skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a neat idea. I just rented an apartment in Tokyo. My Japanese is not that great, so when going through the lease, the realtor and I sat down with Google Translate* to go through all the legalese. We had the exact same sort of "wtf?" moments that the author describes -- I can deal with regular conversation, but legal terms oftentimes have odd meanings compared to how regular people talk...

(*actually, it was something else, I don't remember the brand, but exactly the same concept as Google Translate)
I am getting tired of the extremely slanted coverage of Windows 8 on HN. The stories about them selling four million upgrades in 4 days[1] or the web traffic from Windows 8 machines surpassing all of Android in 10 days in the so called post-PC world [2] don't make it to the front page(and will get flagged if they do), but such manufactured outrage or the doom and gloom about how it will fail has no such problem.

Wake me up when they actually use users' personal data like Ubuntu is doing or if the ads are part of the OS like in Explorer, not the silly News app.

[1] http://www.theverge.com/2012/10/30/3576512/windows-8-upgrade...

[2] http://www.techspot.com/news/50745-statcounter-data-says-win...
AT&T expanding LTE to 300 million after telling FCC it couldn't without T-Mobile
Looks like they also got banned from selling on Amazon too...
http://techcrunch.com/2007/05/21/zlio-banned-from-amazon/
Apple adds Siri functionality through its Apple Store App
I know that and you know that, but I don't get the impression that that's why people were angry. I know the EFF went at it from the privacy angle and the privacy/gaudy-ness of it is what bothers me... but most people who were just "raging" about it were upset at the perception that Canonical was selling out or that they were tainting the out-of-box experience or making Ubuntu into adware.

For me, it's incredibly, incredibly simple to remove from Unity... and it's completely free. Windows, not so much on either count.
It's Svtle season! Subtvle? Subvtl?

Edit: Svbtle.
It's kind of bizarre for me to stumble across this reference to Yanagi flatware on an HN post, because I just recently threw out my mismatched collection of flatware that had accumulated over the course of many roommates/years and bought Sori Yanagi flatware (although not the MoMa pieces there). I went from owning a dozen or so crappy forks to owning just four perfect forks. It enforces a certain rigor about washing dishes. I would not describe them as "the best" flatware and I agree that is a somewhat absurd designation and pursuit.

That being said, they are extraordinarily beautiful and functional. Their light weight, finish, and balance all combine to make pieces that beg to be held, meanwhile, the shape and understated aesthetic mean they do not dominate the table--they disappear. Although they weren't included in the collection, I can imagine them fitting into the Supernormal group (http://www.supernormal.co.uk/). Something as mundane as flatware can easily be dismissed by people that do not care about design, but I have found that on my path to owning fewer things it is much easier to justify owning exactly the right thing for me.
I didn't do it by drawing a line between paid content and content-with-advertising, but over the past two years I've also dramatically cut the amount of TV I watch. I watch about one to three hours of non-sports television per week, on Hulu Plus or Netflix. My sports-watching is mostly background material while doing other stuff, and I don't have cable, but subscribe to things like MLB.TV for it, which (like Hulu Plus or cable) is a paid + advertising model. I did it as an experiment when moving to see how long I could get by without cable and a DVR and hours of TV shows per week, and found out I just didn't miss it that much at all. But for the stuff I do watch, I enjoy the big production budgets that advertising pays for.

But I still don't really want to pay any more for it than I already do. Commercials just pretty much wash over me (and internet banner ads I usually don't even notice at all). Sure, there's a not-really-personally-noticed branding effect, especially with interruptive TV ads, but I just don't care if my purchase of paper towels or whatever ends up subconsciously influenced by commercials.

But, all that said, and more back to the original topic, ads in apps are one of the areas where I'm more frequently willing to pay to remove them. It's a question of consuming versus using, and wanting to maximize my screen space.

And I think it's fascinating how easily iOS and Android (I don't remember any ads in Symbian smartphone apps, though I never really used Windows Mobile, so maybe they were there?) slipped the idea of in-app ads into the world, after the desktop app world avoided them for so long.
"don't stand a chance"

I didn't actually expect Johnson to win. The majority of voters don't support peace and freedom at this time, so I didn't expect them to vote for those things this time. However, I had hoped that a better showing by Johnson would prompt more voters to at least consider the possibility of peace and freedom, and that that consideration could inform their votes next time.

"the idiocy of the electoral college"

One might think the case for this proposition is obvious, but it's not. The electoral college effectively prevents having a recount in every state and every precinct any time the popular vote is close. Only when the electoral count is close and the popular vote of some state is also close will we have a recount, with all of its inherent confusion and lawsuits. I'm glad we have an institution that prevents recounts in most elections. What other institution would you propose, or do you see no problem with recounts?
Buying the best stuff, i have no problem with that. Being the guy who always buys the best stuff, reminds me of that phrase about the things that end up owning you.
I had the same problem; fortunately, my partner didn't. He just showed me what he's done in the last week and now I'm motivated again.

Check with your team; you can probably boost eachother back into productivity.
Sure, a key is provided. Look at the colour of Florida!
Interesting comparision. An additional factor to take into account is whether the instances are 32 bit or 64 bit - that will affect the memory usage quite significantly.
I don't think it's blank and white, or a matter of either you can do it or you can't. I'm sure even for Mr. Curtis there are some things that he just can't bother to find the best of (even if he implies otherwise) such as, say, mechanical pencil leads.

For a family man there are most likely some big purchases that you could apply this philosophy to. A television set or maybe a new home phone or a tablet PC. I suspect the conclusion for all three would ultimately be that you need none but short of that, researching the best and getting it once would still be worthwhile.

Even if you don't have the time to re-evaluate the cereal selection every time you go grocery shopping.
Heh, this looks a lot like my steam radiator plots! I used 1-wire DS18B20 probes on radiators, the risers, and on the boiler itself.

Your radiator valves may be adjustable, which makes it possible to set how fast they let the air out. That way you can heat up rads in cold rooms faster than in hot rooms and do a rough temperature balancing.

Btw, if you want to learn more about steam systems and how they work, I can recommend the book "We've got steam heat" (http://www.heatinghelp.com/products/Steam-Heating-Books/25/6...). It explains how things are supposed to work and what can cause problems, I found it very helpful when I first moved to a place with steam heat.
I encourage you to look into the "moral rights" granted to creators under the Berne Convention, which the USA is a signatory (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moral_rights_%28copyright_law%2...). If "usefulness" of a category of law is the absolute criteria, then we should have less "IP". Plenty of math, economics, and research shows that "IP" actually causes less use, less creation, and more problems.
okay i'm sorry i shouldn't have posted this
but seriously everybody hates recruiters and would have had a blast ripping on this guy for being a jerk. wouldn't that have been fun?
American Psycho.
More "hidden" than "removed", apparently.
The Combined Value User Customer Model
Yes, but the headline "Great Design From Nokia", or even Android, is unlikely to make the HN front page.
I've learned long ago that being a satisficer is the maximal life strategy. The entire battle between a perfectionist and so on.
> The form auto-fill behavior depends is part of the browser UI, and can be configured in its option menu.

This can be dictated by the website as to whether or not this is allowable.
Now here's a bet I'm willing to take.

The horse race coverage of the next political race will be just as strong as it was this time. This isn't the triumph of data over narrative, it's just data showing it can be more predictive.

Narrative still has more mass popularity, and it always will.
That's a sarcastic "awesome," right? Because that sounds like a bug. If you need to do something after x hours, this is useful. If you have to do something at a certain clock time, then this could be infuriating.
Run an A/B test and let us know the answer :)

I would theorize that it is probably dependent on each market. i.e. for some markets the first is probably better, for other markets the later is better. Only an A/B test will give you the true answer for you.
In Japan (where they use a 24 hour clock), opening hours for stores/restaurants, or broadcast times for TV shows will often be written as something like "27:00", which would mean 3 AM (24+3).

Although I've also seen a "Track 0" at a train station.
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Four-Way ARM Linux Distribution Comparison
Like in Portugal?

Where decriminalisation has been a harm-reducing success?
I know a lot of people who waste their money on 60" tv's, three video game consoles (and an endless assortment of games they play once or twice), they stock their house with 5x as much flatware and towels as they need, all from Walmart, just "in case" they have that many guests. Not to mention their 6 bookshelves from Ikea to put all their stuff on.

They would do well to consider this philosophy. I have, since long before this was written, and it's an ongoing learning experience with endless rewards.
You can uniquely possess real property. That's actually what distinguishes "intellectual" from "real" property. The computer on which I type this is mine: I possess it solely. When I'm using it, nobody else can, there's simply no room o the keyboard. The same holds true for my other real property, my stove, my refridgerator, my toaster.

You can use my "intellectual property" at exactly the same time and pretty much in exactly the same way as I use it. The law about "IP" is not about property per se, it's about monopoly. Some government agrees to enforce your monopoly on some idea.
Good point, I couldn't find a way to determine this using redis-cli. Does anyone know of one?
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But it always annoys me when selecting the result doesn't open the same math problem in the calculator app (like how QuickLook will open a video at the exact same playhead position + window position)
StatCounter data says Windows 8 has overtaken Android in web traffic
Refactoring from Good to Great - Ben Orenstein - Aloha Ruby Conf 2012
Yeah, I think it's totally a thing, it just sounded really strange.
Well, the truth is that predictive behavior stuff has been done before. So, maybe you could go another way; you could use it to track influence.

Say a NY Times article comes out about the american banking industry. You could track the price ripple from that back to the source article release time and check out how quickly it snowballs. You could probably actually use that over a series to find who is most influential and in what sector. That might be interesting.
The Wirecutter is surprisingly accurate. I browsed for things in which I'm an expert (headphones, cameras, LCD screens -- you don't seem to have vehicles, petrochemicals, lab equipment, firearms, radios, or other tactical stuff..), and your recommendations either matched mine or at least seemed defensible, rather than Details/Stuff style driven by advertisers.
vs a product you're actually paying for.

Like, say, Kindle with Special Offers?
If there is one thing I dislike more than self-help, it's self-help based on anecdotal evidence from one person with no background in psychology. Even more so when the title of a post states an extreme personal hypothesis as if it were a fact obvious to everyone.

If you want to know more about happiness from a scientific point of view, read or listen to experts like Daniel Kahneman. For example:

http://www.ted.com/talks/daniel_kahneman_the_riddle_of_exper...
Ah. Navigation bars are intended to go outside of containers. You can make it span the entire width by setting the position in the inspector to "fixed top".
My ex-girlfriend developed this obsession for having "the best" of every possible thing... I realized it by the time she dumped me...
> use users' personal data like Ubuntu is doing

Please don't spread lies.
If it is that obvious, then what happened here?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Tablet_PC

The flat black rounded rectangle is pretty unique to Apple:

Macbook Pro: http://images.apple.com/macbook-pro/images/overview_display_...

iMac: http://images.apple.com/imac/images/osx.jpg

iPad: http://images.apple.com/ipad/features/images/camera_improvem...

Samsung Galaxy Tab: http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41yoP5hk0ML._SL500_AA3...

Microsoft Surface: http://www.winsupersite.com/content/content/143472/01.jpg

Notice how the PADD does not really fit in here.

I wouldn't be surprised if Apple goes after Microsoft about the Surface design if the new tablets take off in the market, because Apple and Microsoft's patent cross-licensing agreement explicitly prohibit "cloning."
http://assets.sbnation.com/assets/1292505/584.pdf

--edit--

I understand that you may not agree with me as these are just things to think about, but I would really love an actual response rather than a down vote.
Oh you! I see what you did there.
redis-cli info
That should contain an "arch_bits" row.
"The result–being able to blindly trust the things you own–is intensely liberating."

It seems somewhat pathetic that psychological liberation should come from choosing the correct personal possessions. I think a better form of liberation would be to shift focus away from possessions entirely.
It's funny how they refer to Schmidt, Page and Breslin as "the board" since it's obviously just 3 people :) In any large company you only use the "board" wording for a committee that's at least 15-20 people.
Seems like a less extreme course of action would be to just send him a warning that, should he do so, his domain would be revoked (possibly without notice).

Though, as someone pointed out, if you follow the purse strings you hit Vivendi which is deeply invested in copyright. Seems likely that someone realized that they had access to kill his .ga domain, sent out the relevant requests, and extreme (rather than measured) action was taken.
Perhaps a piece of software?
But the spying/surveillance is what we see happening: Google for "six strikes" and see what you find. Google for "The Unbearable Lightness of Monitoring", let me know what you find.

We also have a lot of "spying" precedents in the USA. Google "CALEA", "DCS-3000", "DCS-6000". Once something becomes illegal, almost nothing will be spared to suppress it. The NSA is almost certainly snooping on almost every US citizen, with the aid of telecomm companies. Google for "Room 641A". They aren't even looking for specific crimes, they're just monitoring.

Google for "crypto wars" to see what the USA wanted to do. Read especially the specifics of Skipjack that you can find. Ask yourself why cryptography was so nearly suppressed.

I don't really think this is over-the-top: it's almost factual, very little separates us from a really tight "IP" control regime.
No, absolutely not, those companies would not be able to sign up for PayPal or this Braintree offer on the spot and start running. You can read the legal agreements yourself, they're on the websites and don't require an account to view. Those companies have gone through underwriting and probably have special terms in their merchant agreements to protect against the risks inherent in their businesses.
> The city hotel tax is a way to sort-of-pick-pocket out of towners.

Or maybe it's a way to ensure that transients, who put undue pressure on city resources and quality of life compared to long-term residents, pay their fair share.
No gmail man but how about amazon kindle? They come with ads too and last I checked you still have to pay money to buy one.
There is essentially no difference between 18/8 and 18/10 -- that's an antiquated way to describe steel, and 2 points is within the margin of labeling error. Essentially all flatware is 304 -- some stuff might be 316, which is less mechanically durable but more resistant to corrosion in heated saltwater and acid, but rarely used for flatware.

You're basically looking at Type 304. There are multiple types of 304 (304A, 304L), and also variations between mills. There is essentially no difference between the same steel labeled as 18/8 from one vendor and 18/10 from another.

I'd also prefer 304 to 925 sterling silver. (or, take the sterling set and sell it and buy an ipad and some stainless)

The big lameness is a shift to 18/0 steel, which is cheap and not more durable than 3-5 years, or 14/0 which is essentially trash.

One of the huge quality differences in flatware sets is the knife -- whether it has a real blade attached to a handle, vs. formed from a single blank. The cutting quality is a lot higher with a separate blade, as even great 304 isn't an awesome cutting steel, and you want to heat treat the blade differently. There's also hollow handles, balance, and overall design.

http://www.sheffield-cutlery.com/store.html is a horrible site but I like their selection and quality.
Your local file search keywords are not your personal data?
Hi, this sounds great. Do you have a portfolio?
Any advice for a French entrepreneur?
I'm coming over to SF in december, I'm working on a Web project for iPad and pads. Do you have any advises for meetup or special event I should attend ?

Where is the place to be in San Fransico for hackers, start ups and iPad ?
Oh, I completely agree. I was just standing up for Chrome OS. :)

I love the products Google provides (disclosure: I've been a heavy user of Google products since GMail was invite-only) but I have no delusions that they're providing all of these products in part to drive people back through their advertising revenue stream.
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If Brin really wanted to do more than speak, he could be Governor of CA in 10 years and President in 20.
> Finding "the best" of a product is an obscure hobby. And I'm all for finding joy in an obscure hobby. But I have a hard time believing that Mr. Curtis is any more liberated by the flatware that he spent 6-months researching than I am by the set I happened upon at Crate and Barrel.

There is definitely something to it, even if it is largely psychological.

Take music as an analogy. I'm not an obsessive audiophile by any means, but I have all my music stored in lossless file formats. In practice it probably doesn't make a significant difference to my listening experience, but there is an undeniable satisfaction in knowing I have 'the best'.

I can tick that box off my metaphorical to-do list. I don't have to worry about the file encoding detracting from my listening experience. I'm not left wondering whether the grass is greener on the other side.
I was about to say, having lived there over the summer and headed back shortly, I wish I paid a 10% sales tax on alcohol.
I'm sorry? He said he wanted to do something at a certain clock time, and the phone correctly told him how many hours away that time was.
Ah, of course. Thanks for pointing that out.
Since the display is small (i.e. the pixel density is high), if I were to run OSX without scaling, everything would extremely tiny. That's the reason you need scaling. But you're still running at native resolution, so there's no blurring.

Think of this like vector graphics. You can enlarge them without getting pixelation. This is, I think, what scaling does.
While the technology to detect stance would probably be interesting, I don't see the functionality as being good for general usage. Using your stance as some way of gestering the system seems really inconvenient. That said, there are probably a lot of niche uses for such hardware.

In other words, sounds like something that would be more useful to be hooked into via API be app developers, but doesn't sound like it would solve any general OS usage issues.
exactly what I thought. It's the only product specifically mentioned.
The actual wording he used was "executive board" -- perhaps this is different from the "board of directors."
its not about putting ads on the homescreen? they have done exactly that with xbox already, 50% of the homescreen is composed of ads

https://d35lb3dl296zwu.cloudfront.net/uploads/photo/image/50...

Whats more they try to justify it with sickeningly transparent lies like ads being "Content users are demanding" now.
The puzzle of evading materialism is that it seems to infest everything.

>because you have such relentless resourcefulness, determination, and physical and mental health

And what if you don't? What if you're weak in one of those areas and, for whatever reason, can _never_ hope to become strong? Everyone does grow old eventually, if they don't get killed first.

So then, relying on "I will always be a strong person" is a kind of material thought. You'll lose it, sooner or later.

Perhaps a healthier way to think of yourself is as a sort of resource that can be cultivated for a while - and often considerably, when considering intellectual endeavors - but is ultimately consumed. And then, as in strategy games involving heavy resource constraints, your goal is to maneuver and manage resources carefully so that you can both accomplish key goals and remain in a relatively advantageous position afterwards, even though in an absolute sense, things are always being depleted.

At that point, strategy w/r to things you purchase is just a calculation, not something you feel you have to identify with.
What a load of absolute crap. Have you ever even picked up an Android phone? In no way does Google "push ads in your face". In fact, none of the Google apps included with Android have ads. Third party apps may have ads, but that is no different from any other mobile platform.

Google funds Android to promote Google services. Whether Google services pushes ads in your face or not has absolutely nothing to do with Android.
I'm italian, so I can not feel it. Also latin-derived languages like italian passed a process where longer words (visuality vs visual) were considered the most elegant, if you say that that article uses such kind of deformation... well, it means that it looks like italian :)
I don't really want to deal with the schizophrenia article because frankly, the way it's used in the debate, it's hard to have a fair and honest conversation about it other than: "The science is weak because no one CAN know because it's fucking illegal to study." (er, this sounds like a dismissal of the article, please don't take it as such, it's not meant to be)

That having been said, I think that it is different than what the GP was referring to which is a chemical addictive property (like nicotine) rather than a long/short term side effect (smoking side effects, whether it be tar in your lungs or increased risk of schizophrenia)

[1] Sorry for the language, but the biggest joke of this entire debate is that Cannabis is a schedule 1 drug.
I don't understand why he would provide facts that aren't facts and pretend like those things make his argument for him. wut?