skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I clarified that further down: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8301303

I am the only HN/technical person on another large forum (not this), and the common thing amongst those members and the many real-world friends I have via that is that they are geeks for other things: cars, bicycles, watches, cameras, coffee, etc. This geek tendency carries to other areas, including smart phones.

I've definitely got a selection bias by having friends who are geeks (in the non-technical meaning), but there is still a bias in selecting arguments that excludes the existence of people who are geeks.

I agree with much of what you've said (and have said) and what motivates one way or the other... but I do think that your arguments don't acknowledge people who buy top-end Android, and do so without intending to buy into Google, or Samsung. With Apple and Amazon it's somewhat harder, buying their devices is to buy into their ecosystem.

The decisions I see them make is very much based on their desire to control their own things... the definition of control varies on a person to person basis, but it is the common factor.

On Cyanogen I personally do not run it, most of the benefits people seek can be obtained by rooting but keeping the stock ROM. This hasn't stopped friends from blundering through online guides though. That is the thing that surprises me, they're not technical, most work in offices doing admin/marketing/sales stuff, and they want top-end devices with the status that comes with it, but they really want to assert control over their devices.

Whomever allows those people to have control (officially or not) wins them, for that is one of their biggest triggers when choosing new devices and accessories.
Isn't the point of this not to secure some thing, as in "no access", but to sign something and trust it (i.e. a server signs a token and hands it off to another machine/app)?

If your point is "nothing is secure in the browser" then that includes the secured content sent down by a secure server no matter the method.
the true value of the iphone is the Apple ecosystem.

i give an rat's ass about android phones, they could be miles ahead - doesn't matter anymore. just a phone.

i have an iphone, ipad, apple tv, macbook air and a compatible printer. and everything just works, like magic.

i've spent years in the windows ecosystem tinkering. wrote my own sync for my iriver mp3 player, fiddled with regedit and battled drivers. so much lost time. IT bullshit galore. so tired of it.

i know that if i want an apple watch i can buy it and it will perfectly into the rest of my devices and just work with them.

no other vendor can claim such a value.

iOS8 and Yosemite make this crystal clear, the new handover between apps will even work from Apple Watch. Just like that.
Nano-robots monitoring oil wells
Alex Blumberg (This American Life & Planet Money) - StartUp podcast - http://www.hearstartup.com
Is there a plan at some point to include a daemon or a cron job to run automatic zpool scrubbing? I believe this was a feature that is available in other OSs' packages, but not currently with ZoL. Currently, I include two cronjobs, like so:

18 * * * * /sbin/zpool list | grep ztank | grep ONLINE > /dev/null || /sbin/zpool status
35 1 * * 4 /sbin/zpool scrub ztank

This way cron simply emails me if there are errors. However, I'd like a lot more communication from my storage array: if there are detected errors, I want to know right away.

My other question is much more specific to my case. Stupidly, I bought the Western Digital Green drives for my server (running in as a mirror of two drives). They are normally under no heavy load: just occasional file access to store/retrieve pictures, documents, or stream video. How likely am I to run into problems/should I replace these drives ASAP?
That's why I'm waiting for vibrating insoles. Glancing at a watch is useful (G Watch owner here...), but it's still looking at something. Wearables will be awesome when they're don't appear to be there.
Mens Online Clothes
Where can I find some nice mens designer clothes online?
IQ2 Debate: Embrace the Common Core
A bit of everyday thoughts on chaos, inspiration, and plans
Only if you have a mutant right pinky finger.
I second JRE, great podcast and guests. Some of the guests on JRE have their own great podcasts. My preferences are:

- Duncan Trussell Family hour : duncantrussell.com

- Chris Ryan - Tangentially speaking : chrisryanphd.com

- Psychedelic Salon By Lorenzo
My observations are identical. The longer you let them on it, the worse their behaviour is when you take it away. After not letting them have it for a few days, they stop asking for it... and then one day you let them have it back and the whole cycle begins again.

Now my kids are mostly banned from iPads and other electronic gadgets - I allow them enough exposure to familiarize themselves with how to use them if and when they need to and maybe watch the odd TV show on Netflix and that's all.

I understand the attachment it causes, as a computer programmer, it's uncomfortable when someone tells me I cannot have my computer for the weekend. I have to remind myself constantly that this technological wonder I spend 8 hours a day in front of isn't what life is about. Life is what happens when you shut off the computer and go and live it - which is odd, because I can quite happily go camping and leave all my gadgets at home and live primitively for weeks at a time, no cell phone, no computer, no electricity, no running water. Somehow my brain separates the electronic life as part of our culture, which has somehow forgotten how to live without all this technology at our fingertips.

I guess what I want for my kids is that they don't form this mental dependency on technology. That they realize it's just a tool to enhance their own natural abilities, which I'm sorry to say, many kids just don't appear to be learning while they're stuck in front of their screens every waking moment.
I can still remember this sort of situation when I was a teenager playing CounterStrike every day. For one thing, my mom would give me "ample warning" but without checking that I was paying attention to her first. When your focus is 100% on a game it's easy to not notice and even to answer without noticing what was said to you. Basically say whatever would make her go away the fastest and then get back to the game. Then when dinner truly was ready and she interrupted me abruptly, it was frustrating because I never got (in my head) proper notification. Often I would actually not remember her giving me a heads up, it was that small a blip in my focus. She called it selective hearing.

I think those of us who spend a lot of time online/on devices project our consciousness into the machine and it takes more effort to context switch out of that. So we get angry when we're torn out without the chance to context switch at our own pace. For what it's worth, I get the same way when I'm deep into reading a book so I wouldn't project this problem on only high technology.
We are launching a new CRM product (technically already available in a limited release), that really came about because we have a nice Marketing Automation system but realized that we really had to offer a simple CRM to help on-board small businesses. We have custom fields that are easy to add which can be attached to almost any entity, but I am interested in understanding your product-level use case more. We have talked about adding product type data for ecommerce clients so tracking could be easier, versus having purchase history in attached pdf invoices or in the notes. So I am game to learn.

We also offer an API that is in beta right now, but it is a REST API that allows you to add, export, query and update your own records.

I didn't see your email in your profile but mine is available in my profile, feel free to reach out and we can talk if you would like.
In which way superior? The file transfer to/from Android uses the native OS interface ( Linux, Windows, etc ) and users are accustomed to this, no need to learn a second interface a la iTunes.

While a Chrome extension is not such a bad idea, is rather unnecessary.
Certainly sounds condescending, but there's is a valid point if they worded it better - the CEOs may not know better but they think they do, in that they're the exception to the rule of "if you can both afford and understand <phones, tablets, TVs, etc.>, your kids will enjoy that technology" (obviously not the only exception, but they're an exception).

So unless you're also that sort of person, they either know something the rest of us don't or they at least have an opinion on the subject that the rest of us don't.
I needed some anti fungal cream this summer. My doctor informed me that the cream used to be under $10, but the big pharmaceutical company bought up all the generics and now the cream is $120.

More interesting, I got the same story from the pharmacist at rite aid. She couldn't believe I was going to pay for that and then she said, "People are up in arms over lots of stuff, but this right here is a crime that no one notices. 5 months ago you would have paid a lot less."
Oh, wait! I did a little search online and I found this great site: flatsevenshop.com. There are some nice clothes! I will definately shop there!
Hold on a second. It's not that there is no evidence, I just personally haven't bothered to crawl the internet looking for it. A quick google search found the following: "High- and moderate-GI choices may be improved by pairing them with low-GI foods or healthy sources of lean protein or unsaturated fats. For example, the GI of white bread will be lowered if it is eaten with a bowl of chili or spread with peanut butter." I.e. eat your white rice with some chicken and olive oil and you'll be "okay".

http://clinical.diabetesjournals.org/content/29/4/155.full
Pink Lady (which I've just now learned is a brand name, and the variety is called Cripps Pink) was my favorite for a while, but I've just discovered Envy. Great stuff, I have one with breakfast every morning.

Now if the pears could be just as good.
This doesn't sound right, but perhaps you are in an atypical part of the world.

40 years ago you would, I expect, find a larger variety of apples, most of them heirloom (ie. open pollinated, with a history you could trace back several hundred years, and were free to propagate at home) at the 'average grocery store'.

Now you'll typically find a selection of apple varieties that were bred relatively recently, selected for shipping and long storage life (ie. ability to retain colour, sweetness (not necessarily flavour), resistance to bruising, consistent colour and shape, russets are eschewed as they're not currently popular, etc).

To the east of London, UK, there's a (somewhat) government-run farm at Faversham, where they are maintaining a mighty collection of apples - somewhere around 2,500 distinct varieties. They also maintain around 700 cherry, and 500 pears, amongst other fruits ... many of which they can trace back several hundred years.

Complaining about just one apple variety seems to be totally missing the point - you can most certainly find, with some small effort, an apple that perfectly suits your idea of the perfect specimen.
Great Microsoft podcast - http://msdevshow.com/
I'd say it's a framing device rather than the subject; it discusses other tech leaders who take similar approaches as well.
At a previous job, we built a proof-of-concept Sinatra service (i.e., HTTP/RESTful service) that would, on a certain API call, clone from a specified snapshot, and also create an iscsi target to that new clone. This was on OpenIndiana initially, then some other variant of that OS as a second attempt.

The client making the HTTP request was IPXE; so, every time the machine booted, you'd get yourself a flesh clone + iscsi target and we'd then mount that ISCSI target in IPXE, which would then hand off the ISCSI target to the OS and away you'd go.

The fundamental problem we hit was that there was a linear delay for every new clone; the delay seemed to be 'number of clones * .05 second' or so. This was on extremely fast hardware. It was the ZFS command to clone that was going to slowly.

Around 500 clones, we'd notice these 10/20 second delays. The reason that hurt so bad is that, to our understanding, it wasn't safe to do ZFS commands or ISCSI commands in a parallel manner; the Sinatra service was responsible for serializing all ZFS/ISCSI commands.

So my question to the author:

1) Does this 'delay per clones' ring familiar to you? Does ZFS on Linux have the same issue? It was a killer for us, and I found a thread eventually that implied it would not ever get fixed in Solaris-land.

2) Can you execute concurrent ZFS CLI commands on the OS? Or is that dangerous like we found it to be on Solaris?
Software Engineering Radio: www.se-radio.net
Cards and the Apple Watch
FWIW, there are frameworks out there to make writing NSLayoutConstraints much more sensible. For example [1]

[1] https://github.com/Masonry/Masonry
Love Radiolab
I would add
1. Startalk (http://www.startalkradio.net/ )
2. How stuff works ( http://www.howstuffworks.com/hsw-podcast.htm )

to the list
On my Ubuntu "retina" notebook (ThinkPad) it did not work at first, because I set my default zoom level in Chrome to 175%. Once I scaled back to 100% the extensions works great. I guess it doesn't really make since to do pixel measurements when the pixels arent 1:1, so I'm not sure this should be fixed or just documented.
Don't attribute the gentleness of European customs to Marxism. Explicitly Marxist countries had the highest incarceration rates in history, because incarceration was used for class warfare with no pretense of "punishing" people for "crimes". I grew up in one of those countries, and I want to weep every time I see a Westerner advising someone to read Marx and Trotsky.
I didn't say that there were millions of cars each day. I said that there were millions of people who drive in NYC. 43.5% of households in NYC own a car[1]. That's approximately 1.3 million households[2]. When you take into account people driving in from the surrounding areas and households with multiple drivers, there are almost certainly at least 2 million people who sometimes drive in NYC.

[1] http://blogs.wsj.com/economics/2014/01/21/vital-signs-more-h...

[2] http://newyork.areaconnect.com/statistics.htm
That doesn't put it on the device though. Sure you can cache tracks in spotify. But there isn't a way to put them on the device permanently.
Gotta agree with this guy, there are so many tastier varieties
That's what happens when something becomes consumer focused rather than (essentially) B2B. Prices go way down, sales go way up. I paid $50 for a Palm app back in the day, and that same app would go for 99c today. That doesn't mean the Palm app marketplace was insignificant or unimportant. Smartphones wouldn't be here if their value wasn't proven with PDAs.
Article says the limit of this is 30C. I don't think the argument here is that fans can replace all uses of AC, but rather can supplement them.
How Big Data Peers Inside Your Medicine Chest
Not really, people buying highend LG smart phones don't go and buy a Lenovo.
There's some interesting Tech podcasts that i'll give a try this week.

Some people might still enjoy some Non-Tech ones below:

* NoAgenda http://feed.nashownotes.com/rss.xml

* The Smartest Man in the World - http://feeds.feedburner.com/TheSmartest?format=xml
Not especially, but I only speak from my own experience, and one should be wary of samples of size one.
if you haven't checked out the fighter and the kid, you should. Brenden Schaub (UFC heavyweight) and Bryan Callen. Hilarious
ATP
Radiolab
Occasionally, iPhreaks (although quality has gotten iffy since it started)
From what I understand, aside from certain RAID levels, btrfs is production-ready. RAID5 and RAID6 don't have recovery code finished yet, but RAID0, RAID1, "dup" which just keeps 2 copies of each chunk, and "single" mode all work fine.
This is roughly correct, but see Andreas Rossberg's caveats here[1] for some considerations that may be important depending on what you're trying to do.

[1] http://stackoverflow.com/a/23019436/82959
I live on the first floor of a house in Boston, and this summer made it through without AC. By keeping heavy curtains drawn and closing both layers of the double windows during the day, then opening windows at night and using fans to draw cooler air through the apartment, I was able to keep the apartment relatively cool throughout the summer.

Sure, there were nights my apartment still hit 87F indoors by the time I was going to bed -- a week of nights that don't dip below 80 will do that -- but it doesn't take that long to get used to it and the breeze from open windows and running fans made it much more tolerable.

There are a lot of places in the US that benefit tremendously from AC -- I grew up in the Mojave desert and there is little arguing with AC at 110F -- nonetheless the the machines are overused. If more people decided to tolerate 80F as room temperature, even without active measures to replace AC in their homes, we'd see a precipitous decline in energy usage. Add to that careful control of airflow and insulation and many regions simply don't need AC.

Meanwhile, I am at my office, and the AC is run so high in the summer that many people wear jackets indoors year round here. Lovely.
Counterpoint: the Norwegian government is considering hiring capacity in the Netherlands for 700 long term prisoners. Sweden is said to have considered hiring capacity as well but decided against because of the legal minefield surrounding this topic.

(Edit: Since this is possibly controversial, here are a few Norwegian sources: https://www.google.com/search?q=soning+i+Nederland )
Not a tech podcast, but a bunch of 25 minutes music slices designed for pomodoros: http://tech.no.com
As a kid I actually didn't really associate "gamers" and "technologists" for some reason. Now I hear people equate them more often, but in the '90s I tended to think of them as distinct groups with only some overlap. Obviously that may reflect only some peculiar social groups at my particular schools.

The kids who had high-level characters on Everquest, attended all the game cons, were in line at midnight for new releases, etc.; were mostly not the same people as the kids who were active in the local BBS scene, played around with installing Linux, were making silly LAMP websites, etc. Not zero overlap, but just in terms of social groups and interests they were clearly identifiable as different clusters of people. Overall the gamers were not as correlated with math/science interest either. At least as I remember it, the "computer nerds" tended to be more often the same people who were also in math club, AP science classes, etc., while gamers were less often represented there.
Under the microscope – What is beta-carotene?
Many comments here are from accounts created after the link was posted!! I hope HN does some highlighting of such comments, so it's easy to ignore them.
Once I saw a presentation where they did something similar but with trapping a single atom with lasers [1]. Basically Szilard's engine is a clever "toy" model for predicting Landauer's principle [2] that they verified.

[1] http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v483/n7388/full/nature1...

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landauer%27s_principle
-Another thought regarding Reordering... what if you leave the UI as is but make it so that clicking on another menu item causes the user to stop Reordering? Effectively, doing something other than Reordering causes the current order to save.

For example, click Reorder, move things around, then click on Summary/Education/etc to finish Reordering. Could also click on Resume (at the top) to finish Reordering.

What I like about this approach is that it removes a click from the workflow.

-Another idea would be to make double-clicking into a content block finish Reordering, and then enter the edit mode, e.g dbl-click to edit text for a job.

Just some ideas... Best of luck.
Supposedly the lack of updates for the Galaxy Nexus was down to the TI CPU they used. TI stopped working on mobile SoCs shortly after the Galaxy Nexus was released, so they no longer supported it and wouldn't provide any updated firmware needed for newer Android versions. The Verizon version was worse still for updates, but that's little surprise.

Either way, you're comparing 2 year old phones. I also got tired of fighting with Android and installing custom builds, but it's not really necessary these days. Stock builds are much more polished, and many of the more advanced features from OEM and custom builds have been integrated into stock Android. I recently got a HTC One and have found little need to root or install any custom ROMs on it - it does everything I need and doesn't seem worth the hassle any more.

I do agree with what you say about Google not "finishing the job". Many apps and services have been released with a lot of promise, but then been left relatively unchanged from early versions. If Apple Pay succeeds where Google Wallet has failed to gain traction, it will almost certainly be down to Apple making more of an effort to get merchants and services to support it. Perhaps they simly have more influence, but Google isn't exactly a small company, yet they often seem to fail in these areas. In particular, they make little effort to support things (Google Wallet NFC payments is one example) outside of the US. They're an international company, they have offices in many other countries, and yet many of their services remain US only, or take at least a year to be offered elsewhere.
Good McIntosh are pretty common in NJ. I just couldn't seem to find them year round. I wonder why that is.
When we visited the island of Vieques, Puerto Rico, we stayed at the Hix Island House[0]. This facility is marketed as being "green" in general and all of the suites are cooled exclusively by wind.

This is easy to accomplish at their location due to a prevailing wind from a predictable direction. There aren't really "windows" in the building at all - rather there are two garage doors at opposite sides of the suite which can be opened to allow the wind to flow through the entire building unimpeded.

We went at the height of summer when humidity was very high and daytime highs were > 90F, and we never found it uncomfortable. And despite large numbers of insects on the island, the strength of this wind was adequate to keep them from bothering us.

The truth however is that this technique is very region specific. Windows are less effective in areas with less wind, obviously, and in areas where the wind doesn't flow in a consistent direction it can be more difficult to implement a design to accommodate this fact.

Adding fans can supplement this technique in areas with less wind. However, if you have high humidity as well as high heat, a small breeze is unlikely to be adequate; you need to move a lot of air if it's both hot and humid. While the Hix House design worked well in PR, I am sure that the typically calm, humid, hot air I encounter in a southern summer would be far less comfortable.

At my own southern home, built in the 1920s and long before suburbia and the rise of residential air conditioning, we have windows on all sides as well as ceiling fans. However, I cannot approach the comfort level I experienced in PR at similar heat and humidity levels - without, of course, turning on my air conditioning.

[0] http://hixislandhouse.com/
> and now the cream is $120.

What about tinactin, lamisil, lotrimin, monistat? They are all anti fungal creams OTC for about $10. Is this prescription you had 12x as potent?
Bad JavaScript to Blame for Apple’s Live Streaming Snafu