skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the location APIs may also use system-level facilities that aren't open to normal applications, such as the ability to detect nearby access points even when WiFi is off and the device is in standby. So it's not clear that apps can implement it themselves without relying on Google. Also, the APIs for newer stuff like geofencing are Google-proprietary and don't support alternative providers, so mobile phone makers that don't want to rely on Google's services can't substitute a different backend without breaking existing apps.
The key question for me is if it's ethical for a tech company to own a tech site? And that's what I assume he'd be doing. Can you really trust the editorial coverage — and tech users are pretty aware of that sort of thing. Or maybe nobody cares: After all Fox news outlets no doubt give press to Fox entertainment properties like their films — but it's sort of sad to me.
I find the MBA vs Surface Pro 2 comparison to be more than slightly misleading:

>The screen is somewhat lower resolution

No, 1920x1080 isn't only somewhat higher than 1366x768, it's 1.97 times the number of pixels and the panel is PLS unlike the TN in the MBA. The display is the component that eats up the battery the most when doing things like Wi-Fi browsing, even the battery life of the MBA scales heavily with the level of brightness.

>not touch capable

It also has an another, separate layer for the Wacom digitizer, it has to be constantly emitting an electromagnetic field, which does take its toll on power consumption.

>i5-4200u CPU

It's i5-4250U, with a considerably lower base clock (1.3GHz vs 1.6GHz).

Another fact that all the recent articles about the Surface Pro 2 fail to mention, but isn't really relevant to the what the article is about, is that, with the Power Cover that was announced at the Surface keynote, it should be able to get 11.45 hours of Wi-Fi browsing if you extrapolate the results from the Anandtech benchmark, or about 12.9 hours if you do it with the 7:33 hours it got on The Verge review. This does bring the weight and thickness of the device above the MBA though.
Because doing so would be shooting ourselves in the foot.

All of the major players are equally guilty, if not more so, of 'abusing' the patent system. Google and Samsung have tried to control the whole industry through assertion of FRAND patents.

Also, you do realize that you are calling for a total monopoly on the entire industry to placed into the hands of Google?

I can't think of anything more destructive.

Note: I totally agree with you that the patent system is broken, and should be drastically changed to prevent this kind of behavior, but 'punishing' one company is just playing to the PR goals of their competitors.
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Have your retirees tried installing something them selves?

I, today, had a very quick look at installing Libre Office on a Fedora VM. Windows: download exe file, double click, it installs. Now go look up the instruction for Linux. So absurdly, hilariously complicated. I thought of Linux fanbois, and began to laugh, then cry. Right there is one reason Linux has a long, long way to go.

Yeah, fine for geeks and great for running server services, as I have been doing for decades, but as a general desk top for normal human beings? No way. Not even slightly. Sure Windows has its issues, but you know what? It works.

But, I'll give your Mint a go. See if that is as easy as Windows. You never know....
Is this an Excel plugin or an independent/standalone software?
If there is anything that can come of good of my taxes (a ridiculous amount of it in fact) is that we should educate people on the difficulties of software development. This would make a fantastic case study on what I presume are the issues at hand:

- Maintaining complex code (+1mil LOC)

- Classic "waterfall" approaches to software development (and the inherent problem with trying to blueprint requirements up front)

- The mythical man month[1]

- Change management

Funny thing is...these are all human problems.

[1] - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mythical_Man-Month
Awesome. A truly simple interface to S3.
It's a business in a similar vein to someone selling things at a local craft fair. What would have to change about his idea for you to consider it a business?
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Greatest Living American. Google it. Read how I was the greatest living american, Colbert was, and then an seo firm was. All in the matter of a few weeks, because google changed scores to "hand job" the results.
See that light gray text on white background? THat means yes, you're doing it wrong.

I can speak more about node.js once I can read your blog without discomfort.
I'm sure tons. The web site's code is pretty straight forward, it's that interacting with so many other parties that is not (besides anything having to do with actual insurance, Healthcare.gov interacts with the IRS, social security, homeland security, Equifax, etc etc).

I'm not sure what the solution is since these checks are not optional. It would be a huge political scandal if just one illegal immigrant was able to buy insurance using Healthcare.gov and there are surely many groups trying every day to make sure this happens.

Is there any large benefits system that works well? All that I have seen from MegaCorps are also awful and they don't even have all the complex stuff to make sure you qualify (since you work at the company, you qualify).
Hey, I'm a math major looking for jobs/internships in data science. Any chance I could ask you a few questions about your experience finding work?
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I think the fact you felt the need to put the word servers in quotes does a lot to show that you and justincormack are talking about computers serving a similar role, but with such laughably different requirements that it's obvious what point he was trying to make, and your statement, while technically correct, doesn't really change his point.

You are correct though, people do use commodity and low-end hardware for extremely light server needs, and even in data centers.
This is only necessary because the templates he's using are so crude and page-oriented. With a truly object-oriented framework like Wicket the problem goes away - you have a component hierarchy that parallels your model hierarchy, so e.g. your user panel just knows that a user has an address and hobbies etc., then the address panel just knows that it has a street name component and a zip component and so on. I wish I could find a framework that was properly object-oriented in any other language.
Per the NYT:
"But the government was so slow in issuing specifications that the firm did not start writing software code until this spring, according to people familiar with the process."

Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/13/us/politics/from-the-start... (October 12)

And from today (Oct 21): http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/21/us/insurance-site-seen-nee...

In a previous life I worked on similar software development projects at the US State level. This project was several orders of magnitude larger in scope and in complexity than what I worked on. Assuming a generous start date for Spring - say March 1 - this boils down to ~7 months to design and develop to the Oct 1 hard deadline. Nearly impossible in my opinion.

I'm not discounting that there couldn't be issues else where in whole process. These would include: communication overhead between all the various agencies and contractors, integration nightmares, and not enough skilled folks at Medicare to manage all of this. But having the requirements delivered several months before roll-out seems to me a recipe for disaster.
Good riddance. Can't stand the guy. I know he attempted to make tech accessible to the average Joe, but he always dumbed things down so much I felt like he didn't really know what he was talking about. He also seemed to let personal biases get in the way of the reporting.

The real reason why I didn't like him was for what he did to Nova. Nova was one of my favorite programs growing up and he absolutely ruined it with his annoying personality, stupid jokes/puns, and over simplifications. In a science show the science should be first, not the twit talking about it.
...I'd like to see this mysterious Kickstarter page that has had basically no work done in advance.
You've just shocked me! I went to art school and back in the day even if you studied say graphic design or fashion they actually taught you basic foundation skills which included painting and life drawing. Of course that was in the better schools, so maybe CS faces the same issues.
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I think dropping reads is just as unsettling as dropping writes in production.

Also, MongoDB does let you elect a primary via setting a priority. Really, it should be a requirement because sometimes mongo nodes will switch due to a dropped packet (or this is all I can assume at least) and the arbiter just randomly picks a node when there aren't priorities.
Like Livesheets, you mean?
Android has the larger market share. If it were just a matter Apple being jerks, all the open goodness you want would be widely available.

But it isn't that simple.
Google and Samsung are just fighting back against Apple.
Except no - the amount of MS Whining about piracy is disproportionate about the real situation - the majority of laptops that a person can buy already come with some form of windows license. To the point that it is actually hard to buy a PC without windows. Sadly the self assembled laptop was never a thing.

The real pirated software is MS Office.
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Ha - I created http://iwant.io/ a few weeks ago to test the waters of just this. If it was a software/web/mobile app based on feedback/users I could easily build/share with community. If it was hardware, we could do the pre-work needed for a kickstarter.

I think more ideas will work like this in the future - idea to community, community votes/suggest - idea is built. Win/Win for everyone - make the world suck less!
I looked at the original announcement and looked specifically at the technical details list. If I didn't have the stuff on the tech details list available, and had to accomplish roughly the same non-technical task, there are a lot of ways to take notes more or less for free. I can't operate without gmail and I guess google drive so I need not worry about an app built on them.

Dropbox is not a negation of my argument, in that they handle the annoyance of keeping a storage service up.

In my cartoon mind if gmail is down, then storing notes in gmail doesn't work, but the bigger headache is gmail is down not that I can't access some minor notes. So just use gmail for free. Or github. Or a browser extension to "save email to dropbox or google drive"

The other problem is you have a very narrow window of opportunity for a programmers note taker because of habits. The concept of writing README and TODO files and inserting source comments or placeholders, perhaps with tags to search for and ASCII art for markup, has been a part of programming education and tradition for a long time. Could you sell a note taker app to noobs who don't already have a github / text editor habit? Well, maybe, but it'll be harder.

So in my cartoon mind I have an idea it gets entered into TODO or perhaps as a TODO flagged comment in the appropriate spot and its done. You need a wedge to fit your process into it. Like if PUSHes to github regularly failed or github filtered out source code comments to "save disk space" or something. But if it works great, something new is going to be a hard sell.

Now if you did something unusual once you got the data that might sell. Here's a nice web front end that uses GIT and/or github and/or dropbox and/or google drive and/or gmail as a backend.
The porn tape that gets "accidentally" released is the perfect example of something that appears outside the mainstream but actually very mainstream. Guerrilla marketing is culture hacking? I don't think so. It's advertising. Watch the second film mentioned here called "Bomb It." It's clear what everyone thinks about putting the art in galleries and selling it for big money. The power is lost and it become sterile out of context. Banksy leaves me feeling empty, like Paris Hilton. There's no there there.
While the parent comment is completely wrong that it was acquired from them when it is actually an Apple patent Fingerworks is mentioned in the "Other references" (that is references to things that aren't patents) section:

PR Newswire, "FingerWorks Announces a Gestrue Keyboard for Apple PowerBooks," Jan. 27, 2004, 2 pages. cited by other .

PR Newswire, "FingerWorks Announces the ZeroForce iGesture Pad," Feb. 18, 2003, 2 pages. cited by other .

I haven't studied the cited patents, some of them may also refer to Fingerworks.
Once your personal brand gets well known, it's leaving money on the table to just be an employee at a business in a declining industry like newspapers.
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What I don't understand is why I didn't get a notification of the shutdown. As a paying customer I shouldn't read about it on HN. I used the service primarily to shield myself in hotels/coffeeshops, but I know the NSA can get to me if they want to and I don't really care.

I appreciate the high ground CryptoSeal is coming from, but from a customer standpoint I don't think this was done well.
I see and agree with the larger point he's making, but a 42% increase in a single generation strikes me as huge, not just "decent."

And this?

If you want a device that delivers maximum battery life for light web browsing, there's no question that you should get something with an Apple logo on it.

Except the top two champs on the Anandtech chart - champs which are way ahead of a fairly close pack - don't have such logos. If one is honestly trying to illustrate the simple point that Windows has a power problem, its a strange conclusion to draw.
I guess you can't see how giving the government even more power of life and death over its subjects can be anything but political?

Certainly the U.K. NHS experience shows the running of such a system is political. I don't watch it closely, but as I understand it Tony Blair/New Labour doubled spending, but somehow functionaries and bureaucrats got the new money, not the front line people and institutions.

You think we can have anything less than a totally political discussion about euthanasia, most recently known as the Liverpool Care Pathway in the NHS?
Android is open source in that sense, that Google can leave the AOSP app versions to rot, but they can't force them to be left alone - in fact, both Amazon and Samsung can work on the AOSP apps instead of their own, and keep them up-to-date and better than Google apps if they are able to.
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To some people, the one that supports more hardware is the better product. Especially when they are spending $2000.
Do you have a working product? I don't see any screen shots of what it actually looks like or what this simple 15 minute setup actually is.

The idea is good in the sense that frictionless e-commerce setup is always a good idea but I have no idea if YOUR idea is good because I have no clue how its implemented.
I might have worded that wrong.

I get why people might be scared, but I just don't, and can't see the scary in MRIs. I can fear the outcome, but not the procedure itself.

I'm just curious about what's scary about it. Perhaps fear of the unknown? I knew why that machine was making those noises (my dad was cool and he taught me the basics about MRI machines). Or is just a personality trait, just like fear of cockroaches?
I'm a big conflicted about that as well.

I think I'm ok with it as long as they have permission/cooperation from the author (a cursory glance looks like they do; could be wrong), especially since the introduction of inline code evaluation makes it so much easier to get into. I know the content probably would have gone into my bottomless "to read later" bookmarks folder if I couldn't knock some stuff out right then and there.

Thinking about it, I guess that's just a licensing issue. Give the author the tools they need to decide how their work can and can't be used.
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Whereas the wealthy are more advantaged to "escape?" Where do they escape to?
Surely you don't expect that to be taken seriously. Samsung is not some innocent well-meaning bystander in this. Nor is Google.
Looks pretty cool. Does it work across multiple servers as well?

Signed, a former coworker (at your previous company).
"people who where searching for related terms"

I think that would be a strange thing to search for, and I'm not sure it would be a profitable demographic.

Sometimes the problem is not just "do people search for something" but who are those people doing those searches?
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"Best" is a very subjective term.

Depends on what kind of programming you're doing, what works well in my opinion would be:

Web dev? Something with a big enough screen that you're comfy and a keyboard you like.

Application programmer? Add a good processor to compile the code quickly, a solid state hard drive, and a large amount of ram. Think "More than usually advertized" and you're in a good ballpark.

Game dev? Stick in an excellent graphics card that is under a year old on top of the last two answers.

For the last two answers, that is, of course, if you want the compile times to be as short as possible so you can be as productive as possible. If you're just hacking around and learning any of these, then get a good middle of the line laptop that is ergonomically pleasing to you. For learning, is it more about budget than anything else.

Single biggest thing to look for is the solid state drive. Technically speaking, one can code with a pen and paper, though doing that is usually called math. Anything more than that is just going to make the process smoother and faster.
I can be contacted on chris@slateforexcel.com if anyone wants to get in touch btw
I am applying with a co-founder, we finalized our application and video last night but are still working to get a demo video wrapped to link with the app before we submit.
Yeah, I can't take the jokey theme to the show now. I miss Neil DeGrasse Tyson's hosting.
If he had done a little research beforehand he would have known how bad the RT was and there would be zero basis for his over-inflated expectations for the Pro 2.
What else would he have reviewed from Yahoo other than the Flickr updates? Normally he reviews hardware.
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Hi John,
That looks good..
Here is what I was thinking of
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I'm already disappointed by my inability to remove the (rather poor) Samsung apps from my phone, as I'd like to only use the 'proper' Google apps (for me, gmail/google calendar app is 50+% of phone usage). It's not enough for companies to be able to produce their own forks - the forks still need to be competitive or better than Google versions, and that's not so easy to do.
I think that this comment touches on something that a lot of people overlook when it comes to education: it's not just about getting a job, it's about LEARNING, expanding your world view and maye even getting to that 'well adjusted' point that so many distinguished professors are known to be at. This doesn't happen by chance: you need a strong community of learned people.

I'm immensely grateful for my time at University to explore not just a variety of topics, but to explore myself and my interests.
It seems awfully rude to cut and paste this gigantic comment, which is now virtually pinned to the top of a discussion thread of a blog post to which it barely responds.

There's nothing in this that indicates it is at all customized for the article it is attached to. Especially given that you and the author seem to have some things in common (connection to small-town Minnesota & love of mathematics) it seems like you could have done a lot better than just re-posting virtually the same comment for the 11th time.

You have to go about half way down the page to find a comment that actually engages with the article. The way the HN system works out in practice the "winning" top level comment determines the entire structure of the ensuing discussion. I think that means that top level commentators have a particular responsibility to comment well.
It's as easy as Paypal (or easier) using email to sending money. If they can figure out the secure concern (time will tell) or say it's 100 percent secure, it would be quite awesome. I agree, not sure how it prevents spoofing or email being compromised problem.
very much agreed.
Right, but the original post said the same about Linux.

With very few exceptions, Linux drivers live in the kernel tree, so the Linux community has absolute control over them. The claim doesn't really seem to make sense. It's not like power management is unimportant in a server rack.

In fact, there's a really nice talk somewhere by (I think) the LWN guy, about how running the same kernel on mobile and on big iron gives huge benefits to development -- it turns out that the needs are really not so different after all, and power management work intended for the mobile space helps big iron (and vice versa, cf. PowerTop from Intel).
Up until the 70s, many public colleges and universities did not charge tuition for students.
A VPN is just an access control mechanism for network services; it is for network service privacy. If you're worried about the privacy of your data, you should be using technology to protect your data at rest, such as PGP.
This is a neat trick that pops up from time to time. Instead of representing an algebraic data type as a bunch of cases that you can test with if-statements at runtime, you represent it as a pattern-matching function that receives a code block to run for each possibility.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smalltalk#Control_structures

http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?VisitorPattern

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mogensen%E2%80%93Scott_encodin...

One neat example of this correspondence is continuation-passing style. For example, in Javascript:

function foo(){ return value; }
function fooCps(cb){ cb(value); }

function bar(){
if(x){
return {tag:'OK', value:value};
}else{
return {tag:'ERROR', errmsg:"message"};
}
}
function barCps(okCb, errCb){
if(x){
okCb(value);
}else{
errCb("message");
}
}
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