skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It would be fitting, considering slashdot was named such as a pun from the days when you needed to type http://slashdot.com. When you told someone out loud how to get to the site, it came across as http colon slash slash slash dot dot com. They could renew the joke with http colon slash slash slash dot dot dot.
from http://www.w3.org/TR/css-variables/

:root {
var-header-color: #06c;
}

h1 { background-color: var(header-color); }

looks slightly hacky, but better than nothing at all I suppose...
They're also looking at indoor cameras on private property, which were the majority of cameras in the final number.
Just guessing: Maybe the .apple won't be used for the root apple site, but could be useful for microsites like ipad.apple or icloud.apple? Or, heck, they could have just applied lest some cybersquatter gets hold of that TLD.
Very nice. I cant wait to use this feature.

Putting color codes in one variable will help a lot.
When was the last time you replaced anything yourself in your TV/Car/Other high priced item? If non-user serviceable parts are a consequence of ever increasing technology, then I'll happily accept that.
Me too. Juvia is the closest I've seen: https://github.com/phusion/juvia
A Skeptic's CoffeeScript Experience
3-D Secure – The Necessary “Evil”
Bitrig (fork of OpenBSD)
These days, I purchase laptops with a life expectancy of around 2-3 years. By then, the tech will have advanced to far that I'll want a new one anyway, and prices are dropping to the point where I can justify spending $1000-1500 on a device I use 10 hours or more a day, and for my primary source of income.

These days, if I wanted more RAM, I'd just buy a new machine.
I've never used Disqus, and I guess this might be off topic, but...

Do they let you export the comments people leave on your website so you can easily switch to another commenting platform?
I think you need to quantify a lot, as in "a lot of pros need ethernet". I work in a university and I see a lot of laptops and I don't think I've ever seen anyone plug in the ethernet except for very specific situations like LAN parties or DC++ (since people are charged per GB for wireless data over a certain monthly cap). I also work in the entrepreneurial business environment and most people have MBA, netbooks, iPads and other similar devices. It would be interesting to have other technicians opinions on this though.

In the case of the hotel room, yes that is sometimes the case... then again, I guess that is what the adaptors are for. It is the same reason that laptops no longer have 56k modems built in - it simply isn't that common these days. Ethernet on laptops isn't that useful anymore. Wireless is the default.

The challenge in any technology is to balance the realities of the world with the vision for the future. This laptop is clearly designed with the future in mind.
I'm in a game of Civ V now and experienced the exact same thing you described.

Playing as India and going for a few big cities and a mass cultural strategy, but I keep getting dragged into a war with the civ to the south. Keeps backstabbing me, attacking, losing most of his units, giving me the bank for peace and 5 turns later repeating the whole thing.

Problem is, I just can't support a military large enough to defeat the civ outright - so I'm now just building a line of forts along my border and leaving my army there. Waste of money, but I have no other choice.

Frustrating, but I appreciate that I'm being forced into do something I don't want to do rather then blindly following my preferred strategy to an easy victory.
HSA Foundation
... while it's under warranty. Pay through the nose when it's not because it can't be serviced anywhere else. Simply put, would you buy a car that once beyond the warranty had to have brakes, tires, battery, air filter, and spark plugs replaced ONLY at the dealership with parts at factory cost? In addition if any part broke on the engine you would have to replace the entire engine. It's not that much different.

I would expect for that price a lot of people would like their MacBook to outlast the warranty with an option to fix it at a reasonable price. I can guarantee if the RAM fails they will replace the MB, and they won't do that for the price of the RAM chips.

The bigger problem to me is that the general consumer is unaware of these 'gotchas' until it's too late. That's where I have a problem with it. Have had to inform a few friends with Apple products that no, as much as I wanted to I could not help fix their notebook like I used to with their PCs.
TLDR: X.509 certificate collision attack where the uptime of the signing server appears to have been guessed successfully to an accuracy of 1 millisecond (!)

Some further technical details:

Dump of the full certificate chain: http://blog.didierstevens.com/2012/06/06/flame-authenticode-...

Technical analysis and information about the certificate from Microsoft (MSRC): https://blogs.technet.com/b/srd/archive/2012/06/06/more-info...

Discussion on the cryptography@randombit.net mailing list: http://www.mail-archive.com/cryptography@randombit.net/msg02...
Then why complain? Apple makes a machine that you think is hard to recycle (and some of the things you think are hard include a special screw--I bet that isn't very hard for Apple) and at the same time covers the full cost of recycling it. Who cares if they have to spend another 10 minutes, it's their problem.
AMD adds ARM processor as it looks beyond x86
no .exe ?
Readability will no longer accept reader fees
How to Identify Project Risks
No one is holding a gun to your head forcing you to buy this computer.

For some people (some being the vast majority of MBP users) this design actually makes a lot of sense.
I'd argue all of those areas you list are far more likely to be improved over the course of a lifetime than sheer intelligence. Pure intellect is pretty much set at birth, or at the least the ability to improve it isn't statistically significant. I'd argue that genetic dice roll and environmental dice roll are quite different things as well. You have FAR more ability to change your environmental situation than your genetic one. Does everyone have an equal chance to alter their environment? No, but who said life is fair?
Today's Fad: Global warming
It is a system of equations:

1) bat + ball = 1.10

2) bat = ball + 1

via substitution...

1) ball + 1 + ball = 1.10

1) 2ball = 0.10

1) ball = 0.05

again via substitution...

2) bat = 0.05 + 1

2) bat = 1.05

easy peazy
I use Flashblock and Do Not Track, one of those messes with Disqus and I never see discussions either.
I agree with you it's a big deal, but it's also out of the price range of most of their customers -- until the new design trickles down in a year or two, like it did for the Air. This is the part of the product cycle where you make a product just for wealthy or fanatical people while you figure out how to scale. So their marketing strategy is probably as much about selling the other 5/6 of their product line that people can afford. "Retina Display" is enough to get people's attention -- no reason to also emphasize that the rest of the product line is using an old design that's on the way out.

Just another factor to think about when you decide what and how much to trumpet ...
And what am I supposed to do if I don't want to spend $2200 on a computer that only lasts me two years? My laptops usually last me 3-4 years, at least, after a hard drive and RAM upgrade, as well as a new battery.
Fast Chat: How the Obama Campaign Is Quietly Mining Your Data
Ghandi always goes for the nukes though. I'm convinced this is an in joke added by the developers of the game to mess with us. Ghandi is one of the most agressive AIs if he views you as a threat.
ParAccel Lifts Hood on CARFAX Overhaul
I recently discovered Less (http://lesscss.org/), a CSS preprocessor that adds support for variables and many other features, like nested rules and mixins.

Using Less has been one of the most profound upgrades in my use of programming techniques in quite a while. Hopefully browsers will eventually support even more Less-like features.
I think the simplest argument against people who propose "nothing to hide" is to say, "I have nothing to hide, I just don't trust those morons to keep my data safe and secure."

I used to work in the education sector, and we had access to "anonymised" data. I was able to determine my own National Insurance number using only my address as I'd done an HND a few years before. Basically, anonymising meant removing the first and last name fields only! This was working for a private sector firm that was given the data by the government. I was also on only £10k/year and so presumably a vulnerable target for corruption. And this wasn't even one of the more "secure" datasets we had access to.

How many others are there like me out there with access to your data?
Snopes debunks old C++ hoax, but Bjarne Stroustrup doesn’t think it'll help
BigML is now Optimized for IE9
Late to this discussion.

Here is my take.

From the consultant's perspective. Bill hourly means more time spent on bookkeeping and less time spent on actual development. Say, you spent 8 hours in a day, you need to put 5 minutes per hour for bookkeeping. In total, that's 40minutes of unproductive time. If you bill daily, you can spend maybe 20 minutes doing so. That's 20minutes more saved for coding. If bill hourly implies more multitasking switching among multiple projects, the context-switching time can easily to add 10minutes per hour wasted. That's why it's more cost-effective for the customer if they agree on bill daily.

However, the customer may have different opinion. If a project needs 12hours to implement, bill daily means they have to overpay extra 4hours (2days = 16hours, assume 8hours per day), which they don't like.

A geeky analogy. When you initialize a hard drive partition with file system, you need to slice it into a large number of blocks. Smaller block size such as 4KB is more space-efficient than bigger ones such as 64KB. However, it's less efficient in terms of throughput. Of course, it depends on the pattern of your file usage. If most of the files are small files, small block works perfect without performance penalty. If most are big multimedia files, then big block size is preferred. You can easily map this to the case of consulting gigs.

So, it's more like a psychological thing. Bill daily encourages bigger projects, better project planning, less turn-over, and may lead to better results, which consequently cultivates long-term relationship.
New Developer Features in the Chrome Web Store
Yes, IIRC it's one of their big selling points. You can easily get your data out and use it for whatever you want. For example I believe many Jekyll blogs use Disqus for comments and periodically grab all the comments then write them into the html so that google will spider the comment section.
Depends on the company.

I don't imagine you'll be able to buy ipad.apple, but I don't see why google wouldn't start selling *.foo.
ars: can you back up that claim? What about the description makes you think it is not a heat pump? Such a thing is possible and exists: energy in results in energy (i.e. heat) transfer from one location to another, against an energy gradient.

From the description given in the article, it seems that the energy input is simply being used to move energy from one location to another – it just so happens that the energy is sourced as heat, and is deposited as light. This is really not much different from a heat pump, so I see no reason it can't move heat up a gradient.
That is the result of a environmental/social dice roll. Not even close to the same thing.
Is T.V. Doomed? Well, it Depends.
I'm the wrong person to ask that question to. I repair everything from clothes, through computers, through cars to televisions.

There need to be more wrong people to ask that question to.
Why selling your app outright may be your best option to make money in mobile
It's nowhere near as nice as the sass/scss/less syntax for css variables.
Bad RESTful API Design
The open source movement isn't. The "proprietary software is ok so long as not much is at stake and you weren't likely to tinker with it anyway" idea is.
I don't think its intended to teach algebra independently. The article addresses the roles of teachers in potentially using this in classes, to "teach the whys of algebra". And this applies to both the whys of the rules, and the possible real world applications.

I think the main reasons that people are turned off of algebra are that they think it is hard and it is boring. An thats the hurdle that must be jumped. This gets around both of those problems. They learn it without realizing that they are learning it. And once they know the rules, it is relatively simple to show how this fun game that they just learned actually has real world applications.

I might have been a massively nerdy little kid, but I remember learning the basics of algebra back in the 6th grade and doing problems and thinking how FUN it was. I didn't get how most kids in my class didn't think that this was a new exciting puzzle. Its exciting to see something that manages to put that sense of fun back into math.
I'm not sure what would make you uneasy about that, almost all infant learning happens this way. The education system we understand is a trade off of educating the masses vs cost, nothing about the education system that we went through was determined to be the best system for everyone (thus you could argue, for anyone though obviously some do excel) and there is no real basis to believe that initially abstracting the pedagogical outcome of a topic from learning the underlying mechanics would have any detrimental effect on the learners long-term understanding.

If you extend this concept out you could very well have large impact in the adult learning sector, where often the students have grown to develop a bias towards certain subjects or areas (math especially) which makes them quite difficult to engage. The barriers could potentially be reduced using the same abstraction mechanic.
The new Macbook isn't $1000-1500, its $2200+.

>These days, if I wanted more RAM, I'd just buy a new machine.

Seems like a waste of money for something that's an easy $100 upgrade on pretty much every other computer in use today.
Row vs. Set Processing
Also known as "the hype cycle", which ironically itself has gone through being popular to being temporarily obscure.
Disagree strongly. It's not useful as an entire stand-alone, but having a friendly environment that doesn't let you screw up to badly is a great way to start learning by doing. There is a good feedback loop here where getting stuck with what you're doing or not being able to move those skills onto paper or into real world problems ends up motivating learning. The point is to be a tool supported by other resources not to replace all of classroom learning.
Your assumptions are completely wrong, and it only shows that Apple target customers are not really doing any kind of serious computing.

This is true. I for one do all my computing with a goofy grin on my face, while riding a unicycle.

In all seriousness, this product will be perfect for me. The lower weight will help with my unicycling, and the 4-core i7 will look great with my butterfly wings.
Cvent Acquires Seed Labs for $4.2M to Bolster Consumer and Mobile Event Apps
Oh jeez, that's going to be really cumbersome to write.

edit: I think I'll stick to PHP variables in my CSS for now:

<?=$color1?>
What, no cscope? I am disappointed. There is no better way to navigate a C/C++-based project, imho ..
What is Ipe Roxo, Lapacho, Taheebo Tea?
Google's Nexus 7 Tablet For $250 To Release Late June ~ Softview
Nice. I've worked for a couple too.
Now I'm a 9-year-company CEO (16 months), startup co-founder (1 year) and consultant for a startup (4 months).

Good look on your startup, I understand your goal to be respectful, but don't be too strict... after all, you hate rules.
Ask HN: deciding to join startup or not?
How do you guys decide if you should join a project with friends and acquaintances that might turn into a startup? Are there any MUST requirements you have?

I find myself in this situation right now. A good friend and an acquaintance of him have spent a couple of weeks hashing out their idea (recruiting business, nothing hi-tech) and recently asked if I wanted to join them. There are, however, several things that bother me with their business idea and planning (business model, the fact that all of us would also be studying or working full time, tight launch schedule). I tried to address these things during our (first) meeting but felt they didn't see these things as potential problems. Also, such a short meeting makes it very difficult to properly assess the strengths/weaknesses of the idea. Everything is still on the idea stage but I've grown accustomed to thinking in terms of lean and customer development that deviations from these approaches seem lacking. So I'm unsure about this one.
I used to work for a company whose domain name resembled: somethingcomm.com

Giving your email address over the phone took an hour.
two letter tld's are reserved for countries, so only 3+ are allowed indeed.
Conversation with CloudSigma
Both Amazon and Google applied for .dev.

Sorry Pow users!
If you like Less, you should try Sass/SCSS (http://sass-lang.com/) - same idea, but a little more powerful. Here's a good head-to-head: http://css-tricks.com/sass-vs-less/
Accept that you may not be the target market?
.local is the default 'local domain' in most routers, it couldn't be used reliably as a tld. These queries are probably just routed by mistake/buggy software.
Many of the French universities have incubators, for some you do not need to be a current student but have a graduate or alumni in the founding team (for example, the Sciences Po incubator is like this.)

LeCamping is actually an accelerator, not an incubator.

The région IDF and Paris Développement also have an incubator, I think Paris Incubateurs is the name.

But if you are simply looking for mentoring and not necessarily a work space, you may also want to look into the Founder Institute program, which gives you access to mentoring and a great network through their weekly sessions.
Show HN: Selector.js
I suspect that that he's talking more about the update to the 3G that rendered the phone almost unusably slow for a substantial proportion of users. Unfortunately they never did bother to fix it.
No they aren't¹.

(1) 95% of statistics are made up.

I'm sure Apple, who actually sell the machines, and collect statistics, know what their users are after.
Yep, AnandTech did a review analyzing the SSD connector from the Air. Check it out: http://www.anandtech.com/show/5854/asus-zenbook-ssd-and-appl...
Exactly. Building on jgrahamc's comment - it's the future laws enacted that have cause for concern. At which point will the legal suddenly become illegal and precedence is set?
Your 80 million number is presidents / population and includes 2 week old baby's.

Also, 10 presidents did not graduate from collage. Including George Washington and Abraham Lincoln.
> Your assumptions are completely wrong, and it only shows that Apple target customers are not really doing any kind of serious computing.

The elitism here is just disgusting.

I suppose all the graphic designers, photographers, programmers, and even just plain old novice users who love Apple products should just pack their bags and go back to pencils and paper. After all, if they're not doing any kind of serious computing, we really ought not cater to their needs, wants, or desires.

Computers are obviously only for people running batch processes with 95%+ CPU and I/O utilization.
It wouldn't be quite such a big problem, since well-behaved clients should attempt to use 'home.company.com' before the root 'home'.
Regardless of what is possible or allowed by RFCs, that behaviour should discourage TLD holders from trying to use a naked 'home', since a lot of users wouldn't be able to access it.
Why would I run any serious computation on a glorified iPad? I have a MacBook Air and it's great for its purpose: a very light, very portable, thin terminal. Running anything that is seriously bounded by CPU or I/O would be silly.
Any idea on when we can expect to see this implemented in Chrome or Safari?
Tweeting Alone: Why Social Media Is Not A Substitute For Civic Engagement
Great one! Just wanna say though there might be lots of online shopping sites already, girls like shopping right?, and online shopping is still a huge market because there are still many more who don't know online shopping yet (lol, really? Yes), so it's great that you come up a model like this which girls would like I think. May I ask you what is your revenue model going to be?
Mark Cuban puts $500,000 into immersive video startup, ConditionOne
3. you can get from the API. We used it for following HN users. Your user page would be:
http://www.nou.nl/hn/user/anujkk
> But I've never heard of a domain with a default.

www is the default, he's not talking about software.
Interesting! What's this webservice?
It's even worse than that. Camden Council (in northern London) where I live has "CCTV vehicles", which drive the streets recording what goes on around them (imagine a Google maps car). A more creepily fascist thing I've not yet seen.

Link to a picture: http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2469622
Would they go to jail? Police ignore trivial laws like those against jaywalking all the time. I remember as a kid riding back from a Boy Scout event and with a cop driving and him describing which laws every vehicle we passed were breaking. Not that he'd ever pull them over for those normally - unless he had a hunch that they were carrying drugs or something.

If crimes as minor as decrypting a DVD were actually prosecuted then it wouldn't be a lot of people going to jail. It would be everybody. Including all the cops and judges. Which is never going to happen.

The real danger here is selective enforcement of laws, and the selective enforcement of laws. Well, we have the later already (see "Professional Courtesy") but the former gets much more dangerous to the extent that police officers can control which videos do or do not end up at a courtroom. If a lawyer can show that the police are regularly ignoring an offense in other contexts that can be a defense in the US, but in practice the US justice system does a very bad job of getting exculpatory police collected video evidence into the hands of defense lawyers.
And guess what. 99% of people would trade thinness over ability to use third party RAM.

For MBP buyers, I doubt it. Lots of them are desktop replacements that don't move much.
This is also the thing I realized when I browse google plus, too many features which gives so little space for us to follow updates!
In the part of my job where I'm an IT Manager, I can tell you I've had one user go thru three motherboards. In a year. Without spilling anything on them or otherwise mistreating the computer.

I'm, like, a slobbery fanboi and I can tell you, occasionally, Apple makes one that's rotten.
Another heavy hitter: famousfourmedia.com, who are responsible for the majority of the "dot [tld string] Limited" filings. They seem (I suppose "claim" is more accurate) to be registering on behalf of many companies, but from my rough count (60 filings), they are pretty close to Google (about 101) and Amazon (about 76).

Not to be too judgmental, but the site for famousfourmedia.com has so much stock photo that it hurts. Then again, with 60 filings, they probably can't hear my criticism over the sound of all the money they're making.
Data Center Cube: Server-Filled Containers Stacked Three HighCon
Cycling does not work for you because of your weird river situation.

Cycling is a solution for the millions of people who have commutes of 4 miles without rivers in between. It's a solution for most people in most other situations.