skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I know I'm in a small minority here (at least, judging by the years of clamor for larger iPhones), but I almost always use my iPhone one-handed, so I'm very skeptical about any larger display. Currently, when holding it in a relaxed position, my thumb can reach a bit to the left of or above the current display, but not both - there would probably be a difficult to reach zone in the top left corner. A larger size would also make my grip less stable.

To be fair, I don't have that much actual experience with larger phones, but I did switch to a Galaxy S4 for a few weeks last year, and while it wasn't completely unusable one handed or anything, the unwieldiness of doing so was one of the things that made me happy to get my iPhone back. But it looks like I'll soon be left behind if I want to continue using iOS...
Okay, I'm not trying to be a dick here. But everytime when I see the rumor about the screen size of iPhone 6, it always remind me how Gruber and Jim Dalrymple, two of the biggest Apple fans on the internet, mock the screen size of Samsung Note before.

Note became instantly popular in Asia area and I always thought there are big market for big phones. I even argued with Jim on his G+ saying there are someone who genuinely likes it, they could not believe.

Yes, of course, the 4 inches iPhone is perfect. THERE IS NO OTHER SIZE COULD FIT BETTER IN HUMAN"S HAND. Right? Right?

How times change.

refs:

1 Why Apple should sidestep the ‘Phablet’: http://www.loopinsight.com/2013/03/12/why-apple-should-sides...
2 Samsung Galaxy Note and a Radio Flyer wagon: http://www.loopinsight.com/2012/02/08/samsung-galaxy-note-an...
3 Galaxy Note is so big it’s in a timezone of its own: http://www.loopinsight.com/2012/02/15/galaxy-note-is-so-big-...
4 Samsung’s Galaxy Note Is the Most Useless Phone Jonathan Geller Has Ever Used: http://daringfireball.net/linked/2012/02/15/geller-galaxy-no...
5 Samsung’s Super-Sized Galaxy Note: http://daringfireball.net/linked/2012/02/15/techblock-galaxy...
It does not use the iPhone's camera, I think due to parallax problems. It has both an IR and visible light camera side by side. This means it can take both a thermal and visible image and overlay them, so you can compare or something.
A thought just occurred to me: if the subpixel geometry is based on multiple of 2 on a "3x" pixel device (say, moving from rgb to "pentile"), that would allow for "sharp" rendering of "2x" assets if everything was arranged appropriately.
That's a good point and the author kind of anticipates this with an umbrella "this isn't legit" clause at the end. Though I must say just as a demonstration of (albeit simple) predictive disease modeling in Mathematica, this article still stands on its own.

It would be interesting to see how organizations like the CDC characterize and formalize all the variables that this article is forced to ignore for simplicity's sake. Are there maps of health care quality in use? Are there other important factors related to transmission other than infectiousness and population density of a given area? etc
It's not about Bob, he can do what he want.

It's about the email service provider, that should stop analyze the email text to extract its meaning. Gmail uses it to display ads to Bob, builds a shadow profile for Alice (like Facebook) and trains an artificial intelligence (see headline link).
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Just a random anecdote, but I was in a T-Mobile store a couple of weeks ago, and I overheard some random woman looking at phones. When she saw the iPhone, her immediate reaction was: "Ew, oh my god, the screen is so tiny! That's awful!"
I love this project. I probably would have jumped in if there was a more conventional laptop around the $3k mark. The $5k heirloom, more-traditional version was pretty cool, but tough to justify for myself.
I don't believe its necessary for all the experiments to last that long. Its possible to have shorter more controlled experiments to gain insight to health benefits of particular diets.

For example...

A British group of volunteers were locked in a zoo and were allowed to eat up to 5 kilos of raw fruit and vegetables per day - but only raw fruit and vegetables.

"Nine volunteers, aged 36 to 49, took on the 12-day Evo Diet, consuming up to five kilos of raw fruit and veg a day."

"The prescribed menu was:

- safe to eat raw;
- met adult human daily nutritional requirements; and
- provided 2,300 calories - between the 2,000 recommended for women and 2,500 for men,"

"Overall, the cholesterol levels dropped 23%, an amount usually achieved only through anti-cholesterol drugs statins.

The group's average blood pressure fell from a level of 140/83 - almost hypertensive - to 122/76. Though it was not intended to be a weight loss diet, they dropped 4.4kg (9.7lbs), on average."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXZ1dH7tJWw
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/6248975.stm
And here is the follow-up: http://lethain.com/genetic-programming-a-novel-failure/
While I wish the best for all children, I feel like this kind of discourse has a negative effect on the very intelligent. By downplaying the significance of intelligence, it trivializes the gifts of the truly intelligent, and places an excessive emphasis in the virtue of hard work. I see on HN all the time the claim that hard work beats intelligence. But I have never really worked that hard, I just have an extraordinary ability in mathematics.

When I was a child, I was told that I was very smart (which I was) and pressured to fulfill my potential. Other children may be pressured to be hard working and studious. I would rather celebrate people who are naturally gifted, and also people who choose to work hard. What is important is that people's actions arise naturally from their own desires, not from external pressure or manipulation.
How much? The buy now link says "FLIR ONE™ is Not Currently Available Outside the US"
I'd say the recent revelation/allegation that NSA accidentally took down Syria's Internet connection in the recent Wired interview with Snowden and the general "vibe" of mismanagement that I get from Snowden's and Binney's accounts -- doesn't have to imply that NSA doesn't also do interesting work other than their practical attacks on global infrastructure. But it does seem clear that if they actually do interesting stuff (say, working on using multiple satellites to photograph the same area in order to extrapolate to higher resolution images than what is possible from a single lens due to atmospheric effects -- or perhaps quantum or DNA/RNA computing etc). It is clear that whatever they might be doing, it does seem to be ridiculously highly classified, just like the sibling comment's example with RSA and GCHQ.
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Here you go

http://pastebin.com/Kx6QgZUe
In real life architecture the wall/surface is never perfectly straight. This is one of the most common signs that give away 3d renderings.
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It's the opposite of syntax highlighting, it's highlighting which is syntax.
I got turned away at a Walgreens pharmacy Friday afternoon because their "system was down." The pharmacist said it was affecting "all stores.". Interesting coincidence if it's not related to this roll out.
To be fair, one of the reasons that I went back from the galaxy was because I actually preferred the smaller phone. I have a friend who was happy with his 4S but bought a 5S because he was afraid he wouldn't have the option of a smaller phone.
I’ve heard good things about Draft. But since it’s proprietary it’s not a good fit for people who want to develop and modify the tools they use.
I think this could be made easier by using the git database as a substrate - there's nothing in that that's tied to line-oriented files (maybe the compression algorithms make some assumptions?).

It's the diff-viewing infrastructure that needs to be completely replaced for prose.
Link to post that talks about how the photos are from years before the project was even on Indiegogo: https://www.facebook.com/kreyos/posts/452642058210884
With all that capability, I can't help wondering why they underestimated IS so badly.
I'm not saying big screen is for everyone. I'm simply pointing out how stubborn and blind they were.

They were not defending small screen. They were basically saying big screen is useless, stupid, and bad fit for your hand if you are normal human.

Oh well.
I'm not sure it's quite so clear cut, don't forget about http://vpri.org/ for example. Or the OLTP (one laptop per child) with assorted projects. Or the work on various unikernels on top of xen (like mirageos). Or Minix3. Or livelykernel (http://www.lively-kernel.org/).

Or perhaps even Dragonfly BSD.

I'm not necessarily disagreeing with you, some of the links above might even support your point -- I'm just not sure we've "stopped" with big, complete systems -- but the field as a whole has gotten much bigger -- and there's only so much hype to go around...
> Or you'll try to bargain with the merchant, explaining that you're dying of thirst

In which case, he'll move on and sell it to the next guy.

> Or you'll try to take the water by force, since the merchant is obviously being unreasonable.

Okay, maybe, if you aren't outmatched.

> It also assumes that the merchant is evil, so evil that he will take everything you own in exchange for a single bottle of water when you are dying of thirst

This sort of proves my point. People understand that this kind of behavior is wrong, so they don't do it.

I was replying to someone saying it's puzzling that people consider this behavior wrong.
I think the point is that the macronutrient compositions is the driver in how food affects your behavior.

That is, what you are asking for is a study that would show why large populations of people can't just "eat less." Why are they stuck in a rut of eating more than they need? Worse, why are many of them not even happy about it, but still can't get out?

This hypothesis is basically that that behavior is fueled by a feedback cycle that has, in large part, the actual foods that people eat caught in it somewhere.

Now, I think I see what you are getting at. Could you fix this at other parts of the feedback cycle? Perhaps. And I certainly agree that should get research, too. I just don't think this research is unrelated.
An interesting description of a downside in at-will employment - reminds me of the stories about culture supposedly tying the hands of Korean pilots. People shouldn't be afraid of getting fired if they voice the truth. I bet office politics can make your work uncomfortable elsewhere too, but at least you can't be fired without a good demonstrated reason.
Wanted something like this the other day to see how heat was moving around a server room...
I bet this guy is good at https://geoguessr.com/
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OSX has homebrew-cask [0, 1], which is built on homebrew to distribute binaries. I checked and a formula for calibre is present. [2]

[0]: http://caskroom.io/
[1]: https://github.com/caskroom/homebrew-cask
[2]: https://github.com/caskroom/homebrew-cask/blob/master/Casks/...
What's the max image resolution of the thermal-only and thermal with photo overlay pic?
I was part of an AllScripts deployment in a previous job. It is truly awful, as are their deployment teams that you work with. They actually recommended we put the web, database, app, and other tiers on a single subnet/VLAN. "We can't help you do it any other way, we've not done that."
Too frequent updates have been an irritant for me, largely on account of my slow internet connection. I always felt that many of the updates could have been bundled, unless it was a major fix. But no, they kept flowing in![0]

More recently my reading habits have changed and I much prefer to go directly for my books on my desktop. I've uninstalled calibre now. All I really need is a cli or a basic client (much like ncmpc for mpd) for my books. I'm looking for something along those lines, and am also planning to do a hobby project for that if the urge grows.

[0] On every Arch Linux update.
The photos I've been taking come out as 535x401. It looks like the visible light camera it uses is just VGA (640x480), but the thermal camera resolution is probably the bottleneck anyway.
Unlikely, because Walgreens has had a Developer Portal and external APIs for several years now.
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$240 million for what? I need to figure out how to get one of the contracts.
There's a few really awkward corner cases that are much clearer in YAML (and, it seems, LCON). The most significant one, to me, is lists of objects, which are perhaps not so common in code literals (hence why people don't tend to run into it in coffeescript), but do tend to come up a lot in structured documents. In JSON they are trivial:

[
{
"a": "b",
"c": "d"
},
{
"e": "f",
"g": "h"
},
]

In YAML also trivial and very concise:

- a: b
c: d
- e: f
g: h

But in CSON (if I remember correctly), I think this looks odd and confusing by comparison:

[
a: "b"
c: "d"
, # <- note dedent, without this it comes out as one object not two
e: "f"
g: "h"
]

Now, in each of these you can just revert back to JSON for the difficult part, but that kind of defeats the purpose. I think YAML-the-syntax strikes a really nice balance between eliminating unnecessary punctuation and having solid structure, and LCON seems like it does as well. CSON errs too far on removing punctuation without a lot of thought put into the remaining structure.

If I understand correctly, the above example in LCON would be (at most minimal):

. a b
c d
. e f
g h

I actually really dislike this use of . and would like to know a rationale for it, to be honest.
Interesting. As a FLIR camera used to be expensive, I built my own thermal IR camera for $120 (2011): http://oi60.tinypic.com/2820yg2.jpg
The mapping feature seems similar to APL's array-oriented programming paradigm.
I totally agree. The thing that makes iOS even worse for larger screen sizes than the bad experience on Android is that iOS icons auto-align themselves about in the worse possible place, the top left of the screen.

I've argued with a somewhat prominent advocate of certain touch behaviors, but it simply makes far more sense that interactive elements be ordered by priority from the bottom of the screen where they are most accessible by one handed users.
The article is essentially pointing out a flaw in the CAP theorem itself: Network partitions are an availability failure. It's not "consistency, availability, partition tolerance; pick two." It's "a specific type of availability failure can be mitigated by sacrificing consistency."

The problem with the CAP theorem's formulation is that it makes it seem like you have to choose between availability and consistency. But you only have to choose if you've already suffered a serious availability failure. The more important trade off is between availability and cost. You can increase availability (including making network partitions less likely) by adding redundancy. That's the real trade off. If the one switch that connects all your devices fails and has no backup, you're going to lose availability and there is no amount of consistency you can sacrifice to get it back.
Whats really impressive is that we use email to deliver messages but the US armed forces uses GBU-12 Paveway II.
I was previously a Linode customer but switched to DO because of price about a year ago. Now that Linode dropped their prices, I am looking to move back.

I never had the network problems with Linode as I do with DO. Seems like every few weeks I have a 5 - 10 minute network outage at some point during the day or night. Some are unexplained, others have been documented by DO. Thank God I have a CDN fronting my sites.
I wished I had half a reason that I could use to justify buying one of these. As it is I barely use the laptop that I've got, as my eyes are getting steadily worse I love my big screen monitors and associated fonts. Of course I could hook one of those up to a laptop but that would not give me anything I don't have today.

Still, this is by far the coolest hardware project I've seen in a very long time.

Nice quote from the article: "A company called Myriad noticed that Novena used the same breakout header as its own software-defined radio (SDR) board, and offered to re-spin a version of the board specifically for use with the Novena."

Very very neat. The Novena is really what open source is all about and I may end up buying one simply to support the poject (though I suspect that once I have it I'll see my productivity on commercial projects drop substantially).
As someone who has tracked their calories every single day for over two years. Every meal. Every piece of food that enters my mouth. How does my body not run on calories? I meticulously calculated, tracked, and adjusted my macros to a point where I have a hard number at which I know what % of fat I'll lose, over a specific period of time.
Thanks for the information. This looks pretty good, will give it a whirl - glad to find it already on the ArchLinux AUR.

Edit: I gave it a test run, and found it does the job very well. Thank you again!
>I'm saying they won't reveal what those signals are.

I think they will if those signals are under the driver's control, because insurance companies want fewer accidents. They'd gladly trade higher premiums for fewer accidents--they do it all the time when they offer incentives for driver training courses.

If they could send out a report that says something like the following, they'd do it in a heart beat.

"You take a relatively dangerous route to work every morning. If you switch to this alternate, safer route, you'll save $25 a month on your premium."
I still don't quite understand the value proposition behind DO and why people have started using it over AWS. So far I understand that it has a nice interface and is a bit (but not much) cheaper for certain server configurations. But that can't be all, right?

Could anyone explain why DO is becoming so popular?
I wonder what domain would BASIC be specific with? :)
I've gotten a similar reaction: I was asked why my iPhone was so small by my gf's mom, who is (apparently) not very familiar with smartphones.

I don't think I want a larger phone, but I can understand why Apple might make them.
That is probably precisely the reason why it's not available for Android, there are hundreds of different physical form factors and many more configurations.
Can you take a thermal-only picture too?

The cheapest FLIR camera so far has a (afaik) 240x240 low resolution IR sensor. So they maybe combine an upscaled IR image over an actual VGA camera photo.
I like this advice, not only for a young songwriter I know well, but also for myself as a budding hacker. Too much of my creative energy I spend on doubting my latest idea, to the point I don't get to implement the code to make it real. I appreciate the ideas and the energy you put into this post.
I own a Nexus 5 which is a pretty big phone by American standards. I just spent the last few days in Korea. My phone would be considered small here. Lots of Note sized phones here. I saw kids watching TV and movies on the train or multi-tasking running two apps at the same time. It was pretty impressive and I'm sure the giant batteries in those things is a nice little perk.

Next to them sat the occasional iPhone owner who was doing basic Facebook duty or playing simple games. I'm sure Apple is feeling a lot of pressure in Asia to move to a bigger screen.

Before Korea, last week I was in Japan, and didn't see this large of a percentage of big screen phones, but I saw lots of iPad minis out on the train and elsewhere while phones were safely kept in pocket. I think once people get a taste of a larger screen its hard to go back to the tiny 4" world. Sadly, this exposes the cult of personality Apple enthusiasts often partake of. 4" was perfect because Jobs and some psuedoscience said so. Now its not. I'm getting a little sick of these loudmouth guys who think perfection is achievable. Popular technology has a lot more in common with fashion than engineering. Wish these guys understood this and stopped putting their foot in their mouths, not that this is going to hurt Gruber's ad impressions. Being a dramatic soapbox-like loudmouth seems to be very profitable for bloggers. Why do we always gravitate to the Perez Hilton's of the tech world instead of more informed and moderate voices? Is fandom always irrational and will always reward those who know how to play the lowest common denominator?
Most people use an infrared thermometer 'gun' for this. You can buy them at Home Depot...
I tend to disagree with all those commenting to you. If you want a broad understanding of philosophy, well there is a lot to it, so "where to start" is a loaded question. It is not like Plato or any particular philosopher is a one-stop-shop . If you have an expertise in physics, well you didn't master it from just one book. I recommend starting with the novel "Sophie's World;" it is very accessible and it can give a good springboard for what to study next.

I think it is important to read Plato closely. It would probably be helpful to have a glance through "Ancilla to the Pre-Socratic Philosophers.

To really understand it, I recommend going through a survey book of Western Philosophy to go through Plato and the other Greek and Roman philosophers, particularly Aristotle. Then move on to the medieval philosophers and toward the likes of Spinoza. Studying the history of Skepticism from Descartes onward, I find to be critical.

You want to familiarize yourself with the famous problems of philosophy (problem of evil, problem of induction, etc).

You may be interested in the philosophy of science, people like Carl Hempel, Karl Popper, Kuhn, essays from people like Gould. I recommend "Readings in the Philosophy of Science: From Positivism to Postmodernism."

This is sort of scattered because it is a broad field. Some people mention the Analytics and Continentals, I would definitely start from the ground before you get into the differences of Pragmatism and Pragmaticism.

A major reason I suggest this path is that if you start reading later philosophers, you are missing an entire context and discussion that goes back to Plato and Socrates, even the Pre-Socratics like Heraclitus.

But, you can do a lot worse than reading "Sophies World" and then skipping to the Philosophy of Science text I mentioned and then filling in the gaps later. This is just one suggestion. :)
This seems kind of strange to me, because it basically implements a very small subset of the features you would expect in other languages. It's not even that it's a simplification of some common paradigm; it just focuses on some weirdly specific activities.
What's the maximum distance that the camera can get infrared image from? If you are outside can you see people from a deletion enter distance, 20-30 feet away?
I want to get one but they launched their product disastrously close to the iphone6 launch. I'm going to wait for their iPhone 6 version because I don't intend to keep my iphone5 around.

I still have my iPhone 4 but it is gathering dust and the batteries are dead so I don't want to waste $350 on something similar.
I haven't tested that exactly yet, but here's a support response I got from FLIR on temperature accuracy:

> At about 100m, you can see the heat signature of a person. However, atmospheric conditions can influence the visible range. Dry, clear weather will provide a greater range than rainy, foggy or humid conditions as water in the atmosphere can absorb infrared radiation before reaching the sensor.

> The spot temperature is a close representation reading for conditions testing and monitoring. It may vary 2 degrees from actual temperature.
> Read "the Road to Oxiana" -Afghanistan used to be one of the most modern places in the middle east.

Afghanistan has never been in the Middle East.

> That's why the communist ideologists figured they could take over

No, they figured that because of the combination of local instability and geographical proximity to the Soviet Union.