skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It should be pretty well supported.

140ppi isn't a massive leap over current displays that are common in laptops. 11.6" at 1366x768 is similar... density wise.
I'm with you on that - the inbed/outofbed crossover can be a real challenge.

Once I'm up and about I'm generally OK, but those moments of pain when I open my eyes to see it's time to get up and do stuff are the killer.
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This has bothered me too. The other day, I was talking about email (fastmail, rackspace etc) with a couple of colleagues - both of them scoffed at the idea of paying for email. The very same people who go to starbucks every single day, dropping 5$ for a cup of latte. Why wouldn't they pay for something as fundamental, and as important for email? I truly couldn't understand. Everything from banking to dating, lives in our email and yet they wouldn't pay. If this is the case with people who work in the tech world, and understand privacy etc very well, what about a "normal" person?

Perhaps the answer is that people have gotten used to everything being "free" on the internet. May be they think that the cable (or internet) bill is more than enough, and they are entitled to get everything for free online, including movies etc?
God is just. As Pete said, "When it comes to women, when you lose, you lose and when you win, you really lose."

God says...
Professorship filling face_palm deferred looker-on powers
conception Greek_to_me pressed deferred interpret concord
malicious prisoner oppose vent man replenish hype perceives
physic re-collected India remain you_don't_say hart perverseness
fuller show shoe Saudi_Arabia mark wilderness if_and_only_if
employest reclaim unsung_hero Ivory_Coast science combinations
one's springs pleasantness uproar Victor scattered prolix
makes seeketh meekness communicated greatness cover heresies
arithmetic tormented willed easy endeavour circuits between
curiosities unspeakable

----

My code is divinely inspired, like the Bible; a stumbling block that became the cornerstone.
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My son (nearly three), usually around 6am. If I don't bounce out of need the instant he opens our bedroom door, he'll wake the baby and her mother, and both will be grumpy for the rest of the day! I love it because then we get to build something with Lego's for an hour before we have to get ready for kindergarten.
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I dunno, that's not a much stronger argument than saying that installation discs are DRM because if you lose them, you can't install something.
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Maybe if it's only about getting some bug fixed as soon as possible. But I'd say communicating the "MongoDB is terrible" part of it to the public is pretty valuable too. Because nice to know and the hype doesn't mention that so much.

I'm sure we can come up with a best way to go about things. I'm not really cool with the "oh Mike" part of it. But I think it's mostly okayish. Certainly a lot more okay than the bug.
> I know the whole (my bank account) is greater than the sum of its parts (putting up with horrible software shops)

I think the saying you're looking for is actually "the ends don't justify the means".
DisplayPort 1.2 should allow for 60hz: http://forums.guru3d.com/showthread.php?p=4608199#post460819...

Gotta assume the monitor supports 60, going to 30 would be terrible.
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There are many times that people test positive for pregnancy tests but are not pregnant. Basic Bayes theorem. The odds are very poor that this persons thesis is correct in the first place, and the odds are not improved based on: unsubstantiated warming mechanism in his model, lack of experimental data, almost complete lack of consensus support, previous bad results, extremely well supported competing model... I mean, what set of heuristics would you go by to give this guy the time of day? I can point you to a couple of poorly written books by hobbyist mathematicians with purported proofs of Riemann's hypothesis and Goldbach's conjecture. If you want to wade through the insanity you're than welcome to spend weeks of your life coming to the conclusion that they are wrong.
I really wanted to prove you wrong by finding some evidence that the quote you featured isn't included in the book, but instead I stumbled upon a page[1] about boolean data types which was equally inappropriate for a younger audience. So instead I found myself up-voting you.

In fact to further prove your point, the boolean page made reference to the history of the name, which even I was unaware of after 25 years of programming.

It's a great pity about the content of this book as it's actually a really good idea. But with the content as in depth as it is, I couldn't even justify buying it as to read to my kid as a novelty item.

[1] http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51BIi5OBjML.png
I don't know where you get your information from, but the source is unreliable and you're now spreading disinformation.
Yes, it is still a fallacy. If you have an argument, you can make it without trying to rely on "famous person X agrees". And you seem to be confused about who Rob Pike is. He simply worked at bell labs. After everything important had already happened. He had nothing to do with the creation of unix or C, he just gets lumped in with them because he was at bell labs after the fact.
It's very simple. If you had a certain price in mind, negotiate the price first, before delivering the service.
If you go to bed before midnight, you're actually ready to get up in the morning.

I haven't used an alarm in five years, ever since I stopped staying up late on weeknights.
The only real success I've had with outsourcing is when it is done around something specific and the output is treated like something we found on github.

Here's an example: I needed to control an arduino board in Java, I didn't know how to do it, I had the rest of the application to build and I was pressed for time.

Instead of outsourcing the entire project I outsourced the creation of a unit test, it was described something like this:

"When I run the unit test, with a board hooked up to the computer it should send a signal that will flip an LED on or off. You should use this spec (ref to Arduino site). Include all jars and install instructions."

I got it back, it did what I asked them to do and I threw all the code away. Basically I took what they did as a 'working start' and rebuilt it into the existing application. I didn't ask them to match our code style, patterns or framework, that was all my job after the fact. It worked great and saved me a few days of research.

This is the most successful way I've been able to manage outsourcing. Everything else - from detailed specs to UI diagrams to daily check-ins has had complications.

If you can reduce down to just the hard things that need to be done, and then describe them in under 20 words, and then force a unit test into the equation you'll have a higher degree of success.

YMMV
I thought you explained it perfectly yourself, but sure. You were not addressing the original point about breathable air being free. Instead, you built a straw man, based on the presumed cost of /breathing/ it, which actually had nothing to do with the original point.

By the way, if you want to be as anal about the definition of "free" as to include totally peripheral expenses (as if a pencil costs you $100 for signing a check with it), you might as well get to the bottom of it and say that everything is free on the basis that no matter or energy is ever expended.
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In my head this marketing argument always boils down to "What, you waste money on overpriced coffee, why not waste your money here too?!" I think telling the consumer "hey, this is an impulse purchase" is going to trigger their "oh shit, I need to stop making stupid impulse buys" response.

Also, I envision the marketer thinking of me as part of a herd of cud-chewing cattle, or worse, like one of the people on the conveyer belt in Relead's god-awful landing page [1]. It's angering in some low-level way. Is this really how marketers think of consumers?

1: http://www.relead.com

Edit:

> People seem to sweat investing $2 per download for anything, even if they thoroughly enjoy the product, but they don't even think about spending $10 at the coffee shop.

Maybe you'll see less of this if you drop the "less than your stupid latte, dumbass" sales tactic.

Edit 2:

Sorry, that was a really jerk way to make my point, and I apologize below. Leaving it here however to preserve the thread.
Obviously the thought of prison doesn't in fact stop people from breaking the rules. The prison population is in fact growing. Similarly many places have prisons that are very unlike the US prisons, and yet they have lower crime rates. So the evidence against the core of your argument is pretty strong.

At some point, when the punishment for minor offenses is extreme, the difference between minor offenses and major offenses gets very blurry. Extreme example: if stealing carries a punishment that is effectively the same as murder, the only logical thing to do when stealing is murder any potential witnesses. The US isn't quite this bad.

However, when the actual punishment for minor crime includes the concept of a felony record, it becomes much harder to differentiate between minor possession of drugs and say grand theft. They both carry felony record issues. That means the being convicted of either results in prison, exclusion from most of the work force for life, the inability to participate in a lot of "better yourself" programs (and really, people who messed up earlier in life should be encouraged to be in these!) and a host of other life long punishments. I understand this is a bit tangential to your point, but bear with me...

Now, when you look at the way the US justice system actually does things, you get this perception of arbitrariness or even randomness. The threat of prison is there, but there is no intuitive logic to how it works. Carrying some drugs will get you 20 guaranteed years in prison, while murdering someone will get you maybe 5, maybe 100. Raping someone will get you less time than "hacking". Racial discrepancies exist too in how prison is applied, as do wealth issues. There is parole/early release, and differences between judges and prosecutorial discretion further complicating the punishment question.

Whether or not there is good, deep, and sound defensible logic in how this works, the appearance is that there is no way of determining how you'll punished for what you're doing. As such, once the decision has been made to do something relatively harmless, the deterrent effect of prison no longer applies. The rational choice is "punishment, when it happens, could be anything", therefore the game is no about deciding actions based on punishment, it is deciding actions based on getting caught. Any action, no matter how severe, that lessens your chance of getting caught is better than a less severe action which doesn't modify or worsens the chance of conviction.

Basically my point is that when you want to use prisons to deter bad behavior, you better make it obvious that their application is something that can be reasoned about. As it stands, prison can't be included in any reasoning about consequences, except in an overly simplistic binary matter that has no effect at curbing any behavior once it is on the table.
and they shall beat their swords into plowshares...and their prisons into monasteries.
You're missing my point:

Graphs are completely meaningless. Correlation does not imply causation. Asking for a graph is the last thing you should do. Ask for a hypothesis about why there might be a causal relationship. Test that hypothesis.
If the application overrides the defaults (which is fairly common ), your changing the defaults does nothing (for that application and for the keys that might have been overridden). It sounds like Firefox overrides the defaults completely but in it's override "map" keeps some of the functionality the same as the default.

I havn't used it but this claims it will change the Firefox behaviour as well (specifically make them behave like windows for the home and end keys)

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/keyfixer/

I think cmd-left and cmd-right are used by Firefox for " back" and "forward" so those never work on Firefox (unless perhaps you go find where Firefox specifies its key bindings and change them)
Professional services. Flat. Partner team (Dave, Jeremy, and I) with Dave as President. 3 offices (NYC, Chicago, SF). Practice managers for each office help manage the schedule, backstop client concerns, stuff like that. Lots of ongoing projects, each led by a senior team member. Partner team and practice managers all deliver work alongside consultants. Supporting team for project management, for finance, for IT, and for development.

Some functional divisions of work; for instance, I run recruiting, and a team of consultants runs research and judges bonuses for developing tools or writing papers. But mostly, deliberately flat.
My eldest (4) woke me at about 6am this morning poking one of my iPads in my face, he'd started YouTube and was asking how he could watch Spiderman on it.

What got me out of bed was the thought of what he'd watch after the first video.
Your experience doesn't necessarily generalize.
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That squirrel sounds incredibly motivated. Would love to hear what that sounds like.
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I'm typing this in Debain Linux on a Chromebook Pixel, which has a 239 dpi display, significantly higher than this Asus monitor.

Everything works very nicely once I've tweaked a few settings, specifically adding zoom in Chrome and setting appropriate font scaling in Gnome 3.
And Musk is remarkably good at lowering costs on expensive projects.
> Build a Medium clone in Rails in 4hours.

I remember many of my engineering friends saying the same thing about Twitter in the early days.
True, but that's just how he came up with a new way of looking at the results of the study. (Serial vs. parallel learning)
I feel that I was a bit late to the game at 24 to buy my own domain and host my email. For one, I can stick to atleast the address for my life unless, you know, the ICANN is overthrown or something. Having something professional costs way less than any of the impulse purchases that people around me make yet they scoff at the idea of paying $10 for domain and w/e else for email. You can also set it up for free if you spend a few hours on google.

It did take me time, but I have realized that emails and email addresses are NOT going away anytime soon, might as well have something permanent.
> Shouldn't they all be toys of the same type? It should be obvious that an array means "more than one of the same thing".

Not any more "the same thing" than all being toys. C, C++, Java, Ruby, Javascript, PHP all let you stuff references to objects that are entirely different into arrays some way or other, and I'd be quire confident in claiming that the same is true for most languages in common use.

> "W is for While: While there is food on your plate, you will sit there" - doesn't really describe what WHILE does?

It describes exactly what WHILE does. Whether or not there is an operation that changes the condition within the loop is an entirely separate concern from the while construct. Anyone with a child will have experienced situations where the child most definitively will not keep eating, and what changes the condition is that a parent as an outside actor finally takes the food away, for example.
Then again, depending on the frameworks in use (i.e. GWT) that frontend and backend are all in the same code base. This can be great for some applications and undesirable for others. However, I'm frequently surprised by the desire to break every tasks out into a role.

For example one person to write the queries, one person to put the HTML into a JSP page, one person to create a backend service, one person to setup the server, one person to run the CI, one person to write some tests.

Let's look at other industries. Remember back in publishing and design. There used to be a ton of people there too. The type setters, the people designing layouts and then others physically compositing and scaling those elements for photographing and making into plates. There were tons of people involved in any good publication. Now they're all out of work and one person can do all of their jobs with the right software suite and farm out the printing.

I posit that we'll see a greater fusion of roles. A Java dev can crank out hibernate queries all day (I know, they'll be ugly and slow) and just drop in some stuff from a Bootstrap template to spice it up. Wait for the next economic contraction in IT and you'll see the disposable roles become apparent.
Why even bother with books and solitary. Just flash freeze them like in Demolition Man. The prison system doesn't stimulate anyone. Crimes are primarily committed because of motive, opportunity, and/or mental illness. Poverty is a great motivator. If you're an ex-convict your opportunity to get a respectable job drops precipitously, to be a drug dealer requires no prior experience and no background check.

I'm not concerned about the prison system. They are the means to the end. What does bother me is the US justice system. They convict more people than any other country on the planet. Prison can't be a deterrent if you have overzealous prosecutors searching for me people to convict.
Perhaps they didn't think it could be weaponized, so to speak. Accessing one account at a time isn't as big a deal as systematically accessing many accounts. Even if your exploit could do so, they may have safeguards against such robotic access.
1 kids. 2 dog. If you can make your alarm clock jump up and down on my bed and/or lick my face, it's a winner.
Are you agreeing with me, or not? Sending me that link without any other kind of comment, as if I were one of the few dozen people on the internet that are unfamiliar with the ad hominem fallacy, is a bit patronizing.

My point is that attacking someone's argument by noting their poor academic track record is not ad hominem, it's a perfectly valid approach. Otherwise non-science people seeking to alter scientific consensus would have a trivial loophole to DoS the process.
Y Combinator tally: 511 startups, $11.5B valuation
Transferring 1TB at a sustained rate of 1MB/s will take about 11.5 days.
Could someone explain to me why this is better/easier than just using CSS media queries myself?

Also:

> Whatever image you put inside the src of the image element will render by default. Then, the Javascript will progressively load larger images based on media queries that you pass into the data-interchange attribute.

So, for larger screens, there would be many requests for a single image? For example, if I drop a mobile-optimized image into the src and then view the page on a retina macbook, wouldn't this mean many image requests from the "mobile" version up through "full-size retina"?
The images suggest its for a 2 year old but the concepts are explained as if the reader where a very talented teenager.

A nice idea though.
Are you referring to a particular article or 200 pages of search results?
> like welding bits on the motherboard

That really caught my eye, did they mean soldering and used welding or is there actually stuff welded to the board of phones?
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>fixing the root problem in the criminals

The root problem is the xenophobia of old white men.

http://www.prisonpolicy.org/graphs/raceinc.html
The firewall at the company where I'm currently at appears to be blocking http://strapdownjs.com/v/0.1/strapdown.js but not the github.io domain. They have strapdownjs classified as a spam domain.
OK, so what kinds of things can you do with this data?
I lay in bed thinking about the day's tasks until I feel motivated to get up & start on one of them.
Throughout winter, a light+radio alarm clock, something like: Philips-Hf3470

Since recently, a recorded motivational message:
http://blog.wojt.eu/post/51792538207/get-your-custom-motivat...
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The one with icons you use to start programs. Probably "main menu."
There's a bit of uninspired marketing-drone-boilerplate in the blogpost, but the video is actually quite good. I suspect it's a great way to connect with the technically interested who, especially in the case of mobile providers, are probably key drivers for advocacy.
Not the OP, but once I was promoted to lead developer for the flagship app of the company I worked for and that was quite efficient in making me wanting to get to the office before everyone.
I'm waiting for a business with a similar business model that just sells SIM cards for pre-paid data. There are lots of great arduino shields or devices out there (GPS trackers and the like) that I would love to use and toss in a SIM card and just pay for the data used from a pool account rather than a price-per-month for every line AND data that's never used.
Since the molecule is only heated momentarily to induce the reaction, it is cold before and after. The molecule might be effectively "stuck" to the silver surface it's resting on.
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Bought it for my daughter.

Everybody's right about it being too high level, too far over the heads, etc. But it just looks fun, I sure am going to enjoy reading it to her, and to me, fun and enjoying yourself is what should animate a lifelong love of programming.
I think that the premise here is wrong. Working with a group of generalists is about managing employee skillsets and professional growth.

Whether you have people with deep, focused expertise or generalists with broad expertise, that doesn't change the fundamentals of managing an organization. The company is a machine... you take labor, knowledge and machines and produce a work output more valuable than the cost of those parts individually.

You don't generalize accountability. You don't breed chaos.

The beauty of small teams is that roles don't need to be fixed (vs. large companies that breed teams with tightly defined scopes). The downside of small teams is that you don't have the time to give non-core functions the focus they might demand elsewhere. You may be accountable for sysadmin tasks today, but not next month. The key secret to being successful (which is much easier in small organizations) is to effectively communicate.
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I've seen teams of "specialists" be about as doomed before. I knew a few "Rubyists" who would not touch any other language than Ruby. No JS, No HTML, No SQL. Only pure Ruby.

Get in a bind and need a full court press to get some unit tests out, QA automation, or some queries tuned? Too bad. Everyone is in their silo and heading home at the steam whistle at 5pm.

On my teams of devs that all knew a lot of areas, we could pivot to get whatever had to be done complete at the end of the release rather than being marooned on our daises.
My bad, I didn't read further. I assumed this was server-side. After reading, 4.5k sounds right from Facebook, and while I'd imagine the other market price to be higher, I don't think it'd be above 3x, much less 10x, without something special (e.g. high-profile user data) accompanying it.
Here's some estimates based mostly on OS, not site. http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2012/03/23/shoppin...
I stand corrected, the amazon mobile site i viewed it on only showed the covers.