skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The original source of those PDFs is http://archive.org/search.php?query=collection%3Atransactor-...
Big corporations lobby to have tax laws that result in a low tax liability for themselves.

Tax laws for large multinational corporations are also tend to get into grey areas, where it's hard to tell if something is legal or not (not saying Apple are necessarily in that grey area).

The fact that big multinationals are not paying as much tax as many people think is fair is undeniably the fault of both those companies and politicians.
Just signed up and got the first 3 emails in my inbox. All I see is an empty black screen.
HTML-only mails suck, please give me the plaintext.
The Ars review of the Surface Pro has more details on disk space:

Unlike Office in Windows RT, this Office is fully uninstallable if you don't like it. Doing so will liberate about 2.3 GB of disk space. Even if you keep Office, you'll have more disk space than Microsoft claims.

How much? The 128 GB Surface Pro has a formatted capacity of 119 (binary) GB and change. A total of 8.4 GB is used for recovery data, of which 7.8 GB can be reclaimed if you prefer to keep your recovery image on external media. This leaves 110.5 GB for the main partition. On a brand new Surface Pro, about 89 (binary) GB are available. Occupying that 20 GB are 3.3 GB of hibernation file, 4 GB of pagefile, 2.3 GB of Office 2013, 10.4 GB of Windows, built-in/default apps, and so on and so forth.

Presuming the sizes of the applications remain comparable on the 64 GB model (with its 59 binary, GB formatted capacity) one would expect to see about 29 GB available by default. Take off Office and the recovery partition and there will be close to 40 GB available.
My favorite Phil Libin quote:

I’m here to talk about entrepreneurship. I travel around quite a bit, and I’m lucky enough to be able to coach and mentor lots of entrepreneurs worldwide, and the common question I get asked is what advice I have for someone who is thinking of being an entrepreneur.

I’ve narrowed it down, really boiled it down, to one core piece of advice. If I can only say one thing, and I don’t know you any better, it’s: don’t. Don’t do it. Seriously.

http://thenextweb.com/video/2012/04/27/evernote-ceo-phil-lib...
Tablets are fine for typing-heavy work, just use a bluetooth keyboard with the tablet on a stand. This mode of operation isn't common yet, but that's because tablets are still relatively new.

Edit: to clarify, right now we're at a point where it's rare for a tablet (or smartphone) to be someone's primary or only computing device, but as they become more popular that will increasingly be the case, and then people will develop new habits and new modes of use to fit these devices into their work or their lives. Meaning that if people are using them at work then they'll tend to have some way to use a physical keyboard with them for the times when an onscreen keyboard won't cut it.
Ask HN: Do you meditate? Does it help you concentrate and improve your code?
Concentration is the key to coding, right? Does anyone out there meditate? Have you noticed a marked improvement in your ability to concentrate and to code since you began meditating? Any advice?
The example page on github has an "Expiry formatting" field that says it expects "MM/YY", but it does not allow a '/' character to be entered:

http://stripe.github.com/jquery.payment/example/
At first I though it was .mail (http://dotmailapp.com/) materialising, but this looks interesting. Got in the queue with ~350,000 ahead of me, great.
Linux & vim shortcuts – let’s have some fun
Specifying a font for the ordinary text is a perfect example of designers prioritizing self-obsessed wankery over the user.

It's a common phrase used through the US and Europe incidently, and used in the context of what you stated I don't think it is repulsive, but chc has already explained that to you.

I don't think my post is nonsense, but just like you, I am entitled to my opinion. Text is not just for reading, it is also used for design so my opinion is that web fonts have a place on the web, the developers just needed to smarter in the the implementation as I said. With all the sites done these days with HTML5 and CSS3 and using techniques such as parallax scrolling, I don't think half of them would have the effect that they do with "Arial" or "Sans Serif". The web goes beyond reading articles on on HN or NYT believe it or not.
20:6:3:1 - James Alutcher's magic ratio for business networking
I have never tried to memorize a deck of cards, but I did spend some time improving my memory a few years ago using "The Memory Book" (http://www.amazon.com/The-Memory-Book-Classic-Improving/dp/0...).

I don't know if it made much difference in my scratch memory (i.e. remembering random things that occurred, or facts that I've seen), but it made a significant difference in things I chose to remember. There's an effort required to file away facts, but once you've gotten that system down it's quite useful. I use it for remembering things like flight confirmation numbers or license plates.
He definitely makes many great connections to the larger picture. The problem is that he gets many of the ideological details wrong, which is really unfortunate as it leads to potential misjudgments of Swaartz's cause.

Specifically,

1. Swaartz did have legal access to all of these files. There was no "theft" involved (Byrne's statement, "Swartz stole the material, pure and simple", is a hefty misunderstanding). He was, however, exploiting a loophole. He also violated the website's terms of service and trespassed at MIT.

2. Byrne seems to be implying that Swaartz should have admitted he was wrong and accepted jail time or being a martyr. But at no time was Swaartz ever offerred a punishment within three orders of magnitude of any that fit the crime. Should Rosa Parks have plead guilty to carjacking?

3. Byrne seems to think that all of the articles in repositories like JSTOR are "proprietary". In fact, a huge number are not. They have expired copyrights and are public domain; this was a large part of Swaartz's cause. To JSTOR's great credit, they have been expanding access to these articles since Swaartz's arrest, so in that respect his civil disobedience got the message across.

4. Byrne treats academic research somewhat as a monetizable commodity, like music. But not only do academics not see a penny on publications, but more importantly, members of subscribing institutions already have free and unlimited access to read any of these articles. It is just individuals not connected to big universities who have to pay large amounts (and this hurts the authors, who want people to read their work). The justification for charging for access to papers is not to monetize them, but that it costs upkeep to host and organize them. But of course, a P2P distribution of torrents would go a long way toward solving this problem for free, making both the authors and readers happier (but not the middleman).
Please define 'magic'.
Are you referring to that poorly designed, sloppily implemented, stamp-sized flash checkout that violates most checkout usability best practices?
Scratch head.
Great tutorial! If only there was an easy way to store the entered addresses in a database? Maybe that could be done in the next 5 minutes? :) I've had a few projects which where basically nothing more than just what was in the article. Meteor's builtin deploy and free Mailgun will fit perfect for cases like that.
Hi codenerdz....I'm CTO and co-founder of Hall. Our entire application is a single page application (no refreshing). That immediately makes our product more realtime than Yammer. This includes one-on-one messaging, file sharing, group chat, collaborative notepads, 3rd party integrations and friendship/contact management in multiple rooms and multiple networks. While Yammer may have elements that are RT, our entire world is RT.
But the side effect of apple giving billions of dollars to these patent holders will just cause a gold rush to create similar patents.
Ask HN: When should I start promoting my consumer mobile app?
We have been doing amazing amounts of customer discovery for 6 months. We know our customers and we are confident in our product. We are about 7 weeks away from being downloadable. I personally don't believe in pre-promotion. I want to promote when users can immediately download. What do you think and what should i do from now until release?
Thanks for the input, I really do appreciate it.

Perhaps "public speaking" is not the word I'm looking for, what about the ability to communicate effectively, not just to a group of people, but to your boss or to a coworker? Maybe not you specifically, but do you feel like other developers struggle with being heard? And is learning oratorical skills and technical skills mutually exclusive?
Anything more than a couple of steps pushes it, yeah. I was going to say no more than three, but I can't even talk myself into three. Maybe no more than 2 for a modal-wizard, but at that point it is barely a wizard.
You mean in order to build a death star in a shape of their logo?
I'm sure that on balance Apple and their ilk like patents, because they only have to compete and cooperate with their peers. No skin off their back if a little guy gets sued for infringement, that just means one less potential threat sneaking into their realm. Upstarts are dangerously disruptive to incumbents.
Fire, on the other hand, should imply smoke. So they estimated P(smoke) as being 1:10M hours, but we got fire with 2:10K, which suggests that P(smoke) is at least 1:5K or more often.
I only have 2 problems with Go.

1. It does have its own package manager but good luck actually finding packages. golang.org's list is out of date and so is every other resource.

This is a serious problem IMO.

2. The third party web libs are pretty poor. I'm a big fan of Express for Node and prefer just a little bit of goodies ontop of something minimal.

A lot of people like Sinatra/Flask so I'm not the only one who likes this. There's nothing like this in Go.

We have the bits and pieces to make it but no one has stepped up. Right now developing anything for the web with Go is just too annoying, you have to create so many things that literally every other language has had solved for years.

If both of these problems were solved I would insta switch to Go for everything and never look back. It's just so pleasant to program in for all the points you mentioned + more.
Protip: go to http://kera.io, find "maintain", click on it. Be taken on a product trip.
Facebook has deleted all facial recognition data for EU users
I am curious if the author checked out what's that thing called GiB is before he started ranting about Microsoft vs. Apple disk size discrepancies?
Thanks for your input, do you feel like this specific community needs to be uniquely addressed?
tl;dr: On the 128GB models (Surface Pro vs. Macbook Air), they both leave ~90GB free space.

The problem for Microsoft is that they are competing at the same time against laptops and tablets. For someone who's looking for a tablet, it loses badly to an iPad (the free space sticks out, but it is by now means the only place an iPad wins). For someone who's looking for a laptop, it loses to many laptops (in price, performance, ergonomics - whatever it is you care about, there's something that handily beats the Surface Pro).

Are there any people who are looking for something that's sort-of-a-tablet and sort-of-a-laptop, and are willing to get a device that is not competitive as either? We'll soon find out.

My own experience leads me to believe that until you have perfected a niche (neither laptops or tablets are there yet), extreme specialization always wins against generalization.
Not really. Since there is no guarantee the same thing will happen with any other given patent. It's not like each patent has a great value. The ones which affect the critical markets are important. But trolls already push for making such patents to extort money so it doesn't really change the incentive for making more of them. Was there any higher patent rush after Google bought On2?
> Over the same period, google has produced PageRank. Microsoft has produced nothing innovative.

What are you, an idiot? Seriously.

EDIT: Downvote away, I stand by my comment - parent has got to be the dumbest thing I've read on HN for a while and deserves to be called out on it.
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I signed up long ago, but apparently lost my reservation number. Guess I'll have to get in line with everyone else...
Planes are user-serviceable. The user is the owner, which would be the airline. In the case of an Apple rocket, presumably the manufacturer would be the only one that could service it. This would be like all of the major airlines needing to send their planes back to Airbus or Boeing whenever service needed to be done.
But you're not the owner. Do the airlines send their craft back to Boeing when they break down, or do they have their own mechanics?
This is a complete aside, but what are the good tools for formatting Haskell code? I've been using stylish-haskell, but it's somewhat limited and barfs on certain Unicode identifiers I like to use. (I should probably file a bug report for that...)
Thanks for taking the time to give your input. You seem to understand that public speaking is not just about giving a speech, and is necessary for everyone. How can that be conveyed to developers who believe all they need are technical skills and communication skills are arbitrary?
You made about twenty leaps of logic there. And you're also ridiculously wrong. Even if Tim Cook is an awful CEO (which, come on, at least give him a chance to prove it)... well, Ballmer has had 12 years to run Microsoft into the ground and they're still ticking.
The numbers reported for the 128 version weren't what people were griping about.
Space Toads - an awesome upcoming arcade shooter for Google Chrome
Nixnote [1] (formerly Nevernote) is an unofficial Evernote client for Linux.

[1] http://sourceforge.net/projects/nevernote/
Any particular execution is fixed once it's compiled. But it's easy to compile different variants of a graph and choose between them based on the input parameters, if that's all you need.
> And with one minor tweak that doesn’t affect the system’s capabilities in any way

If that were the case, why would that feature even be included? Obviously it does impact the capabilities, when things go wrong.

Also interesting to note they call it a "minor tweak". What percentage of tablet (or laptop) users even know about a recovery image?
I small fraction, I'd wager.
Do you have an Android app? Looking for reviews?
I am looking for well designed Android apps that make our live better. If you develop an app you want me to review it, can you send me an email at cowgirlappATgmailDOTcom? Oh, and a promo code, if it isn't a free one, please. Thanks!
I was contrasting what the previous poster wrote to some really useful things. And useful here means benefiting everyone around. Opening up widespread video codecs would be just that. But Apple being known for aiming for exactly the opposite won't spend on that of course :)
The guy isn't ranting. The article is matter-of-fact in tone. The mebi-/gibi-/...-byte (metric) definition was standardized rather late (late 90's). By that time the general public was already accustomed to the (now wrong) binary interpretation of a MB or GB.

Also of note: The GB was actually once defined by the IEEE as 1024^3 bytes.
The author discusses this in the article.
This, along with the parent comment, is why the stock market is irrational.
I also like the "buy today, because tomorrow it will be more expensive" and that's what I'm trying to explain in my mail outs to app devs.

Yep, the goal was always to get over the $1,000 mark and then start media promotion. I'm thinking of a press release. Would love any tips of just how to get attention as I'm finding that iphone apps are not the only products that are hard to get discovered! The site has to be discovered first before the apps will be :-)
How LinkedIn Just Made Ten Million People Feel Special
They're referring to the recovery partition. And while most of the time you're never going to need such a thing, when you're dealing with a device like the Surface it's going to come in very handy when you do.
When I zoom in to view the page (on Android, but I guess this will happen with zooming on many browsers), the page is not scrollable horizontally, meaning only the center of the modal is visible on the screen. This seems to happen with almost every modal implementation I've seen.
Interesting. I imagine this method would be particularly helpful for non-anonymized surveys.

Obviously, this would only be helpful if you don't have a good idea of how many people would lie in the first place. It also depends on the assumption that people won't lie given this plausible deniability.

The biggest problem I see is that this could only increase the variance of your survey results. The way I see it you have three binomial distributions base on three random variables:

1. The number of people who would answer yes to the survey question if they were honest.
2. The number of people who lied. (This is clearly not independent to the first random variable)
3. The number of people who flipped heads. (This clearly is independent)

The problem is that coin flipping has the highest possible variance of any binomial distribution for any given sample size. So even if the variance created by people lying is completely eliminated, it would be more than counteracted by the variance introduced by the coin flipping.

I still really like this method since the increased variance is a moot point if giving people plausible deniability is the best way to normalize for lying. And you can always increase your confidence in the resulting proportion by increasing your sample size.

It would be interesting to run anonymized and non-anonymized surveys with the coin flip and without to try to determine how much anonymization reduces lying on various survey questions.

One nitpick: You should subtract 50% from the yes count and then multiply by two. So in your example, you would expect that 20% of those surveyed truly sexted or use drugs.
The language is not context free, although I agree there is a parsing solution which is not terribly complex.
Yeah, my point is there's a technical difference, but if the end effect is simply creating a benefit to humanity, it doesn't really seem important to distinguish between "philanthropist" and "humanitarian".

So saying Gates is the biggest philanthropist, I guess, is "objectively true" if you're being pedantic, and using philanthropist in the technical sense. My point was that it's not "objectively true" that he's the biggest benefactor of humanity, which is the more general-use term for "philanthropist."
Yes, it helps, and I do it everyday.
No, you're not. If you were actually curious, you would have bothered to at least skim the article, which spends quite a bit of space talking about the binary vs. decimal definitions of GB.
>For someone who's looking for a laptop, it loses to many laptops (in price, performance, ergonomics - whatever it is you care about, there's something that handily beats the Surface Pro

Is there an ultrabook laptop with a 1080p touchscreen, an active digitizer with a stylus, atleast Core i5 for $1000 to $1100 ? I am not being facetious here, I am looking to buy something to replace my 6 year old laptop so looking for real suggestions here.
I'm sorry, but this is such a 'try hard' interview it's painful. Tell us what you really think, it doesn't matter if it's a bit left of centre or weird, it'd be much more interesting than this saccharine take on what you think the geeks "wanna hear".

"I think it's important to have an identity mug."

No, it isn't.
Most message board software, for a site. Search engine doesn't just mean web search engine.
The NTSB is not saying what you are claiming. They are only talking about those possibilities in reference to one specific failure mode: a short circuit in a single battery cell causing a fire that spreads through the entire battery. That rules out a lot.
Yup, or as we call it in our industry: code smell.

A good engineer doesn't need to see detailed diagrams, etc, pop open a couple files and you've got a pretty good idea of whether a project is good, or is fucked.
This initially looks like an IOC Container (StructureMap, etc) with automatic dependency resolution, except you can control the compilation of the internal graph. Is that accurate?
Those aren't users. The owner of the plane is the user. They use it to get paying customers. If American Airlines had to ship broken planes back to the Apple factory for service and repairs, that would be a problem.
Patents don't aid innovation, critics say
How is this different than Skype?

* I can have permanent group chats in Skype

* 1-on-1 chat

* Skype is supported in all devices

* I can share files

Am I missing something?
First impressions of Rails as a Javascripter
What tax bill? Though you use the term "bill," you seem to be arguing that they should actually donate money to the Australia government. I've haven't seen any news that would indicate Apple isn't paying the legally required taxes in Australia.

If they do choose to donate money, I can think of a few better things for them to focus their philanthropic efforts on than government.
To be fair, Boeing could have just gotten incredibly unlucky. I kind of doubt it given assessments of the situation, but it's within the realm of possibility.
Because people are always looking for the easy way out. And Meteor wants press.
The motivation is the expectation that it will increase in value relative to other investment options (e.g., the company increases in market share, etc.). This doesn't mean a later buyer is a "greater fool", but rather that the fraction of the company is now worth more.

"Buy low, sell high".
> but I do know first-hand that if using Rails as the basis of an efficient and high-capacity SaaS backend, it is the wrong decision.

Ok, I'll tell 37signals that it's time to shut down Basecamp. You get on the phone with Shopify and break the bad news.
Hats off for sharing these thoughts, Steven. Rich and comprehensive, much like the dreamed-of and evangelized WYSIWYG editor.
Thanks. I'll try and remember this next time I think I need it.
I doubt many folks work at SpaceX for the money, so even if it was 10x I doubt many would leave. You don't build a SpaceX from scratch unless you have someone like Musk driving it.
Once a tax system becomes so complicated that you need entire departments of people to work out what the "correct" amount of tax to pay is, you make tax susceptible to optomisation the same as any other part of a business.
I almost feel like I am missing out on hating MongoDB with others, because for me it just works, and _nothing_ I have seen people complain about is really a problem for me. Even in this article your upset because if you have multiple threads using a single connection the getLastError message won't always report the query form the current thread ? That's like saying your upset because the linux kernel does not let other threads know your in the middle of a mutation of a memory address so it may get corrupted. Its your fault deal with it.

Then your upset because in the past it didn't preform like you wanted it to so somehow that should be factored into the _current_ reliability ? My takeaway is you didn't care enough about your data in the past to understand your persistence layer why do I feel you are going to do the sane thing in the present and understand your persistence layer now , it appears if it doesn't work like you want it to by default then its broken and 10gen should really be making a datastore just for you. I am more annoyed that I need to now specify that I _don't_ want to wait for confirmation of write, but I at least took the time to understand how the DB works and what I need to do with it.
Asus Zenbook Prime. $999 at B&H. 1.7GHz Core i5-3317U, 4GB, 128GB SSD, 13" 1080p screen.

Edit: Oops, didn't notice the digitizer requirement. Please disregard.