skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was at uni in 2003-2006.

I had a tablet PC, convertable kind, Toshiba.

I was a 'freak' for having such a device, but doing an engineering degree, it was perfect. Equation I scribble down to LATEX yes!

One note is still my favourite note taking program, frankly puts evernote to shame.

I noticed I was the only one in a class of about 200 with one. 3 years later that had changed to eight, based on people asking me.

These things were expensive, I was lucky enough to get some grants for being dyslexic.

I honestly think they are great devices, battery life is now adequate, ultimately a Pro would be my go to university machine, enough power for any engineer that didn't require a rack. Great note taking.

However the price is objectionable. Most uni students I know would waste money on an iPad. Most people who buy iPads don't want a real computer, and RT offers little in apps they use. Outlook?! Why do they want that for their simple emails, its too complex.
Right, at least the bad trackpad is offset by the fact that you can touch. The need for apple-level trackpad is offset by the fact that you can manipulate pages with your fingers, instead.

And from what I've heard and used, both the touch and type cover aren't "awful" or "terrible". They're not 'good' either, but I'd certainly put them in the 'usuable' category. Would I write a book on it? Hell no, but I'd also be tempted to swap my mac's chiclet keyboard for a mechanical keyboard anyhow. There is certainly room for improvement, but people in HN seem to have an particularly high disdain for the surface's covers... they're not the demon they're made out to be.
I really hope that one of the next Snowden revelations is another 'Merkel moment' for Dave, whe he finds out the the USG (who he considers to be his best friend), have been fucking his (proverbial) wife behind his back.

Oh how I shall laugh at that one.
For a moment there I thought Apple was switching to FSF-endorsed free software and I was very confused. The cost of OS X is built into the hardware so it's not like future versions will be free as in freedom or free of cost.
Can you show me one place where they claim to have invented every feature from scratch?
Not happened to me... yet.
I was a Microsoft intern last summer. They gave all the interns a Surface Pro at the end of the internship. As a student, I've used my Surface to dodge any use of paper this semester. OneNote + Wacom stylus is a great combo.
Bad snippet aside, "most relevant Wikipedia article as the #1 search result" is probably my most-desired search engine feature.
My buddy has held off on a retina macbook pro waiting for the new one.

And I know some others that do similar, not because they need to but to see what the new version offers.
The touchpad is bad. On the Touch cover, it's that leather-like material that rubs up against the screen normally. On the Type cover, that part's fixed, but the whole thing is roughly the size of two US Quarters put together. The Surface really isn't big enough to have a properly-sized keyboard and touchpad attached.
Is your university anywhere in the list on this page: http://www.mom.gov.sg/foreign-manpower/passes-visas/work-hol...? If yes, you might qualify for a working holiday visa in Singapore. That would make getting a foot into the country much easier.
Does the ternary operator count as "if/then"?
Installing Powerline on OS X + homebrew
'Tis the season for javascript emulators, I guess. I've seen at least 3 or 4 up on HN in the last week. Cool stuff.
Fully agreed. Microsoft has shown that boring business is big business and it's continued to generate great revenues for them. They should be marketing this towards business professionals, engineers, digital artists, etc. This isn't a device you lay on the couch with to read; it's meant to be something an analyst can take with him on a business trip. Time and time again I'm seeing Surface ads at bus stops that do not make any sense, like "click in", "thinner, faster", all with very artsy images clearly geared towards the young and hip demographic (even then, the ads poorly convey just how hip the product is).

They need to be more concrete and directed in their marketing. IMO, they should be running series of ads targeted to very specific professions.
Multiplayer html5 node.js long poll game.
This is my first multiplayer online game using ajax queries and node.js game engine for the logics of the game
28 Signs That The West Coast Is Being Absolutely Fried
I don't entirely understand. Is it wrong of them to run a startup news site while having their own startup? If so, why?

Or is that unrelated, and it's just that these particular guys are not very nice?
This submission is http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/29/us/silicon-valley-roused-b...

The other submission is http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/29/us/silicon-valley-roused-b...

HN doesn't see these as identical.
For UK market: Budgeting for people on benefits. It needs to be really simple to use, and cover benefits in (with dates) and money out. Have space for telephone numbers of various benefit offices and utility suppliers. Have reminders for when to pay. Have links to useful information - job centres and cv writing and CAB and etc.

Because of the limited funds of these users you'd monetise with ads.

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"Mood Tracker" - there are lots of these. But yours would be better. In the UK we have something called IAPT - Improved Access to Psychological Therapies. These are first line therapies for people with mild to moderate depression, anxiety, etc. Your app would describe what CBT (cognitive behaviour therapy) is, and would help the user with some of the processes.
How did this article become remotely viral?????

Bad science galore. Please analyze and disassemble HN folks.
My Mother has SAD, suffered for years with it in various parts of CA (too much gloom during winter, even though the days were long and sunny spring-autumns), but now lives in a northern mid-west state. We discovered that SAD doesn't affect her as much there for a couple reasons we can only guess at. The sun was out more often even on bone-chilling days, and the snow on the ground reflecting the light was far, far better for her than the gloomy rainy winter days of CA.

It was a nice surprise that a colder/Winter state was better for her particular SAD. Seems very counter-intuitive at first, but sometimes an individual's needs aren't so clear. And I just gotta reiterate... the snow reflecting more light into a home, combined with it adding the whole ambiance of a Winter look (rather than the sight of gloom or leafless plants in a more temperate state during winter) seems to have a real beneficial effect. Of course, individual results will vary, this only works for one particular case, but it's still of interest how SAD works and affects each person.
You are misrepresenting the R's position. It's not that government can do nothing right, it's that government does things less efficiently than private enterprise.
Sounds like the iPhone 5C slight of hand didn't work[1]. It makes sense to me, its last-years-model with cheaper materials. There's no reason it should be more popular than last-years-model usually are, except for the extra marketing which in this case didn't seem to help much.

http://www.valuewalk.com/2013/10/apple-inc-earnings-iphone-5...
It is theoretically sound if you assume that the present state is equivalent to the long-term equilibrium (e.g., ignore friction.)
How the economic machine works
Also noteworthy is that it's getting increasingly harder to even have pseudonyms -- and not be outed.

About a week ago, I really wanted to get in touch with a HN user (who did not have any contact information in his profile), so I set out to do a little detective work... and after about 2 hours I basically got his e-mail address. Innocently and guilelessly I wrote him a message, and I found him to be just bewildered that I found out his identity... I felt very sorry of course for having scared him like that. This was a big moment for me. Because I also prefer to be anonymous on comment forums, and I'm generally pretty careful to not give clues as to my identity, but I still can't help but wonder if it's all gonna come back to me and maybe hurt my career in some manner.
I don't think there's anything necessarily wrong with this technique as long as a company makes it easy to contact them some other way. If you have a reply-to address that actually accepts mail, then any large mailing (which isn't always a bad thing) is going to receive a massive amount of vacation auto-responses, chain letters and the like. It isn't exactly the most friendly gesture but it's for very practical reasons, IMO. I wouldn't judge a company's customer service on this alone.
With this kind of self sacrifice and strive for perfection, we could see Javascript achieve VB6-like performance! The future of the web is here.
I’d much rather Apple creates an iPad Pro. For instance, a 13.3" screen @ 3072 by 2048 pixels could fit two regular iPad apps (in portrait mode) alongside each other. Then, apps could be adapted to take advantage of the double screen real estate (looking at you, Photoshop Touch.)

As for pressure sensitivity, Apple doesn’t need to build that into iPads, Wacom already sells pens for iPad that have 2048 pressure levels and palm rejection. [1]

[1] http://intuoscreativestylus.wacom.com/en/
I think you slightly misunderstood me. I think the cover is pretty awesome. To me it seems like a winning combination with a $500 tablet. But a $1000 tablet/ultra-portable with the keyboard and trackpad? Is that the right trade-off to make?

If the products competing here are $1000 ultra-protables with pretty great keyboards and $1000 tablets with crappy keyboards, which has the bigger audience?
I'm not so sure EU wants to import wine anyway. They have their own of the best quality in any quantities
Right. Free as in free-with-purchase.
Friend of mine got a similar experience with a galaxy note 8.0, for much cheaper. Add a keyboard case and you can write papers on it too. Runs faster than her netbook or her iPhone.
Interestingly I can take it to 1,000,000 with Firefox (Nightly) without too many problems. Chrome (Canary) becomes unusable around 200,000.
Simple. Financial advice is valuable, so financial advisors prefer to get paid. And paying for their time means that they offer more value than they cost. That really doesn't happen until an individual's wealth reaches a certain inflection point, which is basically upper middle class. It's in the financial best interest of the advisors to work for the clients with the most money.

Below that, there are any number of free or inexpensive resources, books, etc available. If you're disciplined enough to take the advice of a financial planner, you're probably disciplined enough to to follow the advice in "Saving for Dummies" or somesuch.
Well if not an IT bubble, surely there's a housing bubble. "Home prices in San Francisco and surrounding counties rose more than 15% in the past year".

That's the kind of increase we saw year after year just a year or two before the bubble popped, and prices fell by 50% or so (around 2005-2006 I guess).

It's funny how the majority just assume prices will keep on climbing (I was one of those merry fools by the way), and in hindsight it becomes so obvious that such increases are not sustainable.
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Apple to Buy Telsa, Appoint Elon Musk?
http://money.cnn.com/2013/10/28/technology/innovation/apple-tesla/
Surface Pro actually has a worse GPU than MBA, too (Intel HD 4600 vs Intel HD 5000), which contributes to that, plus a higher clocked CPU. And we already know that Windows' battery life is terrible [1].

It's all a perfect storm of bad decisions the reason why Surface itself has bad battery life.

[1] - http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2013/10/why-does-windows-ha...
Yeah, and one of the biggest value-adds of SDA is that the runs you see up there are verified by other runners. It takes a long time for a run to get up there, but once it is, you know it's the real deal.
Ah, my very first computer!

Thanks for making something as simple and silly as this emulator. It brought back a lot of powerful reminders about where the technology (and myself) have come from.
Ok, good info, I might try it.

What I know for sure, CMake is not very adequate for separating work into different small, independant parts (somewhat "declarative" attept in CMake here: https://github.com/key-tools/key-machine-logs/blob/master/ke...), and then including build targets from other CMake parts into one.

Also, generating CMakeLists, then generating a project seems like an overkill :)
> Why does "partially-sighted people are likely to have lower quality of life than fully-sighted ones" feel wrong to you?

Usain Bolt obviously has two pretty amazing legs, and my legs by contrast must look 'less able'. But I'd be offended if you assumed that Usain Bolt has a better quality of life simply because he has 'more able' legs.

So with this gene selection we end up in selecting only those with the legs of Usain Bolt.

I feel the same about sight. I'm fairly short-sighted so wear glasses, and my glasses are kind of part of my personality. Even if somebody wanted to pay for the laser surgery, and it was a guaranteed success, I can't say that I'd definitely do it.

So in the case of your questions - if somebody asked me to improve their sight, and it was in my power to do so, then I would do it. But I don't think it would guarantee them a better quality of life.
Performance for this kind of particle effect will be even better once Webgl2 is widely available. Transform feedback (or other hacks) let you manipulate the particle positions on the videocard itself. There's a great article about them here: http://prideout.net/blog/?p=67
Forrester Report Tells Advertisers Don’t Dedicate Paid Ad Budget For Facebook
Yeah I forgot that the retina was the big selling point. For me I didn't mind the screen the way it was - the battery life is great since the screen is average.

So for people like you who have moved to the iPad 3 (or whatever its stupid name was) - you have another year or two before needing a replacement...
That's a useful argument to have. I'd respond that all that wealth wasn't "transferred" to the SV capitalist. It was generated because millions of people saved a few dollars on airfare. Some of those savings went to the capitalist, but they can't all have: His price then wouldn't be any better than the friendly travel agent down the street. The rest of those savings stayed with the consumer, who can now afford that much more air travel or that many more organic carrots or whatever. In aggregate, when it becomes cheaper and easier to do X, there's more money or time to spend on X or Y or Z, and let the most valuable products and services win.

But all of this is somewhat beside the point. This article doesn't try to spur these kinds of discussions. If it were trying, it wouldn't use phrases like "fat miserable drooling zombies". It's agitprop, and there are much better uses of HN readers' time.
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Then I'll do nothing, because I know I'll get the benefit of someone else spending their own money to save me, no matter what I do. But certainly I'll not expend my own money or effort to save the world, because I definitely don't want to spend it saving you and your ilk.
IMO, supply constraints mattered....and this quarter is different because Apple threw a lower margin iPhone into the mix: the 5c. These have been consistently available, while the 5s has not. That means that for all but a couple of days during the quarter, all they had to sell was the lower margin 5c, while revenue from the higher margin 5s was waiting in the wings and won't be seen until next quarter.
Here is my C solution for arbitrary positive range: http://ideone.com/a0EdtS
To be pedantic, what we did was take advantage of Cassandra's bloom filter.
Sea Otters Are Jerks. So Are Dolphins, Penguins, and Other Adorable Animals
They explained that. It's a long-term play.
8 new AdSense Metrics to the Google Analytics Core Reporting API
i really hope you follow this up in a few months with data about payments versus scholarships.
Imagine if, instead of him making these points, it was Obama or RMS or whoever you ideal is, making these exact points. You'd react very differently.

I wouldn't: I had no idea who this guy was before reading this piece, and only decided to learn more about him because I was invited at the bottom of the article to follow him on Twitter.

But it really does make my day that anyone would assume that President Obama or RMS would be just the folks to sell this drivel to me! Much as I disagree with both of them, they're each capable of making far better arguments.
Of course science is profitable and corporations spend a lot of money on and make a lot of money from research. That doesn't change the fact that a lot of current technology would probably not exist if it hadn't been funded by governments in the first place. From the top of my head: GPS, the Internet.
Telling someone they're wrong is much more satisfying than caring about their opinion.
Why is this blantant paid shillitorial on HN?

Edit: Anyone downvoting this obviously missed his previous psot where he talks about how MS flew to to NYC and wined and dined him.
Apple Finally Gives Developers The Ability To Manage GameCenter Leaderboards
Well, that's the whole crux of the matter. Since truly comprehensive is not possible, where do you draw the line?

Ward Cunningham, who invented the wiki, said this [1] about the fight, which I think provides a pretty good way of deciding what stays, what goes:

"I think that Wikipedia has been handling that [issue] fairly well. We could talk to people who are a little closer to the day-to-day Wikipedia and they could probably even correct me on this, but I think the more important notion is notable. The community has to agree upon what the criterion of notability is, and that's only because, there are forms of abuse that arise from non-notable people feigning notability. And that's the fight. And once you start fighting that fight, you find all kinds of stuff that doesn't pass muster that wasn't hurting anybody. And you say, well, in the sense of fairness, I've got to delete it too. And that's a tough thing."

[1] http://www.drdobbs.com/240000393?pgno=2
The story was discussed on Russian forums and people found even more blatant BS there -- "wi-fi module" was in fact just a speaker used to indicate horizontal position of the iron, spying module in the demonstrated Chinese phone were just capacitors.
I don't understand how you can read that and then state that the standard for sourcing on WP is "the New York Times". The links I provided contradict your claim.
"This website (w3dt.net) is asking to store data on your compute for offline use."

Can someone explain to me why they would need that? My instinct tells me that they are trying to circumvent people who delete cookies when the browser is closed and that makes me uneasy...
> Source: The Next Web
is it plagiarism if its sourced? This is just blog spam.
Tahoe is basically 4 hours from SF, and up to 8 if there is fresh snow, which rules out day trips for all but the most hard-core. It's not as bad as flat land out east, but it's certainly got nothing (including snow quality) on what is available in Utah / Colorado.
I spent time in Buenos Aires and can attest that people go across to Uruguay, gamble and take back the winnings in US dollars. Also the article said there is just one black market - not true at all, there is a huge underground market for luxury non-Argentian commodities such as Apple computers.
You did the right thing honestly. The rules seem to indicate matching the source title is the defacto right thing to do.

All the same, I think in cases where responses start reacting to the title and not the content, it makes sense to moderate it, but then again, I am biased.
controlled, not powered.
I use mine for netflix primarily, no need for the retina.
It looks like there are no restrictions on bringing USD into the country (aside from declaring > $10,000 USD), but taking currency out is restricted to via "authorized" exchanges http://www.iatatravelcentre.com/AR-Argentina-customs-currenc...
> Intentionally "anonymous" individuals don't use real email addresses.

You'd be surprised. Even DPR fucked it up.
The freedom of speech is a right guaranteed, but it comes with some (minor in fact) limitations : incitement to hatred, discrimination, slander and racial insults ; racist, anti-Semite, or xenophobic activities (so including the promotion via speech), Holocaust denial ; hatred against people because of their gender, sexual orientation, or disability are prohibited and can even be sentenced with jail time for some of those.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_speech_by_country#Fr...
Netflix Wants Big Movies Day And Date, But It Won't Get Them
Facebook and it's (violent) image problem
Side note: The weather shows for Sydney, Australia in fahrenheit, but they use celsius.

(The time is also 1 hour behind Washington DC though, so I guess that would explain it.)
Lessons from Leaders on Cultivating Culture
Agreed. Microsoft ought to release a version of the type cover with a pointing stick (aka Trackpoint).
I don't feel you should completely dismiss neutrality and empathy - we need more openness from our news, not less. Journalists IMO should strive for neutrality and distance (knowing they will never attain it), particularly distance from the culture, nation and media which they were born to. They should question the narratives (often delivered pre-made), and use of words they are given in a press release, not relay it, and they should make clear their own biases to readers, at the same time as striving to see the situation from various points of view, not only their own, or the one they were brought up with. They should strive for this this because it brings empathy and understanding, in a way that completely ignoring neutrality and picking a side in often polarised conflicts does not. It is impossible not to have sympathies, but journalists should also try to put their sympathies to one side at least until they have a good picture of the facts on the ground and can form an opinion.

In the example you give, we have lots of terms for the participants in asymmetric warfare, all employed to taint debate before it starts:

liberators, freedom fighters, rebels, guerrilla fighters, insurgents, terrorists

IMO the acronym or name chosen by the fighters/armies themselves would be best in each case, rather than a label dreamed up by the military which opposes them - it also stops lazy reporting which groups disparate groups together as one enemy.

I'd rather news didn't have a pre-decided viewpoint/agenda which they try to cut the facts to fit, which is often what partial news or 'op-ed' turns out to be when written by professional columnists. We should not have a liberal view or a right-wing view, we should have journalists who approach each story with an open spirit and actually do the journalism required to come up with an informed opinion and transmit that. That hard work should come before they have an opinion on any story.
Or free as in free OS X upgrade for anybody who bought a Mac in the last few years...
Clearly the signal processing/audio side of the app can't be written in Lisp, and that actually makes up a pretty large chunk of the code.

And having to bridge everything over FFI really isn't very practical for a UI of this complexity either for performance and code overhead reasons. Being able to access your internal data structures directly without jumping through FFI/translation hoops is a big win for both efficiency and code maintenance.

So Lisp zealots can ding my comment all they want but it doesn't change the fact that intelligent, informed programmers all over the world continue to reject Lisp for very practical reasons that the true believers of the Lisp community will never understand.