skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're attributing to staging what can be adequately explained by reality.

See: the myriad women tweeting about how they would love to get beaten up by Chris Brown.

For better or for worse, being the bad boy "works". And it works extraordinarily well for a larger proportion than we'd like to believe.
My system has calendar.ubuntu with dates ordered by version number and calendar.debian with multiple groups of dates ordered by year.
A browser rendering engine is a pretty crucial piece of strategic infrastructure for an operating system company. Having future features controlled by a competitor isn't a great place to be in.
And the market is convenient, and efficient. It's just that the most convenient and efficient market for much of Television/mass media happens to be the black market. Until the legal market is as convenient, the problem won't go away. And it is possible to beat a casual pirate this way. I haven't pirated a music track in probably a decade thanks to iTunes and Amazon/Google's music stores.
All the news and data seems to show that Foursquare peaked some time ago. Naveen one of the founders left; several pivots (remember that a pivot is done when things are not working out); well known employees leaving (Morgan Missen, Tristan Walker, and now Naveen's partner); declining use of the app; down round; etc. This company is now burning Series D cash raised on November, I guess there is no more fun and games here.
Looks awesome! Do you support notifications (email, SMS, etc) ?
Same is true for citizens living in the U.S. with regards to BBC and CBC shows like Dragon's Den. I really like to watch BBC docs, but I don't feel the need to go and download them illegally or anything. There's a lot of great stuff from all over the world that USA people can't watch.

I really don't understand the entitled argument. I don't get why consumers feel they are owed the right to be entertained by any particular piece of digital media.

Why not just watch something else? There's plenty of good stuff out there that can be obtained within the rules. Why not argue for all the legal options rather than the entitlement option?
1) Oh absolutely, I don't dispute VLC remains useful. I just think it's a shame that we still need VLC. To most of its users, VLC is "that thing that my friend told me I'd need to install to play these videos because for some reason Windows can't play them on its own"

2) I'm more worried about the precedent this sets. Is VLC going to need new cash injections every time Microsoft change the rules of the Windows Store, or release updates to Windows 8 that break the app? As I say, the next major release of Windows will undoubtedly break everything all over again.

It just strikes me as an awful lot of time, money and effort to build a solution to a problem that really oughtn't to exist in this day and age...
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Foursquare is integrated into a lot of other products. For example Instagram and Path both use Foursquare to get nearby locations when uploading an image, and I'm sure there are numerous other services that do the same thing. There is still a tremendous amount of API usage even if it doesn't seem like such a huge "buzzword" app from a direct user point of view.
Agreed! Google, Apple and Adobe own/use it. If they all want common web standards, why are you implementing different variations?

Unless there is a security risk or something glaring we're missing...

Edit: Atleast IE9 and IE10 pass the Acid3 test 100/100. Not sure how that reflects on html5/css3.
" Not only are the language processing parts in our brain activated, but any other area in our brain, that we would use when experiencing the events of the story are too."

It's good to be reminded of this...
I bought one of these laptops shortly after the whole sputnik ppa was launched to replace a stolen macbook.

I guess you can call me a beta tester, but I paid full price for the laptop at Best Buy so I could be up and running in a day after being robbed.

First couple weeks were annoying as the fixes for the cypress touchpad were not available. Once Dell got the patches in their kernel it's been a great laptop.

Physically I've found it easy to carry and handle. It looks great with the aluminum lid and carbon fiber bottom.

I'm a sysadmin, I generally prefer Linux. My one foray into apply with a 13in MBP left me knowing that I wasn't going to go back to Apple any way. I'm not going to compare OS's, I'm just someone happier with Linux.

I tried other Ubuntu variants with the laptop. Bodhi and Mint both installed fine, newer versions included the touchpad kernel updates from the main Ubuntu distribution so it worked out the box. I did end up installing the sputnik ppa and using that kernel to keep the brightness keys working. Over all I didn't have a lot of luck with e17 and volume/brightness at all. However, I'm not sure if that's the laptop or e17 as I haven't had luck with those on my workstation at work as well.

The resolution sucks. I mean, it's fine for doing some general web programming in python with a full screen tmux terminal and browser(s) in another virtual desktop. You need to start remote desktop to Windows servers and such and you really begin to hate the vertical resolution limit. I solved this by hooking it up to a monitor when working and using the laptop display as a second screen for email and such. Now that laptops are coming up with higher resolution screens by default I'll not get something that low ever again.

The specs on mine are 4GB RAM, core i5 (2 core + hyperthreading) and a 128GB SSD. Video on all of them in Intel HD3000 I believe. I don't do a lot of virtualization, I can see why they would increase the RAM and CPU for the developer edition if they expect developers to be spinning up VMs. I've never really taxed the memory on it with anything I do. Caveat I'm a sysadmin who plays around with developing websites with Python/Tornado on the side, I don't do a lot anyway. I believe I was able to soak the cpu pretty good playing with golang a few times.

The only issues I've really had with the laptop are the resolution of the laptop display and the fact it runs really hot playing Team Fortress 2 in the Steam for Linux Beta. CPU core temps reach over 190F regularly while playing and if you block airflow out the back it will shut down on you (learned that the hard way). Really makes me miss my Alienware M11x for gaming purposes.

Other issues I've had with laptops in the past have been hinges. I have yet to experience any issues with the hinges on this laptop.

Over all the resolution is the one knock I'd give the system for a developer system, especially with the developer edition having more memory and cpu that the model I have. If you already have a monitor and plan to use it for extended sessions with the laptop I think you'll find it great.
It's possible, but completely abstaining from Microsoft products has made my life a lot happier. I'm not as angry as I used to be.
That must be why Harvard and Yale grads are automatically disqualified from being nominated for President by America's mainstream right-wing party.

Your comment might make sense in the bubble in which you live, but it's balderdash.
That was kind of my feeling about Windows 8, why not just standardize around Unix like everyone else? The most obvious answer is inertia, but there might also be internal political roadblocks as well.
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You must be new to the internets.
And.. in a way it's about holding a mirror up to society. All the guy does is let you post a picture. Then the rest of society destroys lives. Over something they themselves do each night.

Honestly, I understand him. This is exactly the kind of site I'd build if I were socipathic.
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It's not a problem running several services on the same box as soon as each of them is sized appropriately. What I suggest at least roughly calculate how much eg. RAM could each service use at peak time. This usage should be limited so that the sum of memory used by all services at peak time is less than the amount of RAM you've got on your server.
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Great! Big fan of Prismatic :) One thing I don't understand is that sometimes there's a dollar sign next to an article (eg one from Forbes.com). What does that mean?
The updated version listed there isn't present in the current version for Debian or Ubuntu.
Looks good. Thanks for bringing it up to date!
I don't see it playing out well for exit node operators.

That's why I thought that a group to help pay legal fees for people like this was a good idea.

I fully support TOR and would like to support people who run exit nodes and get sued by the government just for hosting exit nodes.

What I don't want to support is people who personally collect and distribute child porn.

Which is why independent verification of the claims by this new entity would be beneficial.

I'm not sure how much clearer I can make this:)
A communications disruption can mean only one thing -- invasion.
I should note that I live in Illinois. Your housing dollar goes a lot farther here.

I usually make the wild assumption that most people who post here are in San Fran.
Translating: "we never gave a fuck about web standards because we were a monopoly, now we realized we're losing the war and decided to improve things. Hope it's not too late..."
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There's also a lot of nostalgia based on the options available, and our expectations were much, much less. If we'd been given the option to play both, Fallout 3 would have been considered the more "immersive" experience without question.
Just to be clear, there is no moral right to copyright. It's a legal artifact we created to advance society by rewarding artists and other creators for content created in the hope they'll create more/better stuff.

However, it's now being used to hold back society, via actually preventing people from accessing the copyrighted content. Worse, copyright is being used to justify restrictions and prohibitions on new methods of distribution and entire new technologies.

They may not be forcing people to copyright, but they have lost the moral standing to complain about it.
> You can always increase the font size

As I said, that doesn't solve the problem.

> You can't do the opposite if the display does not support it.

Sure, but this display works for me, and there are plenty of things I can do on Linux which I can't on OS X (and which I care about much more).

If my problems aren't issues for you (which they're not) and you really care about display/rendering/etc., then yes, you probably want a Mac and this computer probably isn't for you. I like it because I've never been happy with a Macbook Air, and this is a Linux Ultrabook that "just works".
Encryption keys in a TPM? RAID configurations which depend on physical cabling setups? Storage that can't be physically removed? There are a thousand ways that taking the "hard drive" from a computer will end up losing information that would be recoverable with the whole device. It's not really reasonable to expect police departments to do IT foresics on site during a search.

That doesn't mean that the seizure is "justified", but there are no simple answers either.
Regarding #2: They might, yes, and it might be easier for a lot of people to contribute monetarily, rather than spend the time learning enough about VLC to be able to submit code.

And yes, the next version of the OS may break everything, but that's life in the big city - operating systems evolve, upgrades need to be written.
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Odd, opposite here. Always have a better/easier experience with enterprise Microsoft products.
I disagree - I believe that when these people make such statements as "I never got a job from a poor man" they actually understand, and accept, their low social position in relation to the wealthy. It is a product of an authoritarian mindset. They respect, or at least accept, the authority of the wealthy - to whom they serve in one way or another - while claiming privilege over those they perceive to be of lower status (say - public servants, minorities, foreigners, immigrants, sexual deviants, etc. and so-on). The wealthy or influential understand that many, if not most, men have a desire to be led - so they conveniently choose to lead these men in such a way that benefits their own status and wealth.

A question of importance, then, is what happened to noblesse oblige...
In the stock market there are no sanity checks, else the whole thing would grind to a halt. :-)
But... they do it with xbox (IIRC), because everyone else is doing it. In the short term (next 2-4 years) no one is going to be able to compete with ipads in the $500 range. Kindle Fires have enough tie to Amazon to be OK there for a while. MS could fight better in that market. Or... goodness, just have shipped the $499 Surface with the keyboard/cover bundled, just so people are getting something "extra" with the $500.
Does the first link also create a javascript alert with the text "9" in it for you when you ctrl+shift+tab? What a crazy bug.
The chart showing the number of Asian students at Caltech vs. the Ivy League is shocking. Caltech's numbers have risen in proportion to the number of Asian-Americans aged 18-21, but the Ivy League numbers have been flat for many years. There's no doubt that a de facto quota system exists for Asians in the Ivy League.
This is an interesting argument.

Are you actually consuming anything? The act of consumption implies a physical loss; if the content still exists, what did you consume?

In the examples of diamonds, Ferrari or a beach house, there is a limitation on possession. With content, no such limitation exists; it used to be simply a limitation on distribution. Now the distribution limits are gone.
Are you familiar with Bumblebee? It provides switching between integrated and discreet graphics without reboot for NVIDIA Optimus-equipped laptops.

Although at the moment it's a manual install, it should find its way into popular distros soon enough.

http://bumblebee-project.org/
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Are you suggesting that, like, i-bankers are a group known for its solidarity and generosity to their peers? That i-bankers wouldn't sell out their co-workers for a shot at promotion?

Or that, like, junior lawyers at big law firms are these community-minded individuals who just pick up the slack so that their colleagues can coast?

A lot of people from my college went on to be lawyers and i-bankers. My understanding of those jobs does not match your description. Like, even a little bit.

There are undoubtedly people out there who are underqualified and coasting in cushy jobs that they got through their connections. But the finance and law jobs that super-elite universities feed into to a grossly disproportionate degree are -- at their junior levels, at least -- overwhelmingly not those jobs. They're high-paid, but they're both grind-houses and shark tanks. Their cultures are ones of shallow relationships, little loyalty, and burning out junior employees to support a pyramid structure of more comfortable senior people.
Don't get all conspiracy theory on us.

Sad to see Eric go (just started working with him!) but glad that he's moving on to other great things.
You're implying that projects that aren't successful lack determination, conviction, and sincerity. This is not the case at all.
I just sent you an email about this but did you know that the design of your site is almost identical to what I just recently launched (https://writeapp.me - once you register an account and log in you'll definitely know what I mean). Colors, layout, buttons... errily similar. Honestly, definitely not saying you did it on purpose and even if it was on purpose I don't mind. In fact I'd be flattered! I'm just pretty amazed at how 2 different people came up with something so seriously similar.

Edit: I see you just signed up for an account (I get texts when new users sign up) so you probably never saw my design before which makes this even more awesome. By the way, I'm really diggin' CreateMyInvoice. Awesome work.
Difficult to disagree I must admit, but what do you think happens to their web stack in your future?
Exactly. I think they figured that out while making IE7 and IE8, but took little steps in the right direction...then on their ninth version, finally got it.
Thank you for saying what I came here to say.

Let's look at two scenarios: They both involve a show that 100k people want to watch, but 20k of those people can't/won't watch it using the methods legally provided. (Fuzzy/simple math to illustrate the point.)

In scenario one, those 20k pirate the show instead. This means that the known demand for the show is 100k viewers, 80k using legal distribution, 20k using illegal distribution.

In scenario two (what Marco proposes), the 20k simply don't watch it at all. In that case, the known demand for the show is 80k viewers total, all of which obtained the show legally.

In scenario one, the content providers know there are 100k units of demand, 80k of which they are receiving revenue for - which implies 20% of the viewers want the show, but not for its current price/availability. Thus, they have a semi-accurate view of demand.

In scenario two, the content providers only know there are 80k units of demand. They don't know that the other 20k users even exist, or are at all interested in the product. They have less usable information, and no change is enacted - if they don't know those 20k exist, their absence can't be noted.

In this case, piracy provides an indicator of unfulfilled demand, whereas abstaining from piracy provides no feedback whatsoever. I think the concept of "protest via absence" in this situation isn't going to do anything useful.
Hypejar is a Wikipedia-style repository for upcoming product launches
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If you don't mind me asking, what would you be playing under Linux that would require discrete graphics? Modern integrated graphics are much, much better than they were a few years ago and you should be able to play any Source game, for instance, without trouble. Now they won't handle Crysis gracefully, of course, but if you're resorting to running things under wine then you have to expect some level of breakage.
I'd quite like to sign-up to this actually, I'm all for specific websites using my tastes to deliver to me what they think I'd like. Saying that, I'd like to sign up using my Google account, why must you be able to 'manage [my] contacts'. Is there a way to opt-out of that, or do I just have to sign up for a stealth account? A little off-topic, I do apologise.
I'll take another look. I didn't find a lot two weeks ago.

Update:

My device isn't listed on the wiki. I'll have to spend several more hours digging through various pages to find things to try. This is why I don't like linux for laptops. Windows 8 works out of the box. I'd rather just up the ram to 8gb and virtualize linux.
It's just sex. If the society didn't regard this activity as shameful then this website wouldn't have the same kind of attraction.

I imagine a website where people would post photos of people enjoying a glass of wine :)
...but you still have to upgrade your copy Windows
This works perfectly for me on a 2012, 13" MacBook Air running Xubuntu 12.10. You can have your nice Mac hardware and run Linux too :)
How are they owning it? WebKit is open source.
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By this argument, "uniformity" means we should then port the linux kernel to javascript so that we can debug it in jsfiddle.

Down that path lies madness.
1) It's probably a function of specialization. VLC is better at video because that is all they do. Windows and Mac OS X built in solutions are mediocre because they are part of a larger platform which isn't so specific. Also to be frank VLC is still relevant because it can be used to do things of dubious legality such as ripping copy protected DVD's and saving them in other formats.

2) A project which isn't getting updated to work on new platforms and with new API's is a dead project that fades from relevance very quickly. VLC is obviously looking ahead and has judged the Metro interface to be something worth investing in to maintain relevance.
Only if you don't care about Audio Quality. If you do the only way to get music legit is to buy a CD, copying the files and tagging them yourself. Except for classical and some other niche genres that have sites selling sizable catalogs of lossless.
These perms are just to be able to use your address book so that we can autocomplete emails when you email share stories.
>I just got a Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon[0] ultrabook 2 days ago

Isn't a touch version of that coming out soon? Even if you don't like touch, it might be good to have if it's not too much extra cost.

http://www.engadget.com/2012/11/20/lenovo-thinkpad-x1-carbon...
I believe the quote is "Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.", and it's not clear what essential liberty is being compromised here.
As is said on other parts of the Internet, SO BRAVE.

Absolutism on this issue is nothing more than intellectual cowardice. Turning the other cheek.
1) it's kind of unfair, because I've been using macs since... 2007 maybe? I was 100% linux from 2002-2007, then switched to macs.

Despite my familiarity with linux, I can't be sure that simple comfort with the Mac OS isn't part of it. I don't much like the new Gnome (haven't used it since 2007, remember), nor do I care to learn how to install a different window manager and thereby spend the time supporting it.

2) The monitor is the biggest issue for me, followed by the mouse.

The monitor is low resolution, and feels very small compared to the retina monitor. Not a fair comparison, I know! But it's the one I make with the two computers side by side.

3) The dell keyboard is just as good as the mac's, and unlike most PCs, the overall hardware package generally feels very solid, simple, and well thought out. The carbon fiber bottom feels very cool. It's not quite as nice as the Air, but it's not too far away.

So, those are basically the reasons that it sits on my desk, unused, next to my macbook. Also, obviously I don't mind travelling with a slightly larger and heavier computer.
I wouldn't want photos of me doing anything uploaded without my permission, visible to anyone and tagged with my name and address.

Just because something is private doesn't mean it's shameful.
There was a cookie set for CSRF protection and the headers specify that content should not be cached if there is a cookie (or more precisely - the cached content includes the cookie as a cache key, so each request with a different cookie gets a cache-miss).
You can do this, but unless you complain too, most companies are not going to notice for a long time.

I suspect most of these companies still don't really understand the problem - for example I don't want to wait 6 months (in the UK) to see something that's already on TV in the US. I'd happily buy the series on DVD rather than wait. It's not about cost, but if I watch another way, no one who made it will get any money.