skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It seems there is a disagreement as to what constitutes depth. If you want a "Sandbox" then most old-school RPGs will feel very shallow. You have numerous choices, but exploration and interaction outside those choices is limited.

On the other hand, if you want control over the story, many sandbox style games will feel shallow. Batman: Arkham City gave you a great sandbox with tons of things to discover and the story was fantastic. But your control over the story was minimal, limited to pretty much whether to do a side mission or not. You had absolutely no choices that affected the core story at all. Infamous 2 was similar. You had a lot of area to explore and interesting side missions, but you had only about 3 real choices and they lead to only 2 endings. The story was deep, the sandbox was wide, but your control was minimal.

I think there are great games on both ends (and in the middle) of this spectrum, but "sandbox depth (or width)" is very different from "story control depth".
Finally the truth is plain to see - humans are merely the first step to the true masters of the planet - genetically engineered immortal mice.

Who do you think created the earth to find the Question to the Ultimate Answer?
1. it may go away entirely soon or change dramatically. We largely agree with your sentiment. :)

2. Yes, the meta serif turns out to be as readable as it gets for body copy, it's just spectacular! We may later have a toggle so you can select this theme or an all sans serif option...
If history serves as an example, the Syrian government is desperate and on the verge of collapse.
Open Sesame for a mobile gifting experience that delights from app to doorstep
The validity of Marco's argument rests on the fact that "if you just wait, you can get the media through a legit source".

The problem is that there are things that never are going to eventually become available, for example:

- Culture specific or non-mainstream programming
- Reality TV from other countries

Given that you're never going to even be given the option to pay for something, I think the argument breaks down.
If a non-profit can keep on top of all the different codecs, profiles and containers, why can't Microsoft? By all means leave the bleeding edge professional codecs to third party software, but most people only use VLC to play rudimentary formats (MPEG-2, MPEG-4, WMV, FLV, etc.)

This functionality really ought to be built into the OS these days.
The Science Behind Those Obama Campaign Emails
The only thing worse than spouting off about how other people should do something is spouting off that other people doing something is useless.

Actions always trump words.
In many cases, hard core security around email isn't necessary. For light privacy, where you simply don't want the other party to immediately be able to google your address (i.e. craigslist or online dating) I want to recommend Gliph Cloaked Email. https://gli.ph

I run Gliph and am happy to answer questions about the level of anonymity you can achieve if anyone has any.
Surface with Windows 8 Pro – Pricing
William has a long history on LET, he runs a hosting company and is among the most well-known users on the site.
Since I fist say it back in 1995 or so, IE has never supported a computing platform I was running, so honestly I've never given it any thought. So the "loved to hate" bit is wrong.

Looking at it now, it still doesn't.

So, moving on...
Hall Design Tour – From 0% to 30% Weekly Retention
YES thank you, I am diagnosed with ADHD and I have this quirky behavior and many more. If you guys are selecting text over and over, it is very likely (but not always the case--I'm no psychiatrist!) that you have ADHD and should consider getting screened/diagnosed if you haven't done so already. It's nice to know as it is a part of your identity (at least for me it is) and you'll learn to live with the symptoms. I actually enjoy having ADHD and selecting text compulsively :) Consider reading "Delivered from Distraction" by Hallowell.

Cheers,
keb0b0
It means there is something you can buy. Click the link and you go to amazon and if you buy whatever the item is, we get an affiliate. this is early testing of the revenue model we're working on.
they fucked it up with Windows 8...only in the eyes of hipster geeks who probably haven't spent any real time with it.

I've been using it on my main workstation for the past few weeks and I think they did a great job.

EDIT: Oh, I forgot to mention...it's not perfect (oh noes!!)
Outdated European Copyright Levy System Descends Further Into Disarray
Yes, I've heard the news as well. I have no interest in a touchscreen laptop though, particularly if Linux support isn't available. In fact, I would look at the release of the touch version as a chance to get the non-touch version on discount (as it will no doubt be once the touch version is released).
If I'm remembering correctly, when they 'investigate' they ensure that the setup is identical to it's original form - including the same mouse and keyboard.
Part of the problem is we continue to use words like rich and poor as if they have strictly defined meanings. We get polarisation instead of sensible steps to improve things for everyone.
Fully loaded new 27-inch iMac will cost over $4,200—before tax
Presenting Yourself – Visually and Respectfully
Rails Testing — Leveraging VirtualBox for Browser Tests
for realz, the web needed so much love some of internally were not using it much due to utter shame!
With Native browser support you can apply CSS properties to video like filters!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lD9FAOPBiDk&feature=youtu... absolutely hilarious and on the spot for haters in all fronts.
So I'm in the market, looking for the next season of my favorite show not yet aired here in Finland. Clearly I can't watch it from the TV. Netflix does not offer the show in here in Finland. What options do I have?

Legitimate content providers have failed in a game called free market. Last time I heard free market was quite popular in the USA.
You seem to assume that you must use OSX on a MacBook. Actually, because that was the topic here, I was assuming that you would also use Linux there - that would also be a better comparison. There are many happy Linux users which use MacBooks.

Anyway, on OSX, you can also do a lot but you are right, there is no official way to change the global font size (afaik) (and you are also right that that wasn't really an issue for me so far). Anyway, most applications have their own settings. (Usually, I even go smaller than the default sizes to have more content on my screen.)
Slightly different.

"Note that in 0.8.44 behaviour was changed to something considered
more natural. As of 0.8.44 nginx no longer caches responses with
Set-Cookie header and doesn't strip this header with cache turned
on (unless you instruct it to do so with proxy_hide_header and
proxy_ignore_headers). "

http://forum.nginx.org/read.php?2,126312,126316#msg-126316
Thanks for posting this, I didn't want to spam the comments with the whole man entry (haha, "man entry").

I'm just super curious where the nasal/plants thing comes from or even how it works. Is this going to be on the next episode of Taboo[0]?

[0] http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/channel/taboo/
Lenen voor de feestdagen met een mini lening - Je Geldzaken
That's been said about virtually every political story posted here.
>because Microsoft gives Windows to OEMs for practically free

Practically free? I don't think so, except for Windows Starter Edition on Netbooks and those have strict guidelines on what qualifies as a netbook.
And who is to say tormail is not a honeypot?
OCZ "back on track", taps more NAND suppliers
Ashton, I appreciate your thoughts on this subject - I've been meaning to write about it for a while, and just posted my response here: http://startupframework.tumblr.com/post/36816740387/power

Not to side-track from programming language semantics, but I hope to engage in a discussion on the sole entrepreneur as you mentioned.

Edit: I think the bottom line of your post and mine is that: No one does it alone. At least, that's my (perhaps more philosophical than technical) take on it. So for hackers and entrepreneurs to reach critical mass with their products/offerings, they need the input/help/support from those around them (family, friends, clients, etc).
I have the NP900X3C-A04US which is similar, but has slightly upgraded specs.

> Ubuntu 12.04.1 installs & runs without modification, but some minor Fn keys didn't work (e.g., WiFi toggle button).

This doesn't even work on Windows without their crap-ware.

I made a copy of their installation files, uninstalled it, and now run it only when I need to use those FN keys (that is - very rarely).

Other than this and the 4GB of RAM ... this is absolutely the most perfect laptop I have ever put my hands on and even beats out the Apple MacBook Air (which I sold after getting this).
Do people really still use "cat" for viewing files at the commandline?
> Can you make a comparison to [Lenovo's] keyboards?

The last time I used a Thinkpad was a couple of years ago, when I was working off of a friend's. I don't remember liking it much; I think this one is better, but to be entirely honest, that was ~2 years ago, so don't put much weight into that.

The main thing that distinguishes this keyboard from Apple's is that the keys aren't as flat - I'm used to tactile and auditory feedback on the Das Keyboard[1], and while neither Apple's nor Dell's keyboards provide this, having the indentations makes it slightly easier to type quickly (notice how the Das keyboards all have slight indendations too).

Also, the BIGGEST problem with Apple's keyboards for me is the 200ms delay hardcoded in the firmware for the Caps Lock key. I rebind Caps_Lock -> Escape for vim, and this frustrates me to no end.

At the end of the day, neither you nor I are ever going to be happy with any laptop keyboard, since they're all non-mechanical, but I think this as good as we're going to get.

[1] I have the "silent" (ie, still-audible) one at work and the regular (loud) one at home.
Pet peeve: I would never use IE as long as there is no built-in password manager. You shouldn't have to rely on 3rd party add-ins for this.
There is a moral right to own that which you have produced, and it is definetely not an legal artifact but an expression of the concept of individual rights.

Furthermore, it isn't copyright that is preventing people from accessing the content, but the fact that these corporations have not evolved their business model to the way consumers consume content these days.

There may be several reasons as to why that has not happened (they may still be making enough money with their old business model and are risk-averse to try new things) but claiming that the creators of something do not have the moral right to own their creations is an absurdity.
Looks like 2 external will work, with the built-in display disabled. This is how my Thinkpad W700 works also.
> The monitor is the biggest issue for me, followed by the mouse.

That's interesting, because the mouse is one of the biggest turnoffs for me when it comes to OS X. I never could get used to the acceleration curve[0], despite installing 3rd party software[1] to modify it.

There's also the issue of not having a pointing stick on Macs, but that's another subject entirely.

0: http://tidbits.com/article/8893

1: http://triq.net/mac/mouse-acceleration-preference-pane-mac-o...
Who Faked the Bogus Google Acquisition Story?
"Most programmers" are not in the top 5%. For example: http://www.payscale.com/research/US/Job=Software_Engineer_%2...
That is indeed why I posted it as startups (and any other business) will be affected by these changes. It's sometimes useful to have a macro view of the world.
Money is actually the least of the problems. If you are older, you anyway need to plan that you might be out of job for at least one year.
Unfortunately, for programmers, if you get older (40+) it is very hard to find a new job in same field due to ageism. So either you take control of your destiny or you pray.

So if you are in 40s and worked for big corporations as senior engineer / manager you should have about 100K in savings (assuming you save save about 5K a year of your 150K salary).

Regarding kids, yes that is a big responsibility but also something you don't get tired doing.
Okay, I'll trust you on this one! It's looking promising, Although I was a little stumped when it stuck me on a "We're learning your interests" page with no indication of...anything, really.

Also, maybe going to the 'landing' page when already logged in should re-direct me to my home page? It gave me the impression I hadn't logged in and got a little faffy.

Besides that,as I said, looking promising and I look forward to seeing what comes up over the next few days/weeks. Thank you!
Prismatic learns from everything you do. We have implicit signals (when you recommend, share, shave, remove, or click), and explicit signals, when you follow topics, publishers, or people. We know more about your interests than anyone, and you can expect that to be more true over time. Fortunately, we are only partially evil, so we mostly use this information to make your life more interesting, and only occasionally, we will use it to troll your newsfeed! :-P
Part of the US legal theory is that each viewing of the offending media is an affront to the victim(s), causing them further harm.

I personally don't agree with this line of thought, as that line of thinking leads down a dark road. I think Jessie Slaughter, the Star Wars Kid, and relatives of those beheaded/executed publicly abroad likely suffered measurable emotional damage from the spread of those videos, but we'd be idiots make that illegal. The mass media in general profits immensely off of the embarrassment and emotional suffering of individuals, and while the practice is abhorrent, censoring such media is not the right thing to do.

So far as I know, there has been at least once case where the victim of child porn successfully sued a person for damages because he was in possession of her photos and videos. I don't know the case name, but I read about it on the "cyb3rcrim3" blog, which I highly recommend for people wanting/needing to know about the law plays out with regard to such issues.
Interestingly, sleep has been working perfectly on my Vaio Z-series, which is a laptop that (for various reasons) you would think would support Linux really poorly. I think the general state of Linux support has just improved on essentially every front in the recent past.
Another sorely missed feature from cygwin... Boo hoo hoo!
Try again. That is exactly what is happening in the UK with deep packet inspection to "traffic shape" torrents, Phorm to inject targetted adverts, various child-porn filtering systems which route traffic to second-level firewalls based on suspicious IP addresses. See:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleanfeed_(content_blocking_sys...

http://www.thinkbroadband.com/news/4841-bt-given-14-days-to-...

http://www.techweekeurope.co.uk/news/isps-defend-new-porn-fi...
I have no experience whatsoever in forensics, but here's why I would want all the hardware if someone asked me to analyze a system as a generally tech-savvy guy:

1) Some raids take PCs while they're still on, in order to preserve things like encryption keys in memory or cached passwords. It's possible to transfer a running PC over to a battery-powered outlet for transport, then to lab power for analysis. This would be very useful if the machine was using full-disk encryption.

2) Having a full disk image gives you the data, but the easiest way to see how the data behaves is to actually boot up the machine (after imaging the drives, obviously) and see it as the suspect would. There might be subtle differences in behavior if you use lab hardware rather than the actual hardware, and there's even a chance of something crazy like the suspect using a modified Linux kernel that wipes his drives if it detects different hardware.

3) It's a pain in the ass to remove hard drives in some guy's living room when you can just haul the whole thing back to the lab and do it there. I suspect that laziness generally wins over the inconvenience to a potential suspect.
The validity of that analogy strongly depends on whether local activists make a habit of passing packages with encrypted contents through your place, to avoid prosecution of a tyrannical government.
Do without. Watch something else. Play cards. Go for a walk. Write some code. Start a side project. I don't understand why that's a hard concept to grasp.

Really it just sounds kind of pathetic that you can't control yourself enough to simply not sit in a chair or whatever and watch this exact movie.
MongoDB across public and private clouds (video)
Color Tree: Your App for Finding Great Color Schemes
So spend 30 minutes doing a little research before you buy? Seems like something you should be doing anyway before making any >USD1k purchase.
Be sure to read the follow-up: http://www.marco.org/2012/11/29/the-wrong-movement
They're the primary developers.
TIL: Square is not what Foursquare had pivoted to.

(I seriously thought Foursquare turned into Square as the news is full of Square and I had not heard anything about Foursquare until now.)
Probably because it was after his divorce we got the famous quote ( which applies so well to entrepreneurship ) - "A person who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new."
I think most of us can agree that IE 10 has come along way. The reason web developers hate IE is when we have to build sites for older versions of IE because people can't or won't upgrade. Sometimes clients require support for these older browsers. I have no problems with IE 10, but those older versions that just won't die are the problem.
webkit isn't controlled by a competitor necessarily. It's an open source project with contributors from lots of companies. Apple started it, so they likely have the most say right now but I think plenty of people at Google have a bit of power. I'm sure that if Microsoft was to put serious effort into it, they would get decision making power too.
Nonsense. I'm a designer (say) that makes fancy clothes. I will only ever sell to famous Hollywood types, so they'll wear my clothes and make them trendy.

Because I'd never sell them to you, do you have the right to take my fancy clothes without paying for them?
Not if you're running Windows 7.

If you're running XP or Vista and you're happy with that, then you probably don't care very much about which browser you're using.
A Step Toward a Universal Cancer Blood Test
Probably not... but I figured that was the easiest way to ensure those unfamiliar with the commandline wouldn't wind up in the middle of a 'less' pager and not know how to get out. ;)
Content is an entirely different "market" economically than the other examples you describe. In fact, content is one of a few class of goods with a high fixed cost for initial creation and near zero cost for incremental creation.

Physical goods are generally characterized by linear supply and demand curves. Suppliers require higher and higher payments to produce more and more of a good, and consumers will buy less if something costs more. Here's a graph with classic linear supply-demand curves:

http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=P%3D20+-+Q%2C+P+%3D+2Q

Note the intersection point: this is the equilibrium in microeconomics. It is a "compromise" reached by producers satisfied with their level of output, and consumers satisfied with their level of consumption.

Content turns conventional microeconomics on its head. Now, suppliers have a large fixed cost that they can divide among all paying users. So the supply-demand curves look like this:

http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=P%3D20+-+Q%2C+P+%3D+20+...

This situation is entirely different! For starters, there isn't one equilibrium, there's two. Which "equilibrium" will the market choose? This is a question that I haven't seen addressed in microecon before. I'm sure it's been addressed in economic research but unfortunately my exposure to economics is limited. I would appreciate if someone on HN with more knowledge could set me straight.

Taking a step back to philosophical economics, content creation is a manifestation of the public good (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_good) problem. This reality has only been enhanced recently with vanishing incremental copy costs. Entitlement of content creators has satisfyingly solved the problem before, but with the rapid advance of technology I doubt it will do so in the future.

EDIT: piracy is also well-studied in the abstract as the economic free-rider problem (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_rider_problem)
I still prefer chromes context menus, but I've been using IE10 as my primary browser for a while now and have no major complains.
From the Supreme Court ruling excerpted at https://www.eff.org/issues/anonymity :

> Protections for anonymous speech are vital to democratic discourse. Allowing dissenters to shield their identities frees them to express critical minority views . . . Anonymity is a shield from the tyranny of the majority. . . . It thus exemplifies the purpose behind the Bill of Rights and of the First Amendment in particular: to protect unpopular individuals from retaliation . . . at the hand of an intolerant society.
Recently, I hit a JS issue in IE10 that existed in prior versions of IE. I used to fix it with conditional comments - but since IE10 removed those, it required an even uglier hack to fix.

I don't know if my JS is bad, but the fact that every other browser handled it fine left me with the same awful taste in my mouth as every other version of IE. I really don't want to hate IE10, but so far, no good.
WebKit is open source, and you can fork it. But you can't make changes to the main version unless they are approved, and Apple is the gatekeeper there.
What annoys me is that most of the tiles are just variations of some "Comebacks come in many shapes and sizes" meme they invented. It always amaze me how Microsoft's marketing manages to be completely disconnected form reality time after time.

I don't know any power-users who will switch to IE after seeing this website. If anything, they'll see this as an insult to their intelligence and stay even further away from IE than they did before.

Every time Microsoft tries to be hip and cool, I hear a collective facepalm.
On the right hand scrolling menu it says data for today is still being finalized and should be treated with cation. This may explain why the drop has not shown up.

More interestingly is that the next few event are google services being completely incessible in Syria on a few different occasions.

Cool tool thanks for sharing.
How can I successfully showcase my site to HackerNews?
Without telomerase, the telomeres will degrade each cell division until the Hayflick limit, where they die. So without telomerase there is a built-in limitation on the number times a cancer cell can reproduce before it dies.

It's quite simple and doesn't require any interaction with other cellular machinery.
According to the whois[1], yes.

[1]https://www.networksolutions.com/whois-search/browseryoulove...
Top 5% starts at around $80,000 per year. I've read from many sources that the average developer earns $92,000 per year.
Former Apple SVP calls Forstall firing “deserved and justified”
Il fascino della creatura mostruosa: la vera storia del MINOTAURO
Well how is it that you can legally have a video of two dudes stabbing another guy to death, chopping his head off and eating the body, and yet in some countries like US you can actually go to prison for longer for possession of child porn than for actually abusing a child sexually?

This does not make sense. A video of a crime != crime. And no, I am not defending pedophiles - but I am defending the stance that you should not be sent to prison for any kind of video you might have in your possession, as long as its not a video of you committing a crime,in which case, well, it's just an evidence against you.
Indian conglomerate (Sahara) asked to pay back $5Billion to its 23M investors
Their bathrooms are coated with Foursquare stickers too.