skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Surprising. The trackpad works well enough but when I do gestures the don't always get recognized, which leads to frustration.

Have you had problems with the space bar? I have to press it harder than normal to get it to register.

EDIT: I've been meaning to install linux on it, now I have a real good reason to try it out. What distro are you using?
I can speak to the 2nd question. The one thing that Americans really get shafted on is "global income". The IRS doesn't care if you don't live in the US anymore, they still want to see a tax return.

When I left Canada a number of years ago, I simply filed a tax return that said I left. I haven't filed one since.

Not so if you're an American. You need to keep filing each year. The good news is that the US has tax treaties with most developed countries, so as long as you're paying as much tax as you would if you were working in the US, you won't have to send a check to the IRS. For example, if the tax rate in your new country is 40% and you would be in the 35% bracket in the US, you will owe no US taxes.
It doesn't really matter what the "this is not valid json" return value is.

I just don't think that it's worth the cost of capturing a bunch of stack frames for such a common occurrence as "you posted bad data to my web service".
Consider:

a = acquire(A);
if (a)
{
b = acquire(B);
if (b)
{
c = acquire(C);
if (c)
{
do_stuff(a,b,c);
}
release(b);
}
release(a);
}
return;
Yea I've heard that the Microsoft stores sell everything crapware-free, but this doesnt help me as Microsoft stores are a US only thing
It was #1 (and ~ one hour old) when I commented, and stayed #1 for a couple hours, in a highly popular thread (3 hours old and almost 400 votes at the time I believe). My comment stuck as the top child with just a couple votes, hence all children had a low voting count. So I assumed the parent was #1 amongst dozens of other comments thanks to its individual number of votes.

I kept an eye on this because its popularity is unsettling to me. I don't usually miss the vote counters but in situations like this one I really do.
For 12 years I bought nothing but Thinkpads. For myself, for others, for employers ..

It's a workhorse.
I think the quotes are there because "ultraportable" is a nebulous marketing term rather than because the X1 is difficult to lug around (which, assuredly, it isn't).
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I loved the x-series, and recently got a new x201. The screen is phenomonally bad. The viewing angle is so poor that if I'm watching a movie on it, there is nowhere I can position it so that I don't get funny colouration on the blacks. Until then, I'd had a dream run with this series. Check your screen quality before getting an x-series...
"The Air's keyboard was not bad, but it had an annoying layout with small arrow keys and an odd ordering of meta keys along the bottom."

It's interesting that people cross shop MacBooks when looking at Windows PCs, especially given the Mac's unique keyboard layout.
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One really good reason for blocking ads is that there have been many cases where ad networks have been hacked to serve up drive-by malware.
I'm in high school. I'm not knocking education, I'm very thankful for it.
No, they assumed he was an impostor, asked for ID then insisted his account matched the name on the ID.

Whoever did that clearly didn't realize he was famous and typically went by a different name - they just wanted his account to match the ID he sent in.
There's a company that sells junkware-free consumer computers and also has stores in your country.
The main way you interface with a computer (that's not a server) is the screen.
That source tree is huge. Over 6GB of data and it takes several hours to sync on my machine (not done yet).
You should look at the screen on the Z--it is much better than any screen I've seen on any laptop. For reference, I got the cheaper 1600x900 screen; it is exactly the same resolution as my old, cheap 17" laptop.

I can comfortably edit two documents side-by-side in Emacs, on a 13" screen! It really is perfect--anything less would be really annoying now.
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I sympathize with you. I work on my own 99% of the time and it's a very tough experience. It's the sacrifice one makes for 'the dream'

I'm sometimes jealous of the stories about Mark Zuckerberg and Kevin Rose because at least they had a girlfriend to stick around while they were going through the motions. Loneliness is a killer and I don't think friends/family could possibly understand how difficult it is. Even when you describe it they just shake their heads

I also agree with your assessment as it's something I've reiterated. I think it's possible that if Diaspora never got as much media coverage (and built up expectations), this wouldn't have happened. It may have exploded when it was in beta (or not), but the potential disappointment wouldn't have been as large. It's easy to step back and redefine success but in his shoes, I could imagine myself having very grand visions of what Diaspora could be (as also fostered by the coverage) and being crushed when it's not realized.
from http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/15/technology/hiding-or-using...

Twitter, on the other hand, has vigorously defended the use of pseudonyms, bucking demands most recently from British government officials who pressed for a real-names policy in the aftermath of the civil unrest across Britain.

"Other services may be declaring you have to use your real name because they think they can monetize that better," said Twitter’s chief executive, Dick Costolo. "We are more interested in serving our users first."
Cliff notes: By not having any users.
As someone who's been there and back, this is an amazing analogy that captures depression extremely well. Thanks for sharing.
I had never seen $! before, of course it's obvious what it does if you know ! and $. There are patterns like this throughout the operators.

There are also the applicatives <$> <*> <$ etc.
It's called anchoring, and it's a common negotiation tool.

http://hbswk.hbs.edu/archive/4302.html
Because among other things both these comments are from the same IP address:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3232690
Care to be a little less vague?
I was not looking for a "Windows PC"; I was looking for a light, fast laptop. I wouldn't use either Windows or Mac OS unless I really had to, so the operating system doesn't really matter to me.

The only unfixable annoyance I noticed on the Mac keyboard was the arrow keys; the rest could have been ameliorated by changing the keyboard layout a bit, I think (unless it's somehow codified in hardware).
Samsung isn't too bad in this respect.
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I really hated the politics and rhetoric of 24, but was somehow compelled beyond my will to watch every single episode. I knew it was unhealthy as I'd stay up way too late and ended up getting weird & anxious (head full of of right-wing fantasy combined with prolonged sleep depravation).

Unlike you I didn't kick the addiction & i've now seen every season.

Damn you and your insidious cliff-hangers Jack Bauer! :P
Why is amazon going to care about computers relaying traffic back and forth? As I already posted the nodes are configured as relay nodes only no exit traffic.

But more importantly why do you assume that amazon will think tor is bad and/or why do you assume tor is bad?
Yes. I probably should have phrased it better.
I'm using Fedora 15 with KDE, which is running wonderfully. I had to upgrade one package to get KDE to play well, but I think that's fixed in Fedora 16 which is current.

I have not had any issues with the space bar--my only problem has been with the left shift key.

I have to add that the only gestures I've actually used are multiple finger scrolling, pressing with multiple fingers and circular scrolling (which is pretty cool). I don't have zooming--it tends to annoy me more often than not, so I don't know if that works well (or at all) on Linux.
They won't care unless someone powerful complains.
Aaron, if so many companies are in violation of this new law, why aren't you working with them?
The trackpad on MacBooks blow away any PC laptop I've ever used. I don't understand why PC manufacturers don't just source the same supplier as Apple unless a) it's actually a software driver issue, or b) Apple has a monopoly on the supplier/patent/part. I suspect it's a little of both, as the trackpad on my Dell hackintosh runs much better in OSX than Windows.
I never use my first name anywhere (most of my frineds don't even know Abbas is my middle name, not first) and have never had any trouble with FB. The point is that Salman Rushdie is a highly controversial figure and I bet this is not the first time someone has tried to create an account with that name. If FB didn't block folks from doing this, Rushdie would be complaining how FB never checks on reals vs. fakes. The point is, FB is trying to maintain the integrity of it's data, and people like Rushdie are often attacked for their opinions and are a target of those who disagree with them.
Facebook is pretty amazing in that respect. They managed to engineer a scaleable infrastructure without making it too obvious that everything is being cached. There are times when it takes a minute or two for my profile picture to change everywhere after I change it in my profile, but aside from minute-or-two scenarios, Facebook's interface (and the real-time notification system) is just amazing in comparison.
"Wow, what an ignorant article... I can't speak about the new version, but the version I have has a fantastic keyboard with much more key travel than an Air. I wouldn't be shocked if Sony messed up the keyboard and trackpad though. They have a certain talent for screwing up ergonomics in the name of looks."

Make up your mind? It sounds like you just agreed with the central thrust of the article -- Sony had a great design and junked it to have something "new".
Do you run an exit node? If not why?
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Thanks for posting Aaron. And good luck with the lawsuit.
http://www.imada.sdu.dk/~rolf/Edu/DM22/F06/haskell-operatore...

http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/Keywords
The little red box that shows how many notifications, is anything but fast...

Edit: It reminds me of the eBay motors data we got a few weeks ago. A lot of it is making the page appear to be loading (i.e. flush the buffer for 'above the fold' and then ajax everything else in)
No, he didn't say that they did. Just that he wouldn't have been surprised if they had.
anyone knows how to delete a comment that has replies?
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If you go to the sony store, and search for "Z14" you get a bunch of camera accessories, and no Z series laptops in the results. No laptop results on page 1 of a google search either. I have an old sony Vaio that I really liked, and I only know how to describe by its model number: VGN-S360. I think they could benefit from more coherent model names.
Is it possible to file suit, and then in the future retain legal counsel for representation? (i.e. is it possible Aaron has simply yet to hire a lawyer?)
As I said elsewhere, scrolling with two fingers works perfectly for me, so it pretty much has to be a driver issue. In fact, I set the scrolling up to work in all directions, and it's sufficiently accurate and responsive to make scrolling sideways with the same gesture as normal scrolling completely practical.
What were you hoping to learn?

Can you give me a practical situation where an exception is thrown despite there not being an error, aside from the canonical Integer.Parse() example? In my experience, that's not the bulk of any practical program, and it's still exceptional from the point of view of the Parse function.

I'd be interested in discussing this, but I'm not really sure what you think would be an improvement. And yes, it's a rather uphill battle if your proposal is to use error codes most of the time. I think that ship already sailed (although there's a strong case for error codes in C++, but that's kind of a special case).
I love that B&N's lawyers cited Netscape Navigator 2.0b3 as prior art (with respect to background image loading in a web browser). I wish HTC and Samsung's lawyers were as clever with respect to Apple's bogus "Linkify" patent ("Live URLs" from 2.0b1 in that case).
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can the server-side be a watson like computer cluster ? just curious...
I think he was talking about Apple.
Man, you definitely can take 1 hour off in a day 3-4 times a week. Just take this time and go to the gym or do some interval training outside (sprint/job/sprint/jog etc. cross-fit style).

You can sleep a little less if you really need the time, but I'm sure you can take the time to workout... I do take it.
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Oh, they could definitely do better with the model names. Happily, that doesn't affect the computer itself once you've bought it--if anything, it makes it more exclusive ;)

I also think they should break VAIO up into two brands, one for cheap computers and one for high-end ones. They could be like Toyota/Lexus.
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The kernel source was at http://android.git.kernel.org/ but that server was subsequently destroyed in an unrelated incident and at this point you'd need a time machine to verify that it was really there and hasn't just been backdated, but yeah, it was available.
Yes. Of course.

I happen to prefer more specific descriptions of what may go wrong.
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You have to also consider that recruiters are playing a numbers game. They need to look at universities with larger graduating classes to help improve their odds of hiring.
I'm a little mystified as to why you haven't engaged outside counsel or hired a legal officer. Although I think you have some strong arguments, there's an awful lot of avoidable-seeming 'who said what' questions that ultimately boil down to whether the jury finds you or the state's witnesses more credible. Winning on the facts is no guarantee of winning on the questions of law, and the appeals process is going to be lengthy no matter which side you find yourself on.

Pro se litigants that bring test cases on constitutional matters are laboring at a considerable disadvantage. Litigating your own case does not seem like the best use of your energies. Although I can relate to both your pedantry and one-man-band approach on a personal level, I am perplexed by your (apparent) hostility to gathering outside financing or simply taking the same approach as your competitors, none of whom seem to be anticipating criminal charges.
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Thanks for setting this up. This looks good. I think I'll be there.
If I give you 5M$ now, what would you do? Now, do exactly that, without those 5M$.
Man I wish I was in town too!
"I've invested years developing significant proficiency in Flex. It now feels like a waste of time."

That may sound like valid criticism, superficially, but I think it's very fair to say that the impending death of Flash has been apparent for quite a while now and this always cast a shadow on Flex. Maybe not in the few niches that it still does survive (thrive even, in some cases), but the market that Flex aimed at was very limited early on and in the past couple of years, with Flash being predominantly a delivery mechanism for online video, still betting on Flex as "Internet Technology" seems ludicrous.

"I would have much preferred to see a transition where Flex and HTML 5 could peacefully co-exist"

If you think that, you simply don't understand the technology. In fact, many of the criticisms that are quoted seem to be this: People who are disgruntled that their bet on a proprietary piece of technology didn't pan out. Welcome to the Internet.
Yeah? Wake up and vote for...who? Neither side of our current two party system has made noteworthy improvements. So...it's election day....I'm wide awake...and who am I supposed to be voting for?
I tried. The credit card company complained.
I would doubt it - there's nothing illegal about reverse-engineering a protocol.
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They stand out if they are hand written and and unique. They can even be e-mails, but just remember to keep it precise and unique. Copy/paste responses are clumped together and given much less weight in terms of consideration.
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What Are The Best Programming Languages for a Large-Scale Project?
The company I work for is upgrading its systems from .NET (ug), and they want to know what languages to switch to.
They have a massive user database and some complex algorithms that need to be run constantly. They want a site that is self-contained in that data can be collected and displayed in real time to admins.
Right now our CTO is leaning heavily on Ruby on Rails, is this a good idea or a bad idea for such a complex project?

I apologize if this is vague, corporate rules and whatnot forbid me from going too much into details.
You can demand the sun, moon and stars if you feel like it. The judge instructs the jury on what grounds they can award damages, and those grounds may or may not impose a limit - sometimes you get 'economic' damages that represent quantifiable loss, sometimes you also get 'punitive' damages that are designed to send a warning to other potential defendants. Sometimes the case is dismissed and you get nothing. If damages are awarded, there are usually procedural arguments over their size at appeal.

In some respects, asking for $25 million can be seen as an assertion that the litigant intends to a) get the defendant's full attention and b) be very stubborn, causing the defendant to run up a hefty legal bill, if nothing else. Not a lawyer, just a law student with an interest in the economics of litigation.
This is tangential but Attenborough's narration of Planet Earth was awful. He contradicted himself with his superlatives every other episode.
> There are hundreds of mobile browsers, consoles and a myriad of other devices with zero to broken javascript support.

These days, both of the major mobile browsers use WebKit and have great JavaScript support, though they may not support bleeding-edge browser functionality quite yet (for which all non-demo sites definitely need fallbacks). The unofficial mobile browsers have great JavaScript too. Consoles have decent browsers with decent JavaScript, and in any case not all sites need to expect console browsers as a remotely common case.

You have to draw the line somewhere, and not all sites need to support Lynx, Links, or Mosaic. I certainly agree that having decent fallbacks for a site like this doesn't require that much effort, but not all functionality supports graceful degradation.

These days, browsing without JavaScript seems less likely to indicate an older browser, and more likely to indicate a user with JavaScript intentionally disabled using something like NoScript. That user may get righteously offended that a document would dare to run code on their system, but that doesn't necessarily make them right.

All web features tend to follow a three-step lifecycle: too new to use at all except for demos, stable enough to use with fallbacks for older browsers, universal enough to use without fallbacks. Depending on your site and your target audience, basic JavaScript may fall in the second or the third category.
CouchDB in the Browser vs. Indexed Database API
I always thought that the best way to avoid losing a lot of money is to diversify and avoid leverage.
Derivatives is leverage big time, it's speculation, not investing, you can lose much more than you invested.
Diversify and avoiding leverage as a VC would be to invest a relatively small amount
of money over many potential companies.
So can avoiding leverage to conserve your investments work the same way with time?
Leverage as a small company might be like sub'ing out your work to others. I've never read anything positive with that approach.
How about at the personal level of the article -
some wasteful activities can be avoided but stuff like email is not going away.
So leverage this down time by multitasking. It would take me 4 hours of planning for 2 hour of programming.
While I wade thought these emails I am also going to think about, plan, research, and write down what my 2 hours of programming is going to be.
During these non productive downtimes, I can get really boring jobs done, the time passes quicker,
and I have a head start when my productive time starts.
It's pretty sad that Microsoft has sunk this low: a company that is so afraid of its ability to compete honestly in the market that it becomes a multi-billion-dollar patent troll.
He didn't say they did because he isn't familiar with the new deisgn but he agreed it's' exactly the sort of thing they might do.
"On September 22, 2011, a letter signed by greater than 350 businesses and organizations — including names such as NBCUniversal, Pfizer, Ford Motor Company, Revlon, NBA, and Macmillan — was sent to Congress encouraging the passage of infringing website censorship legislation this year."

"Opponents of the bill include tech giants such as Google, Yahoo!, and eBay, as well as human rights organizations such as Reporters Without Borders, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and Human Rights Watch." [1]

I've lost respect for the companies in the first paragraph, and have gained some for the companies in the second.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stop_Online_Piracy_Act
The Power of "I don't know."
To say that a suicide was caused by depression and that we knew the person was depressed because they claimed to be suicidal is circular. I qualified the term because there are other components to that statistic which it would be wrong to discount. (I don't believe anyone in this subthread has done that.)
I've been wanting to do this. I'm in NYC. I'll be less busy soon.

This should be done.
You want hoogle: http://www.haskell.org/hoogle/?hoogle=%3E%3E%3D
I take it that most of that email is stuff that you can safely ignore, much of it generated by humans, the remainder perhaps automated reminders/responses, etc.

In my case, most of the messages are system alerts, logs, notifications, etc., along with human-generated messages, reminders, etc.

Some I can ignore, some I've got to have at least a gist of what they contain. Trending patterns in others can be very valuable.

For all of these, a console client generally offers major wins over webmail, as I've described.
I criticized google for holding back honeycomb, now it's finally releasing the code again. Great! Thanks Google.
Could you be more specific? Did anyone from Amazon have to intervene? Or was it enough to show the EULA?
err.. the two comments below are also jokes! one is not so funny and the other is rather sad
You also have to consider that emailing to non "opt-in" targets can run afoul of CAN-SPAM.