skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On the other hand, the N-trig stylus works accurately at the edge of the screen. You can't say the same about Wacom's, and the issue is made worse by the fact that most desktop software puts toolbars full of tiny mouse targets around the edge of the screen.

With their Bamboo/Intuos/Cintiq products, Wacom can avoid the accuracy falloff problems by including an enormous margin around the edge of the active area. On a portable device like the Surface Pro 2, they weren't able to do that and it showed.

There are certainly tradeoffs in going to N-trig, but I don't think it's fair to portray it as inferior to Wacom's tech in every area but cost.
Which in turn will lead to a booming market in ammunition, MREs, and shovels for digging bunkers.
Great job! Like the concept. But here's another nitpick.

I see when you activate a file, the animation first shrinks the file a bit and then expands it out. Is it possible to remove the shrinking? It makes the app "feel" a bit jerky. I think the reason is when you shrink the activating file, all other files expand by a bit. This causes the whole screen shifting a bit, leading to a somewhat jarring experience for a split second.
Integration with IDoneThis would be awesome.
Seriously. If this is such a great product, couldn't they have shown a screencast demonstrating what the narrator was saying instead of showing tangentially related stock video?
There's a great quote from a Terry Pratchett Discworld novel:

"The reason that the rich were so rich, Vimes reasoned, was because they managed to spend less money.

Take boots, for example. He earned thirty-eight dollars a month plus allowances. A really good pair of leather boots cost fifty dollars. But an affordable pair of boots, which were sort of OK for a season or two and then leaked like hell when the cardboard gave out, cost about ten dollars. Those were the kind of boots Vimes always bought, and wore until the soles were so thin that he could tell where he was in Ankh-Morpork on a foggy night by the feel of the cobbles.

But the thing was that good boots lasted for years and years. A man who could afford fifty dollars had a pair of boots that'd still be keeping his feet dry in ten years' time, while the poor man who could only afford cheap boots would have spent a hundred dollars on boots in the same time and would still have wet feet.

This was the Captain Samuel Vimes 'Boots' theory of socioeconomic unfairness."
$4 ARM PSoC prototyping kits
Seems like a small niche to be focusing on. I understand the PR angle (it's a home run for the PR team) but I don't think catering to artists who draw digitally is going to make or break the tablet.

Where's the feel good story about the coder, the gamer, or the office junkie? Each of which makes up a considerably larger slice of the premium laptop/tablet marketplace.
In this context, who are the hackers?

"asian knock-offs" seems odd in this context. Wacom is a Japanese company. Also, some inexpensive competitors like the monoprice-sold UC-Logic tablets are generally well-received despite having to shove a battery into the pen to avoid wacom's patented inductive coupling.
More like well player PR team, they failed to fix every single issue. They couldnt even let him have the home button fix, something that sounds like a simple script I could write in AutoHotkey in two minutes tops.

Surface team looks like a committee full of control freaks. cant give users control over home button, cant give users control over pressure curves (they brought two HARDWIRED tablets instead of writing configuration tool?).
like this. im not sure how much an improvement this is over for example underscore (i guess i'll find out), but at least i can finally -kinda- say i write bloody LISP when i put this in my code :P
On your linkedin profile you claim you have 13 yrs of experience. Then you also graduated from highschool in 2010. So by common logic in 2010 , when you were 17 yrs old , you had 9 yrs of experience ? ( assuming linked profile is reflecting recent experience )
Is this some kind of joke or ponzi scheme ?
Why Programming and Development is So Damn Hard
I'm probably in the minority, but I would vote against markdown support. There are tons of minimalist markdown editors out there (have a look in the Mac app store for starters). At least make it switch-offable.

I'd vote against list automation too, because it changes the way the cursor and keyboard behave.

URL detection would be nice though, since it only affects the visual display and mouse behavior.

I'd also vote for a constant-width font option. Preferably Consolas or one of its knock-offs.

It would be nice if the line number, column number, and number of characters in the buffer were reported in one of the corners.

Comments based on the web version (Firefox Mac).
Honestly, Mozilla should put together an official version of this plugin, since this feature is absolutely essential to browsers nowadays.
Generate revenue from online privacy (compete with Google, Facebook, NSA, etc.)
Very few people believe in the traditional view of marriage for life where the woman is legally not allowed to own property.
Very nice concise summary of the evolution that sectors/industries go through. This needs to be upvoted because it's very useful for startup founders to understand where they stand in this cycle and where they're headed. Both from their own perspective and the perspective of competitors and acquirers. It's useful for example to help you understand if you should start thinking about buying competitors, buying startups and/or forming alliances.
For the folks using Digital Ocean, have you considered Ramnode? $18 per year for their ultra-tiny plan, "OpenVZ SSD VPS (SVZ v2) - Atlanta - 128MB SVZ". I kinda love a company that constantly posts a 25% discount code on their own homepage. :)
Opportunity costs do not make things bad. They can make things worse than an alternative or better than an alternative.

If the person choosing what to do with their life is able to see an existing opportunity which is better than education then they should choose it, why would they not?

But if they are unable to see such opportunities then choosing to become more educated is not a bad choice provided as is the case in this situation that it does not present an additional financial burden.

One could even argue that the set of options one should consider when weighing opportunity cost should only be composed of the options to which the decision maker is aware (can reasonably be expected to become aware) of.
Gabe is just the character that initially represented Mike Krahulik, the artist of PA and the person writing those posts.
Ask HN: Would you use a cheaper and anonymous alternative to xero/mint?
For a very long time I am trying to find something that fits my needs...and cheap. I don't want to fight with big guys. I just want to make something useful for me, but in the same time maybe useful for someone else out there.

The plan is already made, around 30% already implemented.

What I want:
- simple to use
- forecasting - !IMPORTANT
- cashflow, income sources
- goals
- bill reminder
- https

What I don't want/need:
- your real name, address, location
- your phone number, ip address
- bank/paypal account

Costs:
- free alpha/beta, no matter how long does it take
- after launch it could be freemium/pay what you want(modularity)

As long as I cover yearly costs and people use it, I am more than happy.

Finally: would you use it?
Box had to pull off its IPO. What's the point of acquiring company ? Founders also seem to have some weird data on linkedin. 13 yrs of experience when he is 20. Ha ha ha...
As if we have got new Einstein !!
There is no wonder this will turn out a mistake by Box.
Startup bubble has started. Cash out and get out.
The "ML Studio" that briefly appears in the video looks like a slicker version of Weka.
Although it's all just silly because in BC you still pay for health insurance anyhow through MSP.

BC should really take a note from Saskatchewan or Alberta. Paying for health coverage in this country is an atrocity, especially with the high liquor/tabacco taxes.
I read Snow Crash ages ago but didn't get the reference.

I've been thinking about how to respond to you. I realize how it must sound for me to say that it amazes me that people will take on whatever is available to them at a particular stage in their life to pay their bills. I didn't mean it in a disparaging way. I meant it more in a, "wow, I would find it very hard, I don't think I'd be cut out for that". I'm not suggesting I'm better or worse. I've had plenty of jobs that didn't inspire me at all but they were still decent jobs by anybody's standards: software testing, software development ... though many people I'm sure couldn't imagine being stuck in front of a monitor 8+ hours a day.
How long before, because that would make it impossible for people to spend their coins at all during that period, which could be annoying.

Also, does this mean that to verify a transaction can be considered instant, the merchant has to check with your servers and there is no way of verifying this independently? Isn't this a serious privacy problem?
Some people own bikes that have value... and would like to track them in case they get stolen. Be it for insurance purposes, trying to recover it, or as a buyer to not buy a stolen bike.
This may interest you - according to a study[0] the average office worker is only productive for three hours a day.

I'm a freelancer working from home, and I find I work about 5 - 6 chargeable hours / day. Of course some of those hours are more productive than others :)

0 - http://www.employeebenefits.co.uk/news/only-three-hours-of-p...
I've never used Teamcity, but it looks nice. I do agree chef/puppet can be overkill when you can just do custom AMIs. Definitely make sure you're using proper version control... Honestly, you don't give enough information for a proper opinion, but it'd probably be more informative to just do what you think is best and see how it works out. Ultimately the best workflow is the one that works (even when things go wrong).
I would not. Mint is sufficient for my needs.
Fascinating! I think it's better to look at Hubble's law then the cosmological constant in this particular regard. Hubble's law was published at the end 20's decade. If you contemplate the law it follows naturally (although counter-intuitively) that very far away galaxy's might speed away from each other faster then the speed of light. How this can be understood with regard to relativistic effects or the uncross-able universal light speeding law is another intriguing topic.
So perhaps Stapledon thought of this or someone else thought about this (Lemaitre?) and Stapledon read or heard it.
With regard to the cosmological constant, Einstein dropped it but Lemaitre didn't. Lemaitre argued in the early 1930's that the rate of expansion of the universe was accelerating.
http://www.amazon.com/The-Day-Without-Yesterday-Cosmology/dp...

"Lemaître was then invited to London in order to take part in a meeting of the British Association on the relation between the physical Universe and spirituality. There he proposed that the Universe expanded from an initial point, which he called the "Primeval Atom" and developed in a report published in Nature.[15] Lemaître himself also described his theory as "the Cosmic Egg exploding at the moment of the creation"; it became better known as the "Big Bang theory," a pejorative term coined during a BBC radio broadcast by Fred Hoyle who was an obstinate proponent of the steady state universe, even until his death in 2001."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georges_Lema%C3%AEtre

So some have (mistakenly) attributed intuition of dark energy to Einstein and his cosmological constant or some like you would argue that Stapledon was spectacularly smart or lucky but I think I'd attribute it to Lemaitre and I think indirectly (or directly) Stapledon heard or read about this. Perhaps as an academic he was even present at the "British Association" meetup on science and spirituality.

But if so, why did Lemaitre keep Einstein's cosmological constant in his own work and why did he think the expansion rate of the universe was increasing?

Even so I'd like to believe Stapledon really was traveling among the stars 'in some way', also his description of the out of body experience is oddly similar to credible accounts later in the 20th century and might be autobiographical but if not could be explained by him reading earlier accounts of this psychological effect.

edit: apparently Lemaitre discovered Hubble's law before Hubble did! http://www.universetoday.com/90862/the-expanding-universe-cr...
As a web developer I enjoy contributing to projects that help me to identify stupid things, because there is an abundance of stupid in web technologies. I enjoy contributing to things like JSLint and Pretty Diff.

Sometimes contributions can be as simple as bug reports or feature suggestions. This kind of information is golden for complex projects maintained by very few individuals.
Design Everything.
Software can now provide just about any user experience quite easily, so the software industry is now all about figuring out what experiences people want. Is that all he's saying?
Missed a trick to call it Mlaases.
Well, the fact is the player builds itself the public key from the private key at the beginning of the game, somehow choosing itself the randomness used in the key generation process. I was hopnig this gives a bit of an idea that public key is derived from private key.

In that sense the public key is a "mix" of the private key. Then the cipher is the message plus a "mix" of the public key. By transitivity the cipher is the message plus a "mix" of the private key; and the private key is simple enough so that it can be "unmixed"...
Author here. Here are some screenshots that may help convey what it's like to use: http://imgur.com/a/kT3NN
"You hear a lot about MS being this massive company that doesn’t listen but that’s really not fair in this case."

Every large company is made up of thousands of individual people, many of which really care about making a good product and making customers happy. The whole question in managing a big company is how to get out of the way of that natural process, while still coordinating all the disparate groups so that the final product works.
Are we about to see the rise of robot bosses?
Thank you for honestity. Maybe I would use it, but not everyone lives in US.
The SP2 Wacom setup was not perfect by any stretch of the imagination, in my experience -- accuracy was terrible in the corners / near the edges, and parallax was a serious issue, if you did not write/draw with the pen perpendicular to the surface of the screen, there was a significant offset from the tip of the pen to where the line was actually drawn. These were bad enough to turn me (and at least one professional artist that I know) off from buying one.

The move to N-Trig hypothetically fixes both of these. Early reviews/videos say that corner accuracy is greatly improved, and the lack of a separate digitizer layer allows a thinner optical stack, reducing parallax (and allowing the device overall to be thinner).

Driver support has historically been an issue, but msft seems to be improving things significantly.

There are fewer levels of sensitivity and hovering doesn't work quite as well, but I am overall reasonably optimistic about the switch.
How could a bank transfer be less safe? I don't know the US system but if I give out my bank account number the only thing someone can use it for is to send money to me.

On the other hand if someone malicious gets my credit card number they can use it to buy stuff and I have to go through a lot of trouble to get a new card.
Bookmarklet to send your current browser page to your mobile phone
You still write the council and get permission.. You just have yo "buy your place in line" from somebody that already has one.
Very cool.

Did you find it difficult to decipher the other programmer's 'style'?
The project I'm working on, in particular, has a number of crazy quirks and hacks to get it to work.
Question: How do I prepare to become full startup founder? (some day)
> They make great promises that they'll go away and think about it, and then nothing happens.

but this is EXACTLY how they treated Gabe. They didnt fix ANYTHING, they just showed up some prototypes and talked about fixing some stuff.
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Box just bought real-world equivalent of Pied Piper
I filed a ticket for a /48 and their support set it up for me. I didn't use it heavily but it worked very well; I basically made my own personal tunnel broker. :) A /56 still gives you (64-56)^2 = 64 /64's, and I wouldn't think you'd want to run more than 64 tunnels through one box anyway.
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Seemingly pedantic point, but this is a UX design problem not a QA problem. QA is largely something that you want to automate, minimize, and reduce the cost of. QA is making sure things work as designed. UX design is something that you want to maximize. That's figuring out what you want to make.

The tools of the UX design trade are very different. I think the best UX is done with mockups that go into customer feedback sessions. The middle ground is lots of static drawings of UX, which leads to a lot of bikeshedding and not a lot of real data. Obviously the worst is no UX design at all.
I find that I also look at life differently when I am consulting. Anything that takes time suddenly has an implicit price tag. I believe that the original commentator was making a light statement.

In terms of amortized vacation, yes. Employees pay for it throughout the year, and then can draw on it like a small bank account. One of the reasons I went into consulting was for more free time to travel. I don't know of any full time positions that would let me spend 1/4 of the year traveling.
But those sigs are also coming over a non-ssl connection:-p

Honestly, whenever you download anything, evne over SSL, you're essentially trusting that the remote computer is not only who you think the computer is, but the person you expect to be controlling it is the only person controlling it.

Out-of-band communication built out-of in-person trust are really the only way around that (i.e. trusting someone who trusts the PuTTY devs and gets you the hash/sig).
> Some of those things are worth paying for. The revolutionary thing about Bitcoin (from a financial systems perspective) is that those things are optional. If I don't want or need instant confirms, I don't have to use them.

Sorry, I think you missed the point of my question. For the use case I'm talking about, which is PoS, I don't see how those things are optional at all.
Architecting large Single Page Applications with Knockout.js
Could this be a huge problem for services like Cloudflare. I mean i would trust Google a lot more to be able to survive a huge DDOS.
It is probably a stretch to call Mike Krahulik a famous millionaire. Microsoft used his art in their recent ad campaigns, which itself was a response to a prior unsolicited positive writeup on their product. So it is perfectly reasonable that they get his feedback (albeit far too late). Not all the problems were fixed, and I suspect some of the problems can't really be fixed given the hardware that is being shipped. To some degree this is damage control on the part of Microsoft, because on his initial impressions with SP3, Krahulik was clear that he could not recommend this to illustrators with a similar workflow -- most of which are not famous millionaires.
> > And yet we've no problem with home storage of gasoline for lawn mowers (and yes, we don't typically collect gasoline in gaseous form over heat sources).

> I'd have a problem if someone was doing that in my building (and they'd be violating the terms of the lease if they were).

Well, sure, but if you live in a multi-tenant building, you won't have to mow a lawn, either. These days, though, a battery-powered mower is just as good as some gasoline mowers. Not having to deal with gas and oil is a large bonus.
Yeah, I've heard great things about the Wordpress community! Some of the others that I've found have a great support base are Open Streetmap, Open Science, and Ubuntu.
A leading company that just had intel announce them selves in the same market.
Funny.. My favorite trick was ditching Jekyll for Hugo. Easiest install. Fastest rendering. Truly live reloading.
I think the surface form factor is much slimmer than the bulky things I see in the hospital. This might be to the convertible tablets what Ipad was to the tablets before it.
> Do you think the banking industry will support the unbanked faster than a stable and accessible internet will reach them?

I would guess so. It's unlikely that big, stable telco companies get created without banks.

Edit: and also, BrokenPipe, I'd really like to hear your thoughts on my original question since you are the author here...
Potential for manufacturing processes, which are great at depositing in flat layers at very small scales. Structures manufactured flat can subsequently be folded into 3D shapes. It's a candidate method for making very small machines.

Wood's group (and possibly others - not my field) have even shown that pre-stressed parts can be built into the layers that cause the structure to 'pop-up' into it's 3D shape, or nearly, when released from its manufacturing scaffold. Neat.

Examples along with more nice things at http://micro.seas.harvard.edu/research.html

Another sometimes-cited motivation for folding robot parts is fitting planetary rovers neatly inside their spacecraft, or inserting robots into nuclear reactors through small service pipes.
Yep, you got it! Once again, I don't encrypt all my conversations because I'm making a tradeoff, but I would definitely prefer that they were all private. And again, having a distinct communication channel that was private would not be unwelcome.
I think gmu3 is referring specifically to the 10th amendment; "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people."

Pretty straight forward and to the point, right? So simply point to the article in the Constitution where the Fed is supposed to fund education, and we'll be on the same page.

Otherwise, it's completely up to each state to tax and spend how they see fit. Any state that wants can make the choice, and I think it's a great system where we can freely move to any state which taxes and spends to our individual liking. If only the Fed could ease up a little bit, rather than still running a deficit while collecting more money than they ever have before even in inflation adjusted dollars [1]...

Aside from the technical considerations of the Constitution, if you take a quick look at the New York Fed published slide deck [2] on trends in college loans, you can learn a lot about how much the Fed is already subsidizing the college industry and "footing the bill" indeed since a large percentage of these loans will never be repaid. They can't ever be repaid, because too many recipients of these loans don't actually gain anywhere near the marketable skills necessary to cover the cost of tuition.

[1] - http://www.cnsnews.com/sites/default/files/imagecache/lightb...

[2] - http://www.newyorkfed.org/newsevents/mediaadvisory/2013/Lee0...
Ah I didn't realize Mint wasn't available outside the US. In that case if I were living where Mint wasn't available, I would like to use something like it.
Marketing Tests – Part 7
Jonathan Ive on Apple’s Design Process and Product Philosophy
This is still far longer than it should be.

I just built a not-particularly-large app after making a single-line change and it took 16 seconds to compile, dex, package and install on a running x86 emulator. The installation time is appreciable (4 seconds for my 10MB APK), which would be cut to zero for a simulator. Similarly, removing the dexing and packaging would be a great help.

I'm jealous when I see how fast my iOS colleagues can make code tweaks and see them running on a simulator one second later.