skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
two of my journalists friends came visit and the first thing they bought in the US was a RT. I tried to convince the to at least get the pro because i'm a sucker for what microsoft did with the wacom hardware price (i think wacom is the only company that profits more per device than apple)... but they all wanted 9h of office and the portability. nothing else.

i personally rather write in vim and output to latex... but to each it's own. I would have got a modern netbook with an extended battery and have 12hours of battery for writting on a decent keyboard.
Sometimes people attempt to FOIA lab notebooks. If you're a patent lawyer, you've nothing to lose by tying up a research group in knots.

It's bad news when it happens.
isn't the RT already the cheaper option?

they should lower the $1k pro so then ipad and air would have decent competition.
You need to go meet people and interact with them. Find a meetup and go. Take a class. Something like that.

You have a big goal, but not a road map. You need to build knowledge in your problem Domain.
Technically C doesn't have a standard ABI either. Compilers just tend to use similar symbol names.
Seems like it to me. Maybe they thought the whole drop quantam tunneled to the bottom

I guess you could have asked that if you find a tree that's fallen in a forrest, did it actually fall over if no one saw it?
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Excellent! Thanks for the information; to be honest, I hadn't looked and made an erroneous assumption. I had let the HN bubble affect my perspective, too, so now that I think about it I had an awkward view of the scale of cities across the country.
I think he meant compared to Surface PRO / Samsung Series 7 / etc, which have Wacom screens with remote-sensitivity, precise styluses and 32 pressure levels.
Dear Victor Michael, stop using CAPSLOCK and scamming people.
I would take a dumb phone that didn't call anyone but only texted if it had the advantages of my last dumb phone: week long batter life, drop-ability, and the ability for me to leave it in cabs and have it returned because no one wants it.

I get/make a vanishingly small number of actual voice calls these days.
They are basically giving these away at Microsoft conferences. The last three I attended had them for sale at:

RT w/ keyboard for $110 (retailed at $699)

Pro for $399 (retails at $999).

I tried picking up a couple to resell for profit but there is zero demand. Nobody responded to my ads on Craigslist, Facebook or Twitter. Ended up selling them for cost.
My smartphone was stolen, then i decide to buy a dumb phone. Then i felt a better life. No waiting for notification, focus on my work. I can forget everything and focus on what i am doing. Email, Twitter, Whatsapp, Instant Message notification on smartphone isn't a good thing for me.

I think my stolen smartphone nearly ruin my life. Previously i really attached to that phone, waiting for "not-yet-known" notification. Thanks God i aware about that thing, and i am really grateful with my dumbphone.
Why is this a bad thing? I want the experience I have 10 years ago with tablet PCs. I want to be able to open up Word or Excel when I'm at the airport - without having to lug around a 10" laptop.
What does "we're now at scale" mean? I realize this sounds snarky but I am asking sincerely. Maybe it would help if someone could finish the following sentence in such a way that it's equivalent to "we're now at scale": "We have so many customers that ..."
You want to prototype with processing then use open frameworks or libcinder for the final project.
He was an interesting teacher. Not the most forgiving, however. One learned not to ask him a silly question.
To put it simply, it would take about the same effort to port a Linux application to Mac as it would to Windows. Everything talks differently, and you have to adapt for that.
Grant applications contain plans and guesses. If you're better positioned to capitalize on someone else's plan, they're screwed. Grant applications are submitted with at least a partial understanding of confidentiality. Because they're confidential, you can't cite them.

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wow i feel dumb. this looks complicated
>the licensing for RT is far stricter

The OP and the article are talking about the Acer Iconia W3 that runs full Windows 8, not Windows RT.
The guy wrote an article on his 'idea' back in 2011 in a newspaper:http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/apr/25/cancer-e... where he explicitly uses Haeckel as evidence for his theory: A century ago the German biologist Ernst Haekel pointed out that the stages of embryo development recapitulate the evolutionary history of the animal. Human embryos, for instance, develop, then lose, gills, webbed feet and rudimentary tails, reflecting their ancient aquatic life styles.

Of course this is total pseudoscience and I'm floored someone is receiving money for coming up with this. His descriptions of cancer (after two years of apparent study) simply do not make sense in any context.

Cancer's adaptation to anaerobic respiration has been know for a long time and isn't some magical 'atavism' or 'safe mode' but a necessity for a tumor.
can you explain more? sorry i dont know these terms
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Really off topic (sorry), but maybe G's quarterly results reflect the overall economy?

I was hiking with some friends today and someone raved about the stock market. I said that I am getting out (I did this also in 2007) because I expected another recession. I hope I am wrong, but I think we are going to see another 2008 event, but larger. This would also effect tech stocks.
I would've bought one of your Surface Pros for $499 or even $599.
Sounds like you want a Motorola T900, essentially a two way pager. It runs on a single AA.

http://www.superpager.net/
maybe i should use Javascript like you said because i want to do graphics
http://www.processing.org

http://www.openframeworks.cc

http://libcinder.org
I don't have smart phone mainly because I think their recurring costs are a rip off. Besides, I have no need to carry computer in my pocket for just a few hours when I'm away from the desk computer.
White rum is the name for clear rum. I suppose in a beverage context white just means colorless.
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This is roughly on par with punching a police officer over what the NSA has done.

Congressional Staff members are so far removed from the NSA that this attack makes no damn sense.
This is true. However 5 years ago the same could be said for a number of other tech companies including CISCO, Oracle, and Apple. Yet all have since paid dividends or done stock buybacks.

The market operates under the assumption that all other companies that stay profitable long enough will eventually do the same. And as long as management is seen as competent, is indifferent about whether "eventually" comes tomorrow or 20 years from now.

For an extreme example, the markets have long rewarded Berkshire Hathaway for its growth in profits, even though no money was returned in any way to investors for 40 years. (There has since been a small buyback.)
"why wouldn't I just buy and iPad?"

Because they are expensive and completely locked down?
Doesn't matter. The very idea of Anonymous is that it's a label, not a group. It's a flag that anyone and everyone can choose to fly, with no one group any more deserving of doing so than any other. That's been the fundamental idea of Anonymous since its inception, and is one of the most misunderstood points about it.

Sure, there are the "core" Anonymous groups that you might associate with LulzSec, but those were very different from the WhyWeProtest Anonymous groups that continue to fight the Church of Schientology, which are in turn different from the Anonymous groups that supported Occupy Wall Street, which are in turn different from those involved in the Arab Spring, which are in turn different from those working with the FBI to take out child porn rings on TOR, etc. They may share some common ideals, and perhaps even membership, but they're all disparate groups and none is more or less Anonymous than any other. The people who did this are just as deserving of the label as those who worked to bypass internet surveillance in Iran, as they both choose to fly the flag.
1. Create lists

2. Update lists

3. Pitch lists

4. ...

5. Profit
Buy a pocket camera. Those are really cheap right now, with far better image quality, including taking a photo in a very low light environment. Those things are also very fast to get started. Press power button, aim, shoot. (instead of turn on the phone, tap the camera button, aim, pinch to zoom, then tap camera button)
Some of those passwords appear not to need to be shuffled. I mean, how about your name and congressional district? Yeah, that would make an excellent password! Or the name of your last campaign!

Wow! Name and CD appears to be a common pattern.
"FOIAMachine approaches the problem from a different angle."

FOIA Machine has been telling me this since 2011, and yet you continue to copy what we deploy, feature by feature. Seriously. I'd love to work together, and I already offered to open source our source code for you, but that's not an offer that has ever been taken up.

I'm always available to talk: Michael@MuckRock.com.
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Yeah, that. The support on the Samsung ATIV Smart PC Pro was fantastic. (Shame I had to return it because of Wi-Fi problems.)
I've never had a problem getting Linux to work on a laptop. That includes Dell, Toshiba, Lenovo, even HP EliteBook (pain in the ass, but running LMDE quite nicely with NVidia).

Is the argument that those machines are bad because they ship with Windows?

I'm a huge hater of MS-anything (I can not quantify my hate of Windoze), but I don't see a valid argument to support overpaying for a slow System 76 machine when I can get my i7 Toshiba for $879 and put whatever OS I want (including a hackintosh VM).
I really doubt it. If anything I think it speaks to the value placed on online advertising, which I'm rather pessimistic about in general. It is a huge leap to go from slightly missed quarterly results to a downturn in the overall economy.

Do you have anything to substantiate this feeling that there's a second recession coming?
Portland - parks and water fountains everywhere. And the trees...
Why 1 && 2 == 2
Probably the reason they're pulling a dick move and forcing everyone to Enhanced Campaigns which, among other things, forces you to bid on tablets and desktops together rather than allowing you to split them. They claim that conversions are virtually identical across these devices. However, our conversion on tablets is probably 1/10 that of desktop because we mfg & sell highly technical products for diy home remodeling and most tablet users end up just browsing casually for the info.
"most people in Steve Ballmer's shoes would have taken the same bet. "

That's why you look for a CEO that isn't most people. The CEO isn't a service award you hand out to the general who won the most battles 30 years ago.
That would work.

I've actually been thinking of setting up some sort of ubiquitous monitoring system (like a button camera that is nearly always running). Still on the drawing board... Google Glass might fit the bill, but they're too obvious.

(this is not for pervy applications, I swear)
I have a tablet and a dumb phone. One is for media consumption on the go, I have a keyword in case I want to do something on it, and if I want to make a phone call I use the dumb phone.

The tradeoffs to get a good interactive experience in your pocket (screen size, mainly) negatively impact the functional behavior of a smartphone as an earpiece (for phone calls). I think my preferred all in one device would be a tablet with a headset jack. Keeping the screen on the thing that goes next to the ear makes one end of the deal suffer.
The laptop hardware mostly. I value command line tools above the GUI and ports, then homebrew have been sufficient along with VMs and VPS providers for my needs. OSX is just a window manager for my iTerms and Chrome windows so is entirely replaceable. I would swap back to a Linux environment in a blink if there was a distro/hardware combination that worked as smoothly.
"FOIAMachine approaches the problem from a different angle"

Can you explain what this different angle is?
Yup. Very true. You realize of course that such companies have many other options, right?
If the NSA cant keep a secret...
This case is so profoundly sad.
My wife got one, and the first week she had it she was surfing forums and mucking around with the task monitor and RegEdit (!) in order to deal with some runaway process caused by an errant app. Maybe a game. We never found out. It's supposed to be designed so it can't go haywire that way, but it does. Fail.

Never heard of such a problem on an iPad.

The Windows division might think it knows how to deliver a tablet-friendly OS, but really, it doesn't. It's clownville; they don't understand how to do box-level security (as on consoles) and they don't know how to do stability at the level required by a "mom" consumer product. (The Xbox group took Win8 and had to do extensive modifications in order to make it play well -- the original mandate from the execs were "run Win8 without any changes" and /that/ would have been a fucking disaster).

If Microsoft is serious about putting a real "tabletized" version of Win8 in consumer hands, they need to do a bunch of housecleaning and internal education. It's a mess.
I have a dumb phone, it was the cheapest phone I could buy. I sit behind a computer all day for work; I program at home as a hobby. The ability to contact people is essential, however I don't see the need to insert yet another computer into my life in order to do so.
> (e)glibc and friends are fairly critical since they are the one exposing kernel features.

By default. Unlike in Windows (from what I understand), in Unix-like OSes (Linux, the BSDs, probably others) it's entirely possible for user programs to talk directly to the kernel via a published API.

In Linux, C programs can use the syscall(2) function and x86 and x86-64 assembly language programs can use either the sysenter opcode or the int 0x80 interface, which is why linux-gate.so.1 exists and is mapped into every process: The kernel determines which method at boot and so userspace code (inclusive of libc) can't know in advance, so it uses the linux-gate.so.1 interface, instead.

http://www.trilithium.com/johan/2005/08/linux-gate/

http://articles.manugarg.com/systemcallinlinux2_6.html

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9506353/how-to-invoke-a-s...
Oh no its not. I wish it were, but its not. The BBC is desperately, which much justification and reason, avoiding controversy.

If they cant effectively moderate then they should stop all comments.
keep up the good work foundation guys! It is always awesome to use a css framework which has mobile responsiveness enabled by default and just gets better!
Can anyone answer this: wouldn't this information have been forced to be public as part of any successful criminal trial?

Wasn't MIT's network setup directly at issue?
Oh, and a clock too.

This brings to mind an unrelated product design gripe of mine. Two things that I hate about my kitchen are the clock on my microwave and the clock on my stovetop. I've got a perfectly serviceable clock on the wall in my kitchen; I neither need nor want clocks on those displays.

Sadly, it seems as though every manufacturer of anything with an LCD takes this same approach: we can put a clock on our widget, so of course we should put one on it. In the case of my microwave, this leads to dedicated buttons for configuring the clock. And naturally, every time the power cuts out, these clocks end up blinking at me in anger. Naturally, neither appliance provides a means to disable the clocks. And a piece of tape doesn't do the job, since the same LCD is used for all other cooking metrics.

A plea to product designers everywhere: please don't add mandatory features just because you can.
Just because you have a smart phone, does not mean you automatically have to hook it up to all of your email or "hangouts." It is quite possible to have a phone and use it for your own purposes. To think that the only way to "get lost" is to avoid a smart phone is akin to saying you refuse to ever buy a map of where you are going because that would be too easy.

That said, we avoided them for a time simply because of the cost. Paying upwards of $100 a month is insane for a phone bill. We are currently trying out republic wireless. They've been rather nice so far.
Douglas Engelbart would be proud.

I wonder which will be more common in a few years - something like this, or collaboration fully in the cloud, like c9.io.
Defeatist thinking is not going to get you to places in life.
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I own two android devices, a Defy+ and a Nexus 7, and I have no use for them, and instead use an old gray screen Nokia dumb phone.

The main reasons are:

- Battery life. My Nokia holds 7-14 days, depending on how much I actively use it.

- Industrial customers: I can not enter factories with a phone that has a camera.

I thought about using the Defy+ as a navigation aid for sailing, but:

- The GPS is unable to get a lock, if there is no cell phone connection.

- The display is not readable in sunlight.

- The compass is a bad joke.

So the only use case remaining is: A water proof camera that shows only noise in dim light with a display that is not readable in bright light.

I have unpacked, loaded, booted the Nexus 7 once. Since then its collecting dust in the shelf.
I have a favorite screw driver. On occasion, I use the back of it as a hammer and it works quite well in that capacity on some jobs.

The lengthy discussions have not only been interesting, they've often given me a swath of new ideas and approaches to a problem I haven't previously considered. Human brains don't function in binary and often move to ternary or quaternary switching or more to yield to a better result.

SO's conformity has a hopelessly awkward enforcement that is both unnatural for human beings and, is ultimately, Not Constructive. That's not my opinion; as the commenters on this thread have repeatedly shown, it's empirically observed fact.

Programming (hell, technology in generally) should be humane as they (should) ultimately serve humans and is advanced by humans. I refuse to not act like one.
Well, I used it in a casual way for making it seem like an obvious decision - the perception having been part of my opinion.

Please allow me to correct myself - Most people wouldn't have taken the bet nor have the insight to do so. Steve Ballmer or maybe Steve Sinofsky or someone did. And they are not most people.

It's a billion dollar strategy. Not easy to make.
I believe it does. I vaguely remember seeing something along those lines in the setup screens.
I think that when a founder is no longer at the helm, companies have to do more mainstream things when it comes to appealing to wall street.
I can't get lost, too good sense of direction.

So I carry a smart phone anyways.
Yes. I know. I'm a bit confused. But I think I have a grasp on it now. Thanks. :-)
I'm in no way condoning violence, threats or harassment of any kind.

But the faceless bureaucracy is the problem. If people can make stupid decisions then not take responsibility because someone somewhere on the internet said something dumb then these problems will never get fixed.
I also still use a dumb phone (flip phone, no internet, no apps). Here's my logic for not getting a smartphone:

1. similar to the author of the blog post, I appreciate the idealistic benefits of not having a smartphone. I already spend too much time on the internet, and I feel no desire to spend more time online. Additionally, I've somewhat come to enjoy asking people for directions in cities when I'm lost (particularly when I don't speak the language of the city).

2. Cost. As of now, the only times when I think "A smartphone would be convenient" is when I'm in a new city and I don't know my way around. I figure this only happens for a couple of weeks per year for me, and the small amount of convenience a smartphone would add is not worth the cost of a phone. I recognize that I would probably get more hooked on Facebook/Twitter/Instagram/whatever and that I might view that as utility if I owned a smartphone, but right now I view that as a time/productivity cost to avoid.

3. Shit like http://www.beneaththewaves.net/Projects/Motorola_Is_Listenin... . I have much less idea what sort of things are happening on a smartphone compared to a desktop/laptop, and I don't think I'm satisfied with the current state of mobile security. Also, having a smart phone is essentially moving the sensors closer to yourself (front facing camera, GPS, accelerometer, etc) and leads to a much more intimate form of computing. This just makes the eventual privacy violations even more damaging.

On the other hand, here are some things that made me wish I had a smartphone:

1. Currently, I wish I could use Simple (formerly Bank Simple) for my banking. However, "to be eligible (for Simple), you must: Own an iOS device with iOS 5.0 or higher, or an Android phone running Android OS 2.3.3 (Gingerbread) or higher.". :(

2. I'm in the process of writing an application that needs to know if I've completely tasks (real world offline tasks) at given times. Without a smartphone, I can push requests no further than email, which I only see when I check my laptop. Being able to push requests into my pocket would be very useful.

3. I'm somewhat interested in gathering personal data throughout the day (such as heart rate, how many steps I've walked, etc). A smartphone is pretty much necessary to use any products like Jawbone UP that allow this.

I realize some of my reasons against getting a smartphone directly contradict some of my reasons for wanting a smartphone, but I think that's actually very representative of the mixed bag smartphones are.
>even if it would yield no practical cure.

But it seems they suggest something, indirectly: go jogging (more oxygen) and ban/reduce sugar consumption.
Hi,

I'm the author of the original article and I'm happy to receive e-mail at my EFF address (as another commenter pointed out, you can find my staff information page by clicking on my name there).

The focus of my post is the legal uncertainty about why Microsoft may not be able to improve the cryptographic privacy of Skype (even if they accepted our view that they ought to). Microsoft's recent statement seem to suggest Microsoft thinks there are now (or will soon be) legal considerations limiting its ability to protect users' privacy.

I'm aware of the key exchange problem and, in fact, the (lack of a) way for users to verify keys is the particular kind of anti-eavesdropping protection that my article calls out. I don't think that the supernode architecture or Microsoft's changes to it necessarily made a major qualitative change to Skype's privacy properties. Microsoft made a blog post at the time of the architectural change, and again recently, denying that wiretapping was the motivation for the changes. It's possible that the changes made wiretapping Skype calls easier even if that wasn't the motivation for making them.

According to the 2005 report, Skype effectively functions as a CA for its users, but there is no way for the users to check whether the CA's statements are accurate.
There's really no feedback loop against doing anything stupid with the current monetary system; quite the opposite - becoming insolvent is apparently subsidized by the federal reserve apparatchiks. The banks cant lose no matter what, so you can't expect very much rational economic activity to occur.

Now rewrite your post in the context of the federal government's promises. (Total unfunded liabilities).

>Doesn't look too encouraging for anybody

Indeed, save perhaps private security guards.