skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Toyota debacle where they had buggy code but no evidence of anything other than driver error?
There's that feeling of loneliness when you want something, but the market moves away and leaves you with only out of date devices fully matching your needs. I sympathize.

And if there is a market for 5mm case+battery packs (and really, aren't these almost only available for iPhones?) there should be a market for a phone with twice or more battery life from the start, built-in. I don't think nakedrobot2 is the only one wanting that.
I work at a place with about 10-20 Macs. The batteries die faster than I can replace them. I get about 20 batteries per month and we churn through them. I gave up trying to get people to turn them off, put them all in a draw and a helpful colleague replaced all with el cheapo MS corded mice. Much better.
> Economics can be a science. As it is practiced today, it is most definitely not.

I always find it interesting that when you open a quantum mechanics textbook you see pages upon pages of math. When you open an economics textbook, you see lots of words and very few equations (at least compared to the other sciences). If anything, the complexity of something like economics should merit more math than QM, not less.
One of the great things about Ruby at the moment is the number of Ruby implementations around, including several Ruby like languages which attempt to do things slightly differently.

Crystal is one language with Ruby like syntax and the goal of compiling to efficient native code. ( http://crystal-lang.org )

Mirah is another statically typed Ruby like JVM based language, although its development is a bit slow. (http://www.mirah.org)
It's about morals and values I guess. Alot of people would prefer donation to their neighbour rather than a uneducated or starved child in asia or africa. Even if that means taking the neigbours children to disneyland, casa bonita, expensive restaurants and paying of the guys mortgage and SUV. That's just because it's something we can relate to, so people develop more feeling for things like that. (Ever wondered why reality TV became so popular?)

That's the reason I cannot do both.
I was looking to see if Atom allows me to git add / git commit from the editor yesterday and I haven't found a way. That'd be good integration.
I totally agree and we are working on this. Mozilla is a small company and building an OS is no easy feat - but power is definitely one of the metrics on our radar.

You can read about our testing methodology here: https://wiki.mozilla.org/B2G/Performance/Power_Testing

Edit - we are working on this from the software side of things obviously. The hardware side of things is mostly out of our control for production devices, but I do hope to see longer battery life for all.
Un hospital cobra 9.300 euros por evitar la lista de espera a una mujer
El hospital de El Vendrell (Tarragona) tiene una lista de espera para implantar prótesis de cadera que supera de largo los seis meses de plazo máximo que garantiza el Departamento de Salud de la Generalitat de Cataluña. Pero si un paciente paga, puede saltársela. Es el caso de Isabel Navarro, vecina de Santa Oliva (Tarragona) de 66 años. No podía aguantar más el dolor y se sentía incapaz de soportar el año que los profesionales le decían que tenía por delante. Al final, accedió a pagar 9.300 euros para ser intervenida en unos días por la vía privada en el mismo hospital y por los mismos médicos que debían atenderla por la sanidad pública.
Imagine the following:

- two people driving paper-thin cars crash into each other head-on at 60 mph. The cars divide the energy of the collision evenly, disintegrate, and pass on a lot of energy to their passengers.

- two people driving huge voluminous and massive SUVs crash into each other head-on at 60 mph. The SUVs divide the energy of the collision evenly, warping into unrecognizable crumply wads of steel. The passengers take less damage than in the earlier scenario.

This is impossible?
I wasn't quite getting that code when I first read it.

Now I can see it allows you do "discard" all the pending reads from the input channel (and avoid writing to a possibly-closed 'out' channel), but wouldn't it be better to break the loop in this case for an immediate exit?

i.e. go for 'interrupt' semantics, rather than 'drain'?
I find the simulator a bit deceptively fast, compared to a low spec iPhone (e.g. iPhone 4).

Also, there's the case sensitivity - iPhone Simulator is not case sensitive (maybe depends on your filesystem settings), while the device is case sensitive. This can be really annoying the first time round.
Interesting read, but did anyone else find it annoying that the article didn't include any pictures of the 'zero button' mouse?

My first Apple was an MBP, so I don't know what the first Apple Pro Mouse looked like, turns out it was this - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Pro_Mouse
Shilling for who? I think you're being ridiculous.

And if you're being ridiculous on purpose, you're not making whatever point you think you are and need to stop posting.
In other words, only rich people :P
Steve Jobs was a genius, but he wasn't the tech god that he's lionised as.
Basically this:

http://madamenoire.com/289369/surprise-surprise-judge-senten...
Tried to find this quote but failed. Any chance you could dig it up? I love it :)
The first computerized retail banking system
If you don't mind going low tech you don't need the split keyboard. Just use two usb keyboards, one for each hand. You can actually get quite productive that way. I did this for a while before discovering kinesis keyboards.

The downside is that it takes up more space, but it can be quite comfortable.
Bytemark are a well-known UK hosting company, and they have their own cloudy/scalable setup at http://bigv.io/

Their legacy virtual machines, dedicated hosts, and the new cloud stuff all comes with native IPv6.

Good company, smart people. (Disclaimer I used to work for them.)
"The automobile is built as a requirement to live in society rather than something that complement and argumented our lifestyle."
Typical Apple anecdote.

Form over function? Check.

Enraged know it all CEO? Check.

Claiming it invented a mouse when it didn't? Check.
ironically, the uk has already done that before they passed the bill. they blocked independent media coverage of iran, and not only blocked it, but also banned them from sky satellites. germans then banned the channel from astra, which was revoked after a court appeal. i don't know of any updates to the story though. been a while since i followed the story.

i find it particularly interesting, mainly because for the most part the population never even noticed.

we shouldn't really be so high and mighty. for all i know people over there oppose their bad practices, and over here people are defending them.

http://www.theguardian.com/media/2012/jan/20/iran-press-tv-l...

http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2012/06/18/246851/press-tv-is-b...
> in some sense Mark represents larger group of people.

Who? My guess would be Facebook employees and venture capitalists.
Radar data suggests missing Malaysia plane flown deliberately toward Andamans
> When people decry using the prison system as a cure-all, it's usually for things like [...] mental illness. [...] why punish people for things that [...] aren't their fault?

Because they're dangerous to society. Whether or not it's their fault, there are some people we can't have on the streets. If you plead insanity in a murder case, we don't want to release you, we want to imprison you in an asylum instead of a jail.
It's probably day-to-day business in some European countries today (refuse the Syrian immigrant entering Germany or let him pass). Not to mention other interesting locales like North Korea are probably a similar place.
Fin : Wearable Ring Make your Palm as Numeric Keypad and Gesture Interface
Here's what iPhone 6 could look like...
>Our mind chooses the path of least resistance when it’s given a work. It would try to find the easiest way to get a job done

Except when the task is boring and you're ordered to perform the task (like in a boring day job). My DICS-'personality' scan showed I tend to not perform the task until it is almost to late. Or I tend to find other, more challenging ways to reach the goal. I have to keep it exciting. There is a UX school of thought using these profiles as well. I paid for mine, but google'd a bit. Here is a free one http://www.123test.com/disc-personality-test/
I think the main difference is the way the language and runtime collaborate to schedule multiple events. Note the use of the 'select...case' in the example code.

These slides go into some more examples: http://talks.golang.org/2013/advconc.slide

You end up with a really nice "actor model", where you have a goro which owns some state responding to incoming messages over channels and sending replies.

Slide 24 gives the general structure, but it's a good read.
Knight Capital Group went bankrupt, it wasn't due to HFT, but was caused by bad electronic trading.

http://pythonsweetness.tumblr.com/post/64740079543/how-to-lo...
Not binary data but: http://decss.zoy.org/

Loot at entry 9, they use a similar hack to distribute the DeCSS (DVD DRM decryption program) source code through DNS.

> Mark Baker noticed that you could do the request to any nameserver. Which means for instance that the DeCSS source code is available from the DVDCCA's nameservers !
In what sense are they outdated? UI-wise (which I will agree with) or feature wise?
Arduino Cofounder Has Some Advice For You, Hacker
Mockaroo – Realistic test data generator
I expected the content to be completely different every time I pressed reload.
For those of us still wedded to mutt (or other cli clients), there is notmuch - http://notmuchmail.org/ - a clone/reimplementation of the search side of sup as a standalone thing.
Ember.js – An Application Framework For The Future (Screencast)
thanks for your feedback! it is very cool stuff but i do not want to rely on external SaaS stuff.

anyway, it seems to be really cool - especially the part where the server replies with JSON ;-)
Like everything else, it was better in the 80s.
Soft robotic fish moves like the real thing
I'd love to hear more about the Android team's CI tools. What do you build with? What do you test with?

If you can build some kind of SaaS Android CI system, you'd probably make heaps of cash. Android CI is just enough of a pain to do yourself that people would pay for a one click type solution.
HubiC by OVH: 10TB for 10€/month
In 2 key cases, activists now ask judge to order NSA metadata preservation
Code generation tools?
HN, just curious if any dev's here use code generation tools?

Whether it's generating models/views/controllers/what-have-you's, API endpoints, stub Classes etc..
I have been thinking a bunch about this recently and know there are some tools out there - just wanted to get peoples thoughts.
> If anything, the complexity of something like economics should merit more math than QM, not less.

Yes, all but for the fact that there is less meaningful mathematics in economics than in most sciences and pseudosciences. It's one thing to describe some aspect of economic behavior with words, but quite another to try to meaningfully quantify that description with an equation.
"The only airport in the islands is Vir Savarkar Airport in Port Blair, which has scheduled services to Kolkata and Chennai and Delhi, Banglore and Bhubaneswar. The airport is under control of the Indian Navy. Only Daytime flying is allowed."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andaman_Islands
The article's title makes a daring statement. The possessive of a name ending in s usually uses 's:

James's
Forbes's

Omitting the s after an apostrophe is usually reserved for historical or Biblical names (because historically they were pronounced the same as the bare word, as opposed to current pronunciation with the extra -ez sound):

Socrates'
Moses'
Jesus'
Jobs' (?)
Some thoughts about hard to learn Scala: http://www.javacodegeeks.com/2011/09/scala-use-is-less-good-...
Memory Inside Linux Containers
hubiC by OVH offers 10TB for 10€: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7397607
Um, wtf is this? Random equations, allusions to quantum mechanics + chart porn?

The Heisenberg uncertainty principle is a fundamental property of time frequency analysis. The way it is appealed to here is not even wrong. In fact, the same is true of much of the article.
The Kremlin's Social Media Takeover
The single metro/subway line is nothing compared to bigger cities, but don't forget the three urban railways and the hugely popular bus rapid transit (line 550)! These form the basis for a network of high-service trunk lines in this wide urban area of only 1.4 million inhabitants.

Here's a nice schematic of what the system will look like in 2016 when the subway extension west of Ruoholahti is complete, the lines 560 and 500 have started, and the M and I trains have expanded to become the airport trains V and P: http://www.flickr.com/photos/29682104@N04/9711135644/
This is targeted at everybody and there are no fixed routes.

You may be remembering the older service route thing (called Jouko): "Service routes are designed to serve, in particular, elderly and mobility impaired people"
Dianne's response to the recent "AOSP is unusable" silliness is pretty solid: http://www.hnwatcher.com/r/734444/Google-s-Dianne-Hackborn-c...

Regarding drivers, we expended a lot of effort to push things as open as we could. We never shipped any binary kernel drivers for any lead devices, something which most OEMs and silicon vendors seem to have stuck with. We insisted on linux-on-the-metal instead of solutions where it would be virtualized under a closed hypervisor that had the "real" drivers and other such insanity.

GPU drivers have been the biggest uphill battle -- getting all the vendors to agree to GPLv2 kernel components to handle resource management and ensure that userspace is not directly poking the hardware, alongside their "secret sauce" in userspace was better than nothing and better than closed binary kernel components, but not ideal. It seems like we're finally seeing some motion in this area.

Watching Nokia, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and others take AOSP from its git repositories and build full products on top of it is, I think, among the best evidence that there's an awfully useful base platform there.

If people were to augment that with open source alternatives to various Google (or other) cloud services, that would be cool.

And of course folks can take AOSP as a base and extend or modify it however they like in a fully open way -- follow the model of cyanogenmod that's been tracking AOSP and adding their own enhancements, goodies, or platform support on top of it, for example...
thanks for providing your link. very nice writeup but as i pointed out, 433mhz is not an option for me as i wanted to know if a set(..) really was working and 433mhz usually doesn't provide any return value.

seeing your post earlier would have saved me some effort getting into REST ;-)
Facebook was caught red handed profiling literally everyone on the internet.

Every website that you ever visited with a "like" button, even porn sites. They compiled all of that information about "you" via cookies they put on your computer.
How to design the Airbnb for X, the Uber for Y and the Twitter for Z
On Keyboards... and Mobility
I shocked the educated English guy next to me at work, when I gave a reference to "The harrowing of the north".

Not exactly the most obscure part of English history, but still not well known. Control of information isn't new.

The fun part will all the Chomsky thing is that in my native Sweden, you have totally different influences on the news media than USA. E.g. left wing extremists have a large space, political discussion are often done by interviewing political left extremists (Gardell, Hubinette, Guillou, etc).

But you see lots of "manufactured consent", lots of head line news stories at BBC/NY Times just doesn't show up. Etc.
Linode seems to me to be simple enough, but more expensive.
Calculating Pi For Pi Day
Didn't get any, how fast they deliver?
I have to disagree with the statement that AOSP is not functionally complete. I'm using it on a Nexus handset with F-Droid and I'm really pleased at how easy it was to switch over.

I was rooting my phone anyway and this started as an experiment. I had the ROM and the separately packaged Google Apps package (Google Play Services, etc...) and thought I'd try skipping the extra Google stuff to see how it worked. Haven't looked back since. Some of the replacement apps are functionally superior to the Google versions, though I concede these are not as user-friendly for non-technical users.

Nothing against Google really, I have a GMail account as a secondary email and I like the default Google search on the Firefox browser. I just don't need any more than that and so reject the added complexity of flashing all the Google stuff on top of AOSP.
i will consider erlang for the next project - you got interesting points.
Another traditional route to Australian citizenship is via New Zealand. Get a kiwi citizenship first, which is easier than an Aus one. With an NZ passport, it's easier to get an Australian one.

It's actually quite a serious problem for the kiwis, because they do the hard yards of bringing immigrants up-to-speed with the local culture (eg English language lessons), only to have them jump the ditch (Tasman sea) to Australia.
I think its so that the channel is empty, and will have no references so it will be garbage collected.
steam by itself is a DRM. It controls that you are authorized to launch the game, etc.
However, I find this kind of DRM acceptable, since it does get in the way of the legit buyer extremely rarely.
I don't think it's unreasonable. Content costs money to write. You can pay for it with your eyeballs, or you can pay for it with your wallet. (In the case of the Times, you have to do both. Sigh.)
As jsankey says, we're really not highly taxed. Our tax load is on par with the US, and we have the benefit of a much simpler tax system, from income tax to business taxes. Cost of living is high, though.
"So what if a few more people die every year...freedom!" is the emotional and clearly-wrong argument I'm referring to.

As to your question, it depends on the road and 15mph is an unusually large number. I'm used to things more like '70-72 in a 65 zone' and '39 in a 35 zone'. On a straight freeway 90 is probably safe.

But my point was that the current system is broken in such a way that rigorous enforcement of the exact numbers on speed limit signs would make things even worse.
Why Node.js is becoming the go-to technology
Thats not how we were taught. We always left off the s.
Control gadgets using wearable ring
So high frequency trading somewhat helps reducing the spread which is a good thing. I can understand that. But if HFT is a fix, instead of taxing HFT why not making it a task banks would deal with and earn money from it? A percentage of the revenue enabled by HFT would go to the bank and the rest to society.
ethanis@mit.edu

Pretty please!
Then why would they let the illegal immigrants (or the ones with improper documentation) go through ? That's where the game does not make sense.
Who else should own the data if not Facebook?
I think the problem this solution tries to fix is that a lot of money have moved to "pure financial investment" from "tangible stuff", e.g. think of Warren Buffet's Gotrocks parable.

I don't know if the problem is real, and I don't know if this tax would fix it, but that is in my understanding why taxes on financial transactions are thought as useful.
It's true that they're not major contributors to Google's bottom line. Do you think Gmail will be cut soon as well?
In the UK at least I believe we would stick with the second style every time.

edit: lowkeykiwi, you are hellbanned.
However you can't just detain anyone. The games sets specific conditions to let the detain button appear as a choice. So you can't just go and detain everywhere at will.
See, I don't get why anyone doing that simply wouldn't just go dedicated.

You know you need it, so why pay a huggggeeeeeee premium and get relatively poor performance compared to dedicated for on demand VM services?

I get the impression a significantly smaller subset of people using AWS/Rackspace/Azure should actually be using them.

Obviously I know nothing about what you're doing, so it may be that you have a perfectly good use case.
He isn't speaking two you?
Check out Lenovo S860 or Huawei Ascend Mate 2, they have 4000 mAh batteries.

Also check the Nokia Ashas, they have good battery life and decent size (you can just put it in your pocket), but are just "feature phones" with shitloads of closed source stuff in it.
It would also suggest that someone who isn't a qualified doctor couldn't run a hospital. I continually run up against this attitude that programmers are somehow special and the rules of management somehow don't work with them.

The sentence should read "The core problem is that bad managers will usually fail, or at best be counter productive, whatever the methodology".
Sometimes the 'different' thing is inferior though - one of the examples in the cited book talks about excavators:

> An example that has nothing to do with “high tech” comes from the mechanical excavator industry. This industry was dominated by steam shovels until the 1920’s, when gasoline powered engines began to replace them. This was, however, not a disruptive innovation, but a sustaining one, even though the design of the machines changed radically from that of a steam-powered system of cables, to that of a gasoline engine driving a system to extend and retract the cable connected to the bucket. The new engines were more capable than the old ones, and were better at doing more work more reliably, and cheaper than the old system. Despite the radical change in the industry, the same firms that were strongest in steam shovels stayed on top. The disruptive change came with the introduction of hydraulic-actuated systems after World War II - a change that eliminated nearly all of the established players by about 1970, in favor of companies that entered the market with hydraulics. The first hydraulic-based excavators were less capable than the cable systems that were in existence, and certainly couldn’t compete with them. However, they were small enough that they could be deployed for jobs previously done by hand, opening up a new market, in which the desired attributes were quite different from the big jobs that the cable actuated excavators were used for. The technology involved in hydraulics continued to improve, however, and with time eventually equaled and then surpassed the needs formerly filled by cable-based systems. In the meantime, though, the established firms were still going strong, and didn’t do much, if anything, to deal with the new competitor (because it wasn’t really seen as a competitor, not being sufficient for their existing clients’ demands) until the new arrivals were “in the midst of their mainstream market”. By the time the established companies introduced their own hydraulics, however, it was too late, and the later entrants were by then better positioned with the new technology.

From http://www.squeezedbooks.com/articles/the-innovators-dilemma... - a site I sold on a few years ago.
interesting. this one-way problem was the main reason not to use 433mhz controllers.

thanks for your posting.
Sounds like you're restating my premise.
Google Reader announced its shutdown exactly a year ago
That's a strange reply. I didn't mention anything about paying, I asked about submitting to HN. Paying for content is great but I think it's rude to aim for the front page with a source that excludes a vast majority, even if they were preternaturally prone to signing up.