skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As nerd-ragey as some people are about the Beats deal, they have some amazing fit and finish with regards to manufacturing. See for instance their paint: most painted plastics experience an undesirable amount of "orange peeling" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orange_peel_(effect)).

This is caused in part by not getting the temperature of the paint high enough to form a smooth finish. Metal can withstand significantly higher temperatures than plastic. This is usually why car paints look so much better than Krylon's.

By over-molding their plastic tops around a metal base, Beats was able to increase the tolerable temperature range. Next time you roll into a Best Buy, compare the 'shinyness' and 'smoothness' of the overmolded Beats to any other plastic product made by Samsung, HP, or Sony.

We learnt this through Chinese manufacturing forums where if anything, the idea of 'target demographic' does not apply - Beats simply figured out how to put a nicer finish on their product than the competition using innovative manufacturing techniques and increase margin.
As nerd-ragey as some people are about the Beats deal, they have some amazing fit and finish with regards to manufacturing. See for instance their paint: most painted plastics experience an undesirable amount of "orange peeling" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orange_peel_(effect)).
This is caused in part by not getting the temperature of the paint high enough to form a smooth finish. Metal can withstand significantly higher temperatures than plastic. This is usually why car paints look so much better than Krylon's.
By over-molding their plastic tops around a metal base, Beats was able to increase the tolerable temperature range. Next time you roll into a Best Buy, compare the 'shinyness' and 'smoothness' of Beats to any other product made by Samsung, HP, or Sony.
We learnt this through Chinese manufacturing forums where if anything, the idea of 'target demographic' does not apply - Beats simply figured out how to put a nicer finish on their product than the competition using innovative manufacturing techniques and increase margin.
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Any formula of real-world data would have to be an approximation of some sort. It is always possible to make some model (function), but the actual question is how accurate and useful is it.

It isn't possible to answer your question without knowing what the data you have looks like and what you want to get out of it.

edit: there isn't one (and only one) correct function for _anything_ from real data. All models are approximations. 'All models are wrong, but some are useful'.
why do you have to buy their notebook to get it scanned in? I feel like since the differentiator is the ability to get things digitized, why not just sell the scanning service instead of having to deal with inventory?
To get a better perspective here, I wish there was discussion around ... I dunno ... the full text of the actual study discussing dosage levels, etc. Also some knowledge of gram-per-gram conversion of cinnamon to sodium benzoate through its hepatic metabolism might be informative. But, sigh, let's just rant and call each other names.
This link is specifically for the chrome extension (which is great), but also worth checking out sourcegraph's main site as well: https://sourcegraph.com/

Their in-browser code analysis is kinda amazing. They index most of the go/python/node libraries in github and make the code browsable as if it were in a local IDE. For example, here's their representation of Flask's app module:

https://sourcegraph.com/github.com/mitsuhiko/flask@cc98ba909...

I've found it super helpful as a way to explore new libraries and see how they are used by other developers. Props to the sourcegraph team. Excited to see what else is coming down the road.
Escape does nothing. I tried changing the focus (background, pop-over, email box, etc) and escaping, still does nothing. Cannot clear it.

Even hitting the "join" button just opens a new tab without closing it.
I don't know. Are 9 out of 10 authors from Laos really known to be corrupt, or was it just an example used because we consider Laos a conventient place to pin third world stereotypes and first world snoberry on?
Where do you put the Star Wars references?
"Next time you roll into a Best Buy, compare the 'shinyness' and 'smoothness' of Beats to any other product"

Yeah...just don't compare the sound.
Well said. Also, its not as if the Marines have been doing a lot of amphibious landings lately. And honestly shouldn't be doing any without carrier or land based cover.
Its interesting though, the LHA/LHDs are bigger than most other countries aircraft carriers...
You'd be surprised how common it is in the West too.
And here: http://reference.wolfram.com/language/guide/SummaryOfNewFeat...
I did not know that. Is that true for all their package repos? or only for main?
CA's don't provide this security, but there's a new security mechanism called HTTP Strict Transport Security - [1] HSTS - which (along with some certificate pinning [2]) would.

1 - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_Strict_Transport_Security

2 - http://security.stackexchange.com/questions/29988/what-is-ce...
I'm not them, but I'd imagine that scanning different form-factors would be more expensive and complex. For example, users now have to measure your books (length, width, and depth) in order to check they're conformant.

Also as the binds have to be cut off to scan, third party books with things like metal ring and plastic binds might be a pain to disassemble.
The 2 steps to overcoming social anxiety
I'm totally with you that questioning Tannenbaum's legacy is pretty poor form, but your interview questions sound designed to filter out anyone who doesn't share your exact interests, which is a real shame. A better follow-up than ending the interview upon a candidate not knowing who he is would be to describe his achievements (as you did here) and then ask the candidate to tell you what they know about someone else interesting who you may or may not already know all about.
http://www.commitstrip.com/en/page/31/
Ask HN: Does Apple support staff have access to view my iCloud photo stream?
Recently I called apple support and based on only my email address they were able to push a pop up screen to my ipad, does anyone know if their support staff can freely view my iCloud content?
No, it's mostly the westerner's who hasn't set foot in China view (or the one who only set foot with the mentality of an a ex-colonialist).
I have used the Domino platform a number of times when I needed access to high-end hardware to build some large scale models (in R). They have cool technology and are pretty reasonably priced.
Basic concepts of Internet of the Things
It seems safe to assume most "known" ring detection systems being used
are private/secret since their goal is to prevent abuse and revealing
their details might thwart their effectiveness. None the less, at least
some ring detection work is being done publicly, and I've recently been
trying to learn more about the methods being used. The following should
be helpful to anyone who has to fight this sort of abuse:

"Doppelganger Finder: Taking Stylometry To The Underground"
https://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/~sa499/papers/oakland2014-unde...

Code: Find multiple accounts (doppelgangers) of a user
https://github.com/sheetal57/doppelganger-finder

https://psal.cs.drexel.edu/index.php/JStylo-Anonymouth
https://github.com/psal/jstylo
A bluetooth connection to the phone would be a much better option in my opinion.
Joe Watkins is asking for help
Apple's original success does not stem from fashion, but rather from their OS being the most accessible alternative to Windows for non-technical users--driving huge profits selling hardware.
Doppelganger Finder: Taking Stylometry To The Underground [pdf]
Fun with etymology
The sound on Beats is actually good; much better than what most people have with their headphones so most users will experience an improvement by switching to them.

The problem is that the cost:sound ratio is poor; you can find cheaper headphones with the same quality and you can find much better headphones for the same price.
Also based on the Mathematica 10 kernel is the Programming Cloud which you can try for free: http://www.wolframcloud.com/
@moskie - it is indeed amazing, and it's part of their engine that makes them truly unique (that it has been this way for so long, and continues to be just as talked about).

@k-mcgrady: true, but if you look at what percentage of their cash they spent on it, it's not as significant as acquisitions from other, similarly sized companies.. but your point remains: it is out of the ordinary for $aapl.
>In cultures based on conformity and ignorance, status is more important than actual achievement.

In the way that Dr. Dre is in higher regard by the majority compared to Miles Davis and Miley Cyrus compared to Grace Hopper?
"have a reluctance to admit that Apple is significantly a fashion company. Not the beacon of technical excellence they set it up to be in their mind."

This is a false dichotomy, the idea that Apple is either a fashion company or a Tech leader. Why can't they be both? Yes they make products that are fashionably designed but, IMO, they are clearly also a leader if not the leader in consumer technical excellence.
"In contrast, XG-FAST uses an increased frequency range up to 500 MHz to achieve higher speeds but over shorter distances. Bell Labs achieved 1 Gbps symmetrical over 70 meters on a single copper pair. 10 Gbps was achieved over a distance of 30 meters by using two pairs of lines (a technique known as “bonding”). Both tests used standard copper cable provided by a European operator."

30 meters with bonded pair for 10 Gbps. While this is pretty cool, due to distance limitation we are not getting telephone line modems that can outstrip fiber optics.
A closer look at MongoDB's new pluggable storage modules
I would suggest that it's more that an upmarket of mobile phones doesn't really exist right now. Pretty much everyone has the same thing. Who's the Porsche or the Rolls of mobile? To a first approximation, much of the first world can afford a 5S if they really want one. Vertu? Heh.
(note: I used to implement production grids, which included secure file sharing between institutions, and I work for a cloud provider. So I have some background experience in the theory and practice of file sharing in clouds, public and private).

I find it really interesting they concluded they had to build an alternative because they considered public clouds insecure and non private. Making such a decision has to take into account a very large amount of information (and they should be talking closely with potential vendors to get that information).

How do we know the university department will do a better job? It's been two years since they started the project and they have just begun procurement. They have a single vendor. How are they dealing with security and privacy- unlike a cloud company whose reputation is on the line, for whom this is an existential threat?

Running a 6Pbyte cloud is a non-trivial matter. There are large capital costs as well as operational costs (you have to buy and run lots of servers, employ 24/7 admins, etc). If you purchase a service, it's just operational (and you need far fewer admins).

Many US universities are already moving their IT departments to Amazon, Google, and Microsoft clouds. They conducted due diligence, and came to a conclusion. It's interesting the German universities came to a different conclusion- one I'm not sure included enough factual data.
Should post this as a Show HN:
https://news.ycombinator.com/show
Don't forget the search engine, the webmail provider, the ad network, the analytics service, maps, sign in with google, youtube, docs, javascript library CDN, fonts, Android, social network, translation system, and blogging network.
> If all they can come up with is "Minix" and "that pissing contest with Linus", then I might see if the Linux devops guys have an opening. If they're that incurious, they'll do fine there; those guys think the world begins and ends with Linux, too.

Do you actually believe that someone is incurious simply because they don't share your own interest in Tanenbaum? Perhaps they've focused their curiosity on one of the many other luminaries in CS, or perhaps they're more interested in the topics themselves than the personalities behind them.

Your contempt for your own devops team is also disquieting. Based on your comment your company sounds like a toxic place to work.
It doesn't say "through the sphere." It says "through the center of the sphere." For example, drill a thin radial hole 6" inches deep through the center of a sphere of radius 5"; you will pass through the center and stop before you reach the far side. The volume remaining then depends on the radius of the drill bit, and the size of the sphere.

It also doesn't even state that the hole must enter the sphere. A large solid sphere that internally contains a six inch hole through its center would qualify too.

This was my objection when I first encountered the problem. Everyone else seemed to understand that the hole must pass through both sides of the sphere, but that's not stated or even implied in the problem.
I wonder if it's really about penetration into music videos. I remember iPods being all over music videos for a few years back in the day (made my recently purchased iPod go from geeky to cool overnight!) - but then they disappeared - maybe because of Apple's battles with the music industry. Now it's Beats in every music related video, PA, media asset; something Apple needs to tap back in to, I guess.
Even ignoring performance, putting persistent data (like databases) on volumes is a best practice since the normal filesystem inside the container is ephemeral.
Yes, they look at all your nude photos and share them with the other employees. They also have contents for the most embarrassing photos they can find and post them in the lobby of the iCloud team building.
I think adding hashtables to a high-level language in 10th release, 26 years after its inception, made him/her laugh.

As a note: IIRC, SWI-Prolog got hash tables in their 7th release, so some fundamental data structure can be added to a language when it's seen as not needed by the language developers.
Audiophiles almost unanimously agree that Beats headphones are sub-par when it comes to overall quality of sound.
Sliding Friction on Wet and Dry Sand
Author here...the important thing isn't the abbreviations, but having a standard that you can agree upon and use consistently. The listed items are just an example scheme that tries to keep the length consistent to make scanning though a list visually a little easier.
You are mixing up the definitions of "premium"; it doesn't have to be about price.

People often pay a premium for something that is not worth the extra money...that is the definition of Beats headphones.

The other definition of premium is analogous to high end. That is the opposite of Beats headphones.
Early iPods did not have a significant leg up over other MP3 players in terms of usability, other MP3 players at the time hearkened back to the Walkman, which nearly all non-technical consumers were perfectly comfortable with and capable of using.

The big gain there was that the iPod had a modern design, not a design dating back to the 80s.

Edit: The clickwheel was an improvement, but it wasn't like consumers were confused or apprehensive about using the alternatives at the time. We were not like the proverbial grandmothers struggling to check their email in Windows XP; they understood the other products just fine.
I'm not following. The whole purpose of naming is to make it easy. I don't want to remember 000a43dbac72.example.com, it's easier to remember "pine" and "oak" and trust me, after working in the environment a while, everyone knows what every keyword is.
I got burned in a tech interview with off-by-one errors. I had signed into a shared editor to do some simple practice stuff for the interviewer.

He noted the off-by-one errors as a concern.

I was thinking: this is untested, unreviewed, 2-minute code that shows I can at least do some sort of problem solving. I'm nervous, don't know you, kinda worried about the tone of this interview and you're worried about off-by-one errors.

Kinda glad I didn't get that one. Wish I'd just hung up on the guy.
Kevin Novak on Data Science at Uber
Howdy.

I'm the author of the blog post.

I started the container with --volume in the case of "docker with no virtual I/O"

Which is the same as setting VOLUME in your Dockerfile.
GameDev CEO shares advice on keeping KPIs positive
Radioactive polonium is the really worry with tobacco use.
Sound is a very objective measurement so I won't go ahead and say that beats sounds "better" or "worse". However (I can't seem to find the link now) on many audiophile forums Beats have been measured to skew to better frequency response in the low range. Therefore they will sound more thumpy but without warm mids and crisp highs. Beats has engineered their headphones this way for a specific marketing demographic, I just don't know if this is what the majority of Apple customers want and interpret as good performance.
The Udacity course on numerical diffy-Q covers some of this.

https://www.udacity.com/course/cs222

I wrote a simple N-body simulator game after viewing the course, although I'm still having issues with the energy conservation.

https://github.com/madengr/nbody
So, write the same thing but in Vim macros...
Its a dude that look just like 2pac
Tryna start a rap career!!!!!
Must watch if u instrested
http://youtu.be/0Uh1aG8lzGc
> Continuing in the "let me Google that for you" vein, both QNX and various L4 family microkernels are in use in a variety of embedded systems; QNX is also in the new Blackberry products. There's a number of very mature security oriented research microkernels (like L4se and K42) that could very well show up in commercial products eventually. But that's back to needing to know more about computer science than Windows and MacOS.

Let's be fair here. Your claim was that microkernels are "in general use". Ongoing research, however mature, does not support this claim. And Blackberry is hardly the heavy hitter they used to be. Meanwhile, the major OSs for computers as computers -- and as phones -- have backed away from the microkernel design. Maybe they shouldn't have; regardless, they did.

That leaves embedded systems. And there you have a point. So: microkernels are in common use in embedded systems. But let's not overstate their successes.
The new integration method is available for our marketplace merchants, but PayPal as a payment method is not available for marketplaces in this initial launch.
Not to mention the fact that telephone lines are bandlimited at about 3000 Hz.
Apple's Watch to Lose
On the issue of efficiency of Prozac or similar drugs, sometimes the explanation is that they simply work and you know it if you have taken them. I found the effects of SSRIs very noticeable, and every doctor prescribing them knows of patients who suddenly were able to leave the bed, or deeply depressive patients switching into a manic episode. The latter might not sound like an improvement, but for the patients, quality of life improves immensely. This can explain why doctors and regulators look favourably on drugs with a long history of clinical use.

I'd also criticize the conclusion that there's nothing better than Aspirin on the market. Which hasn't been known since ancient times by the way. The original salicylic acid was much worse on the stomach. Both Ibuprofene and Diclofenac have better analgesic properties, again very noticeable, and metamizole has different properties, again much more useful than asparin. There's really nothing to argue with that, except some hand-waving "placebo" talk, which often isn't so scientific either.

I'm more familiar with the veterinary side of things, and there the situation is that there are both independant trials, and a sort of "grapevine" where veterinarians compare notes on different drugs.

You can't really argue with anesthesia drugs. Either they work or they don't. Either they have a high incidence of accidents in a particular species, or they don't. Antibiotics much the same, especially when performing individual lab tests. Sure there is a lot of hyperbole or bad advertising, but it's not just "bad pharma".
But that's not their target demographic so it's moot.
You're a smug asshole, aren't you. The reason they are so successful is the technology falls by the wayside; that's how advanced they are. Just because you get off rooting your phone doesn't mean they're not the leaders in technical excellence.
Sorry, I submitted this article earlier with the wrong link.
Introducing Ensembles 2
Mentioned above that i started the container with --volume.

The 3 docker conditions where
No flags,
--volume /.../,
--volume /.../ --net=host
The problem with that concept is: Bad guys steal your domain (e.g. break into the DNS provider and change the A records). They go to Google, request a cert, and Google checks the domain for the verification code (like Google Apps).

Google generates you a new certificate, you then install the certificate, and now users are even less suspecting that the domain has been compromised. It even defeats a Strict Transport Security policy.
That may be the case, but consider that most consumers are probably currently using the <$15 earbuds that came with their phone. When those users switch to Beats they will get a much better sound experience, even if the frequency response is skewed.

I'll continue to recommend sennheiser over Beats, but I think the primary objection to beats should be their cost, not their quality.
Owning Beats aligns Apple with hip hop and club culture, perhaps the largest driver of global consumer entertainment outside of film/tv.
I think you're misreading what I'm saying. I'm not saying that Apple is just a fashion company. I'm saying that a lot of folks, especially the silicon valley alpha geek types, who are die hard Apple fans try to rationalize their preferences in a way that excludes the fashion aspect out of a sense of embarrassment or what-have-you.
I'm not clear why Beats are so popular actually. I find socially it sends the wrong message for me, functionally not as great as Bose or BW, and a bit too big + plastic for my taste.
Photography is a craft: sometimes people think they could become photographers more easily than programmers, I don't know why. Learning is necessary, as well as investment (both in time and money) and motivation too. Gigs are definitely on the "tough" side, it's more demanding on cameras, lenses, flash technique, etc.

After 7 years as a programmer/Java architect/blah, I was a photographer for 8 years. I'm back as a programmer now. Photography doesn't pay well (in my part of the world), but I learnt a lot!
I'd qualify that by saying that, if your time without a computer is money, then don't use linux. As an anecdote, my wife purchased a new laptop last week. The windows activation code they sent us was invalid and microsoft and the vendor spent three days pointing fingers before the vendor agreed to fix it. Their fix was for me to ship the computer back and wait two weeks for them to deliver us a new one. One hour of my time is worth more than she can make in two weeks with no computer, so I just installed Linux and we went on our merry way.

Before anyone from the Apple camp chimes in, I had a similar experience with my old laptop, which was a Mac where the file system corrupted itself every time it went to sleep.

I'm not saying that Linux doesn't get ugly. It does. I've had the failed sound cards and bad printers. Hell, I'm old enough to remember screwing around with trying to get a WinModem to run. It just comes down to whether it's cheaper to waste ten hours of your time trying to get things working or to return to the 20th century for a week while support reformats your hard drive. That probably just depends on your occupation.
What do you think of Heinz von Foerster?