skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You have turned off location services (coarse location) but not GPS (fine location). As a technology, GPS gives better accuracy and precision, but at the cost of possibly taking longer to provide a reading, and they generally require a clear view of the sky because of how they work[0]. Google's location services have varying accuracy and precision (usually good, but sometimes way off), but return a reading almost immediately.

The reason that the UI is prompting you to wait instead of prompting you to turn on location services is because you don't need to turn on location services - you just need to wait until the GPS gets a solid reading (which could take either seconds or minutes, depending on where you are, whether you're inside or outside, etc.)

By default, Android turns on both together, and the assumption across the OS is that you're using both, because there's very little downside to doing so. I can see why that UI might be confusing to you, but if you're turning off coarse location services while leaving on the GPS, you're not really using the device the way it's intended (nor the way that it defaults to being used), so I can see why the UI isn't tailored for that use case.

For what it's worth, in your case, I'm puzzled by why you would want to leave GPS on but location services off. You mention battery life, but since the former is the one that is a larger draw on the battery (and as I mentioned before, neither one is a major draw on the battery as much as the lock is), you'd probably be much happier leaving both on all the time (or to leave location services on but turn the GPS off[1]).

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GPS#Basic_concept_of_GPS

[1] For most mobile applications, GPS is actually overkill and the coarse location services will probably suffice. The only time I've ever needed the precision that the GPS provides is when I need turn-by-turn directions.
Not me. Though the author is gracious to Mhyrvold and recognizes the rare opportunity to join in this meal, he does not seem especially complimentary to the food. Actually, he seems unimpressed. Despite all the technical wizardry, the meal might have simply fallen short of something prepared simply. It's a valid opinion.
> “Cooking at this level is like giving a concert,” he said. “No one in their right mind gives 300 concerts a year.”

Many musicians, even famous and successful ones, do just that.

I love food, including expensive, fancy food. I grow vegetables, and I have a CSA where I get local vegetables weekly.

Food like Myhrvold's, to me, is rich, ignorant assholes behaving like rich, ignorant assholes. I say ignorant because while they may be well versed in certain areas, their knowledge is very narrow and skewed. They fancy themselves adventurous intellectuals, when in reality they are precisely the opposite. They are some of the most closed minded people you will find.

Also, for anyone who doesn't already know, Intellectual Ventures (Myhrvold's IP troll firm) is one of the worst. A little Googling on their actions tells you everything you need to know about what kind of person he is.
that just makes it worse...
Could you name a country, where the majority of college-educated population is unlikely to feel comfortable speaking or reading English, where there has been many successful startups?

I'm trying to see whether my hypothesis that "country with successful startups" correlates with "country where the potential startup demographic is likely to be exposed to Silicon Valley ideas" holds up.
Yeah, that had me puzzled too. I haven't had to mess around with clearing apps or resetting data or even rebooting my phone since 4.1 hit the Gnex - even before that it was very occasional reboot and not much else. Nowadays it just works.

Can't figure out why people keep complaining about battery life as well - probably they've the wrong phone. Head over the Anandtech or any other reputable review site and you will find many Android phones trumping the iPhone in battery life department. My Moto G easily runs for a day+ consistently and I am a pretty heavy user.
> The $5.68 million research program is supported by the Australian Renewable Energy Agency and is part of a broader collaboration with Abengoa Solar, the largest supplier of solar thermal electricity in the world.

Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA). Let's see what the first Abbott budget had to offer up on this matter:

> Finance Minister Mathias Cormann confirmed yesterday that the Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) will be discontinued in the 2014-15 Budget.

Fun times, Australia. What fun!
About the need for a quiet room -- I totally agree with you. I wonder how many engineers talk about needing a door which can close for reasons like 'I need to focus' when the real reason is 'I have an anxiety disorder which is exasperated by chaos and eased by quiet.' I know I've said the first without mentioning the second.

In fact I turned down an offer purely because of an office plan which would put me between a Ping pong table and a room full of people (in an open office plan).
A "new" drive in a box certainly wouldn't prevent your scenario from happening (somebody faking a new drive), but is that really the person's concern?

I'm thinking the biggest concern would be plugging in someone's drive who didn't know they had malware. In that case, the requirement works pretty well.
I'm curious how large the data is after gzipping it.
Less of the "anyone with an ounce of sense" type language, please. Not everyone who disagrees with you is stupid.

What you say is correct as far as it goes but ... well ... I could write:

> Only a driveling idiot does not understand that a government that prints its own currency doesn't need to borrow money at all.

And it would be completely true. They tried that in Zimbabwe, didn't they?

I'm wall aware that Japan has a few magic charms (high savings rates, strong balance of trade, and so on) that enabled the government to run up far higher debts than would be possible elsewhere. But it looks to me like those charms are all used up now.
While I agree with your general assessment, I want to point out that it cannot be concluded from your example: in Russia (at least when I was in elementary/high school in the 90s), children clean the classroom in much the same way as in Japan (scrub the floors etc), very hands-on. Yet Russia is pretty much opposite Japan in littering on the streets.
Any interest in packaging a portable version in PortableApps.com Format? I've already done a Launcher that handles node webkit for 2048 Portable. I can help you with a Windows icon and installer if you're interested as well.
If you release pressure slowly you never see boiling/evaporation either, but at the end of the process you have steam.
Encourage everybody you know to vote for an alternative.

In particular, though, don't tell Abbott voters how terrible they are for voting for him. People will get defensive and actually strengthen their views under criticism. (http://youarenotsosmart.com/2011/06/10/the-backfire-effect/)
The question is more inspired by someone I know who lives in Manhattan who has a psycho ex. This data would answer the question (if he were tech savvy enough to mine it) "Where does her new boyfriend live?" which is rather frightening IMO.
One of the longer term benefits for Starbucks that stands out to me the most is the long-term brand loyalty these folks will have. They'll be walking, talking advertisements for the greatness that is Starbucks for all the good they've done for them. I wish more companies understood that treating your people well is one of the best marketing tactics you can employ.

By and large, companies are only going to make decisions that positively impact their bottom line, and sometimes it just so happens that those decisions align with the best interest of their employees. This is definitely one of those moments. Not to say that Starbucks' intentions aren't genuine, but it's hard to ignore the obvious positive impact this is going to have for them. I always wonder about what matters more to these companies (employee welfare or their bottom line), but I guess it doesn't much matter if the employees are happier and better off for it in the end.
That's quite a good news if that means less spam.
Interesting if this becomes widespread to other companies as well. Free enterprise/big-corp solving the cost of education/college issue when our government couldn't will be a big win for the laissez-faire folks.

Are there any existing tax benefits for educating your workers? That might be the next govt involved step here.
This article is very sympathetic to the brand pages and wants to make Facebook out as the bad guy (which I'm not saying they aren't). But while they'll certainly make money by making pages pay for exposure, they also need to maintain as many eyeballs as possible so there's a supply to sell.

The brand messages that were mixed in my news feed would usually be disruptive to me. I'd rather have them be an ad so that I can distinguish them more easily. It's a better user experience, which results in a larger supply of eyeballs.

Boo hoo for the brands. This seems like a win for the user, in my eyes.
This article sounds like a paid advertisement for Abe.

Let's see, earlier this year, he was campaigning for companies to use their piles of cash to increase wages. What does his government do? He cuts salaries for teachers.

Also, living in Japan as a foreigner, his foreign policy stances worry me. He is antagonistic. He was the first PM to visit the infamous Yasukuni shrine in 6 years provoking China and Korea. He also is currently trying to reopen the constitution so that Japan can support it's own army which will further destabilize relationships in the region.

Sure, he's cutting the corporate tax rate but he raised the consumption tax 3% a couple months ago and will go up another 2% next year. Prices are already very high in Japan and the government already receives a staggering amount of revenue. There are so many taxes and licenses and import controls here it's unbelievable.

The linked article said base pay increased 0.1% from a year earlier. Hardly an indicator that his policies are working. Plus factoring in the consumption tax increase, it means people have less disposable income.

My wife works as a homecare nurse and she has countless stories of families that are struggling to get by. A large percentage of the population is elderly and live on very fixed budgets. Abe wants to increase inflation but has no policies on addressing how to support these people during the transition. 25% of the country is already over 65 and this will keep increasing. Recently coverage for prescription drugs also went down meaning seniors need to pay more for their medicine.
Unfortunately, the solution ultimately proposed doesn't work in this case:

int _a = 50;
int result = min(num, _a);

you end up expanding to "int _a = _a;" which creates a new int _a, and assigns it to itself.
> I need an article to explain why the Japanese clean up for others.

In very broad terms, the culture in Japan is very much "I take care of you, and you take care of me". Sure, it doesn't work the same way abroad, but by the time a Japanese person travels abroad it's already ingrained at a subconscious level.

Source: lived in Japan for 3 years, have a Japan-educated grandmother.
Ask HN: Java or C++ for CS (no programming background)
New Computer Science student. Intro to programming course is offered in both languages (basically the same course). Which one should I pick. It's required and they give you the option to pick the Java version or the C++ version.

No prior programming experience. Please advise.
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Abe committed to continue doing what Japan has been doing for the last 20 years anyhow. That is not a change in monetary policy. That is not a commitment to being irresponsible. That is just business as usual. No inflation was caused by that.

The only difference is that he mixed in a BIT of stimulus spending to the mix.

That actually had a real inflationary effect on the economy, although the stimulus wasn't that big so the effect wasn't that big either.
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That's what The Wirecutter[1] does and I find its a great way to buy. For a phone or computer I want to do some research but for most other devices I can buy what they say is "the best for $x" and move on. Has saved me a lot of time and by not doing extra research I reduce buyer's remorse.

[1] - thewirecutter.com
Really nice man! I've been playing it for an hour now.
What did companies do before facebook?
When He Was A Young Man In Alabama, Tim Cook Stumbled Upon A KKK Cross Burning
I would call it rather a back of the envelope calculation, but if the multiplyer is too small, then you increase dept more than GDP. So yes, the policy of a stimulus program still needs to be good enough, my point is that after a certain point you will not get out of financial trouble by cutting spending.
If I wanted to be upbeat about Abenomics, I think I'd say pretty much the same things you are. I think I just have a gloomier outlook than you.

So I hope you're right, but I'm still keeping my savings overseas in case you're not. Because there's one thing I've learnt from other financial catastrophes: by the time ordinary people like me learn that the shit has hit the fan, it's already too late to respond.
Israel seeks to tax local profits of multinational Internet giants
As a fairly inexperienced programmer, can someone please explain why everyone is so happy there is no garbage collection going on?

Shouldn't that be something we would want?

(Is it because control over this allows us to do extra things?)
OCZ is the worst - I avoid them like the plague now. I've had 2 of 3 of their SSDs fail on me.
I'm not an expert here, but I believe that the maximum possible efficiency of all heat engines is governed by the temperature difference between the heat source and the heat sink [1,2]. Increasing the water T/P to supercritical both increases the T at which it can enter the system and, from what I gather by the link you posted and from [3], also results in some simplification of the plant mechanics, which likely increases efficiency as well.

This should indicate that for a given amount of sunlight (or fossil fuels in a conventional power plant), a greater amount of electricity can be created.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnot_cycle
[2]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rankine_cycle
[3]: http://www.brighthubengineering.com/power-plants/32896-how-a...
Chip would constantly "know" where it is in space-time
For a given megawatt of thermal energy input, you get more electrical output by working in the supercritical steam domain than you do in subcritical systems.

So not 'more electricity' since the sun is functionally unlimited, but 'more electricity per square foot' or 'more electricity per heliostat' or what have you.
Furthermore, iirc there have been longstanding talks to delay the "retirement age" (and thus the start of state pension payments) form 65 to 68.

For as long as I can remember, said state pension has been under water, and current 20 year olds are expected to be paid something like $200,000 less than what they put into the system.

The country has some good things going, but it is also littered with numerous time bombs.
The next twenty years are going to make this last twenty years just pale
A deed isn't a contract, but a deed restriction sure is:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deed_restriction
That was very interesting, thanks for sharing.

I can see the elegance of using fractal math to explain the big bang, cosmological expansion and the apparent structure our universe exhibits (as opposed to being an inert soup).
OK...but how would this psycho-ex track the new boyfriend down?

Presumably, the ex knows where the girlfriend lives...and I guess, he also knows what the new boyfriend looks like? So he watches the apartment until the BF leaves by taxi. The ex then notes the taxi's time of pickup. And then...

The ex waits a full month before calling up the TLC, buying a new hard drive, transferring a couple of GB, and then doing the data analysis to find that particular taxi that made a pickup within the vicinity of the girlfriend's apartment, and finding where that taxi made a dropoff?

And then the ex goes to those coordinates and...then what? Barges into one of high-rises and knock on every door until he finds the new boyfriend?

I think that if the psycho-ex were to act like a psycho, he probably will not do it through this kind of data analysis.
Please keep in mind that efficiency in itself does not mean much. The variable you have to optimize is cost per unit of energy.

Supercritical steam is useful for fossil fuel generation because it is relatively easy to make closed off systems which can withstand high temperatures/pressures. The optimum for solar power might lie at the much lower temperature. Why? Because the cost of solar array as a function of desired temperature rises much faster than that of a fossil fuel generator.
I'm pretty convinced we will either die out or fill the galaxy with people. If we can start the reaction by going one other place and inhabiting it I think it will ultimately set off a chain reaction. Lots of work to do between now and then but it seems like its mostly engineering now vs new discoveries.
Sierra and Lucasarts both turned to the same strategy of writing a VM for graphical games(AGI, SCI, SCUMM) and those engines basically remained viable for as long as those companies made adventure games - when they exited it was because of the business changing, not the technology.

With Infocom, I think the issue really was mostly with business fundamentals. The investment in Cornerstone turned out to be a product that didn't work well enough, and wasn't really within their existing business - and subsequently they couldn't keep up as the average cost of games started inflating to incorporate more audiovisual content.

But Z-Machine probably could have stuck around and adapted if Infocom had survived that period and restructured around the trends to make their games more elaborate and movie-like.
The next version is up for pre-order. http://www.oculusvr.com
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A project designated the "Chip-Scale Combinatorial Atomic Navigator".
It's hard to come to thia conclusion without knowing what apps you're running - looking at you Facebook with chat turned on.
This might help

http://www.thrivenotes.com/the-last-question/
Seems like they could close that gap easily enough by buying the drive themselves, and charging you the cost. Perhaps there are requirements of the law that prohibit this but allow restrictions on user-provided hardware.
What he means is he's one of those people who absolutely can't stand Facebook but for some reason still buys gasoline.
To be slightly more specific, it is not that it is poorly defined, it is that it doesn't exist. The boundary between liquid and gas is defined by a boundary at which it requires additional energy and an accompanying abrupt change in density to change between the states. In a supercritical state, there is no additional energy or change in density.

In other words, you can smoothly transition from "liquid" to "gas" without needing to boil. The two states are a single phase.
>Less of the "anyone with an ounce of sense" type language, please. Not everyone who disagrees with you is stupid.

Not stupid, but brainwashed perhaps. The fact remains that these predictions of Japanese hyperinflation using the EXACT same argument as yours have continued for two whole decades.

When are the predictions going to cease? How many more decades of zero inflation / deflation are needed before it becomes clear that continued deficit spending DOESN'T inevitably lead to hyperinflation? Three decades? Four decades? A century?

At what point do you start to consider your model broken and your predictions useless?

>And it would be completely true. They tried that in Zimbabwe, didn't they?

ABSOLUTELY WRONG. What they tried in Zimbabwe was borrowing a currency they DIDN'T print (US dollars). They were then reliant upon foreign food imports (because they ruined their farm indsutry) and had no real resources to service their FOREIGN debt. So they printed money and tried to exchange it for USD with predictable consequences.

Japan did not borrow USD. It will NEVER borrow USD. It will NEVER end up like Zimbabwe. Not now. Not in ten years with 300% debt. Not even with a trade deficit and 500% debt. NEVER.

Weimar was like Zimbabwe (its debts were denominated in Gold). Argentina was like Zimbabwe (it pegged its currency to the USD). Greece was like Zimbabwe (it can't print Euros any more than it can print gold).

Japan is NOT like Zimbabwe. It controls its debt. It controls its currency.

>I'm wall aware that Japan has a few magic charms

Japan has no magic charms and its trade balance is irrelevant to its capacity to borrow. It borrows in its own currency so it can borrow as much as it likes at whatever interest rates it likes. End of story.

For it to escape its economic rut this idea that it has to first pay off its huge debt needs to die. It actually needs to ramp up spending on jobs, just like the US did at the end of the great depression.

People need to stop seeing sky high Japanese debt as the cause of its stagnation and start seeing it as the result of its stagnation. Cause and effect flows the other way.
Thanks for the Box suggestion; I'll try it and see how it works for me. I wouldn't have thought of that workaround.
How many founders can one nation really have though? At some point you just run out of useful things to build companies around.

Entrepreneurs are extreme outliers for any of this discussion, I think.
He means, he became emotionally detached to Oculus when they made the decision to collaborate with Facebook.
The terms "liquid" and "gas" are no longer distinct, but instead are a continuum without a concept of "boiling" to separate the two.
That's almost worse. Its best that if you don't agree with Myrvhold to simply ignore what he has to say altogether.

Personally, I think it more than a little ironic that his entire excursion into cooking began by being fascinated with and emulating the techniques of Ferran Adria.
Any idea of the reason for the size limit? That's a pretty weird limit to put on a torrent feature.
This is a big reason why my last three laptops have been Apple. I've learned that the hardware is good and so is the service, and knowing this is valuable enough to me that the premium price (whether it's overpriced or not) is entirely worth it. (my opinions on the quality of late are very slightly diminished, but still positive)

As far as I can tell few or no other consumer technology company have built up this reputation of universal good quality, and that's actually very disappointing.
With the moralizing about Japan's debt, you're forgetting one absolutely key fact: what Japan owes is something that Japan is the monopoly issuer of. If you leave out this fact, then everything that follows is just going to be off-base.
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Apologies, I don't want to be pedantic, but this has nothing to do with being supercritical.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supercritical_fluid#mediaviewe...

You can note in this diagram that what you are describing is true whether or not the system is supercritical, and can be seen in how water will boil into steam when the pressure is decreased from atmospheric as well.

What you are describing is how higher pressures allow you to add energy to the water while it remains liquid, and how if you add enough energy it will overcome the enthalpy of vaporization and cause it to convert to steam as the pressure is reduced.
C++. It's relatively easy to pick up Java if you know C++. Picking up C++ if you know Java requires unlearning some habits and learning a bunch of new concepts, though. If you want to optimize for flexibility after college, C++ will set you up better.