skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Godwin's law is an anti-rational knee jerk.

(Off-topic)

Actually, I think parent poster and you misunderstand Godwin's law. Godwin's law is just the empirical observation that, as an Internet thread grows longer, the probability of someone making a Nazi reference approaches unity. It's a "law" in the same way that Moore's Law is one. It's not (originally) intended to be a way to shut down discussion. There's nothing special about the Nazis in this regard - there is a tendency toward a "race to the bottom" when constructing analogies, and it just so happens that in our culture they're considered the worst thing that ever happened. If the Nazis never existed Godwin's Law would have referenced something else - slavery, some other genocide, etc.
Here is a link to the "Cleaning up licensing" issue https://github.com/ffi/ffi/issues/288
Will there be a manufacture that will make: QHD+ (non touch), Intel everything (graphics, NIC), ultrabook body, I5-I7 with at-least 8GB of memory and hit the price point of 1000USD?
It seems like a genuine plea for help to me. How should he have worded it better?

Edit: I skimmed the last paragraph at first. He should have left that part out.
It was a while ago when I last did it, but the team are perfectly happy to merge-in docs corrections and improvements. IIRC, the CLA is not necessary for docs either, only for actual code.

At the last London AngularJS meetup it was mentioned that the team have 'pull request parties' where they try to merge or close as many contributions as they can, but more of them just keep coming ... good problem to have I guess, but they are aware of it and trying to address it.
What about Baltimore?
It's really just, "make lots of dollars outside of the country, sell them at the black market rate, and live like a king off the large number of pesos/bolivars you get."
Oh just give me one in 13" (Project Sputnik!) and I'm IN!
Yeah, but its a Dell laptop.

Do they still come covered in Windows stickers and with all sorts of bloatware installed?
That openrisc one from the other day supported X and wayland. It should be possible to load firefox on it and then load the emulator again....
Really? To me that means the service thinks that if can subsidize new users because the initial cost isnt as much as their purchases will make, and no business makes all of its revenue from a first time shopper (with rare exceptions).

That means the service thinks each user is worth about 4 bucks. Actually not that expensive of a lead generation if it brings in 20 a year.

I would be interested in your thoughts regarding this, because I have seem some lead generation sites pay 50 dollars for the right kind of lead.
Feel free to get the hell off Hacker News and take it to a political site.
Minsky -> Blum -> Adleman, Minsky -> Blum -> Goldwasser are 2 hat-tricks of Turing awards involving Blum.
Defriend, or tell them!
But fair points overall.
Boxer gets lots of entertainment money and some from tech, Feinstein more from military contractors.

Boxer: http://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/contrib.php?cycle=201...

Feinstein: http://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/contrib.php?cycle=201...
If you could find a citation for that, I think we'd be happy. You don't become a registered ICANN registrar if you're reselling from eNom.
I thought Gmail was a compiled to JavaScript from Java application?
Kinda tired debating the surface pro on HN, but you hit the nail on the head. This is a desktop computer that sacrifices very little, yet is the size of an iPad with comparable usability. Anyone who voluntarily indoctrinated themselves on the merits of toy mobile operating systems will never understand how awesome the Pro-range surfaces are.

Much like the HTC Dream was basically a first generation joke, I'm hopeful and very much intend to be carrying one of Surface's offspring in my backpack in a few years time.
Non-touch seems like it's becoming less and less common with Windows laptops. I imagine Microsoft has been pushing pretty hard for it since Windows 8.
I'm in favor of this, but I expect one of my senators wouldn't be no matter how hard I push...
that kind of sarcasm strikes me as needlessly acerbic.

FWIW, his idea struck me as logical. I might be able to afford something that still doesn't make sense for me to buy, since I don't get eg; $20 of value from it. See econ101. But I'm not sure PWYW would be the solution here.
Oh! I wasn't aware of that. I will take care of that.
Nice. Finally some decent Windows notebook screens.

Being touch, I guess it is glossy and not matt?
Feel free to not upvote.
I didn't and I flagged it.
FTP: "The issue I have with getting a replacement is that I purchased this iphone 4s from someone who upgraded to iphone5. Which means the serial number is not matching with my apple account.”

From my personal experience, I didn’t have any trouble getting an iPhone replaced even though it was not purchased using my account. Apple checked the serial number to verify the Warranty status, and I was given a replacement at the Appel Store Genius Bar.

I am not sure if Apple maintained a blacklist of reportedly stolen iPhones.

This past Summer 2013, a friend of mine bought a used iPhone from Craislist (red flag #1) and found out that the phone was reported stolen 2 weeks after. The iPhone was somehow blacklisted from connecting to AT&T network.
Nice tool. Thanks for Gentoo support!
ever try windows with hi-dpi? I did about a year ago, surprisingly flakey. has the situation improved?
To my knowledge, Apple has never replied officially to any post on their company fora. It appears as though it is intended for Apple customers to communicate with others in the "community" - probably why they use that term in their fora. That aside, I've never understood their post policing strategy. Obviously someone at Apple has moderation duties.
All I can think of is jokes about statisticians on hunting trips: "A priest, an engineer, and a statistician go on a hunting trip. The priest sees a squirrel, shoots at it, and misses by 10' under. The engineer shoots 10' over it. The statistician yells 'Got it!'" Or perhaps, "76% of all statistics are made up."
"Well, fuck."

Do I get a Pulitzer now?
Where St. Vincent’s Once Stood
"Second, find other candidates for which this issue trumps all other issues, example, image you could foresee the future, if there was someone running against Feinstein who if elected would result in Roe v. Wade being overturned would you still vote for them instead of Feinstein?"

Seeing as, here, we are discussing replacing Feinstein on the Senate Intelligence Committee and not replacing Feinstein as a Senator, you'd better believe I'd not care about the replacement's position on Roe v. Wade.
Yes but does it run OS X?
Essentials for Life: food, water, shelter, and cheap access to internet services created by other people.
PG, what did you think of that "Can Google Solve Death?" Time magazine cover story from a month ago?:

http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,2152422...

or Google's project Calico in general?:

http://www.cnn.com/2013/10/03/tech/innovation/google-calico-...
Ultrabook you can't use as a tablet. For me Surface Pro is a good enough tablet combined with a good enough ultrabook, so it saved me from buying two devices.
Submission guidelines: http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Upvotes are evidence of hacker interest. TV news would not cover this, too inside-baseball. But I hear you, you're not interested.
Not all of her constituents like her so much.
All phones have a factory-defined IMEI number that's broadcast as part of the connection setup. If your phone is reported stolen it will often end up on an IMEI blacklist, rendering it useless as a phone.

A lot of providers share blacklists.
No, but it's better than being paranoid and not doing anything about it.
What I still don't get is how the 30" Cinema Display was released in 2004, and almost 10 years later we still have pretty much the same same resolution screens.

I know 4k is slowly hitting the market, but you think about 10 years ago in the mobile world, we were using 84px monochrome screens on our Nokia 3315's.

And also why is the price difference between a laptop screen and a desktop screen so massive? You can buy a 4k screen complete with a whole computer for $1500, where a 4k desktop screen is going to cost you almost twice that.
I'm new to SF, but as far as I can tell it doesn't get cold enough to create new opportunities, just cold enough to make normal outdoor activities a lot less fun.
Guns are pretty useful in remote areas inhabited by large, aggressive animals.
I don't even care about that price point either, I'd just like that feature set, a and mouse buttons. Far too many new laptops are putting in buttonless clickpads, which might work fine if you only need one mouse button but which are unusable if you use three.

My ideal laptop would be the ThinkPad 9 Slim (13", 3200x1800), with its TrackPoint, but with actual buttons to go with the TrackPoint. Or, to look at that another way: the X1 Carbon with a 3200x1800 or better screen.
Also note that strokes are highly correlated with those two most likely due to it being a consequence of cardiovascular (read: heart) disease. The concentration of heart disease/stroke mortality in that region seems to be highly correlated with obesity distribution, which isn't a surprise. Actually, the state with the highest rate of obesity [1], Mississipi, is also the one with the highest mortality due to heart disease, and 3rd highest for strokes.

As for cancer mortality, the distribution closely matches that of smoking prevalence by state, more so than the distribution for heart disease, again not a surprise [2].

What I find the most interesting, though, are the lone states that don't seem to be a part of any cluster and have a high prevalence of, like high respiratory mortality (and influenza/pneumonia) in Wyoming, or Alzheimer's in Washington and North Dakota, or high drug mortality in Arizona (and not in any of the other border states).

[1] http://www.cdc.gov/obesity/data/adult.html

[2] http://www.cdc.gov/vitalsigns/AdultSmoking/
I'm not sure this kind of information is really worth anything. Is it supposed to help measure productivity? I think it lacks context.
Do people similar to you in audience type really run the copy of Windows that comes with their laptops?

Or, perhaps, does the ordinary folk/gamer care about bloatware on a laptop this fast, with i5/i7 and 16GB of RAM?
Starting With Scala
At what resolution does hi-dpi start?
The barrier of having to contribute via GitHub is actually a fairly large one. Think about it; not even all developers understand git. The design challenge of creating a simple way to contribute/improve documentation (read: educational materials) is something we're working at Coursefork [1]. It's a tough one to solve, but we think we've cracked it.

[1]: http://coursefork.org
By the same token, why the hell are $1000 projectors still 800x600?
Windows 8.1 claims to have improved support for high DPI:

http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Defrag-Tools/Defrag-Tools-62-...
Realistically, if a majority of Californians expressed outrage to her office

https://www.feinstein.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/e-mail-me

Then the staff would pay attention. Otherwise, I wouldn't count on much changing.
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I've posted this before in connection with Feinstein: she is notorious for her anti-gun politics. Why should anyone be surprised that her disregard for human rights extends further than gun bans?
Hope they got the touchpad right. None of the win8 laptops/ultrabooks so far match macbooks.
Also, Hollywood money.
Are those points helpful? Sure, why not.

Are they absolutely required (as the post proclaims) if you want to start a business? Nope.
1 - There is nothing wrong with "cookies" but html5 web storage has a lot more flexibility when it comes to storing data in the browser.. It also works better with many modern mobile devices (and mobile devices are becoming more and more popular on the web today).

2 - You're correct about #2 - Caching as much data that does not change in the browser (such as images, common requests etc) will often improve the user experience -- especially when on a poor connection such as a 3G mobile phone.

3 - CORS is defined by the w3dt.net servers .. the main w3dt.net site does not allow "cross-origin" sharing to my knowledge but sub domains such as "results.w3dt.net" do allow CORS so that users may embed results into other websites. -- Read here for more info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-origin_resource_sharing

Have a great day :)
This looks like a good guy! Anyone know about linux support?
They're not. At all. The Optoma HD-25LV goes for under $1200 and does 1080p natively. I have its big brother, the HD-33 (1080p + 3d), and it's fantastic, especially considering that it was only $1700. Projectors have gotten really good and really cheap.
This inspired me to explore FizzBuzz using generators in Python: https://gist.github.com/ipartola/7207829.

I generally hate FizzBuzz, as it seems like a waste of everyone's time in most cases. Then again, it's fun to see how you can abuse your development environment to produce it.

Now, onto seeing if I can create FizzBuzz using bash + sleep, a la sleep sort http://rosettacode.org/wiki/Sorting_algorithms/Sleep_sort#UN...
Really curious to know how the legal aspect of this is handled. It would seem to be a bad thing if these people are working on real projects for Weebly, but their IP is covered by an existing employment agreement with a competitor, for instance. I might be missing something with the scope of the work though.
I believe volume licenses apply after 100 users, but even so there is a rather large price difference.
oh man. that deserves a big heart icon. (i.e. this is jus sweet). Earning money at the same time teaching people to be adult.
Most Bay Area techies I know, where I have a sense how they voted, did not give their money or votes to Feinstein.
To respond to a bunch of other posters here:

There's a fundamental difference between data scientist and statistician, I think. I see statistics as an academic discipline and data science as an applied discipline.

More concretely, the statistics approach is:
formulate question --> formulate hypothesis --> collect data in a controlled environment under a specific set of assumptions (i.e., perform an experiment) --> determine probability of the data given the hypothesis (and assumptions).

While the data science approach is:
hey look, we already have all this data --> generate predictions --> collect more data --> refine predictions.

Of course, that's an over-generalization. But I think the different emphasis on hypothesis testing vs. machine learning/data mining is fundamental.
Doesn't matter. Although every party wants the Presidency, I've been hearing from grass-grass roots Republicans and fellow travelers that they've figured out they don't need the Presidency, all they want is to get things done. It's easier with the Presidency, but if they can accomplish what they want without then great.

The President is just a number on the scoreboard. It makes some things easier, but it isn't the goal.

So the primaries and final campaign, for Republicans, becomes a soapbox rather than a serious effort. (And man it shows, doesn't it?)
This problem has been around since iOS4 btw.
Working for apple support back in the day, we dreaded this, but instantly replaced it.
I thought it was some weird software issue, but it might not be with this guy indicating it could be fixed by heating it?
Anyway, call support, ask for T2, and get a free iphone because "I have been an apple advocate for years, but I just cant figure out how this gosh darn update borked my iphone?"

Manipulating a T2 agent is really not that hard, and most are ready to hear a sob story and give out something that nets them a good CSAT.
good luck. the last time her election was close was 1994.
Thank god we're only stuck with Feinstein for 5 more years; she's said she's not going to run for re-election (and is pretty old).

Really the best chances of removing her from the intel committee are for her to suddenly decide due to family or health that she wants to leave Congress before her term is up.

The most positive way for that to happen would be for a mid-term replacement who could take over the parts of her legacy she cares most about (probably NOT intel committee or anything to do with NSA...) shows up, and the governor and Sen Feinstein agree that this person would be a sufficiently good replacement to justify retiring early.
Because many people do not see gun possession as a human right, rightly or wrongly.
Is it the commute or the interruptions at work? I find that my commute is only 22km on 2 roads which takes about 35 minutes to drive, but it's the constant interruptions that slow me down so much. Working remotely frees me from those allowing me more time to concentration on the current task or project.
What it's like to be a male in tech, and then a female
You are not far from the truth. Those companies owned by government officials and their friends get to buy dollars via Cadivi at the official rate of Bs.6.3 per dollar, while everyone else is stuck buying at the black market rate of Bs.50 per dollar.

You can imagine how lucrative that is. It's basically a money printer. Buy at Bs.6.30, sell at Bs.50 then repeat...

But the government tries to blame the inflation and corruption on some venezuelan tourist that takes their $2500 yearly allowance and finds a way to convert that to cash.
Sounds like something by the Bee-Gees.
Incumbents collect the most money. Money wins. And there is no Dem equivalent to the Tea Party. She'll be there until she dies, and probably a little after.
Can you filibuster committee assignments? At the very least it seems a good way to make sure you get none of the choice ones...
There are other categories of people who would find this device useful, e.g. the doctor at the bottom of the article.
> QBasic didn't come until MS-DOS 5, the demo uses MS-DOS 2.

Actually, the demo is PC-DOS 2.0, not MS-DOS 2.0. Notice the disk that's in the emulator's drive. Also, IBM replaced all of Microsoft's copyright notices:

The IBM Personal Computer DOS
Version 2.00 (C)Copyright IBM Corp 1981, 1982 1983

If they're using real disk images, then they must have an actual IBM ROM BASIC in the emulator. PC-DOS BASIC(A) would only run on a true-blue IBM machine, because it called into the ROM BASIC. In contrast, MS-DOS BASIC(A) was implemented entirely in software and would run on any clone.
Probably not. Intel charges a large premium for its crystal-well parts. Here are tray prices: http://ark.intel.com/products/codename/51802/Crystal-Well

Im sure they get discounts... but how much can it be?
It really isn't though. I own a Surface Pro 1 and as much as I like it, it's a terrible portable computer. I hook mine up to a monitor, keyboard and mouse 90% of the time.
Google Has Ended a Bunch of Free Data
Dependency hell isn't a language issue, and the concept of RubyGems or any other language-specific dependency management system is fundamentally broken because it's impossible to manage all your dependencies with it. You resort to nested dependency management--i.e. RVM to manage your Ruby installations, then Bundler to manage the gems inside those installations, with some patchwork for the MySQL client your mysql2 gem has a dependency on (but can't declare or guarantee in RubyGems) and it works...kind of. For now.
its the owner of the company that said that (also the CEO), so i just want to know if anyone else having this issue before.

much appreciate for the help

thanks
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Apple’s Rebound Quarter In Charts
its an lintel processor with integrated graphics (for base model), shouldn't be a problem
This is the exact reason I'm migrating new things straight to go. Once I've gotten the updated blob (binary or script/whatever really) to where it needs to be. I'm done, at compile time I can deal with dependencies, don't need to have a metric ton of stat calls flying around from require and other nonsense.

I'm getting to the point that the troubles encountered with Python/Perl/Ruby and dependency management has basically made me go, ok fine, i'll go back to c this is getting ridiculous.

That plus clang has made me happy.
TOR EXIT NODES. In a single swoop, the internet just got a whole lot messier to police ;)

I've been thinking about ideas like this for years, but it never occurred to me that you could just hit the supply chain at the source, rather than covertly fit the devices once kit had been installed.
Phone call works better than email and takes just a minute. "I'm registered to vote in California, and I'm calling because I strongly oppose mass spying on Americans." I'll call tomorrow:

(415) 393-0707

http://www.feinstein.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/state-offic...
Dell XPS 15.6" QHD+ (Late 2013): 235 dpi

13" rMBP (Late 2012): 226 dpi
A picture of Amy Pond (Karen Gillan):

http://www.freefever.com/stock/karen-gillan-plolice-role.jpg
How about narrowing it down to one specific subject at first, try to get pre-orders (one time fee)? If successful, build it and then repeat. Once you have enough variation in content you can offer a subscription plan instead of individual pricing.

I see where you're coming from though, that you want to offer something that's greater than the sum of its parts, a single place where kids can go. But it's going to be difficult cracking that chicken/egg problem.
I work at a third party Apple repairer. We get 1-5 calls a day about the greyed out WiFi issue. 99% of the time, it's a 4S and we have to refer them to Apple for repair. It can usually be fixed by resoldering the WiFi chip but we can't guarantee the repair, so we don't offer it. Not an iOS 7 problem either, but a common thing is for it to happen after an OS update.
anything not 1:1 basically. once you start scaling up resources / fonts / reporting pseudo-pixel positions you start running into problems.
There are actually some people who are anti-gun but strongly pro specific other human rights (free speech usually, often religion, often various forms of legal defense).

There are a lot of reasons for individuals to be anti-gun. There are people who are pro-gun and against many other forms of human rights. Humans aren't necessarily consistent in their positions.

(There are people who have much much more contradictory positions than anti-gun but pro-speech; stuff like being pro-economic development and also pro rent control, etc.)
My MacBook is littered with source code, and I run the copy of OS X that came on the machine. Futzing with OSes is for kids and a product that requires you to do so is a bad product.
This is one of those moments where I'm almost tempted to spend the 10K hours I need to learn to draw. Almost. But then I invariably head to Google image search.
Not needing it is completely different from forcing a reason onto them.
Meanwhile, I still can't buy a 2560x1440 monitor at less than 27". Rediculous.
The Seikis almost sound too good to be true. I'd try one out in a heartbeat if they'd come down a notch in size to ~27 or 30in so I could actually fit it on my desk.

http://www.amazon.com/Seiki-Digital-SE39UY04-39-Inch-Ultra/d...

e- just did the ppi calculation and it only comes out to 113, so probably not what I'd call "retina" quality