skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Most of us stopped wearing watches the moment we got cell phones.

Is there a source for this at all beyond personal experience? I wouldn't expect that to be the case in general - I definitely wouldn't see the smartphone as the successor product to the watch.

I can't even find a correlation that suggests a permanent replacement of watches with phones. MarketWatch [0] have a graph showing a decrease in watch sales from 2007-2009 but that had recovered fully by 2012.

While smartwatches might fail I don't think these manufacturers will have a valid claim that they failed because they'd already ruined the watch market.

[0] http://www.marketwatch.com/story/the-watchs-time-isnt-up-201...
I hope it doesn't die! I'm building a service based on it :)
For comparison, there are UK private primary schools that will cost you about GBP 12k/year that deliver far less measurable benefit (if any) than that, that are still wildly successful at attracting students.
It wouldn't be so bad if it was just an appearance, but all of my friends who have tried working for local companies, startups or otherwise, have had similar experiences: Innovation is seen as too risky, less risky t just copy. Its a whole culture at this point, and I'm not sure when it will change. It can't go on like this forever.
I think I already said it on HN, but I really, really recommend reading "DO IT!: Scenarios of the Revolution" by Jerry Rubin.

In my opinion, you can't get the right version of the history of hackers without considering the relationships between the hackers/phreakers movement and the Yippies / Freedom of Speech / Hippies movements.
I sometimes wonder if this was exactly Osbourne's plan
Open source is the new shareware I think.
This depends on how you define "native" -- asm.js code is run-time compiled to assembler (I'm assuming that's where the name comes from) so is running "natively", as if you shipped your C++ application with the source code and a compiler, and compiled and ran it when the user opened the app.

The Unity engine has 98% of its hardware-intensive functionality compiled natively on the device, with only a small percentage of the remainder being interpreted code. Once again, it's hard not to call such an app "native" since there's no interpreter layer between the instructions and the bare metal of the device.

I worry that by suggesting these examples are "non-native" you're placing them on the same bar as HTML5 / JavaScript which is largely interpreted. I think a distinction needs to be made between languages/engines whose code is largely native and / or compiled at runtime, and languages / engines whose code is largely interpreted while running. There's huge performance implications between these two categories.
Everything's been professionalised as there are far more people able to write software and far more competition. "Shareware" has been replaced with IAPs, "free to play", and advertising-supported software. Everything is now always connected; there's no advantage to distributing software by mailing out floppy disks and persuading people to hand those disks to others.
"As such, they stated (against the laws of Islam) that non-Arab converts to Islam still need to pay the same amount as they were paying before they embraced Islam. Naturally, this led to a lot of resentment amongst the new non-Arab Muslims who would later support the Abbasid rebellion against the Umayyads."

First the Jizya was not a Tax payed because they weren't Muslims. It was payed for everyone who didn't participate in Islamic military. Think of it like a Latino living in the US and paying a fee (passport fees, green card fees..etc) for not participating in US military. Non-Muslim benefited from the same as Muslims in terms of public social help.
Secondly, Zakat can be sometimes higher than the Tax paid by non-Muslims. Depending on how much you own.
Awesome gallery of the Darpa challenge robots
An Energy Saving Air Vent in the Cloud Designed by a 13-Year-Old
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Sorry if this is a dumb question, but what's exactly the difference between JWT and OAuth?

(EDIT: typo)
I have error on Satellizer script
Thank you for the script, it's really cool. I use AngularJs and Codeigniter. I joined Satellizer to connect to my application, but I have error message: http://localhost/demo/api/index.php/auth/login/ 404 (Not Found), http://localhost/demo/api/index.php/auth/signup 404 (Not Found), in the console of my browser.
I configured the file Satellizer.js

(function (window, angular, undefined) {

'use strict;

angular.module ('Satellizer', [])

.constant ('satellizer.config' {

logoutRedirect: '/',

loginRedirect: '/',

signupRedirect '/ login'

loginUrl: 'http: //localhost/demo/api/index.php/auth/login/'

signupUrl: 'http: //localhost/demo/api/index.php/auth/signup'

loginRoute '/ login'

signupRoute '/ signup'

tokenName: 'token'

tokenPrefix 'Satellizer'

unlinkUrl '/ auth / unlink /',

Thank you for helping me solve this problem.
I would save yourself the trouble and create a separate domain now for customer subdomains. The problem with your current path is that it is impossible to tell the difference between a 7sheep.net subdomain that is owned and operated by 7sheep and a subdomain that is owned and operated by a 3rd party.

For example, training.7sheep.net is an official subdomain, but I could create docs.7sheep.net and make it look like an official subdomain and request peoples account information or do other bad things. GitHub ran into the same problem when they started supporting GitHub pages. Originally these were subdomains off of github.com, but after all the spoofing and other issues they moved them all to github.io. This way you never need to create a list of 'reserved' names and don't need to worry about confusion down the road.

You can read about GitHub's transition and reasoning at https://github.com/blog/1452-new-github-pages-domain-github-....
Exactly. You can fake the chicken to a certain degree, but at some point you need to produce an egg...
How 70+ great companies signed up for our service in 3 months
Re-evaluating the StoreLoad instruction sequence for x86
JWTs seem really great to handle auth on single page apps with APIs, but I don't quite understand something yet:

What is the best and recommended way to implement a "remember me" feature?

I'm using the "angular-fullstack" yeoman generator (https://github.com/DaftMonk/generator-angular-fullstack) which uses your npm packages, but it lacks of a feature like that, and the app is pretty much unusable, user must log in every time after closing the browser...
this is awesome. had a look into doing this on the GPU a while ago, barnes-hut was the best speedup I could find

There has to be a game in this somewhere...
Whatever it is that the FBI did, the agency should be held to exactly the same standard as a private individual interacting with a company's online presence. Have private individuals ever been prosecuted for exploiting security loopholes to extract data from a public site? If so, then government agencies should be held to the same standard, and any data obtained in that way should be deemed inadmissible as evidence.
In general, for what asm,js covers, and what it doesn't, it's probably best to look at http://asmjs.org/faq.html

With Unity and the Epic Unreal Engine, the goal is to be able to build games that will be able to run anywhere in a web/WebGL context: https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2013/03/27/mozilla-is-unlockin...

I believe it's also about finding ways to make interpreted code much more optimized as well. We also fairly recently had a blog post about asm.js and where it's going: https://hacks.mozilla.org/2014/05/asm-js-performance-improve...
>We're in Daylight Saving time. EDT. Or just "ET" or "Eastern", which are good year-round.

Point taken. :)

>Doesn't this mean that crossing a panel boundary means we need to pop up the stack?

Aha! Yes, now that I'm looking closely, I think that is possible, since the logic that handles crossing outside of the current "pos" pixel boundary is re-entrant.

However, I note that the line numbers in your trace are alternating. This looks suspiciously like an oscillation between the "need to zoom out and find a new pos" and "need to zoom in and set pos" states. It just occurred to me that since these conditionals compare floating point positions directly, it might be possible for a precision error to cause such a loop.

This exercise has made me realize a benefit to the mess of carrying code that happens further down, when wrapping around the 4 panels that are actively being displayed. That code will in principle operate past the point where a recursive implementation will stack trace, FWIW. According to StackOverflow [1], that'll be around 25K/50K nestings in Chrome/Firefox.

>Would mipmapping help any here?

Yep! The current implementation only scales an image once per render, caching the resultant image data and reusing it for all of the other draws [2]. Images are also pre-scaled to various intervals (for example [3]), though that was to improve image scaling rather than performance. Actually, while working on the mipmapping implementation, I found evidence that the canvas putImageData call (for image buffers) is a good deal slower than drawIamge [4]. It looks like where I left things, I'm still using putImageData. Tomorrow, I'll try caching the actual canvas elements and see if that gives the predicted huge performance boost.

[1]: http://stackoverflow.com/a/7828803

[2]: https://github.com/chromakode/xkcd-pixels/blob/master/zoom.j...

[3]: http://imgs.xkcd.com/turtledown/turtles-tiled.png

[4]: http://jsperf.com/canvas-drawimage-vs-putimagedata/3
As a foreigner, living in Scotland the whole debate seems left wing-ish to me. SNP shows they are nationalistic, but wants to be an independent republic, not having the Queen (or restore their own historical realm).

There are also a lot of very good things I see, but there's no sign of the same nationalistic spirit as I can see in Poland, Croatia or Hungary.

Beautiful landscape anyway, they could be rich and smart when independent. In fact, after Russia, Scotland will be the most manliest country in the world with more culture and gentleman than Russia :)

I will be also very sad an other Kingdom will be smaller in case they became independent.

Despite I have the right to vote, I can't say aye or naw yet, but silently observing the thing to learn from it. Hope Transylmania one day will have the same opportunity.
They've actually had quite a lot of criticism: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_the_BBC#Scottish_...
This is a great format for e learning, a very usabletexbook with quizes, videos, forums etc built around it.
As far as I understand, there's only been a couple of elections where losing the Labour majority in Scotland would have made a difference for Labour.

It's true that a Labour government would likely have a far smaller majority without the Scottish MPs, but when Labour has won, it has usually been with far greater majorities than that.
YouGov allows everyone to register but selects panels based on approximate population distribution rather than surveying everyone.

Disclaimer: used to work in that sector.
You and miles must be best friends. Its fine. Phew, really glad to be out of the Scala community at this point, it just wasn't worth it to being around those people.
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Definitely not true. There are plenty of people in Wales and Northern Ireland wondering what it means for them if Scotland does leave the union.
I've made touch interactive installation at 2008 with similar physics simulation http://vimeo.com/19361057
Elop.goWorkFor(Nokia)

Microsoft.eat(Nokia)
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I'm a bit confused. I was excited to click the link, but they look nothing like the admiralty charts that I grew up with sailing. In fact the water areas seem to have no detail at all. I enabled all layers.

This is what a chart used for navigation in sailing looks like today:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0a/NOAA_char...

Notice specifically the depths throughout.
Show HN: TINTAG, The First Rechargeable Item Tracker
The Plot to box Netflix out of the French market
>You should start a war on jobs. Maybe it'll work.

Could this be the missing puzzle piece to implementing universal income???
Wow, is Pandora popular: 69 million unique US users in June 2014.[1] I thought they would be getting hammered by Spotify, Beats and other newcomers.

[1] http://qz.com/253527/these-are-the-25-most-popular-mobile-ap...
Carmat has transplanted its artificial heart into a second patient
The BBC is technically independent [1], not a “state broadcast” – that’s the whole point of being funded via TV license [2]. … Of course, in reality people accuse the BBC of all kinds of biases, amongst them being pro-government (I find myself in that camp, but there are few hard numbers [3]). It’s also been accused of bias by both sides of the referendum debate [4].

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC#Governance_and_Corporate_St...
[2]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Television_licence#History
[3]: http://www.newstatesman.com/broadcast/2013/08/hard-evidence-...
[4]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_the_BBC#Scottish_i...
I was talking about Nexus/Play edition devices, not all Android devices.
Part of me wants to say that gives Osbourne a lot more credit than he deserves, part of me thinks he's probably shrewd enough to have a go at it with some level of success.
New msn.com preview site
Can you file a (shumway) bug? [1]

[1] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=Firefox&c...
Thanks. Really happy to see that you're open to a complete rewrite of the stmd spec (to a possible algorithm-based style).

I'll be happy to open a post in talk.commonmark.org on the ambiguity problems caused by using a declarative style for the stmd spec. I'll do that once the forum is back (I can't seem to access it right now).

In parallel, I too will try to work out what the syntax differences are between stmd and vfmd. Meanwhile, please see: http://www.vfmd.org/differences/ (in case you haven't already).
Ragnarok Online Client Written Entirely in JavaScript
Pretty sure the Isle-of-Man is the manliest country.
Yep, I was surprised by that too
Android Wear devices are supposed to work with Android devices not specifically Nexus devices.

Moto 360 is supported on all Android devices with BT 4.0 support which is a lot of different hardware and software combinations.
Sun is the god.. (jk)

http://s29.postimg.org/yb6ly7ybp/111.png
BBC is (always were) pro government. That said, IMHO is the state-of-art TV broadcast network.
71.2% can be ignored since android wear doesn't support them. My own experience in wearable tech is that 68.7% of our android users are running 4.4 and the nexus 5 is twice as popular as the next most popular phone.
A nice video that captures some of that is Fishbone's "Party at Ground Zero"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Party_at_Ground_Zero
Think about how breath-taking and educating must it be for a kid to write such a thing.

As a person who actually learned basic mechanics by writing video games I do believe that "you ain't understood nothing until you know how to teach it to a computer". Trying to express knowledge in (working) code is a great exercise that mercilessly catches even tiny holes in one's understanding.
Analysis of Mark Cuban on Motionloft – Analytics for the Real World
I've been with Cox in Tempe... the cable service, except when the technicians mistakenly disconnected me instead of another apartment (twice), or when they disconnected my business connection at my old location 4 days before the scheduled install at the new location for my new location, has been great...

The speeds are great, the uptime (excetions noted) great... They seem to have some serious logistical issues, but the internet connection itself has been good. 120mb down, around 22mb up.
CLion, the new C/C++ IDE from JetBrains
If that's really the reason, then that's pretty much a failure. According to ars' synthetic battery life test, the Moto 360 is the worse. It has a slightly bigger battery than the Samsung, and has only 56% of its battery life.

PS: it's not only in ars' synthetic test but also real life reviews said the battery life is too low.
If independence happens (I don't think it will), this will be re-writing of borders of a country long term. The political paradigm will adapt.

Long term, the Westminster system gravitates towards a two main party or coalition equilibrium. Scottish Labour will be gone. Maybe the Tories will pull right and cede some of the centre. Maybe Labour will pull right.
>>they deserve some praises of their own for accounting their success.

Don't forget the anticompetive policies of the Chinese government which are strongly tied to need for easily controlled alternatives to Western internet with its politically dangerous messages.
I assure you, bluetooth on iOS isn't much better than on Android. You need some pretty insane workarounds to get it to work half well on either.
The Fire Box – Rhythmic Fire Waves
Show HN: Zaundy, the new way to get your voice out
Why Business Owners Should Get Their Business Customers Definition Right
bunkat is right, a blacklist approach is doomed to fail.

Amusingly, you missed "www" off your blacklist. I just created an account to test it. Luckily it hasn't hijacked your main site - but I also can't use my account :)
It'd be cool if it could store the repo's files in localstorage so I could load it up before I get on a plane, or if I'm saving battery life by disabling the radios. Perhaps a totally different use case than your target audience, I don't know.

There's an iOS App named NapCat that will pull down repos so you can browse the code at your leisure. Doesn't let you view commits and the file diffs, like you can with Disco.

In my mind: Disco for keeping up with what's happening and what files they happened to; NapCat for reading source for those times when the pleasure of a little light reading is in order :)
That's probably the most interesting thing that will happen in 2014, especially if Scotland votes 'YES' (which I believe will do, I don't trust pools anyway).

Generally speaking, after 2008 and the policies the EU choose to endorse, Europe is heading towards right-wing, nationalistic governments, who speak against a unified EU. That's because where the EU was seen as a good thing before, it was used by liberals to kill effectively every social protection Europe had to offer[1]. That doesn't apply to Scotland as much as other countries, but I believe it does affect the vote indirectly.

[1] From Spain to Turkey, every country that had to do a non-popular, usually anti-social reform, used Brussels as the main reason.
I imagine this will be confusing for Northern Ireland Unionists, and Republicans probably.

It's hard not to see this as a precedent. Perhaps even a precedent in international geopolitics. If Scotland has an inalienable right to secede by popular referendum, Why not Iraqi Kurdistan? Why Not Turkish Kurdistan? Why not Crimea?
So is there any way to do single-sign-out if using these tokens for authentication?
Frankly, I use Github almost every day, and I had no idea of the .com/.io distinction; if I saw a docs.github.io URL, I'd probably assume it was just an alternative domain.

The separate domain is a good advice, but I'd rather use something really different (e.g. github-user.com) if I was to let anyone post anything they wanted there.
> Nevertheless, the good days for the foreign companies' division in China have come to an end. They can no longer easily grab the top talents without direct confrontation with the local giants.

In the Enterprise space, where a lot of development is done in China, the top universities are often avoided, and have been so for quite some time, and purposely so. The reason is staff attrition: People freshly versed in the company's systems and applications often leave when they realise they don't want to develop tiny incremental changes in JAVA, or merge a COBOL codebase, and this is the case for top talent. Recruitment for many big enterprise firms is purposefully targeted at mid to lower ranking universities.
Very fascinating! It reminds me of Conway's Game of Life, looking for different kinds of patterns that will make a stable construct and do something interesting.
Check NVIDIA papers of doing "n bodies problem" on CUDA. They got awesome results.
Assuming support for Scottish independence is randomly distributed among the Scottish population, what criteria would you use to select a representative panel?
What are you holding on the first slide?what model(I get it's a "portable phone").
The separation of domain names is a very good idea. Thanks for pointing that out.
We've been doing this for a while in our angular apps using response interceptors: http://engineering.talis.com/articles/elegant-api-auth-angul...
There are references in Daniel Yergin's _The Prize_ IIRC, and the anecdotal references to "Wreckafeller". I'd have to dig for specifics.
That is surely a huge bias in cases like this. Eg I see they are under represented in young males so if the Yes campaign gets young male yes voters to sign up it will bias results significantly...
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Hybrid graphical novel (the 60s in France)
saw it ;-) and is fixed. just send you an email with the changed account name.

sometimes you can't see the wood for the trees …
As well they should. This one poll gives the appearance of a trend towards Yes and a dramatic close finish, but Yes have always been behind by a fairly consistent margin [0]. Just so happens the odd poll (~2/50 now) finds a Yes majority by crook or by hook (e.g. SNP commission a poll) and it makes a nice news piece. I did a quick analysis of that polling data should anyone be interested [1].

[0] http://ukpollingreport.co.uk/scottish-independence-referendu...

[1] http://blm.io/blog/scottish-independence-polls/
A first look at the new MSN
YouGov is the most recent poll though, the others are 1-6 weeks older. So it is hard to compare
Would be shocked if this actually happens. Most Scottish business will move down south (they've said as much loudly), they will not be able to use the pound, and because of the EU's "any member can veto policy", I think EU membership will be harder, not easier for Scotland to get - Spain, for one (with Catalonia or the Basque region), is not going to want this precedent set.

Still, will be interesting to watch. Money is still on "No", but stranger things have happened.
Skip to to 6:50 to see some cool frequency patterns...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ixH1Mmdhlkw&t=6m50s
Can't remember the specific model, but it was a Motorola NMT red something - probably from late 80s/early 90s.
You think Boris wouldn't be the heir apparent in that case, not Osbourne?
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Just to let you know that your feature section is really bad :( I was really interested in knowing what you offer best, but I lost track of the ones I already clicked and.. it's boring to click so much.

Sometimes a scrolling page just works :)
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A lot of stable software really doesn't need a whole lot of tweaking. It works, it's stable, modifications break things.

Related to a discussion I've been having recently on systemd.
Actually no. The yes campaign gets people to sign up but it doesn't mean they will be surveyed. It's invitation only i.e. you sign up and wait until you are invited based on your personal information. They are gated polls.

Also based on experience there are "shill traps" in the surveys as well.
It's probably not that simple. The article indicates that the refactor removed support for a lot of old platforms which the project may very well prefer to keep.
It's going to be incredibly confusing for Northern Ireland. Historically, and culturally, they have much closer ties to Scotland than England/Wales.

So what happens when the unionists find themselves left attached to 'the wrong union'?
Nope. A judge cannot decide to admit an illegally obtained evidence, no matter what it is.