coreymgilmore

There is no nVidia chip in the Surface Pro 4. I believe you are thinking of the Surface Book.

https://www.microsoft.com/surface/en-us/devices/surface-pro-...

I completely disagree with this article. Yes, helmets may increase the risk of other injuries (not inclusive of "I am hearing a helmet, I am a invincible" injuries), but the benefit of reduced head injury vastly outweigh the increase in other injuries.

On another note, there has been quite a bit of development into helmets in the last 5 or so years. Check out MIPS system [1]. It basically allows the head to move independently of the helmet increasing the "time" of the impact and also reducing oblique forces on the brain. Does it 100% work? Who knows. Is my head priceless, yes.

[1] http://www.mipshelmet.com/#what-is-mips (fyi, slow website)

Already has a thread going on HN (and was currently at spot #1):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9296857

Always impressed by the write-ups the Backblaze team does. Very informative and very clear on what you guy are achieving and how you do it.

Crazy amount of hardware involved, and Backblaze is the "small kid on the block" in relation to FB, Google, and Amazon.

Great theme, I do enjoy it. A few suggestion:

- make the bad bar thinner: it takes up a good chunk of usable screen real estate for just showing file names (especially important on laptops)

- The scroll bars could be a bit "lighter". They blend into the dark a bit too well.

I find Sourcetree to be a pretty great product, with some negative marks here and there. I use it on W7 and OSX and find the "tabbed" interface of Windows versus the separate windows of OSX much easier to work with, especially on large products.

Some issues I have: - The app does have some lag at times. I really wish the app would update with local changes and remote changes much faster. Commits can also take some time. - I know how to use the application, but it could really use some better explanation/help around some features. For example, how to set up SSH keys and how branch/merge/stash/tag work. This would make Sourcetree much easier to learn for new users.

Thoughts on using this as a cache instead of memcache or redis? Yes, it does not have nearly as many features or functions but when raw performance is needed I could see this working (given an api for using this via Node.JS, PHP, etc.).

Just Use Bcrypt

http://codahale.com/how-to-safely-store-a-password/

Amazing how little this was publicized and promoted compared to Baumgartners jump. Undoubtedly because Redbull used FB's jump for marketing, but still a feet like this should have had more media exposure.

On a side note: If the marketing/publicity budget on this was so much lower, and the design was simpler, how much less do you think this cost compared to FB/Redbull Stratos?

Wow...my eyes must be going.

This is an eerily similar project to something posted a few weeks ago here. Most notably, the exact same "success" animation.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8420902

https://github.com/t4t5/sweetalert

Since this is HN and most people here have written code, I compare multi-monitor setups to a text/code editor with a single panel/pane. You just don't do it! Sublime, N++, Atom, etc. all support multiple panes (split screen). Once you get coding enough you never go back to using a single pane.

Same thing with multi-monitor. As long as you are productive (unlike the author), more screen real estate is better (obviously, there are limits)

Personally, I like dual 27"s. Allows you to run 4 full size (think 8.5"x11") word docs at 100% side by side. Very nice!

The point of JSON is to have a standard way for data-interchange. Adding the complexity of "sometimes you might have quotes, sometimes not" and "you can display multi-line strings in different ways" gets away from this.

JSON is great already. I don't really see this as necessary. I could understand the comments (but use // instead of # as per Javascript comments) to increase clarity to people who don't know the original design syntax. But the others do not seem really useful.

This is simply great. I can see this definitely helping expand the base of students who take on computer science or technology related fields of study. With these fields growing already, adding a package like this simply allows students to learn faster and use some of the best tools the industry offers.

While there are alternatives (Atom -> Sublime or Notepad++) for many of these services, the bundling of this all together should present students a logical next step instead of hunting around for a service right away.

Using websockets myself for my projects! Love the simplicity and speed.

Model D - 2-door coupe

My reasoning: Tesla has vehicles (for sale or in plan) in three segments: high-end sedan, CUV, and mid-range sedan. Building a coupe would fill another segment.

Also, the 2-door market has lots of models (2/4/6 series, C/E/S class, A5, CTS) that are priced high. Attracting higher income buyers to Tesla from these companies with a 2-door would be a very logical next step.

D = dual, as in dual door?

The "+" icon in the upper left corner throws an error when you are not logged in:

  {"success":false,"error":{"code":1,"message":"You are not logged in."}}

For some reason I doubt this is by design.

Also, when you upload a pic for the "screenshot", there is no confirmation after the progress bar disappears. No thumbnail, no "Ok, pic uploaded!". Nothing.

Another note: no place to put hyperlinks when you create a post?!

And I cannot edit my post afterword (to add a hyperlink in the description).

Reminds me (in a way) of Chrome Racer. (http://www.chrome.com/racer). Could this be using WebRTC for the fast device-device communication?

It is a new feature, like Apple Wave [1]. The LG G Flex [2]already proved the flexible technology. Apple is just giving consumers the option to have a curved phone </sarcasm>

[1] http://www.ibtimes.com/how-not-charge-your-iphone-users-fall...)

[2] http://www.lg.com/us/mobile-phones/gflex

Am I the only one who doesn't really consider iOS's widgets to be actual widgets? At least on Android I can "do" something with the widget. Example: GMail or email widget....I can read through my inbox; calendar...I can see my next events. The iOS widgets just create a shortcut for me to need to open the full app.

I'm all for it. You learn by your own method. It is just hard for people to understand when they spent years of their lives earning a degree they can place next to their names.

That being said, formal education can teach a wider range of skills and provide guidance to understanding larger concepts.

All in all, I am self taught and respect people heavily for it.

Yup, I agree. Had a brain-fart trying to think of the right term last night.

Adding any deterrent (more, better, larger, etc.) seems to me like a "chicken or the egg" game. ATMs get stronger security, scammers develop better methods to skim. Skimmers improve, ATMs get better security. It becomes a viscous circle of who can outwit the other for a longer time and prove more successful.

Personally, I am more interested in improving security via credit card chips or contactless payment (cards or phones). Chips alone would heavily improve security due to the inherent cost (hopefully) of cracking the chip's data.

This is great to hear. The decision lacks any limits on the number of dealerships in MA, unlike similar decisions in NJ and PA (from what I could see, correct me if I am wrong). I hope more states in the future take this route of allowing sales without any limitations.

I have two thoughts on Apple Pay:

1) Android has had cardless payment for 2+ years now via Google Wallet. That being said, Japan has had similar technology for way longer. While the marketing machine that is Apple made sure to let everyone know how magical/revolutionary/awesome/brilliant this form of payment it, Apple is late to the game. Similarly, other products such as Softcard/ISIS exist too from non-smartphone companies. Thanks Apple for finally catching up.

2) Apply Pay will, however, finally give cardless payment the push it needs. Apple has the market power to get retailers to start (read: more than rarely) embrace this technology (for example: Passbook & tickets). That I can fully support Apple for as the iPhone is the single best selling phone and will get NFC into the hands of millions very, very quickly. And with the volume of devices + Apple's marketing of Apple Pay = great news for payment.

The move away from the custom "X8" SoC is interesting. One of the main benefits, supposedly, was shifting the load of the voice recognition its own chip.

Now using a Snapdragon, that custom architecture is gone. I wonder how this will affect the performance of all the features.

This made me lolz.

Very cool intro website.

Is this used in production somewhere already? Would love to hear more of the details about use cases and deployment.

I have done a very similar thing with my projects (Droplet & Portal...see profile links). Only difference is I use a self designed API instead of Firebase to do the communication relaying.

The map notes a "resiliency" factor for each country. A country with a single link has very low resiliency. Most likely a lot of people lose their connection while higher paying customers/more important data gets routed to satellite communication systems.