skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One thing that works for me is setting up scripts using arandr for each display config. Then before undocking I open a terminal fullscreen and run the script for the post-docking config. The script pauses when asking for my password. I then undock the laptop and open it and type my password. The laptop screen wakes up no problem. I do the same thing when I want to dock it. This is definitely more annoying than things happening automatically, but less annoying than rebooting.
Even a ballpark estimate makes no sense without at least a vague source. You're trying to define statistics for a network that is designed to make it infeasible to gather statistics...
Apple iTunes 11 - Now available for download on Windows and Mac
So the message of this ad is that the new IE sucks less than it's predecessors? That's what I took away from it.
Can you post some pictures of it? Thanks
Right. I should have replaced "faith" with "excitement."

If you program in C++, you need static analysis. I'm not so sold on it for Java or C#, their is a lot less low hanging fruit in a moderately modern statically typed language.
Using Configurable User Models in Django 1.5
ITunes 11 released
I don't get the point of a device that's not a good tablet because it doubles as a mediocre laptop.
Amazon Web Services Launches Data Pipeline, A Service For Data-Driven Workflows
I'm just giving anecdotal evidence for what worked for me; and TypeRacer puts me at 90-110 wpm, which is far more than I'll ever need for my programming work.

Then again, if he's actually asking for a program to help him because he actually wants a program's help (as opposed to thinks it's the only way he can learn), it'd be better to go with a program. What I was encouraging was that you didn't have to have a program to help you learn how to type. Also, just using all 10 fingers on the keyboard all the time, and having them rest on or near home row, even when you have to look down occassionally to see which finger should go after which key, and where that key is, is a good step toward improving as touch-typist.
Both the touch and type covers have a trackpad built in - it's surprising that they didn't include these items in the package, considering how core they are to the Surface experience
The ratio is probably a bit worse than this, since I expect that some of the meetings were with groups of investors.
Young Rewired State goes International: Europe and US
Young Rewired State announces its plans to start with 50 young programmers working with open government data in Europe and the US
Calling them both Surface may have been a bad move.

True, but par for the course for the same company that uses "Windows" to describe the OS in everything from a data center to a cell phone.
Quite true. I'm sure it would have worked out well financially if I hanged around in San Francisco (probably working for Coverity) rather than go to Lausanne to do a postdoc.
Cooking in the airport
A lot of visual as well as functional features has been added (see http://www.apple.com/itunes/whats-new/). And the iTunes store has been redesigned as well.
What can save the Xmas PC market? Not Windows 8, say analysts
So you have something that's not good at any of the use cases involved?
Thank you. This is pretty much exactly what I read the post for and was a little disappointed not to find. People talk about getting frontpaged on HN, Slashdot or Reddit, and how you need to be sure you can handle the load, but never give any useful figures on what that load is.

Knowing that I can serve 10 requests per second and likely withstand a frontpage on HN is more useful to me than knowing that I need a way out if and when my web-servers are being totally overwhelmed.
I've dreamed of building something like this for the analytics platform I'm building; my jaw dropped watching the demo.
That doesn't mean it has to be that way, does it? I wasn't implying that the yc model is a replacement today, just that it perhaps could be in the future for at least some subset of people that are currently going to business school.
Google confirms the sad news! http://www.google.com/transparencyreport/traffic/
a thousand sons? Man, you must have been bizE!!
RPM Is The Only Thing That Matters
Why Gartner’s Magic Quadrant is an Illusion...
Writing a technical book
A Misunderstanding at the Starbucks Counter
As a complete aside,

You worked on Crash?! That is truly awesome. It's not very often that I get to read a story from someone that works for a company I respect very much, on a series that has many happy moments in my childhood.
Vendor prefixes exist for a reason. They'll be removed as soon as the vendor's implementation fully conforms with the standard.
How does database indexing work?
Intel's next gen SSD's look good for databases
Not at all actually.

http://images.pcworld.com/reviews/graphics/products/uploaded...

vs

http://images.apple.com/itunes/whats-new/images/redesigned_p...

There's no sidebar for quick access to things, you have to click album art to select a song, etc. It's a very large UI departure. You can return it to more normal though by viewing by "song" and then selecting View > Show Sidebar.
The Plot Against Occupy
>The problem is that the pricing puts it into a weird space in the market.

Edit:Just like usual it looks like the notable number of anti-'M$' haters on HN are flagging this article down the front page just like they do to any article that is not hating on MS(resulting in some legit sites getting fully permabanned). Stay classy HN.

Original Comment:

That's the thing, it defines a new place in the market because it has new characteristics, just like the iPad did when it started and many were calling it just a bigger iPod Touch or a smaller crippled laptop and were saying it would fail.

I think it's especially good for developers when you can run the full Visual Studio and Eclipse etc. but still portable, not to mention the Enterprise where it fully integrates with AD and group policy and can support the full Office Suite including Outlook.The digitizer and the pen is a nice bonus. In some companies, tablets have a stigma that they're entertainment devices meant for Angry Birds and Fruit Ninja, and thus management doesn't like buying them(except for senior management). With the Surface Pro, it might be seen as a productivity device that you can use while traveling and also they can lock them down as much as you want to with group policy, do updates and deployments just like the regular desktop PCs and laptops.

It'd be okay for couch surfing, I have a HP Touch pad which roughly the same size and weight and it isn't too bad, but you could probably buy a 7" tablet on the cheap if couch surfing is your thing. So, for some people this is a good choice and I think the pricing is on the premium to make it feel like a premium device.

I think one of the big points is the portability factor, thus it may not replace a 13.3" Ultrabook or a 7" tablet for all, but for some, it can and for some others, they will just buy it in addition to them.

My only concern is the battery life, they could swap out that i5 for a Clover Trail Atom but I think they want to keep the power. Maybe there will be a cheaper lighter version later with a new Atom.

>An argument could be made that Surface Pro isn't just a laptop, but a laptop plus a tablet in which case the appropriate price comparison would be the cost of a Macbook and an iPad.

I don't think pricing ever works like that. But anyway, if you want to think it that way, they're giving a discount for the lower battery life and greater weight.

One other issue about pricing is that they can't use their tens of billions of dollars to subsidize it, it'd just kill the OEMs. With this price, the OEMs have some breathing room to make competing devices.

I think quite some folks will have a desktop for PC gaming, Laptop for couch work, Surface for working while not at home, and a 7" tablet for couch/web surfing(or a ~5" phone).
I'm curious as to how this isn't as good (on paper) as something like a Macbook Air or a PC Ultrabook ?
Yeah exactly. I cannot convey the utter disappointment I had when I realized that it was "RANDOM_STRINGRANDOM_STRINGRANDOM_STRING...." that they were XOR'ing with.
You can show the sidebar again from the view menu.
I know as well as anyone the relative futility of relying on HN, Reddit, or TC coverage for building a successful tech product. Feedback and traffic from social news is merely a blip that says next to nothing one way or another about your long-term prospects.

However, if your site goes down for any reason a postmortem of this sort is definitely warranted. The word "launch" is not signifying much more than a point in time in this case, and I think you're jumping to a lot of conclusions about what hopes they were pinning on this event.
NaCl anybody?
First one took place during the Second Intifada.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Intifada
Do you think better languages will make static analysis useless? I would think the combination to be better than better languages alone. Or are you arguing that static analysis by compilers should be improved (1) so far that separate tools for static analysis aren't useful anymore?

(1) almost all compiled language systems do _some_ static analysis. For example, many compilers and linkers do dead code elimination, and Java and C# must, by spec, do static analyisis to prove that variables won't be used before set.
> At least give Microsoft credit: IE10 is a modern, standards-compliant browser.

For how long? Hell, we know microsoft will have to be pushed kicking and screaming into supporting WebGL (and likely the fullscreen API as well as they go hand-in-hand), and they've just proposed their alternative to WebRTC (how not unexpected). See also: their proposing a brand new touch API, but not implementing the one which everybody is already using and the current standard.

> And, you know, IE6 was actually the best web browser out there for a long time.

IE5/Mac says "bitch, please". Also Phoenix was already a better browser than IE6 about 2 years after the latter's release.
Since this is an area of interest for you, here's more detail:

I'd say I've switched to Simple from cash, not to Simple from another bank. But seeing most people's banking usage, I think they might be well served to switch to Simple from their regular bank barring business reasons not to. My wife is switching to Simple from her bank, for example.

My main bank is HSBC. I rely on their international account features, and enjoy their premiere world card and travel friendly banking and currency capabilities. I can walk into a local branch here in the US and withdraw cash in Euros, for example, or trade them back in, at official banking currency rates, not usurious money exchange rates.

Previously a longtime Citibank, BoA (was Fleet, bought by BoA), and Wells Fargo customer, I have found HSBC to have by far the most customer friendly statements (both the bank and the card), and by far the least hassle as far as upselling, cross selling, fees, etc. Maybe this is why HSBC got a first place ranking as "most ethical company" ahead of Intel ranked number 2:

http://www.hsbc.co.jp/1/2/about-hsbc/awards

HSBC is also the only bank I've worked with that lets me use my true credit card (not debit card) as my main ATM card as well. This replaces the high fee high interest "cash advance" role that most credit cards offer, with the true ATM/debit card role of the bank's dedicated ATM card. This way I can carry a single card for both normal CC use and no-fee cash and ATM features. HSBC's online systems are fully integrated across both banking and card services, their bill pay system is fewer steps than Citi's. They also offer high interest "online only" savings rates matching online only offerings like ING Direct. HSBC do not, however, have mobile check deposit.

I'm such a fan of HSBC that when First Niagara recently bought the branch I'd opened my account in and I couldn't move due to banking regs, I reestablished my banking relationship with HSBC all over again. (Meanwhile, First Niagara is the worst online banking experience of any bank I've experienced. It's worth noting that the underlying DNS names of their various online services all point to third parties, suggesting First Niagara outsources all this. They're bad, and they should feel bad.)

After a year with Simple, I've recently closed all the other accounts but Citi which I keep as my business account to keep things separate.

HSBC feels the most ethical of the banks I've worked with, Citibank the most convenient, and Simple the most ... simple. Above I compared Simple to the iPhone. Perhaps HSBC = Nokia, Citibank = Blackberry, and Simple = iPhone.

A small business owner should try Citi, a world traveler should try HSBC, and an everyday consumer should try Simple.
I think there is an obligation to obey the wishes and rights of the content providers regardless of your respect for those obligations and whether or not those arrangements serve you fairly.

To demand the ability to dictate terms of the arrangement and disregard the terms offered to you is enlightenment. (The special case of this is when an entity represses another with a monopoly, but that doesn't apply here as there is no single monopoly on all entertainment.)

You may be the shows, musicians, entertainments, etc's target audience but you are not in the current target market. As others routinely point out, content providers need address this. It is a failure for them to not capitalize on an audience.

The pragmatic solution is to sponsor organizations and entertainment that you are the both in the target audience and target market. Ad supported media, Humble Indie Bundle, Pay-what-you-want entertainment and Kickstarter projects are all ways you can easily support content on more respectable terms.

By pirating, you really are letting content providers off the hook by not forcing them to compete with providers that you favor. There is an opportunity cost that you pay by not investing in media where you were the target market and those vested parties respect you.

Edit: grammar
Senate Judiciary Passes ECPA, Requiring Warrants For Messages and Emails
Here is a good link, with more information.

https://www.torproject.org/docs/faq-abuse.html.en#WhatAboutC...
I've been using iTunes DJ a lot lately, but it doesn't appear to exist anymore. Am I missing something?
My own emotions are probably a really crappy guide for figuring out how that guy ticks.

I would assume that you are correct, given what seems to be a bent for manipulating people and a desire for notoriety because of it as well as what appears to be an attraction to chaos (e.g violent confrontations). I would assume that this guy has a touch of some form of Antisocial Personality Disorder such as Sociopathy. It's is difficult for someone to understand how a Sociopath thinks because it is extremely foreign to how a normal person thinks. The best way to describe it is to not think of people as humans but rather look at them as a hunter looks at prey. They are a trophy or rather controlling and manipulating them is a trophy. They do not view others as equal to them and view themselves as a being unto themselves as elite if you will. It's hard to say whether or not this guys suffers from Sociopathy but he sure does have a few of the markers for it.
How does that contradict what I said? I wasn't talking about whether or not the companies have the data; of course they do. I was talking about what they do with the data.
I feel like I should post this here too:

https://www.torproject.org/docs/faq-abuse.html.en#WhatAboutC...
I always met at Think and never really thought of it as a startup place, just one that is convenient. But now that you mention it I do run into all the startup folks there now. Good stuff, though they stopped serving lemonade :(
> It's up to the user to prove that the child porn isn't on his computer.

You're abandoning central pillars of modern law here, namely the presumption of innocence as well as the right not to incriminate oneself.
Ask HN: When your friends ask "can you build me a website?"
Hey HN,

It always happens, someone has an idea, and they want to create a website quickly and cheaply. So they turn to their techy friends, and ask you to do it!

Now, the majority of such sites are just a logo and some content, which they will produce themselves. Hence, my question is, rather than building and hosting a static site for them, where do you send them so they can do it themselves? Obviously there a huge number of options out there, but the ones I've come across all seem very crude.

I'm imagining something like Tumblr in terms of ease of use and customisable design, but without the blogging focus.

Would love to know!
"Sucks less"? Well, that's totally going to make me feel tempted to give it a try...

Seriously, I started my web dev career at a time when IE had a market share of 80% and... I'm OK now.

I'm glad that Microsoft decided to embrace web standards and is committed to make IE easier to develop for but they'll have to do much more than this if they want to be taken seriously again.
"hot startup" is empty and salesy, IMO. after reading this, i kind of wish i hadn't. none of the parties mentioned came off in a positive way.
Say "ASCII"
you're so wrong, babe..
Doctoring pictures for propaganda purposes has been practiced for a long time by many different parties.

Two examples from the United States.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7738342.stm

http://observers.france24.com/content/20080924-us-army-photo...

The Chinese even used footage from TopGun in a propaganda piece:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/china/8291729...

What I don't get is that the Iranians and those responsible for the US photoshops think that this sort of thing will go unnoticed.
It seems like the moderators have been putting in some overtime lately with the headline rewriting. I appreciate the effort, most of the time the rewrite is better, but it does make it harder to visually scan the site for interesting articles (considering it is not rare for many articles about the same topic to be on the front page at once).
>however a Asus Transformer did Surface before Microsoft did

Can the Asus Transformer run Eclipse? If not, can it or will it, anytime soon?
> supporting WebGL

I think it's reasonable they might implement it on top of DirectX and then tell us how much faster it is.

> likely the fullscreen API as well as they go hand-in-hand

Why does Metro IE need the fullscreen API? Pointer lock maybe, but what's the use of going fullscreen in a fullscreen browser?
It would need to have a default start page that does not insult my intelligence, rather than one like this: http://twitpic.com/9y42i1
Ask HN: would anyone be interested in a better Sparrow for mac?
Hi,

My name is Waseem, I built www.inbox2.com a couple of years ago. I have not released any updates to that client since 1.5 years. I still have a new download every 5 minutes and people are still loving it (which astonishes me).

I ended up switching all my stuff to Macs and iPads so I cant use my neat Windows client myself, let alone work on it.

I ended up open sourcing the client (see the announcement and discussion here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3083935), hoping someone else would pick up development but unfortunately no-one did (even with its 54 forks on GitHub).

I am currently using Sparrow (http://www.sparrowmailapp.com/) but we all know what happened to that and new updates to the client might be out of the question.

So I was just thinking about whether to do a Mac version of the Inbox2 client (there is a host of ideas that I have never implemented). If I did a kickstarter (or used any of the other funding platforms out there), would you help fund this thing?

I think it would be about a 100K project which is my time + hiring a designer + some extra development capacity for about 12-16 months (building these things takes really really long).

I dont want to make any money off this as I have been down that road before and its hard to turn this into a sustainable business and also most importantly it kills innovation. I want to build a client that actually helps you to get shit done and is not just another better looking mail.app clone and makes some cash. This thing will be open-source from the start.

I havent yet decided wether I will do it or not, that kind of depends on the reactions I get from my target audience, which is you HN ;-)

So what do you think?
Sorry, I am having trouble parsing the last sentence about your rant. Without pasting the full rant in - are you saying that you believe that groups that try to solve their main obstacle by starting a subproject with a specialized leader are doing it wrong? Or groups that start a subproject that is designed to solve some side, not-as-important obstacle are doing it wrong?

The reason I find that ambiguous is that for YC, mediating disputes between failing startups is not as important as the main obstacle they are trying to solve, which is the RoI problem. So, they could indeed outsource the mediation/counseling problem to someone else, and even if someone else didn't do as good a job as they themselves did because they didn't identify a good enough mediator - well, making sure that a failing startup separates fairly is not that big a deal anyway.
I can't empathize. With great power comes great responsibility. If you're protecting someone else's privacy by publicly running an exit node for Tor under your name, that's expected.

The open Wi-Fi analogy doesn't fly here. It's more than pure unawareness, you need to purposefully install Tor and route anonymous traffic to the internet. That entails being held accountable for what this traffic is used for.

If an analogy is needed, the right one is giving the key for your P.O. box to anyone with a mask, then complaining you're being charged because they've found child pornography there.
As a customer it's interesting to learn that you would reject "custom" checks since your app shows me the routing number and I can use that (and have used that) to do EFT which asks for the number off the bottom of a check. You make it look like a check, and it works like the number off a check, but a third party printed check using that same number wouldn't work? Good to know.
I got a brand new UX31A recently and the keyboard does not even work...

As in, the "backspace", "d", and few other keys will not even register. Tried updating and rebooting too. I returned it for another unit so let's hope it is just a few odd batches that has this mfg defect.
Googling this problem should give you more details.
But how do you determine what data would be considered relevant? It is possible for incriminating data to hide in plain sight, such as in an image file that looks like a picture of your girlfriend's booty.
Unlikely. Much of the game industry in Vancouver is staffed by ex-EA refugees (hey, I guess EA is good for something after all) - it's unlikely any one of them would ever willingly sell themselves back to the company they fled.

And if they did, their staff won't keep.
It hasn't added any useful metadata features. It doesn't appear to cache the downsampled synced versions of music. The default view is different, but it's trivial to get back to the well understood two/three pane layout. There's more iCloud stuff. The "Up Next" feature is pretty nice.