skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why isn't this considered as a solution more often? Is it just because construction costs go up, or for reasons of culture and habit? It seems like this is absolutely the best approach for stabilizing temperatures in both hot and cold climates. Might not work well in a place with a lot of ground water, I guess, but in general it seems like a win. Reduces building profiles, as well.
Berkeley Lab Researchers Achieve Highest Resolution Ever with X-ray Microscopy
meh, Why are all this kind of watch reviews focusing on the looks rather than what you can do with it. Dunno I would be far more interested in what you can do with how you want to use it rather than how incredible wonderful it looks.
Apple Just Uploaded a U2 Album to Your iPhone and iPad – And Seriously, WTF
Suppose I create appointment A on my phone's calendar, and appointment B on my laptop's calendar. After syncing, B shows up on my phone, and A shows up on my laptop (as I would expect). Who is the source and who is the target in this case?

According to your definition, this is not 'syncing'. But for most people, it is.
Embedded currency with simple, working, trustless cross-chain exchange mechanism
Cirqle: What Google+ should have been
Ask HN: Where do Marketing Guys hang out?
We are in the process of validating our SAAS Product Idea. How do i find Marketing Guys/Agencies who can provide us feedback on new product that we are planning to build for them?
Google buys high-tech spoon maker, expands healthcare focus
Very good point. The iPad really didn't kill laptops, and yet people kept going on how everything needed to be redeveloped for the iPad, or attempted to show an iPad in a productive environment. It's very poor for creating things.

Instead, it clearly is excellent for consuming things, and cleverly pinched that giant segment of the market where people had been buying PCs just to browse the Internet, share photos and go shopping. Consumption.
Modern linux desktops are in a worse state than they were in ~2006.

And yes google are terrible at sending clear messages.

Just look at yesterdays confusing discussion RE hangouts/gchat/gtalk/google voice.

No idea what is going on there.
Very informative set of links, I'll dig in -- thanks!.
Probable Cache Poisoning of Mail Handling Domains
By rendering to a larger buffer they can ensure that any raster assets may use an integer scale factor between devices. If they rendered to the panel's native resolution (1080p) they'd probably have to use a 2.5x scale factor, which is not desirable.

The output will be slightly worse, but at 400 PPI you probably won't be able to tell without a magnifying glass. The current Retina MBPs do this in their higher res modes and it's pretty hard to notice.

On battery life: perhaps the tradeoff of using a 1080 panel outweighs the scaling.

Also it leaves the door open to switch to a full resolution native panel in an iPhone 7+ with no hit to existing apps or developers.
People complaining about the application of a watch for telling time and the accuracy are so disingenuous.

Go an tell that to someone wearing a diamond ring. That doesn't tell the time either.
A successful #SM strategy means being consistent and authentic
Any platform you buy into includes lock-in. Buying an Android phone locks you into the world of Android apps just as much as an iOS device locks you into iOS apps. Music on iTunes is DRM free. eBooks are an issue, but there's a Kindle app for iOS and plenty of other options just as on Android.

Even when it comes to browsers and search engines, now that iOS 8 has robust XPC, the optimised browser engine is available to third party browser apps. These will let you set whatever default search provider you like, without any performance compromises.

Sure there are some areas where Android devices retain more customisability, but iOS 8 closes the gap considerably, and without fundamentally compromising security and privacy in the way many of these features do on Android.
Companies Based on the Airbnb Business Module
Tell that to every girl wearing ear rings or a diamond ring or a guy wearing a necklace. People accessorize. Get over it. For less tha the price of a mid range rolex you can also buy a rubidium atomic oscillator. I'm failing to see your point?
#WeWillNeverForget
The difference between cameras and watches is you can carry a smartphone and a DSLR. Unless you're going to start wearing two watches, you'll be giving up all the utility of a smartwatch for your wealth-indicator, which yes many people will be happy to do now, but that market can only shrink as the high-end smartwatch market grows.
Yup - but there's no reason (other than app developers making a mess) not to remove images which aren't needed.
So on install - from the app store or itunes, remove ipad assets if there's correct asset for iPhone (same with retina and non-retina).
It has to be done at some point because it's already getting ridiculous
Mobile Advertising in Africa
While I've read enough Asimov to believe that the future is underground, I'll also be the first to admit that the lack of windows is a major problem with the system. You both lose natural light and the cooling air currents provided by the wind.
Thanks — I was kind of excited to think that they had found a reliable way to upscale an arbitrary view hierarchy. I guess upscaling the compositor output is more reliable.
JIRA Integrated with Mobile App Testing
> frequently died after only 4 hours of use.

I've never had a phone die after 4 hours of use and I've had the 1st Gen iphone and the HTC G1
my surprise was that this was true 17 years ago :)
F# runs on CLR. I use a Mac.

(Yes, I know about Mono, but I'd rather use something officially supported).

Also, I don't see a real difference between CLR and JVM, and I won't support another VM that purposely breaks up the ecosystem.

(On the other hand, if MS continues the current trend and goes completely open source/free software (edit: and adds an ahead-of-time compiler), I'll probably change my mind.)
Venmo.

In fact, in young circles (in the US), this seems to have become the defacto way of transferring money socially between individuals. I don't think I have paid someone I know with physical cash in years.
'PC guys are not going to just figure this out. They're not going to just walk in.'
You are underestimating the utility value of a diamond ring. According to many action movies they serve as excellent glasscutters.
We have moved to PDF assets for all of our apps. It's wonderful.

Generally we have a single illustrator file, some export scripts, and push the resulting PDFs through ShrinkIt to minimise file size.

The result is tiny apps that handle all scale factors, can easily be tinted programmatically, and generally match the aesthetic of iOS 7 and 8.
I should have added "already", I know lua is very common now, I didn't know it was common in 1997.
Helloooo Japanese summers.
Wow. That jj idea is a good one. I've been down a similar path to that for other purposes. I changed my leader key to space, and now I can save with <leader>w instead of having to do shift to get :w. But I hadn't thought of making escape more convenient. That's an excellent idea.
Ask HN: Is it good to sacrifice your career for love?
i work in a better department in the same company than the person i like. so is it good to exchange my department with her...i am really confused....i want the pros and the cons....i feel like i am sabotaging my career
">derives automatically and inevitably from just basic rewrite rules."

I said "full general computation, including recursion and iteration, derives automatically and inevitably from just basic rewrite rules". You can't cut a sentence wherever you want and still think you're responding to the original thought.

There is an imprecision in my original comment, but it's not there. If you can stop nitpicking long enough, you may be able to see something that's pretty powerful.
> Sync has always meant merging semantic changes in state between two or more devices.

That is a definition of file synchronization [1]. Usually the aim of "syncing" is to input two directories and the outcome is that the contents of both directories are the same.

What you are describing below point 1. is an algorithm to achieve this goal.

The algorithm you describe needs a source and destination folder and this may be Apple's algorithm and implementation (I have no idea) but this is by no means the only way to do so (see two-way file synchronization [1]).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_synchronization
If you want to argue, way to cite a flagged Wikipedia section, for not having any citations and "possible original research," and also being exactly just that one sentence long with no added explanation.

I'm from south India/grew up in the middle east/studied on the east coast/worked on the west coast of the US, lived in Singapore and Thailand briefly. And there are definitely some colloquial usages that are fairly universal. In my experience this is one of them.

Please also note appended smiley face. Obviously not everyone is familiar with every colloquialism. It's too bad if you were confused by the implied meaning of "racist against", and if my clarification of its colloquial usage was insufficient for you, but i find your comment adding very little value here.
Microsoft to drop Nokia branding from future phones according to leaked document
It diffrent from 1Sheeld, LinkIt includes GPS/GPRS and runs an RTOS. So, you can make it work outside.
Once Again, Apple Has No Women on Stage
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Am I really the only one to think that the Apple Watch is just ugly?

A big clunky square box with a rubber strap. Some dim electronic display on top. That's what it looks like at a distance. Honestly it looks like something Samsung or Sony might turn out.

Most of the guesswork 'prototypes' were far more compelling: https://www.google.com/search?q=iwatch+prototype&tbm=isch

Even the Samsung offering looks better - we can finally do curved displays, and is there a better place to put them than in a wristwatch? http://www.samsung.com/global/microsite/gears/
This is great, perfect for little consumer web apps.
I am so happy about this, becuase we (my dev buddies) have just had an idea for a little social game that would be great if ported onto the web. I think I have just solved our simplistic user auth needs by reading this article.

Thanks for sharing.
Done and done. See headlines "Meta-Object Programming" and "Grammars" in <http://perl6.org/compilers/features>.
After reading these two articles, I can't help but wonder if the depiction of prison life in US, as seen in Oz [0], wasn't that far from truth.

I still would want to get some background (and financial interests) on the author. The build-up of the article culminates the third chapter from the end:

Abolishing prisons and releasing all the prisoners would amount to a deregulation of criminal punishment. It would mean letting the private sector determine how best to prevent ourselves from getting robbed. In high finance, the laissez-faire approach has proved to be a disaster; for petty crime, it would be a boon.

So, the antidote to the proposed solution will be more gated communities and private police forces guarding these sanctuaries? Considering that the article avoided pointing at the financial incentives of the prison industrial complex system, I can't shake a feeling there are some other financial interests behind this article.

[0]: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118421/
Their annual Apple Day is coming up. Sunday 5 October 2-4:40pm
Ask HN: How to engage Mobile Audience?
Has anybody here tried engaging their audience through games, quizzes, sweepstakes, coupons, surveys, giveaways etc. If yes, what has been your experience so far. What tools did you use, if any? What was the response like?
All synchronization depends on either the user, or a program, deciding which is the source and which is the destination. Such a choice is always made.

Consider this example:

1. Device A has a list of 9 contacts.

2. Device B has a list of 10 contacts.

3. According to your thesis, the sync program doesn't need to be told which is the source and which the target.

4. If so, and if the user intentionally deleted a contact from device A, shall the sync program:

x. Restore the contact missing from device A from device B, or

y. Delete the contact missing from device A from device B?

The answer is that the sync program cannot know what to do without being told which is the source and which is the destination.

This is how iTunes decides what to do -- the user tells it which is the source and which is the destination.

> According to your definition, this is not 'syncing'. But for most people, it is.

Yes, and to prove this point, and of the ascendancy of human instinct over logic, the OP lost his music collection.

This is a classic example of people's inability to think logically. How on earth could a computer program know what to do in the above example without being told what to do by the operator?

There's one exception, which ironically proves the point. In the example of real-time contact list synchronization, a sophisticated system would automatically assume that the device the operator is using at the moment, that he is editing, is the de facto source, and make other synchronized devices have the same content (this is how Google Contacts works). But in this example, as in all examples, the sync process cannot proceed until a decision is made about the meaning of "source" and "destination". In this example, the decision is automatic, but it has to be made.

In the case of syncing two music collections, the operator has to specifically identify which is the source and which the destination. I cannot tell you how often I've heard stories of people buying a new iPhone, then running iTunes, then erasing their music collection by misidentifying the source for the transaction.
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5 Unbelievable Natural Eternal Flames You’ve Never Heard Of
I'm not so sure about that, since after seeing a very beat up van with a lyft mustache, I have become very hesitant to using their service.
The data from different wearables now reunited on a single screen view on Pryv
Lua is 20 years old :)
Unfortunately the marketing community is much more scarce and scattered than the development community. I have had the same issues myself.
http://pryv.com/?p=2154
Ten Features That Make Google Compute Engine (GCE) Better Than AWS
The article title is misleading. The title refers to a "light source", but the article body refers to an x-ray source. Both light and x-rays are electromagnetic radiation, but x-rays aren't light as that term is commonly understood.
It was AFAIK the first game to use Lua, and it influenced the rest of the industry.
Good, related Stack Overflow discussion: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/25755443/iphone-6-plus-re...
A half century ago and more, A.J. Liebling complained of the popularity of the red delicious "which doesn't taste like an apple, and the yellow delicious, which doesn't taste like anything." (Quoted from memory--I haven't seen my copy of Between Meals in a long time.)
Mobile marketing through Twitter and Facebook is generally effective. Unfortunately they want to milk you to death with Ad costs so they have a policy against sweepstakes, coupons and giveaways. Quizzes are not really effective unless they generate some type of controversy. What do you mean by games in specific?
> Honestly it looks like something Samsung or Sony might turn out.

As does the iPhone 6

edit: and this is coming from quite the apple fanboy
Beyond programmatical shortcommings I can't help but wonder how they would be usefull in real web, out of logged-in webapps: Google nor any crawler on earth can reference their contents, so you're making a hype top-tech website that nobody would actually visit?
I guess his point is that the high-end mechanical watch market only exists at all because of, as you say, collectors. It's older people with a bit of cash to spend on a luxury item. But those 40 year-old people grew up with cheaper versions of the same thing, and so there was a recognizable appeal in the higher-end watches. If today's 20 year-olds all buy smart watches, will they want to spend four figures on a mechanical watch when they're 40 with a bit of cash?
French Minister of Digital Economy: “Net Neutrality Should Be Enshrined in Law”
Your post is attached to mine, but it quotes and discusses a point made in its parent.
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The problem in finding repetitions using PCR is as follows: In order to perform PCR you splice the DNA in chunks randomly, the length of the chunks depends on the particular machine but it's of the order of 100-1000 bases. Then you need algorithmically find superpositions to reconstruct the original sequence.

If the repeated sequence is longer than the chunk you have no hope of knowing how many times it repeats, if on the other hand it's much shorter (I think it's 6 bases for telomeres) you can see a good number of repetitions per chunk.

If you want to know something more detailed about sequencing and CNV I can send you a couple of sections from my PhD dissertation.
Yo, this question is way too general. Basically the equivalent of me asking:
Is it good to sacrifice my love for a career?

How can we give a suggestion without any information?
Does the HTTP standard or robots.txt specification mandate the collapse of consecutive slashes, though? I agree that it is common, but if it is server-side implementation detail, then a correct implementation of robots.txt should not collapse them, as they might mean different things to a particular server.
Future of (mobile) e-commerce payments?
As an Asian living in France I've always blamed it on the media. You will never see an asian man in a movie, and if you see one it's a ridiculous stereotype just here to make fun of asian people.

You're 100% correct when you're talking about kpop boosting our numbers. Japanese culture is a big deal as well.
The quote is not yours but I discussed your post.
I have played with a prototype of the new samsung watch. I think it already gave a good idea of where they wanted to go. Considering their phone designs, it is not bad, but not a work of art either. Samsung watches are plasticky things.

I have conflicted thoughts on Apple Watch. On one hand, I can see that Apple has put a LOT of thought on its appearance (as with most of their products) and on the little details. On the other hand, I don't think the final design look good. I would need to try it first hand to confirm it but my first impression is that I don't want that big rectangular clunky thing on my hand.

And a circular watchface in a rectangular frame with a lot of whitespace (well blackspace actually) ? I just can't get over it.

If I had to guess what Apple Watch would look like before its reveal, I would have bet on something very similar to the Moto360.
Souls Tumbling in the Light
"AC accounts for approximately 20% of year-round electricity consumption
by American households, and 15% of total electricity use. [1] The widespread
use of AC explains in large part why Americans use so much more electricity
than Europeans: AC electricity use by an American household equals 60% of
all electricity used by the average European household. [2]"

That math with that statment does not realy work.
Well I didn't mean all the way underground -- I think you'd get substantial benefits from going three-quarters down on the ground floor. If there's only one floor, skylights do the trick. For multiple stories, high windows, and then fans circulating air between floors. Hmm, I guess this is getting a little expensive after all...
How do you legislate against a seed library? I can understand the big companies patenting particular seeds, or lobbying against state funding for libraries - but actually legislating against one? (Not trolling: genuinely interested in what arguments a Monsanto lobbyist (say) could use in this case).
The Machine SID Duplication Myth (and Why Sysprep Matters)
The point is, to the point of being pointless: that you can buy stuff because it has utility or that you can buy stuff for signalling purposes.

A Rolex is signalling stuff masquerading as utility stuff.

The utility value of a Rolex is approximately $50 (the price of a half-decent watch that will tell the time accurately for many years to come, assuming your phone doesn't already do that for you). The rest is signalling value (and in the case of a gold one some intrinsic value).

I'm perfectly ok with you not seeing my point. In the end the guy with the jeans and the t-shirt is quite possibly a lot wealthier than the guy with the Ferrari and the Rolex. (Especially when they're not bought with cash.)
> Is it good to sacrifice your career for love?

To answer, I have to ask my own question: do you really think there is one definition of "good" on which different people agree? Or that just one person accepts over decades of time?
Did they really prove there was 'no association' or did they just fail to reject the null hypothesis that there is no association? These are diabolically different things!
Create Positive Customer Service Experiences in Social Media
> How exactly would you make an amino acid from glucose or a fatty acid?

With this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citric_acid_cycle
I completely agree. There's something really wrong with the approaches.

They're both too complex and too simplistic at the same time. BackBone and Angular in particular demand a lot of code to do simple things and still fall apart in large scale production.

The best I've seen is https://muut.com/riotjs/ which is basically just a collection of JS-objects and a router. But it's far from useable because they've tried to cut corners, and lacks all sorts of documentation.
While I have only a few watches I certainly am not on the level of a collector nor do I own any beyond the five hundred range. I appreciate a good watch but I appreciate good design and great function as well and I just don't see it here.

I do not need a slaved device. To me that is a redundant device. If anything I would love a wrist mounted phone and would willingly give up much of the smart phone functionality I have now. Simple text messages, voice mail, gps, and similar would be needed. Full on email, taking pictures, and browsing not so.

Besides being boring, ugly, whatever, the worst offense here is that you cannot buy it. Apple should go back to announcing products you can buy today, not next year.

Slaved device, I guess we should be thankful it isn't cable attached
False dichotomy. Fans can be used in conjunction with AC, greatly reducing the energy required by the AC, by making higher temperatures acceptable.
CSS Only iPhone6
User management and secure login, with some very basic CRUD operations would be nice. Usually the starting point where people get stuck.
We like our views. Also, fire code wouldn't really allow for it in most developed countries...sinking windows is quite expensive.
It's indeed relevant. This is one of the biggest reason why monoculture and monsanto-like-GMO will never work (even if we knew how to properly create GMO, which is not the case and another subject).

If you create a GMO which is targeted to kill some insects or plants, there is then a huge incentive due to the large size of the crops and the lack of diversity for a new kind of insect / plant to resist to this GMO, it would have a massive competitive advantage and could spread much more quickly. There is only a benefit in the first years you are using it until the environment is adapting itself.
Sting (The Simpletones Cover) – Englishman in New York [acapella]
This is really impressive how it calculates size between letters.

By the way source may be found here https://github.com/mrflix/dimensions
I would love to read a book on this: How far can you get relying purely on design and structure, not technology. "Passive" solutions, as you say. A fascinating topic.
Although you have almost all of that functionality on your smartphone already.
NHS develops online psychological therapy for Bipolar Disorder