skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How does this compare to Surface, and why would anybody buy one of these instead of Surface? With Nokia now owned by Microsoft, does this not mean that Microsoft has released two Windows RT tablets with similar stats?

I assume Microsoft will merge the two products in future?
Glad I didn't
You Are What You Read: 14 Thought Leaders Share Their Bookshelves
Optimizing Gaussian blurs on a mobile GPU
Are those actually users, or developers/testers who run test suits on their products and noticed a change?
Come on. He's a single-issue moralizing health crusader. I'm sure like everyone else who has focused on a single specific nutrient to blame, he's right in a few specifics, and massively overstating his case in a way that will ultimately be harmful to public health.

Remember when fat was the mortal enemy? Cholesterol? Carbs of any sort? Salt? Now it's fructose.

All of these things have, at one point or another, been singled out as one of the biggest threats to public health. And in all cases, while there has been some truth that in excess they can cause problems, it turns out that they aren't nearly as bad as some people made them out to be, and going on a crusade to eliminate them from diets has lead to either unhealthy elimination of necessary nutrients, or unhealthy substitution by something that's worse.

And yes, if you want more evidence, there have been studies that have shown that at low dosages, fructose can be beneficial:

http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayFulltext?type=6&...

Basically, if you see someone singling out one single nutrient that has been a central part of our diet for thousands of years as being "toxic", you know you're being sold snake oil. Yes, almost anything can be consumed to excess. No, it is not "toxic".

Any diet plan should be based on your whole diet, not eliminating a single thing. Reducing refined sugar in your diet is generally good. Avoiding a cookie now and then, or some honey on your toast, is excessive (unless you are actually diabetic).

It can help a lot to cook yourself, and only prepare food from raw ingredients rather than processed foods or mixes, as then you see how much sugar and how much salt and how much fat goes into something. If you were to mix up a can of soda from scratch, you'd find it pretty gross how much sugar went in there; but many people are willing to grab a few and drink them throughout a day without thinking about it.
Looks really well-made! And the new smartphones are on par as well!
I went to the main blog page, but completely missed the link to this article. Instead I was looking at the iconic images as the table of contents, looking for the latest article. The "intro" of this article didnt look like a link to a longer article, and there was no underlined link to click, so I didn't try to click it. May be a use ability issue?
Difference seems processor, color options, and keyboard usage functionality. I assume MS would develop Lumia line having its own tablets, otherwise it does not make sense to release sole Lumia tablet and then shutter the line down in future, when they did have the choice of not releasing at all.
We wanted Mars and we got the end of files.

Yes, we still have files and we still have the keyboard. Actually, even worse than the keyboard is that we have a QWERTY on phones. How about we come up with a better idea for input on the phone?
Oh good lord no. I hate the way this works on phones. If I save a picture with one application, I can't necessarily open it with another. That's insane.

Less access makes linked things harder to build. I can write an application now and other people can link it up with other things without me doing anything.
The revolution is already there, use Smalltalk (appeared in 1972) - it's just an virtual machine like image with objects you can edit through a gui. There are also hybrid solutions where each object is contained in a file. For a related topic:
http://zacharyvoase.com/2013/02/10/smallweb/
It's got nothing to do with monopoly!!! Apple or Linux have nothing to do with it; the ruling being for behaviour in the period that preceded 2000. Microsoft were in a dominant position in one market and leveraged this dominace to gain dominance in another. This is anti-competative. for the final time; a monopoly is not illeagal in and of itself, neither is it antitrust.
Technically Nokia isn't yet owned by Microsoft. The Nokia board has recommended the sale, but it's not done yet.

There's always the tiny possibility that the merger won't be accepted by the Nokia shareholder meeting (which is next week, IIRC).
Perhaps he was referring to the games which convince credulous kids to spend hundreds on in-app purchases?
Sounds like the US lags behind on this, but I'm sure the tradeoffs are made up elsewhere - for example, it looks to me like salaries for equivalent roles in IT are often a little higher in the US.

At my current (UK) employer, I get 30 days vacation, 13 days Scottish public holidays which get added to my vacation (so all paid), and paid sick leave of no more than 3 "instances" in a year. An "instance" could be 1 day, or it could be a month... but if it's longer than 5 working days I need to back it up with a letter from my GP.

The downside is that if I don't use up all that vacation, I lose it - it's not converted to salary (although some companies do this). This is something I'm acutely aware of this year, as I'm struggling to find opportunity to take the remaining 15 days leave I still have to use by Dec 31st.
MEPs tighten up data privacy rules in wake of Snowden revelations
Right but they didn't do anything except offer trades. The thing about selling shorts they couldn't cover makes sense, but just for "acting stupidly" seems silly.
So, how do we get APKs on the GameStick?
Try this one:

flights from los angeles to las vegas

Not sure if the organic results are relevant, because I can't see any.
The death of the atari jaguar
What happened to the staring
Maybe it will come, but to me it feels like disempowerment as a users. As much as I like my iPhone and apps like Spotify and Kindle I still can't get used to the quasi absence of files. I guess it is just a matter of getting used to it.
It's the Austerity, Stupid: How We Were Sold an Economy-Killing Lie
yes, we had atomix and fitaly layouts when we had Palm and PocketPC - but with iOS en Android they have left the building. There's an unofficial unlicensed version... and there is Swype, a mashup would be ideal.
http://mkiishooter.blogspot.nl/search/label/Fitaly
http://www.redmondpie.com/set-swype-on-iphone-as-default-key...
Demystifying ThreadLocal variables
Hmm, I am trying to imagine what the system would look like. Seems like you could borrow some of the features of Bitcoin to create a control structure. Maybe require some type of proof-of-work/approval process by a network of shareholders to approve financial/business transactions. That way, anyone could attempt to participate on behalf of the corporation, but only transactions brought forward by trustworthy agents that are deemed to be beneficial for the corporation are approved. Essentially you would adopt the trust model of bitcoin but apply it more broadly.
Could you elaborate on that first statement? Would you really place more trust in the US government in these matters than, say, the government in one of the Nordic countries? Or Germany?
A limit on distance is in effect a speed limit. It means anyone that is able to reach the limit has a shot at competing. Whether that is good or not, or makes a difference or not is another discussion, but you can certainly affect the competitive situation massively that way.
'What is the difference between "lie", "deceive" and "mislead"?'
I saw Prof. Stephen O'Rahilly give a talk in 2010 at TEDxCAM.

His research defines a clear link between genetics and obesity, fructose or no fructose. Obviously less intake is better, but many people cannot stop themselves if there is available food. On the other hand, there are people who will stay lean no matter how much food is available.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2570383/

Human Obesity: A Heritable Neurobehavioral Disorder That Is Highly Sensitive to Environmental Conditions
I have two forms of savings:

* A pile of cash in a bank account.

* A pile of cash which is used for buying index funds.

Even with a credit-card it is useful to have a pool of cash for short-term emergencies, such as job-loss, car-crash, or roof repairs. On that basis I keep £15,000 in an online bank account. The interest rate is terrible, but that's the price I'm willing to pay to make sure I can get cash to hand if I need to in very short term.

After that the real investment goes to index funds. Every month I allocate £300 to buying more shares. (In the past I used that money for peer-to-peer lending with zopa.com, I didn't lose money but I started to get concerned about the time it took to get money out. So I've ceased offering loans there.)

Index funds are pretty fun, and traditionally less risky than buying shares arbitrarily in individual companies. Still there is a risk. If your fund is small enough you're probably able to use an ISA, or similar, I forget what the max per year is, but it is pretty low.

ObRandom: I'm also overpaying my mortgage with the intention I'll own my house within the next 2-3 years.
They didn't retest some code that hadn't been used since 2003. Why would they? Sure, removing that code would've been a good idea, but that's a forgivable mistake.

Reusing a flag that did something different in a currently-deployed version, without having a "transition" version that ignores that flag? Dodgy, but makes sense if you're in a rush.

Needing to manually deploy code to 8 different servers? Just stupid.
No, it's a good way to ensure that users click OK without reading message boxes ever.
The Importance Of Momentum
And I (and I'm sure others) had an absolute nightmare when my the iPhoto library on my mother's machine became corrupted.
Stop loss orders amplify market instability. People with them deserved what they got.
What do you even mean with that? Marking all JVM languages as unsafe? Marking JavaScript as unsafe (because it has so much to do with Java, right?) The issues Mozilla has with Java are limited to browser applets and the lack of security updates from Oracle (which, coincidentally, mainly affect the browser applets)
Qualcomm shows how a smart watch can make sense
Didn't work with an email to my Fastmail account.
Excuse the rant, but I'd buy this tomorrow, if only one thing was fixed:

There was a proper RT version of Office rather than a hacked up desktop version. The desktop version is simply shit on an RT tablet. I tried it. It's horrid. It's slow and fiddly. It's only ok if you have a keyboard attached, know how to use it only on a keyboard and have magnfiying glasses strapped to your face.

The hardware looks awesome, as other Lumia kit is (I own an 820 and rather like it) and Windows 8 is pretty good on a tablet from my experience (despite naysayers) but FGS Microsoft please sort out office.

Oh and please can I have a stylus for OneNote.
The source was already released once, then pulled again later.

This is where it WAS available on GitHub: https://github.com/CMSgov/healthcare.gov

One of the many forks can be found here: https://github.com/binlain/healthcare.gov

And here's also a public 'announcement': https://www.healthcare.gov/developers/

It really looks like they intended to OpenSource healthcare.gov anyways (or they already did and reverted their decision later).
It's disappointing that comments like the parent are getting downvoted here. Objective, factual observations should be encouraged, not censored.

The Reader "replacement" PDF viewer in Firefox is limited and buggy compared to the real thing. We also found it literally unusable for our purposes when it launched, and we routinely disable it on new installations where we still use Firefox at all (which is basically only test machines for web developers now anyway, because of exactly the recent attitude from Mozilla illustrated by this discussion).
For me the killer feature of my Nokia C1-02 is the keyboard.
I have fat thumbs and i chose this phone for its nicely spaced keys. Nothing can beat buttons for speed and feedback.
Another reason i picked the C1-02 was the lack of a camera.
Everyone knows how bad cameras are on must dumb phones, i wanted one that didnt have the extra bloat.

http://reviews.cnet.co.uk/mobile-phones/nokia-c1-02-review-5...
Hey there - I'm on the tech team in CurrencyFair.

We've been around for a few years now, but weren't expecting to see our name pop up on HN just yet. Of course, now that it's here, if anyone has any questions about what we do, feel free to ask and I'll get back to you asap.

If you're looking for a direct link, it's at the bottom of the OP, or: https://www.currencyfair.com
Slightly off-topic, but: anyone round here know if there's a good reason why are batteries quoted in units of charge (mAh), instead of a unit of energy like Wh or kJ?

Seems like it just makes it hard to compare capacities of batteries of different voltages. A 8000mAh laptop battery sounds like it can only store three times the energy of the (2650mAh) cheap NiMH AA battery I have here, but it can actually store 30x, as the AA battery is 1.2V and assuming the laptop battery is 12V (which it may not be, I don't know).
With $1M In Funding, Appsee Promises Mobile Developers..
With $1M In Funding, Appsee Promises Mobile Developers Real Insight Into Their Users
Cosmic Wimpout for the Palm
They are actually users, and those users paid a very large amount of money for very expensive equipment that happens to use Java applets as part of its remote management interface.
Yep, banned on OS X, kind of frustrating since I need to use Java for work occasionally, and when I click on the link and it redirects after opening in Chrome I need to go back, copy and paste the link into Firefox.
Cheers, that three-parter is way better.
wow how they guys doing it..
text came and go in few seconds.
I am using gmail.
30+ directories where you can submit your startup
Yeah, it's true that lot of the sites still using Java hasn't been updated with the correct instructions about how to enable it in FF 24 yet - and they should fix that as soon as possible of course.

Unfortunately, the applets I work on at the moment run on embedded web servers in network-enabled devices. You can't just roll out a quick update to this software every time Mozilla or Oracle break things.
> You can still easily run Java applets in Firefox 24 and beyond, you just need to click the red lego block in the upper left corner and allow it. [1]

Allow me to disagree and to tell you what happened last weekend:

Last Sunday I had a call from my stepfather who "couldn't run the website to order agro food" anymore. This website runs a Java applet to manage agro food orders on-line and the code isn't signed (it's a small structure).

He tried to understand what was going on with the warning before clicking "ok/yes/run". He googled the warning and unfortunately ended up installing malwares from ads running on some PC help website/forums that promised to fix "2 just found vulnerabilities": he thought that was related since the warning actually preventing him from accessing his "working-fine-yesterday" website seemed to be about security and vulnerabilities in the plug-in.

He then tried to update Java but canceled it at the end of the process because the window with the Java propaganda ("it powers 3 billions of applications, your car, your website, etc.") looked too much like the one with malwares from before and those didn't fix the problem (not being able to access his website).

When I finally could go to his house to fix it I realized what had happened.

It is definitely not user-friendly. It was working before and in his eyes Mozilla made it not working anymore.

edit: typo and grammar
The smartphone app-centric OS is fine for the use case where you only work with one application.

But I don't see how it can work if you need to use multiple applications to work on multiple projects. In a typical professional use case, you want to keep your files organized by project, so the files/folder approach is pretty good.

Now, files/folder can probably be improved. (Semi-)Automatic tagging can be improved. Search can be improved. Maybe we need more than one parent per folder. But please, let me organize my work per project and not per app.
I disagree completely. You seem to be confusing money/worth with value. If someone manages to redirect money towards themselves without creating a new economic resource, then no new value is made.

Avoiding systems that don't create value would help us live in a world with more value in it. That's why considering this is very productive, and helps moral people avoid wasting precious resources on zero sum games.
Apache did try to fork it with Harmony ( http://harmony.apache.org/ ), but Sun pulled every trick in the book to keep people from contributing and/or adopting it. Then again, the code is still extant, could be time to pull it out of the attic.
This liquidity argument is rehashed thousand times but did you know that most of the orders made by HFT's end up getting cancelled.

Regulators found HFT's exacerbated price declines. As noted above, regulators found that high frequency traders exacerbated price declines. Regulators determined that high frequency traders sold aggressively to eliminate their positions and withdrew from the markets in the face of uncertainty.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_Flash_Crash

Berkshire Hathaway has a difference of 1000 dollars for its bid ask spread yet you dont see a lot of people complaining, do you?
Just look at the US health website.
Riddled with problems from experienced developers.
Nothing is bug free.

You probably have a ton in there, but you wont know.
Better launch early and start fixing everything with your users testing your system.

That way youll not only fix bugs but introduce extra features as well.
Yes. Amps = current. That means it can sustain 8A of current for an hour. This can be trivially divided into 4A for 2 hours, 2A for 4 hours, 1A for 8 hours etc.

Also:

1. It's easy to measure electronically and calculate life from.

2. Isn't a derived non-linear figure like a Watt i.e. P=IV and voltage declines over a time on batteries making it a whole shitload of calculus and other nasty stuff.

3. Joules are hard to quantify as they are a measure of energy and not current.
Java actually installs malware (the Ask toolbar) unless you are careful enough to deselect it during the installation/update process.
Hacker stole $100,000 from Users of California based ISP using SQL Injection
Very interesting, though I was happy to see Knight Capital take the huge loss, since they were such complete scumbags who stole hundreds of millions of dollars by backing away from trades* during the dotcom boom and bust.

*Backing away is when a market maker makes a firm offer to buy or sell shares, receives an order to execute that transaction (which they are ethically and legally obligated to do) and instead cancels the trade so they can trade those shares at a more favorable price (capturing enormous unethical profits in fast-moving markets while regulators did virtually nothing to enforce the rules in a meaningful way)

Learn more: http://bit.ly/1ddUzWP
How to compose a successful critical commentary:

1. Attempt to re-express your target's position so clearly, vividly and fairly that
your target says: "Thanks, I wish I'd thought of putting it that way."
2. List any points of agreement (especially if they are not matters of general
or widespread agreement).
3. Mention anything you have learned from your target.
4. Only then are you permitted to say so much as a word of rebuttal or criticism.

I wish that hackernews could be like this. It would be like laying down troll poison. Even the most hardcore jerks don't like when the only response they get is to be killed by kindness.

I read the book "Getting To Yes" by Roger Patton. It's highly recommend and considered to be the manual on negotiation. And the main point of advice from it was: Be Nice. Argument and negotiation aren't supposed to be about who is louder or more aggressive. Calmly laying out points that are backed up by facts works better every time.

Online arguments tend to be low stakes affairs. I can understand why so many hn discussions devolve into personal attacks and accusations. I can only hope that people behave differently in person. The best way to win an argument is to turn it into a niceness contest where everybody walks away feeling better for the experience.
It's because that URL erroneously has the left-to-right control character[1] at the end, which encodes as https://cloudant.com/%E2%80%8E - a missing page on that website.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Left-to-right_mark
why should I trust google for an application that would enhance my internet privacy?
It will be very interesting for us living in Iran. We have a lot of friends abroad.
It's a okay idea up until the point that content creators want to do anything. Content creators want to work on the same set of data with different tools, because different tools have different purposes. And they need a way to talk to each other, and that way is files.

The utter ubiquity of Dropbox on iOS should show the foolishness of attempting to go fileless.
Hmm, so the e-mails are routed through their infrastructure and then ( presumably ) some form of magic is injected and delivered to the recipient.

Upon opening, the content 'fades-out' and fade.li assure us that they delete the content from their systems.

/me tries with disposable account

Aha, it renders the mail content as images. A bunch of basic HTML with the GIFs inline, I used wget to pull them down but the metadata is corrupted. I'll poke at them...

Aha2: animated GIF. Frame-by-frame 'writing' of the e-mail, then blanking-out. Presumably they delete the GIF from their server when it has been served once.

Here's one ( safe for work! )

http://imgur.com/jS2cvMr
This one needs a separate post. Please make a blog entry and post it here and on reddit.
Official links:

http://googleblog.blogspot.com.au/2013/10/new-free-expressio...

http://uproxy.org/
I read a couple of months ago that HTF has effectively already been neutralized (as in: profits have collapsed and lots of HFT shops have closed or merged), simply by the nature of the game:

There's a limited total profit potential everyone competes for, which limites the number of players and the expenses that can be justified.

And that profit potential is directly related to market volatility. Which peaked in 2008 and has since gone down drastically.
It's an early version, and for many uses it's more stable and less intrusive than Reader.

I have avoided Reader for years by using Safari, and later Chrome, which each have their own built in PDF renderers. I'm glad that Firefox has caught up, it's one of the things that has kept me from using Firefox. I read a lot of PDFs, and loading the big, slow, clunky Reader plugin, or downloading the PDF, is a non-starter.
Privacy is not mentioned at all in the article. This is about bypassing censorship.
In a sense the markets should be unstable. A perfect market would be so sensitive that any new information, every order from a fundamentals trader, should shift the price. That's what these high speed transactions get you - more accurate prices, and faster. And as a result of that they can offer much narrower spreads than you'd get elsewhere.

Benefits? Knight gave a bunch of other market participants a better price than they could get anywhere else, and no-one traded at a price they didn't agree to.
I sent you guys an email back a couple of months ago and you never responded.
Most of the new articles, I have to say I like. I don't read all of them but I do read some of them.

I don't understand how you're turning this into value for yourselves. Where is this all heading?
I understand you're collecting data but how? How does that help you and other companies specifically?

Would love to learn more about the direction you're taking.

PS - Do you take guest bloggers?
Recursion has a base case. You don't.