skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is one of the discussed problems of philosophy and it gets a bit complicated when you start on quantum physics and relativity.

Some info.

http://philosophy.stackexchange.com/questions/1210/in-which-...
I'm surprised they're not attributing it to their OTHER ad, which was easily their least-stupid ad of all time and ACTUALLY EXPLAINS WHAT THEY DO.
Here's the Google Play developer agreement:

https://play.google.com/about/developer-distribution-agreeme...

They changed the wording to be less clear, but I'm pretty sure you're only supposed to use Google Wallet to collect payments. Even if the new language doesn't state this as clearly as it used to, I'm sure they can go back to the old language at a moment's notice if Amazon starts undercutting their payment infrastructure (and the 30% it nets them).
I think that more than hacker news, y combinator has funded reddit which has more far reaching effects and contributions. Also, wasn't HN created for y combinator people to discuss stuff ? As I see it, HN is an investment by YC because time was definitely invested in creating the community, this obviously further complicates the calculation of value considering they aren't completely independent.
It's more likely that they coerce to lowercase the the first letter of the password you put in and then store/compare the hash of that resulting plaintext. They could even transparently upgrade passwords created before they started doing this by using the plaintext from the next time you login successfully to regenerate the hash.
Oh, come on, wake up! Don't you see yet that this is exactly what the DMCA notices and similar have been designed to do? It is a tool to silence the inconvenient whistleblowers.
Several proposed perforated containers for the beans, but what I had in mind is a wire mesh similar in spacing (but not shape) to this:

http://upload.ecvv.com/upload/Product/200801/200631654352537...

Only a serious idiot would ever try to pour water on that. The beans slide down the wire mesh into the main bean compartment which is otherwise inaccessible.
> Not only that, youth generation seems not able to separate the distintion between programming languages and their implementations.

To be fair, this has always been true. Look at the old idea "Lisp is Slow", which is literally nonsense once you gain the ability to separate language from implementation.
The Web Font Combinator – A Web Typography Tool
What Brown did with wireless energy transfer back in the 60's is very impressive. But calling that contraption a helicopter is generous at best. Calling it a UAV is downright misleading.

The side-view picture in your write up looks almost like a helicopter. Look at a different angle though:
http://www.airplanesandrockets.com/airplanes/images/models-i...
Slant - like SO but for subjective questions
As is DOSEMU: http://www.dosemu.org/
MongoDB is great for a lot of reasons - record-level locking? multiple concurrent writes? append-only journals?

I have read than in version 2.x they announce some features, so, it is greatness?
> blessed language

Granted, hence why the GNOME devs didn't choose Vala. That doesn't explain why they didn't choose a cleaner, easier language, and it certainly doesn't explain why they chose the ass-end of web development.

> already know

The developers that Already Know only Javascript are not, in my opinion, the ones that GNOME will garner the most benefit in attracting.
> DCL

Sadly, DCL had (some) use beyond VMS: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DIGITAL_Command_Language
> Cons: slow

could be seen as a pro - the constraints might inspire creativity. Think back to the old days of computing, when all you had was 16k of memory!
I can understand this product from the point of view of someone who spends most of the day on the road, but still needs to use their windows business software (common windows only sales software, etc). This is the identical market to the ultrabook/netbook segment. The ultrabooks would generally have better text input, while this surface pro tablet would have slightly better battery life and be lighter and easier to carry around (but not by much, really). Not too bad a product at all for this, and should get a number of sales from business users within a few years when it has been tried and tested by daring others in the respective companies.

However, from any other POV, this product seems to fall flat. Unless you have to, nobody is going to use a win32 app on a tablet if they can use a similar iPad app designed for touch. Nobody will give up the battery life of a real tablet for the difficult to use win32 stylus programs, and the win8 apps just aren't there yet. So this device will fail to compete in the tablet sector for the identical reasons the RT tablet did not compete. It's just not as good a tablet for tablet uses as an iPad.

Obviously it won't compete in the desktop/high end laptop segment, it's just not capable enough.

I don't see this device being any kind of success in the short term, but with revisions and company deals it may be able to corner the mobile business market in future - a very large market - if it survives that long with the politics at Microsoft and is able to reduce the price to compete with current budget business laptops.
Can't wait for NoMoSQL
2x the price but 5x the performance of an ipad4 (half the battery life but w/e). Sold.

Edit: Wait, AND a wacom? OMG.
Do programmers still write in C++?
> Yeah - I got really lucky and that's about all there is to the story

Meditate on what a philosophy like this, universally held, would do to morality.

Personally, I think it would improve it.
Bloviation of the highest order!

Save yourself 5 minutes:

After stumbling over the near-insurmountable pile of quotes, I believe the crux of the message is this tweet: https://twitter.com/stop/status/299019199030886400.

Otherwise it's that Microsoft tried to meld laptop and tablet ahead of Apple, and (implied by the author) failed.
Mathematicians Just Found A New Prime Number — With 17 Million Digits
Facebook stores three hashes of your password (let's say it's "pAssword"):

* "pAssword" - the password as it is

* "PaSSWORD" - the password, case inverted, in case you have caps lock on

* "PAssword" - the password with its first letter capitalized, for those with mobile devices that insist on Capitalizing Everything.
in one page http://www.anandtech.com/print/6695
Committers Needed For Tastypie & Haystack
When Andrew Wiles set out to prove Fermat's Last Theorem, the assumption was that it was true -- that there were no integer solutions for a^n + b^n = c^n with n > 2. The reason for the assumption? Occam's razor. And that assumption, like this one, didn't go anywhere to deciding whether it was true or not. It just seemed likely.
I'm constantly intrigued by how people can keep such dual world views. Like Christians who also believe in natural selection. It seems like they don't really want to think it through, so whatever they just accept both conflicting notions. If you come to understand and appreciate high-school level physics, chemistry and the workings of the brain, which most high-schoolers don't, it really strikes me as conflicting how you could not become a determinist. We're just machines fueled by chemistry.
What do you mean " it won't compete in the desktop/high end laptop segment, it's just not capable enough" ?

What is it not capable of?
The solutions that include an open air design for the bean hopper ignore the fact that oxygen is what causes beans to go stale. This is why coffee bean bags have a one-way valve built in: to let the CO2 out that is given off by the beans, and to prevent O2 from seeping back in.

And the solution to the problem is to install a barista.
Since availability of remote tracking is an important issue for you, I'm curious if you use a cell phone?
Zynga brings losses under control
I don't think the question makes any sense: Hacker News wouldn't exist without the eco-system YC's investments have created.
Actually that would be a neat search engine idea: Targeted at programmers, you can specify the language the library/question/tutorial/etc. should be written in and it searches only websites related to this.
No matter how good the benefits, if I'm not doing something meaningful I'm gone

"20% time" could go along way toward solving this at Google though
No one likes to separate their whites
I only see a password field right now, looks suspicious.
Nice tool, thanks! I was actually searching for something this exact tool earlier today.

I wonder if you'd be able to add some of the larger web font suppliers? I've used fonts.com, typekit.com and Google's offering, it would be nice if you could switch from 'browser friendly' to 'fonts.com' and compare fonts in their library.
Luck are unexpected good things that happen to you and that you didn't work for. It has little to do with randomness in a physical sense and thus philosophical discussions about determinism aren't really relevant in this context.
FYI the reason that they don't fail sub-par students is that graduation rate is part of how they are ranked by the magazines. Flunk more students and your raking gets worse.

As far as personal development majors ... an 18 year old who has never even paid rent really doesn't have the concept of how much money the debt is and "everyone else is doing it" furthermore high-school guidance counselors are the ones who most often are turned to for advice on schools and majors, and AFAICT they don't have a clue about what they are talking about.
Gaming on it would certainly be sub-par with that hardware, and gaming accounts for a good chunk of the high-end PC market.
I agree with this. If the wisdom of the crowds was always a perfect voice, no stock would ever be mispriced. The stock market is just the wisdom of the crowds where you make money by being right.
Because it's basically an ultrabook with a convenient tablet form factor. Honestly that's precisely what I need. I don't want one device for productivity and one for play, which is why I'd never buy an iPad. I'd prefer Linux, but I think Microsoft has done a good job with Win8, it's perfect for a device like this.
Twitter wasn’t mentioned in 50% of Super Bowl ads after all – hashtags were
Ontologies and Metadata in the Semantic Web
That depends on your major. As an engineering major, 14 hours a week already feels like a 50 hour a week job.
I was a Norton Commander fan back in the days of DOS, and so when I moved to Linux, I've always had a soft-spot for Midnight Commander... just, you know, not enough to actually use it for anything.

It's always puzzled me that Norton Commander was so indispensable for DOS, but Midnight Commander is not so useful under Linux. I think the reason is just that the file-management I do these days is very different from what I needed to do under DOS; I don't have to copy files around to or from floppies to transfer them, nor do I have to shuffle files around from one partition to another to maintain enough disk space. I don't even have to navigate between all the different directories where my apps are installed, because in Linux they're all on my $PATH.

Using MC, I really miss bash's tab-completion (Esc-Tab completion isn't the same) although ^S incremental search helps. The NC copy/move/rename dialogs are really designed around the MS-DOS semantics of filename globbing (under DOS, you can say "copy .doc .bak" to make a backup of every document, but "cp .doc .bak" does something very different in Linux), so coping/moving/renaming files in Midnight Commander feels weird.

I dunno, I want to like Midnight Commander, but I just think it's a brilliantly-designed user-interface for solving problems that don't exist, or don't exist in the same form, as they did in MS-DOS.
That's what annoys me the most.

Both Apple and Google have a disincentive to improving WebViews.

If both were JUST as apt as the platform's respective browsers, html5 apps would be SO much better.
Are people that use Newtonian physics to calculate bilard ball movement also wrong? They know theorethically they should use general relativity, but they also know it won't change the result in any meaningful way. So they optimize it away.

Thinking of yourself as probability function interconnected with the whole universe all the time must be pretty inconvenient for you. Why not simplify it to "this factors are ME, and the rest it external Universe, and the interactions can be rounded to work mostly like Newton said. Bonus - your algorithm now knows almost exactly which parts of that function are under his direct control. It's very useful model, why not use it?

We're not sure our current best model is The Truth anyway. And notion of free will is another useful simplification. You already think in its terms (English is impossible to use otherways).
In Adobe's case, they lost no bytes by my gaining them. The candy store lost inventory that they had to replace.

I'm honestly not qualified to give an answer re: statehood. I'm so removed from the politics of Puerto Rico, I don't even know what levers matter there. My hunch is that the issues run deeper, though.
Indeed so. But still how much luck is there between B and C? Some[0] argue there might be quite a lot of it, which we don't notice, overestimating causality. (Not to say it's bad—imagine constantly keeping in mind that our lives largely depend on chance.)

[0] Like author of Fooled by Randomness, an interesting book on the subject.
The explanation:

> (according to) Andrew Fowler (from the comment thread on facebook)

The solution is to replace your OAuth Dialog URL: "https://graph.facebook.com/oauth/authorize?...... with the up-to-date URL: "https://www.facebook.com/dialog/oauth?....... They removed support for some parameters without fixing the redirect from their old endpoint.
This is amazing. Quite an impressive demonstration of Native Client's capabilities.
Users will compare them, so anand should as well.
Because a laptop is not as portable as this thing and a 7" tablet can't compare with this in terms of performance. I for one find it a brilliant device. Of course it has its issues but it's the first version, with time it will get better. I don't think it's competitive to iPads and not only because it's twice expensive. It is a whole new breed of computers which eventually will make laptops obsolete.
This is the first machine ever build that works great as a tablet, ultrabook AND desktop replacement . One machine to rule them all.
I am not sure that I understand your criticism of the review. The Surface Pro is repeatedly compared to the MacBook Air and other ultrabooks - there is even an entire page of the review titled "Surface Pro as a Windows 8 Notebook".

I do not think that it is true that the Surface Pro has "the same capability" as a MacBook Air, out of the box. The two keyboards available for the Surface Pro, the "Touch Cover" and the "Type Cover" each cost more than $100 above the base price of the device. Anyone who does not buy them will be using a device that looks significantly more like an iPad than a MacBook Air.
Its a mistake to compare the Surface pro with a MacBook Air. You can't use the air on your lap like a standard laptop (I've tried with the RT...ouch!).

But really, I'm not sure what to compare this against, or how it fits in between my iPad and MacBook Air. Which one does it replace?
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> I'm constantly intrigued by how people can keep such dual world views. Like Christians who also believe in natural selection.

I'm not a Christian, but I can easily see how someone could be a Christian while not accepting the fundamentalist outlook (i.e. that the world is only 6,000 years old, we're not descended from other species, etc.). Those "other" Christians believe in God, but don't accept the literal interpretation of the Old Testament.

To argue that all Christians are fundamentalists would be like arguing the all Muslims want to fly airplanes into buildings. As a viewpoint, it lacks evidence.

Even Einstein held something resembling a religious outlook -- but his supreme being couldn't be bothered to deal with us lowly insects:

“I believe in Spinoza's God who reveals himself in the orderly harmony of what exists, not in a God who concerns himself with fates and actions of human beings.”

Also, remember that, until the end of the 19th century, there was no plausible way for the sun to have been in existence for more than a few million years (in that pre-relativistic era, the sun's energy was thought to arise only from gravitational contraction), which wasn't enough time to support Darwin's timetable. So at that time, even scientists couldn't explain how complex species arose.

> We're just machines fueled by chemistry.

That's my outlook also, but I can see how religious people might possess different views on the literalness of scripture.
If this thing isn't in the same class as the iPad, doesn't compete with it and can't be compared to it, what on earth does it exist for?
No. I was asking what the standards were for being declared an allied force of al-Qa'ida and whether Wikileaks the organization would be considered one by this administration.
I agree. Can't wait to get my hands on one and use it as a replacement in meetings/demos/presentations just to see if it's better suited for that than my "portable" EliteBook.
I can understand the reason for having no-fly lists, but the total and complete secrecy around them makes a mockery of the democratic and legal process which is supposed to protect people. A person on the list should at least be able to know why, even if there is still no way to be taken off of it.

As an American expat living overseas, the possibility of not being able to return to the country of my birth is rather frightening. It's highly unlikely I would be placed on it, but I imagine most of the people on the list weren't expecting to find themselves on it either!
SQL is an excellent tool for a data warehouse, or any situation where there is value in separating data design from application design. In such situations the infamous o/r impedance mismatch is arguably a good thing.
Meh, it's really more tons of research when into PVs in the 70s and then around 84 oil prices dropped and everyone forgot about them for 20 years.
> But it is, in principle, possible, and the sort of thing you only need write once.

Well Go is open source so "someone" would just have to write, test and submit a CL / patch... ;-)
Utility Matters, Not The Tool
Photograph from the surface of Titan
Why is this superior to having a windows ultrabook (buzzword, i know) + affordable tablet?

Especially now with touch screen laptops, the only utility I see here is the lack of dedicated keyboard, but that's as big an advantage as disadvantage.
The usability leaves something to be desired. I couldn't work out how to post a comment. There should be a button marked "post" or "send" or something.

Also, comments aren't threaded. They should be, because once there arem ore than a few, a flat form makes it hard to easily tell what is a comment to what.

So, while their is definitely room for better forum software, this isn't it. Personally I prefer the way my http://meowc.at/ website does it (obviously I'm biased), even though its a lot less polished.
Entirely intentional. When someone related the concept to me, I realized I was carrying around a knapsack of my own, filled with things unusual for a hispanic person of my background.
Read the fucken Bible and watch Karate Kid.
Others just move to D or Rust.
Ten commandments are wildly inconsistent

http://www.biblicalheritage.org/bible%20studies/10%20command...
As has been written by up_and_up as point #4 (and I think it's the most imporant task of them all), one key indicator of a truly good engineer is to analyze a complex problem into digestable/achievable chunks.

And you want to have enough top/1%/A-engineers to make sure that this work is done properly. That's where in my oppinion the best talent should be put to use.

And from filling in the blanks in good design, hopefully the 50%/B/average engineers will learn from and become good architects themselves!

And, frankly, this is not restricted to engineering, but also what you'd want to have students learn from their advisors or craftspeople from their masters.

Additionaly it also works the other way round: Given a company with only average people working on projects, I'd expect them to grow and improve at a much, much reduced rate , or maybe even have their work deteriorate because there's no one pointing out bad coding practices, or other engineering methods, creeping in.
This is a tempting device, but I'll probably wait for version 2.

I feel like this is a step into the future where everyone carries one cloud connected device that can then be docked when you want to get serious work done. Is there an official dock that makes it simple to connect it to an extra monitor, keyboard, speakers, etc ?
My wife was just asked to send back 10 pounds of baby formula to a friend in mainland China, they really do NOT trust Chinese brands.
If you can write JavaScript but have no working model for how to make an engaging game.
I am aware, but I noted a defensibility for those cases, didn't I? I am, however, skeptical of any claim (not that you are making one, but such a claim in general) that they are a majority, or even significant minority, of the set of people who download and use emulators.
Look further down the discussion chain. confluence has been telling people to "learn physics" and seems to be equating luck with random chance or determinism.
Hydrogen! The auto industry is already looking past electric.

Look at market signals and the faltering focus on electric, despite massive efforts to sell electric cars by the industry. Nissan, who has taken the biggest stab at electric, is already (publicly) licking its wounds from its $5B gamble.

That's just one example from “Electric cars head toward another dead end”:
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/02/04/us-autos-electric-...

Tesla’s making a brave and extremely innovative foray, I will certainly give them that. But with the lack of electric traction amidst $4+ gas (2x since 2008) and the promise of hydrogen...I’d say the odds are against them. Hybrids will probably be the bridge to something else.

Tesla could end up being Betamax.
I think that is implicit in points 2 and 3. If they don't apprecatie you how can you enjoy your work? and pay has always been the most concrete form of appreciation.
The point was simply: it is possible to transfer meaningful amounts of power to an aerial platform to keep it aloft. LaserMotive still works in this space using directed laser light, funded (IIRC) by NASA.

From a practical perspective, wireless power transfer (of pretty much every form) can have major drawbacks... but they're "rearranged" in the system to make 'em palatable. For example, the system as a whole may be incredibly lossy -- but that's predominantly at the ground station where you have ample access to power. Often, you're willing to accept 10% conversion efficiency when 100% of the converted power is useful to the target (think of RFID tags). In other cases, the benefits of near-field (short-range) inductive charging are (1) lack of wires and (2) more robust physical design (check out Sphero). TL;DR: there are circumstances where all these things make sense, but it's very application and system specific.

As for your take on acronyms... UAV => Unmanned Aerial Vehicle. Brown's contraption flew (albeit attached to guide wires for stability) without an occupant. What would you call it?
> I couldn't work out how to post a comment. There should be a button marked "post" or "send" or something.

I just came back to it and a Reply button suddenly appeared. I assume this is a bug.