skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No. That said, they do seem to be either making mistakes or getting their eye off the target.

The publicly admitted target is to provide social networking for people. The obvious business target is to make money. But they have to make money while not annoying their users. We know their users are not their customers, because the users do not pay to use the service. The customers are the advertisers. Thus the balance between making sure the advertisers get their wares in front of as many eyeballs as possible while annoying the minimum number of users. And it seems to me that they have this balance wrong at this point. This will happen and if they are monitoring carefully, they'll tune the balance and people will be happy.

The longer-term challenge is that nothing lasts for ever (thanks 2nd law of thermodynamics). Facebook do not need to turn into MySpace to no longer be the top dog. Google wants the top position in the social networking space and they have lots of money to spend their way into it. Or Facebook can drop the ball and get their balance of advertising to their users wrong (see above). Or a new service could come along that finds a way to survive without being beholden to advertisers. (Open-source projects to the rescue?) Or, people could just get fed-up of all the mindless banter on Facebook and decide that they have more important things to do. Or, new networks will arise that actually interoperate, so you can connect to someone on another network. My prediction is that some of all of these will take place.

I have no preference. I am a pastor, so I go where the people are (people business after all) and right now, the people are on Facebook. If MySpace successfully restarts, I'll go there as well.
I've been using Facebook that way since I started with it and I've been happy, but began using it less and less. I'll probably cut a load of the 'friends' I've got on there (people I've met a few times etc) and try and clean it up a bit.

Mostly it's that old quote "Hell is other people", and other people tend to post crap, invite you to every group under the Sun and invite you to play every game they see.
See my response above. We are talking about web design, not graphic design.
Very good grasshopper.
I'm a little unclear on this write-up. Is it actually doing the "move frequently used stuff to the SSD" part? Or is it just a joined volume?
+1 does anyone else see what I see? Linux diagramming app
Good article, but it leads you to believe that meditation is the key to his happiness.

I'm not here to discount the potential benefits of meditation but I think it's important to keep in mind how much effort the monks put into living an altruistic life.

Meditation may help bring to the surface subconscious thoughts and feelings, but the responsibility of taking action and improving negative circumstances that are realized through meditation is the real chance for improvement. Meditation without action I would argue is meaningless.

I guess my point is, there is so much much that plays a role in the overall happiness other than meditation. I read "The Art of Happiness" recently where an American psychologist interviews the Dalai Lama and juxtaposes western and eastern schools of thought on the pursuit of happiness. I highly recommend it if you haven't checked it out before.
France for the past four years, weekly newspaper Canard Enchaine reports Wednesday without citing sources.

Er, Canard Enchaine is a satirical paper. Quite good, usually, in annoying politicians.

I would read this news with a barrel full of salt.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canard_enchaine

EDIT: Added Wikipedia link
Sure, tags are clearly better than folder trees. But would you tag correctly 1000 bookmarks? Or 10000?

Also if we imagine some person starting bookmark list from scratch, with tags - he has to A) make complete tag system from the beginning (I've tried, it's not easy) or he'll be forced to re-tag old ones later; B) type in tags (or select) every time he bookmarks site.With folder trees I use one click to drag&drop bookmark to the intended place.

Tags are the future but only if someone would be able to automate them completely.

On sets with 10-100 bookmarks type of index system is completely irrelevant - you can even keep them in a plain list and still don't waste time.
depends on their definition of "You are a permanent UK resident"

For non-British citizens living in the UK, that particular phrase can mean almost anything.

I've seen it mean "You must have lived in the UK for the last 2 years", "You must have ILR", "You must be naturalized", "You must have a visa with longer than {x} months/years left on it"
It's a great device. It's nice to see Google (and Asus) being rewarded for it.
Self-learning
More Transistors than there are synapses in the human brain (I'm aware they are not a direct analogue).
I'm not sure that the resulting vector files will necessarily be "smaller". JPEG uses a decent compression algorithm, so its size is already pretty close to its actual information content (I'd wager within a factor of 2).

A while back I did some experimenting with compressing line graphics (handwritten music notation specifically) as both CCITTv4 (a bi-level raster compression algorithm) and SVG/PS via potrace (a tracer program), and the file sizes were similar (if anything favoring CCITTv4).
We're currently running RetroPie on it which includes MAME.

Essentially you load up whatever you want, the Picade is just a cabinet, arcade controls, amp + speakers, and screen :)
The moment I saw the fusion drive I was hoping I'd be able to get one as an upgrade to my current mac-book pro (still using a hard drive). But one of the big selling points was the automatic switching of commonly used files to the ssd. I couldn't tell from this blog post if the author was able to recreate that functionality (I'm not very knowledgeable about filesystems), but without it, a fusion drive seems significantly less awesome.

Just having the OS on the ssd is still a big win, though.

edit -- Poor reading comprehension on my part. The new OS X does automatically move files to the ssd. Pretty awesome. Now other world computing needs to start selling them.
about rich entitled assholes I would like to make a special mention to celebrities that like to play cool.
Is there a way to run a Mac on ZFS? (With a ZFS boot volume, too.)
YC Sandy Project - help me help New York victims
IMPORTANT: Hi everyone, I'm a french guy who applied to YC because I want to move to the Bay area to launch my start up. Feeling concerned about what just happened in the east coast with Sandy, I would like to go to NY and help out, maybe with friends too. I contacted the american consulate in my city who might help. This message is to ask you all for some financial support. I need to raise money to get there and help as much as possible. Depending on the amount raised, I'll either bring people along or go by myself. I have lived there in the past so I should have friends able to provide accomodation. Any help will be appreciated, as well as any amount. Maybe YC could handle the money management so you guys know where the money is going, or I can give my Paypal account. If not enough money is raised, than it'll be given to local organisation (reimboursing would be a bit complicated). Come on guys and let's start the YC SANDY PROJECT! Thank you all for support
I think clients in this area tend to not want "innovative". From my (admittedly limited) experience, most clients want "a website". A process can help the user understand what is needed to go from nothing to a website.

It works well when the website is an aside to their goal e.g. selling watches. The website is merely a facilitator to this. By setting a process, you can gauge your client's capacity to work with you on the project. If they don't like how you do things, you can compromise or part ways, amicably.

If you are building the product that the client will sell directly (e.g. a web service) then I believe that a process alone isn't going to overcome the fundamental difficulties of the project - namely that your client is probably selling something that they don't fully understand.
I said nothing about any community. And yes it does just say "because it is for nerds". Go to the website, the front page has a "Need reasons to love Bootstrap? Look no further.", which is exactly what I was looking for. Except the answers are total non-answers that don't explain it at all, it literally says "cause nerds".
It must be tough being a search engine these days. On one hand, you've got people like this complaining that your software is working exactly as intended and just linking to a website that is publishing reports that, at first glance, link the person to a crime (which he is technically "linked" with the crime, being a victim). On the other hand, once you start filtering results to avoid these types of complaints, people start complaining that you are no longer an impartial aggregator, and accusing you of potential bias.

I'm not saying the man was wrong for demanding Google take down the results. I'm also not saying he is right. Google was working as intended. The site they had crawled made an unfortunate implication. This isn't Google's fault, this is the downside to being involved in a crime. You have limited control over what others say about you or how they use your information. Google is in the sticky situation of legally needing not to offend, but also legally needing to be as impartial as possible. The courts are making this extremely difficult for them. If anything is directly to blame, it's a lack of understanding the nature of search engines.

This further goes to show startup founders the troubling legal situation that exists in the world. Bring a lawyer onboard, but even then you have to recognize that you will likely find yourself in a sticky situation at some point.
IBM invented a 2000ppi monitor over a decade ago, but it was useless because software and video cards couldn't handle it.

Roll it out. Stop with this incremental horseshit for sciences sake and make a LEAP.
Those comments were in the wrong, and they were posted because parts of the control panel stopped working during the last outage. This was actually due to the throttling of the API, as mentioned in their write up.

AWS is resilient enough so long as you dont park all of your environment in the same AZ/Region.
It doesn't matter if the original film elements exist or not.

Many different early-generation film elements exist, such as internegatives and interpositives, all of which are capable of yielding resolutions much higher than 2K (or even 4K) with the right equipment.

Furthermore, many hundreds (or even thousands) of the theatrical 35mm and 70mm film reels still exist for all three films. (They're in the hands of private collectors and LFL.) Sure, they're beat to hell, but a restoration team worth its weight should be able to handle such a job if the situation were so dire.

For more information, see http://www.originaltrilogy.com/ and http://www.savestarwars.com/.
Probably makes it less tempting to procrastinate on Hacker News. Upgrading Debian Unstable must be fun though. Ugh.
It is, indeed, on the server (at least on my Galaxy Nexus). It won't work if you turn the connection off. Maybe they have some sort of hybrid, though, because it does have offline recognition that can call people without a net connection.
I remember ZFS had fancy things like readzillas, writezillas, logzillas... Sadly, I never had an excuse to play with those.

And since the author mentioned ZFS, it's not hard to make another computer pretend to be a Time Capsule or other Apple-approved way to use Time Machine for backups. For me, my TM backups are on a Linux box with a BtrFS volume.
Have you actually seen a Nexus 10 in person? Early reviews are praising the Nexus 10 hardware design, claiming that it's much easier to hold one handed than the iPad.
Did any thought reading this..."Malcolm Gladwell"?
>I think what I am hearing is that css styles should be applied to tags rather than classes, but am not sure.

As much as possible, yes. Here's a good example of what I mean, although he makes the mistake of taking it to the other extreme ("you should never use a class for anything ever!"):

http://coding.smashingmagazine.com/2012/06/19/classes-where-...

>Do it right, put it on github, give it five years, and people will be laughing at bootstrap sites, while you are racking up consulting fees.

That seems like a rather unfounded assumption. There's already several other CSS "frameworks" that are better than boostrap. What is popular and what is good are seldom strongly correlated.
Firstly, breaking a contract is not "illegal". The ISP's recourse is probably limited to terminating the contract.

Secondly, just because it's written in the contract doesn't mean it's legally enforceable.

Thirdly, just because it's legally enforceable doesn't mean it's enforceable in practice.

Fourthly, just because it's enforceable in practice doesn't mean it's enforced.
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this site has been such a wicked hit at both the office and the party scene, whoever came up with this is genius, thanks for making my musical tastes in such a quick, fun and easy to use package!
Oh,I'm happy with Longform.

But I'm happy to pay for great content. I think that's a clear signal to producers to keep making great content. Until micropayments are sorted and I can pay each different newspaper for every article I read I guess it'd make sense for users to pay the aggregator who then pays the papers based on article read rates.

There's some thorny problems there to be sorted out.

The styling thing is mostly my personal preference; I like big san-serif dark fonts on a light yellow (#ffffcc) background. I use browser plugins at the moment.
Yes. If you say otherwise, you most likely still have an account.
There appears to be a bug.

http://imgur.com/LXYXx
Facebook employees can sell their shares now
To clarify, there is broadband up here in hills, but it is very unevenly distributed.

I lived near the top of a mountain in the same area, and was finally able to get cable after pestering Comcast for a few years.

The guy that bought the land at the very top of the hill was unable to get Comcast to run cable even with his offer to pay for the run himself. We cut down some trees for line of sight and re-purposed some satellite equipment and got him online via a second cable run to my house.
"Sure, tags are clearly better than folder trees. But would you tag correctly 1000 bookmarks? Or 10000?"

I would if it were easier to do so.

The extra 2 seconds to do it is the bottleneck, so trimming that is the solution. When I click the star or hit ctrl-d in Chrome (I'm sure it's the same in Firefox), the title of the bookmark is in focus. I almost never change that, so that's useless.

Put the tag field in focus, and make tags autocomplete. That'd put me most of the way there.

Of course you're right -- prepopulating the field with tags other people used would be a much further step.
I'm too lazy to tag my bookmarks so i hope there's a way to throw all bookmarks into 1 buckets and have some way to search just on those bookmarks. Is there a way to do that now?
Glad you are enjoying it.
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When I first saw the Nexus 7 my reaction was "that's a nice looking tablet". I think I'd even go as far as agreeing with you that it edges the look of the iPad Mini.

Conversely when I first saw the Nexus 10, my reaction was "MY EYES, MY EYES".

I have no idea whether the lawyers had waded in a told them to make it look less Apple like or whether someone was just having an off day, but cosmetically, to me at least, it's a disaster.

(Note, I'm going on looks alone, it may be a very functional design but man, is it ugly).
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Considering the app store in question was introduced with Windows 8. . .
I understand the desire to categorize OSes into neat little boxes "phone", "tablet", and "desktop" but that's not the reality in the Windows world. Windows has 1 OS that is definitely "phone", and then it has another which is a hybrid of what we currently see as a "tablet" OS and what we current see as a "desktop" OS. Windows RT even falls between these; Windows 8 (including when on a tablet) falls between as well.

With Windows being such as success in desktop PCs, a blurring of the two ideas is strategically important to Microsoft. If people starting thinking of tablets as PCs it benefits Microsoft. They are even moving towards having laptops be tablet-like with touch interfaces; and transformer tablet/laptops further blurs the line. From an app perspective this could mean either 1) that the reach of Windows will pressure app developers into supporting the platform or 2) that due to its closeness to traditional PCs, and most users being on traditional PCs, app developers will see their website (if they have one) as good enough. If I'm predicting, I think the former will happen.
>> Since 2010 (when this trend started), the interwebs have been full of people trying to find out manufacturers who still provided WXUGA screens.

Exactly, it's like laptop vertical resolution in particular has gone in the wrong direction the past couple of years. What happened? Trying to view web sites on one of these resolution challenged laptops means a lot of scrolling up and down, feels like the 90s all over again. Glad I'm not the only one and glad Linux raised the issue.
Interesting that the Stack Overflow team also had a contest for superuser.com on crowdspring.com

http://www.crowdspring.com/project/1247533_logo-for-superuse...
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Thanks, we thought so!
For me the future of bookmarks was just to re-Google. But somehow over time that became less effective.

Now it is Evernote. With the Chrome plug-in for Google search integrated it works very well.

Why have bookmarks, clips, articles, other notes spread all over different services?
It's not. Say "listen to muse", it doesn't work without a net connection. Only "call X" works.
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Bookmarks from the Firefox URL bar are very handy.

I have about 1000 bookmarks and have the set the option: "When using the Location Bar, suggest: BOOKMARKS".

This gives me fuzzy bookmark matching from the URL bar. Can find any bookmark in about 2 secs.

Anything else I need, just google search it from the URL bar.
Or try to auto-guess tags you've used previously?
If he's making explicit reference to CoW unfriendliness, there's not much ambiguity there.
Ditto. I just turned off page styles and read the text. There's not much of it.
Indeed. I'm quite envious of this type of lifestyle. Although I'd take a thinkpad or an air over the dell.

My overall setup is quite similar. Xmonad & redshift are great tools for minimizing distraction over long periods of time. You can really get in the 'zone' in a way I find impossible without them.
An interesting point, but a pretty thin blog entry. I think that everything I have done has benefited from practice. Even programming. The Pragmatic Programmers (iirc) even devised code katas to formalize the practice process.
If you have 10000 bookmarks you need a search engine.

That's what "automated tags" are... they don't need inventing.
LFL released the original-unaltered-trilogy in 2006 as bonus DVDs to stand alongside the 2004 releases of the Special Editions. They used the D1 Maser Tapes created for the 1993 Definitive Collection laserdisc set, so they're (technically) better than the aforementioned laserdiscs.

With that being said, the image quality suffers from horrible smearing caused by 1993-era DVNR and colors are severely desaturated. Furthermore, the release was rushed and reeks of an inexperienced restoration team. For more information, see: http://savestarwars.com/gout.html

It is held by many to be the worst DVD release of all time.
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You're entitled to say that you do in order to win an argument on the internet, but everyone knows you're being intellectually dishonest about it.
Not the entire boot volume, but close. People have put user directories, etc. on ZFS drives. Google "MacZFS" for an older version (ZFS v8) or "Zevo Community Edition" for a more modern version (ZFS v28). There're active discussion boards for both.
Chief Executive Eric Shmidt ? I thought he was no longer CEO.
Yes, and there's no reason that filesystem can't be distributed across local drives on all nodes. Read up on GFS or any modern distributed filesystem.
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>Looking at Wikipedia[0], a framework is a set of generic functions/tools that can be changed by the user to fit their needs.

Yeah, that's the definition I was going on too. It doesn't seem like it describes bootstrap to me any more than it describes every stylesheet ever made. The nature of CSS is that you can override previously defined styles. When I see "CSS framework" my expectation was something like an actual framework, where a compiler processes some custom language to generate the specific CSS you need based off the components provided by the framework. Clearly my interpretation of "framework" is atypical.
CloudSigma Grows its Public Cloud Media Services Ecosystem 150 % in 6 Months
If the author is reading, can he/she specify what model of Mac was used?

Update: He answered me on twitter: MacPro3,1
I noticed he used a USB drive for this(!) I wonder what the failure tolerance is like. What happens if I forget to plug in my USB drive on boot?
> Honest question here: When will I notice?

That kinda depends on what you use your computer for, doesn't it?
Well it has some big challenges:

* Its ability to take advantage of multi-core (good support coming in with Java 8 - 2013)
* Its large footprint (to be sorted out in Java 9 - 2015)
* Its ability to multi-tenant and have shared memory space etc (for cloud, this improving steadily over time).
* Polyglot programming improvements (it's fairly easy to interop with Javascript, Clojure, JRuby, Scala and Groovy today but there are ways to go - chances are Java 9 will bring major improvements here as well).

However, it's got an awful lot going for it so as long as it adjusts to meet the challenges I see it staying as a major VM (if not the dominant one). It's move into the cloud space over 2012 is a clear indicator that it's here to stay.
I have previously made my kids use Khan Academy. I did try it once myself, and zipped through some of the early stuff. I really should go back and continue, especially after I just tried helping my oldest daughter with her math homework and discovered that I was much more rusty than I thought.
As someone who owns both an iPad and Nexus 7 - they're both great devices. But, if you're looking for "learning apps and games" - the iOS App Store wins, hands down. The Android store is definitely growing with respect to games... but I've found the quality of "learning" apps to be quite low on Android. I'm not sure why, and I'm sure it will get better.

If you're looking for "learning" apps for kids aged 2 - 14, I'd stick with iOS devices (for now).
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Interesting... Thanks!
Reading papsosouid's other comments in this thread, I think a more accurate description would be "troll".
Looks to me like Yahoo's lawyers set a precedent by previously agreeing to equate linking to "publishing" and paid this clown off to the tune of $250K.

Now the clown and his lawyers are capitalizing on that judgement to collect another check.
Star Wars merchandise and expanded universe rights will generate an insane revenue stream (Legos, Video Games, DVD re-releases. . Hasboro toys, books, etc.) on top of a new movie coming out in 2015 that will only supercharge those streams.

On top of that, you get extra bonuses such as Indiana Jones and all its associated merchandising.

Disney just bought itself a nice constant revenue stream that will keep generating golden eggs so long as Star Wars remains a core part of American culture.