skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I do some things right-handed, some left. I manage to get along with wristwatches just fine. They're going to occasionally get in the way regardless.
It's probabilistic. You can't just sell 100% of tickets ahead of time and be done. Some people don't show up. Some people buy tickets at the last second. The more tickets you sell the more you risk running out of space and having angry customers that need to be compensated. Even if you assume every flight has the same demand, having more seats lets you sell more tickets which lets you get more people on board, without needing flights to be full.

On top of that, you have uneven demand causing completely full flights, and while it doesn't add 6 to the entire average it adds a notable fraction of 6. Note that nobody actually claimed they added a full 6 more passengers.
Wow, I'm the same and never knew it had a name. I write left-handed use use a fork with my left-hand and generally consider myself left-handed. But, I throw right-handed and swing right-handed (although I became a decent switch hitter in little league, I had more power left-handed but more accuracy right-handed). Some tasks I have trouble picking a hand and go back and forth between the two. When I bowl (which is usually only about every 5 years or so) I spend the entire time switching between both hands to find one that feels more comfortable. I also pass a tennis racket from hand to hand depending on which side the ball is on, but I play ping-pong solely with my left hand. When I first started using computers in elementary school I made a conscious effort to use the mouse with my right hand because even then I knew that every computer I came to would have the mouse on the right side. However, I usually use a laptop trackpad with my left hand. I, like you, found wrist watches uncomfortable to use. I wore one in high school and always put it on my left wrist but I had to remove it every time I sat down to write or type. I think smart watches could have some useful applications, especially when cycling as a glance-able cycle-computer paired with a ride tracking app, but I just don't think I could put up with the pain of wearing a watch every day to get any benefit from one.
Oh Notch, you so generous. Does Minecraft ever go on sale?
Your site is nice and it feels well designed. My only complaint is that even on my 100 mbps connection, it took forever to load the content in the smart phone portion of the site.

Another question I have is what makes me want to use this as opposed to yelp or foursquare?
I wouldn't call them first-movers because there are some companies including Nokia, Apple and Microsoft that already had a smartwatch project on hold.

Plus the fact that Pebble is focusing on sports watches.The others will focus on a full-featured smarwatch.
I think the app looks pretty nice. But clearly I am so far out of your target audience. I find it a rather sad commentary that how a place rates on the boys/girls is "a good reason to go" there. It just seems very shallow. I guess the types of places that are defined by the boy/girl rating rather than the food or the service or what ever else they offer are perfect for the people who are more interested in the boy/girl rating. That is not me. I'm sure you will find your user base though.
Yes, thank you, it works OK now :)
Thanks and congrats to you too. I have found a lot of people that are into fitness on hn. Taken a few tips here and there. The no supplements thing was something I was just determined to do. In my mind, I ate to get fat, and now I needed to eat to get fit. That perspective helped me out a lot. I wanted to mention that I achieved my results so far without a gym membership. I did put together a small @ home gym, but its not the same as a gym. Just been able to really stay motivated.
Creating View Controllers for Deep Linked iOS Apps
It was a list of ideas. And you can do all of that, just not in a single day.
Spot the defect. Rounding, part two
The author needs a laptop, possibly augmented with a Wacom tablet to draw during presentations. With the myriad of amazing laptop/netbooks available in the windows ecosystem a tablet would be my absolute last choice for his use case.

The other angle is to consider that Surface is but one choice. Other manufacturers make excellent tablet/hybrid Windows 8 devices. They are probably a far better choice for general business use.

I don't really get people who complain about, for example, not being able to use Excel with your fingers. I'm sorry, touch is not the best solution for every application. Using touch absolutely sucks for a wide range of applications. A on-screen keyboard is the simplest example. It sucks. Functional, but it sucks. I can't even think of the idea of using Excel with mi fingers on the screen. It would be ugly, cumbersome and slow, very slow.

Tablets have their place. Please don't complain if you try to force it into a non-ideal application.

I still own a ten year old little Sony mini notebook with a nice 10 inch display. It's about the size of an iPad and twice as thick as an iPad 3. I still have XP on it. It is absolutely wonderful for travel, even in the most cramped aircraft. It has a great physical keyboard. It is fantastic for PowerPoint presentations. Battery life is 6 to 12 hours. I have written tons of code on this thing in flight. I can run a Linux VM. And do web development, etc. I could go on.

Tablets have their place.
How to automatically choose a camera viewing angle for any 3D model
I doubt that such a firing is defensible as a sexual harassment claim. If you are creating a hostile work environment, someone first has to complain about it and you have to be given a warning and instructions on how to remedy the situation.

However, of course, you can always be fired for demonstrating questionable judgement.
IMDB network revisited: fractal and modular properties from a typical network
Uh, this should not be an "oh that's for a future version"...in an urban city (which is presumably where this kind of app would be most used and most useful), you are alienating a good part of the audience.

Gender fairness issues aside, this kind of "design" issue raises doubts about how well you've thought this product through. Social/place-rating apps are hard, given the dominance of the big players in this space. This gender thing complicates things but is by far one of the easier things you'll have to deal with, and it doesn't appear you're dealing with it well.

That sounds harsh, but better to take a hard look at this now than at launch date.
Interestingly, it was a very large HS. My graduating class was 800 strong.
I think a good combination might be Smart watches + Google Glass. Smart watches can provide more sophisticated input while glass provides great output and camera. I don't really see the value of a smart phone + smart watch combination.
The EU pressured Microsoft into documenting various parts relevant for interoperability. One of them is the whole stack revolving around AD, which resulted in Samba 4. I don't know if this includes Office formats.
Brent the author here. As I stated in the article, I do indeed do have a laptop. However, carrying around a laptop, plus another backup laptop, plus a Wacom tablet is a little beyond what I'd like to travel with.

About Excel with your fingers - you'd be surprised. The touch experience is surprisingly compelling once you get used to it. I'm always surprised at how often I reach out to touch the display on my laptop after I've been using my iPad or the Surface, even just for a few minutes. (This is especially true when using the Surface because the Type Cover's trackpad is laughably small.)
A Movable Beer-Canning Operation Makes Its Local Debut
We had the same issue as this guy, except it had been carried out by a specialist SEO firm on our behalf. Naturally we had no clue that their 'legitimate techniques' to promote us across the net were incredibly dodgy. That's why we paid an agency after all, to let them handle it, as experts, with best practice techniques. Unfortunately 'best practice' to SEO 'gurus' appears to be whatever blackhat method is in vogue.

We disengaged from them (read: got very angry at them) and had to clean it all up ourselves. The closest analogy I can think of is: it's like an oil spill. You can never be rid of the long lasting damage. Links get everywhere, and webmasters never respond to takedown requests.

But we've learnt a lot about SEO in the process and can undertake the task from our own moral standpoint. In the future we shouldn't have these kinds of issues.
Josefresco above claimed that the 80% rate could be 80% of the new seating arrangement, which just adds +6 across the board. That's what I "took issue" with.
Show HN: Tab Flow (a Chrome extension for tab management)
Hey all! I've been a lurker here for six months or so, but I've recently finished the initial version of a Chrome extension that some of you may find useful, especially if you're a tab hoarder like me.

Tab Flow lets you make sense of your mess of tabs by searching, batch-bookmarking, batch-moving, and batch-closing them. Don't know where your HN homepage tab is? Open the extension, search for it, and click the link to be taken directly to the tab. Want to move all your reddit tabs to a new window? Search for them, and click the "Move" link.

I really only wrote this for myself, but if it can make someone else's life easier, why not share it?

Let me know if there are any changes you'd recommend, or any features you think are missing. Constructive criticism is always welcome. As is customary (or should be) please direct trolling comments to /dev/null.
They're abusing the patent system to extort money from Android device manufacturers and they have to gall to completely ignore requirements in a ToS.

I'm looking forward to the day when Microsoft is completely irrelevant. They should just shut down everything except for the research and Xbox departments now.
On a related note:
Nintendo is applying a new policy of putting ads on YouTube videos of their games.

http://www.ign.com/articles/2013/05/16/nintendo-enforces-cop...

Apparently what they mean by "ensure Nintendo content is shared across social media channels in an appropriate and safe way" is roughly "safe means we make money off it"

So it's cool to see Notch mention that he had the same opportunity and didn't take it.
Pebble Sports SDK Now Available
> I suspect you are suffering from stockholm syndrome.

I don't think so. If that were the case, I would have switched to IDEA a long time ago. Going off topic, I don't really like Java very much either. Anyways so what plugins did you have installed and when did you last you use it? What did you use it for - web development or something else like Android development? So far no one has been willing to list which plugins they're using so I'm suspecting that people haven't actually used Eclipse in years.
https://www.gittip.com/jamonholmgren/
How Change Blindness Affects User Perception of Websites
How to Export Your To-Dos from Astrid and Take Them to a New App
We believe that when you choose a bar, or a club, you may want to focus on the people first, and Yosee lets you rate these people and say if they are cool or not.
Cool places for cool people. :)
thou shalt call things as they are, everything else is political correctness bingo

-- gandhi
There is a large disconnect between people that use/default HTML on in their mail clients, and people that don't.

Additionally, as always, people take it as an attack against themselves when you threaten an action they do often and like doing.

For my (probably our?) part, I prefer text email to a large degree. I do enjoy the ability to view in HTML a few select correspondences I get, but they could just as easily be links to a webpage. In a similar vein, I prefer bottom posting or inline replies for anything beyond a simple response, and trimming unused portions from large quoted sections.

People that reply with color coded text to denote who's speaking cause me a unique type of pain, and I reserve a unique type of hatred for them.

That said, there are probably others that I annoy with my style of correspondence.
They are however the first the ship, and that's what counts
> as Apple did

Apple didn’t build a proprietary OS on top of BSD licensed UNIX. They used the core of NEXTSTEP, which in turn used parts of several different BSD distros (though not its kernel or driver system).
I switched to the Surface Pro as my primary development box. Surprised that I could get VS2012, SQL Express 2012 and IIS working with decent performance.

If you are using an SDXC card to supplement your storage and don't intend to eject it on a whim, you can get better performance by going to the device manager and changing the removal policy and the write caching.

Options for 256gb or 512gb SSD would have made this an easier choice for many.
The way I see is, there is always going to be a 'somebody has to do this dirty work' mentality everywhere. No matter where you work at.

What work you get is very similar to being born. A baby born could have easily been somebody else. If you look at this way, you are almost definitely not going to get those big projects unless you are into some kind of a political game or are simply good enough and get your due chance.

One thing I've learned the hard way is, a person must not 'wait'. He must not wait for chances to come, or the ecosystem to help him, or somebody else to do it for them. Couple of days back I was reading Aaron Swartz's essay on productivity. In which he mentions a very important point- Always choose the most important problem to work on. And if you follow that advice seriously. You will someday find yourself working on most important problems in the world.

In the end, its just comes down to you. In large corporation project allocations are random at best, completely devoid of merit.
Aaron Levie on How Box Competed with Giants and Won
I agree with you but we are still planning on adding more traditional information. :)
1. Google is not obliged to create an app for any platform. Regardless of user count. WTF.

2. Microsoft is obliged to follow the ToS on websites they are pulling data from. Regardless of user count.

I'd love to see Google forced to admit what they are doing also, though.
RethinkDB 1.5: secondary indexes, batched inserts, much more
Deutsche Telekom offers online code scanner
Nice to have: The service will allow developers to check that the code they're using to build applications is free of security holes.
The site looks great, not very mobile friendly though which you should maybe think about given your target demographic.
If you want to transfer a big file easily without the need to upload it to a server http://www.sharefest.me does the trick.
bit-torrent like service but instant and without any client.
I'll say that if you've been using Windows for years you get used to using Windows on strange screen systems, everything from 640x480 to video wall panels. If you adjust magnification factors, font sizes, and such for the apps you actually use to help out a lot.

One thing I found with Windows 8 is that it is even better to use keyboard shortcuts to access the shell. Instead of groping for the 'Start' button, I hit the Windows key and the same thing happens if I am running Win7 or Win8. So Win8 didn't cause me disorientation at all, it just trained me to do the right thing.
I was mentioning this in the office and had someone show me their Pebble and tell me that they absolutely loved it, aside from the battery life.

It seems convenient and well made, and I'm now considering getting one.
Even if you take the spam out of the statistics?
HTTP baby!

Trying to enforce a client side rule of 'no downloading' when every web browser in the world can download should be disregarded and mocked heartily.
You don't? The phone stays in your pocket and when you get notifications they go to a device that's strapped to your body- this describes Glass and Pebble. The watch and HUD both have poor res and inputs, things the phone does better. I think you'll see people using a phone+wearable a lot more frequently than two wearables.
Smart Watches are on my radar. We develop a lot of GPS type apps, so this sort of platform is an easy and natural shift for us. It seems like there is a lot of uses for smartwatches, from health and fitness, to productivity and and people management.

I think the watches will have a quicker start than the glasses out of the gate, and usher in the era of cyborgs. I'm not sure if there is iPhone-level of money for the first to reach the platform though. It's really PC, Internet, and iPhone sized shifts you get the most from recognizing.
Brad Feld: Sometimes Failure Is Your Best Option
I'm not seeing in the link about them dropping XMPP support, not in the source link the author links to. I see them not building XMPP support into hangouts, but its not the same thing, hangouts are not an IM thing, they are a web conferencing thing.
I've had mine for a couple of weeks, using it with an iPhone, and so far it's a neat toy that doesn't do very much. I can see text messages, and I can see the phone number of the person calling me (not their name yet, though). I can control the music playing on my phone. That's about it right now. I haven't tried Runkeeper yet.

I've heard that Android users can hook in to a lot more. Hopefully iOS opens up more access for other apps to send notifications to it.

The feature I probably use the most is the watch itself - I don't have to pull my phone out of my pocket to check the time, and flicking my wrist to activate the backlight works really well.
A question for any lawyers out there: if you licensed a patent that is later invalidated, are you entitled to a refund of your licensing fee?
Yes, we are going to add mobile support!
Dashboard Analytics & New Relic
The title is exactly the same as the post's title, as per HN guidelines.
and yet even when we understand this, it is still very hard to buy the more expensive option. That demonstrates how hard this dilemma is to solve.
I've had a surface pro since launch -- and all I can say is that I can't imagine using different portable right now (before that I was using a x230).

once I got used to the form factor and what it was designed for it's changed how I compute in subtle ways.

Last night for example.. rather then going to my desk .. I watched some lectures on the couch while using the pen to take notes in one note .. then docked it to do some work.

that's just one example of many; but for me personally i feel like i'm doing more with my computer then I was before

though, I've usually docked my laptops when doing any serious work .. and my mobile work is usually restricted to coffee shops for only 3-4 hours at a time ..

battery life I guess could be better .. I usually only get 4hours or so off power when streaming movies off amazon but it's not really bad IMO, but of course I'd like it to be longer .. my main worry when it comes to the battery is that it's not user replaceable honestly
The biggest mistake you can make is to find someone as passionate about your idea and making sure he stays on the top. Become CEO yourself, it's not hard and you don't need to know "business".
Interesting resubmission. Originally submitted >500 days ago, but today's submission simply put a # at the end of the URL, and thus avoided duplicate detection.

Not that I mind--this is one of the more awesome articles submitted to HN or really anywhere.
In my experience, you get the message in both the Jabber client and Hangout.
Digital photography experts confirm integrity of Paul Hansen image files
Why didn't he put it to a charity or ask the money to be given to the uploaders.
yes but you only become a money transmitter when they confirm that bitcoin is money, prior to that it could easily be considered a commodity the same as any other good, thus people were sending $ to buy a commodity. After FinCen changed the playing field they should then have required businesses dealign with BTC to update forms or resubmit, not go crazy shutting things down. but that is how the US govt works, without sense, just blunders in. Much like the DefenceDistributed issue, they come blundering in and make things more difficult for themselves in the long run.
> "There's bad news and there's good news," said Cheng in an interview with Ars. "The good news is, we won this case on every point. The bad news is, we're running out of lawsuits. There are fewer trolls for us to fight. I've spent a lot of time over the last seven years figuring out what to do with these guys. There are strategies I think would be really neat and effective that I literally can't execute. I can't make good law because I don't have any appellate cases left. They [the trolls] are dismissing cases against us before any dispositive motions." - Lee Cheng

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That's a great quote.
1. Looking at the other threads I can't quite get a straight answer on XMPP, but it seems to be entirely disabled for the "new communications product called Hangouts" (new??), but this is not just about federation.

2. claudius is very clearly explaining why google SHOULD disable SMTP. Nobody has seriously suggested they would; you might need to recalibrate your satire detector. Also claudius gave several reasons that apply equally to XMPP and SMTP to be extra helpful. :)
The hypothesized "video chat" protocol extension to XMPP already exists and it's called Jingle. FOSS client support isn't great, but it is progressing. So if this service isn't open to FOSS clients, that's more an issue of strategy than resources. (And indeed, the decision might change in future and be attributed to improved FOSS client performance.) If the service is indeed closed, however, they probably ought to update this page:

https://developers.google.com/talk/open_communications
The article says that having the syntax is not a bad thing but doesn't really say what it has over LISP's simple syntax, expressiveness? easy to read for people unfamiliar with the language? AFAIK the one thing it definitely allows is to be able to write a program and common tasks in just a few characters, which is great and all but not the strength of perl and definitely not needed in all situations.

LISP syntax OTOH is as he said easy to pick up and parse while still allowing all the expressiveness any other language can have (even without more syntax like the lambda character).

But there is a similarity between the two, the outstanding syntax. I don't know about others but I'd attribute it to C's popularity more than anything else and with most other languages following it (JS, C++...) it seems like it should be standard or something, I've seen far too many people avoid learning languages due to syntax without realizing something much more important: They might be turning down a language that can save them tons of trouble later if they just get past the one time step of learning the syntax, so listen to the author, perl is a great CGI language, and if that's what you need just learn it. other languages may be easier to learn, may be what's hip now but I'd bet perl is still better.
The Ultimate Spaceship Face-off
>The moment I need to bring the power cord and adaptor with me, portability goes to "desktop replacement" levels.

Surely you don't just carry a tablet in your hand when walking to the office? Once something's too big for pockets I resort to a messenger bag over my shoulder, in which it's just as easy to include the power. Given that tablets don't seem to come with cases, how else would one transport it?
My birthday is in May, it snowed on it this year (Twin Cities Minnesota). A little over a week later after a 40F(4C) day, it was over 90F(32C) the next day.

We have weird weather but May is definitely spring, I think the coastal people have a weird perception of what the midwest/north is actually like. Once May starts we're basically a few weeks from god awful summer heat like anywhere else.