skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Let's take a look at the Internet itself.

https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc791.txt is dated 1981.

Figure 1 in http://www.census.gov/prod/2013pubs/p20-569.pdf shows that the first time they recorded was in 1997, at 18%. That's 16 years (actually a bit more because my understanding is rfc791 documents the running code), and still under 20% - so by the same metric, the Internet is a failure!

Of course, then we can see the tail of the S-curve: it's doubled in the next three years, then slowed down and the last measurement is 71% of households in 2011. 30% of US households don't have internet at all, in 2011.

Now, let's bring the world-wide IPv6 numbers from the past 6 years, numbers from https://www.google.com/intl/en/ipv6/statistics.html#tab=ipv6...:

0.05% on 7 September 2008
0.09% on 31 August 2009
0.15% on 30 August 2010
0.34% on 1 September 2011
0.74% on 30 August 2012
1.84% on 1 September 2013
4.42% on 31 August 2014

The US figures from http://6lab.cisco.com/stats/cible.php?country=US (available since 2012):

1.32% on 1 September 2012
4.03% on 1 September 2013
9.91% on 1 September 2014

You can see it's been approximately doubling every year - and in the case of US more than doubling.

Understandingly, everything starts from zero or a very small number.
A double of a very very small number is still a very small number.

But if you keep doubling, at some point the numbers stop being small.

We're at that point now.

I hope these numbers speak by itself - those who ignore them, are welcome to continue doing so. They make an easier competition for those who don't.
Sorry: "doing business" means accepting calls, changing music, getting a glance at the state of things etc.

It's supposed to augment the phone but fails to do so according to him.
No. 20% = one fifth.
You're (admittedly) just making this shit up. Why would you pretend to have a useful opinion when you have absolutely zero experience? It's just weird.

Most tea contains caffeine which is a psychoactive drug. Caffeine is absorbed into your bloodstream and crosses into your brain. It gets you high.
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I'd also disagree with that same assertion with regard to lifeguards:

Drownings (and near-drownings prevented by a rescue) are pretty uncommon, too. It is precisely because of the rarity that one needs to be trained to spot the problem. If they happened all the time, then it would merely be a matter of the journeyman pointing one out to the apprentice when it happens. Instead, one has to rely on a combination of book study and roleplay.

This is even more the case in a pool situation (as described in the article). I was a lifeguard in a very busy pool for five years, in that time, I performed very few rescues, some of which would better be described as "assistances", only one would have been likely to turn into a drowning without a rescue.

I might add, good lifeguarding is not about watching for signs that someone might be drowning, it's about watching for signs that might precede trouble.

I'm no pilot, so I have no idea how many different things might go wrong on a plane, but I assume by the comparative duration and cost of training that it's a bit more complex than watching people swim. I'd be shocked if pilot training was strictly happy-path. I'd expect (as you state) that they would be assessed on their ability to interpret and react to things going wrong. Otherwise, what's the point of all the instrumentation?
xkcd 927.
My thoughts exactly. I could see Apple using a similar panel for the next 27" iMac and Thunderbold Display, while using a 4k panel for the smaller iMac.
I wonder if part of the decision on the Japan-first launch was due to the Japanese market being the first to show decent interest in the original Dyson vacuums.
Where did you see that?

I was going to donate tonight when I got home ..
Pilots are all about handling failures - that is pretty much what their whole career is focused on. The normal operation of a modern aircraft is pretty boring - what makes a pilot worth his salary is all the continuous training and drilling that embedded emergency procedures into his mind at the reflex level... It is a lifelong process, regularly updated through new hardware and modified methods in response to incidents.
Not sure I can keep hold of something that big to be honest without dropping it and smashing it.

I think a 4.5 - 4.7 is about my limit.
For sure, we are already planning on branching out to a greater demographic. Thanks for taking a look at the site!
the Xperia Z3 Compact looks like a nice option for a hand sized phone: http://www.theverge.com/2014/9/3/6097817/the-xperia-z3-compa...
And no, I don't work for Sony.
>You can see it's been approximately doubling every year

And by 2018, over 160% of the internet will be running IPv6.
Assuming the signal is transmitted uncompressed, this would be 5120x2880x32 bits per frame, so 5120x2880x32x60 bits per seconds at 60fps.

That's 28GBit/s - more than what a single TB2 port can handle and probably also more than what a lower-to-mid range GPU is able to produce.

I hope the solution to this will neither be reducing FPS nor adding compression, so it looks like we need a new display connection standard.

Please tell me that I got my math wrong as I really, really, really want a display at this resolution for my day-to-day work.
It doesn't.

The idea of the cleaner is that it reduces the overall level of dirt in your house. Its a "maintenance" cleaner as it can just continuously clean. Therefore the buildup of dirt in the corners will be less as there is less dirt around generally. However you will still need a secondary vacuum to do the corners, cobwebs, stairs etc.

Its aimed at people with plenty of cash, who might not blink at having one per floor of their house.
Yes, but considering that the intent of IPv6 is to replace IPv4, not just to work along with it, I would still say that IPv6 hasn't reached the critical mass. Things have started moving fast in the last 2 years, but IPv4 still carries 96% of the world's data. It's interesting that the adoption is 30% in Belgium and 11% in Germany, but in India, UK, Australia, China, Canada and many more countries, it's less than 1% (actually it's typically below .2% in most of these countries): https://www.google.com/intl/en/ipv6/statistics.html#tab=per-...

Thanks for all the good information in your comment!
"Their hand dryers do a worse job than the classic World Dryer and look uglier over time and seem to be less performant over time (smaller clogged filters perhaps!?)."

Really? That's the exact opposite experience than I've had, the Airblade dries my hands faster and more thoroughly than any traditional hand dryer.
AF447 is also a wrong stall response, but with different reasons: the pilot was incorrectly second-guessing what the plane was trying to tell him.
Ah, thanks for the link. Hadn't checked for code-searchability.

The nice thing is bitbucket has an issue tracker for the site. I am sure Github would have a similar list of pet peeves if it had a way to publicly track feature requests.
What about this one:

InternalFrameInternalFrameTitlePaneInternalFrameTitlePaneMaximizeButtonWindowNotFocusedState

http://javapapers.com/core-java/longest-class-method-and-att...
A lot of 4K screens aren't at 60fps, they're at 48fps.

I wouldn't be surprised if this screen is lower than 60fps.
The pangolin situation is much more dire (warning, may trigger sadness, furor and extreme misanthropy):

http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/extinction-countdown/201...

http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/extinction-countdown/201...

http://www.popsci.com/article/science/pangolin-smuggling-sho...

http://edition.cnn.com/interactive/2014/04/opinion/sutter-ch...

http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/extinction-countdown/201...
Good article. I had a challenge of deduplicating addresses-I had just used cosine similarity , which just worked well for the purpose.
That sucks, the Moto X was the only high-end Android of a reasonable size.

So what's left for someone who wants an Android with good specs, not too big, and not tainted by manufacturer poop?
I looked at 4K TVs recently, and if you look through the advertising they're all 4K at 30hz (ie, totally worthless for viewing anything on) due to the limitations of HDMI 1.4.
DisplayPort 1.3 is 32Gbps
I've found one exception: the software on Panasonic Toughbooks was good when I used it. Well, it wasn't buggy, didn't seem bloated, didn't have a confusing UI, and didn't crash. It was not the greatest in UI design in every way (it was a bit clunky in a Win32 sense), but it was the first time I thought that the OEM software on a laptop was being friendly to me.
Anytime someone makes an argument that they don't want to do something because their time is worth X per hour they are being an asshole. Sorry, you are not better than anyone else because you get paid a handsome sum of money to write code or whatever it is that you do that's so amazing.

I reject the crazy recycling stuff for more practical reasons. I think we can develop computerized systems that do this sorting automatically that are much more efficient and less error prone than humans.
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That sounds a lot like automatic memory management!

To a C dev, that's the same as communism to a US Republican.
South Korea and Japan and completely different in term of fashion, it doesn't make much sense to mix them.

South Korea is much more flashy, celebrity-looking like fashion with huge sunglasses.
see prev hacker news item - http://miter.mit.edu/the-unexotic-underclass/

lets solve some real problems?
It probably uses Multi-Stream Transport by combining the signals from two DP 1.2 ports. Something more or less like Dual-Link DVI but using 2 ports. Regarding graphics cards performance probably only high-end graphics card from Nvidia and AMD (Quadro/FireGL) can drive a screen like this with decent performance.
my email is: shabi (at) fossix (dot) org, my skype id is my HN username
I doubt anyone would find the Unity licensing model interesting. Epic is known to be a good partner and if you are in the league where it hurts you, you will be able to negotiate with them.

Given that most indies fail before they make any profit, the Epic model is definitely superior.
Umm.. how about let's NOT replace TCP/IP with anything because it's may be the only well-designed thing on the Internet that actually works? If you want an impossible super-hero project to work on, try replacing HTTP instead - at least you'd actually be solving a problem.
4K at 60hz (ie, totally worthless for viewing anything on)

What's wrong with that? Sounds lovely!
Unity has a free verson, UE does not IIRC.
This is one of the reasons why I will probably never again do a hardware start-up.
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I think you'd have to go beyond patent-free and require a mutual defense pact. Might even get DoJ to sign off on that.
I'm not making "shit up", it's called an opinion and you should respect it. I said "mostly" and I also wrote "There's something about it that is indeed relaxing". However:

"Does using it actually enhances focus and creativity?" My answer is a definitive NO, and I described a better alternative. I see people trying it because they believe they'll become creative geniuses and it's just delusional. There's no magic trick for getting more focused and creative except practice and consistency.
There are some good TLDRs here. But the actual article includes a link to a UI with the actual ImageNet decision task created by the author. You can compete against the winning ConvNet too..
I absolutely think they're doing a good thing here. But the normal etiquette if you're taking over an abandoned open source project and can't get in touch with the original author is to change the name.

Plus, of course, in this case it's not actually abandoned. It's in the state Gruber apparently wants it to be in, and others disagree. That changes the situation noticeably.
If you set up your tests up correctly they should test the exact binary or shared library that is deployed to production and not some test-specific build.
looks like it was a typo, parent was edited
Why not 5120x3200? 16:9 trend is really annoying.
Ah, now this makes sense. Should have thought about that...
Thanks :)
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You can not work 24 hours a day.

These arguments are factitious.

If you really could be earning $150/hr from not recycling, pay someone who only makes $7/hr to do it for you.
Be careful displaying your Casio F-91W if you visit an Arab country.. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casio_F-91W#Claimed_use_in_terr...
In the network partition example, you say that in the smaller partition, changes cannot be commited because they cannot be replicated to the majority of nodes (as the smaller partition is... smaller). How is the partition to know this? The system can't tell the difference between a node leaving the network and a node undergoing a (tempoary) partition.

To give an example, say I have n machines in datacenter A, and n*.99 in datacenter B. datacenter A gets destroyed, permanently. Does datacenter B now reject all (EDIT: where reject = not commit) requests until a human comes along to tell it that datacenter A isn't coming back?
We have a similar but smaller flood'n'drain type hydroponic garden at our office (it's a brand called Zengrow, but that particular model is discontinued). It's rather nice but not really a viable source of food.

Similar indoor garden products are very popular here in northern Europe because the price of salad and veggies is outrageous during the winter months. And also it's a nice aesthetic element when there's very little light or green in the winter.

This garden looks nice but it's way too big and probably too expensive. It will never be able to pay back its price in the food it produces.

So if the guys of this startup are listening, you should go smaller, at least initially.

Apart from that, this kind of gardens are very nice and low maintenance. But it's just a nice supplement, not something that feeds your family.
interesting ideas, but not exactly sure what the goals of the interface are.
what ideas inspired you to develop this UI ?
Should Google really be selling advertising to these sites? Payday loan operations really are the scum at the bottom of the barrel.
> For example, I am fairly confident I could pick engines out of a line-up consisting of Unity, Unreal, Source, CryEngine and RAGE (Rockstar's engine).

For some, but not for all. There are lots of games that you cannot feel the engine in. Most people would not be able to tell that Titanfall is Source for instance.
Dell's 5K display is 60hz, or at least most articles say so.
I'm fairly confident that a company like Dyson knows to do market research on these things, and has more hard data than you do.
> unless you do LEDs which are extremely expensive investments

Not sure it's that expensive. DIY solutions are very affordable and I believe LEDs are getting cheaper and cheaper. They don't consume much energy and you can select their frequencies to approach an optimal spectrum for your plants.
It won't be. You have to tap it to display the watch face.

Edit: Nope, I am wrong - the screen does indeed stay on all the time, sorry.
Why a non-standard ratio like 8:5?
I quite agree that they're doing something useful. I think they have good motivations, and it makes a lot of sense for the big Markdown-using sites to standardize on a particular Markdown dialect.

I do disagree that there'd have been a kerfuffle over this if they'd picked a completely new name, though. I'm sure there'd have been some people who said "Markdown was just fine for me" and grumbled, but the widespread debate that Standard Markdown caused? Unlikely.

Given that the people involved have enough clout to cause widespread use of this format regardless of the name, picking a name they knew would be contentious based on their previous communication with Gruber seems like an unfortunate distraction from something new and useful.
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> I'm not making "shit up"

Yes you are. Unless you're citing scientific studies you can not possibly be drawing on your own declared lack of experience.

> it's called an opinion and you should respect it

Nothing here is "called an opinion". You should probably stop using that phrase because it's ridiculous. I'm showing you respect by pointing out that you're wrong. If you don't like my choice of words then perhaps you should question your own.

> "Does using it actually enhances focus and creativity?" My answer is a definitive NO, and I described a better alternative.

The idea that you would attempt to answer this question based on zero experience is hilarious. That you would take an authoritative tone makes you a bit of an idiot.
lolwut; shader pipeline is actually fully accessible from the free version; that almost nobody utilizes it is another thing
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I am pretty sure they have considered it. But you can only make it so thick, before people won't buy it purely because of the thickness. Even in the current form, if you look on Engadget comments, 90% of people complain about how thick it is. There is only so much you can achieve using current battery technology, and they have decided that 12h battery life will have to suffice.
Another F-91W user here. Battery life is currently 13 months without a single charge. Does everything a watch needs to, including telling the time!
This is the old Content Distribution Network.
It does work -- provided you can easily identify a resource in the network.
URIs are hierarchal, but do not follow the network connections hierarchy.
Also, now every router needs to be able to track all the streams that go through it.

In short, everything explodes when you try to scale the thing.
News flash: every culture has barbaric ghosts in its past. It's what we do here and now that matters.
The history of why 16:9 came about kind of explains why it's not going anywhere any time in the next 40-50 years.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/16:9
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It's not some nameless google exec, but Megan Smith who is a high achieving multidimension awesome person. She's high energy and ambitious with a good heart. She's exactly the kind of person you want in office.
I'd look to Sony's compact series. They seem to go for small-ish displays without compromising on specs (see both the already released Z1 as well as the upcoming Z3)
What's a "standard"? 16:10 is as much a standard as anything else. The only reason 16:9 is used is because TV screens use it, so mass production reduces cost for monitors as well. It doesn't mean that 16:9 is better or a standard more than 16:10.
> anytime I find an idea or quote that I think it important, I clip it into a Word Document and print it out. I keep these in a binder. I have gone back to these notes so many more times than anything that I have in any digital form.

I do the same but I do keep it in digital form because I just hate paper. There is a browser plug in called 'scrapbook' that works very well for me, I've tied it to a hotkey (shift-ctrl-B) to capture whatever is highlit on the screen without further confirmation or other interaction. I periodically dump the scrapbook and distill it.

I like it because it keeps the data locally rather than on some cloud service.
I'm quite happy with my Nexus 4.
Inferior proportion for monitors if you ask me (comparatively to 16:10). Useful space simply cut to reuse TV format. 16:10 is also closer to the golden ratio.
I don't use it. I was just pointing out that their 'vast resources' are coming from the sale of your info, nothing more. Isn't that the point of these posts? Your comparing one search engine that is 'trying' to keep your searches private yet complaining they don't have the resources, when most of those resources for Google are coming from not keeping your searches private. I'm not sure where the complaint and or comparison is taking place. I freely give DDG my search data and they aren't using it to their advantage in the same manner google is, so whats your point again about ddg not being as good? I don't get your argument at all.
16:10 is a standard ratio. 1680x1050, 1280x800, 1920x1200...
> Though it is just an example, and not normative, it is very clear from the wording that the locus of valid optimizations is the translation unit.

I don't think that's clear at all. As you said, it's just an example.

> Phase 8 only consists of resolving references; the last semantic analysis takes place in phase 7.

Why do you think that the only place you can optimize is during the "semantic analysis" phase?

To me the phrase "All such translator output is collected into a program image" (from step 8) is vague enough to not rule out optimization during "collection".
It's like the lessons from years of awful Flash UI's have already been lost to history.

Also, my browser history was a mess. I'm sorry but no, this has little value in terms of innovation or user experience.
ISPs, Organizations, the Military, Universities, Web hosting providers and so forth. Even companies has the means to defend against such kind of danger (lawyer teams, etc.) but for individuals is a kind of risk without real benefits.

ps. I'm not saying that anyone who was ever running an exit node got arrested. It's just an added risk. It's easier to get a warrant to seize material from your place, than from a company and/or a non-profit organization.
> A 1000 Watt metal halide or high-pressure Na lamp is barely adequate to cover a square meter (if the only light source).

1000 Watts of metal halide or HPNa? Per square meter? That's huge! You don't need anywhere near that kind of figures for growing salad in your kitchen. If you're working in a commercial gardening operation, then it's a different deal. But then you're either growing weed and/or have a huge area so the W/m^2 figure goes down.

A single fluorescent tube in addition to natural light and your usual kitchen lighting goes a long way.

Most plants are not very sensitive to pH figures nor do they suck up nutrients like crazy. Automated pH and EC measurement would be nice, though. Even better if this garden could automatically add in nutrients and acid if necessary.

Lessons from growing weed are not necessarily valid for food production.
It means that 7 people here have an issue with the size.
It looks like its a demonstration of his development skills:

"I'm looking for a creative team to work with and get payed to do what i love."

Edit: Given that he is trying to showcase his development skills it might be appropriate to be positive rather than snarky?
There are no design patterns in that name (Factory, Proxy, Singleton). Also, it sounds like the name is machine generated, which shouldn't count.