skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree but admit that the site wouldn't have the same traction if it contained photos of other private activities like for example people brushing their teeth.
>because Ballmer is trying to enter the market that he publicly mocked in 2007 (iPhone) and 2010 (iPad).

I'm tired of these kinds of statements. The golden rule is that companies' employee publicly have to put down their competitors' new strategies. Imagine if Balmer said the iPad is great it's going to kill us, or if Jobs said 7" tablets are good but we'll make only in two years, so wait for us to make it. Or even Andy Rubin saying that Android UI is laggy compared to iOS, fix coming in 18 months. All of them(except maybe Jobs) would be summarily fired or atleast will be forced to recant their statements immediately on threat of being fired. It's almost part of their job to publicly mock their competitors, or their shareholders will dump the stock.

The more puzzling thing to me is, why do so many people actually think that these people say what they really believe and really believe what they say?
What's Old Is New: A 6502-based Remote Processor [pdf]
To put it another way, you aren't going to see a lot of these at SXSW or at Ritual Coffee, but watch out National Association of Pharmaceutical Representatives!
Unless I missed something, they don't touch legality of Tor, other than: "Further, we believe that running a Tor relay — including an exit relay that allows people to anonymously send and receive traffic — is lawful under U.S. law."

This doesn't say anything. I can "believe" anything that I want, but it doesn't make it so. I'm looking for articles with sound legal rationale and previous case outcomes that argue on the legality of a defendant's culpability as it pertains to a crime being committed on said defendant's Tor exit node.
In the US, the ISPs responsibilities and actions in this regard are considered a state secret.

http://www.aclu.org/blog/national-security/government-confir...
It seems to me that Amazon is the last of the 90s dotcoms. It's barely viable, so it just keeps going, but there's a huge premium on its share price that seems to presume that one day it will get a monopoly on online sales and suddenly be able to generate huge profits. As if this wouldn't (a) immediately result in massive cannibalization by new entrants or failing that (b) anti-trust enforcement.
Try using a Surface - it really is nothing like the old tablets of yesteryears.

Convertible laptops were 5lb monstrosities that were nearly impossible to hand hold, emitted tremendous amounts of heat, had incredibly poor battery life, and infamous reliability issues that came from a mechanically complex transformation mechanism. They also used resistive touch screens that were easy to damage, required frequent recalibration when heavily used, and were difficult to use with fingers (making the devices almost exclusively stylus-based devices).

So no, the modern incarnation of the tablet (in the way that iPad has defined it) is nothing like the tablet of old. In fact, if you look at the new convertible tablets coming out of OEMs, they've come pretty far too: capacitive screens, solid construction, hugely reduced weight, unbelievably lower heat output, and battery life that actually matters. We're also seeing novel new ways of building convertibles (e.g., separating keyboard from screen entirely) that make the devices far more realistic for handheld use.

The big secret to tablets that Apple realized, and other companies are slowly picking up on is the importance of the screen. Old convertible laptops used the absolute worst screens that had limited viewing angles, demonstrated ugly moire and discoloration on taps/presses, along with a slew of heat output and power consumption problems. Compare with the calibrated, accurate, brilliant IPS panels that now inhabit tablets (both Surface and iPad have IPS panels), they are worlds apart. When you're putting together a mobile device that is going to be oriented this way and that in someone's hands, a shitty LCD panel really doesn't cut it.

And the problem with Asus and their "half price" touchscreen laptops is all in the screen.
> "Presumption of innocence" is not a principle that extends outside of US borders so its always difficult to contextualize police action in other countries to Americans who take their constitution for granted.

What? There's nothing particularly American about the principle, it's an accepted core tenet of all democratic countries and many of the others.
Are you sure? I thought it was account-based. I'm pretty sure my girlfriend gave me one of her Nook books once.
It seems finally the green maximize button no longer toggles the mini player mode and actually does what it's supposed to do.
I can do development on a 1024x600 monitor. I think it's a "different strokes for different folks" sort of thing. Maybe moreso than you think...
I had a similar problem with hibernation. I wound up doing slocate for 'acpi' and 'hiber' and then manually editing the script to do nothing.
They mentioned it very clearly - The device have 4 GB of RAM

http://www.microsoft.com/Surface/en-US/surface-with-windows-...
What's neat is that the MCOR printer uses A4 printer paper & PVA (Elmer's Glue) - so it's cheap and very-human safe (even more than the FDM type).
You know its funny, most of the talented engineers here in Miami are working at big corps and could care less about the startup echo-chamber and jobs at these startups. Could be that our startups here don't get enough press to seem cool?
hey look at all those fucking words you wrote defending child pornography. I didn't read any of it, but you should forward it to your family, I'm sure they'd be very proud.

Glancing up I caught the phrase "just another sexual orientation." There's no point in arguing with this crap.

You people need to get out of this virtual bubble where child pornography is somehow a divisive issue and into the real world, where real children suffer real abuse at the hands of real people so they can get their rocks off. The lack of empathy is just stunning.
This. It is unbelievable the number of times where people will say something like "I understand why you feel that way..." (if I am say arguing in favor of some MS product/decision) as if, because I work for Microsoft, I must be some non-thinking shill or purveyor of FUD. It is unfortunate because it prevents me from even wanting to participate in any conversation here involving any tech company because everything I say is apparently interpreted through the lens of my employer, because clearly people are that one-dimensional :)
>Asus has touchscreen laptops for less than half of the price

Are they full HD resolution? Do they have an active digitizer? Core i5 ?
Canadian scientists create a functioning, virtual brain
Yeah... the OP friend's 2.6.17 box is afflicted with multiple published and weaponized vulnerabilities. :(

Here is an example, with both code and a detailed explanation (I found this much better than a CVE).

http://www.win.tue.nl/~aeb/linux/hh/hh-12.html#ss12.4
There's the Type Cover, which is a proper keyboard as far as I understand it.
It's plausible deniability, but that alone isn't sufficient to avoid prosecution in most jurisdictions.

The standard in most jurisdictions is proof beyond reasonable doubt. I don't think the OTR plausible deniability would be considered reasonable doubt, especially if the content of the messages is corroborated by other evidence.
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So the empowered individual is a myth, and to the extent it is not a myth, these reckless individuals harm the community. Individualism bad, got it?
My favorite thus far has been http://dns.he.net. Hurricane Electric runs many free services and when the time comes, I will be paying for their paid services as well. TunnelBroker alone is fantastic and has saved me many hours.

On topic, I checked out EntryDNS when they first announced it on HN. Glad to see many improvements, such as including HTTPS support, AAAA records, etc. Great job!

Edit: as a suggestion, let me view DNS zones directly. That would be very helpful to some, and also eliminate the need to learn how to translate between different providers' UI's.
I think this is a Dunder-Mifflin move though. "3-D printers are great. We sell paper! Success" I love the MCOR concept, their models are just such a bizarre fit in the market. All the drawbacks of paper, all the cost of 3-D printing.

Have you had good success with them?
Sure, I can see that. The parental filter comes into play there, I don't really think that unfiltered expectations of childhood should affect Kickstarter any more than any other geek excited about a new gadget that may not materialize.

There are disappointments for kids of all ages on Kickstarter :)
What about email encryption? Should it be banned, too?
You're begging the question. Why does routing someone's traffic make you accountable for the traffic? Because someone needs to be accountable?

I'm not sure analogies are very helpful.
> I just yank the power and reboot. :)

I was using Ubuntu with docking station about 2 years back and it was having troubles getting in and out of the docking station. My solution was to manually xrandr it. This should be helpful if you don't want to reboot to get the display right http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Xorg_RandR_1.2#Using_.24_xrand...
Apple Releases iTunes 11, A Complete Overhaul For Mac & Windows
Ha, good point. For [3] I've updated the location name to be 'Region'.
He was perhaps deliberately keeping each individual investment small so that no one investor would have a large controlling interest.
Did you make some changes?

What I'm seeing doesn't look that much like the other guy's page...
StatMilk (Football Stats Visualized) Launches on iPhone
For those of you that enjoyed our football stats visualization web app (www.statmilk.com) just a heads up we rolled out the iPhone version (free) yesterday.

The stats data engine (powering the data segmentation controls) is common across both clients.

Here's the TechCrunch coverage: http://techcrunch.com/2012/11/27/just-in-time-for-bowl-season-statmilk-brings-its-amazing-college-football-stats-platform-to-ios/

Link to the app store: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/statmilk-college-football/id576067008?ls=1&mt=8
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Curiosity has "not detected any definitive evidence of Martian organics"
Between compromising on DRM free and multiplatform I'm pretty ticked, especially because Humble Bundle has told indie devs I know to take a hike specifically because of not having a Linux port. The double standard is kind of offensive given that this money will likely get entirely devoured by THQ-the-publisher instead of the worthy studios that built the games being sold.
Of course, I should have specified I was referring to exit nodes.

Without the exit nodes, the relay nodes are nothing; just a bunch of people playing hot potato with encrypted data and no one prepared to take the heat by attaching their details to it.
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There's a lot of conversation in this thread about how they take the whole computer.

I can say that in 2006, in San Francisco, the police took just the hard drives out of a tower PC in my apartment. They left the tower itself. (They were after my roommate, but since I had hardware in the "shared spaces", it was impounded along with all of his stuff. It sucked.) They also took all of the laptops whole (including my girlfriend's).

The police held on to the equipment for months. We tried everything short of hiring a lawyer to get it back, but they would not release it until they actually finished the case against the guy and he got out of jail. Then, magically, our hardware was available to come pick up.

Given that they had been working the case for months, I imagine that they were just sitting on the hardware long after forensics was done with it. Punitively, I suppose. Luckily, my employer at the time was very gracious and loaned my girlfriend and I hardware so we weren't completely out of pocket.

When the hardware was returned to us, we had to go pick it up. The guy handing it back over made some asinine comment about "you shouldn't be copying music", and we were free to go. Everything was in bad shape. There was tape all over things, one power adapter never came back, and my girlfriend's external hard drive enclosure was cracked and clearly had been dropped.

Pro tip: if you share space with someone, make sure your hardware lives in your private space. Don't leave your computers in the living room, or they will become confiscated if the people you live with get in trouble.
The competition is fierce, check out Smore.com and Onepagerapp.com. Also WordPress.com can be used for more specialized sites now, see WordPress.com/restaurants for example.

But if you can do better than that (or find a niche that is not being served), go for it!
we don't look at browser history, but we may release a browser plugin for chrome that lets you share, recommend, and save stories from the web to prismatic.
Shame I already own all but one of these games via three years of isolating any game purchases to Steam sales.

Still, I bought into this one for the soundtracks and put the majority to charity.
This is an important point, and I'm glad I can expand a bit on it here.

Considered as purely a syntactic issue there's not much for discussion. Fix the parser. But! Conceding that method/function application is useful along side the invocation operator `()` (which it certainly seems to be) makes this an interesting semantic issue. That is can two terms mean different things but look "similar"

I have no interest in telling anyone how to build a programming language or that one approach is subjectively "wrong", but knowing that certain term pairs in a language could be ambiguous with respect to each other seems like valuable information. Provided to the creator at the right time it might help with language design.
"The structure of Oblivion/FO3 is this: there are hundreds of cookie cutter dungeons strewn through a landscape. Wander the landscape, entering each cookie cutter dungeon and clearing it mechanically."

So what classic RPGs differentiate themselves significantly from this?
Do you mean as a relay or exit node? Exit nodes are the ones that take the heat.

I would be very surprised if you've run a Tor exit node for a considerable period of time without incident, even if it's just abuse notices from your upstream provider.
Talking about how we are going to evolve in the next thousands of years is a waste of time. Artificial interference is going to kick in long before that. I believe we will be very different 300 years from now.
I could see this being an excellent on-the-go digital sculpting/modeling machine. If the digitizer is comparable to a Wacom, this would be great for zbrush.
- A crappier keyboard.
- A rigid display whose viewing angles can't be adjusted.
- The keyboard doesn't work very well when you use it on your lap. You have to place it on a table.
- It's more fragile, especially in tablet mode.
If the point is to communicate then yes, doing something that helps the listener more rapidly assimilate the message is the right thing to do.

If the point is for you to express yourself in the way that ignites your passion, whether or not anyone else cares or understands, then the answer is no, do not compromise your desires.
In no wise is this "more of a computer" than an iPad (N7/Fire/&c.) It is a "Windows computer" in exactly the same way that an iPad is an "iOS computer". Thinking that "is a computer" is the same as "runs Windows" is why Microsoft is fighting the desperate, Surface-lead rear-guard action against encroachments on their turf.
How would this differ from a playlist and/or Up Next?
That latter video is one of my favorites on YouTube: Senna on Suzuka in an NSX wearing loafers! His skill is truly unmatched, but to be fair, heel-and-toeing is a rather common technique in performance driving. Hell, I do so to match revs on every 3->2 downshift before a corner when driving around town, and I wouldn't call myself a skilled driver.
The new UI is quite nice, although its striking similarity to Sonora's design leaves me with quite a bitter aftertaste. Unfortunately there seem to be no substantial improvements over metadata and format handling; it looks like I will keep missing foobar2k for a long time still.
4GM RAM (#)

Also, I own a Surface RT and can use it on my lap.

(#) http://www.microsoft.com/Surface/en-US/surface-with-windows-...
There's already a Music API on iOS. You can rewrite the entire Music app if you wish, as some have done [1].

1) https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/track-8/id519363162?mt=8
IANAL but I would imagine that DRM per se isn't illegal but any anti-circumvention clause in the EULA would not be enforceable in a court provided that copies were made for the purposes of backup.
I'm eager to try a surface in my lap to see how it feels, which I wasn't able to do at the Microsoft store. I do a lot of lap work; coding, writing papers), so this very important to me.

I've been spoiled by the iPad 3 in terms of resolution, especially when reading in bed where the tablet is about 10" away from my face. The pro is decent, but I think I could still see the pixels in bed; that would affect what device I choose to use there.

I agree that the digitizer is the best thing about the device, that alone could sell it for key niche uses (taking notes, sketching).
With a worthless screen resolution. I use a Galaxy Nexus, a Nexus 10 and a Korean 2560x1440 monitor. Using my 1440x900 13" MBA is already a slap in the eyeballs, and this is even worse.

It's a shame, I'd buy it in a second to be able to replace OS X with Ubuntu.
Incorrect headline.
Does anyone have an idea of what their cost structure will be and time frame for coming to the USA? Are there any other business that offer a service like this in the US?
I know nothing about this particular situation but it pretty well known that power-struggles are the default mode of operation in many large corporations (and Microsoft in particular) and that further almost any manager who leaves a company without being escorted out in handcuffs is going to be "leaving for great things" according to all concerned. Thus speculation about power struggles and corporate emphases is natural unless the company is unusually transparent and/or all of the managers' product are doing well.

Not that managers don't leave for better things on a regular basis but making that the leaving-mantra sadly has reduced its credibility.

Edit: It would be "conspiracy theory" to light on one explanation and push it blindly without overwhelming evidence. But speculation in the dark is fine if it is labeled as such. Real, concrete information is better than speculation the dark. If one could count on such concrete information from Microsoft and others, one would want avoid.
I find that difficult to credit - I don't have any insider info., but that's not how Apple goes, for the most part. Also, if they were doing a total rewrite (as they did with FCP or iMovie) I would expect the outcome to be much more different from iTunes 10 than 11 is.
Is it the same situation with all Linux laptops that the vast majority of hardware peripherals for video and audio work don't work, or has that been solved?

I don't really need another terminal for accessing the web and email.
How else can they maintain the long term survival of the Patriot Act and TSA without such plots meant to remind people that "terrorists (even those we created ourselves) exist, therefore you must forget about any constitutional liberties you think you have, and let us do whatever we want".

In the mean time, the National Security Letter has been used in terrorist-related cases in less than 1% of the time[1], and over 75% of the time in - what else - drugs related cases.

[1] From ACLU:
http://imgur.com/r/POLITIC/DHmVh
You're definitely high-profile amongst the engineer grunts and on various internal mailing lists. I don't know if that wins you any private soirées with Soma or not, but it's something :)
Not crossplatform, no EFF donation, not indie and DRM all at once?

That's a large shift.

I generally liked supporting humble bundles on principle. Seems hard to keep feeling good about that now.
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"VLC for Windows 8 might not be applicable for the store."

And that's a major problem. Without distribution on the Windows Store, this thing isn't going to see any kind of mass adoption. I'd be wary about funding until they work out whether their code and licenses pass the Store certification requirements.
Indeed, you're probably protected by safe harbor/mere conduit laws in most jurisdictions, but you're still liable to become the subject of law enforcement investigations and have your equipment seized.

More hassle than it's worth.
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Microsoft says:

Surface Pro:
10.81 x 6.81 x 0.53in
2lbs

Surface RT:
10.81 x 6.77 x 0.37in
1.5lbs

http://www.microsoft.com/Surface/en-US/surface-with-windows-... and

http://www.microsoft.com/Surface/en-US/surface-with-windows-...
> Why does routing someone's traffic make you accountable for the traffic? Because someone needs to be accountable?

The evidence is on him now, so he has to prove it wasn't. Given Tor's anonymity, that's rather difficult, but it's his problem. Which is stupid in the first place, because he dug himself on this hole, and that's why I can't empathize.
Lmao:

> IE implements HTML6.

> and 7, 8, and 9.

Oh, if only.

Good ad though, but they're still not there yet.
I had some trouble finding where the sort options went, so for anyone else who's struggling to find them:

Go to View => View Options… (or hit Command-J).
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I think it's a bit of a stretch to say that first story is the same thing.

They gave the General a more aesthetically appealing background. It is unethical from a photojournalistic standpoint, where failing to check whether "Michelle" is spelled with one L or two for the cutline is also considered unethical — but I don't think most people would consider it deceitful. Family photos taken in a studio very often have false backgrounds, but very seldom do people look at their shelves and mourn that the photos of their loved ones are all lies.

Even the second story is not really the same thing. It's more obviously deceitful, but it is still attempting to convey truthful information — that is the guy who died, and he wore a uniform like that — rather than attempting to mislead the viewer. It would appear that they didn't have a photo that conveyed the information they wanted, so they pieced it together. At its heart, it is much like using a sketch when you don't have a photo. The message is all truthful, so it is still a step above the propaganda discussed in the OP.
Are you using "perpetually" ironically in that sentence or is the logical absurdity of what you said evading you?

(look up "perpetually").
I don't think their outward actions are a reliable indicator of how they're using these data internally. I _do_ think that these analytics can play a big role in which shows get cancelled.

(edited further for clarity.)
It looks pretty identical to me ....
This seems more like helping THQ get back on their feet.
> only 20M users

"Only" 20 million users? "Only"? The HN commentary is an interesting place these days.
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