skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Have you seen it at full res or not ?

http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/674898main_pia16013-full_...

(To me, it does not look like iPhone anymore.)
The file system doesn't implement it, the commands simply let you turn it on or off. CIFS is built into the kernel much like NFS on Solaris/OpenIndiana.
I'm still unclear how you submit an app to their store? If I have an app with a mac and pc build that I want to submit, what do I do?
Some of these make it seem like the firm just wants an iphone clone.

For example, #52: No menu for going back to the previous screen when watching a video.
Isn't this a trait of the android OS? Hard button to go back, and it's universally like this for all apps. Adding a back button just for video would break the continuity.

#56: Star to 'add to fav' should be replaced with a plus because users don't recognize what a star does.
I'm pretty confident that people will understand what a star does in this context...
Why do you say a movie made in the USSR is not copyrightable?
From a separate article here:
http://www.fastcompany.com/3000272/nypd-microsoft-launch-all...

The DAS system is headquartered in a lower Manhattan office tower in a command-and-control center staffed around the clock by both New York police and "private stakeholders." When this reporter visited, seats were clearly designated with signs for organizations such as the Federal Reserve, the Bank of New York, Goldman Sachs, Pfizer, and CitiGroup.
Does your decentralized ideal apply to the whole Internet, or just TLD signing and such? In other words, do you believe we'd be better off without a DNS root zone? I know there's Freenet, so I guess another question is whether you think that shift could ever become mainstream.

If so, I'd love a reply.

If not, I'd love a reply. And! And then... this DANE shift would not be such a bad thing, right? You have the hierarchy anyway, so why not have the option of securely publishing [1] your public keys. By the time you have registered your domain and paid all your fees, you might as well!

As for the potentially insecure signing of some TLDs, isn't it partly due to the decentralized nature of the ccTLDs? From a security perspective people may have to learn to trust more .com domains with a green lock than, say, .ly.

[1] I'm purposely using this loaded term, as I'm full of doubt and confusion, hoping to provoke the master and get more thoughts! Refer, for instance, to my TL comment in this thread.
2/3 is kind of a vast majority; it means twice as many people are paying with cards than not.
Leave it to uber-businessman Bloomberg to wire up a 30% commission to NYC for all future sales to other cities.
Steam isn't just distribution but also offers a lot of features that could translate to apps:

1. Cloud based saves could become file/settings syncing
2. Steam Workshop for users to publish plugins and addons
3. Friends/groups/IM, invite to MP game could become invite to teleconference.
4. Authentication (OpenID)

But if my app has file associations and user isn't logged on to steam. When they double click the associated filetype will they have to login to steam before my app can open it?
Google takes on SIRI with launch of new enhanced voice app on ios
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companies are crossing boundaries they never should... keep them out of my living room
Barack Obama likely a descendant of the first-documented American slave
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I think you might be confused by the name. If you looked at the site you would see that it lists what other startups use.
What journalists need to know about animated GIFs — really | Poynter.
He also confuses, maybe conflates would be better, art and design. For example, his statement that black over-powers everything else only applies to black masses - thin black borders or underlining is the best way to focus attention on critical points on a web page without being distracting the way bright colors can be.
This is something that you have to request at http://g.co/searchtrial , and I think we'll learn a lot from seeing how people interact with the feature and what feedback they provide.
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Gabe/Valve are also competing against the Apple/Mac OSX App Store, but they aren't speaking out against them.

I sincerely think that Valve has legitimate reasons for deriding Windows 8, particularly since their criticism seems to resonate with many early Win8 adapters.
It will come as a shock for you to learn that high modernist design aesthetic you are celebrating was subjected to some withering critiques. It was considered cold, austere, artificial, too abstract, uncomfortable and hostile to humanity -- all of the things I just said. When applied to urban planning, it was associated with bureaucracy, elitism and authoritarianism.

Given your limited knowledge of the history of design, I suggest being a little more cautious about accusing others of lacking sophistication.
Server logic can figure it out just fine. For a familiar example check out nginx's static gzip compression support [1]. This works today. Browsers can say they support gzip compressed assets in a header. You don't have to add markup to say "get the smaller version". When nginx gets a request it looks to see "is gzip on the accept-encoding list"? If so, it looks to see if a compressed version of the file is sitting on the server and serves that directly. If not, it compresses on the fly.

Same story could apply here with a few different details.

[1]: http://wiki.nginx.org/HttpGzipStaticModule
I think the real bubble is people ignoring the existence of status.net and identi.ca, and the reasons why they never took off as alternatives to twitter.

Status.net has evolved into a private twitter for companies but the identica service still runs, still has a user base, and is everything you need for an alternative to twitter.
Looks like the image was stitched together from multiple images, judging by the jagged edges at the top and the "fold" to the right of middle in the image. Very neat, nonetheless.
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Just to reiterate: the box doesn't show any Gmail content by default. The default state of the box is collapsed. So we're only showing that you have matches in Gmail, and then you can choose whether to click and see the matches.
I agree with the author concerning places with somewhat-level terrain, with short distances between home, work, and grocery stores, with police officers posted around these locations to ensure good traffic, and so on.

On the other hand, many places are not like that. Where I live, distances between important locations is often twenty-five miles or so, there are many hills that go up for hundreds of feet, there are many sharp curves, many cliff-like areas without rails, no sidewalks, hardly any police to ensure sane traffic conditions, people driving twenty or thirty MPH over the speed limit, vehicles taking shortcuts by cutting into opposite lanes, people driving home from bars and liquor stores in other counties which are not "dry", etc. Around places like this, biking is a fine way to die.
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funny thing for me is that I had a hard time reading his blog since the font color is too light for me. It could just be me though.
I was being terse for the sake of style, but the gist of that was intended to be "programmers who make nicely packaged product-type things", which of course includes app developers as well as other categories.
My prediction for a starter app is a basic teleconference app. Steam already offers API for friends lists and authentication.
Some of the smartest people in tech have supported a ton of failures. Every VC on the planet has a long list of "the next big thing" that never went anywhere. I don't necessarily care if some of the "smartest" people in tech are backing it. App.net has raised under $300,000 -- if it was THAT awesome, they would have raised the full $500K almost instantly. Fred Wilson would have just just wrote a check for the whole thing. They might like the idea, but if there was a viable business model there would have been a frenzy if the proposed product was that awesome. I still can't understand how this is supposed to make money. And giving someone a $50 or $100 or $1000 pledge on Kickstarter is pocket change for tech luminaries. They're likely supporting the founders more than a specific implementation. I don't know many people actually salivating over this or else they wouldn't be needing Kickstarter.

More power to the founders, I'm just skeptical because it still isn't clear what this project is supposed to accomplish. It's almost like Occupy got involved in a software project to vent anger over the big companies acting in ways with which they disagree.

Still, good luck to the App.net team. I hope they succeed and I'm proven to be an ignorant Luddite!
When I first heard about this, I was excited. But upon looking at the video, it's not what I thought it would be.

I'm still looking for an app that uses a spreadsheet-like UI in order to be able to ask whatif and model data pulled from backend datasources.

This would be infinitely more useful (for my use cases).
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>> I think at some point in the future people will see $50/yr for those two things (privacy and data control) as a relative bargain.

I can't remember ever hearing anyone mention privacy/data control issues outside of HN. Facebook has ridden slipshod over these issues many times and yet I've never heard anyone bring them up in conversation. The echo chamber here is booming with concern but who actually cares? Users care about the communication advantages of their online accounts but how many value the identity associated with them? People change their phone number because they want a new model that isn't available on their network. Do they see their online identities as any less interchangeable? If this is the case what kind of explicit threat could possibly justify paying money for protection of such an identity?
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Did he dress the same too ? That's some epic ending
Many human 'prototypes' coexisted in Africa
I'm psyched they have a camera that can take true color images! Now we can see what Mars looks like without false color filtering. I wonder how close they get with those techniques to the real thing.
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I found the article to be quite terse, well-presented and readable, compared to many (verbose, boring) blog posts that get discussed on HN ... Plus, I learned something new. No reason at all to flame the author in my opinion.
How do you know you are blacklisted? Here is a link to check, http://www.blacklistalert.org/

I am not too familiar with Google Apps mailing but if you have access to the mail logs that would be a good way to backtrack what happened.

The logs usually contain server responses to your sends with instructions/link on how to be "safelisted" or at least a reason of why you were blocked. Determine the domains and go from there.
Could HN please, PRETTY please introduce some feature to parse well-known URLs so it could give you a little more sense of the source? This looks like it's going to be an announcement from github.com about some cool performance improvements. Not that I don't appreciate the actual article, but it was kind of a let-down.

I know this has been discussed before, but I'm honestly mystified why this is still an issue.
Extremely interesting.

1) Why so late? If this had come out a couple of years ago, they could've cemented themselves in Windows 7.

2) AFAIK the real reason for Microsoft not making an app store for native apps is that they can install spyware, browser toolbars, change browser home page, change default search provider, eat up battery, install always running services and what not because they're not sandboxed.

How will the Steam store deal with the inevitable barrage of such user hostile apps? Will the approval process be highly exclusionary or inclusionary? Where are the app store terms? What's the cut? 30%?

I think dealing with adware, spyware, malware and grayware is going to be a challenge. If they're pretty exclusionary, expect devs to get pissed off.

3) Sadly Steam Store won't be allowed to include WinRT apps but Microsoft allows links to desktop apps on their app store.

If they solve the malware problem, I think they'll have a huge market and help devs immensely.

Anyone know or remember Intel AppUp Center? It completely failed to take off.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_AppUp
What's the product then?
You send back the 2x assets where possible and otherwise return the standard asset that is not 2x.
This is needlessly complex. I really don't see pixel ratios of anything more than 2x being useful. Having two versions of assets is painful enough.

The apple convention, of having images with "@2x" appended, works quite well. The server could look for a http header indicating DPI and serve accordingly. This gives the developer to provide either one single HiDPI that's served to all clients, or separate files for HiDPI and normal resolution.
I recently switched out my primary hard drive; I was able to backup and transfer all my save data by copying save files from my user folder, eg: C:/Users/myname
This is exactly the scenario that a bloom filter is for.

You have an expensive lookup. You're caching information on success/fail so that you don't have to do the expensive lookup every time. But the caches are getting large.

What you do is replace the local caches with a bloomfilter. That data structure takes a bounded amount of memory. When it says, "No, I have not seen you before," you really haven't. And when it says, "I might recognize you," it is only sometimes right. However its mistakes will not really matter because you'll do the expensive lookup.

The tradeoff is that the more data you put into a bloom filter, the higher the odds are that it will think think you might have seen things before, and therefore the less useful it becomes. But in this caching situation, it saves you work even if the false positive rate is fairly high.
Zynga coo resigns
http://www.businessinsider.com/zynga-coo-john-schappert-out-2012-8
Or do you claim that antibiotics are also homeopathy and spiritualism?

Non sequitur/strawman/slippery slope.

What is your problem?

Ad hominem.

Did you read the rest of the thread? I'll concede that my specific quotation does not, in isolation, appear to be a "No True Scotsmen" fallacy, but considered with the rest of the crystalline deodorant alternative thread, and with spritualist arguments in the form of "It doesn't work if you have unrepented sin/if you don't pray hard enough/maybe you need to fast longer/maybe it's just not God's will", my comment makes more sense.
I guess you could try reaching out to one of the many indie developers on Steam.

Anyhow, what I suspect though, is that Steam isn't going to become some "app store" like the current Android and Apple ones, rife with fart apps and other useless things. I suspect it would stay highly curated.

For example you don't see hundreds of amateur flash games on Steam, everything is cherry picked which makes for a great consumer experience. I know that any game I buy off Steam is going to be of high quality.

This has the added benefit of not having any of those "scammer" apps around. You know, those apps that get purchased by any and all hacked Apple accounts just to get pushed to the top of the app store.
Can anyone yet point to something done with app.net that twitter won't or can't do? $50 is a lot to pay for something that so far acts just like twitter. Without those new and interesting apps, which right now do appear to be vaporware, it's not worth a premium over twitter. I don't think clients that just show you the feed or your feed count, because twitter can do that.
They were all done while there was a bunch of armed men in control of the exchange, I don't think there would be any doubt at all that any trades made within that time frame would be considered suspicious and not honoured. It would be unlikely he'd be out any money anyway since the clearing firms would probably refuse to clear the trades.

(If you're not familiar with what a clearing firm does - they're essentially a middleman who ensures that a trade actually gets completed (settled) and at the same time reduces your operational risk by protecting you against the risk of a counterparty either not-honoring a trade, or going bankrupt before the trade is completed.)
What's really creepy is they're giving private companies access.

From http://www.fastcompany.com/3000272/nypd-microsoft-launch-all...

The DAS system is headquartered in a lower Manhattan office tower in a command-and-control center staffed around the clock by both New York police and "private stakeholders." When this reporter visited, seats were clearly designated with signs for organizations such as the Federal Reserve, the Bank of New York, Goldman Sachs, Pfizer, and CitiGroup.
.2Mbps...maybe that's your real problem? DRM is here to stay, and internet drm is increasingly popular. Maybe time to upgrade your connection?
This sounds like a huge coup for Square. And a little surprising that they could actually (or already) provide card processing at a better rate than Starbucks could negotiate on its own.
This was taken by the camera whose sole purpose is to assist with navigation. That is why its B&W, low quality, and stitched. The main camera system will produce full color images that I assume will be much higher quality.
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There's another reason that good design rarely uses the full range of contrast in any part -- because occasionally you want to go outside the normal contrast range for additional graphical "meaning".

So if your webpage is a light gray background with black text, you can still go even brighter in specific areas. For example, you gain the extra ability to use white to give a call-to-action an extra "pop", or to delineate page sections, etc.

If your page is black text on a white background, then you can never go outside of that, so your functional design vocabulary becomes more limited.
>> The bandwidth from Curiosity directly to Earth is about 8 kb/s. Curiosity has a high bandwidth link to the Mars Odyssey Orbiter, a Mars satellite, which has a 256 kb/s link to Earth.

The early pictures are from a low resolution camera with a clear dust cover still attached. This camera is used to determine if Curiosity is about to land in a crater. A higher resolution camera will be activated later. <<

(taken from http://www.quora.com/NASA/Why-dont-we-have-more-color-images... )
I don't understand how that resolves the issue. Let's say you have two img elements on your page, linking to their respective 1x image assets, and you have a 2x version of the image available for the first but not the second. You indicate 2x availability in your HTTP header, and a client which supports this protocol wishes to display 2x images.

Does the client specifically request 2x image file paths for both images, and when the second one fails, as no 2x version exists, the client makes another request for the 1x version, or does it simply fail to load the image?

Or does the client request the 1x asset like usual, and when the server determines that one is unavailable in 2x res, it sends the 1x transparently? If that's the case, do we not care about the server using resources determining availability of individual 2x assets because it's insignificant? And could the client easily choose to request 1x assets rather than 2x in a non-hackish way even if it does support 2x resolution (maybe it's concerned about bandwidth)?
>Israel is the only country whose mere existence seems to require justification

Well, that's because most other countries weren't plopped down in the middle of an inhabited region, resulting in decades of violence and oppression that, and this part is critical, continue to this day. The US also shouldn't have been plopped down on the land inhabited by American Indians, but since the dust from that has mostly settled, it serves as a less poignant example of the dangers of nation-building. The lessons from history here should be obvious, but for reasons of nationalism and religion (by which I am referring to American Christians), those lessons are being obscured.

>Framing Israel's political problems as if they can be easily solved by not having an Israel certainly looks analogous to solving a Jewish problem by not having Jews.

I guess they look analogous? If you squint? I mean, for one thing, saying that establishing Israel was a mistake is not the same as saying that Israel should be dissolved.

For another thing, what "Jewish problem"? From context, I guess you're talking about the Nazis, but that "problem" was Hitler's accusation that the Jews were responsible for WWII. But unlike "Israel's political problems" (as you so delicately put it), that problem was a fiction.

Finally, while it clearly would not work to dissolve Israel at this stage, the problems with that plan do not significantly intersect with the problems of genocide.

I mean, I'm trying to be charitable to your analogy here, but it sounds to me like you're saying that people find "Israel shouldn't have been established there" offensive because it calls to mind an utterly false analogy.
>> To me, ZFS and Dtrace are of no consequence

>> there are many more people like me

Recently I was wondering how can there be so many tech startups around just now. Nothing under the sun is new so how can they cut a living?

Ive realised this attitude (which there is absolutely nothing wrong with) is the reason. The established players leave gaps for their own reasons and the little guy comes along and seizes the opportunity.

Skipping over cheaply accessible best in class technology, at a philosophical level at least, seems akin to pointing a 12 gauge at your toes.
I'm not clear on the mission of 140 Stitches. Are you just going to be blogging? Is the goal to offer consulting services? Will you be selling merchandise on the site?
Maybe Teamspeak, since that's the system of choice for Steam users.
I'm just getting into programming and something like this would be really cool. If I saw that my favorite company was using certain technology I might try to learn that first. If you could also take snapshots of a start ups stack it would be cool to see how it evolves. Keep going with this and good luck.
But do you really think Google can't correlate between IP address, browser signature and your account?
Can't front...this made me literally laugh out loud.
It varies between products as to what the default settlement period is. However, from my experience (which was in exchange traded options), companies would only have until the close of business to reverse (or bust) bad trades made on the exchange - any they'd have to meet certain criteria to do so, the bulk of which was, I think, that the trade had to have executed at a price which was more than a certain percent away from the current market price.
Steam-for-Linux in the hizzouse.
Steam for Android would certainly solve the current discovery problem that exists in finding quality apps.
My options are:

1) Pirate a game
+ free
- slow download
- maybe doesn't work, maybe it's a virus
- whatever cracked the DRM might cause bugs
- multiplayer rarely (if ever) works

2) Buy from Steam
- not free
+ but, cheap
+ 2 to 3MB/s download speed
+ automatic updates
+ always works, always seamless
+ "defragment game folder" options, etc, built in
+ fast, free, re-downloads for life (install as many times as desired)
A) it's not a huge plot point, it's pretty early in the movie, and B) I don't think that Hacker News should have to worry about spoilers.
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And this is all the reason why hacker news has a slightly orange tinted background behind the actual content instead of just leaving it pure white like the background behind that.
Damn, there goes my business model.