skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is fantastic! A Javascript library that can transport you back to 1996 Geocities! Seriously, it is nice to start seeing sound tools for Javascript. Javascript, CSS, and HTML5 were to be the great Flash Slayers, but the things that Flash are "good" at, Video and Sound, seem the be last on the list of items to be implemented.
I would agree with you, it could have been that.

It's just that for me as an European seemingly all crazy stories like "X tazed by cop for doing nothing at all" or "Y put into jail for having her small children play naked in the garden" come from the US.
Nice work. I'm owed money :-)
It is only nitpicking until it causes problems (e.g. driver XYZ tells you to "restart" your PC, so you "shutdown" for the night expecting it to do the job - but it won't).

I have no issue with Fast Startup in Windows 8, but frankly feel like the way Microsoft is abusing terminology is borderline lying to people.

They're trying to mislead people into thinking that Windows 8 has a better boot performance than Windows 7, when in fact Windows 8 and Windows 7 have very similar boot performance (from real cold-boot).
Launching such missions does not mean that other areas are being ignored. Stop comparing two completely different things.

I am still skeptical about a successful Mars mission, but it will be good if we all be more positive about it.
On the surface, this sounds like schizoid personality type:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schizoid_personality_disorder

http://schizoids.info/

I know it's not about labels, but sometimes knowing a word for it can help you find others' stories, which can help you go easier on yourself for being different from what you perceive is "normal".

Edit to add: Get your B12 levels checked. Low B12 can lead to schizoid-type behaviour. Also possibly folate levels.
> It is a word. Context matters. Context in this case would suggest there was nothing to worry about.

Wait. A plane is an appropriate context for the word "terrorist" ?

Interesting.
Haidinger's Brush: How to see polarization with the naked eye
The Big Data Open Source Tools landscape is growing rapidly.
I see. Freedom of Speech - not so much. I anyway had my encounters with immigration in Singapore once. They asked me "Are you leaving the country through this airport as well?" and I replied "Well, we thought about visiting Malaysia as well" whereafter she raised her hand and the police brought me into this weird room where I could not use phones/computers etc. What a treatment for a European citizen. I had plenty of money and proper travel plans. They also released me after 30 minutes, but I felt really bad after his experience, basically treated like a criminal. Now I learned just to stfu while talking to officials at airports.
Impact of Vaccines in the 20th and 21st centuries
Isn't the "use same drives" advice a little dangerous? If you have bad luck with firmware or specific batch of drives - you could be put in a world of pain fast.
There is nothing childish about it. It's dead serious, and failure to do so costs lives. And regarding that second part: Don't use words too big for the subject. Don't say infinitely when you mean very; otherwise you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite. -― C.S. Lewis
Google sponsor a huge start-up campus in London that hosts heaps of start-ups, start-up events, the seedcamp accelerator program and a number of other awesome initiatives.

Spend time hot desking there, you will get a better idea of who you want to work with once you see them in action. Easy

http://www.campuslondon.com/
Well, yes, that's also true -- many people don't want to cause unintended hurt by way of poorly considered words. But (in the U.S. at least, and certainly Great Britain) a diplomatic expression that includes an unfair characterization can result in legal action.

"Bob isn't so bad -- after all, it's said that he's stopped beating his wife."
Except that it's not obviously for security concerns. hey might want to make it difficult for passengers to record broken equipment that makes them look bad. They might just be unhappy about the out-of-fashion decor. Or they might want to make it harder for competitors to build a complete record of their fittings. It might be as simple as not being able to tolerate a flash going off and making a blanket ban that covers all cameras is the simplest way to do that.

There is any number of reasons why they might want to ban photos of plane equipment that just boil down to airline self-interest without playing the "security" card. Not that this invalidates them, but it does put the flight attendant's request in a less all-trumping context.
Not a Chinese knockoff, but Vuzix are trying to get a similar product to market: http://www.vuzix.com/consumer/products_m100.html
Creating a Business Plan
The part where group deals fall down is the big margin that the sites are taking, this is the difference between a deal being a break even or loss leader and putting the business offering the deal in a big financial hole.

These margins are required to pay for a large sales team to convince businesses that they need to run these deals.

I think a more sustainable model is one closer to traditional affiliates marketing or self serve advertising. Where the deals site provides a platform that is largely self service and takes say a 5% cut rather than 50%.

This does loose one of the original ideals of group deals, that there was only 1 for an area (or at least a small amount each day) so each business running a deal was able to get a ton of exposure.
Don't worry about the investor's money, that is why it's called venture capital for a reason. Investing money it's a risk itself.
Many metro apps are fairly broken anyway.

I've been trying to use the "mail" app with Outlook.com e-mail (Hotmail's replacement) and it refuses to show me notifications for 90% of my e-mail because it arrives in a sub-folder rather than "inbox."

The "Calendar" app is also spamming me with notifications about people's birthdays, even after I acknowledge the notification it appears again hours later. Plus it appears in front of full screen video and just stays there even when ignored... Great design there.
Yes, I asked about terminal (this whole subthread was about mouse use in terminal). Thanks.
This isn't about vistors but more about the feedback those vistors give.
And don't use acronyms when talking about a Bill of Materials.
(I asked it on behalf of another HN user who wasn't able to access the poll interface)
Yea, it's almost like in the movie: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JG23s2ryaWg#t=169s
>The instant he said that to the FA, he was off. It's like using the "B" word with the TSA

They should be transparent about which words are forbidden and put that in their policy like they put the restrictions on photography.
Teachers are so keen to embrace new technology that helps students but are often held back by slow institutions.

Really great to see word press like many others offering small easy solutions that make a difference.
I agree but perhaps stupid is not the right word. The airline staff, especially low level, are not trusted or trained to think or apply their own reason. They're trained to be on constant high-alert and report anything that smells even remotely fishy.

It's not right that you have to hold your tongue in airport security or on a plane. But whether right or wrong in the moral sense, it's prudent to avoid alarming the staff if you intend to make your flight.
Have you even read the blog post? He took one picture and stopped after the FA complained. And the picture he made was in accordance to the regulations.
tl;dr
woirkspaces = less distraction,
less fiddling with windows,
less using the mouse
could probably do the same with (insert window manager) but the constraints of a tiling wm help
What's up with Norway there...?!
The terrorists have won a great victory if acting slightly odd is enough to terrify an airline company into kicking a passenger off a plane.

This isn't about terrorism. It's about a flight attendant taking exception to a passenger, and owing to what he later said and how he behaved, believing that he could develop into a problem on a long-haul flight.

Was it a good call? Probably not, given the author's flight history. It is, however, an understandable one, especially given how little it takes for one person to cause havoc on a flight, especially when it's long-haul.
What's wrong with a high school dropout? You feel superior? Maybe you should change your attitude towards your fellow man so they don't hate you. Maybe a dropout was a drop because people like you looking down on others.
If only it were that simple.

When I press the power button it does seemingly random things. Will it sleep? Will it shutdown? Will it hibernate? Will it do nothing?

Seems to vary on every PC I sit down at...
You can't take pictures on an aeroplane?

The terrorists have won.
I found this place in the referrer stats for one of my blog entries (45 days after this place was launched, it seems). The discussion on my articles here here was so much more constructive than it had been for the same articles over on Reddit that I started checking back more and more often, eventually just giving up on Reddit entirely.

Funny thing that I didn't notice at the time: The article in question was submitted by "pg". Wow!

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14389
A social network for bloggers
If she assumes him possibly indicating intent to not stop to be actually taking pictures, then maybe you're right, she didn't lie... because as Chomsky pointed out in a talk I saw recently, the accusation of lying implies the capacity to tell the truth, which requires a level of mental processing out of the reach of the FA... so as you can see, at least for me saying she lied is the kindest one of all available options.
Yes. Words won't hurt you. When they can use words to bring down an aircraft then I care, but until that occurs then, they're just words.

Context matters. A sentence matters more than a word. A group of sentences matters more than just one. A conversation matters more than just a few sentences.

Quit acting irrationally. Think things through.
> It's a deal on the meal, not a deal on the tip.

The tip is obviously dependent on the price of the meal: most people will tip more for a more expensive meal, usually following a ratio. (20% or what have you.) People ordering the more expensive meal on the menu by and large tip more than those ordering the least expensive meal. Why should this change for the groupon meal?
And the terms and conditions of said contract would state that the captain has the absolute right to remove anyone from the flight.

Edit: Reference. RULE 21 REFUSAL TO TRANSPORT in United's Contract of Carriage [1] outlines UA's right to "remove from the aircraft at any point, any Passenger
for the following reasons". The reasons are, as you would expect, broad and vague, essentially giving UA cover to remove anyone from the flight.

The one I expect they would cite in this instance is:

H4: "Passengers who, through and as a result of their conduct, cause a disturbance such that the captain or member of the cockpit crew must leave the cockpit in order to attend to the disturbance;"

Other fun conditions that UA have felt the need to enumerate:

21:H5 Passengers who are barefoot or not properly clothed;

21:H16 Passengers who have or cause a malodorous condition

[1]http://www.united.com/web/format/pdf/Contract_of_Carriage.pd...
It's strange then that memory leaks seem to be much more prevalent in Ruby than it is in the Perl world?
You are quoting the extreme, a table with iMacs and the new very low power Dells. Measure yourself something that's not a Mac or a latest low power desktop. And make sure you're really measuring the sleep mode, not the hibernation.

I also once believed what you believe, but then I took the meter and measured the devices around me. It fits the table I quote -- my set-top box also draws 30 Watts when "off."
If there's no where to hang it aside from a designated area that as a passenger you don't have access too, you let the crew member do it and remember to be polite. Same as in a restaurant, you don't take your own plates back into the kitchen and clean them off, because the waiting team does that and probably wouldn't like you muscling in.
This has nothing to do with 9/11.

It has done with a passenger exhibiting odd behaviour leading to the flight attendant believing that he might cause a disturbance during the flight. People causing problems on planes are a nightmare for airline carriers as it can result in early landings, increased risk of life threatening incidents and subsequent scheduling problems.

When it comes to planes better to be safe than sorry.
Person A has something you want. You do something. Person A gives you the thing you want. You win, because now you have the thing you want instead of Person A.
It's more likely that you would not be allowed on the plane with anything that appears to be recording.
Sure you can change anything, but the original question was about windows 8 as it ships.

So what does the button do?
That genuinely doesn't surprise me at all. I've used both extensively and Azure definitely has the edge with respect to performance (and management which is pretty neat).

Also I've had severe reliability problems with S3 over the last couple of years.

Azure support is actually better as well. I've found it very easy to get through to a human unlike when we had a major EC2 problem.

However, I'd pick neither of them if I had to choose and would go with a smaller, old fashioned dedicated hosting company as you are rarely lost in the noise then if something goes bang. Prime example being Azure's reporting services which was dead for nearly an entire week.
The Captain is always right, that's why. There are no customers on an airplane: only weight. They're not customers again until they're walking up the gangway ..
I think the best you could do under the circumstances would be to apologise for taking pictures and explain that the FA was mistaken. If they want to kick you off at that point you have to put up with it.

But DoubleCluster is right. Accusing the FA of lying just displays a huge lack of social awareness. It's also not factual - the OP doesn't really know whether the FA made a mistake or not.

If you flat-out accuse the flight attendant of lying, you're going to trigger an "us versus them" situation with the flight staff. At that point the captain is definitely going to side with the FA.

The reason his fate was sealed was that the captain had to decide whether his staff were going to be comfortable sharing a flight with this guy. Under the circumstances, I think he made the right decision.
Except it wasn't used in that manner at all. As others pointed out, it's a fricken idiom and automatic response in a photographic context. http://goo.gl/CnV1s

It's the same as if he replied 'okay, don't worry, the photos will be dead and gone', and the flight attendant misinterprets that to mean he's going to blow up the plane and kill everyone.

If the story is as he's relayed it, he's absolutely 100% not at fault and the flight attendant is a total fricken idiot.
>The airline staff, especially low level, are not trusted or trained to think or apply their own reason.

You're right... the fact that they are given arbitrary power without training or trust is more the problem than their judgement as individuals. Or perhaps, because they aren't trusted, their orders are to resort to extreme measures as a default response to certain specific behavioral indicators.
Generally for electronics people ask to see them working before they purchase them, I guess it varies by where your based but you couldn't you just stick in a sim to test it before purchase ?
Sounds about right.

Perhaps people actually don't care about it or know who Sergey Brin is (I mean he's not exactly A-list). They're too busy making pittance and getting on with life to worry about such things, as am I.
Why not?

Fly to destination within 15 minuted.
Sit there for days using sunlight.
I don't think anyone could argue that employees deserve the same equity as founders.

But what's really the difference between the first few employees and a founder? This is especially true for employees who are ridiculously crucial to the early success of a project when the value of the equity is non-existent. Is being part of a company 6-12 months earlier truly worth 10x-20x more than the next person?
The first question I always have when I read headlines such as this is "Who paid for it?" I filled in the form for to download the report and it contains the following:

Disclaimer

The tests reported upon in this document are conducted by us using our own test tools under test conditions chosen by us. The
test conditions were chosen by us to reasonably represent what our customers would experience using our Service with their
representative environments and workloads. The tests have been designed by us to only look at the performance aspects of the CSPs
that we believe are relevant to our customers – it is intentionally narrow in scope. Nasuni is not in the business of benchmarking
CSPs, certifying test results or selling performance metrics. We have attempted to make sure the tests are fair and consistent within
our selected parameters and have worked with several of the vendors to confirm our results. Our tests are not meant to indicate
performance from each CSP under ideal conditions to the CSP, and, in any event, performance should only be one factor of many in a
CSP selection process.

AFTER EDIT:

and from the conclusion (which is worth reading):

While Microsoft has secured the leadership position
this year, it is quite possible that things could change
again next year. In the two years this report has been
published, there was a different leader each year.

AFTER EDIT 2:

From the second page of the article:

Based on the findings of the report, Nasuni uses both Azure and AWS public cloud resources as part of the company's enterprise storage offering.

If you don't want to fill in a form to read the report, there's an infographic:

http://www.nasuni.com/blog/193-comparing_cloud_storage_provi...
If you do a reboot (i.e. click Restart, not Shut down) it won't half-hibernate.
Project name: Mangalyaan
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mangalyaan
Jezz - Google Glass is going to open a can of worms.
According to [1], there are 500,000,000 English speakers on the Internet. There are 300,000,000 English speakers in the US. It stands to reason that most everything you read about in English on the Internet took place in the US. It's just a really really big country.

[1] http://www.internetworldstats.com/stats7.htm
I can't parse the ": President" in the headline. Is that standard way to indicate that "the President said so"?
I have the same problem, work ok on Firefox
[ANN]: Lookup CPU and Memory usage inside NodeJS with node-usage
You're missing the point, they aren't specific games that are platform dependent. We're not comparing MGS4 to counter strike, which are both shooters.

Fighter games, in general, are on consoles. You simply just don't play them on PCs. Similarly, RTS games are PC only; the only RTS on console I know of is Halo Wars, which sucked.

Just these two cover ENORMOUS markets, with Starcraft tournaments having millions of dollars in prizes, etc, yet are based on entirely different markets. PC vs Consoles more accurately share _subsets_ of the high end gaming market, which overlaps in some places (like Call of Duty), and differ in many others.
Except, as others have pointed out, it wasn't odd at all. It's actually an idiom and an absolutely common response in a photographic context. http://goo.gl/CnV1s

Moreover, it was probably just so incredulous to the blogger that there would be any chance at all that anyone would imagine he'd be a terrorist because he was taking pictures of the little monitor in the seat in front of him that it didn't even cross his mind that it could possibly be taken in that context.

(slight tangent)
Reminds me of this one time I mentioned nirvana in a school essay (not even the band, the actual word itself) and the teacher reported me to a counselor as a possible suicide threat in reference to Kurt Cobain. I didn't even know who Kurt Cobain was. This was in like 9th grade. WTF?
This is a really terrible attitude. Apparently, airplanes are this magical place where you're not supposed to be treated like a human being. By "acting entitled", you seem to mean "acting like he's entitled to fly on the plane he bought a ticket for". And of course he argued with the captain; he was being kicked off the plane for taking a picture! It's not arrogant to expect to be treated well.

This thing where everyone shouts down someone who stand up for themselves, even when they admit that person is right is really awful. It's like people value obedience of arbitrary impositions of authority as the highest virtue.

Here's where the guy loses me in the article: he blames the FA exclusively, as if it would be reasonable to kick someone off a plane even if he had continued to take a picture after she told him not to (why is she running around demanding that people not take pictures?). In fact, he's crazy to have been loyal to the airline company in the first place and his surprise at the lack of reciprocation is baffling.
Person A has the authority to license use of something you want. You do something you do not want (tell an untruth, say "thanks" after being slapped, that sort of thing), but that Person A wants. Person A gives you said license, this time. The next time, you'll have to do the trick again, or no license. Instead of getting closer to issuing the license of use yourself, you actually cement yourself into the skinner box.
It works on Linux. It's only Mac that lacks that feature.
> FrisB: Callback magic powered by nano (10^9)

No, "nano" isn't 10^9, it's 10^-9. That's an overall error of 10^18. Even a government finance committee would notice this mistake.

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/nano-
I'm looking for data that actually names models. I found some for bog-standard pentium 4 dells, and they use 3 watts.

Honestly it probably comes down to having a not-terrible power supply.

Edit: how about a random HP, 1.65 watts http://reviews.cnet.com/desktops/hp-pavilion-p7-1070t/4505-3...
Where do you choose to draw the line in such cases? Every country makes this choice. Every country does some expensive things instead of spending that money on the poorest members of its society. If one advocates anything other than complete equality of living standards, sending a mission to mars whilst the poor go hungry is just a question of degree.
I can only speak from experience. In the past when I've been caught doing something illegal or improper, I've been let off by being respectful and apologetic.

Courtesy, respect and humility goes a long way.
I think one thing to remember when joining a company, particularly one of the higher profile startups that raise huge sums of money is that values really matter.

Not mission statement values, but the actions that are consistently taken on a daily basis.

Is your startup or employer profitable? No? Then why are they spending money on nice offices and expensive dinners and so on? I can almost guarantee that LivingSocial could have done with less than the 800 million it raised had they valued frugality and breaking even more than being some giant media darling worth-a-billion company. Deficit spending can work longterm for governments, but not for companies or individuals.

It's a real shame everyone got cleaned out, but they had to know this was going to happen at some point.
Is there any point in countries doing that alone, rather than global cooperation?
Any explanation that depends on blaming the visitors and their behaviors is bound to fail.