skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The record industry rose up to solve a problem: artists needed their music recorded and distributed. Those problems are solved by computers and the internet. It's so cheap to record an album these days its ridiculous, as opposed to 40 years ago when you needed half a million dollars just for a tape machine. The overhead to make music has gone down, and so should the price to listen to it.
I would be worried to download some apps from an unknown server in china on my phone...
Which technologies do you use at youDevise?
Sounds like the problem people sometimes have with Malcolm Gladwell.
China Will No Longer Be Shown On Google Maps
More realistically, the counterpart of a LineDrive map in current route instructions is the list-of-turns representation: drive straight ahead for 12 miles, turn left into Whatever Ave., after 2 miles east turn right into Something St.

Once you allow for more space and include maps with details for all points of interest (i.e., all complicated intersections), both LineDrive and sequence-of-turns are only interesting as an addition, not necessarily as a replacement.
More than that - a number of services (for example B2B SaaS) depend on knowing the email identity of their user. Are you John Jones <john.jones@goldmansachs.com>? Of course you are, you signed up with that email address and the system accepted you.

If a system like, say, Woobius, doesn't confirm emails, people will abuse this lack of feature.
Another problem with desert solar power plants is political - Europe for instance would become dependant on the middle east and africa for power, which after the past couple decades of oil politics doesn't look like a very attractive option.

Of course nuclear isn't much better in this regard - while we do have uranium deposits, we don't have any uranium mines, and hence rely on imports for nuclear fuel.
Actual review here:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/04/01/ubuntu1004_beta_revi...
I've just printed a copy for my wall, and it's beautiful! If you had a poster, I'd buy it :)

One request: please switch from W3Schools to the official W3C spec for the "more-info" link.
Certainly. Here are a couple:

http://www.firstamendmentcenter.org/analysis.aspx?id=13828

http://www.slais.ubc.ca/courses/libr500/10-11-wt1/www/C_Chas...

There's also a lot of stuff on LexisNexis, but that costs quite a bit of money unless you know someone with a subscription. This one appears more relevant, but quotes me a price of $12.50+tax:

"A REGULATORY THEORY OF COPYRIGHT: AVOIDING A FIRST AMENDMENT CONFLICT"

https://litigation-essentials.lexisnexis.com/webcd/app?actio...

I should mention that other courts have said that they don't see the interplay between the Copyright Clause & First Amendment as "tension", but instead view things like fair use as "safety valves" that prevent the two from being in conflict.

Whatever words you use to say it, the fact is that the courts do their best to uphold both, rather than choose one or the other. Whether one sees the considerations in reconciling the two as "tension" or believes that their approach harmonizes the two, it's something the courts weigh carefully.
Better yet, you use a home automation system, and when the phone rings, the Xbox pauses automatically. If phones had more flexibility in their Bluetooth stacks, and/or app developers for consoles added network APIs, an app on your cellphone could simply send a packet to the Xbox to tell it that a phone call has arrived and it should pause, mute, etc. appropriately. Heck, why not just take the phone call through the Kinect's echo-cancelled microphones via Bluetooth?
they deny a core aspect of humanity: we make mistakes

Exactly. Postel's Law is meant to work around that. One might call it being robust (one might also call "accepting the input and doing something sane rather than trying to guess" robust also). There are two holes in it, however: 1) it doesn't encourage people to actually fix their "mistakes", and 2) it encourages exploitation of those who are liberal with their input.

We must be liberal, but not necessarily too liberal, in what we accept. Postel's Law has specific applications. One shouldn't be liberal in their acceptance of tyrants, for example.
You can be breaking the law using pt for font-size
Dolls: Realistic: myintimtoys.com
Or the mozilla dev center, W3Schools has some issues (http://w3fools.com/)
Remote controls and home automation are a space that many a geek has tried to conquer with good code and proper UI design principles. Give it some time; it'll happen. Voice control will have its place, but I'm mostly convinced that, for people with one good hand, well-designed physical interfaces will always be better for most things.
if you like gardner and bryson, you should like ian stewart too
> Just like home taping didn't kill the record industry, and videotapes didn't kill the tv/movie industry, sharing usb sticks or hard drives with your circle of friends isn't going to kill any creative industry either.

I don't believe the internet has yet killed them, either, nor do I think it likely to. Jack Valenti once said that the VCR was like the "Boston strangler" even though they got so much money from tapes back in the day and even more from DVDs and BDs today.
The discussion also tends to be steered away from the taboo, towards nitpicking. The basic argument here is that ipv6 is less desirable than a series of hacks on top of ipv4, but very few people were arguing that. Instead they refused to even admit that possibility and focused on refuting individual elements of the argument. Every single argument of the article could be refuted, and still the basic tenet could be correct. I've read through the discussion and i still don't know whether ipv6 is a good or bad idea.

Anyway, practicality always wins. If the ipv6 proponents can't make the transition succeed soon enough, hacks+ipv4 will win by virtue of being the only practical solution _right now_.
Is there a recommended OpenCV book or website for the experienced hacker whose career focus has not been computer vision who wants to assemble some of those tools into a larger product?
Has Amazon hit the jackpot?
Please don't defend western medicine, or standpoints that western medicine takes - it's a losing proposition.

I've never even been to a chiropractor but I have seen a Reiki master do work that was impossible to do for the best surgeons in an excellent German hospital. What baffles me is how western medicine is able to ignore things that quite obviously and for all to see work, and ridicule them as "quacks".

IMO quacks are the ones prescribing Ritalin to kids to stop them from running around. Those are the quacks.
CTRL + ALT + DEL to Log on to Windows 8
Similarly, I'm still getting e-mails for [username]@[isp] because the username I chose has been used by several prior users, and just happened to be free at the moment I signed up.
Why Kickstarter and not others
You ought to watch the TV before wetting the bed over it. Go to a Best Buy and have a look.

Because as much as you clearly know about film tech more than I do, you seem to be lacking a slight amount of common sense: What's happening there is processing of a digital signal. Specifically, the TV is creating frames for you to create the illusion of smoother video. And what this effect does, is it appears to flatten the shot.

What your slashdot-worthy post overlooks is that you're speaking from your limited knowledge of film. However, in this TV, there's a feature that lets you apply this setting to just half the screen, so you can see them both, side by side, and tweak as you wish.

Just like in life, there's no amount of theoretical education than can make-up for actually being there, for actually having hands-on.

So really, save the hyperbole.
Eh.

Fossil fuels will destroy the biosphere. They regularly and fairly brutally destroy rather large swaths of it (see nigeria/etc.).

Hydroelectric plants destroy parts of the biosphere. They massively damage aquatic life and fish species and they have the rather nasty fact that if they fail they wash away a good portion of whatever is downstream (read: that city.).

Renewables tend to be very energy disperse, require large amounts of energy/land to produce and generally can't provide baseload power except for hydro power.

At the end of the day, there isn't any perfect answer, but all the effort directed at stopping nuclear power research seems very short sighted, seeing as it is currently the best answer to baseload power that we have.
Maybe they mean, dominate like Microsoft in the sense of "use your insane profits to prop up Apple rather than allow them to go out of business entirely, simply to avoid further antitrust scrutiny"?
The Prius using more fuel than the M3 when driven at the same speed - it's still surprising, even though clearly they hammered the Prius while the M3 was puttering behind slowly. A bit of a ridiculous test.

The other thing they said though does make you pause to think, and I quite liked it: Rather than selling your fuel guzzling vehicle now, it's quite possibly much better for the environment if you keep driving it, but drive it slowly. Making a brand new car has a huge environmental impact, so large that the difference in fuel consumption would take a pretty long time to overcome it. In the case of a Prius it's even more complicated as the batteries are particularly environmentally unfriendly - and there's a lot of those in a Hybrid.
That's a neat hack. I once had call to send banking details to a client. It was very annoying - eventually settled on encrypting an emailed zip file and sending password out of band.

This, on the other hand, turns any web developer's SSL cert into their PGP key without their advance cooperation. (They don't have to have one, understand why they need one, or create one and publish the public key. They just have to have an https site, like all my clients already do.) Limited utility, since decrypting is impossible for regular people and larger corps would have that private key locked down like crazy, but a very neat hack. I could actually see myself using it, too, for secure geek-2-geek transmissions.
Reliant Robin show was epic. Only in England.
Apple id seems to implement the proposed solution. They send a verification email but you don't actually have to click the link, you can just ignore it and your account works.

This can turn out bad though. I thought I had an apple-id when buying something on the apple site recently. But my standard passwords didn't work so I reset the password (via an email sent to me personal email address from the password reset sequence). When I logged in I found that my email address was actually registered to someone else, and I had their name, full address, phone number and credit card number but with the first 12 digits X'd out.

The person has a similar name to mine, and my email address is my initials and last name, so I believe they just made a typo in the email address when they signed up. But it seems pretty bad that you can do that without verification when doing so can give someone your personal information.

A motivated scammer could register a bunch of typoed email addresses and try resetting apple-id passwords. Then you have a 1 in 333 chance of buying stuff with their credit card because you have to guess the security code (I'm guessing you get 3 chances but you might get more).
That's not as surprising as you may think. "Truth is not a complete defense against libel".

Imagine I contacted someones workplace and business partners and told them about a drug conviction that occurred 22 years ago. Or if I took a statement you make after a some drinks in the pub and stuck a print out on poles all around your business.

There are cases where suing someone for libel even if what they say is true doesn't seem demonstrably wrong.
Dams aren't impervious to killing lots of people either: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vajont_Dam
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banqiao_Dam

2 incidents in 15 years: 175,000+ killed. Plus they emit methane in huge quantities (from the decay of plant materiel in the reservoir)

I would bet that for New Zealand the best form of energy would be geothermal even though the long-term effect studies around cooling the earth's crust are lacking.
Well, when you're doing a minimum of 256000 calculations per page element, you should expect some slowness (assuming a radius 256 filter requires a 512x512 kernel to process). A less naive implementation of blurring blurs horizontally then vertically, for a rough estimate of 2512w*h calculations, which could still be a lot for a lot of page elements.

I guess what I'm trying to say is this: don't expect to render a ton of large-radius shadows in realtime unless you're rendering with a modern game engine on a fast GPU.
I find keeping the semantics of puts in my working memory to be harmful. The problem is that whereas (for instance) printf(...) is essentially an abbreviation for fprintf(stdout, ...), puts adds a newline whereas fputs does _not_. This is a headache to keep track of.

The result of this is that I always use fputs to write a plain C string to a stdio handle, specifying stdout explicitly and adding newlines if needed, and I ignore puts entirely, much like I ignore gets. The convenience is not worth the subtle error-causing asymmetry and associated mnemonic pain, especially if that code may ever have to write somewhere other than stdout.
Since the RSA algorithm for public/private key algorithm can only encrypt payloads as large as the (public)key, this is the only way to safely encrypt files.

That's why PHP provides the openssl_seal function can do exactly the same (and more) as the given code. (http://php.net/manual/en/function.openssl-seal.php)

When you Google for it there are also implementations for other languages available.
This was submitted yesterday, garnered quite a lot of comments, but is now dead.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2399565

I wonder if people don't think it's entirely appropriate for HN.
that's the sad part
After this, you can understand why people stuck to one platform for the next decade or so.
Make a contract with yourself. Set the times of the day when you shouldn't be screwing around on the internet. Get a program that takes screenshots of what is on your monitor every ten minutes or so. At the end of the day use those screenshots to estimate how much you spent screwing around on the internet inside "work time". For each hour spent, donate $10 (or more) to a hated poltical candiate's run for president. For example, Sarah Palin for President 2012.

If you are giving Sarah more than $100 each week, I think you should seek advice from a professional.
Windows 8 Welcome Screen And Windows Explorer Screenshots Leaked
Ophone (the China Mobile Android fork) sales were about 1/3 million last year, which is less than half a percent of the 70 million Android sales in 2010. They were only aiming for 1 million so even if they hit that target it wouldn't make much difference. Android sales generally are growing fast while Ophone is supposedly a failure because it can't keep up with mainline Android development.

The Canalys numbers only covered smartphones (16.2 for Apple in Q4 2010) so the rest of the figures must have been added by someone else.

And the Schmidt number was over 300,000 daily activations at the start of Q4 (it had jumped around 100,000 in the previous two months and growth appeared to be accelerating). Canalys numbers translate to about 366K per day averaged over Q4. It appears later sales rates must be over 400K to bring that average up to that level.
Excellent post, except the "Don't do other things" part of it.
What PG offered in essay was an advice and not an answer/Theory. Advice - "a proposal for an appropriate course of action". It's just a proposal, not an answer to your situation. a better advice(proposal) of ( "Doing other things to not die" ) can be a better advice in some specific cases(like yours) and does not make PG's advice wrong.

Well written post and Thanks again for sharing your thoughts
KeePass 1.19 released
"Water" sounds like it would include such things as the Banqiao dam.

https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Banqiao_Dam

I'm also not sure that I would take a couple of magazine articles as proof that we can manage all of those at scale. Don't misunderstand, though. I would be very glad to be proven wrong by someone actually implementing these at scale.

It's easy to say "economically" after all and another thing to do it. After all, if power companies can save money doing this, they will.
And here's the Light version:

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(Same palette, just different FG and BG colours)
Certainly one individual will only share with a few of his/her friends, but those friends probably have other friends, etc. After all, we're only six circles of friends away from just about any other person on the planet. With torrenting, the same total numbers of people may be sharing, just in a larger group at once.
> Galvani did experiments on the muscles of frogs in 1791, and proved that electrical impulses could animate movement.

Galvani show us that there is something, but it was only after the invention of telegraph that we understand, that it's information, what's transferred on nerves.
You forget that Steve jobs was running his company when most of us were learning to code.
Just for fun - Complex machinery and little blue balls [auto starting audio]
> GBP 37k

What is that percentile wise?

As an American, I am perpetually shocked at how low UK salaries sound when I hear them, especially given that I know consumer goods are more expensive on your side of the pond. Is it made up for by comparatively lower cost of housing or other essential items or what? Or is there a huge transatlantic income gap that I never really hear about (mostly it's cost of living differences that seem to draw attention)?
Here in the UK, as in much of Europe, prepaid mobile tariffs are very much more popular than in the US. You can buy pretty much any handset sim-free, or slightly subsidised as a prepaid handset locked to a network. Any of our five networks (plus several tenant networks) will offer any of their monthly tariffs at a heavily discounted rate if you don't take a subsidised handset.

An iPhone 4 costs £500 ($800) as a prepaid handset.
Capable Android handsets from the likes of ZTE and Huawei can be bought for less than £100. A mid-range Samsung or HTC handset can be had on an 18-month contract at half the cost of an iPhone.

By global standards, the US market is profoundly weird. There's an effective duopoly, the market accepts carrier lock-in and very high monthly charges, the market still hasn't standardised on GSM and all manner of other things largely unique to the US. American customers are uniquely price insensitive because the market has contrived to conceal the actual cost of both hardware and services through bundling.

Apple might secure a solid market in the US and I'm sure that will be highly lucrative, but for the other 4.6 billion mobile phone users, I think the Microsoft vs Apple analogy is very apt indeed.
I'm a recent (last few months) migrant to the bay area. I have to say, for a city that hates capitalists, San Francisco sure is expensive.

(hmm, maybe there's some causation there?)
Zed Shaw wrote this (https://twitter.com/#!/zedshaw/status/54434747652390912) and then him and Dan Kaminski had a good talk on Twitter about it.
Actually, YouTube seems to do a decent job of linking B to C with its automated infringement scanners.
Our target is USA, but we have a chance to be in Startup Chile program. Help
$40k just to stay 6 months in Chile, then you can leave. They don't ask anything in return. They're trying to push the Chilean entrepreneurship.
www.startupchile.org
But our target is USA market, we want to move to the Bay area, but we don't have resources to do it. I'm asking my self. Can be good be in Startup Chile program, to take mentorship, money to bootstrap, networking and try to raise capital to move to the US after it?
We're Italian. So, in your opinion, it's best to stay here 'cause in any case is not our target market, or move there, and work to have the resources to move next to US?
Thanks
It probably has that many points because there are some interesting discussions going on in the comments.
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> develop nuclear fusion [ as its development has been practically stopped for the fear of proliferation ]

Wait ... what? Are you saying that nuclear fusion (and not fission) poses some kind of proliferation risk? Proliferation of what, exactly? Advanced lasers? Powerful magnets? Hydrogen? Deuterium?? Tritium??? Helium????

Or are there some reasons to worry that the neutron flux from the reaction would be used to activate or otherwise enrich something dangerous that I don't know about?
Symbian OS becomes OpenSource
Symbian OS , Nokia’s popular mobile OS is now opensourced .

Nokia , in its blog post recently accounced that it
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IPv6 has been the future for quite a while (2002), and it will probably remain the future for quite a while because we have good partial solutions:

* The HTTP Host: header means that you don't need a public IP address for every site. Heck, it would even be possible to have a single public IP for a load balancer that redistributes requests to a data center full of servers that serve requests for thousands of sites. If you think this can't be done efficiently, think about these Cnoection: and oCnnection: headers that pop up with load balancers that only rewrite part of the header.

* NAT means that we only have one IP per Internet-connected household, not one per computer or other device. With mounting pressure, mobile operators will increasingly put their users behind NAT and maybe some people in address-starved regions of the world will only be able to get NATted connections from their provider. Software like Skype knows how to get around NAT pretty well, and UPnP works pretty well for other server-like programs that people have.

Which means that 99% of the people will be perfectly happy with multiple-occupancy HTTP service and UPnP/firewall piercing and not care at all whether IPv4 addresses run out or not. The remaining 1% will have to push very hard, and pay a significant fraction of the cost, to get IPv6 off the ground all while the incumbents sit in a corner and watch.
There are too many guys out there who don't take license headers seriously or just don't know what licenses mean.

You are the first one who kept the license header in my code - thank you for that!
Those Apple figures are for calendar Q3, Apple's financial Q4 so you're not comparing the same time period. Apple generally get a big bump in iPad and iPod sales in the christmas quarter.

I'm fairly confident that Android is far enough ahead in smartphones sales (i.e. more than double globally, more than triple in the U.S.) that you can include iPods and they're still ahead and the gap is growing. I'll wait till I see a few quarters of numbers for the Android tablets before I'd be happy assessing how they're doing against iPad sales.

edit: Here's what Apple call their Q1 results, covering Q4 2010:

http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2011/01/18results.html

iPod sales declined 7% year-on-year, the 33 million iOS (pod+pad+phone) number mentioned above which would roughly equal Android smartphone sales last quarter works out if you assume half of all iPods are iPod Touches (I have no idea if that is true, either historically or currently).