skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As long as you can limit which subreddits your ads are shown on, which I'm 99% sure is already possible, this wouldn't be a real issue for the vast majority of advertisers.
Are You Going to San Francisco
Coinbase is giving it a go. Seems like they've convinced some investors to help them along with that plan too.
Write your damn code so that is easy to read and understand so it doesn't require comments.

Code comments are like subtitle for movies, when the code is chinese and you don't know chinese they are helpful.
PA Semi was about chip design; Samsung does chip manufacturing. Apple has been spending enormous CapEx recently (cf. Asymco), so I wouldn't be surprised to see an Apple/GloFo 22 nm fab come on line before 2014.
Looks great, but your sticky header/nav bar takes up a quarter of the browser on my 13" MacBook. I'm all for sticky nav, but please make it smaller!
3.5 hours of battery life, not to mention I've never owned an Acer product that didn't fail horribly in a year. Spend the extra $50 for Samsung's.
Why, they are the present.
> but these wondrous lab results don't seem to make it to the marketplace

However, there is a very good progress in solar energy production.

According to this chart [1], solar production in July '12 (peak month) was more than twice the producion in July '08 - 100% increase in four years.

And that's in US only, and they aren't the leaders in solar adoption - that'd be Germany and Italy, according to BP report [2]. This report also says that worldwide solar production grew almost ten-fold over the last 5 years!

So, I'd say lab results do affect the global picture already.

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[1]: http://ycharts.com/indicators/us_solar_energy_production

[2]: http://www.bp.com/extendedsectiongenericarticle.do?categoryI...
IOS 6.1 beta 2 Released
will do. I'll also try and make sure you get prioritized for go live.
You didn't provide any reasons for your position. I don't want to put words in your mouth, but the reasons I can think of are:

1. You don't support domesticated animals and/or the farming of animals

2. You dislike the idea of living things being transferrable goods

3. You fear for the welfare of the animal after being given away

Is it one of these or is there another reason? I think it's an interesting conversation to have.
Supposing the answer is yes (and I'm sure it is), Apple is paying Samsung for their R&D advances by buying Samsung's chips, LCD panels, etc. Does Samsung pay any royalties to Apple for copying elements of the iPhone's design?
Reducing server load with Redis
Increasingly for me the music player is the browser. I don't know which library is used when a browser plays audio, but where once I was protective of my music collection, now I find the web playback through pandora and grooveshark to be far more frequently used. For the next generation, my daughter only knows youtube as a music player; the separation of music from video seems to be a concept only readily grokked by those currently over the age of 12.
Agreed this is a main reason BTC is struggling.

But also, Bitcoins can increase greatly in value especially since at a certain point it's guaranteed there's no inflation. I just don't see people willing to spend something that can increase so much in value. It's like paying for Reddit with fractions of Facebook stock.
So can wkhtmltopdf, but I wouldn't use it as a browser.
We were making software to generate web sites for commercial art galleries (who didn't want web sites).

Do you think this is where your affinity for people who might be pitching a bad idea but seem smart / have good work ethic comes from?
Ask HN: Where are the HN full feeds?
Some years back, there used to be RSS feeds that contained the full text of the article linked to in an HN post, rather than just a link to the article itself (as the ordinary HN RSS feed does).

Does anyone know of any such full feeds that still work?
Billionaires' basements: the luxury bunkers making holes in London streets
Which, to me, is one of its biggest annoyances. Opening a slew of tabs from a Google Reader page results in very clear resource contention (one of 8 CPUs pegged at 100% and nothing moving, etc).
What the election would have looked like without universal suffrage
Is it the Skydrive website sending 2Meg 0's? Or the Skydrive software itself? That's a big difference. It sounds like the website's sending 2Meg of 0's in a webpage. Webpages are compressed usually when sent across wire so the 2Meg of 0's is really nothing.
The barman says "We don't serve neutrinos here"

A neutrino walks into a bar.
For a far less contentious example, how about winning a goldfish at the fair?
McAfee Total Destruction 2013
Puppet Forge: Over 600 Modules and We’re Just Getting Started
Yes, this is the same issue we had at Kiva when I and another engineer said we were going to explore accepting Bitcoin. I provided a lot of caveats but there were already two blog posts about it out on the interwebs the next day.

As I noted in the thread where Yishan mentions looking into Bitcoin, there are a lot of barriers to entry, barriers that we were not able to overcome at Kiva (at least for now). Maybe as a for-profit entity they will have better luck though as they have more options open to them, I'd just caution people about getting their hopes up.
By 2020 I hope there won't be so much need for oil (i.e. electric cars).
Thoughts on teaching 50,000 students
:) I'd be happy to send you a copy of the image of my flash drive if that's your concern. I also do not only have one copy of my wallet, if that was your concern as well.
The electoral map for white males
A Silent Generation of College Debt Holders
They are misleading by specifically mentioning 1080p video playback performance when the display has only 768 vertical pixels.
Maybe he got infected with the heebie-jeebies from cats.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4654874
Subreddits like AskReddit do have a lot of racist and misogynist shit posted all the time, esp. those leading questions people post to AskReddit. The Reddit moderating system doesn't make Reddit a safe space for people, so I can see what the OP is getting at in terms of Reddit being an unsafe space.
Note that this is actually just blogspam from a much more interesting post at Buzzfeed:

http://www.buzzfeed.com/buzzfeedpolitics/what-the-2012-elect...

...However when I tried to submit that, the link showed up as dead, so I presume Buzzfeed has been hellbanned somehow?
Items not covered by FDIC: "Losses due to theft or fraud at the institution."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Deposit_Insurance_Corpo...
Teaming up with CloudMine for Backend Superpowers
Intel inside this one: http://www.google.com/intl/en/chrome/devices/acer-c7-chromeb...
It's odd that the murder is the least strange part of the story.
>generate web sites for commercial art galleries (who didn't want web sites).

Were you generating the sites in sort of a 3rd-party, no-connection way, or did they just want someone to create their sites for them?
How much anonymity really exists online
There is open DRM (e.g. OMA) but companies that are using DRM as an excuse for lock-in will never adopt it.
FYI, Fallout 3, New Vegas and Skyrim have mods that will save every 5 minutes, and this helps with the crash on autosave problem. At the very least you'll never lose hours of playing.

The mods use a rotating save system so you end up with 5 minute intervals of the last 3 hours of gameplay.

Checking the size of your save games get let you know if you're going to hit the problem. At some point your saves jump to 5MB then to 10MB and soon you'll start hitting the crashing on autosave bug.
still waiting for the chromebook for hackers. expandable, 8 cores or more with arm processors, and dual boot with linux. google should understand that without giving hackers a choice, they can't go forward.

Edit: mainly google needs to create a developer and hacker community, of web developers to show a browser is enough to do everything for personal and business.
Absolutely not. But then again, I used Android at version 1.6, I run a 12 hour old nightly rom and my desktop is my server running 3.7-rc5 and running a 12TB BTRFS RAID. "Stable" or "mainstream" isn't really in my vocabulary.

To be sure, I'm not advocating that my parents start using BitCoins. I just tire of this implication that somehow USD is, by virtue of being USD, automagically more secure than Bitcoins.

Armchair loud mouths (I have one in mind who went into hiding after trolling HN repeatedly) stop by for months following an online wallet incursion to tell us how stupid Bitcoin and Bitcoin users are.
Nodbg - social debugging
Box should have explicitly used 64-bit variables in API instead of int
Just received an email from Box. Having first warned developers a few months ago[1], it looks like their original API which used 'int' is about to fall over. Good to see Box are on top of resolving this issue but I think it's fair to say that it shouldn't have happened and that this is just one example of startups rushing out APIs to chase ecosystem growth.

[1] http://developers.blog.box.com/2012/05/01/an-issue-for-ios-developers/

---

Hi,

I'm writing to let you know about an upcoming issue that may affect your application that uses the Box API. In approximately three weeks, our file IDs will be crossing the 2^32 boundary in size. In short, that means that if your application is storing Box file IDs as small integers or 32-bit numbers, it will be unable to correctly store our file IDs once they pass 2^32, so your app will no longer be able to access files stored on Box (though uploading new files will continue to work).

To prepare for this, you'll need to change variables in which you store Box file IDs to either VARCHAR or STRING types. If you have any questions, please email us at API@box.com - we're here to help!

If you have an iOS app, it is especially important to note that the Apple App Store review team gets inundated with updates and new apps starting in early December, so if you need to submit a new version, be sure to do so by the end of November.

Thanks,
The Box Platform Team
Chrome runs fine on any Linux box. If you really want ChromiumOS, you can install that too.
We built this as part of node knockout - we wanted to be able to share debugger sessions with other people, so you could collaborate on debugging.

You can read more here:
http://nodeknockout.com/teams/pandabits
But this does seem like the sort of role that the Internet tends to disintermediate. If I can get ebooks straight from the publisher in standardized formats that aren't DRM-encumbered, thus allowing me to use any reader I choose, what value is Amazon bringing me that Google is not already bringing me? Nonzero, I think, but not enough to sustain their business on.

Heck, even the publisher stands in risk of being disintermediated here, let alone Amazon functioning as essentially a fourth party in the relationship.

Whereas I find they bring me a lot of value as an intermediary of physical goods. Sometimes I try to order something straight from, say, a food vendor, but always end up choking on the fact the food vendor wants to charge me $15 shipping on my $30 order, because the food vendor's idea of shipping is the local Fedex drop point and Amazon's idea of shipping appears to involve some sort of teleportation technology.
Sure, but if you use a "real" Bitcoin bank, theoretically there is someone you can go sue as well. They won't have the bank roll that WF has, you're right, but there is still grounds for a civil case I'd imagine.
The Bitcoin "community" really is it's own worst enemy.
zevyoura, you actually did a great job of summarizing my positions (especially for someone I assume does not fully share them).
This is just such an unnecessary combination of something I happen to love and something I happen to hate.
Never Lose Your Wallet Again
It has video out. Also, the 1080p was mentioned during performance discussion, not screen resolution, so I hardly think it's misleading. The discussion was about video decoding power, which not only can this machine do, but it can do with purpose given the video out.
A Palpable Spirit of Optimism in Palo Alto
I currently live in Cincinnati, Ohio but last November I went to a conference in SF and spent several days around Silicon Valley, mostly in Palo Alto. It was truly career-changing for me. The spirit of optimism along University Avenue in Palo Alto was palpable and I haven't been able to shake it from my mind.

Some people say that you can make great work happen anywhere but I wonder how much a place can affect you, much like a certain crop can grow in tropical climates and not in cold ones.

What do y'all think about that?
Yes Yes Yes!! I live in NZ and hosting options here are even more expensive. Something close, properly provisioned and at low latency would be fantastic.
The "work" is always consistent. Should I work less on a high paying gig I will fill the time with personal or less profitable projects of interest. Savings make the periodic transitions mostly seamless and life a through enjoyment.
3.5 is a pretty disappointing figure, but I've owned several Acer products from monitors to net books and none have failed on me yet.
Is it local?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l2LBICPEK6w
Yes, actually. I feel like one of our advantages is to understand how lame founders can seem initially and yet ultimately succeed, from having been there ourselves. Or more precisely, which dimensions it's ok to be lame on,
and which it isn't.
We use them as laptop replacements. Everyone has a desktop and we don't allow source code checked out to laptops, so the Chromebook (with ssh) makes a fine developer machine. It's also good for the non-engineers who use things like Google Apps extensively (and this is where it's targeted).

I have a ThinkPad but when it's time for a refresh I will probably use the Chromebook. I don't really like maintaining two machines, and the Chromebook works well enough as a work laptop without requiring me to do anything other than sign in with my Google account.
Which x86 machine shipping in recent times has had trouble with 1080p output ?
He says near the beginning that they were planning to move and the house was already on the market - both of them had to leave the house. It is not always true that the husband has to leave the house.

1. sometimes only one partner could afford the house on their own. It
makes sense for them to be the one that stays.
2. if there are children, then where possible it can make life easier on
them if the parent who gets custody stays in the house
so the children don't have to move. This is more frequently the mother.
3. if the divorce is seen as one person's "fault" then they are expected
to take on most of the inconvenience, which includes moving out.
4. depending on your state and any pre-nuptial agreements and niche
circumstances like living in a house owned by the parents of one person,
sometimes the house straight up belongs to one member of the couple and
they get to stay there.

/edit formatting wtf?
node javascript and browser javascript are 2 different things.
the javascript node uses is pretty decent , and as ES6 kicks in it will be a language as good as PHP (even better , since it will not have all the java inspired non sens php has).
On the client , javascript is pretty much stuck since you need to support a wide range of browsers.
Can you help me please understand what did wrong. What particularly is making such impression? Thanks in advance.
Remember, Software is Soft
It should, we loved their layout and used it as a design inspiration. What I have found as someone doing a lot of design work (but I'm not a designer) is that if I start from something similar to other designs I can work my way to something that works and is more unique.

To be clear, this process will never produce truly great design work but it is way better than we staring at the blank screen and producing nothing. I'm getting better every day.
Acer launches new Chromebooks: 320 gig HDD, Intel Core processor, $199
"since at a certain point it's guaranteed there's no inflation."

I'm sorry, but this is a statement you cannot make.

To make this claim, it would need to be true that the cost, in Bitcoins, of goods and services in the real world, would never rise.

There is no basis to believe this is true.
You need one more step -- cars as a % of American transportation activities.
Native Client vs. ActiveX
Real time GIFs from your Webcam
I agree with the sentiment, but I've never used a laptop that had more than 2 hours advertised battery life (so, 1 hour in practice). My most recent purchase is a 2010 System76, so I'm quite out of touch, I know. I dream of having 3 hours+ of battery life on a laptop. That far, far more than I'm used to. Though, when tablets can do 10-20 hours, why is this stuck at 3? I agree, that does seem measly.
I'm not sure why he was downvoted. FDIC isn't the only insurance. Banks have other insurance to protect against theft.

Also, banks are protected in a way since they don't really hoard cash or valuables. They invest it which spreads out the risk.

Furthermore, the federal government will go after criminals to recover money. Good luck getting them to help you with BTC theft.
I actually went on a long angry rant on Facebook about this, to the displeasure of my friends who work at MS ;)

Lots of the dev process are substantially broken, even before you get to code samples and documentation.

For example, after I install Win8 on my machine I wanted to get started and just play with the SDK. Write a Hello World or something. I Googled how to do this, which led to a Microsoft page with a download link. That link told me to go download it from the Windows Store (why couldn't you just tell me the first time?!). Okay so, downloaded Visual Studio. Start it up. Nope, you can't do anything until you register as a developer (not even Apple requires this!). Okay so, click on link to register, pops open a browser window to log into my MS Account, after which is redirects to another site with the reg form, which insists on having my mailing address, company profile, and phone number (all of these fields are mandatory, as if lone developers just checking out your SDK don't exist). After giving MS all the fake info it demanded I was sent an activation code to paste into Visual Studio.

Seriously. Neither iOS nor Android are this draconian about accessing their SDK. Shit, I can build entire apps in Xcode before signing up as a dev, and Android is even more free with access.
This is the real Silicon Valley story here: Bath salts, rectal suppositories, associating with gangsters in Central America... the most compelling read since Hans Reiser dropped his wife like an arbitrary block pointer.
Is there any word of a 3G version? The free 100MB/month is the only appealing thing I can see about Chromebooks right now.
Not true. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ru.meefik.linu...

In chroot'ed mode, I do not find that my battery life is any less outstanding than without the chroot.

It's not easy to support dual boot, and I would not be surprised to find out that booting into Linux directly would compromise your battery life. But I would be equally unsurprised to find out that it does not. It matters mostly that you need to have a properly configured kernel.

Not sure if it's possible to share one kernel between android and non-android. But I'm fairly certain that the bits that make booting into regular linux impossible are not the ones that control longevity and battery life. (A little bit fairly certain, anyway.)
Not sure. Every computer I own has trouble, though. Maybe I'm just due for a series of upgrades.
> Opera would be great if it handled nonstandard html gracefully for me

We put a huge amount of effort into handling "nonstandard" html, including fixing the standards so that they represent the reality of what browsers have to handle.

In this case our failure is clearly a bug that we should fix. I don't think anyone disputes that.

In general, site-compatibility is a hard problem. People often depend – intentionally or not – on the specific behaviour of particular browsers. When this causes sites to break in Opera we try to analyse the breakage and adopt some strategy to fix it. Hallvord is one of the people responsible for this and, if you read his blog you'll see that it's not a trivial undertaking; pinpointing an error in tens of thousands of lines of closure-compiled, minified JS makes for an interesting challenge, for example.

If we find the problem's a bug in Opera we obviously try to fix that bug. If it is the site doing something broken we typically try to contact the site owner to get it fixed. In either case we may also try using our browser.js system to make a short-term "sitepatch"; a hack using a combination of UA string manipulation, javascript and CSS that changes the behaviour for a specific site and which can be rapidly deployed. In this instance sitepatching likely isn't reasonable, so we will have to work to find the solution that will unbreak the site as quickly as practical.
Knockout link here: http://nodeknockout.com/teams/dickinabox

Technical overview here: https://vimeo.com/53288732
Couldn't locate a price point anywhere in the article.
just to test this theory I used tamper data with firefox to remove the Accept-Encoding header and I received ~ 100kb page back and with the Accept-Encoding header present I received ~ 30 kb page but the 30 kb page also had the 2 million null characters. I assume microsoft has a bug in their gzip library or possibly firefox/opera have a bug in theirs.
"... if we want to end up at clean and sustainable energy then why make expensive investments into intermediate technologies that don't significantly impact the underlying problem."

So we shouldn't develop hybrid cars either? Or wind power? Or biofuels?

If you want to get from A to B you can't just teleport there, you need to travel the distance between, and that typically involves lots of incremental and partial advancements and often also many compromises.
For a laptop that costs $199, yes.
American troops left Iraq nearly a year ago.
Where do you work that VPs work on products? Sounds like a great place!
In Washington State, domestic partnerships do not exist unless you are over 65 or (until now) if you were gay and therefore inelegible to marry. To figure out what rights and benefits are available only to married people, you can probably go look at some of the groups arguing for the right to gay marriage - they usually have a list of what will be gained.
$199 USD
"There was nothing in the article about all the free oil that the US gets just because we have troops in Iraq."

Quiz: how many US troops are in Iraq right now?
Tent Roadmap
Quite wrong title not relevant to MongoDB. And it can be done much easier using redis-store and standart caches_action method.

https://github.com/jodosha/redis-store

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1988658/rails-action-cach...
"Starting tomorrow, the Acer Chromebook will be available for $199 in the U.S. on Google Play, BestBuy.com and rolling out this week in select Best Buy stores."
I looked into this because it sounded far-fetched.

The power available in sunlight in perfect conditions (at the equator at midday, oriented perfectly, is around 1KW per square meter. Scaled down to iPhone 5 size gives 7.22W. The iPhone charger can provide 5W.

So maybe with extremely efficient photovoltaics you might be onto something, but unless you leave your phone flat in the sun in Ecuador over lunch, this is probably not practical. Mine lives in my pocket.
They told me they're "a sucker for juxtaposing Iowa rural stereotypes with modern day technology."
Please, Just Put The Phone Down And Drive
Necessary conditions for the long-term success of Bitcoin
Yes but the all-encompassing rhetoric about regional political stability is just dog whistling about oil price stability [1].

[1] Alan Greenspan