skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is it only me or are the half-size arrow keys a really big problem? I use the arrows to get around a lot, in basically everything but vi, making them half the size has always annoyed me (at least on whatever Chromebook I've used).

Dell's Vostro V131 has my favorite keyboard I've ever used on a laptop, it's been perfect for me since whenever I got it.
http://images.anandtech.com/galleries/1486/dell-vostro-v131-...
Intermediate: http://archive.is/96qTG
There would still be the social cost, though, of the much more highly-addictive drugs (compared to alcohol).
could you highlight the search term? There are plenty of jQuery plugins to do it. Here's one: http://johannburkard.de/blog/programming/javascript/highligh...
Wow, I am really close on getting this one. I have been looking for a new laptop to run Mint on for a while. The display is a huge plus on this, but the lackluster i7-3537U, the second slowest of the i7's, makes it hard to justify the price.

The price is the biggest sticking point for me, it's basically the same cost as a 13" MBP Retina. It is very clear that Dell is purposefully positioning it in that exact market. For me, one advantage of using Linux is usually I get to spend less on my computers. This laptop seems overpriced to me, I think I will wait for something better.
They don't. The images do. She is merely utilizing the images to also be affiliate links.
>If the cream of their crop flock here, then where does that leave their education system? If Indians fill out the university places left by Brits who can no longer afford it, where does that potentially leave race relations in the UK?

This is a solved problem. You see, England was never as aspirational as Silicon Valley for Indians in general - and that immigration has been going on for many decades.

Reverse brain drain (going abroad, studying and coming back) is something that both India amd China have engineered very successfully. We have awards for distinguished Non Resident Indians given by the Prime Minister which, I daresay, is designed for nostalgia. IMHO no other country makes such a big deal of its non resident citizens.

This is precisely one of the reasons that Obama is trying to introduce the startup bill - Indian and Chinese immigrants are very happy going back and starting companies at home.

I think Cameron is responding to the US and Australian attraction for Indian students. England is least preferred anyway because of the racism (a couple of Australian incidents font make it as bad as England).
Some of those cool kids should take a look at libev: http://software.schmorp.de/pkg/libev.html
This is very very similar to how it works for tertiary education in Australia too.
Now there is also the Cinavia analogue audio watermarking system for protecting content, which seems to be quite robust.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinavia

Slysoft intends to release a product that negates it, but I am unaware of any success so far. There have been work-arounds for the PS3 though.

The doom9 forum thread can be a good place to read about it.

http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=155777
I found the tipping point part interesting. Where up to a particular point, incarceration is good for a community, but past that point, it hurts the community. It made me wonder if it were possible to identify where that tipping point is, perhaps as a function of incarcerated criminals per capita for a geographic region or something. And then relaxing sentences according to that function.
Not having to push a modifier (fn) is the big winner for me, plus having slightly bigger buttons for things like the arrows.
One week inside for a first timer is, I am told, the optimum
time. That first week is so disorientating and upsetting that "I won't go back" is the strongest motivator. After a month people settle to the routine and six months are adapted.

YMMV but deterrence and prison have long been as effective e alone in crime reduction. The US is ahead of the field in long term incarceration but you are just leading a pack all travelling in the same direction
1080p still isn't all that impressive though. It's a decent density for a display of that size but right now it seems only Apple is pushing laptops beyond the HDTV standard.

Desktop monitors over 1080p are really overpriced as well. I don't understand why a TV standard should set the norm for computers but if that's what it takes I'm hopping that 4K TV gets some traction.
It would be far better if you had some more technical information available as to what your platform is built on and what it offers.
Android Hacker? Come take on the Telecom Giants
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My guess is that the Senator got tired of people posting critical comments of him anonymously.
That's a striking point right there. Perhaps it would be nice if in order to request a takedown you had to provide your own personal credentials. That would bring some fairness to the game.
We are running 1.5 latest dev compiled with ssl here @basho. So far so good.

https://argv0.data.riakcs.net:8443/bailis_gosling.jpg
If I was you, I would reach out to a boutique recruiting firm and strike an arrangement. For example, 50%-50% commission only (I'm not sure if that's fair or not). But, a niche firm would have the contract part down and all you would need to do is find and place the employees. And since the market for good people is hot, your network and ability to evaluate talent, is probably of high value.

Good luck.
Their battery life has usually been pretty low, has that changed?
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Versioning their home directories to git, and doing it in-place instead of linking specific files from a ~/.dotfiles or similar.

(See https://github.com/technicalpickles/homesick for an example of how to do it right.)
Java applets, Native Client, and ActiveX all (imperfectly) address this problem.

We have long had trouble agreeing on a standard for web-based native code. But that doesn't mean that it's a senseless request. The exalted status of Javascript is merely a convenient local optimum.
Even older, perfect for devaluing JS! The similarity is truly shocking.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:CUcollaboration.gif

http://www.teknoblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/gmail-go...
Buying tip: instead of buying the "Developer Edition" for $1550, you can get the "Windows version" with a slightly slower processor for $1400: see the 3rd configuration from the left here: http://www.dell.com/us/p/xps-13-l321x-mlk/pd?~ck=mn

The only diff between the 2 processors is that the i7-3537U runs at 2GHz and has 4MB cache, whereas the i5-3337U runs at 1.8GHz and has 3MB cache.

If Dell offered the "Developer Edition" with the i5-3337U, they would be able to shave off another $50 from the Windows licensing fees and sell it at $1350.
Some additional reading material: https://plus.google.com/106808239073321070854/posts/jUGVSEg5... comments include my criticism, link to Cochran's criticism, and link to Mitchell's criticism.
Ah, I see now. It's not related to "live programming," but rather the live performance as you said. It's the first time I hear of it in that context, but I understand now. Thanks!
I am evaluating AngularJS with SEO in perspective. SEO is pain thingy with Angular and it needs special focused code or heavy lifting. I am not sure Durandal solves that issue.
Senthil,
http://mocdoc.in
My answer is.. implicitness through common sense.

"Human Experimentation" commonly evocate something wrong, and guess why?

That's exactly because of what you can read in that article..

Or more generally because of the kind of world we live in, which, I am sad to remind you, it's not perfect.

So I guess there is nothing wrong in titling something for what's commonly expected to refer to.

Nonetheless I've edited the title :)
OS Integration -- copy-and-paste works better, scroll works predictably (there are quirks in OSX terminal using mouse mode in vim and in emacs), sensical full-screen mode

Advanced features -- Certain things can't be done with the terminal. For example, Aquamacs lets you see inline latex previews: http://aquamacs.org/latex.shtml
All this change in nginx does is allow WebSocket connections to be proxied, so your questions don't really make sense. WebSocket's work like TCP sockets, and your backend server still needs to manage the socket directly. For example, Unicorn is not a WebSocket server, though there are WebSocket-capable servers derived from Unicorn (e.g. http://rainbows.rubyforge.org/).

If your backend dies or drops the connection, the WebSocket closes, and the client will have to reconnect. If it was just dropped, you can use nginx's ip_hash proxy option to send the reconnect to the same backend server, but it would be a new WebSocket, and the client/server will have to recreate the session state.
I look forward to the day when I can watch in-game footage of games, maybe replays from RTS games for example, in a game-engine in the browser.
> they would still have significant issues even if they switched to cedar and unicorn with 2-4 worker processes.

Yeah, but how about config.threadsafe! with puma or thin in multi-thread mode?

It is odd to me that very little of this conversation on the nets recognizes that Rails _does_ support multi-threaded concurrent request handler, with the right app server stack (figuring out the right app server stack can be non-trivial, although it's getting better).
Companies which purvey deadly substances like tobacco or hard liquor are listed on stock exchanges and contribute to federal political campaigns. He, with a junky educational system and disappearing blue collar jobs sells marijuana or cocaine and becomes an evil "drug dealer". It's also rather interesting how cocaine and heroin got into the hands of domestic drug distributors like Ricky Ross - something covered by the press from time to time, but not dwelled on.

Was there a poverty trap in feudal Europe, or these American lands before the Americans? There's a poverty trap because the economic system needs a poverty trap to function. It is not due to neglect, but due to a massive amount of attention that poverty exists in the U.S. - it takes a lot of work and effort to keep people poor, in a country where GDP and productivity have been rising for a long time.

What would the reason for U.S. poverty? Well it could be the legacy of the New Deal and progressivism, although that would not explain massive poverty in slums and rural areas at the end of the 19th century in the U.S. It could be due to a liberal idea of a lack of caring - although the New Deal, the Great Society and so forth brought a lot of focus on these things.

Or poverty can exist because it is a necessity, a cornerstone of the economic system. The reserve army of labor ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reserve_army_of_labour ) and all of that.
The sample size of this experiment is also not very large. If you look at the axis on the graphs, we're not talking in numbers that would let you to create solid generalizations.
Oh, they were paid. About 20-30% less than they could have made elsewhere. Money matters less when you love what you do, and you know the company is struggling.

And when the company yields record profits, they are kicked out.

A little human decency would be nice.
No, of course not, I was just referring the the reluctance of the book to get modernized. I can't possibly imagine not using an abstract event loop.
In other news, it's being reported[1] that State Farm Insurance, headquartered in Bloomington, IL and employing lots of people in southern Illinois, has acquired several million feet of office space in Dallas.

I would say the Illinois legislature needs to fix their credit rating (lowest in the nation) before they try to outlaw internet nastygrams. They are equally as stupid and more evil than their neighbors in Indiana were in 1897, when they decided the value of PI was 3.2[2].

How is it dummies manage to land in legislatures, especially state legislatures, so often?

[1]http://activerain.com/blogsview/3622523/dallas-s-largest-off...
[2]http://www.agecon.purdue.edu/crd/localgov/second%20level%20p...
I've lost track of the number proposed Internet laws that were obviously written by legislators lacking even a working understanding of what the Internet is or how it works.
Reason #X:

Once in prison, good luck getting a job, even if you manage to overcome what happened inside. Looks like the entire society is designed to look for the tiniest infraction and punish you for it--for life.
You might like using the emacs server.

(require 'server)
(server-start)

Then some shell aliases for instantaneous emacs from the shell:

alias e="emacsclient --no-wait"

Now

$ e myfile.c

in the shell will open the file instantaneously in the running emacs and the OS will switch window focus to emacs.

I use this a lot; magit-status on the current repo:

$ cat ~/bin/egit
emacsclient --no-wait \
--eval "(magit-status \"$PWD\")" \
--eval "(progn (select-frame-set-input-focus (selected-frame)) (delete-other-windows))"
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Chinese Army Unit Is Seen as Tied to Hacking Against U.S.
Resolution for MB Air is lower. Not many will be installing Linux on a Mac, so that point isn't really important for the general consumer.
Interesting video and article here from the point of view of Australian customs

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-12-05/dark-internet-linked-t...
The good thing to come out of this is that the next time someone is given a test drive for a review that they'll be very aware that everything is being electronically monitored. At least that should help keep people honest.
Double time-reversal asymmetry could explain weird material behavior
Running x86 apps on WinRT devices
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> The shift to tougher penal policies three decades ago was originally credited with helping people in poor neighborhoods by reducing crime. But now that America’s incarceration rate has risen to be the world’s highest

But the crime rate has been steadily decreasing since then. Oh, except for the bump related to the "crack epidemic." Which is exactly what the guy was dealing.

> they don’t see what good was accomplished by keeping him there for two decades

Keeping him away from law-abiding citizens for two decades was accomplished.

Don't get me wrong. It is a sad story. And I sympathize with someone who didn't see a better way for himself than crack dealing but what about all those other people, the society at large, who don't want to be afraid to walk after dark, don't want their property vandalized...?
How phone hacking can be done to samsung application
WebSockets are persistent connections, not a state-management trick spanning multiple connections/requests. The only time nginx is involved in "routing" the socket is on the initial connection. Once established, nginx is simply relaying data over an active, persistent TCP/unix sockets.

For the initial connection, you can use any of nginx's normal proxy load balancing options (ip_hash, least_conn, etc).
I have one of the current Dell Ubuntu laptops, the XPS 13. I really like it! Except.

Except the thing literally freezes - completely locks up - several times a day. I've upgraded the BIOS and I've updated the kernel from the Sputnik repositories. No luck. (Has anyone else had this experience? Or suggestions?)

It is very frustrating, for what is otherwise a pretty decent, durable, nice to use laptop where the hardware Just Works. But my current experience leaves me very wary of wanting to purchase another one of these!
I prefer the x230's keyboard [1], which extends the arrows downward into the unused palm rest area. I've used a similar keyboard as the vostro, and I found myself frequently fatfingering home instead of pageup and end instead of pagedown.

[1] http://cdn.gottabemobile.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/thin...
I'm curious as to why its hard to concentrate, is it a party school or does it have its own beach like UCSB or what?
That was an awesome read. Always fun to read about drugs, but this seems like it was written quite a while ago... wonder if anything has changed since.
I can't find anything that suggests that they are using anything other that WebKit as the rendering engine. ExtremeTech has an article that mentions Chromium:

By switching to WebKit/Chromium, Opera will not only become faster and more functional, but it will also allow its Norwegian developers to focus on the browser’s overall user experience.[1]

Notice that they seem to equate WebKit with Chromium, which isn't the case.

In my opinion (no based in knowledge of any kind) is that they are just ripping out Presto and replacing it with WebKit. I suspect that the next version of Opera will visually look similar to Opera now and will support most if not all the same functions (customizable menus, ad blocking, Mail client, etc).

[1] http://www.extremetech.com/computing/148312-opera-drops-pres...
Slightly OT:

"Computer expert" Chris McDonald is actually Professor Chris McDonald. He holds appointments at the University of Western Australia and at Dartmouth. I was lucky to have him as a lecturer for several course and as my honours supervisor.

http://www.csse.uwa.edu.au/~chris/

He's nominated for teaching awards with comical regularity. If you ever get a chance to take one of his courses at UWA or Dartmouth, take it.
I think the most telling evidence of Bill Gates satisfaction level is on the following page:

http://biz.yahoo.com/t/38/567.html

Bill, IIRC, sells to give it to his foundation and his foundation sells to donate. Eric Schmidt is also selling about 50% of his holdings, but after a while it's accepted as estate planning or whatever, not as lacking confidence in the stock.
Hmm... I think that a per capita view of the tipping point misses too many key conditions underlying a true tipping point.

My instinct is that the tipping point would differ wildly based on the community characteristics i.e. availability of jobs, quality of schools, racial tensions, prevalence of drug or alcohol availability and/or abuse

I think the tipping point is more a factor of figuring out at what point the incentives for behavior that puts you at risk for incarceration enough to counter the risk of the incarceration given your current state/status/level of resources.

Additionally, I think in many circumstances the threat of imprisonment is dulled both because as serving prison time gets more prevalent in a community it becomes more normal/acceptable as a risk (prison inflation if you will) and because as serving prison time reduces alternative options for earning a decent livelihood for the re-entry community it may ends up paradoxically more worth it to risk future prison time.
Perhaps I spoke too broadly, but I signed up (according to my Facebook account) September 6, 2004 and only did so after being nagged by friends and acquaintances. So, for me when I look back, it felt unavoidable.

Note: I went to a university in the US but not an Ivy
I believe that Tim O'Reilly is a shining example of a "maker" as described in Jason's blog entry. I won't claim that I myself am a maker rather than a taker, but this quote by Tim never ceases to inspire me: “Pursue something so important that even if you fail, the world is better off with you having tried.”
Here's what seems clear from the whole thing:

1. Musk jumped to conclusions. For example, he claimed the car was driven in circles with the intent of running it out of battery. I think the innocent, "I was looking for the charger" explanation made sense. He concocted his own narrow explanations without verifying the facts or asking questions.

2. Broder failed to understand the car and the advice given to him. We can only speculate on the quality of that advice. What Tesla didn't log were the conversations. Broder also trusted the "one hour charge" despite failing to confirm he was good to go, or listen to common sense.

Broder published the article with emotion and without further consulting with Tesla on the cause of his bad experience. Musk immediately claimed the article was done in bad faith rather than checking the facts and opening a dialog like an adult.

The resulting situation is almost poetic. Both Mr. Musk and Mr. Broder's mistakes provide their own unique insights on the importance of understand human communication. I know the crowd I'm talking to puts a lot of stock in the vehicle logs, but we're missing the communication logs we'd need to know what really happened or who said what to whom.

Maybe next time Tesla should log the conversations, too.
This was about self-sufficiency in a one's own language. The mother tongue. Like the British are in English and the Germans are in German and Chinese are in Mandarin(or Chinese).

Of course it's good to learn other languages and I, myself, am learning Spanish(though everybody recommend German but it was too stiff for me).

>>These are not things to be proud of.

I stand my statement(again, in the context of self-sufficiency) and that is everything to be proud of.

Will talk about my home country. Indians learn and emphasize on English just because they will get jobs, not because they have love for this language. In cities(here in Bangalore too) kids are learning English first. Hell, some even learn French(or so) after English and then they, maybe, shall learn their mother tongue. I have not seen any single parent of a toddler talk to him/her in the malls in their mother tongue. They always use English which is something to be very much ashamed of. Fortunately I didn't see this in Korea. A big thumbs up to them :-)
This is the best way to work through debugging/troubleshooting as far as I can tell, amazingly a skill many people lack, and others that just understand it intuitively without it ever thinking about it. That is one of the big divisions between hackers and everyone else in my mind.
The name 2600hz is a wonderful tribute to the illegal phone network hacking of the 1960's, e.g. Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and their blue boxes.
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I meant more on the programmers side than the implementors side. [0] But that's probably a moot point anyway, as I understand it most C code is probably crap plagiarized from amateur tutorials.

[0]: Nobody would here be an obvious exaggeration, as evidenced by the above blog post.
I referred to the main reason behind spread of English. Yes, Korea was never colonized by the English and they don't speak Japanese either.