skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah. Says the guy doing all his work on a 1024 x 600 display. I mean the guy no harm, but so much of what he says strikes me as incredibly back-worldly. Like using dial-up and limiting yourself to fan-less laptops. I mean I get the "thin terminal" philosophy where you have a shit laptop that connects to something much more potent. But where's the point if the connection sucks as well.

I guess in the end we have vastly different use cases, which is perfectly fine. I found it a quite interesting, if a little obscure, article to read.
Might not have the same
specs but close, http://www.guyskeepscore.com/
I use an incognito mode for Facebook. It's called not having a FB account and not allowing any javascript from their domains to run in my browser. Just quit FB if you care about your privacy.

Why go to such lengths to avoid being exploited by a service designed to exploit you? Just stop using it.
Ignition isn't the only risk. Diesel causes severe skin irritation. I'm not sure about the effects of inhaling fumes from split uncombusted diesel, but it can't be good for a person's lungs.

Potential hazmat incident.
They really need around 1/2 megawatt?

Wow.
My suspicion is that he got too used to hush...
Good Luck !
"Facebook is the next MySpace"
How many comments have said that?
But it is not. While certainly more bloated than it used to be it is still relatively fast to load and find stuff unlike Friendster and then MySpace (how did they make the same mistake?)

Why it will not go they way of MySpace is because no matter if you don't use facebook...you use facebook whenever you go to a ton of other sites. Its hard NOT to use fb.

So I say this...

Facebook is the new Ticketmaster.

If you want to go to a big concert or other big event, well you have to use Ticketmaster...at least almost have to just like facebook.
GPUs suck at any problem that cannot be easily divided. If you can map a function over arbitrary chunks of self-contained data GPUs will perform better.
Haven't we seen more AWS outage issues than "east coast shutdown"-level storms over the past, oh, say, 5 years?

EDIT: Thinking now this may be a temporary move, not a permanent one. As such, it probably makes sense to have a tested process to be able to move between cloud/dedicated/whatever as quickly and painlessly as possible.
Fusion drive on older Macs? Yes
No. My screen is 1440x900 and it's honestly as big as I want it to go. See, what usually happens is that when you increase resolution, everything becomes smaller. Desktop icons, text in apps, web sites. Yes you can manually resize everything but it's a pain and it doesn't always work right. Web pages get deformed since you're only changing the fonts. And it's not like I'm ever watching movies in higher resolution than HD. So I'll keep my 'low' resolution screens.
Apologies, the link was copied from an unrelated post elsewhere and I didn't really look at the URL, no slight of hand was expected by them.

I think your guess is probably wrong though, in a status post 2 days ago they listed[1] the precautions they were taking so that they could be "confident that all of our services will remain available to our customers throughout the weather", and they did not refer to another data center, only "Our data center". That would be the ideal place to mention any fall-back centre.

They are also resolutely not replying to public posts on various boards questioning these issues. I am cutting them some slack in that they have a lot to attend to right now, although the fact they are managing to find time to reply to some threads (like the one in which this is posted) is a tad sniffy.

Once they're back up and running I'm sure they'll update us all on why their redundancy failed or magically wasn't there.

[1] http://status.fogcreek.com/2012/10/feelin-fine-no-expected-d...
Contactually, A 500 Startups Company, Talks About The Experience
Couldn't you just lower the setting?
French Government Seeks To Charge Google 1 Billion Euros in Taxes
Laptop screens typically look fairly bad when at anything other than their "native" resolution. A bit less flexible than ye olde CRTs in that respect.
I've recently came across a project from Stockholm [1]. They went live before the UK announcement, so I suppose they set up a US entity.

[1] http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/martinkallstrom/memoto-l...
First of all, you are quite right for pointing out that the style-de-jour is 'minimalism' for app and web designers. I too feel that there is something missing from the current attempts. It is my understanding that Minimalism is a process, a process of reduction, distilling a design to its core. It is this process that produces the simplicity that often goes hand in hand with minimalist design work. However, I don't see much evidence for this process in the current fashion. I see short-cuts taken to a determined end.

The UberWriter app the OP referenced, to me, smacks of this. It appears that the end design was determined first rather than a process of reduction being made. It appears that features were decided to be unnecessary. I mean, the app requires you, the user, to determine the visual structure of the document via mark-down: the complexity has been moved from the app to the user. All the features of a regular, equivalent word processor are still present in this app, it's just you have to memorize a bunch of special syntax instead of the location of a bunch of special icons. The app doesn't bring the fruits of minimalist design and is far, far from simple.

So in that sense, I am in agreement; the fashionable Minimalist style prevalent at the moment is only skin deep. However, there are some software designers, including myself, who see it as much, much more.
I never meant you should use tor/vpn on your own traffic, just the open wifi traffic. Funnel all trafic you deem risky (ie, from the unknown public) to tor, and let your own traffic use the non-tor route.

Technically, you can do this several ways. You can base it on the source MAC, ipsec authentication, or just have two separate networks (one close, one open).

As for the risk. Yes, any activity is a risk. Walking down the street, breathing air, or just talking to someone will invokes a large number of them. Thus, if we dont want to be incapacitated by our own fears, we must evaluate them. Meteor insurance is a joke because of this. While it is a "risk" in the strict sense, its not a risk worth considering or giving any action to.

If the risk of open wifi is the same or even less than meteor strikes, why does it deserve any though or considerations? Why is this fear different from people who refuse to leave their home, or refuse to be around people if they dont wear face masks and gloves?

Ie, are there a rational reason to avoid open-wifi, or is it just irrational fear. Of course, anyone is allowed to not do something they feel afraid of. But I also feel allowed to point out the folly of irrational fears of risks with less than meteor strike probability.
Every university visual communications program (graphic design) teaches grids ... for a reason.

* http://departments.risd.edu/registrar/web/1112cat.pdf (a number of classes focus on grid systems. this is one of the most respected design programs in the country)
* http://graphicdesigntheory.net/Images/DT/Armstrong_GDTsyllabus.pdf
* http://pacificgraphicdesign.wordpress.com/courses/graphic-design-ii-2/graphic-design-ii-syllabus/
Did you even read as far as the "atomic wedgie" part?
The contrast and font size of this site are a total disaster, my eyes are bleeding.
Possibly some astroturfing to get this pushed to the front page.

Edit: Which has apparently worked.
We've seen many people who failed to read AWS' documentation and put all of their services in one data center. If you follow Amazon's guidelines and used multiple AZs (i.e. if you use RDS check that box), you've had very little (~20 minutes) downtime; if you went multi-region it's even less.

It's not like this is a well-hidden secret - head over to AWS's whitepaper section

http://media.amazonwebservices.com/AWS_Cloud_Best_Practices....

“Be a pessimist when designing architectures in the cloud”

http://media.amazonwebservices.com/AWS_Web_Hosting_Best_Prac...

“As the AWS web hosting architecture diagram in this paper shows, we recommend that you deploy EC2 hosts across multiple Availability Zones to make your web application more fault-tolerant.”
500,000 Chrome Web Store Installs: What We’ve Learned
What really needs to happen is for desktops to become resolution independent so that you can set the size of the elements based upon your preference and not some fixed pixel grid.
For those who scale down how they use it (make profile private, engage only w/ real-world friends, post some pictures) Facebook can be rewarding and useful. It's when you follow Facebook's own druthers to have a public profile and connect with everyone under the sun (and like every product under the sun) that Facebook suddenly becomes shit.
Google Nexus devices didn't ship with Flash preinstalled on the device.
BotCloud – an emerging platform for cyber-attacks
Building Web Applications with WordPress - Tom McFarlin
A Zombie Is a Slave Forever
Actually OpenJDK is the official one....... Aha So can I say its the platform of the future??? Everything cannot be native, and I do not think Mono is that good, and I am hacking in Clojure, so the JVM is the default choice.
Top 3 Concerns Facing Microsoft Surface
Yeah, but when you think about, everything you put in your mouth is an exogenous modification of, at least your body's chemistry, if not your brain's chemistry.

We live in a world of gray areas, not black and white.
Your operating system might not be able to handle more resolution, but the OS that comes with pretty much any new computer (Windows 8 or Mountain Lion) is going to be handle it fine, so there's no reason not to have higher DPI on new laptops.
Are you seriously saying that any of those outfits uses a fill-in-the-bubble standardized test to make decisions about hiring, firing, and promotion for their software developers?

They have collections of questions they ask on interviews, each assigned relative difficulties, and a standardized way to evaluate answers. They ask interviewers to stick to a certain structure, and discard results if an interviewer goes rogue. Standardization is about making sure results are objective and comparable to each other - "fill in the bubbles" is just one particular easy-to-grade method of accomplishing that.

In the past companies (pre Griggs v. Duke Power) did use even more standardized methods, which included "fill in the bubbles", they just don't get too close to completely objective standardized tests due to lawsuit risk.

I also don't believe you really don't understand where education and test prep diverge. I think that's a rhetorical technique.

For a decently designed test (such as the one I linked to) I don't believe they diverge significantly. As I suspected, you are unable to justify your claim that they do.
EFF and Other Groups Push For Free Open WiFi Movement
1) is not a problem on BT Openzone/FON as the subscriber and open networks are kept separate:-

quick google

http://community.bt.com/t5/BB-Out-About/Liability-under-BT-F...
Researchers shut down habits with a burst of light
Posting comments seems to be broken there for me (though I bet that's Ghostery's fault) so instead I'll post it here:

My biggest issue with the way browsers do bookmarks currently is that they force them into a tree structure.

They're not trees and I hate that I have to put them into one. Tags and labels are where they should be, more like the way things like delicious had them. Even though Firefox has tags, they're not prominent and not the primary way of organizing them, so they're not as easy to use as they should be.

Of course each browser has extensions that provide things like what I want, but none polished enough to make integration seamless and make adding new bookmarks painless enough to use, at least so far as I've tried.

The other important thing for me is being able to clip portions of a page and being able to annotate a page with notes, references and comments.

For all of those reasons, I'm stuck using an even less tailored tool (Evernote) to do my bookmarks. So, here's to hoping that improving bookmarks ends up being the next frontier.

Oh and -- by the way, your email validation in the comments here is broken. It thinks +'s are not valid.
According to other commenters, this is only enabled for localhost by default, but if one is using a reverse proxy on localhost, all requests will appear to come from there. So be careful with this approach.
NeXT had bitmap icons (TIFFs) displayed using display postscript. The problem with vector graphics in icons is that you'll still need multiple versions for different resolutions or the icons will look terrible at most resolutions, and then it's horribly inefficient to render them on-the-fly all the time so you'll end up caching them in memory and rescaling them... and -- oh look -- bitmaps.
Few people have the skill to translate complex emotions and ideas into words that convey them properly. Next time you might want to try a "sarcasm" tag, otherwise people might assume you're a sociopath and just covering by claiming it's not you who said it . . .
Narrow minded locals
Teaching Lessons
AKA, "the next Compuserve."
No, companies can't refuse to sell to another EU citizen based solely on their country. But Kickstarter's going to be in all sorts of grey areas, based on what they do.
Does Co-Opetition Work for a Startup?
Though this is much less the case with high res screens, Apple's retina laptops for example are usabe at different resolutions.
My screen has 2880x1880 and the fonts are as big as they used to be on my old 1680x1050 (or your 1440x900 screen).

It's just much more comfortable to read on it and pictures look amazing.

If you really wanted to you could make everything tiny, but you don't need to.

And finally, head over to an apple store and take a look at their retina macbook pro and try comparing it to a normal macbook pro.
I agree in principle, but the reality is different and so the principle can be hard to follow.

In languages without checked exceptions (like C#) you may end up in situation where you're collating and processing a large collection of items from a remote source. You've received bad data so ideally you'd just like to log that and not make the application go down.

But the exception may get thrown by any one of thousands of methods in your own application or a library. So checking the source to see what's thrown and adding specific handlers might not be possible or achievable. Checking the documentation might be an option but in general it's too time consuming or just non-existant.

So to cope I catch a generic Exception, log the bad data, and carry on.

So yet again what we have is a principle we should aim for but depending on circumstance you can feel free to ignore.
Market your app, Gangnam Style
Regardless of what the theory of the law may seem to indicate, then assuming that The Cloud's MD isn't lying, it looks like the courts may sometimes disagree with you.

"A pub owner has been fined £8,000 because someone unlawfully downloaded copyrighted material over their open Wi-Fi hotspot, according to the managing director of hotspot provider The Cloud."(http://www.zdnet.com/-3039909136/).

Personally, while there's this kind of case being brought, I'd rather not take the risk.
Oddly it looks like there was a 'autoReloadChanged' option but it's in the ST1 documentation, just tried it and it doesn't seem to work now. Might be worth giving them a gentle prod and ask them to reenable it.
What we watch, this is what we become. Even thought you might think that Disney doesn't have great influence over our children or us, think about this scenario:

Small kids in front of television or in the movie theater, watching a movie. Thinking inside their young brains, what is happening on the screen. Seeing social interactions of Role Models that are not real, and then thinking "So this is how adults behave".

Thinking about how they would re-act in the same situation, then seeing that this "Cool Guy In The Movie Did That" and thinking that "Maybe I should try to do the same thing".

Even the most little things in cartoons and movies can trigger this kind of thinking and re-thinking in us, making us believe that "I should be like that, if I want to be cool" or some other situation.

We might want to deny this control over our lives, as we all want to be masters of our selves. But this shit gets into our subconsciousness and affects the way we act in real life. We might even not recognize it, as it has been part of our programming from the very beginning of our lives, watching these cartoons and believing shit like "A princess should marry a prince on a white horse".

Movies and cartoons have very much influence over behavioral patterns in our life.

This Lucasarts & Disney merge is worrying. Add in another great programmer of children, McDonalds, and we have (already) a culture of children who have been raised on cartoon & movie values, fed by McDonalds and educated by a broken education system and adults who don't know better.

Disney & McDonalds working together to program and feed our children. A Reality which I wouldn't want to see happen, but is already happening. What can we do ?

Ignore them. Create counter-culture. Educate our children ourselves. Free us from this kind of mass programming.

Remember, Britney Spears is also part of the Disney empire. Want your kid to look up to this kind of idols, who promote Sugary Cola Drink, Fast Food and Over Sexuality ?
He has basically modified the dates of each commit so they correspond to the actual date in his life the event occurred.
Exactly. You can't light diesel on fire with just a match. You need more heat or pressure. However, the burn from gasoline or diesel on your body is intense. I was once filling an old junker with gas when it spurted out from that tank and all over me. At first it was funny and felt nice and cold on the body. Then the burning sensation started and it took a solid 25 minutes in a cold shower to calm the sting.
It is just random thoughts, but may be this very limited setup helps to think through software he develop more which probably results in better software overall.
Well, Sandy Bridge and Ivy Bridge integrated graphics is OK for most users (i.e. not for gamers and engineers, but for most people they are more than they need).
I'm so going to build sex.ly!
Well, it's great for search, but things that people use Siri mostly for are "please call X", "please remind me to do Y" or "make an appointment for Z".

As long as the Google app cannot interface with Contacts, Reminders or Calendar, this is just an interesting tech demo and nowhere near a Siri replacement.
Additional to above, 11 months ago I also recorded some SO stats: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3286348

Using these figures the % growth in questions asked in the last 11 months would be:

java 76%
php 76%
javascript 85%
c++ 60%
python 70%
c# 716%
ruby 67%
perl 50%
scala 76%
clojure 77%
lua 77%

Assuming I've made no calculation or recording errors then the 700%+ increase on c# is quite amazing!
This article is talking about Windows 8, not Windows Phone 8.

And Windows Phone has had OS level integration with Facebook from day one (i.e. the launch of Windows Phone 7).
Yeah, the colour range is much better on the iPad 3 than on the iPad 1.

That is a bit irrelevant. I'd rather have 256 levels of grey on a retina than a good colour non-retina. I can't get good readability of text (both web and A4 documentation) together with quick page turns (no eInk) otherwise.

I could use something else to watch movies, etc.
Google loses Australia 'gangland' defamation lawsuit
Honest question here: When will I notice?

Maybe some games? Maybe some designery stuff? Maybe some video creation stuff? (It might be useful for doctors and medical images, but I kind of hope they're using special purpose monitors for that stuff).

And does pushing those extra pixels have a cost in energy use?
You're not entangled with the measurement, you're entangled with the entire wave despite the inconceivable number of measurements that happen within it. The same way my friends are still my friends despite us being in different places. I won't know instantly if they die or something, but I react differently when I hear about what happens to them than I do with ordinary people. If one of them gets into a car accident outside my light-cone and I'm more sad when I hear about it than about the car accident of a stranger, that doesn't mean that I have a non-local interaction with the car accident.
No More Hourly Pricing
But... didn't we also have some comments before about how Amazon's own control panel systems are all in one data center? If Amazon themselves don't 'get this right', perhaps it's because it's too hard, and they need to take steps to make this easier (or indeed automatic, and charge a premium)?
I think it is very positive. I read it as "Things are being done, please be patient. B.t.w. what's done is insanely great".
For writing or coding, a decent keyboard seems much more important than a high resolution screen. For consuming stuff the converse is true. (Even though I also prefer a high res display, and he mentions that it took him some time to set up Xmonad in a way that allowed him to effectively work with such a low-res display).
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The friends' feed (or any other place, for that matter) doesn't show any identities.

For "rogue" friends, we have on our roadmap a mechanism to "flag" users for a review of their postings. That'd trigger an admin banning them if necessary.

The facebook component, is intended to be for a couple of things.
Firstly, to allow you to restrict your discussion to just your friends (there are several scenarios in which you'd like their opinions, but you suspect they might not be completely honest with you if you knew who they were).
Second, it allows us to be able to keep out bots en masse. The assumption being, of course, that Facebook polices its user-base to keep them out. In turn, the general quality of the discussions stays decent (well, for an anonymous platform, at least).
He's probably quite happy that he gets so much attention and has to do so little except sit around and smile.
Ask HN: Is JVM the platform of the future?
JVM is slowly and steadily, going towards the path of perfection (believe it or not..) and Introduction of Groovy, Scala, Clojure (mamma-mia) is a breath of fresh air....
It is being constantly improved, and Java 8 promises a good startup time too. CLR is given a backburner by microsoft....
I see it being used heavily even in the distant future, what about you people??
Mind that I am talking about the platform only. Java sucks(For hackers only!) , JVM Rocks!! (for everybody)
As a dude from Missouri, congratulations!
Your system seems to be able to correlate the FB id and user id on login to filter my own posts and aggregate my friends postings.

Am I wrong to assume that this ability might enable de-anonymization of postings after a server compromise?
I got a similar feeling at my last^2 job when we had a client run a superbowl ad, for which they were paying a million dollars. That works out as something like $30/millisecond.
It seems to me that people are more interested into getting into YC than starting interesting businesses. That is probably because the selection process is selective and talked about everywhere, so getting in must be good, right?

The truth is (and it's been repeated all over when discussing these "hack YC" articles), there's only working strategy to get into YC : be good. It's not an end in itself ; building a business is.
Home/About/Press/Jobs links are not working for me in Chrome or Firefox on the latest OS X. Though Chrome itself has been crap for the past few days.
The new macbook pro retina 13" uses only the intel 4000.
I tried it and it is annoying. Compose window is located in the lower right corner of the screen, and cannot be moved to the middle.
Understanding DevOps: Continuous Testing and Continuous Monitoring