skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a Bluetooth keyboard which can be used one-handed while standing, walking or sitting without a table. Because it's strapped to your palm, you should be able to touch your phone or tablet screen fairly freely without taking it off or putting it down. Unlike a software keyboard it won't consume 40% of your screen space, it has more tactile feedback and it may well be faster. Unlike a built-in hardware keyboard it will work equally well with the phone or tablet in portrait or landscape, and your gadget probably doesn't have a built-in physical keyboard anyway. Unlike most add-on physical keyboards it doesn't require a table surface to use. Maybe its only competition as an on-the-go physical keyboard addon for smartphones is keyboard cases like the Typo http://typokeyboards.com/ , and those have their own drawbacks: see for example http://appleinsider.com/articles/14/01/07/first-look-typo-bl... and consider that any keyboard case is likely tied to only one of your gadgets.

I don't know how comfortable it is to use as I've never touched one. It certainly looks as if it could be uncomfortable, but for some people at least it seems to be workable. Another problem would be stowing the thing when it's not in use: it should fit easily in a purse or coat pocket but would probably break the lines of a suit trousers or jacket. As a chording keyboard it's obviously going to take some time to learn well, too. All that, and the unusual figure you'll cut using it in public, may mean that this is strictly one for the nerds and the mobile-typing hardcore, but that would be fairly ok by me...

It also has an integrated pointing stick, which is probably useful for selecting text on a phone as well as being necessary for single-handed operation of non-touch devices. With a smartphone/tablet + Bluetooth headset + Twiddler3 and suitable software it would be possible to do a fair number of smartphone tasks without having to take the phone out and look at the screen. Similarly it ought to be suitable as a input device for controlling AR goggles as well as getting text into them (at least assuming the goggles have the battery capacity to run Bluetooth...)
Might I suggest putting money down? http://longbets.org/

I built the site ten years ago, and the Long Now Foundation has plenty of other things going on, so I'm pretty confident that this will do for your 10-year bet.

If you find a challenger, I'm glad to help you two negotiate a testable prediction and get the bet up on the site.
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Projected onto the retina is more likely.
I still think people who walk around with headphones on look ridiculous.
Have you taken time to think that we might not be at that stage to technological revolution?
My understanding is that the feds cover Medicaid expansion for the first year (and partially thereafter for a time?), so "could not afford to exp[a]nd Medicaid" is not quite correct - especially in the short term, though it's possible there's something I've missed (is there a requirement the state continue if they start, that hasn't been discussed? or another gotcha somewhere?). Obviously, there's possible political cost to "dropping people from Medicaid" after the one year, but that being worse than keeping them off Medicaid for that year and forward is... human, but strange.
As a fact, it's vacuous. No one was using it as an excuse.
Welders still get that, truck drivers with some OT.

The local towns will probably have the housing in the next year so the camps will be gone. Sewage planning is an amazingly complicated process. Also, the road changes to loop around towns are going to help.
Transport of the gas would itself require either some sort of pipelines, or gas liquefaction and transport via rail. Neither are particularly cheap, and natural gas prices are, for the moment, near all-time lows.

(Storage, of course, is wildly implausible. Leaving the gas for extraction later at more profitable prices probably wouldn't be worth the time-value-of-money adjusted profits you could make by immediate extraction.)
I remember thinking how stupid the iPad was when it came out. It's just an iPhone with a magnifying glass attached, after all. Then I got one as a gift, and the appeal became immediate.

There's something about the need to criticize that seems inherent to humanity -- or at least the HN comments section.
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just looks too good to be wrong. I used Allman style for my first ~10 years of programming, then switched to "compact" style†, and didn't find it a big deal to adjust. Brace concerns melt away just like parens do in Lisp.

† I think K&R does make use of new line braces, for functions.
most likely so dir listings are a lot faster. (they are sorted by key, and can use delimiters for subdir emulation..)
Still magnetic storage however you read/write the data...
The difference for me is that we've learned that CCTV basically never has a direct impact on our lives. I'm sure I'm caught on security cameras 20 times a day for the last 10 years, but not one of those 73,000 recordings has ever come to my attention or mattered at all.

The same isn't true of handheld cameras. When people take a picture of me, it could go places, and I know that. If you're snapping pictures of people, you'll get reactions.

Right now, people definitely treat Glass like a handheld camera. And I suspect they will, at least up until the moment they start wearing one themselves.
True, but it's easy to build a storage container that doubles as a faraday cage when the tapes are in long-term storage.

Actually, I'd be very surprised if this wasn't the case (pun intended).
> Let's not ignore the elephant in the room here though, glass is far more similar to bluetooth headsets. How are those aging? Do the kids think it's cool?

No, because they have no use for them. There's nothing inherently goofy about them other than that society hasn't made them the norm. It certainly could be said that staring glazed-face at a glowing rectangle in front of you looks dorky as well. But smart phones have become a damn useful device, and that's why no one thinks twice.

Only time will tell with Glass.
They're trying to capture the gas now, ND issued some new rules on it.

ND is not just fixated on oil, farming is just as big as ever. Look at the number of crops ND is first or second in the nation at delivering. Lord knows the words this spring will be "flood control" in the east.
What a terrible article...

It claims there is 'A lot' of pollution coming from China specifically and ending up in California.

The way they deduced this 'fact' is that 208Pb levels spiked at the same times in both China and California. That tells you absolutely nothing.
> Once glass is directly on the optic nerve things will be better.

I really hope we get to see biological interfaces in our lifetimes. If there's a singularity, I'm guessing that's where it'll begin to take off.
Most hypervisors don't try to hide themselves from the VM. Many provide interfaces from the guest OS in the VM to the hypervisor for things like para-virtualizing device drivers for performance, ballooning (reclaiming unused RAM), or many other features.
The salaries in the oil sands in Canada are even more ridiculous. > 100k for truck drivers. Entry level engineers at 150k + 30% bonuses. > 200 + 40% on site bonuses for a manager.
They most definitely do not wear Bluetooth earpieces all day. There was a brief period years ago when it was (relatively) a lot more common, but the richly-deserved backlash appears to have mostly eliminated the practice. I can't even think of the last time I encountered someone who just kept it on all the time. Purely anecdotal, but I think I've actually seen people using phone holsters more recently than I've seen anyone walk around with a Bluetooth earpiece when they weren't actively talking on the phone or driving.

Maybe it's regional, I dunno. I'm in the Bay Area FWIW.
It seems to me that this must have been the intention all along. When Google purchased them, Motorola was about to start suing other members of the Android ecosystem because they were that desperate. So the deal was always defensive. I think the value of Motorola's IP was always overstated and Google knew that but it made for a good story for shareholders along with Google signalling they were serious about hardware. And maybe they are, but the whole "American made" angle they took and all the tax incentives they got, and for what...to sell the company 7 months after launching a flagship phone??? It's a great phone, but it looks to me like this whole thing was set-up to sell out from the start. If so, it was a brilliant unwinding of something that could have been very bad for Android at a critical time. As others have pointed out, they didn't take as bad a bath financially as it seems either.

The alternative narrative is that they suddenly had a change of heart because of Nest, but why not just integrate or put that team in charge of Motorola if it's about talent?

In any case, the Moto X is a really nice phone. I feel bad for the employees of Motorola and find this maneuvering very "corporate" and un-Googley.
I really hope they work on the Code Style Guidelines for Contributors. But even the generated source code (like resources in R.java) should adhere to these guidelines.
Firstly I find it amazing that people would argue against "Evidence Based Medicine" at all. Isn't the alternative "Medicine without a shred of evidence that it works"? Why would that even deserve the name "medicine"?

Secondly, I find it scary that there is so much tip-toeing around charlatans selling snake oil. It seems similar to when the British Chiropractic Society sued Simon Singh [1] for libel, and then had to back down as they couldn't actually prove that chiropracty was at all based on scientific evidence. These scammers need to be called out and challenged. If you want to sell something as "medicine" (at least in the USA) it had better get FDA approval [2], and classification as a "drug". Although this approval process still leaves the onus for testing on the drug developer, it also provides a means for FDA dis-approval if the drug is subsequently found to be dangerous or ineffective. Not perfect, but better than nothing.

I really feel that science and evidence are losing in this battle due to the lack of PR and marketing. Last year saw the release of a few major studies showing the lack of strong evidence for the efficacy of multivitamins [3]. This hasn't stopped almost everyone I know from still buying and popping those pills all the time.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BCA_v._Singh
[2]: http://www.fda.gov/Drugs/DevelopmentApprovalProcess/HowDrugs...
[3]: http://www.medicaldaily.com/vitamins-and-supplements-waste-y...
> Isn't this really judgmental? Doesn't this say more about you than about them?

Not really. Bluedouches are so self-involved that they don't realize and/or care how annoying it is for them to walk around in public (apparently) loudly talking to themselves. Normally, we only excuse this behavior in schizophrenics.
This area has seen it before in recent times, and though this time will probably last longer, there is a lot of planning on how to grow then shrink.

Contrary, to the article, Williston has never been a "nice" town, and that gif is f'n scary.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7146763
There are two issues here. First, why use switch instead of a series of if-else, apart from compile-time completeness checks? Second, why include an empty default statement in a switch, apart from preventing compile-time completeness checks?

If a series of if-else statements can be rewritten as a switch statement, it will almost always be slightly more concise as a switch statement, and a more semantically correct representation of the logic.

Including an empty default statement come down to a matter of preference, but a pretty good argument for including it is that it favors the explicit over the implicit. It's better to be clear to other programmers that yes, you did intend to have nothing occur if the switched value didn't have a matching case. If you intend to handle all cases, you can put "assert false" or similar in the default case to be explicit about it. I can see that one going either way with enums, though, if you get a compile-time error when forgetting to handle a value (it's been too long since I've worked in Java to remember how it handles that).
Leading a group working in an underground bunker on a live military radar site in the Australian outback, where it rains every few years. We had to open a rooftop cable duct and when the job ran overtime we closed it up with some rags that were to hand. That night it rained.

The next morning, the bunker was full to ground level and the automatic power cutoff had failed, as the float switch was directly under the cable duct and the water pressure of the deluge and kept the float depressed. By the time the water stopped flowing the float was under a foot of mud. The powered circuits were undergoing electrolysis and eating themselves away, made worse the the site managers refusing to drain the bunker or turn off the power until a week long arse-covering evaluation had been completed.

A few hundred million dollars of front line radar was out of action for several months.

Being a naive newly graduated engineer, I wrote a completely honest report and analysis. My boss said it was one of the best reports he had read and there was no impact on my career (if anything it got me noticed by the upper echelons of the organisation).

Lessons:

1. If you tell the truth you will be respected, even if it is incriminating.

2. If there is a way for something to go wrong it can do so (slight variation of Murphy's Law). Even if it's judged to be uneconomic to take preventative action, be aware of the possibilities, so you can make a conscious decision about the risk.
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Re: 1) Looking at the prices on Newegg, 1.5TB(native) LTO5 tapes run about $30.00, so $20 per TB. Write-once BluRay looks to be about $32/TB, and rewriteable is $80/TB.

Re: 2) Although it would take an hour or so to search through an entire tape if all the files were written in a single session, normally backup software writes files in sessions containing a few GB. You can seek to a specific session in about 30 seconds average. So if you put about 4GB per session, it would take a max of approx. 30 seconds to read in that session to retrieve a file. So figure about a minute to retrieve any file. Also, LTO5 transfers about 140MB/sec, vs. 6x BDR disks (what I'm seeing for cheap right now) is only 27MB/sec.
It was the same with cellphones.

My uncle likes to tell a story of when (sometime before 1985) he had his brick phone and was talking on it in the entrance of a K-Mart.

He was leaning up against a wall back to everyone trying to be discreet with the new fangled invention of a cell phone.

As he was talking an elderly women was lurking behind him, he could hear her looking through her change purse. He said he realized she was waiting for the pay phone she thought he was using.

He left abruptly leaving nothing but the empty space and the wall and shocked the woman who couldn't seem to grasp where the pay phone went.
A lot of people who knew the iPhone and iPad were going to be huge also think Glass is doomed for the consumer market.

Sometimes the way you look matters. See: the Segway. It's a threshold. Did headphones really make you look as dorky as the Segway does to your contemporaries? Doubtful. Does Glass? I think it comes close.
That's interesting!

But at first blush I'm not seeing how it would matter. If I recall rightly, what you remember is partly a function of what you think about. If you're thinking about negative experiences, then you'll retain them. If you think about the positive ones, you'll retain that.

People already have a lot of digital archiving going on in the form of photos, emails, Twitter, Facebook, and the like. Mostly, people just ignore that vast historical trove. I would expect adding more detailed recording not to change the balance much; if people use their archives at all, it will be to seek out the things that they already are inclined to remember.
You misread.
"Evidence-based medicine" is an ideal term for what we seek. Both our existing "mainstream" medical infrastructure and presently alternative therapies should be judged by how well they approximate this. Not all evidence is large, controlled studies - but they do constitute a particularly strong form of evidence.
The short answer is, we don't know. The longer answer involves a lot of evidence that we can't hurt it that much. But then again, in the 1900's farmers were forced by law to dump their waste ag chemicals into the Atlantic ocean, so wait 100 years and we'll see.

More importantly are the subtle differences to ground water temperature when wells are drilled close together in densely populated areas. This is a bit off-topic for the OP, but I went to an alt-energy talk where someone was all jazzed about geo-thermal. I asked if anyone's done any research about what the cold water pumped into the well does to the water table, or whether you could trigger fungal blooms underground and render otherwise potable water undrinkable. They, as you can guess, didn't have an answer.

Alt-energy is all exciting and holds such potential until you realize that bituminous coal was once the miracle solution to having everyone burn wood.
NSA Announces New Civil Liberties and Privacy Officer
I'd argue that the SOTU is about as meaningful as a campaign speech, and less so than a NJ Devils game.
The whole point of fashion is to shape how people judge you. If most people weren't affected by it, it wouldn't exist. So if it says something about him, it's only that he's human.
Agreed. A picture of a human motionless except for one body part === uncanny valley.
What's your point? It's irrelevant if thinking someone with a bluetooth headset is douchey is judgmental, the point is if enough people think that's the case, particularly young people, then it's doomed.
> Patent holders generally need to target big players to get worthwhile payoffs so unless you are big (in which case you have already won) then it is only the Lodsys type scum you need to worry about trying to extort you

Uh, yeah, exactly. I don't know what you think Lodsys is that's not a "patent holder", but that's exactly what they are, and they're a great example of patent trolls going after small businesses. This happens all the time.

In this whole thread you've also ignored the fact that this is 1.36% of revenue for one small aspect of a product. Now consider the fact that your product is also highlighting certain parts of data returned from a database, or you have a a certain type of UI interaction when you scroll past the bottom of a widget, etc etc etc and you have a whole lot of companies ready to claim their 1.36%.

I don't know if it's enough that it should stop people from wanting to start at all, but it is a very real problem that is very much affecting real people. For instance:

The Patent, Used as a Sword

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/08/technology/patent-wars-amo...
If everyone has to use the same level of indentation (as with spaces), then everyone can adhere to the same width limit, and every source file in your codebase will fit in the same sized window. If some programmer sets their tab width to two spaces and then writes code that fits in 80 characters on their screen, it might not fit in some other programmer's screen.

From a philosophical perspective, tabs just aren't necessary. You need spaces in your source code in places besides indentation, but you don't need tabs. It's simpler to only have a single type of whitespace character.
I once had an issue with Google and GAE on a corporate account. Spent 3 hours hunting down a contact form and had no response for 7 days if that makes you feel any better.
> However, I see you make no attempt to actually defend your argument other than calling me a troll.

You made no attempt at an argument other than a borderline ad hominem when you asked, "Do you live in Somalia?" It's a blatant straw man, plain and simple. (Precisely because I never claimed that no government is always better than any government.)

> How does 'arbitration' stop armed thieves taking your possessions

Mostly the same way courts do it today. I defer to David Friedman and his work on polycentric law.

> and what societies are you calling 'forward thinking'?

Any society that prefers non-violent conflict resolution. It's pretty much the cornerstone property and ownership.
I kept looking at the older gents behind him to move/speak/scratch but I just kept seeing that guys hand move :-/
I Was Just Told "You would not have made it through the weekend" (2012)
So, in older reddit threads, I read about how you need to build Raid-1 EBS for all your ec2 servers as well as test your EBS storage, because they could be really bad.

Is anybody doing this for their EC2 deployments and more importantly, automating this?
Interesting question. I think the problem was the 4(or 8?) MBs of ram, and javac swapping out while loading. I can't recall that I did any compiling with gcc on that laptop -- at the time gcj certainly wasn't mature enough. I don't think I tried with jikes either, for some reason -- can't remember why now.
Dash is wonderful. If you use Alfred, there's a fantastic workflow you can get set up as well.
Try Encalc: http://www.encalc.com/documentation.php
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> So why would a poor person wait days or weeks to see a doctor then they can go down to an emergency room and see one in hours?

Because if you don't have a life threatening condition, you're not going to see a doctor in "hours" in the emergency room. You're going to be triage'd to the lowest possible slot, and it's my understanding that if they believe you can just be sent on your way, they'll do that. You can't go in for an ear ache.

> Moreover, if you are being forced to pay for health insurance, you are more likely not less likely to seek treatment since you will rationally think "well I am paying for it so I might as well use it." The idea that making people buy insurance will reduce overall healthcare costs has always been an insane one.

First of all, there are plenty of respected folks who don't think that's "insane". Presumably more respected than "John" from the comments section.

But regardless, that's what co-pays and deductibles are for. Let's also not forget that going to the doctor is still not a joy ride. There's forms, and there's a wait. I have health insurance, and I don't take a trip to the doctor's office like it's the local candy shop. Why would the poor, who feel the impact of a co-pay even more than I do?
Yeah, I'm not sure whether to say "only 85%[1]" or "a full 85%". Regardless, it's less than the 100% we should be aiming for.

[1] Side quibble: 94% is capitalism + socialism; capitalism alone is only giving you 85%, and that's if you don't count minimum wage as non-capitalist.
Exactly. Of the 11,714 drugs approved for marketing by the FDA, ~7,624 (65%) of them were approved with absolutely zero evidence of either safety or efficacy because they were grandfathered in by the 1962 amendments of the pure food and drug act.

But of course the folks that big pharma pays to astroturf on Internet forums will never tell you that.
I once almost started making something I called SymPyScript... think CoffeeScript for SymPy. You'd get the syntax of something like this: http://calculize.com/pickhardt/numerical_derivatives

But it'd convert to SymPy for evaluation.

In the end I called it Calculize and evaluated it with JS instead.
Your “duplicate billing code” strategy is called N-version programming (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N-version_programming).
as the guy who unfortunately gets the emails about travel, expenses, & setting the budget - I love this. brilliant, best of luck guys
The paper goes into greater detail; "a lot" ~ 29% in this case.

Using regionally specific isotope mixes to identify sources of pollution seems like a pretty good idea; why shouldn't it work?
The rise of artificial intelligence