skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For larger datasets, such as Logic Pro projects, you can tell exactly which files have been synced so you don't accidentally open up/save and corrupt your projects.
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Every time I tried this, chrome would "oh snap".
Phonetic alphabet seems to be a beast greatly different to what this Dotsie font tries to achieve. Dotsie appears to be about compression, reading speed and more utilization of word-picture association.

Phonetic alphabets are not that great a leap, I think. Hungarian has a mostly phonetic 44-word alphabet, and if there is an advantage in reading/writing speed compared to English, it's rather small. I agree with the "easier teaching" part though.
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You're right about the percentage increase. This is for two reasons - first, because most of the close-range shooting on the ground was done by special forces who're trainined to overcome that resistance. Second, because many of the deaths are from bombs - either shelling from ships at sea, or from aircraft and UAVs. Those last three remove the personal element, and that makes "pushing the button" really easy and guilt-free. We as humans who pride ourselves on empathy can be pretty savage :-(
This prototype always tells me they have no records on me :-/
Sounds like you need to fix some Keychain Access settings. Grasping at Internet straws, but perhaps something like this will help?

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/2108355?start=0&tst...

(Fair warning, I'm presuming the back button of which you speak is a Safari back button. I have not experienced this problem myself and I have full-disk encryption on, which requires you to enter a password for most anything.)
No that's not the problem. This is no different than what game such as World of Warcraft have to deal with, you can't trust the client. The server should be validating the players moves, gear etc.

Sure you can hack the javascript easier than you can a compiled program but that never stopped modders.
@tubbo That’s still possible when the green icons are hidden: no icon means it’s synced successfully.
If you get a message saying WebGL isn't supported in chrome go to chrome://flags/ and enable 'Override software rendering list' and relaunch chrome.
If you have experience with HTML/Javascript you could take a look at Phonegap Build https://build.phonegap.com/ .
How did the author overlook the female construction engineer of PlanGrid (one of my favorite YC startups this batch), or the domain expert (pharmacist) at MedMonk (which is one of the more likely to save lives of the YC batch)?
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sometimes there is.

i.e. there is an intersection by me that has 3 gas stations on it. They used to have identical pricing. Then one station started charging the same amount for credit card transactions as it did for cash(other stations had cc transactions cost 10 cents more per gallon)

result? that station is always packed...there is a line to actually get gas...while the other stations barely have any business.

So it costs them 10 cents out of $3.70 a gallon or 2.7%(you know the actual cost of cc transactions..that every business in the world pays without a second thought) to get market penetration.

And since now the cost of gas is pretty high, they are getting a ton of money, since every fill up gets them $40-80
30% by revenue. This compares to 36% for HP, and so is immaterial.

Apple's desktop sales are growing at 4% year over year. Compared to HP's which are declining
one is important...the other is not
> some issues of monopoly.

What monopoly? Google doesnt remotely have a monopoly on scientific visualisation, and a possible monopoly on search doesnt really overlap with that.

The problem small companies have with Google is Google's _size_, so many of their side projects are bigger than somebody else's entire business. This absolutely doesnt have anything to do with their headstart in search. Whatever project somebody else successfully starts, Google can simply outspend them and reach the goal first, but this isnt specific to Google, you have this problem with any other big solvent company. WA would have the same problem if a producer of toilet tissue with more cash reserves than WA suddenly decided to compete with WA.
I disagree wholeheartedly, this is one of the least biased articles on iOS vs Android I have ever read.

And while I have yet to experience a single app that's not working on my not exactly new Desire Z with stock ROM (2.3.3?) apart from some games that are tabler-only), I do agree on the problem part.

The happy users won't all rate, but the unhappy ones are usually quick to downrate. A frustration I can understand as someone who used a HTC Tattoo with 1.6 for a while.
The iPhone Twitter client TwitterFon was once open source... what happened?
I know OSX does a lot of things right, but focus follows mouse and copy-on-select/paste-on-middle-click are two things that I can't live without.
Are REST APIs susceptible in the same way? Or as long as we don't store our auth token on the client cookie we're ok?
I see.

I have to say I like OS X's behavior much much more. Directing key strokes to a window that my mouse just happens to point to would be very confusing (to me at least).
Not sure why this is getting downvoted. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classical_liberalism
Intuit has a service akin to this, that adds a pay-by-web link to each invoice sent from QuickBooks. Except it costs $0.50.
There is no maximize button in OS X; there's a zoom button. It's used to toggle between a window's "standard" size and position, and a user-defined size and position.

http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#documentation/UserEx...

Your application determines the initial size and position of a window, which is called the standard state. If the user changes a window's size or location by at least 7 points, the new size and location is the called the user state. The user can toggle between the standard state and the user state by clicking the zoom button in the title bar.
Don't go please, I really appreciate your comments and submissions, although I'm really not active here. You're one of the few users that I always read comments from, raganwald also is one.

There's always a histrionic minority that read about some research and always come here bragging about it (ie, mainly about women, blacks or whatever else), this type of people, although mainly libertarian have a real dislike for the individual that is telling of their real beliefs.
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I initially thought that the app was an amusing attempt to point out how creepy fb and 4sq are.
I agree with a lot of what Charlie says here, but on the other hand some of the privacy criticisms he makes about the app and Facebook are equally valid criticisms of walking outside in public: if you can tell what race I am by looking at my picture on Facebook you can also tell what race I am by looking at my face when you see me in person. I feel like that sort of throwing out arguments without considering them detracts from having a meaningful debate about real dangers to privacy that social media can pose.
I'm not sure what's worse, half the nation addicted and dependant on drugs, or half the nation fighting the drugs.
Ouch. If this is true (and I find it a little unlikely, given the lack of corroborating evidence so far), it's gonna be _big._

Props to Cringely if he's breaking something amazing here…
Well, its all based on the idea that people who "illegally" download would have bought the item otherwise. Really not true. Mostly the reason is either convenience or lack of cash to buy in the first place.

I think of all the CD's I bought in the past which turned out to be garbage apart from the two singles released which are the reason for buying the CD. I think of all the DVD's I bought that I watched once. Now I don't have to waste my money. I can down load for free and buy a decent packaged copy if I deem it worthy of my money.

Thing is, I've been stitched up for years by these gits with terrible product, and I was getting back my wasted money. Now I purchase wisely because I can try it out first. I only buy what I personally feel is good product. I delete the garbage.

I suppose the media companies will require lots of their customers to be sued and jailed before any one in politics stands up to them and says, " no, you are wrong. You sales are down because your product is mostly rubbish, and sold in an inconvenient way. People are valuing your product as zero. Where they don't, they buy. "

What the media companies are concerned about is that they are losing the ability to con us with rubbish. What I think is good, is that the sales they now do have are probably better quality sales, and the people who did buy are happier with what they bought.

Said it before, but all that is happening here is that governments are for some reason trying to prop up failing business models. I dont understand why. If it were that the pace of technology threatened a clockwork clock company, then that company would be expected to either move on or go out of business. Some how, no so with the media companies. I assume that its to do with money, political funding and the usual democratic corruption.

Pah, could be wrong, but that's my current thinking.
"The problem is this: all social networks run on the principle that if you're not paying for the product, you are the product."

I wonder what percentage of Facebook/Foursquare/etc users realize this?
The Hypocritical Use of Piracy As a Corporate Weapon
I think one of the reasons is that OS X provides automatic double-buffering of window content at the OS level (it also has a somewhat different drawing model than Windows), which adds a bit of latency but reduces flicker. Another factor is that Mac apps typically adapt themselves to the size of a window, and resizing will trigger a redraw of everything. Apps like Mail have always been really slow at redrawing themselves, whereas Chrome is very fast.

OS X was written from the ground up to be graphics-intensive. From very early on, Quartz, OS X's compositing manager, has been using the GPU to render windows to OpenGL textures, essentially using the graphics card's very fast 3D support to render a 2D screen.

Windows's classic GDI (which has been replaced by Aero, afaik, but I guess most apps are still GDI) is considerably simpler, and leaves the drawing entirely to the application. This is the reason you see a lot more redraw flickering in Windows apps. Some apps are so slow at redrawing that when you resize the window to make it bigger, you can see the new unpainted areas filled with various garbage (or with some default background colour at best) before the actual content comes in. To create smooth, non-flickering widget drawing in Windows you have always been forced to do the double-buffering yourself.

Even in Windows 7 there is a lot of redraw flickering. I'm particularly annoyed about how the mouse cursor tend to flicker randomly -- eg. when Internet Explorer is loading a page -- which is such a small, trivial detail, but one that ends up making the entire OS feel shoddily built.
You can not however, make a database of all the people of a given race that currently live on a X mile radius of some given place by looking at them in person without a lot of time or trouble.
Even more: while holding command key you can click on background windows, or select text in them without them gaining focus.
For OS X I love TotalFinder - better finder.
Your idea would be much more practical for French than Japanese. Even though there are some changes of word order and grammatical forms in Romance languages that don't directly correspond to English, the differences between English and Japanese seem likely to be irreconcilable into any kind of pidgin dialect. On the other hand, there are far more cognates between English and Japanese.
Nah, not that one but that's good too.
You can have both of these in iterm2. There are also copy-on-select plugins for browsers.

Just got my Mac. I am trying to figure out how to efficiently run a Linux virtual machine.
And since now the cost of gas is pretty high, they are getting a ton of money

How much of that do they keep?
There are two key differences between walking outside in public and disclosure on Facebook:

a) In public, observation is reciprocal (that is, you can see who is watching you) -- less universal in these days of CCTV, but traditionally this has generally been the case,

and

b) Public observation is real time and line of sight; FB "observation" may take place days, months or years later by persons you have never had an opportunity to see.

The long term consequences arising from these new constraints are not yet obvious.
I don't know if it makes any difference to you, but some people (at least me) have been down-voting and flagging the obvious troll in this thread.

It is frustrating that people are keen to feed that troll.
That's exactly what http://www.deadmansswitch.net is for.
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Excellent point - what's called for here is a real comparative study, and this new French law is an opportunity for that.

Unfortunately we're going to hear two diametrically opposite views, both "based on the numbers", neither shedding light on the subject.
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How many more years before I get obliterated? I'm going on three and business is continually climbing for iOS development.

The introduction of the iPad was an amazing boom and its adoption rate continues to soar.

I'm not going to sit on my ass and only focus on doing iOS stuff but for at least the next three years it will easily be my bread and butter.
I get the impression that one of the biggest issues was missed. They did not test the standard load against the secondary server, they assigned a machine of lower specs to the task and there's nothing in the future actions that indicates they'll change it... Even if they go for the new and shiny, they can end up in the same situation when their master fails.

I hope they just overlooked that in the blog post, rather than actually not correcting this first.
Heh I know I'm sorry. The LotR fan in me cannot be contained. I'll try harder in the future.
It's just a demo so there's no strange at all, IMHO
This was said about every previous generation of Android tablet. The problem is Apple's execution has been flawless: price, performance, delivery dates, supply, apps, and marketing.

A lot of people are assuming things will play out the way they did in the 80s. Like Apple didn't learn anything. They realize developers, price, supply all those things matter. Which is why I don't believe 2012 will be anything like 1984.
There can be emergent, uncoordinated cooperation between competitors. If two both adopt similar policies of price matching, one can raise prices without consequence and the other will soon follow. It has come up on HN before... google really needs an ability to limit the search to a range of years.
Well, that was the most reasonable response so far, at least you know what you're talking about.

But, they break.

The rails-answer would be "so is life". My answer is: Then fix it, damnit. Not you personally, but the maintainers. We must stop accepting constant wreckage as an inherent property of the rails-ecosystem. It is not inherent. Other systems such as debian APT work pretty flawlessly under significantly more complex conditions (thousands of packages on multiple architectures, for starters).

Isn't rails the one with the 17 different testing frameworks and TDD kool-aid?
How about adding structured tests for the installation procedure, too?

Keeping a ruby/rails installation procedure functional is not rocket science. And in defense of the actors: I do consider the current state-of-the-art (rbenv, bundler) to be fairly close to something that one could call reasonable.

Hint one, two, three

The exact same applies to any installer that you may come up with. It either has to perform the famous 5-steps behind the scenes, or it has to re-invent all the tooling that is only now barely stabilizing (square 1 again, really?).

answer to the question "how can I reliably determine, at any time over the next five years, the latest, least-buggy version of Ruby that is compatible with the version of Rails that I've got installed on my machine?"

That is the wrong question. The correct question is "how do I install a self-contained rails runtime environment on my current machine" (which includes ruby and all core-dependencies).

The current answer is the above script. If the preferred tools change for a platform then update the procedure accordingly. Keep the current procedure in plain view in the documentation (Section 1: Installation).

It's not as hard as you make it out to be, really.
Could this be used to plot more fuel efficient shipping routes?

I know nothing about shipping routes by the way, I'm just speculating.
I don't really like the whole privacy debate.

Should my safety rely mostly on the fact that people don't know anything about me?

I'd rather much prefer the world where me not being stalked relies not on the fact that my potential stalker knows nothing about me, but on the fact that everybody knows everything about my potential stalker.

I think that the world I'd prefer is where the technology currently drags us kicking and screaming.
This is exactly what I was saying last night. There is much MORE information available than this app accesses. This is just one of the first times someone had put a particularly creepy wrapper on it.
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It's also advisable to try and keep the core dataset (which you absolutely depend on) as light as possible.

Split out the heavy stuff on to other servers.

Then have emergency flags in the webapps so you can run them in a low feature mode. If you bake this concept in when you're building the webapps dealing with drama is much less stressful.
I'm using DuckDuckGo since two days now as default everything (since I've read this thread) and my surprise is that I've not switch back to google yet. Hey that's awesome since I'm not specially an early adopter statistically. Btw, I particularly like the insight box.
You are a product to almost everybody who shows you pretty pictures or talks to you not asked. It's nothing unusual.
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I hear you re: code bloat with too much boilerplate.

I stopped using get/set methods years ago in favor of public instance variables. Yeah, I understand the potential problems with kicking encapsulation to the street and into the gutter (I have written several Java books and I have done many projects in Java, so I am not a noob).

I have also started to favor using unchecked exceptions - that also makes code a lot shorter. This is also Controversial.
Thanks for sharing. That actually adds a lot of context to the story.
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The first generation of Android phones was terrible too.

What I hope and expect to happen is that in the next year or two we see real competition in the tablet market. Apple is likely to stay on top at least in the near future but I predict lower cost Android tablets are going to start to exert real pressure on them soon.
1. I've found CarMax to be very fair with regards to selling them vehicles. Process was easy and cash out the door is always nice. I've never purchased from them though. As for Saturn, they're now defunct. That was probably more to do with the quality of their vehicles in the past 5 years than the buying experience.

2. Don't waste time with phone calls. The classic way is dealing via fax, but now it's easier to use email. In my last purchase I knew the model and trim level I wanted, but didn't care about color. I emailed every dealership within a ~1.5 hour trip from my house and told them what I wanted and how much I was offering. I got someone about an hour away to agree. The dealer 15 minutes from my house agreed to the same price after I told them.
congrats. i stopped using google after their last policy change. DDG mostly fits the bill, apart from some special cases.
Yes, essentially the TL;DR: Dont get emotionally involved in the purchase, and know what you can afford, and how much it should cost. You should come out with a fair deal.
How the hell does this have anything to do with the Rwandan genocide (linked in second paragraph)? I agree that this confluence of apps/search/sharing is potentially dangerous, but that kind of hyperbole doesn't help -- especially when it is a non-sequitur.
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In UK digital sales grew by 27% in 2011 alone, and they have no similar laws.

Actually, we do, primarily under the controversial Digital Economy Act that was pushed through just before the last general election.

The laws aren't widely applied yet in the way that they apparently have been in France, but there has been some fairly high profile threatening going on all the same.

In other words, while I'm certainly not equating the situation in the two countries and the seriousness or otherwise of the threat to pirates right now, it's probably not fair to totally discount the effect of anti-piracy rules in the UK either.
If you did not apply, your odds of being accepted would be significantly lower than they are now.
>People are valuing your product as zero. Where they don't, they buy.

No. The popular content is downloaded more. You can jump thru hoops and do backflips but the fact is people don't want to pay. Period. Everything else is justification.
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not much, the profit margin after they pay their bills is about 3-5%
Yes, as you guessed, the problem you're seeing is because the app was developed for a very early version of the Android API. Here's how to fix the app (requires a recompile):

http://developer.android.com/guide/practices/optimizing-for-...

"If your [applications] manifest file has either android:minSdkVersion or android:targetSdkVersion set to "4" or higher, then the Android system will scale your application's layout and assets to fit the current device screen, whether the device screen is smaller or larger than the one for which you originally designed your application. As such, you should always test your application on real or virtual devices with various screen sizes and densities."
EFF should build a MaxCreepOut app just to highlight the situation.
For me, the most important thing is to leave info on any sites/accounts that make me money.

Anything after that, social networks, blogs.. I could care less about. I won't be worrying about that after I die.
Sorry for the repost but I made some edits and wanted to get it up again. I'm learning not to post new items at 12 AM.