skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Having used the Surface Pro 2 for less than a week, I'm in a love / hate relationship with it. I've been using Macs for the last seven years and as I'm on a Mac as I'm typing up this comment.

The good.
- I love being able to have this device sit flat on my lap similar to a tablet.
- Having a touchscreen on a full fledge PC is pretty darn useful.

The Bad.
- My qualms are mainly with the Windows 8.1 more than anything.
- It seems by default Chrome opens as a tablet app. I downloaded a software, clicked the installer and nothing happens... turns out I had to hit the windows button and get back into desktop mode to give the installer administrative access to install.
- Chrome app (desktop mode) in high res DPI is not compatible with touch. Hell, I'm finding a lot of apps aren't.
- How I haven't missed the registry... uninstalling an app, doesn't really mean its uninstalled, there's still reminisce of the app lying around.
- If you connect your device to skydrive, you have to use the same password you use online to login. WTF? The best part, there's a character limit restriction on the password so you can't even have a complicated one, but why would you? You wouldn't remember it. (Yes there is a pin option to unlock the device, but at times you have to put in your full password).
- The UI is not intuitive at all. I gave the device to my friend who primarily uses Windows and he had a hard time with the metro UI.
- I rarely find myself using the tablet mode. I almost wish I could disable it... apps by default actually open in the tablet mode... Double click an image, hey it swaps over to the tablet mode. Great...
- This sucker attracts fingerprints like no other.... my MBA still looks pristine after 1.5 years... where as I've already gotten three or four light scratches on the Surface by merely placing the device on my table...

Despite all the shortcomings, I have to say, I'm still loving the Surface. Now if only Apple would put OS X into the iPad form factor and I'd be sold.
The Next Revolutionary Apple Product? Don't Hold Your Breath.
I've actually found AngularUI's docs to be pretty okay.
Without more evidence, I'm pretty skeptical of this particular claim.

Nevertheless, thousands of heating elements under your control in enemy territory would make a pretty evil cyberweapon.
> you only need to get a filibuster-proof supermajority of the Senate to agree.

Who'd filibuster in her support?

> It'd probably be easier to convince Feinstein to change her ways

This campaign would be a form of pressure. She's starting to feel a little heat, today she called for a full NSA review:

http://thecable.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2013/10/28/were_real...
I accept this explanation and have updated my internal bias database to reflect it. :)
While I understand the negative comments regarding the trial week coming out of vacation time, if you are currently unemployed this is not an issue.

Coming from Sweden it is very common to have a trial 6-months, but then once you're hired its hard to get fired/let go. When I was looking for a job straight out of school I would have preferred a one week trial versus busting my a*# for 6 months straight with the risk of being let go, although this is very rare (you need to mess up big time).
I work for a company that does business in Venezuela. Companies that go through Cadivi have a hard time paying us, the government just doesn't want to let money out of the country. Doing business with any Venezuelan company unless it's government owned is an absolute pain. Those that are government owned, from what I have seen, don't have to go through Cadivi. The strange thing is, some companies have minimal problems with Cadivi and require a lot less paperwork, while others have a terrible time getting any USD to us. I'm guessing some of them are greasing the wheels a little more than others.
aac is trolling by creating a throwaway account and intentionally violating a few of the comment-posting guidelines.
True header. Don't write code first. First write the docs to understand the problem domain from the other side, the user, and come up with a better API. Then write the tests to support this API you came up with, and help structuring the code into small testable units. And lastly write the code. The business model needs not to be written, it must be simple enough to stay in your head and explain it to anybody in two sentences anyway.
I think the biggest thing missing from this article - or really this mindset - is that Apple's biggest success was disrupting the phone business. True, they innovated with the iPad. But their best moves have come when a market for a product already existed, and they rewrote the rules. I don't know how many markets exist like that right now.
Ask HN: Represent SQL using JSON?
Are there any tools (preferable open-source) which represent SQL using JSON and then converts the JSON to a SQL query?
Non-competes are illegal in California. And no other place matters right?
Except maybe on the basis of the substance delivered? He makes a fair point sarcasm or not.
Microsoft solved handwriting recognition over a decade ago with Tablet PC. (Disclaimer: I worked as a vendor on some Tablet PC goodness, and currently work for MS, though in an unrelated area.) My old Windows XP Tablet PC 2003 machine could recognize my chicken scratch with ease, and things have only gotten better since then. Handwriting recognition in Windows has never required a network connection.

As for notes, OneNote is by far the best note taking app out there (IMHO), I went an entire year in college without using a single sheet of paper. Though I understand Evernote's appeal as well. (It has always been a bit too heavyweight for me, I just want a really big piece of lined paper and some tabs for organization)
The irony is that not only is there a commenting system to complain about the docs, but that at the top of most of the pages is a prominent "Improve this doc" button, which when clicked, takes you directly to the file in Github. Some of the docs are .md (markdown) while the rest are the actual code files. I don't know how often they accept pull requests, much less for doc-only changes, but they have almost 150 PR's in queue.

And this is something I was unaware of until now, a "Contributor License Agreement"[1] is required for a pull-request to be accepted. Sheesh, that's kind of a PITA...

1. http://docs.angularjs.org/misc/contribute#CLA
Weebly seems to be doing things right-- only bringing people in for the week if there's a high likelihood of hiring them-- but I don't expect that everyone would be so enlightened. That's the problem. What happens when other companies start doing this and only taking 20 or 30 percent? Now, a large amount of peoples' time is getting burned. A 1-in-3 chance of losing a week in one's job search isn't a total catastrophe, but an industry change that systematically makes peoples' job searches longer and more complex is evil.

Companies can be quite inconsiderate with others' time when the job market goes weak. In 2001 and 2008 when the job market was disastrous, there were some banks in NYC that had interview processes sprawling out over 4 full days, followed by a competitive reference check (not just a basic check).

Here's a gnarly ethical question, and just one that comes up. What if you bring someone in for a trial week, he performs well, and then a reference call comes in and it's negative? Do you lie to him and say he performed poorly during the trial week? Or do you tip him off about the bad reference, and risk a detrimental reliance suit (which will cost you 6 figures unless you give the bad reference's name, forcing you to choose between your own pocketbook and your source's interests)?
We need a new term for statistician and data scientist is as good as any.

Do you have any figures to back that up? I think we should run some tests.
If you're going to make that point, it should probably be "scared little child".
I like this idea and was thinking just the same. The real advantage is customizability at scale.
Cruz could win the nom but he'd never get elected.
TEDx, at least. TED itself is usually (but not always) fairly well vetted. TEDx on the other hand is almost anything goes.

"The event featured talks on crystal therapy and Egyptian psychoaromatherapy and, according to the schedule, closed with the chanting of mantras and songs for Gaia."

http://www.theverge.com/2012/12/10/3751786/ted-pseudoscience...
Fucking hell. I do like AngularJS, but everything to do with expressions pisses me off. Fairly incoherent documentation, combined with lack of errors or any sort of meaningful way to debug them.
He's probably got a handful of tools in the bag, but the first on my list would be to cross-reference IP address with invites. If one ip address signs up all/most of the invites then that is a pretty big clue.
"Our hire rate out of trial week is around 66%, which feels like the right level."

66% seems quite low for that kind of arrangement, enough to be discouraged from applying in the first place unless you're currently jobless. I can definitely understand the 90-100% temp-permanent programs though.
Except growth doesn't just happen at the will of a company. Companies grow because people buy their products and use their services, which means they wouldn't grow unless people wanted them to. So how is growth a bad thing when it's what people want?
They are for users to talk to other users. Not everyone knows about StackExchange. And you can get there from the support site, which is a good place for a user with an issue to be.
In Florida, shoplifting over $300 of goods is a felony. The article I found said 'about $300 worth of goods' so it's not clear whether it would have been a felony.
Ask HN: Help validate this idea
Idea: Starfall.com for the iPad generation<p>Problem: Kids will learn on mobile devices. Nothing currently exists as an educational "one stop shop". Parents need a brand to trust.<p>Solution: Educational app system for tablets. Progression based on a child's mastery.<p>As a parent of a young child (he is 2 years old) - I'm constantly searching for new things to help my child develop. He's learned a ton from traditional physical toys/books and I spend a ton of time playing with him. I know he's benefiting from this interaction.<p>At the same time, he's exposed to many digital devices (my iphone, ipad, tv, etc). Digital devices are the norm for him. If we skip forward a decade, I imagine that most kids would be learning primarily from mobile devices.<p>There are indie educational apps - things that teach individual learning skills like the alphabet, sounds, or colors. These separate apps when combined together could make up a "cohesive" learning set that provides effective learning progression. But that requires a parent to pick the individual apps and gauge when their child is ready for the next app. Also you have the problem of varying app quality.<p>The other option is a web learning system, like Starfall.com. This is well received and recommended by parents/educators - but they are designed for computer use. Kids interact through a mouse and keyboard. But newer generation kids grow up on touch based interfaces. I know when my kid plays with my computer, he's always trying to touch the screen.<p>I would pay a small subscription ($3-7/month) for something like a khanacademy app for preschoolers. So I figure why not try to make it myself. I've asked friends (who are parents) and they've all said they would buy a sub after they've seen the product. But I don't have one.<p>How can I validate this idea?<p>Thanks for the help.
Employers of salaried employees generally don't need cause to fire employees, and not only are employee non-compete contracts generally not binding in California, but also it's not the nature of an enforceable non-compete that you can't do software development for any company (or even most companies).
While I wouldn't so hastily accuse Weebly of age discrimination, I think this raises an interesting discussion around hiring practice:

The logistics of certain hiring practices may be themselves biased in terms of age (or other factors), which is questionably ethical. This trial week seems to discriminate against those who cannot trivially sacrifice vacation time (employees with families, for example). There are others, too; I've heard other founders scheduling interviews with candidates late into the evening or night, even on weekends. With kids to tend to, that would be an incredibly frustrating situation.

Nothing is quite so black and white that these acts are themselves evil, but I do hope companies aren't becoming culturally biased. If you're flexible with your policies, then perhaps you'll do fine. With that said, there's something to be said to sticking to some conventions in the interest of not alienating candidates
I don't think whether or not people are "delivering" is the question. Consider the context of the messaging they've built into the site/app:

"Rebecca brought in two new contracts."

As a CEO, this makes me say "oh, no shit, I should send Rebecca a thank you or offer up a coffee for helping my business to grow."

Or another example:

"Luke is less active than usual."

If this popped up a handful of times, I'd probably want to make sure Luke was taking enough time off for himself or wasn't coming down with a cold. For example, "hey man, looks like you're dipping off a bit, want to take the week off?"

Again, it all comes down to the individual and how they use it. It's great that you're a powerhouse, but most people are not. Yes, it would be awesome if everyone was at peak performance all day everyday, but it's not realistic. Anyone who expects that is a bit crazy in my book.

I think what's presented here is confusing because it invites the opportunity to be a human instead of a robotic airhead who's obsessed with productivity. I'd say the majority of people out there today are too caught up in the game of life to realize that "employee" is just another way to describe "person who happens to work for/with me."
Because this is again an unhelpful comment that goes agains the TOS. He/She also makes some interesting claims that iOS 7 went untested which is just funny.
So, this is not exactly related, but I see that you also work on Firefox OS, and I assume part of the reason for this project is to improve location services on FxOS.

I got a ZTE Open to play around with, and was disappointed to find that it can't figure out where I am. Of course, I know it's a cheap phone and the OS is only in version 1.0. So if the location were a little inaccurate, or took a long time to come up, I would understand. But it literally never gets my location at all. (I live in NYC.)

Why do you think that would happen? And tying it back into this project, how soon do you think FxOS end-users will start seeing improvements from what you're doing?
Diane Feinstein isn't going anywhere, she has consistent 20% margins.

Is this because no one bothers to run against her? Why exactly do her constituents like her so much?
Feinstein is now apparently opposed - the recent spying on world leaders never was passed through her for approval, and now wants a total review of all intelligence activities the NSA is performing.

Not that I'd trust her, I feel that politics and our country would be better with her running a lemon-aid stand.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6631068
Why is there such a high rate of Alzheimer in Washington state? There may be something to discover there related to its causes.
There's a lot of backlash here against the idea that managers will use this to micro-manage. That's possible, sure. Bad managers will be bad.

The reason I'm interested in Peak is that it may be a good tool to implement the "trust, but verify" approach to management. I feel like I under-manage my team (7 people) because I really dislike interrupting people. I generally assume everybody is doing something productive, and understands the goals and priorities of our products.

However, when a team member gets stuck or goes off into the weeds, they may not realize it themselves. Before they've spent a days doing unnecessary work or spinning their wheels, it would be great to have a non-interrupting way to notice this and give them the support they need to get back on track.

Of course you need to take the numbers for what they are - if you directly incentivize people to get their dropbox files changed numbers up, you're gonna have a bad time. Still, I see this as a potential tool to help me understand what might be going right and wrong with my team without bugging them, and that's a good thing.
That one is actually pretty "old" already. The original demo can be found here:

https://developer.mozilla.org/demos/detail/fluid
You really should emphasize this more prominently. It's a huge selling point, both for practicality and privacy.
Interesting preservation. I also couldn't help but notice that the slides themselves were beautiful. I wonder if they were generated using a recent
version of, e.g., Microsoft Office (the fonts look like those used in Modern UI) or if there's a beamer theme that looks like that. If there is one, do tell.
The wikipedia article I linked references about a dozen studies or meta-analyses, most of which establish a link between dietary saturated fat, and heart disease.

All of them were done after the 1970's.

Seriously, get back to me when you have read all of them.
I dislike the comparison that the OP draws between scholarships and the given example of the officer buying food for the shoplifter. In the case of the latter, the officer is providing an additional opportunity for the woman by purchasing groceries that she otherwise wouldn't have been able to afford. In the case of the OP, the users making artificial accounts receive exactly the same service at the same price, and so no opportunity is being generated.
We've been running a client side SaaS on the Closure library/tools/compiler for a couple years now. You are right that it is not widely used outside Google (and certainly not as popular as Angular) but it is well-tested and there are some people out there using it for production work.
It obviously wasn't intentional. Why do you speak with much violence?
It depends on your goal. If you're just writing code for yourself, then yes, because you are your own customer at that point. If other people happen to share your sentiment, awesome. If you want to start a startup because you think you have a good idea that other people will want, then do the market research first and make sure people actually want it. If it's something you're doing for yourself, then you probably don't need monetary motivation to do it, even if you're the only one using it.
Senator changes tune, now is “totally opposed” to foreign leader surveillance
USV has also made its site into an HN-inspired social news site recently
Suicide seems to be highest in rural (lonely) cold (also less sunlight) states.
Most of that margin is because she's an incumbent in a state that votes Dem. She hasn't made enough waves for people to pay attention to her positions beyond rural voters who dislike her assault weapons ban. But techies should be paying attention.
How Mini Car GPS Signal Jammer So Popular?
Really? I've seen offices in the USA, Australia and England that don't have a view out a window, I'd be surprised if they were all breaking some laws. Can you give any specific countries?
Don't forget that she walks away from questioning when confronted with 4th amendment violations - she claims its legal, then states that they "don't have to put up with this" WRT being questioned.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jKI7nHIkD20
That internet exists so that we don't have to remember anything.
Cool. I'll try again later. It definitely looks fun.
What tool did you use to generate these maps?
Yes more opinions :) I'm a relatively new Ruby developer so tend to swing whichever way the last good article I read leads me towards, so more is always better
Great point. My cautionary example for fighting people who use your system the "wrong" way is Friendster. If they had paid attention to their users, they could have been Facebook. But instead they put a lot of energy into banning people who were "doing it wrong".

The way I try to look at it is that a company is supposed to be serving the users, not the other way around.
You know who's wreaking environmental havoc? Humans.
Yes I know, my comment doesn't dispute that. Phones are the biggest piece, but increasingly that's coming from low-end phones, the growth in high-end phones is slipping.
Probably the same as if the officer hand't bought the shoplifter $100 of groceries with their own money.
Interestingly Alaska has the highest death rate by Firearms. Anyone can propose a rationale for that?
I agree with you and will try and see what we can do. Thanks for the feedback!
While I generally consider Feinstein a rubber stamp for the surveillance state, that she now supports any sort of reform is a major shift in the conversation.

If Chambliss (the other co-chair on the Senate Intel Committee saluting the Statsi) will support meaningful change as well, the issue will be decided.
It took me a while to. Living in Sweden it was hard in the winters. I didn't mind the cold (layer layer layer) or the snow (quite fun) but the darkness was killing me.

Somebody I know recommended a quick tanning session (5-10 mins) on lowest setting once every two weeks and it made a huge difference. I know tanning is bad and all that, but so is being depressed.

Now I live in Miami with plenty of light and no such issues, way more productive.

Just my 2c
It does seem like quite an outlier. I found another article that mentions it and splits it by county. http://socialcapitalreview.org/washington-tops-u-s-in-12-yea...

It looks like a problem in the western part of the state, but I don't see any suggestion of why that is.

*Correction: Meant county instead of country.
In my case it's because I don't understand it well enough to write doc. The people who _do_ understand it well have managed to do so despite the state of the documentation, so maybe they think the doc is sufficient?

It's one of those nasty problems, like the influence of money on politics, or gerrymandering, where the people best able to fix it are the ones least likely to think it's a problem.
...to files, but not to directories, which is the key point.
For Alzheimer, if you don't die from any other condition, you will likely live longer and therefore the neurodegenerative illnesses will be more prominent, it seems very logical actually.
Your Ethnicity Determines the Species of Bacteria That Live in Your Mouth
Dear author:

If you refactor the object/array/Float32Array instantiation in the redraw loop out into one-off allocations you will see a remarkably improvement in performance in terms of garbage-collection.
> Well, if you want to account for externalities like that, then we need to account for positive externalities not captured by these corporations either, as GDP or profit figures do not adequately capture the difference between a $200 smartphone and a $200 feature phone.

Please...

The whole point is those companies in the primary sector, which are the backbone of the global economy, would be operating at a loss if they weren't offloading costs to future generations or this generation's poor - and in the other hand, economy as it stands today would be unsustainable if they were taxed proportionally.

It's not a game of numbers as you want to put, as if the uncaptured value between a phone and a shinier phone "balanced out" the problems behind it's means of production.

> Capitalism does not promise to solve global optimization problems which are not priced in or demanded, that's the whole point of having a democracy in order to set the constraints of the game, a negative external feedback system.

It has worked out great so far right? I don't think the US, which is a highly functional democracy, optimizes for those problems (environmental, social) rather than accumulation of wealth.

The problem is that a government's primary objective turns into maintaining economic growth, at all costs, even by use of force. This is the core of the criticism in the article.