skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes. I think it has got a lot to do with the color combination rather than the light text on dark bg. I've personally noticed that the sweet spot for me is having a black to near black background with gray (70/30 or 80/20 white/black mix). Having a full white text feels like someone is etching my eyes with a laser stenciled in the said text.
Need: Multidevice Stand for mobile Web Development
This is why I personally wish the times of IE6 come back.
Direct iTunes link: http://itunes.apple.com/app/youtube/id544007664
Reliability is more important than speed, and if you’re reduced to using those hacks for speed-gains your program needs help. Remember Y2K bugs!

I think the reason for dropping centuries from dates was not to gain speed, but to save two bytes. In the 70's of previous millennium, two bytes of storage would cost a lot more than today, and also space on punch cards was limited.
Yes. The naive algorithm for factorization runs in O(2^N) (where N is the number of bits in the number you want to factorize), which is impractical for any sufficiently large N (2^64 > 10^19, 2^1024 > 10^328 which is BIG). There are better known algorithms, but none of them are polynomial, so a bruteforce is highly impractical.

Shor's algorithm, on the other hand, runs in O((logN)^3). For an idea of the difference, log(64)^3 = 216, log(1024)^3 = 1000.

So Shor's algorithm could be used to very quickly factorize large numbers and would effectively break RSA. We just need a quantum computer, which as far as we know nobody has yet.
TANSTAAFL; moreover, Crypto Is Hard.

It follows that you can get at best two out of these three: Free, Secure, Easy.
> There's nobody forcing devs to blindly follow the instruction and pipe it directly into bash

"Nobody's forcing you" is the weakest argument.
Doubt that a majority of startups are using GoDaddy. GoDaddy made themselves well-known and bought Super Bowl ads. That's the first company many people think of at one point of time when they think of domain names.
Hrmm....that's an interesting conclusion.

How are you sure that they wouldn't be able to use "more than enough" explosives though? 1/10 of a ton of TNT on each floor, sounds like a lot...but doesn't sound like an enormous amount.

Can you put that in terms that a layman may understand?

Thanks.

P.S. I would love more details, so that I can properly refute these claims based on physics and facts - than just based on philosophy and intuition.
Yep, was in Iran backpacking last summer and had to carry all funds needed while in the country (and emergency money) in cash for the two weeks! I did occasionally talk to people in bazaars who claimed they could take foreign credit card payments for a commission.
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Frm: Mailer@i3mobile.com Sub: News Txt: .>Pentagon also hit by plane. - Brought to you by Wireless Week and i3 Mobile.

I guess it was not Osama after all.
iTunes stores the files I believe. But this can be an issue of course.
Yes. I often accidentally click on ad overlays.
CrossFit the company makes money from its affiliates I gather.

PS, I love CrossFit - been doing it for about a year now.
I still think it's going to be Android PC that's the next big (Linux) desktop OS. It has openness and it has the big support of Google.

Android is not suddenly going to be a desktop thing. It'll happen over time as Android devices become more and more important than desktops. An Android PC will serve to extend that Eco-system on the same level as iOS & OSX (but better since it's still fun).
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Does it really matter for a startup if they save a few dollar a year compared to any other solution? GoDaddy charges $13 per year for a .com. My current (random) German registrar charges around $16.5 per year incl. German VAT. Unless you plan to buy thousands of domains price shouldn't make a considerable difference.
San Diego Airport Car Service just by SEAL 858-224-5474
I was hoping for a lower level hack, but it _is_ neat.

That said, I still have a couple of broken laptops here and want to check out if I can connect the lcd displays to my Raspberry Pi in the future. When I don't fail at basic googling skills to get past all the inverse projects (replacing a broken screen instead of reusing a working screen from a laptop).
Not sure if you mean the actual little ad pop-up boxes, or just adverts in general... I watch* on average 25 Youtube videos per day and I'd estimate around 10 of those have pre-roll adverts, I normally watch 1 or 2 pre-roll adverts (assuming I have not seen them before) per day and click through after. The sidebar adverts I've never clicked and same goes for the little ones that slide in about 10 seconds into a video.

* some of the videos I "watch" are in the background (music) so I included those in my count but they rarely (if ever) have adverts (because I listen to independent music on Youtube)
This reminds me of one of the first biggest lessons I've learned about the web - make it better than reality. Sadly, Jakob Nielsen found this out in 1998 [1] and we still can't get past it.

> It is painful to use the Web, so we need to reward users: give them something new and better that they didn't get before.

[1] http://www.useit.com/alertbox/980308.html
i dont understand how they could verify that the user clicked on the like button - does facebook have some sort of callback api that allows the developer who wishes to embed a like into their app to know about users clicking on the like button?
This looks very interesting indeed. Initially it looks like a darkly themed Gnome-desktop with a new launcher, but looking around it seems like this is something different.

Unfortunately I cannot seem to find any details on the what's backing this distro. Maybe that's the point and that you shouldn't have to care, but I'm still curious.

Do you have any more details on what's actually running here?
I can't locate the application in the app store via my iPhone but can via iTunes, is this normal for newly updated/release applications?
I know that this is only for iOS but I would definitely sit through a few ads, if they were to improve the quality of the youtube application for android.

1. I need to be able to leave it in the background and for the video to still play.
2. I don't seem to be able to access my likes playlist. This is the majority of what I watch on youtube and it should be available through the mobile phone application.
This article demonstrates a problem I have seen with many companies over decades. Even TI didn't become what it became overnight. But everyone thinks they can instantly grow to become the next economic giant instantly.

That kind of thing can only happen when opening a new field, and even then it isn't a sure thing. And it helps to have a faddish consumer product, like a lot of the big startup successes of the past decade, though there is no real evidence yet of their long term success (Twitter, Facebook, Airbnb, and so on).

Anyone that is going to compete against established companies, in a difficult, technical field like chip design, is going to face a slow, grueling climb, if they manage to climb at all.
Interesting thing I've noticed: At home, no video's got a pre-roll (Slovenia), but when I was in the US almost every video had a pre-roll ... it was so annoying I almost stopped using YouTube while I was in the US even though I watch probably 20+ videos per day at home.

Thing is, I watch mostly music videos and it's really really really really annoying to listen to a pre-roll first.
Hi cheshirecat,

Any tactics for blocking repeat trouble makers? You mentioned blocking by IP in your docs.

I've run a forum (1,100 posts/month) for about eight years which also allows anonymous posting as well as accounts/avatars/etc. Users blocked by IP usually reconnect with their ISP to get a new IP and run amok anew. I also have blacklisted words and phrases which can stop some problems, but not all. I end up blocking IP classes from anonymous posting to eliminate troublesome regions.

Any plans/thoughts beyond that?

(Found your forum concept initially confusing, but I greatly admire your effort and the thought that's gone into it. I think you've created something intriguing!)
The time taken for an uncollapsed floor to become a collapsed floor in the face of even a fraction of a tower falling onto it is unimaginably brief.

In short, the reason that the towers' collapses looked like controlled demolitions is because controlled demolitions don't rely on the explosives to destroy the building, they rely on destabilising it enough that it falls in on itself. The "controlled" part is just making sure it collapses inwards.
Are you really stupid enough to think that this would reduce forcible rape? Do you know what a booming industry this would become in some smaller countries? These people do not have Facebook or yearbooks. They do not even have access to computers.

Please explain to me how legalizing kidde porn would reduce the amount of kidde porn?
> Are you saying that if/when quantum computing comes around, existing encryption systems would be suddenly ineffective?

Yes, but it's a big "if". There are many obstacles that stand in the way of quantum computing on a large scale, in fact some believe it will never be possible to maintain the delicate conditions required to perform quantum computation on a large scale.

The reason quantum computing could outperform conventional computation is because a quantum computer would, in a manner of speaking, process all possible problem statements at once, in parallel, and arrive at the best solution just as though only one problem statement had been processed. I know that may be difficult to imagine, but so is quantum. About quantum theory, John Wheeler said, "If you are not completely confused by quantum mechanics, you do not understand it."

Suffice it to say that quantum computing on a scale sufficient to pose a threat to public-key cryptosystems is not just around the corner.
I'm not sure I'm comfortable with Google (a large corporation driven by advertising profits) owning the desktop too.

> It has openness and it has the big support of Google.

Google did not open up Android 3.0 when it did not suit them to do so (commercially). I've never heard of Redhat or Canonical doing something similar with one of their Linux releases.
It is funny, but AFAIK there is no established lower bound on the complexity of factoring problem. Even in the realm of classic computation. Anecdotally - Ron Rivest estimated in 1977 that factoring a 125-digit number would require 40 quadrillion years. RSA-129 was solved in 1994. RSA-768 in 2009.
http://www.animalsandsociety.org/assets/library/745_s3.pdf
Interesting. A simple analysis shows that first and second most common words are "call" and "please".

"evacuated" is mentioned 4758 times (22nd place)
"terrorist" is mentioned 3505 times (48th place)
"fire" is mentioned 2176 times (96th place)
"love" is mentioned 1671 times (128th place)
"john" is mentioned 1393 times (175th place)
"alive" is mentioned 187 times
"shit" is mentioned 41 times

See top 500 here: http://pastebin.com/Fs6nMyJm
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The government? The one that we "elected" (election between two preselected candidates/puppets? Really?). Or maybe the real one, who's behind the scene, the puppet-masters?

If this was an inside job, there are not so many people (especially public people) who were behind it. They just needed to hire some Arabs (through several proxies) and train them to intercept the airplanes. And I'm sure those Arabs didn't know who was really behind it (they were sure it was Osama who could be an agent or a legend). Then make sure the secret services somehow fail to do their job at time X. Then eliminate/threat/silence those people at lower levels who couldn't understand some actions/lack of actions and were suspicious about that.

It isn't so hard for people with sufficient power and money, don't you think?
The numbers don't quite tell the whole story here. 100kg of TNT would direct its energy in a roughly spherical shockwave, like a point light source. The 480MJ per storey is directed straight down, like a laser.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Controlled_Demolition,_Inc. says it took 12 pounds of explosives to demolish a 2,000,000 pound tower.

1/10 of a ton (200 pounds) of explosives is a staggering amount in comparison. The energy involved in the building falling down swamps the explosives by such a large degree that you couldn't even tell the difference.

Remember that the fire did the same thing that a controlled explosion would do: Weaken the central support. The fire by softening the metal, an explosion by cutting it.

A controlled demolition does not actually explode the building, all it does is weaken the support, and gravity does the rest.
Intel labs: computer size to reach zero by 2020
That line of logic really doesn't make any sense at all. I personally believe Bush to be a moron, but he wasn't the only person doing stuff in that administration. Every president, great or terrible, has relied on staff below them to assist and advise, and that's not a bad thing.

Hypothetically, if this was a conspiracy, then Bush's involvement would have been at the very most listening to options and then selecting one. For the same reason I can, in the same sentence, say that America invaded Iraq and that Bush isn't a trained soldier.

(For the record I don't believe 9/11 was a conspiracy.)
I've answered to that claim above: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4504359
> And Libre Office or Calligra are decent options as well.

I use Linux machines for what they do well, and pretty much all my machines sans the "main" Laptop are Linux-driven.

That said: This statement cannot be refuted enough.

Libre Office and its forks are merely bad imitations of previous versions of MS Office while offering few to no benefits once you exclude cost. They are not "decent" alternatives. They are free, but noticeably sub-par alternatives. They are in no way drop-in replacements.

If I want to take the cost of working with a low-end Office-suite which covers the bare basics and sticks to a late 90s design-paradigm, I'll go with Google's online-offering because it actually provides some benefits to weigh up for the cost.

And sometimes I do just that. But you'll never find me meddling with the desktop Linux office-suites. They're simply not worth it.
Why isn't it an option? If you work in the sort of environment that wont enable IMAP, you probably also work in the sort of environment that doesn't want you giving up access to your mailbox to a random third party.
zsh had the idea first IIRC.
Is there any setup that can handle 10,000 replies well? I've always thought of it as an unsolved problem. Even with threading like HN, you have "more" and I almost never click it. I think /. used to have similar paging. Reddit?

The idea further down this chain of branching off sub-conversations has some merit IMO.
It's an Ubuntu. As windowmanager they developed gala which is also using mutter. They're using many components of the Gnome Environment.
If you saw 3.0 you know why - it was a giant fake hack which was not ready for phones. Opening it up would have destroyed confidence in the platform.

I'm not entirely comfortable with Google either, but I'm far less comfortable with Apple & M$.
This analogy is bad and you should feel bad.

R.I.P Stan Meyer.
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And if you'd like to see the rebuttal rebutted you can read this:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/aug/22/julian-a...
It's read as "cmd, stdout to file, stderr to the same place as stdout".
Nice to see them include Facebook and Twitter (along with Google+) in the sharing options: http://i.imgur.com/z7fex.jpg
Call me silly, but the series of blogposts that this is a continuation of seem to have widely different definitions of "Desktop". One minute it seems to be gnome and other "Desktop Systems", another minute linux in general. Be good to have a little more clarity on just what they all seem so keen on achieving.

Persoinally, I'm not so sure Linux needs to aim to be used by everyone under the sun... People have different needs and pluralism in operating systems (yes, including MS) can be a good thing....
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Nazis were defeated as such, so there was no way to have them as some sort of 'imaginary enemy'. So failing that govt invented another one - USSR. And that worked both ways, US was such an enemy from the USSR's point of view. USSR collapsed (an event, just like defeating Nazis) - time to look for another 'imaginary enemy'. Since it was hard to use a country this time, let's pick something less tangible - terrorist organisations. This can't be easily defeated, and also allows to 'attack' countries that supposedly are home for such 'terrorists'.

Just my POV into all this. And I'm not picking on US, it's just that it's most prominent there...
How many users use 100% of functionality of MS Office? And what part of functionality most users use? We were not talking about drop in replacements, were were talking about satisfying enough needs of a common user. There always can be cases of some functionality lacking. But for common needs - Libre Office is way more than enough already. Google's options are way too limited comparing to desktop applications, but they work well for some use cases. I find Libre Office more than satisfactory for above average complexity document editing. And while it can lack some obscure functions of MS office, I just probably never needed them in the first place.
As much as I love all these new touch UIs, I can't see myself using them on a desktop PC. The WIMP paradigm has way too many advantages on desktop to just be dropped.

Although if someone took Android and modified the application framework, windowing system, etc. to be a traditional WIMP desktop OS, I think that would definitely interest me.
No, never. I have AdBlock Plus installed.
Interesting, at the same time I both agree and disagree with what you wrote. You're saying that you want to offer 100% uptime, but how much does that cost? A client paying 5 USD/month has the same uptime expectancy as another one paying 2000 USD/month?
Just strikes me as likely easier to sell something to gyms for $x0-x00/mo that they then on-sell or provide as a bonus to members, than it is to grab individual users as a one-off. I pitched the idea loosely to a gym once and they liked the concept, but I've never had the time to prioritise the idea over others.

e.g., a gym might pay $x0,000 to develop their own branded solution. Put something workable in front of them at the right price and it could be a far easier decision?
Another conspiracy theory. This thread with it's parent is the most discussed/hot thread, but it is being buried by someone so it's in the tail of the page. How lucky, the real numbers about who and how much points give/take are not being shown to us, the users.
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No real limitations at all. They're genuine SSL/TLS certs, the "trick" is that they're only validated by checking you can receive mail at an email address at the domain in question, so while the encryption "works" - you don't get much assurance of "authentication" from them. If I can somehow read mail sent to a prashantmukesh.com email address, I'll be able to convince StartSSL to issue me an SSL cert for it... This is mostly why this isn't such a good idea... It also doesn't really matter, from the point of view of apps requiring https connection - even apps/apis smart enough to check certs and their issuing authorities aren't going to know the difference between an SSL cert that required a Dun & Bradstreet check to acquire and one that only needed access to a webmaster@example.com email account.
Options are great but frankly haven't always been there and are not options for everyone. OpenOffice/LO are great options and I have long used them myself but if my 1000 employee business is currently built around MS Office then I need to buy new computers with Office, end of story. If those employees want full compatibility with their work files and email at home they needed to buy windows.

For a very long time for most things casual users did Windows was a better fit then linux. Want to play games? Windows by a mile. Burn DVDs? Windows. Download music legally? Windows. Download music illegally? Windows. Word Processing? Windows. Spreadsheets? Windows. Use that new camera/scanner/printer/ipod? Windows by a mile. Read your office email? Windows. DTP? Windows. Visit flash websites? Windows.
Goals are a red herring. Whether spoken or not, goals always exist for every productive thing that happens in the short-term. The high-level nebulous goals aren't goals that make things happen directly, they're more like a vision that allows you to set more focused goals, which is why they don't do much by themselves.

The real issue at hand is motivation. If you are consistently motivated to do something to better yourself, then chances are it will lead you somewhere. High levels of motivation for non-essential self-development is not the human norm, so if you can find a way to harness and apply it I think you stand a good chance of being above average. As a computer geek I think there's a very obvious answer for me and a lot of people here, but I wouldn't describe it as the route to success because there are probably as many ways to find focused motivation as there are successful people.
The md5 sum of the UDIDs list contains 1337 on purpose.

It seems to me that the easier way to achieve this is either by randomly modifying the order of lines, which they didn't do, or to add/remove some bytes.

It could be the 2% diff between the two files : bruteforcing the md5 hashing by removing some random lines till they got a md5 digest containing 1337.
The sidebar swipe animation needs some attention; they tried to add a cute little bounce at the end when the main panel slides in and out, but it just feels weird. Nothing else does that on iOS.
Nobody has a reasonable expectation of privacy when sending a postcard

Expectation of privacy isn't boolean. There's a big difference from a few postal offices reading it and it being published online (which, at least here, would be illegal).
Please explain to me how legalizing kidde porn would reduce the amount of kidde porn?

Using this same (genius) logic. We should allow the willful purchase, transfer and use of counterfeit bills, but keep the actual counterfeiting illegal. THAT should fix the problem right???

How could any government implement a law to not allow creation of something, but allow it's sale, possession and use? This is not logical.

Anyone who supports this article is too self diluted by a twisted ideology to see the plain logic of why this whole argument is ridiculous.
You'll have to read my comment as me talking, as a reasonably capable user, which normally merely access around 5% of what I know MS Office can do.

Just basic things like creating sections, chapters, tables, footers, headers and making it all look good and consistent, quickly and easily.

MS Office, since the move to the ribbon-system have really excelled at exposing the functionality required to do this. It's always there in your face, just one click away, when you need it and then it gets out of your way. It's fantastic.

Libre Office and its forks are still stuck in the last generation of UIs where you have a million toolbars, all just mediocrely capable and insufficient to your full needs, none adapted to your current context and always there taking up space and cluttering the UI wheter you need them or not.

There's just no comparison between the user experiences here. MS Office is in a league of its own.
It's not like, "oops, I dropped an egg". It was censorship due to differing opinions -- not okay under any circumstances whatsoever and he really shouldn't be trusted ever again.
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Seems not to be an interesting idea...
Why the FBI facial recognition plan should terrify us all