skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem is that the "harm" that can happen can be terrible terrible harm. Some gay (or other LGBT people) can be literally killed if the wrong person approaches them. There is an element of danger that straight cis men rarely are able to notice.

Stop trying to tell marginalized groups that they are silly to be worried. We know our own lives and our own experiences. We've seen the odd stare or remark someone has made. We all worry that sometimes this person will go very far. Work on reducing the amount of hatred that spewed out by some groups which encouraged the people that attack us.
I am using iDevices since they have been available to buy.

The machine that I use most and is the most fun is the latest MacBook Air. I would expect that 'Ultrabooks' are similar useful.
WHEN THEY TAKE OPERA THEY WILL TAKE YOUR FIREFOX

Additionally, this new trend of testing for browser strings deserves our scrutiny.
Everyone knows you need to run a wire to ground.
You sound like a douche calling your friend your 'wing' (you don't use that terminology IRL right?). Also, That much sex can't be good on either a physical (venereal disease) or emotional level. I certainly don't wish you or your friend ill, however I can't help but imagine a future for you and your friend of sadness, regret and maybe a good dose of self loathing.

These encounters and 'conquests' seem utterly shallow and devoid of meaning, and coupled with the decidedly non-zero chance of contracting a life-long venereal disease with the real chance of passing these on to future 'real' partners and children... I gotta say I don't see the point.
This is fine from a consumer point of view, consuming content on a phone or tablet is really great! But if you want to create, there is just nothing out there that can rival a keyboard and a mouse. For this reason, 'desktop' PCs will be around for a very long time, in business and for anyone who creates (writes, codes, or creates any kind of media) in any way semi-seriously at home.
Two guys agree on it, so it must be correct! Well, time to chuck this inconvenient clamshell POS and get an Android tablet to do some actual work on.
Agreed. I also have a ultrabook and the portability is prefect. Extremely lightweight devices are what I want, and this delivers this to me, and includes more power, and a keyboard.
For the record, that 2005 study at MIT was actually part of what inspired the name of our company - Tinfoil Security.
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the "wanting to be rich" thing is frankly a cliche. Lots of people like money in France as much as everywhere else, and I don't see much difference between France and UK. It is certainly more prevalent in the US, but I would say the US are the exception. And if you want money, I am not sure startup is the likely way of doing it. Certainly, for people with the right diploma, working in the finance sector is much more rewarding financially speaking.

Regarding the taxes, I will say what I always say: yes they are higher than in the UK, but you get more. So you need to compare what you're getting, otherwise the comparison is meaningless. I am working in the UK, where I paid around 35 % of taxes, so quite lower than France, where it would be closer to 50-55 % I think for my salary. But then, I get shitty health care and essentially no pension. And if I have kids, I will have to pay a lots of money to get them a decent school. I would love paying 15-20 points more taxes in exchange for that in the UK.

IMO, the main issue in France is more the education system and how the incentives are highly biased toward going to a big company. The whole society is highly biased against failure, and the only path to a 'career' is through 'soft' areas. I am just over 30 and my parents don't understand why I am still doing engineering instead of 'managing' people, for example. This is the main reason why I have been leaving outside France for the last 8 years or so, not taxes.
Here here. I'm from Dublin, which this article points out as an example of a successful bike hire city (which is accurate, it's massively successful). However the idea that Dublin has fantastic cycle infrastructure and lots of bike lanes (esp. in the area covered by Dublin Bikes) is crazy talk.
Not to burst your bubble, but adding a keyboard to a tablet makes it a touchscreen laptop. It's perfectly fine if that's what you enjoy, but you're not really obsoleting laptops if the alternative is a smaller laptop.
I always end up going back to my laptop to do any real work. Tablets are great for, as others have mentioned, consuming content. But the PC is "far from over", IMHO.
Scrolling isn't working for me! Chrome Version 23.0.1271.10 dev.

But I love the idea. :)
But not video/audio editing, or any programming of any kind. In other words, you can consume on these other devices, but not create (unless it's plain text).
Once Ubuntu for Android appears, it will be copied by other OSes and then the PC will be (mostly) dead. Until then, people will still feel like they need a laptop/PC. http://www.ubuntu.com/devices/android

Edit: please explain the downvotes, I don't see how this isn't adding to the conversation.
Hmm, I dunno. I still can't quite come to terms with the fact that with tablets, we've essentially got the equivalent of overlaying our keyboard on our screen every time we want to type something and obscuring half of the visuals on the screen in the process. I find that quite annoying for anything other than trivial input scenarios and I'm not quite sure I can envision the ideal solution to it, other than perhaps projecting a keyboard onto the table in front of me.
Your comparison is wrong. For 3D printers, we're still at the hobby-ist level, trying to move to consumer. That means, we're still in the Altair trying to move to Apple IIe phase. During that time in computer's history, VisiCalc, WordPerfect, and Lotus123 hadn't been invented.
You could do worse things with your day than learning who JGC is.
A little tool to generate unique lists of text/urls
Can you elaborate? I don't see how having Ubuntu on my phone negates the need for a PC.
I think that laptops are the perfect migration away from desktop

I've just brought a laptop as my next main programming computer, rather than a desktop.

Laptops are the new portable desktops.

You can't type on a tablet.
Labour laws are one of the big issue in France, you're right. I would love for the current gvt to negociate the end of CDI, with a simpler way to fire bad people, in exchange for a much better unemployment insurance. I am not sure how the economics would work, but the current system where a large minority is working under shitty contracts because CDI is too expensive is a shame. That's a recurring desire from many economists both from the left and right in France.
But do people spend as much time driving as cycling?
What do you do when you have all the computing performance anyone could ever possibly need, except for the freakish one-percenters, the video editors and programmers?

I think he misses the point, when my computer will boot instantly and allow me to work or when I won't have to wait for a file to copy that's when I'll have enough computer power. We're far from it and I think this applies to anybody, geeks or not. Who wants to wait for his computer to do his thing ?
> serious work happens on desktops and isn't going to move away from them.

All the sales numbers shows you're wrong: The desktop market is at best stagnant, while people move in droves to other form factors. In many areas it is collapsing.

There's only tiny niches of "real work" that needs desktops rather than laptops.

And this is despite the form factor of the typical PC dropping rapidly, to the point where my local shops don't even carry full size ATX cases any more, and most "desktops" are "all in one" iMac style machines.

Big screens and full size keyboards are going nowhere, but the form factors are converging on mobile devices with suitable connectivity.

Desktops will likely remain available for a very long time, but they're well on their way to becoming an ever diminishing niche simply for the reason that the computational needs of most workers and for most home use is being met sufficiently well that more speed or disk space is now a secondary factor for a larger and larger segment of users.
Nothing guarantees safety. Everything has a risk. It's impossible to not die. So there's always a non-zero "chance of death/injury" number.
Adding a keyboard to a tablet makes it a computer with the power of a PC we had ten years ago.

There is nothing more productive than a good desktop workstation with big multiple screens. I recently purchased a new one for a good price, and I am happy with it.
Just a little tool I knocked up that I have found useful for downloading from and browsing URLs that may not be published or easy to find.

However, I think it might also be useful for generating arrays of data, unique test data and other purposes.

I'd love to hear what people think...
I think Jeff and others are grouping laptops in with desktop PCs. For the purposes of this article, I'm pretty sure desktop means a computer with a large, touch-less screen, a keyboard and a mouse.
I also thought this is an almost impossible problem to solve, until a friend pointed out that on the Jubilee line extension (London Underground), it is solved.

The edge of the platform at the newer stations is walled off from the track by glass. The platform doors line up with the train's, and open/close at the same time. So there's no access to the track at any point, hence no opportunity for "person under train".
I actually tried using my IPad as a primary device for work. I was living in ssh back then so with a Bluetooth keyboard it seemed like I would be able to. What I found was that the software itself, while fine when it's biggest limitation was my ability to interact with it using my clumsy sausage fingers on a touchscreen - was far from sufficient when I had my trusty old Qwerty physical keyboard. My want from the software immediately exceeded its capacity and feature set. Wonder how much of the joy of using a mobile device comes from significant self imposed limitation of the scope of that usage.
Conservatives often like to point out how "things were OK back in $DECADE" without these silly modern health and safety rules.

However that's not true. Less people are dying due to health and safety rules. E.g. The London 2012 olypmic stadium was the first olypmpic stadium that had no fatalities during construction.
When a phone is docked, Ubuntu will run on a full screen. When in your hand, the phone will run Android. Here's an early video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wzc0uMXGFBY
If you have a tablet, and almost always carry a keyboard to go with it, then really aren't you saying that a laptop would be the right solution?

Tablets are definitely moving towards being general purpose computers, but they're not there yet, and if you're willing to buy into a locked down iPad as your main computer, then I feel slightly sorry for you.

On the other side of things, I really don't see the point in $1500 laptops right now. Yes, the laptop should be extremely thin and light, but the cheapest intel processor married to an 120GB SSD and 4GB of RAM will work great for huge numbers of users, for both consumption and creation.

Frustratingly, it seems only the Chromebooks seem to be taking this approach to laptops, and I really don't want to replace an open device with one which Google works hard to lock down.
I don't doubt the kids will pick it up quickly, just as kids picked up programming in the computer's early days.

But to the originally stated use case of fixing broken parts, I don't think that will happen as kids aren't usually running around fixing parts. And for the rest of us, only some of us have enough umph to learn how to 3D model. The vast majority need something easier to make the fixing broken parts scenario a reality.

However, I guess I can see a scenario where older people hire kids to fix parts, like how older people hired kids to do websites in the 90's.
For a while I've really wanted tiny portable "thin" clients. You have a nice keyboard, mouse, and monitor at work and home. You have a portable version (maybe even a tablet) for on the move.

Most people only need a couple of hours of battery to or from the office.

Most people only need something powerful enough to do word processing and spreadsheeting, with a bit of accounts-package-nightmare and specialist-industry-nightmare software on top.

It'd be interesting to see Google drive this, or maybe even Canonical. Have a 5 year plan, with plenty of iteration and wiggle room.
I can barely type a short email on my phone without wanting to punch someone, I can only imagine what writing anything more than "LOL HASHTAG IM A JURNALIST" on a tablet would be like.

My desktop isn't going anywhere just yet!
Sorry, it was 1:00 am when I uploaded the files. Let me fix that.
Working now! Love the idea even more, great work on the video.
That's a great server rack.
The difference is that you can use for some cases (reading, browsing, quick email) just the tablet. Is not that the concept is really different from a laptop (hey, a portable computer), but I think it brings it to the next level.
The majority of home owners still grew up without mobile phones. I had one from about 15, and I doubt I'll want a landline when I have my own house.

No-one's suggesting that the desktop will completely disappear. The thinking is that it will become a niche for hobbyists and professional data crunchers.
This is the same thing I came to say. Even something trivial like replying to this on a tablet or phone sucks. Quoting you would be utterly painful and it's even worse in a Reddit app. Perhaps it's generational and people will cope but so far creating.anything has.been far more painful for me on global devices.
You haven't been following the trusted computing for windows 8 row then?

you won't be able to run linux on these machines.
On the other hand, who paid for the education of your employees ? Who pays when they go to a hospital ? Who built the roads they use to get to work ? Who is going to give them money when they get old ? Who pays the policemen who protect your office from robberies...
Former discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2787227
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So once something is popular then it is self-justified, but new things that imitate something else are bad. How do you ever cross the chasm with that attitude?
TL;DR:

* Exercise

* Keeping lists

* Love what you do

* Don’t get the lawyers or accountants involved too early

* Hands off delegation

* Set big audacious goals

There is no evidence or references in the article that confirm that Richard Branson either said or endorsed any of these things.
Please ignore parent, this is definitely SFW.
Thinking about what I would want that Google doesn't currently provide and that would be feasible with today's technology, as a practical matter my wish list has one item: when I search for a scientific paper, or terms for which such a paper is the best match, I'm looking for a downloadable PDF, or to be told if no such thing exists, not an abstract with the actual content hidden behind a paywall. A search engine that provided that, I would happily use.
The following page on LifeHacker explains it quite well: http://lifehacker.com/5932700/please-turn-on-two+factor-auth...

The application I wrote works for all the mentioned websites, e.g. Drupal, Amazon, Dreamhost, Dropbox, etc since it implements the standard HOTP specification. It is merely named G since this is the most well-known implementation and was my first use-case.
The US is not the only country in the world. And TARP is not the only bank subsidy in the US.
Certainly, yes, services provided need to be compared along with the tax rate to get a fair comparison - but the idea that you get your taxes back is a red herring. There is a clear element of redistribution built in, there will always be some people who put in more than they use and some people who get out more than they put in - otherwise you could just let people buy these services for themselves.
Better version:
http://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/internals/howbrowsers...
There's been a little headway in this regard. Here's a 3D printed bikini.

http://news.globalintimatewear.com/Mechanisms/7037/Shapeways...
"... Build Minecraft for Linux and actively promote Linux. ..."

Is this a tech problem? Maybe the MS strategy is to move gaming to the XBox where it has greater control, where greater control >> revenue.

Minecraft is written in Java ~ http://www.minecraftwiki.net/wiki/Development_Resources there are also various ports with other code bases ~ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minecraft#Ports so it's available on Linux but I would guess Microsoft is the biggest source of revenue. So you're right it won't ruin the PC, just the coffers of the parent company.
You don't need a desktop PC to be able to attach a screen and a keyboard.

My <$130 7" Chinese Android tablet can drive a full HD 3D TV at full resolution, and can handle both bluetooth or USB keyboards. And many of these tablets can boot full Linux.

The next step up is MHL, allowing the screen to power your phone or tablet while it is using the screen for output.

Increasingly people will have the option of combining the convenience of the phone or tablet with being able to effortlessly connect it to a large screen and keyboard when needed.
Yes, and has been tested to work with Dropbox, Amazon, Dreamhost, Google, since they use different length of secrets.
I've been unemployed for more than two years. I use a prepaid dumbphone. While it's great that Jeff has an iPhone 5, neither I, nor any of my other 20-something friends, can afford one.
Ah, so there's the taboo against wanting to be rich babarock was referring to. As a francophile european, I am grateful for your volunteering to be poor so my vacations will be cheaper. Keep up the good work!
There are devices that do that. Some quick googling for "keyboard laser projected" finds a couple of products. Actually I remember such keyboard projector from some 6 years ago or so on thinkgeek. I'm not sure how well they work though. However, I agree that this is a major problem. Personally, I think that on-screen-keyboards are a bloody mess. I can't stand the lack of proper tactile feedback (no, letting the whole thing vibrate doesn't count).
Hmmm, the implication is that the security you offer isn't only bad but so bad it's easier to circumvent than no security at all, right?
You've probably already heard of it, but Canonical do have 'Ubuntu for Android' in the works. A high-end Android phone docks to a monitor and keyboard, where it can run Ubuntu.

They've demonstrated prototypes, and I imagine they're talking to handset manufacturers.

http://www.ubuntu.com/devices/android
Precisely. I don't see how a tablet is much of an improvement in form factor over a laptop.

Recall the 'iPad + Linode' experiment [1]. In every photo Mark O'Conor posted of his iPad in action, he had an Apple wireless keyboard next to it. A screen and a keyboard. That's a novel idea.

Combined, they take up just about as much space as a laptop (11-13") but the combination is far less usable. Smaller screen, less processing power, less flexibility using iOS, less customisability, so on and so forth.

O'Connor was attempting to nullify one of those drawbacks (lack of processing power), but he can't escape all the others.

[1] http://yieldthought.com/post/31857050698/ipad-linode-1-year-...
Bullshit. Or, if it isn't bullshit, it's pathetic.

I have an iPad 3 and a laptop on hand at all times at home. I'll boot up the laptop rather than dick around with the shitty touchscreen keyboard on the iPad.

And heaven forbid I find something I want to DOWNLOAD while browsing with the iPad. Thanks to Apple's fear, we can't save anything to a file system on iOS devices, or retrieve anyting from these devices. So on top of the clumsy typing experience, I have to E-mail links to myself for anything I want to download to my REAL computer.

Fuck that. If a tablet is good enough for you, your requirements are pitifully low.
Ubuntu for Android won't kill off PCs. It'll just mean that your phone/tablet is a PC, in addition to being a phone tablet. It won't kill off PCs, it will keep them alive.
There are lots of creation, done everyday by lots of workers that can be done with the current power of a tablet. Writing a document, work with an not-really-fancy spreadsheet, answer email, etc, etc... Of course, is not as comfortable as using a bigger screen and a keyboard, but in the future maybe a lot of people will have external keyboards and screens (as typically happens with laptops)
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>employees care more about vacations than getting things done

That's bullshit. If you consider this a problem, you should reconsider your recruitment process.
Specific? Maybe, but Mojang are open about the general sales figures. They frequently talk about them and we republish them, example of the Minecraft studio announcing 4 Million sales: http://twitter.com/4JStudios/status/252480126128885761
why? how is your previous reading about the "effects of environment and nurture on growth and potential" related to the quoted passages?
15 years ago I was already building (intranet) web apps using FrontPage 97. The zero deployment advantage was quickly recognized.
Quite a few Android tablets can boot Ubuntu already. And many Android tablets have HDMI out and supports USB or bluetooth keyboards just fine. Other devices supports MHL.

So you can have that now.

Since you mentioned Canonical, they most definitively do have a plan:
http://www.ubuntu.com/devices/android

"Now multi-core Android phones can be PCs too. Ubuntu for Android enables high-end Android handsets to run Ubuntu, the world's favourite free PC desktop operating system. So users get the Android they know on the move, but when they connect their phone to a monitor, mouse and keyboard, it becomes a PC."

They're pushing this to manufacturers as a way to drive adoption of higher end Android devices with more cores, as well as to sell accessories like screens, keyboards etc., and as a "drop in" next to Android on the same device, with various integration.
Like in "The Wire", problems are never simple and usually systemic.

France is rigid :

- renting is hard which makes moving and adjusting to varying earnings hard.

- banks are rigid : lots of companies need liquidity especially during the crisis and banks give them a hard time, lending to unnecessary bankruptcies.

- laws are rigid : labor laws tend to make bosses and employees assholes "fighting" each other. Finance laws prevent more capital coming in.

On the other hand, Health and natality rate are one of the better of the world and general quality of life remains very good.
There was an article on HN a while ago, describing how a developer traded his laptop for a tablet and a Linode box. He'd ssh into the box and work there. I thought it was really elegant and thought about trying something similar.

However, I figured that a tablet + a keyboard is effectively a laptop with a good-looking UI and less features. The only real advantage I can think of now is better battery life and the fact that a tablet is usually cheaper to buy.
Crisp is not very useful when you can't read the text or view the pictures because they're a quarter of their "intended" physical size.
Should Klout, Kred and PeerIndex parter with internal social tools?
Or go to Belgium just next door where there is no capital gains tax on exits at all.
I didn't apply as I know I can't make it, heading to SF later on but I know a few Brits going. I'm sure there's a lot.