skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I will say at least in my case I'm not thrilled by the lack of SD card and no removable battery. As I already am on TMobile HSPA+ is better for me, however. But with Android it seems like every phone is trade offs, and to get good battery life, latest version of android, and the nexus experience, I'll give up those things.
You can't fight Governments unless you form some kind of alliance with at least 20 other big tech companies in that country, and then demand they stop asking you to censor stuff. A Government, especially one as big as the Chinese one, won't care about a single company.

I thought it was a failed opportunity for Google, Microsoft, Facebook, RIM, Nokia and others to form this sort of alliance in India, when the Goverment asked them for access to people's data and to censor some of it. If they would've done that instead of each of them scrambling to agree with the "order", they might've gotten somewhere.
The S3 Mini packs nowhere near the same punch as the main S3.

480 x 800 resolution vs 720 x 1280
1 GHz Dual Core vs 1.4 GHz Quad Core
5 MP camera vs 8MP

It's very poor value for the money in my opinion, not even matching the specs from the S2 last year.
This article has a good summary of features removed from Nautilus 3.6:

http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2012/07/is-the-new-nautilus-a-ste...

It's pretty easy to replace Nautilus with Nemo though (the Cinnamon fork version that emulates the old Nautilus).
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Money Spent On 2012 Elections = Annual Unemployment Benefits For 100,000
I expected growing meat and eggs from cell cultures.
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Yeah for instance when Apple did this design a few years ago it was mostly unacceptable among Fandroids and HN crowd. Now its good, because its Android. Its no secret that HN is heavily biased against Apple (and to some extent MS). I don't know, must be all the Google employees here or something. Its always interesting to watch how these conversations turn out. Its been getting a lot more noticeable over the years on here.
Another article in what has really become a vast sea of Gnome criticism. I definitely appreciate the extensive quoting of Gnome and Ubuntu people, though, which is not too common in these kinds of articles.

The thing is, Gnome is focused on an idea of "user experience." What's implicit in this pursuit is their mental model of the user. Who is Gnome for? Well, if you're reading HN, it's probably not for you. They're making it pretty clear that if you're an old school linux person, if you like customization ability, if you like options, then you're not the user they have in mind. For those of us who are not "the users they're looking for," we have to be ok with that, accept that's what they want to do, and make our choice accordingly: we can suck it up and use it anyway, we can use something else, or we can fork Gnome.

At the same time, I suspect that they don't really know what they're doing, and the "user" in their "user experience" is largely illusory; the product of the imagination of a few Gnome designers. They seem prepared to double down on this concept though - I think this is the only explanation possible of their arrogance in the face of widespread denunciation from almost every corner of the traditional linux community, including typically scathing flames from Linus. The Gnome people seem to feed on this negativity, like it's validation of their plans. "It is not for you, it is for 'them'" - whoever "they" are.

I wonder if their concept of who they're targeting as users couldn't be boiled down to a fairly basic distinction: traditional linux stuff is for people who enjoy using computers, and Gnome is designed for people who don't. Or put another way: people who use computers, versus people used by computers - the latter group belonging to a sort of corporate mindset.

Regardless, this mindset is being taken to far in its application to GTK, which for a large number of reasons should not be taken as simply another part of Gnome. It leads to almost a Kubuki Theater situation in which Gnome devs try to push around apps like transmission, which merely uses GTK, to fit into their Gnome user paradigm, while pretending nothing else exists. "I have never heard of XFCE" - come on.
I stand corrected, but for anyone wanting a smaller phone the Mini might be the phone for them. I'm all for 'bigger is better' and will be getting the Nexus 4 when it comes out - at that list price, you can't really go wrong.
And still is. The thing is, either you are used to it, or you just feel ok with the defaults.

I understand why Unity or GNOME are following the "simplicity, you stupid" path. It gets mom, dad and girlfriend to use the system without putting much effort into it. However, I stick to fluxbox, I have got my widgets, my funky pager, my switching, and it feels personal, and fun.
The theory does accord with the last several general elections, but it doesn't seem to accord with primaries. For example, Herman Cain, Howard Dean, and Mike Huckabee all lost out to less charismatic candidates. Since primaries are now decided on a similar basis to general elections--debate performance, fundraising, retail politics--it seems like these data points ought to be included.
Just curious, are there people here who went through or are going through the MIT Tech Entrepreneurship program? Or maybe just took some courses from them? What are your thoughts?
How often do you fly? You should be able to hook up a USB key to the Nexus 4 with a USB OTG adapter. Not pretty or horribly convenient, but a it works for occasional use.
When I was independently contracting as a systems engineer I convinced clients to invest some time into this whenever I could. For example, I had one client with a set of content aggregators (read: web crawlers) that grew and shrunk dynamically with no centralized logging. When I eventually convinced them it was worth the time, I fixed a variety of their logging issues and also introduced statsd and graphite.

Implementation was easy. statsd is pretty simple to deploy and graphite wasn't too difficult either. To add statsd reporting to your code, it's essentially one line to create the statsd socket, another line of code to declare each timer or counter, and another one to increment. I think more time was spent determining what name to give each metric than it was implementing it in this project.

Now that I'm at dotCloud, I'm working with a much larger distributed system and we use it here also. We liked it enough to build some statsd hooks onto our RPC layer we use for just about everything. Now every time a component makes a remote procedure call, a counter for that call is incremented and the response time is sent to statsd. It's been very useful for troubleshooting odd behaviors and correlating events across the platform.

As people who work with complex distributed systems, we can't know exactly what they're doing. We'll think we know, and sometimes we'll be close. Other times we'll think we know, and then we'll wake up at 2AM because something failed horribly. By being able to monitor the system's behavior (sometimes in gross detail), we can get a little closer to knowing what's really going on.
Coming from Metacity, Xmonad's handling of dual screen is definitely different but I prefer it now.

Instead of treating both screens as an extended single desktop, each screen is on it's own desktop. This allows me to mix and match desktops at will (most common with documentation), or I love swapping the two screens with each other with this line in my xmonad.hs (https://gist.github.com/2657206):

("M4-<Esc>", swapNextScreen)
> The only thing I find myself missing is a way to move up the file-structure without having to switch to the list-view when you've opened a folder without actually navigating your way to it through Finder. Essentially, the "Back"-arrow would take you to the parent folder even if you didn't navigate from it.

Isn't that just Cmd+Up?
What's It Like To Work For Tim Cook? A Former Apple Sales Exec Dishes
"One person who wasn't surprised by Cook's toughness was David Sobotta, a former Apple sales executive who just published The Pomme Company, a memoir of his 20 years (1984-2004) at Apple."
It's in a different price range than phones with LTE and SD slots - $350 unlocked which is insanely cheap.
Soak the Rich
I am in a similar situation to the author: I am an experienced programmer, and I am tutoring my wife, who left her job so she could devote all her time to learning to code. She's gone through all of the HTML, CSS, and JS CodeAcademy courses, and is now doing the Python course on Udacity.

While she hasn't needed a lot of help with those, she has also been working on extracurricular projects that I've helped put together for her. This is where I think the article was most revealing: I have been worried about helping too much, but now I can see why the opposite is true.

The author mentions that struggling with what you're learning is important. I agree. However, I think I have been letting my student struggle with the wrong things in the name of not "doing it all for her". I think it would be better to err on the side of providing every resource I can to define a straight path to a completed project. When she gets comfortable at a certain level, we can make the projects more complicated by involving more parts, rather than more frustrating by giving her less information.
For me, HTC Hero is the most solid phone I've owned. I dropped it at least 5 times and there's nothing but paint scratches. At least 2 of my Nokias chipped the plastic at the corner on first drop (and not more than that).

I'm looking for a new Android phone that's as good as the Hero.
Spin the chicken in a centrifuge so that it lives in 2.5G and develops far more muscles:

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg13318124.900-review-sp...
Calculating Application's Response Time Performance Index
Well, the target group of android police is existing android users. So they naturally compare it to phones they use.

The same was true with the iPhone 5: A lot of blogs that are mostly frequented by existing iOS users didn't bother to compare it to android phones, but just the iPhone 4S. E.g. these reviews were talking about the "huge" screen of the iPhone 5 and didn't compare to the dozens of android phones with bigger screens...

But I agree, either is weird.
I didn't believe the specs when I first saw them. Those are some of the things that have always made Android phones a no-brainer over the iPhone for me. I've heard this phone still has huge appeal in the international market, but those are definitely deal breakers for a lot of U.S. users.

1. 4G tethering / hotspot is amazing and doesn't require an additional subscription on previous Nexus phones.
2. 16 GB (13 GB free) is miniscule today, especially for a phone with limited streaming capability due to #1.
3. Non-removable battery also means no extended batteries. One of the first accessories I buy is usually an extra or extended battery.
Yes. The two main designers pushing GNOME on its current path both work at RedHat:

- William McCann: http://www.linkedin.com/in/williamjonmccann

- Allan Day: https://live.gnome.org/AllanDay
The G1 is possibly the sturdiest in that bunch, actually.
I don't know if it is the "most talked Android phone to date". I think the Galaxy S series by Samsung have much more hype than Nexus (at least between "real" people that is not obsessed with gadgets), and I am pretty sure that the Nexus 4 will not sell as much phones as the S3.

There is a lot of controversy on the reviews because it lacks LTE. Apart from that, the only thing that this phone have that is not found in many other Android devices is the glass back. The HTC One X (lacks non-removable battery, no SD card slot) and the GNexus (no SD card slot) are famous devices that have this problems.

My point is that the "beauty" of the Android ecosystem is that you can choose between a lot of different designs and specs. The Nexus 4 have glass back, no LTE, no sd card slot and non-removable battery. Will it be more popular than the S3, that don't have any of this "problems"? I don't think so.

I am buying the Nexus 4 because I love the design, I love stock Android and there is no LTE in my country yet. I always really liked the iPhone design and hardware, but the OS and the locked ecosystem are deal breakers to me.
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Nice! I like the link prefetchin
This is a community activity in addition to what Microsoft is doing
Yeah that's what I was worried about. Seems like the only real benefit then is the ability to switch providers at any point in time vs 2 year lock in. So you'd have to be willing to pay a $15 per month or so premium for the ability to switch at any time?
I always thought this was really silly of PG to say. If you had some "intellectuality index" of cities and Cambridge _just_ inched out other cities, it'd be true that it'd be more preposterous to call any other city the intellectual capital of the world -- but it doesn't mean it's still not preposterous to say it about Cambridge.
Wasn't it the Republican party that ended slavery, and the Democratic party that supported it?
Hey there,

Reminds me very much of my previous startup, that recently shutdown.

I'm now working on a new company, and I have vowed to not write code until I feel I've hit a burning problem.

I've now talked with nearly 30 parents(which are my target audience) - and see the magic of that process.

After speaking with so many potential customers, I have a much stronger idea of the segmentation of the market, which apps and websites my customers use(this will be the media I'll buy when I launch), but most importantly, I'm starting to recognize patterns of problems that repeat.

I'm not there yet, but I feel I'm getting closer, and only once I do - I'll try to have an MVP - preferrably also without writing code - but doing offline things that will emulate my online solution.

Last thing, a few days ago Dave Mcclure had a lecture in Israel where he said one of the most important lessons I've learned lately:
When you focus on a specific customer, pivoting is much easier because each month that passes you usually know more and more about your customer and find out more about their problems.

Pivoting around technology(what I did in my last startup), is possible, but requires much more capital and time, exactly the things startups don't have.

My two cents.
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In South Carolina, that line is called the Orangeburg Scarp. It is where the coastline used to be millions of years ago. Driving westward from the coast, you'll encounter a series of steep hills these days as you gain elevation.

If the Garner-Edisto fault line ever lets go in a major way, you want to be on the western side of it, to avoid the anticipated Tsunami.
What does LTE actually offer? Just more speed?
I'm not sure you understand how institutional and systemic racism works, but that kind of racism affects all people of color. That some individuals receive worse treatment than others in such systems doesn't mean that the lesser affected individuals aren't affected by that racism, nor does it mean that if you have other privileges (say, class) you are protected from the effects of those systems.

When it comes to implementing policies to address that, you look at who the systemic problems are affecting and you make choices to help address those effects. I'm sure some people with some arbitrary SSN are a person who is affected by institutional oppressions, but people are not targeted for inclusions in those systems based on SSN, so that's not a metric worth targeting when implementing policies (although if it can be demonstrated that there is a significant link between SSN and institutional racism, that's another story).
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The amount of money raised is not the only metric for measuring how smart of successful a campaign is.

I don't think it's even a good metric.
Check if correct monitor size is selected (in upper right corner).
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It says if your going to use captcha, use reCaptcha because it is "by definition hard for ocr". I think it is completely mistaken.

Two words are shown for reCaptcha, one that is "by definition" ocr easy and one that is hard. You don't need to "solve" the one that is hard. In-fact, you can put anything for the hard one. You only need to solve the part that is "by definition" ocr easy.
Twitter user passwords reset after accounts breached
I have quite high karma on HN and I got it two ways:

1. By writing original content that the HN audience is likely to like

2. By submitting that content at the right time

#2 is useful to know and anyone can do an analysis and figure the best time. I did it myself some time ago and came to my own conclusion about the best time (which is similar to the OP). But #1 is far more important than gaming the system. Focus on writing good stuff.
It worked for Apple for 2 years, and I remember reviewers paying little attention to that aspect because of how beautiful it was. But I've never been a fan of the iPhone 4 build quality, so I agree manufacturers should prioritize using more solid, preferably non-plasticky materials.
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I have a Hero and it's like that. Part of the reason why it's so robust is that when it drops, it splits into 3 parts: the phone, the battery and the battery cover.
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The video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kadozgMgHlM
There's some truth there, but if you send an email to the East Coast US at 2am, there's going to be a small chance people will read it when they wake up (they'll already have tons of other stuff competing at the top). Same goes with Twitter. You can't tweet something for everyone to see at a time when your target audience is not watching twitter. You need to test for that.

Either way, the essence of your argument is correct. Useful content fares better that fluff.
Thanks :-). I get images usually from the manufacturer website.
Trounced? He only lost South Carolina by 10 points, and Georgia by only 8. Some of these states are not as deep-red as were once thought.
You started from the wrong conclusion.

The proper way is "patterns ingrained tens, hundreds, thousands of years ago can show tangible effects even in 2012" to "the concept of affirmative action is sound".
The Republican Party (also called the GOP, for "Grand Old Party") is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States, along with the Democratic Party. Founded by anti-slavery activists in 1854, it dominated politics nationally for most of the period from 1860 to 1932.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republican_Party_(United_States...
Nothing is 100% sure :-) http://lesswrong.com/lw/mp/0_and_1_are_not_probabilities/

But yeah, as long as we didn't find complete laws of physics, we're bound to ignore something.
Quantum entangled batteries could be the perfect power source
That's a lot of talk about the clock?
Your Facebook Posts are 'Public'
NPR is blog spam now!?
Yup, subbed to that one too, it's linked in the BuyItForLife sidebar.
My in-laws are from Kossuth County and I've been there several times. Being of largely homogenous ethnic backgrounds, the indigenous divisions are largely religious and between townships, i.e. one will hear talk about (Roman) Catholic towns and Lutheran towns and how one traditionally drives Chevys and the other Fords (or vice versa).
Not sure if this is a feasible where you live, but there are a lot of "code with other coders" meetups in SF and NYC. If you come with a programming sticking point, there are fresh eyes that can help you though it. I like codeacademy, but find its structure limiting; you can literally just go through courses parroting off information without learning best practices or antipatterns.
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I would like to see the red-blue county map compared with a map of how populous those counties are.

Focusing on just the geography of which counties are which color can be very misleading when some counties have a million residents and some have thousands. The focus on county as a unit makes it easy to mistake size of county, and the resulting size of each color, as indicative of the overall vote total.
The video (with an awesome chiptune track of course!): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kadozgMgHlM
Screw redesign. Why not turn the chicken into a raptor-like dinosaur?

http://www.ted.com/talks/jack_horner_building_a_dinosaur_fro...
The comparison is implicit. The review tells you what you're getting and it gives some downsides (No LTE, average camera). Essentially what it comes down to is the following: It is a well made android phone for half the price of the current top models.
It also seems to assume that there is an intellectual capital of the world.
The Republican and Democratic parties have shifted their ideals greatly over a few centuries. The founders of the republican party would not recognize (and would likely be repulsed by) the platform and behavior of the modern Republican party. I'd wager the same is true for Democrats.
No, work has in fact started,

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=WebAudio
The problems you mention were not problems until after affirmative action was implemented.
That's actually explained in the comments but the short answer is that someone left the coffee pot off of the scale. My guess is that the scale is zeroed with the empty coffee pot to be on the scale.
Disabling Vimium is a bit overkill, you can press "i" to go into insert mode and it'll let you do as you please...if you use it more often, though, it's best to blacklist it.

I didn't know about the insert mode thing for a long time, but when I figured it out it was a "duh" moment :)
I find it much easier to simply explicitly require a specific version in my Gemfile if I'm having trouble with a gem, rather than having the extra overhead of managing multiple sets of gems.

I think it's a more correct solution as well. You won't have any guarantees that Bundler will resolve the dependencies correctly in production when it doesn't in your development environment.
I wonder how long until GM hackers can prototype their new chicken design.
Or do what I did and go with a phone with near-vendor support of an AOSP ROM. Hello, Galaxy S III and CyanogenMod.
This article was something of a joke between me and my friends here at MIT- while parts of it are true, parts of it are also patently false ("MIT kids are [...] covered in tattoos—they’re cool and hip and very different. Their clothes are edgy.")

The types of people described in the article definitely exist here. They're also definitely a lot less common then the article suggests.
New York City and AirBnB partner to help Sandy victims with free housing
I got a little present for you: Cmd-up.

Oh the glorious day when I found out about this..
If you ever played the old game HyperBlade, it had it game ads about GE chickens. IIRC, they were boneless and bun shaped.
It's a mistake to compare political parties across 150 years of history and assume that nothing has changed in their makeup or beliefs since then. The only thing the parties of 1863 and 2012 have in common is their names.
Shameless plug: For those of you using Celery, you can jump in rather quickly with this decorator I made that increments task counters and sends how long each task took to statsd:

http://www.charleshooper.net/blog/painless-instrumentation-o...
There is that, yes!

OTOH the use-case was pretty plane-specific, and you don't often need a phone on a plane. Perhaps a 7 inch tablet (to replace the kindle) would suffice. Though then we run into the same problem, the Nexus 7 has no SD slot either!
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Well, it does have a barometer!
Given how many thousands of dollars we steered to Intel because of it, I'm not sure this maximized shareholder value either. Few things businesses do are actually big-picture decisions.