skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
1) A backgrounded app on iOS is usually suspended immediately and as such comparable to a cached app on Android, neither uses power. Both platforms allow apps to continue to run code in the background, both platforms reclaim memory from inactive apps. Android is more flexible when it comes to running several tasks in the background, iOS is slowly moving in that direction.

2) What do you mean by 'keep(ing) gobs of unused memory around'? Neither iOS or Android keeps 'gobs of unused memory around', both use inactive memory for caching purposes.

3) The same is true for Android.

4) This has already been debunked in this thread.

5) The same is true for Android.

6) More or less the same in Android.

7) This is where Android runs behind iOS in the default configuration. Alternative distributions (Cyanogenmod, Paranoid Android, etc) do offer more fine-grained control over services, as do extensions like the 'Xposed framework'. The device needs to be rooted to install the latter.

8) as does the Linux kernel...

It does not make sense to portray iOS as superior to Android because it isn't. Both platforms have their idiosyncrasies, both have their strengths and weaknesses. Android is more flexible, iOS offers more fine-grained control over permissions. The latter can be retrofitted to Android, while it is hard - and against the EULA - to add flexibility to iOS. Both platforms show the intentions of their creators: Google wants to know as much as they can about their users, Apple wants to have their 30% cut of anything done on or through their platform.
Well HTTP/1.1 just got updated recently, without changing the version number:
http://evertpot.com/http-11-updated/

So there are updates needed from time-to-time, but I agree that running a small webserver shouldn't require constant updates to fix neverending security bugs.
No, it isn't. The div that you see is probably inside an element named textLayer, which is there to enable copy-pasting. The actual rendering is on a canvas.
It looks like a great MVP Omar, I'll be keeping an eye out for updates!

Many of our customers are non-technical so a feedback loop with clear messaging is essential for us.
Congrats man. I remember meeting you at the Meteor meetup and was thrilled with your vision (plus the balls to go with Meteor!). Good luck with your endeavors.
This. My experience has been that Linode is very transparent about status messages, and I'd even go so far as to say the most transparent I've seen. Usually if an external service reports a timeout to me and I visit the status page there is often an investigation notice posted regarding network latency.
Now let's see something like this but with an open source protocol like Camlistore.

Still looking for a co-founder to tear this industry apart. Email's in profile.
When you sign a lease, your landlord expects approval over sublettors. You know they do. They know they do. The contract says they get it. This notion that the Internet is rewriting the ethics of that situation is relativistic bullshit; the argument is embarrassing.

Sorry, but the Internet has not in fact rewritten every rule that is somehow inconvenient to people on the Internet.
And to further optimize the experience and support low-bandwidth environments, Streem has developed enhanced video and media streaming technology to ensure content is accessible from the cloud as fast as it is locally.

How is this technically possible?
I have experienced this too. I never inquired but it seems worse on NY2.
Apparently, because it's the responsibility of Britain, Australia, and Canada to feed hungry Indians, or something. This is the "soft bigotry of low expectations", the assumption that Indians are children who could not take care of themselves.

How else do you get the argument that Churchill was intentionally killing Indians because he "had a bad attitude" toward them and because he didn't risk enough merchant shipping during a world war to ship food there?
A good summary with one exception: the monitoring, instrumentation and logging didn't get enough attention. The failure is the norm so firsts and foremost you want to know when a failure occurs and then you need to be able to investigate what went wrong. You should literally monitor/instrument everything: every API call, every DB access, every page rendering should include code to monitor latency, result codes, payload size, etc. Every error (even benign) should be logged preferably with stack traces. Any unexpected condition should be checked and logged. All the instrumentation data should be graphed and stored for a long period of time so you can analyze the impact of your code changes on system performance and correlate it with system failures.
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Isn't that what FreshDirect does?
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Can Ritik comment on some insights into how StreemFS looks like ? Does it follow a nfs client-server model where the server then makes a request to the Streem servers to get back the data and also managing look ahead buffers etc ?
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Tires slashed on Google shopping express truck in Mission District
Yes it's common, but... when companies have $0 in revenue, but still get valued in to the billions, there's already another metric being used.
People who use IE are part of the problem, not the solution.

You're now part of a statistic that will be (sometimes wilfully) misinterpreted to force devs to support IE6-10 and to not support all the exciting technologies that IE doesn't support.

Please reconsider what you're doing, it's bad for the web ecosystem and therefore society in general.
Is this a parody site or is this someone's idea of how to deal with the world?
Wooooooo Streem!
Wohoooo Congrats!
Nice Snow Crash reference.
Optimizely for iOS is now in Public Beta
I think it is possible for someone to desire their friends to know a thing about them even while knowing that their friends don't actually care about that detail.

Maybe a subtle unconscious change about how one is thought of might possibly be a result? (I don't know, but I don't think I can rule it out as a possibility that could be desirable to some.)
I would be incredibly careful of trusting any new BTC trust protocols this week, with the ongoing 51% threat from GHash.

http://arstechnica.com/security/2014/06/bitcoin-security-gua...
Agreed. Before I follow someone on Twitter I look at their recent stream of posts. More than one or two a week, you don't get a follow from me. It's not worth the clutter in my stream.
You're making some assumptions that simply aren't backed up in the story. The story doesn't go into detail about where Sweetie was setup online or who initiated contact first or how the alleged pedophiles knew that Sweetie was only 10 years old. So entrapment may have occurred. And I have no idea why you believe that the alleged pedophiles had almost certainly done it before as that also wasn't mentioned anywhere in the story.

What we're dealing with here is a vigilante organization running sting operations where they may or may not be operating in a diligent law abiding manner. As much as I would like to catch pedophiles, I don't think that's the sort of thing we should be encouraging.
Nice false dilemma.

Of course it's not a crime to think about something. But that's not what happened here. The alleged perps propositioned a child for sexual acts. That it happened not to have been an actual, breathing child in the specific instance involving Sweetie is incidental; I'll bet you real money it was every other time...

EDIT: Or do you somehow actually think that for all 1000 people found via this "honeypot", it was the first time they ever thought, "I know what I'll do today! I'll pay a naked 8-year-old to touch herself over the internet!" and that they were just "lucky" enough to get a fake kid their first time out?
Yes, but then I realized that wouldn't make much sense so I forced myself to read each letter :)
What does moving the networking stack into userland accomplish?
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Matasano's "Javascript Cryptography Considered Harmful" is yet again applicable. http://matasano.com/articles/javascript-cryptography/

These statements are mutually exclusive:

End to end encrypted: Nobody, not even us, can read or listen into your conversations.

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By take care of, I mean "feed, clothe, educate to higschool level, pay for standard/basic medical care, and provide a relatively safe environment to grow up in". Is that really all that bad of a "requirement"?

If the parents need to ask for assistance from the state for basic things such as the items above, then I'd argue that they're not able to take care of children. Most of the items are given to them by the state anyways, and they still don't "manage".
Re-read what I said:

Well, the primary goal was reflation, so by that measure, it's been a resounding success so far.

Notice "by that measure" and "so far". Please do not distort my words.

But yes, you're right; it could end as an unmitigated disaster economically. We just don't know yet.
Some people may not like it when companies deny them services or charge a higher rate because people who share the same interest are riskier or are willing to pay more.
How do you handle contracts?

Assuming each client has their own terms, and you have your own... Have you found any tricks to reaching a quick agreement that maintains your freedom?
Hacker News continues to mystify me - getting knocked down for asking for a reference for a statement?
I had the same reaction. There should be a few words showing that we now have a point which multiplied by itself (rotated by 90° around 0) goes to -1. So this number is the square root of -1.
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I thought that some of the higher-res photos from google earth and competitors were taken by plane, rather than satellite. I wonder how/if the new restrictions apply to lower-flying photography?
It probably has to do with traveling distances which vary greatly depending on the area. I don't want my frozen stuff to thaw while sitting around waiting for the next driver or during transit. I don't want my stuff squashed so vehicles need to be bigger to handle multiple loads, which also sort of implies inefficiency while traveling without a load.

I could see it working extremely well in big compact cities since they already have many delivery services. However, in the spread out areas it wouldn't work so well without many drivers which increases costs and the price of goods.

Also, most people want to inspect their fruit and veggies before they buy them. The interfaces could take input on the state but that would just slow things down IMO while a human would have to sort them. Unless there are systems out there for ripeness detection. I might buy something for tonight's dinner, in which I want something ready, or I might be preparing for a weekend dinner and want something that still needs time.

I believe all of these issues can be overcome, but I don't see how all that labor, vehicles, and tech could be a marginal cost. Well, I can see the tech cost approaching zero/order since all it needs is the existing catalog/POS system with a simple web interface. Most people I know either shop on their way home from work, a trip they are already paying for, or wait for the weekend to go as a group.
Then we should catch Bob propositioning an actual child. Surely we don't want to have a justice system based on assumptions and probabilities? Either we have hard evidence or we don't. Chatting to a virtual avatar is not hard evidence of anything in my opinion.
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Not everyone is driven by price. Sometimes convenience trumps price. I use the delivery services so I don't have to waste an hour at Staples to buy one item.
There's always a single point of failure. The user.
the folks at http://project529.com are getting started in the bike registry space as well. I like their push for online bike sales to list serial numbers to lower the chances of stolen bikes from being sold easily. but getting the number of registries to fewer (ideally 1) is a really good thing.
I don't get it. So by using IE11, you're part of the IE6-IE10 statistic? How so?
The assertions I addressed are based on the premise that corporations do no socioeconomic good ("damn evil greedy rich stealing from the proletariat"), and that all socioeconomic good emerges from the government, which requires vast taxes to provide that good. I counter-contend that corporations do far more good than Leftists give credit for, and compelling payment of high taxes would undo that good, making a much bigger mess than is imputed upon them now.

Large corporations don't flout their tax bill. The imputation that they do is absurd, as doing so would result in jail time for those in charge. They take whatever deductions they can (just as you surely do on your tax bill), leveraging options to reduce it toward zero. Those deductions are, on the whole, enacted because some socioeconomic benefit comes of that deductible activity (some surely debatable, but some justification resulted in legislating the deduction). So while my example of employment & GDP contributions may not "qualify" to you (I'll leave you to contemplate a loss of 150,000 jobs and $14B of GDP), you've refined my argument to observe that by demanding greater tax payment you're (by consequence) demanding an end to incentivizing socioeconomic contributions which corporations make for the purpose of lowering their tax bill. Raising Starbucks' taxes from an assumed $0 to, what, $5,000,000,000 ... the equivalent of twice their employee base cumulative salary (at minimum-wage-or-close-to-it); eliminating deductions to force Starbucks to no longer "flout their tax bill" would not just end the good done by engaging in those deductible behaviors, but would also result in ejecting a large part of their workforce. You cannot ignore the socioeconomic good of employing so many and earning so much, nor ignore the good done (abiding with legislated incentives!) to reduce tax burden, and continue to blindly demand "fairness" as if increasing tax revenue won't have negative consequences.

You'll probably be likewise outraged to know that I've zeroed out my state tax liability this year. I wouldn't have leased an electric car if not for that deduction; would you rather the state have the deducted amount, or replace a smog-spewing old Jeep with a zero emissions vehicle?

As for your analogy: the heart doesn't oxygenate blood, its sole purpose IS to move blood, and somehow punishing it for not oxygenating while ignoring the service of pumping is just downright stupid.
The site offers a 5% minimum interest rate. With such a (relatively) high return, the risks are also high, as your money is used to leverage trading on Bitcoin itself.

Taking such a risk with a currency that can move 5% in hours seems foolish or exactly the right strategy, I'm not sure which.
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My friend! Best thing ON EARTH for this is a very famous book on the subject "How to Make Friends and Influence People" by Dale Carnegie. I recommend the audio version. It's practical and effective. Don't waste time, read/listen to it and apply the principles it teaches. This is the Wikipedia entry about the book. Use it to get you started. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_to_Win_Friends_and_Influenc...

Remember: The most important part is practicing the principles you learn. Get out there, build your confidence and make some friends! Good Luck.
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I don't think that's the connotation of the OP's sentence.
The classic advice is the book "How To Win Friends and Influence People" by Dale Carnegie.
Space giants join forces to battle SpaceX: This is how cheap space travel begins
I think that particular slide was poorly worded. He's actually introduction a consequence of the rules, but not saying it's an obvious consequence. Slide 19 shows how (1∠90∘)2 = -1.
There are many important, useful, societally and culturally valuable things, that are not best suited to being studied as an academic degree.
Sure, I mentioned that it's my opinion already; I'm simply noting that the value is rooted less in taste (in the literal food sense) and more in aesthetic.

I'm not saying that the package is overvalued, but rather the underlying food that is; after all, it represents but a small - sometimes negligible - portion of the package as a whole.
It is more likely a diet comprised of mostly carbohydrates and processed food along with low physical activity is the cause. But that is a title for another blog/article post on another day.
The next slide shows that.
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It's one of the things I love about Gitlab, you can have a per-project gists like page!
I bet you could write a bot that pastes that link any time a comment mentions UK and taxis in proximity.
"The firm will cover deposited funds with its own reserves"

It will be interesting to see if the Bitcoin community embraces fractionally reserved savings schemes. With the eventual hard limit on the underlying asset, it is difficult to imagine this going on anywhere near as long as our own fiat experiments, but monetary systems never cease surprising me.
This was in the comments: https://www.synflow.com/
This article doesn't even bring up ABC (alcohol boards) who's sole purpose is to waste taxpayer money on sting operations at bars and push for esoteric laws that make it harder and harder to get a drink.

Make no mistake -- alcohol boards and organizations like MADD are simply neo-prohibiitonist movements co-opted by religious zealots.
Federer leads six tennis players among Forbes highest-earning athletes
These losers wouldn't even dare to touch a RL girl. Even though it would be perfectly legal to have sex with someone as young as 16 or even 12 in many countries.

So why make their lives any more miserable?

Those who abuse girls IRL should burn in hell though.
I know that Gruber is pro Apple. But what I like about his comments is that he has got his facts straight. Like in real hard numbers and statistics. Whereas the NYTs writing about Apple in the last years smells like hit pieces and/or click bait.

For another totally unbalanced and very hard to dismiss comment (because he's got his facts straight) I'll quote Mr. Dilgers latest piece:

“Unsurprisingly, the article's authors Matt Richtel and Brian X. Chen have to admit early on that Cook "declined to be interviewed for this article." It's not hard to understand why.

Richtel may be best known for his bizarre hit piece castigating Apple for working to sell iPads to schools in 2011.

Chen even more famously skewered Apple for even attempting to sell its iPhone in Japan, where he assured his Wired readers that the nation hated it. He even crafted quotes from people in Japan saying how "lame" the iPhone was, even if those quotes were actually completely fabricated.

Then of course, there's the New York Times itself, the publication Richtel and Chen are currently writing for, which printed its "iEconomy" series exclusively blaming Apple for everything wrong in the industry.”

http://appleinsider.com/articles/14/06/15/new-york-times-see...
So what if he didn't like Indians? How do you go from that claim, to the claim that he perpetrated a "holocaust" against them? It's a monstrous calumny.
Can you place links at each of your figures so that we can directly link to those of interest? This is great stuff!
> The really amazing thing here is that they've disentangled IE from the base Windows

Calling bull. MSIE has never been "entangled" with the OS and this has in fact been proven in court ( http://www.justice.gov/atr/cases/f2600/2613g.pdf pages 283 through 288 are especially noteworthy). The integration was merely a scam to defeat Netscape.

Here's a bunch of standalone versions from 1996 to 2002 (made by MSFT themselves) which can all run side by side: http://browsers.evolt.org/browsers/archive/ie/win32/

On the same site, you can find MSIE for HP-UX and Solaris.
I don't know for certain, but I don't believe the police are making arrests based solely on an alleged perp's interactions with Sweetie. If you ask me, however, Bob's propositioning Sweetie creates sufficient Probable Cause to obtain a warrant to search his computer for evidence of other, similar, interactions, with actual children. Then he can be prosecuted for the cases where there was a victim.
After some digging, I realized this was a Windows + Chrome issue with a particular font size and I was able to fix it!

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I'm a pretty heavy Instacart user, and I'm convinced what they're making on markup eclipses what they make from delivery fees.

Not complaining, just wish the messaging didn't gloss over it as mentioned above.
Individuals were not threatened by Hitler?
hi OP, if you're reading: I'd advise that you take a class on the weekends which gives you a chance to practice speaking English. maybe a more advanced ESL (English as a second language) class, or a literature class if you're feeling brave. something at a community college or maybe a meetup (there are often meetups around languages and sometimes around literature too).

you seem to have two distinct issues going on, namely shyness and discomfort with English. there are a lot of different ways to deal with shyness, but I think every single one of them is going to be a lot easier to implement if you get better at English first.

it's also good for your career, since Bay Area tech companies typically communicate in English. and, you mentioned working really hard and having no social life in college, so maybe you have workaholic tendencies. those could be an obstacle to some forms of socializing, but taking a class in English actually uses your workaholic tendencies to make you better equipped to socialize.
Oddly enough, On Bullshit is itself bullshit. Half of the essay is just a line by line elaboration of Oxford English Dictionary definitions.
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Write an app to calculate orbital elements and pop up an alert: "Imaging object arriving over horizon, take action"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orbital_elements

http://www.heavens-above.com/

Other countries have done this for years, and cover their equipment with camo cover when opposing country assets are overhead. This is why the Air Force/Boeing X-37B is such a big deal; its an asset that can shift orbits to counterattack known orbit information.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_X-37

http://www.spacedaily.com/reports/X_37B_Gets_Stranger_999.ht...
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If you're worried about satellites and black helicopters, I think you've already left the realm of practicality. You might as well toss up the camo netting and don your tinfoil hat.
reminds me of this comment on reddit

http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/284me8/instant_conf...

Not to dismiss the 51% issue but that would affect all transactions, this -'instant protocol' is on top of bitcoin, not in replacement of.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't all of this openness a result of Microsoft realizing it's loosing, and trying to win back market share by niceing up to OSS developers?