skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is more vague than "support our service":

> We love you guys, and the plan is to continue to support our developer community. If there are new developments you can expect to hear from us here, on the developer blog, and through our developer newsletter.

I think the vague wording is probably intentional. It doesn't seem like the sort of service that facebook would be into providing directly to developers.
Josh, I'm the co-founder of HireArt. We've got a lot of pretty cool biz dev jobs at start-ups on both coasts. You can apply to them through our HireArt application and get to prove your skills. Email me elli@hireart.com
Fantastic comment.

That's the perspective from which I think it's totally legitimate to say: this is shitty art. Not the initial, "I don't get it so it must be crap" reaction. But trying to see so deeply into it that you can see the fraud or the idiocy.

That is why I really love Banksy in general, and especially Exit Through the Gift Shop. He has such a keen nose for fraud and pretense.
I remember seeing job postings by Nokia for Linux developers, a few weeks after the "burning platform" speech, and thinking "this stuff must have been approved more than a month ago, and you'll be fired as soon as you get hired -- IF they'll hire anyone at all".

Nokia is a case study in bad corporate management practices.
Some tips for seed investor wanna be
Had a startup, love to help people and now having needed connections and resources I would like to support startups in my country financially by making some seed investments. Unfortunately on the Internet there are almost no materials about startup financing and securing your interests from the seed investor point of view. I would like to start a discussion about this unpopular ;-) topic.
My main concern is securing my right and profits in the startups. I would like to partly cash-out on some investments after several months without waiting 3-5 years. One way to secure my interests is to insist to generate new shares in a startup for following investors by share splitting. This way I can secure my % share for some time but the fact is that probably most founders will not accept that way. The standard thing is issuing new shares with existing shareholders dilution. But in that situation where is my theoretical earning at each stage after my seed investment (early investments, round A, etc) when despite company valuation going up my % share going proportionally down?
The standard thing is issuing new shares with dilution of
If they are waiting for the markets to close, does this mean they aren't even confident in their new device? Why have the live press conference anyway?
The tablet's name is "Surface"? Isn't that a bit odd, given that the previous Microsoft Surface didn't ever really take off?
The solution is better captchas. I won't be giving my mobile phone to anyone.
Well, MSFT is giving "integrated experience" for XBox for years. So its not new to be honest.
New Microsoft Surface tablet announced
Why is this press release on Hacker News?
Your point about Helvetica reminds me of this line from a post written today by Armin:

"Helvetica is the fixed-gear bike of typefaces: it’s as basic as it gets, but the statement it makes is as complex as anything else."

http://www.underconsideration.com/brandnew/archives/new_univ...
Microsoft Introduces New "Surface" Tablet
What about ISO 8601? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601
Why don't any good 'URL Finder' apps exist.

1) Open URL Finder app
2) Take picture
3) URL finder identifies all the urls in the picture.
4) Your browser opens those urls

These QR codes aren't being used for robot orientation or shipment tracking, they don't need to be so fault tolerant. Why not just OCR plain text?
Can I get android on it?
The standard thing is issuing new shares with dilution of existing shareholders % shares. But in that case despite company valuation going up I don't have any theoretical gain because my % share is going proportionally down. I want to understand the mechanics :-)
Microsoft always waits for the markets to close for events or announcements. This is nothing new.
And was based on completely different technology and served a different purpose.
Most countries operate on a "loser pays" system. Whichever party loses has to pay the legal fees of the winning side.

This does a lot to discourage nuisance lawsuits.

In the US defendants generally can't recoup costs unless the claim is declared a "frivolous lawsuit".
does anyone else think this engadget live stream interface is absolutely terrible?
Microsoft's new Windows 8 Tablet: "Welcome to Microsoft Surface."
And so awful... (Hackers - not War Games)
That was a new thing altogether, and they did that from the very beginning. Admitting that maybe the integrated approach could work better on the PC (they consider tablets a new form factor for PCs) is totally not in the same ballpark.
I watched WWDC via Engadget using the same interface. Everything about this presentation, from the timing to the lame device they are actually announcing, seems poorly thought-out and downright boring compared to Apple's keynote.

Just one of the reasons why "Surface" was a poor name choice: Surface is trending on Twitter right now, but a search for 'surface' includes lots of tweets unrelated to Microsoft or this product. Example:

Terms of Virgo ‏@VirgoTerms
#Virgo can appear emotionally cold on the surface when they repress their natural kindness.

A similar search for 'iPad' shows zero results that aren't referring to Apple's iPad.
Why would this be even remotely surprising? Microsoft is currently trying to cargo-cult what Apple is doing. That they ape the same philosophy isn't unexpected.
built in kickstand? http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2012/06/micros... kinda cheezy

Cover is a keyboard? http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2012/06/micros...

That's actually cool
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It is atrocious. When you move the images "inline", they end up being 100 px by 100 px thumbnails.

The Verge liveblog is much better:
http://live.theverge.com/microsoft-live-blog-tablet-announce...
> why showing up on time is so god damn important

This is a matter of not wasting other people's time, it is a matter of respect. If you prioritize and plan accordingly, being prompt is usually quite easy. If you haven't done so, then you are effectively saying that your laziness is more important than your compatriot's time. Of course, this is only important when one of the parties has this view (it is some sort of prisoner's dilema, I think.)
Dear Asus: if you are designing the bees-knees of routers, why can't you provide a simple, maximum power consumption figure? This is important to me, since power is solar. I downloaded the manual. No dice. No sale.
Congrats Kirsty - she's a major force behind YCs success.
Multitouch keyboard on a cover. Brilliant!
Because OCR is hard. Finding and decoding QR codes is way easier and more resilient.
The multitouch cover/keyboard is very interesting. I think this could be a game changer if it works well.
Nice, keyboard built into the cover.
I'm not sure how I feel about this. I feel like there's nothing "new" here. Can someone prove me wrong?
The grandparent was talking about Node, which doesn't tell you how to organize directories like Rails.
I thought he was was drawing a distinction between literal communication and evocation of experience and feeling. E.g., "war is bad" vs Guernica. I take it as linked in that I saw it as an argument for a broad understanding of art. E.g., if a big purple square of Rothko's is evocative, it's still worthwhile art even though any reasonable translation of it to unpoetic statements of it is either null or dull to the point of idiocy.
Yeah, I feel that Microsoft is bastardizing or abandoning everything that Microsoft Surface (the table computer) was supposed to be by repurposing its name into Microsoft Surface (the tablet computer) just to compete with iPad.
Microsoft Announces Surface: New Family of PCs for Windows
The smartcover-with-keyboard thing is pretty impressive.
Related: the jazz educator David Baker has described the progression of learning jazz to first, joining together big, pre-made pieces; then, joining together small pieces; finally (as a master) joining together atoms.

I think something equivalent could be said for programming (journey from modifying a script that already works to understanding the atoms of the language) and there's some close-enough statement that could be made for painting / visual art. The journey from imitation to atom-by-atom originality.
Joomla is so slow.

It looks like nothing about it has significantly changed over the last four years.

I'd recommend Wordpress (very simple) or even Drupal (which is complicated, but more CMS-like as Joomla is).
Nice, keyboard built into the cover (with trackpad).
Sorry, I did not add much detail information. I intend to learning coding to be able to do web development and then later mobile app development. Am a business guy. I don't have the intention of learning to code to get a job, but more to be able to program MVP of product ideas I have. Which one is the most easiest for a rookie Ruby or RoR or PHP or Zend or cakePHP or Yii. My goal is to get results quick, later I can then jump into the nitty gritty.
Great idea!

In the UK however the Town & Country Planning Act 1990 means advertising without permission could land you n hot water.

Shame though, I'd love this in my city centre!
I also got to almost $2 million after a couple hundred trades, but then just started pushing buy every time and went back down to $100k. I helped my dad get up $40k on etrade in the 4 months just before 9/11, pleaded with him to collect his winnings in August, and then it all trickled away in the weeks afterwards. Stock trading is just a casino where the odds are 2% in your favor each day, but only the rich can play. I think hackers make good traders because of their contrarian nature, and ability to stay cool and read signs that most people are too impatient/impulsive to see.
They have a video on the main page. The video is a minute long. They have asked for my attention for a minute.

In that minute, they have not told me anything about what the Surface can do for me, and why I should care about it. I'm absolutely baffled by that.

Yes, I might know what it is, and have some idea about what it can do, but if this was a television commercial, I'd bet money that such a campaign would be a quickly forgotten failure.
A link to Verge's live-blog feed...much better than Engadget's http://live.theverge.com/microsoft-live-blog-tablet-announce...
When I saw that, I thought "they've managed to turn a tablet into a laptop." and I actually thought the exact opposite of you.
That's what I thought at first and then thought 'I bet that feels like typing on a microfiber cloth, and the keys can't have much travel, if any at all.
Trademarks? Trademarks are not cool. You know what's cool?

PATENTS.

Patents in the mobile space, which is currently the most litigious tech sector.

Nokia has thousands of them, because they used to be a great engineering company which pioneered mobile TLCs. Their patent war-chest is comparable to Motorola's, if not better. They will be acquired by one of the following companies: a) Apple, b) Google, c) Microsoft. And there won't be any antitrust concerns: the buyer will just sell off any manufacturing activities to some Chinese or Taiwanese company, and place all their patents in a well-protected safe for their lawyers to peruse.
That's a reasonable way to build an application, and one that I personally prefer, but there isn't a silver bullet. But if you're building a Node app your server js and your client js don't need to commingle. Make a src/js/client directory, and stick your package.json in there (if you want to use this tool).
It's a sign that people are interested in,and paying attention to your code. Take it as a compliment!
There was also a client/server RAD tool call JAM which I used for a brief period in the 1990s when I worked in a financial services IT shop. Seems it still exists, though I've never heard of anyone else using it. http://www.prolifics.com/jam.htm
The keyboard-cover is a cool idea, but I can't imagine using it well unless I'm using a desk (at what point I'd be using a laptop.)

90% of the time I use my iPad, its on the couch, in bed, or when I'm standing up.

Still, props to Microsoft for this initiative.
Microsoft Announces iPad competitior.
If it's true, a notification would have been nice. Or changing the setting back only for people who haven't specifically looked at and increased their privacy settings in the past
Cover as keyboard less cool without kickstand!
How is using a qr code to get a direct link to what you need even comparable to doing a search on that object and hoping you get relevant information?
Is there some visual distortion going on or is that tablet really thick? Reminds me of the newton.

http://www.microsoft.com/global/surface/en/us/publishingimag...
It has nothing to do with effectiveness or performance. It comes down to the importance, in some social theaters, of shared suffering. When the company or group is doing well, the rockstars are the people who push forward and come up with new ideas. When things are falling apart, it's reliable/available people who get the benefit of the doubt and will advance. Ass-in-seat time matters most at companies that are stagnant or in trouble, because no one wants to be scapegoated as the slacker. (Bad managers tend to blame problems resulting from their lack of focus and effectiveness on "lazy" people not working enough hours.)

If you think the crisis is temporary and a one-off, it might be worth it to log long hours for a month or two for the credibility that comes from having suffered with the group, especially as the company/group grows and becomes cliquish and the before/after crowd distinction starts to matter. If it's permanent, it's usually better to find a new job.
Microsoft's Surface Tablet Official Video
Missed the most important one for this month, minutes always have 60 seconds. Except for the end of this month, when one minute will have 61 seconds, ie, Leap Second.
Microsoft Surface - Tablet from MSFT

More information: http://www.microsoft.com/surface/en/us/about.aspx

Looks cool to be honest. With Metro UI it can be game changer.
I noticed that as well. Us geeks know what it is but non-geeks are probably like, 'Is that a new iPad?' Contrast with Apple's iPad ads that show 'real' people actually doing things with the device.
You get a lawyer.

If you're smart, you figure out how much legal help you can afford. There is some help available pro-bono, some through legal clinics.

It's helpful to figure out what you feel that you should do, and what you actually need to do. Getting the other side to spin its wheels can be helpful, though for a morally motivated pro se opponent, this can be challenging (by "morally motivated", I mean an opponent who's motivated by their own moral outrage, not necessarily acting morally), as they are essentially gifting themselves their own legal services. Being prepared can be helpful, but that can cost.

Often you don't need to do too much, sometimes that's not the case. And law can very much be a war of attrition.

There are some countermeasures which can be taken, generally launching a countersuit, making disclosure demands, etc., though these also have their own costs, and if your opponent doesn't have deep pockets, they're not particularly effective and/or interesting to your own legal counsel (who after all is looking for their billable hours or 30% contingency).

A very good rule of thumb is not to do business with assholes (or marry one), though this won't cover you in all cases (e.g.: Oatmeal vs. FunnyJunk).

There are also personal liability policies available, though they can be expensive. On the positive side, they make your problem your insurance company's problem, and they may be motivated to respond effectively to shut down your opponent. More often these or other legal insurance policies will cost a fair bit up-front and pay for a small fraction of legal costs.
As it is also available as a full Windows PC, they are aiming to eliminate the need for a separate laptop.
Well it's big enough for a USB port.
If you have a reader app on your phone scanning the QR code is a bit faster than typing in a url, especially if your doing repeatedly for multiple products.

I still think they are overused, but they can offer a little extra connivence, as long as they aren't taking up too much space.
Search the leaked credit card data
It's something like 9 mm "thick" for the Windows RT version.
Every TCP/UDP endpoint (such as a client or a server) maintains a state-table. As you might guess, it stores the state of each connection. You can view it using the 'netstat' command on Windows and Linux.

Bittorrent tends to create several entries in the state-table (since you're typically connected to hundred of seeds/leeches), which are each stored in memory, and uses up CPU resources to setup/maintain/teardown.

So if you were downloading a file via, say, Rapidshare, there'd be probably 1 TCP (you can configure your browser to use more) connection for your router to track, and do the necessary TCP handshakes, acknowledgments, RWIN scaling etc. Multiply all that's necessary for 1 TCP connection by N, where N is the number of peers you're connected to, and the limited resources on a $60 router get used up fast.

Early models of the now-famous Linksys WRT54G could reliably be crashed by torrenting while using stock firmware. A power-cycle was necessary to get it running again. Fun times.

However, all this only applies if you're running the router in NAT mode, which means the router takes the IP address from your ISP, and acts as the endpoint on behalf of your computer. If the router is running in bridged mode, then your computer acts as the endpoint, as much more equipped to handle large numbers of TCP connections.

Edit: Formatting, Grammar.
Nvidia shows off Tesla K10 performance
It's been a long time since I've been impressed by a MS product. Kudos to them.
http://www.microsoft.com/global/surface/en/us/renderingasset...

WinRT (ARM) and a Intel version. Multitouch keyboard. Full HD on the Intel tablet on 10.6 inch screen (nearly the same density as the MBP Retina)

Also, funny the comments here, the iPad edges are tapered, but the RT version is 9.3mm and Apple says the iPad is 9.4mm deep.

Why oh why are they pushing Silverlight to show the video?
Any links to the actual video of the conference?
Silverlight video. Ugh.
Yes, I really hate QR codes that have no labels at all, how am I supposed to know if I want to actually read the content at the other end?
Ah, so now even Microsoft acknowledges that tablets are PCs. That means that Apple and HP are the top PC manufacturers, both having sold 16 million PCs in the past quarter.
I feel like it would leave very odd patterns from the oil on the screen, and it honestly looks like something I'd find in the clearance bin at staples.
Microsoft Surface - Spec sheet
That is not how copyright works.

Copyright protects your articles, illustrations, posts, photographs, videos, and other works of creative expression from the time that they are fixed in a tangible medium of expression. It gives the creator of an original work exclusive rights to the work, for a limited time.

That is the true definition of copyright, the second you put pen to paper. You do not need to register with a copyright office.
"Drop the book. Just Face. It's cleaner."

But seriously, facial recognition is a useful feature to save folks time trying to tag people with names in every photo. Also helps with discovering new people you want to meet. And yes of course it could be used for "evil" both by Facebook and the government. But that's true of any other technology, so arguably a wash.
I think the back face is smaller in area than the front face, so the angle is tricking your eyes.
Actually, that is correct. You should help people in 3rd world countries first. Most of the homeless in America are "voluntarily" homeless, or have drug/mental problems. Even still, as homeless in America, they have it better off than most people in 3rd world countries. The average person in a 3rd world country lives off a few American dollars (equivalent) a day - and that is your average person. Here, a homeless person can probably get that much begging in a day. And calling it "rampant" sexism is ridiculous. We sexualize women, obviously, because that is what sells. There is no shame in sexual attraction (or depictions of it), no more so than the average square jawed, six-pack male protagonists we create. Sexuality is an advantage in this world, not a crutch. Let's stop pretending like its such a bad thing.
They've announced two covers, one of which has a tactile keyboard.
I think it's pretty safe to say that this is Microsoft going all in on the consumer market.

1. Video doesn't really show anything but it is admittedly well made.
2. You have to actually download the tech specs.
3. The tech specs have little meaning. (At first glance what is ClearType HD Display, some sort of Retina?)

It's like they took the apple philosophy even further.

Not sure how I feel about this but I guess now finally all the windows people have what the metro really is made for.

Oh and a little detail.

2100 Likes so far and not a single tweet (which obviously can't be true for reasons I am not yet aware of.)
Do any of these have built-in VPN? And which services can I use it with?

I'd like to be able to configure a VPN at the router, and not have to think about whether the software is compatible with, installed in and used by all the software on my devices. Any suggestions?
Have you had hands-on with Windows Phone 7 on a Nokia Lumia? That's pretty impressive.
Charlotte?? I thought Raleigh-Durham was bad for startups - Charlotte has to be worse. And where is the mention of New York City? Strange perspective. Maybe someone from Charlotte can shed light on their Ive league status.

Raleigh-Durham has quite the burgeoning startup scene, but I don't know anyone (except maybe Charlotte fanboys) who would say Charlotte has a better tech-startup scene. The RTP area is at least sometimes acknowledged by non-locals, but I've never heard anybody mention Charlotte as a startup hotbed (well, until now).
It is nice. And it's called 'Do Not Disturb', and is part of iOS 6. It has plenty of other features (like letting a call through, if the caller has calling twice in a row. It could be urgent).
You swear at magazines and boycott a company because they ask you to download an app?

Wow. Perhaps consider anger management classes?
Not exactly a fair comparison, during the iPad's announcement, most of the responses on twitter were lame feminine hygiene jokes.
It's .2mm thinner than the iPad.
YouTube to the rescue:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dpzu3HM2CIo&feature=playe...
I thought a similar thing -- too much heavy BGM and no idea what the balls have to do with the tablet itself.

However, as far as giving information about the product, I don't think it was too bad. Features from the video:

* Cover is a keyboard on the back
* Cover is removable, and comes in many colors
* Kickstand on the back
* A little thicker than a USB plug
It takes ages for most camera apps to decode a QR code designed for ease of reading and ubiquity - what makes you think it would somehow be faster to do OCR on arbitrarily sized and styled fonts?
Second life style mobile book community
Not sure if this is sexism, more like horrible manners. I always request control of someone's keyboard when I need it (and given all the germs - I try to avoid it if I can!)

Of course, I am not female - I wonder if other female devs I know have this issue.
Microsoft announces Windows 8 Surface tablet during mystery event in Los Angeles
i can't believe they've got the windows logo on the front bezel. super ugly and distracting. even apple, who loves its logo as much as any corporation, kept the front of the ipad logo-free.