skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think that it is safe to say that the Surface is a failure. But that doesn't mean it should be killed, just fixed.

I concur with the article when it notes, Apple's iPad is a clear winner in the high end for now and the immediate future (I'll bet the next 3 years).

But the high end isn't the only market. In the long term, the interesting market will probably evolve out of today's low/middle end. And ceding what was traditionally known as the "white box" market, not to Apple, but to Android, would be a huge mistake. One that could threaten Windows in time.

For the short term, Android is probably going to hold the lowest end ARM tablets. I can't imagine Microsoft being able to compete here any time soon (as price is the big issue). The best MS can do is try to make Android irrelevant. If, 5 years from now, Android is seen as "good enough" by the general population, then Google might be able to use it to make a run on the desktop. I know I would in their shoes.

That leaves the mid-range market. And I believe there is value in a Windows tablet running a low-powered x86. One that plays movies/TV shows, runs Office, has IE, and has backward compatibility with existing apps. A tablet that favours price to specs, but needs to come in a shiny casing none-the-less. This product isn't the Surface 3, but there is no reason it couldn't be the next iteration.

If the price was right, I could see my proposed tablet becoming the "safe" option for IT departments. Once the basic form is there, help third party OEMs get in on the market, and slowly revert to being a software-only company.
men face the exact same issues. It's akin to women complaining that they have to purchase gasoline in order to make it to work daily. So do men, why is that something the women are rallying around?
The Making of NASA's Global Selfie: 100+ Countries, Thousands of Photos
And rotating a tangram on the iPad takes two touchpoints, where the physical one can be rotated with a single finger.
Anybody who kidnaps and assassinates people based on political orders is not someone I'd call a hero.

Besides, you're playing ignorant. The article paints those two facts as a good thing, considering the narrative.
"hate speech"

You're gonna have to show your work on that one.
Bitcoin In The Real World
Hey, I just wanted to say thanks to you and/or dang for un-flagging it.
Have you seen the XPS 13 or the Thinkpad Yoga? They're both pretty compelling laptops, and easily stand out from the crowded mass of plastic junk notebooks.
There were many claims made in that article, outside of the links provided. This just seems like a giant circlejerk so enjoy it. I will continue living my life not discriminating against anyone whilst being told I am part of the problem.
Perhaps an exception that proves the rule but I bought my macbook pro 13" at 1300€ in 2009 because it was significantly cheaper then the competing offerings (IBM thinkpad and Dell E series)
I noticed a couple digs at Xbox here, particularly the one saying their division is "too cool" for the rest of MS. If I were that team I'd do the same thing -- wall off all the internal BS politics and other crap that causes so many good ideas to die. I suppose that leaves an opportunity for that division to manifest its own suboptimal behavior, but at least there's a chance at relative sanity. Maybe.
Your fecal coliforms will kill other people, simply because they're yours, not theirs. They'll kill you if they don't stay in the gut (mine tried, along with a carbapenem-resistant strain of streptococcus introduced via a central line).
Uralkali and CO.
A User Experience Designer Switches from iOS to Android
Did you even read the error message? They've been revoked.

The certificate that Chrome received during this connection attempt has been revoked.
Error type: Key revocation
Subject: *.lavabit.com
It actually involves versioned data structures (similar, but a but more complicated than persistent data structures, and outwardly they appear mutable):

http://research.microsoft.com/pubs/211297/managedtime.pdf
I am a straight white male, and I know (and am friends with) many of the MVC writers. I even sponsored the latest issue. So I can say, empirically, you're wrong.
I think the bigger difference for most of us is that Stripe's implementation is actually available to all of us, vs. being in private beta. No sooner did I see this announcement than I forwarded it along to a friend who could use this functionality today in a service he's building.
>>> His personal goals are to deploy by law in European banks a system he has developed to monitor bank transactions at European level to elaborate a map of money movements

In other words, complete mass surveillance system, no financial privacy at all for any EU citizen. A commendable goal.

>>> Corruption in Spain is a big problem and politics have never been trusted or respected,

And yet you are building a mass surveillance system which will be controlled by the corrupt politicians, maintained by the corrupt politicians, operated by the corrupt politicians and the corrupt politicians would decide what to do with it next.

>>> which at least is a sign he will never be involved in corruption

Of course, nobody involved in corruption has ever gotten death threats.
But you don't even need to corrupt him - why bother if he gives a most powerful instrument - control over every financial transaction - to the politicians, which as you admitted are corrupt? Without any coercion or corruption. Why break into your house if you bring to the thieves the keys from it voluntarily and beg them to take them and be your guest any time they like?
I don't find the story unbelievable. I like to believe that whom I choose to keep as my friends and colleagues is a reflection of myself, and I aspire not to be sexist or bigoted towards any minorities. Those of my friends I've spoken to about this who are women engineers haven't experienced anything to the degree I hear about in the articles (but they still acknowledge biases against them or annoyances in the conduct of their peers).

But this is an endemic problem. Are the male colleagues I have part of the problem and I am simply failing to realize it? Have I done a good job of choosing colleagues who don't behave that way? How can I know?
An LLC isn't really the first step. For an LLC to help at all in limiting liability you have to keep your company finances separate from your personal finances, which you can't do until the business is making money. That said, an LLC is fairly easy to set up and lets you get a business bank account.

Patents are costly and take years to be approved.

The best way to secure IP is to use copyright (as simple as noting it's copyrighted) and if you have a logo, add a "TM" to it. You can register your copyrights and trademarks down the road.

IANAL.

I think step 1 is validating and/or building an idea/MVP and getting customers.
Eternal war and war like capabilities for eternal freedom...
As I recall, and agreeing with the first link Google supplied (http://www.govexec.com/federal-news/1998/12/the-myth-of-the-...), the hammer might have been somewhat special, but the outsized price was simply an accounting artifact, the contract supplied N spare parts and tools, and overhead was evenly allocated to each part, whether it was a hammer or a complete jet engine (I think it was a contract for maintaining them).

The "coffee maker" was for the freaking C5, a huge transport, our biggest ever; if configured for carrying people, it might have to serve a lot of coffee over a long trip (can be refueled in mid-air). It would also be ... more than inconvenient if turbulence or whatever caused it to spray hot coffee. And if you're serving a lot of coffee, that leads straight to:

The "toilet seats" were much like you say, small quantity and being for a military airplane, weight is a big consideration. Note that pretty much any modern military plane that's big enough to have one or more toilets is going to produced in small numbers. Heck, Lockheed only made 650 P-3 Orions (naval patrol craft), Boeing only 744 B-52s; if this was for the C5-A as I remember, we only built 131 of them, and only 81 in the initial 1968-73 batch (no doubt canceled like everything else then), followed by an inevitably expensive restart of only 50 in 1985-89.
Having clearly failed as a mass market device

Is that MS' goal? Or the pundits' perceived goal?
Precisely. This article, and all others like it just come off sounding like childish boolean logic applied to billions of people, each as different as a randomly generated hash code.

If the only observation one can make about a case is that the accused has a Y chromosome and the accuser doesn't, one clearly needs to perform deeper analysis.
Considering it's a stated goal of the NSA to break Tor, having more "friendly" nodes in any location would be a benefit for all.
£38 from Guys hospital to Waterloo and back is the reality of black cabs. Bring it on Uber.

Don't ask me about other forms of transport as I have to do the journey pushing a set of wheels around and I have a slipped disk myself...
Why PayPal jumped the software-hardware gap
Voting uses a completely different mechanism. There is no saved state or time component. Unless your login cookie has expired, votes will count.

Can you tell if your browser actually makes the request?

I'm going to try it with your comment, though I don't expect I'll be able to reproduce it.

Update: Just tried it. Waited 1 hour, 36 minutes and upvoted your comment. Success.
If men and women face the same issues, and women are working towards fixing those issues, I'm not sure why you're so upset. Isn't that positive?
There are a number of other IPv6 statistics sites out there. We've tried to list a good number at:

http://www.internetsociety.org/deploy360/ipv6/statistics/

Eric Vyncke and Lars Eggert have two good sites at:

https://www.vyncke.org/ipv6status/

https://eggert.org/meter/ipv6.html

Cisco 6Lab has a nice map at: http://6lab.cisco.com/stats/
Same. I've had no issues with 'addictions' to caffeine or to my meds, despite doctors worrying about it. I know my brain/body reacts to caffeine/stimulants differently than others due to my ADD.
There is no "ultra-feminist movement"; feminism is an umbrella term for a multitude of movements across time and geography. Each movement is understood within a context, and some take more time to understand than others. I would suggest the book Gender Inequality by Judith Lorber as a starting point.
No need to apologize, I didn't intend to start a discussion on bitoin's usefulness. It's just that a system like this would be very handy for those of us who do like btc.
zappo had a list of uk cities comparing rent prices with interest only mortgage price. Some cities eg. Edinburgh showed hardly any difference (for comparable sized properties).

What I'm not sure about though is how it compares to a traditional principal and interest mortgage. Obviously your interest payments fall as the mortgage amortises... So then how does total interest compare to money spent on rent in that case? That's what most people would be wondering when it comes to evaluating renting vs buying...
> There are also multiple ways to build this kind of feature.

It sounds like both Balanced and Stripe will use them :-). But let's not turn this into a Balanced vs Stripe thread. It's not especially relevant for users and we'll stay out of the way when you guys have your public launch. Continued good luck!
You appear to have deleted your previous submission[0] and submitted it again. Any particular reason?

I draw your attention to this comment[1] by one of the mods[2], in which he says:

Examples of abuse are deleting posts that didn't get traction
and resubmitting them; or reposting the same material over and
over. In general, we're more tolerant when people are reposting
things because they're interesting and less tolerant when they're
promoting something.

I appreciate that you're not here promoting something, but it would seem that deleting and re-submitting is not encouraged.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7785581

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7768726

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=dang
I have a Torker Unistar with a 20" wheel and that's been perfect to learn on. Depending on your height, the seatpost usually comes pretty long, so you may have to cut it down with a hacksaw to get some flexibility on seat level.

As far as learning, I kept a little logbook of each time I went out. It honestly feels impossible at first (constantly falling in 360 degrees), but you just have to keep working on it. I did most of my learning at a school playground (lots of space to wobble around) and leaned against the school wall for support.
It has nothing to do with triclosan. Simple, non-toxic soaps like ivory or palmolive will still interfere with the many endocrine functions of the skin. Frequent use of lotions will do the same.
You're creating a false dilemma between not washing your hands and destroying your skin biome. TFA is about the latter, but you're citing studies about the former.
iAds have always run in another process (named AdSheet). So extending this approach to all UIWebViews is quite plausible.
You're right. See this comment for some insight on why Balanced is releasing to a private beta first: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7785476

(Balanced co-founder)
Nearly all journalists use that kind of wording, and I am not sure that they are all extremists. Emotionally loading a sentence to make a point is normal rhetoric.

As you should know, as it is the same technique you have just used.
"Actually, this happens all time here in Brazil. But our problem right now is exactly because people are beating thieves near to death. A good solution is one that would fix both cases."

Just in case some of you here were losing faith in bystanders worldwide. ;-]
In what universe? The cheapest Macbook Air is $899, this comes with an i5, and 128GB RAM, and a keyboard.

The comparable Surface Pro 3 is $999 sans keyboard. Adding a keyboard will run you another $130. Total cost of $1129.

So you're losing on price by $229.

Now you're thinking, the Surface Pro 3 has a 12" screen. We'll compare it to the 13" MBA:

$999 with the i5, and 128GB standard. KB included. ;)

The comparable SP3 will still cost you $1129. Still paying over 10% more.
Huge props for including things like the Marginal Tax rate for tax deduction and closing costs, which most of my peers that I've spoken to are unaware of or fail to take into consideration properly. I just recently had a conversation with a friend about renting vs buying, and I raced through many of the factors in this calculator to demonstrate that it's not such a simple question and that there are many factors that depend on one's financial (and other) situation, but it totally went over her head bc I was going way too fast. I'll definitely use this page when explaining things to my friends in the future. Thanks so much :)
I deleted as it wasn't a useful conversation either way.
I asked the balanced guys this last time, already, but maybe you know the answer as well.

If using the ATM network, can they also initiate a withdrawal from a debit card at the 25 cents rate?

This would be a huge saving versus paying a credit card processing fee, on debit cards.
Edward Snowden had a 'crypto party' before he blew his NSA whistle
I have a question regarding the type and amount of conflict between different organisations. I ask this because the kinds of issues in this article seem like common courtesy and respect to me.

What kind and how severe is the conflict at traditionally professional occupations such as legal professions, accountancy or medical? Does anyone have any first hand experience? What about industry? (chemical engineering, mechanical engineering and civil architects?)

How does it compare to tech startups?

My theory: 1) conflict in traditional industry is power struggle: who is the one who will tell everyone else what to do 2) office politics can get severe where there are alliances and empires 3) offence is caused by making other people's decisions look bad

In startups: 1) conflict is based on the perceived competence of others 2) offence is caused by the implied lack of knowledge, direct derision and ridicule

I believe that one is more common than the other. I'm saying that conflict in the technical community feels more like a frat competition than that of professional negotiation: young people not necessary secure in themselves.
There isn't! Though as with any type of money-moving, you'll need to consider tax implications :(.
The first concern is certainly valid, but since this is using acid state adding click tracking would be trivial.
That's getting harder and harder to do in many places. If you like the neighborhood and the house, sometimes you just have to suck it up.

On the plus side, single family homes tend to have far less restrictive HOAs than condos.
Why hardware? Because delivery of Microsoft mobile services across Apple & Google devices puts them at a strategic disadvantage in the marketplace. Google isn't going to send users to Bing or Office when people get an Android phone. If the Nokia camera really was what people wanted Windows Mobile probably would have been a HUGE hit and Bing would probably sneak up a bit in share of the search market.

That is the best reason why, it raises the floor for other core services.

It is a quality device, but the marketing just seems wrong. Too expensive, different models of the Surface are radically different products, doesn't have the developers that iOS or Android has, and just didn't take off for some reason.

I don't see a reason to not make the Surface, people I know who have them, love them, and that is something that could be built on. That used to be the space that Apple occupied in the 90s, small user base with intense adoration and love and eventually came to be a dominant player in personal computing.
Honestly wasn't trying to be snarky -- it may just come naturally. (Would also separately argue I'm not particularly well known on HN.)

If "our industry" is defined as the technology industry, it's actually far less male than the army; We just insist on not counting the women who frequently lead efforts around communications, corporate development, design, marketing, office management, and other essential parts of the business. And even within engineering-focused disciplines, there used to be far more women involved but the number has been going down in recent decades.

But the question all of us men have to ask ourselves is: Why do you need another source. You had a whole range of people already telling you what they saw, and you're looking for people who by definition would have less information about this topic to provide their opinions. Why do you think that's the case?
I'm not sure of this, but my impression is that Danger's VM was written by people who didn't look at Sun's source code. And then they didn't look at it again when they wrote Dalvik.
That probably explains the 5 lines of Python there.
A classic problem with the free market. As it makes something more efficient, it creates pain as this change happens. Government rules designed to be protectionist exacerbate the matter.

I feel sorry for the London Cabbie, he has passed The Knowledge, which I believe takes more than 2 years to study for, he pays a high fee for his license.

But ultimately, driving around waiting to find someone needing your service is not efficient, environmentally friendly or the most convenient solution. Their days are numbered, it's just a matter of when.
"He already pled guilty."

Looks like someone didn't bother to click through to the meaty articles about that point. The police dropped all charges against him, and he plead to a misdemeanor with a fine.

Imagine this... You find out your partner of who knows how long, has been having unprotected sex for money for (I think the article said years). I say she deserves a beating if that was true. In my book, she's throwing dice around with his life/health. And if they have kids, she's messing with their future and well-being as well. Horrible, and just goes to show that sexism is alive and well, but not as they portray it. Because we're up in arms about a guy smacking around someone who happens to be female, because she put his life in danger.

People on the internet love being outraged. And this article is just fanning the shit around even more to further their cause. I feel for them, and there might even be true discrimination out there against women, but attention seeks like the ones in this article are doing them a disservice. If not out right mocking them by using their problems for personal PR.
Thanks for the comment. My guess is that you didn't click one of the miles boxes. It defaults to 3000 miles, which I know is not reasonable, but that way you can see all the conventions. Yes, right now there are only 2...

Again, thanks for trying it out.
NSA reform falters as House passes gutted USA Freedom Act
Many of them do. The ones going on crusades do not, they are the ones I'm specifically referring to.
Have you seen the XPS 13 Developer Edition? It has a full HD touchscreen and comes loaded with Ubuntu. It's the best you can do if you want a touch capable Linux ultrabook.
> let's not turn this into a Balanced vs Stripe thread.

Hey, as I said below, I'm a Stripe customer: you guys are great. Frankly, I don't even see Stripe and Balanced as directly competing. Well, Balanced is deep in a vertical of one of your products. When I took the job at Balanced, I kept on selling my books through Stripe: you guys kick ass for that use case.

> we'll stay out of the way when you guys have your public launch.

That was gonna be today. ;) :(
We should ban the phrase "thread safe"
I'm sure square can make it up in volume.
I'm genuinely curious as to why you asked the question to begin with.
"sex-positivity versus sex-negativity and transgender inclusion versus transgender exclusion"

Presenting a biased view to an audience new to a subject is dishonest. You're using selected terms to groom the readers to the side with the "schools of thought" you agree with. I could use the terms "neoliberalism verses class analysis and genderism verses gender criticism" and we'd still be referring to the same things. Of course, I would never use those terms at HN in the way you used yours, because I value real discourse.

Your central point is of course correct: "feminism" is an umbrella term (heck that's the first sentence on the Wikipedia page). Using ignorance of that fact as an opportunity to propagandize is shameful.
I hate HOAs and would deliberately avoid neighborhoods with HOAs or other types of restrictions.
I've seen headlines like this for literally 5 years at least. "IANA finally out of IPv4 addresses", "IANA allocates last X block", etc.

When will it finally be impossible to buy an IPv4 address?
Then why are physicians performing fecal transplants?
I think this is fine. If you make a bad mistake, even with good intentions, it is reasonable for others to be angry at you. "I was trying" is not a universal defense.

"I was trying, I see what I did wrong, thank you for the correction and I'll try to do better next time," however, goes a long way. If Jeff acknowledges his mistakes -- supposing he is convinced they are mistakes -- and makes an honest attempt to be better, anger will likely turn into forgiveness.
Why you appear not to believe them (I can't know your beliefs I can only guess based off the text of your comment):

1. Has any man here "heard of, or come into contact with any of" any of this behavior?

2. Personally, "I have never seen it anywhere I worked, or heard of that sort of thing through word of mouth..."*

These statements suggest strong skepticism. Analogy: "Has anyone here actually experienced or come into contact with Climate Change? Personally I have not, nor have I ever heard of anyone having experienced it..." <-- this suggests the speaker doesn't believe climate change is real. This is what your comment suggests about the issues described in TFA.

*Yes I know you mentioned the "terrible sample set" but that doesn't un-ring the "I'm skeptical" bell.