skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I do interpret what you wrote as a slightly less sensitive version of "If you don't like it, then leave," type of comment.

That type of comment is doesn't say anything, there's no real argument in it. It's simply dismissing criticism. You can dismiss any criticism whatsoever using it.

The sweeping "if you don't like it leave" doesn't really work. There's good reasons to use a platform despite deficiencies, no platform is exactly how I'd do it. Perhaps Google+ is technologically better, or the audience on Google+ is better for what I have to say. Maybe I want to keep in touch with real life acquaintances and they are on Google+. Do I have to convince every contact I have to switch to a platform that is worse in different ways?

Even if I vehemently disagree with their stance on publishing your true identity; there's reasons to use a platform despite it and keep complaining about their bad policies.
As an avid HN reader, it's hard to avoid testing out the latest and greatest framework. Constant change does lead to complexity, so sometimes I have to foce myself to stay focused on whatever old and boring I'm working with for a current project.
> Yeah, except I'm not the guy saying that somebody should just be quiet and move on.

You're one of us too:

> Why don't you just move on?

And yes, I realise the irony of my first comment. I'm just going to take my own advice and move on now.
Attributing credit for the Square hardware is tough.

The WSJ article says Dorsey "engineered" the card reader. The blog post says no, it was Dorsey's friend, Jim McKelvey, who engineered the card reader.

However, the blog post does not say that McKelvey, in turn, seems to have outsourced the engineering to Robert Morley, a hardware designer and EE professor in St. Louis (http://venturebeat.com/2009/12/15/professor-claims-square-to...).

This last connection seems plausible to me. I went to school with McKelvey and knew him slightly. Morley was a very well-known EE professor at our university, and a hardware hacker who founded a successful company called Micro-Term that made terminals, and later worked on hearing aid hardware which I'm not sure ever came to market. Exactly the kind of person a former CS major and glassblower like McKelvey might ask to do the design.

The most recent summary I could find of the "who engineered the Square hardware" question is: http://techcrunch.com/2010/12/02/jack-dorseys-square-embroil...
Yeah, these prices look almost too good to be true. Other Android vendors may be getting some serious indigestion from this.
Macs are not good gaming machines? Most Macs have decent hardware, and the driver problem in Linux prevents a large portions of hardware to perform efficiently anyway, so performance is definitely not a problem for Macs, my friend play Skyrim and Diablo 3 without any problem on their macs.

> Therefore, using the lack of success of OS X as a gaming platform since Steam added support for it to say that Linux won't succeed either is faulty logic.
True. Same thing applies with saying that gaming on Linux will take off just because Steam added support for it.

I think the problem with desktop Linux that was discussed around a while back is still the biggest thing that is holding Linux as a gaming platform (or as a desktop OS, even). A number of humble bundle that I purchased runs really slowly on Linux because of lack of support for my graphic card.

TLDR: Still a chicken/egg situation with Linux adoption as a mainstream OS in general.
> with the end-result being 100% chemicals free.

I truly doubt that.
I think this is the most stuff I've ever seen launched in one blog post.
Dev Bootcamp Trumps Learning Alone
It won't be long before the usual suspects start claiming

- screen resolution isn't important

- multi-user accounts are overly complex

- low prices mean the devices are cheap and nasty
OK, shows me for skimming too much.

There apparently used to be a cfree though it appears to be equivalent to free.

I upvoted rwg's comment regarding CERT's Secure Coding wiki. memset_s is the correct solution given it is part of the C11 standard.
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Sure, they have the money to create something epic. But to build something epic and sell it for under $300 is taking a loss just for the epic-ness of it.

That is not how Apple, MS or Google got to where they are.
It is an Android 4.2 feature so I'm sure it's also on the Nexus 7 and Nexus 4. But those devices are smaller and less likely to be shared so they are not playing multi-user up in those marketing materials I suspect.
The biggest issue I have with said trackers is that they don't allow for judgement calls. Recently for example I was travelling from Arizona back to my home in Colorado, and was on several single lane highways. The speed limit is set at 65 Mph, however you have some people that choose to drive under the speed limit at 60 Mph.

To pass those people you need to speed up, enter the opposite lane of travel, pass the person, then enter back into the correct lane of travel. While you are speeding up to pass the person you go above the allowed speed limit (generally somewhere around 80 Mph) to make sure that you don't stay in the opposite lane of travel to a head-on collision.

With one of those boxes your insurance could now consider you a dangerous driver since you were speeding, and could now ding you, when in reality you were simply passing a slower car.

You could now suggest that I just stay behind the slower car, but with no passing lane for the next 70 miles that would have added a not insignificant amount of time to my already lengthy travel time, and then I haven't even mentioned all of the RV's that are driving 50 Mph because they are dragging a car behind them.

--

Safe driving has to be evaluated some other way. I've been involved in only one accident, and I lost control of my car in an attempt to avoid an accident on icy roads and took out a lamp post. (A pick-up truck driver lost control over their vehicle and was sliding towards me while all four of his tires were locked up. My corrective action was an attempt to move out of the way ... ended up hitting a patch of ice instead, at which point I was no longer able to complete my manoeuvre). Even if I had that box in my car it wouldn't have had me driving any differently because I was already driving safely for the conditions present and that box wouldn't have made the difference.

The biggest issue that I have found here in the US (at least compared to Europe) is that it is too simple to get your drivers license, and you can get one at an age where you don't realise the full extent of what it means to control a 2000+ pound metal box at speed. Where you don't yet fully understand the consequences and what it means. Traffic schools/lessons in the US are a joke compared to the rigorous requirements set forth in most of Europe (I'm talking Germany, Switzerland, The Netherlands, Belgium as the ones I am familiar with).

Should insurance companies be able to offer such boxes to people if they want to take them? Maybe, I am still split on whether or not we should allow insurance companies to go down such a slope, because at some point it becomes too easy to then make it mandatory. I don't think such privacy invasion measures should ever be allowed to become mandatory.
Awarding diplomas to unqualified individuals degrades the value of the diploma. Schools can't afford to risk their reputation; they must assess students in some way.
Blind allocation got me too. They told me how allocation worked before I joined, but I was hopeful that they would put me on a project that had some overlap with what I was interested in and what I had worked on for the past 15 years (computer vision, robotics, natural language processing).

No. I found out on the last day of orientation I would be doing YouTube ads. I knew there was no way I could do that for 18 months, and I told my manager. He was understanding, but there wasn't really anything he could do. He passed my concerns up the management chain.

A couple weeks later my manager gave me their response, which was, literally, "We don't care." That shocked me a little, and I knew at that point I wouldn't be at Google for very long. Maybe that was even the right thing for them to do, since I was proving myself to be the kind of employee who wouldn't work on a project they weren't interested in for a year and a half just because it was good for Google, or good for their potential career at Google.

For a short time I led a 20% project with three other engineers that was in my interest area, and after we won an innovation award I hoped that it might make the Google bureaucracy more sympathetic to my preferences, but management didn't care. I left not long after that.

(tl;dr: I learned that Google is a bureaucratic megacorp.)
Don't give us Sun-style crazy version numbers please Google! 4.2 should have got a new name!
Inside Android's next wave: Building the Nexus 4, Nexus 10, and Android 4.2
Doesn't Windows 8/RT do this too?
Have you seen their commercials? They have one where a whole family has Kindles for and drive home how much less it costs compared to a loner guy with an iPad. So not surprisingly they compare direct like this...
Do any of these support LTE?
And a Chrome extension as well:

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/remove-google-redi...
From its IndieGoGo page (http://www.indiegogo.com/happyedit):
"Already implemented: Vim like INSERT/COMMAND/NORMAL modes, keybindings and search."
Actually, that is completely true. I was trying to post a link to my Airbnb talk, noticed reddit was down, and then noticed Airbnb was down too.

One thing we might start doing is actually having alarms when two or more major AWS sites go down.
I'm not disputing that there were silly McKinsey-ite management practices in place at Enron. I'm disputing the idea that those practices had anything to do with Enron's failure. The reason 'michaelochurch invoked Enron in his comment was to link Google with Enron, as if to imply that Google's internal management practices would eventually result in a similar comeuppance. That's an absurd connection to make.
Because they're not real logic questions and they don't predict anything. It's about the same as judging someone's programming/design/writing/etc. ability by making them do crossword puzzles or Sudoku.

The LSAT is filled with logic games, and they are nothing like a silly question like, "how many golf balls could you fit on a bus." They are actual logic questions that have a definitive answer that tests your reasoning abilities.

Being good at brain teasers does not make you intelligent; it makes you good at brain teasers. And they don't help prevent Alzheimer's, so they're really just a way for board people to pass time.
I'd be a bit more optimistic than that. It's not unusual to meet technically minded people who use Linux for getting stuff done, but dual boot Windows for gaming. If enough games are available for Windows, that's going to increase the market for Linux-only computers, which is another key part of the puzzle.
via Gizmodo: Quad-core 1.5 GHz Snapdragon S4 Pro processor, 2GB RAM, 8GB storage, 4.7-inch 1280 x 768 display, and an 8 megapixel rear-facing camera.

Impressive indeed!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Pournelle#Iron_Law_of_Bur...
Google and Samsung swing for the fences with 2560×1600 Nexus 10 tablet
> Doing so would at least validate how quickly students are able to gather and synthesize information to arrive at correct conclusions - a skill set that will serve them well even in today's rapid-access-to-information world.

That only works if you can prevent the student from simply hiring an expert to take their tests for them.
There seems to be a lot of confusion around the use of the term "ligature" here. I, too, was a bit confused (especially since Kazuyuki lists corresponding HTML entities with each symbol). It turns out, his use is reasonable, and a bit clever:

1. What is a ligature? A ligature is a joining of two or more characters into a single character. A common one is "fi", which is often rendered with the dot of the i incorporated into the top of the f.

2. Why are they useful? Lots of folks find the aesthetically pleasing, but they have special import with movable type printing, in which characters are rendered in little rectangular slugs of lead. Since the lead slugs can't overlap, it's difficult to get just the right spacing between, say, an "f" and an "i" in a variable-width typeface. Thus, most fonts included specially cast ligatures, which were single slugs of lead containing multiple characters, like the "fi" mentioned above.

3. How do they work on computers? Lots of systems, including TeX, can look for sequences of letters like "fi" and replace them with a single ligature when rendered. Fonts can also embed this replacement table, which can be introspected and used by software when rendering text.

4. But how does this font use ligatures? So, it turns out that you don't have to limit yourself to things like "fi" and "ffl" -- you could embed a replacement table that matches any arbitrary sequence and replaces it with an arbitrary symbol. Lots of typefaces have "exotic" ligatures for things like "st" and "ct", and this typeface is no different. It defines a table of "ligatures" mapping sequences of letters like "file" into new symbols like that of a file icon.

So it uses existing ligature support (replacing sequences with symbols) in an unconventional but not unreasonable way.

5. Bonus: How does it do this without making a mess of Unicode? After all, there's no U+???? FILE SYMBOL code point! It turns out that Unicode actually demarcates a couple of codepoint ranges for "private use", explicitly saying that a font can put things in there that don't fit anywhere else. Kind of like private IP address ranges like 10.0.0.0/8 or 192.168.0.0/16. All of the replacement symbols are stored within the Unicode Basic Multilingual Plane's Private Use Area (U+E000 through U+F8FF), so they won't conflict with other, meaningful code points.
Ruined my life.

Just kidding. It would be impossible to tell what, if any, effect it had. Do I feel like it actually had any effect? Not really.
Excellent, I'm sure that will be very useful at some point.

wrapbootstrap (the marketplace this is on) is awesome in general. I've purchased loads of bits from them over the last few months. I just wish they had a better way to search and filter the themes, it was fine when there were just a few but it's getting unmanageable now!
Apple isn't in the business of exploiting your private data to advertise products/services/content from third parties at you though. The incentives are completely different.
Hopefully it will be available on phones, as a 'Guest' mode would be perfect for lending your phone to someone to make a quick call or text message.
I personally also think it's high time to abandon Matlab:

https://abandonmatlab.wordpress.com/2009/07/23/hello-world/

We've bred a community of scientific programmers who learn Matlab and teach Matlab, locking in generations of scientific hackers to an inferior programming language due to cultural inertia. It is time for change.
I remember reading that they considered a new name, but they didn't feel like the feature updates were strong enough to warrant it. Which is refreshing actually. The post did call it an update to jellybean.
There is absolutely no such thing as "chemical free". Water, lactic acid, casein, and so on, they're all chemicals, even if you have glorified them with a stamp that says "natural".
Nobody is forcing your to post on G+ or Facebook, but as large companies, their policies have ripple effects. If we accept what they do now, what will things be like in 10 years?

At least in the US, there was already political chatter about requiring everyone on the Internet to have trace-able identity, and maybe using FBConnect or Google logins to do that.
That's simply awesome.

Can this thing run Aztec or Microwave, too?
I've been very happy with Galaxy Nexus so far. The specs on the Nexus 4 look impressive. Anyone going to upgrade their Galaxy Nexus for the 4?
As China grows Western dominance of consumer electronics fades
> b) why would a company as big as Google care about what a single user does?

Nice try, Google secret agent :P

No, seriously, Google is interested in what you browse and already tracks it (anonymously, I hope) to target ads.

So it all leads to your first point. There's really no difference in practice. But in potential it's true that a device with a cellular network connection can provide more interesting location infos than a desktop tied to your desk.
I've seen "family plans" where minutes and data (!) come from a shared pool like this, although I forget where.
Show HN: Propeller - Create native mobile apps, just drag and drop
Ok, um, did anyone else notice that 4.2 is called Jelly Bean, like 4.1 was called Jelly Bean?

Up until now it was Donut, Eclair, Froyo, Gingerbread, Honeycomb, Ice Cream Sandwich, and Jelly Bean. Did they run out of tasty treats already?
This your first ad?
How did WinZip survive?
Seriously though, anyone know how do they survive? There isn't anyone I know that pay for WinZip, considering the price isn't exactly cheap, and there are a lot of better and cheaper alternatives out there (7zip, and even the archive manager that comes with Windows is good enough for most uses).
So here's where we have to agree to disagree. A pleasant conversation about your previous work is great, really, and as part of a complete package, likely to send you right to the top of my list.

However, in my experience, the tech industry is overflowing with pretenders. If I haven't met you personally, those github records are of limited use as there's no way to prove you actually did the work in question. I apologize for the paranoia upfront, but once a bozo gets into the foodchain, they can do a lot of damage before getting expelled.

And in the end, the kind of technical questions I ask are so basic that unless you haven't programmed in years or you've never read a programming or algorithms book in your life, you'll get them. What's really disappointing is how few do get them lately. But I attribute that more to the current environment of recruiter cold-calling as opposed to a decline in the expertise of programmers.

Much like in dating, most of the "good ones" are taken, and if not, they don't stay on the market very long.
> a silly question like, "how many golf balls could you fit on a bus."

Why is it a silly question?
Previous discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3767889

Fun fact: I actually use this website in technical interviews and ask the candidate, how they would go at implementing it. (I work at a meteorological company.)
I don't know what you mean by "a first", but the HP Touchpad had built-in inductive charging.
They need to improve their recruitment emails and they could by cross reference their list with a list of people who have left your company at least. Personal emails can be collected on exiting the company if Google needs to contact you.

The only thing on the line is reputation and people don't like to be "spammed" unless they ask for it.
The FIRST thing I did was learn to make html/css/jquery pages. I do things like customize blogs, design logos, and make landing pages for fake startups that I think of as exercises.

The reason I wrote a simple game is it was an exercise I thought of to do that seemed hard. I did it quickly, correctly, and in my opinion cleverly. It made me happy. For the first time, my technical co-founders also agreed I had written the code the way they would have written it.
New devices don't go on sale until November 13 according to the release so they've got a few weeks to update the site (and the Play devices store for that matter).
How fast is this? I'm sure it's not as efficient as a native implementation, but can it render 30fps video reliably on Internet Explorer?
By launching three flagship devices with three different manufacturers (LG, Asus and Samsung), do you think they are trying to say something about Android and hardware?
Show HN: Server monitoring using Dropbox as a database
This is beautiful, although it would be useful to mark a few more major cities on the map.
AT&T and Verizon both offer shared plans.
2.0 & 2.1 were both eclair, and 3.0 & 3.1 were both honeycomb.

The fact that they didn't change the product name indicates that this is a fairly minor update.
Then they should have only bumped minor version.
Where is the link to said AirBnB talk?
The screen for 10.1" model is great: 2560x1600 (300ppi) - iPad (3 and 4) are 2048x1536 (264ppi). Which means it has 30% more pixels (409600 vs. 3145728).
I agree, but the mutation has a ridiculously high selection differential, one that probably can't be explained by a single factor.
I have the 8 GB Nexus 7 and I bought it at launch. I just checked and the total price I paid (device + shipping + tax) came to $230.03. I don't remember which delivery method I chose, perhaps you chose an expedited shipping option?
And even then, there's the problem of "what do you want your family to see?"

I know a number of people who're completely open about stuff to their friends, but very carefully maintain a cis+hetero front to their family in order to avoid a complete disaster.

(psueodynoms aren't a fully sufficient solution there of course, but they definitely help quite a lot)
I won't, but I think my girlfriend will upgrade her Nexus S. She's not thrilled by the increasing screen sizes though. And I agree that a smaller option would be nice. I refuse to consider anything other than a Nexus device though so I guess I'm stuck.
Would pasteurization (or lack thereof pre-1862) have any effect on the research?
This seems to be a common reply to my statements, so I'll say it once here and link to it elsewhere.

I feel that I am empathetic (or at least sympathetic) to the plight of transgenders, minorities and others who feel that they need an anonymous or pseudonymous platform upon which to share their views.

I am substantially less concerned with those who do not see that it is Google's right to offer a platform that requires real names. So long as there are other platforms available and allowed that support anonymity/pseudonymity, I don't see it as a great concern that one particular vendor doesn't work exactly how they want.

If the discussion were framed as a matter of law, and that a new law were coming down requiring all discussion platforms / social networks / blog platforms to use real names, I would be against that law.

It is within the rights of those providing the platform to determine what policies they wish to allow or disallow. It is within the rights of the users of those platforms to use or not use the platforms they agree or disagree with.

I do not feel it is within the rights of those users to demand (or at least, to get a result from the demands) that a platform change its policies to suit their ideals.
Is there anything wrong with making a profit ?
Surface beat them by 3 days ;)
I could even do with a guest mode that would allow the poor fellow to browse the internet (only on WiFi, even)... :(
SEC considers reversion back to fractional trading
I think my case is essentially identical to yours. One of my two numbers (the 'key' of the one time pad) is randomly generated, so it can't be a derivative work. But there's no way of telling which that is.
It's just a point release. There's been at least one for every version since Eclair except Froyo.

http://developer.android.com/reference/android/os/Build.VERS...
I used timeit (http://docs.python.org/2/library/timeit.html), cProfile (http://docs.python.org/2/library/profile.html) and pycallgraph. There is a nice Q&A on this subject: http://stackoverflow.com/q/582336/343834.
Thanks for the tip. I have some screenshots on the tour page but you're right, there should be one on the homepage too.
The $299 version is the 8GB version.

The 16 GB version is $399.