skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Also there's no mobile network operator who will give you one "for free" every two years when you renew a contract."

I live in South Africa, and that regularly happens here. People take out 2 year contracts for "data" and get tablets/laptops for free along with it. I suppose it's not so common in more developed countries where most mobile internet packages are "unlimited". Here, they're very much limited to multiples of 500MB/month.
http://docopt.org/

This project attempted to make argument parsing and the help string synonymous. I'm not sure if it is being actively maintained.
If you don't want "a person who is likely to have children soon", the best person to hire is someone who's 40+. Anyone younger is still in their prime making-babies years.
Deliberate Practice and Performance: A Meta-Analysis [pdf]
I'm very appreciative of the level of silence I can enjoy on a regular basis. I recently moved into a semi-private office at work (one other guy working with me, but he's pretty quiet), and when I get home my wife goes to school - I have a few hours of noise while I hang out with my toddler, then he goes to bed and it's back to quiet until she gets home (and subsequently goes to bed).

I'm also somewhat introverted and find excessive noise (for a fairly low value of excessive) pretty overwhelming/exhausting. My brain is constantly working on some challenge I'm facing, usually from multiple angles; trying to marshal all those ideas into a single, coherent train of thought is a mental exercise. Trying to do that with some inane television show in the background is a non-starter.
http://www.amazon.com/Motorola-Lapdock-500-Pro-Smartphones/d...

I give you, the recent past! I used one once, the experience was underwhelming. It could have been good (my phone had more than enough power to run a lightweight linux window manager and web browser pretty well, the android software just wasn't very polished)

And it's untimely death

http://www.cnet.com/news/motorola-confirms-death-of-webtop-l...

http://www.androidcentral.com/tag/webtop
> That surprises me—I would have thought a quick bit-test on the status register and conditional jump wouldn't be all that bad.

20%-30% performance loss at least, IIRC.

> Are you thinking something like a software interrupt on integer overflow?

Right.
Those benighted primitives, why did it never occur to them to make a lens from 7mil clear plastic sheeting?
Ask HN: Need front end dev help for Inequality in Tech project
Howdy: Solo founder gal here, with madd Product/UX and irrelevant welding skills, looking for help getting 3 pages coded. I'm great at hacking with existing pages—not so, at creating them. I need the pages to be responsive, is the big kicker why my crap HTML/CSS skills are insufficient.

Once I get these few pages coded, I'm good to go to do the rest of the site expansion.

Yes, I could absolutely lock myself up in a dark room and figure-out how to do it all, myself. That would take forever though, and I'm pushing hard to get this product built & partnership/biz things in place... and, well, to be more than one human on this project. So yes, I'm looking for help with where my skills lack the hardest.

I'm a 501(c)3 (but NOT your momma's non-profit), so can get you a tax break if you'd be keen to offering the services pro-bono. As of right now I don't have the budget to pay for this, but in the coming months I will have abundant budget to pay for lots of tech work that will be needing done.

Please email me: ninavizz at gmail dot com, if you might have some time to help me get my pages coded this week (the earlier the better), and I'll send you the skinny.

THANKS in advance!!! Also, happy to do trade.

Separately: also shopping for a CTO-type co-founder. End product will likely be in Ruby, and with lots of dataviz & db-intensive stuff.
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I'd say it's a lot less bad than putting a nuclear power plant square on top of a fault line. Yes, cooling water is nice, but they build diablo canyon in a when-not-if there's an earthquake area, and then discovered it was smack on tip of a fault later.
This is a non-sequitur comment. The very comment you replied to provides sources.
Well, a harder question would be: why is this surprising? (How can a tablet ever replace a PC? How come leading companies thought/think that it could?)
Ask HN: What percent of startups are transparent about equity?
What percent of startups are transparent with their employees regarding number of shares outstanding, liquidation preferences, etc, to a degree that an employee can make a rough estimate about his/her stock options' value?

I assume it's low, but would like to see what HN thinks
Great point!

I graduated from college in 1973 and that was on my resume. Also, on the phone I had mentioned that I had mostly retired except for small consulting jobs.
I too was expecting something like what you describe but by parsing -h --help output.
The fact remains you can't work on a tablet and you can't talk on a tablet. You can, but it's not enjoyable. I would ditch my phone if they would give me a talk and text plan for my iPad mini. Instead they're just making the phones bigger.
Honestly, I think young people in the technology industry generally are paid very well and treated very respectfully as well, so I've never understood where this notion comes from.

We're not talking about the technology industry generally. We're talking about the games industry. The games industry, generally speaking, pays worse and offers worse conditions. Because they can. People with more experience know when they're being ripped off, and know when the working conditions are far worse than they could get outside the games industry. Kids blinded by the glamour of the games industry are cheap labour.
Sales are down because no new ones have came out in a while.

I upgraded from my iPad 3 to a Retina Mini, but I didn't really need to, I just did. A co-worker gave me more than I could sell it for on eBay and I found an open-box Mini at Best Buy, so it wasn't like I spent $200 to switch.

I use it all the time. It's easily my primary device. It's to the point where I certainly wouldn't sell my laptop (2013 MacBook Air 13") but I'd consider downgrading it since I don't use it enough to justify the $1300 cost.
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>>Merely starting the interview process with someone who far exceeds the requirements for the role is a risk... my employees and I may waste our time interviewing this person just to find out their salary requirements are too high. I would say "too experienced" is a legitimate reason to reject someone from a role for this reason.

I'm pretty sure this kind of thinking is exactly the problem and accurately describes ageism. You've made assumptions about someone based on their age and don't even want to bother interviewing them based on stereotypes that you think are true about older people. Of course, there are extremes to the "too experienced" situation. If a person with a Ph.D in Biology and Astrophysics applies to a job at McDonald's, then perhaps something is off. But you should still talk to the person and find out what's going on; not just assume.
I'm neither a Mac nor an iPhone person, but that's pretty cool. I'd like to know what it means in practice, though. So, you can run Ocaml programs on iOS? What about Apple's libraries? Are there any bindings available?
especially for the ships, why not snakes?
I basically use my tablet for three things: web browsing on my couch, as a companion lookup device when I'm reading a book or paper that's challenging, or for the occasional game. I've had it for like 3 years now, and I can't think of any reason to upgrade it unless it breaks. I like it, but it's basically useless as a content creation device, and it already does everything I need it to do.
I don't doubt discrimination against age exists, but it's wrong to automatically assume it's the root cause for a rejection.

Maybe they had a stronger candidate? Maybe the interviewer overestimated his performance?
> In addition, and this depends on how old they are, you might not want to make your first hire a person who is likely to have children soon. If suddenly half your workforce is on maternity/paternity leave that might sink your business (yeah discrimination based on this is illegal, doesn't mean it isn't a risk anyway).

If your company would scuttled by some portion of your employees taking paternity/maternity leave, it sounds like your company has organizational problems and you should be looking at why your business will fail rather than worrying about employees taking some time off.
No. In Western Europe, where I live, we also have a lot of mobile packages that bundles a tablet/phone for 1 euro and a data subscription plan that is often limited to 50 or 500mbytes.

For instance my mobile phone plan includes 60 minutes of free phone call, 50mbytes of data, free call to people on the same operator on the week-end and unlimited SMS for 9euros/month. There's a 15euros plan that includes 500mb and 150 minutes that I might switch to in the coming months.
With a REST API you can call from curl !?
This looks cool, are there any tutorials on how to build a project from the ground up with it? I've hunted around the website without luck.
According to my wife, she woke me up and kept shouting "earthquake!" I was rolling around on the bed. I just grabbed her pillow, covered my head and muttered, "OK. Let's go back to sleep".
Question to HN: has anyone tried the Onyx Boox series of ereaders sized 9" and over ?

I am getting tempted, no small part of the temptation is the fact that its software stack seems entirely open source, based on Linux and the source code is on Github. That seems just perfect. The only thing that bothers me is that it is somewhat pricey $300+ and am not too sure about its performance.

I lug around quite a big pile of technical pdfs. If something can reduce that weight I am up for it. So the decision for me is whether to go for a tablet or a e-reader like onyx boox, it seems to be a "few of a kind" if not one of a kind.

EDIT: Thanks, whoever upvoted this back up from grey, it seems to have annoyed someone.
Nice find! https://github.com/docopt/docopt.go was updated 18 days ago, so it does look alive and well.
Not sure what weakness you're referring to in that SO post; the OP is actually saying otherwise:

> I have always considered the Scala variation to be on the advantageous side [relative to Haskell].

Daniel Spiewak does provide an answer that points out a weakness with scala collections when used with ADTs, but (G)ADTs of and in themselves are pretty damn elegant in Scala, arguably rivaling Haskell equivalent (provided we set aside Scala's slightly more verbose implementation).
That's been done (Motorola, ASUS...), but people don't buy them.

Unless you're on a really tight budget, there's no point in having a device with no less bulk than a small laptop but that becomes useless without your phone docked inside, and obviously not as good as a laptop (ARM, Android vs a desktop OS).
Britain has forced companies to lease their networks to competitors at cost?

So anyone could just enter the market?
I'd love a tablet I could do real work on. The Surface comes closest with the fold-out keyboard, but it's a bit expensive. I live at the command line when I do dev, so installing something like Ubuntu would be ideal.

I'm not convinced this is a niche need, either. Manufacturers are just slow to catch up.

I have another rant in me about the entirety of tech chasing Joe Average, but that's for another day.
This is not ageism. I can judge a candidate based on her work experience. I would be just as quick to reject a 20-something with too much experience as a 50-something, and I would absolutely hire a 50-something with the right level of experience.

Don't get me wrong - there is an ageism problem in the tech community. If we take these arguments at face value though and don't make an effort to understand why a rational, unbiased person might appear to discriminate, then cannot effectively address the problem.
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Ignoring the social aspect totally for example one of President Obamas roommates at Harvard came from my home town in the UK. The roommate of course went to Bedford a public school) and not a state comprehensive like Hastingsbury where I went.
The "super tablets" that the article claims as the next step are what every nearly tablet before the iPad tried to be, and they universally fell on their face.
More evidence that if you can't physically secure the hardware, all bets are off. The ability to conduct the attack through an Ethernet cable does add a new dimension to the attack surface, however.

I guess this is also another reason why TEMPEST defines shielding standards to help mitigate these side-channel attacks.
I don't really care if it's silent or not, but I find it important that it's controlled by me as much as possible. Even to the point of running a rain noise simulator under some music album.

As far as actual volume is concerned, I play music all day long, unless I'm extremely hung over and need to rest. In hands of a skilled operator, music is basically a mood control board. I can't imagine why would someone want to live without that power.
The Motorola was doomed from the start, IMO.

Take a phone - which to all extents is relatively locked down.

Add a Linux operating system - in which people don't know. What you mean I can't use Office 2007?

Further restrict the OS - even if you know how to get around, odds are you can't just install the stuff you want inside the Motorola garden.

Then to put the nail in the coffin... Make all the accessories overpriced. What you mean, I just signed years of my life away, paid a few hundred and still have to pay $300 for a lapdock (That runs a gutted OS)?

The idea is great... but beat to death by a corporation trying to lock down and monetize every piece.

Just my opinion.
I wonder if it would be better now that mobile GPUs are pushing as many (or more) pixels as desktop screens have. I agree the software is the problem and still probably not there yet, and it's unlikely any company is going to put the development resources into it needed to get it right.

The solution is (maybe) to go commodity for everything. Maybe a partition on your phone with ubuntu on it and just boot into a different OS when you dock? You'd need it to boot fast, and you'd probably want to share files between desktop-mode and phone-mode, which is going to be difficult. Hardware-wise, screw the laptop form factor and just go for the monitor/keyboard/mouse that many many people already have in their house. The only hardware you sell is a cord splitter that plugs into the phone and triggers a fast OS switch when you plug it in.

ChromeOS might work ok, too, if you're ok with just a browser; it could be just a little Chromebox already built and ready.
Remember a story like that on thedailywtf.. Was it yours?:)
Looks neat! The brew cask is broken, though. You might want to get that checked.

Error: No available cask for macdown
Maybe the problem is the software and not the hardware? I mean, people are used to software like Microsoft Word and this kind of software is vaguely imitated in the tablet world. Even if that were the case, you have to buy an external keyboard (because nobody wants to use the soft keyboard when dealing with important documents) and maybe a mouse because after working you want to play a (decent) game (decent games require the use of mouse, right?).

At the end of the day, you have a tablet + keyboard + mouse and a "limited" OS (limited compared to a real OS like Mac OS X/Ubuntu/Windows). Compare this configuration with a Mac Book Air. Who wins?
I'm allowed to judge someone based on her work experience. This is not a stereotype, this is a fact on a resume put there by the candidate herself.

>> Of course, there are extremes to the "too experienced" situation. If a person with a Ph.D in Biology and Astrophysics applies to a job at McDonald's, then perhaps something is off.

Ok, so where do you draw the line? At what point is it not OK to judge someone in this way?
It wouldn't be Hawai'i (as much as I'd love that). It'd almost certainly be LA or Vegas. Maybe Phoenix.
Yeah, sure. Your last statement is fine, but .. it's a matter of preference. The return could be 'So, just leave the noisy/lively city if you seek silence', no?

You pick your home based on your preferences. I wouldn't normally live in this mostly silent place, because leaving home and traveling to the more lively (or .. noisy) places eats motivation and energy, which means that more often than not I don't do it anymore.

I'd prefer having all of that right outside of my door, leaving for quiet places instead - when necessary/appropriate.
I wonder whether they reached out to the authors of that paper, or the author of the Python implementation? You'd think people would be pretty ready to help a big open source project like Lucene. Particularly the academics --- it's unlikely they'd find a higher-impact open source use of their algorithm!
About these super tablets... "...least a 13” screen, 64 bit processor, 2GB of RAM, 256GB drive, a real keyboard, an actual file system, and an improved operating system with windowing and true multitasking capability..."

They've just described a laptop/chromebook, right?
> What if the total amount of water available in a region is just slightly above the minimum required in that region?

Then, as you imply later on, you have an underlying infrastructure problem. This is a different scenario from a natural disaster, which was the original scenario under discussion. A natural disaster is temporary; a shortage of water such as you are describing is not.

> fixing prices while in the meantime implementing explicit rationing and making sure the underlying infrastructure problems are resolved as quickly as possible.

You can't both fix prices and implement explicit rationing, because explicit rationing replaces the price mechanism; it doesn't supplement it. Explicit rationing and the price mechanism are both resource allocation methods; you can't have the same resources being allocated by two different methods.

As for resolving the underlying infrastructure problem, I'm all for that, but it's subject to the same issues: just look at the history of water rights in the southwest U.S. Government intervention hasn't fixed that.

> Given the uncertainty of the crisis situation, it is quite plausible that rich people will make panic hoarding purchases of more than they need until the crisis is over

Now you're back to the original temporary situation again. Which one do you want to discuss? They're different.

Also, you have now added uncertainty to the mix, which makes things more realistic, but also undermines your argument, in both the temporary and the permanent cases. If there is uncertainty about what the resource availability actually is, then a central allocation mechanism, like explicit rationing, can go wrong just as the price mechanism can; no method can guarantee success if the true facts are unknown. So just saying that the price mechanism might not work is pointless; you have to show that the price mechanism must necessarily be worse than explicit rationing.
Sry, i am OT but in fact of a missing accelerator pedal for time,

Is there a single website, where i can look what Creditcards are not accepted in NYC (for bars, shops, restaurants, ect...)

Some people around call me a stingy-parsimonious,
and during next holidays i want to bring it on top!
In my experience the people that I know that are on "safe" drugs such as Prozac, Adderall, Ritalin, Xanax are the ones having the tougher problem with addiction compared to the people I have met that have used illicit drugs such as Heroin. Companies like Shire Pharmaceuticals selling amphetamines to kids are no better for society than your average heroin dealer. I mean atleast the heroin dealer is honest with the fact that the drug he is selling is absolutely going to have an addictive effect whereas giving kids speed or even methamphetamine (prescription brand Desoxyn in the pharma world) to treat ADHD is somehow a more noble profession.
We would certainly not cope "just fine". Sure we'd get over it, but there's plenty of stuff depending on American services. The whole .com/.net/.org registry is just a small example.
Really? that's what Western Europe has to offer? In Poland I have a plan that gives me unlimited phone calls and SMS to all mobile operators in Poland, and 1GB internet for about 10 euros/month. Also, you can have tablet for 25 eurocents with data plan that cost you about 25 euro a month here.
You can find this right in the bay area.

West Marin in general, and the pt Reyes nat. seashore in particular.

I am currently 13 miles as the crow flies from the transamerica pyramid, and I am looking at 360 view, to the horizon, with no trace of humankind. It's silent.
A phone is guaranteed to run out of battery at least once a day. That's a monumental difference.
I wrote something similar, but Twitter got pissy about me sending unsolicited messages.

So while I could locate customers, Twitter didn't like me contacting them.
Great. It's still worse than sitting on the couch with your wife or a group of friends and browsing Netflix together to pick out a movie to watch.
Guys, guys, I get it. All I'm saying is that we do actually need to try to anticipate issues ahead of time.

For everyone who's saying that nothing could evolve to resist this, please look at Legionnaire's disease: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legionnaires'_disease

This is a disease which can be fatal, and is found in association with systems involving water, including hot water heaters.

I'll grant you as much as you likely that you're unlikely to get this or that, what I'm cautioning against is the idea that you've found a silver bullet. You've never found a silver bullet against bacteria, and it's better to go into use of systems like these with that assumption.

Thinking ahead to make "thoroughly rinse, clean, and dry this system at least once a week" part of the instructions for use as a precaution against bacteria isn't nay-saying, it could be quite valuable to the people we would have using systems like these in the future.
Basically they've only described the Surface.
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The State of Oregon vs. Oracle [pdf]
A major form of "silence infrastructure" is some form of nature, close at hand to where you're living and working. This does not have to be wild, raw nature, just something you can walk through and not have your attention frazzled constantly by signals and sounds you might react to.

Companies and learning institutions having tree-lined office parks or choosing to be located near public parks recognize this. And on a personal level, we all should too.
In arguing for "super tablets" the author writes: PCs are expensive, prone to failure, easy to break and magnets for viruses and malware. After just a bit of use, many PCs are susceptible to constant freezes and crashes.

I don't see how a super tablet addresses any of that except perhaps cost. Ever drop a tablet? Have it fall into water? Ever see people using phones and tablets with shattered glass? I don't see them being less "breakable" than a PC, in fact much moreso because they are being moved around a lot more. They are also a lot more likely to be stolen, misplaced, or lost. And a tablet, especially one that runs MS Office, would not be any less of a target for malware than a PC, nor any more immune to it.
My bad, I was too quick to respond to your comment. I was thrown off a bit by the other discussions in this comment thread that seem to be discussing the technology industry in general.