skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are plenty of phones which last a week or 4, usually in packages smaller than the average smartphones and costing a fraction of the price (without subsidies, because $100 is not the unsubsidised price of a flagship phone, it's off by a factor of 5 to 10).

The smart part being the one that's missing, you can't power multiple radio antennas and systems (GSM, GPS, bluetooth, WIFI, ...) for 4 weeks, let alone multiple antenna bound to a gigantic, bright and power hungry screen and a CPU which wouldn't have been out of place in a desktop computer 10 years back which keeps being woken up to fetch new data. We just don't have the battery technology.

Hell, if you just shut off all the smart part off and keep the thing in your pocket without powering the screen you'll get multiple days out of the average smartphone easy. No reason to buy one though, you can just get a $20 candybar it'll do the job better.

> I can't count the number of times Galaxy and iphone touting friends have become unreachable in the evenings because of this - I would have trashed those in a review, who cares about fancy features if you can't even call your friends on a night out because the battery doesn't make it past 10pm…

Well that's great, you've got your priorities and they've got theirs. Nobody's forcing you to get a smartphone.
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What builds the PERFECT MAN?
How Opaque and Unaccountable Practices and Policies Threaten Canadians
I am not sure this is a new threat, a user's list of known SSIDs has been a recognized threat to privacy for a long time. You do not even need to have an app installed on Alice's phone to track her location. All Eve has to do is listen for beacon probes from alice's laptop and Eve can get a good picture of where Alice has been and more: "Show me your SSIDS I'll tell you who you are"[1]

[1]: http://blog.rootshell.be/2012/01/12/show-me-your-ssids-ill-t...
Great. It's a little cloudy though...
Unemployment sometimes costs the company more after employee's leave. If you haven't paid in enough, they increase the amounts you pay in.
What causes bumps in polling? HINT:  They aren't real
Faking data is atrocious. It cheapens the efforts of those of us who spend months (or even years) trying to assemble honest and accurate data for analysis. It is a shortcut and a shame.
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But don't we have a window of minutes to shut down the system in case of an earthquake? I thought we could get advance warning from P waves. (This doesn't work if you're in the epicenter, unfortunately.)

If the car gets badly damaged, but the passenger stays alive, and the system can be fixed in a reasonable amount of time, then this is fine performance for a major earthquake event. High speed trains have similar performance in the same situation.
$/mi will reduce with scale.
They have been doing for years and years with Markov Chains and it works if you have content farms (100.000 urls different ipv4 ranges). Usually Google weeds them out after a while but as all is automated it works. It's tricky business as Google gets better and better but it still works and people are making a lot of money with it.
"[Mr. Rogers' guest Haack composed] several more, all them weirder and more wonderful than maybe anything you’ve ever heard. (Don’t believe me? Take a listen to “Soul Transportation,” “EIO (New MacDonald),” or the absolutely enchanting “Saint Basil,” with its Doors-y organ outro.) A psychedelic genius, Haack also made grown-up acid rock in the form of 1970’s The Electric Lucifer, which is a bit like if Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice had written Jesus Christ Superstar on heavy doses of LSD and banks of analog synthesizers."

Another piece of 1960s kiddie psychedelia was H.R. Pufnstuf. The "straight guy" (Marty) of the two Krofft brothers always said that there was no LSD involved, but others there at the time disagree.
I'm just a little over thirty, and I've done mostly early-stage startups. In most cases, I was able to get a job pretty quickly. In my first and last firing/lay-off, and I got a job in two to three months. The longest I've been job searching was half a year, and that was because I very badly wanted a particular role.

Over the years, I noticed some trends that really bothered me a little.

1. People don't actually want to see real ambition, most of the time. If you really want a particular role, they will test you harder. It is better to get good at what you want to do, and then act as if it were nice to get to do it.

2. "Age" seems to matter. Just by doing my appearances differently to affect that variable, I got much more positive interaction in interviews. It was embarrassing. Whatever you have or look like, you have to back up. If you are older, you have to act the part, or really denigrate yourself.
There's literally hundreds of examples where a third gender is recognized, though obviously not to the same degree as the more common male/female dichotomy: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_gender

Even English is starting to adopt a gender-neutral "they" in preference to the more clinical "it". This is a product of situations where the gender of the subject is not known or not relevant to the discussion.
They are also willing to share their knowledge: you can do 100 requests per day for free to https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/business/ge..., or pay up to have basically unlimited access (that's for wifi routers and gsm towers, they work much better than IP addresses for the reasons you mentioned).
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The sarcastic answer is that the current system favor those with the wealth and free time to purchase enough lobbying to get the regulations they want.

But you're of course right that perfect automatic justice doesn't arise in either system.

I'm a big fan of the "loser pays" system for lawsuits that's very common outside the US. That means that it's economically risk free both to file suits and to be sued if the court rules in your favor.

Your Comcast story is more about class action law suits, which I think can be a worthwhile feature of a legal system.
Dare you look at your OTHER SIDE?
Needls.com- sales leads from Facebook and Twitter
Needls. has cracked the code of identifying purchase intent within social media posts. They can deliver purchase intent based sales leads to small businesses and entrepreneurs in real time. Pretty awesome stuff. Anyone use it? There is a 14 day free trial to test the waters.
Hey, I wrote this! :)

I wrote it specifically to deal with this exact problem.
Because it didn't really work out:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia_7600

http://www.slipperybrick.com/2009/12/starfish-diamond-cell-p...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia_3600/3650

http://www.gsmarena.com/toshiba_g450-2237.php
JSON is great for a lot of things, but sometimes CSV is better. Sometimes packed binary is better. JSON for all things is a bad plan.
Monetarily, perhaps -- which if true makes the subsequent devaluing all the more disappointing.

But content quality was higher (and volume lower) at NYT than post. I've been a reader since well before the NYT imprint, and I don't think the quality went down significantly at NYT.
I agree that if you have the resources to build something on native, go right ahead. But as someone who has very limited time to work on a passion project (https://turtl.it), I will be damned if I split up my efforts writing different apps for iOS, Android, and desktop. Thanks to things like Cordova, node-webkit, and various other tools, I can write my interface/logic once and run it everywhere (with a bit of wrapping).

No, it will not be perfect. Yes a native app would perform better. But I don't think my users (who continually ask me for a mobile app) are really going to care that much if the page transitions jump a tiny bit. And once Safari pulls its head out of its ass and supports AES-GCM in its WebCrypto implementation, I can do fully-native crypto in my app, and the largest performance hit goes away.

HTML5 is the poor person's write once, run everywhere. Although not perfect, it continually strives to be better. It enables someone like me, who can only work nights and weekends, to build something useful and usable for a lot of people in a minimal amount of time. If people don't like Turtl mobile because it doesn't have seamless transitions, they can use Evernote instead and have their plaintext data leaked all over the web.
s/with/claim/

I'm not sure we're doing anyone any favours when we parrot marketing speak for security companies. "with" implies the author is aware, but reading the article implies the author isn't familiar with best practices in this area.
Seems like everyone in this thread landed a new (better) job in a matter of days/weeks.
What Data Scientists Earn
What you need to argue is not that humanity needs challenges, but rather that this specific challenge is the one to aim for because it is the most beneficial for our species.

Compare colonizing Mars colonizing the sea floor, and Mars honestly doesn't seem like a great priority: there are quite similar air supply and pressure integrity challenges (in that they need to be accounted for) and potential financial gain is much more easy to realize.

Or compare colonizing Mars with the Millennium goals, the latter have obviously much more direct impact for humanity than founding a space colony that will inevitably rebel and wage space war for a few decades, which basically all sci-fi tells us will happen.
> I wouldn't think it healthy to ignore or disregard certain view points out of hand just because they are different to mine.

But that's exactly what you've done with my viewpoint. You accused me of being ego-centric. Now it's my turn to call you a hypocrite.
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1. ANSI Common Lisp is nearly 25 years old.

2. Picking up another language is the quantum leap in the possibilities of expression. Point releases aren't. To the point, if Lush expresses what a person wants to express, then it does so. It's not like people suddenly turn around and rewrite working legacy while loops as list comprehensions just for fun.
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One of my favorite things about HN is when people take the time to be extremely clear about something that's almost obvious. Always gives me a chuckle.
KBuilders for Kotlin
That doesn't actually work in pretty much any browser, since it allows for history-mining by a malicious site. :visited styling changed a couple of years ago to only honor color changes, thus preventing most ways of exploiting that issue.

http://dbaron.org/mozilla/visited-privacy is one of the better resources explaining the issue more fully.

I guess you could create the triangle solely with CSS borders, and then style the border-color to be the same color as the background when not :visited
Well it was a joke but also a numerically accurate joke - estimates are that roughly 6% of all humans ever born are alive today. See for example http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/07/world-population-ex... or http://www.prb.org/Publications/Articles/2002/HowManyPeopleH...
I'm really looking forward to Windows 10, but how come every single marketing page they put out instantly lands on the front page around the top results?
I just might do that!

My initial thought was pulling some of my favorite shots from Flickr and using this to find the location of where the shot was taken. Great for finding those hidden photoshoot locations!

Unfortunately most DSLRs do not have the GPS built it. It's usually an add-on attachment.
"You're a lot older than we thought you would be"
Whether it's a snag you never know but you do end up having to talk about it every time
Yes. That's why I flagged it...meta-discussions tend to produce useless posts as we are empirically demonstrating.
The last company I worked at closed the office that I was working at in a consolidation move. Within 2 hours of the announcement I had multiple recruiters calling me (and everyone else in the office). They gave us two months to find a new job. I had 4 offers within 4 weeks.
The Power Behind Large Data Storage
Only partially related, but I have a friend who carries around a comically-large 14000 mAh battery[0]. Comically large as in about the size of three or four iPhone 6s's stacked on top of each other - he wore it on a belt clip.

My other friends and I made fun of him. He always had his ridiculously large, power-guzzling phone plugged into it. But he insisted that he had it because it could jump-start a car (he's a mechanic, but with no formal training and only a high school education, and he said he had never used the device himself). I and another friend, me with a masters degree in electrical engineering, and he with a PhD in an engineering field, thought the idea preposterous: Surely one could not draw enough cranking amps from such a device to start a car, and could it even hold enough energy to do so?

I received, by way of my own carelessness, an opportunity to test this out when I found my car's battery dead one day in the middle of winter. My friend lent me his battery pack, and I set it up, leaving it connected to the car's battery for 30 seconds before attempting to start the car. Lo and behold, the car started.

I felt chagrined, but I also thought this was really cool. With the price and availability of lithium batteries as they are, why _should_ you need a 50-100 lb lead-acid battery to jump start a car?

Also, maybe I should learn a little more about cars.

[0] I couldn't find the Amazon listing back, but this is in the same product category: http://smile.amazon.com/dp/B00D42AFS8
Thermal is an issue that gets worse with distance. Did you look at the article that I posted above? If you are proposing expansion/slip joints at every pier, that runs directly counter to the proposal which states that expansion joints will only be needed near the stations. [1, pg. 27] If we go according to the proposal, the slip joint at the stations on the test track will only need to accommodate ~9 feet of movement (5280x5x6.5x10^-6x100)/2 compared to something an order of magnitude higher for a full-scale track.

Successfully designing for earthquakes does not necessarily mean active damping. (That is, it is not "required" as you state.) Yes, many large structures use specially designed mass or viscous dampers for dynamic loading (Citigroup Building, NYC; Taipei 101; Millennium Bridge, London), but others are designed to fail safely such that life and structure are preserved to the greatest extent possible. Specifically for bridge structures, there is the notion of plastic hinging in visible locations. [2] This way, the failures can be identified and repaired before normal use resumes. Here are some relevant state DOT guidelines. [3]

[1] http://www.spacex.com/sites/spacex/files/hyperloop_alpha-201...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plastic_hinge

[3] http://www.dot.ca.gov/hq/esc/techpubs/manual/bridgemanuals/b...
As an IPO this sounds similar to most biotech/pharma startups. These companies routinely IPO in the $50-100 million range when all they have is a patent, some promising data but no approved clinical trials and no business.

Of course it's different because there's a clear post-IPO acquisition market for biotechs. Not quite as clear who would buy Hyperloop if it's proven to work...
Company depended on me to keep afloat due to me being lead dev in project. They hired some cheaper devs from overseas and let me go. I was immediately hired by the company who was developing the project (no contractual issues) and the company that got greedy lost the project. It was a hard decision because I was worried about not being ethical. The worries went out the door when I realized that I did not do anything wrong. The company did survive but is limping. I do wish them the best. Good people, bad business sense.

(Btw, Im finishing up a project. Anyone who may need a Python/Go/JS [Django, flask, gorrila, learning React] dev let me know. Ive dabbed in .NET too (ASP.NET and desktop). Email in profile.)
>It was embarrassing...

>...or really denigrate yourself

Can you elaborate about that? What happened?
So is Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/20th_century) wrong on this one? Seems like all other centuries are calculated correctly.
Yet another piece of evidence of why working extra hours for the company is never worth it.
When did having my own data stored in regular files become "strange"?

I meant your wording was strange. I had to reread it several times to understand what you meant, and I think the parent poster also didn't understand what you meant.

If the data is tied to a browser, how do I back it up/save a copy of it?

In Firefox, back up your profile.

How do I persist it when the browsers local settings/cache are cleared (either by clearing or eg. when the OS is installed)?

If you clear it intentionally then why should it persist?
This is what software collections is for:
https://www.softwarecollections.org/en/

http://developerblog.redhat.com/tag/developer-toolset/

Redhat knows they messed up regarding newer stuff in RHEL5-6. That shouldn't ever happen again thanks to scl, which makes it quite trivial to get super new stuff in supported RHEL instances.
I use the web in big part because I want to avoid the week (or sometime two-three week) long gauntlet of going through the Apple submission process.
Presumably based on the Prince decision you can take a duplicate of one of "his" works [which are really just minor amendments and not new works at all ...], get a friend to write a comment to go with it and appropriate the newly commented work without infringement? That extends the principle fairly.

Regardless, this all makes Prince in high demand - basically any work now can be validated by his comment and then can be reproduced without paying the original creator for a license.
I was laid off during 2002, during the peak of the dotcom bubble burst. Effectively I was out of work for 3 months, but didn't find full-time work for 9 months. I ended up having to borrow money from my parents to make ends meet (all payed back now).

At the time, I was very well versed in Delphi and was pretty good with C#, SQL, MDX, and various web technologies.

I spent my morning looking for new jobs, then in the afternoon I was writing my own MDX library for .Net (MDX is the Microsoft Analysis Services language/API). Eventually I was hired on by a contracting firm where I stayed for about 4 years.

My Take aways: My best advice is to stay connected with the community. Find a developer group that meets regularly, attend and present. I also learned I suck at running my own business.
Yes, but:
1) you can circumvent this problem by randomizing your mac between probes, as apple already does, and that doesn't help with the threat we present

2) ssids are not unique - when it says "airport" it can be any airport. When you have access to the mac of the device, you can pin point it uniquely - that's the threat we present.

3) with the threat you link, you theoretically might be able to recover some of the past locations of the user where they did connect to WiFi. With the threat we present you get the location history with time resolution of up to 20 seconds, whether the user connects to WiFi or not, and even if they disable WiFi, and you don't have to control any routers. I would say this constitutes a novelty.

=== EDIT ====

4) the link only mentions a theoretical possibility, we show that the threat is real based on real data collected over 6 months about multiple people.
There's a similar, and also very adorable, video of Herbie Hancock (of "Rockit" fame) on Sesame Street 15 years later: http://www.openculture.com/2012/10/watch_herbie_hancock_rock...
Off-topic, but does anyone know what laptop is shown in this image on Fedora's site?

https://getfedora.org/static/images/workstation/workstation-...
> Today... if we have Dropbox/GoogleMaps/Sudoku/etc, with millions of users as reality, what does "web" in "web app" really mean? The "http+html" has become a universal transport mechanism (with some apps even tunneling through http to do interesting things.).

HTTP + HTML does not include "the whole Internet stack, TCP/IP, DNS routing etc.", as you mentioned above.
That sounds like a contradiction in terms. How does a Mars colony survive event X? An isolated population in an engineered ecosystem on Earth survives X with higher probability.

I'll even make a positive case for Earth being safer: Out of events which could destroy even a physically isolated, rad-hardened population, all of the most probable would also eradicate life on Mars. The most probable of those are deliberate actions by a malevolent entity, such as in a hard-takeoff UAI scenario.

In such an event, your only hope for long-term survival is to hide, and hidden is one thing an offworld colony can never be.
You should not. But a lot of (more positively thinking) people might like the risk/reward. After all, Elon is 4 for 4 in making people fabulously wealthy off very-hard-to-do projects (I know he's not officially involved but some of his people are like Sacks and Pishevar are).
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"uses Java" tends to be synonymous with "bloated and poorly performant", so I can understand that preference.
Since you're counting a streaming coprocessor as multicore, how is your offering "democratizing access to parallel computing" when the cheapest OpenCL capable GPU is half the price, and the programmer likely already owns one?
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What i find interesting there is that multiple approaches seemed to arrive at about the same result, 2/3 of a year between deaths. That makes me think it's highly probable that it's the right answer for the current time period at least.
I really want to like Fedora but the short lifecycle is, at least for me, unsustainable. I wish there was something like Ubuntu's LTS releases.
It's shocking that none of these forms ever caught on.
Turbulence is probably going to be an issue.
I had a driver stop to get gas on their way to me. Another one was very close when they accepted the hail, but after several minutes after I expected them to arrive I checked the map and noted they stopped at a CVS.

It's been a while since I had this problem: many times I'd hail an uberx, it'd be accepted, and then I'd have to wait 8-10 minutes for the driver to leave their home. It was upsetting, and I think uber may have fixed it by now, but I had to remind myself it was still better than the experience I used to have when calling for a cab.

I live in Dallas, btw.
Are you referring to the over-the-top negativity of an uninvolved spectator?
Exactly. I carry two phones - feature phone for, you know, calling people, and a smartphone for its apps (perpetually in airplane mode). The bonus is that if I happen to run out of battery in feature phone (which still happens, though rarely), I can still stick my SIM card in a smartphone. Also, both phones last much longer this way.
So going to 32-bit JVM you sometimes get a slight performance boost, sometimes a slight performance loss, and overall not a huge difference, so I don't think it's really worth it, or even worth trying.
Yes. In fact both of the cited links http://www.rmg.co.uk/explore/astronomy-and-time/time-facts/f... and http://aa.usno.navy.mil/faq/docs/millennium.php contradict it.
I was given equity in the company, told it was my company too. I felt me working extra would contribute to the success of the company. I was often pushed by the CEO when I was feeling tired and that I couldn't work anymore. I've ruined friendships with some of my closet friends because of the company... In the end, the equity I got wasn't worth the trouble I went through. I will never accept equity anymore. Pay me my salary, or find another shmuck. You're not creating the next Google, Facebook or Dropbox. The equity isn't worth it.