skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Chrome for Android has "learned" this lesson too. And you can tell when launching a link with Chrome set as the default browser.

The Chrome UI (Chrome) will load instantly and then it will sit there idly and do nothing and be irresponsive for a few seconds before it wakes up and starts loading the page.

Actually Chrome is pretty slow, but it is deceptively attempting to give the impression that it is fast.

It's gotten on my nerves to the point that I have replaced it with Firefox beta as my new default browser.

I general I oppose tricks like this. They are annoying and counter-intuitive. Most users will probably wonder why the UI which is present on screen is irresponsive, etc. Having a loading-screen or showing that you are not ready is much better than lying.
Yeah, that is cynical. As a consultant, I push open-source software because I like working with it.

This is the first time I've heard someone suggesting that it might be an opportunity to increase their share of spend, but ... you have a good point. However, it's not automatic that reduced software costs result in higher consulting fees. The government might have more money in general to spend on projects, but that's a good thing for everyone.
It might have more to do with the lack of friction from the medium.

We're all trained to write by putting some minimal, but constant effort to move the stylus (pencil, ballpen) against the paper surface. Here, it's just a piece plastic sliding on a glass surface. You have to make a different kind of effort in controlling the stylus, when it moves too easily and has to be stopped or redirected at the right moment. (Learning to ice skate might be a good analogue.)
Ask HN: How to see new comments on a thread
I like to read a comment thread and then come back a few hours later and see what else has been said, but I'm finding it hard to sort through the old comments to see the new ones.

Is there a button I'm not seeing to do this? Or perhaps someone has written a GreaseMonkey script?
It depends on the size of your account, as to whether they say "no thanks" or not.
I'm sure he could put everything back together, but most users will probably be weary of the government keeping a constant watch on the site.
Sounds like someone found Dan Pink's lecture: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6XAPnuFjJc
The negative connotations of the word 'Collusion' puts me off before I even see it.

Looking at it. No one appears to be writing with their hand resting on the iPad. Their hand is either floating or off to the side. Is this because writing isn't very good with your hand resting on the screen?

Its interesting but I feel it still isn't needed. Pen and paper is typically fine. So is typing. This allows you to back up all of your scribbles but beyond that I think pen and paper has the advantage.

How many people need to collaboratively write on the same page of A4 at the same time?

If I need to see multiple pages of notes I either add a sticker to the page to easy flick between them or tear out the page and put pages side by side on the table. Collusion doesn't appear to be able to do this.

If it could automatically convert written notes into typed notes. Maybe that would be cool. I don't know though. I still think a laptop is better in most note taking situations. With my laptop I can take notes, get additional resources and record the audio of whatever I am taking notes from all at the same time. With an iPad I can't.

Replacing a pad of a paper and pen with an iPad, sensor and pen doesn't look like innovation to me.
Let's Not Call It "Computer Science" If We Really Mean "Computer Programming"
In practice any out of order processor worth its salt ought to be able to entirely hide L1 cache latencies.
I'm pretty sure those people believed that Megaupload was guilty prior to the indictments. E.g. if the US served copyright-infringement indictments against ThePirateBay and a bunch of HNers claimed that ThePirateBay was guilty, it would be a stretch to say that their opinions were solely based on the indictments...
But it doesn't make reopening classes bad. You have a choice: you can use a public API or mess with implementation (for example for performance reasons).
The screenshot thing is very disconcerting in HTML webapps: when you click on the app to go back to it, you are shown the screenshot and think you can interact with it, but the webview and app are then (visibly) cleared and reloaded. It looks and feels horrible. I'm not sure if there are ways to improve this with their meta tags.
If you host your own Git repo(s), make sure you have someone on your team that can stop what they're doing at the drop of a dime and fix/tweak the server hosting the repo(s). Hosting it yourself, it will be 100% someone on your teams responsibility.

With Github (which is what we use). It's just there. It works perfectly. We get all the tools that come along with working on GH. We haven't seen one uptime issue since we started with them. They have an entire team to make sure everything is working properly, you do not.
They thought they'd break him, that he'd capitulate and grovel. Take his money, deplete him of resources to fight, and that'd be that. They also counted on New Zealand justice not being any problem to roll over.
Apple spends time on different kinda of specifications.

Instead of listing how much it can compute, they talk about how big it is (x inches by y inches by z inches), relative speed improvements (which aren't useful since the consumer may have no idea how slow or fast the prior one is), lots of specs around the price (price is a specification), what kind of I/O it has (thunderbolt), the processor (just not the Ghz), the graphics part (just not which model, but strangely they list the CPU speed over there -- and of course it's the rated speed for the more expensive model) then some generic statements about which Apple software you can run on it.

But because some people still want to have an idea of what it can compute they still offer

http://www.apple.com/macmini/specs.html

I'm not particularly interested in either device, but it's clear that Google's sales page is almost a copy of Apples page.
Even if the use of open source is used by consulting companies to increase their share of spend, I'd assume that still would increase the likelihood of the UK government benefiting through corporation taxes and income taxes for the people involved vs. license fees. Of course that assumes consulting fees are more likely than license fees to be paid to UK companies.
Honestly, I'd rather programmers know how to _measure_ these numbers than just have them memorized.

I mean, if I told them that their machine had L3 cache now, what would they do find out how that changes things? (This comment is also a shameless plug for the fantastic CS:APP book out of CMU).
Some trust fund kid spouting off, blah blah blah.

Farcebook is of grannies and prole working moms.

Most of farcebook's income is from games. The rest is just the internet with training wheels for morons, just like AOL was a few years ago, and we all know how well that worked out.

The Google glasses thing is beyond stupid. Any fool can stream video from a strap on mini cam hat, have been able to for years. Ever wonder why that has not caught on?

Nice try at topicality and posing as someone in the know.
> I would just love to know what their plan was and how they thought it'd lead to the end of Megaupload.

They arrest they guy, confiscate his property => Megaupload is down. Their job is done.

I am sure they probably sugar-coated it using some superficial motives about starving Hollywood actors and set designers. But in reality it is just pandering to the lobbyist pressure from Hollywood.

US Govt acting immorally and often illegally on behalf of giant corporations shouldn't be a surprise (see United Fruit company http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Fruit_Company).
Why? If he successfully defeats them in court, I don't see how the government would have an 'in' to monitor the site. If they settled, that's another story (especially if the settlement terms were not public).
Well over two hundred French assembly candidates sign free software pact
This is called a wake-initiated lucid dream. It is also possible to become lucid in the middle of a dream.
Google Chrome experiment: Ramayana
Kind of like there's Sphinx fulltext indexing and Sphinx doc generation lib for python and CMU's sphinx speech recognition/generation framework, you have to specify which but google seems ok with them.
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Eyes would probably be the best way to communicate with the outside world, since during dreams you retain full control over their movement.
Well, at roughly $5/bc and only 8 million bitcoins in existence the answer would be "more than all of them".
Igabyte Unveils 'world's lightest' 11.6-inch notebook
Thanks, that's quite the read!
One thing to try (if it's worth it to you) is to get in the habit of checking if you're dreaming, even in waking life. Try to read printed text, or use an electronic device, and really pay attention to whether it works the way you expect. It feels pretty silly to do this when you're awake, until you do it really thinking you're awake and realize you're actually dreaming.

You do need to be quite studious, though-- I've had dreams where I managed to convince myself that that shifting, swirling mass of words and characters probably says something in Russian.

One of my favorites is something I call the "five finger rule." This is a mnemonic for remembering how many fingers you have. Here's how it works: Hold out your hand. Now count your fingers, one at a time. One, two, three, four, five. Five fingers.

Any time you don't get five, you're probably asleep. Obviously this assumes you have five fingers per hand in waking life :)
I can't even figure out what it is/does.

"The Chromebox is a fast, compact home or office device."
That means nothing to me.
If the printing shop actively helped in the photocopying and promoted that they would photocopy textbooks, then they are criminally liable. This is why most copy shops make you sign the stupid copyright form when you ask them to copy stuff for you.

Not saying that's what happened here (haven't read the court materials).
I disagree (mostly). Technical specs do tell you what a device is capable of.

However, putting the specs up front and not under the specs tab (which is strangely almost empty) is poor. The overview should be pushed up to the top and expanded upon a la Apple's products pages.

Even with all the specs, there's one I care about that's not on here, how much can I store on the device? All the USB ports aren't doing me any good if I can't jam my photos or some movies onto it.
While I've had a few "lucid" dreams in my life that I can remember, I'm skeptical of anyone who claims they can do this with some regularity. Don't forget, there's a comparable number of people who claim the ability to "astral travel".

When you wake up in the morning, how can you tell whether you were lucid dreaming or just dreaming that you were lucid dreaming? I don't mean that distinction as a joke; in one case you have conscious control over the dream while in the other case you don't have conscious control but dream that you do.
It'd be nice if it was just "Chromebox" and not "Samsung Chromebox." Seems like a product that could have been decent but got rushed out the door and manipulated by bureaucracy. Google needs to stop letting things like this leak out, it's embarrassing.
New London Underground wi-fi put to the test
The Russians typically landed their recoverable craft in Kazakhstan if I'm not mistaken.
No. But if you immerse yourself in the language, the business and the culture of startups, you can learn enough to give it a shot. There's more to startups that 'tech' -- basic business skills are seemingly underrated by so-called technical people. The question should never be 'can we build it', but 'can we sell it'. A startup is a business, designed to make money. Building something with no business plan can be cool and useful, but a project doesn't become a startup until the project turns into a product -- which is something that makes money.
While that is a valid solution to the problem, it is also tippy-toing around why the problem is there in the first place. And that is what I was curious about.
The bigger, the worse. More liability.
I'm working on a Video Player as a service. Basically you host the video files yourself in your server/s3/cdn whatever. And you get a player with many features like captions,stats (maybe realtime), VAST2.0 ads, playlists, multi playlists and many more. Anyone like what you read?
3rd Gen iPad Approved for Sale in China
They just have to make something like a proof-of-concept. That's a far cry from shipping a product / selling a service, let alone starting a company from scratch do it. Also, it's riskless, since they're getting paid whether the product works out or not.
Open source rubymotion apps
"You know Fred, if that software has a bug that messes up reentry, we don't get the $1.6bn......"
Legally, yes, sometimes the source of the copying is in fact criminally culpable (the print shop), but usually only if they understood what was going on.

If a print shop in Los Angeles were to serve a high volume of student customers, and the print shop knew they were breaking the law by making copies of textbooks and selling them, the print shop would have a massive liability over its head. It would require proving that the print shop knew what the students were doing.
http://xkcd.com/269/
Is Intant-on really a feature now that suspension works reasonably well?
> I live in the American Gardens Building on W. 81st Street on the 11th floor. My name is Patrick Bateman. I'm 27 years old. I believe in taking care of myself and a balanced diet and rigorous exercise routine. In the morning if my face is a little puffy I'll put on an ice pack while doing stomach crunches. I can do 1000 now. After I remove the ice pack I use a deep pore cleanser lotion. In the shower I use a water activated gel cleanser, then a honey almond body scrub, and on the face an exfoliating gel scrub. Then I apply an herb-mint facial mask which I leave on for 10 minutes while I prepare the rest of my routine. I always use an after shave lotion with little or no alcohol, because alcohol dries your face out and makes you look older. Then moisturizer, then an anti-aging eye balm followed by a final moisturizing protective lotion.
Google Project Glass tentative release date: Sometime in 2013
The cost to produce is irrelevant. If I have a product that costs $0.01 to produce and I can sell it for $10, then good for me; no one is obligated to pay that however. The marginal cost of broadband is very low, but there are very high fixed costs.
China's dynamic app industry lures foreign entrepreneurs
Similar story.

I once worked in a company where one of the teams was working on a large database indexing routine for a client.

The whole thing took a couple of seconds to run, even with a live data set, which was perceived by the account manager as "too fast" - basically not worth the amount the customer was paying as it was seen as doing too little, so a 30 second delay was implemented in the routine. Did nothing, just waited 30 seconds. Account manager happy, software delivered, client happy.

A couple of years later one of the team, now a contractor was asked to help the client optimise the system as with the increased data volumes the indexing routine was now taking closer to a minute to run.

I don't even want to think what he charged them for the 30 second performance improvement he managed...
This may be a storm in a teacup. 3D printing doesn't make sense for mass manufacturing, nor in the possible future lest for at least one order of magnitude increase in speed and cost of raw materials. We're still talking of hours to build a small figurine and $50/kg in material prices. If we move out of plastic and into metal, the process is again 100 times slower (or very energy intensive) and the machines are priced in multiples of $100K.
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I don't know what you're running on all those VM's but I very rarely have more than one or two cpu's utilized at once even though I have some VM's running.

Sure, a lot of cores doesn't hurt, but usually they don't help either.
What do you mean when you say that "what Megaupload was doing was illegal"? In a civilized world, before there can be punishment for a crime, the crime must be proven. A hunch of illegal activity is not enough. That's the difference between the rule of law and a lynch mob. The government must actually prove that the law was violated. And even before the government is allowed to inconvenience a defendant by search or seizure, the government must have evidence that gives a neutral judge probable cause that a crime has been been committed by the suspect. When government doesn't follow the rules and just uses its enormous power to persecute, then it's the government that is the criminal actor, a much more dangerous criminal actor than any private one. People should be outraged when government actors abuse their power and the abusers should be severely punished. Liberty is too important to tolerate people in government who act lawlessly.
Lets face it the technical specs are needed because you are just going to hack this baby and turn it into a media server or something.
First, using the term "viral" is flame bait. You're just going to start arguments that way.

And yes: you're correct that the official interpretation of the kernel license does not treat userspace programs as derived works. So merely running something in userspace does not require releasing that the code be licensed under GPL-compatible terms.

Note that there's a lot more GPL software than the kernel that you will need to package, however. The kernel is merely the biggest single piece.
A fine example of a headline editor stating one thing ("morass!") and the author stating another ("probably no morass right now, but in a corrupt congress, that could change.")
Your story brought tears in my eyes. Thanks for sharing with us all. Surely someone or the other will benefit from your findings. Also, salute to your patience, and the hope that kept you on. I have never been outside India, but if I ever came to US, I will surely meet you.
If you view 3D printing as a baby-step to Trek-like replicator technology^, then you may see that its more of a moral imperative that 3D printing technology become as cheap and elaborate as possible, as quickly as possible.

The only bottleneck to providing material objects for free or next to free should be in finding raw materials that can be printed out, and as a start, there's lots of that filling up the world's landfills.

Where sharing music and movies was pretty much zero real gain for file-sharers (you can live without the latest Lady Gaga album or Transformer movie), having access to super cheap working replicas of things like refrigerators, water purifiers, clothing, house-building materials, etc., can dramatically affect countless lives, especially in developing countries.

The rug absolutely must be pulled out from under the feet of the manner in which material objects are created and distributed, hopefully diminishing the number of have-nots in the world.

^ Not necessarily real energy->matter conversion, but something nearly as cheap and elaborate.
I spent some time in college thinking about/wanting to lucid dream. The techniques that I came to use were using a digital watch that I looked at frequently, and making a habit of turning on and off lights.

The idea is that in a dream, looking at a watch won't reveal a time; and turning off a light switch won't turn off the light. So you train yourself to do these things habitually with the idea that eventually you will do it in your dream, and have the knowledge that when something funny happens, you will know you are dreaming.

I was also advised to have in mind the things I wanted to do when I became lucid. I wanted to fly. So with that in mind, I got a cheap digital watch and started flickign on and off light switches.

It was a couple weeks later when I had my first lucid dream; I looked at my watch while at some type of fair; and noticed it was weird looking; which gave me this sort of poof aha moment where I realized I was in a dream. Then I remembered I wanted to fly, so I made myself "fly" which this particular time ended up being me going straight up like I was on a very fast space elevator.

I had my second, much nicer only a couple nights later.

Since then I stopped putting any effort into it, but I have been a lucid dreamer pretty often ever since.

Very few of my dreams do I conciously take control, but the vast majority of them I am what I have come to call/think of as 'semi-lucid'. That is, part of the story line of the dream is that I am dreaming, it's essentially built into the plot, but I am still just a passive observer.

The most common exception to this is when I want to wake up from a dream because I have gotten myself into a shotty situation, so I will climb to the top of a building and jump off or do something else drastic to wake myself up.

Recently, I have had more and more double-layer dreams, or inception-esque dreams. Where I wake up from a dream, always semi-lucid, usually by my own will as I described above; only to go about being in another dream still.

Usually when truly wake from these I feel similar to how I do after coming out of a long meditation session. Uber uber focused; like my brain is on super drive and reality is crystal clear.

Anyway, I recommend learning to lucid dream to everyone. Especially with apps as it probably makes it even easier for the right people; but I had plenty of luck like I said by just checking my wrist watch.

The only true benefit other than the 'fun' factor is that I basically never have nightmares; as anything that is scary/bad is always met with a sense of lightness or calm, since my dream character knows he is dreaming.
Anti-Censorship Tool Used in Syria and Iran Compromised
No, you go after the paper and ink companies. While we are at it, go after the ISP, sorry, highways authorities. After all the road facilitated your ability to photocopy. How about the electricity supplier?

The world has gone utterly mad.
All but a few of those are sleeping, waiting for some
event to wake them up. Your mac laptop would soon
run out of battery and the fan would be screaming all the time if there were 100 processes just
spinning around all the time.
I practiced becoming lucid in dreams. This was a about five years ago. I was able to do it on a regular basis. I loved it. One of the greatest benefits was solving my 'day' problems in my sleep. Of course, it was fun and surreal.

One of the side effects was sleep paralysis. Eventually, I realized my energy level was dropping. Lucid dreaming was taking my rest away. I stopped. I prefer to let my body sleep normally now.
As an American citizen, I hope the rest of the world realizes that there are plenty of those of us here that are thankful when other countries' justice systems push back. We need a lot more of that, we need help to restrain our government and get it back to operating within a moral boundary. International push-back and isolation would help do that. I think the US Government's reach and power has mostly gone beyond the ability of Americans to restrict, and most Americans are willfully asleep at the wheel (thus our skyrocketing prescription drug abuse, Americans are numbing themselves). It might take a global concerted effort to lock the monster down (keeping in mind the monster has a $4 trillion budget, larger than the size of Germany's entire economy).

They might continue to still go all crazy police state on us anyway, but standing up to bullies is important.