skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem: I want to browse the web (on the go) for long periods of time, on a reasonable screen and without a cord.

Once again, Apple has the right answer. Go lighter and not too small. I think there was a powerful economic incentive to go with smaller screens for early netbooks because one could still deliver laptop-like functionality with cheaper hardware. The problem with this is that the user has to pay with less comfort. The smaller Unibody Air still has a comfortable keyboard and a screen larger than most netbooks.

To make a profit: sell something with components like the 11" Macbook Air, with just as much performance and a comparably slick design but just a tiny bit thicker, with a plastic body, even less weight, and over 8 hours of real-world battery life. There are currently 11" netbooks, but they seem to fall short in one or two of the above aspects. (HP Mini 311 is close.)
Was this the Lotus building in Cambridge, MA? IBM had an "innovation center" on one of the floors (I think 7 or 9) that I used to work in when I worked for IBM in 2001. The Cambridge Side Galleria was close by. I stayed in the Royal Sonesta hotel that was attached to that building.
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Problems looking for solutions
Finally, someone after my own heart. I don't vote, not because I feel my vote is worthless, but because I resent the claim that there is a choice to be made. Democrats and Republicans talk like they hate each other, but once elected they pretty much pass the same sorts of policies.

It's in these politicians' best interest for people to get out and vote because it confers a veneer of legitimacy. But if a dictator holds an election in which he is the only candidate allowed to run, I would consider it a moral obligation to boycott the election. Similarly when there are two candidates who are, for all intents and purposes, equally undesirable, I refuse to vote for either.

Of course, if I were less lazy, I would investigate independent parties. But I don't feel these parties are fairly represented. For instance, the Democratic Party commonly sues to keep the Green Party off the ballot in a number of states. If everyone ignores this injustice and votes anyway, it appears as though the election was won fair and square.

Someone else on this thread pointed out that not voting is a vote. I feel the same. People attribute the low voting rate among Americans to an apathetic citizenry, but I think it can be better attributed to a broken system. I will not evaluate two poisons to elect the most nutritious. I won't do it.
Folks do try this, but since government hiring goes through the Office of Personnel Management (that is the "central office" you were referring to), they find that there are far more folks who meet these specs than they think. Especially once the veteran preference gets added into the mix.

I work part-time with the department of interior, and they've tried writing job specs like this, and the person they wanted to hire has never made it through OPM.

> It could be that when writing a RFQ that there is a similar method: one decides first what product/team you want, then write the RFQ to match that product/team.

This is done all the time in private industry as well. "Politics" isn't limited just to governments.
When dealing with people mathematical accuracy requires psychological ignorance.
This is referring to a test tool called The Monkey: http://developer.android.com/guide/developing/tools/monkey.h...
I would love to write this month but:

I'm running an event on targeted attacks and Advanced Persistent Threats.

I have a research paper to finish on a class of vulnerabilities.

I'm preparing for my Tigerscheme SST exam.

I'm taking part in the HN November launch month.

I'm growing a comedy moustache for prostate cancer awareness this Movember (http://uk.movember.com/mospace/552354/ if you want to donate, all donations gratefully received!)

My November is unfortunately too packed to the gills. Of course, I could always write a novel about my november.... No, wait...
Didn't you ask this exact same question a few hours ago?

(checking ...)

Yes, here it is:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1859720
And that sounds like a good excuse if he got caught.
Degrees used to be useful for weeding out resumes.
I have 10 jobs, 100applicants, just pick the dozen CVs with degrees. That fails when everyone has a degree, so then you start to pick only ivy league, or only 1st/2:1 class.

SO you can try and pick degrees based on scarcity, ie I only hire oxbridge maths grads, or MIT physics as programmers.

Opensource has changed a lot of that - when I went to college only universities had compilers. A machine capable of running a compiler took a room, now I talk to high school kids who have written kernel modules.

I now hire either people with no degrees based on projects they've done as well as smart graduates (ie maths/physics) - ironically both groups with no formal programming qualifications.
So: why would they be offering six figures for individual flaws again?

And it seems you missed the part where I said that I'm naturally not expecting them to pay out six figures for just any minor flaw.

The idea is to convince anyone who finds an actionable flaw that it's more worthwhile to sell that to google, rather than thinking of more creative ways to turn it into money.

I believe this kind of crowd-sourcing would be more effective than any security team could possibly get. I'd venture the guess that the large majority of people who are pen-testing google properties every day is not employed at some security firm.
With an 11" or larger screen, better keyboards, and under 2 pound form factor, something like a netbook will still be able to give the tablets a run for the money. The problem to date has been keyboards/touchpads that have been too cheap and uncomfortable and screens that are too small. Optimize for surfing from the couch or the bed, and netbooks (w/physical keyboards) will still have a place. (Especially for those who post lots of comments!)
> Had that candidate not been on the ballot, I would have abstained from that particular position.

Really? If there were three candidates, one who was 95% in agreement with you, one who was 85%, and one who was 30%, and the 95% dropped out of the race, you would just NOT vote for the 85%?
I had never heard that there was a difference before reading your comment, so I did a web search for "ubuntu font rendering", and most of the results are something like "How to fix Ubuntu's terrible, ugly, blurry font rendering." It's interesting how much people's preferences vary on this subject.

Is the patch that Legion refers to the same one that's in Ubuntu, or is that something else?

In what applications do you see a difference? I've spent some time looking quite closely at Firefox's font rendering in Fedora vs. Ubuntu and didn't notice any differences.
Capital One is famous for experimentation and segmentation based on messaging, response rate, demographic factors, and many other variables. It's how they came out of nowhere in the early 1990s (the founders were consultants who had zero banking or credit card experience) to disrupt the industry, most of which operated on one-size-fits all APRs and risk profiles.
Samsung Galaxy Tab carries US$205 bill of materials, says iSuppli
Take a look at pool.com for deleting/backorder domains with the word affirmation or a synonym. Even if you don't find what you are looking for you will probably find some good ideas.
LaTeX is your friend...
It certainly strengthens an application to have multiple founders, but there is not much you can do if you add them after we've read it. We have to have some cutoff; we can't reread every application that gets changed, or we'd never be able to read them all.
Evidence of life on Mars might exist on this Martian volcano
How would you know which fields to use?
To quote a certain pretentious blogger: "At either end of the educational spectrum, there lies a hacker class."
http://www.infoq.com/news/2010/06/HTML5-Compliance-Dispute

quote: "While we are glad that Microsoft is keen on using test suites to measure standards compliance, these particular tests on MSDN only cover a very limited spectrum of capabilities, and statements about browser compliance made here are frankly misleading.

The SVG-in-HTML tests cited by MSDN are known to be broken, do not conform to the HTML5 parsing rules or the DOM specification, and in fact make use of an IE bug. Microsoft's engineers know about this bug _and_ the fact that the test itself is wrong [1][2], so it is surprising that this test is touted as an important one in furthering interoperability between browsers. Firefox's beta builds, on the other hand, actually do have an HTML5 parser in place [3], and nightly builds [4] will pass legitimate tests for SVG-in-HTML parsing.

Additionally, some of the CSS tests listed on MSDN are inaccurate, and browsers that actually pass these tests are not compliant with the standard. There is an official CSS3-selectors test suite where we pass all the relevant pieces [5] and we think that for web developers, sites like caniuse.com [6] are much more useful when discussing HTML5, CSS3, and SVG support in browsers. Mozilla will continue to contribute to open and fair test suites that adhere to the specifications in question [7], and encourage other browser vendors to do so as well."
I'm familiar with that research, and agree with the techniques.

In this case, though, it wasn't that I praised her-- just that I got excited about how cool Scratch was. Suddenly, it wasn't that cool to her anymore.

Similarly, she also hates the Beatles. I mean, how is that even possible?
Can you go into some more detail to explain what you mean? I completely don't understand.
That's either a very encouraging statement about the population at large, or a seriously scary statement about how much useful stuff people actually learn from political philosophy 101.
2. To prevent flame wars and stalkers. Nothing would be worse than good people being followed by trolls.
3. The OP asked for "who and what".
4. Isn't that what happens in the comments? Best comments at the top, worst down at the bottom.
I know that mine did. I used to say "Hi Baby!" to her all the time. When she was born and was upset I would say "Hi Baby!" and she'd calm right down. This worked for 2-3 weeks maybe.
Of course from your description, both of us have incorrect algorithms. Because we'd match things like '0777'. Instead you need to match 0 or match 1-9, followed by a sequence that leads to 0, followed by anything. (I still can't download the link, so I can't test whether you actually have this bug.)

If you add to my notation (n.>.m) for a match for any sequence descending from n that finally reaches m, then the answer is something like this:

^(
0 |
(
(
7 |
(1|8) (1.>.0) |
(2|9) (2.>.0) |
3 (3.>.0) |
4 (4.>.0) |
5 (5.>.0) |
6 (6.>.0) |
) (0...0)*
)
)$

And, of course, you can expand something like (4.>0.) out into

(4...4)* (
(4...0) |
(4...1) (1.>.0) |
(4...2) (2.>.0) |
(4...3) (3.>.0)
)

And now we'll get an even bigger heinous mess. But a more correct one.
To be clear, you're saying to avoid rushing to your Launch (marketing, press, boxes on shelves, etc), right, not to avoid showing it to customers?
Well, I did send a mail to them listing out the problems and what they could do.

Though, I am skeptic if my mail will ever be read.
Drop the glossary
When people have only one thing to process mentally and click on, guess what? They click it.

In an extreme example[1], when a service failure resulted in a mobile app displaying only ads (no content) -- revenue soared.

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1753134
Yeah, but didn't get a response (it was buried within another thread so I assumed PG didn't get a chance to read)
"you may have a perfectly good grasp of the issues and who best represents your point of view"

Yes, and this is all you need to prove - an example of such a test would be the ability to match up policy statements to candidates. No need for a maths test.

Regarding the inability to read - If blind people can currently vote in your country, then the problem does not exist.
Y we did not submit to Y Combinator
1. 10% arbitrary evaluation of equity arrived at via a pre-determined valuation of $6000(ave) is simply BS unless the IP is considered worthless upon consideration.
2. Desperation does NOT equal success. When you sell-out, you HAVE already sold-out. (ie the period enlightenment before sell-out) so no matter how successful you become, you will always have these $6k partners stymieing the proceedings from there-on-in.
3. Middlemen are the PROBLEM with free-enterprise not the SOLUTION. They cunningly present themselves as the solution to the very problems they create. If you need one, you have nothing of real value.
4.Ycombinator, despite their claimed virtues, are trying to CONTROL TECH STARTUPS through simple avarice. They don’t control the end-user so they actually control nothing unless you submit to their BS.
Solution: Don’t sell-out.
Persist.
If you build it, and they want it. They will come.
Ycombination is a construct best ignored by the serious players.
The Voicendo one got killed again, too:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1860858

This is pretty annoying. Yes, these are newly created accounts, but they don't seem to be spam.
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1.6GHz MacBook Air (late 2010): After an initial stutter on the HTML5 side (where the ball was served), both sides perform equally to my eyes.
If someone is sending a message don't they either want to send it, or not send it. It is a binary decision. Who has time or patience to figure out how this scheme works and then MAYBE send a message. I say move on to the next idea.
Wikipedia disagrees with you.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tablet_computer
In fact, in CA not understanding a proposition is grounds for voting "No", because a No vote keeps the status quo. If the people framing the debate haven't done a good enough job, then they deserve the No vote.
That's pretty cool. I'm using Git and a simple text-based markup of my own devising, which is automatically translated into LaTeX (with the excellent memoir document class) so I can do proofreading on a nice-looking PDF. I was getting a little jittery while waiting for November to start, so that software was fun to write.
You cannot obviously test for the presence of adulterants, but you can easily test in your own home for the relative presence of different common drugs in pills: http://www.eztest.com/
What is going on with all the dead "review my startup" posts?
I've seen two killed today already. One was resuscitated and is now dead once again.
am i the first one who sees the hidden message FOCMS in this title ?
If the US truly believes that voting is important, why don't they make election day a national holiday so the voters don't have to worry about possibly conflicting work schedules keeping them from the polls? It's only 1 day, and it happens once every 2 years. Employers can't spare that?
About a year ago I got a quote from Geico.com for car insurance. When I got to the purchase screen, I decided to leave and check prices from other companies. Then I went back to Geico the second time because it turned out they had the best price. To my surprise Geico offered a 15% lower rate the second time! I guess they figured they better wow me to get a conversion the second time around. Pretty great.
He didn't ignore my will, and I'm a people and a fellow Wisconsinite. Please don't act like you speak for me, or any more than 50±10% of the Wisconsin public.
I did this one:
http://liuliu.me/detect/detect.html#http://antikewl.com/dail...

And it only detected Jobs, but not Woz ...
Links:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1860858

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1860963

I guess both were new users without much karma, but they aren't spam as far as I can tell.
> Edit: Were you banning partial repayments? Most debt (I think) is not like that, but maybe it makes your math work

It does make it work assuming that partial repayments are not allowed, and interest is added to the principal (and paid off at the end) instead of being paid as it comes due. I don't think either of these is realistic, especially the second one. Also if I assume a savings account paying even 0.1%, it goes back to being payable in either order.
Who doesn't store failed checkouts ? - I can't see why you would consider that any more of a privacy violation than storing successful transactions.

Especially in the travel industry where credit card fraud is very high, storing failures is important for auditing/anti-fraud activities, not to mention customer support.

When a customer calls you to say "my transaction failed", and you respond "We don't have any record of your transaction" at best that makes you look unreliable and at worst the customer thinks you're calling them a liar.
Unless your name is Mark Zuckerberg, in which case the APR is 0 and the payment plan is in Facebook stock, every single time!
Perhaps you're better at controlling the {A,Z} keys with your left hand than you are at controlling {K,M} with your left?
I'm not sure either, but wouldn't it be interesting to see the data. Come to think of it, I don't recall seeing articles about conversion rates, customer value, etc based on browser. Could be interesting.
My easiest answer is to copy my synopsis:

When a King dies, his son must discover if he needs to follow in his father's footsteps, of tread his own path of rulership. All the while holding onto a family secret dating back generations, one which helps them keep power... so long as no one knows about it.

Meanwhile his most trusted adviser finds herself crippled during an attack on the new King, destroying her both physically and mystically. She must discover who she truly is and how she can help her Liege in her new situation, while coming to understand just how dangerous the world really is.

edit: My "big theme" is exploring identity, in the young monarch's case figuring out who he is as a ruler, in the Elementalist's case figuring out how to handle life after her magic is crippled. All while dealing with strife from those who would depose him.
Do you really have plans for both paths you talked about?
Doubt it. Do you have what it takes to execute that plan?
If you do have a plan you think can execute to generate revenue from day one, why don't you test that out? It probably won't work out the way you think it would.
Meanwhile, be careful rejecting job offers outrightly. If you do have a choice in jobs, look for a place that might allow you to sharpen some important skills you think you need as an entrepreneur (preferably get into a startup).
A job might be important especially if you've never shipped anything and a CS degree might not teach you those practical skills.
Whilst I don't necessarily agree with limiting voting by knowledge or intelligence, I do think people are too quick to shun it without thought. If it's so wrong, explain why, rationally, not with an appeal to morality. Otherwise it reeks of 'What you can't say' [1].

Would you want an uninformed, unintelligent leader? If not, would you want uninformed, unintelligent people to choose a leader?

Of course, I do agree that there are issues with the proposal - self-selection would be a bad choice thanks to Dunning-Kruger [2] - and I do agree that any kind of 'you must have an IQ this high to vote' would be a bad idea, due to those entrenched in power setting the requirements.

Personally, I would prefer a solution based on better political and economic education, but that's such a difficult problem.

[1] http://www.paulgraham.com/say.html
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect
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I made a little canvas demo app myself about a month ago. Works on web or mobile (least on Dolphin Browser in Android). I haven't tested a ton though.

http://napnote.com

It's more of a concept app to draw on Chipotle or Starbucks napkins than a serious endeavor. Some fellow engineers and I were joking about it at lunch one day and I promised to make a kick ass web 2.0 app that did indeed enable you to draw on napkins. Then I added some other backgrounds because it seems that whatever medium you draw on affects your thinking in subtle ways.

So yeah, it's more or less pointless. Google wouldn't even give me AdSense for it. :)
Baby Sign Language can jumpstart learning and communication.

Is there any evidence that this actually has any benefit?
> Most issuers pay down the lowest APR first

As of fairly recently, that's supposed to be illegal here in the US now (supposedly there are loopholes about "accidentally" giving people business instead of individual cards).
This!

My son has grown up in a house of readers and loves to read. He consistently tests above grade level, doesn't have his own computer (allowed to use my wife's occasionally) or TV (only one working TV in the house). Meanwhile, his friend down the street who is a year older and has his own laptop computer, TV, XBox, Nintendo DS, etc. spends his summers in remedial reading classes.
If anything Safari is the only browser that _could_ be _at all_ indicative of one's financial bracket...
Fun game to play with in your head, but way way way too complicated for people to use.
C#? My first intro to programming was logo, and im recommending it as a language for small children any chance i get. For older kids, ruby, python and (why not?) scheme are good choices. I remember the day my teachers replaced logo with pascal with dread. Don't do that. I lost interest in programming for about 2-3 years do to that, and had to rediscover my love with python much later.

But looking back, i believe languages don't mater that much, as long as the kid's having fun, you can have fun with C++ even, if it is introduced to you properly.
Airport Security and the MacBook Air
Not necessarily. Think of a firing squad, where one rifle has a blank instead of a bullet so no individual member's conscience is burdened.

The application for this chancemail thing is narrow but definitely exists.
I guess it would if the idea is to show one has superior performance over the other. I was just commenting from the perspective of having a more uniform experience on both sides.
Pre-Atom Eee 900, Linux, Chrome 6, the Flash side is almost unplayably sluggish, while the HTML5 side zips along.
Except that most people I know of have multiple debts on most of these categories.

- 4 credit cards
- 2 car loans
- 2 student loans
- 1 mortgage

Individual debts don't follow the same distribution as the categories.
Having people disenfranchise themselves based on whether or not they feel they have an adequate grasp on the real issues would not end as you'd hope. Are you familiar with the Dunning-Kruger effect? If people took your advice to heart, the likely result would actually be a less-informed electorate: the only people who would actually disqualify themselves would be the only ones thoughtful and self-critical enough to countenance the possibility that they weren't qualified.

There is no principled way to distinguish between a vote based on propaganda from a vote based on knowledge that doesn't actively disenfranchise voters. So why even try? Just vote your say, and rather than expending your energy trying to keep people out of the ballot box, expend it on educating them.
Google has a really good tool out right now to find your polling place:

http://maps.google.com/vote