skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's another option. You can get a third party utility like SwitchResX ($, but the free ones didn't work very well when I tried them) and run your display at native resolution. Yes, you get a full 2880x1800 desktop, and yes, some things get terribly small. But, you can then set your font sizes larger in things you use all the time, and I find the really small stuff to still be readable, maybe just not pleasant for long term use.

I am running that way right now, using Firefox zoomed in slightly, and it works beautifully. SwitchResX lets you set up hot keys to switch resolutions too, so I've been switching back and forth between 1920x1200 and native resolution trying to decide what I like best. So far, I think 2880x1800 is winning, with Firefox zoomed in, and a 14 point font (Inconsolata) in Emacs and iTerm2. Though both of the latter work correctly at Apple's scaled resolutions already (I've so far settled on Inconsolata 11 at 1920x1200)

For me, the biggest thing that's changed is that I've used Monaco 9, or variants thereof on non-Apple platforms, as my code font for the last 15 years. This was already too small for some people to read, and I've had hotkeys set up to switch to larger fonts when showing other people code on my screen for years. Monaco 9 doesn't even really exist at scaled resolutions though - it is NOT the same font you get if you render any other point size of Monaco, which is what happens at Apple's scaled resolutions. "Monaco 9" looks like the rest of Monaco now. (Techincally the old pixel version does still exist when running at native resolution, but it's crazy small and although I can read it with some effort, it's not really practical). But the screen is so great that I'm finally over my obsession with pixel fonts. Inconsolata is a fantastic tiny font when the pixels are too small to see. I'll probably try a few more now that I've been liberated, that was just the best I happened to have installed already.
it's not so much "accept payment in" as "pay taxes in"

I can accept bitcoin, e-gold, marks, cattle, whatever I want as payment... no problem, until tax day rolls around.

At that point, I need to figure the value, in dollars, of the two sheep that bob gave me for helping him scale his wool broker website, and then I need to figure the value of the rusted out nissan I gave joe for the 128GiB ram that I used in the project, and from that figure the profit I made. I then need to pay taxes, in US dollars, on that profit.

So, it's not so much that I'm forced to accept payment in dollars as that accepting payment in anything else is a huge pain in the ass for my accountant.

(I am forced to pay my taxes in dollars, of course, but to me that seems pretty reasonable. All businesses choose what currencies they accept payment in. The fact that it's harder to avoid doing business with the government than with other businesses doesn't really change that.)
Oh boy do I have some EEPROM's for this guy to dump .. old hardware never dies: its users do!

(Yamaha A5000 sampler, I'm looking at you..)
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Video stream from AngelHack 2012 from Seattle.
Good morning,
We are happy to introduce a video stream from AngelHack 2012 from Seattle. Broadcast will be from Saturday, 9 am to Sunday, 6 pm PST.

You will see a process of building a Facebook application Kickout.me, the idea of which is to analyze existing Facebook friends and instantly get a list of all your friends who are passionate about the same activities as you, regardless of whether they have this app.

The team consists of three young entrepreneurs - product designer Anton Volkov, UI designer Evgeny Vasenev and engineer Sergey Generalov.

AngelHack is the nation’s largest Hackathon that will take a place from June 23-24 in San Francisco (Silicon Valley), Seattle, Boston and New York. Two winning teams will receive $25,000 in seed funding from Right Side and Instanta Capital. The top 20 teams will then get three weeks of mentorship from AngelHack partners, including Lean Startup Machine (a workshop on lean startup methodology).
The key word here is "judged" - whether the boxster/cayman is a better car than the 911 is exactly that, a matter of judgement.

An early 70's 911, all that weight hanging over/behind the skinny (by modern standards) rear wheels, no traction control - a joy to drive. That's just a judgement too!
> Nah, the cure for this angst is not to care so much about whatever consumer electronics you're using.

I dunno. I see non-technical friends and relatives choose the wrong devices out of ignorance pretty regularly. They waste hours of their weeks fartzing with text messages that are much more difficult to type out, having trouble reading email from people they want to interact with, and spending lots of their hard earned money on other things like external cameras that are mostly unnecessary when you have a decent camera on your phone and learn how to use it properly.

I'm here with my in-laws this week and one of the problems I've noticed is that they paid for the lease of a really crummy wifi router from their ISP. The darned thing doesn't even let them Skype with their grandkids on their iPad unless they're in the same room. To compensate, they have to either go out and spend more of their fixed income on a new router or just not get the benefit of the technology that they've pretty much paid for (but bought the wrong one of).

Like most things in life, knowing when to spend the time and energy to care and when to just make due isn't an easy no-brainer.
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I didn't realize Apple was pushing graphics so hard the past few years just to get to a point where retina-level resolution was possible at these sizes.

Funny, it reminds me a bit of the big push Vista caused in hardware manufacturers to stop stagnating on the amount of RAM considered 'normal' in computers.
That's an interesting piece - a memoir of Turing by his older brother - I'm glad you posted the link. The brother (a lawyer) comes across rather poorly by our standards, but it's worth reading.

Interesting that he cites the half-eaten apple as definitive proof of suicide, when (if the OP is correct) Turing habitually ate half an apple at bedtime, and this one was never tested for cyanide.
Marco and the like are probably a bit guilty of stirring the pot and encouraging this sort of behaviour to an extent, but reading this article his definition of a fanboy did certainly come to mind:

http://www.marco.org/2011/04/10/fanoboy-fan-boi

fan•boy |ˈfanˌboi|
noun

1. informal derogatory: a term used to describe people who bought a product that competes with the one you bought, which is probably more popular than your choice, for reasons that you wish to discredit or diminish because you’re secretly afraid or upset that you made the wrong choice.
I went through a small version of this. My father-in-law had Alzheimer's and was able to cover for some years by mostly answering questions by asking questions.

Locks appeared on the property, and started moving daily, if not sometimes hourly (different keys, combinations, etc.) I invested pretty early in a good set of bolt cutters.

I learned quickly to start any approach and conversation with "Hey, dad" otherwise he would seem to decide I was a stranger up to no good and try to run me off the property.

He would have moments of lucidity where he would admit he was terrified, that he was pretty sure he was losing his mind. But they were pretty fleeting.

I remember one night he kicked my mother-in-law out of their house, claiming he was going to kill anyone who came in. The Sheriff was called and it was mentioned that not only was he a Korean war vet, he had guns in the house.

That was the night SWAT stayed outside our houses (we live next door) until morning, as my father-in-law hung up on the Sheriff's Deputies and refused to answer any subsequent door knock or telephone call.

Early that morning it was surreal to see the SWAT team serpentining across our lawn, guns drawn. My father-in-law answered the door, invited the Deputies in for coffee, was confused when they took him into custody, then handed me his keys saying he didn't know what he did, but apparently he was in trouble and I better watch over the place.

Turned out he had a toothache no one was aware of and was having a hard time coping with the pain, since he couldn't stay focused long enough to tell anyone about it.

Luckily, no one was hurt over that whole period and my wife got to spend the last year and a half with her father before he died of cancer and complications from Alzheimer's.

It has also resulted in some long talks with my wife about how long either of us wants to be kept alive, in the result of not being mentally with it, or mentally awake in a failing body.

We learned quite a bit about Power of Attorney and Medical Directives, as well.
“Patching up” would suggest that they actually improved the situation.

If you had read the diff you would realize they did not.
Yeah, their budgets will increase.
It's cool. I hope it will be interesting. And I am waiting a lot of fun!
That was a thoroughly conventional thing to think if you were born in 1908.
This Android app is just awesome
Windows, Linux, OSX, yes, if you're writing a desktop app. That's what Qt is good at.

But Android? On devices with a completely different form factor, input schemes, and resource requirements? I don't think that is feasible, particularly from a user experience point of view.
The proposed scheme seems overly complex and I don't immediately see any advantage over explicitly invalidating all issued (randomly generated) tokens after the password has been reset.
Using an app you will be pleasantly surprised how many of your Facebook friends have the same passions and how responsive they are to your invitations.
'incoherent, mumbling ghosts everywhere' -> great metaphor!
Printing money != inflation - at least given a modern understanding of inflation, where inflation is defined as a change in the price level.

What is it that causes prices to change? Ultimately, prices in the real economy are changed by producers and vendors based on signals that they receive. The only signals that really matter in that regard are (a) cost of supply and labor, and (b) demand for their product.

So now we have all these trillions of US$ in as-good-as-money floating around, but they are essentially stationary wealth deposits, which is why we are not seeing inflation. What if this changes? This is where I believe most people become confused.

If the owners of those as-good-as-money treasuries suddenly decided that they'd rather own paper money as opposed to treasuries, then the US treasury would have to print the required paper money without there being any inflation at all. Instead of non-moving treasuries there would now be non-moving paper bills - there is no difference (except that treasuries pay a little bit of interest).

So clearly it cannot be the printing of paper that causes inflation.

However, if those people then decide to go on a spending spree, then it is quite possible that the additional demand drives prices up in the real economy. So it is the huge reservoir of wealth that, if it were suddenly released, could cause inflation.

If that's what you're worried about, then you have to think about ways to get rid of that wealth. Taxing the rich, perhaps?
If you're using the "best for retina" resolution, you can get Monaco 9 on the native pixels by selecting Monaco 4.5. It will be extremely small, but if you have good eyes it should still be readable, more readable than anti-aliased fonts at that size anyway.
What's so bad about replacing the phone every couple years? I'd rather these phone manufacturers moved things forward than worry too much about what the non early adopter crowd think. You don't have to update to ios6, nothing's forcing you too.

You write as though your phone came with some kind of guarantee it would support future software.

Just because you can't upgrade to iosX doesn't make what you have shite.
The original article linked talks about some company buying an old lady's health insurance (they end up not buying because they datamine and find the lady is not unhealthy). That such a thing is possible blows my mind - a company placing an explicit bet on someone's death?
I didn't know that you started without comments. They were there (and high quality) when I arrived. I'm 'nkurz' there as well, never have been an active commenter, and lurked for at least a year before signing up so as to be able to vote.

But I've been presuming we're talking about submissions rather than comments. I'd be even harsher (and more incredulous that you are defending your behaviour) if I thought you were using shill accounts to falsely attribute comments!

It's clear that we have different value systems that we use to evaluate this. It's also clear that you've thought this through and decided you are OK with it. I'll keep trying to understand how this is, but for now I'm still baffled.
Microsoft is not on its last legs. It doesn't have a "developer problem". There are a lot of microsof-related jobs out there, more so than most web trendy technologies. It is a solid company with solid footing.

Yes, Bing did not beat Google. Yes, their phones have always been second-tier (until this latest batch which is pretty nice). Yes, there are a lot of things that they have failed at.

But the one thing they have that others dont is the user base. Everyone and their mothers has windows (unless you are or are related to a computer geek (like my dad who runs ubuntu)). This is the power of Microsoft, if it can translae all of that userbase from Windows 7/8 to the tablet/phone market, then the game is mostly over for Apple and Android.

Microsoft can do that with a top-notch product, and each new iteration they put out is times better than the last. They also can provide to most enterprises what Apple or Google/Android cannot: a seamless integration of all of their Windows-powered devices (which means that they can still keep their XP/.Net boxes running and integrate them with some API).

They are aiming for one OS to run on everything. Smart move. Takes time, but will ultimately will give them the edge. They have proven to be a dependable enterprise supplier, and giving enterprises more options to compete will just make them stronger.

Will developers write code for it? They already are. You just don't read about it due to the marketing snowball that Apple and Android are enjoying.

If you think about it, iOS and Android have only existed for less than ten yers. Windows has been here since Pangea. You think they survived this long by chance?

Edit: Please fix your webpage. It does not load properly without JS.
You have to explain why printing a lot of money would cause inflation in the first place.

What GP is saying is that if the owners of treasuries were unhappy with those treasuries and preferred holding on to cash, the government could just create that cash and nothing would change.

This would not change prices, since if the owners of treasuries just swapped those treasuries for cash, businesses would not see their demand increase, and nobody would have any reason to raise the prices they ask.
Personally, as an owner of several Macs, an iPad 3 and an iPhone, (which I mention to indicate that I'm not predisposed to be biased in Microsoft's favor) after watching the product announcement footage for the Microsoft Surface, the Pro version does seem solid and appealing. The ARM version appeared flaky, maybe a year away from being ready, but the Surface Pro looked like something I might consider purchasing.

The product's portability, interesting design with a kickstand (brilliant!), that clever keyboard case, and the supposedly high-res stylus built-in make this a beast of a convergence device, and I think they may have pulled it off. I have a hard time believing that the non-Pro ARM Surface will be shipping anytime soon, however.

From a development perspective, I'm probably going to rely on the web browser to target this platform for the foreseeable future, though the resources at my disposal have largely made this choice for me. That said, I certainly wouldn't discount the possibility of developers getting a Surface for themselves, and eventually supporting the platform with their apps. They're a pretty sexy piece of kit.
IPhone rendered with just CSS3 and HTML
If I was a developer that just got laid off from a sinking company I don't think my first reaction would be to jump on board to another sinking company...

(Not trying to be snarky, but I would indeed be concerned about RIM following the same path as Nokia, especially considering the massive job cuts they've recently announced.)
Can a shellcode be encoded and executed without the need to be decoded first?
Why don't you address the points in the movie instead of starting a personal attack?
Ada actually has the sane memory management by default compared to both C++ and Java.

Pointers are, by default verboten. Pointer arithmetic will generate a compiler warning.

People should genuinely look into this stuff more rather than just dismissing it offhand. Ada got almost everything right for a procedural-OOP language. It was just too far ahead of its time.
Essentially, the 'money supply' is determined by the central bank, since they are the issuers of money.

It's not as simple as that. The amount of money in public circulation is largely determined by banks, because every loan given increases the amount of (electronic) money in circulation. The central bank then adjusts the amount of central bank money (reserves) by open market operations, but it does so defensively, to defend its interest rate target. So yes, with an interest rate target of essentially 0%, they can increase the amount of reserves out there, but this does not translate to more money in public circulation.

Modern Monetary Theory contains probably the best summaries of how this works.
Ask HN: How to publish code that has snippets of different sources?
Hi all, first submission here. I have a small question...

I wrote a puppet module to manage PostgreSQL servers. After I wrote it, I expanded this module merging snippets of code from two different sources.

Now I want to opensource it but I really don't know how I could do this leaving the credits to both modules that I used. Would a mention on the README file be enough? Mentions on the headers of the files that have this snippets (This is done actually)? And the license? I think the original modules are not using the same license.

Is possible to publish it? If so, how?

My module has more or less 90% original code, and most parts where it uses others code was heavily expanded/modified.

This are the original modules:
https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppetlabs-postgres
https://github.com/uggedal/puppet-module-postgresql

Should I publish it and after contact both module maintainers?

Thanks in advance.

Leon Waldman.
Perhaps it's a "stop sign" for hackers—"go no further". The extra cell effectively stops the glider, since it ends up in a steady state.
So will they be eventually killing off background pages? Background html page is very important for certain types of apps. A media player for example which uses the page to play background music even if the app tab is closed.
The email that was sent to me said that it was because of a misspelled word.
In case anyone was wondering, Laocoon is pronounced Lay-Awk-Oh-Wan.
Also, it's usually two years until you can get a new one in the US, what with the way contracts work.
The right tool for the job is one that will be supported by other developers after you leave.
Yours in distress, Alan
"I've never once had a virus, worm or trojan."

And probably no one ever wanted to attack you as a specific, known individual. They probably would have succeeded.
The fruits of the labors of past generations are being filtered into 3 areas - the lowest common wage earner in the world that can do the grunt work the cheapest (Chinese, or Illegals, etc) the wealthy, who control all investment and funding, and governments that can freely tax and deficit all they want.

We don't "need" to work more. The USA produces a substantial excess of food, even past the excessive eating habits causing the obesity epidemic, and we sell electricity to Canada and Mexico since we are completely self sufficient there as well. Almost all of our electrical infrastructure is 40+ years old, grossly outdated, but the initial costs are effectively gone. The cost of power is just the million year old dead plants to make it.

The problem is we have no social construct to distribute these non-scares resources in any way but through exchanges that treat them as scarce. And we still have farmers toiling in fields and operators of power plants that need to be compensated for their labors.

The system really evolved to combat Communism. The powers that be ran with the propaganda wars of the 60's and turned the USA hyper-consumer with tons of debt to combat Russia's ideology. Everyone jumped on board because socialism and the "other" were irrationally dubbed wrong and thus we must do the opposite.

Also, food is becoming more expensive faster as the reality that only 1% of our population produces the resources we need to survive and prosper sets in. Make that 2%, 1% to make food and power and 1% to maintain infrastructure (poorly) and keep a functioning supply chain in place.

The rest of us? Effectively useless, and where we should be trying to invest the largest fraction of unbounded intellectual freedom to innovate and create in history to get us some freakin starships and immortality and super AI, we squander it with an outdated economic model that has millions sitting at desks twiddling thumbs or manning store counters because they have no choice if they want to eat and have a bed.

In the end, the best things we can aspire to are just not profitable enough for the system in place, so we wallow with a population grossly underutilized.
Link: http://itsmrpostman.appspot.com/
I flagged this post, for the simple reason that the link appears to be broken but it get votes, so this looks a bit shady.
Not only to avoid data-snooping but a great way to stay on budget is to once a week buy a ~$1 item and get cash withdrawal at the register. Then use that cash for the week without going over because you cannot use your card again.
Thanks! This must have been a development within the last year or so.
Ask pg
i could really use some advice. i will try to be as concise as possible. i have a number of ideas for productivity apps that i believe will add a lot of value to anyone who uses them. looking for seed financing of some sort. any advice? tia
Harden the fuck up
I know that I am reading WAY to much into this but here are the rules:

"For a space that is 'populated':
Each cell with one or no neighbors dies, as if by loneliness.
Each cell with four or more neighbors dies, as if by overpopulation.
Each cell with two or three neighbors survives.

For a space that is 'empty' or 'unpopulated'
Each cell with three neighbors becomes populated." [1]

The classic glider is the hacker icon:

OXO
OOX
XXX

Apple's icon:

OXOOX
OOXOO
XXXOO

or

"Hacker"

OXO
OOX
XXX

plus

"Death"

OX
OO
OO

But, if we look at the rules and this icon, it is saying, "Hacker + Death", as if they are saying death to the hacker. They are using the first rule of fight club, "Each cell with one or no neighbors dies, as if by loneliness" with the added populated space. As if they are pushing out hackers if by loneliness and through that loneliness they will die.

EDIT: Or they are trying to be like Gandalf and say, "You Shall Not Pass!"

To me this is sad, because the roots of apple were in the hacker culture when Woz build the blue box. I would love to get Woz's take on this...

[1] http://www.bitstorm.org/gameoflife/
Can anyone confirm on ST2? That's one factor holding me back from pulling the trigger on a rMPB.