skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I look at this with absolute amazement. Take a step back and think that the average distance from Earth to Mars is about 225 million km at any particular point in time (depending on orbit)

To think humans being are capable of building something that complex, sending it that far, landing it successfully and subsequently transmitting high quality images is as mind blowing to me as I am sure our forepersons before us considered the moon landing. It is just staggering when you consider that we are looking at Mars as clear as its depicted in Total Recall (the Arnie version which doesn't suck) and many other Hollywood depictions.

The feat of technological capabilities achieved by NASA in this project just definitively illustrates to me that anything human beings want to achieve - can be achieved. I hope this project, the people involved and the continuous breakthroughs it realizes inspires more people to go and do great and amazing things. Nothings impossible - we just don't understand it all yet.
Virtually no cafe's (by which I mean I know of none and have heard of none) do what the Police are asking in your first link. It is completely optional, and indeed may break other laws such as the Data Protection Act if not done properly and with notice to the user.

With regards to the second link, that law is a fair way off and already faces quite stiff opposition. Similar but less intrusive laws already in place which require ISPs to retain certain logs if requested have not yet proved too onerous (and have not been abused on a large scale), and certainly don't interfere directly with most peoples use of the net, at home or in public spaces like internet cafes. This isn't to say that I support the existing laws, I don't, but they are in no way of the same type, scale or intrusiveness as the situation described in the article.
Sounds a bit like ZFS snapshots[1]. I always wished that would catch on a bit more, seems like it would be very useful.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZFS#Snapshots_and_clones
The USPO seems to rubber stamp all software patents.
"But no nation does it at the cost of its own citizens."

don't be so certain.
Yep, that was for the original prototype called Wingify (which I had to completely discard. Horrible user experience). Based on feedback from initial users of the prototype, then I had built Visual Website Optimizer and had launched on HN http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=991252
I applaud the Mozilla team for its huge effort in squashing the FF memory leaks. That must have been such a huge pain to solve and it took many years. Well done and congrats.

That said, I really hope the authors of plugins like Firebug, Adblock Plus, and LastPass among many others will do their parts to get rid of bad memory leaks.

Using OSX 10.7.4, I opened up FF 14.1 to about 325MB-350MB of memory. After downloading FF 15 and restarting, I saw no change in my memory consumption. Once I disabled the three I mentioned above, I was only then able to start FF around 250MB, still really high but better.

I want Mozilla and Firefox to succeed as I really want there to be solid competition for Chrome. Please, add-on authors, do your parts too!
Presumably because either position can be argued for or against with more or less the same legitimacy. Only once a jury "opens it up" is the "real" meaning decided.
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Not having the usual control of the scroll is annoying, unless I really needed to check the page I would quit after a few seconds there. On the first section of the page I can see a big screenshot, that makes me want to scroll down and see it in more detail and then I get the animation with the five lines of growing text, I really dislike this. I got disappointed by not being able to scroll to the image, then I got annoyed at the text animations and finally scared by the really big type. Also, I did not get anything from those lines of text.

The app seems really nice from the screenshot but I have no idea why I should give it a try. I understand this might be aimed at current users so my opinion does not matter much here.

I know they say being bold is good but this might be too much. On the positive side, there are some good ideas there and the app does look great. Given this, I would probably showcase small bits of the app and why these are important. The app looks great, use it instead of eye candy!
Apple licenses 1-click shopping from Amazon... see how the game is played? It's real simple.
The company that designed the interface in Minority Report is OOOii. They actually did implement the user interfaces portrayed in the movie:

http://www.ooo-ii.com/
Here's some detailed information about the addon leak fix from the developer who fixed it: http://blog.kylehuey.com/post/21892343371/fixing-the-memory-...
I didn't downvote you, but I suspect it might have more to do with the style of the question that was maybe somewhat easy to misunderstand. I don't think anyone is upset.

But I go disagree about the marketing copy. It says on the front page "Email for developers. Mailgun is a set of powerful APIs that allow you to send, receive, track and store email effortlessly." To me this conveys exactly the information I need about the service. I'm just disappointed they didn't play with the railgun analogy more, but still there is a reasonably cute mail gun gadget ;)
Never thought of the Klout point, but it's a good way for us to think about it.

Good question. Our current focus has been on high-margin businesses with relatively few (hundreds to tens of thousands, not millions) customers, primarily because they seem to really feel this problem.

Integrations is both through 3rd parties (for things like Mailchimp, Zendesk, etc) where it just takes a couple of clicks and no development and through our API - we have both a javascript and HTTP API. Our javascript snippet gives us a logins per user, but you can really pass us anything you want (has this user finished setup, have they used feature x, etc)
A fancy little jQuery max/min character plugin.
Why dont you consider installing Ubuntu for a change ? I'm not sure if antivirus/firewall vendors are even supporting XP and you really dont want to be running XP without protection.

Perhaps you use a lot of Microsoft Word - Google Docs is a fine replacement. For basic Excel use, Openoffice/Google Docs is good enough (problem happens when you are doing advanced macros).

Perhaps you use Photoshop - Gimp is a fine replacement unless you are using it professionally.

Why dont you mention your specific OS software needs and we will be happy to suggest alternatives.

FYI, my entire family (wife, parents) use Linux and are pretty happy with it.
As opposed to India, where you know, we just asked RIM and Google to give us ability to snoop on all mails.

Or where we block sites at the drop of a hat, did you miss the recent instructions where the govt and their lap dogs went after social media? The new 'evil'?

At what point will you decide that for every flaw of theirs you can point out, there is also a tradition of civil rights and organizations fighting against infringements of those rights.

In the US, UK and many other countries biometric ID systems were shot down because of the huge issues they raised for civil rights.

India? We have a few people arguing against it and the rest of the country for it.

Whats worse, a lot of us are willful in our ignorance.
But it is "linked to or contain GPL code" - if you hive off the functionality and interface to it via, say TCP, you actually are good to go, even with the GPL. This technique does work for a certain small set of use cases.
good agile process
Debian Unstable:

- apt-get / aptitude

- lots of packages

- rolling release

- big community

- committed to support Free Software
Can you give me one legitimate reason to move off of this OS when 99% of my use of this OS is only through the browser?

I made my hardware compatible by upgrading the memory to the max and my computer (browser in fact) runs as good as any Windows 7 or anything else "new" out there.

I simply see these OS upgrades as marketing ploy to generate more income (nothing wrong with that but I have to have my choices too).

People are simply being suckered in to buying newer hardware which they don't really need.
Not even stand-alone players? My first one ever, a mid-range blue-ray player works fine. Other than that, I agree. Btw, the open source players (vlc, mplayer etc.) have been the best software players out there for the last decade.
Does this mean Metro apps need new guidelines? Here is the documentation for optical zooming in Metro: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/apps/hh46530...
Opera is a pretty decent browser, and it runs particularly well on older hardware (which, if you're running XP, may be relevant).

I think a lot of people are still on Windows XP because it was the first version of Windows that was really "good enough" for most needs. That said, Win 7 really is better and is totally worth the ~$100.
Despite the fact that my Kindle is running Linux, etc, I prefer to see it as an appliance for reading rather than a general purpose computing device. I find the screen too slow even for web browsing. It's without a doubt the best ebook reading device I've owned, but I can't pretend its functionality extends beyond that.

My Android phone on the other hand...
The seamless workflow that only a full-blown filesystem can offer- new revisions are created automatically when files are edited and saved.
Largest Computer Makers When Smartphones Included
Time to be an ass and demand the source code because he has to provide it for three years.

//EDIT: he does not even link to the violations. Where is proof that someone actually violated the license?
Thank you! It does help. I'm not the best with graphic design but if you inspect those two elements you'll see that those images are actually much much larger than how they're being displayed. I think the aliasing you (and me depending on device)are seeing is due to the images being resized down from such larger sizes. I'm going to resize the originals to the maximum dimensions they can be displayed at on the page and see if that helps.

Thank you for being so.. well I don't what to call it but thanks for catching the tiny things. I didn't think anyone would pay that close attention to everything on the page. Thank you!
To be fair, it is called ONE-click. What did you think would happen?
I think one or two big time tech company campuses would make a world of difference in downtown Detroit. Open a big dev shop, recruit underpaid people from local companies and best and brightest from Big 10 schools. Just please, don't feel obligated to focus on automotive customers just because you're in Detroit.
The post has moved, so if you are looking it is here:

http://jeffreybaird.github.com/blog/2012/08/21/how-to-get-a-...
Nothing wrong with Ubuntu and I'd use it eventually if I really have to. But in order to just use a browser (which is what I use mainly) I don't have a great need to move to Ubuntu from XP.
Don't want to pay for an upgrade? Get Ubuntu. If 99% of your use is through the browser then this choice shouldn't effect you much. Its just as easy to install as Windows for most OEM's as well.
I'm not saying NA wasn't cocky or didn't get a jet stuck in the mud, but I find it interesting that CY's stories of the man seem so different than everyone else's.
By just starting Firefox and looking at the memory consumption, you are measuring exactly that: Consumption. Not leakage.

Leaking implies a continuously increasing memory usage. By just opening, measuring and closing again, you don't even get a chance to measure an increase in consumption, so you can't say anything about leakage.

Also, 100MB for Firebug, Adblock and LastPass doesn't seem that far off - especially Firebug is huge and has to do a lot of work, so I would expect that to require quite a bit of memory.
Wow, this is quite possibly the most disingenuous thing I've ever read, or it is the most brilliant troll ever:

Poe factor: 1.

The poster said "look I'm afraid too many people will miss the point about the form of argument because the article has a lot of examples against a common set of opinions representative of political collective of people. As such, here are some other arguments that follow the exact same pattern, but representative of a common set of opinions representative of the opposing political collective".

It is so very very awesome that you are too emotionally driven to see that things you agree with could possibly follow poor form - It really highlights the underlying problem the author is working with: emotional response is illogical and, to put it bluntly, stupid. Blasting someone because he shows examples that are bad arguments you agree with even though you will gladly discuss the same fallacy applied to the points you disagree with is the human political problem in a microcosm.

You know what? I agree with the general position represented by a lot of the gp's argumentoids, but completely disagree with the form they take. When my fellow left-leaning people make these points, I cringe, and even argue against them because the form is so piss poor.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/jan/08/kishwar-desai-he...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irom_Sharmila
A web browser is easily one of the most complex software out there today. Not "just a browser"
Some random entrepreneur lessons learned over the past 2 years
It is currently over 400. I've been a bit of a lurker for years, just crossed 400, and no downvote arrows.
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I guess one reason would be that you struggle to find a browser
Blame is not zero sum, we can do both.
While lack of 8 bit support is unfortunate, most posts utilize yEnc now which is much more efficient than base64 or uuencode.

With bittorrent caches, wouldn't you still be limited to people providing seeds for each item? The sustainability of Usenet is now driven by commercial demand. Wouldn't BT be limited to people donating bandwidth/resources at personal will?
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India is not a police state. India is a bureaucratic state.

Even that is interesting. It shows us that bureaucracy (and, I'd say, failure to respect one's property rights) can become indistinguishable from a police state.
Shouldn't the App Store approval process reject an app that does this? It must be violating some ux guideline.
How the new Microsoft logo failed
Mouse lock support for FPS games is really exciting for me. I've wanted to make first-person WebGL games, but before this was available it simply wasn't feasible.
His reply is a bit vague, but as I recall this has actually been studied and it turns out that (for instance) other animals have blood coagulation systems that are lacking several of the 30 supposedly essential parts and still work fine - see e.g. http://creationwiki.org/Blood_clotting_is_irreducibly_comple... and the usual anti-creationism resources. Similarly, the supposedly "irreducably complex" bacterial motors turn out to be made of components that originally evolved for other purposes and were repurposed.
Problem is, that if you have to look at the local culture in different places, becoming globally famous becomes much more difficult anyway.

However, I didn't want to mean that it's impossible to become global without being validated in the US. Just that it's much (very much, imho) more difficult.
Wow, several new profiles of 3 hours or less on HN, and ALL have terrible posts.

I think HN got linked somewhere.

For people unaware -

Bashing the Gandhi family and Congress is a common past time, but beyond that it gets split across people 2 factions which are rife with, if not build directly out of, hate/venom/ideologies.

Its sort of the Republicans vs Democrats, with less long term ideals and more unalloyed hate.

Ask either side for data or logic and they usually can't get too far. If they do, they have their own skewed interpretations of what happened.

Both sides are bad, one is more vocal.
> Can you give me one legitimate reason to move off of this OS when 99% of my use of this OS is only through the browser?

How about so you can use browsers that are supported on your OS?
John Carmack's answers in 1999
I've been trying to get Detroit recognized as a start-up success story [1] for a few months here on HN. For those living in Detroit, the turn-around might be hard to see. I live in West Michigan, and in the past decade I've noticed a huge change in the Detroit area. I only visit Detroit a couple times per year, but every time I come by there's something new that surprises me. In the last few years, I've even taken to parking and walking some streets that I wouldn't have previously.

I could even see myself taking employment in Detroit; maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow, but the city is getting there. Mitt Romney might have famously called to let Detroit go bankrupt, but all it really needed was some investors who cared enough to force a paradigm shift. Look at Detroit startups such as Neowin, Fathead, Stardock, etc.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3923825
I'm not the parent, but I heard about HN recently through a friend. I've got an account that is my real name, I just don't use it for non-startup related comments/submissions.

Why wouldn't new users want to participate here? HN has a fantastic community. What isn't there to like?
I don't really have a clunker, so I upgraded the memory to 3Gigs and my XP is using the least minimum services and startup EXEs, hence I am really happy with the host OS to run my browser which is what I use all the time anyway.

The bare bone XP with least minimum running services is as good as Windows 7. But if only people could see.
Also 16b1 and 17a2 coming out sometime tomorrow.

October 9th: Firefox 16 desktop/mobile, 17b1, 18a2

November 20th: Firefox 17 desktop/mobile, 18b1, 19a2

Schedule pace seems insane but getting used to it and I'm fine with the way it doesn't seem to break anything.

Firefox 99 in 2017?
> Conservatism in America is always associated with a decision making process dictated by religion.

That seems to be the case today, but I don't think it was always that way. The original idea of conservatism as I understand it is basically to avoid seeing everything as an emergency and to avoid seeing every emergency as the exclusive domain of the state. Conservatism is about moving slowly (conservatively) to avoid making unnecessary changes that turn out to be mistakes. In short, to defuse alarmism with calm, reasoned debate. In fact, today, arguing that we should tear down vast amounts of the government simply because they were erected by liberals is also a dramatic change that an old-fashioned conservative would have some trouble agreeing to.

It's pretty sad that both political parties in this country are mostly defined by not being the other one. I would appreciate having a conservative party of this stripe to choose. I think the closest thing we have is the Modern Whig party, which is tellingly considered centrist.

Edit: I'm having trouble imagining how the above could merit downvotes without replies.
Lets be realistic here, enforcement of copyright across nation boundaries is still difficult. Just look at the recent case where someone's game engine was cloned, translated and sold in China.

Aside from some high profile targets, you cannot claim that GPL has an excellent enforcement history. A simple google query "gpl hall of shame" should suffice.
If "intuitive" is so damn easy why are so many gadgets and appliances so hard to use?
BananaBread: 3D first person shooter game compiled to JS+WebGL
Isn't that the point of the TVShack extradition? A UK citizen running a site hosted in Sweden (I think) is extradited for breaking US copyright laws?
documanager.de is a portal that revolves around document management. There seems to be a magazine and an expert exchange/consulting business attached, but it's not a product. So they certainly don't infringe.

documanager.co.uk seems to be a windows native application and has the sites copyright tag set to 2005. An unlike candidate for infringement on a django-based python webapp.

evolusofts application runs on IIS and Microsoft SQL Server. It provides a twain scanner interface. Also an unlikely candidate - thought it just might be. Still, I don't buy it without another indicator other than the matching name.

Conclusion: Your post seems wrong. They simply don't mention Mayan or the GPL since they're not based on a GPL product.
As a patent attorney, I can assure you that this is not true.
Show us a patent that is not obvious.
Wix just added 4 new cool widgets to their editor
I think it's instructive to look away from the world of operating systems, which have been under legal threat since the 80's and thus have always been under an anti-competitive, anti-innovative shadow. The fact that so few companies tried what Apple did with UI speaks as much to the intimidation inherent in the industry than to Steve Job's genius.

Whenever I ask myself if patents are necessary to promote innovation, I think of music software, where copying is a fact of life yet highly original ideas emerge year after year. Whenever something useful emerges (like Ableton Live's once innovative "session view" where you launch repeating music clips) it's usually copied by half the industry within a few versions and nobody even blinks.

In the mean time, the biggest incumbents (Avid's Pro Tools, Steinberg's Cubase) have remained seemingly profitable businesses, and consumers have benefited from abundant choice. The competition has also encouraged the software makers to add a lot of value in the form of lots of included content (soft synths, effects, loops, etc.). And funny enough, the more innovative companies (Ableton, Propellerhead, Cycling 74 spring to mind) keep coming up with interesting ideas.
Good point and I will continue to monitor the browser as I use it. Just in initial browsing, I'm still finding the memory consumption increasing at the same alarming rate it was before sadly. :( But you are correct that I need to give it some time to really measure correctly.

That said, even with the 9 add-ons I'm using, I was hoping I could see a total memory usage on startup to be closer to 225MB.
17a2 is out now (or at least my Aurora just updated itself).
That's because of the OS functionality exception in the GPL. LibC is also LGPL to allow any source to link to it.
Yes, because downloading torrents + network share is just the same as streaming + airplay.

This guy already has a cable set top box plus an Apple TV that can stream from HBO and network sharing. Airplay is another matter, you can't mirror/stream from your mobile to your HTPC.