skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you are in CA, I'm not sure that voting against Feinstein will help you. Emken doesn't seem to have many real positions and her website is lacking in any real substance of her stance on issues. She has a lot of platitudes but it seems she basically just supports the straight Romney line with "repeal healthcare" "job creators" and other nonsense.

More importantly voting on a single issue that never even passed is dumb. Congress people tend to be older folks who don't know much about tech anyway. Supporting the bill should not be this poison pill. In fact, if anything, supporting it and then pulling support once they learned of the opposition should be celebrated as a successful execution of American politics.

Anyway: educate yourselves.

http://vote-ca.org/politicianissue.aspx?state=ca&id=caem...

http://www.emken2012.com/inner.asp?z=5E5A585B

http://www.feinstein.senate.gov/public/
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Not exactly "upfront honesty" when they didn't say this before they started advertising as a "32 GB tablet" knowing full well that what consumers will think is that they get 32 GB of storage for a $500 price.

They only did this now after others have already debunked their storage claim:

http://semiaccurate.com/2012/10/31/microsoft-surface-can-not...

Also shame on most tech reviewers who didn't even notice this in their reviews, or didn't want to say it.
> That's only true until you start getting chargebacks.

Phew. I'm saved from the moral burden by the financial burden. :^)
"This sort of size is necessary to support a tablet which isn't hopelessly tethered to a PC."

Are you implying that iPad is hopelessly tethered to a PC? Have you used an iPad?

As of iOS 5, there are very few reasons that one would need to be "hopelessly tethered to a PC" in order to use their device. Backups, music and app purchases, and contact and calendar syncing are all completely untethered.

As for restoring firmware, in reality that's something something that an average user does extremely rarely, if at all. iOS has a "Reset All Content and Settings" feature which deletes everything off the device and reboots it into a completely fresh state. If somehow, an average computing user like my grandmother has managed to get her iPad to the point where it truly needs a restore, any Apple Store would be more than happy to assist her. In that scenario, what sense does it make to carry around a copy of the iOS 6 firmware on the tablet?
HyperGraph 1.2 Final
1.2 has many bug fixes,performance improvements and new features over 1.1, including supports for sub-graphs, query compilation, more flexible type system, and support for a pure Java storage engine.
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But can they restore from a problem state without a PC? I honestly don't know, but I suspect Apple's approach to a recovery partition is still 'Run iTunes' or 'Talk to a Genius'. Which is less good for, say, my grandma than me being able to restore from a hidden partition. User data can still be backed up to the cloud; that's probably a good thing generally.
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It would be easier if they simply chose a very permissive license to use.

Only in a world where people's mindset has been ruined by copyright would it be simpler to license something than giving it away.
I don't work for Google or have any inside informatgion, but I guess "magic keywords" become such after a certain (very large) threshold. Obama, being the president of the United States for four years, has probably crossed that threshold long ago, but it only became a political issue since the election process began.
Ha! OK thanks for helping out. I guess we all have to start somewhere.
How millions of DSL modems were hacked in Brazil
This statement means nothing. This is the same guy that claimed he had an army that will hack Al Qaeda. Obviously, neither one will happen. He says things.
Sure. And yet from Gittip's POV as well as that of the original victim, it's still stolen money, on Gittip. No?
But I am using it!
Human genetic variation mapped in 1,000 genomes
I'm sorry, but the layout of your website looks like something I'd see from on a micro niche affiliate marketing domain.
The only plausible outcome for this election would be if Obama won, and he decided in his second term -- with nothing to lose, politically -- that he would repeal the PATRIOT act. (Not because Obama is any better on this issue than Romney, but because by nature, a second-term president has less to fear in making politically risky calls).

I would call this scenario highly unlikely, if only because he'd face strong pressure from his party not to repeal it, jeopardizing everyone else's political futures in doing so.

This is one of those obnoxious political footballs that is entrenched precisely because everyone's too chickenshit to do anything about it. Republicans won't do it, because they have a rah-rah jingoistic voting base to appeal to. Democrats won't do it, because they don't want to look "soft on terrorism." And nobody wants to be the guy who repeals it right before another attack happens. So both parties are strongly disincentivized to repeal it.

In the long run, I think we'd need a grassroots movement to pressure politicians to make it a core issue.
iOS and Androd only take 1 GB or less, and there's another 8% or so that comes from the conversion of 160,000 MB to 16 GB.
Why did DoE reject them?
I would support this (that is, contribute code) if it wasn't written in PHP. Ruby, Python, Perl, node . . . anything but PHP.
If we did it purely out of consideration for the well being of animals, then would would apply laws consistently. We punish animal abuse when it happens to dogs, because people get upset about dogs being hurt. We ignore animal abuse when it happens to pigs, because we eat pigs and don't want to have to deal with the ethical dilemma posed by recognizing that they have feelings. The laws are most definitely designed around what is distressing to people in society, not around what is best for the well being of the animals.
I like the inclusion of the VC in the marketing efforts. Helps him two ways: better understanding his current investment and hearing new pitches. It also helps the people pitching and definately helps the cleaning company get the word out.

Genius!
Ask HN: What Dev tools should I use for Hybrid mobile dev?
I've read many of the posts on doing native vs. HTML5 mobile development, and I think I understand what dev (IDE) platforms I would use to accomplish each. This "hybrid" approach is an interesting one, but I'm not clear what my development environment would look like to accomplish this. Any pointers or links to tutorials would be helpful.

Thanks!
Yes, but you can stick a 32 or 64GB SD card in it(or swap through many as needed) because it has an SD card slot. You can even put in USB flash drives since it has a full size powered USB port with hub support. Hell,you could connect a 2TB portable USB drive and it would work(at the expense of battery). Try doing that with an iPad or Nexus 7 or even the Nexus 10. Google's devices are supposed to be more open but I cannot understand why they want to force upsell you to the more expensive options to add additional storage by omitting MicroSD slots.
It's impossible to tell, with certainty, if a credit card is being used by its rightful owner or someone else. That's not something anyone anywhere in the payment processing industry guarantees. In terms of who can do the best at predicting the likelihood a transaction is fraudulent or not, it's definitely the merchant/website, not their processor. He has much more information available to him (IP address, github account, etc) than Balanced has.
I'm tired of Gabriel Weinber telling me how bad Google is and therefor why I should use DDG instead. I'm happy with Google, I'm glad that when I search for "ruby" I get the programming language and that when my brother who works in jewelry searches for "ruby", he gets the gemstone.

But seriously, tell me why DDG is awesome and unique, stop bashing the competition. It was fun at the beginning but now it's getting old. Like basecamp bashing microsoft project at the beginning, it was ok, when was the last time you read 37signals still writing about how bad MS Project is? Exactly.

Stop spreading FUD about Google and tell us what's great about DDG. Google Search is an awesome product that changed the world, it gives great results and at much greater speed than DDG. Beat them at that and I'll give DDG a go. Not for any scary reasons.
I am glad you recognize that. I worry tremendously about companies that don't realize the economics of registrars. Very few domainers actually own registrars, the biggest guys do, but most aren't technically inclined and work with existing registrars (eg. Fabulous, Enom, Moniker). Even at $2-3 margins you're going to need tens of thousands of domains to cover costs. You want the best support, but are a 1 man operation, to hire a 24/7 team, you would need 3 people working full shifts (if that includes you), we're talking at least 50,000-70,000 domains (not even sure what costs you have, so that would be on top). That's a lot of domains. I hope the DNS is really popular and has great margins, because you're going to need them.

As far as features, you have not looked around enough apparently. Profiles and domain admins are something that have been around for MANY years. I think even your registrar, eNom, has that functionality with subaccounts and access levels. I know my registrar, Fabulous, has them. I even have DNS templates (seemingly equivalent to your snippets). I have had this stuff for the past ~5 years?
I guess I've been lucky to not get roped into that thinking. I'm still happy using my refurbished first gen iPad and a mid 2009 Macbook Pro. But I will admit that I think I might grab an iPad mini when a retina display gets added in.
You migh find this useful: http://searchengineland.com/why-google-personalizes-results-...
And a lot of those atoms are just air!
they were unique strong passwords.
" they actually made me wait for the iCloud backup to complete before I could leave the store."

Are you being positive about Apple devices or not. Because that statement could be taken two ways.
> Before selling stolen credit cards, bad guys have to verify them. This is often done with small (<$10) donations to charities or small purchases of intangible goods that are considered low risk merchants.

They also verified them on SoundCloud without any purchase. Don't know if it's still possible.
Do you think you could reframe that comment without the needless personal attacks on the writers and readers of the article in question?

It truly is disappointing to read comments like this. The content [of your comment] isn't abjectly worthless, it's just wrapped in unnecessary hatefulness that honestly does nothing to further a high quality of discussion. Can't we do better here?
I believe ALL animals deserve the same rights as humans, and I treat them with the same measure of respect. I have for years.
Microsoft's Surface isn't a tablet in the iPad sense of a device for casual content consumption; it seems intended to enable content creation and more formal business use. Comparing the two the way you are isn't very enlightening.
Kim Schmitz isn't the smartest person and just has a second lower education. He isn't a hacker as well and not good with computers, so how should he notice it? He had luck that he got rich with fraud, but that doesn't make him a business man. He was and always will be seeking for attention to overact his missing skills and low IQ.

Just translate some of his usenet postings and you will see it yourself. http://arnold.babsi.de/KIMBLE.txt
And get swimming-through-turd SD card speeds? No thanks.
i responded on your blog. i am using solution 3 already, it helps a bit but doesn't help with the core problem.
The point still remains that they advertised the tablet as being higher value, when it's not. You can get a Nexus 10 with 16 GB of storage and a much higher resolution than the Surface for $400.
Boeing technical fellow LJ Hart-Smith wrote an spot on paper about outsourcing, his point was when the work is outsourced all of the profits associated with the work will be outsourced as well. GM seems to have gotten this.

https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/69746-hart-smith-on-...
But anybody capable of closing the deals necessary to hit a sane compensation figure for this role is also capable of getting a job at a startup that can afford to hire them. It just doesn't seem like you are ready for a Director of BD. Sounds like you are looking for someone fresh out of college, or someone with a year of sales experience at a sub-50 person startup. Even then, they're taking a pay cut.
for instance, a person who searches for "Harry
Potter," and then for "Amazon," actually wants "Harry
Potter" results from Amazon.com Inc.

I wonder, is this really the case? It seems strange. Is there any research available about the frequency of such strange searches?
Same here. When my iPhone 5 arrived I basically turned it on, chose 'restore from iCloud backup', waited a few minutes, and presto: all my apps and their data, settings, text messages, address book, call log, etc, all transferred from my old 3GS.

I still had to sync all my music from iTunes though, but I don't see how the Surface would be able to do this without requiring to be 'tethered' (iTunes has WiFi sync) to a PC.
there is also an excellent start-up based in Portland, OR called luckysort. Good people, only the time difference from Europe sucks ;-)
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So when Microsoft were talking about having a consistent experience between tablet and PC, I didn't think this was what they'd be thinking of. This reminds me of my current desktop, which I ran out of space on the SSD almost immediately and then spent an instructive half-hour cutting down swap space and getting rid of the hibernation file. Seems like the first thing to do on a Surface would be to find some way of freeing up that space.

I feel a bit mean poking fun at Microsoft now, but honestly, it amazes me that they'd think it was acceptable to take up half the hard drive of your tablet - especially given that storage space is one of the major metrics that mobile devices are sold on at the moment!
Restoring the firmware in DFU mode is not possible without a laptop. But, it's uncommon and I think you can let Geniuses at the Apple store do that for you.
For me, I love every single part of creation of software. From dreaming up its function and laying it down elegantly in code, to designing the user interface, the logo and making everything smooth. Then looking at it - deciding it's shit - and iterating the whole thing again. It's a creative process and I love every bit of it.

When people come to me with ideas or wireframes it takes away from that creative process by a huge factor for me, which in turn makes me not want to take a client. I love seeing the idea in my head and having it all click, that catalyst of motion needed to take it from idea to execution. I love it. People giving me ideas, deadlines, precise functions and that the logo has to be "right there" just kill stuff for me. I can't do it and be happy, so I won't do it.
Thanks for weighing in. I'm based in the US. I am going to proceed along the path of openness for now.
$28-32k/year???
Another quote related to innovation I liked is, "An outsourced environment is something set up to manage the cost of what you want to keep the same."
That cost center mindset is such a huge chasm to jump. As an individual employee there's almost no reason to take a job at a company that isn't making money off of your contributions.

Even if you're lucky enough to be in an IT-enabled skunkworks or innovation center at a large not-high-tech company, your department exists at the continued pleasure of the non-IT people who control the real revenue streams. There won't be many internal job transfer opportunities for you either unless you fancy moving out of technology and becoming an 'X who programs', someone in a non-dev role who uses coding as a sort of personal competitive advantage. [1] [2]

I agree that technology is going to enable the business advances of the future even for companies that aren't high tech now, but at the individual contributor level it's a Sisyphean task to try to drive that change unless you're an executive yourself.

[1] http://learnpythonthehardway.org/book/advice.html

[2] http://michaelochurch.wordpress.com/2012/08/26/xwp-vs-jap/
Congratulations Danielle!
Google sold SketchUp to Trimble, a multi-billion dollar company which sees it as a strategic resource. Trimble has already hired some additional developers and is looking for more. In short, SketchUp is NOT abandonware.

There are a number of videos (both free and paid) on how to use SketchUp, as well as several books. The SketchUcation forum is also very helpful. If you are willing to give it a real try, I think you'll find that it works well for you.
Presidential Campaign Issues: Real Life Vs. Social Media
There are issues discussed endlessly in traditional media. Then there are online issues batted around on social networks. Are they different? Yes.
Looks like Tumblr can't handle HN! The site is down. :(

Haha!
That's why i'm never gonna use Tumblr! :P
Randy Mott was the last exceptional CIO at Wal-Mart Store, Inc. His vision, personal skills and technical leadership played no small role in making Wal-Mart a leading tech company for so many years.
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I think you have unrealistic expectations. If you read an advertisement for a computer with a 250GB hard drive, do you really expect it all to be available space? I don't think anyone else does, so why would they think that in this case?
This content is not just worthless it's the literary equivalent of Justin Bieber. It's manufactured fluff written for the lowest common denominator, and that's become us.

I certainly agree we could do better here but I'm not sure letting this calibre of "journalism" and the people who lap it up slide is the solution.

This content doesn't even fuel discussion. We see it almost every day under a different headline, all it does is trigger some genius to tell us how copying isn't stealing, copyright should be abolished and bla bla bla. It's digg content, and it's written to be agreed with not discussed.
Yeah - they should at least have included read-only SD card reading, for media consumption. My dad currently does not know what tablet to buy because reportedly the Google devices are great, but they don't have the slot.
In what way?

Conflict itself is a news value. Something may be news precisely because there is conflict, and exponentially so if that conflict affects a news organizations' readers via proximity or other news values. Where no conflict can be found, it can be (and often is) generated via balance. Science writing is full of it, same with education writing and politics. Find one source that says one thing, another source that says the opposite and you've generated built-in conflict. If the conflict is sensational enough, your editor puts it on the front page.

This is a real problem in journalism. Journalists are specifically trained as generalists. There's a culture of avoiding becoming experts in their beats, instead they strive for access to experts. The argument is that by not being an expert, one can write for a general audience more clearly. Just follow the formula.

Anyway, news is narrative. That is the chosen format. Compelling narratives do better at selling news than dry factual reporting.

There's a reason why, for example, when newspapers do polls that are outliers from the consensus they blare that information as loudly as possible. It's not because they honestly think they're right, it's that they've spent upwards of $20,000 conducting the survey and now they're going to get their worth out of it.
Negative. The layering stage of ML does indeed lead to "cleaning" funds, but Gittip isn't doing that. ML means giving money a clean-slate with virtually no history. Everything from casinos, offshore entities, to wiring funds through FATF blacklisted countries will be closer to what ML actually is.
Have you considered a one-time-use (or limited-time) PIN for deliveries? You could also replace your PIN-free pizza-guy mode with a fixed pizza guy PIN (say, 74992) that's similarly only valid for an hour.
The microSD slot allows you to add up to 128GB of storage fairly cheaply to your Surface.

I don't see this as a big problem.
http://octopress.org/ is essentially something written from the ground up that addresses many of the concerns in ghost, but that doesn't mean its the solution.

Because WordPress is built on PHP it has a wider array of deployment options, including many low-cost options, while maintaing a relatively easy to use sheen.

I think it makes sense to evolve WordPress to merge the benefits of something like octopress with WP.
Programmers who make good CEO's are rare. I don't think I've met a programmer who would make a good president.

Agreed, but have you met a lot of lawyers who would make good CEOs or presidents? I think you may be talking about rare people.

Just as an interesting reference point, people with undergraduate engineering degrees are actually represented as CEOs in the fortune 500 far out of proportion to their percentage of the undergraduate degree population. I believe it's reverse for government, though.

Of course, programming != engineering, though a lot of the programmers I know did major in some kind of STEM field.
Germany, according to his profile.
Be sure to check the source code for more interesting commands. I particularly liked the attention to grammar :).
Good luck with your company! Management of the systems is a seriously underappreciated and difficult problem, especially with batteries. To do it well, you have to really know the chemistry.

I think the difference in fanfare is probably because, unless you change the levelized cost of stored energy to be less than the cost of producing power from fossil fuels in the first place, you can have a significant effect, but you can't really change the way the mainstream grid operates. Existing technologies can't do that.

The companies that have staked their reputation on trying to climb that mountain are those which have attracted the likes of Vinod Khosla, Peter Thiel, Bill Gates -- who are not in it to make a buck or megabuck, but to change the world.

Management and monitoring is an important part of changing the world, but whether or not it happens depends on the cost of the system. The suspense, then, and pressure, is on us. But all players stand to play an important part -- and make a fortune.
The 'value' you speak of in tablets is not in the volume of space available but in the overall experience. I can't say I've ever heard a "real user" express how they wished they have more physical space on their tablet or smartphone. It's a nice line item on a spec sheet to hold over your competitors but how many users actually care?
I was just about to poll my friends about a blogging platform in between Tumblr and Wordpress. Wordpress for my purposes has become analogous of iTunes.
This is exactly correct.

I've supported a number of different online credit card donation forms for various charitable and other causes, and you see this behavior of card testing whenever you set the minimum allowed donation too low, and adopt too few of the necessary precautions.

I wrote a post on the approach to raising the bar I took - it really doesn't require much to get the credit card testers to go away, and if you don't get rid of them rapidly, you'll be dealing with chargebacks from here until eternity:

http://www.exratione.com/2010/10/three-necessary-defenses-fo...
Have The French Gone Completely Insane Over Google News?
No, it is not a requirement, that is what the discussion is about. If it were a requirement, we wouldn't be trying to decide if it should be a requirement or not. Using a sample size of one to prove a point is absurd.