skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Plus with LTE having very low presence / uptake (and tiny coverage area) the no-LTE disadvantage is meaningless.
It'd be really cool if

a) you added meter

and

b) you added preset rhyme / meter schemes like "Sonnet"
>In the legal sense, the third party doctrine is as inherent to the 4th amendment as anything can be--it's the Supreme Court's binding interpretation of the contours of the phrase "reasonable expectation of privacy."

Or, to put it better:

>the Supreme Court's binding interpretation of the contours of the phrase "reasonable expectation of privacy", in which the Supreme Court bended over to big goverment and took the most BS route of interpretation it could.
Extra weight and driveline friction will hurt range/battery life. That's one reason why we probably haven't seen it yet.
Hm. I took a look at a few of my highly voted comments. Some of them have nofollow, some don't. I can't really tell why. For instance, this answer: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1990464/efficiency-of-pur... has lots of links in it, citing sources, all of which are nofollowed. A few more of my lower voted answers do not have nofollow. But this one does: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1946426/html-5-is-it-br-b.... As I go through my history, I find that most of my links are nofollowed; even ones that get more than 25 upvotes, have been around for years, and I'm within the top 1% of reputation site-wide: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5724522/creating-github-r....

So, either the algorithm is really strict and fairly capricious, or it's quite badly broken.
Product Review: The Kinesis Advantage ergonomic keyboard
Really surprised to see people balk at $29 for a software productivity tool. I mean, I get it if it's not worth it for you, but I happily paid a similar amount for SourceTree (before it was free ;) ), and pay similar amounts for all sorts of development tools. It doesn't take much productivity gain for these sorts of tools to pay for themselves quickly. This is the sort of thing that a dev lead might buy for his team to teach/enforce the git-flow workflow quickly and easily.

We happen to use Mercurial around here, so that was my biggest turnoff, but the rest of the value proposition made plenty of sense to me: Solve one problem. Solve it well. Charge real money.

I wish these guys success. :)
Tesla is the most innovative brand in cars. We need EVs to get independent from oil.

We are now in a time of pioneers in a new world. There will be a lot of failures but also successes. I have a good feeling with Tesla's way.

Here is why:

1. The design is exceptional
2. Their power train is simple. They didn't make the decision to use an extender like Volt which requires three hydraulic clutches
3. They extend the range through super chargers
4. They are aiming at the right target group
5. The time is right
6. Mr. Musk is a visionary
Robert interviewed me.
Ask HN: About to start an internship with Google. Any advice?
Hi everyone<p>I'm about to start an engineering internship with Google in a couple of weeks. I'm an undergrad studying Computer Science and Electrical Engineering. I'm really excited to start! How can I make the most of this opportunity?<p>Anything specific I should learn before I get there? Any general do/don't advice for when I get there?
Mathematicians suggest new, quicker way for airplane boarding
While I cannot hazard a guess to intention, a lowish estimated price is beneficial in at least two ways:

1) Put's more heads through the auction house door. One group could be searching for a bargain while another group benefits from increased perceived affordability (even if it ultimately ends up being illusionary). More bidders on the floor drive competition and maximize the closing price.

2) Allows others to feel the item is undervalued, and hence provides an opportunity for positive comment. If most said it was overvalued, that would create negative commentary and hence an undesirable perception of the brand (PG is this instance). If priced according to what the market roughly perceives as accurate, it generates less discussion, or action.
You're assuming that the author is an average person with respect to gun knowledge. I don't know how much he knows about them, but the story seems to suggest he knows a little, right? Maybe relevant: he was a war correspondent in Iraq[1]. Or maybe he just likes guns?

[1] http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/11.06/battlefield_pr.html

Edit: spelling
'Vegetative' patient communicates
This seems pretty interesting. There are options that provide this functionality as a bonus (e.g. LucidChart), but its definitely secondary and to use it meaningfully often costs some sort of membership fee. A nice simple free solution for this might be popular with designers.
Would be great if you could detect the rhyme scheme, or set it as fixed.
Vista wasn't a fiasco. It was a rushed, focused, and pragmatic fix to the fiasco that was Longhorn. Don't remember Windows Longhorn? That's because Vista was a success.
I would rather they keep reducing the price and weight. Retina? 163ppi is already pretty good.
Not to sound cocky but No developer with self respect should be working for a company that wouldn't let developers buy THE DEVELOPMENT phone if developers are working on smartphones.
I've seen a nice proportion of people in tech startups, etc with sleeves or similar compared to other professions (Typically less people than a representative portion of lead singers, but more than a similar sample of teachers). It doesn't seem to hold them back, and I plan to get (more of) my own in the future.

The view I take is if someone has such hostility towards my tattoos that we can't work together, we probably shouldn't be working together anyway. (Tattoos to me are representative of my life story and are given a lot of thought/designing)
OT: Just so you are aware, "gypped" is a racial slur against gypsies.
So I was ready to buy Wingman, but then paused and thought. Why isn't this on the App Store? Am I really going to use it? I am all for productivity tools, and honestly willing to pay for anything that makes my life easier, but I think I just need a trial of Wingman, just to make sure it is what I am envisioning.
> This is just the logical extreme version of dividing voters up into blocks called "states", and then dividing up politics so that one state is likely to decide it.

Erm. There isn't a logical extreme to dividing voters up into blocks. Both extremes are simply a popular vote. Unless you're talking about infinitely sized blocks, in which case I'm not sure he's the one whose connection to reality is more dubious.

> Therefore unless the popular vote in the deciding state is almost exactly balanced, and all other states are balanced, it is very difficult for any vote to truly be deciding.

It seems like you disagree with his definition of a voter's voting power. How would you define it instead?

> It is certain that an illegal voter purge changed that election result.

How is that relevant to the question of an electoral college? I'm not questioning whether or not it happened, but you haven't actually demonstrated a link. I mean, of course voter disenfranchisement is harmful to democracy; isn't that sort of obvious?
My favorite one is that one :

> IaaS cloud computing is not always cheaper than owning your own hardware

Oh really, not always cheaper ? For the same computing power, I observe almost x10 pricing on amazon compared to dedicated server. And still, I compare to rented dedicated servers, not owned (never worked with those, I suppose it's even cheaper).

Selling (because that's what this article is trying to do) aws as a highly scalable platform where one could add resources in a matter of seconds is ok. Implying it can be cheaper than other alternatives is either lying or having no clue.
Sure it can; you can look at the next or previous machine instructions.

If they occur more often than others than you can see which are taking longer.

The other metrics you mentioned are often built into the operating system/memory manager IIRC.
Then wait for the new Mini. Problem solved!
So the head of the CIA can't think of a better way to securely communicate with his lover than draft emails. He's the head of the nation's spy agency and he's a terrible spy. Good riddance.
Dronestagram: pictures exposing the US's secret drone war
If Sinofsky turns out to be in Cupertino tomorrow, then it would complete the recent drama.
Windows Longhorn was the internal codename for Vista. I think that you are thinking of Windows 7 being rushed, focused, and pragmatic fix to the fiasco that was Vista.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Vista

From the first paragraph of the article:

Prior to its announcement on July 22, 2005, Windows Vista was known by its codename "Longhorn"

edit: ref to wikipedia
edit2: suggestion to parent.
You want to save it into Github with revision I would say - a bit like http://prose.io/
Anyone outside of Taobao using this in production? I'd be really interested in a reliable version of nginx supporting dynamic loading of modules, recompiling nginx everytime you need a custom module quickly loses its charm.
I'm all for teaching CS in high school, but am irked by the claim that "learning to code is just as important as learning how to read and write." This is obviously not true if you think about it for two seconds. There isn't a job in the world that doesn't involve communication. Reading and writing is the basis of forming arguments and understanding things -- quantitative or not. The best programmers I've encountered have great mastery of their native language. Educators need to be careful about how they suggest CS should be implemented in HS, and just how much is essential. It could be very effective to integrate CS into a mathematics track, since they reinforce each other so nicely. Computer literacy is so important and is becoming more important -- no argument there -- but even computation itself requires a good grasp of language. Computers can't answer the question of "why" for us.

They also suggest that computing skills will be required for "any" job, which raises some important questions. First of all the claim itself is bs: Yeah, computers will become more and more ubiquitous, but many vocations just don't and shouldn't require computational skill. In many cases it could be a distraction from the core issues of the vocation. I don't care if my therapist, dance instructor, baker, farmer, mother, coach, musician, ... (ad infinitum) knows how to reverse a linked list. Sure, computer literacy would help all of them achieve certain things, but let's be honest about what level of CS education is _essential_. Secondly, a world where EVERYONE has a job where computing is of central importance is one I personally would never strive towards. We should ask ourselves if we really want to stick all of society behind a computer.
I know you're being silly.. but reality is messier than that. Apple released a tablet in 1993. Microsoft released serious tablets in 2002. Apple again in 2010, and now MS with their own branded device. Reality is less about leading a trend than hopscotching the competitor.
Wish I hadn't started reading the article before the HN comments!
If you come from a Land Down Under, where beer does flow and startups plunder, get your game on and apply to the world-renowned Startmate. Applications close Sunday.
I have seen reputable open source software developers put paid linkspam on their personal websites. When I called them out about it, they said "ha ha, I was wondering if anyone would notice that, yeah, they paid me a pretty good amount of money for that."

Trusted contributors could easily be bought off. Someone who was sick and tired of StackOverflow after putting way too much time into it, who was offered the right amount of money? Hey, you know, it might be worth it to make a few bucks instead of a few more meaningless internet points.

If you just make the threshold so high that only the very top contributors are nofollowed, then only that small cabal controls where SO's considerable linkjuice goes. If you broaden your criteria, there are more and more potential corruptible people; and it becomes easier to generate a little quick and easy reputation with a sockpuppet that you can spam with a few times before you're caught and move on to another sockpuppet.
You are missing the point. If they sold out of 10 units, that is not impressive. If they sold out of 10,000 units, that is pretty amazing for Australia.
non-zero copays and deductibles I believe
You are off by about an order of magnitude. China's GDP is about $7 trillion US.
>I bought my first firearm 15 years ago solely because it was a right I considered as important as voting and free speech, and I wanted to exercise that right. (Yes, I know this is mostly an American sentiment.)

The idea behind that right had to do with the ability of the people to overthrow an oppressive government, not with the ability to have guns per se, e.g as a gun collector or to protect your house from burglars.

And, as we know, the utility of guns against an oppresive government today is zero.
$50k to $100k gives a pretty wide margin of error too :-)
Oops! Turns out he moved to Belize and planted the rumor...

Bravo, McAfee, bravo. That's straight out of a movie right there.
a site for a poet
makes writing haikus easy
i still suck at it
I guess I am unclear why their affair would warent Petraeus's resignation. People have affairs. Was there a significant conflict of interest regarding their affair? If not, I don't understand how this is news worthy?
What do you mean your buddy just got off the phone with them? Do they often answer phone calls at 11:30pm on a Monday night?
Seems like it would have be safer and harder to detect if they used a private pastebin or some similar obscure scratchpad service.

That is essentially what they are doing, except in something that is somewhat easier to link to their identity.

Perhaps:

http://www.tomsguide.com/us/Anonymous-PasteBin-AnonPaste-Peo...

Though that might raise some eyebrows.
Honestly it wasn't so bad. PM's with vision and proof could force their will, devs with talent and credibility could dictate the approach, and testers with open eyes could hold the team to their commitments. It's ok to specialize and lean on your partners.
Here's how I block numbers on an iPhone, regardless of OS version.

First, you can do so in your AT&T account. I've never tried this but number blocking showed up as a feature a few months ago. I would bet they charge for it, restart your contract, and use it as an excuse to disable any grandfathered unlimited accounts.

On your phone create a new contact called "z_telemarketers of shame". Any time you get a call from a telemarketer, robocall, etc., add that number to that contact. I use the "other" label. And feel free to create more granularity such as robocallers, telemarketers, spam, and so on.

I then set the option for that contact to silent at all times by turning the vibrate and ringer, settings both to none.

In iOS 6 you can take it a bit further by creating a group in your Contacts. You can't create groups on the phone so you will have to do this on your computer. You can then add these callers to this group and configure them as part of your "Do Not Disturb" settings. I don't do this as I prefer to use the feature as intended.

They do still call, and you will still see them light up your phone, but if you aren't paying attention, you won't notice.

Aside from within your AT&T account, at this time, I don't know any way to block before they get to your phone. ( Unless you jailbreak ) If they have a tendency to leave voicemails it can be a bummer.

What I have noticed after doing this is you can get them to stop. The trick seems to be to never answer, let it ring all the way through, don't "clip" the call, shooting them to voicemail right away. Don't give them any indication there will ever be someone to answer the call. Revert your voicemail message to the default so you aren't speaking.

I've gone from several a day down to one every few months with this technique. It took about six months to work. I have about 100 numbers in various callers that start with "z_", which is a convention I made up to push the name to the bottom of the list and keep it mostly out of sight.
Secret affairs, or any other secret potentially embarrassing personal or sexual traits, are easy fodder for blackmail. People are irrational when it comes to such things.

Anyone in such a position needs to basically have no personal secrets that would cause major harm if revealed.
Ironically in the other tab, I'm hitting refresh:

The Nexus 10 will be available for purchase on Tuesday, Nov. 13th.

for $400.
Ping me, I have 19 years of experience in AJAX!
Side-Channel Attack Steals Crypto Key from Co-Located Virtual Machines
I agree. If I could get a keyboard dock for the Nexus 10 I'd buy it in an instant. Ever since I got my transformer I have decided the KB dock is a prereq for my buying a tablet.
I have two English assignments in poetry coming up.

This is just what I was looking for, thanks!
This article is full of horrible bits, and that quote is just the bit that stands out the most.

The link from that quote is to Quora, with only one random guy holding forth with an opinion about Friendster. Not exactly authoritative. But even if it were, the Quora answer is not even close to implying that AJAX had a consequence on server load (it suggests that AJAX makes for better UX).

The link about "friendster is too slow" links to... a story about a change of CEO at Friendster.... with no reference to website performance at all? Wtf?

The "$15 a month" link and the "so easy" link, while they do mention AWS/EC2 IASS, are only peripherally connected to it. They're about caching Wordpress, i.e. automagically converting your dynamic-content webapp into a static-content website, and have nothing to do with elastic scaling or any of the other really interesting aspects of AWS/EC2.

It's weird, because it's like there was a vaguely reasonable (but fluff-weight) article here, that someone pissed all over and ruined.

I generally enjoy the pieces I read at the Atlantic... now I'm having that experience of wondering if any of them had any truth at all to them.
I'm pretty sure most computers are still >= $600.
Here is a tldr I made: http://tldr.io/tldrs/50a1ff3dfb4525d44c00003e
I think the gestures are cool, and in a world where everyone was really into "neat" interfaces it'd be the way to go. They score particularly high on efficiency.

But designers tend to drastically underestimate discoverabity, particularly discoverabity by novice users. Many entire software companies exist purely because the market leader's product lacks discoverabity of a feature. Twitter, in some ways, exists because blogging software doesn't make it obvious that you can use their platforms for microblogging.

If you think of usability as a funnel, with discoverabity feeding into learnability feeding into usefulness feedin into ease of use feeding into efficiency feeding into fun, discoverabity is like your home page. It's where you have the biggest drop off of engagement typically, and it's where problems can absolutely make or break you.

Offscreen and corner gestures, while useful and efficient, are often so undiscoverable that they almost exist only for power users. On the lates Build and Analyze, Marco Arment said he has to include a button to show the side navigation on The Magazine because so many people have no idea they can swipe in from the left.

Apple typically gets this better than most companies, and will use a text button instead of a gesture because they know that even if 80% of users discover the gesture, they just can't rely on it for your core interaction. Because the 20% will just walk away and tell all their friends the product is crap.

My prediction is that over-reliance on gestures and hot corners will put a serious damper on Windows 8 and Windows Phone's network effects. It's good design for power users, but it's in no way universal design and for an OS universal design is a must.
This is cool. I didn't see anyone else asking for spell check, so may I be the first? Also, some sort of completion would be nice - maybe have tab complete the top word?
Is this seriously an article titled "An Amazon Engineer Had a Little Idea That Turned Into a Billion-Dollar Business" that doesn't actually name said engineer?

I will never understand the instinct for writers to attribute everything to a company's CEO. (The article fronts a big picture of Bezos). Nor will I understand certain CEO's not taking the effort to make sure their people get credit. It's possible The Atlantic made no effort to reach out to Amazon on this. But that seems unlikely.
Microsoft announced perhaps two years ago that the health benefits were being reduced starting January 2013
Please dont use facebook/twitter/tumblr for "sharing", a simple link to the poem that can be shared anyway the user pleases should be enough.
Which matters more, iterating tests faster, or getting to a better result? In my books, a better result.

Here we have an actual customer here saying that uselessly short free trials will drive him to a competitor that offers a useful free trial. And the customer had an actual example to point to of it happening. If this is a general trend, then it is impossible for the best optimized short free trial to match the best optimized longer free trial.

And yes, long conversion cycles are a PITA. However they are sometimes a necessary PITA. Furthermore a long conversion cycle (if needed) is a useful barrier to entry for competitors who will need more float to survive, and who will learn more slowly.
Same problem on ipad 3. Can't see the right edge of text.
He was always polarizing and that his stock was rising is equally contentious, IMO. Windows 8 was late, Surface seems to be underwhelming and his inability to be a real team player are all likely factors here, as is his rumored disagreement with Ballmer (though I had Ballmer on the losing end of that one).

If Microsoft is as full of smart people as is rumored, Sinofsky is far from the only guy there who disagrees with Ballmer.

If Ballmer fires them and installs yes-men in their place it'll be the end of Microsoft.
MDPV can seriously fuck you up. It's the most potential stimulant I've ever used. If McAfee was researching it, he was using it. It's one of those drugs I recommend you to be extra careful with.
Spy tech secretly embeds itself in phones, monitors and operates them from afar
renice 15 `pgrep other_team_process`
That's why you file in California.
Awful (but cool) multi line string hack in Node
I was expecting Ballmer to be fired (for his last statement on Surface sales being modest) rather than Sinofsky. Maybe the sales are actually modest and Sinofsky is somehow responsible?
> Reading and writing is the basis of forming arguments and understanding things -- quantitative or not.

Similarly, having an exposure to coding and computational thinking also fosters those sorts of critical problem solving skills that are helpful whether or not you're a programmer.

> I don't care if my therapist, dance instructor, baker, farmer, mother, coach, musician, ... (ad infinitum) knows how to reverse a linked list.

That is not the argument we are making. We are not advocating that a baker must also be a professional programmer, but we are saying that a certain level of computer literacy is important no matter what field you are in.

Similarly, we wouldn't expect your dance instructor to be well versed in Hemingway, but you would still value a basic level of reading and writing skills.
No way I'm dropping $30 without trying it first, especially if it is not on the app store. This isn't exactly a 99 cent flashlight app.