skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is so bizarre. It's as though our conscious selves share an existence with an independently operating human animal. The one that flinches.
I used to track my mood using Google calendar email alerts and posterous. But I gave up because it was too cumbersome.

This looks nice and easy. And for a change, I actually said yes to push notifications!
ROI to the advertiser is a key metric. Smart marketers compare the LTV or Life time value of customers that come from specific campaigns. ROI metric does not have to be better than Google for an ad campaign on Facebook or Microsoft Adcenter to be profitable. I have worked with clients to use web analytics and cohort analysis to optimize both quality (higher conversion, better LTV ) and quantity of leads. Sometimes Microsoft Adcenter traffic converts better but does have sufficient quantity compared to Google Adwords. Also different ad platforms have different levels or competition as well as different levels of fraud detection and click quality. I am surprised that Facebook does not detect and suspend obviously spammy user accounts whether that account is bot driven or outsourced to humans overseas.Google and Facebook have financial incentives to not filter out all low quality ad traffic because many advertisers don't have expertise or time to closely examine traffic sources as the company mentioned in this news story.

A combination of tech expertise and marketing savvy are needed to reduce this problem. More analytic tools are available for Google Adwords than are available for Facebook ads.
Why not just name the comparison accounts?
The new Safari does look nice at initial glance. What worries me about it is WebGL is not enabled by default, and its JS engine is much slower than Chrome's. I mostly do WebGL game dev for my personal projects, and so I don't support Safari (since I can't expect people to have turned WebGL on).
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I don't think it would need to be a button. But I would place the 'Send' item in a corner, either by moving the Outlook logo to top-right corner, or by moving the items to that corner, and reversing their order (so that 'Send' would be the closest to edge).
i've experienced something (vaguely) similar. i once had a nasty accident on a bike. initially, i was ok. a car had stopped and the driver asked me how i was, and i answered that i was in pain, but otherwise fine. then, as the passer-by started talking to someone else, i had to call out to him "excuse me - but i can't see". because i couldn't see. so he put me in his car (he was actually an extremely nice chap - i found out later he also took my ruined bike back to where i was staying; i never found him to say thank-you) and drove me to hospital. on the way there i started to realise that i could see shapes - although i couldn't actually "see" anything, i could make out moving cars (imagine white cars against a white background, but somehow you can see them moving). and then my sight started to return, first at the centre of my vision, and then spreading out. i related all this to him as we drove, and what with the blood dripping from various places, i suspect he thought i was delirious. anyway, eventually everything returned to normal and i was checked by a gorgeous doctor (i was 18 or so at the time...) and sent home to rest, but went to work because i was working away from home and no-one i knew would be at the house i was staying at. at work they were impressed by the various bandages and sat me in a corner til end-of-day. never experienced anything similar since, although i do get (painless) migraines from time to time (like, once a year or so - i can't see properly, but it's not interesting).
There would be a trend where people drawing the future tend to draw things they would want in the future. Which in turn society tends to build things they want. It becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy of sorts.
Evidence:

http://allthingsd.com/20120726/documents-in-apple-v-samsung-...
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That's a pretty serious hole indeed. Good find!

Is the title a reference to http://blog.andrewcantino.com/blog/2011/12/14/hacking-google... or a coincidence?
Without reading the article, let me take a guess: Attackships on fire off the shoulder of orion, c-beams glittering in the dark near Tannhäuser Gate?
Which is exactly what we need to get this technology to become popular, which is critical to making this kind of mesh useful - there's a quite literal network effect.
Fun fact: Mark Zuckerberg's sister, Arielle Zuckerberg, works for Wildfire and so now she works for Google. Talk about sibling rivalry.
For our purposes, it's about the perception of groundbreakingness, not the reality of it. They need to make things that look and feel different than what's available (and in this sense they are breaking new ground in consumer design) and get a controversy stirred. As long as the new stuff is philosophically compatible with the old stuff and a credible claim to the spirit of Jobs can be established, the cult of Mac will grow until they reach some level where these dynamics go out of balance. Apple relies on its underground status for its coolness, too; if everyone had it, the many Mac denziens that want to feel special will find another obscure thing to latch onto.
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Honestly that doesn't sound very fun to me. I'd much rather "space out" and not be consciously aware of my blinking/heartbeating/breathing/etc at a higher frequency than I naturally do.
Tech bloggers have quotas.

Most tech bloggers also don't know how to write.
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You should simply be able to do it by: logging in into your hotmail account and going to http://outlook.com while still logged in. After that, go into mail "More mail settings" (click on the upper-right gear) and choose "Create a Outlook alias" if you want to add e-mail aliases @outlook.com

But now that you already signed up for a new account it may not work straight away...
Cinnamon has been added to Fedora, see:
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For comparison, here is the similar video that they put out to describe the EDL system used by Spirit & Opportunity back in 2004. For some reason it was a mere 6 minutes of terror. I'm not sure what accounts for the discrepancy:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ij33yhdGn_g
Ah! That's removable... and currently removed. You're right, it started to get a little cramped. There's a little ledge at the bottom now which makes a nice foot rest.
I'm sure this is a great device, but the website makes me uneasy. Most of the copy implies that it's available now, but it turns out that this is a Kickstarter project.

Throw in the complete absence of even a mock-up image of the board, the 1995 look-and-feel of the site, and the whole thing feels scammy.
There is currently a bug that I stumbled across that allows for spoofed emails to be sent.

If you have a Live account that has an external e-mail address Microsoft allows you to login here, without any additional authentication credentials, and actually will send e-mails using the account's original address. In my case this was my Gmail address.

Overall the requirement of Silverlight is a little annoying, but the same as usual for Microsoft. The UI itself doesn't look bad, and I actually prefer it to generic Gmail theme.
Hmmm, I'm not a fan of the outlook.com design in any what so ever. The fonts are messy, the buttons are in all the wrong places, the icons don't mean anything to me.

It feels like a weekend hackathon project not a commercial enterprise.
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Yes it would. Neither I nor anyone I know use Google because we trust or respect it, we use it because it works well.
Microsoft is willing to sign your bootloader as long as you promise not to boot any malware.
Would it be more accurate to say that the former is built on top of the latter? As opposed to an equal share, that is.
I disagree. There be much good advice in there; all stuff I learned in writing college.

My favorite? Rule No. 10: Revise, revise, revise.

I can't tell you how many times I've written something, had it published (through the newspaper I work at), then read it 2 weeks later and thought "DAMN! I should have changed that!!"
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I took a degree program in Entrepreneurship - http://www.conrad.uwaterloo.ca/mbet

You could definitely just go out and start your own company. I'd never say that's not an option.

The program curriculum covered things like accounting and taxation which are reasonably important depending on what kind of business you're running. We got the chance to interact with local VC's and went through mock term sheet negotiations as well as discussion of what various terms mean in the world of venture funding. None of these things are un-learnable outside of school, but it was a positive experience.

We covered some technical things like organization structure and strategy and technology lifecycle management. We also covered marketing which may or may not be "technical" depending on your opinion of what marketers do.

You certainly do get connections, etc. Honestly there's a certain category of jobs that want to see an MBA before they'll hire you but I'm not sure of actual VCs really care about it.

The final truth is that even from an entrepreneurship program, the majority of students go on to get regular jobs.
Consider the possibility that these networks are seeded with that content by those immune to prosecution for doing so, who also have an interest in that kind of freedom being curtailed. This is conspiratorial, and of course I have no evidence, but I simply don't think rapey kidporn is as popular as it's portrayed.
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I'm sure nothing bad will come of this.
That is so true. I'm a KDE user and we had a very similar situation with KDE4. OK, 4.0 wasn't usable, we all know that; but 4.1 was really better and by 4.2 it was pretty decent. Nowadays most KDE users agree moving on was a good decision and we have a great desktop.

The people complaining usually are those who were happy with Gnome2 and just want it the way it was. Guess what, nobody erased Gnome2 from existence, and as far as I know it was in maintenance mode anyway, so nothing has changed for them. Use Mate if you prefer it.

And many (like Linus) probably just want a lightweight WM to use CLI, a browser and maybe another application. Guess what, you already have that, and there are several of them to choose.

But many of us want a complete and integrated desktop environment with lots of eye candy, multiple applications with similar look, complex file search, GUI installation and the whole shebang. We don't mind if it takes extra RAM and CPU because we have it. KDE4, Gnome3 and Unity try to give that, and many people do enjoy it, as I assume the developers of those DE's.

We get it, you don't like it. That's fine! You have choice! Just don't assume your opinion is universal, and don't be a dick about it.
>I don't know why I'm even responding to this

Judging by the comment thread below; so you could ferret out the rest of the accounts controlled by reddit trolls.

EDIT: Since the junk in the comment thread appears to be getting cleaned up, I would like to note that at the time of writing it was worse.
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You refering to http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2689512 ?
And there is a DBUS interface for it, so you can even push code into the shell from external processes.
Protocols are nearly impossible to market to consumers; services and apps are what people want. Whether it'll be SMTP Lite, P2P HTTP, or whatever, doesn't matter at this point.

I think what's missing is a compelling user experience that's decentralized by its nature. Even the terminology needs to be thought out:

email : {Gmail, Hotmail, ...} :: ____ : {Twitter, Facebook, ...}

maybe ____ is "stream" as in "what's your stream address?"

The technology side is exciting, but the UX needs to be nailed before bothering with it. As for adoption, there are a ton of social networking clients out there, I'm sure you could convince a few to adopt this, maybe by starting with a niche first.
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This is interesting, because my impression was completely opposite. Gnome Shell hides all unnecessary visual clutter (panels, menus, launchers, indicators, desktop icons) leaving just a simple monochromatic bar on the top. It's hard to come up with a design cleaner than that.
I'm sold, although I'd still start by sitting them down with a copy of Feynman's QED. When doing math about a thing, it helps tremendously if you already have some sort of intuition about what the math is describing.

Also, the historical stuff is fun and interesting. Physics students should probably be taught this stuff regardless, but maybe not as part of a class on theory.
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It's not a consumer product. Anyone in the industry knows the name Wildfire.
- Nice!

- If you look closely I have some speakers mounted to the underside of the front face. They are pointed down and reflect off of the surface of the desk (iMac style). I originally wanted to fit them inside the grills but space is surprisingly limited once you try to fit a speaker box in there.

- Thanks! Been interested in better ways to hide the wires.

- I imagine that could be very difficult to pull off. ;)
"What is it?"

At its simplest it is quieting the mind. A long time ago I took a transcendental meditation course (TM) (I know, I know, it dates me, there was a girl involved) they are (were?) the folks who claimed you could defy gravity if you were good enough. There was a lot of eastern mysticism but as the scientific type I was more interested in what, if any, physiological effects were to be had. Being an undergrad in a pre-med school has some perks and one of them was being able to practice meditation wearing an EEG cap.

As far as I can tell, the primary benefit of meditation is shutting down all the noise in your head. Your brain thinks a lot, about a lot of things, often all at the same time. You might be like me where you get solutions to problems that 'bubble up' from somewhere in your brain that you didn't know was working on the problem.

Anyway, if you meditate (and there aren't any big secrets here you are simply training yourself to stop thinking without going to sleep) you clear out your brain. Like doing a power cycle reboot on a computer. Flush everything all resources available for thinking. Then when new things come up you can respond more quickly because you've got cycles to spare.

My totally non-scientific theory is that normally, when you start thinking about something new, your brain has to pick something to stop thinking about so that it can free up the cycles. If you are trying to keep a lot things in your head, that is hard because you are already trying not to stop thinking about the things you need to remember. Whereas when you just come out of meditation you aren't thinking about anything so you can quickly pick up a new train of thought.

Note that this is different than sleep because when you sleep you dream, and dreaming is a way of thinking. If you're successfully meditating, you are awake, aware of your surroundings, but keeping your finger on the 'halt' button so that you don't start up new thoughts. Then you lift your finger and off you go.
Philosophical question: what makes you think that entity is human? I think I would have left out 'human', because I am not aware of similar cases where people speak coherently without being conscious of doing it.
Here's my story: Three (or was it four?) day non-stop coding stint to get a robot ready for a conference. No sleep at all. Almost non-stop coding and the usual coffee+sugar+pizza binge. Got on a plane to go to the conference and continued coding in flight. Got to the hotel, checked in and decided to get some sleep. I woke up about three or four hours later. I started to hear a nearly perfect 1KHz tone as my field of view slowly (30 sec?) faded to full bright white. By this time I was sitting on the bathroom floor: I could only hear this tone and all I saw was a bright white light. Somehow I kept my cool and could, also somehow, navigate the room. Over the following few minutes the tone started to go away and my field of view returned to normal. Freaked the crap out of me. No permanent damage that I could identify. Now I keep my overnighters to just one night, only if there's absolutely not choice at all.
Thanks. Both titles are references to the paper Smashing The Stack For Fun And Profit by Aleph One. http://insecure.org/stf/smashstack.html
Alt-` allows you to switch between windows of a single app, or you can install an extension from http://extensions.gnome.org that will give you the old style of Alt-tab behavior again.
"Your password can't be longer than 16 characters." Is this from Hotmail?
Twitter has been compromised. They may backpeddle all they want, but they have shown their hand. They will pull tweets and accounts when it serves their interest.
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No, I've never seen that. I'm running Office 2007.
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While on the topic of things to fix: When I was signing up, I hit a 16-character password limit.

Now, could anyone explain why you would put a limit of 16 characters in a password on a modern web-service? Don't the recommendations for a very safe password normally specify more than that?

I see much reason for setting a minimum amount, but not a maximum of less than a hundred characters (to give some room) at least.
In general that'd be fine. The sender address can be easily spoofed anyway - smtp works that way.

The thing is, this seems to be broken by design in my world. Google should (have to check that again) publish a record that lists 'official' mail servers for GMail.

This whole setup could work just fine, even if it's a bit weird. But right now I suppose you look like a crappy imposter to any receiver AND you can never receive emails (they .. would end up in your GMail inbox of course).
No, it's like expecting their chair to have four legs and support their weight.

People that use software to do other things often aren't interested in how wonderful the software is, provided it stays out of their way and allows them to get stuff done in a way that they expect.

The marketplace for a beautiful desk is much smaller than the market for a functional, yet ugly, desk, especially if that nice desk can't fit through the door of my office without me removing the frame, etc.
The point is the triviality of a Twitter clone and the lack of any significant unique contribution that is difficult to copy. Right now, ALL they have is their marketshare.

Google has competitors, but they can't just upset Google overnight because it is really hard and takes a really long time to build a search facility of equivalent utility to the one Google provides. While some people challenge them, Google is still the objective king in searches, and companies with a huge amount of resources, like Microsoft, struggle to supplant Google in the quality of their offering.

Facebook is a very complex system with a lot of support for a lot of different things. Facebook is more in line with Twitter in that it's strongly dependent on network effects, but Facebook requires investment of significant time in building relationships and composing a profile; they have some reasonable sense of lock-in here. And if you've looked around, it is still difficult to develop a platform that does everything Facebook does (or more), especially with Facebook's rapid deployment of analogous features anytime a competitor tries to one-up them. They copied and thereby neutered the viability of Circles lickety-split and Google+ could no longer claim a significant feature advantage for those concerned about privacy.

Twitter is just a stream of short strings, easily scrapeable and convertible. The site can be cloned on a conceptual level in a couple of days. Twitter may have done some serious scaling work, but in the end they have no unique offering, no killer feature, nothing that a normal developer would have difficulty or serious effort duplicating at the conceptual level. Scalability of course takes time, but it's highly implementation dependent and occurs as necessary; Twitter's internal performance is not a serious user-facing barrier or feature. In fact, Facebook and Google+ already include all the functionality of Twitter.

There is no reason to stay on Twitter other than pure network effects.
Meditation can be many things, it's really up to the person what they do while they meditate.

The best explanation I have is ignoring your thoughts. You aren't sleeping, your mind is blank. Meditation feels like (to me at least) the feeling right before you fall asleep.

Imagine you're playing with bubbles, these bubbles are your thoughts. Generally, your mind tries to capture the bubbles, exploding them and seeing what was inside. When you meditate, the bubbles just kind of whizz by without looking inside.

It's a good way to explore what we are as humans, and it's sobering in it's power to tap into things we otherwise wouldn't experience.
Benzodiazepine is effective at doing that.

Causes an almost meditative state where you don't worry about body function (which is why its effective at treating anxiety).
An approach I've wondered about: what if we were to take only existing CP (previously seized by the government, let's say), for which the model is known, now of age, and consents to this (because they believe it's going to lead to fewer children being abused), and publish it as widely as possible. Continue to bring the full force of the law upon anyone producing new material. Obviously this wouldn't eliminate production entirely, but it seems like it should lower demand a great deal (because what difference does it make to the "user" if a picture was taken fifteen years ago) and at least make it impossible to produce CP for material profit.

My instinct is that this is, objectively speaking, morally good, but would still be unacceptable to the population at large.
google search is saas, the service is searching, the software is Google Search
I was going to write something; writer's block.
The future of healthcare: electronic brain implants
I think it's reference to the attempt to think USSR and (modern day) Russia as separate entities and nations. Similarly to that Europeans wouldn't use "we"/"us" to describe ancient Romans.
Good screencast, there's a mistake regarding the piece colouring though. They're all black because all the characters are lowercase (and I think you meant to make the bottom row uppercase).

It can be verified in the code, and in the REPL when it's being tested.
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Starting to see a trend with Metro apps where they're sacrificing UX for candy.

The UX for this is a nightmare:

- It's not clear that the Subject is editable (doesn't look like it's in a text box nor does the label look like a placeholder).

- Clicking on BCC opens a CC box with a drop-down that covers the BCC field.

- The Send button looks like a main navigation menu, where I'd expect clicking on it would navigate away from the page (and not send the email)

- The Rich text buttons look part of the content, a light shade of grey wouldn't add any pixels but would provide separation between function and content

Back to gmail....