skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Somewhere in Redmond, someone is gnashing their teeth, muttering, "Why isn't anyone mentioning Surface?" [typo edit]
Historically, netbooks were exploding in popularity because they were cheap and good enough. One factor to their cheapness was they didn't run Windows, but linux instead.

MS then did something very insightful, courageous and (to me) disappointing: they sold Windows for next to nothing on netbooks (I think it was $20 or something). This stopped them being disrupted by linux.

Sadly, netbooks faded quickly. Putting what others have said in a different context, what killed netbooks was the same thing that killed desktops and laptops: smartphones and tablets. They are cheaper, more convenient, easier to use - and powerful enough for what people need to do. Desktops, laptops and yes even netbooks overshoot mainstream needs.

FWIW I'm currently using an eee PC 701 (i.e. the original netbook), and it's only the iPhone 5 that finally caught up with it. But that didn't stop earlier iPhones and androids from meeting most people's need better than it.

PS: as for intel, I believe Atoms far too slow in themselves, quite apart from "PCI Express and digital video outputs" http://www.itexaminer.com/intels-atom-is-a-gem.aspx so I don't was Intel that killed them.
Run it in Firefox on Android. Android default browser is junk.
Ask HN: What do you use for your typography base?
With a vast selection of CSS frameworks out there and a number of helpful tools, I couldn't but notice there is a lack of good typography base out there. Maybe I just can't find one, and I am not an expert in the field.

I'm talking about a good base for readability on blogs and larger amounts of text (like documentation or stories).

So, what do you guys use/prefer? I think a combination of what readability does with wikipedia would blend in nicely.
It's interesting that they chose to release this with FF 23. In a few weeks, FF 24 will be out which is an ESR. Seems like that would be an easier path to take for something like this since they'd have to deal with a major update every 10 months instead of medium updates every 6 weeks.
Ah... hosts.allow & hosts.deny... I was wondering about that.
Thanks for letting me know.
System Requirements:

Windows

Operating Systems

Windows XP SP2, Server 2003, Vista, 7 or 8

Minimum Hardware

Pentium 4 or newer processor that supports SSE2
512MB of RAM
200MB of hard drive space

Mac

Operating Systems

Mac OS X 10.6 or later

Minimum Hardware

Macintosh computer with an Intel x86 processor
512 MB of RAM
200 MB hard drive space

Sounds like a relic
Israel and Russia are considered 1st world countries. That implies a level of social progressivism and standards of living that 3rd world countries don't have. So when a country fails to live up to those standards they get criticism.

You might see that as propaganda, I see that as acknowledgement of reality. Everybody expects Israel to behave like the democracy they claim to be, nobody expects the Sudan - with its self-appointed president of nearly 25 years - to behave like a democracy. In other words, Sudan's problems are a symptom of Sudan's level of social progress, while Israel and Russia's problems are seen as an aberration in their level of social progress. You would never see the Olympics hosted in Sudan.

As for immigrants being criticized for holding 3rd world views after moving to a 1st world country, they don't have the kind of power that a government does so the harm they can do by acting on their beliefs is significantly less than what the state could do.
> "Houses shouldn't have locks; you've got glass windows, don't you?! It's a false sense of security!"

Chrome's threat model [1] paints a different analogy. In their view—which I do think is reasonable—the OS is the house and Chrome is simply a room in the house. You don't put locks on all of the interior doors of your house to keep out burglars who might've bypassed your front door, do you?

Their threat model makes sense for many users, and it's flawed for many others. One valid criticism that I do support of Chrome's model of handling passwords is the obscurity of it all. Users as a whole should certainly have a much better idea of how their passwords are being handled.

[1] http://www.chromium.org/Home/chromium-security/security-faq#...
I submitted a link to this yesterday, but realized I misconfigured nginx/sbcl and so the "try" page ended up almost crashing the server, so I took it the link down a few minutes later. I'm resubmitting now.

If anyone has feedback let me know!
Good that nothing happened to her except getting a bit scared.

Jacques, if you happen to come to Poland again, shoot me an e-mail, I'll buy you a beer :).
Abandoned McDonald's Holds Glimpse of Life on Moon [video]
India : Rejecting a job offer? Get ready to pay penalty
I like my Firefox "unoptimised", thank you very much.

well, that's one way to be satisfied with modern browsers.
> The specs only need to be higher if you want to run modern Windows on it.

I agree, and that's the tragedy of the situation.

The first netbooks shipped with Linux, and Microsoft saw that as a threat, so they started licensing Windows at very low rates for netbooks. When the cost difference was minimal to ship Windows on netbooks, that's what vendors did, and the Windows netbooks dominated the market.

Once they'd conquered the market, Microsoft pulled the bottom out by seriously limiting the capabilities of netbooks. Netbooks then developed a reputation of being slow because most of the netbooks on the market were running Windows and were slow. The "netbook" name was already tarnished, making it difficult for the original Linux netbook idea to succeed.
I think that's the closest (also asus transformer), but the ARM Chromebook is a lot bigger than an eee 701 (though similar weight). It's more like a super-light laptop - a macbook air.
I saw no assumption about your motivation, he just found your response the same as that which he would "expect to hear from the sort of person who stiffs people". I happen to agree with him.

Noting this does not require thinking you are one of those people. There is an explanation that is at least equally plausible: You, like so many others, have been inculcated with contradictory views by a society which gives power freely to the dishonest, while purporting to value honesty, but in a form designed to further empower the dishonest.
Time-lapse showing every protest around the world since 1979
> There is apparently not space in this article for the important qualifier: during a search incident to arrest.

Why do you say that? In the article it clearly states:

> The case in question dates back to 2007, when a man from Massachusetts was arrested for allegedly selling crack cocaine. Police seized his cell phone and, without a warrant, searched its contents to access information that allowed them to locate the defendant’s home.

Did it not say that when you wrote this comment, or were you merely commenting on the headline or first two paragraphs of the article?
I think the devices + services model is basically something that Ballmer wasn't really prepared to do. Microsoft isn't designed for that. It's designed around packaged software and selling to large enterprises on 2-4 year replacement cycles.

In hardware, it's a lot about supply chain management, something that Apple is basically the best in the world, far better than even Dell. A $900,000,000 write down is proof that MSFT doesn't understand supply chain management. Amazon understands how to manage these things, and that's why they often launch in the US first, then worldwide later. Google relies on hardware vendors to manage the supply chain and also has super limited distribution of their own devices to reduce risk.

One early report on the Surface said the Surface people didn't even talk to the Xbox people during development. So, it's not much of a surprise that the distribution didn't go well if they didn't really talk to the one team at MSFT that has done global hardware distribution.

In software services, you have to roll out updates more often. Microsoft is trying harder, but they need to get major releases out yearly and minor updates every couple months. Microsoft is going to do better at catching up in software services than hardware, but they aren't there yet and it's unclear that Ballmer and co. are totally willing to shift to a more web/net oriented mindset. Office 365 is probably the best example of executing on software services at scale and making a lot of money, but they got rid of guys like J Allard and Ray Ozzie who were pushing for devices and services almost 10 years ago.

Ultimately, Ballmer is not a devices guy or a services guy. He's a very very smart businessman who cut his teeth selling boxed software and to large enterprises. Things that weren't large enterprise or boxed software Windows were never going to get the same kind of support under him simply because that's not his perspective by default.

It is going to be a real challenge for Microsoft to find someone who can rebuild MSFT for the future.
Indeed, "According to the documents leaked by Edward Snowden, on one occasion when the Americans were breaking into UN communications, they discovered the Chinese had tried to do the same."

Guess it was not only an "attempt", they probably succeeded, they are rather skilled.

I wonder what two spies talk about when they stumble upon each other ?
"Oh Hello, you're already there ? Am I late ? What did they say until now ?"
I would personally like some insights from the community on this as well. Not a designer per sè, but I'm a big fan of clean, readable and beautiful typography.
How is 1978 to 2000 blank? Were all the cool kids who added random NSA filter bait to their usenet and email sigs in the 90's just watching too much x-files?

Maybe this is why I lack the same level of outrage as the kids do over Snowden's disclosures: I've pretty much always assumed the NSA has always had pretty much everything (along with the Russians and the Chinese and I guess the Time Warner Corporation and now Google).
Get Your Oyster Card balance in Apple Passbook
Maybe android tablet + ubuntu + keyboard?
Boob bombs: breast implants suicide bomb a threat to aviation
Disruptions: A Blogger Mocks the Denizens of Silicon Valley
The return of Valleywag.
India needs more early stage funding
The major news is stalking love interests,

Remember in MiB when J uses surveillance satellites to check up on his love interest?

I don't know the granularity of FB access logging, but I imagine employees aren't verboten from looking up anything about anyone. At one time, it was a perk ("Join us and SPY ON ALL YOUR FRIENDS! LOL!").

There have been reports of google sysadmins stalking people (ex-lovers) by using their root-level gmail/account access. Supposedly google has since instituted finer grained access logging that will alert if someone is working outside of their authority (but, who locks down executive/CEO authority?).

I'm paranoid. I think, in Sergey's office, there's page that looks like google.com, but it flatly searches every gmail/gtalk/gvoice message ever sent or received. Their speciality is search and you give them all your private communications? Yeah, that'll end well.
I thought of posting about the _NSAKEY some time ago, but searched HN and found quite a few references, without much discussion. It seems (for reasons I cannot understand) to be greatly ignored. I find it to be particularly relevant post-Snowden.

Even back when it was first discovered it seemed to be forgotten virtually overnight - everyone seemed to buy into Microsoft's feeble explanation.
Because the Surface RT 474 € with a keyboard cover+, and it only runs silly Metro apps, making it useless for many people.

(+ Quick check on Amazon Germany (where I live), probably cheaper in the US but still around $450.)
It's worth thinking through the implications of adding bio-metric security features to smartphones
Can anyone point to a good overview of the entire situation from a respectable source? This page just screams of conspiracy theory, however true (or not) it might be.
Yep. It should fall under fair use - even tho i know the law actually doesn't include this as fair use unfortunately.
Because the theme music is awesome
> They (and their advertisers) stand to benefit massively the easier people are identified and profiled.

I agree that predatory advertisers are the scourge of the modern Internet, but one can profile a nickname as easily as a real name. On the other hand, it is certainly true that a person posts more carefully if his real name is attached to the result.

From the perspective of a website operator, a nickname has an associated IP, and a real name has an IP -- they're the same, both easily tracked. A nickname arises in a browser indexed with cookies, as does a real name.

> ... nothing but a load of self serving bullshit ...

And the tone of your reply proves my point.
I feel nostalgia for IE6 toolbars now.

This was the wrong way to integrate Yahoo into Firefox. Firefox should have done it as an "option" rather than Yahoo doing the reverse. They successfully made this version of Firefox feel like a crapware toolbar analog that will sniff my browsing history and add no value to my browsing experience or life. Google, on the other hand, successfully did what Yahoo is trying to do. They released what was perceived to be a new browser: Google Chrome. Few had heard of Chromium before Google massaged the codebase it into Google Chrome, but everybody's heard of Firefox. Yahoo should have developed the Super Awesome Browser 9000 (even if they used a previously unknown browser as a starting point -- Opera doesn't count) instead of just slapping some branding on one of the most popular and famous browsers. Perhaps they also thought piggy backing on the Firefox branding was going to help them; it won't.

I predict this version of Firefox will be adopted by almost nobody, primarily because nobody really cares about Yahoo; their search just isn't up to snuff and their relevance is slowly fading. Yahoo is on borrowed time and they're executing poorly.

Oh, and fuck you Yahoo for not making your crapware available to Linux users.
So Germany should close the US bases there?
Google going strong on introducing self-driving car
I guess they didn't get the memo about the new Firefox logo.
This article was worth it to me if only for the following observation:

And there we have a clue as to why, in modern computing, modular code is not high-performance code. The very advantage of modularity is the source of its performance cost: modularity is the ability to do things other than what you did. Modularity is the ability to reuse the same idea in many different ways and in many different places.
I'm still using my 5 year old Acer Aspire One, and I've seen them for sale in a few of the big box stores. I paid $99 for mine. (Intel Atom N270, 1GB RAM, 160GB hdd, built-in 3G modem, WiFi)

I've been really happy with this netbook, and the price was unbeatable.

https://www.google.com/search?q=Acer+Aspire+One+for+sale
How does it happen that every Github blog post hits #1 on first page?
The most effective way to find a tech job in London
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Acer, Asus and MSI all tried pre-loading Linux on netbooks. It caused them no end of pain and cost them loads of cash, so they mostly stopped.

I did actually suggest to all three that they should combine and pre-load a common version of Ubuntu but they weren't interested. In 2008, in Taiwan, Asus's netbook boss Johnny Chen told me that part of the appeal of Linux was that they could control their own OS.

However, at the time, they didn't know how much pain there was in getting Linux drivers for, for example, a couple of dozen USB modems to work with dozens of ISPs in 32 languages across 50 countries, or whatever. (I'm quoting from memory.)

They also didn't know how much money they would lose trying to support Linux for non-technical buyers. Netbook prices included so little profit that every support incident put you deeper and deeper into the red.

It was actually much cheaper and more profitable for them to install XP ULCPC than to install Linux. With XP they got marketing support (money!) from Intel and Microsoft plus cash-in-hand for installing crapware.

They also knew just about every new peripheral in the universe would work out of the box, and that if it didn't, most buyers would get support from friends, the people next door, the IT guy at work etc.

So maybe they're not actually as silly as you imagine ;-)
When they find a bag of white powder they have probable cause to believe it might be cocaine (who carries flour in plastic bricks?) and it's also reasonable at that point that they would pursue a warrant for the home. But when they find a cell phone they have no reason to suspect the phone contains evidence of a crime. There should be a separate warrant for the phone. The phone has all your information on it, they can look through your emails using it -- to my mind that's like getting a free pass to search a home because someone was arrested for something unrelated (like a drunk and disorderly or something).

Actually my philosophy is that the prosecution is wildly out of line, charging criminals with way more than what is appropriate, so we need fewer laws and a stronger Fourth and Fifth amendments if anything. Suppose they find a black humor joke on your FB wall via your phone? Now you're charged with felony thoughtcrime and your bail is half a million dollars.

And in general, if you give the government enough rope they will start hanging everyone with it. For example, downloading PDFs or CSVs from a public server using a fake User-Agent or changing your MAC allows the government to pursue decades-long sentences under the CFAA. That's bullshit.

So I don't support searching the phone during an arrest, they should be required to get a separate warrant for that.
The tablet has pretty much taken over the netbook niche, it seems, so your options are fairly limited.

I have a Sony Vaio E series 11.6" that I take around, but it's not a great option. For what I do on the road (email, some VS work and Photoshop), it's OK. Unfortunately, it too seems to be going out.

You can still get a fairly decent Acer :

http://www.amazon.com/B007582KGM

Acer AOD270-1375 10.1" Netbook (Intel Atom Processor N2600, 1GB DDR3 SDRAM, 320GB hard drive

Or Asus (still with Celeron):
http://www.amazon.com/B00COQK8QY

Intel Celeron 847 1.1 GHz 2 GB DDR3 10.1-Inch Screen and Ubuntu
Sorry, when I used "mathematical" in the quoted paragraph I did not mean an actual theorem in mathematics, I meant a scientific theory that involves heavy use of mathematics to describe some aspect of the world.

> Yes, true, but Occam's razor favors simple theories, and there's plenty of empirical support for the idea that a simple explanation is more likely to reflect reality than a complex one.

All Occam's razor tells us is that all else being equal, the simple theory is more likely to be correct than the more complex. I was not objecting to this observation, just pointing out that in only applies when all else is equal. There are some cases in which Occam's razor does not help you; when the problem being modeled is complex enough that you really do need a difficult, complicated model to accurately model it.

I think the big issue that OP has with economics is that it is neither beautiful, like much of pure mathematics, nor particularly grounded in empirical results, so it essentially winds up being a bunch of complexity for complexity's sake. That's the problem, not just the fact that a theory is complex and difficult to understand.
That's what I'm looking for and why I posted it...
I'd be willing to bet that 70% of HN has a GitHub account.
The title should probably be renamed to something more indicative that this is a GitHub services IP address change.
This sounds reasonable so the eventual ruling will probably be something totally orthogonal.
The Acer Aspire One comes in different sizes and configurations.

https://www.google.com/search?q=Acer+Aspire+One+for+sale
Silly customers won't buy them, unfortunately. It has to be Windows7 or OSX, everything else seems to be a deal breaker.

No offence here, i'm a linux user myself. Everywhere i go and look all i can see are macbook{air,pro} and i can't really understand why anyone would go with such a cage.
ExpressionEngine is sustaining a small team of developers. I assume Craft is profitable since Pixel and Tonic charges for certain add-ons and they also have a very small team. I assume Statamic is also profitable since the developers charge for it and I don't see how such a small operation could be running at a loss. There are probably a lot more examples that I don't know of.

Craft (Craft exited beta in 2013) and Statamic are relatively new and also have passionate communities. Sure, none of these examples are "blogging engines" by strict definition, but neither is Wordpress these days.

There is certainly a market for someone who sees a need for improvement and can sell that need to developers and end-users.

If you are referring strictly to an open source effort, this decision is personal. Everyone has their own motivations for what they do with their time. Not worth it for one person might be life changing for another.
Automation isn't the problem.

The problem is what to do with the displaced labor.
Sublime Text 2 is written in C++

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2822114
I don't get it either. Especially with such "important" news like some IP change.
I think a lot of the website above is meant to spark hysteria, which really makes me question the credibility of it all.

Some respectable sources do hint that something is definitely wrong, however:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/energy/2013/08/13082...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-23779561

http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/radioactive-gr...

http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5h8zQ1XO1x...
Adblock looking for crowdfunding to fund an advertising campaign for Adblock
NY sues Trump University
Sure, just like running a bot net is way to make money.
For those of you asking why some related item is excluded:

All of the evidence found in this timeline can also be found in the Summary of Evidence we submitted to the court in Jewel v. National Security Agency (NSA)

There is clearly more information that simply cannot be admitted as evidence in a legal case.
Because those of us that remember also remember it was basically a hoax.

Here is a rundown of 'incident' happened -

Researcher finds variable named _NSAKEY
...
...

That's it. From there we go to the la la land of conspiracy theories based entirely on the name of a variable.

But I'm just some guy on the internet. There's also this -
http://www.schneier.com/crypto-gram-9909.html#NSAKeyinMicros...
If you have been interested in math contests in middle and high school,you will clearly recognize the star calibre of some people on that page.I believe this is quite similar to Art of Problem Solving(AoPS).[1]

http://www.artofproblemsolving.com/