skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I traded my iPhone 5 in, because I got $200 for it. But I fear that the 5 will turn out to be the pinnacle of iPhone achievement. I wish I could have bought a new phone with the iPhone 5 case design but with useful tweaks like NFC and an improved camera.
How long it took to complete the Memtest ? just curious.
I remember seeing Chinese job postings on Indeed.com that included not only physical measurements for a receptionist position, but also attractiveness requirements. It totally surprised us (we were in the US), but I guess it's a cultural thing? Then I realized that 60 years ago, US job postings probably had the same kinds of requirements.
There's an obvious bias here. The piece ends with "localisation may keep small languages alive". Isn't that adding to the problem? We don't try to keep small programming languages alive (except a few diehards). Many small languages are the problem itself. They're not something to aim for.

I should add that I'm not complaining about making phones more accessible to more people. That's absolutely great. But why try to go further and use it as an excuse to drag out languages that the world would be better off without?
See what kind of announce URL is included in the .torrent. Is it just

udp://tracker.publicbt.com:80/announce

or does it include information that could be used to identify you, like

http://tracker.bittorrentbundle.net:3000/3pr4s5y7l9nh0mdwcqyh3a9k6n7d0kta/announce

Other than tracker identifying you, seeding and downloading works the same in both cases.
Ugh, don't even know where to begin with all the things wrong here
Thanks for this comment! I read this whole thread primarily to find this information.
Two things I see: a) iphone takes a lot less to bend than the rest of the lot and b) bends/breaks at exactly the same places where it does in the pocket. This sort of confirms the user reports. Also, no torques were calculated, so it is really hard to tell which phone takes more to break.
That's true. http://freethoughtblogs.com/singham/wp-content/blogs.dir/36/...
He's talking about FPGAs for AWS. ASICs would not make sense for that.
The iPhone 4/s was even more solid, and I think very attractive. A stainless steel frame has its advantages (especially since I think weight is a non-issue with devices this small).
I look forward to it, it's obv still very new, but I think the idea of a common interface for ndarrays on the jvm has potential.
I'm not sure why you're downvoted, technically you are (probably?) correct.

If they use technology similar to private trackers, that won't help against peer exchange.

And yes I think other trackers could announce the same torrent and have people join the same swarm.

I could not imagine what else they'd do.
Thanks! Things are coming along.
It looks like something happened overnight last night and the patch became visible after I posted.

You may want to update the docs to include zsh and ksh as shells that you will use since shouldLoadShellEnvvars checks for all three.

I found a place where back ticks are used to get something done: file lib/phusion_passenger/platform_info/apache.rb, method httpd_infer_envvar. If Passenger somehow gets a corrupted environment and calls httpd_infer_envvar then it would trip over Shellshock on an unpatched system. I didn't search generally for back ticks or other shell entry points, but you may want to remove extraneous shell invocations as a future proofing step against other vulnerabilities showing up in shells. (I know, you said that was insane, but so was all of yesterday :)
There's a reason for that.

The behavior for listicle size = 9 entries is not a mistake. BuzzFeed, for some reason, always set their redundant Summary listicle article to 9 entries. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1w0GKyDvK9KWaOgjDJxV2...
Thanks! I'm researching the topic, I'll take a good look.
I worked at the Federal Reserve for some time, so I know that the culture is as toxic as the article says it to be. Professionally, this experience has been the most aggravating of my career.

Oh, let me tell you about the laziness! One of the developers I worked with would come to work at 11 am every single day and leave at 5 PM—sharp. He would then take a two hour lunch break.

It wouldn’t be so bad if he actually did some work, but there was none. I remember vividly this one incident: we were trying hard to meet a deadline and he was responsible for an important component. Every week, he would paint a rosy picture of his progress, saying he was THIS close to finishing the project. The week of the deadline comes and it’s time for him to lay down his cards—and surprise, surprise—there was no working code! All he produced was a jumbling mishmash of code that had no hope of working.
I spent the next week in the office writing this component.

Close to 70 hours. Unreal.

[Oh yeah, this guy was getting paid $130K, not to mention those sweet government bennies!]

His direct manager would complain about him all the time, and many meetings were asking him to improve his output. And yet, he was never punished. The truth is, when it comes to working at the Federal Reserve, your work output is not as important as who your friends are. And this guy had friends in high(er) places.

This guy is just one employee, but I believe it is just endemic of the kind of culture the Fed breeds. One of nepotism, of indolence, of apathy. I am truly scared for the future of this country knowing that these are the people behind the wheel.
How about with all the Westerners snidely judging Chinese culture through a Western cultural lens?
If a media outlet is going to thrive with the modern internet masses, then the one thing it cannot afford to have is a sense of proportion.
Btrfs does support raid5/6, I'm using it right now. It is still being refined and has a couple rough edges, but I haven't had any problems in the year or so I've been using it. It is not "production ready" yet for sure, but the support is there.
A friend of mine works in PR in Beijing. Makeup and high-heels are mandatory despite the fact that she has never worn either before.
Why Did Koding Switch from Node.js to Go?
> I'm waiting for a convincing Docker PaaS vendor to come along.

I believe Google Cloud services support that now.
One difference between plastic and aluminium is that the latter tends to retain deformation more than plastic, which flexes and then returns to its original shape. This is exacerbated by the fact that aluminium cases are usually made much thinner than plastic ones to reduce weight and cost. Also the peak force produced by the impact of e.g. bumping against something with the phone in your pocket could be much more than a constant force of the bend test they used, and easily exceed the elastic limit.

If you compare the thickness of the material in an iPhone 5 vs 6 casing, I'd bet on the latter being somewhat thinner. If that picture of the iPhone 5 is after 150lbs were applied to it, I don't see much "case separation", only a slight bend. It could probably take a bit more force before something catastrophic happened. So it is possible that those used to the robustness of an iPhone 5 are the ones bending their new iPhone 6s.
Agreed. Where do you live that this is typical?
You are probably correct that the Shuttle software was highly reliable and highly complex. But the real failure of the Shuttle was the cost. I think the Shuttle was originally sold to Congress as being able to do 40 missions a year. We only ever did 4 or 5 a year at most. The cost was way to high. And while the software worked flawlessly, the process to create it cost too much.

Also the amount of change to the software was relatively low because of the slow bureaucratic process. So you have a high cost for not much change. The computers used in the Shuttle were extremely old towards the end, and because of Moore's law, really laughable in terms of processing powering. Towards the end NASA was using EBay to buy old hardware parts for the Shuttle program.
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/12/us/for-parts-nasa-boldly-g...

NASA with the Shuttle program didn't fight cost and complexity hard enough. Hence you have large groups of engineers to do tasks that can now be handled by better software. Our "Data Group" should have been removed long before the whole program shutdown but half of our department refused to change and use the new simulator.

I think Elon Musk gets this with Space X and I believe Space X vehicles already operate at lower costs. Now he just has to prove his reliability and keep becoming more efficient.
US jobs postings still often have those requirements, albeit implicitly. For example: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/25/abercrombie-discrim...
And of course, those with legitimate complaints with the Prof simply drop the class a few days or weeks in, and never get a chance to fill out an evaluation...
an attention-getting phrase, but not the best one in the post as far as i am concerned--i'm going through our g/h issues just now and adding comments like "poeple let's fix this toxic hellstew!"
Cloud research.

Working with modified hypervisor (QEMU), and modified cloud software (OpenStack in my research).
Happy to discuss this via hn@ycombinator.com if you like.
Geeky Talkies Build: Pre-wiring Part 1
New York Scientists Unveil 'Invisibility Cloak'
They can still strong arm you into giving them access via the law - they just have to follow the process now.
How letting my kid play outside led to a CPS investigation
I can only imagine what Facebook's server infrastructure and bandwidth itself must cost.
I think you may be misconstruing the purpose of the poster. In my opinion, it's mostly about the low-risk and high-upside potential of using the temporary workers that Kelly Services offered much more than physical qualities.
I'm not the author of this piece I just thought it was pretty incredulous that such a thing happened. Very few things scar a child for life than police at the door or worse, in the home.
I really think this is a ridiculous statement - or maybe I don't weigh as much as everyone else.

Not until now has putting a phone in your back pocket been "crazy." I recently upgraded from the iPhone 4 (which I had for 3 years) to the 6, and for the life time of iPhone 4 I've sat on it for extended hours and had it my back pocket. I currently do the same with the 6.

What I really think has happened here is this whole thing is being blown out of proportion because 1.) its Apple and 2.) they moved 10M units in a weekend (if they had 1% defect rate, thats 100,000 angry tweets, status, youtube videos and blog posts).

FWIW the only videos I've seen of the phone actually bending are the non-measured ones when someone applies an inane amount of force with their hands trying to destroy the thing (with an Li-On battery inside!)
A friend and I were doing layout on a Z80 system. Dual sided PCBs, therefore dense layout was a (relatively speaking) PITA. My friend just randomly hooked up both the address and data lines to the boot ROM. This freaked our boss out. He could understand the concept of rearranging data lines, but was concerned about rearranging address lines.

I wound up writing a C program that took in pristine "Intel HEX" (i.e. from the assembler) and swizzled both the address and data to correct for the board layout. I then spit out corrected Intel HEX. Simple, almost trivial.

Interesting that you were designing single sided PCBs. I certainly wouldn't have wanted to do that layout for anything at all complex. Hopefully you had high volume production to make it pay off.

OTOH, I'm surprised you opted for a socket adapter. Way too much hassle compared to a simple C program.
Being 6'4" actually is a huge advantage for me. I've never failed an in-person interview in my life.

I'm surprised it's also cut off at the top.
You think the current antics of Islamic State are anecdotal? You just need to watch the news for all of 17 seconds to see that this is a very accepted cultural norm.
Not entirely sure, but I've heard Abercrombie gets around this be having the job titles of all their floor workers be "models"
Keen Dreams on Steam Greenlight
Yeah I was a huge fan of Secret in June and now I don’t even open it.
China’s sexist culture – from the point of view of a Chinese girl

http://telcontarrulz.wordpress.com/2010/06/07/chinas-sexist-...
I don't suppose they've considered making IEEE 754-2008 decimal floating point numbers the default number representation. It's a shame Intel didn't consult Dr. William Kahan earlier in their design of the x87 floating point unit. At this point, binary floating point is deeply entrenched despite most uses outside of scientific modeling being better suited to decimal floating point.

Most spreadsheet calculations are better suited to decimal floating point, and decimal floating point numbers are more intuitive for most users. A surprising number of the "Excel bugs" you find online are people misunderstanding binary floating point numbers, or some of the display hacks Excel uses to hide binary artifacts.
"... I also write a De-compiler that would take the compiled FORTH code and re-generate source code. This was invaluable in tracing down some gnarly compiler problems in FORTH. You see, I was not only writing a word processor, but I was also developing the language on the fly as well. Modifying the compiler, interpreter, and I even write a DOS (In forth) to manage the easyWriter text files, because EasyWriter didn't need DOS. So I implemented one, using a FAT (File allocation table) and all that other Gnarly Disk Operating system low level code. I found out that FORTH allowed me total flexibility. If the language didn't have a feature, I implemented it. Simple as that. ..."

Always interested how product is built. This is 1980 style software development, Captain Crunch (John Draper) style. Read here why FORTH was used ('ease of porting to different computer architectures') ~ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forth_(programming_language)#H...
For fun compare to a similar sized phone that's come out at the same time as the iPhone 6.

http://www.displaymate.com/Galaxy_Note4_ShootOut_1.htm

Based on our extensive Lab tests and measurements, the Galaxy Note 4 is the Best performing Smartphone display that we have ever tested. It matches or breaks new records in Smartphone display performance for: Highest Absolute Color Accuracy, Highest Screen Resolution, Infinite Contrast Ratio, Highest Peak Brightness, Highest Contrast Rating in Ambient Light, and the smallest Brightness Variation with Viewing Angle. Its Color Management capability provides multiple Color Gamuts – a major advantage that is not currently provided by any of the other leading Smartphones. The Galaxy Note 4 delivers uniformly consistent all around Top Tier display performance: it is the first Smartphone display to ever get all Green (Very Good to Excellent) Ratings in all test and measurement categories (except one Yellow for a Brightness Variation with Average Picture Level) since we started the Display Technology Shoot-Out article Series in 2006, an impressive achievement for a display. The Galaxy Note 4 has again raised the bar for top display performance up by another notch.

It's not like the iPhone 6 is a bad phone. If it were an Android device it would be considered an above average to a good in the field. But it's not, it's an iPhone and expectations are that it should come out as class leading. Which it isn't along most measures to date.
Ugh, some sh*t is just wrong.

The newspaper even reminds us from time to time how discrimination of this type is against Chinese law (but then free speech is also protected by the Chinese constitution so....). I made some fuss once about Hep. B carrier discrimination. And let's not even get into minority discrimination (can a Uighur get a job?).
My school couldn't even afford the rope. ;-)

I remember reading about the PCI bus, which I think is the first time I heard of a mainstream digital system requiring serious transmission line design.
There's no particular reason to accept awful treatment of people under the umbrella of culture.
Aren't some jobs legitimately asking for certain traits in their workers? Just as actors and models are in fact sometimes hired by their looks, why is it wrong to ask that when the specifics of the job depend on it.

Just to clarify; I'm not trying to defend unreasonable job conditions.
(For others that want to know more) An example of what a four point load test looks like: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=thd01MjOTeA

With this type of test, it may have been able to show if the volume or SIM card slots create structure weak points.
It's the difference between "I can bend/break it with my bare hands" to "I can't bend/break it with my bare hands". Things stronger than humans tend to last better under use by humans.
The same thing happens in all of Asia. In Japan, you have to apply with a picture on your resume, and hiring managers will ask married women if they intend to get pregnant, because they won't hire them. I'm sure it's similar across other countries. My friend, who is white, and his wife who is Japanese moved to Japan and after 9 months came back to the US because the conditions were so bad compared to the US. Not only do they work you to the bone, the pay is incredibly low and you are subject to blatant sexism and racism.
In the "good old days" it was certainly possible to do board design using 2x or 4x sized Bishop Graphics tape for lines, vias, etc. You applied them to transparent mylar sheets corresponding to board layers.

But now, sheesh! You need to carefully constrain the PCB CAD program so that all the lines match to within 0.1" or less. And, as you mention, that's just the tip of the design iceberg.

It's no longer possible to layout computers at low cost in a garage. Oh, well. Now hipsters sit around in open offices in SOHO and create silly apps.
Bend a phone once, shame on the phone. Bend a phone four times...
What do you mean I didn't make a point? A 50% difference in strength is pretty tremendous. That's the point. The iPhone 5 to the iPhone 6 is a pretty serious downgrade, from "I can't damage it with my own strength" to "I can break it if I put a little effort into it".

If you count a 50% difference as "performs similarly" I have some dollar bills I'd like to sell you for $1.50 each.
I really appreciate the extent to which American laws make it difficult for employers to eliminate candidates based on factors that are irrelevant to the job.

In 2012, I considered applying for a fellowship in Israel. The application form required you to say whether you had consulted a mental health professional in the last two years and to list any medications you were currently taking and for what purpose.

In the United States, it is completely illegal to put questions like this on a job application form (and for very good reason). You are allowed to ask these types of questions after you've made an offer and even then you have to demonstrate that the person cannot do the job in order to rescind the offer.

I asked the organization why they collected this information, and they told me it was for the safety of the participants and that they "couldn't in good conscience" not ask these questions. I didn't apply for the fellowship.
"... Here is more detail on a widespread phenomenon in China dubbed “carrot job ads,” for the notion that each job can be filled by only one, very specific, person, just as each carrot fills just one hole in a garden: ..."

Isn't this the way software/hi-tech companies hire in the west?
SK Telecom Agrees to Acquire Shopkick
Almost all the bending reports are for the iPhone 6+ bending & twisting at/close to the volume-down button when placed in pockets etc.

Placing the phone between two flat blocks and applying pressure at the exact center (three-point-test) will NOT test for this specific issue.

Even then it should be pretty suspicious that in the test conducted, the new phones are at the bottom of the stiffness list.

On another front, the Apple response is textbook - Deny, Minimize, (deride the press), then grudgingly make changes even while insisting that none were needed to begin with.
Expect the next lot of these phones to experience a sudden stiffening.
hahaha.....should read what Sandro Pasquali, Director, UI Engineering said....amazing ...!
http://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/13372/how-to-...

Notice the reason why! In fact, I think the idea of a startup producing laptops targeted at developers has been mentioned before here on HN.
The article is essentially discussing frustration at the hiding - by abstraction - of technical debt incurred in adopting poor software architecture and/or development process.

Some potentially relevant quotes[1]:

Zymurgy's First Law of Evolving Systems Dynamics: Once you open a can of worms, the only way to recan them is to use a larger can.

Ducharm's Axiom: If you view your problem closely enough you will recognize yourself as part of the problem.

The organization of the software and the organization of the software team will be congruent. (paraphrasing of Conway's Law)

Separation of concerns ... a necessary consequence of loss of resolution due to scale ... a strategy for staying sane. (Mark Burgess, In Search of Certainty: The Science of Our Information Infrastructure, 2013)

[1] Taken from my fortune clone https://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup
"You're bending it wrong"
Wow that is an obnoxiously useless landing page and description. Here's some actual information on it: https://medium.com/@bn/introducing-ping-7f9403352764
iPhone 6: Now twice as bendy!

Confirms that the new iPhones are much bendier than the old ones.
I'm glad I can then at least judge it through various other cultural lenses. People think it's a load of bullshit in China as well (unless they're good looking and get the job of course).
C might be good, because it's C, and also because of your background in Python. Python is built on C, and extensions are built on C.

C.
Civil Engineering Grad student here. Agreed, four point load test allows for uniform bending moment distribution between the two loading point. Which can expose the weakest point in the phone (in iPhone6+ near the volume buttons).
The link below is the moment diagram for both load test.
http://images.slideplayer.us/5/1566057/slides/slide_20.jpg
In fact, those links look different because they are semantically distinct, and the underlying logic becomes
clear as you read.

The small-caps links are inline references to other sections of the same book; their distinct typesetting distinguishes them from mere text.

Because everything in the table of contents is a link to part of the book, these links are not set in small caps or otherwise distinguished — that's a potentially confusing design choice in theory, but I can't complain because it was obvious enough to me from the context that I should try tapping something.

The diamonds are outbound links to other sites. Given that this is a coherent book and not a collection of random posts, this distinction is handy: while reading Butterick, I am more likely to click a link to more Butterick than to click an outbound link which will cause me to lose my train of thought.
Didnt the viral stories mention heating as a factor? The heat of the device itself (building up by being contained by a tight pocket) + body heat.
Writers of this article did not mention that at all.
Thank you for your comment. PM isn't the role I'd want to be in but I just happen to love projects organized, process in place so that I can focus more in my programming.
Functional Programming Jobs in San Francisco?
It seems to me that San Francisco is full of Rails/Ruby and NodeJS jobs. Is there any shops or companies hiring for Clojure, Haskell, Scala, Ocaml, Erlang, maybeee Scheme/Racket?
Yeah, I can imagine that. Sometimes PM do not have enough freedom and they end up being just an assistant of the directors
This could be really nice for hobbyist usage for tabletop RPGs, but to fully fit that niche it really needs (a) anonymous sharing (with a read-only mode), and (b) a way to copy a shared 'app' to your own account.
It clearly is a tough job. Communicating technical as well as business process at the same time can be very challenging.