skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What's "allowed" and what a cab driver will do are two different things, as you've already discovered. Also, on the peninsula in the bay area, you don't really "Hail" a cab, you have to call for one. And, it's while you are calling one, they can decided whether to send one. I've spent several hours at AMC Mercado in Santa Clara waiting for a cab for a short trip, and continually having it confirmed that they are "Waiting for someone to pick up the ride."
Anecdotal evidence ahead:

German hospitals make mistakes too, it's not just in the US.

My premature daughter was born in Berlin and she had club feet (which was already known since you can detect it from the sonogram).

Because our daughter was premature and had to stay in the hospital for 6 weeks, we couldn't go to the professional orthopedic doctor (who has treated hundreds of babies with club feet) since he was off-site. We had to let the on-site orthopedic doctor treat her.

Everyone at the hospital said, "He [the on-site doctor] is great, he has treated club feet before, he knows what he is doing." etc.

So, we let him treat our daughter for 6 weeks while she was the hospital. Every 3 or 4 days she got new casts on her feet.

When our daughter was finally released we took her to the real orthopedic doctor and he took one look at the casts and just laughed. "These casts look like they are from treatments from the 60s, this is not how anyone has treated club feet in decades." He put new casts on her and it was like night and day watching him work- he was a master at putting the casts on compared to the previous doctor.

The good doctor also said he has seen this happen many times before with babies from our hospital. They do the club feet casts wrong all the time and yet nothing ever happens. They don't improve, they don't get trained in how to do it, they don't even get told "DON'T DO IT" when no treatment would have been better than bad treatment. It's infuriating to know that these bad doctors can just keep being bad and no one does anything about it.

Our daughter also had to stay in the hospital for an extra day because they "forgot" to tell us we could take her home.

And these are just the mistakes we know about.

At least the whole experience was 100% free. No copays, no deductibles, nothing. I can't imagine how much all this would cost in the US.
This. I started to get involved in Debian a few years ago (though I'm a long-time user) and this is really really interesting work. There are a lot of packages with too little workforce where you can go through a list of dozens or hundreds of bugs.

alrs is true ; in most cases your work is automatically replicated to Ubuntu (where the package-maintainer relationship is less strong than in Debian. Most packages don't have a dedicated maintainer there).

And everyone can do it ; no sign-up or complicated process required. You just have to find a sponsor for your packages which is just a fancy name for "every code needs review". Debian is often described as bureaucratic but most of the processes are very sane.
Try this on iPad. Generated assembly looks very bad in terms of layout.
Side by side would be a better layout like:
http://gcc.godbolt.org/
You don't filter out CPP macro's. I would skip that and only allow C code. Or run this thing in a proper jail because at the moment:

- doing an include #include "/dev/random" will block the thread.
- including "/etc/passwd" is also possible although I don't see a direct way to turn this into password disclosure.

Seriously; even if it's a weekend project, letting people run all kinds of potentially bad code on your machine is never a good idea. Even though you don't run the binaries yourself there's so many ways to mess around with a compiler. You just don't know what's going to happen.
We can only have so many IDEs.

If you want to make "user" apps (apps that average users, not computer nerds use), you have to go with Mac/Windows/iOS/Android/Web. None of them gives Linux a competitive advantage over other platforms.

Linux will never be mainstream[1]. It's an operating system for hackers by hackers. The sooner people accept that, the better.

[1]: I'm aware of Android. But that's not Linux. Just like iOS and OS X are not "Unix".
This really removes any hurdle I might have of inspecting the assembly code due to sheer laziness of opening up my Visual Studio and start debugging. Awesome work. If you add some type of interactivity to the generated assembly, it can be made more visual.
there's quite a similar quote on photography

"Amateurs worry about equipment, professionals worry about money, masters worry about light"
And this is what Google will have to fight when they finally get ready to offer a driverless-taxi service.
I don't think noreply is about not wanting people to respond to your messages. It is rather a solution for all the garbage you get back when sending out email to thousands of people. You will get many many mailer deamon mails for people who typed their addresses wrong or whose mailbox is full (yes, there are still webhosts that have a 20 MB limit apparently). Filtering all this stuff takes lots of effort and seems like a bad thing to spent time on when you can just use noreply and include a "Have questions? Email us at service@example.com" line.
Really? Imagine a tiny phone with around a week of battery life, camera, mp3 player & maps, using the rotary dial for contact selection etc..

As far as I'm concerned that would get you 95% of the value a full iPhone provides; and it would've made for a great one more thing during the last iPhone reveal...
The sheer absurdity of the whole thing made me laugh.
> "way more reliable than Redis."

I respect your opinion on different messaging solutions (Resque VS Beanstalkd) however since we spend a lot of efforts to make sure Redis is very reliable I wonder what's the reliability problem you experienced with Redis. Thanks!
It is a bit strange that there is a differentiation between battery life and portability. As far as I'm concerned portability is (battery-life * (1/weight)), assuming that you give them the same importance.
Seems to be somewhat incoherent flamebait about Vi, mainly giving contrived examples where other tools do a better job (how many people think that vim is the right tool for editing CSV? Or vimscript the right language to write a Markdown processor?). If only it were at least funny...
I have been using the Ux31 (previous version, only 1600x900) on Arch and Windows 8, and I am quite impressed too.

I have been a heavy Thinkpad (T42 and T61p) and Macbook Pro user, and I had the chance to test other Ultrabooks, like the Samsung S9 and some cheap Acer. I was quite prejudiceed against Asus, but this machine is really the best I had so far.
By emphasizing that this is his last "PC" laptop, I assume he might still buy a laptop in the future but not a PC one. However, all the points listed in the article are reasons for why tablets are more awesome.
Who said academia was dull?
Existing Thinkpad fans have been unimpressed with the display on the X1 carbon. You may take that with a grain of salt, as some of us remember when high-end models came with UXGA IPS panels and a few could even be ordered with a QXGA option.
I could have made the same comment.
Good project, could be useful to me. A peace of asm documentation would be tasty.
I'm also considering the thinkpad as a replacement, mainly because once I got used to the trackpoint I can't imagine working on a notebook without one.
> My tablet today is significantly more powerful than my laptop in 2006 but still not quite fast enough for compiling stuff etc.

What kind of laptop did you own? If you've got an iPad 3, any Tegra 3 or Exynos 4412 powered Android Tablet known to my knowledge you have in no way the processing power of a 2006 Laptop. To remind you, a reasonable Laptop in 2006 had a Core (2) Duo CPU, discreet graphics aside. I've used such a Laptop until 2011 to work flawlessy with Eclipse, Photoshop and even older versions of Premiere.

Performance-wise the current ARM CPUs still are lagging behind anything the Desktop had roughly ten years ago.

It's only their power consumption that made them interesting for Apple and only that only with the uprising of very power efficient gpus aswell so the iPhone 1 could have that level of responsiveness at basically no cpu power.

And it's not a fault of X86, which is shown by the newest Intel Medfield CPUs which are starting to outperform the ARMs at the same level of power consumption. At these levels of engineering it boils down to physics. ARMs CPUs aren't just more "cleverly" designed, they had a different scope, different instruction sets and therefor different power specifications.

You can only get so much CPU Speed from a CPU at a certain NM scale with a certain intructionset at a certain power level, and if it's arm or x86 doesn't change that.

ARM should start to feel Intel's breath in their neck, since ARM doesn't have nearly the kind of spending power Intel has to strongarm(no pun intended) the technology beyond the reach of ARMs financial possibilities(The NM race is becoming exponentially more expensive with each iteration...).

Motorola has started to build the RazrI which will be very interesting to watch in the market.
I hate to defend Apple, but at least half of this guy's problems, cleverly disguised with snarky thanks, could have been avoided had he simply brought his machine into the store like everyone else. They have everything they need to fix your issue right in store, minus the faulty wiring, cleaning ladies and CF cards.

Thank you, Asshole.
Show HN: my weekend project
I built a small website this weekend where people can show off their figurine collection. The goal of this website is just to be in my portfolio. So I want it to look "cool".

Any advice on how to improve the landing page, the register page and the dashboard?

URL : http://www.figurine-fan.com/
- account: demo@gmail.com:hndemo
- http://www.figurine-fan.com/hndemo

Thanks!
All progress depends on the unreasonable man. However, not all unreasonable men are responsible for progress.
clickable link: http://www.figurine-fan.com/
You can build your own Cray (of a different model) using FPGAs.

(http://www.chrisfenton.com/homebrew-cray-1a/)

I think he'd be interested in talking to anyone with Cray documentation or software.

We have come a long way in a short time. But I do miss the outlandish design of the Crays, and the blinking lights of Thinking machines. A bunch of racks just isn't the same.
Apple safari browser? Is it also the case with opera or Chrome on the iPad?
"Want the smallest most portable device you can get away with? "

"Want to be always connected to the Internet? Sure you do;"

"Just try opening a laptop on a crowded subway train or bus."

Someone needs to stop trying to arrange their life around their tech and try it the other way around.

If you are so overloaded with work, or so keen at your work, or so behind in your work, that you need to open your laptop on the train and start tapping away then some part of your work-life balance is in serious need of adjustment.

If you're THAT valuable to yourself or the business that you MUST be hunched in front of the keyboard, or online, every waking moment then why are you on a train? Your value/benefit demands that you be driven everywhere so you can work in the back of the vehicle and that you have a PA to handle messaging. Right?

I am an IT Manager for a high-tech company. Here's my solution, based on my personal values and my value/responsibility/benefit to the business:

Samsung Galaxy Note

It's a stupidly-big phone AND a moderately-sized tablet. I can keep in touch with emails, speak to people(!), do video calls and Skype/VoIP, check messages and do remote support via RDP/VNC/SSH/OpenVPN if there's a serious crisis when I'm on the move. If needed (rare), I can use the phone for reading/editing documents and PDFs, minor coding work and, if I really want to fill another pocket, it will work with a bluetooth (or miniature USB wired) keyboard.

Acer Aspire 5735 laptop.

It's a dual-core, 15.6" screen model, about three years old. The laptop comes with me very occasionally when I need it for a meeting or if I need to hook up to some kit when I'm on site. As it happens, the Galaxy Note has an MHL (HDMI) video connector and so I can use it for meeting presentations anyway. Laptop for use on a train? Maybe - on the extremely rare occasion that I need to type up a report on the way back home as it's needed first thing the next day. Typing stuff on the way TO work or site? That was done in the office the day before, or maybe at home if things get sprung on me at very short notice. If I don't grab the laptop, an original Acer Aspire One AA150 netbook comes with me.

In a nutshell, I have boiled down my tech-demanding activities to:

Desk-based: Use a conventional PC, or my laptop, or my phone (for calls and simple networking diagnostics)

On the move: Phone for about 95% of the time. Take laptop or netbook if needed.

Considering that the phone is always with me, that means I'm automatically setup for almost all my work and personal tech needs all the time.

Would I consider buying a UX31A or similar ultrabook (or a tablet for that matter) - sure, if cost/benefit was not an issue, but the device would probably spend most of its life on a desk, and all the things that make it what it is (size, lightness etc.) would be wasted - unless of course, I turned things on their head and altered my work/lifestyle to fit around the technology - mind you, that would mean taking the train to work instead of driving - and, no, I don't have a chauffeur!
He has a desktop computer with a bunch of monitors, so I guess his laptop is mostly for email, entertainment and web browsing. Of course a tablet can do that just fine. If you're using a laptop as your main machine, you have different needs.

Personally I am planning to retire my desktop computer and buy an ultrabook, probably a Samsung 900X3C. The Samsung is tinner and lighter, and I read it's a bit more solid in the build than the Asus.

Anyone tried both the 900X3C and a UX31A? Anyone tried Linux on them?
The Asus A95V is another one - real workhorse, huge & heavy (18.4 display) but has latest i7 Ivy-Bridge chip set, 2 hard disks, 16GB mem, full HD.

similar price point - actually a bit cheaper than the UX31A but originally only available in Germany.
Thanks. I like that the screen is a bit larger than the others (14") even if lower resolution, but maybe I should worry about the quality.
"Funnily, the mythical website that inspired wok still hasn't been written." ha ha, classic. like my django-tmdb abandonware.
The only thing I find appealing about tablets at the moment is the ARM CPU, which translates directly to low heat and long battery life.

I don't want to run a tablet OS. I don't want to have to attach an external keyboard. I don't care about touch. I want more than a gig of RAM. I want a laptop-class SSD, not an SD card. I'm actually considering building my own ARM laptop because I haven't seen anything on the market I want.
Coming 2013 apparently.

http://www.eetimes.com/electronics-news/4229171/HP-Hynix-to-...
Right - I think it's part of the mindset of the hacker to assign intrinsic value to a basic understanding of how things work. From the Krebs Cycle to the lifecycle of a star, it's all interesting.
I do not think AppleTV is the same as that TV you are talking about. AppleTV turns that large screen in your living room that used to only get data from a cable into a large Internet-connected display that shows on-demand photos and video (soemtimes from those phones and tablets). In a sense, the TV just is the largest display in the house, in a place where it is convenient for multiple people to look at it from comfortable chairs.
Show HN: *Secure* Online Editor- encrypts *all* docs and info (feedback please)
chroot would probably be sufficient. Barring some sort of code execution vuln in the compiler you can only load stuff off of the filesystem.

Having the actual CPP available is nice because some bits of libc are only macros.
It's completely surreal. I live about four kilometers from Haren, it's a relatively quiet suburban area, inhabited by mostly wealthier people. Pretty much the last place you'd expect a riot.

It was mostly white trash that look for any occasion to wreak havoc. Fortunately, the place was also packed with local and national media, so lots of the people who trashed the place are captured on video. One can only hope that they'll send them the cleaning and repair bills.

Also, this will increase the interest in automatically monitoring of social media to identify threats.
Train rides are kind of boring. Why wouldn't I get out my laptop on a train? I did, recently, to add depth-of-field compensation to a blurry image detector I'm writing for my own amusement. I don't think that would be nearly as fun on a stupidly-big phone.
no. it means "right tool for the right job". vim makes integration with unix pretty easy. that's a main feature and it is highlighted in the koans.
feature requests:

- haml (https://github.com/Pitmairen/hamlish-jinja)

- autodiscover for additional pages
They said iphone5 came with Maps (lol)
It seems he wants a super-powerful tablet. That'd be reasonable for on the go. He'd have a good docking system at home to connect to proper monitor and keyboard, with big storage. There'd be a portable keyboard too, for proper work on the go.

He'd still have to take a phone.

And, of course, he'd have a struggle with OSs not knowing if they were using horrible tablet interfaces or desktop interfaces; and having to adjust between mouse and touch all the time.
Looks nice. I have a bit of pixelation on the button & font. But overall it's nice, clean and a simple idea. I like it.

You should share it with the guys at -> http://www.reddit.com/r/figurines
0 EUR.

For me, all the options you mention are covered by the EU data protection directive, and guaranteed by law. Now, if only Facebook would actually follow the law...
Interestingly, I'm having the opposite thing happen. Due to this MacBook Pro Retina (I have the fully spec'd version), I firmly believe that my Mac Pro will be the last desktop computer I own.

While the Mac Pro (about a year old) still smokes this laptop in a lot of areas, it's not enough smoke that I find myself turning it on half as much as I used to after I got this laptop. Occasionally, if I'm doing some heavy duty OpenFrameworks hacking, I'll switch over.

I've moved almost all my video editing to the MBP, mostly because I went with the G-RAID thunderbolt RAID (wrongly assuming they'd introduce a Mac Pro line with Thunderbolt sometime soon). And render times aren't so bad that I miss it all that much, though when I do I will begrudgingly shuffle some files around and fire up the Mac Pro. (I do video installation art as a hobby).

I think I will miss how warm the Mac Pro keeps my office in the winter though.

I also can't wait to see what next year's line refresh brings.
Microsoft's Developer Marathon in India Sets Guinness World Record
Our goal is to give users a good search experience while funding ourselves by receiving a share of this income. Search engines who do not share the income generated by our users, are removed from Linux Mint and might get their ads blocked.

...

It won’t only be down to donations and sponsorships anymore, your activity on the web, every search query you make and product you buy will help fund our project.

http://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=1851

* * *

Try Trisquel http://trisquel.info/ which based on Ubuntu, with non-free software removed.
They're supposedly (if NIMBYs don't succeed in hamstringing CAHSR) going to extend the Caltrain line to the new CAHSR terminal, which is much more centrally located (although chock-full of its own idiocies).

Then if only Caltrain could adopt a not-insane schedule and reasonable frequency, and zoning roadblocks were removed (it looks like most of SV is zoned "parking lots only"), it might actually prove to be a catalyst for development!

Haha... :(
Agreed, it's not only the keyboard but also the blazing fast application switching (at a keyboard shortcut distance), decent code editors.

The only thing that come near that for me are the asus transformer series running ubuntu, but I'm still encountering multiple fatal issues (plus the touchpad is sub-par).
Can someone remember this presentation about a social network event going horribly wrong?
I've been considering both the 900X3C and 900X4C myself, but Linux support isn't quite there yet. The most annoying outstanding issue (maybe the only one when Ubuntu 12.10 hits) is a nasty ACPI bug that causes Linux to fail to recognize when certain events take place, like lid close/open and battery charge/discharge, both pretty much show stoppers for a laptop IMHO. It seems to affect lots of Samsung laptops, not just the series 9. Here are a few useful links if you want to keep track of the overall issues:

https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=44161

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SamsungSeries9

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1737086&page=24

If they ever get the ACPI bug worked out, I probably wouldn't go for the X3C. Even though it has a better display (IPS) and is slightly thinner the RAM isn't upgradeable at 4 GB, unlike the X4C which comes with 8 GB and is upgradeable to 16 GB.

Edit: Forgot to mention that you need Windows installed in order to upgrade the BIOS.
I had to check whether today is April 1.
Here you can see a long road around the mountain http://www.topomapper.com/index.html?lat=24.87709&lon=85... (thanks, sesqu)
But you can run both on the Mac, at the same time too. I do a lot of OpenFrameworks stuff for in-store retailing (touch screen, interactive displays) and I can run opengl openframework apps in Parallels 8 at 60 fps no problem in coherence mode (WIndows apps run in windows integrated with your mac desktop). They aren't exactly trivial apps either (some run at 2560x1440 and are doing Kinect processing + OpenCV + 3D). I develop with XCode, flip over to Visual Studio to recompile and debug (we dev on macs, deploy on Windows).
yep, definitely an affiliate link. in previous posts atwood would disclose the affiliate links in the post (not sure why he didn't do so this time). amazon usually pays 4% on referrals (in this case 42$), so depending on the loyalty of his readership this "review" might be moderately lucrative.
I didn't know this existed. Thanks for letting me know. It's a great start!
Notebook consideration
hi,<p>i am looking for guidance regarding a replacement for my recently broken thinkpad x41. i tried to get a grasp on what the market has to offer, but somehow my requirements do not seem to be mainstream. i hope someone here might have a nice tip or some information on upcoming products (so that i can happily buy a netbook for the time in between.<p>my x41 was pretty nice. it has a 12"-screen with a useful 1024x786 pixel² resolution. it is pretty small and light. its keyboard is fantastic (for a laptop keyboard). it was not very fast, but was okay for occasional surfing and sys-administration work. i really liked the trackpoint.<p>now, time passed and i'd think the market should offer some improvements to that old notebook: a nicer pixel density would be great, longer battery life. i'd really like to keep that or a very similar form factor. it must also not be from apple (various reasons).<p>oh. and i will run linux. that means it should not have a pouslbo gpu or anything very exotic. (that won't disqualify many notebooks i think)
I have now added some basic macro detection