skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I haven't seen the final designs from the Defense Distributed project. But my understanding is that even with the almost all 3D printed parts it still requires a lot of putting together, assembly and doing. And even aftera ll that you still don't have a very functional gun. Especially on a low end 3D printer like a RepRap I would be more worried that the gun would blow up in my face. I don't see Defense Distributed as much different than the Anarchist Cookbook ball point pen gun or pipe bomb instructions. Of course that may not be the best comparison since governments don't exactly like the Anarchists Cookbook.
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Eh, in a way it kind of does? What I mean is I think of it as "you can pay less without" because if you get it WITH the keyboard then it matches the iPad price. If you get it without, it undercuts iPad by $100.

I think that's fair.
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Only Zynga would think of that strategy...

Nope -- Like every other idea they have, they stole it. PhoneDog sued an ex employee for his Twitter followers:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/dec/27/company-sue...
We found it is much easier to handle exceptions without risking stack leaks using a 3-address register machine. Code generation is also simplified in a register machine compared to a stack machine (at least in the case of a VM designed specifically to run SQL statement).

The VM used by SQLite is different from the VM used by things like Javascript or Python in that SQL is not a general-purpose programming language. Most of the opcodes in the SQLite VM are heavy-weight concepts such as "insert a key/value pair into a b-tree" or "decode the N-th column of a table row". These opcodes are implemented with hundreds or thousands of lines of C code. The overhead of instruction dispatch is insignificant in comparison. And so there isn't much of a performance advantage one way or the other between a stack machine and a register machine in SQLite. The choice of a register machine is for maintainability, reliability, and testability.
You can:

* get it with a keyboard for the same price as an iPad of the same storage

* get it without a keyboard for $100 less than an iPad of the same storage.

Seems fair :D
How biased of you.

It's funny how you are spending so much time with your negative Romney advertising while not showing me why I should vote for Obama.
Also it's worth reading JGC today's post about Marie Skłodowska-Curie as a role-model and a symbol of women's achievements in science and technology:

http://blog.jgc.org/2012/10/marie-curie-day.html
Let me guess: because some punter on a website thinks he knows pricing better than Apple, that's only been doing the thing for like 50 products since 2001?
"Many go fishing all their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after." ~ Henry David Thoreau
The link in the OP didn't seem to work, here it is again:

http://webgun.io/articles/templated-webhooks
Fahrenheit 451.

Numerology is the reading of meaning into the odd coincidence of numbers with events. GGP's "neat allusion" is that some of the digits on the number of blogs taken down coincides with the Fahrenheit temperature at which books burn which was the inspiration for the title of a book about censorship.
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I personally have known people who do software development for as low as 35k/year. I have also known people who have attained wages as an engineer for as high as 250k/yr. Given this continuum I suspect it's very easy for a well heeled employer to keep the costs on the lower end of that spectrum.
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Thanks for the tip. We still like the stats and stuff we get from Vimeo... but if that really works other people could save more $$.
Here is a killer feature on Surface: Host Mode aka USB-OTG

But it also has a USB port and a cover that doubles as a keyboard; it works with a wide range of other devices, like printers and external hard drives; and it will even charge up your phone.

Edit: I don't know tablets ;)
Are you setting your new hires up for failure?
Indeed we could, and as a reply mentions some implementations do take liberties with various Ruby features like $~ and $_ (in MacRuby they are thread-local, which sorta works but is often broken behavior).

Part of my challenge as a Ruby implementer is to figure out which features really must be implemented to the letter of the law and which ones can be fudged without impacting anyone. ObjectSpace was an example that could be fudged; it turned out nobody ever used it for anything other than iterating over all classes in the system. I also often make my case to the MRI/ruby-core folks and Matz himself as to features that are an unreasonable performance hit for not enough benefit. Sometimes I win those arguments, sometimes I lose them.
Will articles get ignored because of the browsing with threshold feature in HN?
aaaaaah, you have a typo "a/b testng".
Also worth mentioning that it has an SD slot. I personally got the 32gb with a cyan cover and plan on buying a 32gb sd card to add on to it.
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The point still stands - although you are in control of one variable in this equation ("iron sulfate doesn't reproduce"), it would still be impossible to predict the consequences.

Iron sulfate does indeed lack reproductive capability. But it attracts plankton, which is a wide category of organism - some plankton can reproduce.
Agreed

With as much fan fare as they have given to the two keyboards and their prominence in the first commercial, it seems like a missed opportunity to not include it.

I don't know the retail logistics, but they could have at least put together some sort of "savings bundle", so that they people could choose their keyboard colour.
Was thinking about that, but different people like different things, suggestions are welcome. Maybe i will add "errorView" property to SurveyField.
I'll see your prisoner's dilemma and raise you a repugnant conclusion: I think we get the most total utility if everyone reads lots of low-quality articles and up-vote the few good ones.
From my sketchy understanding of your description of the algorithm, it seems like a 2d version of the patterns in gaps you see when you look at cornrows.
Until next version of windows when it's completely locked down. Look, if you're Microsoft & you want to own the entire platform like Apple, you can't just lock it down from day 1. You need to slowly "educate" the users and measure how much resistance there is to a gradual tightening of restrictions. You do things like lower the price to increase adoption. In another 10 years it might be completely normal, just like it's normal for people to post personal stuff on facebook.
"Mocava has done a decent job of streamlining the setup and installation."

Thanks :) Usability wise, the hardest part was to explain that you have to install a profile to deactivate an existing profile. Also people associated the word "profile" with a facebook profile and thought it contains their personal data like name & address. To prevent confusion, the page I removed (almost) all instances of the word profile from the page.
I'm sure your service is useful, however allowed-plugins and other restrictions is something I like to avoid, not to mention that 1-click scaling is 1-click too many.

Wordpress is only useful if you want to publish in multiple categories with articles created by other (non-technical) people, need designs made by other designers - basically for a publishing factory or for people that don't want the hassle of learning to use Git, Jekyll and a good text editor.

However Jekyll/Git/Heroku is simplicity in its purest form, especially for developers and with simplicity comes a lot of power ... like I've had 2 blogs before this one and I lost the content on both out of ignorance, by stopping payments to my hosting provider, then later regretted it.

My content right now is on my laptop, mirrored by both GitHub and Heroku and you get for free the history of all changes, while the articles themselves get edited in the most powerful text-editor ever created (Emacs). Scaling comes for free. Costs are zero. The domain is mine. I can publish however many ads I want (coughwordpress.comcought). It wouldn't lock me out if I were under 18 (coughblogger.comcough).

To me that's just awesome. On the other hand it's just a stupid blog. Which it should be. Which is why less is more.
> People who do groundbreaking research need to have a way of protecting their intellectual property...

Why? Because you want to give them incentives to invest in costly research that wouldn't pay off without a limited monopoly.

But what if research paid off even without such protection? And, more importantly, what if research is not even research at all, let alone costly?

I know little of other industries, but practically none of the recent software patents are a result of costly research, and therefore deserve no protection.
is it legal to make an installer that would explicitly add a self-signed certificate to be able to add the application?

assuming there would be a way to distribute that installer other than microsoft's store
try chargify.
>"Microsoft instantly becomes the third major player in the tablet market, a market where it is taking a fundamentally different approach than its rivals, Apple and Google."

I'd put Amazon in the group of Microsoft rivals...at this time, at least. I could see Amazon moving to a Windows platform. A clear roadmap and development partner would be consistent with Amazon's core business.
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No, I fully understand the claim that Microsoft has designed this and set the price point to encourage an ecosystem to stay afloat. Yet, Microsoft has done fine in a number of hardware spheres without serious competition (e.g. XBox--1, maybe 1.5 competitors between Sony and Nintendo).

I remain skeptical that the better good is the underlying motivation.
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I brute force it up to n sample points. For the first image n was 100.

Yes, I allow the result to be near a gaussian integer. For the first image I counted everything as a gaussian integer where (real%1<0.1 && imaginary%1<0.1)
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My last three "bosses" (at startup, at a dev shop, and now at Mozilla) have all been named Ben. One a Harvard PhD, another an MIT PhD. Of my career, Boston basically begat beneficial Benjamins.
ArangoDB isn't designed to solve the same problems as ElasticSearch, it's a database/data store.

ElasticSearch is a search engine, first and foremost, and while you could use it as a database-of-first-resort, I'd be hesitant to recommend as much. For one thing, it doesn't take durability very seriously.

As a result, I have to assume you chose wisely if you're using ArangoDB for a standard database use-case.
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0. Debate whether a famous woman in tech has chops or not.

I'll start, Leah Busque and Paula Long. FTW.
Firefox is working on a Metro version so I don't think Chrome will miss the chance.
Why would one think that? All the "reports" so far says the smaller iPad will have the exact same resolution as an iPad 2.
I worked in the US on an E3 Visa, which is pretty much like a H1B that is only available to Australians.

As I understand it, both of those require you to be paid at least the 'prevailing wage', and before the job is offered to you:

"This Form ETA-9035 needs to be posted in “two conspicuous locations” at the work site for 10 consecutive days where the H-1B (or H-1B1, or E-3) nonimmigrant will be employed. You must post the entire LCA, including the instructions and the portion containing information on the prevailing and offered wages."

http://www.jackson-hertogs.com/jh/faq/10509.pdf

ie, your employer has to post the fact that they're going to employ someone at a certain wage within the office.

That leads to fun times when your visa is up for renewal and the company is obliged to tell everyone what your wage is.

In my case I believe I was being paid more than some of my roughly-equivalent colleagues and there was some concern that the posting might ruffle some feathers. When I decided i'd had enough of the US and that it was time to move on I was told to pick anywhere in the world and my employer would pay to move me there and set me up so I could keep working for them. I was the complete opposite of an exploited foreign worker.
I agree. I would also propose that some esoteric features are separated out into gems. For example, String encoding could be simplified to support only UTF-8, with a gem for the few people who need something else. The Date/Time class also is a monster that supports calendar changes from the 16th century, accurate to the nanosecond.

In general, a standard library that offers a 95% of what most people need, instead of 99%, seems like a good way to go.
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Coyote is a Chicago based third party logistics company (3PL). Which essentially means we get shippers, and people who needs things shipped together. Except we do it on a massive scale with really efficient algorithms so that no truck is left empty.

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I like it! There is certainly a big hole in our school systems - two big holes, actually. The first is, as you say, no real treatment of being a citizen. "How a bill becomes a law" is a (bad) joke. Children need to learn about politics sooner, rather than later. The second hole is the total lack of any personal economic or financial training - how to budget, plan, save, invest, when to get credit, etc. People are thrust into the world with no idea what they are getting into with loans, and the banks get fat from fees and interest, or, when things get really bad, from bailouts.
My Motorola Xoom has been doing that for more than a year, since Android 3.1 I think.

It is awesome, but not new or unique, nor a killer feature.
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The Touch Cover should have been included or been $50 or less. $100-120 is way too much to spend on something most people think is included.
All of the arguments in this thread are true. In areas where specialized knowledge is required, H-1B visas give you access to the global labor pool. You need that access because there may be only a few hundred of these specialists globally.

IMO, the big abuse of foreign workers takes place in big enterprise environments.

So bank X or government agency Y hires IGS or some other contractor to do something to some ancient COBOL application or monstrous J2EE thing. They go out and recruit from a body shop, or from IGS India if you pay extra. They justify using guest workers by submitting one of those classified ad style "compliance advertisements" in InformationWeek magazine.

I've worked at places that required disclosure of employee compensation -- the body shops that specialize in filling those drone titles bill $35-45/hr, and pay the workers 40-60% less, depending on the number of subcontractor layers. A US FTE is paid $40-55/hr inclusive of benefits, and a contractor anywhere from 40-60% more.
At that price, with a relatively low res screen... Dead On Arrival.
Android tablets (3.0+) also support USB host mode afaik.
I reckon he'd make a history based approach. Never seen a Gateway circa 2000 run Mac software. But eh, I'm not him, no so idea to be honest.
> Pingdom is kind of nifty for its comparisons. I got the author's site to be only in the top 97% by running the benchmark again. My own site varies from being in the top 90% to 96% (I did get a 99% once)

If you strive for geek cred, you can get

> Your website is faster than 100% of all tested websites

The trick is to 1. have a static website, obviously, and everything inlined (so basically a single index.html); 2. run the test twice — dns responses should cache during the first one; 3. host your website in Amsterdam which is where they have (at least one of) their testers:

> Tested from Amsterdam, Netherlands on October 16 at 19:04:21

Oh, and don't use SSL.
You're right -- if software patents aren't legitimate then no patents are legitimate.

And in fact, no patents are legitimate. Worse than that, most people's concept of "legitimate" is not legitimate. What most people seem to have banned from their thinking is anything close to resembling a ethical argument. Just because something is legal, does not make it ethical. That reverses the true order: what inherently flouts the ethical underpinning of law must not be made legal. E.g., one should never legalize rape, to make rape legal does not change the fact that it is unethical to make rape legal.

But typically, whenever you try to offer anyone an ethical argument concerning patents, it goes straight over their head. They've been conditioned to think that whether patents are legal or not is an entirely pragmatic decision having nothing to do with ethics but only with economics. And so the mayhem continues...
Wow, that's awesome.

Of course it's still literally infinitely larger than my current income :P. (I'm abusing the word "infinitely" horribly, but so be it.)

I think I'm almost definitely going to go the S3 route when I get around to redoing my site and starting a blog. (One day...)
A story about a press release announcing a press event. A tour de force of tech-journalism.
Exactly my thougth. Most of the time I prefer the mid-upper range while excluding the highly voted.
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Ditto. The preview from the iPhone 5 presentation looked really promising.

The pace (or lack thereof) of iTunes development has been really frustrating over the past few years. There are so many little bugs that just don't get fixed. They even released an update about six months ago that made all the album artwork in grid view blurry.

I'm just hoping they've been neglecting the 'old' iTunes because they've been focusing on making the 'new' version good.
I prefer it without the keyboard - a simple tablet. If I feel the need I can purchase one later. We may even have 3rd parties (Logitech, etc) provide keyboards for this.
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And what about the Pod?, the Cocoapod?, http://www.cocoapods.org/ ;-)
Should mention in your title that it's $499 for the USD model. $499 doesn't really tell much about it and making comparisons to iPads are difficult given the lowest iPad is $499 for 16 GB.

It should also be noted that Office is coming pre-installed. Which is awesome given the pricing.
I agree w/ this too, there needs to be more emphasis on "growing-up sooner". Right now, we are getting/producing more of an extended adolescence. That's why no emphasis on these skills: practical politics/economics. Rather than using education to foister rapid maturity. We are (socially) using the education institution for a hybrid: learning/babystitting. It is like if we arm students with practical skills they might become a problem, WTF?
By one of macobserver's many spam accounts, no less!
It's possible that what we're looking at is based on the map f(z) = 1/z applied to the cartesian coordinate grid.

This is old-school, but a long time ago I wrote a java applet to help explore this function on the complex plane:

http://www.math.nyu.edu/~neylon/applet1/

If you move around the red square, you see a lot of the circular shapes that look similar to those in the fractal.

I don't completely understand the algorithm being used, so I'm not sure how to gain more confidence on this guess.
It's already three: iPad, iPhone<5, iPhone5. Five if you count retina/non-retina variants. Still easy to deal with though.
Susan Kare
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_Kare

Who designed many of the original Mac typefaces, icons and marketing material.
I would like to see a solution that addresses this issue too. Perhaps something like http://news.ycombinator.com/classic but instead of users who have been on HN for a year, you pick the users. Some AI programmers might suggest that HN itself could figure out what users typically upvote the same content as you -- no thanks, I can pick them out myself.

A tag/keyword system would be ideal but that's a lot of work and tags never seem to turn out as good as they sound.

(also, `larrys`, you died yesterday -- hellbanned, and looking at your comment history yesterday, seems like an entirely inappropriate response from the mods)
That's not entireially true. The App store 18+ isn't the same as ESRB mature but ESRB AO+.

>> Apps with a rating over PEGI 16, ESRB MATURE, or a corresponding rating under other ratings systems as described in the table below, are not allowed.

src http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/apps/hh69408...
So they're going head-to-head with iPad on price and they have few third party apps or games. Obviously this was a wonderful strategy for Palm, RIM, Android (before 2012), Fusion Garage (ha!), HP's slate, etc.

Also, the T30 is seriously long in the tooth at this point. The A5, A6, Qualcomm 8960, Exynos 4 all beat it on GPU perf, and most of them beat it on CPU perf. $500 for a T30-based computer? No way!
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My ISP doesn't even provide its own DNS servers - their DHCP dishes out 8.8.8.8 / 8.8.4.4 to customers.

Is this a good thing, or just them being cheap?
I second this. It seems to make it easier for me to follow conversations if I can collapse threads I've already read as well as threads that don't look like they interest me.
madhadron: thank you for that explanation. In particular, I found your 1-dimensional analogy very helpful. Now that I understand the graph, I think it's even prettier. The beauty of these 'structural relationships' between numbers never ceases to amaze me.
I don't use autocorrect, but the spelling correction language switches with the keyboard language. Just add your other languages keyboard layouts and swith to the keyboard layout of the language you type in.
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Except that Microsoft has zero brand recognition in this category. Why on earth would anybody choose this over an iPad for the same $$? I half expected MS to be dropping these things from helicopters.