skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it has pretty good potetial in hospitals, education and insurance where ability to take notes is important. Especially the use case where you are expected to stand and jot down things on a tablet sized device.
https://hn.algolia.com/?q=cloud+platform+ssd#!/story/sort_by...
I completely agree with this. When you move to a new place by far the best place to make actual friends is to join existing clubs or groups doing things that you're interested in doing or learning about. If you like hiking, join a hiking club. If you want to learn dancing, join a dancing group. For me, I joined karate groups and made lots of good friends that way. Talking to strangers without context is hard for people like me, but in a setting where there is a clear goal (going hiking, learning to kick people in the face, etc) is way way easier.
I've achieved the same "feat" of being able to chat seemingly about nothing while being an introvert. What it took was introspection and a lucky read. I detail the mental refactoring I went through here: http://refactoredthinking.com/2012/10/14/how-i-cured-my-shyn...
And then it still won't deliver on the intended range of applications. An open source FPGA won't magically do what a closed source one can't, there is a fundamental impedance mismatch here between thinking about what an FPGA could do versus what it actually does.
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Could Bitcoin Miner GHash.io Control the Entire Bitcoin System?
Why blocking IE10/11 in a corporate environment instead of simply updating it and pushing a GPO that forces IE9 mode for your CRM?
>I cannot see how further education—particularly through programs like this one—could ever be a bad thing

Opportunity costs for one.
Yeah, this rant makes me wonder if poster actually understands how these things work in deep detail.
It's admirable that MS is responding to criticism of their device and working for a solution.

However, all the issues he experienced seem like they would be quite obvious to anyone testing the device usage for any kind of drawing application (which, for a device with a stylus seems like a common enough use case to be testing), perhaps Microsoft needs to spend more time and effort on their QA process for the next round of the Surface instead of playing catch up after release.
Stanford does offer certificates and degrees delivered either partially or entirely online: http://scpd.stanford.edu/publicViewHome.do?method=load

I've taken CS courses at Stanford both through SCPD and on-campus. They're literally the same classes. Lectures are videorecorded and online. Tests and assignments are exactly the same.

There are minor advantages to being on campus: asking questions after class; sitting around your TA's office in Palantir bean-bag chairs while someone sketches sparse autoencoder on the dry-erase board; Axe burgers; but really, remote is okay too.
Quite a misleading analogy. If you go to <any site>.com to buy <anything that can't be downloaded or legally mailed to you>, you're going to be disappointed.

Should we have the same expectations for downloadable software that we do for gasoline (or any product that can't be downloaded or shipped)?

I say "no", but that's something we could disagree on.
It seems that much of the "bitcoin is great because it is feeless" stuff is going to get eaten up by the services/fraud reduction layer put on top of it, by stuff like this. Right now, including miner fees, it seems like the transaction cost of bitcoin is actually as high, if not higher, than most credit cards.

How do you see the fees finalizing? Will there still be a significant cost reduction for in person transactions once the industry has matured a bit more? (equivalent of CC transactions in terms of ease of use).

Either way, this is a cool idea, best of luck to you.
OP, surprised that MS (as with any large company) didn't require you to sign an NDA to not discuss unannounced features during development. Bold (and encouraging) move on their part if they didn't.
Bitcoin fraud as easy as forging a check
I can only do 3-4 hours in the zone per day, if i take a nap in the afternoon i'm able to get another 3 hours of the zone in the evening.Thus on a good day it adds up to 6 hours of quality coding.I try to do planning and meetings in the other hours.
"You wouldn't download a car" takes on a whole new meaning (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HmZm8vNHBSU)
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Imagine:

You're one of the lucky retail employees that work a full 40 hour week. Your annual gross salary is somewhere in the 24-30k range.

That's not enough to support a 2br apartment and car, so you're relying on public transit. You work retail, so your hours suck and you're often stuck bumming rides or waiting for the bus, which only runs every half hour when the mall closes.

When I was in college, I worked in a mall restaurant. That was a pretty common scenario for waitresses, line cooks, retail assistant managers, and similar roles.
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Can you explain how these two statements are mutually exclusive?

These statements are mutually exclusive:
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I'd rather have better results than faster results. Faster is only important once you have the quality problem worked out, first make it good and then make it fast has been a long time mantra. The reason is that it is usually very expensive to make something really fast because optimizing code is hard and expensive (case in point they use custom hardware here).

The upside is that they're doing something innovative but if Bing really wants to steal marketshare from Google they have to improve on their quality, not on their speed. I'd rather see them take 10 seconds and deliver an absolutely perfect answer than 0.001 second and deliver something not on par with Google but 10 times faster.

Impressive to see them backing an exotic solution like this though, and if and when they do get it to be better than Google it may pay off.

Are there any developments like this underway at Google?
"I'm still not sure about the legality of the whole thing; a long time ago I learned something along the lines that law enforcement is not allowed to 'bait' someone into doing something illegal; as the whole situation could be doctored to force somebody to do something they wouldn't have done otherwise. I think it's related to your question; but unfortunately I can't recall what the concept is called, or if I'm completely off-track here anyway."

The concept is "entrapment".
bus speed.
I don't know of an established convention. I've heard people just say "within an order of magnitude." This may be a readable abuse to some, but not all; when I saw O(10) I just saw a horizontal line graph in my head and thought "huh?"
If it's legal to build a firearm [1] for personal use, then it should probably be legal to distill spirits at home [2], though I don't advocate doing both at the same time!

[1]: https://www.atf.gov/firearms/faq/firearms-technology.html#co...

[2]: http://www.ttb.gov/faqs/genalcohol.shtml
This is not a "good" article. It's very hand wavey with lots of fud.

For example, he talks about the chicken and egg problem of delivering javascript over an insecure connection and then solves it later with SSL/TLS (but he doesn't acknowledge that this is a valid solution). Furthermore, we're all harping on javascript when you can't download PuTTY over an SSL connection.

He talks about browser cache but says that javascript can't control it. That doesn't mean it can't be controlled (see MANIFEST file).

I could go on, but the point is made, there are answers to the problems raised in the article. They may not be _easy_ (as the article complains some things are complex), but it's security on wildly complex systems...of course it's hard.
By who were you told this? The bitcoin community has been buzzing with the issue of pools exerting control for quite some time now. Putting up a straw man that is the opposite of what has actually been said isn't funny so much as tragic. Why did you bother to post this?
I agree with your general point but:

> In fact, what is the difference between royalties due for commercial use of their images and that of your back yard?

The difference is that the photographer holds to copyright to any picture they take. The drone/satellite operator would have to explicitly sign the copyright over to you of the pictures of your backyard.
It's great to read that Gabe has had such a positive experience with a Microsoft product team - but it seems pretty obvious to me that it's because he's a somebody. His posts on penny-arcade reach an enormous audience, and so of course they're going to do their damn best to make sure he sings the product's praises.

My experience is very different. I've been working for an enormous organisation for the last 4 years, and we're a tier 1 client of Microsoft's. I've had numerous occasions where I've tried to get anyone on the product team for my specialisation at Microsoft, that my company literally drops millions of pounds on to pay any attention to our requirements. And every time I've had that conversation, with the same requirements, it's like this is the first time they've heard it. They make great promises that they'll go away and think about it, and then nothing happens. And that's because I'm a nobody. I don't have a blog with a massive audience, and so they really don't give a sh!t.
There's a saying, it goes like this: "its expensive being poor", and its really the truth. If you don't have enough money to buy in bulk, you end up paying way more for the smaller amount of product. If you can't afford to spend time on something because you have a limited number of calories before you become unproductive, and therefore have to work on aquiring more calories, then you're stuck in a feedback loop of no progress. And so it goes.

This is why the truly rich (not necessarily wealthy) find pleasure in lifes' simple, cheap, offerings. It's almost impossible to find vegetables as good as the ones we grow in our home garden, but yet it takes on average 30 minutes of work every day to keep things in order .. finding that balance is what is key to moving from being poor to rich, in my opinion. The time not spent getting in the car to go grocery shopping is instead spent maintaining a well-ordered garden plot ..
That's true -- but implicit in that statement is that regulation is never desirable. What about situations where government regulation is desirable or necessary (e.g. limitations on environmental pollution)?
I know it can be open source without git, but GitHub gives a lot of benefits.

Also as I understood, you don't have Facebook, Twitter, Skype, Googe, Outlook, YouTube, and even HN account because NSA could one day transform everything against you?!
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Have you guys heard of GennyMotion?
It's way faster than the actual Android Emulator.
My Professor for my Android Class in college recommended it to use for debugging for our assignments if we didn't have an Android Device.

http://www.genymotion.com/
> that is an offensive view and very disrespectful to the millions of people without college educations who have done great things for this country and all over the world.

You're so right and I can't upvote you enough. I hear people all the time talking about how much of a loser they are for not going to college. These are people are smart, have life skills, AND job skills, AND a steady income. Many even do skilled labor. Their jobs just didn't require 4 years in the classroom.

HELLO? Is this unstated assumption really good for society?

And there's my sister who has a college education and no life skills OR job skills.
subrosa can choose at any time to send you javascript which will send your password back to them. You have no way of checking for this (well, except reading all the javascript, every time you log in)
>> And the general professional emphasis in the bay area means that everyone is friendly enough to give you 1-2 minutes, but then they're on to the next thing.

I've been in the bay area for north of 1 year now, and I can attest to this. Coming from Austin, this was a big change for me. It's not that people are rude, they're just caught up in what they're doing passionately but there's nothing wrong with that. I tried joining meetups and socializing with co-workers but I always left with the sense of it being forced.

Maybe i'm still in college mode and I just ache for my comfort-zone where all my friends understand me and get the inside jokes. Whatever the case may be, it's really not worked out for me and I'm unclear on what I should be doing next.
It’s very hard to take something like how the device “feels” to draw on and convert that into something engineers can use. I ended up describing it in terms of speaking. I said drawing on the Pro 2 was like having a conversation with someone. With the Surface Pro 3 I feel like I need to either whisper or yell to have the same conversation. I had to press very lightly or very hard, and it changes the way I draw. I was also able to show them some of the lag I was noticing. They could all see me draw a line and watch it pop in a split second later.

There is a reason why Wacom dominated its niche for so long, even in the face of inexpensive asian knock-offs. (1) They had this stuff right. (2) Hackers who are perceptive enough that they don't underestimate the difficulty of getting this stuff right are a very small minority.
I found this (a page or so in) to be a good summary of "why should I care":

the proliferation of ÐAOs in user-friendly applications has the potential to allow the public to claim back control over their data and over their privacy on the internet.
It sits between the GPU and the display.
Good reason to invest in satellite-killing weapons, then.
Docker is linux only, and we are a windows shop. So docker not an alternative for me
Seems to me what the article is suggesting is not so much that founders or SV suffer from something greater; but that a community that helps each other in many significant ways, could aid in improving each others mental health as well.
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Gotta really give it to Microsoft. The transformation of the company under Nadella's leadership is really impressive. They really stepped up their game. They finally got someone on the PR team that actually knows what they are doing.
Things that worked well for me:

1) Rock climbing gyms. I made a lot of great friends at Mission Cliffs and Berkeley Ironworks. I have no natural talent for climbing, but I love the mental and physical challenge, and I enjoy the social aspect.

2) A super-social connector. When I first moved to the Bay Area, I made a ton of new connections through the marketing woman at my startup. Simply by saying 'yes' to invitations and actually following through, I found my social network increasing.

3) Meetup.com and various activity groups. When I was in Tokyo, I found Tokyo Gaijins to be a great resource for meeting people. Like food? Take a cooking class.

By the way, living on the Peninsula without a car is social suicide. Move to SF, that's where all the cool kids are. Also -- potentially controversially -- SF is the home of Asian women dating dorky white guys. If you want to meet a nice girl, do what my (Asian) friend did and move to Vancouver, B.C. He went from perpetually single to dating in a few months, and got married last year.
They need to increase the fanout of systems engineering knowledge on the windows platform (outside of microsoft). For low level stuff its much easier finding information about linux than it is about any of the other OS'es (in my limited experience).
all the issues he experienced seem like they would be quite obvious

It's the classic QA paradox. The typical hacker world view doesn't prioritize such feel issues enough. Even in today's UX focused world, stylus specific issues aren't widely understood. Combine the dynamics of the Asch conformity experiment, and it makes perfect sense.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FnT2FcuZaYI
You're thoroughly mistaken. If you proposition a police officer masquerading as a prostitute, you will be arrested and successfully prosecuted.
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I would suspect one or combination of the following issues:

1) The OS doesn't give the pen interrupt high enough priority

2) The bandwidth between the CPU and touch screen digitizer is too small

3) Too many background processes that cause CPU to be overwhelmed (not likely though)
Don't these things use Intel GPUs that are on the CPU?
Yes, but it doesn't work. It might be because people opt-out, they disable updates, or maybe IE is mostly used in corporate envs where people don't autoupdate anyway. I don't know WHY, but numbers show that it doesn't work.

IE11 has been released on October 2013 (8 months ago), but IE10 market share is still 6.77% today (compare with IE11 at 17.03%). I'm quoting NetMarketShare (but it doesn't really matter, all browser stats agree on this topic, with slightly different numbers).

For comparison, Chrome and Firefox versions usually go under 1% after no more than 4 months after a newer version has been released.
Buy a rental property such as a duplex in an up in coming neighborhood and live in the landlords suite.
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It was a tongue in cheek reference to the antitrust trial of the 1990s where Microsoft spent millions arguing that IE was inseparable from the core OS.
You can use Linode for not cheap VMs too. A good use case for Linode is high bandwidth sites, Amazon's data transfer charges are horrendous.
I used to sync my publish folder with btsync but after facing issues, looking into proper tools now. Also i am a newbie, so instead of chef or puppet, I am looking into CI tools and their deployment capabilities now. As far as i know, tools like chef provides you full server configuration management. I am guessing with EC2 custom AMIs and Teamcity i will be able to pull it off. What do you think?
If you bought it from a store they should have it on file connected to your personal info. My bike was just stolen on Friday as well and that is what I did to register it on this site.
Going home to register my bike today
The problem was traditionally the link between the northbridge (which connects connects the CPU and RAM) and the southbridge (handles peripheral connections like SATA, PCI, PCI-E, etc) components of the motherboard. Intel has now changed their architecture in the last 4 or 5 years to be a single Platform Controller Hub where the CPU provides the functionality previously found in the northbridge chip.

In this particular case, a "faster motherboard" might have helped with pushing updates to the GPU faster, though my guess is that graphics memory becomes the concern with double the resolution (which in turn needs to have updates pushed by the CPU, so it could help anyway)
> OP, surprised that MS (as with any large company) didn't require you to sign an NDA to not discuss unannounced features during development

Mike Krahulik has been a fan of Surface Pro from the beginning,[1] has been very vocal about what he likes and dislikes, and has a very large audience.[2] It seems likely they were counting on him blogging his experiences as soon as possible after his last Surface Pro post,[3] which had some fairly negative points that made using the new Surface Pro difficult (if not impossible) for him.

[1]: http://www.penny-arcade.com/news/post/2013/02/22/the-ms-surf...

[2]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penny_Arcade

[3]: http://www.penny-arcade.com/news/post/2014/05/23/surface-pro...
The main cause of money-poverty is lack of money, not lack of work.
Actually, the chance of harm for frost distillation is slightly higher than steam distillation. The volatiles that are ordinarily removed from the distillate as "heads" and "tails" stay with the alcohol fraction instead. As frost distillation is the traditional process for going from hard cider to applejack, additional care must be taken in the fermentation step, because if the Saccharomyces are contaminated by bacteria that ferment sugars to acetone, butanols, propanols, or fusels, those contaminants will be present in the final product. They probably won't kill you, but your hangover is going to be terrible.

In a clean, well-controlled fermentation vessel, as one might find in an open commercial operation, this is not a problem. But when the process is outlawed, and the producers have to hide, often in places that cannot be biologically sterilized, this problem could occur more often.

But then again, it isn't really about public safety, but about people who want to control other people. Otherwise, the law would mandate adequate fire protection for steam distillers and establish upper limits on non-ethanol fermentation products in frost-distilled products. Either could address the safety concern without outright banning the practice.
I'm kinda interested in which pieces are MSI problems. There's a lot of strangeness in msi it generally it tends to work out pretty well unless you're doing weird stuff.

I'm not saying you're wrong - just interested!
"many startup founders had some deep personal trauma in their early lives." --- Can you elaborate on this quote? What makes you say this?
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I think it's excellent to try to find new ways to explain these concepts. Do you think there is a path for an ordinary player of this game to come to perceive more about the properties of public and private keys, and especially how the two are related to one another?
If you want to distill fuel alcohol, you do need a permit. Without a permit, it's illegal.

I mentioned fire in relation to a "problem" with home distilling, not as a legal issue, although fire codes related to distilling are quite extensive and restrictive.

I also mentioned the revenue issue in several other comments.

The so-called "moral" issue is generally only relevant to consumption, not distilling, and only at the state level or below, where some states have "dry" counties and other restrictions on access.
Microsoft keeping Gabe happy with the surface line is probably one of their top 5 PR priorities for the devices. I am not surprised by this post in the least, but I am glad that Gabe is going to get something he can use for his work.