skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Meanwhile Ubuntu's Wubi-based installer is rendered useless since the Windows 8 bootloader won't load it (nor will it load anything except Windows apparently if SecureBoot is enabled).
> Average people were a foot shorter, and were probably at an IQ level around 70-75.

A foot shorter, yes (we know this from all sorts of physical evidence) but how do we know the average IQ?

They also might have spent their mental processing power differently. Medieval people trained their memory much more - I think this also extended to the average peasant, but I can't find a reference right now.
Windows 8 Pro comes with Microsoft's Hyper-V virtualization. http://www.modern.ie/virtualization-tools

So no need to install VMWare anymore.
It's a good idea. Maybe you could do a homepage similar to craigslist so people can select their city once you get enough events. Have you checked out the competition? I found hackathon.io doing something similar.
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Sorry, I don't understand the underlying principles enough to answer that question. How would journalling interfere with the behaviour of a tool like Eraser?

(I do know that SSDs change the nature of the problem dramatically, as their internal storage allocation techniques tend to be opaque to the operating system. One cannot guarantee that an instruction to overwrite block X will be interpreted in the desired manner.)
I think that it is prudent to evaluate the safety of any new material, not just nanotech. I don't think that there is any risk to this material vs. any other new substance that is created.
I'm on a desktop machine. Also using a 22-inch monitor at 1680x1050. I do not maximize my browser window (mybrowserinfo.com tells me my browser dimensions are currently 1112 x 945).

The font size in question looks great to me. I should add I often sit with my head as far as 24 inches away from the monitor.
It was fun watching @pcwalton get it working in such a short time.. from the first signs of life[1] to something we all recognize[2].

[1]: https://twitter.com/pcwalton/status/298134945531035648
[2]: https://twitter.com/pcwalton/status/299401519890042880
Here's the thing... every item on your list is laptop specific. I just don't see how it being on the Surface Pro does you any good? Ultimately - you're paying $900-$1000 - and (from what you've written) you're going to use it exactly like a laptop. At that point... aren't there better laptops for your money?
I'm guessing you're neither gay nor female. Romney said a thousand different things over the years: what matters is what he would have implemented, which would have been the program of his then-owners: the hard-right.

The amount of damage another Alito or Scalia would have done to the rights of women and sexual minorities by itself blows the idea that their difference was just "superficial" out of the water.
since you choose the accounts you follow: yes and no :)
I didn´t notice any @reply-spam by now. Main problem is, that a lot of users are crossposting from Twitter, so you hardly find exclusive content.
So am I. Changing tabs or scrolling had no effect.
I have terrible eye-sight

So do I, but even then I prefer text sizes such as seen on HN, I don't like excessive scrolling and lots line spacing, or serifs for that matter. This new trend of websites with huge, fancy fonts is not for me, and it honestly never occured to me there might be more going on than just trading reading speed for pretentiousness; but I can't see through the eyes of others, so I'll just have to continue to make websites how they look best to me.

It's up to me to make sure it's resizable and not too hung up on being presented a specific way, but it's up to the web surfers to configure their browsers accordingly. To me that's kind of the point of HTML, that I can't know and shouldn't care how you read the site. A lot of websites fail real hard in that regard, but increasing their font-sizes won't fix the problem. You should be able to ultimately define how you consume the information... some people disagree, they'd rather make brochures; blame those, blame that mindet, and leave small fonts alone :(
Yea, it drips on the ground instead of soaking in and making me smell bad. Worth it!
Maybe what you're uncovering here has less to do with the mentality of Obama supports and more to do with the superficiality of terms like "liberal" and "conservative". There are vegan liberals who want to outlaw the consumption of meat. To them, most of us are posers too.
One, Olga Vidisheva.
Hi Muhammad,

If you want to stand out in the overcrowded screensharing space, build this one feature:

Allow me to send a URL to anyone so I can see THEIR screen instantly, without them having to download crap.

You will become an instant 'crorepati' :-)
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The word "reasonable" is not in the 4th Amendment, nor does it contain text granting the power to search without a warrant.

The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.

I do find it interesting that many people consider probable cause sufficient grounds to conduct a warrantless search. Probable cause is one of the requirements to get a warrant, thus such thinking leads to the absurd situation where warrantless searches have a lower bar than warranted searches (which have additional requirements).
I think the concern isn't over particles that are just smaller than our cells; it's over particles that are _significantly_ smaller that our skin cells.

The idea being the particles have to be small enough to diffuse across the cell membrane to be a concern. Something half the size of a cell is going to have a very hard time permeating a cell membrane.

That send, another commenter (far more knowledgable on the topic than I) above points out that these aren't actually nano-scale particles. They are roughly on the same scale as a cell, and thus your point may hold in this context.
Have you checked out chess problems and go problems? They're usually presented in bulk in structured data.
http://www.chessproblems.com/
I haven't look at any in a long time, but it at least should highlight some problems hard for humans, which implies something can be learned there, imho.
IIRC the Arcade came about a year after the original X360. I had one of the originals, chrome disc drive and 10GB HD (maybe that was usable space). ... Okay, looked it up and you're right, except it was the 'Core' model. Arcade was two full years after launch.

Difference: Premium cost only $100 more than the Core ($400 vs $300) but came with basically over $200 worth of upgrades incl. HDD, wireless controller, headset, and memory card. You also needed the HDD to play Xbox Live.
>>I think [the article is] the product of microsoft marketing.

You're probably correct, re this sell out. Consider:

The article noted that "The Surface RT sold out of the $500 32GB model within one day". Analysts have noted (a good deal after the launch) that the RT did not sell much at all -- so if even that one sold out initially, the initial "sell-out" is probably planned...
But why did you install Java on a home desktop computer for non-technical users?

Devlopers would have their own machines or VMs plus install and control the update cycle, often manually, by downloading the JDKs directly (which have no bloatware).

Applets and other front-facing Java services are also almost never used on the web due to the dominance of Flash, Javascript and other technologies.

In short, there are no common non-development desktop applications or task profiles that require Java.
The End of Cod
which laptop at $1000 can rotate its touchscreen by 90 degrees? only one i can think of right now is the msi slider
Disk encryption wouldn't defeat an attacker that had access to your keys (either by compromising a running system or through a cold-boot attack[1]). If the keys are available, the contents of the disk are accessible. Overwriting deleted files would still have value in these cases.

[1] https://jhalderm.com/pub/papers/coldboot-sec08.pdf
Predictable. I really wish Google or IBM had acquired Sun.

We could be seeing a second life for Java rather than this disgusting shuffle of the undead.
2.8 million Americans are still paying for AOL dialup
Miredo? AYIYA? Yuck.

Just use HE.net's tunnelbroker and set up a 6in4 tunnel[1]. FWIW there was no color for me either when I connected via ipv6. Just the same message about different visitors as printed above. Just to be sure ran:

telnet -6 towel.blinkenlights.nl

[1] http://www.shorewall.net/6to4.htm#SixInFour
Half of laptops now ships with Windows 8, there are no reports about high return rates of them.

>As I understand it the full version of Windows 8 is even more complex and less intuitive.

The only difference in UI for regular customer is that Windows 8 can run third-party desktop applications.
“More times than I’ve heard them complain about fonts being too large—wait, I’ve never heard a user complain about that.”

For what it’s worth, several people at my office do complain that they can’t read my display because the text is often too large (~18pt) for their comfort. I don’t have vision problems, but would prefer not to strain my eyes any more than necessary.
A few months back I was sort of afraid to write to PG/YC directly. We were putting in our first submission on HN (our web app) when we found that the domain name we held was somehow in HN's blocked-list.

After some hesitation I wrote a short mail (with etiquette of writing to busy people) on YC's email address and within seconds Kirsty replied to me. It made me feel good when she told us that "if it is blocked, avoid posting it again on HN. Have patience, PG will unblock it in a few minutes."

After sometime I received an email nod from PG too. From that point I just fell in love with Hacker News.
Except it's easily removed with soap and water. I imagine that it's not intended to be a long lasting coating.
I'm a CS major at Yale. Problem sets this difficult are assigned regularly with only a week or two to do them. Right now I have two due at once. It sucks.

The good news is that you can get an A on all the problem sets by just completing them to specifications. It's often unclear whether you will be able to make the deadline, but usually you manage. At least at Yale, I've found the tests to be pretty difficult as they are the differentiator in the courses.
When people are from another country we usually notice this first in the video, which is among the first things we look at. And yes, my heart sinks somewhat when the people in the video have such strong accents that I can't understand them. On the other hand, if they didn't, I would barely notice what country they were from.

IIRC the CEO of the startup from Hungary had lived in the US for a while and didn't have too much of an accent, so that application felt to me almost like one from the US.
> Nathoo tells us that the last of the Sequoia money was used in the Summer 2012 class. Now Y Combinator is completely self funded through the money the incubator has made through its investments in startups (i.e. exits)

This sounds like an amazing accomplishment! Was this seen as a big milestone for YC?
The real solution here is to base all font size calculations off the default font in the user's browser (which the user can change). If everyone did this, you would be able to enjoy a consistent font size across most sites. It will probably never happen though.

I just wish all sites used something like the CSS3 rem (root ems) unit so we could at least make it a bit easier for the user to have a say in the font size the site uses.
You're right. I should have said "the concept of reasonableness" instead of "the word reasonable". Either way: unless you think James Madison was incompetent, the subjective word "unreasonable" appears in the amendment alongside the objective word "warrant" entirely in order to give the courts leeway to make case-by-case decisions about authorizing searches. The word "unreasonable" was no clearer in the 1780s than it is now.

There are times on HN when I am probably on very shaky ground arguing about con law concepts, but this is not one of them. Every modern Supreme court from Lochner through New Deal through Warren through Rehnquist has validated the idea that the 4th Amendment does not include a rigid requirement for every search to be accompanied by a warrant.

(Before reading Ely's _Democracy and Distrust_ this week, which, fantastic book, I'd have said "every Supreme Court ever", but now I'm not so sure since Ely cites a floor speech supporting the 14th Amendment that implies the 4th Amendment was interpreted differently in the mid-1800s.)
Also way too big for me on 1920x1200 23" monitors. I think some of it is preference and comfort level, but I think it's a also less efficient to read oversize text unless one's eyesight is poor.
I'm a bit surprised by your smug attitude.
This event, described at the end of the article, does not sound like a "casual, minimally invasive search" to me:

"At an Amtrak inspection point, Pascal Abidor showed his U.S. passport to a federal agent. He was ordered to move to the cafe car, where they removed his laptop from his luggage and “ordered Mr. Abidor to enter his password,” according to the lawsuit.

Agents asked him about pictures they found on his laptop, which included Hamas and Hezbollah rallies. He explained that he was earning a doctoral degree at a Canadian university on the topic of the modern history of Shiites in Lebanon.

He was handcuffed and then jailed for three hours while the authorities looked through his computer while numerous agents questioned him, according to the suit, which is pending in New York federal court."
If SnapChat Is The Next Big Thing...
It's probably still a lot more likely than stumbling across a crashed alien spacecraft.
As a college student who was working as a lowly bank teller between 2004-2008, I was convinced these mortgages were bad.

People severely under-qualified were coming in, signing up for 80/20 mortgages, $0 down; never mind that the rates were going to skyrocket in a few years! We'll all be rich then, things never go bad, right? And if they do, all these things are insured anyways!
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You didn't get my example -- it was about how to make a matrix from the results of a non-vectorised function that gets one number and returns a vector (say performs a complex simulation).

The problem you've solved has an equally simple implementations in R; f(1:10) for a single copy, matrix(f(1:10),10,n) for n columns, matrix(f(1:10),n,10,byrow=T) for n rows, etc.
Way before I read the last line of the article I was convinced that she had one of the best jobs in the world - she's surrounded by [presumably] really smart and passionate people, solves problems of varying nature and challenge, and has immediate impact. It's weird because I always thought of accounting as an uninspiring and crushingly boring field, but obviously I've been wrong.
I definitely agree that electronic searches are nonminimal and highly invasive.
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This sounds like a DPI issue though? If the DPI is set correctly, the same font in the same font size should look the same size on two different screens, no?
Sort of, except we started out self-funded too. So it's really like going back to the way things used to be.
It's things like this that mean that I won't go back to America. I love Americans, and there's a great deal of the US I'd love to see but it's just not going to happen while stuff like this goes on.
I use a Firefox addon called NoSquint,[1] which lets me set zoom levels globally and per-site. It's one of the most useful Firefox addons I have, and really makes my browsing experience much more pleasant.

I also used to use an addon called Stylish[2] to force a nice CSS style on websites. I've since switched to using a Stylish stylesheet I like directly with Pentadactyl[3], which gives me the same effect of using Stylish but without needing an extra addon (since I'm using Pentadactyl for its other features anyway).

Using the above combination standardizes the look of virtually every website I go to and makes it a pleasant experience for me, where both the font sizes, font colors, and background colors are all quite pleasant and readable.

Unfortunately, this does mean I don't get to see occasionally pleasant original website designs, but it's a sacrifice I'm more than happy to make for a painless websurfing experience.

[1] - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/nosquint/

[2] - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/stylish/

[3] - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-Us/firefox/addon/pentadactyl/
Kirsty rocks, for the record.

What surprised me is the claim "Y Combinator and most investors will only invest in companies that have been in incorporated in Delaware, and many founders don’t know this."

This was quite surprising. PG: is this actually a criteria instead of a just preference? Or did TC get it wrong?
It's used in the US as well (quite a bit in the media for the purpose you defined) so not sure what the OP is getting at really.
Enlightenment and technological superiority don't necessarily go hand in hand. In fact, looking at human history, a lot of technological advancement came directly out of actual or potential warfare. (Remember that the U.S. went to the moon to beat the Russians.)

As Douglas Adams said:

"Man has always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much...the wheel, New York, wars and so on...while all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man...for precisely the same reason."
I strongly disagree. Provided you have a properly configured system (correct DPI settings), anything above 14-16 font size is large and anything below 9-10 is small.

You have to code your site for the norm and not for the outliers.

There are times I like to sit back and surf, about 0.75m away from the monitor. In this case I just adjust my browser's zoom level.
I'm in the same boat.

This is a great post, at 100% zoom it was perfectly readable. HN by contrast gets zoomed habitually to around 150% on my desktop.
1280x800 13" non-retina MBP here, I prefer 12pt when reading, 10pt when writing code.
Except that parentage was a critical concept in the Greek notion of the "best". The necessity of membership was less important, but it was still important.
And once again YOU are so wrong it's not even funny.

The sources you cite refer to a range of sensors that will be added to cars starting from 2014, like collision detection technologies. And the Volvo cars you always talk about are supposed to be in a train formation following a human-driven vehicle.

A different kind of project from the self-driving cars from Google. Actual self-driving cars by other companies are always research projects with unclear timescales.

Your need to despise something just because it's made by Google make you look pathetic. Just stop.
Thanks Ryan, such a simple concept, but easily over-looked! Will install it :)
Install Raspbian and configure Wi-fi without a monitor or keyboard
The sources you cite refer to a range of sensors that will be added to cars starting from 2014, like collision detection technologies. And the Volvo cars you always talk about are supposed to be in a train formation following a human-driven vehicle.

A different kind of project from the self-driving cars from Google. Actual self-driving cars by other companies are always research projects with unclear timescales.
Or Facebook, mentioned CONSTANTLY on TechCrunch, which is currently at a market cap of $68 billion on the public exchange.

Or many startups that get mentioned once on TechCrunch and never again and then fail.

I agree that the scatterplot would be interesting, but I think you are supposing that the answer will come out the way you expect.
Agreed. The 'liberal/conservative' dichotomy is incredibly unhelpful. Honestly, I don't even find left/right to be that great, as I personally consider liberals to be right of center.

When I say 'liberal,' I personally generally mean 'neoliberal,' which has a pretty large overlap with the Democratic party and the popular conception of 'liberal.'
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Allow me to give you an illustration of how things work within YC:

How would I know? Ask Kirsty.
The top level comment mentioned extreme sacrifice as a way to move to the 95th percentile. I argue that investment bankers also make extreme sacrifice to stay where they are, in the form of 80 hour weeks, horrible family life, etc.

Anger and jealousy toward the "1%" is a dangerous road for a country to go down. Besides, without investment banks and private equity firms, an essential part of the economy -- namely, buying and selling companies -- would be missing and we would be worse off.

The place where you should direct your ire is toward corrupt government policymakers who allow corporate interests to override the basis of our civil society, which is equal protection under the law. Corporations do not want free markets; they want government-sponsored monopolies. We the people should hold our government responsible for succumbing to corporate special interests instead of blaming the companies once they are granted such privilege.
Asus Transformer.
How do you get it to work fine on your lap? I've tried it with the kickstand and it's very unsteady. Did you buy an accessory?
I don't think Wubi's ever worked with UEFI systems.
My most vivid experience of traveling in Europe in 2000 was of having my bags searched on a train midway between Zurich to Prague. Not as a condition of getting on the train, but 30 minutes out from the last station we'd stopped at. Not on any individualized suspicion, but as one of several passengers to receive the same treatment. Not in order to protect the safety of passengers, but (evidently) as part of a drug interdiction program.

Beware the grass-is-greener trap. You may be right: it may be that there are fewer circumstances in which your electronics will be searched in Europe than in the US. But by and large European law operates under a regime that values communitarian values more highly than individual ones. You can certainly be searched without a warrant all throughout Europe.
You haven't heard of the tracert? She made the kessel route in less than 30 hops
600px? Are you using a 1024x768 monitor from 2000?
There are definitely a lot of negative reactions to the queue.

However, it's more the new user experience once you actually have access that's building love. Naturally, waiting doesn't build love. Maybe some excitement, but also some animosity as we saw in this case. But if you can drive the excitement as they did for some people, but most importantly capitalize on the hype when people are actually using the app for the first time...that's when you build love IMO.
My point was that it didn't occur to me that people might be meaner in big online discussions because of the group monkey dance.
Isn't this similar to the car salesman interviewing me about how I will drive, who I will give a ride to etc. and then refusing to sell me the car? Doesn't sound like a great strategy for the seller. How about just sell the car?
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