skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Gates, speaking at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, in January, argued that smart cell phones plugged into televisions and augmented by keyboards would be a better vehicle for computer-enabling the Third World than a PC-style device."
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I think my comment was more academic than pragmatic: Once you let go of the assumption that people will invariably do bad things in the absence of external control, the whole model falls apart.

As for practical recommendations, I've seen very few come out of academic research, unfortunately. From SIDE you could derive that you should aim to create a community or an idea that people identify with in a positive way (thus creating a social identity), and try to facilitate the salience of that identity by adjusting the situational setting.
There is a Dutch extremist Christian newspaper whose site doesn't work on Sunday.
The problem with netbooks is they are very slow with Windows on them and most of them still cost $500. For most people a tablet would offer a much better experience overall for surfing the web.

But I think we'll start seeing a lot of ARM based slim netbooks/low-end notebooks with quad core 1.5 Ghz Tegra 3 chips that will cost under $250-$300 with either Chrome OS or Android, that will fulfill the netbook's purpose of surfing the web very well for that price. I think a lot of people would still prefer a machine that is half the price of iPad and has a real keyboard, for surfing the web, and that will seem very fast, at least compared to an Atom running under Windows 7.

I didn't read the article, but was he suggesting it was the Macbook Air that killed the netbook? I think that's ridiculous. A macbook air is what $1000-$1400? It wouldn't even be on most people's radar when looking for a cheap mobile computer they can surf the web on.
I'd say what killed it is that for $200 you can buy a decent used 13" laptop, instead of spending $250-300 on a borderline unusable new 10" netbook.
I'm with you on all points. I have one myself that I use solely for coding when I'm commuting to/from work on the train, and for that purpose it works wonderfully. I've had to treat even a new netbook(for the time, anyway) like it was a very old PC... so I kept the setup on it to an absolute minimum. It boots very quickly and I can usually get working in very little time. Once I get back home, all my code is sync'd with my other PC's on Dropbox and I continue from there.

That said, I wouldn't recommend using it as a primary machine for long durations... not without a spare mouse, keyboard or monitor to hook up to the VGA port. I've done that setup in the past and it's worked out for the most part, but without them I don't think I could use it for more than 2 hours.
Which would be right bugger when you changed them all, went back to the site and found you had to change them again.
Imagine harder. If you were a Mac user -- say you have a big Mac Pro or an iMac -- and you wanted something small and portable as a secondary machine for coffee shop and travel antics then you may well have found yourself considering these netbook things.

Then the 11" Air came out, and turned that "should I get a netbook" into "should I get a netbook which is very cheap but doesn't run my Mac apps or should I pay a bit more and get the smallest Mac ever?"

Voila: someone trying to decide between the two.
Unfortunately it will have to wait for FF7 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=312156&;
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Bad news for bill gates (billg@...) but good news for Steve Jobs (sjobs@...).
Chinese (various Sinitic languages, but especially Modern Standard Chinese), German, Japanese, Russian, the original languages of the Bible, samplings of Latin and of various Romance languages, interesting conlangs, and others.

Here's a link to language-learning advice:

http://learninfreedom.org/languagebooks.html

Here's one of my favorite links about one conlang:

http://www.xibalba.demon.co.uk/jbr/ranto/
David Foster Wallace, In His Own Words
For some reason I get the impression at least one of them is from the UK.
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British television broadcasters now routinely blur images of keys for this reason. If you have access to BBC iPlayer, you can see this in action on BBC Three's "Kids Behind Bars". I have seen a number of locations in London with frosted glass privacy screens from mid-thigh to chest height, whose only obvious purpose is to defend against this attack.

If you've ever seen Barry Wels at work, you'll understand that this is anything but a far-fetched attack. Someone is unlikely to burgle a house using this technique, but it's a very practical method for determined attackers against otherwise hardened targets. With the prevalence of master and sub-master keying systems, the leak of a single key could potentially give access to dozens or hundreds of locks. Unlike a leak due to loss or theft of a key, there is no way of knowing of a breach in security until an attack is attempted. That's just about the worst case scenario.
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I would like the ability to follow users.

I would like the votes, comments, and user submissions of the users I'm following to help curate a personalised version of the front page that is of specific interest to me.

Doing this would mean that, when I found people that I thought were intelligent, the front page and threads I was looking at would not reflect the general user bases opinion, but the opinion of the members of the user base that I hold with highest respect.
The Delaware Division of Corporations' web app to file your annual report and pay business entity tax is available between 8:00 am and 11:45 pm Eastern Time daily. Go figure.
Now at first I thought the API would return a shop's opening hours. That's not trivial as it sounds in Germany because different lander have different laws requiring shops to close, for instance, on Sundays and weekdays after 8 p.m. That would be neat actually!

Maybe this is in fact an API that requires the manual intervention of a clerk? Or perhaps they have a policiy to shut down the office computers after office hours - in any case, a funny comment on Germany bureaucracy.
Redolf is a simple online music service with playlist support.
'With a “regular” job it is normally easier at the end of the day to completely plug out and enjoy the rest of the evening.'

Definitely have noticed this myself: it's easy to slip into a kind of mindset where, no matter how much you work, you worry about not doing enough, which makes your free time less enjoyable because not worry-free, which in the long run makes you less productive.

That, and the fact that it's always just you and yourself, and you never get to enjoy the dynamics of a good team.

Obviously a lot of people manage to make it work for them, but I did it for a couple of years and it's been enough for me.
I don't know about photography but I do know how much effort a painter has to put into each of his painting, especially for those who's great at "attention to detail".

And the 8-bit derivative is but a thin layer on top of enormous work. Think of someone who add 10 lines of code on top of your 10,000 lines of code and publish it without asking for permission.

The artist definitely have the right to be pissed at least.
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I took 4 years of Spanish in high school, and during my fourth year I also took a year of Arabic. It was very interesting going directly from one to the other, as well as seeing the similarities (and the many differences) between the two.
If price isn't an issue my 27" Apple Cinema Display is by far the best monitor I've ever owned for designing and developing.

Some think 27" is too big, which it is for some folks, but I love the screen real estate.
There are lots of different forms of Working for Yourself. This is evidenced in the author's last few points, where he seems to equate Working for Yourself with Consulting, or, rather, Working for Somebody Else.

My favored form of Working for Myself involves building self-sustaining products that bring in the maximum revenue with the minimum commitment on my part. That means, for example, a product that sells itself without my involvement, is straightforward enough that it doesn't generate many support requests, and stays finished once it's launched.

With that sort of business, the author's worry about income stopping when you stop working goes away completely. The whole point is to stop working. State that as the goal from the outset, and you'll be good to go. Quite literally.
In IE8 I don't seem to be able to see the styling
In Turkey we had governmental sites running in work-hours :) Nowadays there are not any sites of this kind.
It depends on the processor. A low-end single-core Intel Atom is okay for light browsing.

But some ultra-portables with dual-core CPU's are much zippier, e.g., the Thinkpad x120e with the dual-core AMD Fusion E350.
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Measures not working? It's obvious: We need more measures. LulzSec stop their antics due to some unrelated coincidence? The measures work, let's make sure nobody hacks again by instituting more measures!

How many terrorist attacks on airplanes have there been since 9/11? Are measures getting stricter or looser?
I just wonder what the author thinks "fatuous" means. What on earth is a "fatuous notebook"?

I do keep looking for a good netbook-like solution for recreational coding and writing while traveling. If it can run emacs/gcc/X11 as well as a 1998-era laptop, I'd be satisfied, but I can't quite find anything that's cheap enough for that almost-throw-away use.
Is it available on Linux?
Microsoft et Joyent portent Node.js sur Windows
I expected an interesting debate about currency and unfairness between states, and instead I find someone's ideas on how to screw retired people out of what they've earned.
You can watch the sessions on Windows in iTunes.
The purpose of the clock is going to get lost, and eventually there's going to be holo-documentaries on how the 20th century "Americans" predicted the end of the world.
One of the comments asks for Flash support, so it seems like it replaces, rather than enhances the standard browser.

On the other hand, Android lets you select a different app as the default browser so the difference isn't really that material except for if the two browsers differ in some way e.g. support for Flash, or if you use one of the geekier 3rd party browsers with more involved UIs.
i speak somewhat Mandarin, i understand some Shanghai (Wei dialect) Chinese, took latin in school, and Japanese in university. I understand smidgeons of romance languages, particularly French.
It's not an altogether unreasonable approach to security. It doesn't sit particularly well with geeks, but for complex systems with a high risk of fraud there's a great deal of damage-limitation to be found in only processing transactions when they can be manually monitored. Heuristic intrusion detection is still relatively poor.

For a government-to-business service, the overwhelming majority of legitimate transactions will occur during office hours and few people will be significantly inconvenienced by closing overnight. The risk of an attacker gaining even a few hours of brute-force insight is great, but the rewards from operating 24/7 slight.

While I'd like to be able to do my Companies House filings at 4am, I'm more keen to see my data protected.
Also, when one part of the country is doing poorly, it benefits from Federal taxes paid by people in wealthier parts—e.g., no matter how much Michigan’s state budget is in the toilet, Michigan’s senior citizens will still get their Social Security checks.

The eurozone has the worst of both worlds: Greece can’t devalue its currency to alleviate its fiscal problems and there’s no Europe-wide social safety net to assist Greek people who are being screwed.
With computers, does this matter? When I buy stuff online in different currencies, I just let the credit card do the conversion.

Seems to me it's more to subsidize poorer regions than anything else.
I use two Dell Ultrasharp, one 24 and one 22. The 24 landscape on a shelf and I swivel the 22 between landscape and portrait.
Yes. As they said, it will allow them to better lock in their customers because they can better offer what their existing customers desire.

Flipped around into being politically correct, they can better serve the needs of their customers, which will make those customers want to stay.
I'm hoping enough people know that there isn't much space between smartphones, tablets ("there isn't a tablet market, there'a an ipad market") and normal laptops. I'm keeping track of how much my mums netbook gets used now she has an iphone, and the work laptop she often went to anyway.

It's a bit like drugs for Africa. Do we really need to be able to buy things as cheaply as they do? No, $100, even $400 laptops are silly. I hope so at least, I'm quite big and need space between keyboard and screen.
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Am I the only 'happy' netbook user out there ?

I'm still using a 2 year old HP netbook and pretty happy with it. It is light enough that I can actually have it in my bag even when I don't explicitly need it, and largely sufficient for any coding or web stuff.

And you can actually work on it. Which isn't true (at least from my point of view) of any smartphone or tablets. The app ecosystem isn't even remotely comparable on that point.
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Yeah, I actually own an HTC Desire HD. It's a very good smartphone and I'm quite happy with it - but I know of more than one older businessperson who's tried both the iPhone and several Android phones, and hasn't liked either.

Again, I'm not saying that everyone will like the BB, but it does have its strengths. Case in point: my Desire HD gets about one day's worth of battery life, checking my email and browsing the web (no games or other intensive apps). A BlackBerry can run for a couple days with no problem.
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For one thing the complete Dutch Chamber of Commerce database goes offline between 24:00 and 06:00, so you can't check their information.

The Dutch Student grant organization (DUO) is also offline between 12 and 6 "to synchronize front and backend systems"
The excellence myth: Why 10,000 hours isn't enough
Promoted tweets are going to start invading your own timeline
The Hindsight Fallacy: Why it's so hard to predict bubbles.
Android and Chrome will revive the netbook. They are free (as in beer) OSes, and run with very minimal hardware. As such, devices having one of both OSes will be the OLPC replacement. As the third world has either very old or no computer, those cheap devices will flood the market. Netbook formfactor will be part of them, as desktop work will still be needed.
Ask HN: When will applications open for YC Winter 2012?
Hey HN'ers!

I've been curious lately, does anybody know when the next YC batch opens up for applications?

Is it usually on the same day as previous YC Winter applications, or different each year?

If you have any ideas, please post them below!

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My friend thought it would be novel to give his personal portfolio site opening hours (with a nice "sorry we're closed!" notification). It was very cool, except GoogleBot only came crawling in the middle of the night.
I say it exactly like you do.
If you are primarily a Mac user, why would you ever consider buying a netbook at all unless you are considering switching to PCs in general?
As a non-native speaker (Norwegian), I give a lot of attention to my written English skills. I learnt some German in school, but haven’t maintained what I learnt.

I learnt the Korean alphabet through Wikibooks when I wanted to try out input methods. The writing system seems to be easier to learn than other CJK languages, and I might learn more of the language as the Nation of Samsung seems pretty interesting.
They'll be remembered as the creepy frat twins who whined under the table, begging for food scraps.
Why are states the magical unit? How about towns? Neighborhoods? Around banks? This was the situation before the republicans created a national currency during the civil war. Isn't attaching currencies to physical locations a little old fashioned?
Firefox is the only major browser that hasn't supported this. It even works in IE6.
Sony cut online security staff two weeks before it was hacked
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Researchers Turn Twitter Into Real-Time Sports Commentator
This is neat. I can see government agencies, emergency services and public businesses deploying Twitter monitoring tools for phrases like "fire", "smoke", "traffic jam", etc.
reminds me of mbank.pl - a polish _internet only_ bank which accepts money transfer orders only from 0800 - 1800 hours and not on weekends.

no, they don't save the order to execute it the next morning. they just print an error message and you have to enter your transfer order during opening hours.
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What about a used laptop?
And there's two ways to respond to something like that, you can go along to get along like a sheep, even though you know it's wrong, or you can go out of your way to discuss it since, if everyone's discussed it, then you can't discriminate against people for it.
For most uses it depends on memory too: both RAM and mass storage. A typical user has a browser, an IM and some other window opened most of the time. A bunch of systray icons, perhaps also antivirus, if MS Windows.

A typical netbook is underprovisioned in RAM and has slow storage to match; pain both when starting up and in case of swapping VM pages. Topped up with a joke of a GPU, likely using up access cycles of system memory instead of having own dedicated RAM.

Less display estate (pixel-wise) means you have to Alt+Tab or scroll around more often, too; sucking up your time.

So no, CPU doesn't have to be the only choke point in a netbook, and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amdahls_law kicks in.
Imagine, with all the racial issues we already have today with our Homo Sapiens group, if we had to share the planet with Neanderthals and Homo Erectus descendants, 2/3 the brain size of us. Would we give them the same human rights?
Looks like a cut down version of LBE Privacy Guard - https://market.android.com/details?id=com.lbe.security
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He could always check for the UserAgent :)
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Type "Joe Arpaio" into Google. You might be right about a given low-level cop, but the police leadership in that state is all-in on racial profiling and disliking mexicans for their mexicanness.
I agree, it would be a lot more useful. Safari has an unsupported property (-webkit-line-clamp) that goes a little further but still limited. The fact that none of the browsers provides a way (no even vendor-prefixed) to do it makes me think that there are big technical hurdles.

I needed this desperately for a project I worked on last fall and ended up writing tons of JS which felt oh so wrong. Newspapers and magazines would LOVE to have that. Especially on mobile Safari. Especially on tablets.
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IE 6?
Generational Garbage Collection in WebSphere V8
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If it's like previous Australian anti-crime task forces they'll only hire people with a proven record of failure.
The second kind of course. Priority should still be given to humans (if only because it's my specie), but we should keep in mind the other animals, especially the most advanced ones.

I suspect however that once the world treats its humans well (if ever), then the other animals will also be in much better shape.
Are they really that expensive in the U.S.? I expected them to be cheaper than here in Uruguay, where an Atom-based netbook sells from U$ 300 to U$ 500.

And, Windows 7 or XP netbooks offer a very good web surfing experience (both my girlfriend and my mother-in-law are very pleased).
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I've been predicting for years that it wouldn't work. And then OnLive finally launched, and... well, it's a teensy bit laggy compared to PC/console gaming, but it's amazing nonetheless. For people who have been wanting to game but never got over the hurdle of the console prices, much less building a PC rig for gaming, OnLive is a godsend.
I dare say that the netbook is not dead at all for people who travel a lot. I own an iPad and a very slow (WinXP) netbook myself, but I would prefer the netbook over the iPad for travel any day. At least I have plenty of storage space for my photos on my netbook and I can plug in whatever USB hardware I want.
How to design a CS curriculum for middle/high school?
I want to help my hometown high school develop a CS course, because I want to give something back and as a fun side project. The main challenge I see is delivering the message that CS can be fun, useful, and allow one to build incredible things. I took my first true CS class at Harvard's Summer School when I was in high school, and it was this really fun, mixed up collection of programming, history, cryptography, design, GUIs, algorithms, etc. It was weak in the department of giving me tools to do something myself, but that was probably it because it was the first in a series of courses. However, it equipped me with the interest to actually pursue the subject, and I also believe strongly, especially for CS, in learning how to learn and loving curiosity. I think showing the breadth of CS will both appeal to cynical teenagers and also engender a feeling of unity with the other subjects and teachers. Does anyone have any leads or ideas on some really good curriculum ideas?
An auto retractable design for a key, like one of those usb flash drives might help.
http://www.usbmemorysticks.net/wp-content/gallery/sandisk-cr...

By default, the key will be hidden inside it's case. When the user wishes to open the lock, he can just place the key on the keyhole and start inserting it. :)
Do you have any information why these databases are down for such a long time, every day? I can't see a really good technical reason for that right now.
Writeup of BBC's remake of the famous Stanford prison experiment.
Nobody killed the netbooks. They aren't dead.

http://liliputing.com/2011/06/survey-netbooks-are-just-as-po...

http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/06/24/0426232/Who-Kill...