skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can't reply directly to hellbanned users, so a lot of people reply to the person such a user was replying to, to try to send them a message that they've been banned.

Most users won't see these comments/users. If you go to your user page, you'll see an option called "showdead". Enable that ('Yes'), and you'll see these messages.
"What you're looking at, then, is taking the operation defined by c (rotate by -arg(c) and dilate by 1/|c|) and asking, if you take the Gaussian integers as the vertexes of a directed graph, what fraction of the vertexes are the source of an edge."

This doesn't sound like a mathematical operation. Can you give a more mathematical definition of the full graph? For Gaussian integers a+ib, c+id, (a+ib, c+id) is a directed edge from a+ib to c+id if and only if what?

Whatever this directed graph (V, E) is, where V = Z + iZ and E \subseteq V \times V, it is not clear how the complex number c relates to the proportion of z in V such that
there exists w in V with (z, w) in E. We have to know what E is before we can answer this.
Indeed. It may come as no surprise to you, then, that I push people with a degree in physics far ahead of the line when hiring for my Data Science team.
Non tech geeks are going to buy the iPad though, surely. They are about the same price and the iPad is a far more elegant and simple solution. Chances are that the non tech geek will also own an iPhone/iPod Touch and the ability to share apps and music etc. is definitely going to appeal.

At the price MS has this I am finding it hard to see who it will appeal to except tech geeks and maybe corporate.
> So to be honest, I think at least one market which this tablet will dominate is the "fuck you Apple" market.

Sorry, this is already a crowded market - Android rules here, whether it's Google or Amazon shipping the product. Why would I buy this when I can get a Kindle Fire 4G with $50/yr mobile data? Why would I pay $300 more than a Nexus7?

Microsoft has lost the forest for the trees - so bound up in hating and trying to produce an "iPad Killer" that they don't realize the competition is way ahead of them.
There is a whole eco-system of products and functionality and thus specialized skills. The term "SAP" can be used to describe R/3 or the company or the collection of products referred to as the Business Suite.
You are right! I had a png and a jpg version and uploaded the wrong one. Now the jpg is up. Thank you!
> You can't do much on them besides just absorbing content…

… and writing, drawing, painting, designing, composing and playing music, editing spreadsheets and databases, building presentations, taking photos, editing photos, emailing, chatting, editing movies, and so on.

Yep. Only for watching YouTube. You bet.
2 ideas:
1. stolen bike finder button should stand out a bit more. maybe in red (btn-danger)
2. Dont have a stolen bike but is there a way to flag listings so that other browsers know they are browsing a stolen bike. Might auth with a social network and require a couple friends to flag it as well (so individuals dont do it maliciously). But would massively improve your data and would help the community self police.
What are the options for recording Android apps? Post recording editing tools (on Windows)? The voice over can be embedded into the video at editing, right?
Since it has USB ports and runs Windows you can just plug in an aircard for either 3G or 4G and have that coverage.
Another day, another "Growth hacker" post that misses the point.

Hacker News, give marketers some credit here. The majority of good startup marketers are already analytically minded. They already run tests every week, though they may not run 10. They already look at the funnel and try to move the needle on AARRR with experiments, A/B Testing, and more. All of this already exists in the marketing world, and you don't need SQL queries to do it.

What "Growth Hacker" is really referring to is someone who works on the Product with the goal of driving growth, not someone who is a marketer with coding chops. The distinction here is pretty important. Working on Product is very different than working on Marketing, even though both have the same goal.
The problem is that reality is messy. There are a lot of factors that gunk up a good theory. Higher demand can lead to higher wages if we restrict immigration, but if American students raw out of highschool are not thinking 5 to 10 years into their future when they pick a major, supply is not going to jump like the growing industry needs it to.

The issue is compounded when popular media artificially lowers the level of "glamor" in the industry. Shows like The Big Bang Theory are entertaining, but I don't think many people watch them and say "that is what I want to be a part of".

Now, of course individual companies can spike their salaries and pull in talented programmers, but I think most of those will be cannibalized from other companies. If supply is dwindling then raising wages can work for individual companies, but not I think for the industry as a whole.
Will Open-source Crowdfunding Help Sustain the Hardware Startup Boom?
If you ever encountered modern, continental European philosophy and found it incomprehensible, one way to approach it would be reading this article a little differently, shifting its emphasis and thinking about how effective applications of language are rather than 'willpower' and its determination in particular. The authors are providing evidence that it is indeed a fiction, and its this power of fiction that a lot of European philosophy since the early 20th century has been meditating on.
Eh, maybe. I have a strong background in mathematics (my focus was Game Theory), and certainly understanding the underlying math in ML models is very useful, tools are coming out on a regular basis that make it simple for good developers and DBA-types to apply some ML modeling to their data.

The "science" part of the term involves testing and iterating, as the scientific method would imply. Not necessarily the knowledge of esoteric mathematics.
I haven't been this excited for a Microsoft product...perhaps ever. Then I saw the price and thought "We've been down this road before (HP Touchpad). You can't sell Apple competitors at Apple prices."

As soon as the Touchpad dropped to $99 they couldn't stay on shelves for even the first day. So let's find a compromise where the company still makes money. $299? It's just odd that the company who won the PC Wars by enabling manufacturers to win on price seems to have forgotten the only one of the 4 P's that they could have had over Apple.
It seems great. I would definitely use it.
(And I like it is made in Scotland :D )
I think that's just smoke screen. Microsoft clearly wants to be in the hardware business and to make money this way. They are envious of how easily Apple can make a ton of profit with a lot less "market share". I don't think they really care what happens to the manufacturers, if in the end they make more money on hardware than they do through licensing.
This is a really excellent and well-balanced article. Very much captures the pluses and minuses of these various systems for data analysis.
A Startling Gap Between Us And Them In 'Plutocrats'
Amazon clearly wants full control over their own OS. Why would they go with Windows?
Where is your fork of tantan-s3? If I recall it hasn't been updated by the author in over 4 years. I have a fork on GitHub here but it's not great:

https://github.com/cmwelsh/wordpress-s3
Reminds me of GetMaid... was on HN a week or so ago. Seems to be a similar model. I think GetMaid even used backpacks to carry cleaning supplies in dense urban areas too.
Mobile Apps as Assistive Technology
I was using Google's DNS for many years, but just recently switched back to OpenDNS because of their DNSCrypt service (https://www.opendns.com/technology/dnscrypt/)
Good point. I am the former, but may dabble with the latter :)
Show HN: Topigames, Apple AppStore redesigned for games
Actually, the strongest candidates I've screened have been self-learners who list Coursera or their own OSS projects on their resume with little academic background. (Our best analyst is a guy who is qualified to repair VCRs with his trade skill diploma in rudimentary electronics.)
How large is the file? It's taking a VERY long time to load.
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Launching a Sinatra "hello world" on Pogoapp, Heroku-compatible app hosting
They basically made a "craigslist:all" search engine for bikes. This helps you find your bike if someone is trying to sell it on craigslist in another city.

Then, they wrote a blog article filled with hyperbole about business theory, angry NPR readers, Pee Wee Herman, and photos of flying sparks.
Please share your thoughts here..!
Why the downvotes?
Mpesa was made for a VodafoneUk subsidiary. It's not network ubiquitous(& hasnt scaled as succesfully in other vodafone subsidiaries) but makes a lot of profit for its network.
Ushahidi is OS & not-for-profit & has shown "growth".
ps: I use Mpesa regularly and I've tried Ushahidi, they both 'fill a need' but differ on scaling & revenue.
The Parrot VM is also register based: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parrot_virtual_machine
How would people identify stolen bikes that are not their own?
Very true! As a company selling a new product you have to get approval from the nerds to have a successful product. I like this.
IIRC Firefox disable WebGL if you are on certain, known buggy, versions of your GPU driver.
OK, but that doesn't mean "if you're an engineer or scientist, you don't see the science in data science" is a true statement. It's categorically false.
Open News launches Source, an index of open journalism code
an upvote would probably be sufficient, but wanted to say thanks to the author for making a great list. i've been looking for this!
I was only using it because I have the App installed on iPhone and iPad, too. The timeline (and filters) sync between all the devices.

And now? I can buy some other Apps and say my money spent on Echofon goodbye.
$499 is probably pretty aggressive- MSFT doesn't have the supply chain magic or economy of scale that Apple has. I suspect they aren't making much/any money at $499... But I think you're right that they need to buy market share with a lower price-- they are too late to the game to get a foothold otherwise unless the product is near magical.
This is amazing. Going to start using this in all my website/web app development from now on. Thanks you.
Ach. Sounds interesting, but behind paywall.

Here http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-10-16/electric-car-batter... is a pointer to the story from bloomberg.
> It's really hard (impossible) to put ourselves in the shoes of the non-nerd

Really? It doesn't seem that difficult. I imagine if the Surface RT is easy to use and good (hopefully great) at basic web browsing, email, social networks, etc. while having a decent selection of apps (this is the hard part with a new ecosystem), non-nerds will be fine with it.
Well, payment happening outside US would probably be a requirement before hosting any meetups.
Customers Before Ideas
This is a very exciting trend, and I'm glad more designers are jumping into code. As an art school dropout who later finished a CS degree, the combination of skills is invaluable.

I honestly believe that the most difficult work in creating something new/innovative is skewed to the design side, so I hope we see a corresponding trend as well: programmers becoming more interested in design.

I like to think of 'creative coders' as great chefs - not only can they dream up a great tasting dish, they can also roll up their sleeves and turn it into an actual meal. A (web/app) designer who shies away from code is like the visionary chef who needs to rely on others to do the cooking, while a programmer who is not concerned with design is little more than a line cook following instructions.

Edit: spelling.
It's not that big, 2.8 mb, but keep in mind that more than 300 people are browsing it right now :)
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>> But my personal anecdotal experience

The plural of anecdote is not data.
"They are about the same price and the iPad is a far more elegant and simple solution." - Elaborate. You didn't give any substance at all and that's an empty statement. How is it more elegant? It is an accessory. You can bet that the Microsoft marketing blitz will pound on this. They will drive home the point that you can write your term paper on your surface. I guarantee it.

The only good argument against the surface right now is pre-existing ecosystems. People have apps/music/etc purchased on other ecosystems and that makes it tougher to drive home adoption among these 'entrenched' customers. But if the product is appealing enough, that can be overcome. The jury is still out on whether people will drop their iPads in favor of Surfaces.
Saying "that's it" right after mentioning that Office comes preinstalled is being unfairly dismissive. That's a really big deal.
Hmmm, now that you mention it, that'd make a great crowdsourced feature for CL or LoveRack... a flag button for "looks stolen."
Do you REALLY want to program on a tablet? How would you use those IDEs (because that's what you're really asking for) to sync with version control software/servers?
artificially inflating the cost of living for the US consumer (through the cost of medicine, software, textbooks, food, clothing, etc),

Could you explain this in more detail?
Including contaminating food? What's with this straw man? Pig waste might be a problem but how does that justify feeding food sources with it? Are you comfortable with the notion of feeding other non-seafood food sources (such as pigs) with it too?

Again, all the context necessary is provided in the article. I'm not against finding a solution to the "pig waste problem." I don't think feeding it to food sources is a logically sound primary solution any more than feeding children radioactive waste is (for the "radioactive waste problem").
Just because everybody with similar platforms do it, doesn't make it right. And I do not agree about those statements being CYA - the worst thing you can get is an environment where the rules are selectively enforced, based on a decision-making process that will never be transparent.

Oh so content-makers are complaining that Youtube steals their traffic? Clearly there's enough content on Youtube to justify a ban under any of those rules and Google is not exactly on Microsoft's list of favorites.

Let's also remember the apps banned by Apple for being "offensive". Were they obnoxious, definitely, to some people at least. However that's censorship. And it's OK as long as controlled platforms are a minority, but when it becomes a monopolizing problem leaving consumers with no choices left, then it should really be against the law.
Exactly same thoughts. But I will give my Transformer to my wife and get the Pro, simply because I want to experience Windows 8 "how its meant to be" and because the Surface will have a big modder / hacker community.
Indeed I used Oberon (both native and windows-hosted) for a few intense months back some summer in the 90s. I still have a fondness, perhaps rose-tinted by time, for Pascal languages.

I particularly remember when someone made an Oberon pcode VM browser plugin as a 'competitor' to the newfangled Java applets. I think it was caled Juice or something.

Interestingly Chrome NaCL is going in the same direction, distributing pcode (well, LLVM IR iirc) and doing final compilation on-target.
Already well discussed at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4659053
The whole "profile" and "mobileconfig" nomenclature is confusing to most people, I'm a little surprised that Apple hasn't put more effort into this area.

Sorry if I came across as damning you with faint praise, you really have done a nice job of setting up the service for non-technically minded people who want to keep their kids safe online.

I can't find any reference to your privacy policy or terms of service. You appear to use a unique string to identify profiles, what are you doing with the data you collect?
Google Releases The First Stable SDK For Its Dart JavaScript Alternative
That's not true of the RT version. It's an ARM tablet.
I agree with you :), but I was just mentioning that for most people, looking at the world through a different pair of lenses is difficult.
The usual criteria for comment to be deemed racism is that it causes offence (whether intended or not) and had a racial component.
According to the pricing page [1], a reserved Small is $69/yr plus $0.039 for any hour the instance is running, which could add up to another $341 for the year.

[1] http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/pricing/
It could be huge in tabletop board game market too. Why buy hundreds of dollars worth of miniatures when you print your own for much less?
How Your Job Dissatisfaction Could Win You a Kindle Fire HD
A teardown of Samsung's new f2fs flash filesystem for Linux
Even corporate is a hard sell on the non-Pro version because then they lose their VPN, their bitlocker, etc, and it is going to take a while for the "BYOD"-style enterprise security apps to start appearing for Windows 8 RT.
LinkedIn Announces Massive Update To Its “Pillar Product”, The Profile
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I'm from the UK, and despite having interests in government I paid little attention to our immigration process until I started to look into that of the USA.

The problem is simple to sum up: highly skilled workers aren't going to sneak across the Channel Tunnel/Rio Grande very often. They'll stick to as-legal-as-possible means because generally they're respectable tradesmen, who've invested a lot of time/money in their skills and want to use them as best as they can.

Unfortunately, these government-encouraged means of immigration/foreign-workers are the easiest things to stop. Hence an 'immigration clampdown to save the jobs of the natives' really consists of blocking the vast majority of the foreigners you might actually want to move to your country.
1.) Your H-1B isn't tied to your employer except during the application/renewal process. The rest of the time you're free to move around. However, every prospective employer will want to know about your visa status, and that new employer will have to work on your H-1B renewal. You're at the same negotiating disadvantage, because you only really compete with other H-1B holders.

2.) There already exist smooth processes to move from an H-1B to a green card. Unfortunately, that's usually tied to your employer. Changing jobs may restart the clock on you.
I'd also argue that non-metro IE is significant. Browsing immersive internet with a mouse keyboard is frustrating so it's nice I won't need to do that with the Surface.
Your point was completely moronic.

If I shoot you in the leg, your response isn't going to be "gee, thanks for not shooting me in the head!" It's going to be "don't fucking shoot me, asshole!"

"They could've done something worse" doesn't justify a rogue geoengineering project.
This article from The Verge does a good job explaining how much of the focus of the Surface was making sure it had quality hardware. I don't think you can say it won't compete with the iPad on quality, until you use it.
"Everything is perfected and tested in Redmond using in-house machines, many of which were invented so they could invent the Surface, and later-stage models are sent to China for more massive production. The company uses the exact same 3D and laser printers as its factories in China, so its designs are certain to be translated perfectly into mass production — though even that didn't satisfy the design team, which has made as many as ten trips to China this year alone."

"The hinge on the Surface's built-in kickstand may have been the device's most discussed feature during our tour in Redmond. Microsoft has obsessed over how the kickstand works, how it looks, even how it sounds..."

"At 3mm thick, it's almost hard to believe there's room to fit a working keyboard inside the cover — Panay liked to talk about how the team's goal was for the Touch Cover to be 4.2mm thick, and they did even better."

"At one point we stood in a testing room, where five different Touch Covers were having their hinges tested by a machine that twisted back and forth every second or so. As the Covers furled and unfurled, we watched a 36-inch drop test, the Surface crashing onto its right side. No one flinched as the Surface fell, and Panay even said he's more worried about denting the wood floor than the Surface (we'll test that one for ourselves). While our backs were turned looking at the next test, Sinofsky grabbed a Surface that had four green wheels attached to the bottom, and hopped on board. He's apparently quite the skateboarder."

"The first screen size Microsoft seriously considered was 10.1 inches, the de facto standard for tablets today. But 10.1 inches didn't work well for multitasking, and it wasn't wide enough for a full-sized keyboard. So the company tried 11.1 inches — typing was great, as was multitasking, but Panay said "it really missed on the tablet experience." So Microsoft split the difference, and found 10.6 inches was the right size. The 10.6-inch Surface is comfortable to hold, Panay said, and "when you set your hands down in typing position, you can have a great experience.""

http://www.theverge.com/2012/10/16/3511002/microsoft-surface...
I think this is going to be absolutely great college and high school students, but I don't know how eager people will be to buy a Surface as a Christmas present compared to a Summer purchase for school.

Time will tell, I guess. It's not like people knew what the hell they were going to use an iPad for, when it was first announced.
This makes sense. But the company can get into pretty big trouble for doing that.

The nicest punishment is that they will be marked a willful violator and have to provide additional documentation for each H-1B. Or they can get debarred from getting H-1Bs. This makes no strategic sense for H-1B heavy companies.
Indeed. The concern isn't for AAA-level games or multi-billion dollar software industries, they will find their way.

The problem is: how many billion-dollar markets are we nipping in the bud because we operate strictly in a walled garden?
No idea. If I wanted to program on this I'd wait for the pro.

Though I suppose you could remote into a desktop from WinRT devices? Lol..
Dartisans (video) episode covering the release: https://developers.google.com/live/shows/7702017-1001/
Anyone with half a brain knows that that is not the reason. Microsoft came way too late to market with a 1.0 version product while everyone else was 3 or 4 revisions deep.

edit: a few more thoughts

The mobile phone industry had become an echo chamber, then Apple came in and made a clean break, dropped the cruft everyone else was clinging to and pushed the envelope. Apple changed the mode and completely shook up the market, Google was the quickest in responding while Microsoft was clearly caught completely off guard and is finally putting its best foot forward, but they are very late to the party.
My thought was - recruit your friends to flag it with you. When things get stolen you normally tell your friends, who tend to be sympathetic. Better than no flagging, though I admit this can be gamed quite easily of not policed well (one set of users flagging several bikes could be of concern for example)