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Wow, I'm shocked at how opposite I feel about this. I already had Netflix setup on my phone so casting is no problem (I didn't realize Amazon already works to cast, I guess I'll set that up tonight).

I definitely find the phone/tablet much more comfortable for searching content and flinging it to the TV. Typing to search for a specific show on Netflix on my TV is a huge pain to me.
Cool. So it is similar to what I describe, with perhaps one or two differences. For example, you say it requires app support, so.... if you're logging in through your desktop, does your desktop app need to support it? Or can your mobile handle the authentication independent of your desktop?

The reason I ask is that requiring one device to complete the authentication is less secure than two independent devices. While it's great that the NEO can plug into your desktop to auth with the browser, or that NEO plugs into your mobile to auth a mobile app, what I actually want is to start authentication on the desktop and finish it on the mobile, independently.
I think it's a bit of a Rorschach test. I bought the "Future" issue on a newsstand and immediately subscribed. Of the next three issues I found two less interesting, so I let it lapse. Then the fourth was interesting again. I just picked up the latest issue, "Time", on the newsstand and it's great. So different from the usual magazine where maybe a quarter of the content is interesting to me. Here, maybe half the content is interesting, but it's divvied up such that it's feast or famine.
I live in Europe, so I'm a pearl-clutching sort of guy. :)
The fact that I need to remember that and tell my friends to watch out for that pitfall when they order their "new" iPad is just frustrating.
> Can anyone explain to me what the fetish is with pushing the same amount of pixels as a freaking 27 inch display.

I agree. I can barely discern pixels on my rMBP (227 dpi) and find little difference between that and the iPhone (~300 dpi), or even the Nexus 5 (445 dpi) and I am quite sensitive to fuzzy text.

400 dpi looks better on the spec sheet but I believe it is just wasteful and puts unnecessary (or, at least, with marginal returns) strain on the hardware to push all those pixels to screen.
I think it has to do with one-handed use with smaller hands. A phone would have to be really small (i.e. iPhone 3 & under)) to be useful, but you lose screen area.

In contrast, phablets are a convenient mini-mini tablet that can also do calls and 4G data without additional costs of "tablet LTE".
here's an example of where my head was at the time:

https://plus.google.com/107304794162956058165/posts/LUDoquxe...
Sounds incredibly fun. Know if any of the resources you used are available in the wild?
Is there evidence to support this claim? Many of the worst mass shootings have happened in regulatory environments of the opposite nature: where firearms are prohibited altogether. I suspect that complete prohibition is the formula for maximum casualties for a single, isolated event with a small number of sufficiently armed shooters.
I'm sure you've covered this already, but just in case you haven't: Make sure you double and triple check the account numbers on the wire receipt (should be on the screenshot).

I was in a similar situation once (and was summoning the dogs of war) but when I read the receipt closely it turned out the sender had inverted two numbers on my account.
The second edition of this book was awesome, so I'm looking forward to checking out the latest v3. The author is quite good at walking you through the code examples.
I also think Google's been DYING to release a "Nexus 6" since day one...
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Because DRM never gets cracked on day one anyways. And because DRM totally stops you from using a screen recorder to save the content in a DRM-free format.

Maybe with something like video games it can net a few extra days of sales before torrents go online, but ripping music and video is so simple. In that case, DRM is just a joke that makes the executives and lawyers happy, wastes money and time developing, and can cause trouble for the consumer.
RE: ListView

Are they providing first-party horizontal lists (i.e. something to compete with UICollectionViews)? Still waiting for an official Gallery replacement...

EDIT: Did the reasonable thing and actually looked it up myself [1,2]. Turns out they provide RecyclerView paired with a LinearlayoutManager to achieve arbitrary UI on top of a dataset. This is nearly identical to the iOS setup of UICollectionView with a UICollectionViewLayout (and LinearLayoutManager is == to UICollectionViewFlowLayout as far as I can tell).

[1] - http://www.grokkingandroid.com/first-glance-androids-recyclerview/
[2] - https://developer.android.com/preview/material/ui-widgets.html
Sure, but in any given field, the low-hanging fruit gets eaten quickly.
Android 4.4 already has this. Anyone know what's new in regards to this?
It is great to see a company like Whisk promoting change in the ground transport industry and helping to preserve existing networks.
Two words: "print resolution". 300dpi is common, but for line art you want 600dpi (like laser printers).
> I think login mechanisms on the web can be improved, but not like this. As someone who has a lot of experience with this, I strongly recommend against it.

What do you think is the best alternative?
Thanks. This was what I was expecting.

Although, I was hoping FFI was not the answer
http://rwmj.wordpress.com/2011/09/21/which-foreign-function-...

Richard Jones is fairly erudite in the art and industry (one of the authors of http://gchandbook.org/ and quite proficient around various programming languages in general) and if he says Haskell FFI is painful to work with I get a really bad feeling.

I was hoping the answer would have been "There is this stream computation library that is really neat and just works...".
I don't have much constructive to add except my utmost "thank you" for one of the most thorough and precise walkthroughs targeted at beginners. It is the reason that I dabble in programming at all. Thanks Michael.
How do you optimize for 3 different device sizes? Hardcoding it?
Of course it does. I admit it can take a few long to get used to it, but once you do, turns out to be kind of a mechanical process that saves you a lot of time. Above all, when combined with the interface builder. I'm quite sure those 10 min. wouldn't have been more than just 5 using IB + AL.
Nice! I have been telling everyone since I found out about Wit several months ago how awesome it is. Excited to see what they offer in the future!
Not only one time tokens, but with limited life-span. So after a while the token expires and is useless. This is a must for such a scheme.
To put it differently, committees don't invent. People invent. Committees coordinate (or gather, edit, filter, etc.).

So if three people invent three things, and they form a committee to put the parts together, then they typically end up with a thing having three parts.

This way of looking at it makes it all seem much less mysterious and profound, IMHO.
If you come to USA, I strongly suggest attending this festival:

http://porcfest.com/

It's full of the warmest, most incredible energy. Lots of people hacking on incredible projects outside in the sun or under gazebos. Awesome local food. And lots and lots of guns.
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Another really good read covering what it's like going through psychosis is "And Then I Thought I Was A Fish" by Peter Welch, covering a three year long psychotic break he had after taking LSD. (He's the writer of http://www.stilldrinking.org/programming-sucks, a hilarious blogpost I saw linked on HN a few months ago).
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Looks like the Xperia Z3 Compact is available for purchase (in the US at least) directly from the Sony website[1] via the "Buy Now" button.

Although, with the recent announcement of Android Lollipop, the inevitable next question will be "when is the update going to be rolled out to phone [X]".

[1] http://www.sonymobile.com/us/products/phones/xperia-z3-compa...
Congrats on adding another huge helping of value to the Rails community Michael.

Once I have some free time and finish getting through "Agile Rails Development 4th Edition" I'll likely be taking another stab at your Rails tutorial. I started learning Rails with the previous version, but quickly got overwhelmed with things and needed to take a step back. I had an overwhelming sense that I was just following the examples without really understanding why I was doing something, why syntax was a certain way, etc. (particularly with unit tests). Now that I've improved my overall knowledge a bit, I'm not as intimidated by these concepts so should be able to make it further in your tutorial while internalizing more than before.

Interesting choice to move to a cloud-based IDE and I can see where it makes a lot of sense. That said, having recently started exploring the world of Vagrant and Chef (and all the frustrations therein), it would be interesting to go down that path as well to walk people through setting up their development environment. Of course I can see just as many reasons (if not more) for why that was not included in the scope of the tutorial.
There's "misogyny", and then there's gross ignorance of human physiology. Unless you deny that compared to men, women have substantially less muscle mass and therefore in combat are severely disadvantaged, "relatively" less "strong", when denied a weapon that doesn't depend on that?

Which all things being equal, if you care about effectiveness, is limited to a firearm.
Forgotten password systems are supposed to use challenge questions to authenticate the user before resetting the password. (Of course, those same sites often provide a way to reset using challenge questions and without an e-mail confirmation, which is how celebrity accounts get compromised)
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The link provided by avree says, "...But the legally accepted norm of 20/20 vision only asks for 876 ppi/dpi at 4 inches!"

A baby's vision is around 20/800 [1] (extremely poor).

[1] http://optometry.osu.edu/research/VisualPerceptionLaboratory...
Sony's Z3-series: The new champ welcomes us to the era of 'two-day' battery life
I was a PHP and then Node.js developer for a total of two years before reading Rails Tutorial. I was self-taught all along that journey.

Had I started out with this book first, the learning curve would have been so much easier to traverse. I can't speak highly enough about it.

Using this as an into to Rails allowed me to become far more productive at what I do, and frankly I owe much of my success over the past two years to what this book instigated.

Thanks, Michael!
Or just use Windows Datacetner Ed on your hypervisor. Most cloud providers have that as an option. It's like $200 a month and you can run as many VMs as your hardware will support.
I'm impressed this is even lighter than the current iPad air (although it remains to be seen what happens with Apple's announcement tomorrow), and not by a trivial amount--almost 50 grams lighter. I've been a happy Nexus 7 user but am starting to feel I need a little bit bigger screen, and the 4:3 aspect ratio is much nicer for web browsing.
It's not stated on that page yet but other news articles have prices. $400 for 16GB and $600 for 32GB.
The number is irrelevant to the larger message which is that image/video sharing isn't necessarily a permanently solved problem.
The guys at Heap Analytics send out an open offer to visit their offices when you sign up for their service. (As a P.S. in their welcome email). They're at 2nd and Bryant. Might be worth checking out.
Agreed. The game outputs both. In this particular case, we are after a very specific framerate.
Page not found?

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HBO Go-ing away from cable, will stand on its own
I've had nothing but problems digesting food reliably since my gallbladder was removed. I have to eat lots of ginger and turmeric if I want to eat anything with fat in it.

Seems mine served the purpose of storing bile and regulating bile flow. I miss it. Perhaps yours is useless, and I'm an edge case.
Sorry about this. Thanks for posting this link. The server had KeepAlive on and couldn't handle the load. Solved.
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This is a circular thinking: Password managers are superior to this approach, because this approach is not compatible to password managers, the "more general" solution.

It is like saying: "We need tv sets because tv sets are the only (valid) means of entertainment."
When I was without insurance, I got by on places that offered sliding pay scales and drug samples. There's always options. But the far better option is to not let the population suffer without basic health care.
This kind of information is really good to know. I'm so glad some victims of schizophrenia have the courage to discuss what happened.
The NewEgg one, at least, is 2560 x 1440.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIA4JH1NB18...
At no point was I ever required to talk to a person. I did mine entirely through email.

I have no idea what kind of bizarro world you seem to be dealing with.
I'm sorry to hear about the outcome. Did your Doctor mention what percentage of people share the same problem as you? If the percentage is small, isn't that the case with most medical procedures & medicines i.e. risk of side effects ? My understanding is that gall bladder removal has been perfected over a long time span and it's considered safe far a very high percentage of patients.
Much as we like Lapham's, it would be better to post a substantive article from the website instead of the magazine home page.
I think it's high. Amazon TV is $84 right now and has two major advantages: voice search and all the free Prime content.

$99 seems high since it's the same as Apple TV and almost triple the Chromecast.
My name is Madhan and I am part of the Microsoft Azure team.

Regarding Drawbridge, as you pointed out it is an internal research project that we have been innovating on, and that has helped us gain valuable experience with containers. Much of what we announced today was born from the experience that we had with Drawbridge and we are excited to bring container technologies to Windows Server and the Docker ecosystem along with Linux. We think the combination of our own hypervisor for container virtualization and Docker containers for creating a unified deployment and management experience is a compelling scenario for our customers.
Imagine, that, for a fee, they could include subtitling/dubbing in the given GEO for an additional fee - wouldn't that be worth it over subscribing to a VPN?
Thank you, the MEEGO-T01 looks like a great device, will almost certainly pick one up (or something like it).
I recently learned and used Autolayout to design a few different apps. It has its pros and cons. For relatively simple UIs, it's great, especially if you use Interface Builder. It really lets you express what you mean when you lay something out, and it automatically works with all screen sizes. On the other hand, if you're doing anything that requires lots of little views laid out in an orderly way — a keyboard, for instance — it's more trouble than it's worth.

I think for Autolayout to have more general appeal, it needs two things. One, an easier way to use it programmatically. (Creating NSLayoutConstraints all the time is annoying.) And two, a better way to define equal spacing between views. (Creating spacer views is incredibly boilerplate-y.)

Also, the more constraints you have, the harder it gets to conceptualize things like intrinsic contents sizes, priorities, and inequalities.
I've been dying for a thicker phone in exchange for better battery life for quite a while now. Seems like this phone might negate a lot of that benefit with the much larger screen, but I wish more phones were willing to make that trade-off.
When I'm by myself browsing by phone is fine. But when we're discussing what Movie to watch I'd have to read what I'm looking at to her, etc. etc. - the two of you looking at the same screen is 1000% better.

And casting through Netflix was painful in itself. So slow. But maybe that was just my phone/setup somehow.
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Yes, my Gold subscription lapsed long ago but I was able to use HBO Go on it.
I am a forensic psychiatrist. What happens too often here in the US is that the person who needs treatment ends up doing something that gets them arrested. Then they may (or may not) get treatment through the justice/correctional system.

In the wake of the closing of thousands of psychiatric beds, we call this "trans-institutionalization." It has also become more difficult to hospitalize and treat people against their will. Both of these changes were well-meaning, and sought to curb abuse (some real, some imagined). Some old psychiatric hospitals were bad places, but after they were closed there has not been an effective replacement. That makes jail/prison the default result for far too many people.
Actually, photos are taken at increasingly smaller resolutions, or rather the market is consolidating away from the megapixel craze.

For good reason, because most photos don't actually deserve their resolution..
Oh, I don't doubt it. Outliers among outliers and all that.

I didn't mean to pick you two out as particularly high earners among the top HN users, FTR. You're just the two username/real name pairs I can come up with off the top of my head.
It will have the same problems as any other webserver utilizing blocking IO.

Various people are working on async IO solutions; but it likely won't fall into the stdlib from what I can tell.

I'm currently working on a rust abstraction for epoll and kqueue to eventually be paired with a multithreaded event loop/reactor. Lots of stuff to reimplement.
Definitely bad for the incumbent local-monopolized middlemen like Comcast/Verizon.
It doesn't take much to go "Hey brah, follow this link, it'll let you hit on dozens of chicks a day".

But you know what? It doesn't take all that many before women have experiences not so different from that of OKC.
Someone else pointed this out. You are right, for comparison of each improvement independently, it's better to use frame time.

In this particular case, we were after a very specific framerate, and it helps to think in FPS. The game outputs both frame time and framerate (currently of each subsystem independently).
If you're using Hyper-V, you get an unlimited number of guests if you've purchased Windows Server Enterprise Edition. Last I checked, it's not even that expensive of an upgrade.
Also you can tie the person up with the cord.
Game of Thrones season 4 is still not on Amazon in the US. I think that would impact my enjoyment, since part of the enjoyment is being able to talk to people about it. By the time I'd be able to watch it on there, they wouldn't even remember what happened that season.
California passes privacy bill targeting quadcopter drones
Of course it depends on the wavelength, but single band images look a lot like any grayscale image. It's typically only when different single-band images are compared side by side that the differences really jump out. Which is, of course, why they bother with multiple bands. I worked on the lunar reconnaissance orbiter camera, and was involved with image processing and calibration for the wide angle camera, which is multiband (5 bands in visible, 2 in UV).
Wasn't available on phones iirc.
Considering they're charging just $80 more at $480, I'd say it's not terrible. $600 includes LTE.
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Sorry to both of you for this. Thanks for pointing it out.

The server was misconfigured (KeepAlive) and couldn't handle the load. It's been fixed now.
That's strange to read. The Haskell community believes GHC's FFI is very good. Perhaps things have changed in the last three years. (I've never used the FFI so cannot respond directly.)
You can perform manual layout in the layoutSubviews method of any UIView. Simply calculate your positions with the current view size in mind, looking up the Size Class if necessary. (And don't use exact pixel positions, obviously.)
Total. I like my free time.
1. these are all current models, they're currently produced and sold on the store. In fact the list is still incomplete since it's missing 3 different iPods (Touch, Nano and Shuffle)

2. Even if you understand "current" as "latest" (which is most definitely a non-standard definition) that removes the old MBP, the 5's and the leftover ipads, the ipods and various screen sizes of macs remain.
Just a personal anecdote but I've never purposefully hit the right-side ctrl key. It seems redundant to me.
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I've never actually used a phone with dual speakers, but does it really make that big of a difference?

They'd be so close together that it's hard to imagine there's much of an actual, perceptible stereo field.

It'd be interesting to be able to A/B a phone with one nice speaker and a phone with two nice speakers.
Exactly that. I won't offer more of my leisure time to clients per week. Haven't had any upset about it yet.
Steam turbine plus a conventional generator is vastly more efficient than thermocouples - 30-40% for steam versus <5% for thermocouples.

I suspect they are also much, much cheaper when you are talking about powers in the hundreds-of-megawatts range. I don't have specific data at hand to back that though. I never heard of any grid-level power generation being done with thermocouples.
Ask HN: How do I prepare myself for a algorithms' exercise
So I have a test coming up. It involves solving some problems that have time and space constraints. How can I prepare for this?
Here is an even more extensive set of recordings:

http://www.wideweb.com/phonetrips/
> I think it has to do with one-handed use with smaller hands.

That's definitely the split, even with non-smaller hands.
I still can not see, much can be achieved with bigger screens. Google glass approach at least sounds better than this, by separating power to smaller devices will let people interact with real world better than trying to hold this phone with 2 hands.
what does "vote manipulated" even mean exactly?

Isn't the point of a voting system to enable stories that many people value to be more visible?

In this case, it is not "manipulation" unless their accounts were hacked?

Asking for agreement is not manipulation.
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It won't be inspiring. You'll find that it's just a group of boring office building with slippy slides and ball pits. Buildings are just meaningless boxes that keep the rain out and the temperature constant. If you want inspiration check out something natural. A place near where I lived had trees that were over a thousand years old. Imagine standing next to a thousand year old being. For me, I really need a sense that the puzzle is bigger and grander than your startup, any tech company, etc.
Its kinda cool, mouse tracking is really broken.
To some degree it depends on your vision. The 264 PPI is about my resolution limit. My boss probably couldn't tell the difference with more than 100PPI.

I should be able to tell you the theoretical diffraction limit based on a 5mm pupil at 18", but unfortunately...