skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was a long time Opera user. I loved that browser. Everything is at your fingertips. You may spend half your day in your browser, so having everything one click away is great. And if it's not one click away, you can make it so. And if you don't like they way HN looks and behaves, you can change all of that easily (once you know how to). Heck, I even worked at Opera for five years because I loved it so much.

In the end, though, compatibilty issues led me to another browser. I miss much of the functionality, but browser support trumps that.

Opera is to browsers what vim is to text editors. Great if you know how to use it properly, but horrible in some very real and recurring situations.
Someone actually mentioned this in the comments (the first one) and Anand said "The problem is our Windows 8 battery life suite only has one datapoint at this point: Acer's 13-inch S7 ultrabook, which I did include in a table below the graphs on the battery life page. I will try to run the 11-inch MBA this week/weekend in the new suite to get a good reference point though."

So hopefully, the review will be updated.
For me.

I like to use it as a tablet for the brilliant gesture based UI , as a ultrabook when i have to reply to a email and to plug in a monitor + real keyboard (104 keys or bust) when i'm doing development in Visual Studio.
> the pre-loaded software takes up 41 GB of HD space

The formatted drive has a binary capacity of 119 GB. 89 of which are available.

You can free up 7.8 GB by using the built-in tool to transfer the recovery partition to a USB drive.

The remaining space is 10.5GB for Windows, 4GB pagefile, 3.5GB hibernation file and 2.5GB for Office.

On the 64GB model, once you remove the recovery partition you have around 40GB of space available.
>Can anybody here confirm or offer insight about how these companies work?

Twitter: https://twitter.com/anilpottimd

Website: http://web.archive.org/web/20120318184249/http://www.anilpot...

Other website: http://web.archive.org/web/20120309072714/http://www.anilpot...

Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Anil_Potti&dif...

That's how.
[disclaimer]I wrote god[/disclaimer]

As someone in the thread below wrote, Murmur is good if you don't worry about malicious keys (it is not cryptographic, and doesn't claim to be).

I don't worry about malicious keys :)
IcedTea6 1.12 Released
Yup, I am not happy about the name.

It has its root in 'Go database', and began as a working name that I never had time to replace...
While I agree that they're annoying, they solve the problem of local currencies. I don't have an intuitive grasp of how much a dollar is, nor do I want to.
> 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.

That may be, but publishing the no-fly list would betray the intelligence methods used to compile it. In this data-rich era, terrorists could simply look at the no-fly list, examine the information that led to its compilation, and adjust their methods to stay off the list.

I'm not arguing about the fairness of the policy, only pointing out that publishing the list would destroy its effectiveness.

> A person on the list should at least be able to know why ...

Same answer. The policy might prove to be be totally unconstitutional, but I can see the reasoning.

> 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!

The really scary thought is that someone might be put on the list by mistake, and have no recourse. In one case, a completely innocent person was frisked only because he had the same name as a suspicious person:

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/14/nyregion/14watchlist.html
Devising a Strategy for Responsive Design
If you don't mind having a somewhat larger quadrotor, consider getting something like Attop Intruder [0] and replacing its PCB with a Flymaple-A [1].

At $120 and some soldering, this gives you 18 minutes flight time and >50g payload. Flymaple seems to be rather close to Crazyflie hardware-wise.

[0] http://www.walkera-parts.com/shop/m74/ATTOP-TOYS/p14245/ATTO...

[1] http://www.dfrobot.com/index.php?route=product/product&p...
Idiorm and Paris the minimalist ORM and fluent query builder for PHP
If you construct an automated DMC takedown system, even if you know that a certain proportion of those takedowns will be illegitimate you suffer no penalties, regardless of the fact that those illegitimate takedowns could be very onerous and costly for the victims.

Conversely if you set up a gun in the roof of your house and have it randomly shoot into the street, lets see how long you get away with that for.
I would have preferred other algorithms, but there was a strict need for 1) sorted data and 2) that 2 identical trees had the same structure (for the merkle element). Not many structures were left to choose from, and radix seemed to work well enough.
Yes, look at https://github.com/zond/commendable which is a real life project I am basing on god (as an exercise, showcase and test run).
What is a typical day for you? You are a founder so I assume your day is broken up into many different roles. This is very different from a programmer or writer who is focused on doing basically one thing for his whole work day. Do you have any health issues?

> Frequently enough I've put in sustained 12-16 hour days for weeks on end to meet a tough deadline

I think many of us have done this here. What I've noticed from doing this is I start to make lots of mistakes that I wouldn't normally. At a certain point, this turns into a vicious cycle where I think slower and make more mistakes so I need to work more to fix them.

Maybe you're superman and can really work all those extra hours at full concentration...but probably not.

Here's an easy way you can check. Use a timer and throughout the day start the timer when you are going into work that requires full concentration and then stop it when you're done or someone interrupts you or you need to go to the bathroom or you break off from your task. Meetings and emails don't count.

I think you'll be surprised at the results.
Yes, it isn't documented (for some reason, I must have forgot) but https://github.com/zond/god/blob/master/dhash/dhash.go#L109 shows how the empty string as persistence directory will avoid any persistence.
Hard to know. It seems to perform comparably, anyway, at single node level.

I have yet to find a bunch of equally powerful machines to perform a proper scalability benchmark :/
Whining about whining. So meta.
A look at MySQL 5.6 performance
>some people still drink [...] instant

They probably just don't know how to operate the machine.
HN is ultimately just a podium for YC companies to market themselves. I don't think there is much value to it beyond that other than a 'little reddit' kind of value.

As a tech news aggregator it's just OK, a lot of stuff is mainstream fluff that digg in its early years used to be full of - you could probably replace half of HN with http://web20.originalsignal.com/.

As a community of intelligent people ... there are some very smart and very experienced users who create companies that matter or at least matter for a while, but the average user is just here for average tech news.
vladsanchez 3 hours ago | link [dead]

Same boat, Boricua in tech, same traits. Read the article the right way, and liked the anecdotes. Take care.
Trademark should have been Copyright, you're correct.
However, the creator of Megaman is no longer at Capcom, the creator of Final Fantasy is no longer at Square, Sega is no longer Sega, but owned by Sammy.
>Your values/behaviours are given to you via both your genes and your environment - which are effectively random.

This is an information free sentence. Everything that makes me _me_ comes from my genes and my environment. If it were much different, I wouldn't be me. If you are attributing everything I do to an external force even though it goes through the intermediate step of my identity and skills in the process, then you just have a tautological statement. Sure, things happen because things happen. Bravo, but I'm also one of those things.
I think this was tongue-in-cheek; many in the US (including official people) treat the DMCA as if it was an international law. At the very least, this behavior exists on general copyright issues.
I donno.... if there's any industry that knows how to calculate expected values of events, it's the insurance industry. If installing a system reduces your insurance fees, there's probably a reason.
I use www.typecast.com for that. They have fonts from Google, fonts.com, Typekit, Font Deck and Web Type and allow searching and combining fonts across all libraries.
I think the surface is probably a great for what it is, but I think I'll dive for a Lenovo Yoga. I tried a Yoga at the store last week and I was totally smitten by it.
The price, flaky keyboard (everyone keeps writing about missing keystrokes; isn't that incredibly annoying?) and battery life put me off. Battery life puts me off most laptops; it's time for 10 hour laptops, not more ~5 ones (which, after a few months, will drop under 3). And as a tablet that's not really an option. Version 2 or 3 might be something I would buy, however the competition has now been kicked into this new reality (full power in a tablet). Exciting.

So now up to Apple, Samsung, Asus, MS etc to make something with 10+ hours battery life, 2560x1600 resolution, tablet and laptop in one, with the performance of an i5/i7 :) Transformer Infinity is almost there besides the performance of course. For me that's almost never an issue as I value battery life much more, but in an ideal world I can take my entire environment with me even when there is no internet available (I compile in the cloud now).

Edit: Wacom + pen would be a huge plus for my ideal machine. I wouldn't really care about the price for such a thing.

Edit: maybe someone knows; is there some kind of solar panel tech in existence which can be put 'on' the entire laptop/tablet surface without you seeing it or being bothered by it? When I go for long walks I take my solar panel on my back which keeps my Android tablet loaded for hours more than it would normally do. It seems like a good idea to just put that in if it's possible?
How is doing the same thing others have been doing for years disruptive?
We pair with them. Of course, we pair almost all of the time, so we more or less don't need an onboarding process.
Siri Could Soon Grace The Desktop
My concern is that you're mixing two different concepts.

Do you really need data to be ordered? Why do you care about having "close" data on the same node?
> The original author will submit a counternotice and their content will be put back online.

With a statutorily mandated 10 day delay. Such are the DMCA's take-down procedures.
Note: false question which is not really answered in the said post. Too bad, I was expecting some kind of valuation of HN.
I think the opposite is actually true. Competition has forced Google to step up it's game lest Samsung et al replace their ecosystem with Amazon's.
Pretty cool tool, but is it possible to let me download the font-files since I'm presumably testing this for a webpage design?
Probably breaking rc4
Finally, Instagram Launches Full Image Feed For Web Browsers
You know, in the windows ecosystem, 999 isn't even really budget any more. You can buy a gaming ultra portable for that much.
Amazon or steam hardly matters if the international drug/gun trade adopts them. However that might also mean regulatory problems.
Other manufacturers are also making similar devices. For example checkout the Lenovo Helix http://www.lenovo.com/products/us/tablet/thinkpad/thinkpad-h... and here is CES quick look showing the different modes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-yk3KyW_6Ug

The keyboard base has USB 3 and displayport (separate from those on the "tablet" bit). They also have a USB 3 dock that then has video, audio, more USB etc ports.
Spaghetti con polpa di astice, primi piatti raffinati
I'm spending a constant dribble of money on the ridiculously small, crappy and unfriendly Amazon marketplace and not a single cent on Google Play because it does not accept my money. There's about 100 - 200 EUR worth of applications on Play (that are not on Amazon) that I would immediately buy once Play accepts PayPal.
Not just South Korea.

In the US, it's possible to buy "no OS" systems from some vendors (I've picked up small form-factor systems this way), which on delivery turn out to have FreeDOS installed.

Load your preferred Linux distro and roll. Or something like that.
This happens in India as well. I've seen my friends get a DOS laptop, either install Ubuntu (or some distro) or pirated Windows. You get to save upto ₹5000/-
Clearly the next step is eliminating the coffee machine and desperate coffee itself from a centralised location.
The HandlerFunc type in net/http (http://golang.org/pkg/net/http/#HandlerFunc) does this.
Show HN: Add inline image previews to Twitter
Online study aid StudyTube raises EUR500k funding from HenQ
Education is a good bullet, but its part of an arsenal.

Not everyone can make of the tools the same house you have fashioned, which follows from people themselves being massively varied.

I suspect that many tools in your tool case would be used in a variety of manners for people who wanted to get out.

---

Side note - I've heard "education is the silver bullet for our problems" and seen it applied with very disappointing results.

On one hand it has definitely given several people a path to move up in life. But its also been terrible for the rest of the populace.

It ended up creating legions of people who are literate but not 'educated'. A curious situation where people can say they know about rationality without having to be rational.

It produces legions of people who can perform mental athletics like rote memorization, or mental calculus and other tricks, but about poor understanding of the logic of the underlying principles they apply.

The number of people who grow up to be like the two of you is few and far between.
As someone who dislikes GUI file navigators, the two uses I find for MC are as a file archive explorer and for remote file operations. MC will open tarballs of various compression variants, ar archives, etc., and in particular, RPM and DEB files). Want to dig out something without expanding and digging through the archive? Use MC.

Similarly, you can access remote systems (via ssh) as if they were local, though I'll more often use lftp's fish:// protocol. Or lately, sshfs.

Which I suppose more or less makes your point that under Linux these are mostly solved problems.
Judging by the screenshots Microsoft still doesn't get design and why it's important. It's not just about polish, it's about a user experience where the overall design decisions saturate the whole device. Similar design elements must have the same look and feel, and behave in similar ways.

The screenshot of the task manager looks like something from windows NT, the display appearance screenshot looks like win7, and the whole thing is glossed over by a new fancy design that seemingly is only a thin slice of beauty that reveals the ugly interior as soon as you start delving into the system. From a UI standpoint it looks like a complete mess, where the ugly head of legacy rears its head at every corner.

This is the major differentiator between Apple and Microsoft, and is a large factor in the continued success of Apple. Microsoft doesn't seem to understand this at all.
> Hydrogen! The auto industry is already looking past electric.

At the moment the practical problems with hydrogen are worse than those involving electricity storage. There are many problems with the electric vehicle scheme, but on the plus side, there's already an electric infrastructure that can be used to charge the vehicles. There's no hydrogen infrastructure, it would have to be built.

This may all change in the long term, and hydrogen might end up being a much better solution, but the immediate problems are severe.
Yes, I like that one too, but it suffers from the same big problem; battery life. I would buy the Yoga today if it had double the battery life.
Because it's obvious that gamers are Surface's prime target.
Python gets a big data boost from DARPA
"Google Play gift cards are available in the United States in the amounts of $10, $15, $25 and $50". I'd like to see Google gift cards world wide (like Apple). No way I'm providing my credit card data to that Wild West store.
We use Brosix Enterprise Instant Messenger. It is business-oriented and it is quite useful for interoffice communication http://www.brosix.com
I don't like the way that lenovo puts their "Fn" key where the (left) "Ctrl" key should be, other than that it looks nice
Ask HN: How do App Store webviews work?
It seems the one company that has gotten Webkit views perfect on iOS is Apple. Has the secret sauce behind how they make scrollable areas, smooth pages, etc been revealed anywhere?
I think it is too small for productivity. Yes, it is possible to work with small screen. I have experience working with 11, 13, 15 and bigger screens (each at least a year) and have achieved quite good results with each but 11-inch and less is not big enough for productivity. I encountered two problems:

1) some programs wants to use more screen. That's especially relevant for various IDEs and image manipulation programs. If you can work with simple text editor and command line, you are happy then.

2) too small keyboard. The smaller screen the smaller keyboard. Difference is 5-10% in typing speed but it is difference. Maybe for small person it is perfect size.

Meanwhile I'm very happy with 13 inch ultrabook.

Overall it is geek's wet dream to have device that is perfect size and perfect configuration at any moment. "Ubuntu for Android" (http://www.ubuntu.com/devices/android) is the same dream in different form. Currently I am as far from this dream as possible: 3 computers, several tables and several smartphones.
>> line that gets mapped to itself
> So a trivial example might be a
> 360 degree rotation?

That's a very trivial example, and therefore good. Less trivial examples are a sheer, an expansion, or a rotation in 3D space.

A rotation in 2D space apparently only leaves the origin fixed, and that's where we need complex numbers. To find a fixed line in that case we need to find roots of a quadratic with negative discriminant, hence needing sqrts of negative numbers.
In Brazil it's around $20k.
Quick search shows about 5 1/2 hours with video + wifi running. It's not too shabby but I haven't really ran into a use case where this is a major issue for me yet. I generally use my tablet to read books or watch videos and I don't work in a situation where I'd get pulverized for not having a longer battery life where I wouldn't have access to a charger.
I'm sorry to. You lost me.

Every time I see a "your broser is not supported" message I'm getting more angry. As a developer it's your job to make things work!

Yes, I'm using Opera and yes Opera only supports the standard. But common I checked it in other browsers and I can't see what's so special about the site that a "modern" browser is needed.
The occasional worthwhile submission justifies reading HN regularly, but I consider the general signal/noise ratio rather low - some parameters ought to be tuned.
Welcome back, Michael Dell: It’s time to reclaim your name
It seems like a forum trying to focus on everything, with no real way to surface content. The result is that you end up getting lost in a sea of random topics. Also, the abundance of colourful little icons is a bit annoying.
Hell yeah! Same-- haha.
I have a Lenovo Thinkpad Tablet 2. It's a Windows 8 Pro tablet with the Intel "Clover Trail" platform (dualcore 1.8 GHz Atom SOC).

For me, it hits the perfect sweet spot. It's iPad-sized; there are no fans or vents; and I quite like the "Metro" touch apps because I'm already used to Windows Phone. At the same time the Clover Trail platform is fast enough to run Win32 desktop apps and the tablet comes with a pressure-sensitive Wacom pen, so it's a pretty great little machine for sketching and painting. I rather like the refreshed Office 2013 apps too, they're fine for mixed touch and pen input.

The Thinkpad Tablet 2 is also much less expensive than the Surface Pro, so I'm very happy with this choice... On the other hand I realize that my needs are those of a minority. The market for 10-inch Wacom tablets is presumably not that great. But if there is demand for "pro" tablets where precision input and access to the existing Windows x86 ecosystem are requirements, then Clover Trail + Windows 8 could have some legs.
Who cares? Does the ability to buy a tailored suit correlate positively with investment acumen? If a speaker's appearance convinces you to invest your money, you're a sucker.
People here forgetting the fact that Surface is hafling..half tablet, half PC..so the design and UX you see has to meet both both requirements..That way i think Microsoft has done gr8 job..but problem is who needs halflings?
newb here, i gotta ask: is there something like this for python/php/non-C languages? something that completes your elements etc..?
crackers
Site down? Can't access Try nor Buy (btw if it's open source, what does Buy for?).
Liberty Global to buy Virgin Media for $23.3bn
No. On Mac OS X, using `vim` generally causes this error:

error: There was a problem with the editor 'vi'

The full path must be used to get rid of it.
Arstechnica review http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2013/02/microsoft-surface-wit...
The synchronization uses Merkle trees, and they require ordered data since they hash contiguous data into a tree of hashes.

And to avoid having a separate structure for the Merkle trees I just hash all nodes in the main tree, and compare the hashes to find differences.

Thus the same content must have the same structure, or the comparisons won't work.
It's a loan, not shares, either. Does your mortgage lender get to tell you which career path to take?
Why even verify their email address? It's already been done by Facebook?
Interesting correlation between popularity and quality - i.e. the worst APIs are probably the most used.
Valuations for buying and selling sub $200K sites and Internet businesses
Explanation of the X-Chrome-Variations header
Judging by the screenshots ...

Why bother judging by the screenshots? There are plenty of actual Windows 8 devices out there. It's fairly pointless to post guesswork about the UI.
Kinda like apt-get, but for Windows
Isn't that supposed to increase the chances of guessing the password? Unless there's a constraint on the number of attempts to guess the password, which I think there is.
I would argue that one can attain literacy without being educated.

When I say education is the silver bullet, I guess I mean that a full suite of well-rounded knowledge, along with the tools and confidence to derive more knowledge, can cure most social ills.

But your point is well-taken. I think we can lay the blame for, say, young-earth creationism at the feet of a widespread state of literacy without education.

You know enough to read a book, but not enough to know why you shouldn't take its contents at face value.
That isn't quite what I meant by that line. (I was pointing out an ironic upside of decisively losing the CMS war to Wordpress.) "Never use Rails ever and especially not for installed apps" is very, very far from what I think.

Though if I were doing anything installable I'd put a channel for security notices on the admin panel like Wordpress does.
Can any HN folk tell me if this would mean that UK Virgin Media customers are now some how subject to US law? I'm imagining that a situation could occur where "my" packets could end up some how in a US based cache or proxy with out my knowledge or permission, and then become the basis for some prosecution.

Yes, this is a slightly paranoid exaggeration, but given recent stories regarding US prosecutors and the reach of the US, it has to be a concern.