skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Wall mart typically only exists in rural poor areas

This is factually wrong. Walmart (note the spelling) follows suburbs and population centers. They may have been mostly rural one or two decades ago, but they are now most likely to be found near an intersection of freeways within 10 miles of a downtown. See http://bl.ocks.org/mbostock/4330486 for a map.

As for the rest of your screed... it's possible to be down on Walmart AND Whole Foods at the same time.
My point was that maybe pizza (and by your extension most things) is better delivered this way.
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I'm not questioning his software guru status, I'm questioning whether or not he wrote this hours after 9/11, as the historical context states. "the 9/11 terrorist attack" is part of the text, not the note at the top.

The Swastika is a similarly benign symbol which people also associate with anti-semitism.
Kinda cool actually. One thing: the 'features' overlays don't appear to work on Firefox.
1. you have to click on the comment icon to actually read icons

2. like most of the ios apps out there, there is no thread-level support. All comments are on the same level.
> I'm not a fan of alt-tabbing either. I use 4 20" displays currently because I like the convenience of maximizing something on one display. Don't you miss that with one big desktop?

There's no fundamental reason you would have to -- if you have a window manager that extends the "drag to the side to half-maximize" behavior that Windows 7 has to, say, include dragging to the corner to "quarter-maximize" (ideally, with four appropriate keyboard shortcuts, one per corner, so you could do it without dragging, as well.)
Somewhere around 0.0M units with an approximate 0.0% marketshare.
I don't think it's a matter of the domain, but blogger recognizing it and serving up his blog. I'm not sure though, that's just my reading of it.
UltraSharp UltraHD is awful. You're right, they have to use UltraHD. But "UltraSharp"? That's what I was getting at.

Also, how about just a simplified product line like, I don't know:

Dell UltraHD 24"
Dell UltraHD 32"

Along the lines of Cinema Display.
I think they will use this to tweak AppStore app ranking algorithm. User app reviews only go so far.
The Perfect Browser
Edward Snowden revelations prompt UN investigation into surveillance
Nope. It's actually fairly puzzling that there hasn't been a 3g/lte MacBook Air by now.
No, it's not always hardware, things are shifting over to software switching over the past few years. One way to bypass this completely is to short your microphone input, or make a feedback loop between mic/headphone jack (this hurts just thinking about it, but should work.)
Or possibly even just for iTunes Store / App Store.

Knowing trends that are currently popular would help provide better results.
Correct. Both suffer poor customer satisfaction ratings.

Southwest on the other hand has some of the highest satisfaction, and in an ironic twist, actually provides more service than legacy carriers now do -- its prices are comparable, or even higher than legacy but they include 2 free checked bags, no fee for changing flights, free television, free snacks, etc. while legacy carriers have stripped everything down to pay as you go.
Wow, much more impressive response than their first one. Especially good move addressing the private gallery complaint, that's a small detail that shows they paid attention to some of the complaints at least.
They may have gotten it, but thought it was not funny.
> So, I would really expect the next big thing to be not a be an iPhone but something utterly different. Neural implants, anyone?

Google Glass seems like a good candidate.
Anyone else bothered that he spelled "cacophony" wrong? "Cacophony" as in "bad sounds"? Going by the Greek roots this is roughly equivalent to writing "telephane".
I'd still put a pretty high likelihood that it's biased. A run of 98 in 10 billion flips of a fair coin is vanishingly unlikely.
Heavily relying on Google product? ✓

Hitting a dead-end with Google's customer service? ✓

Have an existing audience you can leverage to get some random Google employee's attention? ✓

Reach front page of Hacker News? ✓

Good news! You should have your problem fixed in 2-5 business days. The rest of us suckers relying on google services get to stare at our inboxes helplessly, waiting for a response to our support ticket (which will never come). I feel like it's almost a right of passage these days to rely heavily on a Google service, only to have something go wrong and be left out in the cold.
Animated spinning ... things... rectangles? Around the planet logo. Rendered into a canvas without any throttling.
Could an alternate coin system be developed to get around this pitfall? Would it still carry the advantages inherent in bitcoin?

Could bitcoin be extended to support such a feature it were possible?
You mean in the same way you shouldn't rely on any encyclopedia when publishing a non-fiction piece?
Another example of how Google does not do customer support.

I would get the domain and move it somewhere else.
Thanks for your kind words. Sometimes I find interesting link and just submit it to HN, because if it's already submitted, I can read what HNers think about it, and if it hasn't been submitted (or expired), I can hope HNers to comment (and I can read what they think about it). It's the discussion that I'm after :)
Stuff of dreams!
There were some early (third-party) online app stores too - sites that would handle payment processing and host your .prc files for you (e.g. https://web.archive.org/web/20020124152252/http://www.palmge...).
femtocells (wifi size cells) are virtually never cost effective, not enough density to support the infrastructure.

a combination Microcells and picocells, however might be doable, you use mesh networking to tie the picocells to to each other, and back to the microcell, ideally its a slow speed low power network, around 900 mhz, providing a access method for text messaging, and push notifications (sub 100kbps, think of it as a faster control channel), Data could be mesh even between handsets, passing (some) data thru to the nearest base. A higher speed network used for more intensive data use situations that goes directly to the nearest micro or picocell, For voice calls or in rural areas, you could default to the regular BTS.
re. View counter becoming probabilistic after a certain amount of popularity: isn't that the "301+ views" thing?
Bitcoin thefts and the need for a secure offline hardware wallet
Is there an increased need for bitcoins to be stored in a de-centralised way with offline wallets? Are Trezor and Bitsafe wallets the solution?
I have seen this behavior both controlled by an extra mechanical pin in the audio jack and also by a feature on the audio chip which was ultimately controlled in software. So it's hard to tell whether that would work.

Also consider that if you played the sound at maximum volume it might actually be audible some distance away from the headphones.
Current direction of cinema trends raises lots of interesting technological questions.

I'm especially intrigued by those concerning media discs. The next FIFA World Cup is set to broadcast in 8K, so I think one can reasonably predict there'll be movies recorded in 8K by 2018. Now, imagine, something the length of the LoTR trilogy, in 60fps, 3D, and 8K. You're looking at a lot of data right there... that's asking for discs to contain half a petabyte worth of data by around that time. It'll be interesting to see how that plays out.
I once got an automated notice from the google app engine team that said at the end:

"If you have any questions about our Java 6 to Java 7 upgrade, you can reach us at google-appengine-java-6-to-7-migration@googlegroups.com"

when I sent an email to that address I got a bounce with the message:

"We're writing to let you know that the group you tried to contact (google-appengine-java-6-to-7-migration) may not exist, or you may not have permission to post messages to the group."

---

Also Calculated Risk is a rather famous blog in certain circles, so it's kind of funny to see some of the comments here that imply it's an obscure blog whose blogmaster lucked into a front page HN post.
Not necessarily a revolutionary device, in that sim-hotspot devices are not rare...

But - with shared onboard storage, that's cool... what would be interesting is having a device with, say, 4 radios and sim slots - and people could add in their sim to allow the device to aggregate data use from multiple sims in a torrented manner.
> Although Southwest was once considered a pioneer amongst low-cost carriers, it has remained just that; a dated, bonnet-wearing airline. If Southwest ever hopes to offer it's customers lower rates or increase their profit margin, they are going to have to ditch the sweet tea and start drinking some of Ryanair's killer Kool-Aid.

Last I checked, Southwest doesn't care a whit about Ryanair. They care about competing in the US and here they have the lead.
I am completely in love with the fact that this thing provides a GPIO breakout (and Arduino compatible, no less!). That immediately takes this product from a "neat, but I don't think I have a use for it" to a "holy crap, what can I do with this?" for me.

So, so awesome. I hope more hardware companies start doing this.
That effect can often be turned off. I know it can on my 2008-era samsung tv.
Kind of weird viewpoint it is written from. As someone who flies every week, usually Delta and Southwest, I would absolutely love it if Southwest charged lower ticket prices and huge fees to people who bring bags, change their flights, or don't preprint. I'm not the one slowing down the flight with that, so give me the option of a lower price and encourage others to be similarly efficient. Meanwhile the author acts like these are bad things.
You may not remember that, but when he was writing this TV showed Palestinians singing and celebrating in the street the attacks.
"The only human involvement is to vote for favourite animations"

not true, must have been some kind of misunderstanding. there are a number of layers of back-and-forth between man and machine in the electric sheep. for example, people can also upload designs.
How Not to pitch Anyone.
Do you think this will be an industry standard for restaurants like Applebee's, Chilies, ect? Additionally, does anyone have any idea on whether this will reduce the amount of waiters/waitresses at a restaurant or not?
Of course, without those $4,000 TVs it's likely that Seiki would have no cheap reject panels to sell.
Ryanair can be viewed as the "extremist" budget-airline. Although this article may propose a great dichotomy, I think it illustrates the direction for lots of low-cost airlines. Ryanair is controversial and has a business model that is being duplicated across the world. Even Southwest created a pledge in 2012 to drastically increase ancillary revenue.
That quote jumped out to me too, but in a negative way. I felt like asking "considered normal by who?"
This is actually a browser issue. AFAIK, Chrome and Firefox both round subpixels (e.g. 1.6px -> 2px). If you try doing the same thing in Safari you will notice that the graph looks as smooth as butter.

http://i.imgur.com/XzDgKtP.png
The deepest insights are often obvious in hindsight.
OK, so on a (hypothetical) air-gapped laptop you just blu-tak the microphone port and stick a jack in the headphone output. Then for complete tin-foil control, you just open up the case and disconnect the speaker cables.
What you describe seems exactly like the target of Firefox OS.
Complain about Ryanair all you want, but I flew from Marrakech - Morocco (Africa!) to Stanstead - UK for about £40 (~$65 USD), including 1 checked bag. It was uncomfortable, but I got there.
You can barely even get a train to London from my city (Nottingham) that cheaply.
Am I allowed to be a bit disappointed? Writing so many words in one year and when reporting about it the carefully chosen title is "10 Things I Learned From Writing 750 Words a Day For 365 Days"?

If I had a spare domain name and 5 mn I would create a randomly generated Title Cap string on this template at xthingsilearnedfromdoingyforzday.com and the page content would be <p>Nothing</p> in random size and random background and text color.
Research project uses real driving data to simulate electric vehicles
I think you'd find the average American wouldn't be happy with that.

Consumption and the consumer are king, so Americans want every available option, now.

See: American cars vs. the rest of the world, American houses vs. the rest of the world, etc. etc.
I have. Google Apps support, you get to speak to a real person and everything (unless it was an advanced internal build of Google Now).
> How would you show your disdain in front of cable companies' secret cable box cameras? I might do some practice karaoke for them, or perhaps read the epic poem Beowulf in its original Old English.

I would close my account. If I had one.
Google _does_ do customer support. You are not their customers. Advertisers are.
Have you deployed any apps in their Appxchange? I'd love the chance to talk with someone who has done that to hear their POV.

Was at Dreamforce last week and it felt like one giant sales-pitch-cum-Anthony-Robbins event.

Let me know if you have a few minutes to chat, and how best to contact you. My email is in my profile. Thanks!
Wall Street Code
Hi all,
What do you think about this? Is it really possible for few really smart guys to rule the market?
I'm afraid you're mistaken. RiscOS certainly had scalable vector fonts (anti-aliased too!), but the icons and interface elements were all bitmaps and the OS was not resolution independent.
IPad Art - Morgan Freeman Finger Painting
The Beard & Favorite Default - Usability Cry
How I lost my 3 year-old beard! A usability cry by a pro UXer
German Federal Motor Transport Authority Concludes Review of Model S Incidents
Picasa Web was put out to pasture a long time ago, in favor of G+ Photos.
If you are directly giving Google money for a service or good, you are their customer.
As someone who ate at my local (alameda, CA) applebees for the first time in a decade - I can say that I would never again go there, but do have a question:

Why is there not a GPS enabled menu app which will load the restaurant's menu when you launch it and it detect which place you are dining at and allow you to make your order. To confirm you are in the establishment and making a valid order - have a QR code on the table that must be scanned to supply the destination table for the order.
Transfer your domain to another domain hosting service. You can use godaddy and bigrock to transfer your domain.
Let’s Stop the Unix Time Insanity
# this command fails to explain:

: abc $(xclock) def
It's a hunch, as I said. My evidence is my own experience, but that's known only to me, to be fair. You have a better hunch? Let's hear it.
btw - Ryanair is becoming more friendly (yes, it's strange combination, I know). Read here: http://www.ryanair.com/en/news/ryanair-rolls-out-more-custom...

Quote:
Ryanair, Europe’s favourite low fares airline, today (28 Nov) confirmed that from Sunday all Ryanair passengers may now bring a second small carry-on bag (35 x 20 x 20cm) on board, in addition to a free 10kg cabin bag allowance, while its boarding card reissue fee has been cut from €70/£70 to €15/£15 for customers who have already checked-in online.

These latest customer service improvements have been rolled out across the entire Ryanair network and follow the launch of the new Ryanair.com home page, 24 hour grace periods (for minor booking errors), the introduction of quiet flights (pre-8am and post-9pm), with standard airport bag fees to be cut from €60/£60 from 3rd January and fully allocated seating (from 1st February) already in place.
It's this type of comment that really disappoints me about HN these days.

Ubuntu just released V1 of their phone in October. Anyone who knows phone manufacturers and carriers knows how long they soak something in their labs.

Ubuntu has all the pieces in place to be an awesome option. Plus, they have their carrier advisory group with some great names showing their is some carrier interest.

Ubuntu has a company behind it and an owner who seems to want to compete in this market and has very deep pockets. Ubuntu itself has pedigree and history as well as working with hardware manufacturers and chip companies.

I mean, if your only metric of what is possible based on what is current numbers, Android would never had made it out of the gate, or should have folded after the Nexus One or even their next phone (can't remember the name), both of which were TERRIBLE and sold poorly.
Are you really knowledgeable about the internals of LCD manufacturing processes to make such sweeping claims, or are you just asserting your general corporations are evil narrative?
Not sure why people are fixating on autonomous drones. If this happens at all, the first drones will clearly be human controlled from the point they leave the warehouse to when they reach the delivery zone. They will be teleoperated and probably armed with a speaker and microphone so that the operator can speak to the recipient. There will be multiple cameras so if someone is interfering or trying to steal the payload, their face can be recorded so that they can be reported to the authorities. Unless there is extremely high winds or precipitation, weather doesn't have to be that huge a limiting factor either. Pointing out the problems of autonomous aerial navigation in this case is irrelevant.
So what you're saying is he should contact the ad team to request a price quote for running an ad for "how do i avoid having google shut down my blog?" :)
Well, the advertisers I know have their share of Google complaints as well relating to customer service.
Well, "can get useful info through unheard sound on typical hardware at a range of 65 ft" is interesting. Not shocking, and horrifically oversold, but interesting.
My beloved Chevy's has been offering this on their tables in some form for a few years now. The best use case is being able to just pay and leave when you're done instead of having to wait for the waiter to decide to come give you the check and do the credit card dance.
Just FYI. Boarding is considerably faster on Southwest for two reasons. One, the well known open seating policy. Two though is that because bags fly free more people check them. This significantly reduces the average time it takes to board and get settled as less people have less bags.
Becoming more friendly... from an almost impossibly low baseline.
They come to Chotchkie's for the atmosphere and the attitude.

Personally I don't like this trend. It's a bit too impersonal. But I definitely can see this as the future for your neighborhood chain restaurant.
I think the missing piece of this analysis are the other players in the respective markets. The assumption here is that Southwest can drop elements of their service and still keep the same prices. But competition might dictate if they offered less services than their peer airlines then they would lose customers to those peer airlines. I'm not sure about Europe but perhaps there is no one close in price to Ryanair so there under little competitive pressure to increase what they provide for their price.
You have to mouse-over the icons.
> The fact that Upshot guys haven't spoken is also ridiculous. Or have they?

Unlike most of us here, perhaps they've learned not to feed the trolls ;)
Apparently the answer was no: http://www.calculatedriskblog.com/2013/12/monday-ism-manufac...
I think, in the US at least, part of the problem would have been Verizon/Sprint. Now with everyone going to LTE and using SIM cards for that it seems more viable (fewer network restrictions).
I'm sure if an advertiser spends $10M a month on Google ads, they have someone's cell phone they can call anytime if there are any issue, and that person will "fix" whatever the problem is. These are the Google customers, not the guy who spends $50 a month advertising his self-published book.
Scrolled all the way to the bottom (didn't hover over anything) and all I know is it connects to the internet and mentioned being used in Africa twice.

So many product web sites are lacking a simple "how it works" section (I'd say 75%).
I use Google Apps (only two users!) and I got great support from them. I received multiple phone calls from them trying to help me with an issue.
Ask HN: Does FB technical interview accept Ruby?
So, I went to the second phase of the facebook recruitment process but lately I've been mostly coding ruby, javascript and playing with functional programming.

Even though I did code a lot of C/C++ in college, I don't really feel that much confident with it.

Is it ok to use Ruby? Some problems expect me to be in a typed language or some sort of stuff, does facebook take that into account?

Thanks.
As someone who flew every week for about 20 years, the idea of not traveling with a bag to be gone for a week or needing to change flights periodically is pretty strange.
Very common in all in ones (near 100% I'd wager), but not sure about standard boxen
They are "insular" in a far less dramatic and hyperbolic sense.
I won't call you a fascist. We're nitpicking here. An allergic reaction is obviously not a good reaction to a vaccine, not a desired outcome. Whether an allergy is a result of a compromised immune system (the immune system isn't compromised, but the allergic person is worse off for it) an over active immune system isn't relevant to the argument. I'd also read the CDC quote again. My interpretation was a bit different, as they specified in the second sentence.

Edit - I'm not sure how far you got in my last post, but if we're going to pick about allergies not being a compromised immune system, SCID is the reason for contraindication for RV.
I tried this, but not because I believed that you would execute it, but because a very important use of such a tool would be to explain potentially dangerous commands and their implications.
> The whole idea of a hackathon is to see what teams can come up with on the spot.

Full stop. That's it. Hackathon's with prizes are their own beast, and have their own rules. But hackathons themselves are purely about seeing what you can do. I hate the idea of turning Hackathons into something that destroys that fundamental piece, and money does that.
I’m a really good impostor
It solved boredom by enabling to play a game a megadrive would run.
A little while back, somebody a cool demo of ultrasonic networking (using HTML5 Web Audio!)

http://smus.com/ultrasonic-networking/
For twitter hash tags suggestion, you can try hahstagify.me. It gives a suitable or relevant hash tags for your tweet. So, try it.
I think the idea is more "cell-network based router in a stick", with extra hackability.
This is the two best arguments I have ever seen comparing two piece of code! You totally convinced me.
What are you talking about, I saw "The Internship." Google has enough phone support to tell grandmothers how to fix GMail problems. Likely a manager will be cut over this, just like the snooty guy who led the other team in the movie. /s
Another shitty parallax product site. It detracts from the message when your presentation has yellow on yellow text depending on where your scroll bar is.
They like using the service Google provides and they really want to continue paying for it. Not everyone gets their rocks off serving a popular website and tuning the dozens of arcane knobs to make it hum as well as Google can.

They probably don't want to pay $$$$ for someone else to move it and/or host it. Migrating years of posts and all the comments... that's a decent sized job. Even if the export/import to some other blogging engine was nearly perfect (Hint: it's not all roses and perfume), there's a dozen or more billable hours involved to make it run exactly the way it did before on another host. That's probably more than he spends in a year at the current location.

...and so on. There are plenty of good reasons not to move it.