skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Frequently "poor people who became rich" stories leave out important details (e.g. the definition of 'poor' is pretty loose, an extraordinary overlap of luck and timing, etc.). That isn't to discount the actual "poor became rich" stories that are completely 'legitimate.' They exist.

But pointing them out as examples to diminish the importance of socioeconomic conditions impact on a person's choices is like holding up any statistical outlier as proof that the statistics are 'wrong.'
OLED will come. It's just now finding it's way into TVs, and still costs a fortune... When you think about it, a 5" OLED screen comes in a 700 dollar phone, most PCs cost that. Not many people would be willing to pay 2000 for a laptop with an OLED screen. Some people maybe, I know I would, but most wouldn't.

I think in 2-3 years you'll see Samsung Chromebooks and Ultrabooks with OLED screens...
Last time I checked, Apple's QuickTime Player was able to do this. There's even an option to show frame numbers in place of units of time in the UI.
OK Debbie Downer, what evidence is that based on?
Even when I've shown non gamers the general impression is very positive...
Just some thoughts based off of my experience.
The market for fingerprint readers for smart phones was almost nothing. Just look at the motorola atrix. Now Apple has added a fingerprint scanner and integrated it purely to make it slightly easier to log into your phone, and the iPhone 5s has sold out.

If Apple added proper pen support with palm rejection software APIs to an iPad, you'll bet that people will still buy iPads. Mums will use pens to annotate their extension plans for their new house, maps to the park for child birthdays. Kids will use the pen to become better illustrators which will help them be better communicators later in life. Uni students will use pens to jot down notes quickly and draw math equations with ease.

The pen on a tablet is not a niche. The Surface Pro is a niche product.
That's astonishingly naive. Who sets corporate, national and international policies?
Opera Mini still uses Presto. It is quite popular still, especially where people can't get 3G or better coverage.
Seeing as how this is HN, I knew someone was going to write this...
Not just auto spam; a lot of sites haunted the trends board and wrote stories. The most hilarious example was when 4chan bulked searched for "justin bieber syphillis" and created a burst of stories across the web.
I had the exact opposite experience. When I chatted with a service rep, not only did I get help with the configuration, but she was friendly, sent me a personalized email with the details, helped me with the purchase process, and even gave me a discount because I didn't want Windows (I prefer Linux).

And to be honest, most of the help was unsolicited, but was friendly and helpful so I accepted it. My experience buying a ThinkPad was overwhelmingly positive, and I also love the machine (I ponied up for the 1080p screen, which is fanstastic).
Oh I completely agree with what you describe. (I use exactly the MVC pattern you describe when I work on contracts to pay the bills.)

Personally, however, I maintain that even at the level you describe the tools just don't exist to reduce the time significantly unless you give up native application feel. I.e. streaming the view, and just sending the input back. The web is a great start to such a system, but it still has a lot of hurdles to cross if it wants to be that platform (including performant (i.e. native) 3d rendering, NAT traversal for user ran applications (just switch to IP v6 already!), saving data client side, threading!, different input and display methods like you mentioned, ect.)

I also have other, fundamental, problems (more like pet peeves) with the way the web is designed to work. But my main motivator is the massive problems I have with programming languages. I should probably start a blog...
From this presentation (http://vimeo.com/73934576):
Presto don't go open source in the foreseeable future, cause Opera don't want to lose support contracts for the TV browsers. That's makes sense.
I am not trying to be a downer, but I think this is going to be a huge flop.

Gaming appliances need to be focused at the gaming market, which Sony and MS own like the U.S. and USSR in the mid to late 20th century. Nintendo messed up with the Wii U and probably won't recover, and everything else is secondary, for now. I even think Apple's move into the TV gaming market will be mostly a bust, but I could be wrong, because the casual game market is strong.

I've personally not bought a single game from Steam. I know they are big, but I just don't have time for it. I'm not the target market though.
This isn't actually completely true. If you're having trouble eating well, access to condoms and birth control isn't always an easy thing.
I just bought a overpriced ultrabook with Windows 8 (Microsoft tax). The Windows 8 experience is indeed terrible for touch screen. Seems like someone made an amateur touch screen mod for Windows 7. The product isn't ready. I can fell the Steve Ballmer signature in this product.

I just wanted a PC because I tough it would be easier to install a traditional Linux on it, but UEFI. Oh the humanity, UEFI is the most disgraceful scam the industry ever did. How they could be so wicked?

I don't want to live in a world that the only good option is a monopoly of Apple machines and software but the PC industry is not even trying.
Did he, though? I always took that story as a fictional parable and not an account of something he ever habitually did.
so then only 4.32% of videos VLC plays are pornographic
They are well aware of working conditions. I'm sure some migrant workers might be returning to Nepal and this type of information spreads quickly within rural communities. And Nepalese people will still work for them. Poverty makes people do all sorts of things. And that includes taking risks with your own life.
Really late to the party, but I've always wanted to ask this: people say with infinite entropy every combination will occur eventually, but can't you have an infinity of gibberish?
I'm not sure that's a joke. You could upload each pic to both /r/puppies and to /r/kittens, and classify by net upvotes or something. Then you can use the result as training or benchmarking data for a "real" algorithm.
I just recently purchased an Ultrabook; it was on sale and it was great deal. It had what I wanted: super thin, long battery life, and most importantly a high-res display.

But just the other day I was annoyed with the fan running while I wasn't doing anything intensive. So I checked my power settings and was surprised that the Min processor speed on battery was set to 100% and the cooling policy set to active. So I changed it. Then a few minutes later I checked it again and it was back to 100%/active. I finally started doing some Googling and found out the f'ing track pad driver was the cause of those power settings getting reset! Several driver updates and a BIOS update and the machine is where it should have been to start with.

I can only imagine how many people out there have this exact machine, which is chock full of Intel's best frequency stepping and power management technology, and it's all completely disabled.
I wouldn't mind one either. gorecki.matt@gmail
It's a good thing none of the people pretending to be rich or poor had any preconceived notions of how ethical those groups are.
You can use ffmpeg for this. For instance, to output one frame per second:
ffmpeg -i foo.avi -r 1 -s WxH -f image2 foo-%03d.jpeg

See http://ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg.html#Video-and-Audio-file-format-co... for more examples.
Or offshore tax 'minimization'
Apple only said they will make FaceTime an open standard and then didn’t do it.

While laughing at them or being angry at them for that is exactly right and good it’s also important to otherwise still be truthful.

Apple never made similar claims about iMessage and AirDrop. Those two are explicitly proprietary. iMessage most certainly is a resounding success, by the way.
You're really just wasting your time with a "business validated" certificate. The browser doesn't treat it any differently and consumers like my parents would not know the difference or know what to look for. It's all (brilliant) marketing, nothing else. You're equally secure with a PositiveSSL cert from namecheap.com for $8 (or free with a domain registration)..
On a side note, is there anyway we can donate money to his family. ~ $1500 with 36% interest is lot of money for his poor Nepalese family and I doubt they will be able to repay that debt. I guess they will have to work rest of their life just to repay money.

I'd be up for donating some money to their family. How do I do it?
Which will make the whole affair that much more epic as it sinks back below the waves.
OLED is a thing, if you have a minimum of about $10k to drop on a small computer monitor.

See: http://pro.sony.com/bbsc/ssr/cat-monitors/cat-oledmonitors/p...

The price will come down with time.
I have always tempted, and wanted to use VLC. But i have always been sticking to MPC and its derivative. Currently I am using MPC-BE.

The reason is rather simple. VLC on Windows is just plain ugly. You could tell this is a Linux software ported to Windows. It doesn't even need to complex and fancy. Take a look at MPC-BE, plain simple and stylish.

And it isn't all just about the looks. The settings, menu placement, icons, etc.

I really wish something could be done about it.
Here's a blog post (from someone I trust) which seems to contradict you:

http://www.wanderingearl.com/welcome-to-syria-my-friend/

"I am simply unable to recall any other country that I’ve visited where I’ve been so instantly and warmly welcomed and I still cannot believe how many people have approached me in the streets just to literally say the words “Welcome to Syria my friend!”"
I wonder at what level of wealth people start believing they are above the law.

And also, what percentage. I'm sure most wealthy people after some level believe they are above the law. The law is designed for the average person, and they probably believe they are above average, therefore, above the law.
They treat blue-collar foreigners as lesser humans.

Singapore, too.
The Chrome App Launcher
https://support.google.com/chrome_webstore/answer/3060053?hl=en
Having spent some years in business intelligence, point #9 especially hits home.

Just about everyone I know who has delivered a canned Cognos demo has done that exact drill down example.
Does anyone know the series on CS? Does the CS student in MIT also learn this series? Are there some MIT students on HN to talk about the courses?

6X.1 Introduction to Computer Science and Programming in Python | Fall 2013
6X.2 Introduction to Computational Thinking and Data Science | Spring 2014
6X.3 Software Construction in Java 1 | Fall 2014
6X.4 Software Construction in Java 2 | Spring 2015
6X.5 Computation Structures: Digital Circuits | Fall 2014
6X.6 Computation Structures: Programmable Architectures | Spring 2015
6X.7 Computation Structures: Computer Systems Organization | Fall 2015
It looks like they are still available on eBay.
First Computer Made of Carbon Nanotubes has Launched Against 'The Silicon'
One would say that if you're having trouble eating well, you might as well want to prioritize something apart from having sex.
I seem to recall there was another pregnancy avoidance technique that didn't cost anything, but it's been many years since I last took health class.
T-Mobile to Stop Carrying BlackBerrys at Stores
I believe generally if a medium exists to communicate with others creative people will try to maximize how they can succeed with that medium. The unfortunate part of this is Twitter is both very popular thus potentially a way to reach a ton of people and also the bare minimum for any reasonable communication. Doubly unfortunate is that the mainstream media already oversimplifies, so while I suspect many people wish to present an alternative to how the mainstream media communicates we don't yet have a pervasive technical tool well suited for that.
I had the original Palm Vx. I would never use a stylus because it makes nothing easier, except drawing. The stylus is sort of a gimmick. If you need to get serious work done and you are serious enough to need a stylus, the iPhone and iPad are not for you. As Elton Brown would say 'there is no room in the kitchen for multitaskers.' They do a bad job at many things.

Touch unlock, however, is already in use by someone's grandpa... it's clean, it's easy. It's not multitasking. It's making the current norm safer and faster.
Thanks for spending the time on this.

Here are some tips:

Don't list yourself as "Java and Android application developer with more than 3 years experience."

Just say, "Java and Android application developer" or even just "Android application developer".

When you ask for a job, call yourself "mid-level" until you hit >= 6 years and then list yourself as "Senior ... Developer". Until then, it's not good in this market to advertise so few years. There are just too many people out there with more, many who are unemployed, even.

Second, if you are doing it for the purpose of trying to get noticed, stop the Java posts and just do Android. Personally, I just write whatever I want to share to my blog, but you posted the link on HN, so I'm guessing you want traction. If you write a "How I made $(something more than $1000) writing (Android app name)", or "How to write your first Android app and sell it in no time", you'll get traction. A lot of people here want to do mobile, but don't have time to learn, or had a crappy experience with it when they tried, so tutorials and promise of money/success are important.

Good luck! If you decide to keep going with the Java stuff, that's nice too. It's not a bad field to be in. Plenty of jobs. Just not many people interested in the basics.
Don't use HTTP compression on private responses when using TLS. It's okay to HTTP compress publicly available images/scripts/stylesheets
I work almost solely off retainer, wear the project manager from time-to-time, and communicate stopped progress via email and GitHub issues (I use it as a simple project management tool).

Things typically move as expected, and working off retainer definitely provides an incentive for them to get back on schedule. However, a lot of being a successful freelancer is having skills outside of technology. I might even argue they are more important. Clients are always blown away from what I would think are essential skills of the trade: honesty, communication, documentation, planning, setting expectations, pushing third-party developers to hold up their end, being positive, etc. If you can provide those at a high level of competency, I have found very few people/orgs are tough to deal with. In fact, it works so well that I have companies perpetually buy slices of my time each week, give numerous recommendations to others, present our work to others/conferences praising the relationship, etc... based purely on the project management aspects (tech competency does this too). I say this only to communicate that the typical "hassles" we all experience as developers can be turned into an asset/talent that many companies desire (e.g. hey this guy/gal not only knows tech, but can also keep projects moving for fast deliverables).
Ideas Lab - Branded and owned by GE, run by Atlantic Media
Through the jump list of the application you opened that document in recently? Obviously this requires you to know both what you opened it in and have it pinned to your taskbar, but I really like that feature for reopening files I recently closed on a per app basis.
The "For windows" version is simply bundled with the wireless receiver. Once you have one of those, you can use any 360 controller.

I regularly use both the controller that came with my 360, and another 360 controller that I brought separately (with no "for windows" marking) in addition the controller that came with the wireless receiver.

I assure you that all 3 are identical.
You make a few points which stand on pretty dubious ground.

"Your own life matters most" - In what sense? More than that of others?

"What's good for you does not come at the expense of other people." - Do you have evidence for this? Does stealing, which might in some moment be good for a person, not come at the expense of another?

"How can you make your mark on the world" - Doesn't this presuppose that 'making a mark in the world' is a more 'important' cause than changing diapers?

"If the ideas people held were simply a matter of economic conditions, no one would ever rise out of poverty." - Id be interested to see some statistics of the frequency with which people escape poverty. I have a feeling the numbers are fairly low.
If you read their terms, and I have, you definitely can't use the free certs for shopping or banking sites. It's kind of vague as to whether you can use it for a commercial site that doesn't involve shopping or banking though.
Because certs are so easy to get, it's better to use fingerprint identification for sites, to make sure it's right one. That's what I've been doing for ages, with https, and smtps. I'll be blogging about it soon.
It really depends on the type of semantic, because this is good design semantics. Not terribly good document semantics.
But they're all in China, so if that isn't your market, then don't worry about it.
https://www.google.com/webhp?complete=0&hl=en
This is heartbreaking, but I'm having a hard time seeing the HN angle, except that there was another thread on the same subject earlier today. I suggest this is more suitable fare for Reddit.
Marked 2 — Brett Terpstra's Updated Live Markdown Preview Utility
Pretty cool! Now if I can figure out how to default to this...
They won't authorize brand new domain names for about 72 hours. And you have to renew every year. Otherwise, I've used em and they're good.
It was posted here too. What's cool in this case is that user X asks about the relevance of P, and user Y comes up with many months olds news on Q that happens to be the perfect missing piece in the puzzle.

This stuff happens all the time. Why is R this way? CEO of R Inc. comes up to tell you. Why is S not in space? It just so happen that a engineer from the space program is reading the comment and answers with a detailed insightful post.

When that happens, HN is awesome.
Trasnmedia writer Jay Bushman did a story via tweets called "The Good Captain", a sci fi take on a Melville story.

He rebroadcast it last year, but the original was in 2007 when Twitter was new and no one knew what it was going to be good for. So he experimented.

I followed it at the time and had the tweets sent to my phone as they came in. It was an interesting way to experience a story. Because it was spread out over time, I found myself keeping the context in my head as a low level background process.

There's probably a very interesting way or two to use that phenomenon.

https://twitter.com/goodcaptain
Well that's awkward. Lodsys is owned by Nathan Myhrvold' Intellectual Ventures. Nathan Myhrvold has been a guest on Martha Stewart's show.

http://www.marco.org/2013/08/08/lodsys-honest-headline

http://www.marthastewart.com/868204/modernist-cooking-chef-n...
The future:

$ create "Website that has a homepage with a picture of dogs and a picture of me. Oh, and a little blog with a twitter feed. Make it look cute, idk, like pink and blue, but not bold, but that washed out water color that's in right now."
---> Making...
---> Looking for pictures of puppies...
---> Writing several blog posts for you...
---> Created! http://my-website-blah-blah.tld

I will miss the control.
The Daily Mail, as usual, has the best photo coverage: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2431913/Massi...

Also, I really wish HN mods would not reflexively rewrite headlines. The news here was the remarkably sudden appearance of a decent-sized island, the fact that it emits flammable gas is distinctly beside the point.
http://www.google.com/preferences, second box down.
Regardless, Bootstrap appears to be assessing a migration to the MIT license in 3.1: https://github.com/twbs/bootstrap/issues/9397
WebRTC screensharing invite
> Yes, this is what I always do when I encounter dead fish and an unknown source of hissing gas: light it with a match.

Makes me think of Beavis:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTkEN_wB2A4

What I'd like to see is that the locals could advantage of it and setup a natural gas mining operation, because they may have found a large pocket of it.
Clicked hoping for airplay or chromecast support. Maybe next time :)
No doubt about it, though, UltraBooks DO suck.
EDIT: I'm going to revise my statement on UltraBooks. Not all of them suck. In particular, the Lenovo Yoga is fantastic

I suspect neither you or the OP have been paying attention lately? Neither had I until I started looking. I got a Samsung series 9 earlier this year and I'm very happy with it. I think many people would love it, but they don't know it exists. Same goes for a few of the others.
Can we take this to mean impoverished people are less entitled to some of the enjoyable aspects of life?
I think you read my comment and responded w/o re-reading it, and not to mince words I chose the word 'might' carefully. Might and would are on the opposite side of logic. Therefore, I reject the premise of your comment on basic levels. I do concur with your conclusion that it is a sarcastic comment, however you likely don't need to point that out here.
The fact that tablet devices and phones have entered the market, reducing the need to do everything on a PC, doesn't spell the end of PCs. It just means they aren't the only go-to computer anymore, which is a good thing for everyone.

A rock solid PC in the home connected to a nice big monitor and other useful peripheral devices, is a good thing to have. Be it a compact PC, laptop or desktop, Windows or something else.

"Post PC" is a stupid agenda-driven term. We live in a "post horse and cart" world, but the PC has no inherent limitations preventing it from evolving. If you bother to look, there's currently more enclosures, cases, and interesting "desktop" configuration variety for PCs than ever before, cheaper than ever before.

In short, the article sucks.
Woe is me...Twitter has stunted my creativity. Give me a break.
Yes but if you had a shitty childhood or life, you're only hope may be to have children and give them better opportunities than you've had.
(replying to the child post) The products are not the same if for no other reason than because one comes with the receiver and ordering the other product does not, and that the receiver is even required is not something that is apparent beforehand without research, so the buyer must understand that having the product work as expected will require purchasing either the receiver as a stand alone product or as the bundle which is distinguished by being labeled as "...for Windows."

Naively, I had expected beforehand that the controller to use 802.11(a|b|g|n|ac) or bluetooth and therefore not need another receiver provided that those protocols were already available on the PC, but in the case of the wireless Xbox 360 controller another component is necessary for better or worse.

Luckily, I researched the situation before purchasing another controller with its usage on the PC in mind, so I did not encounter a potential headache until the solution dawned upon me.

Hopefully the next generation PS4 or Xbox One wireless controllers work without taking up a port on the PC with a wireless receiver again.
I'd never mess with Martha Stewart.
Discussion on the main World Cup Slaves story here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6446077
And don't forget the Stanford prison experiment!
> makes nothing easier, except drawing

Exactly. Drawing includes illustration and annotation. Two things that make communicating faster and easier. As the old saying goes, a picture paints a thousand words.