we represent them.

[0] http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/functions/get...
[1] http://www.lehman.cuny.edu/cgi-bin/man-cgi?gethrtime+3
[2] http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/cl...
I've always thought iPads with 3G/LTE were a bit redundant. Why not just tether to your phone? It takes a few seconds (which is a bit of a hassle) but you avoid paying an entirely separate monthly fee.
If you appear successful someone will sue you. If you do something new and scary someone will sue you. If you have a clever name someone will sue you. In the US you aren't someone until you've been sued.
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Uhh, T-Mobile has had 4G LTE to complement their HSPA+ DC network for quite sometime.

http://t-mobile-coverage.t-mobile.com/4gcitylist.aspx
"GPS Time" is UTC without the leap seconds. But it only goes back to 1980.
Snark all you like, but I think it's perfectly reasonable (if not required) to hold Google to the standards they paid Vince Vaughan to portray them having.
While the pizza delivery will be cheap now but given time for the technology to mature and then the scale of the operation will make drone technology more cheaper. Obviously it will take a quite a time before it adds to profit line. As usual Amazon will keep absorbing the losses for that time and it is well equipped to that, if amazon history tells us anything.
another idea:

a credit card sized e-paper device that can only do sms. It could be efficient enough to be powered by a peltier chip, so no need to charge it ever. Seems perfect for the text generation
You learn a little more if you actually hover over the icons in the "Features" section (which is very poorly disoverable, I scrolled past it and then back again and on a hunch tried hovering on the icons). You actually find out what it is on the "Specs" page. http://www.brck.com/specifications/

The BRCK is a rugged, cloud managed, full-featured router
with built in failover and programmable GPIO expansion.
BRCK can connect to the internet through RJ47, GSM, Wifi
Bridge, as well as Ethernet Over USB via the GPIO
Breakout. It’s rugged build and cloud managed interface
make it ideal for “away teams”, monitoring systems in
remote locations, and businesses with challenging
infrastructure. BRCK’s GPIO breakout provides 20 pins for
digital and alaouge Read/Write as well as I2C, SPI and
UART. This, combined with BRCK’s Arduino Profile, make it
ideal for quickly connecting hardware to the Internet of
Things.

RJ47 is also a connector I'm not familiar with. According to this site http://www.accesscomms.com.au/reference/RJreference.htm it's for "Programmed data equipment connected to a key system where the registered terminal equipment is not compatible with electrical characteristics of tip and ring behind line circuit." which really doesn't clarify anything. Given that it's an 8 position jack, however, I think that they meant the same thing as "RJ45" or "Ethernet"; but they don't seem to be good at communicating this.
Yes,

It's not as significant as one might imagine.

But it does have the significance that you still have to worry whether your air-gapped machine is infected since it could secretly leak info even unplugged.
Applebee's getting tableside tablets is like putting frosting on a piece of wood.
I don't think it's so obvious. Nuclear power is a good example of a tremendously useful technology that languishes because of public ignorance. (Even if you think you have some good argument why nuclear power isn't such a good idea, it's clear that this isn't what's caused the failure.)
But surely they must have spent hundreds of millions of years transmitting the information in written form before mastering acoustic transmission?
Or just drop the idea of "day"/"year" being a fixed, constant integer number of seconds.
Definitely will be opting-out of this one if it gains any traction.
At what distance?
There's absolutely nothing wrong with this argument. That's why it's generally accepted for people to set up video cameras in locker rooms. I might have a photographic memory, so you might as well let me video you.
The levels on Kickstarter were $150 for the first 50 backers and $200+ "v2". A comment above says they've pushed early-bird shipping to January. Given that knowledge you're probably looking at a minimum 1 year wait for $200-250 retail.

I'd love to know the exact details too but it's unlikely even they will know until at least after the first round of production.
> I can tell you authoritatively that the UNIX timestamp for 2023-01-01 00:00 UTC is 1672560000.

That assumes the calendar definition does not change. What if a 10 month calendar with a new year that starts in spring somehow becomes widely popular and adopted as the standard sometime in the next 10 years?

Then suddenly 2023-01-01 is not 1672560000 and is actually 1680332400.
And yet, few FDA actions or class action lawsuits against chiropractors, acupuncturists, purveyors of bullshit diets, nutrition or exercise products, penis and breast enlargement devices.

Turn on any radio or late night TV channel and get deluged with sheer bullshit. Better yet, look at your own insurance policy paying for the medical equivalent of scientology (chiropractic medicine).

There's a long list of scams and bad products out there (Ranbaxy anyone?), many that actually harm consumers and promise miracles. And yet, here we have the government cracking down on something (as well as opportunistic ambulance chasers), that doesn't really promise anymore than a statistical printout of your DNA.

Most of 23andme's customers were early adopters, especially when the price was much higher, I find it hard to believe the plantiffs in this lawsuit were duped into thinking it does anything more than claimed.

Meanwhile, people who give medical advice that harms actual children, by claiming vaccination gives them autism, can run wild all over public health.
That says a lot about the United States and it is all bad.
The most compelling example of profiling I ever saw was Iconfinder's use with Django: https://speakerdeck.com/nickbruun/lessons-learned-defying-jo....

The best sales pitch for profiling there is, perhaps. :)
What about scala and python?
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How rich are the people at saleforce getting that they consider financial investment "immaterial". I like that.
If everyone has to go to a certain place to get these items, we could invent a revolutionary new idea.

The shop.
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> a lot of shots in The Hobbit were not improved by the 48fps presentation

But a few were. Outdoor pans, landscapes, busy scenes. There's a market shot in the beginning with about 8 mini-scenes in the frame, and you can look at any part of the film and see it far more clearly / less blurring than if it were filmed with any lesser tech.

The shots that didn't work: indoor shots where you could see caked on makeup... it's because no one, literally no one, seems to understand how much less lighting and makeup to use with an HFR camera.

This is a craft problem. We probably won't get widespread HFR until it gets cheap and widespread enough that some people are growing up experimenting with it.
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actually, that's not what happened at all. Read the response of the guy who rejected it here:
https://github.com/joyent/libuv/pull/1015#issuecomment-29538...

Hi all, let me try to clear up a few things.

Why I rejected the pull request. Us maintainers tend to
reject tiny doc changes because they're often more trouble
than they're worth. You have to collect and check the CLA,
it makes git blame less effective, etc.

That's why the usual approach to such pull requests is
'no, unless' - in this case the 'unless' should probably
have applied. To me as a non-native speaker, the
difference between 'him' and 'them' seems academic but
hey, if it gets us scores of female contributors, who am I
to object?

Why I reverted the commit. In hindsight, I should have
given Isaac the benefit of the doubt because I don't doubt
that he acted with the best of intentions. On the other
hand, if another committer jumped the line like that, I
would have done the same thing. We have procedures in
place and no one is exempt from them.

To the people that felt it necessary to call me a
misogynist: I volunteer in a mentorship program that gets
young people - especially young women - involved in
technology. How many of you go out and actively try to
increase the number of women in the field?

I'm probably going to step back from libuv and node.js
core development. I do it more out a sense of duty than
anything else. If this is what I have to deal with, then
I'd just as rather do something else. Hope that clears
things up. Thanks.
It's maddening, maddening I tell you.
Most/all of those others provide appropriate disclaimers and, if the FDA is calling them, they pick up the phone.

From what I saw of the FDA complaints, really all they wanted is a disclaimer and a dialback of certain marketing claims. The lawsuit is almost certainly motivated by the FDA action and trying to grab a bad-faith payday, but the existence of various other BS products where the management actually bothered to talk to a lawyer doesn't mean that 23andme was exempt from talking to a lawyer themselves.
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Now that it is officially not possible I am sure it will happen :-)

I agree that it would be exceptionally hard to build a smartphone to the same design formula of the iPhone or Android, as an exemplar we have Microsoft who as spent billions on it and has yet to succeed.

However, you might have said the same thing before Apple entered into the game and you would have been right. Had Apple tried to build a Blackberry or Nokia equivalent slab phone they would have had a hard slog. They went back to first principles, imagined a new kind of "phone" and rolled it out.

So the next smartphone isn't going to look like an iPhone or a Galaxy S4, but it might look like Google glass, or like a pebble watch an earphone and a wallet sized thing you carry in your backpack. Or a communicator badge you clip on your chest. But agree it won't be a clone of the iPhone.
they're trying to address the needs of hundreds of millions (or more) users with a pretty finite staff.

A problem of their own devising. I don't have any sympathy for them, they've intentionally built up their image of a company of geniuses who hire the best of the best, and they have made it a primary corporate goal to acquire those hundreds of millions of users.

I speculate that the reason they have effectively zero customer support is that to employ and train that number of people would require them to appear obviously as a clone of Walmart, GE, or AT&T (et al), which is necessary to become in order to deal with that kind of headcount.
>"I am sorry we had to delay the production, we all so badly wanted to get it out on time..."

No worries. I backed the project as a great idea that happens to provide a reward, not the other way around and I have no reason to doubt your ability to deliver.
If you're using Python to serve a website using Flask or Django, you need to take a look at:

https://github.com/phleet/flask_debugtoolbar_lineprofilerpan... (includes screenshot)

or https://github.com/dmclain/django-debug-toolbar-line-profile...

It provides a very intuitive way to figure out where, exactly, your view is slow. I know the Chrome and Firefox teams are both hard at work on building more robust profiling tools, but I would love to see them integrate something for JavaScript that's this easily accessible.
Which browser extension do you use for that?
I had the same problem with Google Cloud account (for API and App engine).

The problem is that changing CC number by following link in the email will not update your CC. You need to go to https://wallet.google.com and update your CC.
That is very true.

I do feel that the best phones out there today
as far as sales maybe the iPhone and the Samsung S4?
Will in 5 (?) 10 (?), be like the first iPod, big
clunky and obsolete.

And the huge phone makers of yesteryear: Nokia, Blackberry
etc are now small. I can easily see in a 10 years period a
a new player entering the market with success. (if they
can keep from being bought by the big 3). Facebooks phone partnerships so far have sucked. Maybe they will find
something better. Maybe it will be someone else.
Or maybe no one will :(

I am still hoping for a new PC os :o
I agree with the basic premise that a typical hardware company is not ever going to have the management style necessary to beat the iPhone or Android. But I don't agree that the current horses in the race are invincible.

Who is to say that cellphone networks will even be relevant in 10 years? What if city-wide, state-wide, country-wide WiFi were to be developed? Such a public works project would blow the market completely open. And in emerging markets, mesh-WiFi might be the only way to get data to everyone.
Hey, commenter dude. This footnoting shit is getting way out of hand.
Samsung made a line called Galaxy Player. The cheapest one was $150 and sported a 3.6in 480x340 pixel screen, at a time when you could get an iPod Touch for $200.

There expensive one, the Galaxy Player 5, cost more than Apple's offering.

And they all ran Android 2.3

Similarly, there was Archos. They made a whole family of Android player devices at the 2.3 era, and where infamously buggy.

Sony made the Walkman Z as a phoneless counterpart to the Xperia Z. It was $250. Supposedly a fantastic device, but that's not really undercutting Apple very well when Apple was selling iPod 4 devices for less.

I mean, Black Friday doorcrashers this year were iPod 4 at $130. I can't think of any android counterpart I'd want at that price. Maybe Motorola can figure out a phoneless Moto G with the right nudge from Google.

A big problem is also marketing - these companies are only now figuring out how to market their handheld devices in the carrier-controlled countries since up until then they just handed the devices off to carriers and maybe put up a few ads.

Meanwhile, Apples had their own stores.

Samsung could stop shoving money into ads and could start putting together coherent store-displays of their non-carrier product line. Sony should revive their store-brand too - they were Apple back when Apple made beige boxes. Sony could be Apple again - they've stopped the race to the bottom and seem to be investing in quality. I'd love to see Sony put together a coherent adversary for Apple using the Android/Win8 ecosystems. They even have the kind of market breadth and to put together a counter to the iTunes/App Store with their gaming and media holdings.
I am a part of this class and will happily opt out of the class action suit if it attains that status.

Through 23andme, I found a moderate genetic disorder that I have which prompted me to make certain lifestyle changes that will very likely stop me from having emphysema relatively early in life. Because I had the particular disorder, I passed this information on to my sister and through testing not through 23andme, she discovered she has it as well.

So far it has been the best $99 I have ever spent on anything healthcare related.
I conducted hundreds of interviews at Facebook, and we always tell the candidate to use whatever language is most comfortable. I've seen all the major languages plus all manner of oddball ones. One candidate did everything in ocaml, and walked me through why it worked (and why it was 20X smaller than an equivalent python program).
Time is relative, right? If anything we need a protocol to describe how the observer views time, not a rigid definition of expression of time as viewed by other people.

Toward that end, unix time is totally usable, as long as you make the assumption that all unix time was created in a specific space and time. Then you just have to calculate what your observation of it is. That way, two bodies sitting next to each other may calculate the time that applies to them, and communicate by simply returning the time to the standard before comparing with other bodies.

(Apparently this already exists; the Einstein synchronization procedure defines a method to establish universally (in the astronomic sense) temporal coordinates, which is in effect both location and time)
>Turn on any radio or late night TV channel and get deluged with sheer bullshit. Better yet, look at your own insurance policy paying for the medical equivalent of scientology (chiropractic medicine).

This is an unfair slander if you apply it to the entirety of chiropractic procedures. Sure, the people who think subluxations cause cancer and headaches deserve to be sued to high hell, but multidiscpline approaches by good PTs often involve some manual therapy of direct spinal manipulation.
The old Polar series of sports monitoring watches (HRM/speed/cadence etc) used to transmit data using a "Sonic Link".

e.g. client library - https://code.google.com/p/sonicread/
I feel ashamed to say that I clicked "Meet the Brick" twice (link to home page, apparently) before I tried scrolling.

But, I bet I'm not alone.
I thought it was an Iridium for web-access. Sadly I'm wrong, I'll have to continue use my 184Kbps EDGE connection.
Rather than a short comment a few different books I could recommend that you might like on this hobby/topic are:

-Your life or your money (personal finance more than investing)
-The Warren Buffett Way
-The Five Rules for Successful Stock Investing: Morningstar's Guide to Building Wealth and Winning in the Market...
I haven't a clue! That is an excellent question, most of our multiprocessing is done via some task based & message queue based map-reduce, so we've not needed to do process or thread profiling.
> ...are at least as worthy of being listed here as "The Book of Five Rings" or Russell's "The Problems of Philosophy".

I said "average article" precisely because I didn't want people to just cherry pick a weak entry here and there. Any list of the top 100 whatever will be open to dispute. Saying "I think X was unfairly excluded because it's clearly more important than entry 97" is not good evidence of bias.

"A defense of abortion" is moral philosophy. If you classify it as feminism, the term is overly broad (and, of course, only weakens the case for bias).
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"If people tell you what you really don't want to hear what's unpleasant—there's an almost automatic reaction of antipathy. You have to train yourself out of it."
Yeah,

And all those serial killers prove I should be able to assault my personal enemies. Look at all the serial killers! People who offend me know that they might risk being punched in the nose, they signed-on! This is an injustice!

In other words, the parent complaint is irrelevant. The topic is 23andme.

Edit: yeah, I'm sure this offends people but it's pretty telling that the top-rated defense of 23andme is "Oh, all those others are worse".
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I'm happy to answer any questions you might have. Went through the process last year.
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Really, if he's advocating doing away with the unix timestamp, I think he still doesn't understand the issue well enough. The unix timestamp (specifically the timestamp from GMT, not your specific time zone offset) is exactly what you want for counting time. A monotonically incrementing integer to them build all the other complex representations from. UTC is great, but it's crap for keeping track of absolute time[1].

As you've pointed out, the problem comes from peoples misunderstanding that time durations are not easily discernible without looking up many, many exceptions in many cases. The best we've got is a simple absolute time, and very specific rules for determining what the human recognizable interpretation of that time was at a specific locale at that time.

The solution to this problem is simple; Change the way everybody reads and thinks about time. It's also, IMHO, impossible because simple ain't easy.

1: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leap_second
That I would buy in a heartbeat.
Recently a way to save ~33 raw bytes was suggested in the HTML5 Boilerplate issues by using localStorage.

https://github.com/h5bp/html5-boilerplate/issues/1444
You can get a second SIM from your carrier in a lot of cases.
> SCADA [...] is absolutely ridden with vulnerabilities, protected ONLY by that air gap.

That's some wishful thinking.