skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That is true, but I guess it would need to be calibrated on a per person basis. I know people who really give their keyboards a thumping just in the normal process of typing.

I'm really looking forward to the next generation of keyboards , with things like dynamic displays on the keys (so that it shows application specific function labels on the keys themselves) and also this.

I have heard many people say that the keyboard is dead, which I don't believe for a second but it is certainly high time that it evolved.
I loved my Toshiba M200 (http://reviews.cnet.com/Toshiba_Portege_M200_tablet_PC/4505-...) way back in 2004! I used to use it during my graduate classes to take handwritten notes. It's a little sluggish by today's standards, but lighter weight distributions of Linux still run pretty well.
So what does make use then?
Xeon works "synergistically" with Xeon Phi ;)
Just some quick answers.

* It is difficult, no doubt. But it is also difficult to find a way to efficienlty store solar and wind power. It is difficult is not a good excuse not to do it.

* It does not help innovation. Not true. It does. Taxes will lower the margins of the businesses with externalities and capital holders will look for more efficient technologies. Less cost and/or more profit are the only way you incentivate innovation.

* Energy is cheap. That doesn't mean it couldn't be cheaper. I mean, I prefer to spend my money on what I like, not on energy bills. And again, cheapER, bettER, are the real incentive to innovation.

* Politics. Don't know, don't care. If I had to go with politics, I'd say that solar and wind are mainly politics: it helps with votes and reputation, but only that (at least now).

* Nuclear. There is research also there. There has been progress for decades. Why that research is not as good as the one for solar and wind power I don't understand.
I was about to say. Stuff like this happens to the best of us. Look at any Apple press event and you'll see several machines lined up - and in fact, Jobs has had his hiccups as well during keynotes.

If this is regarded as a "fail", than the OP clearly has never held any serious presentation that involved hardware and software.
Thanks for that... I'd even written a digitSuffix function but managed to forget "rd"!
You're very privileged to have grown up in a social setting that rewards you for your assertiveness. Not everyone, and especially women, has had the same environment and socio-cultural expectation of them. It'd be lovely to foster a culture in which these issues weren't issues - but for now we have to address the fundamental differences in how we treat women and girls, as far as assertiveness is concerned, from how we treat men and boys.
In North Korea it's 100 IIRC
A company presumably has the relevant filings and registrations done, and tax and accounting processes set up, so if a project starts generating revenue or is ready to do so, that's all taken care of.

ie, you're not sitting there with an app ready to go in the app store, trying to decide which business structure to use, how to get it established, filing to get a tax ID #, etc.

Plus, write-offs.
If you're marketing only to consumers. Corporations who tend to purchase this sort of thing typically plan their purchasing months in advance. I can almost guarantee many companies who might have been thinking about laptop purchases are going to wait a few months.

Also the release date for the device is tied to Windows 8, which is looking like October, and then the pro version will follow 3 months after.

Since product lifecycles are somewhat lengthy, this doesn't really give any competitor an advantage aside from using the products they already had in their pipeline.
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Are you serious? There are many reasons why one mightn't speak out at the time. I'm going to jump to the major conclusion that you're male and have never encountered a situation like this before. If you were female, with all the different social expectations that have been embedded in you since childhood, you might have a different perspective.
Verbose links for you:

Khan Academy:
http://www.khanacademy.org/

Arithmetic videos:
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Easiest addition video:
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Exercises:
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Addition exercises:
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Are you talking about distributing ipa files outside of the App Store? As I understand it, you also need $100/year and you're limited to provisioning 100 UDIDs. I don't think this is actually an alternative.
Ask HN: What should I do with my geektrail.com domain?
Not sure why, but for some reason I bought geektrail.com years ago and never used it for anything.

So my options are:

1. sell it.

2. cancel it.

3. come up with something cool, that would fit the domainname.

I really like option 3, so what kind of website would you hope to see when visiting geektrail.com?
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"They're absolutely ahead of the curve with the blending of mobile and desktop operating systems, something which I am extremely happy they are doing"
From what I hear about Metro, this is something I'm absolutely NOT happy they're doing. But then I'm a desktop/laptop dinosaur
The link provided is to the mobile site which doesn't include the pretty infographic, here's the full desktop version:

http://techcrunch.com/2012/06/19/airbnb-10-million-bookings-...

Very impressive numbers:

10 million guest nights have been booked worldwide
through the site since it was founded in August 2008

But more impressive:

at this time last year, Airbnb had yet to reach 2
million nights booked
Speaking of which, I recently read this:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B005LW5JL2/ref=as_li_ss_tl?...

Which is about WWII in the Pacific, up to the battle of Midway. He talks about the code breaking efforts in Hawaii, and I immediately recognized one of the minor characters from Cryptonimicon - the guy in charge of the cryptanalysis efforts - who was apparently a bit eccentric, and not big on military formalities. I didn't realize that the character in the book was based on someone real.

It's a very well written book, and I'd highly recommend it, as well, as, of course, Cryptonimicon.

Edit - here's a link that talks about him some:

http://www.worldwar2history.info/Midway/mission.html
I ended up posting something much longer on this: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4131326

Your comment qualifies as being "wrong", because of one part: "...it will work fine for Strings and HashMaps and all the standard java objects...". In fact hashCode() is stable for a very small subset of the types that ship with standard Java, and even in some of those cases there are caveats. Arrays come pretty standard with Java, but...

boolean alwaysFalse(int[] a) { return a.hashCode() == a.clone().hashCode(); }
> [They] decided to build a polysilicon plant in Tennessee, partly because energy costs in Germany were so high.

This makes USA look like a 3rd world country being used as a haven for environmentally harmful industry installations.
With all due respect, what keeps your wife from learning about HN?
There are ads encouraging you to type 100 character urls?
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Just a thought on the presentation itself -- they seem to be relying on a teleprompter too much. Either that, or the prompter is located in a really bad spot.
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Thanks, you've captured my thoughts absolutely. Some of the comments in this post make me really frustrated - it's almost a one step forward, two steps back type thing. Having to jump into the fray every time someone starts talking about the gender gap (and claiming it doesn't exist, or that all women have to do is just get more assertive/stop wearing sexy outfits/stop overreacting) does get very wearying - and it's really quite pathetic that we still have to do it.
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There is, however, the rule of comparative advantage, which means that it is better to import energy than to produce the same amount domestically, if the import is cheaper. How that is balanced against the benefit for domestic producers, I wouldn't know...
I've noticed the same with many recent Apple releases. They have gone almost completely away from "Ships in x" and instead it's now almost always "Ships today".

I'd like to see some data to confirm this however.
The top comment by M. Andrews says it best:

"This is a well-written and well-argued piece, but I have to ask: have you ever built a large site with many templates, components and layouts? This approach is arguably impossible to implement for that context, not to mention inappropriate. Yes, CSS3 has some fairly advanced selectors, but littering your stylesheet with HTML-dependent stuff like “section ~ article h2″ is only going to cause you pain when you want to refactor, or simply target headings that don’t follow a section. Either you end up with 20-line-long lists of selectors, or you’re afraid to touch your HTML structure in case everything blows up.

I really don’t follow your argument about elements looking the same in different places being aggressive/inappropriate. Have you ever designed a user interface? The goal is to produce consistent and reusable components that the user will intuitively recognise and use. If my “post comment” button looks different each time I put it somewhere new, what kind of experience does my user have? Do my comment counts decline as a result? This doesn’t just effect nerdy semantics, it’s real-world usability too.

Finally, I don’t really buy your argument that we should avoid using classes because some mysterious third party content providers might use our entire HTML structure and it won’t look right. If we designed for that use case we’d all have sites like Jakob Nielsen’s (eg: plain and vanilla). It’s also possible to use semantic markup (blockquote tags for quotes, etc) and use classes, they’re not mutually exclusive. Also, if somebody pulls in my HTML which uses my custom classes, who says they have to load my CSS too? The classes won’t impact their site’s design unless there’s a naming overlap.

In summary: classless HTML might work well on small, mostly trivial sites, but long term, it’s not scalable or modular (as Jonathan Snook’s SMACSS framework explains)."
I have always felt that Tommy Flowers' incredible contribution (i.e. building the first electronic, programmable computer) is all-too-frequently overlooked. I suppose it just makes a better story to talk about a lone genius rather than a group of collaborators.
Maybe Apple should have a look at this - if ARM emulation fast enough on X86, you could potentially run iOS and OSX on the same machine.

I wouldn't mind an Apple tablet with an optional bluetooth keyboard (and mouse?) running both iOS and OSX. The Win8 dual OS paradigm isn't perfect, but for now it works pretty OK - especially if you want something ultra portable for both work and play.
The article has a heavily biased view. Some points it gets wrong:

>"If you close eight nuclear plants, which were carbon-free, overnight, you will increase carbon emissions,"

Nuclear plants are not carbon free. Getting the uranium, transporting the nuclear waste, transporting the people who run the plant costs a lot of carbon emissions. You need to look at the whole picture.

>Inevitably, some hot July week will come when a high-pressure system stalls over Europe, stilling turbines just when sunburned Germans reach for their air conditioners

The summer in Germany isn't that hot. Middle europe, not california. Accordingly, we don't have air conditioners (in general)

Look at who is cited - People from large companies loosing their monopoly and Sinn, a conservative "expert".
Yes, so can Android, and they can remotely install apps too: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/06/28/google_remote_androi...
Nokia did have a head-on crash strategy in following up Symbian^3 with MeeGo. I wasn't involved in that space, but it looked potentially survivable to me, especially as a means to steal away developers from Android.
I got my first Windows tablet device over 10 years ago.

You might want to reevaluate your position or possibly realize you're an Apple fanboy.
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It would be a good idea to add [Apr 2011] to the title of the submission. At first I thought the article was about the recent outrage that was caused by an electrical malfunction, so I was very confused.
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I had to deal with relatively large XML dumps containing dictionary data.
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It's so funny to read tripe like your comment and realize that your entire little world is the consumer market.

You don't even know that enterprise computing exists, do you?
When I was jobless and broke, I didn't have a computer. Difficult to start a web company.
I can think of several local restaurants and several national chains that do. In fact I'll bet most national chains do. I actually get a nontrivial amount of value out of local places' mailings, especially around my birthday when I'm in free lunches, coffees and desserts for a few weeks. Some places do send low- (or no-) signal newsletters but it's easy to unsubscribe.
> There is nothing in the market that can do these things.

Yes, there is... if that's the complete set of things. The iPad can do this.

ebooks/pdfs, browsing, videos, TV hookup - all there and straightforward.

text editor and git (GitHub, in this case): http://worqshop.com/

there are also other editors that have SFTP and SSH programs.

I'm not saying you should replace your current computer with an iPad. I'm saying that based on the list you've given here you could.
Well it does say he was a 'key player', not the only person involved. Plus as it's a retrospective on Turing's contributions I think they're allowed to focus on a sole character.

(But several other excellent Turing stories have mentioned the other players involved, Ars had an excellent article about it if I remember rightly).
Ask HN: pinjot.com (reddit + craigslist + Twitter + secret sauce) = win?
Greetings HN,

I am the sole creator of what will soon be launched as pinjot.com

I come to you now as I face some difficult decisions on how to proceed with this project and I'm hoping to gauge if there is any interest in such a system. I gave a little write up here:

http://launch.pinjot.com/

Submitting your emails, commenting here or voting will help me assess the best course to take at this time. I'd be happy to answer any questions :)

Thanks for your time!
I want to see the street view of all the geekiest places on the planet in one place.
> At first I thought the article was about the recent outrage

I think you meant "outage", not "outrage", although I could see some people being pretty irritated:-)
Its too early to comment on how the market will react to Surface. There has been previous instances where MS has over-hyped and failed to deliver.
Good to hear folks are interested in such combination. Currently working on such implementation currently dubbed backstrap. Might release it sometimes soon.
Thanks for sharing your viewpoint.

I realize that templates are a popular choice for many, but I view them as an unneccesary layer of indirection. Sort of like printing out an email, hand writing a response, and scanning it back in as a reply. Once your markup has been converted to a document object model, why not embrace it?
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All this from a wank-tastic buzz video that doesn't even show the device in operation?

What is it with the punditry these days? Surely there is a whole evo-biol book out there devoted to explaining this particular nonsense facet of human behaviour?
Thanks for checking the site out. It does seem that in my haste to release this I've neglected the marketing side a little. Will work on bringing the sell on the front page and about us up to standard...
Thanks for the feedback and upvote. Yes I need to work on the sell and call to action to get people to try it more...
They dropped JavaFX Script in 2.0 release. So now JavaFX is just another library for java that is going to be part of JRE/JDK after Java 8 release. It's also bundled in recent releases of JRE for windows.
I'd imagine they can't, under terms of their agreement with Microsoft, but that might not be forever so maybe they will. But is the market ready for yet another Android handset? It's a thin share of the pie as it is.
I had to do a similar task of parsing the huge wikipedia dump and rewriting the Wikipedia XML (I had to add a couple of other tags to the main "page" tag) I used a SAX parser in Python and rewrote the dump. I found SAX parsers very simple to deal with huge XML Streams.
I would love to finally see some real competition with iOS in the tablet space, but my feeling is that this isn't it. It's Windows Phone 7, bigger. And that worked beautifully for Apple, but nobody has been buying Windows Phone.
It does note this:

"Turing helped adapt a device originally developed by Poland to create the bombe" - under the device caption

And as someone else said, this is about celebrating Turing's 100th birthday.
Only after the iPad recreated the tablet market. For a while netbooks were gaining traction. Just not linux netbooks.

>What's the other thing holding Linux back from the desktop in your opinion that ranks higher than either of reasons I mentioned?

You're shifting the burden of proof here. For what possible reason would anyone believe the market wants Linux on the desktop? I can think of no reason. It doesn't look as nice, it doesn't run the major apps people are used to (e.g. Photoshop, Office, etc.). What "killer feature" does Linux have that would make the masses want to switch to it, and don't say "open source" since I doubt that even a majority of people who know what that means care about that.
I'm not sure about apps on the app store, but I know Amazon has this capability with kindle books, which they've used in the past:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/18/technology/companies/18ama...

The book in question?

1984.
Are we talking about "best" or "biggest"?
That is an unfair question: one individual cannot be expected to produce sites which compete with an entire international company's output.

It would be a lot more reasonable to ask him to show competitors within a similar industry who have produced a better launch site.
Here's an example of a real product built using Backbone UI: https://getperka.com/signup/#account
My first thought was a 4square like site with "geeky categories" for check-ins. You get more points the geekier your check-in is. A large national museum gets you some points, a local museum gets you more. Same with big city vs small rural book stores or comic shops.

Tech stores get you a few points, locally ran places, the type with computers lying open everywhere get you more.

Also worth points, corporate headquarters, conventions, and libraries.

Or, go deeper. Do this with a browser plug-in, and count websites people visit, and length of time spent there. Yes, game analytics. Sell the data anonymously. Spending time reading Wikipedia is one thing, spending it logged into GitHub is another. Rack up geek points for the above mentioned categories too.
To be fare apple has its own share on 'fail' http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KsKKQNZG3rE
Not really. Undeveloped countries tend not to have cheap abundant electricity and are generally less politically stable than the U.S. (both of those things are part of a desirable context for billion dollar investments).

I suppose if you decide that U.S. environmental standards are useless you might have a point.
"has there ever been a large-scale public investment program into science and engineering (that ISN'T based on destroying things in new and exciting ways) that has not proved to be a good investment in the long run"

Having been on large EU funded projects (all part of the ESPRIT II program), I honestly can't believe that they provided good value for money. Now there might have been a lot of indirect benefits, but I'm not aware of the results of the projects I worked on being directly used by anyone.
That's also good to hear. Now I don't need to implement it. That was my first reaction to seeing Backbone UI. I look forward to seeing what you come up with.
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"Using the first person in your writing humanizes your work. If possible, therefore, you should avoid using the first person in your writing."
No, this is not by the same people as Backbone. The name refers to the fact that all components are Backbone Views.
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I'm not looking to replace my primary computer. I'm looking for a secondary device (one device, not 2 or 3) that can do a handful of things that I most often need.

The main reason I want to hook a device like that with my TV is so that I can download and watch movies (from torrents). AFAIK you cannot do that on the iPad. I'm I mistaken?
Have a closer look - this library was built solely for generating UI from JavaScript.
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The web-site is bad; but you have to give Microsoft credit where it is due: the new device is something new and does push what it means to be a tablet.
Windows Phone had to compete with entrenched rivals, and was very late to the party.

Metro is bundled with an OS that is essentially assured a crap-tonne of sales before it's launched. It'll also have more exposure (in retail space etc) than every other laptop and desktop out there.

Not saying it's a slam dunk, but if I were Apple or Google I'd be concerned.
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>Inevitably, some hot July week will come when a high-pressure system stalls over Europe, stilling turbines just when sunburned Germans reach for their air conditioners

The summer in Germany isn't that hot. Middle europe, not california. Accordingly, we don#t have air conditioners (in general)

These scenarios do happen. They're not always as straight-forward as the one suggested (low production/high demand). A few weeks ago there was a sunny/windy holiday in Belgium (May 28th). Due to overproduction and low demand they had to avert a national blackout by paying France to sink the surplus energy. In Belgium, renewables account for 7% of energy. That weekend it was 3 times as much.
Yes, but in my case it's the kind of business done out of interest rather than to turn a profit. Like running a second-hand bookstore in a building you own in Paris, opening at lunchtime and spending the day swapping chit-chat and literary references over coffee and chess with a handful of regulars and the occasional wage-slave who sneaked out of work.