skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Earthships, if you are unfamiliar with them, are a great place to start: http://earthship.com/
On a recent trip to the US from the UK my wife and I each used a BlackBerry Playbook with the built-in video chat. It was perfect -- no discernible lag and I was able to talk with the kids with great video and sound quality.

So, perhaps Skype and GV are suffering from over-extended networks? It must be hard to justify investing in better network infrastructure for a free product (or when your revenues are minimal). On that note, I don't get the impression that BlackBerry's network has much of a problem with network load these days...
I think this is a bit of a false dichotomy. There's obviously going to be a sliding scale of life expectancy effects, and at some point, people are probably going to be willing to give up a few months of their life to be able to enjoy the time they have more.
100% passive is possible today.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_Umbrella_house
Reasonable UI systems and not-overdesigned programs respect your UI font size setting and scale the rest accordingly, while equal resolutions allow hinting to do its job and produce a sharp output in an intelligent way. The brute-force approach of densifying monitors is a dirty hack and luckily doesn't scale at all.
Is making a choice based of race inherently racism?
And is racism inherently bad?

As someone who is new to this world i felt like things like race and racism don't matter if you are a nice person and caring about what others feel.
I live in arguably the best place in the US for good produce (near Berkeley Bowl and the gourmet ghetto), and I must say, I haven't had a good McIntosh apple in years. Either they are just not around or they just don't taste like the fantastic apples of 10-15 years ago.

Red Delicious were responsible for me hating apples as a kid. McIntosh were responsible for me starting to love them again.
"and in fact, to my left is an Ikepod Hourglass (designed by Marc Newson) that I wanted from the minute I laid eyes on it. I saved up and bought it because it's a perfect object, and even those people who don't care about time, or design, agree that it's beautiful."

By "watch guy" he means someone who dropped $28,500 on a hourglass.
"We don't use watches anymore (check your smartphone), we still pay with our wallet and with cash."

When I was living in the UK about 70% of my purchases were done with a chip and pin card, even a couple of beers at a pub.

This because in the end it was quicker and easier than using cash.

If NFC makes paying quicker and easier than using cash or cards, the demand will be there: by the end of the month there will be millions of iPhone6 customers waiting to test these new features.

If I were a shop/chain owner, I would be scrambling to try to please them, before the competition does.
Take me as an example:

I'm switching to iOS from a high end Android phone. My main reasons are better privacy and better user experience. My main reason I switched to Android was screen size.
The very interesting thing is that it goes through transparent portions of png backgrounds. Try it in the google logo.

I am very impressed.
Excellent overview, OCaml is quickly becoming a powerful and flexible tool in almost all aspects comparable to other languages and has its own unique strength like module functors and polymorphic variants.

> The only other feature I'd like to see is a unification of the object system and record system: (...)

Could you elaborate a little bit on this or maybe point an article about it?

Thanks.
Note that before that, Lucasarts had a custom execution environment for their games, for portability reasons (SCUMM). Grim Fandango uses GrimE, sort of a successor to that.

I would assume that LUA was a way to move towards something common as a scripting language in GrimE.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCUMM
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LucasArts_adventure_games#3D_gr...
> Am I really the only one to think that the Apple Watch is just ugly?

I think build quality will really make or break it here. On paper, it's not that attractive, but if--as an object--it's machined very precisely and out of attractive materials, I think it can overcome that. It certainly seems to be what they're hoping for.

I think the litmus test will be how the face feels (without strap) just in your hand. Does it feel like a premium object or not?
This is great, installing now. I too use the cmd+shift+4 method but it's pretty unreliable.

Similarly, one thing I often find myself needing to do is find the hex or RGB value of an element of pixel on the fly. I know there are osx apps that do this but they're usually of the paid variety. Are there any good chrome extensions that can accomplish this?
> all you get is smoother text and smoother pictures on a less than 5 inch screen.

I don't think smoother text (and pictures) is anything to be trivialized. I mean it actually looks much much nicer and (imho) comforting - I experience joy anytime I look at anything that's above the 100 or so ppi of average 1080p monitors.

People spend huge swaths of money on the looks of things that they'll hardly ever be looking at. Considering this, spending the money on a screen (i.e. something they'll litteraly be staring at for large periods of time) is actually a borderline-rational choice in comparision..
And in the "crimes against inmates" it has to be pointed out that many of them are committed by the jailers themselves. Those crimes need to be punished with severe penalties.
> I don't understand how such high PPI really matter at all.

If there's more resolution than the display (or the observer's eye) can support, the extra resolution can be used to make diagonal lines look better (as one example), through a sophisticated drawing method that eliminates jaggies. I'm not saying this is always true, but it's on the list of options to exploit the extra resolution.

> I mean it increases battery usage, it costs more, and all you get is smoother text and smoother pictures on a less than 5 inch screen.

That's pretty much it. But consider that people who buy Apple phones know they're not buying the least expensive, most cost-effective devices, so maybe they expect to get something not present in the bargain phones, like resolution that no one can possibly notice. Sort of like having a refrigerator whose light stays on when the door is closed.
I've found that both Gala and Fuji vary heavily according to the time of year. If I get them 'in season' [1], they're crisp and delicious. If I get them out of season, they can be quite soft/floury.

It's been a long time since I had a soft Pink Lady though.

[1] I put that in quotes because I'm not sure whose season. I'm an Aussie, and we can get them year round, so I figure we must be importing at some point. As such, this may be a regional thing.
It's usable for conversations.
> rubber strap

I think you missed something.
> That being said, I'm still waiting for the killer app that makes me want one of these.

Haptic walking directions for me. I travel a lot and walk a lot, and to be able to find my way without having to looking at a phone screen would be lovely (not to mention it means I can then keep my attention on my surroundings rather than being distracted).
This is also related to one of my greatest fears, when such algorithmic results are (mis)used for prosecution or other legal stuff.
I know that a lot of documentation and support can be obtained from various Chinese sites, at least for MTK's phone SoCs. It's absolutely true that trying to approach them "through the front door" will not yield anything worthwhile, but the culture has found other means. If this one becomes popular, I expect the same to happen.

On the bright side, at least it's not Broadcom.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fluxgate_compass

You can make one yourself.

Solid state version:

http://www.google.com/patents/US5241270
I like Digital Color Meter, included with OS X.
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The max-security ones need to be kept. Some people are just bastards and can't be helped. Punishment has no effect on them - what we need is to lock them up for life. But that's maybe 5% or less of the prison population. Legalize drugs, and have a social security system that means no one has to steal and suddenly almost everyone else is out. The remainder need rehabilitation, which probably needs to happen in a prison.
That's this article's point. If someone can't afford $600 phone, Apple has no interest in them. Because Apple wants big margins. On other hand, Google is even willing to pay you to use Android to collect your data. They do it with their Android One program in India now.
A traditional Persian method of cooling was to build windcatchers combined with an underground intake that was routed underground where it cooled.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Qanat_wind_tower.svg
The killer feature of phones is that they call people. My £10 candy bar phone does that far better than the iPhone, but I don't think that Apple is too worried.
I don't know how accurate Apple's method for monitoring the heart rate is but it's definitely cool that I don't need to use a chest strap. That said knowing about my oxygen consumption and heart rate variability during swimming exercises is pretty amazing, I highly doubt the optical Apple sensor would work in that environment. So that Suunto Ambit2 looks neat indeed, thanks for sharing.
About the value of Apple vs Android users, it also helps that Apple has an easier payment system with Touch ID. This will only increase in the future.

Android however does have introduced a 2-hour money back guarantee on apps. This might increase the spend on apps.
don't know why, but the extension won't work on my retina mbp 13"
http://imgur.com/3NHVDv5

on the extension website it works fine :/
the fact your asking means you already know it's a bad idea, the question is whether you can handle the repercussions if it goes wrong.
There are only two kinds of people - arseholes, and the rest of us :-)
There's actually a little utility called DigitalColor Meter[1] built in to OS X. It's not perfect, but it gets the job done.

[1] http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/apple-in-the-enterprise/dis...
But there are some quite good markers for identifying potentially dangerous drivers beyond actual collisions. For example people who repeatedly use mobile phones at the wheel or are caught speeding. An honhest mistake is more forgivable than willfully putting people in danger.

Pewrsonally I think collisions should result in a large income based fine that is given to the victim and not paid for by insurance. We need something in between "insurance sorts it out" and manslaughter.
> If it happens that often then iTunes isn't communicating clearly enough to the user what is about to happen.

Yes, I agree completely. But given that, I have to say I hear regularly from people who (a) buy a new iPhone, and then (b) wipe their music collections later on the same day.

Many people assume that an apparently sophisticated, polished program like ITunes will "do the right thing." But no.
Apparently in Australia, half of card transaction < $100 are by NFC (in cards). So, there's demand for it.

Apple may have the market clout to drive adoption in the US. They have experience in getting partners together, to make new technology actually work. Yes, it may take time, and they may go niche by niche.
Sure, I'm not saying analogies are the problem. They're not, we need them, they're important parts of our cognition.

My point was twofold: a/ beware inference from surface analogies, always strive to understand where the border between similar and different properties lie, and b/ it does happen. People do draw conclusions and build their understanding on superficial analogies in a systematic way. That's why I mentioned the anecdote of CS students I know. I've seen it in real life. Also known as cargo-culting, it's unfortunately not a rare phenomenon.

Also, I'm not the CDDDDARP ((cddddar this-comment)-poster), but I hazard a guess that he "felt sort of foolish" because he discovered he accidentally did some inferring from surface analogies and ended up disappointed.
I've lived in India for years, generally my experience has been that fans work much better in humid air than dry air. So 29 degrees with 90% humidity and fan would be much more comfortable than 29 degrees with 30% humidity and fan.

In Delhi (45 degrees in summer) we would manage with desert coolers + fan, which specifically work by increasing the humidity of the air and then using a fan.

I believe though that, AC vs. coolers vs. fans vs. any combination of them is really not at all as important as the way cities and the buildings within them are built. In Delhi it is estimated that 3-5 degrees local heating is caused by bad urban design. As an anecdote, I've been in mud-huts where despite 45 degree temperatures outside, insides felt like they were AC. Sure, mud-huts do have problems with mould and require a lot of maintenance, but it's illustrative that we've dug ourselves into a hole where AC is required because we build buildings of inappropriate materials.
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Mono culture where you clone one banana so all other bananas are exactly the same is by design stupid. Imagine you have a disease, compare it to a computer virus. Now exactly all other computers are running the same software, there is a virus that attacks them, all computers are knocked out in one blow. This is how the banana industry are handling it at the moment with cloning.

Plus previous scandals Dole dumping poison on their workers
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bananas!*
There are plant of those available off-the-shelf from your favourite Chinese e-tailer (or eBay): http://www.aliexpress.com/wholesale?SearchText=gps+tracker
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> In Delhi (45 degrees in summer) ...

That's 113 degrees Fahrenheit for American readers. The rest of the world has wisely adopted more rational measurement units. Even Canada, a stone's throw away from the U.S., uses the Metric system.
"Well-rounded diet," n.; a large variety of foods from a large variety of ingredients. --Dictionary of Delinka :-D
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Probably you mean the FB API that doesn't restrict the redirect URL by default.

Google(+?) requires you to whitelist possible redirect URLs, meaning that it's much more obvious what happens after a redirect. Thus limiting what an attacker may do...
If I use Calculator (or indeed PCalc) in radians mode, sin(PI) = 0. In degrees mode, sin(PI) = 0.0548[etc].
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Comparing this to jacquesm's excellent and detailed explanation I have to admit that sometimes a simple picture can really be worth a thousand words.
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This statement is incorrect, Math.random is (generally) not a CSPRNG, but there is window.crypto.getRandomValues in modern browsers.
I use: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/colorpick-eyedropp... which is ugly but functional.
I remember WordPerfect 5.1. The blue screen gave me headaches and the first thing I did was go into settings to have gray letters on a black background. Shift-F1, if I remember well ;-)
Digitalk Smalltalk/V User Manual is missing... :-) It had a nice cover...
Check your units. Many calculators default to degrees for angle entries.
The 3 key Apple Watch features that nobody talks about. Yet
Choosing a mate seems discriminatory by nature. What racism is is a matter of definition, and as for whether it's good or bad, I firmly believe that there isn't anything inherent about whatever answer you come up with. That said, I think people usually mean racial prejudice and it being applied in ways that hurt people or cause injustice when they say "racism". Personally I think those things are bad.
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> Once all the meatspace human drivers are off the grid, you can remove traffic lights.

As a driver, I've silently tolerated horse-drawn carriages, pedestrians, cyclists, motorbikes, tractors, etc on the roads. And I expect autonomous cars to extend the same courtesy to us drivers. If there's a situation where autonomous cars are incompatible with human drivers, then that situation will have been deliberately created. Human drivers have paid the taxes that built the roadways, in part directly through gasoline taxes, and it would be unfair for large corporations to re-appropriate public infrastructure to further their profits.
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And would you prefer this other big ugly rectangular watch instead: http://www.independentjewellers.com/blog/2012/04/the-most-co...

Only 2.7 _million_ dollars...
Around-the-neck could be great as part of Google Glass-like headwear devices, hosting a heavy-duty battery, processing unit, everything but the display really. As you said, a necklace is unobtrusive, as long as it is kept sufficiently flat. I see it going under the clothes as a strictly auxilliary part of the headwear.
"Things like testing and bugs don't matter as long as you are a good programmer and care about code quality."

Emergent social dynamics still have a very real effect on people's lives, even if no one intended to do anything wrong.
Well, I have Find My iPhone and 5 other motion trackers (Moves, Argus, Breeze, Human, Nike+) running 24/7 - it's a fair bet my GPS almanac is up to date since they should all be poking the M7 for updates.
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De gustibus non est disputandum.

It's Latin for "taste is not to be discussed" - meaning that just because we like different things does not mean that our choices are bad. In fact, attraction/taste is most often not even a choice!

So, for example, just because I'm attracted to women (and not attracted to men), it doesn't mean I'm sexist. Likewise, just because someone isn't attracted to black/asian/redhead men/women, doesn't mean they are discriminating.

On the other hand, if you're making choices that are based on race (i.e. not trusting someone who is black - apparently police in the US is quite prone to that), it's either discrimination or racism. Sometimes, discrimination helps us survive (that big dangerous-looking man coming your way? better run), but very often, it's based on irrelevant things (black man driving an expensive car? must be a drug dealer!!), or even institutionalized (women can't own property). I'd say that's inherently bad.

Edit: I personally consider any institutionalized discrimination bad and immoral. Grants for black students are bad, IMO. On the other hand, grants for poor students (the majority of which will be black (in the US), but not all of them) are good.
I agree that you need some user input or the program will get it wrong in some cases.

But the distinction between source and destination is relevant with some algorithms (one-way sync) and irrelevant in others.

Let say you have two directories A and B to sync and both contain a file f but the one in B is more recent than the one i A. A consistent strategy would be to always favor the most recent file and end up with A and B containing the same f file that was the one being in B at the beginning of the syncing. At no point I asked the user to define a source nor a destination but still the two directories are synced.

Note that it is your choice to continue or not the discussion as much as it was mine (not yours, shockingly) to answer your post.
So please keep your "End, full stop" and "Think before answering" to yourself, they are quiet annoying.
Don't be silly. That measurement technique is to allow you to isolate and measure the effect. You seem to want to infer that the effect does not occur in any other circumstances.

That is as inane as disregarding crash test dummy results because they take place in a controlled environment which is not the same as 'real life'.
Agree. The question is if those things will "survive". If you are leaning more towards pessimism one would have to ask "why whould they?" as the other way around there is a lot of money to be made.
Moves is on "battery saving" mode (which actually makes little difference - I get bugger all life out of my phone anyway) but that doesn't really explain why it's just around the O2 it has serious issues - that's only about 2-3km out of the whole 30km walk.
I suppose this looks like a great idea on the face of it. U2 is suddenly on millions of devices. However, wouldn't this mean that they've essentially made it impossible to make it onto the music charts which are based off sales?
Windows, the IT world's Cavendish banana.
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The passengers of both types of cars are the same, the only difference is that one doesn't have a subset of passengers also drive.
http://www.theproductmentor.com/ has a NY meetup http://www.meetup.com/TheProductGroup/ and livestreams http://www.youtube.com/user/TheProductWay
You didn't read the article and it shows.

They compared treatment-as-usual to treatment-as-usual and the online intervention. An my guess is that treatment-as-usual does include meds.
Apple was giving heavy discounts to attract buyers. High end Samsung costs around same and they have good sales.
"Google is even willing to pay you to use Android to collect your data" - where did you get that? Most of the people here buy at full price, we don't have subsidies.
I think the " whoever smiles at me and tells me I'm smart" was the sarcastic bit. What he was saying was he was open to other races, that's all.
Both temperature scales are (thankfully) rational. Some physicists have been dabbling in complex temperatures, but thankfully most of us don't need to know anything about them.

Sorry, mathematician joke.
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It also sounded like the 11lb was the weight of the prototype. so when they achieved the four-minute-mile they probably shrink it.
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He also persuaded the traders to use emacs.
Racism is violence. It is theft of wages and wealth. It is unjustified cruelty. It is justification and rationalization of literal murders. It hurts ever single person so targeted and attempting to justify that is part of that same dynamic.

Racism includes believing that your freedom from diversity is more important than other people's lives.
Microsoft to buy Minecraft for $2Bn
I couldn't get the video or presentation to play, even in Chrome with Flash enabled, without using a mobile user agent. And you can't download the audio or slides without an account. Great web design.

http://d1snlc0orfrhj.cloudfront.net/presentations/14-jun-cam...
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"Gentlemen, here's $70,000,000.00(1) and a new word: agriterrorism."

1) https://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/clientsum.php?id=D00000005...
Awesome - downvoted by racists :-(
In a general way, I would agree with you. However, my experience has been that topics such as Israel/Palestine, GM and 9/11 attract an unusual amount of attention from astroturfer types (by which I mean exceptionally opinionated people who have not logged into the site for months or years, and have never made a contribution to a technical discussion).