skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Depends on the kind of tea. For black tea, near boiling is good, but for whites and oolongs it's not. Though I suppose the British are famous for black tea.

(I got a electric tea kettle with a built in thermometer not too long ago, so this is an interesting issue for me.)
That is because Amazon had been running out of stock of the Lumia 920, so people began to look elsewhere.

Previously:

http://wmpoweruser.com/nokia-lumia-920-still-got-ittopping-a...

http://wmpoweruser.com/nokia-lumia-920-swarms-amazons-best-s...

http://wmpoweruser.com/now-even-amazon-is-complaining-of-tre...
And beyond Office, if you're a non-technical business with employees in the low dozens, pretty much no one is even interested in selling you a full stack of software + support besides Microsoft and its approved partners. Pretty much any office with like 25 people that's not in design or tech is top to bottom Microsoft, not just Windows and office but inventory, HR software, whatever else all running on MS and sold by either a Microsoft subsidiary or might-as-well-be-a-subsidiary channel partners.

That's the vast majority of offices. And the lower number that are large/savvy enough to be pickier on backend systems still buy Windows and Office licenses anyway.

On the flipside, it's hard not to see mobile platforms eventually cannibalizing Windows from below, the way PC platforms (like Windows and GNU/Linux) eventually cannibalized minicomputer platforms, which in turn had cannibalized mainframe platforms.
I used this tool only to share my comments

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For any x86 system it is.
"'What’s it like,' Karla asked me once, 'cold turkey off heroin?' I tried to explain it. 'Think about every time in your life that you’ve ever been afraid, really afraid. Someone sneaks up behind you when you think you’re alone, and shouts to frighten you. The gang of thugs closes in
around you. You fall from a great height in a dream, or you stand on the very edge of a steep cliff. Someone holds you under water and you feel the breath gone, and you scramble, fight, and claw your way to the surface. You lose control of the car and see the wall rushing into your soundless shout. Then add them all up, all those chest-tightening terrors, and feel them all at once, all at the same time, hour after
hour, and day after day. And think of every pain you’ve ever
known—the burn with hot oil, the sharp sliver of glass, the broken bone, the gravel rash when you fell on the rough road in winter, the headache and the earache and the toothache. Then add them all up, all those groin-squeezing, stomach-tensing shrieks of pain, and feel them all at once, hour after hour, and day after day. Then think of every anguish you’ve ever known. Remember the death of a loved one. Remember a lover’s rejection. Recall your feelings of failure and shame and unspeakably bitter remorse. And add them all up, all the heart-stabbing griefs and miseries, and feel them all at once, hour after hour, and day after day. That’s cold turkey. Cold turkey off heroin is life with the skin torn away.'"

- Shantaram, Gregory David Roberts
So you mean SJVN, HN etc. would cheer on a Windows RT laptop if it were THIN and CHEAP and allowed the user to install Ubuntu?

Somehow I SERIOUSLY doubt that.
This is just a peering spat. These happen every single day, but rarely become public.

In this case, the ISP kicked things up a notch. If their users don't like it, they can always switch providers.

You also underestimate the amount of bandwidth Youtube "freeloads" off ISPs all over the world. This is a very common "problem".
Both of us, ( two developer team) we sleep very late after work yet the only thing that keeps us fresh is the exciting work the next day, saying that a wonderful coffee keeps us awake and a little nap also helps to keep fresh.
Great book. I just posted the full quote above. Cheers.
I once held a meeting for higher-ups (I was rather a peon) to decide whether a single switch should be labeled "online/offline" or "remote/local". 6 managers attended. The meeting lasted 3 hours.

Small surprise that once $14B/yr company just sold its remaining patent portfolio for $500M.
Survival of the wrongest
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Not only skilled workers, but also unskilled workers that are actually economically needed.

Both because there is a lack of workforce in some areas (farms, low-end services) and because, in some countries where inequality is higher, part of the population feels these jobs are "bellow them" but somebody still needs to do them.

And last, even illegal immigrants contribute to move the economy. Everybody has to pay some level of taxes (even if only sales taxes) and has to consume goods. And illegals usually will try to "hide" and not use as much of public services.

I'm not advocating in favor of illegal immigrants. However, in my view, this is one of the main hypocritical reasons people in power complain about illegal immigration and, at the same time, don't do much to stop it nor to legalize those immigrants.
Windows RT devices won't allow people to install their own Operating Systems dude :) They won't be cheap either.
Exactly - this is a bit set in the kernel to restrict code from running. Totally arbitrary marketing decision, not a technical limitation. Let's hope Microsoft come around and let us run programs unrestricted.
> But this kind of stuff is what tips the balance the other way, not for me, but for other people like yourself.

Says who? How do you speak on others behalf? No offense, but your post (like many others) just sounds like someone who is upset that were inconvenienced for a day. If you have all of your papers sorted out (and nothing is fishy), what's so mentally anguishing about having to wait?

The problem is, as you say, "the benefits outweigh the disadvantages". So, the US will continue to act this way until that statement gets less and less true. I'm not disagreeing with your premise, I just think your opinion would be a lot better served if you formulated your response to the actions against you in the proper way.

> The problem with the US immigration system is that none of the people suffering in it can vote to change it.

Your spot on with this comment. Until the people who are American citizens start suffering, you won't see any reform in this area. If you are actually serious about reform (and I hope you are, I believe it's needed) than you'll need a much more of a powerful argument than "I can't be inconvenienced at customs". Put some data together about how immigration is needed to create new jobs in America, and if those who are inconvenienced continue to be pushed away, then these jobs are a lot less likely to be created. Maybe it makes sense to create a sub-community of foreign entrepreneurs in the valley who all share your same thoughts?
windows only? no thanks.

perpetuating the stereotype that only windows can play games.
Where did you hear the opposite? An increase in the number of low-skilled immigrants might negatively affect GDP per capita, but it's hard to see how it would negatively affect total GDP.
Deeper sleep, better quality sleep maybe?
>Widespread opt-out ad blocking will likely end in content producers blocking offending ISPs.

It's even easier than that. If this becomes a widespread practice, content providers just switch to HTTPS and then serve the ads from the same server as the content.

But the ISPs know that sort of thing doesn't happen everywhere overnight, and it isn't worth defending against like that until the practice is sufficiently widespread. So now the ISPs are abusing their regional monopolies in the short term for negotiating leverage to try to collect undue rents from content providers who want to reach their customers.

And if you're one of the paid content folks then I certainly wouldn't be getting out the champagne, because if ISPs can use this to extort a toll out of ad-supported content providers, all it's doing for you is setting a bad precedent, and you're next.
I'm somewhat of the feeling of the second paragraph. However, in some ways it is happening in the EU. As the EU enlarges, it generally creates a larger area of free travel/work/residence. Heck, if the US and Canada opened up immigration 100%, there wouldn't be hell because the countries are pretty similar. Some might prefer Canada or the US, but it would likely be generally equivalent. In those cases, I guess I don't see the reason why controls are still strict. I think that's what the EU mitigates: as it expands to include countries as they attain a close enough level of development and other goals, movement/work/residence freedom doesn't mean mass chaos. If the EU, Aus, NZ, US, Can, Japan, and a few others offered open immigration between them, I don't think there would be a lot of chaos. So, it's genuinely possible to make significant progress from our current situation without the hell stage that complete abolition would involve.

Since I have the option to ask, I'm wondering if you see criticizing immigration policies as different from criticizing about anything else?
My impression from the article is that the ad-blocking is done at the client, when they use the ISP's standard software install. So TLS/HTTPS won't help.
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I've had to implement an industry-standard medical protocol which had 6 values for "sex".
>So you mean SJVN, HN etc. would cheer on a Windows RT laptop if it were THIN and CHEAP and allowed the user to install Ubuntu?

Uh, hell yes. I'm waiting to place the order button as soon as this http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5018096 makes more progress (though it's likely this will be confined to running Windows albeit less restricted). It's also why I'm evaluating grabbing one of these Exynos Chromebooks to install Ubuntu on (possibly in a chroot).

It's a cheap laptop that comes with Chrome OS installed. Versus the current market where I buy a cheap laptop and it has Windows installed. (And in this case I get to choose ARM if I want since Linux properly supports it)
No... only your own.
http://www.reddit.com/r/igotout
I find psychopaths incredibly interesting. Probably because I recognize that I am about the furthest thing from one. I incessantly worry about the future and the consequences of what I'm currently doing. I always wonder what people are thinking, what they are thinking about others, and what they are thinking about me. It takes me 50 minutes to type a short email because I'm constantly playing out the scenarios of how it comes across to others in my mind. In fact, I'd say I edit almost all the posts I make on HN multiple times after I've posted them. And finally, I have a tendency to become really sad upon hearing sad news. I avoid the news for this reason. And although I love reading about startups, I could never imagine myself leaving a secure, stable job unless I had very high confidence that my startup would succeed.

This sort of thinking has obvious negative drawbacks. Social interaction becomes a chore because you think you're never going to come across positively, so why interact at all?

I've always wished that for just a day, I could have a psychopathic personality -- just to see how things work out differently. (Realize that psychopathy is not the same thing as evil or immoral by the way).
Which the Surface RT and this Chromebook aren't.
I have seen a couple of kids rave about how much "love Apple has poured into its interfaces..." (yes, that is actual statement) and yet with Steve gone, there seems lack of right leadership or a visionary up there. So "linux for me!", even though at the back of the mind it was still about saving those dollars.

This is the picture I have seen so far. En masse? Well only time would tell.
I think you're confusing Window Managers (WMs) with Desktop Environments (DEs)
Slightly of topic but Google has brought a lot of it upon itself; for example is near impossible to use without a lot of scrolling to avoid ads. I know they're ads due to my daily work but "regular" people will probably not notice them as ads due to almost identical background color and layout. Ads may be relevant but there's more to it then relevancy (price for one.) Sneaky and very bad long term.
Windows RT exploited to run unsigned non-Windows Store apps, not yet jailbroken
Diversity? That's for racists.
You say drug like it's a bad word. People like caffeine and it generally doesn't cause problems in moderation, so what's the problem?
SJVN and the like are more about bashing Microsoft and Windows down rather than championing for user or developer freedom. SJVN knows what kind of articles bring the most hits and looking at his previous articles,seems to writing precisely such kind of articles.

Stallman, on the other hand, is remarkably consistent and sticks to his principles. I doubt he'd be happy with the Chromebook
That's in a private company. Here, for all practical purposes, there is no incentive for things to get better. There is no one to complain to since the "customers" here are completely antagonized and have no power, imagine on top of all this complaining! There really isn't anyone to be held accountable, period.

And no, "voting" is not the way these things get fixed. if it was, the DMV would have stopped being miserable ages ago:

1. As mentioned above, the people most affected can't vote.

2. Even if they could, it's not clear at all how to use your vote to affect change. Which candidate exactly represents better service at government agencies?

3. Even if you knew, you get effectively four federal representative choices that could affect this (president, 2 senators, and 1 house representative). In those 4 choices you must weigh all your grievances. How high on the list is immigration staffing going to be?

The reality is that our system is not set up to deal with this kind of particular issue well. There's no good gradual feedback loop. Things have to get really bad, beyond where it's clear exactly what caused the problems, to the point where huge sweeping changes get made, probably over zealous and too far in the opposite direction then.
You may need more than a few days on reddit before saying things like "reddit could [../] replace craigslist"
Makes enough sense re: problem #1. Re: the unread counts not showing up, this still occurs for me even when Hacked Hacker News is the only enabled extension.

EDIT: I have no idea why, but as I was hammer-clicking on the Hacker News main button, all of a sudden the unread counts started to appear. I wonder if there was some cache issue or something such as that.
"As Mark Shuttleworth said, no OS has ever succeeded by emulating another OS (why they chose not to build a Dalvik VM for Ubuntu phone). "

When I started using Linux, having a working DOS emulator was a very significant issue for me. Today, many Windows games work just fine under wine, not to mention actual applications.

I think it's a big deal for the changers.
One of those incentives could be if US citizens decided to complain about the immigration system -- the point of the post is to attempt to marginally contribute towards that happening.
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(Belize is not in South America)
Which one of the top ten investment banks don't use it? :)
Nvidia is announcing Tegra 4 LIVE
I'm curious why they chose those particular syntax and operator naming conventions. Of course, syntax is superficial to some extent, but this seems a bit extreme.
I don't really know. I was explaining the above comment, not agreeing with it.

One of the problems is that we have this value judgement associated with the word "drug." Once you label something a "drug", it acquires a negative connotation.

One thing that distinguishes a drug from something like water is that you actually, physically depend on water; you cannot live without it. You can, however, live without sugar (though of course, your body will break down complex carbs into sugar). You can't live without salt, though there's a wide range between how much you need and how much many people eat.
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I wish all websites would use TLS. I've seen ISPs do a bunch of shady bullshit like redirecting misspelled domains to their own landing pages and placing an advertisement in third-party pages by sending fraudulent HTML. A secure connection for any transfer of information is the only defence a user has.
- also, after a few loads I am a million miles away from the top of the page which is really bad if I want to go back up to the search box or anything else at the top of the page.
Windows RT exploited to run unsigned non-Windows Store apps
If you ever stumble across it, I'd love to take a look at it. That sounds like a great resource.

I'm currently writing my first "big" GUI for work where I serve as both the main programmer and the UX designer. Things such as button ambiguity are things that, until this point, had never crossed my mind.
I'm talking about simplicity of implementation, not interface.

The fact that you use a windowing system that was designed for remoting but not displaying wigets for not-remoting but displaying widgets does not make you (or me) smarter.
It your business model doesn't work anymore, you have to move on. That's what the music and movie industry should learn. Maybe Google will have to learn it too.

Google can always ask the webmasters that lost everything after Google updates as Google's earnings skyrocket quarter after quarter.
Even if you made if/else an expression, the ternary is still useful for brevity.

Compare:

foo(a ? b : c)

Versus:

foo(if a then b else c end)

Which do you think reads more clearly?
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I don't think this situation is unique to twitter. Any person with a sufficiently large public following will instantly receive special treatment and pandering behavior (like Home Depot in this case). Joe Average won't get his backordered AC by 11pm on the same day if he complains on twitter.
Haha, I don't know about heavy.

There seems to be a certain amount of self-effort, self-learning, self-development that is necessary to understanding and relating .. to yourself, and through it to others in a relationship.

What if a startup focused on development of one's self that in some way let those emotional and introspective sparks happen?
The following review article by gwern gives a much better overview of psychopathy.

http://lesswrong.com/lw/fzy/notes_on_psychopathy/

If the Scientific American article is representative of the book the world would probably have been better off had it never been written. For psychopaths other people are means, not ends. If wrecking your life will get them a more pleasant afternoon with no/small chance of danger to themselves they'll do it.

Psychopaths are indeed charming, ruthless and focused. They are charming because they got more practice at lying, cheating and stealing before they were fifteen than most get by the time they turn thirty. Vastly diminished anxiety helps too.

They are ruthless because to them other people are objects. You relate emotionally more like a dog than like a psychopath.

And mostly they are not focused on any long term goal. Their focus is very much on the now. They rarely have any long term goals or projects and if they do, remember, people are things. White collar or professional psychopaths may not go to prison for assault but they will lie, cheat and steal their way to any goals they may have.

For further reading on psychopathy read anything by Rober D. Hare, the dean of the field. I can recommend Snakes in Suits: When Psychopaths go to Work
Interesting. The problem with blogging (imho) as a medium is that it rewards mediocrity. Spending 6-8 hours per post is probably the sweet spot in terms of making it onto the front page of HN or whatever, and past 12 hours the addition return on investment is minimal to non-existant. The best strategy for getting followers therefor is to generally write well, but to minimize time spent doing actual research and/or serious thought. It's kind of frustrating, especially since RSS is basically dead so there isn't really any endgame.

A lot of my blog posts are things I've spent 100+ hours working on, but at that point it's basically just art with no practical business or reputational value.
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FWIW, I run multiple virtual machines (Windows 8, 7, and XP, Ubuntu, and more) on my 2012 MacBook Air 13". I'd run out of space fast using the internal SSD, so instead I have a USB 3 external HD that I run the virtual machines from. Now, I'm usually only running one virtual machine at a time, but really, it runs very nicely, far faster than I would have expected.
Supposedly he sold the rights already. I finally got around to watching The Dark Knight rises recently, and I think Bale would be perfect for the role. At the beginning of the movie, having isolated himself for several years, he looks quite a bit like mcafee did after being on the run. Also, he knows how to play crazy people like no one else (see the machinist or American Psycho.)
Maybe the author does not have access to Mac/Linux/whatever?
The problem is that the web went from few images and html to 90min videos. If they upgrade their network they'd have to lower their profits and raise prices.

In a few words, it's just business and they'd like Google to share the wealth. Google cares about net neutrality only when it's beneficial to their bottom line https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2010/08/google-verizon-netneut...
It's like saying "Windows phone is the only smartphone on market that support Live Tiles".
> For example, Firefox and Chrome have different Audio APIs. How that's standard?

This came about because both browsers implemented an experimental audio API to start discussion on what an audio API should look like. Since then a W3C group has been pounding out a standard API and browsers are working towards it.
is there a term for the opposite of psychopaths? why is intense concern for what others think of you and how you react considered normal?
When I was 12 years old I had a family friend-let's call him James. James was the son of my dad's best friend, and I saw him as a bit of an elder brother figure. I followed him around and tried to copy anything I saw him do, usually unsuccessfully. One day I saw James make a website. Naturally, I had to start making websites, so I whined at my dad until he bought me the HTML Black Book, and read the thousand-page tome cover to cover in a weekend-pretty much the exact opposite of the "find a project first" approach. Then I started making websites.

Having read the entire book was incredibly helpful. Anytime I thought of a feature I wanted to add, or wanted to rearrange the site in a certain way, I knew how to do it-or at least, I knew that there was some pattern that would easily solve exactly what I wanted to do. I made sites for myself, for my school, for my friends-and they were decent. Not fabulous, but my sites were a lot easier to update and maintain than the site my school's $250/hour consultant had built (tables were visibly different on each content page!)

I used the same approach when I finally started writing code professionally 10 years later. In one case I solved a problem in 17 minutes that my coworkers had spent months trying to solve, because I knew that there was an existing function that did exactly what they were looking for. These things were surprisingly hard to find in Google, but having near-encyclopedic knowledge of the language's features made it a lot easier. Instead of searching for a general problem in an obscure language, I knew the exact function name I was searching for and only had to look up syntax.

Memorization is incredibly useful, even in a problem-solving discipline like programming. And having an encyclopedic knowledge of your language is extremely rewarding when you remember a simple way to solve a complex problem :)
This is an excellent and compelling book about psychopaths: http://www.amazon.com/Without-Conscience-Disturbing-World-Ps...
it seems that javascript now has global variables

PERSISTENT = 1
TEMPORARY = 0