skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You probably don't hear it because Switzerland has a pretty much perpetual coalition:

Since 1959 the four main parties has effectively voluntarily split the federal council between them based on parliamentary representation to rather than risk being left outside government for any length of time.

The distribution of seats follows a formula agreed by those parties, so it's not "news" that the council keeps pretty much the same party composition election after election.

Most other countries don't have any long standing arrangements like that, so the question of who will form the government is always a major subject in advance of elections.
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If you want to do it yourself, 2 sites (from the same underlying company) are: onetruemedia.com and spotmixer.com
The thing where you get to set a widescreen photo at the top of the profile page. Your profile pic is overlay-ed on top of it.
The first thing I have to do when looking at a demo video like this is mute the music so I can actually look at the usability of the interface without the soundtrack trying to tug at my heartstrings.

I find it hard to tell if this is going to be a step in the right direction or not. There are some red flags that go up for me, but it's obviously hard to judge based on descriptions and videos alone.

One of the biggest UX problems with G+ today is the way it handles notifications and conversations. Every event gets a notification, to the point that I rarely see a Google page without some red number in the top right, usually indicating nothing more interesting than "{random user} has added you to their Circles." The signal-to-noise ratio for the notifications is so poor that I've developed notification blindness. I've subconsciously tuned it out, so if someone actually does have something to say to me, I miss it.

Conversations on G+ are also poorly handled today. Because so many things are handled in the notification overlay, they all have to live in a narrow band on the right that is very hard to process visually. Whether in an overlay or on Plus itself, conversations are difficult to follow with their collapsed views and lack of adequate visual cues for the reader's attention.

I'm intrigued by the "Conversation Cards" that are mentioned on the redesign announcement, but the fact that they don't warrant their own demo video leads me to suspect that Google hasn't considered the usability of their conversations to be a top priority.

One last red flag for me is the customizable "navigation ribbon." It's an adage in UX that when you see an interface that asks the user to customize the layout, it means the designers gave up trying to find the right solution themselves. I'm not saying it can never work, but it is a red flag for me here.

I hope the new G+ is a big step forward. I've been wanting to love Google Plus since it first arrived. At least they're devoted to G+, and they're staying hungry.
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The 11" MBA is 1366 x 768, but the 13" MBA is 1440 x 900. The 15" MBP has been 1440 x 900 since 2006 but in 2010 added an upgrade option to 1680 x 1050.

As far as I know, the 11" MBA is the only Mac to ever offer that resolution.
Thanks for your feedback rogerjin. I respect your point of view and agree that it's somewhat immoral, but given that I strongly believe that the person won't realize the project wouldn't it be dumb to reject a great venture purely on moral grounds? And as some people suggested ideas are out there and other people are probably working on a similar project as we speak. In the end if someone else succeeds with this idea wouldn't that person be stealing the idea as well?
I'd sure make a very nice conversation piece. I find the slower one to be really interesting.
They are using OpenStack so OpenStack Swift (same software powering Rackspace Cloud Files)
Looks like it hasn't been rolled out to Apps users yet. I'm on the rapid release option too.
Patches with more than one fix will no longer be tolerated
I'm curious why Google Books isn't involved one way or another in this. I suppose they may be tired of lawsuits involving publishers.
Fibers take care of the "callback pyramid of doom" and makes it easier to write thick logic layers. However, it still would have the fairness and starvation issues that Node has with callbacks. It's still single-threaded and non-preemptive like "stock" node. I wonder how dependent Meteor is on Node? In other words, why Node? Is it for Node module compatibility? If it isn't, I'd love to see Meteor running on something else. I bet this thing would really fly on a lua backend with coroutines. Luvit.io?
That only doubles the size of the attacker's dictionary, though. Instead, I'd say "pick random words and add a few random typos". As long as there aren't too many the typos will be as memorable as the words themselves (more so if you're a spelling pedant like me), and using a variety of typos instead of just one simple transformation increases the search space a lot more.
I recommend less text shadow.
With the obvious difference that gossip rags don't have a financial stake in the stars, starlets, models, semi-celebrities and wannabees on which they're reporting.

While it's simple dreck, it's not so insidiously corrupt like the tech blogs.
> ... would be copying the text into my editor of choice...
reply

Or copy into the address bar.
I'm guessing due to lack of popularity and possibly inclusion in whatever collusion is going on. For most, if you think "eBooks", you think Amazon or iBooks.
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Hm. So life on Earth could have come from some other place!
I've never really seen Google be so offensive. They do sue but in most cases when someone is suing them first.
If all web developers set autocomplete="off" on their CC forms this wouldn't be an issue. But if it were up to me, browsers would refuse to remember numbers that "look like" credit cards and match the checksum. Does autocomplete even trigger on HTTPS forms? Maybe this isn't even that big an issue in the wild.
Stopping autofill of hidden fields is easy and must be done.

To truly fix this bug, though, it would be nice to also stop autofill of technically "visible" fields that are tiny or under another object or otherwise obscured. But that might be orders of magnitude more difficult.
No, but that's not what happened here. You filled out your personal card which will be shared out with everyone you "bump" with. I haven't used the app, but I'd assume this fills some kind of registration function.
I'm glad to see that Apple is showing people that pixel density matters more than resolution alone

What the heck....pray tell me that this is some sort of parody or satire?

Those 42" 1080p screens were "retina" displays before Apple decided to excuse lazy graphical scaling with the title. You are so off base holding Apple as the leader that you must be playing soccer.

EDIT: Downvotes, yet the parent is making such an astonishingly revisionist claim that it should be obliterated purely for such fawning ignorance.
Yeah, seriously. I ditched slashdot and came to HN because slashdot was becoming filled with Apple fanboys and Microsoft shills ("oh look! Apple released a white iPhone!"). The instagram thing was pretty annoying, but at least it didn't stay around long. What I'd really like to find is a technical site with discussions about programming and computer science, preferably with a strong bent towards Linux and other F/OSS. I'd like to find a place with people smarter than me (shouldn't be hard to find) who talk nothing but shop, no gossip, no fluff.
True. The main issue with Android is sporadic latency that still affects GBP600-ish devices (the GC kicking in?), which ChromeOS manages to avoid.
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The question I have is what would be the consequence if the DOJ wins. Does Apple and others involved pay up to the government or compensate the people?

What does usually happen when the government wins in a lawsuit against a private firm?
I'm not saying Facebook is here to stay and has nothing to worry about, but Digg is a pretty poor comparison. What does it take for someone to switch news aggregators? Pretty much nothing. I just need to find another site that has links/discussion I find interesting.

What does it take for someone to switch to another social network? Actually quite a bit. One, I want my friends to be there too. That alone is pretty difficult, and a common complaint with G+.

But I think the real roadblock is probably photos. People love their photos. Can you imagine the work some people would have to do just to move that all to a new network? Some people I know have thousands of photos of themselves, and have posted thousands of photos. That is no small task. It helps keep people tied to Facebook, in my opinion.

Certainly I think Facebook could be usurped, but I don't think it's trivial and it is probably going to require some competitor finding a good way to help someone move their social life (i.e. photos and friends) trivially.
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Bump emailed the guy that used their service. Your stretching the analogy a bit much.
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IF we'd saved all the shuttle booster tanks, plus all the etvs, we'd have some kick-butt orbital city by now. Instead of burning billions in equipment in reentry.

Private enterprise would have found some use for all that investment.
I've always wondered on "my startup is credible because I was on TC"...

Wouldn't actual user count and other metrics be more credible than "I was able to schmooze to some editor"?
It hasn't rolled out to my regular account. I wouldn't worry about it until a week or two has passed.
I nowhere summarily dismiss it. I say that the correlation is not exclusive to Apple owners and is just a reflection of their opinions.

What I dismiss is the claim that this pattern is somehow unique to Apple users commenting on Google vs say Android users commenting on Apple. That's what makes it an ad-hominem.

Do you actually support this claim?
> GPL essentially means your website can't have anything on the client-side which is not GPL compatible.

That's a fairly insane contention. The GPL license document itself would violate that.

> Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies of this license document, but changing it is not allowed.
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This is what I've waiting for. Knockout, backbone, spine et al gave a glimpse of what html frontend development would be in the future. The future is here now. Cool. I'll drink a beer because of this.

EDIT: please... couchdb support for over the top awesomeness.
Yes, but what he said was:

: the set of numbers mod 256 form a field.

Without qualification it seems reasonable to assume the usual operations of addition and multiplication, and not to assume that the integers mod 256 are simply being used as an opaque labelling of the elements of a field such as you describe.

And the labelling is opaque, because while it's obvious what polynomial an integer gets mapped to, the multiplication depends on the particular g.
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With the antitrust cases against Microsoft by the EU I remember them getting a fine. And this fine was paid to the EU.

Any companies that felt they were entitled to compensation had to sue Microsoft and point to the antitrust case.
A world of users seem to disagree with you. Maybe it isn't quite as ridiculous as you hold it to be.
LOL at "Chances of dying in a terrorist attack: 1 in 30 million. Chances of getting cancer from a single TSA scan: 1 in 30 million."

Some of the statistics are kinda iffy/fuzzy at this point, but you can't argue with the thrust of the thing.

Re: Infographics... they are simply static dashboards rearranged into easy-to-read patterns. This one gets bonus points for a few custom graphics.
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I wasn't. I've heard a reference to it elsewhere too. Oh well.
My point was that understanding a certain percentage of the words is very different from understanding the same percentage of the sentences in a book.
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Is there any plausible way an organism could survive an explosion with the power of a million nukes and a million years floating in space?
Engrossed smartphone user vs. Black Bear
>Server rooms have shrunk not just because of the cloud, but because the same amount of work can get done with less machine.

The demand for servers and compute power has increased because of the cloud. Just because server rooms have turned into datacenters does not mean they "shrunk", quite the opposite.
I agree with tjoff; just because a majority of users' screensizes are increasing, doesn't mean we have to keep "upping" the size of our webpages accordingly.

I don't think the guy that just bought a brand-sparkling new 27" cinema display really wants all the websites he visits to now start filling his entire screen -- he bought it to do multiple things at once.

Speaking from experience, I keep all my browsers at around a 1024px viewport and I get frustrated when I visit a site and need to scroll horizontally.

I think the best target size for webpages is still 1024px with 960px^ as its main content area size. The 960px grid is still very strong and useful and there's nothing wrong with it -- I would even go as far as to say that it's a "standard". (http://960.gs).

To me 1024/960 page size is the web's A4/Legal.

^Doesn't have to be 960px obviously...
When islamic extremist terrorism comes back to this country, we will not be physically able to stop them and keep a free first world country. There are a billion ways for anyone with half a brain to go on killing sprees where they take out 100 innocents before the police take care of him.

The islamic extremists are not attacking because it would be suicide to do so. Now they are building a power base in america, when the signal is given for terrorism to resume, a groin pat down by the tsa will not lower the death toll/day at all.
Let's just assume for the sake of argument that tech blogs aren't inherently wrong/evil/corrupt/worthless/etc.

I don't see why this has to be an either-or proposition...absolute number of referrals aren't the only "good thing" to come out of any promotional activity. Isn't it possible that a prominent mention gets you views/usage from people who are in a position to propel you forward?

Ask an investigative journalist: their 10,000 to 20,000 word, 1-year-opus will likely generate fewer page views than the high school basketball playoff recap. But as long as those viewers consist of politico staff members, agency policymakers, and judicial enforcement people...then absolute number of viewers is not the only vital metric.
the marketing wizards dictating design feel consumers want screens with a letterbox presentation, if it's square it's preceived as old, low-def and undesirable.
The old parties need to wisen up and become much more flexible in the way they form coalitions. It would be nice if they got that message from the rise of the Pirate Party.
Depending on my task, I may rotate the 1920x1200 screen in front of me 90° to 1200x1920. I find that much more useful for reading large amounts of text and/or code. The underlying OS supports it, the monitor arm this display is mounted on supports it, yet everyone on the job was remarking simultaneously how odd it was and how useful it seemed as they were shoulder-surfing while I picked through a large code-base. A full-screen Terminal window on this monitor in landscape mode is 270x81, which is just plain silly, but 81x270 in portrait mode is very, very useful.
Please sanitise the commit messages! In case you're wondering, yes that was me who said hello to everyone via a JS alert box.. ;-)
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80 Per Cent of UK Tablet Owners Use Tablet While Watching TV
Device owners in the UK are logging heavy usage for tablets (80 per cent) and smartphones (78 per cent) while watching TV, according to a recent report by Nielson. British daily usage of smartphones or tablets while watching TV rivaled that of the U.S. with nearly a quarter (24 per cent) of those surveyed claiming to use their device several times a day while watching TV.
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Well, I don't know what a "ton of money" is, but there are a number of companies that have collected voter information US-wide and make it available:

http://www.politicalforce.com/ods_tutorial

Of course the same data (better!) is available from the big consumer database vendors as well.
I think the naming convention was lost on them - I'm pronouncing "Orbvt" as "Or-butt".
Possibly. What sort things would you be interested in? I already have a few mixes online that's available to download. HN doesn't appear to have a PM function, but I'm contactable via a number of different IMs / chat networks if you want to discuss this further :)
I started life mostly doing low level stuff - and still do as needed. But, it has been about 4 years since needing to do any assembler (which was for windows mobile). Embedded systems still need some of this.

That said, my day to day life lives more in the realm of scripting/interpreted languages and occasionally diving into C/C++. Even in C++, though, frameworks like Boost make C++ seem higher level than it is.

Today, we see a need for people that can work on Cobol and companies providing Cobol=>Java bridges. I suspect the need for the lower level programmer may occupy a similar nitch in a few years...
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That is correct. In the 32 seconds we took to think of names, couldn't come up with anything that worked with meteors that had a 'u' in it.

Or-butt is the correct pronunciation.

Suggestions welcomed.
I was going to suggest that you add a quick reference, but then I saw that it was on the right. It would be cool if the quick reference had stuff about the [addr] and :jmplabel and PC crash use, but other than that I am highly impressed with this site!
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Ugh.. and then some idiot redirects people to a porn site. I hope it wasn't someone from here after viewing my comment :-(
This guy was a virtual unknown till about a short time back. Billionaire and arguably the richest person of Indian origin in US. Choosing to keep a low profile, but coming out as it was not helping his charity work. Spent 12 years of his life in ashrams in India. And then later on did several Entrepreneurial stints in US.

His story is as inspiring and as crazy as it gets. In this interview he claims to spend 90% of his income on charity. Offers several gems of insights into his thinking. The one comparing the choices of spending money, with the choices of coming down from a roof, for example.

But as Barkha says at the end of the interview, it may be difficult for him to remain anonymous now.
Block storage is like a SAN or Amazon's EBS; Object Storage is like a NAS or Amazon's S3 or Rackspace Cloud Files (Swift).

So they're not using Swift for block storage, unless they've built some clever stuff on top.

OpenStack does include a volume service for block storage, but it can use a number of back-ends.
That hypothesis is known as "Exogenesis". See also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transpermia
So, has anyone actually read the code?

I'd guess that these guys have spent a maximum of one month writing JavaScript. It's a giant mess.

All flash, no substance.
I'm nitpicking, but 7GB in binary doesn't necessarily mean 7GB in source code.
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I for one applaud this effort and always viewed the agency model as anticompetitive, anticonsumer and arguably outright price fixing.

Ebooks have essentially zero printing and distribution costs and, from the publisher's point of view, can't be resold like paper books can. For both of these reasons they should be cheaper. On this point, Jeff Atwood actually makes sense [1].

I know the spiel about pricing having nothing to do with the cost of production, blah blah blah. I don't care. The present situation is stupid and ultimately shortsighted. Only Amazon seems to be interested in creating an ebook market rather than just gouging consumers.

[1]: http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2012/04/books-bits-vs-atoms...
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I'm missing the point. Who wouldn't view source / inspect element to see the real text?
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Minor historical correction: The Goths sacked Rome in 410. 476 marks the date that Odoacer deposed the emperor Romulus Augustulus and didn't claim the throne or try to prop up a different emperor.
It's amazing how segmented the market has become. A few years ago, everyone pretty much had 1024x768 or 1280x1024.

Now, just about all cheap laptops are 1366x768. Everything else is all over the map!
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The reverse of this is actually the interesting part. Give scrambled HTML to the browser, use a font to convert it to human readable text.

Obviously this wouldn't stop anyone willing to put a bit of effort into decoding it, but I bet lyric sites start using this soon.

Edit: Apparently I was confused like several others, but came to the right conclusion anyways.
Could you expand on what you mean? Is there a particular aspect of Javascript you dislike?
Or half-hosted on HP, half hosted on Rackspace's OpenStack product (when it is released), so that you don't need to code to two different APIs.

Or half-hosted on IBM, half-hosted on Internap, half-hosted on Dell public cloud, half-hosted in a private cloud... all with the same OpenStack API.

If you decide you want to run your own hardware (as Zynga did & Justin.TV did when EC2 got too expensive), you just install OpenStack on your hardware - it is open source.

This is why Amazon scrambled to partner with Eucalyptus recently, so that they could have something to point to as an alternative that supports the EC2 API.