skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Had the opportunity to seriously use Apple maps yesterday for the first time. I liked it better than my Garmin (which is a 2008 model). I like that it gives you street names for turning and that it tells you of upcoming turns and exits well in advance. The fact that it cuts in over the music being played by my iPhone is a practical plus - the Garmin simply can't do that. Finally, a plus for pointing out hotels and gas stations. My Garmin definitely didn't do that either.
There is always this thing about centralization. It makes initial social networks easier to form and the value comes from that.

And then we would like to see people eventually move to decentralized tools doing the same thing. But so far this second phase hasn't been easy. The reason is people building installing these decentralized tools.

We've spent the last 2 years building a platform that will make building and deploying decentralized apps in Node.js easy :)

A platform where one of your friends hosts something you like, you click a button and download and install it from them. Versions propagate throughout the system. The security is a key component -- you need to make sure it is signed by the developer. Also you can decentralize the app stores and centers of trust. If some of them are reporting the software as malicious, you will know.

That last part is hard. You are hosting the software on YOUR computer, so malicious software may be dangerous. It either has to run in a sandbox (as a website does in a browser) or it has to be proven to be safe by someone.
Good point. We're already thinking about adding exactly this. Currently trying to work out how to display this visually without overloading, and also not making it too easy for people who want more challenge.
You don't have to be on your camera, if you're on half a dozen strangers cameras who are all publishing their video, and I have an image mosaic algorithm and face recognition.
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If the price was under $1500, the low end specs on this would be really tempting to me
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It's astonishing to me how Amazon, which is more of a monopoly in many respects than Apple has ever been or Microsoft currently is, is essentially walmarting entire industries and gets almost no negative press over it. (It's even getting help from friendly congresspersons to strengthen its ebook monopoly.)

I've been forced to withdraw my $20 ebook from Amazon because I simply cannot afford to price it at $20 in the kindle store (Amazon pays the same royalty for books priced at $10-20 as books priced at $10, and it pays lower royalties than BN or iBooks). I'm not allowed to price my ebook so that I effectively get paid the same (which entails selling the book at $40 for Kindle and $20 for everything else) because that violates Amazon's "you cannot sell for less elsewhere" rules.

Similarly, Amazon sells book readers that are incompatible with rival book formats, including ePub. No-one complains.
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Because "the process" had already made its determination and sent the Kindle owner its final "kiss off" email.
In particular ...

"If consumers buy into the new Lumias, preferably in a literal sense, Nokia can begin to climb out of its epic malaise. And if they don’t, there’s nothing else on the horizon to spur the revival it needs. In fact, the horizon itself is continually being eroded by the company’s mounting losses."
What should I expect?
The question is, how much is your time worth? I'd rather take the time I save by not ripping all my media and spend it doing useful stuff. Someday I may discover I can no longer watch old episodes of How I Met Your Mother -- and it will incense me, but I think I'll get over it.
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ssh works out of the box everywhere. I can be connected on as many hosts as I want, launch any graphical application, anywhere and they just display correctly. I can not imagine launching a different X server almost for each application I am running. I have a single X server and often tenth of clients running on three of four different hosts. And when I have to access an "external site", I just phone them, so that they "open" the connection, then I do my ssh -Y and I can launch many GUI running on all their hosts to investigate their issues.

I have NoMachine NX on my home computer. It is very useful, but it is far more heavy weight than a simple ssh with X11 forwarding.
Probably. Unfortunately it's still true: I'm not going to spend thousands of dollars and lots of my time to sue them in California.
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"...and unproven tablet market." that's so true.
I hate unions and everything about them.

You don't like working conditions in the company - leave. You don't like conditions in your industry - switch specialty, go elsewhere. Too lazy to switch or too gifted to leave? Well, sure, OK, let's instead arm-twist and blackmail employer.

Given, there are circumstances when you can't leave or switch. Say, if you are a miner in a small mining town. One employer, one skill set, no possibility of re-training. But unions are essentially an artifact of the 19th century.
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This is completely wrong. Rackspace's Block Storage offering is built on OpenStack Cinder which has nothing to do with Cloud Files, it's backend data store, the servers it runs on, or the regions it runs in. Openstack.org has plenty of information on how Cinder works.
I definitely agree with this, where I think the UI is too similar is in the color scheme, and other general look-and-feel things. The rounded corners if you will. GitLab could probably do something different.
Currently - we don't offer anything to letting agents who are simply performing a tenant find service to landlords. Why? Because they charge tenants admin fees for services we provide for free.

However, reputable property managers who are simply looking to find high quality tenants, we love to have. They can use our Rent Now system, tenants aren't ripped off, and they save money.

Our model is totally different, we do everything you need to let your property, the landlord does the viewings. It's not a case of undercutting, it's a case of improving the whole system for both sides.
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<5 years later> Italy wonders why there are no leading seismic researchers in the country.
Off on a tangent, but does anybody know why they store the data from the radio telescope array for such a long time?

Wouldn't it be more efficient to analyze it, save the interesting data, and get rid of the rest?
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In 1992 (or 1993 ?), I had a 486DX33 with 16 Mb of memory and 120Mb HD running linux 0.99pl12 at resolution 1152x900. It was very confortable, no problem for compiling kernel while playing tetris.
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I think this is actually related to a larger (sea) change currently occuring in Internet culture: a transition to mass media; like TV, the music industry and Hollywood before it.

The internet was very different a few years ago - a source for information and creativity, but easy access and growing acceptance (no doubt related to the rise of mobile platforms), have changed all this.

Some startups today are just like pop acts or Hollywood productions: 1 out of 10 makes a killing, the others fail spectacularly. That's the mass media (gambling) busines, not a "bubble".
Two main points:

1. Development of X is slow. Like "the kernel supports switching between gpus flawlessly but X needs a restart"-slow. Users notice this (though I don't know the current situation of this issue).

2. X-window-managers have awful performance compared to Windows. Try dragging a window around in IceWM or every other Linux desktop. It looks like hell, flickering borders and such. Though I remember a interview with the developer who did the first push for a new scheduler before cfq as he quit kernel-development who tried to tune the kernel for this, so this hasn't to be X fault.
Just found it, Con Kolivas and http://apcmag.com/interview_with_con_kolivas_part_1_computin...
Point is: The desktop of Linux is slow and maybe Wayland will help.

3. (It is always more) That it is a mess to develop for X (and it is) leads to bugs user will notice.
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Congratulations. As others have said below, this is pretty, but not solving a problem people have. The data sucks; solve the sucky data problem and you'll have something incredible.

Good luck.
So can Apple now sue the USPTO because they successfully defended it in court costing millions of dollars and now a YEAR later the USPTO invalidates it? I hope so.
How does this handle ssh key lookup - does it do something like Github? (key lookup in mysql? )
think its a typo tbh
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is this mac only?
That's hardly a deal, it is possible to scrape name, url, gender, locale and profile picture just by bruteforcing user ids:

http://graph.facebook.com/4/

http://graph.facebook.com/4/picture

You don't get the email but that would be really bad.
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Doesn't matter. The company that got the data then sold it on for $5, which gives us an indication of how much they had to pay [1] to get the data from FB in the first place.

[1] I'm using "pay" loosely here. I have no idea what they had to give up or produce in order to get the data, but presumably FB received something of value.
I really doubt they are going to come close to 7MM
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@adamalex Any chance we'll see a color picker added soon? That is my highest priority requirement and the best I've found so far (MiniColors and ColorCanvas) are neither Bootstrap-aware and missing (different) pieces we need.
Well, I for one was unaware of this state of affairs. It takes people like you to bring these observations into light, and to do so repeatedly, because it's important. Indeed, I would request that you write up this analysis in a blog post so that it can hit the front page of HN.

[Edit: I just realized how incredibly generic this sounds, haha. But I am a fan of investigative journalism in general, and investigations of abuses by power in particular, and Amazon is a juicy target here.]
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Inspiring landing page with a new so-called 'elegant' Instagram client.

Looking forward for the app to come out, to test Promote functionality as stated in front page! Maybe there are additional features as well!
There is some good information here (e.g., the fairly comprehensive list of methods to deter brute-force attacks in #16). However, it looks like the majority of the options mentioned here are the default settings for current versions of OpenSSH.
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Adding the proper headers such as DKIM, SPF, etc., are used to make sure a spammer can't send mail pretending to be someone else.

All spam systems still look at the content of the message plus the reputation of the IP/domain when determining if a message should be marked as spam or not.
WordReference usually has good discussions on such topics. E.g. http://forum.wordreference.com/showthread.php?t=50929

Having studied Spanish, "if I was" sounds very strange now. In Spanish it'd always be the subjunctive: e.g. "si fuera..." and never the indicative "si fui...".
Many, but clearly not all. If you added "to certain users" and "from certain hosts" you'd cover more of them.
It strikes me that the logical next step would be to have a tablet screen that can attach to a second tablet on a hinge that is shaped more like a keyboard.

The second display could then easily alternate between being a traditional computer keyboard to being an instrument panel, large trackpad or anything else you want.

Improved haptic feedback will make this experience much better of course.
There are several use cases with Popcorn Maker

In some cases, you may want to offer the viewer further information to link out to.

In some cases, though, the web content is woven directly into the video area. Consider a full screen Google Map, for instance, or an image. With Popcorn, we're exploring new and different ways of telling stories.

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That would be 120 drives/year, not 120,000.
This is the end of scientists giving consultations to the state
If I work as a consultant for 10 years and on average make $100k a year, I have to pay taxes on said $100k, like everyone else. Actually as a self-employed person I pay more than those with jobs, yet if the economy or my business collapses and I get no clients for 6 months, why would I not be entitled to collect on what I've paid into the system?

Someone who came right out of college, made $50k for two years, is entitled to double digit weeks of unemployment benefits.

Edit: Egg on face. Just looked up the details, while I pay taxes, it seems none of these go towards unemployment insurance, unlike when you're employed, which is why the self-employed don't qualify. Lots of differences from state-to-state too, but in NY it's impossible to "participate" unless you set it up as an s-corp.
Though neither a critics' nor a public favorite, Spinal Tap continues to fill a much needed void.
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Qubes [1] maybe. But that may be a bit overkill as well.

[1] http://qubes-os.org/Home.html
Lots of discoveries in astronomy are now made by re-analyzing data from previous observations.

The data storage costs are a pittance compared to the cost of telescope time. By saving the data you're getting the most out of each observation.
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Agree on GroupOn and Zynga, and there are still plenty of popular services which are far from being economically sustainable and yet everybody says what a "great company" that is, when in reality all it is is a "great product/service" with no revenue proposition (still, kudos for building it). See Path, Foursquare, Turntable.fm, Tumblr, etc.

If the liquidity from large companies such as FB, Google, AOL, Yahoo, etc. disappears, the value of the above mentioned startups will collapse. A big part of the startup ecosystem is a house of cards, unfortunately many first time entrepreneurs did not experience the .com rise and bust to understand what a downturn really looks like.
I think you answered your own question. In many cases finding out which data is interesting _is_ the analysis.
I conjecture that someone named Kristian Høgsberg (and perhaps his project associates) may not be a native speaker of English.

Here on the intertubes, it's easy to condemn someone for poor usage, however, remember that communicating complex ideas in a second (or sometimes third, or fourth) language is not always the easiest thing to do. Not everyone grew up soaking in it.

This is not an excuse for poor English - but is certainly a legitimate defense against condescending fucktards such as yourself.
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Cloud gaming can't work on the Internet as it currently exists. Latency is just too high and too variable, especially for consumer-grade connections when they get near saturation. When bufferbloat is a thing of the past, it might be possible.

However, even smartphones are coming with highly capable GPUs these days, so within a few years, any CPU no matter how cheap will be able to handle at least casual gaming at HD resolutions.
This is hardly front page worthy hacker news.
I'm looking forward to you looking forward to competing :) Funny coincidence, though I doubt anyone would blame you in either case.

Glad to see competition heating up. We all win from this.
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A meta-comment:

I'm really pleased to see an article like this at the top of HN. It's informative and side-steps both the marketing bullshit about the metro interface and all of the wailing and gnashing of teeth that metro has engendered.

More like this please.
Oh good, another standard... No one will come out with another one.
Unionization really only makes sense in industries where work is very much to spec, and many people perform the same function, to the same standard of quality, and there is no reason or benefit to exceed that quality. Otherwise, a unionized work force becomes a market for lemons, with everyone driving average quality down.
Not sure how well that logic holds. When I buy a computer (or anything really) I don't look for something that does 90% of what I want to do or what my old device could do. I want something that can do everything that I currently do as well as some stuff that I think I might like to do in the future.

For example with my car. I'd say I do about 50% of my driving with only me in the car, about another 40% of it with 1 other passenger and maybe only 10% with 2 or more passengers. I also drive most of the time with an almost empty boot.

So in that case I should just buy a 2 seater car with a small boot, since a 2 seater car would probably be either cooler or more economical. But of course I drive a 5 seater car with a reasonable size boot because I don't want the inconvenience of not being able to do that 10% use case.

On the other hand, if I was going to buy a second car in addition then it would make perfect sense to get a smaller 2 seater car.
I knew I was gonna get something good when I asked that question, thank you!
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One way you may be able to do it is to make patents always available for sale at their declared value. By declaring a patent's value, anyone (including the government itself) can offer to buy it from you for that amount of money. You must then either accept the offer, or block the sale by increasing its value beyond what the other party is willing to pay.
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Hi there ehutch79, just a quick clarification. Cloud Files is object storage, whereas Cloud Block Storage is block storage. The performance characteristics of both types of storage are very different. One way I use sometimes to explain the difference is by talking about how they are accessed: Cloud Files objects are accessed using HTTP (think REST), whereas Cloud Block Storage blocks are accessed using low level OS I/O operations (think block read and write operations). Because of that, you could implement a database on Cloud Block Storage, but not on Cloud Files as it would not be very performant. Think Cloud Files when you have a website that needs media, large objects, application-specific content, files, etc., or when you need CDN for improved performance at the edge (CDN is a great feature of Cloud Block Storage). Think Cloud Block Storage when you could have used a regular old hard drive: you provision it, you format it, you may stamp a file system on it, or use the block storage for MongoDB or a relational database (with the difference that with Cloud Block Storage you can pick Standard drives or Solid State Drives).
What I am about to type is not an excuse for some of these companies, but rather an observation about all companies.

Sustainability is relative. Very few companies "last forever", so the real questions are... What is an acceptable pattern of growth and what is driving the shorter lives of these companies?
It means overtime work without overtime pay.
>Prices normally go down only when supply exceeds demand

I don't think that rule applies for digital goods where the cost of reproduction is zero. The supply is infinite.
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At the time when I was looking Gitlab was in its infancy, and Gitorious was pretty much the only thing out there. The search wasn't exhaustive as it was a "we need to get this working, now." kind of project where we didn't really get a lot of time to play with different platforms.
Thanks, the title is kind of misleading then.
"Incidentally, if you want to perform a full “cold” boot (without the kernel being hibernated), simply select Restart from the shutdown menu or run shutdown /s /full /t 0."

Why should it require a command line statement with three switches to simply shutdown?
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Finally someone is talking about this! I've always felt that the "new" tech companies bring very little value to consumers and are thus not profitable long term (but of course the early investors and founders already made their money) The incentives of many VCs and "angels" are at opposite ends with sustainability, consumer value and long term success.
I'm not in this situation myself, but I know that people who are not citizens / don't have permanent resident status have far fewer options if they want to work in the States.
This is great news. There will now be a de facto standard codec for HTML5 video!
Really? Can you explain why you would need to do a full cold boot?
Remote desktop allows remoting only single applications, though. That's how stuff like the XP mode with Virtual PC on Windows 7 works.