skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You think that people want a device with nearly 50% more screen area because it's a "bigger number"? That's delusional.

It's 2013, most folks who are buying smartphones are not buying their first smartphone ever, they know what they want, many of them are fairly savvy at this point, and people want larger phones. I have a lot of friends who are extremely technically savvy and are not easily subject to marketing influence, they buy phones based on lots of research and recommendations from friends. Almost universally they are buying 4.7" screen phones, because there are many exemplary models in that form factor such as the HTC One or the Moto X which are excellent phones.
Probably physical objects need to be involved (code on paper etc) but then again how to make sure the next best burglar doesn't get the prize of his lifetime.

Does anyone know of such a solution?

Put it in a safe deposit box at your local bank?
An acquihire for a startup which had received $1.7M investment is probably not a great success.
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> As the US (and the world) moves more to a non-subsidy model I think this disproportionately impacts the iPhone.

This is the exact model Apple's computer division deals with, and they're wildly profitable compared to most PC vendors even though they charge premium prices all around. What's different about phones?
Or maybe they will enhance the functionality to make Twitter superior from the lock screen.
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Resistance of a cable/wire is given by the formula R = <rho> * L / A where rho is the resistivity of the material, L = length, and A is the cross-sectional area.

It's a pretty straight forward formula. To lower the resistance, you either decrease the numerator (but a zero length wire is pretty useless) or increase the denominator (a huge-ass not even necessarily infinite, but just a conductor the cross-sectional area of say, the Pentagon, is technically possible but utterly pointless unless you're transmitting electricity cross-continent or whatever.

However, the resistivity of a conductor is its inherent property and so if there were a way to get a material whose resistivity was zero. Then you could transmit huge-ass amounts of energy over hair-strand thin wires because since <rho> is zero, you can play with other parameters in that formula without any fear. Hmm... (hint hint)
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Can't you toggle between work and home manually, using a volume key?
Haha. Very sensitive code over http!
"Shells partition away sophistication."

Could you elaborate on this? It sounds interesting, but I'm not quite grokking.
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I get annoyed when people let bad actors off the hood by obscuring their names with asterisks. We know who the overall "bad guy" is in this scenario, but right up until the whole asterisk thing, we had a person whom we could point to and request or demand an explanation from.

Then, it would be on them to pass the buck, call the police, whatever.
Apple makes their iphone screen that size because it is part of their tailored user experience (ie: you can reach each part of the phone with your thumb and developers can target that screen size) and because of uniformity (You know a case will fit and you know what to expect). If apple started making their phones larger it would disrupt that experience they built and would introduce fragmentation.

Apple does consider screen size though, thats why the ipad mini was released and the ipad itself was made even though Steve Jobs hated the idea of a tablet, so it's not entirely unplausable that they would release an iphablet alongside the next iphone, and as this document shows they are aware of the problem.

Apple has also considered the price aspect of the document too, with the iphone 5c, so time will tell what else they'll try.
"The industry boomed as more legitimate businesses ceded market share to the shadier players."

What do you mean by "the industry boomed"? The volume of loans increased?
Well, I guess we're gonna have an app in the playstore that does the same thing within a week then...
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> ... whoops! Suddenly, you can program [in the
> configuration files], so now you will have
> to program there.

What's forcing a user to configure a system if they don't need to make changes? Why is it preferable to use something functionally restricted rather than a programming language to configure a system?
Thanks! Yes, we'll be sure to clear that up-- the binaries were for a few CMUCLTK and Phonetisaurus libraries that were difficult to compile on Raspberry Pi.
I have a very specific question about starting out on SICP. A few months back, I worked through roughly half the exercises in the book. I got stuck on 2.2.4 (a picture language)[1] and was unable to run any of the examples or test any of the exercises.

Is there some prerequisite library for these exercises? Or am I missing the point and these are not actually intended to be run?

1. http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/full-text/book/book-Z-H-15.html...
GetMeHome - A non-driving-centric nav system for the 2am crowd to safely get home from a night out.
Requirements:

- UI geared for too-drunk-to-read - Big buttons, no text entry, large-type text, low clutter images.

- One button actions/options - "Go home", "Find open bathroom", "Find hotel", "Prefer Train" "Cab OK"

- EASY turn-by turn navigation for walking (large font street names with "turn left in 2 blocks"). Always update auto-routing. Bonus points for avoiding sketchy areas or using obvious landmarks ("Turn left at Bob's Transmission Shop").

- Location/time alerts for mass transit "Get off here" or "Wait here for 1:30am Blue Line Train to Hillsboro"

- Alarms for "Time to leave the club for next train" - Loud/big alarm for "Leave now for last train!"

- Since most phones seem to die around 2am, steps should be taken to be as battery conservative as possible - Walking = less frequent server polling. Also cache simple directions locally and turn off network features altogether if battery life is super low.

(edited for readability)
Scanning and skimming is good, most of the time. It means you are taking an active role in deciding what parts of a document are relevant to your purpose.

In the bad old days, you had fewer alternatives and higher switching costs, so you just read what was in front I you. With the internet, the next best alternative is so available and so good that you might as well spend some time browsing and quickly discarding the fluff so you can find the really good stuff.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meta_learning
AAPL is not treated rationally by Wall Street. The stock has been bad mouthed every quarter for years. Last quarter, they ONLY sold 52M iphones instead of the analysts' projection of 54M. Stock drops.

As an AAPL holder, it makes me want to get into shorts, but then I'm speculating on the whim of some ass on the TV.
Strange loops come up all the time in Haskell.

Cf. loeb

http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Blow_your_mind#Other

Understanding type theory and set theory is a common side effect of learning Haskell and are critical in understanding Godel.

Also there's never a bad time to learn Haskell.
Don't the original investors usually get their investment back from these things? So Twitter pays the investors $1.7M and pays the founders $200K per year as a dev team.

How does that usually work?
"That's because scrolling moves the text on a page. And moving	text, even if it's under your control, will break your reading rythym."

There is actually another reason against scrolling, which is judder. Check for example the judder section on http://blogs.valvesoftware.com/abrash/why-virtual-isnt-real-...
This would be an awesome voice control addon for XMBC/media play services from a Pi!
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Can this be plugged into a DDR2 DIMM and allow host<->Pi communication (with an appropriate kernel driver)?
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One of their cofounders has several published papers, patent applications, and such that sound like they give more details on some of the underlying science and technology. There's a list here: http://scholar.google.com/citations?sortby=pubdate&hl=en&use...
> Not to mention it's the eventual result of a competitive market (Econ 101).

...maybe you should have also taken Econ 102? A race to the bottom is only the inescapable result in the silliest of toy market simulations. There's almost always demand for premium goods.
Tcl is actually really powerful and fun.

Everything is a string is a bit quirky, but it's just lisp-like enough to allow you to do some really nifty things.

I don't ever want to write anything seriously in it again though, and I can't see myself starting a new project with it.
I like this response.

The one-time registration fees seem like the most suspect thing to me. As you're a non-profit, would it be possible to raise more money from foundations and other donors if you got rid of the registration fee? Do borrowers find the registration fee onerous? Does it serve some other purpose (limiting nuisance registrations, etc)?
So you downloaded mp3 and used a tool like MoveMaker to make the video? Thx
I'd argue that the most basic element of electricity is electrons :)

But rather than go down that road - an analogy that helps me understand amps is to think of it as bandwidth of water flowing through pipes. If you try to force too much water through the pipes too fast, they explode from pressure.
Not sure about the volume key but you can toggle manually. That kind of defeats the purpose a bit though. One of the draws is that it does these things automatically.
Computers and data center space cost money. You think the exchanges should just give that sort of thing away for free?
It would be awesome if your "What are the fees and interest?" section on your borrower page was this explicit and clear about what the fees and interest rates are.
Bummer. I really liked Cover.

Based on "Cover will remain available in the Play Store while we focus our attention on our work at Twitter," it's unlikely that it will receive updates, and may get pulled altogether soon.
isn't it simply scale_y_log10(labels=percent_format())?
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Thanks for this! Of course, pretty silly thing to suggest I need authentication to notify people...

However, I was attempting to insinuate that without auth there's little use of diving into an app's notification because (as a user), you'd most likely want to reply/vote to at least some of the replies!
you need to develop the sense to know that just because something could be made configurable doesnt mean it should be.

what software doesn't do is often as important as what it does do.
First thing I did, Ctrl-f, 'journey'... JACKPOT!
As more of an art project that is trying to play on the user's emotions, I think it's appropriate. There has to be section of the web which is allowed to engage people outside of the cubicle. The specific context of your office sounds like a great chance to apply the mute function.
I feel like the Kindle has too little text available, though. I read certain kinds of fiction far faster on actual books than on the Kindle. Perhaps the text size I find comfortable would be much better on a Kindle DX.

Also, the fact that Kindle 'pages' for a text file are not fixed is a bit of a problem. For instance, with a real book if it refers to a previous event and I wish to read it again (sometimes climaxes can be great to read again) I can usually remember a page range and a location on the page (top left, right side) that lead to me being able to identify it in seconds, but I've often gone backwards in a Project Gutenberg eBook to find that the location of the words has changed! A very disconcerting effect.
I find it interesting that HBO is allowing YouTube to stream this for free - is this a strategy they normally employ?
I use O_DIRECT almost exclusively in the software I write; I am familiar with the overhead. You can use O_DIRECT very easily without a lot of overhead if you wish but the performance will be much worse than not using it unless you competently reimplement many other parts of the OS functionality at the same time.

To use O_DIRECT effectively in Linux, at a minimum you need to write a buffer cache that is both fast and adaptive to workloads with proper cache replacement schedulers (no LRU crap), you need to write a complete I/O scheduler replacement (e.g. using io_submit and related interfaces) which is not portable at all, and you need to stop using almost all file system APIs (it interferes with the I/O scheduling bypass).

O_DIRECT is easy to use for very narrow cases. Taking advantage of it for anything slightly complicated in terms of file I/O usage and you bite off a lot more low-level implementation or the performance will actually be worse.
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I've yet to meet a high-end 3D game that my machine can't run at 40fps+. I'm really impressed that they've managed to make it chug along at 3fps displaying glowy dots.
I guess I'll play devils advocate. All of the things you mention should have been (or were) illegal at the time, but the technology was ahead of the law.

>you could program your Motorola cell phone to be a scanner and pick up conversations people were having in your area. Safe harmless fun.

Maybe for some people it was harmless fun, but what about the people who did this as a form of espionage? Or any criminal?

>Back in the day, you could hack your cable box so you could get all the premium channels for free.

Illegal then, but now the technology and laws have caught up so that finding the people that do this is trivial.

>The 80's and 90's were like the last frontier, until the feds jumped in and started creating laws to really hamper people from pushing the boundaries.

Curious why you think this is. Do you think people really aren't pushing the boundaries today like they did back then?
Agreed, it looks like a JS library, or a new domain extension.
I hate to be the anti-Apple cynic here, but really? Higher resolution screens, a smaller computer and discontinuing products?

That really doesn't strike me as that impressive.
Does anyone know of anything like SICP, but that integrates more type theory into it? Like an SICP for OCaml or Haskell?

Something challenging yet doable for a determined independent student.
If you don't think that increasing spreads by a few cents would hurt the economy than why are you worried about the penny a share the HFT firms are making?
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> The point is, if you know where Russia is, you likely know where Ukraine is.

I don't know about that. There are ~15 (depending on what you are counting) countries that border Russia. And while I am fairly confident that I could label them all, Russia would certainly be the easiest to label. It's the big one; it's hard to miss.

I'm the product of American public schools for what its worth. I learned the countries back in middle school, but learning the locations of countries not in North or South America was extra credit for my class (as was learnin the state capitals, and country capitals).
> How is that physically possible? How can an exchange make sure that I, living in Europe, get to see Bob's order at the same time as an HFT set up in a building adjacent to the exchange?

Easy, trading cycles occur in (e.g.) ten second intervals synced to UTC atomic time. For instance results of trades propagated for five seconds, orders are accepted for five seconds and then are executed. This should allow enough time for reasonable latency and ensure that everyone has the most recent price on the exchange.

> At the same time I'm arguing that HFTs actually improve this situation (of market participants sharing the same information), instead of hinder it.

I decline to respond as I'm still undecided as to whether this is a good thing or not.
So what? Most people in Europe do not know where Washington state is.

Anyway US already intervened in Ukraine several times. I just hope this will not become another Iraq.
This is an idea that has been around in various forms for a number of years. A number of other sites have popped up but like a number of people have already said, I don't trust random third parties with the keys to my online life.
My startups [1] does flavor profiling and statistical quality control for beer and bourbon producers - it's a fun job!

Our entire back-end is built in R, mostly within the Hadly-verse, and we use Shiny [2] as our web framework.

Our team works a bit differently than most, I suspect; our data-scientists build features and analysis directly in R, and then add the functionality to our Shiny Platform. Our "real devs" are all server + DB, or Android guys. This has created a great development system where all of the "cool findings" and 'awesome visualizations' are immediately implemented in our system, and made available for our clients!

[1] www.Gastrograph.com
[2] http://shiny.rstudio.com/

---- EDIT ---

Edited to add; R is a great language and is 100% suitable for production systems. Its older than Python(!), and, with some experience, can be made in to high performance code.
Ideally all your project's dependencies are described in a DSL. A second DSL is involved for dependency resolution and version pinning. Unfortunately each language seem to want to implement their own system.
And the 290X2 with 500W TDP, although that's technically going into two cards on the same board.
Yes, it is just a toy project. It is a lot more work to fingerprint successfully. OWASP looks very interesting. Thanks for the link and subsequently the white paper links!
I don't think this quite hits the nail on the head. Perhaps hacker communities haven't grown, but I think the reasons given are a bit too abstract. In my opinion, there are two main factors at play here. One is that many of the late 90's early 2000's hackers went corporate for the $$, or worse, went government. I'll never forget calling Mudge up and asking him how DARPA was treating him, and he was loving it simply because of all the cool things he was seeing.

For quite a while I think the hacker community was much more about hobby and IT professionals who were curious (sysadmins breaking out of the box), whereas now people just want to break into stuff and get paid big bucks (banks seem to be the centerpiece of the pen-testing economy to me). I interviewed at a local security company, and when I started talking about evil-maid attacks, I got blank stares back. So what really ended up happening is that guys starting realizing they could just run scans and produce fancy reports and get paid lots of money, and they got lazy and stopped contributing to the community as much.

Secondly though, is the chilling effect. I have been ranting about NSA for at least a decade, but we didn't have much proof beyond the Echelon/Tempest leaks. Now we know how pervasive it really is and that it's still probably even worse than we thought, and people are starting to realize that we only temporarily won the 90's crypto wars.

Eben Moglen said about the cryptowars: "in 95 at Harvard, Stuart Baker (former NSA General Counsel), after a debate about the right to encrypt, said, "...public key encryption will become available. We fought a long losing battle against it, but it was just a delaying tactic..."

I spent some time at unallocated space, which is the closest big hacker lab to NSA headquarters, and it was sorta hush-hush that we just don't talk about NSA stuff while there. Great guys, all around, but I feel like too many hackers got mired in the technical and forgot about the political side of things.

We have to realize that what is going on is a massive control power play being put into action. Surveillance of the level that is happening isn't about security at all. It's about control. I'm willing to bet that in the next few months we are about to see some COINTELPRO level releases from Greenwald and team. Hack all you want, and maybe even get hired by some contractor to make lots of money... but if you dare start applying those skills to politics... you better watch out because you just went to the top of a list somewhere.

I have put it like this, if data = information, and information = power, then secret data = secret information = secret power. Hackers are a threat to those who wield secret data, and their communities are heavily targeted for infiltration and worse. This to me, is much more influential on the hacker community than some imaged lack of creativity. I think the creativity is there, but people are having to hide it away.
"Maybe but we cannot tell."

I win!
Russia knows more about Ukraine's geography, so they should occupy it.
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That was before high-quality wire insulation was invented. Each subscriber's telephone line had to be physically separate from all the others, because they weren't coated in anything.

http://scienceray.com/technology/information/open-wire-telep...
To be fair, these people were asked for their opinion--it was an opinion survey; it's not like they're walking around volunteering it. Saying they shouldn't say anything when asked is a bit odd.

99.9% of the Americans I talk to every day are refraining from commenting about whether the US should intervene in the Ukraine. But, then, I'm not asking.
These aren't bribes to get the information quickly; there are actual costs involved that must be covered to transmit and process the info with high frequency. The alternative would be saying they'll only publish the information slowly (SIP, or say the morning newspaper), in which case there's an imbalance of knowledge between people placing huge orders and everyone else.

Suppose we had no weather forecasts and meteorologists hoarded the information. And suppose store owners could only adjust prices each morning. Before a hurricane, meteorologists could buy up every last emergency supply within an afternoon from the stores and then sell them the next day after the hurricane at 10 times the original price. Is that fair?
Yeah, that was the one. I had a hard time tracking down the proper link, but it's on the page you linked: http://www.everymac.com/upgrade_cards/sonnettech/crescendo_g...

It's clever and insane at the same time. Most processor upgrades physically replace the processor, but this one just bypassed it.
Linux FAQ: Jump back wavy red z-ghost

(maybe the first time that's been written)
Whether they answered "in Florida" or "in Kansas" is of little consequence. Either way, they don't know where it is, and that comes through loud and clear.
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The article says:

> But don’t go plugging the Compute Module into your laptop – the pins assignments aren’t even remotely the same!

So the answer is "no."
Thanks! Node can thanked because it makes writing modular code painless, so separating concerns is very easy.
Locked up my Firefox 28 for a few minutes on fully-updated Fedora 20, Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-3770 CPU @ 3.40GHz, Radeon HD 6350, 16GB RAM.
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Not even just the code....your password and email are both over http.......
The map would have been more interesting if the color represented preference for intervention.
I thought all Pi models were 512MB now since the 256MB CPU part was discontinued by the vendor.
I'm normally not a fan of condescending comments, but you hit the nail right on the head. It doesn't seem like some people grasp that a lot of open source projects are coded by unpaid volunteers in their free time in subjects they're passionate about.

Granted, there are commercial open source projects.
It's pretty nuts that a tiny little thing like this has gigaflops of compute power.