skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Portal-themed lock screen (Win8) and wallpaper pair:

http://i.imgur.com/OVD70eI.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/F16JCSK.jpg
Most coders that I know rather not be involved in the idiotic system that is our democratic government and prefer not to bicker over stupid topics relating to who is going to try and mess up the government more or less so than a different candidate.
Yes, this should be on a crowdfunded project asap if the prototype in the video was really functional and no simulated sounds were added. I'd buy it in an instant!
Maybe I'll attempt to promote it on Reddit to help with gaining more 'mass-appeal' traction.
So many ways to con this. If you don't know what you team is doing, then you don't belong managing people.
Strictly speaking, they wrote:

> We are proud to employ and support contributors to such projects as Lithium, Travis CI, Rubinius and RailsInstaller. Check out the comprehensive list of open source projects we’re involved in below.

That fact hasn't changed (at least, not until they start firing people)
I think this is excellent analysis but note that this : "Now, overall the margins are still lower this quarter than they were last quarter, but I don't see that as a huge problem. They changed the product mix." sounds like you're dismissing the margin change.

Overall gross margin is a blend of all your products, that gross margin is where you get the money for everything you do, pay salaries, buy capital equipment, etc. So it really doesn't matter if your margin is lower because you are shipping more inexpensive product (the mix), all that matters is that its lower. That changes the amount of revenue you must have to run the business and increases downside risk if you are close to the edge (as Dan Warmenhoven is famous for saying, you have much more control over margin than you do over revenue).

In the case of the iPad Mini it says that additional growth in the Tablet market is in the lower margin segment. That is accretive if you're holding on to your existing market share at the high end, and dilutive if you're losing high end share to the mid-range or bargain products. Same with phones, lets say the 5C turns out to be "good enough" and sales of the 5S plummet because it's extra cost (and margin) isn't "valuable" enough to the consumer to pay the extra money. Now you have to sell a lot more units to get the same profit, but that requires more "business" (and by that I mean more assemblers, more sales people, more trucks driving around, more logistics, etc.) You lower the price (which increases sales rate, but that also reduces margin, so you have to sell more to make the same amount.

Now I don't think Apple is anywhere near any of that, they are a very strong company with a solid brand. My observation is that the reduction in overall gross margin will come out of the business, whether it fewer product managers for more products, or lower salaries for retail staff, or what, the numbers have to balance.
I think it stems from the belief that both political parties are essentially the same so by voting you are lending legitimacy to the system you view as broken. Think about how when they hold elections in de facto dictatorships how they always tout high voter turn out.
Angular, when it feels right, makes me incredibly productive, but I feel like I spend 90% of my time banging my head against a brick wall.

One of the single biggest usability features of anything is giving things appropriate names. The "other half" of Karlton's law is well in effect here. Angular fails miserably at this task. And that makes reading documentation, as well as maintaining enough context in my head to be productive nearly impossible.

From a documentation standpoint, the documentation focuses on "this is how this function works internally" rather than "this is how you use it to produce results".

I want to like Angular. So much of it feels right, and technically it seems excellent. It really is a usability nightmare, though.
How many people with commitments such as family and children went through this program? How many of those people were flown out?
If supporting is just as bad in your view, where do you draw the line. Did it ever occur to you that your teaching could be enabling people to program weapons for the military?
I have the previous generation aluminum XPS 15 and its trackpad is the best I have used on any PC laptop so far.

The laptop is basically a Macbook Pro clone and the trackpad holds its own. It's the solid build of a Macbook Pro minus the (unwanted) Mac experience. The only place it really falls short is battery life.

The trick is to disable the gestures in the Synaptic driver and install TwoFingerScroll. Once you do that, the trackpad feels just as smooth as a Macbook.
At least, they are not asking for a yearly membership fee.
Wow, that's unexpected -- I would have expected diet to the primary determinant.
The hot-wire protection is a gimmick. I can use an alligator wire and attach each of the wire to the ends of the cable. This way when the cable is cut, the circuit remain closed and the alarm does not go off. Combine this aluminum foil wrapped around the lock to block the GPS and data signal, will make Lock8 totally useless.
I disagree. I very like how the learning curve of angular follows my simple to complex application features. What I mean is that it's very easy to get started and hack you way through something that work, even if it's not 100% angular best practices. I.e. putting jquery code in your controller. As you become better and better, you start to have a better understanding of how angular works and your code improves similarly. I think this is an amazing quality for a framework. It reminds me how fun it was with jquery to get started even if the code was terrible, and then improve from it as you learn.

For a newcomer to an angular project, they can simply read the html and have a pretty damn good idea of what's happening. You don't have to start writing directives and play with transclusion right away.
Keep in mind that the consumer marketing of the Surface Pro is perhaps 10% or less of the total product marketing. The targets for most of Microsoft's products are giant corporations, and the marketing to them is both direct, because each of these companies spends millions of dollars with Microsoft each year, and indirect, by encouraging system integrators like Accenture to deploy multi-hundred-million dollar "solutions" incorporating Surface tablets.
A less intrusive alternative might be to start using something like https://idonethis.com/. That way you can start offering help when you see, "Still trying to find that bug; didn't get much else done."
I just tried it, and it works, they give you free bitcoins, but it's nearly impossible to withdraw them.

They give you 0.005, but you have to bet the total of 1.5 to withdraw what you have.

So basically you have to stay alive after 300 bets of what they give you, which is nearly impossible.

It's a pretty safe "giveaway" on their side, and it achieves the goal of attracting gambling addicts.
No, it means that some people are cheap and companies like Google have trained them that everything should be free and/or ad supported.
Selective noise cancellation could be possible using a Fourier transform. Zero out the coefficients that you still want to hear and then perform an inverse transform, then a time-domain inversion, and finally apply the appropriate amount of delay to the signal.
> And Wyden, apparently the only opponent of mass NSA surveillance, would simply be outvoted by the rest of the committee.

Senator Mark Udall is another member of the Senate Intelligence Committee and a longtime opponent of mass NSA surveillance.

http://www.wyden.senate.gov/news/press-releases/wyden-udall-...

http://www.denverpost.com/ci_22271546/colorado-sen-mark-udal...
We try to be as flexible as possible. We have plenty of people with families that work 8-6pm. If you had kids and couldn't make the trial week because of that, we'd figure something else out. But we've had plenty of people go through a trial week with families and it hasn't been a huge burden.

Especially when relocating their families, it's actually a positive -- you end up feeling much more comfortable this is a place you will be at for a while before making that commitment.
xps 13 hasn't been discontinued; it was refreshed last month at the same time as the XPS 15 shown here.

Barton George, the project lead, has confirmed that there will be a follow-on Sputnik coming out sometime in the next month. This (long) thread has the information, especially on the last few pages. http://en.community.dell.com/techcenter/os-applications/f/46...
The situation is simple and tragic.

Rather than implementing an honest tax, so that they can pay off foreign debt, the government fixes the exchange rate so that it can pay of its debt for cheaper. However doing so is effectively a hugely distortionary tax on its own citizens.
Dianne Feinstein: 'I am totally opposed' to NSA surveillance of US allies
I hate to be "that guy", I think that taking courses online is a waste of time.

1. What do you want to learn? Web development? Systems programming? Native application programming (whatever the platform)? Figure out what your target is.

2. Go to your local book store after you solve no. 1, pick a book up that involves that general topic, and read a few pages to see if it works for you. Don't buy a "learn x in y hours/days" book. Buy something you can use as a reference.

I've found that it is easier for me to focus and understand things when I am not actually trying to do them at the same time.

3. Specifically about Rails: I'm not hugely qualified to speak about Ruby, but the friends I do have that use Rails daily have always told me that Rails has grown pretty hard for newbies to jump into immediately. Of course, I could be wrong. I wrote a small project using Sinatra, which is a really easy way to jump into using Ruby & writing a web app at the same time.

I wouldn't recommend putting any money into bootcamps. You can teach yourself everything you need to know. The majority of bootcamps I've seen are fairly expensive for someone without any real understanding of what they're getting in to, and I would go as far as to say I have seen 0 that would teach anything useful beyond "learn language x", which you can do on your own - every popular language has excellent documentation. You should want to learn the fundamentals, and try to figure out how to apply that knowledge to any language or situation you come across.

(Hope that helps a bit.)
Angularjs modal
I agree with you that it's frustrating at time. Especially when angular does magic stuff that you're just supposed to know. Like fuck with your existing links and stop existing forms from working.

And sometimes, real easy things are so complicated.. For instance, try to make a form post on the current page. (Hint: If you don't have action="", then the form doesn't post. But, by default, no action usually means submit to current page.) (Hint2: Probably more a hack than a real solution, but I've just used an onclient event on the submit button to manually post the form..)
I Having read it one thing that strikes me was why they could not isolate his wifi. I say that as they state they had a clear view of the house and certainly would of been aware how to make a good ranged directional ariel. Also logging signal strength on a walk around the target area would of enabled them to narrow downs much quicker than they appear to of done.

The efforts involved and cost, would of been easier to send them a new top of the line apple computer already bugged. Heck nice keyboard modified is cheap and easier.

In the end it boils down too - don't open unsolicited attachments. Also attachments from strangers is a complete no no.
IEEE-754 Floating Point representation explained in JavaScript
Is the ‘Dumb Jock’ Really a Nerd?
This is a really great point.

I'm a big advocate of Kathy Sierra's "minimum badass user" strategy. Basically, try to write as little about yourself and write what will be most useful to improve someone else's abilities. I'm not amazing at this (yet), but it's my main goal.

Identifying too closely with being a "writer" or "coder" or whatever can be detrimental to doing more meaningful work. That's because it's all about you. But really, it should be all about your users and how you are making their lives better.

The more you can focus on "What will help my reader be awesome?" instead of "What will I write?", the better your writing will be.

Nobody cares about how awesome I am (and they shouldn't!), but everyone cares about becoming more awesome themselves. Resist the temptation to focus on yourself and shift that focus to them and you'll automatically be better than 99% of writers out there.

If you spend a week learning something remarkable and then show others how to do it in only an hour, it's a huge win for them. By focusing on learning and then sharing what you learned in a succinct way, you are accelerating the progress of others. That, more than anything else, will make you a great writer. The metric should be how much more powerful your readers are after reading your writing.

(Naturally, I'm talking about a specific type of writing here, not fiction or historical writing, etc.)
further adding to the confusion, clojurescript targets closure compatible code
If this discourages "marketers" from using the web it sounds like a win to me.
Poll: How do you create the website for your startup or side project?
Many of us here create various kind of products as side projects - web app, mobile app, e-books etc. Some of us launch startups. Most of these need a marketing/front-end website.

What you do to create that website?
You know web designing & develop it yourself.
You hire a freelance designer to do it.
You buy a website template from some marketplace like themeforest/wrapbootstrap and customize it.
You outsource the work to some design agency.
You use some hosted website service like squarespace.
You use bootstrap or similar UI frameworks to create a basic decent looking website.
You don't care about design. Bare minimum HTML site is enough.
You do something else. Please mention in comments.
Go was born in Google. Docker was born in dotCloud. Each of these projects are really "moving the chains" in my world. Perhaps EngineYard is looking at this and thinking of ways they could focus on something which could be equally as important.

Also, I just went to the EngineYard web site and Ruby isn't mentioned any more prominently than the other ecosystems it supports. Why keep supporting projects in the Ruby ecosystem when you have moved into a much wider world?
To be fair, I had this same issue (on iOS 6, occurred randomly)

It seems to be a known issue, replaced without question at Apple.
So, I wonder. Have any of these people actually tried making a support request with Apple?

Every time I've had an actual issue where something genuinely didn't work, and it was under warranty, Apple has been willing to repair or replace the hardware. Even if this is just a software problem, presumably migrating your data to a clean device will fix it. There's a reason I always buy an extended AppleCare warranty for all of my laptops; laptops take a lot of abuse, and it's worth it to be able to extend the likely life of my laptop (I've generally been getting about 5 years per laptop, and almost every one has had something replaced under the extended warranty at some point).
I'm really excited to ser Dell pursue this new direction instead of lowest-common-denominator.
Bill Gates and Neil Konzen wrote DONKEY.BAS. His name doesn't show up in the program listing, though, even on PC-DOS 1.0. :-(
Fascinating.

This is different than I thought:
"The variation along ethnic lines, they believe, is a reflection of genetics, not environment."

Taking one example that I know a little about. Korea. I would think that environmental impact would include things like the type of probiotic foods they eat - like kimchi, fermented soybeans and fermented fish would affect the flora and fauna in their mouth.

Also eating habits - Koreans will often share a soup container and side dishes where everyone sticks their chopsticks and soupspoons into a shared pot,

These things would affect the types of bacteria in their bodies I would think...
One of my favorite proofs. It blew my mind when I understood it; it's so simple in hindsight. I've tried to explain it to non-technical people and haven't has as much luck conveying why it's so cool.
I hadn't heard that, but I probably haven't read everything he writes so would have missed it easily. I know that larger organisations like the NYT require reviewers to return/pay for items they review, but from the way they call it out had assumed that it was not the default practice.
This thread cracks me up. All the worker bees are outraged, while the managers express interest.
I found the half life speedrun to be way more impressive.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hk4kX9WEcZA

And SMB3 is my second favorite one.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wz3BuYYhnn0
I dunno... I've used an open-source license for IntelliJ in the past, and that took a lot more work than just sending an email. (Kudos, btw, to JetBrains for their great open-source licensing program!)

It's probably less work for me to send an email explaining why I think I deserve a free account than to tell the system to send emails to five email addresses that route to me, and then do whatever I need to do to validate them.
Oh how fickle you are. A company that supports an open source project out of pocket for two years now doesn't love open source because they have moved onto other things? Over time, technologies change, stabilize, and/or become obsolete, expecting them to support one project forever is silly and boring.

How about: dear Engine Yard, thanks for 730 days of open source love, can't wait to see where you invest your time next.
It's legal to enter a country with cash within the limits of what it states on the Customs form, without saying anything about it, and if it's found on you the Customs agents cannot detain you (legally, anyway - be wary regardless). If you have more than the stated amount e.g. $10k USD then you must declare it, else if you are searched and it is found you will definitely be detained.
Ooh, I like this option much better than the author's. Nice thinking.
He mentioned drawing diagrams. And, for 99% of people, the handwriting recognition is not good enough to beat the effectiveness of just typing or dictating.

That might be a great poll - what percentage of HN posts are done with a pen versus dictation (which I do a lot of mine with when I'm on a smart phone) versus keyboard (vast majority) versus pen.

Right now the Wacom tablet is the niche that justifies the high-price for the Pro. Bring it down another $200-$300 and it starts to make inroads into the mass market (where it most certainly is not a player right now)
I do get it. In theory you would think that a bigger screen with pixels further apart would be cheaper to produce than a small mobile screen with double the ppi.

I figured out this Dell screen is 235 ppi so pretty similar to Macbook and other 'retina' equivalent laptop displays.

And I was comparing the current 27" 2560x1440 Cinema Display to the 30" 2560x1600 Cinema Display. The ppi increased a bit, but it is essentially "pretty much the same resolution".
This Is Your Brain on Toxins
I spent a lot of time teaching myself (in the 70s). Then college courses, where I learned about data structures, algorithms, structured programming (all the rage, back then, a precursor to objects), and many other subjects. Then grad school, and more research, and then a few startups. I kept improving through all of it.

tl;dr: Do it, study it, do it some more. Do it a lot.

P.S. "One Month Rails" sounds like something you'd want to do later in your career. If then.
Did you happen to go to Cornell?
> The Surface 2 is going after a different market than the iPad is...Heck the Surface isn't even a tablet, it's technically an ultraportable.

Yet you keep comparing it to the iPad when you should be comparing it to the MacBook Air which has similar hardware, roughly the same price, the ability to connect external storage, external displays, has USB 3.0, has an SD card slot (on the 13" model).

But the MBA has so much more going for it: PCIe based SDD, Intel HD Graphics 5000 (vs 4400 on the SP2), 802.11ac (vs 802.11n on the SP2), Thunderbolt, a "real" full-sized backlit keyboard, a useable trackpad, the ability to run OS X or Windows, and the trump card, 9 to 12 hours battery life (reportedly 15 hours with Mavericks).
Where are the Angular devs? Are they not paying attention? I would expect at least ONE contributor to see this article and take in the feedback, offer advice, make corrections.
Normally, the Windows key maps to Command and the Alt key maps to Option.
Google reportedly plans to promote Glass on a floating barge.
The reason you are seeing so many comments criticizing the work done on these government sites is due to the mountain of money spent on offshore outsourcing to deliver rubbish quality. A grad/junior software engineer in Silicon Valley could produce better quality code.

Everyone is an expert until they have to deliver something!
I thought he returned the review units instead of getting to keep them?
This makes me miss Burn Notice. Thats the kind of stuff Michael Westen would be doing in pretty much every episode.
People are freaking out -> Marketers are freaking out.
Ended a bunch of free data -> Increased users' privacy.

Seems like a win to me.
This doesn't surprise me. People of different ethnicities smell subtly different, which either comes from the bacteria or else it means there are different chemicals available to the bacteria, probably both.
I think this is a really bad idea and I am not entirely sure if its legal. People who need a visa sponsorship are not allowed to work for other employers except their sponsoring employer. So your "trial" week idea, while legal, is indirectly preventing sponsorship candidates from applying to your company. You are also discriminating against disabled people or people who cannot leave their current location for extended periods, due to health related conditions, for example people on dialysis.

Are you comfortable precluding such people from applying to your company?
Apple could vastly improve their user experience if they embraced StackExchange and linked there directly.