skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What are the few things you can't/don't use your M8 for because of its "small" screen? I have the original One, with its 4.7" screen, and have never seen the need for more than that. I only see it as cumbersome. The One is still cumbersome at times as it is, but has its benefits. I think that around 5" is the maximum sweet spot of cost/benefit from a usability standpoint though.

Then again, I have never seen the need for tablets in general. My phone is perfect for everything on the go, and if I want to use a larger device for more complex/power tasks, my ultrabook does a much better job than a tablet/phablet on every front.
I can second this recommendation. I recently got one and it's a perfect format for me who thinks pretty much all current phones are too large. I want my phone to fit in a pocket and this one absolutely does. It's supposed to be water protected as well but I haven't dared to try that.
Have they really stopped it if there are still 20 active cases?
My experience with Quora is that it's mostly "pitch spam". Ask any question, like, "What's the best Ruby on Rails continuous integration solution?", and rather than get the wisdom of the masses, you'll get founders of CI solutions expounding. (To be clear, I'm more or less cool with content marketing, but Quora's value prop doesn't match up with reality often)
Question: Do you literally spend all of your time on "productive" things? You never watch a movie or tv show, you don't go to a concert or read a comic? You don't listen to a record or play a video game?

I'm pretty sure I'd regret giving those things up.
Well, the author claims that quora is no longer blocking the answers, but my self-taught filters always tell me to avoid clicking on their links because of their free account 'paywall'
Given the Nexus 6, I actually think this is too small. If I'm going to have a six inch phone, I'd prefer a tablet that is upwards of 12". I think huge tablets are currently an unexplored niche that could kick off just like big phones did.
Drexel study questions 21-day quarantine period for Ebola
Maybe use the same solution as Hacker News: Allow users for a limited time to make changes, even delete their answers. Once that time expires make the question accessible to the wayback machine crawlers.

Other than that if users don't want to be associated with something they said in the past to an audience, maybe they shouldn't be saying it at all.
I've used the R-pi and now a Intel NUC with XBMC and for watching streams I could tell that I had major issues with WIFI.
Everything is SO much better with a proper network cable.
Tuning light to kill deep cancer tumors
Drawing a rough box on a map of the US I estimated about 40 degrees of longitude by 20 degrees of latitude. The most detailed maps are the 7.5-minute quadrangles, which I believe are available for nearly all of the continental US. Since 7.5 minutes is 1/8 of a degree, that gives 40208*8, or a bit more than 50,000 maps. A quick browse through the USGS site found this quote (http://store.usgs.gov/b2c_usgs/usgs/zproductinformation/%28x...): "It takes about 57,000 maps to cover the conterminous 48 States, Hawaii, and territories." They go on to mention that Alaska's most detailed coverage is the 15-minute quadrangle series. A similar estimate for the 15-minute coverage of Alaska is around 3000 maps, plus 1/4 of 57K (14K) for the 15-minute maps of the area already covered by the 7.5-minute series, plus a few thousand for the smaller-scale series (30x60 minutes, 1x2 degrees, index maps, etc.) So I'd guess somewhere around 75-85 thousand maps.

The majority of these maps were originally intended to be printed on 23x27 inch sheets of paper. Assuming they were printed at around 300 dpi, somewhere between 1-8 bits per pixel (after compression, this is the shakiest part of my estimate!), that's around 50 million pixels per sheet, somewhere around 6-50MB per sheet. So somewhere between 1/2TB to 4TB for the whole data set (and I could easily be too low or too high by a factor of 2).
I've met him -- he and three other members of the team are French!
Here's the study itself:
http://currents.plos.org/outbreaks/article/on-the-quarantine...
Perhaps megapixels in cameras is a better comparison. The quality of each pixel erodes so you can't view most pictures at 100% anyway, yet faced with a decision in the store and one camera has MOAR PIXELS than the other, it's enough to sway it.
Funnily enough, Apple lost me when they discontinued the 17" MBP. Granted though, I'm probably far from the average consumer.
You make that sound like it is a daily phenomenon. It has happened infrequently (in Australia).

http://cleantechnica.com/2014/07/05/queensland-solar-negativ...
Why Open Badges are so exciting?
The quote sign is a legit character in a URL. That is, a valid URL can end with a quote sign character. I don't think ignoring it would be a good idea.
While that is true, you clearly understood I was talking about the line of latest products. Even when you look at others, all you add is the older Mini, older iPad, and a few variations on the portables and desktops. It's still a very small suite of products compared to any other comparable manufacturer. It's pretty much one item in each category, with in0line variations on size/capacity.
Not to besmirch the USGS whom I think are great, but unfortunately they haven't had the funds to update these maps in DECADES and some of them are woefully out of date.

Yes, it seems hard to believe that a topo can go out of date, but features do change and in particular trails change.

Still, the fact that USGS has been making these available (on their own site and now this special one) has shown them to be the on the side of the good guys.
Your comment is baseless speculation and only serves to spread fear.

There hasn't been a new reported case in Nigeria in 30 days. That data is coming from the WHO, which is not under the control of the Nigerian government.
That's "just" a website? You are kidding, right?

Facebook is way more than "just" a website:
- the only platform that has managed to make people share this much content
- a way for businesses to advertise and thus make more money
- the maintainer of amazing open source projects such as HHVM or React.JS

I don't think Facebook is perfect. But focusing on the privacy concerns to say Facebook sucks is just wrong. If you're concerned with your privacy, simply don't sign up on Facebook or don't share private content.

According to Wikipedia [1], Facebook makes 7.8$B and has a net profit of 1.5$B. If Facebook gave 90% back to its user base, no way it could survive with the level of quality they provide (accessibility, technical reliabilty, etc).

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook
Lab-Made Blood Cells Hunt Cancer, Leading to Remissions
I like what the go authors think about dependencies being backwards compatible, but not everyone thinks that way, and let's face it, people make mistakes and make incompatible changes unintentionally.

I started a project last weekend (still a WIP), go get version[1], that basically proxies the `go get` commands, but fools it into thinking the master branch is either a tag or a version to get around some of these problems, while aiming to still work with the go tool.

For example, if you have a tag named v1.0.3, you would change your import path to be something like this:

gogetver.com/github.com/user/project.v1.0.3

There's also gopkg.in[2] which does something similar, although it appears to only work with github.

[1]: https://github.com/rsenk330/gogetver
[2]: http://labix.org/gopkg.in
With asp.net vNext able to run on Linux (officially), the question still remains: Why Windows => Why Microsoft? (apart from leeching their tech)
What's bad about VB 6? Just curious.
Lockheed Martin Claims Fusion Breakthrough That Could Change World Forever
About battery, I get one full day of charge on my Nexus 5 (unless I'm travelling using the GPS navigation and play music along, it finishes in half a day). With the Nexus 6 having AMOLED screen and not LCD, it's supposed to save more battery (with dark pixels not lit at all), plus Android L which is supposed to save up to 36% more battery just by the software (compared to Kitkat), plus the bigger physical battery itself - all three things might save you much more than the Nexus 5.

I agree on the price point though.
Yes, they sell a generation of older products, non retina iPad and mini, as well as the 5C and S. That makes a total of 4 iPads and 4 phones, not counting storage/color variations. a 21 and 27 inch iMac are still both iMacs, and that's just a size variant, not a whole different product. Same for the MBA and MBP, those are simply size/feature differences, not entirely different products. Would you also then break out each and every storage/ram/cpu combination on the MBA and MBP lines? I doubt it. It's still a fraction of what other makers produce.
This actually makes malware less of an issue, because you'd need to target both a desktop and a mobile device of a particular user in order to MITM. The only things that are happening 'automatically' is the request being sent to the user's mobile device, and the entire process can be verified cryptographically to ensure an attacker doesn't send a false request.

(HTTPS)
Client -> Server: LOG ME IN PLEASE
Server -> Client: Do you have a cookie?
Client -> Server: NO, BUT HERE's MY PASSWORD
Server -> Client: I've just sent you a request for an additional auth token. Please confirm it to log in. And please stop shouting.

(Email, SMS, HTTPS)
Server -> Client's Mobile Device: Here's a token. Sign it with some crap you've already got and give it back to me.

CMD generates new token after confirming origin of original request; uses software, or talks to hardware token.

(App, Website)
CMD -> User: IS THIS REQUEST OKAY? CAN I SEND THIS THING?
User -> CMD: Yeah sure, I requested this login. *pushes button*

(HTTPS)
CMD -> Server: HERE'S YOUR NEW SIGNED TOKEN
Server -> CMD: Thanks. Here's a cookie to remember me by.

Server -> Client: Page refresh! We got the right token from your mobile device, so here's your new cookie, you're logged in.

The only major security pitfalls here are in how you deliver either an app or a website to a user remotely, but there's plenty of good ways to do that already. You can even use boring old existing PKI.

You're not sending authorization "blind", though. You have to request the login from one device with a password, and approve it from another with a button push. In this way, only logins that you requested get sent to you, and only requests you approve get sent back, and both devices would have to be hacked by an attacker to intercept either part of the authentication process. Well, unless they both have your cracked password and inject malware on your mobile. Perhaps putting the button-pressy part on the hardware keyfob is safer :)

Even if none of this were cryptographically signed, look at the typical 2-factor SMS with this process. A user attempts a login and a text is sent to them with a code. The user then puts this code back into the login screen and presses return. If they could simply press a button on their phone they could approve the login without having to type the code in. Of course, we want to require a button press, because an automatic login means anyone who initiates the login (like an attacker with a stolen password) could log in automatically. And what i'm proposing is basically this, but with actual secure connections instead of SMSes or e-mails, and the ability to confirm on the device that the request was legit and not part of an elaborate phishing expedition.

All of this would work without a data connection because you could use QR codes to enter the challenge token into the device and it would spit out the response in a variety of formats.
Yes, but in my experience this is an industry-wide problem not specific to Apple.

I know I'm getting a bit old so there's surely some amount of 'get off my lawn, kids' going on here, but I kind of expect new software to mostly suck these days for many reasons but with the 'webification of everything' (in terms of pervasive use of JavaScript, throwing out all the old UI frameworks and replacing them with web DOMs or web DOM like systems, replacing graphics systems with WebGL/Canvas, etc) being a primary cause.

(awaiting the downvotes...)
The burden of proof should be on the people who want to restrict rights, not on the people who want to liberalize.

This concept is more or less in line with the spirit of the Bill of Rights, but seems to be curiously absent from common American discourse.

Enforcing ANY law, even a seatbelt law, restricts rights and causes some amount of harm. I find it perplexing anyone thinks legalized recreational substance use would actually cause more harm than drug enforcement does, even aside from the metaphysical harm of having your freedom reduced.

It is as if the harm inherent in law enforcement doesn't count, as if there are kinds of acceptable and unacceptable violence. Which doesn't seem like a philosophically defensible ideology to me.
It dual boots, but I do most stuff in Windows or in a terminal to a few linux boxes.
Ask HN: Any startups here that moved off of BaaS (ex. Parse, Kinvey, Kii)? Why?
If you were part of a startup that was initially built on a Backend-as-a-Service, but later moved off-- why did you move off? What exactly prompted the decision? Was it cost, inflexibility, something else?

I would love to talk to you about this (no more than 15 min) to find out why-- in exchange, you will get a box of your favorite snacks or chocolate and a young startup's undying gratitude. (If you know someone from a startup that moved off BaaS, please connect me; same snacks/choco/gratitude apply.)

Please comment below or email falling.hill@gmail.com

Context: I'm cofounder of a startup that is adding a new spin on BaaS, and we want to make sure our new spin adds enough value.
Continuity is really interesting since it really highlights just how far we've gotten from the original promise of seamless integration between Apple products. For starters, its taken years to get to this feature (with incredibly confusing pitstops in the middle, such as the existence of a feature called Airdrop on Mac AND iPhone that didn't work between them....).

All in all though, continuity is another disappointment to me. We are still stuck in app-land. Handover is app-to-app. So when I'm listening to a podcast in Safari, I won't be able to handover to Overcast on my phone. I actually have to wait for marco arment to write a desktop podcast player, and worse, I have to use it, to get this basic functionality. Again, an aggressive misunderstanding of what it means to have true continuity: reading the same data on two devices, not using the same app on both. But Apple thinks wallet first, and "App" is their ecosystem's bread and butter, and so this way it will stay.

This is particularly depressing since I remember, 10 years ago, having (what I believe to be) much more impressive interconnectivity between my Mac and my Nokia phone through Saling clicker. When someone called me, my music would pause. I could control my mac with a really cool remote. Instead, we seem to be living in a parody of that world where now if someone calls me 10 devices in my house go off since Apple "connected" them all together to ring simultaneously, its maddening.
14.7% to 11.4% is a pretty solid change in two years, and it was progressive (13.1% inbetween). I wouldn't expect demographics to impact much in two years.

The improved / stabilized economy may have had a big impact however.
There is something intensely interesting here from an information theory perspective. I need to dive into this deeper, but I wrote a paper in 2008 (cited 110 times) called Survival of the Sparsest. I showed that when computational networks were permitted to evolve their connectivity (under a selective regime) they would evolve to a kind of minimum energy state with minimal network complexity (economic with no spurious connectivity). Looking at biological gene networks, I showed that this pattern of sparse connectivity showed up again and again.

For a given function, this suggests that there may only be one or two network topologies that satisfy the conditions of being both efficient and functional. This makes a good null hypothesis if you can see the input and output states and need to guess the structure of that network. If you don't see that structure, then maybe this suggests that there is some other confounding variable lurking out there. For example, maybe the network has extra connectivity because redundancy is a functional requirement and not just nice to have.

I'm guessing that there's some relationship here between root(2N) and the minimal complexity networks I was evolving. Haven't had time to digest this, but does anyone know if N refers to the number of elements N in a system, or the number of connections in an NxN matrix?

Paper
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2538912/

Lot's of meat in the supplementary
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2538912/bin/msb2...
It's a simple geometric analysis: neutrons can't be deflected, so whatever concentration of reacting mass you have emits neutrons isotropically. So to my knowledge no (you can only radiate more in one direction if the reaction is more extended in the perpendicular direction).
So if you can't monetize all that knowledge goes into a black hole one day because occasionally it's handy for users to retroactively go anonymous? Yet another reason to avoid Quora imo.
Ask HN: Startup jobs site
I'm graduating from college this year and the job search has begun. One of my main criteria is a relatively small company, preferably a mature startup. Is there somewhere outside of HN that I can find these postings without having to look up every single company that posts jobs to see how big their company is and how old they are?
alternatively a desire to abuse cannabis might be a warning sign that you're developing a psychotic illness.
Here's a similar site for Canada: http://geogratis.gc.ca/geogratis/search?lang=en
Thanks Mike.
> The challenges of fusion power are largely fundamental nitty gritty engineering issues.

I'm not saying they've done it and extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof but this is the place that made a Mach 3.5 jet with wings that leaked out of titanium in the 60's.

Nitty-gritty engineering is something they are fairly good at.
I think there is plenty of growth opportunity for Netflix
1- After hours trading is notorious for volatility
2- HBO announcement today
3- Subscriber growth did not meet expectations

Are all likely affecting the stock. However when it's all said in done who else is competing with against netflix?
Plus, I can remote more comfortably to my office machine, and probably don't need my laptop to see and "feel" big family photos :).
What's crazy is that the dip happened after an 85% spike in profits!
http://techcrunch.com/2014/10/15/netflix-stock-price-crashes...
At risk of going tremendously off-topic here... yes, people learn from their mistakes, if the consequences are hard enough. This was true in war, as it's probably going to be true in this epidemic.

Little consolation for the poor souls at the first lines.
This book was very useful to me: http://www.amazon.com/Programming-Interviews-Exposed-Secrets...
I think you are missing the point here. The health app itself won't get interest from 100% of their iPhone users either. I'm assuming they simply didn't want to introduce a gender specific function in their app that would fragment more the users of that app. If you take the number of iPhone owners, who would have an interest in the Health app and then you cut again to get only the women who would be interested in tracking their periods inside their phone, I think you look at a fraction of their users. Not that those users would be any less valuable or anything but they probably didn't represent a demographic big enough to justify a dedicated feature. Especially since they would probably still use the app anyway for all the other features it proposes.
We cast our screens when talking about what to watch. But, I agree with you that that part of the experience is clunkier than Roku. On the flip side, the ability to stream anything is fantastic, and I think makes up for that deficiency.
Yes Gnome is the best thing you can get under Linux, but lots of stuff like the scrolling behaviour and smoothness still isn't on par with what OS X offers.
Journalist that became an entrepreneur
A lot if you want the raw data. The 10-meter (also knows as 1/3 arcsecond) national elevation dataset is somewhere around 330GB in an unprojected form. There's also the 3-meter tiles for limited areas which take up 9 times as much storage.

However, it doesn't stop there. As part of the 3DEP (3D Elevation Program)[1], Lidar/IfSAR data is being collected across CONUS. One of the products that will be available (hopefully next year) is a 1-meter DEM, which should roughly be around 35TB (100 times as much data compared to 10-meter).

[1] http://pubs.usgs.gov/circ/1399/pdf/circ1399.pdf
True, I was going more or less on personal recollection, and it when I've bought new machines. That said, I've had horrible luck, and I tell people that if they want to know if Apple is about to announce new MacBooks, ask me if I've bought one in the last couple of weeks :-)

I believe it is rumored that they'll announce new iMacs (and by extension, I'm hoping for a new Thunderbolt display). According to BGR, supposedly they'll announce a 12" MacBook Air Retina
Considering that those sites both have much more objective coverage, yes.

That being said, there is considerable evidence of corruption at Gawker.

http://www.historyofgamergate.com/kotaku-in-action.html
Hey, I'm the random guy that asked you to answer on Quora. How I found you isn't very mysterious, I just asked all the folks listed here: http://18f.gsa.gov if I could easily identify a Quora profile.

I asked because a friend of mine recently joined 18F, I like what your team is doing, so I created the question as an attempt to get more attention for you guys. Just consider the resulting page a form of advertising ephemera. Sites on the Internet should aspire to be more, but Quora doesn't.
> I think huge tablets are currently an unexplored niche that could kick off just like big phones did.

Huge tablets aren't exactly an unexplored niche; the Galaxy Note Pro 12.2 and Microsoft Surface, and even a few bigger tablets, do exist.
Ireland to close corporate tax loophole used by Google and others
Pareidolia: The Phenomenon You Must Know
I never click on Quora links for exactly this reason. If I hadn't read this anti Quora piece I would never have considered clicking on a link in the future.
Heh, looking at my neighborhood, the smallest available file is a scan of the 1933 7.5-minute Sierra Madre quad, 5.24MB, and the largest is the 1979 30x60 minute Los Angeles quad, 44.53MB. Most of the 7.5 minute quads seem to be in the 15-30MB range. So I don't feel so bad about my "shakey" estimate of individual map sizes!
4 Reasons Google Might Be Sitting Out the Net Neutrality Fight
>That data is coming from the WHO, which is not under the control of the Nigerian government.

not really.

http://www.cdc.gov/vhf/ebola/outbreaks/2014-west-africa/case...

"*Case counts updated in conjunction with the World Health Organization updates and are based on information reported by the Ministries of Health"
The design intent is that but the design effort itself seems to be ongoing along with the implementation. So I would say its design once complete is probably aligned with the constraints I implied. But it's not ready yet...
You realize that voice search means an open mic into your living room, right? Given recent intelligence/data-gathering abuses, do you really want that?
Thank you for the confirmation — I have had the same bug with the alarm sound several times now. What I found is that I could stop it only by opening the Clock app, and selecting a new alarm sound (e.g., by editing an alarm), triggering it to play that sound instead, which I could then easily stop.