skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
OCZ Vertex are the cheapest least reliable SSD's in recent memory, I can't imagine how you could ever justify those for database servers.

FWIW I'm not advocating expensive drives, but ones that are known to fail reliably are far better than the cheapest consumer SSD, I put Intel 513's in RAID10 on the databases at my last company with instructions to replace drives at 60% of their expected life.

databases are important, for many people it's the heart and soul of a business, recovering them can be very costly and especially time consuming.

for average Joe, have a computer for 4-5 years and then throw the machine away, you can't expect the same out of prod servers. Please, please please in future when purchasing things for servers check the failure rate, if there is no real world data then DO NOT BUY those things.. especially avoid consumer markets, they're cheap and cheerful for a reason.
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This reminds me of Chaitin's "meta-biology", which uses (self-delimiting) computer programs as genomes, a Turing machine as the environment and "fitness" is defined as how big the program's output is, interpreted as a natural number. Unfortunately it relies on a halting oracle to avoid diverging programs :(
New Cortex-M7 Processor
If you range on a string, you get runes.

http://play.golang.org/p/CqLnT4m4GI
Waiting for my coffee to brew, I read that as "Emma Watson API".
Five errors that immediately get your resume rejected at Google
I'm pretty sure my Galaxy Nexus would break if i applied the same pressure this guy did.
right. Well, they won't charge you a brokerage fee, at least
You would not find any "slaves" to the the east of that wall, still -- but look at the pre-60-ies Africa, for example, that was much closer.

Speaking of the sarcophagus, I'd start looking into the memoirs of both those in charge back then, and those in actual action down there (both kinds of sources will likely be not available in translation though).
Haskell for bragging rights.
What was the line again? "Apple produces only high quality devices" or something?
Sure, if you're amoral but don't commit any crimes, you'll go free. If you're amoral, commit a crime and don't get caught, you'll also go free. There's a difference in the eyes of the law, but I don't think abusing the lack of efficient legislation gets you off the hook for doing wrong, though.

Extending this kind of reasoning leads to condoning such great corporate pioneers as Union Carbide and Dow Chemical (although I don't want to equate embezzling public money (via tax evasion) and killing and crippling people).

It does strike me as extremely short sighted when corporations that benefit immensely from government schooling, research etc go to such great lengths to dismantle the institutions that facilitate their access to skilled labour (among other things).

All that said, if you sneak away a million US or so, go for it. It makes no difference what any one individual does as such; I just wanted to demonstrate that I, at least, take issue with the idea that avoiding taxes should be considered on equal footing with launching a ground breaking technology company. I think the two are quite opposite, even if one might evolve into the other.

And I'm not saying that's what you said, the advice just seemed rather glaring in this context.
Nice to see a new set of quantitative data on this. Well done! I'd love to see the study expanded to include JavaScript :)
Maybe the bending is a consequence of a better than average shock proof design. Not an apple fan boy here but I find hard to believe that a top selling phone would go on the market without extensive mechanical testing.
I didn't want my comment to devolve into an argument about the merits of static vs. dynamic. My comment is really to ask why would I use Typescript for web programming? Where does it fit? It doesn't seem to fit in or fill a need that isn't already possible with any combination of static and dynamic languages used separately. In fact I feel it blurs the separation of concerns between static vs. dynamic.
I've been really impressed with the quality of new york times posts as of late. The post "Norway the Slow Way" posted here a few days back was impressive in its use of a variety of frontend display techniques to tell a single story. Even their web console output had some neat ascii art and a hiring call to interested developers.
Funny, as I'm yet to meet an iPhone 4 that didn't have a smashed screen
This a pain because gmail allows you to append anything you want after the + and it will still reach your inbox.

For example - If your email address is johnsmith@gmail.com you can have mail sent to johnsmith+stopspamming@gmail.com and it will go into your inbox.

http://lifehacker.com/144397/instant-disposable-gmail-addres...
Yep, bend a phone and it bends: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SwdZzvCFhLo&feature=youtu.be
This is where I find programmers who are comfortable with static languages struggle with dynamic languages. There is a lack of understanding and this is yet another language trying to fix something that isn't fundamentally broken.
Does it really work without plug-ins? How is this possible? Why is the accelerator required if you do not need plugins?
well then the question is what "closely associated" means, if by being Indian, Chinese, black, white, orange, etc "closely associates" you with them (that group?) then anything does, the fact that we all wear clothes for example, we belong in a group that shares this idea, which then closely associates us, making the word meaningless
They could have done the analysis and determined that replacements would cost less than a harder shell for every phone.
Apple will no doubt acquire that youtube bend guy to bend all their products from now.
Ungrateful peasants. They are privileged to use the world's best phone and complain about such benign issues.

> Clearly if I got the plus I'd never be able to sit at a table with it. This is bringing back the holster.

This should be the preferred way for hipsters to wear their apparel.
What about when you get an email from a website you just signed up for that opens with "Hi, Anigbrowl! I saw that you signed up for my site..." and is "signed" by the CEO. If you found out that was an automated email and that the CEO didn't really type it up personally, would you be equally upset?
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Multi-node replication for webdav would be done at the file system level (eg: gfs or whatnot). By query options, to you mean some kind of join, for example? Obviously anything beyond plain id-based get/set (by file path/url) isn't possible with "just" webdav. But if you already limit yourself to looking at single documents (ie: json-files) -- you could always fetch doc1, find the id/path of doc2 in doc1 and fetch that. I'm not saying this sounds like a sane db strategy, I'm just not convinced doing the same thing, with a little easier api sounds like a sane strategy either?
So if you feel a pressure in you pocket, DO NOT REMOVE the phone.... Are people just plain dumbs or what?
Tons of people can't stand "marketing people", it's why so many people laugh at things like Bill Hicks' monologue on the topic [0] funny.

I like shiny new things as much as the next person. But I don't like marketing and I don't like being sold to. If someone's sole job is to convince me I need something and my life is worse off without whatever they're selling, why would I like them?

http://www.fluffylinks.com/bill-hicks-on-marketing
> I do think that putting your phone in your front pocket is typical

Correct. And for, hm, probably 99.98% of the 10m iPhone 6 users created over the weekend, that isn't an issue.

You're drawing a misleading comparison between putting your iPhone in your pocket and it becoming bent out of shape. What happens when you put your phone in your pocket is crucial: exerting sufficient pressure to bend (as opposed to flex) the phone.

This is a problem with any object of similar proportions and rigidity when sufficient pressure is applied.

Tl;dr: if you sit on something, it might break.
Python is also the most failure prone.
" By contrast, the scripting languages tend to be the most failure prone of the lot; Python,in particular, is significantly more failure prone than every other language"
I was wondering if you can actually find flats that small.

While I was looking here in Madrid, the least I could find were 20/25 m2 flats.

Regardless, as someone that has shared the author's pains multiple times, kudos to him for the creativity of his method.
Wish I knew it when I was moving to Munich 6 months ago. Sounds like a tough job, some of those sites aren't structured very well. I thought about automating it too, but it seemed like too much hassle back then.

I have to say though, when you are a german couple, have a double income with no children/no pets, its not that hard to find something. I don't envy the rest though!
This. I've had several smartphone devices over the years and not one has been bent in my pocket, even when I sit on it. I don't expect it to happen, even on a premium device.
... in the form of higher and recurring rent.
> 1. Why do you cook? Is it to save cash or is it recreation? Or something else?

Its an offline activity for me. Whatever time I get in from work say 7-9pm I generally cook if theres food in the fridge. Most meals tend to take an hour which is a good time for me to think about something else other than work.

> 2. Do you plan ahead? Like a weekly meal plan?

Sort of I have goto meals mainly asian which is always in the fridge / freezer

> 3. What kind of things do you cook usually?

Other peoples recipes!

> 4. Do you follow any diet? Atkins, Slow Carb etc.

Slow / No carbs, high protein

> 5. Do you have any life hacks, tips to be more productive as a cook?

I have a few although its less about being productive.

- Have a handful of goto meals that you know inside out and have them in the fridge.

- Get meat out the night before and put it in the freezer

- Always have vegetables you'll eat out if there isn't anything

- Ramen noodles should be bought in 25/50 boxes!

I dont think the focus of cooking should be about being productive, sometimes its nice to switch off and get away from the computer and talk to the wife / partner / people that aren't on the internet
We're talking about keeping a phone in your pocket. The pressure test was just that, a test. Because if it doesn't bend with that amount of pressure, it's probably, no, definitely not going to bend in your pocket.

That said, the Galaxy Nexus would probably break, before bending, which is what you'd expect. You'd also expect that for a Galaxy Nexus to break, a lot of pressure must have been applied.
The point of the post was that since the regexp doesn't include start or end of a string it would still succeed:

"Foo@bar"@example.com -> "Foo@bar"
But would it break just by your front-pocket's curvature though?
Well the Samsung Galaxy S4 will bend. And so will other phones.

Large and flat will bend, break or crack. It's just the nature of things.
Not in your pocket.
It was messy (to a certain extent it still is). Reasons for GRUB(2) are mostly UEFI, multiboot support (eg: bsds, windows nt derivatives like modern windows). Grub fails the test of making simple things (as) simple (as possible). But it does support booting to space invaders. So there's a trade-off there, and I agree, it's not entirely clear much was gained from moving off of Lilo...
Assuming accuracy of reports, etc. But, yes, if it's relatively easy to bend a phone even slightly by putting it in a normal (for reasonable tightness values of normal) front pocket, that's questionable. Though--I would add--not because as many regurgitated articles suggest because Aluminum is a "soft, bendable metal" or because the heat in one's pocket softens the metal.
Pedantic much? You know what he meant.
That's a shame, and not something I've experienced with my Galaxy Notes of various generations. You'd think it would be tested for this sort of thing.

Though who knows, maybe some folks have had problems with these devices and it's just not widely reported. Given the high profile launches and expectations of flawlessness from Apple (rightly or wrongly), it may well come under increased scrutiny.
So the conclusion is: buy a slab of plastic instead, it'll hold up better https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FwM4ypi3at0
Almost nobody will admit to being wrong. Plus a lot of people take a lot of satisfaction from being negative about things.
Very rarely being every single release? You should not be using a changing library in any production code, you're just asking for problems.

If all you're using jQuery for is a document.querySelectorAll polyfill + the most primitive event handling, you're possibly safe, as those don't change terribly often...but at that point, you should probably be using a different library or a custom build of jQuery.
So I just tested this on a few non-aluminium bodied phones, i.e., plastic and glass bodied phones. Plastic is more elastic (etymological irony) than aluminium and returns to its original shape.

I wouldn't have believed if someone claimed my plastic-glass phone wasn't perfectly straight when in my pocket, because I'd never witnessed it bent, and truly believed it sturdy enough to not easily bend.

I guess Apple's miss was that aluminium is less elastic, and the larger/taller your phone the more linear deflection it suffers.
It's almost like they'd be better off making the glass less flexible so it would just crack when people bend it too much, and then they'd know they did the wrong thing. The fact that the phone can bend like this without breaking might mean they don't realise that they've subjected it to an unreasonable amount of force.
That's mainly because of the magical super-slip coating on the glass back, isn't it? I swear my iPhone 4 used to slide off level surfaces.
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Mine, I got it when it came out in 2010, used it every day since end of 2013 when I got the 5s. Screen is still in perfect condition, so is the back side.
I read an article forever ago that a de-orbiting system could be as simple as a bunch of wires being shot from the satellite to the earth; gravity would tug on the wires and slowly pull the satellite out of orbit.
It's trending on Twitter in my area https://twitter.com/hashtag/bendgate
Hey there.
The startup I co-founded has been accepted by IBM partner for Watson. A few weeks into it, we are still doing the "form-filling" marathon and have not had access to an instance. Seems like the API, when available to public will be a faster way to access it. Punekale at google's mail.
This guy seems to exert a lot of force for it to bend.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=znK652H6yQM#t=34

I can't understand how having the same happen in your pants wouldn't indicate that maybe you should take your phone out or adjust your trousers.

And I will beat you to the you are wearing your pants wrong joke.
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That could be more survivor bias. I think what he's saying is that if you're going to start something you better be in love with it because there will be bad times and you're going to need to lean on that passion to keep going. If you happen to get lucky and ride a rocketship then this requirement will be less applicable.
They're trousering it wrong. Their problem.

I currently have a Galaxy S4 - no problems. Previous phone was a whopping-big, first generation Note - ditto. Both live/lived in my front trouser pocket.

The only device I have managed to break while in my pocket was an HP/Compaq iPaq, about 10 years ago, when I sat on a child's swing next to my son in a playground - the metal 'rope' went taught against my side and the pressure cracked the screen.

Edit: For a bit of objectivity, what was the last phone that received this level of attention for being prone to bending in tight pockets - has there been one?
I'd argue that entertainment media do provide value to consumers and that there is an observable willingness to pay for these kinds of goods.

On the cost side, even if your marginal costs are zero, you still have to recover your first copy costs -- for a blockbuster movie and your replicator.
Our government (NL) wastes more money on failed IT projects than this space mission cost, :D.
Might be obvious, but that should be "moving from lilo to grub", not the other way around...
Guy does naked handstands worldwide to raise awareness of something or other
As a counter-point, independant testing indicates that the iPhone 6(+) is the toughest iPhone yet: http://blogs.wsj.com/personal-technology/2014/09/22/iphone-6...

I think we're at least going to have to put an asterix on the tale of the guy that bent his phone in his pants pockets. Until it's been reliably reproduced, I for one won't be jumping to any conclusions.
Calling it stealing is wrong. The producer of an item doesn't lose the original item when someone _copies_ it, compared to e.g. stealing somebody's car.

At most, you could argue that the producer loses an opportunity for a sale, but I think you would have a difficult time proving that. It is far more likely that the potential consumer would just refrain from procuring the item if it were not available for free (as a copy).
It does have less than 1/4 of the payload (by mass) of NASA's MAVEN. So it's not like NASA's much higher budget didn't buy them anything. Still, it is a wonderful thing to show that you don't need NASA sized budgets to do interesting things in space.
This is not really "validating" emails in the sense most people think of it. The RFC is about addressing SMTP envelopes, not entering email addresses. This would not be appropriate for e.g. checking if an address entered in a signup form is "valid." This includes a bunch of things that make no sense and aren't really email addresses (like embedded comments) and meanwhile has no idea that bogus@example.com is not an address that will actually receive mail. The only way to know an address is valid is to email it.

It's mostly a joke. One might want to use this if writing a mail server, but even then...
"The Dots on The 'i's" and "The Rounded Right Margin" can both be fixed by having a human generate the strokes for the original form letter, like an Autopen with RAM. Write once, then make 30,000 copies of your exact handwriting with your handwriting robot.
I believe he /literally/ helped the project by paying his taxes on time.

The government plays ads on local TV channels urging citizens to pay their taxes on time and that the money helps government execute projects like this.
Hipsters do wear very tight jeans.
It's not a regular grammar. Regular expressions were designed to handle regular grammar, and there are cases where something that looks valid is actually invalid:
ex@256.255.255.255.

(See the above posters link: https://nikic.github.io/2012/06/15/The-true-power-of-regular...)
Maybe this is due to lack of context, but with all that "designed to improve your company performance in the critical area" and "investing heavily in great customer service and innovation" that email sounds terribly enterpriesey to me. It all could be boiled down to a one-liner in spirit of "Sorry, but we can't offer our services any cheaper. Our prices are indeed higher, but the services are better than competitors and we actually provide more value per price unit. Please, take this into consideration."

And maybe that's just my tastes, but negative commenting on competitors with all that "race to the bottom" and "customers are switching in droves" stuff doesn't sound any good to me. Even if competitor is really a complete shit.

Just my opinion. I'm not a businessman.
True, but I, on the other hand won't be jump-buying the device either :)
If they do in fact bend in tight pants it won't be a joke. Apple will not be afraid to tell people that they need to use a case or that they're wearing their pants wrong.
No, I get that the e-mail is part of company's marketing. But I don't like that marketing. The e-mail is pretty much empty of content.

> Yes, any competitor could have sent such an email outlining their USP / positioning. But most of them won't, and that's what makes this an excellent example.

Sure. The act of sending that e-mail is a plus for the company. Still, you could replace their company name with any of their competitors and get an equally valid e-mail - which suggests that there isn't much more than buzzwords in it.
Well Done! But the $700 billion US defense budget could have been spent giving basic health care to Americans, so that don't have to go bankrupt whenever they fall ill.

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Think about the person that waited in one of those long lines that I dont understand and now their walking around with a warped cell phone.

In all seriousness. Why do people stand in those lines? What can you do with the phone that you can't do with another phone? Is it just a material thing?
The emailleaktest site linked by OP is a word for word down to the privacy policy blatant copy of http://emailipleak.com which we made. Not sure why this is hacker news front page worthy.
I suppose that the pants' tightness would also be a factor. Roomier pants would theoretically be less likely to bend a phone than hipster-tight pants.
Just write an article about it :)
As an aside, if after one weekend 0.02% of people's iphones have bent, then within one year we would expect a good million bent iphones out there.
Show HN: Village – Hacker News for people who care about their cities
Hey everyone,

I started Village because I couldn't find a place online with reasonable, civil discussion about my city, Toronto.

On Reddit, r/toronto could be a bit harsh and was pretty heavy with downvoting. Local blogs had comments sections that were mean and insulting.

Village is an experiment. It's a place that- while honest about the challenges my city faces- tries to celebrate and share what's awesome about Toronto too. It's a place for reasonable and civil discussion. It's a place to discover awesome and interesting things in Toronto.

I custom wrote the software for Village but I feel like the software for creating a social news website is pretty trivial at this point. If you want, it only takes 5 minutes to set one up using Telescope. The hard part is cultivating a community.

But in the same way that you can’t design a users experience (because it implies a sense of control over what a user will experience), you also can’t design a community. Instead, you can only hope to cultivate a community.

That's what I'm hoping to do with Village :)

PS - If you're interested, you can read more about my thoughts on how to cultivate community here: http://www.itsonvillage.com/design-tips
I've stood in lines for books, when I could have just as easily purchased it online. Its more of a social thing, you get to interact with other fans, have fun with strangers, bond over a shared interest.

Its kinda like going to a convention except much smaller, and far more jam packed.
Notice the bending in OP's video isn't the same level of bending in the pocket-bend claims. The latter is much more subtle, yet still noticeable. I'd say any kind of permanent bend from just being in pants' pockets is a design flaw.
We are looking to use wolfram alpha for getting info on stock values and machine learning.

It seems very useful for this kind of business.
A coworker just got that new waterproof Android phone from Kyocera. For some reason he thought waterproof == indestructible, so he never got a case for it. Two weeks later it ended up with a cracked screen. He cracked it when he had it in his pocket and leaned against a table.

Yes, these devices are made to withstand rough conditions, and each generation seems tougher than the last. But cases exist for a reason; no phone is indestructible.
Such a law would do absolutely nothing in these kind of high-demand low-supply situations. The landlord doesn't really need those agencies, they're flooded in offers anyway.
You should probably confirm it contains an @ first. The question is how much validation is necessary prior to sending the email?