skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have a bent iphone 5. I bent it by accidentally dropping it, having the back of the phone land perfectly on the small ledge leading into the doorway of my home, and then stepping on the phone (I weigh about 200lbs.)

The phone bent, but the glass did not break and the phone is still functional. That surprised me. It's actually quite curved. I'll try to get a photo of it later, not near my computer with a webcam at the moment.

I kind of lost the point I was trying to make. Mostly just posting to say, I bent my phone but it took a lot of force.
I'd be mildly hysterical too, the 6 is a phone that'll sell 100m units within its first six months and already sold 10m in its first weekend. If some of those units are based on a faulty design, that's a really big deal affecting tens of millions of people and tens of billions of sales.
The problem is that marketers exist to make you buy a product that you otherwise wouldn't. The hat of a marketer is not always that of a professional liar, but frequently enough that you do well to be wary of them.
Much like police have no obligation or incentive to serve and/or protect anyone but themselves, marketers don't exist to solve any problem except selling the product.
Any benefit you receive from interacting with them is just a side effect, which is why the conventional wisdom is to avoid them if at all possible.

What I'm trying to say is: Never Talk To The Marketers.
Well, you can't.

You can buy a wacom tablet with tilt sensors and make the robot replicate the same stroke. You could add randomness to it too.

To apply different amount of force with the robot you use a spring and you control the force with the distance to the paper, it is very simple to do.

We did exactly that with ABB robots in the University a long time ago.

We used wacom drivers for linux and the wacoms were over 200 dollars or so.

A robot that uses only 3 axis is not "five figures", it is basically a plotter and thanks to reprap you could make your own for over 300 dollars.

Those are probably the ones used by this people, but you can use a robot with more degree axis and you won't be able to differentiate it.
The Wiki for Failed Startup Ideas
With 'antennagate', there was an issue where holding it would bridge the specific antenna areas which would cause a signal reduction. It was an issue, but it was also overblown because to get it to kill the signal you had to hold it very, very specifically, and it seemed mostly to effect the US market more than others. Also, quite a few other devices suffer from it but Apple was the highlighted case because the device was brand new.
Jesus Christ I'm sick of this "*gate" crap. Get a new gig, people.
It is sort of parody for antenna gate. Motorola responded to Jobs that they do integrated antennas for decades and do not have signal issues. Also there was ad campaign:

"No Jacket Required."

"it's just one of those things that comes as a given when you've been making mobile phones for over 30 years."
He has a transatlantic backside
Also, just because there is no research labs doesn't mean employees aren't allowed to do some blue-sky research.
Mine. Had it since launch. Not even a scratch on the screen either.
In CSS, the music is between the curly braces
One of our biggest challenges is making the service known. The problem is real estate is a low frequency category. When you are searching, you care a lot, when you aren't you couldn't care less. As a result, even if we do a great job, once you find a place you gone.

We've been doing it for many years and have tried many things, but if anyone has further suggestions always happy to learn.
Look at the capability & price of LED lighting over the last 20 years as their production has skyrocketed.

As you said, cars have simultaneously become much more capable (safety, reliability, fuel-effiencey, performance) while they have gotten cheaper. Your $1500 1950 car cannot be compared to a median modern car. Even the Mercedes S class from then 50s (arguably the most advanced car) cannot be compared to a Toyota corolla today, the corolla is WAY more capable.

As the production of wealth like 'air-bags', 'cruise-control', & 'direct-injection' doubles, they become cheaper and cheaper, even if the overall production of cars doesn't necessarily double at the same rate.

My statement of "reduce costs 20-30%" can manifest in greater capabilities as well as a reduced price. Both a 1985 and 2015 television could easily cost $1000 (inflation adjusted), but the 2015 TV would probably be close to 10x bigger, use 10x less electricity (OLED), and have 10x more overall capability. This is not only a function of global TV production, but all kinds of cross-pollinating technological productivity gains, from semiconductors to logistics. It's all connected so it's hard to make generalizations - and there are always exceptions - but economists have found that the "doubling production = 20-30% reduced costs" rule is reasonably starting point.
Moving your Kanban projects into Eylean
Not quite the same but big ships in the Corinth Canal in Greece just look fantastic

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6xOPAetZuQ
http://hhvferry.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/orientex...
No but it could potentially crack in your pocket, and still be cracked when you take it out.
Social media print
Interesting and a very unique approach towards CSS, liked it.
Making Sense of Nonsense Inscriptions on Ancient Greek Vases (2012) [pdf]
When the antena gate happens with iPhone 4 Apple gives bundle cases to their customers, I wonder if this time they will give new pants. :)
Never mind. My adblocker was blocking the JS doing the conversion.
Apple warned of iCloud brute-force vulnerability in March
There are currently three public projects.

- dl.google.com

- vitess

- Google App Engine, that used to be maintained by someone on the Go team not the Google App Engine team, if the Google IO information is still valid.

Chrome is focusing on Dart support and Android team was very explicit at Google IO about Java being what really matters.

So any other very successful Go projects at Google that can be shared?

EDIT: For those that bothered to provide answers. Thanks.
Fresh CSS Tools for Developers
I thought that would be considered a feature!
> 2. Make sure there is at least one '.'

This will fail on sending an email to an IPv6 address, which has no '.'.

I know, it is nitpicking and especially non-tech would never send an email to an IP address. ;o)
If you compare the 6 plus to the 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and even the 6, it doesn't seem as if any of those phones have a problem. In or outside the pocket.

Of course with enough pressure anything will bend or break, but consumers expect that with 'reasonable use' they can expect their device not to malform. And surprise, reasonable use for most people (particularly men) includes putting their phone in their pocket at least some of the time instead of in their bag/purse ALL of the time. That's a design flaw. Either change your material (not majority aluminium), or really change your communication (push it as a tablet or a phone for in your bag) and warn of the risks. Don't just push it like an ordinary larger phone and stay silent when people say it bends in their pocket days after release, and when people bend it with their fingers on camera. I don't see how people can deny this is an issue.

Obviously it's not a problem of people using their phone in an insane manner, as we simply didn't see similar bending problems with every iphone release before.
Fair enough. But I would also wager that a vast, vast amount of piracy is of big studio content, and not the small startup-like businesses you are arguing for.
It depends on what you're building.

E.g. for GUI-heavy apps and fast development, I favor JavaScript (or any other flavor like Coffee/Clojure/TypeScript) + React.

For execution speed and simple (or no) interface I'd choose Go, or if I could handle some platform instability I guess I would go for Rust (I still love C, but it feels like a dead weight for modern development).
There are a lot of comments that betray the facade, and show the old IBM. Comments on keeping busy and reinventing careers shows a tremendous internal focus.

“Our internal metric is we look to sign one to two new customers a week,” he says. “That keeps us going, keeps us busy.”

“It [Watson] will reinvent careers and reinvent industries,” says Rometty. “It is the third era of technology.”
I can imagine static pages getting really annoying at this scale, and it also seems like a no-brainer to have your content in a database... but the nerd in me did think "page rendering can be trivially parallelized – why not throw some map/reduce at it?"
the amount of mechanical engineering, signal processing etc, involved, they could be working on a bigger, valuable in-need problem? even more artistic would be cool...
Nice try, I'm not going to "leak" my ip to emailleaktest.com. Good effort though.
It is indeed absurd, when swapping can be avoided entirely by setting kernel swappiness to 0:

sysctl -w vm.swappiness=0

to make permanent, set vm.swappiness=0 in /etc/sysctl.conf

Though for a desktop machine, disabling swap probably won't help improve performance
Seems to be down or overloaded this morning. After 5 minutes the page did not update for me.
The a and i modifiers are great things - they can also be combined with most grouping characters (parens, brackets, braces, quotes).
Funny I've never seen someone bend an iphone 1,2,3,4,5,6 with their fingers on camera, but the 6+, days after release on the first try.

We'll see how this claim holds up, but look I'm an iphone user, not anti-apple at all, and not hysterical. It'd be pretty hysterical for me to deny what I'm seeing with my own two eyes.
Mann Gulch Fire: A Race That Couldn’t Be Won (1993) [pdf]
That's true, but this was a special circumstance where disabling swap was creating very bad system behavior.
The Rocket Internet Movie
You seem to believe the point of the email was to convince Joseph that Acme was better than FooCorp. I suspect that Joseph already knew that, and the Acme CEO knew that Joseph knew that, and the point of the CEO's email was to put the price difference in context of the increased value given that Acme was better.
Surely if you refuse TLDs (which I guess is what rule 2 does, checks that there's a dot in the domain part and refuses local domains and TLDs), you need at least 5 characters (a@b.c), and since TLDs are at least 2 letters that's 6. Although it'll still let through "@ff.cc"
I assume it's a social thing, like going to a concert.
Just a quick question - are these a Sam only initiative, rather than YC? Is that why they are on Sam's domain?
There is a problem with comparing programming languages using something similar to Rosetta Code. All of the examples tend to be short and somewhat trivial, while in the real world, programs are magnitudes larger. Some of the differences in programming languages don't show unless you look at large scale programs. In addition, by looking at clean examples you lose out on how the program changed over time and how long it took to develop the program, two of the biggest differences between programming languages.

I care much more about how long it takes to create/modify a program, than I care about how fast it runs or how concise it is.
Yeah, fully replicating human hand writing with varying force and slight randomization of letters sounds fairly easy to do. Sounds like a project an intern can handle.
That's amazing news - thanks a tonne. Any chance there's someone at the mothership (maybe you!) we can reach out to, for support? Specifically I'd like to toss out some questions about data sources and whatnot - to understand if Watson is worth playing with for us.
1. How does Watson know to share only public data and not confidential data if it comes across it? How does it gather data?

2. Does it cache answers or does it try to "learn" and modify/improve the response each time?
Well, I stand corrected. Dang.
In my experience most people won't even learn the ins and outs of the "for those who can't" languages. Worst yet, it's not about the language: most people won't grasp more important concepts that maybe "for those who can" languages force them to know upfront. And clearly while not knowing upfront some things is easier in the short term, it is a recipe for disaster as problems get more complex. So maybe it's about problems "for those who can" and "for those who can't".
I use ass for the literal ass, arse for the metaphorical - it's more mellifluous to me.
pre 3.5 it doesn't actually disable swap, it will only use it when it's about to OOM.

post 3.5 it does actually hard-disable, but setting swappiness to 1 gives the same behaviour as swappiness=0 in < 3.5
Interesting that you comment on that. One ex-Cisco engineering friend of mine went to both Facebook and Google.

I think the CEO does set the tone of which types of employees a company values. I recall a quote (I thought was Joel Spolsky or Bill Gates) around why the CEO of a tech company needs to be an engineer. It's basically that only they can understand the important technical details to make big changes in corporate strategies. There's also a component of knowing who to value.
The UX Perspective
On the contrary, Netflix recently shut down their API and CanIStreamIt was one of only 8 services they allowed continued access. I think they understand the value of it.

http://developer.netflix.com/blog
Overtreatment of 'mild' hypertension is causing more harm than good, say experts
What was so surprising about the path? Wasn't clear from the deck.
The problem was is often considered to be one of the main
reasons why IBM unloaded their hard drive business to
Hitachi

Who, in a compete reversal of fortunes, now produce some of the most reliable drives [1].

[1] https://www.backblaze.com/blog/hard-drive-reliability-update...
The BMJ (formerly, British Medical Journal) commentary article[1] referred to in the submission here is paywalled for me, but includes a helpful summary of current research findings. In relevant part,

"Diagnostic change—Recommendations for drug treatment have decreased from diastolic pressure of >115 mm Hg to ≥140/90 mm Hg. A new category, prehypertension (120/80-139/89 mm Hg), has also been introduced

"Rationale for change—Patients with even mildly raised blood pressure may have increased cardiovascular risk

"Leap of faith—Lowering threshold blood pressures will lead to increased diagnosis and treatment, which will decrease mortality

"Impact on prevalence—22% of adults worldwide have mild hypertension (systolic pressure 140-159 mm Hg) and 13.5% have a systolic pressure ≥160 mm Hg

"Evidence of overdiagnosis—Use of a uniform threshold (140 mm Hg) to mark hypertension risk ignores evidence that risk varies by individual and includes many people who will not benefit from drug treatment"

[1] http://www.bmj.com/content/349/bmj.g5432
Show HN: Now you can embed your eskiis in your website
From what I remember, it has some weird license. I can never remember what exactly is weird about it (or that of Qi, a related project), but on a quick reading now, I think at least this:

"6. [...] In particular it is not permitted to make derived copies of this software which do not conform to the Shen standard or appear under a different title."

(i.e. kinda "no forking" clause, IIUC)
google for the amsat suitsat program, its remarkably similar other than re-entering earth instead of mars and being obsolete space suits rather than counterweights.

I'm well aware there are subtle technical differences but the mission profile isn't all that different. It would be an interesting place to start.
As well as traditional verification, I often use a perl script that takes an email as `ARG[1]`, runs this, and exits with `0` or `1` (for easy cross-language usage) because: 1) I don't like the idea of my frontend giving the impression my software takes garbage; 2) poking around my database and seeing obviously wrong, maliciously entered 'emails' makes the OCD in me flare up. Works well for me.
I Had to Develop an iPhone App to Understand Swing Trading
Amazing Self-balancing 3D Printed Raspberry Pi Robot
And yet, eventually IBM pulled out of the consumer PC business.
Not like I care about karma, but I see downvotes and I don't know what's wrong with my comment. That makes me curious.

I have a self-hosted email, my MUA machine's IP was logged in headers (and there's no particular reason for it to be there), so I googled for a bit, found a satisfying solution among others, and decided to share it. Is there anything wrong with that?
Don't feed the Troll.
They addressed these points directly in the lecture.

Sam's message here is to try and shift the balance back to where it should be. PG says that they seemed like toys. Not that they were toys. I think what they've said is very well aligned. Many people in the past few years have totally dismissed having a good idea as being important.

Similarly, Dustin Moskovitz is just trying to counterbalance the way over-romanticized view of startups in our culture. Many people get into startups for the wrong reasons, and anyone convinced not to by what he has said is probably much better off.
What does "proof" of your visiting a porn site look like, when bad actors set out to discredit you? I weakly agree with your second sentence, but I am not sure I understand the first.
Most people associate Machiavelli with a devious, twisted mind when he was actually simply a pragmatic. He is labeled as an amoral guy since he admits that violent or cunning methods are sometimes useful.

Also, as an software contractor, his thesis on private forces/ paid forces is quite enlightening.
Not quite, as long as we as a society want to protect the minorities. Either you force equal treatment, or things can escalate quite quickly:

- basic right of owner to rent property to anyone he likes without explaining the decision (and not to rent to anyone else...)

- basic right of hotel owner to accept anyone he choses (and deny access to anyone else)

- basic right of restarant manager to accept anyone he chooses (and deny service to anyone else)

- basic right of transportation owner to accept anyone he chooses (and deny service to anyone else)

- basic right of hospital operator to accept anyone he chooses (and deny service to anyone else)

Now pick your minority: it might have been Jews or the Slavic for the Nazis, it might have been the blacks in South Africa -- or the US, or homosexuals in Russia. Or the red-headed, the fat, the old, ...

Once you step onto this path, it's hard to put hard stop someplace
> \.[A-Z]{2,4}

That should definitely be {2,}:

* there are a bunch of gTLD with more than 4 characters: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Internet_top-level_doma... even ignoring geoTLD and brandTLD

* ccIDN are all more than 4 characters since the ACE prefix ("xn--" for IDNA) is already 4 characters all on its own
Far as I know, the binding nature of a site's privacy policy hasn't been conclusively determined - some courts have held it to be a binding contract, but others have held it to be a statement of company policy.

The only real consequence would seem to be loss of good will - but if their goal was to gather as many email addresses as possible in a short time, then that wouldn't really matter.
Urban Planners Should Read More Sci-Fi
To answer your question: yes keyless works without the accelerator as well, but it is still under development; will be available for the official public launch.

Lets differentiate the accelerator from a plugin or API that has to be installed on the website you wish to visit as a user/visitor: The accelerator is installed on the users/visitors side and it is not and API/plugin to be integrated in let's say on each wordpress sites.

I would suggest to actually trial the product and see how it works.
What Are the Different APIs of an Enterprise MBaaS Architecture?
Does this also give access to their cooking and recipe data?

Edit: http://www.ibm.com/smarterplanet/us/en/cognitivecooking/
RogerVoice’s real-time voice-to-text phone call application for the deaf
Want to Work While Traveling the World for a Year?
Bent iPhone claims put Apple under pressure to respond
The paragraph about reading from flash chips directly reminded me of http://www.flash-extractor.com/ which is mostly for USB drives, but claims to work on some SSDs too. The forums there are full of posts with rather cryptic terminology about the on-chip layouts used by various controllers.

...and is it just me or do the majority of information and sites on data recovery seem to be from Russia?
Should I sign this agreement?
The Ghost of Invention: A Visit to Bell Labs
I fully admit you may not be the right person for this question, but IBM has made a lot of hay about Watson in healthcare: lots of booths and talks at industry conferences, trotting out partner medical centers, PR pieces in the Wall Street Journal, etc... Despite all the noise, I have yet to see any sort of peer-reviewed clinical study that demonstrates the application of Watson in a real healthcare setting to improve patient outcomes. Has any study like this been conducted?
Dot in domain part? That's too restrictive.

A few TLDs have MX records. There's no reason to reject an address like, say, "postmaster@ws" - it's a perfectly valid address that could be actually working.

And why bother validating anything beyond the fact string's non-empty and there's "@" character? Shoot an email, if they receive it — it's a valid address (no matter how weird it may look), if they don't — well, it's not like something bad happened.
You're not-holding it wrong.
Ah, I remember this famous question at StackOverflow on this: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/201323/using-a-regular-ex...

The gist is to avoid regular expressions in favor for some third party library like so: http://barebonescms.com/documentation/ultimate_email_toolkit...

This, of course, becomes an issue when you want to do everything in javascript and go down the rabbit hole of regular expressions. Sort of like deciding on a pattern from assumptions as one might make the mistake of doing with names: http://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/falsehoods-programmers-b...
Yes, there are differences, and you mentioned some. But I believe that the alternative approach I described can work for commercial products and where the founder observes the need. Indeed, as I mentioned, the approach has a severe filter; if the founder can't observe a need where the first good or a much better solution will be a "must have", then back to (1) and try again.

Getting an idea all the way through the filter might be challenging. But, it seems to me that for an idea that does get through the filter, execution should be routine and project success quite likely.
> Tl;dr: if you sit on something, it might break.

Especially for varying definitions of "sitting", which may involve constantly jittering on one's chair or being in a habit of regularly hurling oneself into a sofa.
I'd say almost a third of HN comments are intentionally misleading or flat-out wrong. I've seen people include fake link citations to try and prove their point.

Sadly, there are a huge number of phonies on HN. I'll bet many of them have enough karma to downvote too.
That's a good insight. Thanks!
48 points in 2 hours.
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That's pretty good. I learned from Rails Tutorial to use this one:

/\A[\w+\-.]+@[a-z\d\-.]+\.[a-z]+\z/i

It's worked for me when I needed to use it.
bluemix looks actually quite good... but I wonder if it is enough (ie. can it make up for the billions lost in hardware sales) and how long before these things get commoditized? And we all know how good IBM is at that!!!