skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
this is a good argument for sales vs quality.

But the lesson with the Galaxy Note was that many people want a device with a 5.3 in screen, and the critique was that people do not want a device with a 5.3 in screen.

Remember that Samsung sold the Note together with the Galaxy S2 (same hardware, smaller screen, higher marketing budget) and even smaller form factors.

Or, to put it another way: The lesson is that there is no "average consumer".
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For once I'd really like to see Microsoft position its product as a high end product instead of always trying to undercut everybody on price.

If they think their product is better, then sell it as such. Actually say your product is better and therefore, it's going to cost more.
I'm not surprised there's a glut considering I've still run across people who've asked me what a computer programmer even does.
Would it help if the number of non-STEM field seats are regulated every year based on employment statistics ?

I don't have anything against non-STEM fields and believe everyone should be allowed to choose what they want to graduate in, just letting people graduate while piling up debt only to end up jobless seem tragic.
Fuck Inbox Zero.  Time for Inbox Good Enough.
ok, so this started happening last night for me and some friends I pinged: I clicked on a picture (multiple of them!) and each time I see this shit: http://postimage.org/image/rvdiya58z/full/

I say Facebook IS in a lot of financial troubles!!
The game is rigged a little bit so that this won't happen early on (for example, with a 30 day greenshoe option): http://ask.metafilter.com/214810/Quick-turnaround-strategy-f...
Thanks :)

Basically, people use their phones/devices from home, not just on cell networks, and can have plenty of bandwidth on wifi. If a site is designed well and the type is readable, people use them lots more. With a small screen, you can only assume one thing - a small screen :)
In short, they will be launching 1200 pounds of supplies, remotely doing a bunch of maneuvers designed to prove to NASA that they can get around safely in space, and if those go OK, docking with the ISS.

This is so much cooler than a facebook IPO, I must say -- commercial US robot rocket ISS reloading. Come on!!
I'm in agreement here. Like it or not, FB will likely affect everyone here, whether directly or indirectly. Regardless of how the trading goes today, it should be an interesting ride.
I absolutely loved this game. I remember playing the crap out of the time-limited demo version over and over again as a kid because I couldn't afford the full version.
You get the explanation by clicking the question mark in the top-right corner. For convenience:

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Some good stories posted on Hacker News are upvoted while some are not. Is it always the story or is the time when it's posted? The graph should tell. It follows these definitions:

- Newest stories top average score - is an average of six most voted stories on the HN newest page; indirectly, it measures the number of competing stories or the number of story submitters.

- News stories bottom average score - is an average of six least voted stories on the HN front page; indirectly, it measures the number of fresh stories or the number of story upvoters.

- Pickup ratio - is equal to Newest stories top average score divided by News stories bottom average score; indirectly, it measures what is your chance of getting from newest to the front page; you want a lot of upvoters to be upvoting and very few submitters to be submitting.

- Now it's ... time - gives four recommendations whether now is good time to submit or not. There are four possible values mapped to top four pickup ratio quantiles: very good, good, so-so, and bad.

This small web application is an amalgam of ETL, data mining, and visualization processes with focus on time series analysis. Data from other websites is gathered, enhanced, and presented as decision support tool. Source code is available at GitHub.
For something like this, it's probably best as a non-specialist not to put too much weight on any one study, and wait for a good meta-analysis. There have been a lot of studies on the effect of coffee drinking in various populations, on various diseases, and the results are not strongly consistent.

I seem to recall (but can't find a good reference at the moment) that one of the many puzzles in the area is why American studies more often find positive results than European studies; possibly relates to the kind of coffee consumed or methods of preparation, or possibly to interactions with other factors, or different demographic correlates.
FYI, this was erratic when played on Chrome / Linux. Just fine on Chrome / OSX.

His linkage of privacy concerns to potential business problems is really well done.
Can you please stop posting spam here ?
So what I'm guessing is my $40 limit order is not going to get filled...
We faced this issue when building WPF/Avalon ~7-8 years ago.

One key here is that subpixel rendered text can't be easily composited. You essentially need RGB alpha channels so that you can blend each channel independently. Because of this if you want to build a compositing tree with bitmap caching it is very hard to do blending in hardware.

One of the lead engineers did some experiments at the time where he put together blind test of cleartype vs. high quality sub-pixel positioned, gamma correct blended grayscale text. I don't think anyone could really tell the difference. These will only get closer as resolutions increase.

The lesson is that the big 'wow' factor when cleartype was introduced was the fact that glyphs were now positioned on subpixel boundaries (instead of pixel snapping the glyph origin) and use a gamma corrected blend. The tri-channel blending was only a small part of the picture.

But -- cleartype was a unique differentiating feature and was shipped anyway.
"Do Not Track" looks totally insane to me. First, why is it desinged to be an opt-out system?! Second, why does its correct implementation depend on the mercy of the respective website?

Well, the latter might be working if enforced by every legislation in the world. But the former ensures it will never solve the problem: "Oh, this user explicitly asked us not to track her, so it might be especially interesting to track that one."

In other words: More work for white hats, less work for black hats.

I'd rather see this issue solved on client side. For instance, by improving the "incognito" mode of Chromium, combined with a law that protects operators of Tor end nodes.
Good to see the hacking culture alive and well!
+1 I'm with you on this one!
I dread trying to use desktop apps on a tablet. If I wanted to use desktop apps while on the go, I'd buy a laptop.
Keep in mind, this is still just a test. If they get off the pad without exploding that's awesome, getting to orbit is super awesome, and actually reaching the ISS is simply amazing.
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I didn't mean to sound like I had a problem with it. The situation kicked off an interesting thread where I learned about a new and interesting site. If I had a problem, it would have vanished by now. :)
It looks like there’s a second patent with the same title:

http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sec...
Why Building a Viral App is a Really Bad Idea…
Is that yours? It's quite nice, but the spelling and grammar is off.

("Averge" instead of Average, "now it's bad time" instead of now it's a bad time)

Sorry to nitpick but that was what inmediately jumped at me.
If it is so valuable to your productivity, why not buy your own kit (outside of security managed OS) and finance it out of the big raise or reduced work hours you need to produce? If your management doesn't reward productivity, it is more a babysitting arrangement than an enterprise, so you should work on your startup in your unproductive time a work.
I can't wait! SpaceX is the most amazing company right now. They're work is the exact opposite of the trivial-to-start social networking apps, the tedium of online advertising.

They want to send people to Mars. And they're launching to the ISS tomorrow, the most expensive object ever built by humanity. They have the world's trust. They have the world's best engineers. And they have some intense ambition and lots of money. So awesome.

I had a phone interview for a software position there just a few days ago (didn't get it) and it was the most thrilling experience I'd had, like, ever. I have to work hard and study more so I can try again in a couple months.

Best of luck SpaceX.
I'm not sure why you left out R. Stanley Williams in your post there. Leon Chua postulated the existence of a "4th" electrical component but didn't make any progress on it himself.

Listen to Williams' main talk on YouTube. I'm pretty sure they've sorted out how to manufacture memristor-based RAM -- and are licensing the process out already.
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Why is being allowed to create a work environment that best suits them given engineers? Wouldn't this improve most anyone's productivity who works in an office? Besides that, isn't it fair that if the engineer gets to hand pick his chair and his lighting levels shouldn't the bus dev, HR or PR person get the same?
Question: Who has better support for Turkish right now, MS or Linux?
That frame around the linked articles is not great.
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I have been through the range of experiences to say with 100% confidence that I do not fall in your set of We. So your rule cannot apply universally. Whether I had a very lot or only a little, I have never been one to compare myself materialistically with others and experience feelings of envy.
It seems my assumption of a day was more extreme than I thought! Regardless, let's take two extreme cases and compare costs/benefits:
1. You don't know anything.
2. You are a power user who knows everything.

Case 1: Let's say you take the ENTIRE day. You have not only fixed your problem but you have learned a lot of things which will help you with a similar problem the next time. You save costs for your entire life on the expense of that one day.

Case 2: You get it done in an hour or so which isn't a big financial hit.
YOU JUST BROKE MY FLOW AND STOLE 2 GOD DAMNED MINUTES!

Actually, it's worse than that. The (average) time it takes to get back into flow is 15 minutes[1], so add the time to respond to them to that to get your wasted time. And if you get another interruption before the fifteen minute descent into flow is complete? Start over - another fifteen minutes. If this happens constantly, you will effectively never get any work done. There's more than one way to kill productivity.

[1] - See "Peopleware", Chapter 10.
Actually, a philosophy degree prepares you pretty well for a career in programming.

You might not be learning syntaxes and compiler internals and what not, but there is a very heavy emphasis on logic and the nature thereof in philosophy.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logic#Logic_and_computation
You're right, a lot of times studio costs come out of the artist's advance. And there are plenty of local studios that musicians can pay to record in.

But still, one of the big things (in my mind) labels have going for them is state of the art record studios and top-notch producers.

Maybe in the future you could consider fronting money for studio time and having a list of freelance producers?

Most of the local bands I know (wrongly) feel like they could manage promotion themselves through Facebook and email. But they get really excited at the opportunity to record.
I believe Twitter was initially built on ruby on rails ... They had a lot of issue (the unpopular fail whale) . Did they switch to some other platform?
I'm convinced that "NoSQL" really means "We found out how flipping difficult it is to write a decent query optimizer, so we didn't write one. Your on your own."

Otherwise, I cannot think of a reason to eschew the Standard Query Language as an interface to one's database product.
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It's still a misleading/confusing headline.
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Just out of curiosity, am I crazy by not regularly drinking coffee? Is there some benefit from it that I'm potentially missing out on, or will I perhaps be in for a rude awakening in a few years because of my lack of it? I do recall reading somewhere that people who did drink coffee vs those who didn't had better odds against things like Alzheimer's disease, so maybe that's one benefit..?

I'm completely serious in asking - I passed my 30th birthday a couple weeks ago and even for the past few years my aunt and others I know always ask how I get by without it. I have no aversion to it and would drink it if I needed a boost due to a poor night's sleep, but that would be maybe once every few months at most. This doesn't make me special at all so I'm not boasting or anything - the only reason I don't drink it(other than fear of stained teeth) is because I don't want to develop a need* for it, i.e. "I can't start my day until I've had that first mug". That would hardly be the worst thing in the world, but I'd just rather avoid it if I could.

For what it's worth I typically get 6-7 hours of sleep each night, and I exercise several times a week.

*I would typically use the word addiction, but that might be a little too strong given the context
I still see no SPDY, looks like it's still planned though.
>>When released, whatever I do on my laptop

That's the sweet, sweet promise of vaporware you're buying into. I seriously doubt the usability and true functionality of the upcoming round of Windows Tablets.
Ultrabooks aren't MacBook Air Clones?
I never said it doesn't happen in private companies. It's just not extremely pleasant to hear about our government doing it.

Sadly, it has happened before, is happening now and will happen in the future, but this mustn't stop us from fighting them.
It may eventually if you leave it open.
In Chrome 19 on OS X, the last example changes when I click the box, but the one above it doesn't.
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Just to kick things off:

http://ycombinator.com/ideas.html

http://paulgraham.com/ambitious.html

http://www.quora.com/Startup-Ideas/As-of-2012-what-are-some-...
Interesting... I worked in Charlotte for a few years and can't think of anywhere like this. I wonder who you could be referring to?
I'm impressed that NASA is allowing this. Can you imagine what it would be like to be the guy who has to sign off on that decision? Even if you have every confidence, imagining what would happen if things went wrong?
Who cares? If it doesn't work, it doesn't work. Just contact them.
Is everyone able to access Facebook without any trouble ?
The feeling that you're a patron for someone's craft, that you're enjoying the finest experience the world has to offer and helping to maintain dying traditions in a disposable world. Tiny hidden details that no-one knows about but you and the maker. Feeling like you're standing a few feet taller because you have the strength of the individuals and brands who made your products behind you, and that no-one can fault you on taste.

Luxury that is distinguishable is about impressing people (especially people who can't afford the item). Indistinguishable luxury is about impressing yourself.

Is this correlated to low self-esteem or a touch of arriviste/imposter syndrome? Probably.
I don't think this is illegal, but many (most?) public school districts forbid their teachers from doing this.

In private schools, on the other hand, the practice is common. My 9th grade math teacher taught an after school SAT prep class, for example.
Could there be selection bias? Stupid example theory: Habitual coffee drinkers do so because they have to wake up every morning to go to work, which is a population group that has a steady income and life, does not abuse substances and has access to healthcare. All factors that increase the length of life.
Provability is relative to a formal system. Whether there are _absolutely undecidable_ statements is more controversial, and still an open question in the philosophy of mathematics. Gödel's disjunction is part of this literature: "Either … the human mind … infinitely surpasses the powers of any finite machine, or else there exist absolutely unsolvable diophantine problems." Soloman Feferman has written about this, for instance in a 2006 Philosophia Mathematica paper.

http://math.stanford.edu/~feferman/papers/dichotomy.pdf
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It's worth noting that orchestra.io is a similar solution. I've used both and PHP Fog is easier on the surface, especially since it offers pre-configured installs of many popular frameworks (like CI) and apps (like WordPress).

They offer on-demand scaling, and a very generous entry level pricing. Their free app is great for small tests and quick deployment tests.

Disclaimers:

PHP Fog and Orchestra.io use Git for deployment. You point your machine/instance to a repository and it will keep it updated when you commit and push changes.

These services are built with scalability in mind (read: multi-server or variable performance single server). So, it's encouraged that you have a solution for hosting and serving static content, (javascript, css, images, etc..). Obvious examples are Amazon S3, Rackspace CloudFiles, etc...
Site's kerplunk'd. Shame, that sounds cool.
I was trying to create a website that used Lucida Sans/Grande as body text, and no matter what I tried it didn't look as good as it is on Apple's website.

Fired up web inspector and I was surprised to find they use
body {-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;}
I don't have a specific idea, but here's a more specific challenge:

Figure out a way to save your average marketing or operations manager 30 minutes - 1 hour of work that they have to do on a weekly basis.
It's not about the money, and it's not about "him." You feel bad about yourself. Part of you wants to be unhappy. This likely has a lot more to do with conflicts from your childhood than some new philosophical puzzle presented by late capitalism. If you want to feel better, talk to someone.
Yes, we cool.

I can understand the "slow it down" idea, but it just doesn't seem worthwhile. If your data is that valuable, charge for access. Then it doesn't matter if they download 100 pages a second, since they're then paying for 100 pages a second.
>"the optimal time is to post to HN."

When you have good content and your luck is at its maximum.
Give it 6 months.
I don't think they are going to just load the PDF files of current books to tablets and give the tablets.

They are saying that everything will be tablet optimized. Don't think your regular school books, thinks about something like, umm, Flipboard. With video and other content in it. All interactive.

I don't know how much they can achieve, but I'm really looking for it.
And not just "the cost of Windows" and the less-mentioned "the cost of Pentium", but that both must be created to be general-purpose enough to work with any implementation of either - to wit, more overhead costs that don't pay off for particular instances. This vs Apple building both the OS and hardware for each other and nothing else. There's a whole lotta bulk from M$ and Intel products that Apple doesn't have to provide nor charge for.
In other words: People who happen to drink coffee, for some reason that may or may not be related to coffee, live longer on average than people who don't drink coffee. Do people who don't drink coffee have lifestyles similar to those who do? On average, I highly doubt it. Observational studies are terrible when they generate headlines, but good when they generate controlled, scientific studies with proper isolation of variables. Since this is super expensive to do with humans as test subjects, it's not done very often, leading to piles upon piles of shitty science pertaining to human nutrition.
Luck is something that happens to people who seek it out. I get better results when I post at the times all these analytical tools say is best.
We have an unlimited budget for hardware. You want three monitors? You got it. A desktop and a laptop? Sold.

The caveat of course, is be a reasonable adult and don't ask for a $50,000 gold-plated MacBook or something. As long as you can get more incremental value out of the hardware than it costs for us to get it for you, it's yours.

I think it all comes down to trust - as the article states, it's not about bigger monitors but the company trusting you to do the right thing.
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Don't make that assumption. I didn't. It shows potential, only. That's what I said.
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Apparently it's possible to do it relatively efficiently: http://anholt.livejournal.com/32058.html
Then I’ll delete (not archive, delete) the junk (ie. stuff where the sender didn’t think much about my time).

Isn't that still "Inbox Zero" if you're clearing out anyway? I practice inbox zero but I don't reply to every e-mail that deserves one (though this isn't that often).
This looks really nice, but what I would like even more would be to just jump out into a minimal multi line edit mode between the "def" and "end" of a method.
I'm excited to see cheap memristor devices that provide access to their computational ability.
...even a good engineer is useful. Playing music live is very different to recording music in a studio.

Knowing that you want a bit of echo on that and you want this to sound a bit crunchy is good, but knowing which buttons to twiddle to get that is tricky.
NASA's site says launch coverage will begin at 3:30am (http://www.nasa.gov/exploration/commercial/cargo/cots_tv_sch...)
From one of the comments :

"there will be no legacy Windows applications retrocompatibilty"

Is this true? If it is, then this is a deal breaker. The only reason I've been waiting so long to buy a Windows tablet is because I assumed it would be backwards compatible with my desktop applications(of my Win7 machine). If what the comment above says is true, then I guess it will be either an Android tablet or the iPad..
Problem is those sites would be blocked because they are considered as distractions (and yes they are) not because they include evlutionary or non-mulim content.
What is the site you are talking about? There should be a specific court order for that. I dont think anyone cares if a teenager is a muslim or not.
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Same here. Got through most of the foreword, but haven't found time to continue.
I've run into a few sites that "prevent" scraping. I just jump on http://developer.yahoo.com/yql/ and scrape away. The surface level defenses (ip blocking) are usually sufficient, but if there is a real developer behind the scraper, they will get to your content.

Too much prevention could be counter-productive, as you may inadvertently deny the friendly spiders.
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I think I missed a couple of smileys in my comment, I just wanted to share my posting process because I liked the split test bit :)
"It's like an ill-designed jigsaw puzzle. No matter how you arrange the pieces, you'll always end up with some that won't fit in the end."

I really don't understand this analogy. The first incompleteness theorem shows that there are statements true of the natural numbers which aren't provable from any sufficiently strong recursive theory. It's more like Th(N) (the set of statements true of the natural numbers) being a jigsaw puzzle from which many pieces will always be missing if you start with a recursive set of pieces and try to lay down only those pieces which a provable from your initial set. Nothing "won't fit": there aren't inconsistencies or incompatibilities at work here, but incompleteness.