skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd heartily recommend to make the most of co-op opportunities if you can. I learned way more in co-op than I ever did in school. I suppose it's harder these days, as resources are stretched further so it's difficult for staff to allocate spare cycles for mentoring. It's unfortunately myopic, as we really need to invest more in guys like you for our future.

Real board-level skills are difficult to acquire on your own. I've only done a little - and that was last millenium - but a lot of it is a black art: rules of thumb here and there about what works, what doesn't - and they're best learned as an apprentice to someone who's been doing it a while.

VHDL is probably a cleaner language than Verilog/SystemVerilog, but it's used less in industry - at least in ASIC designs. There are free Verilog compilers/simulators (Icarus Verilog being a common one); there are probably no free SV implementations. Not sure what the status of free VHDL is. There are probably decent cheap options for development boards from Altera, Xilinx and co.

Feel free to drop me a line if you want to discuss further - email in profile.
Plus, you know, hemlock, poisonous animals and plants, cyanide, etc etc.
Maybe this is cynical of me, but I think the preferred solution (from Apple's perspective) is to buy more iPads.
Like a commit log.
I've started writing myself "work receipts" - slips of paper that are dated and recount what I did for whom. I stick them in my backpack and then transfer them to FreshBooks. I find it very satisfying to have a pile of small squares of paper that represent real progress and are worth real money at the end of the day.

I've considered using a logbook, something bound so that it's neater, but I have to say I just love having a single small slip of paper sitting there beside my computer as I work. It is a testament to focus - it is a physical talisman representative of singular focus.

It works really, really well.
I have the same drive and I'm also experiencing massive speed-ups, I'm quite happy with it.

But don't forget that with the Momentus, the SSD acts only as a read cache, ie all writes must still go directly to the HDD. With Apple's innovation, files that are heavily used profit from being fully on SSD for both read and write.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forward_error_correction#Low-de... implies that they are used in 802.11n (i have no idea what is new in this article)
waits for flurry of Anti-todo list mobile apps to appear...
I just typed out a big post, hit add comment - "link has expired", highlighted the text, forgot to copy, refreshed and lost it. Fix this already, HN!

Similar laws also exist in the UK. Unfortunately both our politicians and activist organisations such as 38 Degrees completely ignore the effects of them. I've tried taking political action against this and have been met with canned responses and ignored outright.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/law/2012/jan/14/stop-search-racial...

> Analysis by the London School of Economics (LSE) and the Open Society Justice Initiative shows during the past 12 months a black person was 29.7 times more likely to be stopped and searched than a white person. That figure was 26.6 the previous year.

We also have a "stop and account" law, where a police officer may ask you what you are doing and why you are where you are. Recently, the obligation for police to record these encounters has been removed.

http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/police/powers/stop-and-search/

> From 7 March 2011 we have removed the national requirement to record stop and account, in order to reduce police bureaucracy. Instead we have allowed police forces to make a local decision on whether they feel that recording stop and account is necessary. Those forces with little evidence of disproportionate use and little community concern should no longer need to spend valuable police hours completing forms, monitoring records and collating statistics.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2011/sep/22/police-record-race-...

> Five out of the 10 forces most likely to use stop-and-account powers disproportionately against black people – West Midlands, Avon and Somerset, Thames Valley, Sussex and Hertfordshire – have halted recording the race of people they have stopped.

> One experienced officer said colleagues could use the power, which does not require reasonable suspicion of criminality, to justify searching someone, which does: "It could lead to a suspicion to arise. Why are you not talking to me? Why aren't you answering questions?"

So you're not officially obliged but in practical terms, you are.

The worst thing is the heavy duty denial by the authorities that there is anything wrong with this.
Nah, not really. I really hit a comfort zone with this tracking system, so I haven't felt the drive to improve it.

The only thing that niggles a bit is that I'd like to check in/out on tasks sometimes. I know it's possible, but I don't have the urge to figure that out.

I use more of org-mode in other arenas: agenda preparation, PDF creation, and the occasional spreadsheet.
I'm not sure if our government would come up with a compelling argument to get money from other countries. We have a history of succumbing to foreign financial pressure too easily (reflex from our weak economy), and our government does almost everything to keep a good relation with about every country out there.

We're the good neighbor that gets abused now and then for being too soft.
My side project: a new watch brand
look at lilregie.com
Android 4.2 will have that feature, incidentally. I can't wait.
Apple had an insoluble problem, and they failed to fit the iPad Mini into a man's suit, sportcoat, or blazer inside chest pocket.

Apple iPad Mini width (Apple specs): 134.7 mm

Man's jacket inside pocket (size 41R): 124.0 mm

Google Nexus 7 width (Google specs): 120.0 mm

Result: the Nexus 7 with comfortable bezels fits very neatly in the pocket of any jacket I'm wearing (and I carry it there all the time invisibly);

The iPad Mini with troublesome bezel will not fit into any of those same jacket pockets.

Such a tiny difference, but it separates Nexus convenience from iPad Mini serious inconvenience (note that the thickness makes no difference here).
It has integrated hd4000 and an i5. This is pushing 2560x1600... I think I will wait to rev 2.
I get daily requests to join some random startup guys in their adventure, for equity.

They are all horrible and I doubt this model is going to work unless all the startups there are already profiting.

Having 100% of a business that makes $0, "but have the potential" isn't worth shit.
I can't really deal with a taskbar or alttab list having dozens of items in it. It's unmanageable.

I use desktops to partition stuff so there are manageable amounts of Windows at a time.
If the US and Europe's Universities are at all similar to Australia's, the company is going to have an uphill battle. Australian universities receive a lot of government funding based on metrics that are heavily weighted toward the number of papers published. The Prof. and the university therefore view commercialisation as a competing interest that restricts the publishing process while the technology is patented.
If you were in the market for a small tablet, why would you not get a Nexus 7?
But wouldn't it be precipitous to decide whether you are doing a Startup or a Business before you even start?

Wouldn't a Startup that managed to find an optimal recurring revenue model become a business? If you were the CEO of said Startup wouldn't you implement such revenue model? So given a choice, wouldn't every Startup become a business?
Did people ever talk about the "hypothesis of relativity?" It seems like it was a "theory" before they managed to confirm it.
The article only mentions layoffs from the Austin and Boston offices...
Majority of Israeli Jews support apartheid regime
The reason I said they grew too fast is I experienced this myself in the late 90s. I was with a public company that did email marketing services. That sector has turned out to be a massively profitable business. ExactTarget just went public about 6 months ago, and I know a lot of other private players who are doing very well.

The company I was with failed because they bought into the "get big fast" meme that was driving consumer Internet companies. So they went on a acquisition spree, tried launching too many products when they should've just focused on their core, opened several international offices etc.

AND they were already public, so they had to deal with all the BS that comes with that.

The did all of this inside of two years. It was senseless. A company culture rarely scales that well.

And it turns out that in most B2B markets (except for commodities like bandwidth), you don't need to grow that fast. You need to grow in a way that makes your customers happy, yes, but you don't have to worry about everyone suddenly adopting a new competitor (i.e. switching from Yahoo to Google).

But when you have investors throwing money at you, it's easy to think that every decision you make is genius and that you can solve problems simply by throwing money at them.

So to my original point. I think Groupon has multiple strategic options, but it may take them 3-4 years to see them through and in the meantime they have to justify their valuation to angry investors every 90 days. This would not be necessary if they hadn't bought into the "get big fast" mantra.

However, I believe they do have lots of cash in the bank so they may still have time to turn it around. It will be painful and take years.
I'm an organiser of Rumble. If the writers are reading this, I am sure we could try and work out more if they ever want to play with more metrics. :)
http://thepiratebay.se/browse/601 + a spiral binder + a laser printer.

Knowledge should be free.
And the best alternative to the iPad mini is well below the $300-$500 range: the N7 is in the $200-$250 range.
True, not really much to do with Metro though.
I guess many people still think they're sending out text messages while they're using iMessage which may the reason why they've been reluctant to use it as much as WhatsApp (they think they're getting charged for every message).
This is one of many features requested that Parse has promptly delivered. I (among others), expressed interest in this feature just a matter of weeks ago[0].

Cloud Code opened a floodgate of functionality on the Parse platform, and HTTP requests open another such floodgate.

[0] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4506888
If you want to check out VHDL in depth, you'll want to get this if you can: http://www.digilentinc.com/

I've used them in digital design courses, they are pretty awesome. Xilinx, however, is eldritch.
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It was many years before Amazon.com made a profit. Compared to them Groupon is ahead of schedule.
Show HN: FillTheContainer.com Collective Factory Ordering
how exactly is WhatsApp "pushing around" Apple - that would indicate that there is a power & influence sort of relationship between the two companies. Rather, this is a case of WhatsApp outperforming Apple due to its multi-platform support, extended featureset and first mover advantage
When I'm playing a game and my system suddenly restarts without warning it feels like a crash. Nag all you want, but a restart without explicit user approval is a terrible design decision. And if you are going to do it at least postpone it to a time when the user isn't actively using the machine.
I run the default window manager which is really basic on Raspbian "Wheezy". In my application I ssh tunnel to a 'big' machine, startup Firefox and have it display full screen on the RaspPi (its a really cheap 'dashboard' machine). One window, over a gigabit link, updates, mouse movements, keyboard response, with multi-second latency. Not fun at all.
Pump and dump works very well in tech unfortunately. Few VCs apply Buffetesque expectations of company durability to their investments, and (morals aside) objectively they don't need to. Alot of it is about selling to a greater idiot - either the hoi polloi on the stock exchange after an IPO, or an acquirer with rose-colored glasses if that's too much of a stretch.
Think about this every time you write non-standard or invalid code - A rant.
Express.js 3.0 is here
Looks like a smart, efficient way to monitor responsive design.
Useful list of domains(text list), part of the domainatrix gem
This setup looks very cool! I know quite a few folks that are into emulators for looking at mobile on a desktop, but I think there's something special when you look at your design on an actual mobile device. I realize of course that this is a pain (I now a small collection of devices) but I think it's the way to go.
Side discussion concerning the No True Scotsman fallacy. If 100/100 people agreed with "A", does the fallacy still apply? Can you say "just because everyone thinks 'X' doesn't make it fact"^?

^I know that people believing something doesn't define facts - in this case I'm wondering if the fallacy would still apply.
I have tried several times to get into org-mode and for whatever reason it just hasn't stuck. I'm going to give it another crack for daily logs.
500 watts is a seriously overclocked with a sli/crossfire gfx setup or the super-high-end offerings like dual gpu on a single card. it's probably less than 1% of all desktop pcs.

my ageing desktop with an e8400 and an radeon 4850 draws 270 watts at full load, including display - number straight from the ups.
Data science and functional programming in the real world
The beauty of Hacker News is that it isn't filled up with irrelevant quips that tend to polarise discussions. We can actually learn from each other despite our differences.
"BBC ageism"? How dramatic can we get? I'm sure there are more efficient and effective ways of providing people with information today. Memories are wonderful but let's not let our sentiment turn into outrage over turning off an outdated service that is no longer needed.
Not really. There's still money on the table so they are still playing.
I just listened to the audio. I practice positive affirmations myself and your scripts associate a visual+auditory elements to the affirmations, which is great. I think I will have to make a habit of listening to them daily.
circuits.io is working on an interesting solution:

http://blog.circuits.io/post/34159982502/in-this-video-karel...
I think it's pretty obvious that FUD is what the parent was saying. Objectively, you really don't need more than what the parent provided to understand this.
Why do you Late Labs to facilitate developers working on "ideas"?

Developers have too much opportunity to work on the "next great thing" in exchange for equity.
Combine this with pomodoro technique and you'll never have free time again! /s
It's not easy to liquidate a majority stake in a large public company into cash. At least, not quickly.
The glass is on the outside, the screen is behind.
Paypal's forced TOS opt-out form
The issue is its not a piece of predictable information - we don't know how many of those 250M shares will actually hit the market, as it is unknown what % of employees will sell versus hold. The market knows the event will occur, but does not know the size, and therefore significance, of the event as a result.
A separate interface that's optimized for touch based devices makes sense. But that doesn't explain why for one, did they have to use the tablet-optimized interface for the default, user friendly desktop mode, and secondly, why did they force the traditional desktop users to use a dumbed-down comprised desktop interface without a start menu?
I had a different take-away/question/moral.

If un-notified/disclosed behaviour on a Kindle book purchasing account can get that or "a related account" closed without notice, and I've got important things running in AWS on both personal and work accounts that Amazon quite likely knows are "related" (since I and my colleagues often log out of personal accounts and into work/customer accounts), it seems like a non-ignorable risk that some of my critical infrastructure may one day vanish from underneath me and I'd end up in non-accountable support hell cut-n-pasting barely relevant sections of policy documentation in reply to email queries.

All of a sudden having my businesses main cloud computing supplier be the same company that I personally use to purchase things like tech-toys, DRMed media, have occasional disputes with 3rd party vendors, and pay for high-risk projects via KickStarter - seems like an unnecessary business risk.

This is possibly misplaced paranoia, but…
Thank you, great approach. Please check this out: http://vimeo.com/48678780
I can't watch these shows, I cringe too much. Same with the Hangover 2 I recently watched, too much embarrassment...
Want it or not these units are gonna sell like pancakes. All the same goodness but now more portable equals a win. Anyways, I was hoping for a little more fanboy vs apple-hater drama on this thread, I always find that entertaining.
Now that Steam is supporting Linux (and possibly making a Linux/steam box), I suspect that they will be able to push for improved graphics drivers. In fact, If I remember correctly, while working on optimizing some of their first ports to Linux, they got Nvidia to improve some elements of the drivers.

Also, given the number of people using Nvidia drivers on Ubuntu, my guess would be that Ubuntu will not switch to Wayland until the compatibility issue is solved.
Eh, never underestimate the challenge of understanding something from a newbie's perspective.
How to Be Successful Pitching Writers Without Really Trying
If TC is journalism, then so is CRM Today or Auto Dealer News. They're just an industry rag like any other that reports whatever comes over the wire, only with a little more wit.
We are a small team located in Vancouver, BC. We believe existing global trade supply chains are extremely inefficient.

We are launching with Medium to High end Furniture product line. We plan to add more Product Lines and Categories as we grow.

Your feedback is welcome :)
The new one is user-friendly, it's just different from the old one. Also, the lack of "start menu" doesn't matter so much if you use search to find apps. And the start screen is great for info at a glance.
Let me quote a comment I left on another article. I'm getting tired of having to post the same thing over and over while everyone else gets away with just saying "Microsoft is being evil again!" without any strong argument to back it up. The thing that we in the tech industry seem hesitant to try to understand is that the desktop is a giant roadblock to average desktop users. That's why the iPad is outselling PCs.

Quote:

You're used to the old way. You're comfortable with the old way. You like the old way. So do I. That's not a bad thing, and Microsoft left in the desktop for people like you and me (and most others on this forum). Nothing has changed there. I run Windows 8 on my laptop and spend 99% of my time on the desktop like it's Windows 7 with some nice new features added on (and a better security model).

However, a great number of computer users seem to prefer the simplistic style of iOS or Android. It lets them focus on one task using a very simple menu to get from one app to another. They don't need multiple windows overlapping each other, and they don't need tiling window managers. They don't want multiple open windows distracting them. This is why the iPad was made, this is why Android tablets are made, and this is why Windows 8 and Windows RT were made.

For us, we'll complain about the limitations of the Metro UI then switch to the desktop and forget about it. For them, they'll stick to the RT components, possibly momentarily confused by the drastic change from Windows 7 to Windows 8, then settle in and forget they're using a PC. That's probably a good thing. The last thing these users need is their personal IT guy going on and on about how Windows 8 is awful and the RT components are awful and it shouldn't be used. How long have we all spent trying to teach our parents/grandparents how to get around in Outlook and Firefox, writing down a list of steps they'll need to take to get to their email, or how to bring up the new picture of their grandkids? I actually bought my grandma an iPad so I wouldn't need to do remote support over the phone anymore. 5 minutes of instruction and she was ready to go.

I think RT will be a good thing for your average user. I think it will be a mild grumbling point for power users, deserving no where near the current amount of vitriol spewed on the Internet. Think of the RT stuff as an iPad built into (and complimenting rather than replacing) your desktop. You don't have to use it.
Working with IIS Express Self-signed Certificate, ASP.NET Web API and HttpClient
Apple Announces iPad Mini, Other Thin Machines
Yes, I recognize that. Perhaps I didn't explain it clearly in the post. Nine of the teams used coffeescript, but only six used therubyracer. What did they use for js if not therubyracer? I'm guessing node.

Edit: 9=>6 per the blog post
I've been following the Rossi Ecat spectacle since stumbling upon it in 2011, and I think LENR (cold fusion) will be the biggest story on the planet in a few months time. I'm a 'believer'.

The Believers movie just came out a week ago:
http://www.thebelieversmovie.com/

Also Rossi is featured in this month's Popular Science:
http://pesn.com/2012/10/16/9602208_Andrea-Rossis_Black-Box--...
I could be wrong, but I assume this needs JS because it needs to be able to track the position of the user scrolling, which is what it's doing right now using this plugin: http://jonraasch.com/blog/scrolling-parallax-jquery-plugin
As far as I can tell, the cash in the bank isn't theirs, it belongs to the SMBs. They don't have 3-4 years.
More like cannibalizing Intel's market, these days at least.
So, "benchmarks very favorable in mostly artificial scenario".
Can someone much smarter with physics than myself explain what the hubbub was a couple of years back when 60 Minutes and a few other sources were starting to rehabilitate Fleischmann?

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-18560_162-4952167.html
http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=4955212n

Is this the same phenomenon?

Edit: Additional question - If the palladium based device described in 60 Minutes consistently outputs more energy than input (they just don't know how long each reaction will take, exactly how much energy will be output, or quite frankly how it works), wouldn't it be a trivial matter to daisy chain hundreds of these devices and get a relatively more consistent average energy output?
Seems very interesting, I'll surely give it a try in my next personal project. Small suggestion to the author: Please add syntax highlighting in the example.. it makes a huge difference when reading code online! Thanks
The new iMac: updated models after 1.5 years
Snuck - Automatic XSS filter bypass
This is great. Is the app pronounced "finished", "finish it", or "finish shit!" ? I kind of like the last one, haha. Seriously though I'm curious which one.
This was bound to happen. What goes up and steals other companies designs and game ideas must come down. It's unfortunate the front-line employees who worked for Zynga and only did as they were asked and weren't the perpetrators for coming up with game designs to rip off have been shafted in this situation.

They're nothing more than a money hungry company that deserves to perish. The real question here is: will this have a knock on effect for Facebook stock and perhaps have a chain reaction?

If I were Facebook I'd seriously be considering an acquisition and then priority number #1 being turn the image of Zynga around, perhaps even re-brand to Facebook Games.
How do they plan to defend against vulnerabilities in the system codecs? Especially a GPU-accelerated codec has the potential to wreak all sorts of nefariousness.
This is great. I am putting my own list of gems from all the participants, I will list it once done.