skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have been using an iPad + ssh to connect to my linux desktop for a while, similar to the way the author did in the linked article. I found it to be an excellent way to work, using a bluetooth keyboard on the iPad. I did this for about 6 months before I, too, switched to a Surface about 3 weeks ago. I found that I no SSH client worked consistently enough on the iPad + bluetooth keyboard for me to get things done.

Here are my (hopefully) brief thoughts on the Surface (Pro). I agree with the author's take that it's clunky as a tablet. I noticed the same sort of rotation issues with windows resizing oddly. I find the lack of automatic auto-correct to be frustrating, since typing on the screen keyboard is hard (although in some ways I do like the Surface's screen keyboard better than the iPad's, mainly because it has a fuller range of keys, like a programmer typically expects, and I like having the number pad since you're having to switch the keyboard to get to the numbers anyway).

I also found that scrolling windows in the browser (a common task on a tablet) works considerably less well on the Surface. It seems to be best in IE, but in Firefox and Chrome sometimes my finger will scroll the window with a touch, but sometimes it just seems to select text. Window management is the same old problem as on every windowed device, but now more difficult when trying to hit the small window border with your finger. Of course, full screen is still an option.

I considered buying a MacBook Air, and in some ways wish I had (battery life comes to mind) but I like that the Surface is a real PC as well as an OK tablet, and I really wanted the Wacom pen (something I have a particular fondness for). While I wouldn't recommend the Surface generally to people, it fit my usage pattern well. I can still connect to my desktop, SSH works as expected, but I can also work locally if I want to install stuff. For me, it beats the iPad + ssh pattern, but really only in the way any ultra-portable laptop would.
Over one-fifth of people use ad-blocking software
I feel the authors pain, both from trying to learn frameworks with missing documentation ("I want to use this function, but there aren't even comments on it :D"), and having a father who once told me I was retarded for being unable to convert hex to binary in my head. I was ten.

I agree with the authors main points, but I'm kinda vexed by him trying to label it documentation. Technically, what he's proposing people to write is guides, not just documentation. If I write a piece of code, and I explain what it does, then that's documenting it, and the result is documentation. If I show you in writing how to use it, I guide you. It's a guide.

So is a guide documentation? You could classify it like that, but i think that will be a source of confusion. A better term encompassing both guides and documentation would be supplemental documents, encompassing everything that is not code. So we get
code
supplemental documents
-guides
-documentation
--comments
--reference manuals

Or something like that. I'm really just being finicky, but I like categorizing things.
I hear a lot of ex-pats who move to a non-income-tax state (like Texas) just before they move overseas. If your US residence is still in a state with income tax, even though you don't live there you still get taxed on your overseas income because as a US citizen you still have residence in your state even if you don't live there. It doesn't matter if you're physically there or not.

The only other alternative is to renounce your US citizenship if you never plan on coming back.
Where can we see the list of all the languages available? Is Quechua available? (Peruvian/Bolivian and the incas native language )
Burner phones?
Thanks for sharing this. It's pretty amazing how much you made from Amazon affiliate revenue. Did that many people buy standing desks?
Be the founder of your own college experience
Yeesh, 12 new blog subscribers vs hundreds of app sales? I guess I'm guilty of not coming back to sites I find on here or twitter, but that's still a shockingly small number. I feel like it didn't used to be like that - is there a difference in the way people consume blogs vs how they did 5 years ago?
A Programmable Quadrotor
Somehow I doubt the database detailing the history of subpoenas is as accurate as the one containing all the phone records.

Is there anything like the FISA court for these subpoenas? I couldn't find any kind of checks on their power.
I'd rather teach them how to swim when they are young.
Next-generation Kindle Paperwhite
So AT&T kept records for 26 years and counting. Information that includes location of caller. I am very happy drug dealers were caught, but 26 years? There is some serious potential for abuse.
My Norwegian step-father just gave you a thumbs up.

I'm gonna retort with lemondrop. Much more my taste. Although a Lutefisk smoothie does sound tasty ;)
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SEEKING WORK - El Segundo, Los Angeles, CA - Remote or Local

I'm a full-stack developer with 19 years of professional experience as programmer, project lead, independent consultant, and co-founder. I architect and build web applications with a personal level of support and fine attention to detail.

Portfolio and contact:

http://www.twinbits.net

Technologies:

- Node.js
- C#, ASP.NET
- JavaScript, CoffeeScript
- SQL Server
- MongoDB
- AWS (EC2, Elastic Beanstalk, S3, SES, RDS)
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I have a Kindle 3 and the sole reason why I haven't upgraded to a Paperwhite is lack of page turn buttons.
CVV codes without autocomplete attribute
Whenever I submit a form with CVV codes I wonder about if the company is storing CVV codes.

I went to MyDomain.com to update my CC and their form has a CVV code that doesn't have the autocomplete='off' attribute so my browser remembers the CVV number.
I opened a ticket to let them know.

MyDomain.com:
"CVV number is your additional protection to ensure that your Credit Card information is not being used fraudulently."
I replied - that is my point.

MyDomain.com:
"If you still feel CVV number is in the account seen please get back with screenshot of the page."
I replied - No, then you'd have my CVV code with is supposed to be private. (their ticketing system doesn't allow screenshots either)

MyDomain.com:
"Yes, the CVV number is not visible for the customers due to Security reason."
I replied - It's not PCI DSS compliant to store CVV codes, it may even be illegal.

MyDomain.com's legal response:
"I wanted to personally take an opportunity and confirm that we do "not" store CVV information, nor do we store the entire 16 digits of a credit card."
I replied - How do you charge my card without the number?

MyDomain.com's legal response:
"At this time we have no immediate plans on making specific changes to our billing submission forms as you have requested"

It makes me uncomfortable using a company that doesn't understand the internet to hold all of my domains. If you have suggestions of other domain registrars please comment. I am thinking of migrating.
The irony is that New York and San Francisco are both overpriced, nearly below sea level, and think that piling festering garbage all over the sidewalks three times a week is a good idea.
If someone stole your car and you tell me that, then I know why are you angry. My question is about a situation when I see you being angry and I don't know the reason why.

>"How would you respond to my hypothetical rant above, where someone has stolen my car?"

Who knows ... perhaps: "That fucking asshole. Look! Here he comes ... Let's kick his ass!"
I just got a paperwhite a month ago as a present, having owned the last pre-paperwhite model - it's fabulous. This "All New" model seems to be... almost exactly the same?

Anyone know how software updates tend to apply to older kindles? as a lot of the "Features" seem to be minor software tweaks....
> It's also why I buy my books hardcover now: more cash for the author.

Isn't this true, Amazon or not? Hardcovers cost the customer more than paperbacks or ebooks, so the author should be getting hopefully a larger cut of the sale.

I think this program (if it has enough titles that I've bought in the past) is going to be awesome. I've never bought a Kindle because paying almost the same price for the Kindle version of a book vs. the paperback cost is ridiculous. Now with this program I will buy a Kindle so I can read my past purchases via that when I'm traveling, and my paperback versions when I'm sitting around at home.

Does anyone know if you can actually use this program with used book purchases? I've bought many books used (many times for only a few bucks including shipping), so I don't know if they would be eligible for this program or not.
As does the Ukrainian voice sample.
>> Unfortunately, I've found that the really technical posts which are awesome never seem to stick around for that long which is why it's good to check out /new every so often too.

That's the kind of... sad? Part of HN. Hardly anything lives for more than a day on home page. And links on /new have a few hours and then they got lost.

Not sure about others but I personally tend to look at the posts which already have a vote or two, while skipping the ones which don't. Eh, social proof goes quite far.

I think there is an opportunity for a tool which would extract the keywords from the post (not the title) and would give me some content from /new which you wouldn't have discovered from top pages. Been thinking about it for a while, what do you reckon folks?
Got a DX size? Nope? Not interested.

Seriously. It's 2013. Make something that feels and has the space of a full-sized book. It's not that hard. Hell, use it as a loss-leader if you can't make the numbers work.
It's open to self-published authors. I just opted-in to make by eBook 99 cents for anyone who buys the paperback.
Where do you see anything scammy on the website?

I see "Learn more about KitKat" and "Learn more about Nexus", both of them lead to exactly what's described.
More one day in Hacker news first page. Congrats =D
> I have to admit ... I'm not a native speaker of English, but asking a question and "telling you how to feel" are two different things.

They are in general, but they aren't in the specific case where the premise on which the question is based is a claim about the feelings of the person to whom the question is addressed, e.g., "Why are you so angry?", which is equivalent to "You are so angry. Why is that?"
Interesting to note here is that the ATT _gave_ those records "on its own", versus being subpoena via DEA by a judge, something that 99% of judges in their sound mind would have never ever ever agreed on, even in today's world.

I had a hard time believing that ATT would have done something like this out of their own free will, as they would have never done anything that could undermine their sales and bottom line (potentially) so severely.

I put "on its own" in quotes because knowing the way Government thugs are conducting themselves, most likely the ATT had been heavily blackmailed under the table this or another way and at some point they have given up (Wikipedia: tyranny). Don't be surprised if in couple of years from now the administration will change, and the management of ATT will change, and then you will see some tiny PR-lawsuit surfacing that yes indeed ATT were pushed by DEA and now they are "suing".
*announced it. See the bottom of the page, its a mailing list for when they release.
/vim<CR>
Windows Phone is in second place in Latin America now. I wouldn't say "no customers" so quick.
Got some comments that RiakCS and OpenStack Swift should be included though I think both are very mature. That list could have been longer with things like Ansible and SaltStack too.
Something that doesn't get much mention is the shear weight of a decent vinyl collection. I helped a friend move his collection of several thousand records across the city a few months ago and, despite being a fairly fit guy, it was backbreaking. I was actually slightly concerned that his shelves would punch holes in his floor.

I think perhaps expectations for what a standard size music collection have changed as music media has become lighter and lighter.
Starting a counter for headlines containing "break". (already counting around 4 from google news)
Traveling without seeing
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I'm really glad that they didn't go the Twitter route and develop something completely new.
Microsoft's Illusion
They think they are a good software company, but they aren't.
Does anyone know of software that does speech to IPA (or any phonetic representation)?

If such a thing exist then it should be possible to write a program which compares the users pronunciation to the official one and gives tips and exercises on getting closer to the proper way of speaking. I can see some difficulties with differences depending on the speakers native language and the target language.

What do you think?
But if it's just one person maintaining the wiki, with a few others contributing, why have a wiki at all instead of a centrally curated guide?

With wiki like systems, you get noise (in the form of people making mistaken changes, malicious changes, etc.). There's really only two ways you can guarantee quality, which is either the aforementioned person reversing those changes (undoubtedly additional work), or enough people checking those edits, improving or reverting them.

But your small to medium size project isn't going to garner enough people to have the latter option work well. And if you have a small group of people that would be willing to do that maintenance work, why not just write some documentation together with them?
That technique is exceedingly inefficient (download-wise) though, at least if your markup is anything but trivial.
The power of open source. Shame on Google.
God yes I miss those buttons on my paperwhite :(

I also wish I could turn the backlight off completely rather than just lower it to the lowest setting.
Yeah.. I didn't think that through. Amazon becoming more monopolistic isn't 'absolutely' awesome for the consumer. You're right. Heck, the price of physical books on amazon may start to creep up now - no one can compete with them for miles anyway.
So basically if you bought a book in the past from Amazon, you may be able to get a kindle version for up to $3. Its not a bad deal for customers and additional revenue in Amazon's coffers for a minor service. I think they should make it a flat rate at $0.50 and drop the variable pricing.
> In my view, if I ask you "why are you so angry?" I perceive you as being angry.

If you want to ask a question about the reason for the facts on which you make that inference without telling someone how they feel, you ask the question about the reason for the facts, rather than asking them to explain a mental state that you have inferred about them.
A successful YCombinator exit. Congrats guys. Will miss you from London. When's the party? ;-)
Then there would be a war on piracy. How would you like it if they kept 20 years of your downloading habits? Do you think that in 20 years time they could find something to incriminate you?

And that's why it's so wrong to keep data for so long, and actually be able to use it.
Give me a break..
Quote: "At the same time, literally thousands of white men have engaged me solely to derail, discredit and co-opt conversation about systemic inequalities and the lived experiences of marginalized and oppressed people in our industry."

The solution is so obvious that I am astonished that people like the author haven't thought of it -- stop whining, stop listening to haters of both genders, and start schools and companies with the express aim of teaching women technology, and then employing women. Women helping women.

There's no rational basis for the idea that women have any deficits that would prevent this idea from working, indeed all evidence points in the opposite direction: when motivated, women easily produce first-rate technology and personally enriching experiences as well.

There's just one tiny, little, trivial, detail -- women must stop playing the victim and blaming men for their problems. This is simultaneously necessary and fair, because the problems women face in 2013 aren't caused by men, they're caused by women.

Women have the right to vote, the right to self-determination, the right to an education, and 60% of the money:

http://www.businessinsider.com/infographic-women-control-the...

Quote: "More women are taking the reins on their finances, holding 60 percent of all personal wealth and 51 percent of all stocks in the U.S. ..."

Want to keep feminism from becoming a mildly amusing historical footnote? Stop whining, start networking. Anyone who thinks men are the networking experts haven't watched women communicate information they consider important.

The single biggest obstacle to gender equality are women who undermine other women by trying to blame men for problems women can easily solve for themselves.
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The site offers https but is broken when using it. It shows no questions.
About 90%. Yeah, I'm one of those programming language nerds (to the point that I'm irritated I only got ~90%!).
I started using emacs about seven years ago after about eight years of exclusively using vim, primarily because I wanted to see what the editor war's were all about (and because I got the blues from work and needed something uplifting...) I agree with the learning curve, and constantly am fine tuning my setup and configuration, but once you've mastered the basics, it truly becomes one of the most powerful editors. Plus it is constantly evolving (e.g., multiple cursors).

Another good emacs guide that I came across recently is:

http://m00natic.github.io/emacs/emacs-wiki.html

Additional resources I found helpful:

http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/EmacsNiftyTricks

http://web.psung.name/emacstips/essential.html

Plus, check out the videos from Magnar Sveen's emacs rocks:

http://emacsrocks.com
I like it. Thumbs up to Google for the name.
s/Drugs/Terror
Nice! And I wouldn't call it "very basic". It's inspiring to see how far you've gone, even at such a young age.

I took a shot at os development and it took me almost a month of reading to get something that boots and handles interrupts (https://github.com/raaapha/sos), and I'm in college. Now _that_ is "very basic"!
That's a straw man. No one said we should return to 1950. The point was that, on the specific issue of attitudes towards risk, we should be more like we were in 1950.
I'd go with Marzipan
"KitKat's SEO (for the candy bar) just dove into nothingness. Forever." -my boss
You can turn it off completely, the lowest setting is off.
You'd be surprised by how lucrative Amazon's affiliate program can be. Keep in mind that the referrer will get a commission on any Amazon purchase made within 24 hours. So while the blog post in question had a large focus on a single product, I can confidently assume that the majority (or around 30-40%) of the revenue came from purchases made that were unrelated to the product linked to by the original affiliate link.
Used Apple products do hold their value better than anything - personally I think people pay way too much for used Apple gear, but hey, they have their high-end niche and people are willing to pay for it.

But to say that selling his computer would net him little more than the Windows license is absurd. It wouldn't be Apple resale prices, but he should definitely be able to get %50 back. He'd get the most value by parting out the system.
Seconded! Especially with magit (and I suppose with vc in general) key chords are really nice.
WildUtah,
thanks for the details. Very useful and interesting.

So, I was right in thinking that pronouncing English is harder than, say, Italian or Japanese.

Unfortunately, written Japanese is super hard IMHO, or most non-western alphabets.

Simone
Horrible UI and most of the examples were from obscure languages. The only one I got right was assembly and that is scary...
I don't think Samsung and HTC (what others?) have a serious relationship with Microsoft. IMHO, they just made 1-2 phones to test the water and keep some expertise inhouse and handy in case they wanted to put more focus on it. I think not much will change.
I posted the comment about wanting Mac hardware, and I could not have explained it better than you have above.

Thanks, you are spot-on.
Well excuse me for reiterating and crediting a concise appealing statement of a notion I share. I quote not as a talisman, but as making a point without reinventing the verbiage for it. I think it's pretty obvious to anyone on this site that the reference to "irrelevant" activities was not celebrating harmful behavior.

You're seriously equating "retro home photo printing" with "stoners, punks & drunks" just because it's "irrelevant"? Really? Is the difference not obvious? Do I really have to spell it out?

BTW: the USA was created by a bunch of libertarians.
I might be biased (I'm the author), but I don't think that emacs-starter-kit prevents you from doing things the normal way. You can still modify your emacs config and include vendor elisp, and ESK doesn't make it more difficult.

And with the tutorial - I have a pretty low opinion of it. I mean, it starts out talking about how to navigate up and down one screen - who cares about that when they're starting to learn a new editor? Who? Emacs already has a reputation for being obscure and difficult, and the tutorial does not help.

This frustration isn't directed at you, of course - I appreciate the comment. In general, though, I think that Emacs instructions would be better if they had a little more empathy for the learner. As a new person, I don't care about hearing all this magical stuff about emacs right off the bat - I can't even make sense of it because I have no context. Just show me how to actually do real work.
Please stop spreading misinformation. Your assertion has no grounds on reality.
It's socially expected to use business devices and do work on a plane. Same in Starbucks. In a nice quiet cafe by the sea that sort of thing is simply out of place.
Cheers Jai. My sales process is flawed and still evolving but I'm grateful for the positive feedback.
what chuck said
September 10th event confirmed by Apple, new iPhones on the way
The balance between delegating and doing
Are you referring to front-end design/development? If so, there are many subscription based websites as well as free websites to use.

Sub-based:
CodeAcademy (mentioned by anthonycerra), teamtreehouse.com and codeschool.com are a few.

Free:
Udacity.com (some HTML5 and design courses), w3schools.com and stackoverflow.

As systemtrigger said using Chrome Dev tools and changing style rules is incredibly useful. Do not neglect using dev tools. In Chrome shift+control+j will bring up the tools, and I highly recommend just playing around in that environment. Type in scripts in the console and just see the different things you can do with JQUERY and Javascript.

Best of all is to have a basis for an idea and just start hacking something together. If you have any questions you can email me at stintaril@gmail.com and I will try and help.
I should add that you may also email me. I'm drosen0 at gmail.
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Design is a learned skill with rules and techniques. Design is visual engineering.

The confusion that design has something to do with art irritates me every time I come across a fellow developer that is confused in this regard.

If art is fiction, design is technical writing. Though they are both made of words they couldn't be more different.
it looks like a little hut/house surrounded by a tall fence. What a fantastic thing!
The DEA uses "administrative subpoenas", which they are allowed to unilaterally issue for anything relevant to an investigation.

Here's an older article on them: http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/08/administrative-subp...