skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You need a power source though once in a while. If you're a college student who walks around the campus all day, working on small desks and park benches I'd get an Air. For everything else, like working around the house or office, definitely go with Pro.
"How about all the 'XYZ' that could be contributing a lot and bettering the world via their work in software development but aren't getting a chance to do that?"

This is not a simple matter of people being actively or even passively discriminated against. This is the result of the environments, decisions, and treatment people receive from their earliest elementary school days; there is almost nothing that can be done by the time people are in college. I have watched EE and CS departments do everything imaginable to try to increase diversity, yet they have made extremely modest improvements.

Somewhere between the beginning of middle school and the end of high school, girls seem to stop being interested in math, science, and things that are relevant to engineering and CS. Somehow, my female classmates who had high scores on the AP calculus test all wound up somewhere other than engineering -- psychology, accounting, management, etc. Despite every possible opportunity being made available to women, despite departments running the gamut of things that could attract women, despite women representing a majority of students at many colleges, women continue to avoid engineering.

So don't say that women are not getting the chance to be engineers or computer scientists. Women have more chances than anyone else; they are choosing not to take advantage of those opportunities. Figure out why that is the case, and maybe you can actually do something to solve the problem.
It doesn't cause the gender bias in nursing. I'm pointing out that nursing is special. They have a very specialized reason for needing some gender parity, which applies only to a few other fields (e.g., TSA pat down).

Software isn't one of those fields, so bringing up gender parity in nursing in a discussion about the software industry is a bit of a misnomer.
I have been reading about this for quite a while. Why is it that we never come to see faces and names of people who exert state control like this? For example, name and pictures of people from MPAA, US of A and Sweden and everyone in between starting from the lobby to those pushed over to set an example.

Though it's quite natural for people facing unjust trial to surface more often, it might just do good to the world if we can see faces of agents pushing the case for say RIAA, SOPA and so on... wouldn't it?

360 degree transparency will help if this is truly in the interest of public (as any Government claims).
Could you not easily upgrade the RAM to 16gb on the W500? Disk upgrade to 512GB should also be doable. (My x220 has 16Gb/512Gb and it does well for similar vm based setup.) Or do you have an older model w500?
I like this, and it reminds me of the tagline from Asimov's The Last Question.
I was thinking in terms of comparing riding a horse to riding a bicycle. I'm sure stagecoaches were miserable rides, but I don't think any kind of bicycle based technology would really compete with one.
15yo + Python + Data = Nature Article
Yeah, I was referring to those long haul airplane rides more than anything else.
Memorize anything with email + followupthen
How much does it cost to start a root CA?
Don't undersell the value of having a monstrously fast local machine; I much prefer working on big datasets locally, as my machine is significantly faster than nearly any EC2 node. And, it's portable and has a fantastic screen. And works in the car or behind a spotty connection.
Can anyone explain in less than ten words the most important reason to program in Go?
Mmh, I don't know but there's no foul taste to me. I regard them as kings of execution. Yes, they don't "invent" business models but they take what works and execute on it. Nothing wrong with that - it's how most business made money for many many years.
[pdf] IEEE Standard 754 and the explosion of Ariane 5
Politicians focusing on social benefits instead of new sources of growing revenue, like startups. In my opinion EU politians do too much when we the people know better what we need. I don't mind paying taxes as long as they don't keep me from growing my business. And guess what? That's exactly what EU needs. More people who know how to do business, raise money, and give back to the people, all in one sweep.
And even after all of that the piratebay still operates as though nothing ever happened.

You have to give those guys props for stamina.
A lot of people have reported that doing a factory reset after 4.2 cured the sluggishness they were experience after the upgrade. Worth a try if it's really affecting your use of the device.
America needs a new way to allocate wireless spectrum
A HN user reposts a SO post from ages ago.

Another HN user decides to repost a relevant joke from ages ago.

Now HN is going down the drain.
So if I have my kids' birth certificates with me, I'm cool, right?
I'm in a similar situation. I commute 3 hours each day on mass transit and love the Air in those situations, but I do miss the processor power.

I happen to have a pretty beefy PC at home, so I just RDC into that for my Visual Studio and compiler needs (I think I'm one of about seven people who develop .NET on a Mac!)
I can confirm, at least anecdotally, that the Note 2 is a big hit with Asian women. They seem to be pulling them out of their purses all the time here.
"If you are not paying for it, you’re not the customer; you’re the product being sold."

For me personally, this is the most stupid statement since the "war on terror" nonesense from a few years ago. The reason this is so stupid is because there are almost zero services that you do not pay for in order to use them, and Google makes none of these services.

I pay Google with ad impressions so I can use their search engine. Google can turn these ad impressions into money, so it is as good as dollars to them.

In order for me keep paying Google, they have to make sure I want to keep using the product. Just like any other subscription model.

It is also wrong that if you pay through ad impressions, you can expect less quality or service than if you pay money. There is no evidence that this is the case, and it makes no sense at all. There are plenty of cases where a company does not support an application after users payed for it, or customers complaining about bad support for products they spent money on.

Finally, you are never the "product being sold". First, that would be slavery and a crime. Second, I'm sitting here writing this with my free will, so obvisously nobody has sold me yet.

Google's first priority is still to get users to use their products and be happy with them. Just like it is with any other paid service out there.
Maybe I did. But my point is: I need a system that just works without constant maintenance from my side. So Arch is not really for me.
No, the W500 is limited to 8GB. The W510 can take 16GB and the W520+ 32GB
Please do provide some tips or Suggestions for My Startup Idea..  
Basically, it's a website where Budding writer's can express their written work to the world in a simple manner... ( kind of Self Publishing thing.. ) also Professional Writer's can use this Website for Testing their new Idea's.<p>- It would be a Great Platform Professional as well as Budding Writer's.. and a Great Community for both Reader's and Writer's...
Tried installing... Installation bombed with errors:

running build

running build_py

running build_ext

building 'urwid.str_util' extension

error: Unable to find vcvarsall.bat

----------------------------------------

I have Python 2.7 and VS2010 Express installed and have already done most of the things SO recommends, such as setting up path variables, etc....

Any other ideas?
All that really says is that even Google has a problem monetizing directly on Android.
From the article they have expanded to doing this in Brazil and SE Asia now too which makes it a more interesting business.
Merchpin is a self-service merchandizing platform allowing brands and marketers to target products on websites, blogs, Facebook, and more.

http://www.merchpin.com/
During what activities do you miss processor power on the Air? or is it just a general lack of responsiveness when booting, opening apps etc. and what is your processor?
It's TANSTAAFL , and http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/TANSTAAFL lists http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/TINSTAAFL as a valid alternative (not that I agree with that last alternative but you can't really fault the guy for using it if it is that widespread).
you forget the part were US startups won't go abroad, ignoring non-US users. Who is to blame?

It's everyone's fault and no-one's fault.
There was a billionaire in the book Permutation City who uploaded his brain into a supercomputer, then let an optimizer run on it for years. The goal was to get his brain to run in real-time or better, but eventually it spit out an empty file and a log message: "This program produces no output."
I'm more excited because its different and bold. If this doesn't excite you at all, what are you waiting for?
I wonder what code would look like on an e-ink display. I would like to code outside in the sun.
I have just moved all my servers to hetzner a few days ago. I'm running them all on a Quad Core i7 with 32GB mem, it's an EX 4S. So far so good. Expect a day to get the server and make sure you order any extra ip's when you order the server otherwise you will have to wait a day for the ip. I needed one extra ip because i'm running vmware free esxi hypervisor and it doesn't route traffic to it's clients. So I have a virtualised firewall aswell it can be handy being able to vpn into your virtualised environments. I also installed an ubuntu desktop, working fine. I'm usually all about the terminal but the esxi is controlled via an xp which is running on my retina macbook pro in virtual box. (Esxi client is windows only).
At the very least, you can use regex to match individual characters as you scan the HTML for parsing. It's an inefficient and stupid way to do it, but it is still something you can do. And in that case, regex is technically a tool that you are using to parse HTML, even though 99.9% of the work is being done by non-regex code.
I don't think this is true. I follow tech trends fairly closely, but I use very few of the consumer tech startups, with the exception of Spotify, which was created in Sweden. Those on HN may have this perception of the Europe startup scene, but most consumers only care about whether the product is valuable to them, not whether it is original.
Neither did I.

Some reference for others reading this: https://metacpan.org/module/LWP#AUTHORS

LWP owes a lot in motivation, design, and code, to the libwww-perl library for Perl4 by Roy Fielding, ...
Not great conversation for a dinner party, but I'd buy one for $100.
> Only, in that case, isn't a whole new language ecosystem a bit of an overkill to avoid some of the inconveniences you'll have using C/C++?

Sure. I've started from scratch and Go seemed to me like the perfect match (not that there aren't any other choices, but it came right into my front door and I said: why not?)
I don't think so. For example, great project at Github's got success based on great documentation. Mathematical theorem's proofs are also delivered with full documentation. It's called documentation when implicitly anyone interested in can understand the documentation. For the Wiles' proof, we don't know the proof/theorems in it before we know it. In short, we need standards to the modern math.
Previously:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=875077

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=68056
Although I agree on the lack of focus by politicians on startups and entrepreneurship; this is not a political problem. If not, how did politicians help Facebook, Google, Microsoft et al. get started?
Rocket Internet identified a market in the fact that American companies often ignore the European market for years.

Because of their large home market, American web startups can grow to considerable sizes before having to worry about multiple languages, multiple export rules, multiple tax systems, multiple consumer protection regimes, multiple payment systems etc. That is a huge advantage that American companies have over European startups. Rocket Internet and their like are levelling the playing field a bit.

All business ideas are to large extend inspired by others. Maybe some of the companies the Samwer brothers "cloned" were truly first in their field, but if they had taken the German market serious the Samwer brothers wouldn't have had a chance. It's their bad.
> ... and that website has analytics (Google Analytics) ...

Or Google Fonts. Or Google-hosted Javascript code. Or Google+ icon. Or god knows what else they just throw out there so that it would get inserted into people's websites and be pinging back. Whatever it takes, take it, take it all for free, just ping us back, damn it.

Ahem, yeah. That was the rant part.

The rational comment would be that the biggest problem unplugging from Google is other people's use of Gmail. You can evade Google all you want, but when you email someone at john@smith.com and it ends up being a Gmail alias, they got you, with all your email headers.
Where U.S. R&D Dollars Go
Windows Open Source- Qumble
I'm not trying to cast aspersions... just to state facts.
Same here. If they could improve the responsiveness of e-ink displays I really love a large e-ink display.
Gotta love the possibility of getting a text that says "yup, its herpies get yourself checked" in lovely big-sized e-ink font, visible to everyone at the table.
Ask HN: How do you manage your digital media
I am facing a problem of managing our photos and videos. The problem is me and my wife take photos and video using our 2 iPhones, 1 iPad, 1 canon DSLR and 1 Fuji Point and Shoot and then find ourselves looking for pictures in various devices. Also as a result we have no physical pictures because all the photos are scattered in different places and have not been consolidated. I am sure other people (specially new parents) are facing this problem and I wanted to know what kind of tools or setup you guys are using to conquer this problem.

I am wondering if there is a solution where all this media could be housed in once location and then be viewed seamlessly by any type of device (mobile phone, home computer, overseas via browser) ?

Thanks in advance.
From the Notepad: Perspective
The four guys on trial were not involved with the site at the time the trial first started. There were already other people running it by then.
A Quicker QR Code Scanner
Never thought of that. Thanks.
*Total Recall

Pretty much every movie involving amnesia.
> 10$ a year

Woah, really? You must be really wealthy to shell out this much for an essential service.

Try this - say, someone would be willing to offer you free heating for your place, but in return they would install discreet cameras in every corner of the house and be scanning and retaining a copy of every piece of mail that goes in or out and every phone call. Moreover, they will not only record your life, but also that of your guests even if these people would've objected to that had they have known it's happening.

Would you take this offer? Rhetorical question.
I agree that the reason there are less women in programming is that they are not interested in it. Not because those who are interested in it are discriminated against (in fact I've noticed quite the contrary, women who are interested in programming are usually very encouraged and invited to confs, special events for women etc). So why are they not interested in the first place?

As you said, women are less interested in software, they also in general are less interested in science and technical tools than men are, this is why we can observe so few women in tech. I have no idea why this is, it could be "expectations of what women should do" or maybe and I know that this sounds bad but it can't be ignored just because it doesn't sound good, a natural aversion in many women (not all!) for scientific matters or maybe a combination of both and more. I have absolutely no idea as neither reasons have been proven scientifically so I won't venture into any wild guess. But blaming it on white males imposed discrimination seems ridiculous and misses the point.
Maybe windows guy can help you. I don't have it.
I do not see the point of using SRS in something like programming.

Unlike a human natural language, there is little value in trying to memorise extreme details without the trial of placing them in an application context. As for new concepts, the value flows from the mere effort of initial understanding and any consequent usage. Meanwhile, the core of a programming language is almost always easily learned just by using it directly.

Of course, an SRS usage as described could be very useful for other contexts, e.g. remembering programming code snippets or concepts for the purpose of interviews.
I do not know if the facts presented here are true (although I expect that they are) this publication is heavily biased as it was founded by the creator of the Swedish pirate party.
Get it - that makes sense!
Actually it appears we were both mistaken. There is no long-term annual tax requirement for former US citizens, though if you retain your citizenship you do have to keep filing US taxes regardless of where your income comes from. http://renunciationguide.com/Residents-Non-Resident-Citizens... and http://renunciationguide.com/Exit-Tax-on-Renunciants.html provide the relevant details. In short, things changed significantly in 2008.
Why Google NKorea visit irks US
Oh yes, I had understood that "proofs by contradiction can easily be in error" but I suppose that's because people try the contradiction proof first, because it "should be easier"

And of course, constructive proofs are usually more complicated, in terms of proof structure as well as 'where to go and how to get there'
How to talk security so people will listen (and comply)
Power a Calculator from a Battery Made from Pennies, Washers, and Cardboard
And then some mock Assange when he expresses fears that it could be the perfect scheme to grab him and extradite him to the US in the end. Reading this, I would also be myself cautious in the Sweden justice system. And btw my position is not against Swede at all, I think the justice system of my own country (France) is no better and is also rigged toward what the establishment/politics have decided.
I understand, but US startups have a wrong sense of entitlement. They might come up with the idea, but if their execution falls short why should others be stopped?

I'm not just talking about European startups, but this also happens within the US ecosystem. Take the latest and greatest: SnapChat vs Poke.

Additionally, if a US startup does not service the rest of the world (specially in e-commerce, which is what Rocket Internet focuses on) they are giving others an opportunity; and others have the right to execute this. Take Gilt copying Vente Privee; VP is not calling Gilt a copy cat.
You have two objectives with that section:

1) Convince someone they want to interview you before they read the rest of your resume

2) Filter out jobs which aren't a good match for you.

For (1) you should highlight the one or two single most important things that will make a company want to hire you and for (2) you should highlight what your key requirements for a job are (do you want a job which involves a lot of travel, management, etc).
The symmetric, "curious dance" between C and C# in 2009-2011 could be due to the fact that "#" is not a alphanumerical character. Some searches for "C#" may have been miscounted as searches for "C" in that period. (But that's just an hypothesis.)
The Biggest Tech Controversies of 2013 (So Far)
Here's a link to someone's flash card for learning web-dev(variety of subjects, 6000 cards) :

http://www.oxbridgenotes.co.uk/other/web_development_flashca...

Here's a link to a blog post by him describing the technique for programming:

http://www.jackkinsella.ie/2011/12/05/janki-method.html
Your "facts" are unfortunately wrong. Most of their ventures are e-commerce sites i.e. not exactly unique ideas, and doesn't even target the European market.
Backed Or Whacked: The Shape Of Sounds To Come
Corruption likes to hide in the shadows, that's why you don't hear about the names and see faces of the individuals doing this. As soon as a name becomes known, all sorts of political shifting occurs. They've got several layers of scapegoats and fall-guys to take the hit when abuse of power, corruption and treasonous behaviour are provable.

The types of crimes committed in suppressing the pirate bay are orders of magnitude more alarming than the notion of some 15 year old somewhere downloading a Brittany Spears CD and listening to it on his ipod. This has nothing to do with fairness, it has everything to do with taking a step to own the internet and every bit/byte that travels across it, why? So you can tax it.

Congressmen need to curry favor with entities with lots of cash, and you can't get them on your team unless you can threaten them with restrictive legislation. The congressman is like a parasite with tentacles into the host's brain. The parasite's power is only as great as it's ability to convince the host that it is in the best interests to feed the parasite. What we see here is the parasite trying to drill a hole and insert another tentacle into the host. You don't ask for lower regulations, you must forcibly remove it with a weapon or surgical instrument. You do not ask a parasite to stop regulating.
Sure, but seeing your compadres nailed to a tree in this fashion would likely be enough to give most people pause.

To push on in light of that seems fairly determined to me.
You can also use a native framework like Ejecta[1] or CocoonJS[2] to run any HTML5/Canvas game with good performance. (Disclaimer: I'm the author of Ejecta)

[1] http://impactjs.com/ejecta/
[2] http://www.ludei.com/tech/cocoonjs
My initial thought was that it would be thrown out due to the corporation technically being wherever its registered address was. Then I started thinking about the Nexus laws that states used to attempt to tax Amazon based on its use of affiliates and the idea of the corporations location became a little more fuzzy...
Agree directionally, but comparing professors to veterans is tough. People get mad that veterans can't get any jobs, or end up homeless with PTSD.
Who Made That Universal Product Code?
Why was a prolific coder. He also reached out to newbies and made programming fun.
> But do you think it has to be like that because of biology or any such reason, or do you think it's a result of historical and social factors?

I _think_ it's both. Certainly it is plausible that female and male brains are wired at least slightly differently. But there must be some social factors is play as well.
I, an American, have a friend in Germany that worked for Rocket Internet to get into the startup industry after coming from a strong business consulting background. Even they saw it as doing something a little unethical in order to get experience and move on. They have since left and are now running the supply chain for an independent startup based in Berlin. This Independent startup is an e-commerce site, much like a Gilt/Tchibo mashup. While it is not terribly innovative, it has taken an Idea from the US and merged it with the culture of Germany. I don't think Gilt would be able to move into the market so easily, just as Walmart trying to go to Germany was a failure. We may see this as not very exciting, but the idea of any startup in Germany is counter current business culture and Rocket Internet is responsible for helping change the culture, albeit slowly.

EDIT: Tchibo is a chain of small stores that typically contain a a coffee shop and has goods that change regularly, usually as needed for the season. They appeal to the Germans consumers sense of best value for the money. They in a sense are the working persons Gilt in brick and mortar stores.