skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I just wish phone manufacturers (other than the Samsung Galaxy) line would make phones with removable batteries. Having <20 hours of usage is annoying since outlets are a scarce resource in my workplace and I don't want to accidentally leave the thing sitting on the charging cable when I leave.

I commute by bus roughly 45-60 minutes each way, including walking time. A couple of spots have poor signal coverage so the phone works harder, plus I have the screen on most of the trip. Having the ability to buy larger batteries and/or more of them is a mandatory feature for my devices so I'm pretty much limited to the Galaxy series and my Lumia 520.
It's less logistically ridiculous if you can get institutional support, or get funding to make it happen.
Satoshi Nakamoto: I am not Dorian Nakamoto.
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Recommend getting a 2nd charger, or even a 3rd one. It should be not too expensive since they use universal micro usb cables.
Just invest a few extra bucks and don't waste time worrying about cables...
After re-reading my comment, let me elaborate. I do feel bad for the adults but maybe after reading world news regularly I just feel numb. If I didn't, I'd be constantly depressed. Yet I just feel horrible for the two babies.

>Why? The first years of life aren't disproportionately more valuable than the last.

Adults have a few decades of experiencing life over babies. Infants have just started. I'm personally not very sure of the existence of an afterlife to make up for it.

> Does that really imply that they've lived "more" than everyone else on the aircraft?

It implies that they've had a better standard of living, a fuller life than most people in the world. You know 40-60 hour work weeks, clean air, cleaner water, hot water... stuff like that. I've lived outside of the US in 3rd world countries in South East Asia as well as other parts. The standards of living in the US is way better than China, Malaysia, and Vietnam. So yes (except for other people from developed countries)
> I think one reason big phones took off in Europe/Asia was because much larger percentage of people use public transportation

I didn't notice that in Europe where here in France a lot of people have iPhones. But China and HK? Full of big screen phones, Galaxy Notes are extremely popular there and I actually never heard of those phones before going to HK.
For the iPhone an external battery case fixes that, but I don't know if those are available for other phones.
Dear rrradical,

Tried your game, was not disappointed. :-) It's almost spooky that your post came at this time, for I have read a lot about Scheme->C systems this week. This PDF made a great impression on me of the gambit scheme system. http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~gambit/Gambit-inside-out.pdf

I have a few questions for you:

1. I installed Gambit-Scheme via Brew and compiling any scheme file results in a clang segfault. How did you get around this? For now I use gcc instead. :-/

2. Why Gambit-Scheme and not Chicken-Scheme? I can't really decide which is the better choice for writing a game.

3. Do you use continuations to make coroutines in your game?
I can see that use case clearly now. I, too, commute with public transportation and quickly started bringing actual books, and actually just recently bought a Kindle Fire for the commute. It's wonderful.

Honestly (unrelated to screen size), I don't think I'll ever want to go back to paying money for a car to haul my own ass to work every day. I realized the other day that if I get a car that costs me $500/mo. for 72 months and commute to work on average 21 days a month, I'm spending $24 per round trip. Have the car for 15 years? Still $8/trip, not to mention maintenance, gas, parking and all of the other hassles. Sorry for the ramble, this is something I just realized after moving to a city in the States and realizing how freaking awesome public transportation is!
ok I meant "especially from the US (or any other industrialized Western county like Canada, France, or NZ)." See my other comments for more context.
Yeah, they might not support thunderbolt mini or whatever.
Images in email is not bulletproof in any way...
This is exactly what I want too. Pocket-sized tablets may have their advantages, but the compact size of the iPhone is more attractive to me. Make an Android flagship phone of that size, that'd be #1 on my list.
Iphone external battery case is 2-3 times more expensive than a replaceable battery of a galaxy phone. Yes another reason you end up spending far more when you get an iphone imo (proprietary charger, battery case, phone price...)
> No one life is more valuable than the next.

I know you're speaking philosophically, but that's not true in every context like a wrongful death lawsuit. The younger you are, the more your life is worth. The higher your earnings bracket, the more your life is worth.
> by designing a product that all ages can use they reserve a place in the mind of the next generation of smartphone users.

It's nice they make user friendly phones, but I don't think your logic works out like that.
That is not what I meant especially since I'm an American myself. I meant that there's a much higher probability that he probably lived a great, full life since he's from the US (like France, NZ, or Canada). That's all most people would hope for before they die. I was trying to be optimistic. Thoughts like that are a mental defense for me against spiraling into never ending sadness. Unfortunately, it doesn't work for babies.

I will try to be more careful next time and better elaborate my thoughts. When you're sad, you tend not to think as straight. Also, at least I don't use throwaway accounts.
most probably

he should've faked/imported some comments too, if he wanted to seem more legit
I like that my iPhone 5S can go in my back pocket and I can sit on it (on all but the hardest of chairs) without damaging it (in a reasonable magpul case).
Satoshi Nakamoto: I am not Dorian Nakamoto
You obviously have little knowledge of the photography industry. Getty isn't some user-generated content farm. They typically represent some of the best images out there. Instagram isn't the place you go when you need a newsworthy image or something historical. The would be like using a Myspace blog post compared to something from the Ecconomist.
My thoughts. lobste.rs is the only really remotely viable alternative to HN and it doesn't have near that many upvotes for items on the front page, but it has some discussion.
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Ask PG: Why is Bitcoin so severely penalized on HN?
Every bitcoin story gets buried rapidly, and now we can't even post something about Satoshi (goes dead directly: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7364582

Why is that?
>There are more corners, more cars, more trains than aircraft combined at any given time. And the most important thing to consider is getting help. I have to press hard on this: if you are in the air, the chance of you surviving is low. Even on the ground after a serious car accident at a reasonable location, most patients could receive proper medical treatment within minutes.

You get it man. I've always found that statistical comparison with car accidents very lame and misguided. The sheer feeling of helplessness when you are in a plane, and think something is seriously wrong.

Read both your comments. My thoughts are very similar to yours in this matter. I am very afraid to fly. But of course its not always avoidable.

Due respect to the "technological marvels", but some times I wonder, why can't planes be designed in a way, that they are safe even if they fall. I have no freaking idea, how this can be done. Just a wish.
Sorry I don't want to critically think about things, but I'll just repeat some political talking points that I've rote memorized.
Haha, awesome that you actually crunched the numbers.

One reason the poor in US have EXTRA hard time getting out of poverty IMO is the requirement of a private car. If a poor American happens to lose use of a car (breakdown, gas price, etc), he/she immediately starts having hard time just getting to work. They could, but it takes 1-2 hr each way. The same commute would take half that time with a private car.

And don't forget they have to pick up kids, go to medical care, grocery shop, etc.

In other countries with well connected/cheap public transportation, no such barrier exists.
Sorry but round trip by train and bus would cost me $15 a day. Rather go by car.
Does the course have a public page for us to see?
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@babesh

It's because you live in a place with no REAL public transportation. With a real public transportation system, you can go places at much lower cost.
Funny. I transitioned from an Android to an iPhone and marveled that it didn't feel like I was carrying a brick in my pocket anymore, and that one-handed use was SO MUCH EASISER. You're right, Apple should invest in larger displays, but iPhones should be more like their laptop line: let the consumer pick the display size.
My views are quite pro-Bitcoin, and I don't think Bitcoin gets severely penalized on HN.

The community here appears reasonably open to fair discussion, unlike some other sites.

I don't know why your post is dead, because I can't see it, so I can't comment on that issue.
We got these and the company even sponsored our Ingress tournament event.

http://www.amazon.com/10000mAh-Portable-External-Smartphones...

$40, big battery capacity, nice design, quality, and durable.
I guess I was lucky in that respect. My university taught cs in two different cities (out of the three where they had a campus), and many advanced/optional classes only had a teacher in one of the cities (with an assistant in the other). Our classrooms were equipped with video conference gear, and since lectures were already going to be through the video system for half of the class, putting recordings online was sort of an automatic bonus.
They had some other interesting problems. The big one was that the chines allowed very high angle of attack turns. The result was that you could actually stall your engines without stalling the plane (the engine inputs would blank and you'd lose compression).

That's not a problem you'd have with other planes either because usually the wings would stall first. This is a problem because you don't get an aerodynamic sense of being near the danger zone when things go haywire.
Seem I prefer my iPad mini + iPhone one-two punch combo. It means that I have a bigger device that is still small enough to carry around in my bag and nice enough to be more useful than a Laptop for anything but work related stuff, but with a small easy to use phone that I can use for actual phone tasks like calling.

I can leave my iPad at home and still be connected, and splitting my workload across two devices means my batteries both last for ages. Some prefer the convergence, and i totally get that, but I had used the original large android handsets, and now I've decided that 4-4.5" is the absolute maximum I feel comfortable with for using in one hand. If I, using two hands, I may as well use my 8" tablet with a much better screen and processor!
>I've never used a more simple SSO system before.

really? you've never seen the countless amount of "connect with <facebook|google|yahoo>" using oauth?

They have one step less, are totally not federated, don't allow you to use your own email and have a bunch of downsides for the user.
But they are simpler.

(also, I remember logging in with yahoo/google email+openid years ago, that was exactly as simple)
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This seems like a hopelessly high bar, considering all the problems inherent in any kind of study of teaching methods (a variety of different teachers’ and students’ past experience and aptitudes, the impossibility of blinding studies of instruction methods / curriculum, the ability for people to adapt to a wide variety of situations, the incredible amount of work it takes to tailor lessons to particular students / groups of students and the inherent impossibility of translating material precisely from one “learning style” to another, etc.):

"""
We concluded that any credible validation of learning-styles-based instruction requires robust documentation of a very particular type of experimental finding with several necessary criteria. First, students must be divided into groups on the basis of their learning styles, and then students from each group must be randomly assigned to receive one of multiple instructional methods. Next, students must then sit for a final test that is the same for all students. Finally, in order to demonstrate that optimal learning requires that students receive instruction tailored to their putative learning style, the experiment must reveal a specific type of interaction between learning style and instructional method: Students with one learning style achieve the best educational outcome when given an instructional method that differs from the instructional method producing the best outcome for students with a different learning style.
"""

I guess I can agree that anyone trying to sell specific materials to teachers may not have compelling evidence that it’s useful in practice. But that’s true of nearly all education materials ever, anywhere.

This seems like a pretty solid summary:

"""
However, given the lack of methodologically sound studies of learning styles, it would be an error to conclude that all possible versions of learning styles have been tested and found wanting; many have simply not been tested at all.
"""

I found that when tutoring people (and from conversations with my mother, it sounds like this is generally the case for any kind of teaching) the key thing is to try a variety of methods, and try to engage with the student to come up with an explanation / set of exercises which helps the student to come to an understanding. In mathematics (my tutoring experience), it’s important to come up with some kind of mental model which helps them fit pieces together. I’ve found that some students have an easier time with motion-kinesthetic types of models, and other students have an easier time with 2d-visual types of models, and other students are just really good at making proof-style symbolic chains of logic, instead of trying to first make explicit graphic/geometric models. But I have absolutely no idea how this could be turned into a useful scientific study, since it involves direct back-and-forth dialog and improvised explanations, etc.
"Satoshi Nakamoto: I am not Dorian Nakamoto" is not relevant to HN (see first paragraph in http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html).

It could have well been killed manually.
Previous discussion (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7364086). Not sure why I'm posting this...or rather not sure why I need to.
If I didn't wear glasses, I would have joined the Air Force.
Organizational behavior and group decisionmaking is among the more fascinating fields I've encountered.
it seems to me to be an argument about why we keep humans "in the loop"

That's helpful but not sufficient.

• It doesn't address the criticality of appropriate feedback controls and limits. People and algorithms both make bad decisions.

• A given group of humans might not act in the best interests of all humans, or even a specified larger group, or even themselves.

Re: how innovative we want to be even with defensive weapons. Body armor is generally far less dangerous than an RPG or assault rifle. But defensive technologies such as antibiotics can, if misused, lead to larger downstream threats (through antibiotic resistance). The areas of unintended consequences, moral and morale hazard, and the like, make for fascinating study.

Re: the bomb. Yes, the Germans and Japanese were both conducting nuclear research (though I believe the Japanese project was limited and/or curtailed). Another interesting speculation I've seen is of what might have happened had the US not used the atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki: it's possible that the true horrors of the weapon wouldn't have been realized and that the next military action (the Korean War) might have gone nuclear.

The places where I've been spending time looking at things are a bit more nuanced though: sustainability in light of finite resources and/or maximum flows: is saving lives really an unalloyed good? What of technology in general which might increase technological risks (simply of failure). Was the Green Revolution a good thing? Humans have been something of a paperclip maximizer, except that our paperclips are humans. In the long run even that may not work out for us. Systems need negative feedback loops.
It is probably not centred around encouraging discussion but it reminds me of a beautiful piece from Peter Norvig:
http://norvig.com/Gettysburg/index.htm
Dorian already confirmed he said this quote, so this entire piece is just repeating what has already been said. The press shows us time and time again they are very good at repeating things, even though they may not be based in fact.

The primary point at hand is the context in which it was said. Given the data at hand and in order to determine the likely truth, we have to weigh the possibilities of the two scenarios and determine which is more plausible:

- Dorian is the Satoshi Nakamoto and he made a slight error in making this statement to the reporter before cutting off all communications and then going public about it to quell it.

- Dorian is not Satoshi and thought it best to say he wasn't involved in whatever it was she wanted to get her out of his hair and then was thrust into the limelight further and must deny he's the inventor of Bitcoin.

Given Dorian's history with top secret work, the most likely scenario is the later of the two. Getting the reporter out his hair is most effected by complete dismissal of anything he was ever associated with. It would be a reasonable assumption by Norian that the reporter wanted to ask him something about top secret things he worked on. She's at his house, isn't she? Additionally, if he was just plain ol' Norian, he wouldn't be thinking of the repercussions of this 'admission' through dismissal.

On the other hand, If he was Satoshi, it is likely he would never make this type statement - knowing full well the repercussions of making such a statement to the press, no matter how slight. She's there about Bitcoin. Why would he admit he worked on it only to be driven to deny it later to the AP?

Newsweek is doing this for a reason. What that reason is is yet to be determined. While it might be simply to get more eyeballs, I think there might be a bit more to the story. What that is, I have no idea.

Speaking of hair, I think that Goodman had more emotion while talking about Dorian's messy hair than the actual 'admission'. That's a tell there's biases involved. What's driving them is the question.
What you save on money with Android, you gain in headaches. You get a throwaway device that the manufacturer drops serious support for a few months later. Instead of your phone being the core of the company's business line, it's something to be released to fanfare and then forgotten after the initial burst of sales. Meanwhile bugs and issues with Apple products are treated seriously for years after the initial launch of the hardware.

This disposable attitude trickles all the way down to the customer support teams. With my Note II there was an issue with the stylus which I eventually gave up trying to get fixed because Samsung was giving me the run-around for weeks. In comparison, when the volume control broke on my first iPhone after a year, Apple replaced the entire phone at no cost. After getting tired of Samsung's deflection, I ditched my Note II and bought a new iPhone.

You get what you pay for.
I've looked at EDN a bit, even started a sad little C# parser. I don't see what it has to do with my previous comment, which is all about how schemas are potentially useful. I'm trying to say that after you check the schema, you don't just read the data, you execute it, and that has the effect of applying the configuration or just constructing the object.
It's really hard to understand why somebody would over report Apple share. I guess it's some kind of Apple fanship. Anyways, these are the real numbers (World wide):

Rank . Brand . . . . 2013 units . . Share . . 2012 units . . Share . . 2011 units . . Share

1 (1) . Samsung . 311.4 M . . . .31.5% . . 215.0 M . . . 30.8% . . . 90.9 M . . . 18.7%
2 (2) . Apple . . . . 153.4 M . . . .15.5% . . 135.8 M . . . 19.5% . . . 93.1 M . . . 19.1%
3 (5) . Huawei . . . . 52.0 M . . . . 5.3% . . 32.0 M . . . . 4.6% . . . 20.0 M . . . . 4.1%
4 (9) . LG . . . . . . . 47.6M . . . . .4.8% . . 26.5 M . . . . 3.8% . . . 23.3 M . . . . 4.8%
5 (10) . Lenovo *. . . 46.2 M . . . . 4.7% . . 24.9 M . . . . 3.6% . . . - - - . . . . . . . - -
6 (8) . . ZTE . . . . . . 40.0 M . . . . 4.0% . . 30.0 M . . . . 4.3% . . 12.0 M . . . . 2.5%
7 (6) . Sony . . . . . . 38.4 M . . . . 3.9% . . 31.9 M . . . . 4.6% . . 26.8 M . . . 5.5%
8 (-) . . Coolpad . . . 35.3 M . . . . 3.6% . . - - - - . . . . . . - - . . . . - - - - . . . . . . - -
9 (3) . Nokia . . . . . 30.5 M . . . . 3.1% . . 35.0 M . . . . 5.0% . . 77.3 M . . . 15.9%
10 (7) . HTC . . . . . . 26.6 M . . . . 2.7% . . 31.5 M . . . . 4.5% . . 44.6 M . . . 9.2%
Other . . . . . . . . . . 182.9 M . . . 18.5%
TOTAL . . . . . . . . . 990.0 M . . . . . . . . . . 697.7 M . . . . . . . . . 486.0 M
* Note: Lenovo has purchased the Motorola business from Google. When Motorola smartphone sales are added to Lenovo, the total number is about 60 million in 2013 and 6% market share which makes Lenovo instantly the 3rd largest smartphone maker when the Motorola sale has been completed
Source: TomiAhonen Almanac 2014
This data may be freely used and repeated

http://communities-dominate.blogs.com/brands/2014/02/final-2...
Part of the problem with the iphone form factor for me is that there are these great honking useless black 'tabs' off the top and bottom of the screen. The footprint of the screen is considerably smaller than the footprint of the phone. Widen the phone a little, shorten it a little, and you get the same ratio but in a larger screen taking up a greater proportion of the footprint. So much wasted space.
Interesting. Ever since I switched to an iPhone 5 from a 4S, the bigger screen feels obnoxious and less handy. To each his own, I suppose, but I don't think I will ever need or desire a screen larger than the 4S.
People flag bitcoin submissions if they have no information or context.

I guess some people are flagging Bitcoin articles in general because there are just so many of them and they are not particularly interesting.

Some of them Trigger the flamewar detector. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7359084 is an example with appalling quality comments.

There have been many submissions about the identity of satoshi in the past few days. I'd link to a few but I genuinely cannot use the HN search on mobile.
And welcome to the world of very high median income.
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If you have PowerPoint 2007, try to find an experimental plugin call pptplex. It allows you to create a presentation almost identical to the style you described, with an almost infinite zoom feature. It came out of the Microsoft research labs, where there mixed the technology behind Seadragon (now deep zoom - theres a great talk on TED with one of the creators of Seadragon)
And one should remember Apple spends big chunk of $ for Samsung made components. Same with others, although not to degree of Apple.

Btw, man look at Nokia. WHAT happened???
An interceptor variant reached the prototype stage. Ant one point, quite a few were on order.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_YF-12
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I just have to say I tried this out for about 20 minutes (not an artsy guy really) and found it amazing. Very intuitive, clean, fast, and seems entirely free. Highly recommend.