skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not entirely convinced that lag is the only problem, but I will say that the mouse problems are the primary reason I sold my current-gen 13" Macbook Pro a month after buying it. It was simply unusable with a mouse.

The reason I'm not convinced is that my old Macbook Pro running Tiger had the exact same issues, but a proprietary mouse drive called USB Overdrive X allowed me to remove the acceleration, and the mouse felt perfect. That driver apparently didn't work in Lion (or Snow Leopard), and every single script/setting/utility I could find for supposedly disabling acceleration didn't change anything except perhaps speed (sensitivity).
Anyone know where this paper is published, the one mentioned in the article for which they were made fun of?
Perhaps not if it can be successfully argued that such damages estimated from the emails would arise out of a boycott action due to predatory legal action?
Poly-fill is the future.

Someone's working on a DOM polyfill at the moment, it's unstable beta but looks promising: https://github.com/Raynos/DOM-shim
For me, the lessons would be:

1. Always question the conventional wisdom. That's what needs to be disrupted.

2. Every great innovation that makes someone famous or rich always involves some guy who's been plugging away for years on his own without any notoriety or wealth (In this case it was Bill James, who invented "sabermetrics" while working as a night watchman).
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> Personally I think it is a case of over sharing.

So what you're saying is that Facebook should be removing something like 90-95% of the photos uploaded to it.
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On the one hand, currently building out some infrastructure, I can see the appeal of this. On the other hand putting another layer between the physical infrastructure and the actual infrastructure seems fraught with risk.

The risk is that generally when something is 'broken' (and by broken I mean say the port on your 48 port switch has decided to auto negotiate 100Mbit always), virtualization systems like these result in 'poor behavior' but not clearly broken behavior in a system. That makes fast diagnosis hard, fast detection hard, and isolation even harder.
Jesus, they were able to find 50 patents through their research. Assuming they are all novel, thats pretty impressive.
You should take a look into event delegation with bubbling, event listeners should be minimal.

http://javascript.info/tutorial/bubbling-and-capturing

http://javascript.info/tutorial/event-delegation
Everyone hates change and would love to go back, until they actually do go back. The status quo is familiar and therefore seems more efficient. It's "muscle memory". The current desktop system is a metaphor that never really played out.

Will Windows 8/Unity/Gnome 3 be better? Who knows. Will be it worse? Probably not. More than likely it will just be "different". Either way, if computing doesn't keep changing and evolving, we're going to be stuck in the barely-functional status quo forever. I'm willing to live through (and learn to love) the rough parts along the way until we reach the best we can possibly do.
No sane corporation should allow itself to become a guinea pig for even-numbered Windows releases. Me (4?) was horrible. XP (5?) was OK. Vista (6?) was a bomb. 7 was OK. 8, meh. 9, maybe the tablet fad will pass by then.

Stick to odd-numbered releases, they're like LTS.
Whatever happened to that "six strikes" P2P notice system? It's coming soon
From a UI standpoint, the site looks nice. Pretty clean.

But I have some misgivings about your business model. Firstly, you claim that you aren't worried about revenue right now. That's not a problem if you're doing this as a hobby, but since you are calling yourself a start-up, you better have some idea on how to monetize it.

Secondly, you appear to be scraping your data. Being in the automotive software business myself, I know that at least Cars.com and AutoTrader expressly prohibit scraping. Furthermore, I know how much they charge per month for their listing data and if you aren't interested in revenue (as you say) then you will have no hope of paying them for it. The data costs are significant. And since you are a quasi-competitor with them (as far as eyeballs go), I seriously doubt that they will see it to you anyway. That leaves scraping, which has no long-term future. They actively deter scrapers. And FWIW, AutoTrader will soon stop selling their data to any providers period. (Their purchase of vAuto makes selling their data to vAuto's competitors a bad idea.)

Finally, the way you "hide" cars is seriously flawed. It works great for commodity items, but not at all for vehicles. There are many factors which impact value. Price and mileage are but two. Installed options and packages are HUGE determinants of price. As is the type of engine, transmission, condition, one-owner status, etc,etc. You've picked two which admittedly make sense at a high-level, but a serious car shopper that knows exactly what he is looking for will simply find this annoying.

Anyway, good luck with your project. It's a great idea and I really do like the UI, but I think you need to take a realistic view of your business model before you invest more time and money into it.
I think it's far bigger than just energy usage/control. In time, more and more devices in the home will become 'connected' in some sense. If Nest can be the first such product that people want in their homes, then I can imagine a whole ecosystem of other devices/services piggy-backing off it.
The authors had previous knowledge of chef. But the aim is not exactly the same. I have used the three, and the fact that pallet is essentially a library helps factor your infrastructure in your application, and thus goes beyond the ability that chef and puppet provides. This become evident when having to express inter-dependencies between spread out pieces of your infrastructure.

Currently this comes with the price of a steeper learning curve, but the benefit is well worth it, as far as I'm concerned.
Hard is quite different to impossible, which is what achompas implied. The beauty of computing is that you are only limited by your imagination. Anyone can accomplish anything they want. You do not need a CS degree to get there – though for some, it might help.

Look, I appreciate your attitude. You have a positive outlook on what you can accomplish, and that's undoubtedly a good thing.

But, to be frank, the skills required to access my example problems above are not trivial. Let's consider the autodidactic route for computer vision:

1. You need to be cozy with linear algebra, convex optimization, calculus, and algorithmic complexity if you even want to understand prior research. This, alone, is 1-2 semesters of course load for a full-time student.

2. Then, you need to survey prior research to gain awareness about what already exists. You'll hit Google Scholar, search for papers, and have to circumvent article paywalls.

3. After that, you'll need to code your own framework (non-trivial) or convince other researchers to share their source code (very non-trivial--almost impossible, given that they might monetize or license their work, or their university owns said license).

4. Then you need to collect data to test your CV algorithm, iterate on it, etc.

Universities overcome all of these barriers. Hence, it is unrealistic to suggest one can produce cutting-edge CV work by themselves (or without university help).
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How is it disrespectful to breastfeed one's child in public? You and others seem to be assuming that's just self-evidently true, but I don't know why that would be.

People say things I consider delusional, ignorant, or offensive all the time. I respect their right to do so, and I don't believe they should "respect" me by keeping their mouths shut. Case in point above.
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It's easy to get frustrated at 1:00am and type a field in as "This software is a huge pile of shit" and forget that it's there. It will always come back to haunt you one day.
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Nicely done.

Now you get to go out there and research every thermostat manufacturer to find out which ones aren't paying a licensing fee to Honeywell for these (and other) patents.
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How can I do this in Lua with coroutines?
Chrome/Snow Leopard here... I can back through all the pages, but when I get to the cover I'm stuck there.
What the Japanese use isn't even UTF-16, it's more often something like EUC-JP which predates Unicode and uses different encodings. Same with EUC-KR in Korea and several different Chinese encodings.
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Awesome resource. Quite jealous of those just starting out. I wish I would have had stuff like this when I first started.
>"except that a recruiter is totally unqualified to assess who can actually match their client's needs"

"How would you rate your ability to harvest Karma from a site such as Hackernews, on a scale of 1 to 5?"

"eh, 3?"

"and reddit?"

"um, 5"
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Terrible move. It doesn't save any space because the taskbar is still there. And most people use wide screens, so there is plenty of room for shortcuts horizontally.
I experienced this dilemma first hand. Thank you very much for explaining it clearly.
Isn't the lack of associativity explicit in prefix notation? Prefix notation doesn't even contain the notion of order of operations. You would convert the infix "2^3^4" to prefix in different ways depending on the associativity of exponentiation:

For left associativity (uncommon):

^ ^ 2 3 4

For right associativity (common):

^ 2 ^ 3 4

Of course, all this is assuming all operators are fixed arity, otherwise you need parentheses no matter what.
Wow — nice to see how responsive your team is!
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Because for the first two decades they were there, they didn't know a lake existed and they weren't drilling.
Exactly! Like so many other things that shouldn't be considered wrong, so many people will say that it's okay if you do it "in the privacy of your own home". And like so many of those other cases, it's a natural reaction to attempt to truly legitimize it if you're one of the people being exiled to the privacy of your own home.

What's also missing from the discussion is what people expect mothers to do in these situations when they're far from home. The alternative might be just a public restroom or a cleaning supplies closet. That's both disgusting and unsafe.
Canonical seem to be playing the long game and tossing things out as they become available. It's like a waiter bringing you your meal as each piece gets done cooking. First he brings the sauce, then he brings the chicken, then he brings your beer, then he brings the beans. It might be a fantastic meal when put together properly, but piecemeal it's just an unappetizing mess.

I have no doubt that Ubuntu 16.04 (or whenever they finish) will be amazing, but in the meantime I really wish they would just wait until they have everything ready.
Is Silverlight on its way out? What will Netflix use?
Finally Samsung Aired Anti-Apple Super Bowl Commercial [video]
I remember watching a documentary a while back on how Hollywood screened and rated TV/film productions. It angered me to see that focus groups consisting mostly of soccer moms controlled our movie rating system & what we see on TV. This is exactly what's wrong with Hollywood and the music industry in America.

Seriously, it amazes me how an industrial complex like Hollywood can collectively make so many dumb mistakes, that would otherwise cripple/kill other industries, and still rake in billions.
I was thinking the same thing. I've tried the Magic Mouse, Logitech Anywhere, and Logitech Marathon all to no avail. I returned them all eventually and now I'm back to the trackpad.

Just from anecdotal evidence from someone who can detect the lag with 3 different mice, it's not there with the trackpad.
Even me is experiencing the FB fatigue. I remember before when I was still new user of FB, I will make sure I will log in everyday, post shout or comments, dutifully take care of my pet and my farm, and post pictures or change profile pic. But nowadays, I can survive without FB in a day or two.

FB has reach the saturation on my part because I cannot see any extra ordinary from its features. They may have added timeline now, but even I have used it, it did not give me any excitement anymore.
I wonder if this is going to bring us back to the days where you need to run a server version of the OS if you want an environment suitable for doing technical work. I can't imagine running this on my dual 30'' setup.
Even in best case scenario, I'm not sure GPS would be accurate enough, as it's only accurate down to few centimeters, you'd probably need more if you'd like to perform that kind of acrobatics as shown in the video. And what about the height? You could of course use GPS, but apparently (http://users.erols.com/dlwilson/gpsvert.htm), average consumer devices have error of few meters. Maybe we could use laser range finders pointed at the ground, but what if the quadcopter tilts? Or what if another quadcopter flies underneath it? Of course it's not unsolvable, but it'd probably require more computing power in the quadcopter.

What do you think?
This is also another boring HN meme akin to "how I learned to program". Normally I wouldn't call out a post like this but I think it's necessary for the health of the community that we don't promote thin content. A simple "Show HN:" would've been better.

Congrats, Patrick.
Bikini pictures are way, way more nude (and prurient) than any breastfeeding picture I've seen, yet that's okay. As long as the subject is attractive, apparently.

Sometimes it really does seem like the alleged cabal of male chauvinists presumed in feminist literature is setting the unconscious standards for our culture. "I can't fap to this - there's a baby on it! That's obscene!"
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Nest is an interesting piece of hardware.

I'm curious what you find so interesting about it. I've had an Ecobee thermostat (http://www.ecobee.com/solutions/home/smart/) for years and have even done silly hacks with it like integrating it with my wireless access point to detect when I'm home (http://jcs.org/ecobee) and making a SiriProxy plugin to be able control it with an iPhone (http://flic.kr/p/aNuGaF).

But even before the Ecobee, programmable and even WiFi-enabled thermostats have been around for many years and they have not gained any significant traction. My dad owns an HVAC company and they've only sold 1 or 2 Ecobee units in the years they've stocked them, with most people just opting for a schedule-based programmable thermostat.

What makes the Nest so much different? Is it just that it's pretty? Right now, their website says it costs $250. For the average person, that's probably at least a few years of energy savings needed to justify that cost.
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> Google India meanwhile has removed web pages deemed offensive to Indian political... leaders

That's the most dangerous part.
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Overall I like it, It can be very usefull for initial mark up where design isn't much inportant. Definitely took a place at my bookmarks.

Only one thing I noticed. I am not sure if it is a bug, but please check this page http://pea.rs/forms/multi-left-labels (and apparently same at http://pea.rs/forms/top-labels)

It has some problems with displaying textarea, at least for me it looks like that: http://i.imgur.com/tJKiG.png

I am using Windows 7 with Firefox 9.0.1
It's obvious the author of the article hasn't learned anything from the digital revolution either, which is strange since they allude to it.

3D printers are in their infancy as others in this thread have stated, but they are starting with an open source ecosystem which only appeared later in programming and digital media. Now anybody can produce music, video and code with free tools using free samples and resources and share their products with the world however they see fit. Likewise people with 3D printers will only be limited by the current state of the open tech and the materials they can afford.

Just like with open source software and creative commons media the established players wont be able to stop the hackers from making. The only question which remains is how important these "hobbyist" trends become to the mainstream.
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No. Free speech is sacred. Without free speech, we are not free.

And the article is serious. These people are serious. They're making headway and we need to see them as a serious threat.
shhh.. logic doesn't belong here when talking about former apple employees / designers / etc.
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I'm getting a "503 Over Quota" error :P

Edit: Not anymore!
This, and the file sorting in Finder (folders not locked to the top) drive me nuts.
I'd switch from Diigo, if we could save page caches.

Many others being held hostage because we can't export our page caches would encourage you.

Screenshots is a good start.
"The perception is high risk because you are going against the status quo, but in reality you are in a low risk senario because you are doing what you love and you see an undervalued asset."

No, it is high-risk. The risk is that the undervalued asset you see may not really be one.

But staying with the status quo is high-risk as well.

Risk is a red herring; people optimize for regret-minimization. There's less regret if you go with the crowd because there's other people to blame -- and regrets are less apparent because everyone suffers together. But if you go against the status quo and your life sucks, you have nobody else to blame, no fellow sufferers.

This isn't a rational thought process. But you have to see the enemy clearly before it can be defeated.
The fact that infix notation removes the need to think about that is a bad thing, because infix notation is inherently ambiguous unless you litter the expression with parentheses or explicitly think about operator precedence and associativity. Infix notation just appears to be easier on the mind, because we're first taught arithmetic using it.
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It doesn't really matter since most document formats already use compression. No matter what encoding you use, the amount of entropy is the same. So UTF-8 usually compresses better than 2-byte encodings for CJK languages. This nearly compensates for the increased size.

Example: The Korean text of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights [1] is 8.1KB in EUC-KR and 11.2KB in UTF-8. When compressed with bzip2, it's only 3.1KB and 3.2KB, respectively. I assume Japanese would behave similarly.

[1] http://www.ohchr.org/EN/UDHR/Pages/Language.aspx?LangID=kkn
I think Hollywood is way to resistant to change. People (consumers) are quick to pick up new technologies to fit their needs. Big corporations can either comply and cater to those needs or force their own model on their customers.

The latter is NEVER the correct decision. Companies exist solely to please customers (which in turn amasses profit and satisfies investors).

Hollywood, you work for us.
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Really?! Which mouse? Even bluetooth?

This could be great news.
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I suppose the off button will be easier to find, since you won't have to know that to turn off you have to click "Start".
Take this case for example. Honeywell would simply throw together a crappy product and sell a couple of hundred of them just so they could put Nest out of business. There needs to be greater reform IMO.
I'm not ready to cry for poor Nest just yet. The company has substantial funding, experienced backers/advisors, and is clearly aware of the patent environment they operate in. Heck, their About page touts how the founder Tony Fadell has authored more than 100 patents. They knew they were entering a well-covered market. If their patent work left them confident that there were OK, then the courts will see if they're right. If they chose to take a chance... this is what can happen.

Like another commenter mentioned, these are the rules of the game in the US. Complain about them and try to get them changed... I'm all for that because I think the rules are hurting innovation. But Nest is no victim here, and Honeywell isn't the devil. I'm more sympathetic to the garage shops that get hammered by big companies, but Nest is far from a garage shop. They knew what they were getting into.
That's because the markup says &lt;textarea id="bio"&gt;&lt;/textarea&gt; instead of <textarea id="bio"></textarea>

It's going to look like that for everyone.
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Laws which retroactively criminalise behaviour are expressly forbidden under Article 7 of the European Convention on Human Rights [1] but merely ex post facto law (which may presumably make something legal retroactively) is merely "frowned upon" in the UK [2], because the doctrine of parliamentary sovereignty (i.e. parliament can do what it likes) takes precedence.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Article_7_of_the_European_Conve...

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ex_post_facto_law#United_Kingdo...
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When I look at things like the Samsung Series 7 Slate, I don't think tablets are a fad. It's a laptop with a portable screen, or a tablet with a dock and a keyboard. It's running a full OS, with real hardware backing it. How many times have I wished I didn't have to undock my laptop and lug the bulky thing over to a coworkers desk to show them something when all I needed was the screen?

Tablets and keyboards are the new laptops.
Verisign cannot do that anymore since they no longer operate a registrar (Network Solutions was spun-off/sold-off).
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Ask HN: Did my post get penalized?
My weekend project, jobpoacher, got a lot of upvotes, which was awesome, but it seems to have just dropped 20 spots in the rankings.

Was I penalized for some reason?
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3557805
1. Anyone can take two semesters worth of time to study the material. This is not exclusive to students.

2. You have to spend the time doing the research no matter who you are. Alternatively, you can ask someone else. Either way, anyone can do it.

3. This is a fair point, but you are allowed to spend money. If it costs money to access that code, so be it. Students are paying for that access too.

4. Again, true of anyone.

But more to the point, who cares how someone achieved their accomplishments? If it was through college, great, if it wasn't, still great. Why are you immediately discounting the person who did something amazing, just because he did it by himself?

Edit: I confused you with another poster. You may not have been judging people on their past. I do agree that people are more likely to do that work in a school setting, but that remains irrelevant when it comes to hiring.
> Honeywell makes damn near every wall thermostat I've ever seen

...and now we have a slightly improved understanding of why that is, since the underlying technology is not highly advanced.