skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's an interesting question. To date the only way flash works on ARM is through the Android port, and Adobe has abandoned any development on that. It's interesting that the issue hasn't been addressed directly anywhere.

Even if it is supported I wouldn't buy this if consuming flash based content is your major goal. Even on the more directly supported x86 Chromebook I've used flash "works" but only marginally well. It's definitely not a pleasant experience on lower end devices.
This made me check out my github punchcard (https://github.com/dandroid88/webmote/graphs/punch-card) (shameless project plug).
If you need another project (lol) you could build a github punchcard crawler and analyze when ppl push commits in general although this would probably be pretty noisy as not all projects are side projects, some ppl work weird hours, etc.

Looks like most of my commits are 9pm on wednesday.
It used to be the case that you had to either pay for the licenses or pay a $100 'exit fee'. I was under that impression still, but it must've changed recently?

I guess Microsoft's idea is that if your company does graduate after three years, it's bound to buy upgrades and/or new licenses for the development tools somewhere in the near future. So the actual revenue is deferred to make the offer more attractive.
Nice job! The site looks so clean and simple. Did you use an API to get quotes?
Uhm I think that I would prefer to handle something important like my resume on my PC, still might be a good way to put down some notes. Also, +1 for all the Breaking Bad references.
I don't get as much done on my pet projects as I would like either, but I have at least found the following to be helpful:

-Focus on one project at a time, picking the one most interesting rather than the potentially most profitable.

-I like the quote "a mountain is climbed one step at a time". Ambitious pet projects can be overwhelming, but small steps of progress eventually lead to the goal.

-Cut TV time, web time, facebook time and hacker news time.

-Some people get up early to work an hour to 1.5 hours every morning before ordinary life intrudes.

-If possible reduce commute, work remotely a day or two or go down in time permanently to a 4 or even 3 day work week, if financials allow.

-Real work can be done in 1.5 hours (agree 1 hour is often too little). Try and schedule uninterrupted blocks of time. Regular blocks of little time accumulate quickly.
Actually the early you start in these cases the better. Having kids is like making an investment, starting early helps.
keep optimizing
Right now, I suspect the Uno is easier, because there is so much existing infrastructure around it.

Also, one of the appeals of Arduino to me is to re-learn simplicity, and relying on hardware solutions, due to the limitations of the micro controller. With a µC as powerful as the Due, the temptation for software types like me is to brute force everything in software again, which sort of defeats the purpose of Arduino tinkering for me. I've actually started playing with the ATtiny85, to have an even more limited hardware platform.

However, as a practical device, it looks like the Due is vastly more powerful than the Uno.
Awesome. I can store my passwords here. And the icing on the cake? It's so beautiful.
This post makes me really bittersweet, bordering on emo. During that period I was just a wee lad that couldnt get ENOUGH of the computer... I was programming and doing all sorts of things.

Stupid stupid stupid me never even thought to try to do online advertising or making a website that catered to an idea. Instead I dicked around with video game websites (which actually got a huge following but died off when the game did), small game development and 3d design.

I regret that to this day, I would undoubtedly be in a different spot had I used my very good talents with the end goal of making a profit in mind. Now all these years later it seems like I'm in the same position as everyone else, whereas then I realized the insane potential of the internet yet my idiot brain never put 2+2 together with the idea of money.
The U.S. has pretty decent laws surrounding car parts. The manufacturers are adding custom data to their vehicles, but the whole right to repair battle was already fought back in the 90s, the independents won (with odb ii coming out of it).
Seriously. Jesus christ is it getting annoying to read all these articles.
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I totally agree that short demos don't do these hackers justice and that being selective on admission also not an attractive option either. In fact, I'm not sure if there actually is a best answer for how to handle the situation. On some level, you always end up having to pick the lesser of three evils and somebody always ends up getting left out because of it.

If I do come up with a good system, I assure you, you'll be the first to know!
> You could have just as easily purchased something that wasn't a ThinkPad.

At least here in the UK, it's not easy to get any computer without Windows - unless you want to shell out much more for a Mac. Dell no longer offer Ubuntu, and there's no local equivalent of System76. I found a small shop that builds unbranded desktops and will install Linux, but their laptops have Windows bundled.

> You also ignore the fact that it's probably more expensive to provide a laptop without Windows then with.

But on the rare occasions that a big name offers laptops with Linux - or without an OS - it is cheaper than comparable Windows machines.
Do you really believe that if eBay had to pay higher taxes in the UK they would simply pull out, or that another company wouldn't fill the niche?
@Rastafarian

Did you watch the video before retorting?

In the video he has to run "ntfs_exploit.exe" in order to exploit the vulnerability. That's why a local account, as well as the ability to insert the USB dongle, is needed in order to leverage the exploit. So simply mounting the filesystem is not sufficient to trigger the exploit
It is based on Ubuntu, just very loosely

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/11/20/ubuntu_chrome_os_con...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=f...
> I honestly believe that Chile is one of the examples where American interventionism has worked.

Tell that to the women still wandering the deserts of Chile searching for the bones of their disappeared loved ones.
I mistook your comment for saying they were roughly equivalent, I didn't get that you were pointing out the expanding rights for corporations vs. contracting rights for individuals. Please accept my apologies, I do believe that what you are talking about is one of the most important problems we have to address in the coming years.
Cute idea, but it needs more value, probably some community features. This does little that you can't do already with Google Maps and most people already know what playgrounds are near them.

What I find interesting though is the communities that build around playgrounds. Parents and kids form friendships on playgrounds and even organize activities around them. In fact on my neighborhood, there is a community email list created by parents for everyone that goes to a playground. Add some features like this in and I think you've got a chance.
Ask HN: How many of you patent your ideas?
Just out of curiosity, how important is it for someone with an idea for an online business to patent that idea? If you neglect to patent and the business gains some traction, how quickly are other companies to copy it? I've been wondering this for a while since someone without a lot of money probably wouldn't be able to afford the fees.
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Man, I know exactly where you're coming from. By the time I can get some work done it's 11:35pm and my brain is starting to mix up the keys on the keyboard and I get sloppy.

What can be done? I wish there was some sort of hypertime chamber like in Dragonball Z where I could in and work for three weeks but only have left for 1 hour. That would be sweet!
NASA achieves data goals for Mars rover with open source software
If only the US banking system was as advanced as Europe's...
> - seller doesn't sell DRM'ed books

Who cares? DRM is not in itself unethical. If you don't want DRM-files, then don't buy DRM-files. If everyone did that, then publishers would be more hesitant to build a market of DRM files.
I think the real reason why Twitter crushes RSS is that RSS is an open standard that is hard to monetize. Twitter is increasingly a closed ecosystem that only Twitter can make money on, which give Twitter plenty of motivation to throw it's resources into a closed network and not an open standard.
It is confusing. I wasn't sure how to keep the interface as simple as possible and also include the forward functionality. I'll be putting more thought into this for the next iteration.
It doesn't crash (no kernel panic), just makes the system so slow that you can't use it anymore until you pull the stick out.
The worst part about this isn't so much the remote wipe of the device, but the eternal banning of the customer without recourse.

It doesn't matter if it's 30 or 50 years from now; this person has been told that for the rest of their life, until they die, that they are never again able to become a customer.

Sounds like a long time to be banned without being told why.
> OEMs offer Ubuntu, and it's a very low-volume seller.

Which OEMs? In the UK, the only way I've got a computer without Windows is to order one custom built in a local shop.
The question is whether deleting an account is essentially a loophole.
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> Nobody else outside of HN does

I agree with this, provided that we adopt Joel Spolsky's definition of "Nobody:"

Please understand that I'm talking about large trends
here, and therefore when I say things like "nobody" I
really mean "fewer than 10,000,000 people," and so on
and so forth.

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/APIWar.html

That's the meaningful definition of nobody, and while it's entertaining for me to quibble that my ex-mother-in-law only "buys" light novels that she doesn't plan to re-read, your point is cogent.
A wife. A full time job. And the first kid is on the way.

I have all the time I need.

I'm not a fastidious planner with a Type-A personality and an obsession with maintaining lists. I'm actually terribly lazy and my wife might have to remind me a couple times to get something done before I actually find time to do it. I think I've just structured my life around what I love to do that it all falls into place with the least amount of effort on my part.

Things that contribute to me having enough free time to work on my side projects:

- I don't spend much time watching TV, playing video games, or engaging in passive activities (I save them for when I need a rest)
- I live close to where I work so that I don't waste hours commuting
- I keep my circle of friends small and plan my social engagements ahead of time (I usually plan them around the time I want for working on my projects)
- I do chores, run errands, and keep up with all the little things using a todo list. If I need to pick up groceries I'll do it on the commute home. If I need to run a bunch of errands I'll schedule that time in advance.
- I get up early and get my exercise in before I start my work day
- I never work at my full time job for more than 8 hours (very few extraneous circumstances will change that. I break this rule on occassion)
- Wife and I are rather independent people and we like our personal time which helps too ;)

Time is the one resource that we cannot acquire more of. We're all spending at the same rate as one another. I believe it's how you choose to spend it that is the most important. I tend to be very self-centered and introverted and structure my life around spending as much time on the things that will make me happy as I possibly can. I don't like planning and living on a schedule so I just make sure I'm in the right place at the right time to do the things that I want... kind of like 'wu-wei' I guess.
I literally have no time, yet find time for major side projects and freelancing

I work as a fulltime developer, have a wife, two kids and one on the way. My wife also works part time

The biggest roadblock is sleep. Here is my daily schedule:

5:30 Wake and Meditation

7:30 Make Breakfast for everyone

8:30 Start work

5:30 End Work

6:30 Make Dinner

7:00 Eat Dinner

8:00 Play time with Kids

9:30 Get kids in Bed

10:00 Do dishes

10:30 Side Project time!

12:30 Go to bed.

Repeat!

During the last 3 years I have built:

http://wellhub.heroku.com/

https://www.targetmobi.com/

From my perspective, anyone without a wife/husband and kids in tow really has little excuses. Generally the issue is either being overcommitted or just laziness/procrastination.

You will only understand that if you someday have your back against the wall wishing you could back back to your pre-married pre-kid lifestyle.
Which way are you taking your reasoning here? If it's moral reasoning, then surely it's better to take a deal that creates a net benefit to our economy in exchange for giving hundreds of thousands of people running water, electricity, and schools for their children. If it's rational reasoning, surely it's better to take whichever deals provide a net benefit to our economy.
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I understand that the 2.9mil figure is small compared to the figures for the other makers today, however, what were these figures for, say, the second or third generation of android devices? For a relatively new entrant, a market take up of 2.9mil in a quarter makes me think MS might rise in the phone space. Any economies of scale advantage that Apple might have bought itself would likely put Android makers and WinPhone makers on the same footing, margin wise. Can the market tolerate more than 2 major players? Quite easily, i think (given symbian is kn its way out). If you include a country like India where iphone calibre smartphones are not the dominant kind, it doesnt look like a lost game for MS. Besides, they have other assets to leverage off, like office sync (which i hear is good), azure, etc.
It looks cool, but I think the animation should be faster for the demo. Making users wait for animation is bad UX.
This is a controller-chip issue, not intrinsic to the display technology.

http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2011/05/i-wish-my-nooks-e-ink-disp...

E-Ink was done a great dis-service by the scanning-refresh chips that came out with the display. Simultaneous-refresh is how any reasonable display device does it.
Samsung Announces It Will Stop Shipping Apple Displays
A gaming console Xbox media player on a tablet running Windows RT, called Metro? It keeps getting more and more confusing imho :/
FYI there is a calibre plugin that will strip the DRM from kindle books. I use it to read books on my Sony e-reader.
Nice app and concept...the most-highlighted passages feature of Amazon is definitely something worth mining.

My first reaction: Is it really necessary to load a 2.33MB background for this? Even on a fast connection, the background-image-load stuck out like a sore thumb, clashing with the otherwise smooth operation of the site.
No API. I just scraped the quotes and metadata.
The Free Software Foundation maintains a priority list of projects they think are valuable in the way you mention.

http://www.fsf.org/campaigns/priority-projects/
Obligatory Onion reference: http://www.theonion.com/articles/area-man-constantly-mention...
I guess what I'm getting at it is not really "why did you choose to have kids at time X in your life" as much as it is "why did you choose to have kids at all?"
I e-mailed amazon using a feedback form[1]. following is what I wrote. I appreciate if other kindle owners can do the same to help Linn and for the greater good.

Dear Amazon,

Your service was really nice to me so far. But I happened to read a news that was not comforting. Following is a link to the story.
http://www.bekkelund.net/2012/10/22/outlawed-by-amazon-drm/

This makes me hesitant about making any future purchases. I understand your right to act against any abuse but I also believe that users have a right know what was really going on, especially when they are being totally banished.

This email is to direct your attention towards the problem so you can have another chance of finishing things in a nicer way. I strongly believe DRM sucks but I also believe there are valid reasons for it to be there. The problem is not black or white. I'd like to see a solution that is acceptable for both parties (Amazon and the customer).

Thank you

[1] https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/contact-us/kindle-help.html/r...
There's just one company that sells computers with OSX pre-installed.
WinRT development is actually quite pleasant. You can put together a decent app in very little time using just html and javascript.

Deciding what to do with the large screen real estate is challenging though. There's no chrome and the entire screen needs to be filled in with an app's components. Without a designer working, it's very difficult to put together a nice looking app.
Looks bad on mac Chrome also.
There is a difference between finding and making time. I'm married, have one child, play hockey 1.5 times a week, write and record music, and try to cook. When I have a pet project in mind, all of that gets put on hold. I have to _make_ time and shove some things aside.

There are boundaries though. I don't hide in a hole away from my wife and daughter for a weekend. It goes in chunks of time. Family is a priority for me, and I can't justify shutting them out so I can code for a weekend. As a result, I need to work in 1-4 hour chunks. Four hours is pushing it (either because of sleep or a daughter craving time with me on a saturday). Hockey, music, cooking... those things can always wait when I choose.

I also constrain myself to small pet projects. Many times the projects cannot be completed, and I'm ok with that. I usually work on projects to prove out ideas or learn something... not finish them. Sometimes I share stuff on my blog or github. However, my work is usually rough around the edges. My pet projects are not meant to be polished and beautiful. They are for me to learn or just do something crazy and cool.

Having a child will cut off your free time like a tourniquet. However, I've found that having a child has also helped me focus. My seven years as a father have arguably (and ironically) been my most productive for my career. I have a hard time explaining that, other than I've had to focus and really come to terms with what is important - both at the macro level of choosing an activity and at the micro level of how pretty I want my side-work to be.
Sure, just create a new account (they're free).
No one single thing is showstopper for most people. But healthcare is a really big deal.

If you can't pay rent, then at most you owe your back rent. If you're in a car accident without insurance there is almost unlimited liability. You may owe more than you could ever possibly hope to repay. You may be forced to select treatment that is cheaper, rather than treatment that is better and this could have serious impact on your health.
I agree. He's kicking butt this post season. The man has great mechanics and is just clutch (knock on wood). Now Hunter Pence. Good grief, that guy looks atrocious at the plate.
I'm sorry... are you actually saying that the intervention in Chile "worked"? What do you actually mean by "worked"? If you mean "they fixed the economy only after screwing it up themselves" then that's called "cleaning your own mess" and not fixing something. Sure, it wasn't the best thing and Allende's government had many faults, but it wasn't the big mess they try paint it.

Being a chilean, I would say that the chilean economy and the whole system is in a very bad shape: huge inequalities, screwed up health system, educational system about to collapse, etc... Most of them we can thank Friedman and his free market policies... so don't tell me that the intervention in Chile was a good thing or turn out to be a good example, there are many, many counter-examples you can find of how bad things are now because of the intervention and forced policies in the economy.
Clever (S12) is hiring a full-stack engineer to hack education
Steve Jobs described education as one of the final frontiers still untouched by modern technology. Clever (https://getclever.com) is building the data platform needed to for great software to make its way into the classroom. Just like Stripe has made it simple for developers to build payment processing into their apps, Clever has made it easy for developers to build applications for schools using student data.

Clever is backed by top-tier investors (Ron Conway, Mike Maples, Mitch Kapor & more), so we’re lucky enough to have the financial freedom to build the company we’ve always wanted to work for. We get up to work every day knowing we’re working to improve education for millions of kids. It’s a cool job perk, way better than free meals (though we have those, too).

In just a few months, over 2,000 schools have come to count on Clever every day. Our growth has created some exciting problems around scalable systems, APIs performance, and big data sets. We're looking to add a versatile engineer to the team to take on a wide range of technical challenges.

Things we're looking for:

+ Experience with consuming and/or creating RESTful Hypermedia APIs

+ Experience with a variety of languages (we use the best tool for the job, everything from Node.js to bash scripts)

+ Experience scaling up systems including AWS and MongoDB

+ Ability to quickly pick up new technology and apply it effectively

What Clever offers:

+ A chance to revolutionize education

+ Competitive salary and significant equity stake in well-funded company (funding hasn’t been announced, but just ask if you’re curious)

+ Flat and close-knit engineering team with lots of peer code review and pair programming

+ Great benefits - healthcare, dental, beautiful office

To apply, email us at jobs@getclever.com. Send us one or more things from [resume, github profile, recent side projects, linkedin URL, Stack Overflow profile, etc], and include a note that shows you've taken a look at our APIs (https://getclever.com/developers/docs) - for example, what's the average number of students in a section in our sample data set?

This job is located in San Francisco, CA. You must be local or willing to relocate (we can help!).
Who says RSS is fading? Are twitter posts of years ago accessible via a simple link as are links obtained via RSS? These are honest questions and not snark.
I don't know whether that's sarcasm or not.

I originally didn't include "UK" in my post, but then realised that my knowledge was only of UK banks and that like direct debits it may be a country specific thing.
> You don't need 'fair use rights' when you tear up a book in frustration, or your kid scribbles on it.

Wasn't there a big battle lost in Utah by a store where you could take "your" purchased DVDs/VHS and the store would modify/edit them (to improve family friendliness -- also often included removing gay-tolerant elements)? As I recall the directors weren't happy, sued and won.
Italian scientists guilty of manslaughter in 2009 earthquake
https://kindle.amazon.com/most_popular - simple interface, aggregated view with different filters.
Middle Earth Demographics and Statistics
Metadata says "Made with Evan's Movie to GIF Converter www.evanolds.com" which makes fairly modest claims - just that it converts movies to animated GIFs.
This is unbelievable.

Is there anywhere to find all of the facts? This article doesn't give background info.

It took some digging to find that indeed the scientists had given a reassuring statement, though it had an expected but-we-cant-be-sure admonition, beforehand.
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