skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We needed "Student Research and Development" changed to "StudentRND" on a page, but it had a few thousand likes, so it wouldn't allow it. The official method of solving this was spend $10k on ads and then ask the Ad team to do it :p

Best part was we got an email later that day saying "Student Research and Development" was obscene, and would need to be changed.
There is a swiss startup doing this on a larger scale: http://urbanfarmers.ch/

They have a container farm in a box (http://urbanfarmersbox.ch/flyer/UFB_EN.pdf).

Sadly their Crowdfunding Initiative – Globe didn't get funded: http://www.indiegogo.com/HEDRON

However they are in the process if building a large roof top version in Basel: https://www.facebook.com/UrbanFarmers
In which case loading the scripts async would be the right thing to do. Early loading, but non render-blocking http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/...
Yes, they're saying, "assume we're biased."
2 great and easy to use services

- http://beautifuldocs.com/
- https://readthedocs.org/
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And is that the version we'll be seeing on the Surface?
What's wrong with this kind of article?
...but then he goes on with "no disks, no state[…] entirely in the network" ...what I meant was that you need "thicker" clients to make it work, because a real "thin" client implies being tied to a cloud and not part of it and this is what I argues, the he conflates two "cloud views" bi not considering the implications of really thin clients like he want them to be.

...but git annex is AF*GMAZING indeed :)
>"doesn't know what it wants to be"

You could just as well say that about smartphones.
The keys shift depending on the context? Would you mind expanding?

(guy who touch types, with a bazillion typos, on a samsung galaxy s)
Also, logging in without any username/password works...as in, you are actually logged in and are looking at the dashboard.
> SOUTH AFRICA: Two women unlock possible key to HIV vaccine

"Unlock" ... "key"? In this fast-breaking story, another journalist mixes another metaphor.
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Sounds like the touch keyboard is a slightly better cover, and slightly cheaper. I think if you want a laptop replacement that can be used as a tablet, go for the real keyboard. If you want a tablet that can occasionally double as a laptop, get the touch keyboard.
Surely he can use gestures instead of physical buttons?

Certainly gestures make the difference between one and two button trackpads a non-issue — if anything, I find it easier and more natural than reaching for a separate button — and it can't be too difficult to scale this to three buttons.
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I don't even buy the conference tickets anymore
It's a good blog, I like it.http://www.onlineuggbootssale.co.uk/
To ease the pain, hasn't somebody made a user style sheet that makes BBC News web pages look like Ceefax? White on black. Fixedsys?
The dont-vote-for-Obama bit reminds me of George Bush's "pre-war intelligence failure" fiasco.
> "They used it more than we'd anticipated."

If you read the Times article you'll see some pass holders sell tickets, book the same route on different flights (in case they get delayed in traffic) and book two seats in order to have more space. It's not just a case of flying too much.
Some of us do not like the cloud as much as Rob Pike because we are worried about censorship and corporate misconduct (what do you do if your stuff is suddenly gone one day?).

The "always accessible" and "continue where you left" paradigmata we can still relate to though: I've been using screen in ssh / putty windows for almost 20 years now, I used VNC for some time (even wrote a 16 bit client for DOS that ran off a floppy disk and with 2MB RAM...) for the same purpose.

Something like VNC but with a "responsive" UI that adapts to the device currently used (tablet, laptop, desktop) while still retaining all the state needed for the user to continue where he left, that'd be something novel and useful after all these years.
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That's the mobile version. Here's the not-mobile version.

(http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/blog/2011/mar/01/million-d...)
> Web based productivity is only good for very simple tasks

There are some very nice LaTeX editors found online and they aren't that bad.
Is is very difficult to find any HW without VP8 support. Android mandates it since 2.3, so since then the SoCs used in mobile devices support it.

Only Apple does not support it for political reasons. Just like they never supported Vorbis.
... and Stripe still doesn't work in Europe (or am I missing something)
Surface currently has a preview version of Office on it with the promise from MS that it will get an upgrade to the RTM version. The Office team probably just wasn't ready in time for product launch.
He is talking about Google. Probably Adwords but maybe other Google properties too.
salam brother, you shouldn't post something like this here. it is not reddit or your facebook. thanks.
So 3rd-party vendors of WinRT tablets could bundle a bunch of crap in Desktop mode again?
Programmers and their beards
Did you listen to Kim's music.

It is an interesting combination of Rebecca Black http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfVsfOSbJY0 and Justin B. I like it. My life is precious. I get to choose who I am. Words to live by.

I wonder why he isn't getting more attention for his music...
Ah. Good to hear :)
As you noticed yourself, the "dumber" the devices are, the more secure they will be. I'd happily log on to my e-mail account from a device that (I knew) booted an OS image from ROM just before I used it (comparable to those live CD-ROMs for secure applications like e-banking).

Let's go back to burning ROMs for OS upgrades instead of flashing/storing them on disk! People can replace batteries, so they shouldn't have trouble replacing an OS ROM ..
Well - there in an option - http://rhodecode.org - its open source and it supports both HG and git.

I use it with redmine and have a really good setup with project and repository management.
You misunderstand... This is if a contract provision that is unfair, and may not be illegal. A court can strike it down, depending on the circumstances.
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Question: have the average file-sizes of websites gone up proportionately to bandwidth increases? It seems to me like bandwidth has increased enormously, but filesizes have capped between 600k–1 megabyte. Shaving tenths of seconds off pageloads might not be as important as improving the speed of render.
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It is super-slick and makes a marvelous addition to Bootstrap. Thanks for your hard work!
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Please don't spare the New Zealand government. It is shameful how far politicians and police here went out of their way to try and impress. Pathetic, weak and disgusting. We have laws too, and a fair few were broken by NZ agencies.
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Except that Jeep 2013 won't be totally useless by 2017.
Aren't lean startup principles based on lean manufacturing principles?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lean_manufacturing
Saudi Arabia has dismissed its virus-hunter for sharing his discovery of a virus
Has anyone done an experiment to see what simply duplicating every TCP packet sent over wireless does? If you're in a situation where you're limited by random packet loss and not by raw bandwidth, I imagine it could help...

Obviously this is a much weaker and less efficient solution that what is proposed in the paper, but this would be trivial to implement. I believe netem allows you to simulate this.
Or it means their handbook doesn't entirely line up with the actuality.
I speculate: As this is an election year, playing the Obama angle will generate interest.
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They could have allowed running native applications. Not really sure how they expect to sell the Surface RT when it's competing with the Surface Pro. Except maybe the price of the Pro will be far out (I haven't found a price so far for Pro, it's not yet known?). Also if they had supported XNA for that thing formerly known as Metro they would at least have more games now. I'm rather puzzled why they don't support one of their most popular libraries for game development when introducing a new platform.
He used thermite to burn it, so I guess it's not trivial.
My aunt and uncle used to look after me and my sister when we'd finished school before my mum finished work, highlight was group playing Bamboozle. It was awesome, then occasionally the signal would die and it'd ruin your game.
From one month ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ulcizzAj-N4
That's not what the term meant. It meant you had enough money that if you had a job you could say "Fuck you!" to your boss, his boss, the CEO, etc. and then just walk out, never come back, and live pretty well the rest of your life. (Approximately speaking.) That you didn't have to worry about your resume anymore, career, networking, keeping skills up-to-date, you never had to say yes to anything to make a buck only if it interested you, etc. It did not necessarily mean you were saying that to your neighborhood, society, country, family, etc. Indeed it could enable to give more time and energy to those things. Now, what precisely that money amount is varies of course by person, depending on their needs and desires and situation.
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Yeah, but before I get to trying out your features I want to experience it as a user would.

I would recommend creating another page for this user experience, calling it the 'demo', and changing the current demo page to a 'try it now' page.
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This attitude is very interesting. In my reading, you take offence that Kim Dotcom supports free speech only because it is in his personal interest. Similarly (I find), many shy away from defending The Pirate Bay as soon as their advertising revenue is mentioned.

Is free speech only good insofar as it can be used as a tool to create an ethically prudent world? Does free speech lose its appeal if it's invoked by Kim Dotcom and not only by rms?
But in a cache, if the main storage fails you can't just get the data off the cache anyway. On it's own it's not a filesystem the OS can read, as it's managed by the device driver. In theory the data is there, but there'd be no practical way to get at it. In a fusion drive, if one drive fails it looks like you'll still be able to recover the data on the other drive.
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Windows RT will only run 3rd party applications sold through the MS App Store. For me at least, one of the defining features of a PC is that you can run whatever software you like on it.
That's what I wited for. An application that is easy to handle and good!
Well the good news is that you are mistaken, Surface RT comes with both the desktop version of OneNote and OneNoteMX. http://office.microsoft.com/en-nz/home-and-student/office-ho...
Ask HN: What makes a website look professional?
Are there any general design cues that distinguish a professional website from a non-professional website?

In particular, what makes a website look authoritative, and distinguishes it from a domain squatter's template?
Whether these claims are true or not, I would take everything Kim Dotcom or TorrentFreak say with a pinch of salt.

When one is reporting what the other is saying, make that three pinches of salt.
'Surface is a PC because Adobe haven't released their Photoshop for Linux either.'

Doesn't make a compelling argument does it.

Presumably the point is that if it's a PC replacement then customers are primed to spend more on it than if it's "just" a tablet. Tablets can replace PCs for sure but not because they provide all the functionality and performance, no instead it's because - like you it seems - people don't use all the capacity of their PCs. However, MS wouldn't want to suggest that any tablet might be a PC replacement for their customers, only this one ... blah, blah.

tl;dr it's just a marketing angle
Probably time and other resource constraints. I'm pretty sure their wishlist of things they would have liked to have finished by launch date is quite long :-)
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I miss GlaDOS, anyone else?
The same way Windows and Office are successful?
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But it is the copyright law that made MegaUpload necessary. If not for the copyright law, we'd just download stuff off each other's homepages for free, no reason to pay Kim or anyone else.
Yes, that is pretty bad. It seems like things have been slipping lately.

I wish the vendors would stop adding new features and just fix what they've already got.
Not sure how much of that is a problem - how many meetings do I go to that have iPad users busily taking notes? AFAIK they're not integrating directly into the enterprise network, as long as they've got access to mail they're happy. If you could get a decent version of Office on there...

(Not that I completely disagree - AD integration would certainly be a massive additional advantage, I just don't think it's critical).
Last submitted story about him (Inside the mansion - and mind - of Kim Dotcom IIRC) seemed to imply that he is on a diet now... Just saying :)
Depends what you're using it for.

A Retina laptop might be pretty annoying if you plan on running Windows on it. As Windows gives you literal resolution rather than converting it into a DPI increase (i.e. Windows makes everything REALLY tiny).
This seems to be the case for any country when faced with US pressure over copyright issues, whether it's agreeing to one-sided treaties which serve only to protect US content owners, or working with US agencies to track down and apprehend "criminal" infringers anywhere they happen to be in the world.

Everyone just does what America asks of them. It's shocking.
You will be able to update to it.
This is what "everybody knows": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yG5e1oaen-M :P
> My nerdly brain just couldn't handle the idea that being Andrew Mason in Q4'12 is so painful that simply holding his job imputes him credibility.

Agreed. If Pincus and Mason are having a hard time now, I'm sure they can have a good cry in their mansion or on their yacht, weekends in Aspen, luge lessons in Zurich, private Zoroastrian monk mentoring, perhaps a custom birthday song written by the Rolling Stones -- you know, the typical way of handling such hard times as these.
This guy is the biggest phoney ever. He made his fortune from piracy. I'm all for freedom and justice but don't pretend you are some saint.
I presume you just won't get the battery performance out of x86 version though? Surely it's going to struggle.
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In all seriousness, the law enforcement agencies concerned may have stuffed up the process, but there was a solid case against Dotcom and his associates, and everyone did indeed know Megaupload was synonymous with copyright infringement.
No but the iPad Mini was above-the-fold breaking news on the BBC news website before the keynote was even over.
When Apple's designs have been good (or any company's really), others are usually quick to copy. Philosophy is surprisingly hard to emulate though. One of the things that has made Apple successful has been its tendency to make a decision about the "right way" to do X, especially when X is new. The size of an ipad, no stylus or keyboard on the iphone. 15" laptops are exclusively high end… A lot of the time this is infuriatingly eliminates options for the consumer. It does result in an excellent option, pre-picked & perfected.

It's what has given Apple their "radical" feel.

MS has a lot of money. Good margins compared to PC manufacturers. They can afford to be a little bold. Here instead of offering two different keyboards (or no keyboard) and letting consumers choose, figure out which one works better. Make the perfect keyboard for a touch device. Most consumers have never had one of these devices before. Their guess at whether or not

Apple told us the best option was no keyboard. Android me-tooed. If Microsoft have a better answer, I'd like to see them champion it with confidence. Commit to the design. Letting the market decide is great and given a choice between intelligent design only and evolution only, I'd go with evolution. But, I'd rather have both. Since MS is leaving its world of software to create a machine that demonstrates its new OS parading, I'd like to see them treading confidently.

just do it Microsoft.
Batteries aren't static sensitive, and ROMs aren't available in gigabytes, but apart from that there is a certain appeal in a more secure OS environment.

It's a shame that (for example) Windows doesn't make it easier to make the entire system partition read-only, but applications are traditionally so abysmally poor at handling "no you can't write THERE" errors (yes, Photoshop, I'm looking at you) that most people gave up. UNIXes are better, but still at the mercy of morons (Acrobat has managed to drop files called "C:\nppdf32Log\debuglog.txt" all over my home directory, so it's probably just as well it's too fucking stupid to realise it's running on RHEL otherwise it'd be asking for root all the time instead)
The reviews I've seen say that there are far fewer features. If you've ever tried OneNote on Android you'd know that in the worst case this could be just turning it into a basic note-taking program.

I want to be wrong, but nothing on the Microsoft site (or anywhere else I've seen) shows me a side-by-side compare of the features of OneNote for every platform and version.

What I've read is that OneNote is available for Surface, but it's a feature limited version. No real details on what features are limited or missing.
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AFAIK the scripts cannot be parsed and executed in parallel since they're not explicitly async. The browser doesn't know if any of the following scripts may depend on the previous ones (think jQuery), so it just downloads them and then waits to parse and execute them in order, blocking rendering.

It's true that delivering them in parallel may in some cases reduce the actual download time, but given the small file sizes Apple is serving, the connection overhead (TCP handshake, HTTP headers, slow start, ...) just makes it worse. Most browsers (especially mobile ones) aren't even going to download more than 4-6 files at a time, since they're not using domain sharding.
Has the average bandwidth of web users really gone up, if you include the increase of mobile usage?
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I'm not a lawyer (so correct me if I'm wrong) but here in Poland there is a law that allows you to reverse engineer a product that you bought to make it work on your hardware (e.g. you bought a windows only program but want to make it work under Linux)
So I I buy a book that can't be viewed on device of my choosing (e.g. because of DRM) then I'm free to do whatever I want to the product to make it work on my hardware.
No EULA can be above the state law.
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Isn't taking from the rich and giving to the poor a key activity of a saint?

I may or may not agree with the guys views, or activities, but he has helped a lot of poor people consume a lot of media they would not otherwise have had access to.
Can a mod please change the of this article to point directly to the blogpost (http://ahmetalpbalkan.com/blog/the-5-saas/), not via Heroku.

There is no reason for this redirect, plus I clicked through thinking that this article was from the good people of Heroku.
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More often than not people have a vested interest in advocating for free speech. In this case, that interest is obvious; Kim Dotcom is facing criminal charges for facilitating copyright infringement, and is trying to characterize the issue as one of free speech.

He's trying to lump the Megaupload takedown alongside SOPA, PIPA, etc. to ride the wave of discontent that challenged those pieces of legislation.

It's cynical and insincere.
when a browser encounters <script src="" it will usually block until the script is loaded before moving on (when no async is used). The result would be a staircase pattern: http://www.webpagetest.org/result/121024_GH_A1Q/1/details/

For assets like images it would allow parallel connections until the configured limit.
It looks to me more like a smart UnionFS. Clever!
Correct. Anyone remember the time the US drafted the "The Netherlands / The Hague invasion plan"? Target of invasion? The International Criminal Court, if America of US soldiers were ever brought before trial for war-crimes. Seems International means non-us. Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Service-Members%27_Pro...
Do you believe his points are invalid? If he were making valid points, would they count regardless of his vested interest?
Multiple pages of actual content. Not just a handful of pages.
Functional design elements like social media buttons, logins, chat functions.
Partner links.
No wordpress/etc imported theme.
Everything that I've read claims that the differences between Office 2013 and Office RT are negligible. The full desktop version is definitely included, it's the metro version that lacks features.
Count me in as another "synchronized local storage" person, for the typical two reasons: I don't want to rely on a connection to the cloud, and I don't want to have to trust the cloud storage providers.
If it takes money to say fuck you to your boss, money's already fucked you.
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With all respect,

a) I don't think that truly poor people have the means to be spending their time "consuming media". That definitely falls at least close to "first world problem".

b) Despite the RIAA, which is an organization that deserves every bit of the scorn it gets, piracy mainly hurts artists, writers, and other "content creators". Creatives like me and a lot of other people on here. The suits that the RIAA really represents have plenty of other means to feed themselves.

I don't know how this guy made his money, but he ain't no saint.
In app support
Doesn't happen with NX.
http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Raspberry-Pi-opens-it...

Has some more details.
Wow, this is big. Embedded vendors are particularly precious about their GPU drivers.

Hopefully this is the start of a trend.
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I don't really see him making many points.

In a sense, as a fan of free speech, I'd rather he didn't associate himself with the cause.
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What makes you say that ? - assuming a reasonable number of variables I would think you'd only end up needing that order of magnitude if you split every combinations of variables into it's own test group to do A/B testing.

Presumably the reason that you'd apply a machine learning algorithm in this case is that you could extrapolate from a much smaller test group.