skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>It's also designed to be 100% Metro based

I thought that but you do end up on the (severely restricted) desktop more often than you think.

>Surface RT" is a touch-based device for holding in your hands while surfing the net

Is this why every single marketing and promotional material shows it sitting on a desk with the connected keyboard? Is this why Microsoft made such a huge deal of the keyboard/screen workflow? (e.g. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mSckyoAMHg#!)

>The use-case of an attached keyboard and the fully fledged Office app suite is not what this device is primarly for.

Again, tell that to Microsoft.
It's almost always a balance between cost of manufacture and performance. I would bet money it was not designed that way as a feature.

The interesting points to remember here are:

- USB specifies 5V, not the iPhone

- Voltage drop across the iPhone's internal regulators and charging circuits are probably less than 0.5V

- Most cell phone LiIon batteries are 3.7V

So, presumably they made a charger that allows droop to 4.6V because this is a voltage still capable of charging the battery, yet also allows a less expensive charger design.
Unnecessary Monsters - Ways Bootstrapping could be made easier
I like this idea. But which aspect of his belief do you think might be an illusion? I'm not clear precisely what you're referring to.
While I agree that Java sucks, a lot of us still require Java for web sites that we need. In Sweden for example a few banks still use it for 'secure' login.
99%+ of Stuyvesant students graduate, so that's not really a good measure at the level of the specialized high schools. Also, there are practically no black or Latino kids to compare. In 2011 72% of the students were Asian and 24% were white.

https://reportcards.nysed.gov/files/2010-11/AOR-2011-3102000...
What I'm getting from this article:

"It's not fair that asians get in because they work harder and try harder. We shouldn't let hard work be a determining factor."

But who knows, I'm asian so I'm biased. I had to work my ass off for things while other people went out, partied, slept in, went to bars and hung out with friends. I studied for my standardized tests by going to the local Borders and sitting there for hours without paying for the book but I guess not everyone is that creative.
Beyond what comicjk said, yes in general we should yearn for the best education to be given to all of those who have a thirst to learn it - but that is not the point of this article so much as saying which students in particular should get into a selection of schools.
Just to make it clear, I was agreeing with you for the most part, except that I decided to add my own viewpoint. If that offends you, sorry about that.
You could try a ModBook:

http://www.modbook.com/modbookpro

They're a bit pricy but I've gotten the chance to see the pre-housing crisis models (the company/management group was insolvent for a time) were very solid. The Wacom digitizer is really good for artists too. if they came out with an Air version I think they'd have a rather hot product..
Also I think people complained about this because on airplanes you probably won't have the room to do this :-\
I suppose in the context of abraham_s's post "best" is in the eye of the selector: who is likely to be a benefit to the institution, including to their fellow students?

"Should" high-achieving students and teachers be grouped together? I don't know about that, but I would guess that the reason they often do is rooted in mutual preference.
I'll just leave this here for silly entertainment: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7n50wnvo3dA
I've always assumed that the Military tended to function as a giant bureaucracy, which tends to discourage many from staying in. That seems to be the norm for Government institutions. I would blame politicians for the drawn out wars we are engaged in. I'm sure if we gave the military carte blanche command of the wars, they could end them. (We may not like the tactics, but that's another discussion)
ladyada does not manufacture that charger; the website offers it, along with other general-purpose knickknacks, to compliment the main offerings- DIY electronics kits. This last bit is significant- ladyada's run-of-the-mill customer is not going to be your standard Joe looking for a charger for his cell phone.
One difference between programmers and doctors is that there is an artificially imposed scarcity of doctors. Nobody can be licensed to practice medicine (at least in the U.S.) without completing medical school and a residency, and the number of openings is controlled by the medical schools. In contrast, you can become a very good programmer without having any formal education in the field (I know a few such people). This allows the supply of programmers to increase more quickly than the supply of doctors.
There's two sales which occur,the original purchase of the book which happens overseas, there's no dispute here.

The book is then resold in the US from a "distributor" in the US to US customers, thats why this becomes a US issue. Its the secondary sale which is questionable.
Peacetime armies (ie. not WWII) end up with careerists on top, not warriors. So you get the same as any mediocre corporation. The immediate stakes to national security aren't high enough to demand results "or else".
Orman: a lightweight SQLite & MySQL ORM for Android (2011)
Copyright law governs both the creation of copies, and their distribution. This pairing is one of the law's longest-standing and must basic features. It's also the root of the conflict in this case.
You make a good case for acme; I'd be willing to try it. But I'm not convinced that in any context grabbing the mouse (with or without chording) is faster than keying, esp. since in vim many of the most important navigational keys are on the home row.
Great job (some ruby code comparisons would have been welcomed, though).

A little mistake on page 48: the Clojure code will fail.
Use
(map #(* % 2) '(1 2 3))
or
(map (partial * 2) '(1 2 3))
instead of:
(map #(%*2) '(1 2 3))
Completely agree, but in Silicon Valley usually applies to solving hard problems that involves technology and not hard problems that involve changing legislation unless it is the "ask for forgiveness, not permission" approach of an Uber or AirBnB. I don't see that approach working in a space where medical care is being given.

Licensing boards and organizations for medical care and legal advice are well funded and smart. These are not exactly the organizations you want to be up against as a startup. Taxi commissions are trivial adversaries in comparison.

If you want to solve hard problems that involve changing legislation, then you need to be on the other side of the country in Washington D.C. YCombinator and other accelarators, incubators and tech investors are hardly equipped and networked to help a startup in the policy arena succeed. It's simply a bad investment.
It certainly appears to have worked, after a fashion. A young article, front page...

Of course, the real question is, who promoted it? The Apple sycophants, or the folks who wanted to rub it in their faces?
Obama On Paul Ryan’s Hero: Ayn Rand Is Something You Pick Up When You’re'17 ...
I can't be the only one for whom this presentation is completely broken on the iPad (scrolling to fast and skipping multiple slides).
E.g. http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Taming-Effect-Simon-Peyto...

I love this, and every time I am pointed to slideshare or speakerdeck I hope they have implemented something like this :(
Some of the same people who worked on the Edison audio (Carl Haber) were also responsible for recovering the phonautograph audio.

The phonautograph was essentially a mechanical audio oscillograph. It graphed the sound waves on paper by conducting the acoustic vibrations to a stiff bristle up against lamp-black blackened paper wrapped around a slowly moving hand-cranked drum. The white traces left behind allowed properties such as frequency and amplitude to be estimated.

I wonder if its inventor, Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville, ever contemplated the problem of reproducing the graphed sound.
Or you can do operator.methodgetter("method") and not need to know the class name.
Do we know who the set designer was? Can we get him/her to chime in?
Average SF single bedroom apartment is more than 2k per month. You'd be hard pressed to find a decent 2 bedroom house for less than a million.
The only region-wide outage in your links is the network one I mentioned - they called it 22 minutes, I measured it as 17 on my systems. June 28th was indeed not region-wide - I have systems in every AZ and lost exactly one of them.

The other ones say “one of our Availability Zones” - which was rather my point: if you follow long-time accepted redundancy practices, you had far less - if any - downtime than people who put everything in one AZ or rely heavily on EBS volumes not failing.
New Technology 2013
original link http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/162643/why-is...
Haha, perhaps you've implemented this technique before:

http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/The-Speedup-Loop.aspx
I really can't wait for the Leap Motion to go on sale, technology is out of this world nowadays!!

What do you all think?
Because interpretation is a matter for the judiciary particularly, and a matter of policy to the rest of the department.
A little hexapod robot that I made
As far as design goes: HN has a very simple design and I find it a lot less distracting than more responsive designs.
I agree that's a problem but calling it a region-wide failure is an unhelpful exaggeration, particularly in the case of a SQL database where there's always a tradeoff between availability and consistency.
"Most people don't care about it at all."
I doubt you will ever be able to find legit a citation for that.
Double Robotics (YC S12) seeks: Lead Embedded C Programmer for balancing robots
Double Robotics is building an iPad-based telepresence robot and we already have 700+ pre-orders ($1.4 million) since August. We also have funding from many angel investors.

Video demo: http://www.doublerobotics.com

We're a very small team, but we're growing quickly and we're looking for someone to takeover development of our embedded C code, which includes the balancing and driving algorithms. It works remarkably well already (see the video on our website), but we want someone to help take it to the next level.

Job Description:

- Tune and refine the balancing/driving C code

- Takeover responsibility for the rest of the embedded code (encoders, motors, sensors, LEDs, etc.)

- Work in a very small team and close to happy customers

- You should have relevant hands-on experience with complex motor control loops.

- Formal degrees are optional. Please show past professional and/or side projects.

Benefits:

- Competitive salary and significant equity

- Medical coverage

- Private offices for everyone

- Use the machine shop and tools for personal projects

- Free lunch and dinner

- Free snacks and beverages

- Flexible work hours

- Work from home some days, if desired (call in on a Double!)

Location:

- We're located in Sunnyvale, CA.

- We will pay moving expenses, if necessary.

- Full-time is best, but contract work (possibly even remote) could be arranged for the right candidate.

Please show us your coolest project!

jobs@doublerobotics.com

We're also hiring for Web, UI Design, iOS, and sales: http://www.doublerobotics.com/jobs.html
Social Annotation Site Diigo.com Recovering After Domain Hijacking Nightmare
I had a chance to work with Carl Haber while at Berkeley. He is brilliant and recovering these recordings is not as trivial as one might think. Kudos to him and team for this achievement.
Apple sells things good enough to displace ethical judgments we'd normally make
A high percentage of these admissions test questions do in fact call for analytical thinking rather than/in addition to factual knowledge (referred to here as "rote memorization"), so this thread definitely sets up a false dichotomy.
Does the "Entrepreneurship Subculture" prevent big ideas?
IKEA: Flat-pack accounting
Probably GEMA's fault somehow.
I'm amazed that people don't understand what this is. You are not a user. There is only one user -- the speaker who is giving the talk. Somebody gives a talk and uses this tool to present the slides. It shows the same UI elements as Powerpoint or Keynote when displaying the talk -- none. The presenter knows when he needs to do in order to advance to the next slide, and only he has to know. You wish to add back and forward buttons to Powerpoint as well?

This is a fantastic tool. The input is a text file, so it can be versioned, greped, and seded. It avoids huge and clunky tools. It allows code presented to be edited, compile, and run within the presentation itself.
Deze tien natuurlijke vetverbranders zorgen voor een gezond gewicht
The article covered this:

Southern Germany gets part of it peak loads from Austrian pumped water reservoirs. But this does not solve the problem, as the energy trade between Austria and Germany is hampered by insufficient transmission capacity between the two countries, causing the neigbouring countries networks to take the load.

In other words, it exacerbates the problem rather than fix it.

(another reply explained why this isn't easily done within Germany: Lack of suitable potential reservoirs)
Because Obama got convinced that he needs to be a lot "tougher" on copyright issues - meaning, of course, siding with the publishers, studios and labels.
>I'm not aware of any jurisdiction that requires an accounting degree or CPA certification to practice as an accountant.

CPA certification is required by law in most (and probably all) US states for accountants that prepare certain kinds of financial statements, e.g., the statements that publicly-traded companies have to file with the SEC. A merger or an acquisition (of a company public or private) is probably another situation you cannot successfully navigate with accountants that are not CPAs. (Possibly the same thing applies to any sufficiently large bank loan to any company, public or private.)

ADDED. In contrast, a lot of accountants provide data intended for their employer's internal consumption, and the law does not require degrees or certifications for that type of accountant.
They are showing what it can be (in the minds of potential buyers), not what it is 90% of the time, nor what 90% of the market will use it as.

Do you really think it's going to make you dance?

It's marketing. That's how it works.

Given the specifics on Windows RT, low power ARM based CPUs, etc ... it's not a desktop replacement device, though you can certainly hook up a keyboard to it.
> It's almost like you don't realize that Java came out a decade before Go

This might be a more compelling argument if Go didn't ignore (more than) the last decade of PL research.
by using a thread pool, right?
I disagree. When I find an article online that exposes a point of view that I haven't seen yet about some matter, I often keep thinking about it the whole day and I even discuss it with other people. That's really a contribution to my mind.

Plus, it's only exploring new things that you get interested and feel motivated to learn more about them.
I'm responding twice because you said so many interesting things here.

"Surface RT" is a touch-based device for holding in your hands while surfing the net and using the typical social apps.
The use-case of an attached keyboard and the fully fledged Office app suite is not what this device is primarly for.

I think I'm beginning to understand why there's so much excitement over the Surface. It's because the Windows world doesn't have Ultrabooks.

Or rather, up until recently with the Xenbook and the Carbon, all of the ultrabooks in the Windows world have been really really bad. But I don't think that the market has found the Xenbook and the Carbon yet. And maybe there's a general belief in the Windows world that you don't have to pay for quality - I think all of the Microsoft faithful here are hoping that Microsoft has given them a $500 Ultrabook, which of course they haven't.
Thanks for that - I think I kind of get it.

And the second sale is questionable because of a limitation of the first sale?
The issue is not that they can't be stopped, but that it is not in Germanys interest to stop them. They need the energy, just not in the North where it is produced. They just don't have the North-South transmission capacity, and so the energy flows through neighbouring countries and put their neighbours networks at risk.

As long as their neighbours let them, it's vastly cheaper for Germany to keep this going than to speed up the upgrades of their own transmission capacity.
I think this begs the question, "did Apple have something to do with this Hurricane".
They picked kind of weird things. Really, really high hanging fruit. The impact of these optimizations would definitely be small, not completely irrelevant but not enough for any one person to notice (unless they like / dislike the changes). This is an interesting way to take on the problem, instead of tackling a huge goal like waste reduction without any concrete attainable results, you create less possible waste to start with. By shortening a cotton swab, you throw less away. You are constrained in how much you can waste by how much is there.

I want to reduce the amount of plastic thrown away each year. I can try to educate the public about what plastic does, where it goes, how it breaks down (hundreds of years), how it's creating an invisible garbage patch in the pacific, but quite frankly, people don't fucking care. We're too small to see the patterns in the hugely complicated system that is the planet. You know how you solve that? Remove the temptation to throw things away, mitigate the trash that needs to be thrown away, and show people the destruction. Or, you could find a way to use that waste.
A lot of Google's revenues come from selling targeted ads in response to searches. Your private information--from GMail, your other Google searches, etc, all goes into those targeted ads.

And of course, advertising is dependant on companies wanting to create proxies for prestige and quality. It's called branding.
You could always use tuples; they're essentially immutable lists.

>>> a = tuple(3*x for x in range(5))
>>> a[2]
6
>>> map(lambda x: str(x), a) #can be iterated
['0', '3', '6', '9', '12']
>>> a[2] = 9
TypeError: 'tuple' object does not support item assignment
>>> a.pop()
AttributeError: 'tuple' object has no attribute 'pop'
I'm talking about every single Java language implementation that I know of. And I believe (although I'm not completely sure) that the Java language specification requires it at least implicitly.
Surely by now somebody's managed to get Linux on a Surface RT? It sounds from the review like the hardware is pretty good, just the software that's lacking.
I've seen this map on the web a number of times, so the designer may have found it there instead of the from the print magazine.

Cool touch though!
Where's the evidence we'll be able to do that?
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I'm curious about the Surface, I'd appreciate if you can report your experience on some use cases:

* Can you comfortably hold it with one hand (e.g. for reading a book)?
* Can you comfortably hold it with one hand and type onscreen with the other?
* Can you comfortably type onscreen while holding it with both hands?
* Can you use the Touch Cover and/or Type Cover with the device on your lap (as if you were sitting in an airport, doctor's office, etc.) as you would do with a laptop?
Short talk how CSS Flexbox will help create "flexible" web apps
Here's a youtube video from 2010 of almost exactly the same presentation he gave at startup school http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-LBSqm3xh4

If you need to be assured that it's the same talk, here's a live blog from sus2012 http://backspac.es/r/Xx8736cUap
Isn't it amazing how fast our brains can lock-in and drill-down. For something that might have might only been viewable in a few frames, the author was able to recall a small subset from over 30 years ago.

Will computers ever have the IO bandwidth to compete with the human brain?
Imran Khan detained and 'interrogated over drone views' by US immigration
> This is a part of our society's disconnection from meritocracy

I would argue the opposite, but that depends on the elusive definition of "meritocracy". When people use that term, they usually mean that people's status or influence is bestowed on them based on their past performance, or "merit" (whatever that means). That is, a person is given a position based on his earned "merit", and "merit" is like some general currency that can be accumulated.

The article argues that successful organizations behave differently. They assign, or remove, roles and influence not based on accumulated "merit", but based on performance at a very particular task. If you're not good at this specific task, you will be immediately given another, regardless of your past "merit". This is not meritocracy where those with much earned "merit" rise to the top, but rather an organization where the goals are more important than the current job holders. It is an organization that assigns importance to collective results over the importance of individuals. I think that such an organization is hard to maintain over time because, in the end, it, too, is composed of people, each with their private interests, that may sometimes clash with those of the collective. But it is a far cry from meritocracy, that is, in practice, little more than simply bestowing privilege on horders of "merit" rather than horders of money, noble blood, or other more quantifiable currencies. This may actually make meritocracies worse than other privileged-class structures, precisely because those at the top can easily change their definition, and exchange-rate, of "merit".

At no point does the article suggest that General Franks was promoted, say, because he was someone's relative, or a member of the right party; in fact, nowhere is it suggested that he was promoted for anything but merit. And that is why he wasn't relieved - precisely because he was a "holder of merit". This is how meritocracy works. In WWII, someone would possible have told him "we don't care what you did or can do. At this point, your particular actions are not helping our collective war effort, so you must step aside for a while".

But people like meritocracy, because, for some, "merit" isn't hard to achieve. You get the right credentials, put in some talent and a lot of effort, and presto, you're part of the elite. People don't like being judged over and over, be only as good as their last action. They want to rest without losing their status. Only an organization where people truly put aside their egos for the good of the public can function as the article claims the military used to function in WWII.
Sorry, Microsoft Surface Users: No Google Search App For You